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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1934-04-19, Page 6'P' -AGE 6 •..;.fir_. THE. ML NTON NEWS -RECORD' arraswerweasossessersesserrassmormemassee THURS., AI',RIL 19, 1934` NES AND PP.EN 1 N6S INTEREST Timely Information for the Busy Farmer ( Furnished by the.. Department of Agriculture ) MEIMINMINIMII•Mtl.d11/1•101/1. .1•1•M•1••••=41•11.1111111.1. Good Seed Prices ' $152.00 for bulls, the. 'general liver - This spring, Ontario is enjoying e good demand for registered seed. Brisk bidding was -witnessed in the auction at the Ottawa Valley ,Seed Fair, and in several eases prices ran to high levels. Four bushels of Gar- net wheat exhibited by farmers of the Earlton District of Temiskaming brought $1.90 a bushel. The average for all the samples sold was $1.50 a bushel. Care of the New Pigs The nursing sow , and litter re, quire care and good feeding in order that the pigs will be strong and heal- thy, and the sow will be in fit condi- tion to 'produce a second litter this year. Supply a milk -producing ra- tion. It should consist of oats, mid- dlings and skint milk. ',Encourage the pigs to start eating at an early age by placing some feed in a low trough. As soon as weather per- mits, let . them run 'outdoors in a fresh paddock. Two Tomato Crops Yearly Is Ontario Grower's Plan Two tomato crops, under glass, is the ambition of one progressive On- tario grower. It is the proposal that one erop should be ready for market from October to Christmas, while the next would sell in May and June, just prior to the outdoor product making its .appearance. For the fall crop, plants would be set in the greenhouse in July, fruiting by early October and con- tinuing to Christmas. For the spring crop, seeding would be effected in De- cember, getting the young plants de- Veloped to about a foot high. by Feb, r,y or March, ready for the beds. Fee, Spring Lamb; Market Observations of the Ontario Mar- keting Board would indicate that too many unfinished spring lambs are being offered for sale at the Union Stock Yards, Toronto. Of the number of spring lambs reaching the Yards, during the week of April 2, it is estimated that some fifty per cent, were not properly fin- ished, individual weights being less than thirty pounds. If producers are to profit through the marketing this otherwise choice product, it is recommended that spring lambs be properly finished to a weight of approximately forty pounds. This can be effected only through extending the feeding per- iod. Seed Grain Crops Early The importance of early seeding cannot be stressed too strongly. An experiment carried on for 10 'years at the Central Experimenta Farm, shows that wheat, oats, barley and peasseeded as soon as the land is ready to work give higher yields than when sown at later dates. The aver- age increase of grain sown early ov- er that sown two weeks later was 14 bushels for barley, 18 bushels for wheat and 4 bushels for oats. Registered Seed. Fair What is believed to be the first all registered seed fair was staged at Renfrew, Ont., recently. This con, petition was under the- auspices of the Arnprior and South Renfrew ag- ricultural societies and was confined to registered seed growers of Ren- frew County. :In all, ninety entries were received from, seventy-four re- gistered seed growers in the 'county. Fourteen prizes were offered for bar, ley, sixteen for ,oats, _ten for wheat and nineteen for peas. Purehlred Cattle Sale Type and production sale of pure- bred Holstein cattle, held at Guelph on Tuesday, April 10th, brought a top price of $155.00 for females and age being $96.25 for the cows and heifers and $110.00 for males. Twen- ty-two of the fifty-two head catalog- ued sold- for prices above $100.00 each, while only fifteen brought less than 490.00 each, some of these being young heifers. The event was at- tended by close to five hundred peo- ple, drawn' from the various breeding areas of Western Ontario. Stimulated Egg Market The satisfactory out -turn of last year's storage egg deal and the new development of the export trade dui, ing the past year are factors which Will lend a stimulating effect to the egg market during the coming spring. Another factor which, pee - haps, has not been given sufficient consideration is that the demand for eggs for the manufacture of frozen eggs is Hauch more active this spring than a year ago. At this time last year, stocks of frozen eggs in Can- ada were fairly heavy and breaking and freezing operations during last spring were not very extensive. This year the situation is exactly reversed. Stocks of frozen eggs are now practically depleted and with business in general picking up there will be much more activity in the egg breaking industry during the coming spring. It is quite possible that the volume of eggs which will be used in the ' -freezing' industry this year may be such as to relieve the market of practically the same quantity of eggs as was exported during 1933. Ari Evergreen Windbeeak For the Perin A farmer who plants s windbreak and shade trees around the farm buildings .shows foresight, as whey will enhance the value and appear- ance of his farm, and improve living conditions.. The foresight is indicat- ed as small trees have to be planted and a numtier of years will pass be- fore they make an appreciable diff, erence in surroundings, A fine and effective windbreak can be grown in 10 years with the trees that are sup- plied free by the Ontario Forestry Branch or with cedars taken from the woods. Evergreens should be planted in permanent locations when small, as It is difficult to transplant successfully trees larger than three to four feet. The trees that are supplied by the Forestry Branch may be planted per- manently in the windbreak, or may be placed in nursery lines and culti- vated for a few years, The labor of. transplanting and the setback in growth that trees have when moved are eliminated if they are planted in the wind break. They may either be placed on plowed ground and culti- vated or spot planted in sod. Culti- vation stimulates considerably the growth of small trees and an effec- tive windbreak will be grown more quickly if the trees are cultivated, There is space and the trees are more liable tobe cultivated if a hoe crop is grown with them the first two years. The advantages of a tree nursery are that the trees are'culti- Vated and it is generally easier to protect the small trees in nursery lines, Careful consideration should be given to the location of the wind- break, indbreak, the number of rows, and the spacing of the trees. More than one row makes a much better windbreak than a single row, and usually they will be protected better. Spruce or pine should not be planted closer than 8-12 feet in a single row, but if three or more rows are planted they maybe placed 5-6 feet and man- aged the same as a forest plantation. Early spring as soon as the frost is out of the ground is the best sea- son to transplant trees. in Ontario, and care should lie taken to protect the roots from the sun and wind. Application forms for trees' and descriptiveliterature may be secured from the Forestry Branch Perlia, meat Buildings, Toronto, the Provin- cial Tree Nurseries and St. Williams, Midhurst and Orono or the County Agricultural Office. Value of Selection of Seed Potatoes (Experimental Farms Note) A good deal of the improvement that has been attained in our live stock and plant industries is due to selection of the best types, by the breeders and,growers. This is parti- cularly true of potatoes, and there is *hundred evidence to show that the grower who has been carefully see. eating the healthy) good yielding plants for seed purposes has benefited considerably. During recent years the virus dis- eases have been given much atten- tion and it has been found that the best way to eliminate these virus dis- eases from the crops is to select heal- thy plants, for seed purposes, during the growing season. In this manner the yield per acre has been increased and the type and quality of the pota- toes have been improved. Several years ago, a system of seed potato certification was organized by the, Division of Botany, of the Dominion' Department of Agriculture and is now conducted in every Province of Canada. Before 'crops are certified they must pass careful inspections of the plants and of the tubers, The most important of these inspections is that given to the plants during the growing season. Only those erops that conform to rigid standards, in regard to freedom from disease and purity of variety, are certified for seed pruposes. In this manner seed potatoes of very high standard are made available to potato growers. In order to maintain high stand- ards of seed, the growers have found it advisable to make careful' selec, tions each year, of the healthy good type plants for their foundation stock. Before they dig the main crop, they carefully harvest the tub- ers from those most desirable plants. If any of those plants do not conform to the required standards in yield, type, etc., they are discarded. The selected tubers are given the best storage available. In planting these in the "seed plot," the growers gen- erally use the "tuber unit" method, by which all the seed pieces one tuber are planted in sequence. This ,method assists greatly in more efficient roguing and in making bet- ter selections of the healthy plants. If the plant from one seed piece of any tuber does not conform to the re- quired standards in freedom from dis- ease, type, etc., every plant from that tuber is rogued out and discarded. The selection .of plants and of tub- ers has been conducted, according to this method, by the Dominion Seed Potato Certification Service in B.G. The results obtained, with several varieties, have demonstrated that a worth while increase in yield is ob., tained by proper selections of plants and of tubers for seed purposes, As a result of the selection of plants and tubers over a three year period, with thirty samples received from growers far testing in the ex- perimental plot, the average yield was increased by one and a half tons per acre. In selecting, the grower should be- come familiar with the best type of plants, as well as of the tuber, of the variety he is growing. By continually selecting this anost desirable type he will eventually develop a good uni- form strain. This is undoubtedly the best method of maintaining a high from any standard of seed potatoes. WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING THEY MIGHT ALSO Congress is determined to find out if there are any communists in Roose- velt's Brain Trust. And while they at it, just as a matter of record, they might Iook for the brains toe. —Toronto Saturday Night. STILL VACANT LAND The Dominion Government returns are responsible for the surprising statement that within the boundsof the Mackenzie territory, stretching from Alberta away up to the Arctic Ocean, there is a posisble area of six. hundred and fifty thousand square miles fitted for the growth of pots, toes, four hundred and seven thous- and square miles suitable for barley, and three hundred and sixteen thous- and square miles suitable for wheat. —Newmarket Era. TOWN CLOCK STOPS Seaforth was without official time for a few days last week when the post office clock stopped functioning. A part had broken and when this had been procured Mr. J. A. Westcott, who looks after the clock, soon had it repaired.--Seaforth Expositor. UNTIL EVERYONE HAS ENOUGH TO EAT Dr. Christie, president of the Guelph Agricultural College, does not believe in curtailment of production as a means to better conditions for the farmer. He believes that farm- ers should "farm to capacity," and that temporary expedients which de- part from the fundamental principles of farm work are wasteful and inef- fective.-Goderich Signal. PHEASANT DISCOVERED WITH LOCAL CHICKENS An unusual sight was witnessed by Mr. William V. Potter, local jeweller, on Monday of this week, when he saw a full-grown male English pheasant with his chickens. The bird came and ate with the chickens and stayed a- round all day, but left the next day. It apparently had been held captive previously as its wings had been clip- ped and it seemed quite tame. The wings were growing again and the bird was able to fly away. Mr. Wm. McNaughton reports having seen a female pheasant around his place, and the supposition is that they were a pair which had become separated. —Hanover Post. FARMERS MUST BE CONSIDERED A local farmer was quoted in last week's Journal -Argus as saying that in political matters ` farmers are in- dividualists and will not act together to further their economic interests. He pointed out that the farmers' political movements of the past had all collapsed in time through lack of support. On the other hand it is wide- ly recognized that agriculture is Can- ada's basic industry and that unless the farmer prospers, it is impossible for the Dominion to be permanently prosperous. That being the ease, does it not appear that so far as the farm- er will not help himself to get a square deal in the economic world, a responsiblity rests specially with the whole body .politic to conserve the farmer's interest. It is not only the attitude that good ethics would dic- tate but it would also appear to be the policy of self-interest. When Canadians are big enough to rise to such an attitude, we shall make greater progress. —St. Marys Journal -Argus. INFORM THE PUBLIC The Ontario and Quebec branch of Weekly Newspapers sent a resolution to the respective governments urging that a List of - all new legislation passed by the government should be advertised in the weekly; press so as to inform the citizen of such law and not wait until he has been summoned to court for as infraction of that law. Commenting on this last week, the Mail and Empire says in part: "Ig- norance 'of the law, as the old maxim has it, excuses no one; yet public ac- ceptance of that dictum does not ab- solve the Government from the mani- fest obligation of making the tenor of the law widely knoun. Each year Government departments waste mon- ey on tons of well-nigh useless print- ed matter that might easily • and with general advantage be diverted to the carrying out of some such practical suggestion as is here recommended." —Listowel Banner. A, GOODLY HERITAGE Religion is largely composed of sentiment and we of years feel mere comfortable in the seat we have sat in for decades. We like the old- fashioned spiritual sermons that gave us confidence and strength. We like the old hymns with the familiar and inspiring tunes. We are satisfied that the world is making progress and that people and conditions are getting better, and, according to the divine plan, always will. We like to come out of church feeling glad that we entered into the House of God and not that the preacher was trying to put over only his own exclusive opin- ions or propaganda rof some ambitious higher-up church dignitary. And why not? It is the individuals' church just as much as the preacher's. Prob- ably more so for he stays while prea- chers come and go. When we are satisfied that the religion we sub- scribe to is substantial, permanent, and enduring, when we believe it helped our fathers to die in peace, when we know it has helped us to live and believe it will also comfort our last hours, we believe in it and do not like it attacked. ;Kincardine News, DOGS Municipal councils are coming down hard on dogs, especially those ,of the policedog order. These dogs seem to be amiable enough. It, is their ob- vious ability that impresses us. Their, size and power makes them teem to be effective. But dogs in general is am old ques- tion now. Keep a dog in town with. out trespassing on your neighbors rights, you. can't. Their rights too, are their own. .But in times when tramps are importunate, when tran- sients are insolent or when thieves are dangerous, then the big capable dog is at his best. More watchdogs, less thieves. Where watchdogs are, gangsters and gunmen are not, and where they are not, kidnappers, burg- lars, gunmen, feel pretty safe from discovery.• --Listowel Standard. MATTER OF MPARISON Much is heard about the high cost of education but figures prepared by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics go to show that it costs only about $750 to keep the average child at school for eight years, but it costs more than that for clothing, twice as much for food and three times as much for FARMERS housing. Altogether, it is said to cost $5,750 to bring -up a child to the age when it is self-supporting. Next. to good health, a good education is the -greatest asset a yomlgster can have,—Fergus News -Record. A BIT SORRY About a year ago when everything apparently was going so swimmingly with our American cousins, a treaty of some sort or ether was concluded with Russia that seemed likely to bring untold commercial advantage to the.United States. Of pourse' the Americans were to advance a good deal of the cash to the Russians. It turns out that a good deal of the cash had been advanced. This done, the Russians were satisfied that the trea- ty, or whatever it was, had worked out satisfactorily as far as Russia was concerned and concluded that that was the end of the whole thing. When Russia :had served her own ends why should she be bothered with such a detail as living up to her promises or her obligations? Hence her word to Uncle Sam "Go jump into the Mis- Poor old Britain was regarded as slow when the U. S. made this treaty. Uncle Sam was regarded' as enterpris- ing and forgiving as well as a great many ether fine things. Meanwhile Britain kept on sawing wood at her own pile. Just now .she is piling up what she has sawed, taking an oceas• tonal' sly glance at Uncle Sam as he meditates on how Russia beat him out of his eye teeth in the famous "hoss" trade. What the American money lenders are calling the Russians simp- ly is not nice and we refuse to print it. Then, we recall Russia's gracious offer to the Canadian beaver, an offer made about the same time that the Russian bear was smiling so .sweetly at the Americai eagle. The saga+ cious beaver was busy about his own business and refused to play the game of heads I win, tails you lose, with Russia or with anybody else. Russia got rid of vital religios. As religion left by door, public opinion flew out through her window. Will Germany please take notice? The rest of the world have something to go in this regard.—Exeter Times -Advocate. CHANGE WANTED IN POST OFFICE SERVICE Recently the Whitby Gazette put up a strong argument for more con- sideration and just treatment of the small towns in the matter of postal service. It says : , "For some time the question has been discussed why towns and vile lages should be singled out and made to pay for post office service, while residents in the rural districts and the cities get mail delivered to their door free of charge, and we notice where Seaforth town council has pe, taloned the federal government to remove this discrimination. The trouble is that townspeople not only have to go to the post office to get their mail but they also have to pay rental for a box to put it in, though the convenience of boxes is just as great an aid to the post office stair' as it is to the patrons. And ,on top of this, we have to pay our share toward the delivery of mail in the cities and townships. In other words, they "get" us both coming and going. Of course, it would mean a large of- fice department to deliver mail to everybody's door all over Canada, but this argument doesn't alter the fact that they are doing it for two large bodies of people now; though deny, ing this service to the third class .. A start should be made in extending the service until it is uniformly car- ried out. But towns will never get it until they make their voices heard, and of course, until all homes are numbered as they should have been long ago in Whitby." It is quite plain to the open mind that the small towns areimposed upon in the present situation but the Era realizes that changes could be made gradual and relieve a great injustice. In the first place the post office box rent in towns from $000 to 5000 .population according to the assessment roll should be reduced to a nominal sum of $1.00 for the or- dinary size and $2.00 foT the double boxes per year . , . All towns of five thousand inhabi- tants and over should have a daily distribution, provided the houses were numbered. . The rural mail is undoubtedly a great boon to the far- mers but it isethe towns who pay the postage bills. It is to be hoped that the Canadian Weekly Press Associa- tion • will follow this vnatter up till the small towns get justice. --Newmarket Era. SEAPORTII: A very enjoyable social under the auspices of the Young Ladies' Sodality of St. James Catholic Church, was held Friday in St. James pariah hall, which was crowded to the doors. Music was supplied by the Royal Night Owls' of Mildmay. Refreshments were served'. by the young ladies. EXETER: The Bell Telephone Company plans to spend $15,000 at Exeter this summer, rebuilding the entire exchange and plant and remov- ing the poles and overhead wires from the business streets.' The pro- gram'' calls for a complete uew ex- change, with new wiring and new cable throughout the entire town, un- derground cables on the business streets, and joint use of poles with the Public Utilities Commission in some sections. The program will af- fect only the urban exchange of the Bell Telephone Company at Exeter and will not affect the rural tele- phone exchanges in that neighbor, hood. Officials estimate Piet the work planned will cost about $15,000. It will be started within two or three weeks, or as soon as the weather is more favorable and will take from two to three months' time to cone. pieta the job. When the program is completed Exeter will have one of the most • up-to-date telephone ex- changes in the poi*ut of both service and equipment in Western Ontario. IMcKILLOP: A successful presen- tation of the play, "All On As- count of Polly," was given by the Ladies' Aid of Duff's United Church, McKillop, on Friday evening in the church, which was well filled. The pastor, Rev. G. E. Morrow, presided. Between acts, pleasing solos were rendered by Mrs. J. E. Daley and 1' r. A. F. ,Bartlett. HENSALL: Mrs. Mary Agur, one of Huron county's centenarians, is seriously ill at her home following an injury which is feared fractured her hip. The aged woman, now in her 103rd year, resides at her home here with her daughter, Mrs. Fletcher, who found Mrs. Agur lying on the floor of her bedroom. The daugh- ters fear was aroused when she found her mother's room door closed. She found on entering that the aged woman had apparently fallen against the door and was unable to help her- self up, She was removed to her bed by a neighbor, Mrs. Peck, who was called 2nd despite the injury was reported Iast night to be holding her own. Due to her advanced age no effort has been made yet to X-ray I the injury. HEENSALL: "Sylvia," a pastoral operetta in two acts, was presented to a full house in the town hall under the auspices of the Young People's Society of Hensel!, United Church, in conjunction with Women's Hospital aid of Scott Memorial Hospital, Sea - forth, and arranged by Dr. L S. Smillie. Accompanist was Mrs. Elsie Keating; production director, Mabel Turner; musical director, James A. Stewart. WINGHAM: Isabel Ross, aged 10, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ross of_Wingham, was run over with a car at the corner of Main and. John Streets. The ear was driven by Bert Mothers of Bluevale. Fortunately the child was not seriously hurt and was found by Dr. H. Colobrne who examined her following the accident, She received several. bad abrasion, a - boat the knees and head. HENSALL: The funeral of Mrs. George Scott who passed away on Wednesday in her 86th year was held from the residence and was private and conducted by Rev. Arthur Sin-. claire of the United`Ch'uroh. Those, 'k. who attended from a distance were. Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Scott and daugh, ter, Marion, of Toronto; Mr. and, Mrs. Graham of London; Charles Ghapmanr and family of Palinerston; Miss Mar- garet Chapman of Toronto; Lorne- Ballantyne, orneBellantyne, of. Detroit; Mr. Brandy, of Stratford; Mr. and Mrs. Ray P'hafr of Delhi; ffizs. Lloyd Hudson of For- est. interment was in Hensail Univ ted Cemetery. MORRIS TOWNSHIP: After an - illness extending over the past nine- years, there passed away at his resi- dence on the third concession of Mor- ris Township, on Sunday, Walter Ba- sil Coultes, in his forty-third year, He is survived by his parents, Mr. and" Mrs. John Coultes, of Belgrave- two brothers, John Miller of Morris, Roe. bert Howson on the homestead, wit/i- v/hem he resided; two sisters, Eliza- beth Cela at home and Mrs. H. Mit- chell of Drayton. EXETER: Welter Lidston, R. R. 3, Exeter, suffered minor injury to his right foot when it was crushed' between the motorcycle he was rid- ing and the bumper of a motor car. He was riding on Richmond street at Hyman street, London, as a car dri- ven by George Kingdon,.621% Rich- mond street, was coming from Hy, man street with his car and stopped before entering the through street. The cyclists foot was squeezed be- tween the"cycle and the front of the motor vehicle. DUNGANNON: Benson Pentland • left on his return to Thornlee, where he resumed his duties as teacher, following a week spent at his home here after the death of his father, A. B. G. Pentland. Miss Margaret Pent- land also resumed her duties as tea- cher en Monday at her school at Salt - ford. EXETER: A motor mishap which. could easily have proven fatal to two or more persons happened Friday - night, on Highway No. 4. It appears that as L. White and E. Davis on their way back from London, were nearing Redley May's, a car driven by W. B. Shapton, swung out of May's lane - way, directly in the path of the White t car. Light snow was falling, making the pavement dangerous. There seemed only ane chance for the big car either to plow into the car ahead or take the ditch, as brakes were use- less, on the snow. Driver Whits • took the ditch, his ear rolling over once, landing again on its wheels, a- cross the ditch. A 500 -ib. motor in the - back seat went through the glass of ,the rear door. Other than a few bruises the occupants were uninjured. The windshield glass was smashedi. The fenders and body of the car were badly crumpled and twisted. SOURED ON THE WORLDT—THAT'S LIVER Wake up your Liver Bile —No Calomel necessary Many people who feel Hour, sluggish ane generally wretched make the mistake of taking salts, od,- rnineral water, laxative candy or clrawmg g on or roughage which only mous rho bowcle and ignore the liver. what you need ie to wake up your live, bite• Start your liver pouring the daily two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels. Gat your ,tomach and inteetinee working as they should, once more. CarterlsaLittle Liver Pie, will soon fix you Acle fore'�a'Iteih',hy name. Safe. Sure. ubsGQtuter 260. at all druggists, 61 GA TIRES cost leastp er mile Buy the tire that gives most for your money— Goodyear All -Weather Tread. That's the real economy. • We have your size! 12 months' guarantee,,' de��dis a?rd�;' road • haztarrls Cole & Robinson PHONE 178, CLINTON'.