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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-12-31, Page 6'AGE6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., DEC 31, 1936 NEWS AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST TO Tinel j Information for the Busg Far mer (Furnished by the Department of Agriculture) SEEDMARKET. REPORT Eastern, Northern and Central Ontario Prices -Red clover 16 to 180 per pound for No. 1 grade; 10 to 17c for country run. Alfalfa 15 to 16e for No. 1 grade, 10 to 18c for coun- try run.' Alsike 13 to 14e for No. 1 grade; 10 to 13e for country run. Sweet clover 5e for country run. Timothy 6 to 71-2 c for Ne. 1 grade; 4 to 6e for country run. Supply -500,000 pounds of red clover . mainly in the Ottawa Valley 167,000 pounds of alfalfa mainly in the St. Lawrence counties and the Kingston -Oshawa district; 235,000 pounds of alsike mainly in the King- ston -Oshawa district and the . St. Lawrence counties. Sweet clover, 300,000 pounds mainly in the King- ston -Oshawa district and the St. Lawrence counties. Timothy 2,360,- 000 pounds scattered in these parts of Ontario. part soya beans produces an excel dent qualitiy of silage." Fruit Production Down Totalfruitproduction in Canada is considerably below last year. ;. Apple crops in all provinces are Smaller this year,' Nova Scotia and British Columbia showing the great- est reduction. ' Winter injury, spring frosts and summer droughts combined with in- sect and fungous pests to, reduce the. yields. Fall rain have improved prospects for next year although much permanent damage to tender fruit trees, grape vines and strawber- ry plantations will have an effect on. 1937 production. Stooks in storage show appreciable reduction from last year at the same - time. Following are the estimates of this year's production for Canada with last year's final estimate in brackets: Apples, 3,777,000 barrels (4,496,000), peaches 440,000 bushels (619,000),. cherries 193,000 bushels (214,000), strawberries 21,347,000 quarts (27,- 505,000), raspberries 5,447,000 quarts (8,140,000), grapes 23,104,000 pounds (42,945,000). In Ontario,. rainfall was abundant over all parts of . the province dur- ingthe late fall period. Conditions were favorable for the development of late crops and the work of har- vesting was not unduly hampered. The apple crop has turned out much better than originally antici- pated and the present estimate of 684,200 barrels is only about six per cent. below last year's crop. ' With plums, fairly heavy loss of trees and wood continued throughout the season. There was no export movement this year, the domestic trade and Processors taking care of the crop satisfactorily. In the main peach producing sec- tion there was also heavy mortality of trees and wood, especially in the eastern area. Bloom prospects for pears which were considerably below normal in most areas, were further reduced by frost in Iate May, which also caused heavy damage by blossom end rus- setting. Drought conditions in 1935, togeth- er with the hard frost in early Octo- ber of that year, killed many grape vines on the heavy soils, but this loss was largely offset by recent plant- ings coming into beating, and the general outlook early in the spring was for a normal crop. The extreme heat and drought which prevailed throughout most of the growing sea- son further reduced the crop and to- tal production is now estimated at 52 per cent below last year. Soya Beaus and Corn for Silage • On "The Maples" farm, near 1Kemptville, Ont, - owned and operat- ed by Dr. Frank T. Shutt, C. B. E., and his nephew, ° A. A. Holmes, a small area of newly-brbken land was sown with soya beans, in the spring of 1935. The stuff grew like Jack's bean -stalk and soon presented a prob- lem as to what could be done with it: The stalks were heavily podded and might have yielded a crop of seed, but the crop kept on growing so long that maturing the seed was out of the question; and still it grew until the idea of making hay out of it was dismissed. - Dr. Shutt, having been Dominion chemist for 46 years, knew something of the chemical composition of soya beans and.thatthey are high in protein and carbohydrates, consider- ably higher than corn in this respect. So why not put the growthy crop of soya beans in the silo with the corn? Thus was the problem solved, and the resultant silage proved most palat- able and nutritious. This year at "The Maples" another bumper crop of soya beans was grown on a larger acreage, an area fertilized last year for potatoes and ,mangers, , and the soya bean crop responded to the residual fertility in the soil. Again the crop was ensiled with the corn, and the results obtain- ed warrant the adoption of this me- thod as standard practice. On Silage Production An endorsement of this practice is to be found in a recent bulletin issued by Dr. E. S. Hopkins, and P. 0. Rip- ley of the Central Experimental Farm. In a: section devoted to soya beans as a silage crop they impart the following information: "Soya beans for silage are planted with a grain drill in rows 30 inches apart. with the plants about three inches'a- part in the row. This requires about 30 pounds of seed per acre. Soya beans should be ensiled when the pods are well filled but before the leaves begin to turn yellow. They niay be ensiled either alone or, as is more frequently the case, in a mix- , ture with corn. They may be nixed in any proportion, but as corn is an I almost silage crop, it might be used in relatively larger amounts. A mix- ture of three parts of corn to one Demand—.A: fair demand contin- ues. Most of the alsike has already been 'sold ,by growers, also a fair � quantity 'of red clover. Very little of the alfalfa, timothy or sweet clo- ver bas yet moved to the trade. Western and Southern Ontario Prices—Red clover 19e per pound for No. 1 grade, 13 to 15e for coun- try run. Alfalfa 18c for No. 1 grade; 111-2 to 15e for country run. Al like 16c for No. 1 grade; 81-4 to 13 1-2c for country run. Sweet clo- ver 7 1-2c for No. 1 grade; 4 to 6e for country run. Timothy 6c for No. 1 grade; 3 to 5c for country run. Canada blue grass 80 for No. 1 grade. Supply — Red clover 450,000 lbs.; alsike 585,000 pounds; alfalfa 500,- 000 pounds; sweet clover 255,000 pounds; timothy, 1,150,000 pounds; Canada blue grass, nil. Demand -The largest part of the 1936 production has already been bought by the trade and a good de- mand continues for most items. There has been a good export movement of alsike, alfalfa, red clover and sweet clover to the 'United States this year. Timothy is in slowest demand at present. =SNAPS&IOT GUIL WHAT DO YOU KNOW? Seems to be moonlight, but it's sunlight. A snapshot with a small tens opening, preferably when the sun is low, will get pictures like this. Do you know that— Slight overexposure is always preferable to underexposure? * * A small stop opening must be used when both nearby and distant objects are to be sharply defined at the same time? • * a a For good composition, the object of principal interest should never be placed in the center of a picture? * * •. In striving for pictorial effect, it is best not to hurry in making the exposure unless moving objects de- mand immediate action, as a little time spent in selecting the view- point proves a good investment? * * e' Highlights are theportionsof a picture upon which the greatest amount of light is centered and re- flected—the densest portion of the negative and the lightest portion Of the print? * W 4 Enlarging from sections of your choice negativesisa source•of great satisfaction, and that many exhibi- tion prints are prepared in this way from negatives which, taken as a whole, lack just the right spacing or arrangement? • m * A diagonal rather than a full face - on view of a building is usually more pleasing, particularly if a por- tion of the building is in shadow? If, when making portraits, a hand, arm or leg of the subject is extended much beyond the body toward the camera, it will appear abnormally large in the picture? w * * In using a portrait attachment for Close-ups, a piece of string' knotted a, at determined distances and kept in the box with the attachment, is more convenient than looking for a Yardstick or tape measure to fix the distance between camera and sub. jeot? Most so-called moonlight pictures are made in the daytime and that a snapshot exposure, with a compara- tively small lens opening, when the sun is near the horizon will produce such a picture? 4, * It is best to have film developed promptly after the last exposure is made? ' More pleasure comes from keep- , ing your prints mounted in an al- bum than keeping them loosely anywhere, perhaps to be lost br damaged? Regrets and annoyance come from not keeping your negatives in orderly fashion in a negative album so that, when you want new prints of any picture, you know where the negative is? 109 JOHN VAN GUILDER. • 1935-36 Analysis Of Fertilizers The official results of fertilizer analyses for the registration year 1935-36, published by the Dominion Department of Agriculture, have just been issued. The chief purpose of these reports, is to permit buyers to compare the results of analyses with the guarantees of the vendors, and at the same time to enable the buyers to decide for themselves which vendors are reliable in meeting their guaran- tees. The fertilizer reports also have the effect of stimulating the manu- facture of better quality fertilizers. ' As pointed out by G. S. Peart, Chief of the Fertilizer Division, Seed Branch, Dominion Department of Ag- riculture, failure to meet guaraenteed analysis is becoming rarer as years pass, due to general improvement in the fertilizer industry. Modern fer- tilizers are more uniform in analysis and possess better mechanical condi- tion, facts 'about which Canadian buy- ers are becoming more critical. A few years ago, Canadian farmers were not well informed on the subject of fertilizers. The practice was to sell the farmer a fertilizer on the strength of a brand name, for the farmer was not able to value the fer- tilizer, according to its nitrogen, phos- phoric acid and potash content. This situation has been changed. Farmers are studying the scienti- fic feeding of crops and buying fertil- izers accordingly. As a result, manu- facturers are concentrating on the three essential plant foods, nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash, and this trend is likely to become more mark- ed as the farmers' knowledge of the scientific feeding of crops increases. The fact that the law requires fer- tilizers to be sold subject to an hon- est guaranteed analysis of the three essential plant foods has made it possible to buy suitable formula and analysis for the different crops and soils. • Why Does One City Prefer Larger Turnip To Another? Why does one city prefer a certain size of turnip while another prefers them smaller? Probably custom has a lot to do with it. In the United States New York and Pittsburgh are partial to them large, four to six inches in diameter. Boston likes her turnips medium, three to five inches, and Philadelphia, Cleveland and Bal- timore smaller still, three to four inches. Canadian turnips from Prince Edward Island and Ontario are the preferred choice as compared with the domestic article because of their fine flavor and appearance. Canadian turnips are purchased by hotels and restaurants and by the average housewife, while the domes- tic turnip is sold for the most part on local farm markets, or to factor- ies. New York and Boston - are the main consuming centres for Cana- dian turnips, those from Prince Ed- ward Island commanding the highest price in these markets. The Market for Ontario turnips is Chicago, Pitts- burgh and other interior points, be- ing snore accessible. Farmers' Handy . ti Account Book ' The Canadian farmer may be ab- solved from the accusation that in taking stock of hisfarm business at the present time he is only following. the often futile fashion of making good resolutions for the New Year. It just so happens that the season of the year when good resolutions are popularly supposed to have a special virtue coincides with that period of the year which affords the farmer the best opportunity for malting a de- tailed survey of his business, past and future. Today, farming is more of a busi- ness proposition than ever before, and the farmer who does not know the exact state of how he stands with re- ference to every item connected with the farm is at a disadvantage with the farmer who does. Somewhat more than a rough and toady method! is: necessary. A. record of each department of' the farm business should' be kept be- cause it is the only way of finding outwhich part of the farming pays' and which does not. To assist the farmer in this very important matter, the Dominion Department of Agricul- ture issues a very simple and useful little account book which may be ob"- tained from the King's Printer at a nominal price of 10` cent's: Ye special' knowledge of accounting is necessary Iand a record of transactions can of= ten he Shade inless• thane one lour' per week. READ TRE ADVERTISEMENTS IN' THE NEWS -RECORD IT WILL PAY YOU - FARMERS "DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD A Queer Apple Picking Crew- What rewWhat was described by President A. K. Lloyd of the British Columbia Fruit Growing Association as "one of the queerest picking crews he had ever seen" reported at his orchard near Kelowna to gather apples for the drought -stricken farmers o f southern Saskatchewan. The "crew,". all quite small, consisted of two little Japanese boys, one Chinese, one Hindu, two white boys and two girls, and was headed by a Boy Scout. The children picked 150 boxes of apples for the relief shipment. A Bronze Cast Of B. -P.'s Footprint The bronze east of a footprint of Lord Baden-Powell, Chief Scout of the World,' -was a gift of the Boy Scouts of Batavia, Java; to the Board of Education of that city. The gift was received on behalf of the board by Dr. De Kat Angeline, Di- rector of Education, and a strong sup- porter of Scouting in Java. The cast now occupies a place of honour in the meeting room of the Department of Education. The cast was made from, a "spoor" or impression left in the ground when the World Chief Scout visited Java in 1934. How A "Sentence" To Translate A Book Introduced Scouting Into Poland This story of the unique way in which Scouting came to Poland was told by a Polish -Canadian Scoutmas- ter, ' Frank Zapotoczny of Winni- peg, recently returned from a visit to his native land, "Some 20 years ago Sir Robert Baden-Powell," relates the Polish -Canadian Scouter, "met a Po- lish judge. Later he sent this learned man a copy of his book `Scouting for Boys' in English. The judge one day carried the book into court, by mis- take. Among those brought before hirer that day was a student. Discov- ering that the young man could speak English, the judge `sentenced' him to translate the English book into Po fish. The student carried out the 'penalty', and as a result, not only became greatly interested himself, but convinced a group of prominent. men of the value of this new boy movement, and the first Polish Boy Scout Troopwas organized, at Lwow. The movement spread •rapidly ,and today there are over 65,000 Boy' Scouts in Poland" "Scouting for Boys" by Lord Ba- den-Powell, the original Boy Scouts' textbook, has run through 24 editions In the English language, and is still the world's best boys' book seller. The picking of apples for Saskat- chewan families by Boy Scouts of Bri- tish Columbia had its counterpart in England this fall, when boys of Here- fordshire and. Worcestershire picked surplus apples for the people of the distressed areas of Wales. Another Big Woodcraft Camp For •English Scouts, To England's list of large camp sites available to Boy Scouts has been added 400 acres of beautifully wood- ed Ashdown Forest, known as Broad- stone Warren, the gift of the Manor Charitable Trust of Hackney, London, at a "peppercorn rent" of one shil- ling a year. The site, which is con- venient to London, will be opened next spring, as a national camping ground, for training boys and leaders in scoutcraft. During the past sum- mer, mn-mer• Great Towers Plantation, 240 acres on Lake Winderemere, was of- ficially opened by the Chief Scout. A Twice -Removed Handshake With Napoleon The Rt. Hon. Lord. Roche, P.C., dur- ing a recent visit to Boy Scout units in London's East End, told how as a lad he had given asked -for street di- rections to the driver of a fashion- able dogcart, and was thanked with a handshake, and the 'observation: "My boy, you can now say that you have ' shaken hands with a man who shook bands with Napoleon." It was Lord Tollemache, who had beenta midship— man ori H.M.S. Bellerophon when Na- poleon was taken by that warship. to St. Helena. "So," said Lord Roche,. after shaking Hands with some of the -. Scouts, "you can now say that you have shakenhands with a man vita shook hands with a roan who shook.,' hands with Napoleon." At 79 Baden-Powell Plans More, Travel Still . "young and very fit" at Lord Baden-Powell is planning a trip. to India, when he will visit the first: All -India Boy Scout Jamboree to be- held at Delhi, February 1st to 7th next. He will be accompanied by- the Chief Guide, Lady Baden-Powell.!, The quota of Canadian barley for' brewing and th.:• quota for all honey. exported to France have been in- creased by the French government.. For the current quarter of the year,. Canada obtains an additional 4,500, metric quintals of barley for brew- ing over and above the 2,250 metric quintals already accorded for that term. Canada will also share in the - increased quotas for honey both for jindustrial purposes and for direct- consumption. The usual 3,000 met- ric quintals -quota for industrial hon- ey for the last quarter of the year - has been doubled, and a new quota of 11,500 metric quintals of honey for di- -rect consumption has also been an- nounced. No previous quota was pro- vided for the latter, and both the - honey quotas relate to imports from. all countries. The continuous advance in the sales. of branded beef in Canada is exempli- Tied by the comparative figures for - the month of October for the past six years -October, 1931-1,305,252 lbs.;• 1932, 1,615,389 pounds; 1933, 2,310,.- 955 pounds; 1934, 2,840,634 pounds;-. 1935, 3,609,084 pounds, and 1931, 4, 157,423 pounds. Advertising is Good for Us! That dusty picture, of an optimist and a pessimist—the optimist seeing the doughnut and the pessimist the hole -is just a way of describing' most of us: some of us habitually look on the bright side of things; others of us on the dark side. Always there are those who have a melancholy pleasure in fault-finding. And so there are al- ways those who look upon advertising as an economic waste and a means by which the sale of inferior merchandise c an be promoted. It is quite possible to. discover wrong things about advertising just asit is possible to find wrong things about water and air, about books and speeches, about motor cars and aeroplanes, about schools and churches, about Canadians and Scotsmen, about knives and forks. Advertising is news and information, and who shall say that it is wrong to. communicate news and information? It would be a pret- ty dull world, full of dull people, if there ceased to be a dissemina- tion of news and information. In all ages and in all countries those giving out news and infor- mation have attracted to themselves attentive audiences; and this is as true today as it was 1000, 2000, 3000 years ago. What stores are busiest? Is it not those stores which give' out most information about what they have tot sell? The public is daily rpending money -probably $2 a day for every ,man, woman and child in the trading area covered by the circulation of our newspaper—or, say, $2000 for every 1000 persons. So you cancalculate for your- self—you, a retailer, what is spent daily in our own community for food and' shelter and clothing, and for all the other. things, - The Clinton -News4ecord, Gives the News of ,Clinton and Community --Read It