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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



May, 191 1 



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Agents wanted In Some Localities 



apples off the trees, patting them in bags 

 and i>eddling them about town won't do. 

 J will show you a more excellent way. Hand- 

 pick the fruit before it is too ripe, have '•■ 

 neatly packed in boxes or barrels — I pi 

 for the boxes — and ship it to the best mar- 

 ket. Boxes cost about twelve oents each, 

 barrels almost forty oents and three boxes 

 will bring more money than one barrel. 



Lots of people would buy a box of apples, 

 who would hardly think of buying a barrel 

 at a time. I believe, too, tJiat it would 

 pay to wrap — in paper specially made for 

 the purpose — our fancy apples. That i- 

 medium sized red apples, sucih as rameu^' 

 Wealthy or Mcintosh Red, and of the eai 

 apples the Crimson Beauty. — J. A. Moore 

 P.E.I. 



Cranberries in Nova Scotia 



A. Kelull, Wilmttt, N. S. 



Probably one of the most interesting feat- 

 ures of the Short Course in agriculture at 

 the Nova Scotia Agricultural College was 

 Mr. Bishop's lecture dealing with cranberry 

 culture. Any bog or meadow land can be 

 made to grow cranberries, the one and only 

 essential point being that it must be free 

 from standing water for at least one foot 

 below the surface. The sod or turf should 

 be removed. This is usually done by hand, 

 at a cost of from fifty to one hundred dol- 

 lars per acre. Sand should then be hauled 

 on to the land and spread over it to a 

 depth of four or five inches. The fine red 

 sand so common in Nova Scotia is not re- 

 commended as it is impregnated with iron, 

 and greatly favors the growth of fire moss. 

 A rather coarse and gravelly sand is found 

 to be best, the common white sand being 

 excellent. The plants are set in rows about 

 eighteen inches apart and pressed in with 

 a dibber, generally about the last of May 

 or the first of June. 



Barn manure is of no use in cranberry 

 culture, but on very poor soil an applica- 

 tion of six hundred pounds of a potato fer- 

 tilizer to the acre is often beneficial. The 

 bog must be weeded by hand, a rather la- 

 borious, and sometimes an expensive, pro- 

 ceeding. The vines commence to bear the 

 third year from planting, but it is not un- 

 til the fifth year" that they are in a prime 

 bearing condition. 



At intervals of a few years the bog must 

 be resanded to a depth of about one inch 

 in order to keep down the fire moss. 



INJURIOUS INSECTS 



There are tJiree insects which are injur- 

 ious to the cranberry — the fire worm, the 

 span moth, and the berry worm — all of 

 which can be kept under control by means 

 of arsenical sprays. About fifty barrels per 

 acre is an average crop, and from five to 

 seven dollars per barrel is an average price. 

 The principal market at present is Mon- 

 treal. Shipments have been made to Eng- 

 land and elsewhere with success. There is 

 a continual demand for cranberries, and 

 tlie market is practically unlimited. Cran- 

 berries are stored in boxes holding about 

 a bushel, in a dark, well ventilated place, 

 which need not be as cool as that desired 

 for apples. The yearly exi>enditure on an 

 acre of Log is, according to Mr. Bishop, 

 about as follows : 



Weeding $10 00 



Sanding 15 00 



Picking, marketing, and 



extras 35 00 



Total $60 00 



It will be readily seen that if the ber- 

 ri€« fetch $250, cranberry culture is, as 

 Mr. Bishop considers it, an extremely pro- 

 fitable occupation. 



