1905.] Preparation of Fruit Pulp in France. 621 



The Guild of Pork Butchers in Nuremberg insure swine for 

 the duration of the market only, viz., from Monday morning 

 to Saturday night, the premium being i^d. per animal. The 

 insurance company claims all sums received for the sale of 

 carcases of swine, the insurance of which has to be paid. Hogs 

 kept for breeding purposes are not insured. A charge of 5s. is 

 made for membership of the above insurance company. 



Pulping is a useful method of preserving fruit intended for 



jam-making. It enables the fruit to be sent long distances and 



to be sold out of the season when the 



Preparation of market is not overstocked. The practice 

 Fruit Pulp in 



France. prevails to a considerable extent in some 



parts of France, particularly in the 



neighbourhood of Dijon, in the Cote d'Or, whence the pulp is 



exported to this country, and in the Departments of Bouches du 



Rhone and Vaucluse. Briefly, the method is to sterilise the 



fruit in tins after the removal of the stalks and stones and 



when carefully prepared the pulp can be preserved for a long 



time. The black currant, cherry, raspberry, red currant, plum 



and apricot are treated in this way, but the demand for the 



pulp in France varies with the different fruits ; thus the black 



currant, apricot, and plum are readily disposed of, but the 



red currant meets with less demand, while in the case of cherries, 



buyers of any considerable quantities are hard to find. The 



preparation of these pulps forms the subject of a Report to the 



French Ministry of Agriculture by M. Vercier, Professor of 



Horticulture at Dijon, and some of the particulars given in his 



Report may be of interest to fruit-growers in this country. 



The black currant appears to be the fruit most largely 



preserved in the Cote d'Or, and since 1897 it has been 



exported to England under the name of black currant pulp 



for use in confectionery. The crop in this Department amounted 



in 1903 to about 19,400 cwt, and in a good year it may reach 



25,000 cwt. It is estimated that about one-half of the crop is 



sent to this country. The pulping is not usually performed by 



the growers, as the work requires to be done on a fairly large 



