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The Clinton News Record, 1935-08-01, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD NEWS AND Timely Information for the Busy Farmer • d ( Furnished by the Department' of A 'culture Canadian cattle exported to the United States from January 1 to, June 6, 1935 totalled 79,295, togeth- er with 1,680 calves. The number of cattle thus exported to the United States during this' time is 'approxi- mately 8,000 more than the total ex- port of cattle from Canada during , the Whole of 1934 to all countries. The number of inspected shipments of poultry from 'Canada from Jan- uary 1 to May 31, 1935 comprised 4,- 487 boxes of turkeys; 33,145 boxes of chickens; 323 boxes of fowl; 25 boxes of geese; 955 boxes of ducks, and one box of pigeons in all ap- proximately 2,280,000, pounds. Dur- ing the correnspodin9 peilod of 1934 the totol amount exported was 11,841 boxes. Water for Poultry An abundant supply of, clean, fresh water should be available at all times to the growing and laying flock. Since water makes up 66 per cent ;af an egg, it is imperative to high egg production and it"helps greatly in the assimilation of poultry .feeds. Clean water is necessary, not only front a sanitation standpoint, lila' also to help control egg flavour. The Importance of a Prolific Queen Bee The foundation Slow next year's honey crop is laid by malting sure that every colony is headed by a young and vigorous queen early in August so that she has sufficient time te produce a large force of bees before the end of the b;faod rearing season. To perform the duties ex- pected of her the queen must have ample room for maximum egg pro- duction and there must always be an adequate supply of food available for the brood, she produces. Other conditions being satisfactory, strong colonies headed by young vigorous queens in the fall are the best as- surance of strong colonies in the fol- lowing epring and of a strong force pf held bees in time for harvest. Couch Grass Eradication Couch grass is probably the most prevalent and most pernicious weed in Eastern Canada. It is a perennial, propagated to some extent by seed but more especially by undergilound root stalks, and is consequently ex- tremely difficult • to eradicate. Few people realize the enormous quantity of couch grass root, stalks which may be found in the soil. According to investigations conducted at the Cen- tral Experimental Farm at Ottawa, the Weigth of viols has ranged from 1,531 pounds to 6,997 pounds per acro. This weight is equal to that of a very heavy crop of hay and helps' to explain why it is so difficult to re- move or kill all the roots. A booklet on the subject has been prepared by Dr. Ll S. Hopkins, Dominion Field Husbandman and is issued by the Dominion "Department of Agricul• ture, Ottawa, to those who desire it. In it the eradication of ,couch grass is thoroughly dealt with, the prin. eiples underlying the methods of at- tack and themethods !of eradication' themselves "being explained in detail, as for example (1) removing the roots from the soil by cultivation and drawing off the field, (2) Starv- ing the plant ley removal of top growth, (3) Smothering the growth of the weed by a smother, crop, (4) Drying the roots on the surface of the syil, and (5) Using chemicals to. kill the plant. Ineffective methods 'are also described. Variety in Feeding Stuffs ,Canadian live stook and poultry feeders have a wide range of com- mercial . mixed feeds from which to select their requirements. For the year ended September 30, 1934, there were 1,301 •brands of mixed feed reg- istered' under the Feeding 'Stuffs 'Act. Poultry feeds are much more, num- ereus than feeds for other classes of Omit and account for 935 brands, or nearly 72 per cent of the Iotas. Dairy feeds follow with .129 ;brands, calf meals with 64 and bog feeds with 43. The increased production of high protein or protein and mineral anix- tures to 'supplement' and balance rather than to replace fatal grown; feeds has been a notable development in recent years. A few years' ago such preparations 'were rare, while in'the year under review they amounted to 108 'brands. This trend is: in steeping with the teachings of agricultural '1 leaders and recognizes the farmers' heed to :balance rations with the minimum cash loutlay for purchased feeds. In addition to these mixed feeds there were also registered some 278 brands of sin• gle feed materials such as tankage, meat iserap, fish meal, powdered milk and buttermilk, gluten feed, hominy feed, brewers' and dis- tillers' dried grains, etc. Only Clean Crops Worth Saving For Seed Due to the abundance sof moisture this season weeds have been making record growth in e'lover and timothy fields. Without extra precautions, observers predict a dirtier seed crop than usual.. This is 'particularly un- fortunate this year, it is stated, be- cause all indications point to a fall market for high class seed only. Mixed or dirty seed will be practically unsaleable. , Seed authorities elate that the situation has :materially changed ,from a year ago. Then due to the severe mid -western drought in teeUnited States there was only a fraction of the Tonna' timothy seed crop and other lines were short. Timothy was exported from Canada in eonsiderable volume and at high prices. xn the mid -western States there is - a promising crop lof tint- othy this year and prices have fallen already to a point where it will be unprofitable to export over the duty, even the highest grade of Canadian timothy. Indications point to a do- mestic market only for Canadian timothy and seed laws here are so stringent that only clean seed can be 'sold. Where a iield cannot be cleaned up by pulling the weeds now before the crop is mature, seedmen advise cutting the field for hay pur- poses. The same advice holds' good for all dirty fields of red clover, alfalfa or alsike. There is a good deal of sweet clover sprinkled thifaugh these crops and sweet clover is a decidedly bad weed when nixed with the oth- ers. 'Clean seed of red clover or alf- alfa, it is expected 'will command ready sale and should be handled carefully. Pulling any sweet clover plants er other weeds is recommend- ed before these go to seed. The first growth of alfalfa, it is reported set very little seed and growers will have to depend on the second. Alsike is showing fair pro- mise but the acreage is far below normal The outlook for sweet clover seed is described as distinctly poor. Car- ryover seed is already offered at prices which arenot profitable to growers. There is no export market. Western Canada .grows' snore sweet clover seed than it can •.use. As a result farmers are advised to cut practically everything for hay or to pasture it. Beef Now Most Popular Meat There has been a sharp decline in the consumption of pork in Canada in recent years and a :moderate increase in the consumption of ibeef, As a matter of fact beef has taken the. place of pork as the most popular meat in Canada, according, to a bul. letin just issued by the Agricultural. Branch of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics' for the years 1931-1934 In - elusive and entitled "Estimated Con- sumption of Meats, Poultry, Butter, Cheese and Eggs in Canada." One reason for the change is that the price of beef in the years under re- view was', for the most part, less than pork, due in part to drought, which was serious in some parts . of Western Canada, an important beef raising country. In 1931 the per capita consumption of pork in the Dominion was 83,17 pounds; in 1932 it rose to 85.61 pounds, but in 1934, it was clown to 66.86 pounds, while beef advanced from 57.79 pounds per head efpopu- lation in 1981 to 68.66 in 1934. The consumption of lamb 'has not varied substantially. It was 7.08 pounds' in 1931 and 6,28 pounds in 1934. Cana- dians may be classified as consider- able meat eaters for the per capita consumption of :beef, pork and lamb was 141.30 pound's in 1934.. In 1933 it was down to 136.99. The high point. was 148.60 pounds in 1932. In 1931 the total, was 148,04 pounds. In poultry, hens and chickens are the most popular on the Canadian table. Last year• the per capita consumption' was 6.92 pounds tom= pared with 7.98 pounds in 1931. maeh person in the Dominion ate 1.81 pound's of turkey in 1934; .38 of • a THURS., `AIJG.,1,1935; LNINSS. OF INTEREST TO. FARMERS no longer before returning to his Nfi .•� i °■ o°,r,°,°r i°■ i°Ai°,i■■Y,°e■°i eemer.W,■r i°,t■°aVV.9■° • ■ ■ ■ — bed.Goderich Star. o ° Keep Up That Egg Production During The Summer Every farmer and poultryman has to face the problem of keeping up the egg production during July, Aug- ust, and Septeiniber, the natural sea- son of decline. Many ;birds' cease to lay because of the handicaps during this season, but under better condi- tions of feeding and management these same birds would probably con- tinue in production. Eggs are ad- vancing in price at this season and every effort should be made to keep the birds' in good feather and in con- tinuous pyadu_ction. As the season advances the supply of, worms and Insects becomes scarce, the grass roots die eut, and the ;birds are un- able to get a supply of succulent green feed. Animal protein should be supplied even though the binds have unlim- ited range. The mash hoppers should be kept filled with a wellebalanced ration in which the fish and meat meals should form 15 to 20 per cent of the whole contents. The birds Hall sometimes eat large quantities of weed seeds, and if fed too •heav- ily on scratch grain the consumption of mash will be less than necessary to keep up the production. As they prefer their mash moist, it may be. advisable to feed the usual dry mash mixture moistened with skim milk of buttermilk once a day., This is an in- ducement for the birds to eat more mash and offsets the unusual con- sumption sof pain that :may be ob- tained on the range in irregular quantities. If the yards or range are died up or Barren of green feed, choice second -growth alfalfa or oal6'bage should 'be •eut for them. Lack of supply of clean, fresh, cool water may be the principal cause or a drop in egg production, or .the flock may be easily thiGwn out of condition during the summer months through the presence of .body lice or red mites. Examine the birds, nest boxes, and rcfo'sts at intervals arid if these pests appear take immediate action to get rid of; them. WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING SHOULD BRING LUCK If four and five leaf clovers bring luck, Harold Greer should have plen- ty of it. While working in his gar- den the other day he carne upon a root of clover that along with the ordinary leaves, had 18, 4 -leaf clo- vers, and 3, 5 -leaf clovers, which we believe is 'something real unique. Another oddity Harold has dis- covered is a Ribsun Pippin, bearing an average crop of green apples and as well, several clusters of typical spring time blossom. Lueknow Sentinel. TEMPERATURE TOO HOT lie just couldn't take it. No sired From sunny California where natives look aghast if you mention rain or cool weather came a tourist to Kin- cardine. He stayed a week. The longer he stayed the hotter it became. Eventually, he could stand it no long- er, so he has left for his native state. Kincardine's too hot for him. -eGoderieh Star. SOUNDS LIKE COMMON SENSE Down in Kansas they have such a governor as to make glad the hears of the taxpayer. This is Alf. M. Landon, whose government has val- untarily+ reduced .revenues) and at the same time balanced its budget. He doesn't believe in the policy of spending to win back prosperity. -- "I've tried to do my duty as gayer - nor as I would run a business," he explained. "Our costs never topped aur income. The trouble with most politicians who spend other people's money is that they never have had to meet a payroll on Saturday night. We don't experiment with the tax- pgyers' money in Kansas, and we don't mortgage their future. —.Barrie Examiner, FEWER TRANSIENTS "Wle don't give meals in this town," was the concluding remark of Magi's - trate Weir in •Goderich when two transients appeared before him re. cently charged with , vagrancy. The men claimed they could not find work and yet several farmers in the dis- trict. weee looking for help the day before. That seems to be a habit with the transients on the road these days—they don't want to week very badly and steer clear of places where there is, the,ehance of a job. If a few pound of duck and .79 of a pound of goose. The reputation that the people . of Canada enjoy being among the larg, est eaters of butter is evidently not likely to be lost, taking the statistics for the four yearns under review as a criterion. ; In 1931 the per capita consumption was 30,76 pounds' and in 1934 it was 30.92 pounds. • Cheese consumption was 3,64 pounds' per head of population in Canada in 1934; 3.39 pounds in 1933; 3.25 pounds in; 1932 and 8.50 in 1931. Though Canada makes the beat fac- tory cheese in the world, the people of the Dominion eat less of this dairy product of such high food value than those of other leading countries o. the world. There has been a decline in the oonssuinption of eggs recently. In 1931 thre consumption per capita in the Dominion was 24.78 dozen and. last year it was down. to 22.31 dos. en, but even at this figure Canadians may still claim to be the world's larg-. set consumers of eggs. This may be clue to the fact that, es a result of the egg grading standards introduced several years ago by the Dominion Department of Agriculture, the e;ua1- ity ofeggs available to the consumer is notably high: i More municipalities would adopt the same tactics' as Goderieh there would be less touring of the ,country by those who don't want work. Listowel Banner. FIRES DUE TO CARELESSNESS Fatal accidents are occurring so frequently from the careless use of gasoline and the careless' habits of cigarette smokers that they are, in their proportion, outnumbering the fatal accidents caused iby the eare- Ies's automobile driver. During the past week the daily newspapers have recorded several fatal burnings caus- ed by the careless use of gasoline, mostly by women. The cleaning of clothes, of wool, work with gasoline is extremely dangerous even if no fire is in the house, as an explosion is often ,caused by friction. A Brant- ford lady last week was cleaning a garment with gasoline when the rub- bing caused an explosion that soon enveloped the woman and she was so critically burned that she died, leav- ing .a husband and several small children. Several serious fires, with loss of life, have also occurred due= ing the past week from "unknown" causes, the papers state, but by gen- eral belief were caused by the care. less cigarette smoker. —Petrolia Advertiser. NO RIGHT TO SET ASIDE LAW The politicians are not alone in assuming the right to decide what laws should be enforced and what should not. Judge Forest, of the Quebec Supreme Curt, last week un- dertook to annul a marriage between a Protestant and a Raman Catholic Which hadbeenduly performed by a Protestant minister, in defiance et bhe judgment of the Privy Council that such marriages are civilly leg- al, because, he said, such a law is contrary to the Catholic conscience. Judges have no power to make law, and no more right to defy law and the 'courts superior to them than the humblest citizen, and a judge who undertakes to do so should :be im•• peached and removed from the, bench. In this instance, the point at issue is of such great importance to many individuals that Judge Forests's de, eision should not be allowed tc pass unchallenged.-lOrill a Packet -Tinges. HE LOOKED GHOSTLY Residents on Brock St. were .awak- ened,the other night about two o' clock by groans and moan's which they thought were made by soone per- son who had pae'bably been hurt In a car accident. As the night was warns one of the citizens turned out in his sang white night gown to give such help as he might. Tracing the noise to its source, he found a man sprawled on his back on a neighbor's lawn with his head on the sidewalk. In reply to his query, "'What are you doing here, mate?' the reveller opened his eyes and seeing the whiterobed man, de- cided it was a ghost. With a yell that sounded like a boiler explosion, he bohnded to his feet and struck' down the street. With •each jump he yelled to his companions—"run boys run, it's a ghost." Wlith a cargo of fire water on board, his speed was not in the record rclass, and .realizing that he was likely to be overtaken by "the ghost" :he hid behind a post from which point he continued Ile urge his companions to fly before they were overtaken. In the meantime "the ghost" was unable to follow, beingovercame by laughter. Sitting down on the side- walk, he laughed until he could Taugh EMBARRASSING HIS FRIENDS Mi. Hepburn may argue never se cleverly,' but the fact remains .that. upon Huron county—Peel and Pelee may speak for themselves -against the will of the people. The Hepburn policy on the liquor question was accepted, reluctantly, iby the temper. ance people in the election ,of June, 1934, because it was believed to be the only way of countering the Hen- ry ,Government's appeal to the liquor vote. If it had been imagined that the Hepburn Government would go beyond what the Henry Government proposed—would issue licenses for sale of liquor in territories who're anti -liquor sentiment had always been respected by the Ferguson and Henry Governments—the election in this riding would have been a very different affair front what it" was. Mr, Hepburn has placed his support- ers in Huron in an embarrassing position,r—Goderich Signal\ NO FOUNTAIN YET The Campbell memorial fountain, subject of . countless arguments at every council meeting for the past year and a half, still occupies a site at the rear of the Town Hall where it was unloaded more than a year ago, despite the statement made in council at the July meeting that it would be erected within a week. Some progress has been made, how- ever, the parties ir4terested having chosen a site in front of the Town Hall as its ultimate location. The hitch -now, it appears, is to de- cide who is going Ia do end pay for the work involved in placing it. —Huron Expositor. beverage rooms have been thrust BOY 011 BOY, WHAT A HEAT The oppressive heat of the last week has been one of the longest spells •of hot weather that has been recorded here for some time. The temperature has been much above the average, ranging from 79 to 92 almost every day. Two showers, one on Saturday and one on Tuesday, did not seem to lower the tempore.. ture one bit. In West Wawanosh a storm on Saturday flattened a great deal of the crop but little damage has been done in this locality. The haying is nearly all done and the wheat is ready to cut on most farms, in fact some of the oats could he cut any clay. The crops are heavy and It will keep the farmers busy to har- vest their crops as so much of l: should be cut at once. -+Wingham Advance -Times. JUDGE'S DECISION AFFECTS COTTAGERS Townships Have Right to 'fax Cot- tages on Government Property. A decision which is expected to have province -wide ramificatiins, es- pecially in tourist areas, has been handed down by Judge J. W. Owens, of Bruce County In two test cases in division court, Kincardine, on which he reserved judgment, he has ruled that the defendants must not only pay taxes ter land on which their cottages are situated, but must also pay costs. Rev. H. Sanderson, of Chesley, and John Mustard, of.Brucefield, declined to pay taxes on land at Inverhuron, Where they have summer clottages. Kincardine Township entered an ac- tion against them, though the cot- tagers claimed they were on govern. meat -owned 'land. The Judge ruled that for assessment purposes town- ship property extended ea the middle of the lake. • Accordingly, the defen- dants are liable for assessment. Other cottagers at Inverhuron, which lies in Bruce and Kincardine Townships, must also pay as a result of the decision. At Bruce 'Beach, in Huron Town- ship, a somewhat similar condition exists. Under Judge Owen's ruling the township can collect taxes. For some time, the Provincial Govern- ment has been collecting a tax from the cottagers there. Residents at Bruce Beach declare they -will take ac- tion against, the province to recover money paid it if Huron Township as- sesses them. Returns of the production of pro- ceseed• cheese :in Canada were col- lected by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics for the first time in 1924. Total production in that year a- mounted to 16,893,288 pounds. Since, 1925, when 32,652,569 pounds were produced,' production has declined, dropping to 10,636,024 pounds in 1933; Production in 1934 amounted to 11,996,348 pounds, an increase ov- er 1933- of 1,361,324 pounds, or • 13 per cent. READ ALL THE ADS. IN THE NEWS -RECORD -+IT' WILL PAY YOU- - YOUR WORLD AND MINE by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD r (Copyright)". �iR ■ ? , , r� r �'.°h ■ °°,'s,°e'i°r°i°■ , r 1'd� ,e,°�i , . ,i"■ ,"■ .V■ ■°i■ .", ,'■ .p■■■tL" How to live is, I imagine, the lese•. married: daughter. take major problem of all normal persons the youngest child,, age 5.agreed' Butto neno• who have attained years of under- was willing to take a lad who was standing, 'It remains the major mob- subject to epilectie fits. ler from youth to old age. It is the Hannah, greatly eoveng Mta•'bHa„ urgent and oppressive problem of the Obaby..' and solicitous for the - those with scanty means. It is the afflicted ibroeher, troped that she unlifted problem of those who have could take these two to her new wealth. The poor are concerned with home, after her marriage; but her• the primary matters of how to feed, betrothed would have none of it; and' elethe and house themselves. The so a romance came to an abrupt end.. In her hour of despair, with love' crushed like grapes' in the wine- press, Hannah agreed; to marry her widower brother-in-law, who propos., ed that they should marry, Hannah to take the two children and to be, mother to his little family.' :and. sa' the story ends. rich have problems related to morals and conduct and to their relations. with others, Many of us shirk this prebiem of how to live. We just let time and eirucrostance take charge of us. We do what impulse and the current sit- uation suggest that we should de. We put up little resistance to influence and forces which press on us. We are without goals and ideals. We are easily tempted, Many of us want to live softly, and• when we cannot live softly, we be- come 'surly and .sour.. We say that life is cheating us. We look with envy—and envy easily becomes men- ace --on those possessing more of the material things of life than we pos. sess. We .become bitter and cruel and vindicitive. We want to hurt others to bring others down to the level of our own circumstances, we are never very far from wrong -do. ing. Yet there are some of us' accept Iife as it is given to us. We recog- nize that we had no choice in regard to our •parents and to the circum- stances into which we were born. Our parents may have 'been of the wrong sort-harsfh, evil, illiterate, base in respect of their motives and ways, shiftless. Or they may have been magnificent in their idealism, in the measure of the love which they poured out on us, in their zeal and purpose concerning our way of life, in the quality of their mind. Or they may have been just commonplace, good in a dull, unimaginative way, 'good providers, content to drudge a- long in a rather flat way. But what- ever may have been the circumstan- ces of our childhood days and of our teen years, there is recognition oe this fact, namely: From 15 or so on- ward, our life is our own—to make it what we will. I do not say that bleginning at age 15 or 18 or 21 we do or 'should escape from parental or family ob- ligations, or that we have an unfet- tered right to go our own way. But I do say that we should look upon life as a great adventure—a journey through time. I do say that as hu- man -divine beings, we ought to live differently from animals -such as oxen and wolves and doge and pigs. I do say that without ideals and goals and standards, we have little 1n life to inspire us, to sustain us, to give us purpose, to give us growth and happiness, I do say that the pursuit of selfishness, the unrestrain- ed practice ,of sel±-indulgence, the satisfaction of an acquisitive nature are false gods. Here let me speak 'of a book which I strongly recemanend-and xecom- mend in particular to those who live on farms. The book's title is "Second Hoeing." The author' is Hope Wil- liams Sykes, and the publishers G. P. Putnam's Sons. I recommend this book far inclusion in all public lib- raries, for it is a picture of the life of a family—a Russian-Geranan fam- ily settled on a sugar -beet farm in Colorado. This book 'deals with a phase of farming unfamiliar to most Canadians, and for this reason pos. sesses special interest. The father is mostly a beast -- coarse, coarse, cruel, acquisitive, dishonest, without a particle of paternal love. His' wife is glorious—large, patient, gentle, kinds idealistic, ; affectionate, brave, good. The children — there were fourteen of them—are a nixed lot. One, a daughter, named Hannah, is like her mother in her nature, but lacking the inotheii's stability, pat- ienee and faith in the eternal jus- tive of Heaven. On this daughter falls crushing burdens, especially when her mother died, leaving in her keeping an infant. This daughter had hoped to go to High School to prepare herself dos teaching. She hoped to go into dom- estic service.' She hoped that she would be aibl'e to transfer .her Ioad of family obligations to 'a sister, She became familiar with some of the finer things of life through occasional day service in the home •of well-to- do and cultured neighbours. She fell madly in lave with the son of, these neighbours—a reciprocated love. She saw a way of escape into the life Which she feltwas rightfully hers. Then her father died, and there was the problem of disposing of the farm and the young children. One mar - tied son was unwilling to take any e1 •the Half-dozen children, One child - What abiding memory this boost,. "Second Boeing," has left with me is of a life which was never fully or finally conquered bfy cruelty, hard labor in the fields, the selfishness which was base ingratitide, the' blast, ing of dreams and aspirations.. , I cannot persuade myself that any' farrier -reader of this contribution to The News -Record has so hard a time of it as had tho emigrant front Russia to Colorado; or that any daughter in a farm home has a lot so black and blue and grey as had' Hannah of the story of which I have: written Life becomes utterly spoiled — %- made all out of tune --when it is misused, and life is misused when it is given up to self-indulgence, to lust, to greed, to avarice, to acquis- itiveness, to cruelty, to crime. Wlhen the end of a man's fifer comes, what is its total? Has he blotted his ,copy book and do the stains remain? Or is the record a clean ane?' What does it profit a man if he has gained the whole world, yet has lost his •own soul? Again, I say, life's major problem is how to live. Life is a perpetual challenge to us. The life of Job is: Intended to teach this lesson: no mat- ter what adversities, what circum- stances,' what sufferings, what be- reavements one meets with, one can. and should retain his integrity, his: courage and his belief in truth, DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD ._ The Cayman Ilslands are the latest addition to the "Scouting countries"' of the Empire. 180,000 ofiicial programmes' of• the King's Silver Jublilee were sold on the streets of London by Boy ,Scouts. The proceeds went to the King's Jule ilee Trust Fund. Scours Dig Up Bronze Age Skull' .Stockbridge (Hants) Scouts, while digging a hole in preparation for their Jubilee beacon, unearthed a skull which is believed to date bath to the Bronze Age. Further searele is being made. Quebec Scouts Boost Their Province. Ani attractive "Canada" display booth arranged by St. Johns, Que.,. Scouts at an American Scout gather- ing in Boston distributed over a thousand sets' of illustrated matter and road maps of the Province of Quebec. 200,000 People Wateie Scout Bonfire Newcastle Scouts claimed the hon- our of erecting the largest of the 1,775 beacons by which British Boy Scouts celebrated the King's Silver Jubilee. The ceremony in connection with its lighting on Town Moor was witnessed by an estimated gathering of 200,000 people. A Monkey Hunt in England It was a unigle piece of practical' scouting that wan theScout Medal of Merit for Patrol Leader Ranald' Rhind of the lst Cheadle Iiulme (Cheshire) Scout. Group. While at s camp Rhind learned that a valuable monkey had escaped from its own. er. He tracked it down, cornered it, and after a protracted battle, captor-- ed the animal', This W)li Be a Warm Camp Fire Beautifying the grounds' about, their log cabin, Rover Scouts of the 6th- Edmonton Crew this summer• planted young trees in the form of a Fleur-de-lys, the centre of the symbol to be used as a fire circle. As reported in the Edmonton Bulletin, the trees selected were spruce, pine and "fur." Presumably tbe, cold wen. - ter nights about the •carne fire sug- gested the selection.