OUR BRANTFORD MEETING. 



COLD STORAGE TRANSPORTATION. 



Turning his attention to cold storag^e trans- 

 portation to England, he said the individual 

 could not work out his salvation without help. 

 The only thing- discovered yet to ensure de- 

 livery of tender foreig^n fruits in Eng-land was 

 cold storage. There was variance between 

 himself and the Dominion Government on 

 two points. He wanted lower temperature 

 and circulation. He wanted it remembered 

 that if fruit was decayed no cold storage 

 would put it in condition again, for which 

 reason it was absolutely essential that it 

 should be put up in cold storage as soon as 

 picked, and kept in cold storage until and 

 after it reached Liverpool. He had had 

 much labor and anxiety all summer over the 

 question. The Dominion authorities had 

 said Canadian peaches and grapes could not 

 be shipped to England successfully, so he 

 had started to work. If fruit could be held 

 in cold storage on land he was convinced it 

 could at sea. The cold storage should be 

 provided, and they wanted boats leaving 

 every week. He had met with opposition, 

 but to ensure what he wanted he had built in 

 the ship Trader a cold storage department. 

 The results were shown in Mr. Woolverton's 

 report. Mr. Dryden emphasized very strongly 

 the need for continuous cold storage, and 

 said if the fruit dealers wanted it they would 

 have to have it. What, he asked, would that 

 trade be worth to Ontario? Would it not be 

 worth spending $3,000 a year for several 

 year>« to obtain? It would, a hundred times 

 over, he believed. The Ontario Government 

 would aid in building cold storage houses 

 here, and had provided a proper car — the, car 

 which had carried fruit successfully in South 

 Africa. He had the lecturers to farmers' 

 institutes to explain the cold storage problem. 

 He believed it one of the greatest questions 

 before the Province to-day. It might be 

 termed class legislation, but it benefited every 

 class, and for his efforts on behalf of the 

 farmers, Mr. Drvden said he sometimes had 



more appreciation from financiers and bankers 

 than from farmers themselves. He urged the 

 association to continue its work energetically 

 in aid of one of the greatest of the country's 

 industries. 



Fig. 1983. Mr. M. Pettit. 



Mr. M. Pettit, of Winona, read the re- 

 port of the San jose Scale Committee, which 

 recommended that the system of general in- 

 spection be continued, and that, as the scale 

 cannot now be exterminated, instead oi 

 wholesale destruction of the trees, an endea- 

 vor should be made to control, and that 

 such treatment be made compulsory upon 

 individual growers, under supervision of the 

 Department of Agriculture, both as to ma- 

 terial and the carrying it out. It was re- 

 commended also that the department be 

 urged to relax no effort in the matter, and 

 that a committee be appointed to confer 

 with the Minister as to the methods to be 

 put in operation during the coming season. 

 " Your committee believe," the report con- 

 cluded, " that a serious mistake was made 

 by the large number of owners of infested 

 orchards who offered determined opposition 



