February, 1921. 



SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE 



85 



: High Crop Yields 



■ are Most Profitable 



■ This chart shows what Prof. 



A. Leitch, Farm Efficiency <. >6 



Expert of the Ontario 



■ Agricultural College, 



■ reports in Bulletin 



■ No. 278, after 



■ checking up 226 



■ mixed farms in 



■ Central Ontario. 



: Why do big 

 ; Yields Pay ? 



ettadOt dltciooz XiliaiiO% illloizat >ZJ[oi:o% 

 Percentage ol Average Yields. 

 What it means: Ab crop yields incraase, so 

 labor incomea increase. 



Because items oi outlay such as land rental, equipment, labor. 

 land preparation, seed and harvesting are about the :iame whether 

 you get 20 bushels per acre o/ wheat or 40 bushels; 40 bushels per acre oj oats 

 or 85 bushels; 5 tofis of silage per acre or 12 tons; 80 bushels of potatoes or 

 250 per acre. 



The extra bushels make the profit. Why not get the big yields 

 and get all there ts in it? 



Liberal use of good-grade fertilizers will bring you biggest 

 y'lelds- 



Gct the most out of your work in 1921. 



/* Pays to Fertilize, 



For information write 



■ The Soil and Crop Improvement Bureau ■ 



H of the Canadian Fertilizer Association _ 



■ HENRY G. BELL, B.S.A.. Director 1111 Temple BIdg., TORONTO ^ 



what we owe to our local hortioulturists and enthusiasts 

 can be measured by the states and countries now devot- 

 ed to the culture of American grapes and native berries. 

 English gooseberries have gradually increased from 

 18-36 dwts. each duiing the last 40 Horticultural Shows. 

 Five native plums and two native cherries have played 

 an important part in the improvement of our "pit" 

 fruits, — now over 300 varieties. A namesake of Mr. 

 Dowaiing wlio lias arranged tills unique garden dinner 

 doubled the size of American goosebeirios in tlie Do%\ni- 

 ing variety and saved the famous "ilulberry bush" 

 from the wrath of speculators. Apples have undergone 

 great local improvement. — Rhode Island Greenings, 

 King of Tompkin's county, Maclntosli Reds, etc. 



The survival of the fittest is most obvious in Iliu-ti- 

 culture. The test is direct and simple — from tree to 

 palate; from garden to table. Our likes are strong 

 and our judgment final. Horticulture is anybody's 

 vocation or avocation. It becomes the city as well as 

 the country. Tlie ideal city is a city of back gardens. 

 The common effort of the mass brings fortli the good 

 things of life. Potatoes only a century on our tables ; 

 but now the world's greatest crop. Carrots, beets, and 

 cabbages have been known only a little over a century ; 

 but in proportion as we have found them good have 

 they been improved. 



So much for the productive possibilities of horticul- 

 ture. Its tonic and dietetic value is not less wonderful. 

 The monotonous meat diet of the Middle Ages is subtly 

 expressed in "Mediaeval" the evil of meed, — a sour 

 sop made of stale ale, old bread, meat, and honey. 

 "Pour and twenty blackbirds liaked in a pie" was "a 

 dainty disli to set before a king." Buzzards, herons. 



The Investor's 

 Accumulation Period 



The chief characteristic of the present investment 

 marliet is the immediate absorption of all the 

 highest class of investment offerings at the ruling 

 rates. There is a general realization that the extra- 

 ordinarily high rates now available are gradually 

 disappearing. 



The present yields, as compared with pre-war 

 yields, are still excellent as will be .seen from the 

 following: — 



Approximate 



Yield 

 July, 1914 

 . 4.34% 



. 4.7G% 



Tresent 

 Yield 

 6.00% 

 6.10% 

 6.10% 

 6.00% 



Province of Ontario 

 Province of Alberta 

 Province of Sa.skatchewan 4.71% 

 Province of Quebec . . 4.34% 

 A much similar ratio holds with all City, 

 Town and Municipal issues. 



Such rates as compared with pre-war yields de- 

 monstrate how decidedly the present is the accu- 

 mulation period for the far-seeing, wide-awake and 

 shrewd investor. 



Copy oJ the latest investment list^ g(p»«i; a tfttie range oJ 

 Government and Municipal issues, Joiu'ajded on request. 



A. E. AMES & CO. 



Investment 



Securities 



Union Bank Bldgr., - Toronto 

 Transportation Bldg., Montreal 

 74 Broadway, - - New York 

 Belmont House, Victoria, B.C. 

 Harris Trust Bldg-., - Chicagro 



Established 



1S89 



rooks, and eels were prized by common folk, — pease 

 and beans seem to have been about the only vegetables 

 or garden croji : although uo doubt, wild green herbs 

 were used. 



No wonder tlie East India Company prospered, and 

 si)iees were in great demand, — anything to change the 

 tastes of such restricted food was a "sutiltie" and some 

 households spent £125 on spices, — equivalent to $(5,000 

 to ij^lO.OOO,— all because refreshing fruits and vegetables 

 were unknown to them. 



A dietetic rcvdlution has taken place in our time, — 

 an overwhelming victory for fruits and vegetables. 

 Ten years ago, grajie fruits were scarcely known, — now 

 every to\\ni and village on the prairies receives its 

 weekly consignment of grape fruit. Two carloads of 

 tropical fruits are consumed in Winnipeg each win- 

 ter's day. Lettuce, tomatoes, and strawberries are ar- 

 riving daily from Texas. Most of us can recall when 

 tomatoes were called "love apples," a sentimental 

 keepsake — now considered worth 50 cents a pound,— 

 worthy of greenhouse care or a 2,000 mile .iourney. 



All arguments against liquor failed until there was 

 something to take its place. I believe that the quite 

 i-ecent remarkable improvements in fruits, and the con- 

 comitant improvement in marketing and serving the 

 things we relish, together with the dawning conscious- 

 ness that a banana split or fruit cocktail was a more 

 dignified and refreshing thing than a schooner of froth 

 or a drop of fire, was the deciding factor in world-wide 

 prohibition. 



That society, irroup. or gathering which fosters the 

 fresh, the pure, and the bountiful. — a garden of herbs 

 near unto tlie house, is worthy of all help and praise. 



