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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1931-12-17, Page 8THE. CLINTON' NEWS -RECORD PAGE :HLP'PEN1N99 OF INTEREST 10 A,. THURS', DEC. 17, 193I: Tirtiely Irif()rimatioii. for the. Busy Farmer (Furnished by the Departmer.t of Agriculture ) f,ricreased Acreage - own .a,gainst the finest ' entries of -• g.ram and grass seeds -' from all Agricultural statistics .released States in the 'Union and other Pro: from Ottawa as liart of the 1931 vinces in the Dominion. Slightly census reveal an increasein the , More thar 100 exhibits were for- " ' TO His Son acreage sown -tothe •ii -41'69' warded to. Chicago and upwards crops in every case except oats, ..., 4 ....prizes were awarded to Ontario The 'following meditation, which Wheat jumped from 20 to 26 million exhibitors. The winnings included touches the heartstrings, pictures a •• acres, and barley increased . by one championships in cornbeans end dad as he stands at the bedside of and one-half inillion acres. Oats de- clover seed, his son. Many magazines have cop - °lined by about one and one-halfied this article, and we do not know million acres. There were slight in- Mrs. M. E. IllaYeoek of Milford the author's name, but it is universe) creases in the case of potatoes, mil- has the distinction of 'winning the in its appeal to mothers and daddies tivated hay, mixed grains and rye. field bean ehampienship, for two and sons everywhere: ---4 years in succession. . - : • "Listen son: I am saying this to - Clean and Sterilize All Dairy Remi Lemarche a caseelmati, a you as you sleep, one little paw :...: , Utensils.,. . - .. ' new.., exhibitor at Chicago, won - the crumpled under • your cheek and the - - - --, • • championship in red clover. mei- blond curls stickily wet on your damn The keepingnuality of milk. de- dentally -Mr. Lemarche also won forehead. I have often stolen into pends directly upon the mun:ber of the red elover championship at • the your room alone. Just a few minutes bacteria present and this in turn Royal and Ottawa WinterFairS. ago as I sat'reading my paper in the depends -upon the - thoroughness ... with which dairy, utensils have been Otherlibrary, a hot stifling wave of re- morse swept over me. I could not re - prize winners ' were 3. IL cleaned and sterilized. 1%e use of Frisby, Gormley, J. Li. Lampman. side. it. Guiltily I came to your bed - live steam or scs alding with 'boiling Ridgetown, Peter Clark and Sons, water is always effective providing Highgate, John E. Alton Rock- • . , it. is availaibe in sufficient volume, wood. In the pea classes Trra Bet- These are 'things I have beau hut as a general rule the quantity. a- beretch Sr., Mildmay, and H. L. thinking 'son: I have been cross to vailable on the average farm is in Goltz, Bracebridge, were well up at ! you. I scolded you as you were adequate for effective results. It is the top. dressing for school because you gave for this reason that the use ofOntario also scored heavily I your face merely a dab with a towel. in chlorine in suitable form is recom-I took you to task_ for not cleaning the live stock division, taking first . mended by bacteriological experts. It your shoes. I called out angrily when place among the provinces with a I found, you had thrown some of acts rapidly in co'd water, and in total of nine crowns. She was your things on the floor. AgaVer and morec onvenient than the second to Alberta in the grain and peat treatment generally recommen- seed divisions. -Ontario led the Do- "At breakfast I found fault too. •ded. Mien PrOOriy Splayed ehlor- .._ minion as tq total winter of Brats, You apIlled things. You gulped down sults RN the practice, alreadY goer- .. _ Canada matie an enviable showing 1 , Scour 001. You put your elbows on the table, ypi sptw butter too ine sterilisation give§ exeelleit TO' ' . e 1 al among mills and other good plants, at Chicago, capturing ten chaniPiall., thick ovytilir breah cAnti as you • - - ...-.. is spreading to the ,dairy farmsships, and three reserves in the grain started al to play and I made for .--. •-,- vrel-1 r7-1 , - i ...I - ' division, hhd 10 tifeWhs and 16 re- my train, you turned and waved a 4'''' Farm Mortgages serves in tile live Stock'. Leading all Canadian eXiiiiiltors for individual little hand and called, "Good-bye, Daddy!" and I frowned and said in The Government has notified tlel Showing was lierrean Trelle of reply "Hold y5ur shoulders back!" Ontario Agricultural Developement Wembley, Alta.., With five crowns in Board, which holds $85,000,000 of grains and seeds. No one else a- "Then it began all over again in farm mortgages, not to foreclose mow the entrants in the show equal- the late afternoon. As I came up the under any when. inertled this record. hill road, I spied you down on your gagors are unakee to meet their obli- ..--...., knees playing marbles. There were circumstances - holes in your stockings. I humiliated gations. Hon: W. H. Price, Acting. Put Flesh on Market Cattle you before your boy friends by mak- Prime Minister, pointed out that the ing you march ahead of me back to province holds a greater number ol l'%oith the plentiful supply of the house. Stockings were expensive farm mortgages than any private feed, the cattle going en the mar- -ancl if you had to buy them you coMpanY, and he intimated that legis- ket - this winter should be well - would be more careful. Imagine that lation would be brought down at the fleshed. Well -finished young cattle -next session to provide for a modi- command a „premium on both the son, for a father. It was such stu- fled moratorium on mortgages. "We home and export markets. The poor pid silly logic. realize that in these times of linen- quality, -under-fleshed animals have "Do you remember, later, when I cial stress many farmers who other- a repressing effect on the market. WaS reading in the library, how you wise would be able to meet their Stems or.heifers showing breeding came in softly, timidly with a sort payments are in considerable dif- anti type make good use of the of hunted look in your eyes. Wihen I ficulty and the Government is anx- home-grown feed. Time alone will glanced up over my paper impatient ions to help them over this period. tell what the profit will be on the at the interruption you hesitated at of financial stringency," said Col. hundreds of cattle going into the the door. "What is it you want?" I Price, adding that he bad asked feed -lots this fall. But. it is reason- snapped. ' loan companies to be lenient in able to expect that it will be - the "You said nothing, but ran across this regard and made the same re- deep, mellow -fleshed bullocks that in one tempestuous plunge and threw quest to sheriffs and bailiffs. The col -emend the top prices when they„go a your arms around my neck and kiss - proposed legislation will seek to on the market. Inferior feed or ed me, again arid again, and your s prevent the mortgage being fore- skimpy ration does not make market mall arms tightened with an affec- closed in ease of default of inter- toppers of even the best type of tion that God had set blooming in est payments, giving the mortgagor cattle. your heart and which een neglect an extension of time. — could not -wither. And then you were ---., Ottawa Fair Contests gone, pattering up the stairs. , "Well son, it was shortly after - The Inter -County Live Stock and wards that my paper slipped from Seecl Judging Competitions con- iiiy hands and a terrible sickening ducted at the Ottawa Winter Fair fear came over me, Suddenly I saw brought teams of young men from myself as I really was, in all my fourteen eastern Ontario counties. horrible selfishness, and I felt sick The A. 11. Acres Trophy for seed at heart ;lodging was won by the Renfrew "What has habit. been doing - to County team for the third time and me? The habit of complaining, of it thus becomes the permanent finding fault, or reprimanding, all of property of that county. Renfrew these were my rewards for being a team scored 1,305 out of a possi- boy. It was not that I did not love ble 1,500 points, while the Leeds you; it was that I expected too much team were runners-up with a score of youth. It was measuring you by of • 1,2301/2. The Peter 'White 'Fro- the yardstick of my own Years. phy, emblematic of the live stock "And there was so much that was judging championship, was wott by- good and fine and true. in your eliar, Prince Edward Comity, which calm- a,eter. You did not deserve my trea- ty also won it in 1028 and 1929, xnent of you so. The little heart WI while Lanark was successful in 1980. yours was as big as the dawn itself Dundas County was runner-up this over the wide hills. And this was year, shown by your spontaneous impulse to rush in and kiss me goodnight, Nothing else matters tonight, son. I have come to . your bedside, in the darkness, and I have knelt there, choking with emotion and so aShann- ed. "It is. a feeble atonement. I know you would not understand these things if I told them to you diving your waking hours, yet T must say what I am saying, I must burn sacri, ficial fires, alone, here in your bed- room, and make free confessor. Anti I have prayed God to strengthen me in my resolve. Tomorrow I will be a real daddy! I will chum 'with you and suffer when you suffevand laugh wheri you laugh. I will bite my ton- gue when impatient words come. I Will keep, saying as if it were a rit- ual: "He is nothing but o boy, a lit- tle -boy!" "I am afraid I have visualized you as a man. Yet I see you achy', soft, 'c crumpled and weary, I SOES that you are still a baby. Yesterday you were in your mother's arms, your head on her shoulder. 1 have asked tee much, town,' the interest to be spent in too much! local improvements every year. With "Dear boy, dear little son. A peni- some $10,000 a year to spend like tent kneels at your infant shrine that, Dundee shoidd t0011 be an earth, J here in the moonlight., I kiss the lit- ly paradise.—Fergus New -Record. . tle lingers and the danip forehead." . . ' ' • , The Reindier of Santa Claus Fame attendants, into Northern Alaska:. This was in the year 1889. The Al- askans were trained as reindeer driv- ers, and small herds were imPorted-. annually, In ten years breeding stations had been established, mat there were 5,000 of the animals in Alaska. Sy the breaking out of the' World War, iti 1914, there were over' 45,000 reindeer, 80,000 of which were owned by natives. The herds have to be constantly; guarded against attack bY wolves,. but the reindeer industry is worth, all the effort that has been, nut into. it. Reindeer meat is being- shipped' southward in increasing quantities, The experiment, moreover, has put new'fife into tie l0skim2s of Alaska. and has greatly advanced them int civ.wilieozataisosn. elate reindeer 'with caw- „aelebraton of Christmas, and when we consider the gifts which this ani- mal has bestowed on mankind, it is: quite appropriate that in the beauti-- fill myth reindeer should draw the., sleigh of Santa Claus. movingMass bf them was described as being over three miles wide. We know from remaine found by archa- eologists that they once migrated 'in to •Southern Europe. .The, utility of the reindeer to the uncivilized inhabitants of the Arctic regions is so great as to be -their one hope of ;existence. 'Without deer, they could not clothe, feed, Or house themselves . in those bleak, rocky, storm -swept deserts of ice and snow. They utilize every part of them from the hoofs to the points -of the antlers. 'Witten the latter are in a soft condition, they are valued as food. The skins are particularly effective against cold and, -when dressed, are pleasant to wear. The hides are used for tent coverings, sewed together with thread made from certain stout fibers in the ani' mal' muscles. 1%3eedless, knives, and other useful implements are made from his bones. Gut into strips, the hides may be used for various pur- poses which require tough, stout thongs. The milk of the reindeer is rich and nourishing, whether used in the raw state or made into cheeses; The meat is cured in summer for winter use. In addition to all this, the native rides the reindeer, or hit- ches him to a sledge, or lays a bur- den on his back. Ile has great en- durance and speed, makng twelve to fifteen mitres an hour. Nettie Wysor in” Dumb Animals The Arctic reindeer of northern Europe and Asia, which is practical- ly the same as the American cari- bou, is different from -other mem- bers of the. deer family in .one im- portant respeet. both the males and females have antlers, which nature usually 'bestows on the males alone. There is a peculiar brow tine in the antler outfit of the reindeer which grows downward in front of his face and spreads out like a palm. into points. In the Winter the frontal tine, according to some authorities, is used to ret snow from his pasture. His hods, which are divid- ed and very broad are serviceable in breaking the ice. The Lapps and Finns of Northern Europe have used the reindeer as a domestic servant time out of mem4 ory, but a wild race, much larger than the domesticated breed, still exists in those countries. They gath- er in immense Herds and migrate from Otto place to another seeking which is, mainly, what is eel. led "reindeer moss," a species of lichen spreading like a carpet over wide areas of the Far North. They also eat seaweed in summer, when they venture to the shores of the Arctic Ocean. In winter they are on short rations, and many of them whale and walrus by white men off starve. They never go far south, but the northern coast, the United States as far as they do go, their numbers Government undertook to transport are imposing. Generations ago a Siberian reideer, together with Lapp REMARKABLE INCREASE IN: GRAIN SHIPMENTS The four weeks from October -15th to the same date in November, were - featured by a remarkable movement' of grain over Canadian National. Railways and marketing and amt.:ling figures for this period are almost treble the figures for the same foul., week period of 1930. A report ' sued by T. P. White, Superintendent.. of Car Service, shows a total of 23,-, 341 cars loaded with 33,248,000 bu- shels from October 15th .compared to. 9.021 cars loaded with 12,248,000 bu- shels in -the same period last year. 1Vlarketing along Canadian National lines have likewise shown a marked" increase, with 42,152,000 bushels hauled to loading. points since • October 15th compared to the 18,- 526,000 bushels marketed in the iden- tical period of 1930. The American caribou of northern Canada and Alaska mama be dom- esticated, and, when the Eskmos of Alaska were threatened with star- vation because of the hunting of .4.4.:::"" • TRIED TOO MANY KINDS - A reformer had been speaking with some feeling about the use of cos- metics. "The more experience I have of' lipstick," he said, "the more distaste- ful I find 11." Junior Farmers at Chiiago Fourteen boys and twelve girls, Junior Farmer prize winners in their various classifications, represented Ontario at the Animal Congress of the 4-11 Clubs in Chicago during the first week in December. Under the care of W. K. Riddell , departmental representative, and Miss Edith Hop- kins of the Women's Institute Branch these Junior Farmers joined with the 1200 4-H Club members, representing most of tbe States of the Union. Each of these farm boys and girls had achieved a distinction in some branch of agriculture. All were prize winners locally and the tangible evi- dence of their prmeminence was the trip to Chicago to attend the Interna- tioal Live Stock .Show and to tour various industries in the city. Winter Fair' Contests In competition with teams repre- senting 26 counties, Peel County junior farmers carried off the late Hon. John 8. Martin trophy, em- blematic of the live stock judging tehampionshiP of Ontario at the Provincial "Winter Fair, Guelph. The winners met with stiff opposition from the Middlesex team, only fire points separating them. Bruce Coun- ty ranked third, York fourth, and „Durham, fifth. and only sixty-three 'points stood between the five high Crate -Feeding Pays Farmers who are in a position to follow the practice, find that crate - feeding of their poultry pays them big dividends. There are several reasons for this. It produces the milk -fed grades which bring, the highest prices, the leading wholesale merehants are now buying poultry by, Government grades with substantial differentials between each grade; the premium assured for birds which grade "rnilkfed" makes crate -feeding worth while; and all poultry intended for eating purposes should be propert Aeons in the event. •The possible ly finished before being marketed. ;score was 3,000, Peel !laving the ex- 1 The farmer who has poultry to mar- eellent count of 2278. •Ontario Court- ket would do well to remember that tv took highest standing and won the. it is the last pound which brings the Glen Ormond trophy for judging of finish and increases the value of the ;heavy horses. Durham County team bird by 50 to 75 cents, 'won first place and the Fischer tro phy in the inter -county seed judgit41 competition with a sem of 2598 A LAUDABLE EXAMPLE points, being _followed by Oxford, ' A former resident of Dundas has Peel, Grey and York. • left a legacy of poop() for the Ontario Wins at Chicago Ontario Seed Exhibitors at the International (ram 8fid Hay Shove ,at -Chicago more than held their OMWIC . S 5 We all know that the best way to wish a friend a Merry• Christmas is to say it yourself — especially in the case of out-of-town friends wha appreciate your voice more. than any other form of greeting. BUT.— if everybody waits until Christmas Day to make these calls there are bound to be crowded lines and delays. We telephone operators all wish to avoid that sort of thing. We want to put your Christmas calls through promptly and pleasantly. We therefore suggest that • you place your calls as many days before Christmas as you can. A Christmas greeting is just as timely and appreciated before Christmas as on the day itself; it is spoiled only when it is late. So please be early this year and let us - show you how quick and courteous our service can be.