May, 1907 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



IX 



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Imperial Bank 



OF CANADA 



Established 1875 



Head Office, 



Toronto 



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Capital Paid-up, $4,700,000.00 

 Rest, - - $4,700,000.00 



Savings Department at all Branches 



Interest allowed on deposits ol One Dollar 

 and upwards and credited lour times a year. 



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Mention The Canadian Horticulturist when writing 



.An Appraiser of Vegetables 

 May Be Appointed 



During April a deputation of leading vege- 

 table growers waited upon Hon. Wm. Pater- 

 son, Minister of Customs at Ottawa, and on 

 behalf of the Ontario Vegetable Growers' As- 

 sociation requested that the Dominion Govern- 

 ment should appoint an official whose duty 

 it would be to set a fair value on the vegetables 

 imported into Canada, so that they could not 

 pass the customs at a ridiculously low valua 

 tion. While there is a duty on vegetables 

 imported into Canada, it has been Httle pro- 

 tection to the vegetable growers, because of 

 the fact that the people in the United States, 

 who ship vegetables into Canada, value them 

 at such a low figure that the duty on such 

 valuation is sc 'ow it does not serve as any 

 protection to the Canadian vegetable growers. 

 The Governmeni' listened attentively to the 

 representations of the committee, and gave 

 reason to believe that the requests made would 

 be granted. 



The deputation was composed of Messrs. 

 R. J. Bushell, of Kingston, the president of the 

 Ontario Vegetable Growers' Association; Thos 

 Delworth, of the Toronto Branch, and some 

 nine members of the Ottawa branch, for whom 

 Mr. Williams and Mr. Farquarson acted as 

 spokesmen. The deputation was introduced 

 by Mr. Archie Campbell, M.P., of Centre York, 

 who was assisted by Mr. Avery, M.P. for Fron- 

 tenac, and Mr. M. Devlin, M.P. for W'right 

 County. In introducing the deputation, Mr. 

 Campbell pointed out that the Dominion 

 Government was being defrauded in the mat- 

 ter of customs receipts by the vegetables be- 

 ing brought into Canada at a price below their 

 true value. He pointed out that the vegetable 

 growers are men who invest a large amount 

 of money in their business, and that having 

 to meet the competition of vegetables froin 

 the United States is a serious hardship to them. 

 Mr. Bushell referred to the importance of 

 the vegetable industry, showing that in On- 

 tario alone it represented an investment of 

 SI 0,000,000. In the remarks of Mr. Delworth, 

 attention was drawn to the fact that many of 

 the vegetables imported into Canada have a 

 damaged appearance, and are passed at a very 

 low value, but after the boxes are opened and 

 carefully inspected, it is found that the per- 

 ccntage^ of damaged vegetables is much smaller 

 than first appearances indicated. The Do- 

 minion Government excludes Chinese labor 

 because it believes that Canadians should not 

 have to compete with the Chinese. By allow- 

 ing United States vegetables to be imported 

 into Canada at prices below their true value, 

 the Government is not protecting Canadian 

 vegetable growers against the products of 

 the Chinese growers in California who send a 

 large quantity of celery into Canada, Mr. 

 Delworth further pointed out that much of 

 the vegetables imported into Canada are the 

 tail end of the crops of United States growers 

 the United States growers sell 80% of their 

 crops in their own markets, and rather than 

 flood their own markets with the remnants of 

 their crops, they ship such vegetables to Cana- 

 dian markets, and make Canadian markets a 

 dumping ground for such products. 



Mr. Wilhams assured the Government that 

 Canadian growers do not desire to be protected 

 except during a few months in the year when 

 their own vegetables arc ready to be marketed 

 -Vt present the Canadian growers when they 

 offer their fresh vegetables have to meet the 

 competition and the low prices caused by the 

 importation of large quantities of cheap United 

 States vegetables. 



Hon. Mr. Paterson stated that he believed 

 that the dumping clause can be utilized to 

 prevent vegetables being brought into Canada 

 as they have l>cen in the past. He promised 

 to take steps to see that vegetables when 

 crossing the border have a fair valuation placed 

 on them. 



Every year each one of us 

 consumes 15 lbs. of salt — 

 Science says. 



— More than a pound a- 

 month. 



Just as well to have it pure. 



Your grocer will tell 



you there's nothing 



purer than 



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