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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1939-04-06, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD 'I ime!g I uforniation for the, Buri.. Farmer `(Furnished by the D:epgrtment of Agriculture) LITTLE CHAT on FARM MANAGEMENT NO. 10 FARM INVESTMENT; EFFECT ON INCOME In the recent study of Ontario dairy farms shipping •milk to' cities, it was found that efficieht use of mend for . registered ad certified capital invested per' farm has an im- grades of seed, the, product of in - portant bearing• on the income a spected seed crops, is: increasing for farmer receives and also on his cost both domestic and export markets. per hundredweight of milk produced. No. 1 Seed is maintaining its place This study, directed by the Economics as a Commendable " commercial grade and' No. 2' Seed also to'some extent. No. 3 Seed and No. 3 Mixture have a very limited' demand from• good growers. Seed of a lower quality and purity then No. 3 Seed or No. 3 Mixture is designated Rejected under the provisions of the Seeds Act, and is not legally permitted sale in Canada. Information with regard to seeds, plant disear,'es, insect pests and weeds may be obtained from the' Dominion hundredweight of $1.92. The. group Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, of 76 farms requiring over six years or branch offices, Dominion Experi- for cash receipts to equal investment mental Farms and Stations through - had an average operator's labour out the Dominion. earnings of (minus), $-26 or a loss of $26 for their year's; work and their average milk cost was $2.33 per hundredweight. in other words the ORGANIZED EFFORT first group received $1,220 more for their year's work and had a milk cost of 41 cents per hundredweight less than the last group. it is well to be sure they are graded and markedin accordance with the provisions of the Seeds Act and reg- ulations. Several grades of seed are provided under the Act, ranging in quality from Registered No. 1 to No. 3, seed. Those growers who are snore the price of seed, buy the top 'grades. The officialgrades of seed are, Reg- istered No. 1, Registered No. 2, Reg - interested in purity of variety, qual- ity a'ad freedom from impurities than istered No. 3, Certified No. 1, Cert- ified No. 2, No. 1 Seed, No. 2 Seed, No. 3- Seed, No. 1 Mixture, No. 2 Mixture and No. 3 Mixture. The de - Branch, Dominion Department' of Agriculture, Ottawa, and the Ontario Agricultural College, covers the 1936 crop year. The measure of efficiency used was the number of years re- quired for the cash receipts to equal total inlvestment. A group of 106 farms, which' re- quired four years or less for cash receipts to equal investment, had an average operator's labour earnings of x,1,194 and an average milk cost per WOODLOT MANAGEMENT It is now generally recognized that one of the most valuable of farm The average investment per farm .crops is- the produce of the farm in the first group was $14,244 and in wood lot, but too often in the past the second group, $16,598. This nu- only the exceptional farmer has dono dicates that the wide difference in anything to maintain the crop in returns comes more from the uses perpetuity. From the standpoint of made of the capital than from dif- better wood lot management and or- ferences in the amount of investment. ganized effort to take advantage of To build up the volume of revenue existing markets, Nova Scotia, as a required and to use the capital in- province, has shown an example in vested in land and buildings to best enrolling 30 youngmen from the advantage, it is necessary, therefore, fauns for the first forestry course to have high rates of livestock and of its kind in the province. These crop production. These rates' of pro- young farmers commenced a six duction refer to such factors as yield weeks' course on March 15 at the per acre, milk produced per cow, 78 -square mile Acadian; forestry ex - eggs produced per hen, etc. a perimental station at Fredericton, N. Another consideration concerning B., with the main idea of becoming capital investment is that prices at expert managers of the farm wood which land is sold usually do not lot. This course covers the principal vary as much as the net returns from points of wood lot management, lands. Studies made of prices at utilization and: marketing, reforesta- which land was sold, and the. farm tion and other phases of modern incomes on hundreds of farms in New forestry. York State which are somewhat sir -r In Eastern Canada, nature has pro- ., ilar to those in Ontario, indicated vided most of the farms with a wood that, if ineones are considered, sale lot. The greater number of these, prices tend to be too high for: the however, are in need_of improvement. poorer classes of soils and too low .poor species of trees crowd out the for the best classes in any district. better ones; some aye dead, and This same tendency to average young trees should be planted in the values of ]and is also found in Can- open spaces. Too often grazing is ada. A study of '733 farm records allowed to- the extent of damaging from 1929 to 1931, on farms in East- the older trees and thus preventing ern Canada, revealed the fact that reproduction, There are so many farmers having incomes of $1,000 or advantages'. The pieces of land on the less paid over 30 per cent of the advantages. Te piece of land on the income in municipal taxes. This would farm which is regarded as being indicate that assessors, who are in wholly unsuitable for craps of any many respect% the best qualified of kind is often excellently adapted for any rural resident to know land , the growing of trees. -Then it pro - values, tend toaverage the valuesvidesa continuous supplyy of feel, of rather than to recognize the full dif- 'fence posts, and often of essential ference in earning power which ex- lumber which every farmer- requires ists. This means •that a farmer, on ,at times. The wood lot may provide poorer than average soil, probably a shelter belt in certain areas or for the whol e farmstead, and protect steep. uplands against sail erosion. In . Western Canada, the value of the wood lot, apart from its value as a source of wood products, is im- portant ' as a ' protective barrier against prevailing winds, and from the aesthetic sense unquestionably has a helpful effect through its beauty on one's character and out- look on life. - In the last quarter of a century the Dominion. Forestry What is good tillage? First—to. Stations at Indian Head and Suther- rglough thoroughly; aeeondly to land,Sask., which are .administered plough, and thirdly to ,manure, by the Experimental Farms Service, Dominion Department of Agriculture, 'The other part of tillage is to have have provided, Western farmers with good seed, to sow plentifully, and to millions, of yetang, trees. take up all the weed which may grow during the season. This information is not new. It was given. by Cato, a Roinan Statesman., two . thousand years ago. This is a time of year when atten- tion is being given to seed supplies. of Canada 'aro busy preparing for If growers are using their awn seed the visit 01 the King and Queen. it :is important to haveit well cleaned Southampton is to have a share or and graded to remove small, shrunken -the honors. Furniture is being made emmat'ure or broken kernels, inert in Kincardine from walnut trees matter and weed. seeds. It is not grown in Southampton, to furnish the too early to bring the fanning mill suite of rooms the royal couple are out from its 'winter quarters, make to occupy during their stay in Van - necessary repairs to the min and couver. These walnut trees were on screens, and commence cleaning OP- the property of John Wilkinson, the erations. It is well not to hurry the former home of Lieut -Col. A. E cleaning of seed. The seed should' be Belcher, Southampton's first mayor. fed evenly and slowly into the mill The trees had been planted by Cal. and cleaned a second or third time Belcher nearly 50 years. ago and had .if necessary. Those fanners are, reached a consid'e'rable size. - fortunate who, have a modern, power Geed cleaning plant of their, own, or one in the community which can be used for the. preparation of their seed for sawing or dor the market. The Plant Products Division, Pro- duction Service, Dominion Depart- ment of Agricutlure ,advises that if it is necessary to buy seed supplies paid too much for it on the basis of its non productivity and will find it difficult to make cash receipts equal investment in average or less years. PROFITABLE FARMING DEMANDS CLEAN,. SEED OLD TREES IN ROYAL FURNITURE While the larger towns and cities "The purest form in which tobacco con be,,moked". THURS., APRIL 6, 193) �I)\\\\\\ 'ritim9ali1111111'�l{ NI 1I7f, f �,,du L1 Fig `itch'''111,.,:.)'..,i, r m eutM asC �` EASTER RADIO PROGRAMMES JOHN MASEFIELD'S "THE 'TRIAL OF JESUS" ON CBC By ;special arrangement with the Poet Laureate and his Trustees, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will present John Idasefield's relig- ious play, "The Trial of Jesus", as one of number of sacred program- mes to be beard on. Good Friday. The broadcast, which will originate in 'St. Stephen's :Anglican Church, Toronto, will be presented Friday, April 7, 8.00 -to 9.00 p.m. EST. In addition to the, condensed ver- sion of the play, edited and produced by John Macdonell, the progranune will include specially selected music from Johann Sebastian Bach'.s "St. Matthew Passion". and the Vitorria "Tenebrae." I This presentation by the CBC will be the first occasion on which the play has been given in North Amer-' ica, either on the stage of by radio; The trial' scenes will be re-enacted on the chancel steps of the St.l Stephen's Ohurch side chapel, with' members of the congregation partic- ipating. There will be 21 speaking p,arts, among them the three High Priests: Amos, Oaiaphas and Zadok; Judas, Peter, Herod, Pilate and Procula, wife of Pilate, and the Centurion, Longinus: The music to be heard will be per- formed by leading Cliurph' soloists augmenting the CBC Singers, under the direction of Albert Whitehead, and the entire production will be pre- sented through the kind co-operation of the Rev. J. E. Ward, rector of St. Stephen's Church apd Chairman of the National Religious Advisory Council of the CBC. ing Corporation on Good Friday; April' 7, 10.00 to 1.0;45 p.m. EST, from the Montreal studio:,, under the direction of Jean Marie Beaudet. An orchestra of : 60 men, conducted by Mr. Bender and a choir of 4d voicesdirected by Victor Brault, will be heard, assisted by Gabrielle Par- rot, soprano, and Albert Viau, bari- tone. The broadcast, presented be- fore a large audience, will originate in Plateau, Hall, Montreal, Although Gabriel Faure died in 1925 at the age of eighty, haaving. earned the reputation of being one Iof the greatest and most respected musicians in France,• he tseems to have then impressed only his own countrymen with his genius. That he possessed genius of a Very high order is obvious to all who know hie in- numerable ocanpositions. Faure left only one setting of a liturgical nature, his requiemmass for chorus, orchestra and for soprano and baritone solo. It is a souvenir of the many years. the eminent French composer spent in Paris as organist of the church of St. Honore and chapel master of the Madeleine, The work is a fine example of Faure's great power of lyrical et - pression. BRAHM'S "REQUIEM" AS EASTER FEATURE A performance of Brahms's "Re- quiem" by the Men's and Boys' Choir of St. Thomas's Church in New York and the NB C Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dr. T. Tertius Noble, organist and' master of the choristers „of that church, will be broadcast over CBC's nation-wide net work Good Friday, 2.00 to 3.00 p.m. EST, as a special international' ex- change programme with NBC. This will mark the N B C's fifth Good Friday broadcast of this work under the direction of Dr. Noble. This year,the soloists will be Aline Mil - stead, opera, concert and radio sop- rano, and Arthur Kent, baritone solo- ist of Si Thomas's Church. For this occasion, St. Thomas's choir of 60 men and bays will be augmented by 30 voices chosen from artist students of the Juilliard School of Music in New Yorit Brahms's Opus 45 is not a litmg-I ical requiem. It is a setting of var- ious appropriate texts which the' composer chose from the German Bible and Apocrypha. While the` source bears as its title "German Requiem", Brahms was not motivat- ed by patriotic sentiment—nor by the death of his mother, as was once believed. Kalheck, Brahrhs's biog-I replier, produces convincing evidence' that the "Deutsches Requiem" was' "intended ars a last, great funerall rite for Robert Schumann." The composer began his sketches: of this work 'in 1861. He completed it in 1866, the year of the war with Austria. The first three movementsl were heard in December of that year in Vienna. The complete work (orig- inally of only six movements) was given its premiere performance under the composer's dia'ection on Good Friday, April 10, 1868, in the Oath- edral at Bremen. The present fifth movement, with soprano solo; was ad- ded during the following summer. Tthe "Requiem" met with such im- mediate success that it was repeated in Bremen 18 days later.,, By the next Good Friday, when the work was performedn Zurich, it had been heard in Basle, Leipzig (twice), Hamb'arg, Oldenberg (twice), Karls- ruhe and Munster.: Though Brahms had written end published much before this Opus 45, it ' was the "Requiem" which xitst won him wide -spread renown and his, undisputed rank as a groat master.' Aside from the impressive massage of its text, the "Requiem". ,is con- sidered one of Brahms's enthusiasts with his, four great symphonies •— the, first of which was not produced until 10 years alter this ."symphony with voices." This "Requiem" ,has become tra- ditionally associated with the obser i vane of Good Friday throughout the musical world — wherever there aie choirs able to cope with its 'technical and interpretative difficulties.. Dr, T. r 7'er.:tius Noble came to New York' from England, where he had been organist at Cambridge University, Ely Cathedral and York Minster. He has been in charge of the music at St. Thomas's Protestant Episcopal .t Church in New 'York for 26 years, . ' 0 GOOD FRIDAY PERFORMANCE OF FAURE'S REQUIEM i Excerpts from Faure's "Requiem" i "KING DAVID" SYMPHONIC PSALM BY HONEGGERR WILL BE CBC EASTER FEATURE A 70 -voice chorus, symphony or- chestra and three noted Montreal soloists, under the direction of Jean Marie Beaudet, will be heard over CBC's nation-wide network Easter Sunday, April 9, 10.00 to 11.00 p.m. EST, in a special performance of Honegger's "King David", from the Corporation's Montreal studios. The assisting artists will be Eugenie Hav- ard, contralto; Gabrielle Parrot, so- prano, and Pierre Vidor, tenor. "King David" originated as a "dramatic psalm" written by the Swiss poet, Rene Morax, for presen- tation at the Theatre Vaudois du Sprat in Switzerland. Arthur Honeg- ger was approached to compose the inedental music, which was complet- - ed in a little more than two months, and. scored for six woodwinds, four bras,, piano, harmonium, celesta, double -brass, and percussion. In this form the wank was first performed on June 13, 1921, with such success that Honegger felt encouraged to score it as an oratorio, or "symphonic psalm", for soloists, chorus, and a large orchestra, the dramatic element being entrusted to a narrator. The text is based on the Books of Samuel and Chronicles, divided into three parts, for which the composer has written 28 numbers of varying length end importance. 0f these, 14 belong to the first, two to the sec- ond, and 12 to the third part tof the oratorio.. ANNUAL EASTER CONCERT OF ONTARIO SCHOOLS TO BE BROADCAST Five hundred pupils from the primary and secondary schools in 40 Ontario cities and towns will partici- pate in the annual Easter concert to be heard over OBC's nation-wide net- work Wednesday, April 12, 8.30 to 9.00 p.n. EST. This concert, pre- sented under the auspices of the On- tario Department of Education, will originate in Massey Hall, Toronto.. The programme will include selec- tions by a massed choir of 200 pupilla coming from secondary schools in all the, centres represented ,and a sim- ilar choir composed of 200 primary scholars. 'A eomposite orchestra of 100 high school performers alsowill play. It is expected that the broadcast portion of the programme will in- clude the Overture to the "Magic Flute" by Mozart, played by the or- chestra; and the Elementary School Choir singing three songs, Schubert's 'Cradle Song"; The Girl 1 Left Be - Mut Me" by Descant, and the tra- ditional English song, "The Lark in the Morn." The: programme, under the direc- tion of G. R. Fenwick,' Provincial Superintendent of . Music, will be a feature of the session at the Annual al. Association. al Assoeiaton. j L SPRING' TIPS FOR MOTORISTS 1. Be sure and change from. light oil and grease to heavier grades for warm -weather driving. 2. It's simple to prevent your car's cooling system from over heat ng this summer.. Drain your anti - tree and have your garagenian. pour a can of corrosion preventive into the radiate. Car manufacturers say adiators should be rust -proofed now., 3. Check your brakes now after a long winter Remember, even with good bealtes, .a car'travellinig 40 miles an hour can not be stopped under 115 feet. Have your garageman "Pull he wheels" to ensure proper 'check. 4. Do y'out'know that' almost 60%: 1 fatal accidents occur' at night, al though there is only one out of every ow. cars on the road. Have your headlights checked for correct focus- ing and the reflectors cleaned. Re - will be presented :over the national place worn-out or dint headlight bulbs networkof time Canadian Broadcast -i without delay. (tourists c visit the little village •chi+. year to see this piaster -piece of Easter in IVf any Lands By MYRTLE J. BOA ious drama emoted, Easter used to have its pi...an thropic side as well. Easter buns. (now known as Hot Cross buns) were, distributed. to the poor. Two wealthy sisters., in. a small English town, even.. went so far as to leave ,a small an- ( nuity for this. purpose on their death.. O Many children, associate Rasters tory of Spring over Winter. Our emphasises the joy of the spirit and with bunnies, eggs, candy or some- modern sunrise services, while com- uplift of the soul. In somewhat crude. thing of that. sort, Many grown-ups'meniorating the discovery that'. Jesus contrast was the roystering of the think, of it as the time to display, had risen from the tomb, seems a Greeks and 'Russians in days gone by.. new clothes, to see beautiful lilieps finer expression of the pagan Easter After a long and severe Lent, they and other flowers, perbaps to .attend mountain fires. On the top of Mount made Easter a ,day of gayety and.. church and listen to soulful music. 'Royal, a volcanic ,formation which sport, choosing the cemetery . as the People come forth on Easter morning rises nearly seven hundred feet over site for their music;'and dancing..:tn in brand-new clothes without realie- the - city of Montreal, is erected. a Russia, anyone so diaposed might en... Ng that this custom had its origin great cross which perpetuates the ter the church. belfries on Easter Day- thaough an old superstition. ' In old zeal and courage of the early' Can- and ring the:; bells, a: privilege o1 - England it was considered unlucky to adians and city founders, and here which the natives; fully'availed them. appear in public on Easter Sunday ' in the flame of the, sunrise many ;selves. without wearing new clothes. In ad- worshippers take part in the Easter . A peculiar feature of the earty dition, people held that human things moaning, service. . In a settingof I Ghr tiara Qhnirch Was the- " 'ster• ii("Easter. should imitate Nature by brightening emerald velvet hills, with a gorgeous laughter", invoked by the religious:. up after the drabness of winter. Isouthern California sunrise painting dignitaries as a regular part of the Easter is a time of rejoicing, even the sky, thousands of earlymorning Easter service,.; It was later frowned:, though it is so closely associated with 'worshi err pp gather at the- Hollywood en as irreverent and discontinued. the Cross. For without the Cross Hoare on Easter Sunday morning fort In moorland parts of Scotland,' it: Easter is shorn of its joy. Easter 'this beautiful sunrise service.used to be the custom for young; means immortality to all those who' It is in Palestine that Easter is people to ga out early on Easter Sun have accepted of Christ's atonement most fittingly celebrated among the - day and search for wild fowls' eggs which is produced for us by Hisiscenes reminiscent of the gentle min- for beealdast, and it was thought. death on the Cross. Easter has .4ak-sistrations of the Saviour. Here where lucky, to find them.. en the sting out of death, because of 'Spring wakens' into being the lilies In the West Indies, where the the assurance it gives of eternal life., of the field, and the pale pink climate is pretty much; the sante char - Just ,as surely as our Saviour died cyclamen. Half -way up the Mount of ing the whole year, new clothes are and rose again so shall we rise from, Olives, where Jesus; saw the City of worn at Christmas time. instead of death to reign with Him in glory.' Jerusalem and wept • over its hard -"Easter, so that they forego the: Easter: Death is but the gateway through mess of heart and lack of vison, is a parade which is an important event which we pass from ':hit Lae to spot which is. ,;'Forever England", in most countries. To Bermuda, how -- Heaven, where ow-.Heaven,where aoldiers of that country perish- ever, we owe our lilies, where they, - grow in great profusion.' m. modern celebration of Easter Easter is celebratea h, many cur- ious ways, depending on tradition, established centuries ago and handed down from generation to generation. The bunny or rabbit, so popular, about this time of the year among children in many lands, had its origin in Ger- many, where it is called the Easter hare and where it is considered as important a figure in nursery lore as Jolly 015 St. Nicholas at Christmas. time. In Germany the children play a game with colored eggs, which con-' lists of testing the strength of the shells, and in some parts of the Unit- ed States a similar game is played known as egg -picking, in which both colored and uncolored eggs are used. "Egg -rolling" on the lawn of the White House at Washington provides a happy time for the children. During the Easter season both in Germany and France handball playing is in- dulged in freely. The connection, of this game with Easter originated in the idea that the sun takes three leaps in rising on Easter morning. Some rather startling customs held sway in the middle ages. On -Easter morning the women were granted special permission to strike their husbands. However, as "all's :fair in love and war", on Tuesday the men were allowed to strike them back, which though lacking in gallantry,. presumably was satisfactory all' 'round. Dating from apostolic times, the. plentiful use of candles and Iamps; was a 'pronounced feature of the Easter vigil. Pillars of wax, with' which night was transformed into day, burned out to put eut darkness, but as a sign of joy. Another illumination associated! with Easter, but of pagan origin, is' the Easter fire. This had to be' kindled from a hew fire, drawn from -! wood by friction. It signified the vie - �ed in the War. Each Good Friday, Christian residents of Jerusalem hold a service there. Amid the narrow streets of Jeru- salem in an area of thirty-five feet, stands the Temple, grand and: solemn and awe inspiring. The pavements at Easter time are covered with rich Turkish rugs, fine gilded -wrought- iron grills surrounding the enclosures, In the Temple fine mosaic& decorate the walls of French twelfth century design, their subdued arrangement contrasting with the more brilliant - hued stained glass windows. Not only in London and Paris and New York is Easter a time for fash- ionable weddings, but in every town and village as well. This custom. goes as far back as the Easter bon fire days, when young men and maidens desiring matrimony during the com- ing year, sang and danced three times, or gave three leaps over the flame. , The dramatic play owes its origin to the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, a poetic expression of the two great emotions attributed to Nature—her sorrow when the sun is withdrawn and her joy when the fruitful season of growth begins. The Greeks celebrated these Spring fest- ivals with mysterious processions of veiled figures with torches moving side by side in mimic search for the lost Persephone. The modern Maypole dances have their origin in these same interlacing' circles of figures holding brightly -colored ribbons. A play especially adapted to East- er is the Passion Play of Oberam- mergau, held every ten years in the spring, among the Bavarian Hills. Since its inception, years ago, through a vow made by one of the villagers,' when its inhabitants had been strick- en by a plague, it has become a play of great importance. Thousands of E••••••••••••••• Easter in Canada is spent in pretty - much the same way as in most civil- ized countries. An exchange of greet- ing cards, with the cheeriest of wishes. The observance of Good Fri- day with solemn church services, the solemnity extending over tile week - end until its gloom is shatter,edibythe • joy of Easter: Sunday moaning:. Gay- . ly-colored eggs, chicks. and' chocolate hens on the breakfast table. Hot- house plants budded for the occasion.. Attired in as new an outfit as our • purse will afford, we wend our way - to church, where palms and lilies smile on the altars in the !spring sunshine. The choir: fairly openithe gates of Heaven for ua with their - joyous and inspiring music, and the sermon holds a note of optimism.. Easter is undoubtedly one of the hap- piest holidays of tile year. In Alaska, however, Easter must mean even more than a withdrawal of the snow,. and return of green . grass and flowers, as in the case of the most part of Canada. After a winter of twilight and dry frost, in- terminable wastes of pale snow and silent waters, Easter must appear to them as the mythical' Teutonic God- dess of Spring, Sastre, in the person of the sun, bringing warmth a n d cheer. Easter is a time of happiness all around the world, for it typifies the blossoming hope of nature as well as the hope of the •soul'for reawakening ,beyond this finite earth of nature. 15 is a time 'when the birds sing their sweetest. When the fluffy little chicks break their egg barrier's, and the new little lambs bleat oe the greening hillside. It is a time when our hearts sing with Browning's Pippa, "God's in his heaven, all's right with the • world."—Canadian National Railways Magazine. ATTEND CHURCH THE CROSS For generations the Cross wasan emblem of sorrow, pain and death. Thieves,murderers and other transgressors of the law paid the penalty for their crimes in crucifixion on the cross- It was not until after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ that the crass ceased 'to be en emblem of shame. It became the insignia of Christian society with the > promise that whoso- ever looked upca the Cress and believed would have life abund- ant and eternal. Sunday, April 91h, is Faster Sunday in every Church throughout this' country. Min- isters will tell again the story of life, death and resurrection of the same Jesus who changed the Crdss franc one of death and disgrace to one of life, honor - and glory. you, are invited to attend church somewhere on 'Sunday, A welcome awaits you. You will hear a message that twill. help you bear your cross with- out complaint. Attend Church on this Easter Sunday WILL O YOU COME EASTER SUNDAY