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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Floral Edition. 



BEES FOR SALE 



Italian Bees, lb.. J2.26; 6 lbs., $10.60; 1-L. 

 Frame. $2;00; 2 Kr. Nuc. $3.00; All with 

 Queens. Italian Queens, 7Bc each; 6 for $4.00. 

 Complete Catalogue Free. LLstlng Begin- 

 ner's Outfit. 



THE DEROY TAYLOR CO. 



Box C, - NEWARK, N.Y., US.A. 



Northern Bred Italian Queens 



I'roliflc and hard for Oie norlli. None better. 

 nana of "XntroduclnB Queens and Increase," 

 25c. 



E. E. MOTT 

 Glenwocd ... Michigan 



PRODUCTIVE BEEKEEPING 



Is the title of a new book of 326 pages by Mr. Frank C. Pellett, State 



Apiarist of Iowa. 

 As the name of this book indicates It Is especially adapted to the needs 

 of the practical beekeeper. Not a discu&sion of scientific principles, 

 but of practical methods. 



Sources of Nectar, Wintering, Markutmg, and Laws that Concern 

 the Beekeeper, are titles of chapters of special interest. 

 Regular price $1.50 postage extra. 

 We offer this latest bool< with the American Bee Journal one year, 

 both for $2.00, Canadian postage 15 cents extra. 



134 illustrations, attractive cloth binding. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Hamilton, Illinois 



NOTICE TO CANADIAN BEEKEEPERS 



We are making a specialty of tihe 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 Alabama 

 during April, May and June, packages and queens at the following prices: 



Pound package without queen, |1.25 — with queen, $2.00; 2-pound package wIHh 

 queen, $2.65 — without queen, $1.90; 3-pound package with queen, $3.50— without 

 queen, $2.75. Queens, untested— one for $1.00, six for $4.50, 12 for $8.50. Select, 

 tested, $2.00; breeders, $3.00. 



Our stock of 3 band Italians have stood the test for 20 years; there Is none 

 better. We guarantee them to be free from disease. Pure mating and no inbreed- 

 ing. Your money refunded If not satls^fied. We sold the A. I. Root Co. two car- 

 loads, and will sell them this season. Our aim Is to carry a surplus of S'tock so 

 as to All all orders by return mall. 5 per cent, discount on all orders before 

 March 15th. 



Reference— American Exchange Bank of Apajlachicola, Fla., and the A. I. 

 Root Co. 



After March 15th our address will be Fitzpatrick, Ala. 



MARCHANT BROS., SUMATRA, FLA. 



The Rarest and Best Offer Yet 



sei^n 17 684 flnl?h^ sl^Mon^^f 'Vi^ record: a yard of 72 colonies produced In one 

 Th^fs without a dm. hfth»toH^^ ^°^^y- °'".*" average of 245 sections per colony, 



inis 13 wicnout a doubt the worlds record crop from a yard of that siyc Stnrf hrporf 



o^thffl^ \°'i?^ ^'^';^'1 "/ ^^^ ^y "«'"& o"e of those famous daughters this sia^on This 

 Ui^Ko^^J 'I'?'*' stock from this noted yard has been on sale Our breede?^ne'of the 

 ^f.^L f ' f".l"*.r"/ f'ates, will breed from one of those best queens and as h°s orllin^ 

 stock is of the best three banded stock, wonderful results are tS be expected LeT^fj 



somethfn"; nke^BOO^fo^'funrLfr """^ ^Sf. **'°«« ""« Queens.^'for we onfy'have f^ s^e 

 Ind^e Review a ye^ delivery. The queen is well worth all we are asking, $2.00 



lODO Pound Packages of Combless Bees For Sale withQueen 



comhleJb'cf.7^^''u^^n,f ^^A^^"" "'•,?"u°*« ^°" ^ P''''^« "P°" a thousand pound packages of 

 fS^^f . i " you did, you will have noticed that he took his pencil from his pocket 



e^c" a^n*d the" "el^ilt would 'he*Jh'«,^>.'^ ^"".'^ '"''S *>"" '" advertisfn^f postage" offlce'^'help 

 ti.„i r,„ ,, I '^®®"'' would be that he would make you a veo-y close price Now we have 

 n^ ,.7„fl7 "^"^^ "'■ v^ "? "".« P°""<' packages of bees, and, as is usual with us t^char™ 

 no profit on supplies furnished subscribers of the Review? none will be chireeduofn 

 J^S.Tpr"ciTnotYcS''^^li7?.,rJ■,^^ the advantage of this goo"l buy. NoticeThttXs 

 at a le^ prfce that w^l h! ^^ ♦''hT.''*'' ^"^ f""- April and May delivery-later deliveries 

 have two big nornts^F^r,/'?ht^ '^'^'■• ""^ ^y mail for the asking. Upon this deal we 

 Jil^t Vt? t°t^ J^ }■■ fii^st. 'he price; second, an od experienced breeder who ha^ 

 l^r.f^L^% '!^"; '"■eed'ng bees and queens for the market. We ment^n th!s so T'ou wtll 

 2? goSd L mon^rca^^it 'n^' '''\% '' a "cheap John" lot of Ss, but thit they lie 

 pSund na^kiSes of t?S,fi Jo^Tk, "^k*"" ^^at price you pay. The price is $16.00 for ten 

 rViiioi, „,, .25 . of these combless bees, each conta n ng a young untested three banded 

 do^ Lr"each For^ir/^???^' 'l%'"«- Additional pound packaJLs without queens^, one 

 when the deUverv H%? i^ l,?'S« f% ^Pec'^l price, stating how many you cln use and 

 tllated cLes bv ein-l.. ?,^?®- ^^^I .^""^ ^shipped from Alabama, in light, well ven- 

 luatea cages, by expre.ss. Just a word to the wise: Book your order early! Address 



THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW, Northstar, Michigan 



telligence and the ambitions of men. Let 

 us accept the responsibility that goes with 

 our calling and bend our effort.s to the im- 

 provement of all conditions affecting our 

 live.s and our business. 



With our facfi.s turned toward the morn- 

 ing, and cur wagon hitched to a star, let 

 there be a common bond of sympathy and 

 interest stretching from every farm on every 

 hillside, plain, and valley of this broad Do 

 minion to every other farm and fireside, 

 carrying and embodying good cheer and fel- 

 low.ship among all the .son.s and daughters 

 of agriculture and horticulture, to the end 

 that your calling may be dignified, your liv- 

 ing made easier and better, and your lives 

 nobler and purer as they are lived close to 

 Nature and Nature's God. 



The Effect of the Increased Duty 



Editor— The Canadian Horticulturist: I 

 have read with interest your editorial In 

 the March issue of The Canadian Horticul- 

 turist upon the increased duty upon apples, 

 and desire to expres.s my belief in the cor- 

 rectness of your view. While the increased 

 duty will give .some temporary relief to the 

 growers of Briti.sh Columbia, it will not be 

 of permanent benefit. Not only will the 

 financial benefits be capitalized upon the 

 value of the orchards, but it will act as a 

 hindrance to prevent the removal of the 

 real handicap.s which burden the develop- 

 ment of all land property in the great prov- 

 ince. 



Our protective tariff policy imposed a 

 greater burden upon the agricultural pro 

 gress of Briti.sh Columbia than upon that 

 of other provinces, owing to the expense 

 of irrigation in the drv district.s and the 

 high cost of clearing the heavily-timbered 

 parts of the coast land.s and other districts. 

 The high cost of living during years of 

 bringing the land under cultivation, and the 

 necessity for inten.'se cultivation of the 

 available lands, has led largely to the grow- 

 ing of truck crops and of fruits, the perish- 

 able nature of which — or the competition of 

 which from loc^l points — makes it a prac- 

 tical impossibility to obtain any fair return 

 in the provincial or prairie markets open to 

 them. 



Not only ha,«i this prevented profitable 

 results, but the high tariff caused a special 

 injury to the fruit industry (1st) by en- 

 couraging the dishonest booming of land, 

 (2nd) by leading growers to engage in 

 reckle.ss planting of all kinds of fruit of 

 almost every variety known, which too 

 often was planted so close together that 

 proper development was not possible, un- 

 til one marvels at the folly and waste of a 

 , large part of British Columbia orchards. 



Thp high tariff was used to bolster up the 

 prohibitory railw-ay and express charges 

 which have .seriously militated against the 

 well-being and progress of the province. 



Tw^o illustrations may make my argument 

 clear. Freight charge.s last year on com- 

 mercial fertilizers from Victoria to Sum- 

 merland. on Lake Okanagan, were IIS.OO a 

 ton, making the cost of sunerphosphate 

 about $40.00 a ton, while here it was 

 bought for $22.00 a ton: and ground rock 

 phosphate was delivered for $9.00 per ton 

 by the carload from Tennessee. Grain 

 from Calgary points to Briti.sh Columbia 

 buyers in the Interior or at Vancouver wa.s 

 charged 19c freight per bushel for di.stances 

 of 500 to 650 miles, while from Calgary 1o 

 Fort William, 1,227 miles, the freight was 

 13 3-lOc per bushel. In such ways high 

 tariffs have worked to cause that province 

 far greater losses than the extra price It 

 ha.s brought to fruit growers could begin to 

 pay for. My conviction is that only after 

 high tariffs are removed will the Pacific 

 Province fully come to its own. 



