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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1934-09-06, Page 6i PAGE 6 THE lellgimenseininose HEWS �o CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, H&PPENIN rawininsanowanomoriamairaownivxmoew THURS., SEPT. G, 1934 f IJEREST TO FRMERS I' Information for theTimely Busy Farmer '( Furnished by the Department of Agriculture ) During the month of July, 1934, under the supervision of an inspec- 11,000,000 lbs. of 'bacon were export-. tor: Sulphur, 2 pounds; oil of tar, 8 ed to Great Britain as compared with ounces; raw linseed •oil, 1 gallon, 7A00,000 lbs. during July, 1938. ,0 * „ * * " Current Crop Report When packing eggs for shipment, Recent `general rains have lin- e good practice is to brush the handproved pasturage and will benefit lightly over each filler as it is pack-. root crops and late tree fruits. ed to make sure that no eggs are Threshing of, fall wheat is about protruding 'ab'ove the top of the fit= completed with yields below aver- ler. Such eggs almost invariably age Harvesting of spring grains is 'will break in transit. Before pack- ing a ,case, examine the bottom and sides. If any nails are loose or have fallen out, replace them. * * Value of Certified Seed Commercial potato growers whose stock is infested with diseases or contains mixed varieties would find it decidedly advantageous to secure certified seed. It is not the chief purpose of the Department of Agri- culture to encourage potato growers to use certified seed with a view to having their crops inspected for cer- tification purposes, because every potato grower has not the necessary patience and time, or suitable loca- tion and equipment, for growing cer- tified seed. The object of the depart- ment rather is to have growers use the best seed obtainable for, their commercial crop, and help to keep down to a minimum destructive plant diseases, with their resultant serious effect on yields. The use of certi- fied potato seed on many farms would double the yields now being obtained. Victoria County North Dumfries Eranosa .. Puslinch . Wentworth North Oct. 16 wheat produced. At the present time MISTAKES OF LIFE . .. " 22 1 thele is no distinct advantage in To expect to set up our own stand- " g . growing red winter wheat, There- and` of right and wrongand expect stand- ". 17 , fore, Southwestern Ontario should be 'everybody to conform to it. " 23 I producing entirely white winter er try to measure the enjoyment King and .Vaughan " 9 I wheat of the varieties best adapted of others by our own. East York " 9', to the pastry trade. The high repu- To expect uniformity of opinion In North York . " 9 , tation that Ontario pastry flour has this world. International Plow Match" 9' attained is undoubtedly due largely To look for judgment and experi- 10e11-12 to the extent that,Dawson's Golden.epee in ,youth. Chaff has been grown in :the Pro- * * * ei To endeavour to mould all disposi- Vince. tions alike. Not to yield to unimpor- White Winter Wheat for South- The white winter wheats will pro sant trifles! duce equally as good or higher yields, To look for perfection in our own than the re winter western Ontario h d innm w whter eats now be - actions. There has been considerable re- ing grown in the district: This fact. To worry.ourselves and others a- bout cent discussion concerning the, win- has been substantiated by, 'tests on ter wheat situation , in this dis- winter wheat varieties conducted ov- what cannot be remedied. hwinter wheat eraperiod of years on the Domin- Not to, make allowances for the trice. Most of the weaknesses of others. To consider everything impossible that we cannot ourselves perform. To believe only what ' our finite minds can grasp. To live as if the moment, the time, the day were so important that it would live for ever. To estimate people by some out- side quality, for • it is that within which makes the man. grown in Southwestern Ontario be- ion Experimental Station at Harrow. longs to the classof white -winter, the The three white winter wheats . re - chief variety being Dawson's Golden commended for Western Ontario are Chaff. However, there is an apple-. Dawson's Golden Chaff, O.A.C. 104, ciable acreage of red winter wheat and Junior No. 6. These varieties grown in certain sections. Would. are recommended as a result of the nearing completion under favorable not our wheat district be in a better past experimental work conducted n weather conditions. Threshing is well position if onlywhite winter wheat Ontario by both the Dominion and advanced with •oats and barley yield- ing from 38 to 60 bushels per acre.' Corn is 'in`good condition. The hay orop is considerablybelow average. The second cutting of alfalfa is light. Roots are making satisfactory pro- gress. Turnips in a few districts will be below average due to insect damage. Sugar beets are 30 per cent, under expectations. Apples, peaches and pears will be light, with apple production estimated at one- third less than last year and peaches one-half of last year's tonnage. Grapes promise a good yield. * 9 Pig Feeding Methods Although there are several meth- ods of preparing meal mixtures for feeding pigs, the following _ rules are recommended as safe practices in producing hogs of the desired type: (1) Grind all grain. Fine grinding is recommended especially for young pigs. (2) Soak meal mix- tures between feeds; do not use too, much water but feed as a fairly thick slop. (3) Hand feeding is the best method for securing hogs of a desir- able type. (4) If necessary, a self - feeder may be used after pigs have reached the growing stage of devel- opment. (5) Keep pails, troughs and other feeding equipment clean. Mouldy or decaying matter will cause feeding troubles, and (6) Sup- ply clean drinking water. *9* The Racket of Robber Bees Interest in Junior Work Although honey stealing by bees is likely to be meat troublesome' in late summer, the beekeeper has to keep in mind that robber bees may start their racket at any time. In warn weather when there is little or no honey to be got from the flowers the bees will easily yield to any temptation to obtain, It anyhow. Af- ter more or less fighting they will ov-, erpower any very weak colonies, and carry the honey to their own hives, Old robber bees have a shiny appear- ance, the hair having become worn off with entering so many different . hives. No colony should be allowed to grow weak, says the Dominion apiarist, and no honey or syrup should be exposed in the apiary. Notification of Animal Disease Horses, mules and asses of all ages and classes are liable to con- tract any of the serious contagious diseases of the skin known as mange, scabies or itch. Mange is scheduled under the Animals Contagious Dis- eases Act, which requires that every owner, breeder, dealer or veterinary surgeon suspecting the existence of this disease shall immediately notify the nearest veterinary inspector. Treatment Is carried out under quar- antine, the following mixture 'being used officially for hand treatment At Central Canada Show The Junior Agricultural Depart- ment of the Central Canada Exhibi- tion again proved one of the out-, standing features of the show. This department, which includes the judg- ing competitions in live stock, poul- try, seeds, domestic science, halter making, as well as the Calf Ciub and showmanship competition, attracted a record number of 721 entries. A large and interested ringside follow- ed the placings made by W. J. Bell and L. C. McQuat, iri connection with the Calf Club and showmanship com- petitions. were grown? From a trade stand - Point, the growing of as few varie- ties as possible is. very desirable be - Provincial Departments of Agricul- ture. Dawson's Golden Chaff origin- ated from a single plant selected by cause it offers' the market a more Robert Dawson, of Paris, Ontario, uniform product than if many varies some fifty years ago, and it has long ties of unlike types and qualities been recognized • as an outstanding were grown. This point is, made variety. It is a hardy wheat, highs since a large percentage : of winter iy productive, and highly recent wheat marketed from certain coun- mended for Southwestern Ontario. ties grades red and white mixed. 0. A. C. 104 is the result of a cross Until recently there were custom- between Dawson's Golden. Chaff and era who preferred red -winter wheat Bulgarian made by the Ontario Agri for the manufacture of their products. cultural College. It is a soft wheat, This was the chief justification for but is inclined to be somewhat hard- the growing of such red winter er than Dawson's Golden Chaff. Jun - wheat varieties as Egyptian Amber for No. 6 ("Gold Coin") carne from and Nigger. The situation has now New York State. It is a good yielder changed, and difficulty M sometimes and is also well liked by the soft experienced in marketing the red wheal: flour trade. First honors in the Ayrshire groups went to 'the Newington Calf Club of West Stormont, while in the Jersey section, the award went to the group from the Carp Calf Club', Carleton County. A class of 86 fac- ed Judge W. J. Bell in the Holstein section. This class was won by the group from Prince Edward County Calf Club. The same group was later awarded thechampionship of the dairy groups. In the Shorthorn and Hereford class, both awards went to the groups from the Carp Calf Club of Carleton County, with the Shorthorn group receiving the beef championship. The champion showman of the junior agricultural department was Norman Cummings of Lancaster, with Donald McIntyre of Finch re- serve. Plowing Match Dates Algoma District Oct. 10 Sault Valley . .. 6 St. Joseph Island . Brant County . " 17 Six Nations Indian " 16 Marlboro and N. Grower " 8 Cochrane - , ', 10 Dufferin County " 2 Frontenac. County'. ...... " 31 Glengarry . Sept. 27 Dundas West . Oct. 17 Grenville County . " 5 Haldirnand County . " 23. Mohawk Indian i '2. Huron South . ' " 25 Tilbury East . a 9 Leeds County • " 16 Lennox and Addington " 16 Gaistor Nov 1 Middlesex County Oct.'4 Norfolk County . " 24 Ontario, North . " 15 Ontario, South " 17 Powassan District . a 3 " 19 " 26 Huron County Potato Growers Field Meeting Instructive Lectures Front Experts Heard A Potato Growers Field Meeting was held on the farm of Mr. George Moon, Londesboro, on Wednesday evening, August 29th. This meeting was well attended with about fifty- five present, made up of commercial potato growers from different parts of the County and interested farm- ers from the Londesboro district, The meeting was called,for 600 p.m. and about one hour was spent in looking over a splendid field of potatoes on Mr. Moon's farm. A fertilizer test was laid down on this field in the spring using a fertilizer of 4-8-10 an- alysis, at four different rates of ap- plication, Mr. G... Snider of the Chemistry Department, O.A. College, Guelph, explained to those present the manner in which the different fertilizer plots were laid out. As the field was planted to late potatoes no check could be made at this time on the yield from the different plots, but those present were able to note a marked difference in the top growth between the fertilizer plots and the rest of the field which received no commreial fertilizer. Mr. Jahn Tucker Division of Bot- any, Central Experimental Farm, Ot- tawa, gave a talk on the identifica- Peel County . Mount Pleasant . Plantagenet (Eastern Counties) . Russell County . Orillia . 1 Stormont, 'West `Slate River Valley " 18 " 16 " 17 tion of the more common potato dis- eases and then conducted the party through part of the potato field and pointed out a number of different dis- eases as they appeared in the grow- ing crop. Later on Mr. Tucker gave an outline of the history of potato growing during the past 20 years, making particular reference to the advances made in the production of high quality seed. He also outlined control measures to be observed in combatting diseases and answered a number of questions in connection with general cultural practices. Professor Henry G. Bell of the Chemistry Department, O. A. Col- lege, Guelph, gave a very interesting talk on fertilizers and their applica- tion, dealing largely with commercial fertilizers as applied to the potato crop, but mentioned briefly the re- commended fertilizers for other farm crops. His address was illustrated by a series of lantern slides which served to illustrate many points men- tioned by Professor Bell. This gathering was the first meet- ing of potato growers held in the County and from the interest dis- played it would appear that this could well be made an annual event. The meeting was under the direction of the Huron County Branch of the Ontario Department of Agriculture. white feather on each edge of its lul-til-lul throatiness of a wind -wood tail." instrument, soared up the scale, . "You are right," said John, as the paused, modulated the key and sang vesper fluttered nearer to us and upward again, three, four, heavenly perched on a tall weed• fi scales ending in a series of small,. The vesper, sweeter than any oth- er sparrow's song began to call the evening shadows across the fields. Down the dirt road a way there was a wood lot, and as we came near it I heard the glorious, rushing, rob- in -like song of the rose -breasted grosbeak; only sounding as if it were a robin who had gone to Italy and studied -opera and had learned to do GODERICH HAS A BEVERAGE ROOM pianissimo cadenzas and closing in another flutey tremolo. The woods stood still. The sunlit clouds stopped marching. Deeper, than before, so clear and" loud it filled the earth, the hermit: launched again into a rising series of wood -wind scales and transporta- tions, higher, higher, and I looked at John and thought whimisically of the - much more than the Tobin's limited nightingale I had heard pounding itsi three -note song, one up, one down. anvil over my head in Enquin-les+' And if I could have John see that bird, after hearing it! The grosbeak was on a maple in the wood lot. As we came near John wanted to sit down again, with one ear back toward the meadows where the vespers sang and the meadow larks piped and the other ear to the grosbeak. ButI urged him on and we stood in the shadowy road by the wood lot, and John groaned. Ile put the glasses on the bird and then snatched: them away from his eyes. He glared at me. "Do you know this bird?" he rasp« ed. "Yes. A rose -breasted grosbeak." ' "Yet you have never so much as mentioned it to me," said John, set- ting the field -glasses on it again. "It's breast is the richest rose color I ever saw. It is black and white. Pure white. Jet black, with a rose breast." "It is like a splendid tropical bird," said John. "It is an incredible bird, just to see. Yet it sings divinely, hard country where the bright sum - softly, leisurely, forever. Why on mer burns then and the cold winter earth do you not sing about these kills them away. Their birds are birds? There is nothing like them closer, they live nearer them, they in the world!" share their lives, and they sing loud er and oftener. "But this music of our birds ..." • "Our birds?" I asked. "The birds of here, of Ontario, of Canada," said John, now pale for an- other reason, "our birds, .have a wild - Also More Drunks Than Had Been Seen in the Town in Many • Years It was learned with some surprise on Friday that the Ontario Liquor Board had granted a beverage room license to Wesley Litt, of the Bedford hotel. Mr. Litt had been working for weeks to procure an "authority," and apparently the resolution of the town council approving of the grant- ing of such licenses in Goderich was the final weight thrown into the scale on whieh Commissioner Odette; was weighing the pros and cons. " 4 Sept. 19 TRY TI -IIS TEST Place a check mark opposite any of these you would' like to sea: Hone Show - Scale Model of an Indian Bind Music Newest Farm Machinery- Village Poultry Show Streamlined Automobiles Champion Cattle - ' Midway Work of the Blind ..act Grandstand Show -Cattle Judging Famous Paintings Clothing from London, England Wild West Show Thrilling Hone Races ' - and Paris • Advancemodels of Radios C. K. C. Oog Show - Prixe.winning Grain If you have marked two or more, your trip to the Western Pair will not be wasted. J. H. Saunders, President W. D. Jackson, Secretary SEPT. 10-15, 1934 Pruning Flowering Shrubs (Experimental Farms Note) uhrubs should be pruned to pro- mote development of strong branches and good foliage. Old or dead wood should be removed, particularly from the centre of the bush, so that light andair may circulate freely. If the new growth is too crowded this also should be thinnedout. It is not advisable to "trim" a shrub all round as this tends to make the growth more dense and the graceful habit of the shrub is lost. Of eourse, branches that have grown too long can be shortened but as a general rule growthshould be cut out either from the ground or within a few inches of it. Spring flowering shrubs form their buds early in summer, for next sea- son's bloom so that pruning must be done immediately 'after the bloom is over. If delayed until winter many of the flower buds will be destroyed and next year there will be little bloom. Among the shrubs that should be treated. in this way are lilac, mock orange; spiraeas and viburnums. A fairly safe rule is to remove one, fifth 'ef'the oldest stems each year. In lilacs the difference between the size of the flowers on old wood and ;that on younger •branches,- is so great that, it is difficult to believe they come from the same bush. Beer went on sale an Friday after- noon and for a few days at least :busi- ness was very brisk. On Saturday night disgraceful scenes were seen in the vicinity of the Bedford hotel. Young fellows, mostly from the coun- try apparently, reeled and shouted on and off the sidewalk, and more drunks were seen that one night than had been seen in a dozen years in the town. There was a separate bever« age room in the hotel for women drinkers, but on the sidewalk girls were frequently seen arm in arm with befuddled boys --whether trying to get them away from the booze or partners in their folly one could not say. It seems to be the general op- inion that sale should not be allowed after 7 o'clock, at any rate on Sat- urday evenings. The people of God- erich will not •tolerate a continuance of the disgusting speetable of last Saturday night.--JGoderich. Signal. blooms well each season. Many rose species, barberries and bush honeysuckles only need the dead wood removed. Old plants of rasa rugosa should have the old wood cut out near the base so that new strong shoots will grow and renew the plant. LONDON '.' N''gAR■'O Summer bloomers which bloom bn shoots of the current season's growth, should be pruned when dor- mant so that strong new growth is formed in spring; hydrangea parti- culate, hybrid tea and hybrid per- petual roses and Tamarick come under this class. Hydrangea arbor- escens is cut down to the ground each year at the Central Experimen- tal Farm and makes new growth and Mines in the night. For ten minutes the hermit sang floridly, serenely, until we imagined he was some sort of mystical priest • of nature, speaking for allthe crea- tures, all the small birds, the devit • crows, for the beasts in the fields, Por- us, all Man, in heavenly voice, ad-. dressing the sinking sun.. When it ceased, John tools a long moment to come back to conscious- ness, and we walked slowly back to , the ear amidst now the full evening • chorus of the spring fields. "The nightingale," said John, "is• opera; but that thrush was folk -song,. or was it prayer in a music older than the Egyptian? To listen to the - nightingale is like listening to Lily • Pons of the Metropolitan Opera do- ing her coloratura for hours on hours.. The hermit is like listening to noth- ing of this earth. "In Scotland their flowers are rich- er, softer, sweeter than in this keen, . "We haven't any poets yet,x"1 said. "England had its birds a thousand years before it had a Keats. It takes time and a lot of birds to make one poet." "I won't go from here," said John. But in the little gully beyond the er beauty, a delicacy, as if they were wood lot where there was a small I not meant for human ears but only' • muddy creek. I heard the mew of a for the birds themselves. In Scot - catbird, so I told John we would hear land the bird sings at you. In Can - some other song shortly. I ada you must go and listen to the The grosbeak dropped off the tree birds. There is the difference. In top and already we could. hear the Scotland you cannot escape the song tangled, secret, laughing mockery of of birds. In Canada you do not know the cat bird, coming from the thicket birds sing until someone tells you." near the creek. It mewed. Then it' As we got to the car a flock of burst into whimisical, mocking song, like a robin, like a thrush, like a ' starlings came along and alighted in squeak, like a rasp, as if it tried to ' the field, with chucklings, squeaks, show you the Glory and then gave you the raspberry. The slate -gray bird suddenly quit song and canoe and passed low, low to the ground, with a smirk as it passed. "Catbird," said I. Cousin of the southern mocking bird." The Hermit's Heavenly Voice Into the shadow of the maple bush we cane and stood, and robins sang against the wide curtain of song from the far fields. The evening sun had left the lower bushes and was resting on the tree -tops. Far off we could hear a flicker hooting his mel- low call. Then, like the organ commencing in the hushed church, the hermit thrush, high up in the sunlight, began his praise. I thought John' would die. His face went white. His cheeks stiffen- ed. He trembled. The hermit thrush, starting low in the scale, with a sound rich and flue -like, with that A CURTAIN OF SONG (Continued from page 2) crouched on the fence rail poured out his endless string of beads, small and glittering. Then with the odd; jump- ing flight of his a song sparrow came from nowhere, perched on the top of a hawthorne bush back of ' us and without delay dropped its tail straight down, tipped its little head straight up and set forth on its bout of song, loud ringing, emphatic with its song and a pause, song and pause, each song the same exact pattern, as if it were repeating some message over and over. SUN SPOTS CAUSE OF THIS WEATHER Astronomers Predicted It All Back in April Wind, Hail, . Drought A couple of astronomers who know their sun spots, told the world away back in April, about the strange wea- ther slated for this summer. But because everyone talks about the weather, and nobody can do much a- bout it, the world refused to be im- pressed by their predictions. The scientists carefully looked ov- er,their sun spots before the winter, was nicely finished, and didn't like the look of what they saw. "Strange weather" they prophesied, and the heat and the cold, the wind and the hail, and the drought alternating with one another for no apparent rea- son, supports their prognostications. JDr. Earle G. Lindsley, curator of the Chalbet Observatory, in Oakland, California, and Dr. Albert J. New- lin, director of the Richard Obser- vatory of Santa Clara University, re- ported observing a 'rsun spot tor- nado," presaging extraordinary wea- ther- Western Ontario's extraordinary weather this summer has included drought and heat that killed off most of the farm crops, and frost that fin- ished nished what the heat missed. There was :also, the annual "worst wind storm in years," which blew down a few barns, and upset a fair amount of trees and telephone 'poles. The weather is just recovering from its latest freak, a frosty spell, and the wonder is, what is due. next. --Free Press. "I Can Hear a Thousand Birds" John wheeled about to stare at this singer --a small, brown -backed. sparrow with a distinct dark spot in the midst of its streaked breast. He walked toward it. It went on, lift- ing its head, ringing out its song. "What bird?" he whispered.. "A spug," said I. "Forgive me," said John:. The lark's galling had five song sparrows all competing for some im- aginary and unknown prize, and I told John there were five of them. He listened with his • new ears, and found them all, on hawthorns, fence rails, trees. John prepared to sit down on the road bank. "We can't stop here," I said; "there are lots mere to hear." rasps .and many sweet, -warbling,- notes, arblingnotes, as sweet as you would hear - anywhere. They speak, as W. Il:. Hudson said, a sort of bird Yiddish,. made up of notes they have taken• from many languages of birds. John lifted his hat to them. "Fellow -countrymen of mine," ex- plained John. But it was a pretty - formal salute. —.Toronto Star Weekly. „for your Separator for a Limited Time' YOUR OPINION is wanted! In exchange for It wo offer Two Rubber Bowl Rings for your separator: any sire or make ... free and porta d. WW will 010 to Ya you.: about the '• Cheapest Sep Use." the only separator made in Amerfra with a guar- anteed Self•Balancing Bow!.. .a separator with twelve • valuable features not found on any other separator in.. the world. Just send postcard to aof ddress below telling name ofthiis paper. eFull details will be sent promptly. arator dmf PORT HURON. MICH. y ..X738:• y4nk�_ er'Noltl� "This ought to be enough for now,". said. John. "I. can hear a thousand birds singing. Right here. I did not know what that small thunder was that filled the air. I have been hear- ing birds for years and didn't know it" "Come on," I said; "there is a ves- per singing down here a bit." Out in the fields more meadow larks were, calling. It was late af- ternoon. A blue bird went by, with its happy liquid flight, bubbling through the air ,and it alighted ona fence post and sang its rich, flutey warble. John took the field -glasses and said the blue color burned his eyes. Song sparrows sang us past them. We reached the field where the vesper sparrow was singing, and through the glasses John said it was another song sparrow, the same col- or, the same song. "It has no spot on its breast," I said. "You are right," said Jobs. "If it flies you. will ,see it has a WHEN you land that big order ... and it's sure to mean more salary and you know' how glad they'll be at home . • Tell them, by Long Distenee ... and let 'them hear the good news now. • For good news or emergency, for friendly visit or an S.O.S., you can't beat Long Dis- tance as an easy, quick, personal messen- ger. You can talk with somebody 100 milers or so away for as little as 30 cents. See the list of rates in the front of your directory. rah'