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IL IL Oolrle, Auoalnte Editor

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THE comm: BLRTION Natal-ally the Bell government is -luctant to ‘announce the date 0! , demise but in justice to all con- -rned, the date should be mRdB "lown at the earliest’ possible 0i!" ,,.,-,_,,,,hy_ ft ls generally assumed “at the election will take place in -.1ly. This leaves less than two uonths for preparation, even if . e date were ‘fixed now. lit is quite ‘sohable that the election will lbe ‘"ung without lrnuch warninz- We ‘ ‘e that a ‘$45,000 ‘bridge has been ~,ng up in the Patriot Oflice for .-»z benefit of the electors of the “~-lfast district. In addition to the t oi’ the bridge or bridges there rights of way to be purchased, -. ‘,.(‘l1 will, no doubt, afford golden “q-ortunlties for generous offers. ‘ll. -n there are, QQIJP§QIUE to the i". riotllflgg ‘things in contempla- .., yo? {he benefltvof the -Chllr- “ctawnlfielectors. iA""'ra.l'lway ex- i“.‘si0n along the water front. l. med down some. time ago for -" -- ‘benefit of our truckmen, but to revised and improved to suit ‘ election conditions. the ‘first indica- ‘Mns of the approach of the elec- -n campaign, although we hear "..m0l'5 of several new railway sites 1.‘, the vicinity oi Richmond Bay. Viflliile" tliese are mere symptoms, ';‘ ‘ls well known that the elections 1st be held during mid-summer, . d it will be well to lmake the preparation. Districts villPh have not yet made their ruminations should do -so at once.

These are

"cessari;

A oooo NAME

“A good name is rather to be

TUESDAY, MAY l5, less

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1,, m1,- climate and i‘f they are rc- peated olicuerlllun mill’ 1"‘ 1° m" couvenwnco, they are not t0 119 wondered at. We have lilld tbP-"l glnce the first settlers came M111 8111111 ‘havc tlieffl 1.111 ule last nllln dies but we have also our llfl- paralled summers, our never lull- lng craps and our generally m1111 winters as well as ollr summers.

Let us stop complaining and think how much better off we are

than our neigbbflrfl-

__._{<0>———— THE ‘FARMER SCIENTIST

lWhether he admits it to himself o,- not, whether he has a college degree or not, every farmer is a scientist and the more’ he realizes this, the ‘better it will be for l1lm- self and for his country. He sows and plants, he reaps and harvesla according to known scientific and natural principles and lhc more faithfully he follows these, tllc nearer he comes to the goal of suc- The farmer should be the 119g, of linen, possibly he is. ‘In

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his eve-ry day work he is constant- ly face to face with absolute truth. with cause and effect, with well merited reward or well deserved punishment. "The laws \vl1ich afford

sows and as he cultivates, so he rea/ps. He does not expect "figs from thlstles." lf he sows good seed in good soil, he knows he is

going to reap a good harvest. He

sowing:

cannot he cheatrll ollt of its right;

riches ’ was

llll by ‘a wise mun_nf olll. This is

nosen than great .l< true of countries as of men and Dlrriug the past.

.18“: W38 ‘much “DDBCGBSQTY COM-

. (linen. winter Joining about t-he severity of the comlplainings ‘omplainings in correspondence with friends elsewhere, with the rc- .;ult that exaggerated reports have

weather. at home.

gone abroad and the impression has been created that tlbls island is altogether an undesirable place to live ln. ‘The pluin, simple fact is that thi.s,llslar_ld_ has suffered less than any other port of North Am- erica. Even as far south as ‘New York and Boston they had snow- storms and bllzzards as late as the 8th of May, railway tie-ups in the Middle and ‘Western lStates,‘a foot ‘if snow in Ontario and", nous floods lin many of our sister -prov- ‘ices. Olllr geographical "wakes devastating storms impos- . hie summer and winter.

‘An example of what exaggerated ‘opqyts and constant complaining ‘may do is to be found in a Chicago .‘l1ilsh newspaper. A Canadian farm "c is advertised in the paper. and

situation

it returns what is given to it; rc- l

‘To no other l-ulliug, not even to

‘the professional scientist, are so many opportunities profitabil-

observation given as i0 the farmer,

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provided he keeps his eyes open. Let us cite one instance. ill 11119 the professor of Field ‘Husbandry in the University of Alberta, while looking over a field of Marquis wheat, observed a wheat stalk that stood some -six inches higher than its neighbors. l‘t hull other charac- teristics which appealed to him. He saved the head, sowed ii next year and the next. .ln ‘I922 he hall enough 398d for a lll-rge plot and from the result of his sowing a yield was produced which bcult his best ‘Marquis wheat by nine bush- els to ill-e acre. it was also super- iorlto Marquis l-n milling properties. The same opportunity is opcn to every farmer. in every flelll there may ‘be, and generally is, a super- ior plant, as there is in every gathering of men or of animals u. superior ‘individual. From these su- perior ‘plants or animals, a super- ior race may be evolved.

‘be occasion was seized by a Pole1 The tawny “I omfervatm" 150119

‘1 warn ‘his fellow ‘wainst buying a farm in Canada. .= -ll he did it wit-h ignorant exag- he mid, the mercury exflats at n0 b!‘- ‘lllw zero; ivh-lle di z .110 lllnter "thcro tlsrlb"

worms and lirlL-l '.'.’lli ue.

countrymen

wration. “For nine months,"

mo. RTE.‘ S. ‘l\\'- .11 1'11‘- zolars get lost z. -‘l frer-nr l. ll.-.1.'ll ‘llying to get frol.i l‘.li;- . llleir barns to feed lllc (.1118 and 111 urges the editor to warn his r-‘aders ‘from settling "in that‘ lilmned country."

Of course the letter was ridicu- lollsly absurd, ‘but l-‘ry forcibly the effect of exagger- nted reports of our occasional

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it illustrates.

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of the greatest. it should be frilly cultivated

‘f'lll‘i‘- and particularly almong children.

.... _..-¢o>__ AME.‘ ICANS IN CANADA

l is collmnted that there 1‘p_ rorlllnately one million people

in Canada who were born in

EYE

the "United Slates, or about twelve pm" cent of the Domlnlonfis population. Most of these are io be found on farms in rhe Western provinces. Nearly one hundred million acres of Western Canadian land has been spilled by homesleadlng and citi- 2cm of the Unltel. States have .11:- counted for thirty per cent of such

lllievancel. This man had never aettlement as against twenty per l-cen in Oanulo and llsd got his cent on the part or British. in all-

mieplacod information from exag- gl-rated reports.

011i’ occasional srlorntorms no cf- privately held null ‘at wort-ll dwelling upon in our lands and farms-Canadian Pacific ndence. They are nstinal Bulletin.

dition, United States citizens er.- each year the heaviest purchasers improve/l

him a. living are inexorable. As he,

pretense of plowing and harrowing. any of the necessaries ‘of life 1f his seed is ‘scarce, he does not 111w“ U“? 111311 m“ "1 11111187 Xihwl" ‘m1111v v1‘ Z1’! HILV utllcy SllbSll-lligh‘ ,, try to cheat his field ‘by sparscl the seed goes ms far as it

. . - . 1 will unll that. 1s ‘be end. Tho soil]

"WYWF" THE CHARLQTTETOVOVN cUARnmN "*"“rrl--~r-"""m“ 1'1""“"""'"‘"“"'""'74-"

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One of the best things In all Mr- Floldlnq‘: tariffs was the ‘British ‘Preference which he introduced in

d807, and has since been approved by bollb ille old political parties.

y“; (mulled) In advance ln Clllllll "M1 11'1"" Qiflifll-ll-le has now further increased the

preference by 10 per cent. on cer- tain articles when imported direct from lBritlsh ports ‘lo ‘Canadian ports. Although the volume of trade affected lby this provision is considerable, one of the chief ad- vantages of the change will be that it will tend lo stlnlula-le und in- crease trade through Canadian sea and river ports and also tllc traffic over Canadian railways.

During the season of open navi. gntlo this Will be of some benefit to Quebec and Montreal, and all the year round there will be some gain to Halifax and St. John, which will ‘be better able than before to hold their own ‘with Portland and Bos- ton, whose rivalry iii competition for ‘Canadian trade has been long "the subject of complaint in the Maritime Provinces. Solar these are good ‘ihiilgs and they will bc generally approved in Eastern Cuu- llda ‘at le-zlsl. The same may bl.‘ sail! of the duty upon American 1101.1- toes, which has been 21) cents 11c‘? 100 pounds flllil is now increased to 35 cents. But this is directly contrary to pro-election promises and to the platforms of both the Liberal and Progressive parties ‘which pledged them to reduced duties on foodstuffs. _ 1 1‘

The duties on raw sugar are re- duceci very slightly and on refined 1sugar a cent per pound. The ub- Il-‘lllfll claim is made lllut ‘this Will {materially lower llhe cost |l1 ‘cull- ‘SUIIIETS. Between ‘the sugar pro- ‘liucers of the south and the ‘Canal- ‘(llllll consumer fl/Ye ‘ll'l‘S‘l. the suglil" ,trust then the importer, the rulin- el", the wholesaler and the retailer. ‘When each __ol1: these ‘taken his ‘toll out of that half cent per pound the consumer will need a mic-ros-

' ‘he Public Forum 1

‘I'll: column In open for lb dloorullnl b1 eonelpoldeltl of question of Interest- The lrlottefovvl G II loci endorse

necessarily the I In n expleuel l1 ltl 00h renpolrleltl-

o-a-ooooa- Immigration of Farmers

sin-sin my ‘former letter '1 showed how many tradesmen there were in o. certain area and how many of lhem in the same ,,,~,,,1e were there today. Now i am going lto give the number of farms there were wltlllu a dlrftancc of 19 miles or there about alt that time. and how many there are within [he some distance now, together with; a number of unoccupied anes- You will hear people say fat-hers should give their sons the D1860 oi" part oi‘ lbc place to encourage them to slay home; well at that time there were 121 or there about farms svithin t-lic ‘l9 lnlles area, io- lllty, there arc 195, u number of the farms having bceu divided up among the family or purl sold ,to other" izlrlncrs. Al that time farm- en-l needed lnore stock to support their families than lhcy do today.

130mm; down these please/mt sound- UIEFQIITMBI. to where we can sp- ply them to the discussion, they are intended ‘to mown-‘Prolectlon gave us "more mouths" to feed. Had we achieved ‘this happy con- sumatlon itself. it would have been something unfortunately that small comfort is denied us. ‘l’ E lslarlll has practically no ruanlufactorlng, has been unalble to retain her lnaterinl increase 01' population, mud has lost somewhere around ‘twenty thou sand iclf uhepeople she did have. Mr. Cotton is evidently of the oilin- ion that it‘ he is catering to an hotel lw-l-th 150 guests and 50 guests 18B1V9. he will sell the hotel as nluoh food as before. Ollr sister" Drnvinces are not ‘much lbetlci" oil‘

, M flours

By junlca W. Bflrlvfl- M-D- THOSE TROUBLESOME STYEQ

Those lumps on the eyelash are rvully Slllihll boils ‘ill lhc rout of an

,.y,.,,,5|,_ ‘than ourselves. Nova Scufilfs po- ,,,‘ ,,.,, ,,;. "L. ,,,,.,. “,5, ,‘,,,.‘§,‘-,,,,,,,. llulution "is such that ‘she is llll'€;l’.-, be, ,,, ,1 I ,,.,,,, U“, ,,,,,,, gwws ened with the loss ui two oi‘ ill‘;-

representatives in the l-‘cllerlli l-lou-se. lMrJ10otton says those 1190-, pie left Ibo-cause "Iirailslporlutlon developments made ‘it easy for] them I0 get away." They lclt be‘ cause they were l-uborirrg under el-o ilomic dlslllbililies lflllLLu-SEI] by ll protective ‘tariff. Easy transporta- lilm was ll development C()lll-lll'.\ll to the wlhole continent. Protection to give us new inu.rr.‘lrlilcloi"ie.~l null lllDPi? people ill 1'. E. i. l‘t lliillgii. it was to grell-tly increase our lulu"-

11l"ugl"l.‘ssivel_i' wore 'l‘l1ey finally break open, thl- pl.» escapes and till-re is relief ul ofict‘.

Now wllut lli llli‘ cause of yo-ilr liitfllliilllill‘ s-tye o1‘ .-‘t_1"l s? ll wleh l could tell you. Pl-lllups you can figure ii 011: i111" _\‘l1l|l‘~1‘ll. How is your zcilc-lrll llczllill? IlilVO you been fl-eling 11p ill the ‘lnllrk in UVUTY way, cl" arc you l1 little ‘bo- low 11:11"?

You sec if your" f-',t’fli.‘l'1ll condi- lion isn't cool] the oil ln the gland

People sally, but they did not live us well at that. time! There was] scarcely ll flirlncl" but killed good, beef uud many some sheep and ull the pork that was ‘required to ‘keep the fulfill)’. 0f course salted down. There being not loo much sale for butter, the farmers bull illenty for, their own use lit home us it. was only mllrkclell at 111 conltl-l fl. pound, Tllcrl- were [ilcuty ‘of eggs us tllic‘ market pril-e ivas only 8 cents, and plenty of llsll us evl.1.ry' shore farm-l er hull a1 nl-i urudc by his wifol "livisting warp into twine unll till- flluiily kuil Lhc uct. 'l‘liey also made‘ tho ropc for nlovlng lloltlr bout and ill-i fronl hull" on s-lullll birch, lath-ks, while the atone was usz-d for an 11111-11111". They would go ollt l1 flaw lllllllllw‘ ill ll tlinc and cutch all the ilsh till-y‘ warilcd fol" their" own‘ use. HUWPVUI‘, those who would iisl1' lo sell lo the ilsh buyers hull to‘ give 251i pounds cod ilsh for $1.01) o1" iltili lmllnlls oi’ bake for about 80. cents. Tilt‘)! continued bills \\'ll\' till about the seventies when ‘they. sturlcll trawling null drying ‘ oivn llflll for" shipping to llulifz. will-re tbcy got good prices. One of 111B fill-n is slill living here lIliLilG . money in fishing ,1, tiiuc. This ‘fishing industry ex- plains llll- cause of ihc extra num- berhif farmers, and rbcu the mull llllfilllufii came on mill those Sfllillll arm; comlncnccd using mull m] the flirnm and cnriclliilg till-m s01

cope to enable ‘him lizo discern his

share of gain from the change.

11°85 not “tempt 1° chem his Smllileyoud this ivlnu is there ill kll1llli350wn “W113 W111i Whlll ilsh 11w,- by using worthless fertilizer or by '

‘changes ‘mulle that will chcllpcrl

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“thing at all!

Some of the luxuries are taxed less than before, but scarcely any 'other. llulil-s on

the iFrl-ncll ‘lrculy. Duties on cig- ‘IZIFEIIGS and confectionery arc now reduced, also the excise i1lbi,_\' l111 Canadian wines, hu-t not on fooll. clothing or fuel. The one special ‘relic!’ gran-tell ‘the flrrmem on lntlcll- ‘incry ls ll slightly ill-lllfBllflPil duly ;on stumping machines. No doubt l ftzlrio uull lPriuce lfillwllrll lz-"lunll ‘elections "will nillko till‘. iilust ofit! 'Aud yet we are ‘told in S|l1¥('li\l ill-s- palchcs from Olltluvlr ‘sent out to ‘the Lllltrliil press tllzri these ill-no-

is “_wlll appeal to men and women ‘will. know little about tariff sched- ‘ules but who have learned from ex- perience the difficulties of making ‘ends meet in the face of the ever- growing cost of living!"

The sales tax, increased last year by 50 per cent, ls readjusted and simplified. How far this will bene- fit consumers remains to be shown. The exemption of wool null news- prillt paper from the rllllfih‘ tux will be u-pprl-l-iuied both ‘by producers and consumers in view of tueillrge turnover and llfiillfiiflidlilllil} involved and should bl- of some llPlliflll to both classes, however unequally divided the benefit may he .-\11‘l business people will not be alto- stihci" ungrateful for the reduced lax on cheques and bills of ullllzigc, which "will, lrowrvcl", quite imperceptible to ill‘.- 1r of ‘the Canadian people. ll ivl-ulll indeed have been sadly remarkable if all the changes Mr. Fielding has made could be justly coudenlncll o1" cven severely criticised.

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In view of the large admitted de- ficits and constant additions to the national debt no great present re- duction of taxation was to be ex- pected. Thl- call ls still urgent for close,- economy "and further reduc- ttion of expenditure, That some- thing haa ‘been done along these lines is 1o be so far commended. A ‘mllch deeper cut in retrenchent is the only hope of the country for any early or considerable reduction of our heavy lfederal burdens, m" in tho cost of living. Despite some present boasting. it is ‘more than doubtful whether the dndex num- ber of living coats in the family budget wiillbo at all materially sf- feoted "by i-hp. mended riff.

brandics, WVlXIUt-n turns it with ll reasonable increase. 5111B“ 411111 51111115 We"! Tellllilffd by:

i.l1e Lilberzll canll.id:l‘les in the Uil -'

that they could keep .1 horse 3,,“ ,,

‘few con‘..- enougll io supply than,‘ iwoulll lull-h. But soon they gm _, ,scl back when

,\\‘zl.s stopped, for no .-1,,.,1| ,g,,-,,,,.

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‘ :i"ll‘l'l.lilll, as l... - nrl- norm‘ nil-ii, ' l sllw in ilir‘ l‘1‘|ll')l'l l1l‘ tho ll‘,'.'.l.‘<l‘lwl.lu ‘fim-H"fwvnnqijlyulthivgz 1-“): g _ 111.111.‘. nllll lllllllfls-lllll‘ <11" fuli1l-. ,ll1t11rl~ \\'lll*l‘t‘ lhl- }.',(ll.'(‘l'lllll(.‘lli. illltlnnvnt ,its rnl-nibr-rs " lhl-rr is no spur. _ .- '

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llil ltll-lluiollll ii y in gcl mull, lllPyl A B HPPIH to lllilllli‘ sluucoul- from ' ' ‘ '

01-! ‘lawn, l11|| ll fl-w yours zlgo lllily gdll 11 ‘l‘L)0.\ll'l‘ for" spurs lit ‘St. Frill-rs lllly from l1l1‘l‘l". 11nd the plioplo loll llll- 1l(‘ll and tlll- lion hllichwi ‘llnll Ilrliulls l1l‘ i-llicklalln for ifli3-f2li'llll’l‘S,| poill for 111cm 111 allvuncc, hni il1ilN,1 l-hl- ill-u was llilll-ll though lllc’ spur" is still llli'l'l‘. .\'ow wllllt lirc lllcy flitlllfJ, for All". Fllriillu"? \\'l1l‘r1 till-y rlliscll iilc prlcc of thc ,lllll.l, llu- farluers palli lm" it ill ullvllncc, bul lludl-r 11o comp merit lo 111cm lln- sill-ll uhu-lo was ucvl-r had from ivhl‘ llll_v>‘ of fllivios 111 now. 'l‘l1l~ only r1110 sernloll l0 be ll-fl. was William (lanlpbcll with his (‘YUW- 11111‘ 111111 it livnulll Hlllll-H‘ you more than any of the rust such n11 array of l-llrqucnce in praising fill‘. ill-ll (lovcliimcill. lnlll ihl-lr \\'l111llc1"1'1ll lll-liluvviilcllls in,- ihc foru-siglllnl-ss. Yes in nll.-ling when" own ‘llllnrinH from $2011.00 to 955110.011 willlolll tile

l‘(lllS(:‘l||. of illl- ]l(‘l\]l1L' n1 l1 time when everything p13,. ,,,,,,, .,, Slllllll). Lci. All‘. Liberal suppln-lcr

think how mill-ll stuff lil- l1ll.l to scll to lnukl‘ $500,110. 111" ,1,,.,» 4,3,, l‘illSl'l| ll in $3110. illcrl- Willi-ill hp no itilllllllilllli.

Now Wllilf ‘l llm surprised ill is lllill. till’)! lllll not. usl‘, 11111-11 clo- queilll- null strong‘ 1ll'l!,‘lllll.l’|lil4 to ‘kifilll llll’ tanning" unll shoving busincss on lllc lslurlll. Wl- rcrnl-m- lN-ll‘ whl-n the soldiers rl-llrrncll, a 1911"!‘ lllll11'-'1l'1ll.'4 in rile press ask- ilrg thorn to lvzlrn lhc (lllTPFtPlll. ilnllcs, to slllrl i'lll'l‘lllg(’ building. Ono lmporicl" sllill he imported about 111001100 worth till.‘ previous your and thul ‘lil- would be willing lo take an lflii'l'i.‘>'i in lurch an iu- dustry llil it rvuulll lll‘ 11>- well fol" h i»_,t,o scll illc local llllllllllilCillfU DSJFO import ii. Now if till-y ‘had uscll their "lll-nlouslrlllllhlle" tal- ents to llolnonslrate for" this indus- iry, we can got our coal just. as cheap as they l-un in Ontario ‘and t buss \\’()0il from Milli]? Wllllfllll lilly and ihlit all they would re- quire would bc hickory for we have goi the hardwood null that is all lllut is wanted. if ihc government had made the riilIllL’ offer and bricked tho reluriilui soldiers up, it .is more than possible that we l-ilroulll have some of iliol-lc indus- tries llcrc today. Wllcn tho liullgot wun briluglil down (4V(‘,l'_V llibcrlll member slatted the old song of de- ficits left by their predecessors, but if we urc "to believe all that. we hear more crooked work is done to hood- wlng and dl-l-elve ‘the public‘ than ever before. ll is hard for the pu‘b- Ill" to unllersllrnli lbs llcll Govern- ment internally and externally. ll think, however, tho Dilllllf! have come to the conclusion that ll state- merli and explanation given by H. D. McLean is the right one, as he‘ is one of those that examines the whole buninoss. As the government bad vacated, some of those _in-