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Will :tack Frost Get Your Car?
The garage man laughed grimly,)
"Yes, we had a good herd freeze last
night, and I'll have lots of bu.>in 8
{hie morning, Some people never
take the trouble to protect their ear
against cold weather, and so they'
have to pay the price," And be cheer -I
fully laid n handful of expense -cards
on the bench beside his blow -torch.
Now, I wander whether yot' are
like "some people," and will wait
until your ear freezes up before you
do anything? I'll admit that I have
done that same thing once or twice,
but I've learned my lesson. Now,
when the first white frost glints on
the meadows, I dram my radiator and
refill with some anti-freeezing pre-
paration; there are several good ones
on the market.
For temperatures not lower than
zero, I e:mnetimos take two parts of
water and one part of wood alcohol;
for more severe weather, a half-and-
half mixture is better. Even if this
does freeze, It snakes a soft, spongy
sort of ice that is easily melted and
seldom bursts anything; at least, that
has been my experience.
Before veld weather sets 111, you
had better invest $0 or $7 in a good
blew -torch and learn how to use it.
If my car freezes, I get my torch go-
ing (this takes about five minutes)
and push the ear out of the garage;
a hot, open flame is entirely too risky
to use in a closed room that is prob-
ably full of gesolhte vapor. To thaw
things out, 1 play the blue flame -jet
over the radiator and the connecting
pines underneath, being careful not to
burn the rubber hose, the pump -pack-
ing. the gn'ease-cups nor the enamel
en the radiator frame. When water
runs freely out of the petcock at the
bottom, et'erythiug is melted; only,
you had better make sure that the
pet -cock is free, by running a wire or
small nail up ,through it.
A strung solution of warm salt
water, poured down the radiator, will
thaw things out very quickly, if the
weather isn't too coke; but all this
salt must be earefnlly washed out,
else it will rust and corrode things
at a fearful rate.
Some of my neighbors prefer to
drain their cars every night instead
of using anti -freeze, When properly
dune tills is the safest sort of seheme;
but you must do it right, In very
eevere heather, the pct -cock will
:emit times freeze up before the rntli-
vtoe t quite. empty; for, queer as it
t'ealit:, It„1 {:atter, as any plumber
will tell you, freezes more quickly
than cold water. The 'reason is, that
cold water 1$ more or less full of air -
bubbles which net as non-conductors
of cold; heating the water drives out
all this air, So, it is a good scheme
to run the engine until all, or nearly
all, of the water has drained of r.
The alcohol in anti -freeze will eva-
porate taster than the water; there-
fore, when adding more mixture,
make the new proportion a little
stronger than the old. If a warm day
comes along, drain off the mixture,
into a big' jug or can and refill the •
radiator with water; at night, let the'
water out and put back the anti-
freeze. Alcohol heats up very rapid-
ly, and evaporates in hot weather;
after a day's drive you may have
nothing but water left. .And remem-
her, don't bring an open flame about
your open radiator -top when using
•
alcohoI solution; a 1•epair man losthie
eyebrows by holding a match over
that part of my car.
I Wrapping the hood with a blanket
:` when the car stops is a very good
scheme, in winter; it Makes the car
Mart easier and lessens the risk of
freezing.
About starting--tltat bugbear of
wintertime to all motorists, especially
if the cm: must he ("ranked. I have
solved the problem by carrying a
squirt -can full of equal parts of ether
and gasoline; m hall teaspoonful of
this in each •cylinder will make an
absolutely cold engine fire with the
first quarter -turn of the crank.
Sometimes you have to repeat the
doze until the cylinders get warm
enough to vaporize the gasoline from
the earburcter, but it never fails,
and you don't have to fool with hot
water and such staff. In very cold
. weather, pure ether may be neces-
sary. 111 there are no priming cups,
replace the spark -plugs with special
"priming -plugs”; there are several
t, pea. I have used them with very
great success. Your garage man
pre{;ably Carrie.: one kind.
Tobacco as Incense.
Smoking was a habil ac' ired by
European nations from the . , eaus cif
America. in 14011" Coleinaus found
then using tobacco, nut .,d it is now
done, but as an incense burned in bon-
er of their deity.
Tobacco smoking began as a religi-
ous rite. Tobacco was used by the
Malone much as Oriental nations made
nee of myrrh 0.r frankincense in their
ellgious observances. Voyagers to
America after Columbus revealed dif-
ferent customs in the tobacco habit.
It was discovered that in parts of the
eontilreut Use natives inhaled the in-
tense until they became exhilarated,
or even intoxicated by the fumes.
This meant for them that they derived
inspiration from the good pleasure of
their deity. The honor paid to the
deity came back upon them in ex-
hilarating profusion.
From this the step was not far to
ascertain that incense offered to a
god could be employed as a medicine.
It was drawn into the mouth through
it hollow tube -a kind of pipe -and
then expelled as in smoking. To the
rationalizing European it was left to
transmute the poor Indian's worship
into an ordinary pleasurable habit.
Making Imitation Leather.
To make imitation leather counter -
felt the real article as closely as pos-
sible, Ole grain of its surface is form-
ed with dies made from impressions
of actual hides, by a new and ingeni-
ons process. The uystem used is stmt.
lar to electrotyping. The metal film
°deposited on the hide copies every
line and porn of its madam, and when
stripped ori' is used to make either
flat or cylindrical impression plates,
Those, pressed by power on the eat -
natal leathery mark their exact coma
terpart upon it, Copies are thus made
of any desired kind of leather.
Ocean's Bed.
To au enormous extent the bed of
the ocean Is covered with lava and
pumice stone.
Snowvflakes-
El'el?Il'E:eoo, evergreens, bend your
bushy- brunettes low;
t'atch the tiny snowtlakes as they
fall;
Little pity, fairy things, sifting down
(Tem heaven,
Settling, settling, settling over all.
Dancing up, floating down,
Flutter flutter, still they go,
Little airy fairy things,
The Fairies of the Snow.
Hanging o11 to fence -posts, gathering
h1 corners,
' Lodging in the crannies of the trees,
Spreading over roads and Holds, cling-
ing to the ]rouses,
Flying at the puff of evory breeze.
Evergreens, evergreens,
Bend your bushy branches low;
Catch them as they flutter past,
The Fairies of the Snow,
Facts.
Danks employ 59,100 wonneil int
Great Britain,
British coal, iron and oil soirees, it
is estimated, will only last another
200 years.
The ertflcial breeding of fish was
a common industry among the ancient
Greeks and itement.
That no one is too old to work at
63 in these days is the statement of a
London magistrate.
Woolen are estimated to outnumber
men to the extent of 2,000,000 in Eng-
land and Wales.
India and Ceylon tea is graded ac-
cording to the position of the leaf on
Ute plent, the lower the leaf the poor-
er the quality.
A machine has been constructed by
which an armless num can feed him-
self, typewrite, and even mend boots,
by means of his toes,
Mary Pickford lune been noting for
twenty year,, although she is only 25
years of age. Her first part was Eva,
in "Uncle 'tom's Cabin,"
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HERE'S YoU ISI
FURS' MUM; ,NICELY -WE ARE GOlt TO PALM
BEACH -
PACK THEM 'I14'THET>'�UNKS1-
CROSBY'S KIDS
WHAT Mete T1-100G11T WOULD HAPPEN
AFTER HE (WOKE '1513 51111 ' LAMP.
Living Razors.
The so-called Tosca• ,'lltni' is not
unfamiliar along the Atlantic.
It looks remarkably like a closed razor
(riot then "safety" pattern. bol rte ol,l-
fashioned kind), and the valves of Its
shell arc atoms,, sli:n•p ee.ongh to
shave with.
00 the Paeiile coa.;t it le highly
teemed as n' tabs.' dritracy, and to
Oregon, \Vasltlagto:l ami Alaska razor
clams aro emitted in immense quanti-
ties. They are gn'b.':,•d between tele:,
et extreme low water.
i'bey lir, buried in start, and 11.)
little shill and. dexterity are required
to capture them, Si rapid are they In
their movements. When frightened.
the razor clans prntl'ltdes its "foot"
downwards, expands It and jerks itself'
deeper. .fit e:u'h jerk it goes down a
couple of inches, and no is. quickly
out of reach.
If the first attempt with the shovel
to catch one is not successful, all
chance of getting it is gene. The pro-
per method is to insert tite shovel
quickly in the sand below the clam
and turn print up, the fisherman plac-
ing his hand Moder the shovel to catch
Ute animal as it tries to retreat.
For caning the razor clams are
first put into a hot hath to loosen 1110
shells, which aro then removed by
hand 00 by machine. Next they go to
women, who 1''0105,1 11511 intestines,
after which the "intents" are ,hooped,
Ind 11151, the cans, sealed rip and coop-
ed in a retort.
ijel;,iam, ill five month, lo;lo1:w`.:'ig
the armistice, spent over 1.0,000.000
francs on the remaking of •n'ar roads
alone, with the result that the neve
phocy that Belgium will be herself
again in three years' time requires
no stretch of one's ere'lulity- to ac-
cept.
IS SCIENCE A CURSE
OR A BLESSING ?
DO THE BENEFITS OUT-
WEIGH THE EVILS?
A British. Writer Proves That
Science Has Greatly
Aided Mankind.
"If we could put into one scale the
benefits received in a hundred years,
and into the, other the misery pre -
(Weed by scientific Inventions inthe
past five year's, which way would the
balance ot human happiness swing?"
Tills question was asked by Sir
Henry Trueman Wood at a recent
meeting of the Royal Society of Arts,
in London. He was lecturing on the
Idolatry of Science, and speaking of
discoveilc's which, be said, had proved
a terrible -curse,
Ile had plenty ()f arguments in his
favor. :Machines which rain death
from the sky, which sot great cities
nblaze, sad mangle innocent women
and children 000 products of modern
sek'itee,
;(o are g1111:; which send shells soar-
ing far shrive the highest clouds, to
carry' death azul ,lestructiof to towns
0eveaty -miles away.
Aided and Ended by Science.
T,,rpetloe0 wiue]t. in an instant of
tint'', shatter grew, litters, and ,,Rei
buteiredo t., their death ill the mold
depths of the 0''4,11, , aro inventinun
which Only modern scieuee 51,1 ten-
dered pc;.slh]e. Worse than all is the
puismt gee: which destroys arta's
I ung;, goegren,•s their flesh, and
I Iearei them to grasp mut their lied, in
1 hideous agony.
Tonne sgnie. l' r•,u:et:•biy. ,
, lame 11ui' 1'0110.
ry 1V,711141 n 'n4, bei'
after all. did 00 touch as anything to
bring thr war and its horrors to an
mid. Had it not been for them,
trench warfare would he. going on 1101,',
would certainly have gone on until
1 civilization, no lunger able to bear the
+train, 0,l1:insect, and the world drop -
pea bark into the hideous barbarism
of the ?•fiddle Ages.
Science did not rause the great war.
It made it horrible in the wagin't, but
it also 4,11{14,{1 it, end Sir Henry should
remember that ii' scions; killed, yet let
the saute time it cured.
One 111 the greatest hnveuticus of
Modern meteuee is rho aseptic healing
I of wounds imagine a hospital In the
days of 1114, Crimean War. The very
5.10mM of it 100.0. appsllisg. As bate as
1 1.864, if a roan haul h! leg ctr arm eta
oil, It war• ,ccen Bh :'11'".4 whether he
i lived or died.
in the Niedlcsl World,
'nollay the chalices are more than
Itwenty 10 Ono ]u ills favor, Seventy
year, ago my operation was likely to
1 result in repO,'armia. gangrene-, crl-
syur-itt;, 4,r arolincetien. Now all tltut
15 dun.'. Roily With, and Itospilalel ere
How to Fire a Furnace
With the mercury at zero or below,
fnruaee fifes must be bright and
fire. if thewltimaey draft le good, all
that should he required is a thorough
brisk. The lire -pots of furnaces are '.leaning so that the grata shows
bright horning fond all over it once a
designed to hold euough coal, when day i11 moderate weather. If it 1'•1 -
properly filled, to last eight hours and quires more shaking than that, some-
leave enough live coals to rekindle thing mils the chimney.
the new charge quickly when the fire When adding fresh fuel be 101054 the'
is shaken. Some people are not Meth-
odical enough to coal their furnace
every eight hours; but with proper
tiring a furnace should require no at-
tention beyond regulating the drafts
for a period of from eight to twelve
hours in ordinary cold weather.
To gel tate best results front coal in
a furnace, keep the ash -pit clean.
Grate bars are made of just as high- with the feed door may be apparent,
grade Iron as any other part of the yet the entire center if the fire -put is
furnace castinse and will last for filled with a mass of slag and clinkers'
years if the ashes are not allowoel to too large to go through the grate.
touch t.henl 011 the under side, but
they will often warp or twist in a few
minutes if this precaution is neglect-
ed.
Beep a deep fire. One of the most
common mistakes made by those who
desire to economize in fuel cotts11011)'
tion is to carry tlto,llre too low in the before retiring, shaking the grate suf-
fire-pot. It should always he flilecl fieicntly to remove the accumulated
lovel with the feed floor and rounded aebes and adding coal until the fire -
up h1 extreme weather. Tihere is no pot is well rounded up. .Allow this to
cheek damper is closed, otherwise
gas is Mable to escape through the
feed door and may pervade the whole
house.
Be sure thee. all clinkers and slag
are removed from. the fire -pot. When
complaints, aro made it is not unusual
to find that while bright teed may
show at the grate and a live tire level
When this is removed the small hand.;
fol of fire remaining 'is an index of
what had been the heating capacity
before.
Ito severe w'enther it is nn ceeellent
Plan 11 a waren house is wanted early
in the morning, to fix the fire shorty
exception to this rule. In uUkl
weather the layer of ashes between
tlho top of grate and the fire may be
several inches thick, thus effectively
retarding eolnbustion; but alto top
of the faro should always be kept at
least up to the level of t110 fend door.
Do not steep poking at or shaking the rapidly,
burn up a little, enough to burn off the
lighter gases, end then cheek down
for the night. 1t this is properly done
there will be a mass of fuel in such
condition that the opening of the
(Irat'te in the morning will be ail thaf,
is necessary to raise the temperature
BRINGING UR FATHEJ,
- ibioT--WHAT ARI:
�,_;• YOU Do1NG WITH
THAT OU -Ci tT
aft' -t pt l
TTI N' READY
FOR. PALM BEACH
1 SEE YOU WU7_
PACK IN' YOUR:
FUNS •
You and Your Chance
There is something the matter with
the 1110.11 who says that he hasn't at
Mantle, 'i'llere may not be food
enough or money enough to go round,
but there are always 0ltanene re -plenty,
welting for somebody to step up and
claim them, It is necessary to have
the wit 10 see 0.11c1 to 04,15', them. The
1110.11 who Jenows his chanes whae11 he
meets it, Or it meets 111111, is 111e1 elan
evil() presently has others working for
him, and still others saying ulrazed-
ly, "Why, I knew 11iu1 when"-- Of
course, leo hard no business to get so
far ahead of the boyhood familiars,
but he Made a business where he bad
none, and where there seemed to be
none till 11e came along.
Solomon wasn't the first to raise the
cry "Nothing new, nothing new!"
Adam raised it despondently after he
had been in the garden a few hours
and had Inspected all the flora and
fauna -and then lot Eve cane into
his life, and with her a new heaven
and a new earth.
There is something new every day
of your life, if you remain awake to
behold it. The good old days you
sign for were the good new ones then.
The childhood to which your mind re-
verts with longing was a time of fas-
cinating discovery; and you Have no
right to let teat fresh zeal and zest
of adventure 10avo you bemuse of the
eal'11081ef spite. Be as old in the Pea.
tures u4, you like, but do not c011fuse
the fealurea with the Pace. The fea-
tures are of l.he body; the face is of
the sottl. The eyes that are the win'
delve where the soul sits can ]seep
young forever. No eyes can be so
merry as the eyes of people old' in
years who have kept the faith and
done their duty by helping to keep thee
world's good cheer alive.
And a man may he old in the limbs,
but it is the spirit of 1111m that tells 111e
truth as to his age.
Some wiseacre stands up and shouts
that our era belongs to the young men
and that their sealers have no chance;
but presently ft is discovered again,
as a philosopher observed, that "we
are none of us infallible, not even the
youngest of us." and that the stored
sagesse of the Elder Statesmen hes
its useful function after all.
It Is everybody's day and every --
body's chance,-'1'lle world has use
for all the mon-power, woman -power,
child -power. Whether your years be
many or few, you are needed; no mat-
ter what the eala'lhder tells you to say
to the census -taker, veer tine is now
and y0110 place is here, and nobody
alive can deprive you of either.
HEMI GROiWl $P I
WESTERN CLA
the cleanest places on earth.
Think of the agony suffered by the
wounded a hlutdrecI years ego: In
Nelson's ships men were given rum in
which tobacco had been steered in
or,ler to allay their awful suuerings.
'1'o -day we have ether, morphia, laugh-
ing gas, and a host of other similar
drugs 05117 which to quench pain. A11
these are purely scientific hroelaions,
{cud quite as usmul in peace as in
war,
We have X-rays for discovering bul-
lets in the body or for healing frac-
tures. We have inoculation, which has
destroyed the terrors of rabies and
typhoid. Medical science has brought
the death rate down from 70 per 1,000
to 14 per 1,000, and In a century has
saved More lives than the Great War
has destroyed.
Think, too, what science has done in
the ago -long battle against crime.
Telegraph and telephone are the chief
wcaj,ons of the police, These and the
itertillon system of ldeotifyiug finger-
prints.
Speaking of telegraphy again, has
ever a greater boon been conferred on
humanity than wireless? Though it
has only been in operation a few years,
the lives saved by its means from
sinking ships are already numbered
by thousands, and the property by
millions of dollars.
Life Is Made Easier.
consider the ease and comfort of
our daily lives as compared with life
a century ago. The poor man of 1920
can travel ten tines as far and fast
ss the richest of 1820,
Let us look et our trains, street
cars, motors, and steamships, and;,
consider how science, by inventing
methods of rapid communication, has
opened up the world, made the great
oversea domhiions•possible, and en-
abled millions of people who would
otherwise have been living on the
edge of starvation to become pros -
perces land owners.
Any discovery may be turned to I
bad uses, but any baby born may be-
come a criminal. If we are to discard j
science, we ought, if we wish to be ,
consistent, to put as end to the re-
produelion of the human race,
Not to be Bluffed.
1)nritlg one of 111e difficulties that '
Germany ane' Franco heel over Mor-
occo, Ole German Ambassador to
irranee called on 10. Clemoueeau, who
was then premier, and, after various
attempts to belly hint, threatened to
leave for Berlin that very day If
France did not take the action that
Germany desired, Leaving for Ber-
lin, of Bourse, meant a declaration of
war.
C'letnenceau at nrst did not seem
to grasp the significance of what the
German representative had said to
111111, for he kept rummaging 1(0100g n.
number ot old papers on his desk.
Finally, ire produced a railway time-
table and studied it carefully. Look-
ing up at length, he replied quietly:
"Well. it must be this evening; I
see you have miesed the morning train
already."
The ambassador stared, and {hon
,hanged his tone completely, and the
affair was scored as a victory for
French statesmanship.
INSECT -MINE ARE SUM MER FURS
you CAN'T WEART-HATAT PALM
BEACH-ITs WARM THERE
( WELL FOR 1'•---
I 1 CtoOONESS SAKE
WHERE is
PALM REACH?
Norwegian vs. Prussian.
One simmer day two well -mounted
German officers, probably attending
the Kaiser or making arrangements
for his usual yachting trip to Norway,
came along a Norwegian country road
near our car, which had stopped on a
side road, says Mr. Maurice I''. Egan in
his book, Ten Years Near the German
Border. They were splendid -looking
creatures, voluminously cloaked, and
their helmets glittered in the sun.
A peasant wall two great pine logs
00 it low two -wheeled cart was block-
ing the main road, and as it was noon
he had sat dawn to eat his luncheon.
One of the officers haughtily com-
manded hint to clear the way, but the
peasant put This hands into his poc-
kets and said, "Mr. Man, I will stove
my logs when I can, Fist, I nmst eat
ray luncheon, You can jump your
horses over my logs. Why not?
Jump!"
The officer made a 010001) as if to
draw his revolver, but the Norwegian
only laughed.
"Besides," Ile solid, "there is a
wheel off my cart. I cannot prove it
quTickhe ally."
nguage of the officers was
terrifying, but finally they wore com-
pelled to jump. Neither the sou glit-
tering on the fierce eagles nor the
curses of the officers moved the ami-
able man. He drank peacefully from
his bottle of schnapps and munched
his black bread and sausage as if he
had never crossed the path of these
great persons. His attitude was
characteristic of his people, for the
liberty -loving Norwegians are the
direct antithesis of the Prussians and
all that they represent.
A Poet's Nocturnal Rambles
Writing of certain characteristics of
Robert Browning, William Sharp, the
well-known English essayist and
novelist, says:
In his early years, Browning had al-
ways a great liking for walking in the
dark. At Camberwell he was wont
to carry this love to the point of los-
tog many a night's rest. There was,
in particular, a wood near Dulwich,
whither he was wont to go. There he
would walk swiftly and eagerly along
the solitary and Bghtless byways,
finding a potent stimulus to imagina-
tive thought in the happy isolation
thus enjoyed, with all the ooecurtent
delight of natural things, impercept-
ible almost by the alertest sense in
the day's manifest detachments.
At this time, too, he composed much
in the open ab', Not only many por-
tions of Paraeelsus, but several scenes
in Strafford were enacted first in these
midnight silences of the Dulwich
woodland. Here, too, as the poet once
declared, 11e came to know the serene
beauty of dawn, for, every now and
again, after having read late or writ-
ten long, lie would steal quietly front
the house and walk until the morning
twilight graded into the pearl and
amber of the new day.
Before you discard that unsightly
piece of furniture look it over with
a seeing eye. Maybe there are still
possibilities of usefulness. Minus
some ornamentation and stained an-
other color it might take on a new
lease of life,
f 1 1nloNbER
WHERE 1T is?
A RECENT AGRICULTUR-
AL
GRICULTUR-,AL ACTIVITY.
Five Thousand Acres Will be
Seeded Down in Manitoba
This Spring.
'l'he growing of hemp for fibre 1e
one of the most recent of agricultur-
al activities in Western Canada, al-
though successive experiments have
proved that hemp can be suceesefully
grown and the fibre thoroughly retted
in the climate of the prairie provinces,
Experimentation was but well on its
way to producing more satisfactory
results when the outbreak of the war,
with its consequent industrial disor-
der and upheaval of trade and ex-
change relations and added taxes,
practically put an end to any exten-
sive culture, though, previously, crops
in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Mani-
toba --especially in the latter province
-had proved the adaptability of soil
and climate,
The chief continental hemp -growing
countries are Italy, Russia and
France, and In its seeding, gathering,
and retting, hemp is very similar to
flax. The principle use of the plant
is in the rope industry, Itiemp cloth
is cut into lengths, Made into bags,
tarred and used as coal sacks. It is
also used for sail cloth, sheeting,
covers, backing and yarns. Fibre is
obtained from the stern of the plant,
oil from its seeds, and several drags
from the resinous secretions develop-
ed In its leaves and dower Treads. On
the American continent, hemp has
been grown chiefly for its fibrous pro-
duct.
Its Value and Uses.
Hemp grown for fibre enrielles the
soil, and can he grown for year after
year on the same sell. It takes 85
per cent of its nourishment from the
. air. It is extremely hardy, and will
grow on almost any kind of soil un-
der severe climatic conditions. Though
not a great deal of attention has been
glveu to this product in Canada, it
has been stated by an American
authority that three-quarters of the
land In the tinned States could sue-
' cessfully grow hemp up to a height of
from 10 to 15 feet, giving a yield of
from 1,200 to 2,000 pounds of fibre.
1 This would mean a profit of from $73
to $150 per acre.
Successful crops were grown several
years ago in Wisconsin, where the
Shaley breaking machine originated,
and in 1914 a crop grown on six 'acres
netted $110 per acre. J. S. Laidlaw,
of Chicago, who was interested in this
section of the country, has been the
chief pioneer of investigation work in
i hemp growing in Western Canada, In
1915, Professor Harrison, of Manitoba
Agricultural College, produced on
Manitoba soil a very excellent stand
of hemp from seed obtained from him.
This crop was cut and lay on the
ground under the snow during the
winter of 1915-1916, and successfully
retted. A portion of the plot was
shipped to Wisconsin and broken up
by a Shaley breaking utsehin , the
fibre being submittal to the State
Commissioner of Agrlcultur.:. Ile
found the fibre of good guar,.:• and
fine separation, and his whole opinion
can be summed up in the con,:luding
sentence of his report, "If you can
raise fibre such as this in (':,,sada, it
will be a valuable Itlndne.t to : 10,"
Experimental Production In Maai eba.
In 1916, plots of hemp were grown
with fair success at the t.'oaadian
Pactflc Railway's dcmcen'(trntbut farm
at Brooks, Alberta.
In the sante year, .1. e. I •tid;etw c:r -
tentplated the cultivation of•2,000
acres in Manttubal, 5(0050: ao0umll-
lated capital to the 11.57.0( of 1100.40
for the project, but aw]I.5 t., the la -
crease in the price c:f ,,,ed, and the
war tax and duty, tt watt for Ili t time
abandoned.
Last season he e;.'ew ploy of eat
acres on the seine eel!. ;'.1:1 d•'o'rii,e9
the resulting .crop as ' wsis lerfal,''
That his efforts were a prcvo;l ileen s
Is evidenced from the 1;; et iitat. for the
00m111g se11400 Ihct hos eeelire:1 5,051)
':Bores from Manitoba farmers whom
ho has convinced of the 100sibility of
hemp growing in the: peovheeo. AU
this land will be seeded down lit the
coming spring. no neeessltry t!etpi.
tal and machinery knee been seeured,
and the promoter is co111ideltt of a
successful enterprise this year,
Development on the American con-
tinent of the growing of hemp wee
hampered for years on account of the
lack of machinery for brealtiug• the
fibre, and until a few years ego all
grown in the United States had to bo
broken by hand. In 1 91 4, however,
the Shaley breaking machine was pro-
duced in the United States, and has
proved quite successful In breaking
the hemp and discharging the fibre in
a rough state, ready for breaking and
shiploing,
How, indeed!
The squire's silver wedding was 11p•
preaching and the tenants were dis-
cuesi:lg the question of subsrr'ibing to
buy him it present,
"Ui propose," said 111r. O'Fieheely,
"that wee give hint 0 soli+! all'er tay.
pot." •
"Shure, ye're 3 !-.'rg,'• hrterenplel
his wife. "If It's gelid_, how are iarc^
to make tai' in it?"
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Mop and floor 'lotus lenilte4 of
soft sxing are ex,'ellent,