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storag'e, but until quite recently this has 

 been quite faulty ; and last year we had 

 a ve/y unsatisfactory experience with cold 

 storage on ship board. With this excep- 

 tion, however, we have had fairly good 

 success, and sometimes have done remark- 

 ably well in the Glasgow market." 



APPLE CROP REPORTS NEEDED 



"I think," said Mr. W. B. Hopkins, 

 " that crop reports come too much through 

 apple buyers and speculators, who try to 

 make us believe that there is a great sur- 

 plus and that we must not expect over fifty 

 cents a barrel ! No doubt this is good 

 policy on the part of the buyer, but I think 

 the Government, through your journal, 

 ought to give the growers' interests their 

 attention and guard us against speculators." 



Well, the reports so far received at our 

 office, we said, indicate a short crop in 

 Europe, and consequently we ought to get 

 good prices in spite of the quantity in our 

 apple sections. During a recent journey by 

 the writer through Maine and Massachus- 

 etts, it was a matter of special comment 

 how few apple orchards can be seen, and 

 many that were seen were not heavily 

 loaded. Baldwins especially were light in 

 many places. " Yes," said Mr. Peart, 

 *' and such a quantity of apples have 

 dropped during the month of July, that 

 the crop is much less than the early 

 promise." 



TOMATOES FOR PROFIT 



Noticing that Mr. Peart grows tomatoes 

 for market we asked him for his experience, 

 that we might compare it with Mr. Arm- 

 strong, of Queenston, He was two weeks 

 behind the latter in his first shipment, which 

 he made about the middle of July. " I 

 grew tomatoes," he said, "to fill in the 

 season of marketing between the season of 

 currants and blackcaps, and my plum 

 harvest, and find them quite a satisfaction. 

 1 usually plant about half an acre. My 

 main crop variety is Dominion Day ; Ruby 

 is a trifle earlier, but the former brings me 

 more money, because it is smooth skinned 

 and regular in form. I consider it much 

 better than Atlantic Prize, and quite as 

 early. " 



PEARS FOR EXPORT 



" I have great confidence in the Kieflfer 

 for export," said Mr. Fisher. " I think it 

 will yet be highly valued because it carries 

 so well. Nor is it always of poor quality, 

 but sometimes we find it developing a very 

 excellent flavor. I am inclined to believe 

 very much in the individuality of the KiefFer 

 and that some variations in this variety are 

 so distinctive and valuable that they should 

 be continued by propagation from the trees 

 which develop them ; I mean such traits as 

 large size, especially bright color, and 

 better quality. For export I would plant 

 Bartlett, Duchess and Kieffer." 



The Ontario Department of Agriculture 

 has in press a very valuable bulletin on The 

 Cold Storage of Fruity by Profs. Reynolds 

 and Hutt, of the Agricultural College, 



Guelph. Fruit growers interested in the 

 preservation of their products should drop a 

 post card to the Department at Toronto 

 asking for a copy. 



