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C. B. REECE 



St. Catharines, Ontario 



Fruit Inspection at Montreal 



E. H. Wartman, Dominion Fruit Inspector;; 



THE shipment of apples oy steamers from the 

 port of Montreal has ended for 1905. The 

 season from beginning to end was one 

 of great activity. Notwithstanding the reports, 

 both early in the season and later on, that ap- 

 ples were only 50% of the crop of 1904, yet the 

 aggregate shipments from Montreal, of over 

 half a million barrels, was many thousand bar- 

 rels greater than last year. 



Many ask, How do you account for this? In 

 the first place, prices on the other side for XXX 

 fruit were so promising that in some cases 20s. 

 were paid for XXX all varieties of apples. This 

 rather spoiled the shippers, and led some of 

 them to ship very poor XX and even X 

 apples in large quantities. As an XX barrel 

 of apples is not defined by law, the minds of 

 many shippers were very elastic, and many 

 thousand barrels went forward that could have 

 been used in our own country to better advan- 

 tage. However, it is hoped the law will soon 

 define a No. 2 apple so that we can look for a 

 fair quality of apples under this designation, 

 which will fill a commercial want, while the 

 poorer qualities can be used in other ways. 



The season on the whole has not been a prof- 

 itable one for shippers or ship owners, owing 

 to the disastrous accidents that some of the big 

 steamers, viz., the Victorian, Bavarian, Eu- 

 pheme and others, met with. It is to be hoped 

 that the blame for running such costly steam- 

 ers on rocks will be attached to the right par- 

 ties, that the effect may improve our future 

 trade. 



We should be encouraged, as fruit growers 

 and shippers, when we see such markets as 

 Britain, Germany, France, South Africa, Japan 

 and Australia open for our fruits. Need we 

 fear the future? I would think not. I heard 

 fruit growers 25 years ago say : " We are getting 

 only $1 per barrel for our fruit this year, what 

 is the use of setting out more trees, for in 25 

 years apples won't be worth picking?" The 25 

 years have passed and where are we to-day? 

 Retailers in Montreal for a first-class barrel of 

 Spy apples ask $4.50, and say, with an inde- 

 pendent air, that it is their best figure for such 

 stock. So we see our fathers made mistakes 

 in their day. The man who has a large orchard 

 of good varieties, well cared for, has a gold 

 mine. 



The men who put up apples this season that 

 were strictly in accordance with the Fruit Marks 

 Act, are the men who will succeed and who 

 are a credit to our country. But the men who, 

 from time to time, mark No. 2 fruit No. 1, and 

 who put any trash under No. 2 and No. 3, can- 

 not expect to succeed or be benefactors to 

 our great commercial fruit trade. 



The inspection of fruit at the Port of Mon- 

 treal this season involved the opening of 8,000 

 packages, and it has given the inspectors a 

 good idea of the season's pack as compared 

 with 1904. It is their opinion that Canadian 

 growers show a marked advance in packing, 

 and they can attribute their success largely to 

 co-operation and co-operative packing, in most 

 cases this season, on account of the uniformity 

 of the quality of the fruit in the packages, has 

 been highly commendable. 



The increase in boxed apples this season over 

 last was 16,584 boxes. This small parcel re- 

 quires only moderate pressure to keep the 

 fruit tight, and very few packages showed signs 

 of injury by bruising. On the other hand, -ap- 

 ples in thousands of barrels were materially 

 injured by too hard pressing, which caused 

 early decay. If many a manipulator of the 

 apple press could have seen the damage he was 

 doing by unskilful work, it would have been a 

 lesson of a lifetime to him. 



The handling of apples for export in boxes is, 

 comparatively, a new thing, and the boxes are 

 not handled with the care they should be. 

 Freight handlers have no more right to drop a 

 box of apples than a box of eggs, as both are 

 injured by a fall. The dropping business does 



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