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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



April, 1913 





Your Soil Is Alive 



To all intents and purposes, soil is alive. It 

 breathes, works, rests; it drinks, and, most important 

 of all, it feeds. It responds to good or bad treatment. 

 It pays its debts, and pays with interest many times com.pounded. 

 Being alive, to work it must be fed. During the non-growing seasons 

 certain chemical changes take place which make the fertility in the 

 soil available for the next season's crop. But this process adds no 

 plant food to the soil. Unless plant food is added to soil on which 

 crops are grown, unless the soil is fed, in time it starves. There is one 

 best way to feed your soil. Stable manure, which contains all the 

 essentials of plant life, should be spread evenly and in the proper 

 quantity with an 



I H C Manure Spreader 



I H C manure spreaders — Corn King or Cloverleaf — are made in 

 all styles and sizes. Sizes run from small, narrow machines for 

 orchard and vineyard spreading, to machines of capacity for large 

 farms. The rear axle is placed well under the box, where it carries 

 over 70 per cent of the load, insuring plenty of tractive power at all 

 times. Beaters are of large diameter to prevent winding. The teeth 

 that cut and pulverize the manure are square and chisel pointed. The 

 apron drive controls the load, insuring even spreading whether the 

 machine is working up or down hill, or on the level. I H C spreaders 

 have a rear axle differential, enabling them to spread evenly when 

 turning corners. 



The I H C local agent will show you all their good points, and 

 will help you decide on the one that will do your work best. Get 

 literature and full information from him, or, write the nearest 

 branch houso. 



International Harvester Company of Canada, Ltd 



BRANCH HOUSES 



At Brandon. Calvary, Edmonton, Estevan, Hamilton, Lethbridge, London, Montreal, 

 N. Battleford, Ottawa, Quebec, Regina, Saskatoon, St. John, Winnipeg, YorktoD 



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Strawberry Plants 



Aft«r more than twenty years' experience in 

 growing strawberries, I have found the Wil- 

 liamB and Parson's Beauty the meet product- 

 iye and the beat for the market. 1 am pre- 

 pared to offer for early spring delivery, 

 600,000 plants of last year's growth of these 

 two varieties. Also 250.000 plants of the follow- 

 ing splendid kinds: 



FOUNTAIN 



WOLVERTON 



MICHEL'S EARLY 



SENATOR DUNLAP 



LATE GIANT 



Price for any of these varieties, $5.00 per 

 1,000, or 75c per 100. 



I have the beet varietii>s of Red and Black 

 Raspberries at $10 per 1,000; $1.50 per 100. 



IF INTERESTED WHITE ME 



WILLIAM WALKER, Box 15, Port Burwcll. Ont. 



OLD FASHIONED FLOWERS 



For the Garden 



Send for List of 



WESTLAND'S HARDY PLANTS 



PAEONIES, PHLOX, IRIS, Etc., 



In many Beautiful and 

 New Varieties. 



BOSES, LILACS, SYRINGAS, 

 MAGNOLIAS, Etc. 



MALCOLM WESTLAND 



TANBLING CORNER. 



LONDON. ONT. 



Marketing B. C. Fruit 



(Conlinued fmm jxkjk 103) 

 aind its enforcement, British Columbia 

 growers are discriminated against in 

 favour of their foreig-n competitors. 



Twelfth. Canning, preservi-ng, and other- 

 wise preparing- fruit and vegetables, are 

 as yet developed to a very limited extent 

 in this provinte. In California twenty- 

 eight million dollars' worth of fruit by- 

 products are produced amnually. 



The foregoing are among the primcipal 

 conditioms which depressed prices last 

 year. The fruit growers of the province 

 expect you to deal with the situation, and 

 recommend and follow up means of secur- 

 ing our markets. 



FUTURE PROSPECTS 



It seems pertinent for us to consider 

 what will in all likelihood be the situatiom 

 in future years. There is a general as- 

 sumption that in 191.3 apple and other fruit 

 crops will be larger than in 1912. 



People point to the increased acreage and 

 the growth of the trees for proof. Thev 

 forget the law of action and reaction which 

 is always at work. The British Columbia 

 fruit industry has always been specially 

 subject to it. There was the large crop 

 of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight fol- 

 lowed by a small one in nineteen hundred 

 and nine; a big crop in nineteen hundred 

 and ten, with a small crop in nineteen hun- 

 dred and eleven, and a bumper crop in 

 ninteem hundred and twelve. The Okana- 

 gan shipped five hundred car loads of 

 apples last year. In nineteen hundred and 

 thirteen under nromal conditions the cron 

 will likely be less. Other districts and ■ 

 other crops under normal conditions will 

 likely be the same. This is equally true of 

 the countrv as a whole. 



Practically all fruit districts had good 

 crops last year. Many places will have a 

 normal or average crop. The north-west- 

 ern States are not likely to have more 

 than fifteen thousand cars of apples. lo 

 nineteen hundred and nine they had six 

 thousand ; in nineteen hundred and ten. 

 fifteen thousand ; in nineteen eleven, nine 

 thousand ; in nineteen hundred and twelve, 

 twenty thousand cars are estimated. 



Plums and prunes are almost certain to 

 be a light crop in the north-westem_ States 

 next year; there is, generally speaking, no 

 ereat need for concern about nineteen 

 thirteen prices. Our present organizations 

 will, however, require extension of staff 

 and finances, to be effective. 



KORMAL PRICES PREDICTED 



Nineteen hundred and thirteen will be a 

 year of at least normal prices. In meeting 

 the situation generally, we may expect a 

 margin of some eighteen months to make 

 plans for our next difficult season. 



The acreage in the north-western States 

 promises in the near future some real 

 competition. Figures collected over this 

 territory show that in Oregon, Washing- 

 ton, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia 

 there are some three hundred and twenty 

 thousand acres of what promises to be 

 fairly successful orchards, of which over 

 ninety per cent, are in apples. Of this 

 figure under thirty thousand acres are in 

 British Columbia. It is true, of course, 

 that it is generally accepted that onlv 

 twenty-five f>er cent, of apples planted 

 will arrive at commercial bearing. .\t the 

 present time only eig^t per cent, of the 

 entire amount is in bearing, producinc 

 about twenty-five thousand car loads last 

 year. 



In nineteen fourteen we mav expect be- 

 tween fortv and forty-five thousand car 

 loads of ruit in this territorv', and the crop 



