September, 1909 



THE CANADIAN H ORTI C UL TUEIST 



201 



Cartage Charges in Toronto 



In addition to their regular commission 

 of 10 per cent., the Commission men of 

 Toronto require cartage fees of one cent a 

 gasket and three cents a crate. This 

 discussed editorially on page 198. 

 number of protests against these fees 

 |are been sent to The C.\nadian Horticul- 



TRI8T and the travelling representative of 

 The Canadian Horticulturist who re- 

 ently spent a few weeks visiting fruit 

 Jarms around Lake Ontario from Burling- 

 ton to Grimsby reports that complaints are 

 general. The following letters state the 

 situation and express the common feeling : 



A. W. Peart, Burlington ; "The growers 

 feel that the cartage charges are an undue 

 and exceptional burden." 



R. C. Fowler, Burlington : "The injury 

 reflected on the grower is the fact that, in 

 addition to 10 per cent, commission, he has 

 to pay cartage charges without any com- 

 pensating advantage. The commission men 

 say that they put this charge on to defray 

 the cost of delivering the fruit, but we 

 have no guarantee that they deliver it. A 

 great deal of the fruit is taken from the 

 fruit market by the retail dealers when it 

 is bought, but I never heard of any rebate 

 being made on that account. It is mani- 

 festly unfair to charge the grower with the 

 delivery of fruit when he receives no bene- 

 fit. They should charge the retail dealer 

 who benefits by the delivery, supposing, of 

 course, that they do deliver. I prefer to 

 sell my fruit to the buyers in Burlington, 

 rather than to hand it over to the commis- 

 sion man in Toronto to send me what he 

 sees fit in return. The reason given by the 

 commission men in their circular was that 

 10 per cent, was not enough for selling and 

 delivering the fruit." 



J. A. West, Aldershot : "The growers 



emphatically resent the extra charge of 

 cartage and it is the general idea that it 

 is a regular fraud; but, owing to the fact 

 that they will not combine, they have to 

 pay. Further, they declare that if the 

 commission men do not get the cartage di- 

 rectly, they will indirectly. 



"The reason why the commission men 

 say that they are compelled to charge is 

 slightly altered to suit different districts. 

 For this district the fruit is sent 

 to Toronto by rail and delivered by 

 the express company into the market, so 

 the commission men spin a yarn about their 

 large establishments, the bookkeepers, de- 

 livery men and horses that they have to 

 keep to sell the fruit and deliver same when 

 sold to their customers ; and one commission 

 man said that if he sold one crate of melons 

 for 50 cents and only made five cents com- 

 mission, how could he pay for that crate to 

 be delivered five miles, which, he said, was 

 often the case ; this single crate trick 

 certainly gulled a good many of the grow- 

 ers. I have before me an advice from a com- 

 mission man in Toronto on which there aie 

 27 baskets and 21 crates sold for $65.35. — 

 express charges, $3.55, commission, $6.53, 

 cartage, 90c., leaving a nett amount of 

 $54.37; practically 20 per cent, leakage. 

 Of course, the cartage of 90 cents does not 

 look much, but when you come to facts, such 

 as these — there are five growers within ap- 

 proximately one mile radius and each nad 

 close upon 2,000 baskets of cherries, total- 

 ling 10,000 at one cent a basket, which 

 makes a net gain of $100 to the commission 

 man. 



"The Niagara district cannot ship inland 

 to distant points after Friday, so the grow- 

 ers send all the Friday's stuff by boat to 

 Toronto and this is delivered only on to the 

 wharf ; therefore, all fruit not sold has to 

 be carted up to the market by the commis- 



sion man's own team. Probably this fact 

 was the origin of the cartage charge." 



Wm. F. W. Fisher, Burlington: '(1) 

 We deliver at the railway station, load 

 fruit on carg and pay charges to destina- 

 ticn. At this point obligation for any 

 class of men in the world but farmers 

 ceases. Either the commission man or ihe 

 purchaser should take charge of it at this 

 point. 



"(2) I do not consider it honest to im- 

 pose on people because they happen to be 

 in one's power. This is stolen money. 



"(3) Commission men say there are so 

 many in the business that 10 per cent, is 

 not enough on their business. It does not 

 seem to have occurred to any of them that 

 they might go out of business. 



"(4) They do not deliver a large portion 

 of the goods but just pocket the money. 



"(5) If necessary a straight amount 

 should be added to the per centage oom- 



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