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COLD STORAGE AND TRANSPORT IN CANADA. 



The Report of the Canadian Minister of Agriculture for 

 the year ended 31st October, 1900, contains an account of the 

 steps taken by the Cold Storage Division of the Ministry to 

 facilitate the carriage and storage of perishable products, 

 mainly for export. The following is a summary of this 

 account : — 



In the planning and carrying out of a system of cold 

 storage for Canada, various interests have to be taken into 

 account, such as the producers, the collecting buyers, the 

 carriers or transportation companies, the distributing mer- 

 chants, and the consumers. The arrangements have been 

 made mainly for cold storage for food products intended 

 for export, but advantages have been provided incidentally 

 for products for home consumption. With what is practi- 

 cally a chain of cold storage available, it is anticipated that 

 the quality of Canadian products will be further recognised 

 by importing merchants and consumers in the countries to 

 which they go. 



Contracts have been made with several steamship com- 

 panies to provide a regular cold storage service for the 

 carriage of butter and other perishable products from Mon- 

 treal to various points in Great Britain, in chambers cooled 

 and kept cool by mechanical refrigerating machinery of 

 the best and most modern sort. These contracts provide 

 that the steamship companies shall carry in cold storage 

 butter, cheese, and other perishable products, as demand for 

 space may arise, at a charge not exceeding 15s. per ton of 

 butter and cheese, and at the same charge for an equal space 



