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Mr. Hay, Canadian Trade Commissionor 

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 consignment of 200 barrels of apples from 

 Nova Scotia, shipped two or three weeks 

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 applies during the month of August were 

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 \\ hich is probably the largest crop harvested 

 this year in Eastern Canada. On that date 

 picking in the orchards was not completed. 



Notes from Niagara District 



Linos WoolTerton, Grimsby 



Autumn work is beginning earlier than 

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 having finished their fruit harvest by the 

 middle of October. The drouth in early 

 summer hastened the ripening of all our 

 fruits, so that even winter apples were 

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Apijles have graded number two and 

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 storm the crop would have been chiefly 

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 in my orchard, trees bearing enormous 

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 it becomes healthy and holds for fruiting. 



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 spring before beginning to plow, or to 

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 wint>er protection for trees; and if we did, 

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