THE CANADIAN TTOETTC ULTTTT^ TST 



January, k)1; 



FRUIT MACHINERY GO. 



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Manufacturers of Fruit Sprayers 



>nd a complete line of 



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Writ* for Illustrated Catalogue 



Ovcr-Production of Apples Threatened* 



D. Johnson, Dominion Fruit Commissioner, Ottawa 



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REAL ESTATE 



AI.I, KINDS OF FARMS— Fruit tarme a specialty. 

 — W. B. Calder, Grimgb.T- 



NIAGARA DISTRICT FRUIT FARMS. — Before 

 buying it will pay you to consult me. I make 

 a specialty of fruit and grain farms.— Melyin 

 Gayman & Co., St. Catharines. 



ASK DAWSON. He knows. 



IF YOU WANT to sell a farm consult me. 



IF YOU WANT to huy a farm consult me. 



I HAVE soip^ of the beet Fruit, Stock, Grain 



and Dairy Farms on my list at riirht prices. 



H. W. Dawson, Ninety Oolbome St., Toronto. 



FOR SALE— CONSERVATORY, situate in the 

 town of Owen Sound, in the County of Grey, 

 and Province of Ontario, containing 5 acres of 

 land, 3 g-reenhouses, "^A ft. x 150 ft., fully 

 equiipped and in a splendid location. There 

 is only one other florist in the town, which 

 has a population of 12,000. For terms, apply 

 to W. H. Smith, Owen Sound, Ontario. 



HONEY WANTED 



A QUANTITY OF HONEY WANTED— Montgomery 

 Bros., Merchants, Deloraine, Man. 



POULTRY 



FREE — We will give free to any person interest- 

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 Eoyal Purple Stock and Poultry foods and 

 remedies. Write W. A. Jenkins Mfg. Co., 

 London, Canada. 



SITUATION WANTED 



GARDENER, SCOTCHMAN, wants position. Ex- 

 perienced in all branches and capable of taking 

 charg-e of orchard. First-class references. 

 Address Box 10, Canadian Horticulturist. 



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IJurinjf the past season, it has been my 

 privik'Ke to travel some fifteen thousand 

 miles among tho fruit-growingf districts of 

 Canada and the western States. K great 

 deal of that distance has been covered by 

 motor among the orchards and farms, so 

 that f have had a fair opportunity of judg- 

 ing the extent of our orchard lands. I knew 

 before that Canada had some twenty-five 

 million fruit trees, but had never realized 

 what these figures meant until I came in 

 contact with the orchards. Then it was 

 pressed home to me that, unless consump- 

 tion was greatly increased, there was a day 

 not far distant when Canada would be face 

 to face with over-production. 



In the famous .4nnapolis Valley of Nova 

 Scotia not more than fifty per cent, of the 

 apple trees are bearing, and those that art- 

 bearing are still young and far from yield- 

 ing their maximum of fruit. The orchards 

 are situated in a valley some one hundred 

 miles long and an average of about six 

 miles wide. In this valley apples are the 

 main product of the land, and the good 

 care that the growers are giving their trees 

 assures us that Nova Scotia will yet pro- 

 duce twice as much, and perhaps four times 

 as much, before many years. New Bruns- 

 wick is also planting, and on the sloping 

 bank of the St. John River are thousands 

 of acres of young orchard that are not yet 

 producing. Quebec is forging to the fronc 

 once more, and many acres of Fameuse and 

 Mcintosh Red are there producing an apple 

 of superb quality and appearance. With 

 conditions in Ontario we are all more or 



less familiar. Ue know that im some dis- 

 tricts plantings have greatly increased, 

 while in others San Jose Scale had wipe' 

 the orchards out of existence; but I thin; 

 >ou will agree with me that one-half of ou 

 J(),0(K),000 apple trees are not yet bearing 

 It is only necessary to drive up and dowi 

 the concessions of the fruit producing di- 

 tricts to be convinced that our orchard 

 are just beginning to produce. 



British Columbia was a great surprise 

 to me. I had often heard of the orchard 

 there, but when brought face to face wit'. 

 them, it was a revelation. I travelled houi 

 after hour through solid orchards, kept in 

 a state of perfection seldom seen in On- 

 tario. It is true that they are only pro- 

 ducing some one thousand carloads of 

 apples this season, yet this is only a be- 

 ginning, as two-thirds of the trees are 

 under five years of age. and the other third 

 practically only beginning to bear. The 

 north-west States of Washington. Oregon, 

 and Idaho are in a like position, producing 

 now some fifteen thousand cars. In view 

 of these facts, 1 can only ask you, as I 

 have asked myself time after time : What 

 of the future ? The answer, to my mind, 

 is the extension of markets and the use of 

 modern advertising to increase consump- 

 tion both at home and abroad, and also the 

 adoption of some cheaper method of handl- 

 ing the fruit from producer to consumer 

 in order to give the great bulk of our pop- 

 ulation a chance to eat apples, which is, 

 of course, only another metjiod of increas- 

 ing consumption. 



Horticultural Work in British Columbia 



R, M. Winslow, Provincial 



Out of the grant made under the .Agri- 

 culturist Instruction Act to British Colum- 

 bia for the fiscal year 1913, the sum of five 

 thousand dollars was set aside for demon- 

 stration work in horticulture, and one thou- 

 sand dollars for fruit packing competitions. 

 The department conducted twenty-five 

 schools, giving a course of five days prac- 

 tical instruction in the pruning of tree and 

 bush fruits, and the expenses of the 

 schools at Sardis, Haney, Metchosin and 

 North Vancouver, were met out of the vote. 

 The work of the expert in charge of cold 

 storage, pre-cooling and fruit transporta- 

 tion investigations, was also assisted out 

 of this vote, especially by the employment 

 of an assistant, Mr. J. M. Creelman. 



In the fiscal year 1914 expenditures on 

 the following objects have been made: Five 

 acre plots have been selected at Lawn Hill, 

 on Graham Island, for the Queen Char- 

 lotte Islands ; at Bella Coola, to serve the 

 Valley of that name ; and at Terrace to 

 serve the Kitsumkalum-Lake District 

 on the Skeena River. On the Graham 

 Island plots special attention has been 

 given to the amelioration of Graham Is- 

 land lands by drainage, liming and fertili- 

 zers, and demonstrations in experimental 

 work in growing agricultural and horticul- 

 tural crops on such land. At Bella Coola 

 demonstration and experimental work with 

 vegetables and small fruits formed the 

 principal activity, and the plot at Terrace 

 has been conducted on much the same 

 lines. 



An assistant to P. E. French, an assis- 

 tant, to M. S. Middleton, and an assistant 



•Extract from an address delivered at the last 

 annual convention of the Ontario Fruit Growers' 

 Association. 



Horticulturist, Victoria, B.C. 



to k. H. Tomlinson, are also being paid 

 out of this grant. These under-graduate 

 summer assistants are occupied in demon- 

 stration spraying, pruning and general 

 orchard inspection and instruction work. 

 This grant has also been used to 

 a slight extent, in connection with the 

 fruit packing schools and in carrying out 

 a series of top-grafting demonstrations in 

 the Okanagan A'alley. 



Prize money has been paid for fruit pack- 

 ing competitions and for exhibits of packed 

 fruit by packing school pupils. 



.\pple packing contests were held at ten 

 fairs, Vernon, Summerland, Nelson, Sal- 

 mon .Arm, .Armstrong, Creston, Nakusp, 

 New Denver. Cranbrook and Trail. The ob- 

 ject of these contests was to still further 

 stimulate a keen interest in rapid and high- 

 olass fruit packing. 



The pupils of twenty-four fruit packing 

 schools made exhibits at eighteen different 

 fairs ; each pupil's exhibit consisted of five 

 boxes of apples and five different packs. 

 These exhibits were the objects of special 

 attention bv the fruit judges at these fairs, 

 because it is partly on the results of the 

 same that the fruit packing school diplomas 

 are granted. Prize money provided under 

 the act is an additional incentive to a per- 

 fect exhibit. \ total of four hundred and 

 ten dollars was spent under this section. 



The Canadian Horticulturist is one of 

 the most concise, practical, and helpful 

 publications that I have ever read.— Jas. 

 M. Brvson, Moore Park, Toronto, Ont. 



The Canadian Horticulturist is steadily 

 improving, and I do not want to be without 

 it _VV. J. Wilcox. Salmon .Arm, B.C. 



