THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1915 , The Omineca’ Miner PUBLISHED 1 EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZSLTON, THE CENTER OF THE ' GREAT OMINECA DISTRICT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. A. R, Macdonald, Publisher and Proprietor. -palaiauieieaiaregien baad rere A Ct The F avorite | Shopping place» “SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada and British Possessions, Two Dollars ° a year; Foreign, Three Dollars a year. ADVERTISING RATES: Display; $2.50 Notices, 20 cents per line for each insertion, Gazette rates. : per inch per month;. Reading Legal notices inserted at B..C. Vu. V. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1936, No. 3 ' An organization of which Canada may well be proud is the Canadian Red Cross Society, the efforts of which have elicited high praise from British authorities. The’ London Telegraph says: ~ “While Canadian troops are performing their part at the front, statistics which have just been completed show that the Dominion ig nobly following her sons with equipment fur the alleviation of suffering. The Canadian Red Cross Society, of which the Duke of Connaught is patron, is doing magnificent work, thanks to the generous response to its appeals throughout Canada,” _ The chief efforts of the Red Cross, of course,-are iui the direction of hospital work, and the Canadian, society now has. in commission in Franee and England five general hospitals, each containg 1,040 beds, with equipment, unsurpassed by the hospitals. of any natior, Rach of the general hospitals has a’ ‘staff of 314 officers, nurses and men. ; In addition &: to the general hospitals the Canadian Red Cross has four stationary. hospitals, each having 400 beds, with a staff of 165. There are also three clearing stations, with 200 beds each, and four other: hospitals, with a capacity, for 3525 patients, as well asa . mobile laboratory, dressing stations, depots of medical stores, ete. The Canadian Red Cross looks after every Canadian who returns wounded, no matter what hospital he may besent to, that his wants are supplied. The Society also pays attention to the 1860 Canadians who are in various German internment camps, Hach of these | prisoners of war receives a box: of food every fortnight, besides bread, which is baked in Switzerland and sent weekly. ; In many ways the Red Cross lias proved a blessing to the "Canadian soldiers, earhing-the. whole-hearted support of the people of the:Dominion, and we trust the proposal to: organize a branch of the'society in’ Hazelton will meet with every encouragement, and sees THE NORTHWARD ~ MARCH OF WHEAT _, A great grain expert definitely announced some fifty years ago, that wheat could never be grown profitably { in. North America out side the valleys of the Miasiasippi and Ohio, and that its production north of the Great Laker was ‘impoasible::. re * About the same yeara Scotch. , ‘man, David. Fife, living-in “‘Can- -, ada. “West, "’—now~ Ontario—re- - .feived a ‘little gedd wheat from a 2 Cargo. that. had reached Glasgow | ‘straight from Dantzie, . He sowed it in the spring, but it proved to be winter wheat, and none of it ripened save three ears, apparent- ‘ly :from -a- single - plant, . Fife ‘planted this seed ‘the next spring | ° ‘and. got such. splendid. results from. his experiment. that he persisted, year after year,“ That was the origin of Red Fife, thd _ famous:Canadian wheat, whieh _marked, perhaps, the -first. step ‘of importance in the northward movement of the grain belt, . Yeara.of patient experimenting followéd—with: ‘wheats from. St oo beria; India, the Himalayas, and from Lake Ladoga, 7 inti of the 7 Russian” “capital, i ‘{fromanother variety, After this is dune the flower case. is closed | has been predicted ‘that in ten, - Crossbreeding the wheat berry reqhires infinite care and much time. The covering chaff must’ be separated from one of the tiny wheat flowers that has not reach- ed maturity, ‘With a pair. of tiny forceps the anthers are re- moved, and the flower is ready to be fertilized with pollen taken as before, ‘and ‘is tied up ina little paper bag attached to ‘a bamboo cane, to hold it upright and protect it until harvest time. nels—half a teacupful—the result "of five thousand flowers carefully worked. - - From these crogses sprang the}: several wheats. now widely grown in the Canadian Northwest, They ripen from: four to twelve’ days earlier, but the days thus gained ward | means | hundreds of miles and, niillions of. bushela,. “Bxperi- menting. continues: diligently.” lt Years mora completely change the ‘eunditiona of. the, “wheat. markets world. jeeteteeeannennnonshnnasnssusasisnnnennencenerzntas Six years’, experimenting pro-| . duced about seven hundred ker- |: in this. campaign to ‘the: Dorth-| | | profit sind. prospority "tend: your. coniminity;: SARGENT'S ota , MINERS’ PROSPECTORS’ and SETTLERS SUPPLIES, A ‘SPECIALTY ollow | a time. care of | PRESERVING (Owka advertisement concemed the a ae ope _ preserving'of fruit, etc. a We have also food and: clothing t tor. preserve the body--If you take good ; op i it may last a tong | “WE ARE RECEIVING aes Dy Goods---Rugs--- Window Blinds. o Ladies’ Cashmere Hosiery _ Infants’ Wool Shawls Erasers, Ete. 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