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our home and export industries — may be 

 saved. 



We seem to be at the parting of the ways 

 in respect of horses generally. The motor 

 has supplanted them to a large extent, and 

 even in war, though the Boers used them with 

 great ingenuity, they do not seem to weigh 

 greatly in the present operations. But while 

 we have the dear creatures, let us make the 

 best that we can of them. How charming 

 would be our valley contests for the best in 

 all the classes ! 



It must always be satisfactory to the 

 poor to hear year by year that there is a 

 ' glut ' of fruit without its price to them being 

 affected ! This year it is reassuring to know 

 that the Agricultural Organisation Society 

 is working at this glut and endeavouring to 



conserve a portion of the plum, damson, apple, and 

 blackberry crop by pulping. It should be the aim 

 of all of us [says Mr. Harris in his circular] to try 

 to make use of some of the surpluses in this time of 

 national crisis in the interests of the consumers. 

 My suggestion is that those industrial co-operative 

 societies situated in fruit-growing areas should install 

 in a convenient building a fruit-pulping plant where 



