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SERIMENTS TH FARM CROPS and Experimental Union to state that for 1919 prepared to distribute into raship of Ontario material : lity for experiments with Grain, Fodder Crops, Roots, Grasses, Clovers and Alfalfas, as follows .-- List or EXPERIMENTS FOR 1919 No, Grain Crops. Plots » Testing two varieties of Oats 2 4 Testing O A.C, No. 21 Barley ~ Emmer......... 2 1 3 Testing two varieties of Hul- less Barley ... 2 4 Testing two varieties Spring Wheat ......-......vnhv 2 5 Testing two varieties Buck- 6 Testing three varieties Field Peas. vito vviviiiian,s 3 » Testing two varieties Spring RSE. iniiaiinnas 2 8 Testing three varieties Soy, Soja or Japanese Beans.... 3 Testing seven varieties Flint and x 11 Testing two varieties Sugar Mangels... iaans avis 2 12 Testing three varieties Swe 33 Testing two varieties Fall Turnips..... Waa nve asian 2 14 Testing two varieties Carrots 2 Hay Crops, 13 Testing the planting of Corn dish Turmps . 'ea 3 { i Forace, FODDER, SILAGE AND | | at six distances in the row.. 6] 16 Testing three varieties Millet 17 Testing two varieties Sorg- hums sos lv vai 2 18 Testing Grass Peas and two varieties Vetches .........4 31 1g Testing Rape, Kale and Field Cabbage .«.vivvviness . 3 20 Testing three varieties Clover 3 21 Testing two varieties Alfalfa 2 2a Testing four varieties Grasses 4 Curinary Crops, a3 Testing three varieties Field BEANS Guia sic suivnssivane 3 24 Testing two varieties Sweet Corn ...... ah san aaa aan OB FerTIL1ZER EXPRRIME! a5 Testing Fertilizers with Rape 5 MisCRLLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS. 29 Testing three grain mixtures for Grain production...... 3 go Testing three grain mixtures for Fodder production. . The size of each plot is to be two rods long by one rod wide. Any person in Ontario may those | any one of the experiments for 1919 and apply for the same, The ma- terial will be furnished in the order in which the applications are re- ceiyed, while the supply lasts. Each _applicap ld make a second choice, as Te Re 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 5 name and address very carefully, ahd should give the name of the County in which he lives. - CoA. ZAVITZ, Director, Ontario Agricultaral College, Guelph, March, 1919. hea pl tio Fifteen Planes for Camada. At the Hendon Airdrome Sir Ed- ward Kenip received from Lord Lon- donderry, representing the air minis- try, fifteen airplanes, subscribed by Canadian and overseas British resi- dents through the Overseas Club. Seven of these were presented by ends of the club living in Canada. e¢ elub during the war has given {the Government a total of 172 machin es. a Edward Kemp, in aceepting the machines, assured the donors {that Canada could be depended upon | to develop the air service, both com- and in a military cense, to sel , 4,280 recruited directly and 3,000 privates trans- to the Im- making was occasion- 'by the noise of planes 3 going exhibition stunts. | EERE Arouse and Face ™ Crisis! bf PROPLE OF ONTARIO are accustomed to ac- eept their food much the same as they breathe the air They read isolated items about food shortage, but such a g X thing aa this affecting their own dinner table nevur enters (R their mind, and it is the responsibility of The Observer ade SB to bring homa to its renders a realisation of the facts, as un- 3 less something is done, in auother year, they will not be Ontario. THE OBSERVER. 6 reading about the hunger in Belgium but the hunger in The following should be memorized by every reader of Under the Presidency of Mr. J.. W. Woods, a Confer: ence of all interested in food production was held iu Jo- ronto on Monday, May 7, AUTHORS HANDICAPPED: Writers In This Country Have Cause | for Complaint. | At the present time Canadian authors are undef a distinct handi- cap ag compared with the authors of other nations. It is a well-known fact that to-day moving pictures and phonographs bring the writer's thought to millions who formerly de- pended on the printed page, yet the Copyright Act of Canada gives no protection against the reproduction of an author's work by means of moving pictures, phonograph records, or - music rolls, No matter how popular a song by a Canadian may be, it can be reproduced on phonograph records, without the payment of any royalty to the author, and no Cana- dian author can prevent the moving picture companies from reproducing his ideas on film without any pay- ment of royalty. To remedy this state of affairs, the Authors' and Composers' Association of Canada, whose headquarters are in Toronto, have submitted a memoran- dum to the Canadian Government asking them to adopt the British Copyright Act of 1911, the provisions of which include, among other things, the payment to the owner of the copyright of 5 per cent. of the retail price of each record or roll sold. The memorandum says: "The United States publishers are now refusing to consider a song by a Canadian writer on account of the fact that they ot collect any me- chanical royalties under their copy- right act, because .Canada bas ho such provision in her act. "Lieut. Gits Rice (now said to be the most popular song writer on the continent) is a Canadian and a member of the Authors' and Com- posers' Association, Mr. Robert Ser- Canadian whose lyrics are being set to music, eng he, too, 15 being capped b | aon. Thon "When Your Boy Com. | 'When You Wind Up " | the Rhine,' and over a dozen other patriotic . Migs Irene : iz the House of Commons. G: BRITAINS SHORTAC dus to WAR. 09148,764 Lbs. 8iToR, PUBLISH ER AND PROPRISYOR, Sri a