VIII, 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



March, 1915 



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Now is the time to think of building a greenhouse, or if you already 

 have one, to look it over carefully and see if it needs repair. One can 

 be built in connection with a garage or some other building and one 

 heating plant will do for both. 



If you have not already a greenhouse consider the pleasure you can 

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 winter. You cam start your vegetables from seed in the greenhouse, 

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 can enjoy the interest of watching the germination and growth of plants 

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If you think about a Glass Garden you'll likely want one "Made im 

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MONTREAL 



dom, 72,175 cases to Germany and oth 

 continental countries, 66,538 cases to South 

 America, and 1,139,296 cases to other Aus- 

 tralian states and New Zealand. In addi- 

 tion to the fresh fruit, there were also ex- 

 ported from Tasmania, 46,315 cases of pulp- 

 ed fruit, 17,765 cases of dried fruit, 25,779 

 cases of canned fruit, and 217,280 cases of 

 jam. Arrangements for the 1915 export sea- 

 son) are now being completed and seven- 

 teen steamers are already listed to load at 

 llobart, but it is not anticipated that more 

 than 600,(X)0 cases will be shipped to the 

 United Kingdom. The maximum exporta- 

 tion of apples iin one season from the State 

 of Victoria has been 300,000 cases, but in 

 consequence of the damage caused to the 

 orchards by the dry season, it is consider- 

 ed unlikely that Victoria or South Australia 

 will have any surplus apples available for 

 export in 1915. 



Cooperative Methods in the 

 Annapolis Valley 



A. E. Aduii, Berwick, N. S. 



There are forty-eight Cooperative Com- 

 panies in the Annapolis Valley, forty of 

 vvhich are members of the Central Associa- 

 tion which is incorporated under the name 

 of the United Fruit Compaeies of Nova 

 Scotia, Limited. The membership of the 

 subsidiary companies varies from ten to 

 one hundred and twenty, the average mem- 

 bership being about forty. Each compaay 

 owns a frost proof warehouse, some own 

 ■several, and employs a manager, who en- 

 gages all the help required to run the 

 business of the company, the local com- 

 pany paying all such help. All apples are 

 packed in these warehouses, no packing by < 

 individual members being permitted. 



The local managers make themselves ac- 

 quainted mot only with each member but 

 also with his fruit so that a manager knows 

 just what parcels of certain varieties of fruit 

 will stand up longest. Before apple pick- 

 ing starts, each manager sends to the 

 Central office an estimate of the quantity 

 of each variety his company will probably 

 have and a mote as to its condition. Should 

 help be scarce in any district the local 

 manager advises the central association, 

 and additional help is sent to that com- 

 pany. ~ ^ 



When picking starts members pick and ' 

 haul under the instructions of the local ' 

 manager. It is essential that there be con- 

 trol in this direction during the fall months 

 as it is detrimental to the fruit to have 

 large quantities of hot apples hauled into 

 the warehouse and stored. As each mem- 

 ber hauls his apples in he receives from 

 the warehouse foreman a receipt for a cer- 

 tain number of barrels of the varieties 

 hauled tree run. A carbon duplicate of 

 this receipt is retained by the foreman. 



Each member stencils his name on the 

 side of each barrel. Fall apples are haul- 

 ed in unheaded as they are usually packed 

 out at once, but winter apples are headed, 

 and are put into the spacious frost proof 

 cellars of the warehouse to wait later pack- 

 ing. Each day all apples hauled in are 

 credited to members in a tabulated book call- 

 ed "barrels inwards and outwards book." 

 Each member has a page or more of this 

 book set apart for his records. On open- 

 ing this book one finds on the left hand 

 page a series of tabulated columns, one col- 

 umn devoted to each variety, and in this 

 column is recorded the date and number of 

 barrels of that variety hauled in, on the 

 opposite page is a record of how those ap- 



•Extract from a paper read before the last 

 Dominion Fruit Conference. 



