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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



April, 1912 



Is In a class • by Itself — the easiest 

 running, the most substantially built, 

 the inost satisfactory washer, aver 

 invented. 



Only wpsher worked with crank 

 handle at side as well as top lever — an : 

 the only one where the whole to! 

 Opens up. 



Ask your dealer to show jrou th; 

 "Champion" Washer. 



"Favorite" Churn Is the world's 



You slioulti put up u IV'iice 



that will Klvo you real fence 



I) ik sorvice first, last and ail the 



L|jyfe time. The cheapest is always 



{1^ the most expensive In the 



lonf? run on account of repairs 



necessary. 



Savea 

 Expensa 



because it is the poultry fence that never 



needs repairs. 

 Peerless poultry f encingc is made of the best 



steel fence wire — tough, elastic and Bpring:y — 



and will not snap o.-brcak under sudden shocics 



or quick atmospheric changes. Our method of 



galvanizing positively prevents rust and will 

 not flake, peel or chjp oiT. This feature 

 alone adds many years to the life of a fence. 



The joints are securely held with the "Peer- 

 less Lock" which will withstand all sudden 

 shocks and strains yet is so constructed that 

 Peerless Poultry Fence can be erected on the 

 roost hilly and uneven ground without buckling, 

 snapping or kinking. 



The heavy stay wires we use make Peerless 

 Poultry fencing rigid and upstanding thereby 

 preventing sarging and needs only about half 

 as mauy posts as other fences. 



We build our poultry fence stronger than 

 seems necessary in order to keep marauding 

 animals out and close enough to keep the 

 smallest fowls in. Many of our customers are 

 asinff this style as a general purpose fence with 

 er*ire satisfaction. 



Peerless Poultry Fence when once put up is 



always up and will look better, wear better and 



serve you better than any other fence built. 



Our Catalot:s arm all rree to You 



Write us for literature and address of nearest 

 agent. We also manufacture a complete line of 

 general fencing, form gates, walk gates and 

 ornamental f encintr. Agents almost everywhere. 

 Banwall'Moxlo IV/rtf Fence Co., Ltd, 



Winnipeg, Man, Hamilton, Ont, 



which Mr. A. E. Dewar, of Charlnttetown ; 

 Frank Bovyer, of Banbury, and John An- 

 near, of Lowor Montague, may be consider- 

 ed types. These men, and a few others who 

 might bo mentioned, have orchards of applos 

 and plantations of small fruits of consider- 

 able importance. Their success proves con- 

 clusively that if the people of this district 

 were thoroughly arou.sed to the splendid op- 

 portunity before them, then the increased 

 planting of fruit would be undertaken with 

 energy and vigor. 



Complaints are made by many who have 

 orchards that there is a lack of buyers and 

 means of despatch for the crops already pro- 

 duced. It is claimed that it is uspIp.ss to 

 spend time and attention on a crop that 

 cannot readily be turned into money. The 

 people as a whole have not as yet become 

 fully impressed with the fact that by a 

 comprehensive scheme of cooperative efiEort, 

 and by careful attention to the details ne- 

 cessary for the production of fancy fruit, 

 they would find their product in the very 

 greatest demand at profitable prices, and 

 their energies would be taxed to supply it. 



Small fruits of all kinds succeed admir- 

 ably here, particularly strawberries, and 

 their increase*? cultivation might be safely 

 encouraged. Very active and earnest ef- 

 forts to improve the situation and to awaken 

 an enthusiasm among the people have been 

 made by Mr. Theodore Ross, Secretary of 

 Agriculture ; Mr. A. E. Dewar, President 

 of the Provincial Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion, and Mr. Clark, Superintendent of the 

 Experimental Farm, and it is to be hoped 

 that their efforts will be crowned with suc- 

 cess. A trained specialist who could de- 

 vote his entire time as a field horticulturist 

 among the people on their farms would be 

 able to do a great deal of useful and pro- 

 fitable work in this province. 



A Western Advantage 



W. J. L. Hamilton, Sonth Salt Spring, B. C. 



I have read much about the relative mer- 

 its of Ontario and British Columbia as re- 

 gards fruit growing, but not knowing On- 

 tario, I will keep out of the discussion ex- 

 cept to point out one inestim.tble advan- 

 tage we possess in British Columbia in hav- 

 ing a compulsory spraying law. If only one 

 orchard in a district is unsprayed it acts 

 as a pest preserve, from which, as a centre, 

 all the fruit growers' enemies are dissemi- 

 nated. Moths and beetles have wings, 

 spores of the fungi can be carried long dis- 

 tances by the wind and Ibv the feet of the 

 birds and insects, and this is true also of 

 the scale insects, both San Jose and Oyster- 

 shell. It has been calculated that one San 

 Jose scale is capable of producing at least 

 three million descendants in one season. 

 This alone should suggest the amount of 

 damage done a district by one neglected 

 orchard or even tree. 



Take the codling moth : If all spray, the 

 first brood should be reduced by about nine- 

 tv-five per cent., and two more sprayings 

 should check the next brood, another death 

 blow being given by careful fruit thinning 

 and Landing the trees. But one infected 

 and neglected orchard just doubles the cost 

 of fighting this pest, since double the num- 

 ber of sprayings at least will be called for. 

 Not only this, much more arsenic will be 

 applied to the tree, which, many authori- 

 ties believe, will ultimate^ injure it. Need 

 I say more to show how manifestly unfair 

 it is to all progressive orchardists for one 

 "back number" to work such widespread 

 .injury. Moreover, this negligent orchard- 

 ist will sell his inferior fruit for what he 



This Washer Must Pay for Itself 



A MAN tried to sell me a horse once. He said 

 it w.ifl a fine horse and had nothingr the 

 mnticr with it. I wanted a fine horse. Bnt 

 I didn't know anything 

 about horBee mtjeh, and 

 I didn't know the man 

 very well either. 



So I told him I wanted 

 to try the horse for a 

 month. He said "All right, 

 but pay me first, and I'll 

 give you back .vour 

 money if the horse isn't 

 all right." 



Well. I didn't like that. 

 I was afraid the horse 

 wasn't "all right" and 

 that I might have to 

 whistle for my money if 

 I once parted with it. 80 

 I didn't buy the horse 

 although 1 wanted it 

 badly. Now this set me '' 

 thinking. 



You see I make Wash- 

 ing Machines— the "1900 

 Gravity" Washer. 



And I said to myself, 

 lots of people may think 

 about my Washing Ma- 

 chine as I thought about 

 the horse, and about the 

 man who owned it. 



But I'd never know, because tlfcy wouldn't 

 write and tell me. Tou see 1 sell my Washing 

 Machines by mail. I have sold over half a mil- 

 lion that way. 



So, thought I, it is only fair enough to lert peo- 

 ple try my Washinsr Machines for a month, lie- 

 fore ther pay for them, just ao I wanted to try 

 the horse . 



Now, I know what our "1900 Gravity" Washer 

 will do. I know it will wash the clothes, with- 

 out wearing or tearing them, in less than half 

 the time they can be washed by hand or by any 

 other machine. 



I know it will wash a tub full of very dirty 

 clothes in Six minutes. I know no other ma- 

 chine ever invented can do that, without wear- 

 ing out th" clothes. 



Our "1900 Gravity" Washer does the work so 

 easy that a child can i-un it almost as well as a 

 strong woman, and it don't wear the clothes, 

 fray the edseg nor break buttons the way all 

 other machines do. 



It Just drives soapy water clear through the 

 fibres of the clothes like a force pump might. 



80, said I to myself, I will do with my "1900 

 Gravity" Washer what I wanted the man to do 

 with the horse. Only I won't wait for people to 

 ask me. I'll offer first, and I'll make good the 

 offer every time. 



Let me send you a "1900 Gravity" Washer on a 

 month's free trial. I'll pay the freight ont of 

 my own pocket, and if you don't want the mar 

 chine after you've used it a month, I'll take It 

 back and pay the freight too. Surely that is 

 fair enough, isn't it? 



Doesn't it prove that the "1900 Gravity" Wash- 

 er must be all that I say it is? 



And you can pav me out of what it eaves for 

 you. It will save its whole cost in a few months, 

 in wear and tear on the clothes alone. And 

 then it will save 50 cents to 75 cents a week over 

 that in washwoman's wages. If vou keep the 

 machine after the month's trial. I'll let vou pay 

 for it out of what it saves you. If it savee you 

 60 cents a week, send me SO cents a week 'till 

 paid for. I'll take that cheerfully, and I'll wait 

 for my money until the machine itself earns 

 the balance. 



Drop me a line to-day, and let me send you a 

 book about the "1900 Gravity" Washer that 

 washes clothes in 6 minutes. 



Address me this way— 



A. 0. Bach, Manager 1900 Washer Co., 367% 

 Tonge St.. Toronto, Ont. 



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