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of grain and fruit growing compared," etc., all of which will appear in full 

 in our next report. It will be our aim to place this report in the hands of 

 the Minister of Agriculture at an early date, so that it may precede the other 

 public printing, and thus reach our members at an early date, instead of 

 coming out so late that many of our readers will be unable to give it atten- 

 tion. 



THE APPLE CROP. 



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'EEK by week the prospect for apple growers is becoming blacker and 

 blacker. The Fruit Trade Journal of New York city has an article 

 entitled " The Ruined Fruit Crop," which, while deploring the scant 

 crop of other fruits, particularly specifies the apple as being a great failure 

 in New York State, and that in consequence a large part of the farmers, 

 whose chief dependence was in their orchards, are much distressed, especi- 

 ally as this follows a year of a similar misfortune. The Montreal Trade 

 Bulletin, under the heading " The Apple Crop," says that a buyer has just 

 returned from the south, where he went in search of a car load of early 

 Apples, but so great is. the failure in that quarter also that he had to return 

 without being able to secure them. The same condition of affairs is reported 

 from Michigan and other apple districts. Popular Gardening gives, in the 

 July number, an estimate of the apple crop based upon reports received 

 from the various States, and, using a scale in which 5 indicates a very 

 heavy crop, 4 lower than the average, 3 average, 2 under average, i poor, and 

 o a total failure, makes out the following as a very fair estimate for the whole 

 country : 



Apples, early ig Plums I'6 



Apples, late 19 Quinces i-g 



Cherries... 2-0 Raspberries 35 



Grapes ■ 3*4 Blackberries 4*0 



Peaches 10 Strawberries 3-2 



Pears, early i'4 Currants 26 



Pears, late 1-4 Gooseberries 27 



From this it is evident that a very poor crop is expected on this con- 

 tinent, and, as the dropping of the fruit still continues, except perhaps in 

 the case of the Northern Spy, there is little hope that the result will 

 prove better than the anticipation. 



Reports from England and the continent of Europe seem to be almost as 

 bad as those from America. According to the Fruit Trade Journal, pub- 

 lished in London, Eng., there will be very few apples or pears in England. 

 Indeed, in some parts the crop will hardly pay for harvesting. The trees 

 have been affected by blight and stripped by caterpillars, and the blossoms, 

 owing to frosty nights occurring when they were open, have set very 



