A-pril, 1916. 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



101 



row shipping or receiving platforms — it will 

 be found that sixteen feet is none too wide, 

 and the longer they are the better; and so 

 far as it is possible have them covered. 

 Service is the thing to be considered first, 

 last, and all the time. 



7. Don't keep your patrons waiting — ^have 

 facilities for unloading half a dozen cars 

 and wagons at the same time. 



8. Don't undertalie to operate your plant 

 with a short stub switch, but have a track 

 (on your own land if possible) that will hold 

 twenty-four or more refrigerator cars, and 

 which has double ends, so that the cars may 

 pass the plant for loading or unloading and 

 not have to be pulled out where they came 

 in, and thus cause all sorts of delay and 

 inconvenience. With your track on a very 

 slight grade, you can easily start the loaded 

 or unloaded cars t)n their way as soon as 

 they are ready, in case there is no shifting 

 engine available, and there never is, at all 

 times. 



9. Don't have your air ducts built of any- 

 thing but wood, as metal air ducts will 

 sweat and drip and cause much trouble and 

 annoyance; and don't let anyone talk you 

 out of installing a cold air ventilating sys- 

 tem, because it is one of , the important things 

 to have in connection with any cold storage 

 plant. 



10. Don't let anyone talk you into piping 

 your house at a ratio less than 18 to 1, and 

 If you are going to handle peaches or other 

 fruits that do not call for temperatures lower 

 than 34 degrees, do not have the pipes in 

 rooms that are to be held at 34 or above 

 hung on the ceiling, as they will drip and 

 cause you all kinds of trouble; but have 

 them hung on the side walls, one above the 

 other, so that one drip pan will catch and 

 carry off all of the drip and prevent it get- 

 ting on the fruit. The cold blast system is 

 much the best for peaches. 



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 and Best 



In the market. Especially 

 suitable for long distance 

 shipping. 



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ST. THOMAS, ONT. 



11. Don't build your plant where the drain- 

 age Is poor. 



12. Don't build a house without means of 

 passing from one side to the other without 

 opening doors to cold rooms. Our plant is 

 the only one that I know of that has a pas- 

 sage way from one side to the other which 

 permits employees to get quickly across the 

 building without opening and closing cold 

 room doors a hundred times daily in the 

 busy season; this feature is of Inestimable 

 value. 



13. Don't forget that different kinds of 

 products require that they be held at differ- 

 ent temperatures, and that, as an illustra- 

 tion, Twenty Ounce apples will freeze solid 

 in a room where Baldwins will not be even 

 touched. Unfortunately, you will not find 

 anyone to tell you all these things; the 

 manufacturers of ice machines ought to 

 know all of these things, and do luiow many 

 of them, but they seem to be principally 

 interested in selling their machines and 

 don't trouble themselves to put you wise. 



14. Don't have any windows in your cold 

 rooms, the air ducts will give all the ventila- 

 tion required and the best; and be sure to 

 have vestibules and curtain.s at entrances to 

 the rooms that are used the most; and, 

 finally, don't get the idea that it is an easy 

 or simple matter to raise $100,000 or $150,000 

 in a rural community, or that as a grower 

 you can afford, from a business standpoint 

 and a matter of self-preservation, to refuse 

 to go in with your neighbors and fellow 

 fruitgrowers to the extent of your ability 

 and secure for yourselves the facilities and 

 advantages 1 have outlined. 



If your apples are going into cold storage 

 at all, they should if possible go in the same 

 day they are picked, and in any case with 

 the least possible delay. 



I fully realize that it is not possible to 

 have a 50,000-barrel plant at many points, 

 and while a plant of that capacity is more 

 economically operated than a smaller one 

 for obvious re^isons, it is desirable to have 

 these facilities for holding your fruit even 

 though on a much smaller scale, as the ad- 

 vantages and "dividends" to be received are 

 not confined by any means to those received 

 in the nature of stock dividends. 



The business of farming and fruitgrowing 

 is the greatest business In the land. The 



DOUGLAS GARDENS 



OAKVILLE, ONT. 



Herbaceous Perennials 



Asters (Michaelmas Daisies), 14 sorts, 



each If 



Achillea, "The Pearl," each 15c, 



Anchusa italica, var. Dropmore each 20c 

 Aqullegia, mixed, strong plant.?, each 15c 



Artemisia lactiflora (new), each 20c 



IBoltonla Asteroides (False Starwort), 



6&.ch . .....•••••••••••■ • • ••••■••••• -L&C 



Campanula, 4 sorts, each 20c 



Chrysanthemum Ullginosum, each .. 15c 

 Coreopsis grandiflora, each ..... ... . 15c 



Delphiniums, Gold Medal Hybrids, 



ga^ch *''<^ 



Dianthus ' baxbatus (Sweet William), 



G&ch 



Dianthus pluraarius, Mrs. Sinkins. 



^a.ch ^"^ 



Dicentra (Bleeding Heart), each 20c 



Digitalis (Foxglove), in mixed colors, 



qq_qIi 15c 



Echinacea. (Rudbeckiai purpurea, 



gach ^^ 



Galega (Goafs Rue), cornea plena, 



gg^gh 15C 



Geum Coocineum, Winchmore Hill, , 



each °**^ 



Gypsophila paniculata (Baby's;^ 



Breath), single, each ■■■■■■■,■■■:■;.• ""^ 

 Gypsophila paniculata (Baby s 



Breath), double, each ••••■• • 25C 



Helianthus, Multi max, single and 



double, each ]°° 



Helenium, 3 sorts, each i»c 



Helenlum, 2 sorts, each ^"c 



Hemerocallis, 2 sorts, each 15C 



Hemeiocallls, 3 sorts, each ZOc 



Hollyhocks, a fine strain, single and 



double, each • /," ' "J " ' 



Iberis. Gibraltarica (Hardy Candy- 



tuft), each w"';c 



Kniphofla (Tritoma) Pfltzerii, each.. IBc 

 Oenothera (Evening Primrose), 2 



sorts, each ■ • ■ • • ■ ■ • • ■ • • '■"'^ 



Plants at 15c each are 10 for J1.25. 

 Plants at 20c each are 10 for $1.60. 

 Plants at 25c each are 10 tor J/.ZS. 



Please add postage, as per schedule, to 

 remittance. Planting list sent free on 

 request. 



JOHN CAVERS 



value of the farm products of the United 

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