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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Items of Interest 



The indiscriniinate shipment of small, wormy 

 and unstileahli- ai)i)lcs to ManitoUi has led the 

 consumers to ask the health authorities of that 

 province for protection against such fruit. It 

 is proiXKcd that the same course he adopted in 

 Manitolia that is in vogue in British ColumWa 

 where fruit similar to much 6f that received in 

 Manitoba is dumped into the river or the ocean. 



Bad weather jirevented a lar({e turnout of 

 vegetable growers at the monthly meeting of 

 the Toronto branch on Mar. 3. Prof. Harc-ourt, 

 of the O.A.C., Guelph, was present and offered 

 to cooperate with the growers around Toronto 

 in carrying on experiments with different fertil- 

 izers' for the different garden crops. Over 20 

 growers agreed to undertake experiments under 

 the direction of Prof. Harcourt. As none of the 

 regular speakers were present the discussion of 

 the questions that were to be taken up was 

 postponed until Mar. 17. A report of this meet- 

 ing appears on another page. 



The members of the Brantford branch of the 

 Ont. Vegetable Growers' Assn. was held on Mar. 

 15. An instructive paper on Cabbage Growing 

 was given by R. J. Taylor, who discussed the 

 best cultivation and the treatment of the various 

 diseases. A general disciission followed. The 

 question of selUng cabbage by the jjound was 

 dealt with also, but nothing definite was out- 

 lined. The executive will try to have one of 

 the professors from the O.A.C. deliver an address 

 at the next meeting. 



In some of the leading fruit sections of the 

 U.S., where weather conditions are of vital im- 

 portance to the fruit grower, the Weather 

 Bureau is endeavoring to warn the growers as 

 to the weather probabilities by means of whistle 

 signals. The various conditions of temperature 

 and of storms is to be signalled by a set code of 

 long and short blasts on the whistle. 



The members of the Ont. Fruit Growers' 

 Assn. are progressing favorably in their efforts 

 to form cooperative assns. D. Johnson, of 

 Forest, and Inspector Gifford, of Meaford, re- 

 cently held meetings at Simcoe, IngersoU and 

 Orillia. At each place they were successful in 

 forming the nucleus of what promises to be a 

 strong assn. At Simcoe, J. E. Johnson has 

 taken up the work and the prospects are bright 

 for a live assn. Organization work at IngersoU 

 is being looked after by J. C. Harris, while J. 

 Ryerson and R. A. Lehmann have charge of 

 the work at OriUia. 



At the annual meeting of the Niagara District 

 Fruit Growers' Stock Co., Ltd., held in Grimsby 

 recently, the following biaard of directors were 

 elected: R. Thompson, W. H. Bunting and J. 

 H. Broderick, of St. Catharines; A. M. Hons- 

 berger, of Jordan, and Murray Pettit, of Winona. 

 Some of the members thought that the day of 

 the company's usefulness in taking the place of 

 commission merchants has passed and advised 

 that the fruits be purchased in the orchard or 

 at the railway station, and shipped on quota- 

 tion to regular agents or dealers. 



The leading orchardists of Belleville District, 

 after hearing A. E. Sherrington, of Walkerton, 

 and P. J. Carey, of Toronto, explain the bene- 

 fits to be derived from cooperative assns., 

 at a meeting held on March 16, for the purpose 

 of organizing, formed a strong organization and 

 will handle the crop through this assn. this year. 



On March 8, the Fruit Division, Department 

 of Agriculture, received word of the following 

 convictions under the Fruit Marks Act: John 

 Coyle and Robert Coyle, jr., of Colbome, plead- 

 ed guilty to falsely marking 19 bbls. of apples 

 "No. 1," the apples being inferior to that grade. 

 They were fined $1 a bbl. and costs. Robert 

 Coyle, jr., also pleaded guilty as packer of these 

 apples and was fined $5 and costs. This is the 

 fifth time that members of the firm of J. & R. 

 Coyle have been convicted under the Fruit 

 Marks Act. 



The following resolution was passed at a meet- 

 ing held March 15, at Belleville: "Moved by 

 F. S. Wallbridge and seconded by Henry Leav- 

 ers that we, the members of the Belleville Dis- 

 trict Fruit Growers' Assn. desire to express our 



conviction that it is in the best interests of tli<- 

 Fruit Industry of Canada that the industry 

 should be placed under a Fruit Commissiorer 

 instead of, as at present, imder the Dairy Com- 

 mis,sioner, as the Fruit Industry is of sufficient 

 importance to have a Commissioner of its own." 



.Mr. T. Delworth, of Weston, has been endeav- 

 oring lately to form branches of the Ont. Vege- 

 table Growers' Assn. at Napanee, Kingston and 

 Ottawa. It is exjiected strong assns. will be 

 formed at each ix)int. Branches are likely to 

 be foimed shortly at London and Strathroy. 



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