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THE CANADIAN HOUTICtTLTUHIST 



May, igii 



ISee Open 

 ]Top Tub 



Room 



I to Work''i 



msri 



ISee Howl 



the 

 JWringer | 

 is 

 kttachedl 



Tlie Wringer Board extends from the sMe. 

 out of the Wiiy of the covur. This allows 

 practically tho whole tup of the tub to open up— 

 make* It easy to put In and take out clothes. 



Jio other iodsfuT has as large an opening. 

 Jfo other washer can be worked with crank 

 handle at side as well as top lever. 



Do you use Max^weirs "FavorIt«**'~4hc 

 churn that makes quality butter? 



Write us for catalogues If your dealar doen 

 not handle thern. 59 



DAVID MAXWELL & SONS. ST. MARrS, Ont. 



Imperial Bank 



E.t.bii.hed OF CANADA 1875 



HEAD OFFICE TORONTO 

 Capital Paid-up. . 6,000.000.00 

 Reserve Fund . 6.000,000.00 

 Total Assets . 72,000.000.00 



D. R. WILKIE, Preaident and General Manaser 

 HON. R. JAFFRAY, Vice-Prerident 



Branohea and AKencies throughout 

 the Dominion of Canada 



Letters of Credit, Drafts and Money Orders 



Issued available in all parts 



of the world 



Special attention given to collections 



Sarings Department at all Branchet 



Interest allowed on deposits at best current rates 



Experimenters in this field encourage us to 

 believe that they may sometime illumine the 

 <larkne8s but one cannot see by the lights 

 they have thus far brought. "The asser- 

 tion that outstrips the evidence is a crime" 

 in this case as in any other. Let us have 

 real, precise, abundant evidence before de- 

 manding a reform that will revolutionize 

 nursery practices. 



Drainage Lessons Free 



The Ontario Agricultural College is again 

 renewing its offer of assistance to farmers 

 and fruit growers to aid them in laying out 

 their drainage systems. The Department 

 of Physics has a special staff of drainage 

 advisors for this work. There is no charge 

 for the services of these men, the only out- 

 lay to the applicant being the travelling 

 expenses, which are low. As the railway 

 fare is only one cent a mile for this work, 

 and as several surveys are always made on 

 one trip, the expenges are divided among 

 the several parties concerned. 



Anyone wishing to have a drainage sur- 

 vey made sliould drop a card to the De- 

 partment of Physics, O.A.C., Guelph, wheie- 

 upon a regular application form will be 

 sent, and later on one of the Department's 

 Drainage Advisers will make the survey. 



Preparing Land by Powder 



C. C. Nixon, B. S. A., Peterboro, Ont. 



Not all land in its natural condition is 

 adapted to apple growing. But lately 1 

 have found out that much of it can be im- 

 proved and apple trees made to thrive 

 grandly thereon. I refer particularly to 

 those clay formations having impervious 

 subsoil and hard-pan. These may be broken 

 up by means of blasting powder, or dyna- 

 mite, and the trees afterwards set will 

 thrive as they do on naturally favorable soil. 



Stumping powder in orchard work has 

 several uses, one of the chief of which is in 

 connection with setting out young trees. It 

 saves much labor and time in planting the 

 trees and ensures an open porous subsoil, 

 conducive to the best growth and large ulti- 

 mate yields of fruit. 



The work of excavating for a tree, to do 

 it properly by the old method of hand dig- 

 ging, may take an hour. Stumping powaer 

 will excavate it in an instant. The spaded 

 hole will be hard all the way down, making 

 it diflScult for the transplanted roots to 

 take hold, which is one of the chief reasons 

 why transplanted trees so often die. 



HOW A F.\RMER PLANTS TREES 



Down in the New England States, notably 

 in Virginia, stumping powder and dyna- 

 mite have been used with great success in 

 connection with orchard work. The follow- 

 ing is the testimony of a Virginian farm- 

 er who has used dynamite in orchard farm- 

 ing and writes of his experience for Rural 

 Life: 



"I have just finished the planting of seven 

 hundred trees, beautifully located on a 

 southern slope, with an altitude of five 

 hundred and twenty-five feet. The soil in 

 this locality is red clay, with a slaty subsoil, 

 so we think the only way to be successful 

 with fruit trees is to blow up the planting 

 holes with dynamite. 



"I prefer the ground to be first drilled 

 out three feet deep, then shoot one stick of 

 dynamite in the bottom. This does not al- 

 ways blow it out to any great extent, but it 

 turns the soil over, breaks up the slate 

 and aerates the subsoil. This method we be- 

 lieve will put our slaty soil in condition to 

 produce better apples and more of them." 



And so it is with many of -as farmers in 



This Washer Must Pay for Itself 



A MAN tried to s«ll me a horse once. He said 

 it waa a fine horse and had nothing the 

 matter with it. I wanted a, fine horse. But 

 I didn't knov anything 

 about horses much, and 

 1 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 flrst. and I'll 

 give you back your 

 money if the horse isn't 

 all right." 



Well. I didn't like that. 

 I was afraid the horse 

 waan't "all right" and 

 that I might have to 

 whistle for my money it 

 I once parted with it. So 

 I didn't buy the horse 

 although I wanted it 

 badly. Now this set mel 

 thinking. 



ITou 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 1 thought about 

 the horse, and about the 

 man who owned it. 



wH?i =^,1h ?®n^'' '"'°''- becauEe they wouldn't 

 wnt« and tell me. You see 1 sell my Waehing 



Uo^Tat w^ay"''''- ' "^^^ -"* -" ^^ ^ "^' 



T,t^'j^°^^\j- i'. ^ ""'y '»'■■ enough to let peo- 

 t}L,i ^^ Washing Machines for a month, be- 

 th^ hor/e "^^ ™' '"*' ^ ' wanted to try 



wni° Ho ^ i'"i'"' '^^*' ""'■ '"^^ Gravity" Washer 

 n't tl: ^ ^™'"' " "1" ^=>^^ ^he clothes, with- 

 out wearing or tearing them, in less than half 



other ma^L^e""" *" ""'^^ ""' ^°^ " "^ '^"^ 



1 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 the clothes. 



Our "1900 Giavity" Washer does the work so 

 easy tnat a child can run it almost ae well as a 

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

 rray the edses nor break buttons the way all 

 other machines do. 



It just drives soapy water clear through the 

 fibres of the clothes Uke a force pump might 



So, saad 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 flrst, and I'll make good the 

 offer every time. 



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

 months free trial. I'll pay the freight out of 

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

 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 pay me out of what it saves 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 SO cents to 75 cent* a week over 

 that in washwoman's wages. If vou keep the 

 msichine after the month's trial, I'll let vou pay 

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

 60 cents a week, send me 50 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 clothee in 6 minutes. 



Address me this way— 



B. E. Bach, Manager, 1900 Washer Co., 357% 

 Yonge St.. Toronto. Ont. 



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THE CANADIAN 



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