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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



July, 191 1 



You can depend on it for positive re- 

 sults, without fear of failure or dissat- 

 isfaction. 



It destroys green, black and white fly. 

 red spider, thrip, mealy bug, brown 

 and white scale without the slightest 

 injury to the tenderest flower or fol- 

 iage. 



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 Mannfactared hj APHINE MANUFACTURING 

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" WindsorTableSalt is 

 the salt for us. We pay 

 our money for good salt 

 — made right here in 

 Canada — that every one 

 knows is absolutely pure. 



We certainly won't 

 pay fancy prices for an 

 imported salt with a 

 fancy name." 



Windsor salt is all salt 

 — pure, dry, dissolves in- 

 stantly, and lends a de- 

 licious flavor to every 

 dish. 





to mr.kt.. After that do not disturb the 

 oats, but keep them well moistened. In a 

 short tiiVie there will be a sod about three 

 inches thick, that will be relished by the 

 hens in a way that will do your heart good 

 to see. Feed only what they will eat up 

 clean, and by starting a new lot every few 

 days, the green food question is solved, 

 and the cost reduced at the same time. 



If meat foods are hard to get, try breed- 

 ing maggots : Mix bran and water to a 

 sloppy condition, and let it stand in the, 

 sun for a day or two. It does not take it 

 long to turn into a pailful of lively white 

 maggots that will start biddy singing the 

 song we all enjoy to hear. 



The whole matter resolves itself into the 

 question of making nature's conditions as 

 near as possible available for the hens and 

 chicks that are shut up, and the attention 

 to detail is almost invariably well re- 

 warded. 



Care for the Chickens 



Jali> Shaketpeare, Englud 



A common cause of chicken mortality is de- 

 rangement of the bowels, and the chief 

 causes of bowel troubles are sour and taint- 

 ed food and a faulty water supply. Often 

 chicks are over-supplied with soft food, and 

 that which is uneaten is allowed to lie about 

 and get soured by the sun, with the result 

 that when consumed by the birds it sets up 

 bowel troubles. Tainted food, that is, food 

 thrown on to unclean ground near the brood 

 coops, or on the tainted litter of the 

 brooders, is at the root of many bowel ail- 

 ments among chicks. When chicks are be- 

 ing fed on mash the food should be placed 

 either on pieces of board or in shallow 

 troughs, and no more should be allowed the 

 youngsters than they can greedily clear up. 



Foul water is equally as bad as tainted 

 food. If the water vessels are placed where 

 dirt can be scratched into them, or where 

 the sun's rays can reach them, their con- 

 tents will account for bowel troubles, and 

 the slow but sure poisoning of the chickens. 

 I am a great believer in a plentiful supply 

 of pure, cool drinking water for chicks, 

 as such is nature's drink. 



Chickens injudiciously fed sufEer more 

 with constipation than is generally imagin- 

 ed. The feeding of too much dry food and 

 too little vegetable matter is often at the 

 bottom of this ailment. The voidings in 

 some cases become so hard as to cause much 

 abdominal straining and the vent becomes 

 entirely blocked up with the excreta that 

 adheres to and around it, and unless speedo? 

 assistance is rendered the sufferers soon 

 succumb. — Poultry Advocate. 



Farmers along the St. Lawrence River, 

 as far east as Cornwall, are waking up to 

 the fact that there is more money in the 

 growing of fruit than in the dairy busi- 

 ness, to which most of them have devoted 

 nearly all their attention. D. A. Mcin- 

 tosh of Harrison recently set out 525 fruit 

 trees, 600 of which are Mcintosh Red, 

 M&na, Monroe, and Ben Davis apples, and 

 25 Montmorency large cherres. The demon- 

 strations of fruit culture carried on by re- 

 presentatives of the department of agri- 

 culture in this district are having good 

 results in causing farmers to pay more at- 

 tention to fruit growing. 



Horticultural Gentlemen:— I notice in 

 this article of yours, that you have culti- 

 vated hothouse lilac bushes that have at- 

 tained the height of over fifty feet." Liter- 

 ary Man: "Yes, why.'"' Horticultural 

 Gentleman (musingly) : "Nothing; only 1 

 wish I could lilac that." 



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