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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



August, 1912 



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What Is Soil Fertility? 

 How Does It Interest You? 



®T T THAT is soil fertility? Why is its lack considered so serious a matter? 

 W Why is it that authorities on better farming agree in considering it one 

 B of the most important questions requiring solution by farmers today? 



^ The answer is found in the small average yield of farms in this country 

 W as compared with those of other countries where correct fertilizing is prac- 

 M ticed, and in the rapidly decreasing quantity of available new land. There 

 W are two things that every farmer can do, both of which will make his farm 

 M more productive. One is to practice a proper rotation of crops; the other to 

 W buy and use an 



tlHC Manure Spreader 

 Com King or Cloverleaf 



§ Every farm can be benefited by the use of an I H C manure spreader. 

 ^ It will distribute the manure in an even coat, light or heavy, as may be 

 = required. Manure spread in this manner does the most good to the soil at 

 ^ about half the expense and much less than half the work of hand spreading. 

 ^ An 1 H C manure spreader is a scientific machine, built to accomplish a 

 M definite purpose in the most economical manner. It is constructed according 

 DV to a well-thought-out plan, which insures the best work in the field with the 



§ least strain on machine or horses. To take one example of the thoroughness 

 in detail, all I H C spreaders are so constructed that a reach is unnecessary. 

 a This construction allows the spreader to be managed handily in small feed 

 M lots, backed up to bam doors opening into narrow yards, or turned com- 

 ^ pletely in its own length. Yet the absence of a reach in no way interferes 

 H with the strength or field efficiency of the machines. 



fflj See the I H C local agent or write the nearest branch house for catalogues 

 W and information. 



m CANADIAN BRANCH HOUSES : 



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^^ I H C Service Bureau 



up The purpose of this Bureau is to furnish, free of charge to all, the 



m best information obtainableon better farming, rt you have any worthy 



^i questions concerning soils, crops, land drainage, irrigation, fertilizer. 



By etc . make your inquiries specific and send them to I H C Service 



W Bureau, Harvester Building, Chicago, USA 



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 Reserve Fund 6,000,000.00 



Total Assets . 72,000.000.00 



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FLOWER POTS 



Hanging Baskets, Ferns Pans, Etc. 



We have a large stock of 

 all sizes on hand, and can 

 ship orders without delay. 



Order Now Before the Rnib 



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FOSTERS 



STANDARD 



Otir pots are smooth and 

 vpell burnt. We have our re- 

 putation to keep up. 



Send for Catalogne & Price List 



The Foster Pottery Company, Ltd. 

 Main St., West - Hamilton 



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Montreal 



E. H. Wartmas, Domisioi Fioit Istpcdsr 



On M;ij fifteeiitl) we received our first 

 consignment of California cherries, beauti- 

 fully packed in ten-pound boxes. These 

 sold as high as five dollars fifty cents by 

 auction, or fifty-five cents a pound or 

 thirty-seven dol'ars a buKhel. How do 

 the.se prices compare with our home grown 

 cherries P Last season they sold at six 

 cents a pound finst quality, of course looBe- 

 ly in eleven quart baskets, or \IJree aollars 

 a bushel against thirty-seven dollars, a big 

 difference and a big profit lies somewhere. 



On June twelve we received our nrst 

 California apricots, which auctioned at 

 four dollars for four basket crates of about 

 twelve quarts, or thirty-three cents a quart. 



The season's business in United States 

 strawberries has Iwen large. 1 have never 

 in the past ten years seen them land in bet- 

 ter order. Prices to the consumer have 

 been moderate. Lawton berries and peach- 

 es were on our market in small quantities 

 by June 12. Large quantities of Florida 

 tomatoes arrived during May and June. 

 The greatest failure in this fruit is 

 the greenness. ^^'hell picked some are 

 so green as not to ripen under the best 

 conditions after arrival here. Give me 

 tomatoes grown at Macdonald College un- 

 der glass this time of the year at double 

 the price of Florida's for delicious flavor. 

 The boxed fruits from California are bo 

 beautifully and attractively packed they 

 cause general admiration and boom the 

 trade. I have talked with our fruit men 

 about this packing, and am afraid they 

 too often say we can't do it, when I think 

 if they would try hard they would find out 

 that they can. 



Fruit Crop Prospects 



The prosnects of the a^plc crop as report- 

 ed last month, founded upon the fruit 

 bloom, are not borne out by the "set" of 

 fruit. There has been an exceptionally 

 heavy "droij" even where the "set" appear- 

 ed to be fairly Kood ; but in many cases, 

 especial'y in oi'chards that Lore heavily last 

 year, notwithstanding the full bloom, little 

 fruit is expected. The damage by the Tent 

 Caterpillar, over a wide area comprising 

 the eastern nart of Ontario and western and 

 southern Quebec, has been serious. Never- 

 theless it should be noted that correspond- 

 ents usually underestimate the quantity of 

 fruit af this season of the year just as they 

 are inclined to overt-stimate it on the ap- 

 pearance of bloom. It is not improbable, 

 therefore, if conditions are favorable, that 

 an improvement will be reported later in 

 the season. 



Taking one hundred as a standard or tull 

 crop, the percentages for the Dominion 

 stand at sixty-seven per cent for early 

 apples, sixtv-nine per cent for fall apples 

 and sixtv-fiVe per cent for winter aPP'es. 

 The average, for the Dominion, of all kinds 

 of apples, therefore, would be sixty-Seven 

 per cent. 



PEARS 



Pears have depreciated somewhat during 

 the month. BHght has been worse than 

 usual this season, but even apart from that 

 the "dron" has been considerable, and the 

 crop will' be onlv mo<lernte. The Kieffer 

 and Hartlett are showing best. In British 

 Columbia pears will be somewhat hghter 

 than was expected last month, but yet a 

 good crop. 



PLUMS 



The denreciation in plums has been .some- 

 wh.at marked. The prospects this month 

 are for a crop somewhat below medium, 



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