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of the products of the farm. Why is this ? 

 I can only think it is because shippers are 

 generally good natured enough to pay it. 

 We are long suffering or have been so, let 

 us kick. 



I met a gentleman a few days ago who 

 asked me if we had the new tin can for fruits 



and vegetables that needs no solder. Per- 

 haps our canners know all about it, but in 

 case it may be of use to them full information 

 can be obtained from "The Self Opening 

 Tin Box Company, York Road, King's 

 Cross, London," who use the Muncham 

 patent closing machine. 



APPLES IN THE GEORGIAN BAY DISTRICT 



T. H. RACE, MITCHELL 



IT was my privilege this fall to visit some 

 of the districts bordering on the Georg- 

 ian Bay and note the apples and other 

 fruits out there, in comparison with other 

 sections lying further south. It was the 

 second time that I had acted as judge of the 

 fruit exhibits at the Orillia fall fair, and on 

 neither occasion were the expectations of 

 nine years ago, when we held our annual 

 meeting in that pretty town, borne out. 



It will be remembered by many of those 

 who met at Orillia that fall nine years ago 

 what a splendid showing of apples there 

 were. That seemed to be a favoured season 

 with them, and we were all most favorably 

 impressed with very superior quality of the 

 apples produced and shown there. From 

 later visits [ have satisfied myself that such 

 varieties as the Baldwin, the Spy, King, 

 Greening and some of the pippins will not 

 do well in the Orillia district. The Ben 

 Davis will do fairly well on the ridges round 

 about the lakes, but I doubt its being gen- 

 erally successful. The Duchess, Wealthy 

 and Alexander are still promising varieties 

 there ; but the apple that I found especially 

 at home in that district was the North Star. 

 In no other section where I came across the 

 North Star did it appear to thrive as well and 



attain as high a quality and good size as 

 about Orillia. 



In my opinion the North Star is very little 

 inferior in quality to the Gravenstein. Mr. 

 D. Cantelon, of Clinton, the Huron fruit king, 

 who grows it largely, thinks it superior in 

 quality to the Gravenstein. And it is free 

 from spot, a better grower, a longer keeper 

 and uniformly larger in size than that variety. 

 All things considered I believe the North 

 Star a coming apple for the late fall or 

 early winter market, and especially valuable 

 for the Orillia district. 



But I found another apple at Orillia which 

 I consider worthy of special mention. It is 

 evidently a seedling from the Duchess, and 

 resembles that variety in all its essential 

 features except in its season. It is a 

 Duchess apple moved on about six weeks 

 in its season. Our director, (Mr. C. L. Ste- 

 phens), for that district will have some speci- 

 mens of it at the Walkerton meeting. If the 

 Duchess ever becomes, as it promises to, a 

 marketable apple up through New Ontario, 

 and as far west as Winnipeg, this seedling 

 will be a valuable addition to prolong that 

 market to well nigh early winter. 



Still another good seedling I found at 

 Orillia grown by our director Mr. Stephens 



