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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Floral Edition 



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KEEP THEM WORKING 



A horse in the field is worth two 

 in the barn. You can't prevent 

 Spavin, Ringbone, Splint, or Curb frOm 

 putting your horse in the barn but you 

 can prevent these troubles from keeping 

 horses in the barn very long. You can get 



KENDALL'S 



SPAVIN CURE 



at any druggists at $1 alx)ttle,fifor $5, and 

 Kcncfall's will cure. Thousands of fanners 

 and horsemen will say so. Our book 

 "Treatise on the horse" free. 116 



Dr. B. J. KENDALL CO., Enosburg FaUs. VL 



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Stevens' Potash Fertilizer destroys wire 

 worms, click-beetles, white grubs, cut 

 worms, army worms, gypsy moths, bnown- 

 tailed moths. Addres.s — 

 GEOhGi STEVENS, PeUrb^rongh. Ont. 



The Brown-Tailed Moth 



George E. Sanders, Dominion Entomologi- 

 cal Laboratory, Annapolis Royal, N. S. 



We have had during 1914-15 and 1915-16 

 two very successful seasons in controlling 

 the Brown-Tail Moth in Nova Scotia. In 

 1314-15, the year following the big flight 

 from the New England States, the inspec- 

 tors found 23,156 nest-s in the province. The 

 followftig year this was cut down to 18,154 

 nests, and last winter they found only 14,755 

 nests in fhe province. 



One of the reasons that they have been 

 .so successful is that they know most of the 

 infested orchards and go to them early In 

 the season before the drop of the nests be- 

 gins. Many infested orchards, however, 

 could not be located until quite late in the 

 season and thorough work was of course 

 impossible in thean on account of the drop 

 that had already occurred. 



The Brown-Tail is very easily located by 

 apple pickers during October. The winter 

 nests are now being formed and a circle 

 of skeletons of leaves surrounds each nest 

 to a distance of from six inches to two feet. 

 These spots of brown skeletonized leaves 

 are very conspicuous against the dark green 

 of the trees and the nest containing a num- 

 ber of very small caterpillars in the centre 



The Gift of Time 



B 



IG BEN'S the only time-clock the 

 modern farmer knows — he helps 

 the farmer beat the sun to work. 



Four a. m., in growing time, «art3 the farmer's 

 day— brings a bumper crop of hours, for chores and 

 in the field. 



Thai*g why Big Ben goes to the farm, at Christmas 

 every ycai — lo lend a band in preparing for planting 

 days. Now'days there's businesslike system on the farm. 

 Where Big Ben's wound up every night, the farm 

 cannot run down. 



So it's Big Ben for Christmas, wherever jroa go^ 

 the c'lft of time that means good-will all year. 



You'll like Big Ben face to face. He's seven inches 

 tall, spunky, neighborly — downright good all through. 

 He rings two ways — tea bali-minutc calls or steadily 

 for five minutes. 



Big Ben is six times factory tested. At your dealer's, 

 22.50 in the States, Sl.SOin Canada. Sent prepaid on 

 receipt of price if your dealer doesn't stock him. 



JVtsulox folk build more than three million alarms 

 a year — and build them well. All wheels are assem- 

 bled by a special process — patented, of course. Re- 

 sult—accuracy, less friction, long life. 



usauc,iii.,u.s.A. Western Clock Co. Makers of »-.«.;« 



Other H 'tstdox: Bahy Ben. Pocket Ben, Amtrica, Btnsa, Sleep-Meter. Lookout and Ironclad 



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PEERLESS POULTRY FENCE 



A Real Fenea-Mot Matllna ' •" 



strongly marto and closely spaced— making it a complete 

 J barrier against larjre animals as well as small poultry, Top^ 

 J and bottom wires No. 0— int«nnediatoa No. li win- -inade i^ 

 f bytheOpen Hearthprocess whicii timeand othertests have! -, - ^ 



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 nnolof . AirenoiM nnarlj ereryvber.. Agents mit.il In unaulgMd 'i lii ii lljAvSiir- '^tUmG 

 Th» Banwell - Hosia wire Fanca Campany, Lm,, vr^&'ltKTM 

 Winnipeg. Map., Ilamltton, Ont. * 33 lit '^ 



Of these browned leaves will Identify th 

 work -with certainty as that of the Browr 

 Tail. 



Owners desirous of keeping their orchard 

 free from tBe Brown-Tail would do well t 

 instruct their pickers to keep a lookout fo 

 these nests and to destroy them by burnin 

 wherever found; they would also confer 

 great favor if they would notify the write 

 of nests found in their orchards so iliat a 

 inspector may be sent to these orchards a 

 the beginning of the season, so that nior 

 effective work may be done. 



Washington Apples for 

 Western Canada 



Circulars issued recently by the Unite 

 Farmers of Alberta and the Alberta Farit 

 ers Cooperative Elevator Co., Ltd., of Ca 

 gary, indicate that the action of wester: 

 fruit growers in having the tariff on apple 

 increased at the last session of parliamen 

 continues to be strongly resented on th 

 prairies. The prairie farmers some month 

 ago decided, as a protest, that they wouli 

 buy apples from the United States this yeai 

 as far as possible, thus paying the extri 

 money required in the way of duty into th 

 Government treasury, rather than to Britis-l 

 Columbia growers. That they are adherin) 

 to their decision is indicated to some exten 

 by the fact that they have signed a contrac 

 for Washington State apples for their mem 

 hers. The following are a few extracts fron 

 their circular. 



"The British Columbia fruit growers 

 through their association, have for a nura 

 her of years been agitating for a highe 

 tariff, which would keep the American appli 

 out of Western Canada, and enable them t( 

 have the prairie provinces to themselves 

 Careful investigations on our part showe< 

 that the British Columbia growers were, fo 

 the most part, marketing their product in : 

 most extravagant way, through a series o 

 middle men, whose number was unreason 

 able, to say nothing of their handlini 

 charges. In accordance with our well knowi 

 tariff principles, we naturally under theS' 

 circumstances, opposed the British Colunc 

 bia fruit growers on the tariff issue, and su? 

 gested instead the application of co-opers 

 tive effort, and offered the services of ou 

 organizations in working out a system o 

 marketing that would come nearer to 

 straight producer to consumer basis. Ou 

 offer.s were ignored. The agitation for th 

 increased tariff was continued, and eventi 

 ally secured last winter when the tax c 

 ninety cents a barrel was established by th 

 Dominion Government. 



"In view of these facts, the Canadia 

 Council of Agriculture, with which the thre 

 prairie farmers' organizations In Manitobi 

 Saskatchewan and Alberta are afniiatet 

 passed a resolution in accordance with th 

 sentiments expressed from time to time l 

 our annual conventions, and recommende 

 to our unions that their year's supply < 

 apples should be secured .rom the Unite 

 States as a protest against the action of tl 

 British Columbia fruit growers." 



"The Alberta Farmers' Co-operative Bl 

 vator Co., Ltd., have made a contract wll 

 a Farmers' Co-operative Organization 1 

 Washington, for a supply of Washingtc 

 apples. It as now up to you, as members/ 

 this Association, to stand by the princip| 

 which you yourselves have so often 

 thusiastically endors-ed at our convention 

 and show that we not only mean what 

 say from a sentimental point of view, 

 that we have also the atiility to bring 

 matter home to those who question 

 sincerity of our belief." 



