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THE CANAHTAN HORTTC U LTTT T? T S T 



April, i<ii I 



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appearance, and it protects them by furnishing rigid, 



' effective resistance against marauding animals, etc. 



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Strawberry Plants 



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PRIZE DAHLIA ROOTS 



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'^Z and 24 cents respectively. The service 

 was used to Kood advantage because the 

 shipper or shippers did the handling, re- 

 ceived the same despatch, and saved 28 

 and 26 cents a 100 fbs. respectively on their 

 shipments. 



Where similar conditions exist, if ship- 

 pers would reix)rt to the committee or my- 

 self, it would receive attention. 



These are some of the matters which re- 

 ceived the attention of the Transportation 

 Committee and myself during the past year. 

 The concessions granted have been made 

 possible by your assistance in furnishing 

 records, and just here may I express the 

 necessity of keeping the records asked tor 

 from time to time by circular. The power 

 under which your committee can work suc- 

 cessfully is in your hands. We must have 

 these facts well substantiated ; it only re- 

 mains, then, for you to make this keeping 

 of records one of the first things attended 

 to on each shipment. 1 want to assure you 

 that railway companies are beginning now 

 to realize that the Ontario Fruit Growers 

 .Association is a body alive to their rights, 

 and can substantiate a request with some- 

 thins: behind it. Evidence which you snip- 

 pers can produce will demand a hearing at 

 any time, and 1 sincerely hope if this work 

 continues your committee will have the co- 

 operation of every shipper in the province. 



The Brown Tail Moth 



In an open letter published in some of the 

 Nova Scotia papers. Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, 

 Dominion entomologist, deals with the 

 Brown Tail Moth infestation in that prov- 

 ince in part as follows : 



The serious character of this insect as a 

 pest of fruit and shade trees, and as cause 

 of physical discomfort and possible illness 

 owing to the poisonous nature of the hairs 

 of the caterpillar, needs no emphasizing, 

 as most of our readers will be acquainted 

 with the experiences of the New England 

 States in regard to this insect and the Gipsy 

 Moth. 



The Dominion and Provincial Depart- 

 ments of .Agriculture are making every pos- 

 sible effort to keep the insect in check by 

 collecting the winter webs or nests on the 

 trees, each of which webs contains on the 

 average about two hundred and fifty young 

 caterpillars. On this work a body of ten in- 

 spectors employed by the Dominion and 

 Provincial Governments, is engaged, and 

 they are covering the whole of the infested 

 territory. Owing to an enormous tiight of 

 moths which were blown across the Bay of 

 Fundy from Maine in July, 1913, the infes- 

 tation has been very greatly increased. 

 With the annual increase of the infestation 

 in Maine we may expect a recurrence of 

 such a re-infestation by wind-carried female 

 moths in the future, and it is therefore more 

 than ever necessary to call the attention of 

 the owners of orchards and trees to the 

 requirements of the law in this regard. 



The conditions in Nova Scotia are such 

 as to demand the strict observance of the 

 law. While the respective governments are 

 leaving no stone unturned, the duties of 

 their officers are to inspect, and the fact 

 that they are collecting the webs on infested 

 premises does not relieve the owners of 

 such premises of the necessity of conform- 

 ing with the regulations, and taking steps 

 to eradicate the Browntail Moth when the 

 same occurs in their premises. 



Orders have been issued to the inspec- 

 tors to instruct the owners of properties on 

 which the Browntail Moth has been found in 

 anv abundance to spray their trees thor- 



