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The Clinton News Record, 1933-06-22, Page 6PAGE 6 THE C ,INTON NEWS -RECORD NEWS AND Timely Information for the Busy Farmer ( Furnished by the Department of Agriculture ) to note that, accord- ing to results obtained at the 0. A. C., Guelph, sweet clover makes the best quality hay when cut late in the bud stage and about ready to blossom. Certified Apple Orchards The opinion that apple orchard Should be certified is gaining groun among apple growers and horticul turists. It is contened that certified orchards would raise the standard of apple growing throughout the pro- vince. A certified orchard would be one which had no hawthorns, wild apples trees, no neglected nor mag- got -infested trees within 300 yards of it. A certified orcahrd would be one which was well -sprayed and free from apple maggot. With every orchard certified, bumper crops would be d ally promise heavy yields. In Eas- tern Ontario new seedings were bad- ly winter -killed, but old stands ap- pear good. Haying commenced early this year and has been in full swing in most counties. Fall wheat has come along rapidly except on low lands. The fall of moisture has been very uneven, with some sections suffering from drought and others too much rain. Crop prospects are good in Northern Ontario. Live- stock on pasture have plenty of grass and are in good condition in western, Southern and central On- tario. for dark honey, and Ontario buck- wheat competes quite well with Cu- ban, Russian, and that from other sources. CROP REPORT A review of crop conditions as of June 1st showed that pastures, hay arid elovers had grown rapidly show- ing much improvement over a month earlier. 'Clovers and alfalfa gener- assured. Defective Chicks A casual glance aver the chicks may not detect any culls or pick - outs. But on closer examination it may be noticed that some are not doing as well as others. Some have defects of body conformation, feet or wings. These 'might better be taken out now than left to add to the crowding in the pen. There will be pullets that are off in type, have poor heads or some other defect and might better be sold as broilers than kept to maturity. Under present price conditions one can afford to rear and keep only the best for the laying. flock. Crowding is frowned upon by ex- pert poultrymen. If at all possible, separate the .cockerels from the pullets so as to give the pullets more room at the feed trough and on the rosts. Some 'of these cockerels may be sold as broilers, and the best car- ried along to be sold later as roos- ters. Vegetable Growers' Report Of interest to vegetable growers will be the 28th annual report of the Ontario Vegetable Growers' As- socation (1932) just issued by the Departmest and containing the fol- lowing valuable chapters: President's address by C. I. Delworth; report of Secretary -Treasurer J. Leckie Wil- son; report of Fieldman, 'Geo. Rush; The Trucking Problem as I See It, by Paul A. Fisher; Market Conditions by W. B. Somerset; Vegetable Dis- eases and Their Control, by Dr.' H. W. Dye; Asparagus Culture, by Harper Secord; Cover Crops, by T. T. Hones; How to Cut Cost of Pro- duction, by Chas. T. Williams; Soil Heating by Electricity, by 0. W. Titus; Possibilities of Western Mar- kets by H. E. Toms; Fertilizers, by Major J. Black, Copies are obtain- able from the Deparment or from your local representative. eteei?z New Health Broadcasts Stress Value of Milk The Ontario Federated Women's Institutes will present regular week- ly Health Programes over radio sta- tion CBCT. The first was given on Monday evening, June 19, at 6.15 Daylight Saving Time. These talks will stress the value Of milk in the diet and, it is ex- pected, will create a greater consum- er appreciation of this important product of Ontario farms. Sueh plans have been made pos- sible through the courtesy of the Tion. Thomas L. Kennedy, Minister of Agriculture. Gni Honey Prospects Good If Quality Maintained Uniform quality, ' good packing, and continuity of supply are three important items in building and maintaining an export trade in hon- ey. George R. Paterson, Overseas Commercial Representativeof the Ontario Honey Export Association, recently returned from England, re- ports a good steady market for high quality .Ontario honey in the Eritish Isles. He said that consum- ers ore gradually learning the im- portance of honey in the diet and also, to appreciate Empire brands. He states that quality in honey is judged by texture, flavor; and col- or. Further, that British buyers think highly of the good clover hon - eye from Canada, and are quite pre- pared to pay fair prices for a well - presented product. In Holland there is a fair market Bruce County reports many fields of fall wheat badly lodged due to unusually luxuriant growth. In Duf- ferin the growth .of fall wheat, spring grains and meadows is most satisfactory, Huron County, in com- mon with most of Western Ontario, suffered heavily from early June windstorms, in which many fanners lost barns as well as tomato and to- bacco plantings. Brant County re- ports prospects for strawberry crop very good, with acreage down 25% from 1932. The Hessian fly has played havoc with fats wheat in Es- sex and much of the crop, 45,000 ac- res, will be affected. One hundred bacon hog boars have been purchased in Essex in the last 12 months. Down in Carleton County heavy losses are reported from wire worm and cut worm on spring grains and corn, A severe hailstorm inflicted a loss es- timated at $100,000 to $150,000 cov- ering practically all vegetable gar- dens and green houses east of Ot- tawa. Orchards have had an unusu- ally large show of bloom and the prospect for fruit of all kinds is fav- ourable. Barley acreage is larger than usual and oats about average, with both crops showing well. Sow Buckwheat in July The acreage of buckwheat has shown a steady increase in Ontario every year and now stands at 200,000 acres. Its popularity is increasing due to the opening up of the Europ- ean market for buckwheat and bo its ability to smother weeds. Buck- wheat fits naturally into the crop rotation as a late sown crop or as a special smother crop, and for best yields and as a means of checking weeds, should not be sown until after July 1. The practice of some farm- ers in .planting buckwheat in June results in buckwheat becoming mix- ed with clover and other light hon- ey, with a tremendous loss to the beekeeper, cutting the sale value of white honey crop 50 to 75% The apiary is a valuable asset to any farm in aiding fertilization of all plants especially fruits and the a- piary owner should not be forced out of business by thoughtlessness on the part•of farmers in sowing buck- wheat early in the season. eutZiMea Minister in Engiand Hon. Thomas L. Kennedy, Ontar- io Minister of Agriculture, is on . a six weeks' trip to England for the purpose of personally canvassing the British market with a view to further stimulating the sale of On- tario farm produce and to make a study of what the British consumer wants and how he may best be served. He has been delegated by the Gov- ernment to make whatever changes necessary to constitute Ontario House in tendon a great central point for marketing •Ontario's pro- duce and to bring back recommen- dations to aid exporters here. An attempt to push the sales of Ontario flue -cured tobacco, livestock cheese and fruits is the primary ob- ject of his visit. There has been a very .gratifyisg increase in sales of Ontario fruit in Britain due to the presence of a representative on the market,who has studied the require- ments of the British importers and has passed his knowledge on to On- tario. growers. It is hoped to extend the plan to include other farm products and the Minister's personal visit should go far towards providing the neces- sary information for pushing the campaign. .$1;• TI ;TRS., JUNE 22, 1933 OF NTEDEST When Canada was in Greenwich In South -East London, within few miles of Charing Cross, lies ancient town ,(now a "meti'opolit borough") of Greenwich, which o contained within its 3,859 acres whole of the ,Dominion of Cana On the face of itthis stateme looks let us say, unlikely; but it one of ;those legal fictions whi count as facts. For down•. to t time of Charles II. there was a fav- orite Royal Palace at (Greenwich, and during the seventeenth century, when Englishmen were consolidating their various "plantations" on the North American Continent, lands there were granted by the Crown "to be held as of the Royal Manor of East Greenwich." Greenwich has a colourful history of more than a thousand years. To- day it offers many attractions to a visitor --the stately pale -grey build- ings of the Royal Naval College; the Naval Museum; the Painted Hall, •a gallery of naval pictures; Greenwich Park, with its famous observatory and its incomparable views of London. But to 'Canadians it is primarily the home and burial - place of General Wolfe. a yard gate are the very cherubs who the were so much like that "cherub in an the white waistcoat", Bella's "poor nce little Pa," who stole off from home the with his daughter and gave her a - da. way. ns "And truly he had a momentary ch reason to be pale of face, and to whisper to Bella, 'You don't think that can be your Ma; do you, my dear?' on account of a mysterious rustling and a stealthy movement in the remote neighborhood of the or- gan" . . • Haying Time Hint Now that haying time is here a- gain, it is is Born at Westerham, another Ken- tish town, Wolfe came to Greenwich with his parents at the age of twelve and received the latter part of his brief education at a private school there. Their first home, in Church Fields, was long ago pulled' down, but the second (Macartney House) still stands on the western edge of Greenwich Park. From this house he joined the expedition which re- sulted in the capture of Quebec in 1759, and to it his body was brought back before its burial in the crypt of St. Alfege's, the Parish Church, in November of that year. Three years ago his statue by the Cana- dian sculptor, Mr. Tait Mackenzie, was erected at Canadian expense in Greenwich Park, and was unveiled by the Marquis de Montcalm, a dir- ect descendant of Wolfe's 'opponent at Quebec. In the north-west cor- ner of the Church, above the Wolfe fancily vault, is a monumental bronze bearing a portrait of the General in relief. Beside it hangs the flag of Canada. The Church where Wolfe and his parents worshipped and are buried has a strong family resemblance to the work of Sir Christopher Wren. Its architect, Nicholas Hawksmoor, was a pupil of Wren, and the great Master's influence is plainly perceiv- ed even by'visitora who know only St. Paul's Cathedral and a few of his City churches. The present St. Al- fege's was completed in 1718, only eight years after St. Paul's itself. Grinling Gibbons (a native of the neighbouring Borough of Deptford), who carved the magnificent oaken choir -stalls and organ -case of the Cathedral, inspired if he did not himself execute the rich carvings of St. Alfrege's pulpit and the capitals of its gallery supports; and Jean Tijou, the designer of St. Paul's noble choir -gates, also designed the wrought ironwork of St. Alfege's altar -rails. The organ is a relic of an older St. Alfege's which collaps- ed in ruins in 1710; it has been mod- ernised from time to time, but the old keyboard, or console, preserved in the body of the Church is a link with the Tudor period. For the short manual (the Great) in this keyboard probably belongs to the sixteenth century and is that where- on Thomas Tallis, "the Father of English Cathedral Music," played when royal weddings • and christen- ings were held in Old St. Alfege's. Unfortunately the splendid carv- ing is in danger from that nightmare of all who have the care of English churches, the grub of the death- watch beetle; and the organ is badly in need of overhaul and improve- ment. But Greenwich, though up to the reign of Charles II it had a Roy- al Palace and was greatly favoured by the Kings and Queens of Eng- land, is now a very poor borough whense nearly all the better -to-do residents have long departed. The Vicar and Parish Council have rais- ed locally about a quarter of th0 needful total of $10,000, but they cannot expect much more; and they think that Canadians, whose double link with 'Greenwich and its Parish Church has been described, may like to help. i Contributions, however small, willbe welcomed and acknow- ledged by the Vicar, St. Alfege's Vicarage, Greenwich, London, E. Et 10, England. ' A. souvenir .booklet fully illustrated, describing the Church and sketching the history and scenery of the 'neighborhood, will be sent to each subscriber. "Our Mutual Friend" and St. Alfagets About ninety-five per cent. of visitors from overseas, in London for the first time, demand to be shown the London of Dickens and discover with sorrow how much of it has been altered out of knowledge. But .St. Alfege's is that 'Greenwich Parish Church where Bella Wilfe>r became Mrs. John Rokesmith• The cherubs en the pillars of the •church - The rustling, we know, being caused not by his terraic spouse, buy by 'Mr. and Mrs. Boffin, who though supposed to have cast Bella off could not deny themselves the pleas- ure of being present at her wedding, When the moment comes for explan- ation of the preposterous plot— "There was we hid up in the church - organ by this husband of yours," says Mrs. Boffin to Bella. In the excitement of the moment the good soul was a little confused; she and her "Noddy" could not possibly have hidden "in" the organ, but she may have supposed the Royal Pew before it to have been part of the outworks of the instrument. Peeping over its sides, the pair would have had an excellent view of the ceremony. Also the good Dickensian can still see the trees of Greenwich Park a- mong which Mrs. Wilfer might have been lurking in ambush, and the windows of the Observatory whence Pa's guilty conscience half expect- ed to see her looking down. He may even find his notion of the Roke- smiths' "modest cottage on Black- heath" within a few minutes' walk of the Church, for 'Blackheath has changed hardly at all since "Our Mutual Friend" appeared in the middle 'sixties. LESSER KNOWN FRUITS FIND MARKET IN CANADA The lesser known fruits of the British West Indies are finding in- creasing markets in Canada. There was unloaded recently for the Mon- treal market 50 boxes of mangoes. Other fruits of the West Indies were limes, sapolillas and papaws, a large consignment of which was for the Toronto market. The papaw is the most intriguing of the fruits. It has been called "the tree -grown sto- mach" due to its pepsin content, a juice of the human stomach. GODERICH SUMMER SCHOOL The Goderich Summer School .will be held between July 17th and July 24th. Bible study, organized recrea- tion, ministers' group, sightseeing trips, camp fires and public meet- ings are the lines of the attractions of the school and Miss Sada Musa, Japanese Christian, will be the guest of the school for two days. STORM PLAYS HAVOC BUT INSURANCE POLICY STILL GOOD It is related of a farmer in Lon- don township, that for years he held a policy in the Huron Weather In- surance Company. On the day be- fore the storm he was advised his policy expired the following day at 12 o'clock noon. Hit by the depres- sion he had virtually decided not tq renew the policy. At 10 o'clock the morning of the clay the •policy expired along came the storm and razed virtually all the farmer's buildings. He will collect about $700 insurance, which will be a little help. BLYTH LADY LOSES ACTION FOR DAMAGES In the only case to go to trial at the June sessions held in Goderich last week, Mrs. Anna Taylor Ashdown, wife of Rev. Dr. Charles Roland Ashdown, of Blyth„ failed in her suit of $500, brought against the corporation of the Village of Blyth and the Blyth Municipal Telephone System. Judge 'Costello, after a five-hour hearing, dismissed the action against both de- fendants and assessed court costs to plaintiff. Fifteen days,- stay was granted. The case was an unusual one. In her evidence, Mrs. Ashdown re- lated that while walking from the sidewalk across the boulevard to an automobile at the curb her left foot broke through the sod into a hole, allegedly once the location of a tele- phone pale, and that she suffered two broken bones in her heel, result- ing in permanent injury. Thi was in July.21, 1932, and 'Mrs. Ashdown the former Anna Taylors was then a spinster, but was engag- ed to marry Dr. Ashdown on August 12 of the same year, just three weeks. after the accident. The wedding took place on the scheduled day, with the TO estosecessmoresareeseummeensmousestroameatancess FARMERS bride's foot in a, plaster cast, but the sdene of the wedding had to be trans- ferred from Toronto to Blyth and al honeymoon trip to the Muskoka Lakes cancelled. 'Sixteen witnesses were heard, in- cluding municipal officers and .coun- cillors, telephone commissioners, line- men, etc: Judge Costello said that if he were to find against the corporation for negligence, he .would also find a- gainst the plaintiff, Mrs. Ashdown, as a ratepayer, on the same count, for she admittedly had walked past the scene of the accident over a per- iod of years, and either never detect- ed anything wrong with the boue4 yard, or had failed to report it. As for the telephone company, plaintiff had failed to prove that it was its pole which had been removed from the particular spot, poles of other companies, now removed, hav- ing occupied places nearby over a period of. 50 years. THE BOY ON THE BURNING DECK A college professor declares that the boy who stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled was not a hero, but a moron. He was unable to adjust himself to a chang- ed set of circumstances. There was no sense in remaining there, and he should have perceived this. The fact is that those verses were not written for college professors in the twentieth century, but for small boys in the nineteenth. The same is true of "The Little Hero of Har- lem," who stood all night with his finger plugging a hole in a Dutch dyke, whereas a boy of today would have whittled a wooden plug for the purpose. The writer of a letter, too, in our issue of Thursday recalled the verses in the Ontario school book of sixty years ago telling of "one honest John Tompkins, a hedger and ditcher," who "although be was poor did not want to be richer." All elder- ly readers will remember that in the case of this excellent man "all such vain wishes in him were pre- vented by his fortunate habit of being contented." The change that has occurred in the atmosphere of the schoolroom, or the home and of life in general can probably be seen in the school books of sixty years ago and of today as convincingly as anywhere else. Old, or semi -old, people will tell you that when hey were boys they were much impressed by the simple virtues of honest John Tompkins and were resolved to grow up and be like him, although at that par- ticular time they could not be as contented as he was. But they could train for it and strive for it and at- tain it by the time they had grown old. And sixty years ago boys were moved to envy by the story of the little hero of Harlem and secretly deplored the fact that they did not live in Holland, where the presence of dykes with the possible presence of leaks in them gave a hero his op- portunity. The boy, however, who stood ion c the burning deck, whence all but he had fled, stirred the boys of sixty years ago to the inmost fibre. He: was the brightest of all the heroes. For he sacrificed himself resolutely, and to the young self-sacrifice was, in the Victorian age, the noblest of virtues. In those days a boy was "to be seen and not heard," and yith him surged pent-up possibilities. A small boy would wish he could swim so that he could rescue a man from drowning.—The Toronto Daily Star. COTJNTY NEWS .. .GODERICH: A visitor in town this week was Mr. J. W. Arthur, of Los Angeles, California, a native of Goderioh who had not been .here since the family left for Dakota, fif- ty-one years ago. His father was William Arthur and the family lived in the block in which Dr. Hunter's residence is now situated. Mr. Ar- thur is one of the assistant pastors of Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, conducted by Mrs. Aimee ,Semple McPherson. He was accompanied on his visit by his wife, whose people live at Teeswater.—+Goderich Signal. CLQ, BRUSSELS: Justice Kingstone in Supreme Court, London, dismis- sed an action for $10,000 damages and an accounting brought by Mrs. Minnie H. Speiran, of Brussels, a- gainst Mrs. Laura Harrison, of Lon- don. E. G. Moorhouse acted for the plaintiff, while Douglas & McCallum appeared for the defense. The plain- tiff claimed that her husband, Hart- well Speiran, had transferred to the defendant "many thousands of dol- lars." It was for an accounting of this that she sued. The defendant said that Hartwell Speiran had transferred to her for safe -keeping $3,900 in cash and $2,000 in bonds in 1922. However, she said it was giv- en back to him in 1923. •GODERICH: The large auditor- ium ,of !Knox Presbyterian Church was filled to capacity Monday night when the first of a 'county -wide ser- ies of concert recitals which the Goderich Lions Club is sponsoring for the benefit of their Crippled Children's Fund was given. The program was of a high order. Les- lie Somerville, concert and radio organist, of Hamilton, was heard with keen appreciation. Miss Peggy Moreland, gold medalist of Strat- ford Musical eFstival, was indeed a child wonder as a violinst, which was shown by the fine execution of her numbers. 'Charles Meakins, well-known baritone, tinder whose direction the concerts have been ar- ranged, contributed several solos. His reputation as an outstanding vocalist of London, Eng., and New York, was splendidly sustained. Mrs. Frank Saunders, • popular soprano of Goderich, gave two solos very de- lightfully. Reg. Hopper, field sec- retary of the Ontario Crippled 'Chil- dren's Association, gave an illus - rated lecture on the work the assod iation is doing throughout the pro- viuee with the assistance of service clubs. H. Edwards, president of the Lions Club, expressed the appreci- ation of the latter for the use of the church to the minister and session, and to the artists. McPherson went to the chemist for advice. "Man, I've an awfu' cauld," he said, "Hae ye a guid cure for it?" "Yes," replied the chemist, "I have a sovereign cure." McPherson backed slowly towards .• the door, ";loots awa wi' ye man!" he said. "DFye no' keep ane aboot fower- pence?" HISTORICAL DOCUMENT FOUND IN MARITIMES A rather interesting and histori- cal document was found at Moncton,. N.B., recently in the shape of the original of a treaty made between: the British and the Indians at Cas- co Bay, near the present FaImouthi Maine, in 1727. The upper portion is missing but some of the text and the signature are intact. The treaty was an agreement on the part of the Indians with the British forces • to keep the peace and to make war on any tribe who should break it. The British agreed to send a force commanded by a general officer to the assistance of the signatory tribes should they be attacked by other Indians. The treaty followed in the wake of the defeat by the British of several Indian tribes and their submission is testified to in the treaty, which is dated July 25, 1727. Some of the Indians were able to sign their names but the ma- jority made their marks in the shape of their totem sign. "Yes," said the oculist, "he had a curious affliction; everything he look- ed at he saw double." 'Poor fellow. I suppose he found" it hard to get a job?" "Not atlall. The gas company snapped him up and now he's read- ing meters." * THE NEWS -RECORD * THE NEW -RECORD IS * AN ALL-AROUND FAMILY * NEWSPAPER, WITH SOME- * THING OF INTEREST FOR * EVERY MEMBER OF THE ° * FAMILY. ° * ARE YOU A REGULAR..° • SUBSCRIBER. IF NOT, o • WHY NOT? * THE NEWS -RECORD VIS- * ITS Y 0 U REGULARLY EACH WEEK OF THE FIF- TY-TWO IN THE YEAR AND COSTS LESS THAN THREE CENTS PER WEEK. YOU CANNOT GET MORE FOR YOUR MONEY ANY- WHERE. 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