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301 is delicious An Old Fashioned Farmer Wants To Be Let Alone (A Letter to the Regina Leader-Post) SIR:--In an April editorial you mentioned that it would be interest- ing and of value to have a cool, dis- passionate statement of the actual facts of some individual farmer's plight. In order to present a true picture, in the writer's case, we must go back prior to 1930, for the reason that my individual difficulties were caused through Government interference in the years prior to 1930, as well as since that time. I am not including the difference in the set price and the open market price for wheat pro- duced in 1917-18, because that affect- ed every producer. I will only state that, with interest included to De- cember 31, 1934, it amounted in our case to $5,393.77. During the last year there has been plenty of talk and considerable Government money spent on this prairie farm rehabilitation scheme. The writer has been trying to work a project along these lines since 1920, and has worked, written, begged and fought with the Government to be allowed to put this sort of thing in operation on his own land, and finally in 1925 he made requisition under the Private Ditches act, with the usual results. The actual loss in crop destroyed, not making any allowance for the thousands of miles driven, the hundreds of letters and wires sent, train-fare and other expenses incurred, through flooding in years 1922, 1923, 1925, 1927 and 1928 am- ounts to $7,674.65. I am prepared to make affidavit on the truth of above facts. In the years 1931 and 1933 we took a direct loss of $309.17 through op- eration of open herd law in our R.M. This herd law stuff has been the direct cause of our plight, to a greater extent than any other one thing, and it could have been prevent- ed. I cannot put it- down here in actual dollars because you asked for facts, The herd law hurt us because it prevented us from using our land the way we otherwise would have. Someone might say, "fence," but we tried that and found it impossible to stop the owners of starving. cattle. NEW KITCHEN STOVE MAKES ITS OWN GAS Housewives Marvel at Coleman Range Lights Instantly Like City Gas--Cooks with Free Air--96% Air, 4% Fuel! A new kitchen range that offers every cooking convenience of the finest city gas range is now avail- able to house- = wives, wherever they live. W. C, Coleman, pioneer inventor of gas-pressure ap- pliances, brings to a lifetime of in- ventive genius his crowning achieve- ment in this amaz- ing new Coleman W. C. COLEMA Safety Range. This new stove makes its own gas from ordinary, lead- free gasoline. A patented method of carburization converts liquid fuel into gas, much the same as in present day automobile engines. The Coleman Range lights in- stantly, like city gas. Its fuel-sav- ing Band-A-Blu Burners, another of Mr. Coleman's outstanding de- velopments, produce a clean, clear- blue flame, so hot that a low flame does all ordinary cooking. An aver- age family meal for five takes only a few cents' worth of fuel. Coleman Ranges are beautifully finished, pleasing and graceful in appearance. They combine outstand- ing beauty with unequalled per- formance, Readers of this paper wishing full information about these won- derful new Coleman Ranges will receive beautifully illustrated Ilit- erature and name of nearest dealer by simply addressing a postcard to - Mr. W. C. Coleman, Dept. WL-243, 9 Davies Ave. Toronto, Ontario. Loss from "avoidable" grasshopper damage in 1933 was $791.78. Loss from damage to wheat by wild ducks $810.77. During 1931 to 1934 our R.M. spent many thousands of dol- lars on road-work, and although we have paid taxes on over 2,000 acres of land we were not allowed to earn a single dollar; figured on either assessment or population basis, we should have been permitted to earn $500. We were not in the wheat pool, but the difference on the 1930 crop in price as being paid pool members was $130.50. In 1935 we had a large part of our crop marketed before the set price; on this we lost $281.07. We took it up with the wheat board, also Ottawa, but it was no good. I asked Regina about the duck damage but they would not pay.. We have a suitcase full of cor- respondence and documents on file here, which will prove all above statements. I have not blamed the dry weather because we take Nature as it comes. This may be of interest to some of your readers. WALTER SMITH. Beaver Flat, Sask. Shocked Eels Water Electrified, Drives Fish Into Traps in Ireland The government of Northern Ire- land is concerned about the eels that writhe in its waters. The eels, it now seems, are not easily trapped, and it is because they swarm over too wide an area, Isn't there some way of herd- ing them into a channel so that they will swim straight and true for the traps? The Fisheries Experimental Station at Alresford thinks it has answered the question with electric- ity. What the station did was to exper- iment on a laboratory scale with an electrical barrage. Merely by electri fying the water where the eels were not to swim it became possible to switch them to the traps -- at least in a large wooden tank, Now full-scale experiments are to be carried out in an Irish river. Kasper Quads Are Heavy Drinkers Babies Absorb One-Fourth of Their Weight in Milk PASSAIC, N. J. -- The Kasper quadruplets are eating approximate- ly one-fourth their weight in milk each day. Dr. Frank F. Jani--who wouldn't think of prescribing a 40-pound daily diet for a 160-pound man -- increased the babies' ration of mother's milk from 12 to 14 ounces at the insistent demand of Ferdin- and, ably seconded by Frances, Frank and Felix. Ferdinand, heaviest of the four, weighs three pounds 14 ounces. Fed every two hours, the babies get their milk from medicine drop- pers. ' Do not be foot-sore. Use either Cress Corn Salve or Cress Bunion, Salve, They'll do the trick. 7 Price 50c a jar. Made in Canada. Sold [3 and recommended by your Drug or Dept. Store. Distributed by Harold F "Ritchie & Company Ltd., Toronto. Issue No. 24 -- '36 86 Sleeveless Frock of Open Knit is Laura Wheeler Summer Hit! KNITTED DRESS PATTERN 1234 Made of colored string, its open lacy stitch goes quickly, with stockinette stitch for the neat bands at neck and sleeve with front and back the same and a circular needle, there are no side seams to bother with. Pattern 1234 comes to you with directions for making the dress in size 16-18 and 38-40 (all given in one pattern); illustra- tions of it and of all stitches used; material requirements. Send 20 cents in stamps or coin (coin preferred) for this pat- tern to Needlecraft Dept., Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide, Toronto. Write plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD- DRESS. Crime Prevention Planned by Psychological Treatment Try Rejuvenating Your Hand - Bags Spring-cleaning is very much in the air at the mowent, so why not a spring-clean for your handbags? These important accessories are ex- pensive to renew but it's amazing what can be done to revive old ones by a little attention. First of all collect all the bags you possess and turn out all the odds and ends which seem to .ac- cumulate in the pockets. Then give the insides a good brushing. This is the moment, too, to put in that stitch in time! A Good Cleaning Then the outsides should have a good cleaning. It is often suffi- cient to polish calf-skin with a soft rag and give moroccco a good brush- ing. Lizard and crocodile may be cleaned with the same cleaner as that used for skin shoes. A mixture of vinegar and warm wate? is a good cleanser for leather bags. The bag should be well dried with a warm rag, and a nice glaze may then be otbained by painting it with turpentine and white of egg mixed well together. If white bags are not washable, try rubbing them over with art gum. This, by the way, is a most useful possession since it may be used for many other cleaning jobs, such as removing fingermarks from walls and dusty marks from lampshades. If white or pastel colored bags are still in good condition, but too dirty to clean well, they may be dyed with shoe-dye. Two or three coats of the dye will give depth of tone. PARIS -- Yvon Delbos, Vice- Premier and Minister of Justice, has announced creation of a superior council of criminal phophylaxy to study crime prevention by psycho- logical treatment of mentally defi- cient or hereditary criminals. The project to be studied includes isolation of such criminals to prevent marriage and reproduction. There are no provisions in the plans for compulsory sterilization as in Ger- many, "The war against crime in France hitherto has been on the basis of punishing crimes or misdemeanors, but statistics show this in unsuccess- ful in crime prevention and as a re- sult crime remains one of the scourges of modern civilization," Delbos said. "There are 600 murders or at- tempts to murder and 40,000 cases of assault and battery in France an- nually. "Much of this crime is due to the b impossibility of delinquents to adopt themselves to the social state. This impossibility is directly traceable to physiological or mental blemishes or perversions. Such cases might be corrected if treated in time or if the person were subjected to corrective education." The council's researches will be conducted in the psychiatric annexes of the famed Sante Prison for men, the Petite Roquette for women and the Fresnes Prison for chi.dren. "Public opinion is the life-blecod of the League of Nations."--Viscount Cecil. BASEBALL Every boy and baseball fan will want this up-to-date book, '"'Baseball--and How to Play it", by Frank J. (Shag) Shaughnessy, Man- ager of the pennant win» ning Montreal Royals. Pitching, batting, base running-all the fine points of the game are clearly explained and illustrated. Here's how to get it. Sim- ply send in to the address below a "CROWN BRAND" or "LILY WHITE" Corn Syrup label with your name and address and the words "Baseball Book plainly written on the back--and your copy will be mailed to you right o away. 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