September, 1912 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



219 



that the local papers will be glad to give 

 such reports publicity. The success the 

 Hamilton Horticultural society is meeting 

 with this year in the publication of de- 

 scriptions of Iccal gardens demonstrates this 

 fact. 



Once a society recognizes that the value 

 of its work can be greatly augmented by 

 interesting the public in its doings through 

 the reading columns of its local papers and 

 then undertakes to supply its papers with 

 short and newsy reports cf its proceedings, 

 it can depend upon obtaining an increase 

 in its power and influence. 



Year by year our record of the causes 

 which have led to the success or failure of 

 different cooperative fruit growers' associa- 

 tions increases in value. It demonstrates 

 what has long been realized by our leading 

 growers that the principle of cooperation is 

 sound. Failure results only where the 

 principle is not properly applied. More 

 and more it becomes evident that the chief 

 corner stone of every successful cooperative 

 association is its manag'er. Where other 

 conditions are reasonably favorable a co- 

 operative association that has a good man- 

 ager and values him at his true worth is 

 assured cf almost certain success. 



I 



Standardizing Canadian Fruit 

 Packages 



(Continued from page 206) 

 It would appear that it might be possible 

 to make the outside dimensions of the apple 

 box the standard for two outside dimen- 



Simply Immense 



"We might add that we have never 

 received such results from advertising 

 as we have had from The Canadian 

 Horticulturist this year. It is simply 

 immense. We are getting enquiries 

 and orders from Prince Edward Isl- 

 and, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, 

 Quebec and Ontario. It only goes to 

 show that The Canadian Horticultur- 

 ist is the right journal in which to 

 advertise to reach the fruit growers." 

 —J. J. Roblin Sc Son, Brighton, Ont. 



The foregoing is a portion of a let- 

 ter received recently from one of our 

 advertisers. It speaks for itself. As 

 this firm is advertising box and bar- 

 rel presses, articles which are used 

 only by commercial fruit growers, 

 men who grow and pack large quan- 

 tities of fruit for shipment, their ex- 

 perience goes to show the extensive 

 circulation which The Canadian Hor. 

 ticulturlst has among this desirable 

 class of readers. These are people 

 who make good money, who live in 

 good homes, and who are good pros- 

 pective buyers of every kind of high- 

 class goods for their fruit farms, for 

 their homes, or for the improvement 

 of their homes and home surround- 

 ings. They are people who can and 

 do afford the luxuries as well as the 

 necessities of life. 



Note also the extensive territory 

 over which the buying power of The 

 Canadian Horticulturist is distribut- 

 ed as evidenced by the fact that or- 

 ders were received from almost all 

 parts of Canada. The Canadian Hor- 

 ticulturist offers to its advertisers a 

 select class of buying power, picking 

 out, as it were just the class of people 

 who are likely to prove good buyers 

 for any class of advertised goods. 



sions for the package for crab-apples, pears, 

 peaches and for the four-basket crate used 

 in plums, cherries and tomatoes. It is 

 possible, toe, that these same outside dimen- 

 sions might be used for the small fruit box 

 crate for shipping raspberries, strawberries, 

 currants and similar fruit. Grapes are 

 apparently quite satisfactorily shipped in 

 the six-quart basket. 



BOX vs. BARREL 



A few words may not be olit of place with 

 reference to the box vs. the barrel. Many 

 fruit growers are impressed with the idea 

 that the box will supplant the barrel. I 

 cannct think that this will be the case. The 

 barrel is an eminently cheap and convenient 

 package, possessing many advantages over 

 the box and. of course, some disadvantages, 

 but upon the whole it would appear that 

 the sentiment divides itself along two lines : 



First : Those who want the poorer grade 

 of fruit prefer, almost universally, the 

 barrel. 



Second : Those who deal exclusively in 

 the higher grades must have the box. 



Then again there are those who for 

 purely sentimental reasons prefer the box 

 or the barrel, as the case may be. I have 

 two letters before me from merchants in 

 the north-west, one asking for well packed 

 barrel fruit and the other denouncing the 

 barrel as an altogether unsuitable package 

 and insisting upon the box only. Both of 



these dealers probably hare good and suffi- 

 cient reasons for their preference. It, 

 therefore, cannot be said that either the 

 barrel or the box is the best package. Each 

 has a place to fill, and the discretion of the 

 packer must be used in deciding which is 

 the proper package for his purpose, the 

 box or the barrel. 



In the trial shipments of peaches, made 

 by the Dairy Commissioner's Branch in 

 1910, a package was u.sed, eighteen inches 

 long, eleven inches wide and three and a 

 half inches deep. This package was design- 

 ed to contain only one row of very fancy 

 peaches, wrapped in paper and packed in 

 wood wool. The package served the pur- 

 pose admirably, and there seems no reason 

 why for certain markets the depth of the 

 package could not be increased so as to take 

 in two layers, and correspond in two dimen- 

 sions with all other box packages. 



It may be noted that the great bulk cf 

 the Pacific Coast apples are shipped in 

 what is known as the Oregon standard box, 

 ten and a half by eleven and a half by 

 eighteen inches. 



With these dimensions before us, it 

 would seem that there is a possibility of 

 standardizing all our boxes and crate pack- 

 ages at least in two dimensions, and thus 

 meet the needs fairly well of these who wish 

 to ship mixed cars and, at the same time, 

 make a convenient package for all purposes. 



British Columbia Packages 



Bulletin number forty-five of the British Columbia Department of Agriculture pub- 

 lishes the following as the packages used by British Columbia fruit growers : — 



Apples 



Crab-apples. 



Size of Box, etc., 

 Inches 



Pears . . . 

 Peaches . 



Plums. . 

 Prunes. 



Apricots. 

 Cherries. 



Raspberries. 



Strawberries . 



Loganberries. . 



(Inside measurements) 



10 X 11 X 20 



10 X 11 X 20 (apple) 



Average Weights 

 (Net) 



Remarks 



18Ji X 11 X 8J4 (pear) 



18^ X 11 X 8^.., 

 18>i X \\}i X 4... 

 18M X UYa. X 4M.. 

 18^ X 11% X 4>^. 

 15M X 15% X 4%. 



15M X 15% X 4%. 



18% X 9 X 2}.i .... 



.41 lbs. 

 .50 lbs. 



...40 lbs. 



.46-48 lbs. 

 .17-21 lbs. 



.20-22 lbs., 

 .20-25 lbs. 



.19-20 lbs. 

 .8J^-9 lbs.. 



2-5 quart carton (24 tc 

 1 crate) 



Size of carton, 5% x 5X 

 X 1 



4-5 quart carton (24 to 

 1 crate) 



Size of carton, 5% x 5X 



Currants. 

 Grapes. . . 



Rhubarb. . . . 

 Cantaloupes. 

 Tomatoes. . . . 

 Cabbage. . . . 

 Lettuce 



2-5 quart carton (24 to 1 

 crate) 



G quart basket 

 niately) 



(approxi- 



20 X 15% X 7ii. 

 12 X 11% X 20'.; 

 '8% X 11% X 5. 

 25 X 23 X 18. . . . 

 28% X 16 X 12.. 



.14 lbs. 



.24 lbs. 



.16 lbs. 



.40 lbs. 

 .28 lbs. 



The half apple box is also 

 used on Lower Mainland. 



As used in Upper Coun- 

 try; half pear-box and 

 peach-box (20 lbs.) also 

 sometimes used 



4-basket crate 



Shipped largely in peach- 

 boxes 



4-basket crate 



Sour cherries (4-basket 

 crate) equals 16-18 lbs. 



.Sour cherries (special 

 pack) equals 24 lbs 



Size of crate, 

 23% X 5%... 



16% 



Size of crate, 

 23% X 6%... 



16% 



As for strawberries. 



Six 6-quart baskets reck- 

 oned as 100 lbs. by the 

 Express Co 



