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business that will be available:

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Good Material and our price will satisfy.

Do not send to Vancouver or Winnipeg as

the people there never buy your goods. You

may save a few dollars on a big. order, but ‘you |

loose a lot of local business.

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|have. always been used for the pur-

- [salt was known in the 17th century, In

| Shipment to England in 1876, the ves-
{sel being fitted with 4n ammonia plant |

‘Imade almost entirely in the summer
‘|butter is produced between May 1 and

jand the. existing climatic conditions.

_|spect we are guided. by. the instinct

_jtablishments.

. potmds of fishy:

. | todiy Ia: very little, resemblance to
-Ithe shop whose windows were resplen-
dent ith great. glass containers filled): |

| ture. - Indeed ‘Wwe, can: dine? aut many of

‘Twhere to get the healing stuffs.

_{ tieals are: “solid. nowdayé: a8 “never: be:
7 fare atid the: fixetory value’. of these
Ieraids - gnd substances that ‘ALE: det If
vised to, relleve. pala: and. conquer: diss]. 19
‘| @use is-no less a. sum. ‘than $16.000,000.
. Considerably over $14,000, G00: of this |.
. [is made in Canada:: We Import over

"1 $2,800,000: ay orth, and export over three

~ quatters of a “milan; inecording to: 198 tt
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_ COLD STORAGE

From the Department of Statistics

. The principal of the preservation. of
food by. the abstraction of heat is very
old. Cold carverns, cellars and snow
pose. The freezing mixture of ice and
1884 Jacob Perkins invented a machine
which included in simple form the
principal of modern. refrigeration.

The first meat refrigerating plant
was established in Sydney, New South
Wales in 1861 and there was a trial

A huge international trade in frozen
and chilled meat, butter, cheese, fruit,
fish and other perishable products has
heen developed as a result of that suc-
cessful trip. ,

Cold storage plants are absolutely
essential In-such a country as Cannda
more so than in countries where tem-
‘perature changes are less extreme.
‘Take butter and cheese. Cheese is

months, while 60 to 80 per cent of the
October 31, dépending on the season

Thus it is necessary to place: butter:
and cheese in cold’ storage: plants for
consumption during the low production
period in fall and winter. In this re-

demonstrated by squirrels jn storing
up nuts for winter; the quantity stor-
ed. depends on the length and severity
of the winter. |

Thero. are large cold atornge ware-
houses in all the chief distributing
centres, and small refrigerating de-
vices are in general use in creameries
and In large wholesale and retail es-
On the first day of Jan
uary, 1936, there were approximately
in cold .Storage32 million. pounds | of
creamery. hutter, 23144 million pounds
of cheese, T5 million potinds of meats,
lard and poultry and about: 21 milllon

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“WHAT ABOUT MEDICINES

Like most other things, the ‘apothe-
cary’s shop has been changing with the
changing yenrs ind ‘the drug ‘store ‘of

with colored water, ‘vivid: ted and green
predominating... We: kilew : from. ’. afar
when’ we were approaching the chem:
ist's! place of business,

In .the present: day the sippéarinee:
of the drug store is very mtich like a
little palace of vuarleties.” In- ‘place ‘of
the. shelves of labelled: bottles filled
with nll sorts of nedicinal Iquids,.- -of-

candies, tobaecos and magazine litera-
the: drug - stores nnd, get an ice cream
atmost of them. - Je" “soma ‘of our fore-
hetts couldvisit ts ‘they would: tellus
that.in their day. the barber's shop was

How ever, medicines jnnd..; ‘pharmaceu:

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A TRAVEL
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tothe Prairies
APRIL 4 to 11

Inclusive. 21-Day Limit
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Good in Day Coaches
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used of af] the metuls, having been’ in
use for 6,000 years. The Egyptains
called it the “celestial metal’. Iron.
was Worked in Sussex by ‘the Britons
in Juliug Cucsur's F time. Censat’s
ships were supposed, to. be inferior “in
son vespécts to those’ of the Britons
and their allies, the Celtic ships being
bulit.of oak and. vivetted with, iron
and boying chains instead of the ordin
ary ropos,

The ‘earliest source of ‘iron ‘is sald
to bes” “nieteorités ” composed” “chiefly of .
fron, bit alloyed” with small pereen-
tages ‘of nickel; later. ‘it was obtained
by crude. reduétion methods from some
iron mineral, usually the oxide,- Most
of the ordinary varicies of commercial
Iron that ‘we use today are alloys of
the metal. Iron of . extremely high
purity is not ‘in demand, comparatiy ely
spealcing,. :
. There ‘dre large ‘jron. “ depostts in
Counrda. tnt, none is worked at present. .
It-has been found ‘less “eostly to import
iron ore from other countries than to
nine aid process the native low-grade
ore. Some came last year from Brazil

| und ‘Morroco, a comparatively . smal{ ~
‘ amount from Spain and a considerable
ematitity: from Norway.

Most of our...
iron ore imports, how ever, were got last

year “from the United: States and New- -
foundiand, 762, 000: tons from the for- .
The -

mer and 693,000 from the latter:
total imports ayere aver “1M million

tons,

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