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ely throughout Can-, ada," the bulletin continues, "com- manrcial production has come to centre ia certain specially favored areas where canning industries have devel oped. * Ontario and British Columbia find 'heir tomato and onion producing induricies profitable, and though po- * tato (rowing is followed on a volumin- ous scale in every province for local - markets, commercial production for export is largely confined to the Mari- time Provinces and British Columbia, which have won high reputations for their products, The present year also sees the ambitious entry of the Prairie Provinces into commercial végetable production, canneries hav- n shipping green vegetables from Vancouver to points as far east jas Toronto and Montreal, though their effect has not been noticed in import trade figures. Arrangements are an- nounced for an improvement in the marketing of British Columbia apples from coast to coast through the estab- lishment of facilities at all chief ectn- tres, to 'which supplies will go day. It would seem as though this might profitably be extended to cover fresh vegetables." erase pe eee. Chicago is planning a 192-mile sub- way, probably so tkere will be some safe way for but the other night a Cali- retaker played "Waiting for ing been established "w¢ Edmonton and Medicine Hat in AlbeMgyg Spectators who braved the rain olay for legdarship. EET = od by producing acreages about them, and the first tomatoes, beans and other vegetables are being processed there this Fall. "While the graeter part of Canadian vegetable production is either con- sumed fresh or cammed locally, there is a stantial export trade carried 0 nin £ vegetables. . Potatoes, of course, constitute the most important item, 'the. Maritime Provinces product being widely and favorably known and British 'Columbia steadily extending its reputation in the same regard. fn the last fiscal year Candda export. od 7,744,960 bushels of potatoes, worth $7,388,906, as compared with 38,319,080 bushels, worth $9,717,425, in the previous year. 'The United States is the big market for this product, taking nearly 65 per cent, of the total, followed by Cuba, I f lished 0 muda, "Of lale years the developed a profitable § FAIR ENGLISH ¢ | ROOTERS see the leading Engiish Old-Fashioned Minia Down where the ferns wave fans and mosses glow, Pink ladyslippers walk the ~ever- Wild lupin takes the road and turns it blue; Cassiope bells remaw their' purple screen, - Indian pipes perform a translucent white, 'Dimming to dove and ebony as they Toadstools stir their bowls with a coppery- light; The Nightshade draws a dusky lilac shade. Sake A tiny bloom puts on her diadem-- A coronet of buds on a coral stem. The hobbing globes are grained in ivory-- And soon they" peer about with a jade-green eye. - She ous her head to the perennial w-- 7 - two-inch, three-eyed queen, _¢ Pipsissewa. Alfred Kreymborg, in "The Lost je Cod Diary." THE WonAn | NEVER LIVED THAT CouL DO MAKE ME Arctic Policemen Patrol 7,500 Miles Canada's Monte} Force on Northern Island Brave Blizzards and 'Fogs CENSUS OF ESKIMOS One Constable Traveled 700 Miles in Forty' Days With Only a Native as Companion Notwithstanding severe weather conditions--blizzard, fog, frost and rain--detachments of the Royal Cana- dian Mounted Police stationed at posts on the islands and mainland in the Eastern Arctic sub-district car-| ried out more than 7,500 miles of® patrol covering the less frequently fis of the Eskimos fWas taken, game { p80d. medical was provided Reports from the 4h necessary. t the police headquarters in Ottawa by the patrol ship Boethic whe nshe returned from her annual trip to these | regions recently. "At Bache Peninsula on Ellesmere Island, the farthest north post, Con- stables E. Anstead, G. T. Makinson and R. R. Garnett spent an adventur- year," says the Canadian Interior rtment, in telling of the vicissi- es of this northern service, "In March, 1928, an attempt was made to enter the interior 0 northern end of the island by Sav Bay and Cannon Fiord to Lake Hazel but it was checked by the dangero condition of a glacier. which barred the way. Glacier Blocking Pass "On March 22, Constable Anstead left with two Eskimos on a patrol to the West Coast which ted until April 30, and accounted fof some 850 miles. The pass from Flagler Fiord to Gretha Bay Fiord, on the West Coast, 18 being slowly blocked by a glacier and Constable Anstead, 'defy- larious detachments were received | ing the alarm of his Eskimos, man- prosperous, with plenty of food; the | aged to squeeze through between the usual census was taken. In this re- precip'tbus foot of the glacier and the gion the caribou were quite numerous, clit whieh constitutes the opposite and wolves were scarce. The journey side df the valley. The space was was marked by a five-day blizzard, barely wide enough for them to pass, | and the weather was so cold that the blocks of ice fell from time to time coal-oil, carried for fuel, froze and and 500 yards of the 'trail was very had to be thawed out by native oil {dangerous, The men worked so hard lamps before it was used. Constable that, though the temperatrre was 30 | Margett's patrol to Home Bay, a mat- degrees below zero, they were bathed ter of fifty-one days between April 12 'in perepiration. From the Western and May '31, accounted for 945 miles. Coast the party visited Axel Heiberg "In this area, too, the natives were Island, crossed Norwegian Bay to prosperous. Graham and Buckingham lIslands,| "Weather was unfavorable for long skirted North Kent Island, and spent: #-land was established during the Win- HER PLAY WAS RAIDED was arrested in New York with en- tire cast for producing it. She was An that sort of trouble before. ee ---------------------------- aggregating 1,700 miles. One of the men, Constable G. J. M. Curleigh, patrolled to Cape Mercy and remain ed there for some time hunting. He also made a journey with one Eskimo companion along the southeastern coast to Cornell Grinnell Bay. A shortage of dog feed and frequently severe storms made this trip a trying one. The party was asbent forty- five days and covered 640 miles. on the southern coast of Baffin Is ter of 1927-28 by Sergeant J. H. F. Wight, with Constable P. Dersch. The buildings - were begun while the, Beothic was in the harbor on last Summer's patrol. After she left, the rain was incessant and it was six weeks before the policemen could go on with the work. As all the dogs had died in an epidemic, compara. tively little patrol work was done. The total mileage was about 500. "At Port Burwell, at the entrance to Hudson Strait on the mainland, Corporal H. G. Nichols and Constable 8. R. Montague were sationed. All of the native families along Ungava Bay were visited and their health was reported as exceptionally good. "The police posts received instruc- tions from Ottawa by radio and re- ception varled considerably. At Bache Peninsula, within 700 miles of the North Pole, it was fair; at Dun- das Harbor and Pond Inlet it was good, and at Pangnirtung it was on the whole poor." some time in the Bjorne Peninsula on the return journey to the coast. In the last-named locality at a point about 200 feet above sea level severhl outcroppings of soft coal were found. "Constable Makinson made some in- teresting gegigraphical discoveries dur from the Bache Peninusla | Bast Coast of Ellesmere ' Harbor on the South- g< and westward to Starnes Hé waa _at€companied by one [and 1 dition to visiting an WEY [sland east of Cape Dun- erville, on which he noticed remains pf native igloes, he found and ex- ored a large flord north of Clarence | Heh { Island ern enstable Makinson follow- ed; discovered first a arg, SERIE gouthwest, and. then a fijird two miles wide, "Avféiand in the { middle of the bay made 'the flord cult to notice from seaward. He ice,} #0 explored some fifty miles up the fiokd and its branches. The party 1 w bsent from the coast for forty ey 4% covered 700 miles. limbs Frozen Waterfall "From Pond Inlet, at the northern end of Baffin Island, Inspector C. E. THIS AIRSHIP PROPELLED BY COMPRESSED AIR A new type exhibited at the International Air Exhibition in Berlin. revolving propeller is fitted into its nose. > Wilcox made a patrol of 900 miles to Fury and Hecla Strait; Constable S. patrols on Devon Island in the vicin- H. G. Margetts aggregated nearly 1,300 ity of Dundas Harbor. However, two bmilles during three patrols to Milne |extended patrols were made, one Inlet, Arctic Sound, and Home Bay |across the island to Belcher Point and respectively, and Constance Cox made | the other westward to a place called some shorter patrols to the height of | Cuming Creek and inland up the land between Eclipse Sound and Foxe | gorge of this watercourse. 'Basin. The most important trip was Patrolled by Dog Team Inspector Wilcox's patrol to Fury and| "From Pangnirtung, the post on Hecla Strait, this taking him to the Cumberland Gulf, Baffin Island, northern end of Foxe Basin and to| Sergeant O. G. Petty patrolled the Melville Peninsula, He traveled across | gulf and visited native camps on the the interior of the northwestern part east coast of the island. The Win- of Baffin Island, traversing numerous | ter as unfavorable for traveling own- lakes, and on one occasion climbing a| ing to conditions of weather and ice, frozen waterfall. About 160 Eskimos | nevertheless, the entire district was were visited, and they were generally | patroled by dog team, the distance Getting Ready to Fire Up. Thought I leave the sea, always I come Back to sound of dark water in the cove, - Back to the tide's slow and untiring drum Against the ears; this orly do I love. The sound of waves against a foam- ing blufr, The sound of a rising .wind on a night of stars, Mae West, author of "Pleasure Man", "The detachment at Lake Harbor| It should be remembered fm grow- ing the freesia indoors thai {) cannot stand heavy forcing before the buds appear. A temperature of 50 degrees | during the day and five or 10 degrees less at night is ample heat until the buds start to show. After that time, it will not be in bloom when it is de sired, a day temperature of 66 degrees will hasfen that event. A weekly ap a beneficial influence on the texture and the size of the blossoms. Until a few years ago the choice of colors in this flower was limited pto white, but, with the advent of the Rainbow Hybrids, came other shades. In lavender, Fischer's Splendens is probably the best ta 'Gute. This variety produces a very 'S.ge number of flowers of a deep lavender color on long, stiff stems. Other lavenders in- clude Carrie Budau, lavender pink; General Pershing, lavender pink; Ilena, rosy lavender with white throat and orange blotch on lower petals. Other attractive colored varieties are: California, golden yellow; June Mich elsen, deep rose pink with light pink throat; Mendota, large flowered yel- low; Mrs. Marc Peters, bright salmon with lower petals blotched orange; and Olivette, bright red with yellow throat. -- ei TEN CENTS TO SPEND Matilda, --with--ten cents to spend and the whole enticing outdoor mar ket spread before her! Radously, ¢he has no need of fruits; £owers, or would be an excuse to Jol nthe throng of basket-laden housewives What should she buy with her tem ents? There was a small box of strawberries, neatly packed, reddest sides uppermost, just as they had grown in the sunshine. In her imag- ination, she could see them growing. LittleeJapanese men and women, in faded blue smocks, stooping over in the hot sun, patiently filling innu- merable boxes with the duddy fruit. A gentle breeze carrying the delicate fragrance of ripening berries out upon the highway. Ah, yes, that box of strawberries was worth ten cents! But then there were those heaps of grapes at the next stand. Golden- green, velvet-blue, and bronze-red! Matilda gazed at them appralsingly. What a subject for a watercolor sketch! The gayly striped umbrella, the passive Chinaman, who scarcely smiled at her naive enthusiasm. Ten cents to spend! Why, ten cents was a fortune when one could buy such a picture. She would treasure it In memory, and one day she would try to reproduce it on paper. Yet the mere thought of attempting that seemed presumptuous. How could she ever catch the glow on each lovely grape-globe? At the next booth, mounds of veg: etables! Matilda marveled that veg- etables could be so decorative. Her ten cents truly had come Into its own, She could have had twa bunches of those carefully scrubbed carrots, every whit as gay as golden glow; she could have a glorious pur ple cabbage, vying In richness of color and in petaled pattern with the After all, this only is enough To claim the heart, this and the ploughing spars Of many ships salling for fabulous lands, Of many ships bound for the wind's loud onder, Salling beyond the cool kind wash of the sands-- Into the loud dark laughter of the thunder. Harold Vinl asters of an adjoining stall. What pearl could compare with those dain- ty white onions, wrapped in layers of silkiest parchment? Or that egg plant! What a polish! Matilda gas- ed meditatively at the exotic-looking vegetable. If only she were a pot- ter! Perhaps one day she would try to mold a curiously shaped bowl, with a shiny surface of an odd hue, between a purple and a plum. She must hurry on. There was that flower booth at the far end of the market. With her tem cents still cluched tightly fn her hand, Matilda hurried past the stands that inter vened. Past a bewildering array of allurements--peaches, painted with the tints of sunrise; plums, ata ing with thelr glaucous bloom; fre figs dripping honey; luscious pears. She passed all this prodigality quick- , ly, but not too qilckly, élther, te - déom Tingrateful for all its loveliness. In the end she carried away, as she had known all along that she would do, one single shaggy dahlia, which she christened "Happy Morning." tee fpeeica. "What were the women all scream- ing about at your table?" Wheeler: "That contortionist is* learning the game, and when body told him to double and redouble he took it Hb erally!" oy. it the plant's growth indicates that . plication of liquid manure will have . vegetables; but even a tiny purchase -