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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



May, 1912 



Take A Scoepful 



Of Eacb— 



Side By Side 



Take "St. Lawrence" 

 Granulated in one 

 scoop —and any other 

 sugar in the other. 



Look at "St. Law- 

 rance" Sugar — its 

 perfect crystals — its 

 pure, white sparkle — 

 its even grain. Test 



Absolutely 

 Best 



it point by point, and you will see that 



Absolutely 



is one of the choicest sugars ever refined — with a standard of purity 



that few sugars can boast. Try it in your home. 



Analysis shows, "St. Lawrence Granulated" to be "99 99/100 to 100^ 

 Pure Cane Sugar with no impurities whatever" 



"Most every dealer sells St. Lawrence Sugar." 

 THE ST. LAWRENCE SUGAR REFINING CO. UMITED. MONTREAL. 



65 



Some History 



about Typewriters 



Modem and Ancient 



CHAPTER 10 



IT is regrettable that during the past few years 

 ■I not everybody who wanted an Underwood 

 could get one just when he wanted it. 



THERE are not enough to go round, not even with 

 the largest typewriter factory in the world — 

 turning out over 400 machines a day. 



THE Underwood output is nearly twice as large as that of its 

 nearest competitor, which has been on the market for nearly 

 35 years. 



IT is not by accident that the Underwood Company has in a few 

 year* built up this enormous busiuess. 



JT is the logical result of selling the best typewriter at a price 

 consistent with its value, and giving customers the best service 

 ever attempted in the typewriter business. 



United Typewriter Co. 



Limited 



TORONTO 



Nova Scotia 



A report issued recently by the Dominion 

 is as follows : "The total production of ap- 

 ples in Nova Scotia last year was variously 

 estimated at from one million to one million 

 and a half barrels, and that the larger 

 estimate was not very far wide of the mark 

 is shown by the fact that the total quanti+v 

 shir>pp<l out of the province to dat<' is 

 approximately 1,,.300.000 barrels, and ship- 

 ping is proceeding steadily each week. In 

 view of this record crop — twice as big as in 

 any previous year— growers, shippers and 

 transportation companiee are to be con- 

 gratulated on the manner in which the fruit 

 was handled and distribiited among the va- 

 rious markets in Canada and abroad, in- 

 cludinjr Ontario. Quebec and the North- 

 west, TJni'ted States. Great Britain, Ger- 

 raony. the Netherlands. South .\frica, New- 

 foundland and the We-st Indies." 



An interesting meeting of the Berwick 

 Fruit Company was held on Tuesday even- 

 ing. The comparative merits, from a finan- 

 cial standpoint, of diJFerent varieties of 

 apples, and the home manufacture of lime- 

 sulphur spray were among the topics dis- 

 cussed. Mr. Percy J. Shaw, Horticulturist 

 at the Agriculturnl College at Truro, gave 

 an addr&ss, detailing the life history of the 

 pests for which spraying is most important, 

 and laying down the rule that these pests 

 must be attacked at the weakest stage of 

 their career. 



A series of very successful fruit meetings 

 were h'>Id in Kings and Annapolis counties 

 durinc; the latter part of March and first 

 week of .April. The principal speaker was 

 P. J. Carey, Dominion FmH Inspector. 



Quebec 



Aninste Dnpnis, Director, Froil Experimeit Stations 



The winter was very cold, but the fruit 

 trees have not been damaged. Fruit buds 

 are sound. East of Qiieb«c City, snow has 

 drifted into the orchards, and the damage 

 to trees is great. Even to-day (April 15) 

 snow is piled seven to eight feet high along 

 fences and rows of trees, and about two 

 feet in the middle of fields. Still we are 

 not discouraged as we have organized for a 

 general pruning and trimming of fruit 

 trees. 



This season more orchard owners will re- 

 ceive sound education in fruit-growing in 

 all parts of the county than ever before. 

 Lectures were given last winter by practi- 

 cal men in every parish and village, and 

 they were attended by meet farmers and 

 their wives. Several priests allowed the 

 meetings in the churches, and they induced 

 the farmers to join the horticultural so- 

 ciety. In one parish one hundred, and fifty- 

 two subscribed on the spot. 



L.ist year our society sprayed ninety-two 

 orchards and had them pruned partially. 

 The result was very good. The apples were 

 nice and clean, without worms in those orch- 

 ards, whilst the apples were wormy and 

 scabby in the adjoining orchards unsprayed. 



The horticultural societies of Kamouraska 

 and Lislet Counties have four hundred and 

 sixty more members than usual. Every 

 orchard will be visited, pruned and sprayed 

 by government experts. Demonstrations of 

 planting, grafting and lessons in culture 



