November, 191 4. 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



271 



How Nova Scotia Grow^crs Have Overcome 



Trade Conditions 



By A. E. Adams, 



WHILE Nova Scotia depends more on 

 the English market as an outlet for 

 her fruit products than any other 

 fruit producing district on this side 

 of the Atlantic, it is curious that she ap- 

 pears to be the least affected by the pre- 

 sent unfortunate war. While other districts 

 seem to be panic stricken, and while thou- 

 sands of barrels of good apples will never 

 be packed and marketed. Nova Scotia's ap- 

 ple "business is carried on as usual." The 

 cause of this splendid confidence is to be 

 found in its cooperative organizations 

 working through their Central Association, 

 the United Fruit Companies of Nova Scotia 

 Limited. 



During the first nineteen days of its op- 

 erations this year (from September 11th to 

 30th) this organization shipped 70,000 bar- 

 rels of apples and marketed them so well 

 that good returns were obtained for the 

 whole. In addition to this over $70,000 

 was distributed to its members by October 

 3rd as an advance payment for fruit ship- 

 ped. That is an accomplishment that the 

 writer feels safe in stating has not been 

 equalled by any similar organization in the 

 Western Hemisphere. 



The manner in which this organization 

 met the threatened increase of ocean freight 

 rates by the international combine is now 

 a matter of history but its other transpor- 

 tation operations are not perhaps so well 

 known. Its western shipments were hand- 

 led with a despatch that establishes a re- 

 cord. The United Fruit Companies is 

 never content to do things as others do 

 them, and therefore when it had apples to 



Berwick, N. S. 



ship west it never considered for a mo- 

 ment the old method of shipping cars as 

 they were ready and then keeping tracers 

 after them. 



It adopted other methods. On Septem- 

 ber 11th i^ started twenty-nine of its forty- 

 seven warehouses packing Gravensteins. 

 On September 12th it started a special train 

 of twenty-nine cars from the Valley to Win- 

 nipeg. 



Arrangements had been made with the 

 C.P.R. for especially fast haulage for that 

 train. The C.P.R. sent special 'men to 

 various divisional points where delay was 

 likely to occur, to prevent it. It was 5 

 o'clock in the afternoon when that train 

 left the Valley, at 8.30 p.m. the next day it 

 passed St. John, having negotiated the 

 weakest link in the chain (the transferemce 

 from the D.A.R. to the I.C.R. at Truro, 

 and the divisional point at Moncton and 

 delivery to the C.P.R. at St. John) without 

 delay. 



Engines were waiting at every divisional 

 point to pick up this special, every divis- 

 ional point passed wired advices to head- 

 quarters, and at three o'clock p.m. on the 

 lEth, it pulled into Winnipeg. On the 

 15th a similar train was started with similar 

 results and later in the week yet a third 

 train. This splendid service not only re- 

 flects the greatest credit on the United Fruit 

 Companies' methods but serves to demon- 

 strate what excellent service the C.P.R. 

 are prepared to give when shippers will co- 

 operate with them. 



The same number of cars shipped on dif- 

 ferent days could not have made Winnipeg 



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