THE GUARDIAN cuaRLor'rm‘owN, ramen Enwann ISLAND, rsnsesav 4, |904.

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-

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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-

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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

ARE THE ONLY ONE LEFT. ,

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

Prowse Bros., Prowse Bros.,

The Farmers' B0yS_ The Wonderful Cheap Men.

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