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ant 2 3 3 Bo "i © The arquis Wheat ot In Lead Now Thatcher Dominant In Some Sections of the West, Says' The Edmonton <Journal = The September issue of the Royal Bank's monthly letter tells of the revolutionary change brought about by the introduc- tion of Marquis wheat, which it . thinks "may be said to have over- shadowed in importance any other single © event in agriculture." What the development meant to [ester Canada cannit very well "be exaggerated nur the memory of the man responsible _for it, Sir Charles Saunders, be too greatly 'honored. The history of Marquis is "a romantic one," as the letter states, and if is well to have this recalled. The following statement in the article is, how- 'ever, not altogether accurate: "Other varieties have since been 'developed having these qual- ities in even more improved form and many of them are descended from Marquis wheat. Marquis, however, is still the leading wheat in Canada and large soctions of the United States." A survey of the varieties sown last year in Western Canada was .made by the Searle Grain Com- pany. It showed that Thatcher was then dominant in nearly all of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Red Bobs was in first place in the large part of "Alberta, cen- tring in, Edmonton. Marquis had still the lead scuth of Red Deer and in com- paratively snmll adjacent sec tions of Saskatchewan. territory in which it' was the chief wheat was not more than a fifth of the grain. growing areas of the three provinces. Only 20.2 per cent. of the total acreage was found to be sown to it, compared with' 50.6 for Thatcher and 12.8 for Red Bobs. in this province: But the _ MUSICAL CALF None .too pleased at the-con- cert is Sally the calf, saved from a barbecue on Guadalcanal by -moth@rly Marines who fed and cared for her after mama cow Avas killed in an air raid. 'Peepshow' Game For Helping Eyes Instrument Trains _ Bo th , Eyes To Focus "Alike wt A method of perfecting eyesight, now used with success in the R.AF, Is to be adapted for British- school children. In. application {it 1s diverting and amusing, and ft 1s: Tikely" fo be as popular among ¢hldren as it is with pilots and observers. It is called orthoptics (cerrect vision), and, in brief, con: sists of training both eyes to fgcus precisely alike, Some pilots were found to be having ditficully with landing, and research disclosed the secret that though each éye might be per- fect, the pair might. not be func- tioning perfectly together, - 7 Experts believe that only '10 per cent of children have eyes which "in shape and function are abso: lutely alike. , The training (nstru- "ment which 18 part of the new treatment is a sort of "peepshow" In which one sees threo" kinds of coloured pictures, First 18 a llon and a cage. Perfectly focused eyes will see the llon inside the cage but others will see the lion half tout or entirely outside the cage "game" is to exercise the weak eye until it puts the lion in the cage. A second picture, to train depth perception, is of a child with bal loon on string under an arch, and' the test Is to tell whether the' wind Is blowing the balloon In or out of the arch, * The third picture develops per | coption of depth relative to size. Camels and palm (rees of different slzes are sprinkled over a land. scape, and the game It to put all those of one size in a line. fighters. S $1.20 SENDS 300 "BRITISH CONSOLS"", "LEGION", ""MACDONALD'S MENTHOL", '"$SCOTCH BLENDS" or "EXPORT" Cigarettes SMOKING or any MACDONALD'S FINE CUTS (with popers) oso DAILY MAIL CIGARETTE TOBACCO Postpaid to Soldiers In the Canadion Army QYERSEAS ond IN UNITED KINGDOM FORCES, Y Mall Order and Remittance toi This Offer subject to aay ch 3aga la Government Regulations The Boys will thank you OTTAWA REPORTS That The Celling Prices On " Apples Will Stabilize Prices During the Marketing Season' The celling prices - placed on apples formed one of the main orders established by the Wartime Prices gnd Trade Board during the . past week. According to the Board, the order .nade very little change ~ in the prices that were prevailing in the Industry at the time the order was announced. The main eftect of the order will be to stab. {lize prices for the period during the marketing season when prices generally rise. 'In the light of a short crop this year .and of increases in the costs of production, the Prices Board feels that the prices set by the order will give growers in the three. main producing zones In Can- ada a satisfactory return.. Provision was. made to allow dealers to dispose of stocks already «on hand and they were given until - October 9 to do this, regardless of the fact that the order went into effect September 22." . . * Growers and shippers who séll apples direct to consumers through © the public markets or from door to door will be entitled to the same price tis 20s hs fodine in their own districts. That is they receive thelr basic growers' price, "plus both the wholesale and retail mark-ups. Sales to retailers are to be made at- the yTigletnle esting price. L Included in. the 'test group for the purposes of tho order are the Gravensteins of Nova Scotia, all the members of the McIntosh fam- fly, the Fameuse and the -Snow, the Northern Spy, the Golden Rus- set, the Delicious, the Newton and the Winesaps. The second group Includes all the other varieties. . LJ * In the zoning, Ontario and Que- bec have been placed together un- der the order. A~ uniform ceiling price has been set for this zone which is to "be the grower's or slilpper's celling pricea at all dls. tributing points in Ontario or the south of the main line of the C. P. R. as far west.as Sudbury. This is also the basic celling price at Montreal, = The Maritime Provinces form zone two, and Kentville, Nova Scotia, headquarters of the Nova Scotia apple. marketing board and centre of the Annapolis valley apple Industry, is the basic price point, Zone three fs British Columbia : where. the prices are set on the - basls of the standard box wrapped and on a f.o.b. Kelowna basis: "In~all *thres "Ronés, sale and retail celllugs are set on the basis of the basic ceiling price at shipping point, plus transporta. tlon, costs wherever necessary, and plus mark-ups of 1214 per cent of the selling, price for whole- salers and 20 per cent of the sell ing price for retailers on unbrok- en packs and 25 per cent where retatiers have to break packs into | broken lots of apples for sale. - Shippers and dealers may add storage ahd shrinkage allowances atlor December 1st at the rate of 80 cents a barrel per month, or 25 cents a hamper or crate. "Flying Flea" Détails on the performance 'of Britain's secret "Flying Flea" were made public by the Air Ministry last week for the first time, although the ~"plane has been in acticn on all fronts since _ the war began for artillery spot- . ting and observation work. The - tiny 'plane, a low-wing monoplane, has a maximum speed of , 126 miles an hour and can take off from roads, fields or wherever there is a 60-yard run way. The "Flying Flea" is unarmed and depends' entirely 'on ne oeavrability "to escape " "the" Whidle: my ah ve :yulnerabls - today as THE WAR .. WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events In Allied Air.-Superiority Lies - The Promise of Ultimate Victory After magnificent victories which drove the invader back for hundreds of miles but failed to crush him, the Russian summer offensive appears to be slowly grinding to a halt because of au- tumn rains and stiffening German resistance, The Red Army con- tinues to advance into White Rus- sia and the Germans are evacuat- ing their last positions in the Cau- casus; but Moscow also reports that the major part of the front along the Dnieper River {is being "stabilized." This would mean that the Germans have escaped a threatened catastrophe and that hopes for a further Russian ad- vance in force might have to be , postponed until the Red Army is able to launch another winter of- fensive, says the New York Times. Alr Front Carries On But one front carries on irrres- pective 'of raln or mud or the ° season, That is the air front, which' the Allied advance in Italy is steadily expanding in range and effectiveness. Despite low clouds and fogs which made September a bad bombing month, the British Royal Alr Force was over Nazi- dominated territory every day and twenty-five nights last month. Though the total bomb load it was able to 'drop decreased by nearly one-third as compared with the previous month, the United States Eighth Air Force was able 'to exceed all previous records. Berlin Munlch, :Hannover, Kassel, Frank- fort and many other towns have felt its blows. And during the last four days and nights the alr attack has' been pressed home wilh even greater vigor. 3,000,000 Nazis Tied Down But so new and so debated 1a this front that the world In general, and the Russians in parti- cular, keeping thelr eyes glued to the struggle on the ground, are | prone to overlook "both Its size and fthe effect it already has pro- duced. According to the best estimates, the alr front alone has tied down 'some' 3,000,000 of Ger- many's badly strained manpower-- 1,000,000 for anti-aircraft guns and 2,000,000 for related tasks. Num- erlcally, and disregarding quality, this figure begins to approach the * total of German soldiers engaged on the whole Russlan front. And the manpower. and productive energy required to maintain this front on the Allied side is of, i lar proportions. Bombs Plus German Winter The alr: front has knoeked out the industrial capacity of some of 'Germany's leading cities. . Acs cording to the most conservative 'estimates it has reduced Germany's war production capacity by at least | 15 per cent and is continuing to reduce It Instead of permitting the enemy fo recuperate. The effect of this will become more notice- able when German supply reserves begin to run out. It has forced Germany to shift from bomber to tighter production and .to con- centrate the larger part of her fighter strength f{n the Above all, it 13 the one front which, is bringing the war home to Ger- pany herself, with telling effect German morale. And 'thls at 'should Inchase when to the blast of the bompis 1s added the © severg cold of 'a German winter, 'Loss of War Averted How much all this has helped to relieve pressure on the Rus- sians cannot be calculated in tigures.. But thers" can be no .doubt that the share of the alr front in Rugsia as well as other Allied victories on land 'has been substantlal and sometimes even decislve. For a land front with- out sufficient 'air coverage is as "a similar naval front on the sea. The air front alone the Dk war, but it has already aver e loss ot the "war. alr superlority, which {s growing despite all German. 'counter- measures, lies the ultimate Allled victory. $1 Corsica Is Ours It will not be long before Hitler feels the loss of Corsica. The fs: land commands the European coast of the western Mediterranean as Crete, cqmmands the eastern coast. ~whole length of the Island. west. | And In tlie- Allied - promise of " Crete, however lies at the tip of the Balkan peninsula. Corsica rises near the top of the Itatljan boot like 'a' salient thrust at the German "blood line" Hitler Is buildidg on thé River Po. Bastia, where the French are still mop- ping up, is only fifty miles from Italy and 110 miles from the French coast. It §s within 240 miles ot Marsellles and less than that from Rome. Bombers from this anchored carrier could sweep all southern Germany. Unfor- tunately, Corsica is a tangle of mountains. The airfields there are few and small But they probably can and will be develop- ed. - « Perhaps what happened to Cor- slca gives us a preview of what will happen In France. When the Germans started 'to withdraw they found themselves struggling through an. angry population al- ready armed. Many were ambushed and annihilated before the French "Goums" and American Rangers arrived from Africa. There is a trall of German blood along the Qet- ting out of Bastia was like escape through a burning doorway. Allied Prisoners = Reported Free The Morocco Radio said 20,000 American and British. prisoners had been liberated by the Italians and have joined Italian Retricts despite Field™ Marshal Erwin Rommel's offer of 1,800 - live re- ward for each prisoner handed. over to the Germans: SCOUTING ... Overheard at the wedding of a former Boy Scout and a "Wren", A fellow, Scout wishing the bride- groom YAll the best"--with .the hope that he wouldn't be "wren- pecked!"" . . . In a letter received at Dominfon Headquarters of the. Boy Scouts Association at Ottawa, Lady Bad- en-Powell, widow of the founder of the Scout Movement, and Chief Girl Guide of the world, expressed the hope to make a tour of, Can- ada after the war. . . * . When hooligans made trouble in a section of Trinidad, British West Indies, and police reserves were not large enough to handle the situation, 76 older ~ Scouts, Rover Scouts and Scoutmasters were enrolled as special con- stables, The trouble has been cleaned up and the Scouts com- plimented by the Commissioner of Police for their splendid service to the community. * * . A British Boy Scout, now serv- fng as an officer with a Ghurka Regiment fighting the Japs who has just been awarded tho Military Cross, writing toghls mother sald: "My Boy Scout Training has prov- ed Invaluable out here. It {s know- ing how to take care of yourself in the jungle that means the dif- ference between life and death when you are fighting in this country." " Harvesting Frogs' Legs By The Bushel The story is told about the Alberta farmer whose crop failed to grow because of too much rain, a strange thing there. His fields were drowned out. To make EAU CLAIRE «DISTRICT -- Name Between North Bay and Mattawa GLENDORE MICA PROSPECTING SYNDICATE *MUSCOVITE . White Mica -- The Preferred Type .. 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