» THE DRYDEN OBSERVER Plead for SIR HENRY THORNTON tional Railways, says: forest fire. "The forest is President of the Canadian Na- "If any man wants to add to the burdens of the Canadian Na- tional Railways, let him start .a E. W. BEATTY President of the C.P.R., says: "A living forest means live jobs. Dead forests mean dead jobs.' No.man of us has any right to kill a forest by his careless acts. A minute's a main pillar "of Jz our freight busi- | ness and tourist | travel. I appeal |# to every Cana-!3 dian: ' ¢ Protect the Forests.' " care may save a' century of wait- ing." i) Railway N ws Port Coquitlam, B.C.--On July 29 the city treasurer received $16,000, the C. P. R. taxes, which were not really payable until August 81. Thete 'is jubilation in the City Hall for these taxes are the first paid since the expiry of the by-law fixing the fiat rate. . St. John, N.B.--All the C. P. R. employees now living who served in the recent war will have a token to - commemorate their sacrifice in the shape of a scroll which is a fine Piece of work and is almost a copy of the large bronze tablet unveiled a C.'P. R. here on April 28, 1922. The scroll is signed by E. W. Beatty, President C. P. R., and E. Alexander, Secretary. The scription on the seroll reads: . "In honor of duty nobly done. This scroll serves to commemorate that, while in the servis of the Canadian Pacific Railway (the recipient's name Abgeary here), relinquished his posi- In response to the call of King and country and served during the Great War 1914-1918." The base of the scroll is set off by the names of the following battles: Ypres, Festubert, the Somme, Vimy, Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, Came rai, urt-Queant and Mons. Regina.--The Saskatchewan better farming train brought its highly successful tour to a conclusion re- 'cently, and Mr. Williams, agrieul- tural agent of the Camadian Pacific Railway Company, expressed his be- lief that this train, the biggest yet operated, with the biggest attend- ance, also got bigger and better re. sull. than any of its predecessors. "Many silos," said Professor Wine ters, of the Animal partment of the College of Agricul- ture, who was on the train through the whole trip, "will be built as a result of the visit of the better farming train." . Professor Petts, who was lectur. mg on dairying and who was in charge of the dairy exhibit car, state in- - ed 'that in the southern and eastern parts of the provinge there is a very noticeable increase in the interest taken in cow testing work, and one result of the tour of tife train, he Was convinced, will be that a very large number of dairymen will now adopt this method and many others, formerly doubters, are now con- vinced of the value of this system. Lubrication, ignition and carbure etor troubles were the chief matters 'upon which farmers sought the as- sistance of Mr. Josephson in the far-1 mechanics car, and he believed that an unprecedented number of Power users benefitted by bringing thei. problems 'for solution to the better farming traju. : Both the household science and the forestry sections were very busy * throughout the trip. In the field husbandry car Miss Brayford's bees attracted consider able attention. This lady has kept bees for many years near Wawota, and last year her output of honey reached well over 900 pounds. J. K. Finlayson, who wag in charga of the poultry car the greater part of the trip, states there seems to be a good deal of doubt regarding the cotton fronted poultry house, some complaining 'that the birds froze their combs. This, he said, was be- cause the house was overcrowded, and the more hens there are the more moisture comes from the cone densing breath. + A hen's tempera- ture is 106, and ske can stand the cold perfectly well, as long as the air is dry. The cotton fronted poul- try house, with insulated walls and properly ventilated, has been found: absolutely satisfactory at the College of Agricnlture. i - ; : Husbandry De- RE | WTS a da's export trade grew $174,= ¢ vc memim 004,000 A recent and popular Canadian Pacific appointment is that of Mr. | Walter Maughan to Steamship Pas- 'senger Manager. The appointment includes management of the com- | pany's passenger business en both | the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, ! Fire insurance companies found . 1922 the most disastrous year for more than 20. The ratio of losses to premiums was 68.64 ner ceat, British companies suffered most se- verely, their losses to premiums be- | ing 71.48 per cent, mainly due to the Northern Ontario fire. . £7 A gold rush is in full swing and it is expected to bring about the de- velopment of more mining camps in the counties of Temiskaming and Abitibi. Gold was discovered in these two counties early in 1922, and a rush of prospectors began in March of that year. In October, 250 claims were staked, comprising 50,000 acres of land, and to date about 90,000 acres have been staked. In the last fiscal year, Canada imported 1,363,000 pound-~ of butter from the United States, 297,000 pounds from Australia and 2,254,000 ounds from New, Zealand, The otal hy of Canadian butter were 8,430,000 pounds. ; a It is announced that the running schedule of the Trans-Canada Lime ited, which will operate between Montreal, Toronte and Vancouver, commencing May 20th, has been cut down one hour. Considering the all steel equipment and luxurious ap- Prsimenss and its regular daily on ime performance, thi¥ is the finest long distance train in the world. Bungalow camps, such as are : operated in the Canadian Rockies, owes Stare te TR EAN mR, . and Alberta, ,which is an apparent are to be built in the French River, Nipigon Bay and Lake af the Woods districts of Ontario by the Canadian Pacific Railway. Low cost of con- struction and maintenance will er- able the company to offer lower rates than standard hotels. The first three will be ready for eccupation by July 1st. ; According to a recent rearrange- ment of ports of call i~ the Orient, the Canadian Pacific Steamships Limited, by omitting Manila as a pose of call between Shanghai and ong Kong, will bring the latter port four days nearer to Canada, the United * States and Europe. This makes possible a through service from London, England, via Cana- dian Pacific Atlantic Empresses to Quebec and rail to Vancouver and via Canadian Pacific Empresses to Hong Kong under 28 days. During the year 1922 the Cana- dian Pacific Railway handled a total of 8,435,825 pieces of baggage &s compared with 8,732,674 for the previous year.: Of this amount 5,175,203 pieces were passengers' baggage which compared with 5, 486,455 for the previous twelve months. 9,697 bicycles were handled, 19,336 dogs travelled as baggage and 23,983 baby. carriages were moved. There was also a considerable increase in the movement of milk. In 1922, the Company moved 1,623,- 707 cans as against 1,614,791 in 1521; and it is remarkable that most of this increase was in the three provinces, Manitoba, Saskatchéwan indication of the farther develop- ment of mixed farming in' those provinces. | What do they call potatoes in Sweden? They don't call them, they dig them. : in the first eleven months | of the fiscal year ending March 31st. | Montreal Honors First Skipper in Port 1. C.P.S.S Montrose bringing first passengers to Montreal, 1923 Season. , of the Bolingbroke. TEN years ago Montreal was but a "mere calling place for ships." It had practically no medern eargo- handling devices or equipment, its wharf sheds were just wooden shacks which were actually taken down in winter to prevent them being blown away, and much of the merchandise was stored in the open air at the mercy of the wind and weather. Now Montreal is the greatest port of Canada and it is the best located. From a mere riverside stopping place for ships, it has stepped into the | fi front rank of ocean ports, and has become equipped with facilities for the accommodation of ships and for the handling and storing of freight that are unrivalled on the continent. Despite the fact that Canada has less 'than 10,000,000 population and that the United States has more than 110,000,000, Montreal now handles 2 greater volume of business than any port on the American continent with the solitary exception of New York. The principal reasons for Montreal's supremacy are; the facts that it is nearly one thousand miles inland from the ocean, at the head of deep water navigation with direct access to the Atlantic, and that behind it is 2. Captain Edmund Aikman, Commander a through route right up to the head of the Lakes at the Twin Cities, a thousand miles further inland. Were it an all year port, Montreal would be the chief one of the continent, but for some months winter closes the beauti- ful St. Lawrence route, and the vessels fretting at the mouth of the great river must wait until the ice goes out in the spring before they can make their way westward. About fifty years ago, the Harbor Master originated the idea of presenting a tall silk hat to the captain of the first vessel to arrive in the spring with a transatlantic ship, This custom was observed for about thirty-five years, then, 'as the top hats lost their popularity, a gold headed cane 'was presented instead by the Harbor Commission. dn .. This year the cane was presented to Captain Edmund Aikman, of the Canadien Pacific S.S. Bolingbroke who had just completed his first voyage in command. The Bolingbroke left London for Montreal on April 8th, calling at Antwerp en-route, arriving three hours ahead of her nearest competitor on May 8rd. The liner, "Montrose" of the same line, de first passenger vessel to £3 reach the port in 1923, arrived #wo days after. a # ing to regain her -after-the-war stride in the midst of many A difficylties, -- debt, deflation and depression being some of them. Quack remedies and academic theories beset her path on every side. Some suggest that cur debt worries can best be eased by go- ing further into debt. Others preach blue ruin, decry their own country and indulge in chievous propaganda generally, while still others look for a new social order or some miraculous sign to indicate a better coming day---all this in' apparent forget- fulness of the fact that just as there was no royal road to win the war, there is now no royal road to pay for it or regain our former buoyancy, vigor and confidence. mis- Some are leaving Canada hop- ing to escape taxation, only to find there is no escape anywhere. In seeking for easy remedies too many of us overlook the fact that the greatest remedy is hon- est, hard work. faithfully and intelligently performed, zccom- panied by old-fashioned thrift. It takes time, it takes patience, it takes grit. Butevery Canadian knows in his heart that Canada is coming through ali right. Our Experience Proves Look back over the path has trod. The French Col / cut off from civilization by 3,000 miles of sea, faced a con a wilderness--without the : Authorized for publication by the Dominion Department of Agriculture W. i. MOTHERWELL, Minister. Dr. J. H. GRISDALE; Deputy Minister. even a blazed trail. They had to fight savages, frosts, scurvy, loneliness and 'starvation. The United Empire Loyalists subdued an unbroken forest in one generation, growing their first wheat amid the stumps and snags of the new clearing. The Selkirk settlers came to Manitoba when the prairie was a buffalo pasture, and grew wheat where none had own before and where those who knew the cotintry best at that time said wheat would never grow. To- day the Canadian prairies grow the finest wheat in the world. In proportion to population Canada stands to-day among the wealthiest nations in the world, with average savings on deposit per family of 7500. Canada's foreign trade per head | of population stands amongst the {1X highest of the commercial nations, being $192 per capita in 1922-23, as pared with $135 in 1913-14, the peak" year before the war. New Opportunities for, Canada In Canada, although prices in the world markets fell below war level, our farmers reaped last autumn the largest grain crop in Canadian his- tory, and Canada became the world's largest exporter of wheat, thus in large measure making up for lower prices. Last year, Great Britain, after an agitation extending over thirty years, removed the embargo on -Canadian cattle, and a profitable and practically unlimited trade is opening up for Canadian stockers and feeders. AS "The 20th Century "belongs to Canada"--if Canadians keep faith. The*next article will suggest prac- tical opportunities for profit making on our Canadian farms.