ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS

AND

PErayhe Sart eae

Sale Of eer Breduces

Is Big Factor

Trade Balance With U. S.'

Canada’s far flung line of forest
industries stands out as perhaps the
most striking feature of the Domin-
ions industrial landscape.

Only when one realizes what ean
enormous yolume of commerce these
forest industries support, and what a
dominant role they play in keeping
Canada’s trade with the United States
on a fairly even keel, can one clearly
appreciate what,a huge -stake the
Canadian people have in forest pro-
tection. = _

These hundreds of mills together
form the main supporting pillar of
Canada’s export trade with her neigh-
bors to the south. The mounting
sales of forest products alone have en-
abled the Dominion in recent years to
keep her trade with the United States
from becoming altogether lopsided.
Last year Canada sold to the United
States roughly $242,000,000 worth of

| Television and Radio
New Perfected Device Makes
Possible To Both See and
Hear Performers

The magic wand of science, passing |
| over the factory of the General Elec-
|tric Company, at Schenectady, N.Y,

r | disclosed to a smail group of radio

{wood and paper products, this class of ' engineers, scientists and newspaper-
goods representing more than half of/men, a vision of the future of radio
the fotel value of our exports to that; broadcasting—a future designed to;
country. \bring to broadcast fans the sight as}

How long Canada can continue to| well as the sound of the radio per-
|export forest products at such 2 rate | formers.
jis a question which few persons would Sitting in comfortable _chairs in
‘care to try to answer, for there is a) three Schenectady homes, several
pretty unanimous agreement that the} miles from the company’s broadcast-
Dominion’s forest resources are being | ing studio, the visitors were enabled
steadily and rapidly depleted! In the/ both to hear and see the studio pro-
light of this situation, efficient forest | gram.
protection and management mus Simple twists of the dials on the
take rank as one of Canada’s com-) home television sets brought to these
manding problems. It is a question, men the minute reproduction of the
which commands, the active concern characters who appeared before the
not merely of those who find employ-| microphone, even to the curl of cig-
ment in forest industry, or of those arette smoke from their lips and the
whose capital is invested in that field; blinking of their eyes.
put of every individual and institution | The sound of their voices was heard
interested in seeing that the Domin-|in the susal, way through a loud-
ion’s commercial position is maintain- | speaker supplementing the visual ap-
ed on an even keel> paratus.

In Keeping

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As
CENTRES
FOREST INDUSTRY

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EXPORTS OF CAHADIAN MERCHANDISE — rans
~ TO UNITED STATES

Values of Fiscal Yenr Ending March, 1027

WHEN DAYLIGHT INCREASES |

Lengthening Process Does Not
Begin Until Middle Of
January

W. G. Sibley writes as follows in
the Journal of Commerce: When we
remark that “the days are keginning
to lengthen’ we do not mean that any
time is added to the twenty-four
hours which constitute a calendar day,
but that the period between sunrise
and sunset increases. 1t is a popular
belief that the lengthening begins on
D 2lor i diately after,
and that the increase begins at both
ends of the day; that is, that the
sup rises earlier and sets later. This
is an error. The sun really begins to

set later on December 14, but it does
mot begin to rise earlier until about
the middle of January. For instance,
in the northern states the sun rises at
7:18 and sets at 4.38 on December 21;

. and on January 12, rises at 7:22 and
sets at 4.55. The day (forenoon)
shortens four minutes in that period,
while the afternoons lengthen seven-
teen minutes, a net increase between
sunrise and sunset of thirteen min-
utes. Not until after January, twelve
does the “day” lengthen at both ends.

In the six months after December

21, sunrise speeds up from 7.18 to

4:31, increasing the length of fore-

noons two hours and forty-seven min-
utes; while the afternoons lengthen
from 4:38 to 7:32, a gain of two hours i b

and fifty-four minutes. This daylight Sane eae qatar oa

increases five hours and forty-one jar are yery flattering, and the Jong
minutes in’the northern states. | sleeves are gathered to wristbands.
poe e25 es 54/86, ae a

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Popes o wn ro rene yards 89-inch, or.214 yards 54-inch
The total area sown in Canada’ to! material. Price 25 cents the pattern.
the principal field in 1927, was 54,672,-| Our Fashion Book illustrating the
310 acres, Wheat occupied 22,460,154 newest and most practical style, will

+ oats. 13,23 + parley, ! be of interest to every home dress-
Bacate iene Aczan8s Acres “! maker. Price of the book 10 cents the

Winnipes Newspaper Union

An Attractive New Frock
The one-piece frock shown here is

When a Sparrow Falls

Save the Birds and Destroy
Insect Pests

According to scientists, we are now
on the verge of a struggle between the
‘insect world and mankind. If each in-
sect born lived until its natural death,
it would not be long before fields and
woods would be bare and our source
of food gone.

One bird devours hundreds of in-
sects in a day, and millions in a life-
time. Millions of birds deyour—vwell
the problem is too difficult to solve,
put at any rate, they enable us to
overcome the insects that remain.
Worth remembering, isn’t it? Par-
ticularly when the rifle of the small
boy is pointed toward one of our fea-
thered friends.

the

The world’s output of petroleum for
1927 is estimated at 1,229,500,000 bar-
rels,

WILL TRY OUT NEW WHEAT

Reward Will Be Tested By Sas-
katchewan and Alberta
Farmers

Experiments in the cross-breeding
of wheat of different varieties that are
carried on by experts on the staff of
the Department of Agriculture of|
Canada have produced still another
strain that is declared to be suitable
for growth in the prairie section of
the Dominion. This new strain, notes
the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, is
known as Reward wheat. It has been
revealed that the sample of wheat
with which the Manitoba Agricultural
College won a first prize at the Royal
Winter Fair in Toronto was of the
Reward variety. And, more recently,
Hon. W. R. Motherwell, Minister of
Agriculture, has disclosed that the
sample of hard Spring wheat with
which Mr. Herman Trelle, of Wem-
bley, Alberta, won a first prize at the
International Exhibition in Chicago
was of the same variety.

Hon. Mr. Motherwell announces
that a thousand bushels of the grain
haye been distributed to some four
or five hundred farmers in Saskatch-
ewan and Alberta to be tested on their
farms and also, no doubt, to be mul-
tiplied, so that larger supplies of it
may be available as seed next year.
The new wheat has been subjected to
certain tests already on experimental
farms, on the experimental plots of
agricultural colleges and on the farms
of certain seed growers. These tests
are said by Mr. Motherwell to have
shown that Reward has the strongest
straw of possibly any known wheat,
that it ripens earlier than Marquis
wheat, but not quite as early as Gar-
net, that it is less liable to rust in-
fection than any other varieties, and
that it yields a flour “without spot
or blemish.”

the dining rooms of Western Canada
if the plans of the Dominion Reindeer
Company are successful. This organ-
ization, which is now actively engaged
in the reindeer business in Alaska, is
moving 4,000 fawns in the spring to a
lease of 300,000 acres in the McKenzie
River territory, which is being grant-
ed by the Federal Government. Jt is
estimated that sales of reindeer meat
in 1929 will be $9,000, increasing to
$45,000 in the following year.

An All-British Airship

An airship firm here announces its
intention of building a machine which
it is hoped will be the first absolutely
all-British airship to land in Canada.
It will be able to carry 30 persons in
addition to a créw of six or ten. Its
flying range will be 1,500 miles but it
will compass the Atlantic by calling
at the Azores,

In after years the girl with the
heautiful auburn hair becomes a red-
headed wife.

Canadians Are Urged ow Turn
Their Gaze Northwards For

Great Future Developme nts

Every Farm Potential Aerodrome! Te map of Canada is gradually
: “jing unrolled Northwards, and

Vision Of the Aeroplane In Daily Use| bit the secrets that have hitherto lain
On the Farms Of Western jhidden in that vast empire to the
Canada north of the 60th parallel are yielding
That aviation tcday is rapidly tak-| themselves up to investigation and re-
ing its place in the economical life of | search.
Canada, linking up airports and re- It is only within the last few years
mote areas by fast aircraft which|that Canadians have definitely turned
have a speed range from 70 miles to towards the great possibilities tor ex-
200 miles per hour, disregarding the |Pansion of the Northland and have
natural topographical barriers and Satisfied themselves that the popular
eliminating time and distance, is the} belief that the Northern areas of their
opinion of W. S. McCardell, a Cana-| country are barren and uninhabitable
dian air pilot with much experience is, like most popular beliefs, utterly
in flying in Western Canada. He | erroneous. With a quiet determination
points out that the era of aerial trans-| they have tackled the problems of ex-
portation may have profound effect Ploring and exploiting the territories
on the destiny of the Dominion and| beyond the 60th degree of latitude,
the remote areas now far from com-|4nd have within the past year com-
munication and contact with social|mitted themselves to spending many
centres may, through the medium of tnillions of dollars to development
a network of airways, become in| work in that part of the continent.
terms of time a few hours distant} The establishment of post offices,
from the largest cities. police posts and customs houses in
In view of the advent of the light|the Northern islands off the Cana- |
aeroplane which costs no more than!dian mainland has been steadily pur-

a good automobile, and in view of the
ease with which flying can now be
mastered the stretch of farms in
Western Canada may be only a short
hour or so away from the city land-
ing ground; independently of the con-

sued; the most Northerly administra-
tive post in the world is that of the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police at
Bache Bay, on Ellesmere island, 700
miles south of the North Pole. There
is no end to the surveys that are be-

ditions of roads the aeroplane may | ing carried out among the islands
carry the rural dweller over the sky|themselyes and to the investigations
lanes in the span of an evening, per“ conducted into every feature, geo-
mitting him to attend the theatre and} graphical and biological, that these

areas which wait
long for economic conditions that will

permit the construction of roadways,

would ordinarily

the daily life of the people as a ve-
hicle for fast travel. In the rural
areas of Western Canada every farm
becomes a potential aerodrome and
the cities and community centres only
@ short flight away.

Plan Industries Fair

Everything Made In Great Britain
Will Be Exhibited

Almost everything Great Britain
makes, from huge electrical equip-
ment for a power house down to tho
daintiest jewelry, will be seen at the
British Industries Fair, which is to be
held simultaneously in London and
Birmingham from Feb. 20 to March
2; 1928.

The aim of the organizers is to
make each section thoroughly repre-
sentative of its own branch of British
industry and to establish the fair
more firmly as an annual commerciai
event of first class importance—the
manufacturer's means of launching
new products and establishing new
contracts, the trade buyer’s means of
keeping in touch with the latest devel-
opments in British production and of
taking 2 complete survey of that sec-
tion of it which interests him most
without haying to make a tour of the
country.

Ship Live Cattle To Japan

Forty Head Obtained In Albérta Were
In Prime Condition

Shipments of dressed beef in the
half or quarter carcass have heen ex~
ported to Japan from Vancouver for
several years past and consignments
of pure-bred and dairy cattle have al-
so been made, But what is believed to
be the first shipment of live beef cat-
tle was made from Vancouver recent-
ly on the steamer Erviken by the Van-
couver Livestock Exchange. The ship-

return again the same night. Certain| islands contain.

Coming nearer to civilization, Cana-
dians are seen creating for themselves
new transportation routes and new

This force has for its duty the mak-
ing of observations in daily flights
over vast expanses of water in order
to note the tidal conditions, currents,
prevailing winds, ice and all other ele-
ments that enter into navigation.
Three air stations are located in the
straits, one at Port Burwell at the ex-
treme point of the Labrador Penin-
sula; the second, at Wakeham Bay on
the south shore and midway up the
straits, and the third at Nottingham
Ysland, in Hudson's Bay itself, At its
western entrance.

Day after day flights are made and
reports transmitted by wireless to the
Canadian government.

The whole idea behind this is that
the government should possess all in-
formation as to how navigation can
be lengthened, for although the Hud-
son Straits have been navigated for
three hundred years and at one time
were the main highway to the Cana-
dian West in the days or the old fur-
trading companies, the development
of the southern lanes of traffic left
that route far behind.

Linked up with these investigations
is the definite effort now being car-
ried out to finish the Hudson's Bay
railway—a line which will when com-
pleted, run from a point in Saskatch-
ewan, near the Manitoba border, to
Fort Churchill on Hudson's Bay.

As originally planned the road was
to end at Part Nelson, but an ex-
haustive investigation into the merits
of the two terminals resulted in Fort
Churchill being decided on. It will
lengthen the railway by nearly 100
miles, but the report of engineers who
made a study of the situation in-
dicates that Churchill has many na-
tural advantages not enjoyed by Nel-
son and that, despite the 100 miles
of railway building, the expenditure
in the end will be smaller.

| This line goes right into the heart

Paper
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Vegetable ecocts Mineral Reindeer Industry that will enable them to reach desir-|an “expeditionary force’ of flying il
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