CANADA'S ORCHARD AREAS
"NON-BEARING" APPPLE TREES. Reports from the 1931 census just issued by the Dominiion Bureau of Statistics (Canada) give the orchard acreage an Canada is 279,472 acres, a re- | duction of 5.9 per cent. from the 1921 acreage. The relative acreage by proI vinces is well .given by the ' f ollowing | percentages: — j Nova Scotia in the 10 years has in- ! creased her percentage from 13.6 to 1 16.8; Quebec from 9.5 to 11.4; British , Columbia from 12.5 to 17.5. The Ontario proportion from 12.5- to 17.5 tario proportion has decreased from 1 60:8 to" 50.1. At the 1901 census Onta. | rio had three-quarters of 'the orchard j acreage in Canada, she now has only one-half. [ The number of "non-bearing" apple 1 tre'es during the last 10 years has been reduced 17.5 per cent. in Canada and the number of "bearing" trees 12.6 per cent. In British Columbia there has been a shift to other tree fruits and a decided reduction in the number of apple trees. Nova Scotia is tbe only large apple production province which has definittely inereased her apple or-
chard acreage.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/RMPOST19330718.2.12
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 586, 18 July 1933, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
187CANADA'S ORCHARD AREAS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 586, 18 July 1933, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
NZME is the copyright owner for the Rotorua Morning Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in