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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



April, 1913 



Dont 



Worry! 



Conkey 



Will Cure 



Me 



Do not let your chick- 

 ens mope and die. 

 Send for catalogue, with 

 price list of Reliable 

 Poultry Remedies, and 

 prices of Eggs for hatch- 

 ing from different breeds 

 of Poultry, including 

 Turkeys, Ducks and 

 Geesfe. 



J. H. RUTHERFORD 



Box 62 



CALEDON EAST, ONTARIO 



Hovr Eastern Fruit Men May Retain a 

 Market in the West 



R. B. Ireland, 



Fruit growers East and West are both 

 competitijf for a place on the markets of 

 Western Canada ; and in this case the 

 wise men do mot come from the East. The 

 Westerners — the fruit growers of British 

 Columbia, Oreg-on, and W'ashington — are 

 taking first place and rapidly ousting the 

 Ontario producer. If Ontario producers 

 wish to retain the Westenn fruit trade it 

 will be necessary for them to observe some 

 of the following points, which from my 

 experience in the fruit trade of the West, 

 1 judge would enable them to meet the 

 consumers' demand. 



For small fruits a box of a pint to a 

 pint amd a half with 18 boxes to the crate 

 and the crates of heavier material than 

 the present 24-box crate now used is ad- 

 visable. This applies to boxes for straw- 

 berries, raspberries, and all the more juicy 

 fruits, as the present imperial quart box 

 is too deep for long shipment, the lower 

 berries being weighed down by those 

 above. In the shallower box the berries 

 would be only two to three layers deep and 

 would keep better. If a slat box crate 

 with ends from mine-sixteenths to three- 

 quarters of an inch in thickness were used, 

 the crates could then be piled in a car and 

 would mot be damaged by handling or the 

 rolling of the car. Im a crate containing 

 18 boxes there would be sufficient ventila- 

 tion to prevent the fruit moulding. 



PACKING TENDER FRTJIT 



Such fruit as peaches, pears, plums, to- 

 matoes, amd early apples should be packed 

 in a small box about eight to nine inches 



Saskatoon, Sask. 



square and four to the crate ; or eight to 

 the crate if there is a bottom placed under 

 the top layer to keep them from the under 

 boxes by an inch or so. The boxes should 

 be deep enough to contain mot more than 

 two layers of paper wrapped fruit of all the 

 soft varieties as the fruit, coming in con- 

 tact and rubbing by the vibratiom while in 

 transit, begins to decay and therefore 

 lowers the profit of handling and also the 

 desire to order any more from the same 

 source. 



Ontario fruit men must adopt a stan- 

 dard box of about 60 to 70 poumds for the 

 apples and hardier pears. For several rea- 

 sons the box is preferable. The barrels 

 now in use are unsatisfactory. They are 

 too heavy for one person to handle and 

 have to be rolled or dropped to places re- 

 quired. Many people prefer to buy two 

 or three kinds of apples or ome or two 

 boxes of apples and one box of pears ; or 

 they may be driving many miles into the 

 country with a buggy in which a box of 

 pears or apples is all they can accommo- 

 date. And still another amd all too fre- 

 quent a reason why the box is preferred, 

 is that many have omly $2 or $2.50 which 

 they feel they can spare to buy apples. 

 .Ml these are valid reasons for the pro- 

 ducer complying with the requirements of 

 the customer. 



TO DISCOITRAGE DISHONESTY 



.^s regards grading of fruit amd honesty 

 in packing, I believe that a law requiring 

 the packer to place his mame on each outer 

 crate in type plain enough to be read dis- 



Surplus Stock 



We offer subject to sale the following stock, which 



we guarantee to be true to name, No. i. stock in 



every respect, 5-7 ft. high. Price F.O.B. Pointe 



Claire, $27 per 100. 



200 Alexander 

 200 Baldwin 



200 Baxter 



500 Ben Davis 

 500 Duchess 

 500 Pameuse 

 600 Starke 

 600 Spy 



500 Wealthy 

 200 Yellow Transparent 



Also complete list of Ornamental Shrubs and Trees 

 of all kinds. 



The CANADIAN NURSERY CO., Ltd. 



10 PHILLIPS PLACE 



MONTREAL, P. Q. 



For the Land's Sake 



Use the best Manure 

 and get 



Good Crops 



For Nurseries, Fruit Growers 

 and Gardeners. 



Sure Growth Compost 



Makes poor land fertile and keeps fertile 

 land most productive. 



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