April, igi-; 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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Don't employ any figureheads; they are 

 unnecessary, and are a drain on the re- 

 sources of the compamy. 



Don't employ any man who is not pre- 

 pared to give the whole of his time to the 

 business of the company. A man cannot 

 work for two masters. 



Don't promise your membership more 

 " aan you can accomplish. 



Many will think that these "Don'ts" 



Ire too obvious to need mentioning but I 



five you them out of my experience of 



^hat has and does happen when farmers' 



Doperative companies are formed. 



Cooperation has been successful in the 



:inapolis Valley for three reasons: 

 ' 1st. We have cheapened the cost of produc- 

 lon by the cooperative buying and dis- 

 ributing of the essentials of the farm. 



2nd. We have increased the return to the 

 .rrower by eliminating all unnecessary mid- 

 llemen and placing the bulk of our produce 

 .lirectly in the hands of the wholesalers. 



3rd. This has been accomplished by ap- 

 plying business experience to cooperative 

 I'tinciples. 



How to Deal with Over prodution* 



Prof. F. C. Sears, Amberst, Mass. 



WHETHER we are afraid' of overpro- 

 duction or not, we ought to do all 

 we can to increase the consumption 

 of apples and to better our mar- 

 kets. First : We oug-ht to grow better quali- 

 ty varieties. You will at once think of the 

 Baldwin amd that if you grew anything bet- 

 ter than that you would lose the most pro- 

 fitable variety you have. But I know when 

 I was here that nobody ate Baldwins, you 

 shipped them all to England. And I do not 

 believe that you can expect the English to 

 keep on eating what you won't eat your- 

 selves. It seems to me the question 

 of quality is much more important than we 

 appreciate. A man eats one good ap- 

 ple, and he wants another one ; but if he 

 eats a poor one he does not care if he waits 

 a week before he eats another. I am sure 

 we do not appreciate the practical impor- 

 tance of this. A Boston paper recently re- 

 marked that nowadays when an American 

 feels like absorbing an apple, he stops at a 

 fruit stand and buys for ten cents a highly 

 polished masterpiece which looks like per- 

 fect joy amd tastes like cotton batting. 



Second: We ought to have better pack- 

 ages m which to market our apples. The 

 barrel, with all its good points leaves much 

 to be desired. At our Massachusetts meet- 

 ing in Worcester last week, we had on ex- 

 hibition a package that had been shipped 

 from Virginia to Brockton, and then from 

 Brockton to Worcester, It was one of those 

 paste board cartons which hold one hundred 

 apples, and the man paid five dollars for 

 it. Of course that was too much. He 

 took out four layers and then sent us the 

 rest, and even after they had been shipped 

 around the country in this way, you prac- 



•Extract from an address delivered at tho ro- 

 oent annnal conventio-n of the Hova Scotia Fruit 

 lirowprs' Association. 



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 BRUCE'S MAMMOTH INTERMEDIATE SMOOTH WHITE CARROT— The best of all field Carrots. 

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