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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1943-06-17, Page 6PAGE 6 TON NEWS -RECORD THURS;, JUNE, 17, 1943, Gr wing Protein in Pastures (Experimental Farms News) Pasture can be produced at lower cost than any other feed crop, and pasture herbage is high in protein Nothing would seem more `logical than to utilize protein in pasture, says P. 0. Ripley, Field Husbandry Divis- ion, Central Experimental Farm. Ot- tawa. Coni grin p g three common crops grown at the Central. Experimental Farm, Ottawa, the 4 year average yield" of dry matter was Kentucky blue grass 1.67 tons per acre, alfalfa bay 3.09 tons, and corn silage 3.87 tons. The per cent of digestible pro- tein in these crops was ib]ue. grass 15 alfalfa 11 1-2, corn silage 4 1-2, which gave a total yield of protein of about a,quarter 'of a ton or third of a ton and about a fifth of a ton respec- tively. The coat per acre to produce the crops was $9.56 for blue grass pasture, $19.34 for alfalfa hay, and $44.34 for corn silage. The cost per ton of protein in the crops was $36.76 for .blue grass, $53.72 for alfalfa and $246.33 for corn silage. Thus a relat- ively high yield of, protein is' produc- ed in pasture at about three fifths the cost of its production in alfalfa hay and one seventh its cost in corn ell- age. It is important in managing grass pasture to use the grass when it is very young, in order to obtain the maximum of protein In experiments at Ottawa, young Kentucky blue grass contained 18 per cent protein on a water -free basis, later at the sheath stage it contained 13 per cent and rafter heading only 8.29 per cent. Kentucky blue •grass should ,be pastured early and grasjed short. While ether crops, like alfalfa, red clover and timothy will not stand quite so close grazing, the protein in these crops is also higher when they are young. . The growth of white clover in per- manent pastures should be encourag- ed. An average of several analyses of Kentucky blue grass at Ottawa show- ed that it contained 13 per cent pro- tein, while white clover contained 24 per cent. Applications of 500 to b')0 pounds per acre of •super -phosphate, or of 0-14-7 commercial fertilizer, will usually promote the growth of white clover and will also improve the grass, Where a pure grass pasture prevails a 4-12-6 fertilizer at the above rate will increase the grass production and thus the total protein It pays to produce protein ;n pas- tnrce. v 'Huron Native 100 Years Old Son of a pioneer Huron County family, William Sneyd Holmes, pow of Toronto, celebrated his 100th birth- day on Saturday, May 29. He was born on a farm near •Hohnesville, the Huron County village which bears his family name on May 29, 1943. The low white house then the home of his parents, still stands on a pleasant hill slope a little distance from. the 'illage. His parents, came from Dublin to found a home in the Huron County district, more than a century ago. Their family comprised six sons and four daughters. 'a,• Nov "Fixings" for "C" Company Quarters The armories on Newgate street are to be made more attnactieve, both inside and out, for members of ''C" Co Middlesex•Huron Regiment. A. corn- plete renovation., job is to be done forthwith. A new mens mess room is to .be constreeted upstairs, at the nor- th ;end, over the parade floor, and a consignment of new furniture is ex- pected,shortly. A canteen authority. has, obtained: New equipment has been received- a new Bren gun, anti-tank gun and two inch mortar. Regt. Q.M.S. Brown and Sergt. Johnston and Bettle visit Goderich'twice a week to demonstrate and teach the use of this equipment. Pte. W. A. Sutherland has, been promoted to the rank of lieutenant and Pte. Jas McAllister, an instrue- tor at Sky Harbor, to lance corporal He teaches map reading. The unit goes , into camp on June 13Th at Thames Valley. Two staff •medical officers "from London' have been in Goderich for over ten days conducting re-exam- ination of military age men hereto- fore given deferment by reason of their category. The men come from parts of ,Perth end Bruce and' all. of Huron County. Nearly fifty a day have 'been scheduled, for medical ex- amination and the ,board • expects' to be here for the balance of this week to complete the call up list. —Godes rich • Signal Star, V However it is the service canteen which is universally patronized. Can- dy bars, milk' and soft drinks are con- aumed by the ease and truck Loads. Despite Churchill preference cigaret- tes have the lead over cigars by a wide margin. Feeding and Management • of Laying Hens (Experimental Farms News) When the that eggs are dropped on range it is time to prepare for the housing . of pullets, states B. F. Cheney, Head Poultryman, Dominion Experimental Station Kentville, N. S., The birds should cone into clean houses and should be kept free of lice by treating the roosts With nico- tine sulphate. Shifting over to the laying mash that is to be used der - ,ng the fall and winter months should be gradual. A supply of grit, limestone or oyster shell along' with plenty of fresh water should be kept before the birds at all times. • During the fall aed early winter it does not require much of a change in feeding or management'to upset the birds, often resulting in a partial. moult with its consequent loss of production. All stimulating feeding practices such as the use of lights, feeding wet mashes and giving extra milk to drink should be withheld un- til November when the birds are most apt to .have a slums in production. During the fall the birds are build- ing up their bodies as well as pro- ducing eggs, so that extra scratch feeding is indicated. In the feeding of the flock of Leghorns at Rentville good results have been obtained wehn feeding five pounds of oats in the morning to ten pounds of mixed feed at night to each 100 birds. When the warmer weather arrives this grain feeding is reduced one pound each month until the birds are receiving twelve pounds per 100 birds, at which rate grain is fed during the summer. In •order to. get maximum results the flock should be gone over each month and undesirable birds removed. The remaining birds may be fed all the mash and grain they will consume. Birds that have been bred for produc- tion will turn the extra feed into profits. The value of extra milk for a flock of hens should be more generally ap- preciated. Milk ;helps to balance, the ration so that the farmer with milk available may secure a satisfactory laying mash with a mixture of home- grown grains by adding 5 per cent fish meal, 5 per cent beef scrap, one per cent fine salt and 2.rper cent cod liver oil, or by adding concentrates as prepared by the feed companies. This mash should be supplemented by feeding clover or alfalfa leaves or finely cut second growth clover or alf- alfa hay. v Whitewash Recipes for Farm Buildings Here are two standrad recipes for making whitewash for farm buildings (1) into large clean tub put one bushel of lump lime, and slake it with boiling water, covering it during the process to keep in the steam. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve, then add 3 lb. of commercial sulphate of zinc, 1 lb. of alum, and two Ib. of common salt, the alum and the salt having previously been dissolved-tn hot water. (2) Slake one-half bushels of lump lime with boiling water in a barrel; strain and add one-quarter peck of salt dissolved in warm water; 3% lb. of flour made into a thin puste with boiling water, and one-quarter Ib. of glue dissolved in warm' Water. It is recommended that this whitewash be applied hot. Where a disinfectant whitewash is desired, a recipe recommended by the Dominion Experimental Station at Scott, Sask., is as follows: Dissolve 50 lbs, of line in eight gallons, of boiling water; add six gallons of hot water which has ten pounds of alum and one pound of salt dissolved in it. Add a can of lye to every 25 gallons of the :mixture. Add a pound of cement to every three gallons gradually, and stir thoroughly. A quart of creosol dig infectant may be used instead of the lye, but lye is preferred when the colour is to be kept white. Other re- cipes for whitewash and cold water paint may be found in a circular on Whitewash, obtainable on request from the Dominion Department of Agricul- ture, Ottawa. v Grass For Poultry . According to authorities at a recent Poultry Industry Committee, short, tender, unjointed grass contains all the necessaryvitamins and proteins, and fifteen to thirty per cent of the food requirements of growing poultry can be provided by grass; Onee grass passes to the jointed stage its nutr- ritive-value as feed rapidly falls. Grass has high mineral and other healthful properties which improves, feather growth and the general condi- tion of birds. Grass feeding also in- creases -a .bird's resistance to disease. The grass should be kept short and growing. To keep it growing, it should be grazed closely and mowed frequent- ly. Growing birds and laying hens on short grass pasture with grain will carry on, even if normal supply of concentrates is not available. Sprout- ed. oats are a, good substitute when grass is not available. - a I 1; Facts About Weeds Control and, if possible, complete eradication is the farmer's chief inter- est in weeds, but some knowledge of, them is essential to attain these ends, It should be known, not merely that. weeks are present, but what they are; what harm they do and how; how can is vulnerable to'attack; and what ad- aptations of agricultural or other practice will best meet the situation. Agriculture has been defined as "a controversy with weeds" This is more than metaphorical language. As re- stricted to the meaning of field cult- ivation, agricltere is recognized in- creasingly as' largely the provision for crops of a weed -free environment. It has been demonstrated by experiment in the Americancornbelt that, apart from the object of weed control, cul- tivation of a crop of corn beyond the preparation ,of a seen:„ ed could be of- ten almost dispensed with. The man, horse -labour and equipment costs in- curred in the "controversy" are an amazingly large, proportion :of the total cost of crop .production. In fighting weeds, it is as true as anywhere, that prevention is better than cure. Prevention attends closely upon otherwise successful farming practice. When a farmer starts to work on well drained fields, as early as they are fit for cultivation, and sows plump seed of adapted varieties while the needed moisture is still in this well prepared seed -bed, the conditions will have been provided for a vigorous growth of the crop ahead of any. com- petitors. Again, whenever a grain far- mer becomes, to any extent, a bree- der of live stock he does himself an- other immense service. By introducing a variety of crops, differing in nature and culture permitting early cutting in the case of hay, or cultivation in the case of corn or roots, weeds are prevented from maturing seeds. Sys- tematic rotation, giving all fields re- gularly the advantage of cleaning, follows logically. After harvest till- age and spring preparation for late sown crops dispense mostly with any necessity for uneconomic summer fel- lows and reduce hoeing to a minimum. When every advantage has been ta- ken of agricultural "sanitary" mea sures, enough problems still remain. Why resort to bare follows (unless in dry land grain farming), chemicals, mulches, and similar resources for special occasions, while room remains to improve agricultural practice? For practical advice regarding these ele• mentary principles of weed • control the Field Husbandry Division, Central Ex- perimental Farm, Ottawa, may be consulted. The Division 01 Botany, Dominion Department of Agriculture Ottawa, can also frequently through its "case" work with individual spe- cies show how to suit the action to the weed. Ahoy! Proving the value of the direct ap preach the following story comes from e Canadian 'corvette. The -skipper, a hard-bitten ex -mer- chant seaman, was inclined to eschew the formalities. His second .in com- mand,'or, as corvette -crews prefer to call him "Jimmy The One" had been a school -teacher in less vigorous days ashore. One bright day in convoy a signal reached the corvette from a destroyer instructing her to haul alongside a Norwegien tramp and order her to retrieve a too-conspicious silver bal- loon she was flying as added protea: tion against possible attack by enemy aircraft. When within hailing distance the Jimmy called through a mega- phone across the intervening waters: "Retrieve that •balloon, forthwith." There Was immediate interest shown by two officers . aboard the tramp. They regarded each other in evident puzzlement, and following a brief conversational exchange, ' one called back: "Fort'wit'?" The Jimmy bristled "Yes," he re- peated. "Forthwith." Again the two officers looked at each other in bewilderment. This time the other one ,queried "'Fort' - wit ?" Again the Jimmy raised his .mega- phone, but found himself rudely jost- led aside by the Old Man who cupped Ms hands and bellowed. "Haul down that bloody balloon!" Down came the balloon. v Don't Relax Vigilance Says Mrs. J. D. Detwiler Calling for increased attention to retail prices, Mrs. J. D. Detwiler, chairman of the Women's Regional Advisory. Committee, Consumer Branch, W.P.T.B. points out to women of Western Ontario that "the whole price ceiling structure can be readi- ly undermined if we relax our vigil- ance on price checking." .. The Consumer Branch has the self- appointed task of keeping an eye on prices to defeat any move in the dir- ection of inflation, Housewives keep track of prices in specially provided "little blue books" and report any in- creases. 1 Red Tape is Not Liberty We in this organization believe in liberty. We believe in progress. Be- cause we believe in liberty and pro- gress we believe in that thing which is best described by an old fashioned word—capitalism. Capitalism i+ the right of a man to make his own mis- takes and to pay for them. The al- ternative to capitalism is state con- trol of everything, which means that bigger mistakes will be made, but never admitted, and will be paid for by all persons whether or not they would have made the same, or other, or smaller mistakes. Our belief in capitalism does not mean that we believe we can revert to a work -or -starve philosophy. Though this country,' this Empire, this western world fall as did Rome (and for similar reasons) we are coins mated to the policy that none should starve, or will starve. For our part we are willing for those who. are just: lazy being provided with necessities from birth to bier. But we think we are in the majority when we say that a man who merely does not want to work should not prosper as much as the man who tails and saves. Both the unfortunate and the lazy can be provided with what they need if somehow we prevent the overhead from becoming to high a percentage of the real production But the over- head will destroy us if we as a nation sirbmit in peacetime to excessive eon- trols. At present our fattest develop- ment is in adding to governmental staffs. And every plan advanced for the brave new, post-war world im- plies an ever-expanding army feed- ing out of the public trough. It may• be expected that the trend towards. expanding that army will be reversed when wage-earners getting $12.70 per week and up realize that they have to help support non -producers who hob- ble them with red tape. v Phe Christian Science Monitor of Boston paid the complete compliment to Winston Churchill when it assert- ed: ",,We , commend the text of his address to Congress as an aeeurat; survey to the present war picture." v Making Survey of Help Pro- blem in Canning Industry Ontario Farm Service Force Initiates Measures to Assist Canners In an effort to make provision in advance for the requirements of the canning industry of Ontario, Alex Mc- Laren, director of the Ontario Farm Service Force, has initiated a survey of the help situation in all coin., munities' in which canning factories are located. Forms to provide for a compilation of essential information have been sent all canning industries with a request that they co-operate in compiling the data necessary to indi- cate what outside help will be requir- ed in each case, along with the condi- tions under which this help will be employed. This will be followed by a visit to each community :by a repre- sentative ef the Ontario Farm Service Forte, so that the survey may be completed on the ground. "If the .problem of help for the canning industries is to be met," said Mr. McLaren, "it will have to be very largely out of what help the canners can secure in their own communities. They must exhaust all the possibilit- ies of their ownlocal help before up - plying for 'help to .be sent in from outside." Mr. McLaren has suggested that the management of canning factories approach the mayor, reeve or council of their own municipality, and after making as close an estimate as pos- sible ef their requirments. endeavour to ascertain how much help can be secured front their own community by an organized' campaign, in which var- ious local bodies must take the lead- ership. "Securing adequate help for these canning factories should be a matter of, community concern," said Mr. McLaren, "not only , because of employment possibilities, but also from the standpoint of food producs tion and conservation. If, after, the survey, it is found necessary to' bring Workers in from outside, arrange- ments will have to be made to' secure proper boarding places for these workers; and, the local authorities should also organize this aspect of the problem. Officials of this department will be available for conferences with municipal authorities • and, catnrers, but this plan must be put under way at once if the needs of the canning industry are to be met when the rush season starts.." —V— It's a writing army judging by the pile of mail going out every day, and it's a. singing one too. Sliati2t1 individual shareholders own Canada's Chartered Banks. The average. holding is 28 shares. Most of these shareholders are Canadians. The wide distribution .of bank ownership is in ' dicated by the fact that 36,574 individuals, living in all parts of Canada, hold shares in ,the Chartered Banks .of Canada. Of the remaining shareholders, 8,987 live elsewhere' in the British Empire. Some further facts about Canada's Banks: There are 4,369,740 savings deposit accounts in the Cha- tered Banks of Canada, aver- aging ,$391 each. Safeguarding, the funds of depositors is a primaryy function of commercial banking. Banks keep themselves in such a position that anybody going to the bank to withdraw his savings can get, his money. Banks, like any other business, exist because they provide ser- vice which a community needs and is willing to pay for at a rate which will yield a reason able return. Every day, bank loans are helping Canadians in all walks of life and in all parts of Canada fo profit from their individual enterprise and industry. THE CHARTERED BANKS OF CANADA Science Working to Solve Wartime Farm Problems A wide range of projects, which have for their objectives the solution of some wartime problems, is being undertaken by ,Science Service, Do- minion Department of Agriculture. Scientists of the different divisions of the service are now engaged on re- search work concerned with the pro- tection of agricultural and forest crops, and farm animals from injury by insect pests and diseases; the pre- vention of deterioration of foods; chemical and bacteriological problems in the improvement of soils and fer- tilizers, and in plant nutrition; and the inspection at shipping points of plants and plant products for inseot pests and diseases. Prior to the outbreak of war over 600 active projects were being con- ducted; but when war came the whole program of work was reviewed and many of the projects were discontin- ued iscontinued for the duration of the war. Pro- blems dealing with the increased pro- duction or the protection of essential food crops are recognized as neces- sary war work, states, Dr. J. M. Swaine, Director of the Science Ser- vice. It shquld however, be recognized he points ,out, that it in quite as nec- essary to protect agricultural crepe which are not now considered absolut- ely essential -'hut upon whieh the live- lihood of many farmers may depend. Chick Range Shelters Range shelters have come into such common use that they are regarded by progressive poultry -keepers as a necessity. Not only do they provide ideal roosting quarters for growing breeding cockerels and for developing pullets, but they may also be used to advantage for pen fattening market stock or' housing yearling layers which have just completed their pullet year production and are being conditibred. for the following season's breeding. Plans for an efficient rang shelter aregiven in the Special War Bullet- in, No. 64. which may be obtained by writing eo Dominion Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. v-- C.S.G.A. ANNUAL The 1943 annual meeting of, the CanadianSeed Growers Association will be held at St. Dunstan's College, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, on June 22 and 23. On June 21 a meet- ing of the Board of Directors will be convened at, the College, and on the opening day of the 'annual meeting, addresses of welcome will be given by Dr. J. A. Murphy, Rector, St. Dunstan'; College and by the Provin- cial Minister of Agriculture, P.E,I. A program of entertainment is be- ing planned for the ladies by the La- dies' Committee. v The average Canadian soldier is not as addicted to the use of aloholic beverages, as- one might believe. Governments are always "close to the peepul"— just before elections. t THIS TVIODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs --Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Helpful and Inspiring THE UNION - You that have gathered together the sons of all races And welded them into one; Lifting the torch of your Freedom on hungering faces That sailed to the setting sun; You that have made of mankind in your own proud regions The music of man to be, How should the old earth sing of you, now, as your legions Rise to set all men free? How should the singer that knew the proud vision and loved it In days when not all men knew Gaze through his tears, on the light, now the world has approved it; Or dream when the dream comes true? .se How should he sing when the Spirit of Freedom in thunder Speaks, and the wine -press is red; And the sea -winds are loud with the chains that are broken asunder And nations that rise from the dead? Flag of the sky, proud flag of that wide communion, Too mighty for thought to scan; Flag of the many in one, and that last world -union, That kingdom of God in man; Ours was a dream, in the night, of that last federation, But yours is the glory unfurled= The marshalled- nations and stars that shall make one nation One 'singing star of the world. Alfred Noyes. —• v WHEN THE BLOSSOMS FALL The blossoms are drifting down to- . night, In many an orchard row. ,And they're just as fragrant, and pink and white, As they were in the long ago. They're filling my world with dreams tonight. Each blossoms pure and sweet As when 1 ran through green -gold ways, In 'bare, untrammeled feet. And in an orchard that she loved, They drift like scented snow. O'er wee fringed daisies red and white On a pathway that I know. Does she come back when the May- time calls To walk her old home ways? Will she be there, when the blossoms drift Through all the sunny days? Sighing for, you the spring winds call. Weeping for you, the blossomsfall: Oh! come to your land of lost delight, Come back—when the blossoms fall, tonight. , GRANT US THE WILL Grant us the will to fashion as we. feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know. Grant us the purpose, ribbed sand. edged with steel, To strike the blow, Knowledge we ask not—Knowledge. Thom hast lent— But, Lord, the will: there lies our, hitter need. Give us to build above the deep in.. tent, The deed, the deed! v A DREAM OF EMPIRE Our fathers dreamed ef Empire;' They. bargained fought and planned Till they raised Great Britain's start.. dard on earth's remotest strand, Great continents subduing, defiant it. rode the breeze; It graced the tiny islets of the coral. studded seas. Herald of war and • conquest to env . vious, watching eyes Who saw not its Gross of glory as one of sacrifice. Yet they who rule an Empire must ever the Words recall That "Re who would' 'be the master, shall servant be of all." So through ieng• years they learned it, the rulers. taught by the ruled, By hunger, ' heat, cold, fever and. weariness,—Empire • -schooled And greatly they grew in :datum, rider and ruled tire same, Till they stood a mighty bulwark. when Armageddon came. Swift to rise to the challenge, as one to answer the call, Ours are the bonds of the spirit, --the greater bonds of all! Brethern, are we, true brethern, by that self -same spirit -tie That bids us stand as one people, and fight, ,and—if need be—diel While shedding of blood together our - lesser wounds has healed And a new and .:better concept of' Empire has revealed. Our fathers dreamed of Empire! Yet how could the wisest know That out of that dream of Ebnpire a greater dream would grow? But we, the children of Empire, to- gether heart and hand, Can vision a nobler. Empire, than all our fathers planned!, And strength forged from the strugs'. gle and courage 'born of the fight Shall build that Empire -Brotherhood - of Freedom, Justice, and Right! Montreal ---Grace Pollard