It .KO\M\ 



in the orchard sections, for sale throughout the 



for export to Great Britain and other parts of the world. It U no 



unusual thing for th< %rll hu entire crop before it 



in thcv lu.rr has aa invest- 



Ming from to to jo ;K .ml making an aggregate 



$1,000.000, 



>e association*, numbering over 



the i: rs in the care of their gardens am 1 



1 in the handling of their products. The sellers are 



thu , that tli .iformity 



in the si/e and tferingv And they arc 



enabled to sell their products and to get high prices, where 



pendent growers are sometimes placed at a decided 



These co-operative associations have been of great benefit to the 



trade throughout the 1' Lambton County is an illuftra- 



ld of apples in that county in 



was 50,000 barrels, of which 35,000 were sold and 15,000 wasted. 

 One co-operating group of farmers had not sold a barrel for leaf 

 than $2, while four other associations realized an average price of 

 $2.25 per barrel. On the other hand, independent growers had 

 not secured more than 5oc to $i ; cover, the 15,000 



barrels were all lost by men who did not U lng to an a^tTJaffr** 



Gai-ernment l : ruit Branch. The Government of Ontario 

 terially guides and aids the fit variety of ways, 



as by experimental fruit stations or farm*. in*pct nurseries 



, demonstration orchard work in forty different parts 

 of the Province, sending out demonstration fruit trains among the 

 farmers, demonstration box packing of fruit, and by instruction 

 and < 'ii work in the securing of market* m the Northwest 



Provinces and the British Isles. Besides a large share in the above 

 work, the Director of the Fruit Branch .v s as secretary of the 

 Co-operative I ; n: ers of Ontario, which i* the central body 



of over forty co-operative shipping associations in the Province 

 and he also looks after tjic interests of the Ontario Fruit Growers' 

 Association, whose membership numbers sixteen hundred farmers. 

 Price of Land. The best apple lamU, light or heavy, and ready 

 lantin.C.-can be bought throughout the Province for from $40 

 to $100 per a 



Excellent peach and cherr\ lands in the Niagara district are 

 from $150 to $300 per acre. But specially favored locations run as 

 high as from $1.000 to $1,200 Best grape lands in the same dis- 

 trict, from $50 to $200 per acre But here again pccial locations 



