THE CANADIAN HO RTICULTU R T ST 



March, 1914^ 



SKIPPED HILLS RAISE 



NO POTATOES 



Every hill you misa in planting 

 means money lost out of 

 your pocket. No ma- 

 chine can plant per- 

 fectly unless there 

 is hand cor 



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plecclnevery 

 space and one on- 

 ly. No picket* used — no 

 Injury to seed. Perfect placing 

 of seed and uniform spacini^r. 

 can't you seethat it must pay 

 ' for itself? Write for Ixwklet, 

 ■'/'» per ctMt potato 

 planting" We make full 

 liiie Potato Machines, Gar- 

 .tsn Tools. Sprayers, etc. 



The Bateman- 

 Wllkinson Co., L*tnite<l 



4^ Symington Ave. 

 Toronto. Ont. 



EHODES DOUBLE OUT 



PEDNINQ BHRAR 



'Juts from 

 Doth flidea oi 

 limband does 

 not bruise 

 the bark. 

 We pay Ex- 

 press charges 

 on all orders. 



Write tor 

 circular and 

 prices. 



^36 S. nivlslon Ave. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



FHUITLAND NURSERIES 



are offering for sale a Bcneral assortment of 

 first-olasa Fruit Trees, Bushes, Vines and 

 Ornamental Shrubs, etc., at very low prices. 

 Our catalogues are just out. It will pay you 

 to send for one. 

 G. M. HILL, Box 42, FRUITLAND, ONT. 



130- Egg Incubator and Brooder Fo? $13.90 



FREIGHT 



AND ovrv 



If ordered together we send both machines for only $13.90 and we 



pay all freight and duty charges to any R. R. station in Canada. 



We have branch warehouses inWinnipeg, Man. and Toronto, Ont. 



Orders shipped from nearest warehouse to your R. R. station. 



Hot water, double walls, dead-air space between, double glass 

 {■\\\ doors, copper tanks and boilers, self-regulating. Nursery under 

 ' e^ff tray. Especially adapted to Canadian climate. Incubator and Brooder 

 shipped complete with thermometers, lamps, eg^r testers — ready to use when you get them. Five 

 year guarantee — 30 days trial. Incubators finished in natural colors showing the high grade Cali- 

 fornia Redwood lumber used — not painted to cover inferior material. If you will compare our 

 maohincs with others, wc feel sure of your order. Don't buy until you do this — you'll saveraoneyl 

 — it pays to investigate before you buy. Remember our price of SX3.90 is for both Incubator and 

 Brooder and covers freight and duty charges. Send for FREE catalog today, or send in your order and save time. 



International 

 Harvester 

 Cream 

 Separators 



THEIHCUNE 



GRAIN AND HAY 



MACHINES 



Binders, Reapers 



Headers, Mowers 



Rakes, Stackers 



Hay Loaders 



Hay Presses 

 CORN MACHINES 



Planters, Pickers 



Binders, Cultivators 



Ensilage Cotters 



Shellers, Shredders 

 TILUGE 



Com1)inatioD, 



Peg and Spring-To«tb, 



and Disk Harrows 



Cultivstors 



GENERAL LINE 



Oil and Gas Eiuiiies 



Oil Tractors 



Manure Spreaders 



Cream Separators 



Farm Wagons 



Motor Tracks 



Threshers 



Grain Drills 



Feed Grinders 



Knife Grinders 



BisdcrTwin 



A DAIRY farmer who does not use 

 a cream separator is losing up to 

 $15 per cow per year. Complete your 

 dairy equipment by the purchase of an 

 International Harvester cream separator — Lily, 

 Bluebell or Dairymaid. These separators skim 

 closely — leaving barely a drop of cream in a galloa 

 of milk — and they will do it for years. 



These machines are furnished with pulleys for the 

 use of power. Belted to a small I H C engine, you 

 have the best outfit it is possible for you to buy. 

 Note the low supply can on I H C separators, the 

 height of the milk spout which allows a lO-gallon 

 can to be used for the skim milk, the strong frame 

 with open base which can be kept perfectly clean, 

 and the dozen other features which make these 

 I H C machines the best. 



Your local dealer should have one of these ma- 

 chines on sale. If he has not, write us before you 

 buy and we will tell you where you can see one; 

 also send you an interesting book on separators. 



International Harvester Company of Canada, Ltd 



At Hamilton, Ont.; London, Ont.; Montreal, P. Q.; OtUwa, Ont.: 

 St. John, N. B.; Quebec, P Q. 



British Columbia Fruit 

 Growers' Convention 



The 24th annual conv-erition of the BiiUbl 

 Columbia Fruit Growers' Association wa! 

 held in Victoria, B.C., during the last weel 

 in January. It was crowded with importan' 

 discussions relating not only to provincia 

 but to broader issues as well. 



President VV. C. Ricardo, in his presiden 

 tial address, stated that the industrj 

 stands to-day in a stronger position than i 

 did this time last year. He reviewed th< 

 work done in the past year, the success o 

 Messrs Abriel and Foggo's interview witi 

 the Dominion authorities in regard to men 

 rigid enforcement of the Sales and Insp<;c 

 tion Act, the starting, by the aid of thi 

 Provincial Government, of eight local co 

 operative associations in the Okanagan witl 

 a central agency, which on the whole havi 

 worked together successfully, and he end 

 ed with a warning that "if there ever wai 

 a year in which the British Columbia grow 

 ers should watch the cost of production an< 

 the grading of their product, it is this yeai 

 of 1914, with the largest crop in the North 

 western States and our own Province ahea< 

 of us." 



The transportation Committee's report re 

 ferred to the .growing popularity of expresi 

 service over freight for fruit, and found thi 

 complaints of railway rates far fewer thai 

 in former years. 



Messrs Foggo and Abriel strongly ad 

 vocated in the advertising committee's re 

 port the need of advertising by the Provinci 

 as a whole by the grower and by the ship 

 per. They advocated joining with the Al 

 berta Government in running an exhibi 

 tion train through that province and pos 

 sibly through Saskatchewan. J. Johnstoni 

 betlieved the best method was through thi 

 Provincial exhibits at the different fairs. 



CRVTIPYINO REPORT.S 



The report of the executive and secretarj 

 noted that the fruit growers of the foui 

 North-western states of America had form 

 ed a "Deciduous Protective League" to dt 

 for their fruits what the Citrous Protectiv) 

 League had -done for other fruits. Th( 

 Provincial Government grant was increasec 

 from $3,500 in 1912 to $6,500 in 1913, anc 

 the total number of members showed ar 

 increase of one hundred and one, there be 

 ing now six hundred and ninety-six al 

 told. Hearty endorsement was made o* 

 the work of the British Columbia Entomo 

 logical Society and the association was urg 

 ed to support its executive in the suppor 

 they had given to the National Fruit Grow 

 ers' Association. 



Fruit growers were urged to encourage 

 the sentiment for inter-provincial trade anc 

 two delegates had already gon© to tht 

 prairies to interview the governments anc 

 the grain growers. 



Parcels post received the hearty support 

 of the executive, who saw in it the prospect 

 of wider distribution and greater facility it 

 the shipping of consignments. They point 

 ed out that for every railway station there 

 were two post offices in Western Canada. 

 They had recommended to the Postmaster- 

 General a twenty-five-pound minimum. 



IRRIGATION PROIiLEMS 



Hon. W. R. Ross, Minister of Lands, 

 addressed the convention on "Public Irri- 

 gation Corporations" and the proposed 

 legislation authorizing their formation. He 

 reminded his audience that water had come 

 to be looked on as one of the resources ol 

 the province, and one which could be con- 

 servedthrough wise use and careful admin- 

 istration. The need for this was not so ap- 



