PROFITABLE SHEEP R AISING | ! HERE is not the least doubt T that Western Canada is steadily bullding a reputation as a wool oroduding country. The opportunities it affords for the profitable breeding 'und rearing of sheep are unsurpassed iin any part of the world. An abun- dance of suitable food of all kinds is \available all over the country, while {lelimatic and other conditions are ex- jceedingly favorable. Almost any line of sheep husbandry may be followed {successfully in the Prairie Provinces of Canada'! On the range sheep breeding and rearing is an extremely iprofitable industry, especially in those districts where conditions are not {well suited to erdinary agriculture, That the farmer is more and more realizing the value of a small flock of {sheep on his farm is shown by ile li- (creasing number of participants at ithe co-operative wool sales each year. Throughout the west this has been inoticed at practicallly all the sales. {In some cases, notably at Calgary, {Alberta, there has been a greater ;mumber of participants, and less wool {offering than last year, but this is due to the fact that the larger breed- {ers have been induced to sell their iwool Independently, so ghat practi jeally all the wool offered for sale mame from small fargpers, who are iobtaining as big returns in this line jas in any other. At other places there has been an increase, both in the number of participants and ia the quality of the wool offered. ' It seems safe to say that within a few years the whole world will be looking to Western Canada, and es- pecially " to Alberta, for high class sheep. The prices now being obtain- iad for wool by those who were fore- laighted enough to go in for sheep urearing, either on a large or a small eale, has opened the eyes of farmers | (1) On an Alberta sheep ranch. (2) A shepherd can mind hundreds of sheep. (3) Sheep raised on irrigated land. all over the west to its possibilities. | spent $100,000 in ful] blooded stock, flocks are | which is evidence of his faith in the Those who have small using every effort to improve the possibBities larger | Western Canada. breeders are leaving nothing undone | he had this year 500 ram lambs of the in their endeavors to improve their | Romney-Ramboullet cross, estimated stock, and are sparing no expense toto be worth between $40 and $50 each, this end. One of the leading breeders |and for which there is a great de- after trying all over Canada and the mand; United States, and failing also to get [pounds of wool to the Government re- | warehouse at Toronto. Already there is talk_about dollar ewes and 10 full blooded rams of the | wool. quality of their wool, and what he required in Australia, cently purchased 250 full bloeded Ramney Marsh breed from England. [be paying $126 each for the ewes and present time, $600 each for the rams. several hundred Ramboullet way. AA A Ars se a ati. tsi i { ELECTIONS AND C The elections have projected them- selves right imo the Christmas fes- tivities, - But with the union of the best 'men and women of both parties the disturbance is far less than was to have beenfekpected,, The war, with its horrors and its worries. has mono- polized the place in all minds, and Christmas joys are hallowed and sanctified hy the sorrows and Woes of many all over the land. The election has unfortunately forced aside the cheery fhristmas spirit for the time being. | The women, who are the thinkers and planners for Christmas, are immersed in service for the coun- try, and they have pushed aside their Had Bronchitis FOR THREE YEARS. COULD GET NO RELIEF, Bronchitis is generally. the result of a cold caused by exposure to wet and inclement weather. It begins with a tightness across the chest, dif- ficulty in breathing, and a wheezing sound comes from the lungs. There is also a raising of phlegm from the lungs, especially in the morning. = This is at first white, but later. becomes of a green- ish or ish color, and is gccas- with blood fonally stre : On the Sign of bronehitis you, should cheek it ediately by using Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup and and periph Turns no. ng chronic and 0 some more scrious troublé, Mr. Titadors P. Beers, Upper Main Riv utes: "I was troubled with for three Ww! years and could get no relief. 1 was Io ot rant Badin po nes, none did me good until a friend told me Sort an Sn, wo hv ree bottles an fore 1 had them half used 1 was bet- IT. 4 "My mother is now using it for asthma. It is a great medicine and we never want to be without it." Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup is put,up in a vellow wrapper; three pine trees the trade mark; price 25¢ and 50c; manufactured only by The 1 Toronto, HRISTMAS SPIRIT. : desires about the festive season that they 'may prosecute their work in maintaining the national honor of Canada, Thig is the first time that Canadian wonjen have ever had the federat franchise and they mean to use it well, They are lined up he- hind the Unipn Government, and are showing a fofc¢e and vigor about cam- paigning Kinet is intleed surprising to the men. "| am not concerned about the women-fthey are working all right--but fam over the men. They are not leading jn: the work," said a Kingston [organizer. "Of cburse they aay fhink the result is a fore- gone conchs®n" But a pleasing fact this Christivas- tide iS that the women are not only campaigning. Mut they are knitting. And they have been doing the latter in season) and out of season, They have a vision of the trenches and the boys; they see them worn and wet and wasted, and they make their nee- dles fly as they build socks apd sweaters and smocks so that comfort and wagmth may come to those who are so much beloved. And as they knit thei joysgnd happiness of Christ- mas-stéals into their hearts and the warm motherly and sisterly tear soaks into the soft wool, a memorial that, if known by the brave boys, would he more precious than rubies and richer far than the finest gold, And the election campaign has had running through # the Christmas spirit.; The cnfranchised women as IE of the voting power sO they placed in their hands. and which would be used with all the possible punchy théy could put into it, for the aid oi forgey the physical nature of 'their sons, {their brothers, their father: their | husbands, and for weeks 1he. postal service has been surfeited bales and boxes and bundles | Chrispmas cheer to those in Fra in Flanders, and at many § where the Allies are fighting And with the packages and parcels were deeds. The f spirit prevailed) in edery comfort that went forth from ho to loved ones ovegseas. Awd, 100, the dead: were not for A few years {that the present prices will obtain for ago this same breeder brought in Some time in the future, and when it ewes, | Is considered that sheep can be raised and later purchased at the Panama. | very profitably with wool at half its Pacific Exposition some prize win-|Present price, to say nothing about ning Romneys® The crossing of these the price of mutton, it is easy to un. two breeds has produced a strain!derstand that those who were far which, it is claimed, is admirably sighted enough to go into the busi- isuited to Western Canada in every |Dess some years ago are now literally Altogether, this breeder has making their fortunes. their soldier Boys, they did not} of this industry in As to his returns, he has also semt 101,000 Whether or not this price will attained is dificult to say at the but it seems certain a a a aa that fleck the graves in Flanders field, And ¢o as Canadian women fight in freedom's cause they catch a glimpse of the Redeemer of the world, wotnded and bleeding as He was upon tM cross, and with His power and. sufliciency they tranquilly trust and wait ,abiding in His presence and resting under the shadow of His wings After reaching: the top a man ceases to talk about the room there. BEST FOR LIVER, BOWELS, STOMACH, HEADACHE, COLDS They Liven the Liver and Dowels and Straighten You Right Up. Don't Be Rilious, Constipated, Sidi, with. Breath Bad and Stomach Sour. . re THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1917. ON THE YUKON. Facts About One of North America's Greatest Rivers, The 'Yukon is about 200 miles longer than the Mississippi, but it is 2,000 miles shorter than souri-Mississippi, measured the Rocky Mountains "in Montana, and from Itasca Lake in Minnesota. It is properly called one of the great rivers of North America, and it is as difficult to navigate as the most cog- 'trary of them. Like the Missouri and the Mississippi, south of their Junction, it sometimes spreads over a vast expanse of country, but that is not conducive to traveling unless one is aboard a very light and very flat-bottomed craft. From Fort Sel- kirk, where the streams is formed Ly the junetion of the Lewes and Pelly rivers, it flows north-westward into Alaska, where it takes a generally south-west course, emptying, after meandering in a manner that would put the St. Jobkns of Florida to the blush; inte the Behring Sea. It used to be told of the early ex- plorers of the Mississippi that, after entering the delta, they never knew how they got inside, and that, after passing through it to the Gulf, they néver knew how they got outside. it Was many years before the paviga- tors fixed upon landmarks which «n- abled them to steer in anything like a straight course, and until that splendid engineer, Captain James B. Eads, came along with his jetties, they were uncertain whether they would find a channel, "or would ground on a sandbar. The mariner regards the delta of the Yukon as hopeless. The stream, to begin with, empties great quanti ties of sediment, so that not only the passes, but sections of the sea beyond, are filled with the deposit. Only a few feet of water can bé found for a long distance from the mouths of the twenty-six outlets, As a consequence of this condition, sea- going vessels are forced to transfer their freight to stern-wheelers at St. Michael, seventy miles to the north, from which place there is navigation for larger craft to Dawson during the summer months. In the upper river, steamers ply betweédn Dawson and White Horse, the terminus of the White Pass & Yukon Railroad, and navigation is continuous be- tween White Horse and the mouth of the river. The Yukon sprang suddenly into fame with the discovery of gold on Klondike Creek, one of its tribu- taries, and the town of Dawson, &t the confluence of the "creek and the | Yukon River, and owes its existence | to this discovery, is, to this day, the | principal community of the region. | The name of the Porcupine, Koyu- | kuk, and Tanana rivers will recall | memories of the days when thou- sands of adventures were 'hitting! the Yukon trail." Mining, whether | for gold or for less precious metals, has now settled down to a regular business in the section; the days of lawlessness are past, and much of the romantic atmosphere that once hung around Alaska is gone; 'yet the Yu- kon River offers many inducements to the traveler and the explorer. Roger Foster, who has recently made the journey up 'the Yukon, says that the primeval forests on the river banks have, in most places, no inhabitants save moose, caribou, bear, lynx, and other wild animals. "Some of them," he continues, "can be seen from the boat, upon the shores or swimming in the water. Here and there are a few Indian cabins, or the lodge of a wood chop- per, who supplies the steamers with fuel, and a few mining camps, now almost empty." The: country is still rough, but not inhospitable. The old Alaskans are a sturdy race, this witness teslifies; intemperance among them is rare, which is not true of the canners of clams and sal- mon on the coast. The land is full of prospectors. "Winter after win- ter," Mr. Foster writes, "for fifteen years many o* them have gone alone or with a single partner into the wilderness to search for mines. . . After careful inquiry I could not find a single case where a prospector had retired with a fortune, or even a competency, as the result of his dis- covery." It is confessed, by this and by other travelers in' the far North- West, that there is a fascination about Alaskan life which, despite its privations, makes men loath to leave and eager to return. And, in pass- ing, it may be said that, by reason of disturbed conditions elsewhere, more sightseers have been going into | Alaska in the last two years than ever before; and a majority of them come back pleased with their experi- ence. oy : | i Our Unexplored Country, A very common impression held even by adians Is that there is little Can:dian territory left to ex- plore' except on the Avctic islands, But as far back as 1890 Dr. George Dawson had calculated that there were then about 1,000,000 square miles. of unexplored 'erritory in Canada, about 600,000 square miles the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec. logical Survey of Canada, has quite recently "revised Dr. Dawson's esti- mate,' reaching for Western Canada the figtires of about 642,000 sqiare prayers kind t hts and - kindlier | day" ye | thougl T. Milburn Co., x in Western Canada, the rest lying in |. 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