ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI~ NEWS This Year’s _ Livestock Market A Warranted Optimistic Dominion Report Tone In There is an-optimistic tone to the Summary of market condilions for the first four months of the year igsued by the Dominion Livestock Branch, as the following quotations will Indicate, Sales of caftle-at the public stock- yards this year were 204,900 compar- ed with 160,900 in the Sameé period Jast year. Cattle on through billing this year were 11,786 compared with 6,097 last year. This year a steady increase month by month, Is recorded: A general improvement was appar- ent in quality and / weight, giving proof that stall-feeding was more gen- eral during the winter of 1923 than ‘during 1922. : Despite Yhe heavy increase {n vol- ume over thé previous offerings, the average price during April, and the bulk of sales, checked at higher levels than during March. While quality gained recognition in higher prices, the common classes of cattle sold at heavier discount in April than during the previous month. Export stock of both finished and feeder type and quality were the backbone of the market.» ; — Evidence of a continued strong de- mand for store cattle is Tevealed in the fact that the average-prices pald for good feeders and stockers in April exceeded those realized in March, in Spite of an Increase in the available Supplies. Steady development of the Overseas trade is stimulating interest in feeding. 7 Combining “through-billed” with public sMles of hogs, the increase for the four months of 1923 approximated 131,000 head. Despite the increase in offerings, prices were higher on bacon quality hogs at all’yards. A Seasonal increase in domestic demand, and a better tone to the British bacon demand, are quoted as the underlying strength. i Phe fsheep and lamb movement in the four months this year showed over “soreness out the cough, cu ' breathing ea ed in the mv or lungs. . By using HALER ‘how the passages thereby préy Get the D months; sr druggists. # Catarrhozon: Catarriiozon: Wr Canadian Publisher i 266 Ki SL téll ys he said; fil out of this _ yourself. “ ‘keep your | advantage. © _ Damn you, — you can & can gain b of me, if — Pah!” H “You're as jo ered cowa_ with me or Vl get ov when I do- and I'll ma 9,000 head heavier than in the corres | supplied from all sources ‘to the Cana- mae ae _Monding period last year. Prices| dian forests. The plus Be cust oaks t Were materially higher at ‘Yorontos|t#@ interest of the people ‘of)this Montreal and steady farther west. fall. Th bones. 5 / Why shou when I’ve Aa ough} mu Z Bree | know tvo hang you, livestock products increase in April this year compared with the same month last year, al- though exports of sheep and ‘mutton were iighter. There has been a marked increase in shipments of beef to Britain and a decrease in shipments | to the United States. Referring to spring lambs, the Tor- onto and Montreal reports indicate that many were marketed in April very young and thin and should haye been held for another month. * Good veal calves sold to butchers at Montreal in April for from $6 to $3, but common commanded as low as $3.2; Top prices for calves at both ready, “Sul, L Left alc cigarette bade. i deep? shac the appro: appetite knowledge Toronto and Winnipeg reached aS fool made high $11. til he res i eating out, tvickling j« ~ Cold Storage Eggs ‘ Placing summer™~Eggs in Storage, Until Prices Improve Great interest is being manifested in the cooperative egg marketing plan recently put in force by the Sas ykatchewan Co-operative ‘Creamerles, Lid, as a medium for inducing mer- chants and producers to take afVant- age of cold storage facjlitfes. Under the scheme the creameries take care- fully selected and packed eggs from the producers and place them in cold storage until such time as prices im-} prove. In‘the meantime a cash ad- vance of about 75 per cent. ® the value is made fo the shipper, the bal- MOT. ll /Recomr ham’s \ >to Hemforc of four chi) my last be my work a, a friend i Pinkham’s taking the weakness my back hi who are trc to take Ly Compound, medicine @ my letter.” Hemford, | ance being paid when sale is made. Encourage Importation of Cattle A good deal of gratffication 1s felt Jardiff, Wales, over efforts belng| at made to encourage the importation of cattle through the port of Cardiff, par- Ucularly the announcement that the Canadian Mercantile Marine {s pro- yiding fortnightly sailings from Mon- Glen Alle eatly be inkham’s bearing-do troubled i years follc child,and a my feet. A| Vegetable taken doct) «oy freal to that port and placing on the roule a number of 8,009-ion ships. Taking No Chances mummy,” called little Wille oe Tt ob the bathroom, “do my ears be- give you Jong to my neck or my face? monial lett “why what do you mean? Allen, Alak other. Yomen . Lydia BPan “Well, you told nurse to wash my Ontario, feace and she’s washing my ears too!” Pinkham’s ) gald his | | | Experiment With Fish Stocking Lakes In Prairle Provinces Where No Fish Are Found The Departinent of Marine and Fisheries of Canada confronted with a fishery problem is making an experl- ment which, if suecessful, may be lik- ened to killing two birds {ith one Stone; in otlier words by transferring vigorous but coarse Species of fish from, Lake Winnipegosis to small Prairie lakes, in which there are at present no fish, opportunity will be given for the increase of the better kinds of fish in the larger body of water. Lake, Winnipegosis is one of the three large lakes of the prairie provinces and has been the centre of a considerable commercial fi ting in- dustry for many years. Since commercial fishing started in this lake the suckers and other coarse fish have rarely broug’t suf- ficient-price to pay for handling, ¢on- Sequently the fishermen hays devoted their energies to the taking of white- fish and other marketable Species, The reSult is that the coarse fish have inexeased in numbers out of propor- ton to the better varieties’ / The coarse fish, such as suckers, destroy large quantities of white-fish eggs which further tends to keepdown the supply of white-fish. On the other prairies in which fish are not found but in which only suckers and fishwof that class will live. The \ Department of Marjne and Fisheries has, therefore, arranged to trap the suckers as they are ascend- ing several streams tributary to Lake Winnipegosis to spawn this season. It proposes fo stock as many suitable lakes on the pr as feasible, with them, thus restoring the balance of nature and adding to the food supply . of the prairies, , Make the Forests Safe for Trees Comparatively Small Amount Expend- ed on Protective Measures One and one-half million ‘dollars plus — is the amount of the protection Winnipeg, and about |“ ountry in the forests and their care The export trade in. livestock and} UPOD this latter the future of the for- showed a heavy} St and of the-produe “ Ailments W. N. U. 1477 in preserving them from fires: It is s of the forest are dependent, The money expend- ed largely used to guard against and counteract the carelessness-of our peoile with fire. The total value of foves\, products in Canada in 1920, the last year for which complete returns are available, was approximately $316,000,000, says the Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Department of Interior. To this, of course, must be added the increased value due to procasses of manufacture through which wood passes In reaching its complete form. This would at least double its value, and make a total well over six hun- is dred million dollars The one and one-half million dollars, therefore, would represent an insurance cost equal only to about one-half’ of one per cent. of the value of the product of the forest. We are in trouble without a match, when our newspaper is not on hand there is a vacancy ip our lives, and in humerous other matters the products of the forest are fndispensable. They enter so intimately into the lives of the people today that each and eyery- bee should reinforce this money ex- penditure with personal responsibility for care wlth fire in the bush, as well 4s interest others and do their part in making the Canadian forests safe for trees, Increase in B.C. Lumber Business Returns from 532 operating com- panies have convinced officials of the Proyincial Government that the pay- roll of the British Columbia lumber Industry 1922 was more than $20,000,000. In 1921 the “payroll amounted to $18,180,962 for an ayer- age of 14,500 wage earne: Increases in the payroll, of course arethe result the general Increase of lumber business. for of The Male View J Cleanliness may be next to godli- ness, but, Jn the opinion of the average male citizen, one form of it 1s a poor second—that is, house- cleaning —Hamllton Spectator, Heirlooms Freckles.—“My father has George Washington's watch. Aleck.—‘That’s nothing. | My dad hand there are humerous lakes on the! Salt and’ sugar together. it can move its teetl itihas no scales such gles or fishes for other Fish, it is not good to eat; they - We Household Hints - Valuable Recipes For Housewlfo Type Of Hogs For Bacon Production eo uey Should Select Sows of the Very Highest Quality An outstanding feature of the Dan- ish hog raising industry is the shighly uniform quality of the sows kept for breeding. The proper type is well understood by everybody, and the very large numbers of hogs raised in the country make it possible to select sows of the very highest quality for the matrons of the herd. In districts |of Canada where farmers are recely- ‘ing the premium for select hogs, the type of sows kept is approaching that found in Denmark. Co-operative shippers, report that the farmers are becoming more and more discriminat- ing in the sows they select, Many farmers now go to shipping points and purchase such sows aS meet the re- quirements of the bacon type. This practice is reported by ‘co-operative shippers to be particularly noticeable in the counties surrounding Ingersoll, _y) Suitana Tea Biscuits 4 tablespons butter or margarine, 2 cups flour, 44 teaspoon salt. 3 teaspoons baking powder, 1 egg. 3 tablespons sugar, 1-3 cup mill. % cup Sun-Mald Sultana Raisins. Mix and sift flour, baking powder, Salt and sugar. Rub in the butter with a fork and then add the raisins. Beat thesegg until light and mix with the milk, then stir into.the dry mix- ture, adding enough milk to make a dough which can be easily handled. Turn onto a floured board, roll to one- half or two-third inch thickness .and cut with a biscuit cutter. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) about 15 minutes. \ Raisin Graham Gems % cup white flour, 1 cup Sun-Maid Seedless raisins 1 teaspdon salé é \ Brantford and Toronto. : 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup 4 milk. . Saskatchewan Butter 2 tablespoons melted butter, 1 eps or shortening, 2 tablespoons sugar. 1% cups graham flour. Sift. white flour, baking powder, Mix in, Bra- Mix beaten Large Increase In Production Over Last Year’ The butter output of the creameries in Saskatchewan during April showed an increase of 86.8 per cent. oyer the corresponding month of last year, and for the first four months of the year an inerease of 70.2 per cent. The figures given out show that during April of this year the combined credm- erles of the province manufactured 230 pounds of butter, as compared with 308,773 pounds in April, 1922, or an increase of) 249,457 pounds. For the first four months of this year, the total output was 1,832,036 pounds, as yaluable feed when they can be bought] compared with 1,076,546 pounds in the atar Dable price, but that, ew-! frst four months of 1922, or an in- ing to thelr tendency to vary in, qual-;| crease of 90 pounds this year. ity and weell seed content, they should, ee be purchased on a basis of analysis ham flour and raisins. egg and milk and stir into flour to make a smooth batter. Add butter and mix well. . Pour into greased gem pans and bake in moderate oven 30 to 35 minutes. This makes 12 gems. Screenings As a Feed Experiments with recleaned’screen- ings prompt the Superintendent at the Lennoxville, Que., Experimental Sta- tion to advise that screenings are » 3 Saskatchewan Timber only. Ground screenings ~are too Estimates govering the whole area heavy and pasty for feeding alone,}of Saskatchewan place the total and. therefore, should be mixed with|amount of raw matefial In its forests bran or ground pats to increase their | at 7,950,000,000 board feet, made up digestibleness. ‘ as follows:—Spruce, 3,000,000,000; = poplar, 4,000,000,000; Aackpine, 800,- An inch of rain falling upon an acre | 000,00 of land would weigh alrout 12 tons. 100,000,000; / and | larch@m60,000,000 feet, balsam, g Fish. een ever So interested in Stella's account h, of"how it is a cousin of the tiny Sea NOOKUMS and Pimzie had b of the strange little Pipe Fi Hor and of how both Mr. Pipe Fish and Mr. Sea Horse-have pouch \ pockets In which (o carry their babies, and of who poor M Sea Horse and Mrs. Pipe Fish have no such pockets—such as Mrs. Kan- garoo has. “I should think the mother the bub: Fish would feel awfully unhappy im to their father instead of to her ums. PH us, Stella, dear, can you think of any other about? It’s lots of fun to hear of them!" The little Wishing Fairy did noi Answer for thinking just aS hard as she could think. “Ye she replied at length, “L can tell you of just about the Strangest ble! You are now going to hear about the Fishing Frog.” led Pimzie, in a disappointed tone. “I thought we were going to ol strange fish, Well,” laughed Stella, “and so you are. Even Fishing Frog it is a Fish and it also is often called and the Fairy stopped to pluck a blade of gsr which in some Magic way suddenly changed into a Fairy pencil, “I’m going to draw a picture of this ‘Angler’ so that you can see just What it looks like and how it in no way reminds on» of a Frog.’ , s The two Brownies leaned over to have a good look While she s drawing “This Angler Fish i large creature from three to five feet long,” Stella explained. “It has a big head and a short fat body ending in a long thin tail and it is just about as ugly as anything could possibly be. [ts mouths sim. ply huge, while iis teeth are long, cruel and pointed and also movable! “Movable!” exclaimed Pimzie in amazement. “Do you mean to'say that about having exclaimed Snook- queer Fish to tell eVeral moments, for she was Fish imagina “Onl” hear , though it is called a an Angler Fish. Here,” Ss * laughed*Stella, “but it can’t remove them! Well¥to go on vith This Angler is covered with a n tbat 1 aked skin—T mean by that, that as cover other Fish, but instead its skin ig roughened with er, {t——” , “How is it cle asked Pimzie curiously, ' “It's tle same greeny brown color as the ground under the sea knows it, thisds what it does to catch smaller Fish, which are wha {t stirs around and around and thoroughly muddles the water so that it can’t = . be seen, then it shakes the : = long, thin, thread-like fila- ment that stands up from the toy of its head. (You can see it in the picture.) The passing Fishes see the shining tip of this filament } waving up above the mud- died water and, thinking {t fs something g00d to eat, come near it and are Suddenly seized by the Angle} “That 1s how the sler got its name. Humans angle, this hungry thing a ee at as th F - a ¥ g y §rabs a Fish just as the Fi grab the fisherman’s hook and ia hauled up hanging on to ie pe tt won't let go until {t is knocked on the head.” a ae “When fishermen hook an Angler they never throw r the stomach of this greedy little monster they are sure é fina it quite tule , and, ut it eats— ee Bre co moragg ANGLER vise i ~~ Copurioht. Ses 5) : An- It an- It is. Ometimes when has Adam's apple.” freshly swallowel smaller Fish," Save it because they know that when they cut open “YOUR TEETH" LOCAL ANESTHETICS By Rea Proctor McGes, M.D. D.D.S., Pittsburgh, Pa / The local anesthetic is a medici that temporarily takes way the se Sation or feeling from one part of tl body, leaving the rest of the body wi its normal sensation. We use f word “local” to differentiate this ty] of an anesthetic from the “genera anesthetic,“which takes away the se Sation from the entire body by puttir the patient to sleep. The first loenl anesthetic was c calne, It was used with varying su cess, but with a great deal of danke for a number of years. The, desi ability of a local anesthetic and ti danger of cocaine poisoning final) resulted in a series jof experiments | find out the exact chemical content « cocaine. f This, fortunately, pwas discovere and today we have a dubstance calle novocaine or, to use the proper go ernment word, procaine. This pro caine is what we call a synthetl product, ‘ A synthetic is a chemical imitatio ofa national drug. Procaine contain all of the elements of cocaine, excep the poison, and in addition, it is muc! more uniform fn {ts strength. Th results from its use have been trul. remarkable. By using procaine th dentist Is able to take away the sen Sation from any Part of the face o j ; Former); jaws that he may desire. this local anesthetic was Injected wit) a hypodermic Syringe, around the ex act spot where the operation was te be performed. But nowadays the in jection is made at any point upon the main branch of the nerve that ‘kup piles the area to be operated upon, and the entire nerve’ brarfch is temporar ily densentitized so that-pain is ab Sent. » The use of the local anesthe- Hicsin nerve-blocking,; as this method is called, was almost entirely develop- ed by investigators in America. Fortunately, we are now able to manufacture in this country all of the Synthetic drugs that are necessary, so that we never again will be caught with a local anesthetic famine, as we were at the beginning of the war. are eS e Observations On Hog Grading | Rapid Improvement Taking Plaos Breeding of Proper Bacon Type In the opinion of competent obsery ers, hog-grading combined with co- operative shipping is doing ae: * advance thé quality of hogs in Canada than ahything else that has been un- dertakem About forty per cent. ot the hogs that reach the Toronto mar ket are shipped in by co-operative clubs. About fifty per ceat. of the hogs contained in these shipments carry identification marks enabling the: producers to obtain the premium for those grading “select.” It is \claimed by the Officials in charge of this work that the improve: ment in the type of hogs received fs proving much more rapid than even the most sanguine would have expect- ed, indicating that more care is being taken than heretofore in the kind of breeding stock kept. “a Hardly a shipping day passes at Some of the heaviest shipping points” in Ontarfo without sevefal farmers presenting themselyes who are on the. lookout for bacon’ type sows fo put in thelr hegds, . A farmer looking for a Sow, and not able to find just what satisfies him, is frequently ass’ ted by the shipper, In some=cases a hal dozen or more of the best lookin: Sows will be selected bythe intending purchaser, and the shipper will-assist ~ him in choosing the best Specimens — from ‘these, They are then purchas- ed at the market Smooth hogs, plus the ten per cent. Premium. Reports “from any of the counties indicate that it will be only a few years until the sows kept are all of a high-class bacon type. price _for thick, —_—__, Motion Pictures On Liners Motion picture programmes aboard the ships of the Canadian Pacific fleet, inaugurated As one of the exclusiv features of its Service, have ne Such a popular form of entertainment that they will be extended to all of the company’s lines, both on the AM 2 lanUc and the Pacific. It is believed that these films will be the best poss sible way to advertise Canada. The films are of Canadian manufacture, the product of one of the newest of — Canadian industries, — ~~ KS