Oriober, 1914 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTUE IS f 



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Should Fruit Inspectors Give Out Certificates 



SHOULD the Dominion fruit inspectors, 

 after they have inspected packages of 

 fruit, give the growers a copy of their 

 report concerning it ? This point was 

 rai-cd at the Dominion Fruit Conference 

 ii' ill in Grimsby, Ont., September 2 to 4, 

 and led to a lively discussion. It resulted 

 linally in the conference adopting a resolu- 

 tion favoring the idea if the Government 

 can arrange to do so without injury to the 

 work of the fruit inspectors. 



When the point was first raised Domiaiion 

 Fruit Commissioner D. Johnson explained 

 how the work of inspection is conducted. 

 He said that Ontario has been divided into 

 districts, but the districts are so large it 

 is impossible for the fruit inspectors to get 

 around as often as the growers seem to de- 

 sire. This is because there are not enough 

 inspectors. 



Mr. P. W. Hodgetts, of Toronto, said 

 that he had heard the suggestion made 

 that if necessary fewer inspectors should 

 be engaged permanently in order that more 

 inspectors might be engaged temporarily 

 during the shipping season. 



Fruit Inspector C. W. Baxter pointed out 

 that where a buyer was handling a lot of 

 iifferemt packs the inspector might inspect 

 Dnly one pack. Were he to give a certifi- 

 :ate for one pack it might not be repre- 

 sentative of the other packs, and yet the 

 dealer might use it to help to sell the other 

 lacks also. Some method of guarding this 

 Kiint would have to be found. 



Mr. M. Snetsinger, of Thornbury, Ont., 

 lid not think this difficulty was likely to 

 36 serious, as each packer has to be re- 

 ponsible for all the packs he sells. 



Mr. A. E. McMahon. Aylesford. N.S.. 

 xiiinted out that the inspectors have to re- 



port to the Department of Agriculture on 

 each lot of fruit they inspect. He thought 

 that it was only fair that the packer should 

 be given a copy of that report. 



Mr. Elmer Lick, Oshawa, Ont., thought 

 that it would be a good idea if an associa- 

 tion or packer could get a report covering 

 a lot of inspections showing them to have 

 been packing a consistently uniform aind 

 high quality pack. 



Prof. M. Gumming, Deputy Minister of 

 Agriculture for Nova Scotia, was in favor 

 of copies of the inspector's reports being 

 given to the packers, although there was 

 a danger that the reports might be used as 

 a guarantee of quality to help sell other 

 fruit and thus lead possibly to law suits. 

 This would have to be guarded against. 



Mr. P. W. Hodgetts pointed out that 

 Ontario fruit sent to the west sometimes 

 deteriorates in the dealers' hand. He has 

 it inspected there, and in some cases has 

 used the inspector's reports when applying 

 for rebates from the packers. If the pack- 

 ers had a copy of the inspector's report as 

 obtained at their end of the line, it would 

 in some cases serve to protect them. He 

 felt that it would not be long before the 

 trade would recognize that the reports were 

 in no sense a guarantee of quality, but 

 merely a report on conditions at the time 

 of the inspector's visits. 



Mr. A. E. Dewar, Charlottetown, P.E.I.. 

 was afraid that after the inspector left, dis- 

 honest packers would take advaintage of the 

 inspector's reports to use them in selling- 

 inferior lots of fruit that the inspector had 

 not inspected. 



Mr. A. W. Peajrt. Burlington. Ont.. favor- 

 ed the suggestion that the inspectors should 

 give the packers a copy of their reports 



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