ALBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS a Rutdlio a A Geet Dare Ta! Keeping The Western Farmer. In Touch With World At Large: o o | ‘The popularity achieved by radio in) & et Triumph For Alberta Butter ’anada is as great as is to be found in any other country and greater than in| Wins First Prize and Gold Medal At most. The general adoption ana} London Dairy Show rapid expansion are but further indl- | eations of Canada’s posittonsin the , Alberta ereamery butter in competi- forefront with those countries develop-} tion, was recorded recently, when it fg along modern lines, and bending | was announzed from London, England, The greatest triumph yet scored by |- Cattle Plague Is "Famous Warminster Fair Cancelled invention to ngtional progress, Radio| has Be teacate swept over the coun-| try, engulfing all sections of the Do- miinion and entering most intimately fnto the country’s commercial, business and social life. In its peculiar rela-! tion to certain phases of Canadian life! radio would seem to have imparted! freater benefits than elsewhere. | Radio Mcenses were issued by the! department of marine and fisheries during the twelve months ending March, 1925, to 91,996 persons.. On- ftario led all provinces with a total of 45,847, followed by Quebec with 18,- 211. Registrations ip other provinces Were:—Saskatchewau, 9,303; Mani- toba, 6,553; British Columbia, 6,409; Alberta, 5,843; Nova Scotia, 2,772; New Brunswick, 1,240; Prince Edward Island, 163; Yukon and North West Territorles 17. - Licensed broadcast- ing stallions in the Dominion numbered §1 at the end uf the year. The number of licenses issued in the western prairie proyinces is striking/ According to the sales manager of a Jeading company, the west is Canada’s! best radio field, and prairie farmers | buy more sets than any other class of people. Radio is playing a great part in the life of the Western Canadian farmer and he 3s finding increasing benefits in it every day. Constantly in touch with the big centres of the continent, he has instantaneously the Yatest market reports whilst the diver- sions of cities can be brought at will to his isolated home. In the war and Smmediajie post-war years the genera) adoption of the automobile in West- ern Canada did a great deal to revolu- tionize the ife of the Western Cana- dian farmer, and now the same sweep- ing progress of the radio has further lessened any disadvantage he may be expected to sustain by reason of his position and imparted something uni- que and peculiarly enjoyable in the way of nioneer farming. ‘ Spreading In England For First Time In 400 Years The Prince of Wales may have to abandon his fox hunting this season owing fo the spread of foot and mouth disease and public interest in the epi- demic, which is affecting 13 counties, centres on this feature. 4 Hunting is not allowed in the af- fected areas because it is believed that horses and dogs crossing cow pastures carry the infection with them, / OMelaig of the ministry of agri- culture are investigating a theory that automobiles are also carriers of the disease, They believe that mud- eovered automobile wheels spread the cattle scourge, especia)ly ma- ebines arr'ving from the continént, where the disease is prevalent. Several cattle shows have been abandoned, including the famous Warminster fair in Wiltshire, which has been held each year without in- termission for 400 years. Advertising Creates Demand For Fish Publicity Campaign of Last Few Years Produces Results “If every Nova Scotia fishing boat and every Nova Scotia fisherman were{ fo work the full limit of their capa-| eity forthe next~ six months they! would be unable to supply the demand that had been created as a result of} the intensive newspaper advertising’ campaign that has been carried on by the fishing industry,” declared | Ar- thur Boutillizr, president of the Cana- dian Fisherman's Association, dressing the Rotary Club on “* ational | Fish Day.” Myf. Boutillier gave the elub a brief history of the advertising | campaign started some years ago by} the fishing industry of Canada, and! ad-} that an exhibit of Alberta creamery butter, salted, made In the plant of the P. Burns Company, at Edmonton, had won first prize and gold medal in the colonial section of the London dairy show, one of the largest shows of its kind in the world? This means that this exhibit from Alberta stood ahead of all other exhibits from other parts of the British empire, not in- eluding Britain itself, Two other exhibits from Alberta, made from the plant of the Woodland Dairy at Edmonton, and ihe Innisfail ef Creamery, were given high aes s } | Was Elected President h. cod Attendance at Ninth Annual - Co in Regina . Tht Ninth Annual Convention of the Saskatchewan Division of the Cana- dian Weekly Newspaper Association was held at Regina, on ‘Thursday and Friday, Noy. 5 and 6, and was au un- qualified success, A large represen- tation of members attended from every corner of the provinces, and the busl- ness sessions proved most helpful. The delegates received an official welcome from Mayor Mason, who handed over the keys of the city. The Saskatche- wan Co-operative Wheat Producers gave a luncheon at noon on Thursday, guests of the Leader Publishing Co. ata dinner. Later the delegates at tended a theatre party as the guests of the Toronto Type Foutdry Co On Friday at noon the Saskatchewan Co- operative Eleyator Company entertiio- E. Garrett, of The Signal, Watrous, | ed at a luncheon, and in the evyning the Sask., who was elected President of Weekly Newspaper Association gave a the Saskatchewan Diyision of the Can* bangilety having among their guests adian Weekly Newspaper Assoei ation! Wwning, Hon. S. J. Latta, at the recent Convention hell {jiu amd other prominent 4 fy end province. na. session dation in the show. The first prize in the unsalted butter section went to the Co-operative Creameries of Regina, Saskatchewan. In the colonial section of the show, Canada won four out of the six prizes offered for empire-wide competition, | and Western Canada took three out | of the six. _ This means that Western | Canada creamery butter is recogniz-| ed in the most discriminating market | in the world, zs the highest quality of butter prduced in any of thé British dominions. ~- { The exhibi(s from Alberta in the Salted section were -made under, the auspices of the dairy branch of the proyineial department of agriculture, | which gave substantial assistance to! the exhibitors in enabling them to make the exhibit overseas. It Is the first time that Alberta has exhfbited in the London show, and it is regard-/ ed as a unique triumph for the Alberta | dairy industry that the gold medal | came to this province, even beating out in competition the famous New Zealand dairy butter, which is made under almost perfect conditions. Naturally, there is iderable ela- ensuing year were Hon. 8. J. Latta, n, honorary presi- ~ Luxury Costs Are Double For Urbaw Dwellers mal, Watrous, "Do a little figuring hefore leaving oy ow. G. Redmond, News, efare 8 ; rt ti :, *adiple Creck, vice-presiden J. Do the old homestead for the city,” is (7 the advice of a university professor ; "8? who has made a study of rural econ- PU SAS UxEN: omits. In his investigations he| Uulty, Was elected honorary vice found “that @ farmer! who proposes | President. The following executin, movingeto town must assure him-| Were elected: C. R. McIntosh, Néws, self of an income twice as big asihe North Battleford; S. J. ee Des- had on the farm if he expects to live patch, Alameda; T, S, McCullough, as comfortably as he has been accus- | Review, Weyburn; T. E. pres tomed to. He discovered that 20g , News, Wolseloy; €. uf abs Gazette, average farmers had an income 6) Birch Hills; and E. N. Carter, Press, $1,000 a year. To live as well imthe| Wilsie. | city they must have $2,200.—Vancou- ver Province. Despatch, Alameda, seeretary- James McDonald, Courter, Erecting Huge Radio Station A gigantic radio broadcasting sta- tion is being built at Rugby. The 12 giant masts will be one and a halt miles long and a half-mile wide. Quick Thinking Saved His Life _ Robert Keating, nine, of Jersey City, N.J., grabbed the bymper of a speed- ing sedan which was about io run him down, stuck his feet onto the front axle and was cafried three blocks before he could attract the driver's attention. The lad received only slight bruise: Artificial fibre silk is transparent to ultra violet rays of the sunlight and for this reason ft is considered better than silk or wool. No Need Of Exagdenstion _ Misrepresentation To Attrac British Settlers To Canada Poultry Shows Two Dressed Poultry Shows to be Held At Saskatoon and Regina Saskatchewan is putting on two |dressed poultry shows, one at Saska- }toon, Deécember 2, and one dt Regina, December 3, | A party of British newspaper cor- respondents and @dilorial writers re | eently toured Canada as guests of the cident of the Canadian Pacific Rail- | way, and bave now returned to the British Isles freighted with q yolunie of impressions gathered in the course of a most complete and exhaustive In- | pre: and in the evening the editors were the } on Friday, | yestigalion of Canadian Iife. The members. of the group were specially appointed by the most im- portant and influential of the journals of the British Isles and are all expert- enced, hard-working, and conseien- tious journalists with the faculties of observation and analysis acutely de- yelopei Tne papers they represent Excellent prizes are offered and the tfeature Of the two shows will be that a special will be in waiting at Saskatoon, December a immed fately the show is over the Birds will be loaded into the car, which will pro- lceed to Regina, arriving there Just as {the Regina show is pick jup their birds and at once proceed to}} | Montreal, where alrendy certain firms\i9 & very adequate mannex ¢over the Ihave atranged to’ feature “Saskatche-{United Kingdom. ‘Their arduous wan exhibition ponltry” for the Christ- | !tinerary took (liem into eyery section jmaa trade. It fs expeeted that there Of Canada and furnished opportunity | will be about 2,600 birds in the car, | penctrate into al) the channels of Three years ago, when’ the dressed Canadian activity. ‘poultry show was started at Saska: | The party was gtven ab unique ftoon, ope show case, six feet long, | Chance to briefly but adequately ob- jcontained all the birds offered for | Serve Canada at work’and play and to | exhibition. sum up the total of the Ufe of the | Professor Baker, of the university, | Country and ostimate-its opportunities and W. Waldron, of the department} 2d possibilities Men of the ealfbre of agriculture, Regina, have thé grad~ jor these journalists, trained in the arts ing, packing and shipping of the car! Of analysis and expresslon, should Be lin charge jable to make the most of such a yisit. ae eS The people of the British Isles should British Channel Trader Speedy , | Welcome their impressions and Can- For speed among the trading ves- ,24a should materially benefit from the sels of the fvorld pride of place must Fésults of their dissemination, be given to a British Channel trader,| Along certain lines Canada has of the $.S, Fordsdale, whieh has accom- late suffered severely in the British plished the journey from Freemantle, | Isles from publicity of gn adverse na- Australia, to Swansea in the record ture based on the unfortunate experi- time for a trader of 27 days’ steaming , ences of a few Britishers who from ume, as against the usual six weeks./0Re reason or another proved wnas- el tsimilable. ‘There has been too great Turkey Buzzards In B.C. ja tendency to generalize from these Bird lovers at Victorle, B.C., haye|Stray examples and to overlook the been mystified by the appearance over /overwhelming outweighing evidence on the city of between 150 and 200 turkey | the other side. On practically all buzzards. Many say they have their } phases of Canadiun lifé there exist the homes in the southern states and are| Weirdest and vaguest impressions seldom seen so far north, especially which distance and total dissimilarity In such numbers. Naturalists are at/of conditions render it most difficult a loss to explain their presence here. |to eradicate. 1 | The British Isles Is in constant and car concluded, tion among Canadian dairymen over the fact that Alberta butter has scored §0 highly. The grading systems in effect in the province liaye had con- siderable to do with the rapid im- provement of quality of the butter manufactured in the plants in Alberta, and with this latest triumph Alberta butter is likely to be more in demand than ever in the British market, where last year a considerable quantity was sold. New Varieties Of Wheat Two Have Been Tested At University of Alberta The University of Alberta has been paying special attention to two new varieties of wheat which, it is thought, will meet the requirements of certain districts better than Marquis. Renfrew wheat is later and higher yielding than Marguis and will likely be suited to southern areas of the province where there is a limited rain- fall. It does not seem advisable to sow it in the Edmonton district or in northern areas when frost has to be reckoned with. ae Another variety, University No. 222, is entirely beardless and resembles} Red Bobs from which it was selected. It is about four days earlier than Mar- quis and in tests on the University farm at: Edmonton has given better yields. The shortness of the straw is 8 disadvantage in the drier areas. Drops Coarse Grain Pool Alberta Board jof Directors Decide Against Project For This Year The Alberta Wheat Pool will not operate a pool for coarse grains this Season. At a meeting of the board ot | directors of the pool held in Calgary. | it was decided that the number of con- | tracis received in response to the in | quiry sent out by the board was not} sufficient to warrant organization for | the present season at least. { Accordingly all contracts signed by |} those wishing to have a coarse grain | pool, have been declared yoid and| official notification of .the board’s decision will be sent to every farmer | who signed a contract under the pro | | “a which, he sald, had created an unpre-| visional“terms of the proposed pool, eedented demand for fish food in pct ce ada, 2 } Canned Goods From Coast Province ‘ Obliging The Occidental Fruit Company is! 4 Prison “Gyernor i(fo released con- } shipping from Kelowna on an average! wich fiim apron’: “1 find ad ra two cars of ¢unned goods daily to Kepe vonthare A ae) tho long!” | Prairie points, well as four cars of e 4 Convict—"That’s all right. Knoex | ult and yegetables, and the latter +e i off next time.” {including export shipments of apples to Great Britain and New Zealand from Summerland and Penticton about ha, Student: “They . hanged her in| oy ‘ Box Pi China.” two cars of ‘ruit and fegetables dally AS Teacher: “Shanghai?” — es. Student: “Not very.” And in Japan, bread is bought by a > jthe yard. And mayhe they say 18 2 ee jinches is betier than none. EB icide Roskice With Rise Roads : ——| lurgent need of information on Canada which its people ean feel asgured 1s authentic and free from bias. This should be to some extent met by the work of these newspapermen trated through’ years to observe and expresi¢ accurately and clearly, and given peecu- liar opportunity to see into the work- ings of Canadian Jife, .Canada has not-ihe slightest apprehension over j the conclusions they reached. It can- | not be too strongly or too frequently reiterated that Canada has not the slightest need of exaggeration or mfs- representation, All she keenly de- sires to as§aré her own future develop ment is to be adequately Known as she really is. Many Entries For Dairy Show | All-Canada Competition Takes Place | In Winnipeg This Year | The all-Canada dairy show which { will take place in Winnipeg, February } 9-12, in connection with tha Western | Canada Dairy Convention, is air y jattra sting entries from creameries all {over the Dominion, Out of a total of Alberta has 25, received, ) 3, Prince Ed- jivard Island 4 and Ontario 4, Th lall-Canada competition was first in } stituted by dhe Manitoba Dairy Asso- ciation and is now keld in a different cily The fortheoming event will take place under the aus- pices of the Manitoba Dairy / tion and the Dairy Manufacturers’ Association. | Columbia each year, socia- Britain’s Egg Import Bill Last Year Ameunt Ran Over Seventy- seven Million Dollars The London Daily Mail 1s earnying on a campaign to reduce the big Eng lish egg import bill Last bill for eggs imported into Britain was el 500,000. This J sum represents 2,500,000,000. year the approxiin¢ During the last few years there has {been at notable inerease in the num | ber of laying hens kept-In Great Bri | talnyas well is a marked improvement { in their productive powers. Millions of Canadian <«ggs go to | Britain every vear, and are likely fo be Colonel Phil Moore, former star /quainting citizens of the United States) quarter-back at Princeton, and now an | with the beauty, the splendor and the | enthusiastic admirer and frequenter of | majesty of these mountains. j the Canadjgn Pacific Rockies, claiths| The completion of the ro | there is no mountain scenery either in ) cording to Col. Moore, is s Colorado, Yellowstone Park, the Yose-!new era of Rocky Mountals tr mite Valley to compare with wha! the | particularly attractive to a lar Canadian Rockies have to offer. He! ber of people udds that the building of roads through afield heretofore oyer mount; these mountains and the resultant au-'It is now possible, lomobile traffic is feature greatly | aiding the development of the Rockle as a. tourist resort. who have not and is walking becoming tours |through the very best of the mountalr Personal re - ;scenery. The niore 80, 10 enjoy bungalow cnmpes | ‘counting and widespread publicity, he;tablshed by the Canadian Pacifie|section of the Canadian West is sixt states, are other features that are ac-!aldng ihe roads are resting places at in demand there for 7 many years tu ertain stages of the way | certaix a of the w come. The season just passed has been the busiest in the t Rocki nd the to Canada U. S. Chicken Population ; The chicken poputation of the Untt- ed States {ts placed at 400,600,000 b. ry of the resulting revenue has been estimated at 200,000,000 do) lars The pereenta of Anerigan the department of agriculture This visitors has be re from to 75 per bumber, the department ssid, would cent, but Canadians and Europeans | iave’n procession of chickens 100 have been Increasing In numbers each 000 miles long and they. could Jay year. Next year a bigger season still enol é is looked for and, as Co}. Moore says, from the earth fhe time is not far off w n the world will realize that the fr again Rocky Moun | Not everything began in the garden There's the borrowing babit, Witzerlands in one.