THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



May, I 



»yMrM%J\, I HilVO and ■ ••Mill. 



Thry Mve your crop. Increase Ihr yield 

 and Improve ttir qualily. Our Spray (.'«) 

 «ntlar bhowt when to tpray and whai 

 materials to use. Otir "Spray" booklet 

 •bows 70 combioatlous of 



Bucket, Barrel, Power and 

 Trai-tfon Sprayers for 

 orchard and fieldcrops 

 and other uses. Built 

 complete or In units — 

 buy Just what you 

 need. Ask your deal- 

 er to show them and let 

 us send you our spray 

 booklet, spray calemlar 

 and "Iron Age Farm 

 andGanlen New-i" free. 

 The Bateman- 



WilkltlBOD Oo., 

 Limited 

 *^ liil SymlnKton At. 

 ^Fl Toronto. Can. 





FOR SALE AND WANTED 



AdTertisements in this department in- 

 serted at rate of 3 eents a word for each 

 insertion, each figure, sign or single letter 

 to eount as one word, minimum eost, 30 

 eents, strictly cash in advance. 



ALL KINDS OF FARMS— Fruit farms a specialty. 

 — W. B. Oalder. Qrimsby- . ^ 



NIAGARA DISTRICT FRUIT FARMS— Before 



buying it will i>ay you to consult me. I make 

 a specialty of fruit and grain farms.— Melvin 

 Gavman & Oo.. 6t. Oatharinee. 



ASK DAWSON' He knows. 



IF YOU WANT to sell a farm consult me. 



IF YOU WANT to buy a farm consult me. 



I HAVE some of the best Fruit, Stock, toain 



and Dairy Farms on my list at right prices. 



H. W Dawoon. Ninety finlhome at. Tnrnntn. 



SALMON ARM, ShuBway Lake. B.C., has the 

 finest fruit and dairy land in B.C. No irriga- 

 tion necessary; mild winters, moderate sum- 

 mers, DO blizzards or high winds: delightful 

 climate: enormous yields of fruit, vegetables 

 and hay: good fishing: fine boating amidst the 

 most beautiful scenery, and the Salmon Arm 

 fruit has realised 25 cents per box more than 

 other fruit in B.C. Prices of land moderate, 

 and terms to suit. Apply to P. C Haydock, 

 Salmon Arm. BO 



I BUY BEES STANDING. 



Owner pockets cash— F. 

 F/ast, On«. 



Myself pack and load. 

 A. Allen, Philipaburg 



BEZZO'S FAMOUS PRIZE ASTERS— Bead particu- 

 la.r<» on page %. 



WANTED FOR THE SEASON— Young Man who 

 has had experience to work as assistant in 

 Queen rearing yard^ State experience and 

 wages expected'. — John A. McKinnon, Queen 

 Breeder. St. Eugene. On t. 



BUY THE CIRCLET, a new, up-to-d'ate, hand en- 

 graved Aluminum leg band for fowl. Fits all 

 sizes, simple, neat and durable. Send 25o for 

 one dozen. — Wm. A. Curry. 28 Water St. E., 

 Brookville. Ont. 



WANTED — Prime swarms; hives furnished. 

 Address Box 18, The Canadian Horticulturist 

 and Beekeeper, Pete rboro, Ont. 



GOLDEN AND THREE-BANDED ITALIAN AND 



Carnlolan Queens, ready to ship after April 

 1st. Tested, $1.00; J to 6. 95o each: 6 to 12 or 

 more, 90c each. Untested, 75o each; 3 to 6, 

 70o each ; 6 or more, 65c. Bees, per lb $1 50 

 Nuclei, per frame, $1.50. — 0. B. Baukston, 

 Buffalo. Leon Co.. Texas. U.S.A. 



FAMOUS NORTH CAROLINA BRED ITALIAN 



Queens for sale (red clover 3-banders). Honey- 

 gatherers, good as the best. Strictly reared 

 from Geo. B. Howe's best breeders; mated with 

 Boot's, Moore's, Davis' Select Drones; bees 

 that get the honey. Free from disease. Un- 

 tested, one, 75c; per doz., .$7.50. Select untest- 

 ed, one, $1.00; per doz.. $9.00. Tested, one 

 $1.25. Select tested, $L50. Extra select tested, 

 $2.ro. Breeders, $3.00 and $5.00.— H B. Murray, 

 Li'-erty. N.O.. .U.S.A. 



FOR SALE— A bargain, one. two and half horse 

 power Sprayer. Two seasons in use. Good 

 state of repair. Complete, sixty dollars. — 

 Lawrence Harvey. Wardsville. Ont. 



WANT TO SELL YARD OF BEES or some one 

 to run them near Toronto.— J. Alpaugh, 

 Innerkip, Ont. 



Top Working Fruit Trees 



R. M. Window, Prorincial HoriicaltorUt, Victoria, B.C. 



The fruit growers of the Okanagan Valley 

 have shown, a great increase of interest in 

 making- remunerative unsuitable varieties 

 of trees by working them over to the best 

 commercial kinds. Inquiries and requests 

 to the Horticultural Branch of the Depart- 

 ment of .'Xgriculture have been far more 

 numerous than in any previous year. 



While top-working fruit trees, especially 

 apples, is often justifird by the increased 

 roturns after the new top is well establish- 

 ed, there are certain conditions under 

 which it is not advisable. I refer particu- 

 larly to the top-working of black-hearted 

 trees, or those which have been badly af- 

 fected by fire blight. The wood of a 

 black-heart tree is brittle, and much of it 

 is dead ; decay starts very readily in the 

 cuts made for grafting, and the scions 

 either fail to grow, or if they grow, make 

 a poor union, ard eventually break off. 



The appearance of a tree severely cut 

 back in the effort to control an attack of 

 blight, naturally suggests top-working to 

 a blight resistant kind. If blight were 

 quiescent or absent from the district, top- 

 working might be feasible, but when blight 

 is active, the inevitable crop of water 

 sprouts furnish the best possible condi- 

 tions for blight, and effort to save the 

 blighted stock on which to build a new 

 tree is likely to meet entirely with failure. 

 Aside from blight or black hearted trees 

 there is a large number of sound, healthy 

 land vigorous trejeis, of non-remunerative 

 or non-productive varieties ; these may be 

 grafted over to the better commercial kinds ; 

 in fact, it is highly desirable that they 

 should be so treated. 



Iten\s of Interest 



Sunscald is found almost entirely in 

 trees having an open habit of growth or 

 where they are headed very high and prun- 

 ed out severely in the centre. — S. E. Todd, 

 Lake Huron District. Ont. 



The use of iced cars for the carriage of 

 fruit is increasing year by year and fruit 

 growers are learning that the question of 

 temperature in transit is of as much im- 

 portance as the length of time occupied in 

 carrying the fruit from one place to an- 

 other. — J. A. Ruddick, Dairy Cold Storage 

 Commissioner. 



The cooperative purchasing of supplies 

 has built up in our vegetable growers' as- 

 sociation a spirit of brotherly love and 

 mutual confidence that has been of untold 

 benefit to us. Our members have increas- 

 ed, our finances have grown (until one 

 year we paid out over one hundred and 

 fifty dollars in prize monqy), and still had 

 a nice surplus at the end of the year. — 

 W. J. Kerr, Ottawa, Ont. 



Since the creation of The United Fruit 

 Companies of Nova Scotia, Limited, the 

 fruit industry of Nova Scotia appears to have 

 taken a new lease of life. The company 

 hais established a department in The Reg- 

 ister, of Berwick, N.S., which is published 

 weekly, and which keeps the fruit growers 

 of the Annapolis Valley fully posted in re- 

 gard to important matt-ers relating to the 

 fruit industry. This is creating greater 

 confidence among the growers and assisting 

 in bringing about reforms and improve- 

 ments more rapidly than would otherwise 

 be possible. 



Muted pairs of 

 Silver, blackand 

 patched foxei 

 tor tale. 



Alto option! on 

 1914 puppies 

 for suininer de- 

 livery. >^'.: 



JOHN DOWNHMV1,-Bo«-N. Str.throy. Q 



THK] 



STRATFORI 



EXTENSION 

 LADDER 



It U the safest and best on ths 

 market. Fitted with automatic 

 hooks that lock at cTery rung 

 and unlock between the rungs 



LIGHT, 'sTHON( 



EASILY OPEKATED 

 AND DURABLE 



IF Interested write for Catalotne 

 TMB 



StraKord Mfg.Co 



Limite 



STRATFORD, CANADA 



Maken o* Ladders for every con- 

 ceivable purfKJse 



If you buy a cheaper 

 Arsenate of Lead "to 

 save money" don't 



buy any at all and you will 

 save all the money. 



Neutral ^Arsenate 

 of Lead 



is not made to sell at a low price, 

 but is produced by a process, that 

 gives it qualities which makes it 

 more economical and efficient than 

 the Arsenates selling for less 

 money. 



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