April, 1907 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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new members on or before Nov. 1, 1907. It 

 was further decided to offer three more prizes 

 for competition among the members of the 

 branch assns. for new members. 



The idea of the assns. undertaking experi- 

 mental work in vegetables in connection with 

 the branch assns. was abandoned, owing to the 

 great expense that would be involved and to the 

 lateness of the season, as well as Ijecause it was 

 felt that such work was somewhat out of the 

 province of the work of the Assn. 



CAN-NINO .'•■ACTORIES 



It was pointed out that a large number of 

 vegetable growers in Ont. grow vegetables for 

 the canning factories and that but little is known 

 of the extent of this industry, and where these 

 factories are located. In order that more in- 

 formation might be secured, it was decided to 

 make a special effort to secure as complete in- 

 formation as possible in regard to this matter. 

 Mr. C. C. James, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, 

 was consulted, and stated that the dept. of agric. 

 has Ijeen endeavoring to secure information of 

 this nature for some time, and has found it very 

 difficult to do so owing to the fact that the man- 

 agement of many factories has refused to allow 

 the representatives of the dept. to visit the fac- 

 tories. The dept., however, has secured con- 

 siderable information which is valuable and has 

 a complete list of the factories. Mr. T. Del- 



worth and the sec. were authorized to see Mr. 

 James and ascertain just what information the 

 dept. has on hand and to report at the next 

 meeting of the executive committee, as to the 

 best steps to be taken to secure a complete re- 

 port of the vegetable canning industry of the 

 province. It was felt that it will be a good move 

 on the part of the Assn. to secure some reliable 

 correspondents in every section where there is 

 a canning factory, to give a full report at the 

 close of the season as to the amount of the 

 vegetables grown, and prices paid for them, as 

 well as to give other information of a similar 

 nature, this information to be published early 

 in Dec. and later to be embodied in full in the 

 annual report of the Assn. 



THE NIAGARA EXPERIMENT STATION 



In compliance with the request of Hon. Nel- 

 son Monteith, that the Assn. should prepare an 

 outline of the work that would be of benefit to 

 the vegetable growers, that it would like to have 

 undertaken at the new fruit and vegetable ex- 

 periment station, to be established in the Niagara 

 District, it was decided to make the following 

 recommendations to the Minister of Agriculture: 



(1) That the work should include seed selec- 

 tion, hybridizing, the testing of standard against 

 new varieties of vegetables, fertilization tests, 

 and tlie testing of seeds to ascertain their germ- 

 inating powers. (2) Tliat bulletins shoiild be 



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