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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1931-02-26, Page 5A ".' ••• , TIIE tvaProW SENTThE1kTitult$DAY.-; PhAllAtit-10,1,1r, The ait:Pkandapf -North Alberta , Are Great 8Ource of Oil arta Gasoline The inrgentroil-.fieldfl the world 1.0 ires.erve 's.o.nie,•thrie in the.- fliture 'and to be.".tapped.. depepit ,,ttes1 th1 interest had to be 'protected as • will require sinking Of wells 'le to give up its estimated kindred billion • baktela Of, crtide all to supply the nitt;, chlifery of Modern civilization.. This , startling- information crime to light -reeentlf -10-.T0fOrito.-*Iien a -famous roailWey engineer dieelosed that a se_ cretly and thoroughly tested inaehine had been perfected to e -extractthe pure erude oil- from the'bituaninous sands of Northern Alberta. - - "Three' hundred Miles north of Ed- iribiriten 'Ode- the ,Alberte and Great • Waterways RAilway; a small-Provin- eially -earned toad that terminates at. Waterways, on the , Athabasca River. Revs, too, sterts the two -thousand Mile 'voyage that .encht .in the Atetic ..„Ocean,, Waterways iathe juniping-Off• bice for missionaries; and miners and .11 11140111 boeral for,..,the 'Arctic' waste • Of Northern Canada. Hete;toci, starts, thonceira"-andiTsinalt-rivetzateaffieriT. that take iintinaljnp he-dis -.-4ant-outpoirti of civilization. • - L Water -ways- is-- near -,the centre- of • the bituminous sands of.Northern Al, betta, Not fan from this smell but • inOrtant railway .termitius• is Fort McMutay; the crucial centre of .Mie thousand square miles Of the *rithest oil -land ever , found on earth. And far to each side of the 1VicMurtay stretches this region , of sand ':and jackpine growth. GoVernment geO- •' logists who have spent- many' 'years „1-n lthe region have betim-ated ith-e-- eiltire deposit of Vvhat hare been call- edl tar iffind to enconmass a region over'six thousand .square miles in area, in which are to he found close• Upon ihtee hundred rich denoeita of sand..saturated with Jot, : • , The greatest -authority in this -field is S. -C.` Ells,, of the Canadian' Department of mines.- Mr. Elle has spent nearly. twenty' years in. the • MCMutray• sector levestigating these Sands for the Government. 'He' haS •come to the conclusion that the area• . which, 'is „know as. the McMurray bituminous seeds 'has an estimated aggregate volume of 'five hundred billion cubic yards, and that to sat- uiate ,that_apeatuit pf_sand..avould_•re: quire sa least fifty billien cubic yards of Oil. A.coording-rt9 othet eaperts; the • region is nnpable of supplying. the: 'world with enough fuel -oil five hundred Years at the present rate • • of consunintion. ' well. Besides, the•Canadian GoVern- merit •savv, an enormous revenue ac -1 -,cruing ont.of this lend seine day when the ..perfect process was invented. • Meanwhile provineial 'and federal governments lad attemptedto find 'a - use for the bituminous sands. Tests were ',made :for Using the sends fdt pitying material; because 010 :were rich in asphalt, .Sections ef 'heavy - traffic streets in. Edinopton were pnv- ed :With the biturnipoile sends, and after eight 'years:, ofTeonetant -and 'rapidly growing treffiat feund in good 'condition without te,paars$'This seem_ ed apossible .use for ,these Vast:de- mita, but the ectirtomiC value of the ' • sands-;fer this purpose: preyed' tod:. high'en account Of the inequality ef the percentage of hithmen fetind; and: the heay freWhtoIrktes-•frotii! ' .4eft-the great an•ethive out of,'• t he • 'publiceye until the recent dia.,: ceireliert Of the machine which *Mild senarate:the hitetnen. front the sands, giV6 •a pure ctude-oit -equat-to- and better than that derived from. - wells; and even rating. higher, than - the Oils •front' thei Baku regions in Rusain. This- is due, ,scientists say, to the fact that the fied is:Very old, and has Withstood two glacial periods, • The Machine invented is 'tailed a censtAnt centrifuge, and can best be described as •beine••simijar to a cream separater, eicept...that- ia$ nitieh incite oniplicated and larger.It.clean andSepai-ateany cornhination of Mat- erials of different specific. grevity. • The•Process is Simple: Where others have failed, it, has .shown on the ppot that it can manufacture from a lend of'dark-colored sand,a pure crude, oifie cheaply' as it can be, brnught to the surface in en:theta in other .parts of. the cOuntrjr. Only wenn *ater ia required as.An oil, and the oil is pre- duced in forty-five secOnds from the tinie the sand apd water are peered into the machine. • ••' • • 4.• - no Means "discovery. It has been known spice hunters first invaded the territorPin quest of furs and to establish trading •; "Poeta for barter with the Indians. For long. time the bubbling pools of dark .fluid were thought to hater, no the ltar. Wings of Northern , Al - 33,117,314.15ecos is Loug talut4ry List . 'P-1,701.1; imagine a beWildered• pnine,Man trying ,to laundry..1.11t /a-133,117,314 pieces?• Batitherala one like,that It, is tile departnients, and,. ilk e=,,, inst. through the agea larid. TORTS, 111 .1 -TOOK /AI) tEABS TO , DISVELOP"'T.HEr HOME o . . . • Modern Cntrveliengtes ginne Slowly. • As 'lite _World Progressed • P- ', -It took more than 2,000yearsi tc; develop the home; in all its :comfort, efficiency' and. beauty that we enjoy teday. If you 11114' that. it.hasjaken eriiher it tddlc 1983 years' to perfect long tine to perfect televisio,n, re- thesystem of heating the.'waterattp- 131YEdf°isronth, 71;• :rauldin aa7a '49211-' an .g.ntlernin named Sergint., Orata„ — Wito lived in :1,00 B. C. are a few of " Provided are-notAilifiliiVant the great names' 'Paced WLth he de o• resell -this stock • foi Some time, it velopraent of the nioclekn 'home: Some ihould prove a good purchase, as the. •I Of the Meet important adjunctste", the ' :onipany has leen ,making rapid pro... • rresn and is covering .dividend -•te- iuireinenti by a considerable, Margin.: • • - Disadvaatakes, are that the,,itock is- i�t rlistech.end, ednatina.'4ACtiarelnar-7,; etals� thatthe-copeauiPy's,hatiq---, iMprOVing, is iot yet Aa strong ap it might be. ; _e — HoWever, both these objections • heeld disappear in time, if the. OM- mny•continues the progreei it is now , hoWing.• Whereas the confpanys bal. ince. sheet of April -5, 1936, showed exceas of current liabilities over rurrent assets7 of 4173,7070, the com- Any'a ,balance sheet of SePternber 139, Which hag just been issued . : ;hews an excess of current, •esets . • lver current liabilities of $126,32. Thus the company „theins to. he • 4 noVing definitely • in the right direc- aen. The repott shows that.profits for the six menths, ending with Sep- tember, 1920; were equal.,to over 2% imes dividend teqpirententai for the ,ierical on thet3;326,990.0-7 per -Cent.. ,reference stock,and to 21.28 .per SILVEliviroOrrE DAIRMS Pep,. • The folloWinc.article, vvhich, in view of prevailffig business condit- iens, fs. complimentary. to the. coinp- any. whose- business is diaussed, ap- peared in a reeent issue of TordntO,,. „ 3aturday, Editor, Geld,,,and Dross: Please advise of the SilverwOod'S •?airies progress. Ind if it would be 'all., right: for Me - tO buy some.oi. the -1 _Per cent, pre - •::erred stock. I Will greatly appreciate /our opinion. • . *.f HamiltOn Ont • , home were invented, centuries ago, the ' lintels; . certain,. amount at. • • lau4dry, done for goeste. , .their principles applied htintlred hotels,too, blanket's, b l', -1 -Yearn later..d t f . _ ,s_o fo MilAt• Penieeif, uSed graiiiTn uieir "•76't fer the taloadtan,' eonaidered 'Ev• I ' eaelileffltailwaY Qom- •-'14-eee - "b4t 0-late"a"Perf°4140e14::centhrY •pany in: 1930, in Canada,• becoMea a ; laundry -Piece Richard II:issued a writ to ' scour - ' including -hotels and bun- - : ., each tinie• it appeals an I England to findf enough glue to 're. • 4 galow •:- camps; ' aleeping .• , ' the Wash. Thee' a single „table,naailii, iii,ay .0e a: pelt' the windows in just ' onagastle. ' mad (lng car service; , "•"(Whicli,alsO operates Mae' . laundry -piece oveis and , And neat the close of the seventeenth tion restaurants), and Over again, according to : century All the great towns of 'Italy the -British„ Golumbia the supply of linen need ed and available. • - with the exception of Genoa used Coast boat service. . If _by .handling six hundred tone a• ay is A ,thriimmercial machine .caP:dhle, of • being suipped• to the IVIciVferray tea - ion,, there to start producieg'ciil from • the.tar. sands, It supersedes the' se*,- enty-tOn-a-day mathine which wee,. .shipped • up in 1929, and which So • theroughly showed oil-rrien from ali. 'parts of • the cOntinent$thet• the pro- cess was Perfect. The results, have set many Of them to wondering if theamice-of-oll for-e.verytiay- consuipp— Oen v -rill" be •lesseped by this 'process. A New York inventet, W. C. Latigh_ lin, is the inVentor of the centrifuge, He has •esed it in many industries, principally:in mining'. A Canadian en - is directly.- The picture shOWs a • . one stopped to sit down '-' paper • in their windows For centuries , Ions (if water and bare and figtite out the gal - of soap required rot these „ battery of "washing ma, : glass Was regarded as •a luxury,' inn • • the Royal York Hotel, „, t.. • . _ Imes. one-1146ns, faii-TT-Batilts-' - : Tortiiitii, ther-laitest h•Tit-' ' ••• might be ev:en more as,- tounding., The hater, departraent '• ovine .489,821 pieces of , . linen; the. dining and . • sleeping cat, .. service some 1;509,000 • and • the British Columbia steam-. thips another, '"247,000„ • making a grend total .0. 7 . • 2,536,821 pieces. These : *elude all. "flat-pleees", • ..'ation ' as table - cloths, • Sheets, napkins, towels, 'pine* - cases, . etc:, the • white coats worn by the • company's servants in .chine.s. the lanndry of • was taxed accOrdingly down to teeth: t. • , responsible for bringing the centri- • berta became known. . •, • • Then it was discovered that the • region was rich with oil. It required • only. the amputation of the oil froin. • the • sand. Engineers And fieanciers and those who would get rich quick —, came troaping to- the field, certain of Railway, and was•Aware of the value easy wealth. But they found to their Railway, the develepment of the biturnin- . dismay that the 'sand and \ the oil • fuge :into touch ' with: 'the ,bituminous„ sands. • For twelve 'years .he . carefully: watched, ,eyery., attempt • made. to • ex= tract oil: from the *mile. , He.' had forniekly, held •the position • of Vice -- Pres. of the., Grand. :Trunk' 'Pacific- • ,vrould not separate as easily as they expected. Many of the fortune hunters Were forced to return, leaving en- gineers With substantial backing be- hind them. Wells Were drilled; exea- • vations Were made. Machines were brought into' the country before the railroad existed, and millions of dol- lars were spent by American's; Can- • adians,,Germains and E,nglishmen to find Ways an4 means •of extracting. from those seemingly endIees deposits I . Of sand, the fluid that colored them. s� darkly. ' • • From all 'these attempts a Mass of Aviles and estimates resulted, hut no 'pint crude oil which would make the gasOline and fuel -oil that was - Predicted by every new engineer avho went into the region. The estimate's vary, but all agree that here lies the world's lArgest oil deposit. Even the • • fantastic figure of 35,000,000;000 bar_ rels Of high grade anti-keock gasoline jet dwarfed. by other estimates Of the • =quilt of oil thie region is capable of producing. Yet this figure is. -taken' to be a conservative estimate ,of .the value of oil to -be 'found there.. " A few years ago the Canadian Government recalled, practically • the unworreffinises-,whicir-liad-been • granted in :he past twenty years to hopeful oil-prqapectors. The govern- ment -would inklre that no one wotild held the land unworked against the time when someone wcruld, •invent a • Machine Which Would extract pure oil from the sand. The British Nevi( • was- leaking tB this : field as its oil • PROIXUCE;ME14 APPROVE . • • BROADCASTING • '• , ous Sands, • • . • A little dyer two years ago he heard •of the centtiftige. Consultation witli •tau' ghlin convinced .hint that, . with some changes, •'the mitehine of that time would be "adaptable to the ex- traction of oil from bituminous sande. Several months of hard work showed his theory to be correct. At last the • government was notified; and a lar- ger machine yens 'Manufactured.. The oil was carefully .tested affd" 'found to be as good as apir crude oil from the wells on the, eontinent. By the "cracking Process it will make a. high-grade, anti -knock gasoline. It will.make excellent fuel. and lubricat_ ing oil; can be toed in the paint. &retry, as asphalt for toofing con- cerns; as weltas for many highly tenchnieal purposes. . -Now the 'development of -the bit- uminous sands is. well under ways- Hydre noire- can be deirevloped .for the operation of the machinery ;Ash •,the plants beeeme larger. Meanwhile natural gas is being piped from about a hundred miles distant to warm the water for the extracting •process., It is • expected that these northern oil fields will quickly- out -rival those Of Southern Alberta, *which are already1 supplying over a million barrels of bil a year. But, for the first hundred' years' scientists and engineers affirm, the bituminous sands will be merely tapped, and it Will not be necessary t� temove the. over -burden for at'least that length of time to get At' the deeper deposits' underground. ' •, • tel in the British Empire: .Puniiar equipol.ept in the • great chain of Canadian Pacific Railway hotels :throughout Canada- hen,. the teems of the andient Raman First Ailierican Bathtub , .0ratii, the Roman, perfected what , was called a "hypecaest" for beating dies the great • laundry- dwellings, ,and for .heating the, water list , in variou.s centres, ,with the: assistance, in certain districts, of laun- dries: outside the . com- pany's- service. But the Standard inaiiitained is. • the same everywhere; immaculate cletinlipess being the'motto from coast to coast, both • , aphore and'ailoat.• ANCIE,NT: WATCH IS mu,.• • - • • ACCURATE TIMEPIECE Perhaps tthe eldest Watch aed, Maybe one of the most valuable—in Barrie• belfiFe-artie-d- Vest poeket of a Prominent local, 'citi- zen, and it keeps- excellent time in spite.of its mere then 150 yeariveays -theilarrie_Examiner. The watch is a beantin hand - worked tinie Piece; owned by eines A. McCarthy, and was Made by Jelin Harrisop, :the great English watch- maker, Who died in 1776 at the age of 82 .years.- Thatiii would make the watch at least"155 years old. The qnse was made by a French7firni and: its age is signified by the low. serial. number on the case, 1475. For at least three generations the watch has been in the pessession of the McCarthy family..It was handed down to •its present owner his father, the late. Alexander ' McCarthy; A reisort of the annualjneetinkof. the Uaitern Canada.' irts‘it And Vega, JOhherie ASsocitition held ye- tently stt St. John, MB., includes the • following : • "The tilted of the right advertis- ing aendiscted 'by the Ontario Depart. • ment of Agrieltiture;is-reported by • ; the trade to have hail very itatisfae. tory result's. in moving ?.r it and vet, stables this 1 peat .fall, ' pArtieularly • .. durifig periods of heiv :receipt's, • and an eXteilitinti of titis program is being .1., rif. 0,,ieatityiVertistng and fne viliz: . libation ei.timely- and- attiaettge' WI= letins end ptniphlets by. the 0°311110On • .011 PrOViitaiel Depertraeitte of Agri. 14140. .:01.0461( witU 011 net 4$ !rnite rl v04044140 go allot , , ESTATES IN BRUCE IN -1930 4,4 . . , BACKWARD CHILDREN . ' With proper Training They Can Be Madt Social Assets :Instead' Of Liabilities • , ,(atianal Committee For" Mental Hygiene) , ,In every community: there_ are a few individuals Who Are simple; or "soft," or, foolish. • _‘. moiler') gpien52, hip not yet dis•ctia- ered awhy ,it is' that even in families of highest intelligence there. ils.occas:. idxiI1y child .who falls far below his brothers, and •.sisters• in intelligence. Unable to receive :meth, if any, ben.; efit iff the schools, these children, until recently,„ were alio:wed-to grow' up largely ignorant and Untrained in " . . . . ways of making' a living. It was per- haps natural,' therefore, that, they should, .one 'way ' or. another; often .get into serious trouble. A' large per, in the Roman baths, through pipes et 1,1 flues. 'But. even up to -a time hi 'the • meinories,ef people still living,. :Onto was :heated in tubs, placed on thc • stoves and houses were warmed witl. fireplaces, Though Some Rontans hae. iniliVidual baths in their houses a' well as the public Ones. 7 There Was „ Likewise the :late Mr. MeCarthy Nifho centage ' a vagrants, paupers, petty, who was in the P. 0, department. criminals and,. prostitutes belong to was born in Ireland, .and came t° this crass. • With better understanding' of. the nature 'of. their trouble, it is now poi,- eible to recognize them 'at an 'early eight-day. a • ffair in which the frames 'age. While most of them have more Canada before the Rebellion 'of 183/, -received it,from his father. John Harrison, of ,Barrows England was the maker of the first clock, an The report of. Dr. R. E. Clapp, Suvrogate Court Registrar for 1930 has been completed and forWArded to the Provineial Government depart- ment cencerned. • It shofea and in- crease in 'husiiieth, even for, the pre- ceeding year. Grants of Prohate and administra- tion totalled 279 (the largest mite- ber on record ibafly twelve months .as againet 261 in 1929. The .,total value of the estates in J930- was 992,693.39; The corresponding year was $2,298;06.89. County m r Court records oho* tep- tration. in 1930 ;of 409' lien notea in armlets in excess �f that. In 1.929 the correspencling figures were agg Mid 172. wheels and pinions were made a sou Oak. That was la 1726 when he WAS following the trade of a carpenter at Foulby, near Ponteffeet, Yorkshire., The clock was so accurate that it clki or less difficulty in getting very far with the three R's, they can often, with patient and careful teaching, learn to use their hands- Many of there are .capable of leoarning sim.ple trades: And with this end in view cer- Only one bathtub in all of Englant in 1830, andthe_first tub- in America Made its, debut:in 1842: Then Adan Thompson Of Cincinnati, Ohio:, was sc.: proud Of:the-tub he had installed that, Ire 'exhibited it to guests .,(W"hn - Christmas pelt,. Font bf the guests. _ were given baths,. and the "Party" secured two cnlinnne in the newapap- ers .next• daY. in which the bath was 'denounced as a luxury, out of 'keep - with the denim -retie -spirit -Of - tht° rnes. Philadelphia in 1E43. sought tc prohibit by ordinance, .bathing° from iinvertibet to March,.but the measure laiked two 'Yates. 'Virginia laid a State tax of $30 a year nn bathtubs, Hartford, Providence, Charleston, and Wilmington quadrupled water charges to Owners ofbathtubs. Bet. the :tub, Came into real fame when President Filinote installed one in the White House. • • ' Wletal jamb stoves which 'Were built through the 'chimney. so as to Warm the room opposite the fireplace were • madnin the coloinee as early as 1730 by Chris 'Sower of Germantown, Penna., but.* 1774 Benjamin -Frank- lin invented the first room' heater, which he called, the • f'Pennsilvania fireplaCe,'! and which •caine to be known as the Ptanklin stove. • Benjamin 'Rumford suggested 'in 1796 the warming of rooms by means ef the chimney, Out of which the idea of the• radiator is part developed. The invention of the ineandescent lamp, itself took place on Octqber 21; not err a second in a .montli and in 1879, and the lighting system was in - 1728 when Harron was 35, he Went to tain schools in''the principal cities o vented, before the end of that year. London to try for a 120,000 offer by Canada now have special classes in the GoVernmehtffor a tiinekeepet that.' whieh manual training is the keynote The 'telephone, as .every schoolboy ,. wouldenable longitude" at sea to be of inatikietinti. - _knows, was invented by Alexander _ accura e y determined • : His firat instrument was not exact enough tb win the £20,000,, but he persevered, reducing the' error of 3 .or 4 seconds a Week On long tropical voyagestill he wen it in.1765. There is .now, however, and Enilish-made tree Pendialim chronometer 'lit 6'r.reett_ Wich *Inch corrects An error of 1- 200th pert of a •sepond, but, this al Most *finite accuracy:has been made possible by the success of English' clockmakers • since. the days of Har- rison. •' But w' ith watehkriakers experiment_ ing all ;these years and 'now able to produce watches which keep .the cor.- reCt time—wheri properly regulated— Mr. MeCarthy. itiiinte, "It'd got to be some watch t� beat thine for nevet varying." • The smaller number of liens make' it appear that, there were not so many motor car ttansactiena, •and 'another insight into the financial' Situation hi The decreased ritirabet of thattel Mort- gages registerid.,In 1930 there were 270 .against 215., in 1929. • • . -th Understs-usid 'tow , • te Graham Bell, on 'June 2, 1857. ,!Thisis avery fine Advance over th days' of Old, but there is still teem .or improvement, Classes' Mich, as these must yet be ,established in the vast majority of the smaller town, and iniplaees Where there are only a fewbackward children some other means of .dealing with the 'problem must devised,, • In another way present _Arrange-- mei:Oa cla_npt oftrincitigh. These ,klAssei Are, of .cobrse, in grade schools and. they accept the children 'only up. to the age of sixteen, orithereabouts. But' the children Can not go on to the regtilat 'sigh sCheols or tenchni- cal schools, and they are therefore 'thrown .6 -tit into the community only, partly Utilised and incapable Of con- tributing meth, if anythin'e to theit OWla support. - Toronto, however, has, two special schools, one for boys and one for gifils which lake theee children . after six- teen ancf"finialttheir training. They are proving very successful for 14e. SunIla by the Western Foundry Company as backw,atd children 'schools should be established in every -4 mottidar and been out a work Other citi'in the country. • sitice Christrims. It -id thought des - 7 • (Information on any point not cov- poridendy at being unemployed eted_here wi1givekl!' later Issil" fluenced his actions, Although he tad been acting rather strange for so i"fMyeonutaws l lalt°4u:s4e§ttlfr Ts et:- me 1 time. becly.Ava released on Sat. onto„ Ont.) ,• urday afternoon and there Will be no ;.• • " inquest- Streviting are his Wife:land • % who calffor 'Arnold ..ansl. Ray.: • Mond, `and ote sietero •Vira, George et an -injury withoost tOrietting BoAc •The. funeral Wee 'en' Monday tiga hritlatini • ft$P0611 to Witiltain Cemetery, . ANOTHER REASON.,,FOR DIVORCE. DOWD. in Les Angeles; •Califoriiia, employetg refuse to engage' •mitrrieds wonsen, .because, jobs aie scarce And they engao married. then and un- married women: The other day, Olive Yachroari appealed' to • Judge Tyron fa; divorce froin her husband Jos- ePh Yachtnam "You' itee,'!, she said fe the ludo'', 441 dOrei 'want be It ca. IVoffi: 'iTilteply, but I- mtutt se, game pkopie_ popaeaa fl14i erOtOtYT3pb -eta-ever ere / th-oi—oast to predict the Weather' when ..they they 'Won't. hire Sniveled wtinfen4 ao een't :even renietiber what the iveath. 1 havaito get single- to get a job," tt V411 like it. Week Wick; ' • .4ihtf was 'granted ,the divorce, John Baptist von Belmont, born sat sBrussels in I:517, while engaged - in chemical research, disCovered gas n• mimed • it. An , English teeter, Rev, Dr. John" Clayton,. discovered coal gas in 1660, and .an engineer William, Murdoch; lit his .haine with gaa. 'lit 1792, thereby duainggrent coneternation-311 e Village of -Wal- es. It waf nearly forty years later that he practicability- of gas -cooking was denionstrated liy James Sharp of Northampton, England. Ainre.'oii.the 139,746 plass ."A"..:ehares • . .ind 25;000 conimen sharea, This is. . the ' rate . of Over $2,50 per :there' :per ,annurn, on 'the-two...latter.. istheei, egalinst dividend' requirements 'of • • . . • ,. See, .thetefatOliat there' • 's •• fairly substantial ,margin. of • s'afety. for, the. preference, stock'. • • • . This newly issnad report of Silver,. -wood's: Dairies .1..amited• thews, that - the' company. Ints...eXpnnded. its ''operr., „Along 'tepidly; .22 'ffebsidary comp:Mi- es now' being.includedin the conseli_ -iatediePOrt. Sales, for,the..six .monthe; aided••• September ..27th, :1920, • are , ;licisvn at $4,27a.,276, and net ptefits;" after Charges, at $328,875. • • avaiNGHAYL •EIGHTY MILLION CHICKS , (Farnier's Advocate) . When the Old hen stole her nest under the driveihed, and brought off a batch of hesky.chirekS in the spring or seininer, flock repleniahment came • or abut naturally, just aa the grass' • sprang up Of its own accerd and the :Wide blossomed out in ox -eye dAls-, But times change. Ontario doubl- ed its pOulty population in ten Years' and now 80- millio:n chicks. are requir- ed every spring in Canada to provide the necessary• pullets for, the laying pees the following winter: The indus- • try has been reVolutionized. As An incubator the hen has been largely eliminated and now chicks are forced from the shells in mam— moth =Whites .operated.and control- led by engineering ,science:1 This is a • •long step from the hen and het bath of‘eggs, and likeeverY forward move - Anent it is accompanied by fresh pre- bleme and new •Petils. . In place of the lien tied to a stake and using a box or the Offen efid•'- a . a barrel as_at-crever_foeheiself: and little chicks, two or tiit-W-:iiinadr chicks • are assembled. beneath •:the .4 wings of a•coal or' oil stove and ' in this milling, peeping mass of young life all the ,diseaies , And . parasites knosivn to present-day poultry husban- dry find etisY There .I• an adrenal loss of ' 25 per cent., experts: . Say. Three chickens :must be batched nh to provide one healthy fip.aulptIllt.ehtee sP for flock replenishment the battlering'ilaw, is to reduce the 25 . per cent. Waitage;"er, in other words, , save Some of the .29 MOO aid chickens that are- annually a to--; • tal;losa. "• • • ,This•-•-crin be accomplished in ftve. -way.s:. First by nsint eggs for hatch- -ing only frem healthy, diseilSeLfree • ; stock; and, Second, by pretecting the young stock from. the infection of • disease' and parasites that artificial • methods ef hntehilig, brooding And rearing Om to he making more . widespread , and more virulent. In_ ether s,Words, scientific methods of.7hiisbandrY Meat be adhered to in 6rder to.tope with the conditions flint seimitifin methods a iricubritien and • breeding have created. PoultrY hus- • bandry ims passed far beyond the hen and coon' stage. And in this new• 'era poultrY raiStra.,must •re,eognize the 'dart -Mire and: intradti..0 ee e440- tede. more rigid', More cliatitin—mitltront=---- tollraturgb thr allet dveonce4 a beg. - , • William \\FinlaY, a -resident of the town of *inghityn; died on Saluiday• last ftbm the effects ef laudarinm which he had taken thnNprbvioui evening. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Finley, was in his 33rd year .and hed resided In this vicinity allhis life. Deceased was employed • •;., :-•‘•••$r '• •