. An experimental shipment of fruit to Winnipeg [microform]. Fruit; Fruits; Fruit; Fruits. (3) Grading and Packing. The car from St. Catharines was filled with apples, pears, peaches, plums, and grapes, the fruit being furnished by eighte!en of the growers of that locality. Dominion Fruit Inspector Carey and I examined carefully a number of cases of each class of fruit put up by each shipper. A large number of the growers were present, and the one fault which was evident to all was the great lack of uniformity in grading, packing and branding. Evidently no two shippers sritemed to have the sam
. An experimental shipment of fruit to Winnipeg [microform]. Fruit; Fruits; Fruit; Fruits. (3) Grading and Packing. The car from St. Catharines was filled with apples, pears, peaches, plums, and grapes, the fruit being furnished by eighte!en of the growers of that locality. Dominion Fruit Inspector Carey and I examined carefully a number of cases of each class of fruit put up by each shipper. A large number of the growers were present, and the one fault which was evident to all was the great lack of uniformity in grading, packing and branding. Evidently no two shippers sritemed to have the same idea as to what constituted No. 1 or No. 2 grade of fruit. Some of the growers sent in first-lass fruit packed in first-class style, but others sent m ungraded fruit, improperly packed and wrongly branded From my personal acquaintance with many of the shippers concerned, I feel certain that none of them would intentionally do wrong in this matter- yet the fact remains that in a trial shipment made with the object of open-. Kig. 3.—First-class peathes and pears, carefully graded and neatly packed, ing up a new market, fruit was being sent which, because of the grading and packing, could not but bring discredit upon the shipper whose name appeared on every case, and could not but tend to close the market against even those who were doing all right, but happened to be in bad company, lo avoid as much as possible such a result, we found it necessary in somtf cases to rebrand the fruit to a lower grade. It so happened that there was present at the time of the shipment Mr. Carson a Canadian, who was a few years ago engaged in fruit grow, ing in the Georgian Bay district. He was an interested spectator, be- ^Tulr H "7/"&f8:«d in shipping California fruit to the Northwest 7::ir,L i "' /""'^'y "''•* ^'^ *^^^ "« '^''"- «f competition from On- tario so long as our fruit was sent in such condition, and, for the benefit. Please note that
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