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Tnterccting Theory if Held That
Lunar Cycles And Sun Spots Have
A Definite Effect On Weather

By Condition Of Cattle When

‘They Go Into Winter Quarters

The kinds and amounts of feed)
used in the winter feeding of th

Foresters and hunters returning
from the foothill district south and
west of Edmonton report this year a
tremendous Increase In the number of}
field mice. Colonies of these little ani- |
mals have reached such proportions
that in some areas they are blamed}
with undermining Jarge treés, lenv-!

foothold in the earth. In some in-|
stances it is stated that large trees!
have fallen in quite gentle winds. |
While experienced foresters doubt if
the mice cian be held responsible for}
felling timber, pointing out that many|
of the trees in the affected district)
are “oyer-mature” and likely to crash, |
they do agree that the mice are more|
plentiful. This they ascribe to the!
“eycle.” Dr, Rowan ofthe university
has, by observation, fixed this as re-
curring every four years. Rabbits, as
is well-known, become plentiful every
nine years, even to the point of over-
iunning whole districts, only to die
off again in large numbers in the
cyclic progression.

Scientists have been studying these
strange cycles of abundant yield.
Only last summer a conference was
held in the forests of Quebec, attend-
ed by experts from many countries.
Attempts to connect the phenomenon
with the eleven-and-one-half year
sun spot cycle seem to haye been
abandoned as a result of the informa-
tion there exchanged. Many animals

q
ing them with severed roots and little}

WileeuEsaingnOb ‘Beef Herd |

Feeding Should Be Largely Governed

beef herd should be governed to a

Synthetic Rubber

JUDGE RETIRES

Effect On the Rubber Industry

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inyl acetylene.

Discovery May Exert An Enormous

Fourteen years Nieuwland worked |
over his apparatus before his experl-
ments bore fruit in an oll culled div-
It was of no appar-

(Back To The Land Maven amme
| Has Reached Heavy Volume
_ During The Past Two Years

Geologists Find Traces Of Weatth| ne
|to

ging out of a desire to return
land, the back-to-the-farm
Movement in Canada has attained
such volume that, in the past two

port Following Field Work Survey
Will Be Interesting

large extent by the condition of the ent yalue. To a layman it '
f } might
Place Men On Farms aie "Ee young stock is they go seem slight reward for fourteen years
into winter quarters. If they go of effort. But when chemists mixed

Saskatchewan Government Has Pan into the winter in poor condition, due latfonmio nen siete iit Rade
To Assist Unemployed to a shortage of feed on pasture, ; f |

Plans for the placing of single un-
employed men on farms in the
drought areas of Saskatchewan, un-

fed to the bred cows to get them int

grain should be added to the ration

fair condition before calving, and also

oO the rubber industry.

water they created a synthetic rubber
that may exert an enormous effect on

The science instructor who discoy-

} years, more than 43,000 persons have
been transferred from city to coun-

uy-

Field work in connection with the
Seological survey service of Canada
is over for the year, all parties hav-

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+ the government  assistance|{o cows nursing their calves if good ered the chemicals that make this ‘8 returned to Ottawa to prepare| The movement has been singularly
scheme, haye been adopted, accord-| condition on both cow and calf Is eotiistin ree A ie eee aaj tele reports. Additional information| Steady ever since the industrial de-
ing to Hon. J. A. Merkley, Minister} desired. Cows in calf should not be bility TAS Ace ee atte y ened respecting the vast stores of Canada’: |pression became severe. It is not
of Railways, Labor and Industries. | allowed to run down in flesh, else they | Nieuwland In ennouncing his Utouched mineral wealth will follow the result of government propaganda,

Under this plan, provision is made) will be unable to produce vigorous wahiaversmnbté Melaiy oP he a pont 70m these compliations;several of/0f any campaign to “Influence” city
for the government paying the men) calves and nourish them with a good Canaan said that Father syitirars the groups having devoted themselves | unemployed in favor of agriculture.

$5 per month allowance and the farm-
er $10 per month, in certain cases,.

Payment of such sums are governed
by special circunistances.

Acccording to department oflic‘als,
approximately 1,000 applications haye|
already been received, and they are
arriving daily at the rate of nearly
200.

The scheme is insfituted with a)
two-fold purpose; first, of supplying
needy farmers in the dried-out areas
with necessary help and, secondly, to
obtain employment for qualified farm
laborers at present unemployed in
the urban centres of the province.

Regulations for the placing of sin-
gle unemployed girls on farms on a
plan somewhat similar to those adopt-
ed for the placing of men are being
prepared.

| Now of milk.
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| tion, Lacombe, Alberta, silage mad
from corn, sunflowers, or oats form:
the principal part of the winte’
ration for the beef herd.

good condition.
of silage fed is about three pound:
per day for each one hundred pound:
of live weight.
mented with a good hay (legume pre
ferred) and cther roughage, such a:

or green feed they will consume twic

Coal For Wheat

and more silage fed.

At the Dominion Experimental Sta-

Cows and
jcalves relish it and thrive on it when
|some supplement is added. The silage
has laxative properties which keep|
the digestive organs of the animals in
‘The usual quantity

The silage is supple-
“oat hay” or green feed, The usual
practice is to give the herd all the hay
daily without unnecessary waste, If,| ut here that I found in the East, The

however, hay is scarce or high in|Next year confidence that is so char-
price the amount of hay is reduced acteristic of the West is a great pos-

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Mrs. Emily Murphy, the first wo-| the Congregation of the Holy Cross,
man to be appointed to the post of
judge in the British Empire, has re-
signed from that position in Edmon-!
ton, Alberta. Mrs. Murphy has held
the office for fifteen years.

vow of poverty.
The quest for an artificial rubber,

Western Optimism and the goal has been elusive. Be-

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People Always Have Great Confidence

In the Future
‘The proprietor of a western news-
paper recently visited this part of
the Dominion and on his return home
dictated a private letter in which he
said: “There isn't nearly the gloom

| with a yariety of possible sources
among common weeds and shrubs.

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goldenrod, rubber chemists at

ce

stalks. A California botanist,
William B. McCallum, runs an ex-

session for people to have in these
factory near

Sallinas,

land's sharo of the profits from the
exploitation of the product will go to

for when he was ordained he made a

or for a substance that would fill the
Same purposes as rubber, has been
carried on through years of research

cause rubber is a yegetable product
scientists have concentrated consider-
able effort and money on experiments

While Thomas A. Edison was testing
an extract of dried and pulverized
the
Bureau of Standards in Washington
were examining by-products of corn-
Dr.

to the acquisition of data in that con-|1n every case, the request for trans-
nection. fer has come from the individual.

In northeastern Manitoba geolog-| No pressure is being exerted from
{cal conditfons of an area several hun-| Ottawa to stimulate the movement
dred square miles in extent in the) and no financial assistance is being
Oxford Lake district are declared to| siven.
be favorable for gold prospecting. Dr.| Federal officials believe that what
J. F. Wright carried out the survey|/4as happened is this—thousands of
in this region. oe boys and farmers left their

Keen search for new sources of|farms in the years of prosperity to
this metal is in progress in British|80 to the cities, work in industry,
Columbia. Dr. G. Hanson and Dr. H.| €Djoy the bright lights. The depres-
C. Gunning cqnducted the operations | sion has taught them that farm life
on the Pacific Coast and report in-|has its peculiar advantages and they
creasing production from placers. are eager to'return. The govern-

Geographical and geological ex-| ment is trying to make the task easy
ploration of a large area of sedi-|4nd is meeting with tremendous suc-
mentary and voleanic rocks peed a
Rankin Bay, on the west coast of| The 40,000 odd who have been lo-
Hudson Bay, engaged the attention of cated are spread fairly uniformly
Dr. L. U. Weeks. Observation flights| across the Dominion. They comprise
cver the whole area were made by air-| 3,500 men with familés and 25,000 sin-
plane in addition to numerous canoe} gle men. The general direction of the

any perimental trips. At the close of the season the | movement {7 vested in the coloniza-

party was conveyed from Rankin Bay) tion branch of the Immigration De-
to Churchill, whence it returned to|partment. Immediately the demand
Ottawa. |arose, the department invited the two
at ns rail\ray companies, both large land
New "Aid For’ Deat owners, to co-operate.

The land officials of the railways,
Machine Not Yet Perfected But 15| together with the field force of the
| Great Help land settlement board, made careful
The deaf soon may hear throygh|SU¥eys of rural Canada to discover

In order to keep the young stock! times. Down East I found that mi
growing and thrifty and the cows People were not looking into the fu-
that are nursing calves up in condi-| ture at all but wholly concerned about
tion, some grain is fed. Oats, which | the present, Our people do not like
forms the basis of the ration, is Taix-| Present conditions, it is true, but they
ed with barley, a little bran, and at beli¢ve that the future is going to
|the day when Canada might buy Brit-|times, for high-class, cattle, .a little bring about an improvement.” There
lish coal in exchange for wheat on a oll-cake meal. Grain rations for such| never has been any question about the

young stock and cows will vary from | courage and resourcefulness of west-

barter basis.
He advocate the adoption of barter |one or two pounds per day up to\six|¢rm Canadians. They, havea wonder-

follow the nine-year cycle. Every
nine or ten years there is recorded
a tremendous increase in their
numbers, and then, just as suddenly,
ther. comes disease and they dic by
the million.

Generally speaking, it was found
that about every nine years there
were times of abundant productivity

where hé tries to improve the product
jof the Mexican shrub guayule, The
extraction of rubber from this plant
was achieved thirty years ago, but
its promotion as an American farm
crop has been very recent.

But neither guayule nor goldenrod
rubber can be considered as synthetic.
Any exploitation of a natural plant

Proposal That Canada Buy British |
, Coal On Barter Basis |
Lord Gainford, former president of |
|the Federation of British Industries, |

|stated recently that he contemplated |

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in plant and animal life covering most icon Great Britain and Canada as|0r eight pounds, according to condi-, ful agricultural country at their dis-| Product is likely to deter the quest 4171. angers, thanks to an apparatus "mers who desired a hired man.
of the North American continent. The) Toon. of short circuiting difficul-_| tons. |posal and thelr Industrial activities |fF an artificial product. If petro-| Viton causes spoken words to tingle|*d farms that were for sale. The
ppnsemegign daar casey mi. ns BU e ue tles arising out of currency complica-| The’ breeding Herd’ fs “furned™-out)have becomesmportant-” “Their na- re oe Be reed new mua eell Cre nernicine : |railways had many saleable farm
was found to begin in the far north | iio). and suggested Canada might im-|laily for exercise, except in stormy tural wealth in/oil coal and baste) for synthetic rubber it might hasten | p, Robert H. Gault, professor of | Properties, as had the settlement

and to work its way southward and
northward, reaching southeastern! i145 take 16,000,000 tons
Canada after three years or so. Some | pom the United States.

most interesting curves were pre-)
sented by Dr. Ralph B. Delury, assist-|
‘ant director of the Dominion observa-
tory at Ottawa. He pointed out that
the cycle of nine and a half years is}
but little longer than the lunar circle |
of 8.85 years and almost exactly half
of another lunar cycle of 18.6 years.
‘These two cycles of tidal activity may

or uausually severe. weather, in a{metals is tremendous. Even the price| better times in the ofl industry. ‘The |
yard which {s sheltered from the pre- of wheat shows signs of mending and! Russ{an Institute for Rubber Re-
vailing winds, Water is always avall-|™ixed farming’ grows apace. The) *edrch is supposed to guard a secret
able in a trough with a tank heater|Canadian West cannot be restrained Process for making commercial rub-
and coarse salt is placed in boxes in|from coming into its own. Very ber from crude oil; a similar experi-
the yard where the cattle can lick it} many months will not roll round until) ment tried last year at the Bureau of
at will. — Latombe Experimental it is again the scene of renewed pros- es LE se
Ets, |perity.—Toronto Mail and Empire. sults. ‘The bureau did succeed in ob

taining crystalline rubber. Even if Du
Pont's synthetic rubber attains com-
mercial success, it will not discour-
age further research. Professor H. E.
Simmons, of Akron University, recent-
|ly said that such common farm pro-

|port British coal on this basis rather psychology at Northwestern Univer-| board
sity, Evanston, Illinois, and inventor} The business of connecting the city
of the machine, demonstrated its op-|“2¢™ployed with the desired rural lo-
eration showing how various words|C#tion then began. Single men were
feel" differently. |found positions with farmers, and,
The apparatus consists of a smal) | Wherever possible, were placed under
vibrator in the hand of a deaf per-| Contract for one year.
son, connected with a microphone} Married men were found farms
through a battery. When words are close to the cities in which they lived,
spoken in the microphone the vibrator #90 within thelr means. Long term
buzzes. payments at low interest also were
“The words ‘automobile’ and ‘uni- | “*ranged.
versity,’ for example,” said Dr. Gault,| It was found that thousands of
“do not feel alike. The difference in| ™@rried men, unemployed ‘and with
feel is similar to that between a cake | little hope of employment, are not
of soap and a keg of nails.” penniless. They have savings of
Dr. Gault said that “feeling speech” from $200 to $500, sometimes more,
still was not a complete success, but | 40d this is sufficient to make a small
that it was a tremendous ald to the Payment and leave something for the
deaf, when combined with the yisual | initial expenses.
proceas af Up-readiogs | So general is the desire of unem-
Two exceptionally-alert deaf sub-|Ployed to go on the land, that many
jects, however, have been able to feel Agencies outside the three mentioned,
stories of 250 words which they had 8re becoming active. Some effort
never read before Dr. Gault said. | Will be made to bring these agencies
under central direction in the imme-
An organ with a bronze keyboard | “ate future. ‘This will prevent du
and sitver pipes was found not long, Plleation of work nnd will ensure uni-
ago at the site of the Roman city|formlty of treatment. The view pre-
Aquinisum, and is believed to date) YS “ ee Fear ctics ——
| policy is one which refuses’ all subsi~
Saga the thirdicenkiny: BG, dies or financial aid. In this way,

, iy | those placed on farms are believed to
Albino crocodiles are held in vener-|nave a better chance of permanent

annually

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Bill Boards For Air Tourists | Railway Crossing Accidents
The billboard curse has taken to
the air after having adopted all of Report For Menth Of August Gives
the scenery along the country's high- Number Of Deaths As Seven
ways. A sign has been erected near} Deaths asa result of railway cross- ie
the airport at Tulsa, Oklahoma, which! ing accidents in August numbered | OuC's Lepciaat Pmcaalte tek “ah
is so constructed that ‘plane passen-' seven, according to a report issued by |. . is a
|plored the enormous waste of time
gers can read its advertising message the Board of Railway Commissioners. | 4.4 Toney in duplication of research
from the sky. There were 18 accidents, and besides :
those killed, 26 were injured. pa seabier “laboratories Ania) UgeEae
By provinter, Ontario™led in aece he a central institute in which all
am faucet efforts should be combined.
New York Sun.

allowing cold layers to come
atmospheric pressure and storm ares.
Dr. Ellsworth Huntingdon supplied
significant support for this Tunar cy-
cle of drouths and of agricultural pro-
ductivity in the United States, with
a period of 18.6 years when measured
by the five cycles between 1837 and
1930. During the same time there
have been six financial panics separ-|
ated by five normal periods each of |
18.4 |
In his paper, Dr. DeLury suggested
that there are three influences con-}
trolling these cycles—a sunspot cycle |
of 11.2 years average and the two}
lunar cycles already referred to. He|
stated also that the yearly deviation
revolution about the sun would pro-|

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Chlorine was discovered in 1774, by
Carl Wilhelm Scheele, a Swedish|dents with eight, Quebec had four,
scientist, when he poured concen-, Manitoba two, Alberta three, and
trated hydrochloric acid upon man-| Saskatchewan one.
ganese dioxide. | The total for the month of other Started Life At Bottom
|accidents in connection with railways| The famous Sir Henry Royce, of
Hubby — “Another new dress! Was 242, in which 20 persons were/ Rolls-Royce, and designer of the en-
Where am I to get the money to pay tilled and 241 injured. gine that won the Schneider Trophy,
for it?"” | |relates that he began life by selling
Wife—‘I don't know. I'm newspapers in the street. He is a
wife, not your financial adviser.’ remarkable man, and by the excel-
lence of his work has caused the
name of his firm to be used as a
symbol all the world over for first-

A little microphone which can be |
‘attached to the buttonhole has been
ldevised to enable speakers to move

Pretty soon it will be time to turn|about a platform more freely than
the first sod In the grave of Old Man|when facing the ordinary broadcast-

your}

of the earth's axis and its yearly

of cycles as final, They have been
known and studied for hundreds of
years. There was a cyclic law promul-|
gated in India many centuries ago. |
Possibly in a few more centuries all!
cycles may be charted, their cause]
definitely discovered. Once that is
done, predicting the future will be!
routine—but even then it is doubtful)
if all men will be ready to meet the
rainy day.—Edmonton Journal.

vide a definite rhythm in life and cli-| Depression. ing outfit. | class in everything. ation by natives of Nigeria. guccess!
mate. But even yet scientists are] = == — = = = ee - ——_—_———— - —
Ete resity $0 scene ei gepeation CELEBRATING THE NEW RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TWO SISTER DOMINIONS Pietra

Settling In Canada
| Tide Of Immigration Flows the Other
Way Now

The flow has reversed in regard to
immigration between Canada and the
United States. Instead of Canadians
crossing the border to seek their for-
tunes, citizens of United States are
coning to Canada.
| In the three months, July, August,
and September, no fewer than 4,181
Americans came to Canada to settle,
and this number included 1,243 of
English descent, 473 of Irish parent~
hage, and 490 of Scottish descent.

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| Ladies’ and Misses’ flared coat,|
made in five sections. Front edges un-|
more /|derfaced and rolled with collar, one-)
sleeves with applied cuffs. |

‘Travelled Many Miles
Rounding out a service of
than 50 years, Guard Douglas D. Gra-| seam

ham, of Carlisle, Scotland, has just| Seven poe ‘ee ;
Retina tinal neatrayelled roportionate Measurements

Zarlisle on his last trip, officials of the | Hip
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retired, | '
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ways. He was ) S Hip 37 39 41 48 inches 2 gr fe
for 19 years, As he left the trainat/Bust 42 44 46 inches | the British Tate and Buropean coun
45 50 inches | ries. Those from the British Isles .

numbered 212 Irish, 1,112 English, 443
Scottish, and 46 Welsh.

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i service and gave him| Cont ,
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c York City bridges so much, on one |76-26 a Petes
i August day this past summer, that 75745 eH | 6 ny’s Grain Crop ;
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: in hour and 20 minutes. Width at lower edge of coat, size includes 3,669,000 tons of winter ,
; | ss 3,669,

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wheat and 564,000 tons of summer
wheat, said its final crop report issued
recently. The wheat crop exceeds
that of last year by 440,000 tons and
is 30 per cent. above the average for
the last seven years.

Length at center-back from neck to
A anthropological Iaboratory |jower edge, size 16, including 1-inch|
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n Santa Fe, N.M., to study the early inches. ae |

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ao anf hits appendix were buired with Stouts, land & Nn tally, you will ; ;
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To celebrate the inauguration of the new trade treaty between Canada , Photos show: Top left, a group of the welcoming delegation including L. R.
MacGregor, A Trade © to Canada; Hon. Leopold
MacAuley for Ontario; T. A. Enderby, General Manager, Canada Steamship
Lines; Brig,-Gen. J. G. Langton and A. E, Hyland, heading the visiting
Canada and return cargoes of Canadian goods are now on the high seas en] 4 \stratian Goodwill Delegation; top right: Mr, MacGregor presents the first
route to the Antipodes. Australian shipments for the west, in part, reachcd! sample of Australian pineapple to H. C. Grout, Toronto Board of Trade, with
ES | 1H E. Laffer, representative of Australian viticulture and N. W. VanWyck,
Toronto for rail transhipment, Three hundred men, provincial C.S.L. Freight Traffic Manager, in the background; lower left: one of the
officials including representatives from the western provinces met the S.S pair of young kangaroos aboard the vessel; lower right; S.S. City of Toronto
City of Toronto of Canada Steamship Lines when she reached the Ontario'on arrival with the first load of produce coming off—Canada Steamsh P| A man with well-cut
+eeeesencan|city and Australian colours flew for the first time in a Great Lakes port. {Lines Photographs. Ulk, Berlin,

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and Australia, hailed as a prelude to more and far-reaching intra-Empire

Pattern Nosccecorsee SlsQss-cesnq|*ETerments, & goodwill ‘cargoes of Australisa products were shipped to

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this knife won't cut/’—Buen Humor, |

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