APPLE BARRELS SCARCE. 



^I'^HERE is a great scarcity of apple bai"- 

 A rels in all parts of the province, and 

 as a result thousands of barrels of apples 

 will not be shipped or take noff the hands of 

 the growers. The coopers cannot get ma- 

 terial to make the barrels, and are unable to 

 supply more than half the orders they have 

 received, and what is still worse, for the 

 buyers at least, is the fact that the prices of 

 barrels has advanced from 60 to 70 per cent, 

 during the year, Mr. Sherrington, sales- 

 maYi for the Walkerton Fruit Growers' As- 

 sociation, is one of the many shippers who 

 have difficulty in filling orders owing to the 

 lack of barrels. In the county of York 

 thousands of barrels are stored in outbuild- 

 ings awaiting shipment. As to the abund- 

 ance of the crop, one orchard which in the 

 early part of the season gave promise of 



yielding 75 barrels, will yield fully 200 bar- 

 rels of fruit suitable for the export trade. 

 This is in addition to 40 or 50 barrels fallen 

 and immature fruit suitable for cider mak- 

 .ing and immediate consumption. Four 

 trees of the Ben Davis variety yielded 36 

 barrels, or an average of nine barrels per 

 tree, a remarkable showing, and one which 

 it is doubtful has ever been surpassed. G. 

 W. Gillbank, of Hagerman, representing a 

 leading commission house, has purchased 

 some 400 barrels of apples in York county 

 at an average price of $1.10, which fifure 

 Mr. Hoo'd has also disposed of his output. 

 In addition to a fine apple orchard, Mr. 

 Hood has also ready for shipment 70 barrels 

 of pears, which are quoted at the local mar- 

 ket at $2 per barrel. 



151,500,000 FOR NOVA SCOTIA. 



OF the apple crop of Nova Scotia, which 

 this season will give 500,000 barrels 

 for export to England, 155,000 barrels have 

 already been shipped, the steamer St. John 

 City, which sailed Saturday, taking 18,000 

 barrels. The remaining 350,000 barrels 

 will be shipped between now and the mid- 

 dle of March, when the Australian apples 

 begin to arrive. The average price netted 

 by the Nova Scotia orchardfcts this season 

 is $3 per barrel, which will make one and a 

 half million dollars this year for the apple 

 growers of this province, who are located in 



the counties of Kings and Annapolis. The 

 Nova Scotia government's display of win- 

 ter apples in the Crystal Palace, London, is 

 creating much interest among Gritish fruit- 

 erers and the public. The exhibit is taste- 

 fully arranged, and the big court is filled 

 with apple scent. Some Blenheims measure 

 a foot in circumference. The Hon. Mr. 

 Drysdale, who himself has 200 barrels for 

 export, says the export trade this year is over 

 half a million barrels. Nova Scotia Rib- 

 stone fetched twenty shillings last week 

 against the usual eighteen. — Mail-Empire. 



