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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Freeman's Fertilizer Factory, Hamilton, which was damaged by fire several 

 weeks ago, is being rapidly repaired, and will be in running order in a short 

 time. 



Hardy Apples. — E. Reynolds, of Wisconsin, says that the best apples, for 

 that country where hardiness is so important a consideration, are the Duchess, 

 Walbridge, Wealthy, Wolf River and Whitney's No. 20. These will supply 

 farmers with apples during ten months of the year, which is, of course, the chief 

 purpose for which apples should be grown in cold sections. 



Californian Fruits. — This is the subject of a long article in the Fruit 

 Growers' Journal, different writers giving their views regarding the effect upon 

 our markets of the immense shipments of fruits from California. The general 

 tenor of their remarks is to recommend more careful grading of our fruits 

 and the use of more fancy packages, in order to place our fruit in fair competi- 

 tion with those from California. The packers there have the reputation of being 

 very attentive to these details. Their fruits are more uniform in size than those 

 put up by our Eastern fruit growers, and they are better graded and put up in 

 more attractive style. We must learn their art if we would not be driven out of 

 our own markets, during the season when their fruits come in so freely. 



The Weekly Market Bulletin, which it was proposed to publish during 

 the summer months for the benefit of growers, will not be issued regularly this 

 summer as was intended. The reason is that the Postmaster-General does not 

 consider such a bulletin of the character of those publications to which the 



