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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-09-27, Page 6New Harvesting Methods Make Canada Wheat Crop More Secure • 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 - r j� 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 €•rester 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 Wrap coin carefully. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. ,Write your name and address plain - 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 Detective Stories 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 address your order to Wilson Pattern. Service, 78 West Adelaide St, Toronto. Patterns sent by return mail. iB r''YEee /QA„‹ Mngsugt� • 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 The - 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 MU +r. F LAI wl' 01 Be 0 A • Times. - Ho: "It I felt like working harder Pd get married." She: "Yes, and if you got married you'd feel like work- ing harder_" 1, Jq ovs.h r 1Ye. a f 1 IS���� ...1 e' ill, a�31Ut \10' A MYSTERY bird:I don't see how you manage to fly. You haven't any. wings! 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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;)