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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD;
THURS., NOV. 8, 1934
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Timely Information for the
Busy Farmer
( Furnished by the Department of Agriculture )
Cost of Producing Corn Silage
In a year like the present when
hay 's scarce and dear, corn silage is
of more value than ever in supplying
rough hay. At the Central Experi-
mental Farm, Ottawa, this year the
yield of corn averaged 19.3 tons per
acre. The cost of growing and en-
siling this crop amounted to 841,74
per acre, or $•2.20 per ton. On the
basis of 375 pounds of corn silage'
being equivalent in Seeding value to
100 pounds of hay, at present prices,
of hay, silage has a value of over 33
per ton. "Therefore, this crop produc-
ed a large volume of feed at a sub-
stantial profit per acre.
Potato Marketing Scheme
A proposed scheme for the regula-
tion of the marketing of potatoes
produced in the five eastern provinces
of Canada, and marketed through the
channels of the commercial potato
trade, has been submitted to the Do-
minion Marketing Board.
Copies of the scheme are available
for distribution, and representations,
with respect to it by those concerned,
should be forwarded to the Secre-
tary, Dominion Marketing Board, Ot-
tawa. As the potato market situation
is an urgent one, : it is . desired that
any representations which are made
should be forwarded promptly.
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Ontario Crops Win
Seed of excellent quality has been
harvested from the field crops in On-
tario this year and growers have a
wonderful opportunity to surpass the
fine records which they have made in
the past at Ontario exhibitions and
the International Grain and Hay
Show held annually in Chicago. Dur-
ing the last five years Ontario farm-
ers have entered a total of 641 exhi-
bits of grain and small seeds at Chi-
cago, for which they have been a-
warded 382 prizes including 7 cham-
pionships, 4 reserve championsrips
and 18 first prizes. Peas, beans, soy-
beans, red clover, alsike, alfalfa, tim-
othy seed and flint corn are classes
in which Ontario has usually ,made a
fine showing.
This year's International will be
held from December 1st to 8th and in
addition to the regular prizes, the
Ontario Department of Agriculture is
offering special prizes to Ontario ex-
hibitors. All exhibits which 'are de-
livered to the Department of Field
B;usbandry, O•A.C:, Guelph, before
November 21st will be forwarded to
- Chicago in one shipment and return-
ed when the show is over. Entries
should be made before November 20th
direct to the International Grain and
Bay Show, Union Stock Yards, Chi-
cago.
IPPENING
TEAEST.
shortage following last summer''s
drought has not materialized so far
as entries are concerned," says A. P.
Westervelt,the manager, "as beef
and dairy cattle ,breeders, as well as
those of sheep and swine, promise to
be represented as fully as in former
years, both from eastern and western
provinces."
Bays' Inter Club Competitions
Teams representing sixty two Boys`
Agricultural Clubs gathered at. the
Ontario Agricultural College on Oc-
tober 19th to vie for' the honour •of
representing the Province of Ontario
in an Inter Provincial Boys' and
Girls' Club Competition, to be con-
ducted at the Royal Winter Fair.
Each club competing was represented
bytwo members between the ages oi'
16 and 20 years, inclusive.
In Ontario in 1934, there were 2,-
482 boys enrolled in 1983. Cattle,
Swine, Grain and Potato Clubs, sup-
ervised by the Ontario Agricultural
Representative Branch, under the di-
rection of the Director, R. S. Duncan.
The Cattle Club Competition was
closely contested by 24 teams and
the honour of winning first place was
captured by Ronald Bagg, Unionville
and Lorne Petch, Milliken, members
of the Markham Dairy Calf Club in
York County. J. E. Alexander and
Arthur Huff of Prince Edward Coun-
ty finished 'a close second.
In the Grain Club Competition
Harry Kennedy Cavan, and John Hol-
mes, Newcastle of the Durham Coun-
ty Grain Club were successful in
winning the highest store in the com-
petition, with 16 other teams, while
Billy Johnston, Renfrew and Harry
Wilson, Pembroke, finished second.
First and second places -in the
Swine Club Competition were taken
by representatives of Durham County
—Garnet Rickard, Bowmanville and
Wm. Rowand, Newcastle, being mem-
bers of the winning team and John
Rickard, Newcastle and George Wer-
ry, Hampton, of second place team.
The boys interested in Potato Club
Work also featured keen coopetition,
and Ralph Rowan, Bethany and Gor-
don Fahis, Millbrook, Durham Coun-
ty, were successful in winning first
place from Duncan Fletcher, Ilderton
and Winslow Skinner, Strathroy, of
Middlesex County, who finished in
second place.
Following the keenly contested
competitions, the competitors, coaches
and officials were guests at a dinner
in the O. A. C. cafeteria. Following
the announcement of the results, Dr,
G. I. Christie, President of the CO -
lege, delivered an inspiring address
which climaxed an interesting and en-
joyable day for the club members who
had gathered from as far as Renfrew
in the east and Lambton in the west.
Another pleasing feature at this func-
tion was the presentation of "The
Farmer" trophies, by. Editor C. H.
Hodge, to the teams from York and
Durham Counties, winners in the Cat-
tle and Swine Competitions respec-
tively.
Fall Wheat and Rye and Hay
The total yield of fall wheat in
Canada in 1934 is maw estimated at
7,022.000 bushels from 425,600 acres,
a yield of 16.5 bushels per acre, as
compared. with 14,031,000 bushels.:.
from 550,000 acres, a yield per acre
of 25.1 bushels in 1933. The 1934
production of fall wheat is the lowest
in the Dominion Bureau of Statistics
records dating from 1908, due chiefly
to winter -killing and severe drought
conditions in the countries of Ontario
where most • of ` the fall wheat is
grown,
The production of fall rye in Can-
ada in 1934 is estimated at 5,239,000
bushels, an. increase of 1,785,000 bus-
hels as compared with 1933. The in-
crease is largely due to increased ac-
reages in the Prairie Provinces.
Whiter -killing of hay and clover
meadows, in . Ontario, and severe
drought which has seriously affected
all provinces. except Quebec and Bri-
tish Columbia, have resulted in the
lowest hay crop on record, namely
9,884,000 tons, as compared with 11,-
443,000 tons in 1963. The first cut-
ting of alfalfa yielded only 778,300
tons, as compared with a first cutting
of 1,194,000 tons in 1933. this large
decrease •being ; also due to the sev-
ere winter and lack of moisture.
Danish Bacon Loses Premium in British
Market
A study of the comparative prices
of bacon on the British market dem- 1
onstrates the fact that the advantage
which the Danes have previously en-
joyed in that market is steadily de-
creasing.
The Canadian fanner has been con-
sistently told over a long period of
time that Danish bacon is markedly
superior to, that produced in thin
country and he has been urged to so.
breed, feed and market his product
that he will eventually grow hogs
that will snake bacon as good as the
Danish and with the same regularity
of supply.
The proof that he is heeding this
advice and steadily improving his
product is found in a comparison of
the prices of " Danish and Canadian
bacon today compared with a year ago.
For the week ending October 19th,
1933, bacon prices in Britain were as
follows:—
Prices in shil- Coinparison
Exporting lungs per 112 with Danish
country pounds in shillings
Danish 73 to 74
Canadian 62 to 64 11to 10 below
Swedish .68 to '71 5 to 3 lower
Dutch • 63 to 64 10 lower
Baltic 61 to 04 12 to 10 lower
For the week ending October 19th,
1934, bacon prices in Britain were as
fellows:—,
Price in shil- Comparison
Exporting lungs per 112 with Danish
country pounds in shillings
Danish 85 to 90
Canadian 82 to 85 3 to 5 lower
Swedish 68 to 71 5 to 3 lower
Dutch 132 3 lower
Baltic 85 to
toS7 85 5 lower
Thus within the space of a year the
difference in price between Danish
bacon and the product of other export-
ing countries has been materially les-
sened.
In part this has been due to the
improvement in quality of the bacon
produced by Denmark's competitors
but other factors must be taken into
consideration if a true picture is to
be obtained.
Entries For the Royal
Indicate Confidence
Entries for the forthcoming Royal
Winter Fair, which closed on Thursday
November lst, reached the Bay
Street offices in a most gratifying
way and averaged not merely
larger in number but somewhat ear-
lier in date than in previous years,
according to a statement made. by the
management. This is looked upon as
an indication of confidence among all
classes of exhibitors from the owners
of blood -horses to the poultryman
'with a back yard flock.
"It is especially satisfactory to
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MORE BEEF EATEN; LESS PORK
Although there was more beef eat-
en in Canada in 1933 than in the pre-
ceding year•, the latest statistics show
that the total consumption of all
kinds of meat registered a decrease
of 98 million pounds in 1933. Alto-
gether, there were 1,463 million
pounds of the various meats •consum
ed in that year. Side by side with
the increase in beef consumption,
there was a decrease in the use of
pork and mutton. Each Canadian in
1933 consumed 56.09' pounds of beef
as against 56.02 in 1932; 74.58 pounds
of pork compared with 85.61 in 1932,
and 8.32 pounds of mutton against
6.97 in 1932. In 1933 there were
114,144,900 pounds of poultry eaten,
or 10.68 'pounds per head of popula-
tion; 321,000,000 pounds of butter, or
30.04 pounds per head; 35,000,000
pounds of cheese, or 3.30 pounds per
head; and 229,000,000 dozen eggs, or
21.45 dozen per head of population.
Corresponding to the amount of
meats and dairy produce consumed,
the estimated number of farm ani-
mals in June, 1933, as compared with
the preceding year showed an increase
in cattle and decreases in sheep and
swine. The number of mulch •cows
was 3,694,000 in 1933 and 3,624,000
in 1932; of other cattle 5,182,000 in
1933 and 4,886,500 in 1932; sheep, 3,-
385,800 in 1933 and 34444500 in 1932;
and swine 3,800,700 in 1933 and 4,-
639,100 in 1932. The total for all
classes of poultry on farms decreased
from 64,080,200 in 1932 to 59,324,400
in 1933.
The British bacon quota became ef-
fective in November 1982; before this
time the British people had been ac-
customed to looking to Denmark as
the great source of their bacon, be-
cause of its superior quality, the con-
sistency of supply and the close prox-
imity of producer and consumer.
The applcation of the quota system
to British bacon exports meant that
while Denmark remained as the great-
est source of supply yet the restric-
tions imposed created a position.
where the demand for Danish bacon
was greater than the amount avail-
able.
by Canada, and other sources.
Inasfar as Canada is concerned the
result must be definitely linked with
improvement in quality and regular-
ity of supply, otherwise Canadian
Denmark 'the demand for non -Danish bacon wonld still be selling at 13 shit-
bacon became regular. . lings below Danish while other
This demand was translated into 'a ,countries reaped, the benefit of the
rising price for the bacon produced °nota regulations.
WINGHAM: On Friday evening a
social was held in the council cham-
ber, by the members of the Alps Golf
and Country Club, in honor of Mr..
and Mrs.' George Smith; who leave
shortly for Toronto.
GODEERICH: The deadlock which
has existed for some weeks in . town
council over the appointment of an
assessor and collector was broken
Friday night with the appointment
of Neil Mackay. For two weeks the
council was dead -locked, four -all, as
to the choice of Councillor John Hue-
kins and R. 3. Walker. When it was
found impossible to agree on either,
after lengthy sessions, the names of
those who had been eliminated were
again brought out and Mr. Mackay
chosen. A motion to ask the provin-
cial government to reinstate former
County Magistrate C. A.' Reid, dis-
missed from office on August 15, was
referred to committee after Deputy
Reeve Turner and Councillor Humber
had protested against hasty action.
GODBRICH: That hydro affairs
in this town are being administered
honestly and efficiently and that
there are' no irregularities other than
minor is the substance of a report
made by the district engineer and
municipal accountants of the H,E.P.C.
who recently conducted an investiga-
tion into complaints made by Coun-
cilor Huckins and others of the town
council. The report, addressed to the
town council meeting and was refer-
red to committee for consideration.
Regarding .the contract for 1,000 H.
This immediately put a premium on
Danish bacon and thus we find that
Danish coupled with its high price
in the year 1938 the Danes enjoyed
a relatievly high price on the British
market.
As the effect of the quota began to
be felt the price of bacon rose stead-
ily and the now limited supply of
Danish, coupled with its high price
caused the British dealers to cast
around for another source of supply.
The demand turned to the products
of other countries, who were now able
to fill the place 'which the restriction
of the Danish supply had left open;
and as the quota system continued to
restrict the bacon available from
Almost every shipper of eggs to
Scotland, with the exception of some,
continental countries, has adopted
the style of package used by Canada,
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CANADIAN FARMERS' BUSINESS
ORGANIZATIONS
Farmers' Business Organizations
in Canada is the title of the latest
bulletin issued by the Dominion De-
partment of Agriculture. Since one
of the purposes for which the Econ-
omics Branch of the Department was
established was to study the farmers'
co-operative movement, it was felt
that the first step to be taken was
the acquisition of all the information
possible on the activities of such ag-
encies in Canada. To that end ar-
rangements were made for a survey
of existing organizations.
Information was sought from all -
farmer -owned and controlled assocla•
tions, companies, societies, and clubs
actively engaged in business, regard-
less of their methods of operation,
or form of organization. The infor-
mation thus obtained has been sum;
rnarized and will be found in the 64
pages of the bulletin. It is expected
that a similar survey will be under-
taken annually, or at intervals of a
few years, and that the information
will form the basis for a permanent
record of co-operative activities, The
bulletin may be obtained on request
from the Publications Branch, Do-
minion Department of Agriculture,
Ottawa. i
The Mexican bean beetle, which has
been kept out. of Canada, with the ex-
ception of certain sections of south-
ern Ontario, has been more abundant.
and widely spread than ever before
during the past year in Maine and
other New England and Middle At-
lantic States. Canadian gardeners
near the border should be on the
P. between the Goderich Elevator and
Transit Co. and: the H.E.P.G., which
it was claimed was a liability to light
and power users of this town,the in-
vestigators find to the contrary, the
report states.
HENSALL: Armistice clay ser-
vices will be observed. on November
11 in Carmel Presbyterian Church,
where a union service will be 'held
was three local choirs uniting.
EXETER: The Exeter branch of
the W. I. at .their regular meeting
celebrated the annual grandmother's
day. The interesting meeting was
held as in past years at the home of
Mrs. B. W. F. Beavers. Mrs. E. Walker.
presided over the business session.
The honorary president, Mrs. Ether-
ington then conducted the meeting.
been awarded the Second Carter Schon
arship. The first. Carter went to
Goderich Collegiate, while the third
went to W'ingham. Miss Savauge
during her Collegiate course, was an
outstanding pupil and a consistent'.
winner of prizes. She is now attend_,
ing Stratford Normal School. The.
award carries a cash value of 360,
-Expositor.
CHLOROFORM' FIRST MADE IN
CANADA
Canada has the honor of being the
first' country on the American con-
tinent to make chloroform and use -
it as an anaesthetic, according to the
Medical Department of the Canadian_•
National Railways. In the year
1848, an apothecary at Pictou, N.S.,
J. D. B. Fraser, prepared and purified -
some chloroform in 'his small drug
store in : that town and it was used -
by a local surgeon, Dr. W. J. Almon,
as an anaesthetic in amputatingthe'
thumb, of :a woman in .the poorhouse.
Chloroform was first discovered la
Leibig, in 1831, and first used by Sir
James Simpson, in Great, Britain, in •
1847. Of course, there - were other
anaesthetics before chloroform which
ranged all the way from rum to the-
shillelah, These latter two "anaes-
thetics" are still, apparently, quite
extensively used but the more gentle -
action of standard anaeshetics is:
generally preferred.
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BRUSSELS: There will be no
more Thursday : half holidays this
season, which of course means that
too stores will no longer be open
Wednesday evenings. The merchants
will no doubt miss their opportunity
of bowlingand other recreations in
dated in on their holiday.—Post.
GODERICH: The first Carter
Scholarship for Huron County, with a
value of 3100, was won by Roy Er-
rington, Goderieh C. I. student, now
attending University of Toronto. Ile
also won the Hugh Innis Strang Mem-
orial Scholarship (3125 and four
years' fees) in addition to .being
awarded a university bursary. As well
as being a fine scholar Roy Erring-
ton is an outstanding athlete.
* *SEAFORTH: Announcement has
been made that Miss Winnie Say-
auge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, F. S.
Savauge, and a student last year at
the Seaforth Collegiate Institute, has
EXETER: A despatch from Toron-
to on Saturday reads: "Although offi-
cial confirmation is lacking the name
of Case R. Howard is being promin-
ently mentioned in banking and in-
dustrial circles as probable assistant
deputy governor of the Bank of Can-
ada the central banking instittutioa
at present in process of organiza-
tion." The linking of the ' name or
Case R. Howard as Assistant Deputy
Governor with the Dominion Bank of
Canada is of particular interest to
friends in Exeter. Mr, Howard is an
Exeter boy having started his bank-
ing career with the local branch of
the Canadian Bank of Commerce.
Previous to that he spent a couple olf
years on the staff of the Exeter
Times. He and Mrs. Howard have
been visiting in Exeter with his moth-
er, Mrs. H. Gidley.
—Times -Advocate.
The human flea is reported for the
first time in the province of Quebec.
The only other records of this species
in Canada, says the Entomological
Branch of the Dominion Department
of Agriculture, are from isolated lo-
calities in Prince Edward Island,
Saskatchewan, and British Columbia.
Visitor—" Where's the other wind-
mill gone to?"
Native—"We only had wind enough
for one, so we took the other one
down."
Cuban baking methods require the
use of a flour with a high content of
fine -quality gluten. Flour milled
from Canadian wheat satisfies " Ws,
requirementand consequently '70 per •
cent of the imports are of flour from:
Canadian wheat.
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Levulose (fruit sugar), one of the
three sugars found in honey is non -
granulating and is usually the pre-
dominating one. The other two sug-
ars are deptrose (grape sugar) and '
surcorse (cane sugar). Debtrose is
a rapid granulating sugar. Sucrose
is present in honey only in very small'
quantities.
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SOURED ON THE
WORLD?—THAT'S LIVER
Wake up your Liver Bile
—No Calomel necessary
Arany people who feel sour, sluggish and
generally wretched make the mistake of taking
wits, oil, mineral water, laxative sandy or
°hewing gum, or roughage %yhich only mous •
the bowels and ignore the liver.
Whitt you need is to wake up your liver •
bile. Start your livor pouring the daily two
pounds of liquid bile into your bowels. Get
your stomach end intestines working us they
should, muco mors.
Carter's Little Liver Pals will soon fix you
up, Purely vegetable. Safe. Sure, Quick
Aak for them by name. Refuse aubstit6tea •
250. at as druggists.
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Manufacturing
Customers
Thirty per cent of one's customers cease being
customers every year. They die, or move away, or
become disgruntled, or change over to some other
retailer. This is a ghastly loss and alas, it is one im-
possible to prevent. It means that a retailer has to
be very, very busy every month, getting new custom-
ers to replace the monthly wastage, and to gain a
few more customers in excess of the annual loss, in
order that his business shall grow. The fatal thing
is just to do nothing in the way of customer attrac-
tion and replacement.
How can new customers be attracted? Various
things can be done. The most obvious way is just to
ask non -customers to do business with you. That is
the first thing to do. And your invitations will get
' attention just because so few retailers will be your
competitors in this "asking" activity. You can ask
people to do business with you by post, by persnal
calls and by newspaper advertising. And, of course,
your store windows can and will be invitations.
Beyond asking, you must fulfil customers' ex-
pectations—this by the quality of your service and
the rightness of your goods and prices.' What cus-
tomers like when they go into a store is attention
and interest, without fussiness. They like briskness
in those who serve them. Customers want nothing
extraordinary—,lust plain attention and courtesy.
Customers are continually measuring stores —
matching one store's service, goods, prices and at-
mosphere against those of other stores, and they
steadily drift to those stores where they are served,
in all ways, most in accord with their likes. Newspa-
per advertising is the least costly ----results consider-
ed.
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