Identifier: dominionofcanada01grif (find matches)
Title: The Dominion of Canada
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Griffith, William Lenny, 1864. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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praying offruit trees is almost universal. A mixture of coppersulphate, quicklime, and Paris green is put on three timesa year, and if done conscientiously it is generally successfulin protecting the trees. The farmer picks his own fruit, and packs and gradesit himself before sending it to an agent for sale on com-mission, or else more frequently he sells his fruit to buyerswho grade and pack it at their own warehouses. Insome districts the co-operative movement has taken root,and fruit is graded and packed by the co-operative store.It is not easy to arrive at an estimate of the profits to bederived from fruit-growing, but it may be said that in afavourable year the average orchard, well looked after,should yield 100 barrels (each containing 150 lbs.) per acreper year. Taking two dollars as the average price perbarrel this would give a return of something like £40gross per acre. A good many of the younger men are leaving theeastern fruit-growing provinces for the alluring romance 398
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ATTRACTIONS OF ANNAPOLIS VALLEY of the West. Fortunes, it is true, come more easily to the pioneer, and the West of Canada is undoubtedly theplace to which the ambitious man turns his eyes. Atthe same time, the Annapohs valley promises a goodli\ing and comparatively settled conditions of hfe to the immigrant, and it is possible that in a few years timethere will be a backwash of settlers from the West tothis peaceful Maritime province. In Ontario there is more fruit culture than in anyother province of the Dominion. For the most part the fruit-growing district is to befound in the Southern and Western parts of Ontario.Hardy fruit, such as apples, sour cherries, and plums,are gro\Mi on the east of Georgian Bay and Lake Huron,on the north and south shores of Lake Ontario, and thenorthern shore of Lake Erie. Grapes, sweet cherries,pears, peaches, and other soft fruits are gro\Mi southand west of Toronto, on the south of Georgian Bay andthe east of Lake Huron. On the Niagara Peninsula, on t

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