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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



July, 1912 



The Western Fair 



September 

 6th to 14th 



LONDON, CANADA 1912 



WESTERN ONTARIO'S POPULAR EXHIBITION 



flection''' k!; Fruit and Flowers 



With Liberal Cash Prizes Jor same 



SPECIAL RAILWAY RATES for Vi»itors and Ex- 

 hibitors over All Railroadf from Kingston to Detroit 



Write the Secy, for Prize Lists, Entry Forms or any information 

 W. J. REID, President A. M. HUNT, Secretary 



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On every outing: 



KODAK 



Add to the pleasure of the trip itself by taking pictures of 

 the places and the people that interest you — then you will have 

 the after pleasure that comes from possessing the pictures them- 

 selves. 



Anybody can take and finish pictures by the Kodak system — and do 

 it well. Because simpler to handle, Kodak films .erive better results 

 than glass plates. You need no dark room for loading the camera, or 

 for unloading. Even the developing is done without a dark-room and 

 print making is easy (again no dark-room) with Velox paper. If you 

 don't care to do your own developing and printing, Kodak film, being 

 light and unbreakable, may be readily mailed to your dealer for fin- 

 ishing. 



Kodak means photography with the bother left out. It offers the 

 simple, easy way to good pictures — and it is less expensive than you 

 think. 



Catalogues of Kodaks and Brownies (they work like Kodaks) free 

 at your dealers or by mail. 



CANADIAN KODAK CO., Limited 



TORONTO, CAN. 



enty-five oente, and many of thera for even 

 less than that. To-day these same members 

 are getting an sverage of three dollars a 

 barrel, and I repeat that the buyer is get- 

 ting better value for his money. 



ASSOCIATIONS AS DISTRFBtTTrNO BOCIETIBS 



Another great success has been scored in 

 using the associations as agents for buying 

 supplies. In making a comparison between 

 co-operation in Denmark, for instance, and 

 Great Britain, we find that in Denmark 

 co-operation is concerned largely with agri- 

 cultural production and selling. In Great 

 Britain agricultural production and selling 

 have made progress only during the last 

 few years, but co-operative distribution of 

 the necessities of life has made most ex- 

 traordinary progress. The co-operative 

 wholesale society of Great Britain last year 

 distributed over $600,000,000 of products, a 

 sum so vast that it can scarcely be con- 

 ceived. 



There seems to be no reason why distrib- 

 utive co-operation should not make some 

 headway in Canada. Many of the associa- 

 tions have already made some use of the 

 organization for distributive purposes ; in- 

 deed, the St. Catharines Cold Storage and 

 Forwarding Company is a shining example 

 of what can be done in this line. Their 

 distributions have grown from a few hun- 

 dred dollars the first year to ninety thou- 

 sand dollars in 1911. and upon this it is 

 safe to say there has been a saving of from 

 ten thousand dollars to twenty thousand 

 dollars a year. This phase of co-operative 

 work might very well occupy our attention. 



A Large Perennial Border 



F. E. Bock, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa 



At Ottawa this year we have started a 

 new perennial border twelve feet wide and 

 some four hundred and fifty feet long. It 

 will contain, in a few years, the best of 

 everything that will grow in this climate. 

 It is well to mention here, perhaps, that 

 the work which is to be enlarged at the 

 Experimental Farm along the lines of flori- 

 culture will deal to some extent with the 

 solution of the problem of the barren parts 

 of the west. 



The Dominion horticulturist, Mr. W. T. 

 Macoun, has been working for years to ob- 

 tain shrubs, trees and plants which will 

 stand the rigorous winters of the middle 

 west. His work has been of untold value. 

 Much work has been done, and much more 

 will be done, in the way of testing varieties 

 of flowering shrubs and flowers. When the 

 results of this work are published it is hoped 

 an added impetus will be given to the work 

 of national betterment through the medium 

 of the flowers. 



Items of Interest 



Eighty British farmers have recently ar- 

 rived at Tilbury East township, in Kent, 

 Ont. They will engage extensively in truck 

 farming. Houses for their farms have been 

 built in Toronto and are being shipped to 

 Tilbury East in sections. 



The Welland Cooperative Fruit-Growers' 

 Association has been organized at Marsh- 

 ville, the members being principally fruit- 

 growers of Wainfleet. They will handle 

 their own fruit, purchase supplies and in 

 other ways endeavor to make the fruit busi- 

 ness a greater success. The following of- 

 ficers were elected: President, C. H. Wills; 

 vice-president, R. R. Davis; secretary, W. 

 E. Palmer. 



