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_.-.-u44, ` \J\ `I The GArroo'm-'-'VVe1'l`,` "I _AwOn 1;g the g'.uv-nor _s- "'1 mo_1_je; _:`th;ey_ ve taken -hin - :5 .1 .. V Sympatheti ' man! y `a Week, mu c m. lady-J'You . Have patience a few ;1on'gver' and ybu .l1 get frost-.bi weeks tten. 'get `a good shingle sawyr. As you .anwer me so short you can go [ying plump to H--- you great Tblg fool. ` - '- ` Dear Sir: You but she was what to ` say. ' wrote me a letter so short .I don t know You do samyer or not` nod: say if 4111. r uwr nnaurmsen, Millinocket, Me.-~Dear `Sir: Referring to yours of `the rs-t instant, would say that we are not in need of a shingle sawyer at this time. Yours very truly,_ ` ;' _K-"ATA'HDIN PULP & PAPER I C-OMPA-NY. ; Diet. H.H.R. A - \ ..--..v uuuu. uuu LCD 'you think about it. T Millinocket: lie: Camp. . IC.orn on. the Cookstown `farm bf the Hon. Jas. Duff, Minister 0 Agriculture, yielded` about 18 tons` to the acre, a d-esirable crop in. _a `year of hay and straw shortage. _ I Millinocketg Me.-~Dear sir: I heres you Was putting `up a new sawmill, so I thought I woult drop a line to see if you` wanted a shingle sawyer. I guess I can saw as many shingles as the next man. I have :been sawing for four year. If you Want me please let me know Tand when you. will start. I sha1'1 `come as soon" as you want me 1Write soon and let me know what V511 nu-\r\-.-L :2. L. M. Powell, -of Negauil-ee, Michigan, sends S. E. Kiser, of [the Chicago Record~Herald, the [ following letters, `which were found among the papers of the late Peter White,% of M`arquette: T 3PET:E-R DIDN T LIKE BREVITY CALLED To THE . COLORS .Tl'I`L, "n ' 4*` --..._, V-l\J\.lLlLo % App'1icat_io ns,, for potatoes, from farmers In any other province Shguld be addressed (postage pre- Da_1d)_ to the Superintendent. of the nearest Branch E`:-xperilnental Farm {In that province. T1` I"I1`|1'ry\'v-\ I 7.` All applications for grain (and applicationsfrom the provinces of Ontario and Quebec for potatoes) ;should be addressed to the Domin- ion Cerealist, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. Such ,applications require no postage`. If otherwise `addressed delay and disappointment `may occur. - A__,,!l,' ,1` v .n ` _ ` -- ..we,.w. As_ the supply of seed is limited, farmers are advised to apply early; but the applications. will not neces- sarily. be lled in the "exact order in which they are received. ` Prefer- ence will always be given to the most thoughtfull and explicit re- quests. Applications received after the end of January will probably be too late. l A11 1 K u.1u1.uu5- .u1a.y `U17 BC-ICUUUU. Each applcation `must be separate and .must -be signed by the appli- cant. -iOnly one sample of grain -and one of potatoes can be sent to each farm. If both `samples are asked for in the same letter only one will `be sent. any kind of printed form cannot -be accepted. ' A- ;1__ ___,__1 ,o- T 1v- 1- -- 1 Applications on" fK1.)p1icants must give particulars -in regard to the soil on their farms, and some account of their exper- -ience withtsuch kindsof grain_ `(or potatoes). as they have grown , so -that a promising sort fortheir con- di_t ons- may be selected. ` 1 _`rn--1_ -___.1--L_'-__ -,_-,,_L n._ `By instructions` of - the Hon. Minister _of. Agriculture a distri- bution of superior sorts `of grain "and potatoes 'wil1.be made from the ~Domnion_ Experimental ]`a.rms- during .. the coming` _.winter and spring to Canadian farmers, ` The samplles for general distribution .will consist of spring wheat (about 5 lbs.), white oats` (about 4 lbs.)., barley (about 5 ;.llbs.), anti eld peas (about 5 lbs.) These will be sent from Ottawa. A distribution of potatoes (in 31-b._s-amples) will be carried on from several of the ex- perimental farms, the Central Farm at Ottawa supplying only the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. All samples will be sent free, by L mail. `ll . , . O .0 `I Mr. (Alex. Banting, jeweler, of "Cook/{stown, -has been serous-ly ill for some days -with -hemorrhage `on the brain, and little `hope is held. out for -his recovery. Mr; Peter fter if . ' .7 This restf11ci1wi_3ly"15v'ith the farmer; `and as r a common-sense` business Apro- position he: should look after his own interests sufciently to house his `implements and ~ thus save the thousands of dollars` Wasted` ; annual- ly in unnecessary: depreciation.- HJISTRIBUTION OF '. ` I ` ~ GRAIN AND POTATOES EA BITE ON THE WAY I ) . v v-a- $1111, ice Vs `horse :t&1_ey_ ve -him for A G-RISDALE, 1 _Director," Dominion Experi- mental Farms BErrIi "LAURITSEN. yOu .]]. .Laurits'en, Millinock-at, I1?` plX`FQFI`;*rin- 4- ----~~ Harold Sykes, aged 23, formerly of Creemore, was crushed` to death at Yell-ow Grass, Sas-k., by a wagon 1o`ad,Vu11duer which `he had-. gone to rxe a broken bolt. ' V ' - ER LAURITSEN, [V e., ' V-care Crockett 3., care Crockett 311, I suppose now what. the Frnchies 'vmbstze? *-I9n ,-,, .. .,.. -puur ence frost-.bitten. 1311, ` -.5--- Y9`? . r)he V.`-Hell p1a.ce"'1n 9. g10l'lOllS Cucuuuwu '.'l.`:-he ~ general sa._w his son Iall DY 7hi,8.,:8ide,ghe said, and without inch- -`i'!,Tl '_?:O!1,tinued. to -direct the engage 5 `U13 War SO11 ll]. ixbuv-'. Xa.vier de. Castelnau, a second lieutenant, twenty years old, W9-3 killed in an engagement with the G91 `omans. M. Clemenceau, the e-X`-PT9` H1181`. referred, without naming him .EC.Q;Y0nng Ca.ste1nau s death as h8Vi Vl8k._61iop1a.ce' in a. glorious encounter- `. l'l\'I.;'.. -_-.....__1 _-__ 1.3.. ..m.. tall b7 There was a net d crease of 182 electric lights in use in Orillia dur- ing August and -Sept-ember, the dlo.sin_g of the smelter accounting for 126 of this number cut o, .G6l;a| Sw Son Fall '1. General de 'CastAelnau, the Chief Of Sta1!,.was the-`first French general lnlthis war to`1ose his son in action." `To.-.1-.. .1- r1- _.;._1._-.- .-. connd` uuv avast 7AU,VUU G JCCI-I This is better than the pay Of *3 admiral or the eet, who may be said to be a. naval eld, marshal, and gets Onlyaa little over $10,000 a Yeim ex" elusive of allowances.` -_v angunuu cu Lu}. The position of eld marshal Is 3 great one. The :1e1d marshal com` mander-in-chief in the Mediterranean sets $26,000 a year. Probably `a eld marshal actively employed W111 89" -but least $15,000 a year. I TKO- 1.`. L-.|.L-_. 1.1_-_. LL- ---n he an Only Eight Field Marshals A'Britlsh eld marshal never re- tires from the army. He may be placed on half-pay, but is still borne on the active, list. By the regulations there must not be more than eight eld marshals receiving pay as such; that is, 6! elusive of honorary eld marshals. such as foreign kings, emperors. and. princes. Of` the eight regular eld .ma.rsha.ls two must be selected from the Indian army. VII... ........u..I-._' _n 13.1.: .....--1---1 50 9 l The signing of this deciaration by these two nations wilihave no eect _1n `the present war, because it is expressly provided that if either of them has "an {ally in any war who hasnot adopted the. measure it is not binding on them. So ghting con- tinues Qn land, on_ sea, and in the air. v---av uvxtvuulcu LUL .L0.l.U. Of the forty4four states represented only twenty-seven adopted the mea- sure, and the onl_y important coun- tries to do so were England and Austria. v- .\r|aIvAJ\.lIoL\ll.l UL uuc LIDC UL GCIULJLQUCD. After much discussion a vote was taken on a measure providing for the continuance o the prohibition adopted of {Jun `IOOG . . _ . . A _ _ ,___ _-__A2I LL- AA- """"""`\4\ V4 Ll-IC IJIULLIUILIUU auuyuvu at the 1899 convention until the ter- mination of the Third Peace Confer- ence, scheduled for 1915. ' {XI LL- a-__;__.n_,,,, . .__1 uu uepwuiuer, `I, .l3Uo .). Eight years later it appeared that the action of the tribunal was not prompted so much by humanitarian craft were not destined to [play an important part in any war in the near future. When the second gathering at The Hague took place, in 1907, it was impossible to inspire any or the great European powerswith the sentiments to which they had unani- mously subscribed in 1899. The pro gress made in the science of aerial navigation had been so extraordinary` that _the `military powers were deep- ly interested, and very few of them Wished to give up this new method of attack. . [feelings as by the belief that air. England and Austria-H-ungary were of the party in favor of the limitation of armaments, and accordingly fa*.or- ed restriction of the use of aeroplanes. Affn-n vnnnt. .1: ..... -.--__ -.- ..._-.. Meaford` Town Council is con- sidering the advisability _of keeping the public library open to adults during the fall and winter months on Sundays.` Prohibited Bomb-dropping` The subject was given a brief con- sideration and the law suggested by the Russian count was adopted for R A Gun vvn-nun .-..L1..l_ __.- 7 .._- .... .._..... uuuuu wan auupbtiu 101' a period of ve years, which expired on September, 4, 1905. `l:....1..a. .... .., .vnvuuv\A, JJGD Lllllu IJCCU. In January of 1899 Count Maura- vie, of St. Petersburg, sent a cir- cular `to the states to be represented at The Hague in which he urged the prohibition of the discharge of projectiles or explosives of any kind from balloons or by any similar means. ' -53 _ nnnava. ALLLDLLULA. As soon as there was some indi- cation that ying machines might be perfected, the international law. makers were at once struck withthe question of their use for the drop- ping of explosives. The same con. terence at which the laws `concerning the treatment of airmen taken prison- -ers during the war were passed took an important stand on the explosive question, and one which, it is to be regretted, has not been continued. In Tnnnuu-tr l\ 10 fV_-.._A It `matter of fact, a number of us ununid n unw- D.uring the Franco-Prussian War bf.-1870 some attempts were made to use balloons A for observing the movements of the hostile armies. The status of aeronauts had not been de. ned at that time, and Bismarck ordered that any `who might be cap. mredbe considered as spies. .As a them were taken `prisoners, but were L-eated as military prisoners and were not executed. It was not until the first Hague convestion, in 1899,V that the position of balloonists 1,1 time of war was defined. 'Alrmen Are Not Spies The conference decided that bal- i loonists are not spies if they are sent 1 "to deliver despatches or to gene;-. Llly maintain communication between the various parts of an army or tel-. ritory." The ruling fails to provide for the treatment of aviators who may be captured in the act of gain In; information. *t! efended is forbidden. cc `V1. `(LIV (ill I - According to international ml the bombardment of towns, v111age; txabitations. or buildings which are not. . AS early as the Brussels Conference of 1874 an attempt was made to limit the an. tivlties of aircraft `by the addition of the words by any means whatever tothe rule. The use cf aircraft for t of bombs into unprotect cities, causing the de `combatant women and < created a very great indi {strong feeling against s (rpm the air.` -THURSDAY 001; 9 IBOMB DROPPING -Uapt. Abel of the ` American Hotel, Midland, was ned $100 and $10 costs, -by Magistrate J ackel, for selling liquor without a license. He pleaded guilty. Britalh Favored `Resolution an V--vvvvu I death of 1 Hell children ' indignation azainf nu.-.1. 12 . --- uux; uyuppi 'unp}otected 3 the cxna ,_.---nu such j/villages Two youthful Colfiingwood house- lbreakers were caught red11ande_d and given terms in the In-dustrlal School. I iS.out:h Simcoe `County Orange _ELOdJge meets at Alliston on Nov. 5th,. to consid-er- a scheme to raise `funds for the Red Cross. `I Collingwood: Board of Trade de- 'plores- the falling off in the farm iers .trade. . ~ vHoW.ard E-. Hastings, formerly off [Midland-, is the trst "and only] osteopathic physician to pass the Medical Council of Alberta; THE WEEK IN REVIEW! News Notes of interest. For ' Busy Readers. T` i . _ 1 Hydro electric power went mto operation in IO-reemrore `Wednesday of last Week. T t Accounts ,1_naybe'opened ant evefy branch AA feThe' Batik of `Commerce to 'be operated by mail, and ill? receive the same careful attention as isgivento all otherdep ffients of. the Bankfs business. Money may be deposited or with rawn in way as satisfactorily as by a` personal visit to the" L` 524 %sm nDn?IuNnwALK1:n.c.v.6.. I..D..D.C.I ~ PreIit!` ent- ~ ' gnnxaxnnn umua. Gene:-auuanage: EN AIRD. Ass t General Manager CANA AN BANK or COM ERCE % % IIAPITAL. $15,090,000 nss:h\E ruun,s13,%5uu.ono $100. REWA-RD, $100 BANKING BY\ MAIL BARRlE__B_RANC| ._,,....~u.uuu.vu uuu; uaumuuug 11'1bul'6 in doing its work. . The proprietors ;-have so much faith in_its curative `powers that they offer ` -One Hun-1` ,,'d1_.'9d ,Do1Il'ars for any case that -i't ;.--,fa'ils rtoicuref -Send for 'l'i:st,& of :*=- cestii`m.0nira1s. r 4 ~ A -vT- * 4 -H._'J; Manager. % Heavy. 1inen,w:1`1_'ik:_h is pmacguy rep`roof,;_: SJhQu1d::.b.f : for ookg ing::i.apr9n;14.*Jand% - 1 River}. `Bradford WVitness--On Sunday morning last, .'-M. Lambert Hamil- ton found the body of a [horse run- hitched from a- wagon, mired in a hog hole on his marsh about a mile east of Bradford "bridge. The out- 't `apparently was the property of some junk dealer. "It is thought that the outt is the `one seen pass- . ing through Holland ._ILand5ing on Thursday `night last. Tlhursday night was very dark and the '-`men being strangers lost their v'vay. l Constale i .'Long,hur,st_ of Hollandff Landing is _investigain_g "._the.. case, i as :it `is fearedsin looking~: forzas.- ~ Tistance men 'mi'ghtf=_ha`~ve' `met I an , untimely anal in the "T Walter E. Willmott, executor and trustee of the Joseph Humphrey estate, has `brought suit -against C`. F. .W1fight and James Barr for $1,600 damages .alleged' to have been done property which is situated in the fth concession of the Township of Tossorontio, in Simcoe County, ' `by [its occupation by the defendants`. He also asks" that an injunction be made prohibiti-ng the defendants from ooding, the lands. and that , they be made pay _for_ xoecupying; `H1 Am -Sam .-Lee,_ 21 Midland Chinese rest-auranter,` wasp ned ` $30.00 and costs for` having opium and- opium pipes" on_his premises`. The police found the drug while searching for_ liquor Which they did not nd. The Chinaman, protested that the drug and pipes were` for auvisitor from -China suffering with T consumption. This is the first known o'pium.case in isimcoe lCounty. ' The drug was destroyed and the pipes retained by the law zoicers as souvenirs._- - I The `hydro-radial iz)y-1aw's, votecl on in thirteen, Ontario municipali- ties. on Monday of `last Week, auth- orizing the signing `of -contracts` with `the `Hydro-Electric `Commis- sion, carried` in the following elerven -Whitby, V Ux-bridge, Markham, Stouifvlle; Port Perry, townships of P-ickering, Whibchurch, Mark-ham, Scarboro, Reach and `Whitfby, and met defeat in tWuo-th-e town of Newmarket and the township of Uxbridge. ' ' ' 4, Collingwood Enterprise--vAa com-' paratively few years ago the Davies -Company, vProvision-st and `Meats, opened up- a `branch in Collingwood and announced that they_ ,didn t need to advertise. ' The store is now closed. for the past year or so they endeavored to bolster up a declin- jing business-' by `issuing a fevvhand ibills, but it Was too. late. ~MOra1,+- `If you want to stay in busines-s- ` advertise. a The open'season for hunting deer and moose in -thi-s section, -of ' On- tario `is from. November 1` to No- vember 15,"!both -days incllusive. As both November `1 and 15 fall- on Sunday -this year and it is illegal to hunt" on the -S~a'b'bath day, the sea- son this year will actually ' extend from the 2ndf1t o the 14th. {Only one deerand one moose Ajmay be taken `by any one person. V V West GWi1_I'im'bury Council at a: special meeting on Wednesday .1ast,V announced the followinga contri'bu-` tions to date for the. Empire s War .needs:- 507 bags potatoes, 421 bags oats, 34 pounds of butter and $43.75 in cash. Barrels will be or- {dered= or the potatoes. ` - Through the generosity of Mr.` T`hos. Long, -suplllemen-ted by a substantial donation j fromj the `Carnegie. Corporation,` St. Mary s Church, `Collingwood, has a ne new pipe organ, whicli Was" dedicated last Friday evening. I required. . school pi_1rpose's, the tent ..-been used all summer for`. the over- ow "now being` untenafblle. . More school accommodation is` urgently `gnaw .;'m:,~T. Herseshoeing wFIEtvA%%sT-} MA vt)F._s,(_11`t;Ril;%. or A Buggies, Carriages. Wagons '%Sleighs5and Cuttex_'s.A _ ' M A I '9 C `VALE u Well, he s ?oeen.1ionized so much, I suppose -he feels that a mane is the `proper -thing, . . ` _ V V | 7 Wonder what makes _ Poun-.d`er,! the famous pianist, wear his hair so ` long ? `"I'T-1'I `I 9 .1 - `|' ` ` ` cu.v a_u. uuc wu1.'1u |,U 1116. The Heiress--Papa says you evi- dently think the World owes you a living. ` 1 ? ' He--You know, dearest, that you; ?are all the World to me. ` rnL- `r'r_3-.-,, `n - I IN- 1 Pacic -ticket ` G; Murphy, \/Ill. \Jn.L\I FOL! E 'Fu11 particul- Agent, Toronto. `V Eastbound`: 1` p.m. (central t troit (M.-C.R. leaving Detroi 12.43 a.m.; le Street) 11.40_ p. _(C.P;R.) 1.20 i leaving Winds V2.10 a.m.,leavin : treal 6.10 pzm. Wesbound: e T am., arriving` fleaving Toronto L London 9.33 p. sor 12.10 a.m. 11.35 p.m. (cen Detroit 11.55..p. c_ago 7.45 a.m. 1` 1'."_;A'I , 1 A .These Tsolid d -ing buffet,-1'ib - servation ca standard A slee Standard dinin tween Mont Chicago, via C Michigan Cent `known as The ' erated daily th Central twin t ?s-or and Detroit. [ nTL.n ` 7.30 to 11 p.n,1.-Helped to take patients `to a -boat. We badlywant literature. Send me a set of shav- ing ;b1ades; I have used_ so many of mine on -patients. I `have a Ger- man _ cavalry ehelmet. -A patient: gave it to vme. 4 ` I _...-we vvo-Jon`! 3.15 "to 4.30 -p.m.--Buried three soldiers. . The French `people at the cemetery sobbed `like children, and showeredh owers T on the roughly constructedi cofns. ' 5 to 7.30 Vp.m.-Services_ in tents. I _could- not hold` a parade "service as we were momentarily expecting amsbullances to take _ natients' to a boat; also plastered up a man s gback, and sat on an artery till the idoctor came. r ' I-Inn . A o. .. 4 .. ._.~v..u-au. V-uvuuzzu a1'DU '}).>l1'l/UUl1._ 2.30 t-o 3.15 p.m.-Services- in tents-, and: sh-av ed two men who had lost arms. . ' ` 4-\4..: ---- msr MONT M - DE-TROI` TRAIN -...vu ....-. uuuuu .Lu1. Uau. UCIDUB. '2 p.m..---'Ho'ly Communion -in a tent _for four -cases--onei very had. A young lance-corporal " asked` for this service, and as. I_ Went round administering, a wounded German prisoner suddenly held out his hand -and said: _4``Lu1:heran-4S-acrament. ; A Roman" Catholic a-1-so partook._ 9'20 4-..-. 91:: ..... G-__:--~ ........ ....v.. uuv uuuyxuux Dyan. I . 10 and 11. a.m.-T`wo parad ser- vices three miles -away -for the re- inforcements. I rbde out to take - them. 4,-..-.- . - --` '``,In a week over 1000 cases have passed .`1:hr'0.ugh our hands, some of them ;very -bad.. In the _rush I had -:to7he113,with= the dressings and the _wou`nd-s were ` Worse than` Icould have imagined. Some of. them have diedi, not a ,feW of tetanus. I bur- ied ve yesterday. It was a most ehearfrrending; . I could have cried. Here -is my programme . of Work #yesterday'-- ? H _.___ -rr 1 `rm ._-- vs-uv . usual U science has been ;ai1)ie to cure in all its stages, and-` that, is Oabarrh; ,'Ha?H s Catarrh. `Cure is. the only -positive cure now known -to the medical fraternity. Catarrh _-Ibeing a constitutional disease, requires ;a constitutional treattm_en't. Ha1_I s _Cata'rrh Cure is taken -internally acting directly upon the `blood and _mucous surfaces of the ystem,: .,thereby -destroying the hi` founda'bio_n; `of. the; disease,` and!" givingj the i `patient strength by bi1:`iflc_iing_ _up. {the gconsrtitution `anti 'a$istmg' inatur` J ':in*An:n.m :+a .:.....1.. ml... _._-....:-u.w~ f V-'i::3o0 to 1. p.m.-j-Thre e' little Vser-' f-vices in tents for bad `cases. 1 _ 0 _` _~_ -Q*_|1__ -(1 V o Rep:iirs of all kinds .Rcsiden_ce,. I64 Bayeld Street Phqne- 627. _ 16-tf ` I]vwvvA\A.Uo`] 0 V I - _7- a'.m.---Holy Commumon In` a! 1 l tent for the hospital staff. 1n .....1 11 -... V .V the work of " a chip- ..;l_ain " in the. British forces may be geaniedi .from the fol-lowing extracts received *by a friend in" town from Colonel the Rev. `H. Coo.p,i' Chaplain to the Howitzer Brigade, Royal Artillery, with the British forces in France : (KT G. S. RAN] British chaplain A SENS-E or ~FITNE"S+S` Contractor & A Builder PAPA .S IDEA The readers of this paper will `be pleased to learn that there. is at least one -dneaded` disease .tha't been able cure ell :!fa 1-`Atrium -...J` 4.1. -L THE: N 0RV I`HI:RN ADVANCE vyvvl 4111907 {JILL}: (M.-C.R. - Depot) ing - Detroit (Font ., leaving Wintisor Jri. (eastern time)-, _ I from Canaduan genxts, or write_M. rstrxct . Passenger iring Chicago e); arriving De- epot) 12.35 a.m.;[ /`ll`.I`l`l"l T\ \'\JU|vLIU\4LLL IILLLIUJ, i'm"(M.-C.R. 1 Depot) I ?London 5.15: a.m.; 8.30 Ta.m.; leaving p.; arriving Mon- Hing Montreal 8.46 , oronto 5.40 p.m.`; 6.10 9.131., leaving .-.....----_. _ 117:, 1 luxe trains, carry- ry-compart;ment-oib~ electric-lighated" , together _with car .serv1'soe `be - adjian Pacic and raroads, rare anadlfan, -and op- j . Between Wind- ~A'L - TORO-NTO - OHIOAGO JSERVIIOE T vo4.u 1101.510 LLICIIVILL6 o ., armving Wind- arriving Detroit a1 'time);. leaving ., arriving ._Chi- V Fire, which `broke out in Gedde s ibllack-smith shop, Bradcford, on Thursday night last, destroyed R. T,indale s warehouse, W. C. Davey s-' hide house, 1). Og_ilvie s livery 'barn and J. G. G.ray s stable. ; uuuxg 1.115;: yaavcau .L uau I111 IKSUH. well housed and _ he~ necessary painting and-' repairing had been done to keep it in good order. On . a neighbouring farm a binder which I had cut only three `crops, but which had been neglected and! had stood out of doors, was -being relegated to. the scrap heap -and a new one was being - purchased. . "An implement shed` costs money, but if its use willlbe double or treble the length of time the emachineryl will `last, it `is -a good investment. - Farmers yoften.Asay that they cannot ` aord to build "a shed. The `truth is, they really -can-not raord to be V without one. Apart from the ad- ditional power necessary `for .op er-L _ ation, V the. depreciation on unhoued machinery. on the"? average sized. = rfarmr,-is so ygreatj~.gast`o amount: to a `much more gthanf -the c_"cos-tfand up-i I V >.keep; `of an gr.,rimp1ementi . a .. shed, "The 19 `W?k9 ..;f?l 13`-`Vi; a"i31?'rt liler an. uuz. -puuuL.u.5 av auuaullb U1 ULID In Saskatchewan -and Manitoba, Where so much of the machinery is left out of door-s, the average life of -the binder is given` by the farm- ers as about 7 years, which is less than half that of -the binder pro- tected from` the Weather. Many years. One farmer "near Moosomin, Sask.,i `who, -after 12 years, was re-. tiring` from the farm, `held an auction sale. His binder -after cut- ting 12 crops sold for $80, or 50 -per cent. of the original cost, andi his other machinery -at proportion-' ately V high prices. It had all been ....J1 L...-.....,J -..'.1 LL- Ibinders do not last as long as seven I In the Ontario district visited where the `- implements -are housed, the average life of the -binder was Hound to be between 16 and 17 years. Many `binders were seen which were in`goodj running order after,-cutting 20 seasons crops. T- Q..-1...;..L........_ -_-.1 1r;_e:LJ _ In `one district in Ontario where' 40 farmers `were visited every `man housed his implements during win- lter, aIt1_1ou_gh none of these men do +`an`v painting. . - T \ T_,u1..r\. - 1--- ---'1 ;au: n\_L\JlJ.\I LLLLJ yuxuuxggo - In the three districts visited in Alberta, mixed farming is carried` on quite extensively, making more barn'_room' avai1a!1)1e, so that imple-I ments are. more likely to be pro-; teeted, but even here 37 out of the. I92 visited leave a 11 machinery out `T offdoors. -. _ n '. `_ - _ In Manitoba only. 14 out of 94` keep their machinery under cdver .-`during winter, while 44` claim to [keep a part of it inside. On 34 of the Manitoba farms no provision whatever is made" for protecting `implements, and_only fourelaim to ihave done any painting. -1'... LL` LL--- J2..L.._'_L__ '_'1 `I \4DI. noun u1LLL .Ll.`IJ\3l. ha. I ' In Saskatchewan, out of.94 farm-- ersvisited by the Commission's re-1 presentative, 76 leave all of their implements out of doors. On 73 of the farms, there were no imple- ment sheds of any description. 'On. 21 of the farms, sheds large enough to cover a part of the implementsl were found, in most cases this `be- ing only a buggy or a democrat, but not-on. one -single farm was the machinery all` housed. Not "one, lfarmer was found who painted his! {implements ' to protect them from the Weather. 1 . . - Recent investigations -*by the Con- servation Commission reveal some very ` interesting facts regarding the effect of care or neglect, as the case may `be, upon the life of ma- chinery on the farm... Between 90 and 95 farms, divided: into three districts, ' were visited in each .of Ethe provinces of Manitoba, Saskat- itchewag and `Alberta. it Iuwuu V6 IIIULIIUQ Help 311181 Immediate relief gua. mail order lies. Safer to personally. Do not delay The Council. TC-ham- oer `-in Alliston is being used tempora_rily or Mlonderful Moth "I-1-oitains Rupture Without Knife, anger or Pain, _ Old style truss tortur s no longer nece ssvzy. Gallmg, slipping trusse barbarous methods of treating rupture done a ly with by the wonder- I ful invention of a. spec1 ist who has devoted -" -' --a"--7 -'r' fifty years to this one .s d . The marvelous EGAN CURA'l'RUS" is inte e to give instant re- lief, rest and security ithout operation. It stops all irritation, rest, es rupture to natural position, and old trusses re thrown away. . Mu] tudes of cured me women and children testif . Greatest succes where others fail. Nothing complicated, pain-just a natural retentive method at smal cost. Trnrnndiafn 1'nI{n~F lvnn ndrnn `t\vn;\'rov\ 4` Care and Abuse of Farm Machinery .l. Y.'T3;'ii`;_spe2[1ist'9t Toruo III --.l-...E..I ll -A.I_'_ 3 _ A _ _ __ - V- __.__r--.,. a-.- you navvva I-I\/I .LV\IUI-I uwvvunl Orlllla. Orlllla `House Nov; 7th -ml: BARRIB. BARBIE no 3. MONDAY (all day & night)! DA`! NLY, NOV. 9 \ comnewood, Globe do I, Nov. 10-11 - -r- -_--r--- -vv-I-V_"- This coupop, upon pr entation to J. Y. E a:1,s ecxahst, 14 East; {ing St., Toronto, W o wll visit the to 3 below, entitles bearer to free consultatio and examination of samples. Ask at hotel ce. Note dates. . _-_- _ RUPHURE Fl-`ea I-'_-luptur _Coupo_n. ISOIIIB of the 'co1'1t'ractshave been `let for -Ori11ia =s- Waterworks exten-. _sion and ltration p1ant"an-d Work will (be: proceeded with at once, thus giving employment to a number-`of V men.