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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Fruit Inspection. — In answer to our season to really compete with it, unless it 



inquiry, the Minister of Agriculture writes be the Abundance, which is of so different a 



under date of August 20, 1900, that neither character that it can hardly be compared, 



the Fruit Inspection Act, nor the Barrel Act, The quality, however, is inferior to that of 



have yet become law. Bradshaw. 



The Early Michigan Peach was shipped 

 at Maplehurst August 22nd. It is a very 

 pretty high colored variety, of the early 

 clingstone white flesh class, rather small, 

 and not a good keeper. Firm samples laid 

 up on a shelf for two days began to rot. 



Ross Seedling Plum. — On the i8th of 

 August a box containing about a dozen 

 samples of this plum was sent the writer to 

 Grimsby by Mrs. J. T, Ross, 51 Main 

 street east, Hamilton. The plums were 

 very fine, about equal to the Bradshaw in 

 appearance, of wtiich they are claimed to be 

 a seedling. We know of no plum of that 



The Standard Apple Barrel. — The 

 barrel sanctioned last year contained 103 

 imperial quarts, or 107 quarts. The new 

 standard barrel, asked for by our association, 

 holds 96.51 imperial quarts, dry measure, 

 or 100 quarts. The staves are 1^2 inches 

 shorter, which is the principal difference. 



Smith's Seedling Peach, reported in our 

 report for 1899, p. 50, seems to commend 

 itself more and more. Mr. R. T. Smith 

 brought a basket of the peach to our office 

 on the 24th of August. All the samples 

 were equally fine, measuring uniformly 

 about 2% inches in diameter, round, with 



