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were dried, many rotted on the ground. Now there are vinegar shops, where apples can 

 be sold at from fifteen to twenty cents a bushel, so that money is made out of what used 

 to go to waste. Our good winter varieties have commanded very good prices, and the 

 yield has been amply sufficient to reward the fruit grower very well. Many of our fruit 

 growers, I think, have realized more out of their orchards than they have out of their 

 farms — that is, the orchards yield more clear profit, with less expense. Then, since we 

 have been sending to the old country, some shippers have been realizing good returns. 

 While I am on my feet, I would like to ask if there is any one present who ever shipped 

 any fruit to South America. A gentleman with whom I was in conversation advised the 

 farmers of this section who had good fruit to ship it to Brazil. I said it had to pass the 

 equator, and the consequence would be that the fruit would spoil. He gave me the name 

 of some gentleman — -I think somewhere about Hamilton — who had shipped a cargo of 

 apples to Brazil, and who had found that when they got there, two thirds of them were 

 spoiled. They were packed in about the same manner that apples are packed to ship 

 here. However, he sold his apples at twenty dollars a barrel — those that were in good 

 condition — and realized a very good profit out of the transaction. If apples could be 

 selected with greater care, and perhaps papered, it would be found a source of great profit 

 to ship them there. About five hundred of my apple trees are Fameuses. 1 have the 

 same difficulty to contend against that most have in this part of the country — that is, the 

 operation of the borer. We cannot fight it very well. I think the remedy that has been • 

 described by Mr. Saunders is the only correct one. I think that fruit is the most profit- 

 able crop that our farmers here can raise, that it will return the most money for the small- 

 est outlay. 



Mr. George Art^old (Trenton). — From my experience, I think that apple growing 

 is very profitable in this county. I do not know very much about it in the County of 

 Hastings. Plant the hardy varieties, and they are very profitable. There is no mistake 

 about that. There are several varieties that we cannot hope to plant at all. My opinion 

 is that the Ben Davis is a very profitable apple ; also the American Golden Russet, and 

 several others that I could mention that are good bearers. The great object at the pres- 

 ent time is to plant the varieties that are good for shipping, that will stand the voyage. 

 The Northern Spy is a very good apple, yet it is not so good to stand the voyage as many 

 others. I think there is no doubt that the cultivation of the apple is a profitable business, 

 and will become more so. The demand is getting larger every year, and the cultivation 

 of the fruit will be more profitable in the futui'e than it has been in the past, 



Mr. Francis Peck. — I was born and brought up in this place, and moved to the back 

 country. I thought I could raise fruit there as well as here, but I found it could not be 

 raised there, and i came back here again. My idea was to put out a large orchard, prin- 

 cipally for p'rofit. I did so, and have now had my trees out eight years. I had Snow 

 apples last season from trees that bore two barrels on the average, and I sold them for a 

 dollar and a half a bushel at home. I do not know of anything else that would pay me 

 anything like that. I put out principally the Snow. I grew the trees north, and I very 

 soon found out there the hardy varieties. I raised principally the Snow, with the Astra- 

 chan, St. Lawrence and Tallman Sweets. The Astrachan, St. Lawrence and Snow apples 

 were the only hardy ones that would grow at all north, and when they did grow there, 

 the trees would not produce anything like what they would here. I have out somewhere 

 about 1,900 trees. I have been grafting this pa.st winter. I grafted 1,800. I have a new 

 apple that I got three years ago, called the Star, that I am much taken up with. It is 

 very hardy, a vigorous grower, and the apple keeps as well as any, and has a first class 

 flavour. The only objection was that the tree did not bear much, and I was dubious 

 about growing it on account of that ; but a neighbour of mine, when he got some of them, 

 grafted them on another tree, and he said they then bore heavily. The Ben Davis i."* a 

 profitable apple, bears well, but is very poor in flavour. As for profit, I do not know 

 anything that pays as well. I believe we have as good a section of country for growing 

 apples as any in the Province. 



Mr. W. R. Dempsey (Aldboro'). — I was sorry to hear from my friend from Picton 

 that he had experienced such a failure. My experience is that there is more money and 

 more fruit in the Colvert apple in our locality than in any other variety. Our ship- 



