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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1938-05-05, Page 7THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1938 oammoossoomois a lomonosatlm®pmlnma0000smlMoo.+m a =t 1 1 1 I I 1 1 Duplicate • Monthly Statements We can save you money on Bill and Charge Forms, standard sizes to tit ledgers, white or colors. It will pay you to see our samples, Also best quality Metal Hinged See- tionat Posit Binders and 'Index, T h e Seaforth News PhonR 84 11....11n+—m1P••11$*• 0 '3 �tl e It 1,1 11 1 �.�^J.l✓1.l.!1./../J✓.lII./✓✓✓.!✓./✓l✓l✓✓✓././l././✓✓✓.✓•l✓.../I✓,l .. THE WORLD'S GOOD NEWS will come to your home every day through THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR An International Daily Newspaper It records for you the world's clean, constructive doings. The Monitor does not exploit crime or sensation; neither does it ignore them, butdeals correctivelywith them. 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Those who are intending to import package bees this spring should have all the ne- cessary equipment on hand and ready are still Formant in their hives, Nb- to house and feed the 'bees upon their THE SEAFORTH NEWS, PAGE SEVEN. arrival. Those who are 'planning to in- crease their colonies this summer should also prepare 'the neees'sary number of '.hives to take •care of this increase. It is impossible to'forecasit with any degree of accuracy 'just what the hon- ey crop will Ibe, 'but it is far safer, to be 'prepared for a 'bumper crop than otherwise, in order to avoidpossible disappointments later on. For every producing colony„n+t least tete equiva- lent of three nor seven four full depth supers should be prepared. Now is the time to do this, the summertime is too late. This preparation requires that all equipment be overhauled and put into working shape and any shortage 'taken cate of by ordering :new supplies at, once. With all the 'eq'uipment taken care of and no danger of shortage, the !beekeeper can thendevote his 'full time to his !bees when they require it, and it will not be long before they do. Springtime is the most •critical :time in the life of a !bee colony, it is the :time when the bees are called upon to make their (greatest effort in brood •produc- tion. The 'floe supply is usually inade- quate at this time. A little judicious feed'ing during the first bright warm days of spring may 'save many colon- ies from death through starvation, and at the same time enable them to Ibui d. up mach 'faster and to greater •strength for the main honey :flow. Getting Ready for the Lamb Crop Lamlbing Time is the s'hepherd's har- vest. It is also the time'requiring the most exacting care. 'Everything must be in readiness for the coming of the new crop. Three or four weeks before lambing the pregnant ewe should re- ceive .better feeds in order to, insure a good ,flow of milli for the young lambs. !Alfalfa, red clover and Mother legumes make the (best hays for breed- ing ewes; they are almost essential at lanibing •rime. If they are not -availa- ble, mixed hay Whish contains a lair amount of legume should, be fed. Sur - =teat feeds such as turnips or corn silage make a •welcome addition to the ration, but not more than one pound a •day should be given as larger amounts are known to produce 'big, soft, 'flabby lambs which generally die soon •after (birth. At this time the feed- ing of grain is essential. The amount necessary will vary according to size and 'c'ondition of ewe. Half to 'three- quarters of a pound per day of grain mixture made 'op of two parts oats and one part bran Is generally suffi- cient. 12 mixed or non -legume hays are fed, the addition of half a part of oil meat will prove beneficial As lambing time approaches. and the ewes (become heavy 'in lamb, they will require more pen and feeding space. The ewes .which are expected to lamb early 'shoul'd be separated from the 'main 'flock. This is easily done if the ram was marked at breed - What could be more complete than a combina- tion offer that gives you a choice of your favourite magazines—Sends you your local newspaper— and gives yourself and family enjoyment and entertainment throughout the whole year— Why not take advantage of this remarkable offer that means a real saving in money to you? This Offer Fully Guaranteed— All Renewals Will Be Extended IL THIS COUPON TOD y Please clip list of Magazines after checking Publications desired. Fill out coupon carefully. Gentlemen: I enclose $ Please send me the three magazines checked with a year's subscription to your newspaper. NAME STREET OR RR' TOWN AND PROVINCE SELECT ANY THREE OF THESE MAGAZINES ❑ Maclean's (24 Issues) 1 yr. ❑ Chatelaine 1 yr. ❑ National Home Monthly 1 yr. ❑ Canadian Magazine - 1 yr. ❑ Rod and Gun - - - 1 yr. ❑ Pictorial Review Combined With Delineator - - 1 yr. ❑ American Boy - - - S mo. ❑ Can. Horticulture and Home Magazine - - 1 yrs ❑ Parents' Magazine - 6 mo. ❑ Silver Screen - - - - 1 yr. ❑ Open Road tor Boys -16100, ❑ American Fruit Grower 1 yr. Form 400. THE SEAFORTH NEWS �1. .1'.', inig time and records kept. The warm- est and most 'comfortable pen, one re- ceiving plenty 'of sunshine and free from draughts 's'hauld be selected. The floor should be dry, level, and .well bedded with clean straw, This lambing pen should be ,so equipped that indi- vidual pens ,can be easily made. For this punpise 'light, two sided, foldinrlg hurdles four feet to the side end three feet high ate very useful. By starting in the 'wartiest oorner and placing the hurdle at right :angles, a complete' pen is constructed with each hurdle. In this Way the ewe is kept quiet and is Mess lilcety to disown her lambs. There is no danger of one lamb going astray and !getting trampled on by other sheep, and special attention can be given to the ewe 'without disturb- ing 'the whole (flock. Dairy Production 'Production of creamery butter in Ontario during March was almost as high as a year ago. The number of pounds manufactured in that month is estimated at 4;711'8,4001 as compared with 4,8115,19010 in March, 19187, a de- crease of .only ID per cent. Western, Central and INlorthern (Ontario showed a gain in output, 'but 'in !Eastern On- tario there was a .decline of 1116i5% and in southern Ontario the reduction was 1111.3pf'o `For the 'first three months of 11958 total creamery :butter .production in Ontario amounted to 11244617;4W pounds as compared with 1113,10417,300 pounds in the similar period of '1037. The cumulative total for the three- month period showed a reduction of •'V9,8OO pounds or 6 per cent. The make of Cheddar cheese in March fol- lowed the trend of the two preceding months and was considerably smaller than in 11937. Output in March was 54.6% below a year ago, and for the first three months 49.81% less. It is ap- parent that Farmers are diverting their milk from the manufacture of cheese to the production of butter in their ef- fort to take advantage of the relatively high prices prevailing for the 'latter commodity. BERGEN'S BLOCKHEAD (Continued from 'Page 3) more distant it seems. Radio is easier on the ventriloquist than stage work. When playing to a visible audience, be must restrict his vocabulary. He can't for example, keep his lips 'still with a line like: "Peter (Piper !picked a peck of pickled peppers"; he avoids b's and p's as much as he can.. Charlie McCarthy' is famous 'be- cause his master, .a keen -wit who grad- uated from Northwestern University, had the foresight to subordinate his own personality to the bloc'khead's. That was sound psychology, and per- fect press-a'gentry. Even in rehearsals Edgar Bergen maintains the .pretense that his red -thatched dummy is an in- dividual Before Charlie is taken out of his valise, studio hands can hear him screaming profanely for release, At one rehearsal Bergen called for the script '(he usually works without one—ad libs a lot). The page boy hur- ried •o•ver, .Bergen looked at the lines and prepared to go on. Before the boy got to the door, Charlie McCarthy called after him sharply. "Bring that thing 'back! 3 want to see it myself." Without a second thought the lad hurried back; blushed as Bergen wav- ed him away. Charlie chuckled. When W. C. Fields signed the con- tract for his radio appearance with Bergen, Charlie was looking on. The comedian, hat tilted 'aver his glowing atone, was chewing a sodden tooth- pick. "Ah, there, my diminutive little pal,” said Fields, "I think you need a haircut." Charlie eyed hint, leered. '"Okay, my fat friend," he said in his nastiest, "but you could do with a new toothpick." Fields was so startled •he almost swallowed the toothpick. 'Whenever Bergen gets a telegram at the studio, Charlie will try to horn in on it. "Let's have a look, Bergen," he'll say; "that may be for Pte." He always treats Bergen as something less than an equal, and Bergen en- courages the idea. Bergen accidently discovered his gift for ventriloquism while talking with schoolmates one day. Something he said seemed to have come from far down the hall. Even Bergen was 'flab- bergasted, but it gave him an idea and he sent off For a correspondence school 'book on ventriloquism. Like most ,professionals, he is self-taught. He made 'Charlie's body.himself. The head was made by a doll caner from Bergen's charcoal cartoon of a Chi- cago newsboy he knew. Charlie McCarthy may attain im- mortality for his sheer impudence. He has vital spark other dummies lack. No natter to whom he is hiking.; ice never :pulls dtie punches. He is a had egg --a little vulgarian, a 'Feraeey, 'blus- tering, cheeky 'blockhead — but we ,roialdn'•t harm a splinter in his hollow head. 'A father said to -his son: `When I was your age, my father would not allow me to go out at night:" "Yost had a hard'boi'led ifathert" replied the young scamp, "I had a lot ;better father than you have!".replied the irate elder. BOTANICAL •NOTES FOR MAY The enchanting scent of apple blos- sone defiles description; as does the evanescent. loveliness of May. There is beauty everywhere and' in every thing, There is rhapsody and rom- ance in this season of growth; fertil- ity, religious rites and folklore. The very dew of May Morn is said to beautify the face which is bathed in it. Eventhe austere 1114 Atoll was may ed to sing 'Hail 'bounteous May, thou dost inspire Mirth and youth and warm desires • Unhappily, however, there is a !kill- joy which rules that May marriages are unlucky. But 'why? Who knows from whett•ee arose the snag to all this gladness? When the city air drags the last es- sence of sweetness out of golden daf- fodil trumpets and tulips' glowing ,cups; one must not fonget the well- being of the winter-garden—those plucky little ,pot=p'lants 'that have cheered the home through the sterner months; 'they, ' like you, are longing to get out and join in the fun of May; they, too, pine For a 'frolic and a gam- bol in the fresh air, the sunshine and the rain. Meanwhile the wild flowers are scrambling, ,with. 'breathless haste, to 'burst into a galaxy of bloom. Trilli- um iris, phlox, Forget-me-not, pent- stetnon, orchis, milkwort, au'emone and a host of others smile in the pride of their fresh, :floral 'beauty and, so it seems, in the knowledge that they af- ford pleasure and even joy •to so •many. people. It is earnestly !toped that this will always be; but alas) there are omin- ous signs that, in the not very far fu- ture, this happiness will the denied 12 the present unrestricted ,picking and. uprooting is to continue. The floral emblem of Ontario—the -Lange-flowered trillium—one of the most •chastely beautiful of our native wild flowers will, it is 'feared, he one of the first to disappear. Huge bunch- es offered for sale in the markets and to passing motorists may the unsold and flung away to wilt and die. Those picked ostensibly to adorn the home have met with a similar fate. It seems that some wild flowers need protec- tion. On the other hand there are those condemned as pestiferous weeds which can he freely gathered, and with profit. One is the common dande- lion, whose usefulness is extolled by authoritative writers. 'Dear ow -ninon 'Rower that grow'st 'be side the way, Fringing the dusty road with harm- less gold. 'Tis the spring's largess, which scat- ters now To rich and poor alike, with lavish hand; Though most .hearts never under- stand To take it at ,God's value, but pass by The offered wealth with unrewarded eye?* Wes! even the despicable dandelion is -useful. and every part of it -flowers. leaves and roots --'just imagine how gourmets and dietitians will smile!— Nevertheless this humble plant is ready and willing to provide a meal which will, at alt events, delight the heart of a vegetarian and should ap- peal to the votaress of fashionable "reducing" or "slimming" The 'blanched leaves and sliced roots provide. a 'bitter .alad. The reducer :an, with impunity, ;tuff herself to re- pletion with tit' young leaves (bailed in tn•o waters to remove the bitter- ness, then served as spinach. A ,glass of excellent wine, .made from the flower -heads, may be allowed; if not, the feast can he washed down with mock -coffee; about which Mrs. Trail.' gives. the 'following directions: "The root should be washed thoroughly, hut the brown skin not scraped off, as much tonic virtue is contained in this brown covering of the root, This must he cut up into small pieces and dried by degrees in the- oven anti it he comes dry and crisp enough to grind in thecn. free mill; it is then used in the same way as the coffee berry, with the addition of -.milk and sugar - - Thus wine, greens. salad and coffee are 'provided by this pest of the lawns, Bravo gallant little dandelion! It is this istet-rie, nserrie initis •.tf peerless rapture that birds, beasts, flowers. earth and sky express with restless urgency the essence the beauty that is in them. Froin the fruit trees' foanting 'blossomthe robins' et id no ,s are trilled .vith tir•i-<, jar; from the hie -teeming es:an'ps.cool- Potting frogs send firth their aittiphott- al • love -•call to the dronin.; diapason numberless tiny wings: the woods ,hirer- with •spring'iclightt the very earth stern; to pulse and throb under-( font; and ,above• i, '''sky so ihlue it. • makes you wonder if it's- heaVet shiain,g through:" Indeed everywhere the• secret of the season is told .with ibreatls.iess tavis'h- Hess, The •whole countryside is drenched with. a haze o'f new life, the D.u_ Mc1rnes eh rogira'ctor Office — Commercial Hotel flours --Mon. and Thurs. after Electro Therapist — Massage nooas and Iby appointment FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation—Sun-ray treat- - merit Phone MD. wonder of ,corning days, and the great promise that till the end of time the harvest shall never fai'1.-IE. W. Heart, Division o'f Botany, Central 'Exp Farm, Ottawa. MAKE MACHINERY READY FOR SPRING Farm machinery is a big item lin the matter of farm capital 'and so de- serves more 'consideration than is usually given to it. IOm the average farm this item will amount to about $1115100. Depreciation is one sif the greatest factors the farmer has to' contend with in this conneotion, and is usually 'figured' at about ten per cent. In many cases, ,however. 'this ,fiure will be nearly doubled, states C. J. Wilkinson, Dominion ,Experiment- al Station, Riosthern, Saskatchewan, but with proper housing facilities or proper handling, it can he reduced considerably. With another season of work not far away, now is an opportune time to get drills. disk harrows, cultivators, and other machinery checked over. A few hours work tightening . loose bolts and 'bearings, replacing worn or missing parts, will likely save valu- able time during the 'busy 'season. It is a paying proposition for the farm- er to be able to take his machinery into the field at the start of the sea- son in first class condition. Much of this work can be done now, such as sharpening disks, 'harrow teeth, culti- vator shovels, etc., cleaning and ad- justing the disks and scrapers on the grain drill, .seeing that oiling systems are clean and in working order so that all parts of the machine are be- ing'properly lubricated, and so on. It is advisable to wash out the disk of the drill with lcerosene and to make certain that. the parts are getting oil grease to them and that the disks are properly 'adlj,usted, Liiberal use of oil or grease on machinery is not a waste but rather a good investment. Some parts will require more oiling than others, 'but generally speaking, for the average tillage machinery, ,proper oiling or 'greasing of all parts twice a day is sufficient. Choosing 'a good grade of lubricant is good economy in the long MIL SALADS "Two vegetables every .day—one of these served raw" is a recognized rule for health. The following recipes are 'taken front"Salads that are 'Different," re- cently issued by .the Fruit Branch, Department of 'Agriculture. This pttb- licatiatt may be obtained free on ap- plication t:i the [Publicity and Exten- sion Branch, Department of Agri- culture:— Quick gri-culture•— Quick Cabbage Salad (Serves 6) 1 quart of cabbage finely shredded ,. cup of .green pepper minced .Y4 cup of sweet .pickles diced l tablespoon ofsugar 2 tablespoons f prepared mustard Tz teaspoon of salt 3 tablespoons of vinegar 1-(1. rip of cream: (sour or Black pepper Mix the cabbage with green pep- per and trickles. Combine the sugar, salt, vinegar, cream, mustard and pepper, and pour over the 'cabbage. Blend well and serve at once. Carrot Salad If, Serves 6) a cups cllopped carrots fa cup finely chopped .nuts I, cup celery 14 • teaspoon salt Mix thoroughly. Serve separately. Stuffed Celery Salad 2 cups Canadian cheese (grated) Boiled Salad 'Dressing 1 !mach celery Paprika. Moisten cheese with dressing. Sep- aratt, - talks of celery. wash and chill. Fill celery stalks with cheese mixture and cut °.r'to one -inch lengths. Make nests of lettuce leaves and heap cel- ery in .she centres. Sprinkle with pa- prika and serve with dressing. The celery may also be stuffed' with Roquefort or cream cheese, mashed to a paste with salad dressing. Beet Jelly '(Serves 6) l cup finely chopped .beets 1' cup finely chopped apple cup 'finely chopped celery 1 cup prepared lemon jelly a little onion' sweet) dressing