THE DRYDEN OBSERVER Former Russian Princess > 'in London Mme. Wolkoff, formerly the Princess Troubetzkoi; forced to flec is' "Rag Doll Modeler." ; The Princess is shown here at work in her home on Gloucester from Russia after her property and estates were confiscated, now seeking out a living in Loadon as a Place, London. Peary Signpost in Artic Dicovered by Britist Explorers This Photo, made by Capt. Godiord Hansen, Danish Artic Ex- plorer shows the sign post inscribed "four hundred miles to the North Pole," which was planted bys Admiral Peary, discovere of the North Pole, on his successful <xpedition to the top of the world The Signpost was discovered by Capt. Hansen, during his recent expidition to the Northern-most point, 83 degrees north of Green- land. The Hansen party was an auxiliary of the Amundsen expedition. This is the time to look after your Machinery, be it Plow, Binder or Separator. Order repairs for same 1t ouce, then you, your dealer and he repair man at the Branch have roper time to O K your order. Do 10t make it a Rush Order." Hans Kellbeg, Waldhof, Ontario earns.livng as "Rag Doll Modeller," | interest on money invested, together . our work for the tractor is to remove Sitting Down to Count the Cost-- What the Machines Can Do--The Personal Factor In = Tracios Management Important. (Contributed by Ontario Department of . Agriculture, Toronto.) V iE farmer, who is always of conservative nature, is not so readily convinced of the tractor's paying qualities. 'He has seen demonstration machines with one man plough as much ground in an hour as he could plough in a day; he has also seen tractors give a very creditable showing on the belt. Then again he has seen ma- chines which for some reason or other did not give satisfaction; he has also seen instances where ma- chines were tied up for weeks for want of a spare part to replace a broken one. The result is that they are not 'falling over each other" to buy tractors. A tractor costs a lot of money, and he is afraid to make the plunge, not being so certain that it will pay ior itself, Ps An old saw-miller once said to the writer: "Every second that saw is not actually cutting lumber she is a bill of expense." Manufacturers tell us that the factory which can be kept ' going twenty-four hours a day is the factory which gives the biggest re- turns. The same is true of the farm traetor; the most profitable machine is the ome which is kept at it for three hundred days of the year. This means that if we have not enough work to keep the machine going for a certain length of time each year we will be loging money. The debt which a tractor must wipe y cut when it sets foot upon a farm is 8 two-fold one. First it must more than repay operating expenses, and gacond it must pay what the manu- fagiurer calls "overhead expenses." ! The machine has no reason to fear | the former obligation when it is pro- perly handled. We know that the | 008t of ploughing with a tractor costs caly from $1.25 to $2.00 an acre, | while horse-ploughing will come to : anywhere between $3.50 and $6.00 Per acre, while other work shows an equally favorable coraparison for the tractor. Besides the draw-bar work the traator offers itself as a source of Belt power which work horses have long since ceased to perform, The "overhead" expenses which the tractor must face consist mainly of PRET with a reasonable allowance for de- preciation on the price of itself, plus the price of any machinery bought expressly for use with the tractor. The price of a three-plough tractor is somewhere near $1,400; the ploughs cost $200. To this we must add say $500 for part ownership of a thresher and silo-filler. This makes $2,100 in all. The interest on this at 7 per sent. is equal to $147.00, and the de- preciation of 10 Der cent. per annum is equal to $210, or a total of $357, which our tractor must face, no mat- ter how much or how litte work it does. If the machine does only ten days of work per year the cost of the overhead per day would be $35.70; if, however, the machine is used for one hundred days the overhead drops te $3.57 per day. So that the greater the number of days in which the tractor is employed per year the more profitable will the machime prove. There is plenty of work for a trac- tor on most Ontario farms, but the work is not in such shape that the tractor can do it satisfactorily. A tractor cannot do good work in small fields. Turning around, even with a small tractor, is laborious work for both the operator and the machine, and is not conducive to the maximum § amount of work per day nor to the } best 'quality of work. : Most Ontario tarms have too many fences for profitable horse-farming, to say nothing of using a tractor. Fences mean waste land; they harbor weeds, and it costs more to keep the usual quota of fences in repair than it does to build a temporary fence when.needed and roll needed. Reloving some fences ig the first step toward fair play for the tractor. It is hard work to cultivate among stumps and boulders with horses. With a tractor it is impos- sible to do good work in such condi- tions. The second step in arranging all obstructions. Give the tractor a fair chance at its work and it wil} not disappoint you. : ~ In summing up the tractor's case as a business proposition we must consider the following points:-- 1. That the tractor will do farm work more cheaply than horses can do it, if the work is properly arrang- ed for the tractor. 2. The personal factor in tractor operation is so great that it alone may cause success or failure. - 3. When a tractor is kept busy enough, its upkeep and overhead cost per year is far less than the same on the horses, which it is able to sub» stitute for. : é. Belt work constitutes a large portion of the tractor's usefulness. In order to make it a paying proposi- tion, it must do the farmer's belt work.--L. G. Heimpel, Kemptville Agricultural School. Save Manure. There has never been a time when the making, saving, and utilizing of all sorts of farm manure was so essential. All fertilizing material is high in price, and some kinds cannot be had in sufficient quantities at all, Farm manure may be used for a num- ber of purposes to a much greater advantage than commercial fer- tilizers. The total quantity of ma- nure can be greatly increased by keeping live stock sheds and stables well bedded with straw, leaves, and TH TRACTORS . ations for the various offices. other refuse-about the farmy a DRYDEN BOARD OF TRAD E $9069600000066046690000400 The special effort made by the Board of Trade to increase its New Otticers Elected. A.Y. GARDINER ¢ Leneral Merchant g support to any work the Board 5 J pe & might undertake. EAGLE RIVER, ONT. g i Mayor Pitt at this membership met wth great suc- cess at their meeting on Monday night. Many unable to be present in person have had their names enrolled with the secretary, and a numerically strong body is the: result. The retiring president, Mayor Pitt after calling the meeting to order, gave a brief explantory outline of the importance of the place of such Boards in the growth of community life, In giving reasons why it was out of the question that he be again considered for office of president. M. S. Campbell asked to be excused on the grounds of his being already chairman of the School Board, and also because his official position might restrict his usefulness as president, he introduced the business of this evening, and called fo rnomin- For president, the names of Dr. Dingwall and Mr J. B. Beveridge were submitted, but as neither of these gentlemen was present, and their sponsors could not give assurance of acceptance, their names were withdrawn after the first ballot. The remaining two, Messrs Swan Swanson and J. C. Gough tied at first, but on a second -ballot, Mr Swanson was declared elected by a majority, J.0. Gough was then unanimously appointed Vice-President. The meeting somewhat insis- tently re-appointed T. C. R. Crawley to the office of Secretary, despite his expressed desire to be releasen. It was felt that his i conduct of office, and experience in duties justified his re-election with an increase of salary. A committee of eight were also appointed as directors of the Board. Many members who felt them- selves unable to accept office because of the nature of their business nevertheless gave the strongest assurance of their inten- tion to give the fullest possible stage , vacated the chair in favor of the new President, Swan Swanson. Mr Swanson was the first to hold the office of President of Dryden Board of Trade, having much to do with its founding, in this Town. His long acquaintance with the affairs of Dryden, and the assurance of the fullest co- operation of the Vice-President, Mr J. 'O. Gough, should enable him from the start to make the influence of the rgzr Board felt in public affairs. Mr Pitt suggested that an enjoyable method of launching the work of the season would be by holding a banquet to celebrate " the entrance of the new members ; the President laughingly com- menting that enjoyment now-a- days was greatly interfered with by the existing laws governing the means at such affars. The! Ant ior _suggestoin however, was heartily, . Tamla = endoised by all present. | Yorkshire Insurance Company Mr Pitt moved that the Scc- Frost & Wood and retary be instructed to vrrite the Cockshutt Implements relatives in the old country of the late T. A. MacKenzie, conveying the sympathies of the Board to them. Mr MacKenzie had been for years a hard working member of the Board, and he felt that it was but fitting that this be done. This was carried unanimously. Leaving it in the hands of the officers to arrange further action --- in regard to meetings, &c., the Board the adjourned. AGENIL FOR ut! Plow Go. Frest & 'ood Implements Charaln'e Dagom Cannratnen Quzinis's Fuga Sane n Raw Furs Bouohi and » PERE LARC THIS EORSEHROODS Gogksh 3g BPOVOVG VPP Y FCOD DEO OOGOE TEs 10m M. J. CROSIER neral Merchant, OXDRIFT, Ont, dealer in Dry Goods C.roceries Boots and Shom Hardware and Farm Produce gre np tei ott A, od bo) DROIT EE = PROK CER, Notary Public Conveyancer, Eto. ERY BER 5 ery Ful oa fe YTS EET ICA RO. T. TRIS Town of Dry { | | ¥ (g 0 EA -- > Bevden Livery, Transfer SAE Bae nd Ln iy LOE YORVOSL phd a SCAVENGER WANTED Be Applications will be received by an the undersigned for the post of 2 Le. n Scavenger for Town of Dryden, BEC ba at a salary of $500.00 Applications will be received up to March 31st, 1921. J. E. GIBSON, Town Clerk. SE HE ita Bey Bt £ go £3 DRYDEN LEA SET SER EP wr A ; BE SLBO PG 1 ~ won er -- it up when not j EDISON'S Sid IAMOND FT ER The World's Createst Phonograph Value HINK ofthe vast difference between Edison's Amberola and ordinary phonographs or "talking machines'. The Amberola is the prod- uct of matchless inventive genius---of inspiration. Other phonographs are plain, factory-made ma- chines, devoid of inspiration. Thomas A. Edison's master mind conceived the Amberola to entertain mankind. Commer- cial phonographs are put together with just one object in view--to sell at so much profit. No wonder the Amberola has demonstrated its superiority time and again in public compara- tive tests with "talking machines" and commer- cial phonographs. The marvelous tone of the Amberola~--the per- manent, genuine Diamond Point Eeproducer (no needles to change)--the practically unbreakable, everlasting dmberol REecords--all reveal the gen- ius of Edison. And the surprising, low cost of the Amberola puts high-priced "talking machines" and commercial phonographs to shame; Let us show you how easy it is for anyone to own an Amberola. Call at our store or write to us in the next few days. Even if you are con- vinced you cannot afford an Amberola, put it up to us to make it possible. So remember--call or _write--soon, = ~~