July, 1914 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



181 



St. Lawrence Growers will 

 Exhibit 



Editor, The Canadian Horticulturist, — Im 

 e May issue of your paper there appeared 

 1 article stating that the St. Lawrence 

 alley Fruit Growers' Association have de- 

 ded to discontinute exhibiting at the Hor- 

 rultural Exhibition unless a rule be made 

 ohibiting: Government men who act, as- 

 st, or advise as packers, from officiating 

 , judges. 



I wish to correct the misunderstanding 

 at the article in question may cause. 

 hile a few of the members warmly dis- 

 issed the injustice of the above practice, 

 id Kvre supported by the meeting, yet 

 ere was no mention made of discontinu- 

 g exhibiting at the fair for that reason, 

 he majority of the members have con- 

 ience enough in the judges appointed, to 

 el that the fruit would be judged fairly 

 id that the final placing of awards would 

 • done conscientiously, and they feel that 

 is was the case in this instance. The 

 lint that they did raise, as was mentioned 

 the article, was the chance of a judge 

 10 knew all the fruit in the boxes of one 

 ihibit and not in that of another being 

 imewhat biased in his final sizing up of 

 le two exhibits and placing the awards. 

 '.4gain, we did not feel that the Baldwin 

 iple was rated as a better apple than the 

 ;Intosh, simply because it was placed 

 St, because we know that no judge of 

 lit would consider it such, other things 

 ling equal. We take it that it was chiefly 

 (■ fault of our pack which had gone some- 

 iat slack with the long shipment that 

 jised us to lose some points and intend 

 I make every effort to overcome that diflfi- 

 ;ty when exhibiting again. The St. Law- 

 <ice Valley Fruit Growers' .Association ap- 



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preciates the encouragement and assist- 

 ance that was given them by the executive 

 of the Horticultural Exhibitioai and intend 

 to give the exhibition every support in fut- 

 ui-'e years. — E. P. Bradt, Secy., St. Law- 

 rence Valley F.G.A. 



Cooperative Fruit Experiments 



An interesting line of experimental 

 work has been commenced this spring by 

 Prof. Crow's department of the O.A.C. 

 This work is being undertaken at the re- 

 quest of the Board of Control of the On- 

 tario Experiment Stations. It is coopera- 

 tive in its nature in that the experiments 

 are to be conducted m the orchards of men 

 who have the facilities to offer and are 

 interested in the work. The actual experi- 

 ments are under the charge of G. J. Cul- 

 ham, B.S.A., who last year did orchard 

 survey work in Northern Ontario. The 

 expenses will be covered by a portion of 

 the Dominion agricultural grant. 



A wide range of experiments will be 

 conducted and as much work covered as 

 it will be possible to keep in touch with. 

 The intention is to confine the experiments 

 mostly to apples and the hardier fruits. 

 A start has been made in Oshawa. Mr. 

 Culham this spring tcp grafted some Ben 

 Davis with Mcintosh, Snow and Spy. All 

 three varieties are grafted on every tree. 

 It is hoped in this way to ascertain which 

 of these varieties will do best for top 

 working the Ben Davis. Other work con- 

 templated is the study of the effect of 

 various kinds and amounts of fertilizers, 

 summer pruning for fruit buds, winter 

 injury and methods of prevention, budding 

 and grafting, and the question of unpro- 

 ductiveness in fruit trees, A special study 



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