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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23. 193B.

A Thanksgiving Survey

Thanksgiving Day is inseparably associated with agriculture. Its primary purpose is one of thanksgiving for the harvest of the fields. Even in years of drought and extreme hardship in the agricultural industry, there is always some re- deeming factor, always some very substantial reason for rendering thanks to Divine Provi- dence. Prince Edward Island has enjoyed blessings in this connection over a period of many years, and it is but fitting that the annual observance of Thanksgiving Day, which this year falls on Thursday of this week, should be held in particular regard by our farmers and citizens generally. - .

The r935 season agriculturally has been one of very considerable improvement over the prev- ious year. This has been true in both production and marketing departments. Prices generally have been on the up-trend and themarket tone seems to have developed tendencies of a more satisfactory nature. A great concentration 0f effort has been evident in the establishment of balance in production. A larger acreage has been set aside for the growing of root, corn, barley, mixed grain and other crops which bear a direct influence on lowered costs of animal production. At the same time there has been s considerable increase in livestock production and in breeding. In s. general way the farm program has provided for a greater measure of stability and safety.

Crop production in point of volume has compared very favorably with that of the prev- ious season. Figures to date“ indicate an increased acreage of wheat, oats, barley and mixed grains with a marked up-trend of increase in the two latter materials. The acreage of hay was not as high as in 1934, but owing to the more general use 0f lime there was a better growth of clover and alfalfa. Increases were-also registered in corn and roOt acreage,

Acreage production was slightly down. This was particularly true of wheat. which in many instances was almost a complete failure. The main crop of grains however, will produce a volume of feed equal to that of last year. Poor harvest weather has affected the quality to some extent.

Hay and clover yielded somewhat in excess of the previous year, Roots will‘be practically the same, while the production of potatoes will be reduced to the extent of at least 5o bushels per acre on the average.

The price of potatoes however has under- gone a distinct improvement, and producers will thus receive larger revenues from a. lessened pro- ductirm and handling of product.

The demand and price for turnips has also undergone improvement and considerable quan- tities have been exported at satisfactory prices.

Animal Husbandry

The development in animal husbandry dur- lng the year has been quite marked. In practi- cally every department there has been steady recovery and encouragement. Perhaps in no divis- ion has this been more pronounced than in hogs. Hog prices have been steady at higher levels than prevailed in 1934. Market prospects remain encouraging and production has improved. There has been a decided increase in breeding and the demand for good brood sows continues brisk. The hog population has increased during the year by almost 10,000 head or approximately 35%. Consistent pressure has been exerted on the industry by the Department of Agriculture with a view of placing a brood sow on every farm, and raising the normal level of numbers to at least 75,000 hogs. The Swine industry is an ex- ceedingly important phase of farm economics and the year's development is very satisfactory.

Prices for lamb and beef have also respond- ed to market influences and have undergone en- hancement in value. Lambs are ranging at the present time almost a cent per pound above last year's figures.

The demand for dairy cattle has been very attractive and farmers who have followed a con- structive breeding program will reap the benefits of an expanding market, There is every appear- anc of a dairy cattle shortage over a wide field and prices which have taken a sharp up-turn during the year should remain steady at a pro- fitable level for son1e little time. Under such a stimulus, greater attention will be directed to improvement in the cattle industry. Cattle num- bers have been somewhat below normal levels, in this province but evidences of increased activ- ity in breeding have been prominent features of the year’s work.

A fine measure of accomplishmenohas been recorded in Calf Club work and 25 organizations have made splendid contributions to improve- merit.

The real benefit of Club work in the build- ing up of a strong, permanent framework of cattle breeding and improvement has been a feature of livestock work in the year 1935. Increased activity in this sphere of extension, based on the value of past accomplishment is I0 he undertaken as a part of future extension wlisv- " ‘ 1 . .

A larger distribution of improved breeding meek, improved feeding practises and the grow- ing of crops of greater acreage value, have been of the year.

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Great improvement may also be reported in horse breeding. The total horse population has increased, due to wider breeding practises, A much keencr interest in quality and suitability of the horse power necessary for farm and market purposes is a common sentiment. There has been an excellent market demand for good draftcrs, and big light horses of good quality.

The Poultry industry has survived condi- tions in better shape possibly than any other phase of farm production. Poultry population and quality have been well maintained under departmental pressure and producer co-opera- tron. _

The Fox industry continues t0 provide a substantial source of revenue. The big Fox Show at Charlottetown to be held from Nov. 4 to 8 promises to be bigger and better than ever. The same may be said of the smaller shows at Alber- ton and Borden. Many farmers thank the fox industry for economic stability and preservation during the past few years of economic distress.

Estimated Prod uclion Figures

The following table gives estimated detailed information of the agricultural production of the Province for the year.

34 1930 Production Acreage Production 501,000 bus. 26,000 410,000 bul. 5,301,600 " 154,100 5318.250 " y .. 3. l0 00.000 " 3.700 00.000 " Buckwheat .. 2.000 51.000 “ 2,700 60,000 " Mixed grulnl . 22,100 801,000 “ 23,000 010,000 " Hny. Clover Alfalfa . . . 121,400 280.898 ton! 218,900 261,735 tons Potatoes : (l) Table . 40.200 4,SL*1,000cu't. 20.750 8,082 cwt. (In Cur-titled 13,000 Turnlps, lfnngoldl .. 10.100 3,030,000ctvt. 10.200 2,l)o8,000cu't. Corn . . . . . . .. 300 2.000 tons 380 2,000 tons

Approximately the value of the 1935 crops will be: wheat, $416,000; oats, $2,127,300; bar- ley, $52,800; buckwheat, $36,000; mixed grains, $455,000; potatoes, $1,849,200; turnips, $887,- 400; hay, $3,139,820; corn, $11,150.

Approximate livestock production figures are: horses. 28,920; cattle, 90,500; sheep, 50,200; hogs. 39.000: 9010"» 779.100-

Poultry production this year will show an increase of about ten per cent. over last year due to the increased sale of baby chicks in the spring. Egg production will be about 2,35o,0oo'dozen, a decrease of about ten per cent over last year. Egg prices at 16-17 cents a dozen, and poultry at about 16 cents a pound, have been well main- tained.

Last year's butter production amounted to 1,842,388, and cheese to 340,050 pounds. This year's output is practically the same, but there has been a marked improvement in price. The 13% cents factory price for cheese represents an increase of 2% cents a pound over last year, while butter at 25% cents this year represents two cents increase over I934.

Editorial Notes

0 Tomorrow Thanksgiving. 9K 5K 3K , Not many turkeys are in evidence for a Thanksgiving Feast. 5K 3K 3K Can the Ethiopian change his skin to become an Italian, or the leopard his spots to become an airplane? Hi X BK Blessings to be thankful for: that you are not to be guilotined by the LEA Dictator; that you are not the LEA Dictator who does the guilo- tining. 5|‘. 5K 3K lVhatcvcr else we may have to be thankful for, let us rejoice that for a time the politicians have ceased from troubling, though, alas, the heel- ers are not at rest. " ilf 9K The day after Thanksgiving the new KING Government will be sworn-id It was wise of the adroit Mr. KING to make this delay, for there will then he so many of his followers in the House who will sec notling to be thankful for. it d?

Tomorrow will be a testing day for the Churches. If the Thanksgiving services be not well patronized it may mean the last of Thanks- giving as a religious day-and a return to its status of a public hogéday merely.

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Montreal City Council votcd for a loan 0f $1,250,000 for November unemployment relief. They also votcd to send a delegation to the Inter- Proviucial Conference to get the Federal Gov- ernment to subscrib; the whole amount.

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The effect of a White man's war on a Black KID'S country is beginning to make itself mani- fest in the riots and bloodshed in the West Indies. Heaven help us should the disorder become epi- demic with so many of the "White Man’s Burden” under our sire antalktutelage.

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Premier-elect KING having accused Premier BENNETT wrongfully of having dismissed Mr. VINcENT MASSEY as Ambassador at Washington, the BENNETT Government has declined to accept Ambassador HERn1noE"s resignation, leaving it to Mr, KING to take such action as he deems most politic in the circumstances.

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Out Hampshire way there has been quite a rumpus over the roadmastership. Hon. B. W. LEPAGE and Mr. ANcus MACPHEI-J appointed one whom they thought should have it, the poll committee and other influential Liberals thought differently, and appealed to the Dictator, with the result that the man who held sway from r927 to 1931 is back on the £111.,“

One of the posals to come before the Inter-Provincial onferencc next month is the ‘adoption by each Provincial Government, as well ll the Federal Government of a moratorium, ‘entitles; the respective governments to postpone lndefinltly the fulfilling of all pre-election promises. Then all thgtharassed Premiers and "Mind Wvuflmml "léflwlntlocd say to clam- orous applause Is-chs , forbids.

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(‘Votes By The Way

Let Ethiopia hsve peace for l0 years and s loan of say 23,000,030 pounds to enable Its Government to open schools everywhere and de- velop the resources and the Eth- iopians ‘would be as well advanced at the end of that period as any- pne could wlsh for, the speaker calmed. But, he concluded, "If the worst comes to the worst, my peo- ple would rsther be under the Just and the considerate administration or Britain than of Italy. If we fall In the coming struggle we shall not live to be anyoneb slavesfl-Eth- lopia Representative at Geneva.

Tobacco nlslnr has become one of Canada's most important tu- dustrles, especially In Kent County. where soll and climatic conditions are favorable to the growing of the "weed." It ls interesting to note that this crop Is one of the most ancient In Canada, even though It was not adopted on a large and general scale until recent years. French settlers on the banks of the 5t. Lawrence found the custom or tobacco smoking was general among the natives, although at

not acquire the hablt. quickly. Ac- cording to information gleaned by the National Revenue Review, It was not until about 1785 that the government gave any encourage- ment to tobacco growing. with the settlement of what ls now Ontarlo, the tobacco area was extended, and It. Is probable that. the Loy- allsts who came to Canada after the American Revolution In 1115 brought seeds from the tobacco districts In the south. Records show that there were shipments of to- bacco from Essex County, Ontario, shortly after the war of 1812-14, the leaf being sent down the Mis- slsslppl to New Orleans. In 1811. four years after Confederation, the first decennial census showed that 399,870 pounds of tobacco were grown In Ontario, and 1,195,845 pounds In Quebec. Prom then on- wards production expanded and reached Its peak In 1932 wtth a total crop o1 54 mllllon pounds-Chat- ham News.

ls N. s port of the New Deal‘! planned economy to corner the world's supply of gold so that It can be buried safely and sterilely, In the new vault the PWA Is eon- structtng In Kentucky? Obviously. the answer is an emphatic “Nof Yet once again the financial pages are carrying familiar headlines telling of the start of a. new gold movement towards this country. There would be nothing particu- larly interesting about the current expcfl’, o; European gold to Amer- ica. were it not for the fact that ll Is the result. not of normal trade. not of fears that France or an- other gold standard currency Is about to fall, but of the fantastic American silver experiment-Wall Street Journal. .

lt behooves every good citizen In

. the world to keep hls eye on the p main Issues In thIs war and on the

unprecedented igrdertaklng of the League. The League need; every private citizen's help If It is to succeed In expelling war. To help effectively means to keep calm. It means to oust prejudices. l0 Perm“? no hatreds to creep In. It mW-ns not. to take onense. It means thoughtfully to consider and SD11‘- Ituslly m book up the 148881142 every day In reminding a nation that for- got its pledge to make no war. Ac- tually war is on the verse o! b81118 driven out of the world-But the Lgague needs the entire world's as- slstanee In so stupendous n. drive. —ChrIstlan Science Monitor. ~

Mm has sought. out msny Inven- tlons and afterwards has mostly re- gretted hls pains. But 110w!!- d9- vlce. has apPW-Wd It which m" even the most anti-mechanical of Erewhonlans could grumble. The machine for giving women the II- Iuslon or wearing new clothes, which ls to be shown at the forth-

that time the white population dld ,

I-irince Edward Island Fisheries,

The following comparative statement Inee for the period January I, 1935-1934, up

of the flsherles of the Prov- to and Including Angus: 31.

1035-1034, is pubulshco through-the courtesy of Mr. B. T. Gallant, In- spector of Hsherles: 101s 1834

Landed 4 Landed Kinds of 11.11 Quantity Value Quantity I Volne Hen-ins . . . . . . lbs. 2.011.100 s 20.100 411131.000 s 24.072 Cod . . . . . . . lbs. apossoo aossz 1.555.800 28801 Lohsters . . , , , . lbs. 6,072,600 453.950 1,230,200 400.252 Haddock . . . lbs 45.500 soo 31,300 519 Hake . . . . . .2115, 1.338.300 5323 1-1501400 4-754 Mackerel . . . . . lbs. 586.600 8,124 406,200 6.00‘! Bglmon , , , , _ , lbs. 4,500 4-50 10-300 0.030 Quahaugs . , . , . lbs. 2241.400 102a aaooo 440 clams _ _ _ , _ , . lbs. 105.800 401 118,600 664 Tomcod . . . . . . lbs. 22,500 335 32.009 39° Flounders . . . . . n». 1ao,800 ‘I89 15-500 155 mu _ _ _ , . . . Ibo. 1,5 s1 1.500 '15 smut. _ _ , , . , . lbs. season 12,1aa 230.100 I575 Caplln '. . . lbs. sasoo 75a 22.000 no Crabs . . lbs. 4,200 l0 Alewlves . . . . . . lbs. 64.909 9:4 1601000 no s11 Perch . . . lbs. 5.000 5 roiii . . . . . . . . . 115.600.4410 u... asst-rue mambo“ 11w- WW4

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Potatoes And Turnips

In potato acreage In Prlnce Ed- ward Island this year there W88 I reduction of at least 20 per cent a! compared with I934. Due chiefly In weather conditions and in some cases the lack of prover sppllw- tton of fertilizer the yield was very materlslly reduced. and it. Is gen- erally accepted that thse two factors have resulted In a cm? that will not measure up for mar- ketlng purposes to 50 per cent of the crop harvest-ed Inst yelu- This reduction ls found particularly l“ the Irish Cobbler variety and It ls remarkable that In some cases growers who have given proper at- tentlon w their crops have had unsatisfactory yields, while Owl- slonally good average yields BIB 11- corded. ‘rhls Is not found In my particular section of the Province but may be picked out here and there, and It Is hard to explain the difference which has occurred on farms almost slde by side, both under proper cultivation.

The general price of 3b cents a bushel this season Is in marked contrast to the Pfloe paid- 185?’ yell’

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8. How can we ftx the prIoe of goods which are Imported?

Answen-We begln with the prloe as shown by the incoming InvoIce. To this we add commission, over- head, unearned increment and so forth and we thus ftx the Just rlce.

(This would make tho cost of every- thing the consumer buys the cost. of Its production ln Albcr-ta provided It was being produced In the province perhaps under conditions which put. Its cost. fur out of Ilne with the cost of Its produetlon elsewhere. It would cut Alberta completely oft from the world's trading system and deprive the eltlzeuu of tho benefits of new and cheaper yrocesscs. But It ls highly unllkol that the pro- vlnce could flx a pr ce on bouncers‘ goods which Includes u tux est-mak-

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9. If the prloe of goods outside the province was less than our Just. prloe how could we prevent their Import?

Answern-Jrhere would be no gsln made by tmportIng these cheaper goods. As soon as they nnlve there would be an unearned Increment levy added to the prfée to make It. the same. Furthermore, why should prices for staple products that we produce be cheaper else- whore than here? We must pro- tect our producers and distributors. If they cannot compete with the other parts of the world. then they should try doing something else.

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duced by magic mirrors and strong lights. Henoeforth. apparently. u woman choosing a new flock Med only stand In front of the mach- ine's arrangement of mirrors with a sample pleoe or dress material In her hand; she will then see In the mirror a vlslon of herself wearing the dress proposed-Manchester Guardian.

Between December, 1W2. will May, 1935. European employment. '1 secondary industry In the flve ciuef centres of the union Increas- cd by thIrIy-clght. percent. In the Southern Transvaal the Increase was fIfty-seven percent. The great- ert, Increase, 122 percent. was shown by the bulldln} traie. In the metal and engineering trades the Increase was eighty percent, but In the food and drink Industries It was only fourteen percent. The Increase In the employment of non-Euro?“ was oven greater than the Increase In the employment of Europeans. -Johsnnesburg Times.

If the weakness of the Govern- ment In power In India should ever lend to the collapse of the defences. once szaln s. flood of Invasion might pour down over the Plslns of India. plundertng and destroyin- The Isllnnt men who have barred the wsy to such incursions for many years are deserving to be held h; the hIghest honour both In BrI- tsln and India. They have lsld down thelr lives freely both In pttehod battles and border skirm- ishes In the cause 0f molntnmlnl the secnrlty of the boundaries of the Ianplre. with all that It Im- p'Ies to the civilian Inhabitants. In countrles IIke Italy which have not uutII recentl s colonlsl empire. the let that looh an em- pire Involves heavy duties and ro- spmnbllltles Is not so oIurIy un- derstocd as might be dsslrcd. Tho “prloo o: sdmInlI-y’ must be psld.

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