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Ont, Cheese Production
"Contrary to the general impres-
tion," said George H. Barr, director,
Dairy Branch, "the production of
cheese, in Ontario, is inereasiug,
"Figures forthe year 1932 show
the production of cheese in this
Province as approximately 80,000,-
000 pounds, compared with approxi-
mately 75,000,000 pounds in 1931.
An increase ,of some 5,000,000 pounds
or about seven per cent, is worthy of
attention, particularly when we.
know that the increase in quality is
more than equal to the increase in
volume."
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Healthy Pigs
In an address at the outset of the
Swine Demonstration Train, Dr.
Lionel Stevenson, provincial zoolo-
gist, emphasized the importance of
health in growing pigs. Healthy
pigs, if properly fed, should be ready
for market at from six to seven
months of age. Pigs that did not
reach market weight at this age
were either improperly fed or were
not healthy. Internal parasites
were one of the common causes of
unthrifty hogs, and the farmer
should always be on the lookout for
possible infection from internal par-
asites. Sanitation and cleanliness
were essential in the bog industry.
Common treatments were recom-
mended which may be secured by
'writing the provincial zoologist. Dr,
Lionel Stevenson. Ontario Veterin-
ary College, Guelph, Ont.
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Soy Beans in Kent
The winner of the soy bean Cham-
pionship, Mr. G. G: Finlay, at the
recent International Grain and IIay
Show at Chicago, began to grow soy
beans as an ell round stock food
when the European corn borer .. in-
vaded the fields of ,Kent ,County in
1923.
Mr. Finlay at that time decided to
adopt the 0. A. C.-211 registered
variety of soy bean seed. Ile sowed
ten acres in 1924 and was rewarded
with eleven large loads !of matured
beans, which he found to be relishes'
by the cattle, hogs, sheep and chick.
ens carried on his faun. The follow-
ing year, the O.A.C. became inter-
ested in his project and, noting his
success, devoted their extension ed-
ucational resources toward the rapid
expansion of soy bean growing in
Ontario.
He obtained ar splendid- yield of
threshed beans on .a seven and a
Half acre field that in 1930 was in
alfalfa. After harvesting two cut-
tings of alfalfa hay, the third cut-
ting was threshed for seed. The
field was then fall ploughed and
seeded to beans in late May, 1931.
When the beans were harvested,
they yielded 32 bushels to the acre.
By securing registered foundation
soy bean seed, by annual field in-
ing in Ontario will :,be the major in-
dustry for many years to coma and
we. must adopt the long -terns vision
of it with faith and hope that bet-
ter times will return."
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Fertilizers Sold in Canada.
Cf the almost innumerable brands
of fertilizers offered to the public in
the earlier days of the fertilizer
business in Canada there were hun-
dreds of brands which contained so
Of INTEREST
Have You Included
'Seed Cleaning in
Your Plans for
This Month?
(Huron''.County Branch Agricultural
Dept.)
a busy fanning mill at this time of.
the year: is a very good indication''
that the owner is a progressive fars,
mer. We all realize how important
it is to get on the land as soon as it
is ready. If proceedings are held up
during the spring seeding to clean
grain, the chances' are that it will be
cleaned hurriedly and in some eases
show very little iniprovem.ent,
Even a five bushel increase in
yield per acre . of cats, barley and
mixed grains will not only lower the
cost of production of the crops, but
also return more revenue from the
little actual plant food that they farm, How can yon get this 5 bushel
were practically worthless for the per acre increase? The simper .use
purpose for which they were pur• of the fanning mill will do it. Many
chased. This condition led to the of our best farmers claire a ten
inclusion of a clause in the Fertili- bushel per acre increase In yield from
zers Act, 1922, requiring that every properly cleaned seed grain.
fertilizer sold in Canada contain not Here are the results of experi-
less than 12 per cent. of available ments at the Ontario Agricultural
plant food as nitrogen, phosphoric College at Guelph, in connection with
acid and potash singly orcombined. grain yields. This is an average of
In 1928 this minimum was raised tc
14 per cent, which is the require-
ment still in affect. During the first
year of the operation of the 14 per
cent total plant food requirement
hundreds of .brands of ea -called fer-
tilizers were put out ,of the market Per acre.
This provision of the Aet estab- Small seed yielded 45 bus. per acre
lished a reasonable basis of minimum The increased yield of sixteen
plant food content and undoubtedly bushels per acre between large, and
has meant a material saving to small seed or over 25 percent in-
farmers in the purchase of fertilizer crease is net only startling, but
and prevented many a disappoint- goes to show what can be done to
ment in crop returns which would increase grain yields by thoroughly
have resulted from the use of infor- cleaning and grading the seed grain.
for and frandent materials. Are the small or bosom .cats the
ere=icays female oats and rust they be left in
seven years experiments with oats,
experiments with other kinds of
grains gave similar results:
Large plump seed yielded 62 bus.
per acre.
Medium plump seed yielded 54
bus.
Grading and Packaging
Result in Better Price
"Much has to be accomplished in
the way of grading and packing, be- ized as are also barley, wheat, tim-
fore the Ontario farmer can expect
prices for his product, equal to the
laid down' value of similar imported
products."
the seed grain in order to secure a
crop?
This is a question that is frequent-
ly asked by fanners in various parts
of the County. Oats are self fertil-
othy and many other grasses. Both
the male and female parts are con-
tained within the one flower and each
oat flower !Or kernel is complete Ir
New Zealand farmers, 01' prpduc- itself and thus capable of self fertil-
ers on the Pacific Coast, because of ization. The stamens or male part
their distant markets, perils of trans- of the flower ripen the pollen at a•
portation, and competition of hoine- bout the time the oat head appears
through the sheath at time of head-
ing out. This pollen or male par'
drops on the stigmas or female parte
of the flower at this time and fertil-
in most line; have not been forced ( ization is completed. The ehaff sur -
to do this, except in those products rounding the developing oat kernels
where there is an exportable sur- prevents the entrance of pollen from
plus. Therefore, until the same at- nearby oat flowers, just as the chaff
tention, in packaging and grading is prevents any of the pollen from es -
given farm products for domestic caping from the oat flower. The
consumption, it will be extremely parts are very small of course bui
difficult to organize hone markets. can be readily seen when the oat
plant is heading out by the aid of a
C=a71==ta small 'magnifying glass.
Current Reports No. The small oats are not the
female oats and are not necessary in
Fourteen young sows were sold a sample of seed grain in order to
from the Swine Demonstration produce a crop. Bach seed contains
Train at Shelbourne in Dufferin a small germ or empryo plant at
County, the base of the kernel and the rest
Many farmers in Halton County is made up of stored food materials
are endeavouring to secure men at to feed the young plant until it can
this season of the year with the idea gather its own food from the soil
of employing them through the sum- through the roots, It is important
mer months if satisfied. therefore, that the seed be large with
Mare interest is being shown in plenty of stored up food material so
that a healthy and vigorous plant
will be produced. This will explain
the large increase in yield of large
plump seed over small seed quoted
in the O.A.C. experiment above,
grown products :on those markets,
are forced to pay more attention to
grading, and attractive packing.
Farmers of this Province, however
spection, and by carefully selectingPeel
his .seed each year, Mr, Finlay has bow
bid,
raised his seed to a standard of per -( is r
fection that enabled him to win 'thefJ
championship in the continental B
competition of the Chicago cropsHag
Cou
County in horses, owing to the
prices of farm products, and
ing at auction sales ton horses
eported brisk.
ggs have been selling on the
ersville market in BaldimandI Sizes of screens suitable for use in
my at 11c, 13c and 15c according the common makes of fanning mill -
rade. Egg dealers report di£fi used on most fauns and for cleaning
culty in disposing of the grade "ex- cereal grains are as follows:
tra", as them is apparently a "cheap' For oats—top screen or riddle
complex in the mind of the eonsuni- ,zinc 7-64 by 3-4 or 6x3-4 wire mesh
er, causing him to buy a cheaper bottom lar grading screen 1-12x1-2
product. 'for early varieties such as Early
Lincoln County reports that vege- (Alaska or O.A.C, No. 3 and 1-10x1-2
table growers are getting their early l for bate varieties such as Banner
cash crops started in greenhouses and etc.
there would appear to be at beast For barley—top screen, zinc rnunca
the usual acreage of cabbage, bet -:mesh 13-64 or 14-64 inches in.cliam-
tuce and early tomatoes grotvn, eter orfthe wire Mesh screen reco-
Livestock in Middlesex are in bet -1 mended for oats.
ter than average condition, most i bottom screen zinc, oblong mesh 7-64
feeders having ample feed to carry ; or 8x8 wire mesh.
them through the winter. I For wheat—top screen, same an
There is increased interest mani-; for barley or oats; bottom screen --
fest in the radication of tubercul-t1-13 xl-2 or 114x1-2 wire mesh or
osis in Norfolk County judging by,same zine screen as for barley,
the number of enquiries and new en- ••'Do not place too much emphasis
tries under the accredited herd syr - !on the capacity of the fanning mill
tem. Efficiencyis e f
In Wentworth there is a brisk de � In a small mill one ecannot get ater both.
mend for good work horses on farms{ Do not be satisfied with - cleaning
at present and they are commanding , your seed grain only once. Many of
an excellent price, first-class young' our best farmers put their send'
horses selling . from $100 to $175; grain through the fanning mill three
each. Custom hatcheries look for aplor four times. The hest is none too
increased ,business in chicks for 1933.f geed. in seed' grain.
'There has been a movement 101 The loss through sowing weed seed
purebred livestock in Peterborough: is kn:ewn to be very heavy through -
County, nine good young bulls haw- out the country. Growers mar niif
ing been purchased by farmers at' sow them intentionally, but if they
prices around $50 each. • are sowing anything less then nom -
Livestock generally is thinner in menial 'Government standard No,l'
Glengarry than usual due to scar- seed, they are very ,likely to be sow -
city of feeds as most farriers have ing some .weed seeds. The •]ower
been feeding carefully. the grade the greater the possibility
In order to give service to the of getting noxious weed's. It is in
s of Renfrew County, custom the interests of every fa>;mer. tc
leaning prices at the Renfrew, sow dean wetly graded seeds, anon `
are !only about half what they grains because _this in the first', step
last year. • in effective 'weed control.
show.
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Ontario Apples Only
"As a further indication of the
growing demand for graded Onta'"+-
grown apples, J. B. Fairbairn, De-
puty Minister of Agriculture, has
been advised that still another prom-
inent Toronto fruit distributor will,
in future, handle graded apples, ex-
. elusively.
An inspector of this fruit house,
intimated to rMr. Fairbairn that his
organization had adopted this policy
because of the fact that. it is now
easy to procure almost unlimited
supplies of .carefully graded apples,
grown in Ontario orchards. An-
other point mentioned was that the
public demand for Ontario apples is
increasing most noticeably
Time to Improve
An appeal to farmers to improve
their farms and livestock at this
"'time, instead of simply marking time
was made by E. K. Hampson, past
p4esident of the 'Ontario Experimen-
tal Union in a recent address; "The
present is not a time fora negation
`type of farming. No progress can be
made by that nethod. Probably
never has there been a finer oppor-
tunity for improving herds with
pure-bred foundation stock' and field
!crops with pure seed. Labour is.
more plentiful and cheaper, than it farmer
has been for years. May net these seed -c
factors be taken advantage of in nlant
Snaking some improvements? Farm. ( were
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FARMERS
Poor Varieties and Wonder Varieties of
Grains Offered To Farmers
(Huron Branch Agricultural Dept.) own commonly grown
Salesman and agents of United ieties,
ious parts of the County selling oat
and barley and other kinds and war
ieties• of fame crop seeds. Ther
seeds are almost invariably high]
recommended as wonderful varietie
and sell for exorbitant prices, an
are actually inferior to our own
home.; grown standard varieties • of
grain.
There ie plenty of evidence to show
that certain varieties of grain are
much more suited to a certain kind
of soil, climatic conditions and cer-
tain localities, than athey are to
other conditions. For instance,
flame of ;eur late varieties of oats
grown on rich heavy sails, produce
an immense growth of straw, which
has a great tendency to lodge and
rust, while en lighter and different
types of soils and conditions will
give excellent results. Length of
season required to ripen the crop
and other climatic conditions are, al-
so important factors in determining
the results obtained with certain
varieties. There is a great deal more
importance attached to the suitability
of a variety of a farm crop to the
locality, type of soil and climatic
conditions where it is grown, than
the average farmer gives credit for.
Varieties of grain originated enc'
grown in the Northern United States
bordering on or near the Province of
Ontario, are suited to those condi-
tions under which they were develop-
ed, but with very few exceptions
they do not do weII under Ontario
conditions, nor compare favourably
with our own standard varieties. Ov-
er three hundred and fifty varieties
obtained from outside of the Province
of Ontario have been tested and
compared, for yield of grain, length
and strength of straw, percentage of
hull, rust resistance, etc., by the
Field Husbandry Department at the
Ontario Agricultural College at
Guelph over a period of years and
the results of these experiment:
show that they are inferior to cur
dard var-
Be ora pure asing 'seed of any of
o these "wonder" varieties write to the
Field Husbandry Department at the
e Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph
Y for the results of their tests: of the
variety or get in touch with your lo-
d cal Agricultural Representative of
the Ontario Department of Agricul-
ture. Do not be deceived or carried
away by the smooth sales talk of the
salesman and buy seed, at high ,pric-
es, that is not suited to your farm,
when you can buy better home grown
seed at much lower prices.
The following list gives . some i•
the best varieties of field crops, they
have all proved their worth and are
especially suited to our conditions:
Oats —?Early varieties—Early Al-
aska and 0.A.C. No. 3; Late .aerie.
ties—Improved Banner, O.A.C., No.
72, 0.A.C., No. 144, Victory, Gold
Rain and Abundance.
Barley—Six rowed .0.A.C. No. 21.
Winter 'Wheat—Dawson's Golden
Chaff, 0.A.C., No, 104.
Spring Wheat Marquis, Wild
Goose, Mindum,.
Peas-10,A.C. No. 181, Canadian
Beauty.
Beans—Common Pea Bean, Robust,
Soy Beans—O.A.C. No. 211, Early
Yellow,
Corn -Dent --Golden Glow, Bailey
Wisconsin No. 7, White Cap Yellow
Dent; flint—Longfellow, Salzer's
North Dakota, Compton's' Early.
Alfalfa — Ontario Variegated
Grinun.
Red Clover—Canadian Grown.
Potatoes Irish Cobbler, Green
Mountain, Dooley.
Turnips—Canadian Gem, Perfect
Model, Giant King.
Mangels-- Giant White Feeding
Sugar mangel, Yellow Leviathan,
Yellow Intermediate.
no above varieties have been un-
der test for a long period of time
and have outclassed all others in
quality and yield. We have Govern-
ment Institutions which make a
us ness of experimental work, They
have all the facilities necessary fot.
making accurate tests. .Growing
new unknown varieties of seeds on
the individual faun, is in practically
every case expensive business.
NOW DOES THIS STRIKE
YOU?
Canadians are practically unani-
mous in their belief that the United
States should camel the war debts,
They are certain that it would be in
the best .interests of all concernecl--'
including the United States, It is
questionable, however, whether many
Canadians would be equally enthus-
iastic over a proposal to scale down
Canada's wen debt. And yet it is
quite certain that what is needed iu
Canada to -day is some relief from
the tremendous burden of unproduc-
tive debt. This Dominion is very
proud of the fact that we paid the
whole coat of tkaa wap withont ea/ling
for assistance either from the Mother
Country or from. the States. Cense-,•
quently we have nobody to forgive
us our debts. But we paid for 'the'
war almost entirely by loans. In
other words, we haven't paid for it
yet. Canada's government and masa
icipal debts and obligations run into
over six billion dollars --three hes-
died miIIions over. The country's
total indebtedness ie said to aggro
gate thirty billions. It is this huge -
debt, and the taxes and interest is -
volved in carriyng it, that is keeping
the country from recovering its equg-
ibrium on somewhat lower scale. Lat
the long, run it may be as wise, and'
as necessary, to arrange for some
readjustment and scaling down el
this debt, or of the charges ran it, ss
it is for the nations to get rid of the
war debts. The Dominion Govervc-
ment is said to be considering a re-
funding operation with a reduce
rete of interest. But this will touch
osaltso a fringe of the problem,
- !Orillia Packet-Tinserz.
TEAM USED TO DRAW SLEIGH
Pioneers of Canada failed in their attempts to domesticate the moose;
but Joe Lalonde of Lac au Sable in the Lac Remi area of Quebec, sae.
ceeded where the others fails. In the above picture he is seen harness,
sing one of his pets in readiness for a sleigh ride.
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SoddPoi lad
In the first place of all, Mr. Farmer, you are
interested in Clinton because it is the logical
market for the greater part of the produce you
have to sell. Clinton people are the consumers
of what you have to sell, and you, being the pro-
dueer of what they must buy, are a person of
mighty importance to theft. You have a com-
mon bond.
Anything, then, that affects Clinton or its
people affects you by affecting. your market.
Anything that affects the farmers of Clinton
district has a vital 'bearing on the business life
and general status of Clinton town. We are,
after all, one in paint of view, economically.
In presenting the news and other items of
interest each week The News -Record is guided
by this thought, Items of interest regarding
any phase of farm work or life are published, to-
gether with the news of the entire rural dis-
tricts.. Township -Council meetings are given
particular attention, as also are Farmer Clubs,
Institutes, Church Societies, etc.
Besides the buying opportunities listed by the
stores The News -Record's classified 'advertising
section is of especial interest to Farmers. There
is continually something offered for sale that is
of use to you; and when you have anything to
sell these classified ads. take your message to
1500 buyers in your own district for the small
sum of 35 cents.
You are also kept continually in touch with
what is occurring in the Town of Clinton, soc-
ially, industrially and in munieipal government
by the complete survey of the town's activities
which The News -Record presents each week. And
by the constant changes taking place, which is
news, you are kept informed of the conditino of
your most important market.
Mr. Farmer, you should be a careful reader
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