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The grain grower of the prai- rie gets his big farm at low cost, sometimes as a free grant; the land is ready for cultivation; the' Government suhsidizes a railway to take the fruit to mar- ket. The British Columbia fruit farm must first be cleared of enormous trees; the people of the east and the prairie provinces can scarcely realize the immense size of British Columbia timber. After the land has been cleared "We have been induced to leave Great Britain and to come to this peninsula, and to invest our capital in the pur- chase, planting and general im provement of fruit lands in a large measure owing to the very wide distribution of offi cial pamphlets and "other litera ture-emanating from Canada and distributed throughout the British Isles, posfively stating that the-Ontario grower is pro tected in the home market by a very high tariff against for- eign-grown fruit and vegetables and thus, enjoys that market without serious competition from outside sources." "The amount of customs tar iffs on the various fruits is specifically stated in these pam phlets and literature," and in order that this particular advan tage to the Canadian grower may be clearly understood by the Britisher this tariff scale is not only set forth in Cami- dian money but is also set forth in the coinage of Great Britain. Under the belief that these conditions would be stable In 1901 there Were 567,000 fruit trees in British Columbia, according to the Dominion cen- sus. Now there are estimated to be five milion fruit trees in that province, and the area devoted to fruit is rapidly increasing. . a large amount of capital to purchase and equip even the small farms the majority of us own, and to provide for the maintenance of our families dur ing the years it takes to bring an orchard into bearing." Four days after these Ontario fruit farmers presented their case to the Government, Mr. Martin Burrell, member of Par- liament for YaleuCariboo, gave the House of Commons a remark ably clear and comprehensive statement of the position of the fruit growers in all the pro- vinces of Canada, giving special attention, of course, to his own provincce of British Columbia, which has made wonderful pro- gress in the planting of orchards during the last ten years. Mr. Burrell has devoted 28 years f his life to the practical work of fruit growing. No man in Cana da has a better knowledge of the question. F ' i Canadian Fruit Farmers in Great _ Peril (From The Canadian Century) The largest deputation of farm ers that ever waited on an Ca- nadian Government was that of the fruit growers of western On tario, who went to Ottawa on February IO, to protest against the Reciprocity Agreement. The case they presented to the Gov- ernment 'was a strong one. They showed that if the Reciprocity Agreement was endorsed by the Canadian Parliame.nt and the United States Congress it would reduce the value of every Orchard' in Ontario and ruin thousands of small fruit farm- ers who had paid high prices for their little farms and spent time and money in planting trees. They showed that many 'large farms had been subdivided for fruit growing purposes, and that new subdivisions were constant- ly being made. They said that a farm of one hundred acres which formerly supported only one tamily, being cut into ten small fruit farms, supported ten families. Among other mem orials presented by this deputa tion was the following: “We, the undersigned, the president and executive com'mit tee of the Old Country Associa tion, composed entirely of men born and bred in the British Isles, and the great majority of whom are engaged in the fruit industry, respectfully and earnestly beg to draw the attention of the Dominion Gov ernment to the peculiar hard- ship which ‘will be imposed upon us should this proposed tariff legislation come into effect. _ we have not only sunk our own capital, but have been instrumental in bringing many of our countrymen here, to in vest in this growing industry, which, owing to the steady rise of recent years in the values of land, now requires This is the second of the series of articles on Reciprocity republished from the Canadian Century to which reference was made in our issue of last week. CANADA'S OPEN DOOR What Will American Farmers Say? When the farmers of the United States learn that the same Reciprocity Compact that gives them free entrance to the Canadian market, gives exactly the same privilege to almost every food-exporting country in the world they will be enraged They will say: "With Russians, Japanese, Austrians, Argen- tines, Danes, Swedes, Nerwe- gians, Spaniards, Australians, New Zealanders and a host of other food producers dumping their surplus products into the Canadian market, what will there be left for us?" They will complain that Canadians will try to relieve their glutted markets by shipping some of this foreign stuff into the United States, and indeed it will be very difficult for the United States Govern- ment to prevent them doing so. How will United States customs officials be able to distinguish be tween Canadian farm products and the foreign food that will "r/rRY some wee-<4 ago pu- blished an article on the value of a tree. It was pointed out that a German railway company had been forced to pay six hun- dred dollars for one cherry tree which it destroyed, and the prin ciple upon which the court decid ed the value of a fruit tree Iwas explained. Mr. Burrell's esti- mate only allows five dollars as the average value of a Canadian fruit tree when he values the orchards of the Dominion at $150,000,000. We believe that the real value is very much greater. Now what would be said if the-Government sudden,Fr took away the tariff protection of a group af manufacturing indus- tries in which $150,000,000 of capital is invested? We hear a great deal from the politicians about vested rights. Why should there be any more consideration for the vested rights of farmers. Has not the small farmer a vested right in the fruit tree that has cost him money, labor, time and anxiety? According to the Dominion census of 1901, there were in the whole of Canada 15,053,875 apple trees, 1,301,775 peach trees, 962,101 pear trees, 2,415,605 plum trees, 1,288,368 cherry trees and 179,425 other fruit trees; a total of over twenty-one million fruit trees, besides 2,783,596 grape vines and large acreages of small fruits. Since 1901 there has been a 'Very large increase in the number of trees, British Columbia farmers alone having planted about 4,500,000 trees within the ten years. Mr Burrell esiimates that there can not be less than thirty miiiion frrit' trees in Canada now. ami he thinks that $15. 1.000.300 is a lcw valuation to wax: a-n the orchards of Canada torlav. We do not belive' that the pros perous grain growers of the prairie provinces of Canada will vote against their brothers in British Columbia and Ontario when they know the real facts We appeal to those farmers in Canada who are not fruit grow- ers, to Stand by their brother farmers in this time of peril. World Competition fpr Canada "Why should Canadian farm- ers lose every vestige of Protec- tion for their products while the tariff on manufactured articles remains almost untouched If farm products from the United States, the Argentine Republic, Russia/Austria-Hungary, Den- mark, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Japan,, Australia, New Zealand and other countries are to come into free competition with Canadian farm products in. our own home market why should not manufactured products come in free from the 'same countries? on. Free trade in farm products and protection for manufactured products is a condition of things that cannot be permanent. These are the questions which farmers throughout Cana- da are asking each other now, and they will ask the politicians the same questions a little later gt great expense and fruit trees planted the farmer must wait for years for. his trees to grow and bear fruit. In many parts of the province he must pay his share of the cost of construct- ing irrigation works. In the Okanagan Valley alone the amount of $r,5oo,ooo has been expended already in irrigation works for orchard purposes and vast outlays of the same kind are goinq on all over the pro- "l HE CANA ' Dear Friend:--h number of voir-friends, learning of your early departure from Grimsby, to make your home in another A :most enjoyable evening was spent in progressive Pedro and dancing by the large number present, after which a most sumptuous luncheon was served. During supper, Mr. J. Orlon Livingston called Miss Tufford to the centre of the dining room and presented her with a beau- tiful gold mounted amlbrella and an address, as a token of the love and respect her Grimsby friends have for her. . The address was as follows: Address Grimsby, Ont., Feb. 22, 1911. To Miss Ila Tufford, Lotmon, Ont., by local detectives on the charge of raising Canadian Express Company money orders, received a sentence of five years in Kingston penitentiary) from Police Magistrate Patterson at Ingersoll at 6.20 o'clock Saturday evening. Before Bradshaw re- ceived sentence he signed his name to a statement in which he confessed that under the guise of being an agent for a Bible firm, he raised money orders at a score of places in Ontario and at a number in New York state and Michigan. So fully did the young man make clear his guilt that to the officers of the city he made a complete de- monstration of the modes he used in erasing the so-called in- deliible ink of an original money order and increasing its face value to the limit of the margin, al guards. The ne'atness and despatch of his work amazed the officials. (This is the slick individual who raised the Canadian Express order from 25c to $5 and cashed it at the Canadian Express office in Grimsby. He travelled under the name of Waters while here and also tried to sell Chief of Police Swayze a bible. RECITAL POS 1‘PONED UN- T TIL MAR. 7 ' On account vi the cars; IfCt running on' 'N.s.Hcsdav cvmiil‘é; last, the ”musicai evening l" 3'? nie M. Kennedy, was pa<101\g§ until Tuesday evening, Mar. 7t4; The pupils will be assisted/IV Miss Minnie' Hind, A. T. C. ., elocutionist, and Miss Katy/12:1 Lancely, vocalist. Both ofithesie young ladies are artists in/ their respective lines and are cdnnect ed with the Hamilton Conserva- tive staff. cut Feserire. Trems six month Jas. A. Livingston, auctiotaeer FORGER ARRESTED AT INGERSOLL I11gersoll, Feb. 27.---After ex- pressing his willirfgness "to'take his medicine right away,"'Wm. Bradshaw, who was arrested in The Lawrie children, in Scotch songs and dandes, from Mr. Hackett's school of dancing, will also take part in the pro- era-m. SURPRISE PARTY AND PRESENTATION A large number of friends of Miss Ila Tufford gave her a surprise party on Wednesday evening last, at her beautiful home on Depot St. Miss Tufford, who is one of Grimoby's finest and most esti- mable young ladies, is leaving Grimsby to take up her home in Cayuga, and her friends in Grimshy could not let her leave their midst without showing in some manner the esteem in which she is held by them. be dumped on the Canadigfn market? Dishonest men in both Canada and the United Sta-£5 will take advantage of the situa- tion. On the other hand, honest Canadian exporters will often be suspected of fraud. Ameri- can customs officials will some- times charge that good, honest, Canadian eggs, butter, cheese, etc., come from Argentina, Siber ia or some other outlandisn place that has been given the right to send its farm products freer into Cancfa. Bitter can troversies will Lane. The pleas ant kindly 'feeimge. that have :0 Yuri}; wasted beta een Canadians and Arrericu.u.s. will be replaid by a spirit of suspicion and an- tagonism that may have serious consequences.' v The concert will ‘be held - in Snetsinger Hall and will 'ccynr- mence at 8 p. m. sharp. Admis- sion IOC. Special cars. March 7.--A Louks, living one mile north-east of the Village of Grimsby, near the lake, will offer for sale his farm stock, im- plements and a large quantity of other articles at I o’clock p.m. Mr. Louks is giving up farming and moving into the Villa e and everything will bt,t,l?dh1r1')fed1t"hu- Auction Sale Mes individual 1 Express 1d cashed ‘ess office led under rhile here Chief of ED UN- cars; IfC't / evening ng () W ms 1 01v; Mar. 7 xi ssisted,by T. c ., Lfidiei; 1 off/these 5 hr their e connect Conserva- in Scotch _ rom Mr. dancing, the pro- I" u u. "" "l Central Planing Mills ' 8r Main St. West 3 'rELEPHONEs---Mi11, I46; Werner's House,r51 Telephone 771. HAMILTOIN i. 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