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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST' 



August. 1!)1(5 



FOR SALE 



I>e:ither colored Italian Queens, choice 

 breedlnsr queens at $6.00 each. I gruar- 

 antee these 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 a 

 dozen. Tested Queens, $1.50 each. 



JOHN A. McKINNON 

 St. Eugene - • Ontario 



Three Banded and Golden 

 Italian Queens 



Untested— Jl. 00 each; 6 for $5.00: 12 for 



$9.oa 



Selected untested — 1 for $1.25; 6 for $7.00; 

 12 for $14.00. 



W. R. STIRLING 



Queen Breeder. RIDGETOWN, ONT- 



Send for Price List. Cash with Order. 



BARRELS TINS, GLASSWARE 

 Comb Honey Cartons and Cases 



THE FAMOUS ROOT .SUPPLIES 



The Root Canadian House 



183 Wright Ave. Toronto 



Requeen Now for 1917 



QUEENS FIRST QUALITY 



August and September — each 60c., 

 dozen iots $7.20 



THE ROOT CANADIAN HOUSE 



183 Wright Ave., Toronto 



Bee Supplies 



A' choice stock of everything in Bee 

 Supplies — Hlvee, Section.^, Shipping 

 Cases, Honey Pails, Comb Founda- 

 tions, Bee Journals, etc. 

 Also Bees and Queens. 



Wax and Honey Wanted. 



Maxwell Scott & Co. 



412 KINGSTON RD., TORONTO 



Q-U-E-E-N-S 



Three-band Italians. Untested for 50c. 

 each. The same as you pay f 1.00 for, and 

 just like the ones you get for $1.50. 

 Guaranteed to be as good as money can 

 buy. Every one fully guaranteed to give 

 perfect satisfaction. Safe delivery. Write 

 for prices on 25 and more. 



N. Forehand 



FT. DEPOSIT - ALABAMA 



QUEENS AT SOc. 



These queens are srua-ranteed to be as good 

 as money can buy. They are bred by the 

 same methods and with the same care as the 

 high price ones. They are bred from im- 

 ported mothers, the best In the world, and 

 will produce bees that Is the best for honey 

 gathering, for gentleness, and are not In- 

 clined to swarm. 



1 6 12 25 50 100 



Untested 50 3.00 6.00 11.76 22.60 43.75 



Select Untestea 66 3.60 6.76 12.60 



Tested l.OO 5.50 10.00 



SelectTestcd 1.60 8.50 16.00 



We guarantee that all queens will reach 

 you in good condition, to be purely mated 

 and to give perfect satisfaction. 



All orders filled at once. 



L. L. FOREHAND - Ft. Depo>it, Ala. 



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 



one to buy this orchard on a speculation lo 

 make money out of Mcintosh apples, even 

 it they do bring $9 per barrel at times. 



In 1902 myself and family spent the sum- 

 mer at sea shore — Myrtleville, Co. Cork, 

 Ireland. Outside our cottage door was a 20- 

 foot wall around a nice garden and orchard. 

 I said to John, the professional gardener, 

 why do you have this great wall around your 

 garden? Why, said he, if it were not tiere 

 all our fruit would be stolen. I said, in 

 Canada, we only have such walls around 

 penitentiaries and jails. 



But think on IsJand of Montreal it would 

 take just such precautions to save the fruit, 

 FO a man could count on a few barrels as 

 his own. 



MARKETING IN 1916. 



It is in a season such as the present, 

 when Ontario apples are of a poor quality 

 and other fruits (except peaches) less than 

 a normal crop, that the greatest care should 

 be exercised in grading, packing and mar- 

 keting. The principal aim of frujt growers 

 should be to cater to the tastes and re- 

 quirements of the consuming public. If 

 they have not sufficient quantities of high 

 grade fruit to meet the demand, then there 

 should be no attempt to "palm off" the 

 more inferior grades on an unsuspecting 

 purchaser who is looking for No. 1 fruit. 



That, in a few words, is the danger which 

 will confront Ontario growers this year. 

 Apple production has been lowered by un- 

 favourable weather conditions and the qual- 

 ity of the fruit has been reduced by the 

 very serious development of apple scab in 

 nearly all parts of the province. Under 

 such circumstances it is reasonable to pre- 

 sume that the demand for apples will be 

 sjood, the greatest demand being for the 

 higher grades of which there is the least 

 supply. 



What will be the result? The apple pro- 

 ducers must realize at once the necessity 

 of much more careful and honest grading 

 than ever before. If they do not— if they 

 yield to a temptation to include in their No. 

 i CTade any fruit of inferior quality — they 

 will be givins; themselves a commercial set- 

 back from which they will not soon recover. 

 The season of 1916 is going to be remem- 

 bered as one of poor quality and low pro- 

 duction, but it should also be remembered 

 as a year in which the lower grades of fruit 

 were honestly packed. 



Canadian fruit is being given some pub- 

 licity. In the dining cars of our Canadian 

 railroads and in many of our leading hotels, 

 cafes and restaurants, attention is being 

 called, on the menus, to Canadian grow-n 

 fruit. The Niagara Peninsula Publicity As- 

 sociation is advertising the merits of fruit 

 grown in that district. The one aim of this 

 publicity 's obviously to increase consump- 

 tion duriner n noriod of stress. The effort 

 will be wasted if the growers themselves do 

 not pack and market fniit which merits ad- 

 vertising. 



WTiv this nublicity if the sunnly is Hmit- 

 od? One reason is that the advertising of 

 "Canadian Fruit" will stimulate public in- 

 torpst. Thpre pre few hnuse-holders who 

 know anything about our fruit industry — its 

 scope, importance and value. Just as a de- 

 mand for a trade mark is created by judic- 

 ious advertising, so will the advertising of 

 Canadian fruit accomplish similar results. 

 When industrial conditions again become 

 normal, public interest will remember "Can- 

 adian Fruit" and in seasons of large pro- 

 duction an increased consumption will offset 

 many difficulties which have heretofore 

 been experienced. People will eat Can- 

 adian fruit who have never eaten it before 



