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'tmttntntt, Mr. Peart of ~Burlisgton, handed in the 11istoricn1 report from which I take the following item: "On March 29, 1850, Mr. Jas. Durham planted a Peach orchard near Queenaton. to re- new an old orchard ot about 500 trees which his father planted in 1814, be- ing the first peach orchard planted in Canada." It was unanimously resolved that the Secreary publish an honor roll of the sons and daughters ot members The Executive met in June and to- gether with the B. C. delegates, had an interview with éir Robert Borden at Ottawa re the proposed advance of! 15 Ter cent. in freight rates and were promised consideration and assist- ance. Farmers and fruit growers must speed up production as far as pos- sible and eliminate waste. Transports tion was a great worry and in this connection _ the .' President highly praised the work of Commissioner Johnson and Mr. Mam/ash of Forest. The treasurer's report showed . rer ceipts for 1917 to be $2583.68 and ex- penses $1233.07. leaving a balance on hand of $1350.61. The"apple crop :being the lightest in years. while peaches, plums, grapes and berries suffered heavily, being on 1y from 15 to 50 Ter cent. of a crop, Tomatoes also were a failure. The annual meeting of the Ontario I Fruit Growers' Association was held' at the Caris-Rite Hotel, Toronto, on February 14th and 15th. President! Sheppard of St. Catharines occupied g the chair. In his address Mr. Shep-f _pard pointed out that the war had hit 1 the fruit growers perhaps the hard-l est of all owing to the enormous in- I crease in the price' of labor, spray maternal, packages and everything!' else Whereas the prices of fruit hadI not increased in proportion. In ad-i dition the weather conditions of 1917 l had been unfavorable to fruit crops. "il EIGHT 'fii'iiii'rirru'ii'ii-iii" Rebecca Sts. Men's Overcoats; Corner of James & Rebecca Sts. gfllfll8 FRUIT SHOWERS lllliliflllll Considering the fact that wool is very scarce, and therefore very expen- sive-and next year it will be even scarcer and more expensive-no red- ruction at all from our original prices would make these very fine Overcoats remarkable value-und a great investment for you ,‘- '..' (F. G .H. P SHANNON & GRANT Shannon & Grant Of High Grade . - as it gets through the nozzles easier " Next season Ontario apples will but if you use it alone with water it have to compete with Nova Scotia ap- .will take the foliage off your trees. Iples. In the West Ontario ihas an ad- .ch can use it freely with Bordeaux [vantage ovrr Nova Scotia of at least any time. You can use arsenate ot 38c per {barrel but Nova Scotia has the lime for the spray before the blos- advantage in the portioss of Quebec some come out but for later sprays East of Montreal, the Maritime pro- yuse arsenate of lead'. Do not use it vinoes and at some points in the upon stone fruits. You can use it on U. s. A. The association is opposing potatoes by adding 6 lbs. fresh lime Fthe rate increase of 15 per cent. r seven to eight lbs. hydrated lime “Government action is going to he to 40 gallons. Prof. Caesar thinks taken and possibly Government that we are mot likely to have a bad operation during the war. The out- attadk of of coding moth this season. standing fact is that our system is One 11). arsenate ot lead in paste Packing in the equipment to satisfy [form to one and a halt lbs. will be shippers. We must keep transporta- [enough to 11se per 40 gallons for apc tion facilities up to the country's ! pies and pears. Bluestone is about needs, either by an advance in rates, vthe same price as last year, 15 cents Government ownership or control. I per m in large quantities. Soluble loverseas in the Allied forces. - ',l Prof. Maconn presented the report t of the new fruits committee and Mr. t Geo. McIntosh of Forest, gave a very "excellent and exhaustive account of {the car situation in 1913. In which he i said that. the railways had done all (they possibly could to move freight lin I917 fro a sense ot national duty. [It was only by the grace of the C. P. iR that it was possible to market the ity,,', Brunswick potato crop. The rail- .ways would be 'better equipped next !season. Great Britain's embargo on Jruits would likely last for the dura- ition of the war. Perishable shipments fare to be given the first place and ,shippers to help out should load the cars as heavily as possible. A good; ideal of the car shortage was attribut- l lto consignees holding them on thei itrack and using them for warehouse Epu‘rposes. Now a car cannot remain {more than 4 days at destiation after (notice, if held longer notice will bel [sent to the Food Controller. If not, '/then unloaded the food contents can We seized and sold. This regulation! .lstururd give improved service. In Can- ;ada there is a shortage " loco- l imotives. ' of the Association who were serving overseas in the Allied forces. --.""------..- LIMITED LIMITED Price Sale See Our Big Window Displays nd During Our Great HAMILTON, om. l o"','2L"riLCU'LCL,"C1C1d onvinte yourself of thes II HAMILTON, ONT. onrterfu 1 Prof. Caesar gave a valuable and timely address on “Economical Sprays and Spraying." 'He thought that a sufficient supply of arsenate, of lead would be available this. year. The powder cdsts double the price of the paste but is double the strength. Prof. Caesar recommended the use of 'rsenate of lime instead of arisenate ofxead. The price is 14 to 18 cents per pound in paste form and 25 to 32 cents in powder form. Its strength in one-fifth greater than ‘arsenate ot lead and one-third cheap er. Arsenate of lime isras good as ar, senate of lead to kill insects, cheaper and nicer to use with lime-sulphur," Ontario shippers asked tor crop sta- tistics during the coming season, can supply railways with knowledge that will result in the better distributors of cars. United efforts are being made to give the first consideration to fruit and vegetables. Make shipments as early in the season as possible and send what you can in box cars. Com- plaints were made Mr. McIntosh my several shippers as to the lack of cars for carrying manure from Toron to to the fruit farmers and he ad- vised any one wanting manure to ad- vise him by wire and he would ar- range for a car or cars it possible. Mr. McIntosh thinks that the shippers will be granted relief as hegards manure. Values $10 THE INDEPENDENT, GRINSBY, ONTARIO The hens given the balanced rationI ate more feed, which cost about 60 per cent more than the ration ot corn, wheat and oats. However, they gained morme in weight and produced ten times as many eggs, making a net pro At while the other lot was kept at a BB. _ . Any one with experience knows that fully matured pallets will lay much better than old hem, during the talll and winter months, says Field andi Farm. This fact is responsible for the practice common on many ranches of disposing of all old hens each fall and breeding from pullets the following The 21 Barred Plymouth Rock our. lets in each lot received the same house space and treatment except tor the difference in feed. The test period lasted for 140 days. Ten times as many eggs were pro- duced by hens fed a well-balanced Ttbr. tion as by those given only corn, wheat and oats in an experiment conducted by the .Ohio Experiment Station. The balanced ration consisted of three parts by weight of corn and one part of! wheat fed twme daily in the litter, and a mash mixture of two parts meat scrap added to two parts ground corn and one part bran ted in self-feeding hoppers. Then let us be loyal as well as economical and eat that which We have and save for the soldiers and the Allies that which they must have. a good supply of poultry products in Canada at present. They make a palat able and a cheap substitute for the red meat required by the soldiers. Poultry are more easily grown and can be produced in less time than other stock. The young and the old can supply all the labour necessary tor this work. The prices of eggs and poultry were formerly comparatively high and consumers, to a certain extent, dis.. continued eating poultry produce, now, when the relative prices have changed, the impression remains that poultry and eggs are still a luxury. As a result the consumption of these is not as large as it usually is. There are several good reasons why poultry and eggs should be used much more than they are as a substitute for beef and bacon: The soldiers and the Allies must have meat and we cannot send them poultry and eggs. We have The prices asked for these are rea- conable when compared with the prices of other meats. At present rates poultry, either fresh or stored, is one of the cheapest meats on the market. Though new-laids are high,. the stored eggs are reasonable in price and quite palatable. Fresh pour. try is selling on many markets at from 15c to 24c per m, and good story. ed eggs from 400 to 50c per dozen. These prices are practically the same as before the war but when compared with the present price of other meats prove conclusively that they are no1 longer a luxury. l "We are short of red meat. Our soldiers and our allies require more than ever before. We are advocating in every househo1iVevery hotel and restaurant in this country the substi- tution of poultry for red meat. In- creased production ot poultry can be effected much faster than beef, pork and mutton. While we want increase in all the latter, we must have a quick response in poultry and pour. try products. There is a great waste of poultry feeds from every household and farm. It requires little labour. Cannot the poultry raisers of the country help us by providing the in- creased supply we need?" Don’t .'be alarmed by blue ruin talk. you must have clean fruit and don't omit three sprays for your apples. (To be Continued.) EAT MORE POUL- TRY AND EGGS These are the words of Herbert Hoover in an appeal directed to the American Poultry Association and pro ducers of poultry and eggs in the United States. The words are just as applicable to Canadaian Poultry Pro- "ducers. More meat must the provided for the fighting men. Less of the meats that can be shipped must be eaten at home. Something else must be substituted for the red meat. Poul- try and eggs make the best and cheap est substitute at the present time and should be used more than they are tor that purpose. . Prof. Caesar highly recommended a new device a spray gun, which is a brass instrument 20 inches long with a nozzle at one end, can shoot it out or make a wide spray. Time can be saved by small growers putting a jask on a gasoline engine. The spray gun needs 175 to 200 lbs. of pressure. I It costs $20 for one. No spray rod is l needed, The higher the pressure the I more danger to foliage. Where there l is no scale and the oyster shell louse is not bad, you can use a _ lime-sur. phur strength of 1 in 15. In that case you had better wait to apply the first spray till the buds are beginning to burst. \very good. In an ordinary year on a well pruned orchard not kept dark, dust will Trove satisfactory if well' ap- plied but it is not easy to apply and requires a lot of practice. Prof. Caesar favors dusting from 3 or 4 sides. On small trees it is far dearer than the liquid spray, and a strong wind is not advisable. You have to be very careful and get it on at the right time as it washes oft easily. As to San Jose Scale it is sometimes all right but does not aways cOntrol all the scale. sulphur is cheaper than lime sulphur and is all right for the first or dor- mant spray. Do not use it after that with any spray, Dusting is a deiight- ful way of doing an orchard for quick ness and cleanliness. The cost tor large trees is much the same, the material is dearer but the time saved makes up for that. In his experience in the Niagara District dusting is LAYING HENS REQUIRE WELL BALANCED RATION The Society of Automobile Engi- neers has stanttardileit the names of about 700 “parts otcars and still, has much work before it alone the same After twenty years of experiment- ing a Swedish engineer has invented a process for making textiles, suit- able tor clothing, from peat fiber. So successful have wireless tele- phones proved on Italian warships that the government iplans to install them on merchant and massenger ves sels. spring. A pallet. that has laid well all WWW winter makes a very poor breder while on the other hand it the practice Use Parke's of breeding from pallets is followed for several years, the vitalitybanld lar- C h I ing ability of the tiornt will 9 ower- ed. Instead of selling all the oldi Ith' amp o it would be much better to cu closely and save the very best ofrl CAMPIIOB OIL next spring's breeders. NOTICE TO FARMERS:--ie pay Ca'sh for But- ter, Eggs and Poultry. at lowest prices. Customers may depend on the quality of our Meat, as it is all bought and killed locally. We still have POTATOES at $2.25 per bag and also some TURNIPS at 4Se per bushel. We also carry a full line of FRESH and PICKLED MEATS, BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY and VEGETABLES SWAYZE & BROWN, Grimsby '""4'o0'oo6000006-'006060000oooooooooooooooooooooe "mmummmiimumiimumtiuimmmimmmimmmmiummmmmmmnrti'i', Phone 41 r. and the keeping up of interest favor, by now. snappy, February weather, the The Lenten season with the two fish days a Nbw---not to-morrow or O. S. TEFT & SON (And buy from the specialists in fish.) , S/r, "'r" 'r'"" 'acufc":Li:u',t',jr,l'/,r,F',-,TTr:rT', r. ' TEFT’S TWO STORES Ill,,,,,,-,,,,,,,)??:?))""")"'" MEAT MARKET PHONE 215 ll economies fish otter to the consumer in the household ," v,rl'cAiCr'.c “512-: '. 4 ”CV MALI 5600mm WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY ,V V v -vvvvvvvvvm , Use Parke s Cam phol CAMPHOR ony in place of lamphorated oil for rubbing on the throat, chest . and back. It penetrates better and does not clog up the pores of the skin. 25c. PER BOTTLE. . "r-sa-i--.-- Parke & Parke Ltd. _ Macnab St. and Market " . 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