CHAPTER III 



COMMERCIAL APPLE PRODUCTION IN 



CANADA, AUSTRALIA AND 



NEW ZEALAND 



UNITED STATES is far ahead of any other country in the 

 production of commercial apples. Only in some of the 

 British Dominions has apple-growing attained commercial 

 proportions on an organized scale. England, France, Ger- 

 many, Russia and many parts of Europe have enormous 

 numbers of apple trees but most of the fruit does not enter 

 the world market, and in France nearly 90 per cent of the 

 crop is used for cider or beverage purposes. Europe 

 depends on United States, Canada, Australia and New Zea- 

 land for its supply of high grade fruit. South Africa is 

 developing commercial apple-growing but as yet the pro- 

 duction is not a factor in the world's markets. 



CANADA 



Canada at present (1920) will normally produce from 

 18 to 20 per cent as many commercial apples as the United 

 States. The last decennial census (1911) credited Canada 

 with 16,217,176 trees, about 60 per cent of which were 

 then bearing. Apples are grown commercially in British 

 Columbia, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Quebec, New Brunswick 

 and Prince Edward Island, but the principal commercial 

 sections are in the first three provinces. The commercial 

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