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pleased to state that for gig "are prepared to distribute into every Township of Ontario material : py quality for experiments with Grain, Fodder Crops, Roots, Grasses, Glovers and Alfalfas, as follows. -- List or EXPERIMENTS FOR 1919 No. Geain Crops. Plots 1 Testing two varieties of Oats 2 2 Testing ©" A.C. No. 21 Barley Emmer oe ea ol 3 Testing two varieties of Hul- less Barley ....... SCRE | 4 Testing two varieties Spring Wheat ...... wevssnrisinns 2 5 Testing two varieties Buck- wheat'... .... aiid, 2 . 6 Testing three varieties Field - Peas. .....- iii Lie 3 7 Testing two varieties "Spring Rye. ...ciiainivinininsin 2 8 Testing three varieties Soy, Soja or Japanese Beans.... 3 g Testing seven varieties Flint Dent Husking Corn 7 Root Crops 10 Testing three varieties Man- gels. oii. iain 3 11 Testing two vaneties Sugar Mangels. ...... «coooev sane 2 12 Testing three varieties Swe- dish TOrnips + cvveus caness 3 13 Testing two varieties Fall | Turnips...... San ann ser wis 2] 14 Testing (wo varieties Carrots 2} Forace, FODDER, SILAGE Any Hay Crops, tw Testing the planting of Corn at six distances 1o'tlie row., 61 16 Testing three varieties Millet 3 17 Testing two varieties Sarg: 1 OR 2 18 Testing Grass Peas and two varieties Vetches .......e0s 1g Testing Rape, Kale and Field Cabbage ..:.ssrrnvivs veer 20 Testing three varieties Clover a1 Testing two varieties Alfalfa 22 Testing four varieties Grasses " a Curinary CroPS: 23 Testing three varieties Field Beans svcvivivennanes . 24 Testing two varieties Sweet i Corns. oes uss ER PIG FerriLizer EXPRRIMENTS 25 Testing Fertilizers with Rape 5 MisceLLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS 29 Testing three grain mixtures for Grain production.. 3 30 Testing three grain mixtures for Fodder production..... 3 The size of each plot is to be two | rods long by one rod wide. | Any person inOntario maychoose any one of the experiments for 1919 and apply for the same. The ma- terial will Qe furnished in the order in which the applications are re- _ ceived, while the supply lasts. Each applicant should make a second choice, as the material for the ex- periment selected as first choice might be exhausted before his ap- plication is received. All material will be furnished free of charge to each applicant, and the produce will, of course, become the property of the person who conducts the ex- periment. Each person applying for an experiment should write his fame and address very carefully, and should give the name of the County in which he lives. C. A. ZAVITZ, Director. @ntario Agricultaral College, Guelph, March, 1919. ah el RP 'SOLDIER ENTERS COMMONS. Another Canadian In Public Life of Great Britain. The interesting information comes from England that among the suc- cessful candidates in. the British election is a brilliant young Cana- dian soldier, Col. Weldon McLean, who has been returned by three thousand majority for one of the Lin- eolnshire ridings. Col. McLean is a son of Gen. Hugh McLean, member for the new New Brunswick riding of Royal. This is without doubt the time in Imperial history that and a son have sat in an over- sta and Imperial Parliament at the same time. 'When Canada was raising its first contingent for South Africa among the recruits collected at St. John was & boyish cadet from the Royal Milf- a Lieut. McLean. He serv- {ed through 'the war with credit, and after finishing 'his military course out on a v a military career 1 Te the Im- for time chsnces all by themselves In U-bosts," v,.v v 4 6 2% 47 A GD Y 14 Tar Cr 6h, ---- dar ar » | dg PEOPLE OF ONTARIO are accustomed to ac- eopt their food much the same as they breathe the air They read isolated items about food shortage, but such a thing as this affecting their own dinner table never enters their mind, and it is the responsibility of The Observer to bring home to its readers a realization of the facts, as un- less something is done, in another year, they will not be teading about the hunger in Belgium but the hunger in Ontario. The following should bs memorized by every reader of Tar OBSERYER, Under tha Presidency of Mr. J. W. Woods, a Confer- iN aA ence of all interested in food production was held in To- roiito on Monday, May 7. iar i | mineral possibilities of the country CHRIS SIS Investigated Our Minerals, Although the United States De- partment of the Interior has been working almost since the beginnin, of the war for an appropriat) 60 dn: authorizatton to assist in ind stimu- late the reduction of necessary min- erals and metals, which by being pro- duced at home would save precious ship tonnage for immediate war uses and make America independent of outside supplies, it was not until the last days of September that Congress finally passed and the President ap- . ? proved a bill for those purposed; : Eyal, ; hae cart¥ing with it an appropriation of : 20 SADE $60,000,000 for capital and $500,000 § for administrative expenses. Con- i : CA NADAS. | gress did, however, early appropriate 4 3 -- $150,000 for the Bureau of Mines to 3 Z : NET Exe use in making a survey of develop- mental possibilities and for co-opers- tive work with private producers. 'With this small fund the bureau cre- ated an investigating corps of about | ary scientists, engineers, and help- by lonal co: a, Sime or indirectly the | were minutely examined from the At< a Gt BRITAINS S HORTAG r lantic to the Pacific, and from Can- ada to Mexico. Investigations even . due lo WAR included Canada and Cuba, and Alas- ka was not overlooked. As a result of this work and the natural re- sponse to high prices the spirit of adventure has been aroused prospec- tors have swarmed to the mountains and plains, and there has beén an amazing increase in the production 209 148, 784 L Lbs. of some of the rare minerils essen- $ tial in the manufacture of war mas terials, such 'tungsten, molybde- num, mercury, gnesium, and mag- nesite.--American Review of Re- (A SL Nearly all Japanese pearl divers ars women.