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The Wingham Times, 1915-07-22, Page 3July 22nd x915 CANADIAN FRUiT TRADE As showing to some extent how Much a good fruit growing means to Canada itis worth while noting the amount of trade formerly done by the countries at war that lies open for cultivation by this country. At the Canadian Fruit Growers' Conference held at Grimsby last September, Mr. J. A. Ruddick, Dairy and Cold Storage Commissioner, stated that he had taken a period of five years and that he had found the importations of apples from Germany to Britain varied each year from 5,000 to 14,000 bus. boxes, from Belguiw from 100,000 to 500,00Q boxes, from France from 50,000 to 575,000 boxes and from Portugal from 175,000 to 350,000 boxes. Of pears the importations varied from 4,480 to 56,000 bushel boxes from Germany, from 262,800 to 508,480 boxes from Belgium andfrom 422,440 to 506,160 boxes from Portugal. Large quantities were also imported from the Netherlands which may.not be available. Mr. Ruddick prognosticated an.increas- ed demand for dried and evaporated fruit from Great Britain for use in the army. In I913 Canada exported of this line to the United Kingdom 121,188 pounds, to Newfoundland 10,899 pounds and to Germany 247,802 pounds, Of course the trade with Germany will be cut off but the exportations shall expand in other directions. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTO F i A THE WINGHAM TIMES Page 3 FIELD CROPS INCREASE. A press bulletin of the census and statistics office issued last week reports finally on the areae sown 'to field crops for the season of 1015 as follows: Wheat. -12,986,490 acres; which is nearly 18 per cent more than the area, sown and 26 per cent more than the area harvested for 1914. Barley -1,509,350 acres, compared with last year's harvested area of 1,- 495,600 acres. Oats -11,365,000 acres, against 10;- 001,500. Hay and clover -7,875.000 acres, against 7,997,000. Buckwheat -343,800 acres, against 354,400. Flaxseed -1,009,680 acres, against 1,- 163,000 Corn for husking -254,300 acres, against 206,000, Corn for fodder -343,400 acres, against 317,000. • gat Potatoes --478,000 acres, against 475,- 900. Turnips, etc. -172,700 acres, against 175,000, In the three northwest provinces the estimated areas sown to wheat are 11,- 744,700 acres; barley, 926,000; oats, 6,- 290,000, and flax, 1,004,000 as compared with the harvested areas of last year, viz. -Wheat, 9,335,400 acres; barley, 936,000; oats, 5,353,000; flax, 1,157,000. More than half the total area under wheat and 89 per cent of the area under flax ie reported from the singleaprov- ince of Saskatchewan. 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LISTED TO AID HOUSEKEEPERS Instead of adding blueing to water in which lace has been rinsed, try making the final rinsing in milk; it gives a love- ly cream tone to the lace. To clean door mats put the mat into a bath of soapy water and scrub with a hard scrubbing brush. Then rinse well in cold water, standing it up to dry. To wash a Shetland shawl use bran and warm water. Never • turn your faucets on with a jerk. Turn slowly and gently when turning the water on or off. The faucets will wear twice as long. Two tablespoonful of parafin mixed with a bucket of boiling water with which tables are to be scrubbed will make .them beautifully white and smooth. One yard of sheeting will make a pair of pillowcases, and will cost much less than pillow tubing. When washing one-piece dresses hang them over a coat -hanger todry; they will dry evenly and hang much straighter. To sharpen a knife, fold a piece of emery paper in the center and draw the knife rapidly back and forth several times, Catarrh Cannot be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional dis- ease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts direct- ly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medi- cine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, com- bined with the best nlood purifiers, act- ing directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two in- gredients is what produces such wonder- ful results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials free. F. J°CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, price 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constip- ation. A new German machine wrench has a pivoted jaw which permits it to grasp five of the six sides of a hexagonal nut at once. The mother of a family of fifteen, Mrs. Mae Ellis, of Gainesville, Texas, has just given birth to triplets. Brooklyn, N. Y., finds one family in 25 owning an automobile. General Botha will send soldiers to the European theatre of war. British Columbia has 420 lumber mills. IL Do not suffer another day wit Itching Blood- ing, or Protract. ing Piles. No surgical oper- ation required. Dr. Chase's Ointment will relieve you at once and ea certainly euro _you. e0o. a Dos • all dealers, or Edmanaon, Bates & Co., Limited, Toronto. Sample box been you mention this paper and enclose 2e, stamp to Day postage. KILLED IN BATTLE. Methods of Different Nations For Iddn• tifying the Deed. When a German soldier falls In bat - tie he Is identified by a little metal little which he carries. This disk bears u uuwber, and thls number is tele- graphed to Berlin. There the soldier's name is determined. This system is as effective as everything else connect- ed with the German army. The British use an aluminium disk that contains, besides marksof identi- fication, the soldier's church affiliation. The Japanese system is similar, each soldier wearing three disks, one around his neck, another on his belt and the third in his boot. The Russians wear a numbered badge. The United States army uses a cloth tab woven into the shoulder strap of the tunic. The French use identifica, tion cards stitched inside the tunic. The French once made use of metal identification badges, but these proved an irresistible attraction to the sav- ages whom the French faced in Afri- ca, so the cards were substituted. Austria still uses a badge of gun metal in the form of a locket with parchment leaves inside. Turkey has no identification badges for her soldiers. Ldhem Pasha once explained this omission as follows: "A dead man is of uo use to the sultan. Why, therefore, trouble with him?" - Baltimore American. MOVING PICTURES IN JAPAN. Shoes Are Doffed' at the Door, and Spectators Sit on the Floor. Many of the motion picture theaters in Japan. particularly in Tokyo, where there are over 100. are quite as elegant as some to be found in any American city. You can secure admission for as low as 5 cents up to as high as 50 cents. In the cheaper portions of most theaters the natives sit crosslegged on the floor in characteristic Japanese fashion. They remove their shoes be- fore entering. and an attendant takes charge of these. Both American and European pic- tures are shown. but the principal at- traction is along; Japanese play, which is presented in a very unique fashion. In fact. it may be sapid that the Japa- nese have real talking pictures. The tilm is produced in the same manner as a stage play. with every portion of dialogue spoken. When the picture is projected an ac- tor and actress stand on each side of the screen and repeat the dialogue iu full view of the spectators. The two reciters share the parts played by the different characters. As their spoken words keep strict time with the lip movements,. of the silent artists, the re- sult. as may be imagined, is very effec- tive. -Popular Electricity. Shelley Was a Queer Boy. The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley as a small boy was an eccentric little being. EIe used to dress his four sisters to represent fiends, and, filling n fire stove with some inflammable fluid and setting it aflame, he would marshal the diabolical procession to the back door. As n boy at Eton he would watch the livelong night for ghosts and consulted his books how to raise one. EIis diet in after years was meager enough to bring him weird fancies. Bread became his chief sustenance, and his pockets were well stored with it. A. circle upon the carpet, clearly de- fined by an ample verge of crumbs, often marked the place where he had long sat at his studies, his face nearly in contact with his book, devouring bread at intervals amid his profound abstractions. Sometimes he ate raisins with it. and his sweet tooth was im- men§e. Absolute Zero. In the absence of all heat the tem- perature is zero, not the zero of the thermometers, but what is called "ab- solute zero." In other words, where there is no heat there is no tempera- ture. AbSolute zero is supposed to be about 274 degrees below the thermo- metric zero of the Centigrade scale and about 461 degrees below the ther- mometric zero of the •Fahrenheit scale. Absolute zero might, imaginatively, be defined as molecular death, because a substance which has lost all tempera- ture has necessarily lost all molecular, or internal, energy and has become entirely inert -New York Journal. Wood In Flying Machine. Flying machines are made almost en- tirely of wood. The propellers of the aeroplanes are in most instances made of selected ash, which, in addition to being strong and light, will not split under vibration or shock. Built up lay- er~ of spruce with mahogany centers are also in use. Spruce is used in the construction of the frame because of its markedly straight grain and free- dom from hidden defects. -Washington Star. Installment Plan. Bill -Thought you said you were going to buy a cow? Till -Well, I'm doing it. BRI --Where is it? Jell -Over at my neighbor's. I'm buy- ing it on the installment plan. I've bought a lot of the milk already.-- Yonkers lready.-Yonkers Statesman. Investigating Hie Credit. "Say, Brooks, can I borrow a little money from you until next pay day?" "Why-er-yes, I suppose so. hIow inuch do you want?" "None at all, dear boy. 1 only want• ed to satisfy myself that my credit vas good." -London Standard. I worked with patience, which menta atmos; I►v.ret.--Hes, Browning. MAGIC ryoBAKINGLAEL ALUM POWDER READ THE A HUNDRED YEARS OF PEACE. Canadian Peace Centenary Association Issues a Pamphlet, It is a hundred years since the Treaty of Ghent ended the last war between the British Empire and the United States of America; for a full century two great powers, with inter- ests which occasionally conflicted and with tempers which were not invari- ably conciliatory, have lived at peace and in steadily increasing goodwill. Plans were r on foot to celebrate this great event, and had not Fate -and Germany -willed otherwise, this sum- mer would have seen a celebration of great magnitude and of exceptional in- terest and value. But the war came. Canadians are bending all their energies, and devoting all their thoughts, to the work of fighting for the British Empire. and our friends of the United States have been confronted with anxious and absorbing problems. In the circum- stances, the plans for a great com- memoration of the First Century of Peace between the Great Empire and the Great Republic had to be reconsid- ered. Those in charge of the movement, after consulting the leading men con- nected with it in both Canada and the United States decided on a modified program. That aspect of the plans which contemplated public rejoicing has been postponed, but those portions - the larger portions, it should be said - of the plans, which laid emphasis an education and on the cultivation of a reasonable frame of mind in the conduct of international relations are being prosecuted. The public rejoicings are only postponed, and the organizations formed to carry out the commemora- tion were encouraged to continue their work of preparation and education, so that when the war is over and victory has crowned the British and Allied forces, fitting festivities might be held. These are likely to be all the more im- pressive in view of the fact that we shall be celebrating not only the con- clusion of a century of peace with our neighbors but the overthrow of those forces which have, for so many years, menaced the peace of the whole world. The Canadian Peace Centenary As- sociation -which, by the way, is not and never has been a "Peace Society," has just issued a pamphlet which sheds an interesting light on the temper pre- vailing between the Canadian and American peoples. The ratification of the Treaty of Ghent took place on February 17. 1815, and on the centenary date great numbers df messages were exchanged between the president of the Canadian Peace Centenary As- sociation, Sir Edmund Walker, and the Governors of the States; between cities and towns on both sides of the line; between individual firms and their correspondents across the border. These are printed in the pamphlet, and bear witness to a cordiality of spirit which affords a welcome contract to the dark animosities which make other contin • ents so dreadful a spectacle to -day. These messages display a wonderful unanimity of conviction and it may be added that many of those from the neighboring republic convey. the heartiest• good wishes for the success of our cause. Another feature of the pamphlet is the description of the ser- vices held on Sunday, February 14th, in an extraordinary number of churches in both countries. The public celebration of this triumph of reasonabledess and good -will should be one of the earliest events after the conclusion of the present dreadful struggle. The Canadian Peace Cen- tenary Association, and its correspond- ing body in the United States, the American Peace centenary Committee, have made all the necessary prepara- tions, and it is to be hoped that their work will be crowned with success. FALL FAiR DATES. Atwood..... ... Sept. 21-22 Blyth ...... ........ .Sept. 28-29 Brussels .. , ..Sept. 30 -Oct 1 ... Oct. 7- 8 Sept. 28-30 " Oct. 2 Sept. 16-17 Dungannon Goderich Gorrie Kincardine Listowel Sept. 21-22 Mitchell Sept. 28-23 Mt. Forest ......... .. Sept. 15-16 Palmerston Sept. 23-24 Ripley ............ Sept. `28 -29 Teeswater Oct. 5- 6 Tiverton - Sept. Oct. 6 Walkerton Sept. 14-15 Wingham Sept. 23-24 Tired -out Kidneys • Kidney troubles are so frightfully common because the kidneys are so easily upset by overwork or excesses of eating and drinking. Cure is affected not by whipping them on to renewed effort, but ny awakening the action of liver and bowels by the use of Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills. This rests the kidneys and makes them well. Backache and urinary .disorders than disappear. Farm and Garden cr"144444.4444,44444 MAKING A NEW WALNUT. Demand For These Nuts Is Growing Faster Than the Supply. The demand fur walnuts le growing much faster than the supply, writes J. 0. Cooper in the Country Gentleman. We do not produce in America more than 20 per cent of what we consume, and it will take fifty to a hundred years, with all the encouragement of the nut experts, to raise enough wal- nuts to supply the home demand. For this ,reason efforts should be made to improve the common black' walnut. Nearly all the walnuts cross fertilize readily. The pollen of the Franquette. Mayotte, M:eylan, Wilson and many other valuable varieties may readily be introduced artificially into the pistillate of the black walnut and in many cases a nut more valuable than the black walnut will result. Even if there is no noticeable im- provement in nuts that have been arti- ficially fertilized, the products of the trees grown from the fertilized nuts THE coining niTOLISH WALNIIT. may show improvement. The nuts grown on such trees will in many cases be greatly changed in form and quality. Those on one tree may have the dis- tinct flavor of the black walnut; those grown on other trees may have the taste of the common English walnut. But somewhere some one is eventually going to produce a nut that is superior to either parent. and this is the variety that America wants. A little study of the methods here shown will enable any one to change the form and taste of any walnut. The walnut tree has both male and female blooms. The male bloom, staminate or catkin, comes out at the end of last year's wood; the female bloom. pistil or nut bloom. comes out at the end of the new growth each spring. The pis- til or nut bloom produces the walnut when properly fertilized by the pollen of the catkin. The pollen of the catkin is a tickle and fleeting impalpable yellow powder and may be borne some distance on the wind. It is carried by the breeze or by insects and sometimes fertilizes nut blooms on trees that have no catkin more than a mile away. It is best to find a young black wal- nut tree just coming into bearing and far removed from all other walnut trees. Carefully remove all catkins before they mature or release any pol- len. It is best to remove them before the buds begin to swell in the spring. Then when the pistils are open touch the flowers with a camel's hair brush dipped in the pollen that has been se- cured for the experiment. This should be done two or three times on different days while the nut bloom is out to make sure that it has been touched at the proper time. If no isolated small tree is available it will be necessary to protect the ex- perimental pistils from nearby cat- kins. This can be done by removing the catkins from the branch that is to carry the experiment and covering the blooms with light paper sacks, which should be left on until all nearby cat- kins are gone. This should be done before the cat- kins mature and before the nut blooms are out. When the nut blooms are suf- ficiently open to be fertilized the paper sacks should be gently removed, or openings should be made so the pollen may be put on the inclosed blooms. When the nuts are ripe and are ready to fall they should be gathered and placed where they will get neither too dry nor too warm. In fall or early winter they should be put in a box of sand and left out in the weather until spring. Then plant in good soil, pias• ing them about two inches below the surface. When the little trees are a year old they may be grafted into black wal- nuts or other walnut bearing trees, and in two or three years from the grafting you will have nuts from your experiment and will know whether you have a prize or not. The portions of the little trees that are left to grow should begin to bear a crop of nota Ix from fiveto eight years. 1 I PATRIOTIC GOODS A complete linty of Patt'iotir, Writing Paper, Scribbling Books, 74:xeroise Poaks, flay- ing Cards, Flags,Pcnanto, etc, I NIIALED STATIONERY A new stock of Initialed Stationery in fancy papeter- ies and correspondence cards. GENERAL STATIONERY Our line of general station- ery including writing paper, envelopes, ete. is complete. Try us with yotit• next order. Magazine's and newspapers on sale and subscriptions taken for any magazine or newspaper you may desire. TIMES STATIONERYSTORE Opposite Queen's Hotel T. R. BENNETT J. P. AUCTIONEER Sale dates can be arranged at Txiu s office. Pure Bred Stock Sales a Specialty Sales conducted anywhere in Ontario Write or Phone 81, Wingham f j CREAM WANTED! 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If the head- ache is in the front of the head, fore- head and temples, wring out flannel cloths in very hot water, to which you can add a little vinegar if you like. For earache, toothache, neuralgia and light touches of rheumatism, the hot water bag is invaluable. Under- stand, it will not cure. The cause of pain eventually must be found and re- moved, but there is no reason why the sufferer. especially she who wakes up in agony in the middle of the night, should not be given relief when so sim- ple a thing as hot water will effect it. The bag should be filled with water as hot as it can be obtained, and then covered with soft cloths so as not to burn the skin. Sometimes in case of nervous shock and bad circulation, the patient's skin may be burnt before she has any sensation. In case of a severe bruise, apply hot water immediately. A. nail on finger or toe may be saved by prompt applica- tion of this very simple remedy. The bandage must be changed directly it cools, and the treatment kept up for f 0 minutes. You will be amazed to see how the black and blue mark from congested blood will disappear under hot water applications. The man or woman who spends long weary days on foot, often wastes on a chiropodist money which could be u;ed to better advantage. The chiropodist at best gives but temporary relief, while proper bathing of the feet will effect a cure. Bathe tired feet nightly with water as hot as you can hear, adding a teaspoon of sea salt to the basin of water. This sea salt can be bought in boxes or bags of any drug- gist. In case of acute indigestion, hot water as hot as the patient can sip it, taken very slowly, will bring relief. OASTO R 1A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of