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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



December, 1 91 2. 



A crackerjack of a 

 Christmas present 





REMEMBER when you 

 were a kid?— the pres- 

 . ents that were all shiny 

 and bright and that worked f 

 — weren't they the ones that 

 you were proudest of? 



Something foryour room — 

 something you could use all 

 year— something like Wg-pco- 

 ple had in their rooms. Didn't 

 sensible presents appeal to 

 you best when you were a kid? 

 Think back a bit and see. 



Then think of Big Ben for 

 those boys and girls. — Toys, 

 of course, should never be 

 displaced. It wouldn't be 

 Christmas without them, but 

 mix in useful things— things 

 that develop pride and make 

 little people feel responsible. 

 Give them presents to live up 

 to and to live up with. Don't 

 make the mistake of thinking 

 they don't feel the compli- 

 ment. — Let one of the first 

 things that greets your little 

 boy and girl Christmas morn- 

 ing be that triple nickle-plated, 

 handsome, pleasant- looking, 

 serviceable and inspiring 

 clock-alarm— Big Ben. 



Just watch if they don't 

 say, "Isn't that a crackerjack! 

 Why! is that for me to use 

 myself ?" — Then see how 

 proudly they carry Big Ben 

 upstairs "fo see how he looks 

 inmyroom." Justputyour- 

 self in that boy's or girl's 

 place. 



Big Ben is a crackerjack-of-a 

 Christmas-present to give to any- 

 one. The fact is, he is two presents 

 in one. a dandy alarm to zvake up 

 with, a dandy clock to tell time all 

 day by. And he's as good to look 

 at as he's pleasing to hear. 



He stands seven inches tall, slen- 

 der, handsome, massive, with a big, 

 frank, honest face and big, strong, 

 clean-cut hands you can see at a 

 glance inthe</fm morningiightwiih- 

 out even having to get out of bed. 



He's got an inner vest of steel that 

 insures him for life; large comfy keys 

 that almost wind themselves, and a 

 deep, jolly ring that calls just when 

 you want and either way you want, 

 five straight minutes or every other 

 half minute for ten minutes, unless 

 you flag him off. 



Big Ben is sold by 18,000 watch- 

 makers. If you can't find him at 

 your jeweler's, a money order mailed 

 to his designers, IVestclox, La Salle, 

 Illinois, will send him when and 

 wherever you say, attractively 

 boxed and express charges paid. 



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FRUITGROWERS' SAW CO., Scottsvllle, N. Y. 



Representative for Ontario, 

 Ja». E. Johnson & Brc. SImcoe, 



Ont. 



of th€ jo'mt committee of the Fruit Grow- 

 ers' and Apple Shippers' Associations, ap- 

 pointed to investig-ate shipping conditions 

 and suggest ways of improvement. Mr. 

 Mcintosh dealt with the problem in a 

 broader way than it has ever been handled 

 before at the Fruit Growers' Convention. 

 Petty charges of pilfering from packages 

 received little attention from this speaker. 

 Instead, he made a sweeping indictment of 

 overcharging and inefficiency in transpor- 

 tation on the part of our railway compan- 

 ies, as a result of which Canadian produc- 

 ers are being driven off their own Cana- 

 dian markets. Mr. Mcintosh took the mar- 

 ket at Sault Ste. Marie as an example. 

 The rate of fruit from Lyons, N.Y., to the 

 "Soo" was found to be forty-two cents a 

 cwt. , while Western Ontario growers are 

 charged fifty cents a cwt. As a result of 

 these discriminations, United States fruit 

 growers have almost monopolized this Can- 

 adian market. 



An investigation into freight rates on 

 American and Canadian lines brought out 

 the following: Rate from Minneapolis to 

 to Sault Ste. Marie, four hundred and nine- 

 ty miles, thirty cents; Forest, Ont., to 

 Sault Ste. Marie, three hundred and twenty- 

 five miles, fifty-four cents ; Chicago to 

 Sault Ste. Marie, three hundred and forty- 

 seven miles, onions and vegetables, six 

 hundred and seventy-four miles, twenty-two 

 cents ; Forest to Sault Ste. Marie, three 

 hundred and forty-seven miles less, twenty- 

 six cents. Rates east of Winnipeg are not 

 as satisfactory as they might be, but West 

 they are altogether exorbitant. A carload 

 of apples can be sent from St. Catharines 

 to Winnipeg, one thousand two hundred 

 and thirty-four miles, for one hundred and 

 twenty-seven dollars twenty cents. To send 

 the same carload four hundred and eighty- 

 nine miles further to Saskatoon would cost 

 ninety-one dollars twenty cents additional. 

 Is it any wonder that Ontario growers are 

 losing the western market.' 



FRUIT TO G.\RGARY AT THREE UILE8 AN HOTTB 



Mr. Mcintosh recommended that meas- 

 ures be taken to force the railway com- 

 panies to carry fruit at a rate of at least 

 ten miles an hour. One shipment of apples 

 to Calgary which had been traced did not 

 average three miles an hour. Another to 

 Regina averaged six miles an hour, and 

 the average of fourteen carloads to Win- 

 nipeg was hardly seven miles an hour. 

 Losses sustained by individual growers 

 from these delays had amounted in some 

 cases to over three hundred dollars. The 

 Railway Commission cannot deal with this 

 question until evidence is submitted that 

 will prove the entire system defective. Mr. 

 Mcintosh suggested that it would be only 

 just that when a grower had to wait for 

 more than three days for a car, that the 

 railway company bear the loss sustained. 

 A significant feature noted by the speaker 

 was that car shortage was most noticeable 

 at non-competitive points. 



A NEEDED PRrVILBGB 



A further reform urged by the committee 

 that Mr. Mcintosh represented, was that 

 growers be allowed to complete cars in 

 transit as is permitted with almost all other 

 lines of goods. This is a reform that would 

 be of particular benefit in districts where 

 fruit is not a specialty- and where it is 

 difficult to secure an entire carload at one 

 point and at one time. The inefficiency of 

 the railway service is well illustrated by 

 their failure to provide refrigerator cars in 

 sufficient numbers to accommodate increas- 

 ing traffic. Mr. Mcintosh cited one rail- 

 way company that has ten refrigerator cars 

 less tham it had four ye.ixs ago and in the 

 meantime the tonnage carried has greatly 



