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TIE BUSY FARMER
, , Vurnisliec .b the De artlnent of Agriculture )
Mulching. rowing vegetables with
definitely t'
paper. has d critey provedthat
most vegetable crops are improved
by this system, which eliniinetes the
necessity for cultivation: 'Such heat-
loving plants as the cudumber,
melon, pepper and tomato showed
the most 'substantial increases in
yield',
Heldimand County had a Sheep
Hipping Week early in -June. In -ad-
dition to the dipping of sheep, fif-
teen demonstrations in drenching' of
internal paiiasites were held. At
these 16 points, 8089 sheep were
clipped and about 80 per cent of
these were treated for internal para-
sites,
Reports submitted by agricultural
representatives show that practical-
ly all grants, including fall wheat
and spring grains, will beabove ave -
Inge in yield. Old meadows are
somewhat disappointing and yields of
hay from them will not be as large
as was anticipated. To counteract
this, however, alfalfa gives promise
of being above the average.
New Weeds Appear
The three weeds that stand out as
the most troublesemeare:_sew this -
tie, couch grass; and Canada thistle;
though' each district has its own par-
ticular pests. Sow thistle is particu-
larly bad in Ontario and the Prairie
Provinces, whore rich' soil and mois-
ture are favorable tui its growth,' In-
spector's in Ontario are receiving re-
ports on the prevalence of milkweed
which may have to tie added to the.
noxious list. Another that is at-
tracting 'attention is elecampane, a
coarse growing plant with rather"at-
tractive flowers which is seen oil the
roadside and along fence rows,
THE CLINTQN-NEW$ RECORD
THURSDAY, RSDAY, JTJNE 25, 1031
much heavier `crop of apples than the packed ,product plays an impel, -
last -season
mpel•-last+'season is expected. The other
fruits are looping well and 'should
give a normal' crop.
Fruit,. Crop Prospects _
P, W. Eodgetts, director: of the
Fruit Branch, states that while the
bloom was extremely heavy every-
where in- the
verywhere'in-the province this year,' this
does not necessarily mean a heavy
crop. ,Since the date of the bloom,
reports on certain fruits have been
received, indicating a light crops
For instance, sour cherries in most
sections have suffered quite severe-
ly from frost injury at blossom time
and many large orchards both east
and west will not have 15 per cent.
of a set. Sweet eherries, on the other
hand, are a good crop. Reports on
pears 'are conflicting, but on the
whole does not look like a heavy
crop of Bartletts, the leading pear
both for dessert and canning.` A
izes
The World's Grain Exhibition end Conference offers Canadian farmer's
en opportunity to seen in cant prizes a:notme;ng to $210,750.00.
Comprised in 56 competitive classes, open to tete whole world, are
1,701 cash prizes. A few of the major awards Follow:
52,500 a first prize for 50 pounds of wheat) 30
pounds of oats.
51,500 for 40 pounds of barley) 50 pounds of rye.
S 803 for 10 ears of corn.
$ 300 for 30 pounds of peas; '30 pounds of Harr
20 pounds of clover.
With this splendid opportunity before them, Canadian Farmers should
keep a w ehfui eve on their growing crops. They should mark For
special csfe those areas that appear most promising.
It should be understood that all seed and gr.iin samples, if they are ,
not already selected, will have to be found in crops of this year.
All exhibits must be received by the Cihlbition authorities on or
before March 1, 1932.
Of vital importance to the advancement of Canadian agriculture will
• be the winning of World Championships in 1932 by farmers of Canada.
Their. seed and grain exhibits must demonitrateto the word the quality
of Canada's field crops.
Select the classes from the prize List most suited to the crop you grow)
then select your samples from the best you have.
it is best to make your entry' NOW.
Your sample for exhibit must be ih the hands of the Secretary at Regina
on or before March 1, 1932.
Valuable information relating to the preparation of grain and seed for
exhibit may be secured by writing to the Secretary of the Provincial
Committee, World's Grain Exhibition and Conference, care Department
of Agriculture, your own province.
Show what you OA and share what you know
On application, the Secretary, World's Grain Fehibiuon and Conference, Imperial Rank
Chambers, Regina, will send you pate lists, ruler and regulations governing competitive
entries and all other information.
Chairman Notional Committee Chalrnian Executive end
HON. ROBERT WEIR Einance.Commlttee
Minister of Agriculture for HON. W.C, BUCKLE
lvlini"ster of Agriculture for
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A summer trip to the Far West offers
spectacular sights and unusual
opportunities to enjoy oneself. It is
the premier vacation choice of the
`.r season --a few weeks of rapidly
changing, scenery, of new friendships
and new experiences. ,You'll see
beautiful Minaki.:.the Prairies...
JhaperNationalPark... the Canadian
Rockies. the Pacific Coast..,
Vancouver and Victoria... and
Alaska. •
Take advantage of the low fates—go
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andill>,sutrated, booklets from any
Agent of Canadian NationalRailways.
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Close Attentioh Needed
Close attention , should be given
the calving and farrowingpens, Fail-
ure to render necessary assistance
at the right time has resulted in loss'
and, every calf and pig that dies
makes it just that much more diff 1-
sult for those that live to make a
profit on the year's operation, The
sooner young_pigs get out in the sun.
the 'less danger o£ doss at three to
g
dive weeks of age. God liveroil may
be fed .'te pigs as: well as chickens:
to ward off trouble.
Canadian Cattle to Britain
Canadian cattle evidently are find-
ing is good market in Great Britain.
Vtnhile the number exported so far
this year has beep; comparatively
small enough cattle. have been ship-
ped to prove that under present cir-
cumstances tiresaffords a good out-
let for Canadian fat 'cattle and stock-
ers. ,Arrangements are virtually
complete whereby some 15,000 head
will be shipped to England by the
first of August at the ocean rate or
$•16 per head,
.tont part in saes, . ,He referred to
products •brought into Ontario and
seI]i sg to better advantage: than On-
'tario-grown products of equal worth,
simply because of the style of pack-.
Cold Storage Facilities
With an anticipated crop of 10,000
Panels of apples, the Norfolk Fruit
Growers' Association has started an
addition to its pre -cooling and cold
storage plant at 'Simcoe which will
practically duplicate the present fa-
cilities, •'The new accommodation
will be absolutely necessary .to take
care of, a crop of this size, accord-
ing to the manager, James E. John-
son. Growers in .Middlesex County
are now proposing to undertake cold
storage facilities, the question hav-
ing been favorably discussed at a
recent conference.
Sheep Losses Iieaiy
recent surveyof shee ,losses
A,1 c 1?
clue to dogs, conducted in Ontario
by authority of Hon. T L. Ken-
nedy, seowe
aw .. that this situation: is
growing more serious. It is possible
that this year's' claims will more
than equal the revenue collected by
the municipalities from the deg tax
To date it is estimated that bill a-
mounts to well over $100,000, with
losses runningup to $7,000 in sosue
counties alone, During a 'period
like the present, when municipal fin-
ances are strained to the limit, some
less expensive amusement for out•
stray dogs thankilling sheep; will
have tobe found. ''One suggestion i
the old custom of putting bells on
several members of each flocks' as a
means of protection from Bags,
--required' something like a hierachry
of brains and shill, if not of: positive.
genius, and that consequently larger
salaries had to be paid in that field
than in any other, with banks run- ,
ning a poor' second. That "notion
prevailed through many years when
railways';with distressing regularily
were falling into the hands of re-
ceivers, ' It persisted even in the
latter days of the old Grand Trunk,
When the seventy-five thousand- ex-
ecutive 'had^to- seek for 'succor from
a twelve thousand 'donor- premiere.,
Time was, perhaps, hut is nob how
when it was polite not to disclose
salaries lost olificials,sheeld be en-
ticed to rival' roads by higher efi ers:
At any rate, it seems reasonable
that these who pay the salaries
should have curiosity enough to in-
quire what the salaries are, and any
shareholder in • any corporation
should be in position to have his
curiosity gratified.
Roosts For 'Young Birds
' Teaching chicks to roost at an
early age tends to promote feather
growth end helps 'materially in
carrying the chicks over the critical
period -when they are most likely, to
crowd and smother. It is desirable
to get the chicks to roost "just as
soon as. they no longer need heat to
keep them comfortable. One of the
best ways of getting cheeks to roost
is J43 build a slopping roost to the
rear of the brooder house or to one
side of the house and enclose'the.un-
derneath side of the roost with a
fine mesh wire so that the cheeks
cannot get at the droppings. They
will take to these temporary roosts
in no time.
Going After Markets
The Department is evolving plans
for onening a new market for horsey,
of which a surplus of about eight
million pounds is :env recorded in
the province. Trade in Western Can-
ada is also being given attention and
the Ontario Fruit Growers' Associa-
tion is sending a representative to
Winnipeg. Leamington tomato
'growers are also sending a represen-
tative there to study .marketing con-
ditions. In a recent conference with
fruit and vegetable growers in the
Kingsville -Leamington area, Hon-
ourable Thomas L.. Kennedy pointed
out specific cases where losses had
been sustained because proper Con-
tainers had not been used in send-
ing fruit and vegetables West. Pro-
per packing is also important, he
emphasized, and the appearance of
than .the hiurdsed per trent. salary
was two' years ago. .
Wd knew a man who hadn't done
a tap of work for twenty years, and
!yet the 'local :newspaper's report of
his funeral was 'headed" "Laid to
Rest".
Scientists of matey nations .Are.
developing. -poison gases and: death
rays that can be used with devastat-
ing effect upon soldiers and civilians.
alike: This ought to beg'ood news
.
to "sen& tine •souls "dissuaded, front
suicide by conscientious scruples,
The problem of the dairyman to-
day is to produce at• a profit or
break even under existing circum-
stances. Greater economy in feeding
should not mean less effieiency,
Whys of improving horse -grown
crops can be found, thus'-neceseitat-
ing fewer purchased feeds. Dairy, -
men who have alfalfa hay and corn
silage can readily get along with a
lower protein concentrate ration
than the farmer with poor hay. and
no silage. Even alfalfa hay varies
considerably in nutritive value, de-
pending on when it is cut. Farmers
shou'd cut their alfalfa at a time
when they are fairly certain ofpro-
curing a valuable feeding material
than if left until too far • advaneed
Curing is also important end the
more green leaves that can be harv-
ested and the greater the retention
of color, the higher the feeding
value that will be realized in the
feeding -out process next winter.
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This is a hardy country, It sur- its being sold for less than cost. The
vives in spite of the many people new tax cuts off practically all its
ruined by. changes made in the tar-. Canadian circulation, thus saving it
iff or changes not made, in every a lot of money—sunless, of course, it
budget since confederation. I is obliged to reduce its advertising
{ rates in consequence.
Every little while one reads of a An American newspaper credits
lawyer being disbarred or sent to Bernard Shiley/with being the author
jail for conversion of clients' funds, r,
and in most cases the trouble has of. The Barber of Seville.' Sounds
its origin in eareless bookkeeping , Shavian at that.
and mixing trust funds with per -1 It is exceedingly difficult for peo-
sonal. A wise precaution is separ-
ate accounts --1n different banks,
where possible.
If you would find. solace, look
around, That tax on tea seems small
At .the world conference of the,
W.C.T,LT., Sir George Foster made
a speech in favor. 01 prohibition, If
he had not, it would be news.
Aecentuatingthe. cultural value of
music, a writer says, ti}at if Al.
Capone knew anything about music
he would not be a gangster. As a
raekateer though, he must at the
"very least know his scales,
Fling away ambition, Herbert
Hoover had all sorts of luck until he
attained the height of his aspira-
tions.
There's philosophy, but Iittle else,
in the reflection thatif you haven't
got a job, no one can sack you , or
reduce your wages.
Will Rogers says that they have
everything good in England except
good coffee. In his - own codntry
they `make excellent coffee but they
have maltreated tea ever since it
was taxed by the British.
Another reason why barbers use
lather is that it shows them how
much they have done and how nsuch
remains.
No one likes is ten percent. eat, but
it is soothing to reflect that a nin-
ety per : cent. salary is worth more
le to borrow money, especially if
they have ho security to offer, And
they are perhaps the very people
who need it most.
Even if air mails are abandoned
to the man who drinks liquor upon we should worry, Duns travel fast
which the customs duty is $10 a enough by rail,
gallon of proof spirits, or $9103 ex-
cise.
rSorue people's idea of public cern-
omy is that the government should
not waste a dollar -except in their
immediate neighborhood,
What goes up must come down,
but the tape shows that- what comes
down does not go up 11 it has lost its
bounce.
'Erority Complex
That monkeys and men are The only effectual check nteairet
closely related is shown by tests abuse of old age pensions is the
of th-e blood, tis stated, One phase
of this question we cannot escape—
the claim is not made by the anthro-
poid ape.
Market tip: Buy wheat now and
sell it in 1928. ;)"hat's safer than
dabbling in futures.
Scientists- appear to have over-
looked the importance of the; news
that a man went through the rapids
of Niagara in a bar•iiel, but the ex-
ploit proves conclusively that a man
went through the rapids of Niagara
in a barrel
Church assemblies are i)ei,'y proper-
ly discussing birth control.lend very
properly, too, plumbers might dis-
cuss the same subject when they
meet in convention. And Partners,
anis Carpenters, and lawyers,'not to
speak of dootoes,
•
It has always been said that a
young man thinks he knows more
than his father. Perhaps he does,
too; but it is curious bow closely he
follows the, old man's religious and
political •predilections.
The budget is a thing that allows
members of parliament to repeat the
speeches they made on the address.
The debate is on a resolution to
go into supply,Supply is some
thing' tlse government 'hasn't. got
but needs and wants. This it can
get only by taxing the people And
the people don't want to be taxed,
All they want is that the money
shall be spent. That's what makes
the life of a finance minister one
grand sweet song.
fraction of it which is paid locally
and collected by direct taxation. If
the whole were .paid by the federal
governnment there is the danger that
it would become a fruitful' source of
bribery, political parties vieing with
each other in promising increases be-
yond the financial Iimitations of
the country,
J• L. 'Lewis, whose death was re-
ported recently; was editor of the
Hamilton Herald When 'McIntyre, the
cheese poet of Ingersoll, was writing
imperishable verse. In 1897 McIntyre
celebrated the Queen's diamond jub-
ilee with a poem' which eontained
two lines that deserve immortality:
"And there stands Victoria, in :mien-
` diol regalia,
One foot on Canada and one on
Australia."
Mr. Lewis teas like his contempor-
ary, the late 3, R. Cameron, editoy
of the Spectator,, who would give.
only two kinds of poetry space' in
his paper—gaud poetry anti bad—
and so he copied this couplet in the
Herald and his comment was, "A
beautiful but perilous pose! God
Revealing lust or Sued, or sullen
vage,
Ignoring ' actions in another sphere,
The hlci,dless ) tattles of a pulpi-.
teen.
Einstein may change his theory if
be wishes. 'Meese no difle!t' re to
A bill .enablinga private member
to become a Cabinet Minister with-
out reeioetion is about to become a
federal act. -It will work all right
until some sorely -pressed, govern.
meat entices an opposition member
into the, Cabinet. Thus will arise
the condition' which, two hundred
years ago, gave origin to 'the law
that a 'member accepting a position
of ' emolument under the Crown
should 'testain the sanction of his con-
stituents.
Several religious' bodies have met
in annual convention and by revolu-
tion have labelled this course right
and that course wrong, so that for a
year we- have a clear path marked
out for us, and the way -faring man
though a,fool need not err therein.
No' debtors are indicated. He must
find them himself.
Agriculture owes a debt of grati-
tude to Henry ;Ford and other weal-
thy city men,' who lose money heav-
ily in farming, ;lust to show farmers
that farming. pays_
When the clerk who left the bank
1 three years ago to enter the broke -
age business meets his fellow -clerk
who refused the tempting offer, the
atmosphere is sure to be charged
with a certain element of constraint.
Judge: "I give you three years in
the penitentiary."
Broker: "Common or preferred 7"
us
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It is too bail eo spoil the•-a'eally
good story told by the Toronto Star
Weekly -that Artie i'iitp 1."0. fihring-.
t:r got 'the.- 0. in. his riernc through
taking :an I.O.0 frem "a sourdough
who wrote it T.O. Stringer, The
feet is that he lied been given and
had adopted the 0, before his Yu-
kon days. While he was is High
School student at Kiuscardine one of
his many friends Was T. 0. Scott,
now dead, a brother' of Judge J. H.
$eott of Perth, Ont, The .future
Archbishop caught the 0. through
someone ,who persisted in speaking
of T. 0. 'Scott and L 0, -Stringer, It's
simple, and not half so interesting,
but that is how it happened.
A Torono member of parliament
surprised and delighted Quebec mem-
bers by making a speech in French.
it is singular how few English
speaking members are willing to do
that. , Sir. Robert Borden, Hon, Ar-,
thur l'feighen, Hon. Mackenzie King
and Sir George Foster have under-
taken it, and on, one occasion the
late Hon. Dr. Edwards amused the
House by opening and eloping a
speech in French. His opening was:
"Monsieur 1' Orateur"' and 'his clos-
ing words were "Keret beaueoup"
On. the other hand, Quebec members
going to Ottawa with only one lan-
guage return with two. In their
second session they would essay a
speech in English, all the more at-
tractive )because halting and imper-
fect.
Krassin;-the first London envoy of
` the Soviets, was right when he de-
clared that if there is to .be a uni-
versal language it must be English
because the English won't learn any
ether. He himself plugged away
eight hours a day and in three
months was able to converse fairly
well in English. It was hard work,
1 but easier than trying to persuade
one Englishman...te .learn the lan-
guage of Russia.
Rev. T. T. Shields of Toronto de-
nounces daily newspapers for ex-
ploiting murders and murder trials
—news item.
Tumultuous murders crash the prin-
ted page,
Save the Queen!"
—
One Would think that a paper like
the»Saturday Evening Post would re- There has ;always been a notion
joiee at any action which prevents that the managements of railways
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Bringing
the family
Home
Tonight is the family re -union. It has been a
weekly event ever' Vince the young folk Scattered
to various towns, each to make his or her own
way in the world.
It started when Dick left to work in a neighbor-
ing city. Dick was full of enthusiasm, but apt
to be just a little bit wild) So Dad started the
habit of Lalling him once a week just to keep
him under the parental influence.
Then Helen was married and moved away, and
mother must needs make weekly voice visits
with her.
And now Betty has taken a position in another
town. Her voice comes home each week too.
Dad and mother gather all the news and pass it
on to the others. It keeps the family together
— and the cost of the three evening calls is less
than a dollar.
Evening rates on "Anyone"
(station -to -station) calls be-
gin at 7 p.m. (local time).
Just give "Long Distance"
the number you..wau — it
speeds up the service. If you
don't know the distant num-
ber, "information" will look
it up for you.
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though you make temporary
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