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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1932-05-05, Page 6THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATEWV»SPA¥> W 3> punklns” next fall had better get Just the And now for about the finest month in the year! ♦ « * *v # * The man who will be “some spring. • ♦ * News and Information for The Busy Farmer (Furnished by the Ontario Department of Agriculture) Wp UTTING «P fire-safe walls, ceilings and par­ titions in;NMMg HIThing I Judging by the crop of early lambs the past winter has suited the flock. In many flocks there is an average of two lambs to a ewe, or 200 per increase. The pleading fea­ ture is that the lambs seem particu­ larly strong. The animal feed mixture used is made up of equal part ground beef scrap, wish meal and milk powder. When. liquid milk can be had the milk powder is omitted. Hoppers of chick grit, oyster shell and char­ coal are hung at a convenient height on the walls. the seeds planted this business is about through with deal of bluff still shows itself where its joyriding, though n good courage ought to be. * ♦ * * ♦♦ * V For Jobs Pigs are rapid growers if well ;?,nd properly fed. Biut they require plenty of nourishment to make vig­ orous growth. It is a good plan to Tave the young pigs eating before weaning so as to avoid a setback. IS growth is slowed up at any stage loss is probable, especially at the low price of begs. Grain alone will not give rapid development. When to Want Garden Seeil A timely suggestion with respect to the planting of the home vege­ table garden is that the hardy seeds .should be sown as early as weather and soil conditions will permit, Smooth or dimpled peas, onion, ra­ dish, lettuce and spinach can be .sown as soon as the soil has dried enough to- permit working without injury to the texture, (Beet, carrot, parsnip and wrinkled peas may fol­ low, with beans and othei’ tender (Crops sown oi’ planted after 4anger of freezing is past. the made lime, then Weekly Crop Report Seeding operations in Ontario are in progress from as far west as Rainy River to Glengarry County in the east. Reports from the Agri­ cultural Representatives would in­ dicate that the land is working up in n very friable condition. Fall wheat is reported in excellent con­ dition and the majority of counties report Red Clover and Alfalfa hav­ ing withstood the winter much bet­ ter than was anticipated. Sweet clover -seems to have fared the worst and many cases of heaving are re­ ported. Cheese factories are open­ ing up and farmers are anxious to get their cattle out on grass as feed is getting scarce. Prices for hogs, eggs, butter-fat and lambs are very disappointing. Orchards are look­ ing well with a goodly number of fruit buds in those orchards where fertilizing is an established practice, Wellington County seems to be ty­ pical of the general attitude in re­ gard to alfalfa, as it looks as if 12,000 acres will be seeded to al­ falfa in that county this spring. Britain gives the prospect of working through the present fi­ nancial predicament simply because some time ago she was brave enough to face facts and to act accordingly. * * * * * $ * v Judging by the way some people talk, they are greatly 'disa­ ppointed because things are not a whole Jot worse than they are. It rarely happens that everybody is “broke” at the same time. ❖ Folk who complain of the times since November J929 should, recall the years between 1914 and 1932. A great many who growl now, snarled in those years. Let us not forget the fate -of the shepherd, who continually -cried “Wolf! Wolf!” ISpeak of the devil and he’s likely to appear. ,•» .... \ ***««*** WORTH PONDERING A youth of eighteen was hanged the other day for 'being impli­ cated in the shooting of a man who was simply minding his own business. -Some boys we might name 'are doing all they can- to fol­ low snitt These youth simply will not walk -chalk, their elders smiling indulgently, meanwhile, saying something about the neces­ sity of sowing wild oats. Let it be set down for a fact of existence that wild oats frequently are bound up with a hangman’s halter. There are a whole lot of men who might be mentioned who are head­ ing are hard1 as they can for a bullet having their necks stretched. A word devil pays wages—death! hole in their brains or fbr should be sufficient. The *** *Ht * Stores Warehouses Factories Theatres Hotels Farmsteads Barns Dairies Harness Rooms Chicken Coops Attics Basements Summer Cottages Sun-porches Covering old Plaster These The NEW IVORY Gyproc costs little^ is* quickly erected, noils and. cuts like lumber, has insula- - tion value and structural strength. It may be panelled^ papered or finished with. Gyptex or Alabastine. Gyproc may be easily identified by tpe name on the board and the Green stripe along the edge. GYPSUM, LIME AND ALABASTINE,. Canada, Limited Paris - Ontario 13 Fiieproof WallWMi For Salo ByWhen to Apply Lime A test of the soil should be "i-o make sure that it requires If the soil proves to be acid the answer to the question when to (apply lime might be “when you have time.” ’Lime is for the benefit of sail crops in the rotation, but partic­ ularly of benefit to legumes. The Lest time is possibly just before sow­ ing a grain crop that is seeded down ■with alfalfa or clovers. Liming land plowed for fall wheat which is Mo be seeded with clover in the -^spring is a convenient and satisfac­ tory practice. Lime is not a fertiliz­ er, but simply neutralizes the acid- ,ity of the soil, and should be thor­ oughly worked into the soil during the preparation of a seed bed to be- •oome efficient. It is poor business to farm land that is lacking in lime .-and strongly acid in reaction. The ^productive power of the soil is re­ duced when it becomes, acid. Cor­ recting this condition with the use of ground limestone increases the efficiency of 'the manures and fer­ tilizers applied and therefore con­ tributes to the cutting down of costs Gf crop production. Alfalfa Now Sixth THINK OF IT Exeter Lumber Company Limited Exeter, Ont. Dashwood Planing Mills Dashwood, Ont. A, Spencer & Son Hensail, Ont. is- tlie Ontario 53rd an- farmers are of the 1931: Agricultural and and a Draft Interesting Publications Among publications recently sued of interest to following: Report. Veterinary College, #tual report of the Experimental Union, 1931; bulletin on the subject of Horses, by J. C. Cteckley, Profes- ’dsor of Animal Husbanry and M. W_. Staples, Lecturer in Animal Hus­ bandry, at O.A.C.. Copies of these -publications are obtainable free up- -on application to your local agricul­ tural office. r Feeding Young Chicks chicks early than by meth- delayed feeding formerly in The following is a chick that have given excellent re- 1 part shorts, 1 Tests made at the Central Experi­ mental Farm, Ottawa, have shown ^liat better results are attained by deeding od.s of wegue. -sstarter, ^ults at the farm: 3>art middling, 1 part ground yellow corn, 1 part ground groats, i part «part animal feed mixture, 3 per cent. Shone meal, 1 per cent, salt, 1 per »cesit, cod liver oil. Alfalfa now stands sixth in area among all field crops grown in the Province of Ontario, and occupies about 6'50,000 acres. According to James Laughland. Field Husbandry Department, O. A. C. Guelph, the great increase in this crop during the last 20 years has been the development of hardy along with the outstanding of alfalfa as a forage crop, hardy deep-rooted perennial legume alfalfa improves the texture of the crop, aids humus, and aids in the storing of nitrates. It begins to grow early in spring, helps to con­ trol weeds and remains green throu­ ghout the season. due to strains merits Being a l Home Surrounding Count “Wq are influenced to a greater extent than we realize by our sur­ roundings” observes F. C. Nunnick, chairman of the More Beautiful Can­ ada Campaign Committee of the Canadian Horticultural Council. As he points out “children are particu­ larly responsive to home surround­ ings and where these include lawns, shrubs, -trees and flowers they make a much better place iiD which to bring up children than, in a home where no attention whatever is paid to them.” Environment is an Important fac­ tor with children. The constant contact with the beautiful .things of nature which well-kept home grounds affords is too important in the welfare of the home and thq child to be overlooked. Cow Testing ;avio has .22 per cent, of its under test; New Zealand has ,>er cent, of its cows under test, tollowing figures show a re­ testing in observed in a great many of our’ Sunday 'Sunday. The boys and girl® who attained has done a certain amount of Sunday iSichool Last Sunday was Schools as Promotion a certain age and who work were set one step forward. In the meantime the boys and girls have been growing. Before we know it, 'they will have the hearts and the hopes of men and women. Sunday School workers recognize this and are doing what they can to have the growing people ready for the new day that is so soon to arrive. As these boys and .girls are today, Canada will be 'fifteen years from now. At no period of one’s existence do the shuttles that weave the web of destiny fly childhood. Meanwhile the pity are starved when it comes to their calves and their hogs on quire, allow the Sunday School to scrimp along ends of their cash and of frequently receiving more of time, and labor. quite so quickly as they speed in of it all is that the Sunday Schools practical support. Men who feed the choicest that these animals re- on the odds and their labor, the few who do their work kicks, than pennies for their investment * LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS we hear the word “unprecedented” used to de- financial predicament. Folk who talk in this CENTRALIA (Too late for last week.) On Tuesday, April 12, the Sun beam Mission Band held theii monthly meeting, ed with the singing of hymn The minutes of the last were read and adopted and call was given. Business were attended to and hymn sung. Jean Thompson, Scripture Lesson was read by Reg. Hodgson. We were favoured by a piano solo by Genevieve Kerslake and Mrs. A. McFalls gave an inter­ esting talk on the lesson. Hymn 404 was sung and the meeting was ed by the Mizpah benediction. ■i The meeting open- 406, meeting the roll mlatters 405 was A short rayer was given by after which the IThe engagement is announced off Olive Mae, only daughter of Mr. and' Mrs. Ensinger, of Granton, to Wil* bert Knowles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Knowles, also of Granton, the marriage to take place in May. clos- YOUNG MAN KILLED A sad fatality occurred in a mine; at Mason, Que., when Arthur Laid­ law, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dav-id Laid- law, of Lupar, Sask., formerly'^’ Tuckersmith, was instantly killed." Mr. Laidlaw who was in his 23rd year was a mining engineer and was on his second trip> of inspection when a rock fell on him. The remains were brought to Seaforth where interment took place in Maitlandbank ceme­ tery. SPRAINS Pub you on your feet 1 Rub Minard’s in gently. It penetrates sore ligaments, allays inHammation, soothes, heals. Cut. C.CWS 19.7 p The f: markable increase in cow New Zealand: 192'2-23 ....... 84,82.5 1923- 24 .......151,214 1924- 25 ........196,8(50 1925- 26 .......169,776 1926- 27 .......170,150' 1927- 28 ........224,130 1928- 29 ........259,594 1929- 30 .......283,731 has been estimated that in the ten years the average produc­ ed butter fat in New Zealand has increased '50 lbs. per cow. Here in Ontario our dairy farm­ ers are not cow testing to any great extent, herd improvement has not been very rapid and it seems more than desirable that Ontario farmers should weigh the milk from individ­ ual cows, have it tested for butter fat—thus being able to eliminate poor producers, in order with New Zealand or country that follows a scientific improvement. cows cows cows cows COWS cows ■cows COWS to compete any other system of Nerves Were a Total Wreck Could Not Eat or Sleep Mrs, Geo, H, Mills, Lako Alma, Sask., writes:— I was taken down with rheumatism and was unable to Walk for some time. Although I got back on my feet I was not right as I could not eat of sleep, ana my nerves were a total wreck. I decided to take Milburn’s Heart and Nerve Fills, and. found after taking two boxes I had gained five pounds, and hover missed a night’s sleep. Right now 1 never felt better in my life.” ’ Sold at all drug and general stores, orjnailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. .Every so often scribe our present way should read history and con the words of some great men of other .days who knew 'their times. There are folk istill living who can tell of the situation in this country in the late seventies and the eighties-of last century. Folk who respect facts .should tell a little of what went on in these loan years. /Merchants with a re­ putation of veracity and who are fully aware of the facts of the situation, tell us that when we consider the standard of excellence of goods offered now and compare therewith the standard of goods offered in earlier times that the comparison is in 'favor of the present time. Good merchandise, they tell us, never was cheaper than it is today. Goods offered this year are away ahead in excel­ lence of the goods offered in the lean years of last century. The goods sold in the former period of 'stress would be scorned by the shoppers of the present day. This should be remembered as we talk of the high prices of certain commodities now -on the market. Further, there were merchants and manufacturers and (farm­ ers who made a little money -.during the hard times of former periods. There are merchant folks in 'these classes who are mak­ ing a little money now. Both classes referred to were men who did their .duty when it came to public spiritedness. Sickness and death and misfortune always have taken toll of the race. Through these men worth their salt have wrestled through and have known hap­ piness as they endured till they conquered. Only tile- spineless have laid down their tools. The following words of Britain’s wise and -great of the' older days are worth pondering now. Every man quoted is a man who never will be forgotten: William Pitt, Britain’s Prime Minister, said in the early days of last century “There is scarcely anything around us but ruin and despair. ’ Wilberforce, than whom the race never produced a braver man in the early 1800’s said, “He dared not marry, the- future was so dark and unsettled.” Lord Grey, in 1819 “Believed everything was tending to a con­ vulsion.” The Duke of Wellington, the conqueror of Napoleon, the man who won for his country a hundred fights and never lost an Eng­ lish gun, a man whom no circumstances ever frightened, on the eve of his death in 18'51 thanked God he would be spared from seeing “The consummation of ruin that is gathering about us.” Disraeli, England’s prime minister for many a day, the man who made the Suez Canal a reality, who clipped the claws of the Russian bear as he prepared to. scratch out the vitals of the British • lion, said in 1849 “In industry, commerce and agriculture there was no hope/’ , Lord -Shaftesbury, the friend of Britain’® down trodden and a man of the amplest information said in 1868, “Nothing could save the British Empire from shipwreck,” A great Frenchman in those days cried out “Britain’s glory is in tlie twilight.” There are others who are saying the same thing /now. Yes, civilization may be in the twilight but it may be twi­ light precedes the dawn if men will renew their faith in God, heed the Ten Commandments, study self knowledge, self respect and self control and go to work with a wilt It cannot be said too often or too plainly that men who hear and do the sayings of Jesus Christ are wise men who build on the solid rock, All others, in the end are but fools and blind, no matter What their apparent, but short lived success, week.) Speare spent and the MRS. CARTER, CDANDKBOYE, * j HIT BY MOTOR CAR- < STAFFA (Too late for last Mr. and Mrs. Lome daughter, of Harriston, week-end with Mr. Joseph Speare. Mrs. J. Jackson and twin daugh­ ters, of Detroit, are spending a few weeks at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Bruce. )Mr. Howard Leary, of London, and Mrs. M. Greenwood, of Munro, spent Sunday at the home of their parents Mr. and iMrs. J. Leary. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Stewart, Exe­ ter, spent Sunday with the parents Mr. and 'Mrs. G. G. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence and famiy, of Zion, spent with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Sadler, Mrs. Sadler having received a bad fall during the week. Miss Emily Frayne spent the week­ end with friends in Exeter. The Women’s Institute met in the hall on Wednesday afternoon. There were quite a number of ladies pres­ ent. latter’s Wilson. Hannon Sunday GREENWAY (Too late for last week.) Next Sunday will be the IV. M. S. Anniversary at the United Church. Mrs. (Rev.) W. R. McIntosh, of Lon­ don, president of the London Con­ ference Branch, will be the speaker. There will be special music and a good attendance is requested. Miss Maud Brown, of London and IMiiss Ruby Brown, of Thedford, spent the week-end with their par­ ents Mr. and Mrs. Dean Brown. The Young People are putting on their play in Mt. Carmel Hall on Thursday evening of this week. -Mr. Ed, Mason is ill with the flu, Interesting meetings of the W. M. S. and W. A. were held in the Unit­ ed church last week. Mrs. A, Curtis presided at the W. M. S. and intro­ duced a good program of readings by Mies Young, Mrs, isherritt and Mrs, Frank Steeper. Miss Lewis read the scripture lesson. Mrs. Roy Hutchinson and Mrs. Goodhand have charge of the May meeting. Mrs. J. Brown presided at the- W. A. and after the business part of the meeting (Mrs. McGregor gave a read­ ing. Mr, R. English is enlarging his race track and Mi\ J. Hotson has enlarged his garage, Who says Greenway isn’t progressive. yourHet “I want to marry daughter,” Father; “Have you seen my wife yet?” He; “Yes, but, nevertheless I pre­ fer your daughter,” Stepping from between two park* ed cars, Mrs. W. Carter, of Claude- boye, was knocked down by a motors car in London, on Dundas street and' suffered bruises to the leg and cuts to the hand and face. iShe was re­ moved to a physician’s office and) later was able to proceed to her, home. The accident occurred on Dunda^ street opposite the IMjarket Lane, and: according to the police report of the’ accident Mrs, Carter stepped out in­ to the path of a car driven by Mrs. Elsie Slater, of 182 High Street, and; the fender struck The driver removed the injured wo­ man to medical aid and reported to- the police who laid no charge. . the pedestrian. iiiiniiiiiniiir iiniiiHiiiniiur #1 ROOFING^RIB-ROLL Colored or plain. For houses, barns/' sheds, garages. ‘'Council Standard” or "Acorn” quality. Easy and quick, to lay, permanent, proof against fire* Free estimates gladly sent. Send, measurements. Makers of Preston Steel Truss Barns, Gate' vanized Tanks, Barn Door Hardware, Preston Led-Hed Nails, Double-Mesh Metal Lath, Ventilators, Roll-NFold Garage Doors. All­ kinds Sheet Metal Building Material. . 4 Guelph St., Preston,Ont. Factories at Montreal and Toronto - Special Sale of - B. C. SHINGLES No. 1 xxxxx Edge Grain Out they go at 85c. per bunch LUMBER PRICES DO1VN ALSO’ A. J. 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