ii. points to another and less obvious eause, w hich at a first sight seems 
might say that it would rather buy an article of consumption from out- 
side than produce it itself; and it is by no means impossible that this 
approaches the secret of the whole matter, If the price of Jabour allows of 
cabbages being aro more cheaply in Holland than in England, they 
will be imported 
The Board of a tage Lamy out in its Journal for December 
1894 AUR 150) another ca 
e fewness of distributing centres. 
“So pm as the praetice continues of consigning the chief part of 
the fruit grown in this country to the few existing markets there 
must be occasional glut.” Yet, however abundant the harvest of fruit, 
the price to the local consumer rarely falls, hat is mainly wanted 
then is greater facilities of distribution as between the producer and the 
consumer. 
The following SORT illustration is taken from the Daily 
E oe for July 17, 1894 
* A correspondent says: A mU in Covent Garden had consigned 
to him last Saturday 2,500 bags of peas, Fs ear 30,000 pecks. A 
large quantity of these were sold as low s. per bag, or 1d. per peck. 
The cost of gathering is about 1s., ; eniai and other 
charges 6d., total 2s. each bag. The coster would gain a heap of 
money by the glut, the public an advantage, the salesman his commis- 
sion, and lastly the producer, whose share has wholly near may 
find him self called upon to make good any loss incurred by the 
transaction 
With ated to potatoes it is interesting to observe that the importa- 
tion is gradually declining. According to » the Agricultural Returns Je 
Great Britain, 1894, published by the Board of Agriculture (p. xxxix 
the figures for the last twenty years stand as follows :— 
Tons. 
1873 - - é - - 340,000 
1883 . - - E - 257,500 
1893 - : - “ga: AE 2 
For the last year the gross B arbda in the United Kingdom was 
6,541,000 tons (p. xxvi.}. One potato therefore in something under fifty 
would be foreign. But as the bulk of the imports of potatoes are from 
France and the Channel Islands, it is obvious it is pretty nearly 
accounted for by the earlier crop which those countries produce. 
The case of onions is, however, the most enigmatical. The Gardeners’ 
Magazine asks, “ What becomes of the large crops grown in Bedford- 
shire?” and the Board of Agriculture ee. "in some instances, it 
was impossible to dispose of onions in the last se 
The pages of the Gardeners’ Chronicle, which i is the leading pro- 
fessional journal, have been searched for “ striking fac Ped E would 
throw light on the problems involved, without much s 
In the number of February 4, 1893 (page 136) it viet "that * much 
of the success attending the importation of Ámeriean apples is due 
to colour in the fruit" 1t recommends “making a better selection 
of varieties of apples as well as improved methods of culture and of 
and further that in schools * children should be tà taught that 
ie Patrioti thing to consome home grown apple.” 
