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hundred barrels have been taken from one farm. In five 

 years the five thousand mark will be reached and much 

 higher figures will soon follow. 



Increased Land Values. 



The orchard business has increased the value of farms in 

 the fruit districts from two to four times the value of similar 

 areas in other counties. It has changed many acres of our 

 country from a value of ten or twenty dollars per acre to a 

 value of one thousand dollars. It has changed hundreds of 

 farms from a value of two thousand dollars to ten thousand 

 dollars. It has changed a dozen farms from a value of two 

 thousand dollars to fifteen thousand dollars, or twenty thou- 

 sand dollars, and a number of farms to twenty thousand to 

 thirty thousand dollars. The apple industry has probably 

 advertised the province more than any other one of its prod- 

 ucts, and our fruit has won distinction at such exhibitions 

 as Philadelphia, Chicago, Buffalo, Edinburgh, London and 

 Paris. 



Nursery Stock. 



Since the San Jose scale scare the major part of our nur- 

 sery stock has come from Ontario, the larger planters buying 

 direct from the nurserymen. A few thousand are imported 

 annually from New York State. The largest possible three 

 vear grafted trees, or two year budded trees, are preferred. 

 The popular distance for planting the standard apple is 

 thirty-three feet apart, or forty to the acre. A few^ plant 

 eighty trees to the acre, placing the extras in the diagonal 

 of the squares made by the forty planting. Fewer still use 

 forty permanent trees to the acre and one hundred and twenty 

 to two hundred and eighty fillers of plums or early bearing 

 apples. 



Varieties. 



Our most popular varieties of apples are the Graven- 

 stein, Blenheim Pippin, Ribston Pippin, King, Wagener, 

 Baldwin, Golden Russet, Nonpareil, Northern Spy, Ben 

 Davis, and Stark. Though Germany is the home of the 



