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' Did you see this @ cook your Vegeâ€" @E\@% tables, Meat, and _ s eoei e e gy, Pudding?_ All in <CM SA > one Cooker. pewaprien se "\ \ ‘:'%;m 1!' over one fire. l ) * \\ ) l 4 Summer or Winâ€" ] PmE E ter. WRAY‘S HARDW ARE Grimsby PHONE 130 The INDEPENDENT \ is "The Peopte‘s Paper‘ e WevNEsDAY, rERRUARY 3, 11 Ammmma.nuh.mnwummmmmvw For the grain farmer we haz/le, Deering farm machinery -uunmu.muuummmm and tools, Fix up that barn with a good track amd car. Agent for the Gray«Dort wulomobieâ€"If you thins of purcl a car this spring, Jo a0t Tail to wte this car. THEAL BROS. Try an Independent Ad "{ARDWARE MERCHANTS®" Phone 2! «i GRIMSBY, ONT. For the Fruit Grower we have Tree Pruners, Prunâ€" ing S\ws and Grape Prunâ€" We will again "THE STORE OF 1001 THINGS" soll the famons Did you see this cook your Vegeâ€" tables, Meat, and one Cooker. over one fire Summer or N ter. "over the ton Gith+d spray #un ins of purchasing nery . wha and . Hay 'III’ P# clently â€" properly ducted Farm, O years ha [l-h car THUE SOY BEAX FoRr romAGE oR POR SEED. many parts of Canada is. not suffi ciently long for the séads to ripe: properiy. However, experimments conâ€" ducted at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Curing the jast thres years have shownâ€"thit there are cerâ€" tain carly maturing varieties which are quite satisfactory. . ‘The yielq of seed per acre in the United States varies from 15 bushe!s in the Northera States to 40 bushels in the Southern States. During the year 1916 seeds of iwo varictise were, through the kiftiness of the Bureau of Plant industry at Washington, D.C., obtained for trial Thege were Manchs and Rlack Eyeâ€" brow, ‘They were sown in plots 16 to 12 feot each plot measuping 1(227 of an acre. The seeda wore planted in fiye rows with intervals of 2%; feet between the rows. The particu« lar rate of sowing was not determin« ed, the seeds being sown fairly thick and the plants being thinned out af terwards. â€" ‘The variety of Manchu was sows an May 22, 1916, and @tained an uverage height of 3 feet ‘The plot was cut on September 25, the weight of seeds after removal from the pod: being 6 pounds 14 ounces. pr, Shutt Dominion chemist, @naltsed *hes¢ seeds and found the aMhynt of oi present to be 20.3% per cent. 4 â€" The variety ":nck Eyprow â€"w: sown on the same date, ADJ attaine the same averd¢e hoight 1t was o on the same day as Manchuayd yiet «d 7 pounds 21; ounces Of weds wit an oll content of 20.05 O cont If 7 pounda of 2204 bo taken the average of the two plts an 54 pounds be reckoned to he h« tha yield would â€"work outat a> 24% bushols cer acte . _ In the same year a f «anther _ varlety . obtats Dotanical Gardan at N.« were sown on May 29. s@tained a beiabt of 18 The the seeds being Ante. As only : valety ware avai on plenty af â€"om |nuh that nss | while adothe= had these pods being co tained one or more In syi? th May #2 and Another sow 6, ang these tubar 9. Y s 6, ang these s»>e hasoced on (ew tobap 8. V Sâ€"riponed 20« were ol« taineg in bot‘ cases, (haster a~=t® plants beine about 6 lhes ta!ldt whan those enwn e«»lor f for + pl â€" in 1918 seads of four vistion «se wywu on May *%%, ant toe>* +6 r""y an Sentamheg3, (~~bap October 18, Octaber 1: soy L0 @ilk, olly seeds stock »an for Ino wee m may and CETCEY \ " seed per acre in the F'm aries from 15 bushe!s send ; States to 40 hushe!s |@ueer o States. !lu 1 mar 1916 seeds of iwo can through the kiskine««] PrOP®®> Nar the are ‘h"1 leaves 4 seeds .« ~especisa | wince . Lout Uhs growi fes only, illy valu chemiza ® with 188 1 t for ho An Iy raw materials, -uhlufl.l‘l ufts will have to be taken to , and there will also be the | task of carrying the solâ€" | ‘dlers of all nations now in France | to their native lands. Apart | the American armies of more 2,000,000, there are over 300, c-nlln-.uotutnllnuil. re, Africans, Bast, West, Bouth and North; East Indian troops, Arais, West Indian regiments, and Austraila‘s Nava: Dosence, â€" Acting Premler Watt, speaking in Mflrflhl House of Representaâ€" stated that the Government Nea nlr'«{ taken action to secure Apeort sdvice regarding Austra®‘a‘s dcfence. in the Senate, Mr, , Minister of Defence, foreâ€" ed the certainty of additional taxation for the next fow years. WeR T C nIREL Cmas | from German shipping. Gerâ€" has# lost that trade and we iust see that :t does not go back. German steamship lines got such % large share of the world‘s passenâ€" trafiie and freight trade because aperated luxurious liners with found cargo ships and gave good wervice to their clients. When the nflgr business starts up again g the war and America gots the new 25â€"knotters she is Ioo;'.l: forward to, and which I unders mre going to be built, then we must good service. If we do our peoâ€" will prefer to travel on them and wend us their freight. The proâ€" ‘“ of goods must be studied by EI.‘ him a regular service so that ean conduct his business in a proper manner. The passenger will Wiso have to be studied." B many other races as well as rome 100,000 Chinese coolics. It may take three years or more to accomplish this work of repatriation. "America has not only done valu« mble work with her new -“2 marine in carrying troops and plies from this country to France and England, but also with her steamâ€" ships, which have been_ operating f or m s ‘ '-n--q-t.vq-!"!g‘fg..' 8ir Connop Guthric w. â€" an officer In the Grenadier Guards, but was w.‘ so severely at Neuve Chaâ€" in 1815 that he had to go into i hospital for nine months, and h.rnnl was undt for further sore vice in the Bring lines. The Duke of Connaught has idenâ€" tWfed himself with the "Comrades of the Great War," organization as %â€"c the Pederation of Discharged hen it was announced that the had agreed to open the Martet at Tudliey, organi«~~ 1: the tion of Dischars«s and on beho‘« of pres c h of war, the secrs«ary of the Comraden of the Gâ€".st War wrote to Lord Harâ€" wiking him to bring certain f to the duke‘s I:L and ‘ that the Dicharged Men‘s f ton was a political organizaâ€" 1 iuasmuch as it was running can~ ‘ tes for P.rliament. The fede stion !s -n”um can» @idates, b.t not for polit reaâ€" sons; pursly in the inte.ests of the @scharp + men, whom ir!e "Com» rades ~. the Great War" aro not in a posit‘sa to represent. * se result of Lord Herdipge‘s inâ€" l'flenlou is that the duige declined Whe Invitation to open the Market Weok ai uudiey. 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