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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1939-02-23, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., FEB. 2a, 193 R� I FARMERS ASKED TO REFOREST PIG IMPORTANT ADJUNCT Timely Information for the. Bud! Farmer (Furnished by the Department of Agriculture) FROZEN VEGETABLESshipment as well as for delivery m 1ril A ` and Mayat $7',' to $7.50: per p. The . pack of frozen vegetables in cwt : Preparations are being, made Canada in, 1938 increased to 590,000 for the Middlesex Seed Fair in Lon - pounds from 126,000 pound in 1937, don on March 13 and 14. Potatoes the principal increase being in peas have increased somewhat in price in and corn on cob. New factories were Wentworth, retailing at $1.25 >a bag. opened in British Columbia and in A. carload of Western horses were. opened and efforts will be made brought •ht in'and sold at auction, bring during 1939 to, establish freezing ing around $100 each: Renfrew re - units m retail stores. At the present ports prospeets for sale of seed grain time, the bulk of the product is sold this year somewhat slower than the to the hotel and restaurant trade.' record 1938 season. In Hastings 'County seed cleaning is the order of BU71' 8R CONSUMPTION the day, enith the cleaning and grad - Consumption of butter in Empire ing plants reporting that seed is con - countries is higher per head of pop- ing in for cleaning in a very. there Illation than in foreign countries, factory manner. In Grenville 'there States the Imperial Economic own -has been a decided increase in the mittee. It -amounted in 1937 to 40.7 number of flocks being blood -tested pounds in New Zealand; 32.2 pounds in order to soppily hatching eggs. in Australia; 32.7 pounds in Canada, Livestock in Lennox and Addington and 24.8 pounds in the United King- feede reported doing well, with rough don, compared with 19.6 pounds in'andrg sin being plentiful. Germany; 17.9 pounds in Denmark and Belgium, and 16.7 pounds in the United states. LITTLE CHATS CHEESE IN EXPORT TRADE . Lappets of cheese from the chief exporting countries of ,the world, reckoned by value, account for only a very small proportion of total ex- ports from these countries; in New Zealand, where the proportion is highest, it amounted to little more than 8 per cent in 1937. The pro- portion has declined in recent years in New Zealand, Switzerland, The Farming is similar to any other Netherlands and Italy, but has re- business in that the same necessary mained fairly constant in Canada, principles snag be applied. Farmers, where however it amounts to only as well as . other business men are one per cent. of the total. Canadian dependent on the margin between exports. 'costs and returns. • An important on FARM MANAGEMENT NO. 4 CAPITAL TURNOVER SLOW ON FARMS factor affecting that margin is the FEED FOR POULTRY Irate of capital turnover. Farms re - The nutrients in eggs are present quire a relatively high capital invest - in entirely different proportions went hence, it is important to secure from those in grain; and unless the large annual turnover if capital hens are given additional feeds to charges are to be met. The first level up the differences, production year report on the Ontario Dairy is disappointing. Farm study as reported by the Ho- Neding poultry entirely on grain, enemies Division, Marketing Service, and only one grain at that, is the Dominion Department of Agriculture least profitable practice followed on illustrates this point. The Milk Mark - most farms. To keep the hen in good et group having the most favourable condition and supply egg ingredients ratio between receipts and invest- in the correct proportions, so that ment would require an average of each egg represents he least possible three years for receipts to equal in - feed intake, it is necessary to supply vestment. The group with the least a mixture of ground grains, proteins favourable ratio would require an and cod liver oil, besides a scratch average of 2,5 years. The Domin- mixture of two or more grains. Oy- four Bureau of Statistics reported ster shell is also required for shell for the year, that the annual sales in formation, and a supply of good fruit and vegetable store were 21.0 drinking water is essential times, grocery stores 8.4 times, meat markets 27.4 and gas filling stations 17.0 times their closing inventory BEEF CATTLE TREND 'values. This difference between the farm Number of cattle on farms •n Canada at June 1, 1939, are expected and the city business is due to the to show a further reduction from farmer's dependence on biological processes. Some farmers produce those of 1938. The present cattle milk, eggs and other products which production cycle reached its peak in are sold frequently throughout the 1936. Net cattle marketings in 1938 'were materially below those of 1937 Year. Where this type of production and 1936..Further declines may be is possible, it aids in financing and expected during 1939 and 1940, The ntay offset borrowing for part of the year. Many producers, however One Month Left ''To Apply Trees ti A statistical report froth, Agricnit, ural Representative J. C. Shearer shows that in 1938 there were 200,470 trees planted in Huron County, the trees having' been ,supplied by the Ontario Forestry Branch, Toronto, Stressieg the importance of refor- estation and speaking of tile interest it hoe been creating among, the farm- ers of this 4istriot,,Mr. Shearer re- minded the farmers that they have only until the first of April to make application to the Ontario Forestry Branch, should they be anticipating any tree planting this season. The application' forms may be secured from the Agricultural Representa- tive's office at Clinton and left there or may be forwarded directly to the Ontario Forestry Branch, Parliament Buildings. The report showed that in Huron 188 residents had planted 164,894 trees for woodlot purposes and 32,- 036 2;036 were planted for windbreak purposes. Four rural schools had made application and planted, 365 trees and two municipalities had un- dertaken similar projects planting` 3175 trees, The stock Iist for 1939 show the following trees available for forest planting, white pine, red pine, scotch pine, European larch, white spruce, walnut, butternut, elm, red oak, Caroline poplar cuttings, white wil- low cuttings and among the trees for windbreaks are, white spruce, Nor- way spruce and white cedar. numbers of cattle on farms in Can- depend for part of their income on ada at June 1, 1938 (8,511,200) were sales of crops and livestock some of estimated as fewer than at the cor which require up to three or four responding date of the previous year. years to reach maturity. The annual TO CANADIAN FARM :h'ANP.WW■WW.A,".` VA ° :•J'° `:.Y. ,V, ■•r,•. A 1'Ys :.'.•r.'.'?r"' to make them mirror our..tastesand'. , a our nature; they must be our , es. fir", YOUR WORLD AND MINE r if they are ,to give us_ contenL,. the. . Among the many features o£ ": pictures we like and desire to pos.ess C'anada's diversified agxieultnre, none �' (Copyright) are 'projectsions of our inner selves. is squnder in conception than pro-l� The pictures wich arrest us, in an art during pigs fpr bacon, staked A. W: f by JOHN 0. KI3 WOOD gallery, are those which are our.. .. , selves—which have put into form and Pou tr n, Chief, I,iVe Stock and ! "J�,YrPf'f'e�,'iir�"'", ,•f `,5.`1',",YP.P,Y,'a°.",•.°."S,•, ° r•.,`,",",('r",`,", : ,"� st,"° - . Poultry Production, Service, Domin colour aur own sol' es. The music ion Department: ,a A �!riicuiture. int A titan e nnouneed to his friend sppnee to a myriad of appeals„ ,That' hie i eP 6 r, w h we 1 sten to greedily', rs the• - a recent radia address, They fit into that .die was going to go down the' is to say, the cathedral makes us music 'which is it: 'our souls, and farm practice as arcomplementary to Mississippi. River lm an open boat,' find more of ourselves. It is not the which le an expression .of ourselves: many . branches of - dairying which Said the f lend, And what do you cathedral; but ourselves, Which we —whether this music he;jazz, or Prevail throe hout'the country,and expect to find?", and the reply 'was,Ifind. g „ 1 Wag'nexian, er Chapinesque. in its, Canadian farm grains are excellently Sortie more, of myself.'. Even in gross things -. like food character and ualit . q Y, suited for pigs. None of the .farrn This story suggests that the app -,and drink -which appeal to the phys Mal ic� appetite, we incline towar t animals can convert gnains.inta meat reme, quest of- all of us; as• we sail pp ds hoses nano— as efficiently, nor as alongeconomieally,son the river of life,i tothings which gratify our taste,'and It is an interesting•thought, as doesthe inor ca a brings find. we turn awayfrom' tholee things ely,: Is all that we are and ,can be - pig, n n more of.ourselves. Or to put itat + y Whieh are disagreeable to tongue and. come latent m us from birth, quicker returns or use to the same differently, the farther we go in life, advantage as wide a variety of feeds. the more'of ourselves do we find. palate and stomach, That is to say, Consider the plant—the tulip, by . No farm animal is more readily sale-' Take the case of a man who• is a what we like and consume is,. chem- way of example. Can the tulip ever able. hunter. Should he go to a new coon- ically and in other respects, in cor- change, for better or worse? Must try, he would 'see it as 'a hunting respondence with what we are. Or to it always be dependent on what is ._ These are some of the reasons why -- put it otherwise, we are always'seek inside the bulb from which it pigs find aplace on about six hued- ground. That is to say; he wouldes find in this new country what is in - drink, ourselve in what we. eat and g into leafage and blodin. Can the emer- red thousand Canadian farms and drink, that there may be- harmony tulip evolve into something finer , why 83 per cent, of farmers in the side him a or agreement. than its source? The. answer to this Dominion include pig raising in their a ' inter' going to the same country would behold it through a painter's 1 It' is the same in regard to books 1 last question is, "Yes". By the pro - programmes, ',eyes: what he is in his heart he sees,and magazines:, we are partial to cesses of selection,. crossbreeding, There are 'two chief markets upon ! A civil engineer would see the same those books and magazines which are and soil -fertilization, the tulip can be product • so to speak, ourselves. We are al- made finer, which the of the Canadian � country through an engineer's eyes, p So, in respect of us humans: bacon pig is sold. One of them in and a farmer would see it through ways looking for ourselves—our inn fP we, Canada with the people who buy the eyes of an agriculturist or stock - turn selves—in what we read, and we too, can be changed into something bacon and other products. The other! man. The identical country becomes turn away from books and writers better than our origins. This means . is in Great Britain, and the import- each man's inner self, Each man who are not one with us. ance of that overseas market can- finds himself on arrival—some morel not be overlooked, as the Canadian 1 of himself. The place visited uneov- - farmer well knows, because of its i era, as it were, one's inner self -1 We do not find our true selves by ability to absorb his increasing sur- produces different reactions and introspection, Overmuch introspec- HOW TO GROW UNCOMMON GARDEN VEGETABLES Worth -while vegetables which are seldom grown in the average gard- en include Chinese ,cabbage, salisfy celeriac, chivee dandelon and kohl rabi, states J. Gallaher, Bread Gar- dener, Dominion Expermental Stat- ion Kentville, N. S. Chinese cabbage is one of the easiest vegetables to grow and may be used in a salad, or cooked like cabbage. The seed should be sown early in July as this vegetable does not do well from spring sowing. The plants are thinned to about one foot apart in the row. Transplants fronx this, sowing will mature a little later, thus lengthening the season. Chinese cabbage needs good rich land in ord- er to make large, well -blanched heads. Na attempt should be made to assist branching by tying the leaves together; this will cause the heads to rot. Wong Bok, Pe Tsai and Chihli are good varieties. The plants may be lifted in the late fall and stand like celery in a cool cellar, and will keep in good condition for several months. Salsify is known as the "vegetable oyster" because of its oyster flavor when cooked. The seed should be sown in May and the plants thinned to about 6 inches apart. The seed should not be covered deeply or ger- mination will be poor. The plants are like parsnips 'and can be used in the fall or lifted and stored in a cool cellar. When preparing for cooking use rubber gloves, as the roots give off a brownish juice that stains the hands and is difficult to remove. Celeriac or turnip-rootel celery, has the flavour of eelery and is grown like turnips. It is chiefly used in soups. Sow the seed as for celery] and set the plants 6 inches apart in the row. Lift the plants in late fall and stand in a cool cellar in damp sand, mods or sawdust, and - use as required. Chives should be in every garden Nothing is easier to grow and the plants will stand the severest weath- er without protection. The leaves have much the flavour of onion leaves and are used in salads, soups and stews, mixed -with mashed pot- atoes, and so on. Do not allow the plants to go to seed nut cut the flow- er off before the seed forms and use them if 'desired in the house for de- coration. . Every garden should have a row of the giants, board leaf dandelion. There is no better tonic in the early spring. Sow the seed in May and thin out the plants to about 9 inches apart. Either gather the leaves in following years, or cut the plants over, leaving sufficient crown to develop for the next year. Pick off all flowers before the seed ripens. Kohl Rabi can be grown as easily as radishes. It is between a cabbage and a turnip in looks and flavour and is cooked and used like turnips. Successional sowings should lie made from early in May until the middle of July. Thin out the plants to 6 in- ches apart and in the later thinnings transplant a few to prolong the season. It is. essential that the land be rich so that the plants grow rapid- ly. Kohl Rabi should be used when from 2 to 24 inches in diameter; roots larger than this are tough. turnover with such enterprises is CURRENT FARM REPORT slow and creates a heavy demand for capital. Cattle brought particularly good The Ontario Dairy Farm study re- prices at auction sales in Wellington veals that the total investment per County during the past month. There farm in the Milk Market group hav- is also keen interest in breeding ing lowest capital is over $8.000 stock and many breeding sows are whereas, the average for all retail being purchased there. Brant County food stores in Canada was $5,348 reports that demand for horses is The long time nature and high cap - much less than a year age. Young ital requirements of farming 'tend pigs are selling there at from $5 to to hide the necessity for the effic- $7 each. Dealers report a plentiful lent use of farm capital. Neverthe- supply of red clover of excellent less, it is important. To illustrate quality and sales are being made by the neccessity for careful use of cap - farmers at around $7.50 per bpshel ital by creating large business yen for No. 1 seed. Lambton reports ume, two farms of one milk market that several carloads of choice beef are compared. One farm returned cattle have been shipped to American the highest and the other, the lowest markets in the past two weeks, with net income for the group. The form - very satisfactory prices being obtaine'er has an investment of over $18,000 ed. Demand for finished beef cattle but, in 2.3 years, receipts would has been very active in Middlesex, equal capital. The latter is capitaliz- with loada of the best heavy steers ed at just aver $9,000 but, 7.9 years having been purchased for immediate) would be required for receipts to "Council Standard" RIB -ROLL or Tite-Lap Roofing is being widely used for houses, It is permanent, fireproof, weather• proof—requires minimum upkeep. Write for our new froo boo's, "House Tope"., equal investment. The best use of capital may be secured an farm by building up en- terprises to capacity and thus use capital fully. In a study of the far business the comparative slow rate of .business turnover should lee kept in mind and efforts directed toward increasing the annual business turn- over. At the base of a stone in San Francisco's Chinatown to commemor- ate the fact that Robert Louis Stev- enson here lived for a while are writ- ten these words: "To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be em- bittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation.' Above all, on the same grins condition, to keep friends with himself -here is a task that one must have a purpose to be- come better and finer and to attain. to more. Like the plant, we can be. - changed into something finer by the processes of companion -selection, the phis of produce and 01 its influence emotions in each visitor. tion is unwholesome.' We find our crossr.'breedingj our minds with the • in the price of Canadian hogs. The people of Great .Britain consume an- nually about a billion pounds of bac- true, selves by contact with things minds of others, and by mind and outside us—with persons, experiences, character fertilization. Quite frequently we have togo places, incidents, adventures; and it 1 To be our. potential best, we must away from our home to find more' is likely to happen that we shall be ever seeking our potential best. on, to which British production son- of ourselves. We need new environ - tributes barely oneood can . It cament and new stimulations to make readily be understood why Great us better known to, ourselves, We Britain is the greatest bacon market in the world, and the struggle for a tend to go to sleep in a familiar place in it is the goal of every ex- and long -occupied situation or local- ity. Our potential selves—our better Many a man has changed his job be trying to find more of ourselves.. parting country. Denmark supplies approximately half of the British or our worse selves—remain undis- —and even his vocation—many times All our activities and all our purpos- covered until wego away. Going before finding the work exact) suit- ing should be designed to discover or bacon imports, and Canada is second Y g y uncover more of ourselves. in the running with about 22 per away to a new country or to a new ed to his nature; or, to put it dif- cent. This production is equivalent community, or to a new experience ferently, before he found himself. to about 45 per cent of the product —liberates inner tendencies or qual- The Prodigal Son is an illustration Is there any greater personal trag- - ities. We find new Liberties, new e - of a man who found himself—who prepared and mercouses in by the P ed than one's failure to discover or inspected packing houses in Canada, portunities, new aspirations, new ' "came to himself" --only after years uncover, or to find, more of oneself? or the equivalent of 1,700,000 powers; and sometimes, alas, we find of misadventures. qpugs. I ' Is not that life a dull and a defeated In order that the export of bacon uncovered our baser self. 1 If we are perceptive, when we read —a barren—life which is not daily from .Canada shall be as uniform as' Self -finding is life's .supreme ad-, biographies, then we see that, in the finding more of itself. And what an a product can be, which originates in venture. Things outside us which we ease of many men and women, they adventure life is when daily it is twenty-five different packing estab-'see or which impinge on us are but are forever seeking to find them- finding more life --this right up to, lishments throughout the Dominion, 1 uncoverers of us— of our essence.' selves—to find that occupation, that the misty, strait ;which joins time all Wiltshire sides are graded before When we expose ourselves to a activity, that situation in which they with eternity? shipping and inspected on arrival at cathedral it is what is inside us that will have peace and contentment. British ports. A. system of approving is uncovered. If we have a deep' And until they do find that what pure bred breeding stock for Advanc-; spiritual nature, the cathedral, both may be called their perfect mould, ed Registration has been put into inside and out, will call forth this they remain unhappy and restless. operation by the Dominion Depart- nature. If we have a deep love of 1 In our personal relations we at- ment of Agriculture, and is provid- beauty as expressed in form and de- tach ourselves most firmly and last- ing a necessary service in bringing tail and colour and light and shaded ingly to those who are our other the seed stock still more in harmony then the cathedral will make this love selves—our twin, as it were, When with the demands of commerce. I leap out in a sort of rapture—a re- we furnish our homes, we endeavour have to do much experimenting in a We must ever seek our larger and , purpose to find our true selves. We better self. In all our adventuring, can count ourselves fortunate when striving, doing, we must, like the • we are not wrecked and ruined in matt planning to sail down the • the course of our experiments. Mississippi in a self-propelled boat, - • GOAT AND DOG MAKE GOOD TEAM ti Lila Smith, daughter of Mr. end Mrs, Foster -Smith, let : line of Mor- ris, hiss .trained a goat to team up with her dog. This odd team draw fila on a sleigh all about the place, and respond to her orders, such as r.•,. Tenet sten . 'tc. 'I mase . travel to a cl;"aScs.°'r.+ f,ET pi;'Rt CIGARETTES "The purest form in which tobacco can be smoked" MISTER LOCAL MERCHANT MAKE SURE YOUR SALES MESSAGE AP- PEARS EVERY WEEK IN THESE COLUMNS FOR THE GUIDANCE OF LOCAL BUYERS AND THUS KEEP THE LOCAL DOLLARS AT HOME. - Honest Aid It was Lincoln, wasn't it, who gave us that epigram about fooling some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the tune? Times have changed. Some people, today, can't be fooled at all. There are the ones who buy thoughtfully and spend Wisely. They are guided by .the most up-to-the-minute news about products, prices and values. They read the advertisements in their Local paper. Whether you're marketing for tonight's dinner, for a refrig- erator or for a home -- the most reliable guides are printed right here in, this paper for you. Make it a habit to shop at home, by newspaper,' before you set out. It saves time . . saves tiresome searching . . .and it saves 'real money.