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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1939-8-16, Page 6THE BRUSSELS POST WI+17)NDSIDAY, AUTGUST 1001, 1930 FREE SERVICE OLDS DISABLED OR D AD HORSES OR CATTLE esmoved: promptly and efficiently, >Sintpfp• phone "COLLECT" to WILLIAM STONE SONS :LIMITED PHONE 21 • INGERSOLL EIRUSSELS PHONE 72 Hoppers Trim Oat ;Crop and Hogs Sell At Loss (By RUSTICI S) The ether day wee threshed the 'first of the oat crop, Nat enough head gone •through the machine to permit of even guessing at the aotu- ati. yield per acre, though it is fairly certain that the yield will be a reasonably good one. The quality of the grain; le the very best, and the yieii would be considerably bdgher except for the far=t that this particular field lies between the bushlan,td and au old )pasture field. Grasshoppers from $hese sources matte a picnic.pround• or the oat - field. There were hordety, of therm, and their principal sport was, to cut the small stern that suppomted a numdber of •kermtels rigout at the .€'round; while the hopper got busy at another stem. The loss on this irelal was probably twenty per cent. not nearly as badly affected. not nearly as badly acected. * * * Now we have said, that the crop Is a good one, though sometimes we question the santty of farmers who -th spend good money on fertilizer and aged vele. and till tl elr felihsl to find at the enct of the season that they Weald been 'beets batter ort fo have taken a vaeatiolu an'd' allowed the fields' to demiatn, idle. We have been told of several t{airdy lane 1014 of Ontario oats elrautg+inlg hand's at- twenty to iweu tgtwo canto per buslhel. We would like to' crow how anyone can afford to sell grain et such a low . prtoe? Will, history repeat and will live- stock prices follow grain' to the low levels they did ten yeare ago, * * * A few weeks ago we marketed a nuinibe't,. or teas. The price then was 12 coots' (dressed weight, of coulee). There were a few other hogs in the pens, not quite ready Had we sent the moult, we should have been docged a taker eau each hog, The other day we 'shipped these at ten amts per pound, and we wotr6d• have been, a dollar and fifty cents to the good on each hog had they been marketed. light. We have read much about the properly fimisiled hogs of proper weights, fin order to holt' that British market, so essential to the bacon.Jprodmcing industry and to our whole country, eve must bave them. We lost about ten dollars on these last fenv hogs. Perhaps, we should enter it ire our books as money in. vested in loyalty to the bacon• In- dustry and: the country at. serge. Zt sounds 'better than to atate the plain truth and admit that we were fools enough not to market when the price was good'. Call it patriot - tem', loyalty or just foolishness, the fact Is that we are out 'ten gootd dollars that we needed rather badly, -a * * Right here we are going to bring Is letter to an end. The oats are day enough to thresh again. There area few loadb' that roust be!loaniled away before the cows oar go Into pasture, and be the[ past weak we have found bow eaaential good Polo tune ds to •till dairy herd. Getting tlhe Drop gathered to le the big Job. right now. Success of Reunion Means Annual Event A 1padan'cedt-budigett' for the Tees- wa>teleOulrosa Old Boysr and Old Gees' R,eirwlon, has prolmptedt the innpguration of an annual field del flor Tee,swetter•. Itle planned, that hie annual' event be held on. Civic Holiday. Reunions, have been 'bele every 10 years, In view or this yeiar's success, however, local offi- cials feel that an annual big day of field events would: not only bring the crowds out but would also stimulate competition with ,wttrae- tive prizes. "I believe eve would be quite justified in inaugurating an manual field day on an anrbi• Mous scale," said Reeve Ross whose efforts contributed so much to the success of the reunon. How to Buy Melons Q a.ntaloullresr-Obse,Tve the netting and shape. IMAM the netting 1'ovete a cantaloupe thickly and stankist out like a whipcord' the melon is gener- ally good. Whenfully ripened, good cantaloupes become a golden yellow under the netting and have a del'doatte aroma. Honeydews—In this +type of melon tire Dolour is one of the. beet indications of maturity. A fully ripe honeydlelw should be creamy white or pale yellow, even on, the wader sidle. Remeanber, it can be pulite yellow on top an4 still be un- ripe. Another relialble tett Ls the aroma ---a ripe honeydew has, a dis- tinct and pleasant fragrance, THJE!ASIHAT AIME! mwnsuurwamra A harvest of 324 million bushels of wheat, to say nothing of the increased volume of coarse grains, and all of it brought in and threshed in 1838 without the assistance of the erstwhile army of tens of thousands of harvest help from the East in the years not so long gone by. Thus does the mode of our lives and the methods of our callings change, keeping pace with the progress being made in the scientific engineering and industrial realms. The evolution of the Combine to she small, compact model now made available has revolutionized harvesting, making it an easily undertaken task for the regular help of the farm. Its production at a cost to the farmer of but one-third the price of the earlier, bigger models, is an evidence of the contribution made by the implement maker to help the farmer meet the problems with which be is con- fronted. The lower operating costs of this machine, and the reduction it enables to be made in the cost of harvesting, saving as it does up to 15c a bushel for complete harvesting, has meant, in a great many instances, a profit instead of a loss to the farmer. Power of course is the basis of the great mechanistic progress of agriculture and the record of attainment in making more efficient, less costly, and lower operating cost models available is an achieve- ment that cannot be beaten by any other industry. To -day's modern streamlined, high efficiency tractors make earlier models look like prehistoric monstrosities and sell for about one-half the price, costing less than half to operate. Massey -Harris is pleased to have taken a leading part in develop- ing machines which are destined to play so important a part in making , agriculture profitable. The advent of the combine and now the gteater popularity of the small combine has meant a striking decrease in the output of binders which records show reached the height of their volume in the years lust previous to the war, both in Canada and the United states; Production to the latter country dropping from 213,386 in 1914 to 31,239 in 1937, thus losing the benefits amass production gained in the years when the volume kept mounting. Apart from the tremendously improved product offered in the binder of to -day, which accounts in no small wayfor its relatively increased price over pre-war years, the fact of the greatly decreased volume now manufactured makes the binder cease to be the criterion of values offered by the implement industry. MAS.,S:EY-HARRIS COMPANY LIMITED BUILDERS Otr IMPLEMENTS THAT' MAKE FARMING MORE PROFITABLE .Agent J. Fischer, Brussels Demonstration of Massey -Harris "Clipper" Combine Harvesting Massey -Harris Demonstration Of Combine Harvesting Large attendance of farmers sae latest types of cost- retyucing machines in The Return From theCountrrg By R. J. Deachrnan, M. P. operation, , about the success of the combine, vesting. The ease anti simplicity of har- vesting grain with a "Cilpper" com- bine Was demonstrated to hundreds of farness and many other Interest- ell [people on the Dufferin Street Farm of Mr. T. A. Rowell, President - of the Massey -Harris. Company Wednesday lest. 'Close to el hundred came to get firsohand formation on the working . of matchine and alt were most Ira ably impressed with the way handled the •grain in a stand. of All of the men present had ex - I hopped on the train the other day and the first thing which met my eye was a group of about fifteen children, running hal ages from a .mystic 43, to somewhere about 6%. on 1 asked who they were. "City ght kiddies returning from a time given in them in the country," I was told', this Never have I seen a happier group vor• of youngsters on an outing. it City children. have well developed fall wheat running well over thirty- nine busieel, to the acre. 'Do these lamilliar with the e lisped routine of harvesting gr crop5'•cutiting, atooking, pitching a hauling and finally harvestting— all in once action of the oomol with only two men required to the work seemed the height[. of p fe:tion. Reducing the nutnnber the bare minimunn of course natur 1y brings about a very subetanrtt salving dw the costs. There is twine. to buy; there is no exipe for lelbor in stooking; there is social dnstin•cts. They meet and prix in a group much more readily than de the children of the country. The stat country child Is shy in the presence lin of otrranger's, The children of the nd city are in contact with strangers the every day. Both exhibit the dil'- ferencee in •their training, nye I picked out the nicest looking to er young lady I could nee—pure force of habit on my part—and asked too her age, She was *lx- al- "Where have you been?" I u1 queried. no "Lucknow," was the answer. use "W Bich db no you like the best, thrersh'ei s' bill to pay; and nothing extra is addled to the housekeeping expense in providing meals large thr•es'hinga crews. Anoth feature about , combine harvestin that appeals to many is that ti example of work with neighbo which oaten comes a.t most lnOppo time times is not required. Lucknne, or Toronto?" "Lucknow," "WILY?" for ['There is nothing to see in er Toronto." g Pocket that, ye proud denizens re of the Queen City: 2 sat down rs with the group and started to alk r- questions. Everyone answered at once. What did they do when they were out. Let the children• speak awl. tell their own story, "I rode on a trunk load. of hay." "I love to feed the little Pigs and calves." ""We ware at picnics nearly every day." ',I gathered the eggs—there was a baalket 'full" "We .had a lot of ice cream coneu." In se fair es the ecuuounmcat side o the method is conberned It is esti .rated that the actual out-of+pocice expense with tbe combine ,.retro is about equal to or teas than th cost of binder twine with th regular way of harvesting, means something worth while to fanner to be abbe to save up t $1;50 per acre with the eombin and there le a Saving of grain an seed too that means quite a lot Particularly when harvesting see hay' crops, Also the new type o'e combine as demonstrated in the "Clipper" an and the tractor required to epera1 it can, be purchased rowen:ays at a cost of over twelve hundred' dtoilers less than It toolc 'ten, yearn ago to buy equipment of similar capacity, Operating cost of ,the present dray machines is (much lower, too, partioullarfy when a modern ttraoter is used. wd'th cute •of tbe new lOw- cottt panel•-tape•off coanlbines. In adtdlltion, to the combine, the one-way dose seeder was in opeitt- ttow, This machine is another 1n- eitance of glhat the modern agrIcul- tu•.a1 inepten)enit engineer is. de- veloping to reduce fan work and expense, It pa-el>ares, the soil and plants :the seed, doing in one oper- ation what formerly took three or four-. The ]ran who uses the one- way disc seeded to put in his crop does aviary with the setiarate jobs or plowing, dieting harrowing and sseding, Wfrth such equipment as ie ,now available 1110 lamer ie in a better pr dtlon, to carry 011 11.1,3 oPeretions With . a •wdoer margin, for Profit and 1115117 are finding it the. most pr+acti- rat solution to the present day problems of farming, A:tiending the; demonstration es the pereenl guests, of Mr, '1, A, Itrr 0l1 were wirer one bturdn'ed and 11117 of the mem retired an pension front the Toronto and 135105ford plants Of the MasseOdiarris Com- pally anth worn most entthusiaslic d e e a 0 "I was le the lake anti a wave dame over my head,' Onoldentaily this wave did not have very far I'We picked berries right off the e, d lensirve service with tbe Company, many with re'condS de,ting back to the Sevewttes and Eightiets. Mr. , W. S., Rouse of Brantford for In- stance johred. the flrni in 1809 and retired on pension' In 1929 and Mr. 1, W. T. Brown of Toronto is another real old timer havinlg been with 1118 Company 3110 m+139'2 to 1930. o Quite i a few of 'these Ion service mem had w wit'nes'sed the develepnnen,t and. 1n- trodvetion of the 111' t self -tinders and ted 'Played a very active al , themisedbes in the manui'aaturepaof to ; the machine that so ably represent- h ed the still of Canadian' workmen th in ,the great grain growing connt>'ies th of the World, .tit this d,emonstra• aa tiara they say for the first time tiie ee present day answer to the demand the for lower' cosh method* of erectile- tion'. Mingled• with their Pride in S tire. fact , 'that the: conmauy is Ur pioneering with the conlfyine was, ire doulbt, a slight regret that 03o they were not hack in the old 1S0u'mdny, 'Mtge, knife or weed shoe as to lend' their skill to the malting of he , those eehw machines. her An, n reseelt of their 0t1000ss In the euro eld lana year more Massey—Harris "C119per" Ccdnillues' were purchased in Olalario to haodie 'the 1030 liar- A 'ih 'el:`, lend a gen 80-51 widespread use of 'the clonhiripuo is Indicated d> is trent; towards thio tnpthod of y bar, -,11a "You get ,better things to eat in the country'" ''Shy, mister, did' you ever jump in a pile of hay?"—I did but I don't do muolr of that now,_ I asked orre little youngster if he had Milked- the cows—the reply was—like the Scateb. boy who was asked if he could play the fiddle— "I never tried. but I could db it," They' took a great joy out of horseback riding, and their replies 10 the question of a possible return next havyeaer to pwere rather•at hInome st ier:e4ing. "1 lay nest year and help mamma—my little sister is coming.' "I asked, the lady et the house where tl stayed if she would invite me back next year." That as a charming way to get on In society. 0 asked• one young lady her name and the enbiwer wos "Joyce," I wanted to know if it was reaily Joyce or if the, called her "Joe," audi her prompt answer was "I am not Joe Louis." -"Who le Joe Louis?" I queried. She replied, "A boxer," It occurred to me that it would he intere:iting to carry Ler mint[ -Into the higher plane of intelligence, 'Do you know Hepburn?" 1 asked The relay was "Yes." "Who is he?" "IIe Is somebody." She did not commit 'herself very far with that answer, "Who is Mackenzie Ring?" "I do not know." "Who is Dr, Mandon?' "I never beard' of him. -- I thought of asking her who was tbe mayor of Toronto and if she knew Mr. Herridge or Aberhart, but to mention the latter would only be an effort to carry a child or six into the field' of higher nmathematics, so I compromised and asked: "Who ie Hitler?" And, by the beard of the prophet I swear it, "this is the answer she made, 4'33* is in the cost of everY- tring," "Joyce,' I" sold, "tell sue that again. what do you mean by `the cost of everything' " and she came back with the meat Statement: "He de in the coat of everything." I cored get no funtner on that Mee, hi cannot tell You what was 111 hat ]tittle mind when she made the statemreut, but she was pretty st'[, close to the truth, and an 'der' person would not 'l'ee'ry have otidied: upon it with greater isdonn, One of the .trainmen told me a oodt one. A youngster emu° onig one day bet there was no one meet her, The, expressman put or in hie wagon and took her to e adcla'ees. given, HofortunatelY e lady was sick[ and could not cept her. The expressman elart- baok to the elation; the face of little girl was sadness person; ad. Then; the expreissmlaw ];add a 3gh t td'ea. 'Dry those tears, Yohmlg lady," said, ""I have seven youngeters my owT all as close to Year age possible acid ,iny wife will never Mee the. dikerenbe," So he took 'Did your wird pool • the differ - e?" 1 asked, Nb," he said, "sire never' Comas yin 007may." , 'tiler till, the 'heart Of the world rainy big! My guess *5* right, Wee the Meinea*maft.,