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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Mistaken The London firm that 

 Policy. i s making a specialty 



of shipping California fruits to the Eng- 

 lish markets reports the first shipments 

 of the year as entirely successful, al- 

 though the fruit sent was not of the 

 largest size or best quality. The ship- 

 pers of such fruit are doing their state 

 a grave injustice by sending any but the 

 very best. Inferior fruit is a drug in 

 any market this year, but good fruit 

 commands fair prices and steady sale. 

 At least until the market and the repu- 

 tation of the goods has been fairly 

 established there should be none but the 

 best sent into new fields of comsump- 

 tion. When that has been done and the 

 people have become accustomed to the 

 possible high quality they will be able 

 to discriminate as between qualities 

 without condemning the whole product. 



Disgraceful The California Fruit 

 Business. Exchange has been 

 advised that Baltimore packers are in- 

 tending to pack large quantities of 

 peaches this year under California labels. 

 It is said that large contracts for fruit 

 so packed have been placed with dealers. 

 Naturally California fruit growers are 

 indignant. There ought to be a way, 

 and there probably is, to punish such 



frauds legally. It is not only infamous 

 in itself, but is calculated to do irrepar- 

 able injury to the reputation of Califor- 

 nia fruit which it has taken years to 

 establish. 



Traveling The Dominion gov- 



Dairy. eminent has decided 



to continue its support to this novel 

 feature for assisting the dairy interests 

 of British Columbia. Meetings are held 

 in different localities where all who are 

 engaged in the business may attend, and 

 where the best methods are presented by 

 discussion and practical illustration. 

 The government is giving substantial 

 encouragement to the starting of new 

 creameries and effective assistance to 

 those already in operation. This is an 

 industry which ought to receive more 

 attention from the irrigating farmer 

 than it has heretofore. The facility 

 which irrigation affords for intensive 

 cultivation for the production of the 

 largest crops from a given area allows 

 compact settlement, makes forty acres 

 or less equal to eighty, saves long car- 

 riage for the milk from farm to factory, 

 and will give the largest return for in- 

 telligent management that is possible 

 from the ordinary agricultural products. 



A WINDMILL IRRIGATION PLANT, 



