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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1937-12-16, Page 8Sease;smse.e.segeeseaSsamelbess*, • Timely Information for the ausg Fanner , (Furnished by the Department of Agrieuiture) a Don't Want rat Hogs It is particularly difficult in these days of lots of feed and low prices tt, get farmers to realize that the market does not want a fat hog, at least not a hog of the fatted type, so popular a decade or so ago. The hog ,that takes the premium today is the elect babon type, which is, corn are: tively speaking, a lean hog weighing 180 to 220 pounds off cars at stock yards. Such hogs have a jowl and • shoulder light and smooth, a back from neck to tail, evenly fleshed, a side long dropping straight from the back, a belly showing thickness of fleshing, a flank well let down and firm, a ham full, and a good general finish with no excess fat. The best way to -understand the type of hog that gets the dollar premium is to visit a stockyard or abattoir or grading station where hog grading is being done and see for yourself the type of hog that nets the dollar premium for the producer. , Seed Crop Report Eastern, Northern and Central Ontario • Demand: There is a good demand for domestic red clover, timothy and sweet clover is rather poor. Supply: Red Clover -200,000 pounds plus a carryover of 75,000 pounds. • Alsike—Only a few scattered lots left as the crop was poor. Alfalfa— Only a few scattered lots left. Sweet clover -225,000 ponds plus a carry- over of 33,000 pounds. Timothy — 1,900,000 pounds plus a carryover of 975,000 Pounds. Timothy and alsike mixtures -50,000 pounds plus a car- ryover of 50,000 pounds, Prices: Alfalfa—Fair quantities are selling at the following prices: 26 to 28c per pound for grade 1 and 16 to 21c when in the rough. Alsike-25c Selling the Products from The Farm Woedlot Reports by Counties Halton County reports fall wheat going into winter with a, very light top. In Huron County. the 'volume of poultry being marketed is 15 to 25% lighter than last year, but qual- ity is well up to a,verage, The acre - Age of fan wheat is down somewhat in Brant, with very little top. Lincoln reporte a good • demand for dressed poultry, as well as live poultry, espec- ially well -fleshed young cockerels. In Middlesex the demand for butcher cat- tle has been •practically at a stand- still as many drovers took substan- tial losses on cattle bought in Novem- ber. Wheat has been selling there at 95c a bushel, oats and 'mixed grains at $L20 per cwt., barley at 55 to 65c per bushel. In Peterborough County the acreage of fall wheat has increas- ed about 15% and while there are a number of very fine stands, the ma- jority of fields do not show...the usual amount of top. In Frontenac surplus stock is gradually being marketed and prices are lower as a consequence market hogs there being about s7.00 per cwt., and dry ranch cows from .30 to $40. The Egg and Poultry Assn. in Renfrew is holding weekly pools at two centres in the county and managers report increased ship- ments over last year. Milk -fed A chickens were down in price recently, but netted the fatmers 22c Ib. The Manitoulin Co-operative Turkey Growers' Association have more birds listed than last year. They plan to sell two full carloads of Christmas dinners in Toronto early in Decem- ber. A total of 44,000 lambs left Rainy River District this fall at an average of $7.00 per lamb to the farmer. Several carloads of hay have been brought into the Sudbury dis- trict costing about $15.00 a ton to the farmers. to 28c per pound for basis No. 1 and 18-22c from the thresher. Tim- othy -5 to 5,/se for grade No. 1. Pri- ces are not yet available for red clo- ver and sweet clover. Southwestern Ontario Demand: The demand for all items except timothy is now quite active. Export business is brise for most kinds of seeds in this part of the pro- vince and the seed is moving rapidly. Supply: Red clover — 116,500 pounds. Alsike-52,200 pounds. Tim- othy -1,720,000 pounds. Alfalfa — 384,600 pounds. Sweet clover -335,- 000 pounds. Prices: Red clover -23e per lb. bas- is No. 1 grade and 17 to 21c for coun- try run. Alfalfa -25c per lb. basis No. 1 grade and 171/2 to 22c for coun- try run. Alsike-25c per lb. basis No. 1 grade and 171/2 to 22c for country run, Sweet clover -61/2e per lb. basis No. 1 grade and 3ee to 5e for coun- try run, Timothy 31/4c per lb. basis No. 1 grade and 11/2 to 2eee for coun- try run. Canadian blue grass -9e per Ib. basis No. 1 grade and 6 to 7c for country run. Sick or half -sick animals are a drag on your efforts to make farming pay. It is comparatively simple to pre- vent your stock from getting many of the ailments that lay them up, or lessen their market value. A few day's treatment ' with Pearson's Condition Powder will do wonders, for it is a tested and proven spec- ific for keeping farm animals in prime condition.' Condition ''''ovvder Made by the tnakers of "CREOLIIV" Era 'MERE'S A DEALER NEAR YOU FRED FORD, CLINTON, ONT. • (By I. C. Merritt) There is more guessing with the sale of timber and fuelwood than with any other farm product. There are several reasons for this and people who are selling timber and fuelwood should know them. The farmer is usually at a disadvantage with the sawmill and fuelwood operators as many of than only sell a woodlot once in a lifetime, while the buyers have bought many woodlots inthe Past. 1. Selling a woodlot for a lump sum. Many bushes have been sold for a stated sum. The buyer has the right to cut everything, while the ownership of the land remains the same. The system is all right if the land is to be cleared for cultivation, but is economically wrong if it is to be left in woodland. There are many trees 2 inches to 6 inches in diameter that have a vesy small monetary va- lue now if cut, but their potential va- lue is high, as they are 20-50 years old and if they are cut it will mean that it will be 20-50 years longer be- fore there will be merchantable tim- ber again. Also, the less valuable trees such as poplar, paper birch, ir- onwood and pin cherry get a start in a clean-cut woods. 2. Selling small lots for fuelwood. Fuelwood is often sold this way pri- vately or by public auction. This plan usually brings substantial finan- cial returns. The man buying the lot pays a fair price, because he does not put much value on his labour as the work is carried on during the winter months when other work is not pres- sing. The bids on these lots are in- fluenced largely 'by the number of large teees. The sailer could reserve the small trees and he would receive about as much for the lot. A better way would be to measure and mark the trees on the lot that are to be sold. This information would be given at time of sale andewould eliminate much of the guesswork when the lot is auc- tioned. 3. Selling all trees above a certain diameter. This method is much better than selling with no restrictions as the small trees are left. The objection to this method is that there are usual- ly many trees above this diameter limit that should be left and some below that should be teinoved. 4. Marking the trees to be cut and selling for a lump sum or at a stated price per thousand for the timber and cordwood. \ This method should be used more as it is fair to both the seller and buyer and the time required to put it in operation would be well spent. The selling by the thousand feet and by the cord eliminates guesswork. An estimate of the standing timber may be made as there are volume tables that give' the board foot contents and cordwood in trees of different diame- ters and heights. ' TI11.31t,S. JIVEC 16 1937 emetieeeldeeaVelaeceeWaei'WeeWeeeeeNeeleeeeaae Mee 0AM. ireeee'ee YOUR WORLD AND MINL by JOHN C. KI1IKWOOD - A•WW.A.6.WMAMMANYVVIMW.WW.W.WiheWAV Into my home came one evening a about to start off to school, 2 found neighbour With foul volumee of Wil- this man reading Shakespeare. There son Iilacdonald's poems. He read a was an elaborately -bound copy of number of these poems to me, and because he is a peactised and sym- pathetic reader of verse, his readings were most enjoyable. •Together we spout a very delightful two. hours, each of us reading verse or prose from favorite writers and talking a- bout books and authors. This unusual experience followed a criticism which I had made of the Canadian poet, Theodore Goodrich Roberts, son of Charles D. Roberts, I heard Theodore read from his own verse at the Toronto Book Fair. He read in a very dull, unanimated way, without expression, without gesture, without any attempt to 'interpret his verse by the arts of pause, voice qual- ity, body movement, countenance •change. To me Mr. Roberts was ut- terly uninteresting. My neighbour, on the other hand, is an interpreter of verse—by inflection, pause, emphasis, intonation, gesture, spirit. He is wholly sympathetic with the writer. He makes poetry vibrant, beautienl, inspiring, joyous. A year previously I heard Wilson Macdonald himself read his own verse and liked him well, far he put life, soul, animation into his reading as should, of course, seek some place any and every reader aloud of poefryi where there would- be no auditors should. of our reading. Our whole purpose Here I recall something which Dr. Ontario Department Of Ilighivitays Distribute White Cross Emblem's Toronto, ,Ont. ,Dec, 8—All the Li- cense Issuing Office e of the Motor Vehicles Beanch, Ontario- Department of Highways, are now supplied with White Cross emblems and Safety Pledges, for distribntion to motorists who wish to enroll'in. the White Cross Shakespeare on our parloer 'cable. It was this book our guest was reading, Safe Driving Movement. In pity I asked if Iecould not get bit Official posters are - displayed in another book! "Sir" he said, "I bave these offices, inviting the public to the king of books!", and thereupon he e°-°Pel'ate' in this SafetY Campaign, closed his eyes, and began reciting and announcing that each motorist the portion of the play which he had who Vshes to do sO, may obtain a been reading, changing Ms voice each White Cross emblem for his motor ve- time a new character spoke. I was hicle by asking the clerk in charge for entranced. For the first time in my one. The emblems are not being hand - life I perceived the nobility, the rich- ed to every person who calls for a ness, the humannness, of Shakespeare. 1938 license plate, as the directors of At school the study of Shalcespeare this public movement are in agree - was hard labour. Shortly afterwards ment with the officials of the De - 2 heard Professor Capdon of Queen's partment af Highways that a prom - University interpret 'Macbeth' to us iscuous distribution would tend to de - students, and it was glorious—an ex - feat the very purpose of this Cam- alting experience. paign. By displaying the White Cross on his motor vehicle, the lic- It seems to me that it would be ensed operator signifies his intention most profitable employment of leis- to observe the simple rules of safe ure time for many of us if'we practis- driving contained M the Pledge of the ed reading aloud—both prose and poe- White Cross Driver. try, and reading over and over again There is actually no pledge to sign, the same verses and the same prose but with each emblem is handed to portions, in a purpose to acquire per- the motorist a booklet containing the feetion in our power to portray the Pledge, and by the simple act of af- thought of the writer, with the tools fixing the emblem to his car, the mo - of v o i c e, articulation, inflection, torist obligates himself to its obser- pause, intonation and gesture. We vance. Henry Clay Trumbull, a former editor of Sunday School Times, said in one of his essays. From this essay quote as follows: "Thomas Starr King quotes a little German poem which tells in beautiful simplicity how differently different eyes look upon things of Nature. Two men bad gone up from the city to the summit of one of the Alps. They returned, and their kindred pressed about them to know what vis- ions they had enjoyed. 'Twas a buzz of questions on every side. 'And what have you seen? Do tell.' they cried. The one with a yawning made reply, 'What have we seen? Not much have Trees, mountains, meadows, groves and stream, Blue sky and clouds and sunny gleam.' The other, sniffing, said the same— But with face transfigured and eye of flame— 'Trees, meadows, mountains, grove and stream, Blue sky and cloud, and sunny gleam.' The one had eyes which saw; the other, seeing, saw Quite frequently we hear on our radia men reading or reciting poetry, often very beautiful verse, of very fine senthnent; but, speaking for my- self, I dislike thoroughly the radio reciters and readers, for they are stagey—highly artificial. They would be much more effective if they read poetry as it should be read. My con- tention is that poetry should read as naturally as we talk in our converse- tione. In our conversations there are times when we are eloquent, exalted. Thus, if we are describing some col- orful and magnificent and inspiring pageant, our very voice, aur words, our eyes, our countenance, our ges- tures, mirror what we saw and felt. If we are describing a very solemn funeral—say that of King George V then our voices and manner and speech would reflect what we had' seen and felt, and would portray sol- emnity. If we were telling of what we saw at a circus—of the antics and nonsense of clowns, by way of exam- ple—our faces, our eyes, would joint- ly and harmoniously tell what we saw and how we were amused. ' I suppose that all of us have heard children recite at school and church entertainments, and have been very conscious of the artificiality—the un- naturalness — of the performance - Their teachers have imagined that "staginess" is the right idea: Quite too often what is recited should nev- er be recited at all. Thus, who wants to hear 'The boy stood on the burning deck' poem? When I was young I heard many professional readers and reciters. Per- haps in those youthful days I was impressed by their theatricalism. Of all these professional people only one of them, as I now recall, pleased me— Agnes Knox Black. And there was another, not a professional, who was Perfection, in my eyes, Miss Kate Haggert, of Brampton. So many of the reciters---men principally — felt that they had to be dramatic to the limit of their ability, and their seIee•- tions for reading and reciting were chosen with an eye on the opportunity which they provided for showing off. Amateur actors are prone to, use a stagey voice and manner, whereas great actors endeavour to speak and act as did the characters wham they represent, with absolute fidelity. I recall a French-Canadian minis- ter who was a guest in aur home, ' when I was a young Man attending' the high school. I heard him preach a sermon. On the Sunday, and was carried away by his passiontite elo- quence and earnestness. On the Monday, at Midday, just when I would be to read so that an audience, if we had one, would listen to us glad- ly recause of its perfect understand- ing of what we read and because of its enjoyment of what we read. We would shun staginess of voice and manner. We would read so that all present could hear, and -We would read interpretatively. Indeed, there are some things which cannot be fully appreciated or enjoyed apart from their being read aloud. Some poetry and some prose depend for their full enjoyment on the music in them—es does, for example, this extract from Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan', In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure—dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. And Poe's 'Raven' demands to be read aloud, every verse of it. I commend to my readers the en- riching practice of reading aloud. On- ly by reading aloud can the beauties and the charm of much verse and prose be fully perceived and appre- ciated. Just as some stones when Already over 150,000 White Cross emblems have been forwarded to in- dividual motorists, business houses and other organizations, for the en- rollment of employees or members, and the Committee in charge esti- mates that well over 100,000 motor vehicles are now displaying the White Cross emblem in Ontario. A large Portion of these emblems have, been attached to 1937 markers and at this time of year, when so many owners of cars are changing their old license plates for their 1938 markers, the Committee of the White Cross Safe Driving Movement is anxious that the emblemsalready distrjbuted will be preserved and placed on the new li- cense, plates. The cost of providing a sufficient number of emblems for the motor ve- hicles of all motorists in Ontario who wish to join the Movement, is very considerable, and if for no other rea- son, the principle of ordinary econ- wetted with water take on a brand new interest and beauty, so can a poem disclose its beauty when read aloud—reach with sympathy, and with a full -powered purpose to make its meaning crystal clear. warreseseraeareesseasess The Dominion Department of Agriculture • has• issued a report describing AT EVE,:.Y FAR ER SHOUL* KNOW about The British Market for Canadian Farm Products It deals with Beef and Store Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Dressed Beef, Horses, Bacon and Hain, Cheese, Butter, Condensed Milk, Dressed Poultry, Eggs, Canned Fruits and Vege- tables, Fresh Fruit, Honey, Maple Products, Tobacco, Hay, Alfalfa Meal, Grass and Clover Seeds, Furs, You may have a copy free • Write to Director, Marketing Service Department of Agriculture, Ottawa Issued under direction of Hon. James G. Gardiner, Minister. only dictates that these emblems should not be destroyed when 1938 license plates are secured. In addi- tion to this consideration, the increas- ing interest and growing importance of the White Cross Safe Driving Movement will be the better served by the greatest possible use of all the emblems distributed, as well as those not yet issued by the Department of Highways or other distributing agen- cies. The White Cross emblem is, intended to act as a constant remind- er on the streets and highways, of the motorist's individual responsibility when driving a motor OAT. Therefore, the greater the number of emblems in actual use by motorists on their 1937 and 1938 license mar- kers, the more effective becomes this crusade to help reduce the appalling toll of accidents on streets and high- ways. PRESS SECRETARY —ACTIVE OR DUD? • At this time of year church and .. other societies are electing officers for the coming year. In many cases a "press secretary" is among the, of- ficers; but we notice that press seexe, taries who really attend to their job are greatly in the minority. It is, we should say, the duty of the press secretary to keep the press informed of the activities of the organization with which she, or he, is associated— to send in reports, not two or three weeks after a meeting has been held, but immediately, while it is news, It is to be hoped that the press. secretaries, of whom so many are be. ing chosen this month, will not treat the appointment as a joke, but as art opportunity to perform a useful ser- vice. —Godetieli Stare ....semomiutesmanutanCellNalla BILLY VAN Says: One of the most successful salesmen of this time, Mr. Billy Van, says that successful salesmanship is simply the application af showmanehip to merchandising." "The secret of success in acting is to rehearse and rehearse and rehearse until you have created an unforgettable impression upon the mind of the actor. He then lives his part. His sincerity enables his audience to live it with him. 04 course, the play must be good. A gets you nowhere to have people say, "Billy Van was great, but the show was rotten!" Similarly you must have a good product, and because you are talking to a procession and not a standing crowd, your advertising must be insistent and persistent. You must rehearse and rehearse and rehearse it both the show and • the acto;e—the product and the actors—are to get their message across—to create the unforgettable impression. , "There is no such thing as sales resistance to quality merchan- dise at the right price," said Mr. Van. "The secret of salesmanship is to give as Arm& as possible for as little as possible. t T he Cli tn N ws ecs, Gives the News of Clinton and Community—Read It rd