THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



March, 1914. 



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EVERY 

 FARMER 

 KNOWS 



That fertilizers are an absolute 

 necessity to successful farming. 

 The only question that confronts him 

 is getting the right fertilizer. 



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 For users of our fertilizers we are ready at all times to analyze samples 

 of soils and recommend the fertilizer best suited, making it up especi- 

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Nova Scotia 



The apple shipments from the Annapolis 

 Valley for the last four months of 1913 were 

 105,5.32 barrels less than the corresponding 

 four months of 1912, which were also about 

 forty per cent, less than for the four cor- 

 responding months of 1911. This drop 

 was' caused by the weather conditions of 

 the spring of 1912 being bad for the apple 

 crop, and the spring of 1913 being still 

 worse than for a number of years. The 

 apple shipments from Halifax the last four 

 months of 1913 were 354,397 barrels, 

 against 459,929 barrels during the same 

 period of 1912. The shipments for the 

 month of December, 1913, were 69,974 bar- 

 rels, against 91,147 barrels for December, 

 1912, showing a decline of 21,173 barrels. 



While the quantity of apples grown in 

 Nova Scotia has been declining for two 

 years, the prices have so enhanced that it 

 is considered by many that the past sea- 

 son will be more remunerative than for 

 a number of years. 



The cooperative movement started three 

 years ago has given wonderful results, en- 

 abling the grower to obtain the best prices 

 for his apples and potatoes at the least 

 possible expense. The latter maintained 

 throughout the heaviest shipments the re- 

 cord price of fifty cents a bushel to the 

 grower, who also effected a great saving 

 in the prices he had to pay for the feed and 

 fertilizer he required. 



The United States Markets 



D. Johnson, Forest, Oat. 



I had some experience last year in the 

 United States markets, which was very un- 

 satisfactory. Friends in Cleveland and De- 

 troit advised us that they were paying two 

 dollars fifty cents a bushel for peaches. 

 We found this to be true, so in company 

 with some neighbors we shipped to com- 

 mission merchants in those cities five cars 

 of peaches. I consider that we would have 

 made two hundred dollars a car more had 

 we sold these peaches in Canada, or that 

 my neighbors and myself would have made 

 one thousand dollars more had we not 

 shipped the five cars across the line. The 

 fruit was of the finest quality, carefully' 

 packed and shipped in good refrigerator 

 cars. It appears to me that the .-Ameri- 

 can consumers are paying big prices for 

 their i>eaches, but these big prices are not 

 enjoyed by the producers. 



Regarding apples, I had heard of the 

 big prices for apples, and had hoped for 

 a good market right at our door for our 

 apples. .A.ccordingly, as soon as the new 

 tariflf came into effect, I visited a number 

 of the big United States cities with the 

 intention of selling our pack to them. I 

 found that I could not make a satisfactory 

 sale there, so returned home and sold at. a 

 much better price to a western firm than 

 we could get on the other side. In view 

 of these facts I can only say that I do 

 not expect much from the United States 

 markets in future years when their prices 

 were so much below our own last season 

 in the midst of one of the shortest crops 

 the United States has had for years. 



Most of the standard varieties of fruit 

 could be delivered to market in better con- 

 dition and with less loss from decay if they 

 were promptlv cold stored after picking.— 

 J. A. Ruddick, Dairy Cold Storage Com- 

 missioner. 



