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June, ldl3 



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Old fruit handlers prefer the original 

 l>ack to the fresh pack and re-handling in 

 February or March. Why? Because ap- 

 ples properly handled from tree to barrels 

 and boxes in cool condition will keep longer 

 than those re-packed at a late date. 



A tendency to pack windfalls that have 

 becai of fine quality when <m the iTfc. 

 overlooking small injuries, is too common 

 a practice. It generally causes great dis- 

 apiwintment and loss. Who is to blame 

 but he who packs through lack of good 

 judgment. 



Of course it is generally conceded that 

 some seasons apples do not keep as well 

 as others. But let me tell you that our 

 hard commercial winter varieties, if pro- 

 l>erly handled, and stored, will give great 

 satisfaction amy year to the one who does 

 his work faithfully and well. 



Western Annapolis Valley, N.S. 



R. J. Muiei>{cr, Biidictown, N. S. 



A very wet spring up to the third of 

 May, but early in the swelling of buds and 

 the springing of the grass. The fruit 

 buds have come through the winter in 

 good shape and promise a full bloom. 

 Trees are about all 'pruned for this year. 



The poor quality of last year's fruit, 

 added to the poor prices received, have set 

 our onchardists thinking. The feeling is 

 becoming stronger among the farmers 

 that they must raise better apples amd 

 majny are expecting to grow fewer on the 

 tree. To get this state of affairs some 

 have determined to thin the fruit in July, 

 while others are pruning very severely, 

 hoping that the desired results of larger, 

 better quantity of apples may be obtained 

 thereby. 



The question of spraying has received 

 much more attention this last winter dis- 

 cursively at the blacksmith shops and vil- 

 lage stores than ever before, and there is 

 no uniformity of opinion in the matter. 

 Intelligemt orchardists have advanced 

 most ridiculous opinions against spraying, 

 but we are glad to notice that those who 

 sprayed thoroughly last season and got 

 as a consequence better fruit, will spray 

 again this year. Some are in favor of re- 

 tumniny to the use of the old Bordeaux 

 mixture; some will make their own lime- 

 sulphur, but by far the greater proportion, 

 ninety percent., will use the easily ob- 

 tained, easily mixed, commercial lime- 

 sulphur, and commercial arsenate of lead. 

 The future holds out a hopeful promise for 

 the market end of our fruit business. 



The United Fruit Companies con- 

 trol now over two-thirds of the output 

 of the province, in spite of a childish and 

 transparently selfish opposition put up by 

 a few of the old speculators who have made 

 easy money out of the farmers in the 

 past. All the newly formed societies are 

 uniting with the central association and 

 the excellence of the pack will soon give 

 it practically all the markets and make it 

 the greatest organization in Nova Scotia. 



Hon. James S. Duff, Provincial Miriister 

 of Agriculture for Ontario, has appointed 

 Messrs. C. M. Honsberger, Jordan Sta- 

 tion, F. G. Stewart, Homer, David Allan,, 

 Winona, and Earland Lee of Stoney Creek, 

 to act on the Board of Control of the Jor- 

 dan Harbor Experimental Farm. 



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 horticultural journals. — Watson C. Orr, 

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