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crop in 1912 was estimated at 5,000,000 barrels. An 

 estimate of 3,568,000 barrels was made for 1918, of which 

 British Columbia produced 459,300, Nova Scotia 808,600, 

 Quebec and New Brunswick perhaps 100,000, leaving 

 Ontario with an estimated production of 2,200,000 barrels. 

 In 1919, the, Canadian crop amounted to 1,500,000 barrels 

 in Nova Scotia alone. 



The exports of apples from Canada for the past eleven 

 years have been as follows : 



Table IV. — Apple Exports from Canada 



1909 1,604,477 



1910 523,658 



1911 1,664,165 



1912 1,324,769 



1913 947,382 



1914 1,117,336 



1915 557,451 



1916 570,854 



1917 103,626 



1918 405,058' 



1919 591,805 



For the five years from 1909 to 1913, the average export 

 was 1,212,000 barrels, while the average for the years 

 1914 to 1918 was only 510,865. This, of course, is partly 

 due to the British embargo on apples in 1917. About 90 

 per cent of the Canadian exports are to Great Britain 

 under ordinary circumstances. 



Nova Scotia (Plate VI). 



The commercial apple-growing district embraces a com- 

 paratively small area, roughly described as the Annapolis 

 Valley, about one hundred miles long and from six to eleven 

 miles wide. The principal apple-growing counties are 

 Kings, Annapolis and Hants, which produce about 75 per 



