OUR TENDER FRUITS FOR ENGLAND. 



Fio. 1140.— Hon. Sidnly Fisher, MP. 

 Minister of Agriculture for the Dom. of Canada. 



'E take pleasure in giving 

 prominence in our pages to 

 the Hon. Sidney Fisher, 

 because he has made him- 

 self interested in the fruit export trade 

 of Canada. Our report for 1896 gives 

 a verbatim report of his addresses at 

 our Kingston meeting last December, 

 in which he promised to ""do a 

 in his power to encourage an | 

 export trade in our tender fruits. \ 

 by means of a chain of cold 

 storage service right from the 

 grower in Canada to the con- 

 sumer in Britain. 



This promise is being faithfully 

 carried out, and already the n 

 frigerator cars are beginning; i^ 

 give regular service on the grtai 

 railway lines. At Grimsby a cold 

 storage warehouse has been crcc t 

 edbythe Department of Agricul 

 ture, to hold about a carload and 

 a half, as shown in accompanying j,-j 

 engraving. It is a small build- 

 ing, and nearly two-thirds of the 



interior is filled with ice, but laige 

 enough to make a thorough test, and 

 that is the object in view. 



The ice room is on the ground floor 

 in the rear, and is stored with about 

 seventy five tons of ice, and there are 

 openings in the bottom of the partition 

 to let the currents of cold air into the 

 store room, and flues at the ceiling for 

 carrying the heated air back to the rear 

 of the ice room. 



It is the intention to send forward a 

 car-load a week of such fruit as summer 

 apples, tomatoes, pears, peaches and 

 grapes, and the results will be made 

 public as quickly as possible, in order 

 that the whole country may share in the 

 advantage. 



Special packages will be used for this 

 trade, and the committee at Grimsby 

 has adopted a convenient form, designed 

 by Mr. John H. Grout, which may be 

 generally adopted. It consists of a 

 case containing two cubic feet outside 

 measure, in which trays are fitted to suit 

 the various fruits. Fig. 1x42 shows 

 case and two trays differing in depth 



-EM'KunniNTAi. Cdi.ii Stouack Koii Fkimt, 



AT (iuiMSIlY, ONT. 



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