ing upon and obtaining the packages to be used, interviewing fruit growers 

 and securing promises of contributions to the shipment, instructing them 

 upon the selection and packing of the fruit, and arranging the terms upon 

 which the fruit was to be supphed. Before hand, certain conditions seem- 

 ed without trial to be essential to success, and these were as far as possible 

 closely adhered to : the fruit selected should be all No. 1 grade, and should 

 be sufficiently mature to be of good quality upon reaching the market; 

 peaches and Bartlett pears should be wrapped singly in paper ; closed pack- 

 ages only should be used ; the cars should be loaded carefully by nailing 

 each package in place, and by spacing packages so as to allow circulation 

 of air on all sides of a package ; by shipping in carload lots the fruit would 

 not be rehandled until it reached the market ; and the cars must be kept 

 iced, and as quick transit as possible secured. Crawford peaches formed 

 the staple variety in the shipment, and as many kinds of fruit as were in 

 season at the same time were included. Owing to the lateness of fruit 

 this year, thd cars were not shipped until September 14th and 16th res- 

 pectively- 



(2)- From St. Catharines was sent a C. P. R. car, Bohn refrigerator 

 system, and from Grimsby a car known as the Hanrahan refrigerator. 

 These two cars differ in their interior construction in four particulars : 

 First, the ice bunkers in the Bohn system are at the ends of the car; in 

 the Hanrahan the ice is in the middle of the car; second, in the Hanrahan, 

 horizontal flues the full width of the car run just below the ceiling from the 

 ice bunkers in both directions to the ends of the car, for the purpose of 



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conveying to the bunkers the warm air from the ends remote from the 

 ice and allowing cold air to flow back to these ends ; in the Bohn system 

 there is no such flue. Third, the floor of the Hanrahan is provided with 

 a rack, like lattice work, that carries the load off the floor and allows air to 

 flow underneath ; the floor of the Bohn system is provided only with slats 

 two inches high and about eight inches apart running lengthwise of the 



