March, 1910 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



73 



NOTES FROM THE PROVINCES 



Kootcnay Valley, B. C. 



{Daily News, Nelson) 

 A branch of agriculture that will no 

 floubt be taken up in the future in the 

 Kootenays is the raiding of cranberries. 

 This fruit requires water in abundance, the 

 plantations requiring to be periodically 

 flooded. The Kootenay flats, at the east- 

 ern end of Kootenay lake, present the 



ideal physical conditions and the ideal cli- 

 mate. The great slough that now produces 

 nothing may become a vast producer of 

 this fruit, that is always in demand and 

 extremely easy to market in good condi- 

 tion. 



Wild cranberries are to be met with 

 in many parts of the Kootenay in great 

 luxuriance. The high bush cranberry is 

 famous for the quality of jam that house- 



wives make from it. It is prevalent at 

 Crawford Bay and along the Duncan river, 

 and in the Lardo country and in many other 

 districts. 



The cranberry requires special conditions 

 and brings rich returns from swamps and 

 wet land that will produce nothing else. Its 

 culture should be taken up. 



Ontario vs. British Columbia 



A. B. Clarke, Toronto 



In old Ontario, the general farmer who 

 owns an orchard is scarcely interested in it. 

 He is not a fruit grower in a business sense 

 and, for the benefit of the fruit industry, 

 should have his orchard demolished or be 

 made to grow good fruit. One or the other 



THE SATISFACTION OF SATISFAC- 

 TORY TELEPHONE SERVICE 



THE telephone is in several respects unlike anything else 

 in the civilized world to-day ; it is at once a convenience 

 and a necessity. In fact, so much so is this true that let 

 its service be anything but absolutely perfect and its user feels 

 its loss in a way he could never have believed possible in days 

 before he realized what a telephone meant to him. When you 

 remember that out of 259,000 phones in use in Canada to-day, 

 all but 9,000 are our make you will realize the quality we 

 must put into our instruments and begin to understand 



What "Northern Electric '^ Service Means 



While "Northern Klcctric" telephones 

 '■ are as near perfection as brains backed 

 by years of experience can make them, 

 even yet are we trying to still further im- 

 prove our instruments. 

 Our newly designed No. 1317 Telephone Set 

 —absolutely the most modern farm 'phone 

 in the whole telephone world — represents 

 years of study, an expenditure of SlO.OOO 

 in cash , and months of patient experiment 

 and test before we have allowed it to go on 

 the market. 



We now pronounce it perfect— now, firmly 

 convinced that it is all we have tried to 

 make it, we ofTer it to you. 

 Examine it for yourself — or if you are not 

 sufficiently well posted on such matters, 

 get your own electrical expert to give our 



No. 1317 the severest tests of which he 

 knows. 



Take it up point by point. There Is the 

 transmitter, for instance, the same, stan- 

 dard, long-distance type that is used on 

 all standard long-distance 'phones. The 

 general manager of the biggest telephone 

 company in the world could have no better 

 on the private 'phone he uses on his own 

 desk. There is no better made. And not 

 only is ours the best transmitter, but it is 

 also cheapest in point of maintenance; it 

 requires less battery current than any 

 transmitter on the market— as little as 1-7 

 of some of the others. 

 Then the receiver on No. 1317 is worthy of 

 attention. Here the magnets demand 

 consideration ; made from a special grade 



of steel, they are permanent, retain their 

 full strength indefinitely. And the bell 

 pieces are made of special annealed Nor- 

 way iron. This receiver is so consiructed 

 that dust cannot accumulate on the back 

 of the diaphragm nor can local noises 



'. disttirb the listener and spoil transmission. 

 Each part of the receiver on No. 1317 is the 



•result of long and careful study— through- 

 out, it is the best combination possible. 

 Or took at the switch-hook— notehow com- 

 pact and self-contained it is, — how all con- 

 tact springs are vertically mounted as to 

 afford no resting place for dust and other 

 accumulations. Our standard self-con- 

 tained switch-hook is equipped with plati- 

 num points — you can understand the 

 efficiency for which that makes. 

 And so it goes -through our No. 1317 every 

 part is the best and most perfect it is 

 possible to devise. Never before has it 

 been possible for any manufacturer — no, 

 not even for us— to offer such an instru- 

 ment to the Canadian farmer. 



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 FREE BOOK 



T^HIS book, Bulletin No. ^210, 

 ^ we call it (and that's what you 

 ask for), not only tells jou all 

 about our instruments, but also 

 tells you all you need to know — 

 every detail — about the steps neces- 

 Eary to take in the organization of 

 a rural telephone company. It 

 describes the simple procedure — 

 goes into it minutely — tells about 

 the very small amount of C".pital 

 necessary, explains how to interest 

 your neighbours and informs 50U 

 how your own community can 

 have just as efficient a telephone 

 service as the largest city on the 

 continent. Write for it, — learn 

 why a telephone on your farm will 

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Manufacturers and suppliers of all apparatus and equipment used in the construction, 

 operation and maintenance of Telephone and Power Plants. Address your nearest office. 



MONTREAL 

 Cor. Notre Dame and Guy Sts. 



TORONTO 

 60 Front St. W. 



REGINA 

 CALGARY 



VANCOUVER 

 918 Pender St. W. 



WINNIPEG 

 599 Henry Awe. 



