No one need fear a recurrence of the famines which, as history relates, formerly desolated the earth; steam brings the surplus of favored parts rapidly to the starving sections. It would not take long in these days for Abraham's descendants to learn that there was corn in Egypt. In Ohio this year strawberries were nearly a failure, at least not half a crop, and at the July meeting of the Montgomery County, Ohio, Horticultural Society, Mr. Ohmer wanted to know what caused the cheapness of strawberries in this market in view of the fact of only a partial crop here; to which reply was made, and generally concurred in, that it was due to shipments from the South. No one can in these days calculate on an increase of price because of a famine in his immediate vicinity.