THE CANADIAN HOR TTC T' T/n R T ST 



February, 1914 





Market Gardeners 

 Make Big Profits 

 from Small Acreage 

 by Modem Cultivation 

 smd Spraying 



If a business doesn't pay there's a reason, 

 and the same may be said of a farm. Many 

 10 acre market gardens are producing 

 greater profits than 150 acre farms simply because modern culti- 

 vation and spraying are applied on the former and disregarded on 

 the latter. Adopt the spraying policy but, in doing so, seleci 



Sherwin-Williams 



NEW PROCESS ARSENATE OF LEAD 



to effectively exterminate all leaf-eating insect pests. 



This spraying material is used exclusivelv by many of the largest growers and 

 societies in the fruit growing districts of the country. These people are busi- 

 ness mem as well as fruit growers, and they prefer to use Sherwin-Williams 

 New Process .'Xrsenate of Lead because they find it pays them better. 

 It is very fine and fluffy in character, so remains well in suspension, making 

 a spray, uniform and efficient in poisoning capacity, that covers the largest 

 amount of foliage. S-W New Process Arsenate of Lead, is absolutely safe — it 

 cannot burn the foliage or russet the fruit, because all the .Arsenic acid is 

 thoroughly combined with the Lead. This arsenate can be used with Bordeaux 

 Mixture or Lime Sulphur. 



S-W NEW DRY 

 ARSENATE OF LEAD 



has all the requisite qualities of a 

 good paste lead and the advantage of 

 being in dry powder form for dusting 

 on garden truck. It mixes readily 

 with water or spraying mixtures and 

 is somewhat lighter in gravity than 

 the paste lead. One pound of the dry 

 lead wiU do the work as effectively 

 as two pounds of paste lead. This 

 enables you to make a saving of prac- 

 tically half your freight bill. 

 Write for full particulars and prices. 



The Sherwin-Williams Co. 



of Canada, Limited 



MANUFACTURERS OF INSECTICIDES 



Offices and Warehouses ; 



Montreal. Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver, 



Halifax, N. S., London, Eng. 



ind red currants, cherries and gooseberries, 

 making a total of four hundred and twentr- 

 three thousand three hundred and twenty 

 packages, or very nearly one-third of the 

 total shipments from the comoamies' shii 

 pers. If Ontario is not holding her ow; 

 then all I have to say is that this compai 

 is steadily shipping more each year. Thi 

 have been selling to the same firms year 

 after year, and at the end of each season 

 very flattering letters are received from pur- 

 chasers of these cars in the west. 



While T say that the west presents a 

 great opening for Ontario fruit, and while 

 our company has made a great success in 

 supplying a portion of their wants, it has 

 only been accomplished after years of pat- 

 ient watching, studying and learning all 

 the ins and outs of the business. This has 

 cost, time, money and hard work, and I do 

 not wonder, nor am I surprised when I 

 hear or read of the many who think all 

 they have to do is to have a car of any kind 

 of fruit brought in and packed, without any 

 experience, in a car and sent west; of 

 course it is only by the merest chance that 

 such shipments turn out well. 



The only way that shipments to the west 

 can be successful is for a mumber of grow- 

 ers to arrange to plant the varieties that 

 will carry well, to agree in the early part 

 of the season that they will pick their fruit 

 at the proper stage of ripeness, furnish a 

 stated regular supply, have it properly 

 packed, placed in good cars promptly that 

 have been well cooled and see that these 

 cars are loaded so that the fruit will carry 

 safely. Tf this is done then all of the Ni- 

 agara District will not furnish too much 

 fruit. The railways will then give us regu- 

 lar or special fruit trains making the trip as 

 far as Winnipeg in from three to four days, 

 and more rapid and cheaper transportation 

 to more western cities and towns. 



The citizens of Ontario could have 

 peaches, plums, pears, and so forth, landed 

 :>t a cost of from three to five cents a bas- 

 ket for freight charges — the quantity con- 

 sumed would be so much greater that the 

 merchant could handle the fruit at a small- 

 er cost per package, and he would not suf- 

 fer any loss by delay in sales, nor from the 

 pilfering that takes place when shipped by 

 express. 



If we had a good fast freight service it 

 would mean a revival of the fruit business, 

 and we older men would be besieging the 

 nursery men for mpre trees to supply our 

 Canadian markets. 



An exhibit which attracted favorable at- 

 tention at the recent Ontario Horticultural 

 Exhibition comprised ten plates of fine ap- 

 ples grown by D. W. Wright, of Cashmere, 

 State of Washington, U.S. .A. They were 

 not entered for competion. The object of 

 the exhibit was to show the effect of extra 

 care and plenty of water in the production 

 of large high colored apples. This exhibit 

 was all the more interesting in view of the 

 well known reputation of apples grown in 

 the State of Washington. The exhibit bore 

 out the high reputation of this fruit. One 

 Northern Spy apple weighed twenty-six 

 ounces. Other varieties included Stay- 

 man's Winesap, Winesap, Missouri, Gano, 

 Delicious, Winter White Pearmain, Winter 

 Banana, Ortley (White Bellflower), .Arkan- 

 sas Black. 



1 think it is very important that we 

 should have one size in the Dominion for 

 apple barrels and that this should be fixed 

 by law. — Prof. Saxby Blair, Kings Co., 

 N. S. 



