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Conditions in Western Canada
Please Farmers.
Seeding Has Been Begun Earlier Than
for Many Years, and Soil ls
in Perfect Shape.
With weather conditions highly fa-
vorable, the farmers of Western Can-
ada, with the exception probably of
a portion of Manitoba, have completed
seeding from ten to fifteen days earller
than for some years past. In some
parts of Manitoba there were floods
which delayed seeding, but they have
abated, and left the land in good shape
for quick work and speedy germina.
tion. In Saskatchewan soil conditions
for seeding were never better, With a
generous quantity of snow, which after
melting left needed moisture, and an-
other snowstorm after seeding was
finished, there was an {deal condition
created. From all parts of Alberta
there came the best of reports as to
rainfall and snow moisture, leaving the
the prospects of a good crop.
Spring, as in most other parts of the
continent, was backward, but notwith-
standing this, as has been sald, farmers
were to get on the land
than for some years. In fact, seeding
able
may seem remarkable, when It is
spring seeding for several days later,
Reports to hand on the 16th of May
state that wheat is up abave
ground in a great many
are being sown, and
Farm labor was scarce for awhile, but
the demand has fallen off.
corn
than those paid for special work, The
increasing tendency to employ help by
ithe vear is evidence that farmers are
but are going out into other branches,
such dairying,
The prospects in all portions of West-
ern Canada were brighter than
at present. Information regarding the
condition of the crops at any time will
as stock raising, etc.
never
be sent on request made to any Cana
dian government agent.~—Advertise
ment.
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Eighty Per Cent of Fires Prevent-
able, Says President of Fire
Protection Association.
frame cottages and brick factories, by
forests and farm crops, by ships nnd
automobiles. Every minute, year in
and year out, $1,000 is thrown into
this fire. Every half hour, day after
day, a man, weman or child Is cast
into the flames.
There Is no such bonfire in reality,
but
money aud by human
sents the actual toll of fire In
fea each yenr as it was expressed at
the 27th annual meeting of the Na-
tional Fire Protective association In
convention at the Drake hotel,
15,000 Lives Yearly Toll.
“The tragedy of the whole thing is
| that 80 per cent of these fires are pre
{ ventable,” said H. O. Lacount
| ton, of the issociation
| “Carelessnoss is the thief that is stesl
ing £1.70 of £1,000 of the
| nation's wenlth through annual
fire SHOO0000.000, Carvlessness
is
president
out eYoery
the
loss of
the
death
assassin who annually
of 15.000 persons
fire accidents in this country.”
The smoker
| his pipe or cigarette ash into na waste
| basket aml the person thought.
tosses a glowing match into a
pile of waste are the ones who start
of the Next in of
responsibility lefective chim
neyvs and flues—proper cleaning or a
full plaster would prevent
nearly all of these fires
CRUses
{| the
who heediessly
who
3
lessly
fires
most order
come
trowel oy
Dustless mops nnd electric flatirons
| the latter left while the
| wife answers the front door, represent
the of fire «
ran for
I installations
going house
two classes wh
USES
a close race third place
electries
combustion
Assails Schoo! Conditions,
fire 0H
ghting ap
paratus
school children, eciared RR
ton, n i
comm
cont of Our
Moul
Life
re
S
fo
report
i cently,
The improvement
of more
ec
broudeastoers met the othe
suociution and to combat
Here, left
Inboratories, temporary
Ell Jenkins,
draft a constitution and by-la
| station KYW: Thorne Donnelly,
Powell CO temporary
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Swamped With Wheat.
Moscow. Too much bread promises
to be Russia's dilemma in 19238,
er could trudge into Moscow with a
small sack of grain and trade it for a
grand plano or anything which the
hungry city dwellers had to offer. Now
the same peasant could walk from one
end of Russia to the other and, except:
ing in a fw solated famine districts,
could not get a jackknife for the same
sack of grain,
If the harvest of this year turns out
ns expected, Russia will have a surplus
of grain which could be sold pri
From a country which less than 18
months ago was clamoring for crusts,
Russia bas changed into a nation which
in lengths of from 10 to 200 feet
through the mails to the owners and
operators of amateur projectors
throughout the countr,., There is at
present no legal restriction to this
traffic.”
| Two Men Sail Canoe
Balboa Heights, Cana’ Zone.—An 18
foot canoe, carrting a mainsail and a
i Jib, enjoys the distinction of being the
i first sailing craft of any description to
pass through the Panama canal under
the power of its canvas,
i H, J. Grieser, a swimming
i started from Cristobal at 6 a, m,
8:40,
The frail eraft squeezed [ts way
{into the great locks alongside of huge
to the
passed on
it" had
fem.
of the
repeat t
'
ad the
level
to
negotiat
The
and
until
sys.
next lock
he
entire
EL (M'OSR
lock
Te vents,
tolls were
Heiress to Estate Must
Wed 2-Generation Yank
Denver, Colo.—A of
greater part of the residunry estate of
Gen, Frank D. Baldwin,
military hero, to
Mise Alice Amie
{ Foote, providing she nfarry an
American of at least two generations,
i marks the general's last will and
tament, filed here, Total assets of the
estate are at slightly more
hequest
his
Willinms-
greatest
that
tes
estimated
Need
Officers of High Rank in Favor of
Premium to Keep Men for
Long Terms.
singt the attention
nt months to
on. — Despite
the ques.
y on battleships and
thie problem
navy today
ver, rank
effort t
0
ilinted
di
r duy in Chicago to form a national
MebDonald, president Chicago
Nutional Broadcasters’
a member of the
Wotherbee, director Westinghouse
chairman, director. WDAP;
of the NERO
committee
mporary
I promises within u few months to be
f swamped with wheat and rye.
At Saratof,
that have been listed us famine
| stricken, rye flour, the staple of bread,
{x quoted nt less thun 25 cents a pood,
which Is 88 pounds. At Samara, the
district where even cannibalism oc
curred among the starving a year ago,
rye goes begging nt less than 40 cents
a bushel. In Moscow, transportation
costs have made prices somewhat
higher, almost double the reigning
price in the great producing regions,
Siberia, once the granary from which
wheat poured Into western Europe, did
not fare so well in last year's harvest,
and there prices are higher, but In
Odessa and at Kieff, in the southern
whent belt, recent official quotations
ghow wheat costing under 70 cents a
bushel,
The soviet government, through the
rollection of taxes, bea roll»! up J
i
itn de. di i. Se Sh
BR Bd
¥
+ Holland Is Getting
Rattlers From Idaho
Ontario, Ore~~ldaho rattle
snakes are wing shipped to
Hollund where they will engage
in the manufacture of a serum
fur the benefit of the human
race, the enemy of all snake
dom.
Robert L.mbert, of Bolse, has
shipped 47 rattlers to Amster
dam, Holland, where they will
be used by the Dutch govern-
ment in experimental work,
chiefly in the development of a
serum calculated to provide a
cure for rheumatism. The snnkes
were captured in an hour snd a
quarter at Black's creek, 12
miles from Boise, on the Moun
tain Home highway, They range
from 10 to 30 Iaches in length,
WA
BE
(0) 4 0 Be Bs Br AAA RB
¢
than $20.000, one-half of which is left |
outright to the widow,
Offers Bill to End
Peerages in England
London. ~— Arthur
member of parlinment
and bLimself of aristocratic
{ introduced a bill in the house of
iahorite
effield
linenge,
Ponsonby,
from Sh
com
| mons designed to terminate hereditary
| titles. The would enable
peers renounce their
wotlld bar heirs and heiresses
born after the passage of the bill from
to the ‘ities
bill present
to titles and
fot
ities
succesding
Prague a Busy Aerial Center,
A commercial aerial trans |
portation company 1s making regular
airplane flights at the rate of eight
this elty and Paris,
Constantinople re
and
Pragne.-
week between
Warsaw and
turn. Malls, merchaadise
gers are carried,
and
passen
the maint
tio of the
It
Nu) provided 1?
I8 estimated ut 0x) of the
3 w will be due {¢
spirntion of their
enlistment, wi navy
#1) per cent «
[tire at. the ¢ [eri
ile the
IUCcky to get
This
ear
enlist
year to
feature of the fleet
Longer Enlistment Periods,
In stressis
tion to personal «
g the problem in its rein
ficiency
Br
paval exp
point out
the fish
» war enlistment
years yen
back to the
extent, t
that, in
ot Hr-year pediond
help to some even at
it is estimated order to
like the requisite quota of radio teleg-
raphers, although radio communica
tion is the vers
operations
It is estimated that there should be
enough of these to take care not only
of the fleet but of every
under the American flag.
Development of expert
handicapped by fame
je severely the
usual to see
an electrician newly assigned to duty.
The demand now is that
put some kind of premium on technical
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{ grain reserve amounting to nearly 200,
000,000 bushels, Some of this is need
od to feed the army,
bulk of the grain, unless it can be exe
| ported, the government does not know
what to do with it,
' Prince of Wales Picks
Beans at Big Banquet
London, ~~ English hostesses who
have been vying among themselves to
have the popular Prince of Wales dine
with them have been dismayed to find
that hig royal highness has very ab
stemious tastes and eschews all except
the simplest dishes,
One of London's most aristocratic
and wealthy families set a regal ban-
quet hefore the prince Intely, only to
find that their guest pamed it all by
and chose a plate of cold ham apd
beans,
English physicians attribute the
prince's good health to his frugal diet,
abstentipn from all rich, highly sea:
somal dishes, especially flesh fonds,
much outdoor sxercise. and a cheery,
ootitalsle cspusition,
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Takes the friction from the shoe, re
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At night, when your feet are tired,
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