THIRTY-THIRD BIENNIAL SESSION 
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to stop, as the speaker said last evening; whether it would not be well, 
if any others want apple orchards, to sell them some of those now planted 
rather than to plant more. 
Question: I want to ask Prof. Macoun if there is a single commercial 
apple to-day that has originated as the result of artificial pollination? I do 
not say that there is none, but I want to know. 
Mr. Macoun: Yes, the Ontario apple; a cross between the Wagener 
and Northern Spy. It is a larger apple than the Wagener and bears almost 
as early. It is grown in some portions of Canada, such as Ontario and 
Nova Scotia, and is altogether a most desirable apple; the flesh bruises 
easily, however, making it difficult to ship in good condition in barrels. 
Question: I am not assuming against artificial pollination; but I am 
only wondering, having just come from the tables in the exhibit hall, if it 
is really worth while as an important work with apples, or is it chiefly of 
value because very interesting from a breeder’s standpoint, to see how many 
variations are possible under varying circumstances, and this question has 
arisen: Have we apples or other fruits grown anywhere in the United 
States that are the direct result of a cross by artificial pollination? 
Mr. Sears: I am certainly much interested in Mr. Cranefield’s remarks 
about the Wolf River “coming into its own.” Some of you know that we 
have branched out into practical orcharding in Massachusetts. The first 
year we began planting at Amherst we set six hundred and fifty McIntosh. 
Massachusetts can grow the best McIntosh in the world, other things the 
same way! This year they began to bear and all are Wolf River. Now we 
are debating whether we shall dig them out or top-graft to McIntosh. Now 
if the Wolf River apple is really worth anything I am anxious to know it. 
Mr. Cranefield: This is what I mean; the hotel and restaurant men 
and others who feed the public are just learning that Wolf River is one of 
the best apples that grows anywhere for baking and this year it has brought 
a higher price in New York and Chicago and other markets than any other 
apple, I think, or at least with very few exceptions — about $4 a barrel, while 
New York apples were bringing $3. That’s what I mean. We discovered 
that years ago in Wisconsin; you people of the East are just finding it out. 
Do not feel badly about the six hundred and fifty Wolf River trees ; although 
the McIntosh is a very excellent apple, the Wolf River will bring in more 
money. We raised 2,500,000 bushels of apples in Wisconsin this year and 
of these I shipped three bushels and a peck last week to Washington, but 
they have not arrived yet. If they come this week I will have a Wolf River 
to show you. 
Mr. Van Deman: I would like to say just a little about Canada. I 
have been there and know there is a lot there besides ice and snow. The 
peculiar interior region between the lakes there is as good as the very 
best that we have anywhere in the United States; and when we think about 
that as a great frozen country we are making a great mistake. 
But I was thinking more especially of British Columbia. Now we think 
of that as a fearful region, while it is a great many miles away. But I can 
assure you that when you get there you feel much at home, and I know that 
those people that live there do not starve, especially for fruit. I was called 
