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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
HAPPENIN
Of
NTER EST
Timely Fely' Information for the
BusyFarmer
( Furnished by the Department of Agriculture )
It appears that cool moist weath-
er such as we have in 'spring Is the
most favourable for the development
of apple scab. MORAL: Spray early
and keep spraying,
The presence of a large propor-
tion of broken or bruised kernels in
seed grainseriously decreases its
market value, and further loss is
caused by the invasion of fungi after
the seed is sown.
Fall wheat and clovers have wint-
ered in good condition: This is the
report from. the majority' of repre-
se/natives although some districts
afford notable exceptions, A great-
ly stimulated interest in pruning and
spraying is observed among orchard-
ists throughout Ontariq, l ,_ms's
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!. O. A. C. Students an Trip
A party of O.A,C. students have
been guests of Thema; E. Wilson of
the Wilson Packing Company of
Chicago. These students are grad-
uates •cf London Collegiate Institutes
and have received the Thos. E. Wil-
son Scholarship. Mr. Wilson for the
past two years has offered these
scholarships of $300 each to three
graduates of London 'Collegiate In•
stitutes and to boys who are from
the farm and still interested in Ag-
riculture. He is an old Ontario boy
who still has a deep interest in the
province.
Assistance For Dairy
Business is Planned
The Department will announce
plans shortly whereby financial aid
will be provided for the improve-
ment of dairy herds.
The scheme is designed to assist
every producer of milk, provided he
is willing to purchase a high grade
bull, of known pedigree. This, it is
felt, will help the dairyman, and in-
crease the present low yield of dairy
cows in Ontario.
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ter to drink in the usual chick faun -I
tains. Chick -size gritghonld be
placed before themin shallow pans,
and hoppers of mash may then be
put at their .disposal. It is important
that sufficient hopper apt fountain
space be provided so that all chicks
may get sufficient food and water
without crowding. 'Once the hoppers
are put down they are not again re-
moved as there is no danger of over-
feeding.
Brooding feeds usually consist of
the following essentials: chick
scratch grain, mash, grit, shell, char-
coal and green feed. For grain, a
commercial chick size mixture may
be purchased and it is not usually
fed for a week or ten days. The
mash ordinarily will contain gi'ol]nd
grainer mineral feeds, such its bone
meal; 'aniutal feeds, sltolt as heat
tical, fish heal, milk powder, etc„
salt and cod liver oil. Unleee the
chicks have access to sunshine with-
in the first week or ten days it will
be wisdom to insist that cod liver oil
be a component of the mash if a
commercial product is fed.
Spring Lanib Offerings .
Under Market Standard
Discussing the lamb situation, C.
C. Lyster, Federal Government Mar-
ket Representative, Union Stock
Yards, said: "Lamb marketings macre
to catch the Easter trade were rath-
er disappointing. Producers were
either ill-advised, or not thoroughly
acquainted with market conditions.
"Of shipments totalling some 500
head, more than 125 were returned
to the farms as unsaleable, while
half of the remainder were below
market requirements for weight and
finish. '
"In these times it is essential that
quality be the first consideration if
prices are to be sustained, or ad-
vances merited."
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Free Flowing Fertilizer
An important point to be kept in
mind when purchasing fertilizer is
its condition or capability of uniform
distribution. To bring this about
some manufacturers are putting out
their fertilizers in fine granular
form. Within recent years the trend
has been towards a higher concentra-
tion of the plant food constitutents.
The higher the concentration of the
fertilizer, the more important it is
that it should permit of an even dis-
tribution. Inview of the practice of
applying fertilizer by machine it is
very desirable that the condition of
the fertilizer should be free flowing,
condition should be such that
stoppage or clogging of the material
in the drill is not likely to occur.
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The scrub bull campaign will be
pressed again this year by the Live-
stock Improvement Association of
Elgin County. At the annual meet-
ing in St. Thomas it Was decided to
organize sub -committees in each
township to work personallly among
the owners 'of scrub bulls in the hope
of reducing the 357 animals at pre-
sent in use in Elgin.
•selreseell
Agriculture Is Major Factor ..
In Canada's Export Trade
Agriculture, according to the On-
tario Marketing Board, provides
roughly one-half of Canada's export
trade, the most important items be-
ing grain and grain products, cheese,
live stock and live stock products,
potatoes and apples.
Fruit Shipment to Great Britain
The Ontario Fruit Growers' As-
sociation announce they shipped this
year some 800 cars of apples, pears
and plums to their European com-
mercial representative. One hundred
and thirty-five cars of plums and
pears were exported to Great Bri-
tain.
This is the first attempt to ship
abroad these fruits from, Ontario,
The business will be, extended this
. year.
Feeding Brooder Chickens
What Gerston was
oing an The Gay Nineties
DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED DURING TF1S LAST DE-
CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY?
,From The News -Record Apr. 26th and on Sunday will sing at anniver-
1893: •
Mr. J. Ransford arrived in Britain
last Saturday. He will return about
May 24th.
The 25 Club will 'be officered for
the next six mange by President W.
P, Spaulding; ,Secretary -treasurer
M. McTaggart and a committee of D.
Macpherson, J. McMurehie and N.
Fair.
Lieut. H. T. Rance is said to be
the peoples' officer of the 83rd Bat-
tallion; Capt. Combe a gentleman
of discipline and comes down like a
thousand of brick, and he generally
gets there;—promotion is looked fol.
Dr. Shaw is a host in himself, but it
takes nearly ill his spare time look-
ing after' Capt, flttyes.
Ski Correct: our town cotem says
that "Out of thirty-seven liquor lic-
enses granted in West Huron, more
than three quarters of them are held
by Conservatives" The sitatem'ent
is not correct. The classified names
would be interesting reading in view
of such a bold statement. Annually
The New Era makes the salve asser-
tion and is as often checked for mis-
representing the facts. Will our
cotem please be truthful once in a
year.
The Wind Storm: Last Wednesday
night and Thursday there was a very
severe windstorm in this section .. .
one of the worst and most violent
ever known in this section, but as
yet we have not learned of any loss
of life.
Lime Subvention Policy Renewed
According to a recent announce-
ment made by the Hon. Thos. L.
Kennedy, the Dominion and Provin-
cial, Governments in co-operation
with the leading Railway Companies
have renewed an agreement whereby
the railways will carry ground lime-
stone for agricultural purposes at a
rate of 25 per cent below the stan-
dard tariff and the Dominion and
Provincial Governments through a
subvention policy will still further re-
duce the cost of transportation by
paying 50 per cent of the remaining
freight up to a maximum subvention
of $1.00 per ton.
If the standard rail tariff is $1.00
per ton, the railway reduces the rate
20c per ton; the subvention policy
pays 40c and the farmer pays the re-
maining 40c.
Under the regulations the mini-
mum car is set at 30 tons. Limestone
for agricultural purposes must be in
a condition that 100 per cent will
pass through a 10 mesh sieve, 50 per
cent through a 40 mesh sieve. and 30
per cent through a 100 Mesh sieve.
Limestone must also contain a mini-
mum of 80 per cent calcium carbon.
ate or its equivalent in magnesium
carbonate.
The Maximum selling price is set
at $3.00 per ton F.O.B. shipping
point. The purchaser may place his
order with 'any ,Company in Canada
but all limestone purchased under
the subvetion policy is subject to
sampling and analysis.
Any farmer wishing to secure a
car of limestone applies for a permit
from the local Agricultural Repre-
sentative. The original copy of the
permit accompanies the order, and a
copy _ is forwarded to Parliament
Buildings, Toronto.
The lime company on receipt of
an order ships the car and prepays
the freight and in turn forwards an
account to, Queen's Park for the a-
mount of freight payable under sub-
vention and collects the remaining
amount of freight from the purchas-
e/.
This policy Col. Kennedy states
will result in a large saving to far-
mers needing dime, will increase
yields and improve the quality of
farm products on sour soils and will
make liinestone available at a rea-
sonable price to all parts of Ontatio,
As soon as the chicks areremoved'
from the incubator to the brooder
they may be fed. After seeing to it
that the chicks are comfortable they
'should be given slightly warmed wa:-
BLYTH: 91r. Franklin Bainton
received a large shipment of sheep-
skins from a Toronto firm, with
whom behas contracted for 0,000
pelts' which will make a considerable
amount of work. Besides they are
making a large quantity of Woollen
yarns in the manufacturing depart-
ment of their business, which is re-
ceiving a ready hale.-
*Standard.
sary services to be held in the Meth-
odist church and on"Mopday,evening
they will, furnish the program for
the ooncert to be given .under the
same auspices. •
Lew Doherty Sells ,Cottage: Mr.
Lew Doherty has sold his new and
cosy cottage on Victoria street for
in the neighborhood of $18Q0, and
leaves next week for Goderich where
he will take up his abode. Lew is
an energetic young matt and is un-
questionably going to .make a suc-
cess of 'tits inenrence welt in Which
he has embarked,
The purchaser Of the cottage was
Mr. John Garbed of Hulled, who
intends to move into Clinton.
And the Hen Died: The other day
Mr. David Cantelon 'brought in for
The News -Record's inspection a hen's
egg which measured 81-4 by 6 7-8
Mace and weighed 41 ounces. It
was from a Black Minorca hen which
in each of the ten days previous laid
an egg of almost equal weight. The
eleventh, however, was too much for
the Minorca and she turned up her
toes.
I. 0. 0. F. Attend Service: About
sixty members of the I.O.O.F. met in
the hall of the local lodge en Sunday
evening and front thence marched,
with Mr. H. B. Chant as conductor,
to St. Paul's church where an im-
ptessive sermon was delivered by
the Rev. C. R. Gunne, M.A., the rec-
tor of the church.... The always
excellent choir. of St. Paul's even ex-
celled itself on this occasion. On the
return of the brethren to their hall
a cordial vote of thanks to the rec-
tor, the choir and the churchwardens
was adopted.
From The New Era, April 28, 1893:
Mr. A. 0. Pattison, G.T.R. agent
has disposed of his driver to a gen-
tleman in London. A. 0. says that
anything short of a 40 -mile an hour
locomotive is too slow for him.
The remains of the late Mrs. Bow-
ers, who died at Helena, were ac-
companied to town by her two sons!
Harry and Charlie, and were interred
on Saturday afternoon last.
A. meeting of some of bicylists of
town was held in the town clerk's of-
fice on Tuesday for the formation of
a Club, the following officers were
chosen: President, H. B. Oombe;
Vice, • G. F. Emmerson; secretary, A.
T. Cooper; captain, S. Kitt; com-
mittee, Messrs. Yellowlees, Hovey
and Gould.
Mr. J. E. Hovey is now the posses-
sor of a Cornet road scorcher and
may be seen practising in the back
shop and longing for good roads.
Ern will make it warm for some of
the cracks before the season is over.
Licenses: The Commissioners of
West Huron met here on Saturday to
consider the final disposition of
Wingham licenses and after very
careful consideration of the whole
matter, decided to license Row's and
Sweet's hotels and cut off Orr's and
Dinsley's.
Taking the Fences Down: Now that
animals are not allowed to run at
large, people are commencing to re-
move their front fences, Mr. Arthur
Cook of Albert street being the first
to do so.
Effects of the Storm: The wind
last week played havoc with things
generally. . . . In town we escaped
without much harm being done but
out in the country fences were lev-
elled, trees by the score blown over
and barns unroofed. Part of the
roof of McGarva's salt block was
blown off,,part of the flax mill blown
down, a windmill on Mr. Torrester's
farm was blown over and one on the
farm of Mr. Thomas Churchill, God-
erich township, was completely des-
troyed. . ..
estroyed.... Among the barns in this
vicinity that lost either the whole or
part of their /oaf were those of
James Nott and John Stevens, Lon-
don Road, Mrs. Hitch and E. Sibbins,
Hulled; James Steep, George 'Cante-
Ion, W. H. Elliott, G. Steep and Ro-
bert Miller, •Goderich township. One
farmer saw the entire roof of his
barn life up a foot and then drop
back; into its place. Quickly procur-
ring a hay fork tackling and with the
help of his hired man he secured the
roof on.
Eolmesville: What might have
been a serious or fatal accident oc•
eurred last Monday as Master Nel-
son Trewartha, eldest son of Mr.
John Trewartha, was engaged tying
up a horse, it kicked, and the wander
was it didn't hill him, but be only re-
ceived a severe bruise on his leg. He
is able to be around again.
WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY
WAS YOUNG
From The News -Record, Apr. 30, 1908
The Provincial elections will take
place on Monday, June 8th.
Go To Lucknow: The male and
mixed quartettes of Ontario, street
church go to Lucknow on Saturday
From The New Era, Apr. 30th, 1908:
Mr. James Livermore, who was
engineer for the Clinton Thresher
Company, has taken a situation as
engineer for the Doherty Organ and
Piano Company. He is a good, re-
liable and qualified man.
Back To His First Love: A rumor
is current to the effect that Mr. An-
drew Porter, late manager of the
Sovereign Bank, Goderich, and a
well-known former Clintonian, may
take an interest in the Goderich
Star. Mr. Porter is a practical print-
er, having spent some time at the
business, and he would make an ex-
ceptionally able and popular newspa-
perman.
Checkers: On Friday evening last
Mr. W. T. Walton of Seaforth, who
holds the championship for Ontario,
as a checker player, gave a demonstra-
tion of his skill in the council cham-
ber here. He played against- eight
of Clinton's checker experts, all at
one time, each having a hoard before
them, and out of fifteen games he
won ten, losing one and four being
a draw. The players were Messrs.
H. Houlden, W. Grant, George Ro-
bertson, J. B. Hoover, Levi Wiltse,
J. Watt, James Cook and E. Johnson.
Hoover managed to win one game
while Messrs. Houlden, Watt, Cook
and Wiltse managed to get a draw.
Mr. Walton afterwards played a
game with Mr. Hoover, the latter
making his moves on a board as
usual, but Walton depending entire-
ly on his memory, without the use'of
a board, and won this also.
Mrs. H. Fowler and little Miss
Gertrude were visitors at London and
Pat'lchill during Easter week.
Miss May Webb and W. C. Mead of
Toronto spent Easter holidays at the
bonne of the former's mother, Mrs.
W. H. Webb.
Mr. Fred Stephenson of London,
with two pother gentlemen of that
city gave an excellent address in the
town hall of Strathroy to the Y.M.
C.A. on Sunday afternoon. Mr.
Stephenson is a son of Mr. John
Stephenson of town.
Some Clintonians know that Mr. R.
A. Worthington; eldest son of the
late Dr. Worthington, has been study-
ing medicine at London Medical Cole
lege but very few ate aware of the
fact that he has been putting himself
through, and to that extent was
handicapped, added eto which is also
the fact that a delicate sister claimed
considerable of his time.
When he was able, under, these cir-
cumstances, to not only pass with
first class honours, but to win a sil-
ver medal as well, he is certainly de-
serving
eserving of great credit.
THIS PROBLEM OF PHONETICS
The conductor and a brakeman on
a Montana railroad differ as to the
proper pronunciation of the name
Eurelia. Passengers are often start-
led upoit arrival at this station to
hear the conductor yell:
"You're a liar! You're a liar!" Then
from the brakeman at the other end
comes the. cry. "Yon- really are!
Yon really are!" •
TO
FAF
THURS., APRIL 27, 1933
ANDA -, E IDEAL VACATION -SAND'
A COUNTRY OF,SCRNIC CHARM AND OUTDOOR RECREATION
UNEXCELLED IN ABUNDANCE AND VARIETY OF HOLIDAY ATTRACTIONS
N recent years Carnada has
become one of the most
popular playgrounds of the
North American continent
and millions of tourists visit
this country annually, in
search of recreation,
Ci' /nada, possacses an extensive sys-
Sem of modern highways, with good
seoonda•y roads linking together the
main routes of travel. Excellent
train services are in operation be-
tween the principal cities, while
steamship lines connect lake and
ocean ports. Every clam of travel
accommodation is available, front
tourist camp to luxurious hotel. Our
larger Canadian cities possess some
of the finest hotels in the world and
the majority of smaller cities and
towns have modern establishments
which cater to the travelling public.
Recreational Attractions Nearby
Within reasonable touring dis-
tance of the main centres of popu-
lation, recreational attractions of
outstunding merit are to be found.
Lakes and rivers well stocked with
fish, hunting areas of vast extent and
camping grounds in their natural
state, are only a few of the many
features which make the country a
popular vacation land during all sea-
sons of the year. An atmosphere
of old France permeates Quebec and
the Marithnes, while Ontario and
the Western provinces have much to
offer by way of historic sites and
monuments.
Numerous Canoe Trips
For those who desire a vacation
close to nature, a canoe trip is ideal
and Canada's extensive system of
rivers and lakes offers a limitless
choice of route and type of trip.
For the novice there are many trips
close to civilization, which may be
taken with comfort end perfect
safety, while unmapped and even
unexplored regions challenge the ex-
pert and the adventurous. Canoes
and equipment may be rented and
guides are available in practically
all districts. Subject to reasonable
fire prevention regulations the canoe
camper,, camera hunter or
student of wild life, may come and
go, unrestricted, through the coun-
try's vast forested area.
Excellent Fishing
Canada's fishih;; waters, on ac-
count of their extent and diversified
nature, provide an exceptional range
of sport for the angler, au game
fish include, saurian, brook trout, lake
trout, bass, maskinonge, pike, pick-
erel, grayling, steelhead and tuna.
Intelligent protection and constant
re -stocking help to keep up the sup-
ply of fish in the popular districts,
while in the more remote areas there
are still plenty of virgin waters. The.
cost of fishing licences is moderato
and the open seasons are long.
Golf and Tennis Popular
Canada is well supplied with golf
courses and new ones are,being built
in every province. No city is without
at least one golf club and most of the
larger towns and popular summer re-
sorts have courses. Tennis is aso-
popular in all parts of the country,..
Government Bureau Free
Information Service
A ember of specially prepared!
booklets on Canada's recreational
attractions and automobile road maps
indicating the main connecting high --
ways between one province and an-
other may be obtained free of charge
by adults, from the National De-
velopment Bureau of the Depart-
ment of the Interior, at Ottawa. Thr.
Bureau also has on file information,
concerning practically all phases of
recreation in Canada, which will'
be gladly provided, upon request.
In order that the mast complete in-
formation may be supplied it is de-
sirable that applicants be as specific as,
possible as to the areas in which in-
terested.
nterested.
KING?NEWS
1.Hu:flClar
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For frantic boast and foolish word
Thy mercy on Thy people, Lord.
The Titanic, advertised as unsinkable
went down on its first trip, and Ad- i
miral Moffett who was killed in the
crash declared the Alcron the safest
dirigible ever built.
When his audiences applaud his
"insults," Bernard Shaw must recog-
nize that his day is done.- Insults are
stingless that produce only cheers
and laughter. .
The federal government is bound
to protect a dry state against the
inflow of liquor from an adjoining
wet •state. Thirsty souls within that
dry state must often wonder if there
is no such thing as riparian rights.
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After this, surely the gentlemen
adventurers trading into Soyiet Rus-
sua will not expect the protection of
their own home governments.
President Green sof the American
Federation of Labor wants the gov-
ernment to take over the railways
for the protection of insurance com-
panies and either institutions that
invested heavily in railway securities.
These investments' would not have
been so bad if the government "had
not during he war taken over control
of the railways. That was a glor-
ious time for the railway organiza-
tions which (and not insurance com-
panies) are President Green's chief
concern.
Referrig to dispatches emanating
from Germany, Saturday Night says:
"It is 'a poor defence against: the
charge that a hundred persons have
been massaoreed to plead that the real
number is only 15." Perhaps, but" it
is a matter of life or death to 85,
and that is of some importance to
them.
"Milwaukee- is on. the snap again
with the beer that made it famous.
Itis celebrated too as the birthplace
of the late Lord Shaugnessy whom
George Ham described as "he peer
that made Milwaukee famous."
We thought there was .some catch
in it. That memebr of parliament
who was reported as opposing the
expenditure of some mroney in his rid-
ing was not really opposed to it. His
suggestion was that the money
should be handed over to himself to
make sure that it was judiciously
spent which in most cases means
spent to political advantage.
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In Germany, as in other countries.
Communists who were out looking
for trouble have found it, and have
thereby added to their fund of griev-
ances.
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"Save me from nay friends" niay
well be the prayer of candidates for
public office, and ministers of state.
An English cabinet minister, puzzled
and incensed by the act of a col-
league, ponce said something to the
effect that against the acts and con-
spiracies of an enemy we may guard
but human ingenuity cannot protect
us against the unconscious machina-
tions of stupidity.
It was pure stupidity on Burchard's
part: a desire to say something al-
literative and smart, without reckon-
ing upon any other effect. The Sun,
on tate other haled, was anything but
stupid, but :it was impish' and per-
haps not very particular as to whe-
ther it helped or hurt. At any rate,
the Democrats' of that time could not
be persuaded that Mr.. Dana wanted
,Hancock elected
. atm
That big political . meeting of
Blame's cost the Republicans a lot of
money and .the net result was the
_t
defeat of their. candidate. Except in
its magnitude it is not exceptional.
When the Canadian senators are try-
ing to cut down the cost of elections
they might front their own exper-
ience advise candidates to go easy on
political meetings which run up a big
bill of costs in the way •of hall rent,
advertising, bill -posting, speakers,
entertainers, bands and orchestras,
and often injure rather than promote
their interests.
Imported speakers are more eager
to make a rousing speech than they
are careful to avoid arousing antag-
onisms. This is especially trite sof
city men speaking in rural districts,
After a political meeting is over, the
candidate may well be pleased if it
has done his candidature no harm.
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It is well known that James G.
Blaine lost the presidency through
the indiscretion of a supporter. Rev.
Dr. Burchard, who stigmatized the
Democrats as being allied with rum,
Ronuanism and rebellion, but it is not
so well known that General Hancock,
Democratic candidate against Gar-
field, may have lost the election
through the act of a friendly news-
paper, the New York Sun, describing
grim as "a good man weighing 250
pounds." A candidate can stand a-
buse but not ridicule. -Coining from
an enemy it would not have hurt but
coming from a friend it was deadly.
EXETER: Application for pro-
bate of the Will of the late John W.
Taylor, for many years president of
Ross -Taylor Company, Limited, lum-
ber merchants, Exeter, Ontario; is
being made by The Canada Trust
Company, R.N. Taylor, Cappot, Al-
ta. and Mrs. Emma Agnew, Winni-
peg, executors. Mr. Taylor's death •
occurred on January 24th. The es-
tate, which is valued at $17,183, iii
made up of real estate, bonds, and
debentures of mortgage corporations
and under •the terms of the Will the
widow and children aro theebenefic-
aries. Carling & Morley, solicitors, 1
Exeter, are acting for the estate.
There's something in the adver-
tisements today to interest you. Rea&:
them.