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OTTAWAREPORTS That Food Production In Canada Has Increased 150 Percent Over Pre-War Levels Tlie Canadian farmer, l)y his foiKl production efforts is playing a gicat part in winning the war, and at the same time is helping to lay the foundation for perman- ent world peace, K. VV. Taylor, ,\Vartime Prices and Trade Board's food co-ordnator, told foods of- ficers at an Ottawa conference re- cently. With a labor force only 75 percent of the pre-war total, Canadian agriculture has increased food production 1 jO percent ^over pre-war levels. "We can't look for a decent and lusting peace settlement in Europe if negotiations are carried on in an atmosphere of hunger, misery and dcipair," said Mr. Taylor. "It is in our interests to see that the people of Europe get at least basic requirements so as to arouse in thciii hope for the future." Much of the food for Europe at the end of the war will have to be sent from Canada and the United States. • • • Shipments of food to Greece will bt increased tc 31,200 tons monthly in l'J44, Prime Minister King auiioimccd early this month in the House of Commons. The major part of the increase consists of 9,000 tons of . wheat a month, a gilt by the Argentine Govern- ment. This will be in addition to Ifj.OOO tons monthly sent to Greece since that summer of 1942 as a gift of the Canadian people. The United States will supply througli lend-lease monthly 4,700 tons of pulse (peas, beans, etc.); 1,000 tons of fiih'; oOO tons of veget- able stew mix; 3U0 tons spaghetti; 300 tons soup; and COO tons can- ned milk. * * • Experiments conducted at the Dominion Expcriinentil Farms, Napan, N. S., an a medium clay loam soil, (not underdrained), in- dicate that a direct saving can be made in reducing the average rate. of seeding. Over a period of IB }'ears, oats seeded at 3 bushels an acre gave a yield of 42^4 bushels; at ~}i bushels the yield was 52 btijlicls, and at V/i bushels, tht yield was 63.7 an acre. Wlien bar- WHEN NERVOUJ TROUBLES MAKE ME "SHAKEY" I FIND 0R.MILE5 NERVINE HELPS TO RELIEVE NERVOUJ TEN$ION AND CALM JITTERY FEELINGS Tiicre'a plenty these days to make people ner^'ous. And overtaxed nerves can turn nights and days into misery! If you suffer in tliis way, try the soothing, quieting effect of Dr. Miles Nervine which contains well-known nerve sedatives. Take Nervine according to directions for lielp in general nervousness, sleep- lessness, hysterical conditions, ner- vous fears; also to help headaclie and irritability due to nervousness. In the meantime, eat more natural food ... get your vitamins and take sufTicientrcst. EfTen-escing Nervine Tablets are 35c and 75c. Nervine Liquid :25c and $1.00. SAV£ MOW£K 6^ staying at FORD HOTELS Modern, Utottd. l4*.y faHiiag OS low at )|S0 p*rf»rs9n ^2'° to '3L° per person, Nc higher! Montreal Toronto and the LORD ELGIN '"Ottawa ley was seeded at 1^ busheli an acre, the 5-year yield was 36.8 bushels; at iVt, bushels an acre the yield was 35.4 Dushels, while the 3-bushel rate of seeding gave 35 bushels an acre. rests also in- dicate that the heavier grain secd- ings have a tendency to reduce the clover yield the following year. * * • This year as last, farn:ers are asked by the Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture to tie fleeces with paper twine which does not injure the wool. When a farmer ties fleeces with binder or other sisal twine, he has to take a dis- count of a cent a pound from the market price of clean wool because fragments from sisal often become tangled with the wool and show up light in woven cloth since sisal docs not take the dye. * * * A fifty-cent subsidy on every pound of packaged bees imported fiom the United States up to June 15 as encouragement to far- mers to go into honey production is announced by Wartime Prices and Trade Board. It will also help offset increased costs of U.S. s^ cks, it is pointed out by the Board. * * * Little pigs don't need much iron but they do require more than the sow :;'jpplie3 in her milk. The Dominion Department of Agri- culture advises that one of the simple.'t ways to provide this necessity is to give each litter a sod or shoveful of earth every two or three days until the pigs are four weeks old. Sucklings pigs raised indoors need iron if they aie to stay lively and healthy. If they cannot be given earth, then tiny amounts of chemical iron should be fed, but if the latter is used, direction siiould be followed carefully. Too much is noi only wasteful but may be harmful. SCOUTING . . . 400 lovely rooms with rodio! New Zealand now has 18,000 registered Boy Scouts. • * • The Chins Up Fund, raised by Canadian Boy Scouts to help their brother Scouts in Britain and in conquered Europe after the war, has just passed the $44,000 mark. * * • *• Eight ye.ir old Roger Widdowson, a British Wolf Cub has for : past year been staging Punch and Judy shows for his friends. In that time he has raised nearly $135 which he has put into War Savings. * • * A record unique in Canadian Scouting was chalked up recently when ten members of the 8th Osh- awa. Sea Scout Troop received their King's .Scout Badges al one time. The King's Scout is the highest rank available to Boy Scouts and was inauRurated at the suggestion of the late King Edward VII. * * * Just before he died at Edmonton recently. Dr. Geo. H. Malcomson, former Provincial Commissioner of the Boy Scouts .\ssociatinn in Al- ber.a a.-^ed that the Scout Promise be repeated at his funeral. This was done by W. J. Dick, President of tlie Alberta Boy Scouts .Associa- tion who was attended by a guard of honour of Boy Scouts. March Sets Record For New Planes .\ircraft a.>sembly lines in the United States moved at record ipeed in March with 9,118 new 'planes. Aircraft Production Chief Charles E. Wilson reported. Nearly 87 percent, of the 'planes were combat craft â€" fighters, bom- bers and tran.5ports. The previous monthly record was 3,760 in Febru- ary. Wilson said the "remarkable" March output may represent the 1944 aircraft productioi peak. THE WAR • WEEK â€" Commentary on turreni tvents Britain On Eve Of Invasion: Lull On The Italian Front England last week was so ciowded with invasion forces that Britons had to change their way of daily life, says the -New York Times. They had been used to queuing up for rationed foods; now they were queuing up for buses and tubes, for places in a lunchroom or tea shop. Civilians had to leave for their jobs earlier and get home later. In London the streets . were januncd with British, Dominioi and Allied troops. "Snowdrops" â€" the Lon- don nickname for whitc-helmeted American military police â€" were patroling the sidewalks in ever- greater iuuul)crs. Londoners could catch a glimpse of a fuur-starred black limousine rushing General Eisenhower from one conference to another. Someone said: "That car attracts as much attention as roy- alty used to." Invasion Date Set This is England's tiltu year ot war, the third spring which has been filled with invasion t:ilk. Bri- tons are tired and war weary, but this time they know the invasion of Europe is really coming, that the date has I)cen set. .A. merchant marine officer recently returned from England said: "It looks to me as though you could walk from Land's End to Edmburgh on pack- ing cases, trucks tank-; and air- planes." There is still room, how- ever, for signs ot spring to poke through, crocus and daffodils are in bloom, gardeners find moments to spend on ofcs r.s well as veget- ables. Russian Advances London's hcanunes last week told of the great new Kus.'-ian ad- vances. They told, too, of new BEARING UP Like most visitors to Australia, Lt.-Col. Mary Agnes Brown, WAG director in the southwest Pacific, is quick to make friends with the Teddy-bear-like koala. No. 1 pet of the Aussies. regulations covciig the coastal aicas of England facing the Con- tinent; of th^ severance- of tele- phone connection with Ireland "as part of the general measures to prevent a possible leak of vital information"; of the cancellation of all leave and travel permits for members of the British armed forces, although this was said to lie aimed chiefly at preventing an Easter week-end travel jam. Domestic Crisis While all these things were heigh- tening tension in Brtish minds a domestic crisis arose. Strikes in Britain's coal mines, which have v.axed and waned for si.x weeks while disputes over wages and con- ditions of work were under con- sideration spread to new mining areas and broke out in other in- dustries. .About '.H),000 miners went out in Yorkshire, 20,000 shipyard apprentices in Clydesidc and Tyne- side struck, about 30,000 shipyard, aircraft and engineering workers were reported out in Belfast. Ap- peals by Government and labor leade:-s brought some men back to their jobs and all signs pointed to a more general return after the Easter week-end. There was no sign that problems had been solved and the crisis met. .\s a result the British War Cabinet drafted a new regulation to make the incitement and fomenting of strikes an offense against the state. The powerful Trades Union Con- gress, joining Labor Minister Ernest Bevin in warning against outlaw strikes, said a continuance of work stoppa,Tes would bring about a major national disaster, imperiling the prosecution of the \var :ind labor's future. Italian Lull On the Italian front last week there was a hid in the fighting. .Artillery was engaging in violent duels â€" no fun for those where the shells land, but involving only a few people. Planes were in the air now and again, but their activities meant little to the men on the ground. The Germans had tried a sizable thrust at the Anzio bcaohlicad, but '. had been pushed hack. Even piitrol activities fell off. A lull does not mean that the frontline soldier is called back to the rear areas. He stays right where he is â€" in or near his fox- hole. He sleeps more, perhaps ti.kes more time to eat his K rations. He may even try to write a letter, if he can find a flat surface. But shellfire is usually audible even if the bursts and the scream of fragments are not close. Such luxuries as a thow line for hot food and a chaftce to wash In uself and his c "thcs are far from posf.ible, even though the fiqht has slacken- ed. Hope For Letters Within their limited areas of muvement the soldiers at such times are apt to go in for slightly longer and talkier "bull sessions". They gripo about the usual sub- NAZI BATTLESHIP CAUGHT BY BOMBERS The 41,000-ton Nazi battleship Tirpitz is pictured as it lay helpless in Norway's Alten Fjord while British dive-bombers scored at least 24 hits on her. Caught by surprise, the previously crippled ship was at- tacked on April 3 by the largest group of aircraft ever concentrated against one ship. VOICE OF I H E PRESS Battle Of Britain .\ sentence in a speech by Flight Lieut. Teeling, in the recent for- eign affairs debate in the House of Commoiw, provokes fruitful re- flection: "People do not realize that only 700 people took part in the battle' of Britain, which was as important in many ways as Trafalgar and Waterloo." â€" London Spectator â€" o â€" Fighting Gurkhas As a fighting man none is better than the Gurkha of India. A unit of them underwent a trying ordeal for twelve days on Hangman's Hill at Cassino, but they returned with their morale unshaken. â€" Hamilton Spectator "Dream" Home .\. "dream home" is a place to live in where the taxes are low, the in- sulation thick, the dog friendly, the neighbors generous, the garden pretty, the outlook good, the inlook better. â€" London Free Press Like The Fron. Line Here's how you can get a pretty fair idea of what the front is like, according to a paragrapher. Note how you feel when lightning keeps striking close and multiply by 10,- 000. â€" Kitchener Record â€" o â€" No Gtms Needed Land boundary between Canada and the United States is marked by 5,483 monuments â€" and no guns. European nations, please note. â€" Chatham News â€" o â€" From Bad To Worse A contemporary says Germany has lost her reputation. It would be more accurate to say that she has made a bad one worse. â€" Brantford Expositor WHEREZIT: New Diamond Field Developed In Urals During the war inntensive dia- mond mining has developed in an area of the Western Urals. The Urals' "Diamond Land" was dis- covered in 1839, when the first Russian diamond was found in thiV", area. During an entire century only 2r!9 diamonds were mined. After the Revolution the "Dia-,. mond Land" was carefully explore.«V and its industrial exploitation be* gun. The demand for diamonds, which are widely used in the min- ing, rubber, silk and weaving indus- tries, and above all in tank and aviation construction, has increas- ed greatly during the war. As a result, new mining districts with small electric power stations, industrial buildings, dwellings and clubs have sprung up in the dia- mond area of the Urals, where for- merly there was only virgin forest, and even the huts of trappers -were few and far between. jects, talk a little shop, then swing into talk about sports or things at home. They smoke plenty of cigarettes, but they light no fires in the open no matter how cold it tets. Smoke by day or flame by night are too obvfous targets. The men at a mo^tar site get off a few shells, "just 'or practice" as they say. No matter where a man is there is always a hope that a courier will come u^ with letters, for the mail follows the infantry into the most incredible places. Waiting And Waiting Basically, when a unit is in the line H period like the present brings li tie rest in the usual sense. It is all waiting and more waiting â€" cither for :nemy shells or bombs or for word to be relayed along from the company commander through the platoon leader that something is up that will mean the end of the break. What the next "something" would be was not clear last week. In recent weeks both sides have tried stiff offensives and both sides have been stopped. Cassino was still in German hands; the small beachhead below Rome ,was still in Allied hanos with a small gain repo'ted yesterday. The current stalemate was running into its third week and further .Allied progress seemed to hinge on new decisions by the High Command. Map above shows how Japanese forces invading India from Burma have cut, north and south of Imphal, the Manipur Road main supply route for British forces operating in the Kabaw Valley. Above Imphal, British supply base for the area, Jap thrust may turn north westward against railroad which connects with Ledo Road and supplies Chinese-American troops driving southward toward Jap base at Myitkyina. Diamonds are found in four dis- tict colours. The absolutely colour- less, known as "white," are the most valuable; next come blue, yellow and brown. BACKACHE? Looi: out for Trouble With Your KIDNEYS If your back aches ot il you have disturbed sleep, burning or smarting, look out for trouble. This condition is a surn sign that your kidneys are not fully ridding your blood of poisonous acids and wastes. When the kidaejra slow up, wastes collect. Backache, dizzy jpells, puffy eyes and rheumatic pains may follow. Your kidneys need help â€" and there i* a time-tried, proven way to help them known as GOLD MED.\L Haarlem Oil Capsules. 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