August, 1907 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



205 



15 years experimenting with crates in which to 

 successfully carry our berries to Manitoba. The 

 consumers knew what they were fgetting — 24 

 pounds of fruit. Now, two-fifths of a quart or 

 four-tifthsof a quart doesnot mean anything when 

 the berries get as far as Regina, and when they 

 get to Winnipeg they mean less." 



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"I am fully in sympathy with the matter of 

 holding another Dominion Conference of fruit 

 growers in 1908," wrote Secretary Hodgetts of 

 the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association. "As 

 secretary of the Ontario association, I have lieen 

 for the past five years in touch with a large 

 numljer of the growers of this province, and know- 

 fairly well the questions in connection with the 

 industry in Ontario which are causing the most 

 trouble. The work that was undertaken by the 

 conference in 1900 was enormous, and the results 

 of corresixjnding value. I consider it as fully 

 sufficient to justify the Minister of Agriculture 

 for the Dominion in again calling the delegates 

 fnjin the various provinces together. 



"In reference to topics, there should lie some 

 time devoted to finishing the work of the last 

 conference. Further information should then 

 be available as to "Fruit Statistics," the Federal 

 and Ontario Departments having combined this 

 year to olitain more extended and accurate 

 re[x)rts. As the amendments to the Fruit 

 Marks Act will have had two seasons' ex[)eri- 

 ment, further discussion on this subject will 

 be inevital)le. Transportation problems seem 

 to l)e getting more acute every year, despite 

 enormous exj^enditures by the railway com- 

 panies, and I think that the Board of Railway 

 Commissioners might well devote an afternoon 

 to hearing the o]>inion of the fruit growers on 

 this important topic. Owing to the placing of 

 the express rates under the Commission subsequent 

 to the last conference, this im|X)rtant branch 

 of transportation work was only touched upon. 



A numtjer of other topics need further dis- 

 cussion. 



"One new subject that I would like to see 

 discussed would t)e that of nomenclature of 

 fruits. At present our nursery catalogs, prize 

 lists, and so on, seem to use the variety name 

 in most cases which first conies to mind, with the 

 result that considerable confusion results. 

 Here at the Department we have lieen endeavor- 

 ing to follow the rules of the American Pomo- 

 logical Society, but some of their names for 

 well-known varieties are out of the question in 

 Ontario, as usa^e has fixed such names as the 

 Duchess and Greening apples, the Duchess 

 \>ea.T, and so forth. A committee of each 

 association might well be appointed in advance 

 of the conference to look into this matter. 



"I would further suggest that a session be 

 devoted to cold and cool storage for fruits. 

 Considerable information along these lines 

 should now be in possession of the Federal 

 Department of Agriculture. More attention 

 from the grower and shipper is now required as 

 to the proper temperatures in which to store 

 fruits from the time it is picked until it reaches 



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