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THE CANADIAN Jl OHTl (' I l/F U III ST 



December, 1913 



Mr. Orchardman, Use 

 This Coupon— NOW! 



A decision now as to the proper methods of cultivating and fertiliz- 

 ing your orchard, will meapn dollars and cents to YOU next season. 



NOW — after harvest — is the best time to apply fertilizers, viz. : 

 POTASH and Phosphoric Acid. This because the plant food in these 

 materials by the action of Winter cold and Spring thaws, will make the 

 plant food completely available by the time the sap flows in the spring. 



You need have mo fear of loss by leaching. 



In the world-famed Annapolis Valley, the customary practice is to 

 apply 600 lbs. Bone Meal (furnishing the Phosphoric Acid and Nitro- 

 gen), and 300 lbs. Muriate of POTASH per acre, in the fall. If you 

 can't get Bone Meal, apply 400 to 600 lbs. per acre of Acid Phosphate 

 or Basic Slag. The Nitrogen is supplied by plowing uinder clover or 

 leguminous plants, or by applying Nitrate of Soda in the Spring. 



If you prefer a factory-mixed fertilizer, be sure and get one con- 

 taining at least 10 per cent, of POTASH. 



The present high price for apples should impress you with the im- 

 portance of improving the quality and increasing your crop. It is the 

 best quality of fruit that demands the best prices. 



If you want to learn more about cultivating and fertilizing orchards, 

 our Scientific Bureau will be glad to advise you fully. This Bureau is 

 composed of the very best Agricultural Experts in Canada. This ad- 

 vice is scientifically and agriculturally correct, and it is good. 



The attached coupon makes it convenient for you to send for our 

 "ORCHARD AND GARDEN" booklet. If you will let us know your 

 soil condition, our Scientfic Bureau will tell you, without charge, how 

 best to cultivate your own particular orchard. 



German Kali Works, Inc. 



TEMPLE BUILDING - TORONTO 



dred boxes. This exhibit was sold to th' 

 Robt. Simpson Co., of Toronto, for two 

 dollars fifty cents a box. Halton county 

 also had a three-hundred-box exhibit of 

 Baldwins, but the quality of their fruit and 

 their packing fell a little behind the North- 

 umberland and Durham exhibit, but not 

 much. 



A two hundred and twenty-five-box lo' 

 of Mcintosh came in for much attention 

 In some ways this was the most attractiv 

 exhibit of boxed apples at 'the fair. Th; 

 attractiveness, however, was due to tin 

 variety. For quality of fruit and correct 

 ness of pack the exhibit had to take second 

 place to a one hundred-box lot of Baldwins 

 packed by the Northumberland and Uur 

 ham Fruit Growers' Association. Mr. k 

 C. Ferguson, of Grey Co., had a third lu 

 of one hundred bo3ces on which he secured 

 third place. Another coveted award that 

 fell to the growers of Northumberland and 

 Durham was that for the best box of any 

 variety in the building, they winning on a 

 box of Spies. 



DEMONSTR.VTION ORCHARDS 



An exhibit of particular educational value 

 also came from the united counties. This 

 was a showing of boxed apples of many 

 varieties grown in the demonstration or- 

 chards in charge of the local department 

 of Agriculture. These apples were of 



splendid quality from the standpoint of 

 size, color, and freedom from blemishes. 

 Until three years ago the orchards on 

 which they were grown were neglected, pro- 

 ducing small crops of fruit and packing as 

 low as thirty per cent, of number ones. 

 The transformation has been effected by 

 proper pruning and spraying, fertilization, 

 and cultivation. 



SOME DEFECTIVE PACKING 



In single box entries there was much 

 evidence that education is stiU noeded in 

 packing. In Spies, for instance, the best 

 apples exhibited had to go down to last 

 place because the box was only two-thirds 

 full. The same exhibitor made the same 

 mistake in other classes. The most com- 

 mon defect noticed was that the boxes lack- 

 ed bilge. Fruit so packed does not carry 

 well, and when exposed does not present 

 so attractive an appearance as where the 

 fruit springs up nicely. Prominent among 

 the exhibitors of single boxes were the 

 Northumberland and Durham Fruit Grow- 

 ers' .Association ; W. L. Hamilton, CoUing- 

 wood ; R. C. Ferguson, Thornbury; Oak- 

 ville Fruit Growers' .Association, Henry C. 

 Bohn, Orono; W. H. Bunting, St. Cath- 

 arines ; P. C. Lempsey, Trenton ; Brant 

 Fruit Growers' Association ; and several 

 others, too numerous to mention. 



Barrels once the feature of the apple 

 show, now form a comparatively unimpor- 

 tant part of the apple exhibit, their num- 

 ber at the recent show not reaching half 

 a hundred. All standard varieties, how- 

 ever, were well represented in the barrel 

 packs, the same exhibitors being prominent 

 as were successful in the box classes. 



PLATE EXHIBIT 



Plate exhibits were as numerous as in 

 any previous year. Many growers who 

 surrounded the table during the time of 

 judging found it difficult to follow the 

 judge in his awards. In many cases, large, 

 well grown specimens, perfectly free from 

 blemishes and of the proper shape for the 

 variety, had to take second place to the 

 smaller apples, the reason givein being that 

 large apples are not wanted on the mar- 

 ket. "We are advised to fertilize, cultivate, 

 prune, and spray, to say nothing about 

 thinning, in order that we may grow the 

 best quality of fruit," one grower was 



