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The Seaforth News, 1932-01-07, Page 4PiAGE FOUR" l i THE SEAFORTH NEWS. THURSDAY, JANUARY 7. 1932. THE'SEAFORTH NEWS. Snow^don 'Bros., Publishers. ossumeonlimer WALTON. Those spending New Year's with. Mr. Janes Mose were Mr, and Mrs. 'Oats Flouston, Betty ;and Madge, of Bayfield; 'lir, and lMrs, "Ernie Toll, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Hogg,. Messrs, and Wes. Roe, Mr. ';Hugh ]Linn started the New Year by having car trouble and spent New Year's "with mends on the 14th concession, having to be towed home ,next day by EEa11 and Balfour (Bros, 2vlr. Leslie Butson and Master Jaek of <Htibbedt called on Walton friends recently. Mrs. R. Forsyth of. Toronto spent tebe Christmasholidays .with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs, R, Hoy. Mr. and Mrs,; Ray Crawford of Dur barn spent the Christmas holiday with his parents, Mr, and „Mrs. Dave •Cc arwiford. Miss Islay Crawford of Wiarton who has been visiting her parents, Mr, an'd'Mrs, ll. Crawford do ring the Christmas holidays in McKillop• re- turned to her school last Saturday, Mr. end Mrs. R. G. Parke and Mr. George and Miss Dorothy of Seafonth and Mr. and Mrs. George Dundas of MdKillop sp'en't New Year's at Jas, N. Campbell's. Mr. Glen Kelly has spent the past week with ,'his mother, Mrs. George !Kelly, after escaping in a car acci- dent at Port Huron on his way home ' Christmas dtiy. He left his other three companions in the hospital but he escaped with only a slightly injur- ed knee. Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Forsyth spent the week end at her hone, R. W. 1-Ioy's. Mr. and Mrs. J. Bishop left for North Bay Saturday to spend two week's holidays at their daughter's, Mrs. Russell Alderson's. 'Mrs. Tom Huddelson left Monday for her home at Portage La. Prairie after 'spending the past four months with her brother, John A. Stewart, 16th concession Grey. BLYTH, A Happy and Prosperous New Year to all JOHN GALLOP AGENT FOR FROST FENCE All Repahs and Labor Cash. SUPERTEST GAS and OILS 1 * * * * * * * * ' * * * * NEWS AND INFORMATION * * FOR THE BUSY FARMER * * (Furnished by',Onkano Depart- * * ment of Agriculture.). * * * * * * * * * ** Inoculate Alfalfa 'T•n•acul'ation of alfalfa has always been regarded as an aid to a good stand. But it isteven more than that,. Besides being indispensable for maxi- mum yields inoculation also improves the quality. 11 -lay from inoculated plants contains more protein per ton than that from plants not inoculated. /Inoculate alfalfa' and use lime if the soil needs it. Brood Sow Policy 'The Brood Sow Policy introduced by the Federal Department just one year ago has resulted in 1977 brood sows being placed' with farmers at e total coli to the Department of $11,- 32338, or $8.76 each. Under ;Iris pal icy any farmer may o;ser a select bacon type sow and.:• hen the initial deposit is receiyed• by an official of the Departrnztit the sow is purchased' on the stockyards at the current mar- ket price. It is then fed and bred free of fn'arge and one-half the freight to tile purch'aser's nearest railway sta- /Bon is paid by the Department. The Election. — For Reeve,_ I. s, Wallace 204, Frank B'ainton 97. 7, -se 'council (by acclamation) A. S. .,Rad- . !ford, F J. Bollym,�a�� ,E,�, i';.,J:aundy, 1W. G. Mc'Nall. �lJ!C1R 'ii. Mc- trtre 14ag,-> Mr. Reg. Argent of the teaching staff at Welland spent the holiday .with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred ,Argent. The regular monthly meeting of the JW'om'en's Institute will be held in Memorial Hall on Thursday, January' Ten at 2:30. Topic: Historical Re- search, to be taken by Mrs, A. B. Carr and _Mrs. Rab't. McGee. Music: ,Ladies ;quartette; reading: Mrs. H. M. Pat- terson; Canada's Fish - Foods; Mrs, 7. Colclough; roll call: Labor saving devices; Hostesses, Mrs. C. Bell, Mrs. T. Holfyman, Mrs, A Brigham, Mrs. /Wm. Bryant. Visitors are welcome, Mr. Lyle Robinson of the teaching staff at Huia berstane spent the holi- days with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. R. H. Robinson, Mr, Stewart Robinson was a holi- day visitor with his parents,, R. H, and 'Mrs. Robinson. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Brunsdon of Clinton .were visitors here on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Armand Kernick of Kitchener visited the former's par- ents aver Sunday. Miss Lois Robinson returned' to 'Stratford' Normal on Monday. Miss Dorothy Robinson of Seafarth spent New Year's with her parents, Jr. and Mrs. R. H. Robinson. Miss Alice Gillespie is spending a month with her sister, Mrs. Sheffield, at St. Cetherines. 'Mr. and Mrs, 'William Patterson of -• Chicago spent over New Year's with, f•the farmer's mother, _Mrs, H. M. Pat- terson, fere,! .r � tT3 tta 1 -B'tyth were aroused at 'Mills 4 a.m.:Sunday by the sound o:f the erativcfire alarm, the blaze being in the was 1 •Cham'bers block in the centre of the 'yea' ,main street, and consisting of Gid - 14. ley's tailor shop and haberdashery, ti where the fire started,' extending to i the Oddlfellow's Hall above and then across, to the Masonic Hall, and by valiant work •51 the firemen it was stopped front getting down to the Bank of Commerce. These places are ;411 in the same black. Gidley's store and stock are a complete loss with nothing saved. The stock was valued at about $6;000 with an insurance of $3,500.; The Oddfeltows' and Masons' -p:arap•hcrnatia, books and• furniture ate • "also a coimlete loss, being partially insured. The lass to the building is a .heavy one, but .fairly well insured. In aft probability the block will be' re- �bnilt. The cause of the fire.is un- 7kii wn.. Ali mothers can put away anx'ie'ty regarding their suffering children when, they have Mtother Graves' Worth: Exterminator to give relief. Its effects are sure and las'ting. Want and For Sale Ads, 3 time's 50c The Seed Crop The movement of clovers and grass seeds continues to be below the aver- age for the season. ',Ordinarily ex- port demand has relieved the domestic market of much larger quantities this year: The production in 1931 plus the carry-over from 1930 constitutes a very much larger supply than the d'olnestic market is likely to require this season, and this coupled with li- mited exports has- resulted in fewer Iters to growers and very law prices s compared with other years. Estim- ates of production in 1931 and sup- plies in sight show substantial sur- pluses of red clover, alsike, alfalfa, sweet clover and blue grass, Timothy is in better domestic demand than some of the other seeds owing to in- sufficient production to meet domest- ic requirements. 'There is virtually no market at present for alfalfa, alsike and sweet clover in Ontario where the largest quantity is grown com- mercially in Canada. 'The following percentage of seeds produced in On- tario is reported sold: Red clover, 30; alfalfa 10; alsike, 50; sweet clover, 5; timothy, 2; Canadian blue grass, 50. The number of pounds unsold is esti- mated: Red clover, 775,000; alfalfa, '3,+600,000; alsike, 1,150;000; sweet clo- ver, 1,000,000; timothy, 24,000; Cana- dian blue grass, 400,000. Essex Corn Crop ,The splendid corn crop which was harvested in Essex County this year is now moving to market somewhat ahead of the usual time. Not in years have the growers been able to shell corn until January. The past year has been quite favorable and corn 'has been dry enough for shelling since November. There is much more corn ban is needed for the live stock pop- ulation of the county and there should be a large quantity for sale to other distributors.' Corn has been selling at rom 3'5c to 42c a bushel. O.A.C. Short Courses 'Winter short courses in Livestock and Field Crops, Poultry raising, Factory Cheese and Butter making, Beekeeping, and Drainage, started at he Ontario Agricultural College this 'eek, In February courses will be given is Fruit and Vegetable Grow- ing, Floriculture and Landscape ,Garderring, Inc Cream Making, and Farm Mechanics. There will he oth- er coarses for the month of March, Young men from Ontario farms are especially urged to attend one or more of these courses this winter. They provide a new interest in farm -ark and will give new ideas and practical instruction. Essay Winners. Winners of the essay contest con- ducted in connection with the "Fifth Junior Farmers' Trip" to the Royal Winter Fair have been announced. In addition to special pries awarded to krrhal condition of these membranes, In an acute catarrh the parts ,become engorged,with blood, the secretion Of the membrane becomes more fluid in consistency and augmented in a - 'mount, ISlhould the exciting cause be. not too prolonged the engorgement siubsides,,the secretion returns to nor- mal and the bird recovers. Unfor- tunately, • iii many instances the irri- tation is more prolonged, the secre- tion accumulating thus closing the nasal passlaes where it formerly es- caped and with .still further injury to the nte'nubranes they are broken. suit- fic'iently to pertnit the entrance oltti disease producing microbes. It can hardly be said that roupis Present until the latter c'ond'ition has developed, but in any event acute roup has its inception as a common ,cold, though in many instances the early stages of the disease are p'assed: so rap'Ldly as to pass •undetected, The sy'impttons of a cold are not very striking, but should -be watched' for as they may be evidence of an lin- pending attack of roup. When the cold is' due to some remed'ia'ble cause its correction will frequently abort the pro!balbie roup attack. !Sym"ptoins. ' ith [common colds the tissue damage is slight, and the s'ymptotns are correspon'di'ngly i11- defined, IPossibly the first noticee.ble evidence is a collection of dustBartic- des about the nostrils, he'ldsfhere by a moist condition of tla;ct parts. tater oneor both .eye rf,ay appear eatery through partpa7 ` closure of the tear ducts when lfhey fail to adequately 'carry ,away the augmented secretion. 'AFitis stage there may not be shown puny evidence of a systematic disturb- ance, the birds feeding and otherwise appearing quite normal. Usually, however, one or more individuals will tend to segregate themselves from the remaining birds in the pen,' and may be found on the roosts or huddled in the corner of the room. Coughing, sneezing, rattling in the throat and shaking of the head are other symp- toms more or less present, depending upon the parts affected. It has not been shown that colds are infectious in nature, but the con- trary holds good regarding roup. The infection in the latter disease seem ingly requires something as indicate to permit its penetration of the tis- sues and the resulting disease produc Lion. These facts form the basis a rational disease control in the .Malad- ies under consideration. The exciting cause of colds, the common forerunner of roup should be sought for and corrected. Prob- ably the most fruitful in this respec is bad hygiene and that which requen tly passes detection as such.'Draught will do more to precipitate these di- sease than. all other causes combine and should be firts eliminated when looking for the cause. Even in who is believed to be modern house'con struction there is much to be desired in this respect, and the mere fact of a plan having bee otiosely followed in construction of the house should be no deterrent in the quest for possible draughts, and especially over ehe ;birds' heads at roosting time. There are naturally other accusable factors but attention to the matter of draught alone will do much to curtail the .an- nual crop of colds and roup at this season of the year. writers of the winn'in'g essays in each county, the' Department has awarded ten . championship. prizes for the ten best essays .submi'tted. Each cham- pionship prize - consists of a two weeks' short course. at either O.A.IC. on the Kem'ptvil'le Agricultural tSch•o'ol. The purpose of the essay competition was to encourage mem- bers of the party to study and analyze the exhibits, displays, etc. during their stay" in Toronto. The winners are: Wellington, Gordon Green of A'rthu'r; Grey, Edgar Ash of C'hesley RIR. 4; ,H'ald'imand, Wm, T, Stadder, of Sel- kirk RIR. 2; Perth, Robt. 'Bawilan'tyne, of St. Pauls R.R. 2; Muskoka, Lloyd 'Stephens, Brace!firidge; Parry -Sound, Victor Irwin, Magnetagag;,. malt, RIR. 2; Repro.`4;'borne Whelan of Adatneton; Leeds, Donald' E. Turner Mald•orytown R.R. I; Dundas, James Ashton pf Newington. Experimental Union. The Ontario Experimental Union will hold its annual meeting at the Ontario Agricultural College on Jan-: nary 12 and 13, according to an- nouncement by Prof, Wm. Squirrel'', head of the Field Husbandry Depart- ment of the O.A.C., and' secretary Of the Union. The meeting will be at- tended by'farmers from all parts of Ontario awd from many points outside the province, Market For Barley in Bacon and Beef, There is practically no limit to the production of barley in Canada and recent tests show that it produces bet- ter bacon and beef than other grainsl 'It is proving fully the equal of cord when fed with suitable supplements in the form of home-grown legumin- ous rough'ages, Barley can be used in almost any proportion of the grain: ration up to one hundred per cent. As a hog feed it develops an entirely satisfactory class of bacon, which is more than can be said for corn fed in, equal proportions, and as a feed for' beef cattle barley is undoubtedly one of the best of our Canadian grown coarse grains. The increased use of barley and other coarse grains at their present low level's will make for much better quality in the beef being marketed, and this in turn will help create a demand for more beef. Potato Champion Honored. !Edmund Maurice of Simcoe Coun- ty, who won first prize for his pota- toes at the Royal Winter Fair, was recently the guest of honor at a ban- quet sponsored by the Barrie Kiwanis Club. .It was attended by nearly two hundred' townspeople and farmers, including leading federal and pro- vincial agri�cultnral officials. It is noteworthy that seven years ago the Barrie Kiwanis purchased certified seed potatoes at $5 per bag and dis- tributed them among the 'farmers of North Sinrcoe as an incentive to growing better crops. The work was prompted largely by Stewart L. Page, local Agricultural Representative,, who was instrumental in interesting; Ur. Maurice in growing Dooleys three years ago. Prof, W. J. Squitrell of O.A.C, declared that at no place or by no man has there ever been a 'better sample of potato shown than those exhibited by Mr, Maurice, Oc- casion was taken by Dr. G. I, Chris- tie, O„A.C. President, to refer to the six grown-up sons of the potato champion, who assisted him in pro- ducing the prize potatoes: "If you want to Forward agriculture, it will not he done by raising boys and send- ing them to the cities. Success can only come by keeping the boys reared on the farm and who love it, at home,” Colds and Roup in Poultry A simple or common cold in poultry may he designated as an inflamma- tion of the mucous membranes of the head and threat probably resulting from same such cause as sudden clim- atic change. !Hence it will follow the changing climatic conditions of. aut- umn will be responsible for irritation of the membranes of the upper res- piratory passages resulting in a cat pet cent. by many years 'of quiet re earch and now announces a success- ful steam power plant for nhotbrcars, airplanes and boats. The steam engine, highly efficient, is not expensive'•fo make. It lu'b.icates easily and thoroughly, since, there is 'ot the 'excessive heat in its cylinders hat occurs in the internal c;ontbus- ion ;motor, The reason it hasn't been rsed before has been poor boilers'and poor bunters. • Research on burners was first used- er'taketi and a ;s.mall : compact, unit which can retail at.5415 for the 'big bus size has been 'd'e:veloped, Then a boil- er was 'finally worked out wh'iclh, ns- ing modern tubing, can withstand tremendous heat.' Tested for 2800 pounds steam pressure, it has to beadle only 0!50 pounds :in' regular use, a large margin of safety. Tlhe. 'Mises are not "burned up" as in the old type boiler, for the heat is ap- plied at: the •top and °illy the hat gases pass down through the tubes. I A simple electric power unit takes Care of the motors, for pump and ;turner pressure and automatic relays, absolutely con'trol'led 'by the steam Pressure and water levels, make the iperation automatic. lWilth proper design this co'nibina- tion of buried, boiler and engine can be put into an airplane, and, with a slow -turn'in'g motor operating an effi- cient propeller, cut down most of the noise, since no exhaust is used. The used 'steam is condensed and put back into oiecula'ti�on again as water. 'Thus a relatively small amount of water needs to be carried. The fuel is the same crude oil used in furnaces, ,wh'ic'h brings the operation cots away down, about 60 ,per cent. below that of gasoline. Thus- the: recent years' development o'f oil burning is suc- cessfully transalted into a revival of the smoothest, most 'powerful and flexible automotive powdi plant, the steam engine. A bus weighing 9000 pounds has been operating for about !five; years with one of these plants with great success. Applied to a bus, or automobile, steam requires no 'clutch, no transmission or shifting of gears. No self starter, no ignition sys- tem. Thus the only controls are a switch (which starts the burner by an electric discharge, eliminating the old dangerous pilot light), the brakes and a throttle. All power is controlled by this single throttle. To the motorist the joy of steam pickup is best shown in the illustra tion of its power on a steep' hill. The bus can be brought to a. complete stop. Then, with' the brakes still hard on, 'holding tate bus from rolling back the throttle need merely, be moved a short distance and the bus will start right up the hill, pull'in'g against its own brakes as well as the 'hill itself. This 90'00 -pound bus at a 'traffic light can beat any regular passenger car on the getaway, leaving even the' -cockiest pleasure ',car driver with his mouth ww;u.:"open, Applied -to pes- senger cars this system is said to make them a'pabie of "climbing the side of a building." Iltf aviation the possibility of use in transport planes with the elimination of noise, vibration and fire hazard, is apparent, while the dirigible may find in steam power a smooth, quiet pow- er plant in keeping with its potential place as a luxurious air transport. d d� s r STEAM FAVORED FOR POWER. Noise, vibration, and inflammable fuel are three of aviation's chief draw- backs today. With little progress made against the first two, the latter has been attacked byy the use of Deisel motors, which burn crude oil, such as is used in furnaces, This oil is prac- tically, noninflammable, as lighted tnatcehs may be applied to it without Its catching fire, The Diesel engine for airplane work has been slow in coming, however, Airplane vibration comes from the internal combustion type of miotor. used, which with its thousands of tiny eaplos'ions naturally develops- same roughness, The noise is due to the exhaust and the whir of the propel- ler. Now a method appears which overcomes these three objections in one fell swoop. Interestingly, it is, a reversion to the earliest airplaue pow- er plant, steam. Steam power, is a series of steady pushes and pulls, instead of •intermit- tent "kicks," Thus it can be used in a motor which turns about one-third the speed of a regular airplane motor and at thi sspeed will give maximum power and smoothness. The internal co•m'bustion motor of the present-day airplane a•d'n motorcar ,must be revolv- ing very rapidly to get maximutn power. This means a propeller de- signed for this Speed and that makes the noisy type of 'propeller we hear today. rFarseeing engineers have often said that if 10 per cent of teh attention had been paid' to steam power Bevel optnent that has been paid to the;ga's- ol•ine engine, steam would be the dom- inant automotive power today. The ISteam Power ;Corporation of Ameri- ca h'as been trying to make up this 10 TRY, Gilles�pie's 'Cleaners & Dyers YOUR NEXT ORDER WITH Phone 196w. We call and deliver V. J. Gillespie, Prop:, ing room•is fitted with a library. On' the B' deck are the lavatories, a spacious 'b"athroo3n, .a kitchen , from which the meals are sent up to the d'inithg ,saloon by dumb :waiter, the of- ficers' mess and a rest room, The Patter is isolated fl'om the rest of the ship by.an air lock, 'The bridge, unlike that of the Graf Zeppelin, is separated from the pas- sengers' quarters.and lies in the front. A perisoope' permits the supervision of the stern from here. The wireless Doom ,is over the bridge. It receives its power from an electric plant driven by the . oracle oil engines,' whose warmth • is used for heating all rooms 'on b'o'ard. The new airs'hi'p will contain 200,- 000 cubic meters of gas, or almost double -the-volume of, the Graf Zep- TThe airship will carry 50 passengers. pelin, which had 105,000 cubic met- ers. iet ers, NEW AIR .MONSTER The giant Zeppelin airship soon to be built at Friedrichshafea in Ger- many will have ap entirely new fea- ture. It will be almost coanpeite'ly fill- ed with helium, but it will use hydro- gen for "ballast" Helium, being nominfiammaibte, is used to itnpart most of the lifting power. But helium is too expensive a gas to be let out when it becomes necessary to counterb'alan'ce the de- crease in fuel 'weight during flight. Therefore, small bags containing hy- drogen are to be placed inside the he- lium bags, and this inexpensive hydro- gen wi'ifibe allowed to es:cape as need - The hydrogen will thus ben insul- ated from the danger of fire by the helium;, and there ePill be no automa- tic ;pressure valves from w'hic'h gas might escape at inopportune nt.ontents under stress. In .a new American airship the bal- ance of weight is obtained by re- condensing into water ballast the ex- haust gas from the engines. The ap- paratus required' for this process, However, causes too much head re- sistance in the 'opinion of the Zeppe- lin company, and it has therefore de- vised the two -gas method. • The passenger quarters, antidsh•ip,' are spread over 'a length of 16 meters, about 52 feets. The •A deck has 26 small 'cabin's ,wnirtth two berths each. The dining saloon, having a length of 11415 meters, and a breadth of 6 me- ters, is located on the port side. An inclosed promenade deck runs pa's't the dining room with :windows, slant - at an angle of 45 degrees, perini•tting a fine view of the ground below' and the horizon: There is also 6 promen- ade deck on ;the other side. This deck also contains a drawing room and a reading and writing. room. The read - CONEY ISLA•N'D. The beach at Gorey Island --at least that part of it that your Aunt 'Hefty out in Altoona has heard about — is a .strip some two and a half miles long and half a 'block wide; a strip• of brownish -yellow sand that slips Off lackadaisically .into a .grumbling, growling sea, just as though it were glad ro get away from it all, and 'have done, which it probably is. !Here, on this narrow patch, when the weather's 'fine, all America • col- lects to take ,its weekly dip. At least, off -hand, it looks as though all Amer- ica gathered here. The statisticians will tell you different. The statisti- cians will tell you that there , are h'ard'ly ever more than 900,000 peo- ple on the be'aeh at Coney. But even 900,000 .customers are a whale \of a lot of people. Anyway, the Eagle. isn't taking any ' musty old statistician's word 'for ,it, i and so it shipped this writer down there to find out for himself; to look around, take a quick inventory, see things and 'then come back and set it all down in type,. Thus morning found us cagily lined up outside the very first bathhouse tha't looked tempting enough to line ttp in front of. There were a couple of hundred thousand people ahead of us, and twice that many behind, and they 'were all in a hurry, and hot, and perspiry and slightly out Of soot's. But they stuck. That's the part of Coney Is'land we've never been Mlle "to`-u•ndeust�'uft1:.,.-'w. � Do you want to kt ' e vhy They stay, and why they go to Is- land in first 'lace. 1 ? the fir I We aslCe a P little fellow in a No. 14 bathing suit — a bathing suit that slithered un- gracefully down around his ankles= and although he was so foreign that he even spoke dialect with a dialect, he told us all about it. He bald us that after two trips a day all summer in the packed, stuffy subway, it did a business man good to` get out into the wide open spaceA s, he said it he ungraciously removed a nearby lady's elbow from his ear, and squirmed lithely out from under a stoutish gentleman's feet. From where he was standing he couldn't s:ee any more of the ocean than we can this minute, and we've never beenn its a subway train that was any more closely packed, But he was happy The editor had told us to circulate up and down !the beach, and to make` a mental note of what we saw. Well,' in the first 'hour we had 'managed to circulate for about Pl feet, without seeing anything, and so we gave it up and found a paint of vantage on the boardwalk. And from here we saw things. IBelow us, so closely 'herded as to practically eliminate all sight of the sand, some 900,000 merrymakers,in some 900,000 variegated shades of bathing sults, were having what' we hope was the time of their 900,000 collective lives. Stout women' in modest beach wear that easily .dated back to ;the Mauve Decade, barged their way . into the surf, gat their knees wet and their shoes full of sand, and barged right back again. Skinny llietde men with large tum-. pies and rented shits made heroic efforts to keep body and soul and unclh and the baby's pail together,,, While swarthy, greasylhaired s'hei'ks played 'leapfrog in quarters where even -tiddle-de-winks would have been :an effort, White -coated pests elbowed through the surging_ mob .with Eskimo pies and hot dogs, and no change 'for a quarter, while the sharp, uneven Falsetto roar o:f nearly a ;million' people literally drowned oht tiie surge of the sea, 'Want and For Sale 'Ads, 1 time 25e.