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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



November, 1907 



The Apple Situation and Crop Reports 



EXPORT apples are moving freely. It is 

 probable that the movement will be even 

 more brisk until the close of navigation at 

 Canadian ports. Returns from early ship- 

 ments on consignment have been disappointing, 

 the shippers netting, in the majority of cases, 

 less than $2 a barrel, and in some instances, 

 as low as $1.35. This would seem surprising 

 in this season of high prices if the cause were 

 not looked into. The chief reason is the fact 

 that the fruit had been picked immature and 

 as a result a large part of it arrived in bad 

 condition. 



Growers generally are securing good prices for 

 apples f.o.b. Various instances of excellent 

 sales are known to The Canadian Horticul- 

 turist. A cooperative association in western 

 Ontario sold some thousands of barrels at the 

 high price of $3.50 for No. 1, and $3 for No. 2, 

 the fruit to be well selected. Many sales have 

 been made at $3 for No. I's and No. 2's, and 

 many at $3 for No. 1 and $2.50 for No. 2. In 

 one locality, a sale of 5,000 boxes has been made 

 at $1.25 for No. I's and No. 2's. 



American buyers are still on the ground and 

 are ready to pay high prices for good stock. It 

 is important that individual growers and coop- 

 erative associations pay particular attention to 

 the grading of their fruit this year. Nothing 

 questionable should be allowed to pass. 



LAMBTON COUNTY 



Arkona. — Winter apples have been bought 

 mostly by the orchard at from $1 to $1.25 a 

 barrel, the grower to do the picking. Some 

 orchards were damaged by hail in August. — 

 J. Seymour. 



HALTON COUNTY 



Oakville. — Buyers have paid as high as $2.25 

 in the orchard for apples. — W. H. MacNeil. 



MIDDLESEX COUNTY 



Ivan. — Buyers of apples are offering $1.25 to 

 $1.75 in the orchard, picked. — E. T. Caverhill. 



BRUCE COUNTY 



Walkerton. — Since early fall rains, apples 

 have almost doubled in size. Buyers are offer- 

 ing $1.50 for No. I's, picked, and $1.25 for No. 

 2's. — A. E. Sherrington. 



WENTWORTH COUNTY 



Stony Creek. — The fruit is now nearly all 

 harvested. Grapes have been an abundant 

 crop; $30 a ton was paid and 16 to 20 cents a 

 small basket. The peach crop was rather light 

 in this locality; prices ranged from 80 cents to 

 $1 a basket. Plums and pears were very scarce 

 with prices at from 50 to 70 cents a basket. — 

 J. B. Smith. 



HALTON COUNTY 



Burlington. — Fruits on hand at this date are 

 winter apples and pears, with a few grapes. 

 Winter apples have been bought readily at $1.75 

 to $2 on the trees. Evaporating apples brought 

 30 cents and canners 70 cents per cwt. The 

 pear crop is medium and of good quality. A 

 large part of the grape crop is cut ; late varieties 

 are not ripening fast. — W. F. W. Fisher. 



LINCOLN COUNTY 



Jordan Harbor. — Fruit, with the exception of 

 grapes and apples, is nearly all gathered. Grapes 

 have been an exceptionally heavy crop and of 

 excellent quality — the best for several years. 

 Prices ranged from 15 to 20 cents a basket. 

 Apples are only a fair crop. Winters are selling 

 at from $1.50 to $2 a barrel. Packing has not 

 yet become general. Tomatoes are about done. 

 Frosts have been prevalent. — Wm. Fretz. 



PEEL COUNTY 



Clarkson. — With the exception of apples and 

 grapes, fruit of all kinds has been gathered. 

 Apples are turning out fully as well as was antici- 

 pated and are exceptionally free from scab and 

 spot. The codling moth played havoc with 

 Greenings. Other varieties are fairly free from 

 scab. All varieties are well colored and will 



pack a good sample. Prices range from $1.50 

 to $2.25 a barrel. Grapes are a good crop. 

 Nearly all have been gathered, but some of the 

 late varieties have been damaged by frost. — 

 W. G. Home. 



Small Fruit Plants 



Through an oversight we inadvertently 

 omitted from our article in the October number, 

 on the niu-series of Stone & Wellington, the fact 

 that this concern are specialists in the growing 

 of small fruit plants. They make a specialty 

 of supplying strong, two-year transplanted 

 plants, in place of the ordinary sucker or one- 

 year tip plants usually supplied and dug from 

 the rows of bearing canes, which not one nursery 

 firm in a hundred does. 



Their reputation as specialists in the glowing 

 of berry plants enables them to sell annually 

 from 150,000 to 200,000 plants, and they inform 

 us that they are finding an increasing demand 

 yearly. In one block of small fruits, they have 

 at the present time over 300,000 healthy, 

 vigorous-growing plants of raspberries, currants, 

 gooseberries, blackberries, and so forth, amongst 

 which is included the famo.us new Herbert Rasp- 

 berry, of which so much has been said lately, 

 and is so highly recommended by the Govern- 

 ment experiment stations, having proved itself 

 the finest and hardiest red raspberry ever 

 introduced for Canadian culture, and which 

 they are already able to offer in these specially 

 grown, two-year transplanted plants. 



Since our last number they have acquired 50 

 acres of new land, on which they intend growing 

 nursery stock, which now increases their total 

 acreage to over S50 acres. The firm of Stone & 

 Wellington use the greatest judgment in select- 

 ing new lands for the growth of nursery stock, 

 never acquiring lands which have previously 

 grown nursery stock or orchards, and in this 

 way have been able to maintain their high 

 reputation of furnishing stock that is clean and 

 healthy. Particular attention is paid also to 

 selecting lands well drained and »vell protected, 

 which insures their trees being free of black 

 heart. 



Fruit Gro-wers' Program 



The forty-eighth annual meeting of the On- 

 tario Fruit Growers' Association will be held in 

 Toronto on Nov. 13 and 14. The following is a 

 preliminary program. Some changes may be 

 made: 



WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV. 13 



9.30 a.m., President's annual address, Harold 

 Jones, Maitland; 10.15, Reading of corre- 

 spondence and appointing of committees; 

 10.30, Reports of standing committees. New 

 Fruits: W. T. Macoun, C.E.F., Ottawa, and 

 H. L. Hutt, O.A.C., Guelph. 



WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 



2.00 p.m., "Influence of Stock and Scion upon 

 Varieties," Prof. H. A. Surface, Harrisburg, 

 Pa.; discussion led by Prof. W. T. Macoun, 

 Ottawa; 3.30, "Market Conditions in Great 

 Britain," J. A. Ruddick, Dairy Cold Storage 

 Commissioner, Ottawa; 4.30, "The Ontario 

 Horticultural Farm: Progress of the Year," 

 H. S. Peart, Supt., Jordan Harbor. Sugges- 

 tions for Its Future: C. L. Stephens, Orillia; 

 J. L. Hilborn, Leamington; Murray Pettit, 

 Winona; F. S. Wallbridge, Belleville — Five- 

 minute addresses. 



WEDNESDAY EVENING 



8.00 p.m., "Five Common Insect Enemies of the 

 Fruit Grower" (illustrated by limelight views\ 

 Prof. S. B. McCready, O.A.C., Guelph. This 

 address will deal with oyster-shell bark louse, 

 San Jose scale, codling moth, canker worm 

 and flea beetle; 8.45, "The Outlook for the 

 Fruit Grower," E. D. Smith, M.P., Winona; 



discussion led by Prof H. L Hutt, Ontario 

 Agricultural College, Guelph. 



THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 14 



9.00 a.m., "The Place of the Fall Apple in 

 Future Planting," Alex. McNeill, Chief, Fruit 

 Division, Ottawa; discussion led by Jas. E. 

 Johnson, Simcoe; 10.00, election of directors; 

 10.30, "Nursery Control and Legislation in 

 Other Countries," E. C. Morris, Brown's 

 Nurseries (from the nurseryman's stand- 

 point), and G. A. Robertson, St. Catharines 

 (from the fruit growers' standpoint) 



THURSDAY AFTERNOON 



2 p.m.. "E.^press Rates in Relation to the Fruit 

 Industry," speakers yet to be secured ; 3 p.m., 

 "Business systems for co-operative Associa- 

 tions." — From the practical side: W. D. A. 

 Ross, Chatham: D. Johnson, Forest, and W. 

 H. Dempsey, Trenton; from the expert's 

 side, by an expert; 4.00 p.m., "The Neces- 

 sity for an Improved Fruit Market and Term- 

 inal Facilities in Toronto." 



Ne-w Canning Factories 



Niagara Falls has built one uf the finest can- 

 ning factories in the province. The company 

 will be known as the Niagara Falls Canning 

 Co., with a capital of $60,000. The plant is 

 located on the Michigan Central Railway. The 

 buildings are good ones. One of them, the 

 storage building and warehouse, is 50 x 100 

 feet and two stories high. Another, the pro- 

 cess building, is 50 x 150 feet and two stories 

 high. The mechanical cold storage plant has 

 a capacity of 60 carloads of fruit. 



One of the most important strides made by 

 the Canadian fruit and vegetable canning and 

 preserving industry is the establishment at 

 Niagara Falls of the vSanitary Canning Co., 

 Ltd., the Canadian branch of the Sanitary 

 Canning Co., Ltd., of New York. This com- 

 pany manufactures the latest things in cans. 

 It rents to canners machines to seal the 

 cans automatically, doing away with spirits, 

 acids, solder and cappers. They also make 

 the most up-to-date can on the market, an 

 enamel can for fruits and vegetables with gran- 

 ite enamel inside. This prevents acid in fruits 

 from rusting the cans and removes all danger 

 of ptomaine poisoning. Fruit can be opened 

 from these cans in better flavor and condition 

 than from glass cans or jars, with no risk of 

 breakage. The mouth of the can being the 

 same size as the can itself, fruit can be packed 

 by hand in perfect condition, which the small 

 mouth on ordinary cans prevents. The fact 

 that the cans are much cheaper than the present 

 cans in use, and machines for capping the same 

 are rented to companies at a very low figure, 

 will greatly stimulate the canning industry 

 and cause new factories to be erected. The 

 company has several large buildings now in 

 course of construction at Niagara Falls, where 

 Niagara power will be used to turn out the 

 cans. The company will start operations at 

 once for this .season's trade. — T.R.S. 



A Marked Difference 



The drought of the past season brought out 

 the relative merits of sod and clean culture. It 

 is quite a common remark with crop correspond- 

 ents reporting to the Fruit Division, Ottawa, 

 that the fruit upon the well-cultivated orchards 

 is much better than the fruit upon orchards in 

 sod. 



One of the Dominion fruit inspectors, who 

 was asked to procure some extra fine samples, 

 reports that he had difficulty in finding fruit of 

 the very high class required anywhere, but 

 said it was useless to look for this high-class fruit 

 in any but cultivated orchards. No doubt had 

 the season been wet there would not have been 

 this marked distinction between cultivated and 

 sod orchards.— A. McNeill, Chief, Fruit Division. 



