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buildings at central points. The grants were to be 

 in the nature of guarantees that the earnings from the cold 

 storage business at these points would yield at least 5 per 

 cent, on the cost of the buildings and plant. The rates to 

 be charged were to be satisfactory to the Department of 

 Agriculture, and the grants from the Government were only 

 to be called upon to make up any deficiency between the net 

 earnings and the sum of 5 per cent, on the cost as mentioned. 

 Advantage was taken of this offer at Quebec only. An 

 agreement was made with the owners of a cold storage 

 building at Charlottetown, P.E.I., to provide cold storage 

 there for the use or the public at reasonable rates. 



To encourage the owners of creameries to provide cold 

 storage accommodation to protect the butter from the day 

 after it is made, it was announced that the Government 

 would, subject to ratification by Parliament, grant a bonus 

 of 50 dollars (about £10 8s.) for every creamer)- at which the 

 owner would provide and keep in use a refrigerator-room 

 during the season of 1897, and further bonuses of twenty-five 

 dollars were offered in later years, if the refrigerator-room was 

 provided and kept in use according to certain plans and regula- 

 tions. Plans showing the style of construction to be 

 adopted for the insulation of old cold storage rooms, and the 

 methods of constructing new cold storage buildings and ice 

 houses, were furnished on application. The owners of over 

 400 creameries have provided cold storage in accordance 

 with the regulations. Inspectors of cold storage visited 

 creameries which had provided cold storage rooms in Ontario 

 and Quebec. They also visited places where cold storage 

 buildings were being put up for the protection of general 

 food products of a perishable character. Another cold 

 storage inspector, with headquarters in Montreal, inspected 

 the refrigerator cars on their arrival, examined the cold 

 storage chambers on steamships, and looked after any 

 through shipments of butter or other perishable products 

 intended for cold storage, when notified by the shippers to 

 do so. 



