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natural advantages for producing fruit of high quality. This dawning intelli- 

 gence is also spreading to foreign countries. 



6. Seventy-five to one -hundred dollars per acre, gross revenue, (that is, 

 money in hand at home) one variety of fruit with another, and one year with 

 another. 



7. Perhaps one hundred per cent higher but comparison is difficult, as cost 

 of producing fruit is probably double per acre, that of grain, dairy, hog or beef 

 farming, or breeding. Speaking in very general terms, I think that there is per- 



at present a margin of at least 25 per cent higher in growing fruits than in 

 any of the lines mentioned above. 



8. Small fruits, small tree fruits, and grapes in baskets, pears and apples 

 in baskets, boxes and barrels. 



9. Fairly so. As fruit becomes more plentiful, the facilities improve. For 

 example, two or three dealers buy fruit daily at Burlington Junction during the 

 season. We can sell direct to them or send to a commission house as we desire. 

 A few years ago we had to consign all our small fruits to city houses. This com- 

 petition is to our advantage and to the advantage of the general consumer as 

 well, owing to better distribution. 



10. We still think that express rates are too high, i.e. higher than the value 

 of the service rendered, and we are also of the opinion that transportation to the 

 West might be reduced to the advantage of all concerned. 



11. Insects codling moth, lesser apple worm, currant worm, raspberry slug, 

 curculio. Diseases apple and pear scab, black knot, pear blight. Climatic 

 conditions favourable to the standard varieties of fruits grown here. 

 Non-hardy sorts we do not try to grow. Strawberries are the better for winter 

 protection. 



12. Apples Duchess, Wealthy, Ribston, Blenheim, King, Baldwin, Spy, 

 Greening, Wagener, Ontario. Pears Wilder, Clapp, Bartlett, Boussock, Good- 

 all, Louise, Duchess, Dwarf, Anjou, Sheldon, Keiffer, Lawrence, Nelis, Josephine. 

 Plums Bradshaw, Niagara, Imperial Gage, Lombard, Yellow Gage, Prince of 

 Wales, Glass, Reine Claude, Columbia, Staimton, Shipper's Pride, Gueii. 

 Peaches Alexander, Early Crawford, Champion, Crosby, Steven's Rareripe, 

 Longhurst, Sneed, Triumph, Grapes, Red Mt>yer, Lindley, Massasoit, Dela- 

 ware, Vergennes, Brighton, Wyoming Red, Black Campbell's Early, Moore's 

 Early, Worden, Concord, Wilder, White Niagara, Moore's Diamond. Cher- 

 ries May Duke, Richmond, Dyehouse, Windsor, Montmorency, Morello. 

 Have mostly gone out of small fruits. Have grown the following successfully: 

 Currants, Red Cherry, Fay, North Star, Prince Albert, Victoria, Wilder. 

 Black Collins Prolific, Lee, Naples, Saunders, Champion, Victoria, White 

 Grape and Imperial. Blackberries Snyder, Agawam, Western Triumph, 

 Ancient Briton (the latter partially self-sterile in my opinion). Raspberries, Red 

 Marlboro, Herbert, Cuthbert. Black Smith's Giant, Kansas, Older, Hilborn. 

 Purple Columbian, Shaffer. Gooseberries Pearl, Downing, Red Jacket. 

 Strawberries (None of my own, give experience of neighbours). Bederwood, 

 Senator Dunlop, Williams, Gibson, Glen Mary, Leader and others. 



13. All in the above lists. I have eliminated those I consider undesirable. 

 I have grown many more varieties than those mentioned. 



14. Cleaa cultivation and manuring as far as I find practicable. 



15. Yes, along all lines, except plums. Fifteen years ago you may remember 

 the country was in a state of depression, and fruits sold so low as to give a very 

 narrow margin of profit indeed; we were so to speak in the trough of the sea, now 

 we are perhaps on the crest of the wave of prosperity. Cycle follows cycle, action, 

 re-action. During the re-action there is no doubt over production from the grow- 

 ers' standpoint, prices low, everybody can buy fruit, the consuming area is 

 enlarged, the desire for fruit is gratified, the habit of eating fruit and more fruit is 

 formed and prices begin slowly to advance. Good times again strike the country, 

 and prices of fruit are strong, partly due to sympathy with the general prosperity 



