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What To Plant. 



893. Sir, — What are the best varieties of wint«r apples for a commercial orchard ? 

 My situation is on the eastern side of the Mountain. 



T. H. Murray, Avtning. 



In the District Fruit List published by the Ontario Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion, the following list of winter apples is recommended for your county, viz. : — 

 Pewaukee, Golden Russet, Scott's Winter, La Rue and Wealthy. In your 

 sheltered location you could, no doubt, grow Ontario and Blenheim, and these 

 two with Wealthy would make a good collection. Our next Fruit Experiment 

 Report will be full of valuable information for you. 



Best Early Potato. 



(See Question 879 ) 



Sir, — In reply to the inquiry of A. F. concerning the best early potato, I 

 have grown over thirty early varieties, and I find that the new Jersey Queen, 

 and the Early Maine head the list for productiveness on clay soil. 



P. F. Clossom, Highland Creek, Ont. 



The 1896 Apple Crop. 



Sir, — Please find herewith enclosed a short editorial from the Journal of Commerce, 

 entitled fhe 1896 Apple Crop. " Throughout the States of chief commercial production, 

 including New England, Xew York, etc., the crop of winter apples is very large, accord- 

 ing to the special report in this week's American Agriculturist (New York), which places 

 the aggregate yield at a shade under 59,000,000 barrels for all of the United States, against 

 60,500,000 barrels in 1895 and 57,629,000 barrels two years ago. This authority says that 

 the crop in New England, New York, Michigan and parts of a few other States is simply 

 phenomenal. New England and New York alone have over 16,000,000 barrels against 

 little more than 7,000,000 barrels a year ago, while Michigan is harvesting the greatest 

 crop of fine fruit ever secured in that State. In sharp contrast, the report covering the 

 Central West shows that in very many instances the crop is insufficient to supply home 

 requirements. This is a decided change in the relative position of the crop compared with 

 the distribution of that of a year ago, and because of the shifting there is a marked diflfer- 

 ence in the supply available for commercial distribution. Five New England States are 

 credited with 8,500,000 barrels, against scant 4,000,000 barrels in '95 and 7,000,000 barrels 

 in '94. The commercial crop of New York is placed at 7,800,000 barrels, or much more 

 than double that of last year and probably the largest on record, whUe Michigan is given 

 6,400,000 against 3,750,000 barrels in '95. The crop h£is fallen badly in southern Uhio, 

 parts of Indiana, Missouri and elsewhere, and the yield is much smaller in these and a 

 number of other Western and Southwestern States. Crop conditions in Canada were 

 almost perfect from the beginning, with the '95 crop among the largest on record. Quality 

 unusually good." 



The Journal of Commerce is the most conser\-ative purely commercial newspaper pub- 

 lished in this city. You will observe that the total apple crop of 1896 is less than that of 



