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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-08-15, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CL N' ON NEWS -RECORD; THURS., AUGU(SIT` `I5, 194Q`a I Read And Write -- For You } ((roprrrght ) By John C. Kirkwood You may imagine that you have cruise - to. Churchill in the Arctic, troubles and anxieties amany and via Lake Winnipeg - which has a it may not be wholly imagination. length of. 300 miles - via Hayes River But are your troubles and anxieties to Hudson's Bay, thence to Churchill and hardships and shortage of money and other northerly points. worse than the troubles which dis- tress others, and which make their outlook a very gloomy one? Consider, For years I have been keeping my for example, those whose business is eyes open for a vivid account of a the growing and curing of tobacco - caravan journey - such as that taken in both the United States and Can- by the travellers to Europe from oda. The war has cut of their for- India in the pre-columbus days. But f so far T have failed to get the sort of picture desired: writers seem to take it for granted that we know all about caravans and their ways. Sa when I read about a present-day car - awn journey in Thibet, I tried to. imagine the caravan journeys of the Middle Ages and of prior times. This Thibetan caravan was carrying tea - tea grown on the 'western mountains of Szeehway and shipped to the tent country of Northwest Thibet. The tea, put up in bales, is composed of the leaves, twigs and even the branches, of the wild tea plant, and is considerably adulterated. with leaves and twigs of oak and laurel. The caravan is made up of "ket- tles." The "kettle" is the basic unit eign markets - in Britain, Europe, China, and elsewhere. It is not alone thedoss of these markets; also there is the inevitable drop in the prices which can be obtained for tobacco. Then, too, there is the circumstance that there has been a very heavy - carry -over from last year. The far mer who grows other -crops can count himself lucky when he 'looks at the farmers who grow tobacco. So bad is the situation and the prospect that the tobacco growers of Virginia have voluntarily agreed on a three-year programme of 'reduced production. They have agreed to pro- duce no more than 618,000,000 lbs. of tobacco in each of the next three years - this as against a production of 1,100,000,000 lbs. in 1989. Whereas • of the caravan, and numbers from a year ago 'the farmers got 22 cents three to ten men, having from 20 to • a lb. - on an average - for last year's j 100 or more cattle. Each kettle is i * crop - what was sold of it, they can- I composed of men who eat out of the same pot and who claim the same fire. These tea caravans do not use camels, but the mdzo - a hybrid yak. search, some known towing and wire pulling are necessary, but not nearly so much as you might suppose. Your" best advocate is your proposal itself. More and more are grants made by the foundations in accordance with a well-estab-system. The days of open- handed giving will soon be over. About hay fever. Experts have expressed a low opinionabout pollen pills. A number of sufferers wore given "fake" pills, and were told that they were made of pollen. Of the 32 cases reported on, 21.9% showed some improvement. Of those given genuine pollen pills, 29.8% were bene- fitted. "Evidently," it was stated, "the wish to get better is as import- ant as is the pill." As against the pollen pills' was the pollen injection treatment, and of those thus treated 56% reported improvement. Here's a way to cool your fevered brow. Take a piece of natural sponge, and cut it so as to makeit fit over your forehead. Then semi -saturate it with water, and place it in the freez- ing compartment of your refrigerat- or. Now place the frozen sponge on your forehead. As the ice in the cells melt, the water remains trapped. therein, so that it does not drip on you. It might be well to have a number of these sponges ready for use, one to follow the other, until the aching brow is better. not hope for more than 15 cents for this year's crop. The carry-over from last year amounts to 650,000,000 lbs. So the tobacco farmers of Virginia are now considering a diversification of their farming - they willl produce food crops, poultry, dairy products, pigs and cattle. , Speaking of tobacco: tobacco manu- facturing is rated as being the oldest of America's big industries. In 1939 Americans smoked 172 million cigar- ettes, and over 5 'billion cigars, and they used 88,000,000 lbs. of snuff. There is in the United States one re-1joying the plentiful leisure. When tail tobacco outlet for every 200' the camp- does move, it goes at a persons, pace of about two and a half miles an hour. Always there is the threat' Among the 26 kettles of the camp there was intense rivalry as to travel technique, speed of loading, making camp, building fires, and in getting started. Making camp is as mad a race as is breaking camp, the palm going to the kettle which, having stacked loads, loosened girths, and turned the cattle loose to graze, first gets smoke going from its fire. Af- ternoons are taken up with repairing gear, doctoring sore backs, and en- 4:::AW of attack and robbery. We consumers are queer folk: we do surprising things. Thus, by way of example, taking us as a whole, we. if you are an important person in buy more luggage in December than.' revue educational or research or we do in months of greatest travel. scientific institution, and always in Whereas September and December guest of money to help it carry on, remain the two best months for the You may have looked hopefully to sale of silverware, yet June has now the Carnegie or to the Rockefeller become their rival. Undoubtedly this Foundation for grants. What are your is explained by the fact that June is 'chances? You can be sure that your the supreme marriage month. Moth- application for funds is but one of ers buy junior misses' coats in in- hundreds - perhaps thousands. One creasing quantity from February to man had a chance to examine the . April, and no longer are the autumn requests assembled in the files of months retaining their long leader- one of these Foundations, Among ship in this class of merchandise. thein he found these: one from an - Despite the pressure put upon us by educator who wanted an anti -con - advertisers to make refrigerators a munistic campaign subsidized; a plea Christmas gift, we have not respond- for aid in syndicating ideas on ec- onomic reform designed to do' away with capitaism; one to promote sing- ing and dancing; one to take over the operation of a denominational college. This examiner of a foundation's files containing requests for funds has this advice to give to you, if you are planning to. apply to the Carnegie or the Rockefeller or other Foundations for financial assistance for your in- stitution or project: "A good ap- proach is to become intelligently in- formed of the areas of its interest and then seek its aid in these terms rather than go to it with a formulated Programme of needs." If you are a you can travel from Winnipeg - a I scientist and want money for re- ed to this pressure to any consider- able extent. We buy more refrigerat- ors in April, May and June than in any other months. Despite the immense power of ad- vertising, it does not always make us change our ways or preferences. This fact has been fowl(' out by the big department stores, which have tried, for years past, to get us to buy certain classes of merchandise in seasons selected by them rather than by us. Put it in your diary for next year: The best wa buy Grocevies You get good value when you > shopby telephone telhone beeause the grocer takes particular care of his "telephone customers": their continued patron- age depends on his good service. A tele- phone in your 'home naves precious time and trou- ble; too. There's ne need to wait to get served, --a telephone order gets immediate attention. The small cost of a tele- phone pays for itself many times over in convenience and pleasure. r T$E WEED OF THE WEEK • • • PERENNIAL SOW THISTLE • • r • Excessive moisture this year has been a contributing factor responsible for a marked increase in Perennial Sow Thistle. This weed spreads rap- idly in heavy .damp soils, particularly where drainage is poor and has be- come such a pest it is known as "Public Enemy No. 1" among farm- ers. Three species of Sow Thistle are common in Ontario. The Perennial is the worst and it has two comapara- tively harmless cousins, they Common Annual and the Spiny Annual, says John D. MacLeod, Ont. Dept, of 'Ag- riculture, Toronto. The Perennial Sow Thistle is a tall, coarse growing, deep rooted weed with large and vigorous running root- stocks. Once it establishes itself in a field these underground rootstocks spread in every direction and send up new plants from bulbs which appear every few inches along the stock and soon chokes out cultivated crops. The perennial thistle is taller and more slender than the annual. It has numerous underground running root- stocks, while the annuals have only tap roots. The leaves of the Peren- nial are deeply cut with segments pointing Backwards and flowers are a deep yellow in colour and an inch and a half across, while those of the annuals are a pale yellow and less than an inch in diameter Flower cups and flower stems of the Peren- nial are covered with short glandular bristles while those of the annuals are nearly smooth. Perennial Sow Thistle can be con- trolled. The first essential is to pre- vent seeding, as a few patches if al- lowed to mature may seed down. a whole neighbourhood. Each seed of Sow Thistle bears a conspicuous tuft of white milky hair which when dry acts as a parachute and snakes it possible for the seed to be spread far and wide by the Wind. An average plant may produce several thousand seeds and every precaution should be taken to prevent seeding. Blossoms which are five days old may develop viable seed, therefore, standing crops containing 'Sow Thistle should be cut just as soon as the first few flowers appear.. Destroy all plants which have been in blossom from 3 to 5 days. Briefly the following control meas- ures should be kept in mind' when combatting this weed. Drainage, the use of clean seed, maintenance of soil fertility, thorough cultivation and early seeding. a short rotation, the use of early maturing varieties of grain, smother crops, particularly buckwheat, hoed crops, hay and past- ure mixtures with a view to obtaining a crop and at the same time pre- vent seeding, roguing, mowing of patches before seed's mature,'worlcng of patches separately, eradication of patches by the use of chemicals smothering of patches with manure, straw or tar paper; care in the use of such implements as the disc har- row which may cut rootstocks into short pieces each of which may pro- duce now plants; clovers, pasturing. summer fallowing, the use of fall wheat and fall rye; after harvest cultivating ard careful threshing ng with a view to controlling the spread of Sow Thistle seed on to neighbour- ing farms. The following "Dry Cleaning" method has proven effective on hund- reds of farms throughout the prow - ince particularly on heavy clary soils. Start to plow infested fields immed- iately after the crop has been remov- ed. .This newly ploughed land should not be touched for a week or more depending on weather conditions. It will •be roughly set up with large clods, lumps and holes. Surface soil and ,subsoil will . be separated. Mois- ture will be cut off and rootstocks Selecting The Dairy Sire (Experimental Farms News) The old, adage that the bull is 'half the herd has, perhaps, been brought home more forcibly to the daisy far- mer during recent years than at any other time in the history' of dairy farming, states Alan Deakin, Animal Husbandry Division, Dominion Est- perimental Farms. Service. The rea- son for this is not hard to find. First- ly, with increased costs of farming operations, it is necessary to save on the production of milk by means of better and fewer cows. Secondly, the fat test has become an important fac- tor in the price of milkand stock. An effieiently producing dairy herd is necessary at the present time in order to get good returns on labour and capital invested. To get such a herd' requires a good bull -a bull that one can be reasonably,sure will not sire a large percentage of culls, and boarder cows, or off -type individuals that give no pride to ownership. The only reasonable assurance that one has of getting a; good bull is "to pur- chase one 'fauna a tested and disease- free herd. The cost of maintaining such herds is high and hence the purchase price has to be reasonably good. , , To the smaller dairy farmer the price factor is a very important item, as usually he can only keep a bull two or three years. One way of low- ering the cost of bulls is to build a good bull pen and thus be able to keep older bulls. Often older good bulls can be purchased reasonably and also bulls can be exchanged. By the latter method the purchase price can be spread over at least four or five years rather than two or three years. Another way of reducing the cost of bulls is through artificial breed- ing. In herds there are always three "or four outstanding cows -cows that are good milkers, good individ- uals and regular breeders. Such cows could be artificially bred to- a good proven sire and a bull calf raised for future use in. the herd. A good bull, by whatever means he is obtained, is essential to the pros- perity of a dairy farm. Even if a dairy farmer purchases most or all of his cows, he still relies upon someone using a good bull or he won't get much profit out of the cows. Perhaps a dairy farmer is more dependent upon a good sire than are breeders of any other class of stock. But sires of any class of stock either make or break breeders. Britain Wants All Cheese It Can Get Since it is definitely known that the British Ministery of Foods wants all the Canadian cheese it is possible to get, some of the inducements to encourage cheese production were outlined to the Dominion -Provincial Agricultural Conference held in Ot- tawa, July 18 to 20, by Joseph Bit - gess, Dairy Products Division, Dom- inion Department of Agriculture. There could be a general increase in milk production to help the output of cheese in Canada, he said, by sup- plementary feeding of green feed when pastures are short through the use of course grains now fed to other farm animals; prohibiting the export of cattle and cheese factories remain- ing open later in the season. The present agreement with the British Ministry of Food in respect to cheese is for the export of 78,400,000 Ib. of Canadian cheddar cheese manu- factured up to the end of November, 1940, but more than this will be glad- ly accepted, according to intimations from the Ministery received by the Dairy Products Board, which arran- ges for the export of cheese. No intimation has been received from Great Britain that Canadian butter is wanted Indications are that the production of creamery but- ter will, be ample for Canadian re- quirements. SCOUT NEWS Australian Scouts' Map Job For State Maps covering an area of 25 miles around Freemantle, Australia, were brought up to date for the State Lands Department and military auth- orities by Boy Scouts and: Rovers. The old maps were cut into, sections will be dried out and killed; hot dry weather will insure a more satisfact- ory job. Many Municipal Councils through- out the Province where Perennial Sow Thistle is confined to patches have developed a policy of supply- ing ratepayers with a quantity of chemicali weed killer for its eradica- tion. This plan has much to commend it and should receive the considera- tion of every Municipal Council. The individual who has no Perennial Sow Thistle on his property should be just as interested in its eradication as the one who has difficulty in .controlling it. Co-operation is essential in con- trolling this menace to Ontario Agri- culture, Mr. MacLeod states. More detailed information regard- ing its control may be obtained from your Agricultural Representative or Weed Inspector or by writing direct to the Crops, Seeds' & Weeds Branch, Parliament Bldgs., Toronto. and assigned different troops, and finally assembled at Scout Head- quarters. French Scouts Work For Refugees 125,000 French Scouts and 50,000 French Girl Guides did splendid, tire- less work for refugees from Belgium, then ether thousands from northern France., Sadly, their own fate now is obscure, under the German yoke: The Boy .Scouts of Keewatin, Ont., were given the duty by the Town Council of handling all the arrange- ments for the celebration of Domin- ion Day. French' Refugee, Scouts In England It was reported on July 11 by the B.B.C. that 150 French Boy Scouts between the ages of 14 and 16 had escaped from France and reached England. They were fitted out with Scout uniforms and sent to various Scout camps. , Scots Boys Collect 1,000 Tons Paper Five thousand Glasgow Boy Scouts cooperated with the Boys' Bitigade in a two-week wastepaper campaign to collect 1,000 tons of paper. Every house in the city was called upon, and .�9 lorries were used. Former Canadian Scout Aircraftsman Decorated for Gallantry Among,Canadians of the air force decorated for gallantry was a former Scout of Three Rivers, Que., aircraft- sman, 'First Class, Ernest R. Frost. He received the Medal of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of "great courage in effecting the rescue of an unconscious pilot from a burning air- craft." ir- craft" Frost entered the rear cock- pit, which was filled with smoke and fumes, seeking the wireless operator, but found it empty. Though nearly exhausted, he ran to the front cock- pit and helped a companion extricate the unconscious pilot, at great risk due to the imminent danger of the gasoline tank exploding. The tank exploded shortly after. Using Grain For Brewing Purposes Is Sheer Waste During The War "Whether or not we want to legi- slate to compel society, we can by personal example help to save both people and food -stuffs by absti- nence," says the Rev. Canon W. W. Judd in a bulletin to the clergy of the Church of England. Pointing to the fact that Britain has already cut by one third the amount of grain allowed for brewing purposes. Canon Judd, general sec- retary of the Council for Social Ser- vice, calls attention to the sheer wastefulness involved in the manu- facture and consumption of alcoholic beverages. oreover, Canon n Judd asserts, war has always a tendency to lower the moral standards of a nation, and that therefore everything possible must'be done to combat influences which would accentuate that tendency. The drinking by young peope in beverage rooms or elsewhere cannot be looked upon as other than a menace. Canon Judd calls upon the clergy to act on the report regarding liquor, control and temperance presented to the General Synod, and to assist ac- tively in a voluntary total abstinence campaign among citizens for the per- iod of the war and demobilization. Cadet Training Now Is Looked Upon With Favor In many parts of the country cadet training is again taking its place in the schools. New regulations issued by the Ontario Department of. Educa- tion contain recommendations that all boys in the last two years of high school should receive thirty minutes of physical training each school day, even if it means an extension of the hours. While cadet training is not specified, it is believed by the Minis- ter of Education that many schools will start cadet training in the fall. In this Sonneetion it has been sug- gested that there has' been a marked change in public opinion. Following the last war, it is said, there was a strong revulsion against anything re- motely associated with military thought, and that for this reason cadet corps were disbanded. It may be questioned whether the change in opinion is as great as might be imagined. It is true that cadet corps were discontinued all over the country, but it may be doubted whether this was in obedi- ence to the trend of public opinion. It may, perhaps, be more appropri- ately attributed to the failure of public opinion to make itself heard at a time when organizations which are now recognized as subversive were busily engaged in the destruction of anything that would entourage the growth of national strength. To that destructive effort a number of well- intentioned but misguided organiza- tions lent a helping hand, and weak- kneed authorities succumbed to the clamor. It is possible in these heartsearch- ing days to have a clearer view of many things concerning which think- ing was muddled in the piping days of peace It is now clear to most peo- ple that the life of the nation de- pends on the physical, mental and moral development of its individuals and their readiness to devote their strength in all phases of their devel- opment to the purposes to which their nation calls them. CANADIAN OIL COMPANIES, LIMITED "YOUR HOME STATION" C K N X 1200 Ices. WINGHAM 250 metree WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT& ,. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16th: 9.00 a.m. Piano Ramblings 10.00 p.m. Harry J. Boyle 7.15 p.m, "Eb & Zeb" 7.30 pm. Richard Roberts SATURDAY, AUGUST 17th: 9.30 a.m. Kiddies' Party 12.45 p.m. CKNX Hill -Billies 0,30 p.m. Baseball Summary 7.45 p.m. Barn Dance SUNDAY, AUGUST 18th: 11.00 a.m. Wingham United Church 12.30 p.m. Harry J. Boyle 1.30 p.m. Melody Time 5.30 p.m. Lutheran Hour MONDAY, AUGUST 19th: 1.00 p.m. Gene Autry 6.15 p.m. Harry J. 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