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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1912-7-11, Page 2Youj may be \ , Si. L S paid $50 • in Cash for improving your ., tr ►k; r,•, . , walk like this 108 Canadian, farmers will receive cash prizes (twelve, in n each Province) in our big rig ti t '.;• 1912 FARMERS PRIZE •If ,1I{IIIifI •: . 1 CONTEST , g E held a contest last year in which 36 prizes were hlf r< rl offered. This year there will be three tubes as many prizes (108) and therefore three times as many chances for you to win one of them. You do not have to use a large quantity of cement to win a prize. Many of last year's prize -winners used comparatively little cement. TIM contest 1s divided into three classes and in only one of these (Class' A") does the amount of eentent Used errant In deciding prize winners. Class see is for doing the best 'tenants work (the size makes no difference).' Class "0" Is for sending inthe best and clearest description of how any piece of concrete wort:' was done. prize. 11' COSTS NOTTIYNG TO ENTER -There are absolutely no "strings to this offer. There Is no entryfee or to bother with. Yon cannot lose, became the Improvements you make of concrete In competing for the will be more than e,o co,,, worth their cost, we have a book, ' What the Farmer Can Do With Concrete " that will eveyouall t , 1 g j a. lnfotmaUou about the usc•oE concrete you can Head. it will be scut to you tree when you ask us for template xartica• fats of tate Prize Contest, Ask for particulars to -day. Just say °Send 'tie, free, your book and fullpa rticulars of the 1912 PrizeP C 1 antes' "+ on a est card and mail' It to -day, "ddresis NI:dicky lUlutagar, Canada Cement Company Limited, 503 Herald Bldg., Montreal THESE will be four prizes (FINE. X50; Second, nus; Third, 515 Fourth, 510) In tach -class In each Province. Thus you have only to tom Deft ' with other farmers In your own Province. and not with those In nil parts of Canada, This eivcs you the best possible chatted to Win a 1650 t ArNt,allr„,l r• HoW CaNADA IS GROWING FORETRA.l 1, 1DOIThILED i t DECADE., Iuerenc lr>s Revenue and Fie'tl Crepe Tear by 'year -Compiled by Frank neigh. Do you know how many inhebi- tants there are in Canada? Population of Canada by I'rovinecs ,Alberta . BrXish Columbia. 1 ('' Lnitoba Ti(3s 1\ w Brunswick . Nova Scotia Ontario . Pr. Ed. Island Quebec , . Saskatchewani Yukon . N. W. Ter... Totals . , *. Decrease. 10 Years' 1011. 'Increase. 374,663 301,641 392,480 213,823 455,614 200,403 351,889 20,769 492,338 32,764 2,523,208 340,261 93,278 *9,531 2,002,712 353,814 492,432 401,153 8,512 *18,707 16,951 *3,178 7,204,527 1,833,212 Do you know, that Canada shows greater increase of percentage in population for the decade,' viz., 32 per cent., than any similar increase in the United States, viz., 24 per cunt. That urban population increase is 69 per cent. ; rural, 16 per cent,. That the next Parliament will have 11 additional members. On- tario losing 4, New Brunswick 2, Nova Scotia 2, P.E.I. 1; 4 western provinces gain 5 each. That the percentage growths of some Canadian cities in 10 years are: Calgary, 975 ; Hamilton, 55; Halifax, 12; London, 22; Montreal, 74; Ottawa, 44; Quebec, 16 ; Re- gina, 1,400; St, John, 5; Toronto, 80 ; Vancouver, 270 ; Victoria, 48; Winnipeg, 178. That Canada has 3,000,000 French- Canadians. . That Canada has 103,601 Indians. That Canada has received 1,886,- 538 immigrants from 1896 to 1911 (including 351,595 in 1911), and that 75 per cent, of the total arrivals were English speaking and 25 per cent. foreign, CANADA'S TRADE, That during the last census de- cade, 1901-1911, Canada's trade has ,doubled', -field crops value nearly trebled, .savings more thandoubled, railway mileage per head highest in the world, and third among nations in ratio of trade to population/ That Canada's total vote, general election September 21st, 1911, was 1,307,484, viz,.: Conservative,. 669,- 577; Liberal, 625,396. Conservative popular majority, 44,461, or about 33e' per cent. Labor votes, 1,742 ; Independents; 7,177; Socialist, 3,9122 That Canada is -developing a big whaling industry? That one char- tered company alone caught 700 whales in 1911 in Pacific waters ? That thousands of barrels of oil are being shipped to Europe, and thou - tends of tons of fertilizers to Cali- rnia,? Do you know Canada, by her prov- inces Canada's four provinces at Con- federation have grown to nine. Canada's nine provinces, great in size as they are, take up only half of Canada's total area; there is, therefore, room for nine more. Alberta's area of 253,540 square miles is double the size of Great Britain, .and as large as France. British Columbia is Canada's lar- gest province, 395.000 square miles, or 10 per cent. of Canada's total area, and has a population of 390,- 229. It is equal to 24 Switzerlands, with 200,000 square miles of moun- tains (Switzerland 16,000), and has. 7,000 miles of coast line. Manitoba's area, is 73,732 square miles ;. if, and when extended, it will be 252211. Ontario's area is 260.863 square miles, and is as large as two Eng- land••s and little less than France F ante and Germany. It comprises 7 per cent. of Canada's area, and 34 per cent. of population. 140,000 square miles will be added under the pro- posed boundary extension. Maritime Provinces area of. 51,597 square miles (Nova Scotia, New WAS A CONFIRMED DYSPEPTIC lsow Finds it a Pleasure to Enjoy Meals ?.fere is a case which seemed as bad and as hopeless as yours can possibly be. This is the experience of 14 Ir. H. J. Brown, 384 Bathurst St., Toronto, in his own words : "Gentlemen -I have much pleasure in mentioning to you the benefits received from your a-Dru-Co Dyspepsia Tablets and can cheerfully recommend them. X simply had confirmed dyspepsia with all its wretched symptosis, aridtried about all the advertised cures with no success. Yon have in; Na-Dru-Co Dyspepsia Tablets the best curative agent I could find. It is now such a pleasure to enjoy meals with their consequent nourish- ment that X want to mention this for the betxefit of others." The fact that a lot of prescriptions or so-called "cures" have failed to help you is no sign that you have got to go on suffering. Try 1 -Diu-Co Dyspepsia Tablets arid see how uicic:l this sterling fmexrned,yr will giveyou relief xui4tart your stoach workinproperly.• If it doesn't help you, you get yourntoney back. 500 a boxy at your druggist's. Compounded by the llatioiial Drug and Chemical' Co. Of Canada, Limited, Montreal. 141 Brunswick ,and Prince Edwar4 as- land) is two-thirds the size of Mani- toba. Quebee, thesecond largest prov- ince, has 351,873 square miles, and is nearly three titi.es'as large as the :British Isles: When Ungava is added, with 480,000 square miles, Quebec. will ;be by far Oaleada'a largest province. CANAD.A'S FINANCES, Do you know these facts about. our national finances? That the budget speech of March 14th, 1912, showed the biggest sur- plus on record of $39,000,0001 That revenue for 1910-11 was $117,780,400; expenditure, $87,774,- 198; surplus, $30,000,000, That' the estimated revenue for 1811-12 is $136,000,000; expenditure. (estimated), en revenue aeeount, $97,000.000; surplus (estimated), $39,000,000. That the total expenditure for 1911-12 is estimated at. $175,000,000. That the net debt of the Domin- ion increased by $3,773.605. That the net debt of Canada to 31st March, 1911, was 8340,042,052. That other capital and special ex- penditures will reach $134,862,714. That the total estimated expendi- ture will be $252,785,248, Tliat the total estimated increased debt'on• railway from 1904 to March 31st, 1912, is $77,285,063. That Canada's trade has doubled since 1900 ? FARM WEALTH. Do you know how rich Canada is agriculturally, and what it means to a country to have millions of acres of fertile soil, under varying clima- tic conditions? Do you kntiv: That Canada's field•, crops' value reached the record figures in 1911 of $565,711,600, Ontario leading with $193,260,000. That Canada has nearly 600,000 farmers. That Canada sold, in 1911, $143,- 112,950 of agricultural and animal products; which is only 16 per cent. of the total grown. That Canada has 2,000 elevators, with a grain capacity of 105,000,000 bushels, That Canada (sold nearly 50,000, 000 bushels of wheat to Great Bri tain and over 3,000,000 barrels o flour. That Canada has enough floui mills to supply a population five times that of Canada. That Canada has nearly 15,000,000 head of live stock,' and that Can ada's dairy industry yields over $100,000,000 a year. CANA'D'A AS A WHEAT LAND. Do you know how rich Canada is in wheat? Do you know that Canada raises the best wheat on the continent, per award of grand prize at New York Land Show, November, 1911, to as Saskatoon settler? Canada's western area (estimated by some at 233,000,000 acres, and by Prof. Saunders at 171,000,000 acres), if cultivated, could supply almost half the world's present wheat consumption. It should not be forgotten that wheat is the basis of all civilized existence. The world's wheat eat- ers numbered in 1871, 375 millions; to -day, 517 millions. According to Prof. Thomas Shaw, the wheat belt has :shifted in the United States. The centre of pro- duction in North America is now in the Canadian North-West, and this may be shifted yet farther north with the opening up of the Peace River country. Canada's wheat crop, 1900, 47,- 867,917 bushels; 1911, 215,000,000 bushels. In the same period, United States wheat production was nearly at a standstill. In 1900, Canada's wheat .production was ane -eleventh of that of United States; in 1911; about one-third. Canada was 7th among world's wheat -growing ,countries in 1910, and 5th in 1911, beating Hungary, Italy and Spain. Of Canada's total grain values of 1911 of $565,711,600, wheat alone represented one-fourth, or $138,- 567,000. Estimated area sown in, the West, 1912, 12,000,000 acres. Watch Canada's wheat standing climb from fifth place to nearer the first. WORLD-WIDE TRADE. Do you know that Canada's for- eign trade for 1910-11 was $769,443,- 905, and that it increased nearly $100,000,000 in 1911-12? Do you know how Canada's for- eign trade has grown, doubling in a decade? That Canada does busi Hess among 87 countries, ranking third among nations per capital That Canada's Empire trade has doubled in 14 years, being now 37 per cent. of the whole? That Canada's trade with the United States is 61 per cent. of the whole/ That Canada's trade is increasing 25 times as fast with the United States as with Great Britain? That Canada's foreign trade, 1910-11, was $107 per head; that of the United States $40 2 -Toronto News. ►X< The germ of suspicion is often fa- tal to the microbe of love. "May I ask you a friendly ques- tion " "Certainlyt" "Whydon't you hire a servant? Your wife is in feeble health!' "That's just it. She has all she can do now. I don't want her to have any more to cook for." DOGS AS SENTRIES. Have >i KK:eener Sense of Hearing Than Man. Major Richardson, of ,Scotland, who has devoted much care and thought to the breeding and train- ing of war, ,police and watch dogs, has sent two animals to India. He said that for many reasons his choice fell upon Airedales -not the show dog of than breed, but the larger and heavier old fashioned type, which was .strong, very plucky,' not apt to be afraid of any- thing, and not gun shy. "The great advantage," he says, "of a dog to the sentry or outpost picket is that at once the value of his services is more than doubled, picket accompanied by a dog will never give a false alarm, and in the case of attack the approach of an enemy is noticed by the dog ow- ing to its extraordinarily keen sense of smell and sound long be- fore the man has any definite idea of their presence. During the, Ma- tabele War a police patrol had turned in their blankets for the night, leaving one of the number on guard, They had an old retrie- ver with them. The night was very dark. The sentry saw and heard nothing, hat the dog was restless and growled, Thinking something was wrong, the sentry roused his eomraaes.. They were up, and hacl just prepared for an attack, when a party of natives attempted to rush thein. But for that dog that patrol would in all probability have been wiped. out, "Much of the country through which the Ghurkas travel on their expeditions is thick jungle, well suited for ambuscades. These Airedales advance with the scouts, and when aware of the presence of the enemy, they do not bark, but utter a warning growl. It is quite possible to train a dog not to bark at the approach of a stranger, but merely to growl. I have :spent about six months in training these two Airedales. It is a well-known fact that dogs will 'wind' game or people from a distance of over a mile. "It may interest you to learn that since the Borkum spy affair dogs patrol those fortified islands day and night." DR. EUGENE 114.A.NEL Of the Federal Department of Mines, who is conducting the peat fuel experiments kr the Dominion Government. CHOCOLATE AS A FOOD. Restores Energy Quickly and is Digestible and Nourishing. Not so many years ago the drink called chocolate was thought to be a reckless dissipation for one wha had regard for his or her stomach. To indulge in chocolate candy was quite as pernicious as to eat toma- toes, and with quite as much rea- son. Chocolate was an exotic and bizarre drink, told about by travel- lers who had ventured into Mexico or Spain, but to -day it is even or- dered in the sick room and, at least in the form of cocoa, from which thef havebeen be ,n removed, it is considered both digestible"and nourishing. What a difference the scientific study of dietetics has brought about. Sugar -that is, carbohy- drates -is now acknowledged to be a normal part of human food; in certain circumstances, says the Bulletin of the Pan-American Union, a necessary part of it, and any way to get :sugar into the sys- tem so that it will be agreeably as- similated is to help nature to ac- complish her proper ends. The carbohydrates are the accessory in- gredients supplying energy to the body above that which may be ob- tained from the proteids. The harder the physical work an individual performs the more pro- teids must he eat, and up to acer- tain point the less ,sugar does he require; but in ordinary life the in- dividualrequires a dietetic mixture of proteids, fats, and sweets, while under conditions in which muscular tissue has been rapidly exhausted sugar has the faculty of restoring energy quickly, and therefore of making the heavier foods accom- plish better results. The starchy (code, like potatoes, are useful in all dietaries, but when immediate results are sought, sugar must be used. Yet plain sugar in a i i dietary will not invariably be ac- ceptab•io to the human animal, and nothing makes sugar so reelable •as a due proportion of alxeeolate added. on the m SEEDING THE GRASS LAN:iA Too much importance can not be given to the selection of pure grass seed, for there is no greater fail- ure or disappointment in farm man- agement than to fail to sceare a good stand if grass or clover. Every year 'I am becoming morn and'rnore favorably impressed with the value :of alsike clover, although. we have used it for a. number of years in all of oue grass and seed mixtures, writes- a correspondent. We have repeatedly failed to se- cure a favorable stand of common red clover, and to our surprise.the alsike would camp along and make a. good stand and we would be en- abled to harvest a very profitable grass crop: Many times red clover will not thrive for the reason that the soil has become somewhat acid, but the alsike will make a very good crap notwithstanding the acid con- dition of the soil. Another valuable characteristic of alsike clover is the fact that it will stay in the soil several years, and if permitted it will reseed itself. Al- sike clover grows but littlo after mowing and no second crop can be expected from it. Both in this re- spect, as well as the longer time it requires to mature its maximum crop, alsike clover stands after Ted clover. Its great and undeniable advant- age, on the other hand, lies in the fact that it is more hardy than the common red clover and can be suc- cessfully cultivated on moist soils and land that is flooded at certain times during the year on which red clover will not grow. If alsike clover seed is mixed with pasture grass mixtures, it yields rich and certain grazing crops, and when cultivated on arable land red clover seed should be sowed with the mixture with which the field is seeded. In this way a great advantage is gained in the fact that the first year after sowing the fodder may be har- vested chiefly consisting of red clov- er and in the following years after the red clover begins to deteriorate the alsike conies in, in its place, and yields rich and certain crops, with .the timothy and other grass seeds with which the meadow is seeded. On our farm we follow the same general methods of culture that we practice in growing red elover, with the addition of the following : As the alsike has a tendency to lodge when it is in full vegetation, we find that it is advisable to sow it with other grass seed, by preference with timothy and red clover. The crops by this means are very rich and the timothy supports the elover, so that it does not fall to the ground and rot. While alsike does not yield as large crops to the acre as common red clover of equal stand. yet it is very profitable, and in actual feed ing value I have found but little difference ten for ton when it was being fed to a herd of dairy cows, and for feeding horses and all kinds of young stock I have found `it greatly superior. The time of cut-; ting and curing will make more real difference than the variety. Alaike clover is not considered by soil experts to be as good a soil im- proving crop as common red clover for the reason that it lacks the branching root system of the red clover, but it is a legume (nitrogen I You oantaot afford brain -befogging headaehos. NA-DRUP.00 Headache Waters Mop them in quids time and clear your head. They do not contain either phenaoctin, p4etaai73d; rnorphtnc, opium or any other dangerous drug, 25c. a box at yur Druggist's. 121, NA•noron, DIWO. AND QHaMtGAt. CO,. -.OP CANADA, LINI•rt:D, gatherer) and hence on many soils, where the red variety cannot be used as a nitrogen gatherer. 15 is my honest opinion that there are many farmers who have given up growing clover who could make a success of growing alsike clover instead of experimenting with red clover, I' have found in actual practice that it is a better business proposi- tion to sow a mixture of grass seed that will make a certain stand un- der the usual conditions than 'to spend large amounts of hard-earned money to experiment : with a crop so uncertain as red clover, on any fields where it its not practically sure to make a good stand. HELPS FORS NES BREEDER. Scientists now say that the use of virus on pigs fronn a sow that has been treated for cholera by the use of virus is seldom affected by the. disease. They thrive better than other pigs if they are treated with the virus and in that case are sel- dom attacked. The pig made pot-bellied by feed- ing on straw or running on pasture without any grain is an easy victim of disease, because it is lacking in nutrition, Dollar for dollar, middlings and corn, milk and corn or corn and alfalfa er clover is a far cheaper feed than the corn • alone. Young pigs suffer from indigestion through overfeeding or from feed- ing on one ration alone, just the same as young children do. Pigs, and, in fact, all hogs, should have ready access at all tunes to salt and ashes. Charred corn cobs are always excellent. The reason why bogs so eagerly devour coal ashes, rotten wood and such material, is because they do not have. while in close confine- ment the material their system de- mands. At large they root such. material from the ground,' The farmer ; who grows a liberal supply of roots for his hogs seldom has much trouble from the ordinary diseases to which swine aro subject, A sow eats her pigs, because she has been improperly fed during pregnancy. We never knew of a sow having this habit if she had been allowed to run in the pasture, or whose rations had been varied and which contained plenty of green and succulent feed. "HE WHO PASSED." The Romance of a Novel Restored a Lover. Not often is a book review the means of clearing up a misunder- standing between sundered lovers, but this joyful ,sequel followe•cl upon the • publication of a review in a London (England) paper of a novel called "He Who Passed." The story is by a woman who de- scribes how and why she refused to marry the man she loved, The ob static was an incident in her past life, and rather than confess it she allowed him to pass out of her life. As the book bears the stamp of an authentic experience, and is a thrilling human document, it sold widely, and in course of time a copy of the review, giving a' syn- opsis of the story, fell into the hands of a man living in the tropics. He was profoundly affected by what he read, and secured a copy of the book at the earliest possible moment, to find that he was the man described in its pages, as well as to discover why his offer of marriage had lieen • declined. The sequel comes off early in•the fall when. "He Who Passed" will marry the wo- man who suffered so bitterly from his passing. Canada's finest sug t its best Your love of cleanliness and p purity will be \ r gratified by this 5- Pound Sealed Package of 'uniform heat. A wonderful ice box r' is :so arranged that the iceman goes144 into the cellar to fill it, but when food is wanted from it, by stepping osaa button, the box is made to rise hr•ough"the floor and pops up into e kitchen. The cooking and serv- ing ,y of meals have been reduced tG' a science in Mrs. Pattison's experi- ment stations. She has Ie.sancel to use the fireless cooler, and•has sec- eral different kinds installed in her home. The most wonderful one of all is a recently perfected electrical cooker. There is a clock on the front of it. "Suppose I decide to -day," said Mrs. Pattison, "that I want 'my breakfast to begin cooking to -mor- row morning at 7. o'clock. I set the clock at that hour. Then I move the pointer on this other dial to the amount of temperature I want in my oven, 200 degrees or whatever it ' may be. That's all. I GO TO BED, In the morning at '7 o'clock, without ' anyone's going near the thing, the electricity is automatically turned loud starts to cook. When the tem- perature rises to 200 the current is automatically turned off. The b ovens being insulated by _non -con- • -- ducting walls, they keep that tem- perature, and breakfast will be ready when wanted. If a woman wishes to go to church or to a club meeting or a bridge party, or to lie down for a nap, she can prepare dinner in advance, set the clock, and not even give things another thought until serving time." There is an interesting garbage consumer run by gas, a silver cleaner which requires no. rubbing of the articles to be cleaned, and a dish washing machine. Mrs. Patti- son hopes that artistic paper dishes,. cheap enough to be thrown away, will be an invention of the near fu- ture, Meantime she urges all house- keepers to ,study improved and time- saving methods of keeping house. She believes that the cost of all the labor saving devices can be saved, even in households where there is a very •small housekeeping allowance, if women will learn tp operate them and will forsake the old hard labor methods of housekeping. A GORGEOUS GARDEN. Mr. James B. Duke, the Ameri- can tobacco king, has nearly eom- pleted, an, expenditure of $15,000,- 000 on a •new park round his home at Somerville, New Jersey. Lakes, hills, waterfalls, shrubberies, drives and fountains, without regard to cost, were ordered for the park, which extends over 3,000 acres. There are thirty-two miles of drives winding in and out of beautiful groves, past grassy lawns dotted. with statuary, gigantic flower -beds, rose-bowered pergolas, fountains., balustr ade,s, and temples: There are more than 10,000,000 plants, of which one million, are the rarest rhododendrons: Two hundred fountains of all sorts and designs spout up 20,000,000 gallonsof water. y, every : da andservantsa nd trades a men enter the mansion which is be- ingconstructed by a tunnel from the main road without passing through the gardens at all. 'rete north to south ,the;length -of the Atlantic Ocean is 8,500 miles. NO MAID IN 20 -ROOM HOUSE ELECTRICITY l l SOLVED TUE PrOBLEU.: roman Urges, 71.1er Sex to Forsake • the Old Iiar+d Labor Methods. To care for and manage a 20 - room house, unaided by 'even one servant, would seem to most women who understand ,the . requirements to be' an impossible task.. Yet this is accomplished easily by Mrs. Frank Ambler Pattison of Oolonia, New jersey,' who has achieved .what she calls domestic independence,, Nor is her housekeeping drudgery to her. She enjoys le and has time to go largely into so iet to attend to a large correspondenee, and to be a devoted mother to her two chil- dren. Mrs. Pattison believes that every other woman can manage a house, either large or small, by„ making e modern methods do the work which has until now been done by a staff of servants. She formerly kept,') these servants herself, and knows what :she is talking about, She set about solving the ,servant question. and installed in her home an im- provement which would seem to helpher plans. To begin with, there is an elec- tric washing machine that will turn out in two hours, rinsed and ready for hanging on the line, a washing that would take a good laundress all day to do, There is another ma- chine run by a motor, and this mo- tor is really Mrs, Pattison's BEST "HANDY MAN," It is used for turning the ice cream freezer, for operating the vacuum cleaner, the sewing machine, the, meat grinder, the knife sharpener, the coffee mill, the grater, the cake mixer, the bread mixer, the egg beater, the churn, and the silver cleaning machine. This eliminates a goodly proportion of the labor of housework. Electric irons save steps from the ironing table to the stove and give Extra Granulated Sugar It's .Canada's finest sugar, fresh from the Refinery; untouched by. human hands. Each Package contains 5 full pounds of sugar Your Grocer can supply you. Ca Sugar l e Thain Company, Limited, MontlreaL ax:fi, 1 ///" •t/!/1. ./, ,-/ %11,.4:/%,r•% :,,