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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1938-11-17, Page 6Timeig Information for the Farmer Busg (Furnished the Department of A ricuiture RECORD FOAL CLUB ENTRY ironwood and cedar and browse off AT ROYAL all the valuable maple beech, white Reflecting an, increased and healthy ash and oak. -interest in horse breeding in Ontario, A -woodlot has a definite place in 64 boys, members of 22 foal clubs in the economic" set-up of a farm as it 'sixteen counties have entered the provides cheap fuel and timber. Also horsemanship and colt competition at it is accepted as a fact that there the Royal Winter Fair, Toronto. Lasts should be a percentage o£ .an agri- year there were 40 entries. icultpral country in woodland, because Wellington County .heads the list rf there is ,not there is sure to be with four clubs' and ',ten boys; Peel, discomforts and financial losses • when, Waterloo, and-Lambton are sending the land is largely cleared. boys from two clubs, while Huron, The first decision on the part of. Kent, Dufferin, Halton, Brant, Heidi- the owner is to decide. on the part mend, York, Bruce, Ontario, ,Peter- borough, Simeoe and Norfolk counties have entries .from one'' club. L E. O'Neill, director of the Live Stook Branch, Ontario Department of Agriculture, and officials of the On- tario Horse Breeders' Association are more than delighted at the record to be left in woodland. The type. of soil will be given consideration as swamps, sand, shallow •soil and steep hillsides should usually be growing trees as their value for crop- ping and pasture is negligible. An- other question that many owners will have to answer is, should fine agri- entry, The Live Stock Branch pro -'cultural land be left to grow trees? vides $250 total prize money in the The answer to this question has often Horsemanship Competition and $125 been, no, blit today many owners envy half the prize money in the Foal their neighbours with their woodlots. Competition, with the Ont. Horse They realize that it would have been Breeders' Association providing the a better policy if all farms had re - other .$125. At one time, the latter served 5-10 acres at least as a wood - organization provided all the prize lot in order to provide fuel, as wind - money, but as the competition grew breaks for agricultural crops, as were unable to finance it entirely. natural reservoirs for springs, and The boys must, as far as possible; as ,a help to prevent floods and to feed and fit their colts for at least beautify the countryside. 2 months before the fair and must Suggestions on woodlot manage - take exclusive charge of •their ani -invent: mal at the show. No outside assis- tance is permitted. During the fair the boys are look- ed after by members of the Ontario Live Stock Branch, transportation be- ing provided to and from their hotel, A PLAN FOR '1'RF W OOO W'1' (I. C. Marritt) Many farmers do not have a plan. for the woodlots. It is known as the bush and they cut their fuelwood and timber from it as long as it lasts. They don't realize that if managed well it will produce fuel and timber yearly in perpetuity. A common practice is to cut all trees of the more valuable species and the in- 4. Utilize trees before decay starts ferior species are left to seed up the as tho decay lowers the quality of open places, The stock are allowed the wood and thus reduces the finan- the run of many woodlots. Many vial returns from the woodlot. farms are without a woodlot todayI 5. The reproduction of 'the more valuable species should be secured because former owners pastured the if possible and this object may be woodlot and it is a sure prophesy r to make that many more farms will obtained by cutting the inferior be without woodlots soon as in manyivaluas and leaving some of the more sections 75% of the woodlots are pas- tured.(valuable ones to seed up openings. The stock browse the seed- i 6, Plant trees inthe open wood- lings each year and as a result there lot that has been pastured. This 1. Fence the stock from the area that is to be left in woods. The trees will provide seed that will fall to the ground, and soon there will be thousands of seedlings. Reforesta- tion by nature is much cheaper and more sure than by planting. 2. Secure fuelwood by cutting de- fective trees, and thinning second growth stands. 3. Reserve the healthy 4 -inch to 10 -inch trees as they are ones that will grow the maximum growth of wood during the next fifty years rather than the saplings and old mature trees. are no saplings and small trees to take the place of the trees that are cut or fall as a result of decay. A woodlot without young growth is like speeds up the restocking' of the wood - lot and introduces valuable species that have disappeared or never grew there previously. These trees may a community of old people; it will be secured free by applying to the die out. Pasturing favors inferior Forestry Branch, Parliament Build - species usually as stock will leave ings, Tofonto. • clieSNAPSNOT GUIL "OFF -GUARD" PICTURES For more natural pictures, catch subjects "off+guard"—unaware of the camera. 11 ROST people like to have their IV.l pictures taken. In fact, they like it so well that when they see the camera they put on a special "pic- ture expression." And as a rule this special "picture face" isn't what we want at all. There's a way to keep your sub- jects from seeming camera -con- scious. Briefly, it is—"Catch them 'when they aren't looking." Don't let them know their picture is being 'taken. Picturesso taken are known as "off -guard" snapshots. Such snaps iattract attention because they pic- '-ture the subject in a natural, char- acteristic pose and get away from ithe usual look-at-the-camera-and- emile type of picture with which we rare all too familiar. An "off -guard" ;picture can tell a real story while the other type tends to Rte just a record picture. How to take them? It's easy, Just learn \to handle your camera un- obtrusively. Wait until your subject is paying: no attention to you. Then casually snap his picture. It's all a shatter of using your camera non- chalantly and efficiently. The better you can do that, the more easily you can capture snapshots that are truly "off.•guard." If you use a focusing camera, with fast lens, try to anticipate picture opportunities, and seethe camera in advance for distance and proper ex- posure. The when the snapshot chance develops, all you need do is shoot. For example, to take the picture above, the 'camera wasset in ad - vane for six feet, Lens and shutter were set for an exposure of 1/50 see- ond at f.11—less than normal, be- cause the bright, sunny beach was reflecting plenty of light. On a grassy lawn, which reflects little light, exposure would have been 1/50 at f;8. With his camera pre-set, all the picture taker had todo was wait for the melon to be cut, and, catch his companion's delighted expres- sion. It was just a matter of lifting the camera and snappink the shut• ter. If you haven't' tried taking "off - guard" shots, try it. It's fun, and the results are a delight. 204 John van Guilder THE CLI ITON NEW$ -RECORD BULBS FOR rSPRING BLOOM (Experimental Farms :News) Spring floweirng bulbs are adapt- able to a wide range of conditions and purposes. No 'matter' the size, shape er quality of the garden, there is alWays 'a place for one or several of these proclaimers of spring. By the use of spring flowering bulbs, even with the minimum of care, a plentiful shnpply of bloom may be procured both for landscaping and. cut flower purposed, states Gi• ,s14. Thorpe, Dominion Experimental Sta- tion, Summerland, : B. C. The following sgggestiona are ad- vanced in the hope that they will assist amateurs to secure satisfactory results in design and culture. Spring flowering bulbs . for the foreground of the average residence are used to their best advantage in natural plantings, clumps or groups of, clumps being dispersed throughout the border at irregular intervals. In the naturalistic border, perennials and shrubs quickly over -shadow the vacancies left by spring bulbs. When ordering bulbs, order early and by named variety rather than by colour. Procure the best quality, i. e., large, firm, well -ripened bulbs free from insect pests and disease. Immature, poorly ripened bulbs often show green, rather than white, be- neath the scale. High price does lost- necessarily otnecessarily signify .perfect perform- ance. It often indicates a new var- iety or a rare one difficult to propa- gate. Beginners will do well to avoid such temptations. In general, all spring flowering bulbs are safely planted from late September to early November. Early planting is preferable in order to permit root growth before winter sets in.. It is advisable to work the soil deeply, but care should be taken to avoid airp,ockets below the bulbs. Comparatively deep planting is des sirabie since bulbs are very'sensitive to the high temperatures found in surface soils. Four times the diam- eter • of the bulb is a good general rule. The better known spring bulbs are necessarily the most reliable, consist of the Winter Aconites, Chionodoxas, Snowdrops, Scillas, Crocus, Grape Hyacinths, Tulips and Daffodils. First to bloom usually is the Snow- drop, liking moist, cool shady spots and best Left alone. Following the Snowdrop, come the Winter Aconites, which areodifficult to establish since they suffer from exposure. The hest time to transplant is during the blooming period. This is another plant to be left undisturbed and not pampered. Chionodoxas must have both light and moisture during 'the growing period and may be lifted every few years and divided. It is well to plant Chionodoxas where winter protection is afforded. Scillas do not require special cul- ture treatment. There are two groups: the Squills blooming with the Chionodexas, and the Bluebells, blooming with the Hyacinths. Shortly after Seillas come the Grape Hya- cinths. They have no fancies for special soils or culture, and can be left for several years. Crocuses which are really corns, have a tendency to work nut of the soil and consequently should be re- planted every two or three years. Always let the foliage ripen before cutting or lifting. The Hyacinth, the most fragrant of the spring bulbs, requires mulch- ing for winter protection, and thrives in light fertile soils. Daffodils and other Narcissi give best results in sandy loam with plenty of humus incorporated. •Liberal applications of bone meal, wood ash and -other fer- tilizers of this type give the greatest satisfaction. If animal manures are used, they should be applied several years before planting, Daffodils and other Narcissi should be left in the ground until too crowded, then lifted, divided, and replanted. Tulips are well adapted for use in formal beds, the bulbs being set about 6 inches apart in rows or blocks of one variety so as to pro- duce bold colour effects. The dis- advantage of this method of plant. ing is that it necessitates digging before the new bulbs are fully devel- oped in order that the beds may be set to summer, blooming flowers. When planted in clumps in shrub- beries and perennial borders the bulbs may be left undisturbed for several years. Tulips thrive in light, well -drained soils, and do not require heavy feeding. The use of manure should be avoided. Plenty of mois- ture' should be providedespecially just prior to the blooming period. Given a wise selectionof good' sound bulbs, a well -drained soil, and intelligent, planting, the spring gard- en will be gay with bloom over quite an extended period. STOPPED THE DUCKS The editor of a poultry journal re- ceived a letter from, a woman reader, It read: "How long should a hen re- main on, the oggst" Tho editor replied: "Three weeks dor .chickens arul four weeks for ducks", Three Weeks passed, ,and the editor again received ri letter from the reader. "Thank you very much for ,your kind advice," it read... "The hen remained on the eggs for three weeks, Anil ther7 were no chickens hatched and, as I did nob care for ducks, I took her off the nest and sold the• eggs," TH'URS., NOV. 17, 1938 FARMER STOPS HONKING WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS :ARE SAYING Canada has paid na less tlraxr, $770,017,864, \' MOTORIST The antinial expenditure at the• INS/TING THE BIRDS taken an active interest in polities, moment it cop, uted to be• 0 44 thou pp p it4 , b A one-man Wax' against. that pest It is not too early to begin to pre- though ono opposite sides, neither ever 626. In •six, more years it can be •% of the highways,;the motorist, Who pare for attracting the -birds about dreaming that their lots would again stated that the ;amount we have pant :. 00 the :slightest provocation makes our homes this.winter, -..,Almost any be C'st together in the: role they now in -pensions. for the Great War will bedlam wi his-'iiorr't was declared about to play, th , ,form 01.' a feeding table placed high , be. over the billion dcllar marIt, Aria - waged, and won' the other day•,b : it Prior to` goin • to -Marton, i. y enou>ah from the ground will answer, he haspractisedgs9 where that of course has nothing to o with - farmer on the Atherley Bridge, near Evert a place, in the yard where' food 11 ei the past 9 years, the cost of the war itself, or the Oeillia, is regularly scattered will bring. them. r. Snider was in Windsor, in Bruce various schemes of rehabilitation: Th farmer seated on a loaded g place ,may be he headed Wiarton Conservative As which. were entered into o by our oar manure - was,- driving his;a piazza, , wer sociation and later :Bine C teamspreader,on'a piazza, where the birds can see tide Aa Conserve- ions governments. We may be,,it bridge.He ,'was through a window. Hang a piece ,of ssoeiatioq, He' is an Anglican is true, unprepared for wa -. across the ; x, but wog •Toad suet in a tree' near the'' house. ` Tie and .memiier of the Masonic> order. arepaying drivingslowly. He had to.' The on a large scale for the Was heavy, and hra team was not a meat bone where it. can be. reached, Mrs. Snider was Miss Kathleen war in which Bouider of, Toronto rior to her we did participate,— Was built for speed, : 1 To many it is a constant delight, day .age pmar- Brussels P,pst, The motorist, driving a dazzling after day, to watch these little visit- rr, They have three children Tom, sport coupe 02 expensive make, ors conte and go. If you have never Jack and Helen.— Kincardine News, , flashed into sight, and snorted to an given yourself this pleasure, now is unwilling, ,crawl,' behind him. On- the very time to begin.—Our Dumb THE ANNUALJohn Wannamaker, .coming traffic made passing impos- Animals. , HINT the great mer- centile. prince and founder of the Bible. The motorist honked his horn Already the local stores are premix.- Wannamaker store in Philadeip hia impatiently. The farmer did .the only ing to receive the Christmas shoppers. was agreat believer inp , thinghe could do—he kept on driv- advertising. P THAT RADIO SCARY While the windows and the advertise. He onto said: "Continuous adverbs. DON'T TAKE DOWN THE SIGN ing neither faster nor slower, but at ments are not. yet definitely proclaim- in like continuous work is most ef- .. the same. even pace. The motorist It's a huge joke 'with •a sting in its g ing Christmas goods, many of them fective. If there is any enterprise sounded his horn again The farmer tail, that radio fans getting into a waved his hand to indicate that he would turn out as soon as possible. That wasn't good enough for the man in the pretty automobile. He honked again. He lost his temper. He kept radio programmes do not get a little on honking. sense. It was then that war was declar- Think of it, folk actually got it into ed, The farmer lost his temper, too. their heads that twinkling little red He put his hand to the lever that °tar, Mars, had gone on a rampage is fixed to the side of all manure and was wreaking destruction on this spreaders. It operates a gear -driven funny old earth. Had it not actually series of rollers which drag the ma- taken place we'd never have believed nure to the back of the wagon, and that folks with ordinary sense would into the maw of revolving, paddle- have allowed themselves to get into like blades which scatter the stuff in all directions. The farmer pulled that lever. The roller rolled. The blades revolved. The honking of the horn became a frantic wail as motorist and motor car disapeared in a reeking cloud. Still the farmer didn't look back. He just kept on driving—just kept on keeping the roller rolling, and the blades revolving{. The cloud kept growing. The horn stopped sounding. The coupe stalled. A very dapper little man sprang out of the spattered machine and raced up to the placid agriculturist on the manure spreader. "Listen here, you . .." he began. "Friend," broke in the farmer, "that stuff on your car would have fertilized a whole field of corn. May- be your can grow politeness in it. If you can, I'm satisfied. There's no charge. Giddap.' And he left the little motorist, sil- ent, on the bridge. ° give a distinct hint along those in the world that a quitter should mess because an actor or two did a lines. From physical evidences there leave alone it is advertising. Adver-+ little screaming at the microphone is plenty to choose from in the local tieing does not jerk; it pulls, It be - the other Sunday, night. It is a won- stores especially the necessities and der that folk with the skill to get up pins very gently at first, but by the usual and dainty gifts. The ad- pull is steady. It increases day by vertisements show, this soon, that day, year by year, until it exerts there is a feeling that the Christmas an irresistible power. To discontinue trade will be a good one this year, your advertising is the same as tak- This all Leads up to getting it said ing down one's sign. If you want. —and we might as well get it over to do business you must let the pub- with----that ub-withthat you should do your shop- lic know it. I would as soon think ping early. Advice such as this is of doing business without clerks as, always good as the climatic sea- without advertising." son nears. To make it means that there will be no rush during the last a pani c than a haox, over what aas harmlessnothing ore few pre -Christmas shopping days. or itself as a Hallowe'en prank. Butin !This applies to those who are not so then you may look for anything inlwelP situated financially as well as radio addicts who have listened sotto to those who pedo not find it necessary persistently to make-believe that they co count the thinly will Spreading the cannot distinguish sense from non- lincost more make it easier the final reckoning. Get set now sense, T1 a modern radio in some of and you will experience a more leis - its programs is the substitute for the ! urely approach; the last minute will penny-dreadful of our youth and, the jnot be so hectic or strenuous. super -sensational novel that has done I There will, of course, be the usual its full share in filling our mental Christmas Eve shopper, but if you can dot so, do not number yourself among them. Remember- some of your gifts may have to make long jour- neys and you can always tag thein "Do Not Open Until Christmas".— hospitals.—Exeter Times Advocate. TORY CANDIDATE, LIBERAL MEMBER FROM SAME TOWN When the electors of Bruce riding choose their next member he will be Kelowna, B.C., Courier. from Cayuga, in Haldimand county. He will be a lawyer and be will have been articled in law to R. S. Colter, K,C., of Cayuga. • WE ARE PAYING There is a good deal written and WILLERT-CARLISLE The home of Mr, and Mrs. Wilton,. Carlisle, Hensall, was the setting for • an autumn wedding Saturday, when their youngest daughter, Miss Annie Alice Carlisle was married to Mr. Leeland C. Willert, eldest son of Mrs. George Hess of Zurich and the late Louis Willert. Rev. Arthur Sinclair of Blyth, and Rev. A. R, Brooks of- ficiated. Miss Irene Douglas of Hen - sell played the wedding music. The bride, given in marriage by her fath- er, wore a robin's -egg blue taffeta floor length -gown, fashioned in hoop: style with high waist line and puffed sleeves. She wore a bridal wreath of orange blossoms, and carried' an arm bouquet of Butterfly roses. A. wedding dinner was served follow- ing the ceremony, and later Mr. and' Mrs. Willert left on a motor trip to By a strange coincidence destiny spoken at times about Canada be- Toronto, Buffalo and Chicago, They which rules man's lot sent both Leigh ing unprepared far was, and it might will live in Zurich. H. Snider, chosen Conservative can- be the conclusion would be drawn s, didate Tuesday and W, R. Tomlinson, that we have indeed done little or present Liberal member for Bruce spent little for war purposes. Rich Legacy riding to the county to practise as There was a statement issued by < lawyers. Pension Minister G. G. Power show - Porter Emerson Brown went into. The careers are parallel, Both were ing that on the last day of Septem- the office of Everybody's Magazine born in Haldimand and Mr, Strider ber there had been 98,087 cheques and said, "Did you hear about the at Cayuga, Mr. Tomlinson 10 miles issued, and they go each month to man who died the other day and left distant, Both attended school there pensioners of the Great War or to all he- had to an orphanage."? and later were articled to Mr. Col- their dependents. "No, how much did he leave?" ter. Both have been in Bruce county Since the Pension Act became ef- "Twelve children". for about a decade and both have fective during the days of the war BE HAPPY! To be happy, we are told, we should make others happy. We'll help you to lie happy— If your subscription is in ar- rears, pay it—you can be assur- ed of our happiness! The News -Record REPETiTIo1v UNDOUBTEDLY, one of the fundamental and very real functions of advertising is continually and everlastingly pounding home the facts and features and facilities of the advertised products and services. The reasons, of course,—if, indeed, there be need for the mention of reasons,— is not the too often attributed fickleness of the buying public, but rather that other things in numberless quant- ities lay claim to the buying power of the public and that it takes more than single and casual mention of articles to make impressions; and that each day brings to the market new members of the buying public. Fundamental and basic as such a statement is, it is well for all of us who are concerned with distributing things which have been made, to the places and peoples where they are used, to repeat. it frequently to ourselves. For there has been too much advertising waste resulting from the very lack of—repetition. Toot many beginnings of advertising programs, based on well -laid plans, which have for varied reasons not gone beyond the beginning stage. And thereby they have made a squandering of the cost of that beginning: But what is more serious, they have failed of fruition for lack of continuity, which is, broadly, another way of saying REPETITION. Spasmodic Effort will not WIN - Persistency WILL REGULAR SPACE IN The Clinton News- ' ecord Will Bring Satisfactory Results