THE 



Canadian HoKTicuLTUKisr. 



Vol. XX. 



1897. 



No. 





THE EXPORT OF TENDER FRUITS. 



HT the Annual Meeting of the 

 Ontario Fruit Growers' Asso 

 ciation at Kingston, in Dec- 

 ember, 1896, the advisability 

 of making some experimental shipments 

 to Great Britain of tender fruits, such as 

 peaches, tomatoes, pears, grapes and 

 summer apples was fully discussed. An 

 address was given by the Hon. S. Fisher, 

 Minister of Agriculture, for the Dom- 

 inion, to the effect that the Department 

 of Agriculture was desirous of assisting 

 Canadian fruit growers in this enterprise, 

 and would like to know just what provi- 

 sion would be needed. 



A committee was appointed to reply to 

 his enquiries, consisting of L. Woolver- 

 ton, \V. M. Orr, G. E. Fisher, A. H. 

 Pettit, and E. D. Smith. This Commit- 

 tee met and recommended that ship- 

 ments go forward during the month of 

 August, September, October or later, of 

 at least one carload per week, and of 

 three or four carloads a week during the 

 month of September ; that cold storage 

 would be needed at the point of ship- 

 ment, as well as on the railway cars ; that 



the varieties of fruit be as many as pos- 

 sible, and packed in the very best man- 

 ner ; that only the best stock be allowed 

 to go forward ; that an agent be sent to 

 Britain to look after the interests of the 

 fruit grower ; that cold storage ware- 

 houses be erected at such points as can 

 be agreed upon, where growers will 

 furnish the amount of fruit required, and 

 agree to buy over the warehouses at the 

 end of three years provided the experi- 

 ment proved a success. 



At a meeting of representative fruit 

 growers from Grimsby, Winona and 

 Burlington, held at Grimsby on the 26th 

 of January, two resolutions were passed, 

 one asking for three warehouses, one at 

 at Grimsby, one at Winona, and one at 

 Burlington, each place to provide one- 

 third of a carload per week ; and another 

 resolution which while approving of the 

 former, recommended as a preferable 

 scheme, the erection of one warehouse 

 by the Department, and the guarantee 

 to the shippers of a fair market price for 

 the goods 



The Department approved of the lat- 



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