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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1932-06-02, Page 2'tf!I,GZ TWO, HURON NEWS, Died at Detrolt.—lin the death of 'Mrs. Ed, 'Rupp, White Lake; Detroit tirinity, there passedaway a former :Zuridh resident, in +her 4117lth year, Mrs. TEL Rupp was horn in II -ay township, athe lazily daughter of •the late 'Bartho.l ,,ernew •Ho»^aild and spent most of her lith co:A on a {aril,` t'w'o and a'lull@ mules west of Zurich. 10 11904 she was. ,married to Edward 'Rupp, also a Zur =itch boy, in Eliot, 'Mich..' She leaves 'to -mourn her loss her husband, ; one •idangliter, - a grandson and also 'four •1>rnrlters: 1Fred Howeltl of 'Chath'am, Edmund of Exeter; 'Theodore, -of. Cleveland; and the Rev. F. 1Howald e f Elmwood. Awarded 'Mail Route.—Mr. 'Wil'l'iam -Thiel of Zurich has been awarded the .-eoi hoct of carrying- ' "the .mail on route .a, out of Zurich, with duties cotta- :imen'cing in 'July. 'This route was for- tanerly under contract with Mr. P. `,tRtuslle Who has since removed to 'll3rand'lBend. Since that time 'Norman 0:Sasc'ho has 'been the carrier. Leaves $50,000 Estate, --The will of t„tle, trate Samuel Sloan Cooper, former :maayor of Clinton and proprietor of -d:he, Normandie and Ratten'bury • tiels, who died on April 5th last, has been filed for probate by The Canada 'Trust Company and .Alex. 'J. Cooper, a,cxiier-vch, 'a brother, who are named r.exectetors and trustees. Mr. Cooper was known far and wide to the travel- 'ling ,Public who patronized his hotels .ger nanny years. The estate, valued at :approximately $50,000 consists of real •.estate in Clinton to the extent of $'45,- _231t and personal estate of $4430. Un - ,der the will a daughter, Mrs. Beryl ,Ladd, Monrovia, California and Miss Elizaabeth Hannah, 1Glintan, sister-in- law of i14r. Cooper receive a life int - ',crest. Upon their death, the estate :Masses to Mr. Cooper's brothers and -sisters, the majority of whom are resi- dent in the !British Isles. THE SEAFORTH. NEWS. .'Expensive Gasoline.—Elmer Moore .of Aahl9iedd township helped himself to 3'2 gallons of the county's gasoline. iHe siphoned it ,from a can stored with .the county grader at. Carlow. Elmer .-antust pay for the gas and $10.70 fine :lard court costs besides or serve 'three .zrzoniths. He paid. The wheel marks of .his truck were evidence. _First Lady Druggist. --„Miss 'Isabel Maines, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 1Percy Raines of Goderich, who has passed her final year and secured her •degree in pharmacy in Toronto, serv- ed her apprenticeship with Mr. James Campbell and is 'Goderich's first lady -druggist. 'Ordination at London,—!Seven gra- •duates of ;Huron College were ordain- ed priests and six others as deacons by Rt. Rev. Charles A. Seager in St. Paul's Cathedral •last Saturday. They were: Rev' T. J. Finlay, London; Rev, ,A- H. Harrison, Cargill; Rev. Wil- liam Hall, Dungannon; Rev. J. H. Jsines, Berlin; Rev, Walter Fry, .St. Thomas; Rev. J. R. Thompson, Clin- ton, and ;Rev. Willard Rorke. Alvins- fon..Those.ntade deacons were A, L. ;_lrtanly, London; R, 'S. Skinner, Lon - J. E. Merrick, Windsor; J. Bil- liarglsy, St. Thomas; M. H, Elston, 1L'omdon, and F. W. ;}avis, Toronto. ,Ordinations were conducted at St. Pe-. : ter's Cathedral, Saturday by Bishop john T. Kidd, Those who were ordain - ,ed d .to the priesthood •were: For Lon - .Ion diocese, Rev. 'Fathers Joseph Fieeney of Dublin, Ont.; Orville. !iDhanbonneau of .Painscourt; Michael :Dalton, of 'Kingsbridge; Charles 'Mc- Nabb of Windsor; Peter (Boudreau of 5i Peter's, 'Prairie Siding, New Bakery. --2A store in Brussels as at present being fitted up to make •:, new .bakery which will be opened up in the near future t. 'Death of John Weston. --:As the re- edit of a stroke the previous week, ;Mr. ',John Weston died' at Goderich on Sunday last in his 86th year. He ,had the first stroke a year ago 'last buttery. Mr. Weston was born in d tGdderich township, a son of the late l-s'nrge and Ellen Weston. After i'ar:r ing 'in Goderich township for a number of years he mowed to North faal.ota, where he spent some years' afterwards coming hack to Canada and planting the orchard know,, as the Sloan orchard in Gaderich town - He was married three times, • ifiraa to Mary Nicholson, of Goderich to'wnship; then to Rachael Woods of •Dutferin county and lastly to Sarah 'M.cNeilty, of Goderich township, uho survives, with a family of nine•chil- .rlreu as +'Follows; George 'Weston, of 'Winnipeg; Alex. Weston, of Go.der- 'r'ch• township; Clifford Weston, of De- etreiit; :Mrs, Denomy, of Stanley town - elfin; '91sfrs.`Harvey, ,of Detroit; 'Mrs. Cruttenden, of Buffalo; 31rs. Johnston .of Cooksltown; -.Benson, and Fred of 'De'troi't. After selling the orchard ;rzairina'-,in Goderich township :,to the "date Captain. Sloan in 1907 Mr. Wes- -,, 'top moved to Goderich, which had snrce been his home, though he usual- ly spen,t.h'is summers with his s'o'n in the towns:hi,p. Mr. Weston is. survived fly two bnathers Iticjt_ard sand Harry, nnjv€rS 0� Sib For 40 years SALADA has given the finest totality in tea. Present prices are the lowest in 15 years.:. of B'aylfield. 'The funeral •service on 'Tuesday was conducted by Rev. W. T. Bunt and the 'pallbearers were. four sons, Alex., Clifford, Benson and ,Fred, a sou -in-law, Mr. A. W. Crut- tenden, and a grandson, Robert Wes- ton. With the .exce'ption of George 'Vestoai of Winnipeg and Mrs. John- ston of 'Cooks'to in, the family were all home for the funeral. PETROLSA IS HOME OF GREAT OIL DRILLERS Most of the great oil chillers of the world have been Petrolia' men. To Petrolia they return to the elft of the earth. To keep alive the fame of their exploits both at home add in foreign fields, to provide a ,common meeting 'place where news of drillers in all parts of the world may .be exchanged, and to promatA the skill 'of Canadian .driliers, there has recently been form- ed a body called The Canadian Drill- ers' Association. The headquarters of the new association will be the famous "little red' bank" of ,Petrone., This was the home of the first oil exchange in Petrolia, and only closed its doors in 1924 after 55 years of service. The branch was established by Leon- ard Vaughn and Jahn E. Fairbank, says a writer in Imperial Oil Review. One of the aims of this association, according to this writer, is. the col- lection and preservation of the stories of Petrolia and Petrolia drillers, He writes that Sherman C. Swift, of To- ronto, is one of those who has kept im touch with their goings and comings, !Born in Petrolia, a nephew of Leon- ard Vaughn, his memories go hack to the days when every backyard in Pet- rolia was a training ground for pot- ential oil drillers. It was in one of these. 'boyish experiments that he re- ceived the injury that destroyed his sight and barred him from fulfilling his ambition to be a driller. He has devoted his life to building up Braille libraries far sightless Canadians, and is now chief librarian for the Canad- fan National Institute for the Blind. The Imperial Oil Review continues: !Sherman Swift has never lost his enthusiasm for oil nor his interest in oil men. Out of a well -stored memory he recalls tales of the old days and of the new times. "Petrolia is really quite a famous town." Mr. Swift was speaking of lois home. "Yes, the little red bank on !the hill, I know it. My uncle, Leonard Vaughan and John 47airbank started that bank. Vaughn, a Pennsylvania American, was the first man in Canada to. use modern means of drilling for oil. In 1859 the discovery of the Drake well near Ti- tusville, Pennsylvania, gave rise to an oil-producing generation. Vaughn got interested in oil because his home was on the outskirts of this first oil well in the United ;States. T.he greater in- terest of the find in Ontario, just at the beginning of the Civil \'s a,r when oil was forgotten in Pennsylvania, turned Vaughn's eyes to Canada, and he settled in Oil Springs. When he cane over, the wells were being drill- ed by the springboard m'e'thod—old, slow, tedious. Vaughn developed the method of drilling with steam instead of foot power, Ie 1863 ail was dis- covered in Petrolia. A few years later Vaughn moved to Petrolia, and here, in 1870, he deserted oil for the bank- ing business, 'From 1363 Petrolia has been a po- wer in the oil world. Just as soon as a new industry starts," Mr. Swift con- tinued, "you have to breed a genera- tiara of experts. Petrolia has given birth to a race of oil drillers and for solme reason or other, because of their intelligence, their, ability to cope with any situation Petrolia drillers have become famous. As a boy, I remember every month, yet, everyweek, parties of men anywhere from one to five and six going away to all parts of the world to Italy, 'Borneo, Sumatra; Gal- 'icia. And now an the streets of that little town when two people meet, it is, 'Oh, hello.! Black,; eh? Where are you going ne,et?' 'Oh, I don't kion-,, perhaps to the Dutch East. Indies,' or. 'Off to Burma today!' The result of this is that today ,there is scarcely a class in any of the, sdh:oola of.Petrolia iu which one child, or more has. not been abroad,' or wh'ose.people are not in some foreign oil fikid. '.Itc i a .,.. a cosmopolitan, world e efyinukipg' Petrbl'ia, not ooanln5'on to a tows, cif" ifs "IH l'sRS'DiAY, JUNE 2, 1932. 1?r, Swift recounted stories of `the early eighties. Several IPe'trolia drillers went to Ptaly. Arnrong`them were two brothers, Neil and Duncan Sinel'air, In those days it was thought that Italy had a large field, hut it turned out that there was . not enough to make development worth while. Dun- can came back, bat Neil stayed, mov- ed to 'Austria, and for 20 years v1Us in charge of a .large lumbering business 'belonging to am Austrian nobleman, He came back to Petrone alter 25 years and died there." Coining to the clays of the , w'ar, Mr. Swift spoke of duo other broth- ers: "Charles and Edlward" Wallen went out From Petrolia. Charles is dead. Edward is living in England. These boys went to Russia and both learned to speak, read and write the language. Edward married 'a Russian and when the revolution broke out he had to leave the ail fields. I under- stand he is 'now looking after the Russian oil interests in London. Charles was a refinery.mlanager at the time of the Bolshevik uprising. He was at the works one morning. His wife, an Oil Springs girl, was at home, when suddenly someone rushed into the house and said that the Bol- sheviks were coating to murder and burn. All she had time to do was to pick up her children, all,the money in the house and Ia heavy fur coat arid get away, with no time' to get word. to her hus!lsand. In the meantime Wel- len got the news, rushed Thome and found his house in ruins. He went to took for his wife and finally caught tip to her, and for Weeks and weeks, half. starved, they hid by clay. and sneaked by night, between the line's of the Bolshevik army and the army of the whi'te"1Rbssians, Thus they made the whole journey from Baku, in South- ern Russia, to Smolensk in Northern Russia. "Wheh they got to Smolensk, where the British and Fre:1th expedi- tionary forces to Russia were station- ed at the time, they went to the docks where they found a British officer, Wallen accosted 'him and they dis- covered that they were old friends who had .last ,net in South Africa dur- ing the Boer War. "Their youngest child, a baby, was starving, Mrs. Wallen had seen a loaf of white 'bread in a baker's window cid had offered all the ,money she had for it, but the baker was a Bolshevik and refused to sell it to her. The of- ficer signaled a British cruiser an- chored in the hadbor and the ship's surgeon cane ashore. 'He examined the baby, found that it was dying for lack of food, and had the ship's stew- ard send out the necessary provisions, They finally landed 'in England in the summer, the mother clad in the fur coat and what was left of the few clothes snatched at the beginning of the flight," 'Another friend spent 20 years in the Dutch East' Indies, He was one of the .producing managers of the Batav- ian Petroleum Company. During the war, the , Japanese tank '' steamers, ,When. they are empty, are bow down and stern up, The land tanks were on top of a hill and a six-inch pipe line carried the ail to ,the tankers.' From the tap of the hill he would watch' them loading wird he never got tired of w,for the stern to go down and the ship to level' up, "He had been kind to the Malays, giving 'thein supplies. ,He spoke their tongue and got along wi•tla\tht°'n well, as did all the white people, The 'Mal- ays 'here Were Mohammedans and bore no grudge against the Whites, yet one night When he was going down the street a police comnt'ieSiofler called him into a house and' 'showed him a h.u:ge collection of all kinds of Weapons, 'smuggled In. The intention was to murder every white man andwoanran. The enemies of the Allies had spread- propaganda ,and aroused the religious, fanaticism of the natives. That night a ' native crawled up through the floorof his biingaio'w and stabbed him as he slept. IReguisite oat the Farm --!Every far- mer and stook -raiser should keep a supply of Dr. 'Thomas' Eelectri'c Oil on hand, not only as a ready remedy for ills 111 the family, ' but becatt§e it is a Norse aid ,cattle medicine of great potency. As a su'hsbitute far Sweet oil' for 'horse's and cattle' affected by colic 'f't' far,. Surpasses anythingi.:that can he adminiisttered, SAYING ERII It:TREES. PRAGTIOALINSTRIIQTLONS ABOUT. A VERY NECESSARY W()Blt., 'Have a Good,,'Oitilt-Spray as the CalCeidar Tells You—Spray .Right Through' t lee ','rens—Beep Tank,' Pump and Nozzles Clean, ( con tr' bated bet onto lee Department oS 1. Do not spray, at, all unless you are going to try to do it well. - It will n'ot pay: 2' You cannot make a success of apple growing withou`tgood spraying. 3. You cannot spray well without a good outet which will give you plenty of pressure, 'So overhaul'' the old spray machine at once, or if it is not satisfactory buy ajnew one 'with plenty of power, ' 4. Get a spray calendar from your Agricultural Representative, or from Mr. P. W. Hodgetts,, Director Fruit Branch,•.Toronto, or Prof. L. Caesar, O. A. College, Guelph. Tack it • up, in the spray shed where it will al- ways be available. 6. Use only the spray materials recommended in the spray calendar. 6. Do not spray when it happens to be convenient, but spray at the times the spray calendar says. The time of spraying is of vast import- ance and the times given in the spray calendar are based on years- of study,. 7. Omit none .of the -first three regular sprays, some years the first is the most important, some the se- cond and some the third. Each spray helps to make the next more effective and each must be given to insure clean fruit.'. 8. McIntosh and Snow trees should always receive- a fourth appli- cation. Read what the spray tales- dar recommends under "Extra sprays; and remarks" and be guided by it. 9. You will not .control San Jose scale on large trees, twenty-five years old or more, unless you first` prune them heavily and scrape the loose bark off with a hoe. Then see that every particle of the bark is wet with the liquid; a mere mist or a light spray will not kill the insect. Use lime sulphur 1 to 7.00 water, prefer • ably just as the buds are bursting. 10. For scab and " codling moth cover both sides of every fruit and also cover every 'leaf. Scab attacks the leaves, too, and is often washed from them to the fruit. it will re- quire from '7 to 13 gallons for each tree twenty-five years old or upwards, not just 2 or 3 gallons. 11. Be sure the spray reaches right through the trees. To insure this go in, if necessary, underneath the tree and spray the part beyond the trunk first, then step back to the outside and spray the remaining pant. Do this from both sides. Remember that it is the centre or shaded part of the tree where scab naturally is worst and poor sprayers nearly al- ways miss this side though they often cover the sunny or muter side all right. 12. A tower, even with a spray gun, is a great help. Often it will suffice to stand on the tank: A rail- ing or support on it removes the dan- ger of falling. 13. Do not use large openings in the discs of either nozzles or spray guns unless you have 225, founds pressure or more. They are wasteful, make it difficult to maintain' hlgh pressure, and give too coarse a spray. 14. In many cases better work will be done with a rod and three angle disc nozzles than with a gun. In any case use some system in spraying so that you will make sure everything is being covered in a methoiiical way. 15. Have a bandy place to fill the tank. Ten minutes should be long enough for any tank. 16. Do not stop spraying because rain threatens. Go right on until the rain has well begun. It is rain and moisture which cause scab outbreaks. 17. Do not stick to an eight or ten hour day when spraying, but make every effort to get it done as noon as possible without sacrificing .thor- oughness. If, the second spray is not finished before the blossoms open, omit the poison and go on until it is finished. 18. Wash out the tank and pump clean water through the machine and nozzles at the close of each day. 19. Remember spraying gives healthy foliage and is a great factor in producing annual crops as well as giving clean fruit. Even trees that' are not bearing should be sprayed to keep them healthy. 20, Get a new spray calendar each year. 21. When in difficulty consult your Agricultural Representative or write to Prof, L. 'Caesar, 0. A. College, Guelph, or, W. A. Ross, Vineland.— L. Caesar, O. A. College, Guelph, Farm Notes. • Improved breeding ls urgently needed In dairy herds. Most dairy- men feed and house their cattle 'in a manner that is worthy of much better cattle than they are nneping. Effi- cient cows, efficiently fed ane housed, are the dairyman's economic salva- tion. The most successful dairymen are breeders and improvers of dairy cattle. • While silage is an excellent feed for dairy stock, it should be combined with some leguminous' feed, such as clover, cowpeas; or alfalfa, owing to its insufficient productive 'e,_ality. The leguminous material will tend to .correct the deficiencies of the silage in dry matter, protein,, and mineral constituents. The dairyman's motto is; "Produc- tion first"; and every cow, Pure-bred or grade, must produce and keep art, because we can't afford to keep her. This is one reasonwhy some pore• bred breeders shun cow testing aeso ciations. They are,'afraid of their records; afraid' some' of their" cows ire not paying tor their feed or afraid some' grad's;' cow wll1'atop too; full 8 r them. ' . *. NEWS ,AND INFORMATION' * * FOR THE BUSY FARMER * *: ('Furnished ,by Ontarco Depart * ment of Agriculture.)': * Noxious Weeds, °: Mr. J., A. Carroll, director of the ,Crops and Markets Bratuc'h, ;leas coni- piled an interesting summary' of pro- vision's of: the Weed Control A'ct, including ;a" list of the `weeds which', aredeemed noxious: Bladder Cam pion, Ox -eye Daisy, So'w 'Thistles,' White Cockle, Wald' , Oats Canada, Thistle, Biltte Weed,; Chicory. Docks, ;R'agw'eed, Rsbgrass, Stinkweed, Tam - 'piing Mustard, Wild Carrot, 'Bur- docks, Wild Lettuces, Sweet Clover as Manure. During „recent years many farmers ;have been:grewing sweet ,clover itn ro tation with potatoes. A,full crop,' of. sweet clover plolw'ed under may be considered; worth as ,finch as 35 to 30 ton's of barnyard manure. Where' farmers have plenty of inahure avail- able it may not be desirable to grow sweet:c'ove'r for the purpose of plow- ' tg ' it down, but where the manure 'supply is,ilimited it. has ,been profit- able to follow the a'bove'plan of ac- tion. The most essential precautions to be observed in. growing sweet clov- er are to tivake` sure that the soil- is got acid, think it is well enough drain- ed to prevent ,heaving and that the seed is : inoculated. Prof. 5. Eaton Howitt, head of the Botany Department, O,AiC., has prepared a booklet which delves thor- oughly into the various types of weeds found in Ontario. It is well illustrated and gives a vast amount of informa- tion. Trap the Borer. The suggestion lias .beet, advanc- ed that a trap crop of corn consist- ing of about half a dozen rows of early sown rapid growing 'corn, if put in •as early as the ground is fit, will in most years Lessen the amount of injury done the main crop by corn borer, if the main crop is sown a few days later than the ideal date. The trap crop should be cut low about the end of the first week in, August, when all borer eggs ,have• been laid and should be removed and fed to live s'to'ck, A greatly increased demand for fer- tilizers for the'1932 crap season is reported, much of the ;business being done on a credit sales basis, Thus it is apparent that the D'epartment's policy of promoting the use of fertilizers is bearing fruit. The use of fertilizers in farming has passed the experimental 'stage in Ontario and thousands' of farmers are 'finding them a practical aid in reducing the cost of product - tion through increasing soil efficiency, (When used 'judiciously, they increase yield and improve quality of crops, adding materially to the cash value of production from a'given area. It has 'become increasingly important today for a fair measure of ,success that the ,farmer make use of every possible ,opportunity to lower his costs of production. The right use of fertilizers suited to particular crops provides one important opportunity. Reducing Crop Costs. The ewer present problem with the farther is 'how to reduce crop costs. This can be done in two obvious ways: first, producing at the same costs; and second, producing the. same at a lower 'cost. Perhaps the most ,important method of reducing'the • cost of producing 'crops is to ,increase the yield. Moat of the items in'curred is the cost of producing craps are the same, whe- ther the crop is large or stnallk no that every effort .should ,be made to produce large yields by the adoption of all' better fanning practicds. Another method of reducing the ,cost of production is the use of larger machinery and more labor, saving equipment: Considerable iunproveinent ,has been made in recent'years in the introduction of larger and better machinery, making possible tate elim- ination of consideraible 'manual, labor, ;Where the farm is large enough to Warrant , the purchase of such imach- inery, this method consti'tutes an ef- fective means of reducing costs, The substitution of more profitable- for less profitable crops is another ad- vantage which may be derived from the cost of production sttidies, Piililtry — A Farm Asset. • O'tficial neconds show that the poul- try population of Canada has dotibint1 each ten years during the period of the past thirty years. Each succeed- ing period of -low prices for 'farm pro- ducts finds the poultry flock coming to the farmer's rescue. At the present rime it can' :easily be shown that the poultry flack properly ,bred, housed, and looked after is, from the stand- point of capital investment and feed cost, one of the best paying lines of Sarni effort, Each •succeeding year ap- pears to make it more clear that the farm is the logical place for the de- velopment of th e ,poultry industry with• respect to ,both egg and !neat Praditcbion. The farm flock'''is a use- ful nied'iuin' for the tniarketing" of oth- erwise uiisa'leab'le produuebs:in the form of' eggs and poultry meat,' Banks anld dost couepaoies fiaid the famm w'hi'ch, lies a poultry flock:a aitiCh leetteta rislt that: the one •which has none. Finishing Beef Steers. Mucic •of bite value in marketing ,beef:, cattle is lost':' when ' they lack pfoper lnsh. ,George W. Muir, ye, Dominion, A,ninta1 'Husbandman, offers the follo'wing sugge;sdlens for nmishing beef steers. The, purpose of reducing the sue- cuient :part of the, ration towards the last of"'finis'hing,period is to harden ; up the flesh evith the idea of prevent-' ing shrililc in transit. This can he 'further • aided by cutting out the sue - j feed entirely just 'before ship- ment and allowing the animals to fill up an dry hay, grass hay being prefer- n' able to clover in this case,Dhe grain tation may be maintained to the las' t . provided it is not of too laxative a nature, cutting out the salt, just pre- vious to Shipment, : will also help, the. dr"p hay being 'sufficient to cause the animals ,to drink plenty of water. The appearance of the animate counts considerably when selling bath in the feed 'lot• add on ,the market, They should be. 'clean and trim es it is possible to have thein. Grading them in uniform lots, as, to size and finish,, will also help greatly in realizing a higher price. Weed Control Careful and thorough cultivation, a short rotation of crops using varieties of grain suitable to Ole soil will salve the weed prablent, stated. Arthur H. Martin, assistant director, Crops and Markets Branch, in a recent address to . weed inspectors. M. Martin re- commended more extensive use of early after -harvest cultivation and summer fallow as a means of clean- ing up weedy fields. Practical farmers have found that saw thistle and simi- lar perennial weeds can be icontralled by cutting hay earier than usual, plowing the land immediately after- wards and follow up with thorough cultivation during the remaining parts...„.*1 of the -season. - Fall wheat, buckwheat rape and ail hoed .crops are effective in controlling sow thistle. The latter gets its greatest start in oats and other spring grains. As a protection to productivve farm land, road super- inten'dents and city, ,'town and village weed inspectors are urged to keep all weeds cut on roadsides; vacant lots and other urban property. Valuable work in stimulating interest in weed control is being done by Mr. A. R. 'G. :Smith of New H'ari/hu'rg, district tveed inspector of Western Ontario, who 'has addressed numerous meet- ings this spring. Agricultural Limestone Agricultural limestone, because of ., its relatively law cost, is ofttimiillt►> overlooked in the well-planned soils , program of the alp -to -date farmer. In those sections and regions of the pro- vince where acid or sour soils are found, and where difficulty is experi- enced yin obtaining stands of alfalfa and red clover, limestone may be used to good advantage in correcting this condition and as a consequence not only: making more available the inherent supply of plant food in the soil, but in addition providing a more satisfactory medium in which the' pur- chased .plant foods iai cohnvnercial fer- tilizers may act. It improves bhe phy- sical condition of many heavy soils, !Worked into the top layers of the soil it helps prevent that sticky, plastic .. coiadition found in wet esasoais, It aids drainage. It also produces a :roti clition in which :important form's o'f. bacteria do their wort: most efficient ly the titre to apply limestone is whe nit is moat convenient to do so. It is applied -usually in the late fall or early spring on land that is to be sown to spring grain and seeded down, Very often applications are made to meadows and pasture's; It is not advisable to apply lhemetone to land that is to be plowed shortly after- ward. ,From one to two toms per acre,de- pending on the acidity of, the soil and the degree'o'f fineness' of the lime- stone, should be applied. This pray be done by, spreading with a shovel or by use of a limestone spreader. Tihe latter method e hod is of course o rse more ef- ficient than the former: Inexpensive spreaders, are obtainable and lighten the work in connection with the ac - teal operation of application. ID is not nearly so bad to be hard op now when everyone else is as it '< would have been a few years ago. To -day, the` man you think well-off • is perfectly w'il'ting to admithe is hard up—especially if you want to borrow money from, him.' [Douglas' Egyptian Liniment is ati ex'cellettt leg waslh for stock, Aisl0. removes corals in horses and quickly relieves bruisels sprains, rains, add joint stiffness.