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the Woodstock and IngersoU districts have 

 been satisfactory beyond expectations. Mr. 

 W. A. McKinnon, chief of the fruit division, 

 says that they furnish the best illustration of 

 the necessity of spraying that he has ever 

 seen. Aside from the opportunities for 

 comparison between sprayed and unsprayed 

 orchards, chance has provided some remark- 

 able proofs of the value of the operations. 

 In every case where a single tree or part of 

 a tree in one of the sprayed orchards was ne- 

 glected the fruit on such tree or part of tree 

 is to-day hardly worth the trouble of pick 

 ing, while cmi all sprayed portions scab is 

 hardly to be found. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA FRUIT. 



FRUIT growers in Eastern Canada will 

 have to bestir themselves if they wish 

 to hold their share of the trade with Mani- 

 toba and the Territories. British Columbia 

 is a formidable competitor, and only the best 

 quality of fruit put up in proper packages 

 will be found salable in Winnipeg and other 

 western cities and towns. 



In a recent issue the Victoria Colonist 

 says : " Still another carload of fruit is be- 

 ing shipped to-day by Messrs. Stewart & 

 Co., Yates street, to Winnipeg, consisting 

 entirely of Victoria and vicinity products. 

 The car is made up of packages of apples, 

 pears, plums and prunes of a quality that 

 need fear no competition in the east. Messrs. 

 Stewart & Co. have already on hand the pre- 

 paration of two and probably three more 

 carloads to be dispatched next week to the 

 same destination." 



WHITE PEACHES. 



THE white peaches are the favorites in 

 Great Britain, and were if not for the 

 fame of the Early Crawford would no doubt 

 be so in Ontario. The Champion, Steven's 

 Rareripe and Carlisle are three good varie- 



ties of this type. The latter commends 

 itself in our experimental plot at Maplehurst 

 this season. It is large, of delicate tender 

 flesh, and good flavor. In season it is latest 

 of all, in use for the table until the end of 

 October. 



REPORTS OF EXPERIMENTAL SHIPMENTS 

 OP PEARS AND PEACHES. 



^ y^ HE editor of this journal has for- 

 X warded to Glasgow three carloads of 

 Bartlett pears during the month of Septem- 

 ber. Nearly all of these were at his own 

 risk and expense, although three or four 

 other growers put in some small parcels. 

 They were packed without wrapping, in half 

 cases, with excelsior padding, and shipped in 

 refrigerator cars from Grimsby to Montreal. 

 All were perfectly green and hard leaving 

 the shipping point. They were in two 

 grades, A No. i averaging about 2^ inches 

 in diameter, and No. i averaging about 2^2 

 inches. 



CAR NO. I. 



This carload of 820 packages was made 

 up as follows : L. Woolverton, 567 pack- 

 ages; E. J. Woolverton, 30; C. E. Woolver- 

 ton, 50; S. M. Culp, 173. The thermograph 

 showed them to have been carried from 

 Grimsby to Montreal at a temperature of 

 about 53 degrees F., and the inspectors who 

 examined them at Montreal, before loading 

 them on the Lakonia, reported them in good 

 condition ; but, a cable on arrival at Glasgow 

 reported a " large quantity overripe and un- 

 salable owing to too high temperature on 

 shipboard," 



The following is a detailed account of 565 

 packages marked L W. : 



Glasgow, 28th Sept., 1903. 



9 half boxes (20 lbs. of fruit), No. i 

 Boussock, at $1.77. 



220 half boxes (20 lbs. of fruit), No. 1 

 Bartlett, at $1.58. 



