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The Seaforth News, 1932-04-07, Page 3THURSDAY, ,APR'IIL 7, 1932. THE $EAFORTH NEWS. +®r,p,!azm::erea�•n-&'d�n,w ,max PAGE TH'RE'E a .. WeCanRender n strength and nunilhets; only the and to make up the balance could Services most .iiplfortunete• social conditions 'gland over $1.40 in cash: In the time of need PROTECTION is your best 'friend. Life Insurance -To .profectyour LOVED ONES. Auto Insurance - To protect you against LIABILITY 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, If interested, call or write, E. C. CHAL BERLA'IN INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 334 Seaforth, Ont. IW'.ARINS AGA;I'N!ST "HUMBUG" Ex'tremis'ts have ,done real barna to the cause of temperance, declared 7. M. Ilicld, ,Il3 A., Ph.D., of G'oderich, in chid presidential address to the Supervising- and Training Section of the 'Ontario EducationalAssociation which met in annual convention least week. He pleaded that children' should be taught merely that excess in all things, even eating and sleeping, was harmful: ' IHe •believed there was nothing to be gained by telling' chid'- dren 'that orre sip of 'wine would lead them to al drunkard's grave; "nor will boys andgirls be .'hwm- ]bugged into believing, that it its wic'k- ed' to smoke Icigareftes or .that it we'll :poison their syaltems until their 'health is ruined and their 'minds w•eakened," 'D'r. Field said. ,Dr. ,Field 'Said he 'believed paren- tal control had slackened but it had given place to comradeship and un- derstanding. As a result, lie said, "children are becoming better and better ,behaved. There is less profan- ity, less qu:arelling and lfi'ghting, less lying and bullying and meanness than in. , the past." " Excess in smoking !for instance, Dr. Field said, would unquestionably work havoc with nervous systems, and he declared that s'making should not be tolerated in youths •under six- teen. " Bult girl's and their mothers 'sm'oke nowadays. I cannot say I like to see it done. But they do not chew guns naw. .We must take .our choice;" he said. Dr, Field' defen'de'd the new type of youth which, he said, had been 1condemned'because it was theugh't to have run riot. "'But with 'greater freedom, particularly of the girl's, we have begun to admire the greater zest in life that better heaItli of both body and mind, that frankness and independence which have been . its outgrowth," he said. These new social conditions creat- ed newproblemsfor the education- ist, and altered economic conditions, made necessary more, emphasis on patriotic teaching, Dr. Field said. "Only in cities of large foreign - born population do echoes of Com- munism reach our ears," he said. . *a -.:"But hunger and unemployment make rti •men desperate. Our sc'h'ools- should teachthat the real !function o'f gov- ernmen't is to aid in the prosperity and 'happiness of the people. It is im- probable, however, in this : 'country where education ,among the youth is So widely diffused, the laws so well ad'minis'tered and the government' so stable, that Communism should .,gain -r' could bring it about." 'Emphasizin'g the necessity for the development of children's s'o'cial' in- stuncts, Dr. Field suggested that Bpy 'Scout and Cadet organizations aided in tliiis, field 'I't is nonsense to s'h'out that these inspire a military spirit," be said. ,"there' are those who would tear out frown our histories and lit- erature the stories of chivalry and volden .deeds." Dec'larhng that religion, because of its moral and, spiritual' inlfluen'ce, could not be left out of the schools, Dr. Fie'l'd placed on the clergy an'si ministers themselves The 'b'lam'e for ithe'fac't that religious teaching was not .inure exiten'd•ed' in the schools. "They would place the responsibility an the telao'herle and: be 'left free the'ins'elves to criticize the 'results," he said. "The regulation's permit min- isters to give religious instruction, in schools, 'but they se'ld'om or never take advantage o'f t'he privilege." 'Although Dr. Field admitted' that rigid parental' ,control had slackened, 'he said it had given p'l'ace to ,com- radech'ip and 'understanding. As a result,' he said, "children are becoin- ling better and !better behaved. There is less :profanity, less quarreling and fighting, less. lying and bullying and .meanness than iv the past. ;High ;board fences used. to separate the 'boys' and.girl's' ,playgrounds. Naw they' would excite ridicule and won- derment:" IDr. Field declared' his opin"io'n that education of chi'l'dren in the 'facts of sex should not be left to chance. "Prudery' and false modesty 'opp'ose any men'timn of it," he said. "It can- not 'for many reasons be left to teach- ers and itinerant social workers. The school nurse and the medical officer -o 'health are at present the logical mean's of instruction." THE FARMER AND THE CALF HIDE !Writing to an 'Ontario, weekly, a correspon,dent 'has the following fn- teresting inifio'rm'ation ;to otlere "A short time agoa harmer carie into the store where I am employed, briniging a Calf hide. ,After looking up the market on 'hides I Found the hest'I could offer him was four cents per pound. The hide weighed 123, pound; wihich, at four cents, equals 51 cents, and in exc'hange he bo'o'k one pair of -shoe laces at 20 cents, one package of puffed wheat at 16 cent's, and one package of ,health bran at 15 cents. "After the Men 'left :The store' I' 'began to compare the values of these articles. The laces were the sort used for lacing long boots, and were cut from caenanon everyday calf- skin. 10a alf-skin.1Orr weighing these: I Found there were 24 to the pound at 20 cents 'per pair, making the cost $4.80 per pound. As leather - gain's' five per cent, in 't'anning, : the hide would weigh about 11/ 'lbs, when; finished and would 'be worth ';about 573.60 When cut into !laces, So if the farmer wished to buy his same calf hide tanned and cut into laces' he would need to bring in, 80 calf hides at 50 cents, plus 60 sheep skins at 40 cents, plus 20 'tenth keens at 25 cesits, plus 180 ;pounds Of wool•at 8 cents, "The package of puffed w'he'at was marked "4 ozs: net" or four, cents per ounce, or 1614 cents.:!peri'pound or 133111.40 per bushel. "Now if the same farmer wished to take home a'bushe'l of wheat con- verted into puffed wheat ('which is common ordinary everyday wheat put through a vacuum gull, whi'c'h does not .add' one vitamin or 'snake it one particle richer in food !value) liewould have to bring ' :n 40 bush- els of wheat at 74 cents, plus 20 bushel's of barley at '32, cents!' and would ' only have to pay $2.40' in "The package of bran was. marked' "14' ;oz. nest" or about one cent Der ounce, or P6 ce'nt's ,per popnal, or'$16'. 'per hund'redweigh't. "Now ?f this same :fa'r'mer wished to bake home a bag o'f com'mOn din'ary everyday bran put up in cardlbaard boxes he .world need to bring in 12 dozen eggs at 30 cents Per ;dozen, plus .15 pounds of butter at 30 cents, plus five bags o'f potatoes at $1, and would only be required to borrow .50 cents from 'his wife to pay the balance. 'The farrier has no idea +haw valuable 'his products ere until they are .powdered 'and Painted and re- turned to hint in' the latest style dress and coat." * * * * at * * * * * * * NEWS AND INFORMATION * * FOR THE BUSY FARMER * * '(Furnished by Ontario Depart--* ment of Agriculture.), • * * *' * * * * * * * * * Co -;Operative 'Experiments With Field Crops. ;Goad seed is one of the chief .founclation stones in successful agri- culture, " Experiments •conducted at 0. IA. C. for more than half a century in test- ing different varieties of field ' crops and seed selections of these crops have emph'as'ized the importance of sowing only the beast seed of the best, varieties and those adapted'• to the farmer's particular locality. The Agricultural and lExperimen- tal '[Inion .will once more :distribute into every towns'h'ip and county of Ontario, free of charge to farmers who snake application, selected .seed of the best varieties accordingto the Ifollawing list: !1. Testing three varieties of oats. 2. Testing two varieties of :'six rowed barley, including one with smooth awns. 3. Testing two varieties of Maness barley, 4. -Testing two varieties o'f spring wheat. 5. Testing two varieties of •buck- w'heat. 6. 'Testing two varieties of field peas. 7. ' Testing two varieties of spring 8. Testing three varieties of soy beans. .9 ITesting seven varie'tnes of flint and deist husking corn, 10. tTes'ting three varieties of mange's. 411. Testing two varieties of., sugar mangels. 1112. ',Testing three varieties of swede turnips. Ch ck We Are Selling Quality Books Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. All styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back, Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. Get our Quotation on Your Next Order. The Seaforth SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. News -4012 Great ships which ' go to sea make doubly sure by carrying two anchors. If one should not hold in an emergency, there is another available to take its place. In their personal finances, many men rely chiefly on the one anchor of their regular earnings. But the wiser ones prepare for - "At Is st to trust t ,,. o '>fb �tr � v.: a c 'jj rs - Latin, Proverb. an emergency by creating a second anchor a Savings Reserve. Come what may, you will have security and peace of mind if you have built up a strong Savings Account. Start now - deposit regularly a pro- portion of your income so that you may, week by week, develop a secondary safeguard. Seventeen Branches in Ontario, PROVINCE OF �ERIOA� AViNGS OFFICE EVERY DEPOS/T S✓ARII NJ, „QED BYONTARIOCOVERNMENT PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS J. M. MOMLLLAN, MANAGER HEAD OFFICE SEAFORTH BRANCH 13. Testing two varieties of fall turnips. 14. 'Te'sting two varieties of field carrots. 115, 'Testing field corn and soy- beans grown separately and in com- bination. 116. 'Testing Sudan grass and two varieties of millet. 17. 'Testing sunflower, sorghum and corn for fodder. 18.' Testing grass peas,. vetches and soybean's. 19. ;Testing rape, kale and field ,cabbage 20. Testing three types of biennial sweet clover Z. 'Testing two varieties of al- lallfa, 22. Testing sweetcorn for ' table use from different dates of planting. 23. Testing three varieties of field beans. Each applicant must make a second ,choice irndxat•ing the numberop- posite the experiment •in case the first cannot be granted. . Applications for this co-oiperative material shou'l'd be ad•dressed, to W. J. Squirrel, 0. A. 'College, IGuelph. Ont. Sow Thistle Decreasing., At the annual convention o'f Kent County Weed Inspectors•, held recent- ly at Chatham, several delegates re- ported sow thistle to he decreasing vn exlten't, "according to A. 'H. 'Martin, assistant director, Crops ,and, • Mar - 'kers Branch. Provincial Depart- ment of Agriculture, Thomas Skin- ner, , weed inspector for Camden 'Township, reported a 30 per cent. de- crease of sow thistle in one year. Mr. Skinnier says that this successful bat- tle against sow thistle was brought about by . the whole -hearted co- operation of the farmers and road superintendents with the weed in- spector. !Control measures' in. Kent County, on small patches, con'sist of spraying with chemicals. IWih'ere sow thistle ,bras spread ex- tensively, "early after 'har'ves't cul'ti nation" -or `summer fallowing" is practised. A shoat ro't'ation, including one'Specialized crap such as tobacco, sugar beets, or some other hoed crop, is very effective in , Checking all weeds, including solve thistle. Care of Baby. Chicks. `Proper care, and management is eslsenitial to the successful raising of :baby chicks. , They should -have a generous supply of pure 'water al- ways available. Drinking vessels Har- bor germs anid often the water will become conitabn'inated and may spread diseas'e through the entire flock. Then .there is the danger of some infected chocks in every Hatch, cl'an'ger o'f diarrhoea in some fern or other loose bowel;'..and initelstinlab trouble. ' Don't permit a few chicles to infect your entire flack. March Weather. The valtue o'f snow in protecting crops and providing a reserve of, mois- ture for the spring land' suman en 15 recognized' this year as never 'beifone. 'The entire province enjoyed open weather until the first Of March so open in fact that it roused apprehen- sion as to the effect on certain crops. /Reports were received from a num- ber of agricultural representatives not.. ing that da'm'age was being drone to clover and fall wheat, . Then carne a heavy, snowfall, ,providing the most desirable kind of blanket against sun, wind and frost. Growth can- not be expected for several weeks add in the meantime it is desirable that roots be protected. While ffuit tree buds may suffer to some extent from the law temperature, ,any loses of this nature is likely to be balanced by -the killing of insects that are stirred into too early .activity., Several species, among them the San Jose Scale, have increased in numbers with the recent mild winter. N'ature's method of control is a near zero weather such as March supplied. WHY BOOK ;SALES DECREASE 'In searching 'to ascertain what has gone wrong with 'the book .industry do t'he United States, C. H. ,Cheney, who was engaged by the National Associa- tion .of 'ssociation-.of iBook Publishers 'to make a survey, being his report ,with an at- tack upon the educational p'roces'ses which create new readens, bothyoung and old, and charges 'that these pro- cesses "are weakened ata number of danger poin'ts." 'Finding, first, that English courses 'take up from .16 to 20 percent. of a high school student's time, and that between 95 and 90 per cent. of all students are: enrolled in English courses, the report then dis- covens facts which lead it to believe that because of inadequate and im- proper method's of instruction -'three- quarteers of all students leave school "with a resentment against books in. general ;and literature in particular." Next it .finds that there is a break between school or 'college :and life it general during which mostpeoplelose whatever liking for reading they may 'have acquired, and which they never fully realize again, Tirafming -for rap- id reading, neglected by the educators, results in the complaint of Jack of time for 'reading so often 'heard. This, coupled with so many "difficultly" ,wchitten books, ''discourage thousands of potential, 'readers whose trade might be cultivated, Libraries which, 'encep't in the more: advanced centres, fail because of lack of intelligent interest or of funds to foster this interest ,in encouraging readers, are a contributory 'factorto the national dislike for books. 'Ent the ,advance of adult education helps to offset this situation. 'One of the biggest agencies : ,o'f harm is found in •that median, which most people had supposed was one of the most important aids to the en- couraging o'f reading -the newspap- ers. A large proportion of the critical writing is, bright, shrewd and often scholarly but it is -,written for the authors, publishers and oilier critics - and the occasional' book lover. The whole principle of these sections, pages, and columns seems to 'be to doom' ,the .book to a small circle of the elite." The radio, automobile and movie are not the 'comp'etitors of, bo'o'ks :that many ardent` folk believe, or say they Exeter, Ont,' do, ,when they talk •cif the good old days when people took time to read. "To nay that an individual would be reading a book if he weren't Listening to the radio or playing contract bridge is to glorify an 'if' beyond our present knowledge of .psychology and.' statistics," says the report. Time, .space, money and taste, ra- ther than opposing diversions, are the real enemies of reading. The compe- tition really is more a problem of ec- ,onolmics :t'han a cultural one. The lack of time at a period ,when our phil- osophers 'are talking sof the growth cif leisure perhaps is blamable most up- on the educational system, Which does not train far rapid reading as a pleas- ur'able necessity, The lack of space is an economic factor that is worry- ing all 'interested in social advance- ment in an era o8 apartments and small •homes. The lack of money is. something no. one can do anything ab'aut. The lack of taste cannot be changed overnight, but the report .de- clares that ;there is no evidence that the standards of reading tastes or dr the books published are either, rising or declining.. Blood Tested Chicks Hatchery and flocks are both -in- spected under the Dominion Depart - Ment of Agriculture's Hatchery Ap- proval policy, The testing .of the Wood samples was done by Capital Laboratories, Ottawa. The ,bred -to - lay -qualities of our birds are kept -up- to-date by the purchase of male birds from high record R.O.T. hens owned by some of t'he most successful breed- ers in the country. Weexpect to hatch about 1500 Barred Rocks, 250 White Rocks anti 500 Leghorns per week. Please order aboutone month before you want the chicks if you can. Don't think too much about price; we will use you right. Come and see us, or phone 97 r 4, Hensel!. We will be glad to talk things over with you, Feed, stoves, and other supplies kept on hand. J. ELGIN McKINLEY, ZURICH BABY CHICKS AND CUSTOM HA'TCHIN:G ,We are offering six popular breeds in Blood -'tested 'Qual- ity Baby Chicks, Barred and White Rocks, Black iVlinorcas' ' Jersey Black Giant, White Wyand'o'ttes and White Leg - horns. We have installed a new 30,000 egg capacity incubator for custom : hatching onnly. Trays hold eleven dozen eggs each. :Plant in 'charge of an experienced operator. Phone or write your ,reservation early. THE ,Ii1OGA'RTH BABY CHICK HATCHERY Phone 184W ,