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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



February, 19115 



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Nova Scotia Problems* 



F. W. Bishop, President, N.S. Fruit Growers' A»oci*tioi 



Nova Scotia can and must produce bet- 

 ter apples. Or, to put it another way, 

 \ova Scotia must produce fewer poor 

 apples and must cease altogether from ex- 

 porting: inferior fruit. This is not a mat- 

 ter of sontiment : it is a matter of busi- 

 ness, of dollars and cents. 



We must begin at the bcjfinninjf to do 

 thinjfs properly. We must exercise srreat 

 care in the selection of our younjr trees. 

 We must plant them in the most desirable 

 locations and as they should be planted. 

 Then we must take care of what we plant. 

 Thrre are far too many neg-lected younjr 

 orchards in Nov.t Scotia, k neglected or- 

 chard is a public menace. We must learn 

 how to prune, how to rspray, how to thin, 

 amd not trust to haphazard methods, .^nd 

 we must learn and should learn at once 

 how to pick and handle our apnles. It 

 would seem that we are so familiar with 

 apples that we do not stop to realize what 

 a delicate organism an apple is. It is not 

 too extreme to sav that apples should be 

 handled as carefully as esKgs, some varie- 

 ties of apples even more carefully than 

 epsrs. 



We are apt to hire a picker of apples and 

 think we must rush him at top speed to 

 <^pt the value of nur money. It is all right 

 to try and make him work rapidly, but 

 never, under anv consideration, allow him 

 *r, sacrifice care for sneed. It doesn't pay. 

 T earn to be "crankv" about the way your 

 fn'it as handled. Get it to the warehouse 

 in rverfect condition nnd don't be afraid to 

 'TQ into the warehouse occasionally and see 

 that the careful handlinir is kept up. See 

 thnt the barrels are well filled not over 

 filled), see that they are well shaken down 

 arid that careful, iu'licious pressure is ap- 

 r)lied. Put un a kick if vou sep a head 

 beine driven im with an adze or if you sro 

 a barrel of apples thrown down roughly 

 and eivei a kick which sends it spinning 

 half the length of the warehouse. It will 

 be these little exhibitions of carefulness 

 amoip-st our growers that will help us to 

 f-ompletp the conouest of the apple mar- 

 kets and to hold the p-roumd we attain. 



T w.tnt to say something about the onck. 

 ^* i<= imnrovin"'. The time was when Nov;i 

 Scotians didn't have a good name as apple 

 packers. Now only some Nova Scotia 

 packers have a bad name. . Oftentimes thr 

 bad pack is not malicious, but it is the rr 

 suit of carelessness. W'e cannot be tof 

 careful. The careless packer is unjust mo- 

 only to himself but to us all. 



When a manufacturing concern finds that 

 improved machinery and increased skill of 

 its employees makes it possible to doubli 

 its product that concern does not become 

 alarmed, but goes out and m modern busi- 

 ness style forces its way into new markets 1 

 and builds up and increases the demand! 

 for its goods in the new markets. TheJ 

 Nova Scotia apple industry is in the posi- 

 tion of such a manufacturing concern. 

 There is a great chance to increase th«[ 

 demand of Nova Scotia apples in the ol^ 

 markets and there are new markets to ' 

 reached and developed. The question isl 

 Whose duty is it to bring about that inj 

 creased demand and to discover these men 

 markets ? 



•Extract f'-om an addres"! delivered at the 

 cent annual convention of the Nova 8coti| 

 Apple Growers' Association 



