250 Exports of California:* Soft Fruits. 



is that trans-oceanic producing countries have their own 

 representatives in the principal commercial centres of Ger- 

 many, so that the intermediary trade between the lands of 

 production and the Continental markets, formerly exclusively 

 in British hands, has now disappeared. The only remains 

 of this trade may be seen in a few shiploads coming from the 

 East Coast, but even these become fewer and fewer. But 

 there was rather a brisk export of German wheat and rye 

 to the United Kingdom. The principal kinds exported were 

 Pomeranian, Mecklenburg, and Holstein wheat ; the produce 

 of East and West Prussia and of Posen was retained in 

 Germany on account of its superiority in gluten. 



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A memorandum, prepared by H.M. Consul-General at 

 Marseilles, has been received from the 



Castor-oil Seed B d f Xrade with reference to the 

 Cake as Manure. 



manufacture of castor oil at that city. 

 It is pointed out that, in addition to the climate, Marseilles 

 possesses two great advantages over British manufacturers 

 of castor-oil for industrial purposes : these are cheap labour 

 and a ready sale for oil-seed cake. The castor seed residue 

 is put at about sixty per cent, of the seed used, and on the 

 basis of an annual import into Marseilles of about 25,000 

 tons of seed, it is estimated that 15,000 to 20,000 tons of 

 castor-oil cake are annually used, within a short radius of 

 that city, by market gardeners for the raising of early 

 vegetables. It is stated that there is no similar demand for 

 this cake in England, and that some of British manufacture 

 has even been put on the Marseilles market. 



In the spring of 1892, experimental carload lots of tomatoes 



^ « from Florida were shipped to England, 



Export of twt -*r 1 



Californian Soft the first going forward from A ew Y ork on 



Fruits to Great the steamer Majestic, April 27th. Later 

 in the season five shipments of Californian 

 peaches, pears, and plums, aggregating twenty-four carloads 



