ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS

“Gall Sto. Pass Caused By ‘
Quantity Of Export Wheat
| Shipped Through US. Ports

issue of November 5, Fie |
hance called attention to the
to Canadian business interests;
‘jarge proportion of the!

Family Community Centre

Large Family Will Be United On
Alberta Farm

export trade Mrs. Bowle, a Califor nia widow, with

ports. eight stalwart sons, all bent on farm-

| Jaw Evening Times de-| ing, faced with the possible disintegra-

he greater the inc! ease | tion of her family, has come to Alberta

of Canadian wheat the ; to keep them together with her. She

wi I the folly of such an ar-} has purchased three sections, or near-

SURE and KE URG Wy 2,000 acres of fine farming land

where they will lead a community life.

n the centre of the area a house will

transportation for e erected for Mrs. Bowie and her five

Id's goods, the position of Canada| unmarried sons. Each of the three

pee annual tribute to United States, | married sons will have his own house

y route is undeveloped, must seem| marries. Thus the family will remain
uhited, the houses being a community
Dealing with the shme subject the/centre, permitling an exchange of
News Chronicle, Port Arthur, says: | farm equipment and animals and tend-
- “It is a reflection upon the business ing towards the more economical oper-
acumen of Canada that less than one-| ation of the land.
-Untred of the shipments of grain which |

| His Life Threatened |

Viscount Allenby, British High Com-
missioner in Egypt, whose life has
been threatened. Viscount Allenby is
;one of Great Britain’s most famous
generals.

Trade Within Empire

ass through Port Arthur and Fort}
- William elevators gq through the port
‘of Montreal, and two-thirds finds its
"way to the ocean through United
States’ ports.”
Mon. H. A. McKeown, in lils official |
capacity as head of the railfay com-
mission, proposes to do all he can to

.

Greater Market For Canadian Wheat

Canadian Waters Kept Will Be Made In Britain
| It is very probable that as a result

Stocked With Fish
of the adoption of a resolution by the

Many Hatcheries Operated Between’ piijcnh Empire Producers’ Organiza-

Atlantic and Pacific { tion, Canadian wheat will find a much
In order that Canadian waters May} py.ater market in Great Britain. The

be kept well stocked with fish of high) ).sojuifon stated it was de sirable, on

; quality, the federal department of mar-

Canadian railways. In speaking at aline and fisheries operates forty-one
Vancouver banquet le ¢aid he woulda! fish hatcheries most advantageously
“search diligently for a way- to turn | Situated between the Atlantic and the
grain now going to world markets) these hatcheries ;
‘through the United States’ ports to,
“the Pacific and Atlantic ports of Can-
| Ada.”
‘There are many who are of the opin-
m the chief commissioner can be well 7 an
employed in advocating completion of according to their physical condition,
the ‘Hudson Bay Railway, so that a| the extent to which they are fished,
Ry! comy aratively vhort railway haul will | and their general yalue from a fish- |
on a navigable arm of the At-| Producing stancpoint.
ntie the wheat crop of the west.
mi ner the caption, “Shortsighted
Obstruction,” the Regina Leader says:
si ompletion and operation of the
Hudson's Bay Railway would save at
ast ten cents, and more likely fifteen |
ents a@ bushel on outward bushel ,
in. Thut would-mean $30,000,000!
$45,000,000 a year added to the pur-
i@ power of the prairie prov-

promote the use of Canadian ports by

Pacific, and from

ing of the inland waters. So far as
practicable the distribution is ecad
ed on a “standard” basis.

and lakes are examined and cla

Settlers’ Effects From U.S.

Recent Returns

An indication of the incre in "the
by settlers from the United States
shown in the latest report of the d
partment of trade and commerec

i on 300,000,000 bushels of wheat! From Apri: Ist to September 30th,

Which will soon be their normal | 1924, settlers’ effects to the value of

Able surplus. Add to that the '$3,129,339 were brought from the

¥ that would be effected on other | United States into Canada, compared

ops and dairy produce and cat- | with $2,666,872 in the same period last

an increase of $462,872. In

d the total increase in pur-} year,

spawn is distributed for the replenish- !

value of effects brought into Canada|

| economic and strategic grounds, that
the home production of wheat should
lhe materially in ed and strongly
l urge d that the wheat which must still
be imported after the home supply
has been absorbed, should be
pleas from the wheat-growing cen-
tres of the Empire. The resolution
further urges that eps be
organize and make
| wheat supplies of the empire, and that
the government institute make
,quiry with the view of

ally

ng the min-

|imum quota of Britain's annual re-
} quirements which should be grown on

home soil.

Considerable Increase Is Shown By Beekeeping On Vancouver Island

Association Has Members As
North As Prince Rupert
Interest in beekeeyp has

y growing in the S$:

land

lime, and ason it

,cided to form a ueore
“tion. Accordingly preliminary

meeting was lield at the experimental

| Station in 1923, and an association

\formed. From that beginning it has

for some
for

ars’

pur-

taken to

available the

an in-

Far

Deen
1anich dis-

was de-
assocla-

Sing power of the prairie provinces ;

ough this means’ alone would ap- | settlers’ effects brought into the Do-! members are now from all parts of
{minion by

Proximale $160,000,000 a year.”
“Phere is not the slightest doubt in

_ tlie mind of any thinking person fami-)ed with $461,519 in August, 1934, and
“War wilh the situation tlat the com-|
" pletion of the Hudson Bay Railway |,

"would be followed by a filling up of

these provinces with producers that

iid give the new route and present-

ive exisiing transportation lines all
could do to handle the trafic.”

= Shipments From

Vancouver Low

nal

Than Last Year

Though the wheat movement out of
Vancouver has, to date, been heayier
than last year over the same period,
“the outlook is that the crop year total
“will be low. Estimates varying from
18,000,000 bushels to 40,000,000 bushels
‘fre being made. Last year at this

date the bookings of space were to|

port eapacity through to the end of

February. This year the bookings

are about 4,000,000 bushels for Decem-
4 ber and only one ship in January.

Billion Dollars Yearly

 inkects on the North American con-
7 “inent cause destruction amounting to
<a ‘about one billion dollars a year, or
ss ve times the amount lost by rust in
“a year in the whole world, declared
Dr. C. L. Metealfe, of the University
aL rare “of Mois, in an address delivered at
Ax he convention of the Ontario Entomo-
= cal Society, Guelph, Ont, There
a were at least 500,000 kinds of Insects

abitihg the continent, he said.

Silent Airplanes

‘A Silent air fleet is the dream of
aviation experts. A plane}
that makes practically no noise as it
moves through the air has been de-

mee by a group of Berlin engin-}

ers. Squadrons of silent air raid-

Would add grave difficulties to the
problems of air defence, it has been
‘pointed out.

borer, giving evidence recently
‘Bamber Bridge police court, Lon-
“don, sald he was a rag gatherer, and
fortines were being made at this
_- trade. He sald that he himself had
geined as much as

_ week

$300 in a single,

; September of this year the value of, grown to a membership of These

former residents of the

the island up to Alberni and Alert Bay
United States was $541,123, compar-!

and
| Rupert. <

even as /far

$503,487 in September, 1923.
Soar ee 4 /Canada Buying Less
‘Canada’s Population ‘

Over Nine Million

Statistics Show Increase of Over Hale] Last Year
Million Since 1921 Canada is buying less from and sell-
Canada’s population has increased | ing more to the United Sattes than
nearly half a million since the last) she Was a yearago. In the 12 months
cen’us was taken in 1921. Estimates! ended October, imports from the Unit-
made by the bureau of statistics show} ed States were ¢
increases in every province except| $86,000,000 compared with a year ago.
Prince Edward Island, where there! Exports to the United States were
has been a decline of 900. There has | $418,000,000, a betterment of $7,000,-
also been a fall of 600 in the Depulaayood over a year ago. Canada’s bal-
tion of the Yukon. ance of trade with the United Stfates,
Canada’s total population for 1924
is estimated at 9,226,740. The popu-
lation in 1921, as taken by census, was
| 8,788,483. ‘There is, therefore, an es-
timated increase of 438,257.

$93,000,000.

There is a flat, concrete slab over

Bill” Cody on top of Lookout Moun-
tain in Colorado. :

north as Prince

From United States

| Exports Show Gain Of $7,000,000 Over

534,000,000, a drop of

therefore, shows an improvement of

the unpretentious grave of “Buffalo

Certified Seed Potatoes

Freedom From Diséase is of Funda-
mental Importance

The potato has been greatly improy-
ed froni a cropping standpoint by the
system of seed potato certification car-
ried on by the department of agricul-
ture at Otlawa. Not only does it en-
sure a crop practically free from dis-
ease, but as a result of this a greatly
improved yielding ability. As point-

address before the select standing
committee on agriculture, disease Is
a very important factor in reducing
yield. That iS to say, freedom from
disease is of fundamental importance
in the potato growing industry. It is
immaterial how true a variety may be
to name and type, says the Dominion
botanist, so long as it is not sound it
will never produce a satisfactory crop.
Experiments at the central experi-
mental farm carried on some years
ago with by no means that type ‘of
potato which the present certification
service is producing today, yielded a
crop of 450 bushels to the acre. In
a table included in the address, it was
shown that the ten-year average of
the crop grown from certified seed was
238 bushels to the acr2. It is assum-
ed from these figures and from other
experience, that the yield of potatoes
on the farms of Canada may be in-
creased fifty per cent. at least by the
use of certified seed.

Good Prices For Wool

Price This Year Thirty Per Cent.
Better Than Formerly
Twenty-four cents net per pound in
Saskatchewan and 24% cents per
pound in Manitoba, net at their sta~
tions, was received by farmers of the
two provinces for their wool crop mar-
keted through the Canadian Co-opera-
tive Wool Growers. Up to November
Ist, 224,000 pounds of wool had been
shipped from the two provinces, rep-
resenting $71 protlucers, 315 from
Manitoba and 556 from Saskatchewan.
‘There has been a substantial improve:
ment in grading and the net price is
30 p.c. better than in 1923. There is
reported an iticrease in the demand for
goods made from Canadian wool.

B.C. Potato Show

Final plans have been completed for
the holding in Vancouver of the an-
nual British Columbia potato show and
seed exhibit. The growing of pota-
toes in this proyince, both for con-
sumption and seed purposes, has made
rapid strides In the past few years and
the remarkably fine quality of British
Columbia roiatoes has been brought
about largely as a result of the educa-
tive work carried on by this exhibi-
tion.

eee

Valuable Sodium Suiphate Deposits

Canada sodium sulphate de-
posits of approximately 100,000,000
tons in its western provinces and
chiefly in Saskatchewan, according to
L. H. Cole, of the mines branch, of
the Dominion Government. To date
very little development work has. been
done on these deposits, but Mr. Cole
is of the opinion that these deposits
will be developed in time to take care
of domestic demands.

iias

Alberta Wheat Pool
Alberta's Wheat poo! signéd up 100,-
000 acres of wheat land in its drive for
membership, just concluded. The
pool now has about 3,000,000 acres un-
der contract.

Business establishments of Los An-
geles, numbering many hundreds, pro-
} hibit all parades in the downtown sec-
tion of the city on the ground that
they demoralize business, incite crime
and are a hazard to life and property.

Horse-Pulling Contests

Ontario to Follow Feature Adopted in
Western Provinces

Horse-puliing contests, which proy-
ed so popular at the Western Canada
fairs this year. have been receiving at-
tention in Ontario and will, according
to J. Lockie Wilson, of the Ontario de-
partment of agriculture, be regular af-
fairs at the provincial plowing match
jmext year. There have been no pull-
ing contests with the regular dynamo-
}meter in Ontario yet, but one will be
on hand for the provincial paplen:
* ship in 1925.

Turpentine and Rosin

The turpentine and rosin industry
of the United States had a fifty per
cent. increase in the value of its out-
jput in the last two years, thé United
| States census bureau reports. The
total output was valued at $38,718,745
for the crop year 1923-24,

Western Stallion

Viscount, a percheron stallion tw:

More Modern
| Grandma.—"Now, Tom
ieee up and shoulders back—you'd
Nike to have a fine carriage when
you're a man, wouldn't you?”
Tom.—‘“Well, I'd rather
aeroplane.”

hold your

Stockyards, Montreal, where it is awa’
completion of the 35 days ocean trip
High Commissioner of the Union of
Professor G. Ey Day,
Guelph, for breeding purposes.
inspected and selected for Professor
the Prince of Wales’ ranch.
Nasturtium by Tankrass, ig the first

have an

It is said that there are 2,000,000
laws in the United States; but what
about the Ten Commandments?

Russia in Europe and Asia has a
population of about 125,000,000.

of the Dominion Shorthorn
Viscount,

Valued at $1,500,
Africa from Canada and its successes

watched by western horse and cattlemen who hope to establish over there
a market for breeding and other horses and cattle ots Canadian origin.

for South Africa

o-year-old, bred by George Lane and

Company, Pekisko, Alberta, photographed at the Canadian Pacific East End

iting shipment to South Africa.
the horse will be delivered to the
South Africa, haying been sold by
Breeders’ Association,
registered number 11592, was
Day by Profesosr Carlyle, manager of
the young horse, out of
ofits kind to be shipped to South
on the other side will be closely

Upon

ed out by the Dominion botanist in an]~

Canada Is The Gy cece
Producer Of Furs Of Any
Country In The W orld

Natural Resources Bulletin

Winter Fishing-An Important Industry
In Canada

The Natutal Resources Intelligence

Service of the Department of the In-

terior at Ottawa, says:

Fishing through the ice in winter is
one of the activities of farmers and
settlers in many parts of Canada, es-
pecially in the neighborhood of lakes.
This industry is one of considerable
importance in Western Canada, par-
ticularly among the northerly lakes.
The Jack of railways or highways and
distance from markets precludes the
taking of the fish in the open season,
as there are no means of packing the
fresh fish for market. With winter,
howeyer, fishing is carried on very ex-
tensively, and large numbers of teams
are engaged in delivering the frozen
fish to the nearest railway point.

The most important fish taken is the
whitefish, although pickerel, lake trout
and other species are taken in consid-
erable numbers. When taken the fish
are allowed to freeze solid, and are
brought in piled up like firewood on
sleighs. * ) ’

The cold waters of the northern
lakes produce fish of exceptional qual-
ity, the flesh not becoming soft, as is
often the case with that of fish taken
in the warm waters of the more
southerly Jakes and streams.

A large trade has been built up with
the cities of Canada, as also in the
middle and easfern states, and good
prices are obtained for the winter
eatch of fich.

In Ontario and Quebec, however,
the winter fishing in the smaller lakes
and rivers is done for the purpose of
securing a domestic food supply, and,
while there is no means of knowing to
what extent this is carried on, there
is no doubt whatever that consider
able quantities are taken. In this
way the fisheries provide a valuable
source of food and a change in dict
of many who are not always within
reach of a fresh meat supply.

New Hungarian Settlement

Reported Large Area of Land to be
Purchased in Indian Head District
A comprehensive immigration

scheme which will ultimately result in

the bringing of 1,000 Hungarian set-
tlers and the purchase of 200,000 acres
of farms in Western Canada was out-
lined at Winnipeg by Aladar De Ged-

eon, president of the Budapest Agri-

cultural Association, who has been in-
vestigating agricultural conditions in
the prairie provinces during the past
four months.

Mr. Gedeon, who has large inter-
ests in Eastern Hungarian farm lands,
announced that he had decided to set-
tle in Western Canada and had com-
pleted negotiations for the purchase
of 10,000 acres at Indian Head, Sask.,
which will form the nucleus of his
personal estate. Altogether, he said,
he would require 20,000 acres.

If present negotiations can be car-
ried through, Mr. Gedeon expects to
bring 200 families from Hungary next
spring. He would not state, however,
in what section of the west the land
for the immigrants would be purchas
ed. - He said his plans had the ap-

rproval of the Federal Government.

Institute For Plant Research

| Would Further Manufacture of Raw

Plant Products In Canada

Approving the spirit of a suggestion
to form a Canadian institute for hor-
ticultural research, a meeting of horti-
cultural enthtsiasts appointed a com-
mittee to consider the details of or-
ganization. It was stated that the
benefits to be derived from a national
institute for plant research would be
felt by all branches of industry in the
Dominion, as a product resulting from
research would be worthy at once to
enter cominerce. Not the least of
the activities of the institute would be
to find a way to further the manufac-
ture of raw plant products in Canada,
which products are now largely manu-
factured abroad.

Men For Anti-Rust Office

The department of agriculture al-
ready has started to gather together
the technical men required for the
rust research work in Winnipeg. This
announcement was made by Hon, W.
R. Motherwell, minister of
ture,

agricul-

Treaty Is Signed

The commercial treaty

Czecho-Slovakia and Austria,

the Austrian tariff recently

the national
signed.

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ween
based on
pi ed by
assembly, bas been

Aluminum pots and can be
cleaned by rubbing with lemon juice,
or a mixture of silver

pans

and and lemon

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The fur trade has always been ono
of Canada’s essential industries. It
was Canada’s first \and, for a long
time, her only industry It contin-
ued to hold its supremacy when Can-
adian activities broadened out, and
when other Dominion industries in de-
velopment superseded it, it continued
to occupy the same high place in re-
lation to the industry in other parts
of the world. Canada has always
suggested furs, though the exploita-
tion of other natural resources has far
outstripped the annual catch in rela-
tive value to the country.

Yet from its earliest days, and
throughout the history of the indus-
try’s development, Canada has never
received more than a modicum of the
profit derlyed from the industry. Up
{ill quite recently the Dominion was
only a souree of supply of the raw ma-
terial which went elsewhere to be mar-
keted and to be manufactured. A
step towards greater independence in
the industry, and the acquisition of
greater profit, was taken after the war
when Canada seized the opportunity
presented {n the disorganization of
long-established fur markets to make
this disposition her own right. Since
that time she has steadily consolidat-
ed her position as a world fur market,
until now she is firmly established in
the opinion of buyers from. all parts
of the globe.

Viewing the next progressive step,
it is gratifying to find indication of de-
yelopment in the fur goods industry
of Canada, Not only is Canada the
greatest producer of furs for the re-
mainder of the globe, as attested by
the number of buyers which come to
her sales from every part of the world,
but by reason of her climates she has
to retain a substantial portion of the
catch herself or buy it back in a man-
ufactured state.

The fur goods industry of Canada
centres mainly about the provinces of
Ontario and Quebec, where there are
respectively 116 and 62 establish-
ments, There are 21 establishments
in Manitoba, 7 in Alberta, 6 each in ©
Saskatchewan and British Columbia,
and 2 in New Brunswick and Nova
Scotia. The value of the annual pro-
duction by provinces is as follows:
Ontario, $6,342,793; Quebec, $5,502,-
165; Manitoba, $564,057; Alberta,
$208,288; British Columbia, $68,953;
Saskatchewan, $67,843; and the two
Maritime Provinces, $76,152.

Profits of Farmers’ Company

United Grain Growers’ Have
Prosperous Year

In his address at the 18th annual
meeting of the United Grain Growers’
Ltd., held recently at Calgary, Hon. T.
A. Crerar, the president, and a former
federal minister of agriculture for
Canada, stated that the net profit of
the company for the year ended on
August, 1924, was $552,433.12, or 12
per cent. of the combined capital and
surplus of the company. in eas

An eignt per cent. dividend -was
paid to shareholders-of the company
in September last on the capital stock,
amounting to $228,176.17. The bal-
ance of profit was placed to ihe credit
of profit and loss account which is ZEN
$462,000.

The president stated that the cur-
rent assets of the company amounted
to $4,706,804.17 against current Mabili-
ties of $1,387,22641. Current lia-
bilities had not increased during the
year while current assets had inereas-
ed by $300,000.

C. Rice Jones, vice-president, dealt
with the operations of the cattle pool,
stating that since the commencement
of the pool more than $45,000 profit
had been distributed to the shippers.
Durig the year ended June 20, 1924,
the pool hauled 100,835 head of cattle.

A

A Record Salmon Pack

British Columbia has had a record
pack of salmon this year, practically
all of which has been disposed of. The
total pack amounts to 1,650,000 cases,
48 pounds to the case, of the aggregate
value of approximately $10,000,000.
The previous highest pack on record
was in 1916, when the total was 1,616,-
517 cases, wv

The Lesser Evil
Country Teacher.—If Yeou-don't tell
me who drew that caricature on tho
blackboard I'll give you a whipping.
Pupil—Whip ahead. It won't be
to what that boy'll gimme if
I tell on him.
Knew His Bible
“When was b. base

‘Teacher
mentioned in the Bible?
Johnny: “When Rebecca
the well with the pitcher.

ball first
ed to
The Explanation

First Golfer.—‘I don’t seo how Duf-
fer turns in such good scores; his

playing is very faulty.” Second golf-
es, but so is his arithmetic,”