NOTES ON CROP REPORT. 



Our early hopes of on extraordinary yield 

 of fine fruit has been sadly disappointed dur- 

 ing this decisive month of June. The great 

 staple of Ontario, the apple, which forms so 

 important a part of our export trade, at first 

 promised to be superb, but many varieties did 

 not set well, especially Red Astracan and 

 Greening. Then, came the scab, which even 

 in spite of Bordeaux mixture, three times 

 applied, is very severe, especially on the 

 sheltered side of each apple. So serious is 

 the sudden outbreak of this fungus, now, in 

 the middle of June, that the Department of 

 Agriculture has issued a warning circular, 

 urging the importance of continued spraying. 

 Our reports (sec table) show a fairly good 

 crop, but we fear the scab has not been suffi- 

 ciently considered, or else the scab is less 

 severe elsewhere than in the Niagara 

 district. 



Bartlett pears promise a clean, fine sample, 

 though not a very heavy crop, while plums 

 promise quite a good yield. 



The following are brief notes from our 

 directors and others : — 



A. McNeill, Windsor, 



" Peaches. Good, notwithstanding the leaf 

 cure." 



"Plums, Very good, although some varieties 

 weie somewhat injured by aphis. A number 

 of large orchards in the neighborhood of 

 Belle River had the fruit completely destroy- 

 ed by hail on the 11th inst." 

 Mr. W. W. Hillborn, Leamington, 



"I think there will be a good crop of 

 peaches, say three-fourths of an average. A 

 number of varieties are very heavy laden. 

 We have been thinking peaches for the last 

 ten days, Crawford type, are very poor." 



Mr. T. H. Race, Mitchell, 



" Fruit promises more than an average crop 

 in Perth and Middlesex counties. Apples 

 are good, plums extra good, pears good, 

 though not what the blossom promised." 



Mr. Thos. Beall, Lindsay, 



" I should add respecting pears, that dur- 

 ing the last two or three days scab is showing 

 on the Flemish Beauty very badly, even 

 where the trees have already received their 

 third ' spraying ' with Bordeaux Mixture. 

 This is occasioned, no doubt, by the unusually 

 warm wet weather during the past week." 



Mr. W. H. Dempsey, Trenton. 



•' Insects have been more than usually 

 numerous, stripping many orchards where not 

 sprayed. This has been the meansof compelling 



many to commence spraying that wouM not 

 have done so, only on seeing the orchard 

 being stripped of foliage. Fungus has also got 

 a very strong hold this spring early, on foliage 

 as well as fruit." 



W. M. Orr, Fruitland, 



"Apples scabbing and damaged by a green 

 fruit worm eating to the centre of the young 

 fruit. Peaches too, affected with curl leaf, 

 some probably permanently damaged." 



Harold Jones, Maitland, 



" Spot is growing on young fruit and will 

 probably make crop of poor quality. Green 

 apple worm has done some damage to plum 

 trees and ruined the black currant ci'op. Tent 

 caterpillars and bud moth have been very bad, 

 in many cases stripping the trees of all 

 foliage in unsprayed orchards. Spraying is 

 not generally practiced, not over 10 per cent, 

 of the orchards are sprayed in this district," 



R. B. Whyte, Ottawa. 



"Strawberries have been in many places 

 very poor after blooming time, the weather 

 was cold and dry and fertilization was bad. 



Raspberries look very well and will be a 

 good crop. Gooseberries ditto. Currants, 

 red and white dropped the end berries in the 

 bunch more than usual, will be only a fair 

 crop. 



Grapes promise well. Apples will be an 

 average. Cherries more than an average. 



Plums are going to be the heaviest crop on 

 record in this district I never saw my trees 

 so loaded with fruit, many of them have far 

 more than they can carry. Guei Fonto 

 Seedling, Glass Seedling, Moore's Artie, and 

 about 10 or 13 P. domestica Seedlings that I 

 have are all loaded with fruit. The aphis 

 has been pretty bad on plum trees, but no 

 great harm has been done yet.' 



E. C. Beman Newcastle, 



" In reply to your request for report on 

 fruit prospects in this section, after careful 

 investigation from present indication would 

 report as follows : 



" Apples poor, spy almost a complete 

 failure, the cigar shaped case borer has in- 

 jured many orchards. 



" Pears. On the whole good. Plums, poor. 

 Cherries good. 



' Grapes. Not many grown, but good. 

 Small fruits are all very good, especially 

 Strawberries, which are extra fine in quality 

 and quantity. All fruit trees made a fine 

 show of blossom in the spring, but many 

 kinds did not set well. Trees blossomed too 

 early, followed by cold weather." 



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