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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Floral Edition. 



Spraying Pays 



SAVES your crop from loss, helps tree and plant tr> produce better and 

 larger crops, prevents spread of disease, insures a longer life fortrees and 

 a longer growing time foi vines each year. Blight hit potatoes in many 

 states in 1915— many million bushels lost. Spraying would have saved them. 



mNASE Sprayers 



Include bucket, barrel, power and potato spraytrs in niriiiy sizes and vari- 

 ety of equipment to suit each man's needs. We want to show you what each 

 one is, how they are made and what thev will do. Ask your dealer to 

 show you these tools and write us for booklet describing all of them fully. 

 We also have a spraying guide which we are glad to send. 



TIieBateman-Wakin.onCo..L't'd, 464 SymiagtOBAve. Toronto, Ontario. 



Also Potato Machinery, Garden Tools, Fertilizer Distributors, etc: 



Potato ifr»j»< 



The Williains 

 Strawberry 



This famous strawberry still main- 

 tains Its lead over all others In this 

 district as a commercial berry. We 

 have a fine stock of plants for spring 

 setting, and can quote favorable rates on 

 large or small orders. Satisfaction 

 guaranteed. Send for circular. 



W. H. BUNTING 



TlicCiiletonFraitFatm, St. Catharines, Ont. 



FRUIT MACHINERY CO. 



INGERSOLL, ONT. 



Manufacturers of the Ontario Power 

 Sprayer Mode! 2-B, the handiest of them 

 all. Engine fills the tank. Also a com- 

 plete line of Apple Evaporating Machin- 

 ery and power evaporator equipment. 

 Our complete power systems for evap- 

 orating as we install them are practical, 

 sanitary and labor saving. 



Write for free Illustrated catalogue on 

 spraying and evaporating. 



PEERLESS PERFECTlOlr 



A 



THE FENCE THAT 

 STAYS'PUT" 



Erect Ovei- v*jp-. 

 Uneven Ground> 



PEERLESS Perfection 

 is one of the easiest 

 fences to erect, because 

 it stays "put." It can be 

 erected over the most hilly 

 and uneven ground, without 

 buckling, snapping or kinking. 

 Every joint is locked together 

 with the well-known "Peerless 

 Lock . " The heavy stay wires we use pre- 

 vent sagging and require only about half as many posts as other fences. 



Peerless Farm Fence 



is made of the best Open Hearth steel fence wire. All the impurities 

 of the steel are burned out and all the strength and toughness left in. 

 Makes the fence elastic and springy. It will not snap or break under 

 sudden shocks or quick atmospheric changes. Our method of galvaniz- 

 ing prevents rust and the coating will not flake, peel or chip off. 



Send for catalog. It also describes our farm gates, 

 poultry fencing and ornatnental fencing. 



Agents nearly everywhere. Jtgents wanted 

 in unassigned. territory. 



The Banwell-Hoxie Wire Fence Co., Ltd. 



Winnipeg, Manitoba Hamilton, Ontario 



.same day that he, Mr. Oliver, delivert'd 

 them to Mr. Coulson. 



Mr. Daley, manager of the E. D. Smith 

 nursery, Winona, called as witness for the 

 defendant, stated that Shiro plum trees, 

 sold Mr. CouLson as special varieties at 75 

 cents each, were a very ordinary variety 

 and were sold by Canadian nurserymen at 

 30 cents each. He had examined the trees 

 shipped to Coulson from the Boston com- 

 pan.v, and found some of them first-class 

 and some others of an inferior quality. 



After remaining out nearly two hours, the 

 jury brought in a verdict in favor of the 

 defendant, Coulson. 



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The Poultry Yard 



F. C. Elford, Experimental Farm, Ottawa 



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Operating the Incubator 



A few instructions for operating the ma- 

 chine are given here, but it must be borne 

 in mind that, as a rule, the general direc 

 tions given by the manufacturers should be 

 followed fairly closely, at least until they 

 have proven unsatisfactory for local condi- 

 tions. One of the reason why first hatches 

 often are so successjful is because rules tor 

 operation are closely adhered to, but b.v 

 the time the operator has run oft two or 

 three hatches, he begins to think he knows 

 more than the manufacturers, and makes 

 rules of his own, which are sometimes fol- 

 lowed by disastrous results. Therefore, 

 whatever shall be said is to be taken in a 

 general way and not to replace direct in- 

 structions intended for any particular make 

 of incubator, but to help out in case these 

 instructions do not prove, in your individual 

 case, the best. 



The Temperature. 



There are two kinds of thermometers In 

 general use, those that hang up and those 

 that stand or rest on the eggs. Usually 

 102% degrees is recommended for the stand- 

 ing thermometer and 103 lor the hanging 

 thermometers. • 



In starting the machine, run it for several 

 days without the eggs so as to insure good 

 regulation, and when the eggs are put in, see 

 that the temperature comes up in a rea 

 sonable time. If the hatches are slow in 

 coming off, raise the temperature in suc- 

 ceeding hatches and vice versa. It Is a 

 good plan to have an extra thermometer on 

 hand in case of accident, and thermometers 

 should be tested each spring before the 

 incubation season. 



Humidity. 



Climatic conditions in most parts of Can- 

 ada are such as to make it advisable to sup- 

 ply moisture. A relative humidity of from 

 50 to 60 inside the egg chamher gives most 

 satisfactory results. Moisture checks the 

 undue evaporation of the eggs, and, as a 

 rule, the more ventilation that is given the 

 more moisture will be required. When 

 there is no hygrometer to register humidity, 

 a fair indication of the proper amount can 

 be ascertained by watching the air cell. At 

 the first test on the seventh day, the air 

 space ought to be about one-eighth the size 

 of the egg, and on the sixteenth day about 

 one-fourth. 



Moisture can be applied in a pan beneath 

 the egg tray, or, in some makes of machines, 

 a wet sponge can be placed above the hot- 

 air pipes with satisfaction. 



As a rule, if at hatching time the chicks 



