THE question of “the diversity of yield from farms in the same neighbourhood” to which you referred in your article on the report of the fruit committee is, as Mr. Alfred Walker remarks, one of very great complexity. No evidence on this subject, however, was offered to the fruit committee by the numerous growers who appeared as witnesses before them, and it would certainly seem to be a subject more suited for investigation at an experimental station than one which could be dealt with by a departmental committee.