14 FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



are much greater. The Canadian home market, though 

 unapproachably good in certain localities, is not, on 

 the whole, at all equal to the large city markets of the 

 States, either in capacity or liberaUty. This is one 

 reason why exportation is commoner. Another reason 

 lies in the closer political and trade connections between 

 Canada and England; while a final and very important 

 reason is that the Canadian government has system- 

 atically assisted in these exportations. Naturally the 

 chief exports from Canada are apples. Nova Scotia, 

 in particular, has a high reputation for its export apple 

 trade. Other fruits, however, have been shipped to 

 some extent, and in an experimental way a great many 

 different things have been sent over, such as peaches, 

 grapes, and tomatoes. While each one of these has 

 been successfully shipped and sold in particular in- 

 stances, no regular business has been established with 

 any fruit except the apple. Possibly the pear comes 

 nearest to being an exception, but the Canadian ex- 

 portation of pears is still a small matter. Perhaps 

 when the Canadian Kieffer orchards get to bearing, this 

 will be changed. 



In years of excessive crops, however, when the 

 markets of the United States are over-supplied, the 

 European outlet becomes a very important factor in 

 the situation. This was most conspicuously the case 

 in 1896, when the bumper apple crop of America was 

 harvested. It seems perfectly certain, so far as we 

 can know anything for the future, that there will never 

 again be such a congestion and such a stressful com- 

 petition in the fruit market. Certainly something was 

 learned in 1896 concerning the European market, and 



