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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Floral Kditioii. 



THREE BANDED ITALIAN QUEENS 



Bred from imported mothers. Guarantee 

 that all queens will reach you In good con- 

 dition and to be purely mated. 

 April 1 to May 1. 



Prices. 1 6 12 



Untested $.75 t 4.25 J 8.00 



Select Untested 90 6.00 9.00 



Tested 1.25 7.00 13.00 



Select Tested 2.00 11.00 20.00 



L..L.. FOREHAND - Fort Depoait. Ala. 



WE STILL MAKE FOUNDATION 

 FOR SALE 



We will buy your wax or make it inte the 

 best grade of foundation at low rates. 



W. A. CHRYSLER & SON 



Rt. No. 5, Chatham, Ont. 



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 bool^ indicates it is especially adapted to the needs 

 of the practical beekeeper. Not a discussion of scientific principles, 

 but of practical methods. 



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

 the Beekeeper, are titles of chapters of special interest. 

 Regular price 11.50 postage extra. 

 We offer this latest book 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 



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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 givinig It more ventilation, 

 enables us to guarantee its safe arrival. We wlU ship from our yards in Alabama 

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



Pound package without queen, J1.25 — with queen, $2.00; 2-'poun<l package witlh 

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

 queen, $2.T5. Queens, untested — one for $1.00, six for $4.50, 12 for $8.50. Select, 

 tesited, $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 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 fill all orders by return mail. 5 per cent, discount on all orders before 

 March l&th. 



Reference — Amierican Exchange Bank of Apailachlcola, Fla., and the A. I. 

 Root Co. 



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

 MARCHANT BROS., SUMATRA, FLA. 



THE SIBBALD WAX PRESS 



Cheap, Strong and 

 Efficient 



NOW is the time to render 

 that pile of old combs 

 into nice cakes of yel- 

 low wax. The SIBBALD 

 PRESS is just the machine 

 for the job, it will soon pay 

 for itself in the extra wax 

 obtained. Wax taken in pay- 

 ment or in exchange for 

 goods of any kind. 



Two sizes — 19 in., $9.50; 

 13 in., $6.00. 



the HAM & INOTT COMPANY. Ltd., Brantford, Ont. 



The barrel we have had Willi u.s always in 

 eastern Canada. If eastern apple growers 

 were asked to choose one package only, 

 ninety-nine per cent, would choose the bar- 

 rel. We have made some improvements la 

 our methods of packing and grading in bar- 

 rels during the past few years, but the pro- 

 gress has been slow. Our apples are given 

 the preference over our competitors to Oi'- 

 .south of us in the European markets, ai. 

 on reading the comments of our competitor 

 as to the reason for this preference, we fln 

 that they give considerable credit to ou: 

 legislation, the Inspection and Sale Act. If 

 we are to maintain this preference we must 

 improve our method.s of packing and gradin;-- 

 Fruit legislation and apple packing laws ar 

 live topics dn the United States. Apple 

 from the s^tate of Maine have been forgln 

 to the front. "Virginia, too, has made pr'^ 

 gress, and during the past year. New York 

 State with her four million barrels, through 

 her apple packing laws has made rapid prf>- 

 gress. In fact, we are told that the grower^ 

 In that state were able to sell their appl' 

 in markets where, previous to this year, thf ; 

 were debarred because of the unreliab. 

 methods of packing and grading. Noa 

 there may not be any cause for alarm; but 

 as progressive apple growers, you cannot 

 afford to lose sight of what your competitor 

 are doing; you must not only hold the ma: 

 kets you now have, but reach out for wider 

 nisrkf ts. 



In what way can we improve our method 

 of packing In barrels? 



By improved methods of produotlon. 

 spraying, thinning, pruning, etc. 



By more careful packing and pressing. 

 Over-pressing is one of our greatest evils in 

 barrel packing. 



By more careful packing and handling of 

 our apples. 



By more careful grading. 



By having fewer low grades and when we 

 have them to put tliem where they belong, 

 through the evaporator, the cider mill and 

 the vinegar factory. We have had our 1^ 

 son this year in packing cider apples." 



The question of packages f^r apples, like 

 that of all other fruit, is largely a question 

 of markets. Every grower should, as tar 

 as possible, be in a position to avail himself 

 of any advantage in marketing, by being pre- 

 pared to pack his fruit in any legal package; 

 which that market demands. 



How Not to Cooperate 



If you hear of a local company about to 

 be organized, go and meet with them and 

 pretend to help theTU, and by doing so per- 

 suade them to engage an agent of one of 

 the speculators as their manager. This 

 man should be intelligent enough to handle 

 the affairs in such a manner that the co- 

 operative members will be di.«couraged. 

 Another effective plan is to advertise that 

 you have made a tremendous price for your 

 produce. This Is always safe because no 

 one can disprove it, and if it came to a show 

 down you could always witlihold your bad 

 account sales, and put in all your good one?. 



It will quickly be seen that you have a 

 big advantage over the Co-operative Com- 

 pany because they "nave to pay out on the 

 price they publish, while you simply have 

 to say yours is so nnich. There i.« another 

 good feature of this method: it may be that 

 something is necessary to reassure your 

 creditors, and by the above trick you accom- 

 plish that and hit the co-operators at the 

 same time. If all of these suggestions do 

 not work, then devise some other way, and 

 when you have found one that will work, 

 give us your plans so that we can instruct 

 other growers like you. 



