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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1940-4-10, Page 7en e - tis Ly, c - ay a er (;, le, in le. tto lr- xl, n is n k st y ce er til iu is re or he g w to :s. 0' 0 tt THE BRUSSELS POST FA} --!M NEWS ANI. = INFORMATION LICENSED AUCTIO r, EER for the Counties of HURON AND PERTH W. Sp t: a aids Phone 35-r-13 Atwood Ail Sales promptly attended to. Charges Moderate. For Engagements phone 31, Brussels The `Post' and they will be promptly attended to. .:'+s r, caa: i::+✓:.+v ,�,z ss,: FARM COLUMN (Conducted by Prof. -Henry G, Bell, Of the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, assisted by other members of the 0.A.C. faculty) BARLEY AND BACON Without benefit of bonus but in anticipation of better prices the Canadian farmer since the war in 1urope began ' has brought many more acres tinder the plough, a typical example being in Nova Scotia where Dr, W. S. 131a1r, secre- tary of the N. S. Farmers' Associa- tion, : Prof. K. Cox, Algricui,tura•1 College, Truro, and others conduct- ed an. aggr'cysive campaign for 50% more land. in grain. At the annual convention of the IC S. Farmers' Association,, :held in Truro the other Replacing Steel 'Wheels on your- tractor with GOODYEAR Rubber Tires costs less than you think! • On your next trip to town check with us in changing over your present steel wheels to Goodyear tires. We. can do the job for you quickly. And remember ... first low cost is only a start to savings! Goodyear tires roll smoothly on any road, in any soil, they make your work easier, cut repair bills asznuchas50%, saveup to 25Odo on fuel. "SURE -GRIP" FARM TRACTOR TIRE o No other tractor tire can compare with Goodyear Sure -Grip. It is the surest -footed, hardest -pulling tractor tire ever de- veloped for wet clay, mud and heavy soils. Sure -Grips on your tractor will pull you through soil conditions that would bog down other tires, Husky, tough, wide -spaced, self-cleaning cleats give extra traction . they are chemically treated .. to resist cuts and retain their sharp, biting edges. See this new tire soon ... we have If you bre buying a new tractor, it quill pay you to specify ... Goodyear Sure -Grips/ Anderson Garage Brussels, Ont. INSIST ON SUN -HAY 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. - Enquire about these feeds to -day also free literature on feeding for prof its. F. M. SAMIS Phone 80 Brussels FREE SERVICE OLD, DISABLED OR DEAD HORSES OR CATTLE removed promptly and efficiently. Simply phone "COLLECT" to WILLIAM STONE SONS s. LIMITED PHONE 21 INGERSOLL BRUSSELS — PHONE 701 week; Prof. Cox gave a very instrue- tice talk on "Grain Production on Old Grass and Pasture Lands De- pleted in Fertility," envphasizing. the need for liberal applications of the prober fertilizer. IDEAL NURSE CROP . Barley will be grown, more ex- tensively his year, because of the pronrinentt 'place accorded it in the feed ration for bacon. hogs, and barley with its shallow root system requires a fertile top soil, Unlike malting barley, feed barley is not fastidious, demanding only the liberal feeding which promotes vigorous, healthy growth and fills the kernels. Speaking of kernels: in order that these be not t'<t11 of smut, a disease thattakes a heavy annual toll of our grain. the seed barley should be treated with ethyl mer- cury phosphate, the dust fungicide for cereals, at the rate of one-half ounce per bushel. Barley is an ideal narse crop - and may sometimes be sown with grasses and clover. When these are seeded down • the fertilizing should be more ample to ensure success of the following hay crop. Farm Management on Little Chats What Is Your Farm Worth? Increasing interest is being shown in the ownership of faran land, *This is characteristic of war periods. It maybe that a termer will be approached by someone asking the selling price of his Yarm and in many cases this is net an easy thing to state. Farm values are deter- 1 mined by several different methods but probably the most usual is by comiparing the merits of the farm under consideration .with those of some other nearby Term which has recently changed hands at a known. pldce, In some localities no sales have taken place and it is necessary to piece a value on. It by guess. To the buyer, who of necessity Must pay for the fain r with opera- tion profit the fanuu value is very closely linked with its productivity. The problem of securing a satisfac- tory measure of fawn productivity as a basis of value is uo,w being solved. , The Heonomic Division, 'Market- ing Service, Ottawa, and the On- tario Agricultural College, Guelph, by means of the Ontario Farm Man- agement Study have found that cash receipts to (Lomuel-ism) with invest- ment, gives a measure of produotive value, and this/ is ebpressed as the nualtber of years It 'takes for 'the Auction Sale• FARM STOCK & IMPLEMENTS,' of Or. T, T. McRae, Block A, Lot 11 Concession 12, Grey Twp., on TUESDAY, APRIL 16th At 1 o'clock sharp, the following- CATTLE- 1 Dual Purpose, hull, 2 years old in July. - This Bull was raised on the farm of J, G. Bingeilnan, Kitchen- er and is from Stock that has been prize -winners in Canada and the United States for years, Mr. Binge - man is a past president of the Shorthorn Association of Ontario. His papers go with him. 1 Cow 7 year-old Registered Snortuotn •(Scotch) Heavy in calf 1 Cow 7 year-oIl Registered: Short -horn (Scotch) Heavy In calf 6 Grade Cows All supposed to be is calf, most of them heavy in colt 6 Yearling Cattle 2 Young Bulls 10 two-year-old Cattle H0RSES- 1 Mare, ten -year-old Heavy in foal to 1MIcMichael's horse, Seaforth, Weight about 1500 lb 1 Mare„ black ten -year-old. Heavy in foal to McMichael's horse, 'Seufortih,. About 1500 lb, 1 Horse, seven-year-old' Weight about 1700 lb. 1 Horse, three-year-old Pereheron Weight about 1500 lb. 1 Mare, ,two-year-old Percheron Black in. color, Weight about 1200 ib. She Is a beauty, 14 Pigs, two months old 3 Sows, bred IMPLEMENTS - 1 Fertilizer seed Drill, Just used few yeas -s 1 set four -section Harrows 1 `Cultivator Massey -Harris 1 Gang Plow 1 Walking Plow 1 Hay Rake 1 Hay Loader Massey-Harrls 1 Mower ,Massey -Harris 1 Wagon 1 Hay -Rack tivitpt car 1 Sett Knee Sleighs 1 Wagon Box with sides 1 Gravel Bol 1 Binder, McCormick 1 Manure Spreader 1 Steel Roller 1 ' Stuffier t 1 PAeg y,: M L4auchdln make 1 Rubber tired jogging Cart 1 Pig 'Crate 1 Disc Harrow- 1 arrow1 Stuck Rack cash receipts to equal the capital in - Vestment, A. study of 334 whole m111 -dropper farms for the year ended April 30, 193.3 shows ;that it requires the cash receipts of 4.6 years to equal the total value of the Mom, live stook and equipment. Another group of 253 farms, from which milk was s1r15)ped dor maneih:cture' resaiired 5.2 years for the each receipts to egrlai the total capital Value. 23y using these ratios/6 of turnover to capital a farmer .can arrive at a. fair valuation of his farm, Clash recants are made up of all Yarm. sales daring ;the year. In order to make a tar estimate of • these an average should be used of the re- ceipts over a period of yeaae, This average, multiplied by the figure given above, applicable to the •tytee of dairy farm will give thbe preduc- t,Ve value of the total tame capital. I2, from this sunt, the value of live stock, anaohinery and other moVe- ablest Is deducted, the balance is __„ ....... ....., ... _. Vahuvtion for real estate', ( 1 Set Single Harness 1 Set Team Harness 1 ar,affset Team Harness' 100 Leghorn Hens 25 Pullets 1 Stack of Hay, 27 loads were put in 1 Lawn Mower 1 Coal Stave 1 Coal Oil Stove 1 Cutter 1 Hard grass Seeder 2 Wbeel Barrows 1 Hand Horse -Clippers 1 Hand Saw 1 Riding Plow 1 Turnip Sower 1 Penning Mill 1 Hay Knife 3 Pitch Forks, I Manure Fork 1 Stable Shovel 1 Grain Shovel 3 Ladders; one an extension Grain Bags, Buggy Bugs: Dusters; Timothy Seed; Clover Seed, Neck Yokes Whiffletr•ees, Buggy Jack Hack Saw & Scalers etc, TERMS—CASH Everything must be sold as Proprietor has disposed of farm. F. W. KEMP, Auctioneer, R. J, BOWMAN, Clerk. a W1dIyN S07ft?w) ,A,13 W 10t11, 1a ' WE PAY HIGHEST HIGHEST CASH PRICES FOR CREAM DELIVERED AT THE BRUSSELS CREAMERY PHONE 22 BRUSSELS beech log twice 115 65 seconds to win the championship. If anyone thinks this is not going some, Just let him try it. Such contests are a good silec- tacle, brit they cannot be much fun for the competitors, Sawing hardwood such as beech or maple is DO easy task even at a leisurely pace. Three elements enter into wood- sati;ring matches. Ones the wood the saw biting through some vare- eties much easier than others. The second is the saw. It most be sharp and have the •proper ."set," The third is the men, No place Is team ' work more essential than between men on either end of •a crosscut saw. If ,they don't work together. they either don't cut much wood, or I else they are tired men before many ' logs have been handled. The art of sawng wood is be- coming a lost one in too mauy districts. In some, the bushes have disappeared, In others, gasoline! engines Propel the saws, with men . merely manipulating the machin- ery. ,Trees In Place ,Of Snow Fence Farme'r's Advocate Points to Nature's Usefulness In Providing A Windbreak The original cost of avow fences together with .the expense of put- ting theme up and taking them down each year, is an item of no small dimensions. In the Province of On- tario, says the Farmers' Advocate, ani when we add to this the cost of ploughing out highways and country roads the figure is considerably in- creased. This cost will grow rather than become less, :for the towaps'hiyps and counties' are under- taking undertaking to keep sideroad and conces- sions open during the winter in order that fanners may market their product any and every day of the week. Hedges of Forest Trees There is growing enthusiasm re• garding the usefulness of .trees to replace snow fences, Hedges of for- est trees planted around 30 feet from the road lane are beng tried ill' several counties, The railroad have already demonstrated the ef- fectiveness of tree rows in prevnt- ing drifting and municipal officers have inaugurated a similar polf071 but as yet only in an experimental way. In many districts bt wild probably work oat so the strip of land be- tween the trees and the roadway will be cultivated. Fences will be eliminated anis a wee/ -cutting prob- lem will be solved, Dairy Products Higher In Huron The production of dairy products in Huron County is increasing in volume as indicated by coanparison of the products of the first two months of 1940 and the same per- iods in 1939. in January. and Februay of 1939 the cheese output was 45.996 pounds and of creamery butter $69,223 lbs. This year the amounts are respect- ively 49,773 an increase of 3,777 polnds and 494,733, an increase of 25,560 pounds. This total production of cheese and creamery butter in the county in 1939 was 613,032 and 4,741,413 pounds respectively, Huron Old Boys' Assoc. of Toronto The Annual Church Service of the Huron Old Boys' Association of Toronto, which had been arranged for Snuday. Apt11 7111 has been in- definitely postponed owing .to the indisposition of the Chaplain, Be,v R. F. lttoDervrdd, who has been ordered by his physieiam to take a two months' rest, - HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID FOR EGGS AND POULTRY F. Mo SAMIS PHONE 80 — BRUSSELS Aimmomimr O•sy y•S �N•+O,N�1."-e• 41'00 • 44.1N•H•••+-4 .0.44M:tM+N:M4H •4•!4• + Sawing Wood Forgotten Art In Some Districts of 'Ontario Thorp Is No More Buohland — Wood Sawing Matches Provide. Ehtertainnient A,t the Western, Ontario cross -eat sawing contest, herd at Moravian,. towwni says the Wltidlsor Daily Steri t1WO mea eta ;through, u 25 -/hall Twp- of Grey NOTICE The Council of a Township may pass a By -Law, pursuant to the "Tile Drainage Act" to Borrow Money to assist in the Construciost of Tile /Drainage. If sufficient applications are received from owners of Farms. The Council propose to Borrow' from the pro- vincial Government the Necessary " Funds to assist in the Construction of 'The 'Drain in the Township of Grey. Por information Consult any member of the Council' or the Clerk. Application Terms may lbe ,had at the Clerk's Office J. H. FEAR, Clerk, ris+'�NiN�Ne1!�i�c:.��!!i!*i!�'i*OJ!�iN�4'�►�►�ik ,.r �.�.�..�r. � ..