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rs of the Ontario Agri- Experimental Union state that for 1919 'prepared to distribute into y Township of Ontario material bigh quality for experiments with rain, Fodder Crops,Roots,G asses, Clovers and Alfalfas, as follows. -- r'oF EXPERIMENTS FOR 1919. Grain Crops. Plots esting two varieties of Oats 2 esting O A.C, No. 21 Barley Emmer ....0..c 0 2 a Testing two varieties of Hul- Jess Barley... .. 0 2 4 Tening two varieties Spring heat oJ dai nani Sis 2 5 Testing two varieties Duck wheat... Lula 2 6 Testing three varicties Field §. Peas... ...... 3 A Testing two varieties "Spring ERye iin ae 2 iF Testing three varieties Soy, Saja or Japanese Beans.... 3 ng seven varieties Flint oY : Crops o Testing three varieties Man: gels Loin ii 3 Treat Testing two varieties Sugar Mangels. ..... Waas hay EA 2 12 Testing three varieties Swe- dish Turnips ....... canis 3 13 Testing two varieties Fall | Turnips..... sous 21 14 Testing two Varietios Cairots 2} ForacE, FopbER, SILAGE AND Hay Crops, | 14 Testing the planting of Corn | at six distances in the row... 6] i - 16 Testing three varieties Millet 3 17 Testing two varieties Sorg- | hum. 2 18 Testing Grass Peas and two varieties Vetches 19 Testing Rape, Kale and Field | Cabbage eas iiaiii ines 3 20 Testing three varieties C lover 3 21 Testing two varieties Alfalfa 2 22 Testing four varieties Grasses 4 Curinary Crops, 23 Testing three varieties Field Beans ©... 3 24 Testing two varieties Sweat ! COD ee cv asians aes 2 FERTILIZER EXPRRIMENTS 25 Testing Fertilizers with Rape 51 29 Testing three grain miXtures for Grain production, ... 31 30 Testing three grain mixtures | for Fodder production..... 3] i } i MisCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS. | | The size of each plot is to be two | rods long by one rod wide. i Any person in Ontario may choose | " any one of the experiments for 1919] and apply for the same. The ma. | terial will be furnished in the order in which the applications are re- | ceived, while the supply lasts. Each "applicant should make a sec ond | choice, as the material for the ex-| periment selected as first ch oice | might be exhausted before his ap-| plication is received. All material | will be furnished free of charge to} each applicant, and the produce | will, of course, become the property| of the person who conducts the ex-| periment. Each person applyin g | for an experiment should write his] * name and. address very carefully, | and should give the name of the County in which he lives. C. A. ZAVITZ, Director. Ontario Agricultaral College, Guelph, March, 1919. i THACKERAY 8frs. Ritehic Formed Link With Victorians. A long vista reopens with the news {that Anne Thackeray Ritchie is dead, {| Thackeray's daughter publ first novel, "The Story of E in 1863, the year her father died, and ber last, "Mrs. Dymond," in 4 T1885; so that in time as well as in DAUGHTER. the Victorian era. It may be that these novels, even the most chaming one of all, "Old Kensington," pub- hed in 1873, are little read now; 80, they share the fate of others well worth reading. © No doubt her parentage had some- ing to do with the attenlion Anne keray attracted. in her early : i Yet, though hereditary influ- may be traced in her, she had 4 very distinct gift of her own. Her flowed quietly; they had no dramatic force, but they were H fn characterization and ap- ng in style. Had the great mas- English fiction survived to read pages, he would have taken de- th spirit her work belongs distinetly to | aE TI Fr SREP A SEE 5 H ELI PR rT PIE Arouse and Face the Crisis! HE PEOPLE OF ONTARIO are accustomed to ac. cept their food much the same as they breathe the ale Cb : : ei They read isolated items about food shortage, but such a A 0 thing as this affecting their own dinner table never entors their mind, and it is the responsibility of The Observer to bring home to its readers a realization of the facts, as un- less something is done, in another year, they will not Le reading about the hunger in Belgium but the Linuger in Ontario, 3 The following should be memorized by every reader of Tur OBSERVER. Under the Presidency of Mr. J. W, Woods, a Confer 5 i : o ence of all interested in food production was held in Ta- ~ routo on Monday, May 7. No invention did more to defeat the Hun policy of unrestricted sea murder than that of Lieut. C. D. Burney, of the royal navy. It was he | who hit upon an idea whieh made the German mines which were Bcat- tered broadcast ugeless, and thus sav- ed the lives of hundreds of sailors dnd prevented the loss of a large number of warships, Simplicity itself, the device--which is a secret official patent, apd ig known in the service as the "P.V." Tr "paravane"---consists of a water- plane shaped like a torpedo, having a pair of large flat fins projecting on either side of its body. The tail is fitted with rudders to keep the tor- pedo at any set depth while it is in operation. It is towed overside by a wire rope which runs from the ship's bows out- ward. This wire rope is intended to pick up the mooring ropes of mines and slide them along till they reach the nose of the paravane, where a sharp saw is fixed inside a V-shaped slot, The saw cuts through the mooring rope and allows the mine to float free, when it can be either avoided or destroyed, a8 may be desired. For his wonderful invention, Lieut. Burney has been paid the sum of £30,000 and decorated with various ! honors. --Tit-Bits. A Great Life Saver: | i "Hail, Smiling Horne." Because he wears a smile that won't come off, Sir Robert 8. Horne, the new Minister of Labor is thus 209, 148, 784 4 Lbs known to his friends. He is. one of rts tran patives the big men of the Scottish Bar, 3 y abandoning a large ws in order oe zu of the st 5 me') fond the story of