QUESTION DRA WER. 



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lington, is Provincial Inspector of San Jose 

 Scale, and will be glad to correspond with 

 you as to the best means of applying- the 

 soap, and the proper time for the work. 



Boxes for Apples. 



1370. Sir, — I understand that an increasing 

 number of fruit growers in Ontario and Nova 

 Scotia are shipping their apples in boxes, As you 

 are doubtless aware they have always been sold 

 in boxes on the Pacific Coast. We think we have 

 two good reasons for preferring the box to the 

 barrel. The first is : families in towns and cities 

 can often afford lo buy a box who could not afford 

 to buy a barrel, and this increases consumption. 

 The second is that a larger quantity of fruit can 

 be put in the space, thus increasing the carrying 

 capacity, an important item. Up to the present 

 time everybody has made a box to suit himself, so 

 that we find boxes of apples containing from thirty- 

 four to fifty pounds of fruit. Our Association 

 asked the Hon. Minister of Agriculture to pass an 

 Act legalizing a certain sized box, but so far no 

 action has been taken. We are anxious to have a 

 legal box, and our Association recommends the 

 same size box that is in use in Oregon and Wash- 

 ington, for the reason that our fruit comes in direct 

 competition with theirs in the Manitoba and North- 

 west Markets, and as those states are now shipping 

 to Great Britain and Germany, no doubt they 

 will come in competition with your eastern fruit, 

 and it will avoid confusion if we can have uni- 

 formity of package. 



I am writing the Association in Quebec and 

 Nova Scotia to the same effect, and asking their 

 cooperation in getting the Dominion Government 

 to take action in the matter. 



Hoping to have the active support of your 

 Association. Yours truly, 



N. J. Brandrith. 

 Box 452, Sec. B. C. F. G, Ass'n 



New Westminster, B. C. 



Uniform packages for our fruit is one of 

 the hobbies of our Ontario fruit growers, 

 and we are pleased to find our friends in 

 British Columbia aiming for the same object. 



A few years ago when we began using a 

 box for apples, we adopted a size measuring 

 two cubic feet, viz., 24 x 12 x 12 inches 

 outside, but recently changed this slightly 

 to make them pack in the car to greater 

 advantage, and adopted a box 10^^ in. high, 

 by 11^ in. wide by 22 in. long, outside 

 measurement. This corresponds very closely 

 with the sizes shipped from New York City, 

 and offered at fifteen cents each by Frank 

 B. Read, 216 Washington street. New York 

 City, which he claims to be the regulation 



size, and which measures inside 9^ in. high 

 10^ in. wide by 20^ in. long. These are 

 made with V^ inch ends and yi inch sides. 



But before ordering these wooden cases 

 we would recommend our friend to write 

 to the Dyment Baker Co., London, for 

 samples of their new case, which prom- 

 ises to take the first place for fancy, tender 

 fruits in all markets. 



Fig. 2233. The American Apple Box. 



The outside measurement of this package 

 is 10^ in. high by 12^^ in. wide by 21^ 

 in. long, and consists of a crate, containing 

 four trays of fillers of sizes to fit the grade 

 of fruit which is being packed. 



New Uniform Fruit Packages. 



1271. Sir, — Will you please write me a few 

 words and tell me will every one have to put away 

 the berry boxes we have at present, because they 

 don't hold the full Imperial quart? 



I have the latest kind that everyone has up till 

 now. Yours very truly, 



Olinda. Robert G. Anderson. 



The Act providing for the use of uniform 

 baskets for fruit will in no way interfere with 

 the use by shippers of the baskets they have 

 on hand, but it provided that any baskets 

 in use not in conformity with the specified 

 size, be branded with the number of quarts 

 which they do contain. 



There is no change in the berry box ; in 

 Canada we have always used the well known 

 strawberry box, containing a Winchester 

 quart, or 4/5 of an Imperial quart, and this 

 is now legalized by the Act. 



riy Garden. 



1272. My garden has done better this year. 

 Cucumbers, tomatoes, grapes and potatoes have 

 done particularly well, especially the last, al- 

 though not generally good in the neighborhood. 

 I may also say that I had a few peaches this year. 



