Mc.y, 1912 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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and modern management of orchards will 

 be given by qualified instructors by the 

 order of Hon. J. E. Caron, Minister of 

 Agriculture, whose solicitude in favor of 

 fruil^growers is not surpassed. 



The spraying outfits and the insecticides 

 were lately bought by us from firms who 

 advertised in The Can.^dian Horticultur- 

 ist, our best guide in the fruit industry. I 

 will report the results of our demonstration 

 work next fall. 



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Huron County, Ont. 



The most striking development of the last 

 few years in this lake shore district, accord- 

 ing to a local paper. The Signal, is the in- 

 creased attention given to apple-growing. 

 It has long been known that this district 

 produced fruit of a superior quality, but 

 for one reason and another no special at- 

 tention was paid to the possibilities of orch- 

 ard cultivation and the business side of the 

 orchard was almost wholly neglected. A 

 change has come, however, and now every 

 owner of a few acres of orchard is able to 

 command a much better price for his farm. 

 Orchards that for years were neglected are 

 now receiving the attention that is due to 

 the best-paying department of the farm, 

 and many new orchards are being set out. 

 In a few cases farms are being devoted ex- 

 clusively to fruit-growing, and the number 

 of these fruit farms will steadily increase. 



One reason for this change in the attitude 

 of the farmer towards his orchard is found 

 in the success that has attended the apple- 

 growing business in other parts of the coun- 

 try — in districts that cannot begin to grow 

 apples like those of the Huron lake shore 

 district. In these other districts the grow- 

 ers have found that by paying proper atten- 

 tion to the pruning and spraying of their 

 trees and to the marketing of their fruit in 

 good condition they can make splendid pro- 

 fits; and with the superior conditions of 

 climate and soil in the Huron district even 

 better results can be obtained here. 



There are object lessons right at hand, 

 too, which have opened the eyes of orchard- 

 owners. Those of the Huron fruit men who 

 first realized the money-making possibilities 

 of the business, quit playing with their 

 orchards, and turned their attention ser- 

 iously to fruit-growing for profit, have had 

 such success that, as has already been sug- 

 gested, ©very fruit tree on a farm is now 

 counted a distinct asset to its owner. When 

 a clear profit of one hundred and sixty-flve 

 dollars eighty cents an acre can be obtained 

 from an apple orchard of ten acres, as re- 

 ported by one of our Huron growers, and 

 when a company is willing to take old orch- 

 ards on lease at twenty-five dollars an acre, 

 expecting to make a profit after spending 

 large sums in putting the orchards in fair 

 condition aftor years of neglect, as a British 

 company is doing in this district, then it is 

 realized that what one man can do others 

 can do, and that orchard cultivation is a 

 highly profitable business. A case was r^ 

 ported, in these columns some months ago 

 in which an old plantation of an acre in 

 extent, containing thirty-five trees, mostly 

 Spies, had given as high as eighteen dol- 

 lars a tree even at the low price of one dol- 

 lar fifty cents a barrel, or six hundred and 

 thirty dollars for the acre. 



The market for apples is unlimited. 

 Great Britain, Western Canada, the United 

 States and other countries take all the good 

 apples that can be grown, and ask for more. 

 Indeed, all signs indicate that apple-grow- 

 ing will be more and more profitable, and 

 that our lake shore district will in a few 



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