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:InternationaPReview of Ask
''ticulture Says Russia Firsat,
U.S.. Second; -In Number of •
Bee •Colones '
_;The latest available .figures
dealing with '•' the comparative
rank of the nations in honey pro-
duction are given by -the • Inter-
.
nte -
.national Review pf ' -..the
In :number.' .of • .colonies ' of bees
Russia ranks first w'ith'the Unit-
ed'"` States of 'America' second.
. Next comes ; glermany 'followed
by, France, Mexico and Turkey.
.LARGE. VOLUME .PRODUCED
HERE
It is shown,. that. in nearly all
,countries there has been a great
expansion • in. honey production..
during' the past ten . years.. In
:Germany from 1935 to 1939,: the
increase is estimated at 81 per
cent. The ,uniformity of the in-
crease aswell as its extent is the
Object coniinent because of
the fact that economic.. conditions
have varied. so 'greatly in the ,.dif-
ferent .countries.: Canada •stands
out as among the most efficient
in management' according to the
Review. Although' tanking only
sixteenth ,in ' number of ; colonies.
of 'bees it ranks f
a sour tli in 'volume
!oi..:honey:.:prodnced.c..AMe_tiieo•-has
.
nearly one-half 'as many colonies
of bees as the 'United, States. 1
The island' of- Cuba is by 'far
the largest exporter of h'oneyl,
followed by. :Chile. Mexico. • ia,td:
-Canada ' export in about ', equal
quantity,. while Guatemala with
un..-cornparati - sly ,small, area ex
ports about as ninth'honey`as, the
' United States. . . • +.
The Proud Horseman
Dan Dailey, Jr. became the proud
est resident. of Hollywood when he
acquired • the ownership of his
horse, 'Styli4h Rex, whom he is
•training for show purposes. Dailey
-spends-every spare moment away. -
• from the studios' riding and train-
ing the animal.
Flax ' Growing .•
Increase :Urged
9'
Ady geg41$�-,j...0 !tion Of
Canadian '•Product Noted •--
For Export Purposes
•
The natidnal flaxseed commit-
tee has expressed the belief that,
a small increase in Canadian flax
production "would be in , the na-
tional interest." •
In a report issued ; following -a
meeting in Winnipeg, the cm-:
mittee '•said it is informed that
.Tari ' increase in domestic con-
sumption of flaxseed 'may be 'ex-
pected in 1941, and 'that possibili
ties exist for a 'small increase in
export demand."
MORE' DEMAND SEEN
"It would be in the' national
interest if the 1941 crop were in-
creased. slightly over the 8,750,-
000 bushels produced' in 1940
when ( ' conditionsfavored high
yields to an .unusual degree,"
said the ,statement: '
The.' Committee' report stressed
that Western Canadian flaxseed
is' superior • in quality, particular-
, ly With respect to the drying
.properties of the oil, `to that
'grown in: the United States ' or
Argentine:
"Canadian flaxseed` can be
moved cheaply ,to such points as
Oleveland and Buffalo."
*Balloon Broadcast,
Ari arrangement .making it pot.sible for data registered in the
air to .be used almost at once on
the ground _will shortly , be in
)' force at a new stratospheric sta-
tion to be opened at Payerne, ^ .
Switzerland: Balloons will be.'bj
fitted with' automatic short wave !
transmitters to send out. data. ,I
registered by instruments. f
taving, Ontario's
Natural
Resources,
• G.' C, Toner
Ontario Federation of Angler. .
and Hunters`
(Ng. 36)
"..• .•F'ISH, GAME LAWS •
Vast ..week . 1 i'nelitioned , that,
there, had been other .government
..bodies , •conieerned. with.. our' fish
and- ,'game before our present
Game and Fisheries Department
was .:instituted in 1905• but even
before there were,' any' regatory'
ul
• or • .administrative" : bodies ' there•,
were :game .laws- enacted , by the.
:Legislature:: I mentioned the '
earliest' .of these last week,, the
Act. of ..1:82:1:... '
In 1839 another 'Act" was pas-
sed Which was. even more • coni-
prehensive for' it • Provided that no..
person•"shall hunt or shoot, or go.
out .with .a ..gun in: quest. of .any
deer or other, wild _.animal or wild •
fowl on the Lord's Day ('common;
ly called 'Sunday) within. this' .
Province." = 'The season fordeer
was .changed to 'open'' August 1'st
and close. February' lst. "Wild
turkey,. h en or grouse;,.
om
partridge; or :any.' quail or wood-
' cock,"' could legally .. betakeli'
from- Sepieiaber 1st to' March 1str.
Open and'`Cloaed• Season.
When., the 'Statutes Of Upper
ICanada' . were , consolidated.. .in'.
1859 ' there were few • changes.
• The ' duck. ;season • extended from
. August 1st .to April 15th, eight,
'and' one half months.- of • shooting
which should have .satisfied most
people.: Ey'en 'at that time. they
•had trouble with 'wolves' and the
.Ant --'mentions-a bounty': of six"::
;In 1868, the Province of'On-
tam revised the 'game '_laws, eut-
ting down the '.open, .season to
more ..'reasonable:' length but even'
this' did•. not prevent depletion. By
1890, the anxiety amongthinking
people ,,culminated . in the appoint -
merit of : a Commission to investi
gate 'conditions and submit re- •
commendations.
One can 'find in libraries the';:,
old leather • bound • volume that •
containsthereport'. of the Coin='
mission of It iswell worth'
reading,. particularly for the pier
tune it, gives of conditions fifty
-years ago, It was .a' sweeping
and' outspoken •indictment o f the
various: abuses that. hampered the
conservation of our game and
fish. It had considerable 'effect
for' -shortly afterwards the Legis-
lature set up ' a Board of. Fish
slid' Game. Commissioners under
fiI—ie noin3naT ji riidieti.on 'of • the
Commissioner . of Crown Lands.
This Commission administered the
wild life' for nearly. ''fourteen
years' when it was dissolved .and
the -present Department--of•-•Game
• and Fisheries was, set up in .its
°place. • r`
Willows Have
.Some Do,
IiRe Don't --Science ' Seeks Answer.
f'
Working hand in , hand with, the fighting forces of Canada' and 'of the rest of the .Empire are the "scie
tists of thea National Research'' Council of Ottawa. Already they have made numerous highly important con-
tributions
to the
war effort,,
aboth in
the industrial field n .'
a r
d n
the 'arm
e forces.
d
In thi t on
s e th
re>,iearch_�workers-.-is�how � ..�. - _---�
et te& by a
n as he subjects•-er�e>sl=h�elm�et.r "to- `�sts:� One' :has -been ,penetrated bya
bullet' and the' other' has resisted' it. ;The scientist is trying to find out why:.;
T H,, -E WAR W , £ -C' mmentary oto Current invents
R. PROMISES AID
IF
TURKEY IS ATTACKED
Last Week. as -spring .openedtill
doer on what. . might well be the
decisive phase of (the conflict be-
, tween Britailn and Germany, `the
battle of Britain—out of Which', has °
grown the Battle of the. Atlantic—
was still 'the main'' engagement of
•'the war. But events' in the. Medi-
terranean basin , were receiving'
much more .of the world's attention:.
There, the British cgnquest of. It;
aly's African Empire,' all- but coni-,.
piste; ..was beginning to be chal-
lenged by large forces' of, German
mechanized troops in western Lib- ,.
Ya; and the Battle of the Balkans
was fast '.approaching: the. "shoot-
•ing". stage; •
Yugoslav Crisis -
' The' capitulation to the Axis of
Yugoslavia's head men ' precipitat-
ed a ndmber ' of new crises: in
Yugoslavia, itself, where Open re-
volt and eiivil war threatened; in
' Greece, where the Allied -Greek
military command _ had eswiftiy to'
..revisetheir• lan"of`;defence-to'ein
embrace a much' wider front; in
Turkey, where •the country's lead-
ers saw her independence menaced
from ye•t another angle; and. in
Russia,: Where'German penetration
irf the Balkans had long' been view-
ed with growing anxiety.' 1
Russia Assures Neutrality'. . '
• The Soviet Union reacted to this
situation by ,reaffirming friendship'
With Turkey and; assuring Russian
.Turkish ' Origin '
Britain and ' America have a
very strong bond with Turkey,
for every 'weeping willow gracing
our river banksowes its origin to
a single cutting brought from
that country. This ;is' how it hap- '
pened. At the beginning of the
18th century a large: basket of
figs was :sent from • Smyrna to
Lady 'Suffolk -in England. The
poet Pope was there' when the
gift arrived, se drawing 'one of
the withes from which the basket,
was ®made,' he remarked: ""Per- '
haps. this ;will produce something
'we have not in' England." He
tpok' it . with 'him to his villa at
Twickenham and planted it by the
Thames, where' it grew into a
magnificent weeping willow.. It
was generally admired and cut-
tings were taken to all, parts of
England. Years later, a .'British
officer leaving .for• this `continent
cut a. twig from Pope's willow,
wrappirit oiled silk and car-
ried it,in his baggage ,,throughout'
the Revolution: After the war
he presented it to John Curtis,
son of Martha Washington, who -!
planted ft in Virginia where ' it
becan1e the ancestor of all weep-
ing willows in .the States.•
neutrality should Turkey resist
German attack .ons herself. The
agreement did not promise neutral
ity if Turkey should strike at Ger-
many' in the event bf a Nazi mote
against Greece:. On the contrary it
stated-that."in the event that Tur-
key should be the Object of aggres-
tion and she found herself obligged.
to• enter war for .the defence of her.
territory,. Turkey :could then, in
conformity with .the nonaggression
• pact • existing between: herself and
the • U. S. S. It.; 'rely,-. on the. , full'
comprehension and 'neutrality' of..
the:.U. S. R. R." •
This has sensational • 'news. The-
-entering.into`of^this pact with Tur-
key eonstitpted• the first concrete
step the Soviet.Union had taken to.
influence, the course of the war
since. the German -Russian agree-
ment of August, 1939. This latest ,
act barred.'; further Nazi. penetra- .
tion . southeast, ' along the U. • S. S.
R's -'western borders. tI•ttaiso .was
reliably' Confirmed that Russia had'
halted Shipment of all suppliesof
oil to' Germany since March 1).'.
• , Bad F'or Germany .
Writing on the significance ' of..
: the, nee Soviet assurance to Turkey
Canadian Military 'analyst W. R.
' Plewman: said: • "The dispatches
suggest' •that. Russia will 'give : ma-
. terial help to Turkey much as the '
U. S. is ..giving material 'help 'to ,
Britain. Some war' supplies prob-
Guests in Wartime Britain' Come and Bring Their ' Own
Visible Smells •
Neither 'gold nor platinum has
any odour with • can be reeog•.
nised by the human ,nose, .but
Most of the commoner metals
can easily be recognised bythe
sense of smell,'Tin, for instance, •
when. freshly cut has a strong
andun mistakable lodour. Of 'the
ch
rarer, metals, itr'aniurn and its
compounds give Mut the strong-
est. smell. • Uranium is one of the.
radio -active Metals and constant-
ly throws off' extreinely' small
pa%ticles. • .• ,
tong. ago .1..J. Thomson show-.
ed that these particles produce
shadows on a photographic film
and can be deflected' by a mag-
net. 'though infinitesimal; n size,
they can affect our olfactory or-
gana . -'
AIM
.Hostesses in ,wartime • Britain need no• longer -w6ri'y' about their
friends' food fads. Where' week -end guests arrive, they frequently bring ,
their rations along with then'.,
slily are-movinm frons Russia to
Turkey, and it would be logical for'
the movement to develop gradually
to a large scale :., Russia is mov-
ing, her troopsand warships west-
ward as quietly as; possible, , but
perhaps, with little idea . of offens- '
:ive action .. It' remains to he seen
whether Stalin will neglect hisop-
portunities until Hitler is ready to
strike.-Hiemilitary,advisers
tell' him the• .truth that until' Ger:
any has fought, it out' with, Britain,
Hitler won't have sufficient gas'o-
line and grease to permit 'large'
',,,neclianized forcesto drive. far 'into.
.
Russia and that Hitler really -is
staging. a , gigantic ,bluff to. keep
Russia: quiet. The .?Russian :-armies
possess a vast nir erical .superior-
• ity over the German armies and it
impossible for th&;German forces
:to guard every vital point that the
`Russians • could menace. The .Sov-'•'
-let air forces could.. work havoc to •
German cities;. Russian :cities are
•' so remote •they .would' be. compar
atively free• from „attaek.•Were Bus,
sia to make common cause with
the Greek, . British' 'and Turkish.
armies, .the defeat .of Germany
within a year would be ' a 'near
' 'certainty." •
• Whatever purpasps- were 'beh;ind
the 'Soviet pledge of aid:.to Tur-
key, they portended ill for. Nazi:
a •Germany. Even the U. S. Stat. :•De
paremer t •beartHr'-ap'piaud d "Ris
sia's . attitude:
"Bridge' of Ships"
President . Roosevelt's biggest
headache,• once the first financial
e.ppropriations : under .the Lease -
Lend ' bill .had: ,been approved by
the Senate, appeared' last week to
be: how 'the U. S. 'was , to assure,
delivery of American aid to Bri-
tain. Everything obviously depend-
ed upon maintenance , of . • the
':bridge of ships'' across the At-
lantic. (Hearteningly enough last's
'week's British shipping, losses- were
away down). A move to lend more:
destroyers to Britain was ' expected.
• hourly;''and large-scale pldn3 were
being laid, ,for the ' repair of Bri-
'ta'n's naval and merchant shipping
``in•
United- States yard's.: tTse o
American warships in British con-,
voys• ;wag•. contemplated, but net
planned' until, a' more critical . stage
of U. • S, -German relations should
be 'reached. ° . -
Very encouraging news for Bri-
tain canr'eout of the: U. •S.. last
. week with the report, reliably con-
' 'firmed, that 16,000 bomber d and
fighter, planes would be ready to go
across the ocean to join the war,'
by. July. By the •. end of _1941, it
was :said, ., American : production
• would bring. Britain's air. fighting
Strength up ,level with Germany's.
Japan Reconnoitres .•' Japanese Foreign Minister Mat-'
suoka's sojourns in Moscow, Rome,:
Berlin, were last week not yet con;
piste. His parleys with the Axis
chiefs • w'ere the subject' of much''
speculation—since no •information
about them was forthcoming-='
but -it was generally thought that
Mr. Matsuoka. had .come'to Europe
to see for himself whether' the
Axis. partners. were, in, position to
make good their claim` that they
can, nullify Aineric•a^a aid for Bri-
tain and knoek the latter out. His
findings would ' without ' doubt
strongly `iuence the decision of
' bis governanentas to' whether ' a-
pa,n is toweave a tortuous course
of non-b.elligereney or throw eau-
tion to the winds and join in the
. attack on- the 'Anglo -Allies: dine of
Japan's greatest.;fears of course is
• that •Soviet. Russia might • attack
her in the north (Inner, sea and
land) .when She's busy 'inthe south,
and what the Japanese government
desires perhaps above all -else at
the moment is' a Russo-Japanese
non aggr• ession pact:
42,600,000,000 , This Year
Canada will •spend. •$2,6.00,000;0.0
over the ' next . twelve 'months • -on
her own 'War .effort and financial
:aid. to Britain=$550,000,000 more
than *an ..estimated -'late iii
ruary—Premier King told Parka-
-went last week. The Prime.
Aster declared thatthis, sum, bo
spent .in a m'i'ghty drive• of
Money'
and materials, repres, anted
44 per cent of the whole riationai
income .of .tanada.: '
• .On a comparative basis,' •
premier 'etiolated, 'thin 'fin
assistance to, Britain ftrr Can
puchases woui't equal 'an exp
tare' of. $15 •blliipns by the.United
'State's—more than twice the
ington• appropriation for lend-
�
' Feb-
Min -
to
men,
the
ancial
adian
endi-
Wash-
lease
purPose
otlowingo: Preanier " 014
• duce Minister ' Ilsley announced
federal taxes of '$1;000,000;000 for
the fiscal year beginning..AgriL L'
which ,represented an additional
$100,000,000 •in 'revenue to he
sought from; Canadians by the Do-
minion _,government next year,_ A; •
billion dollars, he said,' would have.
to be borrowed next year to •cover
direct war . outlay ,and • non -war ,ex-•
,penditures including financing , of
the new federal wheat policy. •
Unpopular .Wheat .Polley
". Western members of 'tlie House
of Commons last week were urg-
ing that they be given an opportun-
ity to -debate the government's new
wheat • policy which provides: • a
.
limit 'of 230.•'000,000 bushels to
Wheat Board purchases of the 1941
crop; a continuation of the pre-
sent 70c a bushel minimum price;
basing' of .-delivery • quotas • on 65'.
per cent of the 1940 wheat acreage
(which means. acreage, .reduetfon); -
ard 'payment of bonuses' for sum-
merfallowing and seeding to, coarse
grains and grasses: Agriculture"
Minister MacMillan ' of Alberta had
issueda statement saying that this
policy was. "highly unsatisfactory
and .inadequate" and that it would '
° be impossible of.acceptanc.e,b7 the.
Western : wheat f rmers .' unless '
drastic modification 'were made.
Farmers of the .prairie ;provinces,
he contended, 'should 'be ;placed in
a position: of equality .with. •other.
classes of Canadiancitizens in the
war -effort and nest' forced to -rive-•-•
oir.! "hree r e--.. en' then:-verger'at•,.
Poverty."
Pigs: are the .only farm animals
which can be fed on• a diet of .all
food •waste.,
e Boo
"H. M. PUL HAM, ESQUIRE"
Isy J. P. Marquand
""H. M. Pulham, .Esquire" is, tlitt
story of a man' .whet& life iso., chap-
ed by his surroiundinge hi a *Old'
formed by home, sehook, ,society.
even business influences of lire day, '
smooth fitting, comfortable, , un. . • .
breakable. (Many men and women
live :in :such moulds—more Often,,-
than not without realizing, it. for •
it is . -the unique quality' of Each
a mould that 'one Is .not conscious .
of its exist ice "until it chafes):..
htr.: Pulham, on the eecealon -of the ;
twenty-fifth reunion 'o1= hie college.
class,. becomes aware .o1 -what ha •
has been missing.••tbroughout hfh,
'narrow, ,circumscribed life. He real-
izes hie 'ideas have not :moved, with
the 't°imes---she is• trying to measure
' today's problems with . yesterday's
yardstiek -but alas It ie too :late - -
and'',too comfortable to Change.
Men -who -read this book-wAil-firm
themselves stopping to -eompare
.Harry Pulham's life with their own •
and women will find• themselves
wondering how . well they- 'know
their own' men.
"H. M. Pulharn, Esgpire"•:'
J. P. Marquand Toronto.: ,- T'
McClelland .and:. Ste -Wart, 'Publish-
ers ...1. $3.00:' ••
IB.YAN NURSERY •KRViikE
ussolini-ming-mo
.taught a lion by the toe.
How you'd have to let him go,
Teeny weeny Benito!,,;
Toronto' Saturday light.
THE GREATEST FEAR
The biggest' drawback to farm
organization is the fear of political •,
entanglements and .the -suspicion.':
that the 'leaders are working:their
way up to a soft,' cushy job.
--Farmer's Advocate.
WAR STYLES
Dr.' Stapleford,." the director of • ,i
voluntary services, says that'. the' :. •
time • will come: when it will• be'
"patriotic" to wear an old ;suit or { .
drive an old car. That's comforting •
for 'all • the'' people: who are already,
obliged ' to, do, 'so.-
-Brockville
s o. --Brockville Recorder "and -Times.
•
BEST ADVICE
The 'Ontario 'Departments of Ag-
ricultu're,, •Education and I3abor
have . collaborated- in -the . priiduc
tion of a booklet of "Farm Maxims
and Slogans'' for the .use, of Btu-
-
.dents 'r-egietering for •fern" servieei
aud'°proba bl tire- hest` advice g van A
in: it IS title: "Never trust `a bull.",
Brockville .Recorder and Times:..
Europe's , tallest ' structur'e-•
the Eiffel Tower, in 1'azis.'
LIFE'S LIKE, THA'
-By . Fred Neher
"What • part of my bill makes you sick ;... the part you paid or
i \ • the balance?" •
RE4'ILAR FELLERS --j. That's 'Different '•
Pui: AN' f wE,RE
IN A STREET.
CAR AN' WE
FOUND A DIME
ON I'm n ooR.!
NOBQD`t CLAIMED
ri' 30 WE,$1-EW
IT IN. ON TWO
IC C -•CREAM'
CONES!
By ' GENE BYRNES.
IS THAT aOp'
WEI;L,i FOUND
OUT 11.1AD A
• HOLE IN MY
POCKET AM'
IT WAS
MY DISC!
.tae nl asiun easel.::.
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