HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-09-27, Page 6New Harvesting Methods Make
Canada Wheat Crop More Secure
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Rapid Introduction of the Combine, MotorTrucks, and Good
Roads, Frees WesternPlain From Labor Worry,
and Aids Marketing
Quebec.—There is every indicatiou lutoly unequal to the task of garner-
tleat western Canada may produce the , )ng it, still less of threshing- it. He
greatest :'wheat crop in her history„ must secure additional labor'and pay
This will probably create a new world it wages the urgency of the wort de -
record for average yield aver the total monde. S• Io nest then take his
of 23,405,900 acres estimated as sown' chances of a threshing; machine get -
to this crop and brlog the total yield ting round to hint before the snow
of the Prait•1e Provinces appreciably, contest. Until all those things are
nearer the 500,000,000 bushel mark, I done, the UIOnOY in the crop is tied up
Apart from this the western. Canadian as tight as ore in a mine, His wite
harvest oe 1328 is significant as ex -,faces the prospect of having to house
hibitiug certain trends which may 1 and toed an indefinite period addition-
have
dditionhave an influential bearing on the • al harvest hands, and then for a Period
future of wheat growing In that terri:1 of anything from a Raw days to a
tory. It is extravagant to say that coupjle of weeks to attend to the
1928 is setting the stage for an almost wants of a threshing crew which may
complete revolution in western Cana- consist of any nutubar up to $0 men,
dim' harvesting which will inevitably Tn many European countries the
have its effect upon trausportattott and binder or mechanical harvester would
marketing. Ibe considered as far advanced, but
'While the western Canadian farm -'I western Canada could never have
ermade any progress without it, and no
m's rontto is considered toted onne of wing farm in the territory is to .be found
miffing sea, the actual grain growing without at least one of them. A labor -
at seasonftis a shortbyone, but s punctuated saving device introduced iuto this cos-
at either end by sown
the earliesty.
mon system of harvesting was the
Zfisslb must be sown at a er stook loader, which eliminated the
possible date after the frost dangeranecessity of pitching the stooked
,acs passed in Orden that it may sheaves .by hand into wagons for
achieve its growth and ripen in the h hi
fall, The ripened crop must be taken
o1P and threshed before the advent of
winter's snows which.may bury it and
tie up the year's income, subject the
grain to deterioration, as well as con-
fuse seasonal activities by necessitat- e s e
ing threshing in the spring. In mar -
stooks. Neither of these, however, the heads on top where they dry and
velous manner, by some Herculean came into general use, possibly on ac- ripen quickly. When ready to thresh,
effort, farmers manage generally t0 count of the relatively small saving in the combines, equipped with the wind -
get el the acreage they have planned, labor in relation to cost. Then sud- row pick-up, threshes and cleans the
especially since tractors have become denly several harvesting operations grain ready for market. A consider -
so general in the area the individual were completely eliminated and the able quantity of grain which at the
termor accomplishes the work of ser -
whole season's work revolutionized 1927 harvest was covered up by the
eral teems and hired mon. Not infra when, after a season or two of ex- early arrival et snow and lay flat ou
quently, however, many are compelled perimentation, the combine reaper- the ground or in swath all winter was
to 1 acreage idle or run seri- -- adopt- i the spring sucressfully threshed
L from frost permitting a vision by this means with little damage or
land's Grand Old Sports'
transport to stacks or the t roe ug PENSIONERS: SERGT, ALLEN AND J. BRYCE
machine. Then the ultimate seemed . at a bowling mateh between Royal'.Alfred Home and Chelsea Pensioners
to have been achieved when the me-
chanical steeper was invented, which, Rent Hospital where England's old time regulars ere taken care of,
attached to an ordinary binder, elimi-
nated the manual work of picking up in the field to dry and ripen, support- • ��b� e King
th h avec and standing them in ed by the stubble in a loose mass with &y now King Scanderbeg III., he is, ac -
the shadow of a deubt that he was' the
most powerful n:'an in the. eountry.
Until 1024, when Fan Nene a Har-
vard gradaate, rode into )power on the
wings of t''evelutien, Zoga was, in feet,
the Government, With the eeeeu't of
Noll, he nod to 'wgoslaviaa tit this
time being pro -Serb, and in the capital
of Bolgralle plotted for his return to
Albania, allegedly reeeiving main
as"eisttnoe and .civoauregenient from;
the Yugoslav Government, ever on the
watch to mature an advantage in Al-
bania. Noli, meanwhile, had `made the
fatal mistake' of alienating swine of
the powerful trvbee of the hinterland;
and Zogu was quick to ;maize the Itd
vantages thus offered. Noll was a
Christian and a reformer, and the
combination of the two made himpar-
tieularly unwelcome to the Mohamme-
dan Begs, Six menthe after he had
'Red from the country, Zogu, reappear-
ed in Albania at the head of a small
army, Noli fled,
" Immediately after his return Zogu,
eecte ed, 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 him, created the country
a republic and voted a definite Con-
stitution.
Zogu took care to retain the Pre'•
mks:414p, 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 io an open sec-
ret that Zogu used his control over the
Treasury to bring the Legislature to
heel whenever he wished to impose his
wilt
WHY HE TURNED TO ITALY
As to the man, Ahmed Bey Zogu,
Wen Crown b h d ear -
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The, L:3O o::% "' °awe_: mos
On'iriet0t'la Island, i:: the 2208019
ASetle, trot 20 very far (rein Green -
laud, lives en l0aleline tribe that gaI1
be ecinp tred to other nett:vcs of • the
far north in theft' modes of living only;
Apart from that, in appearance, for
example, they have little la common,
The Victoria Island Tlskimos can hard-
ly be distinguished from whites.
1( was Villtprtlmur Stetttnsson, the
Canadia11 bot'1t explorer,_wilo discover
ed the "blond" Eskimos, or, as ne ca11•
ocl diem, the "Copper' hisktmosf" 1A
May, 1910, while on one 0f lits first
I Journeys tlu'ough 111e unexplored
;north, 110 carne across One of their vii•
'ages, and for a short time lived with ,
I then, and it is to him that the world
is indebted for what is known about
them,
Tho -. blond lOskimos, StefanesOn
found, have many characteristics that
.place them above the level of 111e other
Eskimo • tribes. Not only are they
more highly civilized thin those of
their' blood who also make their homes
in the Arctic wastes, nut they show
an understanding of the ways of the
white man that Is significant, It -
seems to hint that some centuries back
the two had more 1n commou than
they have to -day,
It was night when Stefaneson and
Itis guides arrived at the village of
the blond .Eskimos, Information he
had received previously from other
Eskimos set him Olt the trail of a tribe'
which until then was unknown to
white explorers, so he was prepared
for almost any eurprise when lee enter:
ed the village,
Not wishing to alarm or incite the
blond natives against him, he sent an
Eskimo guide forward to arouse them
cording to moot of his interviewers,, FLARE IN NEW OUTLINE and tall then of his coming, They,
�,g a even of very distinguished appear-,
lrp You'll look veryclaim end charm- naturally, were. excited by the intro,
His Wits` mace Tall well sot use dark brown y t•sign upon their rest, but their uitellect.
m 11 neat mustache immaculate i
vet, a seasons newestfabric
ZoguHad a Short But once a charming individual and a win- swaying circular skirt chooses a news they would not fight with Stefansie
treatment attached to hip yoke that is en's
hair, blue eyes, white, nervous hands, ling in this model of printed sheer vel -1
th ' f U is for
a e a , caytnne occasions. The graceful
uniform, a winning smile—he is at, was to tie up their own dogs so that
ed hospitality, made amends for their
excitement, One of their first modelle
Scanderbeg III as Ahmed Bey • •
nine personality. Hie speech is de- i +
liberate, and his manner is cotwine-lent quite deep at lest side, tapering Though they had never seen a white
cava some , c . , thresher came to be generally a op - n 1e Stirring Career Mg; onlyhis thick,sloping eyebrows 10 a Point which brings it to wal-etllne man before, they, unlike other nattvea
ons its ed over the area Perm mg BY T. J. C. MARTYN. give a hint of calculated suavity and at right side. The jabot frill of bodies of this continent, did not regard hie
From_ seeding to harvesting is a of an almost complete liberation from loss, cuts .in one with right e'ection. The coming with distrust, Nine of the
brief hundred days or so. In its The recant coiOnation of Ahmed distinguish the educated esterner. sleeves leave attractive flared cuffs.
earlier stages the farmer can note the° bared man thralldom at harvest 1 An outcome of the ostensive build- Bey Zogu as King of the Albanians, from a seeming polished Westerner.,I blondes walked out o4 their huts, ,
Ing of good roads and the ۥrester under the title of Scanderbeg III. Urbane and dignified, he yet never' Desi'an No. 268 is suitable for silk hands raised, to meet and greet the
short, sturdy growth complacently �°e Complete Change !utilization of motor r°hides is the brings up a host of questions. First lacks the air of an Oriental, with all crepe, georgette crepe, crepe Eliza- explorer,
enough,but as the stalks grow taller The comb:ue seems due to complete- more general use of motortrucks atboth" canton faille crepe crepe satin
and the heads hang with their weight of all, Who ie Ahmed Bey Zogu? the cunning and cautiousness of the p , P' Wo alt frlondly," they said, in an
ly change the familiar pictures of liar- harvest time for the transport of grain. Where is Albania? Why did he choose East. I and sheer vtoolen, Pattern is furnish» h]sitim t dialect that coming
, could
he grows steadily more serious- Final- gest time in We Canadian West. In Last fall the demand for these could led in sizes 16 18 20 years 3G 88 40 +'
ly as the broad waving fields take on 1926 there were 148 of these machines not be met in many parts of the West the title of Icing of the Albanians Zogu might be called a towressive.l understand, lour coming has moist
t rather than Kng of Albania? Who His clear, blue eyes look toward the and 42 inches bust, Price 20 cents in ue glad," r
stamps or coin(coin is referred
West and his aims are the develop- P P' ) • path mate in StefPansson's party was
sent of his country along Western then taken to a separate lett to be
lines. A good many more things enter sheltered and fed and entertained, as
into the picture, but soon after his that was the greatest compliment they
such
@euld pay any visitor, ' The explorer's
dogs, tee, were oared for' well,
"Dogs like to be treated well just
like men de," they said, and gave the
animals boiled meat,
Otefaussen expected to be surprised: -
by the speearanee of the hitherto ung:
known tribe, but it had never occurred
to loin that they would looks as they
did, To him they appeared like
°toe ,3+, sunburned, but naturally fair
peandiaavians,`c
q'lteughi the explorer was surprised
at his discovery, his Eskimo guides
showed more incredulity than aston-
ishment,
s'These people are not Eskimos,""
they said; "They merely talk and act
and' (Maze like Eskimos; Three of
them look like white fore -mast hands
on a whaler. And aren't they huge?
And enc loops like a Portugese."
Some of the men had thick beards
of a light brown color, and the hair
en their heads was quite unlike that
of other Eskimos, insofar as it was
light instead pf being bleak and
poarse.. And, strangest of all, some of
People the stacks s e them had red heads so colorful that.
been blessed with a bountiful yield Alberta, said. to be the largest grain not like a roaring Ion u with man.a--ra ter
Herbert Hoover at Present would I Scan•derhee is a Mohammedan, Can they meeld be consp_•cuous 'even in
and react cordially because they rem- farm in the world, where there are suave nonchalance of a man who knew r Erin. The women were comely, and
lize in a hazy way that general pros- many thousands of acres in crop. In probably be rated as leader o4 the where h•e stood, and with the now evi- it be that. like Napoleon, tits I�in� Hubby: T'vo got to get th+'ee seats their features were as delicately
clan. He is a habitual reader. dant determination to Mand highest wants to found a dynasty allied to one for Shakespeare to -night,
perity is somehow bound ep with good 1927 six combines cut and threshed Secretary of State Frere B. Kellogg,
!tient ; _Wfo uocl as those of some Scandinavian
western crops. Late visitors from the the crop in one operation, the grain in the rare momenta when Ile takes a in the realm. This was at the time of p,+•- 9.a rarn.l ;tnrl enc ^nt houses. self.
lei Let him get his seats him- rhls.
mountain resorts comfortably survey being taken directly from the field to Ioi Alitania's re croaticrn at the s l e In this connection it is to be aunogh- self, I wouldn't be waiting on people •' Modern devices which Stefanseon
little leisure, likes to have a stack of tl a World War when it was neither that Zogu was en aged to the (laugh- like that,
the rich golden tint, his immediate in the western province, and in 1927 and this year there will be a grey
responsibility, the colossal proportions there were 774. These years definite- many more hurrying grain Prom the were Scanderbeg I. and IL? And
Alban -
farm to the railroad. The use of the what kind of people are the combine has reduced grain storage re- tans?
quirements on the farm and the grain The answer to these questions -weave
is frequently taken directly from the themselves into a story ev't:cm, se far return to Tirana Zogu found little to ly, giving number and size of s h
field to the elevator or railroad car, as Zogu is concerned, is matched per- lure his gaze eastward toward his old patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in
eliminating many handlings, To -day haps only by Napoleon's. friend Yugoslavia. She had no money, stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
the long lines of horse -driven wagons I King Soanderbeg is now 88 years for one thing. Moreover, Italy was se carefully) for each number and
laboriously toiling over rough trails old. For most of the time he has
have given place to fleets of powerful Beed, 11 ever a man has, by.his wits;
motor trucks effortlessly transporting and, by the same token, he has risen
bi hien n4 merit and shretivd-
of the task confronting him, causes ly took the machine out of the expri-
him to break his leash. It is then that metal stag for the territory. This
the concerted cry comes eastward spring and summer orders were ex -
from the western plains, "Send ns l tremely heavy and in the present har-
meni" vest the utilization is general, signal -
The Harvest Expansion rest
the real opening of the combine
The harvest excursion has from the era in western Canada. One author!.
earliest days of western Canada's tative estimate states that at least 500
grain growing been a feature of Do -,of these are being used in the grain
minion life in the tall of the year. In fields of Alberta, south of Calgary, b atom Ila
startlingly brief time In response to , whereas there were but 95 in that sec• much greater loads over good roads. byea that would be commendable in so
the insistent call from the West an tion in 1920, and 150 last year, It is —Christian Science Mouitor,
young a man were it not thoroughly
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army is mobolized, of young eastern unquestionably the most revolutionary
agriculturists who, their own work factor ever introduced into western
done, seek to round out the year's in= Canadian farming, Briefly, the use of
come; the temporarioiy unemployed the combine eliminates the operations
seeking a winter's stake; and the' of binding, tying, and stooking, and op-
quick to recognize a strong man, and,
with firm intention of ' keeping her
bottling grip on the Adriatic, made
overtires to the dictator, accompanied
by offers of glittering prizes—loans,
development, roads (of which there
unscrupulous, are hardly any), and many of the
In his early youth he received the things that Albania needs to start her
Albanian equivalent of a high school on the way to civilization.
education, Ito was no sluggard and The dice were soon cast and Zogu's
learned to speak, besides his native allegiance was transferred be Italy.
merely adventurous who seize the )19 Moreorehps the grain hc moves along, he
portunity to economically visit the Particularly the combination of Among the Patrons of mystery sntilgul a,hls leans when hisldied III, 0. reminder Ilex o�earlycAlbuniun
g
great plains, For some years now an the reaper and thresher does away thrillers to -day are not only the office and he hiscee ns hint as Beg, fathero111. 15 Tho first f early
Al "Tan
average of 50,000 men have rushed by with the elevator, the knotter, andel boys and junior white collar clerks,"
of the succeeded
ati the most powerful ruler,rDragon of Albania, after having
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thesheaf a ter on the
bor has came to be regarded as Meal- the thresher, also many citizens ordinarily included being pie g
table, Yet a gradual but very deft- By means of tits combine from 25 in 111e category of "best minds." The been at various tines pro -Serb and
nate movement has started toward in- to 45 acres of grain per day can be fierce light that beats in any direction pro -Italian, he seems to have been, recognize hint as Mpret, or lord of
dependence of this seasonal help. harvested and threshed with a ma- the public eye chances to rove has
1u—which
it all, a sincere Albanian Albania,
In other parts of the continent, the chine cutting a 15 or 16 -foot swath. lately been exploring some new dos-,
—which ie more than can be said for Much has been mads of the new
western Canadian harvest is a some- As an instance of its economy of oper- els and revealed that in many of them' many of his countrymen, i{tag's need of a wife and mention
what vague and indefinite affair, alien, the case may be cited of the We hear of him as a Colonel at 20 has boon trade of Princess Gio�vinna
some of the favorite possessions are25 , of Italy and Princess Diana of Ru -
been
read that the prairies have Noble Foundation Farms in southern i t k of detective possessions
and at about roaring
he burst into politics
I' but ti thetl unlikely choices since
special trains to the waiting grain s ea c rr b[ndet an who have always been credited with in Northern Albania, He began by
fields. The temporary transfer of la; the feeder and blower equipment on keeping the market flourishing, but pro -Turk, and although
he has
served the Turks, turned and fough•`
them successfully fox twenty-five years
and in 1461 the Sultan was forced to
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• LET HIM GET 'EM HIMSELF'
from the observation cars the waving the railway cars. All the labor re•
fields, revel in the picture, envying the quired to operate the reaper -threshers mystery honks at Maud. Dwight Mor-
row,
a republic nor a monarchy and was ler of one of Inertia's wealthiest
farmer his romantic calling. Perhaps were 12 men, two to each machine. It row, the United States Ambassador to governed under a provisional Con- Begs. This man is said to have lent
Mexico is an inveterate reader of �`0
they read later that a good deal of the was estimated that the machines P°r them. �ttutvon him some x80 000, a vast sum for Al -
crop was snowed under and will not THE ARMY bailie, and so helped h' materially to
be available for threshing until spring,
and this occasions nothing more pos-
sibly than a passing thought that farm-
ers have been very careless.
The western Canadian farmer, or
his wife for 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
farmer a period Of ceaseless effort,
While he has been able to send that
troll himself or with the aid of a
single hired man, such labor is abso-
formed the work of 12 binders, 15 J: . Morgan enjoys the same pas-
atookers and at least 66 thresher -men.' t 1 home from
AT BEAD OFhim ma
Zogu was then anti -Italian and a win a kingdom, B lint mucs heard
h ing is heard
The 1927 harvest was the cheapest time- On a recent 'r P om
Ibis mammoth farm had ever known. Europe, when as usual he wished to Deputy, By 1921 he was Commander- now of his aPerhaps Sean -
avoid public attention, he spent al- in -Chief of the army, and as such put
.of foreign princesses.
The combine can be used to wast-, most his while Lime inside his prl- down with the utmost severity a ris- derbep,' has learned already that kings
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ern Canada regardless of locama-vale suite, absorbed in the exploits of ing of the Mirdite tribe. In Tirana, are 1110 servants of States and has
luring or unsettled weather conditions , ima !nary detectives, Clarence Dar- the capital, his stock increased by forgotten the loves of Zogu N. Y.
through the attachment of the wind -I rowbounds—so g P Lloyd George and even George leaps and bounddid his power.
row header and Pick-up equipment Bernard Shaw have the reputation of He was appointed Minister of the In-
mentalpassed expert.' following year, stage in the territory and 1 being fond of detective stories, while g
Droved a success. Harvesting by this to President Wilson it was only ri- successfully putting down a revolt in
system consists of two distinct opera. l valed for relaxing qualities by a. visit Tirana itself, he became for the first
Done. The crop is first cut and 1efti to a good vaudeville show. time Prime Minister. There was not
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brought with him did not even arouse
the cariosity of the blond Eskimos.
They regarded them as supernatural,
and made little or no eommeat. When
the explorer showed ahem, through
his field glasses, caribou that they
could not see with their unaided sight,
they made this remarit:
"Now that you have found the earl- •
bou that aro here to -day, will you not
also look for the caribou that are com-
ing tomorrow and tell us where to Ile
in wait for them?? -
Those Eskimos appeared to have
discovered a moans of working copper,
es their fish hooks were made of it,
as well as their knives and shear•
Reacts. Stefansson's rifle they passed
off with a casual glance, It wee some-
thing beyond their understanding, and
they refused to. bother -themselves
about it, • .
Numerous theories have been ad-
venal to account for the origin of
the blond Eskimos. Some hold that
they cles+•"nded from Hudson Bay free
traders, but, this theory' is scouted on
the grounds that none of the traders
as much as knew of the existence of
blend Eskimos, and had never travel-
ed as far as Victoria Island.
A probable explanation of the origin
of this blond tribe is that its members
are descendants of the Scandinaviane
who founded : colony in Greenland
several centuries ego, Late, when
plague and war cut there all from Nor-
way their homeland, they may have
intermarried with the Es'klpios who
lived ilibar thrn). When the English`
rediscovered Greenland its first colon
fists were living else where,
Satin my enet,gh, despite all they
have in common, Htefanavon toiled
that all Lhe 1)101111 Eslrimon (10 tint 1)•110
tb.rn1S01V0s together, --(By II. L. Moe
Plhersoii, Editorial Staff e 110ider
Cities Star;)