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Take Out The Weeds
Although modern seed cleaning ma-
chinery will do a great deal to take
out weed seede from grass and clover
seed it will not make perfect separa-
tion in all cases. In fields for seed
weeds should be taken out in the
summer so as to make possible high
grades and best prices'. Such weeds
as mustard, daisies,bladder tampion,
white cockle, and others classed as
noxious should be removed during
the summer ,so as to keep them out
of seed crops and what is just as im-
portant, keep them from seeding
themselvesdown again.
Protecting Potatoes from Injury
It has been demonstrated convinc-
ingly that potatoes produced on wet
land develop a tender skin and are
more subject to injury when dug.
Potatoes produced under 'such condi-
tions, therefore, should be handled
very carefully. While potatoes grown
in dry soil are less liable to injury,
they are often injured through the
fact that this type of soil is not car-
ried over the digger. To eompensate
this disadvantage, when elevator
diggers are used sufficient soil should
be taken up to prevent the tubers
coming into direct contact with the
moving parts of the machine.
The Racket of Robber Bees
Although honey stealing .by bees
is likely to be most troublesome in
late summer, the beekeeper has to
keep in mind that robber bees may
start their racket at any time. In
warm weather when there is little or
no honey to be got from the flowers
the bees will easily yield to any temp-
tation to obtain it anyhow. After
more or less fighting they will over-
power any eery 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.
Crate Feeding of Poultry
Crate feeding of poultry gives the
highest quality of flesh, and feeding
in clean sanitary pens makes the best
substitute. Only healthy birds of
any kind will pay. Before confining
the birds in crates or pens they
should be given a laxative and freed
of lice. Feed sparingly at first. Two
to four weeks are required for finish-
ing. At the Central Experimental
Farm, it has been found that almost
any good mixture of home-grown
grains, finely ground and mixed with
milk, will answer.
A satisfactory finishing ration
may be composed of the following:
one part finely ground whole wheat;
one part finely ground whole barley
and one part finely ground whole
Data, • ., '
After harvest Cultivation
After harvest cultivation is one of
the Most practical and most effective
anethods which the farmer can adopt
to control weeds. If possible, the
Work should be undertaken with a
view to preventing the ripening of
the current year's seed as well as
fighting( a weakened root.
Heat, sunlight and dry weather
will assist greatly • in the control of
weeds at this time. Experiments
have peoven and it has been experi-
ence of many farmers throughout
the proivince that the roots even of
our most persistent weeds cannot
stand heat and dryness when brosght
to the surface.
For the control of annual, winter
annual and biennial weeds thorough
cultivation of the stubble is recom-
mended immediately after the crop
has been removed, using the disc or
cultivator. By following this me-
thod, seeds are brought near the
surface where they sprout and may
be killed by further cultivation. When
bilis plan is followed and the soil is
stirred up at regular intervals, mil-
lions of young plants will be killed
and those which sprout late in the
fall will be destroyed by early frosts.
Many farmers skim plow immediate.
ly after the crop has ibeen removed
then harrow and cultivate at regular
intervals until freeze up. By plow-
ing shallow weed seeds are kept near
the surafce where they sprout and
are killed by cultivation.
An abundance of moisture togeth-
er pith the methodsoutlined above
will assist greatly in controlling such
weeds as Wild Mustard, Stinkweed,
Ragweed, Worm Seed Mustard, False
Flax, ?oxtail, Lambs' Quarters, Pig -
weed•, Shepherd's Purse, etc.
Burley Tobacco Marketing Scheme
The Burley Tobacco Marketing
Scheme has been officially approved
upon the recommendation of the Do-
minion Marketing Board. The scheme
relates to the marketing of burley
tobacco grown in the Province of On-
tario, and is, in most respects, simi-
lar to the Flue -Cured. Tobacco Mar-
keting Scheme.
There has been a leek of any co-
ordinated action in marketing which
has led to most unsatisfactory re-
turns to the producer, according to
the Dominion Marketing Board, and
it is believed that improved condi-
tions will result from the operation
of the scheme. By a system of crop
appraisal and the providing of ne-
gotiations between producers and
buyers it is contemplated that price
stabilization will be achieved.
The Local Board will consist of
fifteen members representing Burley
Associations, packers and manufac-
turers. There is a Prevision it Board
named to hold office until the Local
Board is elected in October. The Head
Office of the Local Board will be in
Chatham, Ont.
Apple Crop Outlook
A slight increase is expected in
the apple crop in Canada over last
season, according to preliminary es-
timates. The estimate is for ,4,045,-
000 •barrels compared with 3,891,000
in 1934, with the largest increase in.
dicated in Ontario. Nova Scotia is
about the sante, New Brunswick
somewhat larger, Quebec larger,
while British Columbia, the box ap-
ple district of the Dominion, shows a
very slight increase.
Eastern Ontario
In this part of the province apple
scab is quite prevalent on foliage and
fruit in many orchards due to fre-
quent rains from June 10 to 24 which
rendered spraying difficult. Early
varieties of apples, such as McIntosh,
Snow Wealthy, Wolfe River, Alexan-
der and Baxter, promise a good crop,
perhaps 20 to 25 per cent heavier
than last season. Late varieties,
such as Spy, Baldwin, Stark, Ben
Davis, Cranberry Pippin, R. I. Green-
ings and Russet have set very patchy
with some orchards showing fair
crops. The June drop was heavy anis
it is doubtful if there will be as
great a yield of any of these varie-
ties as last season. Spies are rather
spotty and will yield about the same
as last year while Stark and. Ben
Dalvis show a heavy decrease. The
light crop of late apples is due to
many weak trees that suffered in-
jury front the severe winters of 1933
and 1934. Tree •mortality was heavy
again this season and from Port Hope
east 50 per of all the trees over
25 years of age are now dead. On
June 24 a severe hailstorm caused
losses ranging from 15 to 100 per
cent of the crop, in the Colborne and
Brighton districts on about 400 acres
of orchards.
Western Ontario
The apples are sizing well due to
the plentiful supply of moisture.
Very little insect injury is evident.
There has been quite a heavy drop of
Spy and Greening. " Baldwin, Green-
ing and McIntosh will show a consid-
erable increase in yield over last
year.
Cheap Wheat is no Reason For Planting
Poor. Seed
With the present low prices being
paid for wheat in the district there
comes a definite inclination to use
cheap seed. Very often cheap seed,
is expensive seed in that it may be
mixed or, may be a variety not well
oriented to the' pastry flour trade.
Weather conditions such as were ex-
perienced in 'South -Western Ontario
between harvesting and threshing
this season are largely beyond hu-
man control, but the type •of wheat
grown is within our control.
Although the bulk of our wheat be-
longs to the class of white winter,
the ,principal variety being Daveson's
Golden Chaff, there are eontinued re-
ports that much oil our white winter
wheat in this district is mixed and
that one variety in particular i$ pro -
clueing too hard a wheat, for pastry
purposes, namely O.A.C, N'o. 194. In
addition, there is an appreciable ac-
reage of red winter wheat grown in
certain .sections. Fromthe trade
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'standpoint the growing g of a s few as:
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possible ;well; adapted varieties is
very desirable. Such "a practice
would place us in a position to offer
the market a more uniform product
than we do at present with many
varieties of unlike types and qualit-
ies being grown, particularly where
mixtures occur.
A preliminary study of the wheat
produced in the district this year is
being made by the Dominion Experi-
mental Station at Harrow as a result
of the reported mixtures and the
variation in quality of wheat produced
for pastry flour purposes. Some 200
or more samples of wheat are being
collected by the Harrow Farmers`
Co -Operative Association, Limited, at
their various elevators as the wheat
is being delivered by the growers.
These samples will be planted in
rows and studied principally from
the standpoint of variety and purity.
This collection of .samples taken at
various points in Essex County from
many growers should be an indica-
tion of the standard of wheat being
produced. Such tests have been very
interesting to wheat producers in the
west and the wheat growers here
will have an opportunity to inspect
this collection to their own satisfacs
tion on a day set aside for this pur-
pose next summer. •
The testing of new and standard
varieties of winter wheat has been in
progress on the Harrow Station for
a number of years. These studies
have definitely demonstrated that
Dawson's Golden 'Chaff will produce
equally as good or higher yields than
any other white or red winter wheat
variety under test that is suitable
for the pastry flour trade in this dis-
trict. Dawson's Golden Chaff has
long been recognized as an outstand-
ing variety, and the high reputation
that Ontario pastry flour has at-
tained is undoubtedly due largely to
the extent that this variety has been
grown in the Province.
What We Know About
Egg Quality
Fresh laid eggs are unsurpassed
as an article in the diet. For years
they have been known to be of im-
mense benefit to invalids and grow-
ing children. Their value as a staple
food product for ,all classes of people
has lately been recognized as evi-
denced by the fact that the average
Canadian eats over 300 eggs per
year. Scientific experiments have re-
cently shown reasons why eggs are
such an important article of food.
These reasons may be enumerated as
follows: The white is almost en-
tirely composed of protein in readily
digestible form; the yolk is rich in
a phosphorus containing fat in emuI-
sified form which is easily digested
and absorbed; eggs contain vitamins
A, 131, B2, D and E, each of which
is essential for the prevention of a
specikc "defiicency disease" and all
of which are necessary for the com-
pletely normal functioning of the
body. At the recent meeting of the
Canadian Medical Association a new
vitamin, choline, responsible for the
prevention of so-called "fatty -liver"
was reported to be found in relative-
ly large quantities in egg yolk.
Fresh laid eggs are by no means
equal in quality. Eggs may differ
in their nutritive and in their phys-
ical qualities. In regard to the form-
er, the vitamin content of the egg is
the principal quality which varies,
although iodine is found in some.
eggs and none or very little in oth-
ers. These variations in vitamin
and iodine content can be largely
controlled by feeding. Vitamin A is
found in green feed, alfalfa leaf meal
yellow corn or good quality cod liver
oil, while vitamin D is found in cod
liver roil. Hans which are fed abun-
dant sources of these vitamins will
produce eggs of high vitamins will
tent. Likewise, if hens are fed pot-
assium iodide or certain products of.
the sea, such as fish meal and oyster.
(shell, their eggs will contain quan-
tities of iodine and will serve as an
ONESIME GAGNON
(continued from page 3) t'
Letters. In January 01 the same year 1
he married Celle Desautels, daughter
of the late C. Desautlets, of St Hy-
acinthe. Six 'children were born of
the union, Andre, Claude, Renee,
Jean, Francoise and Marie. Mr.
Gagnon is a memberof the Canadian
Glub of Quebec, and was president of
that organisation in 1931. In 1934 he
was vice-president of the Association
of .'Canadian Clubs. Mr. Gagnon
finds time to keep himself physically
fit on the tennis' and squash racquets
courts, and also plays golf:' He is a
member of the .Quebec Lawn Tennis
Club, Quebec Squash, Racquets 01111
and the Garrison Club of Quebec. He
resides in Quelbee City. •
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abundant source of iodine for human
beings.
Physical differences between eggs
take the forms of variations in the
structure 0i' quantity' of the various
components of the egg such as thick
white, thin white, shell, and yolk.
While nothing is definitely known
concerning the relative 'food -mine
of eggs which differ in' physical qual-
ities, it is known that 'certain defin-.
rte and progressive changes occur in
the structure of an egg as it ages
after being. laid, These changes in -
elude: A general loss in weight due
to evaporation through the shell; s'
progressive increase in the size of
the yolk ,due to passage of water
from the white intothe yolk; anti a
general liquefaction or thinning of
the think white. As these changes
are definitely associated with de-
terioration it is clear that measure-
ments of these qualities in fresh laid
eggs should indicate their relative
quality.
Investigations to date have dis-
closed the fact that yolk size,. pro-
portion of thick white, breaking
strength of shell and strength
of yolk membrane are char-
acteristics sof the individual
bird. It :has further been shown
that most of the characteristics are
influenced by the genetic makeup of
the bird. uJst how far it is practical
to improlve these qualities by breed-
ing is not entirely clear at present.
It appears, however, that breeding
may be relied upon to effect some
measure of improvement in the qual-
ity of -new laid eggs. Investigations
are at present in progress at the
Central Experimental Farm which
are expected to shed more light on
this important problem.
TWO SEASONS ONLY
IN SOUTH AFRICA
Dawn in South Africa they have
only two: seasons, summer, which is
front October 1 to April 30, and win-
ter, from May 1 to September 3Q;
there is no spring or autumn season.,
February is the warmest month and
July the coldest, the reverse .of the
seasons in the northern portions of
the globe. This reversal of seasons
works out to the benefit ro'f Canadian
dressmaking establishments, accord-
ing to the Industrial Department of
the Canadian National Railways,
production for spring and autumn
wear fitting in with the South Afri-
can seasons. Canadian frocks are
looked on with a favourable eye by
South African women, particularly
those for afternoon . and business
near of pastel shades and floral de-
signs, but there is the disadvantage.
of the rapid change in fashions which
has taken place in some cases so
quickly that it was impossible to
£ill theorders before the change -ov-
er,
HURON COUNTY
SCHOOL FAIRS
Following is the list of sehool
fairs to be held in Huron County
this year:
Carlow—Sept, 23rd.
'Currie', •Corners—Sept. 24th.
St. Helens—Sept. 25th.
Canada the British Isles, and the
United States supply approximately
70 percent of the imports of .Bar-
bates, British West Indies, and ab-
sorb more than 80 per cent of her
exports. Canada supplies biscuits,
butter, oilmeal and •oileakes, cheese,
confectionery, apples, oats, flour,
hay, lard, bacon and hams, beef,
pork, condensed milk, canned vege-
tables, onions, potatoes, canned, pre-
served and pickled ,fish, lumber, shin-
gles, staves and shooks, hosiery,
wearing apparel, cotton goods, mil-
linery,l hardwalre; sugar .machinery,
nails, rivets, motor cars, trucks and
vans, canvas boots, cement, tires and
tubes, sulphate of ammonia, medi-
cines and drugs, paints and colours,
paper, furniture and tourists.
HANDICAPS SCORNED
Second (to boxer who has just fin-
ished a round, and has both eyes clos-
ed) --;You must go in and finish him
this time.
Boxer—I can't see to hit him.
Second—,Well, you must hit bins
from memory.
ARMER5
The combined production in Cans
ada' of all items of concentrated milk
(condensed, evaporatedcasein and
powders) for the seven months of
1935, ended 31 cly, totalled 65,355,-
255ou d showing n s, sh wmg an increase of
9,•307,998 pounds, or 17 per cent, °V-
ie the corresponding seven months
of 1934.
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Yet day by day your taste changes in all you wear and do. You
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