Cold Storage and Transport in Canada. 37 



occupied by other products, in addition to the current charge 

 for freight on butter and cheese not in cold storage. 



The whole of the cold storage space on all the steamships 

 from the beginning of the service has been reserved to Cana- 

 dian shippers until within four days of the sailing of the 

 steamships. 



The following is a statement of the quantities of some 

 Canadian products carried in cold storage from the port of 

 Montreal during the seasons of navigation 1898, 1899, and 

 1900 respectively : — 



1898. 1899. 1900, 



Butter - Packages 209,172 429,734 227,863 



Cheese - 5>5i4 1,406 — 



Fruits --- . tJ 25,564 16,381 8,785 



A self-registering - thermometer, capable of giving* a con- 

 tinuous record of the temperature for fourteen days, was put 

 into nearly every cold storage chamber on each voyage. The 

 charts made by these instruments were sent back to the 

 Department after the cargo was discharged, and they furnish 

 useful information to the shippers, to the ship's engineers, 

 and to the Department. 



Arrangements have also been made for running to Mon- 

 treal refrigerator cars fully iced from some forty-three points 

 in the Dominion ; in the majority of cases they run once a 

 week. The railway companies provided the refrigerator cars, 

 and every car was iced to receive butter and other products 

 requiring cold storage at stations between the starting point 

 and destination. Shippers who made use of these refrigerator 

 cars were charged the regular "less than car-load rates, 5 ' 

 and no extra charge was made to them for the cold storage 

 services. 



Cold storage warehouses of sufficient capacity for the 

 trade are provided in Montreal as private business concerns. 

 For the protection of perishable products intended for export 

 and for the extension of business, it is desirable to have cold 

 storage buildings at central points. As the volume of trade 

 did not appear likely at first to be sufficient to induce 

 business men to put up such buildings for this purpose, a 

 grant was offered to those who would provide cold storage 



