June, 191 1 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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borries have been dishonestly crated. I 

 raiididly siiy that I have found many crates 

 ill which the bottom berries were far su- 

 lierior to those on the top. The man who 

 buys these crates cheap finds no fault, but 

 u lien he gets a crate a little misrepresented 

 oil top so he cannot make a five cent per 

 box profit, he makes a terrible howl. 



It is not easy for a man to get rich rais- 

 ing strawberries at six cents a box, after 

 paying for cultivation, picking, and other 

 expenses. The man, however, who just 

 turns the boxes over for five cents a box 

 profit, seems hurt if he has to sell a few- 

 boxes at cost once in a while. Again, the 

 man who buys berries at a reasonable iirice 

 and expects a big profit by holding them 

 for high prices to get this big profit check.s 

 sales, and berries spoil. Who then is vo 

 blame but himself, and not the man wno 

 sells them. 



Niagara District Notes 



The bloom througliout the Niagara Dis- 

 trict, especially on apple trees in most dis- 

 tricts and peach trees, has been most en- 

 couraging. There is more enthusiasm 

 among tne fruit growers of this district 

 than ever before. New moves of one kind 

 and another intended to advance the in- 

 terests of the section are being made in all 

 directions. The future of this great fruit 

 district becomes brighter every day. 



Arrangements for the erection of a 

 $50,000 cooling plant at Winona are being 

 made by Mr. L. A. Koy, of Chicago. A 

 cooling system will be used by which fruits 

 and perishable goods can be cooled quickly 

 and much more satisfactorily than by tno 

 old system. Several meetings of the local 

 growers have been held. It is claimed that 

 car cooling saves handling fruit, and that 

 as much can be cooled in four or five hours 

 by this method as in two or three days by 

 tile storage system. Mr. lloy states that 

 strawberries have been sent from the Pa- 

 cific to the Atlantic in perfect condition, 

 and that seventy thousand carloads of fruit 

 and vegetables are sent out of tne south 

 every year now, under this system. A whole 

 train of oars may be run under a shed and 

 the cooling process accomplished in hair 

 the time required by the icing method. 

 The cost is placed at $25.00 per car. The 

 Southern Pacific Railway Co. is said to have 

 over a million and a half dollars invested 

 in these plants. 



There was a considerable drouglifc 

 throughout this district for several weeks. 

 Some of the growers were becoming alarm- 

 ed, but recent showers have altered condi- 

 tions greatly. 



In the Jordan District new orchards and 

 ry patches are being set out in large 

 _ mbers. Land that only recentlv was uri- 

 "ultivated has been transformed . It is esti- 

 mated that many hundreds of acres have 

 been brought into cultivation. Large farms 

 are being broken up into smaller ones and 

 the value of the land is steadily increasing. 



British Columbia 



Three years ago it was said that the 

 C.P.B. was preparing to handle an annual 

 output of 1,200 cars of fruit from the 

 Okanagan valley by 1911. When the state- 

 ment was made it was received with scoffing 

 by some, doubt by many, hesitancy even by 

 those most enthusiastic over the capabilittea 

 of the favored district. 



In the light of developments in 1910, the 

 strong probability is that the Canadian 

 Pacific will have to provide transjiortaton 

 ipr more than 1,200 cars of fruit from the 



^anagan valley in 1911. 



From Vernon and Okanagan Lake points 

 the grand total of fruit for the 1910 crops 



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