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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Floral EJdiUoD 



Planet Jr. tooiS 



cut down work and boost your crops 



Old-time farming no longer pays — these scientific tools do the work 

 I of 3 to 6 men, give bigger yield, and save tlicir cost in a single season. 

 Invented^and made by a practical farmer and manufacturer, with half 

 ^ a century's experience. Planet Jrs are strong and 

 lasting. Every tool fully guaranteed. 



72-page Catalog (IG4 illustrations) freel 

 nescribesovcr 70 tools, including 12 entirely new ones and improve- 

 ments to our Seeder*. Whecl-l loc^. Hor-^c Hoes, Harrows. Or- 

 cliard- and r.eet-CuItivators. Write for it to our nearest Agency. 



S L ADen & Co 



Box iiosG Phi' Jelphia 



2S Planet Jr Combined Hill and Drill Seeder, Double and 

 ingle Wheel-Hoe. Cultivator and Plow is a splendid comiii- 

 nation for the family garden, onion grower, or large gar- 

 dener. Is a perfect seeder, and combined double and 

 single wheel-hoe. Unbreakable steelframe. Capacity— 

 2 acres a day. 



Planet Jr 1 2-tooth Harrow. CultiTator and Pulverizer 



stronger, steadier in action, and cultivates more 

 thoroueiily ttian any other harrow 

 maOe. Non-clogginc steel 



wheel. Inva.uable to the 



market-gar- 

 dener, trucker.^ 

 tobacco or 

 small-fruit 

 grower. 



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SMALL FRUIT PLANTS 



Gooseberries — Josselyn! Red Jacket, Downing, 

 Pearl, Houghton. Currants — Perfection! Ruby, 

 Cherry, White Grape, Lee's Profile, Champion, 

 Black Naples, Black Victoria, Boskoop Giant. 

 Raspberries — Herbert! Plum Farmer, Cuthbert, 

 Marlboro, Golden Queen. Garden Roots. Straw- 

 berry Plants, Rhubarb. Write for Catalogue. 

 WM. FLEMING, Nurseryman, 496-4th Ave. W., 

 OWEN SOUND, ONT. 



Reducing Waste Jn the Orchard 



Instead of letting apples rot and waste or dis- 

 posing of them as culls and "seconds," why not 

 sive your trees and bushes a little .systematic 

 spraying, and so get "first grade" prices for 

 your fruit. All the foremost fruit authorities 

 agree that the 



It isnt a SPRAMOTOR unless we made it 



by reason of its improved construction, does the 

 work of spraying as no other machine can. 

 The Spramotor won first prize in the Canadian 

 Government Spraying contest at Grimsby, On- 

 tario, against eleven other makes. By actual 

 Government tests in 19 orchards it reduced the 

 percentage of loss in fruit over 80 per cent. 

 Used on potatoes a Spramotor has increased a yield of almost nothing to 400 bushels an acre. 

 Think how quickly such a saving or even a small fraction of such a saving would pay for 

 your Spramotor. The Spramotor is operated by hand, horse or gasoline engine: it can be 

 had for as low as $6 up to $400. Send for and read our valuable and interesting book on 



MADE IN CANADA. NO DUTY TO PAY. 



crop diseases — ■mailed free. 

 SPRAMOTOR WORKS, 



2703 King Street, LONDON. CAN^Da 



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Peerless Perfection 



Made in Can.nda. Quality worlh.v of tlie name and i 

 Nation. A fence of defence— never gives offence. 



Tho Fence That's 

 Locked Together 



The attacks uud unsluugbts of animuls can't fazfi it, L 



It's BtroiiK, yet springy. Manufactured from Upenl 



Hearth Htet'l galvanized wire. When made by this I 



process, impurities are burned out of the metnl. re-| 



'moving OHO of tho chief ciiupca of rapid corrosion r- 



nistiiig. If you are ci^nsitlering tile fviice question, let us estiir- 



:in your job -and advise with you as to the t>est way to build- 



f will put you In touch with our nearest agent. Send i 



.' for our latest catalog. Askaboutour poultry tenciug ] 



' and ornamental gates. A^fncifB nftirti/ tvery- 



' tohrre. Agt-nts wtinttd in opMi territory. 



E BimWElL-HOIlE WIRE FENCE CO., I 



Winnipeg, Man., Hamilton, Onl. 



meeting was that tbe canning compiuiieiy 

 had £0 improved their positions, that it was 

 felt that they would offer this year the old 

 price of ao cents per bushel, in which case 

 there would be growers wJlling to con- 

 tract. The President intimated In closing 

 that the next meeiiag would be held on the 

 first Saturday in January, and that a spec- 

 ial speaker would be secured to address the 

 members. 



A meeting of the shareholders of the 3t. 

 Catharines Cold Storage Co., Ltd., was 

 held in the County Buildings on Wednesday, 

 Dec. 22nd. After the meeting Mr. E. Smith, 

 of the Grimsby Pre-Cooling Plant, gave aii 

 excellent address on "The Pre-Cooling of 

 Kruit for the Western and other marltets." 



Mr. Geo. Baxter of the G. T.R. was al.so 

 present for the purpose of discussing the 

 matter of transportation, especially with 

 regard to shipping arrangements for the 

 coming season. A number of suggestions 

 were made by the growers, most of which 

 were promised consideration. 



The first meeting of the Niagara Peninsula 

 Fruit Growers' Association for this winter 

 is to be held In the County Buildings, St 

 Catharines, on Dec. 30th, at which a full re- 

 port of the advertising and publicity com- 

 mittee will be presented; also the question 

 of the standardisation of fruit packages, 

 and some amendments to the "Fruit Marki- 

 Act," will be considered. 



Early In December, J. B. Falrbalrn, of 

 Beamsville, left for a tour of Western On- 

 tario, to secure pointers from the books of 

 the different Co-operative Apple and Fruit 

 Growers' Associations, In order that in the 

 future the Important details of organiza- 

 tion, bookkeeping, etc., may be at the dis- 

 posal of the Ontario Department of Agricul- 

 ture, to be embodied In a pamphlet for the 

 benefit of companies yet to be formed. 



By the will of the late Mr. M. F. Rltten- 

 house, of Chicago, the trustees of Union 

 School Sections No. 1 and No. 2, Clinton 

 Township, are given $20,000 In trust. This is 

 to be invested and the income applied to 

 the maintenance of the Rittenhouse Public 

 Library, Victoria Hall, and the grounds and 

 buildings belonging to the School Section. 



That all is not yet complete harmony be- 

 tween the Canning Co.'s, is evidenced by 

 the fact that an action has been entered at 

 Oggoode Hall on behalf of the Canadian Can- 

 ners, Ltd.. the new Holding Company, 

 against the Trent Valley Canners Co.. of 

 Trenton, for $50,000. and against the Frank- 

 ford Canning and Preserving Co., of the 

 same place, for $50,000. These amounts are 

 claimed for breach of contract. 



Quite recently head office officials of the 

 Dominion Canners, Ltd., have stated that 

 the markets are at present strong, with a 

 possibility of a large export demand, es- 

 pecially for tomatoes. They point out that 

 prices in the United States for tomatoes, 

 corn, and peas, are well up to Canadian 

 prices; in fact, where quality is taken into 

 consideration, they range higher. That is 

 to say. as regards the export business. 

 Dominion Canners will not be handicapped 

 by having to compete with the lower-priced 

 .American lines. From this it appears as 

 though the outlook for the Dominion Can- 

 ners' should be brightening up, and 

 it looks as though the company has a bet- 

 ter chance now to make profits. 



Early in December there died in Oakville, 

 Alexander Robertson, a pioneer in one 

 branch of fruit industry. Mr. Robertson 

 settled In Oakville in 1830, and engaged In 

 fruit grooving, being one of the first men 

 there to grow strawberries in large quanti- 

 ties for the market. He began shipping 

 them In 1850. Mr. Robertson was born In 

 Sterling, Scotland. 



