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a In carly Stages, But More Plants Erected to Pro- ~ duce Chemicals Agriculture is the leading industry in Canada, and plant foods are an essential of continued production in the industry as a whole. . Neverthe- less, owing to the richness of the soil, the manufacture of artificia® fer- tilizers is yet in its early stages in ! the Dominion. Production of these raw materials of agriculture, how- ever, has been brought to the front lately by the , erection of several plants designed to produce the basic chemicals by syntheti: methods. ere was recently opened near Beloeil, of superpt hates, while ; Herbert Holt, referred to the world- At the annual mecting of the Royal Bank of Canada, the President, Sir ers properly used will increase the yield of wheat by eight to ten per acry. The development i wide depression, cited credit condl- tions as the chief contributing factor and reviewed developments in and | prospects for Canadian industries. He said that while the results of the Imperial Conference are naturally dis. | appointing to the overseas Dominions, | it was too much to expect that a ready- | mede proposal would be acceptable to : Great Britain. Her trade with the out- : side world is relatively much mere im- (portant to her «. is the case with , the Dominions, but proposals put for ward by the Canadian delegates in- | volved a principle rather than a plan! | and this principle is one which should | d serious consideration. It is "an In the meantime our exports 0f animal products. have steadily decreased. In his opinion statistics clearly point to aL opportunity for greater profit by diversification. 5 In co. vlusion, Sir Herbert said: "The stability of our great industries and the strength of our finaiiclal institutions is this stability which is the basis for my optimism concerning the future." Mr. C. E. Neill, Vice-President and Managing Director of the bank, con- fined his remarks to a discussion of the "phosphate plant there is under construciion at Trail, British Columbia, a large group of chemical plants attached to the Con- , solidated Mining and Smelting Com- pany, one of the main products of which will be chemical fertilizers. 'Growing Business According to records, there are 30 odd plants in Canada which are en- gaged in manufacturing fertilizers. Of these a dozen or so produce chemical fertilizers as their chief produets, Others, such as the Steel Company of Canada, the Algoma Steel Company and the Montreal Light Heat and Power Consolidated, make fertilizer material as a by-pro- duct. Meat packing and the fish industry also supply fertilizers as by- products. The chemical branch 'of fertilizer manufacture is a growing in- dustry and will, in time, be the chief source of commercial fertilizers in the country. Its importance will in- crease steadily with advance of in- tensive agriculture throughout the Dominion. The new plant being erected at Trail is an outgrowth of the smelt- ing operations of Consolidated Smel- ters. It developed during these operations that sulphuric acid could be manufactured in large quantities as a by-product by the contact pro- cess from the smelter gases. This discovery was the main considera- tion leading to the establishment of the fertilizer industry. This indus- try, in which approximately $10,000.' 000 is' being invested, involves the erection of a group of plants en a 137-acre site known as the Warfield | Flat at Tadanac on the outskirts of Trail. It is e Xe al ty be in partial operation nex it least so far as the sup plant ig con- cerned, though it will he some time before the other major fertilizer pro- ducts, such as ammonium pulphite and ammonium phosphate, are pro- duced. Several Plants One group in the fertilizer industry will consist of the hydrogen plant, at the outer end of which is the mer- cury arc rectifier installation, the central nitrogen and the ammonia plants. Between the hydrogen and nitrogen plants there will be three large cylindrical gas containers, 53 feet, 60 feet and 90 feet in diameter, the largest to receive and store under pressure hydrogen from the hydro- 'gen plant, the smallest to store nitro- gen and the one of medium capacity to hold a mixture of these two gases from which the ammonia will be made. The hydrogen plant will pro- duce by the electrolysis of water, while in the nitrogen plant air will be liquified, thus separating the nitro- gen from the ,xygen. In the am- monia plant, the mixture of gases, consisting of one part of nitrogen to three of hydrogen, will be compress- ed under 4,500 pounds pressure and passed through a heated catalyst, where upon hydrous ammonia will result, Make Superphosphate Associated with this group, which may be described as a unit of the am- monia - plant, is &nother group of buildings connected with the manu- facture of phosphate. The first of these is the phosphoric 'acid plant or in which super- hosphate fertilizer will be produced 'by the application of sulphuric acid to phosphate rock derived from the Consolidated Company's phosphate workings at Fernie or Crow's Nest, in British Columbia, or from other sources. This plant, which is de- signed to turn out 300 tons of triple superphosphate per day, will utilize in the treatment of the phosphate rock, the sulphuric acid produced at the Tadanac metallurgical works from smelter gases, Something like 86,000 or 40,000 h.p. of® electrical energy will be required for the chemi- eal fertilizer plant at its first cnit stage. This power will be supplied by the West Kootenay Power and Light Company, a subsidiary of Con- solidated Smelters. Most f the power will go to the mercury arc rectificr install-tion by which alter- nating electrical current will be con- verted to the direct current needed for the hydrolysis of water in the manufacture of hydrogen. Sent fe His Reason "Do you like going to school, Ted- dy?" asked the boy's fond uncle. "Oh, yes, uncle," replied Teddy, "but 1 like Sunday-school best." His uncle looked puzzled. "Pm glad to hear that," he said. #But why do you like Sunday-school Dest?" MN "'Cos I only have to go once a week," came from Teddy. world depression and the relation of the price level to gold supplies and cen- tral bank policy. He pointed out that only the return of normal international financial relations would end the pre- sent depression and advocated a con- ference of the leading financial powers to formulate a plan to apply the necessary corrective measures. The General Manager, My, M. W, Wilson, referred to the satisfactory manner in which the Canadian charter- ed banks have taken care of financial requirements in Canada during a difi- cult year, as clearly demonstrating that the Canadian banking system is ade: quate to the needs of the country in times of stress as well as under nor- mal conditions, hoped *hat preliminary discussions be- fore the proposed corference at Otta- wa will lead to a common basis of agreement at that time. Sir Herbert dealt with the principal industries of Canads, making a number of constructive suggestions, He strong- ly advocated that the west should be less dependent on the production of grain, substituting mixed farming, He approved of the suggested formation of ap agricultural credit corporation to assist the farmers to purchase cattle, , sheep and hogs. He advocated the increased use of fertilizer us a means of ensuring more stable results, pointing out that experi- ments have demonstrated that fertiliz- Prophets' Wildest Dreams Realized Condensed from Popular Mechanics, December, '1930. Our twentieth-century marvels re- vive memories of prophets, for they foretold that these inventions would come, Automobile tires guaranteed for 20,000 miles and more remind us that Charles Goodyear prophesied that vul- carized rubber could be made as tough as fiexible-steel. Multi-motored ships that fly and parachutes that plunge from a plane at several miles' altitude r 1 us of Leonardo da Vinei's dra of a "tent-roof" para- h , and diegrams of airplanes con- 1cted on the principles of bird flight. When a chance excavation ex- poses thousands of telegraph and tele- phone cables we recall Edison's pho- phecy in 1878, of long-distance tele- phony. He said: strict sense, he was scientist as well as fiction writer. He studied nature's laws with great industry and observed descriptions of airplanes, submarines, their application everywhere. His rockets and engines aroused jeers and hoots, and his defense was, "Man can achieve what man can imagine." Recentl,. the French Geographical Society celebrated the centenary of Jules Verne's birth, and paid especial tribute to him for contributions to aeronautics. While Otto Lillienthall was making his first flights in a glider, Verne drew a vivid word-picture of a flying-machine, "The Albatross," and now in a little known book described what he believed would be the air- plane of the future. His story, "Five Weeks in a Balloon," brought out Verne's individual theories for mech- anjcal flight. "As to the future of aerial locomotion," he wrote, "it he- longs to the airships (airplane), not to the aerostat (dirigible)." Outside aeronautics, Verne depicted cannon that would fire shells twenty "The telegraph company of the fu-| Miles. But in the last war, the Ger- ture--and that no distant ome--will| man Big Bertha fired seventy-five be an organization having a huge sys-| miles. He predicted electric head- lights such as are used on modern automobiles; bombs to release deadly gases; talking motion pictures, Modern exploration recognizes a heavy debt to Verne. The Wilkins- Ellsworth was what Verne prophesied when he described the submarine voy- ages of Captain Nemo in the "Nau- tilus." And Sir Hubert Wilkins, in veneration of the Frenchman, has named the recommissioned submarine, "0-12" "Nautilus", and as such she will invade the uninown Polar Sea. As to utilizing the thermal energy in sea water,:-a practical experiment is now being made at Matanzas bay, Cuba, by George Claude, the French engineers, who concedes that the first inspiration for his work came from Verne's fiction, ' Just after finishing "Twenty Thous- and Leagues Under the Sea." Verne happened to see a travel poster, and the flash of its color gave him the idea for "Around the World in Eighty Days," which started globe-trotting marathons by men and women compet- ing for prize purses, But eighty days is a snail's pace in modern travel. The "Graf Zeppelin" circumnayigated the globe in twenty-one days and seven hours. Verne foresaw the skyscraper age. He said advertisements would be pro- jected on clouds. And they are! Sky- writing is now fairly common, too. Twenty years after Verne forecast the use of selinium in the transmission of pictures, it came about. Some of Verne's ideas are still in the fiction age. For instance, he visualized travel between the earth and the moon, as well as around the moon, and descent to the abyssmal depth of the sea. In an amazing book, written in 1886, by Edward Bellamy, "Looking Back- ward," the author describes musical broadcasting with such fidelity that it is hard to believe he never heard the radio. One of his characters touches "one or two screws and -at-once the room was filled with the music of a grand organ anthem." There are prophets who sit at desks and peer into nowhere. The annihila- tion of time and space with mathema- tics is the triumph of the imagination over man's environment. We see it best in astronomers, With only pen- cil and paper Percival Lowell explored space 3,000,000,000 miles away, and discovered a ninth planet, "Pluto." He found it in his mind and belfeved it to exist. But it is not enough for a prophet to have discovered some- thing--he must make it acceptable to everybody else. So Lowell wrote his prophecy as one would a will. Lowell died in 1916. But the search for "Pluto" was carried on in observa- tories all over the earth. Fourteen years they searched, and then came astronomy's greatest moment of the century, A photographer at Flagstaff, "Avis, found a spot on one of his nega- tives. He flashed the news, and soon | observatories in England, France, Ger- { many and Italy verified the truth in Lowell's phophecy, tem of wires, central and sub-central stations, managed by skilled attend- ants whose sole duty it will be to give, by switch or shunt arrangement, prompt attention to subscriber 923 in New York when he signals his desire to have private communication with subscriber number 1001 in Boston for three minutes." Inventors, however, are not prophets of the first magnitude, Sweeping dis- coveries often come from the imagin- ations of poets, playwrights and fiction writers, Three modern writers, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and George Ber- nard Shaw have inspired inventors, Fifteen years ago Shaw described tele- vision that made possible the trans- mission of moving images and voices. The invention was demonstrated this year in Schenectady by Dr, E. F. W. Alexanderson., Wells humanized Ein- stein'g 'fourth dimension" in a fiction story, "The Time Machine" published before the relatively theory had gained currency. As for Jules Verne, he is the major In the prophet of modern civilization, ISSUE No. 5--'31 | Of modern. inventors, none .was more astute tham the late Charles | P. Steinmetz, chief consulting en- gineer of the General Electric Com- Nerves Out of Ge: pany. In 1915, describing the new Need New, Rich Blood to Restore electrical age, be said that when its use becomes. universal, it will be: against the law to have a fire in any part of the city. The government will prohibit fires, because they are dir- ty, dangerous and unsanitary. Big central power plants will do away with the hauling of coal from mines and railroad yards, and steam power Whose {may be generated by setting veins of ried hi coal on fire. The home will have no Who- i set the gauge at the desired tem ture, to talk about international broad- people hearing concerts in the public bought pictures had been a hoax ever since | Edison's kinetophone, people were dismayed to hear Steinmetz say that the motion picture and talking pic- ture would be perfectly synchronized. It has come about very rapidly. | To predict that private homes would have electrical heating, re- frigerating and ventilating plants also seemed absurd. The home ven- tilating plant is a new vogue, but electrical icemen have found thelr way Into many homes.--"Magazine Digest." en «THOS. JARRETT, J.P. Editor, Trenton Sun, Elécted Councillor, Thos. Jarrett, proprietor of The Quinte Sun, Trenton, Ont, was re- cently elected to the town council for 1931. He served ten years as a member of the Trentun Board of Education, being an ex-chairman, and afterwards a year as member of the first Halleybury High School Board and four years in (he Haileybury Town Council--two as chairman of finance., He is a director of the Trenton Rotary Club, and a member of the Mothers' Allowance Commis. ~ Always on Hand To be always kept on hand is a sure sign of appreciation of a medicine. Baby's Own Tablets hold this envi- lable distinction in thousands of homes from one end of Canada tothe other. Mrs. Ernest Gallant, Shediac, N.B,, is one of the young mothers who appreci- ate the Tablets. She says:--"Baby's Own Tablets are wonderful. I have used them for my little one for the last two years and would not be with- out them. They quickly banish con- stipation and colic and keep baby happy." Baby's Own Tablets are a mild but thorough laxative. They regulate the stomach and bowels; relieve indiges- tion; break up colds and promote healthful sleep. They are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ont. es pm Winter's Retyrn Today upon the moor's far rim I saw old Winter lean and skim The world with ice-blue eyes, 3nd forth a : He swung the "wird fiom "west to north. 3 All things that live upon the world Tremble to sense that menace old; The silver birches, bleach'd and thinn'd, Spin their gold coins upon the wind. Brown leagues of bracken, damp and chill, Shiver a moment and are still; A pheasant calls, dusk drops at five, Snake's deep in ground, bees home In hive, ! kitchen ranges, no cellar furnaces, no ti team-power plants or gas engines. | during the past year constitute a re- ° ; 3 cord which We may view With pride. Jt | VV th electrical heating, we simply - It seemed ridiculous for -this man | --Dudley Garnet, in the Observer. ------ eet A woman who obviously did not | know her way about London paused | beside a man who was standing on | the kerb outside the Royal Exchange. "Pardon me,' she said, 'could you direct me to a tea-shop?" "With plea- sure,' he replied. "Go down this street, take the first to your right, and there you are." "Thank you very much," she said, shyly. "I hope you didn't mind my asking." "Not at all," said the broker, courteously, "I'm charm: ed, It's the only genuine inquiry I've had this week." Their Tone. Men and women with nerves out of gear' become frritable, fretful and ill. tempered. The fauit is not theirs-- poor health is thé cause. The tired wife or mother whose household duties have worn her out; the bread-winner ty for his family have wor- ntil he was ill, are the ones ome run down. Their diges- comes bad and their nerves ill- The nerves like all bodily organs ed healthy red blood and that red lood can best be gained through a course of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills make rich, red blood; improve digestion; , casting in 1915, and of millions of strengthen the tired nerves and bring thelr | energy and happiness not only to the homes. Yet, in the past seven .ears| sufferer but to those around him. They 13,000,000 radio Aare sold by medicine dealers or by sets, and, in the United States alone, | mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr. the audience is calculated to be 50,- | Williams' Medicine Co, Brockville, 000,000 persons. And because talking Ont. * ---- Fish Perform Many Strange Antics Red Gurnet ES List As Star of Ocean Concert Stories about fish, when told by anglers, are usually taken with a grain of salt, but there are well- authenticated cases of "fishy" hap- penings which even the most im- aginative fisherman would find hard to "cap." Highfields Lake, University Park, Nottingham, was stocked with 3,000 trout five years ago. As it 1s not joined to any river, the experts na- turally believed that the trout were still there, and probably had .ncreas- ed considerably in number, Buf when the lake was netted re- the dead from their tanks. There are many weird and astound- ing fishes. A shoal of the ferocious little piranhas, called the "cannibal of the waters," can devour a sheep's carcass in two and a half minutes! ee ------------ ce + rc. sm se-- . = --------,--,--,--_ eee a took the whole evening .to remove ._ Classified Advertismg ---- e---------- TAT a---------- a snamimip-- Fos MACHINE ORR HRANDKNITTING.. "AN Wool" "Silk ang Wool,* Vld Tyme," ib. nu all colors, N Lamples free. Stocking & Yarn Mills, Dept. T, Orillia, Ont. Another fish, the cichlid, from tropi- Fallen Met=or Sought cal waters, actually washes its young. | Then science has proved that fish sing! The red gurnet is apparently the best singer of them all. Yet ' Paris.--Sclentists from the Parig Observatory have left for Tarbes, where a large meteor was reported another rarity, the proteus, from sub- to have fallen om Jan. 18th. The ap- terranean caverns, can fast for five years, -- en. Glasgow Cited As Shining Example Lecture Describes How Scot- tish City Looks After Residents Montreal. --Ilow the thrifty Scots- men of Glasgow make city revenue out of garbage was told by Herbert H. Black who gave an illustrated lec- ture here on Scotland's largest eity, which had its origin in the 6th cen- tury. Nearly $2,000,000 is vaised each year in Glasgow, according to the lecturer, through the efticlent hand- ling of garbage, the groater part of this sum being ob 'ained by the sale of fertilizer has been carried on in the city for some 40 years. Not only Is revenue derived from the gar- kage in this way but there is also additional pr to the city by the generation of electric power through incineration of refuse material, Glasgow, Mr. Black stated, now boasts of 37 beautiful parks, many of which were purchased by the city and others donated, totalling 14,740 acres, In addition thers are come 90 open spaces in the city varying in size from one-quarter to two ac res, used as pleasure or recreation grounds for children. There dre also 62 public bowling greens, 121 tennis cently not a solitary trout appear- courts, six golf courses, 105 football ed! Thousands of pike, however, grourds and five ericket fields. The were revealed! { popw.ation thus ved {8 compara- Cross-country Salmon [ble to Montreal, nsns taken in How had the pike got there? There ! ins: showing 5 ae hab was none in the lake when the trout ji mivion iniabim Ute. Scottish were introduce The most likely | = oe ai explanation put !yrward was thai the s pike had grown f dropped { Not Successful into 'the lake by Ying from {i wpe oo J i . ; other waters, Lo They el on ery Dieta Very few pesple would helfeve that | Ry a HEN" wail Grav. oop fish could eross a field from 0 | ot ar, to his Triend, "ip Y Were Stremipto notlisr Bat: they can. | you I wouldn't let your wife go round At New Westminster, B.C, here | : ving she made a man of you. You are two creelts which run parallel! don't hear my wife Saving t with a ficld between them. Selmon His friend's pe ply cate . a are found in both, and some of them hesitation " : have heen seen to jump clean out of | "No." Wo it "but 1 YY yout the waters on to the bank, writhe over | wife telling ny Tite that we "a done the wet 39, and slide into the wa- B ? o : grass ter of the other creek. This is vouched for by a Canadian fisheries inspector. Minnows are usually found In the water, but the residents of Dundas, Ontario, discovered a number of them cn three-storey-high sills some years ago. When It Rained Minnows A strong gale had been blowing, and the only way the residents could explain the mystery was that the wind bad blown across some lake or stream, whipped up some of its in- habitants, and dropped them a little farther on. Fish epidemics are not unknown. Four or five hundred goldfish, perch, and roach perished in a day or so at the Royal Botanical Garens, in Lou- don, one July a few years agov. Expert investigations led to the conclusion that the goldfish had been infected with a fatal disease by a roach introduced into one of their cisterns. About the same time two tons of carp were found dead in an orna- mental lake at Versailles, Paris. Excessive heat had infected the wa- ter. The Champion Faster ' Even more astounding was the drama staged in a great London gold- fish depot, which contained over 100, 000 sound fish. One day, soon after he had shown some foreign trade in- quirers over the place, the owner was astounded to find many hundreds of fish dead, and others obviously at their last gasp. All known treat- window- | | | ments were tried but in vain, and it her best." "The sheer pleasure of living," somebody writes, "has decreased ap pallingly," So that's why stop-signs are ignored >---South Bend Tribune. eb mmrisiat Diner--"Have you any wild duck?" Waiter--"No, sir; but we can take a tame one and {irritate it for you." Get peisons out of system. . . . Doctors know that this modern scientific laxative works efficiently in smaller doses because you chew it. Safe and mild for old and young. 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