THE GUARDIAN cuaRLor'rm‘owN, ramen Enwann ISLAND, rsnsesav 4, |904.
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rin-3 P|iE§n=|§'_NrT§ 'ADDRESS
T F. O. ASSOCIATION
Able and Exhaustive Report ol Rev. A. E.
Burke on Our Fruit Growing industry, '
the Doings oi the Past Year, the
Fruit Crop oi |903 and Many
Things Required for the De-
velopment and Growth
of the lndustry.
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PRESIDENTS ADDRIBS. ,' here. We have rightly regarded the
"Paternal Visit" as a most ,important
Geuuemen °f me Fruit Grower!! Aa- factor in our island instruction. B/Ii-,~sr~
Hvvllii-l0D Of Pfllwe Edwlfd I5l““‘l1 Burke and Vrcom as has appeared in the
In addressing you for the second time as I report which they have already submit-
your President, I am pleased lo be able to , ted, Lravclieii thc whole province and
SKY U10! i»l\lS 0111#-\Bl'Alil-l0f\ UBS lllfl/‘ff D60" l this time have broken entirely new
in a healthier condition than nt the pre- i ground and hroukhb lv-l»\‘\1CLl0H. i1I'&l'llC1\l
sent time nor ever face to face with great' | as well as theoretic-ii, wherever they
er possibilities for the ultimate success of went. Their location work, pruning,
the im Ortant fruit industry with which, grafting, spraying and the visits to indi-
p .
ln a large measure is bound up the pros-
perity of our native province.
Ihe work of horticultural instruction
has gone on npace within the term just
completed until it has been brought to
the very extremities ofthe land, and such
an awakening has resulted as has put in-
tending apple-growers-and they are oo-
cxteusivo with thefai ming community-in
complete possession of every necessary
fact, relative to the culture of fruit, viz.
where best to locate the orchard, how to
prepare for and protect it, the sort ofi
stock to purchase, what agency frauds to
avoid,how to plant, cultivate, prune,spray
and care generally when planted, and the
requisite conditions to the efficient gath~
ering, packing, storing and marketing of
fruit. The Association aided again by
the General and Local Departments of ,
Agriculture has been able to do much `
more than appears on the surface; and its
untirlng efforts must necessarily make for
the proper extension and maintenance
of fruit-growing in Prince Edward Is-
land.
Professor Robertson, whose favor we
gratefully acknowledged at our Inst
general meeting and whom we then had
with us, has, with characteristic faithful-
ness to purpose and that kindly concern
for Island interests which always distin-
guished him, continued and extended so
vidual orchards have been the means of
rehabilitating many old plantations and
have tended greatly to the planting out of
innumerable new ones. Although un-
foreseen by Professor Robertson himself
or by us, Mr. Vroom was calloi away to
lllslev inthe midst of the work and thus
our program was somewhat restricted;
but Mr. Burke only redoubled his efforts
and managed to keep about all the adver-
tised appointmentsand crown the work
with ultimate success. \Ve earnestly
nope for the continuance of these in-
structors whose field is yearly enlarging
and who are really doing a greater
amount of good than any other section of
the service. Doubtless the Commissioner
under whom it was inaugurated, who has
watched it with such increasing satis-
faction, and who, in it, has been such a
beneilt to island horticulture, will make
nipple provision for the continuance and
extension of this work so that the fruit
industry may more readily assume its
proper place amongst us.
\VhilSt the other fruit growing provin-
ces of Canada have been in the full en-
joyment of more than average crops,
Prince lidvvarli Island has viewed in the
past your comparatively bare orchards.
it has been unmlstakably our oil'-year.
In the season previous we had n full
crop when Nova Scotia and Ontario were
fir as he could before taking ill, the-
missionary eB’orts of thc instructors,
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in our position of today. The immense
surplus apple product of the Dominion
and the L'niii~d States has fouml a pi; i; g
mnrlinl. in Hrituln, willvh was never 2-0
bire of dnrn sift: fruit and \\'hil-n, levied
01 stcuflily by continental l-Iuiope where
this crop was also a failure, it has l».~<-n
diilicult lo satisfy not to .~.~i_v rlul, The
province of Nova Scotia wnn i:~ r. clu i
apple l\arve~t will reeeivir from i'n~ yi-ar'>
tmnsaciimmxionc over u million an-l a
half of dollars. When we lake into con
siilerntion the restricted nren in our sister
province ,suitable for Cultiviiiiuri nail
when we consifii-r how little of this _~uin~,-
although prices ranged soinewlint lim
and the trniin wus not orilaniz 'fi in it
ought tx have been, permits us to grass
readily what Prince it iwaxd island-cvi-ry
,inch of it susceptible of tree growim; and
fruit proinzztlon might easily arid to her
revenues from apples, iflizeuerally grown,
null this without prejudice to any other
branch of farnilng. Une million an~i n
halfef iiollarsv the estimate is no extrava-
gant or,t'-irllleii to the half million we
now ge'. from dairy pro nets, which
ought to be Lriplc that lung ago ‘if pro-
per ly llnnfllt-~i, and the other dt-pnrlrncnis
of agricultural wealth hue, should trans
form this little pr>vine: into is verltubli'
ifiopia. Thi- late census has given us the
largest average in farm values of any
portion of Canada. The figures of the
statist would fade into insigniilcanee
coinpired with future resultr were we to
develop even by half our agricultural re-
sources. To participate fully in tho
profits of fruit growing it is necessary to
keep up thc present organization, the ae-
hievemcnis of which is such are source of
honest pride to us, and still further or-
ganize ns the :necessities uf the times dc-
man<l. in all probability we shall have
an nhundanterop of fruit ne\‘ autumn
and the newness of the industry and the
fact that our planters in general have un-
wisely permitted the glib agent to iin-
pose upon thcm about every kind of treo
iu the catalogue, will make it difficult to
secure thc best prices for fruit mixed up
in nlany varieties, either in the orchard or
on the market which could iiouhtlcssly be
pioeurcii for n reasonable quantity of any
one staniiarfl sort. This Association has
been a\dvis'.ng the plantinz out of blocks
of one or two commercial varieties, it has
where at all practicable, counseled the
topgrafting of undesirable sorts to some
standard our-, so as to overcome the dc~
feet of heterogeneity as quickly ns possi-
ble. And this is not all; it shall now
have to urge co-operation in shipment ns
li the necessity of the hour. As cur dairy'
l rnczi are obliged to patronize the factory
l so that an uniform and commercially ac-
l ceptable quality of cheese may bc made l
and thus the best price procurci, so snuill
app’c growers shall be obliged for the
same purpose ln contribute the prod ucl
Of tlieirluixeil orchards lo the ro up r-
ntive station where the iliiilu-ttt louis of
apples may be prop.-rly srl-_»c-lei and
packed and the foreign market Li-mnteri
with some show of \\iri:..-s. Ervri
the older and more exte:;sa\’eIy planti-i
regions of America iin~l tui.~ syst.-in th z
only practical one in the pr: sent circum-
stnnocs. The risinll i;t'uernii->n will come
to regard the fruit =inl,:o:i with tm- sinn-
coixiplacennry us this 'ole the riiei-se
factory.
The question of protri tlcn is l»i'vuln`ni;,»
more und more vital Lu horticulture lime.
\Ve have cilsousseii it in ull il » bc\\rnr.~,
on prcviousoccassious, and wh.il~ i,lii»r<-
has certainly bei-n an a~vnl;i'|iing in _-eine
quarters to the impor.ant~i- nl' pre~er\'ln;_'
the remnant of woods we have lei, and
runlforeiitlng the apathy of the noni-ini
areal is given up entirely tiJl1\1it‘,'ro\»\'in,.r, E _V ` ‘  '
the i1nnn:n.~.\' product lu barrels of the pumw has “ol by "HY '“'~'*Ul-‘4 l>blili»{ Lotilly
n 1 it ‘_ i\ ‘I I iq iolmb Ishaken ull. To grow fruit anywhere pro-
pnst svnsnnn i s qu '. en _ '  _ _ __
_ltectionisn fir.~<tm.-eessity. bitunled in
the middle of is great siorni swept gulf,we
nro the most exposed community enunge il
in horticulture at all, and to be success-
ful, must as quickly as possible replace
our shelter belts null restore the nl cs-
sury proportion beta can forest and field.
\‘Vc have reached that .s'f\;ze in f ur pro
vineiai life, too, when the Improvement
and embellishment of our homes hy mea ns
of trcis and flowers and their taslelul
disposition, should engage our 1-nrm-.~t,
Nievitioli, so that thu healihfuiness, fruit-
fuiness and lovliness of our island home
may be more and lliora in evidence. 'l'nc
memliers offhia Association are espieiuliy
pit-llgcd lo forward this worthy purpose
and it is to be hoped that their example
may everywhere illumlnc the people.
The question of the best varieties of
apples io grow here has continued to
occupy thc attention ofthe Association
and still lust years recommendation is
generally approved. \\'e may have to
vary it a little for di|l`¢rcnt localities, but
after all, it is surprislnlt how closely the
stanflarris apples approach each other in
successful cultivation no: only here but
also in the neighboring provinces. in
our consideration of this mutter we may
perhaps have permitiei a preference for
the sorts which sell well in llritain to
subordinate altogather domestic choice.
Glaneing over the iignros one is struck by
the smallness of the export. trade com-
`pnre<l t J the entire crop. The difference
llietween the figures shows the enormous
quantity of fruit used at home, manu-
factured into jams and pulps and eva-
porated. Oi the immen'-Ie fruit crop of
the United States last season, for in-
stance, only n frn.etion over one per cent
was exported. This and other consider-
ations make it necessary to kocp the dom-
estic market well in view, and not to dis-
card everything in the line of apples not
urgently demanded in llritain. \Ve made
haste to discard from our lists altogether
the old and excellent fall
dessert apple liellcflour, known
in Canada as I3ishop'.~¢ Pippin, nlthouvh
there is no apple we relish more in Dee-
ri-wlii-i-,=ion»;.a\'e - - ' - ' - ` ',
in loiloivi' pf lu’ lcr: Sp)_l{i in ll»;» 1:r\l
lllo»t.'Jn, llal.i»»in, i"_tll.l\ni.r if |..:ln
f\`nnp1\ri-il. |i\z\<~-l, anll >»,nrl<, i\‘ ful.---l
alice and lin-, in-\i ~.lnlpll--i of ii new 1-
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grand oppcrtutiiy of ~irr\~rlninLnp tn
.stanilarll apples ci` l\1aiiLin|u i` it li ` l lil D"'_"m"""" ."`1u"
least. All the fruit ,_~rowintg <',\u:.i-cs lm: ‘\"' 'mllull I" ‘ ll "l ‘ ' ' " ’
were repr\:scni.i: l and the 1,-onli. lrison oi uw" I' b "l VU ll Y' ` ' " K ' ` J.,
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We were the last to some into the discounting business, but when we came in all the other fellows that were in
ready, began getting ready to get out. They got out too last Saturday, so that now we
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And we’re in it to stay till we`re good and ready to stop. Every discount that 've have advertised is still in iorcc, and
lots of things that were in the 5 per cent list have been changed into the 33 1-5 and 5o per cent lists.
FOR TW() WEEKS YET ANY WAY
We will cut, slash and slaughter prices, so that we ought° sell every dol1ar's worth of Dry Goods and Clothing that's
sold in Cl1't0W11»
If the weather does not force you our prices will _ _
Everything in our big stock is in this sale-not a solitary article reserved, except warp and spools.
Come along at once too
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The Farmers' B0yS_ The Wonderful Cheap Men.
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