October, 1916. 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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is a cheaper package, which means a higher 

 uet return out of the gross selling price for 

 the grower. 



With pears retailing at a price equivalent 

 to about $75 a ton and upwards, there is a 

 good return for those who have this fruit 

 in quantity, but they are not many. The 

 demand promises to be strong, but the sup- 

 ply is weak. Unattached apple growers 

 were not in any hurry to sign up contracts 

 this season, because most of them had sev- 

 eral offers to choose from. No. I's are priced 

 at about two cents a pound at the packing 

 houses. At least one shipping firm of some 

 consequence in the Okanagan has not been 

 able to locate a sufficient supply in the 

 Valley, and purchased an additional twelve 

 or fifteen cars from the Grand Forks coun- 

 try to the east. 



Close upon a hundred cars of crab apples 

 will be marketed this year, mostly in the 

 Canadian west, where they are prime favor- 

 ites with the housekeepers for jelly making, 

 excepting the unfortunate Florence variety, 

 with which some shippers will have nothing 

 to do. By a peculiar anomaly no less than 

 about a score of cars of Okanagan crabs 

 have been sent to American points in the 

 middle northern States, North and South 

 Dakota, Illinois and Iowa points mainly. 

 This is like shipping coals to Newcastle, and 

 is a compliment to the energetic selling 

 methods of Okanagan firms. 



By-products are receiving well-merited 

 attention at some points in the Valley. 

 The Dominion Canners' plant at Vernon is 

 in the market for more tomatoes and other 

 canning stuff than it has been able to get, 

 and the same is true also of the plants at 

 Kelowna and Penticton. Then there are 

 three fruit and vegetable evaporating fac- 

 tories going this season, at Kelowna, Ver- 

 non, and a third further north In the heart 



CHOICE APPLE BARRELS 



— The Best is the. Cheapest 



We supply the 

 best Associations in 

 Canada with stock 

 or Barrels. 



Prompt shipment 

 — reasonable prices. 



The Sutherland'Innes Co,, Limited 



Chatham, Ontario 



- - WINTER CASES - - 



It has been proven by actual experience of some of the largest and best beekeepers that 

 bees can be wintered out of doors more easily and at less cost than by cellar wintering. We 

 have visited many apiaries this summer just to find out for ourselves how professional 

 beekeepers winter their bees. Those who have made a success of out-door wintering tell 

 us they would not go back to cellar wintering unless compelled to — that their bees have less 

 spring loss — seem livelier and come through in better condition for the early honey flow 

 than when wintered indoors. Profiting by their experience, we have to offer 



A Practical Winter Case 



that has been tried and found successful. We would be pleased to give you price and par- 

 ticulars upon application. Save trouble — save expense — save loss — by wintering out-of- 

 doors. 



The Tillson Company, 



Beekeepers' Supplies Tillsonburg, Ontario 



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