The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1950-08-10, Page 10Page 10 THE TIME^AOVOCATE*. EXETER ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1950
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“A bachelor, my .boy, is man
who didn’t have a car when he
was young.”
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After having watched a darkey
fishing for forty minutes without
a bite, a salesman asked:
“Doesn’t seem to be many fish
in that pond!”
“No, sah,” replied the darkey,
“dere ebbah was a fish in dat
pond."
“You don’t mean it!'’ exclaim
ed the wondering salesman.
“Then what is your object in
fishing where there are no fish?"
“De object oh fish in' whar dey
ain’t no fish, sah,” grinningly
answered the darkey, “am to let
de ole woman see dat ah hain’t
got no time to dig up de potatah
patch.”
Federation News
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The Ontario Federation of
Agriculture in a telegram to
Huron County farmers suggests
that farmers who are buying
feed at the present time should
consider the possibility of pur
chasing Ontario winter wheat in
place of more expensive Western
Canadian grain for feeding of
poultry and hogs.
This purchase of surplus On
tario wheat will serve two good
purposes. The farmer buying the
grain will receive a lower priced
feed and he will be helping to
eliminate the small surplus of
Ontario
presses
of year.
Many
financin' „
storing their wheat at home or
in elevators in the district,
cost is approximately
bushel per month.
If today we had our
wheat marketing scheme in
eration the soft wheat board
could buy up the surplus and
store it and put it back on the
market next spring when the de
mand is increasing and the mil
lers' supply has dwindled. This
would give a better and a more
even year around price than the
present system of rushing it onto
the market in the late suiner or
early fall and having a dwind
ling supply the following spring.
Two dollars a bushel is not
an excessive price to ask for a
bushel of wheat when you con
sider it in relation to the price
of other grain. Today we pay
$60 per ton for .western screen
ings. This is a salvage product
coming from the cleaning plants
at our western elevators and at
the head of the
is made up of
shrunken wheat,
sometimes a bit
ley, wild oats, alon;
weed seeds. At the present price
of our Ontario wheat you can
buy a ton for $50, or $10 less
than you pay for screenings
which is a salvage product.
The price of wheat from June
to late July dropped as much as
60<£ per bushel. It will he inter
esting to see if the price of
pastrj- flour drops accordingly.
This is a drop of $1 per cwt.
With bran selling at $60 per ton
and it is a by-product of wheat,
there can be no excuse for
ing the price of pastry
up.
Many farmers who have
accustomed to selling their wheat
to the millers to make flour
have signified their intention to . feed it to their livestock. Per-1 essex rape or rereal crops
haps before another crop year
rolls around we will find Ontario
wheat in short supply.
Few Use Margarine
In our farm survey in Huron
County to ascertain how many
farmers are actually using mar
garine in place of butter we
have complete returns from two
townships and a partial return
from another. Out of 554 farm
ers canvassed so far only eigh
teen use margarine as a substi
tute for butter and all but seven
were in favour of a tax on mar
garine that would bring its sales
price in line with that of butter,
We have heard it babbled
about that fifty per cent of the
farm people were selling their
cream and buying a substitute
for butte
who are
er«
ow
Butter
ing this
fallin
winter wheat that de-
the market at this time
farmers who are in the
1 position to do so are
The
per
soft
op-
Great Lakes. It
cracked wheat,
wild buckwheat,
of flaxseed, bar-
g with other
keep
flour
been
or
to
is much higher according toft in
spectors’ reports.
Increased sale of butter is
probably due to improved qual
ity, a lower price and a realiza
tion that “It’s
With Butter".
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Huron County
Agriculture will again present a
scholarship to a youth from this
county entering the O.A.C.
the 1950-51
two-year or
The winner
lected by a
of members of
along with your
presentative.
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Farmers have
to see many
machinery at Fields Days, Grass
land Days, Wheatland Day, etc.
The experts show us how these
machines work and save many
hours of back-breaking toll. So
far no one has told us of an
easy way to ■ pay for all this ex
pensive equipment.
Always Better
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Federation of
■r. Many of the people
using it are cash erop-
leople who do not keep
milking purposes,
consumption is iucreas-
year and production is
off. The quality of butter
dftKeen Competition In
Kirkton Oats Contest
Winner of the oats field crop
competition sponsored! by the
Kirkton Agricultural Society was
Milton Hooper, who scored 88
points. Close behind were John
McPhail and Alex Crago with
86 J and 86 respectively.
Other winners were Allen Ber
ry, 85, Joe Taylor 84£, Archie
Levy, 83J, Rae jStephens,-82L
and Wilbert Kir.kby, 82. Results
were announced this week by
Secretary Hugh Berry. Clark
Younge
judge.
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don jolly
a very
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oil
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muzzle
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been privileged
displays of farm
Hugh
of Milliken
Xi
for
term either for the
the four-year course,
of the award is se-
committee composed
the Federation
Agricultural Re-was very hard, thoughtLife
the sergeant as he went round
inspecting the rifles of
raw lot of recruits.
As he peered down the
of one weapon he could
believe his eyes.
“And what’s that
barrel for, me lad?"
ed,
“Well, sergeant, I
would help to make
come out faster."
CARE OF THE BROOD SOW
The only purpose of keeping a
brood sow is to produce young
■pigs, and every care given the
sow is with a view to improving
the litter in number and health.
The .young gilt bred for the
first time, or the sow which has
just weaned a litter and been
bred again, both respond ,to libe
ral feeding of oat chop with from
one quarter to half barley. For
a protein supplement, milk ranks
first but failing this, five -per
cent tankage and five per cent
linseed meal, may be the next
best.
A sow producing only one lit
ter per year may become too fat
during the period after weaning,
and before pregnancy, unless the
feed is reduced in both quantity
and richness of barley. The basal
part of the ration is usually oat
chop, but as much as half barley
may be indicated where sows are
thin or raising a large litter.
At the Dominion Experimental
Station at Scott. Sask., sows in
medium condition have frequent
ly been carried for a part of
their idle perioi on good pasture
’without grain. A legume pastuie | is best but if not available, dwarf
_ > are
very good. It is important to
hold the brood w in a medium
condition for it allowed to be
come too fat or too thin, a poor
litter often results.
A safeguard •iff the prevention
of goiter and hairlessness in lit
ters is to include from one-half
to one per ent fresh iodized salt
in the sow’s ration during the
gestation period. In addition to
supplying the requirements of
iodine and salt, calcium is often
lacking in pig rations, but may
be easily supplied by adding from
one-half to one per cent ground
limestone to the chop.
Feed should be reduced sharp
ly for a day at farrowing time
and made up of sloppy feeds
with bran and at the time of
weaning the litter the sow’s feed
should be reduced to a light feed
of oat chop with water until the
secretion of milk stops.
Exercise is important, particu
larly during the idle and gesta
tion period, and may be provid
ed by usiiu a grass paddock in
summer ami in winter by having
the feed trough and sleeping
quarters separated by at least
fifty yards in an outside pad
dock.
Hand feeding is preferred to
self feeders. »nd the feed should
be governe l carefully, both in
quantity and mixture according
to the »osMBian of the sows, and
thin sow-; are better separated
for special f» eding. The old say
ing “The «ye of the master fat-
is particularly
mulch is to he
orchards border
sential and its use is strongly
recommended, It should, how
ever, be applied in the late fall
so that it will be thoroughly
wetted down and start decom
position before the chance of fire
is serious. This
Important if dry
used and if the
main highways.
In the majority of orchards it
is necessary to use supplement
ary mulch in order to obtain suf
ficient depth of mulch. The tex
ture of the .orchard soil and the
elimination of fire hazards can
both be improved by efficient
use of the cuttings of .the sod in
the orchard. Young immature
grass is the best mulch and when
grask is cut frequently it does
not draw as much water during
hot dry periods. Grass handled
in this manner decreases the
risk of flash fires as it decom
poses more rapidly and at any
one time the amount of dry
mulch from these cuttings is at
a minimum.
Finally, it should be apparent
to any grower with a mulched
orchard that extreme care should
be taken with brush fires,
matches and cigarettes, partic
ularly during the hot dry periods
of the summer months.
BRINSLEY
The sympathy of the commun
ity is extended to Mr. Albert
Bean in the death of his bro-
Ither. the late William T. Bean.
( Owing to Rev, Harold Currie
staking his holidays, the Rev J
I Damms of Crediton will occupy I
! the pulpit in Brinsley United i juhurch on Sunday next. j
| Congratulations to Mr. and j Teneth the“ ^tock” '~is” espVriaHy
I Mrs. Jack Rosser, who were re-1 true in the use of brood sows.
cently married. , There are reasons for and
Mr. and Mrs. Lin Craven spent I against r.odug two litters per
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. liar-, sow, per year, but one good lit-
vey Craven of Chatham. ter in lute soring when pigs can
. Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Glenn outside is usually more sat-
has moved hack to his farm isfmtury than two litters ’irc-
Ufter selling his business hi Alisa i dmed under difficulty and with
j Craig. ’ i considerable risk.
' w Tt a \ The production of two litiersv/rntv, ! year, per sow, is a mere
at th^nni? ol Mrs Krl'l ewh jS5,<lcianKed business antl offet‘3 a
Ui T s‘profit onlv to the breeder pre-
tn wedne.day last. |pared to t-muluct that type of
Mr. and Mrs Gordon Rock raising, and has buildings
ami children and Mr. and Mrs. the purpose
Ernest Amos of London have> .
Wa spending their holidays with ' ... ... *Sir. J. L. Amos. J,1 IRE HAZARD IN A
Mr.’
ent the week-end with friends '
Georgian Bay. .sential for maintenance of good
Mr. Bert Greenlee of Windsor; moisture relationships ami for
spending his holidays at his; the reduction of competition for
me ’ ‘
Mr;
»viola
1 spent
; Mrs. Wes Watson.
; Mr. and Mrs. -William Lewis T’^st growing season.
*of Handehoye visited recently} While m some instances these
‘with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morley. |Hres may have been due to no
.....-........ i fault of the owner, many'can be
! directly traced to carelessness, or
The widow who had been ask- to improper management in
ed to write a testimonial for a j mulching the orchard. Serious
life insurance organization sent'"'■ “ " ' •*--.......-
in this:
‘On August 9, my husband
took out some life protection. In
iloss than a month my poor has-
iband was drowned. I consider
| life insurance a good invest-
J mem.”
Amos.
and Mrs. Gordon Scott MVLCH ORCHARD
Mul-hinc sod orchards is
■ sential for
hero. ■< moisture and nutrients, Tnfor-
.. Jennie Kennedy and Miss Innately a number of growers
Kennedy of st. Marys1 lost trees due to flash fires in
the week-end with Mr. and mulched orchards during the
very hot and dry period of the
fires in orchards which have oc
curred to date, have been in
orchards where dry mulch was
applied after spring rains and
during the hot summer weather
when the mulch itself was very
dry and ignited readily.
Mulch in sod orchards Is es-
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