April, 1922 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



105 



cliased at a straight price per barrel with 

 no specification as to the number of barrels 

 of each grade and the prices paid ranged 

 from $3.25 to 13.75 for fall varieties, to $4.25 

 for Golden Russets and as high as $4.75 and 

 $5.00 for orchards with a high perce'fatage of 

 Fameuse and Mcintosh. In this way the 

 best orchards sold early in the season, with- 

 out risk to the owners at prices equal to the 

 preceding year's returns on consignment and 

 naturally these growers are very much 

 pleased with such returns. 



MacLennan for Guelph 



PRESIDENT Reynolds, of the O. A. C, 

 announced on April 10 that A. H. Mac- 

 Lennan, B.S.A., who for the past three 

 or four years has been vegetable specialist 

 and potato specialist in Ontario Department 

 cf Agriculture, has been appointed to the 

 position of professor of horticulture to suc- 

 ceed Prof. J. W. Crow. 



Prof. MacLennan is a native of Bruce 

 County, but has resided in both Halton and 

 Lambton Counties. He is a graduate of the 

 O. A. C. of the class of 1908, and immedi- 

 ately following his graduation went to 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., where he was employ- 

 ed in the selling department of the Fuller 

 and Rice Lumber Co., remaining there for 

 a year, and then returned to the college 

 as a demonstrator in horticulture and later 

 as lecturer. He remained there until 1914, 

 when he went to Macdonald College, Que- 

 bec, where he was In the horticultural de- 

 partment, and while there he spent two 

 summers lecturing at the agricultural school 

 at Amher.st, Mass. In 1916 he accepted a 

 position at the Heinz Co. of PUtsburg, and 

 was placed in charge of their horticultural 

 work, and travelled all over the United 

 -States. He then came back to the O. A. C. 

 as lecturer in horticulture, and in 1918 was 

 appointed as vegetable specialist In the 

 Ontario Department of Agriculture, and 

 was later appointed potato expert. 



[Note.— Page 90, Fruit Edition, with com- 

 ments on successor to Prof. Crow, was 

 printed before this announcement was 

 made.— Editor.] 



Premier Drury recently promised a depu- 

 tation representing the Meadowbrook Farm 

 Commission that the Government would 

 make a grant of $60,000 toward a farm, 

 which the commission is developing near St. 

 Catharines for returned soldiers. The Gov- 

 ernment will take a first mortgage on it as 

 security. The purchase of the farm has al- 

 ready been arranged for. It contains 300 

 acres In the best section of the fruit belt, 

 and Is expected to accommodate between 

 200 and 300, ex-soldiers, being particularly 

 for those so severely wounded that they 

 cannot undertake continuous employment. 



The agricultural committee of the legis- 

 lature recently endorsed Hon. Manning 

 Doherty's bill to permit the province to con- 

 tribute 25 per cent, toward the cost of 

 establishing co-operative warehouses for 

 the grading and packing of fruit. Under 

 the plan the maximum grant In any case is 

 placed at $1,500, and associations of grow- 

 ers containing at least 10 members owning 

 100 acres of fruit land are eligible. 



A branch of the Niagara District Grape 

 Growers' Association was organized at Vine- 

 mount last month, when a large representa- 

 tion of the grape growers on the mountain. 

 In Saltfleet, was present. Wesley Brand 

 was elected president and James Bertram, 

 secretary. After the meeting, all those pres- 

 ent signed contracts with the Niagara 

 District Grape Growers, Ltd., for the dis- 

 position of the 1922 crop. 



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