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The Huron Expositor, 1933-12-08, Page 6E FLYING SHOP IN ALASKA: (Condensed from Cornhill Magazine, London, in Magazine Digest.) ISo this was Alaska—America's rocks that stank of fish. Here were once disappointing "buy" from the monstrous hats, all flowers and fea- European Powers; France and Spain, thers, ribbons and fruits, and buckles Mexico, Russia and Denmark. Stilt, of paate. Here were berets and it was a bargain deal; a matter of "tams" nevef' before seen on sea or $7,200,000 for a domain ten times the land. Tailor-made, too, of bedlam size of .England, Thus far, not much cut and stripe; fur coats of quite de - has been made of this fearsome cent pelts—even silk and rayon un - realm of snow and gold, rocks and dies for females who could (and' did!) rivers and forests without end. run naked without any shame! Boots Trains are few in this world of -en shoes stock a theater were woods. Here at last' (I kept telling haute and arrayed. So were all myself y was Solitude undefiled. No the • r•ubbish jewels of Houndsditch, road::,but dim trails to Nowhere; no from yard -long ropes of pearl to roar of traffic, but the river's own brooches and ear -rings set "with st•u- foamy sweep through a chaos. of pendous Koh-i-noors at a dollar a - stones. No fret and conflict of nu- piece, with bracelets of rubied filigree lean passions smoked here; none but at fifty cents—or•-less. the Red men roamed and hunted be- With nightmarish noise the sea- side his lowly brother, the Eskimo. plane was finally unloaded and the What a land for a' camping -holiday! big buying began—with Mister Bird - Body and soul seemed to swell and man himself a surpassing Barnum of exult its this Alaska 'where (as-,-„ I cash sAles. He had bits of F,,skimo, thought) wild men and beasts wore that lively lad. He spat out scraps much on a level, primitive fn neeas of Indian dialect; innuendoes that and desires, with no religion to were gross, and frothy exuberance speak of, no "appearance" to keep that was wholly American. And he up. and an utter disregard for the sustained the feverous scene with Qu'en dira-t-en? of prying or cen- amazing zest. • serious neighbors. "No mother," he yowled at a bulky .In this pipe -dream I descended in- crone who had pounced upon a wispy to•a fishing -village on a windless hay. tulle -thing, and was holding it up to It was a canning -center, and its hy- her wrinkled eyes. "That's for a dee- arid humanity displeased me. So 'did bootant. But this noble fur, -now! the horrid reek and those pack: of That's f'r You! Look at it, Sister! wolfish dogs that fought or cavorted Feel the quality. Try it on!" obscenely around the factory., Yet4I She did, but it took time and the netted camp supplies, and "Venas doughty assistance of her babbling City" had an excellent store with friends. It was far too small. Great wares of surprising range. Besides, bulges Ioonred in tee wrong places. I might see something' cif -the sal- Seams were strained, buttons big as mon-industry, of whose marvels I plates dragged a: :weir cables across ?tad heard so ;much on the boat. The the einem- frame. He poked.a mir- easy- money there was in this tin -ran ror no bigger -ban a shilling at the trade, with the "living stuff" so strutting hulk that she might see the nlertiful, that at times no traveller wonder of herself. "How much?" need seek a river ford. since he could "Sixty dollars." "I take him." And ee ilk from bank to bank on the solid a groping paw nulled a roll of green - silver scales of a frenzied salmon_ backs out of her fishy shawl. From . shoal! Well. it might be so. But I it the squaw peeled off six $10 bills, felt that industry was out of place end' the deal was made. in this sanctuary of woods and wa- It was u r maeinable. Weather- ters. hea:en reeks and hauled -up boats Venus City 1 found a sultry spot: were now covered with garish silks the air was tainted with uricase., and strings of beads. with glittering fish as well as loud and heave v.ith fantasies hurled,Ate' heaped any way mosquitoes. Strange, how these poiF- on the . side. ': 'Preposterous cami- orous insects seem to love ire Arctic knickers and brassieres of crepe de e nates in the brief swelter of imam- Chine were now tried on in the smoke ria nus summer! For„ the first time room in a giggly access of modesty a surge of doubt beset me; there that cane just once a year. In and v:ere nasty pock -marks on the rugged out scurried lone papooses, screech- fisee of my Arcadia! eve with neglect or else parading in The City was all tiptoeing• and happy finery before ecstatic mater - peening expectantly. A few mon- hal-eyes. Jabbering women and giels er-el whites sprawled on the rocks to fell over larky or furious dogs, and :•can the -skies. but'it was the Indian. their rapturous barbs or anguished souaws and'•Eskimo maids who made yelps "vrflooped it ub" still more to all the tumult; .dancing and shriliir,g the aerial mercer's delight. Ike wild things in barbarous lingoes For hours the pandemonium rag- ' of every key. .Suddenly a spot in ed. Never have I seen so "easy" a the dazzling. ski- developed a faint trade. These raw customers never drone. The female citizen= screeched took off their Mother Hubbards, or and hugged each other as the spotty voluminous shawls, to try on the portent grew. Ar:•hast. I watched coats and frocks. No mirror -posing their antics'—:until with a roar a big or critical preening, no judging of seaplane skidded and splashed along- style or fit. no demands for altera- the glassy sneface of the bay. It was eons, no quibbling over a price. a clever landing. i It ruined that land for ore, I fear. 'Out of the cabin a erirrir.c pilot But when the Venus orgy was anent popped. followed by his boss - a and soft Arctic twilight over all, a nimble Yank who steed and saluted hoarse, and 'wilted salesman grew ex - our delirious City with the sweeping pensive. while his pilot and a couple. jerks• of a circus ring -:Waster. "We of half-breeds gathered up the sump- eta-ge ng Dress-Shop."'-seasseeee ex-'tun"s- debris and repacked it in the' plained to me, Fhattering in that mo- crt'in-racks of a gently -swaying rent my Arctic dream. Progress 'plan°• To -morrow or the next day was here—even here! 'cur Birdman would descend upon ret The -unloading was carried out with another. community, for. with his dispatch and match whoop_ inn. and al- needles and cottons. his knitting and ready the whites and half-breeds r'.arr.ing-gear. his laces. gloves and were in the roomy •caeirr, kicking 'carve °• his cheap scents and other back at the . dogs and babes that fal•-lals he still• had a bie•gish stock. fought to follow them into the stuffy Thus far he had an aerial m.onopnly gloom of that magic Palace of the ^f these sei'.derness markets. He Modes. could not hope to keep it indefinite - And such Modes! On cheap Wool -']e. So "while the going vv a s worth hangers scores of glaring good—." gowns flaunted for a moment, and •He deserved success, this daring then were whipped out upon sunlit fellow, who carried Progress through . the clouds and waters into Alaska's wilds. For years, it seems, he had ! kept a "she-shon" in Ketchinkan. "It was slow slcddin'," he owned, so he took on side lines. One of these led him far afield—in a",eumbrou boat .arrid the -myriad islafids of the "In - 'and Passage." He'd be months a- way from home on these trips, sell- ing frocks and frills that he bought 'at rag -bag prices, and sold at pro- fits that shocked lyifivseif. , -Color was the thing; "Sumpin' .. fierce—'blindtn'Y-- So he kept a dye - LIQUID yr PASTE - STOVE PO1181l shop busy. But these sea -Odysseys took too long. Suddenly my dealer in "duds" became air -minded. He /bought a seaplane and hired a bold, efficient pilot, who—when .on earth —could help him keep up an uprc,ar that must never flag. The big cabin was all wardrobes and drawers, and in a single golden season of howling swoops, f'Mister Birdman" was known in every canning -center of Alaska. v Eggs are the most difficult of food products to grade. IT'S POOR ECONOMY TO RISK FAILURES WITH IN- FERIOR BAKING POWDER. MAGIC NEVER VARIES. THAT'S WHY 1 RECOMMEND IT FOR ALL RECIPES CALLING FOR BAKING POWDER . Seer SAYS MISS LILLIAN LOUGHTON, Dietitian and Cookery Expert of the Canadian Magazine MAGI —costa„not quite % of a cent more per baking ,than the cheapest inferior baking powders. Why not use this fine -quality baking powder and be sure of satisfactory results? let 'C0erre4tlegNOmenet." tbis statement on every W tits Is your eueta'tl*ee that Magic Baking Powder to free from (thine or este harmful Ingredient. ati Ni tq ori Ao THE HURON EXPOSITOR e IT'S LIVER THAT MAKES YOU FEEL SO WRETCHED Wake up your Liver Bile —No Calomel necessary For you to feel healthy and happy, your liver must pour two Lwuuds of liquid bile into your bowels, every day. without that bile, trouble starts. Poor digestion. Slow elimination. Poisons in the body. General wretchedness. How can you expectto clear up a situation like this completely with mere bowel -moving salts. oil. mineral water, laxative candy or chewing y,nue, or roughage? They don't wake ap your hver. You need Carter's Little Liver Pills. Purely vegetable. safe. Quick and sure results. Ask for them by name. Refuse substitutes. 25e. at an druggists. Beaver—Maker Of History (Condensed from Nature Magazine, Washington, in 'Magazine Digest.) 'We North Americans are wont to regard the beaver as ' an amusing chance acquaintance, forgetting that he has played a noteworthy part in the development of our continent. All such British undertakings as the Hudson's Bay Company, the North. West Company, and Alexander Mac- kenzie's epic journeys to the Arctic and the Pacific, had the beaver for their foundation. The United States can boast an eq- ual indebtedness to this little rodent. During millenniums the beaver had been damming the streams, and so retaining the silt and humus which would otherwise have been carried to the sea. This small, furry, tireless gnawer was our pioneer agronomist. His successful efforts at soil reclama- tion antedated the earliest -experi- ments of the Department of Agricul- ture and the Garden, Club of Ameri- ca by probably a million years. When, in 1609, Samuel de Cham- plain entered the northern part of New York State, and Henry Hudson sailed up the river that now bears his name, their arrival had much to do with furs. Champlain was confess- edly seeking to enlarge the are of the peltry 'business of New France, while Henry Hudson, though primarily in quest of a route to 'China, made his employer in Holland a report on furs so enthusiastically phrased that for the next seventeen years p'eltries formed practically the sole enterprise of the Dutch colonists, and the nu- cleus of all this peltry trade was the beaver. Though the beaver and the Indian tended to disappear from the eastern United States with the increase in white settlers•, the beaver's fur main- tained its important place in the com- merce of the world. When, about 1790, the China trade commenced to develop, our ancestors, who had lit- tle to offer in exchange for the tea and other luxuries procurable in the Orient, loaded their ships with -small wares and gew-gaws, to tempt the Indians of the Pacific, Coast, and there exchanged these for skins of the far • West, which were in turn eagerly purchased by the fur -loving Chinese. Thus did the little beaver, slightly, aided by the sea otter, pro- vide not only tea, spices, nankeen and crepes, but also our cherished heir- looms in oriental porcelain, amber, carved ivory or jade. 'When the Louisiana Purchase was made at the beginning of the nine- teenth century, President Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to find an overland routei.to the shores of the Pacific. Though they failed to chance upon a Hath that night becpme commercial- ly practicable across the Rockies. they paved the way for another overland party sent out by John Jacob Aster in 1810. At the same time he freight - led the good 'chip "Tonquin" with French Canadian trappers and v-oy- r geurs, arms, supplies and articles for barter, and despatched it on the 'ong perilous journey around Cape Horn to trade for fur' on the west- -rn shores. Incidentally, Astor's ov- erland searchers for heaver, diecov-• ered. and were the first white men to Traverse a route which was later known as the Oregon Trail and along which most of the Argonauts- of '49 made their toilsome journey to Cali- fornia. :During the heyday of the: fur trade. beaver skins passed as money, and had an established rating of ap- proximately four dollars for an av- erage raw skin.. Following the trans- fer ., of the skins themselves other currency such as small stones or bits of metal, each bearing the mark or initials of a well known trader and the crude drawing of a beaiver, re- presented actual skins lying in some storehouse, and passed freely among traders end Indians. Gradually the value of the beaver pelts waned until they became mere- ly one of the least modish of furs. The tradition that they lose their commercial worth when the hatters of Belgium discovered that top hats could be made from the fur of the Belgian hare, has been, denied by modern historians. Nevertheless, the use of beavers' fur in the making of hats during several hundred ygars is attested by such' authors as Chaucer and Addison. Whatever its present status, this unassuming little animal may accur- ately claim that he gave to onr for• bears luxuries and wealth, and that his western cousins gave Oregon, Washington, Idandeand part of Mon- tana to the United States. [Beavers have been wont to lead their lives and attend to their own affairs so enthusiastically that the lives of men have been occasionally somewhat inconveniently affected by their ways. When Lewis, in 1805, leading the foremost group of the ex- plorers, was forced to change his course, he wrote directions for those who were to follow, on a pole at the feels of the river. Before the second party arrived, beavers had renioved the green 'pole and carried off the note with it. !So a little animal quietly attending to his private 'busi- ness forced Captain Clark and the footsore and weary men of a great exploring expedition to make a long detour. In the early days of steamboat nav- igation do the Missouri River, long. before the era of western railroads, a mueralded steamboat reached' the had of' navigation• just as the waters of the river had eomtmenced their autumnal lessening. The boat had been advertised as about to make prclmpt return to t. Louies but it spent the winter in Mental -La because, during the scanty crew's shore -leave of thirty-six hours, beavers swung a damn behind the vessel, intricately interlaced the dam into the paddle wheel and so effectively dry-docked the whole affair that clearance could not be aeegm+plished before the river's rapidly receding waters' had lost their flotage, (Among more recent achievements beavers have materially increased the cost of fly-fishing e‘certain ar- eas. The Province of Quebec,' which formerly allowed the trapping of its beaver during a short annual season, announced some time since that for a long term of years no beaver should be killed or snared. Thirty-six months after this announcement beaver be- came somultiplied that in my hus- band's fishing club, for instance, each member has ever since been neces- sarily assessed each year fifty dol- lars to repair inundated trails. On our last visit to this club, we found the trail approaching our favorite camping spot knee-deep in water. Four guides and my husband spent hours in destroying a wide section of a beaver dans, and, weary and humid we made camp after dark. When our breakfast was (served rather later than usual on the following morning, our. guide remarked with a quizzical smile: "S'il vous plait, Madame, les castors l'ont tout refait," Irr' pection disclosed that not only had the dam been "repaired perfectly !buutt also a pile of sticks was in readiness at each end, should we do further dam- age. Elsewhere, the beeves has been the fisherman's ally. /In the Catskill :Mountain region, when enticed by sticks and logs purposely placed by men at salient points on the banks of trout streams, the dentiferbus ea- chanic has created ponds beloved by y local anglers. At a strategic point on a Canadian river human engineers built a cement barrier containing an opening through which the waters poured in- to turbine engines., generating power for mills and the electric station situ- ated 'some distance -downstream, Im- mediately after tile opening+ cere-. monies, the plant refused to work one night. Search revealed that since the beginning of twilight the beaver had dammed the intake for the tur- bines, an instinctive action to prevent the loss of water. Ejected from this site, they retreated up the river, shut off the entire stream and left the cement barrier high and dry more than once. A few years ago not far from New York City a .pair of beavers discover- ed in a lake on a yroted country es- tate, were warmly welcomed. On the shores of the lake was a cherish ed grove of birch trees. Annually the beaver fancily increased to its Present numerousness, and the trees decreased toward their present near- ness to zero.. The owner appealed to the game commission for permission to remove them, but the answer was in effect: "One thousand dollars fine and one year in jail, should you dis- turb one of your pets." Consular Invoices For China The Chinese Maritime Customs ad- vises that documents covering ship- ments to China continue to arrive from abroad without consular invoic- es attached, thereby incurring a pen- alty of 15 gold units ($9). In addi- tion, the requirement that the signa- ture of a responsible member of the manufacturing or export fires must appear on the invoice rontinues to be ignored, causing serious inconveni- ence to importing firms in China. In the absence of the required 'signature, invoices will not be accepted and car- goes will be subject to examination of customs valuation at an addition- al charge of 10 taels for the services of the supervising Officer. Canadian Sheep With the exception of the Rare- bouillet, Canadian sheep are the des- cendants of British breeds, and com- prises Shropshire, Lincoln, Cotswold, Oxford, Leicester, Dorset Horn, Suf- folk, Hampshire, Southdown, Cheviot, Romney Marsh, and Corriedale. For all these breeds, pedigree registration has been established under the Na- tional Live Stock Record system. Diet As a Treatment • The health of the- body cannot be maintained without a properly bal- anced diet. The lack of any one of the food essentials from the diet leads to the loss of health and to ac- tual disease. If some part of the body has be- come diseased, then, as part of the treatment for . the patient, a diet should be used which will not throw any extra strain upon an already weakened or diseased organ, thus facilitating the recovery of that or- gan. The kidneys have the task of rid- ding the body of much of its waste material.. In nephritis, or Bright's disease, the kidney is not able to fun - tion properly. The treatment there- fore aims to relieve the kidney of as much of its burden as possible. There is no diet which is suited to all cases of kidney disease. The pro- per 'diet in any individual case de- pends upon the nature and extent of the disease. People have read" that acid foods are harmful, and they start to live on what they think is a non- acid dee without even knowing what re th 'acid and what are the al- kaline foods. IAs a matter of fact, a diet made up of an excess of alkaline foods is NOTICE "t will net he reapousIbla for ntybody who baa indiges- tion, tour stomach, bloating, constipation or sick headaches if they do not take Barron Soft Maes NIRS and get rid of Mese trouble*. Everybody ought to take them two or three times a monfh if they wast to feel rood. MI good drpagiste hale them." BUCKLEY'S Gives You Far More For Your Money Buckley's goes many times as foe as ordinary cough remedies, because it can be diluted with water without impairing its marvellous hewing and soothing qualities, and because only a few doses are needed to put the most stubborn cough or cold out of business. Even one sip of Buckley's gives unmistakable relief. That's wby people say, "It acts like a Bash" - --"A single sip proves it". xx No dope — no sweet •sickly syrup — but al.' scientific formula that stops the cough --heals and soothes. Play safe. Refuse substitutes. Buckley's is sold everywhere. actually harmful, and it is certainly not the best for damaged kidneys. There should be a balanced diet, so that there is no marked excess of either alkaline or acid foods. A slight excess of alkaline foods is generally desirable. The acid foods are meats, poultry, flsih, eggs and the cereals. Alkaline• foods are the fruits and vegetables. When diet is a part of the treat- ment for any disease, it requires just as careful prescribing and supervision as does any other part of the treatment. Diet is certainly not a cure-all, but it is of im- portance in the treatment of some diseases.-- "Self-experimentatiion by trying various diets is dangerous, because of the harm which it may -cause. Hove Surgeons Keep Fit (Condensed from 'Popular Science in Reader's Digest.) A few weeks ago I watched 'me of +mly colleagues perform a difficult brain operation. There was grave doubt as to whether the patient would recover. Throughout the operation,, the surgeon was outwardly calm. But when the strain was over, he vv4s almost in a state of collapse, I had to hold his glass for him while he drank ice water, and later he asked me to ,drive him home because he was afraid to handle his own car.. People who think that surgeons are coldeblooded creatures are mis- taken. The keen realization that a single slip of the knife may mean death to the patient causes'great ner- vous tension. 'Due to the strain of operating daily under such tension, the life of the surgeon; is notorious- ly short. Agairt there are sudden emerg- encies for which the surgeon must be prepared. Recently in Paris, a' wo- man, bleeding internally and near the point of death, was brought to the Rothschild Hospital. Only an im- mediate blood transfusion would .save her life. When all those present were tested, it was found that only the blood of the chief surgeon could be used. Without hesitation the doctor drained blood from his own veins for the transfusion. Then he oper- ated upon the patient and saved her life! To be prepared for such emergen- cies as well as for the constant strain, of the. operating room, sur- geons train like athletes to keep physically fit. They regulate their diet and their hours of sleep. A ma- jority of them are total abstainers from' alcohol. Many avoid the use of tobacco entirely. Some do not even touch coffee or tea. And all are particularly careful to obtain a good night's sleep. "A tired surgeon is a poor risk for any patient." That is an epigram of the New York specialist, Dr. Ab- raham Wolbarst. He makes it a point to spend the evening before a hjeavy day in the operating room reading light fiction or a detective story to relax his mind. Dr., Morris Levine, who has achieved results bor- dering upon the miraculous in his treatment of "hopoless'•r""mastoid cas- es, lies on a couch and prays for divine assistance' before every opera- tion. Dr. HI. Lyons Hunt, famous New York plastic surgeon, closes himself in his room and takes a re- freshing nap of five or ten minutes before he begins his work. The most curious preparation of all is made by another New York specialist. He always spends the evening before an operation at the movies. But he doesn't go to see the show. He sits in the theater, where he will be quiet and undisturbed, and goes over in his mind each step cif the operation. To keep fit for the strain of the operating room, Dr. K. Winfield Ney, who recently demonstrated a remark- able new operation for the epilepsy, regulates his life like clockwork. He rises at eight and is never known to be late at the hospital. His morn- ing is spent in operating; his after- noon in seeing patients. Then -be takes an hour's nap before dinner. The evening ins passed in playing chess, bridge, or seeing a. serious play. Four hours, from eleven at night to three in the morning, are devoted to reading and writing sci- entific literature. He has found that he is at his best on six hours' sleep; five at night, from three- to eight, and one hour during. the day. Mote sleep imp s his concentration. Because t demands a co-ordination ,of rapid movements, Dr. Ney prac- tices trap shooting during much of his spare time. Also he trains his fingers for hours at a time by model- ing clay, carving wood and practic- ing sculpture. In addition, he finds relaxation in working with woods and tools in his home workshop. Almost all 'surgeons are constant- ly seeking to increase the skill of their hands and their ability to co- ordinate brain and muscle. One sur- geon of my acquaintance took up etching to develop more delicate con- trol over his fingers. Several have learned to play the'.violin in order to increase the nimbleness of their hands. Dr. Forbes Hawkes, noted for his remarkable operations• upon the kidney, learned to play the piano as training for bis fingers. To per- fect himself in tying stitches, one Brooklyn, N. Y., surgeon spends part of each evening tying knots inestrings around a bedpost. In the operating room, he is noted for the speed with which he ties stitches in ;closing a wound. Fencing is the method used by an- other surgeon to keep his eyes and muscles in'perfect co-ordination. In addition, he plays musical inetru- rmeets that require the use of both (hands. For, •whereas the av"e'rage craftsman is skillful with either his right or his left hand, miost iof the masters of the bperating room are r: N.21ltAl iftxtus r u t ambidextrous- I have seen famous surgeons working first with one hand and then with the other, according to which -one gave them the best conditions for cutting or sewing. Performing operations upon anim- als foe scientific research is another method by which the surgeon trains his hands to perform delicate tasks,„ In this work, the experimenter is of; ten dealing with tiny glands and 'the. slightest slip upsets thewhole ex- periment. It is interesting to note that it was through such an experi- nlent that Dr. Frederick Berating, of Toronto, Canada, discovered insulin, the gland extract wihich has aided thousand% of sufferers from diabetes. This discovery is rated as one of the greatest in medicine. More than a million operations a year are performed in the United States alone. 'In recent years, the life-saving record of sergery has been climbing steadily. II uch of th1e credit for this must go to the infinite pains with which the surgeon pre- pares for his work and the unceasing efforts with which he seeks to in- crease his skill and technique. Canadian Cattle Opportunity !Reviewing the situation of an op- portune time for steer feeding and finishing, pamphlet 143, issued by the Dominion Department of Agricul- ture, states: "We have in Canada large quantities of coarse grains, i.e., barley, oats, feed wheat, etc., as well as abundance of good quality rough - ages for which there is a very poor market. We have the ever recurring spectacle of large numbers of unfin, ished cattle going on our markets, causing immediate direct loss to the producer and ultimately depressing the whole cattle industry, yet such cattle could be (finished satisfactorily on those Heeds for which there is at present such a poor primary market and at a profit to the feeder. !Properly finished !Canadian cattle of right type and breeding will top the markets both at home and over- seas a to considerable premium to the producer and will improve the whole cattle trade of the country. Fewer cattle, particularly of the leg- gy, unfinished kinds, andmore of the deep, soggy, well finished kind, is what • the market and consumer are demanding to -day, and there is pro- fit for the producer in meeting that demand." Potatoes in the Argentine As far as the import of seed pota- toes into the Argentine is concerped, Canada shipping only small quanti- ties in the past, it is imlportant• that they arrive by December 1st at the latest 'so as to be available for the second planting. For the twain crop the potatoes must arrive by the mid- dle of October at the latest. The main potato producing area is to the south of ' Buenos Aires. In the Ros- ario, Mendoza, and 'San Juan zones there are two crops annually, and as Argentina is south of the equator, the seasons are the reverse to Can- ada, the first crop being planted in August and »September and dug in December. The second sowing is seeded in January and February and dug in April. In the other districts there is' one crop annually which is planted in October and taken out of the ground • in March. • Feeding the Stallion Overloading a stallion' with super- fluous fat during, the idle winter months is to be particularly avoid- ed. (When light work is impossible, he ought, to be exercised regularly in a paddock, and as the breeding season approaches, his feed should be gradually increased to ensure vigor and hard flesh. A high percentage of mortality in Canadian stallions is due to being overfat and overfed, On the other band, the overworked, thin stallion lacks virility ,and produces foals deficient in size and vitality.., The stallion should .be prepared for the breeding season by being well fed and exercised. The best ration is composed 'of clean hay, oats and bran, together with a regular but limited supply of salt. During the heavy breeding season overfeeding should be avoided but sufficient stim- ulating grain foods should be given to maintain energy and good hard flesh. When the breeding season is over the stallion should be tried in working regularly with the snares and geldings. Fall Rye in Canada Tyne area estimated as sown to fall rye in Canada for 1934 is 422,100 ac- res, a decrease of 50,300 acres or 11 per cent. By provinces' the acreages are as follows with last Tear's fig- ures within brackets- Ontario56,800 (6%300); 'Mmmitaba '34,000 (87,800) ; Saskatchewan, 240,000 (264,000); Al- berta 91,400 (114,300). Hay and Clover Decrease Hay and clover for 1938 in Canada .shows the large reduction of 2,268,- 000 tons, or 17 per cent. Every pro- vince with, the exception of Alberta and 'Th itish Columbia, shows a re- duction, that in .Quebec being espec- ially marked, where the crop is 1,- 537,000 tons less than in 1982, The alfalfa production was about equal to that of 192g, while fodder corn in- creased by 247,700 tons. DECEMBER 89 19330 FARM NOTES . 1+ A knowledge of the conditions gov- erning the supply of available nitro- gen in the soil is useful as a guide to fertilizer treatment. (Lime ranks ;irext in importance to potash and phosphoric acid in a con- sideration of the mineral constituents of plant food. Exports of Canadian butter and eggs to the British market have in- creased during the first nine months of this year. !Canadian blue grass is also known as Canada blue grass, English blue grass, wire grass, creeping poa, :smaller blue grass and Virginia blue grass. +The natural resources of Canada Fare for the most part in the early stage of development. 'Some scientists declare that there is a law of periodicity governing the droughts of Western Canada. 'Soft flabby bacon is, in the ma- jority of cases, the product of under - finished hogs. One of the musts ingular facts in the histories of France and England in the eighteenth century is that, in spite of intense rivalry abroad and wars at home, nothing seems to have interfered with the intellectual in- tercourse of the two nations. Owing to a shortage of atropine for medical purposes during 'the Great War, wild belladonna (deadly nightshade) plants were colleciled so assiduously that the plant wq, ex- terminated in certain areas of seireral countries. While there are a considerable number of cheese -making establish- ments in Egypt, nevertheless • large quantities of cheese are imported from • the principal exporting coun- tries, including Canada. "Dry ice" (solid carbon dioxide) can 'be ••made from gates in chimney smoke at a cost of 114 cents a pound, according to a report received by the American Chemical Society. This refrigerant, although made from smoke, is snowy white and odorless. Heavier salting of ice to keep down the temperature is required towards the end of the journey than at the beginnink in transporting fruit for long distances. Forest epidemics are usually .well advanced before the entomologist has an opportunity to commence his stu- dies. The proper temperature at which potatoes should be stored is 37 de- grees F., for at this temperature the life processes of the tuber are at their minimum. In eradicating weeds it is of great importance to know whether the weeds are one-year, two-year, or many -year plants. "There are probably about 250 dif- feren+t'kinds of cheese made through- out the world, and new types are in= troduced from time to time. For the first forty-five weeks of this year, 48,881 sheep were shipped from Western to Eastern Canada as compared with r, 35,783 for the same period last year. Cattle numbered 76.702 as against 72,679 for the cor- responding 45 weeks of 1932. :Most Quebec soils, fertile or in- fertile, contain large amounts of. nit- rcgen an organic carbon in their surface few inches in an acid state. •Sibs derived from limestone rocks appear to contain considerably more iodine than the unaltered rock. Reed canary grass which is found; growing wild in many places from coast to coast in the Dominion is a valuable gras sto grow on land which becomes flooded for a time earn sea - SOIL (Markets for Canadian wheat flour have been developed this year in France, Esthonia„ Brazil, Ecuador, British East Africa, Siam, Gibraltar and the 'Canary hslands. y employing carcass wrappings of a low permeability to water vapor, loss in weight, `experienced during transport, is reduced one per cent. CK: ffj Backache is the most persistent symptom of kidney troubles. Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills entirely rid the systemi df the poisons which cause backache, lumbago and other painful and dangerous diseases. Used once or twice a week they ensure the healthful action of the liver, kidneys and:bowels. E'S r'd is t