ran a gece ee PRETO PNG 4 ABBOTSFORD. + SUMAS ‘A J) MATSQUI NEWS being started this year drouth-stricken areas of n had been undertaken ago “the farmers would not ‘the cerious situation they ” declared a statement prairie farm rehabilita- committee. Dr. E. S. ctor of Dominion ex- 8, is chairman of vs stions where soil ield husbandman. “Large erative efforts by which farmers will wndertake 0 ing, the planting of trees rb around farm homes, ‘ther means of conserving or domestic and general use farms. The committee’ in- give all the assistance pos- _ farmers and careful study » of the effect of trees as wind The drouth resistance of S grasses was being studied. | governments on \ the ries as ell as the universities H ers’ organizations were co- ng in the work. J ie farm rehabilitation act, oduced into the commons last ses- nm. Robert Weir, minister ulture, provided $750,000 for tation work this year and )00 would be voted under it in the next four years. In ad- on $500,000 has been allotted un- ublic works act for water ments. % th Africans Like Cereals Steaks Losing Place On t es on the breakfast menu. y they are a rarity, and cereals wheat variety have taken ‘place. And it is a fact that re is a marked difference in the ysique generally of the present generation when compared with their nd grandparents. The young -day are not nearly so y built. story of the opening of the les exhibition in an English town re the committee of the butchers’ mn presented the mayoress (who the exhibition) with a joint of beef in lieu of a bouquet of resents a moral to the trade Africa, says a correspond- the Cape Argus. He suggests “Eat Meat to Avoid De- : a The Soy Bean ised In Many Food Products Including Ice Cream ists haye found the soy bean in many spheres. From it are ade, in addition to valuable feed, paint oil, varnish, els, oilcloth, linoleum, buttons, les, box covers, windows trim electrical parts, printer's ink, , celluloid, glue, soap and substitutes. ‘the realm of foods for which the bean is useful are sixty-five dif- products. ice cream. The soy bean has been a farm crop Orient for centuries. Chinese ‘e milk, butter and cheese from It was first grown on this conti- nt in 1904. There is even soy Saw Long Service One of Great Britain’s nistoric locomotives was recently retired from service after having run 780,- 000 miles, reports the Canadian Na- tional Railways. It was the last of the “single wheelers” in public pas- senger service and was built in 1888. The most distinctive feature is the single pair of driving wheels, which are seven feet in diameter. _ Turkish towels are so-called be- ‘cause the materials from which they @re made resembles a cloth of Turk- fa manufacture. Paralysis In Fowl Progress Made In Control But Ex- perts Still Baffled Within the last five or Six years a disease known as range or fowl Paralysis has become an important factor in the rearing program of poultrymen. iscovered in Europe in 1907, it first gave trouble here in 1929 when in some cases 50 per cent. of growing flocks fell prey to the iséase. While some progress has been made in control, experts admit that they are still baffled, Usually the most promising pullets are first stricken at the age of from three to five months. Older birds are not immune. An unsteady gait is the first symptom and as the disease de- velops birds lose power of locomo- tion and lie prostrate on their side or on their breast, with legs stretched backward, forward or extended side- Ways. Wings are next affected and birds usually become powerless. Birds are able to eat, however, and Sometimes linger for three months. For control, the following recom- mendations are made: First of all, one must remove at once any otherwise healthy birds which tend to show lameness. If the condition develops, then these should be killed and burned, and if the pres- ence of the disease is definitely estab- lished, then remove, if at all possible, pullets to a new ground. If the build- ings have to be used, then thorough- ly clean and disinfect them before allowing birds in. The infected ground should be dug or ploughed under and it may be considered safe after four months, if no birds were allowed on it in the meantime. Keep a close watch on pullets and remove immediately all suspected birds. Omamental And Useful Fruit Of Plants Grown For Beauty Has Food Value Beauty for beauty’s sake was once considered the only reason for the growing of ornamental plants, but Dr. A. S. Colby, chief in small fruit culture at the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, says that the food value of several ornamental plants has given them a new value- The Japanese quince is one of the shrub§ recently found to possess a “dual personality” in that its fruit is valuable in supplying additional pec- tin and acidulant needed in making jelly with apples or other fruit. Long ago, Indians used the fruit of the high bush cranberry to make a jelly which was eaten with buffalo meat. They called the fruit “pembina.” To- day, this fruit is being rediscovered as a source of both beauty and food. Nanking cherries also come under the group of edible fruits produced on plants grown primarily for their ornamental value. Architect Had His Way Proved To Indian Rajah His Idea Best A maker of beautiful things is mindful of the things that are more beaut‘ful than anything human hands ean fashion. So it was that the right veply came to the lips of a great architect when his work was ques- tioned. Sir Edwin Lutyens had been chosen as the architect of the new Delhi, but the Viceroy of India had different ideas about the style of the building. Lord Hardinge wanted him to adopt the pointed arch, and said that the greatest benefactor India had ever known was Rajah So-and-so, who had always adopted the pointed arch in all the great buildings of his time. Sir Edwin Lutyen’s reply to this was that the greatest benefactor to India, in his opinion, was God, and that He had not given the pointed arch when He gave the rainbow. The architect had his way. Model Lifts Big Weight Toy Steam Engine Capable Of Lift- ing Half A Ton Perhaps the only toy model sta- tionary engine in the world capable of lifting 1,000 pounds has been con- structed by Walter Gregory, Quincy, Mass. The engine, made at home, is run by steam, and technical experts have travelled many miles to see it. The boiler dimensions are: Height, 24 inches; firebox, 9 inches high; 37 three-quarter-inch tubes, 15 inches long. _ Politicians must envy the moon. Do not wash aluminum saucepans Prices Have Changed Great Increase In Real Estate Values In Old London Tourists revisiting London again after an absence of several years are, greatly impressed by the multiplicity | of new buildings and the prepara-| tions being made for the erection of | still more, writes John Grigg in the New York Sun. But Londoners. themselves are always being treated! to structural surprises, for in the continued building boom quick changes take place in the appearance! of a block or a street. The rise in real estate values in the inner rings of the capital has in- duced certain Londoners to turn up old records to see what the new golden acres were worth some cen- turies ago. While no one would gain- say that Piccadilly is a street of fabu- lous wealth in terms of land value, nearly the whole length of it was sold in the eighteenth century for $1,500. The deal, countenanced by employees of the State, was on a par with cer- tain disreputable dispersals of Crown lands in earlier times. Not every Londoner knows, either, that in the Cromwellian days Hyde Park, which covers 564 acres was sold to three | men for a total of $85,000. It is worth millions to-day and, what is more to the point, is unpurchasable. The thanks of Londoners are due to Charles II., the Merry Monarch, for its preservation as an open space free to the public, for shortly after he came to the throne the sale was re- voked and the land returned to the Crown. Grain Appeal U.S. Government Opposes Move Of Chicago Dealer . The appeal of Arthur W. Cuten, Chicago grain dealer, from an order Sfispending him from trading privi- leges for two years, was answered by the U.S. government. The reply to the Canadian-born operator was a 127-page brief filed before the United States circuit court} of appeals by Wendell Berge and | Leo F. Tierney, special counsel for the U.S. department of agriculture. Oral arguments are expected to be heard some time in October. The government attorneys con- tended the grain futures commission was fully within its jurisdiction in suspending the trader. By exploding 20 tons of gun- powder, a Scottish quarry has brought down enough granite to keep the quarry busy for five years. Long Range Forecasts Establish Definite 23-Year Cycle Of % Weather Changes Devastating drouths such as that of 1934 may in the future be predict- ed years ahead as accurately as to- morrow’s weather is now forecast. Dr. C. G. Abbott, secretary of the Smithsonian institution and outstand- ing authority on radiation of the sun, announced new results of his studies | of the effect of variations in the sun's rays on the earth's weather which hold great promise for long- range weather forecasting. Analysis of his data shows he secretly predict- ed the 1934 drouth with a h’gh de- | gree of accuracy. He has established a definite 23- year cycle of weather changes which is apparently dependent on a double sun-spot cycle in solar radiation. In this cycle temperature and rainfall at numerous points over the surface of the earth approximately duplicate conditions at the same points 23 years before. Dr. Abbott was quick to point out that the repetition would not follow exactly from month to month each 23 years, but that in general, normal or abnormal weather could be ex- pected to recur at approximately that interval. Thus another ‘major drouth may be expected to occur in 1957. Canada Buying More June Imports From United Kingdom Higher Than Last Year We have had occasion in the past! to complain of the poorness of the response of certain Dominions to the provisions of the Ottawa Agreements so far as their purchases from the Mother country were concerned. It is with satisfaction, therefore, that to-day we find ourselves in the pleas- | ant position of being able to hand a returns” bouquet to Canada. Official show that imports into the Dominion lfrom the United Kingdom increased from a total value of £1,928,000 in June, 1934, to £1,990,880 last month. We look for this to continue on a still bigger scale. The new Order- in-Council which imposes @ surtax of 331% per cent. on all goods imported into Canada from Japan should help. Statesmen in the Dominion may now be realizing that a boy’s best friend is his mother. Neither Japan nor America can take the place of the Mother country in Canada’s national life—London Sunday Despatch. Until as late as 1842, Lower Cali- fornia’ was believed to be an’ island instead of a peninsula. The amount of branded beef sold in In a free country the people de- mand laws to make themselves be Canada during June, 1935, was 3,- 312,501 pounds. She SNAPSH wife say if you made your appear- mous feet such as those in the pic- ture to the left? War would probably be declared ment, “Well, dear, the camera never lies.” But the truth is that the cam- era didn’t lie for it caught just what the lens saw. Evidently the amateur who took this picture held the camera quite low, and probably less than three feet from the two feet of the attrac- tive young lady. Her head and shoul- ders were at the right distance from the camera to give good perspective but her feet.were perhaps thirty-six inches nearer the lens. Perspective in a picture is deter- mined by the point of view from which the lens makes the picture, so with soda water. 2113 after all the camera did not tell a lit- What would your girl friend al ance with her picture after the Sun: day outing, showing her with enor-| when you made the familiar || OT CUIL Watch Your Perspective “Distortion is pos- sible if you want it (left) or it can easily be avoided” tle white lie, but portrayed exactly what it saw and just about what the eye would see if one looked at the subject from the same point of view. True, this is a much exaggerated example of bad perspective, but in making portraits, or indeed, “close- ups” of any object, we should be careful to see that no part of the sub- {thar the rest. In making portraits we are some- times likely to permit our subject to place a hand well forward on the | arm of the chair. If working within three or four feet from your subject the hand will appear abnormally large. Better have the hands in the Jap in a natural position and close |to the body with most of the fingers folded under. 1 Now you should know how and jhow not to get distortion in your , portraits so let your conscience be your guide, JOHN VAN GUILDER. ject is very much nearer the camera | Fur Farming In Canada Grows In Recent Years To Considerable Proportions A Monster Camera Bridge In San Francisco Bay Throws Picture On Concrete The world’s largest camera has been discovered by- accident in the midd'» of San Francisco Bay. The “camera”’ is the centre anchorage of the huge suspension’ bridge. It is a concrete affair about the height of a fifteen-story building, 197 feet long and 82 feet high. Vent holes near the top of the tre- mendous box act as pinhole lenses, so directing the rays of light from outside that they cast an enormous picture on the concrete partition 1- side that divides the anchorage in twe. The vent holes cut in the six- foot walls are rectangular apertures 1 foot by 2 feet. The pictures on the “plate holder” of the giant camera are of course upside down, as in all cameras. They show the bridge tow- ers and passing ferry boats, some- times in natural colors, sometimes in black and white, depending on the time of day. The principle of the pin- hole camera is an old one. Long be- fore the development of light sensi- tive materials for photography, medieval nobles had small apertures cut in the walls of their houses so that they could watch life in the street outside reflected on the white wall of a darkened room. Sugar Is Brain Food Provides The Energy Which Is Nec- essary For Thinking An article in Science Service says the old slogan about reaching for a cigarette instead of a sweet may be all right for those who want to lose weight but for those who want to do some heavy thinking, it should be re- versed. Experiments showing that the brain gets its energy for thinking from | glucose or sugar were reported here to the American Physiological Society by Drs. H. E. Himwich and J. F. Fazikas, of Yale University. The brain takes sugar from the blood, breaks-it up into simpler chemical combinations, and burns the lactic acid thus obtained to get energy just as a steam engine gets energy from burning coal, Dr. Him- wich explained. He and his associate found acci- dentally that when nicotine is mixed with brain tissue in a flash, the brain cannot burn lactic-acid but the burn- ing (oxidation to the chemists) goes on just the same if glucose is pres- ent. So it appears that the ‘brain has two ways of getting energy for thinking from gluecose or sugar. Experience Is Valuable Man Who Works Over Long Period Knows His Job New York Central Lines recently retired on pension 700 employees who had reached the age of 70 and were thus ready for retirement under the rules. They were only one per cent. of the railroads’ personnel but a con- siderable group all the same, and these 700 oldsters give the lie pretty satisfactorily to the legend that men over 40 might as well be consigned to the scrap heap. Among the re- tired 700 were many of the ablest employees on the rolls. A railroad man, or any other for that matter, in his fities and sixties is not necessarily the dodderer that many of our brighter minds would have us believe. Curiously enough, when one has done his work faith- fully and well over a long period, he is likely to be somewhat better at it than a person of less years and ex- perience. Some employers have fallen for this ridiculous idea of 40 as the age limit. More have not, and it is good to see it refuted altogether by the New York Central’s experience— Detroit Saturday Night. Automatic Lights Highway Lights Turned On And Oft By Action Of The Sun Highway lights turned on by the setting sun and turned off as the sun rises will be placed by New York state on a strip of state high- way at nearby Latham soon, as the state’s first experiment in highway lighting. The lights—25 in number—are sodium vapor lamps controlled by photo-electric cells. As increasing light from the sun’s rays play on the photo-electric eye, the lamps go out. They go on by a reversal of this pro- | cess, to shine through fog, rain, or | snow. Not all furs which which Canadian fur companies turn into Wearing ap- parel come from animals which roam the northwoods of the Dominion, Many of the animals which carry the Most valuable fur coats have never seen the northwoods. Neither they nor their parents and in many cases their grandparents have ever seen or known the freedom of the bush. They were born and raised on farms devoted entirely to the raising of a fur crop. Government figures show that there are at least 6,473 fur farms in Canada and that their an- nual “output” of furs is yalued at $3,712,443. The idea of fur farming came from the habit of trappers to capture alive young foxes and keep them near their cabin till the animals’ fur coats were in their prime. So fur farms were started and fox became the main fur-bearing animal kept on these farms. Silver fox was the animal most sought by the fur farm- ers and so valuable did their pelts become in the early days of fur farming that a pair of silver foxes for breeding purposes cost as high as $35,000. To-day 93 per cent. of the crop of the fur farms is silver fox. But though fur farming has be- come a big business, with farms throughout Canada, it is by no means perfected. At Summerside, Prince Edward Island, there is a govern- ment experimental fur farm. And here scientists are busy developing methods whereby better furs can be raised on the farms. Diets for cap- tive animals are given much atten- tion and experiments are now being carried on to discover the best time of the year to supplement the regu- lar rations of these farm-raised fur- bearers with vitamins A and D to produce a good growth of pups. Experimenters have found what they think will overcome one of the great difficulties of fur farming— parasites which infest the animals. No matter what methods have been tried, what precautions have been taken, external parasites are to be found on the animals. The Summer- Side scientists have developed what they now believe is a sure cure, the spraying of all kennels, nests and all the wood-work of the pens with kero- sene oil three times a year. Other experiments now going on are reveal- ing new information regarding the influence of protein content in ra- tions on the development of fur; whether dried meat, meat meal and fish meal could replace fresh meats during summer months; work is now progressing to determine the iodine requirements of silver foxes in cap- tivity. While foxes are the main animals on the farms, other fur-bearers are also being raised, including mink, raccoon, fisher and fitch. The mink in particular is easily domesticated and there are now 577 mink farms in Canada. Muskrat farms are rapid- ly multiplying and during the last three years more muskrat skins were cured than any other kind. But the silver foxes still bring in the big money, with $867 as the high price last year for one silver fox skin. Fur farms, in case you are inter- ested, have a capital investment of nearly $14,000,000 by the latest gov- ernment statistics, while the animals on the farms are valued at $7,500,- 000. There remain, of course, a great many trappers who depend upon the native wild animals for existence and pit their skill and cunning against that of the forest denizens. From them, too, fur manufacturers draw valuable shipments of fur each year to grace the models of city fur shops. Largest Open-Air Zoo [Is One Of The Seven Wonders Of East Africa : After a visit to the famous Ngoro Ngoro volcano crater, where in a de- pression many miles wide, thousands of wild game of all kinds disport themselves in what is the world’s largest open-air zoo. Sir Harold Macmichael, governor of Tanganyika, has outlined plans for making it pos- sible for automobiles to reach the rim of the crater. This will enable tourists to view one of the seven wonders of East Africa. The average income of Napoleon III. of France amounted to $14,219 a day. Some people think should please everybody. newspapers It can’t be done. ;