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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1930-10-30, Page 6NEWS AND INFORMA '1ON FOR ,1 THE I3LTSY FARMER Furnished; by the Department of Agriculture ) Agricultural Education Fall. Building Operations RidgetownAgricultural ' 'Building operations on the farm That the l S Vocational'. chool has been success- during the late. fall are confined fulinS ful its attempt "to strengthen re -'principally to hog houses, poultry. between, agriculture and edu- houses, implement : sheds and other latio'ns b at was the. statement of A:cting;, small buildings. Those that have. cation Premier Henry at;the •Yeoent open- concrete foundations or '.floors can, wing. Ridge- be erected at ;.any time if the con- ing of the new $86,000. • town was host to a distinguished ,evete is laid,before ,frost. These gathering for the occasion, including buildings are.inexpensive, especiallyth, vier, Hon. 'Thomas L. if the owner is'handy with tools. Kennedy, Men Kenned r Minister of A;gmcultute, Lumber dealers have plans and can y president of 0, A. supply bills of materials and esti- Cr,G..I, Christie,'. C; �•, F. G. 'Merchant, Chief Dirac—':mates of `cost, So drat.. the owner ' S. Ruther- will know pretty accurately what', his tor of Education, Director F. S actor of Teohxiieal I expenditure will be. Choosing a site ford Acting Dir for a hog house or .a poultry house requires care. A high, well drained 1 spot is best, while the' buildings should extend .east and 'west and, face south. Convenience in' caring e'� also should olt for the hogs and p Fu r1' the considered. THE CLINTONNIWS-RECORI)'i the former and a failure p i the lat- ter.. Live steak .generally seems to be •shaping up well and fermiers throughout the province'have al- ready commenced their winter feed- ing. Many Middlesex ,farmers are now in the west contemplating the purchase of feeding cattle. The re- port is of a general tone for the entire province, conditions apparent- ly being the same all over. Education... In his address, -Hon. Mr. Kennedy stated that the 'develop- ment of such schools in the prov- ince depends on the success of the' $idgetown institution. It was his hope to see similar sehocls dotted over Ontario. Plowing .Match Winners. W', 0. Grenzeback, R. R. 7, Wood- stock, is the plowing champiooff Ontario. He won :that title onh last day of the international plowing match near Stratford, when he took away first honors in the jointers in time sod, sen This isi the second opened at 2 he has won the title, having � first nuts, the buying pricep captured it in 1927. In taking first cents per pound and dropped as low: -place this year, he defeated a classy as four cents per pound in some R. Hargreaves places. The city markets, which in field,including John 6"r ocopious co i r m e taken P in ears have the honor e nIothr Y ofBeachville, who wo the last two years. The intercounty' championship this year was won by York, with `Brant second. There were 14 entrants in this competition and the battle was , keen from start : to finish. The trophies were .presented at' a largely .attended banquet in Stratford, the final night . of " the match, at which the chiefspeakers ral contest ie s now in full swing. slogan were the lion. Robert Wei , minister of agriculture, and Hon. is a slogan? The dictionary tells us Thomas L. Kennedy, provincial min- that it is a Gaelic word, the war cry or the gathering cry of the old High- land clans. In our day, however, it has come to mean a sort of motto. "Strike while the iron is hot" or Small profits and quick returns" are both examples of present-day slo- gans. At any rate, the management of the World's Grain Exhibition and Conference offers a prize of $500 0. A. C. Team's Good Showing..cash for the best slogan suggestion. The slogan shall not be more than Competing against dairy cattle ten words in the th There est and is it no judging teams from practically ev- entry fee for ery agricultural college in the Unit- is I open to the world. Not more than ed States, students representing the three suggestions are be ubmit- 0.A..C. ranked llth in the interna -1 ted by any one p these tional dairy show in St.'Louis, Mo., must be written or typed containingthe Harold Goble of Woodstock attained one side of the paper, the highest standing in Holstein contestant's name and address, and judging and he won a $500 scholar- must reach the office on or before ship for his effort. This is the, first Jan. 31. L 935• GAain Address Slogan Con- ana C t Heavy Chestnut Crop CROP REPORT Below will be found the last for the season of telegraphic reports re- ceived at the • Head Office of the' Bank of Montreal from its Branches. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics estimates the' 1930 wheat yield in the Prairie. Provinces at 862,000,000' bushels, 'while the Northwestern Grain Dealers' Association places it, at 389,000,000' bushels. These ' esti- mates compare with the Dominion, Bureau's final figures of 281,664,000 bushels in 1929, the past five years', average of 405,700,000 bushels, and the ten years' average of 360,600,000 bushels. The Dominion Bureau es- timates this year's crop at 267,000,- 1 000 bushels, or 126,000,000 bushels pears in this issue of - Agrrcnittt a more than last year, and the barley and Industrial' Progress in Canada. • The chestnut crop in many dis- tricts has been• exceptionally heavy this year with the market very poor. Many rural stores have found them- selves ' with large quantities on hand and no buyers. In Norfolk County s o chest - quantities f producers of'the largestp ono New Written Great Openings in Canada -British Industry Ottawa, October 25th, (Special to. The News-Record)—Canada always recognized as being and oftimes cal-.: led `The Golden Prairie Land" has, after ten years of 'most striking de- velopment, at last won eminence as an industrial country." In such a manner does The Com- mercial Register of Canada refer -to the industrial growth of Canada dur- ing the last :decade; In<the--contin- ued expansion of the singular diver- sity of Canadian manufacturing en- terprise it sees great, openings for British business men who are pre- pared to deliver goods quickly. ' in pursuit of. this 'pronouncement some fundamental considerations are'em- phasized. One is that British manu- facturers facturers should -take a larger pt in the big exhibitions, particularly the -world's greatest annual exhibi- tion held at Toronto; a timely ;ar- ticle concerning which exposition ap- THURSDAY, OCTOBER .30, 1930 i .. ..wind polethere, The island i to supply the .actual mo ve pow .. S I ems .on Matters Canadian and Forei.,...articularly in the interior The. mission of real quantitio. t gu is cold, he of power without wires, remains at Por The News -Record , Await chologieally it is harder to .pass such � a barrier than a- stop light above the eye level. quantities of chestnuts, have not been buying heavily this year, al- though the demand has pickedup in recent days. $500 -For `Best Slogan crop at 112,000,000 bushels, or 32,-' 000,000 more than last year. There were about 340,000 acres less land, sown -to wheat than last year and 740,000 acres more to coarse grains. In Quebec the hay crop is ,above av- erage both as to yield and quality: Grain crops,, except on low-lying lands, compare favourably with those of past years, In Ontario generally` favourable conditions prevailed until midsummer, when drought intervened to reduce the yields of the later crops Grain crops as a whole are above av- erage and of good quality, the hay crop about average. An increased acreage was sown to corn and al- though the late planting was affect- ed by drought, there has been an av- erage crop. In the Maritiine Pro- vinces a high grade apple crop is lower than average in quantity,. the potato crop a good average except in districts where it was affected by rot, and hav and grains a good aver- age. In. British Columbia yields for nearly all .crops are somewhat better than last year. Province of Ontario The estimated yield per acre, and total yields, of fall wheat, spring wheat, oats, barley, and rye show increases in each case.- over last year's figures with a combined total of 140,520,262 bushels front 3,907,- 411 acres, as compared with 112,- 296,539 bushels from 3,807,668 acres for 1929. Fall Wheat, Spring Wheat and barley were reduced in acreage, but oats show an increase of 134,0000 acres ov- er last year's figures. Potatoes and mangels are somewhat better than an average crop. Other roots, due to continued drought, are below nor- mal, with turnips very poor. To- matoes and peas were in good vol- ume. Peaches, pears, and grapes were a good crop, with small fruits Less plentiful. Early apples were light. Late apples are of good qual- ity and size, but the crop is consider- ed below average, The tobacco ac- reage was 27,376, as against 23;078 for last year, with the yield below average but the quality good. The crop was harvested under excellent conditions and is curing well. With very little 'rainfall, pastures dried up early and it has been necessary to resort to stable feeding much ear- lier than usual. The ground is dry end hard and fall ploughing is dif- ficult. The acreage of fall wheat is again reduced but the present growth looks promising, (Commercial fruit production last. year in Canada had a value of $19,- 501,240, of which Ontario. accounted for $8,856,097. time the prize ever came to O.A. Other members of the team were: i Conference, Imperial Bank Cha Hilton Hartley and E. A. Innesbers, Regina, Canada. Woodstock and Gordon Engle of Elmwood. Big Attendaince at O.A.C. Registrations at the Ontario Agri- eultueal College this fall have mounted to a higher figure than dur- ing any year since 1919, when dis- charge from war service released. many men to complete their college courses. The biggest increase is in the freshmen year with an enrol- ment of 150. The total increase in the agricultural courses is 73. This at- tendance is taxing the dormitory and dining room accommodation to the limit, especially since the new residence is still under construction. Overseas Apple Market "The second eysential is the .in- vestnient of much more "British cap- ital in Canada. ` Opportunities lie on every sidefor the man who is pre-. paled to put up a factory and em- ploy Canadian labour, or merely to add funds to •a firm already existing. A third point, that British observers in the Dominion . are never tired of explaining i ran ch e for b the need s factories,and offieesof British man- ufacturing houses. The secret of American success in Canadian industry, it is pointed out, was the early realization that the only way to participate in the Do- minion's markets was to go there and build branch factories. "Manu- facturers from the south- are follow- ing this. principle boldly, they begun a movement of •expansions across the border that is unremitting never likely to experience a lull." "The Dominion's southern 'neigh- bour sends her best business men there to open branch enterprises, and by conceding work and wages to Canadians, assures success and pro- fit for any capital she cares to in- vest. Five North Poles Some Undiscovered Intrigue Explorers It is not •a generally known fact that there are five northern poles; and that all o,f them have not yet been discovered. In speaking of the North Pole it has been the consensus of opinion that thero was only one. A.. Canadian flying expedition has just succeeded' in charting with aer- ial cameras the North Magnetic Pole area, which was discovered by Cap- tain James Clark Ross in 1831 and relocated by Captain Ronald Amund- sen, who made extensive observations from 1903 to 1905, just before find- ing the Northwest.Passage, , There are five pales in the Arctic. regions to stinoulate.the imagination' of explorers. One is the North. Pole, visited by Peary, by Byrd andby the Amundson -Ellsworth -Mobile expedi- tion. Another is the Magnetic PoIe.• The third is the Ice Pole, known as, the Pole of Inaccessibility until. Am- undsen, Ellsworth' .and Nobille flew over it . in the dirigible. Norge in 1926. There are also a Wind Pole and the Pole of cold. The Wind pole. may possibly be in Greenland, where British and German expeditions are now conducting meteorological ob- crus The ob- servations. "Pole of Cold is still to be located definitely. Some of these poles are shifting in character, t they can be lo- cated fairly well upon maps. Of this type are the North Pole and the M'agnetic North Pole. The former, at the tip of the axis on which our earth rotates, moves about in a circle" with a radius of thirty to forty feet. The ,Magnetic North Pole . which attracts the needle of- the compass because it is at the axis of the great electric dynamo constituting the earth, moves over a considerable ar- ea,' slowly but measurably over a period of years. The position gener- ally given is near Lat. seventy de-' •glees N., Long. ninety-seven degrees W., on the Canadian mainland at a place called Boothia Felix or Boothia Peninsula. In summer this is a green grassy lowland; in winter it is no longer green but has the appearance of a cold Dakota prairie. Many ships have visited the region, some coming to grief on jageed rocks just below the surface of the Gulf of Boothia. The Ice Pole, so named by Amund- sen becausethe term "Pole of Inac- cessibility" no longer applied when ffe corssed it by dirigible, lies 'be- tween the North Pole and the Alas- kan shore, forming a rough triangle with that pole and the Magnetic Pole. It is at the centre of the great field of floating ice, covering 1.000,- 000 square miles, on which the North Pole lies. end has 'a bump on its baoknear. t centre. The air undoubtedly becomes very cold and thin, some experts say It would, therefore have a tendency to settle down , upon the dome of interior Greenland and flow down- hill in every direction, as water Hoes when poured on an inverted bowl. The result mightbe that there would usually be little wind near the centre of Greenland's dome and frequent winds . blowing from the .interior to the. coasts. Such winds, of course, would contribute to the Interacting system of winds throughout the Northern Hemisphere and hence Would be highly important to met eorology, - According to Andrew Fulton, ov- erseas representative of the Ontario Fruit Growers Association, there Still continues a good demand for bricht-colored dessert fruit on the British market. This is attributed partly to the below -normal ship- ments of transatlantic fruit. During the week on which the most recent report was balsed, Ontario annles topped all others in price, McIn- tosh's selling for 88.60. Mr. Fulton states that all attractively colored dessert apples will bring good prices on the British market at this time while the green cooking apples are 11+ire or less a drug on the market. Some progress in the shipping and handling of soft fruits is also re- ported. 'Dim 5 from the Burlin"•ton district having arrived in excellent shape and drawing good prices. Drought Hits Corn -Borer The prolonged dry spell during the past summer came to the aid of science in the battle against the European corn -borer, with a result- ant 26 per cent. decrease in stock infestation in Ontario as a whole. This information is contained in the report of G. N. Stirrett, Dominion Entomologist, which will be pre- sented at the annual convention of the Entomological Society of Ontario at Ottawa on November 6, 7 and 8. Essex and Kent Counties show 30 per •cent. reduction. On'theother hand some counties in Eastern On- tario, particularly Prince Edward County, show an increase in infes- tation, Weekly Crop Report present a dream. To -morrow has always been for ins a more fascinating day than yester- day or theday before that, -' .Sir Thomas Lipton. 2,508,000 Out of Work in States . to the campaign,wlhich Similar , commenced in Canada directly -after the Federal eleetioln, to provide ern pleyment for those out of week, the United States is "making a nation- wide drive with federal, states and municipal bodies. It is estimated. that there are 2,508,000 persons out of work in the United States, Preparations For "Man -Less War Are akingHead Headway Important Revenue is Derived Prom Pacific Fisheries Since the rise of the salmon can- 'ning industry on the Pacific ocast the premier provinces in the fisher- ies of the Dominion has been British Columbia. In earlier times this pos- ition belonged to Nova Scotia. FRANKLIN RELICS REPOSE AT OTTAWA Relics of the Franklin expedition, which were supposed to have been left at the magnetic pole when Sir John Franklin made his expedition from England\ in 1845, were among According to the weekly report of , the findings • which were made by agricultural representatives, drought' Major L. T. Builwa5h in his recent is assuming serious proportions in ; visit to that place. He spoke for many parts of the province. Not the first time since his home -coming plowing onlyhas been difficult, but . at the luncheon tendered in his bon- ' in many sections wells are: going or by the Women's Canadian Club dry. Feed grain is plentiful in' most at the Chateau Laurier. It was the sections and owing to the low prices first time a white man had ever prevailing the bulk will be fed to been in summer at the magnetic, live stock. As a result feeder cat- pole and Major Burwash told in graphic language of the visit to tle are at a premium. M:angels and Victory point in search of the grave turnips have in most parts of the which was _supposed to be that of province turned out successfully fora!' John Franklin. FAIelleER WINS IN ACTION Roller; $et House Afire so Firm' Must Pay $4,600 WELLANID, Oct. 24.—Damages of $4,600 with costs were awarded' by the jury at the civil sessions of the Fail Assizes here to Emmett 11±. Sebum, farmer of Thorold Township, in his action ' against the Dufferin Paving and Crushed "Stone -Company of Toronto for destruction of ' his home- and outbuildings as the result of fire occasioned by a spark from the smokestack of defendant's steam roller while paving operations were proceeding on Merrittville highway. Plaintiff sought $6,000. 'Modern warfare has become so mechanical that it is said that in the future monster implements of war may be controlled from a dis- tance by the mere turning of a radio dial, Major Magayama, a Japanese army officer has invented a means of directing by radio the movements of a- tank able to travel at a speed of n per riles h our Already wireless control of air- planes has been successfully at- tempted in England, according to re- ports. A master radio set took the place of the pilot, acting through tiny compressed air motors which worked the plane's controls. In only two of the last 12 years has the product of the B. C. fisheries fallen below a value of $20,000.000. Last year was somewhat better than the average, though falling $2,500,- 000 short of the value recorded in 1928. A preliminary report for 1929 on the fisheries of the Pacific Coast province of Canada states that the total value was $23,930,692. This preliminary value for the pro- duct as marketed, whether sold fresh canned, cured or otherwise, com- pares with $26,562.727 for the 1928 catch, and with $22;890,913 in 192.7. 'Me same report gives the annual value of the fisheries for each year back to 1910. During the 12 year Period, British Columbia's fish catch has had an average amoral value of approximately $22.745,000. The 1929 catch was therefore more than 51.- 000,000 1:000,000 above the average although less than $3.500,000 below the record of $27,367,109 in 1926. -Don't Miss a Word When your Favorite comedian is on the .air you want to hear every word With every inflection—to IMAGINE ' you SEE him. For lifelike reproduction choose s Al - Features D IO 'VARIOUS MO®ELS---Price less Tubes;S154. up Comte 7R Look and Listen BERT LANGFORD Clinton,. •Ontario, MANUFACTURED FACTURED IN CANADA BY MOHAWK RADIO LIMITED,:TORONTO Licensed by Canadian Rodin Patents Limited VIi'tY SUPPLY CO„ LIMITED, TORONTO DISTRIBUTORS The halibut fishery, the second in importance shows a catch of 30.392.- 100 pounds in 1929 with a marketed value of $4,317,235 an increase over the previous year of 110,100 ponnds in quantity caught and 4946.566 in the marketed value. The third of the chief cmnmercial fisheries of British Columbia is the pilchard with n total value in'1929 of 92.199,834 a decrease froni 1928 of $$363.303. The pilchard is marketed mainly as oil and meal. the farmer worth $1,128.- 164 and the latter $655,867 in 1928. Canned pilchard amounted to 98,821. cases of 48 pounds each valued at 3411,011. THOSE LUSCIOUS ACCENTS, Wife: `John, is it true that money talks." !Husband: "That's what they say, my dear." "Well, I wish you'd leave a little here to talk to me during the day. I get so lonely." Such a system of radio control as that of thetank or airplane does ® not imply the transmission of any appreciable quantity of power .by radio. In the tank, for example, the radio impulses serve simply to trip a relay that sets in motion the tank's regular gasoline -driven machinery. Other relays, tuned to proper wave lengths, operate the steering con- trols. Because the warmth of the Gulf Stream clears the ocean of ice to within 600 or 700 miles of the North Pole on the Norwegian side, the cen- tre of the ice, mass --and hence the location of the Ica Pole—is 400 miles away from the North Pole on the Al- askan side. When Amundsen passed over the Ice Pole he saw nothing be- low .him but solid ice, so tightly packed that not even a rift of water appeared. No man has ever set foot at the Ice Pole, The hardships of reaching it by dog sledge have been consider- ed too great and the Amundsen party reported that the condition of the ice was such as to prevent a landing by either dirigible or plane. The amount of power to operate these relays is as that which brings voices into your radio receiver. Just as your own set supplies the power to amplify the faint impulses so the relays in tank radair lane permit gasoline engines Calcium Chloride 'Entices. Moisture Chemical engineering has at last developed a "thoroughly practical method of enticing moisture from the atmosphere, an invention which will be a pleasure to those who were not gullible enough to believe in the professional rain maker: It is true that the method is not adequate for the farmer's needs, but it is efficient for settling the dust on dirt roads and will prove a boom to residents along the highways and, to motor- ists.Calcium chloride is the substance. which coaxes moisture from the slim even on the hottest days in summer. It has the ;property which chemists. call "deliquescence," ' which simnlY means it has a strong chemical af- finity for water and. will attract it 'front the surrounding air when the latter is comparatively "dry." The chemical has, long been known but it is only recently that chemical engin- eering has made it available in an inexpensive arid convenient form. It is said that two applications during } the, dry summer months will settle the dust as effectively as would a light shower every day. ' required as little EXETER TOWN CONSTABLE DIES ON MONDAY AFTER SHORT, ILLNESS a p Taken ill Sunday night, Wesley J. Bissett, constable at Exeter for the past 30 years, died Monday week in his 76th year. Born two and a half miles south of Exeter, the deceased lived on a farm until he came to Exeter. He married Emily Welsh, who sur- vives him. The couple would have celebrated their 50th wedding an- niversary next Monday, He is also survived by one daughter, Mrs. Wil- liam Rouson, of Toronto, and by two brothers, David, of Wlalkerville, and Charles, of Deloraine, Man. Mr. Bissett was an effieient and kindly officer. He was a member of James Street United Chucrh and a regular attendant, The funeral took place on Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock, followed by a public service at 2.30 o'clock,, ReV. Duncan McTavish officiated and interment took place in the Exeter Cemetery. ,ave Fascinathig Links in Canada's flistory A silver evade has been loaned -the Dominion Archives in Ottawa which has an interesting history connected with it. The first sod in the North Shore Railway was turned with the spade at Quebec on July 186, 1872 by Maltida Louisa Minden, wife of Hon. Jos. Ed, Cauchon, president of the company. It will be remembered that the Quebec Railway Act of 1874 finally Yet, cold as this territory must be in the dead of winter, explorers do not believe that the temperature there, or at the North Pole itself, ever falls to the level of 68 degrees below zero, once reached at the vil- lage of Gladstone, near Havre, Mont, To find the pole of cold, therefore, scientists must look elsewhere. In fact, they nmst have to look for two or more cold poles instead of one. One pole of cold that having the lowest winter temperature of which there is record—bras been been fixed tentatively on the mainland of Asia, near the Siberian village of Verlc- ohyansk, some 1,400 miles from the North Pole. The coldest winter tem- perature that can ever occur there is .something between ninety and ninety-five degrees below zero, while the coldest possible at either the North Pole or the Ice Pole is be- lieved to be about thirty degrees warmer. authorized the building of the North Shore' Railway which connected Que- bec City and the St. Maurice River, and it was before the final author- ized Act was passed that the first sod was turned. The spade is a beautiful sterling silver spade and is Digreed and in- scribed with the above information, The handle is of walnut. "Or perhaps the Pole of Cold is in Greenland, which may be every bit as cold in winter as Verkhoyansk. For the greatest winter'cold is pro- duced by three conditions working together—distance from the equator, distance from the ocean, and alti- tude. The plateau of Central Green- land answers all of these conditions, whereas the North Pole and the Ice Pole meet -only the first— distance from the equator. Perhaps the Ger- man and British ineterologists now in Greenland may be able to learn definitely whether that ice -hound is., land contains both the Pole of Cold and tihe somewhat legendary Pole of Winds, The British expedition is , engaged in surveying the ice cap of Green- land, with a view- to determining whether it would be possible to use the island as a way station for air- ships used on the proposed route between Britain and Canada, and: the German expedition is also acquiring meteorological data 'relative to fly- ing as well as to storm conditions in the transatlantic ship lanes. By the Pole . of . Winds is meant that centre -if there is only one— where the chill winds of the North erns Hemisphere' originate. Scien- tists refuse to credit the polar re- gions with as many icy blasts as the poets suggest. There is in Green- land, however,'a peculiar situation' Which makes it possible for scien- tists to discuss whether there is a New Device to Warn Motorists There are many drivers who ignore a red light overhead when driv,g but there is .; a new t .,-iffic device reported 'as recently put into effect in England which will overcome this. The invention; consists of an illumin- ated strip .crossing the road, made up of ,a. number of lights beneath glass lenses -buried flush' with the pave- ,inent. 'Stop signals are given by il- luminating the dotted line and the driver must not cross the line. Pys- Sri. '. g New Rooms to Your Home kith Gyproc A WORK -ROOM for you /-1. —a playroom for the youngsters in the 'basement. An extra bedroom or two in the Attic. 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