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Thk British Api'I.i Markkt. — It is a remarkable thing that tlie prune 

 Canadian apples exported to British market should not return the grower more 

 money than they do. especially in a season like the one just passed. The aver- 

 age returns of those who have shipped to the old country has been from $1.50 

 to $1.75 per barrel. Some, it is true, have done a little better, but these are 

 about the average returns for fruit of the most excellent (juality. the wi-iter 

 judging not only from his own experience, but from the experience of others 

 who have exported. At the same time that his apples sold in the old country 

 markets so as to return the net prices quoted above, his apples of the same 

 (|uality and put up in the same style were sold retail to private jjarties in the old 

 country at $4 per barrel, f. o. b. at Grimsby. It seems strange that there should 

 be so large a difference between the wholesale and retail prices of apples in 

 Britain. 



The same thing is treated of in an article in the January number of the 

 Garden and Forest, bv a writer in London, Eng., who says that he priced 

 Canadian apples in Covent (larden and found Cravensteins, Baldwins and Rib- 

 stons quoted at 20 and 30 per barrel. Surely if some means could be devised 

 by which we could get into a nearer relationship with the consumers in the old 

 country, our business in exporting Canadian apples would be a greater success. 



Peach Yellows Insi'ecior. — At a recent meeting of the Lincoln 

 County Farmers' Institute, this subject was introduced i)y ("apt. .Shepherd of 

 Niagara, who showed the futility of the present Act for destroying diseased 

 peach trees. The inspector, it appears, is allowed but a limited time in which 

 to do his work, and cannot act unless a complaint is made. and. even then, lie 

 fears making enemies by cutting down his neighbors" trees. Further, he is sub- 

 jected to the necessity of proving each case of yellows. If a man is qualified to 

 act at all, his judgment ought to be final, and he should be at liberty to inspect 

 orchards at any time during the summer, and receive due compensation for the 

 work. 



A resolution was passed at the meeting above referred to. apjjroving of the 

 plan formulated by the (!anadian Institute, Toronto, which looked for an 

 appointment, by the Legislature, of a general inspector for tlie whole province, 

 to whom local inspectors might report cases of refusal to destroy the trees 

 affected with black knot or the yellows, and on whom will rest the duty of inf1i<t- 

 ing the penalty of the law upon such offenders. 



Sl'LI'HL'RIN(. Frlii. \)\. |. W . Smith, of Charles ("ity, Iowa, writes in the 

 transactions of the American i'ul)lic Health Association. ver\ decidedly oppos- 

 ing the use of suli)hur for bleaching dried or evaporated fruit. The use of sul- 

 phur, it is true, gives the evaporated fruit a light color : this, at first, attracted 

 the attention of consumers and commercial men. and. consi-ciiiently. raised ihe 



