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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



March, 191 1 



tions. reconsider the clauses referring to 

 the interchange of fresh fruits and vege- 

 tables and that you may then bo enabled 

 to place our industry on a footing com- 

 mensurate with its great importance tc the 

 development of this country. 



Mr. W. H. Bunting, of St. Catharines, 

 one of the largest fruit growers of the Nia- 

 gara district, followed Mr. Johnson in an 

 address, in which he shewed the import- 

 ance of the tender fruit and vegetable in- 

 terests in Ontario, by relating that there 

 were two hundred thousand acres of.: land 

 devoted to this purpose, at least fifty thou- 

 sand persons were engaged in the business, 

 and fortv millions of capital were invested 

 in the business. Under the proposed tar- 

 iff agreement, he believed that this great 

 industry would be paralvzed without great- 

 ly benefiting the Canadian consumer, for 

 instead of enjoying a regular and rapidly 

 increasing supply of Canadian fruits and 

 vegetables produced in his own country, 

 he will be to a great extent dependent on 

 the over production of Southern centres, 

 which cannot be counted upon for a regu- 

 lar supplv. 



Mr. Thos. Delworth, Westcn, secretary 

 of the Ontario Vegetable Growers' Associa- 

 tion, showed what a serious handicap 

 would be placed upon the eaj-ly vegetable 

 growers, for while they had been placed 

 upon an equality with the United Spates 

 as regards tariff on vegetables they would 

 still have to pay a heavy duty on ooal, 

 glass, greenhouse construction material, 

 boilers, and supplies. Mr. J. McEvcy, of 

 Montreal, upheld the claims of the Quebec 

 VeeetaWe Growers, while other speakers 

 were A. W. Peart, Burlington, E. D. 

 Smith, Winona, and Thos. Row'ey, Leam- 

 ington. 



Sir Wilfred Laurier, in his reply, gave 



the fruit growers very little encourage- 

 ment of a favorable decision. 



He told them that they were too late 

 in coming, and reminded them of the diffi- 

 culties of legislating for a country of such 

 diverse interests. He quoted the words of 

 a number who wore with the other dele- 

 gations and who wished reciprocity in 

 fruits. Even if the United States fruit 

 was earlier, he believed that serious com- 

 petition was impossible, from the superi- 

 ority of the Canadian product when it did 

 come. My last word tc you, he said, is 

 that it is impossible that any tariff can in 

 the face of conflicting demands be made 

 acceptable to all, but all must be prepared 

 to make some concesions for the common 

 good. 



Prices of Fruit and Fruit Land 

 in Niagara Co., N.Y. 



H. St. Clare Fiikcr, QaecMton, Ost. 



The fruit growers of western New York 

 are progressive — and by-the-way, are ex- 

 ceedingly hospitable, and do things on a 

 large scale . They state that the markets 

 over there are always well supplied, and 

 hail with delight the proposed trade agree- 

 ment with Canada as it just gives them 

 that much lamer market for their product. 

 Our markets hav in the past been a dump- 

 ing ground for their fruits such as peaches, 

 pears, plums, etc., much to the detriment 

 of the Canadian fruit grower. 



They do things on a much larger scale 

 than we do simply because the area of 

 fruit land is very much greater. Their 

 farms are from fifty acres to five hundred 

 acres in extent, while the farms here arc 

 from ten acres to one hundred acres. First 

 cla.ss peach land can be bought over there 

 at seventy-five to one hundred and twenty- 



five dollars per acre not planted. One 

 farm I saw of ninety-five acres, on which 

 there are sixty-five acres in peaches, over 

 nine thousand trees, and the owner values 

 this farm at only two hundred dollars per 

 acre. The same farm placed in the Grimst- 

 by or Niagara districts would have soM 

 for at lea.st one thousand dollars per acre, 

 and would be worth the price, too. The 

 owner of the above mentioned farm sold 

 his entire peach crop in 1910 for two cents 

 per lb, or about thirty cents per eleven 

 quart basket while peaches here sold for 

 three cents per lb., and are worth that 

 price. 



Being a grower to some extent I know 

 what it costs tc produce peaches in this 

 country. The fruit grower in this country 

 cannot afford to sacrifice that one cent a 

 |x>und on peaches, which he will be forced 

 to do if the preisent duty is eliminated. 

 Plums scld over there in 1910 at an aver- 

 age of one cent a lb., over here at two 

 cents a pound. Bartlett pears at two 

 cents, over here at two and a half to three 

 cents a lb. ; cherries three and a half to 

 four cents, over here at five to six cents 

 a lb., and sc on. One prominent grower 

 voluntarily stated that the early vege- 

 tables from the south always glut their 

 markets. If the iiresent duty on vegetables 

 is eliminated the same state of affairs 

 must obtain hero. The producer in this 

 country must live as well as the consumer, 

 and when both are prosperous why dis- 

 turb them? 



Just a word about apples. One promi- 

 nent commission man in the city of Tor- 

 onto bought about twelve hundred barrels 

 of apples from one grower in Niagara 

 County, Western N.Y., at $2..50 per bbl. 

 Why didn't he buy them in Ontario? He 

 bought them where he could buy them, the 

 cheapest. Our Northwest market will be 



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