by water direct, and being three thousand miles nearer to 

 European ports than the fruit lands of British Columbia, 

 Washington, Oregon and Colorado. 



Excellent Color and Quality 



New Brunswick apples have a high color and singular 

 quality which is purely individual and distinctive, and 

 which incites commendation wherever exhibited. The 

 Wealthy, Bishop Pippin, Dudley, Fameuse, and Mackin- 

 tosh Red all good dessert apples and popular on the 

 English market are grown to perfection. The Duchess, 

 Wolfe River, Milwaukee, Alexander, and Bethel, also 

 succeed well. There is no doubt about the New Brunswick 

 apple being a favorite on the overseas market, which is 

 always keen and steady, whilst the hojne market, which 

 exists almost entirely on the local product, is a constantly 

 growing source as urban centres increase and multiply. 



The proven apple districts of New Brunswick are in 

 the Upper and Lower St. John River Valleys, and all parts 

 of Albert, Charlotte, Westmorland, and Kent counties. 

 The Lower St. John Valley, acknowledged to be one of the 

 most fertile and beautiful valleys of the world, awaits only 

 systematic development to rapidly blossom forth into one 

 of the greatest apple regions in Canada. The opinions of 

 expert Canadian horticulturalists on the provincial fruit- 

 lands are, perhaps, more valuable in their pithiness than 

 columns of description. The Dominion fruit inspector 

 for Nova Scotia says: "I feel satisfied that the St. John 

 River Valley is destined to become one of the best apple- 

 growing sections of the Dominion." The chief of the fruit 

 division of the federal government gives it as his opinion 

 that "Any man who says apples cannot be grown success- 

 fully in the province of New Brunswick does not know 

 what he is talking about." R. W. Starr, a Nova Scotian 

 pioneer in apple-growing, says: "There is no doubt that 

 there are large sections of New Brunswick as well adapted 

 to the growing of fruit, especially of apples, as any other 

 part of the Dominion." 



Owing to the undeveloped state under which the 

 industry has been existing, fruit lands can be obtained in 

 the province at low figures.- Fruit development companies 

 are taking up the planning of orchards for sale as commer- 

 cial orcharding. Farms well adapted to frui; growing can 

 be purchased for from $20 to $30 per acre, according to 

 location, state of cultivation, and the buildings and 

 improvements thereon. Choice fruit-lands, cleared, ready 

 for planting, are offered at from $50 to $100 per acre. 



Average Cost of Orchard 



The average cost of a 1,000-tree apple orchard until 

 ten years old in New Brunswick has been successfully 

 worked out at $1,718, and the average income to be derived 

 from this plantation, from the sixth to the tenth year of 

 growth, $2,250. From the eleventh to the fifteenth year, 

 this rises to $5,625; from the sixteenth to twentieth year, 

 $7,500; and from the twenty-first to thirty-fifth year, 

 $33,750. In the season of 1920 at Douglas, York County, 

 where close calculations were kept, the average profit per 

 acre worked out to $176, whilst other sections would 

 return much around this figure. 



New Brunswick strawberries and other small fruits 

 ripen later than those in the United States and in Ontario 

 and Quebec, and come on the market after the first fruit 

 is exhausted. In 1919, small fruits received at St. John 

 for export were 200,000 boxes of strawberries, 50,000 

 boxes of raspberries, 50,000 boxes of blueberries, and 

 1,500 boxes of gooseberries. Whilst large quantities are 

 grown in the St. John River Valley and around Sackville 

 and other towns, the field for this culture is largely 

 undeveloped, and does not meet the export demand. The 

 cultivation of strawberries would seem to be a very profit- 

 able venture, judging by the reports of farmers, one of 

 whom makes $7,000 per year from the cultivation of five 

 acres, and another $5,000 from three and a half acres. 

 Mr. Wetmore, provincial member to the Legislature for 

 the County of Kings, in speaking before the House, said 



that small fruits grown in New Brunswick were in great 

 demand, and that he himself had made as much as $1,500 

 an acre from this kind of fruit. 



The question of fruit growing is one ever in the fore 

 in government matters, and the authorities are alive to 

 the possibilities in the rich land of the province. The 

 Horticultural Branch of the Department of Agriculture is 

 continually active in promoting the industry by investi- 

 gation, experimentation, and constantly visiting the 

 orchard sections to aid the farmers at first hand. Twenty- 

 three demonstration orchards have been established in 

 various parts to test varieties and demonstrate what can 

 be done by the best methods of cultivation and orchard 

 practice. 



The Interprovincial Weed Special 



By Thos. S Acheson, General Agricultural Agent, 

 C. P. Ry., Winnipeg. 



Of all menaces to agriculture in the Prairie 

 Provinces, it is unanimously agreed that the loss 

 sustained from weeds far outweighs the loss from 

 any other preventable cause. Realizing this, 

 the decision was reached by the Provincial 

 Governments of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and 

 Alberta, that if the Canadian Pacific Railway 

 Company would provide the service, a special 

 interprovincial train on weed control would be 

 equipped and sent out. 



The Railway Company concurred in the plan, 

 and on the morning of January 24th, the 

 "Special," consisting of two lecture cars, one 

 car for display of implements, another exhibiting 

 growing weeds, etc., and a tourist-dining car, 

 opened at Dominion City, Manitoba, a tour of 

 six weeks two weeks to each province to 

 conclude in Southern Alberta the first week in 

 March. 



Any pessimism which may have existed with 

 respect to the success of this mission was soon 

 dispelled. From the outset, great difficulty was 

 experienced in handling the large crowds at 

 points visited, and on occasions it was necessary 

 to obtain the use of the local hall in order to 

 accommodate all. This manifestation of interest 

 on part of the farmers greatly encouraged the 

 train speakers, who put forth their best efforts, 

 and received a splendid response with assurance 

 of earnest co-operation. 



Travelling Lecture Rooms 



The weed exhibit car was a popular centre 

 of interest to both young and old. Here were 

 paintings and living and pressed plants to illus- 

 trate the worst weeds; and, with these, com- 

 panion cards indicating the means of eradication. 

 Many kinds of weed seeds were shown under 

 magnifying glasses, and models enlarged to forty 

 diameters. Soil plots with weeds growing from 

 weed seed planted on the trip indicated the 

 rapidity with which some typical weeds developed 

 when not properly attended to. In these plots 

 the type of implements suggested for the 

 eradication of each type of weed appeared. In 



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