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)- ~~ International Review of Ag. riculture Says Russia First, U.S. ,Second in Number of Bee Colonies The latest . available figures dealing © with the comparative rank of the nations in honey pro- duction are given by the Inter- national Review of Agriculture, In number of colonies of bees Russia ranks first with the Unit- ed States of America second, Next comes Germany followed by France, Mexicc and Turkey. LARGE VOLUME PRODUCED HERE It is shown that in nearly all countries there has been a great expansion in honey 'production during the past ten years, -In Germany from 1935 to 1939, the increase is estimated at 81 per cent. The uniformity of the in- crease as well as its extent is the subject of comment because of the fact that economic conditions have varied so"greatly in the 'dif- ferent countries. Canada stands out as among the most efficient in management according to the Review. - Although ranking only sixteenth in number of colonies of bees it ranks fourth in volume of honey produced, Mexico has nearly one-half as 'many colonics of bees as the United States. The island of Cuba is by far the largest exporter of honey, followed by Chile. Mexico and Canada export in about equal quantity, while Guatemala with its comparatively small 'area ex- ports about as much honey as the United States. : The Proud Horseman Dan Dailey, Jr. became the proud. est resident of Hollywood 7 1 he the ownership of his horse, Stylish. Rex, whom: he is training for show purposes. Dailey Spends every spife moment away , rom the studios riding and train. ing the animal. Flax Growing Increase Urged Advantageous: Position' Of Canadian Product Noted --- For Export Purposes The national flaxseed commit- tee has expressed the belief that a small increase in Canadian flax production "would be in the na- tional interest." In a report issued following a meeting in Winnipeg, the com- mittee said it is informed that "an increase in 'domestic con- sumption of flaxseed may be ex-' pected in 1941, and that. possibili- ties exist for a small increase in export demand." MORE DEMAND SEEN "It would be in the national interest if the 1941 crop, were in. creased slightly over the 3,760,- 000 bushels produced in 1940 when conditions favored high yields to an unusual degree," said the, statement, The committee report stressed that Western Canadian flaxseed is superior in quality, particular- Jy with respect to the drying properties of 'the. oil, to that grown in! the United States or Argentine, ae" l "Canadian flaxseed can be moved cheaply to such points as Cleveland: and Buffalo." Balloon Broadcast An arrangement making it pose sible for data registered in the air to: be used almost at once on the ground will shortly be in force at a new stratospheric sta-- tion to be opened at Payerne, Switzerland: fitted with automatic short-wave transmitters: to send out data registered by instruments, Balloons will be ~ Natural Resources G. C, Toner Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (No. 36) FISH, GAME LAWS Last week I mentioned that there had been other government bodies concerned with- our fish' and game before our present Game and Fisheries Department was instituted in 1905 but even before there were any regulatory or administrative bodies there were game laws enacted by the Legislature, I mentioned the earliest of these last week, the Act of 1821, : In 1889 another Act was pas- sed which was even more com- prehensive for it provided that no person "shall hunt or shoot, or go out with a gun in quest of any deer or other wild animal or wild fowl on the Lord's Day (common- ly called Sunday) within this Province." The season for deer was changed to Gpen August 1st and close February 1st, "Wild turkey, prairie .hen or grouse; commonly called pheasant or partridge; or any quail or wood- cock," could legally be taken from September 1st to March 1st. Open and Closed Seasons When the Statutes of Upper Canada were consolidated in 1869 there were few changes, The duck season extended from August 1st to April 15th, eight and one half months of shooting which should have satisfied most people. Even at that time they had trouble with wolves and the Act. mentions a bounty of six dollars. In 1868, the Province of On- tario revised the game laws, cut- ting down the open season to more reasonable length but even this did not prevent depletion. By 1890, the anxiety among thinking people culminated in the appoint- ment of a Commission to investi- gate conditions and submit re- _ commendations. One can find in libraries the old leather bound volume that contains the report of the Com- mission of 1890. It is well worth reading, particularly for the pic- ture it gives of conditions fifty years ago, It was a' sweeping and outspoken indictment of the various abuses that hampered the conservation of our game - and fish. It had considerable effect for shortly. afterwards the Legis. lature set up a. Board of Fish and Game Commissioners under the nominal jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands. This Commission administered the wild life for nearly. fourteen, years when it was: dissolved and the present Department of Game 'and. Fisheries was set up in its place. ' Willows Have - Turkish Origin Britain and America have a very strong bond with Turkey, for everyiweeping willow gracing our river banks owes its origin to a single cutting brought from that country. This is how it hap- pened... At the beginning of the 18th century. a large basket of figs was sent from Smyrna to Lady Suffolk in England, The poet 'Pope was there when the gift arrived, so drawing one of the withes from which the basket was made, he remarked: "Per- haps this will produce something we have not .in England." He' took it with him' to his villa at Twickepham and planted it by the Thames, where it grew into a magnificent weeping willow, It was generally admired and cut- tings were taken to all parts of England. Years later, a British officer leaving for this continent cut a twig from Pope's willow, wrapped it in oiled silk and car- ried it in his baggage throughout the Revolution. After the war he: presented it to John Curtis, son of Martha Washington, who planted. it in Virginia. where it became the ancestor of all weep- ing willows in the States. Visible Smells Neither. gold nor platinum. has - any odour - wich can: be' recog- nised. by the human nose, but most of the commoner metals can easily be recognised by the sehse of smell. * Tin, for instance, when freshly cut, has a strong and unmistakable odour. Of the rarer metals, uranium and its compounds. give out the strong- est smell. Uranium is one of the radio-active metals and constant- ly throws off extremely small particles, Long ago J. J. Thomson show- ed that these particles produce shadows on a photographie. film and can be deflected by a mag- net. Though infinitesimal In size, they can affect our olfactory or- ; gans, Workin tists of the hand in hand with th ational Research Council of Ottawa. Do, Some Don't--Science Seeks Answer Tat a § ~ ; h ts to special tests. e scientist is trying to find out why, eo fighting Joteey of Canada and of the rest of the Empire are the scien- 0 3 rea ey have m i i q - tributions to the war effort, both in the industrial field pf) Ve at em Ried research workers is shown as he subjects steel helme bullet and the other has resisted it, T) In this photo one of the One has been penetrated by a THE WAR WEE K--Commentary on Current Events U.S. S.R. PROMISES AID IF TURKEY IS ATTACKED Last week as spring opened the door on what might well be the decisive phase of tho conflict be- tween Britalln and Germany; the Battle of Britain--out ot which has grown the Battle of the Atlantic--. was still the main engagement of the war. But events In the Medi- terranean. .basin were receiving much more of the world's attention. There, the British conquest of It- | aly's African Empire, all but com- plete, was beginning to be chal- lenged by large forces of German mechanized troops in western Lib- ya; and the Battle of the Balkans was fast approaching the "shoot- ing" stago. Yugoslav Crisis The capitulation to the Axis of --Yugoslavia's--head -men precipitat- ed a number of new crises: in Yugoslavia itself, where open re volt and civil war threatened; In Greece, where the Allied-Greek military command. had swiftly to revise thelr plan of defence to em- embraco a much wider front; in Turkey, where the country's lead- ers saw her independence menaced from yet another angle; and in Russia, where German: penetration of the Balkans had long been view- ed with growing: anxiety. Russia Assures Neutrality The Soviet Union reacted to this situation by reaffirming friendship With Turkey and assuring Russian , slhco the German-Russian neutrality should Turkey resist a German attack on herself, 'The agreement did not promise neutral ity it Turkey should strike at Ger many in the event of a Nazi move against Greece. On the contrary it stated that "in the event that Tur- key should be the object of aggres- sion and she found herself obliged to enter war for the defence of heir territory, Turkey could then, In conformity with the non-aggression pact existing between herself and the U. S. S. R, rely on the full comprehension and neativality of the U. S. 8S. R." This was sensational news. The entering into of this pact with Tur- koy constifuted the first concrete step the Soviet Unlon had taken to influence the course of the war agree- ment of August, 1939. This latest act barred further Nazl penetra- tion southeast, along the U, 8. 8. R's western borders. (It also was reliably confirmed that Russia had halted shipment of all supplies of oil to Germany elnce March 1). Bad For Germany Writing on the significance of the new Soviet assurance to Turkey Canadlan military analyst W. R. Plewman said: "The dispatches suggest that Russia will give ma. terial help to Turkey much as the U. 8. 1s giving material help to Britain. Some war supplies prob- Guests in Wartime Britain Come and Bring Their Own Hostesses in wartime - Britain need no longer worry "about their friends' food fads,- When week-end guests arrive, they frequently bring their rations along with them, ably are moving from Russia to Turkey, and it would be logical for the movement to develop gradually to a large scale .., Russia is mov- ing her troops and warships west- ward as quietly as possible, but perhaps with little {dea of offens- fvo action... It remains to be soen whother Stalin will neglect his op- vortunities until Hitler is ready to strike. His military advisers should tell him the truth that until Ger- any has fought it out with Britain, Hitler. won't have sufficient gaso- lino and grease to permit large mechanized forces to drive far into Russia and that Hitler really Is staging..a gigantic bluff to keep Russia quiet. The Russian arnties possess a vast nu orical superior ity over the German armies and it is impossible for the German forces to guard every vital point that the Russians could menace. The Sov- fet air force could work havee to German cities; Russian: citles are BO remote They would bo compar- atively free from attack. Were Rus: sia to make common cause with the Greek, British and 'Turkish armies, the defeat of within a year would be a certainty." Whatever purposes were behind the Soviet pledge of aid to Tur- key, they portended Ill for Nazi Germany. Even the U. S. Stato De- partment heartily applauded Rus sla's attitude, "Bridge. of Ships" President Roosevelt's biggest headache, once the first financial appropriations under the ILease- Lend bill had been approved by the Senate, appeared last week to be: how the U. 8S. was to 'assure dellvery of American aid to Bri tain. Everything obviously depend: ed upon maintenance of the "bridge of ships" across the At- lantic. (Hearteningly enough last's week's British shipping losses were away down). A move to lend more destroyers to Britain-was expected hourly; and large-scale plans were being laid for the repair of Bri tain's naval and merchant shipping in United States yards. Use of American warships in British con- yoys was contemplated, but rot planned until a more critical stage of U. S.German rolations should be reached. Very encouraging news for Brl tain came out of the U. S. last week with the report, reliably con- firmed, that 15,000 bombor and tighter planes would be ready to go across the ocean to join the war by. July. By the end of 1941, it was said, American production would' bring Britain's alr fighting strength up level' with Germany's. Japan Reconnoitres Japanese Foreign Minister Mat. suoka's sojourns in Moscow, Rome, Berlin, were last week not yet com: near 'plete. His parleys "with the Axis chiefs were the subject of much speculation--sincoe no information about them was forthcoming-- but it was generally thought that Mr. Matsuoka had come to Europe to see for. himself whether the Axis partners wero in position to is Germany - make good thelr clalm that they can nullify American afd for Bri tain and knock the latter out, His findings would without doubt strougly '. 'luence the declsion of his government as to whether Ja. pan Is to weave a tortuous course of non-belligerency or throw cau- tion to the winds and join in the attack op the Anglo-Allles, One ot Japan's greatest fears of course is that Soviet Russia might attack her in the north (by alr, sea and land) when she's busy fn the south, and what the Japanese government desires perhaps above all else at the moment is a Russo-Japanese non-aggressipn pact, . . . $2,600,000,000 This Year Canada will spénd §$2,600,000,0 0 over the next twelve months on ~ her own war "effort and financlal ald to Britain--§860,000,000 more than was estimated late In Feb- ruary---Premier King told Parlia. ment last week, The, Prime Min. ister declared that this sum, to be spent in a mighty drive of men, money and materials, represented 44 per cont of the whole national income of Canada. On a comparative basis, the premier estimated, this financlal assistance to Britain for Canadian puchases would equal an expendi- ture of §15 billions by the United States--more than twico the Wash. ington appropriation for lend-leasea, purposes. Following Premier King, Fin. ance Minister Isley announced federal taxes of $1,000,000,000 for the fiscal year beginning April 1 which represented an additional $100,000,000 in revenue to bo sought from Canadians by the Do- minion "Bovernment next year. A billion dollars, he said, wonld have to be borrowed next yedr to cover direct war outlay and non-war ex- penditures including financing of the new federal wheat policy. Unpopular Wheat Policy Western members of the House of Commons last week were urg- Ing that they bo given an oyportun- {ty to debate tho government's new wheat policy which provides: a limit of 230,000,000 bushels . to Wheat Board purchases of the 1941 crop; a continuation of the pre- sent 70¢ a bushel minimum price; basing of. delivery quotas on 63 'per cent of tho 1940 wheat acreage (which means acreage reduction); avd payment of bonuses for sum- meriallowing and sceding to coarse grains and . Agriculture Minister MacMillan of Alberta had fssued a statement saying that this policy was "highly unsatisfactory and inadequate" and that it would be impossible of acceptance by the Western wheat farmers unless drastic modifications were made. Farmers of the prairie provinces, ho contended, should be placed fn a position of equality with other classes of Canadian citizens dn the war effort and not forced to live on an "income on the verge of poverty." Pigs are the only farm animals which can be fed on a diet of all food waste. The Book Shelf "H, M. PULHAM, ESQUIRE" By J. P, Marquand ~~ "H. M. Pulham, Esquire" is the gtory of a man whose life is shap- ed by his surroundings in a mould formed by home, schoo), soclety, even business influences of his day, smooth-fitting, comfortable, un. breakable, (Many men and women, live in such moulds--more often than not without realizing it--for it is the unique quality of such a mould that one is not consclous of its existence until it chafes). Mr. Pulham, on the occasion of the twenty-fifth reunion of his college class, hecomes aware of what he has beew missing throughout his narrow, circumscribed life, He real' fzes his ideas have not moved with the times--he is trying to measure today's problems with yesterday's yardstick--but alas it is too late and too comfortable to change. Men who read this book will find themselves stopping to compare Harry Pulham's life with thelr own and women will find themselves wondericy how well they know their own men, "H. M. Pulham, Esquire" ,,. by J. P. Marquand , . . Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Publish. ers... $3.00. VOICE OF THE PRESS LIBYAN NURSERY RHYME Mussolinl-miny-mo Caught a lion by the toe. How you'd love to let him go, Teeny weeny Benito! --Toronto Saturday Night. egy THE GREATEST FEAR The biggest drawback to farm organization is the fear of political entanglements and the suspicion that the leaders are working thele way up to a soft, cushy job. --Farmer's Advocate, --ie WAR STYLES De. Stapleford, the divector of voluntary services, says that the timo will come when it will be "patriotic" to wear an old suit or drive an old car. That's comforting for all the people who are already obliged to do so. -- Brockville Recorder ew BEST ADVICE The Ontario Departments of Ag- ricalture, * Education and Labor have collaborated in 'the produc tion of a booklet of "Farm Maxims and Slogans" for the use of stu- dents registering for farm service, and probably the best advice given In it is this: "Never trust a bull." --Brockvillo Recorder and Times. and Times, Europe's the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, LIFE'S LIKE THAT © By Fred Neher LT N72. ; rir, 7 7 | 7 "What part of my bill makes vou sick . . . the part you paid or a . the balance?" REG'LAR FELLERS -- That's Different ~ By GENE BYRNES WHAT'S EATIN' HN ? tallést™ structure is ~ a SE oad