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and to the country. It will caose the de- 

 struction of a good many berry patches, and 

 there will naturally be fewer planted. As a 

 result, .small fruits will be dearer in the 

 cities, and the very women who refused to 

 help pick will be the loudest in their com- 

 plaints of the high prices of small fruits. 

 Cherries are over now. Sweeit cherries were 

 less than half a crop, but the price was ex- 

 cellent, especially for blacks. These sold 

 at from $1.00 to $2.00 per basket. For some 

 time sours ran along at from 6.5c to 80c per 

 basket, but towards the latter part of the 

 season they brought from 90c to $1.10. 

 There has been a steady and good demand 

 for black currants at good prices. In spite 

 of the fact that the crop has been excellent, 

 jam factories have been contracting at 

 prices varying from 6c to T'/^c per lb. Red 

 currants have also .sold well at 7c to 9c 

 per quart box. Crooseberries were dull at 

 first, but improved in price, small varietie.* 

 bringing 40c to 50c, and better ones 60c to 

 90c per 11-qt. basket. At the present date 

 (Aug. 21) there is a decided lull in the fruit 

 market, berries being over — except thimble- 

 berries — which are a short crop, and only 

 a few early peaches, plums, and apples are 

 coming on the market. Early peaches are 

 selling at a wide range in price, from 40c to 

 $1.00 per basket. Early apples are in good 

 demand at from 25c to 60c per basket, but 

 the sample is mostly poor. Early plums are 

 scarce and will remain so till Bradshaws are 

 ripe. The latter are a good crop: prices for 

 plums run from 50c to 60c per basket. 



The peach crop promises well, but if this 

 extreme hot and dry weather continues the 

 size of the fruit will be affected. Early 

 peache.s will be plentiful, Crawfords light, 

 Elbertas pretty good, others very good. 

 Growers expect that prices ought to be bet- 

 ter for peaches this year and figure that 

 good peaches ought to net from 40c to 50c 

 per ll-quart basket up to the end of the 

 Elberta season. After that a drop is not 

 unlikely, as late peaches are a heavy crop. 



The price of plums ought to be pretty fair, 

 as they are only a moderate crop, but the 

 high price of sugar works against them, al- 

 though during the last two weeks there 

 have been two slight reductions in the 

 wholesale price of -sugar. 



It is more and more apparent as the sea- 

 son goes on that the apple crop will be light 

 in the Province of Ontario. No greater 

 quantity is exipected than last year, with 

 the quality poorer, owing to scab. This 

 district is reported to be freer of scab than 

 any other, except perhaps in the neighbor- 

 hood of Owen Sound. Well sprayed orchards 

 have a nice, clean crop of apples. 



Tomatoes are ripening slowly and are 

 again rising in price, a most unusual thing 

 at this time of year. The bulk of the crop 

 is later than usual, and the usual area has 

 not been planted, owing to very unfavorable 

 conditions at planting time. Consequently 

 the chances are that tomatoes will not be 

 at any time this season very cheap to the 

 public. 



Canners are in the market for all they 

 can get, as they are likely to be very short 

 on their contracted stuff. They will have 

 to pay a good price per bushel to get them, 

 and tliose growers who contracted their 

 crops at 25c per bushel will feel very cheap 

 this season. Under present conditions 25c 

 per bushel is too small a price to pay the I 

 growers, and the land would be better de-j 

 voted to something else. 



Some localities report considerable mil- i 

 dew in the vineyards, chiefly on Rogers 

 varieties, and there has been a good deal 

 of spraying done with Bordeaux mixture. 

 Otherwise the grape crop promises to be a 

 good one. 



One afternoon in the first week in Au- 

 gust about 500 friends assembled at Vic- 



