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ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS & MATSQUi NEWS

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Abbotsford, Sumas & Matsqui News
Established 1922
Published at Ab s d, British © Every W
LANG. SANDS, Editor and Owner
Telephone: Abbotsford 58
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In Abbotsford, Sumas and Matsqui and other parts of the Fraser
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Abbotsford, B.C-, Wednesday, April 17, 1940

Inadequate Protection

Members of the Abbotsford Volunteer Fire Brigade with
effective assistance from others who attended, kept a fierce
blaze which broke out Thursday afternoon confined to the
building in which it originated. An absence of wind was the
saying factors because it was obvious to many observers present
that with the equipment at their disposal the best efforts of
the volunteer firemen and the others would have been of little
effect in dealing with a blaze of the intensity and start of
Thursday’s fire. In short, the equipment—a trailer mounted
with fio small low-pressure chemical tanks—is entirely inade-
quate. It might have been in keeping with conditions 20 years
ago, but it is not in keeping today with the value of the prop-
erty which it is presumably supposed to protect.

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In the neighboring municipality of Langley, 3000 read-
ers, students, and school children are left to shift for themselves
in the matter of books. When Langley belonged to the Fraser
Valley Union Library system its citizens had access to more
than 30,000 good books of all kinds for a mere pittance in per
capita taxation.

More Assistance Essential

Again the unstinteil effort of a comparatively small
umber of citizens, it might almpst be said of but one or two
men, has resulted in Abbotsford, & District being given credit
for leadership in the realms of sport. The Schoolboy Boxing
Championships staged in Abbotsford under the auspices of the
Abbotsford & District Amateur Athletic Association and the
jeadership of Secretary Jack Watson during two nights last
week won the unqualified praise of provincial amateur boxing
officials. The two-day event was credited with being original
in British Columbia and providing an example which is was
hoped other centres throughout the province would copy. The
_ purpose of the event, to stimulate interest in sportsmanship and
the manly art of self defence, is particularly laudable and par-
ticipation in the training that is being provided will have a
beneficial effect on the boys throughout their lives. It is es-
sential, however, that the few that are encouraging the boys in
this and other sports be given greater support. Surely there

* are more men, and women, too, able and willing to assist in the
* various necessary ways and reduce the load on the few now
doing practically everything.

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; Helpful To The Fraser Valley

A week or two ago The News felt free to be slightly
critical of a man occupying a somewhat prominent position in
Vancouver who advised Fraser Valley farmers to paint up and
clean up their roadside properties. We suggested Vancouver
might materially aid such an admittedly desirable campaign by
assisting at the root of the trouble—the poor returns being re-
eeived by the farmers for ti cir labor. This week The News is
pleased to reproduce an a:ticle that appeared in one of the
Vancouver daily papers at the weekend because it does two jobs
on behalf of the Fraser Valley—it effectively advertises the
beauty and attractions of the valley to the city motorists and
sympathetically discusses and draws to public attention the
problems confronting the farmer.

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MAG Coed

Compare Favorably

According to figures issued by the Department of Na-
fional Defence, rates of pay in the Canadian Navy compare
favorably with those in the Army. A full-fledged seaman, who
is married, receives the usual $1.85 per day plus a marriage al-
lowance for his wife of 75c a day, or a total of $78 per month.
For a six months period of apprenticeship his daily pay may
be only $1.50 per day or a total of $67.50, with marriage al-
lowance. Few married seamen belong to the lower rating. Those

: who are will be advanced to $1.85 a day within six months.
Rates for a private soldier are $1.30 per day, or $39 for a 30-

day mouth. If he has a wife she is given an allowance of $35,

the combined total being $74 a month.
Comparative marriage allowance rates for wives and
i children in the Army and Navy combined with regular pay are:

Wife and one child: Army, $86; Navy, $85.50. Wife and two
children: Army, $98; Navy, $93. Wife and three children:
Army, $98; Navy, $100.50, Wife and four children: Army, $98 ;
Nayy, $108. No allowance is made in the Army for more than
two children. In the Navy allowance is made for children up to
four in number.

“It is of the utmost importance that we fight waste as
energetically as we fight the enemy.’’—Prof. R. MeQueen, Man.
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Adopt Fraser Valley Library Plan

News comes from Noya Scotia that the provincial govern-
raent has agreed to bear half the maintenance cost of any r
gional library that may be set up. Miss Norah Bateson, librax
director of the Nova Scotia Regional Libraries Commission, al-
so reports a grant of $50,000 from the Carnegie Corporation
for purchase of books over a period of several yee Three
Canadian provinces have now adopted the regional library plan
two on the Atlantic coast, one on the Pac In Ontario, the

most library-minded province in the Dominion, there is a well-
developed county plan which provides rural library service in
co-operation with the larger centres.

Agricultural News and Notes of Interest to Local Farmers

Poultry house lighting
brought immediate results
to three farmers on the
old Yale road west of Ab-
botsford, when the line
extension was completed
early winter. The
new line serves the poul-

try farms of James Mc-
Intosh, A. C. Matthews
and Mrs. A. Ziebert.

last

While lighting is logic-
ally the first adaptation
of electrical energy to the
poultry farm, tmcubating
and brooding by the same
means will increase effi-
ciency and lower costs.
The photograph shows
some of the sturdy New Hamp-
shire chicks being brooded elec-
trically on the McIntosh farm.
Two of these incubators are be-
ing used.

Mr. Matthews has incubated elec-

trically this spring with one of
the new forced-draft machines. In
incubators of this type, the condi-
tions essential to good hatches
of sturdy chicks, such as accurate

Farm Notes

The transfer of the pure-bred
goat, Bromsgrove Superior male,
by Miss Rosamond Smart to E. A.
Gamble, Abbotsford, is announced

by the B.C. Goat Breeders’ Assoc-
iation.

When the willow blossoms sro
showing yellow pollen is the time
to remove bees from their wia-
ter quarters in the cellar. A dull
cay, morning or evening is the
best, to reduce the danger of im-
mediate flight or drifting,

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J. B. Dennis

Auctioneer

CHILLIWAOK, B.O.
Telephone 5661

regulation of
humidity,
maximum efficiency. Fresh air in
motion within the cabinet pro-|

motes healthy birds rapidly dried.

temperature and

can be provided with

Sales at the Dennis Auction
Barn Saturdays at 12 noon
and 7:30 p.m.

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What Is Your Farm Worth?
Increasing interest is being

land. This is characteristic of war
periods. It may be that a farmer
will be approached by someone as-
king the selling price of his farm
and in many cases this is not an
easy thing to state. Farm values
are determined by several different
methods but probably the most
usual is by comparing the merits
of the farm under consideration
with those of some other nearby
farm which has recently changed
hands at a known price. In some
localities no sales have taken place
and it is necessary to place a value
on it by guess.

To the buyer, who of necessity
Must pay for the farm with op-
eration profit, the farm value is
very closely linked with its pro-
ductivity. The problem of secur-
ing a satisfactory measure of farm
productivity as a basis of valueis
now being solved.

The Economics Division, Mar-
keting Service, Ottawa, and the
Ontario Agricultural College,
Guelph, by means of the Ontario
Farm Management Study, have
found that cash receipts in com-

LITTLE CHATS
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FART MANAGEMENT

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parison with investment gives a
measure of productive value, and
this is expressed as the number
of years it takes for the cash re-
ceipts to equal the capital invest-
ment.

Poultry and Hogs, 12 noon.

Cattle, not before 1 o’clock.

Farm Dispersals Conducted
anywhere

FIVE NOMINATED
AS CANDIDATES FOR
MARKETING BOARD f

A. Nelson Primeau of Vancou-
ver Island has been elected by ac-
clamation as representative of dist-
rict two on the 1940 B.C) Coast
Vegetable Marketing Board. Two
Members have yet to be elected
to represent district one, the Main-
land. Five nominations have been
received: Leslie Gilmore, S, H.
Ford, R. A. Coleman, A. W. Mc-
Lelan and F. M. Picard.

Sloral
Designs

Cut Fiowers, Wreaths, Sprays,
Beautiful Seasonal Blooms
Low Reasonable Prices; Packed
and Shipped for You Anywhere
A Trial Order Will Make You a
Regular Customer

A study of 334 whole milk-ship-
per farms for the year ended April
30, 1988 shows that it requires the
cash receipts of 4.6 years to equal
the total value of the farm, live
stock and equipment. Another
group of 258 farms, from which
milk was shipped for manufacture
required 5.2 years for the cash re-
ceipts to equal the total capital
value.

By using these ratios of turn-
over to capital a farmer can ar-
rive at a ‘fair valuation of his
farm. Cashreceipts are made up
of all farm sales during the year.
In order to make a fair estimate
of these an average should be used
of the receipts over a period of
years. This average, multiplied by
the figure given abov- spplicable
to the type of dairy farm will give
the productive value of the total
farm capital. If, from this sum,
the value of live stock, machinery
and other moveables is deducted,
the balance is a valuation for real
estate,

WEALTH IN HARVEST | FIRST PRIZE CHICKS

(Continued from Front Page)

clothes and had taken precious
time from their spring preprara-
tions in order to “see what could
be done” about their troubles,

Chief complaint is, of course,
that they don’t get suffiicient net
return for the hard work that
goes into the growing of beans
and peas.
A LEAN LOT

They are a lean, hardened, wiry
lot, these men who farm under
the blaze of the Fraser Valley
sun. They want more money per
ton for the profitable grades of
their beans and peas, and they
want to be sure that they are get-
ting fair grading of their product.

Most of them adopted a reason-
able view. They realized that the
canner had his problems, but they
still think that a man should be
able to grow beans and peas on
the rich soil of Matsqui and have
something more for his labor than
ay got after the last crop was
off.

Then the canners told their side | lizes

of the story.

They would like to pay more
to the grower, but there is such
a thing as competition. Quebec,
with its cannery wage about half
that of British Columbia, and On-
tario, which is at least one-third |
lower, can ship canned fruit and|
vegetables into Vancouver by water
and compete with locally-canned
products,
LOSE A MARKET

The canners will tell you that)
they used to be able to compete
in the Winnipeg market with their
canned tomatoes; today they can
not compete east of Alberta.

And there the meeting arrived}
at the old economic barrier which
faces western industry. It’s a
combination of geography, massed
buying power and wage standards
that are far out of line,

Visitors who drive through the
main highways of the Fras
ley, either along the trans.

or up the north bank on the
Lougheed highway, see smiling
flower gardens, neat bungalows

and tidy fields. They see fat cattle
and fruit trees massed with gorge-
ous blossom.

But the men and women who
grow the fruit and own the dairy
herds lead an exacting life. Theirs
is a life of long hours, of few

holidays. An economic shake-up

|FROM LOCAL EGGS
Chicks from eggs supplied by
the Swensson Leghorn Farm, RR.
1, Aldergrove, were awarded first
prize at the Manitoba Winter
Fair poultry show, according to
word received by Mr. Swensson.
Provincial Hatcheries, Edmonton,
who have been obtaining their
eggs from the Swensson Leghorn
Farm for the past five years,
| made the netry. 7

half way around the world may
strike home when the returns
come to the Fraser Valley farms.
Farms that smile in the April sun-
shine are hard task-masters.
| It's a beautiful spring in the
Fraser Valley. The land seems
| fairly bursting with growth after
an easy winter. It would not be
hard to write rosy predictions, but
even supposing nature does her
part perfectly, produce must find
a profitable market. Never was
|the market more uncertain than it
is today.

No man I met in the Valley rea-
those things better than
George Cruickshank, the young
reeve of Matsqui, who will go down
to Ottawa next month to repre-
sent the Fraser Valley,

Mr. Cruickshank knows his Fra-
ser Valley too well to start for
Ottawa with the idea that he can
right all the economic handicaps of
his constituents. But ‘there are
things that may be done and there
are conditions which Mr. Cruick-

Rosebay Gardens
Huntingdon, Phone 169F
R. R. 1, Abbotsford

Some people think mirage is the
way to spell marriage.

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ADOPT OUR SLOGAN AND SAVE MONEY

B & K VEGETABLE GARDEN SEEDS

No. {| Government Tested, in dated JUMBO packets
; ; and Bulk Quantities.
ce gti that, if all vegetables were bought, a fam-
uy of five would expend an average 35¢
$127-75 per year.) eae
THE BRACKMAN-KER MILLING COMPANY LIMITED
Manufacturers of Thrivo and B & K Poultry and Dairy Feeds
Distributors of Purity Flour and B & K Rolled Oats

Phone 52
Abbotsford Gordon Peardon

Local Manager
(Phone for your copy of the B & K April letter, contain-
ing garden plan and crop rotation.

USE HOTKAPS

INDIVIDUAL HOTHOUSES
for every plant. Larger,

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sturdier plants because
protected from rain, birds
insects. Write for full
information,

Tie your plants
with TWIST-EMS
the new handy tie.
Ask for sample.

shank and other people in the Fra-
Ser Valley want explained,

He sat on a bench the other
day and listened to the troubles
of the Matsqui farmers. He had
told them that he came there to |
listen. He promised them he woulé |
investigate the inspection and grad-
ing field products as they reach
the cannery..

He also wants to know why
B.C. canners buy their composite
containers at a price which is pre-
cisely that charged in Eastern
Canada plus freight. Mr. Cruick-
shank suspicious of the basis
on which that price is fixed, and
he said so very emphatically.

This young member who has
spent his whole life in the Valley
will ride forth to the political war
to tilt with giant problems. He is
a very determined young man. His
victory has bought satisfaction to
his father, a man who refused |
Several nominations,

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