My informant promises that successful results will follow the adop- 

 tion of this method, although his experiments have been on such a 

 small scale that he is unable to supply me with the fuller details 

 of relative cost and exact structure of case. 



L. H. YATES. Successful Jam making and Fruit bottling. 



(London, 1909, pp. xiv-i22). E. S. R. Abstr., June 1910. Wash- 

 ington. 



Detailed directions are given for making jams and preserves of 

 various sorts, the apparatus used is described and many recipes 

 are included. 



Chapters are devoted to storing and packing and to the market- 

 ing of stock. The volume as a whole is prepared from the stand- 

 point of fruit preserving as a home industry. 



Fruit Bottling. (Worcester C. C. Thirteenth Report on Droitwich 

 Experimental Garden, 1908). The Journ. of the Board of Agric., 

 March 1910, London, Vol. XVI, N. n, p. 1025. 



" Thirty-three varieties of plums were sterilised at various tem- 

 peratures, and the condition and appearance of the fruit after se- 

 veral months are stated." 



WILLIAM E. BEAR. Fruit imported into Great Britain. Jour, 

 of the R. Agric. Soc. of England, Vol. 70, 1909, pp. 151-163. 



England imported more apples in the five years ended with 

 1898 than in the five ended in 1908. The quantities sent by the 

 two largest contributors, the United States and Canada, were about 

 the same each for the above periods. 



Australia and Tasmania have increased their quantities, while 

 France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany have fallen behind 

 their earlier consignments. 



France, Germany, and the United States supply the greater part 

 of the pears imported into England. Among them only the United 

 States have made some slight headway. Canadian consignments 

 though small have increased owing to the development of fruit 

 growing in British Columbia. 



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