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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1934-01-18, Page 6AGE 6" for .the o Timed Information bus Farmer Furnishedby the Department of Agriculture ) Poultry Feed Facts. Completed experiments in poultry feeding show that slum -milk is an excellent protein feed, that dry clov- er leaves with an occasional dose of Epsom Salts may replace roots or sprouted oats, that home -mixed is as good as a •commercial grain, and that screenings of good quality may re- place part of the good grain. Time for Pruning Fruit Trees The moderate weather now being experienced in certain localities will give the people in those sections an opportunity to get their various fruit trees and bushes pruned. Pruning can be done safely any time after the plants become dormant and all work in this line done in early win- ter will allow more time for the `hundred -and -one jobs that turn up simultaneously when the open wea- ther arrives in March or April. aecessem.e Profit and Pullets At .present, prospects look bright for the poultryman and farmer who ,has a good flock of well -matured pullets. The cold snap will probably stiffen egg prices that are now offer- ing a fair margin of profit over cost of production in flocks that are lay- ing satisfactorily. At the present prices and with bet- ter prospects in view it will pay to feed a good balanced mash ration lib- erally and to give sufficient grain at night to ensure a well filled crop. Plenty of fresh water, with the chill off, on cold days should always be provided. A frozen water pail left too long means a serious crimp in produc- tion. roducttion. ecintlRetw already been marketed for alfalfa ' meal manufacturing purposes and the first cut is now being sold rapid- ly for the same purpose, • A shortage of hay and also of feed grain is ex- pected in ' Western Ontario before spring if the extreme winter weath- er continues. Current prices being paid growers are: for No. timothy $5.50 to $6.00 per ton; mixed hay $4.50 to $5.25; alfalfa 2nd cut i$9 to $10,'1at cut $7 to $8; oat •straw $3 to $3.50 and wheat straw $3.25 to $3.75 per ton. One Million Dollar Increase For Ont. ,. Live Ca'".tle Export The Ontario Marketing Board re- ports that during the past calendar year Canadian exports of live cattle to Great Britain were in excess of 50,000 head: more than three times the number forwarded in 1932. On- tario exported some 30,000 animals or considerably mere than half the total Dominion shipments. Assuming a mean average value of $50.00 per head, Ontario's export cattle business was worth upwards of $1,500,000 to the farmers of the Province last year which is an increase of at least $1,! 000,000 over 1932. More important to the average cat- tle raiser, however, is the fact that the removal of large numbers of cattle from the home market has considerably improved domestic prices. It is not an exaggeration td say that if this export trade had not developed cattle shippers would be facing prices as low as 3e per pound instead of the prevailing quotations of around Gc per pound for top qual- ity beef animals. ia01fAsb Special Dairy Course Marked by the largest registration the class has had in some years, the annual special three -months' dairy course at the O. A. C.; opened the first week in January. Forty- eight names were enrolled to com- mence the class and it is expected that another half dozen or more names will be added. Of the 48 stu- dents listed all but two are register- ed as from Ontario. The others are two men from Prince Edward Island. a Canadian Honey The United Kingdom ranks second to Germany as the world's honey market. From the standpoint of Canadian bee -keepers, however, the United Kingdom is easily the more important of the two. Honey imports by the British Isles have ranged be- tween seven and ten million pounds yearly in recent years and have not shown the ,drastic decline which char- acterized German imports during the depression period. Up until 1928 the United Kingdom drew its honey sup- ply from three main sources: Uni- ted States, British West Indies and New ,Zealand. Other countries con- tributed somewhat smaller amounts. Within the last three years, however, Canadian honey has made striking progress on the British market, tak- ing second place among all the var- ious 'competing countries in 1931. Chief among Canadian provinces to increase notably its honey export was Ontario. This Province is now ship- ping overseas yearly considerably more than all the other Provinces combined, A Valuable Booklet A very interesting ,booklet entitled "The Yardstick" has recently been issued by the Ontario Marketing Board. It gives a review of the var- ious standards and grades under old' farm s • which Ontario,products are and an attempt is made to educate the housewife on how til buy on grades The pamphlet also measures the re- sponsibility of both producers and consumers to a •continuing agricul, tined prosperity in Ontario and is in tended to be the first of a series dis- cussing,this subject from different angles. Copies of the booklet may be obtained from the Ontario Marketing Board, Parliament Bldgs., Toronto. I-1 Hay Marketing Hay marketing in Western Ontario was very quiet in December but much improvement in the situationis ex- pected before spring. The principal movement this season has been by motor truck to the larger centres 'such as Toronto and gradually the hay supply within trucking distance of these centres is being reduced, :Nearly all the second-cutalfalfa has effiatelNe Prevent Goitre in Your Future Lambe Goitre in your lambs. is due to lack of iodine. Whether or not this min- eral is deficient in the Ottawa dis- trict is not certain. However, goitre has appeared in the Central Experi- mental Farm flock, and sheep own- ers should therefore play safe and feed iodine to their pregnant ewes. If no commercial iodized salt is a- vailable, prepare as follows: Spread on a tarpaulin 100 pounds of ordin- ary salt. From your druggist pro- cure 2 to 3 ounces of potassium iod- ine, dissolve in water and spray the solution on the salt. Mix thorough- ly, keep dry and fend to the ewes dur- ing the winter. This will prevent goitre, and, when for no distinct rea- son lambs are born weak flabby, 3t may prove beneficial, inose Reduced Freight Rates On Limestone Continued f NEWS -RECO WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS 'ARE SAYING KEEP CHEERFUL They say that nothing succeeds like success, and part of that is the result of cheerfulness. In these days of trouble,, the good-natured and cheerful man gives others encourage- ment. The failure oftee fails be- cause his grouch advertises his fail- ure. There is ane recipe for success —end that is to seem successful—not necessarily to make a display of prosperity, but to be as cheerful and good-humored as the successful usu- ally :are.—Listowel Banner. Inorder to encourage the more general use of Agricultural Lime- stone in sections of Ontario where a soil corrective is required, the De- partment in co-operation with the Federal Government and the leading Railway Companies will continue for another year at least, the policy whereby substantial reduction in freight rates on ground limestone for agricultural purposes are made, This announcement was made by Hon. Thomas L. Kennedy recently. The Canadian National, Canadian. Pacific, Pere Marquette, Michigan Central and associated railways are co-operating by quoting a special freight rate on Agricultural Lime- stone of approximately 25 per cent below the standard rate. The Fed eral and Provincial Governments through a subvention policy will jointly pay 50 per cent of the reduced freight up to a maximum combined subvention of $1.00 per ton. For ex- ample, if the standard freight tariff is $1.00 per ton, the railway reduces the rate 25c. The subvention policy pays 37Vse and the farmer pays the remaining 371/ac. If the standard rail tariff is $3.60 per ton, the railways reduce the freight 90c, the subvention policy pays $1.00 and the farmer pays $1.70. For further particulars in regard to the regulations governing this subvention policy, purchasers should get in touch with their local agricul- tural representative. FRUIT THAT BURSTS ITS BONDS OF WIRE At North Head, Sydney, Australia, there is growing a wild pear tree whose fruit is of the consistency of wood. When mature. this fruit di- vides with sufficient force to move an object weighing 112 pounds. As an experiment the fruit when fully farmed this season was bound tight- ly with No. 8 fencing wire, " the strongest made, but it burst its bonds when the fruit cried for es- cape. LET HER GO! Financial interests are wailing warnings that dire catastrophe will befall the human race , if the dollar drops in value. One wonders why, Everything else has fallen in value and we are exhorted to keep smiling for prosperity is just around the corner. The drop in dollar price will probably mean a rise in other com- modity prices. If the rise applies to farm products we will be able to stand it. We might even be induced to smile about it for prosperity would be .just around the corner. Ridgetown Dominion st>eerig.+ JUST ONCE MORE Once again we urge parents to keep a rod in pickle for the young- sters who persist in running the streets when motor traffic is lively and the streets a bit slippery. We have just heard of a little chap who was busy with his sleigh but who got in the way of a car. The little fellow was hit. We may add that he is still dead. That's the grim and terrible way with motor car acci- dents. Those cars hit terribly hard. So, boys and girls, please :keep on the sidewalks. 99 out of every 100 motorists are careful, but even they cannot stop their cars when they most desire to do so. Then these is the occasional reckless driver who simply hits and kills. Hemay be the driver who will overtake you, my boy.—Exeter Times -Advocate. gaistialletne WE GOT A KICK OUT OF THIS "Two men were sitting on the Iong aisle seat of a St. Clair Ave. one- man street car. When a couple of passengers alighted they made a dash for the smaller two -seat bench that had been vacated. 'Why do people instinctively prefer to ride facing the way the car is going,' asked the first man. His companion replied: "It's because in this position the velocity of one's atomic vibra- tions synchronizes more symmetric- ally with the momentum of the car, thereby inducing a feeling of corn- fort."Well,' gasped the first man 'I don't know what you mean, but I believe you're right."" —Toronto Telegram. C*®t113J "IT WAS WRITTEN" Only a few weeks ago two men spoke to each other across the after- dinner good -will cups. Each was a tried and worthy man and each spoke from the heart of good deeds done and a good life lived by the other. So short a time and now they speak no more here forever. Yet they leave behind the fact that the world is better .because they have lived. Need any more be said of any man? In our sorrow, we feel a gratify- ing thought in the fact that Listow- el's people gave tangible expression of their appreciation of Hon. J. D. Monteith. That his active life had closed, that with the completion of a number of things undertaken and just carried to a conclusion, his last duties on ,earth had been done' no one dreamed. But, as the Orientals say "It was written, and thus it had to be.—Listowel Stnadard. ems.• BEING IN DEBT NO WORMY We used to hear it said sometimes of some honorable citizen that his "word good as as his bond. That was the apex of praise. It meant that he was a hundred per cent straight and reliable. Nowa- days, to say that a man's word is "as good as' his bond or promissory note" might not be saying much in his favor. It is true that many peo- ple today are in straightened circum- stances and find it impossible tc meet their paper, no matter how well-intentioned they may be. But it also appears to be true that the average man's signature on a note does not mean as much as it did a generation ago. We heard an exper- ienced businessman comment very strongly on that point the other day. And the same day a retired banker, who is still in touch with every day business, referred to the same thing. A generation ago he said, if a man put his name to a note he ,would not rest contented until it waspaid on the date when it was due. Today it appears to be the fashion to let the other fellow worry. What has cause ed theha e e rig People buy thing/ today that they haven't the ready money to pay for. The bogey of being in debt doesn't frighten .them. Many appear to regard indebtedness as a natural condition to be in. , -St. Marys Journal -Argus. otestemo THE PACE THAT KILLS Two Ontario Cabinet Ministers have died within the past two weeks. Hon. E. A. Dunlop, Provincial Treas- urer, and Hon. Dr, J. D. Monteith, Minister of Labor. To many, perhaps a majority of people, the life of a Cabinet Minister is looked upon as a bed of ease. The salary is large; the spending of oth- er people's money a pleasant duty, and the work is non existent. As a matter of fact, however, nothing could be further, from the actual truth. The life of a Cabinet Minister is a drain upon the human constitution that only the strongest can stand, and not always they. These are not pleasant times for Governments, and as Provincial Treasurer, •Hon. Mr. Dunlop had to find the money to finance the Prov- ince. That was a task greater than the head of any other financial insti- tution in the • Province was forced to shoulder. And it proved greater than Mr. Dunlop could bear. Incessant work and incessant worry are responsible for his death. He died a compara- tively young man. The same may be said of Hon. Dr. Monteith. As Minister of Labor and .11111111. THURS., JAN. 18, 1934 BMEB in charge of unemployment relief, his duties were exacting, hisreaponsibil- ities tremendous and he was under the fire of criticism twenty-four hours a day for the past two or three' years, Both were able men. Both travel-- led `the pace that (sills, not in their own interests or for their own plea- sure, but in the interests of the par- f ty that had honored them and for the Province which they served. —Huron Expositor (Liberal.) LEAN YEAR FOR PRESS Now that the season is over for the formalities of conducting muni- cipal elections whether by the accla-: mation system or polling booth, route, the :offices have all been filled for',. another term. Perhaps never before in the history of the district have so many elections gone by default as this year in local and adjacent mun- icipalities. In this connection' men- tion might be made of Brant and Walkerton, Carrick and Mildmay, Bentinck and Hanover, Normanby and Ayton, as well as Neustadt, while Greenock, also failed to stage a con- test. While it is possible, it is far from being probable, that this condi- tion will ever occur again and that the quartette of newspapers which cover this field in journalism will find their columns again bereft of anything resembling an election card. To use the publishers' term, this has been a lean year for the pressmen in revenue, although pages galore of space have been given reporting pro- ' ceedings and announcing results of the annual pow wows. —Walkerton Herald -Times. EXETER: Bereavement followed bereavement in the Pickard home, Exeter, when on Saturday, just four days after the death of her husband, Mrs. Robert E. Pickard died at the age of 71 years. The deceased had been an invalid for the past three year and was a daughter of the late William Verity, who founded the Verity Flour Works of. Exeter and later of Brantford. They were mar- ried in 1892. She is survived by three sisters, Mrs. W. Bragn, of New York; Mrs. Fred Burnett, of Toron- to: Mrs. W. Gundry, of Toronto; and by four brothers, W. J. Verity, P. E. Verity and C. F. Verity, of Brant- ford, and R. H. Verity, of Los Angel- es, Calif. She is also survived by two sons, Principal A. Pickard, of Regina, and Clarence V., business partner of his late father, Exeter, and by one daughter, Mrs. 'Melville F. Gladman, of London. The funer- al (private) was held on Monday at 2 o'clock from her late residence on John street. Interment in the Exe- ter Cemetery. essM1ti a GODERICH: Absence of Provinc- cial Constable P. E. McCoy through illness forced a week's adjournment, after four witnesses had been heard, of a reckless driving charge against Francis Overholt, of Goderich. It was Overholt's automobile, it is al- leged, driven by himself which, on the night of December 27th, crashed head-on into a horse and cutter in charge of Orval Rodgers, Goderich township, during a blinding snow- storm, one mile west of the town on the Huron road, Overholt received painful injuries to the head when a shaft of the cutter trashed through the glass of the door on the driver's side and struck him above the eye as the horse mounted the hood of the. automobile. Rodgers testified that after the crash Overholt had threatened to "ride him" for $1,000. He declared he was driving on his own side of the road, watching the shoulder when Overholt crashed into him, going 15 to 20 miles an hour. Witness denied telling a garage man. Reg. McGee, to repair Overholt's car, but the garage man later contradict- ed this. Rodgers also denied telling Constable McCoy that he did not know which side of the road he was tIt was the time of. on at th the impact. two days later that Traffic Officer Lever ,investigated. Constable Mc-` Coy also madeinquiries and Magis- trate Reid considered his evidence important, hoisting the case for one week. CULROSS: Mrs. W. J. Arkell was chosen trustee for school section. No. 6, Culross, at a meeting o$ the school section held recently. Mrs. Arkell has the honor of being the first woman school trustee in this township. ASHFIELD: Apparently in good health, the sudden death of Mr. Wil- liam J. Hogan, on Monday week, was a distinct shock to relatives and friends throughout the neighborhood west of Lanesville, where Mr. Hogan was an esteemed resident. An acute heart attack suffered on Sunday, proved fatal a few hours later. Mr. Hogan, up to the time of the seizure, had been about as usual and daily was occupied with the work on his farm. emszesmo GOtO'EIRi(OH: 1 .Gioderich Sailors suffered their first defeat of the sea- son at the hands of the Seaforth team on their own ice on Friday night. The scoring ended in the first period with the score 2-0 for the vis- itors. Play was slow during the game due to soft ice rendering com- bination play almost impossible. Buckman, a Seaforth forward, scor- ed both goals. In the second period the visitors had the edge although near the end of this part of the game the play became somewhat of a slug- ging match. The last section of the game was a bit faster than preced- ing periods and a great deal of the play was at the Seaforth enrl of the rink, the Sailors pressing their op- ponents showered the goal with shots. However, try as they might the Goderich team could not tally a single goal. A fairly large crowd attended. ,GODER1•GH: Friends of Mrs. Grace E. Pentland will be interested to hear that she obtained a divorce from her husband, Geo. J. Pentland, in Port Huron, Mich., on January 9th. The Port Huron Times Herald stated that Pentland is to pay $10.00 per week alimony and that Mrs,. Pentland is to have the custody of the two children, .Star. EXETER: The South Huron Min- isterial Association held the January meeting at the hone of Rev. J. W. Down, Exeter. After the devotional introdutcory part, Rev. M. B. Parker, of Hensall, gave a paper on "Evolu- tion." The varying theories of Darwin, Huxley and Bergson were described in detail. He described Lloyd Morgan's theory of emergent evolution and its "unaccountable fac- tor." Alexander's pyramidal scheme, and the subjects of heredity and genetics all received attention. eeseaGsv tosh, Samuel Whitmore; Seaforth, Robert Smith, J. M. Govenlock, Dr. F. Harburn, H. G. Meir, Neil Gilles- pie, A. H. McLean, Miss Ethel Beat-- tie Miss Jean E. tett M S Mrs. W. J. Dickson; auditors, R. J. Beattie, Wl J. McIntosh, ems 'GO'DERICH: The welfare board has issued an urgent appeal for clothing; shoes and rubbers of all kinds and sizes. So far it has not been, the practice of the local board to provide these commodities, as is, done in other municipalities, the gen= erosity of citizens to donate second- hand articles being relied upon. With three winters of depression, however; the supply is becoming limited, citi- zens say. The co-operation of the various church, fraternal and; other organizations so far this winter has been meagre. SEAFORTH: The annual meeting of the Seaforth Agricultural Society was held in the Carnegie Library on Friday afternoon, with a good at- tendance. The president, Humphrey Snell, occupied the chair. The sec- retary -treasurer, Mrs. J. A. Kerr, re- ported one of the most successful years in the history of the society.. After paying a substantial sum on the mortgage a balance still remains in the bank. The election of offi- cers resulted as follows: President; Humphrey Snell; vice-presidents, J, Wesley Beattie, William Beattie; sec- retary -treasurer, Mrs. J. A. Kerr; di- rectors, Hibbert Township, F. Car- bert, Russell Scott; HuIlett Town- ship, Ross McGregor, James Leiper, John. Freeman; McKillop Township, J. M. Eckert, T. O. Scott, Gordon Mc - Gavin, R. W. Campbell, Mrs. Irwin Trewartha; Tuckersmith Township), Mrs. Elizabeth Broadfoot, Miss Jean Scott, R. Archibald, Watson McCart- ney, W.. S. Broadfoot, David McIn emElMegi SEAFORTH: Prior to his .,depar- ture for Brantford R. A. Wales, tel- Ier for six years in the Seaforth branch, Bank of Commerce, was on Friday night entertained by the choir of First Presbyterian Church at a supper held in the school room of the church. A pleasing feature of the occasion was the presentation of an address, read by the choir leader, M, R. Rennie, and the gilt of a defroster for his car, presented by James T. Scott, Mr. Wales made a fitting re? ply. LYRE BIRD PLAYS JOKE ON MOTORISTS The mystery of the phantom mot- or -car driver who honks his horn at the bend of a road in the hills out- side Melbourne, Australia, has been cleared up. The bend is sharp, caus- ing drivers to sound warnings alt they approach. Lately such ,warn- ings have been promptly replied to, apparently from a car travelling in the opposite direction. Drivers pul- led close in to avoid collision, only to A find on rounding the turn that there was no other oar in sight. The dri- ver of a service car regularly :using. .` the road was so puzzled that one day- he•t stopped pp oinvestigate, whereupon a lyre -bird flew up from its hiding - place in some bushes. It had been playing a joke on the motorists, its,' uncanny gift of mimicry enabling it- kri to reproduce perfectly the four musi- cal notes of the service driver's horn.: THE LARGEST LIFE Nay, never once to feel we ire alone. While the great human heart around' "' us lies: To make the smile on other lips aur' own, To live upon, the light in others' ' eyes: To breathe without a doubt the lim- pid air Of that most perfect love that knows: no pain: To say --I love you—only, and not care • Whether the love comes back to us again. Divinest self -forgetfulness, at first A task, and then a tonic, then a need To greet with open hands the best and worst, And only for another's wounds to' bleed: That is to see the beauty that God" meant Wrapped round with life ineffably-- content. neffablycontent. Archibald Lampman.. IT'S LIVER THAT MAKES YOU FEEL SO WRETCHED Wake up your Liver Bile. —No Calomel necessary For you to feel healthy and happy. your• liver must pour two pounda of liquid bile into • your bowels, every day. Without that bile, trouble starts. Poor digestion. Slow elimination. Poieom in the body. General wretchednoae. 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