pi ON ABBOTSFORD. SUMAS AND MATSOUT) NEWS ~ Joint Swine Committee Holds Meeting To Consider Problems | Average Alberta's Wheat Crop’ Yield Over Total Maintained at Eighteen Bushels In view of the conflicting statements | Bi Ee eal ae . | A Problem Of Hatching Rear lie: Humidity in Incubators Cause of Lack of Success ¥ Complaint haying been made by | (CO tsiretiely-Conadans 2 For The Farm Worker To i which hare been broadcast concerning {poultry breeders using incubators that Ls : Affecting The Sorine: Industry | the extent of Alberta’s wheat crop of jit was difficult to get good hatches ir Ultimately Achieve Independence - tae” meeting of the joint swine com-/| Steps are being taken to encourage the Was held at Toronto on February 8th | regard, and in a resolution addressed and $th. The committee, comprising | to-the respective provincial Eovern- Sask, representing the Western Can-!enactment of provincial legislation to ada Livestock Union; J. Duft Brien, | provide for the licensing of all ope Ridgetown, Ont., representing th: { ors of scales Used for weighing Hy Eastern Canada Livestock Union; X.jstock and the use of standard scale 1925, Colin G. Groff, publicity commis- |March and April, investigation follow. | sioner for the province has issued the jed by tests to-ascertain the cause, was | following sta “It is now | threshers’ returns received by the de-/1924 that none of the incubators em Messrs: C. M. Learmouth, Regina, | ments the committee recommended the | partment, that the average yield of all; | Wheat over the total acreage will be/ the low humidity usually obtained, but} maintained at 18 bushels, which 1s} that when moisture was added up to| Carberry, removes from the Somewhat higher than at first estl-|q humidity of 55 to 60 per cent. there | of The total acreage is N. Rodrigue, Quebec, representing the/ tickets, the stubs of which shall be} at 5,718,745, on which an av mated. i L ent in accordance with | undertaken at the Lethbridge, Alta.,} Accomplished Valuable Work mittee for the Dominion of Canada provision of suitable equipment in this the best facts’ obtainable. Looking forward to epring, it fs al- Dominion experimenial station. It! ready appropriate -to draw attention fairly certain, from|was found in tests made in 1923 and|Late John G. Barron Laid the Founda-|°Ce again to the opportunity existing tion of the Shorthorn Breed In in Canada for the achleyement of ag- Western Canada ricultural independence by .way ptf The death of Johu G. Barron, of! farm help. Many signs would go to circle | indfcate that this opportunity {s but western livestock men one of | inadequately recognized. In the placed | was an increase in both the number those who lald the foundations of the | tly months of the year the Canadian ployed gave Satisfactory hatches at Provincial Swine Breeders;.S. E. Todd, |filed with suitable authority. 18 bushels gives a total yield of 103,- chicks produced. Toronto, representing the Industrial} In regard to the establishment of a 995,482, “and Development Council of Canadian greater degree of uniformity in the pr | bush Allowing approxima ‘Meat Packe-s; and the secretary, L.!duction of bacon, the committee w 9,000,000 bighels for seed, this 1 €. McOuat, Dominion Livestock |agreed that our breeds of bacon hogs |g Branch, Ottawa, is under the chair-' should be developed to a’uniform type. manship of A. A. MacMillan, clitet~of It Was also recognized that the jud Sheep and Swine Division, Livestogk “ing of hogs at our fairs and exhibitions Branch, Ottawa. ¥ [Plays an important part in this matter, | Problems of importance in conpec-/and that more rapid progress would he | a Hon with the further Soeenters of made if all the breeds. of bacon hogs | See Bea Cure the Canadian swine industry were un-| Were judged according to the aan , der consideration, and an earnest, at- Standard from year to wear. f | gerald, director of the Connaught tempt is being made to provide solu-} Im connection with the purchase oF anti:foxin laboratories; Toronto, ana tions and to direct the future develop-| hogs within the thick smooth graae | °° A ie i =! niet aa _ment of this profitable industry on| on a quality basis in Western aoe French acaton the Wiivetstty, a ars sound and profitable lines. we discussions ofeure oe eacody anny Onto has Coe a Sas of ex In view of the comparatively high} Winnipeg meetings held during tne periments in the Toya! of ecuvin : Prices for hogs which have prevailed |Past Year were reviewed and note was eure tpi bovine tuberculosis. The an- throughout the past year, producers| taken of the recent arrangement now fn otinteneite of the step, which has|again hung in the incubator and left |International, Chi undoubtedly are endeavoring to inter-|! effect at the Edmonton and Ae ae takenin the interests of agricut-| until the chicks were hatched. pret the future position. ~ The com-;84ry yards. Under this system a dlyr- | ture, was made by Dr. H. J. Coay,|this method, other conditions befng) a noted champion mittee adopted a report submitted by | Slon fs made in the thick smooth grage | Mitaieman of the board ai Pevernere of f L, C. McOuat, bacon specialist, Do-| between hogs of improved type eet the university ik an address to the minfon livestock branch, which re: | qualley and fee poancerlon type #2C}annual diner given’ by’ the Ganitiin || hatclies: showa siatane obtained at any+delible impr views the development of our export| duality, and a differential of 25¢ per National Exhibition , to livestock | time with good eggs. |herds of Manitoh _ bacon trade and the situation pertain- eee is pet jae ae bette | breeders and exhibitors at: Toronto. jable extent on th - ing t oduction in the countries|ogs. As this ‘system jas only been | E S | “{ (ee f ote cane Bilas. ai fein operation for a month it will require | Bring Money Into Canada Be Reg Cs, port emphasizes the importance of a/time to demonstrate its merits and’to EEN continued improvement in the supply determine its efficiency and usefulness, of hogs of the approved bacon type = and is encouraging in that it sets ‘Asking For Advice forth the comparatively sound position ee of the Canadion producer in regard to; Whether Crow Should Be Extermin-| G % the fature. ated Or Not Is Open Question | United States during the year 1925 ' The committee waS impressed with} Specialists who knew all abont fish | 4am any other country in the world,| the importance of spreading the pro-|never rested duction of hogs more evenly through-| the best fishing waters of this Droy-|P&ttment of commerce, | resist ak aa T : out the year, in order to supply ajince with German carp, | ter of purchases in the United Seika er pers 12 fiscal years. De Res e upher Le steady volume of fresh product to the| Specialists who knew all about ran-| Canada penked second only to Great a ae bile ae ma Gi ea ee a eee wer Onent British consumer. This, it was felt,| bits never rested until the Austra |Britain. Canadian exports for Ue | a ee fea would be extremely important when|lians stocked their commons with the | Perlod reached a yale of Seeareapel| Pope Ey oan; Ukeyad bac COke, tHe the new order of the British ministry |remote parents of the present poster-| While imports from the United States| Jaintons rane at . of healthy prohibiling tie use of hefaxvity of English rabbits, totalled $650,762,508, a fos 1915-16, when the total was $6,005,- Baird, Brook _@ omes into effect on January Ist, 1927.| Specialists who know all about Soa mes Tt was also felt that the spreading of) crows insist. that Ontario's first duty Saskatchewan’s Registered Seed i é She i ed production will work out to the econ-|is to shoot on sight every crow that : —- Beye ae ne eee Bud Jen nae S omic advantage of the producer in that gets between the-people of this prov- |Large Shipment Has Been Forwarded | mere Bie witzeteakg, AEE Caneey ebony 7 ouR UE ft will tend to maintain a more even| ince anda clear view of the morning, ‘To South Americn jdians than any other SLEMCE Settlers honey, the necta: leyel of prices throughout the year.| afternoon or sunset sky. .A shipment went forward recently | “Om Michiga a In’ that period totulled j able clover Bul This can be brought about in two| May Jack Miner, who knows all/to Buenos Aires, of 50 tons of pedi-| ne ron ReDODESOLs there were | Lethbridge distric ways, first, by increasing the number about ‘crows, give better advice in re-| greed Marquis wheat and 20 tons of |S 4 mgrants to Canada; from M by ‘one wholesale of sows which farrow two litters a gard to his special subject than On-| pedigreed E year, and, second, by having the far-| tario received from the gentleman who/largest consignment rowings of those beating only one lit-| knew all about German carp or Aus-|shipped from Canada. ¢ ter a year distributed throughout the) tralia from the counsellor who knew! The shipment was consigned by spring and summer months. Steps aré}al l about English rabbits.—Toronto!the Moose Jaw branch of the Cana- being taken to co-operate with the ex- Telegram, | dian Seed Growers Association, and perimental stations, agricultural col- % _ | was bought by the Bunge & Born leges and demonstration farms in-se- | Grain Corporation of Buenos Aires. curing further data on the economic | —_—————_ extent and limits of the farrowing sea-| Maintenance of Soil Fertility by Means| A Native of Africa Sons, and it is hoped that reliable ex- of Crop Rotations . Hippopotamus is a Greek perimental data and actual demonstra-|_ Jt haying been shown that continu-|meaning river horse. The Uons in practice over a wide area will ous grain growing causes serious loss | bearing this name is a native of Africa, | under cultivation. result in a more eyen distribution of in the organic matter and nitrogen or |It was known to several ancient c a our hog production throughout the! the soil, a series of experiments have | cal writers, but not correctly describ- year. ale been conducted on the experimentar}ed. | Hippopotomi Were exhibited at] for the boy, madame. lege. Hens will n The seasonal underfinishing andj farms at Brandon, Man, and Scow,,|Rome by the Emperor Antoninus abour Madame.—What! — Do you honestly they can get bri overfinishing of hogs and its effect on| Sask, to ascertain the influence of cer- the year 438 A.D. ‘The first one} think he’s that old? |The latter, ‘ty our export bacon trade was another! tain rotations, including grasses and brought to Pngland-arrived in London} Conductor.—Think he’s that old? enough to do the ‘ subject which received the_attention clovers, on the soil’s plant food con-/on May 25, 1850. and was placed in the Why, lady, at first glance I thoughr gizzard and gaye of the committee. It was pointed out/tent. The results of these expert- | Zoological Gardens, Regent’s Park, he was your husband! | cium carbonate that the past two years furnished an/ments, which are deseribed in a new} jmineral content of outstanding example of the swing from | bulletin of the department of agricul-| \nderfinished hogs during part of 1924| ture, by Dr. Frank T, Shutt, show thar! and the early part of 1925 to the tend-| the nitrogen content of the soil Taal ency to excessive fatness which has; beeni maintained, and in-certain n-| developed since last fall. The dam-| stances materially~increased, in those} aging effect of such f# practice is that|rotations which include the growing | it makes it- impossible to maintain a! of grasses and legumes, with lighr | steady supply of export bacon of the}dressings of manure. Dr. Shuit} same quality from one year to the|states that if the humus and nitrogen | other. content is to be maintained, exclusive | The committee gave consideration to’ grain growing must give way to the! the system ef advanced registration’ practice of these rotations, | for pure-bred swine which has already - been before the breeders. During the coming year small sub-committes will y/use a pad of paper and burlap made {p Manitoba. by wrapping alternate layers of the dispersed for sey 95,000,000 bushels.” Wide and five inches long was form fue found -herds In Interests Of Agriculture ed. This was saturated with water | his breeding. a and hung in the top of the incubator | about three inches from the radiator| had little or no é Pipes. In a 200-ege machine the use;except his own Under the direction of Dr. J. ff. Fitz-| of one pad, Says the superintendent in|in breeding fn th his report for 1924, moistened when-| ed in building up ever the eges were turned, if the pad | years one of the required humidity Og the twelfth|er. Lavendar 47, day the pad was removed and the ma-| five times junior chine run dry until the last turning of ,champion of the Trade With United States Canada Exported More Goods to U.S. Settlers From U.S. Brought ‘in| $163,470,553 in Twelve Years | | Last Yéar Than Any Other United States citizens settling in| Alberta | Country Canada during the past twelve years | Over Prospe | Canada exported more goods to the| brought with them wealth in cash and| IE, Marks, of Le i925) effects totaHing $163,470,553! * jed president of t In the statement for the last fiscal | ers’ ssociation In the mat-| tion aid colonization, figures are giv | Stirling, was re-el Do-| were-named: F. 049. + In the last fiscal year it Was | Edmonton. The $6,277,122. thus: | 75,466; from New York, 74,067, and! producers of the of seed grain States vary from 30,000 to a few hun: apiaries produced dreds. So | Production of Hops Hop production in Canada will be! doubled, the British Columbia depart: | ment of agriculture states, when 1,000} ed Grit Is Importa Better Farming Methods : 2p kl word} purpose, on the reclaimed area at Lake | 1 {to been supposed El ea SE Conductor—You musi pay full fare|Kaupp, of North ter-is lacking in production is r is nearly pure calc’ eral ¢g percentag | kidney di grits contain acid | rendering the re s of the acid side. The Industrial Goat | | | | | He lomesteaded in the seventies, |m& farmers go unsatisfied. Ye Capital and no backing ; Wuestlonably, farm labor in Canada Is was dry, was sufficient to maintain the herds in the west. The famous Neif- jriculturalist of tomorrow. Alberta Honey Production Apiarists Are until Ontario stockea |#¢¢0rding to a report of the U. ch de-| Year of the department of immigra-| ing at Lethbridge. States | treasurer, dnd the following directors The lowest year was that) bridge; A. J. Morris, Lacombe; R. R Janner oats, said to be th |Sachusetts, 77,750; from Washington, firm paid out $12,000 to three hone ars ats, S$ = e from North Dakota 51,402, The other | Rose and Kerr apiaries | honey alone in 1925, } ) { m acres are to be purchased for this Nearly Pure Calclotn Carbonate Is} Northern Alberta, | Considered Best I animal) Bed at a cost of $250,000 and broughy| rit plays a much more important] families of Europe, who do not find part in egg production than has hither- | Shell consists of 91.44 per cent, pure! scheme. calcium carbonate, and when the lat-|ing of the aspirant, farm training In ts on the market contain large Magnesium and diarrhoea ction of the blood on|Has Increased Over Million Women Adapted To Dairying Be OF) of eges hatched and the vitality of the| Shorthorn breed in Western Canada, | Pacific Rallway conducts a survey into j Of several meth-| and who did some of the most con-|the requirements of farmers in terri oF approximately 104,000,000) ods. tried. the most ‘successful was to| structive breeding that has been donej tory @long its’ lines, and thousands of His own herd has been |fatM labor yacancies disclose them- ul years, but all up| Selves, the great majority being for total for marketing of-approximate-|tyo around a plece of cardboard until /@nd down the province, and, indeed, | all-the-year-round employment, The a pad about an inch thick, three inches | throughout the prairie west, are to/demand for this help covers many that have strains of/ European countries in scope, but every | year the wants of many of the pply= dn- tical experience | one of the widest channels leading toa he east and succeed- | {Uture independence existing today. a herd that was for most ta¥ked of show |i8 the farm owner and independent ag- It is the the heifer that was |@¢auisition of a new and involved pro- and® twice grand | fession in which the ctudent is paid “A” circuit of west-| during his years of apprenticeship, It the eggs, when the saturated pad was| ern fairs, and junior champion of the | 8 pretty safe to-say that the greater Cago, 1919, was bred | number of farmers in Western Canada By} by Mr. Barron, and Star of Hope was} today started their agricultural car of his breeding. Mr, | €€rs as farm helpers, and others would favorable, there appears to be no rea-| Barron hag passed’on, but his work as |ind the explanation of thelr difMeul- son, states the report, why salisfactory |@ constructive breeder hag Jeft an in-| Hes and slow-coming success in a lack fon on the Short{horn|°! this preliminary training, ~ Author- a and to a consider- | ities are reiterating more forcibly e herds of the three | every day that a course of trainnig 1a —Free Press, * jmecessary for farm management in | Western Canada, and the general de- jagene for farm helpers putg this tuition j Within the possibility of most healthy EAthuelaetic | individuals, cts of Industry |. Farm labor has -not an altogether fiibidee: wae celaee pnice sound in certain circles of Euro- he ‘Alberta Beekeop: Dean life, but conditions, it must be ais hoch eal meet. |Tetlized, are very different in Canada. RG Shantz) at | The “gentleman farmer” does not exist ected ‘vice-president? Jn the Dominion. yery farmer is n thbridge, bee expert jyeeken and-ihere is no more dignifiea al farm, secretary- ‘calling than that of the tiller of the 7; z soil. Men of every class and condt- Leth: j Hon, profession and calling, follow It, and extract the utmost satisfaction _ from their toil. Members of the Buro- heckeehare aman pean aristocracy who come to Western EH. Hutton, ; and D. Chalmers, South Canada to be workers on their own tic over the prospects of the In-| = : |farms are iicreasing every year. Lord Rodney, for example, who, nee 1919, has become a successful % Alberta farmer, appreciated the ne: alfalfa fields of. the ae : cessity of this prel{minary practical t, have been handled | e ea training before undertoking the opera- > firm there. This | tion and management of his own farm, and placed himself ag an ordinary 'worker under an experienced farmer The Reidel | "°™ser under ae 3 in order to gain this experience. So 000 pounds of keenly is he convinced that such a valued at $9,000. | . course is indispensable to the inexpert- }enced young man from Europe that lie has lent his own experience and train- Southern Alberta} r-of the unsurpa d ‘t, the Reid, 1 6 nt 3 In Egg Production|ing to the benefit of others througn {teaching young men ai his farm ™m His pupils now tn- j clude members of some of the first farm labor derogatory, but, on the d, according to Dr. | contrary, have a high appreciation ot Carolina State Col jits dignity. ot eat granite grit if} ‘here is no doubt that many Young sit, hard limestone. | men unemployed or dissatisfied with. found, was hara prospects would, could the opportunity tinding work in the | farm labor offers, of securing a farm of off a supply of cal-/thefr own in a few years and achiey- to supplement the ling an entire independence, be driven the feed. ‘The ege!home to them, take advantage of the No matter what the stand- the hen’s food, egg; the methods of Canada is necessary tded. The best grit H for graduation to farm mnanagement, and the farm Jabor scheme offers the }chance of earning whilst learning. causing | Other} | is, jum carbonate. § Butter Production In Manitoba Lforming mater: Pounds | In Last Two Fears Exports from Manitoba of 315 car- loads of creamery butter, as againat jan import of 20 carloads in 1914, is the British Dairy Farmers Prefer Them! record set by the dairymen of the endeavor to bring the best judgment Too Wide a Range Between Prices of to Men Workers | province during 1925, according to the ,of the pure-bred-breeders to bear on Producer and Retailer | British dairy farmers éspecially wel-| annual report of the proyinclal dairy this question with the object of evolv- There is too wide a range between | jcome women as. helpers because, they|commissfoner, I year Manitoba ing a practical plan. the few cents the cattle grower re-| Say, it has been proved that women’ produced 13,663,312 pounds of butter, In reviewing the yarious factors celves for his beef on the hoof and| are better adapted to dairying thar an increase of 1,030,508 pounds over which hinder the practice of buying | the 40 cents a pound the retailer rings} men. In the country devoted to the/1924. “It 1s estimated that 1,000,000 hogs On a graded basis, the question | up on his cash register; there is too| | milk industry a great many more wo-! pounds were shipped to the UOntted of weighing facilities at country points | wide a range between the $40 a scone }men are now éuiploye d than men, De-|States from Southern Manitoba alone received considerable attention. It} he pays his “hands and the $40 a weer |mand for the new land girl nas doubled! ‘The total export from the pr would Seem that a great deal exists | the Same hand can earn in the dis-| in less than a year and the Women's 7,056,000 pounds, vy. d, at _in the way of scales, but that ina Sreat)secting room. “The same is true in| Farm and Garden Assoclation is hay 416,680, the bulk of it going direct sufet many instances, particularly In Wes very line of soil industry. The far-| ing difficulty keeping up with requer treat Britain. pea ern Canada, these are not well locat- | mer is the agricultural and industrial of farmers for this class of workers. | re hacks ed, nelther are they well equipped for conntS Me gr fs held of small ac| |? ~ rr s ] | O formers for this class o | Coolidge’s Close Economy othe! | ean hogs. Furthermore, no de- count; his produce is made the sport Alberta Fish Industry Probably no feature of the Coolli of Ki gy ie cai a In existence which | of gamblers; he i8 left with insufficient | | One hun-lred and fifty thousand administration ha pre 1 s0 popular te, abate rate rd the oe eenment | canda to properly equip or man his | j Pounds of whitefish were shipped from! with the country a presider The | fenteee ence in the accuracy and rella-| plant sand yet the world is absolutely )Calling Lake, Alberta, in’ the present insistence that ta be reduced to nse pra of Welghing at country points.| dependent upon the tiller of the soll| ees season, Most of this product went lowest point compatible witl nd PS = * Committee {8 agreed that proper|for {ts Sustenance—Los Ange ian epee, A : to Chicago, for distribution from ment efficte Cooll out i] x + Ssaddgcd ed hogs at coun: Times, ithere. Previous years have seen this made possible er | he ad or : 4 Ht Sa a hen signe Raa sae } ~ Billiard Champ on Tour shipment eaited before shipping piel bs Ba sions shonumibe a : inttlal ing and grading.of the} Sergt. Donaldson.—James, where are | Claude Falkiner, the famov English billiard player, former world cham-/ don’t some Fupés ee pr fa : aah id ¢ hogs when the shipper is present {s/all your shots going? Every one has \bion, arrived in Canada on the Canadian Pacific liner Montcalm recently. He wii they own a aie 5 ne auE aes aa % {L by way of education.| missed the target. is on his way to China, and from th he will go to India for a trip. Trayel- The ae Call ecme Gedtate do| gl ts 5 ry - ——| James Willlams—1 don’t know, ing all the way across Canada on Canadian Pacific lines, Mr, Falkiner will get a habit of untitiig: older ici ie The first needles were the thorns f : aa 1618 4 Sergeant. They left here all right. Jeave for China on ue ice, SS. ae gs Asia, i oat ; | down.” . hee plants, i The farm helper in Canada to lay * ~ dn bd 2 i ane pam serawan “i si AAA LPLALRE SLD D DER as dd ee ode eee rey Pray ie