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season extended from the first of September 

 until the last of November and get too green 

 and over ripe fruit. One should study his 

 land and locality and then get the right var- 

 ieties. We want a large vigorous product- 

 ive tree, an apple of a red color, and one 

 that on being bruised will dry instead of rot. 

 A shipping apple of this kind will rarely be 

 classed as " slack " and will give a minium 

 amount of waste in packing. On being 

 asked what variety he would recommend as 

 having those characteristics, Mr. Carey said 

 " From twelve years experience as a shipper, 

 I like the Phoenix, they handle well ; as a 

 packer, I always liked to get into a Phoenix 

 orchard.'" 



Secretary Mitchell, of the Port Elgin branch 

 of the Lake Huron Fruit Growers' Associat- 

 ion, reports lively interest in the orchard 

 meetings in his section and sends a list of 

 new memberships. 



W. W. Hilborn of the Essex Experiment 

 Station, writes : I believe these orchard meet- 

 ings do much good to help farmers to adopt 

 more careful methods of orchard treatment. 

 In travelling over the country, one sees much 

 need of this, for neglected orchards are 

 everywhere apparent. Many orchards get 

 no trimming but the browsing of the cows, 

 and it is little reason therefore, that the trees 



are dying out and the investment becoming 

 an unprofitable one. The time has come 

 when to grow apples successfully, we must 

 give proper cultivation, and annual pruning, 

 and spraying. There is no other line of fruit 

 growing today that requires so much atten- 

 tion as the apple, and few crops that can be 

 more easily injured by improper methods of 

 cultivation. Just in this connection one sees 

 the value of such instruction as that given 

 in orchards now by Mr. McNeill. If we had 

 more men doing work like Mr. McNeill, I 

 think apple culture would receive more 

 attention. I believe the future for apple 

 culture in Canada is brighter than for any 

 other fruit we grow, if we can induce the 

 growers to give as much thought to their 

 apple orchards as they do to other farm 

 crops. 



Trenton. — Mr. Walter Dempsey, Director 

 of the O. F, G. A. for District (4) reports a 

 good meeting in Mr. Frazer's orchard on the 

 12th ult. Mr. Lick was present and gave a 

 very interesting talk on spraying which lead 

 to a good discussion. Mr. Lick answered 

 questions and spoke briefly on cultivation, 

 thinning fruit, cover crops, etc. There 

 were twenty-one fruit growers present, com- 

 ing about twelve miles each way from Tren- 

 ton. All took part in the discussions. 



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COLLATED BY THE SECRETARY 



Mr. Frank Metcalf, Secretary of the Lake 

 Huron Fruit Growers' Association reports 

 that their association is attracting consid- 

 erable attention among the farmers. On 

 Monday, May 12th, an orchard demonstra- 

 tion meeting was held in the orchard of Mr. 

 A. W. Sloan. Mr. Alex. McNeil, of Walk- 



erville. Dominion Fruit Inspector, and Mr. 

 A. E. Sherrington, of the Experimental 

 Fruit Station at Walkerton, gave practical 

 demonstration in spraying and in talks on 

 general orchard management. 



We had a call at our office this week from 

 Mr. Elmer Lick, after finishing his series of 



