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BRUSSELS -- PHONE 72
Little Chats
on
Farm Management
Farm Investment; Effect on Income
In the recent study of Ontario
allairy farms. shipping milk to cities,
et was found that efficient use or
capital invested per farm has an
important bearing on the income
a farrier receives and also onh ik
is
cont per ltund:ledtwetght of
Produced, This study, directed by
the Eeonornies Branch, Dominion
Department of Agriculture, Ottawa,
and the Ontario Agricultural Col-
lege, covers Ole 1936 crop year. waShe
e
measure of efficiency- used
member of years required for the
rash receipts to equal total invest-
ment.
A group of 106 farms, which re-
gwired fear year or less for cash
receipts to equal Investment, had
alt average operator's labour earn-
ings
arnings of $1,194 and an average milk
cost per hundredweight of $1.92.
Tile group of 76 farms requiring
over six years for cash receipts to
equal investment had an average
aperetars labour earnings of
(minus 0-26 or a loss of $26 for
their year's work and their average
milk cost was $2.33 per hundred-
weight, In other words, the first
group received $1.220 more for
their year's work and had a mlik
cost of 41 cents per hundredweight
less than the last group.
The average investment per farm
in the first group was $14,244 and In
the second group, $16,595, This
indicates that tite wide difference in
returns come more from the uses
made of the capital than from dif-
ferences in the amount of invest-
ment. To build up the volume re-
quired and to use the capital ire
vested in land and buildings to best
advantage, it is necessary, there-
fore to ha.ve high rates of livestock
a.nd crop production. These rates
of production refer to such factors
as yield, per acre, milk produced per
cow. eggs produced per hen, etc.
Another consideartion concern•
Ing capital investment is that prices
at which land is sold usually do not
vary as much as the net returns
from land, 'Studies made of prices
at which land was sold, and the
farm incomes on hundreds of farms
in New York State which are some-
what similar to those dn. Ontario,
indicated that, if incomes are con-
sidered, sale prices tend two be too
high 50r the poorer classes of soils
and too low for the best classes to
Any district,
This same tendency to average
rlauee Of land is also found In
Canada. A Mindy of 733 farm
record's' from 1929 to 1931, on farms
In eastern Olinda, revealed the fact
that farmers having incomes of
$1,000 or less paid over 30 per cent
of the incomes in municipal taxes,
while those heeling incomes of
$3,000 or more paid less than 7 per
cent in municipal taxes. Thee would
indicate that assessors, who are in
mtttlyrestpeete the belt queijified of
any reral residen'ss to know land
values, tend to average the -dues
t' •"• 19 rer•nrriIze the full
difference In earning power which
exists, This means that a fanner,
•.n 1-. nor than average soil, pfnliab-
ly 1'•alrl too mach for It on the basis
of Its net productivity and will find
i; dirticu11 to make cash( receipts
equal inviceltnent fu average or less
years.
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Wlll.t(FR'S
FUNERAL HOME
wiillam Street,
urussels, Ontario
PC14Sr)NAL ATTENDANCE
'Phone 65
Day or Night Calle
MOTOR HEARSE
t3 G. WALKER
E 'ntuetmer end 1-trnertil
Director,
Debts and Taxation
ay
R. J, eieachman, M.P,
There is a ;;i'on1 deal of evescnse
about the t't>bt of 'the 1)unti'.liun
Government. Substantival reline•
-were trade between the years
1924 al,.1 1930, During this Period
the debt was reduced by 0276,000,-
000. L'he year's which followed,
begltuadng with 1951 brought abort
sharp 'additions to the debt, due
primarily to two factors, ;the cost
of unemployment relief and rail,
way losses. During this period
the debt increased. by 0840,000,000.
But there 4s ,sareething else we
want to keep in mind, Interest
rm.tee have declined and interest
charges on: the public debt are actu-
ally lower now than they were in
the years of 1921 to 1925 and they
are
170.0,000 lower 'than they
were in 1934, one of the depression
Years when debt bunters were cer-
tainly difficult to bear. Besides
the boucle 'which represent the
debt are owned mainly In Canada.
What is really means is ,that all
the people 'of ,Canada owe some of
the people or Canada awe some of
the people of Canada o -consider-
able
onsiderable sten 01.money, but the nation
is not bankrupt nor Is the total
wealth reduced by this process. It
would of course be pleasant to get
rid of the debt but there are in
reality rigger problems.
Other Expenses
The expenses of government are
not the only exlpenditures which
the average citizen -rust meet- I
checked over the other day the
cost of moving a ton of freight, or
its equivalent in passenger traffic,
one mile on our railways, In
1913.1.4, the cost was 4.9 mills or
slightly less than one half cent. In
1936 the cost was S mills or four-
fifths of a cent. This represents
an increase of G7'9 The price of
'arm products Is now almost egactly
at the price ele of 1913 hut- are
the things which You buy- as cheap
as they were in 1913? They are
tar from it, The increase in tax•
alio is
n not the only factor in add-
ing to coats. Price increase
check demand and. lead to unem-
ployment.
dt is extremely interesting to see
hew your dollar of taxation money
Is spent.
This table show's the number of
cents and the fraction of a cent
which goes to meet certain govern-
ment expenditures,
Where the Money Goes
of your Dollar
Debt 22.91c
Relief 12.92
Pensions and Care 10.25
Government Owned Enter-
prises' (mainly railway's) 8,45
Old Age Pensions 5.40
Subsidies to Provinces: 4.00
Capital Expenditures ,84
Write Down of Assets
.32
Civil Pensions and
Superann,ualion .19
68.13
This accounts far a little over
68c out of every dollar, or to be
exact 68,18e.
The balance consists of the ex-
penditure or the different depart-
ments such as Agriculture, Nation-
al
al Defence, Post Office, Public
Works, Transport, Mines and Re-
sources etc. But that is a .story
for another day
Profitabe Farming
Demands
Clean Seed
What is good iitage? First—to
1'au^h thoroug'h'ly; secondly — to
Plough end thirdly—to manure. The
other part of tillage is 10 have good
Feed, to sow plentifully, and to lake
tip all the werrds which may grow
riming the season, This informa-
tion is not new, It was given i»'
Cato, a Ronan Statesman, two
thousand' years ago.
This is a twine of year when at-
tention Is being given to seed sup-
plies. Tr groweee are using their
ntvn seed 11 la important to have
ft we]! Moaned and glutted, to ' re-
move. email, shrunken, Mena time or
broken, kernels, inert shatter and
weer( seeds, It is not too early to
bring the fanning mill out from its
winter quarters,. make Iteressary re-
pairs to the mill and screens, and
r•ou+tnenre cleaning operations. It
Is well not to hurry the Heating at
"1 The eeetl should be fed
-yrrty end ylnwly Into the mill and
,10.1iv r1 a evened or third lime 1f
nr •f.•• -qct.• Three ti rnifee i tt:•
fr 1-1..'10 1t•p,t !'rile 0 rltndern
pr -11r', {;yet rlcatnittg plant of their
own, or one in the 0011111111111ty ivltich
THE BRUSSELS POST
Me he 11,4ed Yer the preparation of
!hell• eyed for sowing or fol' the
ntar)tet,
The Plant Ptodnets Division Pro.
duction $111'1(4., Dant-1tl'It Jiepart
tnct:,t '72 A'^riruilure advi•cs that it
,s well et be sane they are graded
and nl'trlt.':1 in Itc.,order e with
plevlatns or the seed's Acts
anti vegetations,. Several grades
of seed are provided under the Aot,
ranging in duality from Reglt,ereci
No, 1 to No, 3 seed. Those growers
who are 111010 interested in purity'
of variety, quality and freedom
from imlxn'tttes than the price of
seed, buy the top grades. The
official grades of seed are' Register-
ed No, 1, Registered No. 2, Regis-
tered, No, 3, Certified No, 1, Certi-
fied No. 2, No. 1 Seed, No, 2 Seed,
No. 1 Mixture, No, 2 'Mixture and
No. 3 Mixture. The demiland for
registered and certified grades of
seed, the product of inspected seed
crops, is increasing for both domes-
tic and export 'marltets. No, 1
Seed is maintaining its' place as a
commendable commercial grade
and No. 2 Seed also to some ex-
tent. No, 3 Seed and No, 3 Mix-
ture have a 'very Befitted demand
from good. growers. Seed of a
lower quality and purity than No. 3
S050' or No. 3 Mixture is designat-
ed Reected under the provisions of
the Seeds Act, and is not legally
Permitted sale in ()anode.
Informtaton with regard to seeds•
plant diseases, insect pests and
weeds may be obtained from .the
Dominion Department of Agricul•
tune, Ottawa, or branch offices,
Dominion Experimental Farms and
Stations throughout the Dominion,
;The Honey Bee,
Its 'Value
(Experimental Farms News)
The ch'ie'f value of the honey bee
Iles not in the amount of honey it
gathers but in Its aid to agriculture
generally. The communrit.y in which
the beekeeper operates often re-
ceives more benefit than the bee-
keeper himself.
The importance of the honey bee,
particularly in the early spring
when few other polination insects
are prevalent, cannot be estimated;
later its insportence in the pollina-
tion of other crops, as small fruits
and clovers, ds generally recog-
nized. The honeybees are espec-
iatly well adapted to carry
Pollen. They bodies and legs are
rovered with hairs to which the
Pollen grains adhere when work-
ing the flower in search of pollen
and nectar for their own require-
ments. Many or these grains of
pollen become lodged on the re-
reptive sli1mas and fertilize the
flowers, Although the honey bee
can scarcely be called domesti-
cried its numbers can be controlled.
Haudreds of hives' are moved from
nue section to another either to
be placed in orchards for Pollina-
tion purposes or to gather a erop
or honey.
Orm-wintered colonies of bees
have been used in the errherd of
the Experimental Station, lCent:ville,
NS., for 'mbny years for polldna-
tton purposes. states 1;. D. Craig.
Head Beekeeper, This orchard
has never railed to produce a crop
and since 19130 has averaged an
annual production or 100 barrels
per acre. Other orchards in
-which bees have been used as
poillnators, even though the bloom
was only medium, have produced
gend crops although the former
crop histories of these orchards
with a similar bloom were in many
oases exceedingly irregular.
The habitat or the honey bee is
not confined to any particular zone
1,111 tt to t't'tl.p from the Tropics al-
most to the Arctic Circle and the
honey produced per hive varies not
with the engdh of Ilse season but
with the attend -ince or flora and
the length of the Clay. Honey pdo-
d^.reilen is etearlly increasing in
Dwarf Fria>.t Trees
Growing In Favor
Claiming Important Places
In Smaller Orchards
Of States
Dwa1'r va rtr••ies of frust trt's .,re
slaimteg Sit import•tve ileo(. tt, .the
sn tete r'; N' w York
as'lte, Plot'. 1T. T0' 'falter, PhD.,
he<trl o5 tbn (breva, NV„ experi-
mental *.taunt-. told a natter=ring of
frnrt.t -ren in the a.rninrles, Strndh-
"1, Otlt, last week,
Prof. Tnkry woe the prleeeeil
,'l''tlttt et the anun,l diner of
the I3, C. ilow•n.Trani Nursurie* of
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Strathr•oy attended by 1066 firm
tepresea:tWives, land agricultural
authorities o£ the district,
For Closer Planting
The New York expert told that
because of the closer planting in
small orchards the dtwarr vedettes
were new favored by the smaller
grower, They are no onger a nev-
ety but ntust be considered an ad-
vance 111 fruit growing.
Prof. Tukey 1010 of the progress
in fruit growing in his state where
he said two Canadian originations,
the Meintoshr Red and .the Mc-
Coavau, the latter coming from the
Ottawa experimental -station, were
the most favored varieties,
Home
Beautification
The King's Visit
And Tree
Ily Jahn le, Vieth, Lecturer in
Horticulture, Ont, Debt. of Agricul-
ture, Toronto, (lei,
innpot'tant occasions in cur 'lives
are comtnenterated tit many wart
but perhaps one of the easiest yet
most 111511ntg is to plant a tree. (ler-
tafny there is Ito more appropriate
manlier of paying tribute two their
Majesties, King George VI and
Queen Elizabeth where they visit
(.'anatlat Vida year than 'bY Planting
II tee. ('111 1)0 an unpreen•
dl 111 d occasion and ns 11 may he
1 'ny years before another visit
i,}d1 be made by the Monttrrh of the
Relent, it Should titer( fore be ntttr17
• 1 by the most permanent of mum-
0111ia, T11I'11P4, whtc'il grow to be
the largest sialtat'e of all plant life,
111'0 the o14,'st living Ibhngs en
pi, rib.
'!`o shote the President of the
American Tree Aeoseiation — ' The
Memorial Tree In its ever renewing
growth stands forth as a thing
.alive, a simple symbol to keep for-
ever green the memory of those In
whose honor it is planted, For to-
day and for generations yet un-
borns the message or the memorial
tree is the message of life,"
The home improvement Associa-
tion of the Country of Haldintand is
making a fine gesture in urging ev
cry lotal Society, Horticultural and
Agricultural Society, Women's insti-
tute, Service Clu1, Boy Scout Troop,
School, as well as Individuals 'to
plant a tree, and where tposslble
larger numbers of trees be placed in
a permanent planting, such as. a
woodlot or retest -Atom ,project as
a fitting memorial to this important
occasion, 'Societies Shoed record a
mention on their books so that the
matter may receive due attention.
Young trees may be secured from
the Reforestation Breech, Parlia-
ment Bklgs„ Toren to, Applicntlons
should he mincitt immediately as
s'bipnrent is mode early. in .spring.
I'luis yrtrr there are about teventy-
tw•.o million young lyres for distr•!-
button.
Ppr;levet trees of larger cltinon-
Siotia include many ar'uanrerrta,j var-
!c''.,,s and May be p01011alsed from
the rounnrt't'otal nurseries, 'These
may hccltele. 14ut•lt ]ttn0''l ars lb Cut.
Lalaf Wt (Ming Iltt'eh, 'Weeping Wil•
low, (nt.prr 'levee, Seltwettler Ma -
pie. Catalpa, Roster nine Spruce
Silver 1111. and many others 'fisted
fu the ltVei tIgr' catalogue Trees or
Ms kind are recommended for eery.
nxtuJnl plantings,
Ase rule front* awry to Littre Melt.
08 in c11 tht'le1' give 111,' Iresd rrsult3.
CH t'ans:pia0Hug Small fibrous roots
are lost, consequently the top
should be lightly pruned at plant-
ing tlnte. Reset the tt'ee at the
sante depth as it -was the nurse
ry, and spread the roots out natur-
ally, surrounding them with good
soil, pressed ilrm to remove air
pockets. Make- a slight depression
around the base of the tree, water
and, let settle, them place a good
much of well rotted manure to pro-
vide nourishment and conserve
moisture. Aavold girdling the tree
with wird or rope when securing
to stake supports.
Soil suitable for trees, -mast con-
tain elements essential for growth
in sufficient quantities to meet the
need for the first Yew years, atter
which the ordinary tree is ruffleo,
ieitbly well established to take caro
Of tbsetf,
Generally speaking, 01.e best time
to. plant trees is In early spring
soon atter the frost Is out of the
ground and before growth has start-
ed, This will ustta14y be about the ,
flrst of May.
Roadside trees should be el. least
80 feet apart, 111)11 elms do best
when about. 100 feet apart. Street
frees placed about 65 feet, tlpart
will finnan tt beautiful avenue in
years to conte.
The panting must be dome in an
efficient manner, it is not enough
to Simtply (big a hole hL a piece of
hatrdpan, ami tlrrlt81 the tender
rnOlis dawn 'hu a 'rumpled 1-05'11
Teets time planted al's 111111nst sure
to perish and both 11110 and energy
wasted. (1000 in nourishing
anal, well pia nt ed.7:1 th 'll]eni.y 01
)rater, will usually flourish,
Detailed tarot motion and tree'
planting ante Pruning is neaila1110
on application to the Dept. of Agri'
vulture, Toronto, or the totai office
of the Dept, of .igricttlture, epee',