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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



June, 191a 



Nova Scotia Growers Active 



Manning K. ElU, Scc'y., N. S. F, G. A., 

 Port Williims, N. S. 



A large and representative number of 

 fruit growera met at Kentville on April 

 12th to hear the report of the delegates to 

 the fruiit conference at Ottawa, and to 

 listen to addresses from prominent men on 

 live fruit questions of the hour. 



President S. C. Parker took the chair and 

 called on John N. Chute, of Berwick, the 

 " Father of Cooperation " in the Valley, 

 to tell of the present status of cooperation 

 work, and what development was looked for. 



Mr. Chuto took up his subject from a 

 business standpoint, and briefly reviewed 



the work and growth of the cooi)«rative 

 movement for the last five years. Ho show- 

 (xl that the question was not a local issue, 

 but a world-wide movement, in which pro- 

 ducers everywhere wore finding a way to 

 improve their condition, and place their 

 products on the market in the besst possible 

 manner. In his own company at Berwick 

 the average price for the seven leading va- 

 rieties for the last five years had been as 

 follows: No. 1, $2.64; No. 2, $1.88, and No. 

 3's something over $1.00 per barrel. Twenty- 

 five companies arc now organized in the 

 Valley. 



A central association was organized and 

 had started work the pa.st season. Nearly 

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first year, which speaks volumes for what 

 can be done when the companies arc all 

 working together. The central assooiali'jn 

 can handle the question of transportat 

 can attend to the buying of fertilizers 

 other supplies and in many other waysa- 

 the local companies. In fact, the ceii; 

 association should be to the local compauiec 

 what the local comjxanies are to the in- 

 dividual. Mr. Chute's address was worthj 

 of the careful attention it recedved. 



Dr. Cutten, president of Acadia Univer- 

 sity, 8X>oke on the benefits of a meteorologic- 

 al station to the fruit growers of the Val' 

 It was found by experiment that the t 

 perature and rainfall of the preceding vi ai 

 had a great efl'ect on the various crops of 

 the year following, and by keeping a c:!-^- 

 ful record for a term of years of the 1 

 cipitation, high and low temperature, fri' 

 winds, etc., data of great value to farii 

 and fruit-growers could hv secured. S' 

 work had been done along this line at Wolf- 

 ville, and the late government had sent some 

 instruments which had not been installed, 

 and the new directors from Toronto seemed 

 to be under the impression that the station 

 was not needed. Dr. Cutten read a letter 

 from the State Climatologist of Ohio, giving 

 an account of the work there ; and the bene- 

 fits derived. After some discussion of the 

 location of such a station in the Valley the 

 following resolution was carried: 



Whereas valuable results have Deen ob- 

 tained in other countries by ascertaining 

 and recording, for future guidance, com- 

 plete local meteorological records. 



And whereas the closer connection of 

 monthly temperature and rainfall with crop 

 production is a matter for the fullest in- 

 vestigation (aud whereas some work of this 

 nature is now being carried on at WolfvLlle). 

 Therefore, resolved that this association 

 respectfully requests and urges upon the 

 Federal Government an exiiansion of this 

 work and the equipment of a complete sta- 

 tion from which daily weather forecasts may 

 be furnished to farmers and fruit-growers 

 by mail, telephone, telegraph, signals, or 

 otherwise of such a nature as to warn them 

 of injurious frosts or high winds during the 

 growing season, or i)robable temperatures 

 to be met with by fruit in transit during 

 winter. 



Captain Allen, the delegate from the 

 United Fruit Companies to the Ottawa Con- 

 ference, gave an account of the work in the 

 conference upon the standard barrel ques- 

 tion. "If," he said, "Canada cannot ac- 

 cept one size barrel, would it not be better 

 to adopt two standards, the 96-qrt barrel 

 as used in Nova Scotia and the .112-qrt. 

 barrel as used in Ontario?" 



Geo. H. Vroom, the Dominion Fruit In- 

 spector, read the law which calls for a mini- 

 mum barrel as follows : 26 1-4 inches inside 

 measure between heads. Diameter of head, 

 17 inches, diameter of bilge 181-2 inches, 

 holding as nearly as possible 96 quarts. 



Mr. Vroom then exhibited three sample 

 barrels of standard, but varying in bilge 

 as follows: No. 1, 181-2 inches; No. 2, 19 

 inches; No. 3, 191-2 inches. They held 97, 

 99 and 101 quarts respectively. No. 1 was 

 the right size for the present minimum bar- 

 rel, but in practice it was found not strong 

 enough, because of the small bilge. He 

 suggested a head diameter of 16 3-4 inches 

 and a bUge of 18 1-2 inches as a better bar- 

 rel. 



The secretary read some correspondent* 

 from Mr. McNeill, Chief of the Fruit Divi- 

 sion, quoting the law as to the minimum 

 barrel, and saying that this coming season 

 (Continued on page v.) 



