August, 1909 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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by Judge Mabee, it is a "peculiar co- 

 incidence" that the Canadian Express Com- 

 l)any raised its rates immediatflv after the 

 ^^^ominion Express Company had gone out 

 ^He the fruit carrying business in that 

 ^^Bcality. 



^H The decision of the Board was a victory 

 ^H>r the fruit men, who in many cases be- 

 ^■sides this have been held up by the express 

 companies, and it reflected much credit on 

 Mr. W. H. Bunting of St. Catharines, who 

 presented the case for the growers. In a 

 recent letter to The Can.mji.an Horticttltiii- 

 IST, Mr. Bunting sums up the situation as 

 follows : 



"The complaint against the express com- 

 panies for having arbitrarily raised the rate 

 on fruit from Queenston to Toronto from 

 30 to 40 cents per 100 pounds was not lodged 

 with the Railway Commission on behalf of 

 the Queenston and Niagara shippers alone, 

 although they were interested to the extent 

 of hundreds of tons of fruit from these 

 points each year, but more especially be- 

 cause there was an underlying principle at 

 stake which affected the whole fruit growing 

 community throughout the entire province. 

 "In the first place, the comnanies had 

 given an undertaking to the Commission 

 that there would be no interference with the 

 rates in the way of advancing them while 

 the whole question of the express companios' 

 relations with the public was under consid- 

 eration by the Board of Railway Commis- 

 sioners. The present instance was the sec- 

 ond time that this undertaking was violated 

 and the chairman expressed in plain terms 

 his views of these repeated attempts of the 

 express companies to get away from their 

 contracts. 



"In the second place, the Fruit Growers' 

 Committee, in proposing last January, what 

 they considered would be a fair and equit- 

 able adjustment of express rates on iruit, 

 took as a basis the existing rate to Toronto 

 from the farthest point in the Niagara pen- 

 insula by way of the Cauaaian Express 

 Company, as a fair rate for the entire sec- 

 tion as far as Hamilton and, with this rate 

 as a starting point, suggested a schedule of 

 rates on mileage over the entire system of 

 the two comnanies operating out of this 

 district, which contemplated a general re- 

 duction of from 10 to 25 cents on existing 

 rates, which for many years have been felt 

 to be exorbitant and a burden to the fruit 

 industry. This feeling has obtained to such 

 a great extent, that wherever it has been 

 at all possible, the growers and shippers 

 have been forced to avail themselves of the 

 freight service as the only alternative. This 

 situation has resulted, however, in depriv- 

 ing man.v of the smaller towns and villages 

 of their just proportion of the fruit grown 

 and has at times congested the larger 

 centres. 



"The main object of the whole agitation 

 against prevailing conditions as far as the 

 exprass companies are concerned is to obtain 

 through the Railway Commission, such an 

 adjustment of rates in part, and such im- 

 provements in the service, as will enable the 

 fruit growers of the province to place their 

 commodity in the hands of the public in a 

 speedy manner, in good condition and at a 

 reasonable cost. Up to the present time, 

 however, I regret to sav that we have not 

 had the co-operation of the companies in 

 this laudable object as fully as the situation 

 Warrants. 



"A concrete example of the efforts of the 

 fruit growers to onen new markets and 

 effect n better distribution of fruit may be 

 fnund in the case of a carload of .strawber- 

 I les sent by Dominion Express from St. 

 (jiitharines to Winnipeg upon which the 

 Company exacted a total charge of $.510 

 and for which, largely owing to the fact 



that the car was not delivered on schedule 

 time, the net returns to the shippers was 

 some $74, barely enough to pay for the 

 packages in which the fruit was shipped. 



"We anticipate however, when the whole 

 situation is considered by the Board, that a 

 measure of relief will be ordered that will 

 remove many of the difficultes under which 

 the industry is nov/ laboring." 



Notice to Fruit Growers 



J. A. Ruddick, Department of A(ricnlture, Ottawa 



Last year this Department arranged to 

 have one cold storage chamber reserved on 

 four steamers sailing weekly from Montreal 

 to London, for shipments of early apples 

 and tender fruits, the Department guaran- 

 teeing the earnings of the whole space. 

 Similar arrangements have been made for 

 the present season, with the exception 

 that the steamers will sail from Montreal 

 alterantely to Glasgow and London. The 

 steamers and sailing dates will be as fol- 

 lows : 



One chamber on each of these steamers will 

 be available for shipments of fruit at the 

 regular rate of freight, to be paid to the 

 steamship companies in the usual way. A 

 proper temperature will be maintained in 

 these chambers regardless of the quantity 

 of fruit which may be offered for shipment. 

 In each case these steamers will sail on 

 Saturday morning so that shipments should 

 reach Montreal not later than Friday 

 morning of the same week. 



The Department of Agriculture will as- 

 sume no responsibility in connection with 

 these shipments but there will be the usual 

 supervision by the cargo inspectors at Mon- 

 treal and at port of destination. Ther- 



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mographs will be installed in these chambers 

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