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Raspberries do not come next in rotation but may as well be mentioned just here. Less labor and skill is required than in the cultivation of strawberries, and the yield is lar er and more sure, once the bushes get We 1 bearing. One experienced fruit raiser informed me that from no one fruit can so much good cash results be safely calculated upon. This season the yield is truly won- derful, and the large quantities one sees growing in a few miles drive in some parts of the country is astonishing. Some times there are acres seen at one time. One farmer in Ameliesburgh claims to have had 200 bushels this season, and he did not de- pend on the cmmeries for hismarket either. These were snhl ‘lll. Belleville. Gooseberries The first work of the season’s canning is generally with strawberries. They are ready and pretty well out of the way before other fruits come in. In the two cauneries some thing like 150,000 quarts were put up dur- ing the season (though these and other fig- ures may not be always entirely correct). Theso were the product of about 50 acres of the cultivated fruit, and would represent an average of 3,000 quarts to the acre, good and poor. In some instances the yield was considerably over 4,000 quarts to the acre, and at 6 cents per quartâ€"the average rate, I thinkâ€"would represent $240 per acre. Very few other fruits represent any such sum of money, and, after all, the total amount of work re- quired is not large or heavy. The crop needs good soil and skilful cultivation. Each year, as more special attention is given to them, the average grows better and the supply is larger. Strawberry raising is be- coming an immense and profitable business in this Provinceâ€"in those parts well adapt- ed to it. sucl large establishmentâ€"of Miller & Co.~_â€"has sprung up alongside, in the same thriving town, and it, too, has flourished and ex- tended. To-day these are the most impor- tant industries to the town and the sur- rounding farmers for miles around, and out from them have sprung up others in other localities, which bid fair yet to become equally large and successful. In a late visit to these establishments I obtained the following information which may be of interest to all who are patriotic- ally watching the successful development of our Canadian industries. It is possible, too, they may tend to encourage the estab- lishment of others in other lonelities. The farmers of the Province greatly need more openings in their line of business because of the many changes brought about 1) the o ening up of the great grain fields 0 the orth \Vest and the closing up of much of the great States grain markets by hostile tarifl's. hx'rnx'r or THE WORK Don: I found at the time of my visit fully two hundred persons at work in the two factor- Pumpkins are also put in cans when the season forother things ispast. The price is too low to warrant much attention, but the 118‘ mand increases. Hood qualities are used and they are put up nicely. The thrifty housewife, who is always anxious for a variety of good things. finds these cans al- ways ready for any emergency and at any time: and many a fine pumpkin pie can thus be turned out with little trouble or expense when other things are not handy. The color and quality are much better than the old handlprepared method. Applcs put up in gallon cans are coming in great demand. They are cooked, as other fruit and then sealed up and ready at any time. Thousands of Ontario people now living in Manitoba are thankfulto get their supplies of this fal‘niliar fruit in this way. | but the greatest demand of all comes from England. There the value and quality of our Canadian apples has been but recently found out and the orders came thick and fast. In years to come this one branch of fruit canning for this one market will be , something enormous. Last fall Mr. Boulter I found at the time of my visit fully two hundred persons at work l'l the two factor- ies, largely females and boys, but at times when supplies come in more rapidly another 60 or more are needed. These were all hard at work in the canning alone. Employment is given for a still largernuinber in cultivat- ing grounds and raising and collecting the raw materials, besides the large number permanently at work in making tin cans and boxes, and shipping, book-keeping. and the many other lines of work necessary throughout the year. The two factories ex- pect to have made and filled something like a million and a half of cans of various kinds before the close of the season. The amount of work that is required, and the amount of tin. lumber and cash expenditure can scarce- ly be well imagined by those who have not given the matter considerable study, just how many tens of thousands of dollars this sum represents to the farmers for their stuff and how many thousands to the laborers, and how much to the manufacturers for the finished product, I did not attempt to learn. There are few lines of business, however. leavingjsuch an entire percentage of the value of finished product to go to the farmers and the laborers. w’dt Prlnro Edward County Alone is 7‘ Doing. Fruit canning is becoming each year a more extensive and important business in Canada, and it is destined to grow to much greater value in the near future. It is but a few years since the first cannery in this Province was established; now twenty or more are in successful operation and nearly every one is increasing its output from year to year, while the demand for that class of oods increases even faster than the supply. he demand is sure to increase rapidly for many years to come, for Wherever properly canned fruits are introduced more are sure to be wanted. In no other way can most of our healthy fruits be so cheaply and easily obtained at all seasons of the year and in no other way in a more healthy and palatable form. The demand exists, and grows, in every part of our broad Dominion, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, while there are only comparatively few and small. sections of Ontario alone where the necessary fruits and grains grow in sufficient abundance and variety to warrant the establishment of large canneries. It is only by having a large variety that such an industry can he carried on through an entire season, or can fully supply the class of orders usually sent by dealers. CANADLEN PRU 1T CANNIN G. THE MATERIALS USED Paws come very soon after strawberries, and often before the last of that fruit is in. Great pains are taken with this grain so as to secure satisfactory results. The farmers are supplied with the seed, so as to get the proper kinds and to secure uniformity about What is put up. As soon as the peas are fit for cooking the vines are cut, the pods pick- ed off and brought in. The farmers are paid $25 per ton for the green pods and four tons is a. good average per acre. The crop is out offin time to leave the round ready for buck wheat, or corn for fo der, or wheat fallow afterwards. The canneries have an ingenious machine, driven by steam power, for shelling the grain from the pods. No hand work is required except the regular feeding of the pods in a hopper, and the peas come bolted cut well cleaned, as flour is bolted the bran in a flourin mill. Such a. machine is cap- able of she] ing a. ton per hour. More than one hundred acx es of peas were raised and supplied this year. They keep well and the demand increases. "'u “ slow down ; then the display of two white lights is the order, to stop and haul into the gare. The steamer presently hauls in, makes fast, puts out all lights and lies sung in her berth alongside the desert, while the oncoming vessel, looking like a. locomotive at night, passes by. One white light from the gare and lines are let go, and the journey continued until Suez is reach- ed.-[Liout. Ridgely Hunt, in Scribner, Tomatoes are in greater demand than any- thing else. some years ago one gentleman engaged in the business told me that the demand was practically unlimited for toma- toesâ€"that all could be exported we do not use at home. This year the Picton canners find they cannot undertake to fill all Cana- dian orders, and this, too, in the face of the fact that they have in prospect the supplies of 180 acres. and the yield will be very large per acre. It is said that millions of cans can be shipped to England each year if we but had them to ship. The price given at the factories is ‘25 cents per bushel. This looks small, but an experienced raiser has just remarked to me that when he can take a load and sell it and away at once it pays him very well. More are needed each year. The average time of transit by day is 24 hours ; by night with electric lights it, is 19 hours, and has been done in 15 hours. In order to navigate by night, a vessel must. light the way by carrying an electric pro- jector at; her how as close to the water as possible, and pay the closest, attention to the orders from the passing stations or yares. Three white lights showri vertically indicate Great Britain, and a. large part of the bal- ance to the States. We Imported during the same year $23,316 worth from the same countries, and nearly the entire amount from the States. Now that we have cheap and free sugar and a yearly increasing amount of fruits the business is sure to grow from year to year. Central Ontario ought to grow fruits for millions of people outside of our own country, and no doubt it will do so before many years. The Canadian in- dustry in canned fruits. and in canned meats also, ought to become great and profitable. The probabilities are that such will be the case in the near future. also can splendidly and are put up in large quantities, but they require too much sugar in proportion to the fruit to be a favorite class with the manufacturers. That fact makes the price comparatively large with other fruits, but yet all are used that are brought in. The same remarks apply to currants. something enormous. Last fall Mr. Boulter got one order for the English navy for all the canned apples he could supply and at better than our ordinary rates. Probably in years to come the Ships of “air and ships of commerce will go well provided with a. variety of canned fruits to use with the dried and salted meats and fish, giving a. good palatable variety and a good preventative against anything like scury, once so preval- ent and so dreaded by men in long voyages. As to the markets I need only say that supplies now go from Halifax to Vancouver direct in car loads. At the one cannery twenty car loads have already been arrang- ed for Winnipeg, and trains are sent almost weekly until shipments are over. Our Ex- port trade is small yet, but is destined to largely increase. According to fine last published trade and navigation returns we exported from Canadain 1889 $14,083 worth of canned fruits, about half of which went to I need hardly say that the fruits and grains are as carefully prepared as they would be for cooking at home, then put in the cans and sealed with the exception of small vent holes, then carefully and skillful- ly cooked by steam and the vent soldered up leaving them perfectly air tight and fresh. llow Vessels go ’l‘hruugh (In Suez (‘znml TAOMAS \V. CASE! NAPANEE, Aug. 27th, ’91. METHom AXD 1mm: After hearing this, the commissary turned to Medina, and without arousing his suspi' cion, dismissed him with the promise that everything possible would be done to secure the arrest of Remigia. The commissary next visited the ranch, where the story of )Iedina’s crimes were repeated to him. On thefollowingday, Remigia was found hiding on a. ranch near the village of Quilmos, and was brought before the police authorities of Lomos de Zamora. She declared that she had left her home on account of the cruel treatment at the hands of her parents. l'nder close questioning, Remigia. admit- ted that her father had murdered several of his children. She said that some of the bodies of her brothers and sisters, who had been killed shortly after birth, were buried in her parents house, while others had been buried under an old barn which formed an outlying post of the ranch. Upon this evidence Medina and his wife were arrested. They at first denied the charges, then made a partial confession, en- tmigling themselves in a. maze of falsehoods, and at length were induced to fully confess their crimes. According to the confession, Medina and his wife lived formerly in Les Flores, where they were married in 1858. They lived in an inn of the village, the hus- band being a man of all work, and his wife attending the kitchen of the establishment. Ten (‘hildrcn And Three Grandchildren Killed by Their Progenitor. The village of Lomos de Zamora, near Banfield Station, in the United Suates of Columbia, is the scene of as startling a sen- sation as the annals of crime contain. It consists in the discovery of a series of murders, beginning in 1859 or 186.) and con- tinuing to 1890 and resulting in the death of ten sons and daughters and the three grandchildren of the murderer. The author of these crimes is Marcmno Medina, and his wife, Paulina Benavedes and his daughter, Remigia, have been the accessories if not the accomplices in several of the murders. The filgt murder occurred after they had been married a. year and a. half. A son had been born to them, who, when a few months old, was afflicted with a touch of fever. One night Medina took the child away from home on horseback, under the pretext of consulting a doctor. While riding along he placed the child’s breast against the pom- mel of his saddle, and crushed the breath out of its little body. Then he carried it to the shore of Lake Blanca, and buried it on land belonging to Dr. Montes Dc Uca. Since 1871 Marciano Medina. has lived at a ranch near Lamas de Zamora. He has a family consisting of a wife, six sons,and one daughter, Remigia. He is 55 years old, and his wife is 43. Medina. is employed among the corrals of Lomos, and is considered a useful worker among the men of his class at, election times. The discovery of this man’s crimes was due indirectly to the action of Remigia, in leaving her father’s home to elope with her lover. The discovery of these crimes has oc- casioned intense excitement in Lomas de Zamora and the adjacent towns. Excava- tions made on Medina’s ranch have resulted in the finding of the skeletons of some of the murdered children. Medina. seems little moved, either by the contemplation of his crime or the peril in which their dis- covery has placed him. He says that he killed his own children because he had not the means to support them, and killed Remia’s sons to hide his daughter’s Re 18/8 sha . On July 18, Medina. called upon the police Commissary of Lomos de Zamora, Ornaldo Gueri, and requested that his runaway daughter be apprehended. At the very moment of this conference, a police agent, Pedro Miranda, called the Commissary aside, and said that he had just come from a. ranch near Lomos de Zamora, where in the course of the comments which had been made upon the elopement of Remigia, it had been charged that Medina and his wife had killed a number of their children, and buried them on their ranch. Wheu Medina. returned home, he told his wife what he had done. She was heart- broken and reproached him for his crime, but, took no steps to expose him. Medina justified his act on the ground that they were too poor to support children. A year later, a second son, Guaduloupe, (5 weeks old, was taken from home by'the fa.- In December, 1890, Remigia. gave birth to the thirdson. \Vhen the babe was ‘22 days old, Medina, one evening, ordered Remigia down -to the kitchen. While she was absent he killed the baby. Remigia and her mother helped Medina. to bury the child behind the kitchen. In Bulgaria only 79.: per cent. of the popu lation can read and write. were arrested. They at first denied the charges, then made a partial confession, en- tangling themselves in a maze of falsehoods, and at length were induced to fully confess their crimes. According to the confession, Medina and his wife lived formerly in Les Flores, where they were married in 1858. They lived in an inn of the village, the hus- band being a man of all work, and his wife attending the kitchen of the establishment. The first murder occurred after they had been married a year and a half. A son had been born to them, who, when a few months old, was afflicted with a touch of fever. One night Medina took the child away from home on horseback, under the pretext of consulting a doctor. While riding along he placed the child’s breast against the pom. mel of his saddle, and crushed the breath out of its little body. Then he carried it to the shore of Lake Blanca, and buried it on land belonaing to Dr. Montes Dc Uca. When Medina returned home, he told his wife what he had done. She was heart- broken and reproached him for his crime, but took no steps to expose him. Medina justified his act on the ground that they were too poor to support children. A year later, a second son, Guaduloupe, (5 weeks old, was taken from home by‘the fa- ther. The baby was murdered, and its body was taken home and buried in the presence of the mother, who again became accessory to the crime by her silence. The next victim, a baby boy, was killed by strangulationwhen 3 months old, and the body was buried in a neighboring ranch. The next two unfortun- ate babes were girls, Felipa, who was smoth~ ered in her cradle when 4 months old, and Tellja, whose brains were blown out by Medina. when she was 5 months old. BURIED WHILE HALF ALIVE. The parents moved to Lomas de Zamora where, in 187-1, Medina murdered his sixth child, a boy 8 days old, who was not christ- ened. This crime was especially atrocious. According to the confession of the mother, Medina crushed the babe violently 'against his breast, and buried him while yet half alive, on the ranch where they lived. mi I ,,. L‘rn :_,|I__..._._ 4.4.. At a time when the little republic of Switzerland is celebrating the six-hundredth anniversary of her independence it seems fitting to enquire concerning the present strength of that principle upon which her government is founded. That the demo- cratic sentiment has not weakened during these centuries is evidenced by the fact that‘ only a few weeks ago, almost on the eve of l her great national celebration, a plebiscite ‘ favored a new law introducing popularl initiative in legislation. Under this law a body of 50,000 citizens may submit to the Federal Assembly the text of such a bill as ,it desires, and that body must thereupon take it up for action. This is the more re- markable seeing that the lu‘ger body, or National Council, yields a representative for each 20,000 or thereabouts, a unit of population which is very much smaller than is customary in popular branches of the‘ parliaments orlegislatures of other countries of Europe. Yet so strongis the democratic‘ tendency in Switzerland, that with this} degree of popular representation in the law- making body she also permits the direct origination of bills among the people. Cer- tainly there have been changes during the period that has elapsed since the three forest communities of Uri, Schuyz and Un- terwalden entered into the primitive com- pact of confederation, but the changes have on the whole been in the direction of de- veloping the democratic principle side by side with the principle of federation. Until the recent passage of the law giving the people the power of originating bills under certam conditions, that feature of the Swiss Constitution which especially distin- guished it was the referendum, a provision made for the submission of acts of the Legislature to popular vote under certain circumstances. That this little group of Cantons has maintained its independence, surrounded as it has been by mighty and grasping nations, and that with commun- ities of different origin and language and of wide differences of religious faith, it has been so remarkably free from civil strife is not the least among the wonders of our times. Throughout the following eight years, Medina seems to have abandoned his mur- derous actions, and live sons and a daughter were born to him, all of whom are still liv- ing. Two other sons born after these, how- ever, were killed by Medina. 'l‘wins born to the couple died under such suspicious circumstances, although Medina stoutly protests that they died natural deaths. He says he carried their bodies, three days after birth, to the public cemetery in a cart, not being able to go to the expense ofa. regular funeral, and that the sexton buried the children, The ofiicials, however, have been unable to find any mention of such a transaction in the records of the municipality, and it is suspected that the twins were also foully dealt with. The parents move-l to Lomus de Zamora where, in 187-1, Medina. murdered his sixth child, a. boy 8 days old, who was not. christ- ened. This crime was especially atrocious. According to the confession of the mother, Medina. crushed the babe violently .against his breast, and buried him while yet half alive, on the ranch where they lived. The list of Medinaf’s crimes was not, re- scricted to his ofl'spring, but included the murder of three sons of his own married daughter, Remigia. The firstborn in 1889, and the second born 1890, were beaten to death by their grandfather. They were buried on the ranch. SLE‘V THIRTEEN BABIES, KILLED \VIIE)v BUT BABIES These palaces belonged to the great nobles and were there town houses ; they were capacious enough to accommodate the whole of a Baron’s retinue, consisting sometimes of four, six or, even eight hundred men. Let us remark that the continual presence of these lords and those following did much more for the city than merely to add to its splendor by the erecting of great houses. By their presence they kept the place from becoming merely a trading centre or an ag- gregate of merchants; they kept the citi- zens in touch with the rest of the kingdom ; they made the people of London understand that they belonged to the realm of England. \Vhen \Verwick, the Kingmaker, rode through the streets to his town house, fol~ lowed by five hundred retainers in his livery; when King Edward IV. brought wife and children to the city and rode out to fight for his crown : when a royal tournament was held in Chepeâ€"the Queen and her ladies looking onâ€"even the boys understood that there was more in the world than mere buy- ing and selling, importing and exporting; that everything must not be measured by profit : that they Were traders, indeed, and yet subjects of an ancient crown; that their own prosperity stood or fell with the well- doing of the country. This it was which made the Londoners ardent politicians from very early times ; they knew the party leaders: they felt bound to take a. side ; and they quickly perceived that their own side always won, which gratified their pride. In a word. the presence in their midst of King and nobles made them look beyond their walls. London was never a. Ghent ; nor was it aVenice. It was never London for itself against the world, but always London for England first, and for its own interests next. â€"\VALTER BESANT, in Harper’s Magazine. London in the Middle A209. You have now to learn, what I believe no one has yet pointed out, that if London could be called a city of churches it was much more a. city of palaces. There were, in fact in London itself more palaces than in Verona and Florence and Venice and Genoa all together. There was not, it is true, a line of marble palazn along the banks ofa Grand Canal ; there was no Piazza della Signoria, no Piazza dell’ Erbe, to show these buildings. They were scattered about all over the city : they were built without re- gard to general efl'ect, and with no idea of decoration or picturesqueness ;they lay hid- dEn in the labyrinthine streets ; the ware- houses stood beside and between them ; the common people dwelt in narrow courts around them ; they faced each other on op- posite sides of lanes. Au Rxplanntiou. “ \Vliy is it that the daily westward run shows to so much greater advantage than the eastward, in the case of those ocean greyhounds which have succeeded in placing the continents less than a week asunder?” This is a question not unfrequently heard when public attention has been drawn to some record-breaking trip like that of Majestic for instance. The question would never be asked if those who propose it would duly consider the influence which the revolution of the earth on its axis has on the length of a day as the vessel proceeds east- ward or westward. Assuring six days at the length of time required by a ship to cross from Queenston to Sandy Hook, and rem- embering that between these two points there isadiflerenceoftime ofnearly fourhours and twenty-three minutes, it is plain that each of the six days on the westward trip would have added to it one-sixth of four hours and twenty -three minutes ; or about forty-four minutes that is, a day reckoning from noon to noon would be twenty-four hours and forty-four minutes. In going to the eastward this would be re- versed ; the average sea day would contain only twenty three hours and sixteen minutes This gives in the caSe supposed the dffierence between a westward and an eastward (lay of eighty-eight minutes say an hour and a half. Suppose now the vessel runs at the rate of twenty nautical miles an hour, it would make a little less than 500 miles a day when running westward, anda little more than 460 miles a. day when running eastward. 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