THE BRITISH WHIG ¥ 90TH YEAR, | [| I id II |] at. lr eT NR EX Ee Dafly asd Semi-Weekly by BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING ©0,, LIMITED 243! Ing in Frontenac county. mot paid in to United Stat me year, OU DF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: * Onlder, 22 St. John St, = W. Thompson ....100 Kiag St. W. 5 Toronto. Letters to the Editor are published Saly aver the actunl name of the . H is one of the best ng offices In Canaan, - Job The circulation of THE BRITISH _. WHIG is authenticated by the i: ABO . Andit Bureau of Circulations -- It pays to keep straight. Look 'Bow the corksorew lost out. Horse sense is something which a may have in spite of himself. Ae undeveloped peoples are those 0 afford no market for padlocks. The best method of getting rid #& bore is to try to borrow money him, ar "Most of the wild animals have pro- live coloration, and mortals find y in greenbacks. Nearly every man has been pro- d with plenty of facilities for ng his own business. 'normal man is one who observes women's husbands and reflects his wife did very well, perfect husband is one who how to apologize gracefully bis wife is at fault. t times we fear that culture is a matter of developing a taste "more complicated salads. The glare of headlights is a men to motortots, but the glare of" is wholly harmless. : x would be easier to keep the boys on the farm if it wasn't so to keep the interest rate down. ing toc ® automobilists drive so fast. woman who is the best mind doesn't boast of it. She pre- to have it as a card up her e, .® woman thinks she has fez," she never has a very, good except when her feelings are -------- good way to cultivate powers of expression is to ade intimate remarks to an um- t of making mistakes is ently cured by getting the bottle out of the medicine lesson to be learned from a is that one-half of the can't force the other half to hing. A ---- ------------ ® are two kinds of people in world: useful ones and useless The classifying is done by the ones. a ---------------- ot this sentemce: "For the 1 time the man failed to get his and replaced the receiver on the hook." Papers mention a shortage in ahh of calves, but fail i " er it's an agricul- item or a fashion note. . atch up with their lo- | ilments may be the reason why OUR LIVESTOCK BREEDERS. The Kingston District Holstein | Breeders' Club held its first auction {sale of pure bred cattle in Kingston last week and some good prices were obtained. the success it should have been, i demonstrated the capabilities of the | up-to-date farmers | who have made the breeding of dairy | cattle a science, It was unfortunate | that weather conditions were not | favourable to the attendance of buy- |customers, the increase in exports [ies of past enjoyment and expecta- | lors in large numbers, but this is g |is sufficient to justify the statement [ions of red letter days soon to come | factor that has put us all out in our calculations this year. have by patient industry and abliity, year in and year out, striven to pro- duce the highest type of dairy cows until now thelr names are known everywhere as being associat®d with the advancement of livestock breed- Some of them are: G. F. Murton, Baker Brothers, and James R., Henderson, Portsmouth; Lt.-Col. F. 8S, Ferguson, Inverary; Leslie Cox, -- Mountain Grove, and D. C. Rogers, Pittsburg. 149 All of these gentlemen have been | | Holstein breeders for a long time, {and captured prizes year after year [at the Kingston Fair. They are in {the front rank as dairy cattle breed- {ers in Canada to-day; and while it | is not our purpose to touch upon that | delicate and oontroversial question "the best breed," we desire to com- | pliment theese breeders upon their | ambition, their standing in the dairy | Industry of eastern Ontario and the , degree of success they have attained. | -- i | SEEKING FRENCH TRADE. | The fact that a Canadian train, | loaded with samples of the products | of this dominion, is shortly to make |an extended tour of the whole of | France, touching at the important towns and cities, §s arousing much interest in France, and creating hope in the minds of those who are fos- tering the plan in this country that it will result in the securing of new markets for Canadian goods, {tour is being made as the comple- tion of the bargain by which a red through Canada, and the French consul-general for Canada is author- ity for the statement that France of- fers Cahadian export trade one of the most valuable markets in the | world as a result of the great demand for all kinds of goods, raw materials as well as manufactured products. There are excellent reasons why Canada should be able to establish a profitable market in France. Dur- ing the year 1922, the total imports of that country amounted to about one billion doMars at the present rate of exchange. Canada's share of this amount was very small, and there is no reason why it should not be great- ly increased. The trade treaty which was negotiated between the two countries by the Hon. Mr. Fielding and the Hom. Mr. Lapointe, clears the way for a new field for Cana- dian goods, for it gives Canada im- portant tariff advantages in the French market, The people of France are due to receive a great surprise, They are familiar with Canada only by reason of the deeds of the Canadian army In France, and the mingling of the Canadian soldiers with the French people. Like most European peo- ples, however, they have little con- ception of the vast resources of the dominion and of the wide scope of #ts industries and exports. The tour of a train showing the products of Canada will stimulate the interest of the people of France in what the country really is, and will open the eyes of most of them in a way which will be extremely profitable. There is one other aspect of this event which is of value. During the war, the Canadian and French peo- ple were united in a close bond of friendship by the blood shed in a common cause on a common battle- field. The boys of Canada won back from the enemy the 150,000 graves of French soldiers who fell in vain cfforts to capture Vimy ridge. This is remembered with gratitude. The tour of a Canadian train, laden with Canadian products, will revive the sentiments with which the French people regarded the Canadian sol- | | at a time when the whole interna. tional situation fs in a critical condi- tion. . a ------ CANADA'S TRADE INCREASES. f | g § i ] ; While the sale was not | This | French train about a year ago tour- | and to use them as a i for a de- finite assertion that b {tious have already improved very | greatly, and are likely to keep {the upward grade, | The best key to tis business con- {dations of any country is its export | trade. Fortunately for Canada, | for the past eleven months. Tak- |ing only the United States and Great [Britain, for these are Canada's best |that trade has improved. During | this perfod, the exports to the United The cattle offered for sale repre- (States have increased to the extent | sented the beet dairy strains of Hol- of $54,000,000, in spite of the Ford- | steins bred anywhere, and their own- {ney tariff and the decreased value of | youngsters in the latter perched ers merit the highest praise. They many of the articles which are ex- (somewhat uncomfortably on boards (ported, In the exports to Great Brit- jain, an increase of $90,000,000 is shown, a very gratifying condition | of affairs for Canada. These figures i tell the story very plainly, for they {show the amount of goods produced and manufactured in Canada in ex- jcess of what was produced and | manufactured during the previous iyear, and sold in these two coun- | tries. ® Most of this Increase has been a {direct gain to the country, for there {has been no such increase in imports. | The gain in imports from the United | States during the same period was $16,000,000, and from Great Britain, $21,000,000, which still leaves a net {increase in Canada's favour of $103,- 000,000. - All of this money, coming into the country, in excess of what went outside for goods purchased in these two foreign markets, means a great deal to Canada. It demon- strates not only that Canada's export business has increased, but that a large sum of money has been put into circulation in the Dominion in ex- cess of what was there in the prev- fous year, This is the factor which gives a basis for the assertion that conditions are to be still better, and that the time of a renewal of pros- perity for all in Canada is close at hand. 1 That Body of Hours By James W. Barton, M.D, HOW MUCH YOU RESEMBLE A MOTOR CAR It you were to talk to an auto- mobile engineer, he would get you down to first principles by telling you that the three parts of a car are: -- (a) The Running Gear (b) The Power Plant. (c) The Body, it accessories and fittings. Now your running gear is your arms, legs and all the muscles over which you have control. Your pow- er plant is your heart, your diges- tive apparatus with the auxiliary air system of the lungs, and your elec- trical equipment, your brain and nerves. Your body is the case In equipment. Now any part of this body or yours can get out of order and youn are like a disabled car. i For instance, a broken arm or les is like a punctured tire or broken axle, you simply can't travel. 'The digestive appartus acts up, and you are just as helpless as when the gasoline doesn't gat to the carbur- eter or gets there in such quantities that it is flooded. If you do not get enough air into the body you are like a carbureter 'that is choked because the air has been cut down too fine. If you do not get rid of the waste of the body it is like the plugged ex- haust of a car. Your brajn is your battery and wires. Now Nature in the body of yours has made something more wonderful than a motor and it will do work under cond. that would paralyze the car. \ But there Is one point of differ- ence. As you look at a beautifully finish- ed and uphostered car, it's power piant may be absolutely useless in fact not even in it, and you'd never know {it to look at it. . But if your power plant heart, lungs, digestive apparatus, brain are not right that body of yours will show it. e-- Sticks To Protection that can be wpplied 50 es to relieve Canada from a shameful and bazard- smess condi- | which you carry around all this) | i THE DAILY BRITISH SAP'S A RUNNIN' "The sap's a-runnin," are the magic words that are whispered by {boy to girl and back to boy again} {in a thousand rural schools in the! | | | . | provinces of Quebec and Ontario to-| of the district [there is a sWhmantia] inerease fn this 4. o" 50g vig Broad smiles Shit ght {up the children's faces as the word] 1s passed in class-room and play] ground are inspired by the memor- | again. i In a few days there will be a! "fugar.ng party" and mothers, fa- | thers and laughing children will pile | into sleighs and farm waggons, the | i | and boxes with their feet .nestling in protecting straw for the drive to' the sugar bush. | Sugar and syrup extraction from! maple trees is confined entirely to the North American continent and {only to a limited area therein, In {many of the older settled regions [the maple groves have given place to cultivated flelds, the maples have been cut down for their lumber and the joyous days of spring with which sugaring-off was associated are but] |a memory. It is still practised, how- ever, pretty generally in Quebec and the eastern part of Ontario in Caa- {ada and in Vermont and a portion of [the State of Maine in the United | States. Long before the coming of {the white settler the Indian had jlearued the secret of the maple tree and knew how to extract and concen- | [trate its delicious 'sap. On the first days of the great spring thaw the trees would be gashed with the tomahawk and a wooden chip or spout inserted to direct the flow of tha tap drop by drop to the recept- acle on the ground, which took the form of a birch bark dish. The sap was then boiled in earthen kettles | and a small quantity of thick dark colored liquid was extracted which, being the only available source of sugar which the Red man had, was naturally highly prized. | | When the white man came he fol- lowed the practice and the methods of the Indian, save that he substitut- ed a copper or iron kettle for the earthen vessel. It is only about fifty | | were superseded and even now con- | servative Quebec scorns some of the {new fangled notions and sticks to the practice of its ancestors. Where more scientific methods are adopted the syrup is clear and almost color- | less, of exquisite flavor and it finds |2 ready market, The augur has re- | placed the tomahawk or axe, coop- {ered buckets are used instead of the birch bark '"'caso," the kettle has | given place to the evaporing pan and {even the wooden spout is now sel- {dom seen, its place being taken by | metal taps of a handier shape. The maples that are tapped are the soft variety known often as the sugar maple. The tree is generally found in clemps, the grove being known as the sugar-bush. During the first few days of April a hole is drilled with an augur, preferably on the sunny side, about three-eights of an inch in diameter in a slightly upward direction. The point of tap- ping is about 30 inches from the ground where the bark has a healthy look and not too close to last year's hole. Into this boring is inserted a metal tap or spigot, fitting snugly to exclude the air and at the base of the tree is a bucket, preferably of uu although in Quebec they still cling to the old wooden bucket. In the best groves the buckets are pro- tected with covers for cleanliness | sake. : } The sooner the sap is turned into! syrup the better will be the product | for sap ferments and deteriorates | very quickly after leaving the tree. | Gathering the sap therefore begins as soon-as there is about a quart in the bucket. The collector travels years ago that the primitive methods] BIBBY'S HERE'S A REALLY] GOOD TOPCOA *35.% The best that makers' make, the latest style that style creates, and in the far better textures are thes Top Coats for cooling and rainy Spring days. A Top Coat from our store is truly a Top Coat--possessing every one of the highest qualities you seek in Top Coat val- ues--and they're corréctly priced. 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The barrel brought to the evaporating house is dumped into a storage tank and when enough has been gathered the great wood fires ere lighted under the kettles or pcis ahd in a short time the sap, of which about vinety-seven per cent is water begins to boil and to sizzle threaten- Ing to cverrun its sides in the man- ner of boiling milk, To prevent this overrunuing the old time farmer throws in a piece of salt pork while the more modern method is to add lard or even cream. From time to time" the froth which gathers on the top is skimm- ed from the boiling sap and the judgment of the farmer comes into play when he has to decide the ex- act moment at which syruping-off occurs. If the syrup is not heavy en- ough it will quickly sour and if too heavy it will crystallize into sugar in the storage vessels. In modern plants the thermometer and the saccharometer are' called into use. To obiain the sugar the syrip is boiled again, the clear fluid having first been filtered. Then again tae skill of the farmer comes into play. The scientific method taught at the schools and colleges is to use the hydrome.er and other scientific in- struments, but your old Quebecer runs into the snow the boiling must be continued. ~ About *¢,000,000 pounds of ma FREE DEMONSTRATION OF G. Washington's Prepared Coffee COME IN AND TRY IT. Jas. REDDEN &: Co. Phones 20 and 990, "The House of Satisfaction" Look atSome of Our Work The proof of our ability as ma- chinists lies in the work we have already produced. Ask our customers about us. " Bishop Machine Shop KING AND QUEEN STREETS outpat. Tiere is a tremendous de- Jean Jacques than in the syrup. mand for the best grades anl the! Get out your show shoes and off majority of it goes to the Uaited [to the sugar bush. Sap's a runnin'. States, being bought up at yrives Japs Good Imitators, which wouid have made the oll : farmer ({ a century ago gasp with| The Japanese rHament had a amazemcri. !wild time of it the other night, the Yet with all the advance of members throwing ink-stands at scientific agriculture sugar making (each other. The way the Japs have in Eastern Canada has not 194i 18 taken up with the representative iu- ie wn Sorte Bey Butiowe pile NoRom weil I ® ooked fo! u t 3 . ! old nlike and they regard the day iid hg, 7 Sas as a soc.al feature affording plenty of fon snd enjoyment. The scenz is reminiscent of the Harvest Hom: of England before the Victorian age. Yet what a difference. There !s the Thoroughly Dry additio. a. welcome after four months or more of winter. As: ihe party maws near the sugar nouse there is the delicious of caping ricam and then with ¢! wgoden paddle ; : E : 3 i 7 ii od sf¢ if Real Brock St., $3 Ont. Phones 322J or 1797).