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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



July. 1916. 



HONEY PAILS 



Honey Pails (lithographed stock and 

 plain), 60-lb. ' cans. 



Glassware, Bees, Queens, Honey, 

 Wax. 



Shipping Cases our Specialty. 



CHAS. E. HOPPER & CO. 



1568 QUEEN ST. E., TORONTO 



Queens of MOORE'S 

 STRAIN of Italians 



PRODUCE WORKERS 



That fill the super quick 

 With lioney nice and tnlck. 

 They have won a world-wide reputation 

 for honey-gatliering', hardiness, g'entle- 

 ness, etc. 



Untested queens, $1.00; six, $5.00; 12, 

 $9.00. Select untested, $1.25; six, $6.00; 

 12, $11.00. 



Safe arrival and satisfaction guaran- 

 teed. 



Circular free. 



J. P. M O O R E 



Queen-breeder. Route 1, MORGAN, KT. 



QUEENS 



Three band Italians, bred for honey and 

 gentleness. Prom imported stock of medium 

 color. 



1 6 12 



Untested $0.75 $4.25 $ 8.00 



Select untested . 1.00 4.75 9.00 



Tested 1.50 8.76 17.00 



Breeders, $3.00 to $5.00. 

 Every queen PUREL.T mated. Safe de- 

 livery and perfect satisfaction guaranteed. 



N. FOREHAND, 



Fort Depotit, - - Ala., U.S. A 



FOREHAND'S ITALIAN QUEENS 



Gentle, good hon«y gatiiererra, bred for 

 bu.flnets.s. Their mothers were imported — 

 the best to be had. If you buy once you 

 will buy always. Ju.sit look at thcise prices. 

 Wheire can you find better? 

 Unte.'rted July to Oct. 1, BOc eoidh in any 



<iuaji/tity. 

 Select untested, July to Oct. 1, 1, 75c; 6, 



$4.25; 12. $8.00, 

 SeJect tested. 1, $2.00; 6, $11.00; 12, $20.00. 



We guarantee that all queens -will reach 

 ycni in good condlitlon, to be purely imkted 

 .ind to give perfect satisfaction. All orders 

 filled at once. 



L. L. FOREHAND 



FORT DEPOSIT, ALA 



FOR SALE 



Leathei" colored Italian Queens, choice 

 breeding queens at $5.00 each. I guar- 

 antee the.se Queens to be as good as any 

 imported Queen, barring none. Money 

 refunded if dissatisfied after a year's 

 trial. Warranted purely mated Queens, 

 $1.00 each. $10.00 a dozen. Untested, by 

 return mail, at 75c each, or $9.00 i 

 dozen. Tested Queens, $1.50 each. 



JOHN A. McKINNON 

 St. Eugene - • Ontario 



Bees by the Pound, Nuclei 

 or Colonies 



We are still booking orders. Northern or 

 southern bred, and bred for business. Hard 

 to excel. 



L,et us quote you prices on large or small 

 quantities. Our prices are right. We guar- 

 antee safe delivery or money refunded. 

 BEE SUPPLIES. 



Sole Agents for Root's Famous Goods. 

 Also Canadian made goods. 



Anything from %" cement coated nail to a 

 Power Extracting Outfit. 



-■Vll kinds of Bee Literature. Ask for Cat- 

 alogue. 



Address — 



THE ROOT CANADIAN HOUSE, 

 185 Wright Ave., Toronto, Ont. 



EUROPEAN FOUL BROOD 



is spreading in various parts of the 

 country. The first step in its cure 

 is a vigorous strain of ITALIANS 



The Root Strain of Bees have shown 

 . . Themselves to be Highly Resistant . . 



While we do not claim their introduction will alone cure European Foul 

 Brood, or that it will not make a start in their colonies, we have reports 

 of where they have, with a little help, fought themselves nearly 

 clean of European Foul Brood which was all around them in black and 

 hybrid colonies. 



These queens will be ready for delivery about June 1. Orders will be 

 filled in rotation. Later in the season we will make delivery promptly. 

 PRICES. — Our regular price Is $1.50 in June and $1.00 after July 1 for 

 untested queens; but we will club them with Gleanings in Bee Culture 

 for one year and a queen for $1.50, provided we can fill orders for 

 queens when we have a surplus of them. This will probably be July 

 and August. 



The A. I. Root Company 



Medina, Ohio 



had an eight acre field of alfalfa nearly de- 

 stroyed by the red-backed cutworm. Sev- 

 eral sections, one square foot In area, were 

 examined to determine the degree of Infesta- 

 tion. Counts were secured, which ranged 

 from twenty-eight to seventy to the square 

 foot One could be perfectly safe in saying 

 there were millions of cutworms in that 

 alfalfa field. In another section, a sixty 

 acre field of wheat was practically destroyed 

 by cutworms. 



The spruce gall louse was found to be do- 

 ing damage to black and white spruce In 

 various .section* of the country. 



During the past winter, great damage has 

 been done to young fruit trees by bush rab- 

 bits. Owing to the great depth of snow, the 

 rabbits could not be kept from the trees as 

 in former years. The result Is that many 

 trees have been practically ruined by girdl- 

 ing. 



The problem of controlling the different 

 kinds of destructive insects in the prairie 

 provinces is likely to became more import- 

 ant as years go by, and the country becomes 

 more thickly settled. 



British Columbia 



R. C. Abbott, Coast's Market Commissioner 



There has been quite a brisk demand for 

 fresh fruits in Vancouver lately (June 17) 

 and sales have been heavy in all kinds, with 

 the exception of gooseberries. Reports 

 show gooseberries to be a heavy crop and 

 growers would do well to consider the ad 

 visability of selling to the canneries and 

 placing only a very limited amount on the 

 market, as the high price of sugar will re- 

 tard the sales to some extent. 



The demand for rhubarb is well over. 

 Some of the growers have been shipping m 

 a new kind of box, which is about threo 

 inches longer and two inches shallowci- 

 than the box used by the majority of the 

 growers. This new box holds around 35 'o 

 37 lbs. nett, and in our opinion should be 

 discarded and only the one size box used 

 (20 ins. X 15% ins. x 7% ins). 



Strawberries from local British Columbia 

 points have been coming in in limited quan- 

 tities. Imported berries from White Sal- 

 mon Valley and Puyallup, Wash., continue 

 to come in, and the prices quoted will, no 

 doubt, have a tendency to pry down the 

 price of British Columbia berries. The ma- 

 jority of restaurant managers and retailers 

 now demand British Columbia strawberries, 

 and give our berriea the preference when- 

 ever they are packed and graded properly. 



My office will distribute five thousand 

 pamphlets next week, advertising our Brit- 

 ish Columbia strawberries. Each of the 

 domestic science classes in the city is be- 

 ing furnished with one crate of British 

 Columbia strawberries for class work. Some 

 of the above pamphlets, which contain con- 

 siderable information, will be distribuiPd 

 amongst the school children. 



Buying potatoes for Eastern markets wa.s 

 very brisk from June 1st until June 14th 

 during which time some thirty-five cars 

 were eent out of the province. These mar- 

 kets have again weakened, owing to ship- 

 ments of new potato<^s due to arrive from 

 Virginia in about ten or fourteen days' 

 time. 



Ten cars have botn shipped e^i.st from 

 the storages ;n this city during the week. 

 Thero are approximately fourteen cars still 

 in the city. The local market is not likely 

 to improve as long as growers continue to 

 ship in small lots on consi;rnmei:t Grovr- 

 ers who have small lots to sell would no 

 doubt do better if they would assemble 



