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The Exeter Times, 1921-2-24, Page 5THURSDAY'JiJmuA1w Mak, 1921 Farquhar ,Master l'om Coward spent the i ]past week at the home of his grand- parents. 'Pine regular monthly meeting of. :the Women's Institute will be held Tuesday afternoon, March 1st. Two interes en_papers will be given ex also some musical numbers. Roll calla Subject, "Current Events." A good atteudanc.e •is asked for, Refresl e � .t, ]stents will. be served at the•. close of the meeting, , Mie'seJessie and. Mr.... Jolira and Charlie Hodgert and Mr, and Mrs' Milton I odgert and babe, •visited at the home of Mr, '1'hoina$ ;1-lodgert of near Seaforth, on Sunday, Mr. Thomas I-Tluxkin and, Mr, Will. Kei?slake; of Weyburn; Sask, spent the. week -end w li nd at Mr: Harry°Tiuniti ns in Mitchell. Mr. George Bolterpa ssedaway early SundatY'morning at the ]ionic of Mr. Arthur: Cainpbell after a lin- gering illness. James Street, The.w co11.ai1 erendumi!. f Vote. and. Vote 'Yes!" on April 18 mogutz r HE Ontario Temperance Act as "a war- .E.., time measure was an unqualified success. .On October 25, 1919, theeo le of p p Ontario voted by an overwhelming majority in favor of the perinatle_nt,continuance.of the Ontario Tem penance Act, prohibiting the sale of intoxicating beverages. TheBootle er Must iiSt G® On December. 31, 1920, carne the repeal of the Federal Order -in -Council -which was alsd a war -time measure—prohibiting importation, manufacture and export of intoxicating beverages. Thus it 'became possible for individuals in prohibi- tion provinces to import liquors for consumption in the home; .thus the "bootlegger" is able to offer the same for sale contrary to law, and thus the expressed • •'wiUf o the people in this province isbeing defeated Importation Must Cease Everything that applied in the last vote against the; sale of 'intoxicating beverages within this province applies equally to the Use of them, and their Importa- tion for beveragepurposoes should also be prohibited. Hence arose necessity , for further legisls,tion and another Referendum.` ShallHhe Importation and the bringing .of intOXicatin b a' Liquors S into the Province be Prohibited 7 E • 17 • OntariReferendum Committee • ee a?t 1"..a.e-e.'xv' .•.its sstarease, .. ars : • t. t,:1x,..% : E't.`,a3'+':ic:-a.•iJ•':t. eleglee.e. *lee. ',L.'.et# Bea* -�1A Rl1A\ ,}t4 0\•,nub . cel .,0,0..,t. „,,0. \ ;' _, W' tww n°vyPr�ca n me ,,et,est, • _iiWiffir voaov' Mood Ch n II-tED? Nervous? ° Worried? gut a R.E-`"CREATIO i� N Un' the New Edison, relax into a chair, let the music.. flood the room with melody—and comfort. The music produces a mood change. Mr. Edison has devised.a Mood Change Chart 'by .which you can register your' re actions to music ' ' Come in:and get' your supply. "Make the experiment m your own home: Have every member r of your fami lY, IsoYour friends 'fill out charts. It's • more interesting than' an` the Ouia a'board. Mr. Edison would like to study your charts in connection with his greht research `into he ,t effect of music onthe minds',and moods of men. •• If udo ntow �a a New , Edison, ]Cd On, GOme into our; store and fill out a Mood Change Chart. G et M r.. ]Edison all the Mood Changes Cllzrts he need,. WILLIS POWELL, Ent IFYIER, ;rk E zville Rev. Mr. Parnaby gave an illus- trated lecture on Sunday night, be- ing an account of Rev, Frank Lang - ford's trip to the World's Sunday School Convention in. Japan. A. full church was . interested in the pictures and :lecture, (Delayed in the mails,) Mr. and Mrs. Johns are e the proud parents of a little baby girl, whose name we have not heard. Here's leaping the little miss willhave a long life and good health. Our' con- gratulations to ongratulations'to the fattier arid mo- ther. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan, of Belgrave, visited at the home of ,Wm. Clements over the week -end. Mrs. Jordan was formerly 'a Miss Clements. Mr. Jor- dan is an old acquaintance of the parsonage folk and it was a mutual surprise and pleasure to meet again. We are pleased to see 1VIrs. M. Heywood, of Winchelsea, able to be out again. We trust she will have better health from this time on. Joe Bailey is on the sick .list again. Hockey fans from this communis ty went out in large numbers on r ri- day night and saw a good team beat- en by a better. Better luck next time Exeter. Rev. H. B. Parnaby visited with Rev. J. F. Knight at the Shier hoiie ati.Kirkton on Monday evening. Mr. Knight has accepted a hearty invi- tation to a large church in Calgary next conference year. Tile monthly teachers' meeting of. the Sunshine Methodist e' Sunday School inet on Thursday night least at the parsonage. A very interesting and profitable discussion took place after which a social chat and refresh ments whiled away the evening. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Cecil Camara: on Thursday, March 3rd. Crediton.' Anniversary services were held in• the Evangelical Church on Suite day, Rev. Neergarth, of Cleveland, preaching both morning and ""-eve= ning. There was no service in the Methodist Church. The -Women's Institute held a sale of home-made cooking in Ewald's butcher !shop last Saturday. Mr. C. Zwicker was in Toronto on business last week. Cromarty Merry Makers held their regular meeting on Friday eve in the .club room. A very splendid programme was given by the Members of the club. These meeting afford a splen- did opportunity 'for the young peo= ple toe cultivate and improve in cer- tain lines, such .as rendering, a solo, or giving a recitation, taking part in a debate, etc. -Mr. Alex. Miller, of Porcupine, vis- ited his brother, Mr. S. A. Miller, of Cromarty, last week, and on Sun- day eve addressed the Young Peo- ple's Society of Christian Endeavor, taking then on a trip thru New On- tario and sketching out the begin- ning of the missionary work in those parts and the growth of the work. The missionary begins his work by preaching in a* shack or any place available, and at `the present time .have self-supporting churches. This was an enjoyable treat for the Young People, as well •as instructive. Mrs. Scott and Mrs. McKellar, of the village, visited in Stratford for a few days last week. At the time of writing Mr. Ernest Graham • is slightly indisposed. Zurich Mr. Earl Bali, who has been in Detroit for some time, is visiting at his home here. Mr.' and" Mrs. Sol. Becliler of the Bronson . Line, are visiting relatives and friends at Milverton, ,Mew Ram - burg and Tavistock. Mr. Jacob Oesch of the Goshen Line, north, who recently under- went ort operation • for appendicitis at Londou, returned to his home on Saturday evening, and.is improving nicely. Mr. and Mrs. A. Oesch, (bridal couple), deft for Biggar, Sask.,on Monday, where they will: ]wide: Mr. Gordon Fowler,' of Detroit, who spent a Ye%v''weeks visiting On the ,14th" concession with relatives, has returned to that, city. Mrs. F. B. Meyer and family, re- turned from Gorrie on Friday, where the former's mother, Mrs. Hooey, i, Me. Robert 13oa1 a teacher hav u:;, • ,� , mar'y. e.x Y-, . s experience, : 'and hi;gh'13cs reco.mniended, had _accepted '; the, ixrhioii alship 'of' the Zurich Pui lic School to succeed . •Mr. Nelson • E. Dalins i gut ,on learnt ttg that the present teacher had resigned on ac- count of the salary question, he re- quested the trustees of the Scheel to release him "from his engagement. Ail interesting matrimonial event, ' taiek place at theLutheran parson- age ~o x''' ' t z S t i the da a eveni �' Y Ir � 11 gr w en Pew, Il;, . Retnbe united' in marriage, Miss Susie Oeech, daughter of Mr: • and Mrs. John Oesch, 'Goshen 'L,i,le, ;eert.e, and Mr, Ah:ron. Oesch, see or Mr, ;lee. Oesch of Biggar, Sask. he young cettple wit' reside In the west. e smith Mrs, • R,'O'Brien is at present on the sick list. Miss Ruth Wildfong is at present laid up with an attack of influenza. Mr. M. Russell has purchased the 100 -acre grass farm of Mr. Frank Wood; on the 4th concession, Mr. and Mrs, George O'Brien and daughter Vera, of Frobisher, Sask., who have been visiting friends in •this have returned to' their home. Weyburn Mr. and Mrs. Tasker, Missionaries in India, are home on furlough. They delivered t excellent address() last Sunday afternoon and evening on their work ,;.in India.. Those who heard xd Mr.•aud Mrs. Tasker, speak highly Of their abilities as speakers, but more so of their undaunted cour- age and ardent . zeal for winning souls for Jesus. Many of the difi3cdl- ties met in India were told, and were eye-openers to our workers at home and we hope all were profited by this excelelnt talk and will, in the future, give their, sympathy and substance to the missionary work. The oyster' supper at Grand Bend, given by.the U:F.O. on Friday night last, was enjoyed by about 300 peo- ple. The supper was most excellent, and although provided for at a small fee of 25c, netted a nice surplus for the club. After supper the people crossed over the street to Brenner's Hall and :taxed the hall to theut- most to accomodate the large gath- ering. A. splendid programe of selec- tions, addresses, dialogues, quar- tettes and utinibers from the orbhes- tra were given, `which occupied near- ly three hours. Too great a praise cannot be given to our boys and girls in their efforts to entertain the U.F.O. The orchestra was excellent, in fact, all did their parts well. Mi: Bell, of Toronto, gave an ad- dress on education, dealing, more freely with rural education and ad- vocated the consolidation of schools in order to- promote the facilities of teaching and learning. His talk was listened to very attentively. Several questions were asked Mr. Bell who answered them quite satisfactorily, Mr. Bell urged the parents to get the best education'for their children as possible and showed the necessity of a better 'system needed in our • rural schools. ,r Mr. Marks, of Greenway, gave a nice address on the same subject and in a well -worded and condensed speech showed the superiority of consolidation over one -roomed schools. Mr. Marksdealt with the objections usually given against con- solidation and ably• showed these in their true light as whimsical and not well founded. Mr. Black, one of the directors for South Huron, addressed the audience on the work of the U.F.O. clubs in Huron. He gave some good advice and urged the clubs to be fully or- ganized and increase in membership. Mr. Black urged the point of doing more genuine thinking than is usu- ally done.. On the whole his address was -profitable to the U.F.O. club, Granton` EUROPEAN CORN BORER hin - o e S m t g About a New and Most Undesirable Pest, A Found This Summer in,,Many West. ern Ontario Counties -- idescrip. tion and Life history --- Methods of Control. (Contributed by Ontario DepartmentofAgriculture, 'Toronto.) „, IT is always a matter of concern when a new pest is,.,introduced into a country and ' especially when that insect attacks'an im- portant crop such as cern. In August the European Corn -borer --a Eur pean insect—was discovered in 0 o- n- tario and extensive scouting by ento- mologists revealed the unpleasant fact that It was distributed over about three thousand squareemiles, being found in the counties of Welland, Halidmand, Elgin, Middlesex, Oxford, Kent and Huron. In some of these' counties only small awes here and there seem to - bo infested, Mat in others the infestation is much more extensive. The worst infestation is in Elgin County, between St. Thomas and Port Stanley where several corn- fields showed from 50'to'90 per cent. of all the plants.to have hien attack- ed. There 3s no doubt that the insect could not be so widely, distributed or abundant unless it had been here for several years. et seems strange that no corn -grower reported it, but the explanation doubtless is that they th�ught It was some old pest that hadbecome abundant for a year or two and would soon pass away or become of no importance. It is impossible at this stage to say how great a menace the insect. will be; for no one knows not even the best informed* entomologists. Judging, however, from what we have seen this fall it _ cannot be ex- terminated and will gradually spread throughout the province and prove a greater menace thanother c any of e corn insect of the province. Yet, there is very little doubt that by the joint co- operation of the Dominion and Pro- vincial Entomologists, together with entomologists of the United States (for the insect occurs in New York and Massachusetts), a practicable method of control will be discovered and . corn continue to be as success- fully grown in the future as in the. past. It inay be of interest to know that ever since the insect has been dis- covered d vigorous efforts have been made by the Provincial and Dominion Departments of Agriculture, through their entomologists, to find out every- thing they could about it by scouting expeditions throughout ` the south- western part of the province and by studying .the insect In the field. They have also brought the Agricul- tural Representatives to see its work and discussed with them methods of control. Plans are moreover on foo for a very careful study of the insect by both Departments nextyear, in, eluding methods of control. •• Valu- able information of any kind as soon as discovered will, of course, be fur- nished to the press so as to be avail- able to every farmer. Brief Description and Life History of The borer, full grown, is a moder- ately stout caterpillar about one inch long, pale brownish'to white in color on the upper surface and white be- neath, with a brown head and several brown spots on each segment of the body. These spots are not very con- spicuous to the naked eye but can be seen easily with a hand lens. The winter is passed in the larval stage in burrows inside corn -stalks or cobs, and sometimes in weeds. In the ring the lar ae feed to a slight ex- ent and then pupate in their bur- ows. In June the moths begin to ppear and lay their eggs In small hite clusters on the leaves. The rvae hatching from these feed for time, on, the leaves or developing tassels and then begin to bore Into the stalks and ears, making holes and tunnelsin the former and ,eating the kernels in the, latter. As the cold eather approaches the larvae all ake comfortable burrows for theta - elves in the stalks or inside the cobs • in weeds. There is only one brood year• in• Ontario as far as is known. SWAT THE SCRJB Big' Campaign On for Jmproved Type of Cattle. y� The Scrub t3 r b I3uIl a Mienace to the (.attic Industry Like fiegets Like—Use Pure-bred . Bulls ' With Provan Prepotency. Cot! ( r buted b (Contri Ontario 1)© artn7ent o Agricu Lure, +Toronto.) ,� f MIU FTE great subject ofconver sation among the rural peo- ple : to -day ' is the present scrub bull cam pa l'g n. Already, meetings are being held in a great many of the counties in Con- nection with it and, at every ;agricul- Lural meeting of any importance at all, the scrub bull is being "cussed" and discussed with a vim and ven- geance that people have seldom P p P into other, branches of thein wor It seems as if the veil of myste has suddenly lifted and people hav been enabled to see distinctly the va importance that a pure-bred sire good individuality and breeding h on the stock of the country. ° It is.also'true that a great many are taking exception to the .caul- paign, and they raise some objections which they'think are perfectly legi- timate, but which do not, hold water when analyzed by the practical man, Who ` has made` a success of live stock ensali Mr, S. 1llerner was in Godericlz last week acting on the jury. Mrs. Smallacon be is confined, to her bed with pneumonia, Mr. E. Shafer left .,`Wedatesd'ay, morning for'an extended visit with, relatives and friends in� Marlette, Mick; Mr. Garnet Case; who spent: the past month with Ins parents, left last week for Toronto. Miss Dora Shei•ritt ief1 for Torwi to where she will spend some time visiting friends Mrs. W. C. Montgomery, who Chas.' been confined to her Koine through ?llness, is noiv able to out again, Mr. Harry Smith who has been seriously i11 with pneumonia, is now able to np and around each.day. Mr. and Mrs.'George O'Brien and ' daughter, who have been visiting k•' friends in and around Hensel]; left' ry for : their home in the West last: e Tuesday. '\ st Rev. G. W. Rivers conducted a of two weeks special service'' in the. as Chiselhurst Methodist Church. The choir of Carmel Presbyterian Church enjoyed•• a banquet in the basement of the church given by the losing 'side in a competition to pro- mote a better attendance' of the members of the choir at practice and ", the eb. services. The sides were cap- ,.•. tained by Mrs. C. - Cook' and Miss E. Morrison -:and won by the former. by the use, of a pure-bred sire of good breeding. Some farmers are saying that the Government' has no right to try to make them.discard, their scrub i epure-bred ofgood ual- sreandus aqual- ity. The Government` is not, in any- way, trying to force anybody to dis- pose of his herd sire for a better one everybody has a right to use any kind of an animal that he wants to n itis nobody's affair but' his own. and yw But what they are doing, is to make plain. to the owners of grade and scrub pure-bred sires the value of a bull that has a 'reasonable amount of individualism and breeding behind him, and. then' leave the whole ques tion to be turned over and threshed out in` the AIarnxer's own mind. Although the present campaign• in Ontario is a new idea in this province, such work has been going on for some time in different parts of the United States, particularly in Wis- consin., which is one of the banner states of that country. In that state they are going' about it in a little different manner than is being adopt- ed in Ontario. Instead of the state Government" doing the greater part of it, the different breed associations are the "men behind the gun." They got the school: children interested iii taking a census of the ca'ttie, in the different counties. After this.was fin C` ished, meetings were held in' differ- ! ent parts of the county and 'discus- sions on the value of good bulls were held. In order to' give the campaign a starting impetus the different' breed associations decided to donate pure- bred sires to a common cause. These" pure-bred sires'were given to a farm- er in exchange for. his scrub pure- bred or grade sire, which was ineturn sold for beef and the money re- ceived, used to carry on the came paign to a greater extent. In this way there was no money exchanged be- tween the farmer receiving the good pure-bred and campaign authorities; the farmer thereby getting a' good bull for the price of beef, and a surety of reaping some benefit from the influence on his herd. The' cam- paign was carried on very energeti callyand systematically and gave ex- cellent results. Other counties and states have adopted, their general methods and are carrying on cam- paigns in different localities with good results, and it •is, safe to say that if the rural people of this pro- vince are as easy to teach, and there is no reason why they shouldn't be, the campaign in Ontario should be, a huge success. In dealing with the scrub bull or grade sire there are one or two prin- ciples in breeding that are easily understood, and should he compre- hended by all owners of bulls. The old saying that "like ' begets like" goes to a certain extent, but in. using a grand sire oue is one always sure of what one is going to get in the off- spring because, in the use of an ani- mal with several infusions of blood, there is always a breaking .up and segregation of characters which -does not get anybody any place in the de- velopment. of their herd. ;Whereas, in the use of the pure-bred ofrgood qual- ity there is always a chance of any resulting service being better than the parents. Pure-bred sires of good breeding are endowed with a char- acter or power ' called-: prepotency, .which means that an animal has the power to stamp on his offspring some desirable characteristic more • than some other. When we consider that the grade sire is likely to throw any- thing in the way of calves, and, the scrub pure-bred has no prepotency, there is a reason that this class of animal should be discarded as soon as circumstances }will permit and good ones substituted.—J. C. McBeath, 0, A. College, Guelph. the Insect. sp t r a la Rev. Jefferson and Richard Hobbs a were chosen by the 'quarterly board to attend as delegates to the temper- ance alliance meeing at Toronto this week. • The services here on Sunday were', w well attended. Rev. Jefferson; the. s pastor, preached two splendid ,ser- mons er-mons andthe men's choir funished a" splendid singing. M. Pulleyblank is visiting her sis ter, ,Mrs. Barker, at Stratford:: Mrs. James Scott' is visiting her .brother in London this week. Miss Harrison, sof Toronto, is' vis - Ring' with her - sister, Mrs. Fred Lankin, here, this week. • Minnie ,Millson silent Sunday at the home df her brother, Clarence, The: W.M.S. took charge•-, of , the league here on. Monday evening and gave asplendid programe , of their work at Home and in foreigxt. fields. Hawaii Claims Wettect Spot. tlawail. now e(aituo the wettest spot, • a on earth. ` From r eeori1,_.eoverhg a long period, Cherrapunji, a village. nt an'elevdtion of about 4,500 feet in the I h<isi 11111s in Indio, ilii , t'S ultl.•.,ii:1' arainfall average of 423 inchee a Fear,' xwith a maximum of 005 itieltes in the questionable record for 15`1. Shoe! period observations show lt.:tt, Moller '1Vacontrollealc, the control art ,tl `"'rf the :island of Kauai, with' a, height of :;,'0"0 feet, has, IL yearly awt.tor,g t. of 4-i, inches; while estimates for ne'e by to ealities`;for the wet year's of 1011 nn+, 151.,'lvhen no recerd4ll'ere kept. 'run `.r;. 'it`appear that the referral" then mist" have exceeded 600 inches. Other lr,, • of, Hawaii are ae.arrely .les rl;tnal>. I'ttt, Kukui, 5,00.0 feet high, on the to ior,{l:0 Mani, has had i1 level year aver is•O •r_' 3019 inches, with e m Yxiirium rr sdJ filches in 1014. At Tenet n (102:c5,3>: 0,01skeins, above 1,000' re( I of cioeahen, frits rcport:rzrl to 'ewe were<dNj ,,i0 etr�;a•:rs, i11 each of the t+Cats 101'1 ;inti 10:a. a. Nature of the injury. Injury is done chiefly by the larvae burrowing into the canes and caus- ing them to break over, with the wind; tassels especially break over sily.. A further injury • is due to rvae feeding upon the. kernels in e ears and by disease, especially in et, warm weather, entering through e holes, both in ears and stalks, and using rot. Although all kinds of rn • are attacked, table and flint varieties suffer most and dent least. Methods Of Control. The'methods of control that natur- ally suggest themselves are as follows: • I. Sow dent corn unless, there is some special reason for preferring flint, 2. Cultivate well in the early sea- son to keep down weeds so that these may not harbor the pest. 3. If you have not a silo build one if you can because. all borers in corn {put into the silo are killed. 4. Cut the corn just as low as pos- sible for otherwise os-sibleforotherwise many boi•ers will be left in the stubble, but if cut very low over 90 per .cent. will be taken into the silo. 5. Put the corn o n into the silo 'as soon asossibI p e after cutting to pt•e- vent`bot ers • contizt outof tl gtou c t stalks and entering the stubble. 6. 1' there is no silo and the borers areresent it will p be necessary Co burn the strides and cobs or to run them through a shredder to I:i1l all borers; pt esent.- ib conclusion we request any per- son outside of the counties referred to above, on'finding a borer in Itis corn, to put it in a tinboaand send it either to idr. Arthur Gibson, Dottie inion Entotnolegist. Ottawa. or to L,: Caesoir, Prowling. l I:ntoteolet tst ea la th w th ca co Conquering Quack Grass. Clean cultivation is.•the most, prac tical method, The'onl s t `. Y t ecessful Way is to give''the eultivation whorl it ie needed no matter what the other work may be. Such a plan, YI an, however, makes it necessary to limit the e ^ - x tl dictation operations to' such a sized field as can be handled with,, the other farm work. Ploughing quack grass infested land tvliieh has been to clover this year as soon' as the first crop is removed and keeping it absolutely free front all green .plants frone then on freezing -up time,con- t,inttitig this in the spring until plant- ing time and then plant" to cot•n or potatoes and keeping ng tihe cropclean usually deals the weeds a- knck-out blow without losing a crop, The A, Cr`log,,, f'ruelpli. Phis swill Lien) plough, disk and spring tooth harrow us to out wo>" eateet She p st, are, the only implena,eAts needed to' do 1. , . 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