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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



May, 1915. 



PATRIOTISM and PRODUCTION. Hon. Mittln Bnrrtll, 



Minister of Agriculture «ays: "There will be a demand fur food 

 that the world will find great difficulty in aupplyini;." 



Great Britain needs 

 Food 



Therefore the Canadian Department of Agri- 

 culture is wisely urging farmers to increase their 

 production of staple crops. To encourage the 

 use of Fertilizers the Government has exempt- 

 ed them from the extra war tax of IVz'fo. 



Canada needs 

 Bowker^s Fertilizers 



FOR THREE REASONS; to feed crops in 



order to increase yield; to hasten maturity, and to 

 improve quality. They will ensure a yield by 

 getting crops ahead of the frost — they virtually 

 lengthen the growing season 15 to 20 days. Try 

 them and see. They are no experiment. They 

 have been used in the States 42 years and in 

 Canada for 30 years. 



If you find no Local Agent near you, write 

 us for prices and terms. 



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 LJ\J VV JViClyrV 43 Chatham St., Boston 



STRAWBERRY GROWERS 

 ATTENTION 



For choice, well selected stock o( all the 

 standard varieties of strawberry plants, send 

 us your order. List free. 

 ONTARIO NURSERY CO., Wellington, Ont. 



HANDIEST IMPLEMENT YOU CAN HAVE 



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T. E. B SSELL Company Limited, ELORA, ONT. 



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NEW ONTARIO 



Millions of acres of virgin soil obtain- 

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Thousands of farmers have responded 

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For full information as to terms, regu- 

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H. A. Macdonell 



Director of Colonization 

 Parliament Buildings, TORONTO 



HON. JAS, S. DUFF, 



i.iinister of Agriculture 

 Parliament BIdgs., Toronto 



Ball 

 Valvee 

 Hemp 

 Packing 

 Easy to 



Don't Stop Spraying 



It is easier to keep up than catch n\\. It takes two 

 years for trees to bear after the fuliage is destroyed. 

 Heinember, too, that dormant soraying is import- 

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 ^ . , Sprayed fruit is good fruit, and 



uucsme g^^^ f^yj^ aj^pays brings a good 



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Annapolis Valley Notes 



The spring Is not an early one In Nova 

 Scotia. To this date, (April 20th) the buds 

 on the apple trees have not begun to swell. 

 Pruning is about finished, and except In 

 very early land the farmer has time to take 

 a long breath before the general rush of 

 work that will begin after a few days of 

 drying weather. Apple prices are still re- 

 ported steady in the Old Country markets. 

 This is very satisfactory to the Coopera- 

 tive Companits, for this winter they have 

 extended their shipping season much later 

 than usual, because the Australian crop, 

 which usually comes to England about 

 April the first, was a failure. The irregular 

 boat service from Halifax made a shipping 

 season of unusual difficulty that is now 

 drawing to a fairly .successful close. 



Very few apple trees are being planted 

 this spring, but spraying will be more gen- 

 eral than ever; the attitude of the fruit 

 grower being to sit light and take good care 

 of what he has. Considerable attention Is 

 being given to strawberry culture, the high 

 prices of the last few years will Increase the 

 planting until a big crop sends the price 

 down. The United Fruit Companies are ad- 

 vising all their members to plant potatoes 

 this summer, prophecying high prices in the 

 fall. Their business, opened in Halifax last 

 month to handle all kinds of farm produce 

 grown by their 1,500 members, has already 

 gained a' large trade, and is reaching out 

 to other parts of the province, making new 

 connections and forming a very short link 

 between the producer and the ultimate 

 consumer.— Manning Ells. 



Methods of Advertising Apples 



Prof. F. C. Sears, Amherst, N. S. 



ADVERTISING is one of the biggest 

 questions that faces fruit-growers to- 

 day. Here are just a few sample 

 schemes for advertising: First, use 

 advertising displays in store windows. Here 

 is one plaiTi that we worked out down in 

 Massachusetts. In the town of Brockton, 

 about the size of Halifax, the Board of Trade 

 became interested last autumn and thought 

 it would be a fine thing to offer prizes to 

 ail their store keepers for the best advertis- 

 ing window, using apples for display. The 

 first prize, I think, was $100, and others in 

 proportiom. It was really wonderful what 

 they did, the forty or fifty competitors. Some 

 of the windows were really works of art. 

 The man who got second prize thought he 

 would do a little advertising the week be- 

 fore, so he made up a window, and as a re- 

 sult of the advertising of that window, the 

 week previous to the campaign he sold all 

 the apples he had on hand and had to lay 

 in a new stock. And the day the prizes 

 were awarded this man sold sixty-seven bar- 

 rels before one o'clock, and he had a com- 

 paratively small store at that ! 



A friend of mine who had charge of a 

 big orchard estate near Newburyport, got 

 S. S. Pierce & Company, in Boston, to 

 let him have the use of ome of their win- 

 dows and put out an exhibit. It was a very 

 attractive exhibit. One barrel of Green- 

 ings was tipped out, another of Baldwins 

 tipped out, both showing the fine quality 

 of the fruit. Then there were fancy pack- 

 ages, and orchard scenes and so on. As a 

 result of that exhibit being there only a 

 few days this man got over five hundred in- 

 quiries from people who had seen it, aoid 

 wanted to know where they could buy such 

 apples. .\t Filenes, in Boston, we put in 

 a little exhibit in one window, and the po- 

 lice actually had to make them take it out, 

 ♦Extract from an address delivered at the re- 

 cent annual convention of the Nova Scotia. i?Ytiit 

 Growers* Association. 



