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to say that up to October 31, 206,000 barrels and 42,000 boxes 

 had been shipped, and quite a fair proportion of this quantity 

 had been shipped to fill orders. 



The wonderful success that has attended the co-operative 

 movement is having a telling effect, and applications are being 

 constantly received from responsible farmers asking for assist- 

 ance in forming companies in their neighborhoods. Nine such 

 companies are now in course of organization, and at the end of 

 the apple shipping season a vigorous campaign will be conducted 

 to still further extend the scope of this movement. 



It is not proposed that the shipping of apples and furnishing 

 of fertilizer shall be the sum and substance of this movement. 

 A more ambitious program is mapped out. It is proposed that 

 in time everything that a farmer requires on his farm or in his 

 home can be purchased through the co-operative companies. 

 Advertisements are seen daily, setting forth the advantage of 

 buying direct from the makers. Through the co-operative 

 movement the farmer will get his supplies direct from the 

 makers, minus even the advertising expenses, and with all the 

 saving in cost which is always effected when a large quantity 

 of any material is bought. Through co-operation the farmer 

 buys his supplies direct from the producer and sells his product 

 direct to the consumer. The small army of middlemen, who 

 have been making a comfortable living out of him on both 

 sides, has to retire and he, the producer, gets the full value of 

 his money on the one hand, and gets all the money that his 

 produce makes on the other. 



As I stated before, the United Fruit Companies have a very 

 ambitious program. It contains such items as the erection of 

 cold-storage plants, the running of a line of refrigerator cars, 

 erecting or purchasing large department stores, erecting saw- 

 mills and cooperage and box-making shops, and even banking 

 and insurance. Indeed the possibilities are unlimited. See 

 what has been done in Europe. Who will say that what Den- 

 mark has accomplished is not possible in Canada? 



One does not expect all this in a year, or two years or even 

 five years, but given judicious management and capable oJBBcials 

 in all departments and in ten years I look to see the United 

 Fruit Companies of Nova Scotia the most powerful organization 

 in eastern Canada. 



