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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



the petition of fifteen or more ratepayers 

 shall, by by-law, appoint at least one 

 inspector to enforce the provisions of this 

 Act in the municipality, and fix the amount 

 of remuneration, fees or charges he shall 

 receive for the performance of his duties. 

 All such appointments, as well as such 

 remuneration, fees or charges shall be 

 subject to, and be only operative on the 

 written approval of the Minister, communi- 

 cated by him to the clerk of the municipality. 



(3) Every inspector appointed by any by- 

 law passed under subsection 2 of this section 

 is empowered to act as inspector under the 

 Yellows and Black Knot Act and under the 

 Noxious Insects Act in all respects as if he had 

 been appointed an inspector under the last 

 mentioned Acts by by-laws specially passed 

 for that purpose. 



{4) All such inspectors appointed shall, be 

 subject to and observe the regulations and 

 directions of the Minister, and shall be subject 

 and subordinate to the inspector appointed 

 by the Minister, and in case of any neglect 

 of duty, such inspector shall be subject to 

 the penalties prescribed by this Act. 



(5) The council of the city, town, town- 

 ship or incorporated village shall pay the 

 remuneration, fees or charges of such in- 

 spectors, and shall be entitled to receive 

 from the Department of Agriculture one-half 

 of the amount so paid upon furnishing the 

 department with statements of the sums so 

 paid, certified to by the Inspector appointed 

 by the Minister. 



Inspectors are to be appointed in Saltfleet, 

 Grimsby, St. Catharines and Grantham. 

 At each of these places, after the Fruit 

 Institute, a petition was got up and signed 

 by fifteen fruit growers who were rate 

 -payers, petitioning the Municipal Council 

 for the appointment of an inspector, who 

 should enforce the provisions of the Act, 

 and thus save the section from devastation 

 by scale. 



T A Cold Storage Steamer has been promised 

 .the, Prince Edward Island Association for 

 carrying^ their fruits to the old country 

 markets ; also the Federal Government has 

 promised to Send an ihstructor in fruit .cul- 

 ture, who will visit the whole province, and 

 give advice and information on the most ap- 



proved methods. The president, the Rev. 

 Father Burke, writes( a most ettcburaging let- 

 ter, and hopes that the provincial organisa- 

 tions may work together so heartily as to attain 

 the two important objects just now in view, 

 viz. , (i) the appointment of a Railway Com- 

 mission, to whom we may appeal for justice 

 in the freight rates for fruit ; and (2) a more 

 perfect system of transportation of tender 

 fruits, both on land and sea. 



The Fruit Marks Act, though not yet 

 perfect, is on the whole working out the 

 interests of the fruit grower. There is little 

 encouragement for one man out of ten to 

 put up his apples honestly, when the other 

 nine face their packages and hide rubbish in 

 the middle of them. The work of the 

 inspectors is bringing every man into a uni- 

 form method, and will soon establish confi- 

 dence in Canadian apples as the best packed 

 and the best graded of those from any 

 country, because Canada is the first to adopt 

 such an Act. This will gradually cause the 

 the value of our apples to advance in the 

 foreign markdts, and all our apple growers 

 will share in the benefit. 



It was a good provision that all closed 

 packages of apples should be marked with 

 the correct name of the variety, for this will 

 obviate one of the evils, which unfortunately 

 prevails in the large markets, of re-marking 

 packages of fruit with the name of some 

 popular variety. Many varieties of yellow 

 fleshed peaches are sold as Crawfords; 

 and many kinds of red apples are sold 

 as Spys because they are known and 

 wanted in the markets. In New York city, 

 for example, the Western Ben Davis is 

 often sold for New York state Northern 

 Spy ; arid the Missouri Pippin for Vermont 

 Spitzenburg. This, of course, is a fraud 

 upon the buyer arid tends ' to discredit the 

 value of those excellent varieties, and in the 

 end to bring general Joss upon sipple grow- 

 ers as well as' disappointrnent upon the 

 purchasers. 



