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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1938-7-27, Page 6THE BRUSSELS POST WILLIAM SPENCE News and Information For the Busy Farmers (FURNISHED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE) :M.UST BE T. B, TESTED The .judgment of the majority of county councils in Ontario in supporting the Live Stock Branch of the Ontario Department of Ag- riculture in Its efforts to have every county fn Ontario made a T.B. restricted area for cattle has proven sound its view of the rc cent action taken by the t, aired States t)rpartmcnt of lgricuttur.r governing cattle being -hipPe1 to tilrrttt country. These regulations in substance state all Canadian cattle b Jing exported to the U. S. A. other than those for iinttvetliate slaughter, muyr have a qualified vcrt,.rinar• San's ct rtificate .showing they havc been t. -.-tri within 30 days of dale Of ;Al 111111,11 and found fre:> of bovine ruh.•t (press. This, linty., ever, do, -.s not apply to cattle. ex. porton lirertly from an accredited area, It means that a veterinar- ian's certificate is' not required for cause in the Ontario counties al- ready t...;ted anti the owners will ' be ab.,. to export freely. The r.:anon given by American official- for their new law is that practically all i'nited States cut- up are tested and they wish to maintain .this status and keep T.B. out of their herds. This new ruling. will Probably - require the testing of at least 100.- 000 t'an:adieu cattle annually sent to the i'. S. for feeding purposes, THE TOBACCG CROP Weathe. conditions during the w'.ont t were very favorable for t t thiiehment and eailc growth 1t1' tobacco crop except for smote d 'bimage nn the lighter and >r:v protected flue -cured fields iii the Norfolk district and Omni mately ,-,,ono tures of flue -cured to- bacco w,•re blown out by high winds in.the Noktilk lstrirt and about 't1))0 additional acres were tbttnatt. ell to some extent, These irlo s::• out areas were ,:raetically ail re- planted but the reset tobacco -tart- ed rather shyly due to dry .;0i1 at the time. As a nsoil ume •,f the The ya•r111 is r.qnister to lane from ratite -r patchy. The +(Nice. crop, as a whole, got a vey gt>,td Mart and growth in the majority of herds has been part:en:atly rapid. A large pro- portion of the crop will be have -r early this year. Some 11li r )rod telba.c:co has nearly reached tha top- ping stage End priming will com- mence about the middle of JulY. While planted acreage of alt types. is somewhat lower than the allotted acreage, the total ac•rratte. will. .b, considerably greater than in 1937. N. accurate figures are yet available on the actual acreage planted, but It is estimated. at ap- proximately 70,000 acres as com- pared with some 58,000 acres in 1037. Damage from insects' End lis. eases in the crop is practically normal to date. While cut worm damage was below average this year, the . injury caused by wire - worms was slightly more than ttstlal, ltoot-rot diseases rave oc- curted in many fields but the loss to date is slightly less than in 1937. CURRENT CROP REPORT t'• • n t al' ions In Ontario at 11 st or ;fuly were average t•F]rart, lereive from rem ,-e 1 111ives in , dl parts of the province. Fall wheat has Hpene1 rapidly awl llar- vr,ting Inas codnenced in many (lis - *I. 11 .- f$All9 AGO peopta coed to '•n thom.aiveo heard be o tt ulino rrool the 'house tops. 11 eon brad that to -doe sol would probable b. e. to Oppeu bo?ow a r rn oo In taseoty. p NOW -A -DAYS the boobo.y ... maim noar *victim./ m..ii, ...mr.. e. rear• Evicts. with prospects favourable for an above normal yield. In hent and Lutubton counties' an tutorage yield of 2S to 30 bushels Per arse is Indicated, Lust year the yield for Ontario was 24.8 bushels, Barley and early varletie; of outs aie now In and are reportta as overage to ORM, 1100 tge in cotlit1011, with the exception of 4. f eral r011IIiI0 + in Central Ontario where crops have suffered finer luny of moisture. Crops are about font' to sere) tiny,, its advance of usual. In Not heti Ontario the precipitation during June was fairly lentiful with the result that all crops have made very srttstactnry growth arid prospects are quite favourable. Cutting of hay, clover and al- falfa has been about eomplt'ed it1 Western Ontario and is nearing con1111t1(11 in Eastern Ont1,rio. fields in the Norfolk district appear only medium to average, but the quality is excellent, and the feeding value will be much higher than last year, Lt Northern Ontario growth 14 hay wan rapid (luring June and production is expected to exceed that of 11137. In Western Ontario growth and d •vel(%fenen.t of tree fruits. grapes and ltasphe r'e;,r has been good. hut ltot, dry weather adversely affected strawberry production in many meas. Stair cherries -nfie reu from a heavy June drop of 'quit and yellowing of foliage. Some stab infestation is showing un apple foliage and fruit in most districts, but is chiefly confined to poorly. sprayed or unsprayed orchards as yet, Otherwise, insects and fungus Pests have been well controlled by gaol spray practice. Praslpects for fruit crops in On- tail•o at present 51)1 estimated as fo;lows: Apples, slightly below average to average; sweet 1141 tries almost average; sour cht-rrie;, )e.• low art..ragc•; Keitfer pears, aver - eget: !Wit ches, average; plain:•, be- low average; grapes, average. HULLESS OATS FOR WEAN. • LING PIGS Young pias it:lve high efflcteue for the c, Its rvatiou of nourishlce food into weight Increase but low etficienc•y for the utilization of fibre, Except for this latter fact, ordinary eats would he a suitable gain, put the halls dilute the food too much, and, unless very finely. ground or else coarse enough to Ir rejected during Mae. ticat1011, thEy irritate and clog the digestive tract, ft is often advised to screen oat chop for weanling pigs but this is a laborious task frequently neglected. Unless mens) 11lea .I means can be found to hehull ordinary oats, the simi;ler way is to grow a vari- ety that threshes free if the hull Year's ago the tate Sir (then Dr,) Chas. E. Saunders bred two such varieties. Liberty and Laurel, for the express purpose of frerlitrg younf pigs and chickens aril for making oatmeal porridge. Laurel proved slightly the heavier yield- er but is rather short-straw'ed for drouyhty seasons'. In l9 years' tests at 13eaverlodge Liberty (rov- ed about three and a half days earlier than Banner and yielded nearly 85 per cent as mach meat, In a brief comparison Laurel ma- tured piaotically With Banner, yielding 53 bushels Per acre as against 51 for Liberty. 'Both varieties of hiltless are BMW! 10 smut infestation and are easily inured by formaldehyde, but careful treatment with copper carbonate or mercuric dusts en., sures a clean e1'np, lIntl 1s oats cross readily with nrrl•inary oats, It is important to take pains to ensure parity atud then It may pe necessary t0 b0 bark from time to time for re- seluoted stock. Idulless oats are rather tong:i to thresh and summer 110rage Ila bulk lea sometimes' a problem, Feeding trials at Beave.rlodge Y' t1 s ago/ indicated that when hulloes- tarts constituted a is:;te prtsening). or the grain ration for Trigs anti poultry there was a Pro - nonce(' tendency 10 overfateess, but this does not apply to a few weeks use for the weanlings, Tho hatless oats, may be Creep fed whole on a clean board floor or in a flat trough. When The Fenian Raid Scare Carne To Huron Bach in the 6O's. By 'W, II, Johnston, in London Free Press Today we eau afford to smile at the teal state that carte to 111e rural residents in Huron C'osnly In 18055 and 1800 because of the threat of an invasion by an array of Fen- ians. The Peulalts were said to he principally 1'o:)ter members of the American army during the Civil War. Wh1'u the army disbanded many of these men were out of work and were easily induced to join In a daring enterprise, Few daily papers were taktin at the time: in fact, many of the pepole did not take even a weekly paper, an dthus• were in the der:: as to the real shale of affairs. ;Marry stories were started and were credited by the 'baekwoos people. ()Ile summer day in 1800 a .,tree Iran, mourned an a big rangy horse, carne galloping along the cat)'..-,- s^:ntt, and announced that .the Fctniatts had landed at I#ty'ticld. A great fear fills the minds of the People at once as titey realized their helplessness. The truth of the natter u'as that a party of Lake Huron fisbeimea had lauded about six miles .101:11 of Godericll from a small vessel. The farther the s•t01y trareiled the more dreadful was the news, and by the tante it reached twenty Miles north of Goderic'h, the few fishermen were described as P. real army. Preparing for the Invaders .At Godet•;ch a heavy chain was strung arrow the mouth of the Maitland River and huge- boulders were piled on the brow of the high banks ready to roll down on an in- vading 11rnny, and the Lake Shore road was barricaded. Alen and wo- men made leaden balls for 1h:; old- fashioned nuu'rzle-loahtg mumkets still to be found. Among the farmers the bulls moulds, as they were called, were used to matte balls for the shot- guns, ton. The least was so soft that it was melted on tate s?eves- and where the bullets were lmpet- WW51»fl5SDA.Y, JULT 20th, 1030 Estate Agent, Conveyancer and Commissioner General Insurance Office Main Street, -- Ethel. Ontario Petty formed (hey were rounded with a jackknife, if used on the roulette the hatter would doubtless find they were a sort or dumdum bullet Some time in the early winter an- other scare came and in soma neighborhoods two or more families gathered in one home for prtiutr. thin. Get Together for Defence In the Finlay settlement in Ash- field where the people were kills folk, three or four families spent their nights in William Finlay's log house for some time. Wooden shutters were made for the windows, portholes' were *Pen' cd in the walls: and all were on the qui vire to resist an enemy if they carte, but it was all over in a week or so and those who gathered to- gether were rather ashamed of It. Neighbors. who were afraid them- selves poked fun at them for a while, but all were glad that it was an empty scare, One man near Sebastopol slept for a week In a fencecorner, but ohether he took his Melly out with hili) or not tradition does not tell, In absence of authoritative news., people of different religious denom- inations developed fear and 011s- pieion of previous good neighbors s0 great was the feeling of ulcer. tainly, Later these neighbors laughed over the situation, ]tot at the tints the mood, was anything but I1lerny, At Godericlr the fear or invasion was so great that the militia, who were called Volunteers, were drill - (01 regularly and kept in readiness for any can that m:gllt conte, Supposed Enecles Were Friendly Visitors On one occasion this anNIety might have been the outs., of tragedy if wiser counsel hats not prevailed. A vessel hying the Am - Moan flag nasi sighted lar out on the lake, To t110 eyes of t110 011• Baker's the vanguard of an invading army was aboard and. a Iiurltletl call was dispatched to the artillory officer, He and 111s men were soon there a11d the canon on the high halt was 8'11011 trained on the t1pprautc111ug ship, Wise 1)110.501 .pD'evailed and no shot was fired, As the boat cause nearer no warlike preparations ware discovered aboard ,and soon an Am'er'ican 011(1• sal wbtlt a party of pleasure•suekin•;; friends were fetenmcd quite 1.144117 lar Harbor Park, When they 1e11 they extolled the friendliness or the (leder soh citizens, Thus melted away one Foliar: scare after another until finally even 111e go -called Fenian 'armies disappeared also and the menace frt>nr that source, which was not much aforethan a phantom, troubled our Canadian people 110 more, Bladder Campion Is Serious Pest Department of Agriculture Advises Early Fight Bladder Campion is considered nue of the most serious weed pests in Ontario by the Crop, Seects and Weeds Branch of the Ontarha De- partment of Agriculture. It is difficult to kill owing to its dent fleshy rootslalkg and the num- ber of stems growing from one crown, The crown is often downs six to twelve Inches in the soil and this explains' the difficulty in cutting 2t off with the plow and the need of deep plowing followed by a stiff toothed cultivator with wide shares which overlap. Boots and root stalks brought to the sur- face will not survive but any por- tion left in the soil with a bud at- tached, will produce a new plant, thorough cultivation will erradicate Bladder Campion in cultivation areas. Chemical weed killers' Is the only practical solution if the weed is prevalent and enlltivation 111ipos. Bible, The first plant found on your property is a danger signal, says FREE SERVICE' OLD, DISABLED OR DEAD HORSES OR CATTLE removed promptly and efficiently. Simply phone "COLLECT" fo WILLIAM STONE SONS LIMITED PHONE 21 INGERSOLL' BRUSSELS PHONE - 72 the Department, Eratclic:ate it and. save trouble later, The Crops Seeds and Weeds Branoh, Ontario De. Pavement of Agriculture, Toronto, w111 gladly forward free of charge a pamPhle4 on how to get rid of this dangerous pest, $builder Campion is sometimes niis11ttuie. ''White Cockle" or "Catch ft y,'' The Strain Of Thinking When we use our brains we put a strain upon the whole body, re- search experiments at Indiana Vitt versdty indicate. The popular notion is Ihat brainwork is a "soft,' job that , the muscles get tired only when one does =limal. labor. ltg it :seems that is not true, The harder a man thinks, the more taut his muscles becon4 until after a day of hardstudy, intensive reading or the solution of ,difficult problems the 01'tli111 i7 Per- son Is as physically fatigued as if he had been throwing his weight about at hard labor. The old fashioned idea lha.t the hitntau brain was only remotely con- nected with the body, and that great intellectual geniuses are often, or usually, physical weaklings, is pretty well. exploded. Some mt:n of great mental powers have been frail of body to be sure, but they have usually died young. The alllle.lt and most prolific wsdters are )leu and women of more than average physical development. who find it in>untrtaut to keep their bodies fit, Firemen's T DANCE AND JAMBOREE Brussels, Wed., Aug. 1 Oth Music by Florence Sauer And Her Orchestra Come and help the Firemen and enjoy an evening of Jitney Dancing the street will be specially treated for this ocassion. . SPECIAL PRIZE An Electrics Packard Razor will be given away This is the first of a series of dances to be held by the Firemen in aid of purchasing new equipment (In case of rain the dance will be held in Town Hall)