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THE CANADIAN H O RTT C LM.T U RIST 



April, 1914 



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PEERLESS POULTRY FENCE 



DoeB all you could wish of a poultry fiuico and more. 

 Built close enough to kurp clHckcng In and BtronK tMiongh to 

 kocp cattlfl out. Kven Biuall chicks cannot get hctwecn the 

 cloHO mesh of lateral and vertleel wires. The heavy, hard steel 

 topan'l hotiora wires, together with luterniedlato laterals, will 

 take; eare of a caro essly backed wagon, or an unruly uulmal 

 and sprlngbai-.klntoshape Immediately. The wires are securely 

 held together at every Intersection hy the I'KEULKSS Lock. 



ThB Fonoo That Savos Exponso \j 



It neverneeds repairs. It Is the cheapest fence to erect be- 

 cause, owing to its exceptionally heavy top and bottom wires, 

 but half the usual amount of lumber and posts are required. 



Send for Llteratui-m 



and address of nearest agent. We .ilso make a complete line 

 of farm and ornamental fencing. Agents nearly everywhere. 

 Agents wanted In unasslgnod territory. 



^ Banwell Hoxie Wire Fence Co., Ltd. 

 Winnipeg, Manitoba Homilton, Ontario 



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He's Big All Over 

 And Good All Through 



Big Ben is built for endless service. 

 He has no "off-days," no shut-downs. 

 His four years of existence have been 

 one long record of on-the-dot accu- 

 racy. 7,000 Canadian dealers say that 

 he does more efficient 'work for less 

 pay than any other clock alive. 



A Big Ben battalion, over 3,000 

 strong, leaves La Salle, Illinois, every 

 day. Their sparkling triple nickel- 

 plated coats of implement steel; their 

 dominating seven-inch height; their 

 big, bold, blaak, easy-to-read figures 

 and hands; their big, easy-to-wind 

 keys — all make Big Ben the world's 

 master clock. 



In return for one little drop of oil, 

 he' 11 work for you a full year. From 

 "Boots on" to "Lights out" — 365 

 times — he'll guarantee to tell you the 



time o'day with on-the-dot accuracy. 

 He'll guarantee to get you up either 

 of TWO WAYS— with one long, 

 .steady, five-minute ring if you need :i 

 good big call, or on the installment 

 plan, with short rings one half-minute 

 apart for ten minutes, so you'll wake 

 up gradually y and he'll stop short in 

 the middle of a tap during either call 

 if you want to shut him off. 



Big Ben is a mighty pleasant look- 

 ing fellow. His big, open honest face 

 and his gentle tick-tick have earned 

 him a place in thousands of parlors. 



The next time you go to town call 

 at your dealer's and ask to see Big 

 Ben. If your dealer hasn't him, send 

 a money order for 53.00 to his makers 

 — Westclbx, La Salle, Illinois — and 

 he'll come to you prepaid. 



British Columbia 



The fruit growers of the Okanagan dis- 

 trict were encouraged by the reports pre- 

 5iente<l at the recent annual mectinjf of th 

 Okana«-an United Growers' Limited. The 

 showed a balance on hand on December 31, 

 ini.3, of $21,400. The total shipment-^ 

 throujfh the central body up to Decemb' 

 31st included five hundred and forty-oi 

 cars of fruit valued at three hundred ai^ 

 twenty-two thousand five hundred and sixt\ 

 three dollars. The operatinK expens-, 



( harged to the Central Organization totalli 

 four decimal four per cent., including th- 

 sum of five hundred dollars, which had been 

 set aside to offset possible bad debts an'' 

 similar charges. To this should be add* 

 the brokerage charges, amounting to t\\ 

 decimal forty-three per cent., making th 

 total operating expenses of the C«entr;il 

 Company six decimal eighty-three per cent. 

 The reserve fund amounted to twelve thou- 

 sand three hundred and sixty-seven dol- 

 lars, which will be returnable to the share- 

 holders after three years at four per cent. 



The strongest competition the compan\ 

 had to meet was furnished by the Nort" 

 Pacific Fruit Distributors, representing th 

 four States of Washington, Oregon, Idah 

 and Montana, whic'h maintained aboir 

 thirty wholesale fruit houses in the Cana- 

 dian west, on whose behalf two large brok- 

 erage firms were operating. The Unite' 

 Growers Limited early in the season a: 

 ranged to sell much of its product to th 

 Mutual Brokerage Company of Calgary. 



The company expects to make consider- 

 able improvements in its business arrange- 

 ments this year. These include an estimat- 

 ed saving of four thousand dollars in the 

 purchase of box material and one-half cent 

 a pound on all wrapping paper needed. 

 .Arrangements are in progress for the pur- 

 chase of vegetable seeds from an association 

 in Ontario which will effect a great saving. 



Niagara District 



.\ series of verv successful meetings wa 

 held the first of March bv the Niagara 

 Peninsula Fruit Growers' Association. 

 Meetings were held at Grimsby and St. 

 Catharines. The speakers included Dr .H. 

 A. Surface, of Harrisburg, Pa., who gav^ 

 several excellent addresses. Extracts froi 

 one of these addresses appear elsewher 

 in this issue. A report of a second addre? 

 will be Dublished later. 



Prof. R. Harcourt of the Ontario .Agricu'- 

 tural College spoke on "The Most profit- 

 able Commercial Fertilizers for the Or- 

 chard." Mr. W. T. Macoun, Dominion 

 Horticulturist, spoke on "The Best Varie- 

 ties of Strawberries" and "The Influenc- 

 of Chemistrv on Fruits and Fruit Grow 

 ine," as well as several other subjects. Ffi 

 a commercial plantation nf strawberries 

 Mr. Macoun recommended Senator Dunlap 

 Glen Marv. Parson's Beautv, William Splen- 

 did. Warfield, and Grenville. For raspber- 

 ries he recommended the Marlboro for early 

 nnd Cuthbert for the main crops, with Her- 

 bert as a special for the colder parts of the 

 province. 



Prof. W. W. Farnsworth. of the Ohio 

 .Agricultural Collce, spoke on the general 

 manas-ement of the orchard. Mr. W. A. 

 McCubbin was another speaker. The meet- 

 ings concluded with the holding of a ban- 

 nuet in St. Catharines, which was largely 

 attended and most successful. 



Spravimg intellicrently done will control 

 ill the orchard insects in the district.— 



