Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 60, Number 2, Jasper, Dubois County, 14 September 1917 — Page 3

BIG CROPS II WESTERN CANADA

Good Yields of Wheat, Splendid Production of Pork, Beef, Mutton and Wool. The latest reports give an assurance of good grain crops throughout most of Western Canada, where the wheat, oats and barley are now being harvested, about ten days earlier than last year. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta are all "doing their bit" In a noble way towards furnishing food for the allies. While the total yield of wheat will not be as heavy as In 1915, there are Indications that it will be an average crop in most of the districts. A letter received at the St. Paul office of the Canadian Government, from a farmer near Delia, Alberta, says harrest in that district is one moitth earlier than last year. His wheat crop Is estimated at 35 bushels per acre, while some of his neighbors will have more. The average In the district will be about 30 bushels per acre. Now, with the price of wheat In the neighborhood of $2 per bushel, it is safe to say that there will be very few farmers but will be able to bank from forty to fifty dollars per acre after paying all ejpenses of seeding, harvesting and threshing, as well as taxes. The price of land in this district is from $25 to $30 per acre. What may be said of this district will apply to almost any other In Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta. Many farmers have gone to Western Canada from the United States in the past three or four years, who having purchased lands, had the pleasure of completing the payments before they were due. They have made the money out of their crops during the past couple of 3ears, and if they are as successful in the future as in the past they will have put themselves and their families beyond all possibility of lack of money for the rest of their lives. It Is not only in wheat that the farmers of Western Canada are making money. Their hogs hate brought them wealth, and hogs are easy to raise there barley is plentiful and grass abundant, and the climate just the kind that hogs glory in. The price Is good and likely to remain so for a long time. A few days since a farmer from Daysland, Alberta, shipped a carload of hogs to the St. Paul market, and got a higher price than was ever before paid on that market. Two million three hundred and seventy-seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars was received at Winnipeg for Western hogs during the first six months of this year. 181,575 hogs were sold at an average price of 515 per cwt., and had an averags weight of 200 pounds each. The raising of hogs is a profitable and continually growing Industry of Western Canada, and this class of stock is raised as economically here as anywhere on the North American continent. There is practically no hog disease, and immense quantities of food can be produced cheaply. It has been told for years that the grasses of Western Canada supply to both beef and milk producers the nutritive properties that go to the development of both branches. The stories that are now being published by dairymen and beef cattle men verify all the predictions that have ever been made regarding the country's Importance in the raising of both beef and dairy cattle. The sheep Industry is developing rapidly. At a sale at Calgary 151,453 pounds of wool were disposed of at sixty cents a pound. At a sale at Edmonton 60,000 pounds were sold at even better prices than those paid at Calgary. The total clip this season will probably approximate two million pounds. Many reports are to hand showing from six to eight pounds per fleece. 35 carloads were sent to tfio Toronto market alone. Advertisement. Not What She Thought. Horace There Is something I've been trying to tell you for a long time, but Marie Oh, Horace, not here before all these people. Walt. Come this evening. Horace It's merely that you have a streak of dirt down the middle of your nose, but I couldn't for the life of me get a word In till just now." YOU MAY TRY CUTICURA FREE Thafs the Rule Free Samples to Anyone Anywhere. We have so much confidence in the wonderful soothing and healing properties of Cuticura Ointment for all skin troubles supplemented by hot baths with Cuticura Soap that we are reads' to send samples on request. They are ideal for the toilet. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. Ly Boston. Sold everywhere. Adv. To the victors belong the privilege of lighting over the epulis. Reduce cost of living by using Alice Pork and Beans. Adv. A good start has all the requirements of a bad finish. When Your Ey? Try Murine No Smarting J nst Drsfffist or taxll. MUKKNE JCYKKE

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STORING POTATO CROPlCLEAN 6RAIN BINS annually

Production of Country Placed at 452,000,000 Bushels. Necessary to Begin Preparation of Crop for Storage Before It Is Matured Suggestion by Missouri Expert. Farmers of the country have done their share in increasing the production of one crop at least. The United States department of agriculture, in the bureau of crop estimates report for July, estimated the potato production of the country at 452,000,000 bushels. The production last year was estimated in December at 2S5,437,000 bushels. This is an increase of more than 58 per cent. Now that the potatoes have been produced it is necessary to preserve them for use until next year's crop is harvested. W. H. Lawrence of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture offers the following suggestions for storing the potatoes. It is necessary to begin preparation of the crop for storage before it is matured. 1. Examine the fields while the plants are still green. If any diseased plants are found or if any plants show evidence that the tubers are diseased they should bo destroyed immediately. The diseased tubers are the ones which cause trouble in storage. They not only rot, but they transmit the disease to adjoining potatoes and cause them to rot also. 2. Delay harvest until the tops die. This Indicates that the potatoes have matured as fully as they will. 3. Avoid bruising the tubers or breaking the skins. Potatoes injured thus decay rapidly in storage and usually cause adjacent potatoes to decay. 4. After the potatoes are dug they should be allowed to dry slightly, which will toughen the skins and eliminate excess surface moisture. 5. Sort out all bruised, diseased,, or otherwise damaged potatoes before attempting to store the crop. G. Cold storage offers the safest means for holding potatoes. The temperature of the cold storage room should be 40 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit when the potatoes are placed in it. During the next four to six weeks the temperature should be reduced to about 35 degrees. 7. If cold storage is not available, pitting or banking is the next best method of preserving the potatoes. Select a high place in the field which will afford surface drainage of rainfall. If possible, locate the pit near a tree or other shelter where it will be shaded during the hot hours of the day. Scoop out several inches of soil, down to solid earth, from an area large enough to receive the potatoes. Add a layer of potatoes about one foot deep each day, preferably during early morning when the temperature of the tubers is low. Keep the pit covered from day to day with a tarpaulin or blanket to exclude dew or rain. The potatoes should not be piled more than four to six feet high. When the pit is finished it should be covered with a layer of straw deep enough to exclude light and heat. Weight the straw with boards to prevent the wind from blowing it away. .An opening should be left at the top to provide ventilation and to permit the escape of excess moisture and heat from the pile of potatoes. It is also advisable to cover the pit with a temporary shed that will turn rain. If the location is such that surface water will not drain away readily, dig a shallow ditch around the pit to provide an outlet so that the water which runs Into it can escape. 8. The pit must be covered with earth before freezing weather. About 12 inches of soil will be necessary to protect the potatoes. This soil should be placed on top of the straw. Mr. Lawrence says that he has found that well-matured potatoes harvested in August and carefully handled according to the foregoing suggestions will keep until midwinter or later with very little loss. FOR REPAIRING WIRE FENCE Contrivance Made of Two Pieces of Hardwood, Four Feet Long, Makes Hard Job Easy. "When a wire is snapped in a panel of barbed wire or smooth wire fence it is a hard job to repair the break because it is very difiicult to get the ends together and hold them there until they can be made fast. This device Repairing Wire Fence. will help. It is a contrivance made of two pieces of hardwood 4 feet long, firmly bolted together at the point marked "A." At "BB" there are clamps to hold the wire. When the ends of the broken wire have been caught and fastened firmly in the clamps the two ends can be brought together. With the rächet at "C" they may be held together until they have been spliced. This will not only repair the break quickly, but it win prevent much tearing of clothing and ukinning of the hands.

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Most of the Injury D--r.a by Insects Can Be Prevented Spray With ' Kerosene Emulsion.

By cleaning bins carefully each year! before a new crop is placed in them,; most of the injury due to stored-grain; insects can be prevented. A million1 dollars more might be saved annually in Ohio if these pests were destroyed. After the grain bins are swept out, they should be sprayed thoroughly with 10 per cent kerosene emulsion. This destroys the eggs and insects that otherwise would infest the new crop. The bins will be ready for the new grain within a week after treatment. About 284,000,000 bushels of corn, oats and wheat were produced in Ohio in 1916, according to the year book of the United States department of agriculture. A conservative estimate made by entomologists of the Ohio agricultural experiment station is one-half of 1 per cent injured. his makes the annual damage ar ount to approximately a million dollars for this state alone from insect depredations in stored grain. Several beetles, weevils and moths infest cereals and other stored products. Many of these insects are also accompanied by mites. USEFUL FEED PEN FOR PIGS Large Hogs and Chickens Are Prevented From Getting Food Intended for Young Animals. I will send you a diagram of a handy pig pen to keep chickens and large hogs from eating with pigs, says a writer in Southern Agriculturist. Feed Pen for Pigs. First, plant four posts, then box up pen with plank and cover over with plank or strips. Cut a hole out of one' side of pen about 6 by 8 inches, then hang a swing door to top of hole with leather for hinges, so pigs can push the door either in or out. ft dwelling, a room may be parjjj titioned off either in. one corner S or at one end of the cellar, A ft where the temperature may De ft A controlled by means of outside A A windows. A J Barrels, crates, boxes or bins, J may be used as containers for the various vegetables, but movJ able containers are preferable to built-in bins, as it is possible A to remove them for cleaning. It K is advisable to construct shelves $ or a slat floor to keep the crates, J A hnroc ho cl.-oto nnrl rt Ihnr rnn A boxes, baskets, and other con- W j . V the containers from harboring RENEW THIN PASTURE SPOTS Little Seed Scattered Over Weak Places Every Spring and Then Harrowed Will Aid Greatly. There are weak spots in almost all pasture fields which do well when reseeded. A little seed scattered every spring over these thin spots and harrowed in with the harrow teeth set at a slant of about 40 degrees, will help these spots greatly. A top dressing of fine stable manure has a stimulating effect on such retarded grasses. It is unreasonable to think that pasture land will produce profitable pasturage om year to year without anything to rejuvenate it. Pasture land needs renewing as well as other farm land. APPLY MANURE TO PASTURES If Not Convenient to Haul It Out to Fields for Crop, Broadcast It Where Needed. There is always a place for the stable and lot manure on the farm. The pastures need il as well as the crops, and if it is not convenient to haul it out to the fields for a crop, broadcast it over the pasture. The pastures, to be at their best, need fertilizers as well as crops. Farmers who have but a small pasture can well afford to use liberal applications of manure on tliem, and so make the pastures produce more grazing. In this way less grain will be needed to make the cows give a steady flow of milk.

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SAVE LATE VEGETABLES $ A cool, well-ventilated cellar $ under the dwelling offers good $ conditions for the storage of j J late vegetables. In cellars that J are too warm on account of conA taining a furnace for heating the J

ft tamers on: the ground. Tins is J highly desirable to insure a free $ circulation of air and to prevent $

mice, rats anu vermin, diieives v for canned goods along one side A of the room need not be more W than 6 inches wide. Send for Farmers' Bulletins $ S47 and 879, United States De- $ partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. These give free A V of charge full information re- M A gar ding storing. Ji

BOARDS ARE MORE EFFICIENT

This Is Explanation Given by British Officer of Acceptance for Service of Men Once Rejected. In a recent investigation by a committee from the house of commons, Gen. Sir Alfred Keogh, director general of the British army medical service, declared that while the department had been laboring under difficulties imposed by the lack of experienced army examiners, he was aware of no irregularities in the examination of men under the military service (review of oxceptions) act. "When the war broke out men were taken for medical examination to local practitioners, who could not possibly know the requirements of the service," he said, "and the consequence was that a large number of men was recruited whom the authorities would not have thought of considering in peace times." With such a corps of examiners, Sir Alfred declared, it was impossible to attain a common standard, and this explained the fac- that frequently men rejected by one mrö. were accepted by another. "'Many men were passed who ought not to have been passed," he admitted, "but, on the other hand, a great number of men wTere rejected who ought to have been passed under the category system. It was very difiicult to get the medical practitioners to understand that a man who could do anything in civil life could do that thing in the army." The fact that the proportion of men. passed by later boards, after having been rejected by examiners at the beginning of the war, steadily has increased during the war, Sir Alfred attributed to the increased efficiency of the boards, but vehemently denied that there had been any lowering of the standard for acceptance. RUSSIA CLOSE TO ENGLAND Foundation for Intimate Relationship Laid by Royal Marriage in the Eleventh Century. Does Elihu Root know Russian? By no means. But the" knowledge of English is so widespread among the educated classes of Russia that we begin to understand the reports about the enthusiastic reception of our ambassador's eloquent address by his audiences In Petrograd and Moscow, says an exchange. There is not a notable play or novel produced in London which Is not acted or read in Russia. The Russian intellegenzia knows not only French and German, but also English history and literature thoroughly. Glytha, the daughter of King Harold who was slain at Hastings (1066), through her marriage with the Russian Prince of- Tchernlgoff laid the first foundation to the close relationship between Great Britain and the empire of the czars. The real English "discoverer" of Russia is, of course, Richard Chancellor, who, through his voyage to Moscow in 1553, established solid commercial Connections between the two countries. And why should we not be reminded, on this occasion, of the interestingfact that Peter the Great's mother was brought up in a Scottish household? What One Knot Faster Would Mean. "For every soldier that we land in France," says the Scientific American, "25 tons of shipping must plow back and forth at a steady ten knots to supply his needs alone. For 25.000 men this means 100 ships a number that we would be hard pressed to find. And this means curtailment of the vital supplies to our allies. "Now, could the average speed of this fleet be raised to 11 knots and could the time in port be reduced 10 per cent, we could release for other service some 60,000 tons of shipping. In other words, we could create immediately that amount of extra tonnage and add it to our merchant marine, not in 1918 but today. And today may be the day, the real 'Day the day the balance will spring." Argentine's Wheat Crop. Reports from the Argentine state that weather conditions are ideal for the growth of wheat. The official preliminary estimate is for a crop of 240,000,000 bushels. The large crop of 1915-16 was 173,000,000 bushels, and the average for the five preceding years was 149,000,000 bushels. Domestic requirements are about 70,000,000 bushels. The large crop now growing will be available some time after January 1 if transportation is furnished. The Argentine oats crops is estimated at 88,000,000 bushels, or 12,000,000 bushels more than the crop of 1915, of which 57,000,000 bushels were exported. Airing Their French. "We are all airing our French, now we are France's ally," said Robert W. Chambers, the New York novelist. "A man and his wife were seeing a friend off for France the other day. " 'Bon voyage !' said the lady. 4Bon voyage V " 'Yes,' said her husband, bon voyage, old fellow, and let me add, a pleasant journey to you I' " Taking a Mean Advantage. "Why do you nag your illustrious husband all the time?" they asked Xantippe. "He's so highbrow he makes me Sick," she snorted in disgust. "He is a ver.y highly educated man," they told her. "That's what gets me sore. Just when I think I've said the last word, he goes ahead and invents a new one T

Fatal Defect. "How does that new question department work?" "It won't answer."

Alice Pork and Beans.' Richer, better flavor and higher in food value than common tinned beans. Adv. Some clubs cause scolding wives and some scolding wives cause clubs. Beautiful, clear white clothes delights the laundress who uses Red Cross Ball Blue. All grocers. Adv. He who knows a woman has solved a great mystery.

Feed the Fighters ! Win the War ! ! Harvest the Crops Save the Yields On the battle fields of France and Flanders, the United States boys and the Canadian boys are fighting side by side to win for the World the freedom that Prassianism would destroy. While doing this they must be fed and every ounce of muscle that can be requisitioned must go into use to save this year's crop. A short harvest period requires the combined forces of the two countries in team work, such as the soldier boys in France and Flanders are demonstrating. Tht Combined Fighters In France and Flanders and the Combined Harvesters in America WILL Bring the Allied Victory Nearer. A reciprocal arrangement for the use of farm workers has been perfected between the Department of the Interior of Canada and the Departments of Labor and Agriculture of the United States, under which it is proposed to permit the harvesters that are now engaged in the wheat fields of Oklahoma. Kansas, Iowa, North Dakota. South Dakota. Nebraska. Minnesota and Wisconsin to move over into Canada, with the privilege of later returning to the United States, when the crops in the United States have been conserved, and help to save the enormous crops in Canada which by that time will be ready for harvesting. HELP YOUR CANADIAN NEIGHBOURS WHEN YOUR OWN CROP IS HARVESTED ! ! I Canada Wants 40 OOO Harvest Hands to Take Care of Its 13,000,000 ACRE WHEAT FIELD. One cent a mile railway fare from the International boundary line to destination and the samt rate returning to the International Boundary. High Wages, Good Board, Comfortable Lodgings. An Identification Card issued at the boundary by a Canadian Immigration Officer will guarantee no trouble in returning to the United States. AS SOON AS YOUR OWN HARVEST IS SAVED, move northward and assist your Canadian neighbour in harvesting his; in thiä way do your bit in helping "Win the War". For particulars as to routes, identification cards and place "where employment may be had, apply to Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to J. M. MacLachUn, 215 Tracflon-Termin&I Bullding, Indianapolis, Indiana Canadian Government Agent.

The Test. "How shall I know whether or not I love a girl well enough to marry her?" "Well, my boy, imagine her on a hot, sticky day, bending over a washtub, scrubbing your underclothes as your mother used to do. Picture her, as you enter, stopping her work and wiping the perspiration from her face with the corner of her apron. If you ffeel that you would still care to kiss her; that she'd still look as good to you as she does in her party togs, go right ahead and marry her. She's the girl." YES! LIFT A CORN OFF WITHOUT PAIN! 1 T Cincinnati man tells how to dry up a corn or callus so it lifts off with fingers. i T J You corn-pestered men and women need suffer no longer. Wear the shoes that nearly killed you before, says this Cincinnati authority, because a few drops of freezone applied directly on a tender, aching corn or callus, stops soreness at once and soon the corn or hardened callus loosens so it can be lifted off, root and all, without pain. A small bottle of freezone costs very little at any drug store, but will positively take off every hard or soft corn or callus. This should be tried, as it Is Inexpensive and is said not to irritate the surrounding skin. If your druggist hasn't any freezone tell him to get a small bottle for you from his wholesale drug house. adv. His Plea. A negro who was well-known to the judge had been haled into court on a charge of having struck a relative ; nl41i o VvTlrtT- -P4-ty -flirt liDiinl T-wnW T l I inaries, says Everybody's Magazine, the court inquired : "Why did you hit this man?" "Jedge, he called me a black rascal." Well, you are one, aren't you?" lressah, maybe I Is one. But, jedge, s'pose some one should call you a j black rascal, wouldn't you hit em?" ! i in., i. -r i- Tll) I JDUL J. ui nut uul", hiu x; "Naw, sah, naw, sah, you ain't oner but s'pose some one'd call you de kind of rascal you is, what'd you do?" Black-Cat Luck. A certain resident in a country suburb, says the Guardian, makes a point of keeping open the doors and windows of his house. As he sat in one of his breezy rooms the other evening, waiting for dinner, his wife came in from the kitchen. "We've just had a visit from a black cat," she said. "Ah," he replied, "that's good. Black cats are lucky, you know." "Yes," answered his wife, who dislikes cats, "this one was certainly lucky. It has rim off with the cod steak I was just going to cook for Considering. "Do you believe a wife is justified In taking money from her husband's pocket?" "Certainly, if he Is careless enough to leave any there." On 'Wheatless Days Eat POSTT0ASTIES (Made Corn) cays 4t(dr

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W. N. U., Indianapolis, No. 36-1917. Quite So. "We may live to see the airplane in common, everyday use like the automobile." "Sure ! But our chances of living to see that will be better if we leave tho experimenting to other people." A Wonderful Discovery. Because Soja Beans are so much richer than Navy Beans folks have been trying for years to prepare them properly for. the table. But it was never done until the Dyer Packing Company discovered how. Alice Pork and Beans are part Navy and part Soja. The combination Is delicious and digestible and makes a splendid satisfying food at less cost. All grocers. Ad v. To be found in bad company is often equivalent to being lost. Getting Old Too Fast? Late in life the body shows signs of wear and often the kidneys weaken first. The back is lame, bent and achy, and the kidne3r action distressing. This makes people feel older than they are. Don't wait for dropsy, gravel, hardening of the arteries or Bright's disease. Use a mild kidney stimulant. Try Doan's Kidney Pills. Thousands of elderly folks recommend them. An Indiana Case Mrs. C. A. Mayhew, 1442 N Third St., Logransport, Ind., says: T was bothered by disordered kidneys and my back was weak and achy. When I straightened after stooping-, sharp twinges darted through me and often I got so dizzy, I could hardly stand. I didn't rest well at night and felt worn out. Doan's Kidney Pills rid me of all these troubles." Get Do&n'g at Any Store,. COc a Box DOAN'SAV FOSTER-MILBURN CO.. BUFFALO. N. Y. A GUARANTEED REMEDY FOR HAY FEVER-ASTHMA Tour aoilY will RE ssFDKDRn by yonr üragtftt without any question If this romody does not benefit every case- of Asthma, Bronchial Asthma and ihm Asthmatic symptoms accompanying Day Fever. No matter how violent the attacks or obstinate the caa ADR. R. SGHIFFMANN'S ft STHMADOn AND A8THMADOR CIGARETTES positively glvoa INSTANT RMLIUF In every ca and has permanently cured thousands who bad been considered incurable, after-having tried every other means of relief in vain, Asthmatics shoald avail themselves of this guarantee offer through their own druggist. Buy a 60-cent package and present thla announcement to your druggist. Ton will be tna sole Judge as to whether you are benefitted and tb druggist will give you back your money if you ar not. We do not know of any fairer proposition which we could make. &J R. Schiffmann Co., Proprietors, SI. PtuI, Minn. U.S. SOLDIERS INSURED BY US Most insurance companines discriminate against our Sammies We do not- Senci postal vnth name and date of birth. Rates only one dollar quarterly. AMERICAN TOILERS, 306 City Traxt BWg., IaditazpoU ECZEMA Money buck without question if HUNT'S CURE falls In the treatment of ITCH, ECZEMA, RING WORM.TETTER or other itching: skin diseases. Price 50c at druggists, or direct from iMIeltaris MtllciM Ci. .(tastta Tex. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM toilet preparation of merit. Helps to eradicate d&adrcS. ForRestorkur Celer uul Baautr to Gray or Fded Hair J km. ana fi.ee at uro reis: PATENTS Watson K. Coleman, Patent Uwjer. Washington, Bate reasonable. Highest reference. Beatserrice. Wunted-HntCUM S4k b !-. Gilt odge proposition; coal, salt, chemicals. Security twenty fohl. For particulars writ rt'UJA CO.. CrWu. w.