February, 1913 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



51 



he was forced to admit that as matters 

 stand the interpretation of the Act by the 

 Dominiom Government does mot enforce re- 

 gfulations on United States fruit as strictly 

 as on Canadian produce. The law says 

 that fruit must be marked with its grade 

 at the place of origin, and this the ship- 

 pers of Canadian fruit have to comply with, 

 but the United States growers are allowed 

 to ship in fruit marked with American 

 grades which are re-marke<3 by the jobbers 

 at the points of distribution in Canada. 



Mr. Kidstoin and other gentlemen made 

 it plain that the Act gives power to insist 

 that all United' States fruit must be mark- 

 ed with Canadian grades before it is al- 

 lowed to cross the boundary and the ori- 

 ginal marks erased. 



Mr. Baxter stated that reputation was 

 far more efficient in selling fruit than 

 grade marks ,and that the standards men- 

 tic^ned in the Act should be regarded as 

 minimum standards and disregarded if a 

 better standard cam be reached. He would 

 prefer to see the "fancy" grade done away 

 with, but did not believe it was possible 

 to demand one hundired per cent, perfection 

 in packing on a commercial scale. He 

 would mot say that the inspection of all 

 fruit on the boundary lime was an impos- 

 sibility but that it would meed an army of 

 inspectors. There was also a difficulty in 

 that the Act talked in one place of "in- 

 delible" marks and in another of erasing 

 these. 



Mr. R. M. Palmer, the chairman, in put- 

 ting the vote of thanks to Mr. Baxter for 

 the patience with which he had answered 

 the numerous queries, remarked that after 

 all much of his speech was an apology 

 for the existing state of things. (Laugh- 

 ter.) The resolution was than put and 

 carried unanimously. 



A discussion took place over the size of 

 box approved by the Dominion Fruit Con- 

 ference, but the resolution proposing a 



ange was withdrawn. 



REFORMS ADVOCATED 



Mr. Garraway, who manages the Okama- 

 gan Fruit Union at Vernon, gave statistics 

 showing the enormous output which must 

 be handled within the next few years, when 

 the thirty thousand acres now planted in 

 the province come into full bearing. The 

 estimate is that in 1915, two thousand five 

 hundred carloads of fruit will be shipped 

 out; in 1920 this will be increased to ten 

 thousand carloads. . Meantime the output 

 of the United States will probably increase 

 to fifty thousand amd one hundred thou- 

 sand by the same years, unless it is found 

 that their older orchards are diminishing 

 their products, as is the case in the east- 

 ern and middle west states. 



The disappointment of growers at their 

 returns from the past crop was not un- 

 natural but if they had studied the subject 

 they would have found no cause for appre- 

 hension for the future. With their young 

 orciiards, they had done as well as growers 

 with fully matured trees. There was need 

 for cheaper rates of transportation for 

 perishable fruits but the wholesalers, in 

 his opinion, had not been getting an undue 

 propoirtion of the profits on the peaches, 

 or. in fact, on the fruit as a whole. He 

 believed that it was the retailer they must 

 go for, and that they must educate the 

 consumer to realize this. The press_ could 

 do a greiat deal towards this by publishing 

 daily the wholesale and retail prices in 

 each centre. 



To improve conditions, growers must 

 cooperate, and, in formulating amy plans 

 to this end, they could save much time and 

 money from a study of what was being 





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