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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1943-01-14, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., JAN. 14, 194a. 'tooni identially--'How do you keep 'em so clean, Sir?" Preparing for Incubation '(Experimental' Farm News) With an increased domestic de- mand for eggs and poultry and the large increase in the requests of the .British Ministry of Food, whose order has risen from 10,000,000 dozen eggs in 1940 to 45,000,000 in 1942, with further increases expected for 1948. The Canadian poultryman and farm- er should plan for the coming year, says R. G. Newton, Dominion Exper- imental Station, Prince George, B. C. The incubating season will soon be here and producers should already be getting the breeders into condition in order to obtain the maximum of high quality eggs. Poultrymen should not . stint on high vitamin feeds for the breeders. Inlorder to reduce the annual costs of replacements, good fertility, good hatchability and low pullet mortality are essential. • Care should be taken in selecting males to head the breeding flock and only males of approved and sel- ected breeding should be used. The past year the production from the progeny of 10 different males' were studied at the Dominion Experimen- tal Station, Prince • George and the average production of the daughters from the different males varied from 177 egga per bird per year up to 232 eggs per bird per year, which means CHURCH DIRECTORY that each daughter of the top sire TELE BAPTIST CHURCH produced 4 7 -12th, dozen eggs mere c•,.. _ n_-�-- each than did' the daughters of the low sire. This spread in production means the difference between profit. 11.00 a.m.-Sunday School 7.00 p.m.—Evening Worship The Young People meet each day evening at 8 p.m. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH Rev. G. W. Moore, Lth. 11.00 a.m.-Morning Prayer. 2.30 p.nt. —Sunday School. 7.00 p.m. Evening Prayer. , THE SALVATION ARMY ' Capt. S. Curtis 11.00 a.m.--Holiness Service 2.30 p.m.—Sunday School. 7.00 p.m.—Salvation Meeting, ONTARIO STREET UNITED. Rev. G. G. Burton, M.A., B.D.• 11.00 a,m.—Divine Worship. Near Noon -Sunday School. 2.30 p.m.—Turner's Church Service and Sunday School. 7.00 pm„ -Evening Worship. 'WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED Rev. Andrew Lane, B.A., S.D.. 11.00 a.m.—Divine Worship 7.00 p.m.—Evening Worship. Sunday School at • conclusion of morning service. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. D. J. Lane 10.00 am.—Sunday School. 11.00 a.m.-Worship Service. 2.00 mein.. -.Sunday School, Bayfield, 3.00 p.m.—Worship Service at Bay field. ' High mortality in rearing and in the pullet flock stress the necessity for careful, sanitary and healthy en- viromnent as well as the mating of only hcalt,hy individuals. With the groat demand for Stock this coming season any • tendency to use pullet eggs for incubation should be avoid- ed. When purchasing day old chicks, it is well to deal only with reliable poultry breeders or approved hatch- eries, Noted Advertising Man John C. Kirkwood, Dies Widely known in advertising circ- les, John Campbell Kirkwood, 74 :lied Sunday. On October 16th Mr. Kirk- wood was honored by his friends in the newspaper and advertising fields, when they gathered at the National Club and presented him with a testi- monial of appreciation. Personal, greetings were received from friende throughout the Dominion and tribute paid him as one who had probably written more about advertising than any other Ptah in Canada. 1 Up until spring of 1942, when his health intervened, he was a weekly contributor to the "Clinton News -Re- cord. A BRITISH DESTROYER SPEEDING TO HUNT OUT THE ENEMY. efeenetefliseleeleee Destroyers aro the hardest worked ships in the British Navy. Guarding vital cargoes of arms and supplies on the seven seas, they often spends as many as 10,000 hours at sea on a single trip, and have very little break between jobs. , Picture, Shows: Sterne view from a British destroyer ttavelling'at speed. • T Hog Kill Day Is Being - WHO FOUNDED THE Revived Throughout U. S. CARTER CHOLARSHIPS Revival of butchering day, when farm neighbors help each other pre pare their meat supply,. is expected this fall for three reasons. It wi11 be cheaper, transportation Each year announcement is made of the award of three Carter scholar -`and packing plants will. be. relieved ships in this county, and similarly in of some of the record pig crop, and other counties of Western Ontario. since farm people won't be going Many of these scholarships have been many places anyway, this will be won by students of Clinton Col- another way for them to be good legiate Institute. Who was the found- neighbors. er of these scholarships, and what A family of five should have 675 was their origin? These questions pounds of. meat a year •for proper' are answered, in an article by J. W. Nutrition. This is provided byl three' MacLeod published' in The London 225 -pound hogs and half of a 1,000- Free Press. pound steer. Nearly $19 is saved on the meat from three hogs when it is butchered Many young people from Western at home.. Ontario who are •now holding posit'. It is figured that a 225 -pound hog ions of trust , and importance owe is worth about 14 cents a pound on their position in life partly to the the farm, or $31.50. This hog will generous impulse of a self-made, cut out about 113 pounds of meat hard-headed business man, who built and 32 pounds of rendered' lard a comfortable fortune for himself in which, at the butcher shop, will cost the salt industry in Lambton county: $42.79. Thus on one hog farmers can save $1L29, or $33.87 on three Each year Carter scholarship e does not eon - awards for Western Ontario counties hogs. This of course sider any cost for processing or are announced, but few know of the locker rent. Deducting $10 for pro- man who made the scholarships pos- cessing and $5 for locker rent, at sible, or of the struggle he put forth$10 a year, leaves a' net saving of to achieve the success: he did in life. $10.87 by killing three hogs at home, Born near Ethel, in Huron county, Aside of'beef from a 1,000 -pound shortly' after the district was settled steer butchered at home and stored in tato 50's, J. 1. Carter started at an in the looker pi -ant -would save, $13.57, making a total of $32.44 early age to gain business experience counting the saving o the three which stood him . in good stead in hogs. later years. His father was post- This is not all the saving. If the master, miller, grain buyer, merchant farmer sells the hogs and the equiv- and farmer at Ethel. Gaining enough alent of the half steer, he would have education to give him a start, young increased his income $159.50, on Carter went to Seaforth, where he which most farmers this year will became elerk in a store- Learning pay $20 to $30 income tax. more about business practices of the time, he set himself un as a grain buyer. In this manner he met many farm- ers, Selling farm machinery as well, he extended his acquaintanceship. In the meantime he VMS attracted to salt works, which at that time op- erated in a primitive way. In them young Carter saw what he believed to be, the industry of the future, and using his persuasive selling powers, which served him in good fashion his entire lifetime, he interested some farmers in forming a salt company, with himself as manager. • The ven- ture was tried at Hensall, in Huron county, At that tine the industry was not enjoying its best years and the under- taking failed. Undaunted, Mr. Carter tried again at Parkhill with more success. The Canadian Salt Associa- tion, which included most producers, regulated the industry tb quite an ex- tent and set terms and prices. The newcomer in the field was not long in engaging in a bitter controversy and soon he gave up the Parkhill ven- tura, which was no huge success. His stand attracted to him an in- vestor who backed him in opening a plant at Courtright, which proved to be a success. Having achieved this measure of success, Mr. Carter gave up the work at Courtright and went to the Michi- gan salt area to acquaint himself fur - thee with the industry. After fifteen years there he returned to Canada, richer only in experience. He set up in the salt business at. Mooretown. The Cleveland -Sarnia interests had a new plant in which they, used sur- plus steam from their sawmill in the new' modern vacuum Pans, Mr. Car- ter took the pldnt over in 1905 and it proved to be a bonanza salt producer In five years it more than paid. for it- self in profits. In 1910 Mr. Carter sold it back to the company from which he had purchased 11. His health was not the best at the time, -so he decided to retire from business. Living in retirement he learned of some pupils of Sarnia Col- legiate Institute who, though brilliant, would not be able to contniue their studies because of lack of funds. He decided to offer the scholarships to Sarnia. He was induced to make them for Lambton county and the next year extended them to Huron, Middlesex, Perth and Wellington. Tbo plan was a success and in 1917 it was extended to take in more counties in Western Ontario, Mr. Carter believed that lack of Education had kept him bads from attaining complete. success : and he determined that others should not suffer the same handicaps if he could help it• Accordingly $100,000 was set aside to provide scholarships. The an- nuel interest on the suin is paid out in scholarships and amounts to $200 for each county. His philosophy in connection with the scholarships was that 8100 might be worth more to a young man than thousands to an old man and; it was in this belief that he set aside the fund. V- FALSE FACES A monkey who puts on a man's clothes is not likely to be mistaken for a man. In- the same way some p•eoplo can put on a cloak of polished manners and false geniality; but soon- er or later they will give themselves away by acts of selfishness or un - Virginian's Apparatus Is Excellent Deer `Chaser' A Virginia game commission re- lease describes a brand new method of keeping deer away from farm, crops—a barking watchdog, leashed by a short chain to a long overhead "trolley -wire" stretched between two trees at opposite ends of a field. According to the commission this worked for Warden O'Neil of Wise county in keeping deer out of a strawberry bed when intermittent shooting, flashing lights and smelly repellents failed. Not a single deer visited the field after the dog took overt The commission recommends this practice as a good means of mak- ing a virtue of a deer -chasing dog's chief vice. However, it warns that wire or chain should be equipped with insulators to prevent painful and terrifying shocks to the dog dur- ing electrical storms. Care should be to give the dog a cleared runway along the wire, so that the chain cannot become entangled in trees, brush, crops or other encum- brances. Water,'food and shelter for the dog's comfort must also be pro- vided. Sensitibe People "Human barometers" received scientific recognition recently at the International Congress of Physical Medicine, meeting at the Wharn- cliffe rooms, reports the Montreal Gazette. Dr. K. R. Collie Haliowes, former- ly of the Royal Mineral Water hos- pita!, Bath, spoke of persons who were aware "in no uncertain man- ner" of the electrical changes pre- ceding a thunderstorm; and of oth- ers who were sensitive to changes in barometric pressure. "There were rheumatic subjects," he continued, "who, if they go to the seaside, suffer from aches and pains, while other sufferers from rheumatism will be equally uncom- fortable inland." The whole subject of "climatol- ogy," he urged, had been too long neglected, and should be investi- gated. • A Pew Other Actions. Here are a few more actions pro- hibited under old Illinois laws which, so far as the records show, are still on the books. No person shall bathe in the river or its branches or in the lake with- in one mile of the shore during the day one hour before sunrise and ane hour after sunset. Fine, $1 to $5 for each offense. It is prohibited for anyone to raise or attempt to fly a kite in any busi- ness street of the city, Fine, $1 for each offense, It is prohibited for anyone to play ball in a public park or to walk or. lie on grass in parks or enclosed public places. Fine, $5 to $20. No bicycle shall be driven on the streets of the city faster than 'a speed of ten,miles an hour. Those who violate this law are subject to a penalty of $3 and .costs.; Sweet Clover 'Disease The disease of cattle, known in, veterinary practice as "sweet clover disease," arises from the eating of improperly cured, hay or silage made from the common sweet clo- ver Prof. Karl Paul Link of the University of. Wisconsin said. "The disease is in a sense without parallel in animal pathology or human medi- cine," 'Professor Link points out. When . cattle eat spoiled sweet .clo- ver hay,the disease is manifested by a progressive diminution in the clotting power of the blood and re- sultant hemorrhages which usually become fatal. ` In certain areas . of the upper Mississippi river basin the kindness: disease has economicgienircence Tale of Phantom Visitor Mystery After 100 Years. The brick house of mystery ro- mance, at 131 Tradd street, in Charleston, S. C., was built about 1800. It is situated in the midst of a friendly garden at theend of a lane which stretches 250 feet from the street. It was the residence, for a num- ber of years, of the late Arthur, M. Manigault II. It is now owned and occupied by his sister, Miss Mary 11. Manigault. The house, With its characteristic. Charleston piazzas, has a simple dignity. It is two stories on a high. basement, its bricks are laid in Fleming bond' and it is covered with a slate roof, An unusual decorative feature is incorporated in the chim- ney masonry, writes Francis B. Taylor in the Charleston News and Courier. The bricks are set to form a cornice around each, conforming to those on the east and west ends of the house. The house's history enfolds not only a ghost, but an unexplained romantic mystery as well. The ghost is an unusual wraith, who moves in modern ways his eerie duties to perform. Occupants for. generations have told• of hearing an equipage come charging down the lane, first accompanied by the sound of horses' hoofs, but now with the exhaust of an automobile engine. To those within doors, who hasten to welcome an unexpected guest, there is no doubt of hearing some one's progress toward the house. The door, however, swings open to reveal an empty threshold. After a hundred years there is yet no satisfactory explanation. Soldiers ori Leave Have Real 'Comedy of Errors' A recent visit to Philadelphia to pay court to the ladies fair was mostly a comedy of errors for Sergt. Robert Park and Stanley Buza of Camp Davis, N. C. Making the trip by car, they took along a group of their buddies, among them Private First Class Robert Mullins, Mul- lins' destination was Washington, so when the party reached the na- tion's, capital, he climbed out and the others went, an. Only thing wrong was that In the dark Mullins had taken the wrong Gladstone out of the car. Thus, when they reached Philadelphia, Park and Buza found themselves with one pair of clean pants between them— MulIins'. Buza's heartthrob was waiting for him at Philadelphia, and Park's was in Wilmington, Del., so they had to flip a coin to see who got the trousers—and Park won. But don't think they didn't get back at Mullins in the end. Since their shaving equipment was absent in Washington along with their clean clothes, Park and Buza proceeded to use Mullins' toothbrush as a shav- ing brush. Then, to top off the whole performance, in the rosy glow of parting from their women -folk, both Paris and Buza forgot all about Mullins' luggage, climbed into the car and drove off to Washington to hand the key to his suitcase to Mut lins and announce that it was still roosting in a hotel nearly 200 miles away! Fish Next Brainiest Next to men and the anthropoid apes, Director George M. Breder Jr. of the New York city aquarium reported, the brainiest creatures in the world are fish of the family Mor. myridae, Man's brain is about one 50th of his weight. He is closely followed in this respect by the chimpanzee, the orang titan and the gibbon. Next comes the Mormyrid. For its size, it has more brain than a whale. Its brain, Dr. Breder calculated, ranges from one 52nd to one 82nd of its weight. Normally, the Mormyrids swim in the Nile river of Egypt. Because of its drooping snout ancient Egyptians called one member of the family the "elephant fish," and made it sacred. Less Salt for Salt Lake Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah, have decided that they want to be- come industrial towns, and have just about decided to unsalt part of the Great Salt lake so that the fresh water may be used, together with. native coal, to generate power with which Utah's treasures of zinc, lead, copper and iron, still in the nearby mountains, may be processed at home. The lake contains from 14 to 25 per cent salinity, depending on the water level. It is constantly receiv- ing fresh water from the Jordan, Bear and Weber rivers, but the wa- ters cannot escape, so the minerals continue to accumulate until the sol. ids in Great Salt lake are in almost a saturated solution. Detects Brain Tumors A new technic by which the pres, ence of brain tumors, their size and location, can be found through ex- periments on the patient's sense of smell was described by Dr. Charles A. Elsberg, of the Neurological Insti- tute of New York, at the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Elsberg's research was based on the fact that brain tumors press on the olfactory nerves, strongly af- fecting the sense of smell. Through his experiments, Dr. Els- berg found a definite "scent yeti - stick," which he calls the "mini- mum identified odor," known as MIO, the smallest noticeable amount efa given substance. BRITISH WOMEN WORK AS RAILWAY TICKET PRINTERS A job formerly entrusted only to week. men, is now adequately and, efficient- ly carried out by a staff of women at the. Southern Railway printing works near London. They compose, print and count 2 1-2 million tickets a Picture Shows ---,A 17 -year-old g'irI compositor, Irene Royal, formerly a, domestic servant, at work type -set•. ting. R.A.F. SCHOOL FOR TRAINING BRITISH AND ALLIED AIR GUNNERS 1 During conferences at anair gun- ners' school in Flying Training Com- mand in Britain, senior officers and pilots of the R.A.F. listen with 'res- pect to what the air gunners have to say, foe tie majority have something to learn about the air as seen from an unusual angle backwards. Many an air gunner has directed his aircraft home to safety by direct. ing evasive tactics from "flak" or em. emy fighters. Picture. Shows:—A Czech Sergeant, pilot who has flown with a "Spit. fire" Squadron in the fighter aircraft in which he now helps to train air-. gunners. BRITISH SUBMARINE'S TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO HOME WATERS, •After a year's seiviee in the Medi- terranean the British submarine "Ut- most" has returned to the U. X. with .he splendid record of an eight -inch Italian cruiser, (Trieste class), sevon Axis supply ships, and a heavily lad- en Italian transport ship, all tor- pedoed: a _successful gun action against an enemy motor transport, ship: the rescue of a British botnbez° crew„ and other successful exploits, Picture shows: Officers and mem.. bars of the "Utmosts" crews at their 'stations in the interior of the vessel showing the Commanding Officer" (Centre) at the periscope. Holidays Eltdec., Pupils at Desks School-age boys and girls Monday turned away from :'si tel, .hockey suck's and games wihieh h„•1 annioed them during the past ten days, pick- ed up the books which they hrad flung in a corner when 'the holidays ,began and in many cases had. not looked' at. since, and returned to schoolafter the mid -winter holidays. The students left school for the Christmas holiday's this year on De- cember '23rd, ret.trning to their duties Monday morning. They are now begin ning the six months periodusually considered the hardest of the year,. culminating in the final examhta.- tion's. Athough many of the students en- joyed their holidays by spending the, majority of their time in winter sports, visiting or catching up on, their reading, more boys and girls than usual were working in the stor-. es; A scarcity of experienced help has made the, older students valuable to store managers, particularly dur•. ing' the Christmas rush, and: the boys and girls welcomed the opportunity to. make a little spending money. 1 Next y n; e • holida •to which students ca look forward will be the Easter vats -- tion. Schools• will close for Easter on April 23rd, opening again on Mayr 2nd: