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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



April, n 



CENTRAL Nurseries for Satisfaction 



No experiment when ordering Irom HULL. 



Fruit, 8ha<J« and ornamental trees, Grapa Tiuee, Shruba, 

 Roees, iledg«8. Himalaya Borriea, 8u Rigee, Herrbert. BYuit 

 till Novemberr. Prioea riirht, so are the offers. Send for 

 frt«e priced oatalogrue. Let u» book your order while in 

 Verity- Special prices on Apple trees by the 100, choice 

 early seed potatoes, etc. 



Everything from a berry plant to a ahade tree. 



A. G. HULL Si SONS 



ST. CATHARINES, ONT. 



THE 



SPRAMOTOR 



IS A 



Welcome Aid to 

 Practical Gro^rers! 



Leading fruit growers and men who 

 have large tracts of row crops under 

 cultivation find the Spramotor a big 

 dollar gatherer. It earns its cost the 

 first year. Every year thereafter it 

 keeps up the good work and repays its 

 owner over and over again. 



A Spramotor Hand Spramotors 



is the most efficient spraying ma- 

 chine made, because it has twenty 

 distinct patented features to be 

 found on no other make. We have 

 Ijeen at the making of spraying 

 machines for over twenty years, de- 

 voting all our thought and energy 

 to the perfecting of the Spramotor. 

 We manufacture every part that 

 goes into our machines, in order to 

 be sure that each is perfect. Every 

 outfit gets a thorough test under 

 high pressure before being shipped. 



are efficient in orchards up to 500 

 trees, and on the medium-sized 

 farm for spraying potatoes, weed 

 destruction, etc., also for painting. 

 They are moderately priced ma- 

 chines, from $12 to $30, yet will 

 do all this work. 



We make a bigger range of spray- 

 ing outfits than any other firm in 

 the world. Prices run from $6 to 

 $350, each and every machine 

 guaranteed. 



FREE 



Send us a letter containing some idea of your spray- 

 ing requirements and we will mail at once full par- 

 ticulars of a Spramotor that will do your work to best 

 advantage at the lowest possible cost. W'e will also 

 forward a copy of our valuable illustrated treatise on Crop Diseases, WITH- 

 OUT CHARGE and without placing you under any obligation whatever. 



SPRAMOTOR WORKS 



1753 King Street, LONDON, CAN. 



Transportation Problems* 



C. E. Mclnloth, Foreit, Oit. , Truiportation Ageit, 

 Ontario Frait Growers' Atsocialion 



O.N'E; outstanding: fact in regard to ex- 

 press rates is this — while the Domin- 

 ion Express Co. has running rights 

 over practically two-thirds of the rail- 

 way mileage in Canada, some of our most 

 extensive fruit districts are served only by 

 the Canadian Express Co., and these ship- 

 pers are compelled to pay rates greatly in 

 excess of those from non-competitive 

 points. 



To outline just how this affects the ship- 

 per from a non-t?ompetitive point, take, for 

 instance, shipping points in the Niagara 

 Peninsula, west to Berlin, north to Streets- 

 ville, the local commodity express rate on 

 fruit to Winnipeg is $2.65 per 100 lbs. From 

 the Leamington and Essex district and 

 from Sarnia and other points where two 

 •express com'panies operate, the rate is 

 $2.90. Exclusive points, howjever, have 

 been paying enormously high rates, such 

 as from Forest, where only the Canadian 

 F.xpress Co. operate, twenty-three miles 

 less haul than from Sarnia, the rate was 

 $4.20. This was brought to the attention 

 of the Express Co. officials, and they is- 

 sued a tariff June 7th, 1913, allowing these 

 exclusive points the $2.65 or $2.90 rate 

 plus 30 cents in the former and 35 cents 

 per 100 lbs. in the latter instances. There 

 are many complaints of high express rates 

 to points within the province ; but this 

 matter has not yet been presented to the 

 Express Companies. 



RBFRIGER.\TOR CAR REQUIREMENTS 



\n effort was made to get an estimate 

 of refrigerator cars that the fruit shippers 

 would require last fall, at the different 

 shipping points, with a view to supplying 

 the different railway car distributors with 

 the requirements for each division, between 

 certain dates. I regret to say only thirty- 

 three shippers responded to our request for 

 the information. These were, however, 

 compiled and sent to the proper officials, 

 from whom a reply was received stating 

 information was of great assistance in ar- 

 ranging for the supply. I have reason to 

 believe the greater portion of these thirty- 

 three shippers requiring 692 cars, between 

 October 24th and November 10th, received 

 much better service than they would other- 

 wise have received. With this information 

 the railways could better estimate their 

 requirements, and they had promised to 

 cooperate with us in an effort to improve 

 the conditions of last year. The shippers 

 were not mindful of their own interests in 

 this matter, but I hope when occasion 

 again demands they will be prompt, and 

 be more unanimous in their response. 



L. C. L. FREIGHT SHIPMENTS 



Another matter of a monetary benefit to 

 some fruit shippers in some districts was j 

 an arrangement made with railway repre- | 

 sentativcs, whereby L. C. L. shipments 

 were carried on freight rates instead of 1 

 by express on the satue train. For in- j 

 stance, in the Lambton district, the ship- I 

 pers at Forest and Thedford were shipping j 

 to Stratford at an express rate of 50 cents : 

 a 100 lbs., and London, 60 cents a 100 lbs. ; 

 on a mixed train. It was my privilege to 

 take this up with the divisional agent at 

 Stratford, and he consented to placing a 

 car for 6,000 lbs. minimum at a rate of 



'Extract from a report iireeented oA the laat 

 annual meeting' of the Ontaxio Fruit Growera" 

 Association. 



