September, 1914 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



2.1.- 



First Sales of Ontario Prc-coolcd Fruit 



J. A. Ruddick, DomiAion Cold St 



THE first carload of pre-cooled fruit to 

 be shipped from the Grimsby Cold 

 Storage, was a carload of Montmor- 

 ency cherries, purchased by the De- 

 partment of Agriculture from the growers 

 at thirty-seven and a half cents per six 

 (luart basket, delivered at the cold storage. 

 After cooling, the cherries were loaded in 

 efrigerator car and consigned to the 

 It Fruit Company, of Winnipeg. The 

 left Grismby on the evening of Thurs- 

 . July 16th and was opened in Winnipeg 

 on Wednesday, July 22nd. The account 

 sales were as follows : 



ACCOUNT SALES: 



orage Cotntnissioner, Ottawa, Otit. 



state that the cherries were in perfect con- 

 dition. 



A little calculation will show that the net 

 proceeds of this car was nearly one hun- 

 dred dollars in excess of the price paid the 

 growers. The commission of twenty per 

 cent, for handling seems altogether too 

 high. I do not see why a commission agent 

 should receive nearly twice as much for 

 disposing of a car of fruit as the railway 

 company receives for hauling it nearly four- 

 teen hundred miles. 



A second carload of cherries, which was 

 put through the warehouse and pre-cooled 



Winnipeg, July 24, 1914 



Pkgs. 

 Kec. 



Descr iption 

 Car 340.232 



Total 



No. 



Sold cts. 



2277 Baskets cherries, sold for 60 



10 Raspberries $1 .25 



Freight '. $148.00 



Commission 275.74 



$1,366.20 

 12.50 



$1,378.70 



423.74 



Other sour cherries were selling in Wim- 

 nipeg on the same day (July 22nd) at 38 

 cents. The car was accompanied as far as 

 Winnipeg by Mr. Edwin Smith, who is in 

 charge at Grimsby and both his report and 

 the report of the Scott Fruit Company 



Net proceeds $ 954.96 



for E. J. Woolverton & Sons, was sold in 

 Montreal on Monday, July 27th. These 

 cherries were picked at different times dur- 

 ing the ten days preceding shipment, and 

 they were placed in the cooling room . the 

 day they were picked. Some of them had 



been in storage for over a week when the 

 car was lifted on Friday, the 24th. The 

 Montmorencys in this lot sold as high as 

 forty-five cents and Windsors as high as 

 seventy-five cents per 6-quarr basket. The 

 fruit inspectors report that the cherries ai> 

 rived in Montreal ex-refrigerator car in good 

 condition. Messrs. Woolverton's object in 

 this shipment was to extend the season a 

 week or ten days and thus avoid the glut 

 which prevailed at the time of picking. 

 They seem to have succeeded in their 

 object. 



Demonstration Orchards 



The Fruit Branch of the Ontario Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture has secured long term 

 leases on three orchards in Prince Edward, 

 Ontario and Brant Counties, respectively, 

 which are to be used for demonstration 

 purposes. Hitherto demonstrations have 

 been conducted only once in the same or- 

 chards. It is realized that very little of val- 

 ue can be gathered from experiments con- 

 ducted only once. It has been decided, 

 therefore, that by getting orchards in sev- 

 eral localities and treating each orchard, 

 'the same for six or seven years, it will be 

 possible to find out something of value to 

 the apple growers of Ontario. Some or- 

 chardists have had good results with one 

 spray material, others prefer something 

 else. Some growers prefer Bordeaux mix- 

 ture and Paris green, and say they cannoit 

 grow apples with any other mixture. The 

 Department has not been in a position to 

 say that they would have done better by 

 applying some other material. 



It is the intention of the Department to 

 have about half of each orchard in sod and 

 to compare the apples grown on it with 

 those grown on cultivated ground. The 



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