NUMBER AND YIELD OF APPLE TREES IN 

 OUR PROVINCE. 



DN the last Report of the Bureau of 

 Industries we have a step in ad- 

 vance for the benefit of the fruit 

 grower, in a table showing the num- 

 ber and yield of apple trees in Ontario 

 in 1896 and 1897. We are often asked 

 by outside correspondents for this infor- 

 mation in previous years, and need these 

 statistics, not only of apples, but of other 

 fruits also. 



a decrease in the number of apple trees 

 under fifteen years old, and the number 

 reported is now only 3,435,018, or 113,- 

 040 less than in 1896. The average 

 yield per tree was small, being but 2.19 

 bushels per bearing tree (fifteen years 

 old) compared with 9.45 bushels in the 

 previous year, and the total yield amount- 

 ed to only 13,343,720 bushels, as against 

 55. 8 95.755 bushels in 1896. 



Districts. 



Lake Erie 



Lake Huron 



Georgian Bay 



West Midland 



Lake Ontario 



St. Lawrence and Ottawa 



East Midland 



Northern Districts 



The Province 



An increase occurred in the number 

 of apple trees over fifteen years old in 

 every group except the East Midland 

 district, there now being 6,102,399 trees 

 of that age in the Province, or 188,493 

 more than was reported in the preced- 

 ing year. Every group, however, shows 



The following table presents the acre- 

 ages in orchard and garden, and in vine- 

 yard, in 1897, by county groups and for 

 the Province, together with the total 

 acreage of these in the years 1895, 1896 

 and 1897 : 



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