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The Clinton News Record, 1938-07-14, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., JULY 14 1938.., Timely Information for the Busy Farmer (Furnished by the Department of Agriculture) CROP REPORTS Recent estimates indicate that the 'Ontario tobacco crop may slightly ex - teed 71,000 acres this year, made up of nearly60,000 acres a flue -cured, 9,500„acres of burley and slightly ov- er 2,000 acres of dark tobacco. The tomato crop for canning will riot be as large as a year ago'. A small percentage of the acreage was set out late h i May and. the remainder during the first week of June. There have been fewer complaints of insect injury than in the average year, with several conspicuous ex- ceptions. The Eastern Caterpillar is one, nests of which can be seen on wild cherries and unsprayed apples all over the province. Many of. these trees have either been already strip- ped of their foliage or soon will be. Sprayed orchards, however, are free from damage as the arsenate of lead in the spray quickly kills the insect. each colony has a good, prolific queen and an abundance of stores during the spring, plenty of super room for storing the honey, plenty of room in the brood chamber for the queen to lay, and sufficient vent- ilation When hot weather prevails. Queens that have been allowed to occupy- two ten -frame full -depth supers up to the beginning of the main flow should now be put in the lower chamber and a .queen excluder placed over it. Where a shallow chamber the queen is not placed be- low but is allowed the use of both chambers the . entire season. Swarm- ing can generally be detected by tip- ping the shallow super and looking for queen cells along the lower edges of the combs. If none are found the colony is not likely to swarm. A11 colonies ' should be examined every nine or ten days 'during the active season. If queen cells contain- ing larvae are found destroy- all the queen cells and remove the old queen. Ten days later again dest- roy the queen cellsand introduce a young queen; or leave the best de - veloped queen cell. Where one wishes to make an in SUGAR BEET CROP crease when removing the old queen. The acreage of commercial sugar remove also three combs of emerg- beet crop is estimated at 27,000 acres brood with adhering bees, and a this year.. The sugar beets have comb of honey, place them in a new come along fast and give every evid- hive on a new stand and fill up the remaining space with drawn combs. ence of being a good crop. Thinning Such increase should be made before operations have been carried out and July 10 otherwise the bees seldom build up to a strong colony by fall. There is much loss of honey each year because beekeepers fail to put on supers in ample time, Frequent- ly the honey flow is on before the beekeepers realize it, and consequ- ently the bees may clog the brood chamber witij hoineyi Under sitch conditions colonies will- swarm in a short time and the swarm often ab- • Owing to abnormal climatic con- sconds, the result being that the ditions, alsike seed production d e- crop of that colony is lost and clined sharply in Onitario in 1037, sometimes the bees also. To -be on exports falling off badly this season the safe side each colony should as a result. Only about 200,000 have at least three full depth sup pounds were exported. Most of itl ers where ten -frame Langstroth went to the United States, but a few hives are used. shipments were consigned to the' United Kingdom and other countries. Top supering does away with This is a different showing as corn- heavy lifting and saves time. This method places the first super over pared with a few years ago' when an- the brood chamber on 'top of the nual, exports amounted to 8 to 12 queen excluder, the next super on million pounds. •I top of the first, the third on top of A much larger crop, however, is the second, and so on, and gives as expected for 1938 as the alsike was' good *sults as the old orthodox 'wintered well generally and there is` method of placing each super dir- a much larger acreage in Ontario ectly above the brood chamber, than in some years. the stands are excellent. The contract price of sugar beets calls for a min- imum of $6.25 per ton for beets de- livered to the factory. and $5.50 for delivery to outside weigh stations with a bonus of 25 cents per ton fob each one per cent of sugar in the beets above 14 per cent. which meant considerable extra lab - i or where two or three supers were Alsike is one of the dependable ex -'given each colony doing the honey port seeds grown in Canada, Euro -,flow pean countries and the United States) honey should not be removed from want the seed but it must be satis- the colony until it is thoroughly factory in quality. Canadian growers :ripe, or until two -thuds of the honey should not overlook the fact thatis capped over, Placing a wood - quality is the deciding factor andtwire bee -escape board fitted with means the difference between profit two-way escapes under the supers to and loss in growing the crop. By dual- , be removed will clear them of bees ity is meant freedom from weed in twenty-four hours. The honey seeds and good color. The former I should be extracted when warm, or may be attained by sowing No. 1, as soon as possible after removing alsike on clean fields and by hand the supers. After extracting, strain pulling and spudding the weeds be- the honey through two thicknesses fore the crop is harvested, Good col- of cheesecloth. or is extremely important also, and As the crop gathered from the fall this results largely by harvesting at flowers is less than that from the the right time and permitting as clovers, two supers will as a rule be all that is necessary for each colony. little . weathering as possible. WN/MON ON VEGE'rABIaeln • Prospects for vegetable product- ion are considered good. Frost re- tarded the growth of early potatoes Luce, cabbage, cauliflowers and sim- in the early producing areas, and severely damaged green beeps in Essex County and a few other loc- alized areas. Moisture supplies have been sufficient up to the present METHOD OF CONTROL FOR GARDEN SLUGS Garden slugs are frequently num- erous .on heavy land where they, do considerable damage to beans, let- ilar crops. Like other: pests, thugs can be more easily controlled if rem- edial measures are applied when the animals are small and few in numb - but rainfall is needed now in some er. To control tllm, the infested be sections for continued. development. dusted (and the- slugs)dlime should v- dusted with hydrated lime in the ev- Condition figures reported by Cor- ening when the sun has gone down respondents show vegetable crops and feeding commenced. Care should above average condition at the 15th be taken to cover the upper and low- of June. The total commercial veg-ler surfaces of the leaves and the soil etable acreage is about the. Same in immediately surrounding the plants. Eastern Ontario and slightly higlier Hydrated lime is effective only when in. Western Ontario, in the form of a light, dry , powder. .—+-- Lime becomes hard when subjected to moisture and in that eondition is SUMMER MANAGEMENT OF non -injurious to the slugs. For. this BEES reason, a few light applications. of lime at intervals • of three or four The summer is the most important days are much more effective than season to beekeepers because at this one heavy dose. Another method of time we expect the_major ,honey flow control frequently recommended is if all conditions are normal, states to spray the infested plants thor- E, D. Craig, Head Beekeeper, EX- oughly. with Bordeaux mixture. This perimental Station, ICentville, N. 5, material is repellent to slugs, and if Even it there is an abundance of the foliage of the plants is complet- nectar-secreting plants, such as the Cly covered by the mixture, the slugs Dutch and alsike clovers, and if will confine their attention to weeds 'weather conditions are favourable meowing in the field. 'during their period of bloom, a good . :honey crop is not assulred unless Some Korea millers stilt grind grain by the ancient "seesaw” method. Put a stone basin, beneath a wood club attached to a long plank, the grain, is pulverized when the miller stands on the other end of the plan;;, which is fulcrummed on an ‘ and leaps into the air. by grasping' a rope. The Sheep Industry In Good Condition Since the formation of the. Ottawa Valley Sleep Breeders', Assooiatioln in 1937, not only has there been a wider general interest in sheep breed- ing aroused in the district, but home handicrafts have been stimulated. Evidence of the latter was given when woollen sweaters and dresses made from home grown, home carded and home dyed wool were exhibited at the second annual meeting of the association, held recently at'the'Cen- trai Experimental Farm Pasture Area, Connaught Rifle Ranges, near Ottawa. As main educational feature this, year the association brought Ed. S. Bartlett front Chicago to give a sheep shearing demonstration. He is a re- cognized expert on shearing and pre- paring the fleece for market. Mr. Bartlett can shear sheep at the rate of one every two minutes and gave much helpful information concerning the technique of shearing and the preparation of wool for the market. Another feature of the meeting was an address by Dr. G. S. H. Bar- ton, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, who said that in his opinion there will always be a place for wool, and always be a place for lamb as meat; there never will be substitutes for them. Lamb as a meat, he said, will withstand any competition. The sheep industry throughout Canada is now in a reasonably heal- thy condition, and it is today in much better, shape for development than it. was a few years ago. The Dominion Department of Agriculture cooperat- ing with the Provincial Government and other agencies have done some- thing. to bring this situation about. In several respects the sheep industry has outdistanced some other branches of the livestock industry in Canada. There has been notable progress in the handling of wool, though the market may not always be what sheep raisers would like. The world has grown smaller from the stand- point of market outlets. Everyone now has access to it. Competition is becoming keener; in fact in some respects there is almost a war at times in regard to price. Speaking of the opportunities of pp the Old Country market Dr. Barton said, that the British market is not limited by boundaries. Those who want to sell in it must find out what it demands and be prepared to meet the competition of products from other countries. That market has the whole world offering it food prod- ucts. There has been a notable change in recentyears in connection with marketing sheep. It used to be the practice to dump lembs on the mar- ket in the .fall and consequently the supply was greater than the demand, and the price naturally fell, The price was in inverse ratio to the supply. The lamb surplus not requir- ed for immediate consumption went' into cold storage and later had to find a market outlet often in eem- petition with fresh lamb. This situa- tion does not now prevail to the same extent today. There has been a transformation in the 'delivery of lamb for market. They are now sort- ed and sold as 'they are ready for market so that people are getting' a better product, and the price is'being more evenly maintained. Tourists now provide a summer market for lamb and other farm products, which was not taken advantage of to the same extenta few years ago. Dr. Barton said it is encouraging to see the interest the young people were , taking in sheep. This was particularly in evidence in the Ot- tawa Valley where a sheep club had been formed, Canadian breeders have an enviable reputation throughout the world. They have a great heri- tage to inspire them. Last year sheep from Canada were exported to New Zealand and Newfoundland,and now there' are inquiries' coming from South America. He referred to the outstanding success that Canadian exhibitors have attained year after at the International Live Stock Ex- position at Chicago„ FIFTEEN SCHOOLBOYS DISCOVERING CANADA En route to northern Alberta and British Columbia, fifteen schoolboys from eastern Canada,,membera of the Schools Exploration Society, _passed though Winnipeg recently. The leader of the party, Nicolas. Ignat-. ieff, B,Sc:, explained that the object. of tllp trip was to acquaint young Canadians with the unexplored' areas of the Dominion and to inspire them to take an active part in the furth�' er development of the country. They will be encouraged by actual contact Ito findtheir,' places in engineering; mining, colonization• and northern' development in general. From Prince George, B.C., the party will fraveeI 400 miles by water to Wlvitettater Post and thence by pack train to the Cassias Mountains„ where the boys will spend three weeks. Some will go to Vancouver and some to Alaska. The group, will return to Toronto on August' 17, WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING HE CAUGHT UP WARNING TO CANADA An old farmer was plodding his waybehind his old gray mare' the other morning when Inc was overtak- en by a neighbor who was driving a new car. The old mare filled' the shafts of the democrat. In the demo- crat were four bags of fine new pot- atoes, two crates of strawberries, a half bushel of fresh beet bundles and a half dozen well -fleshed chickens.I The neighbors met in the town and were chatting. Said the car owner, "That's a fine mare you're driving, but you are slow." "Yes" was the reply, "but P11 each up about tax paying time." The records showed that the other fellow had not paid his taxes for two years. • —Exeter Times Advocate. ."T- HNIIWAYS SHOULD NOT BE TIED TO POLITICS One of the biggest responsibilities of the Province of Ontario is its maintenance and construction of highways. The amount raised year- ly for licenses alone ' exceeds six million dollars. 'It appears to us that the construction program of the government should bedrafted on a. scientific basis. The amount of re- venue received is a constant sum so that the Dept. can tell pretty well what the receipts will be for years to come.- The maintenance of the system should be an administrative and engineering task and not a pplitieal problem. Why should not the development of our roads he planned on a definite basis for ten years or more in advance and the work carried out systematically ac- cording to that plan. Last year was an election year in Ontario and there was a tremend- ous road -building program. Equip- ment was purchased that should be useful this year, but in 1938 there is very little doing in highway con- struction. It is the calm after the storm. Contractor could hardly carry" through the rush of work in 1937, but are contparativley idle this year and their .men out of work, Both political parties have been guiltyf this sort equally f of thing o which is a wasteful and extravagant method. Highway construction in this province is too important a mat- ter to be guided from the political angle, It should be handled as an administrative proposition, with the best possible assistance from the en- gineering experts of our time, —St. Marys Journal -Argus, 1 Canadians can hardly escape, a feeling of Concern at the Fascist meeting in T'bronto and the events which accompanied it. While the vast majority of the people of Toronto, like those of Canada generally, have no use for the Fascists or for .ex- tremists of any school of thought, enough aa'ieads can' be assembled to cause deplorable disorder in the streets. • The obvious answer to the Fascist appeals to violence is a reply m kmd, but this course is barred in a demo- cracy: It is not easy to meet appeals to prejudice with appeals to reason. Nor is it particularly exciting. But it the course which must be pur- sued if democracy isto triumph. The program laid down by the speakers at the Massey Hallgath- ering is Fascism in its baldest and least attractive form. The base attempts to stir up prejudice against the Jews, the blasphemous coupling of Fascism and Christian teaching,. and the blatant political and econ- omic appealsshould warn Canadians against this dangerous doctrine, posed from abroad, too lightly, If any man is qualified to speak on , the menace of Fascism it is William Dodd, former: United States ambas- sador to Germany He pointed out in Toronto that only by 'cooperation between the democracies could the e5ttension of the power of the dict- atorships be halted and the greatest. danger of tyranny since Napoleon's time defeated. It is difficult to see how Fascism, can make any headway in Canada In the conflict between!, Fascism unless as 'a counsel of despair. If and communism most Canadians the people are not driven to dictat- would be content to mutter, "A orship because democracy fails to plague on both your houses." The give them even a minimum of hope best way of dealing with' the menace and ,material well -)icing we are of extremism, in the national Meld le unlikely to see any great change in to refuse to countenance any type of 'our system of rnment, movement which advocates dictator - and in and in the international field Yet it would begovefoolish to''dismies o' do everythingos possible to restore the menace of dictatorship, either the rule of law and banish interna - boring its way from within or im-tional chaos, —London Free Press, cmQ Cause mchc, any £Ii'es CARELIESSlIESS 71.17/17//715, The SUPPOSE you came suddenly upon two roads. One straight, well- trodden ... the other thin and twisting off into undergrowth, -If you didn't want to arrive at any place in particular, yon might choose the latter. But not otherwise. Before you, as buyer, run two roads. One is the road of know- ledge, of an advertised product. Thousands use it. There's no mystery abdut it, no doubting, nothing hidden. It, leads the way definitely to a fountain pen, a floor wax, a tooth -paste That will give you satisfaction. When you use an advertisement, you use an open road. When you don't use advertisements, you ge the doubtful roaci. You have only hazy knowledge of the product ahead. No trade. mark or name to depend upon guides you. The result may or may not be worth the effort, You don't know, Read the advertisements. Anything widely advertised—break- fast food, hani ner, hair tonic :has proved itself good by advertisieg. Advertisements put you on the open road to satisfaction The Cliton NewsKecord Gives the News of Clinton and Community—Read It