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Red Deer Advocate 1944-01-01 - 1945-12-31
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1945-10-17
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PAGE TEN o ADVOCATE. RFD DEER. SEDNESDA THE RED DEER ALBERTA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17th, 1945 WILL CROSS OCEAN IN A BARREL rk Charlton, who will cross th Atlantic Ocean ina barrel, is shown with his home-made sextant for navigating. He and his keg have become quite a tourist attraction in Sydney, N.S Davis Castella PLUMBING HEATING MAINTENANCE Estimates given without obligation on HOTWATER HEATING and PLUMBING Limited quantity of Hot-Water Boilers and radiation available now. Phone 319 P.O. Box 537 RED DEER Wanted- Hay I will have a baling crew in the Red Deer district early this fall, and want good quality feed. FAIR PRICES AND PROMPT RETURNS A. E. KERSLAKE HAY AND GRAIN DEALER 911 Ist Ave. N.W. L2653 CALGARY 35-tf SHE RELIES ON MILK To Keep Up The Pace of Her Busy Day All housewives today are energy conscious. It is the wise woman that counts on milk to provide: her with the necessary essentials of a good diet. In Milk, she has a source of vitamins, proteins, calcjium all needed. for healvhful living. Whitehills JerseyDairy DRINK WHITEHILLS JERSEY MILK Phone 788 RED DEER Most Profitable Way To Market Your Hogs is by direct shipment to the killing floors. Delays in transit and slaughtering are the main causes of low dressing percentage and considerable de- preciation in quality. Ship Your Hogs Tuesdays AND GET THE BENEFIT OF ALL THE PROFITABLE ADVANTAGES. For Truck Service, phone 232 or 219. Tuesdays, phone 521, Stockyards. JACK TEASDALE Reminiscences Of An Experiment n the Grande after L left, but iti alfalfa and things randfather having beon. one early settlers in the Peninsula, buying land in the vicinity ae the present Hortic- Whiral Station at , exploratil on and religion. It was one of his books on exploration that first en- y 1 wanted to pioneer somewhere, the ting between new Wes rebelled a itt 1 wanted Canada to be. big and early took in the this vision were to be t could be realized only back her northern ac realized, as thirteen, my parents Beamsville in the ifruit alist were broken on Dominion Day. Of have much else besides. f dit happened to be situated al the front of the farm. A fellow experimentalist (Robert Jones) who cessful along the road. Dr, Macoun attributed the poor result to lack of moisture, But I was sure was moisture enough to produce a better growth than we were get- ting. Something else was lacking. We had treated with nitro culture, but could find no nodules, Why? The crop looked sick. But I de- termined to leave it and s e what The next year was than ever, except on the margins. Presently patches here and there began to turn green. and gro rapidly. 1 got bury with spade and mattock. Under every good patch 1 found an abundance of nodules none anywhere else. I found the same thing with alfalfa and other legumes on other parts of the place. The riddle was solved. The: nitro culture had failed to take and the crop was suffering from nitro- gen starvation. Where chance in- oculation finally took place, it throve: nicely. The margins had grown well from the start because and nitrates surrounding since grown good alfalfa on the same area where ji was a sickening failure at- first. Also (we have dug fourteen- month-old alfalfa roots with an average vertical penetration of 42 inches (not counting . fine* lt;eni about - 75 in. debt, I cast abdut for a means of scraping together some . capital rved as herdsman during the summer of 1903 on the farm of F. W. Dodson, at Myrtle, and, reluct- antly accepting an unsought offer, went in September, 1903, USSeX, NB, to join the staff of the Mari- time Farmer, as assistant editor, expected, but on arriving found mys lf installed as editor. My: pre- vious journalism broken off) in a clay subsoll 0 hard i could not be dug without a pick, Thus another false: assumption was disposed of. One year we threshed some ten bushels of alfalfa seed per act trom.inter-cultivated rows and a nice yield alsd from a brtind- cast stand. Out of our experience with leg- umes evolved. the now well but- tressed conclsulon that because of our rather low soil temperatures, coluble nitrogen is often a limiting factor second only to moisture. The legumes'.when not Inoculated suf- fer most because of their lar; quirement of nitrogen and because of their habitual reliance upon nodule bacteria to assure them an atmospheric supply. Deprived 0 these they are like a family accustomed to servants and denly denied them. ber, 1013, having been managing editor the last five years. Left London on September 24 with my wife and 18month-old child for Beaverlodge, travelling by train For the first few years here I jused oxen almost exchisively and drove them to a democrat for a years or so, using Western ox har- lines, collars, tugs via Edmonton to Athabasca Land- a ing, thence by river steamer to Mirror Landing (situated across the river from the present railroad divisional point of Smith), thence the Little . early here in Jun and thence by steambout to Grouard at the western end of Lesser Slave Lake. Arrived there in the middle of October, following a wet sum- mer, Drove from there to Beaver- lodge via Reson: River Crossing, uunvegan pirit River. At rived on October 26, 1013, I having walked over half distance. Bought uarter section (where we now live) and filed on a home- stead. the way, when I paid the 10 entry: fee on that, I felt 1 had ag good as bought the land. Before it was proved up, 1 realized, as many that home- Steading. costs something the entry fee On coming to Beaverlodge, 1 gan to ask questions. Which were the best varieties of graiti to grow? No one knew, Marquis.and Pre were the tapis was the favored oat, Grisda then director, enon to make a few simple tests if he would fur- nish the He readily com- plied. The next year a small hon- Jo This .con- whe n 1 was de- bating whether to lay ide per- sonal rt ibility and volunteer for the froht. In June he wrote saying icipated a heavy set ent Up here after the wat and: there would be many ' questions arising for which we dhould y with answers. He proposed to rent w acres of land fron me and pay me fi part time salary to supervise the work on the same basis as at Fort Vermilion. After considerable hesitating. I. accepted, but after we got going, one quest led to another. The first two years here I worked: the land on shares, In June, 1915, we moved to our present location. At that time there was not a fence built, a furrow turned, nor a bulld- ing, save the house and our imple- ment shed. On Dominion Day I broke with three oxen the half acre west of the house where: most of our small fruits have sitice been grown. In 1916 we set out Mani- toba maples and caraganas -pre- viously ordered from Lacmobe as available to any settler. Currants, raspberries, strawberries, lilacs and various other ornamentals came from Ottawa: T thought at the time that if a struggling tree or lived through, perhaps a few cure int bushes or raspberries bore a the effort would be . because It might be ans.of learning how to make nd bushes grow more that first eded anything I dream. . Fifty-three c fty-four currant bushes versed 152 pounds Thhse are Ottawa- strains, e Central Farm the results be utposts should kinds of t the bu bred or deve 1 Herbert raspber. survived we later had gover half rile Your Local Livestock Buyers and Shippers. mp berries felled, but we succe ddd a Yast with locally grown pm (Early Dakota variety.) Hes ditto, All this from the halt Oxen work poorly in the heat of king we rose. si a work- In 1915, T saw the sun rise it rises bout 3:36 a.m. I mentioned this at the end of the season in reporting to Dr, Grisdale. He thought I was joking. Three- thirty am. is a little rich. he wrote back. It was true, all the same. The summer of 1918 was the ed late. almost every. mornin, lying abed will 7 was seductively mild and our wood the previous Winter had been so temperate: that I was lulled to a sense of false besides be--ing north-west, storm swept down to the tune of 20 below, and for seven weeks we had anything from 20 to: 48 below, with but one tw . day chinook interval. of stack and no well. water for calves: and for the house, le, and drove the older stock nearly a mile to a spring. to be hauled und- wood rustled with oxen floundering belly-deep in the now, Oxen, milch cow and chick- ens were huddled in an 18x20 hen house with a blanket for a door. We hid no coal on hand and no tim to get any. The house was not too well barked. and the floor was-of rough lumber only. dowh ellar, stoke the set the alarm two or three hours abead and hop into bed again. From 8 am. to 8 p.m. I hustled for dear life, it water and mht blocks them across two chairs and sawed them there to avoid too prolong exposure to the bitter storm. One day that winter I went two miles with the ox: team for a tank of water. It was 35 below zero. and snowing from the north-west. tbe water was half ice when I home. For seven weeks that xind of thing lasted, everything and cams Tighe editave never since dated 35 have coal These things are interesting to look back. to, and not quite 40 bad. to aoe would imagine ex from * sell One, nydrning in the middie of February we went out and saw the Rockies blue sure, sign of an ap- proaching chinook. Only. twenty below, Caps were tilted back, mittens thrown off and we went at the sawing with a will. By noon degrees it thawed every day apd about halt the nights as. well, Hose and stable stood ajar. It was the way of the chinook. It lasted an unusual id the preceding cold longest 1 remember. coming W 1 had for een subjected to ef changes recently. i 1 thought it Was pleuriay. The doctor said it was a nerve centre. A week t Beaverlodge bush to cut logs : wet clothes bing around the fire, nd when we xot up td put. them they were half dry and frozen stiff. The pain in the chest left have never had it since, except a little reminder one day years ago. T have never had a serious frost bite and never had a bad cold while working regularly in the open. got one sometimes when confined to the offt I have now lived nearly thirty- two years in the Peace River coun- region, however, demanding wise: sdsiinisicetion snd prudent husbandry, And now I contemplate doing what T thought I never would retite to a gentler climate to live my lust days, When one s physical condition is. such that he can ly bear the weight of two blankets in bed; the open air, yet cannot wade in snow and cannot walk fast enough on und to keep his fee warm in cold weather, he is justi seeking what climatic favors he can find. To our friends in the Peace, best wishes for success in a To young and old live wisely. Science has probably much to contribute to the diet and nutrition of residents in northern zones. Our, hearts will be in th North. eas Victory Bonds will help assure future markets: for Alberta pro- ducts, CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD: APPOINTMENT The personnel of the Canadian oard has undergone some McNamara Appointed commissioner, G. Huntting assistant chief wstoner of the board, in suc- n Kane, who resigned to ill health. with the Saskatch IN before Boing to the Wh Wheat Board. CANADA'S AMBASSADOR ARRIVES IN ARGENTINE Warwick F; Chipman, Canada's first ambassador to Argentina, has presented his credentials to Presl- dent Edelmiro Farrell at Buenos Aires. Diplomatic relations CREOSOTE and its many uses on the Farm If you have been replacing and rebuilding your fences every five or ten years on account of rot, decay, etc. of the posts, it is to your interest to call or write for. Information about our Nature's Own Wood Preservatives, at prices that anyone can pay. Wood For Sale - Phone 737 ALBERTA WOOD PRODUCTS Ltd. Kingsmill Avenue RED DEER, Alta. tween the two countries: previously were on el, ee eat Flannigan and Roll em 0 Rourke - by OGDEN'S GOTTA RGIZE BRO NCO DUSTIN ALREA FLANNIGAN. . eee AT THE O'ROURKE ?, i; meeds exercise in COOL SMOKING, cAasy eae. OGDEN FINE CUT rT a 1 delightful to smoke PIPE SMOKERS ASK FOR OGDEN'S CUT PLUG. TWICE AS LONG TO PAY So many times you hear people say I wish I could buy more Victory Bonds. Well, ic has been will be only one next 12 months, announced that there Victory Loan in the People who buy Bonds now will have a whole year to pay for them. Farmers can a Victory Bonds through any bank payments. + - om convenient deferred Victory Loan salesmen have copies of the letter at the right. have copies.) (Banks also When you sign this letter... and pay 5 of the cost of the bonds . . . the bank buys the bonds for you. You have 12 months to pay for the bonds and the interest the bond earns pays the interest on the bank loan. o33 You Clade a Bear this in mind when the Victory Loan salesman calls on you. The same rate of savings as in previous loans will pay for twice as many bonds over the 12-month period. So, buy double this time. UM- Yougan? resist 1 sofery fragrance tt +, your a brings yau back A definite yes second questior race driver, pro tires 500 miles miles per hour Not a blowout o test equal to 5 made under Automobile As: tires taken fron Phone 55
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