July, 1912 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



175 



market, l^ut I have been watching tlie high- 

 class stores and I have yet to find them. 



There is land in British Columbia with 

 timber on it in an xmirrigiited country, 

 where a large number of trees were frozen 

 out two years ago, selling on the Winnipeg 

 market at one hundred dollars an acre, 

 and there seems to be no difficulty in selling 

 it. 



Cooperation Progressing* 



Notwithstandlnt: bad IcijislatioTi and want 

 of leaders in rural affairs and all the other 

 obstacles that have to be met, co-operation 

 is making great headway. It is true that 

 not all the societies hav© been suc- 

 cessful Manv have fallen by the way. 

 Not a few of the fruit growers' associations 

 that were counted among the most success- 

 ful a few years ago have disanpeared and 

 their history is not without interest. But 

 the greater number of the a.s.sociations have 

 continued to flourish, and they do so in 

 sTiite of the conditions that surround them 

 rither than because of them. Many of 

 them would lonrr since h^ve disarmeared 

 had it not been for the mublic spirited men 

 who have been entrusted with their man- 

 agement. 



CO-OPERATION AND STORAGE 



It would be invidious to mark out in- 

 dividual societies, and I content "ivself. 

 therefore, with notinrr tb" lines of M'«r'- 

 thnt have been particularlv sucre-ssful. I 

 n'^te sneciallv the success which has attend- 

 ed the building of packinir houses, ware- 

 h'^uses nnd cold storage nouinment.s. A few 

 years aao, the storase facilities for aT)T)le« 

 "nd fruit generally were verv meacre. and 

 the .otnracefi then existing were in the bands 

 of nrivnto individuals and served larp'^lv 

 as trans in which the private nnole dealer 

 '■"uld catch his P'ame and erow rich uoou 

 t^" auarrv. To-dav tb^re are some scores 

 r^f wnrphouse=: owned bv the orchardiffts 

 t^eniselvnq a"d not b'^ilt for the Tiuroose 

 /•f mrninff dividends but for the Tinmo=o 

 nf imnrnvinn the fruH indiistvv. This T 

 nt among one of the frreat suocesses to 

 reoort<>d in connection with co-ooora- 



I 

 tion. 



CO-OPERATION AND PRICKS 



It mipht not be out of place to record, as 

 one of the advantages of co-oneration. that 

 prices have advanced materiallv. 1 do not 

 mean to snv that the general advance in 

 the nrice of apples is solelv and whollv due 

 to the co-operative associations, but I do 

 say — and note it as one of the triumphs of 

 co-oneration — that the members of co-op- 

 erative associations are getting to-day at 

 le«.st seventy-five per cent, more for their 

 apoles than thev were under individual 

 management. This would be no subject for 

 coneratulation if it meant that they were 

 p-etting this advance and did not earn it. 

 The real subject for congratidation is that 

 the apples furnished bv the members of the 

 co-operative associations are worth seven- 

 ty-five per cent, more than they were under 

 individual management, and that the co- 

 ooerative organization renders it possible 

 for them to get the increased price for the 

 increased value which they have added to 

 their product. 



The members of the Norfolk Fruit Qrow- 

 ers' Association in former vears. when the 

 Livemool prices were even higher than thev 

 are to-dav. sold their apnles for one doll.nr 

 and twenty-five cents to one dollar and sev- 



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