OUR ASSOCIATION AND THE FALL FAIRS, 



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and if it is necessary to have a standard size 

 .for the barrel, and the size of the basket is 

 fixed by statute, then we must have some de- 

 finite standard for the box as well. They 

 must be of different sizes like the baskets, so 



as to have a small package for very choice 

 fruit for export, but buyers will want to 

 know when they buy a box of fruit what it 

 should contain. — Farmers' Advocate. 



OUR ASSOCIATION AND THE FALL FAIRS 



IN his published address Mr. G. C. Creel- 

 man, the superintendent, made the fol- 

 lowing remarks touching on the way In 

 which out work may help to make the fall 

 fairs of our province a greater success than 

 they have been hitherto : 



I believe that the Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion can materially assist the fairs. We are 

 now making arrangements whereby there 

 will be an active local Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciation in every part oi the province. The 

 Ontario Fruit Growers' Association has done 

 splendid work up to this time, but now the 

 time has arrived when they must extend their 

 yearly meetings into a series of meetings, in 

 which the individual farmers may take part. 

 The local Fruit Growers' Association should 

 be asked to consult with the Fair board, and 

 to revise the prize list so far as fruit is con- 

 cerned. 



First: Then we can go a step further 

 and secure the co-operation of the Fruit Ex- 

 periment Stations. If these stations are any 

 good at all, they must have demonstrated to 

 a large extent at least what is best in the way 

 of fruit for the localities in which they are 

 located. These stations are receiving gov- 

 ernment money, and their object is to assist 

 those interested in horticultural matters. 

 Are you making enough use of them ? Are 



you asking the superintendent of the station 

 to co-operate with your board? Take the 

 information he has to give and makie use of 

 it. If he will not give it,* I as secretary of 

 the Fruit Growers' Association will under- 

 take to see that he does give it. But I have 

 no hesitation in saying that these men are 

 anxious to help the farmers in their vicinity. 

 Each secretary should write to the director 

 of the Fruit Experiment Station for his dis- 

 trict and ask him what varieties he would 

 recommend for the prize list, or what varie- 

 ties should be cut out. 



Second: The local horticultural societies 

 ought also to assist materially. Give them 

 a place in your main building for the exhi- 

 bition of hardy varieties of plants, shrubs 

 and flowers. They ought to be asked to 

 have their officers there at certain hours dur- 

 ing the fair, to explain how these plants and 

 flowers have been produced, the mode of 

 growing them, etc. An opportunity, should 

 be given to ask how to grow this or that. 

 To-day people are discouraged by seeing ex- 

 hibits so far superior to their own pla^its and 

 flowers, because they do not know how to 

 produce them. Let us take the other asso- 

 ciations into our confidence; they are only 

 waiting to be asked. 



