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HE CANADIAN HORTIC U I>TURIST 



February, 1912 



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Eunice Buchiun 



During the month of iSeptember, from 

 Berwick alone, thirty-one thousand barrels 

 of apples were shippe<l. They are reported 

 to have made goo;l prices in England. Mr. 

 8. B. Chute, manager of the United Co- 

 operative Fruit Companies of the Annapolis 

 Valley, chartcre 1 three stos^mers, one, the 

 S. S. Taunton, carried ten thousand six hun- 

 dred and sixty barrels to London: another, 

 the Sahators Dc Oiorgis. sailed for Glasgow 

 with ten thousand barrels, while the Michi- 

 gan took the same number to Liverpool. 

 Fruit growers are rejoicins; over their new 

 independence. 



Manv orchardists greatlv underestimated 

 their crops, and barrels could onlv be ob- 

 tained by waiting. Coopers were imported 

 with staves and hoops from Ontario, thus 

 intro lucing the flat-hooped barrel, wherea.s 

 before they were made of split birch sap- 

 lings. The evaporator at Middleton was 

 burned down. Fall plowing has been going 

 on up to date. Nov. 13. The plowing of 

 one land and leaving the next is coming into 

 favor, and the tendency is not to cultivate 

 so near to the trees. 



Nova Scotia Awakening 



The past yenr has shown .some woTiderfnl 

 developments in the fruit industry in this 

 ■province. The production of apples la.st 

 fall was much the greate.st on record, 

 amounting to almost one and a half mil- 

 lion barrels. Some extrenielv intc-fstincr 

 information regarding our prodttction of 

 apple.s was published recently in local na- 

 peirs from the pen of one of our most .sno- 

 cessiful growers, Mr. R. J. Messenger, one 

 of the well known contributors from this 

 orovince to the columns of The C.\xadian 

 HoRTiCTTLTTTRlST. Speaking about the qual- 

 ity of the fruit grown, Mr. Mes-senger says : 

 "Our great crop did not consist of poor, 

 wormy, third-class apples. They were as 

 Kood. both in qualitv and appearance, as 

 could be raised under the same circum- 

 stances in anv part of God's earth." 



The increase in our production of apples 

 is well shown by the following table of ex- 

 ports prepared by Mr. R. S. Eaton and 

 showing the average number of barrels ex- 

 ported each yo«r for five-year periods : 



Barrels 



1880-188.5 23.930 



1885-1890 83.249 



1890-1895 118.552 



1895-1900 2.59,200 



1900-1905 3.30.406 



190.5-1910 482.298 



By 1920 -we expect to produce three or 

 four million barrels a year. 



A thousand-barrel crop this year in Nova 

 Scotia was a common occurrence. There 

 were manr five thousand-barrel yields and 

 some climbed to -nearly t«n thousand. Men 

 who, twentv years ago, the great majority 

 of people in "the Province, thought crazy 

 for planting over twenty-five acres of or- 

 chard, to-dav are smiling blandly as they 

 pocket from two thousand to t-cn thousand 

 dollars as the year's orchard income. 



One of the most encouraging facts in this 

 year's business has been the successful 

 trade with the West. We have thought that 

 we could never compete with Ontario and 

 British Columbia in sending fruit to the 

 West but this year has been a pleasant 

 surprise in that about 100,000 barrels have 



