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Title: Ontario Sessional Papers, 1907, No.15-22
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: ONTARIO. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
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The fact is that the buyershave discovered a source of supply the apples of which may be held on thetrees three i.o five weeks later in the season, which makes the fruit more pro-fitable to handle from the exporters point of view. It is not that the applesof this district will not keep, but that they mature three or four weeks too earlyfor the best export trade. For this reason the buyers have abandoned thedistrict so far as winter apples are concerned, and while a certain class stilldo business there, they purchase only such apples as they can see an im-mediate market for. The district is obliged to market its apples under ordin-ary conditions by the end of November, or at least before Christmas, and ifthe market is not good at that time, the buyers are apt to throw up their bar-gains, and are in any event very cautious about making them. This is not the case in portions of Districts Nos. 2 and 3, because therethe apple operators can buy with confidence, for the reason that thev know
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EXPLAXATOKY XOTES ON MaP. District No. 1 grows all the tender fruits, such as peaches, apricots,dwarf pears of all varieties, tender and all varieties of apples, plums, pears,cherries, etc. This region is specially adapted to early fruits and vegetables,being from ten days to two weeks ahead of the districts surrounding the largemarkets. District No. 2 grows excellent winter apples of all varieties to perfec-tion. It is characterized by a large number of comparatively small orchardscontaining numerous varieties of fruit. Many portions are excellentlyadapted for plum and pear culture. District No. 3 is specially adapted for winter apples. There are manylarge orchards especially on the shore of Lake Ontario. The farmers hereare making a specialty of orcharding. District 3(a) on the Nottawasaga Bayshould be classed with District 3, having large orchards of comparativelyfew varieties of winter fruit. In District No. 4 the ordinary w inter varieties are not hardy. This Dis-trict, however,

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