The Seaforth News, 1948-09-02, Page 7TIIE FARM FRONT
o6Quuell,
Biggest single item in the cost of
an egg is the feed, which amounts
to about six pounds per dozen.
What this adds 'up to depends on
the current cost ,of feed but it can
go as high as 30 cents a dozen or
,even higher. If grain is home-
, grown it will, of course, bring the
cost of feeding down considerably
and so will large amounts of green
feed, if available.
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Mortality of stock is another big
item and will amount to between
two and three cents on each dozen
eggs, This figure is based on from
15'to 20 hens dieing during the year
out of each 100. This is a cost item
which varies greatly and one which
can be •reduced by good manage-
ment, Strict culling is •possibly the
simplest way of keeping it low,
while good stock and proper sani-
tary conditions are also important.
*
Although a lot of people forget
or neglect to do so, interest on
money invested, taxes and insurance
should always be taken into con-
. sideration especially by those who
make a business of egg producing.
This item will account for between
three and four cents a dozen, ac-
cording to those who should know.
* *
Buildings and equipment will
cost in the neighborhood of a cent
and a half per dozen eggs, or
thereabouts, .This is mainly because
of the necessity of replacing worn-
out equipment and making repairs
o buildingi. It is slightly less than
this with good houses, more with
buildings that are just temporary.
* * *
Labor costs, of course, vary with
the locality and how much 'outside
help" is required. Where large
flocks are kept and latest labor-
saving devices used, this cost is
lowered, and careful planning of
work to be done is a big help.
However, labor cost per eggs
Is usually figured at between five
and six cents.
* * *
In order to keep up high egg -lay-
ing, older hens must be replaced
with pullets quite often and it is
estimated that -such replacement of
stock will cost between three and
four cents for every dozen eggs
sold. In places where there is a
good market for hens as meat this
cost can be almost entirely elimin-
ated — but there are many areas
where a hen's value for meat does-
n't nearly equal the cost of growing
a pullet. Then there are other ex-
penses, such as drugs, litter, etc.,
which can add a cent or more a
dozen to the cost.
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vg,44* 44:
The Difficult
Date
By
EULALIE WEEKS
Why was she on Ibis train? Why
was she taking this trip that was
bound to end in heartbreak?
"The scenery in this part of the
country is lovely, isn't it?"
Sheila turned to the little person
beside her. Certainly there was
nothing outstanding about her com-
panion, except perhaps a pleasant
expression. Sheila was surprised to
hear herself asking, "Do you like
travelling by train?" •
"01; yes" replied the woman. "1
like watching the outside and the
inside both. People are all so won-
derful."
Suddenly Sheila felt like keeping
the conversation going. "I bet you
know a lot about people?"
"I like to think I do. I guess about
them and wonder where they are
going and why."
"Where do you think I'm going,
then, and why?"'
"I'in not sure. At first I thought
you were going home to visit your
folks for the week -end but you're'
not happy enough for that. I do
think, though, that you're going
some place that has some connec-
tion with your home."
"Why do you think ,that Mrs.,
er . . I'm sorry, I don't mean to
be rudel"
"My name isn't Mrs. Its Miss
Dolly James. Every one calls Inc
Miss Dolly,
"Oh," continued Miss Dolly. "1
know .you're familiar with this coun-
try because you never glance back
or ahead'. You seem to know every-
thing that's coming next."
"That's right. I've made this trip
to Canesoille pretty often but not
very lately. Theres 00 one there
for incto visit any more,"
I sorry.'
The sympathy in Miss DollY'e•
voice seemed to be all Sheila need.
ed. "Four years ago today I said
goodbye to Donnie Ross on, the little
platform at Canesville. Donnie had
things. figured out pretty well. He !
didn't think he had any right to tell
me how he felt about the then but ;
he said that -if he ever came back
and I wanted. to 'hear how he felt: '
he'd meet Inc ori that same platfOrm
in four years' time and tell me."
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Cosy Harbour—There are few harbours as pleasant and safe as. this wooded haven at Mea -
ford where the fishing fleet comes in after a day on the Georgian Bay.
Putting Out to Sea—One of the fishing. boats is shown above rounding the point as it puts
out into the bay dor a day's fishing.
Comfort While Yo u Fish At Meaford
For sportsmen who like to fish in comfort, in pleasant surroundings and with good com-
panions, Meaford's fishing fleet is made to order. American tourists discovered. this many
years ago and for the past fifteen stunmers have been corning here by the thousands.. Bill
Hamilton, President of the fleet's Guides Association, estimates that oyer a million sportsmen
have been carried out on the Georgian Bay by the fleet.,
Competition Stiff
Behind this fleet is an unusual story of organization. on a private enterprise basis. The
fleet has been built up from only two or three boats, until it represents today, an investment
of over a quarter of a'million dollars,
Each boat is privately owned and
etch guide is free to take all the
business he can handle. Attempts
have been made to control the boats,
the guides and the rotation, but
straight competition has proven to
be the best "control" of all. Now,
the guide with the best -looking boat
and the pleasantest smile is the one
who does the most business. The
result has been that a very high
degree of efficiency has been main-
tained, and the guests are return-
ing, year after year, to Meaford for
really enjoyable fishing and a, good
time.
Good Catches
' The chief reason for their success
is, of course, that they "deliver the
goods". They frequently come in
with the.full bag limit of five fish
per person, per day, perhaps, and
the siae^of the fish is almost always
good. The average run is about
five pounds, but sometimes they
weigh twenty or thirty pounds.
The fishing reels are mounted on
the boats and are looked after by
the sportsmen themselves during
the trip: Up to fourteen sportsmen
are accommodated. They fish from
one to ten miles out in -the bay, at °
a cruising speed of about three
miles an hour.
Heavy Seas
The boats cost about $4,000, have
100 horse -power engines and a top
speed of about fifteen miles per
hour. Heavy seas do not frighten
them at all. The guides have built
up a reputation for their uncanny
skill as navigators. Fogs are fre-
quent and they must often find their
way home by the seat of .their oil-
skins. When a Nor'Wester blows
there can be some very heavy seas
down the ninety mile sweep of the
bay, but they will put out for any
hardy sportsman who thinks he
eau take it.
Safety
While the main business of the
fleet is to find the Wily trout, there
has been no effort spared to make
the boats comfortable and above
all safe. The Dominion Govern-
ment inspects the boats every year
for safety measure's. They carry
fire -fighting equipment, compasses
and also apparatus for blind navi-
gation. They are proud of their
claim that they have not lost a
passenger in fifteen years. ,
"So you're going to meet him?"
"I'm going to Ganesville."
"Didn't he come back?" was the
soft inquiry,
"Yes, he came back, Miss Dolly."
"I'm afraid I don't understand."
"Well, its simple, seally. Donnie
came back and the very sight of
him thrilled me so that 1 was on
top of the world but Dan said he
thought I had changed a lot. He
said 1 was sophisticated and citified
and he paid me lots of lovely com-
pliments but he never once men-
tioned the subject we discussed."
"He likes the city?"
"He never used to. He always
said he wanted to come back and
own his own shop and raise a fain.
ily in the country."
"But you don't want to any
more?"
"Of course I dol the same
girl inside that he left four years
ago. I want the things now that we
both wanted then but he doesn't
seem to want to find out."
"Yet you're taking this trip to -
clay?"
."I just had to. I promised. But
it's no use."
"What Makes you think its no
use? Don't you believe he'll be here
to see if you have changed or not?'
"I did ntil last night. We were
all at a party and 1 kept listening
hit. him to drop some hint about our
secret date for today but right in
'front of use I heard him make a
date to play golf this afternoon."
"You'd better powder that nose
of yours. We're nearly to Ganes-
ville."
The tapping at the window at-
tracted her and as the train started
slowly to move, she cold,' make out
Miss Dollys words:
"He had to be surel He had to
be surel"
Sheila's puzzled thoughts about
the little lady's last words were in-
terrupted. Two strong arms en-
folded her.
"Dan, oh, Danl How could you?"
"Sheila, dearest," she heard- him
sa,', "I had to be sure, I had to be
sure . . ,"
The End
Plane Destroyed by
Own Safety Devices
It now appear% with tragic irony,
that the airplane which recently
crashed near Mount Carmel, Penn-
sylvania, bringing death to 43 per-
sons aboard, was brought to its ruin
by the improper functioning of
devices installed for the purpose of
providing greater safety.
The great airliner was so shat-
tered as to leave only fragments for
the study of investigators, instead
of the relatively large portions
which usually remain from a crack-
up, None of these fragments shows
any signs of fire.
* * *
It is believed by both govern-
ment authorities and airline ex-
pertsthat the pilot and co-pilot,
receiving a false alarm of a fire in
the baggage ,-ompartment, released
carbon dioxide from extinguishers
in the cockpit -which rendered them
unconscious when high in the air.
It is believed, therefore, that the
great plane made much of its
descent from 14,000 feet to the time
of impact with only inert hands at
the controls and with no 'conscious
brain to guide its final moments of
flight. Visibility was perfect, the
wreck provided no evidence of
structural failure • or of engine
malfunction, despite the usual crop
of unreliable "eye -witness" state-
ments following the accident. The
liner simply flew into the groupd.
* *
Supporting this theory is the fact
that following the return of the
DC -3 planes to service (after they
had been grounded as a result of
fires in the ventilating system).
one airline has experienced scores
of false alarms of fires from the
protective devices which they have
installed.
Waterless African ush To Become
Greatest British Army Storehouse
"Operation Igloo" is today turn-
ing some 36 square miles of water-
less African bush into the begin-
nings of what will shortly become
the British Army's biggest store-
house abroad.
Site of the mushroom town, fax
from any large center or other pop-
ulous district, is Mackinnon Road,
one of the 30 stations in the 330 -
mile -long railway %%Mich rises from
sea level. at Mombasa to an altitude
of over a mile at Nairobi.
Most of these stations are noth-
ing but names to all but a few.
If Mackizthon Road, until a short
time ago, had any claim to fame,
it was the memory of Sir William
• Mackinnon, the pioneer who found-
ed the imperial British East Africa
Company which got its royal charter
in 1887, some years before the rail-
road was built.
During World War II, however,
Royal Air Force men knew it as a
hush-hush stop betwen Nairobi and
the Coast.
Today, nearly, a year after the
War Office decided that Kenya
should be the reception area for
vast quantities of Army stores to
be removed from Egypt, India, and
Palestine, Mackinnon Road has
achieved a fame only less spectac-
ular than that of the British
Governments's peanuts scheme in
Tanganyika.
Pioneers of Project
Pioneers of this priority project
are men of the British peacetime
Army, who work there alongside
non -British former allies—Mauri-
flans, Seychellois, Africans—and
even some former enemies, arti-
sans from Italy.
Well over toms men arc in
camp at Mackinnon Road and more
are expected as a result of the
evacuation from Palestine. Royal
engineers, Royal Army Service
Corps, Royal electrical and mech-
anical engineers, Royal Corps of
Signals, and the Corfis of Afilitary
Police are all putting their backs
into the job despite the heat, the
dust, the mud, and thhe "livestock"
—ranging from mosquitoes and
praying mantises to lions and ele-
phants.
To British sappers goes the cred-
it of making water flow in the det-
erts which was Maukinnon Road.
For eight months, every man in
camp was rationed for water—three
gallons a day.
Now the men of Mackinnon
Road are drinking water which
flows 75 miles by pipe line from
the slopes of Kilimanjaro, over the
Tanganyika herder.
Irrigation Slated
Soon, a 500,000 -gallon reservoir
is to be fed by two more pipe lines,
to make possible an irrigation
scheme for the -growing of vegta-
ables and root crops.
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