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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



March, 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 $20.00 

 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 Ontario, MR. A. E. WARK, Wanstead 

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



your readers will smile at his log-ic ' 

 g-ardinsr the whip amd the horse, also ' 

 currycomb and the steer. How is it that 1. 

 a student of great ability, no doubt, tplls 

 ■us "that in carrying- on experiments for 

 eleven yenrs with an orchard at the Geneva 

 F.xperimpntal Statiom the result was that 

 the trees in the experiment would be prr 

 tically as well oflF in every respect had 

 an ounce of fertilizer bee« used?" F.,.- 

 lowing that statment, I read the remarks 

 of Dr. P. Stewart, another clever student. 

 who has evideintly made a study of the use 

 of fertilizers, and he shows plainly that 

 the application of 'fertilizers in an orchard 

 had the effect of increasing- the crop of 

 apples. 



Dr. Dandeno, in concluding his xt\> 

 says "the plaint must answer." This is a 

 very wise conclusion when doctors differ. 

 In my case I am only too willing that the 

 plants shall give the answer. I planted a 

 portion of . my garden to late potatoes. 

 Before plantimg, I worked in a dressing 

 of potash fertilizer at the rate of fifteen 

 hundred pounds to the acre, and I took 

 off a crop of good sound potatoes equal 

 to four hundred and twenty bushels to the 

 acre, and when digging them my neis'li- 

 bor said he never saw a better crop. 

 thanking you for the space, I will comclii 

 with a very old saying — 



"Starve the land, starve the plant; 



Feed the land, feed the plamt." 



Chas. Jas. Fox, South London. 



Ontario Peaches in Great 

 Britain 



It having been annouced in the daily 

 press that the shipments of Ontario. 

 peaches to London, England, last year were 

 not nearly so successful as those made 

 the year previous. The Canadian Horticul- 

 turist wrote to the fruit divisions at Otta- 

 wa and Toronto for reliable information. 

 The despatches in the daily papers claimed 

 that mamy of the cases on arrival on the 

 market in England had as much as twenty- 

 five per cent, of their contents either par- 

 tiallv or whollv damaged. 



Mr. W. W. Moore, Chief of the Markets 

 Division, of the Dominion Department of 

 Agriculture, reported that the shipments 

 had beem practically all made by Mr. C..A. 

 Dobson. of Jordan Station. Mr. Moore 

 wrote in part: 



"The total quantity of pleaches expo; 

 was 8,443 single layer cases, compai -. 

 with 3,934 cases in 1911, and 3,743 cases in 

 1910. We received reports on the condi- 

 tion of all the consignments landed in 

 Great Britain last season, and they were 

 favorable in every instance. I would 

 be surprised to learn, however, that 

 peaches did not stand up well after tl 

 reached the hands of the receivers, becai 

 our weather conditions in 1912 were 

 favorable to the production of keepi 

 qualities in tender fruits." 



Mr. Hodgetts wrote as follows : " T 

 reports from our London Office were th;u 

 there was more rot present last year 

 than during the previous two seasons. 

 This was accounted for, I believe, by 

 the fact that sufficient care_ was_ not 

 exercised in selecting the fruit, quite a 

 number of the peaches being too green 

 during the earlier shipments of Elbert 

 and others too soft at the later stap 

 There is no doubt but that these ship- 

 ments cam be made to pay a very good 

 profit, and owing to the increased pro- 

 duction of peaches a considerable quantity 

 of high-class fruit could be shipped out 

 to the English markets to relieve the con- 

 gestion here. The greatest care, howev 



