September, lyi i 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



22 7 



■quash. Striped cucumber beetles are re- 

 sponsible for its spread, and in dry, hot 

 weathor it spreads rapidly. The affected 

 plants wilt and eventually die. By break- 

 ing an affected vino and rubbing the ends 

 together, a certain ropiness will be noticed, 

 when the parts are pulled apart, if tho true 

 wilt is present. Pull up diseased vines and 

 burn. Kill the squash beetle. That is all 

 yon can do. 



The truck farmers around Montreal surely 

 know their business, and it is ono not easy 

 to learn. Land is worth twenty-five rents 

 a foot for market garden purposes. These 

 men liv their strict application to business 

 have become indopendontly wealthy and are 

 known all over the countryside. Melons- 

 well, wo won't say the Montreal melon — 

 speaks for itself. Here is where you may 

 find acres of cold frame. Beside that, we 

 havo some ken or twelve acres under green- 

 house glass on the island. On the whole 

 in " sight is good to look at and not to be 

 forgotten soon. 



Maodonald College is offering some special 

 inducements to farmers and farmers' sons 

 tn attend the collego this coming session. 

 fjnder present arrangement the cost of a 

 college education is slight indeed, and tho 

 opportunity for the young man is great. A 

 card to the Registrar brings full informa- 

 tion. 



Niagara District Notes 



L. Woolverfon, Griroiby, Onf. 



A succession of disasters has visited the 

 fruit growers of this usually favored section 

 tliK season. The long extended drought 

 of May, June and part of July made straw- 

 berries and raspberries a very short crop. 

 The very bushes of the latter were withered 

 and dried up before their time. Then came 

 high wind storms, which played havoc with 

 plums, pe-rs and apples, covering the 

 ground with immature fruit, too green for 

 marketing; and, to cap the climax, there 

 followed about August first such an electric 

 and hail storm as nobody living remembers 

 the like. Now a large portion of our apples, 

 plums and peaches escaping the wind are 

 cut and bruised by tho pelting hail, so that 

 they are rotting on the trees and are so 

 blemished as to be unsalable. Pears, espe- 

 cially the later kinds, are least injured, 

 their form apparently having caused the 

 hail to glance off without cutting the skin, 

 but grapes have suffered most of all fruits. 



Bnt worse than wind or hail or drought 

 is a comparatively new evil known as "Lit- 

 tle Peach." Akin to Yellows, but different, 

 and if anything, more disastrous. It has 

 alarmed Canadian peach growers lest it 

 should become in Ontario the scourge which 

 it has proved in Michigan, where whole or- 

 chards have been destroyed and the trees 

 thrown on the flames lest it continue to 

 spread. In some Ontario orchards hundreds 

 of trrcv have been already destroyed by 

 command of the inspectors, who claim to 

 diagnose the evil by the color of the foliage 

 and the incurl of the leaves. The chief 

 proof to the grower, however, is the small 

 size of the fruit: peaches that should grow 

 to a large size ripening up prematurely, al- 

 most as small as marbles. 



Noticing some of mv Japan nlum trees 

 affected in a very similar way, I am won- 

 dering whether this foreigner, which 

 brought to us San Jose scale, is not also to 

 blame for spreading Little Peach, a disease 

 unknown before these were introduced. Poe- 

 sihlv the pollen of this plum carries the dis- 

 ease to the peach. Anyway I am ordering 

 my men to cut out those plum trees with lit- 

 tle, undersized plums, which give rise to my 

 Suspicions. I would like to hear from our 

 Michigan peach growers as to whether they 



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TO secure the best results, manure must be spread with 

 a machine, because fork-spreading wastes manure, 

 wastes time, wastes energy, and wastes opportunities 

 for increasing the income which a farm is capable of yielding. 



In progressive communities you will find that most of the 

 manure spreaders in use bear the I H C trade-mark. Pro- 

 gressive farmers take no chances on their crop insurance. 

 They want absolute assurance before they decide. 



Before they bought I H C manure spreaders, they found 

 that they were simple in design — unusual in strength — and 

 remarkably efficient. 

 v^l They found the power transmitting mechanism the most 

 " durable used on any machine, because the beater gear was 

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 the teeth did not rim the bars; that the beater was large enough 

 in diameter so it did not wind. They found that the rollers 

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 from binding, and cutting the axle brackets, a fault not un- 

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You have choice of these two styles. Each 

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Don't plant another crop before you see the 

 IHC local agent. Let him tell you all the 

 facts. Let him point out the many advan- 

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 one that suits you best. Get catalogues from 

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The purpose of 

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 furnish farmers 

 with information 

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 If you have any 

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 to the I H C Serv- 

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 learn what our 

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