^tarch, 1915 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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Nova Scotian Methods That 

 Succeeded 



At a meeting: of the directors of the 

 United Fruit Companies of Nova Scotiaj 

 Ltd., held early in February, Secretar\'- 

 treasurer A. E. Adams presented a lemg-thy 

 report, covering the operation's of the com- 

 pany during the past season. Extracts from 

 this report arc here given : 



It was realized by your Board of Man- 

 aq-ement at the commencement of the finan- 

 cial year that unusual difficulties were to 

 be oTicountered on account of the great 

 crops reported from all sections. When a 

 little later, Europe, our greatest market, 

 was plunged into a fearful devastating war, 

 those difficulties were increased tremen- 

 dously. Your management were quick to 

 understand and take advantage of the fact 

 that these very difficulties but provided 

 opportunities for cooperative cemtralization 

 to accomplish useful work and to demon- 

 strate to the world what could be accom- 

 plished by the united efforts of a com- 

 munity banded together for mutual assist- 

 ance and protection. 



When war was declared it was recognized 

 that the price of feed and flour would ad- 

 vance considerably, in fact if evidence were 

 needed of what would happen it was quick- 

 ly provided for by local feed and flour mer- 

 chants who promptly advanced their prices. 

 The action, however, of your central office 

 in immediately securing some forty-five car- 

 loads of feed and flour and promptly plac- 

 ing about twenty cars at various points 

 throughout the Valley, quickly had an effect 

 and caused traders to revert to reasonable 

 prices and to be content with a fair profit. 

 In all, 105 cars have been handled since 

 August at a cost of $94,500. Every carload 

 of this has been passed on to subsidiary' 

 companies at a price far below market 

 value . 



METHODS COMPARED 



I wish at this point to trespass om your 

 patience for a few moments while I com- 

 pare the manner in which the apple crop 

 of the three great producing provinces has 

 been handled. 



British Columbia, although organized in- 

 to cooperative companies and also enjoying 

 the benefits in a measure of cooperative 

 centralization, cannot claim to have made 

 a success of her efforts in the marketing of 

 her crop. It is not my intention to criticise 

 her methods, for in a certain direction we 

 have a lot to learn from British Columbia, 

 but what I do want to direct your attention 

 to is the fact that the British Columbia 

 crop has only netted for the grower 27 cents 

 per box. 



Bearing in mind that only the very finest 

 specimens are packed and that land is much 

 higher in price there than here, that labor 



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