Excerpt from Fifty-Fourth Annual Report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1922 It is with a great deal Of pleasure that we welcome you to our sixty-third Annual Meeting of the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association. We meet to-day under peculiar circumstances, having passed through a very strenuous season in which we faced conditions never before forced upon us. Questions regarding this will come up at our meeting to-day. In fact, the executive, in preparing the programme for this convention was careful in putting on our programme speakers who were prepared to deal with the different situations as we saw them during the past year. I am sure this will meet with your approval and that your interest will be held throughout the convention. We are glad to see so many of our old friends here to-day and to note the number of new faces. The apple season of 1922 was very peculiar. We had an excessively heavy crop of tree fruits, and when the apples were put on' the market they came in competition with the more tender fruits from the Niagara District, such as peaches, plums and pears, which militated against the sale of our apples. I made a number of visits to the Toronto markets, and I found on different occa sions the dealers were completely overwhelmed with the supply of fruits from the different parts of the Province. It was absolutely impossible for them to make satisfactory sales of any of these fruits because it was a matter of putting on the market a product which the people would not buy. However, we trust throughout the Province generally conditions have not been too bad and that the fruit growers have made a reasonable profit out of their enterprise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.