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SOME POULTRY PARASITES
EASILY CONTROLLED
lAt this season red unites and body
lice 'frequently cause serious 'loss in
production, deaths may follow a bad
infestation 'among both the young and
the old stock, and considerable time
and care niay lbe required to bring
the flock back into condition after the
brouble has been located
Carelessness or unsanitary condi-
tions are usually responsible our the
'Presence of these pests. 'They thrive
on ditty hens and multiply rapidly in
'filth if it is allowed to accumulate in
corners or cracks and crevices of the
henhouse.
Lice live entirely on the bocly of
thebird and irritate by crawling and
biting. Their eggs are laid at the base
of the feather usually arotihcl the
vent or under the wing. Fortunately,
they are easily controlled and by us-
ing•ordinary precautions the flock
may. be kept ,Free and clean. The .usual
practice at the Experimented -Station
'at .Harrow is to apply '1Blue)Ointnpent,
which can be obtained at any: drug
store. A portion of 'blue - ointment
about •the size of a pea is 'smeared be-
tween the thumb and .first and s'econel
fingers and rubbed in around the vent
and at the blase of the wing close to
the 'body.- One thorough application
When the birds are being placed in
their winter quarters is usually suf-
ficient to keep them clean for the
Year. However, the birds should be
exatbined at intervals becausea re-
infestation may occur during hot
weather.
COST OF DOLLAR WHEAT
Dollar 'wheat may be in America
before long. That used to be the stan-
dard measurement :for prosperity. The
pundits of "planned economy" have
been searching for that magic yard.
stick for 'long years. 'Now it has been
found again, and no thanks to then.
`Nature unearthed it. Nature is do-
ing what man with all his ingenius
schemes of restricting production fail-
ed to do. Nature works her miracle:
with a rough hand. Wheat speculators
may rejoice, but farmers in the strick-
en corn belt will curse the drought
that 'snakes a 'few rich while many
starve.
Our civilisation should •feel 'humble.
With all the resources at its 'hand it
has no more control aver the ele-
ments t'f life than the poor Indian
who roamed the plains in the buffalo'
days.
That good fruit farms are worth
owning, is the advice of a well-
known agricultural authority. Own-
ers should make every effort to keep
then, for money will be made from
then in the future as in the past.
'Further, he points out that growers
who sell nearest home .get the best
prices. Culls sold in .the home mark-
ets often net more than fancy .fruit
s'hipped to distant cities.
Dust ,Causes Asthma. Even a little
speck too small to see will lead to a-
gonies which no words can describe.
The walls of the breathing tubes ego
tract and it seems as if the very life.
must pass. ,Frani this condition Dr.
J. D. Kellogg's Asthma Remedy:
brings the user to perfect rest. It
relieves the passages and norma'
breathing is firmly established again
Hundreds of testimonials received an-
nually prove its effectiveness.
(Apparently ane of the troubles in
Westerly' Canada in :regard to the
clrought ss that the country hes been
dtaired to'd,eat'h, .Western papers are,
urging that steps should be taken to.
imlpotmd the water to create lances,
sloughs and ponds .which have been
chained off. We wonder if in. Old On
tari'o we Nave carried the drainage
craze to en extreme. --(Free Press.
LIGHT
We knots that in all green plants—
:haat is to say, in plants containing
chlorophyl.' which may the likened to
their blood—exposure to sunlight to
.essential ul order that they may con-
struct organic substances , :he
material oi their food, Whet: aa: .
s 1pp:ie 1, .hent they appropriate Its
cant energy, absorb carbon dioxide
and hoxygen.
increase in weighexhibit g- aw l and
manifest aft h e: e g activity enera
n e . h
It When that withheld fro m them
;hey can11J.-.form ..t- ophy„ their in-
halation
..'^a ation of carhop dioxide diminishes,
they fail to make 3:tb,,antiat grow' a,
but put forth long, slender shoots, be-
come of a pale yellow or whitish eolc
detoric:ate generally i:: habits and
structure. and in a longer Jr shorter
time dwindle and die. There can be no
doubt that light, and more particular -
it those rays that are !mind at the
junction of1= andredthe
n the orange in i
�s
solar spectrum, exercise a potent in-
fluence upon the tissue -changes of alt
green plants, ft'has they are necessary
not only :for the first formation o:
chlorophyl, but also for its mainten-
ance during the whole of the organs
in which it exists, and that they also
indirectly affect the absorption of
mineral matters by the roots. There
can be no doubt, further, that there i
a relation 'between the intensity of
light and the decomposition of carbon
dioxide in plants, for that process
slackens when light is feeble, and ,s
moss wive when it is at its greases:
brightness. The .while vegetable world,
as we know it, is dependent on light
.or its being, and can flourish only
when and where light is pientifui
As regards animals, their functional
relations with tight are not so clearly
marked out. Many of them practically
live in darkness, to which they ,herniae
specially adapted; but an enormous
preponderance oi them sp,"r: in the
sunbeams, and to theme those sun-
beams hare become essential
condi-
tionsJr health and vigor. Ip the sea,
as well as on and, the dependence on
light is broadly exhibited. "The dark,
unfathomed caves of ocean' may hear
many "a ge:n of purest ray serene,"
hut their flora and fauna are scanity.
There is probably an abundance of
life at all depths, but the number of
individuals and speeies diminishes as
the depth increases and the light di-
minishes, and at very great depths ar-
tificial light is 10 vogue. Pho.pher
essence plays an important part in
beep -sea life, and is correlated with
the prevailing red and brown tints in
deep -sett organisms. Even seareh-
lights are in use. for some species, in
addition to large eyes, are provided
with a sort of bull's-eye lantern, from
which streams of light are thrown out
at the will of the anima„ The absence
of light in very deep water produces
inversion .f the phenomenon of the
fixation of carbon and separation of
oxygen in terrestrial plants, Diurnal
:and animals do not thrive in darkness
and human beings immured in it for
any length of time lose weight and
strength, and become pale and blanch-
ed, like a plant starving for want of
light. We have only to contrast the
people who dwell in narrow streets,
in dingy courts, in tenements or in
cellars. and who work in dusky
shops and factories, d-ith those who
labor in the fields under the vault 'of
the blue sky, and hare their shelter in
cottages, open to the weather, bathed
in all the sunshine that our climate
affords, in order to .realize that light
is salutary and darkness harmful. Of
course numerous factors contribute to
the physical differences which dis-
tinguish indoor town front outdoor
country workers, and it is not easy to
disentangle the influence of defective
illumination from that of stagnant air,
foul emanations, disease -germs, over-
crowding and bad living in the one
case, and the influence or adequate il-
lumination from that of pure air, act-
ive exercise, wholesome food and
Iran quit ways in the other.
Yet it cannot be denied that sun-
light is an .important member of that
confederacy of ofittv1trdi influences
that snakes for physiological righte-
ousness. 1\\relhave an indication of it;
activity in this direction in the bronz-
ing of the skin that it induces, Pig-
mentation of the skin, to which bronz-
ing is due, inay be caused by law
temperatures as we'll as bysundight;
but When of sunrlight origin, it is a
sign of vital 'energy, and indeed, the
capability of cutaneous pigment;forni-
atio pis to some extent a measure of
constitutional strength. The abien'ce''
of pigment is often associated with
weakness, Albinos are inrariatb'ly
feeble creatures; in the 'case 01 the
cat they ate often deaf, and in that
of the horse, short-sighted.
Then the production of pigment in
human beings of the 'white race re-
quires a certain sub -stratum of stam-
ina, far healthy :people' bronze easily
and sick people only 'w'ith di Ride lty
and slightly. 'Chlorotic and ,tubercu-
lar subjects, Linefeed, may he freely
exposed -to the Isrightest sunshine and
retain their .patle.'complcxions, and in
consumptives, under the open air
treatment, the appearance, ori' bronz-
ing- ,i. soften the ,first signal Of'retarn-
in,g 'health.'
Stenligttt, however. penetrates much
deeper than the skin. It quickens the
circulation, It increases the oxidation
in :he body, it enriches the blood, 1
tronhtes nutrition in every organ mod
:issue, Haw does light do a:: this
when in man and :he ilia:her animals
its access to the •body is so limited
1 would be easier to understand i'
the whole surface o, .ail diaphanau
skia were habitually exposed :o : , s.
e c.\ 1 h ties of the iretllat 1
blood. like the corpuseles of chloro
,' in pleats, night drink its ki ie i,.
e,le'gy and . the cutaneous nerve end-
ings
be stimulated by it.
As a :natter o. :act, man and the
igher animals practically live it
darkness. They spend at least a third
of their time 'under' the shades o:
night; ley hide themselves in rhe
murkiness of dens and hooses; a:td
:hey are covered with fur, ntooi, hair.
?r clothing', so that light cannot reach
:he skin ar
alt ecce;.. possibly' in
cede dilution. In men—even in those
o- us who are 'bald and do not wear
gloves—only shoat one-eighth part of
the surface of the body is directly
exposed to the influences of light.
The answer to the question is that
is the higher animals the w•khole his-
tory of evolution consists in the gath-
ering upinto special channels of inac-
tions that were at one time generally
diffused. Touch, the sense of pain and
-he sense of temperature are stilt
ntain:ained over the whole periphery,
,:th,Itg}h even they concentrate them-
e fes in specialized cutaneous reg-
ions; but taste and smell have been
focused on certain tract's of mucous
ntembrance, and hearing has had
soa_tracted for it a mechanism of tate
most exquisite contrivance, The vib-
rations of s:,ir.ta—caused, say, by the
voles of a speaker—still throw the
whole body into a :tate of tremor.
hitt they are perceived, not through
the .feeling' of general sensibility, but
through the ear and auditory nerve,
And so the. undulations—or shall I
say the corpuscles 1 lig,ht witch in
plants and lower creatures exercise
whatever effects they may- posses
upon the organism through its whole
surface, ia1 the higher animals and
:nen operate upon it through the ret-
ina of the eye and its brain field. And
not ash have there generally inion -
e.1 superficial impressions, the rudi-
ments of visiett, been lifted into the
eye and raised to an immeasurably
ifigSter power,
hot with them have
.tulle ftp in great [measure the nutri-
tive perng:leives of light, These are
exercised no homier elirertly upon
multitudes of cells but reflexly
through an autocratic. and unifying
brant either. The light impinging
span the retina, stimulating the nerve
endings of t'ile optic :terve, and initiat-
ing impulses which are conveyed to
the 'brant. not only sets up sensa-
tions and visna: judgments, but hite a
secondary ,trophic or nutritive effect.
\`au must not imagine that the light
gets no farther that your eye and
brain: it goes all over you, in spite of
your clothes, and insinuates itself into
every nock and cranny 01 your body,
It is not easy to give you demonstra-
tive proof of this in your own person.
hut that may he afforded in the case
of some animals.
In this connection the Atttphibia
supply us with instructive material,
for in theme we can trace tine direct
and reflex action oi light coexisting
side by side very obviously. They
have naked and sensitive skins, and
they have complex and sensitive eyes.
and they have, moreover, storable
pigments in their skins which respond
to light, giving rise to changes in
calor. These pigments, black, red,
yellow • or green, are .contained in
cells called' chromatophores, placed
immediately beneath the transparent
epidermis, which can contract, with-
drawing' the pigment from the sur-
face and snaking it look pale, or dilate,
spreading the pigment wear the
face and and girivig it a darker or mare
saturated tint, By movements of these
chromatophores in ;conjunction with a
fixed white pigment, and with inter-
ference of light by structure, produc-
ing blue and violet colors, these creat-
ures and especially the chameleons
and tree -flogs, appear in many var-
ied and beautiful liveries, which are
changed in accordance with environ-
ment and disposition.
The paramount object of these var-
ied liveries is concealment; the ani-
mal assumes pattern akin to its
surroundings. What .has been called
natural photography ivies on, The
;frog that sits on the grass grows
'greens the frog' located in granitic soil
'becomes speckled, the frog` 'haunting
the dank moorland dons a brown cos-
tume, T'Inese changes; Which are
slowly established, are attributabieto
the itilltreste e of 1i,ghat and 'color play-
ing directly upon the skin; .but other
rapid oltait gess as Lard Lister long)
a,Io pioved,' arc produced 1101 by the',
direct action of light on the skin, but
indirectly by its action on the optic
crt•c and retina.
IA dark -colored frog that ititwniably
becomes finale when exposed, to light
with its eyes uncovered, retains - its
dark color when so exposed after ;
little hcoc o
, t of dark i:d'oth ' had .Is e'en
placed oyer its eyes without 'imher-
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fering with respiration; and instantly
became pale when the 'hood w -as re-
moved, its quick change being un
utistakab y> due to reel::al ;sad not :o
cutaneous stimulus,
bDesirous of ascertaining through
what chaaae s the nervous impulse
that caused concentration of the pig-
ment on exposure 1) light was con-
veyed R?Ill the blab to the ?C,
Lord L ser divided sciatic nerve,
—the great nerve of the hind limb,—
but without effect On the tour 1'f the
,.
ulna. He tried flea division o: a the
s Critntures in the thigh, excePt the
bone femoral artery and -Basic nerve.
butagain without effect,
When, hoverer, he added to the
latterprocedure 51c'10•,i the aciatse.
nerve, the :animal. being then pale.
gradually darkbelow the tai
g grew i of
operation, until before long the leg
presented the appearance of having
had a black stocking drawn over u:.
while ,
,.
S ,1 -
bot t:yi Other inn -t et t
a hn, the I t 7
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untied pale.
Fail these parts were equally expos-
ed sunlight, ed to n , .but the darkened leg
was elft off from reflex influence
from ehe retina, which was stili oper-
ative upon the body and other limbs,
and so its chromatophores dilated and
put forth branches. it thus became
clear that the regulation of this fume -
tion pigment ddistributions
distribution in the
frog. which is probably closely allied
to the action of the cells in nnutrition.
is not carried on by special nerves, as
in the .case of the contraction of or-
dinary muscles, but that all the nerves
going to the limb have trophic func-
tions.
The changes that take place in the
chromatoPhorous cells of the skin of
the anlphibitt tinder the influence of
light, namely, contraction with draw-
ing in of their fine ramifications and
concentration of pigment, remind us
of the changes that, according to
some recent observers, take place in
the cells of the brain in the transition
from the sleeping to the waking
state,\ hillh1U 1 nl "
t ,fall u ) rc
cons and terminal buds are said CO he
retracted. and oE course, of all extern-
al stimuli, light is the one that is
most potent and universal in deter-
mining that transition.
'It s1111s curious that nervous ac-
tion should mike the pigment mole-
cules move rapidly to the center of
the cell, :from its extreme ramifica-
tions,
amiticati fns and yet this is not, as Lord
Lister points out, more wonderful
than a sudden gush of tears or out-
burst of perspiration under nervous
influence, and 'both ,if these prio o-
ntena may be induced by excessive
stimulation of the retina by light.
1'latea has ?howwtt .that rabbits give
off much more carbon iiioxid when
exposed to sunlight than when kept
in the dark, bat when the animal is
blindfolded. the excretion of carbon
dioxid under these two conditions is
equalized,
I have said that in human beings
the direct influence of light on the
skin is not altogether lost. The races
that still go about "in native worth
and honor clad" no doubt benefit by
that influence, but civilized races that
have addicted. themselves to raiment
have been content to forego it. But
in thein, too, under certain circum-
stances, the exposure .af the whole
Surface to light seems to have a tonic
effect.
At \-elder, in Carniala, in Austria,
a special sunlight cure is carried on.
The whole body, uncovered, is ex-
posed to the influence of the sun and
air for several hours a day, and the
patients walk about in the park as
lightly clad as in a Turkish bath, It
would be difficult to say how much
of the beneficial effects of the treat-
ment at Veldes is due to s`utilight,
how much to pure air, regular habits,
and a quiet and secluded life; but
beneficial results are obtained in cases
of blood .poverty and nervous pros-
tration, and the doctors and patients
alike ibelieve that in securing these
the sunlight plays at least an im-
portant part.
Light operating; through the eye.
brain and spinal cord is, I maintain,
a universal tonic, promoting health
and nutrition, and so increasing re-
sistance to disease. The blind are al-
most int•sriably feeble. anemic, and
prone to illness. Oo doubt other con-
comitants o,6 their affliction arc partly
responsible for their debility, but the
deprivation of trophic influence
which their sightlessness 111150lves is,
I believe, its ,chief cause.
'Frans all that Was been said. it sttrg-
ls- follows that light .is 1nstruireutal
in pre s'rving' call tit and in mainttain-
ing it at a high standard, by its im-
mediate effects oil the individual man,
psychical and trophicul, as well 115 as
IV Its action in. safeguarding him
microbic attacks. And it surely fol-
lows from what has been s'aicl that
light is a sanitary agent of the ,fist
order, and that it behooves ,all good
sanitarians to 'spread the light, to
conserve the light, and to protect it
from polluition
COST STIJINIES ON PORK
PRODUCTION.
At the Dominion Experimental
'Farm, Nappan, ''N, ,5,, 01 feeds are
charged against the hog at market a0
cost of 'productian prices. For ex-
ample, roots are charged at present at
$3.36 per ton, oats at Sad per 0011, and
barley at. S2.5.80, the cost of produc-
tion in 11932.
During the past four years a t=eal
of 121 hogs have been carried through
on the :advanced Registry tests, The
E"..ttiOni have been vert" similar ?r all
;a,.. The heights of each hog are
recorded every 'thirty days; also feeds
consumed, Front these datainforma-
tion (tae been secured regarding the
gains and feed consumption per pound
gain for each period from weaning to
'finishing. The feed consumption for
:hese 121 hogs was found to be 3.19
pounds meal per pound gain while
from weaning, t43 days of age), to
finishing, t 1 93 days of age), the daily
gain was 1.232 pounds, costing 4.$'3
.eats per pound, In outer words, al -
:owing tate pig at 'weaning, (iteighin•g
-' pounds), a value o; .*1,51.1, thg rofal'
,,.
feed
z cost ti s a .-!t) pound hog
would be
5111.7(1. While at the present time the
market value of pork does
1101 cover
the total cost 01 a hog to 'fins h:ss,
when all feeds are charged at market
or cost of production prices, the hog
on the average iarm is a side -line,
lttrnina- into human food many \waste
produc:s otherwise unmarketable,
From 0 1 thy; angle, it serves as a cast
product and will give fair labour re-
turns under average conditions pro-
viding, first, the bulk of the deeds is
home-grown and second, that the hos;
is of the best type obtainable attd i;
properly- grown and finished. It
should be borne in mind that the prices
charged for home-grown feed tn-
elude rent of land, use of machinery
ma all labour and other charges
against that particular crop.
iDenlonstrating the value of proper
type and finish, the premium"sel-
ect" flags at the present time uti.,ros
TO 12:3 per cent, of the value of a "ba -
can" hog, while the penalty on a "but-
cher" hog is the same 510011111, or a
differencebetween , ttneen a"select" and a
'butcher" of approxtmatelr ,'tl) or
25 per cent of the market value of :he
'bacons."
Here and There
The Open Dominion champion-
ship match in the Dominion
Marksmen Revolver competition
was won recently by the Cana-
dian Pacific Railway Ontario po-
lice team with a score of 1435
points out of a, possible 1500, R-
C. M. P., civic and provincial po-
lice also competed.
Plans for the musical festivals
of Western Canada during the
coming year with a tentative dis-
cussion of policies for the next
two seasons, were featured at a
meeting of delegates of Western
Competition festivals recently at
the Palliser Hotel, Calgary.
John Jacob Astor and his bride
have decided to extend their
honeymoon tour to the Canadian'
Rockies and British Columbia.
"We intend to stop over at Lake
Louise," said the young million-
aire, "and then move on to Van-
couver, taking in the sights on
the way."
Captain R. G. Latta, skipper of
the liner Empress of Britain and
commodore of the Canadian Paci-
fic fleet, retired from active duty
recently. He was succeeded on
the bridge of the Britain by Cap-
tain R. N. Stuart, V.C.,
R.N.R. Captata
Stuart was promoted to the post
of commodore of the Canadian
Pacific fleet
Indicating the trendtowards
greater production and recovery
of business, substantial increase
in the second quarter of 1934 as
compared with the corresponding
period of 1933 is shown in the re-
cently published production fig-
ures of Consolidated Mining and
Smelting, one of world's greatest
mining companies:
Driving a highly decorated
locomotive into the Canadian Pa-
cific Railway depot at the end of.
the Calgary -Edmonton run' re-
cently, A. 1.1. I3obkirk, veteran
engineer, completed 43 years of
continuous service with the rail-
way, most of it at the throttle of
an engine.. "I have always liked
my work and I hate to quit", said
Mr. Hobkirk.
Founded June 18, 1874, by
George and Mathew Beatty and
with agencies, warehouses, offi-
ces or depots across Canada, New
Zealand, the United Kingdom and
fifty other countries, the national
and world-wide exporting house
of Beatty Bros, manufacturers of
washing machines • and farm im-
plements, celebrated its Diamond
Jubilee ' at Fergus, Ont., last
month.
John F. Sweeting, industrial
commissioner of the Canadian
Pacific Railway, states in an offi-
tlal publication of the railway
that there is a decidedly firm
tone of confidence in the West
and increased activity in 'many
industries, with the tourist busi-
ness promising to be better at all
resorts this year.
An increase of 877,900 lbs. in
the Nova Scotia lobster catch
during the month of May was
instrumental in raising the land-
Tid values $333,458.over the same
month in '1933, according to an
announcement by the Depart-
ment of Fisheries on June 28th„ ,