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Mrs. A, Olson, who has been
spending a holiday in Prince
Rupert, returned last week.

Yvon La France returned from
the Hast last week. ‘With him
‘was his bride, nee Miss Blanche
Jackson, of McCreary, Manitoba.

_They were accompanied by J.
Jackson, brother of the bride,

and by the groom’s parents and ,
family of two sons and two

‘daughters, They brought with
them a carload of settiers’ effects
and will make their home on the
Amos farm, west of the school.

R, L. Beecher, of the Hatche: y
staff, was a week-end visitor in
town.

Mrs. K. Olson has returned
from Prince Rupert.

J. H, Thompson, of .Prince
’ Rupert, spent a few days here
last week at his summer home,
now vacated for this season.

T. Kelso and Chas; Purdy
spent last week in Vanarsdol in-
specting the possibilities of the
new mineral strike there.

While endeavoring to remove
the powder from ashall by means
of a hammer .on Wednesday of
last week, Stanley Olson had
three fingers badly lacerated and
lost the end of one of them when
the powder exploded. First aid
was rendered pending the arrivai
of Dr. Large from Hazelton the
next day. Boe

Mrs. W. Higgs, who has been
Bxending a holiday at the home
of her brother, W. T: Atwood, of
Lakelse, left on Saturday for
Prince Rupert, to visit her sister,
Mrs. C. J. Norrington. _

J. Grant left for Stewart on
Saturday last.. a

Mrs. W. GC. Sparkes returned
on Friday from: Hazelton, where
she accompanied her grandson,
Howard Walsh, to the Hospital,
at which place he is recovering
from his recent illness. _

Mrs. C. L. Giggey returned on
Saturday from Prince Rupert.
|  W.T, Atwood went to Hazel-
ton last week, to instal the heat-
ing and plumbing avstems in the
nurses’ home which is. being
erected at the hospital there.

Chas, Lindstrom of Remo, call-
~ ed on a number of school friends
during the week-end,

Principal G. H. Griffin and V.
C. -Notzel, of. the local schoo!
staff, spent the week-end in Remo
Y. Wilson. 7 Py

Miss 0. Rourke, of New. York
City, arrived on Saturday to visit
her uncle, Geo. E. Keith.

T. H. Scott and Billie Carrigan
were week-end visitors at. Van-
arsdol, and returned quite ‘en-
thusiastic over the mining pros-
pects there. -

Mr, and Mrs. Head and baby,
girl returned from Prince Rupert
on Thursday last

‘Mrs. J, Viger returned from

ag the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A, |: -

apending a short holiday’ there,
and on Friday she’ accompanied
here he ie

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Mr. Viger to Rettig; #
i} engaged in logging. “'

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P.-T. Election od
_ of New Officers -
“Was Completed

‘The Parent-Teacher ‘Associa~
ition-of Kitsumgallum Schoo} }
its regular monthly meeting iri
the sehodlhouge.on Thursday, the
ha ned from} gth, whan the election of officers,
Prince George’. last: week’ after | uncompleted at.a previous -meet-
ing, Wide fnistiéd, ‘The following
‘are. the additional officers:

iu, President--].: Morse. Hatt.

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Capt Colthurst,

'. .¢@lover seed that she cannot:consume. . Ker nai ;
ducts is, of coutse; Great Britain—the one great consuming country of
‘the world with an open market.

THE OMINECA HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 16, 1925.

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The most urgent requirement in
Canada’s Agricultural _Products

(A ANADA produces every year large quantities of wheat, oats, barley,
butter, cheese, bacon, beef, eggs, apples, potatoes, grass seed and

Her natural outlet for these pro-

Unfortunately, nearly every other country with any surplus of food,
products seems to want to send its surplus to this same market,

The keenness of the competition on this, our only market, and the |
energy and resourcefulness of our competitors began to. impress them«
selves upon the Department of Agriculture some time ago, but it is only
within very recent yeats that the real and only way to.grapple with this
problem has been discovered, or at least put into effect. . This Department

now believes, as do also most of the farmers of this country, that the

“orading” of our agricultural products is the policy and practice that is

seeing us through the struggle and wil

the British market.
“Grading” means the classifying

of products, whether they be hogs, but- .

ter, cheese, eggs or anything else, into
what might be called in a general way
“BEST”, “GOOD”, “FAIR” and
“POOR” classes, -

‘These exact words ate not used in
describing the grades, but that is what
is meant. The purpose served in grad-
ing is threefold— ot

(1) Educational. When the pro-
ducer sees the relative quality of his
product he is spurred on to maintain
that quality if it is the “best” or to
improve the quality where necessary,

- (2)Fair Play. When products are
not graded the inferior article for-
-yarious reasons often brings 2s much as.

the superior article, and the credit and

* advantage of putting the superior pro-

duct on the market is lost to the one
who really deserves it.

(3) Facilitating Trade. The

dealcr leams to have confidence in the
article he is buying and buys more free-
ly, bécause it is guaranteed by grading,
and gradually everybody gets to know
what the. “best” article really looks like
or tastes like, In short, grading brings
about ‘statidardization’ and ensures to

"the producer the best price.

Canada now grades her cereals, grass
seeds, hay, potatoes, apples, eggs, but-
ter, cheese, wool and-bacon hags. The
results have been in every case bene-
ficial and in some cases quite markedly

.go, even though the grading system has
been in effect in some cases for. only. —

two or three years, thus:—

Cheese—Grading began April 1st,
. 1923. Canadian cheese the year before

had fallen into such disfavour on the
British market that New Zealand cheese
was quite commonly preferred. Today
Canadian cheese commands cents per
pound higher than New Zealand.

Butter—Grading began same time
as for cheese. The reputation of our but-
ter was then indeed at low ebb. Canadian
butter today, while not the best on the
market, ia rapidly improving in quality
and gaining in reputation.

Hogs—Over two years aga the De-

artment of Agriculture began to grade
live hogs at the packing houses und
etock yards. The 10% premium paid by
the packers for ‘select’ bacon hogs as
against “ thick smooths” as classed by
departmental graders has done wonders
to improve the quality of our hogs and

-. develop the bacon industry.

' Best Canadian bacon, which ordinar-
ily was quoted two years ago from 10 to

For further information and publications write .

‘DOMINION DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OTTAWA

TV assure us of our rightful place on —

18 shillings a long hundredweight below
Danish, has gradually grown in the esti-
mation of the British wholesale buyer
until it is now quoted at only from 1 or
less to.at most 5 or 6 shillings per long
hundredweight below the best Danish.

“This improvement in price is, of: _

. Course, due to quality and has come
-about very gradually, the spread nar-

rowing down by a shilling or two 2 _

‘month until now it is not at all a rare
occurrence to see best Canadian selling

on a par with the Danish article.

Egg@e—Canada was the first country
to grade and standardize eggs. These
grades and standards. apply not only to
export, interprovincial and import shipe
ments, but also to domestic trading.

The basis is interior quality, clean-
mess and weight..

Standardizing Canadian eggs has
established confidence between producer
and consumer and between exporter and
British importer, and has resulted in a
greatly-increased demand for the Cana-
dian egg both at home and abroad.

Other products might be mentioned.

where grading has worked to the great

advantage of the producer and to the
advancement of Canadian agriculture.
Already Great Britain recognizes our .
store cattle, wheat, cheese, eggs, apples
and-oats as the best she can buy. =
Tt ts for us to so improve our other |
products, particularly our butter and
bacon, as to bring them also into this

List of “the best on the British market” -

and consequently the highest priced.
Grading enabled us to do this for
cheese, wheat, eggs and apples. —
Grading is helping ug to do it for
butter and bacon. ;

Quality Counts

Quality is.thus the firat objective for the
Canadian export trade, and, then steady, regular
gupply, It lt along these lines the Department of
Agriculture is working by. educational methods,
and the result of this policy is seen in the poring
ti ook at

volume of Canada’s agricultural exports.

these figures :—

Canada’s Principal Exports of
Farm Products

1820-21 1924-26

Wheat (b1s.) sscsesesrnemeenn 129,215,157 191,784,587

Flour (bbis) oss 6,017,082  11,029,22T

Bacon and Hams

Beef Cattle ....

Cheese (cwh
Appless (bbIg.). sssscssersssesees
Oats sustewesetenneee Li

Barley (DUB) enrenaneee 8,588,559
RB: ‘ 8,203,450 .

Oanta €eWte)rnnennmenmnne SPT, 266
Clover #Seeds  (btUa.) sess 178,255
Tobacco. (1bB.)  sssusemne ‘

Fine Sed (oni jomee | YBAESU 8,000,105

_ 2nd Viee-President~ Mrs, Geo. Little..
‘ Convenor of Entertainment Commit-
teeMrs.J,,Morse Hatt, = |
_ Convenor of Membership Committee
~ Mis. W. H. Burnett, :
. Convenors of Refreshment Committee

—Mra, G: H. Thonias and’ Mrs. E,'T.

Kenney.

|, A. committee
‘attend to

ome .

attend to the raising of fands for
the school biano and to purchase)
the ingtrutitnt a€ auch time thit|+
3 auitable price’ is “obtained ant

terms made. ° ; “bey
"At the close. of the ‘meeting 8
‘hearty votelof thanks was tender-:

was appointed to

ed the Rev. W. J. Parsons for his Tne Women's Auxiliary to the
faithful services as president:
during the past year, and general
|Tegret was expressed at his forth-
comiing departure froin Terrace.
The refreshment committee
served, a light luncheon to. con-.
clude the everting h.

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Anglican Church met at thehome
of Mrs. Harry King on Thursday
to further the arrangements for -
their annual Christmas bazaar.

A farewell social for Rev. and

ive. W, J: Paigona is being held
PO once eglan Ee United: Chlitch this (Pri-
mov yf dak), evening, ‘at' 8.90, when a |