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THE GAZETTE OLDS. ALBERTA. Remarkable Development Of Canady. s Greatest Industry, The Growing Of Wheat Canada’s greatest individual Jndus. try, wheat growing,’ has developed almost entirely since Confederation. The present generation of Canadians are accustomed to speak: of their country as the granary of the world, a phrase which would have ~ been meaningless sixty years ago when Confederation was brought about. Canadians must. look . with pride upon the achievement in wheat pro- duction of the last sixty years. What it means to the general business and to the tranportation of the Dominion needs only be stated to be under- stood, Exports of wheat from Canada in the last two years, and :these were only average crops, have brought in- to this Dominion more than $175,000,- 000 annually. This money, coming | into ihe possession of the farmers, has been spent on the hundred and‘ one articles which they need, thus stimulating ‘the industrial centres remote from the grain flelds. and affecting, indirectly, every citizen .of the Dominion. . The bulk of Canada’s wheat crop is grown In the prairie provinces. Each harvest time the enormous task of transferring this crop from the fields | to the consumers in distant countries is undertaken and accomplished. The farmer hauls his. wheat to the coun- try elevators, the original gatherer of | the crop. There are about 2,500 country elevators in the wheat pro- ducing area. The wheat is loaded into box-cars -and 1s ‘started | eastward and westward, as the case may be, to seaboard. If it is west- ward there is the long rail haul over | the Rockies to Vancouver: or Rupert, whence it is shipped to Europe through the Panama canal, or to the Far East. In 1924-25, the last erop year for which final figures are | available, .23,900,000 bushels _ er. The greater part of the crop comes eastward in box-cars to Fort William | and Port Arthur, where large ter- minal grain elevators are located. In | 1924-25, the figures are . inieresting because relatively they change very litle from-year to.. year, 159,000,000 bushels came.east. All this wheat, whether eastbound or westbound, is inspected by ~ Dominicn government inspectors and is “graded according to quality. Ty, 3 The grading of wheat in this quan- tity of itself is 4 monumental task, achieved first by this Dominion and followed. by a few other’ ’ wheat ex- porting countries. Without -govern* ment grading the marketing of Can- ada’s ‘export’ crop ‘at’ a fair price would be impossible. The world’s market for. wheat” is Liverpool, England. Here come buy- _ ers and sellers and the custom, as in ancient times, is, for the ‘seller to show a sample of his wheat so: that the buyer may see what he: is pur- chasing. Obviously, when production reaches such proportions. as it has -in Canada this no ionger can be done. The pret cies government solved. the diffic y_by establishing a. grading system. Canadian wheat js graded | under well-defined regulations and any. buyer in the world may buy the quality of wheat-he desirés by grade. The’ quality is guaranteed and in many years. of experience foreign buyers have not yet complained. Having. reached Fort William and Port Arthur, the mass movement of the crop is at end, From these ports it breaks into a score of channels all of them moving eastward towards the ocean. The grain fleets come to the head of the lakes for their cargoes. The wheat is loaded. into ‘these steamers and some of them sail to! the Georgian Bay ports,. others to Port .M¢Nicoll,. still others to Port} Colborne, many to Buffalo; and a few g0 right through to Montreal. A Perpetual Bank Account Kipling when a citizen’ of Brattle- “boro, Vermont, where he éstablished ; his bungalaw, “Naulahka” in which ! he wrote some of his -famous works, habitually paid by find that he always had too big a bal- ance at the bank, he investigated, and | discovered that merchants preferred, | {instead of cashing his checks, to frame them as seuvenrs: Forbes Magazine. First Universal Language Volapuk was the name given to what was intended by {ts author, Jo- hann Sehleyer, a teacher in Switzer- land, to be a universal language. For some time after its invention in 1879, it flourished exceedingly, but then it languished. and its place is now taken by E peranto proposed by Dr. Zam- enhok, of Warsaw, Poland, in 1887, Danish Government , May Aid Immigration Country is Fertile Field for Recruit. ing New Canadians Conducting a party of 85 Danish Sé{tlers, who reached Montreal on the White Star liner, Doric, to points in eastern Canada, Lorentz .W. Sass, travelling inspeetor for companies In Denmark, declared that Denmark was a fertile field for. re- cruiting Canadian immigrants. Considerable unemployment pre- vails there. The chief drawback to a there } i Prince | went | through- Pacific’ Ports. In subsequert years the movement has’ been great: | check. Puzzled to | larger influx is lack of money. In this ; connection, however, said Mr. Sass, /the Danish government is considering {ways and means of meeting this dim- ;culty and is studying a plan practised by the Norwegian government where- by prospective emigrants. are fur- ‘nished with sufficient funds and given | easy terms in the matter of repay- ment. : } To Buy Canadian Cattle - | Association Formed in South Wales For Direct Importation | The Canadian trade ‘commissioner |’ ‘at Bristol, England, reports the for- | mation of the South Wales and Mon- ' mouthshire Cattle Importers’ Asso- ‘ciation, Limited, |filed a copy of their prospectus. The chief purpose of. this co-operative |movement. is the direct {mportation ‘of Canadian store and fat cattle, and ‘to this end a certral Canadian. pur- | | chasing organization has been estab- | The new association repre- ‘lished. sents nineteen meat traders’ asocia- ‘tions throughout. South Wales and ‘Moumouthshire: and the capital is ap- | proximately $30,000. | | Winnipeg Newspaper Union ® Braid Fiaming is Smart This attractive dress’ has the much desired slendering lines and is a style /Sultable for all daytime wear. The front and back are quite plain and the plaited —_side-sections give added width and grace to the skirt: Braid is pares used on the bodiee to form a deep pointed yoke, and also trims (the convertible collar, the cuffs fin- | ishing the long dart-fitted sleeves, and sides. No.'1522.is in sizes -36, 38, 40, 42 and 44. inchés bust. Size 38 re- quires 4% yards 39-inch material, or \3% yards 54-ivch, and 7 yards trim- ; ming braid. Price 20 cents the pat- “tern. Many styles of smart apparel may ,be found in our Fashion Book. Our | designers originate their patterns in the heart of the style centres, and itheir creations are those of tested popularity, brought within the means fot the average woman. Price of the book 10 cents the copy: yp | How To Order Patterns la ddress—-Winnipeg Newspaper Union, | ' 175 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg | jwatterh (NOe ote. sa Size NAMO! ©. 5)5'5:9,0/030'sle'e eieieys sie'e Sele tice ee.e.ain | (TOWN Fo cceseeie Cb enereereeves steamship | who during April | British Colonial Empire Colonies and Protectorates Population of Fifty Million That the extent of the British Col- onial Empire—that portion composed of colonies and protectorates, ete.—is roughly two million square miles with a population, of 50,000,000, was the: in- teresting statement-in the report of the committee appointed by the pres- ent colonial conference to frame a scheme gased on coniributions to a common pool, for the creation of a scientific and research. service. - This service should be availagle to the whole Colonial Empfre. The committee, in view of the short time available, decided to restrict the inquiry to medicine, agriculture, vet- erinary science and forestry. The conference of governors. re- cently approved the scheme set out in. the report and, requested the Col- onjal office to appoint a committee to work out a defailed scheme for sub- mission to all the Governments con- cerned. . The conference: was of the opinion that the scheme could “be commenced: on an income of about $875,000 yearly, of which a consider- able portion would be used in replac- ing existing expenditures on salaries of agricultural research officers. Have | Jersey Herds for Western Canada \ . B.C. Registered Steck. Imported by Manitoba and Alberta Breeders Recent Jersey shipments by B.C. breeders to the prairies have Includ- ved six heifers. from the well-known S. Matson: herd, Victoria, to N. Nor ; bury, McAuley. Man., who will use | them as foundation stock for a new | Jersey herd h@ is establishing. In this lot are some exceptionally well-bred young things by a son of Zenia Sul- tan. One’ heifer is\a daughter of the |cow, Junio’s Marigold Fern, whose record exceeds 1,000 lbs. butter, and the others are. out of high-record cows. Another new prairie. Jersey herd is that being established at Vik- ing, Alta., by Child Bros. Wild Horses Are Worthless: | Hundred. Dollars Highest Bid. Re | . cently in B.C. for Eighteen Head Hunters in the interior of British Columbia are expected. to turn in 1,000 sets of ears from wild horses | they will have killed on the range jthis year. For these they will get'a bounty of $1.50 per set from the pro- vincial department of lands and fom ests. The horses. are practieally worthless, $100 being the highest bid received for a corralful .of 18 head rounded up recently; at Springhouse, one of which was a four-year-old stallion weighing only 400 pounds. | Consumption of Eggs in Canada Canadians are ‘world, according to the Minister of Agriculture, speaking here. The per capita consumption of eggs in Canada has risen from 16 dozen: to. 28 dozen since grading was introduced. Can- ada consumes 99 per cent of its own egg prcaae eeu: To Improve Highways Two million dollars will be spent in the Central Manitoba mineral area on development work this year, Improv- ed navigation and highways into this | district ‘are eluded in the activities of the Mining Bureau of the Winni- peg Board of Trade. Marriage to a woman’ means a life. time Job as. a detective. now the~ greatest |- ) individual consumers of eggs in the “Canada Piefers British Settlers But Ont Limited Number of Right Class Are Available “The importance of applying polic- fes providing Canada with‘ man-pow- |- er, without introducing unemploy- ment but rather increasing the ‘de- mand for labor, must be emphasized, with the necessity of preventing the admission of undesirable emigrants,” Hon. Robert Forke, Canadian Minis- ter of Immigration, declared in Lon- don while discussing Canada’s imml- gration problems with newspapermen. “Canada’s immigration activities -are therefore both positive and negative,” he added. Shortly after his arrive with Ww. J. Egan, Deputy Minister of Mr. Forke’s department, the Minister received about 30 journalists at his hotel and, after reading a written statement he had prepared, answered their: ques- tions. “Canada has adopted the policy,” he said, “of encouraging farm labor- ers and houshold workers. In recog- nition of the strong British strain in the national: fabric, special emphasis is laid upon immigration from. the British Isles. Courageous steps have been taken to relieve the British set- tlers of the handicap of high ocean rates. The fact that. only a limited number from the classes .mentioned are available from the British Isles necessarily broadens the field ‘to in- clude the United States. and Euro- pean ‘countries. from which suitable settlers may be secured.” Nebraska Farmers Coming Advance Agents Seeking Suitable Tracts of Land in Alberta Representing fifty Nebraskan fam- flies who: wish to settle on Canadian farms; Frank Stewart, of North Platte, Nebr., headed: a delegation of three ‘who have been conferring. with C. A. Van ‘Scoy, superintendent of colonization for the Canadian Pacific Railway. The land seckers will go to Calgary with a representative of the colonization ‘department’ to inspect suitable tracts in Alberta. The group proposing to emigrate has ample cap- ital, it is said. Special Crate-for Shipping Fish Eggs A special crate for shipping fish eggs has been developed by the Can- adian Department of Marine and Fish- erles. In this type of case salmon eggs have been shipped from the Maritime Provinces. to British Columbia;. from St. John, New Brunswick, to Dublin, Ireland; and from Vancouver, British,’ Columbia, to Tokio, Japan. The eggs in these shipments hatched out prac- tically as: well as those hatched at points at which they were produced. Out of. Everything ‘If you haven’t an automobile you are out of everything, including debt.: : If a friend presents you with a wa- termelon, you can’t get it home con- veniently. _If you ‘wish to go any- where not on a railroad or street car- Hne, you: must~-call a taxi, or depend |- upon a friend who owns a car, and ‘|you and your car-owning friends are seldom. interested in going to. the same place. If you walk you may be run over. ees Training Indian Children The training of Indian children n Canada is one of the important activ- ities ofthe Department of Indian: Affairs. There are nearly 15,000 In- dian boys and girls enrolled in the 344 Indian schools under the direc- tion of the Department. There are various mediums of art, this photograph being an example jof the clever use of sugar by the veteran pastry chef of Chateau Lake | Louise, John Meyer. It is a true copy of the new Hotel Saskatchewan, * | Regina, 88by 85 inches, weighing 80 pounds, of glistening white sugar. Mr. | Meyer did all the work on the candy structure himself, the masterpiece " loccupying his time for ten days. The candy copy of the new hotel was |: [taken to Regina for the opening on May 24th. | | Shaped balloons of the street vendors: with the more elastic skin. ¢——jtoba Livestock Board, where provin- Proves Water Has Skin Easy Experiment Anyone Can Test for Themselves There is. a skin we ‘touch every day of the year, a skin we. see often- er than we touch, a'skin which few of us: realize is in existence, If we break it or hurt it it heals itself without our help and possesses the power of self-renewal quite as much as anything in nature. It.is the skin of water. Byt where -is. there any skin on water? Right.on the outside — right where you. would expect to find a skin on anything. «Every surface of water behaves almost’ precisely as if it were an elastic membrane under tension. Drop a few drops of water from! a spoon, bottle, or the end of your finger, and see them trickle down, first pear-shaped. and then Tounded into little globes, behaving exactly as if they were confined by rubberskins. ; But why globes? Because a globe is just the ‘shape an elastic skin must take if acted on: by pressure within, or if trying to close in-on a fluid within it.- Even the sausage- tend to take the spherical. shape when inflated. A sphere happens to be the one ‘shape of all possible shapes which can contain the great- est amount of space within oe least amount of surface. And here’s a particularly easy ex- periment which can be made right now, at home or at the’ office, which shows what this skin is like and -how it behaves. All you will need is. a short bit of cotton string and’a bowl or glass nearly filled with clean water. Be sure that the bowl or glass is not greasy, for we don’t want any grease just yet. Now lay the cotton string just across the- surface from side to side so’that it divides the surface. The way it is now the skin of water pulls the string both ways, so it does not move. It re- mains still. .__ z “Now, to show the pull, or as. the physicists call it, the tension of this water skin. Drop.a-few drops of oil on the water to one side of the string. Immediately the string will move away from the oily side, pulled by the elastic skin, for the oil imme- of the string and the oil skin has less tension. than the water skin on the other side—hence the string moves International Stock Show A Carload of Bacon Hogs From Mani- toba Will be Exhibited A carload of bacon bogs will be in- cluded in Manitoba’s exhibit at the internationals stock show in Chicago this: coming fall. -J. E: Ritchie, man- ager of the Provincial, Fair, has re- turned from a meeting of the. Mani- cial plans were. laid. The. bacon hog exhibit on such a scale will be the first. step by Manitoba to gain recog- mal raised in the province. Three carloads of horses and two of cattle | will be sent. by the province to Tor- onto and elsewhere, a portion going on to Chicago. The sheep men will have a worthy exhibit for - Toronto. Guelph, Ottawa and other centres. Alberta Sugar Beets Farmers throughout Southern Al- berta are supporting the sugar factory admirably.. To date 7,000 acres. of beets have been contracted for with an anticipated: increase of 500 acres, which will bring the total to 7,500 { acres of sugar beets for the 1927 sea- | son. A notable feature this year is the thorough preparation of the soil be- fore planting. Using Reindeer in French Alps One dozen reindeer are to be moved from Norway to the French Alps with a view to atclimatizing them and utilizing them for hauling sleighs on the mountain roads in the winter months. The reindeer, it.is claimed, will render accessible many pictur- esque spots in the mountains which cannot be reached by horse-drawn or motor-driven vehicles. You’re behind with your Dad —- studies, son. Son—Well, how could I pursue them if 1 weren’t? Animals that occasionally are fed candy, are much more easily han- died than those which never have tasted sweets, says a big game hunt- er and zoologist. It is usually tomorrow that al) great things are expected to happen. looked to the civil government. for. were needed and within two or three years of the close of the war many of them were in the Royal. Canadian Air Force, locating smugglers on the boundaries, and mapping out by photography the vast areas of the hinterlands. eal acknowledgment of this valuable work, Since the war Canada has never spent more than $1,500,000 a year for air development. This, year more than $3,000,000: was voted by parliament for Canadian Air. Force to. be divided between military and civil | Cities are being encouraged to set aside land for future air harbours, technical advisers from Great, Britain are visiting. the Domnion. to make recommendations for the future link-° ing of the Empire by airways, and the Post Office Department is taking the initial steps towards: what will be an Atlantic to Pacific air mail route.. . ieut 2 sured, ee a ee Government of the development to cofhe «that at the Imperial Confer- ence of 1926, Canada pledged herself to the érection of a great mooring mast which willbe one of the air ports for the vast dirigibles built in England to cruise the world through the Empire’s skyways. Mediterranean air rovte a candle-power beacon is to be installed at the summit of Sicily. by the winds which are- continually blowing at the top of the mountain. Wales low in the arch, Kanade Is Reaching Out With An Ambitious Program Concerning Aerial Navigation In this year of Jubilee Canada is reaching out with an ambitious pro- gram of aerial navigation which the most imaginative of the Fathers of Confederaton never entertained éven in their wildest dreams. Flying in Canada was born of war, and in these later days of peace the conquest of the air goes on apace. During the war flying was a young man’s game, and the youth of. Canada won renown with machine-guns bris- tling from the cockpits, propellors roaring, and: bombs swaying from the under-carriages. It was grim sbusi- ness but it proved the sporting blood of a young-nation. Peace, came and these young mer who rode the whirl-wind returned te Canada to. earn. their Hving as’ ciyn- Jans. But the spirit of war air-work survived, and in.a small but seasoned. organization called the Royal Cana- dian Air Force the traditions of aerial: navigation were carried on. The’ young airmen, trained in war days departments _ of employment. They detecting forest fires, Civil flying soon’ pushed its way to the front during the post-war years, and the government of Canada was quick to establish the necessary code of laws for aerial navigation: Tho ad- ministration of these regulations was © given to a branch. of the Royal. Cana- dian Air Force, and‘ today the Domin- jon is safeguarded by a set:of strict regulations governing of.all mechanics, pilots, air harbours, international flying signals, and the inspection of air craft. The most. conspicuous work done ; during these recent crowded years of flying history in Canada has been the survey work in which the Dominion has led the world. ‘thave put on astonishing endurance, but Canada’s . contribution has been along commercial square’ miles of Canadian territory were photographed and mapped with an_accuracy which would have -re- quired years and millions of dollars ' diately formas an oil skin on. one side |if done by ground work. the licensing Other couniries spectacular flights of sound lines.. In ‘1926, 56,000 The year 1927 has brought a practi by. parliament . the Royal flying. Canada’s future in the air is -as- So certain is the Canadian | being - Strawberry Crop Yield Expected to be Larger Than Last Year Reports’ from strawberry peadielne districts of Canada to the Depart- ment of Agriculture show that the commercial plantations provinces have wintered well providing weather conditions remain favorable. the yield, based on normai production, should be slightly larger than last year. age last year was 4,600, preducing a crop of 11,112,500. This year the est! mated figure is 13,301,800 quarts-or ap Increase of 20.5 per cent. the" and, in all The Dominion’s acre- Beacon for Aviators For the benefit of aviators on the million- Mount Etna in The power is to be generated In Great Britain the feet are used as an aid to identification and it has been shown that the inhabitants of London have long slim feet, those of and those of Scotland, broad in the sole. 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