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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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The Middleman Issue 



At the recent conference held In Calgary, 

 Alberta, between representative British 

 Columbia fruit growers, commission dealers 

 and consumers, considerable attention 

 was given to the part the middleman 

 plays In the distribution of fruit. Mr. 

 R. M. Winslow, Provincial Horticultur- 

 ist for British Columbia, claimed that 

 the fruit growers were doing everything pos- 

 sible to reduce the cost of production, but 

 In spite of the fact that labor price.s In Brit- 

 ish Columbia had been slowly decreasing, 

 nevertheless, practically all of the profit 

 went to the laborer, shippers and handlers 

 of the fruit, rather than to the grower. Al- 

 though the duty on supplies has increased 

 the cost of producing and marketing fruit by 

 increasing the cost of the supplies needed 

 in its production and handling, he contended 

 that the cost of production In British Colum- 

 bia wa.s very little higher than in the Coast 

 States. Mr. Winslow thought that the pres- 

 ent demoralization of the fruit trade In the 

 Pacific Coast States would last for four or 

 Ave years, and urged the prairie consumers 

 to stand by the growers while conditions 

 were adjusting themselves. 



Interesting figures supplementing some 

 that had been given by Mr. Winslow, were 

 presented by Mr. Sherwood of the Reglna 

 Board of Trade, showed that a box of fruit 

 for which the producer received 17 cents net 

 was sold to the retailer in Vancouver for 

 $1.15 per box and retailed to the con.sumer 

 at $1.35. He declared that in the northwest- 

 ern states, the producer received from 10 to 

 15 per cent, more, while the consumer act- 

 ually paid less. Altogether, it cost $1 to 

 ship 17 cents' worth of fruit from Okanagan 

 to the jobber in Regina. 



Mr. Winslow went into detail on the sub- 

 ject of the California citrus growers, espe- 

 cially in regard to transportation expenses, 

 and declared that Briti.sh Columbia fruit 

 growers' organizations had secured just as 

 good rates and minlmums and an equal ser- 

 vice from the Canadian railways. He would 

 not say that lower rates might not be se- 

 cured, but at present the rates were as fair 

 a.s those on the American side. 



BULLETINS AND REPORTS. 



Recent bulletins and reports which have 

 reached The Canadian Horticulturist In- 

 clude the following: The Bi-Monthly 

 Zoological Bulletin of the Division of 

 Zoology of the Pennsylvania Department of 

 Agriculture, by H. A. Surface, D. Sci., 

 Economic Zoologist, and "The Control of 

 Potato Diseases," by H. T. Gussow, Do 

 minion Botanist, being circular No. 9 of the 

 Dominion Experimental Farm, Ottawa. The 

 Department of Agriculture has also pub- 

 lished Pamphlet No. 2, entitled "The Po- 

 tato." This pamphlet gives the method.? 

 and results of the growing of potatoes In 

 the different Provinces of the Dominion. It 

 i.= instructive and should be applied for by 

 those interested. 



The New Jersev Agricultural Experiment 

 Station?!, New Brunswick, N. J., is distribut- 

 ing Circular No. 42, entitled "Spraying and 

 Dusting White Potatoes," by Thos. J. Head- 

 lee. Ph. D., Entomologist, Circular No. 44, 

 entitled "Common Diseases of Apples, 

 Pears and Quinces," and Circular No. 4.'i, 

 entitled "Common Diseases of the Peach, 

 Plum and Cherry," both by Mel. T. Cook, 

 Ph. D., Plant Pathologist. These circulars 

 are well illustrated and will be found of in- 

 terest and value. The British Columbia 

 Fruit Growers' Association has recently is- 

 sued their Twentv-Fifth Annual Report for 

 1914. 



