In a little note in our issue of April 28 we referred to “raisin day” and advised people all through the East and West to use raisins for food. In response we received a letter from a gentleman in Auburn, Cal., who commends the article with one exception. He intimates that all the facts have not been stated, and says: “California’s sun-dried raisins would be more largely used as an agreeable, health-giving food both by Easterners and Westerners if they could be bought at retail at a reasonable price, but when the retailers of California ask 20 and 25 cents a pound for layer raisins, the same price that Eastern dealers also require, it can hardly be expected that they will be very heavily used as a food. “I state my own experience in giving these prices. Have been in California eighteen months and have not been able to obtain layer raisins at any less price here than in the East, otherwise we should use them plentifully. The raisin producers must arrange for a better distributing system and cut out some large intermediate profits before they can expect a more general use of raisins as an article of food.” And we think that the criticism is certainly to the point. On inquiry we find that conditions are about as they are stated above. When raisins are selling for from four to six and eight and ten cents to large shippers, they certainly ought to sell for a less price in the retail stores.