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The Clinton News Record, 1934-05-17, Page 6ETON $i EEcOR; isseMmesamerrermemermeweeseerimminesioiew Time Information nfo r ,tion for the ins Firmer, ( Furnished by the Department of Agriculture) i Choosing the Site of a Farm Well ,The situation of the farm well is often the factor which determines whether the family will have pure and wholesome water to drink or wa- ter that is unsanitary, provoking disease. It is desirable to locate the well 150 feet from any polluting source, such as the barn, manirred fields or gardens, septic tanks, open dit- ches, roads, garbage heaps nor even ati,ay from the dwelling house where waste water may be thrown out or where there may be poultry runs or dpg kennels. Check up on the Food Supply of the Bees According to the Dominion Apiar- ist more colonies of bees are Lost during the latter part' of March and throughout April than at any other period of the year, simply because of starvation. Most bees are given enough food in the fall to, carry them through until the following spring, provided the winter is not too severe, and the spring flowers yield early, but many do not live to see the flow- ers bloom . The winter 'of 1933-34 has been long, steady and severe and spring promises to be very late in many places, therefore, the keep- er of bees is well advised to check up the food supply of the bfces and be prepared to supplement it as soo: as ever weather conditions will per. mit+ Sow Onions and Sweet Corn Early The onion being a long season crop requires to be soNim as early in the spring as soil and weather con- ditions will permit. Early sowing ensures the plants becoming well es- tablished before the dry, hot weather occurs, For short season sections, advises the Dominion Horticulturist, use Early Flat Red or Fiat Yellow Danvers, and for those regions where the later maturing varieties do well use Large Red Wethersfield, or Southport Red Globe and for yellow varieties Yellow Globe Danvers or Southport Yellow 'Globe. Early sweet corn brings the best price, hence the importance of plant- ing as early as possible. Successful sowings made at intervals of ten days apart in the same field is a 'means of having the first early corn. Should the first planting succeed the second and third plantings can be hoed out or on the other hand should the first plantings be killed by frost the third or fourth planting may de- velop unhampered. Fertilizer Mixtures The plant food content of com- mercial fertilizer mixtures is ex- pressed by formulae such as 4-8-101 2-12-16, etc These figures denote the guaranteed percentages of -nitrogen, available phosphoric acid and potash in the order in which they occur in the formula. For example a 4-8-10 5'nixture will contain 4 per cent of COUNT THEM YOURSELF On every highway, in every town and city, Goodyear is the lead- ing tire. Count them anywhere. Prove this claim for yourself. Core & Robinson " PHONE 173, lVr CLINTON nitrogen, 8 per cent of available phosphoric acid and 10 per cent oge potash. A: fertilizer offered for sale in Canada must contain hot less than 2 per cent of nitrogen or 5 per cent of available phosphoric acid or 2 per •cent of water-soluble potash and not less than a total of 14 per cent of these. constituents., Use More Alfalfa Good soils in .the Ottawa Valley are capable of producing fine crops of alfalfa. Experiments over a per- iod of years on the Dominion Exper- mental Farms show that alfalfa and mixtures which • contain alfalf have given much larger yields 'than when the alfalfa was not included. The feeding value has also been eonsider- ably increased. The inclusion of 3 or 4 pounds of alfalfa seed in the timothy, red clover, alsike mixture is well worth while and 'should be adopted as a.regular practice. The beset varieties are Ontario Variegat, ed and Canadian grown Grimm. Combating Couch Grass Couch or quack grass presents a Very serious problem in Eastern Can- ada. Experiments have ,shown that ploughing as early in the summer as the .crop can be removed, cultivating the land during the fall, and re ploughing just before the ground freezes constitute a very satisfactor; method of centre]. If this proced- ure can be followed the next year by a • eultivated crop, or a smother crop partically complete eradication will i be secured. It is surprising and dis- heartening sometimes, to find that couch grass will persist even after considerable work has been done en the land However, when right me- thods are followed, and provided rea- sonably dry weather is enjoyed, come plate success may be assured. In Western Canada, the application of commercial fertilizers with a corn- bination fertilizer and grain drill has proved vert effective in contreliing' malty weeds, , i Severe Winter Killing From all parts of the province come reports of serious damage to fall wheat, alfalfa and clover. Fol- lowing are extracts .from reports re- ceived from representatives in var sous counties, 1 • Bruce: Fall wheat bas not win- tered well and many field's are com- pletely killed out, There has been considerable winter killing of alfalfa and clover, too. Dufferin: New seed- ing of fall wheat is improving and is much more promising than was exe pected, but most wheatfields will have to be seeded to barley. H'altoni A conservative estimate would say that 75 per cent. of the fall wheat will have to bb torn up or patched. A! heavy increase in acreage of ane nual hay and pasture mixtures for this purpose are being used. North Simeoe: The majority of farmers re- port total loss of wheat, clover and alfalfa. It is not now expected that more than 2 per cent. of the wheat crop will be ,a normal crop, while an- other 15 per cent. may be partially saved as a feed .crop by patch- ing. Waterloo: Over 70 per cent. d8 fall wheat acreage will be rescan to barley or mixed grain. About 40 per cent. of clovers and alfalfa will have to be plowed up and an annual hay crop sown. Elgin: Fall wheat is very spotty. Some fields wintered well, while ethers are badly winter killed. Haldimand: Reports indicate that fall wheat, alfalfa and clover will be spotty. Lambton: Fall wheat will be a good 80 per tent crop. Mid-) dlesex: Fall wheat, alfalfa and clo- ver have shown considerable growth during the.warni weather of early May. While the majority of fields look quite promising, there are some wheat fields in many sections being seeded to spring grains and some clover fields being plowed up and in many cases seeded to an annual hay mixture, Durham: Nhhst of the fall wheat acreage has been cultivated and sown to barley or re -cleaned western - spring wheat. Hastings: Fall wheat and clovers have been se- verely' killed out and farmers are. finding itdifficult to secure seed, Ontario: Fall wheat, is almost a to. tal loss. Alfalfa and clover are bad- ly damaged, but the warm weather has brought them along. Northum- berland: About 75 per cent. of the fall wheat in this area will not re- cover from the severe winter, and`. the same applies to new seeding of afalfa. Prince Edward: Due to all fall wheat being; killed as well as a great percentage of elover and. calf alfa, farmers will have about double the Spring's :work to do this season 7rcnt,' alfalfa and fall wheat have Victoria; Now that growth has start- ed fall -wheat • acreage^ that has es- caped, can be estimated at 5 per cent York: It is estimated that in this ccnnty, 90 per cent. of the fall wheat will be reseededto spring grains. This is the heaviest winter killing on record. Frontenac: For a distance of about 25 miles back fromthe river been from 90 to 95 per cent. killed. Some'fieids are totally' bare. Straw- berries would bo about 80 per cent, winter killed, raspberries and other bush fruits about 50 per cent. Len- non and Addington: Fall wheat es- timated to be practically a total 'loss and alfalfa and clovers fully ''75 per cent. WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING NO CAUSE FOR WORRY Great floods are predicted for the two year .period of 1936-38 by a sun- spot expert. - Unless he is a better guesser, than some of the so-called weather experts we won't worry much. —Kincardine Review -Reporter. "ALL'S WELL" Selling cattle to Russia did not look like a bed idea to many people for a while. R.. B. Bennett turned it down. The United States took Rus- sia on for a few billions of dollars' worth of farm and railway equip- ment, and now repents, declaring Russia a defaulter on her debts. The bear walked like a man for a while and then walked into Uncle Sam like a bear. Thanks, • Mr. Kipling. Thanks, Mr. Bennett Canada reports "All's well."- t istowei Standard. I SO SAY WE So they don't know anything about maple syrup in Holland. Well, there are people in Canada; who know it and care for it only moderately. Life is like that. The best things in life go' begging. But as for all right thinking people, there is nothing more delicious than the clear golden fluid) made from pure sap with nothing added, and evaporated at just the right temperature to just the right degree of smooth perfection. Eaten in the spring of the year,. with or without, pan cakes, it is 'a dish fit for the gods. Too many makers burn it in the process or add brown sugar or some other cheap ingredient. Peo- ple who don't like it must have tried some of this wrath -provoking sub- stitute. It just "ain't possible" not to like the real article. — Goderich Star) SOME HAVE A CONSCIENCE In commenting 'on newspapers re- fusing liquor and beer advertising the Durham Chronicle asks; "Why should newspapers be picked out as the only industry in the country to refuse legitimate business." We have no doubt that the Chronicle has refused advertising on the strength of it be- ing against the welfare of the com- munity. Advertisements fon quack Patent medicines no doubt have been relegated to the waste basket ,bey the editor of the Chronicle, the same as by other newspapers. If not, he had that privilege. It is the same with the liquor or beer advertising. Many, newspaper proprietors believe that beer advertising is in the above cate- gory and refuse to allow their cony miens to recommend the purchase of strong drinks. Wo know that no hewspaper guarantees any products their advertisers may insert, but they can, if they know of any item that would lead the public astray, re- fuse to accept that part. So it is with liquor advertising.Strong drink as a ;beverage wasand is no use to mankind and many newspaper pub- lishers would not wish to know that some young lad was' led astray by a liquor advertisement in his paper, The beer drinker of today is the liq- uor drinker of tomorrow. gFlesherton Advance. WINE AND BEER BILL E. E. Knowles, the Toronto Star's feature writer, had an interview with Rev. Dr. Geo. A. Little in a recent is- sue. Concluding two columns of inter- rogation, Knowles asked facetiously; —"From hints you have dropped then, am I not fairly safe in surmis- ing that you are not altogether in fa- vor of this wine and beer bill?" Dr. Little's reply was: -"The bit has been boar in financial sin and conceived in political iniquity. Mr. Home Smith announced the bans. The Moderation League is the mother. William Price, is the father—George Henry is only the midwife. Howard Ferguson stands as godfather --and Canon Cody may do the chistening, Meanwhile Mitchell Hepburn stands waiting with his perambulator, ready to adopt the baby if it .becomes an orphan. However, the conscience of Ontario is still a factor in the case and candidates may find that this question is an important issue in the campaign. And there may be some surprises," ONLY municipal council of the City of Hali- fax made it legal for, autamobiles to run two days a week on the county o'oads. . In the light of•present-day events. when the motor ear goes 011 its way seven days a week, winter and sum- mer, it is very hard to realize that modes of transportation were so very different so very few years ago. We forget the bitter fights that waged in councils and out of them; and even in Parliament, over the rights of the automobile on the pub- lic roads twenty-five years age. Yet one does not need to by mid- dle-aged to remember these things, So rapid has been the advance made by the motor car, however, the' practically every one has forgotten them., Nearly everyone has forgotten, too the bitter fight there was waged about spending the people's money in building the first paved roads for the automobile. The boot is on the other foot now,. and many, if not most of those early opponents of paved roads, are those who are loudest in their demands that permanent roads be built to their doors, no matter how far they may live in the country. Time has a way of changing one's opinions, hasn't it? 41/urotx Expositor, a+ , IT LOOKS THAT WAY "Seeing a pretty girl is as good as a tonic," says an enthusiast. And sometimes they are made up at the same druggist's.—Milverton Sun, STARLINGS INCREASING It begins to look as though sonie really 'oncerted effort will have to be made to exterminate the starlings. Their! depredations Iast year were enormous, and this,year there seems to be more of them on the job than ever before.•—Ridgetown Dominion. ROBIN, ATTRACTS ATTENTION, A: robin that makes its home in ttie vicinity .of the Public School is ate tracting considerable attention. The school children and the people who live, in this neighborhood have been watching it on account of its peculiar markings. It has white feathers on its back and wings and the breast is spotted with white. .... W Ingham Advance -Times; MAN'S BODY FOUND -AFTER SIX MONTHS Setting out from Nova Scotia; last November, bound for Lucknow, John A. IleaeDonald's body Was found by fishermen of that province. Missing for six months, he was found near a railways track in a deserted district and it is thought he may have fellers off a train. A miner by trade, bun a roamer by nature, MacDonald first came to Lucknow in the fait of 1932. Unlike many transients, ho preferred to travel alone, and it was in this man- ner he came to the village, where quite eager to work, he found many odd jobs and assisted Mr. Bert. Ward for some time with his duties as Town Hall caretaker. An interesting chap and a . willing worker, landed for him a job assist- ing Eddie MacKenzie en his father's farm in Kinloss, where , he worked during the winter of 1933. In ` the spring he left fo ,Nova Scotia, where he was employed during the summer. on a fruit farm. Before departing he arranged to return and work at Mc- Kenzie's during the winter His failure to do so caused Mr. Me'Keri zie to write to his empioyer in the Maritimes who immediately replied stating that MacDonald had left s month previous for Lueknow. Polier were notified of his disappearance. His whereabout, however, remained a mystery until the gruesome discov- ery of his body last week. • ,Lucknow Sentinel; LAUIRIER ATE BRUCE COUNTY . TURKEYS FOR 20 YEARS Kincardine-SDougan Smith, ,5an- geen Township farmer, was nominat- ed Friday to be Liberal candidates He declined the honor. However Mr. Smith is a stalwart grit for he sup. plied the late Sir Wilfred Laurier th h- f t- t k for20 W2 dS • es eve ur eys years. Mr. Smith did not say so but did shake Ms fist at E. A. Duncan, 'Wier - TWENTY -FOUR YEARS etod editor, who apprised the eon. AGO vention of this fact. Until > now. it ' had been the secret int Mr. 'Smith and Only twenty-four gears ago the friends. THURS., MAY 17; 1934` RAILWAY: EXCUSIONS WERE POPULAR LAST YEAR AND N ARE )BEING CONTINUED Some idea of the increased travel and commercial relations between the 1Vearitinies and .Qntarvo was give en 'by H. C. Bourlier, General Pas- senger Agent, Canadian National Railways, when an announcement, was made Victoria visualizes': the tune 'when it will be ,a serious inconvenience. "AL ready," she says, "doorways in trains and trams are too low for many men, and soon, the average bed and ship's berth will be too' short. For a long strong representations made from various sections of the province. which were not included as points in last year's round-trip, 21 -day ex- cursions; this year the territory had been enlarged so that all points in Ontario, east of Port Arthur and Armstrong, would be incorporated in the special fares for the corning sum- mer trips. In commenting upon the action taken by the railways in enlarging the Maritime excursion territory, Mr. Bourlier pointed out that within the past year travel between the two sections of Eastern and Central. Can- ada had increased by unprecedented proportions. "The movement is not only confined to travel from On- tario to the seaboard provinces but a proportionately large increase has been noted from the three Maritime Provinces to Ontario," Mr. Bourlier added. "An analysis of the passer'. ger excursion business for last win- ter shows that hundreds of Mari- time travellers ,came to Ontario, Tn fact, so great was the demand in the Maritimes for Ontario reduced fares that virtually every time an excur- sion from Eastern Canada was oper- ated to Montreal we were obliged to extend the destination to Toronto, In every ease there was a big viol. me' of traffic to Ontario. Air illus- tration of this may lee found in the last regular excursion operated from the Maritimes. Three special trains were required and one was run alone for Ontario and Toronto travellers." by him -•that owing to 'AUSTRALIANS, 'SAID TO BE GROWING TOO TALI: So steady is the increase in the height and 'weight of the average Australian that Dr. Janet Greig of tine 1 have been astonishedat the amazing height of our adolescents at the age of 14,15 0 i 16 years,buten recent years it is the height of girls aged 12 and 13 years rs that is sur ri - in Dr.Greig, r g, whors inspector of the Education Department, referred to statistics of averages taken out of two groups over an interval of ten years. These showed that the Vic- torian child in 1922 was taller and heavier at every age than in 1912. Freedom from serious diseases was one of the causes to which she at= tributcd these symptoms ' of good health. "SEND IT IN" If you have a bit of news, Send it in. Or a joke that will amuse, Send it in. A story that is true, Or something that is new-•' W!e want to hear from you— Send it in. If it's only worth the while, Never mind about the style, "eve'r'. Send it in. r•r HE WANTED HIS GUN BACK A red-headed Irish boy once sp plied for a position in a messenger office. The manager, after hiring him, sent him on an errand in one off the most fashionable districts. Half an hour later the manager was cal- led to the phone and the following conversation took place: "Have you a red-headed boy, work, Ing for you?" oyes!, , "Wtell, this is the 'janitor at the Oakland Apartments, where your boy, carie ti) deliver a message. He in- sisted on coming in the front way and was so persistent that I was forced to 'draw a gun." "Horrors! You didn't shoot hint, did you?" "No, but 1 'want nay gun hack." iTto I - 1 I I ! +Clipped. NOCTURNE There;' is no loneliness on the summit,. Though the whole run of day's gold-- leequered bowl Is disappearing, and vaguely ;below , me The lake isfading in an argent: scroll: Strangely at night the distances seem' less; The village lamps that flicker miles. away Are clusters, 'tantalizing, brightly near; The night-time is more friendly than.; the day. Sheer depth below me' drops the pre-- cipico To curving shadows that I know ere^ trees, Familiar in the darkness as in light, The mountain's ever-changing drap- eries. Above me is the cradle of the stars, ` A diadem for all the earth asleep; And closely round' my head' the nigha. winds blow A purity of air refreshing, deep. There is mit--, The 7;Iouds es And no Ioneliness on the sum ;F'' 1,1 the& sky come clinging, sailing the mother Whose close white' and Maui' 18 0(: prom singing. Hoinian,: IuIlaby winds are v.-B'eatrice Tare advertisements are printed fon' your convenience. They inform and-' rave your time, energy end- money. OFF COLOUR T' HOW IS YOUR LIVER? Wake up your Liver Bite —Without C 1oind Ycnr 11ves's w very email organ; but it me. • doaµV pig,ur sod �' aout o , by refusing to ,two poande of liquid bus ,atoyour out wie You won't completely correct euei, a eouditfon by taking calfs, oil;.mnacrol water, laxative candy or chewing gum„ or rougbogo. when thvy'v,, - moved your bowels.thoY'do. t rough --and you need a bveratmnlhnt, Carter's Littlo Liver Pills aOl exon bring back the sunshine into your life. They're pur vege- table. Safe. Serro. Aek for them byname. Refuse.. subetitutee, 25o et all druggists. 48 ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS MOTOR VEHICLES BRANCH To THE CAREFUL D OF ONTARI Congratulations — and a equest 1 There has been a gratifying decrease in the number of'automotive- accidents in Ontario. There were fewer deaths in 1933, fewer .person& injured, less property damage. The decrease in accidents has been: substantially greater than the percentage of decrease in registrations.... To those drivers who helped in this improvement the thanks of this department, the thanks of every citizen of Ontario, is due, and.. you have mine m large measure. But, we have only made a beginning! Despite the improvement shown, there were 8,634 serious, acci'den ts last year. 403 men, women and children were killed. 7,877 persons,. were injured! By whom? Who were responsible for these deaths and irrju'ri'es? The drivers involved were,for the most part, honest, decent.-' citizens; men and women who are usually careful, who only take aa_ chance now and then. They were of no special class. Sonne of than live in your street, perhaps next door to you. One of thele -might have: -- been you! Every one of these drivers is sorry now— truly sorry—but' all the regret in the world cannot restore life or limb'. The habitually reckless, callous driver is a known, visiblentenaee.,.. Against him swift action can be taken. But it is to the usually carefub. motorist, like yourself, that this department must look for help in,. making Ontario's streets and highways safer for driver and pedestrian.. alike. Will you help?—this season more than ever before! The' way - is simple, the result can be far-reaching, Careful driver, respond to this appeal! Remember that it only takes a moment for an accident to happen—one la -?se from safe-. driving. In that one moment may occur a tragedy whic e the offending driver may never be able to forget. Every time you sit at the wheel of your car be safety -conscious. Watch !Drive safely always.,;.. alit the way.. Toronto,. May 1st,' 1934.