Ith collapse the structure shn F Weakened, Ti: Drlceless pictans ig ints. Eines a) Strengthen the bid Ponardo Di Vay 4 Neo are ‘richly reps izi collection, —$—$_ \stounds Szisnyigy fo Deamark ate amy Iments of Dengt S» B00 Of Profisay 5 , rector of Copechy observatory, Th} ted an electrical ape automatically re of the-sars, long and pailen! re telescope, , 1925 has been remarkable when the} AGBOTSFORD. SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS Fur Farming Industry In All Its Branches Is Now Firmly Established In Canada Whatever doubts may have been en- tertained during the first experimen- tal years regarding the future of fur- farming in Canada have long been dis- pelled. The industry is now firmly Wintered Largest Herd In Canada Brandon Man Has Over 600 Pure-Bred Cattle On His Farms Constituling what is consicered the Cause Rubber Trade | Investigate Quality Of Wheat | Largest Rubber Transmission Belts in| Wheat Milling and Baking Laboratory the World Are Made in Canada To be Eestablished at Alberta The largest rubber belts in the| University world, both conveyor and transmis-} Announcement is made ihat the es | sion, are made in Canada, stated A. B.|tablishment of complete equipment for} Hannay, manager and se cretary of the|a wheat milling and baking laboratory } Rubber Association of Canada, in re-|at the Alberta University, has been! Viewing the activities of this indus-| completed. The resources try for the past year. The value or|university laboratory will be devoted| |Canadian belting exported was $615-| wholly to a_reSearch programme ap-| , 518. One million more automiobile}proved at a recent conference of chem- tires were made last year half a mil-| ists and agronomists froni the three UWarted Sizes; Navy | For Great Aerial Dreadnaughts Plans LJ Bristling With Heavy Guns the Will Raise Muskrats On Extensive Scale Over 8,000 Acres at Swan Lake, B.C., Acquired For This Purpose United States navy plans for great dreadnaughts of the air, brist Ne with guns to ward off seroplane attack underlie the action of the house naval committee, providing for constructios established, has indeed branched out in various directions since the breed- ing of the fox was undertaken. Ac- cording to the Dominion bureau of statistics in 1924, the number of fur farms in operation in Canada totalled 1,550, of which 1,466 were devoted to rearing foxes and 84 to other fur-bear- ing animals. Compared with 1923 the/district by a single owner. number of fur farms had increased by The main herd. is located at the; 323; fox farms by 287, and other farms Glencarnock farm situated just 3 ¢ by 36, the bureau reported. In-his’south-of the city limits, but the cat- Show Large Increase in Both Quantity latest “report the federal ‘ are spread over ten Cifferenr| and Value For 1925 Over minister, of tle r agriculture records a further decided|farm units. On’ each of these farms} |. Prevlouewvear = Total wheat exported from Canada finest herd on the North American jjon more were exported than dur- continent, 600° purebred Aberdeen jng-the preceding year; and the total Angus cattle have been wintered in) manufacture of tires amounted 1o over the Brandon district by J. D. McGres | three million. In addition three and jor. It is the jargest herd ever win-),. quarter million pairs of Canadian tered by this well-known breeder, and} tennis shoes were exported in 1925 certainly the largest number of cattle] jy @ value of $4,135,310: kept through the winter months in that f Wheat Exports increase In the farms raising fur-bear-!a separate herd of breeding cows is} r f ing animals other than foxes. Nine} maintained, yarying from 40 up to 250|'9 ll countries during the six mont ranches are/rearing beavers; seven! head kept on the Griswold farm, Win-|®24ed January 31st last, was 178,154 haye taken up fishers; nineteen, mar-/ tering condilions have been ideal this ate buslip lued at $253,172.860. ten; thirty-two, mink; two, lynx; four) year, and for that reason more than |DUTing the corresponding period a year blue foxes; twelve, skunks; forty-one,! passing success is being met in suc-| 28° Soe stones of Canadian wheat Taccoons; four, coyotes; sixty, musk-| cessfully fitting the eattle. ‘ were SEAMS bushels, valued. at rats and, at least, twenty, rabbits. He! Many of the cattle are headed for $143,893,190. Shipments of wheat to adds that the department is constant-'the various exhibition circuits this|‘"¢ United Kingdom in the period un- ly receiving inquiries for information | coming year, and many more honors “¢F review totalled 136,067,237 bush- regarding the raising of various kinds| will be added to the Glencarnock barns | © valued a $191,810,234, as compar: of fur-bearing animals, with particu-| through their showings. There are pan 75,367,309 bushels, worth lar reference to muskrats, mink and| few owners today who haye earned | *1138,5,620, in the same period of the chinchilla rabbits. the reputation across America that oavRecating DEar. The value of these farms, including|D. McGregor carries, and his brilliant | ae Jand, buildings, fixtures and animais| wins at the Chicago International, Tor- |} Pure-Bred Stock aggregated $10,966,420 in 1924, omit-| onta Royal, Brandon and other leading | ting muskrat and beaver farms, whose fairs testify to the high quality of Net Now Necessary to Import Pure- operators could not furnish exact stat-| breeding operations carried on on Sucn Bred Sheep to Improve Stock istics relating to their animais. Since!'a Jarge scale this winter. | In Canada in that year Canada had only-29 musk-| . | Speaking at the annual meeting of rat farms, two beaver and three rats Start Dog Farm ithe Canadian Sheep Breeders’ Asso- ing muskrat and beaver, the expan-} { e | elation recently, H, S. Arkell, Domin- sion in other than fox farms during Repdrted That Chicago Contractor | ion livestock commis Will Engage in New Undertakinig the pure-bred sheep raised in Canada figures for 1924 and 1925 are compar-| ‘In Northern Manitoba | Would stand comparison- with sheep ed. As regirds the distribution of the! In view of the exceptional keen pub- | bred in any other country in the worta. farms in 1924, the figures show Prince! lic interest now more than ever mani- |He commented upon the fact that tt Edward Island, 37 per cent.; Ontarto, | fest in dog derby events as an eyer| Was now not thought necessary to 1m- 16; Quebec, 12; New Brunswick, 9; ! increasing popular sporting feature, it port pure-bred stock from other coun- Manitoba, 8; Alberta, 6; Nova Scbtia,|is proposed by H. I. Sution, contrac-| tries for the improvement of the breed. ed THING. y palo sled get the soothing. Istee inard’s, = 6; British Columbia, 3; Saskatche-| tor, of Chicago, to immediately start | wan, 2, and Yukon Territory, 1. At/in Northern Manitoba, somewhere in| the close of that year four farms | the locality of -The Pas, a modern Canada reported a total of 31,204 sil-+kennel farm for the better breeding ver foxes, of which 21,364 were adults, /and training of commercial and racing | valued at $8,095,183, distributed thus: | dogs. The enterprise will be known Prince Edward Island, 13,639; New! the Sutton-Russick Dog Kennel as Brunswick, 4,156; Ontario, 3,951; Que: | Farm, and will be conducted on a, New Danish Air Service A new Danish air service connecting Denmark and May 1. The service, which is yra Boulogne, will leaye Copenhagen at 3, a.m, and arrive in Paris at Bourget airdrome at 5 p.m. Rea be erected. joner, stated thar! x { 1 France will start on 1 | prairie universilies, called by the Na- The ~ larzest ~ muskrat Ba, es f two 6, Booed cubic feet rigid ai tional Research Council. The most world will be established at Swan Seat ES UNO ON UDO aa Yel Bere important item-of this programme un- tae fore eraleeeiiorliscettinck a Ue Se it recently reported or W: 5 investi } . 7 to the house jder way at present is the investigation Quesnel, B.C., according to J. E. Me-| Sol See ae ,Of the quality of wheat produced 10! Fanand, representitive GN PhG eis ok ee : oT . Se | diffe Ste t atte ORS. aes ery signed, given the committce diferent districts and of ;practical/ quash Farms, Limited, of V: neouver. | AUinical. SWAlliam ene ett methods for its improvement. Late last tall his company acquirea| f a am = Moffe re 8,159 Bie. ee iow cP geld : ir chief, shows seven of the new Te. Exece Ni C : {8:15 ie of bused ETO und on aoe? iber machine guns, 18 thirty-cali Ue ated Ee Ces ae ee oye oa : sb “ber, and one of the post-war onv the adjoining micadows and streams pounder automatics, dogether with |Canning Industry in Northern British! already dotted with numerous musk Columbia is-in Floyrishing jTat and beaver honzés, and-which have Condition | given a fair living to | Indications are that there will hot/trappers for some y¢ be an idle cannery im the northern district of British Columbia this year jand that a@ number of new canneries | of the Peaca River, In addition to those property recently to * §,700 rounds of ammunition this apon, as a part of the regular milk ary load of each ship. 3 a “The guns are ‘so situated that an Mr. McFarland, who has had, years 7 * Is s - 1 jenemy aircraft, cannot approach from of experience with animal life north} i ' . at 4 ¥ i ‘ ,.| any direction or angle without s going in to the - + < FF SB ng 3 mitting a concentration of fire, early, and will make ar " | E miral Moffett s be built at/rangements for the location of the raRtantets couretholiain | Queen--Charlotte> Island the erection necessory buildings, and will also line AEN oh , a 7 rina } be . naughts will rely on the non-inflam- of new canneries or re-opening or ex- up the right-of-way ihe twenty- ee * z t { isti 1 a sR 5 5 woe, - ry mibility of helium gas for. protection ension of existing ones, is planned at) eight miles: of wirenct fencifig, whicn | Cagfain’s Cove, Prince Rupert, Mill! wil) be proceeded with as Bay, Somerville and at the Kumeon | weather conditions permit. for x & number o Ad LYS. mentioned dread- for against hostile aeroplanes. Plans for"a 6,000,000 cubie footer drawn bx a United-States commercial concern, ihe navy officer said) had been | calculated to show the value of such ja ship 60 aerial.troop transport. soon cannery on the Bass River. Build Large Saw Mill sti > Value of Pri i For 1925|She would haye a capacity of 750 men A Million Dollar Plant to be Erected at| \°t#! Value of Production 1A2B } Sete eee Placed at $57,950,340 | with their individual fighting equip- Vancouver 2 . “ . t Canada’s egg” output during 1925| ment, he explained, and could take Construction of.a new mill at Van- : ' NS eS SS |amounted to 224,778,867 dozen, valued that force’500 miles at a speed of 85 couver at a cost of more than $1,000.- t $57,950,340, bel he highest both {miles an hour and still retain a 50 per EN 0 at $57,950,340, being the ches our and s retain a & 3 000, to have a capacity of 250,000 feet pase Be: ore " i cent. fuel reserve, | “In this air as| | as | | | Canada’s Ege Output | of lumber and 200,000 shingles, will pe /22 Te8ard to duantity and value record- i commenced at once, G: -G. Johnson, | © since 1920, according to a TepOUEE : ; »1,” the admiral general manager of the Capilano Tim- | Of the bureau of statistics. Produe-! continued, “inflated with 90 per cents |ber Company, announced. A railway | tion, together with value, by provinces / helfum and 10 per cent. combustible connecting the ¢ompany’s timber Imm. | ¥88 as follow Prince Edward 1s-' gas, 500 men, each with 45 pounds of its in the’ Capilano Valley, with the land, vess 4,046, doz., $890,183; eaiipment, can be carried from San Voy: Seotia 3,867,237 2 $50,792; | Francis aw in 30 h 's, wito new mill, and a large wharf already Nova Seotia 3,867,237 doz., $850,792; ' Francisco to Hawali in hours, wile construction, |New Brunswick, 4,136,768 dc $910,-.a 20-hour reserve of fuel, es s | 089; Quebec, 32,041,625 doz., $8,330,| “Forty rigids of this capacity could Has Confidence in World Court | 823; Ontario, 89,009,287 doz., $26,702,-|moye a division over this distance.” Confidence in the fairness of the de-|786; Manitoba, 16,429,482 doz., sii cisions of the world court and in the SG SaniZ258 doz., | Settlers Coming From Britain belief, that the English-speaking na-/ $7,075,376; Alberta, 26,754,959. doz.,| ry “a4 ~, {. oi ’ tions will exert the most powerful in- $5,618,541; British Columbia, 14,476, ;New Agreement Gives a Tremendous 287 are under fluence forthe reign of the law as/550 doz., $4,053,434; Indian PRSSENER ST Stimulus to British Migration against the reign of force, was ex-|324,404 doz., $68,125. As a result of the new immigration \e pressed in an address by the British | agreement between Canada and the ambassador, Sir me Howard, before} The trouble with a great Many Men} United Kingdom, there has been the “English-speaking Union of Balti-|is they are never satisfled with wast- more, Md.” j a a marked awakening of interest in this bec, 2,726; Nova Scotia, 2,307; Alberia, | large scale. | 1,786; Manitoba, 1,378; British Colum-| [t will be remembered that Mr. Sut, | bia, 586; Yukon Territory, 362, and/ton, slightly over a year ago, became | Saskatchewan, 313, It is significant! greatly interested in this form of sport! ~ for the future of the industry. that nor land selected the famous “musher, jing their own time, |Dominion on the other side. ee = EE a SST ET — = SORES Se ee Cable advices show that hundreds - = of applications are being r ived in