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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



April, 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 Ont&rio, MR. A. E. WARK, \ifanstead 

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



Sales Agents Paid 



Last year the Wentworth (Ont.) Fruit 

 Growers' Association sent its manager. 

 Lome H. Carey, to the western provii 

 to market its crop of fourteen thous. 

 barrels of apples. It cost the Association 

 one thousain<l dollars and the results ob- 

 tained are believed to have been satis' 

 tory, as not only were good prices ■ 

 taincd last year, but already orders h 

 been received for about eight thou;-, 

 barrels of this year's crop. 



The prices received amounted to about 

 three dollars for Number One Spys, B;' 

 wins, Russets, and Kings, with two dol 



A Special Offer 



The Canadian Horticulturist has 

 completed arrangements with The 

 Fruit Grower and Farmer, published 

 at St. Joseph, Mo., by which we are 

 enabled to offer a year's subscrip- 

 tion to that publication and The Can- 

 adian Horticulturist for only $1.15. 

 The reglular subscription price of 

 The Fruit Grower and Farmer is 

 $1 a year, plus twenty-five cents for 

 extra postage charges. Thus the 

 regular rate of The Fruit Grower 

 and Farmer and The Canadian Hor- 

 ticulturist would be $1.85. 



The Fruit Grower and Farmer is 

 one of the leading fruit magazines 

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 All remittances should be sent di- 

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 Peterboro, Ontario. Remember ! 

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fifty cents for Number Twos. Fall apples 

 brought low returns. Shipments on con- 

 signment to Great Britain were not satis- 

 factory. Baldwins were the leading variety 

 exported and the returns were low. Mr. 

 Carey, the manager, is inclined to believe 

 that there was an "understanding" be- 

 tween the commission men in the Old 

 Country, for there was a variance of nnlv 

 two cents in the returns from different fruit 

 firms. These prices included about one 

 dollar each for expenses of barrel and 

 handling, so that the grower got some- 

 where around two dollars net for his appli 



Imperial Bank 



E.i.bu.hed OF CANADA 1875 



HEAD OFFICE TORO^^•0 

 Capital Paid-up. . 6.770.000.00 

 Reserve Fund . 6.770,000.00 

 Total Asset* . 72,000,000.00 



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 HON. R. JAFFRAY, Vice-Pruid.nt 



th* Dominion of Oanadm 

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