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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1941-04-03, Page 3Canada's Honey Output .Fourth International Review: -of Ag- riculture Says Russia First, U.S. Second In Number of Bee 'Colonies The latest available figures 'dealing with the comparative Wank of the nations in honey pro- duction are given by the Inter - stational Review of Agriculture. In number of colonies of bees Russia ranks first with the Unit- ed States of America second.. Next roes Germany followed by France, Mexico and Turkey. LARGE VOLUME PRODUCED HERE It' is shown that in nearly aII countries there has been a great expansion in -Honey production, during the past ten years. In. Germany from 1985 to 1939, the increase is estimated at 81 per cent. The unifdrmity of the in- crease as well as its extent is the subject of comment because .of the fact that economic conditions have varied so greatly in the dif- ferent countries. Canada stands put as among the most efficient in management according tothe Review. Although ranking only sixteenth in number of colonies of bees it ranks fourth in volume of honey produced. Mexico has nearly one-half as many colonies of bees as the United States. The island of Cuba is by far the largest exporter of honey, followed by Chile. Mexico and Canada export in about equal quantity, while Guatemala with its comparatively small area •ex- ports about as much honey as the. United States. The Proud- Horseman Dan (Dailey, Jr. become the proud- est resident of Hollywood when he acquired the ownership of his horse, Stylish Rex, whom. he is training for show purposes. Dailey spends every spare moment away. from the studios riding and train- ing the animal. Flax Growing Increase Urged Advantageous Position Of. Canadian Product Noted — For 'Export Purposes The national flaxseed commit- tee has expressed the belief that a small increase in° Canadian flax production "would be in the na- tional interest." in a report issued foilowing,a meeting iii Winnipeg, the com- mittee said It is informed that "an increase in domestic con- sumption of flaxseed may be ex- pected in 1941, and that possibili- ties exist for a small' increase in export demand." MORE DEMAND SEEN "It would be in the national interest if the 19,11 crop were in- creased slightly over the 3,750,- 000 bushels produeed.in 1940 when conditions• favored high yields to an unusual degree," said the .statement., The committee report stressed that Western Canadian flaxseed is superior in quality, pafticular- ly with respect to the drying • properties of the oil, to that grown` in the United States or Argentine. 'Canadian flaxseed can a be moved • cheaply to such points as Cleveland and. Buffalo." Saltier Seas We know that the seas are strongly impregnated withsalt, but it does not strike the average person that some seas may be saltier than others, 'A torpedoed Sailor•. swimming in the North Sea would net notice much chi'- . ferenee in the salinity of the wa- ter were he torpedoed again 'in the . Pacific, but if he fell into the Dead Sea it would be another story,' for there the watei is 243i per cent. salt. There is only one sea saltier, and that is Great Salt Lake in Utah, which is 28 per cent. Of all the seas the Caspian is the least salt, being only six tenths of 1 per cent., eau i next comes drake Van in Turkey, winch is 2 pet cent, Lake Lrmla, ;' Iran, is 15 per cent., The great oceans are only 3% per cert, salt, and do not vary n epreciably, but inland seas of- lesser area are strongly affected ]ry the beds over which they lie, and minerals brought down by streams, Saving Ontario's Natural Resources 1. C. Toner Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (No. 36) FISH, GAME LAWS Last week I mentioned that there had been other government bodies concerned with our 'fish and game before our ,present Game and Fisheries Department • was instituted in 1905 but even before there were any regulatory er administrative bodies there were game laws enacted by the Legislature. I mentioned the earliest of these last week, the Act of 1821. Isi 1839 another Act was pas- sed which was even .more com- prehensive for it provided that no person "shall hunt or shoot, or go out with a ,gun in quest of any deer or other. wild animal or'wild. •frowl on the Lord's Day (common- ly called' Sunday) within this Province." The season for deer was changed to open August 1st and close February lst. -"Wild turkey, prairie hen or grouse; commonly called pheasant or partridge; or any quail or wood- cock," could• legally be taken from September 1st to March 1st. Open and Closed Seasons When the Statutes of Upper Canada were consolidated /in 1859 there ' were few changes. The duck season extended from August tat to April 15th, eight and one half months of shooting Which should have satisfied most people. Even at that time they had trouble with wolves and the Act mentions a bounty of• six dollars,' In 1868, the Province of On- tario revised the game laws, cut- ting down the open season • to more reasonable length but even this did not prevent depletion. By 1890, the anxiety among thieking people culminated in the appoint- ment of a Commission to Investi- gate .conditions and submit re- eommendations. One can find 'in libraries the old leather bound volume that contains the report of the Com- mission of 1890. It is well worth reading, pay'ticularly for tho pic- ture it gives of conditions fifty years ago. It was a sweeping and outspoken indictment of the various abuses that hampered the Conservation of our game and. fish. It had considerable effect for shortly afterwards the Legis- lature set up a Board of Fish and Game Commissioners under the nominal jurisdiction of the .Commissioner of 'Crown Lands. This Commission administered the wild lite for nearly fourteen years when it was dissolved and the present Deliartment of Game and Fisheries was set up in its place. Willows Have Turkish Origin Britain and America bave a very strong bond with Turkey, for every weeping willow gracing our river banks owes its origin to a single cuttipg brought from that country.. This is how it hap- pened. At the 'beginning of the 18th century a large basket of figs was sent from Smyrna to Lady Suffolk in England. The poet Pope was there when the gift arrived, so drawing one of the wither from which the basket was made, he remarked: "Per- haps this will produce something we have not in England." He took it with him to his villa at Twickenham and planted it by the Thames, where it grew into a magnificent weeping willow. It was generally admired and cut- tings were taken to all parts of England. Years later, a British officer ieaving for this continent cut a twig :from Pope's willow, wrapped it in oiled silk and cos - lied it in his baggage throughout the Revolution, After the war he presented it to John Curtis, son of Martha Washington, who planted it in Virginia where it became the ancestorof all weep- ing willows in the States. Visible Smells Neither gold norplatinum has any odour with can be recog- nised by the human nose, but most of the commoner metals can easily be recognised, by the sense of smell. Tin, for instance, when freshly cut, has a strong and unmistakable odour, Of the rarer metals, uranium andits compounds give out the s.rong- est` smell. Uranium is one of the radio -active metals and constant- ly throws :oft extremely small' particles. Long ago J. 3. Thomson show- ed that these particles produce shadows on a photographic film and can he deflected by a,mag- net. Though infinitesimal in size, theycan affect our olfactory or- gans. • Cheese Output Up • Production of cheese during 1940 is reported as 142,107,056 pounds, which is 16,7 .per cent 5t'eatet than in 1339. he in- crease in production in Ontario was 11,3 per cent; in Prince Ed- ward Island, 47,2 per cent; Neve Brunswick, 11.8 per cent; Quo:• bec, 28.9 per cent; Manitoba, 30.2 per cent; Saskatchewan, 15.5 per cent, dnd 23.2 in Al- berta. Some Dot Some Don't—Science Seeks Answer __ _ Working Band in hand' withthe fighting forces of Canada and of the rest of the Empire are the seien tists of the National Research Connell of. Ottawa. Already they have made numerous highly important con- tributions to' the war effort, both in the industrial field and in the armed forces. Id this photo one of the research workers is shown• as he subjects steel helmets to special tests, One has been penetrated by a bullet and the -other has resisted it. The scientist is trying' to find out why. e T H E WAR •WEE K --Comment ry on Cufreni Events U. S. S. R. PROMISES ' MD IF TU 1 Y KEY IS ATTACKED Last week as spring opened the door on what might well be the decisive'phase' of the conflict be- tween BritalIn and Germany, the Battle of Britain—out of which has grown the Battle of the Atlantic-- was tlantic—was still the main engagement of the war. But events in the Medi- terranean basin ware receiving ranch mere of the world's attention. There, the British conquest of It- ely's Aricau Empire, all but com- plete, was beginning to be that- lenged by large forces of German. mechanized troops in western Lib- ya; and the Battle of the Balkans was fast approaching the "shoot- ing" stage. Yugoslav Crisis The capitulation to the Axis of Yugoslavia's head men precipitat- ed, a number of new crises; in Yugoslavia itself, where open re- volt and civil war threatened; in Greece, where the Allied -Greek military command had swiftly to revise their plan of defence to em - embrace a much wider front; in Turkey, where the country's lead- ers saw her independence menaced from yet another angle; and in Russia, where German penetration ,of the. Balkans bad Iong been view- ed with growing anxiety. Russia Assures Neutrality The Soviet Union reacted to this situation by reaffirming friendship with Turkey and assuring Russian neutrality should Turkey resist a German attack on herself. The agreement did not promise neutral- ity if Turkey sbonld strike at Ger- many in the event of a Nazi move against Greece. On the contrary it stated that "in the event that Tur- key should be the object of aggres- sion and sho found herself obliged to enter war for the defence of heli territory, Turkey could then, in • conformity with the non -aggression pact .existing between herself and the U. S, S. R„ rely on the full comprehension and neutrality of the U. S, S. R" This was sensational news, The entering into of this pact with Tur- key constituted the first concrete step the Soviet;Union had taken to iuflueuce the course of the war since the german-Russian agree- ment of August, 1930, This latest act barred further Nazi penetra- tion southeast, along the U. S, S. It's western battlers. (It also was reliably confirmed that Russia had halted shipment of- all Supplies of oil to Germany since March 1), Sid For Germany ° Writing on rho significance of the new Soviet assurance to Turkey Canadian military analys( W. ' R. Plowman said: "The despatches suggcet that Russia will give ma- teuial help to Turkey lunch as the 1.1. S. is giving material help to Britain, Some ware supplies prob- ably aro moving from Russia to Turkey, and it would be logical for the movement to develop gradually to a large scale , .. Russia is mov- ing her troops and warships west- ward as quietly es possible, but perhaps with little idea of offens- ive eaten , .. It remains to be seen whether Stalin will neglect his Op- portunities until Hitler is ready to strike. His military advisers should tell him the truth -that until Ger- any has fottglrt it out with Britain, Hitler won't have sufficient gaso- line and grease to permit Marge mechanized forces to drive far into Russia anis that Hitler really is staging a gigantic bluff to keep .Russia quiet. The Russian arfuies possess a vast numerical seper'ior- ily over the German armies and it is impossible for the German forces to guard every vital point that the Russians could menace, The Sov- iet air force could work havoc to German cities; Russian cities are so remote they would be compar- atively free from attack, 'Vere Rus- sia to make .common cause with the Greek, Beitislr and Turkish Guests in Wartime Britain Come and Bring Their Own I-Iostesses in warrtime Britain need no longer worry about tieir' friends food fads. When week -end guests a'rrive,'they frequently Ming their rations along with them:' armies, the .defeat of Germany wceithinrtainra yearwould be a near Whateverpurposes 'were behind the . Soviet pledge of .aid to Tur- key, they portended 111 for Nazi. Germany, Even the ti. S. State De- partment heartily applauded Rus. sia's attitude. "Bridge of Ships" President RI osevelt's biggest headache, once the first financial appropriations raider the Lease- Lend bill had been approved by the Senate, appeared last week to be: how the U. S. was . to assure delivery of American aid to Bri- tain. Everything obvionsry depend- ed upon maintenance of the "bridge of ships" across the At- lantic. (Hearteningly enoughelast's week's British shipping iessee were away down). A move to lend more destroyers to Britain was expected hourly; and large-scale pians were being laid for the repair of Bri- tain's naval and merchant shipping in United States yards. Use of American warships in British con- voys was contemplated, but not planned 4111611 a more critical stage of U. S: German relations should be reached, - • Very encouraging news for Bri- tain came out of the U. S. last week with the report, reliably con- firmed, that 15,000 bomber and fighter Planes would be really to go across the ocean to join the war by. July. By the end of 1041, it was said, American production would bring Britain's air fighting strength up level with Germany's. Japan Reconnoitres Japanese Foreign Minister Mat• suolca's sojourns in Moscow, Rome, Berlin, were last week not yet com- plete. His pa:lays with the Axis chiefs were the subject of mucin speculation—since no information about theme was forthcoming -- but it was generally thought that 14Ir. Matsuolca had come to Europe to see for himself whether the Axis partners were ia position to :make good thou claim tbat they can nullify American aid for Bri- tain and knock the latter out. His findings would without doubt strongly influence the decision of kis government as to whether Ja- pan is to weave a tortuous coarse qf iron -belligerency or• throw cau- tion to the winds and join in the attack on the Anglo -Allies. One of Japan's greatest fears of eotu'se is that Soviet Russia might attack her in the nol'th (by air, sear and land) when she's busy in the south, and what the Japanese government desires perhaps above all else at the moment is a Russo•eapanese non -aggression pact. 4, M M $2,600,000,000 This Year Canada will spend $5;000,000,0.0 over the next twelve months on her own war effort and financial .raid to Britain—$S50,000,000 more than was eet1mate•d late in Feb- ruary—Premier Icing told Parlia- ment last week, The Prime Min- ister declared that this sum, to be spent In a mighty drive of many money and =testate, represented 44 per cent of the whole national income of Canada, On a comparative basis, the premier estimated, this financial assistance to Britain for Canadian pnchasee would equal an expentli- tnre of $15 billions by the United States—more than twice the Wash- ington appropriation for lend-lease purpoees, Following Peennier King, Fin- ance Minister Ilsley announced federal taxes of $1,000,000,000 for the fiscal year beginning April' 1 which represented an additional 0100,000,000 in revenue to be sought from Canadiansby the Do. minion government next year. .A billion dollars, be said, would have , to bre borrowed next year to cover dileot war outlay and, non,war ex- pemdituree including financing of the new federal wheat Holley. Unpopular' Wheat Policy Western members of the lipuse of Commons last weak were m'g. ing that they be given an opportun- ity to liebatejthe, government's new wheat policy which provides: •a .limit of 2$0,000,000 bushels to Wheat Board purchases -of the 1941 crap; a continuation Of the pre. sent 70e a bushel minimum price; basing of delivery quotas on 65 per cent of the 1940 wheat acreage (which means acreage reduction);, and pa,ement of bonuseo for sum_ merfallowing and seeding to coarse grains and .grasses, Agriculture Minister MacMillan of .Alberta had issued a statement saying that this policy was "highly unsatisfactory and inadequate" and that it wotild be impossible of acceptance by the Western wheat farmers uniese drastic modifications were made: Farmers of the prairie provinces, lie contended, should be placed in a position of equality with ether glasses of Canadian citizens in the war effort and not fproed to live on an "income on the verge of. poverty." VOICE O F' T H E PRESS LIBYAN NURSERY RHYME Mussolini -many -mo Catight a lion by the toe. FIow you'd love to let him go, Teeny weeny Benito! —Toronto Saturday Night. THE GREATEST FEAR The biggest drawback to farm organization is the fess of political entanglements and the suspicion that the leaders are working•their way tap to a soft, cushy job. —Farmer's Advocate. —0— WAR STYLES Dr. Stapleford, the director of voluntary services, says that the time will come when it will be "patriotic" to wear an old suit or drive an old car. That's comforting for all the people who are already obliged to do so. —Brockville Recorder and Times, —0— BEST ADVICE The Ontario Depdrtments of Ag- riculture, Education and Labor have collaborated in the mane. tion of a booklet of "Farm Maxims and Slogans" for the use of stu- dents registering for farm service, and probably the best advice given in It le this: "Never trust a bull." —Brockville Recorder and Times. Fighting Bird One of the most powerful of all birds, and able to fly long dis- tances, the skua is 'seldom caught, but a dead specimen has been presented to' the museum at the Sieithsonian Institute in Wash- ington, It was brought down in the Atlantic. The slum lives on penguins' eggs and chicks, and scores of half -eaten birds may be seen near the sites of penguin colonies during the hatching sea - sou. A famous British aircraft is named after the fierce, killing skua. The Beek Shell "H. M. PULHAM, ESQUIRE" By J. P. Marquand "11. ea, Pulham, Esquire" is the story of a mann whose life is shap- ed by his surrouudiegsen a mould formed by home, oohool, society, even business influences of hie day, smooth -fitting, comfortable, um breakable. (Many men and women live in such mo01d9•-=more often than not without realizing it—for it is the unigtfe quality of such a mould that one is not conscious of its' existence until it chafes). Mi; Pulham, on the occasion of the twenty-fifth reunion of hie college class, becomes aware of what he has been missing throughout his narrow, circumscribed life. lie •reale izes his ideas have not moved with the times—he is trying to measure today's problems with yesterday's yardstick—but alas it is too late and too comfortable to change. Men who rear] this. book will find themselves stopping to compare Harry Pulham's life with their own and women will find themselves • wondering how well they know that/. own Wren. "H.. M. Pulham, Esquire" .. , by J. P,. lviafquand -, -. Toronto; McClelland and Stewart, Publish- ers ....$3.00. Eskimos Go Modern 'The idea of, an Eskimo .pub- lishing a book seems fantastic to those who imagine that these northern people are ignorant and uncultured. Most of the 50,000 Eskimos alive to -day have been to school, and all of them are ac- quainted with the work of 'Bare Lyne, the -most famous Eskimo author, publisher and playwright. Not only is there a great demand for Eskimo plays and novels, but Eskimo literature is rich in folk Iore, In other branches they are also modern, for their igloos (homes) are electrically lit and their kayaks (canoes) driven by gasoline motors. They use tele- phones, radio, and motor -driven sledges and ride in aeroplanes. Midget Milkers One of the queerest farms in the world is Tom Thumb Farm, owned. by Otto Gray, an Okla - horns fanner. Three years ago he began a series of experiments with small breeds, using an' un- dersized Angus cow And a normal Hereford bull. To -day his third - generation herd consists of seven cows and a bull, tho smaileet thirty inches in height, and none exceeding thirty-seien, They weigh between 400-500 lb, each, half as heavy as normal tattle. The milk yield is excellent, in some cases as much as five gal- lons daily, but the average is about 'four. Gray's ambition is to breed yet smaller cows, but to make them better milkers for their weight than cattle anywhere else in the world. Balloon ceadeast An arrangement making it pos- sible for data registered in the air to be used almost at once on the ground will shortly be in force at a new stratospheric sta- tion to be opened at Payerne, Switzerland. Balloons will be fitted with automatic short-wave transmitters to send .out data registered by instruments. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher 7i- rO "What part of my bill makes you sick .. , the part you paid .or the balance?" REG'L.AR FELLERS — That's Different ' By GENE BYRNES wHATs•'EA71N' PUD AN',I WERE NOBODY CLAIMED' TH 6' ��`/r ♦ !S TF#Ai S®P - " ' W YOU UP, IN A STREET $O WE BLEW .-" At 8 NUTNIN ,. ~ WELL,T AtNelEAO ? /AT �r - , „ • *- CAR AN WE FOUND A O1ME ON THE FLOOR( IT IT IN ON TWO ICLCONEA►I!+) in'ONFS! 70 BE 4AD A i+ � ,_ ', , `\ D 3f otr t OUT T H IN M A ' j aA60tYf HI CLCK POCKET�r}� ,) ,, et, , • I r f s . 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