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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



March, 



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Strawberries 50 varieties 

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STRAWBERRY GROWERS 

 ATTENTION 



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 send us your order. List Free. 



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International Harvester 

 Cream Separators 



PICTURE to yourself the difference in labor be- 

 tween setting milk in any of the old-time ways 

 and skimming it with an I H C cream separator. 

 What a job it is to wash the pans or crocks. 

 How many handlings they need. What a lot of 

 time it takes to fill them and set them away, to protect 

 them from dirt, to do the actual skimming, to dispose 

 of the cold skim milk, to purify the crocks or pans. 



Now note the difference. With an I H C separator 

 the milk is skimmed while still warm from the cows, 

 the separator is washed in a few minutes and everything 

 is ready for the next milking. 



You want the separator that will help you most and save you 

 most. Take time enough to buy a cream separator. The more 

 carefully you go about it, the more comparisons you make, the 

 more clearly you will see that one of the International Harvester 

 separators — a Dairymaid, Primrose, or Lily, will serve you best. 

 See the I H C local agent. Get catalogues from him or write to 

 us for them. 



International Harvester G>mpany of Canada, Ltd 



Hunilton, OnL 

 OtUwa, Out 



LondoD, Ont. 

 Quebec, P. Q. 



MoDtreal. Qne. 

 SLJeliii.N.Bi 



The Economic Handling of Fruit* \ 



F. H. Gria^tjr, Froit Divitlra, Ottawa 



ONE of the main problems before fruit 

 Krowers is that of eliminating- some 

 of the expenses which are incurred 

 during- the various stages of market- 

 ing fruit. The question has been threshed 

 and re-threshed in all parts of the country. 

 To-day we are very little nearer a solution 

 then we ever were. We still have the mid- 

 dlemen and their supposed profits, we still 

 have the high prices to the consumer and 

 the comparatively low price to the growt-i 

 After all, the middleman has his place. H- 

 is largely responsible for the distribution 

 of our fruits in the markets. We would bi 

 in a sorry plight without him. \nA listen 

 Few wholesalers are growing rich, few rt 

 tailers are making the outlandish profits 

 with which we have been wont to credit him. 



Fruit costs so much because our system 

 of marketing is wrong. It is too expensive. 

 There are consumers who are willing to 

 pay the ordinary market price of fruit who. 

 in fact, give little or no regard to its cost. 

 That class of people will always exist, and 

 we need give them no special concern. The 

 class to which we must give attention is the 

 poorer class, the laboring class, the aver- 

 age man on the street, the consumer who is 

 willing to do his share in bringing about ' 

 a more desirable condition of affairs. These 

 people are not in a position to pay high 

 prices for fruit. Nor have they been able 

 to buy fruit this year when it has been 

 cheaper than usual, for the simple reason 

 that dollars have been as scarce as the 

 proverbial hen's teeth. 



The consumers and producers must find 

 some means of getting closer together and 

 removing unnecessary expenses. If the 

 consumer wants his fruit in barrels he can 

 have it in barrels. If he wants it in boxes, 

 the producer must put it up in boxes. 



But the grower cannot do everything. He 

 has done much by the organization of co- 

 operative associations, by giving the public 

 a uniform pack and by giving the members 

 of these associations a better price than 

 their independent neighbor. The consumer 

 is still acting as an individual, is still pay- 

 ing his four or five dollars a barrel to the 

 retailer, who in turn is supplied by the 

 wholesaler, and so on back to the pro- 

 ducer. And here is this same consumer 

 putting up his wail against existing con- 

 ditions. If he wants cheap apples he can 

 get them. The average price this year to 

 the grower was seventy-five cents a barrel 

 on the tree for No. I's, 2's and 3's, and 

 practically the same amount of money -will 

 pick and pack and market the fruit within 

 a reasonable distance. An additional forty- 

 five or fifty cents must be allowed for the 

 barrel, if shipped in barrels. 



But the consumers must organize just as 

 the growers are already organizing. Un- 

 less they do so, they must pay what the 

 trade demands. The wholesaler is making 

 no outrageous profits on his turnover, the 

 retailer has his expenses to meet, his de- 

 livery wagons to keep up, his employees 

 to pay. Let the consumers pet together, 

 organize themselves into associations with 

 executive officers capable and willing and 

 broadminded enough to make some effort 

 in their own interest. Then they can get 

 apples in any conceivable manner. They 

 can get them with the city crest printed on 

 them if they want to. The whole problem 

 is in the hands of the consumers them- 

 selves, with the cooperation of the pro- 

 ducers . 



•Eitract, from a paper read at the last annual 

 convention of the Quebec PomologicaJ Society. 



