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Evidence That Indicates

The Real Worth Of Dommion

As a Field For Mineral Industry |

Among the evidences of Canadian
progress in 1928, none is more
Siatifying than that which aga'n re-
Veals, in stronger light than ev
Teal worth of the Dominion as a field
for mine:
ary figu
count
Sued by the Dominion Bureau of Sta-

1 industry.
es for the
mi

The prelimin-
value of

tistics, reach a poak well above any

previous level.
There

two physical facts that
carry a broad and special interest in
eonnection with the steady

years.

One is to found in the sheer

the

in “divetsity"—in the fundamental
fact that Nature has invested the
Dominion with mineral ass
in variety, are matched by few,
any, countries, It is to this wide
range of resources that the Canadian

the mining industry mainly owes both its
al output, recently is-) enjoyment of present prosperity anc

its of stable, well-sust

ain

A second physical fact of no less
importance exhibits itself in the
breadth of territory afforded by the

: ascent of Dominion as fair ground for more in-
Canade’s mineral production in late

tensive prospecting. A major portion
cf Canada has so far been subjected
only to cursory study, but even so,

variety of minerals that enter into ample information has been gained

our annual output, In financial cir-
cles the wisdom of “diversity of in-
vestment” is a byword, and it may
well be said that Canada’s strength
as a mining fied likewise lies largely

as to the potential mineral wealth of
the less known regions of the coun-
try to confirm the Canadian mining
industry in its title to an ample field
for further development.

» they bring a higher price in the ma’

| British Stock Farmer
fet Uses Artificial Light

| Ditra-Violot Rays Keep Animals Tn
| Good Condition

Ultra-violet light is reported to be
a boon to the British stock farmer.

Resides maintaining cows, race
horses, etc, in good health during
the sunless months of winter, it is
improving their condition so that

ket, according to V. M. Weall, a
south of England farmer, in Surrey,
who experimented with pi
pigs treated with ult
light three minutes daily when
they were 10 to 12 weeks old, and
the time of treatment was gradually
increased to 20 minutes. This was
maintained the
sold at the age of 20 week:
similar pigs were kept as controls
without light treatment. All 24
were sold on the same day, and in
every case the irradiated pigs sold
for a higher price than the untreat
ed animals. The extra money ob-
tained for each pig was said to be
14 times the cost of the operation of
the quartz lamps which were used
for the irradiation.

we
for

until animals were

Twelve

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ic PETROLEUM CLAY
XZ NALGAS PRODUCTS

MILLIONS OF DOLLARS

‘OTHER STRUCTURAL
oa

Origin Of Butter

Swaying Motion of Camels Caused

Sour Milk To Turn To Butter

The camel is the real inventor of
butter, according to the results of
research made by the National Dairy
Council. The origin of this food was
traced to the custom of the Arabs
who carried across the desert on the
backs of camels sour milk in skin
bags. The swaying motion of the
camels caused the contents of the
bags to turn into butter, which the
Arabs first used as a lotion for the
skin. Later they made butter by
tying the bags of milk to fast horses
ahd racing the steeds up and down
for several hours. Bags of milk were
also laid on the ground and beaten
until their contents were churned in-
to butter.

China Bans Toy Pistols

Forbids Importation Because Bandits
Use Them To Terrorize People

Because bandits in interior China}

use them to rob and terrorize the
country folk who do not know that
they are only toys, the Nationalist
Government has issued a regulation
ferbidding the importation into
China of toy-pistols and alr guns.
“Such toys, while not regarded as
harmful and are imported only as
playthings for children,” explains tav
order, “are known to have been fre-

quently used inthe interlor of China)

by bandits and gangs of riff-raff to
terrorize the ignorant country folk.
Yor this reason, hereafter, importa-
tion of toy pistols and air-guns,
either by Chinese or forelgn firms,
will not be permitted.”

Electricity From Mud
Besides pies and baths, mud is to
be used as a source of electricity. A
power station has been erected at
Karnap, Germany, which will utilize
the mud from the Ems River. This
mud has a heat yalue, when extract-
ed and dried, which corresponds to
that of lignite. The dried product
will be used to heat steam for the

engines driving the dynamos.

Student—“And poor Harry was

killed by a revolving crane.”

_ Englishwoman—"My word! What

fierce birds you have in America.”
The Union Trust Building, Cleve-

Jand. contains 20,000,000 cubic feet

pace.

of

1 year be

a larger house.”

Berlin

a =
W: N, U. 1778

18

suddenly.”
i y

Dutch Merchants Take
Advantage Of Radio

Short Wave Station Maintains Daily
Service With Orient

Dutch telephone subscribers who
have business with Java or Suma-
tra can look up their associates in
what corresponds to a suburban
telephone direetory and call them
over the house instrument.

Japanese and Chinese merchants
in the Dutch East Indies will soon
be able to write messages in their
native ideographs, hand them to the
Dutch operator at the telegraph
office and be assured that a few min-
utes later their friends or relatives
in the Orient will receive the com-
munications without chance of error.
These are but a few of the facts re-
garding the Netherlands’ develop-
ment by radio.

A short-wave radio station at
Kootwijk, Holland, maintains daily
contact with a similar transmitter
Jin the Dutch East Indies, 12,000
kilometers away, durimg the sunlight
hours. A charge of 30 guilders,
about $12, is made for a three-minute
conversation and additional minutes
cost 10 guilders each.

More transmitters are being built
in the East Indies, including one
which is to be of 130-kilowatt pow-
er and to have six separate chan-

nels. It is to have two telegraph,
|three telephone, and one picture
| path.

Preserving Wild Geese

Bird Sanctuary In British Columbia
Filling a Useful Purpose

Very rapid increase has taken place
in the number of Canada geese in the
Vaseaux Lake bird sanctuary, Bri-

set aside for this purpose in 1923.
| In one part of the reserve, an island
in the lake where only three geese
jnested in 1919, thirty-five nests were
; counted in 1928, Throughout the
| whole sanctuary the numpar of nests

| counted in the latter year was fifty-|
whereas, in 1923, the number! training station two weeks and had|
digging|

| five,
|of incubating birds was very small
| indeed. During last summer over
| four hundred geese were counted at
one time.
| One Way Ont

| The way to ayoid having uninvit-
jed guests for week-end visits is to
have no spare bedrooms, according
|to a man who has given a great deal
| of thought to the uninvited-all-night-
guest problem. “Extra bedrooms in
|a house invite company as surely ns

i

|
|

a peach tree in a yard invites be

ho said hen you build a ney
house don't add too many bedrooms
£ you © lend a quiet life.’

B.C. Pulp and Paper Industry
The pulp and industry in

British Columbia shows conspicuous

paper

growth. The first pulp mill in the
province opened in 1911, and the first |
paper mill in 1913. The butput of
wood pulp the first year was 90 tons,
nd of paper 46,000 tons. Last
paper exports amounted to 30(
tons, sold to the United States,
ealand, Australia and
1an—"If you had ‘sounded
ur horn this poor chap would have
been able.to avoid being hit by your
car
Girl Driver—“I thought of that,|
but I didn’t want to startle him so

Heatlhy Herds In Dominion

Packing
Cattle
In fifty-six packing plants during

House Inspection Shows
In Splendid Condition

the past fiscal year, inspectors of
the Dominion health of animals
branch examined 1,150,000 cattle, |

610,000 sheep, 2,600,000 swine and}
208,000 poultry and passed upon their)
suitability for human consumption.)
All ‘carcasses found seriously diseas- |

| First Ten-Pounders

| Trained farm workers who are headed for the West,

contribute to the success of the 192:
“Melita,” the first large group under

| to farm work by representatives of the Canadian Pacific Railway,

Where they will
9 harvest. They came over on the
the ten-pound rate, and were directed

Keeping Pace With Settlement

Many New School Districts Organ-
ized In Province Of Alberta

Pitt ix new school districts were
organized in the province of Alberta
during 1928, bringing the total num-
ber of districts in the province up
to 3,497. The total school enrol-
ment is now approximately 160,000.
Eighty-one new one-room schools
and thirteen new two-room’ schools
were built in country and village dis-
tricts last year.

A feature of the report of the De-
partment of Education is the refer-
ence to the increase in the number or
students enrolled for technical educa-
tion. In the institute of Technology, at
Calgary, enrolment last year reach-
ed a total of 1,745. Approximately
500 new students were enrolled dur-
ing the year for correspondence
courses, Over 1,000 more pupils
wrote the departmental examinations
than in any previous year. Of all the
units written in the high school
grades 75.19 per cent. were passed
| successfully.

|B.C. Purebred Poultry
| Sent To Switzerland
| —

od For First Shipment Supplied
By Victoria Man ,

The first shipment of British Col-
umbia purebred poultry ever sent to
Switzerland, was made by the R.O.P.
Poultry Breeders’ Association of Bri-
tish Columbia recently. The shipment
consisted of ten White Legnorn

ed were condemned as unfit for food,| yearling hens, all blood-tested and

tish Columbia, since this area was|

While others in which the disease was
localized had the diseased portions
condemned. It is a fine commentary
on the excellent health of Canadian
live stock and the efficacy of the
Dominion regulations to maintain
that health, that only a very small

| with R.O.P. records of from 200 to
| 225 eggs. The birds were bred and
supplied by N. E. Plaxton, Victoria.
They were shipped on the steamer
“Notre Dame”
Havre, France. From _ there
went to Switzerland by train.

they

proportion of the carcusse: d
were condemned—1.59 per cent. in
the case of cattle, and 0.27 and 0.26)
per cent, in the case of sheep and!
swine. That the

attributed to the fact that reactors]
from the tuberculosis eradication |
campaign were included in the in-|
spection figures. There is to be no
let up in the campaign against live|
stock disease, howeyer, as the Hon.|
W. R. Motherwell has announced the}
| opening of a new laboratory at Otta-|
| wa to be used for research work,|
}particularly into new methods of
j eradicating bovine tuberculosis. Cal-|
metto vaccine, which it was an-|
|nounced would immunize calves
against tuberculosis infection, has al-|
|ready been under test for five years
at Ottawa, so far with somewhat
| Negative results, but the experiments
|will be continued with the larger|
facilities now available until the|
| glaims of the discoverer of the vac-
|cine are either proved or disproved.|
|It is encouraging that the output of|
meat animals from the commercial}
| herds of the country continue to show |
| such a splendid percentage of healthy |
animals.

Wanted To See It
The recruit had been at the naval

spent most of his time
|ditches, chopping trees, and filling
depressions. Finally, sought his
immediate superior.

"You. see, sir,” he complained,
“when I joined the navy they said
I'd see the world, and for two weeks
Tye been doing nothing but
arrange it.’ |

he

Another Proof Of Intelligence +
Charles Minick, a road patrolman,

|} lay helpless in his bachelor home,

near Cornwall, V

consin, suffering

|from a violent attack of rheumatism.

Minich called his Airedale dog to the
bedside, tied a message to the dog’s
collar, and repeated the name of
The me
S deliv animal, and
nick was taken to town and given
medical care.

neighbor several times
”

the

ed by

|
|

re-|

Galleries Extend Many Miles
The underground tombs of early
Christian martyrs may be visited by

cattle percentage! tourists in Rome. The galleries of taken during the present session of
was even so high may largely be| these catacombs, if placed one after) the Legislature showed a gain of fiye

the other, would extend for six hun-
dred miles.

which took them to)

| Can Make Nitrogen From Air
Before War, Secret Was Known Only
To Germans * a
| The world’s supply of fertilizer,
j has been greatly augmented by the
| discovery of extensive nitrate fields)
in South Africa. However, modern
chemistry has rendered us largely in-
| dependent of such natural deposits.
| Por years it has been possible, says
| Daily Chronicle writer, to make ni-
trogen from the atmosphere, and be-
fore the war, German chemists knew
the secret process by which this could
be done, Despite the blockade, Ger-
many was able to produce millions of
tons of nitrogen from the air for
agricultural purposes and the mak-
ing of explosives. This process was a
secret for some time, but ultimately
we discovered it, and our chemical
factories can now produce vast quan-
tities of synthetic nitrogen from the
very air we breathe,

Seeds Will Be Sun-Tested

Will Test Seeds For Purity

World’s Grain Exhibition To Be

Held In Regina

Grain exhibits entered in competi-
tion at the World’s Grain Exhibition,
to be held in Regina, in 19382, will be
tested for purity in nature's labora-
tory. Although the exhibition itself
will not open until August, the seeds
entered in competition must reach
the grounds before April, -so that
they may be sown in plots to deter-
mine the purity of the various varie-
ties

Prizes aggregating nearly a quar-
ter million dollars will be awarded
for grain and seeds, and exhibits
from all the world’s grain growing
countries are expected to be entered
in competition

At

Quebec and Woman Suffrage
Woman suffrage is making slow
, but steady progress in the conserya-
| tive province of Quebec. The vote

votes over last

| Province.

year.—Vancouver

WINNIPEG NEWSPAPER UNION FASHIO!

; This

Wonderful Bridge In Scotland zes 16, 18, 20

In the bridge ove eF y and 44 inches

F ; Mdge ‘Over the Firth of} ig ze 36 requires 27%

orth, In Scotland, 91,000 tons of yards ¢ material with s
steel were used and between 4,000 yard of 86-inch contrasting.

and 5,000 mer ed on it during No, 127—Popular Coat Dress. This

the seven ye t iyle is designed in sizes 16, 18, 20

egeT Hee cos ; 10, 42 and 44 inches

More than 6,000,000 riy- 4 Size 36 requires 814

e used to rivet the steel plates yards of 40-inch material with

hi

and beams Every r its yard of inch contrasting, and %

145 acres of surface are pain a yard of 18-inch material for separate
vestee.

Jo, 135—Smartly Simple This

Football Coach—What experience style is designed in sizes 16, 18, 20

have you had? } 38, nd 42 inches bust

Freshman—Well, last summer 1) Measure. Size requires 3% yards’

was hit by two autos and a truck

o: 40-inch material with 1% yards of
binding.

(carefully.

Great

‘| with alfalfa hay.

TBeitein F
With No Sign
As Some Critics

Finishing Lambs For Market

Best Feeding Methods Tested At
Lethbridge Experimental Station |
The finishing of lambs for market |
is growing into a considerable indus-;
try in “sections of Alberta where al-
falfn is easily grown, It Is unset
tled in the minds of feeders just how
much grain should be used to com-
plete the ration. For several seasons
the Experimental Station at Leth-
bridge has been working on this
problem and in the report of the su-
perintendent for 1927, published by
the Department of Agriculture, at
Ottawa, the results of trials are pub
lished. The object of the test was
to obtain information as to the most)
economical amounts of grain to feed)
A variation was)
made with one group in that beet)
molasses was self-fed as a supple-
ment to alfalfa hay. Two hundred
lambs uniform in size and breeding
were divided into four groups.
received alfalfa hay as the rough-
age. @ne group received one-balf
grain ration, another group two-|
thirds grain vation, another group)
full grain ration, while the fourth
group received one-half grain ration
and beet niolasses. The lambs were)
born in March and April, and pastur-
ed in the foothills up to the first of)
October They were .then allowed to}
range on prairie and stubble until the}
experimént began on November 1st.
The lambs getting the full grain ra-
tion made the highest profit of $1.70)
per lamb. Those getting two-thirds]
ration, made a profit of $1.37. The)
profit from those getting the halt
half grain ration and molasses was
92 cents per head, while those get-
ting the half grain ration, 77 cent»
The grains used consisted of oats and |
barley. It is interesting to observe
from the table in the report the
quantities of food required to « pro-
duce a pound of gain in each of the}
four lots. The lambs getting the al-
falfa and half grain ration required
14.49 pounds for a pound of gain}

orging Alea’

Of Decadence

Have Predicte

ormerly
Phillip Whitwell Wilson, f ath
of parliament for Bais
famous 45 antl
-orrespondent, re tt
te e Town Hall,

a member
St. Pancras,
and » war
rave an address i :
Moe He re declined and
All past empires

ieee will that be the ee oa
British Empire? No! bie Se
tion of forty-

t of
erns 450 millions.
reat War her are

five million!
‘At the outse!
a wos about

a iles, /TO-
thirteen million niles are
day it is about a mi ei

i
that empires
of communica-

admirable roads,

must remember
past lacked means
Rome built

tion. re!
but their value 1s trivial in eee
son with our telegraphs, ind
oceanic telephones, quic

ships and ath
the first that reco
colonies grow up it is best fo
to begin house-keeping for
selves. We have @ civil fe ae
which is superb; aan feet sls)
stood higher in ability ,
Hepa: to the rising chan
the people, the efficiency 0 ea
courts, In education there pew
keener and more intelligent in’ _

than in any other era of our his! ie

To the advancing prosperity of
British Empire the Great War er
as a staggering blow. In 1914 a
national debt was three-and-a-
billions sterling; it is now 38 billions.
In 1914 our taxes were not quite one
billion; they are now three-and-8-
half billions. In England taxation
{s about $80 per head annually, be
against about $30 in the see ae
States, The latest annual report 0!
her commerce shows England export-
ing four-and-a-half billions and im-
porting six billions. The difference
was in large part made up by income
from foreign investments, receipts
from shipping and insurance, with
goodly amounts from tourists, most
of them trans-Atlantic.

As to unemployment: about one-
ninth the toiler§ in Great Britain are
out of work. Usually the figure has
stood at about one-twentieth. And

nized that when
them
them-

made. ‘The molasses fed group came} yet, partly because of an increased
next requiring 12.54 pounds. The lots| population, there are at this hour
getting two-thirds grain ration re-| more people at work in Great Britain
quired 10.94 pounds for a pound of] than there were in 1914, and they are
gain, while those getting the full| petter clothed and fed. Since the
grain ration needed only 9.03 pounds! Armistice about a million new
for each pound of gain put on. It is) dwellings have been built, about
clearly shown from this experiment! 00,000 more are needed. Acute de-
that it is not profitable to withhold pression is felt in Wales and in
good feed when one is fitting lambs} Northern England, especially in the
for the market. | cotton and woollen trades, in iron,
|coal and shipbuilding industries. The
| textile mills before the war enjoyed
| wide markets in Russia, India and
China. These have been lost. In
coal mining the situation seems hope-
less. In 1927 the estimated loss in
this trade was $45,000,000, in operat-
ing 3,000 mines by about 1,500 com-
panies, liable for royalties to about
4,000 land-owners.

As to remedies:

Works Only Six Months

Michigan Farmer Makes Good Living
From Raising Popcorn

W. F. Crowe violates the first
principles of good farming, makes
@ profit and has to worx only six
months of the year. He raises only
one crop—popcorn, Some of his
fields have produced sixteen consecu-
tive crops. Diversified farming means)
nothing to him.

Furthermore, Crowe's work season
extends from April to November.|
Usually he travels the rest of the
time, completely ignoring the custom-
ary farm practice of continuous ef-
fort. He plows in April, plants his
popcorn and by July nas it “laid by.”
Field work is over then until Octo-
ber, when husking starts. It is fin-
ished in November. }

Crowe condones the use of fertil-
izer, either drilling it in or broad-
casting. In July the cornfields are
Seeded to sweet clover, the last run
of the cultivators covering the seed.
The legume adds nitrogen to the
soil. The cloyer and cornstalks al-
Ways are plowed under.

Last year Crowe harvested 7,000
bushels from his 147-acre farm and
1,000 bushels from rented land. He
raises as much as eighty unshelled

Every week about

a thousand miners leave their old
homes. Every year about five
thousand miners are trained for other
(trades, and are slowly absorbed by
other districts of England. Notwith-
standing the depression in shipbuild-
ing there are today on the stocks
ships which will have a ctal ton-
nage of one-and-a-half millions, In
the steel trade there is anxiety re-
garding the growth of competition’
with France, where the production
may soon overtake that of Great
Britain, now about eight million tons
a year,

Often the question is asked, “Ts
England to share the fate of Holland
and drop to secondary rank?” That
would be no ignoble destiny. No
nation on earth is more worthy of
respect than Holland. A nation ‘may
be great without being the
populous or the richest,

most

bushels to the acre, although: fifty|
bushels is his average. The popcorn}
market is continuous, Crowe say:
and the demand {s growing yearly.|
He sells in lots, thus taking advan- |
tage of market fluctuations,

A Scotch Story

The New Housemand Did Not Wish
To Be Boastfut

| craze in London,

| the extra

Chewing Gum Craze In London

Chewing gum*has become such. a
that cleaners in
theatres and motion
are complaining of
work of removing the
“parked” wads from under the seats,
Dealers say the demand for gum
grew greatly during the summer, and
they believe

trains, bus
picture house:

touring Americans

| Were responsible for much of it. The

v! This style
is designed in § 84, 36, 88, 40, 42
and 44 inches bust measure. Size 36
requires 3% yards of 40-inch mater-
ial with 2% yards of binding.

No. 943—Important Schoo
This style is designed in
d 14 years, Size 8 requires

f 0-inch material with %
yard of 18-inch contrasting.

No. 846—Dainty Bolero. This style
is designed in sizes 6 ,8, 10 and 12
years, Size 8 requires 17, yards of
40-inch material and % yard of 18-
inch contrasting, and 3', yards of
ribbon.

All patterns 25 cents in stamps or
com (coin preferred), Wrap coin

Frock.
es 6, 8,

By)

j tell me that you were Scottish?" |

qacton to a “wet paint sign?

The Duchess of Atholl, M.P., who|bondoners then took up the habit
has done so much for Scottish educa. | £™ the visitors.
tion, is responsible for an amusing Leas
story concerning an Englishwoman| Stylish Woman (selling adm
who was engaging a new housemaid.|S!ons to bazaar)—f you Be 3
As the girl lived some distance| Come to the bazaar owing to x 3
away, the negotiations were carried! Vious engagement, wry you niyee
on by letter. Finally everything was/| ticket to give away to some o; ss

e less

settled satisfactorily, and the new

maid came to take up her duties,

fortunate than

yourself 2

On the day of her arrival her mis-| Great Britain provides a

: ; d Sa marke
tress said to her not unlindly;| for approximately 2,800,000,000 1, :
“When you wrote and answered all ; es

tons a year.
why didn't you }————

my questions, Jane,

"T didja like to be boastine|
ma'am," replied the girt |

Regulations Are Compulsory
Standards for graded poultry 7 ve
been set out by Order-in-Council, The
Federal Department of Agriculture
announces that the regulations will
not ‘be made compulsory this

year,
but inspection will not be given un.
less the packing 1s in accord with

standard requirements,

Newrich ;
Wash, I

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