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wondei-ed why enterprising men of business did not inform themselves 

 upon these branches of industry, and put up a drying establishment 

 and a canning factory at such a noted fruit and vegetable centre as 

 St. Catliarines. The only canning establishment in the Dominion as 

 he believed is the one at Grimsby, and that, has not a capacity 

 sufficient to supply one-thousandth part of the canned fruit consumed 

 in this Dominion. Nor could he see why we could not can fruits as well 

 and cheaply as our cousins over the border, and compete favorably 

 with them in foreign markets. The profits on fruit dried in some of 

 the large evaporators in the United States he understood to be very 

 satisfactory. 



FKNCES, AND CATTLE RUNNING AT LARGE. 



This subject called out a very interesting and animated discussion. 



Dr. Watt remarked tliat we had become so accustomed to the 

 practice of keeping up fences along our highways, in order to keep 

 other people's cattle from damaging our grain fields and other crops, 

 that w^e had no conception what a tax we were paying in this very 

 matter of keeping up road-side fences. "Why," he would ask, "should 

 I pay a tax of ten, tw^eijty, or perhaps thirty dollars a year that my 

 neighbors may pasture their cattle upon the highway ? And yet that 

 is in reality what many of us are doing. Why should not every man 

 be obliged to take care of his own animals, and so keep them that 

 they cannot trespass upon my fields ? — To he continued. 



QUESTION DKAWEE. 

 Mr. D. Shoff, MacGillivray, asks :— 



** How is this weather going to develop fruit buds, injuriously or not? Give your 

 opinion in the Horticulturist. I have lived here forty years, and I never saw such 

 a winter as this. Last fall we had a second growth of flowering shrubs, and in flower." 



At present (March 1st) the fruit buds seem to be sound, and unless 

 we have warm weather later in the season sufficient to bring out the 

 fruit buds more fully, followed by frosts severe enough to kill them, 

 there will be a good crop of fruit. March is usually the trying month, 

 and there is probably more danger of injury than usual, owing to the 

 unusually mild weather of the winter. • 



