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THE CANADIAN HORTICUL'IURIST 



August, 1907 



The Simplicity of the. 

 Beck-Iden Acetylene Lamp 



The light 

 from a Beck- 

 Iden Lamp is 

 obtained from 

 acetylene— the 

 best illumi- 

 nant ir the 

 world to-«lay. 

 The Carbide, 

 from which 

 acetylene is 

 made, reaches 

 you in tin cans, which can be kept 

 anywhere, with perfect safety. 



The top part of the lamp is un- 

 fastened from the base, turned 

 upside down, and fil led with carbide. 



The base is then filled with water, 

 the lamp is put together again and 

 is ready for use. 



Acetylene is formed by the car- 

 bide dropping into the water. 



The lamp works automatically 

 and can only generate the necessary 

 amount of gas, at any one time. 



At each filling, the Beck-Iden 

 Acetylene Lamp burns for about 

 nine or ten hours. 



Makes an ideal light for country 

 homes. 



For full descriptions, cost of light 

 per hour, etc., write for booklet. 



Beck-Iden Acefylene Lamp Co., 



86 Notre Dame St. West, Montreal. ,3 



of [jerfection at his work, which will ensure the 

 fruit lieing landed here in such a state, that it 

 will fetch the top price of the market. 



This brings nie to your method of selling. 

 Why not net the full value of your apples, by 

 shipping them to some reliable firms (and there 

 arc still some to \x found in London), to sell 

 for you, instead of selling at a low price on the 

 spot? Surely is is worth waiting another month 

 or so for your cash, to net perhaps another 

 shiUing or niore a barrel on your output, as 

 would be the case generally, on a proiJer consign- 

 ment basis, that is, fixed terms for charges. 



-My point is, that on this basis of sale, your 

 ajjples bring home their value, and, seeing that 

 the better produce you ship, the Ijetter price 

 you get, surely it is to your advantage to obtain 

 the full market value for it, rather than let any 

 buyers snap it up at their own price, and very 

 often snap up with it a jjrofit which is yours, 

 and should come to you, if your fruit was sold 

 at its proper market value here. 



I know jx;rsonaIly of a tine parcel of 1,000 

 barrels of russets which one of the Ontario co- 

 operative associations sold on the sjwt at iSa.OO 

 f.o.b., last season — no doubt a very good ])rice — 

 but they realized from .$.i.00 to Sb.OO when they 

 got here; they would have netted nearly another 

 $4,000 had they sold them on a commission 

 basis, an extra profit not to be sneezed at. 

 Of course, at times it cuts the other way, but not 

 so often now in these days of improved transit. 

 With better packing and grading, good prices 

 are the rule, and an out-of-condition lot is the 

 exception. 



Again there are firms who will advance $1,00 

 a barrel against shipping documents, and who 

 also will give amrilten guarantee that the inclusive 

 charges (except commission) from your railway 

 station right into the London market, covering 

 freight, tolls, dock charges, cartage, and so forth, 

 shall not exceed $1.2.5 a barrel, a very reasonable 

 propo.sition, as you then know exactly what your 

 expenses will be and can make your calculations 

 accordingly: these arrangements of pxcii eharga 



should bring the consignment business again 

 into favor. 



.\nother argument often brought against 

 consigning, is, that the shipper often meets . 

 market licavily stocked, and dcjwn go prices an 

 returns, owing to the large (|uantity of appli 

 arriving at the time. To meet this, the wril< 

 has seen the sujjerintendent of the Surrey Coi: 

 mercial Docks, London, and finds that if sul: 

 cient suppfirt were given them they woiii 

 gladly place <me of their fine warehouses at tl - 

 disposal of Canadian shippers, where appli 

 could Ix' stored at a very nominal rent of, an-. 

 about one ])enny a barrel, per week, and in 

 fixed tern fierature of 34 degrees, tiest suited 

 such ])roduce. 



We wonder sometimes why your many appi. 

 growers' associations do not combine in tli; 

 matter, and forward their consignments of appli 

 to their own supported or paid agent here, wIk. 

 would store them if necessary, and sell as the 

 market was fit to take them and when prices 

 were good, and also sell direct to large buyers ai 

 the docks en bloc; and who could look after 

 their interests generally on this side. 



I commend these methods to the serious con- 

 sideration of your associations and growers fcjr 

 the coming season, and should further informa- 

 tion be sought by any so intere.sted, the editor 

 of The C.anadi.^x Horticulturist will Ix- 

 pleased to ]nit them into corresiX)ndence with 

 those who would coo[x^rate with them on this 

 side, in any such scheme, and also with those 

 firms here who are open to do business on the 

 fixed charges principle with advances against 

 shipments, and so secure full market value for 

 their goods. 



There is immense scope yet for a very great 

 extension of trade in Ontario-grown fruit, and 

 having just ojiened up the subject in the first 

 article, 1 shall have a further talk next month 

 on details of the fruit exjjort business, showing 

 the possibilities there are of making even better 

 profits for the growers on tlieir shipments nf 

 fruit to this country. 



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