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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-02-27, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD- THURS., FEB. 27, 193 ► NEWS AR 1•11101•11111•11•111 4•••••••ffm.1111011MINMINRINY ie'■ AIM i i i i ■1 Wise era'' ■ Yi ■"i 'Alec' r ■'o s i o a' 'a ■'■'i M m iW0e' so many books dealing with early Timely Information for the Busy Farmer ( Furnished by the Department of Agriculture ) Ontario Fertilizer Board Following two years 'of work : as- sembling facts concerning the use of fertilizer, the Ontario Advisory' Fer tilizer Board, following its annual meeting- in Toronto 'recently, an- nounced that'it was now prepared' to assemble and publishits findings and recommendations. It ' is planned to publish the findings and recommend- ations in time for spring work this year. These recommendations; ar- rived at through study of experimen- tal and research work carried on for a number of years throughout Ontar- io, and taking: into consideration all soil and climate conditions will cover the use of fertilizer, both commercial and farm, for the following crops:. cereals, hay and pasture; fruit and vegetables, roots and potatoes, much- land crops, sugarbeets, corn, and tobacco. • Dr. Robert Harcourt, 0. A. C., Guelph, is the chairman of the board which was organized two years ago. Its membership is made up of provin- cial and Dominion field crop experts, representatives of `the various grow- ers organizations, and representatives of the commercial. fertilizer trade. t G. R. Paterson,' Walkerton, Ont., is the secretary. Agricultural Societies The annual convention of the Agri- cultural Societies, held at the King Edward Hotel, Toronto, early this month, brought together representa- tives from all parts of the Province to discuss questions of mutual inter- est. In the arranging of the pro- gramme, ample time was given for discussion. In these discussions many points were cleared up. Time was also allowed for the Secretaries of fairs to hold a session. George, E. Foster, Honeywogd, was in the chair and in his presiden- tial address reviewed some , of the accomplishments of the Agricultural Societies and referred to special fea- tures at different fairs. Secretary J. A. Carroll gave a de- tailed report of the year's activities. There are 315 active Agrricultural So- cieties in Ontario and 297 held a fair; 101 of these reported an in- crease in gate receipts over the pre- vious year. Last year 66 regular field crop coni - petitions were conducted and inadds- tion 10 combined competitions in bar- ley. During the year three seed cleaning plants were operated by Ag- ricultural -Societies. Several Socie- ties maintain pure-bred sires and grants were paid for the miantenance of one stallion, 27 boars, 68 bulls and 10 rains. One Society had a competition for the best managed farm. In Bruce and Grey the Societies are offering a ser- vice in securing reliable fruit trees and other Societies are behind the work on animal parasite control. Ontario Sheep Breeders Discuss >_ 1199111 Idejl ;finatkoe Sheep, breeder's in large numbers attended the annual meeting of the Ontario Sheep Breeders Association, presided over by E. Robson, Den- field, Long and inconclusive discus- sion took place on identification of lambs. A year ago the Canadian As- sociation decided on identification tags bearing registered breeder let- ters allotted by Canadian Live Stock Records, as private ear tags were not entirely satisfactory to our friends across the line who import a lot of our lambs for breeding pur- poses. There was a wide diversion of opinion expressed at the meeting held by the Ontario Association and the matter was finally left to the di- rectors to decide and send a recom- mendation on to the Canadian Asso- ciation. The breeders present heard the wool - outlook for 1936 discussed by Geo. F. O'Brien and prospects 'are brighter than in the past, although substantial increases in price may , not be expected., W. H. J. Tisdale • reported for the Canadian Lamb Com- mittee whose object is promoting lamb consumption on the domestic market. Methods of advertising and 'types of advertisements were shown to the meeting, all of which it, was. believed were producing. results. A. A. MacMillan, of the Live Stock Branch, Ottawa, reviewed lamb grad- ing and its benefits to breeder and purchaser. Plowmen's Association The annual convention of the On- tario Plowmen's Association was held early this month in Toronto, with a large attendance and many interest- ing addresses. The secretary, J. A. Carroll, reported' 80 branches.. active in 1935 and '70 senior snatcheswere held. There was keen interest in jun- ior activities and demonstrations for ■ young farmers were held at 26 pointe., Home: plowing competitions were con- ducted in thirteen counties and`eighs junior matches were held. Matches and demonstrations have been staged at a number: of points, in Norther'.' Ontario. At the International Plow- ing Match at Caledonia there was a record entry of 544, and the number of people who visited the Match; was estimated by the' president to be over. 100,000. Reference was made by the secretary to the Farm Machinery demonstrations and the educational exhibits. An address by Dr. E. S. Hopkins, Experimental Farm, Ottawa, on cul- tural implements gave the results of various• experiments that not only proved interesting but somewhat of a surprise to some who were present. Dr. E. E. Archibald, speaking at the noon luncheon, claimed that soil cultivation was fundamental to get- ting a crop and to weed and plant disease control. There isa wide var- iation in the soil in the 9 million ac- res of arable land in Ontario, and this must be studied in order to adapt different crops to the different types of soil. Soil changes come about ow- ing to continued cropping, claimed the speaker, and this has given rise to certain cropping difficulties. Care of soil isnot just in turning,a fancy furrow, said Dr. Archibald, but in so handling it that after extracting a living the soil may be left as good or better than at the start. Conservation and intelligent handling of soil is very important. Dr. G. L Christie and others spoke in glowing . terms of the 1935 match and of the value plowing matches were to the agri- cultural and industrial life of the country. • The annual meeting was presided over by J. Leckie Wilson who, in his own inimitable style, told of the growth and development during the past 26 years of the Plowmen's Association. Perth Shorthorn Champion Comes to , Ontario The world's greatest Shorthorn sale was held recently at Perth, Scot- land, where the best specimens of the breed attracted buyers from all parts of the world, and particularly from the Argentine. The United States and Canada have been frequent buyers at this sale, and on this occasion the Hon- ourable Duncan Marshall purchased for the Ontario Agricultural College the Champion Bull of the sale. "Millhills Ransom" brought 2900 guineas, which. is 300 guineas below last year's top price. The purchase of "Millhills Ransom" will not cost the Provincial Treasury anything. Some weeks ago the honourable Mr. Marshall decided to solicit the aid and support of a number of outstand- ing business men, each: ;of whom sub- scribed very substantial $ums of mon- ey for this purpose. Among the contributors are: Sir Joseph Plavelle, Mr. J. S. McLean for the Canada Packers, Colonel Harry Magee for the T. Eaton Company, Mr. C. L. Burton for the RobertSimp- son Company, Mr. Jos. E. Atkinson of the Toronto Star, and Mr. J. H. Tapley for the Swift Canadian Co. A number of contributions to the purchasing fund have 'been made In Scotland by Scotsmen interested in the promotion of live stock, and great interest has been shown by Canadian business men supporting this venture. Hon. Mr. Marshall has received many congratulations upon the organ- ization rganization of such a scheme. In addition to "Millhills Ransom" an outstanding Aberdeen Angus bull, a proven sire, bred at Harviestoun, from .Templetons of Sandy Knowe, was purchased. There are very few outstanding Shorthorn sires in Ontario and none as good as breeders would like. This bull at the Ontario Agricul- tural' College will be ` available to breeders in the Province for limited use and it is hoped that, i t this way more rapid stock improvement can be promoted by the breeding of good sires in a number of herds. The Honourable Mr. Marshall cab- les that the bulls he has secured will be a wonderful additionto the Short- horns in Ontario., The first sire purchased by the Honourable Mr. Marshall for the On- tario Agricultural Collegewas the Clyesdale Stallion "Craigie Realize- tion"—a horse that has "realized" to the full all the expectations of him. Choice Aberdeen Angus females have been purchased, also a very good bull, and a high-class Hereford bull has been secured to head the herd. Some good Ayrshires and Holsteins, together with the addition of .some. Jerseys, will be secured for the School at Kentptville. days, YOUR WORLD AND MINE �■ Cana'dian history. ' At 18 years of age Parkman had planned his Llife 4 and work; he meant to write aliout by JOHN C. 'KIRKWOOD } Caada, particularly about French r Canada and the Indian race. He ev r (Copyright) rrr' en planned the number of books of .' • the series and their titles, and their fe.'s'®'teis : WdYWr.'r rr r ■ I i■��"�ti'rr■Y■Yr■i'■'■iYo'1P,1YAINV■ M: ` . times of publication. i a prepara- Life for most of us is a chapter of -ening, and because the prospect tion for his life work he went to Ore- accidents. It is the casual' circum- looked good, the job was sought and gon with the pioneers, and wrote stance which seems to give shape and obtained, with rather rapid promo The Oregon Trail. But ill health and direction to our lives — this despite tion, until, . today, the man is mane- impaired eyesight halted him .in the the sentiment of the agreeable say ger of the business. fulfilment of his literary program; ing, "There is a destiny which shapes This man told me how he found' yet, before he died, he had complet our ways, rough hew thein how we his wife. He had been going to a ed his series of books. may:' • certain church, but was not strongly My own life has seemed: to me to attached to it. One, Sunday he found be a series of adventure based on the himself confronted with two impul- I am not commending the casual casual circumstance. Andmy fath- ses—one tb go to church that evening; life. The planned life, self-directed, er's life also. My, father was born the other toviasit the home of a is the better life—the' more produc- on a farm—about 99 'years ago. As young woman who had attracted tive, the more enriching life. It is a young man, barely 20 years of him. He decided to visit the young not creditable to us to be feathers in age, he was, feeder at a threshing. lady, and made an appointment by the wind. So, if you can, choose your iris arm was caught by the cylinder telephone. Then the inner urging to way of life and stick to your pro - feeder, andwas badly mangled. Dur- go to church became powerful, with gramme. ing the tedious healing my father the result that he cancelled the ar• - went to a near -by village, and there rangement to go to the young lady's Being loose mooted, as :I have been, met the young woman whom the mar- home. is bad for one's progress and at- ried. Also, he became a clerk in a tainment. It represents a tragic retail store, and ever after, until his At church that evening there sat waste of time. A goalless life is a death, he was a retailer. not far from him two sisters whom half -lived life, •no matter what ad - he knew slightly. As he looked at ventures of a pleasant or a stimulat- Take my own case: I had iptendedhenthem, the good looks of the older sir- ing rt it may contain. going to the university', butter impressed him strongly, and af- Again I say: Take root as early in ter church he met the two young several scholarships, it seemed to me women at the church door and went goal; and then use time and oppor- that it was her right to go to the to their home. In due course he tunity and . talents purposefully. At sister of ;mine matriculated, winning life as may be possibe. Settle on a university. This she did, and I was married the older sister. able to help her go. She was gold medalist in classics when she grad- uated, rad uated, . and thereafter, 'until her • I ask you, my reader, to look back death, was a generous contributor to on the way of your own life, in a the necessities of her sisters. Had purpose to discover to what extent she not won distinction as a matri- the outer—the casual—circumstance culant, I probably would have re- gave your life both its direction and turned •to Queen's University to com- its mould. I feel sure that you will plete'the course which I had begun. find that your friendships, your cas- ual meetings, and 'other factors out- side yourself have again and again I met niy wife through the casual changed the course of your life. ' circumstance. She visited our home. Probably your marriage, if you are when she was attending Toronto Normal School along with my', sister. I was seventeen at the time. We began a correspondence, and ten years later' we married. In 1900 I met a man in Halifax. We became friends. Later, as a con- sequence of this friendship, I went to Philadelphia, and later to Cleve- land, and then back to Philadelphia. Eleven years later this same man in- vited me to return to Toronto from London, Egnland, where I had gone to live, and I came back to my native country as a consequence of this in- vitation—a casual circumstance. I went to England in 1906 as a consequence of the urgings of an Englishman who had come to Canada after the South African war. We met and established a friendship; and because a man happened to be in Toronto representing a' Harmsworth publication, I went to see him to ask what chance there was for me to get work in England if I went there. He said that he would send me to the Daily Mail, Britain's wonder newspaper. ' I went and remained there nearly six years. On this newspaper were several men with whom I became very friend- ly, and out of these friendships I re- ceived an invitation to return to London, which I did in 1919. There I remained nearly 12 years. Here again it was an outer circumstance which entered my life and took me away from my own country. Then because an editorship in Canada be- came vacant, I was offered the va- cant job, which I took. Here again it was a factor outside myself which directed my steps and gave a new mQuld to my life, married, was more casual than' plan- ned—meaning the choice of the wo- man when you married. Probably, also, your present kind and place of employment are a consequence of some casual circumstance. It is very, very seldom that one meets a man whose life and career were of his own planning. An ex- ample of such a man is Francis Parkman, the American who wrote Now let me' tell of another man and of, how the casual circumstance affected his life, and by "casual" I mean chance or accident. This roan, now 38 years of age,. is the manager of an important busi- ness. As a lad leaving .school, he became a printer. Then he went ov- erseas as a soldier in the Great War. Returning he again became a prin- ter, but this class of work was too quiet for 'him. He applied for a job to the Toronto Daily Star, and was told that there was nothing for hint. But before he -got back to his home, there was senta message to him to the effect that he would, be taken on the Star staff. The business manag- er selected him for a particular job —this afterhe had been several years on the Star, and as a conse- quence of this work, which he had done exceptionally well, he was giv- en promotion. Then a friend of his suggested that he should go to a certain firm where there was an op - A Dairy Shorthorn herd of excel- lent animals has been procured for the farm at New Liskeard. An Ayrshire bull, the gift ° of the. Honourable Senator Frank O'Connor, is now at Guelph, and it is the inten- tion of the Minister to improve the dairy breeds already at the College. Outstandings speciments of various breeds of sheep, now used for class room purposes, will be purchased in the near future. The reserve Junior Champion Per- cheroncmare at last year's Royal Win- ter Fair, was purchased and shipped t to Kemptviile, ' and two good` speci- , mens of this breed will be purchased for the Ontario Agricultural ,College. "Breed Better Live Stock" , is the agricultural slogan in Ontario these, NMI the end of your life, ,lou will likely have won your objectives, and you will have contribeutd largely to the well-being of those whose lives are tied into your own, either tightly or loosely. DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD ' ARME tion to the far Queensland. Toronto is the Dominion's largest Scouting centre, with 9.700 Scouts and leaders, a net increase during 1935 of 1,240. Scouts On Geological Expedition Two Australian Rover Scouts were chosen by Dr. F. W. Whitehouse of the University of Queensland to ac- company him on a geological expedl- western boundary of The- Tale of a Neckerchief A certain Scoutmaster sent his neckerschief to a laundry. It was returned beautifully clean and new, Curious to know under what category it was listed and charged, he referred to the laundry list. He found it un- der the heading, "Bibs and'Feeders." Kitchener Police Head Boosts Scouts "The Boy Scout programme is a wonderful training for boys. They are taught obedience, truthfulness, to do a good turn at any time, not counting the effort required; con- struction instead of destruction. Very seldom do we hear of a youth who has had Scout training getting into Notwithstanding her advanced age; she retained her faculties and up tti, a short time ago was .quite active auiL as alert as ever. Mrs. Sanders wag born in Consicon, near Pt, Hopes, Ontario, ori January 10th, 1937, and was married in 1856 in Exeter, to, which district the Howard family had moved. Twenty-five years of her married life, was spent in Exeter..': With- her husband and yormg family' she moved to Manitoba in 1883' and settled near Killarney. Her husband' died three years later and she and' two sons, the oldest 15 years, car- ried on with courage and fortitude. which so distinguished the woman of the pioneer period. She retired fronts. the farm in. 1902 and since had re- sided in Killarney, Winnipeg, Virden• and Brandon. She is survived by - four daughters, Mrs. W. R. Down a Virden; Mrs. Lizzie Morgan, of Car man; Mrs. Lindsay, of British Co- trouble."—Kitchener's Chief of Po- lumbia and Miss Emma, of tram/ors: lice. also two sons, W. J. Sanders of Iiil- An Extra : Job For Santa's Reindeer Old Saint Nick's reindeer this Christmas had approximately}. 100,- 000 extra calls to make, upon kid- dies in all parts of the Dominion, thanks to the Boy Scouts. The gifts were produced by a coast-to-coast chain of toy -making and toy -repair workshops. From Sydney to Prince Rupert. While the main distribution was among children in urban centres, many thousand gifts went to fisher- men's families along the Nova Sco- tia coast, to families in the coal fields, east and west, and to prairie homesteaders. In addition to indi vidual fancily parcels mailed from eastern shops, large bulk shipments of reconditioned playthings went from London, Ont., Montreal and Ottawa to help the Scouts in. Moose Jaw, Regina and Saskatoon meet the heavy demand in their districts. It was the Scouts' 12th annual "big Christmas good turn." EXETER: On February 9th the death took place at Brandon, Man., of Ann Howard, widow of the late John Sanders, one month after celebrating her 99th birthday. She passed away at the home of her son, S. E. Sanders. !matey and S. E. Sanders, Brandon,. Twenty grandchildren a n d thine- • great-grandchildren also survive. kiss; Sanders was buried in t'he fani18g - tplot at Killarney. A number of re- latives still reside in Exeter. POULTRY EQUIPMENT - The reliability of Jameaway panlerp equipment bee become so well knows that). 'Jamesway Hatched" is equivalent 84 q . guaranteeof quality. Besides:Iacubatora,Canada's leading oopaut men use the Jamesway oil and dr EZ1.7% brooders, (now roduced in price) battesr, brooders. feeders and waterers of all hiad'e, steel nests, laying cages, oat eprauterc, a germinators end complete broader bauee . Manufacturers at all kinds afhret. metal building 'materials Buy From yo local Jeme,way dcaleromtitedlreeikr triter` Steel;;Proi 7AME SW A ' !771 led'u11Eti.1Fk.' HC 0,V1IOlta bREST" �. Factories also at Montreal and TcnsttSs i Remember ! That The Best Goods are al- ways Advertised. Therefore, if You wish to secure the Best Value for your money. Look Carefully Through the ADVERTISEMENTS in this Newspaper 1 CALL ON THE NEWS -RECORD FOR YOUR PRINTING NEEDS IN 1936 The Ciinton NewsR.ecord is a good advertising !medium.