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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



March, 191 1 



SPRAY 

 THOROUGHLY 



Thorough spraying is a crop insur- 

 ance of the sUougcst kind, but you 

 cannot spray thorouglily un- 

 ^^^ less you use 



GOUIAS 



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Sfbayehs 



They are better 

 known, more wide'y vised, 

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 and export work- 

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 by more than 62 

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 Capital Authorized, $ 1 0.000.000.00 

 Capital Subscribed 5.912.000.00 

 Capital Paid-up. . 5.700.000.00 

 Reserve Fund . 5.700.000.00 



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Necessity of Spraying 



There is no longer any certainty of a 

 crop without spraying with both insecti- 

 cides and fiuiKicides, no matter how fav- 

 orable the season or how fertile the soil. 

 In fact, there is a certainty of ultimate 

 loss. How great this may be was demon- 

 strated all over Canada the past year bv 

 the almcst total failure of fruit in un- 

 sprayed orchards, while sprayed orchards 

 have given bountiful crops. 



Farmers conipiain that there is no 

 money in fruit growing. It is small won- 

 der when one cannot go into a fruit store 

 and buy a few apples that are fit to eat. 

 Thoy will he either wormy or covered with 

 .=oab. If a man will not spray he might 

 better dig out the trees by the roots and 

 grow srme crop that will make money, as 

 an unsprayed and uncared for orchard is 

 simply occupying good land and giving no 

 interest on the invest'nent, as hundreds 

 of acres of orchird? all over the country 

 testify. Many farmers think that grod 

 apples cannot be grown on old trees. This 

 is tinfortunate, as this erroneous opinion 

 prevents the spraying of unproductive or- 

 chards all over the county which could 

 easily be made dividend payers. 



The barrel of Northern Spies which won 

 the first prize at the New England Fruit 

 Show was grown in an orohard forty years 

 old that previous to eight years ago was 

 neglected and had produced practically 

 nothing. Since that time it had been 

 properlv plowed, pruned, sprayed and cul- 

 tivated, with the result that it grew the 

 best barrel of apples in New England. 

 Nor need we go to New England for 

 examples of what can be done, as a num- 

 ber of the pririe^ won at the recent On- 

 tario Horticultural Exhibition were from 

 orchards that had been neglected for years 

 and only given proper care during the past 

 year. 



This only illustrates what can be done 

 with the old orchards scattered all over 

 Canada. With a little care these would 

 produce high grade apples. Fertilize, 

 prune, cultivate, and spray thoroughly. 

 The old trees will then pay you well for 

 your efforts on their behalf. 



Profits from Vegetable Growing 



Wm. Clements, ClarkioD, Out. 



•Although the consumer generally pays a 

 very fair price for fruit, it does not realize 

 any extraordinary profits to the producer. 

 A basketful of cucumbers may sell for 25 

 cents. More generally, however, 15 cents 

 a basket is the average price to the pro- 

 ducer. An eleven-quart basket costs three 

 cents, express charges five cents, selling 

 commission 10 per cent — 2% cents ; cartage 

 one cent, or a total of 11 X cents, leaving 

 at the 25 cent rate 1S% cents for the pro- 

 ducer — or at 16 cents, next to nothing. 

 Tomatoes often sell for as low as 15 cents 

 a basket. Last year, for the better part 

 of the season, they averaged 20 cents a 

 basket. The charges on tomatoes will figure 

 approximately the same as in the case of 

 the cucumbers. 



The consumer pays at least 40 cents for 

 this same basket for which the producer 

 received 25 cents. The Express Company 

 gets about one quarter of the gross re- 

 turns received by the producer. It may 

 therefore readily be seen that ihere is not 

 so much money in the business even if 

 the consumers do pay fair prices. Reason- 

 able profits can be expected only where the 

 produce is shipped in quantities ; smaller 

 shippers have little left after deducting 

 charges. 



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