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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



April, 1914 



Planet Jr 



Cut down time, labor, and cost of culti- 

 vating. Use Planet Jr guaranteed tools, 

 and raise larger crops. 



FHFF Out new 72-paKe illustrated catalogue 

 "*-"-'"^ dcscribinu 6U I'lanct Jr implements. 

 Write for it today. 



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No. 11 



Planet Jr Double i 

 Wheel Hoe, 

 Cultivator, 

 Plow and > 

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Planet Jr 

 Combined 

 iill and Drill 

 Seeder, Wheel 

 ^Hoe, Cultiva* 

 ' and 

 Plow 



The greatest cultivatins tool for 

 the crowcr of earden crops from 

 drilled seed. Tt has steel frame. 

 Light enough for woman's 

 use. A favorite with onioo 

 growers. 



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Planet Jr 

 Horse Hoe 



and Cultivator 



A practical time. labor, and money saver 

 ir the family vegetable garden and mar- 

 ket gardener. Sows all garden seeds in 

 rills or hills. Plows, hoes, cultivates. 



The best-known cultivating implement 

 made. Strong, yet light. Cultivates to 

 any depth and adjusts to any width. Has 

 new steel wheel 



Dofi't Feed the Soil — 

 Feed the Plant 



In the top eig-ht inches of average soil there 

 is enough plant food in the form of nitrogen to- 

 last for 90 years, in phosphoric acid for 500 

 years and in potash for 1000 years. 



And yet that very spot may prove barren. 

 Plants have to take up their food in solution, in 

 the "sap of the soil." All this food may be 

 locked up so tightly by nature that the plants 

 can't get at it fast enough for the commercial 

 farmer, and he has to put in the same food in 

 the soluble form of fertilizer. 



Just so, a fertilizer may, by analysis, have all 

 the necestary elements and yet not give the 

 plant full value because these elements are not 

 ready soluble. 



Put into your ground a fertilizer that, will feej not 

 your already overstocked soil but your hungry t>r<i/!s wit-h 

 food which is available and easily absorbed. 



Bowker's Fertilizers 



have chemically correct elements— there is a brand to fi^ 

 every need. More than that, these chemicals are blended 

 and mixed so that they are rendfered wafer-soluble and 

 go into vour ground in the moE4 available form. Most 

 crops do most of their feeding in 60 days. 



Write for our illustrated catalogue, based on forty 

 years of experience. In writing, state what yoir crops are. 



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Exterminating the Scale* 



Pr*f. W. H. BrittaiB 



The work of inspecting orchards for the 

 San Jose Scale, that was continued during 

 iyi3, l>egan June 2nd last, and continued 

 throughout the season, with six to ten in- 

 spectors employed in the work. Beginning 

 at Windsor, all the orchards as far west as 

 Dibgy were inspected. The inspectors were 

 then placed in Hants County and worked 

 eastward into Halifax and Colchester coun- 

 ties. As a result of the inspection fifty- 

 seven trees were found infested with livings 

 scale as compared with seven hundred and ' 

 twenty-three the previous season. Of these 

 fifty-seven, six were the 1911 planting, forty- 

 five of the 1912 planting, and six of the 1913 

 planting. 



In addition to the scale work the inspec- 

 tors gathered some valuable data as to the 

 number of orchardists who spray and the 

 acreage sprayed, in comparison with the 

 total area. This information has been tabu- 

 lated according to counties and makes very 

 interesting reading. 



Though I would not wish to predict that 

 the San Jose Scale has now been wiped out 

 of Nova Scotia, for such predictions are 

 always unsafe, X can at least safely say, 

 that in no country of which I am aware has 

 this pest after having become so widely dis- 

 tributed been brought so nearly to the point 

 of extermination. Though I do not wish to 

 magnify the seriousness of this pest, and 

 am very far from sayinB- that its establish- 

 ment in Nova Scotia would sound the death 

 knell of the fruit growing industry of the 

 province, it would increase the cost of pro- 

 duction, which is already sufficiently high. 

 It would cost the country, at a conservative 

 estimate, about fifty-five thousand dollars. 

 When you consider that by spending about 

 four thousand dollars a year by the govern- 

 ment, we stand a very good chance of keep- 

 ing it out entirely, you will see that a very 

 large profit accrues to the people. 



At present we are concentrating- our en- 

 ergy in keeping out all infested trees. We 

 are increasing our facilities at the port of 

 entry so that all incoming stock will be giv- 

 en a searchina: inspection, in addition to 

 fumigation, before it is allowed to enter the 

 province. Of course we do not have con- 

 trol of the stock coming in from the United 

 States and other country, but I am assur- 

 ed by the Dominion Government authorities 

 that they are taking all necessary precau- 

 tions. By these methods we hope to keep 

 this pernicious pest forever outside our bor- 

 ders. 



Nova Scotia 



A four days' packing school was held at 

 Kentville, beginning February 24th, under 

 the auspices of the College of Agriculture, 

 Truro. The local arrangements with re- 

 jfard to all necessary equipments for the 

 work were looked after by Prof. W. S. Blair 

 and staff of the Kentville Experiment Sta- 

 tion. Dominion Fruit Inspector P. J. Carey 

 of Toronto had charge of the work. The 

 actual packing of apples in boxes and bar- 

 rels along modern lines was taken up. 

 Great interest was shown . The attend- 

 ance was very large. 



As a result of the benefits derived from 

 the demonstration, it is intended that pack- 

 ing schools shall be conducted next sea- 

 son at different points all through the 

 valley. More and more box packing will 

 be done hereafter throughout the Valley. 



"Extract from an address ffiven before the last 

 annual couTention of the Nova Scotia Fruit 

 Growers' AsBOciation. 



