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Canada Occupies Foremost Place In Seed Improvement And In Handling Registered Seed Canada produced a. considerably I larger quantity of registered seed ot tlie principal farm plants In 1925 than tn any previous year, according to a report Just Issued by Mr. Peter Stewart, secretary or the Canadian Soed Growers* Association.* It grew 40,000 bu.thels more registered seed wheat - last year than In 1921. eight thousand bushels more of semi, barley and seven thousand bushels more ot registered sweet clover seed. Increased production and ready sales of such seed, according to Mr. Stewart, Indicates a growing appreciation of Ita qualities by farmers iu Canada anil ia other countries. A great deal of attention is given tn this country to the provision of good toed for ihe farmers. Plant breeding Ia carried on by experts at agricultural colleges aud experimental stations maintained by thc Dominion and Provincial Governments. It is also practiced by a uumber of individual growers who, according lo Mr. L. II. Newman, tlie'Dominion cereallst, have contributed very materially to the improvement of the varieties of cereals and other farm plants commonly giown in Canada. The object of lhe plant breeding operations lg to evolve varieties of grains, vegetables and -i'ruiis Utat :wc suitable-.lor cultivation under particular conditions of climate and soil, and tbat will measure up to certain standards of quality and quantity of yield. For example, cross- nt4 of n-lous strains ot. wheat Natural Resources Bulletin Fertilizer That Draws Moisture From tho Air The natural resources intelligence rvlce of the department of the Interior at Oltawa, says; A fertiliser that would draw moisture from the air ln uantltios sufficient ,tO carry crops through a period of drought would be au amaxlng boon to agriculture in many districts of the world. Recent experiment* indicate that such a substance does exist In the form of anhydrite, a sulphate of calcium or, as It i3 sometimes popularly called, land plaster. Anhydrite is closely related lo gypsum and where found in Canada Is hs- sociated with gypsum deposits. ' Its affinity for water Is well known but the application of thia principle In agriculture Is something that is not so well established. Anhydrite is acted.on by moisture in the atr to form gypsum aud it Is this action in drawing the water content of the air into Uie-aoil that offers interesting possibilities, where properly used, in the Interests ot scientific agriculture. To indicate tbe relatively large quantities of water that this material will use it may be stated tbat 1W parts 6T water, at-., deg. F., dissolve only 0.2 part or anhydrite. Anhydrite is found in Canada in great beds associated with the gypsum deposits of the Maritime Prov- Immigration To Canada Good Percentage of Settlers Coming From Britain and United States A sharp increase in Immigration to Canada in April, 1926, over AflEll, *25f is shown in an official statement recently issued by the Canadian Government department of immigration and colonisation. The total Immigration for .tpril amounted to 17,493 compared with 10.931 for April a year ago. In April. British immigration amounted to 7.897; Immigration -from the Vnlted Stales 2,007. and from other countries 7,589. Of the total immigration in April,, 11,928 belonged to the farming class, 760 were laborers, and 1,418 female domestic sen-ants. A tolal of 6,918 Canadians were recorded as returning from the United Btates in April after having entered that country with the intention of remaining there permanently and who now declare their intention of permanently residing In Canada. Cultivation Of Cora Cultivate Sh01 Alberta's Striking Growth Sunshine Province Shows Remarkable Progress In Laat Twenty Yeara Alberta's progress-during tho period of twenty years is a sii-lklhg evidence of the growth of the west, and especially of the Sunshine Province, as follows agricultural production from 20,000,000 to 5254,000,000. Wheat production from 3 millions to 103 million bushels. Area of ail crops from 616.000 io 11,000,000 acres. Dairy products from 1.000,000 to 33,000,000. Coal production rrom 93X900 tons to 5,800.000. Manufactures from nearly 5,000,000 to 51,337,800. 1.000 miles of railway have Increased to 4,800 ana population from 200.000 to .40,000.' d Begin A Soon As the Com ii Planted Last year in Southern Saskatchewan approximately seventy thousand acrea of corn were grown, states W, H, Olb- son, superintendent or Indian Head experimental farm, in a circular just issued, and cor* Is raQidly developing into one ot ihe most Important forage crops. Corn is also recommended aft a valuable summerfallow substitute, and when compared with othcr crops at Indian Head ln this respect corn land gave higher yields tho succeed ing year than any otber crop. Corn used as a summerfallow- substitute is usually sown with a corn planter In check rows lo assist ln the' cultivating of it, but where one bas'tio planter very good success may be ban by sewing with the ordinary grain drill. Cultivation should begin as soon as the corn ls planted and continued until it Is about six inches high. Harrow every week over this period aud millions of small weeds will be destroyed and little if any damage done to tbe corn. After lhe corn is too high for harrowing, a cultivator must be uaed, either thc regular corn cultivator or the small garden one will do lf the area ls small. Take car. not to run the implement loo deep as tbe corn roots are shallow and may be injured. Cultivation should be continued until the corn shades the ground well, which will be when it 13 from three lo three and a half feet high. Corn as an Intertilled crop controls weedK. reduces the cost of grow- New Vessel Is Chartered By Government For Annual Patrol Of .Arcftc Archipelago Canada's Wheat Production Will Reach Billion Bushels Annually Within Ten Yeara ia Prediction For flve years Canadian wheal crops have averaged two bushels an acre more than those of the United States, aays a bulletin issued by the International Institute of agriculture. The Dominion's world record, of production has averaged 15.5 bushels per. acre since 1920, while tliat.or the United States has been 13.3. The five-year average for lhe other principal wheat growing countries Is: Argentina 13.3 bushels, British India 11.9, Australia 11.7. The bulletin predicts that within 10 years, with the settlement of the Dominion's, vast western agricultural lands, Canada's wheat production will reach a billion bushels annually. New Paving Material Ing grain crops, and provides abund7 ance of feed for livestock production. Experiments Now Being Made With Chips and Sawdust Sawdust and wood chips are among the paving materials with whlcb experiments are being made, says i Science Siftings. The wood is flrst ; treated with creosote, and then submitted to pressure, .and tests already Safeguarding the Forests made are said to iiave given a floor suitable for medium traffic from a mixture nine parts of sawdust to one of Portland cement. In German experiments, great adhesiveness for cement Preparations for the 1926 patrol of Canada's Arctic archipelago are being made by the North West Territories and Yukon branch of the department of the interior, and it is expected that the annual expedition will sail about July 10. This year's visit to the far northern posts will be made in tlie SK Beothlc. a sealing vessel of 2.700 tona capacity, with a speed of ten knots. This ship was charatered for the trip from Jobs Seal Fisheries Company. Limited, of St. John's, Newfoundland, to replace the C-O.S. Arctic, which Is being retired from service. For lho purpose for which she wns built, whicli was to winter fn the north In safety Ao herself and comfort lo her crew, the Arctic could hardly be surpassed, Sho Is past her prime, however, and wlUi . the gradual increase In the number of posts and the consequent heavier demands on ship accommodation a larger and speedier boat is required. The Arctic, certain accessories having been removed, has been turned over to ,tbe government salvage officer for disposal, Tho Beothlc. which has a.greater speed aud carrying capacity tban tbe Arctic, was reconstructed last November at Newcsstlc-on-Tyne, Kngland. for the seal fisheries. She was classed, for Ice work Al at Lloyd's and-4w- her initial trip to the seal fisheries thl3 year performing splendidly, returning wilh a retord catch of 48,420 skins. This year's expedition will sail from North Sydnoy, Nova Scotia, instead ot has been prosecuted for a number of years at Dominion experimental farms to furnish varieties that will stand a certain degree of frost and. survive a certain period' df drought, that will produce a large yield of grain of good milling and baking quality. As everyone in Canada know* litis cross-breeding of wbeat lias had results of great value to the farmer- and the country at large. AiHed witli the exports who evolve new varieties of plants are glowers who multiply .the seed of those varieties and supply It to the farmers. Many of these men whose business is to furnish good seed for tile farmers are enrolled in the Canadian Seed Growers' Association, and In kindred organizations established In a number Of the provinces. These men do work of great importance to agriculture in the Dominion. Mr. L. H. Newman, the Dominion cereallst, has-aaid tiiat among the na tions of tlie world, Canada occupies a foremost place in .regard to its organisation both for systematic seed improvement and .fQr' the . handling of high-class -seed lh commercial quantities under efficient rontrA There are indications that that fact is realized outside Ute Dominion. Marquis wheat, originally evolved in Canada, is grown throughout a large part of the hard wheat area of tlie United States. Laat year, a big shipment oi Canadian registered seed wheat was shipped lo. Argentina to be planted by .farmers there. Last year, too, the secretary uiLjJu Canadian Seed Growers' Association aays, practically all of the supply of western-grown Canadian legistered alfalFa seed was bought UP by farmers of the middle-west section of the United States, who paid a considerable premium over the price ' rof home-grown alfalfa aeed plus a customs duty .of lour cents a pound. The Mail and Empire. Dairy Industry Expanding inces. TH5 gypsum beds pre sum - ably were formed aa the result of the evaporation of sea water enclosed tn a series of partly or wholly land-locked basins, which look the place of a once continuous and gt; widespread Kea. In some localities the gypsum beds have a thickness of 200 feet or more and are underlain by anhydrite to an unknown depth, wblch, in at least one case, exceeds 140 feet. Anhydrite Is also found ln the salt mines of Austria Hungary, ln the Harz Mountains of Germany and, to some extent, in the United States. It Is a hard white or greyish-white mineral, usually granular in structure but sometimes crystalline, and similar lnrits physical properties to marble. The economic value of anhydrite has never been thoroughly established, but its growing use in agriculture may provide an outlet that ultimately may reach very considerable proportions. At-rite-present-time cargoes are being shipped from Walton, Nova Scotia, to Norfolk, Virginia, where it Is used with success, as a-dressing for the soil. Ground gypsum and anhydrite are considered very beneficial on heavy soils and bn crops of a leguminous character. It acls indirectly as a fertilizer by reacting with the silicates oT potash, thus liberating them as a , plant food. It has also been used to great advantage, according lo Mr; J. P. Messervey, deputy Inspector of mines for Nova Scotia, around stables or nure piles, where it acts as a disinfectant and also retains tbe ammonia, the greater part of which Is otherwise lost from tlie manure. Tho Nova Scotia -department of mines draws attention to this interesting material in its last report, when It says: As a fertilizer it may be applied to the soil in drills or in hills, or sowed broadcast Jn quantities from 200 to 500 pounds to the acre. It has an affinity for water and draws moisture from llic atmosphere, and keeps it in the soil where the roots of the small plants have a constant supply. The use of gypsum in the soil mny. during a drought, draw enough moisture from More Money In Butter Cream Yields a'Little But Butter la Better Recently Mrs. Aline Haley, of Rose Isle, Man., received the returns from four gallons or fresh cre.am she had previously shipped to a local dairy company. The cheque was for 2.52. For an experiment, immediately on receipt of the cheque she made sixteen pounds of butter with four gallons of cream. She sold the butter at 40c a pound, or a totnl or (6.40. She made, thus 3.87 more wllh the samo amount of cream. In Few Years Manitoba Has Built Up Wonderful Business Manitoba's dairy Industry continues to expand. Starling with almost no- -tliluE 30 jctw. ago, the Pw t TthHlitEb-phOTe to save a. crop. .dairy production of 1925 reached nea -j pr . DaV30 ,n h, snpr,iement to (14,000,000. The province won-41,A ad an CreoIogyi in speaking of anhydrite say? that for land It may be re- per com. of butter first prl2ea in 1925 .and 34 per cent, of the total dairy prizes. The first export of butter was made in 1315 with 55 carloads. last ygpr lt was 315 exported to Eastern Canada and flie Dritish I U'S. garded as more valuable than tho hydrous variety . (I.e. gypsum), wanting ihe water which amounts -to about 20 por cent, of the weight of'the Planting A seed company received fiom one mau fifteen applications for free samples of their pea Beeds, and when tbe six teen th request arrived the manage latter.' Industries representing more titan Sm iking In National Forests of Montana Strictly Forbidden All smoking has been forbidden in the Kootenai national forest, Montana, as a safeguard against forest flres whicli recently have been increasing. If this regulation appears drastic it might be well to remembet* that the forest service has been trying for years to educate us not to be careless wilh flre in the woods, and apparently we have as yet not learned this first lesson in woodcraft. Buffalo Courier and Express. Teakwood i so durable that beams 2.000 years old are'still strong. concrete ie reported to bave foi Idwed giving the wood or sawdust a preliminary washing with curd soap and water, and then with a thin solution of silicate of soda. Johnnie, when asked by his people to define deficit, said: * A deficit Is what you've got when you haven't as much as if you had had just nothing. Have you wondered about your husband's past? Dear me, no I have all I ean do taking care of his present and worrying about his future. Choice of Dominion Capital To Be Celebrated Quebec. The posts already established, will be visited and an effort made to complete the establishment o , the new post at Bache Peninsula on Ellesmere Island, ih latitude 79 deg. north. Owing to ice conditions last year the materials ami supplies for this proposed post bad to be left at Fram Havn. jabout fifteen miles south of Bache i Peninsula. This summer the Beothlc .will pick up tiiese supplies and at- jtempt the passage of Rice Strait and the crossing of Buchanan Bay to tbe J site of the proposed post. On the re- j turn Journey, if lime and conditions ' permit, the Beothlc will also cruise up j either Lancaster sound or Jones Sound. The ship is expected to m- jturn in late September or early October. Jlr. George P. Mackenzie will again be the officer in charge. One of tho conditions of the charter party is thai the crew of the Beothlc will be re ln- Captam-rFaHc. its present com- . mander, who lias bad considerable experience in the navigation of Hudson and Baffin Bavs and adjacent watera will command the vessel. About ten members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police will be taken north to relieve those coming out. Dr. L. 3. Weeks, who accompanied, last year's expedition as geologist, wilt also be included in this year's personnel. Be, together with an assistant, Mr. Maurice Haycock, will establish a base at Pangnirtung, on ' Cumberland Sound. They will remain in the north until October. 1927, and during that time will gather geological and geographical information on the interior of Baffin Island. The other members of the expedition will be announced later. Iu the late summer of 1826. Lieuten- the construction of the Rideau CunaL'The coming of railw ant-Colonel John By, of the Royal En- tbe British authorities experienced jseded it atid rendered gineers, selected the spot where the Rideau Canal should enter the Ottawa River.' and In so doing settled tbe site what afterwards became'the capltalnf has super- practicaHy much difficulty In attempting the de- useless as a carrier of traffic; but It fence of the western part of the prov- rendered valuable service in earlier Ince. This was owing to the dlfficul-' days for the settlement of the prov- tles of transporting men and supplies foce of Ontario, both east and west. from Montreal to Kingston, because of the Dominion of Canada. The centen-'jlhe rapids on the St.. Lawrence River. 90 per cent, of the gyprum producers of the United States f-ecenlly adopted a unanimous resolution urging the United Stales bureau of mines to undertake work on the utilization of this decided it was time he did something, j - (hc p0 ,bm es M wnich an, little understood. Dear Sir: I am sending you. the seeds as requested; but what are you doing with so much? Are you planting your wMe suburb with peas? A few days later lie received a reply: No, i rtijt. I am not pluming them at .all. My wife uses them ror soup. Should a widespread demand arise for anhydrite for use as a fertilizer, it would mean a great expansion of the gypsum industries ot the Maritime Provinces. Bright Outlook Husband can't understand why wlfo ever complains aboul anything when she has his coming home in the evening to look forward to. W. N. U. 1636 - Scientists Study Poultry Problems Twenty-flve years ago it was beneath the dignity of scientists to work with poultry. Today they are'work- ing on'diseases, nutrition, genetics, etc., and many world famous scientists and investigators will be at Ottawa, July 27. to August 4. 1927, attending tlio World's Poultry Congress. y of this event is being marked thw Tney were alao fa' lt;*d with tho dan coming August, by a celebration which ger *f a * S' *rm-v blocking progress Three years after Bytown became Ottawa, it was chosen .is the capital of the old province of Canada. The centenary celebration this sum- Is expected to he national In charau- J* e r,Ter ** B6izInB 90me r ll,e mer will last two weeks, from August Saskatchewan Dairy Industry Eleven New Creamery Plants Have Been Established This Year Establishment of 11 new creamery plants in. Saskatchewan to date thii year in addition to replacements of old creameries sets a re.cord not equalled since the dairy industry started In the province. New manufacturing plants have been opened at Regina, Moose Jaw-(a). Swlft-C-BrrentrMeNBttTT- Young, RaiUside, Speers and Kc-lving- ton. P. E. Reed, dairy commissioner for Saskatchewan, stated that there was. room for debate as to whether sucb a big increase in the number q' creamery manufacturing plants was alto- getlier Justified by the present vohnnw - of production, bin if production was stimulated sufficiently to take rare of the added overhead the industry as a wliole would be benefited, Intention, no .j V *port rrom M nt ' ' Kingston izlne' a,ao e*c 8slve. being fifty-four The j)omi ion Government has ,.B,a nd 3 r ;K1 8ton- . The .cost already intimated its only of taking part, but of signalizing the occasion by extension of Its works j**11 * P lt;**.. for the beaullflcation of the capital.' This was the problem which Col, By Thp celebration Itself will include his- j eame out to Canada to solve. He had tori cal pageantry and will draw from: spent nine years in this country after tho western plains a spectacular j 1*02, when lie had been entrusted with Stampede ns Illustrative of one of'tbe construction of the Marleflo Tow- Ihe historical phases of the develop- ers nt Quebec and the rebuilding of the ient of that broad section minion. In making his journey up the Ottawa, Colonel By was not planning for the capital of a Dominion, but alrlv- 16 to 28. The first week August 16 to 21 wlll.be devoted particularly to th centenary programme, which will Include an historical pageant illustrating outstanding periods and events in the history of the capital. During the same period the Edmonton Stampede will give a dally programme; while arrangements are also being made for holding (lie Rudder International Pow- f the Do- Citadel, and he had also superintend-ler Boat races for two days of that ed the construction of the Cedars Can-: week. Plans are not fully completed al near Montreal. Tbe task of bulid-, for the celebration, but among other Ing Hi..- camd to connect the St. Law- ' proposals under consideration are the renee and the (Xtawa Rivers, 126'erectlon of a monument to Colonel By. ing to strengthen the defences of onw miles in length, through uninhabited The Dominion Government is also of tlie outworks of tlie Britisii empire- country, wa. gigantic nt that stage of preparing plans for the extension of During the war of 1812-15, saya Ithe development of lhe country, and 'the Driveway which is such au attrac- llamneit 1' Hill, in u brief history of its huilder as aa engineer of high rank I five feature ot the city. John Bull and France j Not only is it unfair that a heavy gt; subsidy In relief of the French taxpayer should continue to be paid by the British taxpayer in the form ot.in- terest on the French debi; ft is also most unreasonable that at a time when France makes such a large claim on our financial consideration, she should havo 1 aci eased against Britisii gpods a tariff which already was exceptionally high. London Chronicle- After marriage some women are as careless about tbelr looks as men are about their actions. II, lu a briuf history of its huilder as aa engin Don't eavy your neighbor'* envy iiis pluck, if anything.
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