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home that will prove one the most 

 important to Ontario growers, viz., 

 our own great North-West. Even 

 now, with population small and scat- 

 tered, the trade has assumed wonderful 

 proportions, with this very desirable 

 feature, that it is a market for our 

 early and fall apples, that would other- 

 wise be of comparatively little value. 

 Of coui'se, there are some fall apples 

 that we can ship to Britain profitably 

 under some circumstances. Of fall 

 varieties we have one that is sure of 

 ready sale at high prices — the Grav- 

 enstein — even this season it has sold 

 as high as $6 per barrel. St. Lawrence 

 has made $4.20 and Colvert 84.05 for 

 good samples. 



ORDER OF SHIPPING- WINTER APPLES. 



It is folly to send a mixed cargo at 

 an eai-ly season, as there is then no 

 proper demand for a long-keeping kind. 

 Shipments should continue through 

 winter until early spring. In such a 

 season as the present the order in which 

 special kinds should be shipped would 

 be thus : — In SeptemVjer and first week 

 in October, ship all 20-Ounce and 

 Ribstons and Blenheims ; follow this 

 with Kings. Send some Baldwins and 

 Greenings through November and 

 December, finishing shipments of these 

 kinds in January. The first Spies 

 should be sent forward in December, 

 and continued on through January into 

 FeVjruary. Ontario and Wagner will 

 also cover the same season. Hold the 

 Eussets until March if possible, along 

 with Mann, and send them forward 

 then as the demand arises, taking care 

 to examine everv barrel before leaving 



the storehouse to see that there is no 

 decay or shrinkage. 



SHIPPING GRAPES. 



The large grape crops of the present 

 season, and the exceedingly low prices 

 causes the growers to ask what are the 

 prospects of obtaining markets for an 

 increasing supply] If pi-oper cold 

 storage can be secured on the steam- 

 ships, Britain will soon prove to be a 

 good market for our open-air grapes. 

 But as the taste for them must be 

 acquired, largely, such a trade must be 

 appi'oached with care. The only class 

 of grape consumers in Britain are those 

 who can afibrd to pay very high prices 

 for hothouse varieties, and those who 

 are satisfied with the poor quality of 

 the ordinary Spanish white grape of 

 commei-ce. I have no doubt at all 

 but our grapes would find a ready class 

 of consumers if once introduced in com- 

 petition with the Spanish grape. Var- 

 ious ways of packing must be tested. 

 Those packed in berry boxes, tightly 

 enclosed in a case containing ten or 

 twelve such boxes, carried better than in 

 any other way to the Colonial at Lon- 

 don last year. 



CAUTION. 



It is for the exporter to quickly 

 decide the market to which he will 

 consign. Caution should be used in 

 accepting market reports mailed from 

 broking firms, which are so worded as 

 to induce shippers to consign to Liver- 

 pool when they should take London 

 or Glasgow, or vice versa. The necessity 

 of making arrangements well in advance 

 with steamship agents, to avoid being 

 shut out, must also be borne in mind. 



