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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



February, 1913 



BASIC SLAG 



Renovates 

 Old Worn Out Pastures 

 Without Re-Seeding 



There are thousands of farmers in Ontario 

 whose pastures have been worn out by the con- 

 tinued grazing of dairy stock. Such lands have been 

 drained of fertility and now grow only poor, worthless 

 vegetation. Clover has entirely disappeared. This 

 need not continue. A dressing of Basic Slag applied 

 broadcast at the rate of looo lbs. per acre will bring 

 such pastures back into good heart, and double or 

 treble their capacity for stock carrying, The effect 

 of such an application should be apparent for four 

 or five years. 



Basic Slag is being used in thousands of tons in the 

 Maritime Provinces and Quebec, and the consumption in Europe 

 amounts to over two million tons per annum. It is therefore 

 no untried Fertilizer. Every farmer from the Old Country 

 knows about Basic Slag, but for your own satisfaction ask the 

 Department of Agriculture Instructor for your district, or the 

 editor of any farming journal as to its merits. Basic Slag is 

 the ideal Fertilizer to apply to stiff clay lands, to wet, marshy 

 fields and to all soils which have become sour. If you have 

 any such pasture buy one ton of Basic Slag and broadcast it 

 over two acres, applying it at the earliest opportunity — the 

 sooner the better. 



Until our selling arrangements in Ontario are com- 

 pleted, you can be supplied direct from the Factory at g20.oo 

 per ton, freight prepaid to your nearest station — cash with 

 order. 



Make this experiment and you will feel grateful to us 

 for bringing the merits of Basic Slag under your notice. An 

 interesting pamphlet giving particulars of the results obtained 

 by leading agriculturists from the use of Basic Slag, will be 

 forwarded by post on application to 



THE CROSS FERTILIZER CO., Ltd. 



SYDNEY, N.S. 



Or to their Sales Agents for 



Western Ontarfo, MR. A. E. WARK, Wanstead 

 Eastern Ontario, MR. A. L. SMITH, 220 Alfred St., Kingston 



New Bruinswick Department of A(;fri<^iil- 

 ture had rented a store for that purpose. 

 Twenty-five boxes of Mcintosh Reds, 

 i-ameuse, and Yellow Bellfleurs were 

 shown im the windows. These were of a 

 size and quality that would not be excelled 

 on Montreal Island, the home of the 

 Famcuse, and where, it is claimed, the 

 Mcintosh Red grows to perfection. 



In the store proper were a dozen more 

 of boxes otf King of Tompkins and Merits, 

 while cm the counters were display cones 

 and plates of Mcintosh and Fameuse. 



Mr. R. P. Gorham, assistant horticul- 

 turist of New Brunswick, was im charge 

 of the exhibit. He was assisted by Mr. 

 J. H. Ross and Mr. Kenneth Embeirley, 

 of Macdonald College . Literature descrip- 

 tive of the fruit growing possibilities of 

 the province was distributed and full in- 

 formation given on orchard planting and 

 management. The exhibit attracted much 

 attention and favorable comment. It 

 opened on December 28, amd closed on 

 January 18th. 



Fruit growing in New Brunswick has 

 gone ahead rapidly during the last few 

 years. It promises to become one of the 

 chief industries of the provimce. Nearly 

 sixty thousand apple trees were planted 

 in 1912, aind the number of orders already 

 placed for spring delivery indicates that 

 an even larger number will be set in 1913. 

 Mcintosh Reds, Fameuse, and Bethel are 

 being most largely planted, as these var- 

 ieties seem to attain their greatest per- 

 fection in New Brunswick and bring the 

 best prices on the market. Land values 

 are reasonable, and farms can be pur- 

 chased in the fruit sections at from fifteen 

 dollars to forty dollars an acre. 



Major Snelgrove's Death 



The members of the Ontario Horticul- 

 tural Association will hear with regret of 

 the death on 22nd December of Major H. 

 J. Snelgrove, formerly of Cobourg, but 

 more recently of Toronto, the former pre- 

 sident erf the Ontario Horticultural Asso- 

 ciation, and at the time of his death an 

 honorary director of that organization. 

 Major Snelgrove was for years an active 

 member of the Cobourg Horticultural So- 

 ciety, and was largely instrumental in the 

 formation of the Ontario Horticultural As- 

 sociation, with which he had been actively 

 connected since its inception. 



Major Snelgrove was an enthusiastic 

 lover of flow'ers, and contributed occasion- 

 ally to The Canadian Horticulturist. He 

 was present throughout at the recent con- 

 vention of the Ontario Horticultural Asso- 

 ciation in Toronto, where his friends were 

 disappointed to notice that he did not ap- 

 pear to be looking as robust as usual. The 

 sickness which terminated in his death set 

 in early in December. 



Cooperation in Nova Scotia 



The United States Consul-General at 

 Halifax has contributed to his government 

 the following information regarding the 

 cooperative movement among Nova Scotia 

 fruit growers : 



Three years ago, says a consul, the fruit 

 growers of Nova Scotia found they were 

 hampered in many ways in disposing of 

 their crop. All shipments to Europe were 

 being made through commission agents, 

 who in turn consigned to merchants in 

 London and Liverpool. In this way ex- 

 penses in some cases exceeded profits. 

 There was also a lack of system in sort- 

 ing and packing, and consequently the fruit 

 did not have the standing in the big mar- 



