NUMBER AND YIELD OF APPLE TREES IN 

 OUR PROVINCE. 



DN the last Report of the Bureau of 

 Industries we have a step in ad- 

 vance for the benefit of the fruit 

 grower, in a table showing the num- 

 ber and yield of apple trees in Ontario 

 in 1896 and 1897. We are often asked 

 by outside correspondents for this infor- 

 mation in previous years, and need these 

 statistics, not only of apples, but of other 

 fruits also. 



a decrease in the number of apple trees 

 under fifteen years old, and the number 

 reported is now only 3,435,018, or 113,- 

 040 less than in 1896. The average 

 yield per tree was small, being but 2.19 

 bushels per bearing tree (fifteen years 

 old) compared with 9.45 bushels in the 

 previous year, and the total yield amount- 

 ed to only 13,343,720 bushels, as against 

 55.895.755 bushels in 1896. 



Apple Trees. 



15 years and over. I Under Id years. 



Districts. 



Yield of apples! Yield of apples 

 in 1897. i in 1896. 



1897. 



1896. 



1897. 



1896. 



Bushels. 



Bashels. 



Bosh, 

 per 

 tree. 



Lake Erie 1,161.5581 1,068.063 493.210: 515,1761 2,154,517 



Lake Huron. . . 772.270i 729.:i25 392.187 39.5.319 1,452.401 



Georgian Bay 448,519, 442,216 39M46 417.074 924.294 



West Midland l,095,2:u' 1,075 992 445,147 448,223, 2,174,040 



LakeOntario l,766.184i 1,739,191 826,2.53 875,:i56 4,064,148 



St. Lawrence and Ottawa! 582,853i 576.921 554.619 557.010 1,72.3,251 



East Midland j 263 756 i 273.649 261,742 271,514| 823,2.^4 



Northern Districts ' 12,025| 8,549i 68,714 68,3861 27,235 



The Province 6,102.399 6,913,906! 3,435,018, 3,548,058] 13,343,720 2 19 55.895,755| 9.45 



1.86! 13.087,056! 12.25 

 1.88 7,2:^,4.35 9 92 

 2 06; 3.:«)3,025 7.47 

 1.99 11,804,969 10.97 

 2 .30 14,273,665 8.21 

 2 96 4,360,144 7.56 

 1,798,647 H.57 

 31,814j 3.72 



3.12 

 22 6 



An increase occurred in the number 

 of apple trees over fifteen years old in 

 every group except the East Midland 

 district, there now being 6,102,399 trees 

 of that age in the Province, or 188,493 



The following table presents the acre- 

 ages in orchard and garden, and in vine- 

 yard, in 1897, by county groups and for 

 the Province, together with the total 

 acreage of these in the years 1895, 1896 



more than was reported in the preced- and 1897 : 

 ing year. Every group, however, shows 



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