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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



February, 191 5 



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 It means $5 to $50 per acre extra profit If all bills 

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Catchy Apple Slogans 



Last fall prizes were offered in Calgary 

 for the best slogans descriptive of British 

 Columbia apples. Hundreds of witty say- 

 ings and rhymes were handed in for con- 

 sideration. The awards were as follow: 

 First: 



"T-.C. apples for dessert 

 Keep you healthy and alert." 

 —J. G. Innes, 1413 Fourth Street, North- 

 west, Calgary. 

 Second : 



"Lots of apples, fewer ills ; 

 Fewer apples, lots of pills." 

 — -H. Seal, 707 Thirteenth Ave. \V., Calgary. 

 Third: 



"An apple a day 

 Keeps the body O.K." 

 —Mrs. C. de Bruyne, 532 Twenty-third 

 .Avenue West, Calgary. 

 Fourth : 



"Eat B.C. apples, ripe and red. 

 You'll still be here when the rest are 

 dead." 

 —Mrs. A. J. Sketchley, 113 Bellevue 

 Avenue, Calgary. 

 Fifth : 



"If healthy and robust you'd be. 

 Call in 'Doc' Apple from B.C." 

 —Maurice Spires, 452 Twenty - second 

 Avenue, North-west, Mountview, Calgary. 



The judges exercised the right to make 

 slight verbal alterations in some of the 

 winning couplets. 



The general excellence of the contribu- 

 tions will be gathered by the following ex- 

 amples of slogans, that only missed win- 

 ning prizes by narrow margins : 



"Nature's Health Insurance— the B. C. 

 apple." "B.C. apples, heart's delight, 

 good for breakfast, noon and night." 

 "North and south, and east and west, B. 

 C. apples are the best." "B.C. apples, 

 red and sweet, cure all ills from head to 

 feet." "Apples large and apples small, 

 B.C. apples beat them all." "Apples that 

 in B.C. grow, keep you well from head to 

 toe." "An apple when I go to bed, this 

 paints mv cheeks, the maiden said." "A 

 B.C. apple every night, ensures a break- 

 fast appetite." "Give the hard-worked 

 'Doc' a rest, eat B.C. apples, they're the 

 best." "Eat more apples, Adam fell for 

 them, why not you?" "An apple at morn- 

 ing, at noon, and at night, makes young 

 and old healthy and happy and bright." 

 "If I could have but wishes three, they'd 

 be three apples from B.C." "If you want 

 rosv, red-cheeked tots, of B.C. apples feed 

 them lots." "The luscious fruit that tempt- 

 ed Eve, was a B.C. apple, I do believe. '| 

 "See Rome and die, eat apples and live.' 

 "B.C. apples, nature's best, will now and 

 always stand the test." "Here's to the 

 apple from sunny B.C., the best that's 

 grown and M.I.C. (made in Canada)." 

 "To rear a boy life's cares to grapple, 

 spare the rod, but not the apple." 



Apple Trees for Highways 



A petition signed bv several thousand tax- 

 pavers in Calhoun County, Michigan, was 

 presented to the Board of Supervisors at 

 their October session, asking that $1,000 be 

 appropriated each year for the planting and 

 care of fruit trees along the highways 

 where State Reward Roads have been built 

 This petition was endorsed by the Central 

 Fruit Growers-' Association, the Horticul- 

 tural Societv, and the Battle Creek Cham- 

 ber of Commerce. The Supervisors author- 

 ized a committee of three to recommend a 

 practical plan of planting, and to suggest 

 a variety of fruit trees that would be most 

 ;;dvantageous to the climate. 



This plan of utilizing the land bordering 

 the highways for the growing of fruit was 

 suggested by the late C. W. Post, founder 

 of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., of Battle 

 Creek. His idea was not only to devise a 

 means of beautifying the highways, but at 

 the saite time produce a revenue towards 

 the up-keep of the roads, as the fruit trees 

 would soon produce a fund from the sale of 

 fruit, and in time would be the means of 

 furnishing fruit at a very small cost to the 

 wage-earners in the district. 



The South American Market 



The apples sent by the United Fruit 

 Companies of Nova Scotia last fall to the 

 Argentine Republic have apparently made 

 a big hit. The Buenos Ayrcs Herald has 

 published some interestinar articles con- 

 cerning them. One of these published 

 under the heading "Trade with Canada 

 Promises Well," reads as follows: 



"Judging by the success which has at- 

 tended recent shipments of Canadian apples 

 to Buenos .iXyres, there should be a big 

 future before the fruit trade between this 

 country and the Dominion. We have re- 

 ceived a sample of a consignmesot of apples 

 shipped to Mr. Brougham by the United 

 Fruit Company of Nova Scotia, and no bet- 

 ter fruit could be wished for, even from 

 the famous orchards of the great apple- 

 growing maritime Province. It is well 

 graded, and packed with due care, the re- 

 sult beine that it has arrived in first-class 

 condition. In reckoning up its wealth th« 

 Province of Nova Scotia counts among it< 

 staples so many million barrels of apples 

 and if the export trade in this fruit is 

 vigorously pushed, so far as South .-Xmeric. 

 is concerned, there is no reason why botl 

 countries should not materially benefit- 

 South America by obtaining regular sup 

 plies of delicious fruit at reasonable prices 

 and Nova Scotia by securing the monei 

 that is available here for the right goods. ' 



Manitoba 



The annual volume recently issued by thi 

 Manitoba Horticultural and Forestry Asso 

 ciation is somewhat unique. In forme: 

 years it was the plan of the association t( 

 publish an annual report. During the pas 

 year the association undertook to presen 

 its members with an eight-page bulletii 

 once a month, dealing in each issue witl 

 timely topics in regard to tree, shrub 

 fruit or flower growing. At the same t-"" 

 extra copies of these monthly bulU 

 were reserved to be bound at the end of .. 

 year, together with a business report, inti 

 an annual volume. The year 1914 has beei 

 by all means the best year the associatioi 

 has ever had, the paid-.up membership be 

 ing now over the 200 mark. The secre 

 tary of the association is Prof. Brodrick 

 Manitoba Agricultural Society, Winnii 

 who will be glad to communicate with . 

 one as to membership or other hortu ul 

 tural matters. 



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Farming in Nnva Scotia does not pi 

 duce millionaires. As in the time of Lo^ 

 fellow's Evangeline, the poor are still rid 

 but when the war stress comes most farm 

 can raise enough mixed produce to mak 

 each farmer comfortable in the actus 

 necessaries of life. The toast farms 1 

 rich fishing grounds, while the inland 

 are well supplied with hay, grain, fiu. 

 vegetables and poultry. Certainly meat i 

 high, but pigs, cows and sneep are raise 

 for sale, and in some old time farms th 

 women still make the under-clothes fror 

 the fleece of their own sheep, also sock 

 and mittens. 



