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The Brussels Post, 1938-12-7, Page 7News and Information For the Busy Farmers pEPAR'fMEr{T CIF (FURNISHED BY THE AGRICULTURE) Field Crop Production Total grain production in tarso 10 estimated at 763 795,000 bushels as compared with 102,118, 000 bushels in 1987, and an average annual produotion of 169,000,000 busllels during the ten year period 1025 to 1934. The production of turuhpa and niangolds 1s now esti- mated at 41,005,000 bushels• as com- pared with 39,000,000 bushel In 1037, while the total or hay and clover crops and cola for husking, amount.; ed to 9,794,000 tons against 9,406,- 000 tons in 1937. It Is quite evident that field orop production this year in Ontario was on the whole very satisfactory from the fact that total grain production is the highest of any year since 1930; nlangolds and turnips the largest crop since 1923; sad total fodder crops great- er than in any year since 192S, with the single exception of the year 1930. Winter Feeding of Pigs \'inter feeding of swine presents several problems which are not of the salve Importance in summer hog !production, First adequate housing accommodation is essential in order to grow the ..pigs buickly and econolnically. Second, suitable feed mixtures are necessary, and this'd, particular care must be taken 1n feeding and caring for the pigs, The housing accommodation for winter pigs should provide dry and reasonably warm sleeping quarters. Draughts should be avoided and the beat should be well bedded with dry straw. Do "t erowd too many pigs into a small teen, hut allow sufficient pen space au'l trough space so that all cancan have an equal chance. In the feeding of the pigs a suit- able mixture of grains properly supplemented will go far in keeping the pigs healthy and thrifty. Provide a mixture of grains such as oats and barley, and, possibly a mill feed or wheat, ;end supplement with 0 P1'e- tein supplement such as skim -milk, buttermilk or tankage. Include with the meal mixture at the rate of 1 to 2 pounds per hundred a simple min- eral mixture eue11 as equal parts Iodized salt, ground limestone, and bone meal. Boots and good goal - it ylegume hay—alfalfa or clover —are valuable in small amouuts to supply sunrihence and maintain the pigs In a thrifty condition. These should 1101 fano the main feed but should be used In small amounts as au addition to a good feed mixture. Finally, good care is necessary in the feeding and management of the pigs in order to keep tbem in a healthy vigorous condiliou, Sup- ply nutritious feed at a, rate that they can handle it but do not at- tempt to force the Pigs. But there are people who are constantly looking for opportunities to lend money on goad seetirity. If you want to borrow a few, dollars, or a few thousand,aur Want Ads. win put you In touch with tiae Who have money�to loan. a........,..... Judging Clover, Grass Seeds With good quality predominating in the production of clover .and gra" seeds this year, a number of new exhibitors are expt:eten to arrow at the Clacton Winter Fair Seed Show, Nov, 28, 30 and Dec. 1, C. L. S. Palmer, noted seed expert, gives same timely adwite to Pros - fleetly exhibitors on how small seesd should be prepared for show purposes ',Clover and grass seeds are judged from the standpoint of 0eed0ln from weed seeds, Particu- larly those prohibited and noxiOus under the Seeds Act. They are also judged on Leedom fro L.other crop seeds; germination and general 0P- Peara ee," said Mr. Palmer in an interview this week, He stated 1t was almost impossible to clean out Dodder, Campion, Chicory, Field Peppergrass, etc., in clovers, and timothy unless special cleaning machinery was used. .Certain other crop seeds were hard to re- move—white clover and timothy in alsike, red clover in alfalfa and vire versa. Therefore, .seed con- taining too large a percentage of other crop seeds should not be used for exhibition purposes. Germination is indicated by color and lustre, Mr, Panner stat- ed, Size, plumpness, uniformity in size and color, color and the lustre of the seed and freedom from inert matter (stems, etc.) contribute greatly to general avpearance. Size plumpness and uniformity of seed are obtained and increased by the use of wind and screens. For show .purposes, the screens and sieves used should be over- sized, la1'ger than the ones used for commercial cleaning. Red clover, alfalfa and sweet clover are commercially cleaned over a 4 by 24, but the show sample can he improved immeasurably by cleaning over a screen one size larger, 4 by 22. These over -sized screens also help to eliminate many more weed seeds, Seed for show should not contain brown seed, either plump or shrunken. The one indicates that the seed has been weathered dur- ing harvest and the other that it Lacks ulaturlty or has sprouted. Samples containing such green seed should not be chosen as It indicates inuuaturity. Most judges of alsike anti red clover prefer the Clark Purple type of seed, Taniotiry, of course, should be silvery in color and contain as little hulled seed as possible; alfalfa olid sweet clover should be a honey yellow. Dullness in seed indicates it bas been weathered durin gharvest, Mr. Palmer declared. Consequent- ly, It has lost that lustrous shining vital look. Lustre is an indication of vitality. While color of seed .cannot be Improved except by eliminating light immature seeds, lustre some- tllnes oan be brought bank by artificial ,means, such as churning the seed in a churn where a piece of velvet has been placed over the top with the pile side turned in. The seed can also be shined by being placed in a long cotton bag and tilted• from one end to the other so that the surface is rubbed against the sides of the bag. TOE BRUSSELS POST quality. Potato foliage was stilled by frost i11 the early part of Septem- ber in tate ,Nol.lt,tim districts, while all viae erns were consider- ably damaged' in some areas In 010 Ontario in the early part of October. Erstern Ontario: A large Per Gent of the potato crop has now lumen ha1•cestc.11 mid the yield Is , a Tittle disappointing in seine sec- tions, although the quality genet - ally is ahold 1ve erre. 'There are numerous rein^'s that dry rot e developing In bins on potatoes n'11i, 11 bare been dug lately, and caused, probably, by too nlnell wet weather. Onions were above average, both In respect to quantity and quality, but growers experienced considerable difficulty in' &lying the crop, because of the frequent show- ers. Celery is now being harvested and Roe the most part is of good quality, Theer was much less, blight development this season than a year ago. Other vegetables are all above an average crop and the weather has been ideal for harvest - log during the past ten days with no rain; We Cannot Grow Rich By Working Less (By Rusticus) A prominent Labor man bas written us a letter, in which be con- gratulates us for having written "at least one article without vigorously attacking Labor." Perhaps we did miss pointing out for once that Labor is Labor's worst enemy, in closing his letter, our Labor friend writes: '"For goodness' sake, Rustt- cus, •plpe down a little on your attacks on Labor, You and I are In the same boat. Our interests are the same. We have the same common enemy.') You are right, friend, we have. Our greatest enemy is ourselves. If the farmers of Canada would organ- ize a strong non-political union, they could rule the country, no natter which party is in power. We could have the Industrial Standards Act wiped off the law books of Ontario. We could' insist on the Labor mean doing his share of ,the nation's work; and he certainly can- not do 1t 1fi 40 hours per week, The 13. S. Government has tried out 40 experiment in the Wagner Labor Act and the other acts that come under the New Deal. Appar- ently the voters do not like the experiments; and the voters ot Ontario are likely to remember the Industria•1 Standards Act when an- other provincial election comes round. 5 *, 1 FREE SERVICE OI,D, DISABLED OR DEAD HORSES OR CATTLE removed promptly and efficiently- Simply fficiently Simply phone "COLLECT" to WILLIAAtL1MITED STONE SONS PHONE 21 - INGERSOLL BRUSSELS — PHONE 72 There is a clipping m1, our desk token from the New York Times. We quote: "The most disturbing fact is that in its pursuit of social reform the Administration has put so little stress on the necessity of bard wont by the individual citizen and so much emphasis on the theory that there is a great fund of wealth which has only to be divided more equitably in order to make everyone. happy. A great number of Americans have been en- couraged to believe that it is pos- sible to groy richer by working less and by producing less; 11101 11 is the groped business of a gavecltnteet to subsidize large numbers of its people . The dangers involved in each a course as this are an eventu- al bankruptcy of the national gov- ernane0rt and an emoouragelnent of 'class' prejudices which ought to have no place in the United States.' Might we add "Canada"? Today we have tens of thousands in Canada living 1'•ithotut work. The state is piling up a debt and nluni- ci.palities are compelled to raise huge. Gauls to keep these folk alive. That means taxes and business— and the farmer must pay these taxes (tariffs and sale atax for thb farmer), The farmer toile long hours to make ends meet. Labor In - slats on mare pay and shorter hours; and yet our Iktbor friend says we are in Um same boat. Perhaps we are; the trouble may be that Labor holds the wheel and the boat is dri$tieg in the wroug direc- tiorr. The Vegetable Crop Western 'Ontario. Weather con- ditions• have been generally fervor - able for the development and har- vesting of vegetables, •although the quality of the onion crop ,was materially aflected by wet weather earlier in the season, particularly in Essex acid bent Counties and the Bradford area, which has resulted in lower percentage of good storiug THE WORLD'S GOOD NEWS Will colne to your home every day through THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Alt international Daily Nowspaper 2t retards for see the world'sclean, constructive doings. Tho Monitor does net exploit arable or sensation; neither does it ignore them, but deals correctively with them. Ventures for buss, mon and nil the tamps, tnelltding the Weekly Magazine ecstlen. The Christian 8olence Publishing Society One, Norway Street, nosten,,Mnsseehusetts Please enter my sublerlption to The Christian Science Monitor for 5 period of 1 year 512.00 8 month(' 50,00 3 menthe 13,00 1 ninth 01,00 Wodneaday leen, inoluding Magazine anchone 1 year 52.60, 8Iseult 200 ---------------- - i'rrsbt. Copt' M Ritwss Trust'' a.0 are impressed with these Reties, They do seem large, don't over 4014,000 in the past three years, Silvess'oods have averaged half a million dollars profits in the past three years. These companies they? One could stir up quite a lot of enthusiasm in a political meet- • fag by quoting these figures. What tbese figures do not tell is t how many quarts of milk were handled to enable, the company to pile up 00 targe a surplus, The re - suits are tremendous, but we must not overlook the gigantic machine I that produced these profits, the t7:einendoits turnover of units, The 1 other fellow's position always leaks attraotive. Most of us like to cams the butcher because meat prices are high. The other day we saw a lady order thirty -flue cents worth of meant delivered to her house. Is it any wonder _neat prices are high? 1 We see queens of bread and grocery delivery wagons cluttering up the stt eets of our towns. Why? Be- 1 cause the Standard of Living de- mands it? In common English, because the dear public is too lazy to carry its own parcels. * * * Our dementia have built up a monstrous machine, made up of many .parts. Some of them we call conveniences or services, such as delivery of parcels. Some of them are Labor's rights, ouch as short hours and big pay. !Berne are social legislation that ensure, or are supposed ti unsure, the health of the public, and. these cost a trenren- dons sum of money. A. common ; nate for this machine Is the Stan- I dard of Living. The trouble is we ';�s-Nu;_n ��� cannot afford to maintain this large- ' 7► mowm- '' i 'm- tiJvp Imago ly useless machine. It has bank- 4 valrted a goodly proportion of our g citizens and eventually It will bank- l a rupt the nation. j WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30'11, G1IIkESARE HHMIUL unless they are an EXACT CORRECTION of the Ern of Retraction of your EYER That is why we will not supply Lenses until we have given your EYES a COMPLETE Examination, so that we KNOW how every part of the Delicate Eye Mechanism is functioning. Thus we eliminate the Guesswork and get Satisfactory Results when others fail I expect to be at My Brussels Office in Miss Maude Bryans' Home all day THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8th to Examine Eyes and Fit Lenses when necessary Every One Should Have Their Eyes Properly Examined At Least Once . —Every Two Years— Frederick ears— Fr.etlerick F. HomuthPhlxl*, R. 0. EYESIGHT SPECIALIST HARRISTON BRUSSELS Phone 118 Phone 26X wilderness that was the Canada of those days. - What a change the century has made in the Canadian landscape) Yes, and what a change in the Canadian citizen! 0n the one hand, forest and isola- tion, now $ne farms and beautiful cities. Those bard working men and women were satisfied in the knowledge that one def they would have a home. Now a large propod- tion of our population on relief and another large pro;ortionnot work- ing oved 5oq of the hours of the pioneer and still insisting on better working conditions and short- er hours. The Camadiau Citizen ot 193S is a disgrace to the citizen of 1338. The writer is an actual "dirt farmer;' Many readers seem to doubt that, We know the actual conditions under which the Ontario farmer works and we eau appreciate the difficulties of the Westedn farmer, but the actions of Labor alone and the growing army of Un- employed 911 us with disgust, We cannot grow rimher by working less —and the nation owes no man a living, We stand stusned by some of the moves made by the dictators ei i g Europe, but we have yet to meet a : 4 man who does not admire these ' gt len for the way they have . made their nations independent 0f others Hp We Buy For Cash - and - Sell For Cash and lengthened the hours of labor ms and put evedy man to vomit, Is it nt Our Stock Is Always Fresh and we Buy the !Best a dictator we need in Canada? D Get Yir Xfflas Supplies at McCRACK1 IS GRCCZHY 4 Someone with tee nerve to point ;, YOU PAY YOUR OWN WAY, NO CHARGE FOR BAD out to us the work that is to be ACCOUNTS, WE HAVE NONE clone and command nsto go do it? 5 We meet all competition prices. If Prices are reduced * * * Recently we have had the chance u at week -ends in other stores, ours will be also. l'sa, 1 to do a bit of travelling about Old sasga Ontario. We saw possibly over a F dozen cairns of one kind or another. 11 Some marked the coining of the first settler. Other marked Meter - lc sites. We marvel at 010 youth of our country. None of these le cairns mark events that have taken ga place very muchover a century gr ago, 04Jy two or three genera- S" tions Have gone since the pioneers were busy inabing homes In theft Fresh Roasted Peanuts • • • • 3 lbs. 25c Emerald Walnuts 20c per Ib. High Grade Chocolates • • 20c per lb. ALL OTHER GOODS IN STORE AT VERY LOWEST PRICES Your Patronage Solicited �s *, There Is another clipping here, entitled "The Milk Board helps To' Milk Fanners." This is probably taken from a Labor publication. The profits made by several big dairy Interest same given. Burden's have averaged eight million dollars in profits 111 111e past two years. Eastern Dairies ILtd. Have avenged along with a few others are re- ferred to as. "the Toronto MIllt FENDER UMPING AND BODY WORK MAKES 'EM LOOK LIKE NEW ALL HOURS - WRECKER SERVICE - ALL YOURS Our Service Department SERVICE WITH A SMILE has achieved an enviable reputation for satisfaction in every aspect of the word. Drive in, have your car checked by our mechanics, and see for yourself that the reputation is warranted. —A TRIAL IS ALL WE ASK. Now Is The Time To Buy"–" Our .Large Stock of Used Cars gives you an unexcelled choice, and you may buy with utmost confidence. JACKSON MOTORS Ltd. usTowEL WALLACE ST.