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w h va the follow- “: Yefieflﬁom J. Kengeth w. v Iowa's our. ~= '

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h to m, o; my owiedge they only, “m, m the once. .

nio Eﬁlénin the October oi that year,

Ind on a guess I would soy it was about the Nth. u m“

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credit till the fall" (as the song says) they had no option but to sell at least part oi the crop at these uniust prices.

ln October rm, the price was iixed — not by the iarmer - at b0 cents; iuat what it cost to

growit tthattlm. The; n cOI-lld hold out till xpril lioinwgott ss cents a b l.

Under such extraordinary con. ditiooa it 118a always seemed mar- vellous to me that farmers did not cease to grow such an unprofit- able crop. There was, to be sure, always a ready sale ior people can m more do without potatoea than the can do without wheat. But the armer, condemned to the iiie oi a aeri. was the world. at his own cost; hi; chil- dren had to give their services iree. and all the while his machin. e!!! \nd buildings

. was an

“@3131? night beiore the election, mg the day and evening oi the Election the wind came around to

m; northwest and next morningﬁﬂlml

me ground was frozen to s. depth of about 3 inches which was con- sidered rather unusual ior that who oi year.

‘There were between 80 and 40 oi the Blackiish,’ and as you say, n psrt at them was sold for 10x- ieed. and a large amount oi the was rendered by the residents; and I understand that some oi p still in storage as there didn't seem to be much sale ior it.

Pﬂaping that you won't mind “m; corrected on the date men- tinned, I will now crt. Yours glnccrely"—

Now, next to being correct. i

1m to be corrected; ior that lh-rth means I am still learning. I can-.

not recollect the author of my information at this late date but 1 do remember he rnade a joke about "the r fish" cumin to the poll. sq here must have been ‘n election at the time, as Mr. nos. any;

My ‘ eather-book" corrobor- ates the statement that there was g very high tide towards the end oi October, i926. On Sunday 25th the barometer dropped a iull inch as a wild 85 mph. storm swept the Atlantic coast and towards evening the rain tell in torrents- close upon an inch oi rainfall. The moon was a. thin crescent, not long pest new moon; which al- ways makes for high tides. The wind was SE. on the 25th but swung to N.W. in the night and e continued till the 3th. when ~. turned South in the afternoon. I was working‘ “south oi the Hills- borouah" at e time but was pre- paring to move. so my notes were not as full u I could wish on this occasion. It was probably on the 26-21 that the irost occurred. The ﬁcund was iroeen all day on the

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l shall alwayl be glad to hear from Mr. Role when oi interest comes along, and ave duly entered hie correction in the book oi records. As to the oil in storage. it aeuna to offer a chance in make a wa roof Whliﬂwllh. la well la an ex rior paint. Perha some of the own- ers may ma the experiment. in which case I'd like to hear how it works.

Till VAGARII! OI‘ POTATO PRICES (l)

"l lee they have a potato fam- ine in Halifax." said a young neighbor a week ago, "so I gath- elr from the newloapers," I said: and hlmwondered how that could

.w there a in N a w s a record crop

ew ck. "Ported." "I don't go by those reports." he returned, “I think ihty Ire put out by interested arties. Anyway, the shortage in Blliax is supposed to be because ‘ﬂrmefs are holding back their potatoes for higher prices." "1 lion]. blame them ii they are," said l. when I think oi the raw deal theyve had in past, yam; n; MW d0 You know it isn't the dealers who are holding back im- lllshcr prices?" There was m an. "Qua that. so the subject was W119i! I Bot time I began to hulnt u the old records oi potato Fixes my diaries. The first d covery I made was that I had lilllt down nothing about potatoes t l March 1N4. when I sold some “in” "l"! B hi’. when they were a ins at Montreal at $1.50 a "s! o! 90 lbs. I was thus selling them at 56 cents a bushel. Now in 0w days it was claimed that it “ti! 5° wits to grow a bushel oi’ 9° Woe. and furthermore, being llMgUlllldGflblu distance from the . 111R Wlnt. there was a truck- fore charge or 2 cents per bushel "fmltl; 0." the nlrioe. 1t will be we? I Bi the ‘prom motive" ... .‘t..‘.€.‘°it..i"t¥.'.‘.'é" n" ‘I rue e c ar

lsenowgéy B n 9h is in May 19M. Tale is the time of year when Qua?!‘ rise. so I got. so cent; g "mxrf"! the truckers. at the ‘n; m8 the prices were 82 to m“ P" 5B8 n Montreal: and in gﬁihi‘ b"! cost from 82.90 to l3 ‘WV’- A Milhbor tells me It in Nov. 1Q the price w! 5° "his s buahefend bv mam.

WW? had risen to '10 cents. 1 "l '3" 6MB was gathered in lg? 1"" Price was seandslously 25 ~c nwNovember Cobblers sold at I b “ell; e1 end Mountains 30 cents u” f I (At the same time. so mus‘; Wilton- noid for 4e cents ma“ iimtlmlévsr; t}: bats. liln "Mon- ~ -. no a . arm- m b°ll8ht their fertilizer “on

it is at its minimum distance (from is

- . one-third r the nation and got one-twelfth :1 the national income. What is the

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TIIE PLANET JUPITER Jlllliter is a brilliant can... 1n the eastern ekv these February Mann. n. la in the constellation 1&0. Ind will be at its brightest on the 11th. The reason oi this is two-fold: the planet is in op- position to the Sun, and is there- tore “iull-iace", so to speak; and

us) oi 400 million miles, 1g 13°56 W i119 bflitht star called Re- sulus (Alpha Leonis), which has a history all its own. too.

Jlllilter i8 a large planet: its mean diameter ($7.000 miles) is almost eleven times that oi the . and it contains more than two and a hall time n5 much material as all the other planets not together! This great mass. rotating nearly thrice as inst as the Earth does: in o hours 50 minutes, Jupiter calls it a davl But day or night, Jupiter never lack; moonlight, for it ha; eleven satellites (moons) at various dis- tances up to l5 million miles. Figures get bigger out there, you will observe.

The satellites revolve round Jupiter, oi course, and appear sometime; on one aide oi the planet and sometimes on the oth- er, when viewed through the tele- scope. it was Galileo who first saw these moons, in 1e10, and he spent some time chronicling their nlcvements graphically hour by hair. “Die l, Hora 3. in mensibus Martlo", ior instance. he showed Jupiter as a. small circle. with one little dot to the leit. and three to the right at different ilistances. The “dots" were the satellites, and the ‘ a-tigable astronomer sketched their appearance hourly, for two months, whenever they were visiblel

With hi; rimitiva telescope Galileo saw on y four oi the larg- est satellites, whose diameters ranged from 2.000 to 3.200 miles. Since then seven others have been discovered, the last two in 1938. These two are sup osed to be l5 mile; in diameter. me as- tronomers consider that the satel- lites have been drawn into their present orbits by the influence o! the giant planet, acting through gravitation.

We move about freely, and with- out any disturbance oi function under the Mean Surface Gravity oi the Earth; we are “used to it," as the phrase goes. ii we should be suddenly transported to Jupi- ter. where the M.S. Gravity i; 2.6 time: that oi the Earth, what would happen to us? As Gravity determines weight, 1 suppose that we would weigh two and one-half our present weight to begin with, and that would make travelling e. very slow job; a fact sometimes overlooked by the pic- turesque artists of the “iunnv

s. WHY A CONDUCTOR? Sometimes. but very rarely, l listen in to a Symphony Orchestra. Rarely, for “very little" oi that class oi music "goes a long way” with me — which may (or may not) be the sign of an uneducated taste! However, I notice that as the Conductor ,, are he always gets a round oi applause, which seems to show-that he is an im- portant figure in the proceedings and this very naturally leads in the question: "Why?" A ittle research has taught me that the oiiice oi Conductor is older than I had thought. In the fifteenth century there was a conductor for the Sistine Choi- at Rome, who beat. time with a roll 0i paper; and by the six- teenth century the custom oi hav- ing a leader to beat time and in- dicate the entry oi dliierent voices, had spread over ail Chris

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with the advent o! clear and definite rhythms, the time-beater became less and less necessary, and as the idea oi the ppnductor

ialibed. tloe muaio with tge baton was gradual- iy abandoned. All the neat man- ters o! music. Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, et al.. kept their performers to ether wih the aid oi whatever eyboard instrument was available. This ia the pree- tice, as readers wlll note, il church music oi the present day.

Flor secular (and some kin or classical) music, it was ielt. about the bqinning oi the nineteenth century. that somethin was wanting, spohr. Mendelssohn. and Weber. were quick to lee that the want was that oi proper orchestral leadership; but the dly 01 "19 great orchestral conductor had n

yet

Then came Berlioz. Hut, and Wagner with their highl com- plicated scor , and wi them the modern conductor came into his own. Their music demanded great temperamental icrce. as well a; great technical skill. ﬁnd so the work oi’ the conductor be-

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458mg highly specialized. M a | encral at the head oi his army |fns ires his men w the top o the bent, so the conductor by rsonsl malnetism. Play!

‘each performer to sound his lu- gtrument with every nerve strung 'tense to follow his meanlnl- i" must urge visibly, by gesture. by hand and baton. h swaying of body. and by llghtn ng glance: it. by these means. he can interim?’ the soul oi the comvﬂw‘ l" "if music which he has composed. then (and not till then) hi! ll l great conductor and deserves m’ plaudits so lavishly ven.

The radio, though t. generously

THE CHARLOTTETQWN GQQRDIAN i‘ f A u’ '

AS BITTER COLD and driving snow descend 0n the Russian front, Russian attacks are intensiﬁed. For Russian troops are at home in winter warfare, and Russian motorized equipment is built ro operate in intense cold.

Pushing forward with troops and supplies as pnrrof the Russian offensive are Canadian-built, four-wheel drive trucks. Ford engineers devised ways to "arcticizc" these trucks with heaters and other devices to make them operate ciﬁcicntly at 40 below zero and lower.

In the extreme winter of Northern Manitoba, these trucks were put through exhaustive tests to mnkc sure that they would start quickly and operate efficiently under (he severe Russian weather conditions. \

HIRII MIITIIII HIMPANY

lARGiST PRODUCERS OF MILITARY VEHICLES IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE

The Need Grows as VICTORY NEARS

CANADIAN RED CROSS

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bombers that do i’ gallant young lives that are . with them. It is ssmethintr f poignant regret. yet there is ilic._l<u' consolation that thousands of other . u‘ precious lives wlll b?» saved lnterh-Ygf-l

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time. It is a necessary preliminary, in lnnd attack; the destruction o the enemy's productive power; the rlrmurnllzntiun oi’ his supply lines —a clearing of the way that will 1

lighter than they would be other- wise. Day after day’ now we r those bulletins w ' toll of

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later from wounds.

Russia w ere, though there are llﬂi ndable figures. losses necesw» be heavy. casualties in

The power plant in these and all other Canadian-built Ford army vehicles in service today in the far parts of the world, is the Ford V-8 engine. Developed by Ford engineers in pro-war days. it set a new standard of performance in the cars, trucks, and buses of a nation at peace. Always it has been noted for the smoothness and surging power which only a V-type, eight-cylinder engine can give.

Today it is proving its efficiency and economy on the bitter testing grounds of war, and is helping to keep transportation and essential supplies moving on the home front.

In peace and in war the Ford V-8 engine has stood the test. On the frozen fronts of Russia or the highways of Canada, it's a great power plant-

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this war in other iticntres. i=0“- sidering the scale o

have been oompnrat in the decisive battle of El Alumni" Brltlm loescs were only l8.600 mic‘ from the day Italy entered in June, i940, through all ihr

tish and Empire cas- gmpon. similarly. in

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l! with battles hitter and losses have been light-

ter defensive equip- r power. with the terminating of ect on battle when one combats gains The superior air iorce strikes be- hind tho enemy's lines, breaks up his formations and chokes oii his sources (gt supply. In the disinte-

nrmy dieengagen itseli from battle. making for lighter losses. i-ls may. under strong direction. retreat and for a later engagement: but.

‘ against nnn. the result will be the same. in Libva and Tunisia this

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brings the music or the great com- pdsers to thousands. has t this railing; one cannot see te cou- duetor as he plavs on the feelings oi hia orchestral

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