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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



November, 1909 



mouth Rock, Bu£E or White Orpington, 

 Rhode Island Red, White Leghorn and 

 Black Minorca. My opinion is that the first 

 named is easily the best for this province, 

 although one cannot go very far wrong with 

 any of these breeds, if chosen intelligently 

 with a view to the conditions and space in 

 which they are to be kept. 



Apple Storage. — The New Brunswick Cold 

 Storage Co., Ltd., advise that a good many 

 of the inquiries from their advertising want 

 to know if the railways charge extra for 

 having goods lie two, three or four months 

 in their warehouse, in transit to the Old 

 Country. The answer is that they do not< 

 that the carriers so highly value the mat- 



ter of getting the rail-haul over during sea- 

 sonable weather and the stock accumulated 

 at tide-water in advance of the winter's 

 lush that this premium on such storage is 

 given freely. Not all railways treat the mat- 

 ter by the same method but the result is in 

 all respects the same — on proof of exporta- 

 tion the through rate on the export basis 

 prevails, at just the same cost as would be 

 if the barrel of apples went through direct 

 from the orchard to the pier at Liverpool, 

 or anywhere else. These adjustments are 

 looked out for by the warehouse people at 

 St. John. Dealers wishing warehouse ad- 

 vances also wonder how their documents 

 can Le negotiated so to avoid delays in 

 effecting deliveries at the other side. The 



company's business in these matters is to 

 co-operate with the St. John correspondenti 

 of the customer's bank so that everything 

 may be arranged for him just as though he 

 were on the spot. These correspondents will 

 verify any warehouse receipts on arrival of 

 goods or complete any releases or advanced 

 charges on their re-shipment — merely a fur- 

 ther twentieth century convenience handled 

 every day in these and other lines. 



I would like to thank you for the refresh- 

 ment and pleasure that The Canadian 

 Horticulturist has given me, as well as 

 for all the instruction that I have obtained 

 from its pages. — Mrs. W. D. Oakeley, 

 Ottawa. 



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 bras^, copper, granitpware.hotwatpr bags.etc. 

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 I A8S0RTKD SIZES, 25c., POSTPAID. Agents wanted. 

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SMALL FRUIT PLANTS 



Gooseberriet, Josselyn, Red Jacket, Downinfr, Pearl, Houfrhton.— Curranti, 

 Perfection, Ruby, Cherry, White Grape, Lee's Prolific, Champion, Black 

 Naples, Victoria.— Ra»pberrie», Herbert, Cuthbert, Marlljoro, Brinckle's 

 Orange, Golden Queen, fetraw berry-Raspberry.— Garden Roou, Asparagu.s, 

 Rhubarb, Perennial Celery. 

 WM. FLEMING, Nurseryman, Box 54, Owen Sound, Ontario 



Rural Phones Solve These 

 Every-day Problems 



Problem 1. Bad Roads : 



The old way was to curse nature and idly await sun's return. ' 



The new way is to telephone for what you want, and smile because you get the 



information in a thousand part of the time. 



Problem II. 



Weather Forecasts: 



The old way was to work on belated 

 information, and to excuse the losses 

 with "That's what the farmer has to 

 put up with." 



The new way is to telephone every 

 morning to the weather man and over- 

 come much of the needless hustle and 

 bustle of the old way. 



Problem IV. Emergencies; 



Problem III. 



Prices Current : 



The old way was to ask a neighbor or 



trust to the newspapers. 



The new way is to get information in 



the nick of time over the 'phone, thus 



knowing when to sell and when to 



hold. 



The old way of procedure when some one took sick, was 

 to harness up the "driver" and make all haste for the doc- 

 tor. Effort in this direction often procured as its only re- 

 sult the information : "doctor is out." 

 The new way is to call up the doctor on the phone, and 

 know instantly what can be done pending the medical 

 man's arrival. 



Problem V. Help: 



The old way was to allow men to go on boys' errands — 

 waste half a morning walking to Smith's only to find that 

 his harrow was already loaned. The new way is to make 

 the phone your errand boy — buy, borrow, beget by means 

 of the "silent partner." 



We have prepared a Booklet describing fully a rural phone system. Hadn't you better instruct us to send 

 this interesting bit of information, seeing that it costs you nothing. ASK FOR BOOKLET 2216 



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