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The Brussels Post, 1924-1-30, Page 2PLAN'NG ON TIM PRAIRIES Impartlaint Parti Played by Sh elter,beltS in Developing the Resources of th e Middle West, Why the prairies are treeless is a Heretofore, most of the bgrct ea set pro Moot ante of but the labors and a We' and Sheltering the farm build• pexlmonta of ovnr twenty Years 11aY0 Inge. There la, h Wider WI Y out have been with the o j owever, a Shown that trees can ee made tq grpw! mane for tree planting and this is be - in the prairie region of Canada it a coming More apparent Query Fear. In few simple precautions are taken. a to certain of the West somewhat developed value of trees upon prairie farm topsoil, and threefold. They add to the prodtc. ot the Forestre y Bra ab.isfnow co.ope at•1 tivity of the farm, they Provide wood aniznd is now co among materiltl for many uses, and above all ing with ors they The n add to the luecoralicat a of tree -belts was in eslablish ing permanent flfield shel•1 life, by to recognized by the early settlers, but tars, as barriers to control the un- coming as they did tram wooded pro.: broken sweep of the winds. Tn receet vinCes, they did not understand the Seam mien re108 beenrom larinersnoticeable 10' growing et trees under prairie condi- ereaee or tions and most efforts at tree growing information mad assistance in thisre• resulted in failure. In 1901, the Tree- spent, Planting Division of the Forestry i The Department of the Interior last Branch of the Department ot the In- year made a careful survey of results Odor was established to develop this so tar attained. As a result of a very t resource. Starting with a distribution conservative estimate based on this et a few thousand trees the work has survey, it is believed that there• are'. steadily grown until now about flue now at least 40,000 vigorously -growing' million trine are sent out each spring shelter -belts in the Prattle Provinces. from the Dominion forest nursery sta. Most of the owners estimate the value tions at Indian Head and Sutherland, of each of these belts fet $1,000 or Saskatchewan, A11 told about seventy more, but placing a value of $800 on million trees have been distributed these 40,000 plantations, it means that and it ie estimated that at least eightythe resources of the West have been per cent. of those planted since 1901 increased to the extent of $12,000,000. are now growing. This tree -planting. The chief value of a plantation an the work is carried on co-operatively, The prairies, however, is not its actual Government supplies the seedling worth in cash. Each successful tree - trees and sends out inspectors who belt is a practicer) demonstration of the give expert advice in laying out the f kinds and varieties of trees which can three Ontario counties of Keut, Es- ground and in regard to cultivatf b depended upon in a particular lo• th The settler furnishes the labor __— roes' to maintain the land in trees ATIM WORST IS ' 'T TO OM1 LC. Soman Pack of ;92• i1reliminary reports of the salmo Pack in 1928, with 1922 eemPall'' Peck qt 03ritleh Columbia are to the effect tent 1928 WAS the best expert. an while re. not yet complete it is COD. tine ins in braaketa, was made IM ot the toile -wing grades and quant]• ties: sockeye, '819.688 oases (248,041), springs (red and white) . 22,70;1 (:i0,• SIMPLICITY Tee wore siluplieity has 02°02 Melt on tee Into of Men in 002080 latter days, eaoed for 501110 time, d, turns aro blur baend, 277 (.3,629); s(8 ' botli for pt'also and Manic, .One o serentively oetimated. teat the pee k, 865); wham the gliality bas been yorious y Will run approxiuratelY a million and ; heads 1,079 (651)1 oohoes, 94,817 (20• wheel 08 defect and virtue IMO a quarter Gaso6. In coiuparison with 1380); pinks, 418,316 (309,459); elrura, said that it is a much misuudorstood last year, when the pack totalled ' come 180,020 (22,340), word, Fal tliaro is' of course, siinplic• 700,000 eases, this year allows an in- 0i•aspecte tar 'narkettug the 1928. icy and shnpilclty. crease of between 400,000 and 500,000 Pack axe satisfnetorY. Of late years There is the simplicity of cliiidhood, cases. There has been n "light" run Brlttah Columbia canners kava open- a thins of eager questionings, seeking for 60208 years past, but ilio pack for armed 00100 competition in their prinol- ingenuously to fathom mysteries 1'23 would Justify the belief that the, pal market, 7.onden, . Japanese and which the embarrassed senior has long salmon rue is once more coming badly Siberian carers have been throwing ago wile -up as r8080d 80111 an to g - tate its fanner position of importance. ' en the Loudon market large supplies , ing gIvet self -centreline"' bottomless; ot o which cannot Wltll the exception of the Naas of inferior salmon ata price which foal nluelr ,less weigh, the meet tree distrlet, all eectlons report a splendid made it prohibitive for British Colrun• monilous happenings save as they run of sale= this year, and is same bis canners 00 compete, However, an touch directly the little central Self, individual cases record catalies have extensive publicity capipaign in Icing- and yet ie ready, upt10r the cloud of a de. The pack, aocordiog to land has offset this Competition to a trifling trouble, to blot out the whole been ma d British Columbl.l 18was; llows: eDistrict One, gnat extent, an world in a mist of tears; a 110030.10eart 114,892 cases; Naas River, 89,912: salmon, being of a snperlor grade, Is 1 ed Ignoring of everything Putsido the' $kenna River, 808,293; River's and flading ft' ready market in the British immediate object. Of pursuit, Smith Inlets, 803,298; °then points in isles- This simplicity of inocenca and ins 116,077. Two, 284,2181 District Three. In addition, it is undere0ood, this experience sic has las 01100112 for nvery- 116,077. - years' pace of Siberian salmon is eon. . one, But it makes it a sorry spectacle i - There was a satisfactory increase in slderabJY below the average, and it is' 0 is carried orl010 the catch of better grade salmon, .. es reasonable to assume that British Co.; vain carried become years. perverse The pedally sockeye, which shoaled an in- Jumble canners will bane no difficulty vain files be0 mg self-Dreocce• crease of approatmately 72,000 eases, 111 marketing their output tor 1923. opaean degenerates into a disgusting l Half Alive. selllehneas; the' blindness to other ought not to have admitted of a' fac• considerations declines into a deform - tory failure. It will not do to be afraid of life ing narrowness of outlook, Extraction at Raymond Good. and to run away from it, "Heaven," In the grown man tee delightful said att fnsolant, dreamful soul, "is a quality et childhood has become a de. valley of no decision." He plaintively feet and an offense. sought a career or a place on earth Such simplicity is, indeed, rounded in where he would not be called ' on to. negation. The essence of it is that it mike up his , mind about anything— does not know, or willfully ignores, and he never quite found it. Such much valued, which sshould ld Poor mown and places seem. to the readers of South va t f Sea Island books to exist, but the notthat greater 11 negation but ton kty nowledgeaand strength. Positive and powerful, the greater simplicity can come only of close scrutiny of the facts of life and defib - an,, a epen s� T e and eality. It encourages those who have BEET �UG A k� INDUS- sex and Elgin, They maintain and . • boon too skeptical to do any planting a S S I 1 operate upwards of 150 weighing and 1 ' shipping, stations. In addition to the ag r� 1'�W Tha system has worked well and Simi- themselves, it relieves t andelends A �� ® �pIi rIN I help employed at these stations dur- lar action has been taken by several' Monotony of the landscape, TRY ing the carnnaign. Proper, this Com - of d me United a greater impression of permanency to Yarm life While from the above i pony maintains p the provinces an by so o it a corps of twenty field States departments. As ble in the withthestages knowledge apparent that much has been doert e- representative° looking after distri- available in early of co-! the planting oY shelter -belts, neverthe-1 POSSIBILITIES IN WEST button of labor, ,etc„ and each year operative administration, valuable 1 less in proportion to the extent of ter - establishing some 1,000 skilled Hold laborers are data now exist on the best method of ritory involved no more than start imported to care for the grgwing crop. establishing a windbreak and main- has been made. It anticipated that Delivery is made to the various re - 1 ?Hing its usefulness. Tree planting noir the Princ P i b fineries by wagon, truck, scows (oper- 1 *herefore on a permanent basis, and in treel g tee acing 011 various rivers throughout the r western farm home. to -day need be 1 h more district) and. by rail. The Company ithcut the trees which are so neces- finds that it cannot raise sufficient to 'Hake the surroundings more Y t it has been in beet sugar seed for its own require- ;ental The first oy� was require - merits, and imparts considerable duan titles each year from Europe. Canada the cultivation principles underlying success ,lantin are beginning to b e un- derstood, the advance ofthe tree - planting movement wr be inuc rapid in the future than the past. Indian Laborers Perform Half World's Work. The trouble between coolies and whites in British East Africa recently brings to mind the fact that India now supplies labor to half the world. Take the ease d Fiji- The islands have only 1,000 white inhabitants, but no fewer than 15,000 coolies have been imported from British India. They do almost all the outdoor work, especially on the sugar plantations, British Guiana is another colony which lives on imported labor, the na- tive and negro population being utter- ly undependable. As a matter of fact, nine -tenths of all the labor, not only in British Guiana but also in Trinidad and Jamaica, is now derived from In- dia. The coolies are generally bound un- der a ten years' indenture, and assign- ed to one master for the first five years. Compulsory education is pro- vided for the children, and there is a hospital on each estate. Natal, finding herself unable to ob- tain sufficient Kafir labor for her coast sugar and coffee plantations, also im- ported immense numbers of coolies, So fond'dc these men become of the country, that .meet of them forfeit their return passages. Their children, educated at' the expense of the State, have son into business, and are oust- Ing ust. Ing white men in shops and offices. Both at Durban and Maritsburg there are now several Indian cricket and football clubs. A peculiar conse- quence of the Indian importation into Natal has been that Arabs and Malays have followed the coolies in large num- bers. Natal has at present the most mixed population of any part of the British Empire. Tea in Ceylon is largely cultivated by gangs of coolies brought over un- der contract from India. Assam's tea plantations are also worked by labor- ers imported from a distance, As 'for Mauritius, it is now practi- cally an Indian island. The Indian coolies, Imported originally to till the ground, have invested no lass than seven million rupees in land on the Is- land during the past few years, and are slowly but surely squeezing out the originel middle-olass proprietor of moderate means. Last Resort. The young man had proposed, and bad been refused. As he sat despon- dently at the girl's side, site took pity on him and murmured: "Now don't take into heart. There are other nloer' and younger girls around, like Annie and Susie and Margy, who might make you a better wife than I would” "I knew it," admitted the rejected ono, sadly, "but, you see, I asked them all before I came to you" She Wasted the Uougll. "They say he makes his bread a1 cards," "Lucky for him1 His wife waste lot of dough that way, I understand.' Snow in the Meadow. On sunny days meadow lies Them P So dazzling white I shut my eyes. The sun makes prisms Where the mass 0 small, bard edges Are like grass. The curved drifts stand Like billows caught In some still charm By magic wrought. This crystal sea By the sun lit, Shines so I cannot Look at it, On Cloudy days The meadow seems, in Winter, like A sea of dreams. A blue mist drifts Like sails that go To countries that We do not know. The black crows in - The pointed firs Cry out to sbadow Mariners, I wonder if The fieldmouse stirs In that low covered house of hers. She dreams of clover Fields again, And green that rests The eyes of men. --Louise Driscoll. Immigrants from Bohemia and Czeclto-Slovakia Adepts in Sugar Refining. record of the growing of sugar beets for factory pure in the Province of Quebec in 1881. Dur- ing the next decade three sugar fac has tortes were erectd in that province, at of the very promising ar beet possibilities—thebeenproven These closed down r and Farnham. haclimate—bright sunny days and cool a on These was down after1 two s i s nights—and soil have been shown by and l wasnot until that the cut- quite extensive operations to 'be suit ticieatl of the beet wastrevived sue- able, and there can -be no doubt that pla ts.y to warrant the opening of the irrigated blocks in Alberta will eed—at a that year fns plants ertenopen. 1 some day become the beet sugar grow - and K chener, Theurg, plants Dresden, Dresden ing districts on the American con - and Kitchener, The Plants at Dresden � i t and at Wiarton c In Western ceased The extraction at Raymond was fair- ly good, about 240 lbs. of sugar in the bag to every ton of beets harvested. Another cause of this failure was try- ing to operate on too small an acre- age. This was evidently the immedi- ate cause for closing the factory. The average annual acreage was less than 2,000 acres and the average tonnage was a little above 11,000 tone per an- num. The highest average was in 1906, when they'had 2,902 acres with a total tonnage of 18,293 tons or 6.3 tons per acre. In the oiiinion of suc- cessful sugar beet operators the mini- mum 'unit which can•be run success- fully would be 800 tons, requiring about 80,000 tons of b ets, or 8,000 to 9,000 acres planted. The cost of such a refinery would be about one and a quarter„million dollars, and for a plant of this size at least an additional one million should be provided for working capital. for the first year's operations. Itis also felt that the location of the factory was wrong and should have been in the centre of a beet -raising territory, instead of which sentimental reasons were given weight, and it was located at Raymond on account of be- - Mormon colony. ing the centre of the Experiments in sugar beet cultiva- tion .in Western Canada have shown satisfactory results. Tests made at the Lethbridge Dominion Government Experimental Farms for live different kinds of beets show a per acre yield to operate very t nen . quickly, and the one at Kitchener A beet sugar factory was erected by of 17% tons, Itons and 16% ttoons, with a.sugar con - tons, 15% tons, see eventually came into the hands of the the Knight Sugar Co. at Raymond, Al- tent respectively of 17.68, 15.84, 00m11110D Sugar Company, Limited, berta, and operated from 1903 to 1912. 19.42, 17.85 and 16.25 per cent. and a ' This operation was a failure, the ,co -efficient of -purity of 90.6, 83.3 now the largest, if not the only beet , sugar operators in Canada. i closed -down factory building and some 90.0, 84,9 and 86.6. This company to -day operates plants,machinery being still on the ground At Gleichen and other points equal - t Wallaceburg, Kitchener and Chat - and for sale. The failure of this yen- ly good results have been obtained, industrious rank and file cannot knock off from labor to go thither. Gener- ally ewe must resolutely grapplewith a task assigned, whether we chose it or not. We are not set in our places on erate reduction of their chaoticvariety earth merely to have fun. The su- to form and order. From that 90060 a preme human felicities come to us emerge principles, beliefs and aims to gloriously now and then the more which all else is made duly subordin- welcome and the more beautiful be- ate and subsidiary, The resultant sine cause of the sober or even sombre 1Ysiflehtidnh asotoueh00 the e charm of cast of the remainder of our days. ts Those who refrain from taking obvious deficiencies. Its tenuity is the hold of life in the fullness of rich spareness meagreness trainedf mmi1 te, not a experience make little difference to a lank city meaof fnts kind is not rty. any one but the census -taker and the ch - undertaker. Yet, on the excuse that ed but by prayer and fasting, The they are seeing life or living life, we lie who labyrinthtains of aoeit 020148 dcl e to n men and women who givefree rein to unregulated impulse and Even physically It guide's him along con" the sane path between excess and. cider that to litre completelyselfishly. means Theyey atrophy. Mentally he wields canons lire viciously, wantonly, sorfishay,. are unmoved by the panorama of hu- and judgments which cleave a strc,ght Theylavish money way through worldliness and irrelev Man need and woe. be must be Morally, though n g an M 3, p on themselves. They run the gamut watchful to the end, he ceases to' be would sensation, The world the field of a wildly swaying conflict. would be far better off if they had It is easy to see what strength is never been. They anro society,a heavy wlhiche. added to a man so furnished. His icy to normal human which is legally restrained from ridding the speech is plain and lucid. Those who earth of them. listen to him embrace no cloud of par But from those of honest purpose, clean mind and firm intent, the world wants earnest,vigorous whole - ham of the following capacities: Chat- tura has been widely advertised and ham. 1,500 tans beets daily; Wallace -has undoubtedly done much harm to burg, 1,000 tons beets daily; Kitchener; the prospects of development of the 800 tons beets daily, beet sugar industry 1n Western Can - The verage time of running • le oda. Yet an analysis of the causes of about 00 days for each plant per year. failure has clearly Proved that it was In European Countries. The contributory average to these i in no wise due to climatic, soil or any In EuroPsan countries suchilea. as Bo - plants is approximately: Chatham, 15, other non preventable conditions, lin hernia, CzechaSlovalcia, etc., where ; expert, who investigated these condi- 000 acres; Wallaceburg, 10,000 acresthe making of beet sugar s a aape i t 1 Kitchener, 10,000 acres. tions in 1916, stated in his report; "I. All beets are grown by farmers un- der contract whereby the growers are guaranteed a Rat rate plus a bonus based on the price of refined sugar. The gain or loss resulting from a rise or fall, respectively, in the price of sugar, is thus shared alike by the growers and the Company. In pre-war days growers got, 35.00 a ton for beets —in 1920 the price was about 320.00. Operations in Ontario and Alberta. The Dominion Sugar Company's operations are distributed throughout and these results exceed both in ton- nage and sugar content those obtained in beet production in the Western United States. The average sugar beet content in Ontario is 12%. All Serene. The Florida beach and blue sea look- ed inviting to the tourist from the North, but before venturing out to swim he thought to make sure. "You're certain there are no alligat- ors here?" be inquiredof the guide. "Nossuh," replied that functionary, grinning broadly. "Ain' no 'gators hyah." Reassured, the tourist started out. As the water lapped about his chest he called back: "What makes you sol sure there aren't any alligators?" "Dere got too much sense," bellow-; ed the guide. "De sharks done sheered dem all away." An Ancient Though Not Honorable Profession.* The diner, says Punch, having finish- ed 1c's meal and called for the bill, studied it with rare and apparent dile; approval. "Do yen make any reduce, tion to those in tie seine line of busse nese?" be asked the waiter. "Certainly," was the reply. "Are' you a restaurant proprietor?" "No," said the diner sourly, "I'm a robber." An insurance- company has reducodi its burglary rates on residences where l there is a watch dog. The company finds that a dog is the most trust- worthy rustworthy burglar alarm. Perhaps the nutty. viho went into the store to buy a a . burglar alarm -hat would alarm the 1 urglar" may And a hint here. have reached the conclusion that sloe enly farming and agricultural misman- agement -was vastly more to blame for crop failure than either soil or cli- matic conditions. It seems to me that, in a country like this, with apparently excellent beet lands, with a demon- stration of possible tonnage such as I saw on the so-called seed farm (at Raymond), with a proved fair sugar 8002011coutent and with a growing 8e0s0 that enables harvest' to be engaged in from October 1st to November 15tb, it her 27,000,000. entheses and reservations; he can af- ford to leave the exuberance of ora - an tory and the windings of subtlety to time performance. It depends on ss- others. His actions are direct and un- sertive, courageous leadership. re hesitating. He is not drawn astray on never commits important business and ,side issues; be is aware of them, but it never intrusts a high command to aware also of their lower place In the • those who' "go through the motions"' order of importance. He develops an in a lackadaisical, perfunctory fa- X-ray mind, which can pierce toe out- shion, half awake and half asleep, It er opacities and see to the heart of has no use for those who are not things. His personality precipitates wholly alive to all that this our age obscurities and flows clear and bright, requires of them. Such simplicity is a talisman whicli, First Snow. industry, the sugar refineries are mac -First snow is fine snow tically all co-operative, shares being owned by the farmers who grow the Slanting down the wind; beets, and it Is from these countries Not a twig will hold it, possibly that the future beet sugar, Not a shelter mold it, growers of Canada will be largely re• You'd think to seethe way they act, cruited, That purity had sinned. If the population of South Africa First snow is thin snow, goes on increasing in the present The meadow's barely salted; ratio, within the next fifty years the The brook is so pre -occupied white population will have grown to With brittle frost lace at its side 4 000,000, while the blacks will num- m has no thought beyond itself And cannot feel exalted. First snow is lost snow! Each flake a pioneer That dances down to certain death, His span of life a frozen breath That spins its seconds merrily. Between the infinite .. and Here. WINTER SPORTS AT VANCOUVER It appears that after all, Canadians need not seek the Southern climes In order to enjoy surf bathing in the winter time, look at the pictures above. The photo- graphe tram which they werereproduced were taken at Vancouver on Christmas day. ,About twenty mem- bers of the Vancouver Amateur Swimming Club took the piunge with the water at 53 degrees and they found It more invigorating than cold. when things go well with him, keeps the eye of the simple man "unrefined 'mid the fierce and flashing splendor," and no less, when things go ill, holds his heart unshaken by mishap. He is, more than any other, master of hen - self and ot his fate. 13y virtue of that greater simplicity, a man may still 118' the key to the gate of his kingdom by becoming even as a little child. Music in Factories. The question of the effect of music upon the output of workers came into one of the discussiohs of the British Association at Liverpool recently. A paper was read giving the results of investigations scientifically made as to variations in the average daily out- put of a factory, and in the course of snbsequent remarks, one of tie speak - ere mentioned the widely held opinion that music is a stimulus to workers which • has pronounced effect upon their working capacity. He.supported the theory, malting the meet that if the sound of a trumpet inspires the soldiers going into battle, there I-. no reason why a worker in a factory should not perform a particular task better by reason of the presence of music, A Samson in Petticoats. There have recently come to light some extraordinarly feats of strength by a Hindu 'woman, which should cause men Of today to think twice be- fore referring to women as the weaken sex. The woman in question is Miss Tarabai, born some thirty years ago in a small village in Rajpntana, and her amazing feats are described in the Strand Magazine.. At the age of seveu she was left an orphan and adopted by fakirs (holy men), with whom she remained for several years, disguised as a len'. It was by these men drat she was initi- ated into the mysteries of breath con- trol'and. the power of commanding her physical and mental forces. Suspended between ttv» ,chairs by her Bead and feet, Miss Ts labai had a stone weighing a quarter of, a ton placed on her chest, while two sten pounded upon it with heavy sledge- hammers, But this did: not affect bet. Miss Tarabal then lay down upon the ground, and a cart laden with men and boys was drawnacross her chest and arms. She was protected only by a pad, but elm dict not. Rineh. Sbe tel lies nothing of raising from the ground a stone weighing two,huu- died and forty pounds by means of ropes tied' to her halr. Itis the remarkable power of direct. ing all the energies she possesses to any particular'bart of lief body at will that enables,her to lie for several thin- utes On the sharp ,points of five secant, and to push backwards a laden curt, by pressing with her head against the sharp point of a spear fastened to ice shaf ts. Might Wall Be Either, Wlfie-•-"A Congressman is being sued for breach of promisee' Hubby—"By a woman or 'els con- etituents 7" An opinionated Hurn is tiresome, but if you never expt'essany opinions you will soon have none to express. •1' 1 Oa"