THE DRYDEN osERvER. wherever you You. can get a Victrola i in a eds size edition that "travels light," stores away in a spare corner of the car, The Victrola IV is just right for summer requirements. It is light, compact, 'sturdily ~ built, takes up litde space, and embodies all the exclusive Victor patented features. cabin or canoe. > x FREE TRIAL--Fill out and mail the coupon and we will send you this wonderful instrument on trial. : You can send us the price in full or take J ! zo Oo "advantage of our easy payment plan. 7 is MAIL US THIS COUPON . > > <8 . TODAY = » yore (EFRINPTL LAURE Y LS RRIAT CH YYRILLY ER LERS TI ARLE 3418 L114 EB RTIAYES A ATEMSATAS4L882 183 RASARY AERIARILANY TTI CCT [AVERATRASHATRLARTLUORLERATEANANEY PLANT TREES ON PRAIRIES. Aoi Sufficient Groth In a Years to Hide Buildings. 3 To trace what one might call the 'evolution of Western agriculture-- { that. indefinable change characterized | by some of the old-timers as devolu- tion with a big "D" and a couple of robust adjectives -- wduld require space far beyond t permitted in a letter of this nature. Indeed, a vol- ume might easily be Wri ten describ- ing the wax and wane of 'free rang- ing on a great scale, the 'slow but inevitable introduction of pasture systems. and the inauguration of irri- gation in definite "dry" areas. How- | ever, taking it 'by and large, certain | very distinct symptoms betray this slow-acting metamorphosis, and of 'these one of the most striking, if not most general, is the appearance here and there on the bald landscape of groves and windbres"s formed from 'hand-plantings of treas indigenous to this fertile prairie soil.- 'Perhaps this feature is most ap- Five ~ | parent in the Province of Alberta, where a certain roll in the land may in itself suggest to homesteaders the desirability of a small amount of arboriculture. It is not surprising that tree-planting has made great progress in irrigated areas, where artificial watering, possible during a greater part of the summer, conduces to rapid growth even under unfavor- able climatic conditions. On irrigated i farms all through southern Alberta { may be seen homes whose setting is i enhanced by long rows of poplars or ' heavy clumps of soft' 'maple and | willows. ! One of the most striking illustra- | tions of the beautification of the ! prairie by tree-planting is to be seen | ! at Strathmore, the headquarters of the 'western irrigated block of the Canadian Pacific Railway. As the- | train swings in a wide curve from 'the great open space beyond, where trees are not and the very .grass this year has been parched: and sere, there comes into view at the skirts 'of the little town a vista of rare beauty ----- brown gables' of painted buildings, with red-brick chimneys and white trimmings, evergreens that sweep the sides of curving driveways, clumps .of willow and poplar that hide the utilitarian fea- tures of a farmyard and stray bits of soft green lawn: that charm the eye tired with the. endless roll of bare boundless prairie. It might be, this little spot, a town in old Ontario, with its abundance of shade trees and its profusion. of flowers. Yet it was, six or Seven years ago, a mere staked square in a wilderncss of level monotony, a bit of bald prai- rie ungraced by a- single® tree or | shrub. : "Money did that," L imagine 1 "hear the reader remark. Not at all; probably the actual money cost of 'the whole ensemble would not run over a few dollars. It is something 'more than 1 money that brings green- ness and beauty. and the blessing of shade and velvety lawn to treeless tracts of prairie. Ofttimes, indeed, 'in these Western lands one finds the most trees and the prettiest flowers and the most Inviting homes on farms where money is least thought of, where a far more treasured pos- "session is the memory of an elm- | fringed field "down east," with a long lane marked by. cedars and bal- i sams, or a great cool maple' grove . where robins twittersd in soft sum- { mer noons. | The ordinary-man ( on the ordinary { homestead out here is beginning to ! think in terms of trees and flowers. "On the Robson farm near Strath- more, on the Vidal farm near Dalroy, "at a score of farms on the Suther- j land block and at a dozen other ; places I saw whole avenues and groves that have been created within a decade. Your Westerner does not 'get out a tree here and a tree there | as does his contemporary who beau- | tifies the surroundings of his On- | tario home. Instead, he orders his slips or cuttings by the thousand and plants them by the acre, in wind- 'breaks five or six rows in depth and ~ a mile or two long, of in groves that - measure rods on either side, with trees set two feet by two feet all the way across. For, mark you, he | need not plant a tree to grow a tree; it 18 necessary only that he make a 1 'hole in the ground with a poker and : insert therein a willow slip or a cut- +ting from a poplar. There is some- thing in prairie soil that causes really phenomenal growth in these soft- wood trees. On the Canadian Pacific 'Demonstration Farm at Brooks I saw acres of trees, literally, that were planted less than five years ago, and that had attained 'sufficient growth to hide buildings such as ordinarily group themselves around a barn. At the same place I saw a row of -Rus- sian poplars over ten feet in height 'that had been planted as cuttings in 1916, three years ago. These Rus- sian poplars do unusually well in all "three prairie provinces, and, with 'Manitoba maples and willows, are most popular among tree-planting farmers, although the common spruces and balsams seem to make great headway and to endure the extreme winter weather quite as well as in the eastern provinces. A Huge Stone Crusher. What is reported to be the largest: gyratory stone crusher ever built has just been completed at Allen- town, Pa. The machine is to be used for crushing limestone for chemical purposes, flux, etc. It has two jaw openings, each 60 x 190 inches. The crusher, complete, weighs about 800,000 pounds, is seventeen feet. eight inches high from foundation to top of hopper, and has a shaft twenty-one feet long and forty inches in diameter, - "To Olean Hair Brushes, Gorn' meal will clean hair brushes: quite as well as ammonia; and there is no danger of injury to the back. of the brush, Take a clip of corn . meal and fill the brush, rubbing the bristles gently With the hand, As it becomes discolored from 'absorbing ~ the grease, shake {t out and replace with free bh meal until the brush is oo FR FRUITS. FRE SH VEGETABLES. = - District ef "a Municipality of Mackin, To Wit: Whereas, by virtne of a warrant issued under the signature of the Reeve and the Seal of the Municipal Corporation of the Towr ship of Machin , bearing date the 26th day of June, A.D. 1920, and to me directed, levy and sell the lands herein fter described for the amount of taxes and costs dtie thereon, as set forth in said list, I hereby give notice that unless the and costs be sooner paid, 1 commanding me to taxes shall proceed to sell the said lands for taxes and all lawful costs at the School House, Eagle River, cn Saturday, the ninth day of October, A.D. 1920, at the hour of fhree o'clock in the afternoon in accordance 3 with thr provisions of the Assessment Act. Township E-on Eton Snford Sanford Sanford Sanford Aubrey Aubrey Aubrey Yubrey \unhrey Femple lemple Langton Langton Langton Langton Con "or plan or block 3 3 2 Ee RS Re] ROTC Ww 6 ilan 1 M160 Part Tot Acres Arrears 160 160 160 39 87 33 17 62 12 Ni 1 Nf ( S part of jt E of River (5,805) 160 157% 160 143 130 162% 140 160 244. 160 160 » NL 160 14,15 1.3 1 SRE pe: 48 19 46 31 53 40 74 26 25.09 71-23 69 25 60 11 45 48 24 96 ADT 124.99 50 44 89 Zon n ro poh bof 2 rier Qo = bh by Gee op =] oP Zi Fy LOW gos WWW 3 1 bo ~1 = 0-22 Wel tof i NC fof me th = 7D- Dte of piblication in Ontario Gazette, 3rd July 1920 Treasucers Office, Township of Sanford byl Eagle River, 28th June, 1920 ALEX DEMPSEY Total 42 85 -.35 99. 65 67 51 39 49 46 56 73 78 11 27: 71 75 02 72 97 63 61 48 61 27 56 45 22 134 51 53 69 79 79 Vet or unpatented Unp'td Unp't'd Patented Patented Patented Patented Upp'td Unp't'd Pateunteo: Patented Patented Unp'r¥d Unp'v'd Unp't'd Unpit'd Freehold Freehold « TURNER, Treasurer. IN TRAINING AT: BRENTON HARBOR for bout with" BILLY MISKE. An excellent photograph of 'the Champion in fighting pose, made at his training camp at Benton Harbour, Michigan, where he go into condition for his match wit Billy Miske, the St.Paul heavy wemight, on Labor Day, . This is one of the first photographs from the scene of the battle, which was scheduled to go ten rounds bt "was finished in the third by the ICE CREAM BREAD CAKES of Dempse Also fu Black, Tan i White Shoes . MILTON, CAN: