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and not find any one who objects to the prin- 

 ciples or operations of the act. 



In none of a number of large cities in the 

 U.S. and Canada that I visited while on my 

 way to the conference did I find the same im- 

 pulses to business or the same impetuous rush 

 as in Winnipeg. One has but to pause and 

 consider for a moment the causes that are to- 

 day contributing these impulses and this rush, 

 to feel that it is all legitimate, and to a very 

 considerable extent lasting. These causes are 

 threefold: immigration, railroad building and 

 the hope and prospect of a bounteous harvest. 



But what has all this to do with the fruit 

 business? Very much indeed. I rejoice to 

 know that the Ontario fruit growers are awaken- 

 ing to the immense possibilities of this cotmtry 

 as a market for their fruit, as well as to know 

 that there is being aroused a feeling that they 

 are able to compete, and they are going to com- 

 pete with any or all other fruit growing sec- 

 tions for the supremacy in this market. 



But out of all this there arises a great dan- 

 ger, the danger that many will allow their 

 hopefulness and desire for large returns to get 

 the better of their good judgment, and thus 

 be led into the mistake of letting everything 

 go. This will prove a very grave mistake. 

 Care in selecting and attention to methods will 

 always pay, and the greater the care and at- 

 tention the greater will be the satisfaction at- 

 tending the results of yoiu- ventures. More 

 care and attention in the future will be exacted 

 from the rank and file of the average apple 

 packer. 



The Long'hurst PeacH 



J. W. Brennan, Grimsby, Ont. 



The Longhurst is what I would call the best 

 commercial peach grown. When I say best, I 

 mean best in quality. This statement is con- 

 firmed by the canners, and there also appears 

 to be a growing demand by the domestic can- 

 ners of the household. It is surprising to read 

 over the list of peaches recommended by the 

 Board of Control of the Experiment Stations, 

 and find that the Longhurst is not in the Ust 

 of commercial peaches. Is it because some 

 growers make a lamentable failure of this peach? 

 If it is, it is a very lame excuse. 



I once had the impression that it was a poor, 

 useless, ugly, forsaken looking peach, but my 

 convictions have turned. Two years ago I 

 shipped a customer a few baskets of nice Long- 

 hurst peaches, and I presume it was the first 

 of that variety he had received. His custom- 

 ers found them all that could be desired. 

 Last season I received the same customer's order 

 for peaches, but for no specified variety. Un- 

 fortunately for myself as well as for his cus- 

 tomers he did not receive any Longhursts. In 

 a short time I received a letter from him say- 

 ing his customers were complaining that the 

 peaches were not of as good quaUty as those 

 sent the year before. This is only one of many 

 instances that could be given, but it shows 

 that the Longhurst is a commercial peach. If 

 Longhurst peaches are planted money can be 

 made out of this crop, but you must attend to 

 business and give them attention; in return 

 they give standard oil dividends. They must 

 be pruned severely and thinned rigorously. If 

 you prune as thin as you should, you will have 

 a feeling of compunction that you are over- 

 doing the thing. Never mind that; go ahead 

 and you will look brighter in the autumn. 

 Plenty of nourishment, too, is demanded. Ex- 

 periments conducted at the N.Y. Expt. Sta. 

 showed that it required much more than El- 

 berta. The recommendations made by that 

 station are: Longhurst, 90 lbs. nitrogen and 85 

 lbs. potash per acre; and Elberta requires 56 

 lbs. nitrogen and 50 lbs. potash per acre. It is 

 owing to its high feeding propensities that it 

 is such a rich fleshed peach of beautiful color 

 when canned, and sweet and delicious. If 

 you are prepared to give the Longhurst the 

 attention which any good thing requires, you 

 will be amply repaid by a crop of the best com- 

 mercial peach grown. 



Impressions of tKe Fruit Conference 



FRUIT growers from the different provinces 

 have settled down to business after the Wa; 

 conference at Ottawa. That much benefit 

 was derived by the delegates, and that the fruit 

 industry in Canada has received a mighty boost 

 is the opinion of all who know anything about 

 the business done and the questions discussed. 

 Expressions of opinion have been received by 

 The HoRTictTLTURisT from several of the dele- 

 gates regarding the most important matters 

 attended to. 



A BRITISH COLUMBIA UELEOATE 



A communication from Mr. Martin Burrell, 

 of Grand Forks, B.C., read: ."What I consid- 

 ered most important at the conference may 

 be summed up thus: (1) The desire, so largely 

 carried into effect, of creating a uniform sys- 

 tem of packages for the Dominion; (2) The 

 evident determination on the part of those 

 present to simplify the grading and branding 

 of packages, which must have a most bene- 

 ficial effect on our export trade; (3) The em- 

 phatic opinion expressed that the size of the 

 fruit industry now warrants the most system- 

 atic and comprehensive work along statistical 

 lines; (4) The soundness of the contention that 

 express companies should be placed under the 

 control of the Railway Commission. 



"In addition to these definite accomplish- 

 ments, the mere fact of representatives of the 

 industry from all over the Dominion meeting 

 in such a way to co-operate in all matters which 

 make for the advancement of horticulture in 

 Canada has done, both in a direct and indirect 

 way, an immense amount of good." 



WHAT NEW BRUNSWICK THINKS 



Mr. J. C. Oilman, of Fredericton, N.B., ex- 

 pressed his satisfaction with the results of the 

 conference as follows: "It was pleasing to 

 note, at the late fruit conference, that the pre- 

 vailing sentiment was Dominion interests first. 

 Provincial or local afterward. It was also en- 

 couraging to the provinces where fruit culture 

 is yet in its infancy, to learn that sections where 

 fruit growing has become well established, still 

 recognize the importance of missionary work 

 in the form of object les.sons practically given 

 on each part of the fruit growers' work, from 

 the setting of the tree to the closing of the 



package of well-^aded fruit ready for market. 



"The suggestion that fruit inspectors and 

 others capable of such work, should continue 

 to visit as many fruit growing sections as pos- 

 sible, to instruct and encourage farmers in 

 adopting tlie best, methods to ensure success, 

 was a good one. Cooperation gives a good 

 account of itself, in grading and packing and 

 selling, showing the advantage and need of 

 more skill for this part of the work than the 

 average farmer can hope to bring to it, with 

 such help as he can employ, for the rest of his 

 farm and orchard work. The uniform grade, 

 and such quantities of each variety, as will at- 

 tract the attention of buyers, must be a strong 

 argument in favor of co-operation for this end 

 of the work, where enough fruit can be fur- 

 nished to make a central packing and storage 

 hou.se a paying enterprise Some future con- 

 ference will find it necessary to deal with the 

 introduction of new fruits, to restrict, to some 

 extent, the multiplying of varieties, many of 

 them of little value, while those considered 

 by some competent and recognized authority 

 as worthy of cultivation, shall be properly 

 catalogued as such for the guide of planters." 



HOW NOVA SCOTIA GROWERS FELT 



Mr. S. C. Parker, of Berwick, N.S., wrote: 

 "A very interesting feature of the gathering 

 was the comradeship established, almost from 

 the beginning, between the delegations from 

 B.C. and N.S. By a happy coincidence they 

 met at the same liotel, and before the confer- 

 ence formally opened, these delegations were 

 bosom friends. Living at the same table; vic- 

 ing with each other in telling big stories of both 

 fish and fruit; united for offensive and defen- 

 sive work at the conference. 



"Perhaps it is local prejudice, but it seemed 

 to me that the N.S. contingent had a fuller 

 idea of the situation and understood the ques- 

 tions better than our colleagues from the other 

 provinces. The continuous threshing of the 

 topics in the Fruit Growers' Assn. had given 

 our .men a thorough understanding of all the 

 questions coming before the conference, and a 

 complete grasp of the details. R. S. Eaton 

 made a big score by suggesting an interview 

 with the Minister of Agriculture regarding an 

 experimental orchard in the AnnapoUs Valley." 



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