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Brined Onion Industry. 



meet the requirements of the pickling firms, because more effec- 

 tive methods and greater care are employed in their preparation 

 for brining. The organisation of the brining industry in the 

 Netherlands has enabled the factories, by collecting their sup- 

 plies of raw onions from a large number of growers and by the 

 use of improved apparatus, to send to this country large consign- 

 ments of onions in brine possessing greater uniformity in size 

 shape and colour than it seems possible to obtain by the methods 

 at present adopted at Biggleswade. It is just this uniformity in 

 the bulk which the great pickling firms in this country desire, and 

 for goods possessing it they are prepared to pay a higher price 

 than for produce which is deficient in this respect. 



Summing up the results, it may be said, therefore, that the 

 success of the Dutch trade in brined vegetables is due to the 

 better organisation of the industry, and to the humbler standard 

 of living of the Dutch growers, which enables them to be satis- 

 fied with a smaller profit, and by these means to overcome the 

 disadvantages of heavier rents and freights. 



