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THE CANADIAN HORTIC U I. ! U IM sT 



February, 191 1 



were really marvellous Their orchard 

 was visitcci by hundreds of fruit growers 

 and was generally pronounced as the best 

 ihey had ever seen. It consisted of less 

 than six acres, and was sold to an apple 

 buyer for $1375.00 on the trees, and he 

 reports it was .1 orofitable investment for 

 him. Thus Me'-srs. Lone, with an invest- 

 ment of $95.88, realized in one year a re- 

 turn of $1375.00. This amount repre- 

 sents over three tirres more than was 

 ever realized from the orchard in any 

 previous year. As a test case, in this 

 orchard, one single tree that was situated 

 among Ijerry bushes, was left unsprayed, 

 with the result that the fruit was totally 

 unfit for even the evaporator. 



A NOTED ORCHARD 



Messrs. J. C. and M. C. .Smith produc- 

 ed last year a large and beautiful crop 

 of apples. It was in their orchard located 

 in Burlington that the government held 

 the fruit meeting on September 7th that 

 was fully reported in the October issue of 

 The Canadian Horticulturist. This meet- 

 ing was attended bv prominent fruit 

 growers from all parts of Ontario. This 

 orchard consi.sts of three hundred trees. 

 At the time of the meeting considerable 

 di.scussion was heard as to the probable 

 quantity of apples in the orchard and the 

 probable percentage of No. I's. At the 

 time of the meeting Messrs. Smith were 

 offered $2500.00 for their crop, which was 

 refused. Phis orchard packed out over 

 1050 barrels, and for which over $3500.00 

 was realized, .\pple Scab and Codling 

 Moth were almost entirely controlled. The 

 only No. 3's that were in the orchard 

 were those marked by hail. 



This orchard is over^ fifty years old and 

 the trees large and hard to handle. The 

 most anproved care is given the orchard 

 in the way of pruning, cultivation, fertil- 

 izing and spraying. Probably no orchard 

 in Ontario receives more thorough spray- 

 ing than this one, and it is this thorough 

 spraying that produces apples so nearly 

 perfection. This orchard was .sprayed 

 four times with a power sprayer at a pres- 

 sure of one hundred and eighty to two 

 hundred pounds. At each application it 

 received about three thousand gallons of 

 soray. This orchard has had this sys- 

 t'^matic care for the last four years, and 

 has produced on an average of one thous- 

 and barrels per year. The soil in this or- 

 chard is very light sand. 



Messrs. Smith have another orchard 

 situated close to the Mountain on hard 

 clay land. This orchard they have had 

 for two years oniv, and have succeeded 

 in producing two beautiful crops. The 

 crop this year consisted of over fifteen 

 hundred barrels, over twelve hundred of 

 which were Northern Spys. The same 

 care and attention was paid and the same 

 high results were obtained. This orchard 

 had been neglected for fifteen years, and 

 I he way in which it responded to treat- 



OrcWd owa«d by Mr. J. C. Smith, Barliagtsn, Oat., wkere Spr.yiof bi» P«i<J 



This orchard was thoroughly sprayed last year 

 fine fruit. It is mentioned in 



ment was remarkable. Probably • the 

 most beautiful Spys that were ever grown 

 in Ontario were in this orchard this past 

 year. 



OTHER GROWERS SUCCESSFUL 



Many more instances could be given of 

 results obtained in this section. THle 

 above orchards are mentioned only be- 

 cause they had previously been neglected 

 and are quoted to show what can Ije done 

 in one year. The old fruit growers in 

 the district who have for years been tak- 

 ing care of their orchards, were again re- 

 warded with good crops of good fruit. 

 Particular mention should be made of 

 Mr. A. W. Peart, Mr. H. T. Foster, Mr. 

 Smith Freeman, Mr. W. F. W. Fisher, 

 Mr. R. C. Fowler, Mr. Leeman WiLson. 

 Mr. W. H. Easterbrook, and Bell Bros. 



The only good apples in the district 

 were found in orchards that had been 

 thoroughly sprayed. It has been demon- 

 strated that spraying pays. There have 

 been many doubters in this section about 

 this question, but it is very hard to find 

 any of them now. It is generally predict- 

 ed that spraying will be almost universal 

 this year. The growers in this section 

 are using commercial Lime-Sulphur and 

 Ar.senate of Lead. They claim their re- 

 sults are most satisfactory. 



There is probably no section in Ontario 

 where growers have had so many ob- 

 stacles to overcome as here. This is the 

 recognized home of the Codling Moth. In 

 the valley between the mountain and the 

 lake this pest has flourished to perfection. 

 Here they also have San Jose Scale, Oys- 

 ter Shell Bark Louse, Blister Mite, Bud 

 Moth, .\phis, and about every pest known 

 to affect the apple. That they have suc- 



with lime-sulphur and produced exceptionally 

 the accompanying article. 



ceeded in controling these pests, is credit- 

 able to them, and should be an object 

 lesson to fruit growers in other parts of 

 Ontario. Fruit growing has received a 

 great stimulus in this district, and Halton 

 county may be reckoned on in the future 

 as a producer of good apples. Several 

 new Fruit Growers' .Associations have 

 been formed in the vicinity, and their in- 

 tention is to grow apples for profit. 



Experience in Spraying 



HuniltoB Flenming, Grimibj, Oit. 



I have always used the home-made 

 lime and sulphur mixture in almost equal 

 proportions, and applied while warm. My 

 spraving outfit consists of an ordinary 

 forty gallon barrel with hand pump, hose 

 rod and a double nozzle. I commenced 

 spraying operations last year on March 

 31st, and finished April nth. 

 RESULTS 



In an orchard of one thousand one hun- 

 dred peach trees, I applied twenty-four 

 barrels of spray at a cost of ninety cents 

 a barrel. The trees were sprayed very 

 thoroughly. The direction of the wind 

 was carefully watched. The lime in the 

 mixture made it possible to see where 

 branches had been missed, and so made 

 a final touching up an easy task. 



I had very little curl-leaf, except on 

 fifty "Triumph" trees, which, however, 

 yielded an average of nine eleven quart 

 baskets per tree. No thinning was neces- 

 sary. From eight hundred trees in bear- 

 ing, I marketed seven thousand two hun- 

 dred quart baskets, chiefly "selects" or 

 No. 1. My trees appear clean and in a 

 healthy condition. 



