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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



A Rack for Hauling Apples 



JOSEi'li TWEUDLE^ FRUITEANU, ONT. 



I HAVE a very convenient rack for haul- 

 ing apples. It has a set of low steel 

 wheels with wide tires. These can be lade 

 to order and to fit any wagon. On this is 

 a set of double bolster springs, which sup- 

 port a lorry platform. The platform can 

 be built of two bed pieces, any width and 

 length a person may desire. The wheels 

 cost $15 to $20, while three ton springs 

 cost about $15. The bed of the rack can 

 be made for about $10. My rack carries 

 24 barrels of fruit, and if it were 14 inches 

 longer could carry 28 barrels on end. 



The way my wagon sits on the springs 

 we can carry the barrels on end. This 

 would not be possible were it not for the 

 springs, as the fruit would be too severely 

 shaken. Were it not for the springs, also, 

 it would not be possible, for the same rea- 

 son, to drive off the paths. It pays to 

 have these springs, as they make it possible 

 to trot the teams without injury to the fruit. 



Objects to the Size 



D. YOUA'G, ADOLPHUSTOWN, ONT. 



THE new apple box adopted by the Do- 

 minion Department of Agriculuture 

 will be sold as a bushel and should be 10 x 

 II X 19^ inches. Between the bushel box 

 and the size of the one adopted there is a 

 loss to the producer of about 350 boxes in 

 the quantity I ship from my own orchard 

 in one season — over 5,000 ba .els. This 

 is too much loss. It is not much on one 

 box, but in the aggregate it is heavy. An- 

 other objection to the use of such a box is 

 that it is too heavy to handle with cheap 

 help. 



The next annual meeting of the British 

 Columbia Fruit Growers' Association will 

 be held at Vancouver. The quarterly meet- 

 ing in April was at Victoria, in July will be 

 at Nelson, and in October at a place to be 

 selected by the executive committee. 



Rapid Spraying 



ALEX. GLOVER, WINONA, ONT. 



'^ I"^ HERE is a statement in the Alay issue 



A of The Canadian Horticulturist in 

 the article giving Mr. Murray Pettit's and 

 Mr. E. J\I. Smith's experience with their 

 new spraying outfits, in which I am inter- 

 ested. In it mention is made by Mr. Mur- 

 ray Pettit, of Winona, of ten dollars having 

 been offered an agent for another machine 

 if he would cancel an order for one of his 

 outfits. I believe this statement originated 

 with me. At the time I made it I had been 

 misled in regard to some points of the ma- 

 chine I had ordered, and thought that the 

 Spramotor cart afforded an opportunity to 

 overcome the difficulty. I believe I even 

 went so far as to offer to pay for the Wal- 

 lace machine I had ordered and to store it, 

 unused, until the agent had an opportunity 

 to re-sell it. After giving both machines 

 due consideration, however, I became satis- 

 fied I had better keep the Wallace Power 

 Sprayer which I had ordered. Since I 

 have given it a trial I am perfectly satisfied 

 with the way it works. After using it only 

 long enough to get slightly acquainted with 

 the handling of it we sprayed over 1000 

 pear, plum and peach trees, of an average 

 age of nine years, on one side in half a day, 

 and did it with only one line of hose, having 

 a four-nozzle head. The point in regard 

 to which I have been misled was in the mat- 

 ter of draft, as I had been told that my team 

 could not handle my machine. I have 

 found that my team can handle it easily, 

 although one of them is a four-year-old colt 

 weighing only 1,080 pounds. I make this 

 explanation because the item in question 

 might injure the Wallace Company and 

 Mr. W. H. Brand, their agent here, as well 

 as other fruit growers who might be misled 

 as I was. I wish it to be distinctly under- 

 stood that I am perfectly satisfied with my 

 Wallace machine, -and would not exchange 

 it for anv other. 



