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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



September, 1910 



causo thfi slyli> of pHckane and tlic uradiim 

 outweigh the dofioioncy in quality. 



EXTBIltENCE IN THE EAHT 



Having in mind the ossontial difroroni-o 

 lictwoon tho box and the barrol trade, it 

 does not seem stranKC that most of the at- 

 tempts to use the box in the east have not 

 resulted satisfactorily. It is probably near 

 the truth to say that eiRht out of every ten 

 trials of the ap!)Ie box in the east have 

 been unsucressful. A notable example is an 

 experiment l)y the Field PomoloKist of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, 

 Mr. W. A. Taylor, several years ago. He 

 sent abroad during two seasons, eight car- 

 loads of carefully graded boxe<l Baldwin, 

 ^crk and Newton, but with indifferent re- 

 sults as compared with barrels. There are 

 many possible reasons for these failures. 



CUSTOM 



Custom is hard to change and the box 

 pa<'kBge is an innovation in the east. As 

 a rule, eastern buyers and grocers do not 

 look with favor upcn the box, partly bo- 

 cause the profits in repacking and selling 

 a barrel of indifferently packed api)les are 

 apt 10 be greater than in handling three 

 well packed boxes. If the producer could 

 deal direct with the consumer, it would be 

 different; there is no doubt but that a 

 majority of the consumers prefer the box, 

 or a smaller package, if the fruit did not 

 cost much more. 



THE MARKET 



A good' deal depends upon what a certain 

 market prefers, in the matter of fruit pack- 

 ages, as well as in fruit varieties. In the 

 west there is special necessity for caution 

 in this respect. Some buyers want their 



fruit Hi boxes, and ethers prefer barrels, 

 acccrding to the market they expect to 

 reach. The grower who ships should ho 

 equally wise. 



POOIl PAOKINfi • AND GRA»ING 



More failures arise from this cause than 

 from any other. The art of packing boxes 

 is not acquired in an hour. It is work for 

 specially trained men not for the average 

 farm help. In this resjjcct it differs mater- 

 ially from bairel packing, which may l)e 

 quite -veil ''. ne by ordinary heH. More- 

 over, the hafits of several generations of 



men 1,'iio h.ive packed in barrels, using 

 "facers '. and "fillers", have descended to 

 the fruit /lowers of to-day and many of 

 them find it extremely difficult to keeji the 

 snuiller, poorly color<id, or slightly imjier- 

 fect specimens from gravitating to the bot- 

 tom of the box. It will take a generation 

 or two, perhaps, tc breed out that habit 

 The western man deserves no credit for 

 being more honest in this respect, for, as 

 has been pointed out, honesty was not mere- 

 ly the best policy for him, but the only 

 policy that would pay freight rates. 



Canadian Fruit Prospects 



With the exception of British Columbia 

 the crop of fruit in Canada this year will 

 be unusually light. Tho crop in a large 

 part of the United States is also light as 

 well as in Great Britain and Euroi)e, The 

 shortage is world wide and prices fcr fruit 

 should rule high. 



^British Columbia will harvest probably 

 the largest crop in the history of the oro- 

 vince. The Deputy Minister of Agricul- 

 ture, W. K. Scott, is apprehensive that 

 there will be serious loss owing to the 

 scarcity cf labor. Orchard laborers are 

 asking $3.00 a day. In the adjoining states 

 of Washington and Oregon, where Oriental 

 labor is more available, labor can be ob- 

 tained at about half that price. 



In Nova Scotia the fruit crop will be the 

 most signal failure on record. This is due 

 in a large measure to severe frosts on June 

 .5 and 6. With few exceptions, trees, that 

 bore heavily last year, are almost bare 

 this year. There are odd sections where 



(iravensteins and other varieties are giMxl, 

 but for the most part they are a failure. 

 The quality, too, promises to be pcor. Ow- 

 ing to the small crop many growers ceasi'fl 

 s|)raying and fungous diseases are more in 

 evidence than visual. Pears, plums and 

 other fruits will also be light. Secretary 

 for Agriculture, M. Cumming, in an ex- 

 cellent crop report he has issued, reports 

 that the year will be a disastrous one fcr 

 the fruit growers. 



In eastern Quebec the apple crop is very 

 light as well as in the counties of Hunt- 

 ingdon. Chateauguay, Rouville, Bagnt. 

 Lotbiniere and Brome. The bloom was 

 abundant, but the frost of June 3rd de- 

 stroyed it and althcugh the fruit set well 

 it later nearly all dropped. Mr. Augu.st 

 Dupuis, director of the provincial fruit 

 experiment stations, writes The Canadian 

 Horticulturist that owing to the shortage 

 a few carloads of apnles of fall and winter 

 varieties from Ontario should find a ready 



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