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r l "'fsp AY, MARCH 11, 1919. #% . T0 GROW Province to Aid Cattle Men e T Priv in Improving Land . Municipalities Get Same _ and Stock i s a Year jevme Rai it 'Iege aA Believing that the ranching in-- 0 j dustry in Ontario has come to sta 9 s and that it is one of . very consii *3-,'. uamenmane mc mm ces seummmmams § able importance, 'the Ontario De-- , ACTORY ACT partment of Agriculture has ap-- CHANGE |N F i pointed Mr. _ Charles Laidlaw as Ranch Specialist, with headcuar-- en oupancan > & ters _ at the -- Burwash Industrial It is intended by the Ontario Gov-- fa!'n'l__il % little more than a year icipalities shall be go the department made a survs ernment that municip 10-- culti-- of possible ranching lands in On}: permitted again this year to tario. Since then ranching has been : vate vacant land owned by private extended, untilnow there are about i» | individuals. Sir William Hearst in-- 40 in Ontario. The northern sec. : ; Will 4 he Legislature tions of the Province, including 3 troduced a bill in t C y t Land parts of Haliburton, Hastings, Parry j yesterday entitled the "Vacan o Sound and districts farther north, t Cultivatien Act," the purposes be as well as portions of Manitoulin ;. which is to extend for t!ns yeal;h y 'Island, are considered as splendid E measure adopted last session for ( i? , ranching territory. ? war's duration permitting muncd In making the announcement, p palities to cultivate vacant lan Mr. C,. F. Bailey, Agricultural Com-- without compensation to th'e own-- af missioner for _Ontario, said that the ' er. In explaining the bill Sir Wil-- duty of Mr. TLaidlaw vould include liam Hearst said that much land had experimental administrative work in : already been plowed and prepared the interest of the rancher. 'These ® for planting this year, and the Gov-- s experiments will comprise such ernment desired that, even should things as types of-- buildings for peace be signed soon, that cultiva-- housing live stock, methods of clear-- tion should continue during the ing land, making it ready for graz-- | § | present season. » ing, and methods for winter feed-- | : Instead of legislating them out of ing of live stock. He will also con-- i § business, the Government -- intends sider the various problems whiqh. to control private employment agen-- %(;'g?ig?:te the average rancher in this | T ho & A s s if¢ ay. * . cles in Ontarieo in a .dxfterentl\v;lv 4 In addition, Mr. Laidlaw will be A bill which Hon. Finlay G. Mac 7 E. k k s h # % required to make personal visits to diaarmid introduced in the House s 'mag." ids i vil he Government all ranches in Ontario in order to yesterday permits the Go to em-- become conversant with all prob--. _ _|to prohibit granting licenses to ient lems and so that he can give ad-- ployment agencies. Occasior}xlmgit vice and assistance. His office to arise, the Minister said, when $ Burwash Farm will be virtually a : j would be desirable to have one orl bureau of information. Mr. Laid-- more private agencies. By reserving law is well equipped for this posi-- F to itself the right to issue licenses > tion. He has had a great deal to ; the Government would always have do with farm work, is a graduate of p complete control. the Ontario Agricultural College, f bz i and up until the time of his ap-- Make it Dominion--Wide. pointment was manager of a ranch ' | _ The present bill is the result of & near Powassan. ' f dccisiolrl) reached at the conference The Department of Agriculture is of Provincial and Dominion Minis-- working in conjunction _ with the ters held at Ottawa last fall, and it Provincial Secretary's Department implements an announcement which| _' in its ranch work. The latter de-- o partment permits all experiments to the Government made a couple of 5s cafricd on at its farm at Bur. months ago that the public emp{OY- w';sg Prie ' ment agencies would take the place * 1 ti 3 of the private offices, The scheme rar?éllfergt i;heogtx;)riz)entli(;::;rlfli'gntll&gt' § which is being worked out is a Do-- & J Pb C es 3 there is no law permitting them to § minion--wide one, the Federal and register brands. As the statutes Provincial authoritiee co--operating read now & rancher may brand his |__| in the distributing of labor. cattle, but there is nothing to pre-- Me? Mr. Macdiarmid also introduced a vent anyone else adopting a simi-- _ | bill by which the Government ex--, lar mark. This is a matter of real _ | tends ifs supervision over camps' difficulty in the North, where cattle _ | where women are employed on spe-- A '|roam for miles and are perhaps not _ | clal work, such as flax--pullers. The seen from early spring until fall. «_ | change in the statute is an araend-- & It is understood that t}me depa_rtmgnt _ | ment to the "Factory, Shop and Of-- y at present has in mx.nd legislation s fice Act." to correct this hardship. es Mr. Hartley Dewart (Southwest ane smm ies . * aa mea ts' I | _ _ )\ Toronto) asked if there was any in-- ! ATTORNEY- GENERAL | e tention on the part of the Govern-- | | _\ ment of appointing special inspec-- 'CLEARS GOVERNMENT: _ | tors under the existing statute. | Ee | Mr. Macdiarmid, in reply, stated 1 i s a & _ --| that such a request had been made {Suspicu)n in Homer Li-- _ _ _| by a large deputation representing | f _ _| trades unionism to the Government ' quor Case F ound | _ (ja couple of months ago, but that no 1 [R' | change was to be made for the | Groundless T k. pres«iant. The Minister said that if | en e mmmns _ --]| special inspectors were appointed : s o _ | for the foundries, which change had : Personal inquiry has been made | _| been particularly requested, other 'by the Attorney--General, Hon. I. B{ _ | industries would have to be treated | Lucas, into the circumstances sur-- | _ > ]| similarly. The Government would i ai the Homer liquor . case, | Jé give every preference to returned 4 froundins inence a ' _ _ } soldiers. {which --gained some Pvf?mLucas has | ,;?4 An inquiry has been placed on couple ofivgfieksbe;gffiat't;ere Wak no _ |the order paper by Mr. F. Welling-- c c mnpation h he att t to at-- _ |ton Hay (North Perth) in which he| -- d is nb cor imobrcktion to-- inc | asks what amount was received dur-- .t(? c'}',efr:;;;;i_gionb(; f a%sociating the / . e I y # f ag 1917--18 in fees in connection "t?ll d piggers" arrested there with With the issue of letters patent, li-- L0 (P harines by--election J censes, etc., from loan and _ trust thfilsfia'gaéoi'; imito the Matter." Mr e€orporations in Ontario; also the // ~ 4 f s » . *"I had here ARF mount of fees received by the Pro-- IL'""*ls hs.%id gisrfsrg;gployers' Detec: ince during the same period from | . .Mr. XV im which did the work for 6 ie same companies for all purposes. !:it:: L iconse Department, and there i ng up the answers given ' 4 hich to base even questions on Frida.y by Hon G.' 'is nothing upon whic (etied that the . Ferguson, Mr Proudfoot is .ask | a suspicion. I am satisfie a * * * | tated, so g for a return of all documents facts .are absolutely as s ' I ch so that there is nothing er(i:rll{g the original sale to J. J.| l;?llll'ther that can be said about it. of Port Arthur of Ontario butemotetisnereamiegentetyrais pwood limits in the Pic River | @d Black Sturgeon River districts. $ s " *mmnnnemmemmememmenmmmmmmmmmstmmmmse, 1 +