ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATS QUI NWS Possibility. Copper Skete ines In Far North ed By Major Burwash of developing cop- far north, seem best of Bathurst Inlet, according to who returned fo Ottawa after having spent eighte’n months on a trip through the ‘sub-Arctic which took shim some 4,000 miles by boat, behind a dog te: and by air. The veteran of the north, who has mushed “behind dogs since 1897, brought with him news of the latest developments in the country which he has grown to know like a book. He thought that the mineral deposits on the Coppermine River, up which he travelled for some fifty miles, would be less valuable than those along the shores of the inlet for which the fly- ing explorers of Col. C, D. H. Mc-" Alpine were making at the time they became lost. Deposits along the Coppermine River, he explained, had brought in by the ice drift and had been left h'gh and dry, dotted all over the shores. During his trek up the river he picked up large chunks of metallic copper which had been left on cariboo meadows when the ice re- ceded. The action has now stopped, he sald, and the field cannot be devel- oped until someone finds the ‘source from which the hdge nuggets were torn by the ice, On Bathurst Inlet, however, ,the copper is in place, he sa‘d, and prob- ably exists in great quantities. Major Burwash was a trifle non- committal on the question of whether or not the development of the copper mining industry in this part of the country might some day reach a stage here that would just'fy the en- gineering of a railway from Churchill, 900 miles west, to take care of it. He thought, however, that should development ever reach large propor- tions, it would be cheaper to smelt ore on the ground, as coal is to be found all along the Arctic coast of Canada and occurs in heavy deposits at such — points as Smoking Mountains and a part of Banks Island where it has been bu ning since the dawn of his- tory in th's region. Water power is plentiful near the Arctic coastline, at least in a poten- tial state. Most of the rivers flowing , into the Arctic, the Major explained, travel slowly across the great plateau land of the interior and then, during the last fifteen or twerity miles of their courses, drop sometimes several hundred feet to a sea level in a series are splendid natural power sites. Major Burwash, under orders of the Northwest Territories Branch of the Department of the Inter‘or, started his trip on the well travelled route Fort McMurray down the Mackenzie Valley to Aklavik on board From there he worked east where he took a dog team and travelled along the coast as far as Boothia Peninsula and the magnetic pole, After making some ob- servations over the pole with the compass and dipping needle he came to the conclusion that the centre of from the “Ptarmigan.” magnetism is deep down in the earth. He explained that the horizontal nee- dle was put out of action owing to the attraction downward through the earth, while the dipping needle, giv- ing the inclination of the magnetic lines for force in the vertical plane was standing almost straight up and down. i From Boothia the Major worked his way back via King Williams Land and was finally picked up at Burnside River by Captain Guy H. Blanchet; who..had ari z ok a3 is The Quarte : loped losin A lot of fellows have ambition to| cellar and Saree spare at’the beginning of a job, but | made of plain yel are out of the race at the first turn. |" A young fellow who has dabbled in a dozen occupations and has fizzled out in each of them, {5 going to be on the lookout for another one soon, and it is ipo |wl even money that he fails in that. The | de youngster is fortunate who katvs |The bloomers have clastic inserted what'he wants to do, prepares to do | through casing at knees ang walst- in it, and has the nerve to stay with it until he can de it. | pi jth The Carnegie Hero Fund, establ’sh- | 00.25 years ago, has awarded 19 gold medals, 526 silver medals, pr Seventy of the 92 known elements iP of wh'ch universe is made are met- se ori of Pa “How Ist you ask me for\ joan when I don't know you?” “It would be hopeless if you di Nagels Lustige Welt, Berlin, i of rapids or cascatres;semeof which | 1c: | copied ‘exa contrasting. piping around edge of collar and front tone of grosgrain ribbon. fill in size of pattern, Address Pattern Department. Address—Wiomlpeg Newspaper Union, DOWR meen enscemrenerersmemesenes om Sickles are still Spain in the harvesting of wheat. Planning For the Poultry Congress Canada To Be Well Represented At Congress, To Be Held In London, England, In July United States poultrymen are tak- ing a keen interest in the World's Poultry Congress, to be held in Lon- d6n, England, next July. Not only are they preparing extensive exhibits of live birds and poultry industry equip- ment, but a large number of poultry keepers and the!r friends are planning to visit the Congress. Arrangements for the trip have ad- vanced to the extént of securing pis- sagé from Montreal, which has been learned by the National Poultry Coun- cil, provides not only a low cost of ocean voyage, but an opportunity to enjoy the thousand miles throug! the beautiful St. Lawrence River and the Gulf on their way to the open sea. ‘The Canadian Committees work'ng on the Congress, are busy in every proyvin& and assurance is given that Canada will be well represented in practically all departments of the Congress and in places in the touring The Parisian’s Hobby WAS EREMIER'S BENTON French People Revel In Any Kind Of Exhibition If a Parisian has a hobby it is ex- hibitions. He revels in them. They come and go in a kaleidoscopic man- ner, There are the Spring and Au- tumn Salons for the painters and sculptors, the Automob'le Salon in the fall, the Toy Salon in the Jeu de Paume, in the Tulleries Gardens, in the month of September. And now at last there is a Winter Sports Exhibi- tion. Paris has never any snow and it is seldom cold enough for the lake in the Bois de Boulogne to freeze over. But all the same it is now the correct thing to go in for winter sports, so Parisians are for them without snow or ice but with an abundant supply of sporting clothes, skates, skis and sledges. The Winter Palace in the rue des Sablons was opened recently in warm, sunny weather. The snow is borac’c acid. On one side of the rink there is a ski run. From the top platform, Alpine soldiers, Norwegians, Swedish Ne bated 4 Miss Jean Graham, who taught Dr. J. T. M. Anderson, premier of Sas- i in for Institute, Toronto, in 1898, Miss Gra- ham, who. presided over the history department of the school, then the and Savoyards glide swiftly down the qoronto Junction high school, says run into the middle of the Exhib'tion | that the then future premfer was an Palace without once running into the ‘excellent student of history. spectators on the side lines. The object of the Salon is to boom the French winter resorts and behind it is the Touring Club of France, not to mention the French ra‘lways. Inci- dentally the shops encir- | France Keeping Her Horses Country Has Made Good the Loss Sustained In War parties that have been throughout the Motherland and the Continent. Changes Winter Fair Date Will Be Held Later In B.C. x Year } To make British Columb!a Winter Fair more of a market for live stock for the Christmas trade, the Vancou- ver Exhibition Association has dec d- ed to hold it later next year, and has fixed on four days in the latter part of December 14. For weather condi- tions the Fair date had been advanced considerably but now that the display is held under one roof, the weather does not play such an important part, as v'sitors can see everything with- out going outside. Next Winnipeg Newspaper Union The automobile is not replacing the horse in France, an official survey re- veals. The total number. of horses in France this year is estimated to be nearly the same as in 1913, when the automobile was not a serious menace to horseflesh. The government survey shows that ‘In 1913 there were approximately 3,- Gradually Eliminate the Careless 999,000 horses in France. During the Handier ‘war millions of them were killed in Producers, dealers and consumers action while many were eaten for of milk for the most part realize the food. ; justice of the prnciplaof valuing this} The years following the war looked product according to 4ts qual'ty. dark and it seemed for some time While payment on a grade basis isre- that the fields of France would no garded as the quickest method to ob- longer see any horses. It was tain improvement, and the easiest thought oply the rich could afford a means of obtaining quality at a high horse as a rjding mount wh le the few level, yet even where no d fference in left over wculd be sought by the mu- prces exists the producer of the high seums. grade milk benefits through the grad-| But the farmers of France have ual el'mination of the careless shipper staged a great comeback. They re- who constantly fails to meet the stqn- fused to introduce tractors and in- dard set, stead started breeding new herds of “This question of g-ading mile for horses. As a result France is now eity trade is d’scussed at length i:f wellfurnished with horseflesh. oo Bulletin No. 123 of the Department is also stated the quality is much bet-| of Agriculture,at Ottawa by the ter, and that moze horses are butcher- | cling the rink display all sorts of} ip 4 and The ing equipment and costumes. The French are not a “Tumultyus nation’ but a very practical people. Grading Milk On Quality Producer Of High .Grade Milk Will 2743 (By Annabelle Worthington) practical woven gingham in yel- brdwn tones wi mers: full just et choice for 6 7 a scal- es' is 55. 3 a In the four-year size, it can be} Winnlpeg May Have New Industry ctly with 24% yards of 40- ch material with 3 yard of 27-inch The saving is worth | (* hile, All the fulness falls from shoul- | {si e. Brown cotton pique with beige > que is very fashionable choice for little girl for school hours, ile green cotton broadcloth inted in novel Messrs. Johns and ed at an ea lier age because the pub- | Lockhead, who hold the view that the lic demands more tender | production of milk for city trade is Horseflesh stil remans a popular’ becoming more and more a spec lized meat in France and special butcher line in which’a knowledge of the de- shops proudly bear great metal tafls concern’ng the production of a horses heads over their dears. SS ath Spee oF at nan SUROe T= export and imported 17,- aud exported only 7,372, Biennial and Annual Sweet Clover Biennials Heavier Producers Than the Annual Varlety In the growing of sweet clover for | hay the biennial varictics have pro- duced h’gher yields than the ennual yatiety Hubam in Northe-n Ontario. The biennial sweet clover both wh’te | blossom and yellow blossom varieties habits and limited knowledge of sani- tation give way to the better tra ned, more careful producer. | 4 a Difficulty Encountered By Social Workers Find It Hard To Protect Self-Respect Of Poor An experienced social worker was nual variety on clay loam soil which Greatest difficulty in trying to carry| aa heen in potatoes the prev ous help into homes‘of poverty, Without the ler | SOM Newson © horses is | Wool Prices Are Down But Likely To Be First In Upward Climb When It Comes This has been a bad year for bumps. Think of the price of almost any raw material and you will note that it has come down since twelve months ago, and come down hard. True, you may argue, this refers mostly to the things you have to sell, and not to those you have to buy. but be patient for a little while, and most of these will come down, too. The wool grower, for instance, may consider himself hard h't. H¢ has been, | too, because wool is worth at least fifty per cent. less in the country this year than it was twelve months ago. | Then buyers were scrambling for the | warm fuzzy material which is tak off the sheep's backs. Today, despife the fact that winter is right here A vengeance nobody seems to want wool. But before we get too downhearted, think of some of the other fellows. Hogs are down, lambs are down. The dairymen are complaining that there is no money in milking cows. Alto- gether this has been a rather hard season, However, it is always darkest be- fore the dawn. The man who is dis- satisfied with his wool price this sea- son, if he has not been cheered up by comparing his lot to some other chaps who lost on live stock or just plain stocks should consider two or three things. In the first place grow- ing wool is not the slavish job that producing some other things fs. As a matter of fact, it is a pretty decent life, whether one watches the stuff getting longer and thicker on some wide range in the foot hillsy or about Paice oe gee To Be Used orm Text Books In Schools Throughout The Dominion Experiments With Fertilizers Conference Held At Regina Reaches Decision To Continue Further Investigations Experiménts conducted during the past year into the use of fert lizer have been so successful, that the pro- gramme will be greatly extended dur- ing the coming season, with a view to determining at as early a date possi- ble, the soil types and areas on which fertilizer may be most profitably used. This decision was reached at a con- ference held at Regina, attended by Proposal that an interprovincial conference be held with a view to overcoming ser‘ous ignorance of their own country prevalent among Cana- | dian school children, not to mention | the adult population, was put forward by Dr. J, T. M. Anderson, premier of Saskatchewan, in his address before a luncheon meeting of the Canadian Club, at the Royal York Hotel. Following his speech, Premier An- derson told an interviewer that he hdd in mind a meeting, possibly to be made yearly, of officials of pro- vincial departments of education. As a of the C Mining and Smelting Company, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, the Massey-Harris Company, the Cockshutt Plow Company, the Domin- fon Government Experimental Farms Branch, the agricultural departments and universities of the province of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Dominion reclamation and irrigation branch, and the Manitoba Wheat Pool, through whose co-operation the experiments were held. A similar conference was held a year ago at Trail, B.C., when experi- ments conducted during the summer of 1928 were discussed. Experiments of the past summer show clearly that on the whole favor- able results have been secured through the application of super- and the quiet pasture lot in the East. Out- side“ of a few very necessary jobs around lambing time, the work on the whole is pleasant and the usual re- turns for the amount of labour ex- pended are higher than in many other farm lines. Then, aga‘n, there is another angle to the present situation. Every wool grower remembers the big slump jn prices after the war. Values came down with a bump that time, and there was real depression. Wool was hit first, but other farm lines follow- ed gradually and eventually the thing spread to the cit’es as well. But wool, the first to suffer, was the first to come back. Skim Mik and Beef Scraps For Hens Beef Scrap May Be Used In Place Of the Skim Milk While skim milk has again and again been proved an excellent food for poultry Curing the winter season, it can be d spensed with without serious vidieytrouson, “pervert 7 floksy povided edt Mette He Fea Hes place. To test these two feeds with |winter layers they were fed to flocks | side by side at the Northern Ontario | Experimental Station. The superin- |tepdent, Mr. Smith Ballantyne, in his réport, publ’shed by the Department |of Agriculture, at Ottawa, states that one hundred pullets were used for the test, which was carried on for four Successive years, beginning at the first of November, and continuing un- til April of each year. The birds were divided into two pens of fifty each. The ration given was the same in both cases, with the exception of the scratch grain consisted of two parts each of whole ‘wheat and cracked Although, due to the large number of experiments covering so wide an area, some did not show increased yields, it was pointed out that the ex- periments have been under way only for a period of two years and that this was insufficient time to warrant final conclusion. Medals For Farmers Awardea To Men For Doing Their Work Well An interesting ceremony took place in a New York hotel, when Governor Roosevel€ presented medals to four- teen farmers. 4 It is not unusual for farmers to win medals for their stock, or for their seed, but these were unusual awards. The medals were given to fourteen selected men in fourteen se- lected conuties who were declared the best farmers in their counties. That is to say, they got medals for doing their job well, not for spec‘al- iz'ng in any particular line of farm= ing. Their land, buildings, stock, rene ond everything else were jus wren WE CU as good as they could make them. Nothing ig; just t Dr, aim for they would on achieving uniformity of history and geography text books used in Canadian schools, and on impressing teachers under the'r supervision with the importance of knowing all about Canada and passing it on to their pupils. “It might even become reasonable to agitate for a single history and single geography text book to be used all over Canada,” he said. “But the main point is that teach- ers and pup'ls and the public gener- ally at present are appgllingly unin- formed and misinformed regarding the country they live in.” The need of circulating adequate and accurate information about Can- ada throughout the Dominion was stressed at the very opening of his address by Dr. Anderson, who left Toronto, in 1908, to engage in educa- tional work, later becoming provin- cial director of education. He has tak- en an intense interest for same years in the regulation of immigration and the education of new Canadians to fit them to be good citizens. “It is a pleasure,” he remarked, “to drift back to the scenes of my youth and getan opportunity to convey Some information about Saskatch- ewan without being thought boastful. As a school teacher, and one engaged ini educational work, I have always felt that a great trouble in the Dominion is that we are not acqua’nt- ed with each other. “There are thousands in this pro- vince who know little or nothing about the West and not much more about even their neighboring pio- vince, Quebec. Worse than this, the average teacher in the secondary schools knows very little about th's country, its size, resources, activities and peoples. I deeply hop: that the various provinces will get together Soon to discuss means of extending knowledge of our own country.” * And our [Canadian children learned that the farming. Perhaps every farmer deserves a medal for being a farmer. It would be a good idea, however, if there were competitions in every county for the best all-round farmer. The L'ttle man would have an equal chance with the big man, and this would ex- ercise a good influence on the stan- dard of farming in general. Canadians As Milk Drinkers Of Population Statistics show that Canadians eat | Domini was larger than the Un‘ted States, and 18 t'mes bigger than Ger- | many; that it constituted 28 per cent. of the area of the Empire and was the largest overseas Dominion, and was as large as the whole continent of Europe. Although Saskatchewan has at Jeast one, if not several, racial prob- lems, the premier said it was far from becoming Communistic’ >r Soviet. Recall'ng his early days as a school teacher in the district, he contrasted the present conditions, a i _|skim milk and sj . | pointing out the fact that the great once asked what she found to be the |Pore sown side by side with the an- §I mi and the beef scrap. The Daily Demand Is One Pint Per Head | majority of the former foreigners were now staunchly English. jefecr —ancartad_ thes ap Tew ™ ‘Geen shown that thei are {Stand and safeguard the sensitiveness The average person consumes his weight in food once a month, wh'ch totals about 1,603 pounds a year. hesitation she replied: “Not t® brealy down their self-respect.” This is a delicate yet very practical considera- tion in such matters, Even the poor- est and most unfortunate are entitled to their right of priyacy. They may | well be tempted:at times to exclaim! in the presence of what seems to them intrusion, no matter how well Bp hace oa meant, that th jown bitterness-q meddletioc—Time i rer _int, visdhe’nhd Sana. Y it and most successful philas Opy. thre that which takes pains *to finder’ the i ¥ | | som Inquiries have been made by promi-/ half, The return from the nent American) business interests as | {ety was a l'ttle better than one the possibilities of the establish-| one-half tons to the acre. ment of a factory in Winnipog for the | rs with attractive flaring hemline. |manu‘acture of | articles ica sand is largely used. in which! Pi F |above two tons to the acre, the white |blossom yielding 1,707 pounds in ex- cess of the two tons; the yellow blos- |pean capitals are served by one or |more air lines. | wings. year. Dhe rate of seeding was.twenty Corn, and one part each of whole oats pounds per acre both for the biennial | and barley. The dry mash was made and the annual vareties. The biennial | Up of equal parts of bran, middlings, varieties were harvested toward the corm meal, ground oats ‘and barley. end of July of the second year cf their The beef scrap Was fed from a hopper growth, and the annual variety early |and the skim milk from a drinking in September of the year it was sown. | vessel. The bienn‘al varieties grew much| It was found that the average cost | taller and yielded correspondingly | Of the food per year was almost the higher. << same, maounting to $74.22 when the Whitessblossom sort reached a skim mk was used, and $73.52 for PsiXty-one inches, and the | the beef scrap ration. The number of a a Noite aa 2 mointed to an average per ma Sie fy Thches reached by fannilal va-lety. Both varieties of bienn’al gave yields of cured hay lot, and 4,944 for the others. The cost th Per dozen of eggs and the profit were practically equal. This test Mr. Ballantye points out, | a goes to show that where the farmer has a supply of skim milk there is practically no advantage in using beef scrap, but where skim m'lk is not available beef scrap may be us with profit in the ‘feeding of winter layers. gave about two tons and one- annual var- and ractically all the important Euro- B.C, Lumber Industry Healthy | !*% Desp'te the market: indus ‘emale lightning bugs are w'thout For warmth you'll like wool jor- yy in pastel shade as beige, blue, chid or green self-trimmed save for chemisette of self-tolour in deeper Pattern price 25 cents. Be suré to How To Order Patterns bei oth mot 175 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg MlErD NOwessereee Slze-.-..,, the rep. or tre rrr The new 2800 class locomotives now dian Pacific Railway mark yet an- fence in d Latest in Loc of British Columbia will rez ame amount of | money to the province this year as in | the record year of 1928, according to omotives ing placed in service by the Cana- | The er forward step in the history of two tive power. ir speed, power, and efficier resent the result of years of exper type fired, widely used in 4 ing the part of the Company's engineers, | ing The new engines have a wheel ar- | stec! boiler is des rangement not Canada, with four wheels in the lead- and construction on | fram: Previously used in | work: the the n truck, six 75 inch driving wheels pounds and of the tender 293,000 | the instructors will watch pounds, while the overall length of the “fifty-nine ‘These locomotives, ten of which are | built for the freight and pa being built for fast passeuger sche-| service of the C.P.R. in the dules, are‘of the Hudson type and in | Mountalns, they are pp’ € official estimates releas- | ter} jed at the parliament bu'ldings, Vic- jtoria. Total value of all lumber pro- duced for the year is estimated at him just over $90,000,000 as agains’ | 787,000 last year. he-b For Student Aviators A radio station is being built at SE and four wheels in the trailing truck, | Heston aerodrome which is to be used | prosaic young man. “Let student | their proper order," returned the wise javiators go through their capers|maiden. “The matter of cooking Instructions will | not the first thing to be considere | “Then what is the first?” The pupils’ | manded. Sci weight of the engine is 351,000 by flying instructors. Stationed there {is 91 feet 15% inches. hundreds,” Like which the were senger Rocky equipped with the “E” superheater; are stoker- and have cylinders and under- es cast in one solid piece, weigh- about 50,000 pounds, The nickel signed to withstand a ing pressure of 275 pounds, and ngines’ tractive effort will be in eighborhood of 45,800 pounds. above the building be broadcast from the station to the | student flyers planes will be ing sets above. equipped with receiy- cook: The output of automobiles in Can-| Th ada for the ten months of 1929, end- | have ing in October, exceeded by almost | two. three per cent. the total for the en- tire twelve months of 1928, according! Glo |to the Natural Resources Department | befor ‘or the Canadian National Railways. yo year of 4,648 for the skiticfass + £€4 | the diet, but also by and general handling" Dairying is one of the most import- | Canadian NWS? S! nt industries in Canada. annual value of dairy products ex- ceeds $250,000,000. asked a chorus of female voices. The fair fiancee’ depression of lumber+nad gi in recent months, the timber | tion “Oh, the brute! How did it happen?” bursting through their asked me w-what I wanted, and I told t $93.-| didn't g-ge feats butter and eggs per capita than / « |the people of any other country. A| Fox Farming Centre |recent survey made by the Canadian | — | Federal Department of Agriculture | Between 1,500 and 2,000 Foxes Now shows that one of the favorite bever- j In Saskatoon Area ages of the people of Canada is milk.| According to “The Hub,” between To satisfy their demand for fresh| 1,500 and 2,000 foxes constitute the milk alone takes 4,625,000 gallons a present stock in the Saskatoon region, year, or about one pint per head of | which is recognized as the centre of population per day. This increased | the fox furindustry of the prairie use of milk has been brought about |provinces. At the big black fox largely not only by a better apprecia- | show in Calgary, in 1928, the Saska- tion of the value of this product in | toon foxes captured the primary hon- the improvement |ors in competition with the best from Seihas been made in its Production | Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, TSasmee pe is the head office of the Fox Breeders’ The total | Association (Saskatchewan set OD)» | See For Themselves An Irish drill sergeant was putting a squad of recruits through the differ- ent movements. Try as he would he couldnt get a stra'ght line. Finally, in speration, he shouted: “What's the matter wid yez? Can't |ye line up? Al of yez fall out and take a look at the line you've made? Took Her “At Her Word ‘What was the present, dear?” Was it a pearl brooch or a brace- or was it a diamond tiara?” which Istely lowing anticipa- e red wi grew moist. t wasn't anything!” she replied. Not anything?" cried her friends. Ottawa Winter Fair® The Ottawa Winter Fair, opened by Hon. W. R. Motherwell, Minister of Agriculture, on December 2nd, con- tained the largest display of livestock ever seen in the capital, while for the horse show more than 300 of the fins est hunting, saddle and carriage hors- es in Eastern Canada were present. Vell, you see,” explained the bit- y disappointed one, the tears now barrier, “he I'd T-love him just as much if he t me anyth and s-so ne d-