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THE CANADIAN II O RTI C ULTU RIgT 



December, 1912 



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INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD 



Makes Cows Give More Rich Milk. 



IntemationalStock Food conquered England, just as it conquered 

 Canada and the United States, by proving to the Dairy 

 Experts that it is the greatest milk producer and health 

 restorer in the world. 



The test was made on three cows from the dairy herd 

 of S. W. Hackney. Esq., Leeds, England, Chairman of 

 the Yorkshire Federation of Dairy Farmers. 



Quantity and quality of milk was tested for a cer- ' 

 tain time — then " Intematianal Stock Food '* 

 added to the regular feed. 



INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD showed an 

 Increase in Milk of 14.2 pilita daily, and 1.21 

 pounds of butter daily. 



This proves that International Stock Food, added 

 to the regular feed will increase the quantity and im- 

 prove the quality of milk from every cow. 



It 8ho\<;3 tliat international Stock Food aids diges- 

 tion and keep cows in better condition. It proves 

 that International Stock Food is a money-maker 

 for the farmer— that every farmer who owns one. 

 or a hundred, cows should feed international 

 Stock Food every day. 



Make the test yourself— weigh the milk you 

 are getting now— then feed International for a few 

 weeks, and weigh again. Then you'll see how Inter- 

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International Stock Food Co., Limited A copy of our $3,000 Stock ' 

 (76) Toronto. Ont. Boole f-ee on retfuest. 



this exhibit a success were Brown Bros. . 

 W. Harris. F. F. Reeves, and J. Dandridge 

 of Hurnbir Bay; C. Plunkett, Woodbridj<e. 

 and C. McKay, Toronto. 



Prof. S. B. McCready, who directs agri- 

 cultural education in rural Ontario schools. 

 h.id an exhibit that showed what he con- 

 sidered a model country school. The small 

 model of a school house was surrounded 

 by grounds of ample proportions, laid out 

 for g^ames, garden plots for each student, 

 itnd a playground equipped with swings 

 and other devices that children delight in. 

 It is safe to say that the average child's 

 .aversion to school would t>e less were more 

 rural schools equipped as was this model 

 Professor McCready himself was on hand 

 to explain the exhibit. 



SOME THINGS FRUIT OIIOWEBB BUY 



Commercial firms occupied one wing of 

 the Horticultural Building. Among the 

 firms exhibiting were the Niagara Spray 

 Co., Brown Bros., the Auburn and Helder- 

 leigh Nurseries, the Harris Abbatoir, Wil- 

 liam Davies and German Potash Syndicate 

 fertilizer concerns, Goold's, with their 

 sprayers, and Carter's seeds. 



The Ontario Horticultural Exhibition of 

 1912 had in it much of promise of still 

 greater and better things to come. It in- 

 spired all who saw it by the visions to 

 which it gave birth of Ontario becoming 

 recognized in the near future as one of the 

 Kreat fruit districts of the world. 



Ontario Fruit Growers' Con- 

 vention 



The big questions of transportation, 

 fruit inspection, and good marketing wer.- 

 I)laced first and foremost at the Fifty- 

 second Annual Convention of the Ontario 

 Fruit Growers' .Association, held in Tor- 

 onto, November 12 to 16. In days of old 

 educational lectures dealing with the pro- 

 blems of production received most atten- 

 tion at this convention, but times have 

 changed. The increasing number of small 

 fruit growers' associations throughout the 

 province, numerous educational bulletins, 

 and the growing efficacy of the agricultural . 

 press, have made it unnecessary for the 

 central organization to devote as much of 

 its energies as formerly to increasing pro- 

 duction. The problems of marketing, in- 

 cluding the regulation of freight and ex- 

 press rates, are questions that now de- 

 mand attention by the provincial organi- 

 zation . 



The old question of over-production re- 

 ceived attention in the Presidential address 

 of Mr. D. Johnson, Forest, Ont. Mr. 

 Johnson advised growers to plant those 

 varieties that command a ready sale. He 

 himself has found that Spies, Snows, Mc- 

 intosh Reds, and Kings are in great de- 

 mand at prices ranging from three dollars 

 fifty cents to four dollars a barrel at ship- 

 ping points. In such varieties as Ben 

 Davis, Baldwins, and Greenings, there is 

 over-production even now, and these varie- 

 ties arc moving slowly at two dollars 

 twenty-five cents a barrel, Mr. Johnson 

 noted the growing preference of Western 

 dealers for fruit grown in the United States 

 and British Columbia, He said that the 

 superior flavor of our Ontario fruit is ad- 

 mitted, but that dishonest and careless 

 packing is losing us the Western market, 

 .\nother point strongly emphasized was the 

 absolute necessity of cooperation among 

 the growers in marketing, "The crying 

 need of the day is an educational campaign 

 on how to market fruit," concluded Mr. 

 Johnson. 



"Transportation Problems" were discuss- 

 ed by G. E. Mcintosh, of Forest, a member 



