Clinton News Record, 1954-09-09, Page 7it
'•I RSDAY S01'TE11¢.BER 9, 1954• i I CI.INTON ] EWS-REGC1ti;D
PAGE Sk'YEtY
Bassar%sk •or Civet at Ends Its
r '� WE SGIUTC THE +
�0 �e'S 4H CLUBS (/ydfs'✓►�
..-... v . ..^ai.•" .moi � ,
i ar
---r----;� ... ' � , � Ali • ::.•
Cecil McRoberts
John J. Jones
-reeve and councillor of Dela-
' WareTownship; John J. Jones, :857.
ft/fiber president •of rhe Byron
x'elephene 'Company, died in Clin-
ton Sunday at the, home of- his
daughter, Mrs. BrockOlde.
'He was born in Delaware Towii-
shipe'and lived there until retire
ment:to Toronto ten• years ago. He
Was.; son of the late, Mr, and Mrs:
Henry G. Jones. ' Before moving
to Toronto hewas a member of
Littlewood United Church where
he served as a steward. His wife,
'Che former Jessie Nugent, died in
;Heis survived by two daugh-
ters, Edith; Toronto; Mrs. Brook
Olde, Clinton;.a brother, Wiliam,
Delaware Township.
Fgnera1 service was conducted
from the McFarlane funeral home,
Lambeth, on Wednesday after-
noon, September 8, by Rev. W.
M Kiteley, Calvary United Church
London, and Rev. W. G. H. Hume,
Littlewood United Church. Burial
was in Oakland Cemetery, Dela-
ware..
Six nephews` were pallbearers;
E, Harold Nugent, Versey Scoyne,
London; Gordon Evans, St. Cath-
arines; and Clifford Jones, Mor-
ley Jones, Hebber Hamilton, all of
Delaware Township.
Service's for Cecil, M'cTtoti'erts,
74, Granton, formerly; of L,ongen,
who died in St. Joseph's Hospital;
Loladon Were' „conducted a't' Luean
on Sunday afternoon in' the Has-
kett funeral home, by Rev. Thom-
as E. Head, Granton United
Church, and Rev, A, E. Lloyd, St,`
Thomas. Interment was made in
Birr United Church Cemetery,,
He was born in London, Town-
ship, and was' a" son of ' the late
Mr. and Mrs. David McRoberts.
For 15 years he was a>member of
London police„ force, ,and left in
1916 to start a grist mill at Gran-
ton. Ile operated this for 26,years.
He was a member of' Granton
United Churcho a former/ reeve of
Biddelph Township, and active in
Masonic circles being a member
of Granton Lodge, No. 467, and a
former PDDGM of South Huron.
His wife, the former Mary J.
Lockrey, died six years ago.
Surviving are one son, Kenneth
W., London; two brothers, the
Rev. Chester McRoberts; of Sherk
Ston; Herbert, Minneapolis; three
sisters,; Miss B. W. McRoberts,
Clinton; Mrs. Margaret Anderson,
Kincaid, Sask.; Mrs. Flossie Mat-
thews, Toronto, and one niece,
Mrs. Robert Hardie, Granton,
FARMIRS
We are shipping cattle every Saturday for 'United
Co-operatives of Ontario and solicit your patronage.. We will
pick them ap at your farm.
Please PHONFf COLLECT not later than Friday nights.
Seaforth Farmers Co-operative
li. S. Hunt, Manager
PhoneDay9; Evenings 481w
- 39-tfb
Blyth-Belgrave 441 Calf Club
/Mefinal,meeting or the Blyth-
Belgrave 4-11 Calf Club was held
*t the, farm of;rames::Coultes, A
clasaof'Hereford heifers was judg-
ed and reasons` were given by all
members, Harold Baker,
assist-
ant agricultural representative,
gave a short quiz on 4-11 work.
Lunch was served at' the house
and the meeting adjourned,
•
JIuro Entries
. n,
In Livestock
At Western Fair
Though not` particularly strong
in entries of livestock,at the West-
ern Fair, London still,,, Huron
Countyy, will be sending some of its
best t5 compete against the other
animals in the, annual competi-
tions.
Robert E. Hern, Hensell ' is
entering cattle in with 248 others
in the beef cattle exhibit.
Among the 775 dairy cattle ex-
pected will be exhibits from the
stables of the following Huron
farmers: Baxter and Turton,
Goderich; Eldon H. Bradley, Gode-
rich; Edward F. Bell, Blyth; Wil-
liam Boyd, Walton; Huron County
Holstein Breeders Association,
Clinton; Huron County Home,
Clinton; Ross Marshall, Kirkten;
Gordon Reynolds, Seaforth; Peter
Simpson, Seaforth,
And of " course, in the sheep
class, Hullett Township's Ephraim
Snell will be making his usual
good showing. There are 441 sheep
expected to the exhibition.
Canadians this year will pay
about 5305,000,000 in taxes ear-
marked to provide the federal uni-
versal old age pension, about $50,-
000,000 short of the amount that
will be required.
Refreshing Secret
'What a wonderful drink Coca-Cola is...
with a rare, delicious flavor all its own. And how refreshing
the bit of quick energy it gives you. How nice, then, to know that Coke
• has as few calories as half an average, juicy grapefruit.
Have a Coke!
Four generations have made Coca-Cola
by far the most asked -for soft drink in the world.
Authorized bottler of Coco Colo under contract with Coco -Coln Ltd,
ESBECO LIMITED
658 Erie Street STRATFORD, ONT.
"Coke" is registered trade mark
4.13
fi
Phone 78
Including Federal Taxes
Career At Bayfield, Far From Home
(By our Bayfield correspondent) ting around the house, and the
C. Fitzgerald, gitche(ier, who
was the int to build' on the lake-
front of the formerThomas. h1
Elliott',farin in 193t, sees plenty,
Of wild; lite ,in the .denlelY wooded
ravine .beside his beautiful auminer
home. In July' he shot, an animal,,
which be -thinks was `elver -cat,
a native to the Southwestern.
United States and Mexico, It also
goes by the name of ring all and
is sometimes called a coQff-cat, but
is really a bassarisk, a first cousin
of the raccoon. He is;ai friendly
little beast who makes' :a good
householdpet—not being' a true
civet! He preys on field mice,
rabbits, etc.
•
• When Mr. Fitzgerald first
glimpsed it, three years ago, he
thought it a Bob -cat. ' Its body
was long, slender and humped like
that species. He did net see it
again until this year when it had
evidently grown fat feasting from
garbage cans. Every night it came
and very cunningly dumped the
can, which at at the back of the
garage, over towards the edge of
the ravine. Sa Mr. Fitzgerald rig-
ged up an extension with a three-
way switch, when his son, Carl, of
Toronto, was visiting him early in
July, They. watched . from the
window of the darkened cottage,
turned on the extension and saw
the intruder. 'The so-called civet -
cat was quite brazen. It looked at
them while Mr. Fitzgerald went
outside and fired his shotgun at a
distance of about 20 feet. It just
crouched behind a log and then
slid off into the ravine.
After they'd been in the house
about 15 minutes, they heard it
again. And once more Mr. Fitz-
gerald went outside and took aim.
But theanimal which had been
looking at them over the front of
the can, ducked down and the can
received the charge of shot. It
peeked up again and then disap-
peared. They did not hear it again
for over a week.
With the next rattle of the gar-
bage tin on July 19, Mr. Fitz-
gerald decided to shoot from the
bedroom window. He turned on
the light but hit his gun against
the window. This attracted the
animal's attention. It turned and
faced the house and this time the
shot hit its mark.
Mr. Fizgerald describes it as be-
ing larger than a raccoon with the
same black -face markings but the
head was shaped like that of a
foe. ' It was rusty red in colour
like a fox. And the only point
in which it seemed to differ from
the description of a civet -cat was
that while the latter's tail is ring-
ed all he way up, this beast had
only two black rings near the end.
How a civet -cat could get so far
from its native habitat is a myst-
ery, unless of course, it was
brought to this country as a pet
and escaped. After about a month,
the Fitzgeralds have noticed that
there is an occasional nocturnal
raid on the garbage cans so they
wonder if there is a mate some-
where about. They wish now that
they had sent the body to a taxi-
dermist.
On the other hand there was
no doubt about the identity of two
animals which peered through the
screen window in the cellar at
Mrs. Carl Fitzgerald as she carried
a platter of food down! In great
excitement she rushed up and re-
ported the presence of two skunks.
Carl Fitzgerald rushed out. E. C.
Fitzgerald grabbed his shot -gun to
put an end to the little poie-cats.
"Where are they?" he asked as he
went around the house. "Right
behind you," answered the son.
Father didn't lose any time get -
pretty black and white creatures
ambled off into the gully.
Last week two red foxes were
seen in the ravine.
I'
Crop Report
"Recent rains have held' up'har-
vest operations` considerably, ,but
in most areas this work' is. com-
plete reports G. W Montgom-
ery, agricultural representative for
Huron '• County. "A •7consi'dereb e
amount 'of fall 'plowing has been
done. Indications are that Winter
wheat will be sown in considerable.
acreage this year. A good deal of
interest is being shown' in the
Genessee variety which has proven
very satisfactory in trials 'to dare.'
Corn in this area has .been mak-
ing good progress. A number of
farmers have been reporting con-
siderable rust in their bean crop."
Sporting Life Spans
The fencer, who can count on over
62 years of participation, has the
longest active life in his sport. of
any athlete. Jockeys stay in the sad-
dle an estimated 22 years, the base.'
ball player keeps going for some 18
seasons while the table tennis player
lasts for 16 years. •
These figures, appearing in the
Canadian Medical Association Jour-
nal; were taken
from a study of
° nearly 5,000 per-
j'� ' sons.participating
- - in 12 different
n
,Jop an.lar Tsphe e -
,Japan. The re-
searchers found
that. field athletes,
like rugby play-
ers, have the s rortest professional
life -8 years. Swimmers are next
with Sts years.
In view of the increasing impor-
tance placed on sports, the Cana-
dian Journal stated, the medicaipro-
fession has taken some notice,of the
sportsman in relation to health.
This, however, is one of the few
studies published about the life span
and. health of the athlete.
The researchers also examined the
reasons why athletes retire, finding
that decline in physical fitness cuts
off the careers of most wrestlers and
jockeys but is unimportant in retir-
ing tennis players and fencers. Ac-
tual disease forced the retirement
of 20 per cent of Japanese athletes,
the survey showed, with tubercu-
losis striking nearly one of every 11
in the group.
Injuries were the most important
factor in stopping cyclists (22 per
cent) and football players (10 per
cent). Wrestlers .were not much af-
fected by the injury factor, a finding
which suggests, according to the
Journal, that Japanese wrestling is
a lot less brutal than the variety
shown to American TV spectators.
Ontario's Winter Wheat Yield Said
To Be Second Highest In History
Field Crops Branch of the On-
tario Department of Agriculture
report that Ontario farmers have
just harvested a 23,000,000 bushel
wheat crop with an estimated yield
of 32.3 bushels per acre.
In spite of unfavorable weather
conditions the 1954 Ontario winter
Wheat Crop has proven to be the
second highest in yield ever har-
vested in Ontario. It is exceeded
only by 1953 yields.
Average yields for the last ten-
year period have exceeded the pre-
vious ten-year period by four
bushels per acre and the ten years
previous to the first great war by
eight bushels per acre.
These increased yields can larg-
ely be attributed to improved
higher yielding varieties and to
added fertility, The three most
popular varieties now are Cornell
595, Genesee and Dawbul. Excel-
lent seed is available from the
many registered growers of these
varieties in the province.
Soil fertility also plays an im-
portant part in increasing yieldse.
An extract from a report of the
Advisory Fertilizer Board of On-
tario, states, "The influence of
fertilizers on the catch,of clovers
and grasses seeded wih cereals,
and the residual effect on succeed-
ing crops may be as important as'
'the more immediate effect on the
cereal crop. Also proper use of
fertilizer offers substantial in-
surance against winter killing of
fall sown grains and hay crops."
Farm yard manure is exceIIent
for winter wheat, and when ample
amounts of this material are avail-
able the Fertilizer Board suggests
an addition of 200 to 300 pounds
20 per cent superphosphate per
acre. Where manure is lacking,
fertilizer applications should be
made according to soil tests.
For general guidance, however,
the Fertilizer Board recommends
2.12-10 or 3-18-9 at 300 to 400
pounds per acre, for winter wheat,
rye and winter barley, If 4-24-12
is used the rate can be reduced to
225 to 300 pounds. If wheat land
is to be seeded down these rates
might well be increased by 50 to
100 pounds.
Grasses may be fall seeded at-
the
tthe time of seeding the grain but
the clovers usually thrive better
when spring sown.
Soil testing is done without
charge at such agricultural institu-
tions as the Ontario Agricultural
College, Guelph; the Kemptville
Agricultural School, Kemptville,
and the Western Ontario Agricul-
tural School and Experimental
Farm, Ridgetown. Suitable soil
boxes and instructions for taking
samples are available at all agri-
Cultural representatives offices,
• In the market for all kinds of Grain.. Low
s d
Price mean poor demand ane' --alt
must —quality l'Y ust be. good.
Dry grain a necessity;will
be pleased to test Y our`:
'grain for moisture before delivery.
•
'red O. Ford
PHONE 123W
CLINTON
gg LOW COST
QUALITY Milli TING
Depend on us for
every printing need
from a letterhead
to a complex adver.
thing, piece. Esti-
mates givenon
request.
tate,a, FINE PRINTING s`
PHONE 4 • for Estimates • and Quotations
Clinton News -Record
you, qua a
NEW BARN?
•
Is your herd outgrowing your present
barn? Have you enough space to store the
products of your farm? If not,
perhaps you need a new barn, or an
extension to your present one.
Don't let a shortage of ready cash hold
back your plans for a better farm—
whether it's a new barn or the renovation
of your buildings generally. You can
get nioney from. the B of M through a
Farm Improvement Loan — at low
interest rates and on a repayment plan to
suit your individual circumstances.
Why not see your 5 of M manager
this week? You will n
like his helpful Y DANH
approach to your plans. To 2 millWN niece
PH.— the fixer...
his full name is
Farm Improve-
ment Loan. Give
him a chance to
help fix up your
farm ... he's eco.
nomical, conven-
ient, versatile. lie
can do almost
anything in mak-
ing your farm a
better farm.
HANK OT MONTREAL
e,cut4sl44 Stade aka
Clinton Branch: WILLIAM MORLOK, Manager
Londesborough (Sub -Agency): Open Mon, & Thurs,
WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN EVERY WALK Of LIFE SINCE 11317
D•209
cQDrI@MippOile@CI E21E@Ph
r r.r tom. sr>r�nru.
SD
.'�
SAD, ISN'T IT?
ITS HER FIRST
;,\a,„0...,,,,,\EATING...MY
i PR DEAR, FWAS SO
PROUD OF MY
BEAUTIFUL EGG;
AND HE WALKED
OFF WITH 17.
DON'T WORRY.
YOU'RE GO YOUNG,
THERE'LL BE
PLENTY MORE,
JUST WAIT AND SEE,
SEAT UP'BIDDY -THIS
TI�PEGGP�POG'!/CTOl7N
•`TO® PROF/TS
�REl�OI/RS
ROE
p� ,e
Vic. cCC4Lf
GG MASH
zy
\�` N e
,, '''' S"""
��� ttw�%
"
P
Ugly
/�r
t�ilEt
r tAr .Ta a '
EGG MASH REALLY
SHELLS OUT' EGGS.
]•
r..-
GOSH ROEVITALAY IS
WONDERFUL.MY BOSS
ROE UITALAY
EGG MASH HAS
'faIVEN HER'A NEW
, O a
I DONT FEEL LIKE
POOR
LOST EGG! W E L L
ILLAISTTASTE.,SOME.
SAYS I'M BECOMING
THE BEST LAYER IN
THE FLOCK.
ABOUT
LEASE ON LIFE.SHE
LAYS SO MANY SHE
HAS FORGOTTEN ALL.
HERFMRSTEGO:.
\'
L.
°�
�
EGG.
I FELT JUST
....
• �\��
\\
.
�. �.�;;p
rr�
��� WON? S/.
t 1
THE SAME WITH
MY FIRST, i
MUST TELL HER
THE FACTS OF
• `
Q%\ i
.—. ,
v/HY;--
�.�r
ROEw.
{r a
o p
d \�
o _,.�
.ra1ti r `.
i`,�.�� e —
.rte 1'rr...tPi//It
�'I\ qSj��
.--....'7.43 I`a��Lr
11i
Mhtilile�ji•
AVL
Itill
if,, I
v
LiFE.
n
�e+r,
_-%�''
ij.
it)►
;
,I, ' r.(
100.4
ti:
t`sr� /
I/
I .M�\
//V /e/ASN 4R
Charlesa,�rc rfh
CLINTON
BRUCEFIEi
.. �r'--•�
"-.
,