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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



November, 191 1 



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PROVINCIAL NOTES W 



Eastern Annapolis Valley 



Eanice Bochtian 



The apple crop in most orchards far ex- 

 ceeded the early estimates of the growers 

 and everywhere barrels are scarce. From 

 twenty-five cents they gradually rose to 

 forty cents and forty-five cents, and even 

 then were hard to secure. Hundreds of 

 barrels of apples are being emptied into 

 bins to await the barrels. Iji tbe orchards 

 dropped fruits are piled in heaps ; the ware- 

 houses have not enough room, neither is 

 there room in farm buildings, consequent- 

 ly the barrels are headed up and rolled on 

 to planks under the trees. Barrel makers 

 now cbarge eight cents for making. 



By the beginning of October all the 

 Gravenstoins were shipped. From reports 

 of the ifirst boats they did not carry very 

 well and one man received fifty cents each 

 for one hundred and twenty barrels; others 

 have had nine shillings for No. 2's and 

 twelve shillings and sixpence for No. I's. 

 Ben Davis are being exported to Denmark ; 

 cider apples are going to Quebec. Tlii:5 

 year, owing to the excellence of the fruit, 

 the sorting and grading is done rapidly. 

 On the whole, good prices are expected. 



The potato crop is short. One man plant- 

 ed twelve bushels of seed and dug eighty- 

 seven bushels. The tubers are unusually 

 large, there being very few small ones, and 

 only a few big ones in a hill. The price 

 began at fifty cents a bushel. 



The evaporator at Berwick, which was 

 burned, is now rebuilt and again at work. 

 The vinegar factory has all its tanks full. 

 Some orchardists finished picking the fruit 

 by October eleventh, others a week later, 

 but the scarcity of barrels has hindered the 

 majority. 



Montreal 



E. H. Wirtmao, Dominioi Frait Utpcclor 



We had a wonderful fall to the eight- 

 eenth day of October on account of free- 

 ness from frost. I could have picked a 

 nice bouquet of tender flowers from my 

 garden on that date not injured in the 

 least by frost. 



1 am more and more impressed as years 

 go by inspecting fruits tliat the proper 

 condition of fruit packing is to be perfect- 

 ly dry. Apples packed wet in barrels do 

 not dry out for a long time, and when 

 opened they have a dull color and in many 

 cases a mouldy appearance. Barrels that 

 get a drenching rain never look so well 

 again and when piled in cars in that con- 

 dition when unloaded many a head comes 

 out which is re-coopered with the loss of 

 apples, that makes a slack barrel. A six- 

 hoop barrel especially will flatten on the 

 bottom of the car and never regain its 

 normal shape. 



Mcintosh & Fameuse apples coming to 

 the city from the Province of Quebec are 

 particularly fine, high colored and spotless. 

 They command a high price, in some cases 

 as high as $5 a barrel. 



In the ten years of my stay here I never 

 saw grapes bring so high an average price. 

 New York State Keiffer pears are shipped 

 Ly Montreal to Glasgow in barrels in car 

 lots. Their condition is good and sound, 

 but the fruit is ungraded. The barrel for 

 pears seems to me a good way to give away 

 a large parcel for little money. If prop- 

 (erly (handled in boxes they bring good 

 money in Ireland. 



1 am glad to see some beautifully packed 

 apples and pears going forward to Eng- 



