October, 1909 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



233 



Prince Edward Island 



J. A. Moore 



The early apples are about matured and 

 hitherto the problem has been — how to dis- 

 pose of them. Usually they were gathered 

 |li bags and boxes and taken to the city to 

 sold by the peck or bushel, and, being 

 unsightly in appearance, they brought only 

 meagre price. Often tliey were left to rot 

 bn the ground or were fed to cattle and 

 . But this year a Co-operative Packing 

 Dompany has been established and the mem- 

 bers were asked to send in the probable 

 Amount of apples they will have ready to 

 pack about Sept. 20, as Chief McNeill, of 

 the Fruit Division, Ottawa, arranged to 

 bend an expert packer to Charlottetown to 

 superintend the packing of all fruit offer- 

 ing. 



It is the intention of the co-operative 

 company to make an effort to supply th< 

 local market with apples. Large quanti- 

 ties of apples are imported here from the 

 Annapolis Valley and Ontario, and there 

 seems to be little reason why home grown 

 fruit, properly selected and packed, should 

 not be bought in preference. Personally, 

 «e have had no trouble whatever in dispos- 

 ing of our own crop at good prices to Char- 

 lottetown merchants. We have always used 

 the regulation box package — 10 x 11 x 20 

 inches inside measurement — and have hand- 

 packed them in layers, realizing from $1.00 

 to $1.50 a box according to variety and 

 grade. Just now we are marketing Crim- 

 son Beauty apples at $1.25 and $1.50 a box 

 to city merchants. Of course, the demand 

 is limited, but it shows what can be done 

 with a good quality of fruit, properly pack- 

 ed. 



At a recent meeting of the Strathcona 

 Farmers' Institute at Hazelbrook, Profes- 

 sor J. W. Jones, a native of the district, 

 and a graduate of the 0. A. C, who has 

 lately been appointed to the position of In- 

 structor in Horticulture in Hampton In- 

 stitute, Virginia, addressed the meeting on 

 the subject, "Some things I have seen in 

 the Growing and Marketing of Fruit in 

 Districts embracing California, British Col- 

 umbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia." Profes- 

 sor Jones' address was replete with informa- 

 tion showing that if we are to compete suc- 

 cessfully in the world's markets, we must 



co-operate in growing large quantities of a 

 few good varieties, have better facilities in 

 the way of transportation, in which we are 

 badly handicapped, and adopt up-to-date 

 methods. 



The crying need of P. E. Island to-day is 

 "The Tunnel" under the Northumberland 

 Straits to connect us with the great rail- 

 way systems of the mainland, so that her 

 fruits could be placed in refrigerator cars 

 and have a quick and continuous passage 

 to their destination. As it is now, fruit 

 must be transhipped several times with no 

 refrigeration whatever and at exorbitant 

 freight rates. The tunnel would obviate 

 all this, and as Prince Edward Island is all 

 adapted to fruit growing we might have a 

 million acre orchard. 



Apple Storage — Several cogent reasons 

 are given by The New Brunswick Cold Stor- 

 age Co., St. John, N. B., in their change 

 of ad, in this issue, as to why fruit men 

 may patronize their house to advantage. 

 At the recent annual meeting of the stock- 

 holders of the company, it was decided to 

 continue the storage rates on last year's 

 basis although they were only 60 per cent, 

 of the prevailing charge of seaboard houses 

 in the United States. Mr. George Mc- 

 Avity, of St. John, was elected president ; 

 Mr. L. S. Macoun, of Ottawa, was re-elect- 

 ed secy-treasurer; Mr. H. R. Ross, of St. 

 John, was re-appointed manager of the com- 

 pany's business. Messrs. John W. Van- 

 wart, St. John, and P. Orr Lewis, Mon- 

 treal, were added to the board of directors, 

 Their house was built with the special ob- 

 ject of assisting the api)le trade, and their 

 claim that with fruit shipped direct from 

 the orchards, they can save enough on 

 shrinkage to pay the storage charges, is 

 well worthy of consideration. 



The annual meeting of the Pomological 

 and Fruit Growing Society of the Province 

 of Quebec will be held at Macdonald Col- 

 lege on Dec. 8 and 9. A fruit exhibit will 

 be held. 



The secretaries of local branches of the 

 Ontario Vegetable Growers' Association are 

 requested to send copies of all papers read 

 at meetings of their branches. 



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Tin Instead oi Glass for Canning 



Editor, The Canadian Hobiiculturisi ; 

 At an Ontario fruit experiment station, tue 

 superintendent, a man alive to possibili- 

 ties, recently advised that in domestic can- 

 ning and preserving of fruits and vege- 

 tables, in the household sense, tne housewife 

 could eliect an economy by the use of tin 

 in place of glass containers, xne necessary 

 equipment being cheap and not diliicult to 

 handle, even unskilled hands could do good 

 work, safekeeping economy of time and ma- 

 terials, and less fragile stock being espe- 

 cially apparent. Many fruit and vegelaole 

 gardens produce a superabundance whicn 

 could be turned to account if the work 

 of canning and its possibilities in tlie hands 

 of a tyro were better understood. 



I have tried to get a price quoted me on 

 cans of the sizes used generally for tomatoes 

 and for peas, by commercial can- 

 ners, but there seems to be no desire to sell 

 ill less than car lots. One lirm ottered cheer- 

 fully to supply them by the million in- 

 stead of by tne hundred. Optimist, eh? 

 I received a reply from another with prices, 

 in dozens (and evidently penalty prices.) 

 [Note. — The name of this firm witn their 

 prices will be given on application to The 

 Canadian Hobticultubist. — Editor.] Could 

 you or any readers of The Canadian Hobti- 

 ouijXUBIst furnish the names and address- 

 es of a few can makers who would furnish 

 cans at a fair price, in hundred or even 

 dozen, lots. — "One Interested," Toronto. 



"How to Build Rural Telephone Lines" 

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 acter and very informative. It treats of a 

 subject vitally important to the farmer, 

 and makes clear that Rural Telephones are 

 "an inexpensive necessity." Every fine 

 point in the construction of a rural tele- 

 phone line is explained carefully and clear- 

 ly, and the illustrations, at-companying the 

 text, bring the points home with double 

 emphasis. This booklet laying bare the tele- 

 phone question as it confronts farmers, is 

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HERBERT "raspberry 



YIELDED 17i BOXES BERRIES 

 at one picking from 12 plants at 

 the Central Elxperimental Farm at 

 Ottawa this season. It is the larg- 

 est, most attractive and best rasp- 

 berry in existence. We control the 

 originator's stock of plants. Don't 

 get fooled with spurious plants, 

 but buy direct from the introducer 

 and get the genuine thing. 



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