NO FA SCOTIA FRUIT GROWERS. 



Amid the discouragement occasioned 

 by the unremunerativc price obtained 

 for that portion of our crop already mar- 

 keted, we have the cheering prospect of 

 better prices for the large quantity of 

 superior fruit still on hand, and with a 

 good market in February and March, we 

 may yet make a paying average on the 

 year's fruit crop. 



Dr. Chipman, of Grand Pre, spoke in 

 favor of the grant for the foundation and 



such a station, and moved the following 

 resolution : 



Whereas thia Association has failed to ob- 

 tain annual irrant of .*J,OllO for establishment 

 and snpport of an experimental fruit station 

 from both the late and present government, 

 let it be resolved that this Association invite 

 the cooperation of the Ontario F. (i. A. and 

 all agricultural and horticultural societies in 

 Canada, to urge the federal government to 

 adopt a more just and liberal policy toward 

 farmers and fruit growers by establishing the 

 fruit station reijuested. 



KiG. 107— — GRIM.SBY ViLI.AfJK PrOI'EK — .SEEN FROM Til K^Mor .\TAIN. 



support ot experimental fruit stations. 

 In agriculture, as in the learned profes- 

 sions, education was necessary, and he 

 thought that the horticultural school at 

 Wolfville should be supplemented by 



This was seconded by Henry Shaw, of 

 Berwick. Dr. Reid, of Halifax, spoke 

 in favor, saying that a farmer needed a 

 more liberal education than any other 

 profession. The resolution was carried. 



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