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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



July, 1916. 



Johnson, is Htationed at Creston. under Mr. 

 Middleton, and will work principally on 

 apple-scab control. 



LOADING Ji 



-OGS 



One of Our Specialties is 



THAT GOOD APPLE BARREL 



Not made from cull staves the rejections from flour and other stock of various bilges, but 

 cut from absolutely mill run timber with exactly the correct bilge and thickness. Heading 

 mostly basswood which takes a nice brand, is kiln dried and does not warp. Hoops stand- 

 ard. The barrels are all 



MADE BY MACHINERY 



which insures an even croze and every head fitting. Why be worried with poor barrels 

 causing lossiof time? We make sixhoop eight hoop, also six wood and two wire, which 

 is the favorite. If these barrels get wet hoops cannot break. We can ship car loads con- 

 taining about 330 



DELIVERED AT YOUR STATION 



We ship thousands of barrels yearly to many large growers, dealers and fruit associa- 

 tions in Western Ontario, besides supplying 80% of the cooperage stock and barrels used 

 in the great Eastern Ontario Apple Belt. Therefore we must give the best value obtain- 

 able. Our main plant is one of the 



FINEST ON THIS CONTINENT 



Write us for prices on cooperage or 'barrels delivered your station. 



"Owing to the uncertainty of labor, we cannot guarantee present prices or prompt 

 delivery except on early business." 



TRENTON COPPER AGE MILLS, Limited 



TRENTON, ONTARIO. 



Price Need Not Stand in the Way 



Don't let the question of price prevent you from owning a SPR.AJHOTOR 

 iind getting better crops. We make a SPRAMOTOR as low as $6, and from 

 that all the way up to $400. Our $6 outfit if g^ a.s good value in propor- 

 tion as the $400 machine. There's a " 



^3AmnwGi' 



It isnt a SPRAMOTOR unless we made it 



for every need — ^the small farmer and the 

 thousand-acre man. The knapsack outfit 

 at the left is all Wgh-grade and sprays 

 at high pressure. We guarantee it to 

 .s-pray paint, whitewash and chemicals. 

 The SPRAMOTOR 

 is all brass, with 

 *.iiai;Tshing agiitator 

 around screen, 

 automatic plunger, 

 brass l>all valves 

 In salvtuiiized or brass flve-gaiUon tank. 



and patent hand valve. 



Barrel outfit consists of all-brass No. 2 SPRAMOTOR, 

 with two iO-feet lines of hose, couplings attached, patent 

 hand valves, two bamboo extension rods with brass cupped 

 ends and patent drip guards, two double-nozzle clusters, 

 complete, mounted on 50-gallon cask. Can be used for all 

 kinds of work. 



FRFF '^'•■'''^ "s giving some idea of your spraying needs. 



, In return we will majl you without charge a copy 



ot our valuable illustrated treatise on Crop Diseases, also 



details of a SPRAMOTOR best suited to your requirements. 



Made in Canada No Duty to Pay 



SPRAMOTOR WORKS - 2715 King St., London, Can. 



Items of Interest 



During the last week of May the cily 

 .'^prayer wa.s used on the shade tree.s on th' 

 .streets of St. Catharines for the first timi 

 The work was done under the supervl'ijon o; 

 Inspector Elliott, and E. H. Stork, who is e.\ 

 perienced in .sprayinK methods. With th' 

 aid of a gasoline motor, the spray was ap- 

 plied to the tops of the trees by a pre?.--ur? 

 of 250 lbs-, and the trunks were also carefully 

 sprayed. It is estimated that about 300 

 .shade trees are affected with scale through- 

 out the city. I>ast year a tew trees wer<- 

 sprayed, and the beneficial results are very 

 marked. 



On June 17th, new potatoes and new car- 

 rot.s appeared on Hamilton market for the 

 first time. The potatoes sold at |2 per 

 basket, and the carrots at 50c per dozen 

 bunches. Old potatoes rose to $2.50 a batr. 

 The rains have seriously interfered with 

 the early potato crop, and the crop is likely 

 to be late and smaller than usual. 



There have recently been substantial re- 

 ductions in ocean freight rates between 

 Canada and Great Britain, and according to 

 well-informed shipping interests, there will 

 shortly be further reductions, which will 

 bring the rates 30 per cent, below what they 

 were three months ago. It is expected that 

 Canada will benefit by this, and that British 

 Columbia salmon will be secured by the War 

 Department, instead of Alaskan, and Ontario 

 fruit instead of California. 



Potash is being made on a considerable 

 scale by a West Virginia company, from the 

 waste stems of tobacco plants. 



The New South Wales Government office 

 in London has secured from the war office 

 orders for some S'^ million lbs. of Australian 

 jam. A number of the Australian states are 

 supplying jams to the war office, but an in- 

 novation in this respect is the inclusion of 

 melon jam, produced by New South Wale^^. 

 In addition, large quantities of quince, apri- 

 cot, and peach jams from New South Wales 

 are in use by the British military authori- 

 ties. 



Messrs. E. D. Smith and Son, Winona, are 

 engaged in getting out a large strawberry 

 jam order for Great Britain. 



A serious pest to the grape industry in 

 Ohio is the grape-berry worm, a small in- 

 sect which bores into the young grapes and 

 renders them useless for marketing. It can 

 be controlled by spraying twice. First, wTien 

 the grapes are about % of an inch in di- 

 ameter. 4 lbs. arsenate of lead are used 

 with the 2-3-40 formula of Bordeaux, plus 2 

 lbs. of dissolved soft soap as a sticker. The 

 second application is made about six weeks 

 later, to kill the second brood. Hand spray- 

 ing gives better results than machine work. 



A Large Establishment 



Members of the Ottawa Vegetable Grow- 

 ers' Association paid a visit, in June, to th^ 

 extensive glass establishment of H. 

 Wright, Aylmer, Quebec, about nine mile 

 from Ottawa. After the Easter rush wa 

 over, several carnation houses were cleane 

 out and planted with 19.000 tomato plants. 

 These were expected to mature in July, 

 prior to carnation planting. Crops of beans 

 and spinach proved profitable in May. The 

 florist side of the business has been main- 

 tained, with a large spring crop of sweet 

 peas, carnations and roses. Bedding ma- 

 terial was almost cleaned out. Mr. Wright's 

 plant is not confined to the greenhouses. 



