WITH THE APPLE GROWER. 



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ment, which means about $2 a barrel. One or- 

 chard of winter stock near Grimsby has been 

 bought for $700, in which there will be about 

 350 barrels, so I expect we should have $2 to 

 $2.50 per barrel packed. The quality is much 

 better than last year. — (L. Woolverton. 

 AROUND WINONA. 



The apple crop in this section will run one- 

 fourth to one-third that of last year. The 

 quality is fair, not much fungus, but codling 

 moth is much worse than the two past seasons. 

 Very few sales have been made. One orchard 

 has been sold for $1,000 and another for $700. 

 The man who packed the $700 orchard last year 

 says there is not over 350 barrels in it. In both 

 cases the purchaser is to stand all expense pick- 

 ing, packing, etc. About $1.50 per barrel for 

 the fruit picked is looked for here. — (M. Pettit. 

 THE BURLINGTON DISTRICT. 



The apple crop in the Burlington district is 

 not more than one-half of last year's; quality 

 probably 50 per cent, better. Some sales, I am 

 told, have been made at 80 cents per barrel for 

 fall apples, to $1.25 and $1.50 per barrel for No. 

 I's and 2's, fall and winter, the grower to pick 

 the apples and deliver same when packed to 

 wharf or railway station. Probably 50 per cent, 

 of apples in this district are in buyers' hands. 

 —(A. W. Peart. 



ONTARIO COUNTY. 



Our crop of apples is about one-third of the 

 1903 crop. There will be a lot of wormy 

 apples, but practically no scab. Fruit large 

 and fine. Trees are not heavily loaded, and 

 a heavy wind during September will play havoc 

 with the crop. Almost all orchards are sold, 

 sales having been made in every way. A good 

 part are sold lump, and in many cases the full 

 price has been paid in cash. One dollar per 

 barrel for fall and $1.25 for winter apples seem 

 to be regular prices. I think $1.50 has been 

 paid for one or two extra good orchards. No 

 sales have been made by the barrel as far as I 

 know. — (Elmer Lick. 



PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY. 



The apple crop is 50 per cent, short. Farmers 

 are holding until market develops. Apple buy- 

 ers are in evidence up and down the country 

 side taking in the situation. The fruit is of 

 fairly good quality. No sales have been re- 

 ported. — (John W. Hyatt. 



EASTERN ONTARIO. 



In the counties of Leeds and Grenville apples 

 are a fair medium crop, about double the crop 

 of last year. Snows, or Fameuse, are the lead- 

 ing variety, not many winters being grown. 

 Russets and Canada Red being the chief varie- 

 ties. Fruit and trees have been particularly 

 free of insect and fungi attacks, but indications 

 point to serious trouble with " spot " on Fa- 

 meuse before picking, for the disease is spread- 

 ing rapidly over the whole surface of the fruit 

 on trees that have not been sprayed. I am 

 spraying with Burgundy mixture to check the 

 spread of the disease, which has started again 

 where spraying was done earlier in the season 

 with Bordeaux. Most of the orchards here have 



been sold at about $1 per barrel on the tree for 

 1st and 2nd quality. There will be very few 

 apples held for late markets, as the tendency is 

 to sell early. — (Harold Jones. 



THE GEORGIAN BAY DISTRICT. 



In most of the best districts the apple crop 

 will not be more than 20 per cent, of an average. 

 As regards size, apples will average larger than 

 last year, and quality on the whole will be bet- 

 ter. There have been no sales made in our 

 immediate vicinity, that is Thornbury, Clarks- 

 burg, and 15 to 20 miles around about. There 

 have been a few sales about Creemore, Cooks- 

 town, Stayner and Duntroon. One buyer told 

 me he thought he would have about 4,000 bar- 

 rels, and the highest price paid was $1.15. If 

 this is so it will be about all the apples there 

 are there. There will not be many sold here 

 on contract. The growers are building one of 

 the best fruit storage plants in Canada, w'hich 

 will be ready for the winter apples. The plum 

 crop is also poor, except Lombards, which are 

 very good. — (J. G. Mitchell, Clarksburg. 

 THE ESSEX DISTRICT. 



The crop of apples is not as large as last year, 

 either in size or quantity. The codling moth 

 has got in its work more than usual. Not much 

 spot or scab. I have not heard of any buyers 

 looking after the crop. No price has been 

 fixed. — (W. W. Hilborn, Leamington, Ont. 

 IX LAMBTON COUNTY. 



The apple crop is not equal to last year's. In 

 this district a good many growers have taken a 

 great interest this year in spraying, consequent- 

 ly, although the apples are not thick, there is a 

 fair quantity and unsurpassed quality. Other 

 orchards that have not received proper atten- 

 tion produce only a light crop of poor fruit. 

 The growers are holding on to their crops. I 

 know of none having sold, and am not in a posi- 

 tion to state what price they expect. — (Colin 

 Johnson. 



PROSPECTS IN THE MARITIME PRO- 

 VINCES. 



The apple crop in the Maritime provinces does 

 not promise any better than in Ontario. Re- 

 porting from Kentville,' N. S., Mr. Ralph S. 

 Eaton, president of the Nova Scotia Fruit 

 Growers Association, states that the general 

 feeling throughout the Annapolis Valley is that 

 the crop will be a very light one. The princi- 

 pal varieties, Gravenstein and Baldwins, with 

 few exceptions, are not bearing this year. Re- 

 ports from growers in other parts of Nova 

 Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Is- 

 land are to the same effect. Rev. Father A. E. 

 Burke, president of the Prince Edward Island 

 Fruit Growers' Association, states that fall and 

 winter apples will be a light crop, not half of 

 last year's. 



IN THE UNITED STATES. 



American Agriculturist, a United States pub- 

 lication, which makes a specialty of crop re- 

 ports, announces that in many heavy apple pro- 

 ducing sections of the United States there are 

 slender prospects this year and that prices have 

 opened on a high plane. In the Hudson River, 



