The Clinton News Record, 1939-01-05, Page 6PAGE 6
TRE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
THURS., JAN. 5, 1939
,melt .Information for the
Busy Farmer
(Furnished by, the Department of Agriculture'
provinces, states A. A. MacMillan` in' of the heavier 'breeds is approeimat-
the farmers' bulletin "Goat Hue- ely 130 pounds, and when liberally
bandry in Canada" just published be
the Dominion Department of Agricul-
ture. The province f British Colum-
bia has the largest number of milk
ire no, doubt to the mounts;n-
of the province and the
th. Protein• and minerals are of grime
importance. .A critical' time in the
foals life is at weaning'time and any
feeding practice that will maintain a
thrifty condition and promote'growth
fed they'will, retain eta half their
mature weight when one year old.
$'eedss supplied to colts should be
readily digestible, and furnish the
goat, d nutrients required to promote grow-
ous nature)x p
mild climate of the westcoast. In
the other provinces, goats are kept
mostly by truck gardeners and per-
sons living in, the suburbs of cities
N' CHICKS Experience has :shown, that the and towns. without interruption during this. per -
NEXT SEASON'S
be In northern Ontario, particularly in iod is well worth while. At the Ex
trees selected for cuttingshouldI,
Now • that most laying:flocks- are
chosen with careful eonsideration as.the mining areas, the goat is coming perimerital Farm, Brandon, the colts
housed for' .the winter' or are soonee
their potential value as saw -timber more into prominence as a source of at weaning time in the` fall are given
families. 11 11 and a half of
d be left to' ma Likewise, in the Maritime Provinces, skim' milk daily, when; available, in
early. No at 9e residents alongshore addition to their allowances of hay'
chick flock: Too Y t Lure, for timber of this quality may fisheim n id g rocky ,
all. It is good practice to plan out later on net a profit from three to'l country find the' goat to be economical and grain.
.poCiltry operations for the entire year as'the' ul wood. from' the standpoint of cost of main• Legume hays such as sweet clover
possible; this permits start- ten times` as much, P p
asfarae poWith regard to seed trees the need tenance and capable of providing an and alfalfa contain more minerals
ing -the chicks at the proper times so - idered for 'leavin seed ample supply of nulk for faintly use. and protein ;than
must be cons g
to a housed, the; next important , or for ilex. Trees which` give high- milk supply for miners'ami ies. a gallon to a gallon
season's P
thing to consider is next
quality
Camber shoal
the grass' hays and•
that uniform income; may be obtained tcees'•propierly scattered throughout, a' There are in Canada stretches cf are therefore ,'superior. Mixtures of
throughout the year.
Now is a good time to begin think-
ing about this and getting informa-
tion that 'will help decide- when and
where to .buy chicks: for the coming
season. A definite decision in this
matter cannot, of course, be made at
present time, but it is a good plan to
write different hatcheries and breed-
ers asking for their catalogues, prices
lists, and any other information that
is desired. This gives an opportunity
to compare the various hatcheries and
breeders, from which a selection may
be made and orders placed at the pro-
per time. It is none too early to start
writing for information.
The Farm Woedlot
To make the woodlot a valuable
stand in order to be sure of getting r
reproduction if the stand is damaged
by wind or fire. Such a practice will
also inerease the' annual income per f
acre by providing extra timber.
On a stand where the timber aver-
ages:' up to ten inches in diameter
is good practice to leave between 100
or 200 of the ' best trees per acre, if P
the most profitable' returns are to be
obtained. Unless such timber is on
very poor soil, it is reasonable• to ex-
pect the stand each year to grow en
equivalent of 1 cord per acre per year.
means that it will be possible to go
back to the same' area aridcut the
equivalent of five cords of pulpwooh
every five years, at least until the
trees reach saw -timber size
Systematic management of the
farm woodlot includes removing dead
and diseased trees, cutting only ma -
asset to the farm, considerable attent-ture trees for lumber, and fencing the
ion has to be devoted to its upkeep.] wooded area to protect it from graz-
That reasonableprofits can be made ing livestock and from fire. Cutting
from the farm'woodlot has been de- all weed trees and lopping brush into
ntonstrated on many occasions, but short length rand scattering thein
systematic management is required throughout the woodlot helps to de -
to bring this about. It is a generally crease the amount of run-off and to
a -accepted-fact-that'it••is-netessary:to increase soil fertility.
leave a good, stand after each cut-
ting, if any future forest crops are
expected, and the question arises as
to the proper number of trees to
be left on an acre of land for the
largest- possible returns. • Also there
are the questions to be considered:
--what trees should be left to mature, Goat raising throughout 'the -Domin-
-,and .does' it pay to leave seed trees? ion continues to expand in all the
ocky- land, much of which grows grass, and legume hays give better
grass and produces .abundance of results than when either class of hay
browsing. This is admirably' suited is fed alone. Low quality -grass hay
or goats,' and it is to be expectedand straw contain very little protein
that, as mining and lumbering reach' or minerals, and consequently these
farther into the northland, the milk feeds are unsuited for feeding alone
goat will follow settlement, and the to young foals.
goat industry will continue to ex• Oats is the standard grain feed us -
and, ed for both horses and colts. The
mast
goat'smilk is
For the os
part,! a.
large percentage of hull in this grain
produced for family use. It is also'
sold commercially, in considerable
quantities, together with daffy pro.
ducts made from the milk. The sale
of these commodities' is increasing
steadily in 'Canada from year to year.
In the bulletin full information will
be found about raising and keeping
RAISING GOATS IN
CANADA
ROUND TRIP RAIL TRAVEL BARGAINS
From CLINTON
JAN. 13-I4th to CHICAGO $12.00
a
JAN. 14th to WINDSOR
to DETROIT $3.75
Equally low fares from ail adjacent C.N.R. Stations
For train service going and returning see handbills or ask any Agent
CANADIAN NATIONAL
makes it bulky, readily assimilated,
and hence a safe feed to employ. If
other grains are used for colts they
should only be included in the mix-
ture in small, amounts. For young
horses with good teeth there is very
little advantage to be gained by soak-
ing, cooking; or grinding oats. Where
goats. For' example, how to tell a legume hay is being fed, oats alone
goat's age by its teeth, advice to the is quite satisfactory as the grain feed,
beginner, points of a good milker, ad- but where grass hay supplies the
vantages of keeping milk goats, buy- roughage there' is an advantage in
ing a goat, winter and summer man- mixing bran and oats for young
agement, rearing kids, ailments, and foals. With the better grade of rough
many other items will be found in I ages, only four' to five pounds of
the bulletin, which has been compil- grain daily are required to be fed,
ed by A. A. MacMillan, Associate but with low grade roughage larger
Chief, Live Stock and Poultry Pro- I allowances of grain are advisable. The
duction Service, Dominion Department palatability and feeding value of low
of Agriculture, Ottawa, and may be grade •rougliages can be improved by
obtained free on request from the 'sprinkling with dilute feed molasses.
Publicity and Extension Division of Salt should be supplied daily, or kept
the Department. 'constantly before colts during winter
months, and water should be supplied
three times daily.
WINTER FEEDS FOR FOALS— It has been demonstrated by the
(Experimental Farm News)
results of feeding trials as well as
by actual feeding practice, that the
feed nutrients required for growth
Men leave their wives for various he was kept busy; for three years he
reasons. Mr. William, Smithers left silentle cursed his lot. Then he
his because he hated cleaning win- emerged into the wider World, a
dows.
At sixteen William had 'been a very
naughty boy, and .one day, as the re-
sult of an escapade which could not
be overlooked, a bench of magi:
Crates decided to send him to one
of those austere establishments where
naughty boys are taught to restrai.
their unruly impulses.
One o'f his regular tasks while
staying at this' place was to clean
windows, and as the establiehmen
contained a great many windows Wil
liank, along with several others wa
kept pretty busy. For three years
decent, law-abiding . citizen of nine-
teen, with a firm determination to
go straight, but with a ever firmer
determination never to clean another
window as' long as he lived.
The next few' years were unevent-
ful. William got a steady job in a
n provincial paint factory, and in due
course he wooed and won a charm-
ing girl - Ada Jenkins by name
who worked along side his in the mix-
ing department.. When William shyly'
t proposed to Ada he told her all. He
told her how, as a high-spirited youth
s of sixteen, he had fallen foul of
Authority and had been sent to *
place of correction, rrection how as a result
he had acquired a strong distaste
far window cleaning. He offered Ada
heart and hand and everything
that he possessed, making only one
condition,—that he should never, nev-
er, be asked to clean a window.
Misfortunes Comes
Horse breeders are continually on can be supplied most economically
the alert to obtain the services of the when the animal is young. Liberal
best sires available, and this is one amounts of suitable feeds supplied
of the essentials in the production of at a later date, after the animal leas
good farm horses. Another essential been retarded in its growth, da not
of equal importance In this produce have the same beneficial effects.
tion 'program is careful feeding. Too' Stunted animals of all classes are
frequently young colts and growing uneconomical feeders and inefficient
horses do not receive the feeds they producers. The best developed horses
require for proper development, and are those that receive suitable feeds
in such cases the beneficial effects' during the growing period, and espec-
of good breeding are largely lost, ially during the first year. Healthy,
states R. M. Hopper, Dominion Ex-' well grown, yearling colts -are well
perimental Farm, Brandon, Man. I on their way to becoming efficient
The average birth weight of foals horses for farm power.
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LOCAL
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BOTANICAL NOTES
• FOR JANUARY
(Experimental Farms News)
"Behold there came wise men from
the East to Jerusalem . And enter-
ing into the house, they found the
child with Mary his Mother ... And
opening their treasures, they offered
Ada proved an admirable partner
in every way. In addition to her
housewifely duties of cooking,' wash-
ing, sewing and mending, she also
him gifts; gold, frankincense and cleaned the windows of their little
myrrh." home, cleaned them regularly once
The three wise men from the East a fortnight without demur. After a
— the Kings Caspar, Melchior and while however, she became aware
Balthasar —made this oblation of most of her neighbors employed the
precious things as do British sou- services of a .professional window
ereigns today. Our King, on Janes cleaner; and thereafter, although the
uary 6th, (the Feast of Epiphany) or arrival of an heir had but recently
twelve days after Christmas, humbly played havoc with the family fin -
offers gold, frankincense and myrrh antes, the windows of the Smithers
at the altar of the Chapel Royal
home also received the periodical at -
London, tentions of a professional
Now we all know that the colour, Then misfortunes came to the
Iustre and power of resisting ovidaSmithers, the paint factory fell upon
tion which gold possesses have cause
evil times, and Williams employers
ed it to be valued from the earliest were compelled to bid him goodbye.
ages. But do we know what frank-
Like the good sportsman that she
incense am myrrh are? was, Ada took -the situation cheer-
fully in hand. Every item of expend -
It is said that the Hebrew word iture that was not absolutely neces-
for frankincense is quite distinct from sary was ruthlessly, cut away, in -
those used in the Bible for incense, eluding the fortnightly one -and -six -
of which frankincense was one con- pence for cleaning the windows; and
stituent. It is a fragrant gum dis- vary; unwillingly Alda resumed the
tilled from several species of Bos- task. But not for long. Beneath
wellia, the frankincense tree; some- the pitying glances of her more for -
what like a mountain -ash, with long; tunate neighbours she soon wilted,
glossed zonated leaves a n d green Then came the crisis.
star -like flowers, tipped with red,] "Will," said Ada one morning at
tiuned affection, and more than :ewe
she bitterly reproached .'herself for
having driven him from home. eater
a while she wrote him. She rogeet
ter her hastiness, she said, and begg-
ed him to return. Never again, she
vowed,- would she refer to the win-
dows ix his presence, never again
would she attempt to go back on her
plighted ward. But William, mov-
ing from place to place with' some
rapdity in a desperate effort to get,
a settled job, never received the let-
ter. Weeks later it was returned to
the sender marked "Gone Away ---
address
address unknown." Meanwhile Ada
continued to receive a weekly letter
and postal order. Then a curious.
thing happened. While William's
letters became shorter and less in-
formative the accompany4ing remit -
ams grew Steadily larger!. Soon
Ada was 'reeeiving as much as two
pounds .every week, while the ac-
companying letter dwindled to a'mere
half-dozen lines. But what was really
disturbing was that William had now
ceased to mention the ,possibility ` of
returning home. 'Week eek after Week
she received exactly the same sort
of note. "My Dear, Wife," it read' "I
am sending you ,a money order for
two pounds. I know you will make
good use of it. Trusting you and the
child are quite well as it leaves me
at present. Your loving husband,
Win."
Ada could not understand this. Sha
was puzzled over it for .a long time,
but failed to come to a satisfactory
conclusion. Meanwhile the weekly,
remittances continued to grow: The
two pounds grew to two pounds ten,
and soon to three pounds. Then one -
memorable Saturday she received the
enomous sum of five -pounds. To the
laconic note which accompanied this.
magnificent gift was appended a post.
script: "Please buy yourself a new
dress with the extra."
But Ada was becoming alarmed.
She didn't like it. Something, she
decided was wrong. And the more
she thought about it the more fishy
it seemed. Then, a week latter, an-
other five pounds and another post-
script: "The boy must be in need of
a new outfit. Please buy it for him."
The Only Explanation
This time Ada decided .to act. She
was convinced now that the only
possible explanation was that her
Will had fallen in with some of his.
boyhood companions and had revert-
ed to a life of crime The thought ter-
rified her. She was determined to
establish the truth.
By the next post she wrote Will-
iam a long letter demanding to be •
informed of the source of his new-
found wealth, and concluding with.
emitting a lemon fragrance. Tliey breakfast, glancing significantly et a strongly -worded appeal to his bet.
grow mainly in Arabia and in the her mate, "I can't do it anymore—I
Somali country. Frankincense was' can't and I won't."
formerly supposed to have been the
product of a coniferous tree.
Myrrh is frequently mentioned in
the Old and New Testaments. It was
an ingredient in the holy oil; a dom-
estic perfume; with aloes, cassia and
cinnamon; used for the purification
of women and for embahning. Both
Scripture and classical writers give "haven't you got anything to say?"
Arabia, as its source; it is a gum Haven't you Got any suggestions to
resin obtained by incisions in the bark make?"
of a small thorny tree with scanty
foliage.
Both frankincense (Boswellia thm•i-
fere and other species of Boswellia)
and myrrh (Balsamodendron myrrh)
belong to the family Burseraceae.
They are tropical woody plants.
"Do what?" asked William, looking
up from his paper.
"Why, the windows, of course, I
can't clean 'em any more. Honestly,
Will, I can't stand being looked on
by the neighbours."
William resumed his reading.
"Well," said Ada, raising her voice,
"What about?" asked William,
maddeningly.
"'.Che windows!"
Ashamed of Himself
William said quite a lot about the
windows, but none of it was at all
There are not any native Canadian helpful. Then Ada said a lot about
representatives of this family. The William and all of it was uncompli-
myrrh or sweet cice}yof Europe mentary. William ,said that, so far
(Myrrhis odorata) and Les Canadian as he was personally concerned, the
relation, sweet cicely (Osmolrhlsa) anti -window marriage pact still held
belong to the parsley family (Umbel- good. Ada reminded him tartly that
liferae. 'They are not related to the circumstances altered cases. She al -
myrrh of the Scriptures, so declared that he ought to be
ashamed of himself for standing id -
Much legend and many ancient 'cus-! ly by while his pea wife worked her
toms are quite naturally associated fingers to the bone to keep the hone
with the twelfth after Christmas.' clean and tidy.
Twelfth Night has for ages been a
time of much merrymaking and rev- The following morning William sil-
elry, in connection with which a cake ently wrapped up his spare shirt and
was prepared containing a bean ora clean pair of socks in a piece of
coin. The person receiving the slicei brown paper. Then telling Ada that
containing the bean beeame the King he was going to look for a job, and
or Queen of the evening. Asa fitt- might not return for some time, left
ing conclusion to the Twelfth Night the house.
party of today it is the custom with I But you must not imagine that,
many people to remove the Christmas hurt though he was by Ada's repo
tree together with other festal floral diction of their marriage bargain,
decorations end to decently burn William intended to shirk his respon-
then'r, instead of just flinging them sibilities. He was not that sort of
into the backyard to remain unmerci- man. Besides, he still loved his wife,
fully removed from sight with the and, to tell the truth, he was as Ada
spring garbage. But what an ignom- declared that he ought to be, ashamed
inious end to the short but glorious of himself. But he was still in the
reign of the poor Christmas tree! 1 grip of his complex and he felt that
With the passing of January and its the only course open to' him was to
attendant festivities, would it not be go in search of another job suffic
well to resolve not to return w co,a-
tempt of imagination? Not to bind once more to purchase the services new suburb from which William s,
oneself in a prison of iron complipa
ed of a professional window cleaner. recent letters had been sent. She
ency and hard facts in order to live For a long time only
remembered the address — 177 High.
the scantiest High Street, She found the .H gb,
when the sweet smell of balsam and success attended his efforts. Plod- Street, an impressive, chroaniuin-plat•
cedar, waiting for us in the woods, ding from town to town, working at ed, neon lighted parade of smart new
is like incense swinging rota the air a variety of temporary jobs, he man- shops, without difficulty. Then, corn -
in welcome as we pass beneath' the aged to pick up a few shillings here ing to a halt before number 117, she
whispering trees whose beauty. and there, and each week he sent felt a little faint. Over the shop,
catches at the heart. IAda a'small postal order with which was a vast nameboard in stainless.
Triumphant as a trumpet blast the to augment the allowance she re steel:
sun shines upon' a landscape bright, ceived from'official source. With � "William Smither, King of •Window
Cleaners."
But, as a shamefaced William was.
careful , to explain to a Wondering
Ada five minutes later, the sign was •
not now strictly accurate. King,
William did not personally; clean wine
dows':!,- Thai was left to the very,;
efficient gentlemen of hiscourt!,
ter nature.
"Will Dear," she said in a p.s,, "I
would rather live on a crust honest-
ly than to wallow in riches gained
by evil means." She had read that
somewhere, or • something like it, and
she felt sure teat it would help) to
bring her erring husband to a real-
ization of his folly before it was too.
late. Then, glancing at his last let-
ter in order to verify the address to
which her appeal should be sent, she
realized for the first time that her
husband had bee staying in one place,
one of the Greater London's newer
suburbs, for a considerable time, that
she thought, made her appeal all the.
more urgent. She knew that the crim-
inal's only chance of retaining his
freedom was to keep on the move,
and the longer William stayed in one
place the more certain was his arrest
and exposure.
Nothing To Be Afraid Of
A few days later Ada received a
reply. It was'very brief, and as us-
ual, quite uninformative. William:
simply said there was nothing to be
afraid of, and that she should be con-
tent to know that he was doing so
well. Enclosed was another five,
This Letter did not satisfy Ada. Far
from it. Her husband was deliberat-
ely evading the issue. By return of
post she announced her intentions of
visiting London during the next few
days to find out the true state of
affairs for herself.
Next morning she received a tele-
gram. With trembling fingers she
tore open the envelope and extract-
ed the message.
"Don't come," it read. "Most in-
convenient. Will explain all later."'
Ada's reaction was, of course, the
opposite of what he had intended.
Hastily packing a small bag and tak-
ing the child, she caught the first.
available train for London.
Three hours later, weary and arm
iently remunerative to enable him ious, she found herself in the bright
clear and sparklingj, making of it each postal order he enclosed a little
one lovely, jewel of beauty, placed note telling her of his
adventures
there by unseen divine hands. A and expressing the hope that they
fairyland indeed, where there is no would soon be happily re -united.
speculation but only wonder that Was He A Crook
intakes, you, exquisitely happy as you
absorb the joys of the Scene through] Ada was touched by theca period -
every pore: lice] evidences of her husband's con-