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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1926-09-09, Page 6Alfty.4knuSTRY tA?1 AbA I • Indications continue to be given of Canada/s continued ascent to eminence in the dairy industry. British Colum- bia has just produced another wOrld's champion cow after this honor has fallen in the past to many other Can- adian Provinces as well as on another occasion to the Pacific Coast province. Canadian dairy stock has come to be In demand in many countries and re- eent purchases have been made by Russia, which business it is antici- , Tilted may reach important proper - tions. Production of dairy products continues to increase, particularly in the Western Provinces, which have so sensationally made a mark in this in- dustry. The increasing volume of ex- • port trade is reflected in the expan- : sion of storage facilities at Canadian , ports, Butter production in Canada during 1925, according to the final report of the Federal Dept. of Agriculture, am- ounted to 180,663,783 pounds, as com- pared with 178,893,937 in the previous year, Ontario and Quebec ran neck and neck in production, the former province leading- with an output of 60,081,141 pounds, closely followed by the latter with 50,942,883 pounds. Next in order-coine the three Prairie •Provinces, Alberta leading with 19,- f ',M,000 pounds; Saskatchewan ac- eotmting for 15,946,233 rounds; and Manitoba's figure being 13,663,312 pounds. Nova Scotia's production waft .1,504,156 pounds; that pf British Col- umbia 4,210,000 poun.d.s; Prince Ed- ward Island 1,583,181 pounds: and ' New Brunswick 1,232,927 pounds. INCREASED BUTTER PRODUCTION. From all over the Dominior. come reports of yet further augmented pro- duction this year, especially in the Western Provinces, where the remark- able progress achieved in the dairy in- dustry in the post-war period is being continued without abatement. Sas- katchewan for instance, in the first five months of the present year pro- duced 5,082,631 pounds of butter as against 3,891,584 pounds in the same period in 1925, an increase of 30.6 per cent. Looking back to the years be- fore the war, the advance of the Do- minion in this connection has been quite outstanding. Canadian butter production in 1915 was only 83,991,453 pounds, that of a decade later showing an increment of 115 per cent. The development of the export trade in butter has been quite as re- markable. In 1915 the Dominion ex- ported 2,724,913 pounds of butter and .ten years later almost ten times this volume. Very largely this has been attributable to the rapid progress of the industry in Western Canada, which in brief time have transformed themselves from an importing to an exporting territory. Manitoba, for in- stance, which in 1914 imported 20 car- loads of butter for domestic consump- tion, in 1925 exported 316 carloads. Saskatchewan last year sent abroad '77.4 per cent. of its total production of creamery butter amounting to nearly 16,000,000, and almost one- third of Alberta's butter production has been going to the -United King- dom. BRITAIN'S INCREASED PURCHASES, Butter exports in the last three fis- cal years have been respectively 13,- 648,968 pounds worth $5,070,691; 24,- 501,981 pounds worth $8,715,962; and 23,303,865 pounds worth $8,773,126. The outstanding feature of the export trade in the past few years, apart from the steadily widening scope of markets, has been the growing popular- ity of the Canadian product on the British market. In this connection it is interesting to note the sweeping triumph of the Western Canadian pro- vinces at the last Dairy Show in Lon- don, where the first prize in the salted butter class went to Alberta and the second to Manitoba, whilst Saskat- chewan secured the premier award in the unsalted class. Britain's purchases of Canadian butter increased from 4,371,197 lbs. in 1924 to 15,802,953 lbs. in 1925, and to 18,110,399 lbs. in 1926. In the same period sales to the 'United States have • declined from 6,394,927 lbs. in 1924 to 1,777,427 lbs. in 1926. The next heav- iest purchaser of the Dominion pro- duct is Germany, which last year took 867,370 lbs., followed by Newfound- land with 500,551 lbs. and Jamaica 354,922 lbs. Much Canadian butter is passing out of the Pacific coast ports to the Orient and last year Japan purchased 306,308 lbs. and China 294,526 lbs. Bermuda was another heavy importer with purchases aggre- gating 285,309 lbs. Canadian butter . is now going to nearly all countries with which Canada trades and con tinualiy adding new markets. • It would be better if more brooms were worn out in the poultry house, "Why won't you go to the corn field ehie morning, Bobbie?" "I wouldn't go out there for anything. Didn't Uncle Tom say at breakfast that the corn had begun to shoot?' To make an egg a day, weighing 1.8 ounces, it is necessary for a hen (weighing found pounds or under) to nonsume .48 ounce of protein, .2 ounce pure fat, and 2.8 ounces of carbo- hydrates, or their equivalent in fat, In extremely cold weather more carbo- hydrates and fat are required, Protect the Home Market F,or Canada, more especially for Ontario and Quebec, the stage is all set for a tremendous developrnent. The fabulous wealth of our North Country—now established beyond question—needs only the assurance of honestand gable government to attract capital, and immigration cin a. scale that will inaugurate, a period, of unprecedented prosperity.*A few years hence' Ontario there may _easily be a population of .1,000,000 north of the Great Lakes and the Ottawa River. • All of which means a big and profitable market. for farm products. That market should be reserved exclusively for Canadian farmers. Elect a Conservative Government, and it will be so reserved. For the Conservative Party stands pledged to see that the Canadian farmer is as adequately protected in this market as the United States farmer is in his. As Mr. Meighen stated at Midland on August 3rd, "We will make it as hard for the American farmers to get their surplus shipments into. Canada, as they are now making it difficult for the Canadian farmer to get his surplus into the United States." What Others Have Done You Too Can Do! The farmers of Canada have shown that they can march abreast of the whole world in quality pro- duction. Also they have made giant strides in increasing the quantity of their production. But in the business -like, efficient marketing of their products they have failed to keep pace. Little Denmark has developed a system of co- operative marketing that has made her one of the most efficient and prosperous agricultural countries in the world. Australia and New Zealand have both made the orderly marketing of their products a matter of national policy. Don't let Canada lag behind any longer! Promises are Good but Actions are Better. For the United States farmer, the • season ,for "seasonable" produce -- all kinds of fruits and . vegetables— opens much earlier than it does for When your cherries, or your tomatoes, arefirst • ready to pick, his production of cherries or tomatoes' is at its peak. Heretofore, in order to avoid breaking prices in • his own market, he has been accustomed to dump • his surplus production, on yours. • - in less than three weeks. from the time it tooll office, the Conservative administration effectually stopped this prattice' by rigid enforcement of the dumping regulations Co -Operative Marketing Every farmer who knows his business hopes to —produce in larger quantity, and still be able to -sell the increase without breaking the market ; —produce in a better quality, and obtain the premium to which he should thereby be entitled. Both hopes can be realized — quickly and in full measuse — through co -Operative marketing! ' The proper procedure, as regards organization, the proper technique as regards standards, grading, etc., and the proper methods of financing, are now an open book that all who will may read and profit by. In the,five years he was in office, Mr. King did absolutely 'nothing to bring the blessing of co-operative marketing within reach of Canadian farmers. But— Mr. Meighen stands pledged, if returned to power—to quote his own words from an addvess delivered in Ottawa on July 20th—"to put into force such a policy as will enable the farmers of Canada to build up a marketing system which will compare in efficiency with that of any agricultural country in the world." And this pledge will be carried out, even as Mr. Meighen's pledge to stop the dumping on the Canadian market of United States fruits and vegetables has already been carried out! Yours is the choice—yours the responsibility—on September 14th. if you would unlock the double door to prospcaity, the key for which it Meighen offers you or for -• Do You Know a River? Rivers are among the most Paseinat- ing chapters in the world -old book of nature. They have exercised strong influence upon peoples, back to re- motest times. Primitive man no less than the modern hature lover has felt the mysterious appeal GE running water, often ignorant of whence it, came or whither it went. The inces- sant flow and living changefulness of rivers has deeply impressed men. One ancient thinker long ago noted: "You cannot step into the same river twice, for fresh and ever fresh waters are constantly pouring into it." The beauty of running water, the frequent music of Its going, the kindly fertility it brings to fields in its course, these have all been sources of xgger and South arkets uron Liberci,cooservotivc victory cenunittre, 35 King Streetgest, Toronto 2 Wonder. There are few more bene- ficent things in nature than rivers. It is well to try to know at least one river, its beginnings and its 'endings, its quiet and its tumultuous moods. It should be known not only in its higher and lonely reaches, as Borrow knew the Severn at its source. One should know something of the country through which it passes and its chang- ing character, now open and sunlit, now narrow and gorgelike. Our know- ledge should include the flowers that grow on its banks and the birds that nest there and the fish that swim in its waters, What wealth of interest may be found in river friendship is seen in the case of Thoreau. Emerson says: "The river on whose banks be was born . . he knew from 'its springs mysalINICI to its confluence with the Merrimack. He made summer and winter observe- dons on it for ninny years, and at every hour of day and night. Every fact which occurs in the bed, on the banks, or in the air'over it; the fishes and their spawning and nests, their' 'manner and food; . . the conical heaps cf small stones in the river shal- lows ;the huge nests of small fishes, one of which will sometimes overfill a cart; the birds which frequent the stream, heron, cluck, sheldrake, loon, osprey; the snake, muskrat,. otter, wemichuck, and fox, on the banks (the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which made the banks vocal—were all known to him, end as it were, townsmen and' fellow creatures." Such was Thoreau's friendship with the Concord. There are a thousand rivers that d 1 enriching and de - may a or equa light. The End of Summer. When poppies in the garden bleed, And coreopsis goes to seed, And pansies, blossoming past their prime, Grow small and smaller all the time, When on the mown field, shrunk and dry, Brown dock and purple thistles lie, And smoke from forest fires at noon Can make the sun appear the moon, When apple seede, all white before, Begin to darken at the core, I know that summer, scarcely here, Is gone until another year. --Edna St. Vincent 'Wiley. , 't.Os 05t English King Prohibited Use of Coal 500 Years Age. In 1308 King Edward I„ after long conferences with his Ceufaselors, pro. mulgated a decree forbidding the use of coal in London and suburbs, "be- cause of the sulfurous smoke and sav- our of the firing," and commanded all persons to make their.fires of "ba,vins," that is, wood and charcoal. But the great kind died during the following year and was succeeded by Edward II., to whose wishes nobody ever paid much attention, and the anti - coal ordinances presently fell into desuetude. About the same time the ironworkers of Westphalia were charged with polluting the atmosphere of the whole cpuntryside and endan- gering the Stings anerlives of the popu- lotion, and they, too, were forbid 15 to use coal: But coal had. become necessary to their business, and this law, like the one in England, was grad- ually nullified. . "Idiomatic" Phrases, An "Idiomatic" phrase is a phrase the meaniug of which cannot be under- stood Stain the Words composing it. Examples are: "To bring about," "to carry out," "to put "up with," "to set about,'1 "to be hard witb," We alt h:now what these phrases mein—but the words don't really tell us. 'Idiom" comes from the Greek and means, broadly, "peculiar to one's, people." Ants frequently live; for fully los