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THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1934. THE SEAFORTH NEWS.
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!' NEWS AND INFORMATION *
* FOR THE BUSY FARMER *
11'urntshed by Ontario Depart- *
ment of Agriculture.)' • 4
Combating Couch Grass,
'Couch or quack grass presents a
•very serious problem in Eastern Can-
ada. Experiments have shown that
ploughing as early its the slimmer as
the crop can be removed, cultivating
the land daring the fall,, acrd ee-
ploughieg just before the .ground
freezes constitute a very satisfactory
method of control. If this procedure
can be followed the next year by a
.cultivated crop, or a smother crop
practically .complete eradication will
be secured. It is surprising and dis-
heartening . s'otnetimes, to find 'that
couch grass will persist even alter
considerable work has .been done on
the land, 'Ho'wever, when right meth-
ods are followed, and provided reas-
onably dry weather is enjoyed, com-
plete success mak be assured. In
Western Canada, the application of
coritnercial fertilizers with a com-
bination fertiliser and grain drill. has
proved very effective its coetrollisg
many weeds,
Severe Winter Killing
'From all parts of- the province
conte reports of serious damage 'to
fall wheat, alfalfa and clover. Follow -
Ing are extracts from reports re-
ceived iron • represesta'tiree lit earl -
one counties.
Wen ue: Fall e,heat ha, not winner
ed well and many- fields are complete-
ly killed out, There 'has been consid-
erable winter killing of alfalfa and
clover, too. Dufferin: New seeding of
fall wheat is improving. and is niuch
more promising than Was cxiiected,
but most wheatfleltls will have to be
seeded to barley. Halton: A conserv-
ative estimate %read say that 75 per
cent of the fail wheat will have to be
torn up or patched. ,.\ heavy increase
in acreage of annual hay and pasture
miaterce for t'ti p:;i-p...,c are ' being
used. .North Sintcoe: The majority
.of farmers report total loss of wheat;
clover and alfalfa.. It is not now ex-
pected that more than 2 per cent of
the wheat crap will be a normal crop,
while another 15 per cent may lie
.partially saved as a feed grain crop
by patching. Waterloo: Over 70 per
cent of fall wheat acreage will be re -
sown to barley of mixed grain.
About 40 per cent of clovers and al-
falfa will have 'fo be Plowed up and
an annual .hay crop sown, Elgin: Falll
wheat is very spotty. Some fields
wintered] well; while others are badly
winter killed. Haldintand: Reports in-
dicate that 'fall wheat, alfalfa and
clover will be spotty. Lambton: Fall
wheat will be a good 80 per cent crop.
Middlesex: Fall wheat, alfalfa and
clover have shown 'considerable
grnw•tit during the warm weather of
early May, While the majority of
!fields in many sections being seeded
to spring grains and some clover
,fields being Plowed up and hi many
cases seeded to en annual -:hay -mix-
ture. Durham: Most of the fall wheat
acreage has been cultivated and sown
to barley or re -cleaned western
spring wheat. 'Hastings: Tall wheat
and clovers have been, severely killed
,oust and farmers are finding it diffi-
•cult to secure seed. Ontario:_ Fall
wheat is almost a total 'loss 'Alfalfa
and clover are badly damn;ged, but
the warm weather: has brought them
along. Northumberland: About 75
per cent of the fall wheat in this area
will .not recover from the severe win-
ter, and the same applies to new
seeding of alfalfa. Prince Edwards
Due to all fall wheat being killed as
well as a .great percentage of clover
aur] alfalfa, farmers will .have about
'double the spring's work to clo this
season, Victoria: Now that -growth
has started, fall wheat acreage that
has escaped, can be estimated at 5
per cent. York: It is estimated that
in this -county, 90 per cent of the fall
wheat will he reseeded to spring
grams. This is the .heaviest winter
killing on record. Frontenact For a
dietausce of about 725 utiles back front`.
the river front, alfalfa and fall wheat
have becu Thom 90 to 95 per cent
killed. Some fields are totally 'bare.
Strawberries would be about 90 Per
cent wisher' killed, raspberries and
other bush fruits about 50 per cent.
Lennox and Addington: Fall wheat
estimated to be practically a total loss
and alfalfa' and clovers fully 75
per cent.
Choosing the Site of a Farm Well
The situation of the faint well is
often the factor wlilc•h determines
whether the family will have pure
and wholesome water to drink or wa-
ter tiltat isunsanitary, provoking
disease,
It is desirable to locate the well
'l54) feet front any polluting .source
such es the barn, ntauttred fields or
gardens, .eeptie tanks, open flitches,
roads, garbage 'heaps or even away
from the dwelling house where waste-
water may be thrown out or where
there may be poultry rams or slog
kennel F.
Check up on the Food
Supply of the Bees
\•ecording to .the Dominion :\piar-
st more colonies of bees are lost
during the latter part of March and
tliroutehout, April than .at any other
period of the year, simply because of
starvation. Most bees are given en-
cu,h food in the fall to carry then:
through until the following spring
provided the winter is not too severe,
and rhe spring Rowers yield early,
bet many do not live to see the flow-
ers 'bloom. The winter of 1933-34 has
been long, steady and severe and
sprint; promises to be tery late in
let my pltfces, therefore tate keeper of
bees is well advised to check up the
lead supply of the bees and be pre-
pared to supplement it as snots. as
ever weather conditions will permit.
Fertilizer Mixtures
The p'lan't food content of com-
mercial fertilizer mixtures is ex-
pressed by formulae snob as 4-8410,
2-41246, etc. These figures denote the
guaranteed] percentages of nitrogen.
available phosphoric acid and potash
is the order in which they occur in
the formula. For example a 4-8-10
mixture will contain 4 per cent of
nitrogen, 8 per Cent of available
phosphoric acid and 40 per cent of
potash. A fertilizer offered for sale
in Canada must contain •not less then
2 poi cent of nitrogen or '5 per cent
of available phosphorie acid or per
cent of water-soluble potash and not
'fess than a total of 114 per cent of
these constituents
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a.'RADE + back and see these :'eat fastnesses
In the hoite market, 'fruit can be grown up and producing. for them -
sold eovn after picking. It is con5tun ' selves and man1<1 id those metals
ed or preserved within a very sherd,w'bich etill the '.turld values as meet -
Truth Cr period, 1 cue. I am often asked, "But preswn-
'But for export, if the trade is''tu be mg that vtea :ii e.ay roe ti 1
permanent and profitable, there must] fully and add to efficiency and ,in -
be not only high quality and uniform, creasing knowledge, is the Labrador
grading, but also means of maintain i i eninisula a fit peace for a white man
ing the condition of the fruit over to live in ?" Some questions one can
long periods. To make tub's possible,
the Department of Agriculture has
aided local growers in establishing
cu ld-b'raye and packing plants. Some
twenty planus in Ontario have been
established through this means.
1'he results are beginning to be
s'een, Ontario apples sold hi'g'her in ed in the North the deceitfulness of
this. British market than those froth riches, and that, so far as happiness
can be measured, dollars and cents
and what they can procure, are no
criterion, Divorces, suicides, holdups,
nervous prostrations, are unknown in
the simple environment of the North,
and seem to us to be an alni.oet in-
evitable accompaniment of so-called
civilization.
It was• the fag end of a rather doll
erenieg in the parlor. After a 'long
silence .he ,said: "I wish I. had =nee.
I'd travel."
S'hc looked at him a moment, and
then reached for her handbag. "FIow
much do you need]?" she inquired.
only answer by asking another: "Is
\lanhat tan Island or Chicago -or
West Pallet Beach, oe Hollywood, -a
paradise- which justifies its material
circtunetances being considered ' as
the only satiefa'ctory environments
for happiness?" 4';'e have long learn.,
some .other provinces. Probably $1100,-
0000 more was obtained for the On-
ta'rio crop sold in Britain in 1933, he -
cause of the better facilities encour-
aged by, the Department. The �Ontari'o
grower is also aided by sales' repre-
sentatives in Britain, who are in. 'daily
contact with the Old Country fruit
markets.
en five years the export of ,Oufario
apple's hap grown from 50,000 barrels
to 3(110,000 barrels; this is clue largely
to the efforts of Col, d ennedy and
his Department.
THE LURE 'OF LABRADOR
Of the other cleeizens of the sea
off the Labrador coast, I ant a little
doubtful as to how the valuable mam-
mals can stand the struggle, says Sir
'Wilfred 'Grenfell, Personally I have
not any doubt whatever that the seal
herds are being steadily and seriously
depleted by the ntodcru titetihds that
are being' used against them while
they are breeding, And though the
supply of strales scents to be greater
than any 1uuttant• being would have
anticipated, :till I feel that that great.
cetacean, even in the unlimited eat-
ers of the Atlantic, cannot 'perm-
anently- hold its own against fast
chasers and harpoons headed with
bombs and fired front cannon.
Perhaps the most recent potential
"You want nue to raise your salary,
eh ? " said the employer. "Give me
at least two good reasons,"
"The clerk gazed meekly at hie em-
ployer and murmured, "Twits]"
THE "SUCKER" LIST
Colonel .George A, Drew, ,Ontario
Securities 'Act C'onunis'ioner, says
there is all orgenizatiotn in Toronto
with a "sucker list" of 20,000 name-
wlticlt sells these naute, to "financial
racketeers." He point; ,ni, of conree.
that no law can protect there who
insist let evading over their depth
through the troubled waters of mar-
ket gamblieg in spite of the war'eittg
igttals that were left on every stand
„f Labrador, God's damp heap, to be eat,. 11'39.
recognized, conies from the Pact that ,\11 this is eery tragi. Esi'erieuce
the base of The ancient rock on still ,-eros to hr unable to obtain the
which the whole peninsula is cot- „epee, t" which it c ti islet's it is eq-
structed, ,has proved to be just an titled. "I'he alluretueut ni 'easy m;nt-
extcnsion of the great aroheatt cont- ry," nbviotrly is as strn•ng a, ever it
Ales which has been named the Can- wee.The high-powered salesman
adieu Shield, When the coast -lo- who promises a young fortune if the
c -'est reilw•ftvs were heiug run from ileal is eoutplete l binnedtatcly is still
1falifax, Nova Scotia, to \'aneeuvcr, able t,, `mpre<s tunny pe:ytle, Prnmpt
'British Columbia, the trend of imn i- cesium i the a>9cuce of, some cnn-
gratiou was to the West, exactly as tenets, but there is very little good
in the old days the 49'ers crossed the business which cannot wait Inc a de -
oilfields of Oklahoma and Texas, dy- vision until elle prospective i'nccshtr
ing by Hundreds, in their '"prairie has had time to think it over or steep
schooners," as they struggled Inc the ,,n it,
gold beyond the Rocky Mountains.
Prairiee and the far \West so obscur-
ed the minds of man coating from
across the Atlantic that they rushed
past the richest precious metal pin- claims its victims fairly frequently,
during part of the whole work, and Even our be-whislcererl friend the
with the usual infallibility of ignor-I"Spanish 'Prisoner" continues to try
'ante pronounced as utterly neeleee to to find tiie long -lost relative for
whom a fortune awaits in an old port-
manteau. So we presume the gullible.
like the poor, will always be with us.
—Victnria Daily Times.
:Distemper responds quickly to
dor. Though I shall not, S fear, 'live Douglas' Egyptian Liniment. Keep.
to see it, I ant hoping that from the a bottle handy in the ,table.
other sidle, "beyond this bourne of
time and place," my spirit will look Want and For Sale Ads, 1' time, 25r
Then there is the "flashy" pro, -
pectus prepared by the master optim-
ist. . It atches many—who regret at
leisure. .and the old wallet triol:
mankind those barren -looking sec-
tions
eations of "Our Lady of the' Snows"
that have given the Hollinger .and
!Flimflon, and mines of Nipissiug_ and
Porcupine, from these very same
rocks which on, •t'Ite East form Labra-
e
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WINTHROP.
'Hugh ltcllltvain passed away a'
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itis borne in Gtdetich on Friday af-
ternoon, after a brief illness, in his
84411 year. Mr, \IcLilwain was a mat -1
ice of Gnderich Township and ha
lived there until five years ago, when
he moved to teoderich. It was wltilc
visiting his sister, Mrs. Griffith. in
!Guderich, a week previous, he took
i1L I} -Ie was removed to his house,
where pneumonia developed, resat:-
ing its hie death. He is survived by
three .,rat,, George and Samuel, Go -I-
erich, and Robert, Bay4iel, and by
one daughter, Mrs. T. Betties e -
1� raCaron, Tlie, ftuteral was held' en
Mon' lay at 11n.lerich,
WALTON.
The May tweeting, of the W.M.S.
and W.A. of Duff's United Church
was held with about thirty ladies in
attendance. The president. Mrs.
(Rev.) C. Cumming, presided over
the missionary meeting. The Bible
study on "'Gidedn was taken by
Miss Janet Simpson. Splendid re-
ports were given by Mrs. Colin Fing-
land and Miss Janet Simpson, who
were delegates to the Presbyterial
convention at Clinton. The news from
the mission field on •'s\ Hospital it,
India,” was given by Mise Edna Reil.
The roll call wane responded to by :,
Scripture verse containing the won:
"envy. The topic from 'the study
book was g'ivan by Mrs. John- Mar-
shall unit Mrs. Andrew Coutts. The
\V. A. meeting was in -charge of -Mrs,
Willtttr Turnbull, the first vice-presi-
dent. During the btuineee period tdre
garden party committee reported that
they had secured Miss Pearl Newton,
Miss Phyllis I•Ienne And John Ed-
mondson as entertainers for the gar-
den party to be held in July. 11 was
decided that the anniversary 'be held
on Sunday, !September 30. Mrs. Wal-
ter Davidson acted as pianist in the
absence of Mrs. W. E. Radford.
BLYTH.
!Foilowing the .171x7001 of the past
thirteen years, the students of the
letratfnrit Normal Selina] have 1411':
chosen their "May Otieen." Miss Pau-
iine- Robinsan of Blyth and a mem-
ber of form IV will this. year be
crowned Queen ,-,f the May. The
final vole was between Miss Robin-
son and \Liss .]lar^jorie Lashhrook of
Stratford, ,representing form III,
who will be chief councillor to the
queen in the ceremony. The other at-
tendant to -the queen will be Miss
Ena Plaskett of Stratford, form I;
\fisc Isabelle 2llacDonald of Luck -
form I!I; \lias,Ann Steve,tieon of
Stratford, form IV, and lliss 'Flor-
ence Patterson of Varney, form VI,
'William G: \fcdNay of 3.fc!Killop,'stu-
dent of form I (second year), was
-the choice of the students for vale-
dictorian of the 11933-34 session. The
valedictory ,will be delivered at the
May Day festivities.
IS 45 MILES A -N HOUR SAFE?
The highways of the Province have
hem built w'i'th the' object of provid-
ing a sate, convenient and reasonably
rapid] Means of tr4tneportation. They
have not been constructed as ,speed-
wilys, -hilt rather to afford' the- uta
]num of safety and ;comfort to lea sic.
teavelliug at no more than the legal
l'ianet of thirty-five utiles 'per hour,
The claim is frequently advanced
that the present limit is archaic, and
that the developnient of vehicles has
made much 'higher speeds possible.
Butthe accident figures speak for
themselves. On the roads .to -day the
at erage peed of traffic is approxi-
mately thirty-five miles per hour,
perhaps at times a trifle higher. N'ev-
ert teles., the ratio between fatali-
ties and the total number of accidents
is 1+40 per cent higher "n 'he rural
a,,ed,. than en tate urban etreets.
1\'hat :hen night rise expect is the
average epeed increased to perhaps
45 miles per hour ?
Dritt'ttg ti, -day, more than at any-
time since the invention of the m'ator
car eats for good judgment. Fasdf ty--
and adeptness in the handling of the;
vehicle is not nearly sufficient. It is -
upon human judgment that the safe-
ty of every user of the road. rests and
excessive speed which shortens the
time during Thick a driver may judge
'the situation when an emergency
arises, is a factor which better cadet
better tires, and better brakes can-
not possibly overcome.
'Despite the fact that traffic, both
vehicular and pedestrian, is less con-
centrated throughout the year ,on the
rural roads, death by motor vehicles,
on these highways exceeded trecse•:
from urban accidents by more thus •
:fifty-five per cent. Rural accidents -
comprised only forty per cent of .the
Provincial total, but resulted in six-
ty-one per cent of the total fatalities,
Thehigher death rate at higher
speeds was also very clearly indicat- -
ed by the results of agcidents invply-
in'g collisions between motor vehicles..
Urban accidents of this type numb-
ered 1;743 and caused 'DI death. Ac-
cidents of this type cm the rural roads
'lumbered '1,500 and resulted in death
to 45 persotls,
Bulletin of Motor Vehicles Brand?:r,
VACUUM BOTTLES.
A vacuum bottle is no gond if ie
leak, i11 it is in good shape, it is al-
together one of the most useful ar-
ticles that can be it:chided in the:
outfit for a short outdoors excursion
or oarriecl by anyone who wiuttld
otherwise eat a cold lunch. The faith-
ful observance of a few simple pre-
cautions will keep it always its good.
shape
'Never jar a vacuum 'bottle sharply
If yon drive, carry the bottle on the.
scat or its .a box padded with excel-
sior or a folded cloth, or lay it ars a
robe or wrap in the bed of 'lxiggy..
•r car.
(Before you .111 the bottle with a hot
food temper it !with warm water, Af-
ter using it wash it in the same man-
ner that y,ou -would wash any other -
fine gl:asware and prop it up to (Irak
and air in a'safe- place. A tall jar or
can makes - a good ,draining -racb=.
'\\xihe.a you, have •'to remove the bottle
from the metal jacket be carefulnot
to 'break elf the 'tiny projection at thee
bottom. 'That projection is very fee.
gile and eery meeessary. 1.11 possible.
scald the cork and dry it'itt the sus
fler c t ery ti,e of the bottle. It is s:
gc, 1 teen to use two corks alternate:
ly. \aer you have him deed a vacinru'r'r
battle alfeiv tithes you w'i-iI become
ea to the routine of care and wit:
f111:o-.t it atttontatically, as you itbu
many other tasks, and find it no ltarct-
er than caring for other utensils,._