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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



August, 1909 



spring. So it is with celery, cabbage and 

 other roots. One must have, to do business 

 to his own advantage, a suitable place for 

 storing roots. In fall, the market is glutted 

 with carrots, turnips, cabbage, celery, cauli- 

 flower and so forth. It is almost impossible 

 to sell them then but if they were stored 

 until April or March, they would sell readily 

 at your own price; at that time, the people 

 begin to crave for fresh vegetables. 



I have led you to spring. Well, there is 

 lettuce and radish which are always in 

 demand for spring salads. Rhubarb is tho 

 same. There is money in them if you have 

 the proper facilities to produce them. When 

 the ground is ready, in addition to the 

 hotbed stuff the very earliest piece of 

 dry, well drained, sunny land should be 

 selected for beets, carrots and onions. These 

 should be got in as soon as the ground is 

 dry enough, the land being cultivated in 

 the fall, if possible. As soon as the seed- 

 lings are big enough, thin, cultivate and 

 encourage them in every way possible to get 

 the first bunches on the market as early as 

 possible for "It's the early bird that gets 

 the worm." Keep your supply equal to the 

 demand for it will not last forever. Later, 

 the other men will be trying to be first 

 too. Make all you can while the deman'1 

 lasts. When the market gets glutted 

 stop. It is better to feed your produce to 

 cattle if they will eat it than to waste your 

 time and team trying to sell it at less than 

 cost, such as cucumbers at 50 and 75 cents 

 a barrel, and so on. 



There is a time to sell and a time to cease 

 selling. Another example of this. In May and 

 June, 1908, we could not supply the demand 

 for lettuce. In July, the people wanted 

 something different, perhaps strawberries. 

 The same may be said of cucumbers. In 

 June and July the demand was good but 

 in August there was a glut, I said, "Don't 



lower your dignity by offering what people 

 don't want." About the end of July and 

 the first of August, we offered nice, medium- 

 sized cauliflowers. The demand was good. 

 The grocers and hotels wanted them as fast 

 as they matured and by the first or second 

 week in September, our crop was sold and 

 then our second crop was ready. But, alas, 

 the demand was supplied. The time had 

 come to cease selling.. — J. Bebbington & 

 Son, Fredericton, N.B. 

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Lunenburg County, N. S. 



H. T. Herb, Bridgewater 



Commercial orcharding is yet in its in- 

 fancy in Lunenberg county, N.S. We raise 

 fine apples but too few of them. 



Clean cultivation is practised in only a 

 few cases. Those who practise it can be 

 counted on the fingers of one hand. Spray- 

 ing is a little more common. Spray pumps 

 have been purchased to use on potatoes and 

 some use them on their orchards as well. 

 The general idea is that it does not pay 

 to waste time on the orchard. "What is 

 the use? You cannot sell the apples any- 

 way." are expressions frequently heard. 



The model orchard planted here is doing 

 well but the farmers say, "What is the good 

 of it? There are more apples raised here 

 now than we can sell." They smile when 

 I tell them that the more apples we raise 

 the better chance we will have to sell them. 



"You have nursery stock to sell," they 

 say. Yes, there are three nurseries of ap- 

 ple trees near here, as fine stock as can be 

 grown, offered at from 10 cents to 15 cents a 

 tree and cannot be sold. "No, I have too 

 many trees set out now," the farmer says 

 when asked to buy. One nurseryman near 

 here burned 1500 trees last spring. 



I planted 300 or 400 this spring, but I 

 know of no one else near here who 's 



planting an orchard. 1 have about 1400 

 set now. Some of them are commencing 

 to bear. I shall demonstrate to others that 

 orcharding pays. I think I can within five 

 years. 



The most of Lunenburg county is j' 

 as good a place to grow apples, I think, 

 the Annapolis Valley, except that it costs 

 more to break the land as we have some 

 stone. We are not nearly so liable to frosts, 

 spring and fall, as the valley. The soil is 

 richer and for that reason requires clean 

 cultivation even more so than the Valley, 

 as the grass grows ranker and stronger and 

 takes more moisture from the soil that oth- 

 erwise should go to the trees. Underdrain- 

 ing is more needed here than in the Valley 

 but we grow a little better flavored apple 

 and a better keeper. 



What we need most is a few settlers to 

 purchase some of the farms that are lying 

 idle all around. Nine out of every ten 

 are idle or nearly so. and can be bought 

 cheap. We should wake the people up and 

 show them the chances that they have here, 

 which are second to none in this naturallv 

 favored Canada of ours 



Annapolis Valley, N. S. 



Eunice Watts 



Although the apple blossoms were excep- 

 tionally full, the fruits are not equal to 

 the display of flowers, but the general im- 

 pression through the valley is that the crop 

 will be a good one. So far, the season has 

 been very dry and unless the cultivator is 

 kept going, crops will suffer. With some 

 growers the pea crop is a failure, and the 

 drouth has halved the strawberry yield; 

 complaints of mis-shapen berries and nub- 

 bins are numerous. 



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