The Clinton News Record, 1937-02-18, Page 6!AGE 6
HE `;CLINTON NEWS -RECORD;.
THURSb, FEB, 18, 1937'
AND
Timely Information for the
Busy Farmer
Furnished by the Department of Agriculture)
The number of hogs graded in Can-
ada during 1936 was 3,745,498 as a-
gainst 2,969,311 in 1935, an increase
of 776,187. The details of the 1936
hog grading are—by carcass, 447,507;
alive at stockyards, 1,171,844, and a-
live at packing plants, 2,126,147.
The year 1936 was the fourth in
succession in which the Canadian
wheat crop has been estimated at less
than 300 million bushels. The 1936
•,wheat crop is now estimated at 229,-
218,000
29;218,000 bushels from 25,289,000 acres
—the smallest crop since 1919. The
1935 crop was 281,935,000 bushels;
the 1934 crop, 275,849,000 bushels;
and the 1933 crop, 281,892,000 bushels.
The Poultry Market
Prices of poultry in the Canadian
domestic market in 1936 'were lower
than in 1935The poultry crop of
1935 was marketed by producers at
prices which represented a substan-
tial increase over those of the years
immediately preceding. Subsequent
developments proved that the farm
selling price of this poultry was too
great in relation to the domestic or
to the export market prices. This
experience showed that there is a
price limit for poultry, in compari-
son with the relative prices of other
Meats, beyond which the consumper
will not give active support to the
market.
There is every reason to expect a
satisfactory movement of the 1936
poultry crop both- in Canada and in
export trade. This should have a
strengthening influence on the situ-
ation during the marketing season of
1937, although an early return to the
prices which prevailed in 1935 is not
normally to be expected. The can-
ning of poultry meats in Eastern
Canada has increased considerably
in recent years through the develop-
ment of an export trade in this pro-
duct.
Sugar Beet Production
. With the run of sugar beets for
1936 completed the Canada and Do-
minion Sugar Company of Chatham
hand Wallaceburg, Ont., have an-
nounced that more than 350,000 tons
of beets have been handled. Farmers
of Kent county and districts farther
away have been paid approximately
$2,000,000, and 80,000,000 lbs. of
granulated sugar has been made.
Yield of sugar beets per acre was
above the average over the entire
growing territory, but, according to
officials, the crop was not as rich in
sugar as is usual. With the price
of sugar still practically at an all-
time low level, price paid to farmers
for the beets has shown no upward
trend as yet, but this year the beet
growers received about $5.60 per ton
for his product.
The future outlook of beet prices
show no encouraging signs, say offi-
cials of the company. The large
world surplus of sugar, which had
been cut down somewhat since 1933
will be increased again by the com-
ing world crop, they say.
Current Reports
Bruce County reports plenty of hay
on hand, but grain very scarce in
some cases. In Grey County a can-
vass has been conducted, with 95%
of the farmers favouring a restricted
T.B. area for the county. Farmers
in Halton are finding it necessary to
buy seed grain outside the county.
Perth farmers have a good supply of
hay, but are obliged to buy grains.
Many stockmen there find that last
year's grains do not seem to satisfy
the animals. Perth also reports that
as a result of the reforestation and
conservation campaign, the number
of applications for trees from the
orestry Branch is much greater than
usual at this time of year, while the
schools of Perth County are acting as
centres for distribution of trees for
planting this spring. Cream and
milk production is being maintained
beyond expectations in Haldimand
County. Farmers in. Lambton are
not inclined to sell their cattle at this
time. Seed oats there are finding a
ready sale, with the majority of far-
mers asking $1.00 per bushel. : Ox-
ford reports a good deal of small
seed being offered locally and the re-
cent price of red clover was 23'16
a pound. Potato prices in Wentworth
have been advancing gradually, sel-
ling at $1.90 to $1.95 per bag on the
local market.
O.A.C. College. Royal
On March 3rd, the live stock of the
Ontario Agricultural College will be
on parade as a part of the Thirteenth.
Annual College Royal Show. More
than two hundred animals of the Col-
lege herds and flocks have been as -
Signed to individual students. These
Will be .ander the care of the Stu -
dents until the time of the show when
they will be exhibited in the live
stock pavilion. The student is judged
on the basis of showrnanship•and the
improvements in the animal assigned
to his care. This is an -important day
in the history of the College add
gives an opportunity for the students
to display their ability in the hand-
ling of live stock.
In the gymnasium will be staged a
large number of educational exhibits
by the various student societies and
groups. Here again will be a spirited
contest on the part of the students
on the basis of display and showman-
ship. Classes for exhibits of bread,
cakes, different articles of clothing,
grains, potatoes, fruit; photographs,
art and handicraft work are provided.
The purpose of the show is to
bring out phases of College teaching
in a practical way and to promote
interest among the students in live
stock, grains fruits,
home
economics and educationa ldisplays.
Friends of the College are invited
to attend the College Royal which is
under the leadership of a group of
students headed by N. J. Denholm,
F. J. Archibald, W. A. McGall and
B. S: Beer.
Plowmen's Meeting
Directors of the Ontario Plowmen's
Association, meeting last week in
Toronto, elected J. W. MacRae, Loch-
iei, Glengarry County, as 1937 Pre-
sident, and selected Wellington Coun-
ty as the scene of the annual inter-
national snatch.
' The meeting was the best in the
history of the association, with far-
mers from all parts of the Province
1 attending it. Officers choosing the
!site of the annual snatch were elected
by directors named at the annual
meeting.
The match will centre at Fergus
from the Beatty farm and extend ov=
er an area of 2,500 acres toward El-
ora, with Guelph as the nearest city,
fourteen miles away. Several other
bids for the contest were made to the
association.
William Newman, M. L. A. Lorne-
ville, suggested the plowing snatch
might be terminated at 4 o'clock in
the afternoon, and that the horses
taking part should be shown on ex-
hibition after the contest.
Mr. Newman also believed that the
annual plowing contest might be en-
livened by a tug-of-war between two
horses and eight men. He claimed
that eight men on one side could de-
feat two horses on the other side.
Other officers elected were: Vice -
Presidents, William Newman, Lorne-
ville, and L. H. Hanlan, Kapuskasing.
Directors: W. C. Barrie, Galt; Neil
Calder, Holstein; J. J. Duffus, Peter-
borough; E. G. Fuller, London; D. D.
Gray, Ottawa; W. D. Lindsay, Hag-
ersville; George B. Little, Agincourt;
Alex. McKinney, Brampton; James
McLean, Richmond Hill; Elliot Moses,
Ohsweken; G. V. Robinson„ Dresden,
and J. J. Tierney, Brockville.
What Is Wrong With My
Fruit Trees?
(Experimental Farms Note)
This is a question very frequently
asked when trees bear no crops or
only very small ones. We could per-
haps equally concern ourselves as to
why fruit trees do fruit, but answer-
ing why they do not is the more prac-
tical' reply, With unfruitful trees we
have essentially two sets ,of condi-
tions, those which blossom and don't
fruit and those which don't even blos-
som. Most of the common varieties
of apples, pears and plums are partly
self -sterile and for their best per -
1 formance require another variety to'
be planted close by so that both kinds
will be worked by bees when the trees'
are in blossom. The bees carry the
pollen from tree to tree and better,
crops result. In orchards a polliniz-
ing variety. of every third tree in ev-
ery third row is the usual recommen-1
dation. Under home gardening condi-
tions when additional trees cannot be
planted to assure better pollinizing
the most satisfactory thing to do is
to graft another variety on to the
trees which are already planted.
Plum trees are chiefly of two gen-
eral kinds, European and Japanese.
-Better fruit crops are obtained with
each when a variety belonging to that
group is planted, rather than depend-
ing on a Japanese variety to act as a
pollinzer for a European kind.,Italian
prunes are self -fertile and are satis-
factory when planted in large blocks
by themselves. Bing, Lambert and
Royal Ann cherries give the best ex -
!ample of self and inter-stirility and
none of these kinds are satisfactory
when planted, alone or together. The
Deacon is the best pollinizer for these
varieties. Dull, cold . and wet weath-
er during the blossom period will
lower the set of fruit, and some va-
rieties of plums are so severely at-
tacked by brown rot in the blossom
YOUR WORLD AND MINE r.
by JOHN C. KIZKWOOD .~i..
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From an employer has come to me rthere are plenty of men of the quality
a letter telling me about his diffi- desired' by this employer - just as
may in finding a man able to do a
particular kind of Work. I' do not
know what salary would be paid the
right man, but it would not be less
than $500 a month. From this letter
I quote as follows:
I want a man who can glory in
his achievements, who is willing to
stake his ability against the ques-
tion of earning power, who knows
he can make good and is willing to
prove it.
But where, oh where, are the
men of yesteryear gone? They say
that there are no opportunities in
the world today for men, and I can
say that there are not men to fill
the opportunities. There are not
sufficient men with strong charac-
ters, analytical minds and gump-
tion to fill the jobs with tremen-
dous possibilities that are going
begging.
We have been looking for a man
have six months. We 1 e had lit-
erally hundreds of applicants, but
how terrible they have. been! Men
who have been 'spoiled with a col-
lege education; men who have mar-
ried weak-minded social climbers;
men who have been pitchforked in-'
to positions which they. now hold
by influential fathers or relatives;
men who are willing to sell out
their present employer for an ex-
tra $250, $500 or $1000 a year.
But men who realize that what
they get they must earn; that
there are only 100 cents in every
dollar; that any further stretching
of a dollar means that someone is
being cheated and that someone
else must pay for it... Where are
they? What in the name of all that
is sweet and good and progressive
is becoming of this great old world
of ours?
Where, oh where, are there some
men who have the same kind of
faults that every natural human
being has, but who expect to work
for what they earn rather than
have the boss work for them?
This employer writes rather bit-
terly. Presumably he has felt him-
self to have been badly cheated by
men whom he tried out—in whom he
had placed the trust which they in-
vited him to place in them.
It should be very interesting to
young amen who read this contribution
to The News -Record to know more
particularly or precisely some of the
qualifications required in The man
who will get and fill and hold the
vacant position. They are, condens-
ed, as follows:
Willingness to work hard; an en-
thusiast; readiness to forget time
and golf and pink teas and dances
and such distracting and enervating
employments; one who thinks first
of achievement — of doing a fine
job — this ahead of money; a man
who can stand alone—who does not
need the broad back of relatives
or family connections; a man who
can take the job to be done by the
throat and squeeze and shake it
until he is 'nester; who does not
believe that the world owes him a
living; who is trustworthy; who
realizes that the seen whom he
wants to employ hiss sweated blood
and added years to their lives to
make the business which is attrac-
tive to the man wanting to be em-
ployed by it; a man who if sent to
a city away from the house office
will not try to have his breakfast
in bed, who will be on the job as
early in the morning as he would
if he were at the home office, and
who will not fourflush withwine
and women, thereby cheating- him-
self, his firm and his customers; a
man who has not been spoiled by
parental or influential connections;
who is not an egotist or a leaner.
Speaking for myself, I believe that
stage that no crop results. When
there is a lack of complete' pollinizing
fruit will often form but falls before
it is mature.
When trees bear no bloom or only
a very small amount, it may gener-
ally be accepted that something is
wrong with nutrition. In apples and
pears large amounts of new growth
in very woody trees tend to reduce
the number of fruiting spurs and
may indicate, amongst other things„
that there is too much nitrogen pre-
sent. Trees of this kind are some-
times found in poultry yards. » Eight
to twelve inches of new growth on
old. trees is what should be aimed fon
Plum and cherry trees bear the.larg-
est portion of their crops on younger
wood than do apples and pears, con-
sequently a larger amount of new
growth is desirable. Particularly is
too limited growth with these kinds
the most likely cause of lack of fruit-
fulness.
There may be a variety of things'
wrong with a fruit tree, but in plant=
ing. and after care, provision shoul'd,
be made for pollinizing and suitable,
growing conditions according to tlser
age and kind of; trees: cultivated:•
there are plenty of .men who are
slackers and worse. This employer.
has sought rather perfect men, and
Probably his disappointments have
embittered him, and have made him
over -exacting. Just the same, i t
should be most instructive to young
men seeking work or promotion to
have this insight into an employer's.
mind and requirements.
It is probably true that the de-
pression period, which put so many
men out of employment and prevent-
ed many from getting employment
suited to their preparation and am-
bitions, tended to make many a good
man a slacker. It is hard to maintain
one's highest standards and levels
when one is workless; yet one's duty
to himself and to others is to be his
best — in character and ability —
through both bad and good times.
Employers themselves are not per-
fect people. Quite often they are
harsh, unjust; unkind, demanding an
excessive amount of labour from em-
ployees without right compensation;
and when a young man finds himself
working for an employer who does-
n't give him a square deal, it is not
to be wondered at if he becomes em-
bittered and disinclined to do his best
and utmost.
Of course, an unhappy, exploited
employee can always quit his job, but
to this may be an error of judgment:
one's circumstances may be so pre-
carious as to make it a financial and
a domestic disaster to go out of em-
ployment into unemployment. Yet
one can — and should — be preparing
oneself variously for a new job of
happier hort.
Job -finding is almost a business in
itself. There is a right way to seek
work, and there is a wrong way. The
wrong way is to go about asking,
"Have you a vacancy?". The almost
inevitable answer to this question is
Require License To
' Export Live Poultry),
Under an order of the British Min-
istry of Agriculture and Fisheries,
which becomes effective on February
15, 1937, the landing in Great Britain
of live poultry and hatching eggsy
from all countries, excepting North-
ern Ireland,. the Channel Islands, and
the Isle of Man, is prohibited, unless
the exporter has a license issued by
the British Ministry.
The order prohibits the importation
into Great Britain of domestic fowls,
turkeys, geese, two-day old chicks of
domestic fowls and eggs of domestic
"No". The right way is to present
proposals calculated to make the one
being canvassed for employment rich-
-I have seen hundreds upon hun-
dreds of letters from men seeking em=
ployment, and most letters are very,
very bad. Most applicants for work
want to tell first thing all about
themselves -- which is wrong, of
course. Employers are not interest-
ed in the autobiographies of appli-
cants for work. Their interest is in
their own business. They want to
know how applicants for work can
make them richer—not about appli-
cants' age, their schooling, and so on.
The right idea is: let the work -seeker
start off bysaying say ng what he can do,
or how he can be a profit -producer;
or let him say with some precision
how he could be valuable. On a sep-
arate sheet—or sheets — he can set
forth such personal particulars as
he wants to communicate—about his
education, his experience, his refer-
ence, ets. But his main letter should
be a good sales letter—a presenta-
tion of himself in terms of his values
to the one whom he wishes to employ
him.
To hold a position and to advance
to higher levels of work and pay one
must have a sound character, and
must himself be pushing himself for-
ward. Also, one should be preparing
himself purposely in ability to do
higher -grade work. Unless one has
more to sell, one cannot expect a
Larger wage or salary.
fowls intended for hatching. All
shipments affected by the order must
also be accompanied by a certificate
issued by a veterinary employed by
the national government of the ex-
porting country, stating that, the
birds, and in the case of hatching
eggs, the birds that laid the eggs, are
free from the several diseases speci-
fied in the order and have been free
from the diseases for at least six
months prior to the date of shipment
and that all the other several require-
ments of the order have been met.
This order will not affect Canada
very seriously as shipments of live
poultry or hatching eggs made from
the Dominion to Great Britain are
very small. In 1935 only 24 live
birds were exported and in 1933 the
number was 33. These shipments
were for breeding purposes, and no
hatching eggs were shipped,
Further information: concerning -
this order can be obtained from the
Veterinary Director General, Domin-
ion .Department of Agriculture, Ot—
tawa.
A ,
corpulent teacher was giving a:
lesson on a canary to a class of small
children.
Teacher: "Can any boy, tell me
what a canary can do and I can't?".
Sharp boy: "Please, miss, have a
bath in a saucer."
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