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conceived. The amount of canned and dried fruit that is exported! 

 from the United States alone to England amounts annually to a 

 sum which would allow to nourish any one of our fair-sized 

 colonies. 



Jam. The demand for fruit for preserving purposes is excel- 

 lent and improving. Makers we find are glad to get the new varie- 

 ties of fruits which are now coming into bearing, at satisfactory 

 prices to the growers. 



