The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-11-24
Improved transportation faci'itie

cold storage and scientific agriculture,
have set the seasons at defiance, and If
your bank account is equal to the strain
you may have strawberries and other
fruits and vegetables the year around.
Another development is that fruits OF
the semi-tropics are grown in the north,
and northern fruits in the south. This
season We have had musk melons, pea
nuts and peaches grown in this city and
Winterport. Time was when an apple
was a curiosity in the south. None were
raised and few were sold there. Now
Arkansas has become famous for its
big. red apples" and at a meeting OF
the National Editorial Association at the
Hot Springs some years ago the men,
bers were regaled on this fruit. Virginia
also has taken up apple growing, and
remarkable yields are reported, with
large profits, due to scientific methods,
and the United States Department Of
Agriculture is authority for the state
nent that apples of much better quail
~ can be grown at one-half the cost IN
this district Piedmont, Va, and vicinity,
than in the most widely known and ad-
vertised localities of Oregon and Wash
ington. Winesaps and ALTERNATE Pip
pins are the leading varieties, and a
writer in the Manufacturer Record,
Baltimore, says: "Albermarle Pipplns
command top price, Sc and 81 barrel
being received on special orders. Four
dollars is considered good price for the
Pippins when bought on the tree. Vine
saps bring a good price, the chest aver
aging IS and So. so barrel" The sta
tistics given of the yield, and the result
tant profit to the growers, are surprising,
but the writer just quoted says further:
s'The fortunes that have been made here
have called fer az expenditure OF all the
brains and all the energy that could be
commanded. They represent up-to-date
methods of spraying and fertilizing, COM
bined with an unceasing watchfulness.
Personal supervision is absolutely re-
CURED. And as to spraying: "Most OF
the best orchards now are sprayed three,
four or more times year; IN the winter
with mixture of lead arsenic, sulphur
and lime; later in the spring with the
Bordeaux mixture, then again IN July
and perhaps in September. This spray
ing not only destroys the various pests
h., fro ht1f
makes it more hardy and vigorous, and
results in better grade of fruit than
was ever produced when spraying was
unknown" These are facts that should
be presented to our local orchardists.
We claim that the Maine apple, the New
England apple, is superior in flavor and
in keeping qualities to apples grown
elsewhere, and that the same care IN
their cultivation and packing that have
given the western and southern apples
their prestige and fancy price will estab-
lish their supremacy in the markets.
Occasionally, from one side OF the
boundary or the other, some one has
arisen to propose the annexation OF Can
ada to this country, and we think that
more than once in the past the claim has
been put forth that Maine should proper
" belong to Canada. Last week a Char
lottetown, P E. l., daily, The Guardian,
declared: ut is high time that the states
men of Canada gave serious considera-
tion to the possibility, to use no stronger
term, of admitting the adjoining State
of Maine into the Dominion. " There is no
doubt that Canada needs Maine in her
transportation business, and it is some
satisfaction to know that Canada does
not propose to take The Pine Tree
State by force. ''Any movement in
the direction of union must come
from them and with Uncle Sans con-
sent" says the Guardian. In other
words. when we knock for admittance
we are to be admitted. The latch string
is on the outside. AS an inducement for
Maine to change her allegiance we are
told that the status of our citizenship
would at once be greatly elevated and
enlarged" and,
Again, instead of an insignificant
representation of two senators and
four congressman at Washington, the
province of Maine would be assured at
least ten senators and % representatives
in the house of commons at Ottawa,
while still retaining her local legislature
and full powers of local self-government
as at present.
This latter consideration should appeal
10 the Maine Democrats, asst here are not
at present Offices enough to satisfy their
hunger for official positions after so long
a period Of fasting.
The conference at Ottawa between the
representatives of the United States and
Canada on the subject of trade relations,
which began November 9Th, terminated
November 10th. The discussion is SAID
to have been of the most frank and
friendly nature and while no conclusion
was reached the ground was cleared for
"a further conference, which will be held
in Washington probably early in January.