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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



August, 1916. 



An Attractive Face 



on your barrel of apples increases its 

 value materially in the eyes of the cus- 

 tomer. He Is willing to pay more for 

 fresh, snappy, unbruised apples. By 

 using 



WARNER'S APPLE BARREL PADS 



dti each end of the barrel you keep the facca 

 fresh and firm looking and attranlive to the 

 eye. A few cent.s — .that's all they cost — 

 spent at your end may mean dollar.s sent 

 back to you from the other end. Our barrel 

 pads aJbsoliitciy prevent them from being 

 bruised when heading the barrel or shipping. 

 .Send for sample and prices. 



R. B. WARNER 



Inwood 



Ontario 



LOADING OUR LOGS 



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 loss of 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 tor prices on cooperage or barrels delivered your station. 



"Owing to the uncertainty of labor, we cannot guarantee present p^rlces or prompt 

 delivery except on early business." 



TRENTON COOPERAGE MILLS, Limited 



TRENTON, ONTARIO. 



Summer Care of Small Fruits 



W. T. Macfjun, Dominion Horticulturist 

 Strawberries. 



On the care which the strawberry plan- 

 tation receives during the growing season, 

 will depend to a large extent the kind of 

 crop there will be next .season. The more 

 runners that can be placed with hand and 

 trowel so that the plants will root quickly 

 and be evenly spaced, the better. Very 

 often there are too many plants in one place 

 and not enough in another. Where plants 

 are crowded and much less than six inches 

 apart, the crowns do not develop well and 

 the fruit is liable to be small. It is import- 

 ant to keep the plantation free of weeds 

 and the ground cultivatfd a.s long as pos- 

 .sible, a.s late growth, in the case of straw- 

 berries, will result In better plants. A light 

 covering of clean straw is desirable when 

 the ground freezes in the autumn, to pre- 

 vent alternate thawing and freezing in the 

 winter or following spring. 



Raspberries, Gooseberries and Currants. 



Often there is far too much wood left on 

 the bushes of these fruits for best re.sults. 

 Attention is drawn to this now, as pruning 

 of these fruits can be done, if desired, as 

 .soon as the fruiting season is over. Rasp- 

 berry canes should not be left closer than 

 six Inches, the dead and weaker ones being 

 removed and the strongest left. Where 

 canes are not covered with soil In winter, 

 the thinning out may be left until spring, 

 when one can tell, before pruning, which 

 canes. If any, have been injured by winter. 

 Bending down the canes and covering the 

 tips with soil, or where there is little snow, 

 covering the plant entirely, will ensure the 

 canes wintering well. Gooseberries are dif- 

 ficult to pick at any time, but, if the bushes 

 are kept well pruned, picking will be much 

 easier than if there are many branches. 

 Branches older than three years .should be 

 cut out. The best fruit is borne on the two 

 and three-year-old wood, but there should be 

 a few strong new shoots, well distributed, 

 allowed to remain each year. About six 

 fruiting branches with their side shoots will 

 be sufficient. Red currants are pruned 

 somewhat as gooseberries, but a few more 

 fruiting canes may be left. Unlike the red 

 currant, the fruit of black currants is borne 

 on the wood made this year, hence severe 

 pruning of the older wood is desirable to 

 ensure strong new wood each year. — Ber- 

 wick Register. 



Niagara Fruit Shippers 



The fniit growers of the Niagara District 

 have received some general Improvements 

 ill shipping train service through the trans- 

 portation department of the Ontario Fruit 

 Growers' Association. By an order of the 

 Railway Board the railways are now allow- 

 ing ?3.00 for the material used in putting 

 in a Slated floor In the Refrigerator car if 

 tliey are not thus equipped. Shippers are 

 to keep a record of all cars floored, includ- 

 ing those for which the authorized allow- 

 ance is paid. 



A better service has been promised on 

 account of the large shipments of berries 

 from Vineland and Jordan, and on account 

 of the early arrival of the fruit train. 



Under an order, dated May 15th, 1916, 

 Ottawa shipments will be expected daily, 

 except Sunday, from Jordan Harbor and 

 Vineland Station. A car is to be placed at 

 Jordan daily, except Saturday and Sunday, 

 shipments from Port Hope East to Mont- 

 real being accepted In this car. This ser- 

 vice la to continue from July 1st to August 

 31st 



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