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METHODIST. Prince Street—Prayer meeting at 10.15. Rev. W. J. Kirby at 11, and Rev. G@. M Campbell at Ll and 7. Sund+y School and Bibie Class at 2.30. Upper Prince St.—Prayer meeting at
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f MEETING OF AGRICULTURAL COM- MITTEE OF THE LEGISLATIVE
ASSEMBLY (Continued. )
At 12 o’clock, Tuesday, March 31st, the Agricultural Committe resumed its in- vestigation.
Mr. McCormack, of CarJigan, who bad been counected with the cold stcrage bus— iness in different parts of the United States for several years, was first examin- ed.
Mr. McCormack had prepared a plan ef the style of building be thought suitable for cold storage, and this he explained to the Committee. As the explanation without the plan would be unin‘elligible to the reading public, it is here omitted.
In the course of his remarks Mr. Mc- Cormack stated that he thought the dry sand which can be had in such abundance in this Province would be much more sat- isfactory as a lining or filling for the walls of acould storage building than sawdust. It packs better, does not holi dampness as sawdust does, and with a little lime in it would not be at all inviting as a home for rats. He disapproved of the chemical processes, believing it necessary to have a degree of dryness he thought impossible to obtain in their use. He, however, stated that he thought improvements might have been made since he had examined into the matter.
In conclusion, Mr. McCormack, in re- ply to a question put by Mr. Aitken, stat- ed that, in his ‘opinion, cold storage was very necessary on Prince Edward Island, and said it was a matter of surprise to him that it had not been established many vears ago. In all his travels he had never seep a more productive spot than our own little Province, and yet we are behind other people. We have to put our pro- duce on the market whether the prices are up or down, and at a time when the supply ie largest, thus missing the oppor- tunity to obtain the higbest prices paid Jater. All this would be changed if we had cold storage; and if we are to keep abreast of the world, it is necessary for us to have it. It will enable us to success- fully carry on fruit growing and other lines of industry and make them mncb more remunerative than at present.
Mr. John Robertson, of New Perth, who is a very successful fruit grower, was next examined,
Mr. Sinclair—Well, Mr. Robertson, will you just give us your opinion of fruit growivg in this country, end tell us whether you think it necessary to have the fruit preserved in any way in order to make it more profitable; or are you sat- isfied that you will not raise more than the local market requires?
Mr. Robertson—I do not think that any farmer can make a mistake in growing fruit according to my own experience. I commenced farming on a very inferior place. I don’t think I could have lived on it if I had not gone into something of that kind. I commenced growing fruit under great difficulties, and now I find: it pays me about the best of anything I can do on the farm. I could sél] about all I grow in the three villages near me. I ship some to Souris and some to Char! otte- town. If I had cold storage I could have abundred barrels of apples of such kinds as the Duchess of Oldenburg and Red Astrakan for the market now. I would not get more than $2.00 for them last fall; now, if I had them in cold storage I could get $4.00 I think. It is much _ better to be able to put apples in cold storage in order to keep thein till their valne in- creases.
Mr. Sinclair—In what market could you get that price for them now ?
Mr. Robertson—-In the local market, They are $3.50 and $4.00 in Charlettetown now by the wholesale. I consider we cannot grow fruit at all to any satisfaction without cold storage.
Mr. Sinclair—You mean you preserve it ?
Mr. Robertson—No. I put up a build~ ing for cold storage in a makeshift way. You see poor men generally have poor means, but as there wa3 not cold storage to send my fruit to it was the best I could do. I have no ice; I have saw-dust lining and double doors and shutters on the windows and it does fairly well. Instead of using ice I open the doors sud windows whenever it is cooler outside than in, principally of a cool night, and thus lower the temperature. When it is hot outside I do not open it at all. I have a glass so that I may know the temperatur: and I manage to keep it pretty even. I am not posted as to whether winter keep- ing apples can be kept in cold storage but I have heard that there were lots of them in g20d condition in cold storage at the World’s Fair in July. If that is so we do not want anv apples imported. At present summer and autumn keeping apples are principally grown, and after six weeks 0: two months they are of very little account.
Mr. Sinclair—It is principally apples
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Mr. Sinclair—Do you find a ready mar- ket for all that ?
Mr. Robertson—Yer, sir. The canning factory of Jones & McKae take some.
Mr. Sinclair—Do you require cold etor- age for these ?
Mr. Robertson—Yes; if I had to keep it. It would go back in value and would not measure so well if not in cold storage. I could not keep my fruits as it is without having something in the line of cold stor- age. Of course, whatI have is only a kind of matter of form. I put some tin over the top and some ice and make ita little cooler. It keeps dry and cool, and when it is kept cool enough there is no must or mildew.
Mr. Shaw—Then so far as you are yer- sonally concerned the establishment of cold storage in Charlottetown would ad- vance your interests ?
Mr. Robertson—I look at it ike this: if a commission merchant sent me an order he would have some place in which to keep the fruit and would buy it right out of my orchard, and I would get the money for it at once; but, as it is now, they are afraid to risk our early apples more than two or three weeks. They fear they would not keep longer than two or three weeke. We could thus keep the outside wind-falls from being imported. It is merely second-class goods that come here. The best go to the United States and other markets. I consider that if the parties buying could put the fruit in cold storage for four or five cents per barre] per month it would be to eur advantage.
Mr. Sinclair—If cold storage was es- tablished in Charlottetown, would you in- crease your orchards?
Mr. Robertson — Yes—well, I think I have nearly all I can handle now. If there was ready sale I would.
Mr. Shaw—With cold storage in Char lottetown you would be in a position to place your apples in it and await a rise in the price in the spring?
Mr. Robertson—Yee, and make perahps 75 per cent. I consider 1 would do 75 per cent. better. I wrote to George Cochran in Boston about cold storage. He would take my apples for five cents per month for a barre!, keep them in cold storage and sell them in July for me when the price is high. I would have to pay five cents a barrel per month and five per cent. commission, and then there is duty and freight, &c. It would not pay un- less the business was large. I don’t think we can Co without cold storage.
Mr. Aitken—You think it would be ne- cessary ?
Mr. Robertson—TI do not think it is any good fog people to go into fruit growing on any larger scale without cold storage. It is the very time when the supply is largest and the price down that we have to put our stuff on the market. The fruit ship- ped last fall is pretty near all used up uow, and if we had apples we could get a good price for them, but we have not, If we had cold storage we could keep them. T intend todo what Ican in this line. I have sentone son to the Horticultural College in order that he may be educated and know more about the matter than I do.
Mr. Sinclair—You think in order to prosecute it in a profitable way you want cold storage.
Mr. Robertson—-Yes, sir.
Mr. Shaw—Would you let the com- mittee know how many acres you have uoder fruit ?
Mr. Robertson — Nine and one-half acres. I will give you an idex of what we grew of some smal! fru:ts. We had three- quarters of an acre of land in which we put, potatoes about two or three years ago. When we got it well manured and pretty clean I planted 600 gooseberry bushes in it, five by eight feet apart. After two years’ time, I took forty bushels of goose- berries off it, and these sold for seven and eight cents per quart. With strawberries we have a great deal of trouble in keeping them covered, more especially from this time of year, sothat the frost will not heave the plants, so I planted strawber- ries, one row between every two rows of gooseberries, and the gooseberries gathered thesnow. This protected the strawberries and saved the trouuvle of covering them. Last year I had about forty-three bushels of gooseberries and fif- teen hundred quarts of strawberries off that three-quarters of an acre. Now if the farmers would give their boys about two or three acres of land and a little informa- tion and let them go into this business, if they had cold storage, they couli make
lots of money and it would keep them at
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starting now can get all the information necessary from those reports of the ex- perimental farms, &c. I think if such a man as Mr. Craig were appointed to go around @nd lecture and give an idea of what can be grown it would be a great help to the people. There is no trouble about growing a good quality of fruit if you understand it.
Examination of Mr. Frederick McRae, fruit and vegetable canner, Pownal.
Mr. Sinclair~We wish to get some in- formation from you, Mr. McRae, in regard to canning fruit. How much do you can in @ year?
Mr. McRae—The amount is increasing every year. Last year we canned sbout $1,500.00 worth of fruit.
Mr. Sinclair—What is the principal kind of fruit that you can ?
Mr. McRae—Strawberries and goose- berries, principally.
Mr. Sinclair—Where do you market them ?
Mr. McRae—In the Maritime Provin- ces, Newfoundland and the local market.
Mr, Sinclair—How do you find the bus- iness to pay ?
Mr. McRae—It is not paying very well at present, but we believe it is going to pay when properly established.
Mr. Sinclair—Do you cultivate most of your fruit, or do you purchase it 7
Mr, McRae—We purchase most of it.
Mr. Sinclair—Have you to pay more for it here than is paid in other parts of the Maritime Provinces ?
Mr. McRae—Yes.
Mr. Sinclair—What rate do you pay for gooseberries ?
Mr. McRae—Six cents per quart,
Mr. Sinclair— And for strawberries what price do yoa give ?
Mr. McRae—Seven to ten cents.
Mr. Sinclair—Yox have no trouble in finding a market for your canned fruit ?
Mr. McRae—No.
Mr. Sinclair—Do you think if a number of people went into it there would be a likelihood of the market being glutted ?
Mr. McRae—No, sir; I do not think so.
Mr. Sinclair—Do you can peas ?
Mr. McKae— Yes, sir.
Mr. Sinclair—Do you find canning, peas to pay betier than canning strawberries and gooseberries ?
Mr. McRae —About the same.
Mr. Aitken—In you experience have you found any want or necessity for cold storage ?
Mr. McRae—Yes, sir, we have.
Mr. Aiken—Wi}] you kindly tel] us in what way 7
Mr. McRae—For instance, almost the whole crop of strawberries may come_ in within two or three days and it is pe same with peas; and, if vou have not means for preserving them right at onee, they will decay. If we had cold storage to place them in we could can at leisure. The same may be said of nearly every kind of fruit.
Mr. McDonald—If cold storage was es- tablished in Charlotttetown, could you, in such cases, take advantage of it. You live about ten miles from Town I under- stand.
Mr. McRae—We do not propose to carry On business out there. We intend to move to Charlottetown
Mr. Aitken—In canning vegetables, for instance, peas, would ccll storage be a benefit ?
Mr. McRae—Certainly when we have to carry over peas or corn for a day or two it would be a great advantage. We would have to do so in case ofarush. For in- stance, if a central cannery in Charlotte- town was putting up peas and they came in in carload Jote, there might be a rush in the evening and a large qvantity might come in too late to be attended to that day. Without cold storage to put them in they would sour before the following day. Ur they might come in Saturday evening and require to be kept till Monday. In such cases cold storage would be very necessary. Without it we would lose a large percent-
Mr. McDonald—You could not take ie a large quantity of strawberries without some means of preserving them.
Mr. McRae—Verv often we have a rush.
Mr. McDonald—If you bad cold atorage you could take as many as came and take your time to can them.
Mr. McRae— Yee.
Mr. Aitken—Afver canning is cold stor- age any advantage?
Mr. McRae—It would not be in tinned goods. Jt would be for jams.
Mr. Sinclair—So you think it would be of no sdvantoge for tinned goods ¥
Mr. McRae—No, not in these lines.
Mr. Sinclair—You think if you came into the city to carry on your business
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that you could not ta i ans : profitably do so without Mr. McKae—No, sir. We would have to build for ourselves if it could not be ob— tained in any other way.
ae Coen storage was pre- vided 40 you think gl eed eens would patron Mr. McRae—I think it would be largely patronized. ItZcertainly would be by the cheese factories. Last year for storing our cheese in Montrial we paid over $4,- 000. We might have saved that by hav- ing cud storage here. The shippers of oysters lost heavily on a:count of sh ipping in Warm weather, and there was a thous- and dollars worth of tish—smelts—spoiied last winter in the vicinity of Vernon River Bridge, whereas if we had cold storage they could have beensayed. On the fruit brought to the Island by the wholesale grocers there is also a heavy loss. What they lose by the fruit spoiling would pay the cost of cold storage three or four times ever,
Mr. Sinelair—Have you any su i
to offer, Mr. McRae ? : a Mr. McRae—I was going to suggest that you have one of the gentlemen en gaged in canning mutton in the city brought before the committee. Mr. Cher- les Longworth would be able to give you some information. They could cana great deal more mutton if they had cold storage. Very often —" comes in on Saturday evening, and it is likely to be spoiled before Dactin. Those o Mn woul find it very valuable.
Mr. McDonald—Do you consider raising strawberries profitable? Mr. McRae— About the kind of fruit to grow.
Mr. McDonalé—More profitable than gooseberries !
Mr. McRae—Yes, sir. We have raised a quarter of an acre.
Mr. McDonald—How much fruit would there be on a quarter of an acre ?
Mr. McRae—A bout thirty bushels.
Mr. McDonali—What would they be worth per bushel ?
Mr. McRae—They are worth five cents per quart for canning purposes.
Mr. Sinclair—So far in your business you have not used cold storage, have you f Mr. McRae—No, Sir, but we lost by it last year.
Mr. Aitken—What would you calcu: oe the expense of picking those would
most profitable
Mr. McRae—One cent per quart and they are worth five cents for cauning pur- poses here,
Mr. Aitken—That would be thirty-two cents per bushel for picking them. 1 do not think the estimate you give would be called a heavy crop. I -have heard of larger.
Mr. McKae—It is within the mark I am satisfied.
_ Mr. Sinclair—Do you find any trouble in getting you suppli-s ?
Mr. McRae—Yes, theright kind. Straw- berries are not largely grown, We could han tle twenty times as many and find ready sale for them.
Mr. Aitken—Is the market always open for strawberries ?
Mr. McRae—Yes, they are of more commercial importance than any other canned fruit.
Mr. Sinclair—Do you intend to go into canning meat when you come to town ? Mr. McRae— No, sir.
Mr. McDonald—Do you jut up all kinds of vegetables ?
Mr. McRae—We can peas, corn and butter and string beans.
Mr. McDonald—Do you consider that with cold storage you could carry on your business to better advantage ?
Mr. McRae—I do.
Mr. Sinclair—D» you think the busi- ness can be prosecuted succc ssfully with- out it ?
Mr. McRae— No, not without coli stor- of some form.
Mr. McDenald—You spoke of oysters, They are very bulky and cold storage ae hardly be taken advantage of for them.
Mr. McRae—It was taken advantage of lastvear. The egg dealers emptied their refrigerators and filled them with oysters. Mr. Aitken—Are there many using cold storage in Charlottetown now ?
Mr. McRae—They have cold storage on a limited scale and their system is defect ive.
Mr. Aitkeno—You think there is still « necessity for cold stora Notwithstand ing the cost you think it would be tsken advantage of by many ?
Mr. McRae—Yees, sir.
Mr. Sinclair—Is there anything else you would like to speak of Mr. McRea ?
Mr. McRae—Lomeone mentioned that « suggestion had been made to have cold storage in Halifax or St.John, and that they thought it would do, and thet there was no necersity of erectinga building here. In order to preserve fruit in cold storage it must go in in good condition. Cold storage merely arrests the ripening process. Before we could ship straw- berries, early applea or plums to Halifax or St. John decomposition might set in, and cold storage would be of little service afiter that. It is too far to send them. We would not te likely to ever get an English steamer to call here to take our cheese if the cold storage was at Halifax or St. John and none here. If here it would collect other things, and we ceuld more easily get an amouut of freight large enough to induce a steamer to call.
DISHONEST MEN.
They Olten Recommend Worthless Goods to Buyers.
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There are many dishonest men ia busi-
the direction of big profite.
These dishonest dealers, regardless of the interests See customers, seize every Opportunity to substitute poor goo is whe: standard and well known grt. ~h kong ed for.
Toa very large extent these dishonest dealers try to feist adulterated and worth - less dyes on the public when the celebrat— ed Diamond Dyes are asked for. Watch such dealers closely, and when you dis- cover any attempt to deceive, by recom- mending poor, imitation dyes, leave his st r2 aud go to seme other.
The Diamond Dyes are retailed at the fame price as the worthless dyes—ten cents per package. The Diamond will give you complete eatisfaction, but the worthless, cheap dyes will ruin your work and spoil your temper. If your dealer Ces not keep the Diamo:d Dyes, cead your order tous, ani we wil] mail the dyes to vou.—Wells & Richardson Co., Montreal.
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