THE CANADIAN TfORTTCULTURIST 



March, u}\^- 



Classified Advertisements 



AdTerttsementa In this department In- 

 serted at rate of 3 cents a word for eaeh 

 insertion, each flgrure, sign or single letter 

 to eount as one word, minimum cost, 30 

 eents, strictly cash In advance. 



REAL ESTATE 



ALL KINDS OF FARMS— Fruit farms agpeclalty. 

 — W. B. Oalder, Grimsby. 



NIAGARA niSTRICT FRUIT FARMS. - Before 

 buying it will pay you to consult me. I make 

 a specialty of fruit and grain farms.— Melvin 

 Oayman A Co., St. Cat harines. 



ASK DAWSON. He knows. 



IF YOU WANT to sell a farm consult me. 



IF YOU WANT to buy a farm consult me. 



I HAVE some of the beet Fruit, Stocls, Grain 



and Dairy Farms on my list at right prices. 



H. W. DawBon. Ninety Oolbome St.. Toronto. 



$7,500.00— 50-ACRE FRUIT FARM, one mile east of 

 Beamsville. on Stone Road. 10 acres of fruit. 

 (iO(>d house, barn and chicken houses. Property 

 carrying- .$3,500 mortKage. Enauir, E. C. Morris, 

 itidgeville. Ont. 



POULTRY 



f REE— We will give free to any person interest- 

 ed in stock or poultry one of our 80-page illus- 

 »-rated books on how to feed, how to huild 

 hen houses; tells the common diseases of poul- 

 try and stock, with remedies for same; tells 

 how to cure roup in four days; tells all about 

 our Royal Purple Stock aJid Poultry foods and 

 remedies. Write W. A. Jemkins Mfg. Oo., 

 London, Oanada. 



BEES AND QUEENS 



OOLDEN AND 3 BAND ITALIAN, also Car- 

 niolan Queens. Tested each $1.00. 3 to 6 95c. 

 6 or more 85c. Untested 75c. 3 to 6 70c. 6 or 

 more 65c. Bees per pound $1.50. Nuclei per 

 frame $1.60. — C. B. Bankston. Buffalo, Cjeon 

 Oo.. Texas. 



ITALIAN QUEENS, also the Golden Beauties and 

 Carniolans. Tested $1.00. Untested 75c each. 

 For Ijees by the iK)und and queens in lots write 

 for prices.— Page Bankston, Buffalo, Texas. 



BEES AND QUEENS- Pure bred Poultry, prize 

 winners, stock and eggs. Rose Comb Brown 

 I/iffhorns and Blacii Minorcas. White Rocks. 

 Black Langshans. White Minorcas. — W. P. 

 Collins, Boulder. Col., U.S.A. 



ITALIAN BEES AND QUEENS reared for Cana- 

 dians. Hardy, winter well. Send for circular. 

 .Standard Ix-e hives shipped direct from fac 

 tory in Iowa at $1.20 each. — Stover Apiaries, 

 Mayhew, Miss. 



BEES FOR SALE. Apply W. Walton, Scarboro 

 Jctn.. Ont. 



ITALIAN BEES AND QUEENS as advertised on 

 page 75. Catalogue free. — Deroy Taylor Co., 

 NewaJ-k. N.Y. 



SAMPLE QUEENS— To introduce our Moor's 

 strain of Leather colored and Golden Italian 

 Queens, we will send one to each applicant at 

 40o each, cash with order.— Ogden Bee & Honey 

 Co.. Ogden, Utah. Timberline Riggs, Breeder. 



EARLY QUEENS — ^Those who desire early queens 

 can be supplied by sending orders to us. Only 

 three-band Italians stand the severe test 

 against diseases, and our bees are clean. Un- 

 tested queens, $1.00 each; $4.25 for six: $8.00 per 

 dozen. Always safe arrival and satisfaction to 

 Everybody. If you desire queens in large lots 

 ,early, better let us I>cok you as soon as con- 

 venient, and money can be sent when queens 

 are wanted. Your check is good, or any way 

 you wish to remit.— The Rialto Honey Co.. Box 

 73. Rialto. Cal. 



QUEENS — California queens, nuclei, and bees, 

 bred from the best DooUttle stock, ready for 

 plupment at once. Queens, untested. 75c; per 

 flozen. .$8.00: tested. .$1.25: per dozen. $12.00: 

 mismated. one year old, 50c; per dozen. $5.00: 

 tested, one year old. 75c; per dozen. S8.0O: 

 nuclei, two-frame, $1.50; three-frame. $2.25; flve- 

 frame, $3.00; ten-frame colony. $4.50 Bees by 

 pound: One-half lb.. 75c : 1 lb., .$1.00. Add prices 

 Of queens desired to all above prices of bees 

 and nuclei. Delivery guaranteed. No disease. 

 Address Spencer Apiaries Co.. Nordhoff, Oal. 



lower mainliiiud prccooIinK strawberries for 

 express shipments. By means of thcrmo- 

 Kr:i|)hs 1 secured the iiverajfe temperatare 

 of the express cars travelling between that 

 region aind the prairie markets. Berries 

 were then cooled to various temperatures 

 from forty-five degrees up till they were 

 shipped at the same temperature as taken 

 from the patch. On the market an in- 

 spector detcrminid the score of the fruit 

 and percentage over-ripe. The results 

 showed that cooling was beneficial to the 

 average cooled five degrees below thi; tem- 

 perature of the express cars. Whon cooled 

 lower t^an this the berries suffered on ar- 

 (ounl of the condens-ation of moisture on 

 removal from the cooling ch;unber, with 

 the resull;int growth of mold, which was as 

 bad or worse than when shipped hot from 

 the patch. 



CU.^RD ALL POINTS 



But whatever method of precooling is used 

 successful shipmcints are impossible if other 

 points in handling are neglected. Pre- 

 cooling is not a panacea and will not make 

 over-ripe or injured fruit arrive in good 

 condition. This was admirably illustrated 

 during the past season when two cars of 

 fruit were shipped the same day to the 

 same firm in a prairie city. One car was 

 delayed and arrived twenty-four hours later 

 than the other. The delayed car was in 

 ideal shipping condition, with fruit at am 



CLASSIFIED— Continued 

 BEES AND QUEENS 



QUEENS — Our early queen Ijireeding- location is 

 a long narrow oasis in the desert of Southern 

 Nevada, which is crossed at Moapa by the Salt 

 Lake and Loh Ang-elos R. R. Write for our cir- 

 cular which gives prices of queens, bees by 

 the pound, nuclei, etc. Booking- orders now.— 

 Ogden Bee & Honey Oo., Oprden, Utah. Timber- 

 line Rig^, Breeder. 



BEE SUPPLIES 



CALIFORNIA REDWOOD HIVES, one 8t<jry com- 

 plete with ten frames. $1.00. Supers with 9 

 frames. 50c. Discounts. 25-10% — lj00-20°i. Ex- 

 tracted honey cases. 65c. Dadant's foundation 

 delivered by prepaid freight anywhere, medium 

 52c — thin 54c. surplus 59c. Supplies of all kinds 

 at 5% off any manufacturers' prices. Catalogue 

 free. — Spencer Apiaries. Nordhoff. Cal. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



1,000 GU.M.MED HONEY LABELS, two colors, any 

 wording for $1.30. Catalogue free.— Pearl Card 

 Co.. Clintonville, Conn. 



even and satisfactory degree of ripenes 

 and arrived at its destination in perfee 

 condition. The car that was not delayi ■ 

 comtained plums that were beginning i 

 soften at the lime of shipping and soni. 

 carelessly packed, and arrived at its des 

 tination with a part of its plums in bar 

 shape. 



To have precooling work to the advaij 

 tage of the shipper the following precau 

 tions must be followed: (1) Frequent pick 

 ings of fruit to avoid ripeness and secui' 

 even maturity; (2) Careful handling^ ii 

 picking, packing and handling ; (3) Can 

 ful grading and expert packing; (4) Ira-4| 

 mediate cooling after picking, and packing;^' 

 (.')) Immediate shipping after cooling; (O' 

 Secure and careful loading in satisfactor 

 iced refrigerator cars. 



.At the (irimsby Cold Storage U; 



only control these pre-re(iuisites by refus- 

 ing to receive fruit that is not in good con- 

 dition, and even this means cannot be as 

 effective and as satisfactory as where the 

 shipper or grower^ is honest enough to 

 serve his own interests best by shipping 

 only satisfactory fruit promptly and care- 

 fully harvested. 



By controlling the loading of the cars we 

 are able to govern this factor for success- 

 ful shipments. On all long distance ship- 

 ments the fruit is raised four inches from 

 the refrigerator car floor on a slatted rack 

 and loaded so as to leave a continuous 

 air space. In the centre of the car a space 

 is left from two to five feet for air circula- 

 tion amd the loads in either end of the car 

 are held rigidly in space by bulkheads and 

 proper braces. This is the most effective 

 way of stopping the evil of broken pack- 

 ages and by using care we have not had a 

 complaint about a single broken package 

 during" the season. 



Precooling is yet in its infancy in Can- 

 ada. When fruit is properly picked, care- 

 fully handled without delay the advantage 

 of precooling has been show,n beyond all 

 doubt. As yet we have made only a start. 

 To look forward to the day when each ship- 

 ping point will have its precooling plant, 

 is a long step, just as it is to look ahead 

 to the time when our fruit will be careful- 

 ly and honestly packed suitable for pre- 

 cooling and long distance shipments. But 

 I am convinced that the time when these 

 desires will be realized is not many years 

 awav. 



Fruit trees planted 

 with CXL Stumping 



Powder will 

 yield from one 

 to two years 

 earlier than 

 those planted 

 in the old- 

 fashioned way 



In spade dug holes, the roots are compressed 

 within narrow limits by the hard-packed soil. 



CXL Stumping Powder shatters and loosens the 

 earth tor yards around: thus tne roots can reach 

 out easily for nourishment, the soil will absorb 

 moisture more quickly and reniln it for a longer 

 time. 



Besides — the planting is done in less time and 

 with less labor. There's a CXTj Explosive for every 

 blasting purpose. 



Caaatjian Exploiivei Limited, Montreal - Victoria 



Send for fref book- 

 h'l 'Farming :ctth 

 Pvnamite" 



