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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



March, 1911 



Planet Jr. 



"makes it only play to work a garden " 



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 the time and labor their Planet Jrs save. Aren't you ready to 

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No. 2S Planet Jr Combined Hill and Drill Seeder, Double- Wheel Hoe, Cultivator 

 and Plow opens the furrow, sows seed in drills or hills, covers rolls and marks out next row in 

 one operation ; and it has perfect cultivating attachments besides. 



No. 8 Planet Jr Horse-Hoe and Cultivator will do more things in 

 , more ways than any other horse-hoe made. Plows to or from the row. A , 

 splendid furrower, coverer, hiller. and horse-hoe ; unequaied as a cultivator. 



The 1911 Planet Jr illustrated catalogue is in- 

 valuable to every progressive farmer and gardener. 

 56 ])ages brimful of helpful hints on 

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The horse does all the 

 work, e.Kcept holding the 

 pole, with the Hi P. 

 Spramotor. It can be 



operated by either horse or 

 hand. Has 8 nozzles at 

 175 lbs. pressure, which 

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 with spray. All automatic. 

 The number of nozzles can 

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Crops often double their yield when they 

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the liccky Mountains will be as good a 



fruit producing country ivs that east of 

 the llockics in Colorado, and uith tin 

 advantage -»e do not need irrigation 

 have more hours of sunshine and as Ion 

 a growing season. Uur soil or all loca 

 tions are not suitable to fruit growTn; 

 The same may be said of the settlers; om 

 man will succeed where ten will fail on 

 account of neglect and inccmpetence. 



Compulsory Spraying 



I think ijrobably the j)r<!8cnt condition 

 of the apple industry will Ikj sooner recti- 

 fied by the farmers who own orchards and 

 who make them a secondary consideration 

 on the farm, turning them over into t!: 

 hands of the interested al)ple men, eithi 

 by lease or purchase. 



I would also .suggest bringing into effect 

 compulsory measures and ccmpel careloK- 

 growers to give proi>er treatment to at 

 least control destructive insjicts and di.^ 

 ca.ses, for instance, the codling moth lar\ 

 and many others. Wo are taught that tli' 

 law is a schocl master, and so it will be in 

 this case. It will cause men "to sit up 

 and think" when nothing ©Ue will. Men 

 who will not try to learn for their own 

 personal profit, could in this way be ir 

 terested to attend the public demonstr.i 

 ticns and discussions re apple culture an 

 care ,if for no other reason than to g' 

 posted on how to evade the law, and one 

 within the charmed circle would be led t' 

 a better knowledge cf the subject and thu.^ 

 have their interest awakened. 



I have little hoi)o of otherwise helping 

 men who are only breeders of pests and 

 troubles for their neiyhbors. They have 

 no regard for their neighbors' welfare, and 

 the sooner we compel tliem to get inter- 

 ested or get out of the industry, the bet- 

 ter for themselves and all concerned. — 

 Joseph Tweddle. 



Mr. W. Armstrong, Queenstcn, writes us 

 that he would like to be one of a party of 

 Canadian fruit growers to visit the chief 

 ports and markets of Great Britain, as 

 suggested in TuE Canadian Horticclturisi 

 last year in order to become familiar with 

 conditions there and boom the export trad© 

 in Canadian fruits. His opinion is that 

 eight or more leading fruit growers with 

 this object in view would be of immense 

 value to the fruit industry of Canada, be- 

 sides a most valuable medium of advertis- 

 ing the Dominion from a horticultural 

 point of view. We already know that the 

 various organizations in Great Britain who 

 are interested in the handing of fruit would 

 give such a party a warm welcome. Could 

 not the Dominion Fruit Division organize 

 and mak© th© necessary arrangements for 

 such a deputation l'^ 



Mr. Robert Thompson, vice-president of 

 the Niagara Peninsula Fruit Growers' As- 

 sociation in commenting on the proposed 

 tariff changes pointed out the fact that 

 while all the duty on fruits had been remov 

 ed, there had been no corresponding redii 

 tion of the tariff on manufactured articli-. 

 such as baskets, pumps, fertilizers, and 

 spraying mixtures. That question, he said, 

 will be bronarht t^i the Government's at. 

 tention. Mr. Thompson pointed out that 

 growers of oherri^^i. ra=:;)berries and other 

 late berries will gain as much as they will 

 lose, but that the principal sufferers will 

 be the early peaoh and vegetable growers. 

 He added that in case the growers can get 

 no better therms the only chance of competi- 

 tion will be to grow a variety of later fruits 

 to sell after the United States fruit season 

 is finished. 



