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fruit. One German writer states that "it is known to tliose house- 

 wives who wish to can clierries tliat the maggots leave the fruits as 

 soon as they have been soaked in water for several hours ; and this 

 precaution can therefore be taken with the cherries to be eaten fresh 

 in those years when the cherries are badly infested." We wish the 

 author of this suggestion had been a little more definite, for \vg are 

 in some doubt as to what is to be done with those fruits from which 

 tiie maggots have emerged. Are they to be canned or eaten with 



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MARK VERNON SLINGERLAND. 



