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AN APPLE TOWN. 



IF there is any town in Ontario deserving" 

 the name of "Apple Town," we think 

 it is Brighton, for not only are there apple 

 orchards all about tt, but also all through 

 it. The visitor must note that every garden, 

 and almost every door yard is an orchard ; 

 the people make their living out of apple 

 growing ; they eat apples, they sell apples, 

 they talk apples. Nothing is of any im- 

 portance, unless it is associated with apples. 

 You hear every group of men discussing the 

 rise and fall of the apple market ; the number 

 of barrels stored in Brighton, the number 

 stored in Ontario, in Quebec, in Maine, in 

 Ohio, in New York ; and the time to ship 

 to strike the best market. 



We were told on good authority that the 

 apple crop in the village of Brighton itself — 

 within the corporation — in the year i8g6 

 was over ro.ooo barrels ! Think of that, 

 you villages with waste back yards, and 

 profitless gardens. 



Oh you say, the conditions are different. 



True, but they can be made the same. 

 Get some one with capital to put up an apple 

 house, if you are in an apple growing dis- 

 trict, and very soon you will have similar 

 conditions. 



THE APPLE HOUSES. 

 The flourishing condi- 

 tion of the villages of 

 Brighton and Colborne is 

 largely due to the apple 

 houses. These give em- 

 ployment to hundreds of 

 men ; they afford frost 

 proof shelter for the crops 

 of the twenty acre orch- 

 ard, of the quarter acre 

 garden, and the single 

 tree ; they bring buyers 



and shippers together after the lush of the 



apple harvest is over. 



There are four large apple houses at 



Brighton viz : 



Sam. Nesbitt's, capacity 50,000 bis. 



Butler's " 14,000 bis. 



Wade's " 10,000 bis. 



Webb's " 10,000 bis. 



Total, 104,000 lbs. 



There are three storage floors, inclusive of 

 the cellar, and the buildings are made frost- 

 proof by insulated walls. No ice is used for 

 cooling, but the doors and windows are 

 opened in cold weather sufficiently to keep 

 the temperature down as nearly as possible 

 to the freezing point. Indeed, they claim 

 that apples are perfectly safe from freezing 

 with the thermometer standing at 32 F. 

 Unfortunately, however, it went below that 

 degree last winter in some of the houses, and 

 many stored apples were badly frozen, and, 

 in consequence, are being hurried forward. 



The apples are picked from the trees into 

 the barrels, but not sorted or packed ; they 

 are headed and brought into the storage 

 house to be emptied and packed during the 

 winter, thus aff"ording winter work for the 

 men, and giving time for proper packing 

 and marketing. 



Canning Factory. 



Apple Houses. 

 Can Shop- Office. Evaporator. 

 Fig. 2543. Nesbitt's Apple Houses. 



