5 pe ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS Bee ln Canada Provides luable Information In Tracing Movements Of Wild Life economic importance of wild {+ ) and their relation to man’s wel- | . is being more widely recognized, | ‘and by bird banding the store of In Persian Gulf hy ‘Knowledge of their movements and! 4 sea Serpent appears in the Per- bits is gradually being extended. Tn} sian Gulf. Millions of landsmen-who order to take proper steps toward) have never been anywhere near the ‘conservation, by the enactment of | Persian Gulf say that nothing of the sort happened at all. Yet for 200 game laws, properly located! ‘bird sanctuaries, and other means, it} years these monsters have been sight- § essential that as much exact aclen- Fed in the less frequented seas. It ts fic information as possible be avail-| difficult to believe that eight gener- le concerning all species of native | ations of travellers and seamen have d birds. 5 | been fools. The first fully documented Scientific bird banding as a mans! account of a sea serpent was furnish- studying and solving the many ,ed by Han Egede, a Norwegian mis- d varied problems relating to the sionary to Bergan, in 1740; the latest ration, range, breeding gounds,' by two officers of H.M. surveying ship id general life histories of wild “Kellett” in the Thames estuary in ls is conducted in full co-operation 1923.—London Daily Express. een the National Parks Service of the Department of the Interior, Can ada, and the United States Bu- Beene ea cteEical Surveyjat Wash-|Conaitions Botha ‘to. Improve’ It pera oie. oabeot (the sbabding | ~~ < Ganadians)Retalni‘Confidenco 13 “amore is done by voluntary co-opera-| There is a present danger that y We eae Genada ‘and the/ there may be new Wave of pessimism et Hal ‘3 =a | Sweep over the people, and especially Bepeee ecnenal Publ Clk jurgediitojald ‘ir the! West, because conditions in tha |farming community have not im- the legs of any birds that may proved up to expectations. There is come into their possession and to re- | absolutely no cause for any such sen- rae ; _ Port thel finding of such bands to the | timent. Ia one way Canadians can goes issioner, National Parks Serv-/ make the Dotninion 1. Cannot Have Been Mistaken Many Sailors Have Scen Sea Serpents | | No Cause For Pessimism i this work by watching for bands GEYSERS AS SOURCE OF ENERGY: AN ITALIAN PROPOSAL Our eS eevee | a toe alge the number on the band, jand that is by the promotion of con- ___ the date on which the bird was taken, fidence, which is a species of “nation- 4s well as the locality, and whether! stism” in which there is notthing but tt e bird was killed, found “dead, a good.—Regina Star. captured alive. _ f | All official bands are of “or copper and are inscribed with a ; erial number and with a letter desig- tion. There is reason to believe each year, many bird bands ave Tecovered, but for various reasons not reported to the Department. Re- cently, official bird bands recovered “from wild birds have been found x hanging on nails, strung together as | necklaces used as toys by children, and, in many curious places in wil- ~ derness and civilized surroundings. ij __ Bird banding may be carried on 4 only “under Dominion permit and) ‘hone but official bands may be placed | ‘on wild birds. Full information as to| the manner in which bird banding is| Ing conducted will be gladly fur- led persons who are interested, upon application to the Commission- er, National Parks Service, Depart- ment of the Interior, Ottawa. Winnipeg Newspaper Union| | Se RadioiStations Guide Ships $y Thousands Of Direction Calls Are “¥ a Answered Every Year | aa of the work done by) 3 anadian government wireless sta-| tions in guiding North Atlantic ship- ce ig is provided by the Chebucto| Head direction-finding station at the | entrance to Halifax harbor. A yearly | “average of 4,000 to 5,000 calls from | a5 ips off the coasts are answered by| . s station. Since its establishment n 1917 the number of wrecks along oe oe Located nine miles from Halifax, the Chebucto Head Station was erect- ed by the Department of Marine for 1e | of giving bearings to and handling commercial mes- . A staff of five maintains 24- service. her stations are located at Sable - ather Point, Que. Operators are ed at one or two year inte- - — a CHARMING! ISN’? IT? YOUTH- FUL TOO! If WILL MAKE YOU APPEAR TALL AND SLENDER ¥ Here's the new jumper dress you'll “Only Ornamental But Haye want to include in your fall ward- | r y | robe. 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Bemeple syrupy and maple su-) sie 16 requires’2% yards 64-inch oduced in Canada comes from | or dress with 2% yards 39-inch for Province of Quebec, with On-! plouse. | n second place. Small quanti-| Price of Migr ea naa SM EN are produced in Nova Scotia and oe rave ae ? B gon Brunswick. These products are . from millions of maple trees | lich are tapped in the month of each year, How To Order Patterns Address: Winnipeg Newspaper Union, | | 175 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg , liquors and cigareites sold) | ‘dark’ in Bratislava, Czecho-) Pattern No......+++++ SIZ@. seer eeey | da, are now subject to a special the benefit of the unemployed, | Name .....++ it has damaged some early ee TOWD «ee reeee ance in the borax-be. trical energy for the railways. shows a new geyser which has just made its appear- aring district of Larderello, in the Val di Cocina, Italy. The cultivation of oats is of more recent date than that of wheat and barley. While the: origin of the cul- tivation of wheat can be traced. in all probability to a warm climate and that of rye to a cold ‘Climate, oats were found occupying an inter- mediate position. It is not possible to find any record of their tise by the ancient peoples of Egypt, Pales- tine, Greece, Rome, India or China. Probably oats were cultivated at an early date by people who inhabited east-central Europe, and some his- torians point more definitely .to Tar- tary in Western Asia as the probable place of their first cultivation. Oats were Jess important than wheat, bar- ley or rye in the early development of southern Europe, but came into much ,greater use with the civiliza- tion and expansion of the central and northern (temperate) portions of the continent. The crop, being particular- ly suited to the cool, moist climate, became a leading cereal. Having many other uses besides that of food for man, the oats crop has continually expanded in natural sequence of crop cultivation. At first only such crops were grown as would serve for human food and natural meadows provided sufficient forage for domestic animals, With increas- ing population more and more ground reals for human consumption. The The Italians are considering a suggestion that it should be used for ates was devoted to the production of ce- | | Offers Every Convenience Westminster Replaces Civil Marriage Registries With Modern Building Two famous civil marriage regis-! tries, in London, England, scene of, many a wedding of peer and stage | value of land rose and natural pas- tures were broken up. Other crops | were grown as food for livestock, and Over 12,000 In Manufacturing End thus the use of fodder crops, like Of Building | oats, has become an increasingly im- At the Dominion Trades and La-| portant part of husbandry, especially bor Congress held at Windsor, Ont.,| in temperate regions, Ernest Ingalls, of London, interna-| On the basis of acreage and ton- tional of the electricians, | tatadian Women In Industry star, film notable, or ex-convict, have themselves contract- ed a union, The old, gloomy office in Princes Row, Westminster, and the) equally dilapidated office in Henrlet-) ta Street, Covent Garden, haye been’ suceceded by a brand-new building at Caxton Hall, nage produced, oats rank second only gave some impressive figures on the| to wheat, In 1932 the acreage of extent to which women are employed wheat in North America was 82,400,- in the manufacturing end of the! 000 acres and yielded 1,164,000,000 building industry. bushels, while in Europe, excluding In June, 1931, on bureau of statis-| Russia, 85,900,000 acres produced 1,- tics figures, there were 12,202 women | 485,000,000 bushels. Oats sown in 80 , Many of them on heavy; Europe on 54,300,000 acres yielded The oak-panelled hall in the new, building leads to no fewer than sev- en rooms where the knot can be tied with efficfency and dispatch in the} presence of anywhere from half a dozen to a half a hundred spectators. Should a reception follow, every con- venience is afforded for a spread equalling a west end hotel dinner, or merely bottled beer and sand- wiches. An Anglican clergyman is partly responsible for this move for bright civil marriages. Rev. E. Schomberg, vicar of St. Andrew's Ashley Place, as Mayor of Westminster, presides over the Westminster City Counc!l which inaugurated the change. { “People who get married in church | just to have an imposing background, ° and who care little for the beauty and solemnity of the actual service, | can get all the pomp and circum- stance they want here,’ he says. "I) shall not mind foregoing a lot of fees. if this new office takes some of these people off my hands.” Rayon mills of Mexico are operat- and laborious work, competing di- rectly with men. In the electric man-| America from 42,200,000 acres 1,828,- ufacturing end there Were 16,342 men | 000,000 bushels were produced. This and 3,991 women, and in the boiler| made 2,649,000,000 bushels of wheat and machinery (not agricultural) end | from 168,300,000 acres and 3,486,000,- 17,358 men and 1,051 women. Some! 000 bushels of-oats from 96,500,000 of these women were operating huge | acres. In Canada oats weighs thirty- cranes. four pounds to the bushel and wheat Women should work the same) sixty pounds. The United States bush- hours as men, he thought, and the/ el of oats is thirty-two pounds. hours should be arranged so that| While the area sown to oats is con- all of the surplus labor would be ab-| siderably less than the area sown to, sorbed. wheat in North America and Europe, | Delegate Arthur Martel, of Mon-| production of oats, in bushels, ex- treal, pointed out that in Quebec the | ceeds that of wheat by about 800,- women asked the men to keep their | 000,000 bushels due to higher yields hands off the working hours: “They|per acre. On a tgnnage basis, of stated,” he said, keep body and soul together now, “'so| ceeds that of oats by a considerable don’t interfere with how long we) margin. work, so that we get still less. We) Oats are produced over a wide area will work out our own problems.” | but heaviest production is found in the| | middle western areas of the United! He—“My dear, it's no use for you States, Canada, the United Kingdom, | to look at those hats; I have not| Germany, France and Russia. These! more than a dollar in my pocket.” | six countries produce about seventy-| She—"You might have known! five per cent. of world poduction of | when we came out that T’d want to| oats. | buy a few things.’ | The nature of the disposition of the 1,658,000,000 bushels and in North ing three shifts a day. | He—"t aid.” world production of oats is indicated | Western Provinces Account Fo- More Than Half Of Acreage In Canada Devoted To Oats ; katchewan, 20.6 per cent. in Alberta } and 11.2 per cent. in Manitoba. The prairie provinces accounted for 65.1 per cent. of the total Canadian acre- age devoted to oats in 1932. Ontario Jand Quebec had 17.8 and 13.1 per cent. respectively. The balance 4.0 per cent. was distributed among the Maritime provinces and British Ccl- | umbia. It is noted that there is a tendency toward decreased consumption cf oats in Canada in recent years. Many causes have contributed. One of the | most important factors in the decline | has been the introduction of power machinery in western Canada. During the years 1924 to 1928 or 1929, the tractor displaced the horse to a con- | siderable extent especially in regions where oats are not considered a favor- able crop. The tractor not only dis- placed the horse from the farm, but in many cases relegated ths horse to | a pasture diet. It is probable that the number of horses resident in cities has also decreased in recent years owing to the mechanization of deliy- ery systems. Further, the use of oats in Canada has, no doubt, been affect- ed by the increase of fezding of bar- ley to livestock in efforts to promote the use of barley as a feeding grain. | During the past seven years the | United Kingdom has imported an average of 23.4 million bushels of | oats per year. The Canadian share of this trade may be estimated at | about 4.6 million bushels or slightly | over 20 per cent. of total imports in- | to the United Kingdom. During the | past seven years, Canadian exports |} of oats have averaged 11.1 millicn bushels per year. Consequently it | would appear that the United King- |dom has absorbed slightly over 40 | per cent. of total Canadian exports | of oats during the seven years. i Annual Loss Is Heavy | Destruction By Rabbits In Australia | Equals National Debt | Pointing out that Australia is now | conducting its annual campaign to exterminate rabbits, Vice-Consul R. | H. Hunt calls attention.to the havoc | wrought in the Commonwealth by | this prolific pest. It is estimated, he points out, that the destruction caused by the rabbit amounts to between 20 and 40 million pounds sterling annually, a sum about equal to the country’s national debt. Not only is the loss computed on the damage done to crops, but on the reduced carrying capacity of the land, the loss of stock in drought years caused by the rabbits eating out th: native herbage and bush which nor- and the loss of water in dams and other conserves through banks weak- ened by burrows. So destructive have rabbits been in parts of Central Australia that they have destroyed the native her- bage, causing large areas to become windswept wastes. A fairly substatial export trade in furs and carcasses has been devel- oped, the report shows. During the fiscal years 1931-32 exports from the | “they can aad course, the production of wheat ex: | mally would be sustaining for steck, | | | — — by the fact that world pro- he duction amounts to about 4,500,000,- | 000 bushels, world trade in oats| amounts to only about 100,000,000 bushels, or slightly over two per cent of production, Therefore, the| great bulk of world production of oats is consumed at or near areas of production. The chief use of oats is as a feed | fo livestock. Oats are the standard feed grain for horse and, alone or in | combination with other grains, are used as a feed for cattle, sheep, hogs | and poultry. In spite of a high per-| | centage fibre content, oats are rela- tively high in protein and fat. Oats rank with wheat in protein content and are higher than wheat and bar- | ley in fat content. The area sown to oats’in Canada in 1932 amounted to 13,148,000 ac-es! compared with an area of 27,182,100 acres sown to wheat; 3, sown to barley and 773,800 acris sown to rye. In other words, of the total area sown to the four leading cereal cops 29.3 per cent. was sown to | oats. According to the estimate of 1932 ~| cereal production, production of oats in Canada amounted to 391,561,000 | bushels compared with wheat produc- | tion of 428,514,000 bushels, barley | production of 80,773,000 bushels | rye. production of 8,938,000 bushel Converting the foreg producti figures to a tonnage basis, total pro: duction of the cereals amounted to 21,700,464 tons of which 6,656,500 tons or 30.7 per cent. consisted of oats Reports to the Dominion Bureau “We've simply got to get him up somehow, it's his turn to do the dish-| of Statistics show 33.3 per cent, of 42982 acreage sown to oats in Sas-| been better than expected, es!'—The Humorist, London. for a reduction in radio license to the unemployed. bh to 7,892,000 pairs, valued at $2,230,000 and 7,863,- 000 pounds of skins, worth $2,378,- 000. Rabbits and hares were introduced into Australia from England in 1859. By the end of the nineties they had invaded every section of the Com- monweaith. The Weekly Newspaper Is Taken Home And Read By The Whole Family An Alberta weekly newspaper notes that when a lot of country peo- ple in its province go to the post- office for their mail they litter those offices with a lot of mail material, but never with the newspapers they receive. It notes that circulars ant such matter are consistently and abundantly consigned to the floor, but that newspapers are accorded infinite- ly greater respect. They may be coa- signed to kindred fate later, but nev- er unfil after they are taken home and read by the whole family, includ- ing hired man This is true, as it is also readily explainable. The newspaper carries much of interest and value. It mir- rors the great world without. It is not but a verit- visitor only a wel able ix Regina Leader-Post me ution i A plea is being made In Scotland fees Harvests in Mexico this year have a a Aa nase es Pee Sa oe Spf abet a CE Rte