A FRIEND OF ONTARIO FRUIT GROWERS. 



Fig. 1417. — C. C. James, Department Agricultdrb, 



ri LTHOUGH the name of Mr. C 

 /(\\ C. James is not as prominently 

 iiU before the public as those who 

 are in public office representing 

 political parties, he is not the less wor- 

 thy of honor, for upon him comes much 

 of the hard office work which makes 

 the Department of Agriculture so useful 

 to the interests of the farming commu- 

 nity. 



At the last meeting of the Associa- 

 tion, Mr. James was present to repre- 

 sent the Department, and get the views 

 of fruit growers regarding the San Jose 

 Scale Act. At our meeting at Orillia 



he gave a magnificent platform address 

 on " The Higher Horticulture." In 

 this address he paid a fine tribute to 

 the fruit growing community, as being 

 the upper 400 in agriculture and he em- 

 phasized the benefit to the country of 

 our Association. 



Estimating, for example, that we have 

 ten million apple trees in our Province, 

 and through the improved methods of 

 growing, packing, and marketing, 10 

 cents per tree only were added, then 

 you would have a million dollars' bene- 

 fit to the Province. " And," said Mr. 

 James, " is there any man here having 



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