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Western Canada Has Unbounded
Possibilities.
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Glorious Opportunities for the Stock
Raiser, the Wheat Grower, and the
Mixed Farmer—Its Fields to
Feed the World.
Before there were any cattle In
Alberta, or It was known that It was
Possible to feed them outside all the
fear round, the Indian hunters could
( always And the buffalo during the
winter months pasturing in the foot
hills. In the summer the herds wan
dered on the plains and fed on the
prairie grasses. The. plains have since
become grain fields, but the foothill
district extending north from the In
ternational boundary for a thousand
miles will always be a natural feeding
ground for live stock. In the southern
part of Alberta the altitude is greater
than In the more northerly districts,
but while the herds In the south have
wider tracts of treeless pasturage, In
the north from Red Deer on into the
Peace river country there are more
trees, a richer vegetation and more
natural shelter.
Those who have been advocating
stock raising and mixed farming for
the past few years point to the number
— of hogs marketed as an evidence of the
1 Increased production of the Western
Provinces. They may also take credit
for the Increase in cattle and sheep,
which Is very great, but perhaps not
so marked ns what has been accom
plished In hog raising. For the first
six months alone last year about half
a million hogs were shipped from
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
A very conservative estimate value of
these animals to the farmer would be
125.00 a head.
The Canadian West Is fast forging to
the front of the wheat-producing coun
tries of the world, and'"No. 1 hard”
Is without doubt the best wheat In the
market today. When It Is considered
that the three hundred and forty-three
million four hundred and seventy-three
thousand bushel crop of 1915 was from
only eleven million acres of her hun
dreds of millions of acres, It gives an
Idea of what her future will be.
It is felt, however, that on account
of the great money there will un
doubtedly be In growing wheat during
the next few years there Is a p&ssibil
Ity that farmers may be tempted to
drop the growing of coarser grains,
which might result In less stock being
raised. Every effort Is being made by
the Agricultural Departments of the
/ various Provinces to Impress on the
^ farmers thnl forage crops and coarse
feed in abundance mean production of
flesh and milk, and that in the long
run the great future of the Western
Provinces lies in mixed farming which
will found her prosperity on a more
J enduring basis.
Mixed farming has always been the
mie in the Eastern Provinces where the
formation -of the land invites variety
of crop, hut it has not been as common
in the Western Provinces, though the
practice has grown In recent years.
Hitherto the man mining wheat from
:hc rich soil has purchased most of his
aousefibld food and necessities, his
energies being devoted to getting every
possible bushel of grain out of every
foot of his land, and he has paid prices
for his supplies that have made a big
lent In his profits. It has now dawned
on him that he can raise vegetables
snd poultry, and st#ply his own table;
Ant with very little effort he can raise
» lot of garden produce and in a very
simple manner solve ids own problem
of the cost of living. Further, that
there is an increasing market for do
mestic necessities such as poultry,
eggs, butter, milk and cheese, which
command very high prices, and that
there are other roads to prosperity
besides that through the wheat field.
In 1910 Canada imported 7.9S9.2C9
pounds of butter, most of It from as
far away as New Zealand, and for the
first time In CO years failed to ship
butter to England, a condition due .to
the home consumption, which Is esti
nated to be increasing at the rate of
13,000,000 worth n year, being great
* ty in excess of the increased supply,
rids condition has brought about a
:bnnge In fnrmlug methods that is fnr
reuchlng, and will result in greatly in
trensed production all round of the
aec.csslties demanded by the home
■ norket.
Natural Resources.
One of the most Important consider
ations to the farmer Is fuel. In north
ern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al
berta, where portions of the country
are well wooded, the settler, has little
difficulty in getting all the wood he
requires, and thousands of men find
employment In the winter cutting
wood, which Is shipped all over the
prairie portions of the provinces.
There Is an abundance of coal
throughout the country. It Is estimat
ed that the coal deposits in Alberta
cover over 81,000 square miles and
represent an available tonnage of over
ten hundred thousand million tons,
while those in Saskatchewan cover an
I / area of 13.000 miles, containing over
1/ 69,000,000 tons. In Manitoba the coal
» | reserve is not as lurge, but even there
PHHl 160,000,000 tons Is considered a conser
'fin vatlve estimate. At the present time
1 these deposits are only worked to a
small extent, but there is no doubt that
they will be a great feature in upbuikl
l| ip ing the country and will exercise a
•a I powerful Influence on its commerce,
"■pr It is a common thing In the coal dis
B^p tricts for fanners to get their coni
' ;*supply off their own farm. Near K;l
HfejriPnton. i'o» example, the farmers not
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only supply themselves, but they car
ry coal to the city market and find it
a considerable source of revenue in
the winter time. The Edmonton coal
fields under and around the city have
an estimated content of sixty thousand
million tons. Fanners sell the coal
at a ton for domestic use.
The pioneer of Western Canada
knew little of the enjoyments of life,
compared with the farmer in that
country today. The continual exten
sion of railway lines affords facilities
UDdreamed of a few years ago, elosing
up the gaps of communication, creat
ing Immense business for the East in
tbe^West and the West In the East,
I and drawing the farmer all the time
nearer to the zones of commerce. In
creating wider markets the railways
are doing more than any othewagftney
can do for Western Canada and the
country ns a whole. The products of
the farms, which are now readily mar
keted, and the vast train of employ
ment that follows the enlargement of
the farming Industry, Is creating new
agricultural centers and causing towns
and cities of importance to grow all
along its lines.
An admirable system of agricultur
al instruction has been developed
through the efforts of the Dominion
government and the various provin
cial Departments of Agriculture. This
forms part of the educational system
of Western Canada and Is doing much
for all branches of agriculture. Ex
perimental farms have been estate
lished at various points in the prov
inces, which have done wonders in de
veloping improved methods of farm
ing^ *
The result has been a great awaken
ing to the necessity of better methods
of tillage, scientific stock raising and
dairying. Farmers are beginning to
realize that to get what they are en
titled to out of the lahd, they must
adopt scientific methods, and as a re- i
suit, careful seed selection, proper ro- ]
tatlon and summer fallow Is the order
of the day. Under the favorable con
ditions generally anticipated, prospects
point to an all round Increase in pro
duction that will leave a great deal
of money In the hands of the western
farmer this year, and prosperity for
Western Canada as a whole. It will be
years before Europe will make up ar
rears In agricultural production,
caused by the enforced Idleness and
wholesale destruction, and Western
Canada will play a big part In filling
the void.
The result of the contlhued shortage
in cattle, ttfe future price of beef and
the solution of'ffie perplexing problem
of- feeding the world are vital ques
tions .uppermost in the ifllnds of many
thinking people todny.
There is no doubt that the wide
acres of Western Canada can, and will,
be made to play an Important part in
bringing about a proper balance In
supply and demand. In the northern
parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan
nnd In Alberta are many thousands
of acres of the richest pasture In the
world, well watered and treated by the
sunniest of climates. These rolling
hills for the greater part are still un
peopled and untrodden by the hoofs
of domestic animals.
One of the causes assigned for the
decline In stock-raising is tne reduc
tion in the areas available for grazing
on account of so many big ranches be
ing converted into farms. Experi
ments conducted at Vermilion, Al
berta, would rather go to show that
the old grazing grounds were too large,
and that tfie feeding is really better
when the animal Is Confined to a com
paratively limited area, providing the
pasturage Is of the tight kind and
there Is plenty of water.—Advertise
ment. »
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1 Why Swift & Company Handle ||....
I Poultry, Eggs, Butter and Cheese ? 1
Swift & Company went into the pro
\ duce business because they saw a |n
| crying need for the kind of service they
I I were equipped to perform. ;i ||
The produce business was in chaos. j
II Collecting, transportation, preparation
| I and distribution was hit "dr miss,
with delay, deterioration and loss on
|!| every hand.
The farmer was at the mercy of an
j | uncertain, localized market He had
no way of reaching through to the j |
j! people who needed what he was
. raising for them. There was no prem- H
I ium upon improving his stocks, for
| grading was lax or lacking. I H
The consumer had to accept produce |f
that, as a rule, had no known respon
sible name behind it. He had no way
of knowing how long the eggs or the
butter he was buying had been lying
around in miscellaneous lots in the back j U
room of a country store. Much of the I j!
poultry was not properly refrigerated
before shipment or properly protected
by refrigeration in transit.
1|| Swift & Company’s initiative brought ||
system to this chaos. Their organiza
tion, equipment, and experience in |||n|
handling perishable food products were
\'( already adjusted to the task. Their ! j||
refrigerator cars, branch houses, cen
tral points, far-reaching connections,
I I trained sales force, supplied just what
y was demanded. |1||
111 J Now the farmer has a daily cash ;
market in touch with the nation’s J
needs with better prices. Standards
zation makes better produce more ||§t
v. profitable. More consumers are served Hi
with better, fresher, finer foodstuffs. ^
Nothing suffers from this save •
inefficiency, which has no claim upon I
j; - public support. . . 1
Hi Swift & Company, U. S.A. Wm
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| 4 THEIR INTERESTS MUTUAL. 4
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4 From Canadian Family Herald. 4
4 Eastern Canada may as well 4
4 realise first as last that It has no 4
4 quarrel against the west. Both 4
4 stomach and lungs are necessary to 4
4 the body physical, and as the slave 4
4 .Esop taught the world, when 4
4 farmers and manufacturers threat- 4
4 ened one another 2,400 years ago. 4
4 any difference between them 4
4 threatens ruin to all concerned. 4
4 Farm and factory are mutually 4
4 necessary to the circulation of the 4
4 national life. The farmers' claim 4
4 for fair trade is reasonable, and 4
4 will have to be regarded. Our 4
4 agricultural industry is large and 4
4 Important enough for manufac- 4
4 turers to cater for, and, If they 4
4 ask for more than a fair field and 4
4 no favors In competitive markets 4
4 at this late day, they should not 4
4 hope to obtain It at the expense 4
4 of the farmers. The spirit of the 4
4 age Is against class distinction. 4
4 and It will be a mistake to allow 4
4 anything, even remotely resem- 4
4 oilri|' that, to appear among us, 4
4 Just at this moment when our 4
4 thoughts are all directed towards 4
4 the firm foundation of peace on 4
4 the earth. 4
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Ambition.
Ambition’s needed In your game If
you would win success or fame. The
gent without it seems a clod, content
his treadmill way to plod, while men
who have the splendid spur All all the
air with smoke and fur. Ambition,
when It's safe and sane, controlled by
wisdom's curb and rein, is necessary
to the guy who hopes to reach the
places high. But if you say, ‘TU never
stop until I reach the gleaming top, re
gardless always of the rights of other
hopeful striving wights," perhaps you’ll
reach the top and then discover you’re
abhorred of men. I’d build mud fences
all my days before I’d tread the higher
ways, and hear some delegates ex
claim: "He never, played an honest
game. To push himself to higher rank
he’d rob his granny's savings bank.
To gain a foot on other men. he’d swipe
his mother’s setting hen. His thoughts
are always of himself; to gain re
nown or gather pelf he'd push a cripple
from the road, or touch a poet for his
ode.” In Holland there’s a lonely
skate who hoped to be supremely
great; the rights of men he laughed
to scorn, and trod upon the nearest
corn. What mattered It If legions died,
so he increased his pomp and pride?
And now he sits in shadows gray, and
swats cockroaches all the day. His
fate’s a-lesson to us all, the fat, the
lean, the short, the tall.
In French and In English.
From the Spokane Spokesman-Review.
An amusing verbal war has arisen over
the propriety, meaning and extent of the
French phrase. "Mon Dleu!” No two
Interpreters appear to be able to agree.
The phrase in English would be "My
God!” but the shades of association con
nected with the French form nnd with
the English form differ so broadly that
exactly equivalent expressions and usages
of the phrase are difficult to reach. In
French It may be an Innocent exclama
tion, but In English speakdtig lands It
may be flat blasphemy. The variance
seems to spring from the varying reli
gious experiences of France and England
'after the Protestant reformation. Jn me
dieval Europe the presence and action of
God in the religious plays habituated the
populace to speak of Him qpith famil
iarly, and the sense of reverence for His
name grew faint. In England, however,
on account of the Influence of Puritan
ism and then or .Methodism, a great rev
erence for Hig'name arose, and use of
tho term "My God!” became distasteful
to fine natures. But "Mon Illeu!” some
how sounds Inoffensive.
An Irish Tribute.
From tho Outlook.
It is not often that a military command
perpetrates a pun. A veritable pun, how
ever, has been imprinted on the helmets
Bnd motor trucks of the American 27th
division. A recent number of the Gas
Attack shown a device in which a num
ber of stars are so arranged as to corre
spond with the constellation Orion. Now,
as every ono knows, the gallant and
efficient commander or that division is
General O'ltyan. The :doa Is clever, and
perhaps a bit humorous. Certainly Gen
eral O'Hyan has proved himself a military
star, and the 27tli division in its capture
of Mont Kemmel and its thrust through
the Hindenburg line south of Cambrai
Is truly entitled to be considered ''some"
constellation.
Fine Needles for Drooms.
From tho Scientific American.
It has recently been discovered that
the leaves of the pine make a very fair
substitute for bristles in the making of
brushes and brooms. These are to he
found in huge quantities on the ground
in fir forests, and owing to the large
amount of silica in them they are hard
and do not decay rapidly.
Some elaborate tests have shown that
the pine needles wear very well indeed.
They are not more easily broken than
much of the material which has been
commonly used in broom making, and
owing to tlielr hardness they -can with--,
stand a great deal of friction. Vast quan
tities of pine needles can he collected for
nothing wherever the trees abound.
Let There Be Light!
Black with the blackness of hell and
despair
Vlllago and village and village lay there;
Never a candle and never a lamp—
Four hundred miles of the enemies' camp.
Trains of munitions that creak with theit
loads,
Supplies, horses, soldiers engulfed by the
roads;
An ambulance crawling, a password, and
then
Through the Bhcll shattered houses the
marching of men. •
Black with the blackness of wounds and
of death
The villages huddled there holding their
breath;
Black—till there rang thle new order <0
"Cease—
It Is over—all over—the i—ik.-ce Is
peace!”
Come dance on the ruins—Look, No Man's
Land there,
"Verbotcn" for years. Is a world's thor
oughfare;
And village and village, remember the
night.
But tu»n It to day—and let there be
light.
The sorrow unburied, destruction—how
much!
Four hundred long miles for the taper
to touch!
The shades are undrawn, the lamps shin
ing bright;
It Is dawn in the darkness; again there
is light!
—Ruth Wright Kauffman, in the lied
Cross Magazine.
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FOR ALL FORM* OF CATARRH.
Peruna 1s Indicated for all forms
of catarrh or catarrhal inflammation
and congestion of the mucous lin
ings In any part or organ, such as
nose, throat, bronchial tubes, lungs,
stomach, bowels, kidneys, bladder,
etc. It Is fine for coughs, colds and
effects of the grip and an excellent
preventive remedy.
If you want health, Insist upon
having Dr. Hartman's World Fa
mous Peruna Tonic.
8old Everywhere.
WRITE FOR THIS BOOK.
AO sick and suffering should
writ* The Peruna Company. Dept.
K-82, Columbus, Ohio, for Dr. Hart
man's ^ Health Book. The book Is
free and contains perhaps Just the
Information you are seeking. It is
sent In a plain wrapper to any ad
dress.
DO IT TODAY.
IN LIQUID OR TABLET FORM.
I Ask your dealer for a Peruna
[ Almanac.
INFLUENZA tszSXSss- .
,l11 *"* mm m * m Fover, Epizootic
And all disease* of the horse affecting his throat speedily
cured; colts and horsea In the same stable kept from hav
ing them by using SPOHN’8 COMPOITNU. 8 to 6 doaes of
ten cure. Safe for brood mares, baby colts, stallions, all
ages and conditions. Most skillful scientific compound,
spoil VS Is sold by your druggist.
SPOON HDDICAL CO., llfra, Goshen, lot
Mind-Reading.
Mistress—“Bridget, you linve been
eating onions.” Brlget— “Shure,
mum, an’ it’s n molml reader ye nre.”
GREEN’S AUGUST FLOWER
Has been used for ail ailments that
are caused by a disordered stomach
and Inactive liver, such as sick head
ache, constipation, sour stomach,
nervous Indigestion, fermentation of
food, palpltntlon of the heart caused by
gases in the stomach. August Flower
is gentle laxative, regulates digestion
1)oth in stomach and Intestines, deans
and sweetens the stomnch and allmien
tary canal, stimulates the liver to se
crete the Jdte'ftfid' impurities from the
blood. ^Cbld in all civilized countries.
Give it a trial.—Adv.
Its Description.
“This 1r n tine building. Isn’t it?”
“It could hardly be anything other
wise when it's a police court I"
RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR.
To hajf p'nt of water add 1 ®». Buy Rum
s smalf box of Barbo Compound, and H
ox. of glycerine. Any druggist can put this
up or you can mix it at home at very lit
tle cost. Full directions for making and
use come in each box of Barbo Compound.
It will gradually darken streaked, faded
gray hair, and make it soft and glossy. It
will not color the scalp, is not sticky or
greasy, and doea not rub off.—Adv.
I>on't put in too much time standing
on dignity or riding a hobby.
v Headaches, unions Attacks, Indigestion, are
enred by taking Msy Apple, Aloe. Jalnp loads
Into Pleasant Pellets (Dr. Plcrce’sk. Adr.
Nothing lakes I be glitter off a lux
ury like possessing it.
In a Restaurant.
"Walter, this stuff Isn’t fit for a Iso*
to eat.” s
“Well, we didn't expert one to (lin
uer.”
■tat* of Ohio, City of Toledo, Iaicaa
County—s*.
Frank J. Cheney make* oath that be la
senior partner of the firm of F. J- Cheney
*k Co., doing business In the City of To
ledo, County and State nforesaid, and that
aald Arm will pay the sum of ONE HUN
DRED DOLLARS for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use of
I HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE,
! FRANK J. CHENEY,
■worn to before me and subscribed la
my presence, this 8th day of December,
(Seat) A. W. (Reason. Notary Public.
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE Is tak
en Internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surface* of the System.
Druggists, 75c. Testimonials free.
P. J. Cheney * Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Hurd coni, stove slxe, runs nbout .TO
pounds per ruble font.
Don’t trifle villi a cold
—it’s dangerous.
You can t afioeJ to risk
Influenza. j
Keep always at hand
box of
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CASCARAE? QUININE
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! Standard cold remedy for SO year-—in tablet
; form—safe, ture, no opiates—breal - op u rokl
I in M hours—relieves grip in 3 days. Money
I beck if it fails. The genuine Box has a Pol top
With Mr. Hill’s picture. At All Dru Poets.
SIOUX CITY PTG. CO., NO. 8-191S,
Those painful attacks ot indiges
tion, heart-burn, belching, disgusting
food-repeating; that putty bloated,
lumpy feeling after eating, dys
pepsia and stomach- miseries — all
point to Just one awful American
disease—commonly known as ACID
STOMACH.
Fortunately there has been discov
ered a wonderful modern remedy—
called EATON1U—that bongs instant
relief from all these stomach miseries
because it absorbs the hurtful excess
acid in the stomach and drives out the
bloat and gas. You won't know you
have a stomach, so free of pain you’ll
feci. Besides, it saves you from more
serious ailments because it is a scien
tific fact that ACID-STOMACH fre
quently creates conditions which baffle
the best medical skill. Many eases of
chronic stomach trouble, biliousness,
severe headache, general weakness,
rheumatism, gout, lumbago, intestinal
nicer, cancer of the etomaeh, heart
pains and men bean failure can
traced directly to Acid-Stomaeh.
Avoid these dangers—don’t let acid*
stomach wreck yonr health. Don’t
drag out yonr days feeling all in,down
and out, weak and ailing. Keep the
vital spark flashing. Eat the things
von like and digest your food In com
fort. Then you’ll fool fine—be fit—
mentally alert—have pep and punch
—the power and will to ao dungs.
Take EATONIO and give year
stomach the help to pat It in a fine,
health/ condition so that It will digest
yonr food perfectly and make every
mootbtnl yon eat register 100ft in en
riching yonr blood and building up
yonr bodily strength.
Get a big box of EATONIO TAB
LETS from your druggist today. They
taste good—lust like a bit of candy.
The cost ie trifling. It is absolutely
guaranteed. If it iaile to relieve poor
stomach misery, your druggist will
refund your money.
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