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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1940-2-21, Page 3Tk1i~ BRUSSELS PAST WEENElel AY, FEB, 21et, 1940 FA I1T EV.: .� Places 405 Youths On Ontario Farms Donrinion'Provnecial Youth Trebl- ing Nan success in Ontario. Num- ber of good laths just welting 'For farm jobs, . says Alexander M'acLar- en, director of fern training. The placing of youths sixteen. to twenityl-two 'yeas old on Ontario farms therugit Deminl'on,Preeinieial Youth Training, Plan, has been a great success, 405 tbbys having been :placed with good tanners in the pact year, according to figures made available by. Alex, ManLaren. direr - tor of farm training far Ont,. "We.plecerh 38 boys. in January 1 and, fifteen so far this month," said Mr. Meet -are; "We have fifteen boys just waiting for darm jobs, and m we could place still more If farmers would only write us. Wages run from $120, to: $200, a Year With board, Lettere frrom bbtlr boys wanting Earn work and farmers wanting hoye, should be addreeeed t9 me care of the Parliament Build- ings, Toronto." Mr. MaoLaren said 52 boys who have worked on falmis for a year w.11 be given a two weeltsr short course 115 Agriculture at the Ont. Agnicultatdal College, Guelph, com- menting Feb. 19th, All expenses will be shared equally between the Fedemai and Provin'oiel gouts, The bots will receive ineltruction from menebers of the O.A:C. etaff in every branch of farming. 3• S. Knapp, and J. L. Baker, Hampton, 'will be in charge of the boys at !Guelph, q=SNAPSNOT CUIm_ PICTURE YOUR PETS A flash bulb, fired just as the photog captured this picture. The camera shutter TBW albums contain enough pic- tures of the family pet—the dog, kitten, parrot, or whatever animal companion you have. Bow - ever, with a little patience and strategy, such shots are not dif- ficult to get—and they certainly add interest and variety to your picture collection. For a good picture of the pet, you need a large image—and here is where the portrait attachment comes in. Slip one of these on the camera lens, and you can take pic- tures with a box camera as near as 3 feet to the subject. Even nearer, if yours is a focusing model and you use the attachment. Naturally, you'll pick a moment 'when the pet is quiet. Balt is help- ful. For example, a saucer of milk to tempt the cat. Put the milk in tine chosen spot, under your photo lights—place the camera exactly the right distance away from the saucer—and as soon as the pet takes the bait, you're ready to shoot. For shots with photo bulbs of the "flood" type, load the cam- era with high speed film. Flash bulbs are often a help in shooting pet pictures. The picture rapher aroused the dog from sleep, was first set for "time" and the opened. above is a "flash shot." First, the camera was placed just the right distance from the dog, while he slept under the ldtcheu stove. The shutter was set tor a "time" ex- posure. Then the photographer turned off the kitchen lights — opened the camera shutter—made a loud noise to awaken the dog— and Hashed the flash bulb. Then it was necessary merely to clone the shutter and wind the film for the next shot. Thus, you see, you don't have to have a synchronizer for flash shots, although it's a convenient device. Indoors, you can use the flash bulb , in any electric socket. Make sure, of course, that the light switch is in the "off" position before you in- sert the bulb. For flash pictures, either chrome film or high speed film can be. used, but you must have the light at the right dis- tance from the subject. Pets are excellent subjects for indoor shots—and it would be fun, this winter, to makecollection a c esti of pictures showing your pet's antics and activities,No two pictures will be alike—and their interest never wanes. Try it and see. 268 John van Guilder 1 INSIST ON SUN -RAY Start to -day Feeding, Sun -Ray Concentrates to your Poultry & Hogs Sun -Ray 35% Concentrate with your own grains for better Egg Production. SUNRAY PIG -STARTER and SUN -RAY HOG, CONCENTRATES with your own grains for faster growth and Bigger Profits. Enquiro about these feeds Corday also free literature on feeding for profits. F. M. SAMIS Phone 80 Brussels ................. Bigger Yields Per Acre And Spring Seed Shows (By R•USTICUS) Iilgger yields per acre: .That is one of the pr4na l?al aims of all formers; and often as. we read of the yields' reported by some of our good farmers we wonder if they are possible. Forty -file or fiery bushels a Fall wheat per acre is a mighty big yield when one compares it with tre, average of twenty or twenty-five per acre' ever the whole province. Frankly; we have had Fail wheat yield 40 bushels per acre, and it would seem as though hardly any rnore wheel could habe grown on the ground'. Tinley bushels per acre is a good crop, and the farmer who oar grow thirty-five bushels on an acre year after year is conaide'r- ed a vey good fawner. Eighty, ninety and even one hun- dred:bushells per acre are frequently, reported as the per acre yield of oats. We kwaw many fainters who scoff at those claims, They bit of big morn. and small bushels, and we do know that some farmuere can, get more bus!lreals' of grain into a granary ?Han others. They forget that a bushel of grain displaces about one and .a quarter cubic feet o8 space. These yields, are excep• tional it is true, When the farmer has an average field of forty bushel per acre for all grain's grown lie meed net feel too 'badly about it. Forty-five, od fifty can be counted on' as a mighty good) crop, * * * Those figures mean a wide range between the average and the best Yields, Surely there is room for impr-o'veteesit somewhere. Bach year about, this time our Depart- ments of Agriculture remand us to get the seed grain cleaned up. One would hardly imagine this to be necessary. In fact, we know not one farmer whom we would suspect of sowing poor seed. On the other• hand repres'entwbives of the Seed Branick inform us that .they have gone out to the fields where the farmer was doing. his .Spring seeding and taken mingles from the drill and they report that many of these samples are decidedly inferior in quality. In fact, they report thwt come of the seed. 'has hardly even been rum through the fanning mill. Eventually these dsarmes's are going to be out er business, one would imagines; but the ybave a wonderful ability to hang on, from year to year. This, Spring two new .iarieties or oats are getting 'men nubicity. Frequently rust takes a toll of our crops. A most promising crop can be greatly ruined just before har- verting time by rust. The new. varieties are said to be rust -resist - /1g, and some excellent yield's' are reported. The new varieties are Perhaps no better yielders though than some of be Older kinds. Untied favoralble conditions some of the other varieties such as improved Banner may yield just as well as the Urban or Vanguard, 'Conditions are not always' favorable, though. Over 0 a wide area there is bound- to be some rust and over• the Province some of the rust -resisting varieties might out -yield the othens by quite a. wide margins Hate do elle new varieties origin- ate'? Any farmer who. .has visited who has visited the O. A, C. during the Sinned months must have seen Many sfa11 plots of gran where new varieties, are telsted. It may be One plant in seine of allege plots titan shows great promise and from that plana may coque a variety of grain that will add anil'ldous of dollars to the farmers' andnation's income: We have frequently heard it Bald by some farmer, t'1: neves' got any good from the O,40, or any' other expert - mental farm," ,Such sta,tentents are rldiculatus, There is, 1101 Dae 1111111 Iii Olitario that has not been touched and Unedited in some way by the worst of our Departments of Agriculture and their Experimental Fannin, * to 8 INVe find. that it is frequently : necessary to arrange aced grains. One of the principal reasons is that ;;gain, and the barley is generally of the tweetowed variety, One of the most disappoinaing features . of buy - lug seed grain is the, dlbfieulty of gating than variety wanted, Quite often the purchaser of, say, Banner Oats duds he has a mxture of sever - all kidder, including some early variety, The Perth County Crop improvement Association plans a Scaring seed fair, and we are much in favor ofthat idea. There will be miany fawners who will make the statetnemh that there is nothing to see at a seed show, but We believe that no farmer can, afford to miss the chance of looking over a good exhibit of seed and selecting enough of same good- variety to sow at least a few acres. • Farm Notes THE FARM FRONT PLANS CAMPAIGN Reality farm products, for war- time export indicate the basis on which the 1940 new crop year en- ters its initial preparation stage, says G. R. Snyder, soil chemist. Good food is first class ammuni- tion 111, any war and more panic- ularly in a war of nerves. The front line fighters and the civilian papulation in the •war area need the best eve can sent them, Don't Sacrifice quality The cibjeative is not entirely un- selfish, however, but has a ,found Won, in the mistakes of the first world war when quantity produc- tion Was pushed at the expense of quality. Dr. L. S. Adchibald, ertor of the Dominion Experimental Farms, illustrated ,this point very forcibly at the Ontario Experimental Union Meeting, viten he drew at- tention to the foot that it had taken Canada the .whole of 20 years since 1918 to regain the confidence of the British consumer for Canadian bacon,' DIsregard of soil fertility and the growing of grain• on sub- marginal lands are some of the other mistakes that should be guarded against. New scientific knowledge of matters pertaining to the growing of Held crops and the feeding of livestock are potent as- sets in the •prelseaut program. Higher yielding varieties or rust. resistant wheat, such as Renown, and of oats —Ebben or Vanguard; better type bacon, hogs, with a greater supply of 'good, breeding stock available, are foundtation factors for the tines, sary expansion. Supplying Plants Canadian Gardeners Are Told By Dominon Seed House That Amazing Growth Results Are Achieved by Feeding Vitamin B-1 Au, interesting new discovery for the gardener, panticularly for those who wish to try out for thelntselves the results' of the latest research exnerintents is now .available in Ca• nada, The new ,product, known as Vita- min B-1 was discovered in Califor- nit and has been b tested sed ort by the California institute of Technology and le said to have produced sur- ,prisdng resudlts in stimuletiug the growth 08 ceptain plants Good For Flowers, Shrubs The Dominion .Seed. House at Georgetown state they ,have care- fully tuvetstigated every available source df information, on this new product, had trials of their own, and supplied B-1, for trial and re - pout, to a number of qualified gard- eners, As a result, .they satisfied themselves .that claims made Or 13•1, were justified and well round- ed. They ,have now received infer. rnation from Ottawa that the De- pertinent of Agrecultur0 has approv- ed Vitamin B-1 for sate in Canado. era'vided that 110 claims are made for it in respect to gess, beans, earn, tomatoes and ether vegetable species'. (13-1 dors not benefit all Plante e ;and experimental work in- dicates that its greatest service is ia, respect to flowers, shrubs, trees, etc.) In Powder Form The product is ealcl u Canada by D01111111011 Seed House in Powder w•o get our grain ail tnixed up. A 1 fnrrn and' the standard Sin pack- 1" bailey in the (Tags apparently age will prepare 2,000 gallons : of sal- { very mon :gets to be a strong nixed ution, 600 Horticulturists I Sleighs Must To Meet at Toronto i Have Bells , Shades of yesteryear! Last week - Special srpeakervs for Ont, Hortieul' , Weal Association Aarnual Convent-! Mon to'be, held Fee. 29 and March 1, Rural beautification .to be one 'of the featured. Pruning demonstration by W, 15, Foster, London. Six 'hundred delegates, from 02- ' taw to Fort William, are expected to attend the annual two-day con- ventiou of the Ont. %Tortieulturai Assoclation 'to `be held in Toronto at the Ring Edward Hotel, R'eb. 29 and March 1, An excegtionally line program has; been prepared by President, A. 11. MacLennan, Guelph, and Secretary, I J. A. Carroll, Toronto, The Associa- tion has 'been, meeting with splendid 1 success in its campaiglt for rural beautification and this subject will again be stressed at the meetings. One of the features of the conven- tion will be the address of L. F. Sanitdi noted 'Buffalo Horticulturist,.' who will talk on the garden club • movement in the United States. Fertility needs of lawns, flowers and vegetables, will be discussed by Prof, H. G. Bell, .0,A,C. Guelph, while imtproventent of school grounds! will be the selbject of Norman Davies, Dept. of Education, Toronto. W. E. Webster, London, will demonstrate pruning methods for trees, shrubs, and roses and Rev 3, W. Sleben, Tavisitock, will talk on flower show •management. Five discussion groups will hold sessions, with delegates attending any or all of thein, Hon. P. M. Dewar•, Ont. Minister of Agriculture and Colonel the Hon. George Drew will 'be banquet streak- ers February 29th, end Crowe. Attorney Heinlee receiv- ed.tbree eomplainits from mothers to the effect that their children Bad narrowly eeleaged being ran over by horses and elite:ere snoaltieg up on thou without blowing Their horns, or leather ringeng their bells, So he sleeted off the old statutes and attre enough the section, was still there requiring thwt each horee drawing a sleigh or Butter must wear at least. tavo belle on the martingale, hips or elsewhere. He has asked The Signal -Star to bring this to the attention off the Pelblic.—+Goderich Signal -Star. Jam for !So'idlers- £Some fonty •ordersfor jams and marmalades have. been. placed by the War Supply Board since N'ovem'ber •Lett to keep Canada's .enlisted men swelled. with these niceties. The combined orders represent a total' of $14,500 and include stdawberay, raspberry and plum jefs and orange marmalade. 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