April, tqie, 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



115 



4 days at $3.50 per day for man and 

 team 14 OC 



Thinninsr: 



5 days at $2.50 per day 12 50 



Picking: : 



2 men, 5 days, at $2.00 per day 20 00 



I Packing- amd Grading- : 

 men, 8 days, at $2.50 per day. . . . 40 00 

 Cost of Spray Materials 

 (four applications) : 

 jralls. lime-sulphur at 18c 15 12 

 01 lbs. arsenate of lead at $9.00 per 



cwt 7 29 



6 lbs. Black Leaf 40 at $1.25 6 25 



Packages : 



311 apple boxes at 15^c 48 20 



Wrapping: paper, etc 17 OC 



19 bbls. at 45c 8 55 



60 lbs. nails at 3c per lb 1 50 



$283 01 

 RAfifilots 



3 bbls. No. i'localiy at' $3.bo! '.'..'.. ' $h"oO 



64 boxes No. 1 Ottawa at $2.00 108 00 



94 boxes No. 1 Toronto at $1.25 117 50 



145 boxes No. 1 Montreal at $1.4Ci. . . 203 00 

 20 boxes No. 2 Montreal at $1.15... 23 OO 



19 bbls. No. 2 locally at $2.50 47 50 



81 bus. Windfalls at 50c 40 50 



33 bus. Windfalls at 25c 8 25 



$556 75 

 Expenditure 283 01 



Net profit $273 74 



In the foreg-oing- figrures two or three 

 items should be specially noted. The value 

 of the manure to the land will be distribut- 

 ed over a number of years. Similarly the 

 prunino- charg-es are hig:h, as the orchard 

 had been neg-lected for a number of years. 

 Prices also for Mcintosh apoles were not 

 so g:ood as usual during: 1914. The num- 

 ber of culls, too, 114 boxes, is very hig-h, 

 due to a windstorm just before the fruit 

 was ready to pick. 



Concerning- two demonstration orchards 

 in Middlesex county, Mr. I. B. Whale, the 

 District Representative there, writes as 

 follows : 



'Our most marked results were in Mr. 

 Caverhills orchard, with twenty-five trees of 

 Mcintosh Reds. These trees were some- 

 thinif over twenty years old, and according- 

 to Mr. Caverhill, they had not produced 

 fruit that was marketable, the scab ruining 

 the fruit and destroying- the leaves many 

 years. A year ag-o I do not think I saw 

 as scabby-looking- fruit or as small leaves. 

 Mr. Caverhill intended g:raftinfi: these last 

 spring- to other varieties, but after some 

 persuasion he allowed Mr. Kydd of the 

 Fruit Branch, and myself, to use them for 

 demonstration work. We Rave these trees 

 four sprayings of lime-sulphur, using 45 

 gallons of limesulphur in all and 55 pounds 

 of arsenate of lead. Figuring the cost of 

 man labor at fifteen cents per hour aind 

 horse labor at ten cents per hour, the total 

 cost was $11.50 besides the pruning. While 

 the scab was bad in other trees of the same 

 variety as well as other varieties, our 

 twenty-five trees produced 38 barrels of 

 apples, 33 of which were No. I's, the re- 

 mainder No. 2's, which shows the results 

 which have been obtained in one year, due 

 to pruning and spraying. The orchard 

 was cultivated during the summer. It was 

 from no marketable fruit in previous years 

 to about 87 per cent. No. I's with the treat- 

 ment. The twenty-five trees in the old or- 

 chard which were pruned and sprayed were 

 free from fungous diseases and insects of 

 all kinds. 



"With Mr. Sadler's orchard of ninety 

 trees, set out forty-four years ago, we have 

 his statement that up to two years ago he 

 had never marketed over $100 worth of fruit 

 in one year, but with the first year's prun- 

 ing and spraying, the orchard gave $200 



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