TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1028, : B.C. FIR CEILING Just unloaded a carload of No. | Clear Fir, V Joints for ceilings, Wainscoting, etc. llent stock. Ezeslien hve on hand a full assortment of S , V Joints, Siding and Flooring. i ", oi service, telephone 1042, ALLAN LUMBER (CO. VICTORIA STREET. 'Phone 1042. We Are Ready for any emergency in the machine shop line. What are your require- ments. in -the way of machinery re- pairs? With our complete equip- ment of lathes, drills, planers, saws, ete., we can take care of your needs. Bishop Machine Shop KING AND QUEEN STREETS i READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS Wise Shoppers Do It HAVE DINNER DOWNTOWN « Take it easy this Summer. Have your Dinner with us. Good things well served, Prices reasonable. THE VICTORIA CAFE JEWLY LEE, Mgr. King St, Telephone 762. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG -- -- es EATMOREHOME- GROWN We Import Too Much Foreign Agricultural Products, Canadians Use a Good Deal of Im- ported Fruit, Vegetables and Grain--Their Value Estimated at Nearly $100,000,000--The Mys- tery of Nitrogen----No Alcohol in Silage Milk. (Contributed by Ontario Department of Agriculture, Toronto.) Are Canadian farmers getting the full advantage of their home market? A study of the import figures for the fiscal year ending March 31st last reveals the amazing extent to- which the food stuffs we most pride our- selves in producing are imported for consumption 1a Canada. Take fruits for instance. Of apples we Imported 155,201 barrels worth $775,819. They weren't all early apples either, for 30,028 barrels were brought in during March. During the year we imprted: Berries, $114, 892; cherries, $83,349; cranberries, $212,894; grapes, $661,443; peaches, $403,312; pears, $566,729; plums, $303,495, and strawberries, $7865, 150; a total of $3,907,083. Add to this $1,786,622 for dried apples, apri- cots, peaches, plums and prunes, and $492,828 for canned peaches, jellies and jams: and imported fruits and fruit juices being $26,409,235, be- sides an item of $3,728,475 for nuts. Much of this was, of course, for sub- tropical fruits, but some of these might 'be substituted, to our financial ahd gustatory advantage, by home grown products. For instance, we might eat more roast apples and few- er oranges. While dealing with mat- ters hortfeultural a bill for §1,064,- 811 for plants, shrubs, tree and vines might be mentioned. Coming to vegetables, aur total bill for the fresh article was $3,676,070, of which cabbage accounted for $187,689, onions for $487,009, pota- toes for $537,801 and tomatoes for $966,941, a total for these four com- monly grown articles of $3,177,930. Of canned vegetables we imported $626,210 worth; of sauces, catsups and pickles, $618,660. Our total out- | lay for vegetables and vegetable pro- ducts reached the considerable sum of nearly $5,000,000. We have a great dairying country in Canada, yet we purchased abroad during the year $1,844,212 worth of milk and its products. This ineluded $1,349,819 for 8,767,678 Ibs. 6f but- ter, $327,022 for 916,617 Ibs. of THRESHERS SUPPLIES Threshers will do well to get our prices when filling out for harvest. We. carry a complete stock of Rubber Belting from | inch to 7 inches, Belt Lacing, Oils, Greases, Packing, Valyes, and everything necessary f r your work, Ri TRA ®Es : Lemmon & Sons 187 PRINCESS BTREET Warm All Over or-- Just Hot Under the Collar ? is the furnace used burning soft coal. Jt MeCLARY'S DEALER $92,710 for casein, and even $28,274 for sweet milk and cream. Our but- ter importations were supplemented by 1,166,440 1bs. of imported oleo- margarine. Our foreign grain bill amounted to $11,275,683, though this included $7,695,280 for feed. corn, and $2,020,596 for rice, of which 18,000, 000 Ibs. came from China. Milled products cost us $685,895, and pre- pared foods and bakery products an- other $600,000. Our total imports under the head "Agricultural and Vegetable Pro- ducts, Mainly Food" came to the rather & total of $108,701 762. We could hardly be expected, however, to produce our own tea, coffee and spices, though we might considerably reduce our sugar bill, which now amounts to approximately Jes-000,008 a year, by growing more We also imported $20,935,298 worth of alcoholic beverages, which, as we all know, are mostly derived from the products of the farm. It may be, h er, that some of our exported grains and fruits returned to us in this highly manufactured form.--R. D. Colquettes, Dept. of Agicultural Economies, 0. A. Guelph. -------------- The Mystery of Nitrogen. Since animal life must depend upon plant life for its support, we must first learn how nitrogen gets from the air into the plant. Every farm boy has seen the grain turn yellow at times in the v. early spring and especially that which was growing in the dead furrows of the fields. 'This oecure largely because there fsn't enough nitrogen In the right form for the plants to get at this Hue of the yéar. As a single mals nor the green plants can use nitrogen, and yet the gir is the source of the entire supply for all life. Wego back into history of Ro- to contain countless numbers of min- ute forms of Jitey now known as bae- teria. Lafer it was learned , $46,387 for condensed milk, *|in the manufacture of shredded AG00D WINTER WHEAT Tested Variety. 1 { Wests Buggested--All Material Is Supplied Free of Charge--=aA Chance for Enterprising Farmers [oom aAa ta Foroapastment ot The market value of the winter Iwheat of Ontario amounts to oves [fitteen million dollars annuaily. If {18, therefore, one of the most import: lant of the money crops of the Pro [vince. The acreage of winter wheat !during the pastayear has been about the ssme as the average annual acreage for the past forty years. There is not a county or district iy Ontario in which winter wheat is not grown, although in New Ontario the average annual amount is not more than about.20,000 bushels. Owing to the comparative low price of winter wheat at present, strict attention should be given to economic methods and to large yields. Farmers May Try Free a Wel | {The 0. A. C. No.,104 Is a Proves | Success ---- Other Experiments) | ; L 0. A. C. No. 104 & Carefully Chosen Cross. the variety most largely grown ae- ture for 1922. With the object of securing even a better variety, crosses have been made at the Ontario Agri- «cultural College between the Daw. son's Golden Chal and some other varieties, such as, Tasmania Red, Crimean Red, Turkéy Red, Buda Pesth, Imperial Amber, and Bulgar- lan. A new variety has béen origin- ated at the College by crossing the Dawson's Golden Chaff and the Bul- garian, and this is now known a8 the 0" A.C] No. 104. In both the Col- lege and 'the co-operative testy this new variety has made an excellent record, - surpassing . the Dawson's Golden Chaff in both yield and qual- ity of grain. It is a white wheat, and f The Dawson's Golden Chaff is still cording to the Decembér Bulletin ot ; a the Ontario Department of Agrleul- | | resembles the Bulgarian in possess- ing a white chaff snd the Dawson's Golden Chaff in a beardiess head. It 1s a vigorous grower, and has been less subject to winter-killing than the Dawson's Golden Chaff. The Value of Using Good Seed. It is also important to use seed of high quality. The results of six years' experiments at the College, show an average inerease in yleld of grain per acre of 6.8 bushels from large as compared with small seed, of 7.8 bushels from plump as com- pared with shrunken secd, and of 36.6 bushels from sound as com- pared with broken seed. Seed which was allowed to become thoroughly ripened before it was cut produced a greater yield of both grain and straw, \ and a heavier weight of grain per measured bushel than that produced from wheat which was.cut at any one of four earlier stages of maturity. In each of two years when winter wheat was sprouted in the flelds, germina- | tion 'tests of were made. The following results show the aver: age percentage of germination from each selection: Skin over germ, un- b; m, 94; skin over germ, broken, 76; sprouts one-quarter inch long, 30; and sprouts ome inch long, 18. Not only was the sprouted wheat low dn germination but the plants pro- duced were very uneven in size. White Wheats vs. the Red Varieties. White wheats as compared with red wheats yield more grain per acre, Possess stronger straw, weigh a little less per measured bushel, are slightly softer in the grain, are more useful wheat and of pastry, and furnish a somewhat weaker flour for bread pro- duction. Winter wheat which was grown on clover sod yielded much better than that which was grown on timothy sod, and that which was grown on land on which field pease wore used 48 'a green manure ylelded 6.5 bushels of wheat per acre more than that grown on land on which buck- | wheat was used as a green manure. Several Experimental Union Tests to Choose From. " In time for seeding this autumn, valuable material will be sent out from the College to those farmers reé- siding In Ontario who wish to con- Brantford Roofs help to make communities at- tractiveand \ value togfhe ] home. B Unfading Colors -- Brantford Asphalt "Slates are built for unusual endurance. 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