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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1916-8-17, Page 3"BACK TO LAND" IN GREAT ERIN REVIVAL OF AGRICULTURE IN OLD LAND. Repopulation of the Rural. Districts Has Already Begun. One of the effects of the war will be seen in a great revival of agricul- tural life in England and the United Kingdom, The outbreak of the con- A GreatO manna tieseielaszeintilanaislawssids rt nit 11 01.th WIRELESS "LES. OPERATORS In order to meet a Wide -spread demand the Marconi Company has decided to open a SCHOOL OP INSTRUCTION at its Mead Office, 18.7 1V1oGii1 Street,. Montreal, under its irinxr-mate and authoritative control, the first of its kind in Canada, TTtrrivalled oppor- tunities tor travel are offered to Young men with ambition and enorgy who desire to adopt Wireless Operating as a profession. An experienced Inetruotor is in charge of the School and a Standard Maroon/ Ship Set is in use for practical instruction. Day and evning classes. Enrol immediately for the Sall Session, Write for prospeetus, MARCONI WIRELESS TELEGRAPH CO.OF CANADA MONTREAL l,lnitTLID flict caught the British Isles depend- I E fent on foreign commerce for four -"1 'fifths of their food supply, barring ISA IIS Ti meat, of which between 67 and 70 per cent. is produced at home, says an Associated Press correspondent. The motto of a few years ago "Back to the Land," thus has given way to the slogan, "England must feed herself." Lord Selborne, the leader of the crusade, declares that the attainment of this obect is the country's sacred duty, and he empha- sizes the point that the farmer can do as much for the country as the sol- dier in the trenches, Plans for the great reform include a number of important measures that are to be put into effect at the earli- est possible moment. Land for Soldiers. 1. The repopulation of the rural districts and afforestation. The War »w,X Office has just consented to the ex- change of many of the older men, who in the earlier days of the war left farm work for the firing line, for men between 19 and 30, to take their places at the front. 2. The setting aside of thousands of acres for the settlement on the co- operative plan of England's soldiers and sailors after 'the war. This ex- pediency is provided for by the Smallholding Colonies Act, now half- way through . Parliament. The scheme will provide for model vil- lages, better housing, with a garden to every , cottage, reading rooms, libraries and good schools. Con- ceived by Lord Selborne, the idea has aroused so much enthusiasm that a wide demand has been made for in- creasing the land to be devoted to it by. almost as much again as is speci- fied in the bill. 3. The importation of natives from South Africa for agricultural labor during the remainder of the war, though so many objections have been raised to this that there is little likelihood of its being adopted. Immediate Solution. It is believed that the plan for bringing back soldiers from the front will have the effect of providing suf- ficient farm labor practically imme- diately, In announcing the War Of- fice's consent to the transfers, an ex- pert told the Agricultural Society, that in England and Scotland, as well as in Ireland, the farms in many dis- tricts had fallen far below their mini- mum needs in the matter of labor. The tendency to regard more seri- ously the country's capacity for growing larger crops is illustrated by the figures of the wheat, barley and oats crops in England and Wales. Wheat and oats were grown in larger i quantities, though the barley crops 1 were much smaller. There were 5,- 489,939 ;489,939 acres devoted to the three cereals in England and Wales in 1915, an increase of 248,044 acres as compared with 1914. The greatest increase in acreage was devoted to wheat, or 2,170,170 acres in all, the figure representing an increase of 362,672 acres, 20 per cent. greater than in 1914, and 25 per cent. greater than during any of the years between 1905 and 1915. Every country re- turned increased areas, the total for Wales of 1,123 acres (31 per cent.) being the greatest. Ready Response. The returns for 1915 give 2,088,047 acres under oats, an increase of 158,- 421 acres as compared with 1914, but only 24,869 acres above the average for the past ten years. The whole of this increase was in England. The reduction of the areas under barley amounted to 158,421 acres, -the total acreage of 1,231,722 being the low- est yet recorded. Perhaps to no individual as much as to the Earl of Selborne is due the credit of bringing home to the people of all classes the importance of tak- ing prompt means of making the country more nearly self-supporting in foodstuffs. In all of his addresses in recent years has has laid stress on the point. A practical farmer and enthusiast on his large and fertile tract in Hampshire, he has been able to meet the objections of, opponents of expert knowledge to the great ad- vantage of his crusade. "I have been highly gratified by the ready response of the people gen- erally to the idea of making the country more self-supporting from the soil," he said. "I have made my plea for the cultivation of the soil on the grounds of patriotism; the farm- ers and laborers came forward first to meet the emergency, and then the girls and women from the villages and even cities --some of the best type of women, including many of independ- ent means, answering my call out of pure, unadulterated patriotism. "The spirit of the people here is aroused, and, as usual, when, that is so the desired result is bound to follow," When the worst conies to Cele worst, ib is up to us to make the best of it. NEE 11 TIME. VERY MUCH HOTTER THAN IT IS IN ENGLAND. Russians All Live Free -and -Easy Out- door Lives in Warm Weather. I suppose it will surprise many people to learn that Russia has a hot summer, hotter than the usual sum- mer in England, more sunshine, bluer ekies. It is this which explains the rush of townsfolk every end of May to the country writes Hamilton Fyfe from Petrograd. -. They will no stay in the towns. They say it is unhealhy. They speak as if all the plagues raged during the hot weather which is not, you must understand, so hot as all that! Still, Moscow is detestably dusty and the Petrograd canals smell worse than usual, and for all reasons it is pleas- anter to be in the country. So off go all who can to their "datchas" (sum- ! chickens and the souffle, Masha. Just mer homes) to enjoy the sunshine bring us tea. We have had enough to and the clear sky and the soft, warm e" " airs that are blown from the sun-lea" baked south. Most English people, accustomed to the formality and state of our coun- It takes a long time to get rid of try houses (delightful also in their winter. Well into April, sometimes I way), v' be revoltedby the go - into May, he keeps his grip on the, rivers, the earth is still under snow. (as -you -please life of the "datcha." Gradually the snowernelts, the ice breaks up andrfloats away. The dark earth appears and very quickly looks as if it had been lightly dusted over with a green powder. It recovers quickly; for the snow has kept it warm. The trees are not so soon themselves again. They have been exposed to the cruel winds, the sav- age, awage, silent, paralyzing frosts. For a month after winter has gone they are black and bare. Life comes back to them only when they have been well warmed by the sun. Last year they were not in leaf until June. Much Outdoor Life. There is a passion in the summer here. One only feels this in countries which have a long, hard winter. The earth seems to rejoice in its freedom. There is a luxuriance of growth which is scarcely known in England, a sud- den rush of life, a glory of light and warmth and splendor. Ask any Rus- sian living abroad what he most misses and he will tell you "The White Nights." All through June, with a little overlapping on either side of it, sunset and sunrise are so near together that there is no dark- ness, Last night I was sitting out of doors reading at eleven o'clock. We dine at half -past eight, and after strolling about the garden, or watch- ing the after -glow flame in the sky and reflect its glory in the Gulf of Finland, we say, "It must be getting late." Someone looks at a watch. It is midnight! Who could have guess- ed it? We go reluctantly to bed, our rooms quite light still, until with hesi- tating hand we draw curtains over. the windows. It seems a - shame to shut out those wonderful "White Nights." It is a happy life, that of the Rus- sian "datchnik" (" aatcha" dweller). Very simple and primitive, utterly different from English country -house life, To begin with "datchas" as a rule are wooden houses, only meant foru e• s mm x habitation ` Allwinter most of them stand empty. When. they are to be occupied again serv- ants go down, light fires, clean them up. Then the furniture is sent by road, piled up on carts. Not too much of it. Just enough for comfort. Ap- pearances are not considered. No Formality. There is no state or ceremony. One lives out of doors as much as possible or on glassed -in balconies which are but one slight remove from the open air. Outside every "datcha" are set benches, both in the garden, if there is one, and in the road: Upon these it is customary to sit and talk for hours. Dress is sketchy, and often scanty. Meals are at odd times, and can be prolonged or cut short at will. For example, a Russian hostess will say to the parlor maid "See if the cook has anything else to give us," or it may be, "Never mind about the Do Tea. and Coffee Disagree Many are not aware of the ill effects of tea or cof- fee drinking until a bilious attack, frequent headaches, nervousness, or some other ailment starts them think- ing. Ten days off both tea and coffee and on STUf'I —the pure food-drink—will show anyone, by the.better health that follows, how tea or coffee has been treating them. "There's a Reason" for POST.UT Sold by Grocers. Canadian Poston). Cereal Co., Ltd,, Windsor, Ont. But it is of a piece with everything else. With the wild gardens, grow- ing as they please, letting nature be their gardener. With the sergeants so smiling and friendly and cheerful, but, judged by our standards, so in- competent. With the free -and -easy manners of the "datchniki," deter- mined to make their summer as com- plete a contrast as possible to their winter existence in town. From September to May they live in almost hermetically sealed houses. They take no exercise, breathe as little fresh air as they can. Their com- plexions grow wax -like, their eyes dull. From May till August they get as near nature as they can. Instantly their appearance alters. They look healthy and strong. They feel vig- orous and normal. All the result of fresh air. • BUSH FIRES IN ONTARIO. What the Canadian Forestry Associa- tion Says About Them. The frightful loss of life and pro- perty from forest fires in Northern Ontario need not be accepted by the people of the province as whiny due to unavoidable causes. Evidence thus far received indicates that the huge conflagration had its beginning in "slash" fires started by settlers for the purpose of clearing their lands. For many years the menace of settlers' fires during excessively hot spells has been increasing, largely for the reason that no machinery of any sort existed whereby a settler's so-called "liberty" of burning down lives and property could be curtailed. Investigation shows that both in Ontario and Quebec, the settler and not the railways primarily, must shoulder a very large part of the re- sponsibility for annual forest fires, with a considerable contribution also from campers, fishermen, prospectors, etc. The laws of Quebec, British Colum- bia and Nova Scotia place heavy pen- alties of fine or imprisonment upon any settler who start's a fire during the season of danger, April to No- vember 15, without a written permit from a qualified forest ranger. This places no unreasonable hardship on the settler and, on the other hand, is a necessary guarantee for the safety of lives and immensely valu- able timber in his neighborhood. What is the situation in Ontario? There is neither law nor regulation to prevent a settler letting loose confla- grations in any way and at any time he may select. No ranger has author- ity to advise or interfere with a set- tler in the employment of fire. Under a watchful and modern for- est administration, the recent period of abnormal drought would have found every settler under a prohibi- tion to set out fires of any sort. There was no such prohibition. Settlers' fires were started at the heigh of the danger season. Hundreds of lives, entire towns, and incalculable amount of growing crops and timber growth have been swept away and the whole Claybelt seriously set back in its de- velopment. The real business of forest rangers and the Governments responsible for then, is to stop fires from starting, Ontario, particularly in the Northern clay belt section, now so severely de- vastatecl, has practically no real ran-' ger patrol carries on no preventive eanlpaign, end offersno opposition to the wholesale use of fire by set - tiers for stripping. their soil of tree growth. In th Spring of this very year, the Canadian Forestry Association, through their Secretary, met the As- sociated Boards of Trade of the Te- nllekaming District at a meeting in Haileybury and asked thatjointac- tion be taken to stop the extravagant and dangerous burning of the ''north- ern forest areas by settlers. Some of the members of the Associated Boards frankly opposed any interfer- ence, asserting that many of the settlers favored tree -running fires, and would not support such a meas- ure its was proposed. Other members of the Board took a more favorable. point of view, but no joint action was taken. From February to June, 1916, through the representations of this. Association, twenty-two of the lead- ing Boards of Trade of Ontario ask- ed the Ontario Government to bring legislation to control settlers' fires and also to reorganize the entire for- est protection service of the province. The reply of the Minister of Lands and Forests to these communications was to the effect that the matter would be considered. But it is being considered too late. Ontario forest protection service stands urgently in need of three main reforms, which, year after year, have ben urged upon the Governments by the Canadian Forestry Association, the Commission of Conservation and other bodies. 1. Remodelling of the ranger ser- vice so as to give real protection to the forest wealth of the province and supply a fair return in service ren- dered for the money spent thereon. Ontario's system is recognized gener- ally as out-of-date and inefficient. 2. Employment of inspectors in the ratio of at least one inspector to ten rangers, so as to get the maxi- mum degree of actual forest protec- tion. Over an area of 10 million acres of timber lands under license, Ontario has just eight supervisors, each being required to manage, on an average, 36 men, an impossible task. 3. Sufficient rangers must be pro- vided to competently patrol the Clay - belt region, most of which is now un- der tree growth, and these rangers must have authority to control the burning operations of settlers so that holocausts, such as that of recent date, shall have less opportunity to recur. SUMMER COMPLAINTS KILL LITTLE ONES. At the first sign of illness during the hot weather give the little ones Baby's Own Tablets, or in a few hours he may be beyond cure. These Tab- lets will prevent summer complaints if given occasionally to the well child and will promptlycure these troubles if they come on'' suddenly. Baby's Own Tablets should always be kept in every home where there are young children. There is np other medicine as good and the mother has the guar- antee of a government analyst that they are absolutely safe. The Tab- lets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- ville, Ont. SNEEZING SUPERSTITIONS. Strange Beliefs and Customs of the Long. Ago. Sneezing, ; eom very remote times, has been hely ominous. Our forefathers went to bed again again if they sneezed while putting on their shoes! A sneeze to the right was deemed lucky; to the left, of evil portent. To sneeze near a burial place was very unlucky. Tradition has it that sneezing was at first a fatal sign—every human be- ing sneezed but once, and then died— but Jacob petitioned the Creator to remove the sneezing ban, and succeed- ed. Thence arose the once universal custom of saluting a sneezer with "God bless you!" or "May you live long!" The custom still obtains in some parts of the Continent. . In England not only was a sneezer blessed, but friends raised their hats to him as well! In an old book, "The Code of Conduct," it was directed that "if his lordship sneezes ye are not to howl out 'God bless you!' but bow to him handsomely." All over the world the sneeze was recognized. Whole nations were under orders to make ex- clamations when their king sneezed. Sneezing was believed to be a sure cure for hiccough, and was also look- ed upon as a sign of sanity. If an- cient and universal belief goes for anything, it is good to sneeze. Shape Didn't Matter. Butcher—Will you have a round steak, ma'am?. Mrs. Youngbride-1 don't care what shape it is so it's tender. Storage Batteries Generators Magnetos Starters Send them for prompt Roliaire to CANADIAN S T O If di. C E BATTERY ERY CO., i'i'3Td1II.`ED 117 SiirtCee St., Toronto, VPlllard Agents. • Are- You For ' Pre. p ,refines" 7 The best preparedness for man or woman is the preparedness that conies from living in. harmony with law, In Sum- mer cut out the heavy foods that tax bodily strengthh and vigor. Eat. Shredded Wheat Biscuit, the food that con- tains all the body-building material in the whole wheat grain in a digestible form. For breakfast or luncheon with berries or other fruits. Made in. Canada Great Luck. "Here you are, sir," cried the haw- ker, extending a bouquet. "Buy some beautiful flowers for your sweet- heart" "Nothing doing," respond- ed the young man. "I haven't got a sweetheart." "I see," was the prompt rejoinder of the hawker. "Buy some flowers for your wife?" "Wrong again! I am not married." "Well, then, guv'nor," exclaimed the re- sourceful hawker, "buy the lot to cele- brate your luck!" Kinard's Liniment Lumberman's Friend Many Shots Needed. 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"What are you doing, my little ,boys?" he asked with fatherly interest. "Swappin' lies," volunteered one of the boys. "The fellow that tells the biggest one gets the pup." "Shocking!" exclaim- ed the minister. "Why, when I was your age I never even thought of tell- ing an untruth." "You win," chor- used the urchins. "The dog's yours, mistier,'+' Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. Gentlemen,—I have used MIN- ARD'S LINIMENT on my vessel and HITTING TIIE TR.U..IL. Rarest of Sport ho the Rockies Selkirlts, Canadais a kind of trails. Trails over mountains and hills; acrossprairies and through forests, by the banks of rivers beyond num- ber and aeross country toward a dis- tant sky line. Trails made by red men, and by nature. taut the mountain trails are the most alluring of them all, and hitting trails is the rarest of sport in Rock- ies or Selltirlcs, all the way from the Kananaskasis Pass on the east to the Or An Object Lesson, Mrs, Set came in from e chat over the fence with her neighbor, and her face was hard and red, "Caine here, Tommy!" she corn- mended her young son. "1 am going to punish you, but open the windows Yale gateway .on the west. first!" Hundreds of miles of excellent i "What 'for?" said Tommy, begin - trails have been made in the Canad- ring Welltol , weepIha . have just ian mountain ranges by the Canacl- Ihea rd cat across the road said: I hthavate thanot authority over you, and I want her to hear you getting a whipping, Come here, sir!" ian Pacific Railway and the National Parks department of the Canadian Government, Most of them are made for pony use, and mounted on one of these sure-footed little beasties of the west, you can be an explorer of the wilds and revel in the .experience. Every mile of the devious way -is! a Way of varying charm, every turn of the trail reveals new wonders. Many ny trail trips are now made in loops. There is the one from Glacier station up the Cougar Valley to bhe caves and back by a loop route and over a pass that brings to view some of the sublirnest scenery in the Sel kirks. The liberal ups and downs of this unique scenic route, as the rail- ways would say, add to the interest, now in the bed of the valley, closed in by trees and huge plants like bhe De- vil's Club, now climbing a thousand I feet from which superb views are had of the kingly peaks like Sir Donald. The trail traveller will find another region of infinite variety and attrac- tiveness in the series of trails radiat- ing from Field and leading up the Yoho Valley to the Yoho Glacier field as its upper end. Lake Louise will.also provide de- lectable trail paths, especially that leading to Paradise Valley and ij s circle of giant summits, and Sentinel Pass, leading to the valley of the Ten Peaks, while in the Rocky Mountain Park and Banff, the routes are multi- plying year by year. Yes, trail hitting is rare sport, I repeat, and no country in the world affords greater facilities for its en- joyment than our own Canadian mountains.—F. Y. ALLIES' POWER EVIDENT. Those Who Know Most Fear Least, Says Lloyd George. Lloyd George has sent the Liver- pool Post and Mercury the following message: "The beginning of the third year of the war opens out a prospect which was not visible except to those of strongest faith a year ago. "In August, 1915, those who knew the difficulties and the means at the command of the allies to surmount them had grave apprehensions -as to the course of the war in the coming months. Now those who know the most fear the least. "We have now the equipment for victory in men and material, The great battle of July has demonstrated that our armament is, to say the least, equal to the best our foe can command, and that our men are bet- ter than the best he can put into the battle line. Eoch month sees our armament increasing and our men improving. "Let the nation be of good heart. Its sacrifices for humanity are great, but its services for humanity are greater." 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Leigh Hunt, who lived in the square for many years, asserted that it was built by a •far- sighted Frenchman at the time of the threatened Napoleonic invasion, and that he adapted the large square, and small cheap house to the pro - manacling tastes and poorly furnished pockets of Napoleon's officers, who, according to his speculation, would certainly be on the look -out for some such place when the conquering army entered London! An Imputation Scorned. "I believe you're afra&d of work!" "Afraid of it!" replied Plodding Pete. "I ain't even acquainted wibh it," SHOES COOL, Cosi and Com r®p' ':a le WON mEaVEDIR OF THE FAMILY SOLD EY ALL GOOD SHOE DEALERS SEED POTATOES BED POTATOES, IRISFI COB - 1 -.7 biers, Deleware, Carman. Order at once. Supply limited. Write for, qno tations. H. W. Dawson, Brampton. NEWSPAPERS FOR SALE PROFIT -MAILING NEWS AND JOB 1 Offices for sale in good Ontario towns. 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