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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



April, 191 S 



The Pruitland Nurseries 



are now prepared to book epring orders for 

 all kinds of Fruit and Ornamental Treed, 

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price Uet. 



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FRUITUND. Ont 



STRAWBERRY GROWERS 

 ATTENTION 



For choice, well eelwsted etock of all the 

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Strawberries 5° varieties 

 Raspberries ■, varieties 

 Seed Potatoes 



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THE LAKEVIEW FRUIT FARM 



H. L. MtCONNELL & SON, PORT BURWELL, ONT. 



FRUIT MACHINERY CO. 



INGEHSOLL, ONT. 



Manufacturers of Fruit Sprayers 



and a complete line of 



Apple Evaporating Machinery 



Our complete POWER SYSTEMS for 



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Frost Fence- 

 Made in Canada and 

 sold Canada -Wide 



Tt would be impossible to find a community in Canada, 

 however remote, that has not heard ot FROST FENCE, 

 and tew where FROST FENCE is not used. Canada leads 

 the world in many particulars, and is certainly not behind in 

 the matter of wire fence, with the famous FROST FENCE 

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The new slogan "Buy Goods Made-in-Canada" is having a splendid 

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 the wire from which it is made is of Canadian manufacture too, which is more 

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WE MAKE OUR OWN WIRE. For one thing, it helps to keep Cana- 

 dian workers employed. During the year passed we paid $.30,000 to those 

 workmen who made our wire. This stayed in Canada Other firms go to 

 the United States for their wire. Then again, it's the only sure way we 

 know of to get the quality we insist upon (or FROST FE.NCE. 



With extra quality wire as a starter, we are putting out today a fence 

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 in your locality. 



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Frost Wire Fence Co., Limited, Hamilton, Ont. 



tically rould not find a sinfje apple that 

 was damaffed in the least. These packages 

 can be had for 2S',i< apiece, and I believe 

 they are to be one of our cominK packages. 

 This man wrote us he had bouifht apples 

 parked in the western style and he had 

 found all the apples bruised more or less, 

 while these apples which had been shipped 

 from Virginia were absolutely perfect. 



The third point is better grndinK. Even 

 vou do not do perfect Kradin(<: yet. 



p'ourth : There ou^ht to be better distribo 

 tion. We need better distribution both iti 

 time and place. 



Fifth : We ouRht to do more to develop our 

 local markets. I remember nobody used to 

 ship anythincr to Halifax that was fit to 

 eat, and Halifax is a city of 50,000 or more. 

 There is no reason why they should not 

 consume a tremendous lot of apples if you 

 would treat them decently. I believe if 

 you shipped them good stuff you would get 

 good prices. 



Sixth : We ought to pav more attention to 

 bv-products ; the manufacture of all sorts 

 of things out of our lower grade apples that 

 otherwise go to waste or go into the middle 

 of the barrel, and go somewhere else. There 

 is an almost unlimited market for these 

 different line of things. In our part of the 

 coumtry you can buy cider apples for abou' 

 twelve cents a bushel ; and you can sell the 

 vinegar produced for ten or twelve dollars, 

 where it cost you five dollars to make it. 

 Then there is boiled cider ; they figur' 

 twelve cents worth of these apples will makr 

 seventy-five cents worth of boiled cider. This 

 question of by-products is worth consider- 

 ing. 



Seventh : We ought to cut out the middl. 

 man. Last year Professor Waugh and 1 had 

 a fine crop of Wealthy apples. We put 

 them up in the ordinary type of peach bas- 

 ket, and took them to Northampton, erne of 

 our small cities, and went to various stores. 

 At one store the owner took five baskets, 

 and said, "When you come next time I 

 will take fifteen." When the team went 

 back it went to him first, and he took the 

 whole of the seventy-five baskets. I hap- 

 pened to be in the store that afternoon and 

 I saw these apples on sale. He had taken 

 them out of those big peach baskets and 

 put them into those little Georgia till bas- 

 kets, and he was charging thirty cents for 

 those : that is, he was getting $1.20 for 

 what he paid us fifty cents for. 



Eighth : Fruit growers ought to do more 

 mixed farming. I believe that the time is 

 coming when a little more mixing of our 

 farming will be considered as a good 

 thing. 



Mv last point is advertising. It is one 

 of the biggest questions that faces the 

 fruit man of to-day if he is to avoid over- 

 production. In the first place I believe that 

 we ouo-ht to advertise more generally the 

 healthfulness of apples. People do not ap- 

 preciate what a fine thing an apple is to 

 eat. Just imagine what would hapoen if a 

 man in the patent medicine business had a 

 thing that looked as fine as an apple, was 

 as wholesome as it is, tasted as good, and 

 had a really hit^h food value added. Any 

 man who could cornet a patent medicine 

 with anywhere near that collection of good 

 points would be a millionaire inside of six 

 months '. Yet we farmers do not advertise 

 them at all, or at least not to amount to 

 anything. 



The Canadian Horticulturist is eagerly 

 looked for and diligently read in our gar- 

 dening family.— A, Lucas, R. R. No. 7, Lon- 

 don, Ont. 



