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eating. On the other hand, a good one 

 is exceptionally good eating. It may- 

 be claimed that even when properly 

 grown and properly ripened, the fruit 

 is variable in quality. It doubtless is, 

 but; I think no more so than the 

 Dnchesse d'Angouleme. As a cooking 

 and canning pear, to my taste it has no 

 equal, surpassing even the Bartlett for 

 this purpose. 



While perfection in pear growing 

 may not have been reached by the 

 introduction of the Kieffer, it certainly 

 must take front rank as a profitable 

 market fruit. The most extensive and 

 successful pear grower in this neighbor- 

 hood stated to me last Summer that, 

 j udging by the way the Kieffer was do- 

 ing for him, there was more money in it 

 at fifty cents a bushel than in any 

 other fruit that he coidd raise. — 

 Howard A. Chase, in Rural New 

 Yorker. 



DRIED FRUIT ABROAD. 



It is a mistake among many farmers 

 and fruit-raisers in the United States 

 to think that the different varieties of 

 fruit, such as apples, pears, peaches, 

 plums, cherries, gooseberries, &c,, are 

 grown in gre^iter perfection in Europe, 

 than here It is not the fact. We 

 raise these as abundantly here and in as 

 much perfection as they do in Europe 

 and with not more than half the labor 

 and expense. It is true, however, that 

 more pains are taken there, and their 

 modes are more thoroughly systema- 

 tized ; but the cost of producing a crop, 

 we repeat, is very much greater there 

 than here, but still the profit may be 

 greater, as nearly all kinds of fruit sell 

 at a much higher price there than here. 

 For years we have been shipping enor- 

 mous quantities of apples to Europe, and 

 this exportation is steadily increasing 

 and will continue to increase until the 

 trade shall become of National import- 



ance. In dried fruits, such as peaches 

 and apples, the exportation has already 

 acquired large proportions, and in ten 

 years more it will go on multiplying 

 in extent until fruit-raising will become 

 a far greater and more profitable branch 

 of industry than at present. With 

 such a market open to us we can never 

 grow an over-abundance of apples and 

 peaches ; while these, in addition to 

 cranberries, in their natural condition, 

 fresh from the trees and vines, ought to 

 be and no doubt will be ])roduced in 

 sufficient quantities to meet any 

 demand. The very cheapness that we 

 can send them abroad for will open for 

 us an unlimited market for all with 

 which we can supply it. — Germantown 

 Telegraph. 



GRAPES FOR MARKET. 

 The question is often asked which is 

 the more profitable grape to grow for 

 the market, the Concord or the Dela- 

 ware. Much will depend upon the mai*- 

 ket to be supplied, and much upon the 

 character of the soil upon which the 

 plantation is to be made ; but when the 

 soil is such that both will thrive well, 

 and the market will pay twice as much 

 for Delaware as for Concords, an an- 

 swer to the inquiry seems to be given 

 in the following paragraph taken from 

 an exchange : — 



His Concords average five tons to the 

 acre, and sell in New York at an average 

 of five cents a pound. That would be a 

 gross income of $500 a year. Probably 

 it would net |300 to f 350 an acre. * His 

 Delawares would sell for twice as much 

 as the Concords, but the yield, one year 

 with another would be but little more 

 than half. Calling the yield of Delawares 

 three tons per acre and the average price 

 ten cents, the gross receipts per acre would 

 be $600. Allowing two cents a pound for 

 express, commision, etc., and there would 

 be a net result of $480 an acre ; a better 

 showing than Concord. 



