May, 1910 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



131 



Annapolis Valley East, N. S. 



Ennicc Watts, A. R. H. S. 



In Nova Scotia, the brown-tail moth 

 seems to be gaining headway; from Digby 

 and Annapolis come reports of infested or- 

 chards; on one tree 83 nests were found, 

 containing about three hundred insects each. 

 At Port Williams and Welsford other nests 

 have been found, but the department of ag- 

 riculture is taking active steps to suppress 

 the moth, and wish to have all cases report- 

 ed to them. Doctor Gordon Hewitt, Do- 

 minion Entomologist, is assisting in the 

 provinces' campaign against the pest. 



The call for fruit trees is greater than 

 ever, and the local supply is not equal to 

 the demand ; consequently, large quantities 

 of nursery stock are being imported. Or- 

 chards are being extended with amazing 

 rapidity. Nova Scotian missionaries are 

 ))reaching fruit growing and agriculture on 

 the other side of the Atlantic, and the re- 

 sult is that well-to-do immigrants are buy- 

 ing good farms in the valley. 



So far, spring has been exceptionally early 

 and peas were planted in the middle of 

 March, while potatoes went in at the begin- 

 ning of April. 



Work on the new railway through the 

 northern part of the Annapolis Valley has 

 begun and the value of farms in Kings 

 County will naturally increase. 



Arrangements have been made for the 

 Hants, Kings, and Annapolis Exhibition to 

 take place at Windsor on October 5, 6 and 

 7, 1910. 



Under the auspices of the King's County 

 Farmers' Association, Mr. W. H. Wood- 

 worth, assisted by Mr. McRae of Ottawa, 

 have been touring the country in the inter- 

 ests of better agriculture. Mr. Woodworth 

 usually spoke upon fruit growing, general 

 orcharding and commercial fertilizers. At 

 Berwick the afternoon and evening meet- 

 ings were well attended. At the latter meet- 

 ing the Berwick Brass Band kindly fur- 

 nished music, and Miss Eunice Watts gave 

 an address on "Dwarf Fruit Trees." Mr. 

 McRae, who has travelled extensively, said 

 that Nova Scotians did not appreciate 

 their own country enough and that they 

 got their living too easily ; and, comparing 

 the fruit farms of the Annapolis Valley 

 with those celebrated fruit regions in the 

 west, he could not see where the westerner 

 had any advantage over the Nova Scotian. 

 If the real estate men would write up our 

 province as they did those of the west, we 

 would not know our own farms. 



Montreal 



E. H. Wartm&n, Dominion Fruit Inspector 



While attending orchard meetings in the 

 county of Huntingdon, Que., for one week 

 last month, many things struck me while 

 driving from one township to another as be- 

 ing of great importance, i'lrst, to know to 

 what extent maple sugar and syrup are 

 made. One said he made 700 gallons in one 

 season. It is quite a common thing for one 

 person to tap from 2000 to 80(X) trees. These 

 trees are of the largest and healthiest type. 

 One firm had his posters all over the coun- 

 try wanting to buy G0,000 gallons of pure 

 maple syrup. I think it was available at 

 around 80 cents a gallon. 



Apple orchards you would see planted 

 among the rocks and at a glance you would 

 think it all rock. One would wonder where 

 the trees could get rooted. Some have 

 thrown wagon loads of earth among the 

 rocks so as to be able to jilant their trees 

 which have done well, bearing heavy crops. 

 One farm, I am told, has seven miles of 

 stone fence. I saw several miles from the 

 main road. Wherever soil is found between 

 these rocks it is of good quality and pro- 



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