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Wi Fll'iit 2:? k362i tit, .‘ "LA is» a??? m dl x 'eve EN 'ttil F.g .‘t’ers-onally I had the Opinion that Would extend mm Tent to the deouta present stage of th dimcint to see hc noSSibly do so, hc he misrm r9011" Ln Illlllii't,i) /pe.ed, /whatever f or {Vegetable growers Illllt'titprigisd at the chilly f1éfygg'rleceived from Sir Iiifii;i,iiihrident----to anyone 'lllit,i'irpids such matters--- Illgitit: was framed ," up wifeputation ever left 1lr1,iliiis, .gfowers seemed IllRii ed in their inno- 3:33hat on their case Ilriii:,.ti9rin the admirable Illlir,iiii'iriiit, that on the llllilis!l,rti' pf such treatment Ill,!),,,,,,,)'.'!,'?,)? classes of the IE',ii,i,':,t,t'iting clearly shown, , M,t'"t'i'ii't, Sir Wilfrid would lllilltt,i.t)T with open arms 1lllji'x',_')i'lirs wontiid charming Iltlrej,tts "God ' bless ye, IllEl)ii'"i be it unto you illlt,,tiil,C,desie." Not so kW-if’l-gl‘eat game of Poli- lllr.F'l'-si,),1r,0firra-daors. ‘ lltlrtct'_ FOR DISCOUR- 'IB.,))'-.')')" Fruit' Grower) llRri"iiitit o’clock in the evening and at ten o'eloek and two o'eloek Illlllri1i"'iii"iiiiiinent speakers will be present and deliver addresses..-- V irlk"i'"'iii'iisiii, President of the Connecticut Pomological society, of Milford, Conn ' aRrriSjr'f" Il.tsl,rt'tir,a, (son of Mr. J. H. Hale) of South Glastonbury. Conn. ‘ Iillii'r'i'i'ii; tsts, fruit gixiwer and shipper, of Buffalo, N.Y. . Ilgib'rls_i'ii.' MACOUN, of the Experimental Farm, Ottawa. llt'k""i'it'ft,atoomvr, of the Ontario Agricultural College. Guelph, Ont. lllitlii; Laerrother gentlemen will address the convention. All fruit growers ItBt"t.iil to be present and take pert in the discussion. Illllllii'st'i'_ili_'v,i_iii"'aj Fruit Growers Convention o'e . luck IllllEiiifi'titon will be continued in the STANDARD HALL, ST" V ‘ 1731:5335 on THURSDAY, MARCH 2nd, at two o'rroek and it will Illlllligrs!i5'riii"iit o'eloelr in the evening and at ten o'eloek and two o'eloek Iilii1'i'ijiitron Will ‘open in SNETS1NGER'S HALL, GRIMSBY, on ‘ 'ii"iri_'t,t,i" MARCH 1st, at two o'eloelr, with an evening session at: eight Grimsby Biittto so, however ' m {lixngpally be impressed Mlltlllti,ii1"iti'i"ifirsiir, however. that For tall particulars see large posters 'llllllllti'ilijrPeninsu1a Fruit Growers Association GRIMSBY Axes Saws F , . Buck Saws Cross-Cut Saws 1"“?”y 1 had never formed $130“ that Sir Wilfrid _t)x'tend much encourage- :he deputation. At the tage of the game it was 9 see how he could do so, however much and St. Catharines, on March 1, 2 and 3, 'll . B. BOURNE The annual convention of the will be held in The fruit and vegetalble grow- ers had not the faintest idea that any such radical changes ai-. fecting their interests were to be made; and when the announce- ment did come, like a bolt front the blue, how prompt they were to act, and how quickly the large and imposing deputation was made up, and which has just returned from Ottawa. . Replying to Sir Wilfrid's own words that no revolutionary changes in the tariff would be made by his government, and also upon the fact that resolu- tions had been sent to the Gow.. ernment requesting that no changes be made in the fruit and vegetable tariff without consulting them. . Such ‘a course, however, did not seem good to him, and the blunt and almost brutal way in which their requests were re- fused made the shorn lambs-- the fruit and vegetable growers ---feel their nakedness as never before. ' V _ Most of the points Sir Wilfrid made were singularly unhappy. The first one, for instance, that the deputation was' too late in the day. If they were, whose fault was it? I had expected him to' dress up his refusal in flowery phrases, to temper the wind to the suorz: lambs as it were. Mitts, Etc; ONTARIO The convention will be l in the Standard Hall, St C The annual convention of the I gara Fruit Grower's Association, l be held at Grimsby and St Cathari on March Ist, 2nd and 3rd. V The convention will open in bi singer's Hall, Grimsby, March Ist,, 2 o'clock and an evening session _ o'clock. L ANNUAL FRUIT GROWER'S“; CONVENTION .': 'j/i Jacob' Lang, Smithville ' Herbert Glover, Fruitland . J. S. Zimmerman, Hamilton . Revere Hotel, Hamilton. . Mrs. P. B. Cline, Fulton .. Dr. o. Teeter, Amherstburg ..Dec. 31 G C Ingram, Grimsby Mar. I N. P. Henning, ',. Subscriptions to the Indeperri dent will be acknowledged iné this column as soon as they and received and entered up in the}: books. Parties who remit as; and do not see the amounti acknowledged here should ii'iiii,ijc, us a card. No receipt will 'iii, sent except by special requests“; Mrs. R. Teeter, if Grimsby .. ..Dec. :si,riji' Smithv"ille . . . .Dec Wm. Sutherland, Stonev Creek .Apr mere, surface appearances, "it My last word to the fruit aitt) vegetable growers Lherefore, 15:32 Be not discouraged, you hairé produced a great effect; Vdug have done your best, and have; presented a strong case charm and well. Now rest on yoiiii' oars feeling assured that in at)? nrolbalbility things will finatl)i) turn ottt much better than meg"- surface indications appear ',rij)," point to at present. _,':-.,,':,'),,', Berthat as it may/there is no doubt, whatever, that the pre- sence of that deputation is going to have a far-reaching effect for' good, not to be measured by f Seirera1 members of the: House also intimated that the presence of such a deputation would have a marked effect up- on the debate in th Howie now going on. t Beahesville . . . .Jan I. Melick, ' That even those of them whc were strongly in favor of the measure before, were much shaken in their opinions after hearing the fruit growers' side of the case, and that the presence of such a large body of earnest highly intelligent and deter- mined men was a revelation. to the members. . The deputation, however, pic duced a moral effect, not only upon the people of Ottawa, not only upon the Government-ral- though they affected to make light of it, but most important of all, it made a profound im.. pression upon the members "of the Home of Commons., 1 Soon after the affair was over I was taken all over the House by one of the members and intro duced to many of the others, Their opinion was, as freely dis cussed amongst themselves, that it was a very long time since a case had been so clearly. and admirably laid -before the Gov- ernment. One good point alone was made and that was, that it 'r,':.iiiss' difficult for any government/flip a matter of this kind, to legislate so as to suit all classes pf the community. _ _/v,.,' In his closing remarks, r,li'itl,h- ever, Sir Wilfrid himself, cam- pletely disposed of that afgh- ment, by intimatin'g that heisék' pected the fruit and vegetable men to sacrifice themselves Apr the benefit of the country. . if?" An_0t.her point was that "i__,'(__/i'i",)o real mjury was being done {53:30 the fruitand vegetable intertisits. fancy comparing the o.,"))'.?',"" sentations of a couple of 'rtil'glR', however sincere they Tiglt,t'.iiit,liilr, with the bodily presence ftv'iiij'alf:) earnest and exIyT!'encfd'jji'lr,qgt, from all parts of the fruit"; vegetable districts. F _'v,i'i,giiB' Another point Sir r1h'l',iiil llll made was that certain ii.yii,allllil, als-to wit-Ness) Jriirkii'a Ill Nova Scotia. and Johnson" 'trigll Ilit folk county, had dtrciar,ef,ti:illlrllg. selves as in favor of 'recit18llllllEl in fruits, and that con‘seq,u.;':; Ilk' the fruit growers were div"iilillllllr,1 the point. . 1- . 13,3935 PAID UP . M May Dec Apr Mn- lar contiriikil, Iatharinész' atharines 31 27 31,’II 15,32 1r'rt I5 Snet- ot, at Nia- at8 will /rr ,'r2 ,' fi 'II 'II 'II hat these principles are ca- IF,',!, of extension to other in- fries as well, is evident by ;_‘failure of the millers and lit-packers also to produce ,jI-mpressmn at Ottawa. These Ii,r, likewise were much too ex- 'ttpced and successful in respective industries, ' to titil-ily know anything: about Itri, and naturally were not Bii, ed to. :_S§_'fr11it and vegetable grow- however, feel immensely en 'vxfged because they realize 3%hil'e it has been difficult in 'll'),t),tt to get capable men to g1gthen‘l the right methods fiitldu'ctin'g their o'cculoatmus. Et'??) the future all they wid Iiritp do to attain perfection, .,),ilt to avail themselves of Iitlrmtnse crop of inferior Bt/r, incompetent editors and l.lred manufacturers al- Elitrrow ridiculous of the vege- Eye growers to send experi- ied men of the calibre of 'iips. Deliworth of Weston and Ilr,,1,'A. Adams of Leamington, to Itttrwa, when a pettifogging lyer, picked up at random '.'lt,1 some small town or an Btitpre occupant of bhacktown, pinto (growing a few vegeta- 'ltr in his back yard), would ,ggrhad much more weight with rrGovernment. _:i:i_irli,?,?,ert' -men successfully en-il pged for years in occu-i tions they knew nothing gout, should expect to 'teach It: er men, having no experience 'iii'i'vri't'sci', occupations, and conse- w-ntly, knowing all about 1l.ii5nr, anything, and' especially "la the latter had the addition IIB, good fortune to belong to Kiss-ss No. I herein mention'ed. ,rr,r?,Afctw supremely foolish of the “rt-it growers to select experi- Bic-ed peach, grape and berry 'ipwers like St. Clair Fisher of' Iiuetnston, W. H. Bunting of ',.*.Catharines, or J. W. Smith »Winona. when they might liiiire been representd by men tile E. A. Morden of Niagara 23115.» (the petty grower of a :‘i straggling berries and stunt 'i8(: grape vines), Mrs. E. J. Mc- “tyre of Stamford township I,iitlio took out the writ against e Lincoln County Council), or _A‘. MacDonald of The Globe, lie latter too notorious to Ii)',), description). 1 I successful members f the fruit and vegetable occupations them- selves. The growers of this district are much encouraged by these remarkable and, timely discov- eries, for they explain pearly riieieral things otherwise hard to Etmderstand. For instance, why 4)heiecent deputation to Ottawa Was turned down. How could if be otherwise? Oh! The pre sumption of the thing! Second, that the persons', who really do know are of two class- eg, n2mely: I. Men more or less unsuccessful at other pur- suits, such as lawyers/manufac- turers, (hiscuits preferred), edi- tors, etc. 2. Obscure and. tltr- ! WONDERFUL DISCOVER- IES IN FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GROWING '(By F. G. H. Pattison, Winona) . Whatever may le said as to the merits or demerits of the proposed changes in the tariff, they have, at "'all events, led to some wonderful discoveries as to the proper principles of fgrow- ing fruit and vegetables, for which the people engaged in these pursuits cannot be too grateful. The new principles are two in number and are as follows: First, that successful , fruit and vegetable growers of' long experience. know nothing what"; ever of their own business. l ers Besides these speakers, other gent- lemen willwaddress the convention. All fruit growers are cordially invited to be present and take part in therdis cussion. T Professor R Harcoprt of the Ontar- io Agricultural College, Guelph, Ont. t ?or full particulars, see large post Moreover, being quite satis- fied now of the truth of the grand broad principle that "In competency" is the only real road to success, they feel that, viewed in that light, Messrs Fielding-and Patterson were the only fit and pron-er persons to conduct the tariff negotia- tions with the United States Government at Washington and that-viewed in the same light-- the present Dominion Govern- ment is the only possible one for Canada. _ Consequently, under these cir- cumstances, success in their pursuitsin the future will be so easy and certain that any little question _lilce that of the tariff no longer bothers them; and so they are, as says the Ham ilton Times, "completely over the reciprocity scare." V ' Moreover, they see clearly that if partial incompetency in one profession entitles a man to know not only his own profession, but other people's as well, that com- plete in competency must be better still. ways coming on; or, failing. these, lo sit at the teet of fail- ures in their own professions, and learn all there is to be known. Added to all these uncertain- ties due to Nature's variations there is the uncerttinty regard- ing the prices which will pre- vail when the crop is harvested. How many acres should he de- voted to one crop and hew many to another depends upon a guess as to what demand there will be for the different agricul- tural products at the time of harvesting and what prices will prevail. What is true of farm props is also true of live stock. It is comparatively easy for the farmer to study the conditions of the home market but wn-u he has to compete with the farmers of the world at huge, it} In fact; Canadian farmers will have to compete in their Own home market with farm products from all the great food Produc- ing: countries of the world. Adding to the Uncertainty There is always some uncer- tainty about farming. The farm er never knows when he puts, seed in the ground what the weather conditions will be. There may be frost or hail or drought or loo much rain. al British colonies." Thi bring about free entran farm products from those food exporting,- colonies, tralid, New Zealand. But this is not all that the Canadian farmer has to face un- der the reciprocity compact. Ow- ing to favcrcd nation treaties, any tariif adxantages granted Ty Canada l the United States. must also zippy to the foli -\- 11: countries: Argentine Republic, Austria, Hungary, Bolivia, Col- umlbia, Denmark, Japan,. Vor. way, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Venezula. ' ”Then it is provided "that the Advantages granted to the Unit- ed States shall extend to the United Kingdom and the sever- I If the reciprocity compact merely opened the door of the Canadian food market to Amer- ican farmers it would be very injurious to thousands of Cana- dian farmers. It costs no more to transport American farm pro- ducts to Canadian towns and cities than it does to transport Canadian farm products to cities of the United States, and. the American farmers have the ad- vantage of an earlier season. Moreover, there are at least ten times as many farmers in the United States as there are in Canada, and so ten American farmers will get entrance to the markets of Canada for one Can-, adidn farmer who gets entrance) into the niarkets of the United States. That the . American farmers will take advantage of the open door there can be no| doubt. Even with a tariff wall against them they have succeed- ed in selling immense quantities of farm products in Canada/more than Canadian farmers have been able to sell in the United States. 'VVith reciprocity in farm products the ten American farmers will crowd the one Caria dian farmer pretty close in _ own market. The first article follows and others will be published from week to week. The Canadian Century of Montreal believing that _Reciprocity with the United States would imperil the future of Canada and that it would be specially disadvantageous to Canadian farmers wishes to place its view of the question before the whole farm: ing community and has arranged for a series of articles in newspapers of both political parties. (From the Canadian Century of The Door Wide Open FARMERS AND RECIPROCITY , This will entrance of Feb. 18th) eat farmers may be dissatisfied or American manufacturers; may think they are not getting enough out of the agreement and demand better terms. Mr. Taft has made no secret of his expec- tation that the United States is to get greater concessions 'later on. If the United States Congress endorses the com- pact it will be because of this expectation. Under such con- ditions with what feelings of un certainty will the Canadian farmer plan his work for a year ahead. There will always be strong influences at work in the United States that may cause Congress to alter the tariff. American Canadian Parliament. lt is'yg'ell that we are not tied down to a permanent arrangement. Lven the Free Trade Farmers’ Con.. vention in Ottawa on December 15 and 16, 1910, recommended that a permanent' treaty should not be made, but that any under, standing arrived at shunld' be put into effect by concurrent legislation. To make up for losses in the home market the Canadian farm er will have to very greatly in, crease his exports to the United States. In sowing seeds', in raic.,- ing; stock, in growing vegetables and fruit he will always have to consider what is most likely to satisfy American demands; and after he has made his arrange- ments, while his crops are still ungarnered, and the live stock, which he is raising especially to suit the American market, is half grown, the United States Congress may suddenly decide to shut out Canadian farm pro- ducts of all kinds. Remember the reciprocity compact is n 's. a treaty. ' It may be ended at will 'by the United States Congress or. the l It is now proposed 10 add to the uncertainty of Canadian farming. [mported farm pro- ducts from the United States, the Argentine Republic, Den- mark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and a number of other (countries com- ing into Canada without pay- ment of any duties will to a con-. siderable extent displace Cana- dian farm products in the h rue market as a result of the rcciprc- city compact. is much more diffcult to deter mine what the future will be. I Oxygen (or Ozone) sustains life, pre- vents disease, maintains health. The perfected “Oxygenor King' ' is a scien- title device based on natural laws. Ill health is due to the devitalization of the blood-the absence ofa sufficient amount of oxygen. The Oxygenor supplies this Ozone and drives out disease. It benefit every organ ot the bodr-invigorates tl system. Almost every curable ailment ' every stage yields to its effeetive power. 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