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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Floral Edition. 



An Adequate, Convenient and Economical 

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The supply is as abundant as the main source can 

 furnish (think of the advantage In case of Are), the pres- 

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Thirty-Six Highest Awards 



To International Harvester Machines 



"THE International Jury of Awards, at 

 San Francisco Exposition, gave to the 

 International Harvester exhibit thirty-six 

 highest awards covering not only the full line of 

 harvesting, haying and com machines and binder 

 twine, including Deering and McCormick, but 

 also the newer lines — the oil engines and tractors, 

 manure spreaders, tillage implements, farm wagons, 

 corn planters, corn cultivators, feed grinders, and seeding 

 machines. 



This is a world's record. Never before were so 

 many highest awards given to any one exhibition of farm 

 machines at any World's Fair. 



In 1 85 1 the first reaper was exhibited at the World's 

 Fair in London, and there received the Council Medal. 

 Since 1 85 1 it has been the Company's policy to exhibit 

 and demonstrate its machines wherever the opportunity 

 was offered. 



The exhibit at San Francisco in 1915 occupies 

 26,721 square feet of space, by far the most com- 

 plete exhibit of its kind ever made. The thirty-six highest 

 awards given to this exhibit constitute a splendid mark 

 of approval for the good judgment of the hundreds of 

 thousands of farmers who believe International Harvester 

 machines to be the best the world afiords. 



International Harvester G>mpany of Gmada, Ltd. 



BRANCH HOUSES 

 At Braadon, Calfarr, £^ODton, Estcraa, Hamiltoa, Lctlibridfe, LoaJon, Moatrea], 

 M. Battlsiud, Ottawa, Qsebec, Regina. Saskatoan. St. Jeha. Winaipci, Yorktaa 



Bees Saved the Strawberry Crop 



Editor, The Canadian Horticulturist: 

 Some time ago, while travelling, I chanced 

 to mention to some parties wliom I met that 

 we liad received one thousand dollars tor 

 the crop of strawberries we had grown on 

 an acre of our farm at Central Norton. From 

 there the story found its way Into the local 

 paper. Since then we have received many 

 enquiries about it, and as the subject 

 seemed to be of interest to so many, I 

 thought I would like to state one of the rea- 

 sons why we succeeded in harvesting this 

 crop In a year when berries were generally 

 a failure. 



We got a fairly good stand of plants on 

 this patch the season before. They wintered 

 fairly well, but the spring was backward and 

 cold. They began to bloom about June 1st. 

 On tlie night of June 4th we had a heavy 

 frost, which killed all the blossoms down to 

 the smallest buds. We thought our crop 

 was doomed, because we reimembered a sea- 

 son about seven years before when a lighter 

 frost had ruined our crop. This was before 

 we began keeping bees. 



The evening after the frost it rained, a 

 good soaking rain, which caused the plants 

 to set more fruit buds out of the crowns. 

 Where one or two fruit stems had been bo 

 fore, there sprang many more — and in about 

 ten days tJhe patch wa-s white with blos- 

 soms again. 



Near to this patch we had fourteen colon- 

 ies of bees. At this time of year the hives 

 were brimming full, and every fine day, 

 while the plants were In "bloom, you could 

 hear their busy hum quite a distance fron. 

 the patch. The spring being so cold, thert- 

 were very few wild bees or other wild in- 

 sects, so we (had to depend solely on our 

 own bees for the fertilization of these blos- 

 soms, and they made a good job of It. How 

 do we know? Because, as the season drew 

 near its close, every blossom that had not 

 been frozen grew a berry. There were none 

 of the small hard knots often seen towards 

 the last of the harvest. 



How much do you think those bees were 

 worth to us on that crop of berries? We 

 place it at hundreds of dollars, but this is 

 only an esUmate. One thing we are sure 

 of, and that is that it pays well to have a 

 good crop of berries in a year when they 

 are scarce and high In price: and we know 

 the bees were largely responsible for tHe 

 excellent poUenization of the blossoms. We 

 had more than half these berries picked be- 

 fore It began to dawn on us that we were 

 going to have a crop, we were so sure the 

 frost had fixed them. 



The sooner that fruit growers find out the 

 benefit that bees are to them, the sooner 

 they will catch the dollars that are slipping 

 through their fingers because of imperfect 

 poUenization. The profits in beekeeping are 

 not all to be counted in the number of 

 pounds of honey harvested. 



L. T. FLOYD, Central Norton, N.B. 



Ten fruit growers in the vicinity of Thor- 

 old, Ontario, have brought suit against the 

 Coniagas Production Co., of Thorold, asking 

 for damages of various amounts, on the 

 ground that deadly vaporous gas from the 

 company's smelter at Thorold, killed the 

 bees for a radius of many miles about the 

 works. They also contend that the poison- 

 ous vapors have killed .vegetation, making 

 it almost impossible to conduct farming or 

 fruit growing in the vicinity. 



The damages asked for range from $400, 

 in the case of Wm. Selby, of Homer, to 

 $10,000, in the cases of Manford Miles, of 

 Thorold, and John Newhouse, of Homer. 

 The claimants contend that their bees were 

 killed by sucking poison out of the flowers. 



