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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-11-10, Page 3`711EI E. P. RANCH" IN WESTERN ALBERTA BOUGHT BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS IN 1919. Canadian Homestead of the "Farmer Prince" Described by Elizabeth B, Price, of Calgary. Beyond the first range of the foot- hille of the Rookies, its the valley of. the i1ighWood River, in the aunty pro- vince of Albert's, is an unpretentious, typical, low reareh house, surrounded 1ty Cattle sheds. add log•corr'ale, Nest- led in the guarding bills of the river valley it has a superb setting. Behind it, westward, . rise the snow capped peaks of the Roektes, while en the north and west directly sheltering the house Le a grove of Balm end Gilead trees. By thingrove flows the High- wood, which, as it races. past, never freezes the year round, This stock farm bears the simple name, "The E. P: Ranch -" But to Albertans, to Thetlshere, in fact to the livestock world in every cords, and sixty-five head oR Shrop- shire stoop. Looally there aero purchased live purebred Iaercheeen mares Isom the 111tir1 of Miele Ranee, that papalar fined at draught 3torstle. nor work 1n this cowntry and bred originally }7y George Laze, and Yorty head of cern- meretal cattle, forty steeve and forty heifers, This was done not only to give an impetus' to the rearing and feed Industry of comineretal cattle in Alberti but het'anao grass and fodder were plentiful, and owing to the "foot and Metall" diseaso the hnportition of purebred stook is difficult. Some Special Animals. Among the floe imported animals ere two herd scree, one bull (a Short- horn), Clituslestel Broadhookes, from. tiro some Farm at Olinisland, a splen- did .dark roan epecime:n, two years old last -January, and another bull, 'Gold- en Do0ionstratlon, of one of the best Scotch:2emiiies, bred 1»' sanies Ramo OY Scotland, an excellent type, There aro also two particularly fine specimens of Sltortuorn females, being Shenstone Colleen, three years. old, bred by Sir Richard Cooper and of the famous' Jenny Land ft}mily, This ani- mal, took second peace as.a yearling at the Royal Show in England in 1919.. Climsiand Crocus, tile other ono, isa beautiful two-year-old roan heifer .and a wiener at the Royal' County Sliow. She belongs to the famous Scotch Cro- part a1 the globe these initials have cus family, one of the most popular in deeper eignifleance. Wben translated England to -day. they, meati: "The Edward Prince Other famous British faml1ies repro. Ranch," and this property is, as the seated aro Lady Daxothies, a two-year- name impliest owned by Edwatd, the old heifer ot the Butterflies fondly; popularyoung Prince of Wales, who and the most perfect specimens of purchased it while ort that memorial Beldesmeids; Graceful% Matfldabs, .Missies, l3rowith buds and Jealousies. Their First Winter. The stock -world watched withkeen interest Trow this purebred stock would stand the first Alberta winter. They have all done splendidly, run - Yarns ning out all winter: all came through of some of the finest breeding in England and might well be termed fine and fat without the leas of a "The Farmer Prince." Th° . most famous of his English farms is the Stoke Climsland, located seven mites from Tavistock and the visit to Canada in 1919. It wits` not the mere whim of royalty that caused Edward, Prince of Wales, to purchase a stock farm in. Canada. He had a constructive motive, It_ was the Investment ot an experienced stockman, for the Prince is the owner single head. That the Prince's ambition for the improvement of Canadian stock is al- ready arousing interest ie shown by the fact that a recent visit was made headquarters of bis Shorthorn breed- to the royal premises by the Short- ing establishment Another is Tor horn Breeders', Association which held Royal at Prttieetown, Dartmoor, a picnic there. On this occasion the founded by George IV-, whom history stock was examined, and so success chronicles as being Prince of Wales fel was the whole affair that the As- for sixty years, and who in the interim socia:t}an decided to make it an an - devoted his activities to the breeding mai one, of stock. This Is the headquarters of the famoue Dartmoor ponies. As Duke of Cornwall the Prince of Wales inherited the Duchy of Corn- wall, to which belongs a large number all the stock. ' He is constantly re- al farms. other real estate and varied celving letters, and visitors who ride industries in Devon and Cornwall, them about the place are eager to these farms being mostly rented. The purchase; the most frequent question Prince has purchased recently the asked is, "Why did the Prince import Marsh farm situated on the Bristol Dartmoor ponies?" The reason was a most unselfish one, states Professor Carlyle. When the Prince was en route to the Bar U Ranch he noted the distances between the various ranch houses and the homes and the schools, which brought to his mind the Dartmoor pony. These he thought, being tough, spirited and yet gentle and economical to keep, would make ideal ponies for Alberta school children, and no doubt the shot child to -day, who has become possessed of one, blesses the name of the Prince of 'Wales. Increase of Stock. In the spring, there was an Increase of eleven Sborthorn calves, forty-three Shropshire lambs, the ewes lambing 1l9%, and two Percheron fillie foals, while &grit more cows are expected to calve before January. In securing the services ot Profes- sor W. L. Carlyle of Calgary, Alberta, The farm comprises 1,400 acres of as manager of this ranch, the Prince deeded lead and 2,600 acres of leased kis indeed been lortemale in securing land. There is little broken, and in it man with wide experience, Proles crop forty-five acres le oats, twelve in ser Carlyle having been twenty-four sunflowers• and two in turnips. All the years .in agriculture and live stook rest has been left for grazing and tirrork. meadows. historians of the future ' may' welt The first Importation of stock ar- refer to Edward, Prince of Wales, as rived in October, 1920, having Leen the "Farmer Prince," for his practical 112 days en route; due to the. act that interest in the world's greatest Indus they were quarantined in Scotland toe try is demonstrated wall in the c° -join- ed letters "E -P" which riband the royal stock of Alberta., Lesson In History. Two small boys in a Toronto house- hold were ono day engaged in turn- ing over the lieges of an illustrated history when, conning upon a picture of Nero, one asked: "Say, wasn't' this fellow Nero the tine that was always cold?" "Naw," said the other boy. "You don't know much aboutt history, do you? Tho fellow you're nankin' about was Zero, =other man altogether.' The Dartmoor ponies, too, have created n wide interest, and Professor C.trlyle atates that these have been the most productive et enquiries of t'hannel, Cornwall, where he has es- tablished another herd of Shorthorns. • Reasons for Purchase. There were two inter -dependent rea- sons for rho purchase of a stock farm In Canada. The first was that it. would serve as a distributing point for the surplus stock from the English farms, and the' next that it would n,' ist, stimulate and improve the great indus- try of stock raising in Canada by the importation. of new rend high class strain: And because the hills about the Bar U ranch, owned by. George Lane, ap- pealed to the Prince while on a visit there, and because they reminded him of the hills around Barm,ral, he chose a similar location for his own farm. Thie resulted in the purchase of what was known as the. Beddington farm, located some tigeuty-five miles south and west of the town of fTigh River. sixty days because of the foot and mouth disease, and an ocean trip of twelve drys. In Quebec they were kept thirty days while being inspected and then eleven days of a rail journey to their deetinatpn. Professor Carlyle, Lite manager, states that in the Rest importation there were tweutysix Shorthorns from the Prince. of Wales' main home 'farm, Stokes Climsiand, all young stook and, practically all of his awn breeding; • eleven Dartmoor ponies. Froin the. Tor Royal farm: three ractng thoroughbred. mtues witn racing re= AND THE' CZAR IS THE CAUSE OF IT ALL Lenine--"Let me explain; These people aro victims of the Czar et regime, which got them into the habit of eating, every day." Fish That Chews the Cud. If someone asked you, "What is that which has a beak like that of a parrot and check pouches like those of a monkey, lives in the sea au1 'Chews the cud like a oow?" you might imagine it was some kind of catch riddle. Yet there is a creature which answers this description perfectly. It is called the parrot flab. It inhabits, the warm waters of the Mediterranean, whet* it lives by browsing on the weeds that flourlsh on the sea floor. The upper, and lower jaws have be- come hardened into a sharp curved beak, which is just the tool required for lopping off lamps of tough weed. Each piece snipped off by the beak is passed into one of the two curious pouches which adorer the cheeks, and there it remains until the parrot fish feels that be has collected enough to make a good meal. He then lies on the bottom and obese,& the cud by means of the splen- did set of teeth which Nature has Placed, not in his mouth, but in his throat. 01Z. *UR,'' tdOleAe. V1C "i'0-Mo1ZRokai ' l WANT- `(oU) -ra W2l'rt so,'E_ ONh SET4Tte.(CE / ' Secretary o Britain's Premier Dublin's Goldfield. Dublin has been through some" ex- citing times lately. Is she doomed to go through more exciting times .still? This seems likely, }f the theory Of a certain scieftiet is Correct. According to him, Dublin is on the site of a goldfield, and also a pearl- bod. Supposing this to be true, man's greed for gold will presently lead to a Dublin goldrush, and "claims" may be staked out in districts over which trams now pass. 13utldinge will be des- troyed, not through vengeance as in the past, but through money -lust. Money is said to be the root of all evil, and perhaps the kindest thing one can wish Dublin is that this goid- mine proves to be a myth, The city has had enough excitement to late it for some while! To Save Motorists' Eyes. Motorists will welcome a new and very simple little device intended to overcome the dazzle from glaring headlights on approaching care, This is the "glare guard," which consists• of a small sheet of blue -tinted glase clamped to the wind screen. It can be instantly thrown in or out of the driver's line of vision, ti It's Ne'er So Dry, An old lady was sitting in an Eng- lish railway compartment reading her newspaper. Suddenly she put the paper down, tock hes spectacles from her nose, and looked around, 'Drought, drought, drought!" she cried, speaking to the young girl travelling with her. "There's nothing in the paper except the drought!" "But,' mother." answered her young companion, "we have bad an abnormal dry period." "Yes; but wiry worry about it?" replied the old lady, "As long as I could get a cup of tea, I should never worry if we never got any water at all." Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible obje4ions must first be overcame,—Dr. Johnson THE RAILWAY CROSSING He reached the railway crossing the same time as the train; 1 saw the engine tossing his auto o'er the plain; an epitaph en- grossing was placed above the slain- With buckets and valises the end:ert' ors came, and gathered up the pieces of his poor mortal irate:, the while his weeping nieces declared It was a shame. He speeded up his Lizzie, and tried to beet the grain; his speed was surety dizzy, and certainly insane: wiry be so Wi- lfred busy, when all such baste is vain? He had all week to travel to Junktown-1n-the-Hole;but he must scorch the gravel, the poor, misguided soul; and now no druggist's solve'll restore this Peter Pole. "Oh, stop, and look, and listen," the railway sign -board said; he saw the wise words glisten, in !fresh paint, just ahead, and he worked every piston, and to the crossing sped. They scraped him from the cedars,"they raked him from the plain; the public prhtts had leaders, that showed his course was vain, a warning to all speeders who try to beat the train, Alas, for poor old Peter! Much grief my spirit feels! and es I townward teeter, no more he rips and reels to show his lizzie's fleeter than anything on wheels. REGLAR rh I I.>:.1— By I'M G'oliNk GoP`( ASoor -r.(O P 4e..s ot3T:' OF SOY -4e boot:! `i t 1 AT tDUaHT-ro MAKE. A PEAc-1 OF A LONG Ncti Patriarcat' Armenien Constantinople. August 3, 1021. lift, John G. I{aril, Chairman. Armenian Relief ]Pond, Toronto, Canedo. Robbing the Fields., There is a practice from which a few fanners do not appears to be able to .divorce theoneelves, This practice cattsiste in burning the refuee from some of tlse crops which they grow. In regions where the potteto le wide - Dear Sir, -Mr, I.. Babnyen, Sou- ly grows:, one Often finds the fetuses rotary of the Canadian' Armenian lruna, bus crtr,municated to 108 the raking together a luxuriant growth character of tate splendid work of as-' el potato vines stud apiply']gtg the sistaeee you aro carrying; on for our people,' As the years go by, unfortunately, new sufferings perpetuate our de- pendency on the outside world; un- expected blows come to shatter to pieces much of what has been accom- plished. But we enjoy eoeirtg also the constructive phase of the work, while generations etc beteg fed, sheltered and "duoated by the help of relief organizations+. It is singnlarly delightful and coni - forting to think of the great Canadian people, that on the vertex of Christian love and brotherhood, remembers the sorrows of the ever -tortured 'Armen- ion race and toile for the mitigation of their sorrows. Be euro that every penny of your contributions will be a factor in the reconstruction of the Armenian peo- ple, who. in spite of a world of cal- amitie , has never lost hope in her fully toward big yields. So important regeneration and mission 1n this to successful farming is the :neer work!, organic matter that the farmer should potation in the soil of an abandance of Yours, with blessings and love, Patriareh of Armenian', "Zayre." metch. In ocher harts, the clover chaff -pile is gotten rid of in the suture manner, and not infrequently large straw stacks are made literally to go up in smoke, Thoug'httul farmers admit the pr'ae., tjoe is unsound except in cases where the goniaol of plaint dieeasee is it question and can only be met by this drastic measure. Otherwise this jaw - tine of beaming crop wastes is wrong from the stendpoine of good hue- handr•y because it robs the soil upop which the crop grew, of vegetable matter needed in the restore'ion of its productive power. Genera. y speak- ing, wo farmers think too gbtly of the value of an abundance of vege- table shatter or humus in the land we till. For giving physical fitness, water holding capacity, proper chem- ical reactions and readily evailahle plant food; decaying vegetable matte:• has no peer. It contributes wonder - Slightly Mixed, When James was five years old he was possessed of a keen desire for long' trousers. Although there were few occasions when tbey might be used, his mother, wishing td please him, bought him a pair of long white duck trousers. Days passed, and the trousers re- mained tucked away in their drawer. But one bright morning came an in- vitation to a party, and James, upon being told that he could go, suddenly announced In great glee: "Then, mother, I'll be able to wear my goose pante 1" Roy M. Waive, President of the British Empire Steel Corporation, of which the Dominion Coal Company le subsidary, Wings Tiled Like Roofs. If your fingers touch the wing of a moth or butterfly. soft dust is left on 'theist, and a bald patch appears oa the insect's wing. This duet, when examined under a mieroecope, is Bund to consist of thousands of tiny scales, These scales give the color to the butterfly's wing, which without them is as transparent as that of a wasp or a bluebottle. they ere laid on the wing in much the same way ue the slates of a roof But in epite of their exquisite shape and coloring, they are so tiny that tho scales on the wings of a single butter- fly would outnumber all the slates on th0 roofs at the hoes -ea of a good sized town. When you consider that each must be arranged according to its color, in order to give the wonderful patterns that the wing displays, you will obtain 04)110 idea of the wonders of the work- manship of a butterliy's wing. Making the Prairies Homelike. Life's Own Te as. Our lives were net of our own ales'. tion, as Otto who eiriet ole at' fnrtune . are fond of reminding us. We had no say as to where or when we should Baine, into the world!, and sono of sus would have made (Melees vastly dif- ferent. We always have with es those who coat the fond backward look to the supposed superior fellelty of a bygone day and lament that they 414 not lino in it. Tltey tell us that mod- ern 'times are decadent and modern youth degenerate till w0 grow tired of hearing them and wish that instead of vain lamentation they would liutry theittaelveo toweu d the improvement they desire. We camel on earth to grapple with life isot as we wish it were, not es we rhinal it ought to be, but as it is. Life imposes the conditions, not we who live it, Natm'e was in business and natural law was in working order tong before we appeared, on the arena: We ntuot suecumlb or perish. ?tJost of the time Dur bitternese ; gainst the ordainment is the result of our own Willie!, isnpetaoui disobedience, The warning stared us in the face, and we overran it. We knew the rule we broke. We imagined Nature, while she might parish 'the rest, would show us a particular indulgence. Wo were deceived; but our ruefulness caste tow late. The men who complain most aro those least inclined to obey. Discipline watch with the utmost concern every. tothem always has imen eedi ;tasteful. possible chance to feed his 'and every A. children, they os d parent^;l pound of available vegetable matter. As as adults, they overrode If he expects to continue at farming prescriptions whose reason was long this is of equal or greater imnor•tanre ago made clear, They have studied to him than the status of his present history not et all or to no purpose. bank account. They have learned nothing front the 4 observable experience of inenkind. Modern University Service. They have not recognized that Na- ture is as wilding to chastise a ]ting In his inaugural address as Chan- as to rebuke a commoner who doer ` cellor of McGill University, President not obey her edicts. E. W, Beatty of the C.P.R. said that Through life, whether we like it er the modern university must issue not, we are under a reign of law in from within its walls and serve the one form or another. We might as people of both urban and rural com- well submit, with such grace as we munitiee. "If," he said, "the moon-' are able to,show; for the law is pais Lain will not come to Mehemet, then sant beyond any force we can muster Mehemet must go to the mountain," to resist it. When a elan thinks he Briefly and less figuratively stated,' can beat life at its own great and ' this means that universities :nasty immemorial game he becomes as use - serve their constituencies by meads of! less to society as he who studies to extension work. This is the type of circumvent the law. Often as it has work that Ontario's provine,al uni-1 been told. si bs the tel 1 versity has been doing, with maga;fl_ tug of tda. F'ultiller'seareemplaes tl i cent results, for some time. Apart acquieseenee in her destiny; arta f nr- altogether from the regular courses, lyle's comment thereupon. "I wept Ithe University of Toronto is giving the universe," aanaur r*3 'n0 tresns- during the present session somethingcend1ental lady. "Egad ghee be:Por!" of higher education to 27teachers, fulmi:rated the age ,.1 Cho, e.. niton nearly 600 farmers, 128 ,jeernalists, he heard o}' the ren .'•h 1 over 300 industrial laborers, more than A0 women who are taking house- hold science, approximately 2,000 of the general public in the smaller urban centres for whom single ex- The tire -pointe:' e' te" t Asir g id, tension lectures are arranged, and one with its oak leaver ane its green - 1 or two hundred who study in special enamel wreath, with its American tutorial classes. With a continuance eagle poised upon the bar whieif Noire of the present development of this the simple word S n It :' t sts "outside work" so-called, the pravin- upon the tomb of tite t nkno e ., Bree.h cial university will soon be reaching Soldier in the nave of We't,rrneler many thousands more beyond its walls Abbey. Kneeling there, Getaeat Per- than it can accommodate within them. Shing. ally and comrade se the un - And it is by this comparatively new known dead, planed the ten sessional form of service, in addition to the Medal of Heanor on that 'narrow trestle' mat teaching and research, that house" which has be.onie the symbol the ]:rovirtOial university really fulfils and the siget of British valor in the its duty to the citizens of Ontaric, great war. whose property it is. Since 1362 the Medal of Flor,or hue +} been the most signal distinction Am - A Sealskin Church. erica can give for deeds of the most The world's queerest church was distinguished gallantry in colon, This discovered not long ago by a. ruin• decoration, with its ribbon of watered - Slue in the Arctic. it stands on blue sills, flecked with thea rite of Blackiead Island, Cumberland Sound, thirteen stars, has been the supreme and Is caustineted entirely of seal- honor of the American fighting manskins. Wood and other building material not being available, the missionary re- sponsible for its erection sewed the skins together and stretched them over whalebone "girders." Another Eskimo missionary built a church of anew, with seat% altar, and Victoria Cross of the British Puipire. pulpit complete. He stated that his The legend "For Valour" is s mnived snow -built edifice was warmer then °» it. Since 1860, it Iran Seer- tate most churches he had visited in warm - guarded, highly prized, thenost carefully er climates. guarded, decoration that might conte Among cathedrals, probably the to the nen in the fleets and armies most curious Is to be found in Ilgan- of Great Britain. But 552 of throe da. Viewed from a distance, it looks oro+saes, made from the metal. of Rus - like a giant haystack, but at close alae guns taken at Sebastopol, were quarters it is seen to be built of grass grouted in all the. years beilveect 1850 and 1913. and mud. It seats four thousand per- sons. We paid signal tribute to the dead Briton, and 'Great Britain, has rase The discovery by Dr. Charles Russ, loaded. In his message to President the English bacteriologist, that the Herding notifying the American Chef rays front the human eye have power Executive that the Victoria Crass has to set matter in motion is nothing been conferred, Ring Geergc says of new. Many a boy has found it out that • decoration: when Isis father looked first at him It has never yet been bestoaved and then at the woodpile.upon the subject of another State, but I trust you and• the American people About five million trees per year are sent out free by the Dominion Govern- ment Forest nursery Station at Indite' Head, Saskatchewan, to farmers to plant shelter -belts about their farms and buildings. The farmers pay the express charges on the trees and tte,V0e to cultivate the ground before and atter setting out the plantation. Gene Byrnes - KNew lr Why 5o NARP .1 12 WI21Te- A LONt saNTellcP- Cross and Star. by land or sea. • In return a cross of Maltese shape cones aeroaa the water to the tomb of that Unknown American Soldier who shortly will rest at Arlington-. It will bear tate royal crest, the crown- ed lion and the red ribbon of the Wows 11415 roR A l -ON G 5E=NT>_NC$ 'rtWtNrt'-r ivy YF.-P,Rs wt -n -t Wps10 l.Aaots. will accept tho gift in order that the British Empire may thus fitly pay its tribute to a tomb which symbolize& every deed of eoneplcuous valour per- formed by the men of your great flgleting forces, whether by land or sea, upon the western front." America widl accept the Victoria Cress in the spirit in which it be offered; in the same spirit that lad her to place the five -pointed stat on the tomb in Wostindnmtet, a tribute to steadfast valor. - ' Philotlebphiaa Ledger. • -c Pointed remarks often merit blunt anawors, !J'he Ganges, hullo's most Important river, is 1,557 mileslong, and ie navi- gable for a distance ce 850 miller from tete sea. Greenland time discovered and 1100)0- ,1 about, lee eed of the 10th eentery iby a No"semawt, who malebliehed 1s enbeny thud.