neets on the te month in LOW, HOWELL, Secrtiry TIRT KITCHEN RANGE omen WAINWRIGHT CI.UB meets in the School at Bonn the firet Saturday of each mouth for Christmas bi de Lok the heart 1 pass and coal ranges, oo improvemenis. A d ! A. pract- ical holiday gift that everybody will LE wo 4 ; welcome. EAGLE RIVER CLUB meets agcond Saturday of each month, at ro 8 pom. ALEX. TURNER, [MT A 74 i Ss Y Say. He A e ty 24 NY = i ; i] oT RL £53 WALDHOF CLUB meets First Bill NERS Su SBE EO Saturday of every month in the Schoolliouse, at 8 o'clock Picture Framing E GREUN, Bhs hits Pact Secretary. Haritoha bypsuar fa dwall and Wood fibre, Lic. coms am---- Undeaking in connection WABIGOON CLUB" meets first Saturday of every month, at 8 p.} m.. in he Schoolroom. : = ANDERSON & HARKIS TCTOR Nome FERN oY, 1 pag Ge OW he Te & CHARLEBOIS evden Livery, Tiansfer En BEDWORTTi CLUB meets they last Saturday of every month ati. 8 p.m. Visitors from fraternal; clubs are heartily welcome. W. I. BICKNELL, p ! ews Brg Secrztary, iba : : a4 VAN HORNE. OLU mes Ty 950 every third Satniday in od 1 1Cha 173 ship Hall, Dryden, at & p.m. ba i CHAS. NCRGATE, if pyorwvnmtl WT Secy Pa KERRY OMe se Le GE. RRB RG DODGY GLENGOLAND Farmers' Club mests wy > nn the Second FRIDAY in the month, at 18 153 PRONG: ad Z eolock pan. Mss H. MARTIN, | No sry Public Are BH, MAK 3 3, NTS Dryden P.O. Serco y. Conveyance, Eio. DIEYDREN » EE gp ren SH Clzanliness Courtesy EAGLE RIVER BUTC and General We ca arry full line of Fresh Groceries of the highest quality, also Flour and Feed We can St apily everything in Hardware ; ve The Store that gives the best quali: y. for your money A. MILLINGS, Prop. ! | use every preventive measure and see »! values for four and bread-making. 5 | Tt was found that growing conditions 'the percentage of flour obtained, £ | Marquis wheat yielding ag low as "while under favorable conditions per cent. {mon wheat profduced distinetly lower 'the only variety of common spring . ence being 2.6 per cent. All varieties ' the dough, the guality .ef the gluten, ! This was a gre ! obiained fron 7 other variety of , whaoat e te. All varieties of Durum ve a smaller loaf alume i that Uaited S States (Oficial Tribute te a Cana'ian Product. Says It Is the Leading Variety for Growing In the Northern Great Plains -- Best All Around Com- mon Wheat to Grow for Bread- making. (Contributed by Ontario Department of Agriculture, Toronto.) Following is a digest of Bulletin No. 878 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Marquis wheat! was originated by Mr. Charles Saunders, Dominion Cerealist, Ottawa: That Marquis. wheat is the leading variety of common wheat for grew- ing in the Northern Great Plains is the conclusion reached by specialists of the Uni'ed States Department of Agrienlture as a result of varietal experiments with spring wheat ¢on- ducted at 11 feld stations in the northern half of the Great Plaina area chiefly in co-operation with the state experiment stallions. Details of il experiments, including discus gions on the principal varieties, how rhen they come to the regioa, 'nd hew to distinguish them, are sontained in Department Bulletin Varietal Experiments with ving Wheat on the Northern Great , issued by the department. ction to ths United States. 8, ntrodu Marauis wheat was first introduced > 1e 3 United States from Canada , hut is now more widely n any other variety. It is and early maturing, giics metimes «<n rust and drought. information cn om a0 Ah de 158 Was Ait poi area by severe gosnread recsutly, re sometimes ues have continued n about the sams pro- cther sections. Toiw cost of production rn to lower prices tial that he a varieti i re ve be en obtained by the Soin 1t-and tested. In preliminary nursery experiments MODERATELY OPTIMISTC At Foit Frances An annual event in Canadian journ- alism is the Toronto Globe's general : ! revi he year just closed. This : at" Bede tinel review of the year j : Fort Frances, Ont, Jan. 3r year the Globe's review is more than trial of the action of the Province of i ; i a i Ontario versus the Shelvin Clark Lum ordinarily interesting, dealing as it does with a period of deflation from ber Company reopened here this morn- ; ; ing before Mr Justice Logie, with the the fopros Desk of Infigtion, : : : ] Deflation has struck heavily upon six council present, namely; Messrs N. § ' A ; ) the primary industries, agricultural 11, K.C. T rdi d BE ; > Losi 23 Erin i) Siw 2 suffering most keenly of all trades of y ' ? production. The farmers were con- Tes 1 y . a . . messrs Glynn Olser, K.C, G. R. Mur fronted with a falling market for pro- doch and H A Tibbets, for the defend- duce that has cost far more than the ant. : A y . I market values. The result has been to Proceedings commenced with a dis-], EI leave the farmer as a class without cussion belween Messrs Rowell, and ed ; EE 2 : : - 0 Rability to meet his obligations. In thi Osler as to an amendment to the 3 oh RT SR ba -onnection Mr Byron Walker Crown's pleadings alleging among Ji Janadian Bank of Commerce other things that the Sheviin-Clarke 2 Naar, on the banks and business houses Company obtained an unfair an. 3 A S : iecessity of exercising more th trgaguiont valuation of the two lum- ; : : : srdinary patience with the farmer ber berths under claim of promising els di oh adh Government Inspector a positio: teir difficult position. Every poss as election enumerator.. The amend- ment also alleged that a brush burning sxperiment had in reality been a sal of crown timber. Hs Lordship allowed oil amend- ments. of credit to give them a chance to 1e- over from the blow they recelvel nn 1921 rices generally | i. Deflat'on in seen slow, even as in wages, save in the less skilled ranks where the ve- ductions have been heavy. Lowering costs are, however, having effcet and this year should witn a long towards completing readjust: The writer of the review a general outlook gly es of erate optimism, and : "waste of war can be 3 in by. energy and production and ways must be discovered to find employ- Evidence as. to Prices The firt witness called by the crown this morning was Frank S. Lang, superintendent of lands and forests' products department, in the nternational Lumber Company since Lugust 1, 1919. To Mr Rowell, he 1 that his headquarters were 18 Wa sep Pog unhaa Pore or sin that state. ' ent for all those who have the will Te Fbted one Sale at $17.25 Per 44 do work." Whi lo 7 nAflndiiiinfthe 'housand feet; another at § 2. per : 7 Tne Aad mh 'housand feet, Scribner Scale. His rv i own Company now paid 815.00 per "housand feet for ome berth and oze as high as $19.00 later on. ott Livre Tos Two years were given to cut the tim | ber on a berth unless extension were granted by the timber board. State laws provided for brush destruction. © A whole list of prices paid for vari- 11s berths over two years were quoted cdi who then detailed tho class of timber on berths purchascd by his company. He produced original many of them did not show them- selves fitted for culture in the semi "ong. These varieties wore nly the more promising + Hl c ted to be grown ia plat experiments. The Question of Yield BU cruisers' charts which were filed. Mr Lang quoted prices paid for berths in excess of state estimate of probable price. These varied as high as 115 per cent. increase over estimate. Mr Backus in the Game In Bulle!in 878 phe annual yields of the spring wheat varieties grows during the seven years, from 1913 to 1219, are shown for each station. A summery of the yields shows that, in gencral, the Marquis variety is the highest yielding common spring wheat. It has been included in all of the experiments each year. The better varieties of Durum wheat have outyielded Marquis at all stations but one. The Kubanka Durum wheat oud! yielded Marquis at eight of the tea ; the prices paid in Minnesota had no To Mr Osler, Mr Lang sta'ed hef..y I Pe 43 irnew nothing about stum fons T1DY Lh noug 1 tout the in Ontario. He was, he stacd, and} 3 employee of E. W. Backus, Whosely Lave on lig various ramifications in the timber) * *** aii Yi: nie Ya Cl JA and railroad business, Mr Lang de- tailed to Mr Osler. So far as he knew connection with Ontario prices. He knew nothing about them. sta ions where it was grown. Phe ern ih ah i an 1d Doors. Data on rust infection were ob. Pected in making purchares j ii rer Doard tained ot seven stations. Marquis 2S he knew, bought no Canadian t'm- Le 0 ESAT Nke nen M SE esi. push Sites] ber and paid no attention to Canadian Plaster cbservations. Most of Sos a prices, He did noblniow hah stamp bl dd oy gommercial varieties - of GOmMmMOR | age was lower than that of Minnesota. VV 1UN Pi 1CE8 a own i Om gpring wheat ghowed a higher per-; Regarding berth G. 49 bought about : Ni Mow is ai a rsenan ian Mar- January, 1921, he had no recollection ' 2 a hifi pan of the price paid, though he had heard! AALS RIT That of the sale. The price of $9.00 per' gry vitliing Tests. A 1 Wa pd, thousand stumpage plus two dollays F744 'The leading varietier of spring wheat grown at the eleven stations were milled in an experimental mili four baked into bread in to determine their relative +h vd the order and digease had much influence on 58.4 per cent. of flour from sections where it had been affected by rust, it produced as high as 75.8 per cent. of flour. The average yield of fiour from 37 samples of this variety was 70.2 Several varieties of com- percentages of flour than Marquis. Pregton (Velvet Chaff) and Haynes Bluestem produced about the same percentage as Marguis. Prelude was wheat which had a distinctly nigher fovy yield than Marquis, the differ- of Durum wheat, however, yielded crown dues was to him, _witnss de-; clared. Mr Osler asked the witness had any knowledge of certain ber purchased by the Fort Frances Com- pany, one of the Backus companies, : paying prices from $1.00 to $4.00 per thousand feet as recently as December i IY gn Td 3 Wel 1 Cool i 4% A Nr Yb VE ryihin ws VI Dh HLg and Home Rule For India. Ahmedabad, British India, Dec 31-- A plea for an Indian republic to be called the United States of India, to be declared January 1, and to be attained by guerilla warfare if necessary was the principal feature of the address of President Hazarat Mohani of the all- an { might happen § were groundles India Moslem league in opening the annual session of the league here to- day. Mohani invited Mohandas Gandhi, leader af the non-co-operation move- ment, who was present, to form a parallel government with its own parliament and armies. Mohani ad- mitted that such a government could not be maintained by peaceful means. Iiahani assured the Hindus that their apprehensions regarding what under a "Free India" s because India belong- ed equally to the Hindus and the Mo- concession should be granted by way hammedans, and he declared the Mos- lems would stond by the Hindus to the Tor the atainment of independ- last ence. UNLIKELY PREMIER KING OPPOSED IN RE-ELECTION | Newmarket, Ont., Dec. 31.--The ex- ecutive oft he Notts York conservative ; here today to con- he comes back to this riding For re- election It is not considered likely that a candidate will te put up in op- fon to Mr King. There was some « the local house to omin'on premier in this } thought un- 5 will nom- Sanaa Y to McDonald Lumber Yards re interest of the McDonald mber Yards 3 at Dryden, I wish to announce that a comp! oe stock of all Building als. Storm Windows and Storm Doors. He Snalon, Reefings. Cement. their recent high level the Time to Buy pany arrive in a few days. rg for a Building. One Piece or a Carload. RE a ARNIS SU 1920, these in addition to crown dues. Witness said he had not but agreed to look the matter up at noon. i Pressed by Mr Osler, witness was of the opinion that there was considerabl competition in certain parts of the timber belt for supplies for mills run- ning out of limits. He was not specific about localities, however. FANCE IS WRECKER OF ARMS CONFERENCE a higher percentage than Marquis, except D-5, a red-kerneled Durum heat which ig low in mililng value. wheat sample was analyzed for 1 the erude protein con- d. Marguis whea! had =in content of 15.8 slight the v from it. In experiments fiour Te from each variety of wheat was baked in order to deter. mine the expansion of strength of and the resulting texture and light- ness of the bread. The average loaf volume obtained from 37 samples of Marquis wheat was 2,842 cubic cen- timetres m 340 grams of flour. ocr volume than was ron ire Morquis. AR farmer chould keep s0me sunt system of his busi- ow the profit and his operations. an not prevent out- of live stock disease on our but we can and should always Ha § farios, proper when the precautions disease 8rat .are taken makes its New York, Dec. 30. -- "The French government had deliberately wrecked the submarine program of the ronfer- ence for the limitat on of arm amnente,, declares the New York World edifori- ally today. ; The motive runs back, the paper ac serts, to the refusal of the United States to ratify the treaty of Versail- les, or consider giving guarantees of protection to France. Regarding the statement of the French delegates their submarine de- mands are based wholly on the view- point of security for France, the 8 that alway Ma hla. LH stand the test World says: "That is a fairy. tale for innocent and every credulous children. "It is substantially the same story that was told when the French bhlock- ed an agreement for the limitaticn of land forces. What France is obvious- ly playing for is guarantees, and hy way of forcing them she has adopted the sabre-rattling tactice that once captivated the imagination of William of Hohenzollern." On- set Single The Gid Massey ApPPOIATANCE. ER dal Ip Harness, Now. good as y Huy ris Stand £3 H Serer 5. Li. DLAUK, Agent.