THE CANADIAN HOBTI0ULTDRI8T. 



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mon dried peaches are worth from three 

 to five cents, evaporated from eighteen 

 to twenty-two cents. Ezra Arnold, the 

 Illinois fruit grower, presented drawings 

 and specifications of a cheap evaporator 

 made and used by himself with which 

 he has had better success than with 

 the more expensive dry houses and 

 evaporators. He evaporated apples in 

 two hours, strawberries in three hours, 

 peaches in two hours, cherries in two 

 houi-s, corn in two houi-s, and all kinds 

 of fruits proportionately quick. The 

 evaporator is a marvel of simplicity and 

 excellence, and can be made by any one 

 at a very trifling cost. By its use mil- 

 l lions of dollars can be saved the pro- 

 ducer and consumer each year. There 

 are thousands of families that dry large 

 quantities of fruit annually in the old 

 fashioned slow way, and sell it at the 

 old fashioned low price, when they could 

 with but little expense make an eva- 

 poi'ator and evapoi*ate five times as 

 much fruit and sell it for five times as 

 much per pound. There are thousands 

 of families in the cities that can at 

 times, when the market is glutted, buy 

 fruit for less than the cost of production, 

 and with an evaporator can prepare in 

 a few days sufficient fruit for a year's 

 consumption, and at one- tenth the usual 

 expenditure. Mr. Arnold said he did 

 not intend to make or sell evaporators, 

 and would consign to the Association 

 liis right and title to hLs evaporators, 

 provided the Association would procure 

 cuts to illustrate the different parts 

 and distribute gratuitously among the 

 farmers, fruit raisers and consumers of 

 the United Sttites complete illustrated 

 •lirections for making and using this 

 evaporator. On motion Mr. Arnold's 

 1 (reposition was accepted, and the fol- 

 lowing resolution adopted : 



Resolved, That the Secretary of the 

 Fruit and Vegetable Growers Associa- 

 tion be authorized to inform the people 

 through the leading newspapers in each 



State, that illustrated directions for 

 making and using Arnold's fruit eva- 

 porator can be obtained by addressing 

 our Secretary, W. Orlando Smith, P.O. 

 Box 104, Alliance, Ohio; enclosing 

 stamps for return postage, and that the 

 Secretary draw on the Treasurer for the 

 necessary amount to defray expense of 

 wood cuts, printing, etc. On motion a 

 vote of thanks was tendered Mr. Arnold 

 for his valuable gift to the Association. 

 — W. Orlando Smith, Secretary. 



Since receiving the foregoing we learn 

 from the Country Gevtleman that the 

 whole affair is a swindle. This is what 

 the Country Gentleman saj s : — 



A Curious Plan of Swindling. — Some 

 little time ago we received, in common we 

 suppose with most of our contemporaries, 

 the following note, under the letter head 

 of the ' ' Fruit and Vegetable Growers' 

 Association of the United States," bearing 

 a long list of officers and directors : 



Alliance, Ohio, Juue 19, 1886. 

 Mr. Editor, — I enclose a notice of the proceedings 

 of the Fruit and Vegetable Growers' Association of the 

 United States at Columbus, Ohio, June 17, 188G. 

 Please publish it, and make such comments as you 

 may deem proper to impress the importance of this 

 subject on the minds of the x>eople. Truly yours, 

 W. Orlando Smith, Secretary. 



Knowing of no such association, and 

 observing the suspicious character of the 

 so-called proceedings, we gave the subject 

 no further attention. But one of the 

 editors of the Evening Times of tliis city 

 had the curiosity to apply for further in- 

 formation, and we give below his state- 

 ment of the result in slightly condensed 

 form : 



Enclosed was a fac simile newspaper 

 proof, purporting to be a report of a 

 meeting of the above named association 

 at the above time and place. The whole 

 " proceedings " consisted of evaporated 

 apples. *' Ezra Arnold, the Illinois fruit- 

 grower," presented a drawing and specifi- 

 cations '' of a cheap evaporator made and 

 used by himself, with which he has had 

 better success than with the most expen- 

 sive dry-house and evaporators," &c., &c.. 

 He generously *' assigned his right and 

 title " in the evaporator to the association, 



