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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1940-4-10, Page 5THE BRUSSELS POST Announcement I wish the public to know 'Mr, Orville Thomas of Toronto, a, first class carpenter will be at your service this sununer For information and .prices on all lines of carpentering CALL HAROLD THOMAS — PHONE 80X 1 can supply at lowest prices—Insul Jbric siding, All makes of Shingles, Steel Roofing & Siding, Cement and Steel Stabling Also bricklaying, plastering and cementing, Information and Prices on any job without obligation Harold Thomas and Co. Contractors Brussels Phone 80x Expect Maple Syrup To ,Be Bumper Crop Season Is Only About Three ..Days Behind That of Last Year for Tapping; Indications Point to Prices From $1.50 to $2.50 a Gallon Despite an abundance of snow in the woods', the season for tapping of maple trees is only about .three days' behind that of last year, re- ports coming to The Post indicate, for already maple sYrdP has' made its appearance at the markets of nearby cities. (Indications are that the price of maple syrup will range from $1.50 to $2,50 a gallon. This indication compares favorably .wdth prices last year. It is slab understood that fewer farmers 'will be tappng trees t'hisi yelar, but no 'particular reason was'advanced for this contention. One was to the ellect that as many farmers have to buy new egitipm'ent this -year, they are deferring pur- chase, owing to an Increase in the cost of necessary equipment. Reports! are to the effect that a •bumper crop of maple syrup will be harvested this year, but farmers! in ,this •immediate district have not as yet started to garner the spring, crop, dire to heavy snow In the bush.) If the present thaw continues, tap- ping will be started this week it is understood. : rY�?TiZ1 44.11114.44.4444.114....1141144.1144444.444+144.$444.....444 m • • REPUTATION ¶ Through constant attention to Details we have built a solid reputation for "Perfection in Glasses." tical ¶ priceis—everydayough ngweSuperior ihaveestablished Service reputation Moderate for " "Moderate Prices." , '11 We are constantly strengthening that continuing the policy that has proven so the past. ¶ Have your eyes examined by us Your Glasses will be perfect—the price will be moderate. reputation by successful in W. A. JOHNSTON Listowel, = Optometrist A WELCOME Dwellers in the northern. temper- ate zone knows the delights of the four seasons. This year we know the delight of the coming of spring. While the long dreariness that has beset this region 'since the advent of the New Year has been relieved by such expedients as radio and the telephone and the electric light, sociability has been decidedly cur- tailed and getting about has been limitel to a degree believed impos- sible till Jack Frost and the north wind showed' themselves masters of the situation. The first days of early spring have therefore a mare than usually cordial welcome in 1940, Snowbanks are lowering. their haughty brow, The one way lanes of the country aroads are gradually widening. After supper wont is being done in comfort, with- out the aid of artificial light. Win ter',s accumulated rubbish is being cleared up, Once In a while we drink we bear the roach of a steam- boat whistle. Little knolls are. showing their noses through the anowiadden fields. ,The old people and the sick folks% are finding their way into the sheltered sunshine. Faces are commencing to find their old smiles. We can get to work without our overcoat. "Spring is here," we say to one another and extend our welcome to the soft warm breezes and the shining hours as we look for the snowdrops and the crocuses. Radio and Car Licenses Due Radio' and Car licenses' expirel the eul of March, The end of March is the end of the fiscal year for the Federal Gobeenmemt and all federal licenses expire at that .time. The Ontario Government also hes its E.sca1 year close the end of Nfarclr and all licenses of 1939 .marls expir- ed with the end of the month of March. The licenses dor cars for 1940 will expire the end of the year, December 3Lst, 'The time is just arriving when everything takes on new life. And we see on all sides preparations to match our surroundings with the new and brighter seasons ahead, The housewife is busy with her spring cleaning, and no doubt planning some changes in her home. The farmer starts tilling his land ready for seeding. The merchant and the manufacturer are offering their wares of the thousand and one things that are part of our spr:W i; and summer life. In the course of these changes everyone will find the need of transportation services, and whether it's a daily requirement or just occassionally you'll find more satis- faction in using: LISTOWEL TRANSPORT LINES TELEPHONE 155 Limited • Now is the time to think about the fancy prices you're going to getter eggs next Fall— make up your mind to take no chances with your 1940 chicks! Followthe farm -proven Roe feeding method and watch them grow fast and strong— full-fleshed and full of the pep and vigor that means greater egg -laying ability. The safe start is Rbe Vitafood Chick Starter—the palatable feed that gives them a "head start" in life. At 7 weeks. feed them Roe Complete Growing Mash—the feed that has all the vita- mins, minerals and proteins your chicks need to ensure steady profit- able egg production later on. When you order Roe Vitafood and Roe Complete Growing Mash, ask your Roe Feeds dealer for 'the valu- able free booklet: Let's Grow Better Chicks and Pullets, OE vitabroddfuedth. - ( 'tt fateAf itiaih Sold by EAST HURON PRODUCE, Brussels ALBERT TRAVISS, Walton FRANK HARRISON, ci w Moncrleff l`t i "Opt ZED FOR �o #Aj N FARM _ »• �� „s,�OVE 1'fOR ;Rf�1)tiS ' l 1 Confucius Say (Stayner Sun.) Confucius say a 'Chinaman Way back in 500 B. C. I40 was born in Shantung province in the old king!dlont of Fu, For years he was forgotten Then radio came to stay They played at "knee -it -knock jazz and quizz Anel now its Con,9ucilui say, Contfucius say some funny things And some are very wise if he, was living now, he'd Say Too much hooey makes poor radio guys, Confucius was a magistrate In the city o8 Chengtoo Hi4 teaching maid the Chinks so good Ile had no work to do, So 11e became a wanderer He wandered here and too; Confaeius say a roll stone she batch no moss So he returned to Lu, Comfuelus say to many things They're liable to eolitlh'se us— But, by heck he'd have much more to say 01 these present ley Confucius, cn'ary vle4ng and setting sun. will remisid them of the graves of their heroic dead The 'Finns live net by bread alone but by sentiments as noble as ebr heaved a inrmen• breast and by hope as mighty, as ever wore breatlrel rota human, nostrils. All this breve people require is a clianee to work out their own, dea- thly in .their own. way, It,, le not for srryono to tell there people what they ahoald do, All drat the rest of us can do is to give the aid. they ask, the aid that will be delloately received and wlvicli will be asked by them only by the World seeing their terrible need. NOT LIKELY TO RUN AGAIN In a n.e.w9paper interview the other day, Miss Agnes MadPhail, former woman member of Parliament, when sailed it she would; seek re-election; is quoted as saying: "I never 'will unless demo- cracy is sufficiently aware of its own need'to finance ite own elec..' tions," Et seenfst according to the inter; view, than the recemtrelection cam- paign oost Mies MacPhail $2,500 in personal expenses, ant that is quite a bit of money to lase, without hope Of getting any of it back again. • It would be nide, indeed ---dor M. Oanlada paid' all their elec- tion expenses, but we are afraid if Miss MdPha•11's re-entry into Parlia- ment has to await that happy event, she will not be running again for quite some time. Florida and Texas Get View Of Sun's Eclipse Photographs Mao Taken 'Of 'Spectacle Sunday Jacksonville, Fla., April 8—Des- pite scudding low clouds and an oc- casional shower, ,the show of halt a century—a rare ring eclipse of the um—was visible from the ground Thousand's of 'spectators in the narrow lane, in which the eery ring VMS visible for a few minutes gazed skyirvard' through bits of colored glass or pieces of exposed photo- graph film. Representatives of the Hayden. Planetarium from New York took pictures of the sun with its face nimost blotted out by the moon from the top of the 'bank building. Still another group shot the planetary phenomenon from a 21 - passenger plane, taking no chances. 01 missing photographic records of the first annular eclipse since 1345 to be seen int the United States and parts of Canada. There will be no other opportunity to photograph or observe a ring eclipse in the United States until 1894, astronomens sae. A new United States army bomb- er, equipped with the largest aerial camera in the country, also took to the air for ,pictures. WE CONGRATULATE THEM Nord coarses that the Finns have decided 3o remain 1n what is' left to thein of their own country, deso- late as it is. They say, they have enough left of their native soil to summit them in their national • ideate and to enable them "to make their peculiar contribution, to the good of the race, We ctinnot but congratulate these ,people on their decision, They're used to .their climate, They know what to do with their soil and forests atsd nett. ones and each radical resources as 1h•ovilernce has pill, 10 their way. Above all, they have their religion with its, hallowed. aseociatou!d, white Scaring Pests From the Farm "So you're going es let the crows se0 where Yoar taints are"! was the salutation of a shrewd Scots parson to a member cf his. flock, who trudged along the road bearing the irladdtioual scarecrow to be erected in a newly plau!te'd potato patoh. The remark must have penetrated, `for on his return journey the parson, saw the scare• crow lying deserted to the ditch by the roadside. Crows are crafty creatures and it is by experience rather thanin- stinct that they associate a seare- crow with the presence of some terns' erg forbidden fruit, Crows aro long-lived and consequently have long memories. Pests far worse thancrews prey upon the farmer's crud's, remarks B. Leslie Bnuslle, chOnhist-agrononriet Crows may be seen and heard, abut at or shoo'd away, though perhape not to stay, whle these other pests aro invisible micro-or•gauisanOO whose ravages, however, can be plainly seen by harvest time, ;Many of these nlicr00000lc peals are fungi. some of which may infest the .:all, but most of 411e111 are car- ried on the seed itself—for instonece, scab and rhizoctor4 of pots tem 1..!'t let of corn, bunt or stinh1ug sone of wheat, the smuts of tints, covered smut and stripe of barley, root and stem rots of cereals, peas b 9r le ;ted other crops. •S.ience 111s done much for ogre, culture, gaud, one of the latest and greatest achievements is the dis- covery that certain coirrpouhds of mercury will control these seed - borne diseas'e's without injury to the seed itself wilell aPPlitd in the small doses preseelbed. Indeexl, by destroying the fungi the. treatment w1DNE$DAY, AJMUL 10411, 1910 .r Wonderful Hatches Due to the exceptional vigor of our flock and a carefully .worked out •plan for in- creased fertility we are having the best hatches in our 27 years of experience Benefit By Our Success Up to May 1st we are giving a 4 per cent. discount on all day-otd stock—that is, on day-old chicks day-old pullets and day- old cockerels. This offer does not apply to started stock. • WALTER ROSE Poultry Farm, sti - Brussels P.O. Box 90 Phone 38X -r-4 11 1 improves the germinating vigor of the seed and consequently increases yields. Years of most careful, painstak- ing research end trial revealed that there is a specific organic mercury, compound! for each of several class- es of crops'. ,Fortunately, a little goes a long way, so the cost of treatment is trifling. Only a few cents. an acre, The seeds of cereals for instance, are treated effectively with the ethyl mercury phosphate dust at the rate of only onehalf ouuee per bushel, and the seed grain. may be treated:from 24 hours to ,three months before plantng, as may be oon!venient. For seed corn there is another organic mercury dent and a, differ- ent one ,for vegetable seeds, while for potatoes a wet dip treatment is used. For the 'control of seedling "damping -off" a ddlrite solution of the orguic mercury specific for vegetables may be prepared 'and ap- 0e4 to the soil with a 'Watering can or in a finer stray. • ' -•'1 To the query, "Are there many Scotsmen in your country?" the Australian is said to have replied: "Yes, but rabbits are our worst pest!" Yet, still ,worse than the depredation a animal bird and in- sect pestson grain are these of the devastating seed -borne diseases which take an annual toll'es!timted at 35 million dblales from these crops in Canada alone. SUPERIOR STORE QUALITY SEkVI'CL SPECIALS FOR THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY , 2 tins for 17c 10 ib for 63c per lb 9c pack 19c 2 Ib for 17c per ib 35c per pd 15c .. •-• per yd 19c , . each 69c ach 49c per pr 69c Garden Patch Corn 17 oz. Sugar .••••.. Hillcrest Pure Lard 1 lb carton Quick Quaker Oats, large plain Choice Blue Rose Rice .. Blue Boy Coffee l's •••• • • • • . . Factory Cotton 36" wide • .. . Fancy Chintz . Ladies' Satin -striped slips ... . Ladies' Lace Collar Sets . Ladies' Crepe and Chiffon Hose, new shades Ladies' Silk Scarfs .each 59c 1az`som :zt-o a`tJint."F r:VsorSix�r h+'177`sib"tomorlI`a'i^m--,.<ta,"`m2h tikr.• ro WM0 ZIEGLER HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR PRODUCE Phone 22-11 Ethel, Ont. HUMBLING It takes the weather to hatable us. For instance, we made up our minds that we would put up our lips at old man winter. We would have heaters installed in our cars and rade hither and thither in aur summer olothes, We'd build big Snow plows and let Dobbin and Neil doze in ,their stalls while the high- ways would be full of merry travel- ers. 01d man winter smiled quiet- ly, pursed up his lips and blew snow et no till lrlglrsvays, became snow lanes filled as high with snow as Is the brave days, of old, while we huddled over the registers and harried our brains for new forms of malediction on the whole weather fraternity, and all their works. Nature .simply clamped down on, us without as much, as a "by your leave, good people." Sometimes we think we're getting things dons but nature turns 'up an earthquake and in Eve seconds undoes what it took us! filly years to build. Then witness what a 'spring thaw cam do to our highways, a frost work with our harvest, and; a da'outh or a few is no room for boasting Why sirortid ao room for boasting. Wily should the spirit of mortals be proud? F. 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