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CERTIFICATION OF
SEED POTATOES
The certification of seed potatoes
has been carried on for a number of
years. It has become an established
and very necessary factor in the ever
increasing internal and external
trade M this commodity which has
developed in recent years, Seed po-
tato certification is important both
fr om the purchaser's, as well as from
the grower's standpoint. One does
not have to look far back to the time
when almost any potato was merely
taken at its face value and planted
more on its appearance than for any
inherent quality of productiveness it
might possibly possess. On the other
hand, a seed potato today in order
to be classed as such must almost
have a pedigree. Certification is a
means to that end.
The information gained through
experimental and pathological re-
search of the many diseases affecting
the potato is voluminous. The best -
looking seed potatoes might be heav-
ily affected with serious diseases to
such an extent that the crop pro-
duced therefrom would be scarcely
worth harvesting. Hence the need
for some guarantee, preferably back-
ed by government official standards
and inspection, on which the purch-
aser of seed potatoes can depend, and
which assures him, in great measure
at least, that the tsock he purchases.
will, under normal conditions, pro-
duce a satisfactory and maximum
crop.
The work performed by the In-
spection Service is two -fold. First of
all, each inspector acts as an ex-
tension man. He must be prepared
to carry information obtained through
experimental work to the grower.
This information includes not only a
lcnowledge of the diseases affecting
the crop, but also the most up -to -slate
methods of disease control, to say
nothing of the multitudinous quest-
ions relating to soil types, cultiva-
tion, fertilizers, machinery, and
many other phases relating not only
to the growing of the potato crop
but also to other farming activities.
This personal contact with the n-
diviclual grower has been of inestl-
enable value.
Secondly, the inspector has to act
as the medium through which the
crop is certified. The official tag is
given to the grower only after his
crop has passed at least two field in-
spections and two or more tuber in-
spections, and been found to con-
form to the standards set for that
purpose. •
Certified seed potatoes are today
recognized as being superior in
every respect to the stock. They are
practically fru Prem serious disc,,
ee which effect t c yield, are more
tree to type, ehould letve no admix-
ture of ether roti -tees, and are of
Ineh,'r yielding quality, and are bet -
t;" !rt'a,led. When purchasing seed
potatoes ask far "Certified" and be
sure the official tag is atttic•:led.
For further information on this
subject see Dominion Department of
Agriculture. Pamphlet No. Se, New
Serie..-,; or write to the Dominion Bot-
anist, Central Experimental Farm,
Ottawa, under whose direction the
work is carried on.
Win Prizes
In Competition
Congratulations are being widely
offered by the members of the Can-
adien 1"omen's Press Club over the
succe::: 0r two well beloved former
NatS'tt l Presidents, Miss Maly
Stuart Clendenan, of the Farmer's
Advocate, London. Ontario, and Miss
Iicnnethe M. Haig, of the Manitoba
Free Press Editorial staff. in winning
nl'tzes donated by the Canadian Red
Cross Society for editorials written
to celebrate the centenary of Henri
Dunant, and the development of Red
Cress to its present-day ideals, Miss
Clendenan is the first prize winner
for the weekly section, while Miss
Haig takes third place in the daily
entries. The contest was entered by
sixty-one papers—a very large num-
ber of papers also publishing editor-
ials, but not actually entering the
contest. It is estimated however that
such valuable contributions to the
work of Red Cross in Canada had
reached quite easily more than two
million readers, clearly proving the
value of news -publicity.
Other people who were fortunate
were—Robert Henderson, St. Thom-
as Times -Journal, St. Thomas, On-
tario, first prize for dailies in Eng-
lish; H. B. Christie, the Expositor,
Brantford, Ontario; Miss Kennethe
M. Haig, Manitoba Free Press, Win-
nipeg, Man. For the weekly papers
in English—bliss May Stuart Clen-
denen, the Farmer's Advocate, Lon-
don, Ont.; C. J. Allbon, the Asquith
Record, Asquith, Saskatchewan; C.
W. Peterson, Farm and Ranch Re-
view, Calgary, Alberta. In the
French Press section prizes were a-
warded respectively to adjutor Sa-
vard, La, Petrie, Montreal, 1'. Q.;
J. M. Estival, La Soliel, Quebec. P.
Q.; and to Charles Gautier, Le Droit,
Ottawa, Ont.
The Canadian National Exhibition
waterfront is 11,-f miles long.
The Live Stock Pavilion at the
Canadian National Exhibition Colis-
eum accommodates 2,000 head of
cattle and 1,500 sheep and 1,200
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Cream. 1 cent per lb. Butter Fat
extra paid for all Cream delivered
at our Creamery.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Brussels Creamery Co.
Phone 22 Limited
HINDLI SUPERSTITIONS.
CVhole Village Compelled to Observe
n S't'ies of Taboos.
Astonishing superstitiulte which ex-
ist among Hindus is the theme of an
article by a special r, rrelauttlent to
the London Daily Escress.
The emitaefon of death known as
"Sutalt" may, for to 'lan'e, effect the
whole village, unci the villa. i; keen -
polled to (dee t'v't. a ye,'los at: taboos.
When death occurs in a village all
agricultural awl other nutneet work
must cease tot' live of ,. i, a twelve
days.
All grinding of ::rain in the lilt,:,:'
Is proldbe.ct until the fine rai party
has returned from the funeral, All
cooked tool 1yine at the time in any
)louse must be thrown away, as also
0111 water.
No food can be taken except by
children; uc fresh water can be
bt'cmebt by the e•ont.n int.. the vft-
1:,sthe body of til. da ad has
been disposed of.
A tire t :unot to 1ICht'd in the.
home. et the deli and tion prohibi-
tion troepl'•ntls , xc.,uda 10 111. w'hob,
viii:,<.•. !u'uI11 tttr• dt
Su 11.x1 an i11u,1•.,i,1174 0111.181
it I< itt •wu.ie t illa�.•
and tie1 r1i: r,•;r ;h, reboil s 0r the
dead
that l;k 'ps t'.:il rl itam21 the
alt Itt to nr:,t, .. 1:; • i, isv 11'11;4-
411111• 1 • . ..,,,a by the refereed
g11„sr.
t`olr,utnitc of lillaee life Is even
mere i.:.1. 1,:1l. • itlusirated in the cus-
tom -I r4 11 naer toe Aril 't sickness
of w'itith .b most universal is the
"hilts:`” or lifting. There etr topes
from village to village in time of 'p1-
41444' a , anbrt ken chain e media MMS
and n cr.`ilited with the
p..1' r 1 p.;.': i„_: on the tilt,
I:r,llck.
sheep, and fowl:
4eE
now 4 .4,4.14 '1, now dragging minia-
ture `arta .r the images of spirit
demons; all these art' driven into or
quietly deltas:Deal within that bound-
aries of e neitalt,boring village and by
this village passed on to another.
Tim chain is never broken except
when accidentally the scapegoat wan-
ders into the possession of those who
have no faith in its virtue and prefer
the solid advantages of an unexm `ted
feae
A4utinature cart about a foot long
is prepared in the care of cholera, and
in it Is placed a symbol of the cholera
demon. It is then attached to a sheep
which is decorated with roil powder.
The sheep is driven over the vil-
lage 141111,10ty and hidden never to
return; but stutetitnt-'s a basket is
placed in it cart yoked to a gnat and
the eeet is sent over tee border,
EAGLES FIGHT AIRPLANES.
Flying Over I3ernese Oberland En-
hanced by Attacks From Birds.
The thrill of flying over the Der -
nese Oberland, of Europe, have been
enhanced on several occasions by de-
cidedly dangerous and disconcerting
attacks by eagles, says II, Harper, in
the Loudon Daily Mail.
Swooping from rocky eyries behind
Athens are huge eagles which seem
determined to wage war upon any
fiying machine which dares to invade
their lofty preserves. Not long ago
several attacked a high -flying craft,
One bird was struck by the propeller
and killed, and the Impact so dam-
aged the 'plane that a forced landing
was necessary.
In another instance, assailed fierce-
ly by an eagle, a pilot had one of the
struts between his wings smashed and
had to make a rapid and perilous
descent. Airmen are being warned of
this danger of the mountains,
Willie a pilot was crossing above
the Pyrenees in a night from Paris
to Madrid a very large eagle soared
up and flew rouud the plane as
though looking for a vulnerable spot
in this strange and noisy intruder.
A movement of the pilot's head
caught the bird's eye. It swooped in-
to battle. The airman had by this
time drawn a pistol from a locker in
his cockpit, and as the bird darted
in he fired at it. Ile did not hit the
eagle, but he evidently disconcerted
it, for the bird swerved off and dived
out of sight.
In another case an airman was at-
tacked by an eagle at 6,000 feet. The
infuriated bird followed him down to
2,000 feet' and then charged at the
'plane pell-mell. The eagle's neck
was broken by Its contact with a wire
and it fell (load in a field, th,e air-
man gliding down and retrieving it
and having it stuffed as a memento.
Not always are these lords of the
mountains in pugnacious mood. Some
when they sight an airplane seem
merely curious, while one, after fly-
ing level with a machine for some
time, scrutinizing it eloeely, appeared
to the pilot to challenge him to a
high -flying contest, Up, at any rate,
soared the splendid bird, and up too
soared the airman, Higher and high-
er they climbed, bird and 'plane.
But at length the wings of the
eagle seemed to Slag. Still the gal-
lant bird struggled upward, Before
long, however, he apparently reached
his limit, and, ceasing to beat his
wings and holding them outstretched,
he glided silently away, leaving the
airplane monarch of the air.
SOVIl+YI'S COPYING SWEDEN.
Model Equipment Ordered by Russian
Government for bSxp%miment.
The recent lnstallatlon of a Swed-
ish model farm on a vary large estate
in IOngland aecorda one more example
df the demand for Swedish farming
methods In various parts of Europe,
On a repent journey to Moscow
with Swedish horses, ordered by the
Soviet Government far ase on farms,
Director Leufven arranged with the
Soviet authorities for the eetablisb-
meat in Russia of a completely equip-
ped model Swedish farm, in connec-
tion with which project several Rus-
sian agricultural experts have been
visiting Sweden.
It le estimated that in the last
fifty years the milk product of cows
in Sweden has been doubled, while
even 1n the last fifteen years the
quantity of intik per cow has risen
from 1,500 to 2,000 kilograms with
an increase of fat of over live iter
cent.
HOW WE PROGRESS
In the old days if anybody
misted a stage c'naeh he was con
tented to weer two or three days
for the next. Now he let's out
a squawk if hi' misses one sec-
tion of a revolving door,.
es es
SAFI':TY FIRST .. •
The o'1ri:!zed woman, explain
Me' to her companion why she
got oil' the car backward;, said
she overheard ono of the strap-
hangers who stood in front of
her, whisper to his neighbor
straphanger that when the fat
woman got up he was going to
pinch her seat,
THP•. GROUND UP
A plan, playing a round of
golf, drove off with a mighty
swipe. Something soared into
the air. It was not the ball,
however, but a big clod of earth
and grass, "Extraordinary!"
grunted the player.
"Yes sir," remarked the cad-
dy. "It 'does seem a bit out of
the common."
•
A youth met antaid at the shore,
And he said, "You're the girl I
adore;
I trust, yes, I do,
That I'll see more of you,"
And she blushed, and he wondered
what for.
HIS MISTAKE
Young Man:—"May T have
this dance, Madame?"
Young Matron :—"No, I am
too danced out!"
Young Man (trifle deaf, but
wanting to be polite) :—"You're
not, madame; you're just pleas-
ingly plump."
Sandy Macbeth had starved to death.
On a one-man car we spied him,
A sign which read 'Pay as you leave,'
Lay on the floor beside him.
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CORRECT
Teacher—"Norman give me a
sentence using the word 'dia-
dem'."
Norman—"People who drive
on the raidroad crossings with
out looking diadem sight quick-
er than those who Stop, Look
and Listen."
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WAS MOTHER IN?
Sweet Little Thing— "What
time is it?" '
Boy Friend—"Half past four;
it won't be long 'til morning."
Sweet Little Thing—"Good-
ness! Mother will be worried. I
should have been in bed an hour
ago!"
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HEAVE TO
Shall I bring you some din-
ner?" asked the steward of the
ship?
"Yes, you may bring me one
on approval," replied the pass-
enger, as he gazed over the
bounding deep. "I may not want
to keep it."
LIMBERING -UP EXERCISES
They had just net at Atlantic
City and were sitting on the
beach:
She:—"What a wonderfully
developed arm you have."
He—"Yes, I got that playing
basketball. By the way, were
you ever on a track team?"
THE WELL DRESSED MAN
The young woman had just
returned to her rural home from
several years in the big city. She
was exhibiting the contents of
her trunk, to the admiration anti
amazement of her mother, Who
had bought her clothes for forty
years at the general store.
"And these," said the daugh-
ter, holding up a delicate silken
garment, "are teddies."
"Teddy's? 'You don't says
Young men are certainly differ-
ent from what they used t obe."
The Coliseum at the Canadian Na.
tional Exhibition is the world's larg-
est exposition building, covering
16% acres,
The impressive Golden Jubilee
Year opening ceremonies of the Can-
adian National Exhibition 'will take
place on Friday, August 24th.
FOUNTAIN PENS
Visit to I`'aetory Whore They Are
Made Is Moth instructive
and Fasclnnthlg,
41'llcn you pay n visit to a factory
where they are busy lnaltinrz fuu111aht
pens, says a wnc,'r in Tit -Bits. you•
will see long sheets of vulcanite flat-
tened sheets of burnished gold, :and
tiny speaks of es uliritiitun or outer
alloys used for pointing pens, all of
which are being transformed in tut
incredibly short space of time into
the 11n1141011 tu•tiele,
The work are dfvlded 11110 two
matn parts_. --the vulcanite shop feel
the gold shop, Itt lltf+ lt,tter 1h.• nil e
are cut out of flat sheets of gold with
a st..1 clip and passed mer t" the
tipping experts. Tipping, or "point-
ing" as it is known to .1 be trade, is
tlu+ welding on of tiny pellets of
oamlrldiunl, or other "tllable" al-
loys to the tips of the nibs; to pre-
vent thea, from wearing away.
Osroiri,tiunl le the hardest metal
in the world, and the heaviest, It is
absolutely acid -proof. South Africa
and 'hlstna1141 are the largest produc-
ers of this rare white mineral, which
has been found unbeatable for point-
ing nibs, !eft owing to the hl;;h cert,
it is only used for the Most. exp, usive
pelts, For the cheaper varieties ut-
loys have to bo used, bill. coon these
contain a sm, ll perreutngo 0f osmiri-
dfum or iridiuut (one of its eompon-
eat metals) to give the necessary
hardness.
After the pointe have been weldc'd,
the nibs pass through various pro-
cesses, being stamped with the mak-
er's name, tempered, curved to the
right shape, and polished. Finally,
the nibs aro slit on a whirling cop-
per disc. This disc le
soft, but such is the revon•ing • e.•
it cuts through the osmirid lute. 1:
needs a very highly spe`ctaliz ., ex-
port to handle this machine, for a slip
of a thousandth of an inch would
ruin the nib.
In the vulcanite shop long sticks
of hardened rubber are hollowed out
with delicate lathes and converted in-
to the barrels of the P0115. After the
nibs have been fitted on, the finished
article is filled with ink and fastened
with clamps to an "Ink -slinger," This
is a revolving machine which whirls
the pen at such a terrific speed that
it dashes the init, out in streams
should there be the tiniest leak.
In the course of the year, a fortune
is picked from the floor of a foun-
tain -pen factory. Daring the polish-
ing and nib -sitting procession aro
continually being dropped to the
floor, and on to the workers' clothes
and hair. In one year alone, the
value of these particles amounts to
many thousands of pounds.
Por this reason the zinc floors of
the gold shop are covered with open-
work wooden mats similar to those
used in bathrooms, in order to let the
osmiridium and gold dust fall below,
At the end of the day this is swept
up and saved, 4,11 the workers in the
gold shop have to wear overalls to
prevent the valuable dust from ad-
hering to their clothes.
These overalls are washed on the
premises, while the water in which
this has been done is saved and run
through pipes to tanks designed to
collect the precious sediment, The
water in which the workers wash
their hands is treated in a similar
manner. At the end of the day the
girls on the slitting and polishing
machines have to comb and brush
their hair for minute fragments of
the metals.
Since these waste elimination
methods were discovered the annual
saving in the gold and osmtridium
bill has been enormous. What for-
tunes fountain -pen factory dust -bins
must have contained in the old days!
DOG ARISTOCRATS.
Cocker Spaniel Still Leads Dogs In
Great Britain.
Cooker spaniels are still the aristo-
crats of the dog family in England.
That is demonstrated at the English
dog show. Since Elizabeth's day the
cocker has enjoyed the society of titl-
ed !nen and women. And titled folks
still cling to the pet that is compan-
ionable. Queen Marie, half -English,
tools her cocker spaniel to America
with her. He is a favorite in the
clubs where nonogenarfan lords pass
their afternoons gazing out into St.
James street.
Alsatians ru,n the cocker spaniel a
close second in spite of the prejudice
against their German oeigin and the
popular idea that they are extremely
dangerous. It is only twenty years
since the Alsatians first came to Bri-
tish dog shows as German sheepdogs.
The British army was as fond of the
German dogs as the American sol-
diers were, and brought thottsande of
them back from the Rhineland,
Labradors have also gained wide
popularity in England, and the breed-
ers find considerable difficulty in
tracing the ancestry of this breed.
Fifty years ago Newfoundland bad
many black retrievers which had
smooth hair and somewhat resembled
the modern Labradors, but some ex-
perts declare the Labrador is a pro-
duce of the. European continent, re-
gardless of his name.
LARGEST TUNNEL IN ASIA. I
Bore In Japanese Mountains Taking
Thirteen Years to Maize.
Five years more will be required
for the completion of the longest tun-
nel in Asia, it Is stated, says the
Christian Science Monitor, The tun-
nel, which lies between Atanai and
Numedzu on the Tokyo -Kobe main
line, burrows under the whole of the
vast Bakens mountain range, one of
the principal playgrounds of Eastern
Japan, It will shorten the running
time between Tokyo and Kobe by
three hours, Work has already been
in progress for eight years and the
entire sum originally eetilnated as its
cost has been expended, Tho Balton('
Mountains are dotted with hundreds
of hot springs and geysers. in run -
ring the tunnel through them, these
hot springs wore encountered time
and again, adding greatly to the ilii-
Smuts -pi the work,
r 1111-Jevr11,r.,,asow
1 t s`} il4e,
Lo, the people of the earth do me homage.
1 am the herald of success for men, merchants,
manufacturers, municipalities and nations.
1 go forth to tell the world the message of
service and sound merchandise. And the world lis-
tens when 1 speak.
There was a day long ago, when by sheer
weight of superior merit, a business could rise above
the common level without me, but that day has
passed into oblivion.
For those who +have used me as their servant
I have gathered untold millions into their coffers.
1 Sell More erchandise
per dollar •of salary paid me than any other sales-
man on the face of the earth. The fabled lamp of
Aladdin never called to the service of its master
genii half so rich and powerful as 1 am, to the man
Who keeps .me constantly on his payroll.
Hold the Bus!', ;gess
of the seasons in the hollow of my hand, 1 com-
mand the legions of fashion, mold the styles and
lead the world whithersoever 1 go. I drive unprin-
cipled business to cover, and sound the death -knell
of inferior merc'hand,ie. Frauds are afraid of me be-
cause 1 march in 'the broad fight of day.
Wh ever r1 akes
Their Servant
for life takes no chances. on drawing down dividends
from my untold treasures bestowed with a lavish
hand.
I have awakened and inspired nations, set mil-
lions of men to fight the battles of freedom beyond
the seas and raised billions of dollars, to foot the
bills. Nations and kings pay nie homage and the
business world bows at. my feet.
I saw broad fields for you to reap a golden
harvest.
Am Master Salesman atyaar Service
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