August, lyir 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



195 



Demonstration Orchards in Quebec 



G. A. Gigault, Quebec, Deputy Minister of Agriculture 



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TilE Minister of Agriculture for the 

 Province of Quebec has given a grant 

 of $800 to certain co-operative socie- 

 ties on tile condition that sucli money 

 shall be expended in doing orcliard work to 

 demonstrate how existing orchards may be 

 made to produce more and better fruit, and 

 show how the fruit may be marketed in the 

 best possible way. The grant cannot be 

 secured excejjt through the formation of 

 an agricultural co-operative society pro- 

 perly organized according to law. Any 

 Funds of the society, outside of the govern- 

 ment grant, may bo expended as thought 

 advisable by the society. The government 

 grant, however, can be expended only as 

 directed by a joint committee, made up of 

 three persons representing the said society, 

 three persons representing the Quebec Pomo- 

 logical Fruit Growing Society, and one per- 

 son representing the Department of Agricul- 

 ture of Quebec. It is required that all ac- 

 counts relative to the expenditure of the 

 $800 grant be countersigned by the secre- 

 tary-treasurer of the Quebec Pomological 

 Fruit Growing Society before payment is 

 made. The committee representing the Que- 

 bec Pomological Society is composed of Pro- 

 fessor W. S. Blair, Macdonald College, Rev. 

 Father Leopold, La Trappe, and Robert 

 Brodie Esq., Westmount. 



It is the duty of the joint-committee to 

 formulate a line of demonstration work as 

 thought advisable for the districts to outline 

 in detail methods of proceedings, to select 

 the orchard where the work is to be done, 

 nd appoint a capable man for carrying on 

 (he work. All travelling and other expen- 

 les incurred by the committee in connection 



with the demonstration orchard work will 

 be paid from the grant of $800. 



The work to be done will be confined U.- 

 pruning, spraying, cultivating and fertiliz- 

 ing bearing orchards, and to the packing 

 of the fruit. The work to be undertaken 

 will benefit the whole community by demon- 

 strating proper methods of carrying on the 

 above oiJerations. The work will be con- 

 fined to one or at the most two orchards in 

 a district. The intention is to do thorough 

 work in one orchard rather than spend the 

 money in doing a little in several orchards. 



METHODS OF WOhK 



It is not the intention of the committee 

 to rent an orchard or orchards for this 

 work. It is thought that orchards can be 

 secured in which to conduct the work by 

 the committee agreeing to pay all the ex- 

 penses of spraying, pruning, fertilizing, cul- 

 tivating, harvesting and marketing, the 

 owner receiving all the money obtained for 

 the fruit, and in case the returns are not 

 as great as in adjoining similar orchards, 

 the shortage will be paid by the committee 

 from the grant for demonstration orchard 

 purposes. 



The work is to be done, as far as possible, 

 by hiring men and horses and wagons, as 

 well as such implements as are necessary, 

 from the owner of the orchard. The rates 

 for labor are fixed by the commiti>ee. Pro- 

 per spraying outfits, ladders, scales, buckets, 

 measuring dishes and so forth will be se- 

 cured and paid for from the government 

 grant and remain the property of the co- 

 operative society to be used or disposed of 

 as directed by the joint-committee. 



The owner of the orchard cannot in any 



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