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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



November, 1912. 



Big Ben ends 

 the over-sleeping of Farm Hands 



Will you spend Three Dollars to in- 

 uire yourself for years against that 

 everlasting bother— ^f«ra^ the farm 

 hands in the fields on time!' Will you 

 spend it to insure a full days ivork 

 from each man six days out of every 

 seven. 



Then, spend it for Big Ben. He's 

 doing it on thousands of farms every 

 day right now. More than a million 

 people have spent it for Big Ben to 

 help them get to work on time. 

 Don't you want to join the Big Ben 

 Army. Don't you want your farm 

 hands to be members.' 



Alarms are sold at $1.00 and $1.50 

 less than Big Ben costs but such 

 alarms are merely things to 'wake up 

 by, not to wake on time with. They 

 enable you to make a guess at the 

 -ght time, that's all. 



Big Ben enables vou to knoiv the 

 right time. IVhen he wakes you he 



does it at the time you nxiant, the 

 right time. 



Then, cheap alarms may last a 

 year but Big Ben actually lasts for 

 years and years. He's built of steel. 

 He's a handsome clock plus a punct- 

 ual alarm. You can use him all day 

 long in any room for he fits bed room, 

 parlor, dining room or hall. 



The city man can get the right time of his neigh- 

 bor or by picking up a teleplione but that's not so 

 convenient tor ym. You need a reliable time- 

 keeper always in the house. That's why you need 

 Big Ben more than you need a plain "alarm." 



Big Ben rings just when you want and cither way 

 you want fivt sltaight minutti or every half minuu 

 diirinz ten minute: unlets you flag him off. His 

 big keys make winding easy and his great open 

 face and large hands tell the time plainly acioss the 

 largest rooms. ^ 



Big Ben is sold by S.OOO Canadian dealers. 

 His price is S?. 00 anywhere.— if you cannot find 

 him at yout dealer's, a money order sent to his 

 designers, K^istelix, La Salle, tllintii. will bring 

 him to you duty charges paid. Put him rictit 

 now on your Xmas list- 



FACTS ABOUT 

 SOUTHEAST 



Farm Lands Average Less Than $17 Per Acre. 



Undeveloped tracts sell from $5 up. Beef, pork, dairying, 

 poultry, sheep and horses make big profits. Large returns 

 from alfalfa, corn, truck, cotton, apples, fruits and nuts. 

 Growers command good local and Northern Markets. 



Tll^ SnilfllPrn Railwav Mobile & Ohio Railroad or 



ine oouuern naiiway Georgia so. & Fioiida Ry. 



territory offers the finest conditions for farms and homes. 

 Plenty of rain, mild winters, enjoyable summers. Promising 

 industrial openings everywhere. The Southern Railway has 

 iiothirg to se'.l; we want Y O U in the Southeast. The 

 state booklets and all facts free. 

 & Indiutrial Agent, Room 1 S Washington, D. C. 



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SMALL FRUIT PLANTS 



G*o>ebtrrie(, Josselyn. Red Jacket. Downing, Pearl. Houghton.— Corr«nU, 

 Perfection Ruby. Cherry. White Grape. Lee's Prolific, Champion. Black 

 Naples. Victoria.— Raipberriei, Herbert. Cuthbert, Marlboro. Brinckle'a 

 Urange. Golden Queen, Strawberry.Ra.pberry.— Gardea Roott, Asparagu.. 

 Rhubarb Write for Catalogue. 



WM. FLEMING, Nurseryman, Box 54, Owen Sound, Ontario 



sand dollars to buiW, can clear one thou- 

 s.-ind dollars a year profit. 



Girls earn seventy-five cents a day in 

 the warehouses at packing- fruit. Apple 

 yradinj?- machines worked by man power 

 have been introduced, but probably gasoline 

 enjfincs will eventually be used. 



The South African market has taken 

 more boxed fruit than ever this year. Black 

 Ben Davis seems popular with them. 



Barrels are not so scarce as last year, 

 and have sold for twenty-five or twenty-six 

 cents. The Gravenstein apple crop was 

 hirg-er than was at first expected. 



So far the weather has been cool, with 

 few storms. The first heavy white frost 

 finally destroyed corn and other tender 

 plants on 9th October, which is later than 

 usual. Potatoes are much cheaper this 

 season, having: dropped to thirty cents a 

 bushel Tomatoes ranged between thirty 

 and fifty cents a basket. Crab apples, ten 

 cents a basket. 



The British Apple Markets 



Since my last report there has been a 

 marked improvement in the market here. 

 At the time of writing (Oct. 12) there is ;i 

 very good demand for apples of good color 

 and condition. With the home fruit crop 

 disappearing there is a very reasonable 

 hope of prices being maintained for good 

 healthy fruit. 



As is usual at this time of the year, buy- 

 ers give special attention to color, and are 

 always willing to pay "the price" for fruit 

 of good appearance, which is the one thing 

 lacking in most of the English fruit. 



Amongst the \ova Scotian arrivals there 

 has been a considerable quantity of "spot- 

 ted fruit," for which very fair prices have 

 been obtained, notwithstanding the doubt- 

 ful condition of it. Its presence, howeve/. 

 has made buyers more keen on tihe better 

 class stuff. 



Shipments from Canada have been some- 

 what light, and with the exception of the 

 "spotted" in the Nova Scotians, have arriv- 

 ed here in excellent condition. United 

 States arrivals have varied a great deal as 

 regards quality, in fact a good proportion 

 could only be described as "medium." 

 The prices have, however, been fairly good 

 all round. 



A number of "box" apples have been of- 

 fered here, those from California meeti 

 with a rather poor reception, while those 

 from Wenatchee fared even worse. 



Quebec Fruit Growers' 

 Convention 



As reported in the October issue of The 

 Canadian Horticulturist, the annual summer 

 meeting of the Pomological and Fruit 

 Growing Society of the Province of Quebec, 

 was held at St. Famille, Island of Orleans, 

 Que., September 18 and 19. Prof. VV. Loch- 

 head, of Macdonald College, Que., describ- 

 ed methods of combatting insect life in the 

 fall, his remarks being along the same 

 lines as the articles by him that appeared 

 in the last issue of The Canadian Horti- 

 culturist. 



Mr. Henri Cloutier, superintendent of 

 demonstration orchards, at Rougemount 

 and district, read a paper dealing with prun- 

 ing methods. He corrected the old idea 

 that pruning was going against nature. He 

 showed that pruning made tihe tree vigor- 

 ous, healthy and fertile. Pruning carried 

 on in a careless or an amateur manner 

 would, he explained, be injurious. The 

 question of how to cut was of great impor- 

 tance. 



The establishment of an orchard was ex- 

 plained by Mir. Ben Richardson, of Macdon- 



