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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-08-20, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CL a tt N NEWS -RECORD THURS., AUG. 20, 1926 NEWS ANO Timely Information for the Busy Farm it e_ ( Furnished by the Department of Agriculture ) CROP, CONDL'TIONS AT END • OF JULY WORST ON RECORD Crop conditions reported at the end of July are the worst reported for Ontario since records • of ,condition. figures have been estaislished. In- tense heat from July 9th to 15th and an entire absence of rainfall over about two-thirds of the Province dur- ing the first three weeks of the month, caused severe injury to all crops. In Elgin, Essex, Kent and in counties east of Kingston, moisture supplies were generaily•sufficient and the best crops are situated in these counties. Fall wheat, fall rye, first cutting of alfalfa, and to a large ex- tent, the main hay crop, were suffi- ciently advanced to be only slightly reduced in yield by the drought, which set hi towards the end of June. Spring grains 'will be reduced in yield and es- timated 20 per cent.•for the province as a. whole, with the loss in the coun- ties of Brant, Welland, Wentworth and Haidimand, averaging close to 50 per cent. On quite a number of farms in this small area spring grains have been cut green to Supple- ment the shortage of green fodder. Late grains are poorer than early sown fields. Buckwheat, potatoes, roots, pastures and second growth alfalfa are in poor condition through- I out most of the province. The milk flow is considerably below normal ex- I cept in Eastern Ontario, and many fanners are feeding winter rations of hay and grain. The rains of July 23 and 24 checked the effects of the drought temporarily, but failed to provide any great amount of soil re- serve moisture, and rains are again badly needed in Southern, Central and Western Ontario: The harvesting of fall wheat and fail rye is completed, while the cut- ting of early oats and barley is near- ing completion in Southern Ontario, about 50 per cent. completed in West- ern and Central Ontario, and has com- menced in Eastern Ontario. ' Fall wheat turned out a very good crop, with the estimated yield;.. placed at 23.7 bushels per acre as compared with a final yield of 22.7 bushels in 1935, and 15.8 bushels in 1934. The preliminary- estimate of the yield of fall rye is 16.8 bushels per acre as against- a final yield of 17.6 bushels and 15.5 bushels in the previous two years, respectively. It is too early yet to predict safely the yield of spring grains, but it is fairly certain from the condition figures at the first of August, that the production per acre for these crops will be reduced to the extent of approximately 20 per' cent. The extremely high tempera- tures which prevailed in the middle of July forced the premature ripening of spring grain, and together with insuf- ficient moisture supplies, have result- ed in light filling of grain and short straw. The exception for Eastern Ontario has again to be made here, as reports indicate that spring grains are only slightly below average, due to late seeding and appear to be fil- ling well.. The yield of hay and clo- ver, and first cutting of alfalfa, will generally ensure sufficient fodder for winter feeding purposes, although a number of individual farmers may find it necessary to purchase part of their. needs. The first cutting of alf- alfa is placed at 1.76 tons per acre as compared with estimates of 2.02 tons in 1935 and only 1.08 tons in 19'4. New seedings of hay and &o- ver have been affected seriously by the dry weather. The scarcity of pasture and aftermath in hay fields is resulting in loss of weight by live stock. Crop conditions are particularly spotty this season. While rainfall was general on July 23rd and 24th, some sections missed the rains more or less completely. Crops on clay loanis or low locations are in much better con- dition than crops on light soils, heavy clay soils or high locations. CROP REPORT August 13th, 1936. Below will be found a• biref synop- sis of telegaphio reports received at. the Head Office of the Bank of Mon -I • treal from its Branches. Wales, Canadian entries captured several of the most coveted prizes including the John Howard Silver !Challenge Cup of, the British Empire I Section, which was won by James Lowe of Oyama, British Columbia, on his 10 -box exhibitof dessert ap- ples. An outstanding feature of the 1935 exhibition was Nova Scotia's effort.. Not only did the exporters from that province increase the volume of ex- cellently packed fruit of superior quality but they topped their accom- plishment by featuring 21 -year-old, attractive Margaret E. Messenger, of Bridetown, N,S., who was queen of the Annapolis Valley apple blossom festival in the spring. She added charm and grace to an admirable setting. It is understood that this year some of the other fruit -growing provinces may send one of their most engaging young maidens to attract additional attention to their exhibit. Several changes which will be to the advantage of prospective compet- itors have been made in this year's exhibition. Entry fees for the Bri- tish Empire and Canadian Champion- ship sections are to be dedncted from proceeds 'of sale at the conclusion of the Show,:and therefore need not be submitted with the entry forme: Another change is that the •card type of entry for the. Canadian Championship; Section has been dis- continued and all entries are to be made on the pink form accompanying the schedule. Also, the requirements of the British Empire Section call for 10 boxes only, instead of 20 for Asso- ciations as in previous years. All entries must reach Ottawa not later than September 12, and a cer- tificate of origin must accompany all shipments. General Cutting general and threshing be- gun in the Prairie Provinces, indica- tions are that wheat yields will show Wide variation, In some districts yields will be fair to good, but crops over extensive eters are a total fail bre, owiilg to prolonged heat and drought. Coarse grains in general are a poor crop and pastures are bad- ly burnt. In Quebec prospects con- tinue good for a generally satisfac- tory harvest, apples being an excep- tion. In Ontario dry weather adverse- ly affected the piospectiv,e yields of most crops and though recent rains have been beneficial the soil has been so parehed that more moisture is re- quired. In the Maritime Provinces the harvesting of an excellent hay crop has been completed and the out- look for other crops is encouraging. In British Columbia the quality and • yield of most cops will be well up to average, " • _ Povince of Ontario Threshing of fall wheat of average yield and quality is proceeding.. Bar- ley and oat straw is short and 'the yield of these grains is light dile to premature ripening and lack of mois- ture while filling. Corn. is shwoing some improvement but a below aver- iage.yield of fodder is expected. 'Sug- ar beets and other root crops' are variable, Pastures are in poor con- dition and new growth has made lit- tle progress. Late varieties of apples are sizing well and with a favourable autumn average yields are indicated, The growth of tobacco has been re- tarded and yields will be curtailed. Priming of 'flue cured tobacco has commenced and burley is in the top- ping stage. The crop is about two weeks later than normal and favour- able autumn . weather conditons are required. , Famous Fruit Show Oct. 20 TO NOV. 7 The 1936 Imperial Fruit Show will be held at Renshaw Hall, Liverpool, England; from October 20 to Novem- ber 7. This great annual exhibition of fresh fruits, canned fruit products, and Honey, grown and packed in the. various countries of the British Com-,monwealth of Nations, is rightly re garded as the criterion of highest quality,. style, appearance, and skill in packing of fruit produced within the British Empire. In the 1935 ex- hibition which was held at Cardiff, FLINT , How often the so-called inventions of to -day are nothing more nor Less than the application of old principles and practices. The use of flint in one of our modem cigarette lighters is simply what long, "long ago our an- cestors did to make fire, Flint, or ' quartz as we call it hi Canada, is a crystalline mineral coin - posed mainly of silica.: 7t is some- what harder than steel and breaks with a shell-like fracture, forming sharp -cutting ,edges. This enabled paleolithic Man to invent edged tools, prior to' the introduction of metall- urgy. The discovery that sparks are produced when flint is struck with ir- on pyrites brought about the.percus- sive method of firemaking. Speci- mens of the old flint lock musket may still be seen around. In certain parts of medieval Eng- land flint was largely used in church building, the porches and battlements being panelled with squared flints, sometimes in beautiful . coloured zones. Our imports of flint and gr•onnd flint stones run up to about 78,000 cwt., while our production last year APPENINOS OF INTEREST TO FARMERS Aboriginal Agriculture in North America (Experimental Fams Note - In any consideration of early gardens on the North American continent, the contribution, small though it be, of the North American Indians to horti- culture should not be forgotten, As one writer has said, it wasuthe Indian who taught the' white colonists thei native agiculture, "to cull out the fin- est seeds, to observe the fittest sea- son, to keep distance for holes and fit measures for hills to worme it, and weed it; to prune it and dress' it as occasion shall - require". To the In- dians, therefore, some honour is due, for not only were they the first gar- deners in North America, but they did their work without, modern tools both -in the clearing of land and in the making of the garden. In that branch of the Algonquin fancily commonly known as Virginia Indians, every family, at the time when the white people, founded James- town, had its garden, generally 100x 200 feet, carefully cultivated. Their market was in their own homes, and hence needed no Marketing Act in the disposal of produce. In clearing new land, the trees were girdled near -the ground by bruising the bark. When sufficiently dried, the trees were fel- led by the aid' of fire and stone axes, and the stumps burned. In preparing a field, the ground was worked over with wooden instruments, made some- what like mattocks or hoes with long handles. The weeds and corn -stubble were dug up and allowed to dry, then made into heaps and burned. The. women's planting implement, which they used sitting, was about a foot long and five inches broad. Be- ginning at the corner of the field, the women made a series of holes, about three feet apart, into which they placed four grains of corn and two beans, and covered them with earth. Occasionally, a vegetable of one va- riety oecupied a bed by itself, -but LI illy various species were grown together in the one feilcd, The gar- dens were carefully weeded by the women and children, When the corn was about half grown, it was hilled, Little houses Or shelters, raised upoli platforms in the fields, were occupied by watchers, whose duty it was to keep the birds' from injuring the crop. The crops raised were corn, beans, pumpkins, squashes, tobacco and sun- flower. 0f the four varieties of corn, one of the early kinds was only three or four feet high and bore au ear not more than 6 inches long, but an attempt was made to grow two crops of this corn in 'the one season. The two varieties of late corn would be known today as Flint Corn in the one case, having the plump grains, while the other was the Dent corn, well known to all farmer folk as the corn with the dent or depression in the outer end of the kernel. Much of the corn ears were of various colours, as the so called Squaw corn is today, white, yellow, red, while othes were blue of various shades, but usually mixed in the finest fantastic colour• pattern. The beans of the Indians were usu- ally of several colours and sizes. The "Pease" mentioned by t h e early- writers were in all probability small beans. The pumpkin was grown all through the country as tar north as the St. Lawrence. The melon too was grown by the Indians and mentioned by the early French writers. These melons were probably the progenitors of the Montreal musk melon. The Sunflower was cultivated for its seeds, which were used to make both bread and broth, while the tobacco.. called by the natives "Apooke", is described as being poor and weak as compared to the tobaccos known to the .white men, The plant was dried over a wire, or sometimes in the sun, and crumbled to a powder, stalk, leaves and. all. In harvesting, the corn was picked and placed in handbaskets and einp- tied' into larger baskets. The ears were thoroughly dried . upon mats, care being taken .to protect them from the dewby covering them at night When sufficiently)` dried, the corn was placed in the house in piles and shel- led by twisting between the hands. The shelled corn was then placed in the houses, sometimes occupying all the space available. At certain seasons the Indians liv- ed on fish, squirrels and turkeys, where turkeys abounded, and on the flesh of many animals if it could be obtained,' but in season they depended largely upon their gardens and such wild plants as acorns and' berries. Later in the year both flesh and vege- table products, were dried and thus; reserved for the Winter when dan- ger of famine was often in the off. ng. However, at certain seasons food was abundant, for it is on record that Captain Argoll obtained by barter from the Chief Potawomack nearly, 400 busl/Is of corn and beans. Cap-. ain Smith procured from Powhatan two or three hundred bushels pf corn, for a pound or two of blue glass beads. , Was over one-quarter of a million tons. We used it for tile and other ceramic products, as a base in paints, cleansers, sandpaper, refractories and �,',Y�'�Y,'i,Yrs,S•,P.iY�Y'�'%',Ye'°••r■,■.:•.•1'.'.P,',Yr.■.'�'�',•.:'.`, o'r� YOUR WORLD AND MINE by JOIIN C. KIRKWOOD (Copyright) An advertisement of a house for gave to these silly youths. They were sale appeared recently in a Toronto, disgusting. 'Their language was foul newspaper. It was stated, that the and .offensive. They 'profaned the house had cost tobuild over $140,000, Sabbath peace and spirit. They felt r but that it would be sold for $70,000. they had to show off, even though It vas pointed out. that this large nobody near them cared' a hoot con house, with '20 rooms in it, would be ceniing their identities. suitable for a family which entertain- I have seen and heard -and so have ed extensively, The living room is you, `my readers — youths and men 45 feet long! There are four bath- from small towns and cities and from rooms in the house. The seller stated rural communities making themselves that he was urgently in need of mon-noiey and foolish when visiting a big ey—hen'ce his willingness to sell at city,or another community—say to at - half the original cost. One sensed tend' a baseball game, or a football that the seller was sorry that he had game, or a fair -all in a purpose to ever built so large and so costly a attract attention to themselves. None house. hearing or seeing them was at all, our - A big and expensive house is in- ions to know their names or where tended, commonly, to be .a sort of a they, came from. Nobody admired u monment erected to the memory of -their clowning and noisiness and its builder. These monuments are horseplay. Their self -advertising generally described as "follies"—"Pel- was utterly wasted.' ' ham's Folly"' of "MacKay's Folly", I recall a, young girl -it was during and so on. Most men who become very the war years—who was invited to a ttich build a fine house — a big and patriotic luncheon to recite "Flander's costly house. Such a house advertises Field..' When she was called on to their success . It is a bid for the pub- recite, she made an attempt or two lie's admiration—and envy! to get started, but nervousness or ex-' cessive self-consciousness' made her unable to go on, and she had to sit down, •much humiliated. I could not feel very sorry for her because the impression made on nee was that she was present, by her own will or the will of some admirer, not to contri- bute anything to the spirit and pur- pose of the Iuncheon, but merely to show off. You see parents of young children showing them off in order that they —the parents—may have the admira- tion and -praise and plaudits of the company before whom the little tot dances or recites or sings. p t abrasives, matches, fused' quartz len- ses and many other things, +, i suppose that there is in most of us a burning desire for admiration — praise—envy. Most of us want to show off. If we have a talent which we have cultivated, we want to flaunt it. If we can sing well, dance 'well, write well, play ball well, fight well, swear well, we want to execise our gift and ability before those who can and may applaud us: I saw this al- most universal desire for attention and admiration manifest itself one Sunday afternoon in a peaceful park. Four young men—all under 20 years of age -had learned to use profane language fluently, and each felt it to be necessary to use his full vocabul- ary of oaths wheneyeg he opened his mouth. They were a noisy group andindulged in horse play, and' when they swore, it was loudly done. The big idea was to attract attention—and ad- ITiihationl each was advertising WI - self to the others in the group and to passers-by. Hoodlums is the name which one Do not misunderstand me. I am not against exhibitions of superior ability or talent or accomplishments by those possessing exceptional and cultivated talents and power, It is wholly right for it singer or musician or actor or juggler or ball -player or speaker to exhibit bis superior abil- ity and practised skill — this even when one is not a professional per- former. Gifted and accomplished persons owe it both to themselves and to others to perform before others— or others' enjoyment or entertain- ment or instruction. This is some- thing quite different from showing eft. It is wholly right that one should desire to excel and that one should enter into competitions—this to have, his or her ability or accomplishment measured in relation to the ability and accomplishment of others, for a reward or for no reward other than the public's praise or xrecognition of one's excellence. It is wholly right that one should' breed dogs, or pigeons or poultry or hogs ov cattle or horses or canaries for exhibiton purposes, that one should try to surpass others in ability to run fast or jump high, or sing- well; that one should strive to become a superlatively good grow - ex. of fruits 'and vegetables, or paint- er of portraits or landscapes,: or pub- lic speaker. , And it is whollyright. that one should build a fine house or have a fine garden, or should encourage his or her children to excel in school stud- ies and in games. But when the motive and inspira- tion are to show off—to attract atten- tion to oneself, or admiration, or to incite envy, or to win adolation, or to hurt others' sensibilities, then one be - dusk; Firelight across a room; Green splashing against dim reefs;• Gardens where flowers bloom; Lamplighted gold of a window pace;: Trees with tall stars above; Women who watch a darkening screen For somebody whom: they !avail Faith of a small child's rbythini rg; prayer;' Candlesticks; tables spread With a blossom or two in a gay blue bowl' Fragrance of crusted bread. Is ,not this picturing of what isa' most desirable altegether beautiful? Value Of Fattening Poultry For Market Evidence of the 'va'lue of properly • fattening market poultry was well demonstrated recently by producers in districts of the Province of Que- bac. In these districts the produ¢ern.. crate or pen fattened their young cockerels before marketing and as a result a good'pereentage of the birds were made to qualify for the Millcfred comes ridiculous and an object of class and brought a premium of tvno contempt or attack or pity. In the matter of house -building, the temptation is to build too large a house; A big family requires a large house; but families are growing sinal - ler, and when children grow up and leave home, then those remaining can get along better when the house is not over -large. Big ]louses are hard to sell, and usually have to be sacrificed. The larger the house, the more does it cost to heat and furnish and keep in good condition; also, it calls for more housewife's labour. Fortunately people are becoming more sensible in regard to both the size and the man- ner of the houses which they build. Economies of money and labour have intense consideration; also, the mat- terof the appearance of the house, front, back and sides. The garden is becoming increasingly important re- garded as decoration. I saw in a newspaper a poen which appealed strongly to me.. A portion of it is: These ave the things men seek' to three cents per pound Which is of- fered for Milkfed birds over Selected. Proper fattening is an important part of any poultry marketing pre - grain, states the Poultry Services,. Live Stock Branch, Doxninioa Depart- ment of Agriculture. There is ura kind of poultry to which this appiiea more forcefully than to young Cock- erels of broiler weights marketed during the summer months. The mar- ket generally becomes somewhat or 'er-supplied with small, unfinished birds during June, July and a part of August, which are difficult to move into consuniption and are not suitalii'e for export. Consumption of poultry can be in- creased on the home market by sel- ling the top grades, and premium prices are offered for such quafif3, The export market will absorb IasO quantities of Milkfed chickens weigh- inf from two to four and one-half pounds per bird. By producing to - meet the requirements on the house and export markets it should be pos- sible to of ch•esse& at poultry, avoid any glut WHERE is the answer to— WHAT you ought to buy? WHERE you ought to buy? , WHERE you ought to sell? WHAT yo ought to do? WHY, in our advertising columns, of course. WHICH please read, , WHEN pleasure and profit will result. The Clinton News -Record is.a good advertising medium.