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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



May, 1913 



The Canadian Horticulturist . «''*"«"«' «"'»moNs 



rOMnraivI) WITH 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 

 AND BEEKEEPER 



Published br Tb« Horticu tural 



Publiahinc Company, Limited 



PKTKRBOKO, OITT^RIO 



The Only Magazines in Their Field in the 

 Dominion 



OrrioiAL Oroahh or the Ontario and Qubbbo 

 Fruit GROwERa' Assooi ai ions 

 AND OK Tiip-. Ontakio Kkkkkki'ers Association 



■. BnONtON OowAif, ManaylnK Diraotor 



OHIOAGO KEPRESENTATIVE : 

 W. H. Stockwell, 629 People's Gae Building. 



1. The Canadian Horticulturist is published in 

 two editions on the 25th day of the month pre- 

 ceding date date of issue. The first edition Is 

 known as The Canadian Horticulturist. It is de- 

 voted exoIusiveI.v to the horticultural intereeta 

 of Canada. The seoomd edition is known as The 

 Canadian' Horticulturist and Beekeeper. In this 

 edition several pages of matter appearing in the 

 first issue are replaced by an equal number of 

 pages of matter relating to the bee keeping in- 

 teresta of Canada. 



2. Subscription price of The Canadian Horti- 

 culturist in Canada and Great Britain^ 60 cents 

 a year; two years, $1.00, and of The Canadian 

 Horticulturist and Beekeper, $1.00 a year. iFor 

 United Slates and local subscriptions In Peter- 

 boro (not called for at the Post Office), 25 cents 

 extra a year, including x>oetage. 



3. Remittances should be made by Post Office 

 or Express Money Order, or Registered Letter. 



4. The Law is that subscribers to newspapers 

 are held responsible until all ajrearages are 

 paid and their paper ordered to be discontinued. 



5. Change of Address— When a. change of ad- 

 dress is ordered, both the old and the new ad- 

 dresses must be given. 



6. Advertising rates, $1.25 on inch. Copy re- 

 ceived up to the 20th. Address all advertising 

 correspondence and copy to our Advertising 

 Manager, Peterboro, Out. 



CIRCULATION STATEMENT 

 The following is a sworn statement of the net 

 paid circulation of The Canadian Horticulturist 

 for the year ending with December, 1912. The 

 figures given are exclusive of samples and sipoiled 

 copies. Most months. Including the sample cop- 

 ies, from 12,000 to 14,000 copies of The Canadian 

 Horticulturist are mailed to people known to 

 be interested in the growing of fruits, flowers 

 or vegetables. 



January, 1912 9,988 August, 1912 ]il,W8 



February, 1912. .. .10,437 September, 1912... 10,997 



Mlarehv 1912 101,877 October, miS. 10,971 



April, 1912 11,788 November], 1912. . .11,162 



May, 1912 12J12 December, 19121... liUDM 



June, 1912 10,946 



July, 1912 10,986 132,556 



Average each issue In 1907, 6,627 

 " " " " 19«8, 8,695 



'• " " " 1909, 8,970 



" " " I91«. 9,067 

 " •' " " 1911, 9,541 



" " " " 1912, 11,057 



April, 1913 IO,849 



Sworn detailed stateiments will be mailed 

 ua>on application. 



OUR GUARANTEE 

 We guarantee that every advertiser In this issue 

 is reliable. We are able to do this because the 

 advertising columns of The Canadian Horticul- 

 turist are as carefully edited as the reading 

 oolumus, and because to protect our readers we 

 turn away all unscrujiulous advertisers. Should 

 any advertiser herein deal dishonestly with aJiy 

 subscriber, we will make good the amount of 

 .your loss, provided such transaction occurs with- 

 in one month from date of this issue, that it is 

 reported to us within a week of its occurrence, 

 and that we find the facts to be as stated. It 

 is a condition of this contract that in writing to 

 advertisers you state : "I saw your advertieememt 

 in The Canadian Horticulturist." 



Rogues shall not ply their trade at the eipense 

 of our subscribers, who are our friends, through 

 the medium of these columns; but we shall not 

 attempt to adjust trifling disputes between sub- 

 scribers and honourable business men who ad- 

 vertise, nor pay the debts of honest bankrupts. 



OommunicationB should be addressed 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST, 



PETBEBORO, ONT. 



Until recent years our agricultural col- 

 leges, experiment stations, departments of 

 agriculture, and government organizations 

 of farmers, fruit growers, vegetable grow- 

 ers, and allied interests have devoted their 

 attention almost exclusively to gaining and 

 disseminating information relating to the 

 best methods of increasing crop produc- 

 tion. There has been a general impression 

 that the best method of ensuring prosperity 

 for the farmer or fruit grower was to as- 

 sist him in increasing his yearly produc- 

 tion. Of late years this viewpoint has 

 undergone a number of radical changes. 



The rapid development of the great cit- 

 ies both in Canada and the United States, 

 and the bringing under cultivation in the 

 west of immense areas of virgin soil have 

 so complicated the modern system of mar- 

 keting the products of the farm and or- 

 chard, ajnd have resulted in the appearance 

 of so many middlemen in one form or ano- 

 ther, it is now becoming clearly recognized 

 that increased pioductiom will not necesar- 

 ily benefit the producer unless methods of 

 marketing are also improved. It has so 

 frequently happened that fruit growers, 

 shipping on consignment, have had no- 

 thing left for themselves after paying the 

 transportation charges on their fruit and 

 the commissions of the middlemen that 

 there has been a growing demand for a 

 closer regulation, and adjustment of rail- 

 road rates, and for the introduction of co- 

 operative methods of marketing among 

 growers . 



In the United States conditions have be- 

 come acute. They led to the holding last 

 month in Chicago of the first "National 

 Conference on Marketing and Farm Cre- 

 dits." It was called by the publishers of 

 the leading agricultural and horticultural 

 publications of the continent. No less 

 than four provinces and twenty-eight states 

 were represented by delegates. Not much 

 was accomplished at this first conference 

 beyond the formation of an organization, 

 whosfe duty it will be to conduct investiga- 

 tions to ascertain methods of improving 

 existing systems of marketing the pro- 

 ducts of the farm and orchard. This con- 

 ference has drawn attention to the import- 

 ance of the problem involved and more 

 rapid improvement in our methods of dis- 

 tribution may be expected from now on. 

 The middlemen and great transportation 

 companies are on the defensive, and they 

 will be wise if they prepare for increasimgly 

 thorough and searching public investiga- 

 tions of their methods. 



PARCELS POST 



The phenomenal success of the parcels 

 post system in the United States since its 

 introduction on the first of the year and 

 the announcement by Canada's Postmaster- 

 General that the Dominion Government 

 purposes introducing a parcels post sys- 

 tem in Canada raises the question of what 

 system is likely to be adopted. Ln the 

 United States what is known ais the Zone 

 system is in force. The cost of shipping 

 parcels is determined by the number of 

 miles they are carried. This system seems 

 fair, but it gives a decided advantage to 

 firms doing business near the centre of 

 the country. In the United States, for in- 

 stance, firms located in the Mississippi 

 Valley are able to forward parcels to either 

 the Atlantic or Pacific Coast states at 

 about half the cost incurred by firms locat- 

 ed in these latter states who find it neces- 

 sary to ship goods across the continent. 



A consideration of this character is sure 

 to be of sufficient importance with many 

 concerns to be the determining factor in 

 inducing them to locate at points where 

 they can obtain the full advantage of such 

 conditions. In Canada there is no extra 

 cost entailed in sending a letter three 

 thousand miles as compared with much 

 shorter distances, and strenuous objection 

 would be raised to the making of any 

 change in this system. It is to be hoped, 

 therefore, that the Government will en- 

 deavor to follow the same principle in con- 

 nection with the proposed parcels post 

 system. 



RAILWAY RATES 



To the old saying that "Figures cannot 

 lie" there has been made the apt rejoinder, 

 "No, but liars can figure." The defence 

 of the railroad companies to the charges 

 made by Mr. Donald Johnson, representing 

 the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association, 

 in his evidence before the members of the 

 Agricultural Committee of the Dominion 

 House of Commons, in which he claimed 

 that Ontario fruit growers were discrimin- 

 ated against by railroad companies as re- 

 gards the cost of transporting fruit to the 

 markets of the middle West, appeared on 

 the surface to be strong. The investiga- 

 tions, however, of Mr. G. E. Mcintosh, 

 the transportation agent of the Ontario 

 Fruit Growers' Association, proved that 

 Mr. Johnson's charges were well founded. 



While the charges between Ontario 

 points and Winnipeg are fair to the On- 

 tario grower there is discrimination in the 

 rates charged the western grower between 

 Winnipeg and points farther west. Since 

 the appointment of the Dominion Railway 

 Commission Canadian fruit growers have 

 succeeded in wringing many important 

 concessions from the railroad companies. 

 The pressing of the points now at issue be- 

 tween Ontario growers and the transpor- 

 tation companies should be all that is ne- 

 cessary to secure a further adjustment in 

 rates that will be of benefit to the growers. 

 Ontario growers are not asking that they 

 shall be given any better rates than the 

 growers of the Pacific Coast, but they re- 

 quest and will insist on obtaining rates 

 that will be equally advantageous. 



THE UNITED STATES TARIFF 



The Democratic tariff bill that has re- 

 ceived the approval of President Wilson and 

 the leaders of the Democratic Party, and 

 which is now receiving the attention of 

 Congress has mot gone so far as to place 

 Canadian fruit on the free list, but has 

 made some important reductions which 

 will tend, should they be finally ratified, to 

 result in the marketing of more Canadian 

 fruit in the United States that has hither- 

 to been the case. The reduction in the 

 duty on apples from twenty-five cents to 

 ten cents a bushel will be equal to a re- 

 duction from seventy-five cents to thirty 

 cents a barrel. This will be sufficient to 

 enable thousands of barrels of Canadian 

 apples to find a market in the States. 



The proposed drop in the duty on fresh 

 vegetables from twenty-five i>er cent, to 

 fifteen per cent, will he of most benefit 

 to growers living near border points. 

 Should potatoes be placed on the free list, 

 as is now proposed, it will mean much to 

 Canadian potato growers, particularly 

 those in the Maritime provinces. On the 

 whole the horticultural interests of Can- 



