The Clinton News Record, 1937-02-11, Page 6'PAGE 6
THE CLINTON ` NEWS -RECORD
NEWS AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST TO
TimeIg Information for the
Busg Farmer
(Furnished by the Department of Agriculture)
A Valuable Booklet
Copies of the 1937 issue,of The Ag-
ricultural Situation and Outlook may
now be obtained from the Publicity
and Extension Branch, Dominion De-
partment of Agriculture, Ottawa,tfree
on request. This publication gives an
outline of the present situation of
Canadian Agriculture and the outlook
for the present year. Not only ,far-
mers but persons engaged in com-
merce and industry will find in this
publication much useful and valuable
information.
Broom Corn Production
The production of broom corn in
the Chatham and Norfolk districts of
western Ontario has rapidly become
plant for the district.
President Howard Quinn intimated
that the machinery will be operated
for the members of the association
under private ownership. Part of the
cost of installation, which will be a-
round the thousand dollar mark, will
be borne by. farmers of the district
who will take it out again by way of
seed cleaning.
The equipment, which will consist
of a power cleaner, scutcher, cleaner
and grader, will be used for prepar-
ing malting barley, different kinds of
clover and timothy and for the clean- 1
ing and grading of seed grain. I
Results of Litter Content
Results of Ontario's thirteenth ba-
con litter contest in eight years, and
a thriving industry. As the name the third since rail grading has come
implies this broom corn is produced -into force have recently been announc-
ed the manufacture of brooms and ed by homer Maybes, Senior Hog
brushes. There are 78 manufacturers' Grader, Dominion Live Stock Branch,
at Toronto. The litters in this com-
petition were farrowed in the spring
of 1936 and marketed in the fall.
There was a total entry of 129 lit -
western Ontario, all the broom corn ters scattered throughout the pro -
used was imported from the United vince out of which '72 litters complet-
States and lesser quantities from ed and qualified. These were divided
as equally as possible into three dis-
tricts with 14 prize winners in each
district.
This was the third competition
where the scoring was done on the
of these articles in Canada and they
use about 5,000,000 pounds of broom
corn raw material annually.
Until production was started in
Hungary, Argentine, and other coun-
tries.
The 1936 crop in Southern Ontario
approximated 1,000,000 pounds from
2,000 acres. A large part of this is
of medium to high quality and should' basis of dressed weight and grade,
therefore, be in good demand by Can-
adian manufacturers in replacing the
broom corn of foreign production.
Pack Eggs Big End Up
Eggs, especially those to be shipped
for hatching, should be packed snugly
with the large end up as hatching
eggs are less likely to be broken
when in this position than if they are
packed with the small end up. Each
normal egg has an air cell' at the
large end and it is necessary that the
membrane separating the inner por-
tion of the egg from the shell mem-
brane be neither broken nor shaken
loose.
Research has shown that eggs with
tremulous air cells hatched only two-
thirds as well as the eggs which had
normal air cells. Packing the eggs
with the large end up removes the
pressures from the inner membrane.
The egg case should never be placed
on the bumper of an automobile, as
the vibration at this point is possibly
greater than on the floor inside the
ear. If the hatching eggs are hauled
in a wagon or truck the bed should
be matted with straw, .which serves
as a shock absorber. •
Ontario Seed Board
Creation of an Ontario seed board
and appointment of members to it
has been announced by Hon. Duncan
Marshall, Minister of Agriculture,
Nine farmer representatives, five
Government and three hien represent-
ing wholesalers and seedmen are on
the board.
"The board will advise the Depart-
ment in connection with all problems
of seed growing and seed marketing,
particularly the preblem of securing
markets for the smaller growers of
registered seed," said Mr. Manehall.
"It will endeavor to work out an effi-
cient system for more complete dis-
tribution of good, clean, seed, true to
variety."
W. G. G. Nixon, M.L.A., New Lis-
keard, will represent Northern On-
tario farmers for the present, one or
two farmers from the" North will be
added 1 ater. Mr. Marshall said a
committee from the Ontario Field
Crop and Growers' Association waited
on him asking the appointment of a
seed board.
Time to Consider Seed Requirements
At the commencement of the new
yearfarmers' should estimate their
seed requirements and investigate
sources of supply. Those with suffi-
cient supply of home produced seed
should clean and grade it carefully,
so as to sow the fewest possible of
weed seeds and small seeds which
would produce only weak plants. Re-
cords since the dawn' of civilization
prove the truth of the adage: "We
reap what we sow." Good crops can-
not be grown without good seed.
There is an abundance of timothy
and alsike seed this year in Canada
and the supply of domestic, red clov-
er, alfalfa and sweet clover is low
and should be obtained as early as
possible. Seed grain is in good sup-
ply for 1937 seeding except in the
rought areas of Western Canada and
in Eastern Quebec, where seed will
need to be shipped in before spring.
New Seed -Cleaning Plant
Arrangements have been made by
the Peterborough Seed Growers' As-
sociation to establish a seed cleaning tai Farm, Ottawa. .
and this time the score for weight
was made directly on the carcass
weight without first bringing i t
back to live weight. It is believed that
producers are now well enough in-
formed to think of market hogs in
terms of dressed weight.
The summary of the 42 prize-win-
ning litters showed the youngest ave-
rage age yet obtained and the larg-
est size of litter. The average
weight per pig was equivalent to 205.6
lbs. live weight which was down a lit -
Ile and the quality was high.
The honor of producing the best
litter in this competition went to
Geo. Lannin & Sons, Dublin, who won
first prize in District. Fifteen pigs
were marketed at 175 days of age
weighting 2321 lbs. dressed and grad-
ing 10 A's. This litter was from a
Yorkshire sow and boar, the latter
having strong Advanced 'Registry
backing. A few of the carcasses were
a bit short and the shoulder fat on
some was a little too thick—otherwise
it was a splendid litter. The feed us-
ed was 6200 lbs, oats and barley chop
and 6000 lbs. skim milk together with
half ton commercial concentrate which
was the' only feed purchased.
Selecting Potatoes
For 1Seed Purposea
All growers of seed, whether it be
seed grain, vegetable seed, or any
other kind of seed, should endeavour
to produce seed of superior quality
by starting with the most suitable
varieties and strains, and selecting
the very best seed for their own
plantings. In the production of seed
potatoes, there is much room for im-
provement,and all to frequently
bruised, damaged, small off-type,or
otherwise inferior Left -over potatoes
are, planted, particularly if prices
have been `alluring. Actual selection
of superior strains of potatoes , is
apparently not receiving the attention
that is so fundamental to success,
and yet the seed potato growers may
be . producers of really high ;quality
cattle and other livestock, and would
not for a moment think of using the
same tactics in their breeding pro-
gram. Why then, not apply similar
care and principals to the production
of high quality seed potatoes.
The Seed Potato Certification Ser-
vice hasbeen advocating such a sys-
tem for many years with varying
success. It is true, that diseases
have been controlled, or methods for
their control practised, but that is.
not the whole story. An effort
should be made by every seed potato
grower, through selection, to produce
stock, which in addition to being more
orless free from serious diseases, is
also apparently disease resistant.
Good seed should be true to type,
high yielding, and of good appear-
ance. That, is to say, tuber shape,
colour of skin and eye characters
should all be considered and an ef-
fort made to cull any not conforming
to a certain set standard of excel-
lence. In other words, seed selection.
The tuber unit method of planting,
of which much has been written, is
one big step leading toward such an
end and growers would be well ad-
vised to practise every means by
which the quality of seed may be im-
proved. Such practices are becom-
ing more and more general in face
of modern competition; For further:
information, the nearest Plant Path-
ologist should be consulted, or the
Seed Potato Certification Service, Di-
vision of Botany, Central Experimen-
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You may shave seen something in
the newspapers recently about get-
ting up in the morning. One man
said that one should not get out of
bed for at least 20 minutes after
waking. What he said provided mer-
riment for many.
Perhaps, in my own case, I do not
rise until at least 20 .minutes after I
waken. I find myself waking about
5.30 a.m., and my rising in the win-
ter is 6.15, which is. 45 minutes after
P waken. But a city man who gets
up at 6,15, not because of necessity,
but because he likes to get up early,
pats himself on the back.
It was shortly after S read about
this bit of advice, namely, get up 20
minutes after you waken, that I
found a chapter in an essay by Char-
les Lamb, born 150 years ago, dealing
with this matter of rising. Lamb says
that a popular fallacy is to rise with
the lark, and he goes on to say as
follows:
At what precise minute that little
airy musician doffs his night gear
and prepares•to tune up his unseason-
able mating, we are not naturalists
enough to determine. But for a mere
human gentleman that has no orches-
tra business to call him from his
warm bed to such preposterous exer-
cise, we take 10 a.m, or 10.30, or even
11 a.m., to be the very earliest hour
at which he can begin to think of
abandoning his pillow. To think of
it, we say. For to do it in earnest.re-
quires another half-hour's good con-
sideration.
We are no longer ambitious to be
the sun's courtiers, to attend at his
morning levees. We hold the good
hours of the dawn too sacred to waste
them on such observances. To say
truth, we nevergot un with the sun
but we suffered for it all the long
hours after in listlessness and head-
aches.
We deny not that there is some-
thing sprightly and vigorous -at the
outset especially—in these break -of -
day excursions. It is flattering to
get the start of a lazy world—to con-
quer death by proxy in his image.
But the seeds of sleep and mortality
are in us. Therefore, when the busy
part of mankind are fast huddling on
their clothes, or are already up and
about their occupations, we choose to
linger a -bed and digest our dreams.
It is the very time to recombine the
wandering images which night pre-
sented in a confused mass; to snatch
them from forgetfulness; to shape
and mould them. We love to chew
the cud of a foregone vision; to col-
lect the scattered rays of a brighter
phantom; or act over again, with
firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal,
tragedies; to, drag into daylight a
struggling and half vanished night-
mare.
Lamb, when he wrote the above
nonsense for Lamb delights to am-
use himself and others with a sort of
foolery—was a superannuated man—
a man in receipt of a handsome pen-
sion. Also, it was—or had been—his
habit to stay up very late gossiping
with boon companions, smoking and
drinking. So it is not to be wondered
at that he liked getting up about mid-
day. "We choose: to dally with vis-
ions", he says, and he closes this sec-
tion of his essay with these words:
"The sun has no purposes of ours to
light us to. Why should we get up?"
Then, in the next section of his es-
say on Popular Fallacies, Lamb
deals with the fallacy of lying down
with the lamb—going to sleep at sun-
down.
"We could never quite understand
the philosophy of this arrangement,"
he says, "or the wisdom of our ances-
tors in sending us for instruction to
these woolly bed -fellows. A sheep,
when it is dark, has nothing to do but
to shut his silly eyes, and sleep if he
can," And Lamb continues:
•
Hail, candlelight; without dispar-
agement to sun or moon. We love
to read, talk, sit silent, eat, drink,
sleep, by candlelight. They are ev-
erybody's sun and moon. Wanting
candlelight, what savage, unsocial
nights must our ancestors . have
spent, wintering in caves and unil-
lumined -fastnesses! They must
have lain about and grumbled at
one another in the dark. What re-
partees could have passed,' when
you must have felt about for a
smile and handled a neighbor's
cheek to be sure that he understood
it? Jokes came in with candles.
How did they sup? Can you tell
pork from veal in the dark?
Take away the candle from the
smoking man. By the glimmering
of the left ashes he knows that he
is still smoking, but he knows it
only by an inference, till the restor-
ed light reveals to the senses of
both sight and smell, the full ar-
oma. Then how he redoubles his
puffs!
There is absolutely no such thing
as reading but by a candle. We
have tried the affectation of a book
at noon -day in gardens, and in sul-
try arbours;, but was labour
thrown away. By the midnight
taper the writer digests his medi-
tations. No truepoem ever owed
its birth to the suss light. Night
and silence call out the starry fan-
cies. Milton's Morning Hymn in
Paradise, we would hold a good wa-
ger, was penned at. midnight.
All this is good advertising for
candles! But what would Lamb have
said about our modern electric lights
had he done his writing in their bril-
liance? I Certainly, he is not recom-
mending that one should retire when
sheep do.
Lamb was never , an enthusiastic
worker for pay. For a time he con-
tributed jokes to . newspapers. Con-
cerning this period he says:
The only time we could spare for
this manufactory of jokes was ex-
actly that part of the day which
may be fitly denominated No Man's
Time; that is, no time in which a
man ought to be up and awake in.
To speak more plainly, it is that
time of an hour or an hour and a
half's duration in which a man has
to wait for his breakfast. Oh, those
headaches at the dawn of day, when
at five or half -past five in summer,
and not much later in dark seasons,
we were compelled to rise, having
been perhaps not above four hours
in bed! To have to get up; to be
necessitated to rouse ourselves at
the detestable rap of an old hag of
a domestic who "seemed to take a
diabolical pleasure in the announce-
ment that it "was time to rise,"
and whose choppy knuckles we of-
ten yearned to amputate and string
them up at our chamber door, to be
a terror to all such unseasonable
rest -breakers in future
Perhaps some readers of The News -
Record may sympathize with Charles
Lamb—the man who liked to lie a -bed
mornings — preferably until t e ii
o'clock, and later.
Yet the world is a large debtor to
this lazybones and to his candlelight
occupation—writing. If you want a
good bedside book—if you have a
leisurely nature and can enjoy humor
masked to look serous, then have
Lamb's letters and his Essays of Elia
always on your table.
DOINGS IN THE SCOUT
WORLD
A party of Sea Scouts of Cochin
China hiked over the Travancore Hills
from Munnar to Kodaikanal, th ou-
gh virgin forest.
The new Viceroy of India, the Mar-
quis of Linlithgow, like his predec-
essor, Earl Willingdon, has become
Chief Scout for India.
Scout Colonies for Ceylon
A Scout Colony at Kalutala, Ceylon
an estate of 50 acres established in
1931 for training boys in agriculture
through Scouting methods, has met
with such success that it is proposed
to establish four additional such col-
onies on Crown land, instead of a
projected Borstal institution.
Many Scout First Aiders
During 1936, 1,416 Canadian Boy
Scouts passed the exacting first aid
tests required as qualification for the
Ambulance Man's Proficiency Badge.
In the six years since 1930 7,506
Scouts qualified for the badge. In
addition, many thousands passed the
first aid tests required of Second
Star Wolf Scouts and Second Class
Scouts;
The Australian Scout Corroboree
Some 4,000 Boy Scouts from all
parts of Australia„ and contingents
from New Zealand, South Africa,
Rhodesia, Japan and the United
States, took part in the "Corroboree"
December 26—January 4 which com-
prised the Scout celebration of South
Australia's centenary. The chief
scout, Lord Baden-Powell, was rep-
resented, by the Deputy Chief Comm-
issioner, Sir Percy Everett.
The Newish of Chatari is Chief Co-
mmissioner of the Boy Scouts of
India..
A Canadian Scout Bridge Saves
Indian Lives
More than 30 years ago a bridge
over a rocky stream at Palampur,
Northern India, was destroyed by an
earthquake, and not rebuilt. During
the rainy season it became a danger-
ous torrent, and could be crossed only
by fording, or many miles of detour.
Each year a number of travelers lost
their lives in attempting the crossing.
Two years' ago a troop of Boy Scouts
of the lanadian Anglican Mission
School at Palampur under Rev. G.
Guiton, a former Montreal Scout-
master, built a stout four -span bridge
THURS., FEB. 11, 1937
FARMERS
WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING
ON THE HIGHWAYS
We believe it would be better to
increase the speed limit to 45 miles an
hour and enforce the law than to leave
it at 35 miles with so many drivers
feeling they need, pay no 'attention to
it.—St. Catharines Standard.
CURE IS SIMPLE, BUT DRASTIC
Agnes Macphail was enthusiastic
in the Ottawa House the other day
over Premier King's confession of
what he thoughtof world conferences.
She showed signs of being fedup
across the stream, since when the
road has been constantly open and
not a life has been lost.
.Sea Scouts Get Coast Guard Boats
The U, S. Coast Guard station at
Boston has handed over two patrol
boats to Boston Sea Scouts, for use
in Scout training. The transfer was
made possible by a special act of Con-
gress.
Ten Ship, Loads of Boy Scouts
Ten ,ships will have to be charter-
ed to accommodate the Scouts of Eng-
land, Scotland, Wales and Ireland who
have applied for places in the British
Empire Contingent to the World Scout
Jamboree in Holland this summer.
A Two Hours' Rescue Swim
A two hours' swim through a
heavy sea, to bring help for three
companions in a swamped boat in
Brisbane harbour, earned the award
of the Silver Cross for Rover Sea
Scout Douglas Patrick, 19, of the
Gladstone Rover Sea Scout Crew of
Brisbane. The medal was presented
by his Excellency Lord Gowrie, Chief
Scout for Australia. One of the Scout
was lost, the remaining two being
saved.
Find a Baby Girl Asleep in a
Snowbank.
The finding of a three year old
girl lost six hours, and finally lo-
cated after nightful asleep in a
snowbank in a cemetery, was credited
to Stratford, Ont., Boy Scouts. "Had
it not been for these fine boys, and
the way they went to work on this
case," said Chief of Police Beattie,
"it is doubtful if the child would have
been found alive." The little girl re-
covered after a brief time in the hos-
pital.
Youth At The Cross Roads
It is not generally realised that
boys of the Empire are full of enthus-
iasm and spirit, and only want their
heads to be turned the right way, to
become good useful citizens. Much
of this splendid material is being al-
lowed to run to waste—nay, worse
than that, it is allowed to become
harmful, siniply for want of educa-
tion, for want of a hand to guide the
lads at the crisis of their lives, when
they are at the crossroads where
their futures branch off for good or
for evil. -Lord Baden-Powell.
with European diplomacy and resent-
ful of the idea that all the conferences
have to be over there. Let them conte
over to America she said in effect.
For one thing, she observed, there was
the odd chance that, on the trip, the
ship might sink, adding that "This
would be a nice quiet way of getting
rid of a lot of trouble.
—Zurich Herald.
FAVOURED PEOPLE
Storms at sea, floods and icy winds
in Europe. A mostserious flood con-
dition in the' United States. Huron
County fine .weather, slippery roads
our only bug bear. We must be a
favored people.
gingham Advance -Times.
APPEARANCES DECEIVE
"Never judge a person by his out-
side appearance," says a contempor-
ary. "A shabby old coat may enwrap
a newspaper publisher, while a man
wearing a plug hat and sporting a
gold headed cane may be a delinquent
subscriber: Goderich Signal.
LATE DR. McQUIBBAN, M.L.A.
The Legislature once more has a va-
cant chair as result of the sudden pas-
sing of Dr. George A. McQuibban,
member for North Wellington, taken
fatally ill after being in his place as
recently as last Thursday. A native
of this eounty, and only 50 years of
age, he had served his constituency
and the province since 1926, and stood
high in the personal regard of mem-
bers generally.
Dr. McQuibban led the Liberal
group in the House for a time, and
Was one of its outstanding campaign-
ers in recent elections. At Paris, in
company with Hon. IL C. Nixon, he
launched the Hydro charges which
have had so many repercussions of
late. To the power situation he had
given more study, apparently, than,.
any other private member of the,:
House. Conscientious in representation
of his constituents' views, he did not
hesitate to step out of party align-
ment on the separate school tax Legis-
lation, and he was one of those who
consistently opposed the beer and wine
amendments to the Liquor Control
Act. It was a tribute to his eincer- .
Ity of purpose that his course in, these
matters in no way detracted from the,
respect in which he was held, on
ther side of the House.
A country doctor at Alma, he prow-•
eel an able debater and legislator in.,
the provincial field, and undoubtedly
would have achieved much had he.
been spared. His hobby was horses,_.
in connection with which many inter-
•eating stories appeared in the press.-
Only
ress.Only last August, as we recall, he
was at Woodstock fair with harnessn
horses.
Many friends throughout the pro-
vince will deeply regret the sudden.
termination of a most promising ca-
reer.—Woodstock Sentinel -Review,
The year 1936 was the fourth in,,
succession in which the Canadian.:
wheat crop has been estimated at
less than 300 million bushels. The
1986 wheat crop is now estimated at
229,218,000 bushels from 25,289,009
acres -the smallest crop since 1919.
The 1935' crop was 281,935,000 bush-
els; the 1934 crop, 275,849,000 bushels
and the 1933 crop, 281,892,000 bush-
els.
To encourage farmers to grow
more wheat, the Department of Agri-
culture of the Irish Free State has
announced a government guarantee
to farmers of 26s. 6d. ($6.36) per
barrel of 280 lb. for the home growths
wheat crop of 1937-38 as against 23s..
6d ($5.64) for the 1936-37 crop.
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