HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1928-09-27, Page 3ew Harvesting Methods Make ,
Caiaada Wheat Crop, More Secure
Rapid Introduction of the Combine, Motor Trucks and Good
. Roads, Frees Western Plain. From:, Labor Worry,
and Aids Marketing
Quebec.—There is every indication CompleteChange
that:western Canada "may prodoce the The combine seems due to complete -
greatest t •wheat crop In her, hstm•y..}y-change the familiar pictures of liar -
This will •probably create a new world .`Vest time in the' Canadian West, • In.
record for average yield over the, total 1925 there were 148 of these machines
of 23,405,900 acres estimated as' sown in the western province, and in 1927
to this crop and bring the total yield nr
of the Prairie Provinces appreciably
nearer the 500,000,000 : bushel Mark,
Apart fr'onr this the western Canadian
harvest of 1928 is signiificaift as ex-'
;hibitingcertain trends which may
have an ,influential, bearing 00 the
future of wheat growing in that .terri-
tory..It is extravagant tosay that
1928 is setting the stage for an almost
complete revolution in western Cana- fields, of Alberta, south of Calgary
dian harvesting wl 'eii will inevitably whereas there were but 35 in that sec
have jts effect up:n transportation and "tion 111 1826, and 150 last year. It 1
-marketing. unquestionably the most revolutionary
fere were 774. These years.definite-
ly took the machine out of the expri
mataI stag for the territory: This
spring and summer orders were ex-
tremely heavy and in the present har-
vest the utilization is general, signal-
ing the real opening of the combine
era in western Canada. One authori-
tative estimate' states that at leaet 600
of these are being used in the grain
While the western" Canadian farm factor evert introduced into western
,e1 s- round is considered one of unre-: Canadian farming, Briefly, the use of
miffing toil, the actual grain growing the combine eliminates the operations
season ie a short one, but punctuated of binding,tying, and stooping, and
at either end by tremendous activity. threshes the grain as it moves'along.
Wheat must be sown 'at the earliest More particularly the combination of
possible date after the frost danger the reaper and thresher does away
'has ,passed in order that it may with the elevator, the knotter, and
achieve its growth and ripen in the the sheaf carrier on the binder and
fall. - The ripened crop must be taken the .feeder' and blower equipment on
'off and threshed before: the advent of the thresher,
winter's snows' winch' may bury it and By means of the combine from .26
tie up the year's income, subject the to 45 acre
• sof grain per day can be
grainto deterioration, as well as con- harvested and threshed with
fuse seasonal activities by necessitat- chine cutting a 16 or 16 -foot swath.
Ing threshing in, the spring. In_ mar- As an instance of its economy of open
"velous manner, by. swan Herculean anon; the case may be cited: of the
,effort, farmers ; manage generally to Noble Foundation Farms in southern
.get in the acreage they have planned, Alberta, said to be the largest grain
-especially since tractors' have become farm in the world, where there are
so general in the area the individual many thousands of acres in crop. In
-farmer accomplishes the work of, sea- 1927 six combines cut and threshed
.oral teams and hired men. Not tnfre the crop in one operation, the grain
'quently, however, many are compelled being taken directly from the Held to
to leave some acreage idle or run seri- the railway cars. All the labor re-
-obs risk from frost. qufreii to operate the reaper -threshers
From seeding to harvesting Is a were 12 men, two to each machine. It
brief hundred days or so. In its was estimated that the machines per
•earlier stages the farmer can note the formed the work of 12 binders, 15
.short, sturdy -growth . complacently stookers, and at 'least 66 thresher -men.
'enough, but as the stalks grow taller The 192,7 harvest Was the .cheapest
and the heads hang with their' weight this mammoth farm had ever known,
ate'growe'steadily more serious: ' Final- The combine can be used In wet-
ly as the broad waving fields take on ern Canada 'regardless of local ma -
the rich golden tint, his immediate tarring or unsettled weather conditions
:responsibility, the colossal proportions through the attachment of the wind -
.of the task confronting Trim, causes row header .and pickup equipment
:flim to break his Ieasii, It is then that which has similarly passed the expert-
the concerted cry comes eastward mental stage in the territory and
-from the western plains, "Send us prayed a success, Harvesting by- this
mien!!" system consists of two distinct opera-
tions. The crop Is first cut and left
in the field to dry and ripen, support-
ed by the stubble in a loose mass with
the heads on top where they dry and
ripen quickly. When ready to thresh,
the combines, equipped with the wind-
row pickup, threshes and cleans the
grain ready for market. A consider-
able quantity of grata which at the
1827 harvest was oovered(up by the
early arrival of snow fund lay flat on
the ground or in swath all winter was
in the spring successfully threshed
by this means with little damage or
loss.
An outcome of the extensive build-
ing of good roads and the greater
utilization of. motor vehicles is the
more general use of motortrucks at
harvest time for the transport of grain.
Last fall the demand for these could
not be met in many parts of the West
and this year there will be a great,
many more hurrying grain from the
farm to the railroad. The use of the
combine has reduced grain storage re-
quiremehts on the farm and the grain
is frequently taken directly from the
field to the elevator • or railroad car,
eliminating many handlings. To -day
the long lines of horse -driven wagons
laboriously toiling over rough trails
have given place to fleets of powerful
motor trucks' effortlessly transporting
much greater loads over good roads.
—Christian Science Monitor. •
The Harvest Expansion
The harvest excursion has from the
-earliest days of western Canada's
.grain growing Leen a feature of Do-
minion life in the fall of the year, In
'etartlfngly brief time in response to
the insistent call from the West an
.army is mobol'ized, of young eabtern
agriculturists who, their own work
,done, seek to round out the year's in-
-come; the temporarioly unemployed
seeking a winter's stake; • and the
merely adventurous who seize the Op-
portunity to economically visit the
great plains. For some years now an
average of 50,000 men crave rushed by
special trains to the waiting grain
fields, The temporary transfer of la-
ther has come to be regarded as inevi-
table. Yet a' gradual but very defi-
nite movement has started toward in-
-dependence of this, seasonal -help,
In other parts of the continent, the
western Canadian harvest is a some -
'what vague and indefinite affair.
People read that the prairies have
been blessed with a bountiful yield
.and react cordially because they, rea-
lize in a hazy way that general pros-
perity is somehow bound up with good
western crops. Late visitors from the
:mountain resorts comfortably survey.
'from the Observation ears the waving
.fields, revel in the picture, envying the
'farmer his romantic calling. Perhaps
they read later that a good deal of the
'crop was snowed under and will not
the available for threshing until spring,
.and this occasions nothing more pos.
-aibly than a passing thought that ferm-
iers have been very careless.
The western . Canadian farmer, or
this wife Cor that matter, have little
time to dwell on the picturesque in
,harvest time, or opportunity to revel
in its romantic aspects. It is for the,
termer r a period of ceaseless
effort.
While he has been able to
send that
-crop himself or with the aid of a
:single hired man, such laboris abso-
lutely .lately base to the e task of garner-
ing It, 01111 less of threshing it. No
must secure additional labor and pay
it wages the urgency of the Work de-
mands. He must then take his
'chances of a threshing machine get-
ting round ,to' him before the snow
'comes. Util all these things are
done, the money in the crop is tied up
;as tight es ore. in a mine. His wife
faces the prospect of having to house
:and feed an indefinite period addition-
al harvest hands, and then for a period
,of anything from a few days to a
'coupjle of 'weeks to attend to the
'wants of a threshing: crew which may
consist of any number up to 30 men;
In many European countries the
'binder or mechanical' harvester would
he considered as for 'advanced, but
western Canada could never have'
madeany progress without it, and no
`farm in the territory is tie be found
without at least one of them. A labor-
saving device introduced into this cone,
mon system of harvesting eves the
stook loader, which eliminated the
neeelasity of pitching the stooped
Sheaves by hand' into wagons for
transport to stacksor the : threshing
machine. Then the ultimate seemed,
tohave been achieved when theme-
chaniral-stoalcer was invented, which,
enriched to an ordinary binder, elimi-
"elated the manual work of picking up
;the sheaves and etanding them in
stooks. Neither of these, however,
came into general :use, possibly on ac
count of the relatively small saving in
labor in relation to ,cost, Then etd-
denly several harvesting operations
were completely eliminated and the
Whole season's work revolutionized
when, after :a season or- two of ex-
erlinentation, the combine reaper -
thresher came to be generally adopt'
ed over the area, permitting a vision
of an almost complete liberation from
the hired man thralldom at harvest
time,
Corbett Ambitious
Gentleman Jim Corbett Be-
lieves He Will Live To Be
One Hundred
"I believe I will live to be one hun-
dred," writes
Gentl
eman
Jim
Corbett,
former heavyweight champion of the
world, in the current Melte .of "Physi-
cal Culture u tar
e Ma
g
azlne '
He attributeslrls longevity to proper
care oS his health. Since retiring
from the ring he has constantly exer-
cised his muscles and watched his
diet; in fact has tuIfert the most meti-
culous care cf his body.
"I: am past sixty," says Gehtleman
Jim, "yet people tell me almost daily
T don't look a day over forty-five. I
believe I will live to be one hundred.
A very essential thing. that I have done
for a great many years is that.l have
a thorough examination by a physi-
cian once a year. When•a man is
`thoroughly examined, he finds out the
condition of .his. heart,: blood pressure,
kidneys, etc. If there is anything
wrong, he can have it corrected before
it is too late, There are many young
fellows who go around with Bright's
disease or dlabetis, Disease of te'n gots
such a hold of them that when they
find it is already too late.
"A boy who wants to build up a
good strong constitution must go about
it just as a contractor or a builder
would in putting up a skyscraper. The
foundation comes' first --solid, laid' on
bed -rock. The foundation for'his con-
stitution will not cost frim a nickel.
It takes only will power, ambition and
common sense, A poor boy can have
these just as well as flinch boy. But
Without those three es0Ontials no boy,
poor or rich; can` build up the founda-
tion, try hard as he may,
"When a boy grows up to be a matt
he wants naturally t0 preserve his
wonderful constitution. Yet eight
times out of ten When he has come to
man's estate, he does nothing to keep
1lmsolf fit, are allows 1imoelf to be-
COMO 10 wrapped up in buslness or
pleasure or both aria ooaseo to be ao.
tivo, He allows lliutsolt^to get in toe
habit .of eating foods wlrioh aro not
good for olni, gets''lasy—so lazy that
Ile will not exeroiso. Wliorn tho gods
would "destroy, I bellovo, they iirpt,
fatten,"
Albania's King
Won Crown by
His Wits
Scanderbeg III. as Ahmed Bey
Zogu Had a Short But
Stirring Career
BY
2 • J. C. MARTYN.
The recent coronation of Ahmed
Bey Zogu as King of .the Albanians,.
under the title of Scanderbeg III:
brings up a host of question§: < First
of all, Who is Ahmed ,Bey Zogu?
Where is Albania? Why did' he choose
the title of King of the Albanians
rather than Kng of Albania? Who
were Scanderbeg I. and Ii,? And
what kind of .:people are the Alban-
ians?
The answer' to these questions weave
'themselves into a :story which; so fnr
as Zogu is concerned, is matched per-
haps' only by •Napoleon's.
King' Scanderbeg is now 83 years
old. For,. most of, the time he has
lived, 15 ever a man has, by his wits;
and, by:the .same ,token, he has risen
by a combination of merit and shrewd-
ness that would be commendable in so
young a man were it not thoroughly
unscrupulous. ' _
In hisearly youth he received the
Albanian equivalent of a high school
education, ', He was no • sluggard and
learned to speak, besides his native
tongue, Turkish and German. He was
still in his teens when his father died
and he succeeded him as Beg, or ruler,
of the Mati, the .most powerful tribe
in Northern Albania. He began by
being pro -Turk, and, although he has
been at various: times pro -Serb and
pro -Italian,• he seems to have been,
underneath it all, a sincere Albanian
—which is more than can be said for
many of his countrymen.
We hear of him as.a Colonel` 'at 20
and at about 26 he burst into politics,
not like a roaring lion but with the
suave nonchalance of a man whoknew
were he stood, and with the now evi-
dent determination to stand highest
in the realm. .This was at the time
of Albania's re-creation at the end of
the World War, when it was neither
a republic nor a monarchy and was
governed tinder a provisional Con-
stitution,
AT HEAD OF THE ARMY
Zogu was then ahti-Italian and a
Deputy. By 1921 he was Commander -
in -Chief of the army, and as such .put
down with the utmost severity a ris-
ing of the Mirdite tribe. In Tirana,
the capital, his stock increased by
leaps and bounds—so did his power;
He was appointed Minister of the In-
terior, and the following year, after
successfully putting down a revolt. in
Tirana itself, he -became for the first
time Prime Minister. There was not
the shadow of a doubt that he was the
most powerful man in the country.
Until 1924, when. Fan Noli, a Har-
vard graduate, rode into power on the
wings of revolution, Zogu was, in fact,
the Government. With the advent of
Noll, he fled to Yugoslavia, at this
time being pro -Serb, and in the capital
of Belgrade plotted for his return to
Albania, allegedly receiving much
assistance and encouragement from
the Yugoslav Government, ever on the
watch to secure an advantage in Al-
bania. Noll, meanwhile, had made the
fatal mistake of alienating some of
the powerful tribes of the hinterland,
and Zogu was quick to seize the ,ad-
vantages thus offered. Noll was a
Christian and a reformer, avid the
combination of the two made him par-
ticularly unweleome to the Mohamme-
dan Begs. Six months after he had
fled from the country, Zogu reappear-
ed in Albania at the head of a small
army. Noll fled.
Immediately after his return Zogu
secured, by what means is better left
to the imagination, his election to the
Presidency of the country and soon
afterward' a constituent.,,Assembly,
convoked by hint, created the country
a republic and voted a definite Con-
stitution,
Zogu tools care to retain the Pre-
miership. He appointed his own Min-
isters. They are obliged to retain the
confidence of the Senate and Cham-
ber, but the Senators and Deputies
receive salaries, and it ie an open sec-
ret that Zogu used his control over the
e
Treasuryto bringthe Legislature sIatur
g e to
heel whenever he wished to impose his
will,
WHY
HE TURNED N ITALY'PO
�.
As to the ,man, Ahmed Bey Zogu
now.ling Scanderbeg III., he is, ac -',In
cording to most of his interviewees, (da
a man of very distinguished appear-; 0
ance. Tall, well set up, dark brown th
hair, blue eyes, white, nervous hands,iAe
a small, neat mustache, immaculate; ea
uniform, a Winning smile—he 15 at h_,
once, a charming individual and a win -'we
England's Grand' Old Sports
PENSIONERS: E.
SERGT, ALLEN AND J. EIRYCE
at a 'bowling match between Royal. Alfred o
me Royal Hospital where England's old time regulars re nd Chelsea Pensioners
g are taken care of.
liberate, and his 'manner is con
ing; only his thick, •sloping eyebr
give adistinguish hithe calculated of educated Allba
from a seeming polished Wes
Urbane and dignified, he yet n
nicks the,air of an Oriental, with
the' cunning and cautiousness of
East.
Zogu might be called a progress
His clear, blue eyes look toward
West and his aims are -the devel
Ment of his country along Wes
lines. A good many more things en
into the picture, but s,00n after
return to Tirana Zogu found little
lure his gaze eastward toward his
friend Yugoslavia. She had no mon
for one thing. Moreover, Rain
quick to recognize a strong man,
with firm intention of keeping h
bottling grip on the Adriatic, m
overtures to the dictator, accompani
by offers of glittering prizes—lo
development, roads (of which the
are hardly any), and many of
things that Albania needs to start
on the way to •civilization.
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The dice were soon cast and Zog
allegiance was transferred to Italy.
That he called himself Scanderbe is a reminder of early Albani'
history. The first Scanderbeg, "T
Dragon of Albania," after havi
served the Turks, turned and fou
them successfully for twenty-five ye
and in 1461 the Sultan was forced
recognize him as Mpret, or lord
Albania.
Much has been made of the ne need of a wife and mentio
has been made of Princess Giovann
of Italy and Princess Iliana of R
mania :,rather unlikely choices sine
Seanderbeg is a Mohammedan. C
it be that, like Napoleon, the Ki
wants to found a dynasty allied to on
of Europe's royal and ancient houses
In this connection it Is to be no
that Zogu was engaged to the daugh
ter of one of Albania's wealthies
This man is said to have len
him some $80,000, a vast sum for Al
bania, and so helped him materially to
win a kingdom. But nothing is hear
now of his fiancee, but much is hear
of foreign princesses. Perhaps Scan
derbeg has learned already that king
are the servants of States and has
forgotten the loves of Zogu.—N. Y
Times.
Canada's Attitude
Winnipeg Tribune (Ind, Con.) : A
majority of the people of the Domin-
ion are still loyal to the 'Empire. That
is a fact in which loyalists here and
throughout the Empire can take com-
fort, But due weight, in any consid-
eration o?'the subject, must be given
to the fact t
the there r
s an unceasing
(fort to undermine
t that t to it
a a
loyalty and
that it has achieved some measure of
ucces
s. That effort finds expressions
e p rens
Mi variou 'w 6
s h
ay The main themes are
wo: First, that Great Britain, as an
mperial nation with many cement,
ents in all parts of the world, is a
ngerous ally for Canada; and sec-
nd, that Canada, having outgrown
e former conception of Empire, is
ally a sovereign nation and should
ke all possible measures to establish
elf as such in the eves of the
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Postter'ns sent by return mail,
Ile: "If I felt like working Harder
I'd get married." She: "Yes, and 1f
you got .sna ried --ou'd feel like work-
ing harder."
Lost, strayed or s o +
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Prem my property at Shadyside. If
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have ono meal of fresh meat.
rid.
From Ship to Shore Service
Two'housand
Years Old
Britain's Woodland Wonders
Many holidaymakers are as much
interested to trues- remarkable for
their age and size, and for the/history
which seems to cling to their' gnarled:
trunks, as they aro In cathcdraht and
castles.
Take, for lneteneo, the ancient yew
tree lis Crowhurst Churchyard, near
Lingdeid, A record within the old
church tells tie that it was noted for
its ,.age and girth in the reign of
Charles II.' It has benches fixed do its
hollow trunk, a door, and will accom-
modate twelve persons. Its diameter
some distance from the ground is 33
feet. Its age has been guessed at
1,200 years',, but it may be much older.
Twenty Men In a Tree
There are many other yews prob-
ably quite as o1d, and some in even
better preservation.-- At Tandridge
there 10 one which five men can barely
surround with outstretched arms, and
another near. Burrington Coombe at
Meet a thousand years old; The yews
in Norbury Park are said to have been
standing 2,000 years, The Selborne
yew is declared to be least as old
as the church --and that goes back to
Saxon times.
Possiblythe best known tree in Eng-
land is the Major' Oak in. Sherwood
Forest. It is a real giant of the Wrest,
54 feet In girth. It is still in good eon:
dttion, andin summer a troop of cav-
alry could shelter beneath it: Twenty
people, can squeeze into its hollow`
truWelnk, -
beck Abbey, the seat of the
Duke's of Portland, is close by, and
here is the Greendale Oak, through
the trunk of which a former vandal
duke cut a carriage way.
Some people affirm that the Basco -
bel Oak, M the . thick branches of
which Charles II. is said to have hid-
den whilst Cromwell's soldiers passed
beneath, is the son of the original,
Nevertheless, It Is held by many to lm
the same tree.
• The King's Oak, Tilford
In any case, it is a mere Intent to
many other. oaks. There is the Crouch
Oak, for instance, under which Wy-
cliffe preached and Queen Elizabeth
Why R ad Hist
"Tho man of affairs, ' bays Jolrn Lee
Maddox in an article, "Why Read 11ic.
tory?" in the Septeriaber Current Else
tory, "asserts that the study of history,
accomplishes no 'useful or -practical
purpose, such as the construction of
br41
c gee or the organizationof business.
enterprises. But the acceptanceof
this view depends Largely on the in-
terpretation of the word 'practical.'
The reading of history may be produce
tine of more lasting value in inspire,
tion to effort by noble example, broad••
cuing .man's outlook on life, and :e1e-
voting the intelligence than many an
activity which 'flaunts and gods down
ae unregarded thing.'
"An assiduous perusal of the pages
of history' will reveal a law of coatiau-
ity, a law of permanence 'through
change, a law of inte1'c1e dente
among the Inti bere of the human
race and a law of moral progress,,,
Through history the permanent (ilea
meats of -contemporary life may be
separated from those which 'are acct-'
dental and transient. Through lase
tory we can judge the progress of the
present over the, past. We shall im-
mediately see from such a comparat,
son that the present is superior in
material, mental and moral respects,
Slavery and serfdom have disappear
ed; soldiers, sailors and school child-
ren are no longer flogged; men's
physical and legal power over Women
is decreaeing; the principles of justice
`and mercy are extending beyond the
confines of the family and tribe to
national and even internanenal vela-
tions.
"Uninformed politicians are continit
ally making mistakes because they do
not know how their proposed policies
have worked 1n the past. If, for in-
stance, the farmers of the Constitatiod
of, the United States had, known the
lessons which history has. to teach;
they might leave' forfended the Civil
War, since history teaches that
slavery as an economic expedient is
a failure. Nations and rulers may
well learn the same lesson. Neglect
of this brought on the bloody French'
Revolution, I1 Czar Nicholas and his
advisers had learned the lessons of
history, the fortunes of Russia would
have been quite different. The same
Kies to the former Kaiser,
knowledge of history will also
de the means of foreseeing and
roveilin for the tuture. axing the
World War a soldier asked 111 officer:
at Will be done with the German
peror after the war? Wil! he bo
' g7' The officer, drawing his reply
the knowledge of history, re-
ed: 'No; he will be isolated, and
s kept from doing future harms, as
s Napoleon Bouaparte; Thua an
accurate forecast was made of what
actually happened.
Marty persons am actually con-
vinced that it is useless to try to.
at the forces that are making
the destruction of mankind, When
erson is in such a frame of 'mind
will do well to read history. When,
ore the battle of Trafalgar, Nelson
encouraging his men, Wordsworth
expressing the gloomiest of senti-
ts about his country. At that
e England was standing on the
shold of one of the most glorious
ods In history,
"History is an antidote to credtdtty,
an adjunct to travel, an inspiration,
for Performing our appointed tasks, q
charting of political shoals, and, above
all, a background which enables us to
secure' a necessary perspective for the
understanding of our time."
aP
dined, at Addlestone, whilst under the A
Queen's Oak Whittlebury Forest in : pmt
5464 Edward IV. met Elizabeth Wood- t e
vine. WO
Standing on the Holyhead Road by Er
an old tollhouse, there is an anctent hu
oak known as "Glendower's Oak," and `from
it Is said that from its branches Owen pl
Glendower watched the Bettie of cin,
Shrewsbury, if he did, he must have we
had a good eyesight, for the battlefield
is miles away, but this oak was an
old tree in his day.
Fathers of the Forest
At Burnham Beeches there are some
COM
very old trees that were pollarded by for
Cromwell's soldiers, who wanted wood a p
for their gun -stocks, and they must he
have been and Well -grown then. bef
Otte of the finest oaks is at Tilford, was
near Farnham, called the King's Oak. was
At one time the distance round its men
spread of branches -was 800 feet. The tine
1 Yeldham Oak is said to be a thousand thre
years old', and the Cowthorpe Oak in per f
Yorkshire at ono time covered half
an amen acre, and is supposed to
date from Saxon times. In 1448 the
tree against which it is said King Ed-
mund was martyred fell. William the
Conqueror's Oak in Windsor Great
Park is decaying, ands Shakespeare's
Oak Is now a mere stump, and so is
Robin Hood's Larder in Sherwood
Forest, for it was partially destroyed
by fire.
The oldest wood in England is Whit-
man's Wood, on Dartmoor --a weird,
eerie spot. It is said the wood is full
of adders, so it is a place rather
,avoided by tourists., .
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When Li ns Roar
Meaning of Lion's Call De.
scribed by African Hunter
W, S. Chadwick, a hunter of Hone
for twenty-four years in the Afrioan
bush, makes some interesting observe.
tions in an article in the September~
issue of "Field and Stream" on the
habits of the king of beasts
What a Fish Will Do quem
day, says this authority, ' 1 have
never heard him utter what T should
term a 'roar,'
"At evening and at dawn he gives
vent to a long -drawn, plaintive grunt
of vast
volume
and
far-
reachivn
range
g
but
produced with nearly closed
Month and an upward lift of the stom-
ach t
o the '
n simnel, •
P n ar
, to
the action
etron
of a pair of bellows. Ile utters it to
call his prate or troop for the night's
hunting. At dawn In satisfaction of a
full atonnacli—or lament at an empty
one --as he goes to his lair. It is
neither challenge no roar, but a hunt-
ing and thanksgiving song.
"When disturbed while lying on a
kill or angry at attempts at robbery
by other lions, he opens his mouth
wide and emits a harsh, full-throated
volume of furious sound which, while
pregnant with ferocity and menace,
lacks the depth and volume of 'his
usual tones. It carries barely half a
mile, even In the silent night It fa
also his prelude to combat. Flaming
alone, the lion stalks In a silence more
terrifying than any roar, The 'killing
roar' is a product of human invagina-
tion."
"During ail the years of my ac -
tenets with Leo by night and
How a hooked brown trout behaved
an unusual situation is related in a
e "fish" story of fisherman's luck
Seth Briggs in "Field and Stream,"
'Recently," t
y, wastes Mr. Briggs, gas, "a
end, in 'fishing over some well known
wn-trout water, came to a place on
river
where
abarbed-wire
sir
and
'been thrown across the stream.
s wire was suspended about nine
hes above the sarface of the water.
sides of the stream were rocky and
ecipitotis, necessitating a detour
ough the brush if one wished :to
tinue on, as it was virtually im-
sible to wade further on account
e heavy head of water.
The angler decided to turn back,
at that moment a good trout rase
bout six feet in front of the barbed
To cast upstream over the ele-
ction, hook rho fish if it should
and then net it on the down -
am part without becoming en-
g ed seemed ridiculous. But who
resist the luro of a rising fish?
he cast was made. The trout took
fly promptly, turned, ran down -,am, and then leaped and neatly
ed the wire. Shortly after it was
in the open water."
r. Briggs further tells of what
Beed to the fisherman who took
prize in the Small -Mouth Black
Division of the1927Prize latish -
Contest. In that instance, the
ass, which was later landed, took
v,e frog bait, and when the angler
lc, /oak and snell parted. Them,.
ary to the old tradition Whfteh
have the fish soared "skinny,"
me right back and grabbed the
rog. And that email mouth b1aek
welglhed 0 poundo, 7 oaneeal
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Toronto Mall avid mpjvo l rs
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kinfolk are their 'best, o14063fnRr4, Com,
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kot for large Mien** gf Ittr natal
products, Canaan, IP% ttar ritiil7
has a000rde j fl itigi
TYPE OF SEA PLANE USED TO SPEED Brutish gooiia i;rtpgyt d t.
Hurled by a caval>utt from ilio deck of loco i ' E THE MAILS minion, In spine p4 js
m ng liners, approximately 600 miles out at sea, the above sea plane Gnnada has been pgaR)
ayes hours in the delivery of trans-Atlantiic mails. I of the anan,ufa4ptui gig of em
feed States than of Gana Rai
Cottages for Settler's
Toronto Telegram (Ind. Con.): The
Canadian Pacific Railway has agreed
to build one hundred cottages for
British families whose members can
secure work nearby. until they have
learned the rudiments of farming,
when they will be settled on farms of
-their own. Now if arrangements can
be made M eut enough red tape to let
tl'soe families into the country, a;
start will have been made at d-wolli
great oaks from IittIe acorns grow --1.
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