OF 



nm mmii of the Doiiiii of ciiM 



HELD m THE CITY HALL, AT OTTAWA. 01^ 19th, 20th AND 21st 



EEBRUARY, 1890. 



First Day. 



The Convention met at 3 p.m., Professor D. P. Penhallow, the President, in 

 the Chair. 



There were present the Honourable the Minister of Agriculture; Prof. W. 

 Saunders, Director Experimental Farms, Ottawa; P. E. Bucke, Ottawa; Prof. 

 J. Hoys Panton, Guelph ; A. Mo. D. Allan, Goderich ; Thomas Beall, Lind- 

 say ; B. Stari'att, Paradise, N.S. ; A. H. Pettit, Grimsby, Ont. ; J. S. McMichael, 

 Waterford, Ont.; Thomas Erankland, Stonewall, Manitoba; E. W. Starr, Starr's 

 Point, ISr.S. ; G. W. Henry, Port Hammond, B.C. ; E. Brodie, Montreal ; E. W. 

 Shepherd, jr., Montreal ; E. J. Brodie, Smith's Falls, Ont. ; W. W. Dunlop, Mon- 

 treal; C. E. H. Starr, Wolfville, N.S.; J. Craig, Experimental Farm, Ottawa; S. L. 

 Peters, Queenstown, N.B. ; S. D. Willard, Geneva, N.Y. ; O. B. Hadwen, Worcester, 

 Mass.; S. A. Bedford, Expei'imental Farm, Manitoba; N. J. Clinton, Windsor, Ont. ; 

 Linus Woolverton, Grimsby, Ont.; P. C. Dempsey, Trenton, Ont.; G. A. Drum- 

 mond, Eoebuck, Ont. ; John D. Thomson, Domville, Ont. ; 0. Cj-ossfield, J. M. Pisk, 

 Abbotsford, Que;; John M. Denton, London, Ont.; John Oroil, Aultsville, Out.; 

 Eev. Thomas W. Fyles, South Quebec ; Eev. E. Hamilton, Grenville, Que. ; G. S. 

 Mason, Hawkesbury, Ont.; G. C. Caston, Craighurst, Ont.; A. M. Smith, St. 

 Catharines, Ont. ; Prof. E. W. Smith, Truro, N.S. ; A. A. Graham, Granby, Que. ; 

 Hon. H. G. Joly, Leclercville, Que. ; E. Mallory, Frankford, Ont. ; G. M. Farley, Belle- 

 ville, Ont. ; D, Westover, Frelighsi)uig, Que. ; W. L. Kerr, Beamsville, Ont.; J. W. 

 Harrison, Eegina, N. W.T. ; W. Thompson, jr., Dervvent, Ont., and others. 



The meeting was opened by the Honourable the Minister of Agriculture with 

 the following address : — 



Mk. President and GBNTiiEMBN, — It appears to me that I am a sort of 

 double-barrelled gun to-day. I was honoured by the President asking me to 

 open this meeting, but I came here a little too soon. While the Dairy Convention was 

 going on I was called upon to speak, and I said something then about the fruit as well 

 as the dairy interests of the country. However, Mr. President and gentlemen, I 

 feel it a great honour in being called upon by you to open this Fruit Growers Con- 

 vention. This is the first Dominion convention of fruit growers, I believe, that has 

 been held in Canada, and I hope that it will not be the lust; that as you have made 

 a good commencement, as you have an excellent attendance here to-day with repre- 

 sentatives present from all the different parts of the Dominion — ^from Nova Scotia, 

 Prince Edward Island. New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, and the North- 

 West Teri'itories, and with the united action of all the gentlemen that are represent- 

 ing the ditferent Pi-ovinces, I am sure the convention cannot help but result in 

 great good for the country. The fruit interests are just beginning to be appreciated 

 by the people in other countries, as I have mentioned here this afternoon. At the 

 Centennial Exhibition, held in 1876 in Philadelphia, I am told Canadian fruit was 



