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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1922-04-27, Page 7The Busy Bees Help ',Beseie. eviler., Bessie Morton started to •a5ross the field's that bright June day, she little ''dreamed that she wow'ld diis- sieve- the opportunity she had so long :desired. She would not have seen it if she had not already learned' to use her' ears as well as her eyes. queer, low hum had first attractediter attention. - Investigation revealed s dark brown mass hanging from a law cherry tree, and she became so ted in watching the animated mass, that she failed, to notice where she put hen hand and inadvertently -crushed one of the little wonders. Now Bessie had always supposed teat a bee sting was as painful as a hornet's., so she was very, surprised to •diicever that-theywere not nearly so "Why, I can take care of bees if that. is all they hurt," thought Bessie, we -eel hurried back to the house to find box -.and .see if .she Could get the Swairm , inbQ. it. .. That was her beginniin'g, but Bessie din not: stop there. She wrote to the .teeierin ent station and got all the literature they could send her; then she spent her spare time reading it, '3u •lifefall she took off fifty pounds honey which she sold to a local hotel for tw'eaty cents a pound, or ten dollars. This money she used for another swarm of bees and three old td -:es which a neighboring farmer had offered to sell. They were good, solid 'dives, but very dirty. She scrubbed them thoroughly inside and out; tack- heavy paper, around them and was ready for the spring rash, as her father laughingly told a neighbor. Her father had no faith in bees and said. anay were just a waste of time. The next year she su•ceeeded in sav- ing four new swarms and the six of themmatte'over fora hundred peguide of honey which netted her eighty dol lass. She again invested all ' of the profits in. new material and more bees so that she faced the new year with eight go'o'd Swarms .of bees and several new hives.. When Bessie • •started across the fields that eventftil June day, she was longing to go to high-school and col- lege. She wanted to get out • of, the rut that the other farm girds were in. She longed to have more money and be able to buy some of the pretty things she saw in the stoves, so her family supposed that they would soon hear of some wonderful plans --now 'that she was having. such fine. success with her bees—but she surprised them all by telling them that she would like to take a short course at the agricul- tural ootlege; learn all she could about bees ,and their handling, and then start a modern "Apiary." in partnership with her father, His. prejudice against bees .had been entirely overcome, so he was very glad to hear that his daughter would` be content to settle down On the old farm: They soon had a thriving businesa and by. seeding the overworked land, to honey -producing clovers, they not only provided bee food, but built up the rim -down place and in a surprisingly short thee they had proved that the old, /hand -robbing method of farming did not pay. They built a comfortable, modern home, hamlet a car, and Bes- sie even had a Shining new ranabout of her own, She finally marred an up;to-date . ung farmer and bee father bought her share of blie business, but Bessie always keeps a dozen swarms of bees, as she declares she would be lonesome without them, and like all women, she enjoys having her own little bank ac- count. THE POPULATION OF THE DOMINION CREASE OF TWENTY- TWO PER CENT. IN TEN YEARS. The Long War and Readjust- ment Periods Were Unfavor- able to Growth in Popu- lation. The total population of Canada in the census of 1921, according to fig - 'veva issued by the Dominion govern. nient, is 8,769,489 as compared with 7,206,643 in the census of 1911, an in - .crease of 1,562,846 for the ten years, or nearly •-twen•ty-two per cent. All tre provinces, of the Dominion exhibit increases with the exception of Prince Edward Island, the Yukon and tife Northwest Territories, whose de - o aleeees are explained by •cireum- :stances and conditions. The growth of population is especially narked in the West, the Prairie Provinces and a itish Columbia having together ad- ded nearly ogre -half to their numbers. Ontario is :the most populous pro- vince of Canada with a population cif '"_'29,054, followed fairly closely by Quebec with 2;349,067. •Sashkatchewan follows with 761,890; Manitoba 613,- 0490; 13;# 0; Al'berba - 581,995; Nova Sootia 023,837; British Columbia 528,353; the 1921.ceulsus theyin- wardBrunswick 38 7,839; Prince Ed- have 2,490,592 i ward Island 88,615; Northwest Ter- habitants or approximately 28 per "aeries ,6,084; and the Yukon 4,162, cent. of all Canada's people. In the fine peovin'ce of Saskatchewan shows past decade the combined population the gite^test proportional increase in of. Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta population since the taking of the last' and British Golumble has increased census with an addition of 80 per tient, from 1,645,189 to 2,419,746, or by n -tore .w,d'• berta grew by 55 per cent:; Mani- than 47 per cent. tuba 8414 per cent,; British Columbia ' A Healthy Increase. . 33 per cent:; Quebec 17 per cent.; On Twenty-two per cent, is a fairly *Vie 10 per cent.; New Brunswick 10 healthy rate of increase for decade per cent, and Nora. Scotia 64, per when it is considered that for half ports of maple syrup increased from cent. • The Northwest. Territories re- this time Canada was entralled in the 5,205 gallons in 1914 to 11,294 gal - turned a decline inp ulatioil of 681/2 affairs of War and emerged to become lens in 1917. The effects of at ad- uar cent; the Yukon 51 per cell,. and involved in salving the serious prat vertisintg, which resulted in a strong i lnee Edward Islen•d tip,; per cert, . ' lents of the aftermath. The flower of European demarld, is evidenced in the Canadian Arany did not return more recent figures. Exports of maple sugar jumped from 4,005,124 pounds worth $1,121,959 in 1920 to 7,999,283 ties was impracticable and none were pounds worth $1,962;25.8 in 1921; and Since 'the beginning, od' ilio century the added to her population in this wise; those of syrup maple s from 9,270 gal - production of gold in the Yli'kon, p y in the tense economic situation which bons worth $20,669 in 1920 to 11,254 which coius•titu;.ed the main and virtu- develo led after the 'war, it was con- gallons valued at 81'31t ! 767 in 1921. w r q W y sole industry of ,liar :territory, siuC1 C,Ct wise to seriously ifliU the en - Monopoly of the Eiport Tracie. Vials been dwindling, and the 'theft e try of new citiaen.; wh'> ti'ere begin- i� on foil d'ou!btin that fig area of Candia has nevi shifted its A11 There.is no Cas g g 1 t cl�nlol at her p; e , this increase' hi production will con- tinue for the demand for maple pro- ducts is bound to increase and Canada has a virtual monopoly of the, indus- try, certainly of the export trade. And the opportunities for expanding the industry embrace a'wide scope, Even at the present substantial rate o:f, pro- duction it is estimated that riot one- half of the available sugar maple trees ,ween 300,000 and 400,000 per year. '-- of Quebec province are made produc- virtually stoliped during the war, and tive. It must be borne ill mind too, in 1;121, under the policy of limitation that the sager maple flourishes gen- in force eine° its conclusion, aggl e- ovally on rough or stoney grolrn 1, such $'aunt for until It is recollected that yg 9 gated oaad;r 100,0'00. .Papnluticll build- as is not adapted to tillage, antd Que- tri/ Maty 16,11, 1.,112; one year after rife inf,' in the. decade has beets tul>laill wort, boa farnlel:s are encouraged to drake previous toilette �u greater Manitoba e A' i Virile into existence with its previous 'arrow baunduries stretched until 'd d Xl'lad'or'a Iiaq 'I`]l1 THE MAP rale SUGAR INDUSTRY OFQUEBEC part of the Territories, so' that its population at this census went to swell the total of Manitoba's people and as'- s'isted in giving the provinces such a percentage of increase. Population Moving Westward. Prince Edward Island .shows a small decline and the other Maritime prov- inces the .smallest increases, of popu- lation in the Dominion. This is parti- ally accounted for in the fact that there is a constant movement of sub- stantial volume from the older East to the newer West which annually de- pletes the - Marithne. population to build up another section of the coun- try. It is to be feared, h'o'wever, that a portion of the lost population were drawn away by the United States in its period of extraordinary war- time industrial prosperity. The census of 1921. goes to show that the weight of population in Can- ada is moving westwards with the opening for settlement of new areas and the • general development of the territory west of the Great Lakes. In 1871 _there were only 109,475 inhabit- ants out of a total population of 3,- 689,257 , pert advice. 689,257 in the Dominion: In 1881 The result has been the establish there were 168,165 out of a totalpopu men, in. Quebec•provi;ice of the maple lotion of 4,324;810•. In 1891 the num- sugar industry on a firm commercial her of inhabitants of the western half basis,' its importance as such recogniz- ed of Canada had doubled since the pre- ed and its various interests •protected. vious •census and there was a popula- tion Production is again steadily increasing tion west of the Great Lakes of $39; and figures now surpass anything be - 646 out of 4,833,239 in all Canada. In fore recorded. In the past three years 1901 the western provinces and terra- the output has increased threefold, tories numbered 645;517 pee:ple out of and in 1921 Quebec's maple sugar out Canada's total of 5,371,416. In 1911 put amounted to 30,000,000 pounds Western Canada had 1,742,182 people, .valued at approximately $7,000;000. approximately 24 per cent. of the Do- The industry ie now one of some minion population, and according to magnitude in which are engaged up to -date business firms of initiative, bringing to it all the science of mod- ern enterprise. The increasing interest in, and de - mated for, maple products from points outside Canada is clearly indicated in of the chief historic memorials of rising export figures. In 1914, le Western Canada, The old fort has the 925,443 pound's of maple sugar were distinnction of being the inosit northerly exported' from Canada, which had ill- fortress on the American continent, creased to 2,807,252 pounds by 1917 and, at the time of its completion, in and to 3,551,789 pounds by 1918. Ex- 1747, vtws the strongest fort in North America, not even excepting Quebec. According to the original plans its wails were to have been 42 feet thick, but, owing to some objeoton on the part of the Governor they were firs!, built 25 feet thick. This however, was judged inadequate, after a cer- tain ESTABLISHED ON FIRM BASIS BY GOVERN- MEW. OVERN.M W. Maple Vinegar and Sugar Sand Are Valuable By -Pro- ducts Awaiting Further Development. An industry which: was not - a war activity from any ,viewpoint but which the war stimulated and to which it gave increasing importance, was the peculiarly '-Canadian industry of the maple sugar manufacture. So limited is the area on the North American continent in which the sugar maple flourishes that, previous to the war, vast sections of people on the other side of the Atlantic had never heard of maple sugar nor tasted this succul- ent dainty. The supplies sent over periodically to the Canadian- army ad- vertised it broadcast in a more effec- tive manner, than a studied and .sys- tematic campaign would have done and created a widespread demand for the product. This in turn administer- ed a' stimulus to the manixfacturing industry such as it h'ad never previous- ly experienced and taxed the capaci- ties of manufacturers to fila. The maple sugar industry of Canada is confined to the province's of Que- bee, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New. Brunswick. Quebec is by far the heaviest producer with about 60,000 farmers engaged in the industry and accounting for seventy per cent: of the Dominion output, Quebec is pre- eminently the maple sugar area of the continent. Only small amounts are produced in the other provinces where as in Quebec the manufacture is an important industry, becoinin.g more and more commercialized each year, and its importance is duly recognized by the provincial government which has framed legislation for its encour- agement and protection. This re- cognition on the part of the govern- ment of the great possibilities of an export trade has resulted in a resump- tion in production on a substantial `scale after the manufacture had signally declined, and more rugar,and syrup is being produced now than ever in the history of Quebec. Steadily Increasing Production. The earliest records of production show that in the decade 1851-1861 the average yearly output of maple sugar was about 13,500 pounds. From 1861 to 1871 it increased. to about 17,500 pounds annually._A further increase was noted in the following decade, 1871 to 1881, when about 19,000 pounds per year were produced; and the zenith was reached between 1881 and 1891, when an average output of 'about 22,500 pounds per year was achieved. During the following ten years the yearly production fell to a little less than 20,000 pounds. Then the govern- ment took the matter in hand, intro- duced modern methods, established schools for teaching these methods, and appointed inspectors to devote their time to visiting the maple sugar farms and assist the farmers with ex - S-' HAS5"Aat . WI�MOVE �atAYt of Afar rtitrateiniatee Ali t a fault. All too often we imagine that we are bravely bearing some affliction when as a matter of fact It would not be necessary for. us,to mourn in secret and to "camou- flage'; in 'public some defect if we would get to work to remove or to improve the condition. , 'Sheer 'laziness Is a prime factor in pre- venting wornen from making the best of themselves, and a.. little thne end patience will:work' wonders in one's personal ap- pearance. ' Coveted Shapeliness. How many 'of us sigh over our unshapely ankles! Yet, if the trouble isnot caused by misshapen bones we can do a great deal to alterwhatdistresses us. 'Exercise and massage will accomplish Fiajn,ara Caroti Re- ?were ' .o .-IKING the best of those things which cannot be helped is a virtue, but put- ting up with an unwhole- some state of affairs which it is possible to improve is miracles if adhered to regularly and faith- fully. In routine, rather than in spasmodic treatment, Iles the secret of success in any beautifying method.. The sante exercises that- reduce flesh will increase it provided that they are done severely in the former case and lightly in the latter. For flesh is to be pulled off in one in- atence and In the other developed. Remove .the shoes and stockings and, sitting down, Cross the knees so- that one foot is raised, from the floor with no sup- port beneath it. Move this foot with a twisting motion from the ankle and then slowly bend it up and down, letting all the work be done from the ankle bone. When -one foot grows tired, repeat it with the other. - Then standing and bearing the weight upon the heels. turn the feet from side to side and slowly rise up and down upon the tees, as milady of the picture is doing. After ten minutes' work plunge the feet and ankles Into a comfortably hot bath at d leave them there for five to r n Liles. From here on the tr, ntntetlt 11f t.•r•;. If the fresh is to be reduced, sa;rp!y cr+m- phorated oil, rubbing it In, why • the skin is soft and the pores open, n t it string. vigorous strokes. Reduce or Develop? Then bind the ankles tightly with a linen that has been soaked in oil.. Tit's s hem:lege should be drawn as close as is -:bee, but caro must be taken to avoid stopping the circulation. When the ankles are too s'.—der for beauty. after taking the hot font bath massacre their surface gently with c'od liver o swot almond oil and bind iltn1 lightly In a linen soaked in the sante solution. If you are not satisfied with lin' shrlp>, of your ankles, follow this met!tnd earn• Cully and see if the results are not well worth the effort. in utilizing the valuable by -products - of the sugar and syrup. ,About sixteen quarts of sap will make• a pound of' sugar and•the average yield o.' sugar is from two to -three pounds per tree. Onlycthe more modern and scientific makers, however, are extracting the by-products of maple vinegar and su- gar 'sand. - From the product of a thousand. tapped trees, which is about the average Quebec. grove, twenty-five to thirty gallons of very fine vinegar can be made from material's usually thrown away. Sugar sand, known also as nitre, a chemical of importance, is extracted from a sediment left in the evaporation of the liquid. Most Northerly Fort in America. On February - 4, 1922, the old Fort C]LUTcliild, .officially known as Fort Prince of Wales, -which occupies the west pienuisu•la at the mouth of the Churchill River,. Hudson Bay, was placed by Order .in Council, under the control of the National Parks Branch of the Department of the Interior, and will henceforth be preserved as one A Shifting of Boundaries. The declines in certain areas are Seemitily explainable and were expected. from. overseas; iinmigration from overseas during the period of hostili- from the 'Yukon to Northern Ontario, ding a •aql r . x these factors haave worltti^ci alRaanst :l, ln.igtt•ation' of poptulatio'n• accom of til.ation increase The average in- railsed the slaw death of the industry, p p had � , � creast: of Births over deaths in Canada Which _i.and its c1lc is an regi.steriil:g is in the average year something less .saucla a serious. 7.leel:i.ne in file number )00. Canada's itlain agent in ,tiM? t than '100,, >1 weenie in elle territory. It is pro'b- population building liar been bee- fin- able, however, that :few oft, these people gni• •ratie•n tide. 'This amounted in were lost to the D*minion and that g Fears 11. k- valtami; in the ,,pais t e to ale majority settled in the provinces nig of the last census and 1914.to be- tiler south, and helped to swell their totale at this cene�u,s. The ,severe decline in the Northwest Territories seeme clif tenet to credit or ale/? , d and twenty-two pee cent, ratty be Con- sidered a good achievement. land, which is at the present time .un -- productive on eecohtrnt of its nature, nett , .. , ti revontle producing by the plantuvg of It istl t 'itli�ett .a mall Sl'.idtd big tralc into roginciel jurisdiction l:ho what' a noon starts that /rives hint llul. rye - 1 J .er - lyreduor e • end peipulous�l status. Progress in Canada The agitation to - have Manitoba meeting promises to be largely at - wheat renamed on the ground that the Jtended. /name does not properly describe •the! That British Columbia eggs will product will he revived when the As-�soun be on the markets of the British socaated Boards of Trade of Isles if the plans of the British Cohan- Saskat- chewan .assemble for their annual! bin Poultrymen's Exeharge are ear - meeting at Prince Alpert, Sask. Sas- katchewan grain growers and the As- sociated Boards of Trade claim that most of the grain graded as "Mani- toba" comes from Saskatchewan, -and that the name creates a wrong impres- sion. Saskatchewan produces over 50 per cent. of all wheat grown in Can. ada. - Tests for the conversion of Can- adian straw into fertilizer will in all 'cording to the Bureau of Statistic:4. probability be •vconducted in Ontario Of the 1920- total sawn lumber ac - during the present year by an English counted for $168,368,487; lath $5,248,- company. 5,248; company. If the process proves to be1879; shingles $14,695,1:i9; other mill of practical value the Honorary A h pro- visory condi • will. prob'ab'ly interest itself in the scheme. Work on the extension of the paper mill of the Prgvincial Paper Mills, Ltd., has commenced, according to A, G. Pounsford, manager of the 'Port Arthur division of that concern. of the necessary slipways 'for the sea - extension is to be completed by May lanes at the Dominion Air Board's 1st, 1923, and at an estimated cost 'of planes station at that. point. F. J. D. Barnjum, who recently of- fered a cash bonus for reforestation papers a day. The main market for of farm lands in Nova Scotia, is noW the peo'ductwill be Western Canada. offering $1,000 in prizes for the besii 'The annual •convention of the West es -says on the regu.jation of the Aged ern Canada Irrigation Association will fire menace, with suggestions for the open at Maple Creek, Sask,, July 26, enactment of laws for the prevention p of shame, or any other method for the protection old retention• of home- grown forests for home industries-.. The prizes will be $500 foe 'firs't., $250 third and :100 folurtli. second, $150 third, $ The competition is open to` any citi.'lel of Canada,but the essays must apple particularly to, the provinces of Nova ried out. Arrangements are now be- ing made to set aside special space on steamships using the Panama Canal route to the Ueited Kingd�on:- This will be the first time that eggs from this province have been shipped to such a distant market. In 1920 lumber production in Canada was. valued at $311,815 293, as com- pared with $222,322,975 in 1119, we - products $7,496,706; and forest pro- -ducts $116,006,112. Cedar, sjiruce, Douglas far, white pine; birch maple and hemlock were the nest important. woods used. A portion of Victoria Beach tin lake Winnipeg has been set aside by an Order -in -Council for the construction $1,500,000, Tile mill will be equipped with one 146 book machine capable of turning out thirty tons of book amount on of heavy gun practice, and and two days' latter will,. move to one section ' of the wall was Polled Brooks, Alta., the centre of the East- dawn and rebuilt according to the ern Section of the 'Canadian Pacific orighlttl .• speoifications The" fort Itai1'way'S huge irrigation block. Some mounted 40 guns, varying from 6 to of the, most prominent irrigationists 24 potunda, on the American continent are being In August, 1782; Samuel Hearne, the invited to attend the convention, and Hudson's, Bay explorer and Governor of Fort Churchill, received the as- tonishing information that England. in view of the growing imeiertance of irrigation in Western Canada the Scotia, New Bniittswick and Quebec.. and Prance were at war, and that Ad - that the oke ruin, with the fifty acres iniral de la Perrouse with a force of of land attached, will become .an ,in - 400 soldiers, was waiting outside. of ;•il feature of the eve/-extcncling feet fou his - siarrender. As a teres, ng fe the i hscairelne 0f Donaiiaioii parks. • prisoner, he witnessed the efforts of - +� the French Admiral to deniolish the massive fortification's, which had taken fourteen years to build. Since that time the fortress has remelted a picturesque ruin, uncertain of its fate, and always in danger of being. blotted from the national memory, There is now every; probability that, in the course of time turd as open verge of true civilization. The oaf of their decline is unknown; when tom• conqulSitttilales elfin[.', 'soon after tis,. year 1500, their temples, palace; and cities were already itt ruin. ? �t .,Ancient Yaneataxx. us Prudent. I •t f America." The tltay bcifire Mandy was. to be 'Yucatan is "the 1..g� ,lt. o , ,lltl. c As early as the beginting of the Qhris- married she took the few dollars :,1100 tfau Era .ta ill0 people there built stone had saved to her boss, and asked : : structures a e y f excellent masonry, true to keep them, angles and id su1ootll, vertical faces, "Mandy," ile asked,; "si tis dont ;«.-.. They e had astroa olnical observatories, koep your money? 'You're going to 14.64 oat accurate calendar and a better sys• harried to-anorrow. ' . ,unity o'tfors, '/tie alts fort will receive, tem of numerate than the I,,onitl•n4l. Mundy replied: "Lori, bless When people of northern Europe boss! I ain't gwnle tub tine the attention and call from the Na� "4� hell file 1 1 l t%onib Perks Branch that are being were living in eee6 lint's tete Aeneas 01 ! money in de house veld ' Sao en:tinge I., A. good deal remains to be done too, devoted, to other hisrtoric sites, Midi Yucatan seem ate have been on the 1,gerl"