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.
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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.
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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,
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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
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