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The CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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Dominion Government, and should bear the 

 .stamp of that government. 



Further resolutions re<(uasted that the 

 trade commissioners in Great Britain re- 

 port to our daily papers prices realized on 

 sales of Ontario fruits that the railway com- 

 mission be urged to force transportation 

 companies to cull out defective cars used 

 for fruit, and that it be necessary for them 

 to guarantee refrigerator cars on all fruits 

 shipped west of Port Arthur after November 

 1; that the Minister of Agriculture appoint 

 a committee of three fruit authorities in 

 each fruit-growing province to examine and 

 recommend for appointment fruit inspect- 

 ors. Finally, the association heartily com- 

 mended the action of Premier Borden in his 

 choice of Mr. Martin Burrell. a fruit grow- 

 er, as Minister of Agriculture. 



DIRECTORS ELECTED 



The election of directors for the various 

 districts resulted as follows: 1, Wm. Alford, 

 Ottawa; 2, W. C. Bevin ; 3. W. H. Demp- 

 sey, Trenton; 4, W.J.Bragg, Belleville; 5, 

 Wm. Stainton, Osliawa ; ti, L. A. Hamilton, 

 Lome Park; 7, J. W. Smith, Winona; 8, 

 A. Onslow, Niagara-on-the-Lake; 9, Jos. 

 Gilbertson, Simcoe ; 10, D. Johnson, Forest; 

 11, R. R. Sloan, Blythe; 12, F. M. Lewis, 

 Burford ; 13, Adam Brown, Owen Sound; 

 O.A.C., Professor J. W. Crow, 



The control and extermination of the rail- 

 road worm was the subject of an address by 

 Mr. W. A. Ross, now of the Dominion De- 

 partment of Agriculture, who this past sum- 

 mer conducted a si)ecial investigation into 

 the ravages of this pest in the Lake Ontario 

 district. Picking up the wind falls was the 

 simple method proposed by Mr. Ross for 

 combating the worm. Mr. W. H. Dempsey 

 and other growers had found this method 

 effective. Chickens and hogs in the orchard 

 help to keep down the pest. 



This paper is published elsewhere in this 

 issue. 



Mr. W. F. Kidd, who has had charge of 

 the demonstration orchards in the Georgian 

 Bay district, emphasized strongly the neces- 

 sity of better fertilization, cultivation, 

 pruning and spraying of the orchards in the 

 province. He gave figures showing the re- 

 sults that had been secured in their demon- 

 stration orchards to show how profitable are 

 better methods in orchard culture. 



In an excellent address on "Orchard 

 Methods that are Bringing Results," Prof. 

 J. W. Crow, of the Ontario Agricultural 

 College, told of the methods that are giving 

 Ontario fruit men the best results. Prof. 

 Crow was not enthusiastic over the results 

 that have been obtained from the use of 

 commercial fertilizers. "Many," said he, 

 "get the idea that they can feed an orchard 

 certain things and get certain results. Only 

 recently Professor Harcourt, of the Chemi- 

 cal Department, received a box of soil with 

 the request that it be analysed, and the 

 sender told just what fertilizers to apply to 

 get large crops of apples." The speaker 

 went on to show that no chemist could de- 

 termine the requirements of the soil. In 

 the average Ontario soil there is plant food 

 sufficient to feed an orchard for several 

 hundred years. Proper cultivation was the 

 method recommended for liberating this 

 plant food. It is time to study the fer- 

 tilized question when cultivation fails to 

 bring results. 



Professor Crow believes that the imports 

 ant time to cultivate the orchard is early 

 in the spring, when it is making leaf and 

 wood growth and setting the fruit. In 

 order to get on the orchard as early as pos- 

 sible, thorough underdrainage and fall plow- 

 ing were recommended. All of the fruit 

 growers present did not agree with the pro- 

 fe.ssor as to the advisabilitv of fall plow- 

 ine, and several experiences for and against 

 the practice were recited. Low-headed 



