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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



July, 1916. 



The Fruit and Produce Market 



KEEP IN MIND— 



Our Annual Exhibition and Fall Packing Number 



PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER Ist 



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our fruit growers when they are buying their fall supplies for home and business. 

 Reserve space early. Last forms close August 25th. 



Peterboro, Ontario 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST, 



lieH and to the excellent opportunities which 

 Ihey are daily neglecting and throwing 

 iiway. They have a high class apple in the 

 .Mcintosh, the Montreal market is close by, 

 there is a steady demand for high class 

 fruit and a good price for it when it goes 

 on the market. It remains tor the grower 

 to produce the quality and the quantity if 

 the Mcintosh is lo be a good commercial 

 proposition. 



To produce the quality it is essential that 

 the orchards be carefully attended to. The 

 trees should be at least 30 feet apart, both 

 ways, and a good system of cultivation and 

 draining observed. Careful pruning and 

 systematic thorough spraying at the proper 

 seasons should be carried out. When the 

 crop is ready to harvest, the trees should 

 be carefully gone over two or three times, 

 and the fruit graded and then honestly 

 packed into boxes and barrels properly and 

 clearly labelled. Cooperative societies 

 should be organized in every district and 

 cold storage plants erected at convenient 

 centres, arrangements should be made with 

 the railway and express companies for bet- 

 ter tran.sportation and lower rates. Instead 

 of- getting 24% of production of No. I's as is 

 now the case, the farmer should then be 

 able to get 70% to SO'/,, and instead of sell- 

 ing his fruit on the trees to a travelling 

 buyer at a low rate, he would do his own 

 packing into neat boxes, selling direct to 

 the trade and receiving as high as $2.50 

 per box and |4.50 per barrel. 



The Mcintosh can be grown over a wide 

 range of territory, comes into bearing quick- 

 ly, is a fairly late apple, and one that will 

 keep well in cool storage. It has one dis- 

 advantage. It is subject to scab. This, 

 however, can be overcome by spraying. 



The demand for this apple is in late fall 

 and winter, especially at Christmas and 

 New Year; and the fact that it lends itself 

 splendidly for marketing in fancy packages 

 at this time, makes it a popular and pro- 

 fitable variety. 



Instruction Work in B.C. 



A number of changes have been made 

 in the staff of the Horticultural and ' 

 Fruit Pests Inspection Branches, of the 

 British Columbia Department of Agricul- 

 ture, due to the reorganization of these de- 

 partments. The assistant horticulturists 

 have been appointed pest inspectors, com- 

 bining the two activities which naturally 

 dovetail one with the other. In each of the 

 Assistant's districts. Inspectors acting under 

 their direction are appointed, and these in- 

 spectors perform inspection-work and such 

 horticulture duties as the horticulturists In 

 charge direct. 



Mr. E. W. White, B.S.A., is the Inspector 

 for Vancouver Island, and has been busy 

 with three spraying machines trying to con- 

 trol the California pear-thrips in the most 

 seriously affected orchards of the Royal 

 Oak, Gordon Head, and Keatings districts in 

 cooperation with the growers. There are 

 also the codling moth, bud-moth, straw- 

 berry weevil, and various aphis problems to 

 be dealt with. 



In the Cowichan district, Mr. R. Glenden- 

 ring, of Duncan, is Acting-Inspector in 

 charge of control measures for the wide- 

 poread "black-currant bud-mite" infesta- 

 tion. 



Mr. R. C. Abbott, Coast Markets Com- 

 missioner, Vancouver, has been appointed 

 fn Inspector and has been placed in charge 

 of the inspection of potatoes for export. He 

 is assisted by Inspectors T. H. Bain, Chilli- 

 wack, and H. T. Thompson, Vancouver. Mr. 

 Abbott will be in temporary charge of field 



