TRAL BUREAU CHIEFS PLAN CAMPAIGN

Maritime Travel Bureau chiefs examine various ad layouts to be used in the forthcoming tri-pro- vince campaign of tourist promo- tion scheduled to begin April 12th. Participating in the one-day.bus-,

iness conference that concluded at Frederiction‘s Lord Beaver- brook Hotel‘Tuesday were (left to right): Dan Wallace Halifax, Director of the Nova Scotia Bureau; R. A. Tweedie, Director

of the New Brunswick Bureau; advertising company executive, William Kettlewell of Toronto, and A. A. Nicholson, Director of P. E. I. Travel Bureau. On his return here last night Mr. Nichol-

son said that the joint N. B.-— P. E. I. Information Bureau at Aulac, which is being completely rebuilt, would be ready for oc- cupancy around May 24th.

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Agricultural

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’ end of the calendar year to each

Individual member of the total amount of milk and butterfat credited to each cow in the herd on the basis of the records kept during the year and also to pro- vide to each member a summary for his Association and, a sum- mary for all Associationsln the Province. '

NOTE: The Deparunent reser- ves the rightto withhold a re- port on tests of milk samples from any member until the an- nual.membershLip fee is paid as required by the Regulations.

Those who are interested in the above policy may get further information by writing to Box 2000, Department of Agriculture, Charlottetown.

EASTER SHOW AND SALE:

The enteries for this years Eas- ter Beef Show and Sale have gone over the hundred mark, At the closing time for enteries one hun- dred and six steers had been on- tered in the various classes.

The officers are headed by President, George Kitson, Hamp- shire, with Vice - president, Dan- tel Jewell, North River and Dir- ectors: Tom Sanderson, North River; James Cudmore, Winsloe; Harold Heartz, Charlottet ow 11; Charles Rogerson, Ch 3 r1 0 tte- town; Vernon Fraser, Charlotte- town, Athol Roberts, Southport; A. H. Mutch, Earnscliffe; Fulton Sanderson, North River; Archie

J ohnstone, Brookfield; Hammond\

Sanderson, Winsloe; Athol Mac- Beth, Marshfield; Secretary, C. A. Paynter» Charlottetown; Man- ager, H. J. Kennedy, Charlotte- town. '

JUDGE:

The show judge, J. W. Under- wood, Instructor and Extension Specialist’ at the Agricultural School in Ridgetown, Onatario. The auctioneer is Claude Cras- well, Winsloe and the general announcer, J. E. McIntyre, C.N Moncton, N.B.

The show will get underway at 1 RM. on March 20th. and the auction at the same time on the following day, March 21st., at the Coliseum Provincial Exhibition Grounds, Charlottetown. The an- nual banquet is being held this year at the Y.M.C.A. on Thurs- day night.

Many special prizes have been

kindly donated by various organ- izations and will be presented to the winners at the banquet. JUNIOR CLUB EXHIBIT:

To be eligible for this class

steers must be fitted by a mem-

ber of a P.E.I. Junior Beef Club, and must have been shown in the

regular Calf Club Competition the year previous to the Show and Sale. Weights shall be within the extreme weight limits applied 111 open classes. This year all en-

teries in this class will be culled.

The 4H Calf Club enteries are as follovws; Dorothy Jewell, North,

Rivet‘. Douglas Jewpll, North River; Donald Cudmore, Winsloe,

Dixie Cudmore, Winsloe; Guy Thompson, Frenchfort; Wendell North River; Kenneth

Jewell, Jewell, North River; John Hay- den, Cherry Valley; Wayne Hay- den, Cherry Valley; lish, New Perth; Gloria Ford, Milton; Milton Ford, Milton; Ro- bert Howe Wood, Charlottetown R.R. No. 5; Boyce Stevenson, North River; Diane ‘Wood, Char- lottetown R. R. No. 5; Lloyd Younker, North River; Diane Carrier, Earnscliffe; Judy Car. rier, Earnscliffe; Ralph Sander- son. North River; Kenneth Mc- Nally. Scotchfort. ' PACKAGE BEES

Pafikage bees are imported in large numbers from the Unit- ed States each spring, to replace 001011595 ga-ssed in the fall.

01'd€1‘iYI§: Packages imported to Prince Edward Island come from Florida. Orders should be Plated early in the new year, and sliould be sent to Mr. W. Burns. Secretary, P.E.l. Beekeep- ers Association, in can of Ex.

Kenn Mel-

perimental Farm, Charlottetown P.E.I.

As in the past -number of years the P.E.I. Department of Agricul- ture pays the shipping costs on all packages ordered through the Association, which leaves the cos-t per 2 lb. package at $3.85.

Bees can be ordered in either 2 or 3 lb. packages with the \2 lb. package being used‘ by most Island beekecrpers. The 2 lb. pac- kage contains a mated Queen and approximately 10,000 young wor- ker bees; the 3 lb. package con- tains approximately 15,000 bees. ' Preparing for bee’s arrival: The apiary should be located so that it gets protection on the sides — west, north an-d east. This may be provided by natur- al wooded areas,’ hills, hedges or fences. The aipiary should also be located near a good supply

of nect; , pollen and water.

' Water supply should be han- dy so that the bees will not have to go too tar for itl It a natural supply is not handy, water should be provided. A good arrange- ment for supplying bees with wa- ter is a large jar or tub. After filling the jar or tub with wat- er, a few handfuls of chips should ‘be put on the surface of the wa- ter it will stay fresh longer and the bees apparently prefer it. Each pnackaxge of bees will need a‘ bottom board, a sniper often combs or ten frames with foun- dation, one hive cover and an entrance reducer. Established beekeepers try to choose ten dark colored combs composed entire- ly of worker cells. The combs should also contain at least twenty pounds of honey and five pounds of pollen. Beginners start- ing with foundation or empty syrup. ‘

The hives should be placed at least eight feet apart and on high ground.’ They should face ' south or east and be at least six feet away from the windbreak. The equipment should be set up outside before the bees’ arrival so that there will be no delay when the bees arrive. If there is honey in the combs, the entrance should be closed against robber bees.

Preparing sugar syrup: Sugar syrup if made by adding to hot .water an equal volume of com- mon granulated sugar. Add the water slowly while stirring. Con- tinue to stir the solution until all the sugar is dissolved but do not boil. This also should be done before the bees arrive.

A few hints on how to handle package bees when‘ they arrive will follow in a later column. PRUNING APPLE TREES

The pruning of apple trees has been practised since the earliest days of apple culture, yet in spite of its extensive use, prun- ing is still the one orchard opera- tion that is most generally mis- understood in its practical appli- cation. Orchardists are not en- tirely to blame for this situation, however, since it is only within the last quarter century that fully planned experiments have been conducted to study the ef- fect of pruning upon growth and fruiting.

PURPOSES OF PRUNING

When pruning th e grower

mind whether the trees are young ‘or old. The purpose of pruning the young non-bearing tree is pri- marily to train or shape the tree so that the main scaffold branch- as will develop strong, wide - an- gled crotches capable of bearing fruit without breakage.

This training should develop a framework capable of supporting heavy crops of fruit when the trees reach bearing age. The main objective in pruning hear- ing trees is to keep the tree rea- sonably open so that sunlight can reach all parts of the tree to as- sist in the colouring of fruit and also to facilitate orchard opera- tions such as spraying, thinning and picking.

j Another purpose is to remove ‘from all parts of the tree weak

growing wood that never produc- es fruit of staisfactory size and quality. With trees in full bear- ing, pruning assists, along with proper fertilizer applications and other soil management practices, in maintaining a good growth condition in the trees. ' WENT TO PRUNE -

The ideal .time tor pruning is in the early spring before termin- al growth starts since wounds made at this time heal more quickly. However, this is not practical inlarge orchards and for this reason it is a common

practice to start pruning as soon

as the crop is out of the way and to continue as Weather permits throughout the winter.

‘In districts where sub - zero temperatures may occur this is a hazardous practice sin‘ce pruning prior to low temperatures may result, in severe injury. In these regions it would be safer to de- fer pruning until the period of very cold weather is past.

HOW TO PRUNE. ,

If there is ever a time when a

tree can be pruned to advantage

5 it is immediately following trans- planting. There is always some loss of root system when it is re- moved from the nursery so the

balance between root and top is

reset. Furthermore, it takes time for the root system to establish contact in its new location and grow the root hairs essential for the absorption of moisture; Durihg this period it is diffi- cult for the root system to sup- ply the moisture and food re- quirements of the entire original top. Hence there is more danger of the tree drying out and failing to grow if the entire top is left unpruned. Its start is made much easier if some of the top is re-

‘ moved.

In carrying out_ this pruning the top should be carefully ex-

amined to select one, two or three

well separated branches com- log out from the trunk at wide angles. These may be left and the balance of the side branches

can be removed. This makes an excellent time to remove the nar- row angled branches that fre- quently start on any young tree

and so get. a sound for the tree L Qt: ...i . V

Some growers are loath to re- duce the tops at this time be- cause it sometimes seems that there is little left. Experience and e x p e rim e n t indicate, how- ever, that the resulting top will by fall usually be as great as unpruned trees, moreover it will be growing where wanted and fewer trees will fail to start.

framework y

headed back in the nursery and have produced a number of la- terals closely spaced along the truck. Two or three of these la- terals, well spaced, are selected. The strongest uppermost lateral is retained for the leader and is headed back slightly and the rest of the shoots are removed.

The laterals that remain are cut back to different lengths de- pending on their location on the trunk and length of leader. Addi- tional branches will arise from the leader during the succeeding seasons and from these the re- quired number of scaffold limbs to complete the framework are selected.

Pruning in the third and fourth years should be light and consist primarily of thinning out rather than heading back branches. Some heading back, of course will have to be done to main- tain balance in the head. '

‘Pruning the young bearing tree involves very little removal of wood until the extent to which the tree is opened by bearing has become evident. The annual cor- rective type is preterable, and if trees have‘ been properly train- ed no large cuts’ should be nec- essary. On young bearing trees the fruit is usually of good size and colour even when tops are a bit dense. If after two or three commercial crops the quality is not satisfactory, the top should be thinned ,out. In trees that have been hearing for some years, the removal of. large limlbs should be avoided as far as possible; the removal of small branches throughout the tree is the better practice.

Thin wood pruning is a light pruning system which has been attracting considerable attention in recent years. This type of prun- ing involves the removal of wood which is small in diameter for its age and which develops poorly- coloured fruit of small size. This thin wood is no doubt the result of shading or competition and should be removed throughout the innermost portions of the tree or wherever it may occur. As a re- sult of pruning the proportion of culls to crop is considerably re- duced and the harvested crop is

tree from which a high percen- tage of the fruits will be of good size and colour, I ' CLUBNEWS Kensington Holstein - Guernsey Calf Club met at the home of Ed- win and Douglas Johnson, Thurs- day evening, Feb. 20th., with the President in the chair. The meeting opened by_repeat- ing the club pledge. and motto. Eleven members and one visitor answered roll call. ‘ It was moved and seconded that we have a crokinole party in Mar- gate School, Friday, February 28th. It was moved and seconded that Douglas Johnson and Garth Pickering be on the‘ program committee for next meeting.

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Lunch committee will be Bert palmer, Edwin Johnson and R0}- and Profitt. The next meeting IS to be held at the home of Roland

Profitt on ‘March 14th.

Mr. Palmer then distributed sheets to study on “Good Man- ners”, “Table Manners”, and “The Four H’s” and set a lesson

from the Manual. It was moved

The first step in pruning a two- and seconded that the meeting year-old tree is the selection of b,yadj0umed_R01and PI-ofitt, Sec- laterals for the scaffold limbs. 1-etary,

Such trees have usually been

“MAPLE LEAF . Travellers Rest and district 4- H Calf Club met at the home.of Ruby Wood February 15th with 13 members present. The meeting was called to order by the Pre- sident, Carl Montgomery. The minutes were read and approv- ed.

A committee of two. Vivian Pillman and Edwin Walker are to see if the club members can use the Travellers Rest hall every Friday evening for playing Bad- minton. Smith Gunning and Ca Montgomery were appointed on recreation committee for March. The next meeting is to be held at the home’ of Garth Marchbank on March 14th. The leader, Del- bert Rayner asked the members their lesson from the\ Manual.

The meeting adjourned. Lunch was served by Mrs. Lloyd Wood. Rena Wood, Secretary-treasurer.

Winsloe 4-H Calf Club's second meeting was at the home of Mr; and Mrs. Nelson Stevenson. The

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4—H Club Pledge. There were: eighteen members, and four as‘ sistant leaders, namely Wallace, smith, Nelson Stevenson, Gerald, Dollar, and Alton Younker. Tnleél collection amounted to $240- was decided that we would. have a crokinole party at .319 Wmsloe Road Hall around the first of March.

For recreation Mr. Betts sh_oW- ed slides of East Central Africa. The next meeting is to be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alton Younker. The meeting closed with the 4-H Club Song. David Younker, Secretary - Treasurer.

The O’Leary 4-H Calf Club held their regular meeting on February 21st at the home ‘of Frankie Smallman. The meeting was opened by the club members repeating the club pledge In um- son. There were 15 members Pfe- sent. Since there was one more member needed with a Guernsey calf, Norma Adams volunteered Harris ifl s1lo1e still would like to join the_c u . \‘

The next meeting will be held at the home of Fenton and Wen- dal Shaw on March 7. 4953- Lunch committee will be Cheryl, Marlene, Ralph and Sheldon. It was moved and seconded that Ellen and Elaine be on the en- tertainment committee for next meeting. The lesson was then set by (the leaders; The mem- bers th"én wrote a qmzz on the “4-H’s” followed by a study

{gems with Fenton and Per-lwas decided t” h

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winning. ' was also qr ‘- Lunch and _entertaui.-ient The Chg" “sS‘;

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Northam 4-H Calf Club held swcredb 5301; call is he its third meeting of the year at The yellow, the home of Dorothy Dyment on were appointed f comm . Friday, February 21st Wlth the mg; Lunch D°r no “as President, James Dyment pre- and Emily 60‘, Prothy Dylztet. siding. Roll call was answered Bernice" Rudd gllél; pm tn! by 17 members with nine mem- will. The next m Emnymall bers paying their membership held at the hmfieeetmg is to . fee. _ . Wendy Moore Thy Janeen be There was some discussion on Journed. .J'm. . meeting . ways to make money and v_1t retary-treasurer? G°x""11l, 32%‘

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