THE MICHIGAN FRUIT GROWERS. 



tiously must compete against the care- 

 less man who gluts the market with 

 poor stock United action is needed to 

 destroy the market for all such stuff, 

 and then the lazy and indifferent grower 

 will be compelled to cease shipping it. 



Mr. Monroe quoted largely from re- 

 ports of other countries in support of 

 his position. The Jamaica Agricultural 

 Journal says that her exports are chiefly 

 to the United States, and they are ask- 

 ing for steamers specially fitted up to 

 carry their fruits, and for inspection of 

 their fruit at point of shipment. 



In Tasmania orchardists are fined if 

 they fail to bandage their trees for 

 codling moth, or if they neglect to 

 destroy the fallen infested fruit. 



New South Wales has adopted a rigid 

 inspection of all imported fruit packages. 

 Thousands of packages are unloaded 

 from the steamers, but cannot be offered 

 for sale until inspected. The inspectors 

 often begin work at 6 o'clock a.m., each 

 accompanied by a man to open and 

 close packages, and which is done with 

 astonishing rapidity. Condemned cases 

 receive a certain mark, and cannot be 

 offered for sale. 



At first great numbers of cases were 

 condemned, but after a time, the ship- 

 pers learned wisdom, and now only an 

 occasional lot has to be condemned. 



Mr. Munroe proposes that a law be 

 passed in Michigan embracing among 

 other points the explicit prohibition of 

 the sale of wormy, scabby or infested 

 fruit, the destruction of fallen wormy, 

 fruit, that shippers guilty of breaking the 

 law be liable not only to confiscation of 

 the fruit, but to a fine equal to double 



the value of the fruit, and that every 

 package offered for sale bear the ship- 

 per's name. 



THE PEACH OUTLOOK 



was treated by Hon. R. D. Graham, a 

 wholesale peach grower. He says he is 

 encouraged. He finds that by growing 

 a good fruit in sufficient quantity, he 

 can attract the buyers to his own local- 

 ity. The peach is as sure a crop as any 

 other, and in our late peaches we have 

 practically no competitor. 



Engleman, Gold Drop, Kalamazoo 

 were recommended as good shippers, 

 but Mr. Morrill, of Benton Harbor, said 

 the Elberta was the best of all He 

 had shipped that variety to New York 

 City in bushel baskets, in a refrigerator 

 car, and it had arrived in perfect con- 

 dition, although it was held four days be- 

 fore being sold. He had kept Elbertas 

 in cold storage for twenty-four days, and 

 taken them out in prime condition. 

 Elbertas shipped up from the South had 

 been put on our Northern markets in 

 better condition than our own peaches 

 of other varieties. 



THE FUTURE OF APPLE GROWING 



was introduced by Mr. Monill, who 

 pointed out that we had reached a new 

 era when apple growing under the old 

 methods was a failure, but the up-to- 

 date grower who could produce perfect 

 samples of the finest varieties would 

 make money out of them We live in 

 the best apple region of North America, 

 and near to the best markets. Chicago 

 is one of the best apple markets in the 

 world. 



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