January. 1922. 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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I PROVINCE of QUEBEC \ 



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Pomological Society 



R. J.' M. Reid, Chateauguay Basin. 



MONG the resolutions adopted by the 



Pomological and Fruit Growing Society, 



■ at the recent annual mseting, were the 



bllowing: 



"Resolved, that the thanks of our society 



re due to the Hon. Mr. Caron, for the 



ery kindly and sympathetic aid which he 



^as always shown to the elTorts of our 



ociety in its striving for ths best in fruit 



Culture for ouf province, and more espe- 



dally at this time for the financial aid given 



lie society, which made it possible to have 



|ur province represented at one of the great- 



Bt exhibitions of fruit that has ever been 



aged, and we desire to include the name of 



'^Mr. J. H. Lavoie in this resolution of 



'hanks for his part in securing the grant 



ur this purpose." 



Federation of Societies. 



"Resolved, that this society urge the 

 necessity and importance of establishing 

 I federation of all horticultural and allied 

 societies into a provincial society, the 

 central organization of which will be the 

 Tomological and Fruit Growing Society of 

 the Province of Quebec, whose technical 

 members are looking to tha improvement 

 of general horticulture, induding fruit grow- 

 iig, vegetable growing, floriculture, tobacco 

 rowing, etc. — the aims of the provincial 

 ociety to be: first, to gather together 

 .nowledge concerning these subjects 

 hrough its members and then to distribute 

 the same through the local societies, and in 

 this way to get in touch with the rural com- 

 munity; second, to find out the needs and 

 otect the interests of all members inter- 

 ted in horticulture and allied subjects; 

 ird, to hold an annual provincial horticul- 

 ral affair, followed by the annual meeting 

 f the provincial society, consisting of dele- 

 gates from each of the local societies; and 

 that a committee be appointed to communi- 

 cate with all other horticultural and allied 

 tiKjoties with these objects fti view." 



Orchard Conditions In 1921. 



In the course of his address as secretary, 

 Peter Reid, Chateauguay Basin, said: "I 

 have gone over the reports of our directors 

 for 1921, and find that, aside from trees 

 lying out as a result of freezing of 1917-18, 

 Uierc was no winter injury and only slight 



Ipring injury in one or two sections of plums 

 nd strawberries. Not a great deal of plant- 

 iig has been done this year of apple trees 

 side from those which were planted to re- 

 lace dead ones, but districts 2, 4 and 9 re- 

 ort plantings up to 5,000 trees. Most of 

 he sections report large planting of straw- 

 berries and raspberries, district 4 running 

 IS high as 250,000 plants. 



"Tent caterpillars are becoming more 

 abundant, and a word of warning lor next 

 l)ring is not amiss. Codling moth was very 

 abundant in some places, the second brood 

 were more of a pest than the spring brood. 

 I'all webworm was abundant. One district 

 ' ports railroad worm. Very little scab re- 

 ; III ted, especially on sprayed trees, but 

 t anker is on the increase in district 9. 



"Most of the reports show that the crop 

 was medium to light, with Wealthy the near- 

 est 100 per cent variety. Plums were the 

 fullest crop, with the other fruits generally 

 ranked as medium. Dudley, Okabena, Low- 

 land, Lobo, Melba and Cooper's Market 

 apples have been recommended in different 



localities. Most districts reports spraying 

 with best results. Labor was more plenti- 

 ful, but still fairly high— $2.50 to $3.50 a day, 

 sometimes with meals. Cultivation is still 

 only moderately carried on. All report 

 markets good and some report that local 

 markets not supplied by local growers, large 

 supplies being brought from Nova Scotia 

 aod Ontario." 



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BRITISH COLUMBIA | 



The building used as a packing house at 

 the Experimental Farm, Summerland, B. C, 

 was burned in December, as one of the 

 methods of wiping out the codling moth, 

 which had obtained access to one of the 

 orchards there. 



Signing 5-Year Contracts 



ANEW idea in co-operative organiza- 

 tion contracts, insofar as the Okana- 

 gan Valley is concerned, was outlined 

 at the Vernon Fruit Union meeting, Dec. 2, 

 by C. E. Barnes, the organization manager 

 of the Okanagan United Growers, reports 

 the Vernon News. Mr. Barnes told of the 

 success with which he was meeting in 

 signing growers on the five-year contract 



Rural Service Department 



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to Farmers' problems. Use 



our Rural Exchange Service. 



If you have livestock, feed or 



seed grain to sell, or wish to 



purchase, list it on our Bulletin 



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free of charge. Have you received one of 



our Farmer's Account Books ? Have you been 



supplied with a "Breeding and Feeding Chart"? 



Call in and iee us — we are interested in your welfare. 



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