Worst Storms in 40 Years Scourge West's Wheatland Blizzards Blow Crops High in Air -- T w o Million Bushels A Day Cut O ff -- Estimated 1934 Yield A s a Result. W innipeg.--W hipping up seed and top soil from w est of the Great Lakes to the Alberta foothills, " black bliz zards" Friday left in their wake anx ious farmers, w ondering whether it would be necessary to re-seed soildrifted wheat lands and fearful of serious consequences unless rain falls to end a protracted dr;- spell. Blinding dust storms driven in from the south on the wings of a 40-mile gale for the third tim e this year re modelled the contour J the southern prairies. Ditches w ere filled, farm fen cin g disappeared and swirling clouds of the powdered earth chok ed a countryside. During the height of the storms, the sun's light was obliterated and day developed into a semi-twilight. Vision was lim ited to a short dis tance. Autom obiles traversed high ways with headlights on and at re duced speed. Train crews w ere forc ed to rem ove a foot of dust on rightof-way curves before their trains could proceed to keep a tardy sched ule. In the cities, streets were powd ered with an inch of fine dust and buildings w ere coated with a deposit that once had covered new seed in farm plots many miles away. Citizens breathed dust, ate dust, housewives despaired of ridding the house of itinerant farms and office workers lim bered up on the business end of mops, broom s and dusters. Evidence is not lacking the dark and low ering skies conjured up a per fe ct mathematical om elette for those blessed with the ingenuity for think ing up difficult questions. Mathemati cians estimate the surface soil gift to Alberta, Saskatchewan and Mani toba was deposited to an average depth of one-thousandth of an inch. Assuming this to be a safe total, those w'ho like to play with figures, explain the total would amount to 62,000,000,000 yards. To move this gigantic deposit-- allow ing five cubic yards to a loa d --it is estimated it would require 12# 00,000 trucks. As' an illustration it is pointed out Manitoba roads under the Manitoba good-·roads board cover 1,700 miles. Allow ing one truck 25 feet of rftad o r 211 trucks to each mile, these roads could accom m odate 350,000 trucks. Each truck would have to m ake 12 trips to m ove Manitoba's deposit o f 21,000,000 cubic yards. Smooth-appearing roads in southern Saskatchewan have marooned motor ists who floundered into dust drifts 24 inches deep. The well-equipped m otorist now carries the old-fashion ed snow shovel for use in emergency when deceiving " sand roads" have trapped him. 4 0 -Y E A R R E C O R D . Washington.-- The w orst spring weather in 40 years is said by Unit ed States department of agriculture officials to have whittled another 19,500,000 bushels of wheat from their May 1 crop estimate. This would cut the estimate of 461,400,000 bushels for the winter crop to 441.900,000 bushels. Officials figured that the continued dry weather was trim ming almost 2,000,000 bushels a day from the wheat crop that might be expected. The farm administration took first official cognizance of the seriousness of the situation today when it ad vanced from May 10 to May 16 the date for farmers to sign wheat pro duction control contracts which will bring them payments for reducing acreage enforced by the drought. Officials said i many areas affect ed by the drought farmers would not be able to grow any crops and bene fit payments would be their sole source of income. These payments would cover only that portion o f the acreage which the farmer contracted to withdraw from production. There was as much fire as smoke in the fire which did $3,000,000 damage to a Brooklyn pier. are seen throwing streams o f water on the blaze. One man w ras killed and three others hurt. Spring chickens, over 6 lbs each, 16c; over 5 to 6 lbs each, 15c; over 4 to 5 lbs each, 13c; over 2 to 4 lbs. each, 12c. Broilers, over l l i to 2 lbs., 15c. Fatted hens, over 5 lbs., 13c; over 4 to 5 lbs., 12c; over 3 to 4 lbs., 10c. Old roosters, over 5 lbs., 10c. White duck lings, over 5 lbs., 14c; over 4 to 5 lbs., 13c; colored, 2c less. Young turkeys over 3 lbs., 17c. Guinea fowl, per pair, 75c. Black and red feathered birds 2c less per lb. " B" grade poultry 2c -b. less- than " A ." " C" grade poultry 2c less than " B" . WHOLESALE PROVISIONS Wholesale provision dealers are quoting the following prices to To ronto retail dealers: Pork-- Hams, 19c; shoulders, 12% c; butts, 15c; pork loins, 17 % c; picnics, 12 %c. Lard-- PiTre, tierces, 10c; tubs, 10% c; pails, 11c; prints, 9%c. Shortening-- Tierces, 9 % c; tubs, 10c; pails, 11c; prints, 10c. LIVE STOCK Quotations:-- Steers, u^-to 1,050 lbs., good and choice, $4.75 to $5.35; medium, $4.50 to $4.75; common, $3.50 to $4.25. Steers, ove?v. r,050 lbs., good and choice, $5.50 to $6; medium, $5.25 to $5.50; common, $4.50 to $5. Heifers, good and choice, $4.75 to $5.25; medi um, $4.50 to $4.75; common, $3.50 to $4.25. Fed calves, good and choice, $6.25 to $6.50; medium, $4.75 to $6. Cows, good, $3.50 to $4; medium, $3 to $3.50; common, $2.50 to $3. Canners and cutters, $1.25 to $2.25. Bulls, good, $3.25 to $3.50; common, $2.75 to $3. Stocker and feeder steers, good, $4 to $4.25; common, $3 to $3.75. Milkers and springers, $30 to $45. Calves, good and choice veals, $6 to $7; com. and medium, $3.50 to $5.50. Grassers, $2.50 to $3.25. Hogs, bacon, f.o.b., $7.50; o ff trucks, $7.85; o ff cars, $8.25. Good ewes and wether lambs, $9.50; medium, $8.50 to $9.25; culls, $7 to $8. Sheep, good light, $3.50 to $3.75; heavies, $2.50 to $3.25; culls, $1.50 to $2. There was no eyewitness to the acci dent. C Y C LIS T KILLED Fireboats The Markets PRODUCE PRICES United Farmers' Co-operative Co. Saturday were paying the following prices fo r produce: EGGS-- Prices to farmers, cases re turned " A " large, 17c; " A " medium, 15c; " C" 14c. -Company also advanc ing on pool shipments 12 cents per dozen delivered Toronto on grade " A " large and medium. BUTTER-- Ontario, creamery sol ids, 20^4c; No. 2, 19%c. POULTRY, " A " grade, alive-- Spring chickens, over 6 lbs. each, 11c; over 5 to 6 lbs. each, 10c; over 4 to 5 lbs. each, 9c; over 2 to 4 lbs. each, 8c. Broilers, over IV* to 2 lbs., 10c. Fatted hens, over 5 lbs., 11c; over 4 to 5 lbs., 10c; over 3 to 4 lbs., 8c. Old rooster.,, over 5 lbs., 7c. White ducklings,'over 5 lbs., 12c; over 4 to 5 lbs., 11c; colored, 2c less. POULTRY, " A " grade, Select-- Ingersoll, May 13. -- Kenneth Sherwood, a farm worker o f the Verschoyle district, died at Alexan dra Hospital here last night a little over two hours after he had crahed his bicycle into the side o f an eastbound car, driven' on No. 2 highway by Harold Tassie, Windermere Road, Walkerville. Sherwood received a fractured skull and collar bone in the impact, as well as other injuries. T O RO N TO CA R W RE CK ED Cobourg, May 13. -- Driven by Harry Golby o f Toronto, a car crashed into a ditch near Cobourg on Sunday afternoon snapping o f f a telephone pole. Although the , car was badly wrecked, the driver and George Sherman, the other occupant, escaped with only slight injuries, Golby sustaining a broken little fin ger. Provincial Constable F. Blucher o f Port Hope, rendered first aid. TO RO N TO D R IV E R INJURED Barrie, May 13. -- Eric Playford o f Toronto suffered a skull fracture when the auto in which he was riding overturned into the ditch between Barrie and Orillia but insisted on going to Toronto. He fainted be fore entering hospital here but after having superficial facial and hand in juries dressed he proceeded to his home in Toronto. Stability Is the Leading Instinct of All Children Consistent Treatment Helps Little Ones Distinguish Between Right and W rong H»:'^e you ever thought what it is like to he able to see only under the dining-room table, and then sudden ly to find your chin reaches the top and you can see over it? Lewis Carroll understood how a child feels when he wrote the story o f " Alice in Wonderland," who alter ed her size so quickly that she was constantly finding herself either too big or too small. If we say to a child, " You are too big to do this," or " You are not big enough to do that," we are not help ing him to adjust himself to things, with the result that he loses heart and feels, as a small girl recently said, " There is aothing I am right f o r !" DON'T BE HASTY To realize that a child is always in an unfamiliar world, and that his greatest need is for a sense of secur ity, will help us in managing him. Hasty rebukes and unjust punish ments will have no place if we stop to consider how hr feels. A child's feelings are often hurt quite unwit tingly by those whf are in charge of him, even though they would never dream o f hurting their own friends. Never punish a child while you are angry. You will almost certainly refre t it later if you do. For any barrier that is built between you and your child through your misunder standing will never quite be broken down. Consider how much a baby has to experience and learn. He grows more during the first year than at any other time in his life. He cuts his teeth, he learns to pull himself op and to walk all in the space o f a few months. His crawling activities bring him in touch with many things --the dangerous gas tan. the el ertrie switch, the bell button are all tre mendously thrilling. He can never turn on the light switch or press t' .i bell too often, fo r each time either a bright light ap pears or someone answers his sum mons. PRAISED THEN SCOLDED Perhaps the first time he does it he is not scolded, but rather praised for bis cleverness. But as it becom es a habit he is called naughty. " W hy?" he wonders. How can we help him to grasp what is right and what is wrong? Consistent treatment on our part is the first essential. It is no use laugh ing at a thing one day and forbid ding it the next. Children are ex tremely conservative and like to have essential things always tlie same. That is why regularity is so import ant. ALW AYS THE SAME One little boy was obliged to travel extensively with his parents, and the only way he could fell that essential sense of security was by having the same story read to him every night at bedtime in exactly the same way. This, he felt, at least remained the same. Small things are of immense im portance when you are young. Every child should have his own cupboard or corner, where he can keep string, and old pencil, a few marbles, and all those other treasures so dear to the child heart, and to the adult mind so unreasonably cherished. Every little boy need* one pocket which will not be ruthlessly turned out and emptied o f ita precious contents. Such small thing* will minister to one o f the greatest instincts o f child* hood-- the desire fo r something stable in » chamrinar world. Two Are Killed In Road Crash Week-End Accidents Fatal T o Three -- Other Near Fatalities Occur Lindsay, May 13. -- Two men were instantly killed in Sunderland at 10 o' clock Saturday night when their car crashed with another driven by Milton Tanton, Nassau St., Oshawa. The dead are Frank M. Reesor, 59, o f Brock Township, 11 Concession, and Alex. Vanderberg, 71, employed by Mr. Reesor. Mrs- Reesor, who was in the front sent with her husband had her nose fractured and possible concussion o f the brain. She never lost conscious ness and was rushed to the Toronto General Hospital. The driver o f the other car, Mr. Tanton, was arrested and will face a charge o f manslaughter. He was taken into custody and lodged in Whitby jail. With him in the car was Walter Henderson, Alma Street, Oshawa. Provincial Constable Lar ry Carr o f Cannington and Provin cial Officer Massingham, Lindsay, in vestigated. The Reesor car was reported pro ceeding home from Sunderland on highway No. 7 and was still in the village when the two cars collided at the turn opposite Whitings' garage. Regina, May 1-- Seeding is now un der way in practically all sections, according to reports received by the Saskatchewan Department o f A gri culture. In the southeastern portion about half the wheat acreage is seed ed, whereas the northeastern districts seeding is just nicely started. Not more than ten percent o f the whole acreage intended for coarse grains is seeded The land is reported in good shape for cultivation, but lack of rain dur ing April has left top soil dry. There has been considerable soil blowing but no material damage has been done. Most correspondents in the area affected by drought last year antic ipate that wheat acreage this season will be reduced from that o f last year. marmalade and rhubarb with pine apple and rhubarb with ginger an< lemon- The list is as long as the en tries for the home-made nightshiri contest at the Fall fain That is the reason why we do no1 think the Lindsay man should seel to make the rhubarb season arrivt earlier than is its custom. He .wil add days at one end which shouk not be there at all. Folk will htgii to tire o f rhubarb before the seasot has even begun to wane. We are all- against this artificia and unnecessary speed idea. W( know o f folk'- who when they heal the first toot from' a robin will rusl to their chamber and commenct lifting o f f underwear which has been standing guard over spine and shank and hock. At the same tim< they remove the chest protector am lay aside the wristbands. They have a yer. for haste, but a what a price. When the spine ii exposed to the wind it shivers, am when the thanks are bereft o f theii casing they creak. The result is that the family doctor sits beside the bed and looks worried; mustard plasters cover large sections o f th« fram ework; aches camp upon the body and the brow becomes fevered All on account o f haste. The Lindsay editor should take a long view o f all such matters as seeking to cause the rhubarb crop to make haste toward the day when it will give o f its substance to the nourishment o f 1 the human body He should stand firm for the cours? which Nature prefers, and ht should rebuke those who are al ways scampering about seeking to find methods o f having things don« faster. m Muskoka Hotel Destroyed by Fire ____ The Bluffs," Famous Sum mer Resort, Gutted by Flames Parry Sound, May 13.-- Fire Satur day swept through " The Bluffs," Mus koka summer hotel near Rosseau and totally destroyed the building. The blaze originated in the quar ters of the proprietor, Thomas L Snow, and spread rapidly. R. L. Snow son of the proprietor and a membei of the forestry staff here, left imme diately for the fire with fire-fighting equipment. The flames, however, had blazed out of control. The hotel accom m odates about 7S persons and was practically unoccu pied when the blaze broke out. Th« proprietor and his w ife were the only persons living there. ``The Bluffs" is widely known as the only hotel in Canada where th« late President W oodrow W ilson of the United States spent his holidays. This Craze For Speed We read in the Lindsay Post that there is one sure method o f hustling along the Spring rhubarb. Just place a few barrels, with the ends knocked out, over the young plantsOver the top end, the Post says, one should place a bit o f gunny sacking. When that has been done it beats everything how the rhubarb comes romping along; we are assured it out runs the regular process oy many We fear the man on the Lindsay Post has become caught up :n the spirit o f the age which yearns for speed in all things. We feel d'sposed to lodge mild protest. The rhubarb season, when it comes in the ordinary course o f events, is not one o f those touch-and-go affairs. It comes on and it keeps coming on and in length o f days it is very great indeed. The season, as the Post man must know, opens in an easy enough way. First there is rhubarb stew, then there is rhubarb pie, leap pie or cov ered pie o f the thinner sort; then there is rhubarb tart n.id rhubarb TO T E A C H AG RIC U LTU R E Quebec-- An agricultural training school will be operated fo r the men o f the governmental and military employment-relief camp at Valcartier this summer as the result o f an agree ment reached between the Depart ment o f National Defence and the Provincial Department o f Agricul- j ture, it is announced by officials o f : the latter department. The Quebec Government has named an expert in agriculture to the concentration cen tre, Roger Gagnon, who will give technical education at the camp dur ing the winter and theoretical instruc tion in the summer.