THE COBOURG MEETING. 



II 



Fig. 22 io. Major H. J. Snelgrove, \ 



Governor of the County Gaol, who was ected one of our 

 Directors for 902 at the Cobourg meeting. 



Minister of Agriculture, to issue a series of 

 practical bulletins on the first principles of 

 fruit growing. Attention was directed to 

 the series of articles entitled ** First Lessons 

 in Fruit Growing " by Prof. Hutt of the 

 O. A. C. Guelph, which are now to appear 

 in the Canadian Horticulturist. 



If this publication could be more widely 

 distributed among our farmers it would 

 itself constitute an excellent medium for 

 such information. 



FREIGHTS ON FRUITS. 



The Transportation Committee brought 

 in a report, which, while thanking the com- 

 panies for the small concessions made to 

 fruit growers, regretted that there was still 

 much reason for complaint, because rates on 

 fruit were so much higher than on other 



commodities, thereby crippling the fruit 

 industry and which stated that while 

 requests had been once more pre- 

 sented to the railways for concessions which 

 were considered just and reasonable, they 

 had been again refused. It was recom- 

 mended that the matter be followed up still 

 further, and in the meantime every effort be 

 made to gain information and strengthen 

 the position of the committee, so that suf- 

 ficient pressure might be brought to bear 

 to secure relief from unjust discrimination 

 against the fruit trade. 



Also requesting the Government to con- 

 tinue the valuable assistance already ren- 

 dered in connection with the export trade in 

 fruit. 



This report was practically laid on the table 

 and superseded by the following ; 



That various committees and deputations from 

 this Association and from other bodies of fruit 

 growers have from time to time laid before the 

 Railway authorities the injustice of the freight 

 rates and regulations affecting the transportation 

 of fruit ; that the railway authorities have invar- 

 iably received such deputations with the gfreatest 

 courtesy and have quite as invariably refused to 

 gfrant any but the most meager concessions ; that 

 your committee see no reason to hope that any 

 rates less than "what the traffic can bear" will 

 be voluntarily conceded by the railways ; that the 

 Dominion Parliament is the only authority in the 

 country with the power necessary to compel trans- 

 portation companies to do justice to the public ; 



Fig. 



Heathcote." 



Property of Mr. W. F. Ladd, of Galveston, Texas; at 



present occupied by Mrs. (Gen.) Grant, 



of New York City. 



