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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



February, 1913 



Progressive Jones Says: 



"Get More Barrels And 

 More Baskets" 



I tell you, friend, that you can make your trees 

 yield you more barrels and baskets of luscious 

 fruit by enriching the soil with the profit-makmg 



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 being a prize winner at International Apple Growers Associat on at 

 Chicago These prize winners attribute their success to Harab Fertilizers. 

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 growers, vegetable growers and farmers, isn't it reasonable to expect 

 they will do as well for you? Isn't it worth while trying them for at 

 least half your orchard? Then make a careful count and see how 

 many more barrels and baskets of big, sound fruit you get from the 

 fertilized trees than you do from the unfertilized. If the results don t 

 warrant you using Harab Fertilizers on your whole orchard next year 

 well, I'll be surprised, very surprised. But I'll bet the surprise wi 

 be on the other foot, when you see how many more dollars a small 

 investment in Harab Fertilizers will bring you. 



There's an interesting booklet, 

 describing the U different Harab 

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 pose. The Harris Abbatoir Co. 

 promise me they will send my friends 

 copies without charge. Just write 

 them for a copy to-day. 



The Harris Abbatoir Co., Ltd., Toronto 



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Ontario Orchard Competitions 



p. W. Hodfettt, Director o< Htrticaltorc, Toronto 



The awards im the orchard competition 

 in Ontario for 1912, are given herewith. 

 The jud8:ing- in all districts, except Num- 

 ber three, was in the hands of W. F. Kydd, 

 of the Department of Afrriculture, assisted 

 by W. L. Hamilton, oif CoUinRwood, Les- 

 lie Smith, of Wellington, amd Henry Lati- 

 mer, of AUiston. The judging in number 

 three, the Niagara District, was done by 

 F. M. Clement, of Macdonald College, 

 Quebec. 



In a number of the classes all of the 

 prizes were not awarded. The judges felt 

 that in these cases they had good groumds 

 for withholding the money. In too many 

 instances the poor pruning alone was suf- 

 ficient to bar an orchard from winning. 

 Again, there were a number of excellent 

 young orchards entered that could not be 

 considered to be in bearing, as called for 

 by the conditions of the competition. 

 Leaving this point out of the score, a num- 

 ber of these would have been placed higher 

 than some of the prize winners. 



Altogether the competition was keen in 

 all of the districts, except possibly the in- 

 land counties included in district number 

 six and those in district number one. in the 

 Ottawa Vallev. where fruit growing is yet 

 in its earlv stages. Ninety-nine orchards 

 were entered in the six districts. This 

 number would have been much larger if the 

 announcement of the competition cwuld 

 have been made earlier in the season. The 

 funds for the work were drawn from the 

 Federal grant to Ontario agriculture and 

 were not available umtil well on into the 

 summer. 



THE AWARDS 



DISTRICT No. 1.— Eastern Ontario 

 District, comprising Lennox, Addington. 

 Frontenac Renfrew, Leeds, Lanark, Gren- 

 ville, Caxleton, Dundas, Russell, Stormont 

 Glengarrv, Prescott: 



120 trees up: 2nd. Andrew Fawcet. In- 

 kerman ; 3rd, G. Howard Ferguson, Kempt- 



ville. „, ,. ^ 1 



60 to 120 trees: 2nd, F.lary S. Cassel- 

 man, Dundela ; 3rd, L. A. Parisien, Sum- 



merstown. . , ^ • t-v 



DISTRICT No. 2.— Lake Ontario Dis- 

 trict, comnrising Halton, Peel York On- 

 tario, Durham. Northumberland. Hastings, 

 Prince Edward. „.. ., 



300 trees un: 1st. W. H. Gibson. New- 

 castle; 2nd. John Brow^, Brighton; Jrd. 

 D G. Gibson, Newcastle. 



120 to 300 trees: 1st W. F. Rickard, New- 



"^'^40 ^to 120 trees: 1st, Jonas Samis, New- 



^^blSTRICT No. 3.— Niagara District, 

 comorising Lincoln amd Wentworth. 



1000 trees up: 1st. Wm. Armstrong. 

 Oueetiston ; 2nd. Hamilton Fleming, Grims- 

 bv: 3rd, T. W. Bren-nan. Vineland. 



500 to 1,000 trees: 1st, T. Parnall, Ut. 

 Catharines; 2nd Jamps Aikins. Niaeara- 

 on-the-Ipke; 3rd, Thos. E. Bartlett^^ 



RpamsviHe. , c 



300 to .500 trees : 1st, Harper Secoird. St^ 



Cathariines. . t-,;,.*.-;-. 



DISTRICT No. 4.— Lake Erie District. 

 romnrising Essex, Kent, Elgin Norfo k. 

 Hpldimand, Welland, Brant, Oxford, Mid; 



"^'fw trees up: 1st. J. E. Johnson, Simcoe; 

 2nd. J. B. Waddle, Simcoe; 3rd, Isaac 

 Pierce New Sarum. _ ^ • _j 



m to .300 trees: 1st. Frank D. Barnard. 

 Gbnworth; 2nd. Walter E. Palmer Marsh- 

 !^lle 3rd, Wm. H. Prudham, Flamboro 

 Centre. 



