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BAKING 

 POWDEB 



POR THE PROTECTION OF THE CON- 

 • SUMER THE INGREDIENTS ARE 

 PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE LABEL. IT 

 IS THE ONLY WELL-KNOWN MEDIUM- 

 PRICED BAKING POWDER MADE IN 

 CANADA THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN 

 ALUM AND WHICH HAS ALL THE 

 INGREDIENTS PLAINLY STATED ON 

 THE LABEL. 



MAGIC BAKING POWDER 



CONTAINS NO ALUM 



ALUM IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS SUL- 

 PHATE OF ALUMINA OR SODIC ALUMINIC 

 SULPHATE. THE PUBLIC SHOULD NOT BE 

 MISLED BY THESE TECHNICAL NAMES. 



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E. W. GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED 



WINNIPEG TORONTO. ONT. MONTREAL 



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Hitch Your Sleeping Schedule 

 to Big Ben 



Big Ben will wake you early enough 

 for profitable bef ore-breakfast action. 

 His gentle get-up call starts the day 

 with '^Jlying start on thousands of 

 farms. 



For your accommodation he rings 

 TWO WAYS. HeMI get you up by 

 degrees or in a hurry. Set him either 

 way you wish — to give one long five- 

 minute ring, or ten short rings at 

 one-half-minute intervals, until you're 

 wide awake. 



He stands 7 inches tall; is triple-ntckc] plated 

 over a tested implement steel coat, the handsomest 

 and truest tborciusbbred in the clock world. He 

 has bif, bold numerals and hands that show the 

 time plainly at a gEance. large keys that anyone can 

 wind easily, and such a pleasant tone that you arc 

 flad tc get up when he calls. 



Bi? Ben makes early risine easy. He's the 

 leader of the early morning brigade. His cheerful 



"good morning" ring calls millions of live wires to 

 action. Thousands of successful farms arc run on 

 a Big Ben schedule. He starts you off right in_ the 

 morning and keeps you right all day. From "Sun 

 up" to "Liglils out" be regulates your day. He'll 

 work for 36 hours at a stretch and overtime, if 

 necessary. The only pay be asks is one drop of 

 oil a year. 



He is sturdy and strong — built to last a lifetime. 

 Yet under bis dust-proof steel coat is the most deli- 

 cate "works." That's' why his on-lhc-dot accuracy 

 has won bim fame. 



Big Ben's wonderful sales are due to bis having 

 "made good." His biggest bit has been with fdlks 

 with the "make good" habit. He stands for suc- 

 cess — that's why you'll like him for a friend. 



When 3 million families find Big Ben a good 

 clock to buy and 20.000 dealers prttv* he's a good 

 clock to sell, it's evidence that he is worth S4.00 of 

 your money. Suppose you tradeH.OO for bim today. 



A community of clockmaker* stands back of him. 

 Their imprint. Made in La SalU. Ul'mois, h l^fst- 

 clox, ia the best alarm-clock insuraiKe yon can buy. 



Fruit Season at Montreal, 1913 



E. H. Wartnun, Dominion Frnil Intpector 



Commencing the last of April with North 

 Carolina strawberries, and followed by Bal- 

 titnor.; and Delaware, quite a trade was 

 done of a very satisfactory nature to buy- 

 ers. The fruit generally landed in good 

 condition in imperial quart boxes. Our own 

 strawberries followed about June 12th, when 

 American ceased. Our own crop being 

 light good prices ruled all the season. 



Raspberries being short long prices pre 

 vailed. Compiaints were few as to over- 

 facing crates. .\ few complaints were 

 heard in reference to slack filled boxes, but 

 these grumblers were told by inspector 

 they were easily examined in this respect, 

 and they should pay according to amount 

 of fruits received. 



Following closely came plums, peachc- 

 and pears. At times these were in larg' 

 quantities and of ungraded poor quaJit> 

 which brought low prices, but good larg 

 graded fruits of these kinds brought good 

 prices all season. 



Th;- breakage in six and eleven quart 

 baskets that were in car lots was large, du- 

 partly on account of poor material in has 

 kets and loading too deep when the whole 

 car was in one compartment. To avoid this 

 three compartments by stanchions and not 

 over seven feet high may be the remedy. 



Our apples as a whole were poor. This 

 is verified by the large percentages of num- 

 ber twos and number threes. Some partici: 

 larly fine lots went forward from favorer 

 places where conditions were good. Ther 

 were 209,025 barrels of apples exported fron 

 Montreal, against 300,000 barrels last sea- 

 son, and the record for the port is over 

 700,000 barrels. Some of the conditions on 

 arrival at this port were anything but sat- 

 isfactory but I am glad to announce condi- 

 tions were generally good in eight hoop 

 barrels well coopered and dry. I examined 

 two tars that arrived in a soaked through 

 and through condition. The fruit was 

 good. The effect of too much moisture is 

 very damaging to both fruit and barrels. 

 The wood so softened, heads and staves 

 warp, nails do not hold, linens slip out, 

 causing in one case ten barrels to break 

 open befoi e reaching the steamer, and many 

 more would break open when lowered for pil- 

 ing in the hold. We have to draw on our 

 imagination as to where this excessive wet- 

 ting came from. The car seemed quite 

 water proof. Likely they were piled in 

 the orchard or at the station or on the dock 

 unprotected. There must have been care- 

 lessness somewhere which would be a great 

 loss to the shipper. The shipments of 

 pears were the largest on record in boxes 

 and barrels. The varieties were Anjou, 

 Keiffer, Duchess and Bartlett. 



One steamer left fo- London with six car 

 of fruit. Of these only twenty-four barrel 

 were of apples, the rest being pears. In re 

 ference to our Elberta and Crawford peaches 

 that went forward the system of packing 

 and quality of f-niit was excellent, amd no 

 doubt would meet with good results. The 

 inspectors at this port were obliged to 

 brand several lots marked number one that 

 lacked in grading and quality. These lots 

 were no credit to the packers. The grad- 

 ing and packing generally speaking was 

 never better. This should increase our 

 trade wherever they are sent and bring 

 credit to our country. 



A large association can take more effec- 

 tive measures for ensuring a first class pack 

 than a small association, and thus the stan- 

 dard of quality will be raised. 



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