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THE CANADMN HORTICULTURISl 



scale. There are no local inspectors and it 

 is left to each individual to spray or noi to 

 spray as the spirit moves him. 



HAS SPREAD IN KKNT. 



In the county of Kent the spread has been 

 by far the greatest, as it is the exception to 

 find a man who sprays. There is one sec- 

 tion of this wonderfully fertile county where 

 the work is done systematically. This is 

 near the city of Chatham, where they have 

 a regular cooperative association and where 

 the spraying is all done by one gang of men 

 who spray not only for scale but continue 



spraying for fungous diseases as well. I 

 may say, also, that the packing and ship- 

 ping of the fruit is all superintended by one 

 man, Mr. W. D. A. Ross, and a more thor- 

 oughly efficient and practical man it would 

 be hard to find. 



In the scale centre of the county of Es- 

 sex fairly good work has been done until the 

 present year, when owing to the destruction 

 of a large number of trees by the severe 

 winters the people have become discouraged 

 and I fear very little elifort has been made to 

 check the spread of the scale. 



THE FRUIT INDUSTRY OF THE DOMINION 



A. m'nEILL, chief of the fruit division, OTTAWA. 



ACiENERAL survey of the fruit inter- 

 ests of the Dominion was given at 

 the Canada National Exhibition by Mr. A. 

 McNeill, Chief of the Dominion Fruit Divi- 

 sion. The trade, Mr. McNeill said, is in a 

 healthy, perfectly normal, but nevertheless 

 critical condition. Each province has prob- 

 lems of its own. From Prince Edward Is- 

 land on the east to Vancouver on the west 

 there is a range of climate and soil that 

 gives a great varietv of fruits, including the 



the 



Shelves Containing Harry Dempsey's Forty Varieties of Apples 



tenderest apricot at one extreme and 

 crispy apple at the other. 



There is this common experience that 

 production has outgrown the consumption 

 of local markets. Frviit growers, every- 

 where, are reaching out for the distant mar- 

 ket. Many, however, do not realize the ne- 

 cessity of making material changes in their 

 business to conform to the new conditions. 

 It is a common practice to take the surplus 

 that the local market will not absorb and 

 send it to the distant market 

 with very indififerent success. 

 The fruit arrives in bad con- 

 dition. Small prices and dis- 

 satisfaction is the result. The 

 growers blame the transpor- 

 tation companies and the com- 

 mission men, who do not fail 

 to retaliate in kind. 



As a matter of fact the 

 problem is a new one. Re- 

 form must be in the work of 

 all three. The varieties that 

 are most excellent for the onj 

 market are not always suit- 

 able for the other ; transporta- 

 tion facilities good enough i< r 



