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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-10-04, Page 3Address communications to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto - IMPROVEMENT IN AGRICUL- have been approved and will doubtless TUBAL EXPORTS. • go idto effect. • Canada's promotion as an important ' These steps are: (1) The appeint- exporting nation has been rapid,, and meat of a first class business man with it is astounding that -this young DA- a wide knowledge of agricultural 'Pro - tion should,, in her immature years, be ducts to . act as Canada's representa- leading the world in the per capita tive in Great Britain in connection value of export trade. The product of with her bacon, butter, cheese, beef Canadian manufactories has now and egg exports; to study conditions, found favor in forty-four foreign to make recommendations to the Do - lands and the reputation of Canada's minion Government and the producers manufactured goods is still in the as to how improvements are to be ascendant: The'. products of Canadian brought about, and to help trade farm -lands have a yet more extensive' through judicious. propaganda in the list of customers. I British Isles. (2) More active par- Itticipation in the large agricultural has been recognized among trade shows in. Great Britain. ; (3) Active experts that this great demand for � participation in the .British Empire Canadian goods has, to some extent, Exhibition in 1924. (4) A more thor- developed in spite of certain handi-' ough grading of: dairy products. (5) caps Canada has placed in her ownp2.opaganda in Canada to impress the way, and may be .taken as a tribute to producer with the necessity of doing the high excellency of the Canadian Sirs part to attain the ends in view. product in itself whilst criticizing the (6) Some experiments he the way of method of marketing. Canadian ex -!comparative shipments of live steers, porters have not devoted sufficient at -1 shipped alive, and as chilled'beef, to tendon to the peculiar needs of for -the London market, egn.markets or taken steps to meet' EXPORT FIGURES FOR FISCAL YEAR. on an equal footing, the competition It is confidently hoped that these re- of other countries in these markets. l - Canada's trade commissioners abroad commendations, carried out, will re - have unceasingly pointed out oppor-• suit in yet greater improvement of the tunities which were being passed over British market for Canadian agricul- nd travellers in foreign countries tural exports. Canada's market for. ought to notice demands for Can- this class of merchandise now lies al - r er--'ran produce which were not met. I most wholly across the Atlantic. Just • Of late much greater attention has how important it is may be realized • been paid to the overseas markets, from the figures of the 1922 fiscal especially since the coming into effect year, which were only partially affect - of. the United States tariff, which ear -led by the Emergency. Tariff. Out of red certain Candian products from the I a total: value- of .exports of Canadian American market to which' they had produce. in that year of $740,204,680, become accustomed, and there has de-! exports of vegetable products amount- veloped a realization that certain' ed to $317,814,106, 17,814,10$135,798,720., and of mad trade defects must be remedied and products, Taking Canadian goods overseas made to ap-j only those a commoditiestcle particularlybuter expy in peal in a more d attractive manner to' amounted to 8,430,591 :pounds worth ts customers in order that Canada shall be in a position to adequately meet' $3,224,390, of which 3,713,709 pounds the competition of other countries and worth $1,444,657: went to the United maintain that prestige she has achiev-1 Kingdom; cheese exports amounted to ed. The principal market in question 1 133,849,760 pounds worth $25,440,322, " is, of course, the United Kingdom, and. of which 125,942,940 pounds worth the principal exports to.that country $24,007,726 went to the United King - of an agricultural nature. According- dom; bacon exports amounted to 992,- ly Dr. J. H. Grisdale, the Deputy Min- 080 cwt. ' worth $23,012,480, of which later of Agriculture, recently made 986,623 cwt" worth $22,873,449 went an investigation of trade conditions in to the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and certain improve menta and innovations will accrue in consequence_ NEais OP IMPRovem APPEARANCE. He found that Canada was not mak- ing the same improvement in the ap- pearance and quality of, her agricul- tural exports as some other exporting countries such as `Denmark, Holland, Australia, South Africa and Argen- tina, The consequence is that whilst • the superiority of Canadian produce is frequently acknowledged by experts, .competitive produce often looks better and therefore sells better than the Canadian. He sees a danger of Can- ada's an ada's losing ` her domination of the English market in butter and cheese, whilst he points out oportunities for an improvement i the already grati- fying bacon situation. He has, there- fore, suggested to the Minister certain steps calculated to result in Canada's maintenance of her high position in the British market, which suggestions Dr. Grisdale's findings are not to be received as serious stricture, but an attempt to have Canadian produce presented for competition in a form its unsurpassed qualities warrant. His criticism of bacon, cheese, and butter exports are' on the score of lack of uniformity in appearance and quality, and lack of trade names and attractive packing. These are faults natural in a young country's development of ex- port trade and which merely want to be forcibly pointed out to ensure rem- edying. He found Canadian beef to be the superior in the British market and Canadian eggs enjoying a reputa- tion second to none. Dr. Grisdale anticipated a keen demand for Can- adian store cattle with the removal of the embargo, and is satisfied with the three days' quarantine regulation to be observed- in Canada, which,: he states, is more than taken up by the time occupied in transit from in- land shipping points to the ocean ports. THE CHILDREN'S HOUR A FIERY TRIAL.' It is the demon of fire that causes the settler so many anxious' hours in a new country. May I tell you a story of a forest fire in the northern part of British Columbia?' As you have.,perhaps learned; there Is a great portion of Northern B.0 covered with birch and spruce. This is very true' of our home section, some thirty miles east of Prince George on the Grand Trunk Pacific. These trees help to snake the country a pleasant one to. live in. They also add greatly to the toil of the one who would carve a home from among.theni Alas, too, as you will read, timber can be a source of danger. We chose as hone a beautiful site on` the G.T.P. called;Aleza Lake. During the early months at that place Daddy was_ away from home, most of •the time, The Railway re- quired his help. This left Mother to look after us and the homestead a good portion of the time. - This was one of the•days of mid- summer. It was a real summer day too. Father was away at work. We were all at home . doing• justice to lunch: Little Mary had an eye open for more than the things to be eaten, Ali at once she reported that'the 'air was full of smoke. Luckily it was that she, little mit'o of _tour, smelled' fire, for the question of !escape was already a serious .one. the same time urged, the spaniel to "sic" some imaginary enemy. The dog seemed to understand the responsi- bility put on him. He went at once on O charge across the lake. ,,He did it carefully so that Mary.was able to grasp his collar. In this way she was towed and. carried to the *other side. Finally we were all safe across the lake from the roaring furnace of flames. On the other side we could see bur little home and possessions licked up by the fire. Home was already -a mass of ruins.' Cat and chickens suf- • fared,. Our salvation had been a matter of narrow escape indeed. Mother lost many of her clothes While actually escaping with Mary. There was" no time to -be lost. Mother took the youngest one of us and hastened around' the end of the lake. She could only care for one. He was "a little laddie—just- three years old. To look after Mary took a little ingenuity and a good deal of haste. Mother solved the problem ;by enlist- ing the help of our water spaniel, She Pointed across the lake,' and at The question of securing shelter and getting- a new start Were next to, be settled, Pioneers .havd such problems to face often, This bit'' of evil was the result of carelessness, as is so often the case. We children got our lesson once for all. in care of fire. -W. bougan New- lands, B.C. The Way He Works It "Bose there's "a artist outside what wants t' sell you a picture." ''Well' here! Offer hint this 0 100-dol,- lar 00•dol= lar bill and whet! he faints drag him, out on the sidewalk." • THE POT AND THE KETTLE. "Madam, you've come black on your nose!" —Daily Express, London, "The Whole Hog" Sometimes Half a Hog is Better Than the Whole BY JAMES BENEDICT. "What's ailing you, Jared?" she Jared scowled.. asked. "I guess I'll be going," as lie knock - "Nothing; I was. just thinking." ed the ashes, out of his nine onto th Myra nervously wiped her thin hands on her blue gingham apron. It was powerful strange for Jared to be thinking. "It ain't the calf, Jared?" "Nope, 'tain't the calf," emphatical- wooden step. "Wait a minute,"snickered Swift. "Don't go; I have thought of a plan." ' Jared sat down. "Well, what is your plan?" s hog in the regular ly, as he watched his wife cut two Way you' are bound to lose it -all of large slices of ham. "That's it," he it, hasn't you?" exploded. "Pork! That's what's a Yep.,, troubling me." Well, do as I say and you can kill • "If you grill thi the whole hog for'yourself." Myra stared. IIe explained. "The whole hog?", gasped Jared. "That pork I borrowed down to' Cy "Are you sure? The whole hog?" Smith's, place this afternoon. I beat Correct. All of it unless—" He � borrowin' not only from him but from hesitated and looked speculatively J every butcherin', right along. Now, down Cl. the bowl of his pipe. "Unless s O get their share. There won't be ham-" enough left to last us a week." A ham? That's nothin P P g, 11 give h Throughout the meal, which was you a ham,with a sudden burst of i eaten in silence, he struggled with his generosity, "two hams—whatever you problem. Then, as the dishes were like. But that won't be—" sending a� being washed and dried, a happy suspicious glance at Swift. "The whole' thought struck him. Why not ask the hog, the whole hog is what you said,! advice of Aleck Swift? ain't it?" Swift owned the farm immediately "That's what I said and that's what m adjoining his own. Swift was shrewd, it will be if youdoas I say.". none doubted that, and a great, prac- Jared's mouth opened and closed ^orrne"wlseest ceXt age? Yrs[ rearltrssuies by Swift, and Swift «lone, could the eecr•et of the missing hog be divulged. And the neighbors must never learn the truth, - lie regretted having prom- ised Swift two whole hams, one. would have been sufficient; or—was it two hams? On second thought he decided it was one ham.. Be could spare one' ham, that was certain. And one ham was payment enough for a little ad- vice, a simple suggestion ,which, if Jared had not been so upset aiid hur- ried, but had taken: the time to sit. down quietly and put his own !mind to, he could have thought out for himself. Be woke earlier than usual the next morning. As he rubbed the sleep out of •his eyes the affair of the hog at once popped into his mind. He jumped out of bed, pulled on his clothes, and hurried down to the barnyard.' There, for a moment, he stood stock-still and stared—at two empty hooks, which but the night before had been decorat- ed with the. carcass of a beautiful hog. He began to look around the yard. As his glance travelled, his irritation and, perplexity grew. Brushing his hand, across his eyes, he looked again, but no hog. Swiftly he crossed the barn- yard; he explored the barn, cow shed, and chicken coop, even' peered into the empty pig pen. No hog. Ready to swear that his eyes had deceived him, he returned to the empty hooks. Was he, perhaps, the victim of hallucination? Be had heard of such things. Stepping forward, he felt the hooks over carefully, inch by inch. He muttered something, something that seemed to fit the situation, threw up his hands, and walked out of the yard. No hog. The thing smacked of sorcery or witchcraft^ Back to the house he hurried to ggestion Myra, but he changed his mind before he got there. His wife, he knew, could not have carried off the hog. Turning squarely in his tracks, Jar- ed dashed away through the barnyard like a madman. He:vaulted a picket - and -barbed-wire fence and, running around the rear of the house, rattled up the broken steps to pound out such a lusty summons upon a flimsy door that it seemed in danger of breaking beneath his heavy fist. "Swift," he called, "Aleck, come out! It's important! Come out! Come utl" After an interval, very trying to ared, Swift appeared—in red under- hirt, shapeless trousers, the color of the soil, and a pair of homemade car- et slippers. Shutting the door behind im, Swift took a etep forward, an nquiring look on' his face, Jared struggled to speak, but the words would not come. Swift continued to stare, and Jared, ith a mighty effort, found his tongue. "Aleck," he said, "somebody's stole y hog." Swift laughed. "That's right, Jared, that's a good eginning. Remember what told you, nd stick to your: story." Jared shifted from one foot to': the ther. He gave his Neighbor a hasty g lance, but Swift's face was a mask. "But somebody has stole my bog," youngsters; Mr. Dave Preeny. hard enough' time with her children,'I' but she doesn't see how she could have managed at all if it. hadn't been for secrets.• When the baby sets up howl to go somewhere with' the'olde children' Mrs, Preeny knows that th little fellow will be unhappy' for hour if she doesn't do something to relaev his feelings, and so she tells him secret,, Usually it a hint as to he plans for his entertainment, brit, re gardless of What her promise is, it 1 enough that she and the child�kno something. that nobody else on ch place .could guess in a hue dre guesses. Mrs. Preeny was a young woma when she learned the' value of secrets Her son George was five years old a the time, and one day when he hega crying because he couldn't go some Where with hie brother, Mrs., Preeny told him in the brother's presence that if he would be gocd she would bake a cake. George said .he didn't want.any cake and he cried harder theri ever. He wanted to 'go with hes; bro `her' and he wasn't to be beught";off with such a little thing as a cake. A week later the older brother and a sister were going to town in the bug- gy and George begged. to go along. He even went so far as to dross himself in spite of the fact. that the brother and• sister told him he was wasting: his time. When Mrs. Preeny finally acid that she couldn't allow him to go, he began screaming, and he was just about ready to get 'down, and roll in the dirt' when his mamma called him into the kitchen and whispered to him that she was going to bake a cake. "But don't tell them a word about it," she said, . and immediately- .young George dried his eyes. In the first instance Mrs. Preeny had offered the child nothing but cake,. which of course was not enough; but in the second instance she had offered him both cake and a secret a I r I The splendid and peculiarly distinc- e' tive properties of the French-Can- s!adian horse have,inede that animal of e' Eastern Canadian origin ,fairly well 's a! known on other • parts of the American r continent anti its fine qualities may be -I said to be extensively appreciated. It s is not so general];yknown year French w Canada has been likewise responsible e for, the origination of a breed of cat- d tie of valuable dietinetive character- !sties. n The French-Canadian Cow has 'a common origin with the Jersey and t Guernsey breeds, whilst the Normandy n and Brittany cattle introduced into Canada at the beginning of the seven- teenth`century also played' a part in its evolution. The breed is therefore one of the oldest found in • North Am- erica, The influence of surrounding conditions, particularly the climate of •the Province of Quebec, and the treat - inset that the breed has' received dur- ing those two centuries and a half, have caused changes in color and con- formation, but aptitude& or qualities have been maintained. For this rea- son the French-Canadian breed. of cattle have been termed the "Jereey of the North." In appearance the color of the breed varies from solid black to fawn, but a brown skin is preferred, and in this case there is a yellow or fawn stripe along the back and a grey or yellow ring around the muzzle. These char- acteristics do not indicate infusion of Jersey blood but merely show identity of origin. Though the breed is old in the Province of Quebec itis only since about 1880 that the work of improve- ment was begun and only in 1836 that a herd book was established by the Quebec Legislature. A new impulse was given to the improvement of the breed in 1895 when the French-Can- adian Breeders' Association was established. eossesSEe MANY 0000 QUALITIES. Perhaps the outstanding character- istic of this animal is the economy -of maintenance. The French-Canadian cow, is easily kept, She thrives and gives a good profit in places where other breeds would pine away or could not find adequate food. The little care the animal has been accustomed to re- ceiving, especially during the winter months, has developed endurance and a system to undergo various hard- ships. A good "rustler,'' she is well adapted to farms where production is limited. Her qualities may be gen- erally summed up in rusticity, frugal- ity, good dairying, milk rich in fat and long milking period. As a dairy cow, the French-Can- adian animal comes in between the Jersey and the Guernsey in the pro- duction of rich milk. Her milk aver ages a yield of 4.5 per cent. of fat,,, but she is not quite equal to the other' breeds as regards the quantity produc- ed To qualify for the Record of Per- formance however, a cow must at two years old produce in 365 days, 4,400 lbs. of milk and 198 lbs. of fat; at three years old, 5,200 lbs. of milk and 234 lbs. of fat; at four years old, 6,000 lbs. of milk and 270 lbs. of fat, and at 6 years old, 6,800 lbs, of milk and 806 lbs. of fat. At the Pan-American contest of dairy cows held at Buffalo in 1901, the French-Canadian cow came into com- petition not only' with all other dairy breeds but with the best animals from dairy herds on both sides of the line, and proved her right to a place of honor among the cattle of North Am- erica. In the cost of feeding to pro- duce one hundred pounds of milk, the French-Canadian cow ranked third, being surpassed by narrow margins by the Holstein' and Ayrshire breeds. In the cost of feed to produce one pound of butter, however, the Quebec cow was 'lowest of all dairy breeds proving her value as an economical producer. This record is an old one, and' in the consistent efforts which have been made in the improvement of the animal there is no aoubt a yet better showing would be made to -day. Increasing Dairy Herd Production. CAdI A P U if I kill our hog 'they'll all be on hand maybe afterward I could borrow a tical joker. From the time he went but no words cane. He moistened his to school liis pranks were the talk of 11P5.•. I a the town. He dearly loved his joke "You must be foolin'; you're jokin ." for the joke's sake, and if he could No; the whole' hog', d'ye hear? The' 0 play the joke and better himself by whole hog. Why, it's easy; I am sur - so so doing, all the better; and ,any .prised that you ain't thought of it scheme that he engineered was pretty yourself." sure to succeed. Jared decided to con- Jared's head swam. sult him right away. He found Swift "It ain't reasonable," he muttered it sitting coatless on the back porch of finally, with a doleful shake of his e challenged. "Fine!" complimented Swift. "Keep up, Jared; don't weaken, stick to it." "But can't you understand?—some- body has stole it" he roared. Tell it with as straight a face as that and they will all believe you" "Can't you understand? Can't you? his bare, brown cottage; a lean, "odd- head. looking fellow, clad in rusty -brown, ora- "Splendid! dilapidated trousers tucked into knee head into a 1 e I leather boots much the' worse for to moi a slits h wear, shirt sleeves rolled up, an old that you have red flannel undershirt showing down tl hog. They know it is ready to s to his wrists, and a .brown derby e perched rakishly on one .side of his q head. e Swift laughed. Wrinkling his fore- head a of lines,his steely blue oyes narrowed "The neighbors know t this It's gone—the whole hog,T tell you kill, and all of them are waiting for _gene1„ e world—te you that, as far as I'm concerned, no kill this hog for yourself. This is the ea: you have to do i • hog along about seven o'clock to -night, hang it out behind the barn where it Feeding and Handling For Egg Laying. The plan of handling and feeding the birds at the Agassiz, B.C., Domin- ion Experimental Farm, where during the year ending Ocober 80 1922 four Barred Plymouth Rocks averaged 282.1 per bird. Straw is used for lit- ter and the scratch grains are fed in the litter. The grain mixture con- sists of equal parts cracked corn, whole wheat and whole oats, and is fed twice a day, care being taken not to have too much grain in the litter at any time. The dry mash is composed of bran 100 parte, shorts 100, crushed oats 100, corn meal 100, beef scrap 50, and charcoal 26. Being fed from a wall self-feeding hopper; the mash is kept before the birds at all times. Grit and oyster shell are similarly supplied from a small hopper' of two compart- ments, one containing oyster shell, the other containing grit. Green feed is provided in the .form of kale, chard, cut clover, or mange's. Skim milk is fed daily, while water is before the birds practically all the time. Inside and near the front door of each pen a box of earth (dust bath)' is placed. HOGS, I procured a steel oil barrel with. a arge opening in the head and a small t ree-quarter-inch hole in the side of the barrel near the bottom. Then I crewed a three -quarter -inch street lbow in small hole and a three- uarter-inch pipe three inches long in lbow. I set barrel on trough with about a foot of trough extending through the Pence into hog lot. Put a cork in pipe nd fill barrel, screw in bung air -tight, ake out cork and hogs will have water hen they want it, as the water will Cilie as high as pipe and no more, ntii it is lowered in trough. -R. L. vermire. their little hunk of pork.But there le es, I understand, and I promise a way—the easiest in th "How aro ye, Jared?" drawled one will ever be the Wiser " Swift, and he smiled in a' friendly way id All s to 1111 your as he edged over to make room on the ' 1 b t a top step. "Have a seat," he added. a Jared cautiously. entrusted his cad. Bright gophers, t weight to the broken step, his restless W glance moodily examining the little d t c orchard and potato patch in the rear and the low barn and outbuildings on 0 the left. "Anything i can do for ye, Jared?" "I dunno, I dunno," and Jared's melancholy glance shifted away. His gnarled fingers busied themselves with an old corncob pipe. - "You ain't sick and going to have the doctor?" "Nope; wouldn't have one anyway, not if I was sick." "Myra ain't ailing?" "Nope; Myra's' all right; fact is, me. You will get your little hunk of I—" Jared cleared his throat rapidly, pork. You can have any part of it I Will tell you a sure and a Cheap can't be seen. from the r way to exterminate rats, and early to -morrow, before anyone is moles, mice or any animal nuisance aroun , ge up and pack the meat that 13 uses a runway. at concentrated away, and then, before, any of the lye, sprinkle in the runway. The rod= neighbors get curious, go round to feet,ns gethotfeet, sit up and lick their each and every one and say, Somethen good -by, Mr. Nuisance. S body has stole m y hog.' And if you ' have tried this on rats, mountain : ` stick to your story theyll all believe beaver, and mice. If your people are you." troubled with any animal vermin, this Jared, with pipe out, frowningly, will rid them clean. -S. D. silently, reviewed the plan. 'A look, half admiration, half reverence, crept into Ms eyes. "Aleck," said he a little breathlessly, "after the hog is killed and all, and safely packed away, drop over and see • Buy machines 'suited for the work 6 be done; too big is as bad as too mall. Mary, who had the little' lamb, robabiy used shears. "here's something else-something.im- Yon like." Home Education "The Child's FIrst School is the Family"—Froebet." Teaching By Example — By Bertha Hayward Higgins. portant—to worry about', " "That" said Swift carelessly, "we A few days ago when I was in the "That's so? What's the difficulty?"- can settle later. But do as T tell you; hairdresser's shop a young woman "Aleck," said Jared -.solemnly, "I ,don't forget e stick to your story, no came in with a very'attractive little want your advice,' I want your help." matter what people say." ; girl whom everyone admired. "All right, what's the matter? "All right, Aleck," said Jared,' The mother, with 'apparently no "There's a hog in my pen, as you standing up and stretching himself. thought for the big eyes fixed upon know, ready to kill.' IIis words now 111 kill the beg to -morrow night, but her 05 the shell-like ears taking in all carne with a rush. "Everybody knows Ill ask the neighbors for next Mon- she said, related the following inci- it. Well, I been around to all the day" And he hurried straight home, dent: "We- moved from where we butcherin's, I ain't:rnissed one, Now,' deciding on the way not to reveal the were living when my little girl began Suppose I Still my hog in the regular scheme to Myra. The fewer in' the to go to school card it was too far for way. ' Hi Green, the Sinkers, Mel Rid- secret the better•. 1 her to go alone to the school she had er, and the rest will be on hand to.getI. Along toward seven o'clock the fol- attended. But they wouldn't give me their share of pork. None won't for- lowing night Jared started butchering, a trausfei''so I told my husband I was get to be on hand—" he broke'off to his hog. Myra, taking supper at her' going to send her to the, other school pull fiercely at his pipe. "Aleck," he sister Kate's house, was out of the anyway and tell them she had never whined, "by the time each gots his ,way. � been to lehool- before, And of course share, what is left for me?" 1 It was a hard job to tackle single- I warned her to tell' the teacher that "Nothing =much," admitted Swift, liarided, and, constantly in fear of she had never been to school. with a grin. i dTacovery, it 'seemed an endless one. "That night after I had gone out "There won't be enough to last mo a 1But he followed 'Swift's instructions she went to my sister and said, `Tante, w 11 I get around a ter, and finally the pig was I always said the truth before . this mess'?' Ain't there nothing T cat! • hung rip against a post back of the "Oh! foolish mother," I thought, do---nothing?"I barn, behind the house, 'safe from the "how blind you are." The story stay - "Perhaps, wait until I think," prying eyes.of any chance traveler ed with me after I left the shop and Swift `frowned and scratched his g the country road.. Immediately it rankled. head: He lit his corncob pipe, made i alms afterward he bitched' up and,drode Then there came to me a picture of — k wee nota week. Ho ' to tire. 1 t " since rings—a number of fine ones -i thoughtfully watched them spread and disintegrate in the quiet evening air. �• A smile replaced his frown, he chuckl- ed and glanced sidewise at Jared— laughed -outright. down to the "Four Corners," there to leave word concerning the killing for the following Monday, That night Jared fell asleep, won- dering just how much, or rather how e, o le p g it would be necessary the day many years ago when my brother, a young country physician, 1 had driven fourteen miles in a severe snow storm with his little three year old son wrapped up like an Eskimo cuddled in his. arms, because in the morning when there was no indication of a storm, he had given his promise to take the little fellow with him when he made this call. And now, despite the storm and the difficulty of driving in a covered sleigh with the child to look after, he dared not do otherwise lest the child should in turn be led to break a promise or tell an -untruth because of the father's ':example. "Small use," said he, "for us to urge ov upon our children standards which th we ourselves` do not maintain in their 111 A Presence." These little ones of ours are so sus- tie ceptible to influence, so imitative and Bl so prone to think "the Sting (father or W mother) can do no evil" that we can ee not be too careful.24 It has been my custom always to pr read or recite some worth ,while lbs The Dominion Dairy News Letter of September 10 in its cQw-testing metes gives two instances of remark- able production increase by cows under the cow testing system. One is at the Agricultural School at 01ca, Que. Here, in 1920, 44 cows averaged 6,733 lbs. of milk and 257.7 lbs. butter fat. In 1922, 46' cows averaged' 8,901 lbs.- milk and 348 lbs. butter fat. In 1920 eleven cows produced 300 lbs. fat; in 1922, thirty cows produced er 800 lbs. In 1922 the average for e ten best cows was 10,811 lbs. milk d 409 lbs. fat. The herd consists of yrshiros and French-Canadian cat A second instance reported at enlieiin in Kea county, Ontario, W' in 1920, ten. of . C. E. Rowe's we produced 7,468 lbs. milli and 6.5 lbs. fat; in 1922{ eleven cows educed 10,235 lbs, milk and, 346^4 . fat. In the case. of Mr. Rowe's thought at the breakfast table thatthe family may take it with them to the day's work, . Recently I have given over this duty to my eleven -year-old son and I wish that every mother and father would take with them and pass on to their children the little message' he brought to us yesterday: AWith every day; a new day nd every moment new We'll speak the truth, think the truth And to the truth be true" herd the increase in production ain- ounted to nearly 1,100 lbs. butter fat for the year, which at 35c per pound would amount to $385. As the News Letter says "Increased production per cow is a possibility in every, herd if the owner will take stock of each indi- vidual cow's production and then elim- inate the poor producers." vo There is no purpose served in know. ing more of good conduct than we practice. :r;