REPORT OF STATE HORTICULTURIST. 53 



ADDRESSES GIVEN AT THE AUBURN MEETING 



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CULTIVATING AND FERTILIZING THE ORCHARD. 

 W. H. WooDWORTH, Berwick, N. S. 



(Stenographic Report) 



I need not say that I am very glad to meet you, — some of you 

 for the first time, some of you again. I feel flattered with what 

 the chairman has said, that you like me. If you came down to 

 Armajpolis w^hen we axe packing our Gravensteins, you would like 

 us and you would like our apples. I will in a few minutes give 

 you a little description of the Annapolis Valley where I live. 

 The Annapolis Valley has not been as well advertised as the 

 Hood River Valley. We have not got on to the idea of adver- 

 tising quite as well as those people have. It is not a ver}- long 

 ride from here to the first end of our valley. You leave here 

 at noon, you are in St. John in the evening, the next day you 

 take the steamer over to Digby and you are at the entrance of 

 the valley. It has an average width of 4 to 10 miles. It is 

 drained by two rivers, and the water shed is at Berwick, where 

 I am located. We in the past have had great success in grow- 

 ing fruit. I think I told you last year that our largest crop was 

 two million barrels. The railroad traverses the whole length of 

 the valley, beginning at Yarmouth and ending at Halifax. Our 

 shipping port is Halifax. In the last four or five years we have 

 organized a cooperative company which is doing grand work. 

 All along the line of the railroad at the stations we have apple 

 houses. We pick our apples and take them to the warehouse^ 

 and expert men pack them and brand them and they are shipped 

 to the o^d country, iprincipally to London, Liverpool and Glas- 

 gow. We send apples to Newfoundland, and to Cape Town, 

 Africa, and our markets are increasing every year. This coop- 

 erative company, with 32 different warehouses, is connected 

 with the central association at Berwick. That central asso- 

 ciation has for its duties the marketing of the fruit. It is in 

 touch by telephone with every packing house in the whole val- 

 ley. The associations have their president, and these houses 

 have a foreman and expert packers. The gentleman who is at 

 the head of the central association is Mr. Adams. He is in 

 touch with all the markets of the world. He watches the 



