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CANADIAN HORTICULTURE. 
Notes from the Ontario Fruit 
Growers’ Meeting. 
While the year now ending has been full 
of discouragement, owing to the destruc¬ 
tion of the fruit crop, yet, as a class, it is 
thought that the fruit men have been as 
successful as any land tiller. It is poor 
policy for any ore whose entire income is 
derived from fruits to limit himself solely 
to one kind, as many who depended upon 
apples or peaches find themselves in a bad 
position; while those who had an assort¬ 
ment of fruit are pretty fairly contented. 
The express companies have been the 
great bugbears of the Canadian fruit grow¬ 
ers, and, judging from past experience, 
they have just cause of complaint as to 
the handling of tender fruit, much of 
which reached its destination in a condition 
utterly unfit for market. Theft has been 
another evil of much magnitude, the pack¬ 
ages having been often broken open while 
in transit, and when such pilferings have 
been reported to the company no satisfac¬ 
tion or redress has been given. All this is 
in marked contrast to the general bearing 
of American companies, and that the 
trouble is so much greater on this side of 
the border is due, in all probability, to the 
fact that there is little or no competition 
in the greater portion of the provinces. 
There is some hope of better treatment in 
the future, however, for Mr. T. H. Race re¬ 
ports the result of his investigation by say¬ 
ing that upon conferring with the express 
companies he was assured that the Cana¬ 
dian Express Company would do every¬ 
thing possible to remedy this evil, and 
since then no further cause of complaint 
had been reported. This turn of affairs 
was the result of the vigorous action taken 
at the previous meeting, and showed the 
respect with which even such strong or¬ 
ganizations as the express companies re¬ 
gard the cooperation of a determined class 
of men. 
If farmers would eat less fat pork and 
more fruit they would be happier and 
healthier, as there is no doubt as to the 
healthfulness of fruits or as to their elevat¬ 
ing influence of horticultural pursuits. 
Were the men to take greater interest in 
trees, shrubs, flowers, etc., and surround 
their homes with these attractions they 
would probably have less reason to com¬ 
plain of their children leaving farm work 
for other occupations. 
The secretary reported that E. D. Ar- 
naud, of Annapolis, N. S., had sent to him 
for inspection samples of the Clark Cherry, 
picked in September; its valuable peculiar¬ 
ity is its fall bearing habit. In spite of 
their long journey the specimens came in 
fine shape, hence the variety promises well 
as a shipper. It is of about the size and 
shape of the Kentish and is of a dark red 
hue when fully ripe. The flesh is firm and 
has an agreeably sweet flavor. 
The Williams, for a new strawberry, has 
become popular about its place of origin, 
at Burford, Ontario. It is supposed to be a 
seedling of the Crescent and Sharpless, and 
is fourfold more productive than the lat¬ 
ter. The fruit is very large and when well 
ripened shows nothing of the white tip. 
The plant is much hardier than the Jessie, 
and because of its apparent merit will be 
distributed by the association next spring. 
Regarding the shipment of fruit to foreign 
countries, A. H. Pettit advocates the es¬ 
tablishment of market days, at the centers 
of trade, after the example of the cheese 
makers. The buyer and seller would in 
this way be brought face to face and the 
latter’s products could be sold, subject to 
inspection by expert government officials, 
who would place the proper brands upon 
the packages. No.l brand should in quality 
be apples of a fair size and color, free from 
scab and worm holes, and properly packed 
in packages of the standard size. No. 2 
should be limited to such fruit as might be 
agreed upon, according to a certain fixed 
standard. During the past season but few 
catalogues of sales were without the words 
“wet,’' “slack”or“wasty,” the price depend¬ 
ing on the character of the fruit. The hand¬ 
ling of Canadian fruit in the Old Country 
is far from satisfactory to the shippers, and 
a better system is imperatively demanded, 
for the best interests of the trade; but the 
growers must start thejinnovation them¬ 
selves, and there can be no more equitable 
method of doing so than by adopting this 
plan of inspection, as then the brand would 
become an important factor in increasing 
the marketable value of fruit in every 
market. 
Dr. D. W. Beadle spoke on the fruit¬ 
growers’ outlook. He said thoughtful 
fruit-men were sometimes appalled at the 
quantities of fruit trees and plants annu¬ 
ally sent from the nurseries, for planting; 
but many of the plantations have been so 
unwisely made that they will have no ap¬ 
preciable effect on the markets.Many people 
go into the business in a happy-go-lucky 
way as a speculation, having no love or 
enthusiasm for fruit growing, and fail. It 
is the man who gives to the work his head, 
heart and hands, who is satisfied with 
nothing short of perfect fruit who succeeds. 
Much more fruit per capita is used now 
than 50 years ago, and past experience 
promises that the increase will continue, 
especially as the consumers of food are in¬ 
creasing at least twic^ faster than are the 
producers. Again, all the land brought 
under cultivation and capable of sustain¬ 
ing a considerable population, is not suit¬ 
able for fruit growing; hence the citizens 
of large areas must depend, for their fruit 
upon those sections where fruit-growing 
is a commercial success. E. E. s. 
(To be continued.) 
COMMENT COLUMN. 
An Annaheim farmer sowed two acres 
to barley for hay November 15, 1889 ; the 
following April he took off four tons of 
hay, plowed, irrigated and planted the 
same piece with corn ; about the middle of 
August he planted potatoes between the 
rows of corn, then took off his corn-stalks 
and all, regular Eastern style, and in¬ 
side of 12 months from November 15, 1889. 
he had his third crop from the same land 
sacked and ready for market at $1.40 per 
cental for his spuds. His potato rows 
were unusually far apart, and he had only 
50sacks per acre.—Los Angeles Herald. 
Last year the R. N.-Y. had sweet corn, 
three varieties, beans, peas, squashes and a 
volunteer crop of potatoes, all growing in 
the same rows. 
Not more than a week ago a Cincinnati 
gentleman of more or less business sagacity 
showed the writer a bag of gold weighing 
several pounds which he was on the point 
of taking to a sate deposit. “ That’s the 
way I am doing a banking business now,” 
he said. “If they are going to enact a 
free-coinage law or going into a wholesale 
inflation business, something like that plan 
proposed by the greenbackers in the seven¬ 
ties and recently executed by the cranks 
of the Argentine Republic, why, I want to 
be in condition to have something to sell 
when gold goes bounding up to a big pre¬ 
mium.”—Cincinnati Times. 
How many men in your township are do¬ 
ing the same thing on a smaller scale ? 
In a paper read before the recent conven¬ 
tion of fruit growers at Santa Cruz, R. 
Hector, of Placer County, California, said 
that his famous cherry tree had during the 
past five years brought him a gross return 
of $1,800. Last year, 300 10-pound boxes of 
cherries were picked from this tree. The 
fruit has brought an average return of 
$1.50 a box during the five years. The tree 
is of the Black Tartarian variety, is 35 
years old and 60 feet in height, while its 
trunk has a girth of over ten feet at a point 
six feet above the ground.—Grass Valley 
Tidings. 
What part of an acre of soil does this tree 
draw nourishment from? 
An Arizona farmer planted several 
acres to beans on the 20th of last March. 
He replanted with the seed obtained from 
the first crop on the 25th of August. This 
time he plowed first, then irrigated and 
then sowed his beans broadcast, harrowing 
afterward. The result was a yield of a 
ton to the acre. He sold 1,000 pounds at 
home for $45, which would give a return of 
$90 per acre, and this, with two crops a 
year from the same ground, makes beans a 
good crop to raise.—Yuma Times. 
But the country’s bean growing will not 
jump over the Rockies this century. 
To assert that the farmers were forced by 
necessity to borrow the money on the hard 
terms offered is utter nonsense. There 
was no want or destitution among the 
people of Kansas more pressing than that 
among the early settlers of Oregon. Here 
we lived how we could and didn’t think of 
borrowing money and giving mortgages. 
It is a test of a people’s quality to live wit h 
out money and pretty much everything 
else. We all went through it in the days 
of early ^Oregon. The mortgage period 
came later, and this always is a period of 
comparative abundance and even of luxury. 
The very terms “ money ” and “ mortgage ” 
imply luxurious conditions, compared with 
those our early settlers experienced.—Ore¬ 
gonian. 
Is not this thelhistory of your ancestors 
200 years[ago? 
As to the value of sugar beet pulp for 
feeding, a large cattle breeder and feeder 
in south Russia assured me that in reality 
three tons of the pulp were only equal in 
nutrient value to one ton of the best hay; 
yet he had found that when fed in con¬ 
nection with coarse provender, it possesses 
a value In the way of keeping the animals 
in a sleek, growthy condition not indicated 
by its chemical analysis.—Prof. J. L. Budd. 
The feeding value of the pulp would be 
determined largely by the grain fed 
with it. 
I HAVE found that the white hogs could 
not endure mud, a qualification which 
black-haired swine seem to have. The 
English people have gone back on the Berk¬ 
shire and now prefer the white hogs.—Cap¬ 
tain Jordan, of Iowa. 
Is there any special reason why a hog 
should wallow in mud ? 
My advice to those fruit growers who 
live all the year in Florida, and have a 
good range, is to count up the cost of the 
fertilizer they used for spring, put half of 
it in fertilizer and the rest in cows, ease off 
gradually on the commercial an l increase 
in the cow manure. The milk and butter 
should pay for all attention to tin- stock. 
The year’s fertilizer will more than pay the 
first cost of the cows, and after that it will 
be all profit.—Florida Agriculturi-f. 
This advice will answer for nine tenths 
of the farms in the United States 
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