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Prediction Is Made That
Will Eventually Produce A

Billion Bushels of Wheat a Year

A few days ago Hon. T. A. Crerar, |
former Federal Minister of Agricul-|

ture, made the prediction that Can-
ada would eventually produce a bil-
lion bushels of wheat a year und find
a@ market for it. At first sight, says
‘The Globe, this appears to be a tre-
mendous volume, but is in reality not
souch more than twice the crop pro-
duced by the Dominion at the pres-
ent time. Since approximately 94
per cent. of the wheat crop of Can-
ada is raised in the Prairie provinces
this territory would presumably be
looked to for the attainment of this
figure. This raises the question of
the potentiality in agricultural devel-
opment of the Prdirie provinces, and
it may be mentioned that in the past
quarter of a century the wheat pro-
duction of this area has increased
nearly twenty-fold. 4

At the time of the 1921 census, but
59.2 per cent. of the possible farm

Hog Production In
West Is Increasing

Will Soon Account For Half Of
Canada’s Total Is Belief

“Confidence in the hog industry of
Western Canada continues to be re-
iterated,” states the Saskatchewan
Co-operative and Markets Branch.
“This territory will soon be account-
ing for 50 per cent. of the hog pro-
duction of the Dominion, it was pre-
dicted at the annual convention of the
Western Canada Livestock Union.
Steadily, it was pointed out, the per-
centage of select bacon hogs has been
increasing, and since grading has
| been in effect the four Western Prov-
inces have practically doubled the
output of this class of hogs. ‘The last
figures published by the Government
show-that in 1927 there were 387,260
swine in Manitoba, 616,603 in Sas-

Jand in was pied; 47.1
per cent. in Saskatchewan, and £0.2
per cent. in Alberta. These propor-
tions have not altered drastically
since, as new settlement for the main
part has been directed to established

jes. In a i ion that
it is only about 50 years since the
first homestead was filed upon in the
area, and the first quarter of Cana-
dian Pacific Railway land sold, the
transformation of the area has been
remarkable, and presages the devel-
opment of the next quarter of a cen-
tury with a marked amelioration
effected in all conditions affecting
colonization.

When a census of the Prairie proy-
inces was taken in 1926, it was found
that there were 248,168 occupied
farms in the territory, 53,251 being’
in Manitoba, 117,787 in Saskatch-
ewan, and 77,130 in Alberta, The to-
tal area occupiéd by farms was §8,-
929,493 acres, which makes the ex-
tent of the average farm throughout
the territory approximately 350 acres.
These farms, which half a century
ago or so were unsettled and un-
productive, the buffalo ranging over
“them and the Indian pitching his
teepee there, given away or sold at
infinitesimal figures, have a high
‘yalue by reason of their productive-
ness. Occupied farm lands in the
Prairie provi are the
of their kind in the world, being
valued at $27 per acre in Manitoba,
$26 per acre in Saskatchewan, and
$28 in Alberta. Yet at these low
figures occupied farm land in Mani-
toba has a total value of $389,113,-
419; Saskatchewan, $1,184,759,090;
and Alberta, $800,042,000. In censid-
ering the scope of expansion it is to
be noted, too, that, according to the
1926 census figures, but 55 per cent.
of the acreage of occupied farms has
yet been improved.

Already the revenue going to farms
In this area is tremendous. This has
been particularly true of the past few
years of fine crops, and good prices,
which have placed the farmers of
that territory in a very enviable posi-
tion. Field crops alone, which account
for about 85 per cent .of the agriciul-
tural revenue of that territory, re-
turned in 1927 the sum of $464,087,-
800, Manitoba receiving $82,280,000;
Saskatchewan, $309,064,U00; and Al-
berta, $272,743,300.. This would indi-
cate that the total agricultural rey-
enue of that territory was in the
neighborhood of $550,000,000,

Great Demand For Horses

Pp F For Canadi
Animals Established In United
States

Horses! Horses! Horses! There are
8,421,837 of them in Canada, the de-
partment of agriculture insists, as-
serting that the buggy ride is stil
a thing of the present and that the
old gray mare is just like she used
to be—the safest one-arm driver op
the trail.

Ontario, Quebee, and the -maritime
provinces are experiencing a brisk
demand for bush and farm work
breeds. Big draught horses are in
demand for bush and farm work.
Saddlers, hunters and polo ponies are
sought after, and have a ready sale,
Quality, however, is the insistent
keynote not only in Canada but in the
United States, where Canadian hors-
es have established for themselves a
gplendid reputation. The value of
Canada’s present stock of horses
amounts to $260,476,000. ¥

Farmer: Come on. I'll show you
how to milk a cow.

a calf.

All ideas should be carried out and
the bad ones should be buried.

w. N. U. 1787

kat 742,671 in Alberta, and
49,654 in British Columbia, a total for
the Western territory of 1,976,188 or
over 42 per cent. of the Dominion ag-
gregate, This figure compares with
865,097 in 1920, or more than double.
“While the British market, which
is the principal outlet for Canada, and
where the Canadian product has been
Jong established, has been adversely
affected of late by reason of active
jon from countries,
prospects are held out of this situa-
tion adjusting itself shortly, and
Canadian farmers have been advised
by the British Ministry of Food
against any possibility of slackening
in their efforts at hog production. The
British market will, in time, it is
stated, become as profitable to them
as it was a few years ago.”

Grain Shipment From North

Marked Increase Over Alberta Lines
Shown In Last Report

A goodly volume of grain is still
trickling out of the northland over
the Alberta government railways, ac-
cording to the latest igures furnish-
ed by officials of the lines. The per-
fod covered by the latest report is
from August 1, 1927, to May 14, 1923.
For the purposes of comparison, 4g-
ures for the same period of the prev-

{| fous crop season are also appended. .

Over the Edmonton, Dunvegan and
British Columbia railway and the
Central Canada railways, a total of
9,736,747 bushels of grain has heen
hauled south, as compared with 5,-
439,502 bushels for the samme period
of the preceding year.

The Alberta and Great Waterways
railway has a total of 1,205,574 bush-
Fels hauled out, with a total of 440,-
429 bushels for the same period of
the previous crop season.

Cannot Be Excused

Germany may protest that she did
not “cause” the war and she may
deny atrocities charged against her,
put whatever headway she may
make in these respects she will never
get very far in trying to excuse the
wanton destruction of the University
of Louvain.

Canada |

Prospecting In Far North |
Bases To Be Established and sippliont
Transplanted By ‘Plane |
Prospecting by aeroplane on a4
large scale is to be carried on this
summer by veteran mining men in
the far Northern sub-Arctic regions. |

J. Hammell, internationally known

Winnipeg Newspaper Orion

prospector, who has formed an aerial
exploration company to attempt the
experiment, has announced plans for
the greatest mineral exploration
work ever undertaken in the North-
ern field. One hundred and fifty pros-
pectors will be taken in this summer,
bases established, and supplies trans-
ported by plane.

Forty or 50 prospectors fill be sta-
tioned at each base. Supplied with
collapsible canoes and provisions,
they will, in parties of two, start out
for specified points. Each prospector
will receive a monthly wage, and ten
per cent. interest in whatever claims
he may stake.

The company will have at least ten
large areoplanes, manned by pilots
who have first-hand knowledge of
Northern flying conditions. Bases
are to be established near The Pas,
Man., and several hundred miles fur-
ther North, probably In the Barren
Islands, on the west coast of Hud-
son's Bay.

Sheep Promotion Plan

Unique Scheme Is Being Undertaken
By Manitoba Department Of
Agriculture
Following up the scheme proposed
by leading Manitoba agriculturists, a
sheep promotion plan is being under-
taken by the Department of Agricul-
ture. This is being financed by several

ture. A letter has been sent to all ru-!

simply fashioned and are a comfort~-
able style. There is a drop-seat, cen~
tre-front closing, round collar or ap-
plied band, patch pocket and long or,
short sleeves. Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and
12 years. Size 4 requires 24% yards
82-inch, or 2 yards 36-inch material.
Price 25 cents the pattern.

within the reach of all, and to fol-
low the mode is delightful when it

sou].| can be done so easily and economic-
firms interested in Manitoba agricul. | ally by follawing the styles pictured
in our new Fashion Book. A

Sas &

Child’s Pajamas
The pajamas shown here are quite

Home sewing brings nice clothes

chart |

ral councils in the province to ascer-| accompanying each pattern shows!

tain the closest possible estimate of| the material as it appears when cut

! out.
the demand for sheep on the basis that the

make without difficulty an attractive, 4; di ‘ cra y
dress. Price of the book 10 cents Piitenee acne gee ae mifeThe ya:
copy.

outlined. A limited number of sheep
will be distributed to farmers this
fall, range-bred ewes born in 1927,
and the approximate price will be $1
to $14 per head. Payment for the
sheep will be made by the farmer on
a basis of 20 cents cash, 30 per cent.
of the balance in 1929, 30 per cent. in
1930, and 40 per cent. in 1931.

Removing Old Landmark

Halfway Hotel In Alberta Is To Be
Dismantled
Some -23 years ago the Halfway
Hotel, a veritable wayside inn, was a
favorite stopping-place for the
freighters and was well known
throughout the district. It took its
name from being just half-way be-
tween Edmonton and Fort Saskatch-
ewan on the Fort Trail. It has heen
purchased by the Provincial Govern-
ment which plans to dismantle the
building and erect other houses in a
scheme of the beautification of the
“Mental Institution” which the pur-
chased property adjoins.

Ran Bible As Serial

“The New Era,” a weekly news-
paper published at Parker, North
Dakota, after twenty-two years and
eight months, has completed printing
the Bible in installments. Charles
Hackett, pioneer editor, began the in-
stallments and his successors have
continued the custom.

Address: Winnipeg Newspaper Union,

Pattern No..

ber that what you sow, that shall you
reap. If you sow turnip seed you will
get turnips, and if you sow—’

teacher, I sowed some canary seeds,
but I didn’t get a canary.”

speed and fed continually with wet
sand, cuts through solid rock in a
new type quarry saw. Tiny grains of
sand, dragged across the rock face,
serve as abrasives to groove it at a
rate hitherto unknown.

movie actress.

Every detail is explained so
inexperienced sewer can

How To Order Patterns

175 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg
Size ..:....

Does Not Always Work

Teacher: ‘Now, children, remem-

Johnnie (interupting): “Please,

Steel Cable Cuts Rock
A long stee: cable drawn at high

Dora: Has Jean a dependable job?
Mae: Yes, she's bridesmaid for a

) Waki Use Molten Steel

To Break Big

Icebe rgs That

‘Menace North Atlantic Shipping

Making Hazardous Trip

Tyne Workmen Going To Singapore
On Floating Dock

On @ great floating dock, built for
the naval base at Singapore by Swan,
Hunter, and Wigham Richardson,
Ltd., in ten months, a nuniber of
Tyne workmen have embarked on a
hazardous yoyage from the Tyne to
Singapore. The dock, which was in-
spected at Wallsend by Admiraity
officials and engineering experts, is
885 feet long—one of the largest in
the world. Three and a half million
rivets were used in its construction.
It was reduced to sections, which will
be towed across 8,500 miles of ocean
The voyage will take four months,
provided no storms are encountered.
One of the most anxious periods will
be the passage through the Suez
Canala. There will be a margin of
only two or three feet of water be-
tween either side of the dock and
the embankment, The greatest navyi-
gating skill will have to be exercised,
as the slightest deviation from the
course will spell disaster.

Has Variety Of Uses

No Part Of Soya Bean Need Be
Wasted

The ingredients of the soya bean
are such that, taken as a whole, it
is one of the finest foods. - It «is
“ground” just like’ wheat, “but the
flour it forms is many times more
nutritious than Wheaten flour. From
the bean can also be obtained an ar-
tificial “milk,” which closely: resem-
bles and possess many of the proper~

riety of uses for soya bean products
makes wasté almost impossible.
What remains after oil or fat hag
been extracted can all be made into

cattle fodder. It seems a far cry from)

a bean to a billiard table or an éx-
plosion, yet the soya bean provides
the raw materials for many familiar
objects, rariging from billiard balls to
high explosives. 2

Will Continue Investization
An item of $500,000 to continue the
investigation of conditions of naviga-
tion in Hudson’s Strait and the Hud-
son’s Bay passed with little discus-

*| sion during the consideration of Ma-

rine Department estimates in the
House 6f Commons, The Minister of
Marine, in reply to a question, stated
that all reports recelyed had indicat-
ed satisfactory conditions “of ndviga-
tion in the straits. .
Improvements On Western Farms
According. to a recent census of
the farms of the Prairie Provinces,
40.9 per cent: had automobiles; 34.8
per cent. had telephones; 25.5 per
cent, had gasoline engines; 21 per
cent. had tractors; 2.2 per cent, had
auto trucks and 2.1 per cent. had
electric light. ,

Thomas A. Edison set army experts
to seek some device whereby poison
gas will be used with animal traps.

White-hot steel can split icebergs
into harmless fragments and break
up huge ice jams along the North
Atlantic steamer route, says How-
ard T. Barnes, professor of physics
in McGill University, Montreal, in a
research report to the Engineering
Foundation.

Since 1893, Professor Barnes has
beeh making scientific investigations
of the physical properties of ice and
practical methods of controlling it.
The energy from molten steel, he
shows, supplies rays that equal or
surpass those of the sun in power to
penetrate ice.

“For a reasonable expenditure the
menace of icebergs can be removed
from the North Atlantic steamer
route,” the scientist asserts. “Also by
skillful engineering utilization of phy-
sical researches extending over 35
years, the great expense caused by
{ice at power plants, bridges, and
|many other structures and the dam-
| age from floods caused by ice dams,
| or jams, can be greatly reduéed.

“Ice can be broken up by blasting
or reduced to water by heat, or dis-
integrated by the aid of chemicals.
Quick-acting, sure, powerful, inex-
pensive methods are required. To
supply artificially enough ‘heat to
melt a berg or jam is beyond the
|range of feasibility. Skillful, limited
| applications of heat will, however, ac-
/complish much.

“Thermit can be used effectively at
modest cost. Thermit is a mixture
of finely powdered aluminum metal
and oxide of iron, | When properly
ignited, it -reacts vigorously, gener-
ating very high temperatures and
producing. extremely hot liquid steel.
'Thermit say be seen in action in city
streets where rail joints of a trolley
line are being welded.

“The energy from this molten steel
supplies rays that equal or surpass:
those-of the sun in power to penetrate
ice for many feet. ‘The action of the

j white-hot steel upon the ice is re-

markable, converting it into hydro-
gen and oxygen gases so rapidly that
a powerful explosion results,

“In this way a huge jam may
readily be broken up so that it will
float piecemeal harmlessly down the:
riyer, or-an iceberg be split into frag-
ments so small as to be no menace to
commerce.”

. ‘Newspaper Up-To-Date

“The news of English we tell the
Jatest, writ in perfect styling pub-
fish, and fost earliest do a murder
commit we -hear with it and publish
for it. Do a enormous chieftain die
we printulate {t and/in borders som-
ber with black, so black. Staff has
each one all been colledged and write
fike the Kipling, the Wells, and the
Dickens. We circle every one of them
towns. and nor do we extorionate for
the advertisements not.”"—From a:
Chinese Newspaper.

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\ New Assistant—‘What shall Ido
first?”
Proprietor of Clock Store—*Wind

up the business.”

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|lived her early days in England in a Victorian atmosphere. The
—— | best features of the old tradition now survive in her own court. |

Originally the Princess May, as she was then known, was en-|of the present monarchs was staged at Westminster Abbey with

Messages of congratulation from all parts of the eipire
poured into Buckingham Palace upon the occasion of the 61st
Noyice: Perhaps Td better start on tirthday of Queen Mary, on May 26. The passing of another
| milestone serves to recall the ‘many changes which her iajesty;
\ nas seen. The eldest child of the Duke and Duchess of Teck, she

a

who is now King George V.

22,

1911, the

the duke died of influenza.

The cereniony was

gaged to the Duke of Clarence, eldest son of Albert Edward, ) a weullo of, pageantry.
Prince of Wales, who later bécamé King Edward VII. A month
before the date of the wedding
The princess was, however, such a favorite with Albert Edward
that he arranged that she should marry his second son, George,
Duke of York,
performed in St. James’ Palace on July 6, 1893.
1910, King Edward died, and on June

On May 6,'
coronation
fashion.

(1) shows the queen in state dress,

wearing & diamond tiara and a profusion of jewels; (2) is her
majesty ona shepping expedition; (3) is a picture of the queen
taken’ before her murriage thirty-five years ago;
King in his uniform of colonél-in-chief of the Black Watch. His
birthdsy was celebrated on June 3, when he was 63 years old;
(6) Is # picture ofsthe queen taken when she was Priness May
of Teck, and when wasp-waists were the vogue in the wor: } of

(4) is the