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August, 191, 



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THE WESTERN FAIR 



LONDON, ONTARIO 



The Popular Exhibition of Western Ontario 

 SEPTEMBER 5 th to 13 th, 1913 



$2000.00 in Cash added to the Prize List 

 FRUIT AND FLOWERS 



List Specially Attractive. Special County Exhibit, write the Secretary for 



particulars. Special Railway Rates. 

 Prize Lists, Entry Fortns and all infornvation from the Secretary, London, Ont. 



W. J. REID, Pre.ident A. M. HUNT, Secretary 



hibits of good fruit at this show may belt 

 to set thinfifs right. 



The show is not a private enterprisf 

 Any surplus earned will be devoted to th'' 

 establishing of scholarships in provinci.i' 

 agricultural colleges. The prizes to I 

 given for fruit will be announced at 

 later date as will also the special passen 

 ger and freight rates. 



Annual Meeting of United Fruit 

 Go's, Ltd. 



One hundred and twenty delegates, i 

 presenting thirty-two local fruit comp»ni< 

 met at Berwick, N.S., on July 2nd and 3 

 to hold the first annual meeting of T; 

 United Fruit Companies of Nova Scoti 

 The success that has attended the forrr. 

 tion of this company has been watch 

 with interest by fruit growers throughout 

 Canada. Great optimism and enthusiasm 

 was shown by the delegates for, as the 

 president, Mr. John Donaldson, of Port 

 William, said in his opening address, "what 

 other countries and other organizations 

 have taken years of work and thought to 

 accomplish, has been done in one year by 

 the fruit growers of the Annapolis Valley." . 



The president urged the members to 

 maintain the high standard that had been 

 Sict for the fruit pack. A pleased customer 

 is the best advertisement for the company. 

 The following he considered as some of 

 the problems that would have to be met : 

 The necessity for more rapid packing and 

 shinping of early varieties, and for cold 

 storage facilities, the advisability of box 

 packing ; the need for more expert know- ^ 

 ledge in barrel packing and imposing of a 

 penalty for careless packing; the advisa- 

 bility of raising the standard for number 

 threes, and thus reducing the amount of 

 fruit to be packed; the establishment of 

 evaporating and vinegar factories for the 

 disposition of culls; better methods of 

 managing subsidiary companies. 

 secretary's report 



The annual report was presented by A. 

 E. Adams, the executive secretary. It 

 called attention to the difficulties that had 

 been met in operating the company in the 

 initial year of its existence. While large 

 savings had been effected it was expected 

 that still better work would be done this 

 vear. The total expenses of the central 

 had amounted to only $12,000, or three 

 cents per barrel on all fruit handled. On 

 this basis there was absolutely no com- 

 parison between the expenditure of the 

 company and that of other similar but 

 small institutions throughout the North 

 .American continent. 



The company had fought a hard battle 

 to obtain a stand on the western market. 

 T. H. Morse, the company's representa- 

 tive, had sold some sixteen thousand bar- 

 rels of Gravensteins at two dollars twenty-, 

 five cents a barrel, ones and twos. Spec- 

 ulators, however, began to quote one dol- 

 lar fifty cents and one dollar sixty cents a 

 barrel, with the result that the market 

 was demoralized. The result was that 

 the price had to be dropped to two dollars 

 and further sales were made impossible. 

 The reason that speculators were thus en- 

 abled to underbid the company was that 

 growers outside of the associations had 

 been stampeded into selling their Graven- 

 steins to the speculators at one dollar 

 twenty-five cents a barrel for ones and 

 twos. The company lost five thousand 

 dollars on Gravensteins alone. 



MARKETS EXTENDED 



In New Brunswick, M. K. Ells, another 

 of the company's representatives, had sold 

 a firm eight thousand barrels. This firm 



