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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-12-2, Page 6F COAST TO COAST Noone: An Lam Alberta. sixteen years ago George A. Wil kiuson came with his wife and five Charlottetown, P. E. I. ---Potatoes. 'children from Beatrice; Nebraska, continue an good demand from outside about 60 miles from. LitKa ln. and points, On Monday, the steamship bought 320 awes of lane 1 at $20 aa Munlisttfn sidled away for Norfolk, acre in the Edmonton District of A1 - Virginia, with 86,000 sacks of seed belts.. He now' owns 960 acres which potatoes from this district ambled at can readily be 'weed at $95 au aere. In $80,0(17). the fifteen years he has farro.ed in A1- liawifalr, beets Itis, nve'raga ylelld 'o'f wll'e et has. N.S.-Charles Vincent boon thirty bush•e�s to the acre axed Sale, Landon Governor of the Hud- oats •&ia.ty.aaa, bushe'rs, Last year the sous Bay Ce. Overseas Settlement, Limited, has asked for an extensive survey of the settlement prospects of the Maritime Provinces, particularly in reference to vacant farms, their Character, nature of soil, productivity, class of agriculture they would serve, prices at which they may he secured, opportunities for markets and all other information to enable the pros- pective settler with capital to know where he stands. Moncton, N.B.—Fiozen bitueberries are now being shipped in quantity to Cleveland and other centres in •the United States. So far eight carloads have left Moncton, feed so that the fruit will remain frozen. Two more carloads are about to go forward. Quebec, Que.--Preliminary work on the pulp and paper milels of the St. Regis Paper Co. at Oap Rouge, nine west of Quebec, will start this fee Iliad.. the., construction of the mills will be begun in t?i;`, :51prt3 ,tee erdinb three sons are married to, .Canadian ` wto information from the muntcrpati,,;, r„• • µagd my two daughters are mer - Windsor, Ont.—Recent census taken tied to Oandateet faranererneerf'Lkirnon of the Border Cities—Windsor, Walk- ton." ervi:le, Ford, Riverside, Sandwich and M. Wilkinson, who• is 70 years of y— Ojlbwashow a population at 100,- age is 'now 'taking life easier. He is 000, or double that of six years ago a metnb'er of the Edmonton Rotary and triple that of twelve years back- Club, andthoughh e has to motor ten The value of construction per capita riles to Edmonton he , neves misses exceeded that of any of the larger the weelaly luncheon.. l=ie believes Canadian cities, in 1924, by 40 per that Aibrta offers to Americans.equal- cent.; in 1926 by 50 per cent., and in ly as good opportunities for- farming 1929 by 60 per cent. ; as in the United States, because land Winnipeg,Man.—A is cheaper, will yield better crops, the good sand for cost of production is less, and the making glass of aL kinds is found or, prices paid for farm products in Can. Black Island in Lake 'Winnipeg, ac- ,oda are equably as goad as those in cording to a report issued by the In- the Stately in some -cases higher. dustrial Development Board of Man- Width •a settler with •capital can at itoba. ; Width lain success gtrieater, •he'cgnr3'1 ers the Meese Jaw, Sask.—Oil drilling will first requisite .is- a capacity for work.,. shortly begin in a new field four miles He advocates a settler''ifoi¢owing nixed north of Readlyn. directed by the Rib- • farming •in Western 'Canada an- order stone -Wainwright Oil Co., Ltd. Equip- to insured the greatest measure of'su�c - ment is now en route to the field. The cess% lease and oil rights acquired from the ' Government cover several thousand Feeding the Water Birds. acres, wheat yielded forty-five busehels to the 'acre. This year the trop yielded from twenty-five to thirty bushels to the acre. There have been years when. the yield of oats haus been as high as 125 bushels to the acre.. "Aro you satisfied with .A,lberta? he was asked, "There is nowhere as good as Ale berta to are," answered Mr. Wilkinson. "I -came here first to look over the country in 1901 and went back to Ne- braska. The following year I bought 160 acres near Edmonton, which I held sand later sold. In 1910 I decided Move ove to Alberta with my family, the ,eldest of the •children then being 16 years old, and bought 320 acresin the -Namayo district, near Edmonton. I still live on this farm, though two of my boys are now working' it: I halve another farm of 480 acres at Bon'Ac- cord, a few miles north of my home, which I bought three years ago. This is being farmed by another son: My SPENT HOLIDAY AS' CARPENTER SUPERVISOR. ' Above are shown Hon. P. a.'A.Cardin, Canadian'IKinister of•_Marina.,and Fisheaieg,:Madame Cardin and their home in. Sorel, Quebec. . Mr. 7eardji spent a' two weeks' holiday supervising and •directing the work of a squad of carpenters who were renovating the house. .The minister himself spat near- ly two years as a carpenter in his youth. London Tries Sa>Inple Rubber- ' Paved'Ioad., The believers in rubber as the ideal surface for city roadways are nothing Among the`many 'questions• we• have daunted that their' efforts have so fax express recently listened • to music the ,raising of such fur -bearer as the there, are obvious..oblections, to the Calgary, Alta.—Alberta has now a 1 to answer Is this one: "Is It natural to not met with complete success. The 'broadcast by- Vera Cruz, Mexico, while `itiuskrat, in pens apart from their establishment'.of a;lawet scare of bEn•^c- silver fox population of more than feed the birds; and if we do feed them, stretch which was laid down round their train -wars thundering along at natural habitat, is a.so an important ,11t for worker's In ag7 ie ituna than .for 2,000. These are Nein inspected and will it not • spoil them for doing the the Cenotaph in Whitehall about two sixty Miles.. an hour neer.: • ladmontan,• departure .ref intense interest. which is diose in inxiustry: If suggests',• there - ply years ago had to be taken up, as the Ailiea+ta, Prior, . o this, whine passing:: being' developed: If succe sful Chas that provision slebeici"be 'made branded by H. S. Oulton of the Do- r work Nature intended?" Conditions1, or Passengers on Train. in. Canada Hear Mexican Music. Natural Resources Bulletin. FARM WC)1,I RS The Farmer and the k opu- 12espite the .fact that trappers and MAY GET DOLE traders have taken free,, of.the fur. British Committee Report 5 resources of Canada' -our fur trade 1a now employs more eapit'rl `engages a For and 5 Against, With lation Problem. } ire CHARLEg W; PETERSON. That the western fernier has' a rent . 1 �; . interest in a largely augmented popti- laxger .number of employees, , and Chairman ill favor. , serve a greater number of people, lotion in 'Canada seems reasonably than at any previous time, The world' T,ie, cicrostion of extear'ding, the mueli- clear. Mass production is the essen- demand. for furs has increased so 'critl•oizeti "dole" (unernployrn&nt in- tial element fit successful, modern in- gt'eatly that the fur industry is con- surance`scheme) to agricultural work - such It is the goal towards which rabbit is perhaps 'outstanding. Ac- has proved to be popule.r. The Bra fronted with new problems, among the' ers'tu'Bri'atin bas become a. live pane. Canadian po.•icy, under both p'o,Xtieat most important of which is an assured The "dole" is an insnrance. benefit paid parties, has been consistently directeti� supply of good 'quality raw product for by oorbpuitory oor tributions palet- ever slime Confederation, and it looks 5uels as Canada is able to furnish. It from tho worker,', partly tram the to tate casual observer: as if this syr- ' The. limited supply of high quality employer and pally from the S7iate. it tem were here to stay in. some form furs in comparison to the demand, has provides a sustenance allowance to.uu- or other. Following the war every forced the industry„ to. use pelta for- . industrial workers, of whom country under the sun, including even morly•conaidered of little value, many there are now mare than 1,000,000 In Great Britain, with certain limits- Flailed -le tions, has adopted a protective system of which are' imported from foreign . with the sole slat of promoting within countries, The public is deceived as to' The .system 'has• been eh'arked 'with the extent eof this practice by a ver- placing a premium upon idleness. On its boundaries lasso production in iety of trade names as applied to cer- the other •hand the•claim is made that order to ensure efficient 'rnanufactur- tein furs' anlori which the fur of the It relieves much genuine distress and rag, The economic principle of pro- tction is that competition - at . home . will regulate prices and ultimately' cording. to the stitteni,ent, a list of"this= 'tisrh Government' has thus been led to leading names as offered to the rabbit appoint - an'giiielal committee under reduce them to the level of competing skin i dude the, fol' win the chairmanship of Sir R. HenryRew countries. But such abviouso'y cannot n s'• ° g' come to pAS9 until the consuming American seei, Arctic seal, Austafi-. to consider extending it to agricultural population at home is sufficiently Tian seal Baffin seal, Bay seal, R eltic workers ' great to permit of quantity production seal, bucks). n Seal, coast seal, -coney) This committee has now „issued a with all Its economics: seal, e.eetric seal, French' seal, Hudson report which shows a division of Canadtian agriculture will c.•eaely, Bay seal,; ''Luskin seal, La Muese seal, opinion. The' chairman and five of the suffer by reason of intiated aomniod near seal, inusgtiash- seal, northern members holed.:;that agricultural work- ity prices, leading to a higher pro seal, po;aar seal, Red River,seal', Rotitan ens ; should:. bei :brought, under the duction cost, until our general con - seal, Sealette, sealine, Baltic white scheme. • The other five members, stunting population reaches a point fox, fox hair, coney kilt, Baltic leopard,: headed by Sir•.Thomas Davies, Govern• where our industizes can function coney. leopard; 'French leopard, Rua -or .of the Royal • Agriauitural Coll'eg'e, more effectively and will ' voluntarily —or, if need be,'by compulsion—see . . duce commodity prices, resuiting in a - lower cost of farm operation and liv- •. in¢ all' around. Until We can. bring about a spectacular increase of popu- lation, the present handicap . of high commodity and operating costs cannot' fluential: body,.of'the fur retai:h'•s and ployment, •the majority also say, tends chi removed.e. vThis handicap is the certain' principles' in this regard have to prevent men.who have Left the land chief grievance of Cos, in stn ,agr-cul- from seeking to , return to it;, the ex- ture, buying as it does, in a .protected been agreed upon. The fur industry market and selling. its own produce - will 'undoubtedly not be content .with elusion of farm workers from ane l- against the comrretition of white, yel- the' continued substitution of these' ployment Insurance being thus prejudi few and black labor. low grade' pelts' and 'other means of clad to agricultttne.. , ' ,.. •: But aside from: all this,,there would be an enormous :direct adventaree to Canadian .- agatiiculture in a largely augmented population., .The home Market no* absorbs. 837 million dol: lars' worth of agricultural `products as against our export market of 600 - millions. The annual per capita con- sumption of farm products in Canada is thus $87.50. The western farmer uroducing almost entirely for export, • receives little benefit from our pres- ent home consumption of faint pro- ducts, but with our population doub:ed the' -domestic market would loom nn as. a very important factor'in his sales. At present he is at the mercy of over- seas countries, which aro now striving with every. nerve, and with more or less success, to promote; decreased irgricultural imports. At any moment he may be virtually closed out by . sian leopard, leopardine, Baltic lion, Belgian lynx, Black 'lynx, Russian lynx, 'coney beaver, electric :beaver, mendoza beaver, nutria beaver, beav- erette, erm•inette, Baltic black and brown fox. This form of. selling has received considerable condemnation from an in- Ciren' stew•, oppose this vie. The majority arguments are based upon• the contention that, although. British agricultural workers may hith- erto heave been comparatively immune from -•unemployment,, this happy'state &F tleings' cannot fie expected to con- liana on. tianve.: Lack of security against mem- increasing the: supply of better grade furs will•be eagerly welcomed. Fax farming has already become -a well 'established . industry and the farming•' of wild fur -bearers on pri.. workers. One of the difficulties, pointed vately-owned lands and the utiliation of waste lands and water areas is act- vanced as a ;suggestion which, may provide .a solution at'least in part of an adequate far supply. Already a number . of experiments in Canada Ohanges would have to be made in the existing epitome the majority think, however, in order to enable .It to be 'made applicable to agrioultural out is that at the present level of agri- cultural wages the amount of benefit payables to a married man with family would .be practically equivalent, in some' localities; to _ his weekly wage anti,. if he had a large family, it would Passngera in the observation car of long these•;Iipes have met with eon- aubstaatiall'y exceed it. a Canadian National trahsoontineental si'derable success. "Dry farming" or On the other hand, the report • says, ter surface "Fre 't " N' v e practhce NOD materially add to the sup.. la ,the `• ractieino” wh,eieby the total ply of &ar pelts of high grade. amount of weekly benefit paid td an As- a` icsu t' of the' increasing de- individual wage-earuor in respect of mar_cl for information in regardto himself. and his depend'ents should in minion Dept. of Agricultere. tare much changed in bird life. - There rub P • oti a n w was a time when it wee: not nces•sary system of what are, known as the, ,Victoria, B.C--Famous Players to erect bird -houses; but now we must Gaisman blocks is being tried en a Lasky are to establish a plant in Brit- if we want to attract them around our stretch of about 40 yards in Upper ish Colombia for film. production itBridge Street between Ludgate Circus homes, especial, in thickly settled was. announced in connection with the - i and the river. The tett here will be as mous Players' Canadian Corporation • The natural food of winter birds has the heaviest traffic of all sorts passes' Limited, of Toronto. been practically destroyed, and if we along i'n a constant stream. want to attract birds and ke'es them with us the year rottiid, it is neces- sary to feed them throughout the win- ter.. As soon as the bugs appear in the eera ,v , concern -known as the Tee . severe as in any place in London,, as • Heavy terra-cotta blocks 10% In- ches by 8 inches have fixed to then a rubber cap five-eighths of an inch thick which, it is claimed, well stand through Manitoba, they :were .regaled. v th ` tangoes and fandangos direct from Mexicp City. . Accordin.g to Ray Cummings; a` mem- tariff walls, as happened to his animal ber of the service engineering staff of Canada's resources of fur bearing no case exceed•the sum of the weekly .products in the United States market. the Garod•Corporation, this is but one wild: iife.and the raising of fur bearna wage he was eaxning ripen he 1 ecauie His wheat willatwaya.. be wanted,but exan`ipis`of the remarkable distant re- atiiiriitis in captivity, the i4atuial Re- unemployed his other, rodtrets erten these coun- Tlte :mninori,.y .regcrt refuses eren p .ception possible on the northern tramp: sources Intelligence Service has: pre.-• .. tries on sutferancteonly. The develotr- iti . Cumniiegs has• just returned from. pared a•. number. of ntonograpits in ,this qua-ifled nee susure o•f pprovai .ileo .went of - a home market for animal products is a safety; measure he can- not afford to needect. A bitter lesson has already been adininistereei to him by our neighbors across the line. ono of his periodical inspections :of English and -French on Canada's •fur the scheme. The .immunity from'ris.k the installations maintained ;by the' bearers and their' domestication, in- of .unemp:oyment, «hick workers: in n Canadiarailroad. . ,ciudieig beaver, fisher, muskrat, mtttk, agricti'iture enjoyed. in 1920, it says, Titres' years ago the Canadian Ne-- marten ' Otter, raccoon chinchilla continues in no lessened degree -toe springtime, the birds will desert your the heaviest pounding of the lorries, 'Leona•1, e.eelking to relieve the -monotony s ringtarte, the birds has been no -both horse and motor, that will go over of long train journeys,' 'd'ecid'ed to Heed byg- all trained This ha orb. Feed- it. Thera blocks are laid on 'a 12 -inch equip all of its die Iuxe' trains with tbeglc the birds during the rime eeth- conereta bed.. They are apparently radio. The -choice of a standard re- very well made with straight -cut, true cower was made and the, installation. their natural food supply Is. at its dges. The edges ars one ein• d lowest ebb, will help you draw the la birds -closer-closer to your home,prevent mixture of rubber and bituu men im- nnadiate+ly before laying and the same : many birds from starving, will keep mixture is poured on. the surfaee_jofnts • same of our migratory birds• with us • so that what is practically a complete throughout the year, will bring a bet- rubber surface is the result. To Iook . ter understandingixd, between birds and at the roadway gives the impression masee nkind dyin addition, have .them , of tides •while the feel is that of pure ready for the bugs when, they appear in the spring, The foods generally used are suet or other fat, pork rinds, bones with • shreds of mean, cooked meats, meal- :warms, eall• :warms, bird -seed, nut meats of all man rubber. A Manchester .company kinds, buckwheat chaff, hayseed, mil- is ear -ging out. the experiment and Sakhavam Ganesh • let, whole, or rolled oats, Popp -corn, will maintain the surface for two pumpkin, squash and sunflower seedy Pandit, attorney, scholar, and writer, ;rolled or boiled rice, wheat, cut-up ap- years' after which the Corporation Los Angeles, who, although a Hindu, 'pies, lettuce, cabbage, carrots, etc. wan ' it •satusfied, enter into a mainten- ance contract. During an artificial rubber. - A good 'comparison wilt be possible at the Spot chosen as half the 'Width of the road will be the ordinary Wood surface and the other Half the Gals - has been admitted to rights of full United - States citizenship. Appealed against by the immigration authori- ties, his right was affirmed. More Berries. . In parts of Hungary, farm laborers Put out some fine .gravel, sand, grit and siftings from .coal ashes. As to feeding -stations, birds are nest particular. A foodwtray or shelf may be put on a tree or pole or fastened against the house. Wind plays havoc with the food on shelves;, therefore are paid in vegetables. Oooastonalty,' boxes or houses bull,t with a roof will we suppose, a workman wili'ask for rproteot the food -and also .the birds, an increase im. his leek's celery. Deaf and Dumb Form Club. Paris has a chub f'o'rmed exelusiveLy of deaf and dumb persons. during stormy weather. By the time a man learns to keep silent he knows much that is . worth saying. test in Manchester a 13 -ton Torry Was. sent over an experimental • stretch 1000 ,times in a day. This destroyed the granite sides of the road, but the rubber steed up to the test. It will be curious' if London go'e's back to the daysof Romans the e I omens in Britain in the use of terra-cotta. • Perfume Retains Fragrance. When opened recently a 3000 -year- old jar of perfume found in an Bgyp- . to 1)0 very efficacious as blood puri- The Prodloy's Uit•ole--"Unfortunate- l a large part 01 the area is which pros - than. tomb stilt retained its fragrance. flees. ly, that's the way l listen.", pectins is now being done. begun. All the sets are permanently fitted into the observation oars, and, a fair of ear phones p1'aoed •on each chair; so designed that the broadeast- iMg could be ol'early heard .above the roar of the trains. The in,ta'li•ations have been. dom- pl;etely sucoessful during the three ,rears of operation, and solar as the reoeption of distant stations is .con- cerned, have 'exoeeded... expectations.: This has proven very entertaining to the passengers, because -in addition to re'ceiving_tbe latest ;news and financial rabbit,, sleunk and'blue fox. Thesesied day. ' The inin.ority also quotes the ports contain date. relative to , d'escrip- tion, habitat, production, trapping ine- thods, breeding, feeding,`.ranch prac- tice, skinning, pelt values, breeding . -`�~ . stock -values, markets, manufacture Men Think Better Under Strain. and carious•aspects of their economic Your easy-going, pleasant fellow and- commercial importance. isn't going to gat there as. fast as the • It is interesting to not that: in- man who grits his teeth;' knits his quiries relative to Canada's presentlareere and' holds_his Muscles- tense. A. and prospective fur resources . and series of psychological testa recently especially the raising of fur bearers was tried' on persons while they were in captivity are coming, not alone gripping a,•tlyn,amom'eter, a pair of from Canada, but from the United hand grips with; meter attached, and States and foreign- countries, includd then repeated-whi10 the subjects were ing both Europe and -Asia. sitting'-in>rel-axed••positions.. The re - cost to the industry and opposition ct employers and workers as reasons for rejecting the proposal qutright. --- sults ;showd that persons can think • A New Tool. -much b•ette.r and faster; when their "My Carburetor le out of crden ,but muscles are under tension: reports from Canadian 'and American T"'think I canailx It" - s'tiation:s, they have been'a'ble to •enjoy • "Have you a mechanical bent?" New Maps. the music of other' countries. Expert- To, but perhaps my neighbor has• The extraordinary activity -In the. once has shown that intereferemoe le one: I'll borrow it" . Red Lake district and adjoinin-g areas practi'cal'ly negligible even: when the emphasizes the value of accurate maps weather rapidly varies ;from falling •Motion Carried. Senator's 'Wife—"�i lest is ,aur pLsa- as _en ald lid travelling through new snow to torrid heat. aur•a in reamed to the dinner, my dear?" country and in prospecting. The Tope - sure .1.-- Senator (just • returned from. setae, graphical Survey, .Department of the Urge 44 -Hour Week. has pub, is several maps sdon)— I move that it be laid on the Interior, a pu , i p An effort is being made to extend tables:" of this area, Pram information obtained T the forty -four-hour week, now el:teethe in New South Wales, to all' States of Australia. Chinese Eat Eat Boiled Crickets.— A, ' from . aerial photographs basedon UnfartunateiY: ground controlstryeys: The .I--nc Seu 1, The Prodigy's • Mt.,ther-- OE course, ;Pointe Flu Bois, ., and Carroll Lake I know she makes• little mistarkes.% sheets on a. scale of oire inch to four sam-eetimos, but, -you sere, she pays e.n im:iies and tiro Red Lake sheet on a Ureter by sear." •. i scale of- one incli• to two miles, cover The Chinese believe boiled chickets MU'1••t AND JEFF --By Bud Fisher. 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Temples,. palaces, bridges, aqueducts, c'sthe'draIs, towers of marvellous rtelicaey and strength grew to perfection •while the common „peeople lived in- hovels and the richest Lodged in the most gloomy and contracted. quarters. The dwell- ing -house is a modern Institution, It Is a curious fart that it hue only 1n - proved witb the social elevation of women. • Men were never more brit. tient in arms and letters than in the ago of Elizabeth, and yet they bad no homes. They made themselves thick- walled castles, with slits in the treason- ry for windows, for defence, and maga nifoent banquet halls for pleasure; the stone rooms Into which' they crawl- ed for the night were often little • bet- ter 'than deg -kennels. The Pompeians had no comfortable night -quarters. The most singular thing to me, how- ever, is that, especially interested as woman is 1ne house, Ouse she has never done anything for architcture. And yet woman is reputed to be an ingeni- ous creature. --Charles Dudley Wander in "Bocklog Studies." •' Think It Over. When you feel unkindly toward the rnan you work for --when your heart is full of resentment and your head full of revenge—stop and take a personal Invent cry. There aro always two sides to a situation. You are n•ot al} wrong; and If. this be true, is it not reasonable to assume that floe rnan you work for is nate all wrong? ' . ' - No person on earth can do goon] work sdrth a single heed full of r.ralioe and two hatids that 'ar9 closed like ilsts. -New Zealand Traveler. • Lantern, Your love is like a lantern And wheat the night is cold, 1 hang it high, Re shining • Weans` mo atomic! with geld, Lice's tavern may be dreary, 'i'•he rod a wa8t.eiancl, b'as'e, Blit if the lauterrf swings 13'tafoecey I shall) not oaio. I s•hali desire of Fate • Hatt length of iaa terte•liaht, When it buena. down,1-t4o Wotuki g^o'inte th-o ttigiutr~ , `-Ge lege 13tilstov..