TOMATOES FOR ENGLAND. 



THERE have already been several 

 attempts to place our Canadian 

 tomatoes on the English market 

 successfully. There is little doubt 

 that the fruit would bring remunerative 

 prices if it could be placed on the Brit- 

 ish market in proper condition, because 

 the English tomatoes have to be grown 

 under glass, and are sold at high prices. 

 If we could get 3 or 4 cents a pound 

 net for our tomatoes in the month of 

 September, we would find touiato grow- 

 ing very profitable, but very often we 

 cannot realize one cent a pound for 

 them in our own markets. 



Shipping them to Great Britain under 

 ordinary conditions is not a safe under- 

 taking A report is before us of 764 

 cases of tomatoes shipped by Mr. E. P. 

 Ainsworth on September 4th, 1896, 

 which turned out disastrously. They 

 arrived in such a bad state that they 

 could only be sold for a mere trifle, 

 and left a bill of expense to be paid the 

 steamship. 



It is recommended that tomatoes for 

 such distant markets be packed in little 

 cells, as eggs are packed, or in sawdust, 

 to prevent their being crushed one on 

 another. 



But the great hope for a successful 

 export trade in tomatoes is in the cold 

 storage scheme, now being worked out 

 for us by the Dominion Department of 

 Agriculture. Messrs. Elder, Dempster 



& Co., of 23 Scott St., Toronto, on 

 whose line of steamships cold storage 

 accommodation is being provided, are 

 disposed to make an effort to encourage 

 the export of Canadian tomatoes. 



Mr. John Craig, whose bulletin ap- 

 peared in our last issue, writes that he 

 believes tomatoes may be exported with 

 profit after September ist, when there 

 is little demand for them in the home 

 market. Whether or not it will pay to 

 export them during August, when the 

 demand in Canada is fairly brisk and 

 the prices remunerative, is a question 

 that can be decided only by actual trial. 



The small case proposed for use in 

 the export of tomatoes, in our last num- 

 ber, would hold about four dozen me- 

 dium-sized tomatoes. Each tomato 

 should be wrapped in tissue-paper, or 

 in a light cheap grade of printers' paper. 

 They should be carefully packed stem- 

 end down, in such a manner as to have 

 them firmly in place when the case is 

 filled. Each case should bear the ship- 

 per's name, with the quantity, or the 

 number of tomatoes which it contains. 



Intending shippers who may desire 

 further information may apply to Prof. 

 Robertson, Agricultural and Dairy Com- 

 missioner, Ot'awa; Messrs Elder, Demp- 

 ster & Co., Montreal ; or to R. Dawson 

 Harling, steimship freight agent, 2^ 

 Scott St., Toronto 



THINNING FRUIT BY SEVERE PRUNING. 



HNOTEl) pear grower in 'I'oledo, being thrown into the portion of fruit 



O., who takes many premiums buds left after pruning gives very fine 



at the State Fair, gives very fruit, which commands a ready market, 



high culture and then prunes even when ordinary fruit is rotting in the 



severely in March. In this way he gets dealer's store. I asked him once if such 



a strong, vigorous growth, and the vigor high pressure system would not shorten 



