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11/ ; Kings, Cranberry Pippins, Snowp, 13/ to 15/. Only choicest fruit brought the high- 

 est quotations. The market opened strong, bu<^ declined during the day and closed M'eaker. 

 We have had to force sales to get stocks out of the way of the large incoming receipts." 



Glasgow. — Messrs. Simons, Jacobs & Co., cabled 17th : — " Baldwins, Greenings, Spies, 

 Cranberry Pippins. Ribston Pippins, 10/ to 12/ ; G. Russets, R. Russets, Spitz, Seeks, 

 C. Rods, 9/ to 11/ ; Kings, 13/ to 15/ ; Snows, 11/ to 13/. Some fancy fruit brought even 

 higher than our. highest quotations. The market opened firm and closed the same, 

 demand good." 



London. — Messrs. Garcia, Jacobs & Co., cable to-day : — " Baldwins, Kings, 10/ to 12/ ; 

 Greenings, Spies, 9/ to 11/; G. Russets, 12/ to 14/; Spitz, Seeks, C. Reds, 8/ to 10/. 

 Prices to-day rule about midway between our highest and lowest quotations. The market 

 opened firm and gradually improved, closing with 6p. to 1/ advance. The demand is 

 genuine and good stock advancing." 



Leith.—^lessrs Michael, Simons & Co., cabled I7th :— " Baldwins, 11/ to 13/ ; Green- 

 ings, 10/ to 12/ ; Kings, 13/ to 15/." 



On the whole it would appear that the best varieties of apples properly 

 selected and packed, have not been unprofitable even this year, and that those 

 who are prepared to make the business a study and follow the best methods of 

 cultivation and packing, as laid down by our Association, may still hope for 

 good success. 



FEEDING APPLES TO STOCK. 



OME twenty years ago I remember having had a very large 

 crop of apples one year, and in order to dispose of the 

 culls, having fed them freely to horses and cows. The 

 experience was so satisfactory that it has induced me to 

 dispose of surplus apples in the same way whenever I 

 had such to feed. Many farmers are prejudiced against 

 apples for feeding milch-cows. I do not see any reason 

 why they should be. Experience is rather in favor of 

 apples if fed judiciously. Any good thing can be overdone. Grain is good 

 for horses, and yet you can injure them by overfeeding. So with apples. 

 I fully agree with my friend Mr. J. S. Woodward, when he says, in the last issue 

 of " Rural New Yorker :" 



" The proper way to feed apples to cows is to have them ripe and sound. 

 Green or rotten apples are not good food for anything. The cows should never 

 be given a full feed of them at first, or given them on an empty stomach. At 

 the first the cow should have no more than two or three quarts once a day, but 

 this may be increased so that in ten days she may be safely fed one peck twice 

 a day, and if a very large cow, twice this quantity. In all cases the cow should 

 have some dry food when eating apples, and as apples are quite rich in nutri- 

 tive ratio — I to 8 — she should have something like clover hay or wheat bran to 

 balance the ration. Cotton-seed meal is a capital food to add to apples for 

 cows, as its effects is constipating, while the apples are rather laxative Still I 

 would prefer to feed a mixture of cotton seed meal and wheat-bran. If, when 



