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 to furnish our journal with original illus- 

 trations we would be pleased to receive 

 from our subscribers photographs with 

 descriptions of the same for publication. 

 Of course we do not promise to engrave 

 every photograph received, but only 

 those most suitable to our work. Among 

 those most desirable are views of: (i) 

 country houses and flower gardens : (2) 

 flowering plants; (3) borders, groups of 

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The Cold Storage Transporta- 

 tion Scheme. — The Committee on this 

 subject met the Hon. T. Fisher, Minis- 

 ter of Agriculture, and Mr. James 

 Robertson, Dairy Commissioner, at the 

 Royal Hotel, Hamilton, on the 20th 

 January. 



The committee claimed that it would 

 be desirable to forward at least a car 

 load a week of the choicest Canadian 

 fruit, in order to make a fair commer- 

 cial experiment ; that these shipments 

 should continue throughout August, 



September and October, with tomatoes, 

 early apples, pears, grapes, peaches, etc.; 

 that these should be stored in cold 

 warehouses at shipping points and be 

 chilled before placing in refrigerator 

 cars, and that a Dominion agent in 

 Great Britain should watch the British 

 markets — advise as to consignees, and 

 report fully concerning the reception o( 

 our fruit among British consumers. 



It was also claimed that owing to the 

 uncertainty about the success of the 

 undertaking— the valuable nature of the 

 choice fruits proposed for shipment, 

 each carload being worth about $400 — 

 and the fact that at first the work is 

 purely experimental and for the good of 

 the whole country, it should be sufficient 

 on the part of the growers if at two or 

 three points they would combine and 

 agree to furnish one experimental car- 

 load each week, of choice assorted fruit, 

 and that the Dominion should erect at 

 these points small store houses, which 

 the growers would on their part agree 

 to take over at a valuation within three 

 years, should the scheme prove a success. 



The Minister considers these points 

 somewhat favorably, and it is probable 



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