The Rural Voice, 1980-12, Page 13acre. Now the number has been upped to
70, with some as high as 300. Crowding
results in problems of pruning, main-
tenance and picking.
New trees are grown from Mailing root
stock which was a British development of
35 years ago, and is still being
researched. For example, Macs on
Mailing root stock will begin to bear in
four years with a good crop in seven to
eight years. The trees are not as tall,
about 15 feet, and are of a 50 foot
diameter. Root stocks are numbered,
with 2, 26. 106 and 107 being well known.
THE McINTOSH
The McIntosh is an old (100 years)
variety and a good seller with its bright
red colour and solid fruit. But it is
difficult to grow in that if it is not picked
when ready it will overripen and fall
suddenly which causes the rush for
harvest help. It will then be good only for
juice, instead of the better paying dessert
apple.
Then Northern Spy is still king! In 1979
Spies sold to the processor for 9 cents per
pound, whereas Macs brought in 7 cents.
35 per cent of the market is Fancy Grade,
sold in supermarkets in bags or askets.
65 per cent are juicers (e.g., dfalls)
and peelers (basically a good apple, not
marked or hail -damaged but not Canada
Fancy Grade No. 1). Spies are down in
volume this year but are excellent in size.
Their average natural sugar content is 13
per cent. The Mac averages nine per cent.
Red Delicious get sweeter in storage as
the starch breaks down into glucose.
Every apple has a definite biological
character.
The Spy can be left on the tree until
late October or early November and
becomes a better apple. At press time.
(mid-October) Macs are perfect
The export market is not large. Those
shipped to the U.S.A. are mostly for
processing. Great Britain no longer buys
in quantity because it is now a member
of the European Common Market. (They
get apples from France.)
Approximately 15 years ago there was
much hail damage but a shipper found a
market in Winnipeg where buyers, who
could not afford First Grade, snapped up
the excellent quality!' though marked,
apples. There has not been the same
great hail damage sincg.
The old fashioned varieties? They have
fallen by the wayside. Cortlands are still
grown and sold, as are Melba, Quinte and
early Macs but the Duchess, Yellow
Transparent and others are gone, at least
from most stores.
It is still a source of pleasure,
especially for families with young
children to go to orchards to pick fruit
right from the tree. Or to the roadside for
right -from -the -orchard stock which is on
display.
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