EXTEXSION OF FRUIT GROWING. 



days we found difficulty in peddling out 

 the product of one acre 



The question next arises, can we still 

 further expand our markets ? they ap- 

 peared full in every direction last year. 

 I say we can. Last year I received a 

 letter from a friend in Yarmouth, Nova 

 Scotia, saying why do you not send 

 grapes here? they are retailing at rSc. 

 per pound. Now, I had Offered grapes 

 to all the best dealers in that town for 

 several years at prices current. Last 

 year about one and-a-half cents per 

 pound here, equal to about 3c. there, 

 and succeeded in getting no orders, the 

 dealers, doubtless, getting them as cheap 

 from Boston, from whence daily boats 

 came, and that in spite of duty. The 

 retail dealers, doubtless, put their heads 

 together and decided that it would be 

 more profitable to buy grapes at 3 cents 

 and sell at 18 than to do double the 

 business and sell at 10 cents, or four 

 times the business at 7 or 8 cents. I 



have seen this same thing in all our 

 towns up north, such as Fergus, Mild- 

 may, Walkerton and others, some years 

 ago. But gradually some smart chap 

 makes a break and sells lower, and dis- 

 covers that where he formerly sold 10 

 pounds at 15 cents per pound, and 

 wasted five pounds while waiting for 

 monied people to come and buy at these 

 high prices, he can now sell a hundred 

 pounds, and do it so quick that he has 

 very little waste, and, moreover, that he 

 can buy cheaper when he sends to the 

 place of production for 100 pounds than 

 when he bought 10 pounds from a city 

 dealer, and so the educating process 

 goes on, and that is what we call opening 

 upamarket. The town that formerly used 

 100 pounds per week now uses 1,000 

 pounds, and yet there are hundreds of 

 to)vns yet to know the blessings of cheap 

 fruit ; hundreds of towns yet where the 

 greed of the retailer has yet to be foiled 

 or where he has yet to learn the funda- 



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