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Whenever such violation is with respect to a lot or shipment consisting 

 of 50 or more closed packages, there may be imposed, in addition to any 

 penalty provided bj^ this section, for the first offense 25 cents, for the second 

 offense 50 cents, and for the third and each subsequent offense one dollar 



for each barrel. This act is not only for Nova Scotia, but for 

 all of Canada. Our fruit inspectors are at Halifax when the 

 fruit is being shipped, — they haul up the barrels there, — and 

 they are in the warehouses. They give no certificate, though, 

 of inspection for any lot. They can't open all the barrels they 

 go through. 



Question. What was the beginning of this law? What 

 brought it about? Did it come through the growers? 



Mr. WooDWORTH. Our Fruit Growlers Association ap- 

 proached the government and blocked out a bill and got it 

 passed through the Dominion Parliament. There has been 

 some complaint from people who did not want to put their 

 fruit up well. But the thing now has become a law and we 

 have got to respect it, and I can tell you that I have packed 

 2,500 barrels of apples this year and we are very particular. 

 Many men, perhaps, in this State do not need any law, but a 

 lot of them do. If you could see some of the apples I saw at 

 Lewiston last year, where a barrel was bought in the open 

 market and brought in, it would make you smile. The man 

 who packed those apples didn't know how to pack a barrel of 

 fruit. Now, I have got about a quarter of an hour and I will 

 give you some points in fruit growing in Nova Scotia. 



Successful Fruit growing in Nova Scotia. 



The Annapolis valley is situated between the North and 

 South mountains, running from Windsor in the east to 

 Annapolis Royal in the west. The average width of this valley 

 is 6 miles, and practically all the apples grov»^n in Nova Scotia 

 are grown in this valley. Grand Pre, made famous by your 

 poet Longfellow, is situated in the eastern section of the valley. 

 Apple trees were first planted here by the Arcadian French. 

 Some of these trees are still bearing fruit. The varieties grown 

 are Gravenstein, Ribston, Blenheim, King, Golden Russet, 

 Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening, Stark and Ben Davis. 



In the year 1880 it was thought wonderful that 41,000 



