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Fruit OutlooK in Niagara District 



FKUIT prospects throughout the Niagara 

 district are promising. The season is 

 later than usual, but no reports of serious 

 damage to any crop aie heard. Every- 

 thing, at this date, indicates that crops in all 

 lines will be a full average. The following re- 

 ports from leading centres in the district speak 

 for themselves: 



ST. CATHARINES 



Never in my recollection has the coimtry 

 looked- better than at present. This, possibly, 

 is due to the fact that all varieties of fruit ap- 

 peared to come into bloom at nearly the same 

 time, and what came in first hung on the trees 

 well. We have had favorable weather for the 

 setting. On the nights of May 19 and 20 we 

 had a close call from frost. The thermometer 

 registered 30°, making 2° of frost, but no injury 

 of any kind was caused and the weather has 

 again turned warm. 



Early tomatoes are planted out in many in- 

 stances and looking well, and the late plants are 

 coming along finely. Strawberries just com- 



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mencing to bloom and promise a fine crop, as 

 hey have wintered well. In many of the fields 

 tlie plants are rather thin, owing to the depreda- 

 tions of the white grub last season. Pears and 

 apples are very full of bloom. Yellow-fleshed 

 varieties of peaches have a medium show 

 of blossoms. — Robt. Thompson. 



JORDAN STATION 



Strawberries are in full bloom; about two 

 weeks later than usual, and the plants have 

 made less growth than usual, which, to mc, in- 

 dicates a light and late crop. Raspberries and 

 currants and all other varieties of fruit at this 

 time are promising a full crop, yet in many of 

 them it is too early to give any definite expres- 

 sion as to the final outcome. — C. M. Honsberger. 



BURLINGTON 



Strawberries probably will be a little below an 

 average crop and possibly the season will be a 

 little later than last year, which began about 

 June 18. Raspberries will be an average yield, 

 and with more acreage there ought to be a plenti- 

 ful supply of this fruit. Other small fruits will 

 not vary much from last year's figures. — The 

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ESSEX COUNTY 



A report from Leamington is as follows: 

 "The fruit outlook is good. Peaches promise a 



full crop; cherries very good; pears, also good; 

 strawberries, full of blossom and in some favored 

 spots berries are now J-^ to % inch in diameter. 

 Plums show a full crop, apples now in full bloom. 

 — E. E. Adams. 



Pointers on Transportation 



In an address delivered at a meeting of fruit 

 growers in the Niagara district, Mr. P. J. Carey, 

 D.1''.L, Toronto, pointed out a few particulars 

 in which the facilities for transporting fruit to 

 the N.-W. may be improved. The railway 

 companies should make special fruit runs to 

 North Bay, say twice a week, and these specials 

 should be scheduled to connect with the fast 

 freight that regularly runs from North Bay to 

 Winnipeg — this scheduled connection should 

 allow plenty of time for re-icing. Five days 

 should be the maximum time from points in 

 Ontario to Winnipeg. 



Shippers should bear in mind that the greater 

 the number of cars in a shipment the better 

 the treatment received at the hands of the 

 transportation companies. The question of 

 icing and re-icing is important. Mr. Carey 

 found on one occasion, when accompanying a 

 shipment to the west, the bunkers only three- 

 (juarters full immediately after re-icing — a 

 serious matter. 



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