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annual reports to the Provincial Secretary, The 

 general effect, therefore, will be that tlieir status 

 will be improved. The only objection that 

 might arise would be the fear that high fees 

 would be exacted, but the Provincial Secretary's 

 department has given the assurance that in the 

 , case of such companies the annual fee will be 

 merely a nominal one and that tliere will be no 

 cause for objection along that line. The Act 

 will provide that in future all such companies 

 must be organized under this new Act, so that 

 it will no longer be possible to organize a com- 

 pany by simply signing an agreement and filing 

 the same with a local registrar. The Provincial 

 Secretary's department will provide very simple 

 forms for incorporation and will exact minimum 

 fees, so that encouragement will be given to the 

 organization of companies in connection with 

 agricultural operations. The assurance is given 

 that nothing will be done to discourage the 

 organization of such companies, but that every- 

 thing will be made plain and simple, and be 

 done at a minimum cost. The advantages of 

 this Act are that all companies doing business 

 will be on record at Government headquarters, 

 with the powers and privileges fully set forth, 

 and that it will be possible to find out at any 

 time on application to the Provincial Secretary's 

 oiBce what companies are doing business along 

 any lines. 



A live new branch of the Ontario Vegetable 

 Growers' Association has been formed at Ojibwa, 

 and more are in process of formation. An ex- 

 tensive program of work is being prepared for 

 the provincial association this year, and by the 

 end of the year it is expected that the total 

 membership will be over 700. When this asso- 

 ciation was formed, just two years ago, it was 

 feared by some that its constitution which was 

 radically different from those of the other pro- 

 vincial associations, and a good deal in the 

 nature of an experiment, would not work out 

 successfully when put to the test of time and 

 practice. After a two years' trial the association 

 is in a very satisfactory position and looking for- 

 ward to a bright future, It would seem as 

 though the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association 

 need hesitate no longer about adopting a similar 

 constitution. The step in that direction taken 

 by its members at their last convention was not 

 quite big enough. There is room for still 

 further improvement. 



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THE following is a copy of the Act to en- 

 courage the establishment of cold storage 

 warehouses for the preservation of perish- 

 able food products. Readers of The Can- 

 adian Horticulturist are invited to discuss it 

 through these columns: 



1. This Act may be cited as The Cold Storage 



2. The Governor in Council may enter into 

 contracts with any persons for the construction 

 equipment and maintenance in good and efficient 

 working order, by themselves, their successors 

 and assigns, of cold storage warehouses in Canada, 

 suitable for the preservation of the food products 

 specified in such contracts. 



3. The location plans and specification of every 

 such warehouse, its equipment, and the amount 

 to be expended thereon, shall be subject to the 

 approval of the Governor in Council. 



4. The Governor in Council may, out of any 

 moneys appropriated by Parliament for the pur- 

 pose, grant towards the construction and equip- 

 ment of any such warehouse a subsidy not 

 exceeding in the whole 30% of the amount ex- 

 pended or approved of in such construction and 

 equipment, and payable in instalments as follows: 

 Upon the warehouse being completed and cold 

 storage at suitable temperatures being provided 

 tlierein, all to the satisfaction of the Minister of 



The Cold Storag'e Act 



Agriculture, a sum not exceeding 15% of the 

 amount so expended, and at the end of the first 

 year thereafter, 7% of the said amount, at the 

 end of the second year thereafter 4% of the said 

 amount and at the end of the two succeed.^ 

 years A% of the said amount, provided the ware- 

 house is maintained and operated to the satisfac- 

 tion of the Minister of Agriculture. 



5. The Minister of Agriculture may refuse to 

 pay any part of the said subsidy if, in his opinion 

 the operation of the warehouse has not been of 

 such a character as to provide for the proper 

 Preservation of such products as may be stored 



6. The Minister of Agriculture may order, and 

 cause to be maintained, an inspection and super- 

 vision of the sanitary conditions, maintenance 

 and operation of such warehouses. 



7. The rates and tolls to be charged for storage 

 m such warehouses shall be subject to the ap- 

 proval of the Governor in Council. 



8. For the effective carrying out of the provis- 

 ions of this Act, the Minister of Agriculture may 

 appoint inspectors, who shall have access to aU 

 parts of such warehouses at all times 



9. Chapter 7 of the statutes of 1897, intituled 

 An Act respecting Cold Storage on Steamships 

 from Canada to the United Kingdom and in 

 certain cities in Canada, is repealed. 



Spraying' in Prince Edward Island 



Rev. Father DurKe, Alberton 



In Denver, Col., an annual cleaning day is 

 appointed every spring for the purpose of clean- 

 ing up the streets, parks, boulevards, and other 

 public places. A new feature of the cleaning 

 day last year was the campaign against the 

 dandelion, which feature was introduced by 

 the mayor of the city. Householders were 

 urged to dig them up by the roots from their 

 back yards, lawns and gardens, and thereby 

 lessen the spread of this ever-present nuisance. 

 The Ontario Horticultural societies, and all 

 cities in Canada interested in civic improve- 

 ment, would do well were they to institute a 

 ' similar onslaught on the dandelion, which is 

 a civic nuisance. 



I Those fruit growers in Ontario who have re- 

 I fused hitherto to admit the presence of the San 

 Jose Scale in their sections and to support the 

 local inspectors in their efforts to stamp out the 

 pest are now regretting their short-sightedness. 

 i The time is ripe for an aggressive campaign to 

 wipe out the pest. 



We are in receipt of a liandsome catalog 

 from Brown Bros. Co., Limited, Brown's Nur- 

 series, Ont. It contains a large number of 

 I beautiful lithographs that portray the leading 

 j varieties of specialties that are handled by 

 this well-known firm. The illustrations are 

 beautifully done, and the descriptions of varie- 

 ties are excellent. Fruit growers and garden- 

 ers should have a copy of this catalog. 



A FEW of our most successful growers are 

 not absolutely satisfied as to the value of 

 spraying; some said openly at the late 

 meeting of our Provincial Fruit Growers' 

 Association that they did not beUeve in it at all. 

 Personally, I am convinced that spraying with 

 Bordeaux mixture for clean and sound fruit 

 is a necessity, that its use has gone altogether 

 beyond the experimental stage, and that, in 

 ordinary years, it is impossible to grow good 

 fruit of most varieties without it. If science 

 has demonstrated anything, it has this. 

 ^In his paper last December before the asso- 

 ciation, Mr. Registrar White reflected on spray- 

 ing, and Mr. John Newson, a very successful 

 grower and specially intelligent man, was put 

 on record as saying that the unsprayed por- 

 tion of his plantation was richer in fruit returns 

 of a superior class than the sprayed portion 

 He said that he had been enabled to form this 

 opinion from the fact that, for fear of killing 

 his bees, he had desisted, in the main, spray- 

 ing operations, leaving such apples as the 

 Wealthy, then in bloom, unsprayed. From the 

 chair we told him that in order to prove his 

 case he would need to convince us that the 

 mixture was rightly made of good materials 

 rightly applied, and that the weather was not 

 such after as to remove the wash from the trees. 

 He thought all those conditions were main- 

 tained properly, and was inclined to hold his 

 ground, although the fact that it was a ques- 

 tion of only one spraying, predicted a want of 

 system and adherence to instruction in the 

 matter. Mr. Bovyer, of Georgetown, our new 

 inspector-instructor, argued strongly in favor 

 of spraying; so did Messrs. Moore and Dewar, 

 both experienced growers. The concensus of 

 the meeting was strongly on the side of sprays. 

 Mr. White, in closing, said that Bordeaux had 

 been blamed for leaf bhght in the States and 

 some parts of Canada. 



As a matter of fact, Bordeaux mixture is now 

 being pretty generally used on the potato crop 

 as well as on fruit trees here. It is more gen- 

 erally than ever used on the latter, and fruit 

 cannot long be grown profitably without it. 

 We all recognize, however, the hardship spray- 

 ing imposes on the ordinary individual. It is 

 a dirty job at best for amateurs. If a public 



sprayer could be had to do the work reasonably 

 in price and well as to methods, there would 

 be few people bother with it themselves Say 

 what they will, half the mixtures made by 

 tyros are imperfect— a loss of time, money and 

 whatever old clothes are valued at I hate to 

 have to go at it myself, but there is no help 

 tor It until spraying is done by travelling pro- 

 fessionals licensed by the board, as are many 

 other much less important matters in our 

 everyday life. 



Cooperation for Fruit Growers 



In the province of Ontario there are some 27 

 cooperative fruit associations, and the result of 

 the operation in connection therewith during the 

 past season have been most satisfactory to the 

 fruit growers concerned. The prices received 

 by the individual grower have been in the 

 majority of cases, much beyond that realized 

 before cooperation was introduced. The De- 

 partment of Farmers' Institutes and the Pro- 

 vincial Fruit Growers' Assn. are cooperating in 

 the holding of special meetings to further the 

 interests of cooperation. Letters have been 

 addressed to a number of points at which it is 

 thought cooperation could be introduced to 

 advantage. Some likely places have, no doubt 

 been overlooked in this. ' 



Fruit men are asked to make application either 

 to P. W. Hodgetts, secretary of the Ont. Fruit 

 Grs.' Assn , or to G. A. Putnam, Supt. of Farm- 

 ers' In.stitutes, if a meeting is desired with a view 

 to placing before the fruit men the possibilities 

 and advantages of this Hne of work. Cooper- 

 ative companies can be organized at a nominal 

 fee, and fruit men have nothing to lose and 

 much to gain in forming an organization. 



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