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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1939-03-30, Page 31IHURSSDAY, MARCH 30, 1939 THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE THREE Highlights Of The Week Sunday, April. 2.nd el. "310 to 2 p.m. Salute of the 'Nations, from Japan; 3 to 15 ,p.m. Philharmonic -Symphony tOrohestna, N.Y.; 15.30 to 16 p.m. Re- broadcast from BBC, London; 7.30 to 8' 'p.m. CBC Melodic Strings, from Toronto; 9 to 9,30 ,p.m. Hart 'House :String Quartet, Toronto. Monday, April .31rd-8 to 630 pan. C'est Paris, Variety from Montreal; 6.30 to 9 p.m. Geoffrey Waddington ,Conducts, Winnipeg. Tuesday, April 4ith-16.05 to 6.60 ,p, xn. Actuality Broadcast, from France; 9 to 9.30 p.m. Appointment with Ago- stini, .Montreal, Wednesday, April 6th -91310 to 1110 p.m. Music 'by Faith, ,from Toronto; 111.30 to 312 p.m. Echoes of the Mast- ers, from Winnipeg. Thursday, April 6th -2 to 3 p.m. BBC ;Empire Symphony ;orchestra, London; 6.30 to 7 p.m. Metropolitan Strings, from Montreal. Good Friday, April 77th -1 to 3 en nu. 'Brahm's "'Requiem," from New York; 4;415 So 6 p,m. Glands aiid the Queen," Montreal; 6 to 9 ,p.m. Trial of 'Jesus," by Masefield, Toronto, Saturday, April 13-2 to 2,415 p.m. The Dream of - Gerentius," from BB'C; 7 to 18.30 pen, Formal ,Opening of CBA, from Ottawa and Maritimes; 8.30 to 9 ,pan, The Story of Fort Beausejour, Halifax; 9 to 9;30 ,p.m. Rebroadcast from BBC. London; 10 to 11'.45 'p.ln. NBC Symphony 'Orch- estra, from New York. ' Because of the interest displayed in a single radio programme heard..over the BBC last September. the flyer of the Royal Air Force, like his cousins in tine Navy and the Army, has at east found a suitable and descriptive cognomen. The Army has its Tommy Atkins,. tine Navy its Jack Tarr, and now the Air Force has its Harry Hawk. This actuality programme, en- titled "No, 29834 Airman Harry. Hawk,'1 which was produced and re- corded' by DBC'producer - Lance Siev- eking, now on :loan' to CBC, will be presented from Montreal over the na- tional network •of CDC, Sunday, Mar. 216th, 9 to 110.p.ni. wader the supervis- ion of Capt. Sievekin.g. Is Your Seed Ready? The quantity and quality of crop yields depend upon many factors, not the least of which is the quality of the seed used. 'Good seed should be well Matured, large and plump, free from weed seeds, relatively high in germination and true to variety. A great many experiments have been conducted to determine the ilvfh7- ence on yield ,of fanning and grading cereal grains in order to separate out the tenger or heavier seed for plant- ing, states the Dominion Exp. Station, Kapuskasing. The' results of the maj- ority of these experiments indicate that better yields may be expected from large plump seed than front un- graded seed or small or light seed. All grains, clover and grass seeds intended for planting should be free from noxious weed seeds. This is es- sential if the farmer hopes to keep his land clean and to continue to pro- duce profitable crops. Weeds serious- ly compete tvith crops for moisture and plant food and sometimes for sunlight. Silver Fox Pelts In common with many other Euro- pean countries, Holland obtained a great part of its original -stock of sil- ver foxes from Canada. Holland has now followed the example adopted by fur breeders in Norway, Sweden, France, and Russia in holding fur auction sales for the purpose of bringing fax breeders into closer con- tact. The first auctionsale of Silver fox furs in Holland was held at the Hague on December 20, 1938, Want and. For Sale ads, 1 week 25e THE WORLD'S GOOD NEWS will come to your home every day through THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. An International Daily Nemspuper 21 records for you the world's clean, constructive doings, The Monitor does not exploit crime or sensation; neither does It ignore them, but dea)s correctively with thorn. Features for busy men and all the family, including the Weakly Magazine Section. The Christian Science Publishing Society t) One, Norwitz' Street, Boston, Massachusetts Please enter me subscription to The Christian Science Monitor for a nerioti of Wednesday issue, Including Magazine Section: 53.00 3 year 62 60 Els ,es 2ae Name Addrese >d Sample Copy on Request 3 A -BIRD IN 'HAND Has Ontario found the answer to its game bird problem? While other .provinces, with the exception of .Bri- tish 'Columbia, are forced to cut game bird shooting . down to short open seasons on indigenous 'birds, Populous Ontario, 'where industrial and municipal development have .pro- bably reduced native wild life more than el;sew'here,' has started to enjoy openseasons on exotic varieties of bird life raised in captivity, says P. B. Dunstanfu the C. I. L. Oval. ,Last year no fewer than fifty On- tario Townships, in addition to the counties of 'Essex, Rent and Pelee Is- land, permitted short seasons of pheasant shooting. For this extra hunting.—extra, for Ontario enjoys approximately the same seasons on indigenous birds as other provinces--- s.po•rts•men spent 'between '$25160'0 and te100;000, of which $20,000 went into licences. Approximately 315,000 'birds were bagged during the season. Ontario's success in putting shoot- ing on a paying basis may be put down to simple factors; •first, recogni- tion of the need of restoration rather than conservation; second, the en. couragenent of .private and commerc- ial breeding. Unlike Betish Columbia, where - pheasant eggs are distributed free to farmers and sportsmen's organiza- tions who. hatch the birds and release them when ready, receiving a sent from the Government for every mat- ured ,bird, Ontario now does most of the game propagating on its own game farms, leaving the balance to licensed game 'breeders. Until quite recently, though, the Department of Game and Fisheries supplemented its own breeding efforts and those of commercial ferme by distributing pheasant eggs among farmers and sportsmen, who, al- though under no obligation to release the birds when matured, usual]`\- did. The Department now operates two pheasantries, one at Normandie and the other at Codrington, In 1936 the first of these farms reared 8,600 birds and in 193,9 expects to' raise between 16,000 and 20,000. Codrington is ex- pected to produce 85,000 eggs this year, and to hate 30,000 pheasants ready for releasing purposes. The De- partment released 2.0,000 birds last 3 ear. Ali .interesting feature of pheasant raising is the number of eggs which are produced. According to Mr. D. James Taylor, Deputy :Minister of Game and Fisheries in Ontario, phea- Sant hens lay between 50 and 60 eggs on an average, although at times a hen may lay as many as 110 eggs in a year. The hatch, said Mr. Taylor. usually numbers about '60% tockbirds and 4(3% hens. In addition to the two Government operated game farms, there are 62 liseinsed breeding establishments in duced 2,000 'birds during 19136 and has plans Tor 10,000 in 1930. ler, A. H. C. Proctor, another large 'Ontario breed- er with an establishment at Union- ville; also 'plans to raise 10;000 pheas- ants in 1039. ' In 19137 the Department's ;policy of restoration began to pay real divi- dends. Twenty-five townships, where sufficient pheasants 'had been stocked over the years, were set aside as shooting areas, Around Thanksgiving time the Department ,permitted two- day shooting seasons in these areas to sportsmen purchasing special hunting licences. The 'licences were issued 'hy the township council — usually the controlling organization during the shooting periods. Sold only to non- residents—residents paid a nominal fee—the cost of the licence was an extra 'charge over and above the cost 'of the usual game licences. The funds went to fhe township council, which in certain instances shared them with farmers and others who had co- operated in raising and keeping the pheasants. While the Ontario :pheasant -shoot- ing is only in its initial stages, there is a considera'b'le amount of evid•enee, beyond the V0,000 netted the various townships and the influx of several thousand shooters into .the restricted areas, to support the belief that the Ontario system is the answer to the Ontario .game bird problem, In the United States, where game bird conditions were once in as sorry a plight as they are in Canada, the policy of restoration through State - fostered breeding of exotic varieties' changed the whole picture. Annual bags of upwards of 600,000 pheasants are reported from such States of 'in- dustrial Pennsylvania, while Minne- sota reports bags of over the trillion mark. Possibly the 'hest example is shown by the State of .South Dakota, where an investment of el20,000 made :ince 1011,1 is now yielding. annual - hags of close to 2,000,000 'birds. The first pheasants were introduced into South Dakota in 41912, 300 birds being released by the Government that year. The real programme began le 1914, When some 2,000 birds were pnrchased, More purchases were made up until 1919 when the original stock had been increased to 12.000 birds, Since 11927-1928 South Dakotti s dividend on its restoration policy has been ' annual bags of .over 1;500,00tt cocks; which have more than doubled `the game department's receipt- through the sale of licences. Until a few years ago the rearing of, pheasants 'by private .breeders was considered difficult, but with the in- troduction of strains that can survive wild in the Canadian climate the major obstacle has been removed. To- day there are several hundred private breeders—+fartnrs, owners of caurtrt estates, sportsmen and sportswomen both in and outside Ontario—who have Tound pheasant breeding to be a Ontario, four of then] being of con- profitable pastime, no more difficult siderable size, 'One of the largeet, the than chicken raising. Watsnn hatchery at Orangeville, pro- Probably the best known of Cana- 5.. Counter Check Book • We !Ire Selling Quality Books Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. All styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prioe9 as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. Get our 'Quotation on Your Next Order. • af�rth Ne SEAFORTH, ONTARIO,' i' r" v ESfAPE'rkMISERY OF CO[DS Use specialized medication for nose and upper throat where most colds start Helps Prevent Colds Developing -Don't wait until a miserable cold develops. At the very first warning sneeze, sniffle, or nasal irritation—put a few drops of Vicks Ve-tro-nolpup each nostril immediately. Used in time, Va-tro-nol helps to prevent the de- velopment of many colds. Clears Stuffy Head, Teo -Even when your head is all elogged up from a neglected cold, Va-tso-bol brings comforting relief. It quickly clears. away the clogging mucus, reduces swollen mom hranes, helps si tonuses keepfrothe m medication go to work being blocked by the cold— VICKs breatheaygain Veee A•TRO.NOL FEEL its tingling - Used in more homes than any ..o; her .pt lileaton of Ats "kind dian breeders is Mr, O. A. ,Zuercher, now of Rideau Ferry, Ontario. A war- veteran, Mr. Zuercher is primarily in- terested , in getting people started, especially those who will later release their birds. His northern -bred Lanr- entian strain of Chinese -Mongolian pheasa•tit is considered by authorities both in the United States acid Canada to be the finest bird of its kind, Birds from his pheasantry have been ship- ped to all parts of Canada and the United States and to many places abroad, in•ckuding England and Ber- muda. A firm believer ie the need of private breeders to assist Govern - game tlepartmetns, Mr. Zuercher has already started 250 private breeders in time Dominion. :Another well known 'breeder is Co- lonel 'i"orrance Beardmore of Toron- to, whose model pheasantry at 'Yel- low Briar" farm, 3lono Mills, Ont- ario, is one of the finest fn the coun- try. Colonel 'lleardntore's property consists of 176 acres, .of which 50 acres are arable, the balance being in stream and pond, woods, and meadow lands—the 'whole property an ideal pheasant ground. five winter feeding stations on the property keep the birds that have been released from the permanent breeding pens in tate neighborhood. Pheasant breeding is by no means the monopoly of the stronger sex, atnd there- are many women breeders in Canada who hare found pheasant raising an engrossing pastime. Anon, them is \lits et,' 1). Hall, Rideau Ferry, Ont;,rio, whose pheasantry. Lady Game farm, situated on the beautiful Riclean Lakes in the colder part of Ontario. has proved an out- standing success, Another successful feminine hobby- ist le Mrs, Olivier Dronin of Quebec City, Just a year ago Mrs. Drauiu Grote to the Laurentian Mountain Pheasantry for information, She was advised by lir. Zuercher to start with erre:, and, beginning in May, she suc- cesefully reared and hatched her pre- sent breeders, which are now confined in a beautiful house and runs at Petit Pre Est, near Quebec City. Another Quebec breeder who has been very successful is Mr. \V, K. bJacL-sad of Thetford Mines, He also raises the Laurentian strain of Chinese -Mongol- ian Rink Necks, and is deeply inter- ested in using then for game restor- ation. There is apparently no limit 10 the variety of climatic conditions un- der which this strain will thrive, for, in addition tci the success that has ,been experienced by breeders itt the cold, dry winters of 'Ontario and •Que- bec, the birds have been reared with equally good termite in many other parts of Canada. The breeders mentioned are only a few of the hundreds who have real- ized that game restoration is some- thing in which private citizens as well As Government game departtnents must share. In all but a few cases these 'breeders started without preti CMS knowledge of pheasant or even poultry raising, but there. has been hardly a single ease of failure where prescribed methods have been fol- lowed. HUMBERT MILLIONS • In the late '70's. 'Therese Dauri- gnac, a French peasant ;girl, an- nounced that by the will of Robert Henry Crawford, an American mil- lionaire whoa she had nursed through a tatigero.us sickness, she was sole heir to his estate of $20,- 000,000, and attested the statement by a copy of the will dated 1677. She was believed by all classes of society —everyone credited America with un- numbered millionaires—and was soon married to Frederic Humbert, son of a Cabinet Minister, 'The existence of the fortufie was questioned by some, but doubts were set at rest by the statement that two nephews of Craw- ford had arrived 'front America to sue for enforcement of another will which cut Therese off with a mere 872,009 a year; and that they had reached an agreement by which she had legal custody of the securities, provided she slid not open the +box containing then until the suit was decided, A French notary, by his own affidavit, counted the securities; sealed therm in a strong boli, and deposited them in Mine. Humbert's safe tinder protection of the courts, tl7.us giving the fortune new .legal standing. Mine. Humbert's social career was one of dazi'ling splendor; she became a great patroness of art; with collec- tions ei various great :estates which slue purchased, Her notes, "payable after the conclusion of my actions -at - law," were accepted by the banks, including the Bank of France, and her borrowings finally exceeded $111,- 000,000. In the courts she was con- stantly victorious against the Craw- ford "heirs," 'but the .decisions were just as constantly appealed and new suits started. For nearly' 20 years this, farce kept .up, while Mine Humbert continued to live in luxury. At last, however, in 1902, a wary creditor looked up the American Crawfords and found no one had ever heard of then, Creditor after creditor, to a total of ten, committed suicide in despair of repayment. Finally :Mme. Humbert's safe was opened by a court order asked by 'her distinguish- ed lawyer—to dissipate suspicion of his clients. The strongbox contained securities worth $1000, an empty jewel case, a few copper coins and a brass 'button. The Humberts, who had Pied to Spain, were brought aback, tried 'before a notch amused publie, and given an absurdly short sentence. , Tobacco Growing in the Dominion The history, of tobacco growing in Canada reaches back into the early French colonial days. The French set- tlers on the banks of the St. Lawrence found the custom of smoking tobacco to be general among the natives. For some years very few of the whites acquired the habit. Eventually, how- ever. smoking •became general and farmers began to grow the plant; but it was not e ntil about 173'5 that the ]tome government actually encour- aged tobacco growing in Canada. Tobacco growing continued and production reached its peak fn 19314 with a crop of approximately 90,000,- 000 pound,;. The tobacco now grown in Canada consists mainly of the types and varieties eel -theater' in the United States. An exception to this is found in the pipe tobaccos produced in1 provincee inthe of Quebec. These comprise a somewhat nixed group of varieties. the origin of some reaching back into the days of the French re- gime in Canada, while the seed of others Was •brougln from Europe more recently. A new bulletin, publication 633, Farmers' Bulletin 68, has been pre- pared by N. A. MacRae, Tobacco Di- vision, Experimental Farms Service. In the new bulletin an attempt it made to deal briefly with the more important pleases of tobacco produc- tion. Subjects such at types of seed beds, cultural .practices, methods of harvesting and curing, diseases and insects are discussed in an easily un- derstood way. The purpose of the bulletin is to meet only the require- ments of persons desiring general inf- ormation and to provide thein with the results obtained from recent exp- erimental work .throughout the Dom- inion. The bulletin is well illustrated and may be obtained free on applica- tion from the Publicity and Extension Division, Dominion Department of Agriculture.' Pasture improvement to Eastern Canada Twelve million acres are devoted to pasture in eastern Canada each year. statee P. 0. Ripley, Field Husbandry Division, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. Good pasture provides feed for live stock in a way in which nat- ttre intended it to be consumed, and at a cost, per unit of food value, much lower .than that of other commonly :crown farm feeds. The live stock har- vests the crop, at no cost to the Trower. at the same time returning to the soil the excess nutrients which are not required for the maintenance and production of the animal, Under the climatic conditions such as exist in Eastern Canada this valuable feed is available for less than five months in the year and it behooves the farm- er to make the best possible use of it during this short period, U. S. Wheat Crop During 19366 tthe United States pro- duced one of its largest wheat crops (930'800}0I00 bushels), which coincid- ed with heavy crops, in Canada, Eitr- ope, and Argentina In order to sup- port the wheat market, mandatory loans were made ranging from 60 Bents a 'bushel on the fans to. 77 cents at Chicago; export subsidies were granted running to 117 cents a bushel, and a drastic ,prograof acreagem allotment for the 1939 crop ,was drawn, tap. Notice to Creditors; 3 wks, Or $2,50