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the apple shipping season a vigorous compaign will be conducted 

 to still further extend the scope of this movement. 



It is not proposed that the shipping of apples and furnishing 

 of fertilizer shall be the sum and substance of this movement. 

 A more ambitious program is mapped out. 



It is proposed that in time everything that a farmer requires 

 on his farm or in his home can be purchased through the co- 

 operative companies. Advertisements are seen daily, setting 

 forth the advantage of buying direct from the makers. Through 

 the cooperative movement the farmer will get his supplies 

 direct from the makers, minus even the advertising expenses, 

 and with all the saving in cost which is always effected when a 

 large quantity of any material is bought. 



Through cooperation the farmer buys his supplies direct 

 from the producer and sells his product direct to the consumer. 

 The small army of middlemen who have been making a com- 

 fortable living out of him on both sides has to retire and he, 

 the producer, gets the full value for his money on the one hand, 

 and gets all the money that his produce makes on the other. 



As I stated before, the United Fruit Companies have a very 

 ambitious program on. It figures such items as the erection of 

 cold storage plants, the running of a line of refrigerator cars, 

 erecting or purchasing large departmental stores, erecting saw- 

 mills and cooperage and box-making shops, and even banking 

 and insurance. Indeed, the possibilities are unlimited. See wliat 

 has been done in Europe. Who will say that what Denmark 

 has accomplished is not possible in Canada ? 



One doesn't expect all this in a year, or two years, or even 

 five years, but given judicious management and capable officials 

 in all departments and in ten years I look to see the United 

 Fruit Companies of Nova Scotia the most powerful organiza- 

 tion in Eastern Canada. 



The Central Association has an efficient office staff working 

 on an organized system initiated by the writer. 



Instructions are sent out from the Central office constantly 

 to all the subsidiary companies, directing as to varieties to be 

 packed and how, when and where to be shipped. Space on the 

 various boats is alloted to the companies and directions issued 

 as to method of shipping, etc. 



