March, 1909 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



67 



Tariff Matters— Fumigation 



M. G. Bruner, Olinda, Ont. 



At a meeting of the South Essex (Ont.) 

 -uit Growers' Association, the following 

 .solution was passed: "Kesolved that in 

 \ie opinion of this Association it would be 

 the interest of the fruit growers the pro- 

 ^ ice over to have the Dominion Govern- 

 ttent remove the present duty that is im- 

 Dsed on the commercially prepared lime 

 ad sulphur solution, and on the arsenate 

 lead paste, which are now being prepared 

 By different chemical companies in the 

 7nited States, but as yet are not manufac- 

 ared in Canada. And also resolved that 

 ie fumigation stations are no longer of 

 ny benefit, but rather an injury to trees 

 ,eing imported from the neighboring states, 

 by the rough or careless handling the trees 

 ^ceive while passing through some of these 

 stations; therefore, we ask the Government 

 to remove the same, as there is a law in 

 each and every state which compels every 

 nurseryman to fumigate their trees before 

 they leave the nursery." These same re- 

 solutions were passed by the Leamington 

 Fruit Growers' Association at their last 

 regular meeting. 



I have had trees killed by the handling 

 they received at the Windsor station in the 

 spring of 1907. The trees had been undone 

 to be fumigated and not properly re-packed. 

 When they reached me the roots were as 

 dry as straw. 



The Essex county council appropriates $25 

 each year to our association for the purpose 

 of getting new fruits for the members to 

 test as to the adaptability of our county to 

 the growing of such new fruit trees or 

 plants. As president of the association for 

 the present year, I called for a report on the 

 trees and plants at a meeting in January, 

 and found that on an average about three- 



fourths of the trees died. The cause was 

 in almost every case laid to the fumigation; 

 hence the above resolution. 



Vegetable Growers Dine 



The members of the Toronto branch of the 

 Ontario Vegetable Growers' Association held 

 a well attended and successful banquet in 

 Toronto, February 9th. The principal speak- 

 ers were Hon. J. S. Duff, Minister of Agri- 

 culture; Mr. J. Lockie Wilson, Secretary 

 of the Ontario Association; Mr. Thos. Dei- 

 worth, of Weston; H. B. Cowan of The 

 Canadian Horticulturist; Mr. Jos. Rush, 

 Humber Bay; Mr. R. J. Bushel, of Kings- 

 ton, and Mr. A. McMeans, of the Ontario 

 Agricultural College. 



The president of the provincial associa- 

 tion, Mr. Thomas Delworth, of Weston, an- 

 nounced that the Ontario association, this 

 year, purposes conducting experiments in 

 the growing of onion seed, to find which 

 seed gives the best results in Ontario. Seed 

 from France and California will be tested 

 as well as Ontario grown seed. 



Mr. J. Rush announced that the vege- 

 table growers around Toronto during the 

 past year, have erected greenhouses and 

 effected other improvements in their 

 grounds and buildings amounting to about 

 $500,000. He assured the young vegetable 

 growers present that if they would devote 

 their attention to growing the best possible 

 vegetables without thinking ot the money 

 return, they would find that the money 

 would come of itself. 



As a result of a trip he had had to six 

 of the leading vegetable growing states in 

 the American union, Mr. A. McMeans, of 

 Guelph, announced that more is being done 

 in Ontario for the advancement of the vege- 

 table interests than in any other state oi 

 province on the continent. 



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