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peaches piled ten baskets high, and bas- 

 kets tossed on top of this to the car roof. 

 On one occasion this special consisted of 

 two Grand Trunk box cars, two Canadian 

 F^xpress cars, two Grand Trunk refrigera- 

 tors, two .\rms horse cars. Many of these 

 cars were loaded as mentioned. I 'selected 

 one consiifnee, the Cherney (irocerv- Co., 

 Windsor, and later called upon them. Their 

 report was that not one shipment dirring 

 the season had reai hed them in a proper 

 ' iindition. 



Effect of the New Duties 



The iii;inner in which the ^ncw duties and 

 war taxes will affect fruit growers was 

 dealt with at length in a recent issue of 

 The Cooperative News by A. E. .Xdams. 

 secretary of the United Fruit Companies of 

 Nova Scotia Ltd. Mr. .Adams estimates 

 that his company will have to pay $2,494 

 a year extra, and that if jt had not suc- 

 ceeded through several months' efforts in 

 having all duty removed off sulphate of 

 ■nicotine the extra cost - would have been 

 $4,048 a year. Mr. .Adams writes in part 

 as follows : 



"The tariff charges are of such a sweep- 

 ing and iiniversal character that practically 

 every citizen will be called upon to bear 

 his share of the burden. We cannot dis- 

 guise the fact, however, that the tariff 

 changes will seriously affect us. as most of 

 our requirements have to be imported. 



"The all-round increase of 7% per cent. 

 affects mearly every material we handle, 

 and the imposition of 7 '4 per cent, on all 

 goods that w-ere originally on the free list, 

 with a few minor exceptions, also brings 

 under tariff such commodities as bone meal, 

 muriate and .sulphate of notash, nitrate of 

 soda, sulphate of ammonia, sulphur, soda, 

 amd various other chemicals, while the duty 

 on such articles as acid pfiosphate, mixed 

 fertilizer, arsenate of lead, lime-sulphur, 

 etc., is increased by 7% per cent. 



"The stamp dutv on cheques, receipts, 

 bills of lading, bills of exchange, letters, 

 etc., will also affect us. Now let us cal- 

 culate approximately what increased ex- 

 penditure on the part of our members, these 

 changes call for. 



"From June 1st to December 31st, your 

 central office mailed 11.500 letters. We can, 

 therefore, estimate that up to the emd of 

 our financial year another 9,500 w-ill be 

 mailed, making a total for the year o*' 

 21,000. We can, therefore, estimate that in 

 one year the new one cent war stamp will 

 cost your central office about .$210 00 



"Your office issues about 2,000 

 cheques a year, so that the new 

 war stamp will cost about 40 00 



"The cost of the same stamp 

 on drafts and bills of exchange 

 will be about 20 00 



"The extra duty on fertilizers 

 will be approximately 2786 25 



"On sulphur 292 50 



"On arsenate of lead 450 00 



"Sundry other articles imported, 250 CO 



$4048 75 

 "It will be understood that the above 

 figures only include the extra duty and do 

 not take into consideration existing duties. 



"Now, that $4048.75 represents what you 

 would have had to pay extra had there been 

 no Central Association, but, having a Cen- 

 tral Association, it will not cost you so 

 much," 



Continuing, Mr. Adams explains that his 

 company will save $2,492 through the re- 

 moval of the old dutv on sulphate of nico- 

 tine, leaving the net increase in cost due to 

 the duties and taxes at $2,494. 



