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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



July, 1916. 



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Fruit Crop Prospects 



The following information, received by 

 telegram, at the oflice of the Dominion Fruit 

 Commissioner, Ottawa, June 22, outlines the 

 present apple situation in Ontario and Nova 

 Scotia: 



Ontario: In the Georgian Day district 

 apple trees are in good contlition. The fruit 

 has set well, and the weather is favorable. 

 There is some danger of the trees being 

 overloaded, and the fruit consequently 

 small. This danger may be offset by a heavy 

 "drop" in the near future. Very little spray- 

 ing is being done. 



In Western Ontario considerable scab is 

 showing, and there is a prospect of much 

 damage from this source. The crop will be 

 good where .spraying has been thorough, but 

 it is generally feared that there will be a 

 great deal of worthless and low grade fruit. 

 A heavy drop is now taking place in un- 

 sprayed and insufficiently sprayed orchards. 

 In Prince Edward County there is more 

 spraying than usual, and the fruit is ap- 

 parently setting well. 



In the Mcintosh and Fameuse section of 

 Eastern Ontario scab is developing to a re- 

 markable degree and has caused consider- 

 able dropping. No positive estimate of total 

 crop can yet be made. 



Between Toronto and Hamilton there will 

 not be more than a 50 per cent, crop Bald- 

 wins give best promise; Spies and Green- 

 ing light. Scab is prevalent. Some well 

 drained orchards promise a fair crop. 



Nova Scotia: Conditions are generally 

 favorable in the Annapolis Valley. Apples 

 are setting well and promise a larger crop 

 than was expected a few weeks ago- 

 Weather conditions are good, and there is 

 practically no fungus showing as yet. It is 

 estimated that there will be 70 per cent, of 

 a full crop, or sHghtly more than one mil- 

 lion .barrels. Gravensteins and Nonpareils 

 are 'heavy, Baldwins and Kings medium, 

 Starks and Blenheims light. 



Annapolis Valley Notes 



Eunice Buchanan 



The weather durinig blossom time was 

 about ideal for the setting of fruit in the 

 Annapolis Valley, ajid there is plenty of 

 moisture in the soil. Cherries, small fruits 

 and some varieties of pears had an abund- 

 ance of bloom, but reports from the apple 

 orchards varied. On some farms the blos- 

 soms were very good, on others the Graven- 

 stein and !Ben Davis appeared light, and 

 from several quarters orchardists complain 

 of a scarcity of bloom. The present con- 

 clusion is, there may be an average crop. 

 The first Gravenstein flowers opened on 

 May 30th, they unfolded slowly this yeai. 



Aphis were found to be plentiful on some 

 apple trees on May 7th. iNests of American 

 tent caterpillars were found at the end of 

 May. 



The fiirst sprayings began about May 9th, 

 and by June 3rd several orchardists had 

 completed the second spraying. Hand- 

 pump sprayers have almost disappeared, the 

 power being replaced by different makes of 

 gasoline engines, or various types of com- 

 pressed-air sprayers. Lime-sulphur is still 

 to the front in many localities as a summer 

 sipray, but an increasinig number have gone 

 back to bordeaux mixture, because they be- 

 lieve it to be less injurious to foliage. 



The present price of apple barrels is 

 cheap, twentyjfive cents each, cash in fall 

 to those whose credit is good. 



Some people still believe in planting apple 

 trees, though, of course, the uncertain war 



coud.tions and shortage of men Itave de- 

 terred many from setting new orchards. One 

 nunseryman near Berwick has sold over 

 three thousand apple trees; another has 

 sold eight hundred, and a third has sold one 

 hundred, besides using a total of nine hun- 

 dred trees to increase their own acreaige. 



The price of locally grown clover seed is 

 Chirly-flve cents per pound. This is used 

 as an orchard cover crop. 



Fertilizers like mosit things have iocreas- 

 ed in price. Ground limestone in bulk load- 

 ed from the car is $4.50 per ton (cash), 

 slag I15.O0 per ton, nitrate of soda $72.00 

 cash, per ton. Muriate of Pola&h is being 

 bought from farmers in single bags or more 

 at the rate of $175.00 per ton. 



Spraying materials also have advanced in 

 price. Uast year copper sulphate could be 

 bought for 8c per lb., Uiis year it is 18c per 

 lb. Lead arsenate is 8%c cash. 



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