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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURISJ 



A COMMERCIAL APPLE OECHAKD. 



I AM going to plant out two acres in apple 

 trees for commercial purposes. I had de- 

 cided on Astrachan and Duchess for early, 

 and Wealthy for fall, and King or Baldwin for win- 

 ter. Would you recommend my choice for winter 

 apples, and would it te variety enough for this 

 quantity, or could you recommend any change 

 (excepting Ben Davis and Spy)? I want apples of 

 good quality and appearance. 



Is King and King of Tompkins the same? I 

 have been told by agents that they are distinct 

 and different. Tf so, which is best, and can it be 

 got from any of our nurserymen ? An answer 

 through your paper would oblige. 



C. H. Davis, East Toronto. 



We would advise planting lightly of sum- 

 mer apples tor commercial purposes. There 

 is little or no sale for them in our home 

 markets, and the export in cold storage is 

 so expensive, that there is very little profit 

 in them. The Duchess is preferable to the 

 Astrachan, because it averages larger in 

 size and carries better. The Yellow Trans- 

 parent is good because it can be sold earlier 

 than either, and is very productive. 



We would, on the whole, prefer Graven- 

 stein to Wealthy, as a fall apple for profit, 

 especially in the southern part of the prov- 

 ince, because of its excellent quality, almost 

 equal beauty, and it does not drop so badly. 

 In the northern parts, of course, Wealthy is 

 best. 



There is another apple that probably ex- 

 cels either as an export apple, and that is 

 Blenheim Orange. It is a fairly good bearer 

 and a little later, so that on the whole it is 

 a better shipper than either. Blenheims, 

 exported this fall, have brought as high a 

 price as Kings. 



We would not advise planting largely of 

 either Kings or Spy for profit, although 

 when once you have the fruit, you have the 

 most valuable varieties in our whole list. 

 The King, however, is so unproductive that 

 it is unprofitable, and the Spy is so long 

 coming into bearing that you may count on 

 , at least fifteen years of waiting before it 



will begin to yield paying crops. The Bald- 

 win and the Ontario are good and produc- 

 tive, and consequently profitable, while a 

 small proportion of Ben Davis will always 

 bring good money. 



The only King apple known in Ontario is 

 the King of Tompkins Co., so that the 

 latter designation may as well be omitted. 



APPLE POMACE FOR COWS. 



THE experience of four years with apple 

 pomace silage at the Vermont station, 

 using over twenty cows, is a unit in affirm- 

 ing the nearly equivalent — if not, indeed, 

 quite equivalent — feeding values of apple 

 pomace and corn silage. No undesirable 

 results whatsoever have followed its use. 

 Cows continuously and heartily fed have not 

 shrunk, but on the contrary have held up 

 their milk flows remarkably well. Neither 

 does the milk nor the butter seem injured in 

 any respect. A satisfactory ration used by 

 station has been hay, silage (one-third corn 

 silage and two-thirds apple pomace silage 

 by weight) and from 4 to 8 pounds grain, 

 the latter varying according towage, stage of 

 lactation, etc. Fifteen pounds of pomace 

 per cow has been fed daily with entire satis- 

 faction. Inasmuch, however, as reports of 

 severe shrinkage occurring coincident with 

 the use of apple pomace are current, care 

 and watchfuluess are advised in feeding it at 

 the outset. 



Apple pomace needs no special care in 

 ensiling. If leveled from time to time as 

 put into the silo and left to itself uncovered 

 and unweighed it does well. 



It is trusted that this article may be of 

 some service in calling the attention of 

 dairymen to a waste product of much 

 food value which, in this season of partial 

 failure of the corn crop, ought to be utilized. 

 Let not a pound of apple pomace go to waste 

 this fall behind the cider mill. 



