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June, 1916. 



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Columibia fruit growers, the duty on apples 

 has 'been raised from 40 cents to 90 cents 

 per barrel; whereas, this is an enormously 

 high duty — approximating 100 per cent, aa 

 valorem on the cost of production of apples 

 in Canada, and whereas, the evident pur- 

 pose of the imposition of this duty is to 

 fore© the prairie consumer to pay a higher 

 price for apples; therefore, be It resolved 

 that this, the Canadian Council of Agricul- 

 ture, in meeting, dieclares this to be an un- 

 righteous attempt to exploit the prairie far- 

 mer for the benefit of British Columbia fruits 

 land apecnilators, fruit growers and middle- 

 men, and we advise the farmers <yt Alberta, 

 Saskatchewan and Manitoba, that if this be- 

 comes law and they are to be taxed in this 

 manner, they pay these taxes into the fed- 

 eral treasury by purchasing imported apples, 

 rather than pay the same duty together with 

 profit thereon to British Columbia land 

 speculators, fruit growers and middlemen." 



Inspection of Small Fruits 



The Dominion Fruit Division announces 

 that with the opening of the small fruit 

 season in June, special efforts will be made 

 to prevent a repetition of some of the faults 

 in the packing of these fruits which were 

 so evident in 1915, the under-filling of bas- 

 kets and the packing of immature fruit. It 

 will be the duty of the inspectors to visit 

 the growers at the beginning of the picking 

 season and to instruct them in the methods 

 which it will be necessary for them to 

 adopt in order to avoid prosecution undei 

 the Inspection and Sale Act. 



Violations of the Act are often committed 

 through ignorance on the part of the grower 

 or on the part of those who have charge of 

 the packing. The inspectors will therefore 

 be instructed to teach these men and to ex- 

 plain to them the necessity of careful super- 

 vision of their pickers in the field. The lat- 

 ter are generally young girls and boys who 

 are being paid according to the number of 

 boxes they fill per day, and naturally the 

 tendency is to fill the box regardless of the 

 quality of the fruit. This also will be look- 

 ed into carefully by the fruit inspectors, and 

 the foreman will be instructed to exercise 

 special care in the packing houses where 

 the boxes are sorted and put into crates. 



The Package Difficulty* 



R. C. Abbott, Coast Markets Cc mmiss ioner, 

 Victoria, B.C. 



Comments on the package question usu- 

 ally draw severe criticism from the growers 

 who do not yet realize the great necessity 

 of a "standard" package for the different 

 kinds of fruit and the undisputed fact that 

 one of the great features to Tie considered 

 in "working-up" and "holding a market" is 

 giving to the consumer value for his money. 



A great deal of confusion was experienced 

 lay the trade and consumers last season on 

 account of the growers using different sizes 

 and different shaped berry crates. While 

 I dislike to mention this fact, I am in duty 

 bound to say, that to the majority of the 

 trade and consumers alike — ^a crate is a 

 crate irrespective of size, and the prices ob- 

 tained for the large crates did not warrant 

 their use. It is useless for m© to dwell on 

 this subject at length, as most growers are 

 conversant with the situation. I only wish 

 to say this, that as long as the growers con- 

 tinue to use a number ot different sized 

 crates for the some kind of berries there will 



•Extract from a paper read at the recent an- 

 nual convention of the British Columbia Fruit 

 Growers' Association. 



