Gro Districts To Considerable interest has been! aroused here of late and throughout | the continent of Europe in the_set- | “lement of Western Canada, says the! Monetary Times and continues: Gov- ernment circulars, railway adver! Usements, and British newspapers interested in the “New West" devote much space to picturing Canada as a land of opportunity. Wealth is represented as awaiting the daring Buropean emigmant on the very threshold of Cahadian soil. fe learns that expansive prairies and} Great tillable plains await “his plow-| Share and will insure him affluence! and power. Disillusioned by these circular advertisements the believing immigrant has his hopes smashed by| the outlook of frontier life. His new | Canadian home is hewed out in an atmosphere that is Tull of disappoint-! ment. ty | The Canadian Goyernment has brought many new settlers to Can- ada under the “assisted inmmigrant” plan, It is hopgd that these fami- lies will settle on Canadian farms or : up of Canadian To Study Resources of Frontier he Scientists Aid the Pioneer. Canadian situation onght to win the! enthusiastic Approval of all who are interested in the destiny of this great Dominion. Fish Meal For Stock Feed B.C, Product May Be Shipped To Prairie Provinces | As a means of building up the} heflith of Western Canadian cattle, | the British Columbia Government is} encouraging the use of fish meal as feed. The fish meal is manufactured from pilehards which are caught in millions off the west coast of Van- couver Tsland. According to.Hon. S, L. Howe, commissioner of fisheries, it has been shown that calves fed on a ration of fish meal had at the end of a year an ayerage height of two and a half inches in excess of the standard, and) an average avéight of S30 pounds in | ea oa WENS WRIGLEY MAT RATHON FOR WOMEN: excess of the standard weight. He added that herds fed on a ration ‘of fish meal are free from goitre and abortion, and that cases of bovine Martha Norelius, former amateur swimming star from New York, who won the fourth Wrigley marathon for women at the Canadian National Exhibition on August 23, She covered the ten-mile course in the record time of 5 hours, 24 minutes and 22 seconds. 4 will Yourag dare the ps of pioneer life. But in any case they are to be” primarily. + A very distinct contribution to- ward improving the lot of the pion- eer and gaining a more authentic knowledge of the location and re- .Sources of our frontier districts is being madt by a group of Canadian and American scholars. The Na- tional American Research Council and Geographical Society have at- a very pro- | gram. They hope to make a statis tical and historical survey of the! fringes of civilization, especially the| pioneer belts. The plan is outlined) by its farmers as follows. “A pion-| eer belt is a region of recent,-pro- | gressive or potential settlement. In} this study emphasis will be laid up-| on agricultural settlement, as well as! the preceding forms of exploitation, lumbering and mining. The regions of primary interest are those posess- ing resources sufficient to support 4 socially tolerable and economically) efficient population. The geographi-) cal focus is the,temperate zone of! either hemisphere and such ~sub- tropical areas as approach to a tem-) perate zone climate.” The first region to be studied is} that of Canada, supposedly because it is the most accessible. The study of this area aims to appraise its na- tural resources, to study methods of Settlement with due regard to avoid-| ing wastage of life and capital, ana to trace the successive stages of utilization of rftural resources and the resultant effects on economic and socigi institutions. This phase of the project has been | turned over entirely to an all-Cana- dian pioneer problems committee of which Dr. W. A. Mackintosh, pro- fessor of political and economic science, Queen’s University, Kings: | ton, has been named director. Other} members will include: Dean W. J.) Rutherford, University of Saskatch-| ewan; Professor Chester Martin, | Professor D. A. MacGibbon, Univer- | sity of Alberta; Professor D, A. Me-| _ Arthur, Queen’s University Profes-| sor C. A. Dawson, McGill University, | ‘end Professor R. W. Murchie, Mani- | toba University. \ The research conducted by these experts will fall into four-categories: Physical conditions (climate, topo- graphy and soil), agricultural econo- | mics (farm management and unit settlers’ progress, and utilization of | Jand and machinery); history and} economics, and social structure. Their studies will cover the whole pidneer area of Canada, ‘Although | concentrated on separate regions. ‘The area is conveniently subdivided thus: (1) Quebec clay belt, (2) north- ern Ontario clay belt, (3) northern Manitoba, (4) southwestern Mani- toba and southeastern Saskatchewan, | (5) northeastern Saskatchewan and) northwestern Manitoba, (6) prairie pelt (ie. the dry belt), including irrl-| gated regions, (7) park belt, (8)| forest soil area, (9) Peace Raye country, .(10) foothills and ranching | country (also ranching areas in Bri- tish Columbia and Saskatchewan). ‘Although it is not intended to seek government sid, the Prime Minister Cabinet may be ready to co- ate with handsome grants to cover the more ex ensive stages of this project. Such disinterested and scientific study of man’s relation to his environment and in general and with particular emphasis on the | province, A day or so ago Premier are relatively unknown among cattle so fed. Alberta Crop: Forty Bushels To the Acre Reported Ini Peace River District Those who have supposed that there were no good crops of grain in Central Alberta this year, will be in- terested to learn that a Wetaskiwin farmer, Mr. Gustave Elgert, has been Of Rates On Grain and Flour To Pacific Coast The provinces of British - Colum- bia, Alberta and Saskatchewan have prepared a petition to the Governor- In-Council, appealing from the judg- ment of the Board of Railway Com-~ missioners, of August 26, 1927. It will be heard on October 15. Presented by Leon J. Ladner, K. for British Columbia, S. B. Woods, K.C., for Alberta, and W. H. Ewen, K.C., for Saskatchewan, western provinces ask: “That the mountain differential be entirely removed and that the prairie standard tariff of maximum mileage rates be applied to all territory west of Port Arhur, “That the rates for the movement of grain and flour from prairie points to British Columbia for domestic the pr for the finest ficld of wheat in the Brownlee told us that there are crops in the Peace River district which are calculated to yield 40 bushels fo the acre. Unst week a report from . the} south stated that in the extreme southwestern corner of the provinte yields running up to the same figure were expected, The field crops com- petition in which Mr, Elgert won was open to entries from any part of the} province, and entries were actually| made in districts all the way from} the Athabasca River to the interna- consumption be reduced to the rates tional boundary. To win under these} (treme tg) ARO ON apply Sondltions, theiprize-feld mush hays} C= stall end our ymoving = from been good, not only by comparison, | PFairie territory through Fort Ww fl- but by the standards which apply In| liam and Prince Albert to points in a normal season.—Edmonton Bates] |e ee MEI ti e “That the rates for the movement of grain and flo to the Pacific coast ports for export over the lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway be based on actual mileage-in accord- ance with the order of the Board of | Railway Commissioners, dated Sep- tember 2, 1925. “That the special class lake ter- minal rates between Port Arthur, Fort William, West Port and points in the provinces of Saskatchewan j and Alberta be reconstructed so as }to remove the present unjustly dis- criminatory and unduly \preferenial features thereof. “That the rates on fruit from the producing areas of British Columbia to points on the prairies be estab- }lished on an equality with the rates |on similar fruits moving similar distances from the producing areas of Ontario to points in the prairie provinces.”” the in. Winnipeg Newspaper Union Self Feeders For Hogs r Feeding Bacon Hogs While self feeders for hogs save much | satisfactory for the feeding of bacon labor they are not entirely | eS |Found_To Be Not So Satisfactory | | | hogs throughout the enjire feeding period. This is particularly so in the case of newly weaned pigs, although |a well balanced protein ration sup- |pleménted with milk by-products | would appear to permit the use of | the self feeder for the younger class- es of bacon type hogs. In his report for 1928, published bythe Depart- ment of Agriculture, at Ottawa, the Dominion Animal Husbandman | states that some surprisingly good re- |sults have been obtained from using the self. feeder throughout the entire feeding period. In too many cases, however, it is shown by experience at the Experimental Farms that the use of the self feeder has a tendency to result in a thicker type of than is usually produced by DRAPED FLARE A new silhouette for the youth- fully smart woman, It shows the raised waistline, a chic detail in all Paris frocks. The circular skirt in diagonal movement is draped at left side which {S suggestive of wrapped treatment. 5) vi combines printed and voile, the popular summer fabric comes in 5 3 38, 40 and The deep slender hip- uitable for the larger the circular ful- green chiffon trough feeding. No. d ES in cotton May Soon Need Certificate It The torist time is coming wherf the mo- who to renew his t applies license will-have to pr from ed y that his car has been inspect- and found in good shape. Until ich safe-guard there a that wo un ent a certi- an appro’ garage to tomato red handkerchief printed lawn sh be a proper assurance ar = fro combination: afternoon mode: 5 cents in stamps or preferred). Wrap coin ource of dan The Great Rift Val t gigantic eginning in Pal- and running to the N in East Africa 2,500 miles. ra carefully. crack in the earth, How To Order Patterns Address—Winmipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave. Winnipeg south Nyasa 1 dis- about Dear er's) Old Lady (at village groc- Young Man, I should like to traffic jam—ther’ been $0 much about it in the papers lately. NO.cececmeree SIZ€.. eee aiterD Fi try a pound of some tecsmeseresecstmrcosesoveed hog! careful | Rats Spreading Westward To Check Advance Of Vermin A matter of fifteen years ago rats had become a major nuisance in the| new to to>hunter and saddle type, with the ul- come from the south, and the United timate object of providing an inter- ‘Red River Valley. They seemed ‘States, where the annual damage from ratsyis estimated at $200,000,- 000, got the blame for the invasion.| toon district, when a band of~local |For some mysterious reason the rat| horsemen and women formed a Sas- menace vanished. There are still rats in the province, but the trouble they ' Saskatchetvan that is complaining. | The rats are moving westwards across the neighboring Four years or so ago rats were only found east of the line through Lamp- ‘man, Broadview, Springside | Preéceville. At the end of 1928 they had reached Regina, Willowbunch, | Lanigan and Watson. I bonic plague, | | | the spread of the vermln. Modern farm’ buildings on concrete founda~ !tions are ratproof, and by means of |screening low-lying windows and ‘chutes much can be done to keep j them out. It is worth while taking such measures everywhere to pre- vent them getting a hold.—Manitoba Free Press. Experience Was Limited Man Could Not Give Opinion About Paying Rent 5 The woman who told the magis- trate at Lambeth, England, she had moved 39 times in 35 years lends credibility to a story told by a well- known politician, of a conversation overheard in that same district. A number of men were arguing wheth- | er it would prove cheaper to move jor pay rent At last, they appealed to an aged man who had taken no | part in the controversy. “Well,” said jhe, after due deliberation, I ain't | exactly in a position to say. You see, | mates, I’ve always moved.” | Here is an advertisement that ap- | peared in an eastern newspaper: “Notice—This is to inform the pub- lic that I am carrying on the busi- {ness of removing ashes and rubbish | of my late husband.” | { Just place before the word “ability” the syllables “depend” and | you have the biggest word that we can think of in service—Depend- ability. Petition Being Made For Adjustment Precautionary Measures Are Advised Saskatchewan | To | | | | | | } Mc-| cause is relatively slight. Now it is) Horse Improvement Association, with province. | bership campaign will be conducted. | | t is the rat that spreads the bu-| mares had been registered for breed- and precautionary, ing, when only 600 had been expect- measures are being advised to check! ed, , | New Type Of Horse In West . - Evolve Heavy Hunter Saddle Horse Ms The evolution of a type of horse Saskatchewan, the heavy esting and profitable side-line to farming, was launched in the Saska- katoon district branch of the Sas- katchewan Hunter, Saddle and Light Col. H. W. Arnold as president, and M. W. Lawton as secretary. A mem- From Clifford Sifton, vice-presi- dent of the Dominion Association, and the newly-formed organization se-\ cured a detailed and instructive ac- count of the work done in Ontario where, in the space of a year 640 Railway Accidents Reduced Reduction Of Fifty Per Cent. Is Noted In Past Four Years In the past four years the railways of Canada and the United States have decreased accidents by 50 per ent. according to figurés brought out at the sessions of the American Railway Association safety section, Canadian branch, which have just closed at Montreal. Four years ago, the railways set themselves the goal of cutting accidents 35 per cent. by 1930, In a year less, they have accom- plished 50 per cent. “The railways,” a speaker said, “are doing their part. The public is being educated too, but there are still too many people who insist on being negligent. “Unless the public and | ro} Fo 1 sing Me Port Chur Be Centre of Pigs and Ribs It Appears That There Is a Variation In the Number Of Ribs In “Different Breeds Of Hogs ' How many ribs has a pig? It may| have from 13 to 17 pairs, and occasionally an odd rib, according to Professor A. M. Shaw, head of the Animal Husbandry Department, of the University of Saskatchewan. In an article contributed to September number of “Scientific Agriculture,” he gives the rib counts from an examination of 3,957 hog carcasses. Apparently the more ribs the better as: the market demands a long side of bacon. At competitions . the tibs, Professor Shaw has although the judges may not have actually counted the ribs. Few | judges, he points out are aware that | variation in number of ribs exists. | The Yorkshire*hog has been found | to have more ribs than “grunters”’ | of other breeds. More work will be) done at the University of Saskatch-) ewan to find out whether or not) additional ribs are of economic im- portance. The Department of Ani-) ‘mal Husbarldry will also attempt to develop pure strains with a uniform number of ribs. Professor Shaw does not hazard} any suggestions as to how the vari-| ation in number arose. Perhaps in| the Garden of Eden the porcine) Adam contributed a rib to each of} several wives. ' | In view of all this, there seems) no doubt that farmers should raise pigs with more ribs might have said: “The man who makes two pork chops grow where only one grew before, will do more for his country than any statesman who ever lived.’ ~ Colour Blindness Assertion Is Made That 25 Per Cent. Of Men Are Practically Colour ~ Blind The value of light signals to regu- late road traffic was discussed at the transport ‘commission's meeting when the vice-president of the Royal Automotive Club, declared that the employment of red lights was almost useless, as 25 per cent of men are practically colour blind. The use of the red light in connection with mo- tor cars should He abolished. It was an inheritance from the railway companies. It was preferable to sig- nal by means of \form or shape rather than by color. If the triangle was a danger sign there was no need for it to be red. The chairman, asked the speaker why he referred to men motorists only. “Because,” he replied amid laughter, “no woman is colour blind. Colour blindness is a thing women can transmit, but do not suf- fer from themselve: learns the rule of “safety first” we must still have accidents, no matter to what leugths we go to protect.” Prof.: “Where is Washington?” Fres ‘He's dead.” Prof.: “I mean the capital of the United States.” Fresh: Oh, they lent it all to Europe.” - Madrid has now a law making mo- torists liable to six years imprison- ment for knocking down or injuring a pedestrian. cf Y Eternal triangle—love, and divorce, marriage | SEN OFFICERS PROMOTED. | | | | Rai are shown | A Officers of the 4 prominently con above. The: ght traffic department of rned in the recent retirements and promotions are: (1) J. M, Horn, who has been promoted sistant Freight Traffic Manager, Winnipeg; (2) J. M. Macrae, who has the Canadian National Of Farming Tribute To the Value Of the Cow In Agricultural Economics From far-away Australia comes a reminder of one of the elementary facts in agricultural economics. “The cow,” says the “Quennsland Agricultural Journal,” “really forms the foundation of the farming indus- try. Not only does she supply the world with all the milk products, such as butter, cheese, milk, and cream, but almost all her flesh can be eaten, and beef is the staple meat of most countries. Her hide is used for making leather and her hair for mixing with plaster. Glue is made from her hoofs, and gelatine powder from her joints. When everything else is removed her bones are ground into fertilizer, No other animal serves mankind in so many ways. Eggs Dropped 2,000 Feet and Not ‘One Shell Cracked Twenty-four dozen eggs were dropped from the sky over the heads of 3,000 spectators at the Metropoli- tan airport, Los Angeles—and there was not a single casualty or cracked egg. The eggs, in a crate attached to a specially constructed parachute were hoisted over the side of an aeroplane piloted by Sam Payson, at an alti- tude of 2,000 feet. The crate with its delicate cargo to earth. The experiment was made to de- termine the practicability of delit- ering perishable freight from a "plane by the parachute method. tly waftea Glacier Park, British Columbia Glacier National Park, British Col- umbia, derives is name the magnificent _Ilecillewaet Glacier, which is the chief centre of interest within its boundaries. This glacier falls from the Mlecillewaet snowfield which is ten square miles in extent, From the crest of the snowfield to the base of the glacier there is a drop of 3,000 feet, from |ride in comfort to As Dean Swift Pre chill, Great A chile: Ri dicted c Colonel Dubue, the Department and D. he narge of the minals, have returned be from a tour of inspection way and harbor works ode es The engineers report exc! ee although they will not be ready for two or three years. | is attracting Can Canals, eer in ch gress, Churehil. already banks have there. Furthermore, © f progres! railway, bakers and other . There are 2,51 the railway line quite Churchill 1s settlement is disappea ter, work was pursue P vay, although the therm: cat : below zer lown to 50 or more eae ‘The men engaged were aie! pioneers, and on bi bags i are building, the wor ers i e future town will business men of thi pean ports Cold in winter and extreme heat in summer do not deter settlement in Canada’s north; witness the Yukon, far to the northwest of Churchill,” where Dawson #® a happy commun= ity, many of whose dwellers live in flower-covered houses and drive their motor cars over highways that were arter of a century ago foot trails a qu , creeks of the Klon- to the gold-laden dike. : Dominion of Canada maps show that gold is located in many sections south of Churchill, and iron and coal and other minerals. Big and small fur-bearing animals abound, * the caribou being much in evidence; water powers are awaiting deyelop- ment and there are areas of pulp- | wood, all marked on the map. Polar bears may swim about among the icefloes right down to where the port” works are in progress and whales blow and wallow at the front door, as it were, but there are other more is be promising signs not far inland. The lakes and rivers of the’ region teem with fish, and the Indians make a living with the Red Man's minimum of effort. United States and Canadian experts declare that colder weather has been experienced in the centre {of Manitoba and as far south as Montana than in Arctic Circle, which is much farther north than Churchill. Stefansson insists that away up in — the Arctic, where vast islands and many seas are in evidence, a man ‘may txist comfortably—that the Arctic is friendly, in fact. However that may be, it is certain that (Churchill is due to become one. of Canada’s northern communities, and | that neither extremes of cold nor heat will keep adventurous spirits from going there in search of a live~ | lihood. Settlement is moving towards the northern boundaries of the prov- |inces whose territories stretch to- wards the Arctic regions, from Quebec to British Columbia.—Mon- treal Gazette. Will Cultivate Tea Russians Will Establish Tea Planta- tions Owing To Rupture With China A large impetus to the domestic tea-growing industry in the Soviet Union may be one of the indirect results of the recent rupture of diplomatic and commercial relations with China. Successful efforts in the creation of tea plantations have been made in the last two years in the Soviet Republic of Georgia, in the Caucasus, the crop ‘this year haying etal sufficiently large to affect sharply the imports from China. ‘The sudden” total exclusion of Chinese tea has emphas' the advisability of a homp-grown product and will lead to * an intensification of thi 6 ; efforts, poe? Anxiotis Fath; er (to friend): “7 can't make our Tom out He's funny lad. I've taught him all I know and now he knows nothing.” er why th meal on the dance floor, He—Oh, that’s to m, < ey put corn ake the chick. So you won fir How dia y, 202" hs st prize in the lot: ou come to chon: 4 “He said I was an {diot,” “you can't blame him. He is jus s parrot who répeats what he hear: —Pages Gaies, Yverdon. 4 ——- NBMO cme eme emer semere Umbrellas are considered signs of dignity and authority among natives of the Gold Coast in West Africa. OWN meme eens emer temesmemetess an! w." N. -U. 1803 | been appointed General Freight Agent, Vancouver; (3) W. Hately, who becomes General Freight Agent, Winnipeg; (4) A. E. Roseyear, General Freight Agent, Winnipeg, who, on Dec, 15th, retires after 52 years of service, and (5) F, G. Adams, Assistant General Freight Agent Winnipeg, whose duties are enlarged to give him supervision over rates and divisions, Binks: “Did “you realize anything from your investment in those gold’ iy mines?” Jinks: “Yes, I realized my wife “I chose the ng to my age.” ‘T must try that S “I wouldn't in « never wins Number Sorrespong. D Your case_ was right.” N rr ~Katikaturen, can EY P .