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Newmarket Era Iho largest it weekly ppf In It ha Without The leading County Paper as well as Oldest No paper sent out of North York unloas paid in advance JACKSON Editor a Proprietor NEWMARKET ONT EARTHQUAKE IN Over Live Lost Santiago Chili Dec Moro than persona ore to liave lost their liVos in a disastrous earthquake Hint was felt with or less intensity throughout Chile yesterday Of flic great number injured the immense pro perly damage officials would no crippled lines- of communication made j impossible to obtain accurate information Relief moved out to the living among hums today Communication was still lack ing with some towns while in several cities the piles of debris thrown down by the shock morning had been only partially probed for victims The gealesl devastation fell on an the improvised moVgue there and un official reports wore that tbo death list would number for the city alone was wiped out and persons ar riving here said that tlio damage would tmoiint to about ONTARIO PEAT NOW AVAILABLE The possibilities of utilizing peat for fuel have been a subject of periodic interest many years in different parts of Canada where hogs are situated It is in Ontario and BAD FIRE AT Two Completely Wiped Out Estimated 916000 Fire broke out in general store of Sidroe about last Saturday morninm spreading to hardware and store of Harry Kitchen Both buildings wee burned to the ground together with their contents Considerable damage was done to the nearby rosidouce of Dr who first sent in the alarm The loss is roughly estimated at 15000 The store occupied by Mr Sidree was a brick building the property of Mr Harold Fox and the other a stucco was owned by the occupant The Aurora Fire Department responded to the call for assistance hut the bad gained so much headway before their arrival they could do but little The- buildings were located on ho east of Main just south of the post office which place was also slightly damaged by the DEPTH OF PLOWING Deep plowing appears to have little according to experimental work carried the Central Farm Ottawa There was difference in the yields or eithei oats by plowing seven inches deep iiec however whore apart from wood peat is pared four inches deep of heavy natural fuel found in commercial quantities that the most lively interest has been taken and at Alfred Ontario pent fuel is now being made available in quantity at the plant operated by the Mines Branch of the On tario of Mines New has been installed on the recommendation of the Peat Committee and is in successful operation bringing to fruition the plans of that body which has made a thorough study of the experimental work carried on at the Alfred peat bog and elsewhere for several years The most striking feature in the commercial operations being carried on at Alfred is re markable machine which has been developed for the winning peat- This giant digs a layer of peat about 7 feet deep and wide shreds and disintegrates the roots and fibrous portions and thoroughly mixes the mass The peat is then discharged to a belt conveyor 850 feet long from which it is placed on the field to dry by a travelling spreader which also marks the mass into blocks These machine operations have reduced the amount of hand labor required to that- of turn ing over the blocks which are dried in the sun and loading into narrowgauge railway cars which carry the peat fuel to the slock pile Splendid facilities nave been provided for ship ping by freight travelling conveyor being ca pable loading about tons a day Scales are also provided for delivery to motor trucks It is anticipated that will be tried out in many households this fall especially in Ontario and Quebec According to the Mines officials peat has been found to he suitable for cooking ranges and Quebec heaters for fall and spring use in furnaces for open grate fires and for auxiliary coal during severe winter months A ton of peal is considered to be equivalent in fuel value tu threequarters of a long cord of hardwood feat is also another interesting besides that of fuel Peat humus is being used as a soil conditioner especially for golf courses For this purpose the peat is exposed over win ter then macerated and screened into a fine powder A number of prominent golf clubs in Montreal district including Ihe Royal Montreal and Marlborough now making use of Ihe peat fertilizer ELECTRICAL DEVELOPMENT Fast Electric Locomotive Speeds Up Steel Production clay and of sandy foam soils Corn after sod heavy soils gave precisely the same yield here the soil was plowed four deep and here it was plowed Ihree inches deeper On sandy sojls he difference was so little as to be worth considering amounting lo Ions after four inch plowing ami tons heavy clay 551 bushels per acre where it was plowed seven inches deep On 1 the shallower plowed land yeilded bushels and thai which was plowed deep- bushels per acre Commenting on these results Mr Hop kins the Dominion Field Husbandman in bis for last year published by the of Agriculture at Oil iva expresses the lew Hi at there apparently no object in plowing excessively deep so tang as the work is thoroughly done To quicken he tempo of its production line to the set by the rolls the worlds fastest bioomijig mill at the Jones Steel Works Works in lor highspeed electric burgh Pa has gone railroading At a speed greatly in excess of hereto- for the operation fourton ingots rried by a novel type the soaking pits oils of the the huge The egg laying contest year just ended was many respects not as satisfactory as had been anticipated Lack of sunshine and fre quent rains seemed to retard production in the spring and early summer Seven of the thirteen contests showed an improvement in average egg yield while eight of the thirteen showed an improvement in the average weight of eggs laid The Canadian contest at Ottawa gave an average egg yield which was six eggs per bird lower than thatjobtained the previous year and j Horn the egg- suffered in about the same pro- portion The Quebec New Brunswick On tario and Saskatchewan contests all showed an improvement in egg yield over the previous year and in some cases the figures were quite marked On the other hand the Manitoba Al berta British Columbia and Vancouver Island contests all gave a lower average production per bird than was the case the previous year An outstanding observation in connection with lie contest year just ended was the fig ures which were worked out on the correla tion of body weight to egg production and size of egg for the previous years contest birds In the finding showed marked all three characters in favor of the larger s and it is safe to say thai other things equal the bird well up lo standard weight will lay more and larger eggs than her pen mat that lacks body size It is very gratifying to learn tha the lion which the egg laying contests have and ar securing is being taken full advantage the breeders throughout Canada EXCEED THE AVERAGE Every young man who has a common education knows what is meant by Law of Averages of redhot steel of electric where they absorb heal mill where the process of flatten billets The the world Since its that it can feed he mill hour which is a considerable increase over former methods and explains why type of locomotive was adopted for this particular mill which had materialmovement problems lo somewhat from other in same plant Many features common in regular railway practice but rare in industrial engines and un precedented in ingol carrying are embodied in the locomotive These include asbestos and mica insulation forced ventila- electropneumatic control and airbrakes The drive is by two motors supplied with direct current fit volts from a double third rail To prevent the train laden with deathdeal redhot steel from becoming a juggernaut the sand the track to that the glowing mass of steel will Some who so fortunate have heard the term used or have read it the newspapers and know that it means lhal once in so oftten a certain result obtains A few concrete illustrations will serve more clearly to define the term For ins lance one man in every four wears a hat and the dealer can stock up oasis Again one man in every thre 15 collar and Ihe haberdasher can buy lock accordingly These percentage neither he raised nor lowered and the dealer ho tries to do so will fail In all matters re- iirding which human experience has found ivoriahle results it may be said The Law of verages applies and is invariable By all means do not satisfy yourself with being an average man Rather be a superior man in whatever you do You may have to work harder possibly make sacrifices lo attain su periority but its worth all it costs Be in demand rather than demand and your reward will be all the greater You can if you will rise above Hie averages and you will be the for doing so Ability and capability are subject only to the laws of development and growth not to any law of averages All de pends on the will lo do the ambition to achieve Franklin said There is always room on top and there is a fact which proves that men have reckon only with themselves am the opportunities which arc presented A hat and a collar do not limit the quality of gray matter in the head or Hie physical strength of Ihe body So go to if and out on top Anybody can make it easy for the home heating appar atus to supply the proper amount of warmth supply ing it with the qualityfuel wo sell We have every size of coal and can your order a p Answer ARCHIVES OF TORONTO