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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Fk;. 2697. Apple Packing in the Orchard. 



Nailing up the Boxes, using Excelsior 



OR Wood Shavings as Packing 



Material. 



same under the cover to prevent the bottom 

 Hd from bruising the fruit when it is being 

 nailed on. This stock is selected in the or- 

 chard and brought into the fruit house for 

 wrapping and packing. 



Ordinary XXX, or No. i apples, we pack 

 in boxes from the packing table in the or- 

 chard, and the No. 2 in barrels, throwing the 

 culls into heaps on the ground to be after- 

 ward gathered up for cider. No doubt it 

 would be better to evaporate all No. 2 ap- 

 ples, instead -of shipping them, and if this 

 work could be done at home, on a small 

 sized evaporator, probably this kind of stock 

 could be made to bring the grower almost as 

 much money as his No. i, 



CIDER APPLES FOR FRANCE. 



THERE seems to be a most unusual 

 shortage of apples in Europe, when 

 even our Ontario culls are being bought up 

 and forwarded to France for cider making. 

 The Oakville Star of the 7th November has 

 the following interesting item : 



For over a week the Dawson Commission Co. have 

 been buying up solid cull apples around the countrj' 

 and packing them in boxes weighing three hundred 

 pounds each and holding as muqh as two barrels. The 

 biggest rush was on Tuesday, when over a dozen 

 teams, with large loads of apples, waited their turn 

 <»n the hill to the wharf. Many of these apples were 



not marketable at all, being too small, but as long as 

 they were sound they were all right for this purpose. 



The steam barge, Lloyd S. Porter, came in on 

 Tuesday, and the pier was pretty well filled up wait- 

 ing for her. She called at Burlington and took over 

 twelve hundred boxes from there. It was after 

 eleven o'clock at night when she finished loading. 

 All day the company had a big gang busy. 



The shipment from here was about fifteen hundred 

 boxes, or about three thousand barrels, which is the 

 biggest shipment ever put out of Oakville. A num- 

 ber of carloads were also shipped from Bronte. The 

 entiz'e shipment from Canada to France will be one 

 hundred thousand boxes. The taking away of these 

 apples has left about twelve hundred dollars with our 

 farmers for stock which otherwise would have largely 

 gone to waste. 



We purchased these apples at a low 

 price, said the Dawson Co. to the writer, 

 only about eight cents a bushel, but we 

 took everything in, no matter how small or 

 scrubby. The French buyer does not wish 

 to take more at present, but we are just now 

 negotiating with an English buyer for a 

 shipment of the same class. 



" I do not see," said Mr. Chapin, of Mada- 

 lin, N. Y., "why your Ontario farmers d'.> 

 not forward their own fruit just as our 

 growers do. I am forwarding agent for 

 fruit growers along the Hudson river, and 

 there every farmer ships his own stock, evcii 

 if he has only fifty barrels." 



DOES IT PAY TO SPRAY. 



THE excellent results of faithful spray- 

 ing with the Bordeaux for the pre- 

 vention of apple scab is wonderfully evident 

 in the Johnson orchard, near Simcoe, in 

 Norfolk county, as v^^ill be seen by reading 

 the article on page 355, by T. H. Race, of 

 Mitchell, who was judge of fruit at the Sim- 

 coe Model Fair, and who visited the orchard 

 the day previous to our visit. 



There must surely be some conditions not 

 fully understood when such remarkable re- 

 sults attend spraying in some instances, 

 while in others, with the work apparently as 

 well performed, the benefits seem to be com- 

 paratively small. It is only in the latter in- 

 stance that there is any question as to 

 whether it pays or not. 



