3. Because cattle could be left to fatten up on their own, and they could be walked to market.
4. McDougall Ranch in Kelowna and Coldstream Ranch in Vernon
5. Lack of water, poor weather, and bothersome bugs.
6. McIntosh
7. Because you can plant more per acre, and therefore, generally get more apples per acre; and they are easier to prune, spray and pick.
8. A girette is a machine developed by Ted Thornton of Oliver in 1956, which is used for picking and pruning.

Comprehension – Short Answer Questions B

1. 7 – 8 feet
2. Kelowna
3. Just outside Vernon
4. BC Fruit Packers Cooperative
5. SS Sicamous
6. $1.00
7. 100 full-sized trees
8. Frequent cloud cover
9. 1949 – 50

Comprehension – Longer Questions

1. In the SIR program, scientists irradiate codling moths to make them infertile. The moths are then released to breed with other moths. But the infertile moths cannot reproduce, so there is no offspring, and the number of moths decrease.

2. The packing schools were set up because there were so many greenhorns in the orchard business. Students were taught how to grade apples for size and colour and how to pack the fruit into boxes so that the fruit would not bruise during transport.

3. Some of the technological changes include post-diggers, gas-powered tractors, mechanized sprayers, girettes, and many packing house changes.