NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



features to be provided will be a dupli- 

 cate of the principal features of the great 

 Jubilee procession in London, England, 

 on the 22nd of June, all the uniforms, 

 costumes and properties being brought 

 from England for the purpose at an 

 enormous cost Anyone desiring a copy 

 of the Prize List can procure one by 

 dropping a post card to the Manager, 

 Mr. H. J. Hill, Toronto. 



CuRR.\NTS have been a very dull sale 

 this season in Ontario, in some cases 

 only 2 and 3 cents a quart. Indeed, 

 some of our near markets will not take 

 them at all, a most discouraging state of 

 affairs when the crop is so good. 



Fortunately some of the more distant 

 markets, in large cities, are more satis- 

 factory, perhaps because of the demand 

 for currant jelly among the wholesale 

 confectioners. Buffalo reports 4 and 5 

 cents a quart, and a Commission house 

 in Chicago quotes $2.50 per bushel, or, 

 about 8 cents per quart. We have ship- 

 ped two or three hundred baskets to 

 Chicago to test the matter, and will re- 

 port the result. There is one thing in 

 our favor, and that is the refrigerator 

 cars, by which we can transport fruit in 

 car-lots at little more than freight rates. 



The San Jose Scale on Fruit. — 

 Our British Columbia friends are wide 

 awake to the danger from the importa- 

 tion of fruit infested with the San Jose 

 scale. More than a year ago we re- 

 ceived a copy of the Act providing 

 against the importation of fruits and 

 fruit trees affected with insects or fungi, 

 and the provisions are being rigidly en- 

 forced. So far the orchards in their fer- 

 tile valleys are free from Codling moth, 

 and every care is taken to prevent its 

 introduction. About two years ago a 

 carload of fruit from this province was 

 seized and destroyed, because affected 

 with Codling moth ; and now the same 



energetic measures are being employed 

 to protect the country from San Jose 

 scale. The following is a clipping from 

 The Vancouver World of Sat., 3rd of 

 July :- 



Inspector Cunningham, whose vigi- 

 lance in protecting fruit-growers and 

 consumers from the introduction of 

 diseased fruit is worthy of all praise, has 

 seized and condemned a consignment of 

 California apples, which arrived by the 

 last California steamer. The apples are 

 badly infected with the deadly San Jose 

 scab. The samples which a World 

 representative has inspected show the 

 fruit to be not only unfit for human 

 food, but constitutes a serious danger 

 to our own orchards. The samples can 

 be seen in The World office. 



The Board of Horticulture is doing 

 good work ifi protecting our people from 

 imposition. Mr. Cunningham believes 

 that this shipment of apples, which 

 comes consigned to a prominent firm, 

 was condemned in San Francisco, and 

 sent here as a last resort. When the 

 consignor has paid the expenses inci- 

 dental to this venture he will think twice 

 before again taking the risk of dumping 

 diseased fruit on British Columbia mar- 

 kets, for no chances of infection will be 

 taken in permitting infected fruit to be 

 landed at any quarantine port in the 

 Province. A member of the Board of 

 Horticulture leaves for the interior next 

 week whose duty it will be to inspect 

 quarantine stations and effect such re- 

 forms in the administration of the regu- 

 lations of the Board of Horticulture as 

 may be deemed necessary. American 

 shippers will do well to make a note of 

 this incident and of the determination 

 of the Board of Horticulture to guard 

 our fruit growing interests. The board 

 will fight to the end any attempt made 

 to make this Province a dumping ground 

 for bad fruit. 



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