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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



April, 1915 



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Western Returns for 1914 Crop 



Market conditions and returns last fall 

 in the west were described at lensrth by Mr. 

 G. Forsyth Smith, market commissioner for 

 British Columbia, at a meetinjf of fruit 

 irrowers held durinsf March in Vernon, 

 H.C. Mr. Smith said in part: 



"The fruit season of 1914 was a most 

 unfortunate year from the marketing stand- 

 point. I am afraid, however, that many of 

 us do not auite realize how srenerally unfor- 

 tunate it was as shown by the experience 

 of other parts of the fruit crowinsr world, 

 and how much this was due to jreneral con- 

 ditions prevailing: over the whole of the 

 continent. For example, let us take peaches. 

 Peaches were not a heavy crop in the North- 

 western States, and in Ontario they were 

 almost a total failure, and yet such was the 

 effect of the general conditions prevailing, 

 and such in particular was the state of dis- 

 oreranization amons? the American selling 

 organizations, that the Wenatchee Produce 

 Company, an organization which held a 

 reputation for years for getting the best 

 possible prices,, has just returned to its 

 shippers on 200 cars of peaches, 23 cents 

 per box. If they deducted local handling 

 charges and our scale of packing charges, 

 it means that there was absolutely nothing 

 returned for those 200 cars of peaches. The 

 Yakima Valley Fruit Growers' Association 

 have recently returned 27 cents on 445 cars 

 of Flberta peaches. If they took off our 

 handling and packing chajges, 7 cents for 

 the grower. In regard to apricots, a 

 Wenatchee company recently returned to 

 their growers 47 cents on 73 cars, or, tak- 

 ing off our handling charges and our scale 

 of packing charges, 17 cents per box for 

 the grower. 



IMMENSE .*PPLE CROP 



"Last year the United States had the 

 largest crop of apples ever produced — a 

 crop variously estimated from 70,000,000 to 

 86,000,000 barrels, or from 450,000 to 500,000 

 carloads, when probably 200,000 carloads 

 would supply all depiands. We began the 

 fruit season in a period of financial depres- 

 sion and unsettlement. Then the war came, 

 and a very unfortunate influence came into 

 the situation. It was thought at first that 

 the war meant no apple exports. This made 

 buyers unwilling to make their usual ar- 

 rangements and drove shippers everywhere 

 to a policy of consignment. Let us take 

 some prices from the other side of the line. 

 The Yakima Horticultural Union, which in 

 other years has given very good returns, 

 has just returned figures on 64 cars of 

 Jonathans, of the two best grades, 72 cents ; 

 or, taking off handling charges and our 

 scale of packing charges, 32 cents. On all 

 cars of 'C grade apples, the kind that 

 principally came into competition with the 

 British Columbia apple, the return was 52 

 cents a box, or. if they took off handling 

 charges and our scale of packing charges, 

 12 cents for the growers. 



"On February 1st there were 26,000 car- 

 loads of apples in storage at various points 

 in the east and west of the United States, 

 or nearly twenty-five times as many as the 

 whole of British Columbia produced. At 

 that date there were 4,166 cars of boxed 

 apples unsold, or three times as many as 

 in the previous year. I quote these figures 

 from the American side, because it was 

 necessary to take into consideration the 

 very serious conditions existing outside of 

 the Okanagan Valley, if we are to arrive at 

 a true idea of the meaning of the situation. 



PRAIRIE CONDITIONS 



With regard to prairie coriditions one 

 fact which affected the matter was the short 

 crop of wheat — so short that in some sec- 

 tions the Government has had to come to 

 the rescue of settlers and provide a fund 



