116 PROCEEDINGS OF THIRTY-THIRD FRUIT-GROWERS ' CONVENTION. 



THE CHAIRMAN. We will now listen to Mr. F. W. Crandall's 

 paper, "The Great Canadian Northwest as a Market for Fruit." 



MR. CRANDALL. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I will 

 preface my paper by a word or two in which I hope to explain some- 

 what my position. I have been making quite an extended trip in the 

 Dominion of Canada, during which time I have seen developing and 

 developed a sort of a mad rush on the part of people to that section, 

 and it has been somewhat of a study with me to learn the reasons, the 

 objects, or the advantages of this movement northward, and in order to 

 do so I have traveled over the country considerably and studied the 

 conditions and will try in a brief way to give you some of the ideas that 

 have come to me. 



You will note that in my paper I will not deal at all with statistics. 

 They are dry enough when you haven't anything else to do, and they 

 are certainly too dry for a fruit-growers' convention; but I will try 

 to give you some facts just as they come to me, not in a labored way. I 

 hope those of you who are interested in the apple question will examine 

 carefully this fruit on the table and take it away with you. I picked 

 this fruit from the trees just a few days ago. It seems perfectly con- 

 tradictory to pick from the trees apples which are perfect in develop- 

 ment and preservation when within a few hundred yards there is snow 

 which has been on the ground for a month or six weeks and the ground 

 is frozen hard enough to walk upon or ice to skate upon, and there are 

 so many of those conditions that it seems peculiarly interesting to take 

 up this subject. 



THE GREAT CANADIAN NORTHWEST AS A FUTURE MARKET 

 FOR CALIFORNIA FRUITS. 



By F. W. CRANDALL, of San Jos£. 



I had the honor of reading a paper at your convention four years ago 

 on the subject of the " Fruit Markets at Home and Abroad. ' ' Just pre- 

 vious to that convention I had returned from an extended trip through 

 the Eastern States and Europe, the principal object having been to 

 exploit the markets on the other side of the Atlantic, and to learn the 

 methods which must be employed in order to meet the requirements of 

 that trade. The discussion and interest elicited from my paper was so 

 general that it seemed to me a similar paper, treating on the conditions 

 just across the northern border of our country, which is at present com- 

 ing to the front as a fruit consumer more rapidly than any other section 

 on earth, might prove of equal interest; hence I gladly give you the 

 results of observations during the past four months, covering not only 

 1h" 2 rain-producing sections of Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Col- 



