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Oats Proven To Be The Best
Annual Hay Crop, After Tests
~ Made At Experimental Farms

_ Interesting data on cereal grain
crops for annual pasture are given in
the June umber of Scientific Agri-
culture as a result of investigations
by Dr. Kirk, Dominion Agrostologist,
Ottawa; J. G. Davidson, assistant
superintendent, Dominion Experi-

-mental Farm, Indian Head, Sask,
and S. N. Hamilton, Division of
Chemistry, Ottawa. It is pointed
out that annual pasture crops are im-

Rudder Of Big Liner

Cunard Vessel To Have Largest Of
Its Kind Ever Built ‘i

New problems of marine design
face the builders of the Cunard
super liner 534, which is under con-
struction at Clydebank, Scotland, ac-
cording to reports received by
officials of the line in New York.
The final stage in the manufacture of

portant in many parts of Canada,
and that, while the superiority of
oats as the one best annual hay crop
has been

the ship's 150-ton rudder, the largest
of its kind ever built, has been reach-
ed and arrangements are being made

throughout Canada, it is not so clear-

ly appreciated that oats are also the

best annual pasture crop. The data
in A

" supports the view that the oats crop’
is even more valuable for pasture
than for hay as compared with other
cereals. .

There are certain questions relat-
ing to the use of cereal grains for
pasture that have not been investi-
gated. Definite information is lack-

a _ ing on the relative productivity and

nutriment value of the different
cereals. It is not known which of
_ them,has the greatest power for re-
growth after having been eaten off,
_ and which of them will produce the
greatest number of pasture crops in
- a single season. Several other ques-
tions also require answering. What
is the best time to begin pasturing?
_ How does the percentage of protein

s) _ in the herbage compare at different
stages of growth? Will the fresh

_ young growth provide a high pro-

_ tein feed as is the case with peren-
nial grasses, and, if so, is the total
seasonal yield of protein  satisfac- |

5 tory? Are the results better with’
early than with late seeding, and |
how do the different cereal crops

_ compare in this respect?

In order to amswér these ques-
tions, an experiment was started in

_ the spring of 1932 at the Dominion

_ Experimental Farm, Indian Head,|

Saskatchewan. Four cereals were.

* grown, namely, oats, barley, wheat |

and spring rye. These were cut
_ with a horse mower to stimulate |

grazing. Provision was made for
a4 five plots of each cereal, clipping to
begin at different stages of growth

at (1) 3-leaf stage; (2) 5-leaf; (3)
short blade, (4) early heading, (5)

_ fully headed, and as often thereafter
as the growth reached seven to eight

A inches. These measurements refer
to the leaf mass, and the following
is the summary of the results ob-
tained. Oats, barley, wheat and
spring rye were compared with ref-
erence to yield, feeding value, and
utilization as annual pasture crops.

_ With respect to yield of dry matter
per acre and per centage of protein,
oats were always superior to barley,
é followed in order by wheat and

spring rye. In total average yield of

protein per.acre from the early seed-

ing, oats exceeded barley by 54 per

cent., wheat by 96 per cent., and|

spring rye by 112 per cent. At the)

<i later daté seeding, oats exceeded
barley by 23 per cent., wheat by 53

per cent., and rye by 85 per cent.

i Oats produced five cuttings in 1932,
and seven cuttings in 1933 as com-
pared with four cuttings in both sea-
sons of the other three crops. Larg-
«st yields of protein per acre were

. obtained from oats when pasture
cuttings were begun at the 5-leaf
stage. Oats from the early seeding
produced 3,000 pounds of dry matter

: per acre, with an average protein

content of 25 per cent. This is
equivalent to a greater carrying
capacity than was obtained at Ot-
tawa on good quality native blue-
grass sod. Young oats herbage may
be regarded as a highly concentrat-
ed protein feed.

-

: Golden Rod

for its to the huge hull.

Workmen have been engaged sey-
eral weeks at Clydebank assembling
the parts of the rudder and great
tubes now are being bored in its
sides at which four bronze propellers,
each of which weighs more than 50
tons, will be attached. The propellers
were recently completed at London
and officials of the shipyard are now
arranging for clear roadways to
Glasgow, so that the 400-mile run
may be made with a minimum effect
on normal traffic.

Two doors have been fitted into
the sides of the rudder and a per-
manent steel ladder will run through
the compartment which is enclosed
by its steel walls. Struts and bars

will hold the rudder rigid and the
space within its walls will be suffici-
ent to permit several men to move
about.—New York Times.

SMART FOR WARM DAYS—
TOWN OR COUNTRY

Keep cool in sheer cotton no mat-
ter how high thermometer climbs.

Here's a perfect summer dress for
casual daytime wear.

It's the cool sleeveless type with
ruffied caped shoulders, that you can
wear to town as well as for the
country,

Chiffon cotton voile print, so soft
and pretty, made the original. It’s
tubbable, too.

In turquoise blue, aqua-blue, ice-

ture cee cient
Has Nothing To Do With Hay Fever! cream pink or white tub silk, it's

. ~ Says Naturalist
Golden rod has nothing to do with)

world won't shake the belief of W.
Ormiston Roy, Montreal naturalist, |
‘who has been working the thing out |
in collaboration with Professor E. H.
rE Wilson, of Harvard University.
Messrs. Roy and Wilson returned
from the Gaspe peninsula and have

made a report which bears out the |

belief of the late Thomas Edison that
ragweed and not golden rod is re-
sj »sible for pernicious hay fever.

Millips in small gardens may

4 be reduced in numbers by dipping

slices of potatoes in a strong solu-

tion of Paris green and water, or by

dusting the potatoes with Paris

green and leaving them in the soil
mear the injured plants.

very charming.
Striped handkerchief linen, dotted

hay fever and all the sneezes in the | Sheer lawn, eyelet batiste, etc., are

very cool and smart mediums.

Style No. 388 is.designed for sizes
14, 16, 18 years, 36, 38 and 40 inches
bust. Size 16 requires 3 yards of
39-inch material with 1% yards of
| 35-inch contrasting.

Price of pattern 20 cents in stamps

Merit Is Recognized

Praiseworthy Custom Is Established
In Vancouver

Once in twelve months the Native
Sons and Daughters of British Col-
umbia look over the people of Van-
couver and confer on the man or
woman they consider most worthy
the title of Good Citizen and award
him or her the medal for the year.
Fifteen times, now, the award has
been made, eleven times to men and
four times to women, and there have
been no mistakes.

It is a high distinction indeed to be
added to the notable company of
Good Citizens thus selected year by

ear. No money can buy it. No

° Ney zealentlers Healthy

Average Life Span Considered To Be
World's Record

Will it be possible for us to
crease our life span by 10 years?

Gaining inspiration from the ex-
ample set by New Zealand we
should be able at least to increase
the average life span of American
men six years, from 59 to 65. Women
apparently need not strive so am-
bitiously for longevity; in living to
the average ripe old age of 62 they
already have a three year lead over
men in the marathon of life.

Men and women live to average
ages of 65 and 67 respectively in
New Zealand, which Metropolitan
Life Co. i con-

cajoling can win it. can
do nothing about it. Only long con-
tinued and distinguished public ser-
vice is the test. So, earning the
medal is practically a lifetime job.
The Good Citizen’ chosen for 1934
is Mrs. J. Z, Hall, a native daughter
of British Columbia, whose good
works have served to light dark
spots in the city during a generation
or more. Of a pioneer family, Mrs.
Hall has spent nearly all her life in
Vancouver, and during all those years
she has had the interests of her fel-
low citizens closely at heart. These
fellow citizens were comparatively
few at first. Now they are number-

sider to be a world's record. They
state that the white population of
the United States still has about
10%% years to gain before reaching a
hypothetical ideal estimate of a little
more than the Biblical three score
and ten, An advance toward this
has already been made, reports show,
during 1932 and 1933 which were ex-
ceptionally good health years. En-
couragement comes with the report
that since the beginning of the cen-
tury a gain of 10 years in the expec-
tation of life of white males and 11
years for white females has been
scored. ‘
health par-

by of But

Mrs. Hall goes quietly on with her

labors. She is to be congratulated
e

ticularly in the case of childbirth, i:
cited as a reason for New Zealand's
record. In the care of

upon 4 ie of
Good Citizen. Vancouver is to
congratulated upon having a citizen
so fully entitled to the distinction —
Vancouver Province.

Colonization Plan

Quebec Government Said To Be Plan-
ning Move To Cut Dole Costs

The Montreal Gazette published
the following:

Reports that the Quebec govern-

ment was prepared to undertake the
expenditure of from $10,000,000 to
$12,000,000 on colonization during the
fall of 1934 and the summer and fall
of 1935, in order to relieve urban
centres—notably the city of Mont-
real—from a major portion of dole
costs, are current in government
circles, and Quebec's new minister of
colonization, Hon. Irenee Vautrin, did
not deny them.
» He revealed himself as reluctant
to discuss future colonization plans
of the government stating: “The ex-
tent of the colonization activities of
the Quebec government will be de-
termined by the results of the inter-
provincial conference.”

Largest Ruby Found
Believed to be the largest in the

mother and child during a baby’s in-
fancy, medical effort is expended
with the greatest effect. For girl
babies the mortality rate has dropped
to the exceedingly low figure of 25
in a thousand in comparison to 48 for
the United States. The correspond-
ing figures for boys give 60 deaths
per thousand against 33 in New
Zealand.—Science Service.

< Radio Discovery

Find That Radio Signals Reach A
Height Of 1,000 Miles

The highest point yet reached by
human signals, a “refracting region”
1,000 miles overhead, which reflects
wireless signals back to earth, has
been discovered with Harvard instru-
ments.

From 100 to 200 miles aloft is the
ordinary height of the layers of air
known to reflect wireless waves.
Previously the very greatest height
of such layers has been about 500
miles.

But 1,000 miles is above the re-
gions at which scientists ordinarily
describe as the outer limits of the
earth's atmosphere. And the Harv-
ard discoveries may lead to a rede-
finition of the effective heights of the

world, a ruby ighing 2,967 carats
has been found in a village near Rat-
mapure. Experts state the gem,
which weighs nearly two pounds, is
defective in color, being pinkish in-
stead of deep red. It is impossible
to value the stone accurately until
it has been cut.

December 21, 1620, was the date
of the landing of the Pilgrims on
Plymouth Rock.

CA

The total annual consumption of
alsike seed in Canada isestimated at
1,500,000 pounds, so that any produc-
tion over this amount requires to be
exported. The production last year

iostene Power Plant To Provide
‘World's Cheapest Electric Power
From The Waters Of The Sea

| Professor George Claude's floating
| power plant was completed at Dun-
Recovery Of Canada's Newsprint | kerque, Franco, recently, and he was
Industry Is Good News |Prepared to turn out the world’s

One of the most heartening signs| Cheapest commercial electric power.
of the times is the recovery taking| The power will be used right on
place in Canada’s newsprint indus-| board the ship to manufacture 1,000
try. For May (the latest @vailable| tons of ice per day, he told 150 in-
figures) the production exceeded by| Vited guests, all engineers. The
well over one million ewt. the pro-| French scientist will utilize thermal

A Heartening Sign

twelve months ending May the pro-
duction was some 10,000,000 cwt. in
excess of that for the previous 12
months.

This means much more than bene-
fit for newsprint workers, or for the
holders of newsprint securities. The
newsprint. industry is one of the
greatest in Canada. It is one field
of production in which this country
holds a supreme place, and it is not
too much to say that crisis through
which the industry has passed contri-
buted tremendously to the general
depression.

Perhaps, too, the lessons of the
past three or four years will mean
future gain. They may have taught
that in the newsprint industry, as in
| others, there can be such a thing as
|more of stocks and bonds and high-
financing than the traffic will bear —
Ottawa Journal.

Old Custom Observed

Bread And Cheese Served At Church
* In England

The picturesque village of St.
Brjavels, in the Forest of Dean, was
the scene on Sunday evening of
time-honored custom which perpetu-
ates certain rights enjoyed by the
inhabitants of the parish for more
than 700 years. The occasion was
the annual distribution of bread and

on Whitsunday evening.

The origin of the custom is some-
what obscure, but the privileges it
commemorates date back to the 12th
century, when a grant of woodland
/was made to the inhabitants of the
parish of St. Briavels. The parishion-
ers of St. Briavels have the right to
this day to cut and take all the
timber they require for their own
domestic use from the woodland
known as Hudnalls. The cost of pro-
| viding the bread and cheese is de-
frayed by a collection among the
pari As the
left, the bread and cheese—cut in
small dice and carried in baskets—
were thrown in handfulls to the
waiting crowd—London Times.

When To Avoid Trees

cheese after the service in the church | i

waters of tropical seas to create
power.

| Following experiments in Cuba in
ey when he dropped a tube a mile
jand one-eighth long into Matanzas
fee to prove that power could be

| duction in May, 1933, while for cat between surface and depth
|

}
‘ancial aid and himself purchased the

steamer Tunisie, which French ship-
yards have just equipped with a
power and refrigerating plant.

The ship is a nightmare of Jules
Verne with its bridges and decks
laced with pipes, cylinders, valves
and meters, all designed to aid in
drawing electrical power from the
sea. Professor Claude himself ex-
plained his process to his guests.

“The George Claude process con-
sists essentially in causing warm
surface water of. tropical seas to
boil in a vacuum, put the steam to
work in the turbines and condense
it by cold water from the depths.

“Experiments made in 1928 and in
Cuba in 1931 on a small scale con-
firmed theoretic findings. It re-
mained to put them into a plant in-
dustrially exploitable.

“As I had to finance it myself, I
thought of a flexible method; to
equip a floating plant permitting the
use of a relatively short vertical
tube and installation in interesting
points of the equatorial zone.”
| Professor Claude said it had also
loccurred to him to utilize the plant
make ice.

The plan calls for a tube with a
| 30-foot buoy to be dropped and
| anchored to the bottom.

A 2,300-foot tube, composed of 112
| soldered sections, and nine feet in
| diameter, will bring ths water to the
| plant from the depths. The plant it-
| self will contain a vacuum’ boiler 80
|fect long and 20 feet in diameter
placed 35 feet beneath the surface of
the sea.

An air extractor will make the
|Yacuum in the boiler and vacuum
| pumps will bring up the water and
pump the warm water as well.

The huge. cylinder will contain
pss compartments for boiling and
| five for condensation. The steam
| produced in the boiling chambers will
| pass into the condensing chambers
|after passing through the turbines
eer creating power.

The cold sea water will do the

made by his process, he secured fin-

was about 4,000,000 pounds.

‘The Are Always Most Dangerous Place |

average price received by Canadian}
growers for alsike in the past five

years has been about 10 cents per|An Ottawa citizen still recalls with |

pound basis No. 1 grade.

SISTERS WIN HONOR FOR MURALS

In Thunder Storm | condensing.

It is better to be wet than dead.

|thankfulness his own escape from
|death or injury when he was a boy.
With a companion he went under a

tree when a storm caught them in|

the open. Then there came to mind
| the danger of such a post. The boys
|dashed out into the rain—and had
| gone put a few rods when a bolt of
Hlightning blasted the tree beneath
| which they had been sitting seconds
earlier.. These two needed no other
|warning for the remainder of their
|lives that trees are things to avoid|
when the thunder rolls. |
| Motorists are safe on their rubber]
|insulation solong as they stay on/
|the open road, It ts seldom their mis-
|sion is of such-vast importance that
they need to take chances with life
| itself by travelling under large trees
in a storm. And yet they do it—we}|
all do it. If anything happens it will |
be to some other tree, and some other |

‘ car!—Ottawa Journal.

Canada’s “Sun Porch”

Lord Willingdon once referred to
the British West Indies as Canada’s
| ‘sun-porch". So far as the Bahamas
are concerned they have become
much more than that. Last year the
Bahamas purchased goods from Can- |
ada to the value of $1,305,790, an in-
crease of five per cent. over the year
before. Practically all of the potatoes
going to these islands were supplied

or coin (coin preferred). Wrap coin

carefully. by Canada, also butter, flour, oats.
condensed milk, rubber nVvé

| How To Order Patterns |boots and shoes.—Ottawa Journal. |
| Address: Winnipeg Newspaper Union, During the first five months of
B70 MoD ermpki Aves Winnipeg. this ye a 935,500 pounds of dressed

roa ttarntdd. «Shs sc Bike een poultry have been exported from
* a Canada to the United Kingdom

Nae? — Compared with the corresponding |
Featuring the Mexican mural painting movement which has achieved in-| period of last year, this is an increase

Seis taa helots wash nels ate ee ternational fame in the past few years is the participation of two Brooklyn | of 537,1 pounds, and the de mand |
sisters—Marion and Grace Greenwood, whose panels have aroused the favor- | for Canadian poultry still continues.

aca ; |able comment of Mexican and foreign critics, The Greenwood sisters, aided | Most of the poultry shipped was

. in thelr study of fresco technique by Paul O'Higgins, young California | packed, inspected, and graded ac-}

Painter, obtained walls for decoration in Morelia, State of Michoacan, \

Gording to government standards.

|
Eyes Getting Tired

|Negro Claiming To Be 140 Asked
| Oculist For Test

| A claimant to succeed the late
Zaro Agha of Turkey as the world’s
oldest living person, appeared at a
hospital in Rio De Janeiro, to have
his eyes tested. Hypolito Xavier Rib-
leiro, a negro, asserted he was 140
lyears old, and that he was beginning
to have difficulty reading classified
advertisements in the newspapers
Physicians were inclined to credit his

{claims that he was born in 1794 as

a slave, and participated in a rev-
olution of 1842 and the Paraguayan
War of 1865, An oculist pronounced
his eyesight perfect—only
what tired”.

“some-

Inactive Crater Found
Glacier Priest Tells Of Discovery
Made In Alaska ’
Discovery of a new inactive crater
even larger than the famous Ani-
akchak near the tip of the Alaska

peninsula was reported by Father
Be R. Hubbard, the “glacier
priest”, after a month of hardships
and adventure.

Unprecedented floods, encounters
with giant Paylof brown bears,
separation and near disaster befell
the expedition in the unexplored re-
gion between Pavlof volcano and the

tip of the Als la.

Australia is going ahead rapidly in
organized clvil aviation. In less than
10,000 70,000

R year passengers,

pounds of

merchan¢ and 35,000
pounds of mail haye been transport-
ed by air over the country. Australia
has a population of less than 6

000 so that she is doing very well in

the air.

A woman's maiden

change her maiden name,