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THE CANADIAN II O R T I C U L T U R T S T 



December, 1907 



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Take a Look at a Farm 

 Fence Worth Building 



Ideal is the recognized standard fence for Canadian Railways. Railroads build fences for 

 pennancnce. Canadian farmers are buying more Ideal Fence to-day than any other make. 

 They keep our two factories busy, turning out fence at the rate of 30 miles a day. You 

 see this fence everywhere you so. You know there must le reasons. Just take a good 

 look at it as shown above and read the argument for buying 



IDEAL FENCE 



Looks strong, doesn't it? Itwstrong. It's made to last. All made of No. 9 hard steel wires, 

 both horizontals and uprights. Heaviest fence wires used. It adjusts itself in extremes of 

 temperature. That's wliy Ideal fence always stands up erect. The lock which is used at 

 every intersection of wir'-s is shown in lower left hand corner. Neither climbing over nor 

 horning, nor crowding, nor anything else can-make the wires slip. It is not a fence that Rets 

 • holes in so cattle and horses can poke their heads in and hogs root their way throuch.. You 

 can't tell about the galvanizing from looking at the picture but look at the fence itself for 

 that. More heavily galvanized than any other. Easy to build, fits any surface, hilly or level 



Is the Argument sound? r,?sTl%t"XVs":";r,^a„V* 



ate tiuvini; it. T^ke a little time ti> tliink of ihe essenitaSs oi good fencing before you !>uy. 

 The Ideal lias all ciftiieiii. \Veknow you'll want Ideal when you know about it. Write 

 'I our book at)out fencing, I-REH. 



THE McGregor BANWFLL fence CO.. Lid.. 



Department Jtl . WalkervlUe, Ontario 



THE IDEAL FENCE CO.. Ltd. 



Department M. Winnipeg, Manitoba 



^This is a pho- 

 tographic repro- 

 duction of the 

 latest model 

 Horse Power 

 Spramotor, fit- 

 ted as a vineyard 

 sprayer. A moft 

 excellent ma- 

 chine, worthy of 

 your careful in- 

 ve^igation. For 

 vineyard, or- 

 chard, potato, 

 mustard or sur- 

 face spraying. 



If you are interested, 

 write m e personally. 



B. H. HEARD, 1 068 KING STREET. LONDON, CAN. 



Or, 1068 ERIE STREET - - BUFFALO, N.Y. 



>rcntion The Canadian Horticttlturist when writing 



stand that another conference would be held 

 in the near future. Should such materialize, 

 it would meet all the needs of the fruit inter- 

 est, as by such means the growers and ship- 

 pers are brought into closer touch with the 

 government from the fact, that the conference 

 being held at Ottawa during the sitting of the 

 House enables many of its members to attend 

 the conference, who become interested in the 

 work, take part in the discussions, and are 

 prepared to support such resolutions as are 

 adopted by the conference. 



"The method of each province being repre- 

 sented by a delegation of prominent fruit grow- 

 ers is more practical, and aids more in develop- 

 ing the spirit of cooperation, than a Dominion 

 society with a government grant and member- 

 ship would do, particularly if holding its ses- 

 sions away from the Capital." 



Apple Cold Storage 



An investigation of the cold storage of apples 

 was begun in 1906 by the Iowa Agricultural 

 Experiment Station in cooperation with the 

 United States Department of Agricultiire. 

 These experiments were largely an application 

 to Iowa fruit and conditions of fundamental 

 principles of apple cold storage determined dur- 

 ing the last few years in other sections of the 

 country by the tlnited States Department of 

 Agriculture. As the results of the experiments 

 are in accord with the general principles de- 

 veloped in other sections of the country, a brief 

 summary of the Iowa work is herewith given. 



THE TIME TO PICK APPLES 



It has been determined that well-colored, 

 hard-ripe fruit will keep better in cold storage 

 than fruit picked before it is mature or after it 

 has gone beyond full ripeness. Many varieties 

 of apples, when stored immaturely, develop a 

 trouble in storage known as "scald," the skin 

 becoming brown in patches, especially on the 

 green or poorly colored side of the apple, which 

 detracts from the appearance and commercial 

 value of the fruit. 



STORE ONLY THE BEST GRADES 



It usually pays to store only the best grades 

 of fruit. The poorer grades of fruit are gener- 

 ally of low commercial value and do not warrant 

 the expense of cold storage except when the 

 apple crop is scarce. Inferior fruit has been 

 found to deteriorate considerably in storage 

 from decay starting in worm holes, around scab 

 spots and in other imperfections. The fruit 

 needs to be picked with extra care. A bruise or 

 cut in the skin made with the finger nails, by 

 dropping apples on each other in picking, by 

 emptying them into the boxes or barrels, and by 

 handling the packages roughly, becomes very 

 conspicuous as the season advances and detracts 

 from the appearance of the fruit, beside making 

 an easy starting place for destructive rots. This 

 is especially true of tender-skinned fall varieties 

 like the Wealthy. Most of the commercial losses 

 in apples from decay are related primarily to the 

 rough mechanical handling of the fruit. 



STORE QUICKLY AFTER PICKING 



The best results are secured when the fruit is 

 placed in cold storage quickly after it is picked 

 and packed. A delay of a week in storing the 

 fruit in warm weather, will cause the fruit to 

 begin to deteriorate a month or more earlier 

 than it would if it had been stored quickly after 

 picking. The danger of losses from decay, scald 

 and other troubles is also much less when the 

 fruit is stored quickly. 



. STORE AT 32 DEGREES FAHR. 



Various temperatures for the storage of fruit 

 have been tested. A temperature of 32° gives 

 the most satisfactory result in commercial prac- 

 tice, but the fruit keeps well for a shorter time in 

 a temperature as high as 36° if stored quickly 

 after picking. 



The keeping quality of the apple has been 

 tested when stored in barrels, bushel boxes and 



