September, 1916. 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



233 



Niagara District Notes 



F. G. H. Pattison, Winona, Ont. 



THE hot weather shortened the raspberry 

 crop, which did not turn out much 

 more than half of what it promised 

 to be at one time. If also has affected the 

 thimbleberry crop, both in quantity and 

 quality. Black and red currants turned out 

 excellent crops in spite of both heat and 

 drought. 



The berry situation has been made more 

 serious for the growers by the impossibility 

 of getting sufficient pickers. Around Ham- 

 ilton large quantities of small fruits are 

 grown. In former years the growers have 



depended largely on the women and chil- 

 dren of the city to pick them. Year after 

 year they have responded freely to this de- 

 mand and large plantings have been made 

 on thus account. This year it has turned 

 out quite differently. A large proportion of 

 these women, it seems, are now compara- 

 tively well off, what with money from the 

 patriotic fund, and other sources, and they 

 refuse to go out and pick berries for the 

 growers or to allow their children to go. 

 The consequence has been that hundred.^ 

 upon hundreds of crates of raspberries, and 



baskets of black and red currants have gone 

 to waste for want of pickers. A good deal 

 of ill-feeling has been caused amongst the 

 growers by this unfortunate action on the 

 part of these women, who emphatically have 

 not "done their bit," even although their 

 husbands may have. Several growers have 

 intimated fhat they would give no more to 

 the patriotic fund. One of these men said 

 to me: "When these women, as a result of 

 the money given them, refuse to 'do their 

 bit,' and allow our crops to perish for want 

 of their help, it is too much to ask us to 

 give them either money or fruit any more." 

 This may be taking rather too pronounced 

 a stand, "but the fact remains that this class 

 of women by their ill-advised selfishness 

 have caused a great loss, both to the growers 



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