November, 1914. 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



277 



With all odd varieties of apples, there may 

 be only one grade, all marked No. 2 for this 

 trade. It shows every prospect of being 

 the best possible method of meeting the 

 demand at a remunerative figure. 



Putting low grade cooking apples into 

 boxes is an unnecessary expense and exper- 

 iments are being made m marketing all 

 this low grade stuff in crates, effecting a 

 considerable saving in the cost of package 

 and packing. There is a definite demand 

 for such commodities, which has heretofore 

 been supplied very largely by barrelled 

 apples and a crate weighmg about eighty 

 pounds seems to fit the conditions. 



Still another problem is the supply of 

 fresh tree-ripened soft fruits to consumers 

 over one hundred to twelve hundred miles 

 distant. Fruits shipped in carloads by 

 freight must be picked too green to pre- 

 serve their full quality. Our peaches, apri- 

 cots, etc., marketed in carloads, by freight, 

 met similar carloads from the American 

 side and prices have, as a rule, been unsatis- 

 factory. The growers have been urged to 

 develop a "direct to retailer or consumer" 

 business, by express, for which low express 

 rates have been secured. This is already 

 becoming an important item. In 1911 the 

 Dominion Express Co. shipped 2,785,000 

 pounds of vegetables. This increased in 

 1912 to 4,330,000 pounds, and in 1913 increas- 

 ed still further to 5,204,000 pounds. 1914 

 shipments will show a similar increase, in- 

 dicating a great development in the direct 

 to retailer and consumer trade. 

 The cooperative organizations marketing 

 British Columbia fruits and vegetables this 

 year are as follows: 



Fraser Valley Fruit Growers' Union, 

 Mission and Hatzic Rhubarb Growers' As- 

 sociation, Chilliwack Farmers' Exchange, 

 Ashcroft District Potato Growers' Associa- 

 tion, Okanagan United Growers, ltd., Ver- 

 non, with affiliated organizations at Tappen, 

 Salmon Arm, Enderby, Armstrong, Vernon, 

 Kelowna, Peachland, Summerland, and 

 Penticton. Grand Forks Fruit Growers' 

 Association, The Kootenay Fruit Growers' 

 Union, Ltd., Nelson, Creston Fruit Union, 

 Creston. 



There are besides, other concerns which 

 are cooperative to the extent that they are 

 owned and controlled by the orchard own- 

 ers, but not on a strictly cooperative basis. 



British Columbia has solved the problem 

 of meeting American competition in whole- 

 sale and jobbing channels of fruit trade by 

 growers organizations, making carload ship- 

 ments and meeting American trade on the 

 same basis. The same result has mot been 

 achieved to any extent by Ontario growers. 



Some British Columbia organizations, 

 usually limited companies and partner- 

 ships, are doing their own distributing to 

 retailers in the prairies, but this is yet 

 limited in extent and likely to continue so 

 at least for the immediate future 



A Large Orchard — Cm Sunday, Aug. 16th 

 I visited a friend and horticulturist on the 

 Island of Montreal. For tea we iiad fresh 

 picked strawberries and raspberries. The 

 patch which they came from I visited. 

 There was quite a shipment of each ready 

 to pick. Mr. C. P. Newman said he got 

 fifty cents a quart for his last picking of 

 raspberries last year. He will have about 

 four thousand barrels of apples this season. 

 This, I think, will surprise some fruit men 

 in the West to find one man on the little 

 Island of Montreal raising such a quantity. 

 No shipments of apples have gone forward 

 to England yet, but, I assi glad to know, 

 there are some inquiries for our very noted 

 apples.—.^. H. Wartman, Montreal, Que. 



I would like to see Canada adopt the 

 same size apple box that has been made the 

 standard size for the United States. There 



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was a time when the Americans used to 

 send their culls in apples aed other fruit 

 to Canada, but now they send us their best, 



and we should meet them with just as good 

 fruit and as full a measure. — R. Brodie, 

 Montreal. Que. 



Market for Canned Fruits and Vegetables 



In accordance with cabled instructions 

 from the Minister of Trade and Commerce, 

 the Canadian Trade Commissioners resi- 

 dcmt in the United Kingdom, have conduct- 

 ed an inquiry into the conditions of the de- 

 innnd for canned fruits and vegetables in 

 that country, with special reference to the 

 possibilities for increased supply from Can- 

 ada. The results of this inquiry have now 

 been submitted in the form of a report, 

 prepared in the office of Mr. Harrison Wat- 

 son the Trade Commissioner at London : 



NO BXTRAORDIN.^RY DEMAND 



All the London authorities consulted 

 state th.it there has so far been no indica- 

 tion that the requirements of the United 

 Kiigdom in canned fruits and vegetables 

 will be trreater than in ordinary years, and 

 several firms mention that whereas immed- 

 iately after the declaration of war there 

 wa."* a small amount of panic buying of 

 r.nnnrd goods in common with other com- 

 modities- the trade has experienced since 



then a distinct decrease from the usual de- 

 mand. . 



The purchase of any consid'crable quan- 

 tity of these goods as supplies for the 

 .'Vrmy and Navy would obviously cause 

 some special demand but the trade does 

 not anticipate that they are likely to be 

 called for to any large extent. The future 

 depends so greatly upon the course of 

 events that dealers are unwilling to make 

 any forecast, but the general opinion ap- 

 pears to be that unless som^e development 

 at present totally unexpected should occur, 

 there is some likelihood of a falling off 

 rather than an increase in the demand 

 from the ordinary public for both canned 

 fruits and vegetables. The chief reason 

 for this is that neither canned fruits nor 

 vegetables form a pirt of the staple food 

 of the population of the United Kingdom, 

 in which respect they differ essentially from 

 canned meats and salmon. Indeed, canned 

 fruits are mainly regarded in the light of 

 a lururv. 



