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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



merchants and buyers come to buy. Mr. 

 A. E. Sherrington, of Walkerton, explained 

 how the co-operative system had worked in 

 Bruce count}, where it is being given a trial. 

 In the handling of aples it had been a great 

 benefit to the fruit growers. Many other 

 members discussed the matter, all being 

 convinced of the value of such a plan. 



Prof. L. R. Taft, of the Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Michigan, gave an address upon 

 peach-growing in Michigan. The people 

 of Michigan had found the most profitable 

 peach for their orchards and markets to be 

 the Alberta. The FitzGerald and others 

 which had good records in Canada had not 

 done well in Michigan. 



THE GOVERNMENT EXPERT. 



Prof. W. T. Macoun, horticulturist at the 

 Ottawa Experimental Farm, spoke upon 

 hardy fruits for northern districts. From 

 the present northern limits of commercial 

 fruit growing there was a district of some 

 500 miles to James Bay. There was no 

 probable reason why apples should not be 

 grown as far north as James Bay. Sun 

 scald, root killing, .blight and mice were the 

 principal causes of failure at present in 

 northern localities. Prof. Macoun ex- 

 plained the methods by which these troubles 

 could be overcome, as found by experiments 

 at Ottawa. 



Dr. Wm. Saunders, director of the Otta- 

 wa Experimental Farm, supplemented Prof. 

 Macoun's paper with an account of the 

 work done by the experimental farm in the 

 way of testing fruit trees for use in the 

 northern parts of Canada and in the north- 

 west. 



Mr. W. A. MacKinnon, chief of the fruit 

 division of the Agricultural Department, 

 Ottawa, spoke upon power spraying. In a 

 district near Woodstock under unfavorable 

 conditions the cost of power spraying was 

 four cents per tree per application, and the 

 result was that there was great difficulty in 



finding scabs on sprayed trees. On un- 

 sprayed trees there was difficulty in finding 

 any fruit trees free from scabs. 



Mr. W. H. Owen said that the co-opera- 

 tive farmers of Catawba Island, Ohio, had 

 gone in for power spraying, and had had 

 much success. 



A vote of thanks was tendered to the 

 American fruit growers present. 

 OEFICERS ELECTED. 



The nominating committee reported the 

 officers for the coming year. Their report 

 recommended the re-election of all of the 

 officers and directors. The principal offi- 

 cers therefore are : President,W. H. Bunt- 

 ing, St. Catharines ; vice-president, A. Mc- 

 Neill, Walkerville. Mr. W. W. Cox, of 

 Collingwood, was replaced on the board of 

 directors by A. E. Sherrington, of Walker- 

 ton. 



A committee was appointed, consisting of 

 Messrs. W. H. Bunting, A. McNeill and 

 Murray Pettit, to act with kindred societies 

 in matters of mutual interest. 



JANUARY NUMBER. 



In the January number of this journal 

 much prominence will be given to topics dis- 

 cussed at the annual meeting, and altogether 

 we hope to make it especially attractive to 

 all our readers. 



An item having appeared in a Toronto 

 paper about a squash weighing 104 pounds, 

 the Goderich Star rises to remark something 

 about what can be grown in Huron county. 

 It says: "Without going so far back as 

 Mr. Wm. Warnock's champion squash at 

 the Chicago World's Fair, weighing over 

 400 pounds, last year he grew one weighing 

 322 pounds, and John S. Howrie one weigh- 

 ing 308 pounds, and this year Mr. Howrie 

 gained a Rennie prize with one of 285 

 pounds. When it comes to growing 

 squashes Goderich can beat the world." 



