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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-11-23, Page 3THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1933 THE SEAFORT NEWS. 4,3, 44 a. tal��t :.iex'I.U�YH'.�irif � N 5 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. s The SeaforthNews SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. BEES BRING BACK HONEY AFTER SALE The village of Goffstown in New Qliafn;pshire has a "bee in its judicial b r,net:' ".791.r. Allen Brown keeps 'bees—t'he sort that has helped 'build up the rep- utation shared by. all bees. And •their honey -m fvm l Neighbor Earl Goodwin thought it was hard to beat, and bought X10 pounds for 'himself. As he was going away on a trip, he placed the honey on the back porch, out olf the Teach' of the sun and any; four -footed mar- auders that mightchance past. Two ,days later he returned, stopped the ,family car in the front yard and. got ant, licking leis lips. He just couldn't 'wait to get at that honey. Frain the direction of the back 'porch carie a steady droning. Mr. Goodwin sensed trouble in that ilium. came around the house on the run 'd almost 'bumped l into a compact • •post line of bees that led from his honey across the fields.Swiftly he sized tip the situation. About eight pounds of ,his precious honey w"as.gone, Up from his child'h'ood carne t'he remembrance of how Chief Deade Eye would act. Ile watch'ed a .bce until it got 'beyond his vision by the elm tree down the road. I -Ie raced to the elm. tree and .picked up the flight of another 'bee with a horrible suspicion dawning on him. Another bee, and the stisp'ieion :crystallized into certainty. The bees were carrying the honey back to Mr. :Brown's 'hhves. Thus Was projected into the daily routine of Goffstown a problem' of major proportions.. Ih'Ir. Goodwin had paid cash 'for the honey, and maw ft was black in the seller's hives. At first glance it seemed simple, Batt as other opinions were brought to bear it be 'came more complicated. The bees had taken the ,honey all right. But they had worked two days at the jolt. Haw much honey Would they have 'harvested for Mr. Brown had their methods been more ethical? After long delb'ate he gave it up and started h'o'me. One thought s'us'tained him. At 'least he bad two pounds of honey -left. IBadt the last bee buzzing out of his porch shattered' that fond thought. The honey had entirely dis- appeared. flitiw+as all back in the hives from, Which it 'had come. And so' Goffs- town waits for some local Solomon to come foryvard with a solution. PAGE THREE mash, bar -ley and barley meal being iubstitu'ted, The scratch reed was fed• itt the litter, and the mash. ,vas fed dry in a !hopper and was aItways av- ailable, The ivcre.ge results of these lest; show that in so far es the lu'm'ber of eggs produced was concerned, there was practically no , difference between, the corn 'fed pen and the barley fed pen over a period 'of seven years, with a total 'of only seven eggs mare in fav- our al the barley, Over a seven year period, however, on account of the high cost of the corn as compared with barley, the cast per dozen of eggs produced was on the average 2.3 cents in favour of the 'barley fed pen. The reselts world indicate that if the ;far- mer or poultryman has a supply of good gtiali,ty barley,' it will not be nec- essary topurchase high-priced corn for egg production. IIn feeding barley it should be rem- embered that it is lacking in Vitamin A, while yellow earn is a good source of this vitamin. Su' so far an 'poultry is consented a severe lack of this vita- min has a tendency to slow up growth in the young and to cause a delficiency disease known as apthalmria (an eye disease) not uncommon to poultry. Fortunately, this vitamin deficiency can the overcome by the 'use of cod liver oil, or alfalfa leaves, or surplus vegetables. 'SEA MONSTERS Cynical sallies to the contrary not- withstanding, the reported appear- ance of sea -serpents off both the ttt- 'iantrc and Pactflc coasts of North .America recently , bear no relation whatever to the repeal of the Vol- stead Act. At intervals during 'the .past two centuries, the records say, per- fectly sober sailors ander oath, have declared that these enormous creat- ures have, appeared on the face of the deep. Anti tit e admittedly' temperate Encyclopedia Britannica, in late edi- tions, after suggesting that most of the so-called "sea -serpents" can be ex- plained away. by reference to some well-known animal or other natural object," finds room to remark: "When however, all these and similar ,possi- bilities have been explored, there still remain a number of independent and apparently credible stories which are not satisfactorily explained."- More- over, one of the latest sea -serpent stories was sent !forth to the world from Victoria, B.C., surely the most dignified, c'onservative, and least sen- sational city of the"Dominion. So the sea -serpent may not be a mere "fo'- c'sle;yarn" after all, ',Such creatures may really exist. Tltat sea -going serpent with head- gaanters somewhere off Victoria, has 'been seen before. flat least. an Ameri- can sailor, reading the despatch from :British Columbia, recognized an old friend and hailed it with all a marin- er's gusto. -die tells of being on the bridge of a vessel with the captain in June, 1923, when they were steam- ing about 11150 miles south of the Col- umbia river, and two miles off -shore. L'\ sudden flight of clucks from the water a quarter of a mile nearer the coast, directed their gaze to the spot. They saw a weird -looking monster,' greenish -grey in color, about 75 to 100 feet in length, and with two distinct `hum.ps.' I'ts head WAS rather flat, and it had huge, long jaws, which snap.ped'uip the clucks. For fully a min- ute bhe officer ,gazed spellbound at the creature, then ,the Victoria sea -serpent vanished. And you can't tell that yarn to the marines. They're 'telling us. Storiessuch as that, and others considerably ,more picturesque, have been patiently gleaned "front' all sorts of publicaltions of the past 200 years by •Lieu't-tCommattder R. T. Gould, ;RAN., (retired), and appear in a 'book of 208 pages entitled "The Case 'for the Scea-ISerpemt." IHe presents his evidence co'n't'i•ncingly, and the reader closes the volume with a feeling that whatever clotib't rnay remain concern= ing fairies and Santa Claus, t'he sea- senpeet has wriggled his way out of the realm of mythology. Of all 'the yarns in the 'collection, the first one requires the 111051 salt— even if it was told by a missionary of high repute, Hans Egede, a Norweg- ian pastor-, 'the "apostle of Greenland" on his way to the north on the 61th of 'July, 11734, saw a "very terrible sea - monster" \which would make the mod- em variety look like a grass -snake. But let Hans tell his Own story: "As for other Sea Monslters, none of Ahem of barley .is low and it is for this rea- have been seen by ,us, ar any of ,our son that the'ques'toit of its substitution Time, that ever I could hear, save that for corn in the poultry 'ration is of most dreadful' 'Monster that showed it - great economic importance. self upon the surface of the Water iii 1In order to determine if barley is a the Year 1/714,• off our New Colony in satisfactory, substitute for corn in the 64 'Degrees This ,Monster was of so grain ration of laying pullets for twin- huge a size that •coining out of the ter egg production, 'the ?D'o ttiniou Ex- Water, its Heacl reached as high as perimental Station, !Lacombe, Alberta 'he mast head; its body was as bulky conducted an •experiment in this con- as the hip,and three or four times rection during the last ser{en years. -as len It had a loci •7oin'ted- eott g S P snout, Two groups of .pullets of the same age, and spouted like a whale -!fish; great strain and general development were broad ; Paw's, and the Body seemed fed the same way for a period of six 'covered it-ith shellwork its skin very months each year, from 'November to cit gged and uneven. The under Part May, except that in one peri 'both the of its body was shaped like an enmr- scratclt and mash con Iain cd consider-'noustri e Serpent air d when it g _ e t div- able cord, while in the other pen' the ed again snider Water, it plunged corn nos left out of 'the scratch and hacl:wards into the. sea, and to raised many other things we accept without if they lived close to human centers. the aged, resulting from the weariness, investigating their claims to truth, Then, wild ,geese moult hare each year disillusionment and helplessness of this statement is very fat front facts, and clueing that period they cannot ripe years, and the narrowing of eino- .A goose is a decidedly wjse bird; fit get off the ground, and they seem to tional outlets. It is also a masculine not why did a certain one cover her know that if they were found at such reaction, as the striking contrast bet - eggs with 'h'ay to 'keep thein warm 0 time along the rivers and lakes near ween the figures shows: Only at the when the weather ;was cold and stor- the dwellings of men they would be relatively unimportant age of adole- iny though she did not take this pre ex:terntin'ated, scence are there more women suicides caution .when it was not? • To make these things impossible than men, apparently because love af- 1In same mysterious way (these peer- they fly to the distant, uninhabited re- fairs then disturb girls more than less ;voyagers through space know the gions beyond the Circle, where the boys. Marriage exerts a favorable in- time when they are to leave their cold waiters of the Arctic wash the fluence, for the mortality is mach balmy lagoons in the sunlands of the ;forlorn shores of northern Russia, higher in bo't'h sexes and at all ages .South, and travel to the tap of the near the mouth of the Lena River:-over'?5 among 'the single than among world in 'the land of the ;Midn'igh't Snot !Here food is abundant, and am•coui ited the married. On these dizzy migrations, guided by millions of wild geese 'congregate in 'Suicide has always been more cost- a wisdom as 'amazing as it is myster- these place's and bring forth'- their mon .in cities than in the country. Be - tort's, these swift adventurers of the young in safety. 'tween 192'5 and 1929 the urban rate air Ieeep to •centa'in longi't'udinal routes When the sting of winter is felt in was 57 per cent higher than the rural from all sections of ,the country, to ar- those icy desolations the geese come rate- Lt general the larger the city rice at last at a given spot' at the ends drifting down the world to the frost- 'the 'higher the rate. The ,great cities of the eant'h. less Siwland's again. But they do plot •contain a multitude of conflicting sac- Rising; often at sea level, they set congregate into congested centers, as ial creeds,' philosophies, religions and ,/heir 'course to take them "high above they did during the sunnier; they are occupations; and Many who come into the loftiest ranges, many of whose toowise for that, hrit scatter abroad con tact with them cannot resolve the claws -kissed peaks rise .cloud -ward •frond California to the everglades of conflict In• the rural community there more than three miles. Yet who has 'T'loriida. This 'wise coitdttet guarantees 45 much greater social and occupation- ever known of, a wild goose coining to 'their food •supply, and insures their al unity, and greater ,co-ordination of tragedy on the shoulders sof any hill? preservation. ideals. Persons born in the country' On these dazzling annttal,flights they 'And equally as wonderful is the e'it'her become emotionally stable pants cover from six to eight thousand fact that will geese have 1101 always of the simple scheme or, if dissatisfied, utiles, 'breasting head -winds - and ;one to the north with the coming of migrate to the city—and it is the rest - storms that would drive 't'he stoutest summer, It is'edrtain that, if they liv- less and ;dissatisfied who swell the shsip,upon the rocks; sweeping down ed where riven do not, they would re- list of selfclinflicted deaths. thebarbed anarchy ofgales, lawless main always by their warm rivers •1t might seem as though gloomy, as tuioh'ained.F'itries, yet holding stea- with no thought of seeking safety cold alai disagreeable weather would dily to their course, their tireless pin- somewhere else. Going to the Arctic induce the melancholy mood that is a ions beating across the 'boiling.elem- then, is soimdthling these wise creat- preiude to 'suicide. :But stoningtinte, eats'for m'are,Uhan thirty hours with- tires have learned to •clo to preserve the pleasantes't period of the year. out rest, while all that time their their existence. when 'the earth renews her 5aigor and slashing wings have driven them for- lam how did 'they know ,that the on- many forms of life start afresh, inex- 'ward at a.m•ile a eni.nlute,;or fully silty lyplace on the globe where they Plicably ;gives rise to the severest and 'fee's every do'w•n'wa'rd stroke, tvoulci be safe from the possibility of most fatal attacks of We'ltsohmerz. It The best aviators may become be- destruction at the hands of ,men was is not kno'yvn whether this results from'. wildered " between stations, though the treeless waste at the top of tite physiological responses to changes in they have the :assistance of strong world? temperature, to the restlessness of lights, and radio .connections from the "spring fever," or to an increased feel ground every Ren minutes; but wild_, NOW IN STATI'STI.CS ing ofloneliness and .frustration dor- geese never lasetheir way, and ,.when ,Suicide, it is glibly assented, is a di- Ing a season of mbin'g. Blot ''franc Ja- did one orf them ever come to grief in sease of civilization; 'like all easy 'gen- nuary through April the rate steadily "ntaking'a landing?" Through starless, eralizatiat.s, it is, ill/true- /Suicide is as rises, rea'ching a peak in May, then tempest -ripped nights they go l ' to old as 'humanity itself, and its sources' decreasing untilthe lowest point oc- their destin'ati'on's with the dead ser-' stretch far !back into the heginttistgs of curs in bleak December, dainty of gravity itself, culture.'Anm'ong some primitive people geese usually fly in wedge g it is unknown; among others it varies CORN VS. BARLEY IN Wnl'd. formation, with some old leader at the from sat uncommon and reprehensible THE LAYING RATION point of the line. This divides the air act to the natural reaction after haw- and •avery'inemb'er of, the group makes' lin one's'The 'gttesition of rising ltonie-grown g feelings hurt. The: same mo- the most of ,that fact by keeping a lives, m,oreover, operate in primitive, barley insItead of 'the comparatively place 1st 'the^fntmation where it es-, societies vs among civilized peo'ple's, high-priced •cora for which the farmer capes the opposition of the atmos- Because of the 'horror witii which and poultrymanin"Canada must pay here: The leaders are not able to do ready easji is an important one. The p' the Christian, and je'wlisli faiths regard this, so change o'fiten, while a contin- serf -annihilation, it is only in ° recent price' of corn in conte sections of the ions honking is kept up to hold the ''trines that riven stopped their etiifcal country places is almost beyond reach flock together d'is'pultes about it and started nicking of the average /poailtrynt'an and makes Then, by some startling me'tho'd' of studies of` its fa,c'tual aspects. Data its use inlarge q'uan'tities almost pro- understanding each other, they seem earlier than 1900 are very inaccurate hibitive; Ott t'ite other hand, the price Ito conte to a common agreement' as to ,bti,t •since 'th'en, from the full 'records. when they .shouitd descenai for rest and of the Metropolitan Life Insurance food. When '•t'he'se have been secured Company, and official sources ,b'otlt in some wide field or island where here and abroad, we can make valid they cannot be approached 'by an en- comparisons. cony, ' they rise once more and pursue Il -low, marry people'ithere are in the their journey,!United States who wish or try' to do The, olcl question, "Where -do, the atva ' with themselves, VeS, no one know -s. wil'd geese go?" itas at last been ans- ,b,ot we can de'fin'itely say that out` of veered. For generaitiens it was very every I,000 infants horn 110 males and ntuc'h of a mystery, but now the se- three females will eventually take cret is 'velli kltawtn. Back of all this their own-11it'es. Of these more ,than migrating are two very wise ° p•eecau- 'half will be amongpersons 415years ti•oirs. The parents of the young birds of ,age anal over, even though they ,con - seam to know': they are helpless crea- sti'tule only a 'little more than'one'Iftt 'tures. tillable', Inc scr'me time 'after ,of the total 'population. Each advanc- ha'Eehiatg e'i'ther to fly, or to escape ing period of life shows a steady rise 'front their etlenties by swimming, irrsniicdcle tendency, 11 IS a' reaction of This would mean their -extermination TIRE'LES'S •W'IN,GS The very world has adopted the 'phrase; "silly as the goose," but like Life Saving Efforts Fighting for the lives or men, women and children, is a never ceasing struggle at the Muskoka, • the Toronto and the Queen Mary Hospitals,. where nearly a thousand patients are now being .treated for tuberculosis. Perhaps you do not fully- realize the predicament of the unfortunate victims of this :dreaded disease, the came from t majority of whom he families of the very • poor. here Living in cramped quarters, w sunshine and fresh air are often as scanty as nourishing food, Is it any wonder that consumption finds them; out k an Frail red, their frail and wen plight Ispitiful, but a haven awaits; Lr viola mast or, .. where; o you. 1 , them may be: restored to health. Willyou0 this send what you can:: to assist in this greaC; work, Please address George A. Recd, Treasurer. 2)1 College Street, 'roroitto, 2. its Tail aloft, which seemed a wl olio ship's length distant front the bulkiest part of the Body." IS'tenli•ng a couple of the narrator's ,capitals, would slay, with all defer thee, to his profession, that the story was 'a bit IMartl to Swallow, Less severe upon one's ,ereduhiy, it the 'history Of of the Neva Pn1riland sea serpent--cantiousig^.. des'cribed bya committee of investigation as a "strange marine animal," On or about August 0th, '18117, this weird creature entered Gloucester harbor, the scene, a 'fete years later; of an'other extraor- dinary event, the wreck of that strait- gely navigated schooner, the "Hespe- rus," Unlike Longfellow's pathetic ballad, however, the tale .pardon us —the ,story of the se wrneilt had not yet been debunked, flow could it be? For days after its first appearance, the serpent sported in or about the har- bor, and was seen by scores of people. 'True, there were rather wide discrep- ancies in the evidence given before a solemn court of inquiry, There always is, in any cpnr-t. Sa the description of Gloucester 'harbor's curio us visitor as given by one Solomon Allen, is prob- ably as accurate as any of the others, 'He said it was about ninety feet long, in bulk, half as big as a barrel, It had a head shaped like a rattlesnake, but as big as that of a horse. No less than fifty projections --described by the witness as "joinits" or "bunches"— could be seen above the water. In co- lor, it was dark brown, or chocolate, and the hide was rough and scary, Front a distance of 150 yards or leas. Solomon watched the serpent for the best part of a day, and that's tee) long t stretclt‘,for the imagination, ',,From the deck of •-1.M. frigate "Daedalus," sailing between the Cape, of :Good Hope and St. Helena in 1849 the whole crest- saw, and officially re- ported a sea -serpent 90 to 100 feet long, 1H.3M:S. "Osborne" reported a huge sea monster in 1877. Another one in ,this instance seen by Fellows of the Zoological Society on scientific research, was reported by the yacht "Valhalla" off Brazil in 1905.' Accord- ing to ,Lieut. -Commander Gould's in- structive hook, scores of these strange denizens of the deep have been ob- served during .the last two'centuries' in all the seven seas; He believes, whole- heartedly, thatthey are survivors of some supposedly extinct and pre -his- toric species. possibly the .Plesiosaurus of Mesozoic times, And it requires courage' to believe in sea -serpents. An American colonel teas once asked if he had evee met anyone who had seen the New England •specimen. "Yes," he answered sadly, "I'm one of those un- fortunate individuals myself." An official report on commercial production ofclover and nrass seed :n Ontario shows that while the al- sike acreage was slightly less than in 19312 a higher yield per acre resulted in perhaps a percent. greater quan- tity of seed than in 1932. The seed is slightly smaller titan usual but of good colour and plump. .It is also freer of tweed seeds than usual. The 1933 spring seeding of alsike is re- ported as very unpromising itt central. and 'western .Ontario owing to the summer's prolonged drought, 'Second cut alfalfa seeded well this year in many districts so that a sub- stantial quantity of good seed is in sight. The quality of the seed is good, being notably free from ween seeds and foreign matter- Thus there should be ample supplies of alf- alfa seed for domestic requirements this year. There will be more red clover than last year, with most of it concentrated ie southwestern Ont- ario. Sweet clover is a much below normal crop in the province: l,fore than usual timothy seed is reported in western and central On- tario. bait less that 'last year in the eastern part of the province. In west- ern Ontario there was an increase of about 15 per cent and is yielding from 5 to 6 'bushels per acre, There is ,very little 'carryover of ,timothy from dust year. The blue grass seed crop in 1933 was almost a failure. In order to have pullets laying at their best in Novenrber and Decem- ber, the months of high-priced eggs, the following paints should be - ob- served according .to the Dominion Poultry: LI-iusbandman:. :.See that pullets 'have dry and bright quarters. II -lave the houses clean and sanitary wititonrt draughts. (Give a well-balanced ration and he sure to give enough. Don't forget the green 'feed, pre- ferably clover or alfalfa. If you have milk give the pullets what they swill' take. No 'afore Asthma. Dr 5. ID, :Kel- logg's Kel- lo •:'s Astlinta iRefitedy un 8g so ds the death 'kne'll of this trouble. 01 stops the awful cltewing and painful •breath- inP, Tt guards: against ni 1it zitacics and gives renewed ability to sleep and rest the whole nipht Tong. 'Much is 1 for thisti c auroe[t ,remer}', .hof nothing, lett ,chat ci)lio demonstrated by a •'-i+il. T' yon suffer froth,astltma try and convince yourselff its s -g reat value.