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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1935-01-03, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD EVIS THURS , JAN. 3, 1935 Timely the Information for Busy Farmer ( Furnished by the Department of Agriculture ) . m..Ma .41,01"11avuva.encMMISMIS®gym-. ..,-:..: .. ;:<. .. _ mi.:. Layers Need a Real Rome While there are many factors that enter into the management of the poultry flock, there is nothing that will have greater dnflnenee on the poultry raiser's success or failure than the way in which' he houses his flock. Birds of good b'r'eeding, no matter how well fed, will not return maximum profits unless well housed. " The poultry house is the hen's home, and to be comfortable and give good Production, the house should have proper ' ventilation, insulation and sanitation; it should have a proper form one of the most potent sources of bacteria in milk, and clean milk must be rapidly cooled if the number of bacteria is to be kept down. Fin- ally, .the milk must be delivered promptly to the distributor, which means the farmer turning out any- where from four a.m. to six e.in. to milk the cows, cool the milk, :and de- liver it in time for householders in the city to find the bottled milk en the doorstep early in the morning. Annual Crop Review location, plenty of light, be dry, and The agricultural situation in On - have ample floor space. tario during 1934 has been featured & • by a slight decrease in the volume of production due chiefly to small hay, Barley Growers honoured, sugar beet and fall wheat yields. Higher prices, particularly for grain When members of Parliament and and fodder more than offset the effect other prominent citizens turn out to of the early drought and the value of honour successful farmers, Agricul- field crop production shows. a gain of tura is approaching the posiion of $18,460,000 or 14.8%over last year. prestige, which it deserves. This ,oc- The ,acreage sown to the principal ourred recently when a banquet was field crops 'declined from 9,184,900 tendered to the 'Master Barley Grow- acres to 8,966,903 acres, a reduction ere of Simcoe County. • of 218,000 acres or 2.5 per cent. The The winners in Combined Crop volume of output showed a diminu- Competitions were announced, the tion of, front 10 per cent from prizes for which had been supplied 1933. Crops .showing an increase in by the Ontario and Quebec Brewing production were: Spring wheat, oats, Industry. Interest was most keen in barley, flaxseed, mixed grains, buck - the award of a handsome shield to wheat, fodder corn, corn for husking the Champion. Barley Grower of the potatoes, turnips, mangolds and car - County. This trophy provided by E. rots. Crops showing a decrease were: C. Graham, Grain Dealer, Alliston, Fall wheat, fall rye, peas, dry beans, was won by J. E. Ruthven, Alliston. sugar beets, hay and clover, alfalfa, The promotion of good seed by alsike and sweet clover. Hay crops, the Agricultural Societies in the area fall wheat and fall rye suffered heav- has done much to bring • Simcoe to ily from -winter killing and unfavor- the fore in the production of Regis- tered seed and top quality Malting Barley. Raise Your Own Living Whether willing or not the major- ity of farmers are now obliged to supply more of their own needs. The following list may provide sugges- tions for further- economy: 1. Milk ,a few good cows; feed recommended rations. 2. Fatten one pig for every, two a- dult members of the family; cure the meat properly. 8. Keep at least 100 good hens, correctly housed and fed. 4. Raise a good garden; water from windmill if .possible. 5. Plant only cash crops, which show little .or no surplus. 6. Grow your own stock feed. 7. Butcher fat cows and steers; trade meat with neighbors; 8. Raise your own living; keep your roof tight. 9. Get down to earth and do the best you can today. 10. Drive a horse until you afford to buy gasoline. can FromMany Climes A review of the students who have attended O.A.C. during the last half century is contained in the annual re- port from the College. It shows that young men and women from every province in Canada have been enroll- ed as well as representatives from no less than forty-four counrties in Eur- ope, urope, Asia, South America and else- where. Empire -wide and world-wide recognition is being given O. A. C. graduates. Each year brings evi- dence of worthy contributions to world service made by graduates. With improved facilities' for instruc- tion, research and extension, even greater service should be possible. The Saga of Clean Milk A very high standard of cleanliness in milk is demanded in Canada. Clean milk may be defined as milk that is free from dirt and foreign matter, , containing comparatively few bacter- ia and certainly none of a disease - producing nature. The first essential is to have healthy cows. The cows must be free from tuberculosis, an- thrax, and other contagions diseases which affect the milk indirectly.; ` In addition, the udders of the cows must be free from such diseases as mastitis and cow pox which directly infect the milk with .bacteria. Next to healthy cattle come the twin factors of clean cattle and clean barns, and anyone with the slightest imagination must recognize that, during the seven months a year in which dairy cattle have to be stabled, cleanliness is a big problem. Stables must be clipped and brushed regularly, and they must have their udders and teats washed before each; milking. Milking by hand entails perfect` cleanliness on the part of the milker, and milking bit machine, which 1s a science, in- volves some knowledge of the physics of electric motors, internal cembus-• tion engines and vaccampunmps, Fur- ther, clean milk requires clean uteri - ails, as poorly washed implements able weather conditions previous to maturity. Spring grains proved to be less affected by drought than antici- pated end yields per acre and total exceed 1933, The total hay crap amounted to only 4,346,300 tons, compared with 6,182,900 tons in 1933. The late sum- mer and fall provided ideal growing conditions and yields per acre of late crop were extremely good. The pros- pects of insufficient hay supplies were lessened by heavy crops of corn and roots and a surprising improvement in eonditon of pastures, permitting beef cattle to graze from five to seven weeks later than last year and thus conserving hay supplies. Dairymen in some .counties however, will be obliged to purchase a greater supply of concentrates. In most cases prices of secondary products are not high enough to warrant the purchase of hay at present levels and farmers are feeding increased quantities of straw, stocked corn, roughages and molas- ses. A BEEKEEPER'S LIBRARY (Experimental Farms Note) With the bees all snugly packed away in their winter quarters and requiring no further attention until next spring, the beekeeper will now find himself with a considerable a- mount of spare time that may well be devoted to other activities. Manny of these idle hours may be pleasantly and profitably expended in reading one or more of the many bee jour- nals, bulletins and books that are now available at reasonable prices. It is said that knowledge is power, and as a matter of fact, that state- ment is 'especially applicable to the beekeeper, for the one that has the greatest knowledge of bee activity is the onethat is most likely to be- come the most successful producer of honey, and one of the best meth- ods of securing this knowledge is through reading. The beekeeper who has not yet started to build up' a library of his own is well advised to do so. Such a library need not be an extensive or expensive one. While it is impossible`to •name here all the books available, one or two may be mentioned, but other titles will be supplied upon request to the Bee Division, Central Experimental Farm Ottawa. , Every beekeeper's library should contain a copy of the "ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture" which is the most complete book on beekeep- ing available and, by the way, a new edition of thisbook is appearing in 1935. ' "The Hive and the Honey Bee" by Langstroth and Dadant and "Bee- keeping" by Phillips are two other excellent books to have. A real good beginner's book is *`Starting Right with Bees" Those•. interested in queen rearing, bee anatomy, etc., have not been neglected and reliable, books on these subjects are available. Two monthly journals are published in Canada, "The Canadian Bee Jour- nal" and L'Abeille et L'Erable," vrhile two other good journals hav- ing a wide circulation in Canada are "The' American 13ee Journal" and'. "Gleanings in Bee Culture." The Dominion and some of the Provincial Departments of Agriculture have issued bulletins on different phases of beekeeping which may he obtain- ed upon" application to these depart- ments. The books named may be obtained through any dealer in bee supplies; in Canada. Further infor- mation regarding them or others may be obtained from the Bee Division, Central Experimental Faun, Ot- a. SIGNS OF BETTER TIMES SEEN THROUGHOUT WEST That there is no possible reason for pessimism and that there is no "defeatism" in the railways lexicon was the keynote of the address de- livered by Alistair Fraser; Vice -Pre- sident in Charge of Traffic for the Canadian National Railway, at the annual banquet of the Canadian Commercial Travellers Association. After outlining the history of rail- way transportation, Mr. Fraser spoke of the economies which have been made by the National System. He said: "I have just returned from a. visit to Western Canada, during the course of which I visited 21 cities and towns, and discussed • the condi- tions and prospects with hundred of the leading business men, and I was deeply impressed, as I could not fail to be, with the fearlessness and optimism of our fellow -Canadians out there. It is a moral tonic for the fainting spirit to see the daunt- less courage ofa people who refuse to admit the possibility of defeat, even in the presence of repeated crop failures, low prices, debt, and re- verses that would, long ere this, have crushed people of a weaker moral fibre. But "faith • without works is dead' and, happily, on ex- amination, it is clear that the signs of better times are •manifesting themselves daily. In this recovery, the railway, you may be sure, will play a prominent part.Wle cannot lead recovery, but we will be in the van. "I would not like you to think for a moment, that the railways are waiting, like Micawbar "for some- thing to turn up.' They must and do help themselves. Like every busi- ness represented here, your railways are going through a period of rigid economy; and are endeavouring to meet the new and rapidly ehanging conditions in both freight and pas- senger service's. We have, for some time, been conducting experiments in pick-up and store -door delivery in the province of Ontario and in Wes- tern Canada. They have already taught us some lessons, which, with your co-operation, we hope will e- ventually result in ever-increasing opportunities for transportation ser- vice to you in line with modern thought and development." CANADA -WEST INDIES TRADE EXPANDS The expansion which has taken place in the trade between Canada and the British West Indies, not only in import and export tonnage, but also in passenger travel both from Canada to these Empire vacation lands of the Caribbean and from those islands to Canada has been most marked, stated Andrew H. Al- lan, General 11hanager of the Cana- dian National Steamships, "Export cargo has increased approximately eighteen per cent while import traf- fic has shown a gain of thirty-three and a third per cent." Continuing he said: "There has been an increase in passenger travel of approximately twelve per cent," Commenting upon the increase in cargo tonnage, he 'remarked that the new banana equip- ment to be installed in each of the "Lady" liners by the end of Jan- uary will increase the gross revenues a quarter of a million dollars, 50,-000 cubic feet, of space being provided in each of the liners. A. feature of the passenger travel, Mr. Allen declared, has been the hi.- crease i.crease in summer travel from Can- ada to the islands of the British Wiest Indies, as well as to Bermuda and British Guiana, cruises to these Em. pire colonies of southern waters hav- ing become quite popular with Cana- dians during the summer vacation period. As regards winter bookings, he stated these have proven very sat- isfactory to date and a good winter business is looked for, The "Lady" liners in the service between Canada and the eastern group of the British West Indies and British Guiana sail from Halifax the year round, calling at Saint John, N. B,, on the northbound voyage, while the "Lady" liners in the service to the Bahamas and Jamaica make Hali- fax' their Canadian terminal during the winter season and sail from and to Montreal during the summer.' The passenger carrying freighters "Colborne" and "Chomedy" which tarry passengers on the "vagabond cruises" operated by the Company to the West Indies and iBritiah Guiana which are lincreasing in popularity, for vacation travel, also make Hali- fax their Canadian terminal during, the winter' and Montreal during, the. summer season, calling at Halifax southbound. 1 of INTEH.EST io - REASONS AGAINST MR. WRIGHT FOREIGN EXCHANGE FOR BANK BOARD The United Farmers of Ontario have been protesting against the ac- tion of. the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in putting forward a slate for the directorate of the Bank of Canada and especially of naming the fernier member, who does not seem to be the choice of the farmers. The Mail, and Empire editorially continent - ed as follow on this subject the other day: • "We have it on good authority from the west that the Canadian Chamber of Commerce fell into error when it put forward 1VIr. R. A. Wright, of Ds`inkwater, .Saskatchewan, eg a di- rector of the Bank of Canada: It is stated that he carried- ona sustained battle against the co-operative mar- keting of Canada's surplus wheat and that he is identified with the big in- terests rather than with the fanning community. Though he was a pro- vincial Liberal, candidate in his own province in the last election, his nom- ination for the bank has been con- demned by a Saskatchewan Liberal convention because of his active hos- tility to the Bennett Government's Marketing Act which has the support of both parties beyond the Great. Lakes. Because of a single_ article in these columns casually approving the slate ofthe seven men put forward by the Canadian Chamber of Com- merce for the Bank of Canada Board, we feel that we owe it to our readers to furnish them with this later in- formation regarding Mr. Wright. If it be true that he is not a representa- tive farmer, he should not be elected to the directorate of the Bank of Canada." OR "AU REVOIRI" The new Iance-corporal, standing with an instructor, had the men marching away from hint. The squad had gone some distance, and it ap- peared that the corporal did not know how to give the command "A- bout turn." At last when the men were about a hundred yards away, the exasperated instructor yelled: "For gdodness's sake say something, you dumb-bell, even if it's only `Good-bye,'" AMEAS S A HEADACHE The intricacies of foreign exchange at the present time is the bugbear of modern commerce, As :a` case in point, states th'e Industrial Depart- ment of the Canadian National Rail- ways, take the Canadian exporter in the Egyptian trade. It might be considered that the easiest and safest method would be to state his price in Canadian dollars but if he sells on draft there is no telling what the value will be • one, two or three months ahead. Not only is the E'gyp tion importer faced with uncertain- ties with respect to the future value of the Canadaani dollar in team of pounds sterling, to which Egyptian currency is related, but also the fact that as Canadian .currency is dealt with only to a very limited extent in Egypt, he would be linable to obtain es favorable rates as he would from banks in Egypt. On the other hand if the Canadian exporter quoted American dollars, while presenting slightly less difficulty for the Egyp- tion importer, the Canadian exporter would have to provide against any losses due to cxchange on New York while the Egyptian importer would also have to cover himsef. It is re- commended that the ideal currency' for the Canadian importer to use in his quotations for Egyptian market is sterling which is the currency in which drafts are most readily 'ne- gotiated and remittances most easily effected in that country. The Egyp- tian market is a price one and prices must be reduced to a minimum. There is a direct steamship( connect - tion from Eastern Canada to Egypt via the port of Saint John, N.B. C.N.R. REVENUES SHOW FURTHER INCREASE The gross revenues of the all-in- clusive Canadian National Railways System for the week endigig Decem- ber 14th, 1934, were $2,882,893,00) as compared with $2,816,116.00 for the corresponding period of 1933, an in- crease of $60,74.7.00. 1 RURAL MUNICIPALITIES MEET FEBRUARY 19-20 The announcement of the second annual Convention of the Ontario Association of Rural Municipalities, at Toronto, Feb. 19-20 next; is re- ceived with increased interest, says President Marshall ' Rathwell. Al- ready, adhesions from 138 Munici- palities have been received, and more are coming every week. Several villages and small towns, not separ- ated from Counties are joining eur Association, because,' apparently, the older Association is dominated by Cities. Some important resolutions have been received for discussion. The special features of the program will include: "Are Municipal Councils dwindling into mere Tax -Collecting Agencies?" "Rural .Scheel Pro- grams," "Should all the County Roads be taken over by the Prcvince " "Should the hospitalization of Indict ents be borne by the people better' able to pay?" and other live questions: ... A questionaire of ten important questions, has been sent to all the, Municipal Councils of Ontario, and is receiving a, very generous response' These will' be eonipileg and will form interesting study at eur coming Can-- vention. NEARING PERFECTION "I gave tile best answer in nature, study this morning, mother," said lit— tle Johnny when he arrived home- from school. "Well, I am glad,"'replied the proud' mother, "Yes," said little Johnny, "teacher• asked how many legs an ostrich had' and I said three." ' "But an ostrich has two legs." 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