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Additional comments:/ Commentaires : Mr. r'ish^ th^' preSeilV' Minister of Agri- culture, spiqLe upon^ne patter as follows: — "Thia4pn4 of ^k|^, instbad of help- ing th« f vunQf hnrta him. • « * The thin^i^^oiuenM." What do the farmers of Canada think of Mr. Fisher's opinion? OLEOMARGARINE. The Conservative Government in 1886, In- troduced a resolution to prevent oleomarga- rine coming into competition with Canadian butter. Mr. Fisher ais^^'V^ a;i^'t>$4nion upon that subject, as f I do not ^^«b~>|;I,l«lf . J»ll_.l ,,. " l.y, , Erlratf VICB. mor* id eat Cold Storage for Perishable Products. ler Itt 1 iOT Can- pro- agrl- State* ir en adlan or all >relga a on* woold ladlan •t tos OT«4 There are many produots which can be put upon the British market in proper con- dition only by means of cold storage upon the railways and Atlantic steamships. ▲n attempt has been made by Ministers and others to claiita that the present Qovern- ment wer« the first to supply that want T^ho did introduce Government aided cold storage? Let the Public Records answer this ques- tlon. ^ The Report of the Department of Agricul- ture tor the calendar year 1896, is signed by Sydney A. Fisher, the present Minister of Agriculture, and was presented by him to the House of Commons in the session oi 1897. (For this repoi;^ see sessional papers, . 1897. 7 to 8a, No. 6.) Upon pago zlL of this report Mr. Fisher, whose signature to. the report is at page zzzv., states as follows: "A cold storage service for the safe car- riage of butter was begun in 1896. "Arrangements were made whereby refrig- erator cars for carrying buttet were run during the summer upon the main tinea of railways leading into Montreal (0. T. R-. C. P. R., etc.). These cars were used to pick up small lots of butter as offered at the different railway stations. . ; • During 1895 cars were run for at least a part of the season upon the O. T. R. and C. P. R. "Arrangements were made for the chillliag of the fresh made creamery^ butter at the warehouses of the Montreal Cold Storage and Freezing Co., Montreal." "Arrangements were made for the fitting up of insulated and refrigerator chambers upon steamships from Montreal ' to Avon- mouth, Liverpool and Glasgow. Ten steam- • ships were fitted up in 1896." "For the season of 1896, arrangements were made for the fitting of these steamships with mechanical refrigerating plant and in- sulated chambers, having a capacity of 20,000 ruble feet each. .Owing to failure upon the part of the Company which had agreed to put in the refrigerating plant to do so in time, this plan was not carried out In con- sequence a number of the steamships from Montreal to Avonmouth were fitted with large Insulated chambers for the carriags of chilled butter." All the above information is given over Mr. Fisher'i own signature. What effect the introduction of oold ator- age by the Conservatives had upon «Kport of butter is shown by the same repwt (sec page ziiiL). Packages. . Butter exported from Montreal during the shipping seat'on of 18M . . . 82,061 1896 .. 69,664 1396 c. 157,«21 The above facts and ilgures over the sig- nature of the Orit Minister, prove that to tliP. (Conservative Government is «iue the Cold Storage System, both upon the railways and steamshjps. When the Liberals came into office they continued the cold storage plan, following the advice of the experts of the Department appointed by the GonservativeB, and strong- ly supported and urged to increase the ac- commodation by the Conservative Opposititm in Parliament.. They made contracts for three yean with the steamship companies. The basis was this: The cost of putting in the equipment was calculated. One halt of this cost was to be paid in three annual instalments by the Dominion. The other half was to be borne by the owners of the steamships. I^avine paid this bonus the Government made a bargain about the cost of the cold chamber to the Canadian ship- pers. The rate was fixed by .he contr&ct of 1897, at ten shillings per ton in addition to the regular freight, this being the same rate as secured by the conservative Minister, in 1895. In 1899 the Minister of Agriculture in- formed the House of Commons that the matter of cold storage would not need any further aid, but he was urged by the mem- bers of the Opposition to not reduce the ap- propriation for this service, as it was of great importance to the dairying Industry. Following put their own plan the Govern- ment neglected to negotiate for a renewal of the contract with the steamship com- panies. The South African war threatanad ocean freights were likely to be higher, but still the government did not move in tn^.i all-important matter. All of 1899 went by, the war was In actual progress for months, and ocean freight rates had doubled, when the Minister of Agriculture began to nego- tiate. ^ THE RATES FIFTY PER CENT. HIGHER. It was then that the Government found that they were helplessly in the hands of the steamship companies, and they agreed to ' , allow these companies to charge exporters ^fifteen shillings per ton instead of ten or in other words one-half more. So that by reason of Grit negligence every expoi>,er ot produce in cold storage pays for the next two years, as admitted by the Minister of Agriculture (see page 4966 Hansard, 1900) the increase in freight, and in addition to that fifty per cent, more for the cold storage accommodation, which is aided and bontt^ed by the Government of Canada. This applies to butter, cheese, poultry, fruits and meats of all kinds; indeed everything carried in cold storage departments. In the contract which had been arranged lor by the Conservative Government, and was left ready for their successors to sign In 1896, there was full provision for ample cold storage accommodation of the latest and best kind. The history of Grit blunder- ing over this Fast Atlantic steamship mat- ter is well known, and does not need atten- tion here, further than to call attention as above to the cold storage provided for in the contract with the Allan Line by the Conservative Government. CANADIAN DEPOTS IN GREAT BRITAIN. The Conservative Minister of Agriculture In 1896, brought down a request for a vote of money with which to open up depots in the great cities of the motherland for the bale of exclusively Canadian produce. That vote Sir Richard Cartwright would not allow to pass, and it had. to be dropped. The present Minister of Agriculture in the session of 1900 (see Hansard of May 8th) says he will not pursue that policy, al- though from time to time it has been urged by the members of the Opposition. Many of our Canadian products are not sold as such to the British consumers, and Canada loses all the advantage arising from their excellence, which otherwise would be gained In British markets, and would serve to advertize Canada to the best possible advantage. WHAT A CORRESPONDENT SAYS. A correspondent of the "Farmers' Advo- cate" (Lon-ion, Ont.), writing from London (see issue of March 15th), says: "Amongst nut .>rs likely to interest your readers, I know of none more so than the question of imported Canadian " produce; I mean those commodities which you pro- duce In larger quantities than you consume, shipping the balance to our markets. It is needless going through a long list of articles. for the principle at stake in one Is pretty much the same in respect to others; for in- stance, there is bacon, known to be sent us in large quantities from your country, and, according to reports of its purch/users, as Judged by the value if realizes here, of excellent quality ; yet, strange though it may appear to your readers, though I am con- stantly in London and at many of the lead- ting towns of England, I do not know that I have ever seen any shop or store, as you call them, where Canadian bacon is sold. Then, again, in respect to cheese, American is the general tune; then, in respect to but- ter, the tune is colonial, which includes a lot of different colonies, but no individual one; and thus one after another of your exports might be enumerated, and few. It any, would be found to be sold as Canadian. This surely is not as It should be. I prefer, as an Englishman, to spend my money for English produce, and hbnce, would natural- ly prefer to buy that produce within the lim- its of the empire rather than from other sources. Tb^n, again, every tub should stand upon its own bottom* or, in other words, the country producing any commodity should either have the credit or discredit, as the case may be. This matter is one that needs the attention of your authorities, it being of course, impossible for purchasers to dis- criminate between the produce of one coun- try and another; hence, it appears to me that it would be a grand thing, and a great benefit to your country, to have a central depot in London or Liverpool, or both, and small branches in other centres, whereat Canad.an products only should be sold, and depend upon it, if those products were of that hi^h merit and quality those were that I had the privilege of sampling when on my trip in Canada, the demand would soon be found to repay the cost incurred. What I want to bring home to your readers, -who pre practically the producers of most, if not all, the commodities which would be af- fected, is the bare, startling fact that a far larp'^r proportion of the Canadian produce sent u" is sold under some other name than Canadian, possibly a good deal goes for Eng- lish produce; but whatever may be the de- scription under which it is sold matters not for it does not alter the fact, namely, that Canadian farmers and producers are not re- ceiving nearly all the benefits the high merit and quality of their products merit" The establishment of Canadian depots in Great Britain for the sale of our farm pro- duce as proposed by t..e Conservatives in 1896 would remedy this, and make the ex- cellence of Canadian products known to everyone in the United Kingdom. Hon. Sydney Fisher, the Liberal Minister of Agri- culture, refused to carry out this plan, but if the Conservatives are returned to power they will do so in the interest of the farmers of Canada. .->