of 97 Yeas
haps the older
nd well: iy ‘

he fact that be
of fright ly
mo Red Rive

ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS: AND MATSQUT ‘NEWS

Yields Forty Busiiels

. High Reputation Under The

Canadian Standa

rdization System

c

“Northern-grown” seeds
@iscussed by farmers and gardeners
who do not live in the north.
term has come to imply

mess. Canadian-grown

high reputation because of these quali- |
ties and because there has been estab- |
lished in Canada a system for stan-|

dardizing seeds
designatéd in the Seeds Act.
“spectors of the seed branch of the |
department of agriculture inspect seed
erops for purity of variety at a cost
of fifteen cents per acre to the farmer.
The threshed and cleaned seed is
again inspected by the same officers,
end if of superior quality is graded, ,
regisiered, and sealed in the sack for
_ commerce.
The quantity of registered, extra No. |

under grade names

and No, 1 grades of inspected seed |

oh _ eereal

a | falfa seed crop amounted to approxt- |

y Derta Grimm varieties of alfalfa seed}

grain produced in Canada is much in|
excess of domestic requirements, and}
Jarge amounts of seed oats, ‘barley,!
wheat and rye are offered for export
under seed inspection certificates. Be-
cause of having so Jarge a quantity,
available in the domestic market the}
crops in Canada during the
past fifteen years haye become great-,

Se ty improved, with fewer varieties and;

the general use 0 of seed that is true;
to a desirable variety.

Alsike grass grown in Canada con-}»

are much!
|

The}
unimpaired }
vigor, early maturity and productive- |
ds enjoy a;

The in-}

Discoveries By Plant Wizards
Important Results Obtained
Experiments in Plant Breeding
Since Dr.
}ated

By

ers origin-
which for 15
| years has won the world’s wheat prize
at the International Show a;.Chi
and is the most popular spring wh
among American-Canadian  farme
Several other important discoyeries in
| agriculture and horticulture have been
| made by the plant wizards or pr: al
| sctentists at the 27 Canadian Go
pment experimental farms. The ad
pcovery of Marquis wheat, whieh is re-
»48 garded as one of the most notable in|
agriculture, was made at the Cenirat
|Farm at Ottawa. |
It was at the same farm that L. P.
Newman, Canadian Government ger-)
| ealist, originated Garnet wheat, a Yar-_
iety of spring wheat that matures}
jfrom seven to ten days earlier than’
| Marquis, stands dry weather and ex
{cessive moisture better, is more ini-
mune from the danger of rust than
any other wheat and because of {is
{earlier ripening advantages will ex
j tend the wheat growing area of Can-
‘ada 100 miles further northward and
‘open up for wheat growing an area of |
‘over 40,000,000 acres.
Important work in plant breeding,
‘in fruits, vegetables and flowers is now

bushels pe

| net
| twice the quantity as

|gaged in the American coal indusiry

}on tlie Canadian

, their interest to have these conserved
for their own use.
jing in Canada in favor of more exten-

Garnet Wheat ‘
Returns Would Indicate Above Aver-
age Crop For Western Canada
In the
the Manitoba Free P: , ba
formation received from ove

Per Acre On
=Summerfallow at Brandon
Over 4,000 westerm farme
ing Garnet wheat this year
should be available for next
seeding nearly 100,000 bushels.
Brandon the Garmet has

latest. crop report, issued, by }
ed ov in

200 cor

i ther
year’ _ Canadian Pp
Arirespondents throughout the provinces
dv of Manitoba, katehewan and, eo
¢ berta {t states that “iaking into con- Reward Wheat
‘sideration the increasec in the |
jwestern provinces, the outlook would
ppear to be for a yield as big last
0 ; A new hard wheat which
The question asked the correspond- , Sives promise of being even better
ents included one as to the estimated | than either Marquis: or Garnet,
sted at the Ca Govern-

meni experimental farm at Ottawa.
The
Was

threshed
acre On surmmerfallow an
more than 26 bushels on stubble lands

Under dry Ga
wheat

New-Variety of Wheat Being Tested
™ Out At Ottawa

Ireace
Season

has been to
compared - with | y
Marquis wheat, ideal
conditions has always compared very
favorably with Marquis.
growing
earlign

yield | 2
spring
und even under
Mnring wet, yield, and commenting on the answers adian
;to this question, the report says:
believe these will put aside the ideas

and seasons the “We |
maturity of Garnet materially variety,
assists in evading rust and frost./of a poor crop in Canada this yea which, ac
his earlier maturity navurally would! Last year's wheal crop in Canada to: cording io tests made in recent years
tend to still further push the wheat-|talled 411,375,700 from 21,-| nd are_still being. carried on, will
growing arezs of the prairie proy-|972,732 acres of 59,000 | tipen ten days earlienthan* Marquis.
inces farther north and make wheat | bushels also” believed “Reward”
growing more secure in many of the! prairie qually as good milling qualities
older districts which have been stib-| chewan and Alberta. The li give even heavier yields, be~
jected to late summer fro: | yield of wheat for the Domi in | cause of the heavier weight.
'1925 was 18.7: bushels per acre. jed bushels of “Reward” which have
The total production of oats In| been grown fn Ottawa weigh as high
Canada last year was 518,384,000 bush-|4s 66 pounds, ©
els-from 14,672,320 acres, an aearaead Cerealists belfeve that if, succes-
yield of 35 bushels to the acre. Bar- aie tests measure up as well as
ylelded 112,668,300 bushels trom|those of recent years have done, the
4,075,995 an average of 27.6 | “Reward” variety ‘will supersedé Mar-
bushels’ per acre. : fauils, the wheat that for 15 years has
Last year’s, wheat yield was the} |} won the world’s wheat prize at the
second largest on record in. Canada, | International Grain and Hay Show at
the previous highest total being 47 thieago, and even Garnet; 2 new won-
199,000 bushels in 1923. Other Bich “der wheat, which also ripens ten days
yields were 399,786,400 bushels in 1922, | earlier than Marquis, but whic h dor
200,858,100 bushels in 1921 and 399, Hot mill as white.
542,600 bushels in 1915. ae)
The growing feel- F = |

ripening
this new
Reward!"

name of
fearned fs

bushe
which
grown in the ihrea|It is
provinges—Manitoba,

were

Buy Canadian Coal

More Extensive Use of Canadian Coal
Deposits Should Be Urged

It is to be expected that those en-
acres,
will be anxious to maintain their hold
market, but why
should the rest of the people of that
country be concerned over the lessen-
ing of shipment®’ to this side of the
line? The anthracite supplies in
sight are strictly limited, and it is to

Free eA, Lands

will |

Measur-{

)being carri fe siy. iliza
trols the world’s prices for that com-) 5°, ee ae re eA a Be sive utilization
modity. The rich, moist, clay loam || | eine Spple ree 45 i orig” posits: is _not

soils of Canada produce alsike seed/| ed aby these. ogbetnental. farme:| diminishment,
Be ee .|Most of the old yarleties grown 10 are taken

‘of @ quality unequalled by any other! North aint Care eeee aE Bint inal :
place in the world. The world’s) 3 iginated in Britath) with
por Europe, but many were proved u un-
greatest centre of alsike seed produc- |
ae | satisfactory in the colder provinces;

tion is probably Victoria county in the |

proyince:ofOntario. land in order to obiain greater hardl-| suniers “will look less ard less to
Sader tha Veccd-*t reareice of iness the best Russian apples were| American sources of supply.—Edmon-
in et pane oe te Rea viata | eressed with well-known American jon Journal.
‘field crop and seed inspec | varieties, but the quality was poor.|
| At one of the experimental farms in}

' seed production has increased in}
|Quebec 76 different strains of toma-)

of Canadian coal de-
likely to undergo any
despite any steps that
across the border to curb it.
proper government encourage-
ment to the building up of. an inter-
provinelal coal traffic, Canadian ‘toh-

=
"twenty-five years from nothing to Making Sugar Fr From Sawdust
_ more than one hundred thousantl bush-|
ft toes are being tried out.
els, Our exports from Jast vear's al Tite utddor: rosél of highest exceli| Product Made From Material That Is
hh a
lence, the Agnes, according to the) Sawd eos Cee eek ie reat
American Rose Society, is also an- laa aid ee ye! ae ng SES
other product of the Canadian Goy-| ne. a Sib apne arg te
Dr. W. R. Ormandy told the Con-

a : bell Jernment Farm at Ottawa. This rose’ meEsilon, Ghai in hondan that
sre sought after in many countries be) 4. recently awarded the Walter Van | 5° Bett Lie eee ae

cause of their proven winter hardi-| meet gold medal, the most coveted | at of winning sugar from saw-
ness and superior quality for forage ‘award of the ARS. dust bas now been developed to a
crop purposes. age where he believes if has com-

Grass seed production. |mercial possibilities. )

kinds: Timothy, western *¥€) corned with the control of fungous } In one experiment 65 pounds of
brome grass, and, in recent! ang other plant diseases, and labora- | SUB@T_ Was obtained from 100 pounds
vears, that finest of turf grass, brown-| jorjes haye been established at “yark ie dry sawdust. A; present, 26 per
top. Twenty-five thousand pounds of! oys ‘points with this end in view. cent. of the timber cut in the world
seed of this latter grass was produc-) - }is wasted in sawdust, Dr. Ormandy
ed last year on Prince Edward Island 3 a ‘ said. °
from, inspected seed crops, and it is Strange Fish Has Three Hearts |
anticipated that this amount may be
increased this year to sixty thousand
pounds. Seed of No, 1 grade will
yield approximately a dollar per
; pound. ‘The No. 8 grade and other
i inferior qualities equal or superior to
- the imported stocks of the samo
snecles will be sold in competition
with “them at prices commensurate
with the quality :

From the brome grass seed crop five
hundred thousand pounds were {n-
spected and sealed in the sack for ex-
port at a cost for seed testing and
sealing of one-fifth of a cent per
‘pound. Trading ou the basis of an!
inspection certificate, as distinguish-

mately seventy-five thousand bushels.

FE The Ontario Variegated and the Al-

In addition to experimental ye
includes! the experimental farm system is con;

Oil Strike at Unity
im It is reported that oil of 32 gravi
% * y ” cat fond ti ee ‘estimated at 30 to 50 barrels a day, h
o> Yery Arango uss 1s soune “1 or | been struck by, the Unity, Valley O11
terey Bay, California, called the hag- ate sine
Company, 15 miles northwest of Unity,
fish. It is blind, and yet is so yor- E - Ae
‘Sask. The well was first spudded on
acious that other fish are not found . A F ey
June 16, and is working on a 12-ineh
in the same waters. - How does it as
= hole. Drilling operations were re-
manage to find its food? To make)
z ¥ {sumed in an effort to reach the sec-
up for the loss of sight, ihe hagfish <" 5
i ak etic a ondary sands. The report states 1t
Dossesses a Keen sense ob touch ane’! is the first oil well to be brought in In
an unknown chemical sense—or what} . oy
Saskaichewan.
seems to be an exaggerated sense of
smell. It has been noticed that when |
food is dropped into ‘an aquarium!
where there is a hagfish, the fish in-|
stantly swims towards it. This fish, |

1 Gat although blind, has rudimentary eye
ed from a type sample certificate, spots; they are not, however, in the}

would seem, to be biehly satisfactory | 1.40 sensitive to light. According to|
to seed merchants, Dr, David. Starr Jordan, the hagfish, |

Thus far the greater part of Cana-} which fs purplish-blue in color, varies
dian requirements of field root and in size from about eighteen inches to!

Is Blind But Has Keen Sense of Touch

Infantile Paralysis In Germany
Reports of infantile paralysis are
becoming more numerous in Germany.
| In the Catholic orphan asylum at Han-
over, it is reported that 24 children
have been stricken and that five have
died. Other cases are reported in
Hanover and two in Spandou, near
| Berlin.

Brush Settlers Leave For Bolivia

|Former Service Officers Will Form|
| Settlement on Paraguay River |
A party of British former sdvice of
ficers lave Sailed on a 666-ton river
steamer ‘for, Bolivia, where they pro- |
pose to form ‘a, new setilement
grow cotton and market ifmber.
Boliyian Goyernment, to
| the settlement, has re-opened ~ Port | : -
|Gaiba on the Paraguay: River, which ed the greatest number of entries wih
will afford. water transport to Buenos; total of 193.. ‘Lhe Prince Albert dis-
Aires, giving Bolivia, for the first tite, ytrict came next with 185 and Mooxe
convenient \access—to. the Adlantic | 42 uuiieaT
+Ocean, 1,500 miles away. Homestead lands in free grants of
ie All maniereionthe British expent: 160 acves are available to- settlers in
ltion are said to be experienced | in, the provinces. of Manito
| tropical work, | chewan and Alberta and in the Peace
» block and tlre railway belt of
tish Columbia, on payment of a
gistration fee of $10, If a settler’
‘ no British subject he mus; declare

Provinces =
In July of this-year a total of 658
homestead entvies were registered by
the Canadian Goyernment department
of interior compared: with 403 in Jilly,
$1925. Of the 658 entries 100
‘made by settlers from the United
' States, the largest total of any nation-
ality.

' were
and oe

The
encourage

Lethbridge Irrigation Tract

‘Crop This Year Is Expected To
worthy s000, 000) n a homestead. ‘These
The Lethbridge Northern Irrigation | Hands owned by the Canadi
‘tract, opened for setil@ment a couple}
of years back, is, according to ihe}
Provincial _ Governme nt report, prov-| shore halilions: Gtvacres tof
ing prosperous to the farmers oper | farm lands in Western Canada near
ating there. In 1925 the total pro-)
duction of the tract was valued at}
less than $400,000. ‘This year it is) Site
expected to reaclY $2,000,000, New!
jtowns are growing up following the| An ayerage inerease of nearly fiye
jextension of the’ railway’ and: fine |per_ cent. in the population of twenty
Pontos prerelease ~ | federal electoral districts in Mani-
Saskatchewan and Alberta, as
compared with the 1921 figures is
;shown in the quin-quennial census of
president has refused to give his 48-lthe three ete Peatittss iaken ds
sent to a proposal for the erection Of | of Tune dst
jof skyscraper, in Parls, on the ground | these twenty electoral districts Is
| that such a building on the city’s hori- jgiven as 803,826, contrasted with 7
|zon would mar the regularity of the} 308 in.1921.
{ landscape. The American idea seems

to be that the more the regularity Ol ~~

homestead
ian Goyern-
{ment are now a considerable distance
from the railways and markets, but?
are

$15 to $20 an acr

Increase In Population

The American Idea
Ideas of beauty differ. The French

Delicate Woman
a landscape is marred for the PROMOS Policeman.—“It seems to
tion of business, the more beautiful fault, mister.
it is—Woodstock Sentinel-Review. ley eren't killed!
= Ee Lon your brak
Motorist—‘My
me! They squealr
H nervous.”

Is a wonder

Why

you

A non-rusting wheat has been de-
veloped at Winnipeg. Now for a bug-
less potato.

wife wouldn’t ley
and make

garden vegetable secds have been im-|two feet, and in- general appearance |
ported. Fifteen years ago a start Was| yather. resembles. an Another
made by the seed branch to encour-) peculiarity of this fish is that it has
age the home production of these) three hearts. Besides the main|
seeds. The work so undertaken Was! heart, it has, like the eel, one in the
aitended with success but was disrupt- | tail, and. in addition to this another |
ed during the war. About thirty- five | special heart for the portal systent!
farmers and gardeners who have made | of veins.

|

|

eel.

a specialty of growing seed of one or!
more kinds of these crops have con-|
tinued throughout, and during the lasti At
few years these have steadily increas

An Underground Wonder
tie new tube station how un-|
. der construction beneath Piccadilly |
edn number. The province of Brit-| Circus, London, an area of 15,000 |
ish Columbia offers “numerous local) square feet will be devoted to the!
climates, and under {deal soll and pooking hall alone. ‘This will neces- |
moisture conditions the besi quality| sitate the removal of about 10,000
ef field root and garden seeds in the | tons of London clay. When complet-
world may be economically produced jed the station will be able to handle| ”
in quantity for commerce, , 50,000,000 passengers annually. |
The development of this industry}

will necessarily continue to be slow | B.C. Lumber For South Africa *
because it requires many years of} Lumber from Vancouver for South
special training on the part of the seed) Africa has been moving in greater
“grower: Horticultural plant breede quantities tliis year than for many
at the various experimental stations! years. *Fiye -sh each carrying
in Canada have undertaken to provide , about 4,500,000 feet. have been loaded
Bllte stock seed specially bred and at Vancouver and departed. Within

| Still Aveuaue In ays Three Prairie)

The Edmonton district recety-| +

Saskat-,

intention to become one on filing ,

good |

| to railways that can be purchased from !

The total population of |

be your!

didn’t you put}

Tevoeer “Ac Big Crop As ait Year! ee MDE taats ‘ x 7M

Spend $190, 000, 000 In Visiting

oints This Wee

ie renM Maes nn

UneHicial estimutes prepared by qu-
thorities of the United States depar-
ment of commerce
difire this year closely appro: ink
| $5Q0,000,000 by American tourists it
‘Europe. To this add $190,000.-

forecast an expen

they

is be-| 000 as the amount that probably will

be spent by Americans visiting Can-
jada, bringing the total of this item,
‘classified as an “invisible export,” to
| $690,000,000,

| ‘The amount spent in Europe, Can-
| ada and other foreign countries by
j Americ an tourists this year may reach
ja much higher figure, as foreign
travel this summer increased in vol
ume, due in large part to lower rates
for certain. classes of steamship ac-
commodations

| It is too early to determine, officials
said, whether «the alleged mistrent-
|Mment of American tourists in Paris,
{and the criticism heard in France and
| England arising out of the inter-allied
debt situation, have seriously affected
the outward movement of Americans.
| Department of commerce ofici: ls were
linclined to believe, they said, that the
| troubles experienced by American
{tourists In France have not distour
j aged other Americans who plan to
|take (heir vacations abroad,

Ij was pointed out that whereas
}England in 1925, paid only $187,000,-
(000 in principal and interest on its
debts to the United States, Amert!-
ean tourists that year spent there at
least $440,000,000, according to figures
‘prepared at the department of cotm-
nierce, \

{-*“?The expenditures of American
touri a as teported from
and semi-oflicial sources show-
ed roughly a $40,000,000 increase over
424. “Approximately 2,000,000 motor
ears carrying 5,000,000 people enter-
ed Canada from the United States In
1925. . These tourists probably spent
,3145,000,000° in addition to $45,005,-
000 estimated to have been spent by
Ameriean tourists artlving by rail and
steamer. , <

“The total spent by Ameriean tour:
ists in Purope, Canada and elsewhere
comes to $630,000,000. "To this may
be added $30,000,000 for expenditures
of American residents abroad more or
less permangntly”

|... Wonders OF Plant Life

Plants Have Tleir

Hours of Sleep
not only have their yices,
yaniti and regular hours of sleep,
but some poss a sixth sense as
| well, according to Sir Jagadis Rose,
‘one of Britain's greatest seientists and
authorities on plant life.

The sixth sense possessed by cer-
ftain species is a mysterious force
which permits them to detect minute
| changes in the intensity of light,
changes that go unnoticed by the hu-
man eye.

The mimosa plant spends its iMfe
‘in a leisurely way. Lt wakes gradual-
ly between $ and 9 o’elotk and noon,
remaining alert until evening and fall-
Jung fully asleep only in the a&rly hours
of the morning.
| Sir Jagadis

| Belfeves Own

| Plants

perected @ mar
}vellous piece of apparatus which
jgives plants under observation a
| questioning shock every hour of the
day end night and records the
answers.

has

her |

|

{

| Indians’ Prayer Answered
Fee of Hopi Tribe Stage Annual
Dance For Rain
that seemed but
the

| Washes harmiess
| sand “depressions in desert, as
throngs of visitors hastened toward
line weird ceremonial of the Hopi Ii
| Piagstaff, Art
torrenta of

dians’ snake dance at
hecame

within

raging
two hours after
the god

| zona,
muddy“w:
| this
|rain were concluded

The: dance
eight daye

Last

ter

year’s prayers to for

come annually after

of preparation

year also rain followed the

dance and several motor cars were

wrecked
|

} estimate

selected to Gt Into Canadian climatic the next six weeks two more ships |
conditions, It is to the mauitiplication | will load lumber for South Africa.

ef this stock seed. that the growers in|} ——-

Rritish Columbia and other parts of|
Canada will devote their attention.) A
The steady development of this special ! to rediscover a land lost for 11,000
fudustry is reasonably assured- be-! years. The group believes that a con-
eause the quality of the seed produced tinent in-the Atlantic Ocean once con- |
excels that of any other sced, and ts! ne cted Europe with the New World
particularly suitable for Canadian use. } Traces of it are being sought, and =
-!library of books treating of the sun-
[sect is being collected.

College

over 40

Looking For Lost Land
society has ben fornied in Parts

a group of husk

from the Wye Agricultural Col-
, Kent, Engiand, and from Oxford
University, photographed at the
Rail
where they

nily to do harvesting io th
provinces The .boys.

Can-

adian Pacific station at Win
nipeg arrived from

land
prairie

W. N. U. 1648

have

= |
Eng-

Students With Harvesting Outfits

| been D the
| Emigration ‘e ague, two Ofw
n her

Woman British out the west on harvesting out-

affording
buildi

yee Tep- Besides
raphed opportunity
came | these
Mother Country,
fami

as m the
phot eof £
The men res
of the

> mewbers of pro

group. young ten young

from all parts better could they become conver

minent agricultural conditious In
nulian west The
turn to their school In. En,

end of October

The
another Indic
who

arrival of such aj

group iz only jon of the

type of men are scattered

Marge |

Will Junk This
Intensive

Year
tudie. by
that no

1,000,000 Autos
Bile
flower,
will be

autor
manufacturers sho
than 1,900,000 antomeDiles
thi

ayy

junked die

cident

yeu fo old age ue

other cause: Furth

indledie that fhe numubey yo
ipldly In

until in 1980,

leased from service i

creaue trom

il) be

ear to yeur,
2,900,000 declared useless

my father

nothin
to you.”
lan amount

he svon b
would amount

ow