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Western New York horticulturists 

 have secured the right to ship car-load 

 lots of pears and quinces in boxes and 

 kegs as fourth-class, and in lesser 

 quantities, second class. This means a 

 reduction over the old rates of lo cents 

 per 100 pounds in car-load lots, and five 

 cents on smaller shipments. 



2000 lbs and often 3(KX) lbs, or five and ten 

 barrels of apples short at $.3 per barrel, for 

 which we are unable to collect. Is it asking 

 too much, under the circumstances, that 

 every railroad should know what it receives 

 and delivers." 



Shippers Count. — Mr. Britton com- 

 plained at the Rochester meeting, of the 

 unfairness on the part of railway com- 

 panies in refusing to take the responsi- 

 bility of the count of carloads of fruit 

 packages. He says : 



" We have, not one, but dozens of instances 

 where we load, and take our certificates of 

 weights from the weigher, or our account of 

 barrels, and the bill of lading is marked 

 " shippers count or tally," except where we 

 ship from the larger cities. 



When the car reaches its destination the 

 purchaser, reports it to be so many hundred- 

 weight short ; they again furnish the city 

 scale weights and we are obliged to pay for 



The Manchester Ship Canal is 

 likely to open up the interior of England 

 to our fruit trade so that many fruit 

 merchants who have been in the habit 

 of buying from the great fruit brokers of 

 Liverpool, may now receive consign- 

 ments direct from Canadian growers at 

 reasonable freight rates. Goods are 

 being delivered at Manchester at about 

 the former Liverpool rates. Mr. R. 

 Dawson Harling, of Toronto, is the 

 agent for this canal. 



The Bismarck is a new and valuable 

 apple from New Zealand. It is said to 

 be remarkable for its early bearing, even 

 grafts one or two years old carrying' fruit. 



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