February, 1909 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



47 



NOTES FROM THE PROVINCES 



districts, expert supervision should be ex- 

 tended for a larger period. 



Nova Scotia 



R. J. Mettenfer 



Some new and important ideas were ad- 

 vanced at the annual meeting of the Nova 

 Scotia Fruit Growers' Association that 

 seem worthy of notice even at this late date. 

 Mr. F. C. Whitman, of Annapolis, in deal- 

 ing with transportation of fruit, made the 

 stat-ment that apples could stand frost al- 

 most down to zero, provided they were kept 

 in motion. He had teams bringing apples 

 a distance of 20 miles in very cold weather 

 witliout freezing. He had demonstrated 

 that apples would keep much better in hot 

 cars or steamer holds if they were well wet 

 with cold water. He had washed carloads 

 down with a hose and had cooled oft the air 

 very materially. 



A discussion on thinning of fruit in sum- 

 mer resulted in the appointment of several 

 of tlie best fruit growers to give thinning a 

 trial in their orchards and to report re- 

 sults at next annual meeting. 



Mr. W. T. Macoun's excellent address on 

 "How to Increase the Yield of Our Or- 

 chards" brought out the following points: 

 That cultivation should not be prolonged 

 too late in the season since checking the 

 wood growth while the fruit buds for the 

 following year were forming, had a tendency 

 to give more vitality to the fruit buds. It 

 was a well known principle that wood 

 growth was generally made at the expense 

 of fruitage. 



Anything that checked the downward flow 



of sap in a limb or tree would result in in- 

 creased fruit; e.g., grafting, since the place 

 of union checked the flow of sap and so in- 

 creased the yield of the graft. Partly gird- 

 ling a limb, as a part fracture or barking of 

 a limb, also had the same result. 



A lively discussion took place on the ad- 

 dress of Mr. R. J. Graham, of Belleville, 

 Ont., who went to some trouble to prove 

 that on our export of 600,000 barrels. Nova 

 Scotia was losing $140,000 by using the 

 small barrel. We had to us more barrels 

 and pay more cooperage, freight, and so 

 forth, while they brought less per barrel in 

 the English market, since the buyers went 

 by the number of pounds in the package. 

 The arguments seemed plausible, but they 

 were argued from the shipper's and buyer's 

 standpoint and not from that of the pro- 

 ducer. 



About eight years ago the Nova Scotia 

 Government began setting out so-called 

 model orchards in different parts of the pro- , 

 vince. The man on whose farm the orchard 

 was planted agreed to care for it according 

 to directions given by the Government for 

 10 years, when it became his property. It 

 was considered at this meeting that the 

 government, according to this agreement, 

 was releasing its supervision just when the 

 most important period of the tree's life was 

 beginning; that if these were to be an object 

 lesson or a test as to whether orcharding 

 could be successfully carried on in these 



Annapolis Valley, N.S. 



Eunice Watti 



The recent cable advices from England 

 report the apple market firm with prices 

 ranging from 22 shillings for Baldwins to 26 

 for the finer varieties. 



The past season, has also been a good 



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