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amy son's Golden Chaff the Most ~~ Popular Variety. 2 of Machinery Shortenen 'by #tanding © Exposed to Weather After Harvest -- All Machines. "#hould Be Overhauled and Stored ms Soon as Operations Are wompleted. : : #®antributed by Ontario Department of Agriculture. ito.) © farm surveys in the Unit and Canada that in very _ @any instances, even: in the lve ' sock districts, cash crops can fre- gently be grown to great advantage. : ~ Ustario is an important producer of _ winter wheat, especially of the white _wgrieties which yield well and bring d prices for pastry, breakfast ds, ete. gd : Winter wheat can be grown satis- factorily on a variety of soils, It rives particularly well, however, B® a rich loam containing a con gderable amount of vegetable mat- Ws. This crop fills an important Mace in the rotation and generally thrives well after "beans, peas, and ppecially« after a clover sod or a bare summer fallow. : © 'experiments &3 States 'conducted at. i gelph the winter wheat which has been sown 'bout the end of August 87 In the first week of September has ven the most satisfactory results. - if the land is in especially good con- #ition, as in the case of a sunumer - allow, the sesding migh: be delayed a little later. In sowing winter wheat "3% is important to use large, plump, © ound, well matured seed of strong "¥itality at the rate of about six pecks jer acre on average soil. Naar ~The Dawsun's Golden Chaff has ten the popular winter wheat of tario for & number of years past. f# Is very stiff in the straw and us- Helly furnishes a high yield per acre. variety called the O. A. C. #9. 104, orizinated at the [Ontario Agricultural College from a tross of : ge Dawson's Golden Chaff and the Bulgarian, is very promising. In the Jest six years it has produced an an- ~~ Baal average yield of grain per acre #8 45 bushels, while the Dawson's = den Chaff for the same period has * | groduced 40.8 bushels and the Bul. arian 37.5 bushels. It has also tak- #3 the lead over Ontario in 'the c &perative experiments in each of th t two This variety wi th : oy 0 rods ~~ 8hose wishing to conduct this : Pron should apply to the Dir : ®r of Co-operative Experiments n _ - &griculture, Ontario Ag i 1 lege, Guelph.--Dr. C. A , A. College, Guelph. vesting Tools and Mach- ~ inery After Use, _ Fhe importance of storing all har- #@sting tools and machinery after 482 is an economic factor still to be Realized by a very large percentage farmers. Much of this apathy on' © bart of the farmer towards the JE care and management of his @rm equipment is due. in a large '(Beasure to the lack of appreciation the fact that tools and ~m:.chines @RNnot give maximum of efficiency hen allowed to become coated with = wn and rust. EES he first requisite in this direction 3% to properly house them. This above all is the most impor- - It is needless to show ihe id deterioration of steel, iron, 00d, canvas, or anything that goes eo tite ™eonsiruction of farm ma- Mines, when they are out of doors ARd exposed to the elements. - Of Murse, the factors conditioning their € and working efficiency are cor- ~ of the metals cntering into ir construction, due to atmos- eric actio.as; the disintegration of Be paint snd varnishes trom the fame cause, and the decay of the Wooden parts due to heat 'and pois- e. There is, however, no reliable deta available that will give us the Mpeificient of corrosion, but every mrmer is aware that the moldbcard 2 a plough subjected to dewy nights amp weather conditions for a JE. nights will so rust. the bright fembd board as to pit its surface that _Bequires sever: rounds : of the Ad to bring. it back to good work- | Mg condition. Such a hard metal is f2doubtedly much slower to corrode _ either cast or wrought iron, bamce machines and tools left out posed to ull kinds of weather, the "Slings and working parts: of ma- : and he cutting euges.of tools become so 'badly auected "with : paris neces- tl ine d good. grind- "honeing of the tools to put @ in workavle condition. fhe question of 800d and efficient tnagement of machinery is an im- Flalt one lo the farmer it he only be made to realize the amount { bard cash he loses through his difference and neglect of them. hat tarmer would not protest in 3orous terms if he were told when sing his binder, say for 3150, {16 WINTER WHEAT had spent on war 1,24 lars, and by the time ¢ is ended she will hag _ addition, 3 5 ~ War Loans totalled ._ Possibly 21 n Canada's financial ell oW cess of her War Loans. 'especially to the Victor 1917 and 1918, floated by popular -- campaign methods. Before the war * This applies y Loans of from Italy and Egypt, 'answering echo, them. ingenuity and resources. afew: ! 1 ex: » . chase land, stock and ; tite would be about thirty JB -- a Competent authority esti- form off workers. Need Divides Two Parts i clude: to Soldiers bringing home troop he payment of all soldiers still u payroll till discharged. The upkeep of hospitals, staffs, until the need for "of the Victory Loan 1919, Gratuities For this purpose alone, -$61,000,0 out of the Victory Loan 191¢ ~ $59,000,000 already paid out of. Victory Loan 1918. 5 Land ~ Settlement Act, in the Soldiers' be loaned money by Canara implements. advanced will be paid secured by a first mortgage. 29,495 soldiers had applied for land : 'one yearning query, Ing hearts of wives, mothers, fathers, brother ~~ query was, "How soon will our boy be home?" from Palestine and from far " How soon | CANADA caught the spiri ciently and speedily The answer to the question * 'Why does Canada need another Victory Loan?" divides itself into two parts. (a) To finish paying the expenses of demobilization, and the obliga- Led a Ta HES tions we still owe to our soldiers. ~ (®) To provide national working capital. : > Obligations The obligations to soldiers in.' That already incurred cost of s from overseas. Bo demobilized. This : includes more than 20,000 sick and wounded who are still in hospital, and who of course remain on the Army and their medical and nursing themisended. = = © These three items alone ill use up at least $200,000,000 if : gS 3-2 5 There is also the gratuity which : has been authorized, and has been and is being paid to assist soldiers to tide over the period between discharge and their re-adjustment to civil life. 80 must be provided "addition to the e proceeds of the Furthermore, soldiers ;who desire to become farmers 'may, under Land | Settlement : with which to pur- back; meantime each loan is Up to August 15th, 7 under the terms ~ of this Act; and 22,281 'applications had been investi- ~ gated, and 'the qualifications of the applicant approved. . And, : will b Working . Capital s and factories. prosperity." of Credit Loans oy : ' citizens to give credit, ~~ our Allies. Actually, If Canada does not and they will get the tain employment. The money so ; affected. portation pr : These national expenditure The magnitude of these orders and no money will pass out of Canada. give credit, other 'countries will; and have the employment . that should be ours, to distribute amongst their workers. And remember, we absolute trade, , there followed with the Nation's which found echo in the faster beat- S, sisters and sweethearts. That from France and Flanders, : -off Siberia, there came an W soon, may we go home?" Canada had overseas had * years to transport to the field of battle. To bring S was a gigantic undertaking--one to tax all Canada solved the problem, rt months, an expense for demobilization whic N, too, besides the sentimental a ~~ home quickly the econo Canada's Canada needs national working ~ capital, so that she ole to sell on credit to 'Great Britain and our Allies the products "of may be able farms, forests, ~ fisheries, You may ask "Why sell to them if they can't pay cash?" ~ The answer is, "Their orders to the continuance of our agricultural and are absolutely essential the amount of em- ployment thus created, will depend upon the success "of the Victory Loan 1919. : pe : 1a 66 vw»? Farmers and manufacturers (and The Why that includes the workers on these « « orders) must be paid cash for: =. their products. Therefore, Canada must borrow temporarily, 'money from her to Great Britain and ly need these orders to main- If we don't finance them business "will feel the depression, employment 'will not be as plentiful, and conditions everywhere will be adversely - For Trans- \ Money must also be 'available to : : carry on the nation's shipbuilding ogramme, and other transport. but it meant crowding into h it was impossible to foresee. spect of the necessity for bringing the men mic side could not be overlooked. That was, to trans- the nation's army of fighters into a national army of so: § industrial For this purpose Canada this year requires $24,000,000. ation development work. ' Te ha . ry Sage tt « For loans to Provincial Housing Commissions who are Vocational For this work which, with the : he Tr aining { . Service the major activities of the is necessary. Those who give thougl1t to our outstanding obligations to soldiers, national working capital, cannot fail to be spies its average life to be twenty- i 3 ays used for six days in a year, n hrough the same farmer's care- ness and inditference, a machine t to last-atl least twenty years is ¥8uced to, say at most, five years. the present time there are many: Bsons why farmers should take 0d care of their equipme; t actu Vocationz] Training and Soldiers' Departments, embraces ; Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment, an ap] ropriation of $57,000,000 needs national - Issued by Canada's Victory Loan Committee in co-operation with the Minister of Finance : of the Dominion of Canada. building moderate priced houses. ~~ Cale These, then, are some of the things for which Canada "working capital. of a great trading company, an e Victory Bonds are the shareholders. - She is in the position and her citizens who buy Ee and to our need for impressed with the absolute necessity for the "Every Dollar Spent in Canada" + second trip into Passchend -- incident happened. Bil ~ he, that without saying ~~ was told to go back 'Canada 'was a heavy borrower, get- ting in some years as m million dollars from abro 1915 she had never p her people a Dominj greater amount than lars. In the 1917% _, baigns, however, : tions amounted to lars. To the 1918 8 tions averaged abou which speaks volume whose peonle, before 19% dl thought of buying Dominio in addition to raising thesé revenues, and subscribing so liberal to national loans, the Dominion Gov- : ernment during the last three or four years has granted over 1,000 million dollars in credits to the various allied governments. Those to Great Britain alone total 900 million dollars, and to these must be added advances to France, Italy and Rus&ia. In this connection mention should be made of advances aggregating 200 million dollars made by-Canadian banks to Great Britain. This policy will, to. some extent, be continued by the Dominion Government while the need of it exists. Already an advance of 25 million dollars has been made to Roumania, and others have 'been of- fered to France, Belgium and. Great Britain, a 2) =. a or He Ditched the Tripod. Passchendaele is generally admit- ted to have been abeut the hottest and toughest place the Canadian - Corps was ever in. Its combination of » intense and sustained shell-fire with | the rain and cold and mud in which he had to live for twenty-four hours : a day will never he forgotten by the soldiers. pe aly It was during the Third Division's _ this incident happened. B come out to the company as a re- inforcement to replace the casualties we had suffered the first trip on this front, and I suppose it was on ac- count of the large number of cg alties that Bill, was detailed to chine gun ion to "that to h neavy tripod, and miles of duckboards holes alongside th deep ugh in many instances to sink a horse or a mule, 'was not by any means a Jolin an ar hE a a ~ Poor Bill, 'who had: been told all the usual yarns in Blighty about how the flows in France used to throw away anything they didn't want at: the time as they could easily find more later on when they did want it, just stuck things for about a mile and a half of the duckwalk, and then,~so fed up and disgusted 'was a word to anyone he calnily pitched the tripod = ~ off his shoulders and 'dumped it in a shell-hole. eon Hn The N.C.O. in charge of the crew didn't. notice. this and the crew went = steadily on. their way -to the gun position, which was about four miles further. When they got there and = started to.set 'up the gun, there was no tripod to mount it on, and old © Bill's surprise and disgust when he : ] and bring up the tripod he had ditched Was great." "Bill" enjoys the joke now just as much as his comrades did then, but "the shock he received when 'he rea- lized that he had to walk those four miles back, and thea up to the posi- ~ lion again with the triped, must have = . made him feel like murdering some & one. - ~~ Admiral Sims Not a Canadian, It is necessary to correct one gen- erally prevailing . misapprehension : about Admiral Sims. He is not a Canadian, and he has never been a. British subject. The admiral has met the fate that invariably greets an American who has achieved distin-- guished success in arms, for his ar- rival home started the about 'his 'Presidential The truth is that the a se S from 'a well-known Pennsylvania, can civil en gineer, who went as a young man to Port Hope, Canada, to construct certain harbor improvements. He promptly fell in love with a Canadian girl .of that town, Adelaide Sowden, and married her. Here the future ad- miral was born, October 15, 1858, and here, as his father's contracting work kept him in these parts for a considerable period, he spent the first oe ten years of his life.--Burton J, Hen- drick, in the World's Work, = 4 = x ot battlefields is now occupying the at- _ tention of the Dominion Government, ~ Hon. A. K. MacLean has made a tour. © Will Mark Battlefields, The commemoration of Canadian of 'what was so short a ti known as our western fro visit was mainly in connect this objeet, It h