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being grown near the consumer, they ought to com- 

 mand a superior price ; and yet it is a fact that be- 

 cause of the better packing and sorting of the Cali- 

 fornia product, it drives the home fruit from the 

 markets. The better packing of this California!! 

 product has arisen from the fact that transportation 

 rates are such an important item in the marketing of 

 the fruits, and time of transit is so long, that only 

 the highest -priced and soundest fruit can bring the 

 consignor any profit after the expenses and risks are 

 deducted. It is always found that the farther fruit 

 has to be shipped, the greater is the care exercised 

 in the grading and packing. 



Whilst we, with the best of reasons, are con- 

 stantly deploring the shiftless attention given to the 

 packing of our fruit, the fruit-growers of Europe are 

 impressed with the excellent condition in which our 

 apples often arrive in their markets. The following 

 extract is from a German paper of recent date :* 



"Although during the last few years repeated at- 

 tention has been called, by those in authority, to the 

 development of the German fruit industry as a pos- 

 sible means of enlarging the net proceeds of domestic 

 agriculture, it is necessary again and again to recur 

 to the subject, and especially at this time to call at- 

 tention to the fact that our fruit industry is confronted 

 by a crisis which, if it does not meet with immediate 

 and strong resistance, threatens to completely destroy 

 it, and thus to greatly damage our national welfare. 



l>eutsche Landwirtschaftliche Presse, xxiv., No. 7, Jan. 27, 1807. 



