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The loss sustained every season by Canada (mostly by Ontario), in this 

 branch of industry, is very large I have no means at hand wherewith I may 

 compute the total, but some idea may be obtained by applying the average loss 

 per barrel to the shipments from Montreal for one week ending November 7th, 

 which amounted to 27,126 barrels. The preventable loss on this lot would be 

 $21,000, while the loss on the same quantity if shipped from Boston or New 

 York, would hardly have exceeded $6,500. 



If this subject is thoroughly investigated by intelligent business persons who 

 are practically acquainted with the apple buying and shipping business, I am 

 convinced that this grievous loss to our people, can, to a great extent, be saved. 

 Then, if the present English prices are maintained, the middlemen will secure 

 for themselves a better because a more certain profit than at present, after pay- 

 ing to the growers from fifty to one hundred per cent, more than they have done 

 of late years for our own winter apples. 



Lindsay. Thos. Beall. 



PLANTING APPLE TREES CLOSE TOGETHER 



Some time since a writer in your paper advised planting apple trees 35 to 

 45 ft. apart, as this will prevent rot, permit the apples to color up better, etc. 

 In part he was right, but in my opinion he was on the whole wrong. In order 

 to make an orchard profitable, it is necessary to have more trees on a given 

 amount of land than when placed 35 to 45 ft. apart. If we can do this and not 

 injure the lands, trees or fruit, I think we have made a fair start toward profitable 

 commercial orcharding. While a tree is young we get the best crops. The fruit 

 is larger, more perfect, and less liable to rot. In this 

 locality a tree begins to fruit at the age of five or six 

 years from planting. The next 10 or 12 years the 

 orchard is in its prime, and if during this time we can 

 get one-third more trees and have one-third more fruit 

 to market we are just that much better off. The 

 accompanying plan shows my method of setting an 

 orchard which will increase the number of trees one- 

 third and still give ample room for hauling and gather- 

 ing until the orchard is 17 or 18 years old. If they 

 then interlap, remove every other one and you will still have as many as by 

 planting 45 apart in squares, and besides you will have had 12 years' use of the 

 trees removed. I have given much observation to and had some experience in 

 this matter, so if I were to plant 50 orchards I would follow the scheme above 

 outlined. My advice to every young man is, plant in this manner, cultivate well 

 f )r five or six years, branch the trees low, give them an annual topdressing and 

 the orchard will pay, other things being equal. — American Agriculturist. 



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