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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1934-03-29, Page 7THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1934. THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE SEVEN .1'1fm•msna uq.e—ua+uuu,---un.am..nworm n wows. II a I 1 I Duplicate � Monthly St „ g e • ie ; is odwmcwwwwessoweareseconorma e can save you money on Bill and Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit ledgers, white or colors. It will pay you to see our satrapies, Also best quality Metal Hinged Sec- tional Post Binders and Index. The Seaforth News Phone 84 si ! C II pn—ah--uuesseuue-+uui•ne- mttn A DOLLAR'S WORTH Clip this coupon and mail it with $1 for a six weeks' trial subscription to THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Pu411shad 6yBo ton, MassachusettsE1 S.` A;'r'o 6e01eTY In tt you will and the dally good now- of the world from Its Seo motel writers, as :well ea department- devoted to women's and children's interests, sports, music, dnanee, education, radio, eto You will bo glad to welcome into your home so fearless an Rdvoeate of pence and prohibition. And don't miss Snubs, Our Dog, and the Sundial and the other features, Tug CHRISTIAN Suwon 140NIT00, Book nay Station, Boston, Mass. Please send me a SIX weeks' trial subscription. i enclose one dollar ($t). e (Nome, deasa print) eve �P9U w'G (Town) am (Address) State) HURON NEWS Former Clinton Man Passes. -The funeral of Robt. Holmes, one of ,Clin- yemee ton's most prominent ex -citizens was held to Clinton Cemetery on 'Saturday The service in the Wesley -Willis United 'Church which followed the service in 'Trinity United Church, 33Ioor Street West, Toronto, was lar- gely attended. 'Rev. C. sD, Cosens eeficiatod, .Pallbearers were W. Percy Holmes, St. 'Cathaeines, Charles Wheaton and George McCartney, To- ronto, and Arthur Tyndall, A, T. Cooper and 'Dr. J. W. Shaw, Clinton. Among those present at the funeral were Mrs, Z. F. Wheaton, Miss Mar- garet Wheaton, Toronto; Miss E. L. Holmes, Edmonton; )Jr. and Mrs. G, McKelvey, Weston; Mr. and Mrs. Bolton, Grevenhurst; Harris B. Hol- mes, Toronto; Mr. and 'errs. Walter G. Holmes and fancily, 'London. The late Mr. (Holmes passed away in To- ronto on' Wednesday mioroing, March 11. He was a former publisher of the Clinton New Era, a town official, rand for a time representative in the Federal 'Parliament for this part of Huron. He had been in ;failing health for a couple of years but .had been confined to his bed only since Frid'ay before his death. lake was in his &1st .year. 'Twentyefive years ago he left 'Clinton, having been appointed sur- veyor of.custams in . Toronto, a posi- tion from which he retired only a few years ago. IHe heel spent• a busy and strenuous life in Clinton as newspaper publisher, having worked with his :father, the founder of the New Era, during his boyhood and vonng man- hood, and continuing the publishing of it after 'his father's death. IIIe was' an alert and capable newspaper man avid while he devoted himself to his news- paper work he still ;found time to take an interest in civic affairs and served as mayor of :the town. He also rep- resented this, constituency in the Do- ' minion (Parliament for three terms, being first elected in 111899 as a slipper- ter of the Liberal Party. He 'Was past - president of the Her .Old Boys' of Toronto, T -le married 'Miss Emma Lavine Leavenworth of 'St. Catharines in •3717, who survives as .well as five dateghters.end two sons. Engagement. Mr, and +\oris, Wil- SEHD GRAIN Good seed grain may be defined as clean, sound and uniformly plump' grains obtained from strong, healthy plants belon,ging'to .a pure or relative- ly pure variety which is well adapted to the needswlf the district in which it is: to ibe uesd, (Where ane is obliged to purchase aced the ,safest seed in which to invest is `Registered !Seed," spice 11 is offic- ially guaranteed to possess alt of the qualifications of good seed, as above defined by the Canadian Seed Grow- ers' Association and the 'Dominion !Seed Branch' aided by the Exwperiln- ental Farms Breach of the Federal 'Departnhelt of .Algriculttnre, ' The use of varieties which are ad- apted,to :the district evhere they are to. be grave is a matter of importance, and since many new varieties are coin - sternly under test in our 'Experimen- tal Stations, farmers should note care fully the results dbtained 51 these in- stitutions and be guided by them. en the production loaf .good seed, care should betaken to see that the crap is fully mature' before cutting. Where low spots occur, it may he necessary to heeed•le them separately in order to provide against the inclu- sion of unripe grain, tIn threshing the crop, the` concaves should not be set so close that the grain will be damaged. At present a great deal of really good barley is bad- ly 'damaged from a seed standpoint, during the threshing operations, by having the ends of the kernels 'broken 'or otherwise injure(!, Close threshing is liable to injure the germ. The next step in the preparation of good seed grain consists in the fan- niitg and grading of the grain to re- move light kennels, weed seeds and dirt: -For this undertaking ,the screen's to be used must be carefully selected to insure that the openings are. of the proper size and shape to perform the work required. Many good fan- ning mills have been .discarded simply on accbunt of the absence of suitable screens, whereas material for the construction of such screens can be had from, or through, the manufac- turer df the machine, !During the past seven or eight years, the difficulty in cOmiectien with the proper cleaning and grading of seed grain has been reduced con- siderably by the opening up of cue - a 'dm ,cleaning planus which are Neil). - ped with power Tanning mills and graders, and ,weld supplied with sieves to clean and grade the different kinds of grain that may be brought to them. Tehse cleaning plants are of- ten provided to'ith blowers for clean- ing floors, bias and chutes so that contamination tram these sources is reduced tlo the minimum. Cleaned grain should always be .placed lin- mediately in clean containers and protected from all danger of con- tamination. HOW TO PRODUCE EARLY POTATOES (Experimental Farms Note) fin order to produce early potatoes the sprouting of rhe seed tubers has been employed witit varying results, 'but most o.1 those employing sprout- ed seed agree that some gain has been made, The sprouting should be done in diffused Sight and under con ditions where the temperature can be maintained around 50 to Ula deg. F. The growth should be slow, so as to develop sturdy storm ,buds, as a rule seed potatoes sprouted in the open become withered badly be- fore planting time arrives, An experi- ment has been tried at the Central Experimental Farm whereby the seed tubers are placed in flats or shallow boxes and eased filled in, around the tubers. These flats are fitted with four blocks, one in each corner, one inch square and projecting two inches above the edge of the box. These blocks facilitate the stacking of the boxes one on top of the other, allow- ing light to enter and permiting the application of water when desired. Water is applied to the sand at in- tervals as •required by means of a watering can with a piece of Ye -inch Inose attached to the spout. The boxes may be stacked in the potting shed, in the corner of the kit- chen or even in a warns cow barn. Four to five weeks will ,produce well sprouted and rooted material, that when planted out of doors will start growth at once, when the soil warns up. Plant to a depth of 4 inches and .cover•t'he <tip-ef the buds'with about 3. inch of soil.. Potatoes sprouted tat this way will come through ,the sprouting process perfectly firm, The sand sprouted tubers out -yield- ed those sprouted by other methods. !One of the drawbacks with the ab- ers 'sprouted- in the sand and fully rooted is that they, must be dropped in the rows by hand. The increased earliness and larger yield compensates for this. Douglas' Egyptian Liniment, al- ways quick, ,always ceetaial, Stops bleeding i'nstaietly. ; Cauterizes wounds and 'prevents blood poisoning. Splend- id for muscular rheumatism. Ham Mikel of Log In announce the > 'Wishes don't wash dishes. •engagement of their youngest daugh They hurt themselves 'who sarong --ter, Elsie, to Lewin ^.A. lI-Iillebrecll't' 'others, eldest son of Mr, and Mrs. Frederick When things come to the worst C. IHillebrecht, also of Logan, the 'they'll mend. .marriage to take piace early in April The world is as free for a fly. as Want and For. Stale Ads, 3 times, 50e 1(00 art eagle, GROWING OF CORN There is much difference in opinion as to the best variety to grow, and the selection generally hinges on two Points, Viz.,—the value of the land and the cost of labor. If you have to pay high fox labor and your laud is high priced, then grow the heaviest yielding variety that you can find, taking a chance on its reaching maturity. Production per acre you must have. If you are on low••pricee land, then select a good yielding variety that you know will mature early and also make high-class ensilage. Big heavy corn, full of juice is hard to handle, -1t costs money to make silage out of it,—while the lighter yielding, early maturing corn is eas- ier to handle, costs less for labor and makes a richer silage. True, it will not produce as much milk per aore as the large heavy yielding variety, but what it does produce is produced with the aid of less supplementary grain, So if you have abundant land, the early maturing, high quality var- ieties will be most suited to your need. On the other hand if you have few acres and must get the most out of the area irrespective of labor cost, then you had best select the heavy yielder variety. Test the Seed Corn. Test for germination every ear of corn that is used for seed. it does not take very much time to do 1t. Testing seed is the only insurance you have for a perfect stand. Why take a chance and loose by spending >rour labor on a field with only half as many plants as there should be. Better test the seed, and get started right. Two tveelts before you figure on planting cornpreparea seed box with moist sawdust or sand, plant a representative sample, give it Dare and watch for the sprouts. Be guid- ed by the performance of the sample tested. Good seed corn is not abun- dant this year, so be careful in your purchase. Soft or moldy seed corn never produced a sarong plant. Don't forget that, first of all, your crop depends upon the vigor of the seed that you plant. Preparing for Corn. Clover Sod ploughed in September and surface worked until late Octo- ber, and then ridged up and left ex= posed to the frost action, until dry enough to barrow down in the spring Is a successful method for corn. The application of not less than 20 tons of good stable manure should be made in early 1Vlay, and the land re - ploughed and worked down to the fine tilth of a good seed -bed. Planting. I When the White Oak leaf is as large as a black squirrel's foot (last week in May) plant the seed in check rows 40 inehes apart, using machine planter or drill, cover two inches deep and firm. - Cultivation. Start cultivation by going over the area with a weeder just before the corn comes up. Follow each week with machine cultivation to keep a dust mulch and prevent weed growth, Until such time as the corn has grown too Large to permit of further tillage. Corn 'tillage should always be shallow, much damage is done by cutting the roots of the plant. Testing Chickens for Bacillary White BALM OF GILEAD 'Emerson' in one of his writings tells of a large baht of ,Gilead whose roots passed completely under the cellar of a .house and sent up suckers •10 feet away on the opposite side. Surprising as it may seem, this isnot an 011 - common example, for the roots of the balsam poplar, cottonwood or balm of Gilead, whichever name you prefer, extend great distances and grow very fast. • It is the oapacity for quick growth, perhaps, which has made this tree. such a favorite for ornamental pur- poses. It grows tall, sometimes to 3? or Me feet, and yet it gives broad shade, because of massive spreading branches. The bark is gray, :broken into wide ridges, while the branches are 010001 11 and greenish. 'Branch'lets are stout and yellow-brown, often quite angular. Winter buds are coated with a sweet pungent resin to keep t'he water franc escaping from the buds, not to protect against cold. 'Like other poplars, balm of Gilead is one of the early flowering trees. ,Pollen is shed from the trees early in April, and .often annoys housekeepers by appearing as dust an the furniture. About a month later, the poplar "cot- ton" appears. This is made up of in- numerable silky hairs like those of milkweed seeds, which aid in the spreading of poplar's. They form min- iature ;parachutes which give the seeds wide :distribution. M1 poplar wood is soft and light, and that of the balm of Gilead is no exception. It is of little use except for firewood or paper pulp. W'it is 'folly unless a wise man has the keeping of It. No mean is the only wise man. The virtues of our ancestors profit us nothing, unless we imitate then„ He conlquers twice who contpers himself in victory, Tinge misspent, is not lived but lost. The stone ;harpers knives but it is dull itself. I had rather it.would be asked why 1 had not 'a statue than w*hy I had. A bad workman qularrells with his oots. The time is never lost that is de. voted to work., Diarrhoea. This disease has played havoc in Many poultry yards (luring the past few years, and, like tuberculosis, it has been spread around largely through the exchange of breeding stook. Chicks and eggs for hatching, from infected breeding stock, have curried the bacillus pnlica'um from one end of the country to the other; so the disease is now wide spread and causes large financial loss to many poultry owners. The bacteria responsible for the trouble (bacillus pulorum) centralize In the ovary of the (nature iter, caus- ing lesions in that organ; and its in- ability to properly function and pro- duee normal eggs. The bacteria pass with the ova and are contained with- in the shell of the egg, When the egg hatches the chick is already infected. Chicks less than a week old have the following post mortem lesions:— (.1) Enlarged liver with red spots or streaks., (2) Congested lungs. Chicks over one week old shows— (1) Enlarged liver with greyish , spots. (2) Friable nodules in the lungs, occasionally In the heart and lungs. Diarrhoea does not always have time to develop, so if the chicks die look for the lesions. The only really successful way to• combat white diarrhoea is to elfin - !nate the breeding stock infected with bacillus puhorum. These trouble pro- ducers may be found out by applying the 'agglutination test to every bird on the premises. Eliminate all re- actors to this blood test and be care- ful in your purchases of eggs, chicks, or breeding stock, The disease wtli. stay with you as long as you harbor infested hens on your farm,—L, Ste- venson, Dept. of Extension, O. A. C. LAW WORKING WELL ` Permit Is Necessary to Either Sell or Buy' a Pistol In Province of Ontario. So well is the provincial law against pistols and revolvers 'working that not more than thirty or forty a year fall into police hands, from Ot- tawa to the Manitoba boundary. Despite the fact that the war cre- ated a very flood of hand -guns of all sorts, from the huge issue .45 calibre revolvers down to deadly German Lagers and tiny pocket automatics which the troops prized as souvenirs, both provincial and city police say they are wholly satisfied with the con- trol of such weapons the provincial law of 1923 affords them. The law now says that any British subject may own firearms, including pistols, in his own home, says the To- ornto Star Weekly. But no one not a British subject may even own a pis- tol in his own home without a permit. And no one, whatsoever, may carry a pistol without a permit. But more to the point than that, no one, not even a British subject, may either sell or buy a pistol with- out a permit to sell or buy. And that means that you cannot sell a pistol, say a war souvenir, even to a friend without a police permit. Up until the war pistols of every size and character were to be bought quite easily at any sporting goods orr hardware store. The second hand shops were filled with them. They were cheap. The boys of a generation. -ago nearly all owned a pistol' at one time or another. To -day nobody deals in pistols. And if you obtain from the police a per- mit to carry a pistol, say as a bank. messenger or other carrier of vain- ables, the dealer you go to has to obtain the weapon on the permit. Very few of the pistols seized be the police in the past ten years have been either military issue or German war souvenir weapons. "The main source of supply of il• legal weapons," said Deputy Commis- sioner Alfred Cuddy of the Ontario Provincial Police, "is over the bor- der. Whether pistols are sold by per- mit or not is an individual state mat- ter, but in most. American towns and cities you can just walk in and buy a pistol as easily as a Maar. I would say the majority of weapons taken in Ontario front criminals were obtain- ed ie the Staten, Ansi we must hope !or the fullest ee-operation iweet'een the customs nten at the border to cheek np on suspicimts characters fn tbe matter of their importing eistnle. "There is d^nbtse:s no greet dill - why in smugglinlr a p'atol over the border. Wei the der -My rmmIltiscien- er, "and if we could get a very strena penalty for emligelfne nint.ols n.; well n0 0.1 i' S n 041"'-ftrn iro4r•,'t est' ', f"r for carrying rr'nee.tlorl wenp 'ns. WS would hove a pistol la,e that would be ju-t abort air Vela." Inspector of Dete'tivns M•"•ray of the Toronto foxes eay-s Hint Weer, the war the p'stol peehlesq hon 00100 w'tl in hand. He declares It le almost Impossible for young irrespensiblc nowadays to get le"l't of r'rto',a, re that no end of men who are nnten- tially dangerous characters if easily equipped with weapons amount now to minor offenders. Until recently the Teennto pollee disposed of the Weed eieecla by Ink- ing them' out In a launch well into the lake and dumping teem over. board. There must be hundreds of pistols in the bottom of Tnrontn 11" Latterly, under provincial law, all seized pistols are turned over to the provincial authorities, who destroy them in some fashion not disclosed by the officers. In the United States there is a steady agitation for some form o1 control of small weapons, but the arms and ammunition manufacturers, backed by strong sportsmen's organ- izations, are opposed to any form of firearm control. They say that if pis- tots were prohibited only the ter(n1 inals would possess them and the law abiding citizens would be defence. less. The sportsmen's organizations take that stand in the outdoor mag- azines on the ground that there are powerful societies of a sentimental character which are already express- ing opposition to all hunting and shooting on the grounds of humane treatment of wildlife, and the sports- menfear the pistol agitation as the thin end of the wedge. In Chicago, a city polies permit ie required in order to buy a pistol, but a Star repenter, making inquiries there, was Informed by the sporting goods dealer that ifbe could not get a permit there would be no difficulty In getting any sort of,p'etel required . by having it sett by neell "rdder to a suburban nest office outside the city limits. All the pistol manufacturers in the States advertise their wares dramatically and offer to Ship goods by c.o.d. post. Economy In iFood Production. The dairy cow is the most econom- ical animal for the converslon of farts products into human food, swine are the most efficient animals in the pro- duction of meat food products from ,raw material, and the hen converts the feed that she consumes into fin- ished products most rapidly ,of all snimale. Peep your stack free front blemish with . Douglas' Egyptian Liniment. Removes ioflam mation, quickly re- lieves bruises, sprains, strains, swell- ings, contraction of cords, stiffness of jaunts, and sore muscles. 'Went and Far iSlale Ads, 3 titres, 50c Services We Can Render In the time of need PROTECTION is your best 'friend. Life Insurance —To .protect your LOVED ONES, Auto Insurance— To protect you against LIABIILZTY to PUBLIC and their PROPERTY. Fire Insurance— To protect your HOME and its . CONTENTS. Sickness and. Accident Insurance— To protect your INCOME. Any of the above lines we can give you in strong and reliable companies, it interested, call or write, E. C. CHAMBERLAIN INSURANCE AGENCY Phone .334 Seaforth, Ont leneenelifeRWHISEIgrancsisossieWR In a !Modest Cottage. Standing oloof 011-e windy common near Sauthborotigh, is a little new house, with blue and white curtains, a garden and neat fence and gate Here on week -ends eomes a small, - brown -eyed woman, sometimes carry- ing arrying a homely basket, sometimes a most omcial-looking portfolio. She seldom speaks to anyone but the chil- dreShn. e Is Margaret Bondfiele, Minis- ter of Labor In the Macdonald Cab- inet, and the cottage is her retreat from the cares of office. There, she can work unannoyed even by friend- ly visitors. A Strong Strongroom. Burglars who attempt to force the strongroom at the Australian Com- monwealth Bank's new premises in London, England, will be arch optimists. The chamber is steel -lined, 26 feet square and 9 feet high, and is surrounded on all sides by 21 inches of concrete reinforced by twisted sl sal. Two steel doors, each weighing 12 tons, and which are 18 inch thick, are now . in course of conn cation. - Cities s Indian Sites. Many modern cities have grown is on Bites that Indiana picked for their villages, chiefly because both Indian Ind 'white man recognized good plus for hatiitatlea. Dr Hb Mc ines ehiropracfor Electro Therapist Massage Office Commercial Hatel Hours --'Mon. and Thurs, after- noons and by appointment FOOT CORR'ECTIO'N by .manipulation—Sun-ray treat- ment Phone 2121. A LOVER OF 1QAT.URU, Ool. Batten's Good Deed In World of Commercialism.. Not many lovers of nature and ad- mirers oh picturesque scenery take the practical steps to preserve nate ural beauty that Col, Joseph Battelle of Biddlesbury, Vt., did, according to an item 1n the Dallas (Texas) News His enormous purchase of wild acre- age of little conceivable use caused comment in his lifetime, But on his death it was found that he had been actuated solely by a love for nature and fear that civilization was prepar- ing toeliminate the picturesque. His will bequeathed 80,000 acres in the Green Mountains' intrust to the presi- dent and fellows of Middlebury Col- lege for use as a natural public park. Because of the forethought and the business acumen of Cal, Battel,i, Ver- mont finds itself in possession of a etretch of natural scenery. Only re- cently the Supreme Court of the state has upheld the validity of the purpose to which the colonel dedicat- ed the land over the objection of private company seeking to condemn part of it for power purpoees. If the colonel had lived later than he did or had not held in his heart a love of natural beauty, the picturesque gorge of the Middlesbury river would be dedicated to the god of hydro -electric power, and New England would be deprived of a park typical of its rug- ged scenery. Every section of the country can- not be fortunate enough to have a Col, Battell combining the financial means with the sentiment to create such parks as his interest has saved for 'Vermont. No place would want to preserve from a commercial invasion more than a few localities that can. be identified by scenic individuality In . the life of the commonwealth, The timeliness of the Batten bequest sup- plies a warning to all that the time to act for the preservation of scenic spots'' isinadvance of the demand of commercial development, SHIPBUILDING. Had Its Birth on the Banks of the Nile. Shipbuilding had Its birth on the banks of the Nile, according bo the belief of Prof, Elliott Smith, express- ed in the London Magazine. Although, be nays, at a very early period In the history of mankind logs and floats of various kinds were used by many people to cross narrow sheets of water or for paddling' along coastlines, the ,real history of boat - building began when the earliest dwellers on the banks of the Nilo. tied together bundles of reeds to make floats. These simple craft not only determ- ined the form of the wooden shipe' that succeeded them, but the methods of construction for making the reed Boats, 1.e., tying them together with cords, were also adopted when wood- en ships came to be built by adding planks to the bellowed -out logs which eventually degenerated into the mere keel of the composite ship. Thus the earitest,Egyptiala term for shipbuilding was tbe word signifying "to bind." •Even at the present time we still find upon the Nile all these ' primitive types that are survivals of phases in the history of shipbuilding, some of them *tore than sixty can turves 'old, 111,01 Cary, Will ,Save Maley aoabn, The best time to grow fools, ants the time when they will make their largest gains is when they are being carried by their dame. Many farm ors do not realize this, and begets feeding the mare a proper ration only after the foal is here. The brood mare, when in foal, should be fed a.high protein ration, a ration which is rieb in muscle and bone building material.' Tit1s .material ie supplied in the form of oats, bran, and oil meal, as a concentrate, and - clover or alfalfa hay as a roughage, As soon as the young foal' arrives,, see that he gets a good dein!( of his luother't first milk. This fore -milk or. colostrum has purgative properiies, and will usually clear the foal's 11,- testines of the excrement aceumu fated prior to birth. If the digestive' tract is not cleaned by the fore -milk, give the foal a tablespoonful of cas-, tor oil and a warm water and soap rectal injection. Watch out for navel infection. If pus and disease germs get inside the body through the opening of the um- htlical cord, a local infection or 'Joint tit" may develop and the foal be feat