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Vegetable Growers.11leet.
The animal convention of the On-
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, ario Vegetable Growers' Assocra
is being "held Tuesday and Wednesday,
January 11th and 12th at the King
Edward Hotel, Toronto., starting. at
9.30 each morning. .
Current Reports
Waterloo County .reports that cat-
tle have gore into barns in good con-
dition,. Down in. Hastings County the
annual cheese exhibition was held at
Belleville. Of the five hundred boxes
of cheese auctioned at the close, 12
boxes of Stiltons sold at 35c lb. Col-
oured cheese sold at 17e and white at
18c lb. The egg and Poultry Co-op-
eratives in Carleton County are hold-
ing weekly dressed poultry days when
their product is graded and sold on a
graded basis. Weekly marketings are.
running around 1'/a to 2 tons of dres-
sed poultry for each Association. Fav-
ourable conditions for fall plowing in
Leeds county resulted in a greater ac-
reage than usual, a great contrast to
last year when little fall plowing was
done. Prices of dressed poultry are
going up in. Prescott and Russell, with
Milkfed A chickens selling as high as
26,/se. There were some 7,000 tires -
sed turkeys shipped .from. Manitoulin
' island recently.
Counties Plan Forests
Bruce County will start reforesta-
• tion of a 1,000 -acre tract in Amabel
Township south of Wiarton. Options
already taken on 500 acres of land
will be increased by the purchase of
another 500 acres. The land in that
townships is considered the most suit-
able in the country. Agricultural Com-
mittee of the County Council, under!
which this class of work devolves, has
been instructed to obtain the addition-
al acreage and report in January on
the natter.
A county forest for Grey was sug-
gested to the County Council in the
special report of The Reforestation
Committee, Mr. McGregor's report re-
vealed a survey of possible land 'r on
which an option had been taken, and
the suggestion that the council take
up the, option if the property in'Glen-
elg township is approved by the De-
partment of Lands and Forests.
Nearly 800,000 trees were planted
this year under the Simcoe County re -
forestry scheme which is sponsored by
the county council. Reports, stated
that 1,282 acres had been purchased
for reforestation purposes during the
year. The largest tract purchased was
In Tossorontio Township,. 600 acmes, at
$5.50 per acre. Two tracts of 200 ac-
res each were bought inVespra and
Sunnidale Townships at $6 and $4 re-
spectively.
Winter Brooding of Chicks
The poultryman with proper equip-
ment can handle chicks in mid -winter
with as little mortality as with April
chicks. He may not get as high'per-
centage hatch as later on, but even the
hatchability of eggs is being controlled
by the feed. January chicks will cost
more as eggs, are higher priced to
start with. Then it will take more
fuel than with spring brooding. But
there is more time for looking after
the chicks; there may be less disease
and mortality, broilers will catch a
high market and pullets should be lay-
ing early in the fall or even in late
summer when egg prices are at their
peak. Of course, if many started
hatching all their chicks in January.
the higher prices for broilers and egg;
would be wiped out, and chicks hatch-
ed at some other season would find the
best market, Brooder houses unsuited
for prolonged zero weather and the
higher price for chicks will limit the
number going in for January chicks.
Nevertheless there should be good re-
turns for the few who do, and they
can prolong the use of their equip-
ment, as those who have January
chicks usually have another batch in
the spring so as to have pullets com-
ing into production at different sea-
sons. January chicks will go on to
range early in the season, or they may
be raised indoors until ready for the
laying pen.
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YOUR WORLD AND MiNE ,
(Copyright)
by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD
A Scottish writer, quite unknown
to most persons in Canada, is Alex-
ander Smith, He liyed in the middle
period of last century. He was jour-
nalist, poet, writer of essays, and
author of the entrancing book, "A
Summer in .Skye."
One of his best -liked books is
named "Dreamthrop"—the story of a
Scottish village — just as is J. M.
Berries's "A Window in Thrums". In
this charming book is a chapter a-
bout Christmas. And so, this being
Christmas week, I have felt that niy
readers would enjoy extracts from
this chapter. Accordingly, I quote as
follows.
Of ail the seasons in the year I like
whiter best. The day is short, and I
•-can fill it with work. When evening
comes .I have my.lighted room and my
books. Should black care haunt me, I
throw it off the scent in Spenser's
forests, or seek refuge among Shakes-
peare's men and women, who are by
far the best company I have met with,
or ant like to meet with, on earth.
I am sitting at this 'present moment
with my curtains drawn. The cheer -
fire is winking at all the furniture
in the room, and from every leg and
arm the furniture is winking at the
fire in return. I put off the outer
world with my great -coat and boots,
and put on contentment with my slip-
pers.
Winter falls on Drearnthorp and it
looks as pretty when covered with
snow as when covered with apple
blossoms. Outside the ground is hard
as iron, and ..over the low dark hill,
lo! the tender radiance that pre-
cedes the morn. Every window in the
little village has its light, and to the
traveller coming on, enveloped in his
breath, the whole place shines like a
congregation, of glow-worms. A pleas-
ant enough sight if his home be
there.
Sitting here—Christmas 1862—I in-
continently find myself holding a le-
vee of departed Christmas nights.
Silently and without special call, into
my study of imagination come these
apparitions, clad in. snowy mantles,
brooched and gemmed with frosts.
Their number I do not care to count:,
for I know they are the.nuinber of
my years. The visages ' of two or
three sad enough, but on the whole
'tis a congregation of jolly ghosts.
The nostrils of ray memory are as-
sailed by, a faint odour of plum -pud-
ding and burnt brandy. I hear a
sound as of light music,' a whisk of
women's dresses, whirled round in a,
donee—a click of grasses pledged by
friends. 4 i
In this Christmas night all the oth-
er Christmas nights of my life dive.
How warm, breathing, full of myself,
is this year 1862, now almost gone!
How bare, cheerless, unknown, the
year 1863, about to come in! Look-
ing forward into an empty year
strikes me with a certain awe, be-
cause one finds there is no recogni-
tion, The years behind' have a friend-
ly aspect, and they are warmed by the
fires we have kindled, and all the
echoes are the echoes of our own
voice.
This is Christmas 1862. Everything
is silent in Dreamthorp. The smith's
hammer reposes beside his anvil. The
weaver's flying shuttle is at rest.
Through the clear wintry sunshine
the bells this morning rang from the
grey church tower amid the leafless
elms.
It is my purpose to hold Christmas
alone. I have no one with me at ta-
ble, and my thoughts must be my
Christmas guests. By imagination I
can taste of every table, pledge every
toast, silently join in every roar of
merriment. I become a sort of uni-
versal guest. With what propriety
,ls this jovial season placed amid dis-
mal December rains and snows. How
one pities the poor Australians. with
whom everything is turned topsy-tur-
vey, and hold Christmas at midsum-
mer!
The fact of Christmas glows all the
brighter for the cold. The heart
warms as the frost increases. Es-
trangements which have embittered
the whole year melt in the night's hos-
pitable smile. There are warner
hand -shakings on this night than dur-
ing the past twelve months. Friend
lives in the mind of friend. Poverty
and scanty clothing and fireless
grates come home at this season to
the bosom of the rich, and they give
of their abundance. The very red-
breast of the woods enjoy his Christ-
mas feast. Good feeling incarnates
itself in plum -pudding.
For at least one night for each of
us all over Christendom there is
brotherhood. All good men, sitting
amongst their families, or by a soli-
tary fire like tae, when they remem-
ber the light that shone over the
poor clowns huddling on the Bethle-
hem plain eighteen . hundred years
ago, the apparition of shining angels
overhead,, the song "Peace on, earth
and goodwill toward men" which for
the first time hallowed'the midnight
air—all pray for that strain's fulfil-
ment,—that battle and strife may
vex the nations no more—that not on -
13r on Christmas Eve, but also the
whole year round, men shall, be
CL1
TON . NEWS -RECORD
The Eighth Wonder Of The World's Largest Exporter;
World
Pitch is a solid ,black resinous, sub-
stance obtained from boiled tar anti,
we are told that asphalt is mineral
Pitch. Its use is chiefly for pave-
ments and coveting roofs, Sir Wal-
ter ,Raleigh tells of the Pitch :Lake
of Trinidad, the most notable source
of mineral pitch, in ✓ the , following
words: "There is that abundance of
5tone _pitch that all the shipps of the
world maybe therewith laden from
thence, and wee made triall of it in
trimming our lshippes-to be most ex-
cellent good, .and,melteth not with the
Sunne as pitch of ,Norway." •
This Pitch Lake, we. are -told, is the
eighth wonder of the world. Accord-
ing to legend, a tribe of Ohayma In-
dians killed the hummingbirds in.
large numbers, ate them and be-
decked themselves with the plumage.
These feathered jewel were beljeved
to : be the souls of the departed and
the"Great Spirit" caused the earth
to open land the entire village disap-
peared. The cavity as filled with
asphalt. Scientists tell us that the
lake had its origin many thousands
of years sago during certain general
earth movements when fractures or
faults were made in the vicinity of
Trinidad. One of these breaks is
deep enough" to reach a large oil and
gas reservoir. The surface is con-
stantly in motion which is, of course,
very slow, but any object placed on its
surface will shift its position from
day to day .
During the month of February, in
1928, a tree believed to have been
buried from four to five thousand
years ago, came through the asphalt,
rose to,a height of about ten feet and
then disappeared.
However, itis possible to walk on•
the Lake. Gangs of barefooted work-
men dig out huge chunks and send,
them off in trucks on a very light
railway which is moved frequently. It
is remarkable how the asphalt sup
ports the ties and rails, especially
when the loaded cars often passing,
in a continuous line weigh no less
than 1000 pounds each.
The holes which are left at the end
of the clay reach the depth of about
three feet but by the next morning
are filled up again. The Lake is solid,
asphalt perhaps two hundred feet'
deep at its lowest point) Borings
show that in consistency the asphalt
is practically the same throughout.
From this eighth wonder of the
world Canada imported over 300,000.
pounds of solid asphalt Last year. The'
home production amounted to 35 mil-
lion gallons.
Keeping Tree Fresh
If a Christmas tree is set in water
when it first comes into the house
and is kept in water while it is part
of the Christmas decoration, it will
remain fresh and green for at least
a week longer. Water should be re-
placed as it evaporates. If the base
of a Christmas tree is trimmed with
a -sharp knife just before it is
mounted, the pores will be left open,
allowing water to rise in the sten,
to the living cells which are still try-
ing to provide the tree with food and
moisture. Spruce and fir retain
their needles longer than most other
Christmas trees.
brethren, owning one Father in hea-
ven.
"The Cross leads generations on".
Believing as I do that my personal
decease is not more certain than that
our religion will subdue the world, I
own that it is with a somewhat sad-
dened heart that I mass my thoughts
around the globe and: consider how
distant yet is that triumph.
What of our own Europe—,the home
of philosophy, of poetry and paint-
ing? Europe, which has produced
Greece, and Rome, and England's cen-
turies of .glory; Europe, which has
been illuminated by the fires of mar-
tydom, which has heard a Luther
preach, which has listened to Dante's
"mystic unfathomable song"; t o
which Milton has opened to door of
heaven—what of it? And what, too,
of that younger America., starting in
its career with all our good things,
and enfranchised , of many of our
evils? Did not the December sun nowt
shining look down on thousands;
slaughtered at Fredericksburg, in al
most mad, most incomprehensible
quarrel? And is not the public air
which European nations breathe at
`this moment, as it has been for sever -
years back, charged with thunder?
Despots are plotting, ships are build-
ing, man's ingenuity is bent as it nev-
er was bent before on the invention
and improvement of instruments of
death. Europe is bristling with five
million bayonets, and this is the con-
dition of a world for which the Son
of God died eighteen hundred and
sixty-two years agar
By this time I should think that ev-
ery Christmas dinner at Dreamthorp•
and elsewhere has come to an end.
Hark! Midnight from the church
tower vibrates through the frosty air.
I look out on the brilliant' heaven,
and see a milky way of powdery
splendour wandering through it, and'
clusters and knots of stars and plan- I
ets shining serenely in the blue fros-
ty spaces, and the armed apparition
of Orion, his 'speer pointing away in-
to
mto measuu'eless space, gleaming over-
head, and the .familiar' constellation
of the plough dipping down into the*
west; and I think when i go in again
that there is one Christmas the fess'.
between me and' my grave:.
Of Apples
The United States is easily the
world's largest exporter of 'apples,
states The Imperial. Economic Com-
mittee, while Canada and Australia
take second and thivdtplace,respec-
tively: ,Prior to 1931, exports from
the, 'United States sometimes exceed-
ed those from all other countries
coinbined, but since that year, owing
to lighter. crops, and trade barriers
in European countries, they have de-
clined considerably. The proportion
of the United States total crop as
fresh fruit seldom exceeds 10 per cent
and on the average exports account
'for only about 15 per cent of the com-
mercial crop.
Canada, Australia, and New Zea-
land, on the otherhand, export a
large proportion of their apple crops,
and thisapplies also to Yugoslavia,
Austria, and\ Italy. Exports from
France, which consist mainly of cider
fruit, represent only a very small pro-
portion of her heavy production. Con-
siderable quantities of cider apples
are included also in the export figures
of Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzer-
land, and Yugoslavia. The exports of
apples from Canada and Australia
consist almost entirely of dessert and
cooking apples.
According to the 1936 statistics the
exports of apples from the principal
exporting countries were : United
States, 174,000 tons; Canada, 96,000
tons; Australia, 89,000 tons; France,
65,000 tons of cider apples and 6,000
tons of dessert apples; Italy, 60,000
tons; Roumania, 23,000 tons; New
Zealand, 20,000 tons; Chile, 10,000
tons; Yugaslavia, 9,000 tons; Union
of South Africa; 7,000 tons; Belgium,
7,000 tons; Netherlands, 6,000 tons;
Japan, 5,000 tons; Hungary, 5,000
tons; Argentina and Bulgaria, 4,000
tons each.
Although Canada and Australia ex-
port a large part of their apple crops,
the value of applesexported repre-
sents no more than about one per cent
of the total exports, the exact per-
centage of apples to the total exports
of all domestic products being 1.4 in
the case of Australia, and 1.3 in the
case of Canada according to the ave-
rage value of exports 1931-35. In
New Zealand the ratio was 1.5 per
cent, and in the United States 0.9
per cent.
Popcorn Ball Decorations
Popcorn balls, wrapped in red and
green tissue paper; silver paper •for
glistening cellophane, and piled in a
decorated basket, make attractive
centerpieces. for • Christmas dinner or
party tables. A small favor may be
placed in each ball, to add interest at
a party. Hung on the Christmas
tree, these balls make pretty orna-
ments for the strong lower branches
that always seem to -Ie neglected.
Huge Quantity Of Turkeys
Ready For:."Christiinas
Market
With the apppoach,,,of the Christmas
season the fattening of turkeys is
"now almost completed and the annual
seasonal raffle jn'chewed -'birds has
recently been under way. The ship-
ments of turkeys this year have been
quite heavy, large quantities being
exported to Great Britain. and the
Continent., In es ern anada, par-
ticularly,''many, thousands of turkeys
'have been sent east and overseas, in
addition to which are large numbers
of birds arearly ready in Ontario, Que-
bec and the Maritimes, chiefly for
domestic requirements.
Notwithstanding t h e ' proverbial
roast of beef, soon,a number of Eng-
lishmen with their families will sit
down to a Christmas dinner of which
the principal item will 'be Canadian
turkey. As a result of the high q al-
ity of such shipments to the British
Christmas market during the past._
few seasons, Canada is highly regard-
ed as a source of supply. British
buyers are outspoken in their praise
of the delectable quality of Canadian
turkeys and as a result large supplies
have been going forward for the
Christmas trade.
Canada in recent years has been
shipping about 1,000,000 pounds of
chilled turkeys to Great Britain an-
nually for the festive season and
shipments this year have also been
heavy. These shipments were receiv-
ed in such good condition that British
buyers are enthusiastic about the high
quality of the Canadian birds and the
expert manner in which they were
packed. The larger percentage of
the1 turkeys supplied to the British
market comes from the western pro -
vines.
Shipment to the Atlantic seaboard
is made by rail in pre -cooled refrig-
erator cars, and at the seaport a
quick transfer is made to pre -cooled
refrigerators aboard ship. During
the whole period of shipment the birds
are kept in, a temperature which nev-
er varies more than two degrees, and
they are just as fresh on arrival in
Great Britain as when shipped from
Western Canada.
RUBBER FENDERS FOR
AUTOMOBILES
Rubber fenders are becoming stan-
dard equipment on an increasing
number of London buses, we are told,
The durable and 'flexible fenders de-
veloped in England are made of
moulded or pressed rubber. So far,
they have been made primarily for
buses but it is likely they will be
made in the United States and sev-
eral automobile manufacturers are
expected to show cars equipped with
rubber fenders at the forthcoming In-
ternatienal Motorcar Exhibition, ,.± It
is reported that, based on weight and
price, rubber fenders are comparable
to 18 gauge steel.
At the present time there is no re-
cord of the number of fenders made.
in Canadian industries. Each auto-
Imobile-plant has its own special die
for stamping fenders for eachPa rti-
cular need of the certain style of car
It produces. These dies; by the way,
are very expensive 'and only the au-
tomobile factories can afford to use
thern. Until a short time, ago, most
of the fenders were produced in the
United States but now automobile
firms in Canada .can make their awn..
However, some idea of the number
of fenders made may be gained by
knowing that last year the total num-
ber of automobiles, both passenger
and commercial, made in Canada a-
mounted to 281,000, That would mean
over one' million fenders. At this rate
14 all the fenders made in the world,
during 1935 were put into a pile there
would be over, 20 million of them.
Whether bumpers and rbumperettes
would still be necessary should rub-
ber fenders take the place of steel is
a question. Their production amounts
to over $500,000 in a year, according.
to M.M. & C. Branch of the Bureau
of Statistics
FEAST ON BUFFALO MEAT
Spasmodically the herds of buffalo
in ,Wainwright Park, become too
numerous and a number of the bisons
are slaughtered and shipped to east-
ern Canada. Two Kincardine but-
chers stocked buffalo meat last week
and it, found a ready sale among cus-
tomers, who had an unusual treat for
week -end menus, --Kincardine News.
THURISe, DEC.:2., 1937:
The'Scout-Guide
Santa Claus
If Santa Claus ,misses any of thea•
needy homes of Saskatchewan or else- ‘ .
where in Canada, it will not be the.
fault' of the Boy Scouts and Girl
Guides, For the 14th consecutive year
a coast-to-coast chain of Scent -Guide
toy repair shops, after working faith -1
Fully for weeks, are now completing
arrangements for handingtheir g
i
nod-,
as -new toys oven to Santa, In many
cases local distribution is made in co-
operation with service clubs andot h-
er welfare bodies. Manyrural fami-
lies, whose names have been received
from the Toy Shop Secretary at Do-
minion Scout Headquarters, are re-
membered by mail. The special effort.
this year for the dried -out areas tools
the form of bulk shipments of gifts
to the toy shop distribution centres
of the eight toy shop areas into which
Saskatchewan was divided. Eastern.
toy shops which shipped west includ-
ed those at New Glasgow, N.S., Fred-
ericton, N.B.; Sherbrooke' and Mon- ..
areal, Que.; Ottawa, London, Hamil-
ton, Toronto., Cardinal, Elora and P'
Clinton, Ont,; and in the west, Cal-
gary.
algar y.
KILLING TWO BIRDS WITH
ONE STONE
The truth of the old adage, "Kil- •
ling two birds with one stone" was
proven literally last Monday when a
Logan resident, on seeing a row of
sparrows along the slanting roof edge
of the barn, seized rifle and lining
up the row, dropped three of them
with one bullet. Two witnesses will,
if necessary, verify the truth of this
report, which the hunter, modestly
enough, claims was' ust a lucky shot,
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One of the most successful salesmen of this time, Mr. Billy
Van, says that successful salesmanship is simply the application of
showmanship 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. Of course, the play must
be good. It 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 if both the show and
the actors—the product and the actors—are to get their message
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