The red tape w{th which the immigration officials surround their dealings has been brought to ina rather unfortunate way, Some months ago, a man by the name of man, it was not long before he found a suitable position; he then began to think of and children out to live with Mrs, MeConachie and her five children were passed by the Canadian in Scotland, and Halifax, where they were re-examined, and the tod wife was informed that her baby of fourteen months was mentally deficient. She and the infant were fat once sent back to the Old Country, while the other four chiklren remained with their father.
By various means the case has come to be known and talked about The "Red Pest"
Last year, on the great prairies of the Western Provinces, some 415 million bushels of wheat were raised. This wheat is graded According to standard tests, in order to protect the buyer from inferior quality; it has just been announced that, og far as can be ascertained, only 35 per cent, of the total yield was graded as Number Three Northern or better, This compares unfavourably with 1926, when 55 per cent, was so graded, The reason for this decline quality may be summed up in the phrase "wheat rust." Just exactly from where the rust that, invaded Canadian fields came is not known, Te may have come from Europa, and probably came by way of the United States, for the problem was felt keenly by our southern neigh+ ours before we appreciated it. The specific organism which causes the disease is a microscopic plant of parasitic nature, and its life cycle is somewhat complicated, 'Towards the production of a typo of wheat that will resist the rust number of men have directed their efforts, and, even as in the past wheats' to withstand the cold climate of the northern regions hhavg been evolved in the laboratory, 0 the plant pathologists now work ing in Winnipeg ave confident that they will find what they are sock= ie. Since 1907 the ravages of the Red Pest" have robbed Canadian farmers of about half a billion dollars, and the present annual Joss is at least 25 millions, so tht all over the country, and numerous references to the plight of the MeConachies have appeared in the the results of the investigators are avaited with interest by the whole country. to Fowey. The Cutty Sark was not Captain Woodget's first command, nor was he her first skipper, but she made her name and his, during that time when, on one oched 353 knots ble feat for a sailing I owner, John Willis, was dete to beat the American crack clippers of the day, and thanks to Captain Woodget, this was done.
Captain Woodgete wax. appointed to the Cutty Sark in 1885, and on his first voyage in her beat the Thermopylae by' a week. Here is a reminiscence by a former fore-ind griping, so that T could id her, one spoke of the Wasittxcron, Apr. 6:—The House of Representatives, by 181 votes to 120, to-day threw out the Newton Bill, which proposed that permission should be given for the formation of an American buying pool to combat foreign government monopolies over rubber, potash and sisal—Reuter.
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