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You are not necessarily confined to the foregoing outline, but will be expected 

 to use your own judgment in collecting any information that will be of value to 

 the fruit growers, or others connected with the industry. Your long experience 

 as one of the leading fruit growers of Canada, and your wide acquaintance with 

 the industry in this country should enable you to form a correct judgment in 

 seeking the information which w411 be most important. 



Yours truly, 



(Sgd.) J. A. RUDDICK, 



Commissioner. 



REPORT OF INVESTIGATION. 



ST. CATHARINES, Ont., 



February 1, 1912. 



MR. J. A. RUDDICK, 



Dairy and Cold Storage Commissioner, Ottawa. 



DEAR SIR. In accordance with the foregoing instructions I herewith beg 

 to submit a report of my observations during the past few months, in which it 

 has been my privilege to visit very many of the principal fruit growing sections 

 throughout the Dominion. 



In the course of this investigation I have had an opportunity of meeting 

 a large number of representative fruit growers at their homes and on their farms, 

 and have discussed with them the conditions under which they were conducting 

 their work, the difficulties encountered and the outlook for the future. 



I have also tried to get in touch by correspondence or direct inquiry, with 

 localities which for any reason I have not been able to visit personally. 



The object of whatever is herein presented is to give a fair and unbiased 

 opinion with regard to the conditions that obtain in the various Provinces, to 

 emphasize those outstanding features which everywhere make for successful 

 orchard culture, to call attention to methods and practices which warrant 

 criticism, and if possible to assist to some slight degree in bringing fruit-growing 

 in Canada a step farther in the advance march of the general progress of this 

 country. 



Yours truly, 



(Sgd.) W. H. BUNTING. 



