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er ee nicct Is Outlined For
The Rehabilitation Of Large
outh Areas In Western Canada

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BP as
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ormati as a measure of pro-
against future drouth periods
ern provinces, of water
ith water available to the

above water would be,available in
the cities, towns and hamlets, as well
as in the rural areas, and it is cal-
culated that on the average 120 acre-
feet of water per annum for each sec-
tion of land would supply the rural
requirements.”

A number of specific projects for
the formation of water districts were
discussed from the point of view of
their possibilities and limitations.
These were studied during the course
of a reconnaissance trip made by the
author for the Saskatchewan govern-
ment a few years ago. They included
* one major project and a number of
other two being, respective-| smaller ones. The major project re-
ed methods of cultivation lated to the holding of about 100 feet
Janting of trees and hedges. | of water on a dam across the South
bl he contended, is now Saskatchewan river near Riverhurst,
than local or provincial in-| developing power thereby to lift 1,-
‘it Js difficult to visualize a 00,000 acre-feet per annum into a

of prosperity for Canada, reservoir in the Vermillion hills from
hole while the great agricul-| whence it could be discharged to
| area of western Canada is in Moose Jaw, Regina, Weyburn and
t serious condition. southward to the international bound-
ted out also that drouth is ®TY-
tial enemy to the entire coun- As a basis for the proper study
$ pee thie: ‘Rocky Mountains to| of these projects, a comprehensive re-
am and from the international) port on the geology and ground water

n ee to as far north as agricul-| "eSources of the prairie provinces
“may go. “Records show,” he, should be prepared. Too little is

, “that precipitation in general | known about these resources at pres-

es from south to north in our ent, and Mr. Main d that

er, was suggested by T. C. Main,
.LC., of Winnipeg, in a paper
ented before the annual conven-
iH

‘of the Engineering Institute of

ain’s paper throughout dealt
question of the conservation
_ This he considered as one
ree principal ways of assist-
to rehabilitate the drouth

“THERE'S A PICTURE FOR YOU!”

JOHN BULL (to British Postmaster-General:
forward, Sir Kingsley. We hope to see a lot of you in the future!”
(Though television is still only in the experimental stage, a practical

service has been brought much nearer

just reported to the Postmaster-General, Sir Kingsley Wood.)

“A very welcome step

by the British committee which has

—wNews Of The World

Coal Triumphs Over Oil ©

Test Proves Its Day On Railways Is
Not Over

Coal has staged a come-back. Just

when a number of experts were pre-

dicting that its day was over on the

railways, and that oil would be the

fuel of the future, one of the British

ern country. Furthermore, the! farmers, engineers and others were
north of the North Saskatche-| wasting a great deal of money and
er is for the most part lighter @ffort in costly experiments trying to
the south, hence, with lighter | find satisfactory ground water in
and less precipitation, the north, Various parts of the country.
try is in greater danger than the In the projects outlined, of course,
f becoming desert, once the there was the inevitable question of
owth is eliminated.” cost. On this point the speaker
¥ though up to the present the stated, “Seventy-five per cent. at least
average production of cereal products Of the rural population of this, vast
Saskatchewan alone has been suf-, tea, with their horses and machin-
nt to furnish a population of 40,-| ery, have been practically idle for
000 people with that important Several months each summer for two,
of their daily ration, it would three or even four years. If this
that the population of the Power could have been utilized dur-
e regions, say south of the 54th .ing that period, all the projects sug-
el, may ultimately be limited | gested, and many more, could have
‘the amount of water that can be! been completed, and each completed
col eryed rather than by the amount, Project would have added to the real
ood that can be produced. wealth of the nation.
_ striking paradox in this land of
,” he stated, “potentially one of
wealthiest countries in the world,
he present disparity in the stand-
d of living as between urban and
ral citizens. The standard of living
any farms is much too low;

The Summerside Fox Ranch
Discover Efficient Method For Control
Of Parasites

A great deal of work has been
done at the Experimental Fox Ranch,
te etd okies ak ace Summerside, P.E.I., of the Dominion
PD t Eevee UrODEs fe Tite | Experimental Farms, in order to find
a Sos 5 fee cE ora aa_| efficient methods for the control of
pee eee. e a ve aa external parasites, particularly fleas
ees 0! peat See eS i. ' and earmites. It has been found that
aia as th “Aes ae a | the best means of controlling ex-
“ “de ich BP ternal parasite infestation is to spray
ied to the denizens of our western Pee eae OMT oe Scale the onde
Aes i work of the pens with kerosene oil.
‘Living conditions could be greatly Tepes donalitureesiimeamat year
a f
hee ee an lakes! a there is little need of using either in-
creating water districts to serve sect powders or earmite solutions.

communities with that precious| Further Elie Grae na a
in much the same way BS been carried on to ascertain ie time

Communities are now served,’ | °f year it is advisable to supplement
ly of precipitation and run- the rations with vitamins A and D to
data indicated that frrigation on counteract a rachitic condition and
ge scale was out of the question. to produce a good Browth of: pups;
was” suggested,” stated the | 2!s0 to obtain orhel information re-
er, “that an ideal arrangement| 82rding the advisability of the addi-
tion of these vitamins to the ration.
As the result of further experiments,
new information has been obtained
regarding the influence of protein
content of rations on the development
of fur. Experiments have been con-
ducted to ascertain if dried meat,
meat meal, and fish meal could re-
place fresh meats during the summer
months, and work is in progress to
determine the fodine requirements of
silver foxes in captivity.

Say along e&ch alternate north
south, or east and west, road al-
nce, in a given water district.
ater would be furnished first for
nestic use in the home, thus tend-
to raise the standard of living;
ondly, it would be piped to the
barn and elsewhere for the use of
ewaiter would be avail-
an acre or two of garden,
getables for home con-

| pictures. They say they know their

Pp put an eleven-year-old
engine to show that the coal-burning
steam locomotive still had a kick in
it. Although this engine wasn’t the
most powerful on the British rails, it
proved good enough to beat the most
famous of the oil-fed Diesel trains.
It took four coaches from London to
Leeds, 186 miles, in two hours 31
minutes. Over 156 miles its average
speed was 77 mile an hour; at one
point it went up to 100 miles an
hour. The locomotive responsible for
this remarkable feat is possibly the
best known railway engine in the
world, for it was the Flying Scots-
man, which was exhibited at the Bri-
tish Empire Exhibition at Wembley.
During its career it has run 653,000
miles—over 44,000 of them since its
last repair.

A cheerful liar, a writer believes,
is to be preferred to the absolutely
reliable man who tells the truth that
hurts.

War Veterans Well Treated

Says Canada Has Done Fairly Good
Job In Caring For Ex-Soldiers
Brigadier-General Alex Ross of
Yorkton, Sask., Dominion president
of the Canadian Legion, told a ser-
vice club at Ottawa that “Canada
on the whole has done a fairly good
job of caring for her ex-soldiers.”
General Ross dectared “what we
need most to-day is a greater sense
of responsibility. There should be less
dependence on government assist-
ance and more dependence on individ-
ual effort.” He praised voluntary
work of Australian veterans on be-
half of children of soldiers who died
during or after the war. >
He said he would like to discour-
age the idea that Canada is serious-
ly at fault in treatment of war vet-
erans and added that at the recent
biennial conference in Australia of
the British Empire Service League
he found no other,part of the Empire
had done more for its soldiers than
Canada.
| The barley acreage and production

in Canada at present are at a rela-
tively low level. In 1934 the area
sown to barley amounted to 3,615,700
acres against an average of 4,778,-
000 acres for the years 1928-32,

eSNAPSHOT CUIL

IS YOUR LENS CLEAN?

With, a clean lens, plus proper exposure, you should always get sharpy

clear pictures such

The Guild has received a number
of letters from fellow snapshooters
complaining about smudgy looking

for sale, and roots for

A Wonderful Garden

Large Amount Of Work Being Done
In Canberra, Austvalia

Canberra, Australia’s made-to-
order capital, is rapidly becoming one
of the garden cities of the world.
uuld still have their garden truck,| Two and three-quarter million trees
8 few head of stall-fed beef steers,|and shrubs, forty miles of hedges,
some fat hogs, poultry, eggs, milk | and 20,000 roses have now been plant-
and cream to carry them through.|ed. Every tree and flower has been
_ Even in the event of a depression, | placed like a piece of mosaic accord-
_ when such produce is difficult to dis-! ing to the plan conceived by Walter
pose of at a profit, they would at! Burley Griffen, the Chicago architect,
least have enough to eat and so would, and the walks, gardens and boule-

be a burden on other taxpayers, vards comprise one of the largest
for relief, as at present. | landscape gardening layouts ever at-
‘The tragedy of the drouth area | tempted.

t that farmers failed to produce =o aE,
eee quantities of wheat; indeed, it} Every season has its pests, and|
a & was a godsend in disguise that they ' Christmas is distinguished by the one}

4 did not do So, as the world supply, who remarks that he is not sending
_Was apparently too great. The sad any card this year—and then sends
part is that they had nothing to eat,! you a fifty-cent one after you had

lefly due to lack of water for stock’ gratefully marked him off your list.
(eared for growing. vegetables for them-, ———

selves, and feed for cattle, hogs and

poultry. Under the system proposed

jieoaed

ourthly, sufficient’ water should
made available for irrigating from
é. ; to 25 acres of hay per quarter sec-

fe abn When the market for wheat
______ Was poor, or in the event of a period-
jeal drouth, they (the farmers)

The Great Smokies, the highest
mountains in the East, are about 300,-|
000,000 years old in their present
form.

W. N. U. 2086

Pp res are correct and developing
done carefully with fresh, clean
chemicals.

Granting that all this is true true
next thing to consider is your lens.
Is it clean? You have looked through!
dirty eye-glasses with probably a
few finger prints on them. If you
haven't it’s a sure bet that you have
experienced the difficulty of looking}
through a smudgy window. Clean
eye-glasses and clean windows give
clear vision and similarly the cam-}
era cannot “see’’ so well if its eye|
(the lens) is cloudy and smudgy!
from grease, finger prints and dust
collected over a period of months.

Cleaning a lens is a very simple)
operation. All you need is a soft, un-|
starched linen handkerchief and)
perhaps a match or pencil, if the}
lens is quite small. The rear surface|
of the lens can easily be reached by|
removing the back of the camera.
If the camera has a double lens
(one behind and one in front of the:
shutter diaphragm), the front com-!
bination may be removed by turning|
to the left, which will allow you to!
work through the shutter opening!
when set for “time,” with the hand-!
kerchief over the end of the match!
or lead pencil. If the lens is quite’
dirty breathe on it and then rub
quickly with the handkerchief. Be
sure, when replacing the front lens,
to screw it back into the shutter as

| far as it will go.

| one of the latest off the press is

as the ones above.

The suggestion to work through
the shutter opening also applies to
cleaning the front surface of cam-
eras with single lenses fitted to box
cameras and certain folding models.
Handle the lens carefully and don't
exert too much pressure. It isn’t
necessary and might scratch the
surface.

The amount of pleasure you get
out of your camera depends almost
entirely on how much thought and
care you give it.

Picture taking is just like golf,
tennis, basketball or bowling—the
more you experiment, the more
thought you give to your hobby, the
greater your reward in self satisfac-
tion.

There are many good books avail-
able on amateur photography but

called “How to Take Good Pictures.”
It is packed with sound advice for
the beginner or the advanced ama-
teur and profusely illustrated with
pictures of every type, diagrams and
what have you. It might be called
“The Amateur Photographer's Ref-
erence Book,” but don’t think for
one minute it is as “dry” as such a
name might imply. You can no doubt
purchase this book from stores that
sell cameras and photographic sup-
plies.

If you know your camera—its lim-
itations or its versatility—give care-
ful thought to composition and

Has Become Very Popular

Tomato Sales Show Remarkable
Increase In Ten Years ‘

The change’in public opinion with
regard to the fashions in food is well
exemplified by the tomato. Not so
many years ago the tomato was an
object of suspicion, to-day canned
tomatoes and tomato products con-
stitute the largest of Canada’s can-
nery packs. Indeed, the story of the
canned tomato is one of the epics of
Canadian trade.

Ten years ago it was one of the
least important of the food com-
modities sent abroad by Canada. By
1927 the export of Canadian canned
tomatoes rose to what is now con-
sidered a mere 300,000 pounds. In
1934 nearly 10,000,000 pounds were
exported to 31 different countries, 18
of which are British. The British
Isles alone took 9,000,000 pounds,
Ontario, Quebee and British Colum-
bia are the provinces in which the
commercial production of tomatoes
for canning purposes and fresh sale
is of greatest importance. The total
acreage is approximately 20,000
acres. A dependable cannery de-

Zoning For Fertilizer Needs
For Cereal Production In
The Three Prairie Provinces

A series of fertilizer trials, cover-
ing the grain producing portion of
Manitoba, was undertaken during the
years 1929, 1930, and 1931, the re-
sults of which suggest a zoning for
fertilizer requirements of ceréals
when the “drilling-in” method is used
on.the Canadian prairies. The prac-
tice of drilling-in fertilizer with the
seed, which has proved to be one of
the most important contributions to
cereal production in Western Canada,
was introduced into the West in
1928 says “Scientific Agriculture.”
Prior to that, commercial fertilizers
were applied by the broadcast
method. In the fertilizer trials, which
covered nine agricultural districts, in-
dividual records were compiled and
three types of. response were noted:
(1) to phosphate; (2) to phosphate
with smaller increases in nitrogen;
(3) to both nitrogen and phosphate,
with a local tendency for potash to
give increased yields.

The response to nitrogen decreased
from north to south, whereas phos-
phate gave response throughout. Pot-
ash gave no significant response in
any of the prairie soils. Where in-
creases were secured from nitrogen

mand, even though this d
varies, is also of importance to those
growers producing for the fresh vege-
table market. The grower, therefore,
as pointed out in the agriculture situ-
ation bulletin, issued early this year,
is vitally interested in both the dom-
estic and export demand for canned
tomatoes and tomato products.

Glimpses After Life

‘Dead” Man Is Revived After Obtain-
ing Impressions Of The Next
World

A “dead” man has returned to life
and health with a very satisfying im-
pression of the “next world.”

In England, John Puckering, a mar-
ket? gardener, was “restored to life”

Warwickshire. Doctors certify that
he was “dead” for four and a half
minutes. One of them massaged his
heart—‘more from a sense of duty
than with any hope’—and Puckering
is now back at his work, ,and in ap-
parently normal health.

The old gardener is sorry this surg-
ery worked.

“What I saw during my brief spell
of death,” he says, “has made me re-
gret that I ever came back. I was
surrounded by thousands of people,
all supremely happy, and among them
were three that I knew. They nodded
and smiled, so happily that I was
overjoyed to be dead.

“The grave has no terrors for me
now. I realize that earthly life sor-
rowful as it can be, is just a training
ground for something fuller and bet-
ter.”

Immediately after his revival,
Puckering called his. daughter, a
nurse, and told her he had seen her
mother who died a year ago.

Empire News Service

Plan To Secure Interchange Of News
Within The Empire

Newspaper publishers of the Em-
pire were invited by the fifth Im-
perial press conference at Cape
Town to give early consideration to
the establishment of
news associations owned and con-
trolled by the newspapers when a
resolution proposed and seconded by
members of the Canadian delegation
was carried unanimously.

The resolution expressed the belief
such co-operative news associations,
modelled om The Canadian Press,
would lead to an interchange of news
within the empire.

It was moved by E. Norman Smith,
of the Ottawa. Journal, chairman of
the Canadian delegation and honor-
ary president of The Canadian Press.
Frank J. Burd, of the Vancouver
Province, seconded the resolution.

Support for the resolution came
from delegates from Australia, New
Zealand, South Africa, India
Singapore.

and

Trying To Grow Bananas
Growing bananas will be the effort

The officials are finishing a cactus

devoted to banana plants so New
Yorkers may see just where their
banana splits come from. They're
going to try to work in a couple of
cocoanut palms, too.

story-telling possibilities you are well
along your way to take pictures as/
interesting and sharp as the two!
shown above,

JOHN VAN GUILDER.

Black bath towels are declared
fashionable for this year. Some of
the fashion dictators must have been
visiting a printing office

on the operating table at Arley, in|”

.| where nothing but Gaelic

co-operative

of the New York Botanical Gardens. |

house and part of it is going to be!

alone, sulphate proved
superior to sodium nitrate, The three
types of response coincide with the
three major soil belts, and hence the
zoning for the fertilizer requirements
of wheat in the northern prairie re-
gion is indicated, namely: (a) phos-
phate in the southern belt; (b) phos-
phate with small amounts of nitro-
gen in the northern portions of the
northern prairies; and (c) nitrogen
and phosphate in the wooded belt,
with the addition of potash where
required on local ‘soils only.

Irish Must Talk Gaelic

Teaching Of English Banned Even In
Infant Classes

President Eamonn de Valera’s goy-
ernment is trying on a “catch ‘em
young” policy in its latest efforts to
make the Irish Free State a hundred
per cent. Irish-speaking nation.

In future, English is to be banned
altogether as a teaching medium in
infant classes in all national schools
where there is a competent Irish
teacher. As a result, nearly every
Irish youngster up to the age of nine
will hear nothing but his own native
lilting Gaelic during school hours.

Thése measures to insure that “all
God's chillun”—in the Free State—
shall speak Irish, have only just be-
come possible because until recently
there were not enough teachers who
could speak Irish themselves. More
than one-third of the 14,000 school
teachers in southern Ireland are now
certified as being competent Irish

speakers, and all those who have not —

yet acquired a working knowledge of
Gaelic are being compelled, whatever
their age, to attend special lang-
uage courses during vacations. The
Church of Ireland has just establish-
ed a preparatory college for teachers,
will be
heard.

Grains Matured Quickly

Fine Wheat And Barley In Manl-

toba’s Isolated Points
Isolated points in Manitoba, more
readily associated with the new north,
are rapidly moving into the agricul-
tural zone.

At Cormorant, north of The Pas,
Reward wheat, last season, matured
in 83 days. The crop weighed 69
pounds to the bushel and averaged
29 bushels to the acre,

Olli barley also grown at this Hud-
son Bay railway point on the fringe
of northern mining fields, yielded 103
bushels to the acre and weighed 49
pounds to the bushel.

Something To Know
Legs of tables and chests soon dig
into the kitchen linoleum and leave
permanent marks. To prevent this,

get from your neighborhood shve re-
pair man a strip of composition such
as he used to renew worn down heels,
Cut neat “heels” for your furniture,
tack them on with headless nails that
will sing down inside, and there will
be no more scarred floors. Heavy
felt will do as well as the composition
material, except for very heavy furni-

ture.

Observations over an ¢ ]
period indicate that thin, sparse p
turages for sheep encourage
growth of the finer grades of wool
while thick, lush g iS increas the
proportion of the coarser grad of

| wool