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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Bones as a Fertilizer. — The treatment 

 of bones is the subject of an article in the 

 Farm and Fireside, by "Joseph." He advises 

 the careful saving of all bones accumulating 

 about the farm, as they contain valuable fer- 

 tilizing material, viz : three or four per cent, 

 of nitrogen, and nearly one-quarter of their 

 own dry weight in phosphoric acid. Their 

 value, according to this scale, would be about 

 one and a-half cents a pound. To get these 

 old bones into available form, the following 

 modes are advised, viz. : (i) burning, (2) 

 mixing with fresh horse manure, the fermen- 

 tation of which helps to soften them, (3) 

 e.xposure to chemical action of unleached 

 wood ashes, in which method they should be 

 broken and put in alternate layers with the 

 ashes in a barrel, keeping the whole mass 

 moist until the bones are soft. 



A New Produce Company. — We as fruit 

 growers will gladly welcome any scheme for 

 the better sale of our produce. An attempt 

 was made last spring to form a joint stock 

 company for this purpose, which failed, 

 owing to the bitter opposition of influential 

 English and Canadian commission mer- 

 chants. A company has now been organized 

 under the name of the Imperial Produce 

 Company, having a head office in Toronto, 



and a British head office in London, England. 

 Among the officials of the company we 

 notice the names of Mr. Charles Drury, 

 Minister of Agriculture ; Mr.W. E. Welling- 

 ton, one of our directors, and Mr. A. McD. 

 Allan, our ex-President. The last named 

 gentleman is to be the outside manager, and 

 in his hands will be placed the personal 

 supervision of the sale of our apples to retail 

 merchants in Great Britain, Norway aud 

 Sweden. We hope, therefore, to receive 

 material aid from the operations of this 

 company. 



A Weekly Market Bulletin. — We have 

 in view a very important scheme for the 

 benefit of the fruit-growers of Ontario. It 

 consists of a weekly supplement to the 

 Canadian Horticulturist during the fruit 

 season giving reliable reports of both English 

 and Canadian fruit markets during the 

 months of July, August and September. This 

 market bulletin will be sent free to all those 

 members of our Association who desire it. 

 Due notice of its first issue will be given in 

 these columns, when those who wish to 

 receive the bulletin will apply by postal card 

 to the Secretary. 



On Girdling the Grape. — Professor 

 Maynard, of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, has been making further investiga- 



