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PAGE FOURTEEN THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1932 | Oshawa Dollar Days -- Thursday, Friday, Saturday SWEDEN GROWING . BIG WHEAT CROP ~ Agricultural Industry Now Adopting Up-to-date Scientific Methods Stdckholm, sweden.--The high- er standard of living in Sweden in late years is reflected in the * trend towards highly specialized and scientifically managed agri- culture. A review of Swedish ag- rieulturé just issued by Ernst Hoijer gives much Interesting data with the general conclusion the entire trend is to concentrate on the cereals and animal pro- duce required by a population that has every decade grown stronger economically. A remarkable movement city- wardsehas taken place in the last half century so that today, while the total agricultural production has trebled, the agricultural pop~ ulation itself has decreased by 40 per cent. Cultivation of rye and oats has decreased a great deal in the past 10 years while that of wheat has considerably increased. Potatoes are generally grown on | the farms for home consumption; | 'the once very profitable sugar | peet growing has been greatly , reduced owing to the importance of cheap cane sugar. The area of grassland has grown, especially in the northern part of the coun- try. More than four-fifths of the vegetable produce is used for the feeding of domestic animals, in which line Swedish agriculture has scored its greatest successes. Although the actual stock of cattle has not increased since be- fore the War, improved methods such as hetter feeding have made the productivity of the animals much greater. Thera is a produe- tion of 4,600,000 tons of milk per annum, Sheep and goat breeding has decreased consider- ably owing to the fall in prices, while the breeding of pigs has developed rapidly, The largest stocks of pigs are on the small farms in the south of Sweden. At present there is a yearly output of pork and bacon of close to 141,000 tons, of which only 20 | per cent. is exported. The total surplus of animal ' produce ex- ports reach a value of about $27,- | 000,000, which amount, however, | | customs eeizures is any indication is more than offset by the surplus import of cereals and products thereof. SAILING REGORD ADDED TO LIST | rumbered only Fastest Atlantic Crossing Challenged by Old Sea Captain Halifax, N.8.--The fastest At- lantic crossing under sail is again challenged, The record trip of the Barque Ashantee around the year 1880, Quebec to Liverpool in fourteen days, is told by George E. Johnson of River John, N.S, in a recent letter to the press. He writes: "I have read several post mor- tems on wooden ships salling across the Atlantic, their time, ete, All accounts have been writ- ten by parties who did not have the experience personally or, if they did, they forgot to mention it. Hence there {s room for a lit- tle guess work. If I would take time to look up my discharges, I could tell the year exhctly, but 1' think it was in 1880 Barque Ash- antee, Capt. Thomas O'Mrien, mate K. McLean, second mate, the undersigned. Loaded grain in Montreal, towed from Montreal to Quebec. Sailed from Quebec, fair « Wind and plenty of it. We had a of wind right after ug the * whole trip and any person that knew Captain Tom (deceased) will agree with me that he ran Two Big Specials DOLLAR DAYS Royal York Br Tour Every Bag Guaranteed 98 1b. Bag, $2.20 49 Ib. Bag. $1.15 POTATOES No. 1 Grade Ontario Dooleys 3 BAGS FOR 1 DOLLAR THESE PRICES ARE FOR DOLLAR DAYS ONLY HOGG & LYTLE Limited 54 Church St. FREE DELIVERY Phcne 203 the barque before that gale until he could not heave her to. So it was either run or go to Davie Jones' locker, I do not think the mainsail was used during the trip. We sailed right up the Eng- lish Channel to Liverpool and dropped anchor opposite the dock, we had to enter when the dock gates would open at high tide The time from Quebec to Liver- pool was fourteen days." LESS SHUGGLING IN NOVA SCOTIA Only Half Number of Rum-Running Boats Seized in 1931 Halifax, N.8.--If the number ol of conditions in the contraband | trade, less liquor is being smug- | gled into Nova Scotia than in for- mer years, according to the fig- ures supplied by the Department of National Revenue, Despite intensified ~<'ivitles of federal preventive sleuths and cnstoms cruisers and patrol boats off the coast, seizures during 1931 about half of those in 1930, Here are the fig- ures for comparison: . Cape Breton Island--153 cus- toms and 27 excise seizures in 1930; 80 customs and 52 excise seizures in 1931. Mainland---548 customs and 37 excise gelzures in 1930; 265 cus- toms and 50 excise seizures in 1931. The 1930 seizures in Cape Bre- ton included 8 boats, 5 automo- biles and 8,261 gallons of liquor, representing an appraised value of $156,192.95. Tobacco import- ed contrary to the law was seized to the value of $1,621.50, and six complete stills wero confiscated. In 1931, there were 132 gelz- ures on the island, including six boats, three automobiles and 5,- 769 gallong of liquor, valued at $62,682.40. Illegally imported to- bacco was seized to the value of $138.85 and twenty-one complete stills were confiscated. The total valye was $70,405.75. The 585 seizures on the malin- land during 19530 included 15 boats, 60 automobiles and 12.456 gallons of liquor, valued at $2086,- 205.05. Tobacco was seized to the value of $960.20, and ten stills were confiscated. Other miscel- laneous seizures were reported to the value of $1,300., to bring the total up to $336,366.78. In 1931 the 315 seizures on ROGER I. CORBETT | President of Roger IL. Corbett 14d., Oldsmobile Sales and Service, Athol Street West, included 10 boats, 5,982 gallons | the mainland 25 automobiles and of liquor, valued at $121,483.10. | depth: was valued at $286.25, stills Tobacco and eight complete seized, Miscellapeous tal for the year was $178,430.22. Those figures represent heavy losses for the smugglers, but on | ssful in! liquor they were succe landing they had a profit of some- thing 1lke the $10. a gallon duty imposed by the federal govern- ment on legalized imports sold by provinelal governments. Once the smuggler delivers lis | The | cargo he is sitting pretty. worry then is transferred to the | bootlegger who expegts to turn over the stock. The new owner immediately has to fear the Nova Seotla police, who had a record of 4,6400 raids under the liquor act in 1931, resulting in 2,421 prosecutions and 1,879 convie- tions, The Nova Scotia Police have found many problems in their ef- forts to enforce the new liquor act, but It is expected that some of them will be solved at the next session of the provincial Jegisla- ture, The bodtiegger who deals only in government liquor pree sents a serious problem, because he can carry on a lucrative trade after the government stores are closed, without much danger of conviction unless he is caught In the act of selling. Questioned in regard to what effect the depression had on the liquor trafic, Commissioner ¥. A. wore | seizures were valued at $2,100., and the to | ! 4 Effort to Police, sald he bélieved the boot- legger had benefited in one way:: the fellow who in good times had $2.00 to purchase a bottle from the government store, now finds in his pocket twenty-five cents with which he buys a single drink from the bootlegger. WEEDS KNOWN AS 2 A Bl MENACE Dominion Agrficultural Ex- perts Study Hard Problem Everyone knows that weeds constitute. probably the greatest problem in farm management and that once a fleld becomes in- fested with any of the more com- mon weeds it seems almost im- possible to get rid of them. ficlals of the Dominion Seed Branch have supplied some very interesting information as to the seeding propensities in the more common varieties, for instance, a single plamt of Wild Mustard, Stinkweed, Foxtall, Pigweed, or Campion produces from 10,000 to | mustard plant produces | 25,000, Shepherd's Purse { 50,000, and Tumbling about 1,500,000 seeds per In the light of these figures the | importance of destroying a weed before it begins to bear geed is | self-evident 4 | Another phase of the work of about | the Seed Branch which is of spec- | fal interest, relates to tha num- | ber of weed seeds present at vari- | ous depths in the soil. One cease point is a western prairie | which showed a total of 134 sesds of four common varieties in 6 | ounces of surface soll, 133 seeds | of five varieties in soil taken at a depth of 2 to inches, and 112 seeds of five varl- | etics found in 6 ounces of soil taken at a depth of 5 1n 7 inches: | in other words, 379 weed seeds | were preesent in an 18 ounce sam- | ple of goil from the surface to a | depth of' 7 inches, | The facts with respect to weed | seeds in soil of eastern ('anada are equnlly interesting. A coantral | Ontario gample of 6 ounces of | surface soll showed 127 geedr of eight common weed varieties, | while a similar sample at 2 to 3 | inches desp showed 59 seeds of | even varieties, and a third sam- | ila at 65 to 7 inches deep showed | 1 total of 28 seeds of five varle- | . A wider range of variety in | weed seeds was found in eastern ! soils but the seed of western | weeds seemed to pencirate the oil in large numbers to greater IS INEFFECTIVE | Meet Debts Has | Not Yet Brought Results New York. -- The drastic mea- | sures taken recently by the Ger- mun Government to obtain con- trol of foreign exchange are In- effective and not more than half of the payments from other coun- tries for German goods has found its way to the Relchsbank in re- cent weeks, accokding to infor- mation obtained hy a leading Wall Street house from a high ot- ficlal in Berlin, The German measures, said to be the wost drastic ever imposed by a govern- | ment for the control of foreign | exchange, included a provision | that exporters must obtain | ilcenses before shipping goods out of the country; and also stip- ulate that foreign exchange ob- tained by exporters must be turn- ed over to the Central Bank, The ohject, of course is to support Reichmark exchange by making provision for payments on far. Blake, chief of the Nova Scotia eign debts and for raw materials - For Convenient Service Dollar Days . Oshawa Merchants Travel by Garton Coach Lines Good Service to and from Oshawa Field studies carried out by of- | | field | 20,000 seeds, while a worm-seed | about | Mustard plant, | | | 6 ounces of | 3 purchased outside of Germany, with as little strain as possible on Germany's gold reserve, In recent months Germany has re- ported a substantial excess of ex- ports over imports but it is point- ed out that this is largely a paper baiance in view of Germany's very substantial sales of goods to Russia on credit, It follows that Rugsian trad: will not contribute to the balance for exchange until the Soviet pays, The ~ door of the bar-parlor Burst open and a flying figure dashed up to the bar. "Quick, guv'nor," he said an- xlously, "give me a pint before the trouble starts." The astonished barman served him with a large glass of beer. "Now, what's the trouble!' he asked, after the man had drunk it, The man replaced the glass on the counter. "I ain't got no money," he sald. SCOTCH SETTLER STILL REWAINS 1s Last of Ambitious Colon ization Scheme of Years Ago Quesnel, B.C~(By The Canadian Press)--Only one remains of the Scottish settlers brought out to British Columbia twenty years ago by the late Duke of Sutherland in what was to be one of the most ambitious colonization schemes in the Canadian west, The lone settler is Jim Mackay, who hag now leased the entire area from the present duke and is ap- parently making a success of his enterprise. All his neighbors have gone, some to the Old Country, a few to the cities, while several have passed away, not inherit an interest in coloniza- tion. and without his sponsorship "If they'd only stayed they would | the settlement languished and dis- have been successful too," says Jim | integrated. Mackay. "There's room in this country for millions." The site of the ill-fated coloniza- tion attempt is Strathnaver, in the valley of Hixon and Canyon Creeks, in" the Cariboo country, between Prince George and Quesnel. Most of the settlers were tenants from the Duke's estate in Scotland, al- though they were in charge of a Yankee foreman on the long drive north from Ashcroft in two four- hourse covered waggons. They made the 220 mile trip to Quesnel in eight days and from here took a river steamer fifty miles to Whit's Landing. Five miles of tote road took 3ig Prairie, which was to become Strathnaver, or as it was known for many years "the Duke's place." Everything went well with the lit- tle colony until the old duke died, The new Duke of Sutherland / | mz 'hich tells you them' to their destinat.on at) madam, which : 0 their destination at|yeen, your husband. It's a wonder- During supper the young man with the voracious appetite talked eloquently on things in general. 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