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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Floral BddtloiL 



-KANT-KLOG SPRAYER-i 



i,lirii(ifBj>rayfl from one nozzle. Starts 

 or etupa instantly- Bavt-n solution and 

 work. Send for cataloi}. Ajrcnta wanted. 



Rochester Spray Pump Co. 

 jg5 Bro«dw«y Rochoaf r, N. Y. 



SEASON 1916 

 Early Cash Order Discount 

 4% January 

 3% February 



Send for our New Catalogue 



BEES-WAX WANTED 



Best Market Price 

 Cash or Exchange 



The Ham U Nott Co., 



LIMITED 



BRANTfORD, ONT. 



NOTICE TO CANADIAN BEEKEEPERS 



We are making a specialty of the pound 

 package trade. Our improvement on the 

 package making it larger and lighter and 

 giving It more ventilation enables us to 

 guarantee its safe arrival. We will ship 

 from our yards in Alaibama during Ajpril, 

 May and June, packages and queens at the 

 following prices: 



Pound package without queen, $1.25 — .with 

 queen, $2.00 — one for $1.00 — six for $4.50 — 

 12 for $8.50. Select tested, $2.00; breeders, 

 $3.00. 



Our stock of 3 iband Italians have stood 

 the test for 20 years; there is none better. 

 We guarantee them to toe free from disease. 

 Pure mating and no inlbreeding. Your money 

 refunded if not satisfied. We .sold the A. I. 

 Root Co. two car-loads, and will sell them 

 this season. Our aim is to carry a surplus 

 of stock so as to fl.ll all orders by return 

 mail, 5 per cent, discount on all orders be- 

 fore March 15th. 



Reference — ^American Exchange Bank of 

 Apalachicola, Pla. , and the A. I. Root Co. 



After March 15th, our address will be 

 Fitzpatrick, Ala. 



MARCHANT BROS., Sumatra, Fla. 



Is it possible to fix standards and grade.s 

 for peaches? The grades mentioned would, 

 of course, have to be regulated for uni- 

 formity, color, maturity and freedom from 

 blemishes, the same as apples are. 



Another objection that is raised to such 

 standards is that they would necessitate 

 certain standard packs as well. -The great- 

 est quantity of No. I's are packed in three 

 layers, three peaches wide. The pack is 

 known as a straight pack, that is, the 

 peaches are placed directly on top of each 

 other. It is maintained that when packed 

 in the interspaces, as is necessary with 

 apples in order to get a good pack, the fruit 

 will not stay in place and the pack is loose 

 and out of order by the time the package 

 reaches its destination. This may be true 

 to some extent, but I cannot understand 

 how it is generally true if the packing is 

 carefully and tightly done. By packing in 

 the spaces, a basket will take a larger peach 

 than when a straight pack is used. 



The work of grading must be done by 

 hand as all varieties of peaches, except 

 possibly green Elbertas, are too soft for 

 machine grading. 



One other method, or plan, might, I be- 

 lieve, be followed that would protect those 

 who wish to establish higher grades or 

 standards. A plan has been worked out by 

 one of the States to the South of us whereby 

 fruits packed according to certain standard.'* 

 and grades are stamped with a Government 

 stamp. These stamps are sold to growers 

 and .shippers who wish to use them. The 

 standard is high and the stamp is a guar- 

 antee of quality. Shipments are closely in- 

 spected and a very heavy penalty is fixed 

 for any who may use the stamp illegally. 

 This particular brand of fruit is exten- 

 sively advertised and the trade is beginning 

 to know it. 



One other point also that might be men- 

 tioned here is the advisability of conduct- 

 ing packing schools throughout the tender 

 fruit districts. This seems necessary 

 whether a law regulating uniform grading 

 and packing is put in force or not. 



The N.Y.Fruit Growers' Convention 



Prof. J. W. Crow, Guelph. Ont. 



In reply to a request of the editor for in- 

 formation in regard to the proceedings at 

 the recent convention of the New York 

 State Fruit Growers' Association, I might 



QUEENS OF QUALITY 



The Editor of the BiEEKEE5PBRS' REVIEW and his sons have 1,100 colonies of bees 

 worked for extracted honey. With all those bees working with equal advantage, all having 

 the same care and attention, they have an opportunity unexcelled to ascertain without a 

 reasonable doubt, colonies desirable as breeders from a honey producer's standpoint. Likely, 

 never in the history of beekeeping, was there a better opportunity to test out the honey 

 gettmg strain of bees than this. Think of it, 1,100 colonies with equal show, and a dozen of 

 those colonies storing 250 to 275 pounds of surplus honey this last poor (with us) season, 

 while the average of the entire 1,100 being not more than 40 pounds per colony. We have 

 sent two of our very best breeding oueens (their colonies producing 275 pounds surplus each, 

 during the season of 191B) to John M. Davis, and two to Ben. G. Davis, both of Spring Hill, 

 Tenn., and they will breed queens for the Review during the season of 1916, from those four 

 superior honey gathering breeding queens. Those young queens will be mated with their 

 thoroughbred drones. Our stock is of the three banded strain of Italian, »lso that of John 

 M. Davis, while Ben. G. Davis breeds that disease resisting strain of goldens, that is be- 

 coming so popular. 



^Jjf?'* '^''"^ yo" are likely thinking that your strain of bees may be improved some by 

 the addition of this superior strain of Review queens and how you can secure one or more 

 of those superior honey gathering queens as a breeder. We will tell you: They will be 

 sold to none except Review subscribers. If you are a paid-in-advance subscriber to the 

 Review for 1916, we will mail you one of the daughters of those famous queens in June for 

 a dollar. If not a subscriber to the Review for 1916, send $1.75 for a year's subscription to 

 the Review and one of those famous young queens. Those queens are well worth two dollars 

 each, compared to the price usually charged for ordinary queens, but we are not trying to 

 make money out of this proposition, only we are anxious to have every subscriber of The 

 Beekeoper (Canadian postage free), a subscriber of the Review, and we are taking this 

 way to accomplish the object. A few of the very first orders for queens that we receive can 

 be mailed in May but the majority will not be mailed until June. Orders filled in rotation. 

 Have your order booked early and avoid disappointment 



Address, with remittance, 



THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW, Northstar, Michigan 



EEHIVE SUPPLIES 



Try our Beginners' Outfit. 8-lu 

 frame Langstroth Bodies or Suptr^s 

 10 ins. deep; 2 Bottom Boards; L' 

 Covers; 80 Huffman Self-spacinsj 

 frame.<; S Dividing Board.s. Price 

 $t;.Oii. Write for prices. 



SANDERS & BELL, Limited, St. Thaats, Oat. 



B 



WE STILL MAKE FOUNDATION 

 FOR SALE 



We will buy your wax or make It Inte the 

 bttst grade of foundation at low rates. 



W. A CHRYSLER & SOIS 



Rt. No. 5, Chatham, Ont. 



The Root Canadian House 



185 Wright Ave. - - Toronto, Ont. 



MAPLE SYRUP WANTED. 

 All kinds of Bee supplies, books and Jour- 

 nals. None better in quality. Put In your 

 order now for 1 tb. packages of bees. Satis- 

 faction guaranteed. Early discounts. 



"POUNDS OF BEES." 



To the practical Beekeepers of Canada. 

 Past exDerlence proves to us that it does not 

 pay to sell bees in pound packages earlier 

 than May 1st, but after that date, which is 

 Just after our Orange Blossom flow, finds 

 our hives full of young bees and sealed brood. 

 So we can offer bees after May 1st, 1 pound. 

 $1.50; 5 pound lots, $1.25; 10 pound lots, $1.00 

 per lb. In lots of 100 pounds in separate 

 pound packages, 90c. per pound F.O.B. 

 Rialto, CaL Untested queens to go with 

 them, $1.00 each, $4.25 for six, $8.00 per 

 dozen; $60.00 per 100, or queens by mail at 

 above prices. Safe arrival and satisfaction 

 to all customers. Express charges to or 

 near Toronto, around 25c. per pound in lots 

 i>f 10 or more at one time. 



RIALTO HONEY CO. Rialto, Cal., U. S. A. 



Beekeepers ! 



GET OUR NEW 1916 CATALOGUE. 



Dovetailed Hives and Frames our 

 sipecial features. Bees, Queens, Wax, 

 etc. The pound package, including 

 Italian Queen, our specialty. Season's 

 output during 1915 — nearly 500 1-lb. 

 packages. 



CHAS. E HOPPER & CO. 



TORONTO, tNT. 



BEEKEEPERS! 



Jones ' Weed Process 

 Comb Foundation, Wax 

 worked into Founda- 

 tion, Italian Bees in 

 Pound Packages, Im- 

 proved Model Hives, 

 and a full line of Bee 

 Supplies. Catalogue 

 free. 



Write us if you have any BEES- 

 WAX to offer. 



F. W. JONES 



BEDFORD, QUE. 



