December, 1910 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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from St. John, N.B., and Halifax, N.S., 

 combined 24,250 barrels. In the year 

 1909-10 the export from these ports had 

 grown to 670,000 barrels, an increase 

 in thirty years of 645,750 barrels. This 

 increase is due to the increase in pro- 

 duction without a corresponding increase 

 in local consumption. 



With the United States consuming 

 the entire product of their own country, 

 and the great north west requiring the 

 crop from Ontario and Quebec, after 

 their own local markets have been sup- 

 plied, and with the export to the Old 

 Country from Australia and Tasmania 

 coming in during the months of April, 

 May, June, and July, when North Ame- 

 rica has no apples to ship, it is not a 

 very great stretch of imagination to be- 

 lieve that the Maritime Provinces of 

 Canada must supply to a large extent 

 the apples consumed in the large cities 

 on the other side of the Atlantic. 



THE WE8TEEN MARKET 



It is less than ten years since tne Oo- 

 minion Department of Agriculture sent 

 an experimental car load of apples to 

 Winnipeg and sent a man all the way 

 from St. Catharines in Ontario to look 

 after the car. It was considered a risky 

 thing to do, to send a car load of fruit 

 all the way to the city of Winnipeg. 

 What is the condition of things there 



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to-day? One firm in Winnipeg handled 

 over one hundred cars of fruit from St. 

 Catharines alone up to the 22nd day of 

 October, and up to that date nearly 

 three hundred cars of fruit had been sold 

 at auction in that city. This does not 

 include fruit sent in from the American 

 side of the line. In the face of all this 

 Ontario Spys are selling to-day in the 

 city of Winnipeg for from $5.50 to $6.00 

 per barrel. The Winnif>eg Fruit Auc- 

 tion Company, which has only been in 

 operation four months, reported through 

 their manager, Mr. Sinclair, that they 

 had handled sixty-five cars of fruit from 

 Ontario and ten cars from British Col- 

 umbia up to October 20th. 



About six years ago a trial shipment 

 of apples was made to South Africa 

 from Nova Scotia. It was found that 

 there was a market for a limited amount 

 of apples at a good price. These ship- 

 ments have increased until this season 

 apples will find a market in South Africa. 

 This trade is destined to increase more 

 and more. And further permit me to 

 remind you that our local markets are 

 expanding and our population is increas- 

 ing. Consequently, more apples are con- 

 sumed by our own people. 



Less inferior fruit is being packed 

 every year. Our people will eventually 

 be educated to the point where they will 



pack only the good apples in barrels for 

 market and send the poor ones to the 

 canning factory and the vinegar mill. 

 The apple industry of Canada is yet in 

 its infancy. The outlook was never 

 brighter than at present. The up-to-date 

 orchardist has no reason to worry about 

 an over-production of apples. 



Profits from Apple Orchards* 



R. R. Sloan, Porter'i Hill, Ont. 



What profits may reasonably be ex- 

 pected from an apple orchard? In 1907 

 we harvested 700 barrels of apples at 

 $1.65 per barrel on the ground from ten 

 acres of orchard, containing 350 trees. 

 This brought in $132.00 per acre. The 

 varieties consisted of Ben Davis, Kings, 

 Greenings, Spies and Baldwins. 



In 1908 the crop was very light. We 

 got only 250 barrels from the same area, 

 or $45.60 per acre at $1.50 per barrel. 



In 1909 we had a heavy crop, upwards 

 of 2,000 barrels being harvested from 

 our whole orchard. The 350 trees re- 

 ferred to produced 750 barrels at $2.25 

 per barrel, or $192.80 per acre. 



This year the apple crop in general 

 was almost a complete failure. Never- 

 theless, 100 barrels were picked from the 

 above mentioned trees at $3.75 per bar- 

 rel, or $43.00 an acre, giving a total of 

 $413.40. Thus for the four years our 

 returns from this 

 ten acres of or- 

 chard have been 

 $103.35 per acre 

 on the average 

 from trees seven- 

 teen to twenty 

 years of age. 



The cost of pro- 

 ducing these apples 

 was as follows : It 

 cost $2.35 per acre 

 for plowing, $1.05 

 for cultivating 



three times, $».75 

 per acre for prun- 

 ing, and $8.30 for 

 spraying using bor- 

 deaux mixture at 

 an average cose of 

 one and one-third 

 cents per gallon 

 for three sprayings. 

 The past year we 

 used lime sulphur 

 and arsenate of 

 lead, and it cost a 

 little more for the 

 first spraying. Fer- 

 tilizing, at the rate 

 of five loads of 



A View of > Porlioo oJ tht Fruit aid Floral Exkibiti at the Recent Ontario HarticDltural Exhibition held in Toronto 



'Extract from a 

 paper read at the re- 

 cent convention in Tor- 

 onto of the Ontario 

 Fruit Growers' Asgocla 

 tion. 



