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made in distant cities which might follow the example described 

 above, both to their own advantage and that of the rural workers. 



The advantages to the growers are that they get their supplies 

 at a lower price and without any cost of, or delays in, carriage, 

 while they are also supplied with a better article. 



The workers have the great advantage of living under the most 

 healthy conditions, surrounded by green fields, and free from the 

 smoke and grime of city life. The contrast between these workers 

 on leaving the factory for their homes at the close of their day's 

 work, and those returning from work in the cities is very notice- 

 able — greatly to the advantage of the former, whose glow of 

 health, vivacity and sprightliness are markedly different from the 

 pale face, weary look and jaded gait of many city workers. 



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APPLE GROWING IN AUSTRALASIA 

 AND AMERICA: 



A Comparison with English Conditions, 



C. E. Wimshuest, B.Sc.Agric. (Lond.). 



The following considerations represent the result of personal 

 inquiry into conditions of apple production in Western Australia, 

 Victoria, Tasmania, New Zealand (North Island), British 

 Columbia, Washington and Oregon, Ontario and New York State 

 at the end of the late War. The inquiry was undertaken (1) 

 owing to a sense of grievance at the comparatively poor prices 

 obtained by really good home produce as compared with those 

 realised by imported fruit, (2) out of curiosity as to how it was 

 possible to produce cheaply such excellent fruit as that coining 

 from Australasia, Canada and the U.S.A. with labour paid at 

 the high rates obtaining in those countries, and (3) to ascertain 

 what were the factors operating to prevent production of com- 

 petitive material by the English grower. 



The sense of grievance at poor prices obtained in competition 

 soon gave place to one of admiration at the achievements 

 of the Colonial apple grower in the face of formidable obstacles : 

 the hacking out of a smiling orchard from the giant and gloomy 

 gum forests of southern Tasmania surely requires the heart of 

 a lion coupled with the patience of a Job, and one ceases to wonder 

 at the achievement of such men in finding a market for their 

 perishable produce half-way round the earth. The secret of 

 their success has. of course, been loyal co-operation in market- 

 ing, but — and this is an important point — loyal co-operation 



