February, 191 1 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



47 



The Duty on Vegetables 



M. T. Delworth, Weston, president of 

 the Ontario Vegetable Growers' Association, 

 informs us that contrary to published re- 

 ports, that the representatives of the On- 

 tario and Quebec Associations, who waited 

 on the Dominion Government in Ottawa 

 recently, were of one mind on all matters. 

 Arrangements had been made to meet Sir 

 Richard Cartwright regarding the standard- 

 ization of weights of bags of a number of 

 varieties cf vegetables. The interview had 

 been granted for that special purpose. The 

 government not having been informed that 

 the tariff question would be brought up, 

 the Ontario men did not think it fair to 

 ask the government tc consider the matter 

 on short notice. 



A private conference was held by the 

 Quebec and Ontario growers. The unani- 

 mous opinion was that the vegetable grow- 

 ers were satisfied with the present duty 

 of frcra thirty to thirty-five per cent., but 

 they wished it changed from an ad valorem 

 duty to a specific duty. AVhen vegetables 

 are scarce and therefore high in price the 

 Associations do not wish to force up the 

 price by a high duty which is the effect 

 of an ad valorem duty. When there are 

 plenty of vegetables in the United States 

 they do not want to have the Canadian 

 markets glutted with cheap vegetables. The 

 vegetable growers want the duty to be the 

 same whether the price is high or low or 

 the supply is scarce or plentiful. Mr. Del- 

 worth is satisfied that the changes asked 

 for in the weights of vegetables as men- 

 tioned elsewhere in this issue will be 

 granted. 



The western jobbers and produce men 

 have sent a memorial to the Dominion Gov- 

 ernment in which they express the view 

 that instead of being an assistance to the 

 Canadian producer the duty is nothing less 

 than a tax on the consumer. When veget- 

 ables are imported they cannot be procur- 

 ed in Canada. When vegetables are plenti- 

 ful the duty is no benefit as the home pro- 

 ducer can grow them ju,st as cheaply as 

 United States growers with the additional 

 advantage of having no heavy freight 

 charges to pay. 



Reciprocity in vegetables or even a low- 

 rate of duty would enable western people 

 to procure at all times of the year a supply 

 of vegetables at a reasonable cost while 

 it would open the United States market to 

 the Canadian producer, — a boon of almost 

 inestimable value. 



Montreal 



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Okanagan Valley, B.C., and North Ya- 

 kima, Wash., U.S.A.. have been shipping 

 quite largo quantities of fruit via this 

 port to England. For packing and large 

 bright fruit this stock has aroused the ad- 

 miration of the public. Ten cars of the 

 Yakima apples have gone forward on one 

 steamer from here; about 6,400 boxes, 

 beautifully packed, each apple wrapped in 

 soft paper. The boxes have handsome color- 

 ed fruit labels on their ends, which make 

 the packages very attractive. A number 

 of cars were sold here, price generally 

 S2.50 per case, which would be $7.50 per 

 barrel. 1 bought a few snecimens at 60 

 cents per dozen, and got the worth of my 

 monev admiring them. When we see this 

 beautiful fruit going forward all fancy 

 oualltv and compare it with Ontario No. 

 3's. I consider it is an advertisement for 

 and against these provinces. 



Our barrels that went forward last sea- 

 son wore probably seventy per cent, eight- 

 hoop, which is the barrel after all. 



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