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A MATING IN Tlli
WILDS
BY OTTWELL BINNS
(Continued from last week)
"You can't," she interrupted 'Sheer -
fully enough, "and if you could 1 am
not sure I should let you now I'v,
an ambition to complete my wilder-
ness education, and though I'm: no
butcher, I'll manage this 'piece of
work somehow. You -will have to
give me instructions, and'-thcugh I
may botch the business, I'll save the
meat. Now just give me. a lecture
in the art of skinning and., cleaning
and quartering."
As well as he could he gave her
instructions, and armed with his long
hunting, -knife, she presently depart-
ed. It was' two hours before she re-
turned, carrying with her a junk of
meat wrapped in a portion 'of the
skin. There was a humiliated look
on her face.
"Ask me no questions," she cried
with a little laugh of vexation. "I
am down in the dust, but I've got
most of the meat and that is the es•
sential thing, though what we are
going to do with all of it I don't,.
know. We can't possibly eat it
whilst it is fresh."
• "We will dry and smoke some of
it, or turn it into pemmican."
"Pemmican!" As she echoed the
word, her „face brightened, "I have
read of that," she laughed, "in novels
and tales of adventure. It has a ro
mantic sound."
"It isn't romantic eating," , he
laughed back., "As you you will find
if
we -come down to it. But if the:
worst comes to the worst it will save
us from starvation."
"Then we will make pemmican,''
she said, smiling, "or rather, I shall.
It will . be another thing towards the
completion of my education, and
when this pilgrimage is over i shail
ii emend a certificate from you, and
set up as a guide for specially con-
ducted parties to the wilds."
"I think I shall be able to give you
you one, •quite conscientiously," Stane
retorted laughinglf. "You certainly
are._a very apt pupil."
"A'hn you haven't seen that hide-
ous mess on -the ,the other side of the
bluff. The fact is, I shudder at the
thought of viewing it again. But
we must have.the meat, I suppose."
Having rested a little she turned
and left the camp .again and the man
followed her with eyes that glowed
with admiration. As he'lay there he
thought eo himself that however she
might shudder at the thought of a
vilely unpleasant tusk, she would not
hirk it, and as he 'reflected on the
ients of the past few days. there
was in his. heart a surge of feeling
that he could not repres :. He loved
this delicately -nurtured. girl who
adapted herself to the harsh ways
of the wilderness with so gay a spir-
it; and ,though a • look of bitterness
came on his face ae he reflected that
circumstances must .seal his lips, in
his heart he was glad that they
should .have met, and that she shoula
be his pupil in the ways of the wild.
CHAPTER XIII
A LODGE IN THE 'WILDERNESS
It was six weeks later. The dawn
came less early, and nightfall per-
ceptibly sooner.
There was a new crispness in the
air, and the leaves on the trees were
losing their greenness and taking on
every possible shade, from pale yel-
low to old gold, and from that to
dusky red. Both Stane and Helen
Yardely noticed the signs. Autumn
was •..upon them and they were still
in their camp by the lake, though now
Stane was able to hobble about with
a pair df crutches made from a cou-
ple of forked sticks, padded with moss
at bhe forks for his arms,' and cover-
ed with'"-earibou skin: Helen herself
was busy from dawn to sunset. From
words that he had dropped she knew
that they had Post inthe race with
the seasons, and that winter would
be on them before he would be able
to take the trail. She faced the
dreary prospect light-heartedly', but
under his instruction ornitted no pre-
cautions that would make a winter
sojourn in the wild land tolerable.
Fish were caught and dried, rabbits
and hares snared, not merely for
meat, hut for their skins, which when
a sufficient number had been accum-
ulated were fashioned into parkas
and blankets against the Arctic cold
which was surely marching on them.
The leaves began to fall, light
frosts were succeeded by heavier
ones, and one morning they awoke
to find a thin .film of ice on the sur-
face of the still water of the little
bay where their camp was located.
Stane viewed the ice with ominous.
eyes. He was incapable of any
heavy physical exertion as yet, and
'knowing the North in all its inimi-
cal aspects, he was afraid for his
companion, and though he rejoiced in
her frank comradeship, he regretted
that she had let Ainley and the In-
dian depart without knowledge 'of
her presence. Guessing that the lake
was some sort of waterway between
two points; daily, almost hourly, in
the frequent absences of the girl, he
scanned it for any sign of human
"presences, but in vain. The lake's
surface was unbroken by the move-
ment of canoe or boat; its shores
showed no tell-tale column of smoke.
They were indeed alone in the wild-
erness.
But one afternoon the .girl return-
ed from a hunting expedition with
excitement shining in her grey eyes,
"I have found eomething," she an-
nounced abruptly.
"What is it?"
"There is a cabin up the lake, a-
bout three miles away."
A' cabin?"
"Yes, and a very nice one, logs
with a stone chemneyr and a ,p°arch-
ment window. There was no owe a-
bout, and the door was only held by
a hasp and a wooden peg, so I ven-
tured to look in. It has a stove, a
rough treble, a bunk and at couple of
logs plainly meant for chairs."
Stane considered her news for :r,
rnoment.and then gave an obvious ex.
planation. "It is some trapper's hut,
He is away,, and will probalbly return
for the trapping season." - •
"Yes," she answered with a nod.
"I thought that was the explanation.
But there is nothing to prevent us
taking 'possession until -the owner re-
turns, if he everedoes, is there ?"
"No," he answered slowly.
"Then to -morrow we will remove
house,".she said with 'a little laugh.
"It's the only sensible thing -to do.
The place is clean and warm a•,nd
comfortable; and if we take posses'
sign of it we shall be under no temp-
tation to take the trail before you
are really. fit."
`"But•owee
"But me no buts," she cried in
'miock• ap4oval. "You know that it is
the really wise thing to do, for if the
weather ,turns• bad, where are we -
with a canvas tent and a rather leaky
birch -bark tepee? It would be the
very rankest folly not to take ad-
vantage of my discovery, and you
know it."
Stane was compelled to admit that
she was right,...and said so.
"Then to -morrow I will raft you
up to our .new abode," she answere•i
cheerfully. "There is no wind, and
has been none for days. It will. be
easy to pole the raft- along the
shore."
Having announced this decision she
began to busy herself about the
camp, singing softly to herself; and
Stave watched her with appreciative
eyes. She was thinner than when
they had first met, her face was
bronzed, her chestnut hair in its out-
er folds bleached almost golden by
the strong sunlight of the past sum-
mer. She radiated health and vital-
ity, and though she was dressed mas-
culinely, femininity was the dominant
note 'about her. In theweeks that
had passed since he had saved her
from the river she had developed
amazingly. Apparently there was
nothing of the softness of the over -
civilized left 'in .her. That had "been
eliminated by the harsh necessity of
labour which circumstances had
thrust upon her; and the Iife of the
wilderness had developed in her ele-
mental powers. She was now the
strong mate -woman, quick in judg-
ment, resourceful in action, and of
swift courage in danger. His eyes
glowed as he watched her, and a soft
look came on his face. As it hap-
pened Helen turned and saw it.
"W'hat. is it?" she asked quickly, a
look of expectancy in her eyes.
He• hesitated. That look challeng-
ed him. He knew that if he said all
that he felt she would respond. But
the unfairness of such action pre-
vented him from doing so, and though
he was strongly tempted he turned
aside.
"Nothing 'that I can tell you," he
'sa'id in answer to her question.
"Oh!" she retorted, "you are a
most tantalizing person. Why .can-
not you tell me? If the matter is
secret you have no cause to be a-
fraid. To whom could I whisper it
in this wilderness?"
She waved a hand half -round the
compass as she spoke, and stood there
looking at him, still with the look of
expectancy in hen eyes, and with a
little dash of colour in her bronzed
cheeks. '°
"I ani not afraid of your whisper-
ing it to any one," replied Stane,
with a poor attempt at laughter.
"Then why not tell me?" she urg-
ed.
"Because-" began the man, and
then stopped. The temptation surg-
ed up anew within him, the strese of
it almost broke down his resolution.
Then he cried, almost violently, "No!
I cannot tell you -now."
"Now;" she said, in tremulous
laughter. "Now! `Behold now is the
accepted time and now is the day of
salvation.' Unless the religious edu-
cation of your youth ,was sadly neg-
lected you ought to know that. The
present is the only time. Bet if you
will not tell me this tantalizing .see -
ret now, you will some time?"
"Some time!" he answered.
"It is a premise," she insisted, and
now there was no laughing note in
her voice, and her face was very ser-
ious.
"Yes," he answered, "it is a prom-
ise."
"'Then I write it on the tablets of
my mind. I shall hold you to it,
and some day I shall demand its ful-
filment."
She turned and resumed her worn
and singing at the same tithe, and
Stane lay there• looking at her with
the, love shining plainly in his eyes.
He had no doubt that she divined
that which he would not speak; that
indeed it was no secret to her, and
that she was glad in the knowled!.re
he could hardly question. Her bear-
ing as well as her singing told him
that; and he knew that in the last
few minutes they had travelled a
very long way towards full revela
tion of each other; and that the day
when he should speak would bring to
;her nothing that was not already
within the sphere of her knowledge.
The next da'y was spent in remov-
al to 'the cabin further up the lake,
both of them working at poling the
raft with all their stores, The cabin
was well situated on a small bay,
where a fair-sized stream emptied in-
to the lake, and behind it stretched
the forest, dark' and impeeetrable.
As he hobbled through the open door
Slane ]oolced round and under the
buiik discovered a number of steel -
traps which the girl on her first visit
had overrloolced. Also on a peg in a
dark corner he falsest a set of dogs'
hareems hung jest as the, owner had
left it, probably months before. He
pointed (the traps out to the girl.
"As
guessed it is a trappern
cabin, Miss Yardely. Any day may
bring the owner back."
"Possession is nine points of the
law," she laughed. '4Wbat is the
term the gold.- eeker's use! Jump? ---e
yes, we will jump the claim for the
present at any rate."
"The owner may come back while
there is open water, or he may wait
far the ice."
"But we are tenants of the furnish.
ed cabin meanwhile," .she answered
cheerfully, "and may as well make
ourselves at . home. 'I'M going to
light the stove."
Inside the cabin there was a little,
wood -pile, and with a few well-chos-
en logs and dried sticks she soon had
the stove roaring, and then began to
beste * their ,possessions tidily. By
the time that was accon piished • the
shadows were creeping across the
lake and deepening in the woods and
it was time for bhe•evening meal, and
when it was ready they ate it at the
rough table, with a sense of safety
and comfort ithat had long 'been lack-
ing. "This place is quite cosy," said)
Helen, looking round the firelite cab-
in. "To -morrow I shall make a cur-
tain for the•doorway out of caribous
skins."
"To -morrow," la}ighed Stane, "the
owner may return.'
"But he will not turn us out,"
cried ..Helen. "The men of the wilds
are all hospitable." -
"That is true," agreed Stane, "and
I,: have no doubt that, we should be
allowed to winter here if we chose.
But if the man comes there is a bet-
ter way. Wie shall be able to engage
him to take us to Fort Malsun, and
so to safety and civilization."
"Oh!" laughed the girl, "are you
so anxious to go, back to civiliza-
tion?"
Stane's face suddenly clouded and
.the.,..iaid hardness came back to it.
"There is no going back for mve-
yet," he answered bitterly.
"But. you will return, some day,"
she answered quietly. "I have no
doubt of that at all. But I Was not
thinking of that when I spoke. I was
wondering whether you were tired -of
this ,primitive life. For my . part I
quite enjoy it. It is really exhilarat-
ing to know that one has to depend
upon one's self, and to find unexpect-
ed qualities revealing themselves, at
the •call, of circumstances. I think I
shall never be the same again; my
old life seems contemptibly poor and
tame when I look' back upon it."
"I can understand that," he an-
swered, turning from his bitterness.
The wilderness 'gets into one's blood."
"Particularly if it is a little wild
to start with," she replied cheerfully,
"as I really believe mine is."
"There are men who have lived up
here for years, enduring hunger and
every kind of hardship, hazarding
life almost daily, who having stum-
bled •euddenly upon it fortune, have
hurried southward to enjoy their
luck. They have been away a year,
two years, and then have drifted
back to the bleak life and hazard
of the 'North."
"It is "not difficult to believe that,'
answered 'Helen. "The life itself•is
the attraction up here."
' ,Stane permitted himself to smile at
her enthusiasm and then spoke. "But
if you had to lime it day by day, year
in and ?year .out, ;Miss Yardelys
then-"
"Oh then," she interrupted lightly,
"it might be different. But-" She
broke off suddenly, and a sparkle of
interest cavae in her eyes. Pointin„
to the pile of wood in the corner she
cried: "Mr. Stane, I ani sure there
is something chidden under that wood.
Stane started and stared at the
stacked -up logs, a slight look of ap
prehension on his face. The giri
laughed as she caught the look. "It
is nothing to be alarmed at; but
those logs are misleading I am sure,
for at one place I can See something
gleaming. What it is I don't know,
but I amu going to find out."
Rising quickly, she began to throw
down the logs, and presently uncov-
ered a Iarge square tin 'that at some
time or another had contained bis-
cuits. Pursuing her investigations
she uncovered two similar tins, ani
for a moment stood regarding them
with curious eyes. Then she lifted
one. -
"It is heavy," she exclaimer. "What
do you think it is ---gold?"
Stane laughed. "Judging by the
ease with which you lift it, I should
say not."
"I'm going to learn." sihe replied,
and promptly began to operate on a
'close -fitting lid. It took her a little
time, but at last, with the aid of
Stene's knife, she managed to re-
move it. Then she gave an exclam-
ation of :disappointment.
"What is it?" asked Stane.
"I don't know. It looks like -wait
a minute!"
She took a small pinch of the con-
tents, and lifting it to her mouth
tasted it. "Flour!"
"Flour! You don't say?"
There was a joyous, exalting note
in the man's voice that made the girl
swing round and look at him in sur-
prise.
"You seem delighted!" . she said
wonderingly.
"I am," he replied.
"But -well, I don't exactly see
why! - if it were gold, 1 could under-
stand. One always finds gold in
these deserted cabins. according tri
the story books. And we .find flour
-and you rejoice!"
"I do," answered Stane joyfully.
"Miss Yard'el'y, that flour is a god-
send. We were rery short, as y'o'n
told me, only a pound or two left
and t was afraid that we might have
to live on meat and fish alone, and
rou don't know what, that means. I
do! 1 lived for thine wee10 on moose
meat last winter and I haven't for -
gotteXi it yet. ' l.''or' Iles`i'1*exi'S' sa 9i
en the other Oen" '
',The sial obeyed him, and! Iia.
ly the re xaar?•fnn tins revealed 'their
contents. One held ;about nine V:ou14ole
of rice and the other was three parts
,fill"ell with .beans
"We're in luck,great heels" *cried
Stan. "Just the things we need.
Any time during the last `fortnight
I would have given a thousand pounds
for those stores." ._
tI expect the owner, if lie returns)
will be glad to sell them to you for
a good deal less," she retorted with
lnoek petulance. "It was treasure
trove I was hoping fort."
"You can't live on gold," laughed
• Stone, "and you elan en the content*
of these tins. We must annex them.
If the owner has deserted the cabin
it wont. matter; and if, he returns
he will bring fresh 'stores with' him,
those being but the surplus of hie
last winter's° atoek. Nothing could
have been -mere fortunate."
"But ffour and rice and beans!"
protested Helen in simulated disgust.
They . are so unromantic! It will
sound so poor if ever I tell the story
in a drawing -room*!"
Stare laughed again. "There's
nothing romantic about straight meat
without change. Those cereals are
the best of treasure trove for us."
"Well," conceded the girl laughing
with 'him. "You ought to know, and
if you •are satisfied I ;must be. If
these stores will carry us through the
time until we start for civilization I
won't grumble."
To Sterne the discovery of the stores
wasp y great relief, far greater than
the girl knew. Of starvation he had
had no fear, for. they were in a good
game country, but he knew the dan-
ger of a meat diet alone, and now
that for the time being that danger
was eliminated, he was correspond-
ingly relieved; the -more so when, two
mornings later, the door of the het
being opened they beheld a thin pow-
dering of shot-like snow.
"Winter is .here!" said Helen, a
little sobered at the sight of the white
pall.
"Yes," he answered. '"You 'found
this hurt just in time."
No more snow fell for over a fort-
night, and during that time, despite
the cold, Shane spent many hours
practising walking without crutches.
The fracture had quite knit together
and though, his muscles were still
weak, the gained strength rapidly,
and 'as far as possible relieved the
girl of heavier tasks. He chopped a
great deal of wood, in preparation
for the•bitter cold that was bound to
come, and stored much of it its the
hut itself. He was, indefatigable in
setting snares and one day,' limping
iri the wood with the rifle, he sur-
prised a young moose -bull and killed
it, and .cached the meat where neither
the wolves nor the lynxes could reach
it. Then at the close of. a dull, dark
day, the wind began to ,blow across
the lake, whistling and howling in
the trees behind, and the cold it
brought with it penetrated the cabin,
driving -them closer to the stove. All
night it blew, and once, waking be-
hind the tent canvas with which the
bunk where she slept was screened,
the girl caught a rattle on the wood-
en walls of the cabin that sounded
- :_`' it were acing peppered with,„in-
numerable pellets. In the morning
the wind had .fallen, ;but the cabin
:the
unusually dark, and investigation
reviled that in a single night the
snow had drifted to the, height of
the parchment window. The cold was
intense, and there was no stirring a-
broad, ipdeed, there was no reason
for it, since all the wild life of the
forest that they might have hunted
was hidden and still. Seated by ,the
stove after breakfast, Helen was
startled by a brace of cracks like
those of a pistol. She started up.
"What was that? Some one • fir-
ed-"
"No!" answered Stane quickly.
"Just a couple of trees whose hearts
have burst with the cold. There
will be no one abroad this.wea-
ther."
But in that;? as events proved, he
was mistaken. For when, in the
early afternoon, 'wrapped in the fur
garments which the girl had manu-
factured at their old camp, they ven-
tured forth not twenty yards away
from .the hut Stane suddenly came
upon a broad snowshoe trail. At the
sight of it he stopped dead.
"What is it?" asked the girl quick-
ly"Some one has been here," he said
in a curious voice. Without saying
anything further he began to follow
the trail, and .within a few minutes
'realized that whoever had made it
had come down the lake and had
been so interested in the cabin as to
we all round it. The tracks of the
great webbed shoes spoke for them-
selves, and even Helen could read the
signs plainly.
"Whoever is it?" she asked in a
hushed voice, looking first at the
sombre woods and then out on tie
frozen, snow -wreathed lake.
Stane shook his head. "I haven't
the slightest notion, but whoever it
was watched the cabin for a little
time. He stood there on the edge
of the wood, as the deeper impres-
sion' in the snow shows."
"Perhaps the owner whose palace
we have usurped has returned."
Stane again shook his head. "No!
He would have made himself known,
and besides he would most certainly
have had a team of dogs with him.
Whoever the visitor was he came
down the lake and he went back that
way."
"It is very 'mysterious," said Hel-
en, looking up the frozen waste of
the lake.
"Yes," answered Stane, "but rather
reassuring. We are not quite alone.
in this wilderness. There must be a
camp :somewhere in the neig'hborhooa,
hut whetl�Er of white men or of Ie-
dian:s one can only guess."
"And which do you guess?" asked
Helen quickly.
"Indians, I should say, for a white
man would have given us a call."
".And in Indians, they may be
friendly or otherwise?"
"Yes."
"Then," she said, with a little
laugh, "we shall have to keep our
eyes lifting and °(bolt the door o'
nights!"
"it will he as well," agreed Slane,
as he Megan to circle round the cabin
again. "Indians are not always law -
.abiding, particularly ii the North
'hem ''lu art ' e 11
find Mkt where tb,14. ode
Nr be f?�^ er l 'WO..."
to Wet 4o a#4,417,0)1'49 ,s
ney to a vplazsrj iq '011 'be gdl
:Bee spoke l;kglit , ?int therle
grave look on ,bis face, end-
watched
nal
watched him following the sn,vrrr�, kts$
tre.cks to the ed, df the lye lhoin ,...
lake, Flelen Yardely knew that )ere
was much disturbed by the 'myster,.
ious visit''"bf the nnieaown Mato
l"
•
VHAIPTTER XIV
MYSTERIQU& VISITORS
It was snowing again, •driving a-
cross the lake in the hard wind and
drifting in a wonder it -wreath, about
the cabin. To go out of doors would.
!bawl been the uttermost folly, and
Sterne (busied himself in the fashion-
ing of snow -shoes which now would
be necessary 'before they could ven-
ture far afield. The girl was engag-
ed in preparing. a meal, and the cab-
in had an aim of domesticity that.
would probably have utterly misled
any stranger Who had chanced to
look in. Stane, as he worked, was
very conscious of the girl's presence,
and conscious also that fi'ozn time to
time his companion glanced at him,
whilst he bent over the tamerack
frames, weaving in and mut the web-
bing of caribou raw -chide. Those
glances made his heartleap, though:
he strove hard to 'appear unconseions
of them. He knew that in her, as
in him, the weeks of intimate com-
panionship so dramatically begun had
borne its . inevitable fruit. The prom-
ise she had forced from: hire hut a
few days ago came to his mind as he
stooped lower over .the half -finished
snow -shoe. ;Would he ever be able
to redeem it? Would he ever be able
to tell her what was in his heart,
what indeed had been there since the
moment of ,their first meeting at
Fort Malsun? •
Between him and the desire of his
heart rose those bitter years in pris-
on. Until the stain upon his 3aame
was removed and the judgment of
the court expurged, he felt he could
not tell her what he wished, what in='
deed he was sure she would not be
averse to hearing. Of Helen herself
he had no doubt. She already had
declared :her faith in his innocence
and the generosity of her nature in
all its depth and breadth had been
revealed to him, To her, the years
of his prison life were as though
they had never been. or at the •most
were an injustice which he had suf-
fered, and -his name in her eyes had
suffered no soiling. That if he spoke
she Would respond, finely, generous-
ly, with all the fullness of her splen-
did womanhood, he had no doubt.
And yet, he told 'himself, he must
never speak until he could do so
without blame; for whilst to her
the past was nothing, the people a-
mong whom she. ordinarily moved
would remember, and if she united
her life with his she Would like him-
self, become a social exile. And there
was a further reason for silence. If
he allowed the girl to""c'o lnnit herself
to him whilst they were alive in the
wilderness, it would be' said that he
had taken advantage of a rather•deli-
cate situation -using it for his sel-
fish ends, and his pride as a.inan re-
volted against that. He clenched his
teeth at the thought, and unconscious-
ly frowned. No, it should never be
said that'he----
"Why that dark scowl?" asked the
girl laughingly. "Is my lord dis-
pleased with the odors of the dinner
that his servant prepares?"
Stane joined in her laughter. "I'
was not aware thaf I was frowning.
The dinner has a most appetizing
smell."
"if only I had a Mrs. -Beeton!''
sighed. Helen. "Though -.I dere say
she' wouldn't give any renipe for
frozen ,moose and rice and beans,
without even an onion to flavor. The
civilized cookery books don't deal
with the essentials. When I return
to the polite world the first thing I
•shai•1%do will be to publish` a pocket
cookery nook for happy people
stranded in the wilds!"
"Happy!" he echoed, smilingly.
(Continued next week)
The Canadian, wheat carry-over
July 31, 1932, will he in .the neigh-
borhood of 103 million bushels, ac-
cording to an estimate published by
the Bureau of Statistics. This is
the smallest carrysover since July 31,
1928.
Will Grow Lima Beans.
A fairly large acreage of Lima
beans will be grown in East Elgin
for canning factory use, according
to reports received at the St.
Thomas office of the Department.
Production tests have been made in
both East and West Elgin dining
the last three years, and satisfactory
yields of Lima beans reported. The
average yield is 1,300 to 1,600 pounds
to the acre. The acreage of soya
beans in the county will be small.
Plan Your Program.
Now is• the .time to plan next
winter's feeding program, nct nett
winter. At this time, farmers ean
estimate whether they will be short
of hay and succulent roughage be-
fore next spring conies around.
There is still time to so* annual hay
crops, such as soya beans, or a mix
ture of oats and peas. Both of these
crops give high yields, and high
feeding value. An extra acre o::
corn for silage might he valuable.
Seed corn, this year, is not only
reasonable in price. hut is of ex-
ceedingly high quality. A few extra
tons of high protein hay, and a well-
filled silo will be of considerable as-
sistance in reducing the feed bill
next winter.
Fropi j7efiof Qr ! ierf..,
ter,Ara,lir f, io TO'
SlAt3l tl� ,
RateS D4M�t�t 7;+D1 A
ciao*,
omEL., sAvERI,,
• Spalli'na Avenuo and Concis ':S
4, fref0f.r 'i err, k:u';
Better Farm Practices.
In epite of the depression and the
shortage of ready cash farmers ev-
erywhere in Ontario are using this
year more careful and thorough farm
practices than ever before.
;Seed merchants report that they
have never• had such a demand for
high class seeds. All available sup-
plies of alfalfa, alsike, red clover,
wheat, barley, oats, buckwheat and
peas have' been purchased a n d
sown on Ontario farms. Strange to
say there has been an unpreeedent-
-Y
ed demand for ` registered grain.;.
Hardware merchants ''report a
wonderful sale of screening mater-
ials for' fanning mills. Druggists -re-
port greatly increased sales of Forna-
een tor treating .grain for smut. Seed'
cleaning plant operators report heavy'
increases in business. .
These facts all indicate that the
average farmer is not ' only taking, • ..
advantage of low prices but is doing_
his part ; tpward 'meeting depressed •
prices. Be is doing everything -pos-
sible to increase his yield per acre
and thus lower the production costs
which enables him in some degree at
least to successfully meet the pres-
ent low prices.
Weekly Crop Report. .
Heavy • rains have assured ample
moisture in practically every part of
Ontario. Crops are looking splendid.
Fall wheat, clover and alfalfa are ..
making excellent growth. The apple
bloom is very heavy ih.most orchard
districts, and a consider""able increase
is shown over the province in the
number of orchards being sprayed.
Farmers are coming to realize that
they must either spray or cut down
their orchards altogether.
Many Poor Hatches.
Reports received at the Experimen-
tal Farm, Ottawa, indicate that
chicks are not hatching as plenti-
fully as usual this spring. Hatches
as low as 10 per cent. of the total
eggs are reported, while 20 per cent.
and 25 per cent. hatches are not un-
common. This condition seems to be
fairly general throughout the whole
of Canada, These poor hatches, a-
long with the late season, may have'
a decided effect upon egg production
next .winter. Buyers should be ad-
vised to buy late chicks with caution
because experiments have shown that
chicks that cannot mature before
winter are a poor investment. •
• ,r
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New Advisory Board. -
'Hon. Thomas L. Kennedy. Min-
ister of Agriculture, has announced
the appointment of a five -man Ad-
visory Board under the chairman-
ship of D. O. Bull, of "Brampton, to
assist the Department 'in matters
pertaining to 'the live stock indus-
try, of the province. The other four
members are: W. A. Dryden, Brook -
lin; J. E. Brethour, Burford; Wal-
ter Scott, Sutton West; and J. D.
Brien, of Ridgetown. All members
of the new board are widely known
for their interest in the live stock
industry of the province. Mr. Bub.
and 'Mrs. Dryden . are past presi-
dents of the . Royal Winter Fair.
Me. Bull is famous for his Jersey,
herd, Mr.. Brethour has specialized
in the breeding of bacon hogs, Mr..
Scott is a prominent live stock
breeder, and Mr. Brien is chairman
of the Live Stock Records Branch,
Ottawa.
LONDON AND WINGHAM
South.
p.m.
Wingham 2.05
Belgrave 2.22
Blyth 2.33
Londesboro 2.40
Clinton 3.08
Brucefield 3.26
Kippen 3.33
Hensall 3.39
Exeter 3.53
North.
Exeter 10.59
Hensall 11.12
Kippen 11.18
Brucefield 11.27.
Clinton 11.58
Londesboro 12.16
Blyth 12.23
Belgrave 12.33
Wingham 12.47,
Goderich
C. N. R.
East.
Holmesville ...
Clinton
Seaforth
St. Columban
Dublin
Dublin
St. Columban
Seaforth
Clinton
Holmesville
Goderich
West.
6.35
6:50
6.58
7.12
7.18
7.23
11.24
11.29
11.40 9.25
11.55 9.39
12.05 9.53
12.20 10.06
p.m.
2.40
2.56
3.05
3.21
3.27
3.32
9.12 .
C. P. R. TIME TABLE
East.
a.m.
Gqderich 5,50
Menset 5.55
McGaw 6.04
Auburn 6.11
Blyth 6.25
Walton 6.40
McNaught 6.52
Toronto 10.26
West.
a.m.
Toronto 7.40
McNaught '' 11.48
Walton 12.01
Blyth 12:12
Auburn 12,23
McGaw .... 12.34
Menset 13.4t
Goderich i 12,96)
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