NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 23 1 



President Rogers : We are now to have an oppor- 

 tunity to learn something- in regard to the packing and 

 handling of apples and other fruit for the market by co- 

 operative effort. Mr. Robert Thompson of St. Catherines, 

 Canada, will talk to you for a few moments on "Successful 

 Co-operation in the Handling of Fruit Crops." 



Successful Co-operation in the Handling of 

 Fruit Crops. 



By Robt. Thompson, St. Catharines, Out., Canada. 

 Mgr. St. Catherines Cold Storage Co. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Fellow 

 Growers : I am glad to be with you this afternoon, and glad 

 to bring you the greetings from your fellow growers in your 

 sister nation to the north of you. While we are to the north 

 of you, the country is not so much colder as you may think, 

 and we are able to do a great deal in the fruit line. I am 

 also glad to be here, Mr. President, to-day, because it gives 

 me an opportunity to repay a little of the debt which' we in 

 Canada feel that we owe to you. We like to pay our debts. 

 We have had some of your men from the States up there to 

 talk to us. We have been taking a good deal of interest dur- 

 ing the last seven or eight years, and some of our growers 

 have been wrought up to something of the enthusiasm that 

 your man, Mr. Hale, has been trying to enthuse into you. I 

 think we have gotten a little of his enthusiasm, and we are 

 indebted to him. You know "a prophet is not without 

 honor save in his own country." Mr. Hale goes about try- 

 ing to put some of that ginger that he has been talking about 

 down here into American fruit growers. It certainly helps. 

 It has put a great deal of force into this movement to grow 

 better fruit. I am sorroy to say, though, that I thought that 

 you people were more progressive. We looked upon you as 

 being more up-to-date in some respects than you are, and I 



