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| Alberta Elevator Construction ‘a

vmoon E

Farmers’ Marketing Tour
Canadian National Railways’ Tour }

To Great Britain and
Denmark, 1928

250 New Blevators Have Been Built
In Province This Year
Approximately 250 new elevators
baye been constructed throughout
}| Alberta this year, it is estimated by
Hlocal grain men. The total capacity

(Continued)

Where, incidentally, we learned that
our leader, Mr. Arkell, had spent part
of his honeymoon!

Tt is safe to say that none of us
had ever seen a finer herd than that
which was shown to us, fino, big,
jheavy, deep-milking cows, every one
|® picture of what an Ayrshire ought
|to be. The 75 cows in milk average
between 900 and 1,000 gallons, with

dosing—Just rub on
|one ylelding 1,800 gallons, testing 4
| Per cent. Most of these cows were

Vicks | daughters of champion bulls, Mr. Barr

CNTR TS ESTISD | does a great deal of business in Can-
ada, and at this year’s Royal Show
@ large proportion of winners was
from stock of his Breeding.

In the opinion of the » dairymen
members of our party, Mr. Barr's

WORLD HAPPENINGS |
BBR CUD) bret gree, as tank tas

| concrete, part with brick, Mr, Barr

The engagement of King Boris, of| maintaining that brick flooring is
Bulgaria, to, Princess Viovanna, | of| healthier in winter and results in the
Italy, is reported, avoidance of trouble in the knees and

| joints of the cattle. It is interesting
Reductions ranging from a nickel to note that some of the fields on the
to 50 cents a bottle are effective in

farm have been in grass for 70 years
Saskatchewan liquor prices, accord-

Mr. Montgomerie’s Lessnessock

sabes farm at Ochiltree which we next vis-

ing to the price list issued by the Sas-| ited, is best known to Canadians be-

katchewan liquor board. cause its name is a prefix to the

ni a vhicl 7

Attempts are being made to organ- james Of many animals which have
ize a meeting of countries directly in-
terested in evacuation of the Rhine-

helped to make Canadian Ayrshire
history. This farm is not far from

land, it is understood in League of

Nations circles.

Mauchline, where the poet Burns had
a farm of his own.

Last year 100 Ayrshires were ship-

‘ ped to Canada by Mr. Montgomerie.

Only one-fifth of an inch of rain| His herd now supplies _tuberculin-
fell in Vancouver, during the month
of August, making it the driest
August since the taking of records

commenced in 1905.

tested milk by contract to the™hos-
pitals belonging to the Municipality
of Glasgow, testing 4 per cent. and

The Canadian Mail Contractors’
Association in’ convention at Toron-
to, decided to urge abolition of the

running upto 4.6 per cent, This
contract system and the institution

herd provides one of the most out-
standing examples of grading up
of a salary basis of $70 per mile per
year.

milk and butter fat yield. In 1903

he had 40.cows averaging 554 gal-

lons of 3.69 per cent. butter fat over

86 weeks. In 1921, 52 cows averag-

ed 720 gallons of 3.9 per cent. butter
The New South Wales cabinet has
approved the proposal of the state
egricultural department to import
high quality Aberdeen Angus cattle
from Canada as part of a scheme to

fat over 39 weeks, and in 1927, 52
cows averaged 920 gallons of 4.16
per cent, fat over 44 weeks.

It was a delight to see his fine herd
of milking cows and the barns ana
byres which presented an object les-
son in clean milk production, An in-
teresting development was the ‘de-

improve the export beef trade, par-
ticularly baby beef.

The U.S. department of agricul-
ture has lifted the embargo on dairy
products passing through Montreal.
The embargo was placed in effect
during a typhoid fever outbreak in
the Canadian city. It originally cov-|

horning” of the calves of Lessnes-
sock, a step which is being watched
ered 200 miles but has been decreased
from time to time.

closely by other breeders. Mr. Mont-
A new list of broadcasting statins

gomerie applies a preparation to the
in Canada has just been issued by the

calyes when they are a few days old
which prevents the horns from grow-
i

Radio Branch, Department of Marine.

ond Fisheries. A careful reading

ing.
shows that there are four new licens-}

Braes of Bonnie Doon,” one mile from
the poet’s birthplace at Alloway. It
was a revelation to see selected mem-
bers of this wonderful herd whicn
has such an enviable record of high
awards to its credit at the shows of
the Royal Agricultural Society of

It was not far from Craigie Mains | °f these elevators would be about
to Hobsland, the home of Mr. Thomas 18,000,000 bushels, it was stated.
Barr, the Ayrshire cattle breeder, Complete figures for elevator con-

struction in the province were not
pevailable, but grain men stated that
feeseoe on of facilities had been pro-
| gressing rapidly in all parts of Al-
|berta, The capacity of the elevators
varied from 35,000 bushels to 140,000
Perse The Alberta Wheat Pool
alone has 110 more elevators this year
| than in 19; and practically all the
|public grain elevator companies
have increased their storage capac-
ity.

|
|
|

Princess Ingrid, of Sweden, is said to be the only girl of royal blood
whom Queen Mary wants for a daughter-in-law. The name of the pretty

Will Soon

XPORTING CAPITAL |
Ynter Ranks Of)
Creditor Nations Says Users Ni A

Expert
is an exporter
not far distant future
likely to enter the ranks of the credit-
or nations of the world, according to
Ray Hall, of the United States De-}
partment of Commerce,
published in Commerce

Canada

of capital}
and in the

is

in an article)
reports re-|

cently. :
Analyzing the statement of Can-
ada’a batance of interest indebted-|
36 in-|

for the yearg 1920 to 1926 In-}

hes
clusive, recently released by the Do-|
minion Bureau of- Statistics, he point-
ed out that since 1923 Canada has on
palance been exporting capital.

According to the article, it Is be-|
lieved tha in the four years 1923 to}
1926 inclusive’ net capital exports)
from Canada exceeded six hundred)
million dollars. This credit balance)
has been growing year by year. Can-|
ada has been repaying

old obligations)
faster than she has been making new)

loans abroad.

Mr. Hall remarks: “A few years)
ago when a Canadian loan was float-|
ed in the United States virtually all)
of the issues would be subscribed by)
‘Americans, for recent _years, how-
ever, the Department of Commerce
schedules of Can!
derwritten in the United States show
a steadily growing Canadian particl-
pation.”

In this respect, says Mr. Hall, Can-
ada is doing an increasing share of|
its own industrial financing through}
the joint underwriting of Canadian|
iesucs in Montreal and New York.|
‘This emancipation has already gone
so far that by 1927, according to Mr.
Hall, “Canadian-American transac-

princess who is already half English, is being more and more frequently
linked with that of the Prince of Wales.

Canon Urges Short Bible
Would Be More Readable If It Was
Simplified
A shortened and simplified Bible,
which will be “more readable for or-
dinary folk and children,” is suggest-
ed by Canon A. E. Simpson, of Eng-

land, in his parish magazine.

‘U dl Canon
said, ‘many people put off reading
their Bible because they find so much
of it uninteresting, even unintelligi-
ble.

“What can ordinary folk make of
the chapters giving details of the
Tabernacle, the pages of Jewish laws,
the endless lists in
Chronicles, the ceaseless battles of
Omri and Zimri, and Tibui and all
their company, much of the prophe-
cles of Zephanial and Habbakuk, and
even the arguments of St. Paul?
“One of our greatest needs is a

arterens Losing Its Value

Synthetic Chemistry Has Produced
Cheaper Ingredient For Use In
Perfume Making
While ambergris is still quite val-
uable, it does not possess the value
it did years ago., There is not the
demand now for it that there used to
be. Ambergris was chiefly used in
the perfume-making industry, some
of the most fragrant odors being pro:
duced from the evil-smelling stuff;

istry in recent year have not only
made it possible for chemists to imi-
tate exactly the composition of the
put also to produce arti-
ficially other and better aromas at
the one-hundredth part of the cost ot
ambergris.
Were one to pick up a quantity of
the stuff on one of the beaches both
east and west, where in the past some

| tically at a stalemate.”

but the advances of synthetic chem-)

‘The farm of Lt.-Col, Norman Ken-
es, while one station has dropped its

nedy, D.S.O., breeder of the famous

Doonholm herd of Aberdeen-Angus
license, bringing the total number of
licenses in Canada’to seventy-six.

cattle, lies in the very heart of the
This list supplements the list issued

England, the Highland and Agricul-
tural Soclety of Scotland; Smithfield, |
Edinburgh and Perth Spring shows
and sales, Outstandingly interesting

shortened Bible containing passages

ENZIRE most suited for popular use, carefully

Plaits at either side of front create

as were the animals themselves, they)

arranged and printed attractively,

@ panel effect in attractive model ac-
z * K: like an ordinary book, instead of in

Some years ago

fair-sized lumps of

several

it have

could be disposed of locally with ease. | further north than generally
fishermen |

been

found, it fs even doubtful whether it} poundaries of plant, fish, and bird life

tions in long term capital were prac-
This means
| that although in that year $268,000,-
000 of new United States capital was
invested in Canadian securities in ad-
dition to some $51,000,000 invested
| «directly,” this movement of long-|
| term funds was almost entirely offset |
| py the export of approximately $268,-|
| 000,000 on capital account from Can-)
ada to the United States.

‘According to Mr. Hall, the forces
behind Canada’s change from an im-
porter to an exporter of capital are

| i

dian securities un-|~

ilEYS

A treat in the Peppermint-flavored
cket and another in
flavored gum inside
lasting delight

sugar-coated ja
the Peppermint:
utmost value in tong-

CONDENSED MILK

‘FOR -
BABY

SUCCEEDS

WHERE |
OTHER FOODS
FAIL

FREE BOOKLETS
on the care and feeding of infants. Write
Tux Bonen Comraxy Loarep, Moxrnzat

“Canadian prosperity and Canadian
| thrift.” He concludes that these forc-
|es may well continue at work.

|
|

Northern Trip Successful |

| Commander McMillan and Party)
Brought Back Interesting |
Information |

The general result of scientific ob-

| servations by Commander D, B, Mc
| Millan, who arrived at Sydney, N.S.,|
|on his exploration schooner Bowdoin

|from Labrador, has established the}

| Farm Implements

US. Feels Canadian Prosperity.

Imported From
US, Reach High Valuation

A reflex of the prosperity prevail-
ing in Western Canada which touches
the United States is indicated by
Canadian purchases of farm imple-
ments in that country. In July these
purchases are stated to have brok-
en all records, During that month the
Dominion import shipments of this
kind totalled $5,958,603. in value,
making a record of $29,277,201 for

the first seven months of the year.

xUPS| 7 :
|~ The bulk of these purchases con-

Burns Country, on the “Banks and
late in June.

were rendered doubly so by the able
exposition of the points of the Aber-
deen-Angus breed by Mr. James

centing dip in the waistline and fitted

posed. |
| Commander MacMillan said his ex-|

sisted-of tractors and harvesting ap-
paratus. During the month of July,

Counting Method Is Primitive

Cameron, formerly agricultural edit-|

| or of the Glasgow Herald and one of}

the foremost judges in Scotland, be-

Style No. 245 will appeal to women

| bipline. The bodice is molded to, a black binding.” found a piece ona beach in the
carry out slender silhouette, and ==, t .

y : and} vicinity of Catherine Will Bay, north
elaborated with simple embroidery.| iene Tilvee Gold

of Sydney, New South Wales, and). 14 that 6,000 specimens of plant life|

| pedition had been highly successfu)
more than 1,800 tractors were ship-

ped to Canada, of which 1,422 were

with distinctive taste. It adapts itself ‘After more than half a century of, although it was genuine ambergris| | 4 many varieties of fish, birds and

Capital Of Esthonia Uses Frame

sides having judged at Smithfield and
in the Argentine.

We were not allowed to leave
Doonholm until Lt.-Col. and Mrs.

With Colored Balls For
Adding

to silk crepe, crepe satin, silk pique,
jsilk broadcloth, georgette crepe
crepe Romain, printed linen, or chif-|
|fon printed voile. Pattern for this

neglect, the gold gold-bearing bars of| they hawked it around the city for
the Fraser River are being exten-| some weeks before they eventually
sively prospected again and mining} chanced upon a buyer, and the offer

‘ame were brought back by scientists)
| in the party.
A number of these were hitherto

| wheel tractors of from 15 to 32 horse-

power. Other large items among the
Canadian purchases were 3,945 har-

While enjoying a holiday in Fin-

Kennedy had extended to us the hos-|

unusual dress can be had in sizes 16,

vesters and binders, 914 combines and

men predict a new era of intensive| which was made for it quickly dissi- z
pitality of their beautiful home on) | not supposed to exist so far north as

land writes an English traveller, I)
flew across by seaplane to spend a}
day in Reval, the capital of Esthonia,
and I was very much interested to
ece that in all shops they still use the
ancient and primitive abacus, the
frame with colored balls, used in
kindergartens, for purposes of add-
ing. I went first to a bank to change}

the banks of the Déon, where in the
fine grounds we were shown the five
trees which were planted by the fath-
er of Robeft Burns as gardener to
the estate.

Interested as we were in these
three famous farms, we were glad
that opportunity permitted us to vis-
it, if only for a short while, the home
of Robert Burns. The wee clay cot-

development on this famous mineral-| pated their dreams of a prosperous
rich stream. Not since the early six-| and easy future.

ties has the Fraser been prospected| Although it was American chemists
so thoroughly as now. who first produced most of the syn-
thetic substitutes that are now used
in perfume-making, the hest market
for ambergris, strange to say, is the
United States, where quantities of it
are still used by perfumers who cling

18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches
|bust. Price 25 cents in stamps or
coin (coin preferred). Emb. No.
11103 (blue) costs 25 cents extra.

How To Order Patterns

| To Handle the Crop |

To handle Western Canada’s crop}
this year the Canadian railways have)
despatched to key points on the prai-

| Address: Winnipeg Newspaper Union,
| 175 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg |

|

| Nain, a point on the coast of Labra-|
\dor where the commander had his}
headquarters. None of the party was
}i during the time the expedition
|was on the Labrador coast. In the
| house they built with the lumber tak-|
Jen North last summer, they were so|
comfortable that they had frequently
to open windows to cool off although

52 threshers.

‘These purchases from the United
tates are, of course, in addition to
great quantities bought from Cana-
dian mahufacturing concerns and
represent only a portion of the activ-
ity in the farm implement field duo
to this year’s record crops.

55

_ 7 0 re Jmost as it was in
a sovereign. They accepted the coin|tage remains al s in} 5 Fl bo theloliiformulas. Often
: Burns’ day, even to the furnishings—| Pattern No....... : ZO veveree ries 80,000 box cars and 1,913 loco-|to the old formulas. en a parcel so oe ee A
with some suspicion and checked the/th, \jtchen table, the grandfather! ahaa will realize a fairly good price, al-| a mercury at the time registered 45 Carried Out Old Tradition
notes they gave me on one of these/clock, the straight-backed wooden mates though, of course, nothing like what aeONve The astronomical clock at Hamp-
] " chairs, the plat k hina, the @ — i r
ball frames, and when I went to the Gaia a ieiged gue sa Sarl Combine Reaper Threshers the substance once brought. | ton Court, said to be more than 400
post office to get a set of stamps as} ging: br poct| Seiaiets e'viplv.civ.« eis slv'a\s'v sini wae vee Means Big I years old, is traditionally supposed to
,| Was born, the barn adjoining, and It is estimated that more than five ig Investment E 7

a souvenir they totalled the amount si 1 | r 4 cae stop when a resident of the place is
| the cattle stalls. A small home and) Name .../....+ i thousand combine reaper-threshers Canadian Apple Crop | e

I had to pay by the same method. 1/a humble one, but to be entered) Privately Owned Cars In Saskatch-| 20ut to die.

are in operation in Alberta during
the present harvest season.

The Canadian apple crop for 1928)
{s estimated to yield 2,938,970 bar-|

ewan Valued At One Hundred }

Million Dollars

| with reverence by all who believe in|

Recently the clock st }
| the dignity of labour and the indepen- | thing lactate

Lady McGregor, who has lived in

am no mathematician, but I got my
total first.

. |
Boss: “You believe in initiative, pep |
and originality, don’t you?”
: “Certainly, sir.”
Boss: “Then why don't you do just}
as I tell you?” ,

sd |

Visitor—How many controls have]
you on that radio set? |

dence of man. Behind the cottage
we visited the museum of Burns}
relics, the Auld Kirk where Tam 0!
Shanter watched the witches dance;
and, not far distant, the “Auld Brig)
o' Doon,” where his mare Meg lost
her tail; and the Burns Monument.
‘Our excursions from Glasgow gave
us little time to see the city itself, al-|
though all of us took opportunity to
stroll along the famous Sauchiehall|
Street. Broad, with handsome shops!
on both sides, this fine thoroughfare}

Britis: Columbla Exporting Eggs

Three years ago British Columbia
was importing eggs. This year that

Little things console us because| province has already exported’ oyer
most of our affections are little ones.| 200 carloads.

‘The first Canadian cheese factory
was established in Ontario in 1864.

British Columbia.

Chivalry was at
1100 to 1400.

rels, an increase of four
Nearly half the total is produced in

per

height

core |the palace for more than 40 years

| was killed in a motor accident bare-
ly a week later.

When the sun set on the last day
of the year 1927 there were 93,000
| privately owned automobiles in Sas-
| Katchewan, or at least that many
were licensed.

from An Automatic Mail Box

If tests being conducted at Leipzig,

Today there are 100,461 and that,
Germany, prove successful, an auto=

|as in the first case, does not include}

COMPETITION IN FIELD CROPS

=

matic mail box that weighs and
stamps letters will come into general

the thousands of motor trucks and
livery cars that further congest the

Host—Three, my wife, son and h u
9 2 is full of interest, and mirrors in its

daughter.

“what kind of pipe, ma'am?”

“{ want it for my husband, One of
these nice pipes that drive away
every care.”

Diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, ru-
pies and other precious stones are
ways much colder than their imita-

tion:

Canada has 600 electric power
plants, representing capital of
500,000,000.

Missionaries can explain their re-| °
ligion. The hard part is to explain

their civilization.

| Leading Athletes

TRAE.
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lit of this great industrial city. |

|!pg apparatus.”

bustle and activity the vigorous spir-|

Canada’s trade connection with
Glasgow is close. Glasgow has always)
favoured the removal of the embar-|
go that was placed on Canadian cat-}
tle, and the proportion of cattle li-|
censed out for stores was greater
than at any other port. Glasgow, )
along with the rest of Scotland has)
also formed a high opinion of Cana-}
dian hams and bacon

It was with special interest, there-|
that we visite# the Glasgow

r Merkeland Wharf at)
h cattle and pigs are landed.|
There are no finer facilities in the
British Isles. The accommodation Is}
4,600 head, and includes three}
a large number of killing

direct
or to

before remoyal

s to}
butchers’ shops

the

buye
meat markets in the east end of the

city. |
‘And now, as guests of the Corpor-
ation of Glasgow, we were to attend
our last official luncheon in Great
Britain. We took our seats in the
great banqguetting hall, the Lord
Provost, Sir David Mason presiding.

(To Be Continued.)

Everybody Welcome

Nervous Curate (giving out no-|

: “The yicar will continue his}
sant series of Friday evening ad- The village of Bounty, Saskatchewan, on the Moose Jaw-Macklin line of the Canadian Pacific Railway
‘ a ri
dresses in the parish hall, and the| into prominence at the ’

subject next Friday will be Hell, The petition in field crops.

yicar hopes to see you all there

collection will be for the new heat-

ame

main lines of traffic in the province
| This year, it should be remembered,
ha: en a tremendous increase in the
number of trucks,

If the
only

cars privately owned were
worth $10 each the total invest. |
ment would be more than $1,000,000.

Placing the average value at $1,000

near the mark.

the total investment in privately own-

|ed passenger cars is $100,000,000

which is somewhere

The Measure Of a Man |
Guggenheim, the New York|
, said on the Mauretania:

| ery man has a different tape-|
line, his own

use in that country. The sender drops
his letter into a slot and inserts coins
to pay the postage indicated. He pulls
a lever and the envelope is stamped
and mailed.

Turkey's first beauty contest at
tracted national attention and netted
the queen of queens of Stamboul $150
in prize money

DIARRHGA
Was So Bad
Child Passed Blood

: special tapeline, to Bene Harry Nesbitt, R, R. No. 2%
siearire his fellows by their wealth,| my nero Nae? qruutes:— Last Fal
he blue-blooded men by their bh y little boy took very bad with

and so on, pecs

‘Once an important personage lay
very il, and I said to an editor at

| the Lotos Club
| “Hoy, Blanc today?"
“Blanc,” said ‘

the editor,

8

sed |

on this afternoon
| “Poor Blanc!” Y |
| 31a said. “Ww
ere id Worth
*“Um—about
| a a column,”
editor.” : ne

th
Literary Digest :
| |

A comprehensive road

Saskatoon Exhibition this year by by winning a majority of the trophies offered for com. | MeRt 804 construction rites

ram has

diarrhea and before I knew it he was
passing blood. I went to our medicine
case and gave him a dose of

and a little later gave him another,
and half on hour after the seéond dose

The cups won by the Bounty boys were those donated by bee:
y Quaker Oats SoM) heen formulated by helgue valle :
The| Butler Byérs, and the Kiwanis Shield, ‘The names of the boys are, reading from left to right “oe Fast, | require 10 years co eee toatl (akon aie eee by the: Se ae
Howard Sibbald, Harold Smith, John Gilchrist, Howard McPhadden, reserve grand aggregate winner: anding,| ike gee its’ completion, | {ake 8 doses he was like w differant
Matheson and John McCay. 5 eated, ea “OF roativay *
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