EDITORIAL. 



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The iiiusL successful growers are those who 

 study the needs of their soil and of the crops 

 they are raising and who purchase the fertilizers 

 best adapted to their needs. Some prefer to 

 mix their own fertilizers. These men almost 

 invariably make their investments in fertilizers 

 net them excellent returns. An encouraging 

 change for the better has taken place in many 

 firms dealing in fertilizers, as they are now as 

 anxious to sell growers the proper ingredients 

 as the growers are to secure such. The dealers 

 recognize that only by making the use of ferti- 

 lizers prove profitable can they expect to secure 

 an increase in their trade. 



.sent. As it is probable the first immigrants 

 will arrive very early this year applications for 

 laborers .should be made without delay. 



OUR TEN DOLLAR OFFER. 



For some months The Horticulturist has 

 been endeavoring to encourage its readers to 

 purchase from its advertisers by offering to 

 give ten dollars each month to the reader pur- 

 chasing goods to the greatest value from adver- 

 tisers in each issue. Recently we announced 

 that Mr. Charles Mackey, of Thornbury, had 

 won this money for one month by purchasing 

 goods to the value of 3175.78 from the Wag- 

 goner Ladder Co. During January Mr. Mackey 

 again applied for the ten dollar bonus, having 

 purchased goods to the value of $31 from J. A. 

 Simmers, of Toronto, but this time he was un- 

 successful, as Mr. G. D. Ellis, of Leamington, 

 had exceeded his purchases having purchased 

 bulbs and plants from Mr. Simmers to the value 

 of $37.37 and pots worth $7.23 from the Foster 

 Pottery Co. The value of Mr. Ellis' total pui- 

 chases were $44.60. 



This means that Mr. Ellis received back from 

 The Horticulturist almost one quarter of the 

 total value of his purchases.^ As a handsome 

 calendar is sent to everyone who purchases 

 from our advertisers one of these calendars has 

 ' been ordered for Mr. Mackey. The probabili- 

 ties are that other readers purchased goods of 

 greater value than Mr. Ellis did, but as they 

 did not apply for the ten dollars the money was 

 sent to Mr. Ellis. This should encourage other 

 •readers to apply for this bonus this month. 

 Even if you do not win the ten dollars you will 

 be sent a very handsome calendar provided you 

 tell the advertisers you saw their advertise- 

 ment in The Horticulturist. 



The farm labor problem is still a live question. 

 The attention of those of our readers who desir? 

 to engage help is called to an advertisement in 

 this issue by the Bureau of Colonization. Dur- 

 ing the past two years the Farm Labor Bureau 

 has distributed over 10,000 immigrants among 

 the farmers and fruit and flower growers of 

 Ontario. These immigrants have been brought 

 to Canada as a result of the work in Great 

 Britain of the agents of both the Dominion and 

 ■Ontario governments. People desiring to em- 

 ploy labor should notify tbe Bureau of Labor. 

 Their applications w-ill be filed and filled as 

 soon as a suitable immigrant asks for work. 

 The department, when necessary, pays the rail- 

 way fare of the immigrant to the nearest rail- 

 way station of thf- person to whom he is being 



An advertising representative of The Horti- 

 culturist recently visited Detroit, Buffalo, 

 Rochester and other United States cities, but 

 was unable to secure any advertising contracts 

 owning to the Canadian tariff. This tariff does 

 not prevent United States fruit papers from ob- 

 taining subscriptions in Canada for a year for 

 twenty-five cents. This means that United 

 States horticultural publications are able to in- 

 vade our subscription field but that we cannot 

 touch their advertising preserves. It is rather 

 hard to be hit twice at the .same time by the 

 .same stick. 



Two matters of great importance to fruit 

 growers are the proper use of fertilizers and 

 spraying. Prominence has been given in this 

 issue to the first of these subjects, and in the 

 March number interesting articles from experts 

 will be published on the importance of spray- 

 ing. Advertisers desiring special positions 

 should have their space reserved at an early 

 date. 



Readers uf The Horticulturist who have any 

 .spare copies of the April issue, 1903, will confer 

 a great favor if they will send them to this 

 ofBce. The supply is exhausted and more are 

 i-equired for filing purposes. 



A long and prosperous life to the recently or- 

 i^anized New Brunswick Fruit Grower;?' Asso- 

 ciation. The better the fruit growers in the 

 various provinces are united the better for the 

 iiidustrv as a whole. 



A Question and Answer 



Mr. A, an apple operator, purchases apples 

 from Mr. B, a merchant in a small town, who 

 engages Mr. C to do the packing in the or- 

 chards of the farmers in the neighborhood. 

 Mr. A pays Mr. B for the apples when they 

 are delivered to him, and Mr. B settles with 

 the farmers. According to the Fruit Marks 

 Act whose name should appear upon the bar- 

 rels ? In case of fraudulent packing or mark- 

 ing who is responsible ? — (J. B. H. 



THK .AN.SVVER 

 .Mex. .McNeill. Chief of the Fru t Divi.sion, Otlaw;i. 



Mr. B as the owner of the apples at the time 

 uf packing should place his brand on the 

 apples. Under the Fruit Marks Act A, B and 

 C might each be prosecuted in case the apples 

 were offered for sale fraudulently marked or 

 packed. A under section 5 for offering for 

 sale ; B under section 6 or 7 for fraudulently 

 packing or marking; and C under section 4 of 

 the order-in-council for fraudulently packing 

 only. It will be 'noted that C is not responsi- 

 ble for the grade mark and could only be prose- 

 cuted under section 7 for the crime which is 

 usually called ' overfacing." 



