NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



of grapes were forwarded, but these 

 were not well received. A few cases 

 of Wilder grapes, however, of about 

 17 lbs of fruit each, netted at Grimsby 

 about 80 cents each. 



The address was printed in pamphlet 

 form for distribution. 



Fresh or Rotted Manures.- -Mr. 

 F. T. Shutt, in Bulletin 31 of Central 

 Experimental Farm, speaks of the rela- 

 tive merits of rotted and fresh manures 

 as follows : — The advantages of rotted 

 over fresh manure have already been 

 studied ; it has also been seen, on the 

 other hand, that even under a good 

 system of preservation, rotting must 

 be accompanied by loss of fertilizing 

 constituents. Weight for weight, rotted 

 manure is more valuable than fresh 

 manure, containing larger percentages 

 of plant food and having these ele- 

 ments in a more available condition, 

 but the losses in rotting may, and fre 

 quently do, out-balance the benefits. 

 Undoubtedly the safest store-house for 

 manure is the soil. Once in the soil, 

 the only loss that can occur is through 

 drainage away of the soluble nitrates, 

 and this is usually very slight, indeed 

 it is not to be compared with the loss 

 of nitrogen in the fermenting man- 

 ure heap. We, therefore, unhesi- 

 tatingly say that the farmer who gets 

 his manure, while still fresh, into the 

 soil, returns to it for the future use 

 of his crops much more plant nourish- 

 ment than he who allows the manure 

 to accumulate in piles that receive 

 little or no care, and which, therefore, 

 must waste by excessive fermentation 

 or leaching, or both. 



The Annual Address of Mr. J. W. 

 Bigelow, President of Nova Scotia Hor- 

 ticultural Society, states that the apple 

 yield of the past season amounted to 

 about 300,000 brls., valued at $800,000. 



The American Pomological Society 

 holds its next meeting in Philadelphia, 

 on the 7th and 8th of September, 1899, 

 with the Penn. State Society. 



The Great and Wide Spread dam- 

 age by the severe cold of last February 

 is reported to have been most serious 

 throughout a large part of the United 

 States, and from the fruit report sent 

 out by Mr. Latham, secretary of the 

 Missouri Horticultural Society, it would 

 appear that not only are the fruit buds 

 of the peach, pear and cherry badly 

 killed, but even the trees of these fruits 

 in many mstances. 



The Sugar Beet.— Mr. F. W. Glen, 

 of Brooklyn, sends us a leaf from the 

 sugar planter, and draws attention to 

 the good profits now before those who 

 grow the sugar beet. Granulated sugar 

 is now being manufactured at less than 

 three cents a pound, and the farmers 

 get from $4 to S4.50 per ton for their 

 beets, an average crop being twelve tons 

 to the acre. Mr. Glen thinks there is 

 no better land on the continent for the 

 production of the sugar beet than West- 

 ern Ontario. 



Freight Classification of Fruit. — 

 In view of the efforts now being made 

 by our committee to secure better rates 

 on the carriage of our fruit, it will be of 

 interest to note that our American 

 cousins are seeking after the same ends. 

 The following is a note from the last 

 meeting of the Western New York 

 Horticultural Society. 



FREIGHT BATES ON PEARS AND QUINCES. 



This Society, through its committee on 

 railroad classiiication, has made efforts to 

 have pears and quinces placed in the same 



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