The Clinton News Record, 1938-12-08, Page 6PAGE 6
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
THURS., DEC. 8, 1938
Timely Information for the
Bust) Farmer
(Furnished by the Department of :Agriculture)
EXPECTS TO PLACE 500 BOYS
ON FARMS
There are a number of young men
M Ontario eager to learn farming
• with a good farmer. • There are a
number of good farmers in this prov-
• ince who would welcome a good in-
telligent and enthusiastic youth to
their broad acres. The Ontario De-
partment a Leber knows that to be
true and has appointed A. McLaren
as Director of Farm Placement. Boys
who woujn_really like to go farming
and farmers who Would like to ern-
• ploy young men with a yen for farm-
ing should write, Mr. McLaren, De-
partment of Labor, • Parliament
Buildings, Toronto.
The boys are placed for one trial
month and are paid by the farmer.
If mutually satisfied, the boy signs
up for one year with wages at the
prevailing rate.
Mr. MacLaren, who has already
placed over 30 boys under the Dom-
inion -Provincial Youth Training Plan,
states that he selects only young men
who are really interested in farming.
He visits each applicant in his home
and talks to his parents as well.
to keep the sand damp.
In the early spring these cuttings
are planted out in nursery rows m
a rich, we11pre1'are esiI, two or
three inches apart, and at such a
depth as to have the upper bud jest
at the suface of the soil. To prevent
suckers the lower bud may be re-
moved. In some friths where the
cuttings are to remain in the nursery
row for more than one year the cut-
tings may be planted further apart.
Frequent clean cultiVation is neces-
sarY if rapid growth is to be secur-
ed.
' JOHN GALT AND THE
CANADA COMPANY
The Canada Company, like many
other colonization companies, has
been bitterly assailed by critics, and
some of the criticisms were deserved,
but some were far from being just.
However, it was difficult to avoid
cause for -adverse criticism since the
directors and stockholders lived in
the homeland with preconceived views
on how the colonizinapahould be done.
while their representatives M the new
land had to conduct the business of
the Company as circumstances would
permit. Their mode of procedure was
often at variance with the opinions
of their directors and the wrath and
fault-finding of the latter made the
lot of the commissioners difficult.
. John Galt, a clever and voIuminous
writer,,a noted traveler and an astute
business man, was sent the Can-
ada Company as their first commis-
sioner. The board M England thwart-
ed many of his plans and severely
criticized many others. Galt, able as
he was and knowing full well that
he was. on the right track, patiently
endured fault-finding for some years.
He indeed was a man with a vision
-a 'vision that was founded on know-
ledge, for he had been sent out by
the British Government to inquire 1 -
to the resources of Upper Canada,
previous to the formation of the com-
pany.
Therefore, Galt did not select the
1,100,000 acres in a haphazard man-
ner. He knew that this huge block
of land was wonderfully fertile and
envisioned an agricultural district
large enough far an old world prin-
cipality, occupied by a happy and
contained people, who had been mem-
bers of the sturdy laboring and
middle classes of the British Isles and
Western Europe.
He realized before long that his
was a Herculean task. This large
area of forest land had to be sur-
veyed, roads opened, bridges built,
towns projected, land offices opened
and staffed, the many wants of
pioneers who were inexperienced in
the clearing of the forest sympath-
etically attended to, besides a hund-
red and sne other duties.
Mr. Galt rejoiced in the wonderful
growth of Guelph and the rapidity
with which the surrounding district
was settled, not only by European
emigrants but by a great influx of
the finest type of people from the
territory south of the Great Lakes.
The opening of the Huron road, thus
connecting Lake Ontario with Lake
Huron, insured the rapid settlement
of the whole territory to the west
and the future establishment of Wat-
erloo, Kitchener, Stratford, Mitchell,
Seaforth, Clinton and Goderich. For
almost a century these two results
have been a vindication a his far-
seeing judgment and colonizing ef-
fbrts.
We can possibly overlook to some
extent the directors' fault-finding on
the plea of ignorance but their other
Officials in this new land were in
strong sympathy with Galt.
Galt and his assistants, the irre-
pressible "Tiger" Dunlop, and others,
were exasperated upon one occasion
weather has occurred, as severe to find that a minor official, an ac -
weather may be injurious to this eountant, had been sent to the Tor -
growth, especially if )the latter is onto office to report secretly an the
luxuriant. This wood may be stored affairs of the company. Dunlop so
in a cool, damp cellar, and preferablytantalized and terrorized this official
WINTER FEEDING OF, PIGS
Winter feeding of swine presents
several problems which are not of the
same importance M summer hog pro-
duction. First, adequate housing ac-
comodation is essential in order to
grow the pigs quickly and economi-
cally. Second, suitable feed mixtures
are necessary, and third, particular
care must be taken in feeding and
caring for the pigs.
The housing accomodatian for wint-
er pigs should provide dry and reas-
onably warm sleeping quarters.
Draughts should be avoided and the
bed should be well bedded with dry
straw. Do not crowd too many pigs
into a small pen, but allow sufficient
pen space and trough space so that
all can have an equal chance.
In the feeding of the pigs a suit-
able mixture of grains properly sup-
plemented will go far in keeping the
pigs healthy and thrifty. Provide a
mixture of grains such as oats and
barley, and possibly a mill feed or
wheat, and supplement with a skim -
milk, buttermilk or tankage. Include
with the meal mixture at the rate
of 1 to 2 pounds per hundred a simple
mineral mixture, such as equal parts
iodized salt, ground limestone, and
bone meal. Roots and good quality
flegume hay -alfalfa or clov,er-are
valuable succulence and maintain the
pigs in a thrifty condition. These
should not form the main feed but
should be used in small amounts as
an addition to a good feed tnixture.
Finally, good care is necessary in
the feeding and management of the
pigs in order to keep them in a
healthy vigorous condition. Supply
nutritious feed at a rate that they
can handle it but do not attempt to
force the pigs.
THE PROPAGATION OF BUSH
FRUITS BY DORMANT WOOD
STEM CUTTINGS
A BIRD, ,CITY
Great ocean liners approaching the
Gaspe Peninsula silence their whistle
when they pass Perce where the
Dominion Government and the Pro.
vine of Quebec haveiestablished a
bird .sanctuary. Steamships may sail
within close range a this famous
bird city and afford their passengers,
a close up vine/ without disturbing
the feathered citizens who nest on
• the lofty cliffs of Bonaventure Is-
land and on the to of Perce Rock.
But, whistles are out, because a loud
blast would SO startle the birds that,
in their haste to take flight, they
would upset hundreds of their eggs
or young into the sea.
Perce is a small fishing village
near the tip; of Gaspe Peninsula.
Standing guard with its feet in the
sea is the great Perce Rock and a
few miles off shore Bonaventure Is-
land lies like some gigantic petrified
whale grounded on a sandbar or reef.
Tradition has it that Jacques Car-
tier stopped long enough to plant
a cross on the high bluff along this
part of the coast. Later on several
occasions the religious and fishing
stations of Perce were destroyed by
those seeking the conquest of the new
colony. The fleets of Phipps and of
Wolfe ravaged and completely de-
stroyed Perce and other settlements
on that part of the Gaspe coast.
Bonaventure history dates back
early in the 16007s when same Biscay
fishermen settled there. The island
was the former home of Captain
Duval, privateer and freebooter, who
was the terror of French seamen
during the wars between France and
England. Some of the old homes
till remaining on the island are real
museums.
Today Perce's importance Ties- in
its tourist attraction. According to
the census taken in 1931 by the Dom-
inion Bureau of Statistics the popula-
tion is slightly over 1,500 and nearly
all of French origin. But all local
records for the number of tourist
visitors were broken this year when
this sanctuary was seen by 22,000
visitors, Half of these, or 11,000,
made the trip by small motorboat
around Bonaventure Island, three
miles off share, to see the astonish-
ing multitude of birds nesting on the
ledges of the tall cliffs.
(Experimental Farms News)
Multiplication of varieties of bush
fruits by endings is a form of bud
propagation in contradistinetion to
propaganda by seeds. It is a cheap
and convenient way of securing a
number of such fruits as currants,
gooseberries, blueberries and grapes,
states R. D. L. Bligh, Assistant in
Horticulture, Experimental Station,
Kentville, N.S.
Wood of the current year's growth
is gathered in late autumn or early
winter before too severe winter
NAME WRITTEN ON EGG
ACCIDENTS and, COMPENSATION
During, the month of November
there were 5,282 accidents reported
to The Workmen's Compensation
Board, as compared with 5,008 during
October, and 6,629 during November
a year ago.
There was awarded in benefits,
$581,814.33, of which $487,901.03 was
for compensation and 03,913.30 for
medical aid.
This year's record • to dat'e shows
a total of 55,374 accidents reported,
as compared with 64,854 during the
same period last year, and the bene-
fits awarded to date this year amount
to $5,859,3064 11, aseompared, with
$5,517,403.90 to the end of November
last year. ,
BOUGHT IN LIVERPOOL
Eggs front this district sometimes
do some travelling •before they are
used. Nearly a year ago Miss Ruby
Becker of Hanover wrote her name
and address on a hen's egg being pre-
pared for cold storage and then
promptly forgot all about it. Then
to her surprise the other day she re-
ceived a long letter from a young
lady in Liverpool, England, who had
purchased the egg in a store there
She enclosed a snap of herself and
suggested correspondence which Ruby
is keeping up.
covered with moss to prevent it from
drying out, OT it may be made dir-
ectly into cuttings.
Making the Cuttings
Th cutting wood may make one or
more cuttings, according to the length
of the current eyar's growth. The
cuttings are usually at least six in.
long, and should contain at least two
buds. It is not necessary to cut a
bud at the base of the cutting,
though some prefer to do this', but
the upper cut should be just above
the upper bud. These cuttings should
then be tied up in bundles of twenty-
five or more, care being taken to
have the butts of the cuttings on the
CABBAGE WITH GLAMOUR
Generous servings of cabbage,
especially raw M salads and slaws,
are good aids to health insurance and
cold prevention. Cabbage is cheap,
and is an excellent source of vitamin
C, and also contains good supplies
of vitamin A and B, as well as cal-
cium and iron.
Why not try the following hints
on serving cabbage, dress it up to
the point where it will be so tempt-
ing that every member of the family
will clamour for mare.
Besides cabbage salads with pine-
apple or apple, try Salads a cab-
bage, green pepper and carrots; or
serve salads of cabbage with carrots
and peanuts, or with carrots, raisins,
and ripe olives, or with cucumber
pickle and pimento, or with onion
rings, or with nuts and cheese. Shred
cabbage into lime gelatin, along with
diced cucumber, crushed pineapple
and pineanple juice.
Boiled cabbage is good combined
with a medium white sauce, and
sprinkled with paprika or chopped
parsley, or put a cabbage -white sauce
mixture in casserole, top with grated
cheele•e and hijead crumbs, dots of
butter, and slice or two of bacon.
Bake this in a moderate oven (about
350 to 400 degrees F.) until the bacon
is crisp and the crumbs brown.
If there is some mashed potato
and cold cooked meat left over, chop
up the meat, and mix it with the
potato, a little onion, pimento sage
celery salt and pepper; shape into
small rolls. Roll each of these in a
cabbage leaf, which. has been wilted
by placing it in boiling water for
about 5 minutes, and place these rolls
in a greased bakihg dish. Add
enough boiling water or stock to
cover them about halfway. Cover and
bake them in a moderate oven un-
til the cabage leaves are tender.
CAT DISLIKES NEW 'HOME, ATTEMPT BURGLARY AT
George Little, Bayfield, who con. MITCHELL RANK
duets a barber shop in Goderich, When M. Blight atteinpted to un -
took a new cat home with him a few lock the front doors of the Bank of
night a ago, and George will remem. Montreal at Mitchell on Friday mem-
ber for some years the two hours ing, he was unable to even get his
of excitement that followed hie ar- key into the lock. He then entered
rival. the bank by A rear entrance and
Displeased with its new surround- tried in vain to open the front doors
ings the cat tore about the house at from the inside. A mechanic was
lightning speed, M the door and out called, and found it necessary to re -
the other,' up the stairs and down move the specially -made lock from
again, pausing only to stage an inn the door. It was discovered that the
aginary fight with its shadow. • - mechanism was badly damaged and,
In one of its aerial flights, Mr. the cylinder completely turned over.
Little trapped the mad eat in a 1:44 At 10.30 Thursday night, M. Blight
and clamped down the lid. Then the had left the bank, and the lock had
big task was commenced. worked perfectly at that time, Ap-
With great care and dexterity the parently, some time during the night
cat was transferred into a potato someone had tried to unlock the door.
sack. The sack and cat were then Nene but an amateur would try to
carried to the garage and the open
end of the sack tied securely about
the exhaust pipe. The executioner
then took his seat , stepped on the
starter and then on the gas.
It was all over in a few minutes,
monoxide having done a humane job.
ONTARIO COUNTY COUNCIL
ASKS AMENDMENT OF CODE
Persons found in possession of
tools used for the theft of chickens
should be treated the same as those
carrying burglar's tools, in the opin-
ion of the Ontario County Council,
which last week passed a resolution
asking for an amendment to the
Criminal Code to this effect. Re-
solution endorsed one of a similar
nature forwarded by the County
Council of Kent, and was passed un-
animously.
Considering the resolution members
of the committee on Legislation and
Memorials were of the opinion that
such an amendment would prove to
be a pewerful weap,on to check chick-
en thieving, now so prevalent, and
which is costing farmers thousands
of, dollars annually.
on a horseback trip through the new
country to Goderich that he was soon
pleased to flee the "wolf -ridden"
country. This officer, however, on
his return to England reported un-
favorably on Galt's administration.
Some time later Galt returned to
England to see the oficials of the
company. Before his death, in 1839,
he wrote: 'The fact of the Canada
Company's., being one of the most
flourishing concerns in London is the
vindication of my scheme and plans.'
-W. H. Johnston in the Free Press.
OTTAWA SESSION JAN. 12
Premier King announced Tuesday
night Parliament will meet January
same level to promote uniform callus- 12. This date, he said at a press con-
ing. The bundles should then be ference following a Cabinet meeting,
labelled. had been considered most quitable
The bundles of cuttings are now having regard to the convenience of
ready for storage. If stored out of members coming from a long dis-
doors they are buried in well -drained, tance, and to the desire of the Gov -
soil, with the butts down, and a; ernment to have its legislative pre -
mulch of straw or leaves placed owl gram ready. The Government has
them as protection against frost. If, given Parliament a bare four months
stored in a cool cellar clean sharp to complete its wark before the ar-
sand may be used to store them in, rival in Canada of King George and
and only sufficient moisture supplied Queen Elizabeth on May 15.
WINDSORS TO ENTERTAIN
WORKINGMAN AND FAMILY
"He was one of those rare men
who are rigid to themselves and in-
dulgent to others. He had a certain
shame about his neighbors errors
and never spoke of them willingly,'
-George Eliot.
• •
COUNCIL ARRANGES POLLING
PLACES
The Tuckersmith council met on
Saturday in Seaforth with members
all present. The minutes of the last
meeting were adopted. By-law No.
12, to authorize the payment of the
county treasurer for Reflection of ar-
rears of taxes, was passed. By-law
No. 13, appointing. Monday, Dec. 26,
for nomination of candidates for
council in Walker's Hall,' Brucefield,
also naming polling places and of-
ficials to conduct the elections. By-
law No. 14, to authorize the payment
of salaries to officials, was passed.
R. McGeoch and II. Chesney were
each paid $100 on account of contract
of Clark Drain. Archie Hoggarth was
paid $10 ht response to order from
11. Lawrence for repairing fence in
connection with the Mitchell DraM.
The H. B.P!. COMMiSSiOn was paid
$220 for street light in Egmondville,
one-half of which is payable by resi-
dents a the village.
enter the ba,nk in this manner if
robbery were his intention. It ap-
pears, rather, to be someone's foolish
idea of a prank.
I3ELIEVE CAR THEFT IS
PRACTICAL JOKE
Chief a Police Helmer Snell and
County Traffic Officer N. Lever in-
vestigated the theft of a car owned
by Joseph Quigley, of Clinton, re-
ported to have been stolen front an
Egmondville street on Thursday even-
ing.
The folloWing day the car was
found abandoned on a side road 1114
miles east of Egmondville, Since
, nothing was missing in the car, po-
lice believe the theft the work of
practical jokers. -Huron Expositor.
DOINGS IN THE SCOUT
WORLD
Scouting Brings Out Manhood
"The Boy Scout movement neither
removes the necessity nor mitigates,
the importance of education within
the family, the school ar the church -
It rounds out those forms a edam, -
tion. As a method of education
Scouting. does not consider itself ex-
clusive, but it -takes the boy in all
his physical, ntellectual and moral
being and works to bring out his
manhood." -His Eminence Cardinal
Villeneuve.
"YOUR HOME STATION'
CKNX WINGHAM
1200 Kcs.-Wingliam-249.9 Metres
WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
FRIDAY, DEC. 9th:
11.00 a.m. Harry J. Boyle
11.30 "Peter MacGregor"
1,00 "Clippings"
6.45 CKNX Hill -Billies
7.00 Sunday Drivers
SATURD4.Y, DEC 10th:
12.45 p.m. CKNX Hill -Billies
7.00 Wes. McKnight
7.30 Jimmy Grier Orch.
'7.45 Saturday Night Barn Dance
SUNDAY, DEC. 11th,
11.00 a.m. Wingham United church;
12.30 p.m. Ken Soble's Amateurs
1.00 Love Tales
1.45 Triple -V Bible Class
7.00 St. Andrew's Presbyterian
Church
MONDAY, DEC. 12th:
11.00 a.m. Harry J. Boyle
1.00 "Clippings"
7.00 The Landt Tricr
8.00 Kenneth Rentoul.
TUESDAY, DEC. 13th:
11.30 a.m. "Peter MacGregor"
12.45 McCallum Sisters
1.00 Royal Chefs
'7.00 Jack & Loretta Clemens
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 14th:
11.00 a.m. Harry J. Boyle
1.00 p.m. "Clippings"
7.00 Milt Hirth Swing Trio
THURSDAY, DEC, 15th:
11.30 "Peter MacGregor"
12.45 p.m. Jack Wakeford, Songs
1.00 Royal Chefs
Foreign, Scout Leaders take Training
• In England
A total of 72 Boy Scout leader
from different parts of the British
Empire and 53 front foreign countries
attended training courses at Gilwell
Park, England, during 1938. The for-
eign Sanders came from Belgium,
Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, France
Holland, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Nor
way; Poland, Russia (emigres)
Sweden, Switzerland and the Unite
State. Two White Fathers came
from Italy, via the London Institut
of Education.
A Scout -Made Motor Ambulance
A motor ambulance entirely buil
and equipped by themselves is the
proud possession of the 5th Caul-
field Rover Scout Crew of Victoria,
Australia. An old Dodge car was
stripped and used asthe chassis. The
equipment included a telescopic stret-
cher designed by a member of the
Crew. During the camping season
the Rover Scout ambulance will be
stationed at the Gembrook Park camp
site, fifty miles from Melbourne, for
use in sickness or accident emergency.
Well Organized Destruction
Passing citizens of Dunville, Ont.
must have been mystified on a recent
Saturday morning by a troop of Boy
Scouts lined up around an old shanty,
armed with hammers and crowbars.
The answer came at precisely 9
o'clock, when on the word "Go!" the
whole 30 boys swarmed over t h e
rickety structure and tore it limb
from limb, th a din of banging ham-
mers and whacking crowbars, The
explanation was that the owner had
given the building to the Scouts, pro-
vided they would remove it. The
boys trucked the material to a bush
site some distance froni town, and
began the erection of a Scout hut.
P I
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TOBACCO
1;011.' AVMILI?:CPO"CS-qS.,*
The London Star said that the Duke
and Duchess of Windsor had arrang-
ed to entertain the family of a Lon-
don workingman on Christmas Day
at their Chateau at Cap D'Antibes 00.
the French Rivera.
The workingman has accepted the
invitation for himself, his wife, son
and daughters, the newspaper said.
His name is being kept secret. The
idea, the Star said, come front the
Duke, "who is anxious to spend the
holiday in the company of one of the
ordinary people of his country."
"The Ducheis," it said "immedi-
ately suggested the children because
she wanted a children's party and
Christmas Tree. " The newspaper de-
scribed the family as "staggered" by
the invitation but said it accepted
immediately. The workingman was
described as an ardent trade unionist
who never has been outside England.
"Sedentary. work," said the coll-
ege professor, "tends to lessen' the
endurance."
"In other words," the Student but-
ted in, "the more one sits, the less
one ean stand."
"Exactly," retorted the professor;
"and if one lies a great deal, on'a
standing is lost completely."
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