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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



March, i«)ii. 



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For many crops all the availaUk plant food 

 that is needed is one grain to each pound of soil. 



When such a small quantity of food must do 

 all the work for your crop, it is exceedingly 

 important that what you put into the soil in the 

 form of fertilizer shall be avai/ak/e^that it shall 

 have not only the right quantity, but the right 

 quality and right crop value. 



It has cost us forty years of experience to 

 know how to mix the right kinds and the right 

 quantities of ingredients for fertilizer. 



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accomplish also the more difficult task of getting the right 

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 which will remain dry an^l drillable as well as efficient 

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British Columbia 



Secretary W. J. Bonavia, of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, reports that the work 

 of the Interior Fruit Pests Inspector, who 

 has had a total staff of sixteen men under 

 his direction was greatly increased last 

 year by the outbreak of fire blight in the 

 Okanagan and Boundary districts. This 

 disease, which is so prevalent in the Paci- 

 fic Coast States to the south, has been 

 vigorously combated, and by the coopera- 

 tion of orchardists, has been largely 

 stamped out. 



D. D. McLennon, of Fruitvale, a suburb 

 of North Yakima, recently sold his forty- 

 six acre orchard to H. J. Madill of Calgary 

 for one hundred and fifteen thousand dol- 

 lars. Mr. McLennon realized thirty thou- 

 sand dollars from his crop last year. 



At a meeting of the members of the 

 provincial horticultural staff, held shortly 

 before the first of the year, the opinion 

 was freely expressed that the Canadian 

 apple box will be discarded in the Okana- 

 gan district in favor of its American rival. 

 The packing schools, which assemble in 

 various parts of the province, will still re- 

 tain the Canadian box for demonstration 

 purposes during the coming season, ex- 

 cept in the Okanagan Valley where the 

 .'Vmerican box will be employed, although 

 this year the American box may become 

 the recognized standard throughout the 

 province. 



The Canadian box measures ten inches 

 by eleven inches by twenty inches. It is 

 longer, narrower, and shallower than the 

 .'Vmerican box, which measures eighteen 

 inches by eleven and a half inches by ten 

 and a half inches. "As will be seen from 

 these measurements the cubic capacity of 

 the two boxes is practically identical," said 

 Provincial Horticulturist R. M. Winslow, 

 after the meeting, "so that the retailer will 

 not suffer, provided that the box price re- 

 mains the same. At the same time there 

 will be an advantage to the trade in a 

 slightly lesser cost in handling, while 

 the standardization of these boxes, with 

 the shocks used in packing other fruits, 

 will slightly lower the cost to the packer. 

 In addition to these slight gains, the 

 American standard has the appearance of 

 holding more apples, which will have some 

 effect in the marketing of the fruit." 



Bulletins 



Recent bulletins include one on "Lettuce 

 Drop," by the University of Florida Ex- 

 periment Station, author O. F. Burger. 

 Bulletin 217, of the Maine Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, Orono, is entitled Woolly 

 Aphis of the Apple. Corpemrcial Peach 

 Growing in Michigan is dealt with in spe- 

 cial Bulletin 63 of the Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College Experiment Station, East 

 Lansing, Michigan. The authors are F.' 

 M. Barden and H. J. Eustace. The Con- 

 necticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 New Haven, Connecticut, has issued Bulle- 

 tin 179, dealing with Soy Beans. 



"A Preliminary Report on the Pollina- 

 tion of the Sweet Cherry" is the title of 

 Bulletin 116 of the Oregon Agricultural 

 College Experiment Station, Corvallis, 

 Oregon. The author is V. R. Gardiner. 

 Another bulletin just issued by the same 

 station is entitled "An Investigation of 

 Lime-Sulphur Injury: Its Causes and Pre- 

 vention." The author is V. I. Savro. 



