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That Prof. Penhallow be the first president, and the presidents of the provincial 

 associations be the vice-presidents ; but in the event of any such president being also 

 president of the Dominion association, the senior vice-pi-esident of that provincial 

 association shall be vice-president of the Dominion association. 



That in Provinces where no provincial association exists the Dominion associa 

 tion shall appoint a vice-president for that Province. 



That the executive committee consist of the president and secretary {ex- 

 officio), together with members to be appointed by the association. 



Members of provincial associations shall be eligible to membership in the 

 Dominion association upon payment of an annual fee of $1, and any other person 

 may qualify as a member upon payment of an annual fee of $2. 



The^ committee recommend that application be made to Parliament for an 

 annual grant of $3,000 for the purpose of holding conventions and publishing the 

 transactions of the association. 



That the provincial association shall be entitled to votes in convention dis- 

 tributed as follows : British Columbia, 2 ; Manitoba, 1 ; Xorth-West Territories, 1 ; 

 Ontario, 6; Quebec, 4 ; New Brunswick, 2 ; Nova Scotia, 3 ; Prince Edward Island, 1. 



That meetings of the association shall be held annually. 



All officers of the association shall be elected annually. 



Vice-presidents were named as follows : New Brunswick, S. L. Peters, Queens- 

 town ; Manitoba, Mr. Frankland, Stonewall. 



W. W. Dunlop, Montreal, was named as secretary-treasurer; George Johnson, 

 Ottawa, as statistician 



B. Starratt, G. W. Henry and L. Woolverton were appointed members of the 

 executive committee. 



THE DUTT ON FRUIT 



The debate on Mr. A. H. Petitt's motion, respecting the duty on fruit, was con- 

 tinued : 



The President. — This is an important question, and one that presents many 

 aspects ; but I hope that political considerations will be left out in dealing with it. 

 I am aware there may be a diversity of opinion as to the advisability of taking this 

 step, and 1 hope that gentlemen will express their views concisely, so that we may 

 arrive at a conclusion quickly. 



Ml'. Pettit— There seems to be a misunderstanding on this question. We do 

 not want any duty on foreign products that we do not produce ourselves. "We 

 simply want a duty on those that we produce at home — the duty as it was a short 

 time ago. I cannot really see any portion of this Dominion that is more aifected 

 by the present state of affairs than the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, for the 

 reason that we produce large quantities of summer fruit. The Americans, having a 

 climate so much earlier than we, fill our markets about two weeks in advance 

 of anything we can do. Consumers only require strawberries for about two 

 weeks, when they then require another variety of fruit. The Southern States 

 are prepared to supply Ontario with those fruits for about that time, and 

 therefore our Canadian fruits have to come in after that demand has been pretty 

 well met. With regard to the apple crop, we must look to England as the one 

 market. Great Britain is the market for nearly all our apples. The south-western 

 States are producing large quantities, but the samples that come in here are more 

 or less fall apples. Our apples are keepers, and in that respect we look to the 

 English market ; but if our market is to be glutted with earlier varieties from the 

 south, it has the effect of making the business of fruit-producing not so profitable 

 as it should be. If other branches of agriculture are to be protected in Canada I 

 do not see why fruit growing should not be. We are one branch of the whole. 

 Taking the Province of Nova Scotia, there may be an exception there ; but in this 

 regard apples form the entire crop of Nova Scotia, as against all the kinds of fruit 

 produced in Ontario and Quebec. They can produce the very finest varieties of 

 summer and fall apples, and livingright on the coast, with no railway transportation 



