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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News Record, 1932-04-07, Page 6.PAGE TITE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD NEN A11I3: for the- �u e� ( Furnished by the Department of Agriculture ) nt. l owner and his neighbors. They lel) e' to ,control the flood danger anc1 act e as reservoirs that augment the wa- k Cow testing. is very importa ,Not all cows that give milk ,ar profitable. The only . way to mak sure of these unprofitable cows 1 by the systematic use of the mil ;scales and the 'Babcock test. Only land that will, .respond to good 'treatment should be cultivated at all. There • aremany thousands' of acres in Ontario that "will not produce .farm crops profitably- and' should be reforested without further waste of time and energy, . Every farmer can sectiro' this year any number of trees for reforestation purposes by applY4 to the Forestry Branch at Toronto. Application forms are available at your local ag- ricultural office. Soil Must be Right For Use in Hot- • Beds "The soil used in hot -beds should be the best for the purpose that it is possible to obtain," states an of- ficial of the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. The success or fail- ure of a highly prized crop, may de- pend to a very large degree upon the attention given to the proper prepare ation of the soil. Soils that are too fine in texture will not drain proper- ly, and such a soil, while it may be amply rich in plant food, may lack only the addition of a little sand to make it satisfactory. On the oth- er hand, a deficiency of humus will have a tendency to allow the soil to compact, which is likely to prevent even root development, and also does not permit of a proper distribution of moisture through the soil, Sow Clean Seed A recent survey shows that weeds were responsible for a total loss of between 150 and 200 million dollars in Canada last year. The direct loss in crop actually displaced or killed out by weeds was over one hundred millions, while the remainder was made up of freight charges for car- rying weed seeds along with grain, clover and other crops, loss of mois- ture, depreciation of farm value due to weeds and the increase in cultiva- tion necessary where these soil robbers were present. To mitigate this loss, the land must, be cleaned up. Careful pre -seeding cultivation will clean up ordinary fields, white partial summer fallow and the sow- ing of smother crops like buckwheat, rape and turnips are recommended for very bad patches of such tenac- cious weeds as twitch and sow this- tle. A clean seed bed, plus clean clover seed and _clean seed grain of a high standard of purity and ger- mination, will give a big increase in yield over the other kind at practie- 01137 no more east. Only clean, plump, vigorous seed, tested and ap- proved by Government authorities, should be used. Barley For Horses Barley can be economically used for feeding horses in grain mixtures up to 25 per cent. It gives best re- sults .with horses at work and the inclusion of bran or a feed of alfalfa. or alfalfa and timothy hay, will pre- vent any of the undesirable results attributed to this grain. When well boiled', with the un- absorbed liquor taken up with bran. with the addition of a cup or so of molasses and a pinch of eonunon salt, or a tablespoon of. Glaubers Salts, barley forms one of the best conditioning feeds for a horse, fed two or three nights weekly, ,or even each night for a period, Ontario Farm Statisties A considerable decrease in the number of horses and cattle on On- tario farms and an increase in the number of sheep and poultry featur- ed the farm statistics just released in connection with the 1981 census The following comparisons between 1981 and 1921 are given: 1931 1921 Horses -. 578,833 660,048 Mules . 411 119 Cattle . 2,478,824 2,633,562 Sheep 1,035,158 978,892 Swine .. 1,379,943 1,886,081':. Poultry .. ..23,587,885 16,500;697 3oes, Hives 113,476 . 84,571 Woodlandsl:ntportant Scattered' woodlands through the countryside . besides supplying the • owner with cheap fuel and logs help, the general living conditions of the ter whieh appears as -open springs o flows as underground streams that are tapped by the wells. They are effective windbreaks and beautify the countryside, ' Provision should . be arcade for the replacement of the old trees which will eventually be cut or die of old age, if it is decided to keep ' a field in bush. This may be done by nat- ural reproduction 00 by planting: Itfany woodlots ` have no natural production because they are pastur- ed. The stock browse the seedlings each year as they germinate, break and mutilate the saplings,, pack the soil and injure the roots sof the large trees. Continued Pasturing means the gradual depreciation and the ev- entual disappearance of the wood-, lac. A new crop of seedlings will be appearing this spring and will be destroyed, as in former years, if a fence does not keep the stock out The fence may be fastened to the trees by first nailing a wooden strip to the tree and attaching the wire to the strip. If shade is desired in the pasture field, some of the trees may be left there. If the woodlot is very open and the owner does not wish to wait for nat- ural reproduction, or the trees now on the woodlot are not desired in the future crop, he niay secure trees free from the Ontario Forestry Branch. Apply to the local Agricul- ture) Representative or the Forestry Branch, Parliament Buildings, To- rcnto, for tree application forms and literature. , Trim the Raspberries Trimming of berry bushes is a very important -task. In the early spring the canes sof red raspberries should be cut back a little at. the tops. Some of the canes have bran- ches and these should be cut back to a length of almost ten inches. The thick canes bear the most fruit. Thin out the canes in the hedgerow se that they will stand about six inches apart. If the plants are left in hills, leave about eight cunes to a hill. In the case of black raspberries, the stand of canes in the hills had best be left undisturbed, but they should be cut back more severely than reds. HOG- SHIPMENTS Report of Hog Shipments for the month ending February 29. 1932: Clinton—Total hogs, 670; select bacon, 239; bacon, 352; butchers, 60; heavies, 12; extra heavies, 3; lights and feeders, 3. Auburn—Total hogs, 540; select bacon,. 171; bacon, 324; butchers, 34; heavies, 7. Huron Co. Locals—Total hogs, 2321; select bacon, 587; bacon, 1466. butchers, 185; heavies, 37; extra heavies, 2; lights and feeders, 28. Truck De1s.—Total: hogs, 14; sel- ect bacon, 1; bacon, 11; butchers, 2. Huron Co. --Notal hogs. 6218; 0017 eet bacon, 1727; bacon, 3769; but- chers, 550; heavies, 74; extra hea- vies, 8; lights and feeders, 48. Care During the Brooding Period (Experimental Farms Note)' Tests at the Central Experimental Farm have shown that better results are ,attained by feeding chicks early that by the methods of delayed feed- ing formerly in vogue. The follow- ing .plan is being successfully used at the Central Farm: When the hatch is cleaned up the chicks are.eithee placed in well ,ven- tilated chick boxes, or if allowed to remain in the incubator, the doors are partly opened to permit' an ab- undance of, fresh air so that the chicks will harden off before being placed in the brooder. The type of brooder most commun- ly used is the coal burning brooder stove which is placed on a tin mat in the centre of a 10 by 1.2 foot col- ony house, a guard of 1 by 4 ineh 'timber stood on edge, leaving about a foot clearance round the stove, is. used. The space inside this guard is filled with sand to -avoid all danger of fire from the stove. On the rest of the* floor litter is placed to the depth of one or two inches. Planer shavings is generally used for this purpose but clean chaff or fine gravel may bo used. Where shay. ings el' chaff is used care is taken to see that it is kept off the surface of. the sand around the'stove.- Four pieces of galvanized iron a NT bout three feet long by -eighteen na- 1ehes high are used to round the cor- nets sof the house to prevent crowd - i ing. , For the first few days a guard made of square mesh stiff wire cloth about a foot high is Used tb circle the stove until the:chicks getuse to the source of .heat Each day this circle is enlarged until finally • the guard is removed entirely. Caro is taken to make the enclosed circle sufficiently' large sothat the chicles are not kept so closeto the stove as to ;be overheated: Frames constructed of 1 by 4 inch material stood on edge and covered ;with 1-4 inch square wire mesh are used on which to stand all feed hop- pers and water dishes, • 'Hoppers of chick grit, oyster shell and charcoal are hung at a : conven- ient height on the walls. The chicks are kept as cool' as may be for 'comfort but always have the source of heat where they. go ` to rest in a temperature as high as they desire. Their actions tell at once whether they are comfortable or not. If comfortable they rest oontentedly in a circle just out side the canopy of the stove; their dis- contented chirping end crowding .-to the source of heat will tell you if they are not warm- enough. If too hat they get as far from the stove as possible or go around with their mouths open panting for breath. Tinel Irora�,ton Feeding The feeding is the acme of sini- pUcity consisting of keeping the water fountains clean and filled with fresh water, and the hoppers filled with grit, oyster shell and charcoal and- a good chick starter, either commercial of home mixed. The following is a chick starter, that has given excellent results at the Central Farm. 1 part shorts. 1 part middlings. 1 part ground yellow corn, 1 part ground groats. 1-2 part animal feed mixture. 3 per cent bone meal 1 per cent salt. 1 per cent cod liver oil. The animal feed mixture used is made np of equal parts ground beef scrap,• fish meal and milk powder. When liquid milk can be had the milk powder is omitted. Weather permitting the chicks are allowed on to the ground as soon as they get used to their quarters, say by a week or ten days, and a little scratch grain is then added to the ration to keep them busy. Tile brooder house is set in a clov- er field and is shifted weekly so that fresh green feed may always be available and the ground clean. BE CAUTIOUS IN INTRODUCING NEW MALE -BIRDS INTO THE FLOCK (Experimental Farms Note) Many poultrymen and farmers have been disappointed from both a production and a disease point of View on aeecunt of having exercised a lack of caution in introducing* new male birds into the flock, It is im- portant to know if the flock from which males are purchased is free from disease. A sure remedy against the introduction of disease is to raise Your own males from eggs purchased from a puilorum tested flock. Also indiscriminate introduction of new blood May be disastrous to the future -production of a flock, ei- ther in egg size or egg numbers. The remedy for this is the progeny test. Thus new blood should be in- trcdueed in a small way the first year -one or two males, according to the size of the flock. By the next. breeding season it will be pos- sible to judge, from the fall and winter production of the daughters, whether further breeding from their sires and brothers • would be desir- able. A reliable estimate of the pullets' production (egg size and number) can be obtained by trapping and weighing all eggs one week in every four. Or, -if there are no trapnests, the new male's daughters should be placed in a separate peps A gather- ing 01 eggs can be weighed period- ically and the average weight per egg calculated. By March 1, the eggs should be of standard weight (24 ounces per dozen) or almost standard weight, RIR-ROLL ROOFING Colored or plain. For houses, barns, sheds, garages. "Council Standard" or "Acorn" quality. Easy and quick to lay, permanent, proof against Etre, Free estimates gladly sent. Send measurements. - Makes ,/Preston Steel Truss Barna, Gat. vani ed£arehe BarnDoorHardware,Prestou Led -Hod Nai , Double Meeh Metal Lath VenhiilndrshleefMNtFhoBduQngeMDorrab All Casierit feel Faxi anti cid, Guelph St., Preston,Ont. Pactoriee at Montreal and Toronto . Famous Parliamentary Blockades of the Past The blockade for the two months' of trio kind was parliamentary. Han- , said goes onto report:, 1 extension of the Unemployment Re- lief and lam Act by the Libera Opposition at Ottawa recalls famous parliamentary blockades: of the past. The two most famous attempts on the ,part of Oppositions : to hold tip legislation were in 1896, at the time of ,,the ltahnitobaschool legislation, be- fore the: fall of the Conservative Government; and the fight over- the naval bill in- 1913, a measure provid- ing for the building sof two Dread- noughts to be given to the British Navy, : . The 'House sat continuously night and day on both occasions,and the ever -faithful Hansard staff finally abandoned any attempt to report verbatim the speeches of every back- bencher. It was a- difficult task for the Opposition to keep the. House in continuous session, and the members wandered far afield. In • the''' 1896 blockade, John Charlton, member for Norfolk, on one occasion read for hours extracts front the Bible. He did so en the. excuse that he was reading extracts from the Bible as used in the Manitoba schools. There were, Mr. Charlton' explained, 71 selections from the Old Testament and 6(i from the New Testament. Reads From Bible An honorable member shouted, out, "Read' then" Mr. Charlton then proceeded to read one by one these Scriptural selections. Then Hon. Clark Wallace, Censer vative, who was supporting the Lib- erals in the blockade, eonceiv_ed the bright idea of wasting more time by asking Mr. Charlton to read over the selections. Claiming he had not heard clearly the story of Joseph and his brethren, he asked him to re- peat it. Mr. Charlton was pro- ceeding to oblige when a French- Canadian Conservative member, Mo'. Bergin, interposed. Hansard quotes: Mr. Bergin—I rise to a point of, order. I do not think in my par- liamentary experience I have ever verent as the reading of the Scrip - seen anything so profane or so irre- tures for such a purpose—not for the purpose of informing the mind, not for any good purpose,, but for the purpose of obstructing the pro- ceedings of this House. When a man reads the Scriptures in that ir- reverent way and without the design of paying his duty to tine Creator, he is doing that which he should not be permitted to clo in any Christian assembly. It is not the act of a Christian gentleman, but of a man who is -prepared to use the Scrip- tures for the utast---- Mr. McGillivery-Be careful, he is an elder in our church. Mr. Bergin -Then the sooner you get rid of hire the better. If he does not read the.Sceipture in a bet- ter spirit in church than he does here, be is not an ornament to the church, 1410. Martin—Mr. Chairman, this at- tack is simply an outrageous one. This. hen. gentleman has no right. Some hon. members—Order; sit down. Mr. Martin—Why should I sit dewn'3- An hon. member—A point of or- der. • He was allowed to go on and Han- sard reports that all the quotations from. Bilotti were read. It is always a debatable question as to what is parliamentary lang- uage. Reading over the Hansard of that time, one finds an interesting discussion as to whether the word "twaddle" wa•s 'parliamentary or not, One member, Mr. 11taeDonttell, of Algoma, described. language used by an opponent as "all twaddle," A Mr. Edgar rose to a point of 'or- der. He wanted to know if the word twaddle or •twiddle or anything Twiddle and Twaddle Mr. 117,acDonnell—I say that when en hon. gentleman spends hour, after twaddle and nothing• else. Mr. EdgareeI rise to a point- of order: The chairman -I think the loon. gentleman used the word twaddle in a parliamentary. sense. 1VIr. Edgar—If the • hon. gentle- man sayd so and apoligizes for any personal meaning it might pass, but if he does not use the, word; in . a strictly parliamentary sense I think he sh'oud be censured and named. 14Ir: MaoDoenell=-T submit to 'hon. gentleman that when a gentleman undertakes to speak .on .chs subject .under discussion 'and wanders off to a variety of subjects .which are not tinder::discussion,to my mind it is twaddle and .nothing else. If the hon. gentleman is satisfied with that he is welcome to' it. ' At the time of the naval debate the Bible was not read through, but one Liberal member said he had a few quotations pertinent to the sub- ject he would like to read from Nor- man Angell's book, "The Great Il- lusion," and he read chapter after chapter, taking hours in the process. Tion, W. A. Buchanan, now senator, ordinarily talks very fast. He start- ed off at his usual pace. A fellow Liberal whispered to him to talk slower. -Mr. °Buchanan is very deaf and could - not hear, and finally his fellow member fairly shouted at hint "Talk slower." Mr. Buchanan took the advice and went at a snail's pace. . Divided Into Shifts In order to make sure there was always a quorum, the members were divided into shifts of eight hours each. One shift started at 8 o'clock in the morning, another came on in the afternoon, while the night shift started duty at midnight. The Con= servatives being in power and never being certain when the Liberals plight force a division, the whips of the party had to keep in close touch with their supporters, even those off dusty. One afternoon the Liberals called for a vote. To their surprise Conservatives swanned into the House. It tamed out that many members had been sleeping in their rooms. Another vote was called at two in the morning, 0onservative anentbors who had' been taking no part in the debate jumped into the breach, while taxis were hurried all over Ottawa to bring members to the House. As each sleepy member came rushing into the House 11e was cheered by the Liberals. When the Conservatives finally had a majority the Liberals then quietly withdrew their motion. 'They had at. ]east spoiled the sleep of a Iot of their opponents. Sir Herbert Antes was assigned to the night shift and he created a great deal of amusement by turning up with all air cushion and a night- cap. using his coonskin coat as a rug he `stretched over several chairs and proceeded to enjoy the debate by sleeping. When the first mending light came filtering through •the windows the Speaker, or whoever was in the chair, was startled to hear crowing and a barnyard cackle from back benchers, It was to bring such scenes to a close, scenes which did not add -to the dignity of Parliament, that on a memorable occasion closure was in- troduced and finally passed. A blockade lasting day and night for a couple of weeks, such as occurred in 1896 and 1913, could never be re- peated with closure available. —A. R. F, in London Free ?toss. L%KINGEEWS' 0'CoU-u:flClar Even yet, there are commodities which have not heard that ,other ecomitodities have come down in price and executive • salaries that have not heard that the business has ceased. paying dividends. •We aplirehend that delay in re- turning the baby is caused by the difficulty the kidnappers experience in finding ah intermediatry who will not discuss the matter with news» paper reporters. 14Teher Baba, the East• Indian spiritual leader,. is coming to Am erica to convert the _United .States. from sin. kis disciples claim that ses he has .performed 'miraches before. t A fight fan who had paid good Money to see Dempsey in action was indignant because that was the final event of the night, "Why don't they have the main bout first and the preliminaries after?" he asked. A twister uprooted trees and blew down houses and barns in several southern states, but had no &feet whatever upon the prejudices and superstitions of Alabama and -Ten- nessee. ' Ann Harding and her husband are '1`HURS:, APRIL 7, 1932' FAIII1E11 seeding divorce because being her husband cramps his style and niakes it impossible for him to achieve a reputation. He is known to every- body as ' Ann Harding's - husband, simply that and nothing more. Therefore she'feels sorry for him, so does he. Hence the application for divorce. But a man who marries a famous_ women should abandon am- bition for further renoun. When Arthur Balfour was asked if: there was anything in the gossip that he, was to marry Margot Tennant, he said: "No, I am going to work out my own career.' He remainedd single and succeded," She married Asquith, whose career was sofar advanced that it could not be marred by ridge with a famous and ambitious women. We order these things better • in London than they do in ITollywod. •Ziegfield girls are unanimous that men, should dress conservatively. They are also unanimous that girls should not dress liberally. "Boycott means war," says the Tokio Nichi-.Nichi Shimbun. That's all right so long as it is not declared. De Valera is the nationalist hero. Faith, and didn't he come a to the rescue when the Irish had nothing to fight about? One would have thought the de- pression was a sufficient tax on amusements. But' apparently not. Thinking of the transitory things of life, do you remember the yo-yo? What a craze it was! Well, that was only a year ago. Where is it now. On the shelf, with the man jong set and the ouija board. . Referring to ,the.: recent successfuli -' flotation of goverment bonds, a.. broker says that "Canadians aro fin.- ancially patriotic,": We do npt know; whether this is a linock or a boast:: Going duck -hunting with a brass, band has always .been cited as an, example of foolishness and dtily, but it has nothing on the methods - adopted to discover the Lindbergh'. baby and Tris abductors, g A" farm board' director says .we' could- eat oiir way- Back to pros erit P P y if everybody would take an extra bite. at each meal. Pass this on to the - men who diet and the women and ' girls who are given ,to slimming oc slenderizing, or wh'ate'ver they call it... The Spanish calvalier showed him- self in De Valera when he proposed' union with Northern Ireland without first consulting the party of the second part. It is only since .be be- came premier of the Free State that the ban was removed which forbade - his setting foot ,upon northern soil. 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