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Apples exported from Canada during 

 the years previous to June 30, 1904: 



Crop Year Fiarrels Total Value 



1899 956,458 $2,578,2,33 



1900 678,651 1,482,927 



1901 516,215 1,566,808 



1902 1,000,528 2,758,724 



1903 1,598,614 4,590,793 



It was estimated that approximately 

 815,000 barrels of apples have been ex- 

 ported from Canada since the opening 

 of the apple season of 1905. 



Value fruit crop in Canada in 1901 

 was $8,236,500; number of acres, 370,- 

 998; capital value of land and trees, 

 $66,537,650; proportion of capital earn- 

 ing, $44,358,433. Were 25 per cent, 

 added to the value in 1901 to find the 

 value in 1905, the value would be $10,- 

 295,625. Add 10 per cent, to the num- 

 ber of acres to find number in 1905, 

 would be 408,097. Were 10 per cent, 

 added to the capital value in 1901 to 

 iind capital value in 1905, it would be 

 3,191,415, and the capital earning 



58,794,276. 



' )ther estimates placed the total value 

 ')i fruit in Ontario in 1901 at $6,004,905, 

 and in 1905 at $7,505,636; the number 

 of acres in fruit in 1901 at 279,571, and 

 ill 1905 at 307,528; the capital value in 

 1901 at $50,347,150, and in 1905 at 

 $55,381,865, the capital earning in 1901 at 



$33,564,766 and in 1905 at $36,921,242. 

 Mr. Peart suggested that the Do- 

 minion census should be amended as 

 follows: Where it now gives only total 

 acres in orchard it should give acres in 

 apple orchards and acres in other tree 

 fruits. Where it now gives acres in 

 vegetables and small fruits together 

 they should be divided. Where it 

 gives the value of fruit and vegetables 

 together it should give the values 

 separately. In Ontario, where acres 

 in orchard and garden are given to- 

 gether, they should be so divided as to 

 show the acres in apple orchards in 

 other tree fruits and in small fruits. 



In conclusion, Mr. Peart submitted 

 the following resolution: "That the del- 

 egates to this convention from the sev- 

 eral provinces petition their respective 

 governments to collect, classify and 

 publish henceforth in detail in their 

 annual industrial reports the statistics 

 bearing on fruits and (b) that the Do- 

 minion Government in the next census 

 give further sub-divisions of the tables 

 and figures relating to fruits; (c) we 

 appreciate and recognize the valuable 

 information given heretofore by the 

 Dominion and various provincial gov- 

 ernments on fruit statistics." 



In the discussion that followed a del- 

 egate from each province was asked to 



speak in regard to the fruit interests of 

 his province. For Quebec Mr. Jack re- 

 ported that he was not furnished with 

 statistics for the province, but in his 

 locality during the past five years, 

 there had been an increase of 30 to 40 

 per cent, in the amount of fruit pro- 

 duced. Mr. Gilman, the delegate from 

 New Hrunswick, said that as yet the 

 production of fruit in that province is 

 not equal to the consumption. So lit- 

 tle fruit has been grown that reports 

 on fruit conditions have not been made 

 in the annual reports of the department, 

 but this will be remedied in the near 

 future. I'^or Nova Scotia, it was re- 

 ported by Mr. Starr that the average 

 number of barrels exported during the 

 past three years ha(! been 405,813; 

 about an equal amount was raised for 

 home consumption. Rev. Father Burke, 

 speaking for Prince Fdward Island, re- 

 ported that that province had no ma- 

 chinery for collecting and tabulating 

 reports concerning its production of 

 fruit. The industry has been advanc- 

 ing by leaps and bounds. 



The Pacific Province, British Colum- 

 bia, was heard from through Mr. Bur- 

 rell, who stated that the fruit industry 

 there is growing with extraordinary 

 rapidity. He agreed with Mr. Peart, 

 as did the other speakers, that each 



