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Shipping Apples. 



667. Sib, — I have a fine sample of apples. I have sprayed my orchard five times 

 M'ith the Bordeaux mixture, and I think I will not have less than five hundred barrels. I 

 do not wish to sell them at our usual price of $1.00 per barrel. What is the best method 

 of disposing of them ? Nearly all of them are the best winter varieties. I have seen 

 suggestions in your paper concerning the shipping of apples in a special package holding 

 about half a barrel. Do you know of any one who has had experience in this ? Would 

 you advise me to ship my own apples or sell to buyers ? Is there an association formed for 

 having apples inspected at the seaboard and sold direct. * 



J. C. Harris, IngersoU. 



Our correspondent has evidently proven the usefulness of spraying with the 

 Bordeaux mixture, for in those orchards where no spraying has been done a 

 large proportion of the apple crop is badly aiTected with scab and the trees are 

 already losing their foliage. As a rule growers throughout the country do best 

 to sell to buyers at a reasonable figure, because there is so much risk in shipping 

 to Great Britain ; either the grower does not understand packing them for the 

 British market, or he fails in getting them carried through in good condition to 

 the old country. There are parts of the ocean steamships favorable to the safe 

 carriage of apples, and others, near the heat of the boilers, where they are often 

 ruined on the voyage. Unless, therefore, one can become in direct communica- 

 tion with some steamship company and secure the best accommodation for his 

 apples, there is a danger to them on the ocean voyage. Then again he needs 

 to be in some communication with reliable salesmen in Great Britain. There 

 are many of these, some of whom advertise in The Canadian Horticulturist, 

 and, as a rule, providing the conditions referred to above are favorable, it will 

 pay better to consign apples to such houses in Great Britain than to sell the 

 best varieties to buyers here as low as $i.oo per barrel, especially in a season like 

 the present one. There is no package yet in use more suitable for shipping 

 apples than the Canadian apple barrel. A smaller package is only useful where the 

 apples are particularly fancy and extra selected. Inspection of apples has been 

 proposed by our Association and an Act has been passed in favor of the same, 

 but nothing definite has yet come out of it. It is hoped that very soon our 

 government will place this matter upon a working basis, because it would go far 

 toward developing the apple growing interests of the Province of Ontario. 



Sulphate of Iron. 



668. Sir, — What quantity of sulphate of iron is used to a gallon of water in spraying 

 trees ? 



Gerald Rehau^y. 



One pound to twenty-five gallons, but only to be applied when the tree is 

 devoid of foliage. Instead of this, however, the copper sulphate solution is 

 recommended for fungus disease, one pound to fifteen gallons of water — see 

 page i6o. 



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