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An Ideal Fattening Mash for

CHICKENS, TURKEYS, DUCKS, GEESE

THE BRACKMAN-KER

MILLING CO. LIMITED

Phone or write your nearest branch.

cy News of the Farms ay

“CONCHIES” MAY
WORK THIS YEAR
ON B.C. FARMS

Also Available to
Some Industries

Conscientious objectors in 19
alternative service camps in Bri-
tish Columbia will have the op-
tion of working on farms and |

in essential industries or of re-
maining’ in camps under plans
announced by Lahor Minister

Humphrey Mitchell at Ottawa.

Under an order-in-council pas-
sed April 7, farmers will pay for |
the labor of conscientious objec-!
tors at the rate of $35 to $40 a
month and industries will pay |
the current wage rates. |

The objectors themselves will
receive $25 a month, with board
and lodgings. The surplus of their
earnings will be paid to the Can-
adian Red Cross.

1273 in Camps

On February 3 there were 1273

objectors working in alternative

To Help Him NOW
When He Comes Home

DONATE STEER

T. Swanton and his sisters, the
Misses G. and E. G. Swanton,
who live on a farm at Raleigh
and who keep the Kamloops Su-
perfluity Shop supplied with the
choicest fresh vegetables and
plants in season have donated a
steer to the Red Cross. The ani-
mal brought $86 at an auction.

Canadian flour mills manufac-
tured 11,408,011 barrels of flour
in the six months ended Jan-
uary 31, 1943, an increase of
more than one and a half mil-
lion barrels on the output in the
corresponding six months ended
January, 1942,

service. camps; the other 2128
registered objectors to military
service had not been called out
for alternative service because of
lack of facilities to place the men

at necessary work, Mr. Mitchell at Bradner with one or two acres |

Said.

Under existing regulations the
“conchies” are paid 50 cents per
day and board.

...and

OUR SON (or your neighbor’s

son) is in battle dress perhaps

++. 0n a ship at sea, or flying a
bomber. You are proud of him, but
you pray for the time when he will be
back home. You will do anything you
can, you say, .. . everything you can
. . . to bring him home safe, and bring
him home soon.

Well, here is one thing you can do,
You can buy Victory Bonds,

When you buy Victory Bonds you
help your boy to do the big job he is
doing now. You help to make sure
that he has everything he needs;
better equipment than the enemy has.
And you are saving money to have a
better home for your boy to return to.

HAVE MONEY FOR HIM WHEN
HE COWES HOME

He will want to work with new farm
implements . : . new equipment . . . to
replace things that may be worn out.
He will have new ideas to improve the
farm. He may want to experiment
with new crops, new stock, new farm-
ing methods. He’s young and ambi-
tious as you want him to be.

He will need money to do things he
plans todo. Victory Bonds... money
saved now and loaned to Canada to
help win the war . . . will be yours and
his to use when the war is over.

BACK THE ATTACK

Buy all the

VICTORY
BONDS

you can

WHAT IS A VICTORY BOND?

A VICTORY BOND is the promise of the Dominion of Canada to repay in
cash the full face value of the Bond at the time stipulated, with half-yearly
interest at the rate of 3% per annum until maturity. A Victory Bond is the
safest investment in Canada. The €ntire resources of the Dominion stand
behind it. Canada has been issuing bonds for 75 years, and has never failed to
Pay every dollar of principal and interest, A Victory Bond is an asset more
feadily converted into cash than any other security.

57-4

59-FOOT ENGLISH
GRAPEVINE GROWING
|IN BRADNER HOTHOUSE

First Commercial Grower
of Bulbs on B.C. Mainland

Fenwick Fatkin, who planted
the first commercial bulbs of any
kind on the B.C. mainland, has
five solid acres of Dloom at Brad-
ner, now famous Canadian bulb-
growing district of western Mat:
qui. This is admittedly mo:
varieties than anyone else on the
continent. He also grows more
dahlias than anyone else in Can
ada.

In one of his six hothouses, '
covering 5764 square feet, there
is an English grapevine, the

‘Black Hamberg, which is 59 feet

in length, perhaps a record 5,

a single plant.
| There are dozens of

{in bloom, but even Mr. Fatkin’s

|
growers

FERTILIZER
15 STILL

AVAILABLE

We are fortunate in B.C.
to have adequate stocks
of fertilizer—because of
a shortage of labour and
shipping facilities it is
essential for you to cal-
culate your fertilizer re-
quirements carefully and
Place orders with your
C-I-L dealer NOW.

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Avert delay at planting
time by ordering your
fertilizer immediately.

SIAN INDUS
;record as the biggest grower 7 kB
| there will be exceeded as soon
as W. van der Zalm, an experi- ee
enced bulb grower of Holland, | Canadian Industries
has completed his planting of 16 a5
Leet Limited

acres at Bradner. an Aare
—Fertilizer Division—

LTCC New Westminster, B.C.

FARM BRIEFS |

Moa 1 LC Bk Rp Dae]

Emphasis is being placed on)
the consumption of potatoes in-
stead of bread in Britain as a
means of conserving shipping
space that would be required for
the movement of wheat from|
Canada and the United States.

The old Garnet Chili variety
potatoes is still successfully pro-
duced as certified seed in Nova

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Scotia for shipment to Ral

There it is grown for the early

winter market trade in New -
York. This variety originated at |

Utica, N.Y., in 1853. PROTECT YOUR

There are several systems in
YOUNG PLANTS

SQUARE

ANON AT

ih

use of artificial brooding of
chicks—the battery, the hot wat-

er ipe, and electric, gas, oil, 4

Goal ae wood ee ee from Rain, Birds, Insects
For general farm conditions, the e

brooder stove placed in a colony

house has up to the present proy-| Quickens Maturity Dates
ed the most satisfactory. e

Write for Information

Smith Davidson
& Wright Ltd.

| TIMELY TIPS
W ba UW

Bradner Gardener .

| VANCOUVER VICTORIA
Garlic: Stir soil between a EDMONTON CALGARY
Leeks: Sow maincrop now. Ti c we
Lettuce: Sow successions of
Cos and Head.
ee eoecee

Marjorum (Herb): Sow now.

Onions: Get in maincrop as
soon as possible.

Parsley: Sow now.

Turnips: Sow maincrop now for
table use.
Parsnips:
once.
Peas: Continue. to sow in suc-
cession. Plant spinach between
rows, it will grow faster.
Potatoes: Draw earth to early
ones as they appear above the
ground. Get ground prepared to
plant maincrop at once.
Radishes: Sow for succession
as needed.

Sage: Plant cuttings now.
Savoy Cabbage: Sow seed’now.
Shallots: Hoe and loosen the
ground about the plants.
Spinach: Sow suceéssions now.
Thyme: Sow seed now.
Apples, Pears, Plums, Cherries
should be grafted now. Attend to
grafts frequently and keep moist.
Strawberries: Cultivate, keep
hoe going. —T. Preece.

Floral Designs for
All Occasions

Should be sown at

ROSEBAY GARDENS

Phone 169F

J. B. Dennis

Auctioneer

CHILLIWACK, B.C.
Telephone 5661

Sales at the Dennis Auction
Barn Saturdays at 12 noon
and 7:30 p.m,
Poultry and Hogs, 12 noon.
Cattle, not before 1 o'clock.
Farm Dispersals Conducted
anywhere.

—for—

ACTION YEAR

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National War Finance Committee |

Write or telephone for your copy of the
* “ACTION YEAR” BOOK
describing these famous chicks
White, Black, Brown and Buff Leghorns — Barred Rocks
Rhode Island Reds — New Hampshires — Light Sussex

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