Novemljer, 1914. 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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brokers in turn agreeing- not to sell for 

 anyone for a less commission than the 

 brokers charge, viz., five per cent., plus 

 eighteen cents a barrel, all the importers 

 agreeing to abide by the same terms. 



The Buyers' Association is composed 

 of the wholesale men who buy the fruit in 

 the sales room. These men contended in 

 their own interests that no one but the 

 original members should be admitted to 

 the sales room without being elected by 

 their association. Firms that are heavy 

 buyers have repeatedly tried to get in but 

 without avail. This is naturally so when 

 these people are charging one to two shil- 

 lings a barrel for buying. In consideration 

 of their having the monopoly of the room 

 they agree not to buy in any other auction 

 room. 



"These are indeed a splendid set of or- 

 ganizations, all so perfected as to abso- 

 lutely assure their own interests. The im- 

 porters to get the farmers to send the fruit 

 to the market where it shall be doubly tolled 

 by brokers and importers, and a third or- 

 ganization agreeing to buy the fruit pro- 

 viding no outsider is permitted to interfere 

 with the prices. The parties naturally look 

 with admiration on their splendid structure 

 and the mill works well, netting the first 

 two organizations five thousand dollars a 

 day. These organizations do not look with 

 favor on our cooperative organization for 

 the simple reason that it seriously inter- 

 feres with the working of their machine." 



We have seriously interfered with this 

 set of orga.Tiizations. Last year they held 

 a joint meeting and agreed to grant the 

 United Fruit Companies special terms, 

 which they assured us could be obtained 



by no other shipper or combination of ship- 

 pers. It was unnecessary, however, for us 

 to accept their terms, as we found another 

 way of marketing our apples in the north 

 of England. 



Fruit Inspection in the Prairie Provinces 



G. W. Baxter, Chief Fruit Inspector for Eastern Ontario and Quebec 



THE prairie provinces, extending from 

 Port Arthur to the western boundary 

 of Alberta and British Columbia, and 

 frorn Edmonton to the international 

 boundary, present exceptioinal features to 

 the fruit inspector, as they are the main 

 Canadian market for imported fruit, and 

 therefore the market in which competition 

 between American and Canadian fruit is 

 most keen. The district is divided into 

 nine sub-districts — Port Arthur, Winnipeg, 

 Brandon, Regina, Medicine Hat, Leth- 

 bridge, Calgary, Edmonton and Saskatoon. 

 A permanent inspector is located at Winni- 

 peg, and one at Calgary, while temporary 

 inspectors are stationed at the other points 

 during the busy months between .August 

 and December. 



I'ntil apples commence to move in car- 

 load lots, it is seldom necessary for the in- 

 spector to leave the central point, as prac- 

 tically all other varieties of fruit are diverg- 

 ed from these centres in less than car lots, 

 and can be inspected before being re-ship- 

 ed. Whenever possible, the wholesales have 



cars consigned to the most convenient point 

 and reshipped from there, as this means to 

 them a saving of freight charges and a 

 quicker delivery. The inspectors receive in- 

 formation as to the movement of these 

 cars through the courtesy of the wholesal- 

 ers, railway officials, and, in the case of 

 imported fruit, from the customs official. 



The Inspection and Sales Act does not re- 

 quire that fruit packed in "open" packages 

 shall be graded. ,The only requirement is 

 that it shall not be over-faced, and it is 

 pleasing to note that the old custom of 

 placing the larger and better fruit on the 

 top and bottom of the package is practi- 

 cally a thing of the past. 



The inspection of apples and pears con- 

 stitute the greater portion of the work. 

 These are practically all packed in "closed 

 packages," which are required by the Act 

 to be branded with the name and address 

 of the packer, the variety of the fruit, and 

 one of four grade marks: Fancy, No. 1, 

 No. 2 and No, 3. The three former grades 

 are defined in the Act and it is the duty 



TEA ROOM WITH CONSERVATORY ATTACHMENT 



Ny attractive, cozy room, providing it O/Ontaiiis a tea table in a 

 ^^ more or leas outofthe-way position, is eligible, bo they say. to 

 be called a tea room. The term it would seem is a broad one — 



its pleasurable inclusions many. 



It happened that this particular tea 

 room is so sunny with it« group of long 

 casement windows, that it might equally 

 well l>e called a sun room. 



Opening direcstly from it by glassed 

 doors, is the plant and bloom-filled con- 

 servatory. In the centre is a fountain — 



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a choice one of rare treatment. The complete effect fiom the tee 

 room is best described by the word, alluring. 

 But that Isn't all— it's soothing, to tired nerves, is all that restful 

 greenery with its spots of bloom color. 



To daily chum with the plants and do 

 little things for them, will turn many a 

 la-gging Winter hour into ouite the moflt 

 Joy-receiving one of the day 



All of which haj< much to do with the 

 reason for our building so many conaerva- 

 tories. 



