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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



The Canadian Horlicullurisl 



Published by The Horticultural 

 Publishins Company", Limited 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 

 in the Dominion 



OMcial Orean of British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec 



and Prince Edward Island Fruit Gro^vers' 



Associations and of the Ontario Vec- 



etable Gro\vers' Association 



H. Bronson Cowan, Manaeing Editor 



A. B. COTTINO, B.S.A., Horticultural Editor 



W. G. Rook, Advertising Manager 



Garrett Wall, Circulation Manager 



GREAT BRITAIN 

 Pran^ Fletcher, 135 Henrietta Street, Old Trafford 

 Manchester, Eng., Advertising and Circulation Manager 



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A DOMINION FRUIT ASSOCIATION 



Why should there not be a Dominion Fruit 

 Growers' Association? There are six provincial 

 fruit growers' associations, all of which meet 

 yearly, all of which receive regular provincial 

 grants, and all of which are accomplishing much 

 valuable work. It seems as though the time 

 has come when the present organizations should 

 be crowned by the formation of an association 

 that will be representative of the fruit growers 

 of the Dominion. 



The Dominion Conference of Fruit Growers, 

 that was held in Ottawa last April, was produc- 

 tive of much good. It demonstrated that there 

 are many matters relating to fruit growing that 

 can be discussed to the best advantage only at 

 a meeting representative of the fruit growers of 

 all the provinces. Although three busy days 

 were spent at the conference, much of the work 

 had to be hurried through without suflBcient con- 

 sideration, while a number of important mat- 

 ters that were down on the program for discus- 

 sion were not reached. This serves to show 

 the necessity that exists for the holding of 

 regular meetings of the same nature. 



This need was expressed at the conference by 

 a resolution that was submitted and which fav- 

 ored the formation of a Dominion Associatioh. 

 This was one of the matters that lack of time 

 prevented being considered. The resolution in 

 question was withdrawn when Hon. Sydney 

 Fisher promised to arrange for the holding of 

 another conference within two or three years. 

 This announcement on the part of Hon. vSydney 

 Fisher was received with such enthusiasm by 

 the assembled delegates, that it leads us to ask 

 Hon. Mr. Fisher why he shoidd not carry the 

 matter further and arrange for similar confer- 

 ences at stated periods. 



One objection, expressed by Hon. Mr. Fisher, 

 to the formation of a Dominion organization, 

 representative of the fruit interests, and which 

 would meet regularly, was that his Department, 

 already, is so busy he would find it impossible to 

 give such meetings his personal attention. With 

 all due respect to Hon. Mr. Fisher, we fail to 

 see the strength of this reason. The provincial 

 fruit growers' associations manage to hold very 

 successful conventions even when they are not 

 attended by the provincial ministers of agricul- 

 ture. In fact, they sometimes hold even more 

 successful conventions in the absence of the 

 ministers of agriculture from some of the ses- 

 sions than they otherwise would, inasmuch as 

 the growers present feel more free to talk-out 

 on the matters relating to government work. 

 Later, when decisions have been reached on 

 subjects in regard to which it is felt that the 

 assistance of the government is needed, deputa- 

 tions are appointed to wait on the Minister of 

 Agriculture and discuss them with him. Why 

 could not this be done in the case of a Dominion 

 organization of fruit growers? While Hon. 

 Sydney Fisher might not be able to attend each 

 meeting, he surely could find time to meet with 

 deputations to consider the results of their con- 

 ferences. This, in the absence of a better ar- 

 rangement, would be sufficient. 



The matter of expense should not be a serious 

 difficulty. A couple of provinces give an annual 

 grant to their local fruit growers' associations of 



$1,800. We understand that the last Dominion 

 conference cost the Dominion Government about 

 only $2,000. The Dominion Government can 

 afford to be as liberal as the provincial govern- 

 ments in a matter of this kind, and, therefore, 

 should be able to make a regular grant of $3,000, 

 or $4,000 if necessary, to assist the holding of 

 such conferences regiilarly. While it, probably, 

 is not necessary that rejiresentative fruit grow- 

 ers from all the provinces should meet together 

 each year, they should meet not less often than 

 once every two years. At present, the calling 

 of these conferences is left to the discretion of 

 the Dominion Minister of Agriculture. While 

 fruit growers generally have every confidence in 

 Hon. Sydney Fisher, they would feel better 

 satisfied were there an arrangement by which 

 they would be able to meet as regularly in a 

 Dominion conference as they now meet at their 

 various provincial conventions 



NOT YET SATISFACTORY 



During the discussion in the House of Com- 

 mons of the new Cold Storage Act, introduced 

 by Hon. Sydney Fisher, it was pointed out that 

 the basis of distribution of the proposed govern- 

 ment grant was not satisfactory, owing to the 

 period of payment being extended over too long 

 an interval. The first proposal was that the 

 Government, on the completion of a cold stor- 

 age warehouse, should make a grant equal to 

 one-tenth of the cost of construction, and that 

 during the succeeding four years, four more pay- 

 ments should be made, each equal to five per 

 cent, of the cost of construction. The Minister 

 of Agriculture has expressed a willingness to 

 increase the amount of the first payment to 

 make it equal fifteen per cent, of the cost of 

 construction and to increase the amount of the 

 second payment to seven per cent. 



This change is in the right direction, but we 

 feel that it still does not go far enough to offer 

 sufficient inducement to fruit growers to co- 

 operate in the erection of warehouses for the 

 handling of their fruit. When the Cold Storage 

 Act was introduced in the House of Commons, 

 it was explained that one of the chief objects in 

 view was to prevent the enormous waste that 

 takes place each year in the marketing of the 

 apple crop. This object will not be accom- 

 plished unless the growers are encouraged to 

 erect their own warehouses. This will not re- 

 sult, to any considerable extent, unless the first 

 payment by the Government is equal to at 

 least twenty per cent, of the cost of construction. 

 We hope that the bill will be amended accord- 

 ingly. In any event we desire to congratulate 

 Hon. Sydney Fisher on having introduced this 

 measure, which, in the end, should prove of great 

 benefit to the fruit growers of the Dominion. 



Announcement was made some time ago that 

 the Provincial Secretary for Ontario proposed to 

 introduce a new Companies' Act. This Act is 

 now before the Legislature. The scope of this 

 Act is so wide as to take in and provide for the 

 incorporation of all kinds of companies, whether 

 joint stock companies or cooperative. Hitherto 

 many clieese-making and butter-making com- 

 panies have been incorporated under the Act 

 respecting cheese and butter manufacturing 

 associations and companies; and many fruit 

 companies have been incorporated under a 

 similar Act, entitled, "An Act to Provide for 

 the Incorporation of Cooperative Cold Storage 

 Associations." Incorporation under these two 

 Acts was very simple: Five or more persons 

 could sign an agreement which was filed in a 

 local registry office and the company was then 

 allowed to carry on business with certain re- 

 stricted powers. The new Act will continue the 

 incorporation of all companies organized under 

 these two Acts and will place these companies 

 on a par with joint stock companies, having 

 powers to carry on business just as joint stock 

 companies have at the present time. These 

 companies will hereafter be required to make 



