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neglect no opportunity that will encourage the growers, or 

 extend the popularity of their favorite fruits. The second 

 agency grew out of the first. It is the horticultural school 

 organized some years ago at Wolfville. Last year there were 

 in attendance sixty-five pupils, who under the direction of Prof. 

 Sears, were making a study of the science and art of fruit 

 growing. 



The people of Nova Scotia are enthusiastic in the matter of 

 fruit growing. They believe in its possibilities, because so many 

 of them thus far have found it profitable. They are well 

 informed in methods, and eager to "catch on" to any ideas cal- 

 culated to aid them. They are our nearest competitors for the 

 European markets, and it is important for our fruit growers to 

 study their methods and make our own methods better and so 

 far as possible more profitable. 



NOVA SCOTIA METHODS BY A NO\^\ SCOTIA 

 FRUIT GROWER. 



By R. W. Starr, Kentville, N. S. 



We were growing largely potatoes and raising beef, the other 

 was a side show, but the Western beef growers cut the market 

 over our beef, and your own men destroyed our potato market 

 in Boston and New York by growing more potatoes yourselves, 

 and putting a large duty on to ours. I can't blame you for that. 

 We were then deprived of these markets and were forced to look 

 over other markets and other produce. We had been working 

 quite largely in improving our fruit not only in our way of 

 growing them, but in the varieties grown. This helped us to 

 alter our system. The orchards were planted largely, and every- 

 thing was pushed to the utmost to grow kinds to suit the market. 

 Systems of planting were taken up and studied, and given out 

 in our association meeting. We tried to plant by the best 

 methods which would give the best resvilts. Coarse manure 

 was put on in the fall. If we applied it in the fall, in the spring 

 it was ready to be taken hold of and made use of as soon as 

 growth commences, and the soil is in condition to allow that 



