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The Seed Oat Situation in
Ontario, 1927
SAVORY DRIED -
BEEF DISHES
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The Dirt crop of Ontario usually BY ELIZABETH SIIAFFER.
eccupiesi about three. million acres of That the jar of dried beef on the,
land incl in the last ten years hay bad Pantry shelf is . invaluable et times
a market value varying el dirrerent when the trips to town for fresh meat,
years •from forty mullion to one hung must be few and far betwoeaar o' the:
died million dotar •. To sow this supply of hoInaabutchered meat ie ex -
large acreage from five to seven mil- haunted; may well be listed as one'of,
lino bushels of seed oats are required the things that every fano woman
rge quantity. knows. it I db think that often we
Fearshave been expressed by many trouble ourselves toolittle in our pre-
faimees that there will be ;a shortage paration" of thio staple. Just because
of seed oats this spring. It is true dried beef can, if necessary, be served'
that there will not be available as the Way it Donee from the jar or be -
large a• quantity of high class seed cause we have become used to serving
•
as oma other year^s. The seed it frizzled, or, if creamed, always on
sittit however, rs not oddity as toast in just the same old;vay ts no.
belt tis oine have painted it. The un- reason why we 'should continue such
favorable harvest conditions of last practices indlefinitely,
year m many pleats of Ontario pro- I Dried beef may be prepared in few-
duc oats rather dark in color assd er wayis than some meats, perhaps, but
rather light in -weight. Gerieination this is only another reason why we
tests, however; at the Field Husbandry ahauld strive to achieve as much var-
Dept. at Guelph; The Dominion Seed i'ety as Possible. Mos ofthe methods.
Laboratories at Toronto ;and Ottawa, of preparing dried beef use the meat
sand et the different Short Courses creamed as a foundation: The dried
now being held in different parte of beef May, be creamed in two ways.
Ontario have 'shown that many of .Here is the first one:..
these samples of oat's are germinating lei, pound of dried beef, 3 tablespoon-
surprisingly well and will be all right Pule of flour, 3 tablespoonfuls of but-
ter or bacon fat, 1'/z cupfuls of milk,
speak of pepper.
Shred the beef into small pieces.
Melt the butter CT bacon fat in a pan
and blend into it the flour and pepper.
Add the milk gradually. Stir until
thick, add the beef arid cook a few
minutes longer. Most dried beef .is so
Balt that it is unnecessary to ;add -Wily
to combinations . in which the meat ie
used. If it is too 'salty let the (fried
beef stand in hot water ten minutes
before using.
Tho second mtehod is
Use the 'same quantities of ingredi-
ents as for No. 1. Shred'the beef.
Melt the butter or beton fat in a fry-
ing pan -and in it brown the shredded'
beef. Dredge with the hour, and add
the milk slowly, stirring the mixture
until thick.
Piquancy may be added to the
creamed dried beef by the 'addiction of
chopped pimiento, green pepper or
stuffed olives.
Creamed dried beef may be served,
not only on hot toast, but equally well
on mashed potatoes, hot boiled rice or
hominy. When served on any one of
these cached eggs may top the cream-
ed dried beef.
Sometime. try mixing the creamed
dried beef with a cupful of bread
crumbs and two sliced hard-boiled
eggs. Pour the mixture into en oiled
baking llish and bake about . twenty
minutes in a moderate oven.
Por baked macaroni and dried beef
boil one-half cupful of macaroni, ;drain,
and rinse in cold water. 'Then altern-
ate layers of nnacaaani-and creamed
dried beef, sprinkle with buttered
crumbs and bake.
Eggs and Dried Beef No. 1. Shred
one-quarter pound dried beef. Melt a
tablespoonful of bacon fat in a frying
pan and ;add four eggs, beaten well
and combined with one-quarter eupful
of milk end the shredded beef. Stir
constantly until the eggs are •set.
Eggs and Dried Beef No. 2. Shred
cine -quarter pound of dried beef and
brown it in ;butter until crisp. Add to
it one-half cupful of grated c'he'ese
;and one cupful of stewed tomatoes,
highly seasoned. "Simnnee four oe fire
minutes before stirring in three well -
beaten eggs. Continue heating slowly
until the mixture is of the consistency
of scrambled eggs. Serve on ,hot but-
tered toast.
j, for seed.
It'sfiould be remembered that these
i'^• oats though not quite up to the stan-
dard in appearance are already ac-
climatized to Ontario, condition's and
have proven thein worth when grown
,, in previous years. These oats are e
better seed proposition for the Ontario
farmer than C.W. Oats (Casvadian
Western Oats). _'
SIDg oe :KANE OATS.
Agents and representatives of Am-
eridan seed houses: ere very active this
spring selling seed oats an different
e parts of Ontario. Perhaps the most
extravagantly advertised of these var-
ieties is the Mammoth Cluster. This
• is a white grain;side or mane oat and
like all this class •of oats its appear-
ance is much better than .its perform-
',
once.
-The Experimental Dept. at Guelph
has tested in ell over four hundred
different varieties of oats. Nearly
seventy-five of these were side or inane
oats. As a class theses side er m'an'e
oats do not yield within several bush-
els pesai e of such spread'iirg traded
varieties, as the O.A.C. No. 144 or
Banner. They have' rather heavy
coarse straw but not strong straw.
t Tho thickest hulled and :consequently
oats of poorest quality are found in
this tying of oats. In, addition to these.
,yrs cb r, rs•they are poor stoolers endune .tri ripening in the field. Many
"'farmers in Ontario am buying seed
oats of the Mammoth Cluster and
ttha -chin %sets( varieties and paying
from $2 to $2.60 per bushel for them
and have in their own grain, bins seed
oats which will produce more oats per
acre of b•ettee quality. .
The O:A.C. No. 144, the O.A.C. Na.
72, Banner, and O.A.C. No. 3 varieties
have been tested by the Experimental
Union on hundreds of farm's situated
all over the Province of Ontario and
• ,i have protan their superiority both in
yield and quality over the best var-
+ietiee of the side DT inane type of oat,
Of twenty-nine varieties under test
at Guelph for the last five years, the
O.A.0 No. 144 ranked first in aveage
yyaieid of grain pelt acre, outyielding
the best variety of the side or mane
S at -by an Average of 21.06 bushels per
acre.. Farmers in the majority - of
,rases will be well advised
to: so•w'the
.
hest seed,ef the oats which they grew
In 1926.
!' l' Wheu'q the fanner finds that it is
Sab'Soluto i3- n•ecessary, to buy seed oats
kood seed of the O.A.C. No. 144, O.A.
g ,
Q. No. 72 and Banner varieties can be
ebtaiaad in Ontario ; his sp�r.i'ng and
are now selling at not much ,Amore than
half the price asked for the Mammoth
Cluster variety.
The Dept. of Field Husbandry ;at
Guelph, The Dominion Seed Branch,.
86 Collier street, Toronto, or Peter
Stewart, Seebary of the. Canadian
Seed CTroivers' Association, 114 Vic-
toria street, Ottawa, will be glad to
put •farniersein touch with growers.
Who have good sued oats for sale.
Flax for Fibre.
Uniformity of sail, freedom from
weeds,'glood r bainage end a fair• degree
of •fertility nee important factors in
the •production of a satrsfactcrry crop
d fibre flax. If the soil is not uniform
the Orap of fibre will be irregular in
• giiality and cause trouble in rating
mid scut Freedom from weeds
ae ale their presence makes
taxies �fficnit.
The laird on which flax seed is to be
sown ehould lw,N,e been,plowect in the
fall. :In tdbe&pring "es soon ors the
land is fit foe preparation it should
be worked to 'a very fine filth and
rolled with a heavy roller before sow -
Flex seed Ouitabie""for sowing ellauld'..
be ,capable of 'gersninatiti g • at least 9'i)
per cera., :and be practically free from
weed' seeds 'and of a bright chocolate
polbi'; Tests made at several r of the
Dominion Experimental reams shone
that Ri,ga Blue and Dutch' Blue ,are
two of the most Pa+:idea: m varieties
varlLetes give better results than im'- Publications lin+auclt df the Dept. of
tented esea • • Agriculture, Ottawa, at a nominal
Flax
for. fibre skaldcharge of ton cents. No onto ene�
always he p g -d
Sown bl-&adc,tot. Sowing. at, the nate be placed on letters of :application.
of 1r4 bushels per acre is getveeally
iy
Farmer's Account Book.
Frequent reference has been mad,
in recent issues of the farm press to
the desirability of making an inven-
tory or taking stook of farm supplies,
,implements, live stock, etc., during the
month of March. - The •suggestion is a
good one and the Dominion Experi-
mental Farms System has published
an extremely simple Farmer's Account
Book in which are several pages espe-
cially designed - to': assist the, farmer:
in making such an inventory. To
"keep accounts" in this book requires
no special knowledge of accounting,
shnply the ability to write. and add,
and a record of transactions can often
be made in less than one hour a week.
A. few plain directions as to making
entries and taking inventories, a table,
of silo capacity,' and a gestation table
are given on the inside -cover' pages of
the book;'
There aro pages- for the„entries of
receipts and expenditures (both 3 of
which may be seen ;at a glance on the
sante page) relative to cattle, horses,
sheep, swine, poultry,, crops and. labor,
and ample space for miscellaneous
items. There is a page on which to
record anasinits owed to and owed by
the faint and forms on which may be
made inventories of., land, buildings,
live stock, feed, supplies and machin-
ery. There is also apage whore the
year's business inay be suimnarized,
with a few directions to assist in fill-
ing out`httelligently at the end of tike
year. Further, th re is a table on
)which. to enter acreagegand iel i.
y c1 ortilps
and one OD which to keep a five stock
service record.
s end .th0 ho - The book nolo
ore grotvav seed of .these Y. be obtained from the
the 'hat the tents carried out After the heart muscle, the (ile-
a
o different Experimental Farms' pllrag'in muscle: is the most: important
nndioate that the yield of fibre may be in the human body, as it is able to do
ilndioased by' a heavier application of all the breathing required t
1 g q o maintain
ren
filo, p to two,btrshelssener sacra. rife.
SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA
1926
ASSURANCES IN FORCE (net) 4
An Increase of $235,393,0
OF
1,256,490,000
00
265,889,000
78,972,000
New Assurances Paid For -
An Increase of $72,412,000
Total Income -
An Increase of $9,825,000
Payments to Policyholders and
Beneficiaries - -
Total Payments SinceOrganiza-
tion
Reserve for. Unforeseen Con-
tingencies
Surplus over all Liabilities and:
Contingency Reserve -
An Increase of $5,371,000
ASSETS at December 31,1926
An Increase of $42,195,000
, 38,5 76,000
257,816,000
11,000,000
34,0 i 1,000
345,251,000
Dividends to Policyholders increasedfo
seventh• successive year
TRE,NGTH
EXTRACTS FROM DIRECTORS' REPORT '
The operations during the past year have re-
sulted in substantial advances in all ,depart-
ments. ... .
The new policies paid for. . . . almost double
the figures of two years ago. '
The assurances in force, after deduction of
reassurances, .... show an increase of
over twenty-three per cent.
Policies and group certificates now outstand-
ing'aggregate well in excess of half a million. '
The figures relating to resources and earning
power are equally satisfactory.
The high quality and profitable character of
our investments has again been demonstrated.
As a result of continued reduction in prevailing
rates of interest, and of satisfactory industrial
conditions, there has been a further rise inithe
market values of our longterm bonds and of
our preferred and other.atocks. The appraisal of
our securities made by the Government Insur-
ance .Department shows that the excess of
market values over cost has increased during the
year by $6,894,266.26. In addition, the sum
of $1,729,364.52 has been realized as net profit
from the redemption or sale of municipal deben-
tures and other securities which had risen to
high premiums. The rate of interest earned on
the mean invested assets has also risen to the
remarkable figure of 6.69 per cent, as the result
of substantial dividend increases, bonuses, and
stock privileges received in connection wi
many of our holdings.
The quality of the investments listed in th
assets may be judged from the fact that o
99.55 per cent of the bonds and on 99.71 pe
cent of the preferred stocks, not one dollar of in-
terest or dividend is in arrear•for even one day.
On our common stocks the dividends now being
received are greatly in excess of the dividends
payable on the same stocks at time of purchase.
The total surplus earned during the year
amounted to $20,457,077.28. From this the
following appropriations have been made:
The sum of $2,000,000 has been de-
ducted from the official valuation of our se-
curities to provide for possible fluctuations in
market values. This raises the amount set
aside for this purpose to $5,000,000.
In other words, the value at which our
securities are carried in the balance sheet is
$5,00,0,000 less than the appraisal made
by the Government authorities.
The account to provide for unforeseen con-
tingencies has been increased by $1,000,000
bringing the total under this heading to
$11,000,000.
The book value of our Head Office building
has been written down by a further sum of
$250,000 "though it certainly could not
be replaced at even its original cost.
wit
An additional amount of $400,000 has
been set aside to provide for greater longevity
e of annuitants. The total held under this head -
n engin excess of Government requirements,
✓ is now $1,500,000.
The reserves on the newly acquired busi-
ness of the Cleveland Life, and on other re-
assured policies, have been'raised to the same
high standard as that used for the valuation
of liabilities under our own contracts.
To our policyholders, profits have been
paid orailotted during the year to the amount
of $9,235,526.80.
After making these deductions and alloca-
tions an addition of $5,371,564.56 has been
made to the undivided profits. The surplus
over all liabilities; contingency accounts and
capital stock, now stands at $34,011,565.25.
For six years in succession we have increased
the profits to participating policyholders. Dur -
Win this period our profit scale,fiasbeen doubled.
ile the assurances in force have multiplied
two and a half times since 1920, the amoun t
paid or allotted as profits to policyholders has
multiplied five and a half times.. We are gratified
to announce, for the seventh consecutive time,
a further increase in the scale of profits to be
distributed to our policyholders in the ensuing
year.
SUN
LIFE A
NY
SANITATIONINCREASES for crops, the better it -will support,' "l " _...
1 R Dtt6 - fl also, pf , Dale for the dint. Germs cannot
��N o, germ life. We cannot, therefore ) bre
attack these germs bydecreasing i ri in' the ;absence of varnish
r rnisre and
n•ourishnient veil.
g theinrate 'hment. Pa.iat and once i15 obva-
of the veil. 't his would i irate "dirt."
deestroy alllife implanted then s' The inference is painted P e, sed o�tre; germs cannot thrive on p�arnted
as well 'as spore. We aro forced, there- surfaces. There Ste no greateraidsfore, to attack the problems of rattail- to':farm sanitation which mea
titian from a,ns farm
tbther angle. health, than paint and vanish.
The earth is merely a storehouse
for the ear's energy. Every farmer
knows that "good old Mother Earths
is the source and support of all wee -
tion. . Therefore, we 'do not dare
"tamner with the soil. We should only
put more nourishment into the evil to
BY FRANK PRICE HECKEL.
There isno respect in which modem cleanliness alone as a means of pee -
foaming, methods differ so widely from ventron. The discovery of germs and
those of the past generation as in the their modes of t he
he ismiesion, and the
matter of sanitation. It may truth- pioneer work of the whose
n•bal Pasteur
fully be said that the comparatively ?a yah fasld- n de whose. mote, "pas-
ecent adoption 'b fanner. p y way, has been den•ived the term " and
p
of the principles f' s generally toiarized"—has changed gall this aii�
p p hygiene, has peeve,brought to: the farmer' • t d
d to be the cornerstone in buildings atte.nt.on the
.m
he modern structure of scientific poitanco of sanliLati1n.
arming. HIDDEN HIDDEN GERMS Or DISEASE.
0
t
>fa
The Intense competition to which It has been'definite]
armors have •a.l a S established,
w ys been subject, has Haat the germs of disease lurk in, many
erved to keep themabreast of the unsuspected places. Substances that
eiordinary condi
life-giving under •_
tions, -may be death -dealing• und'er�
other conditions.. Foe example, the
bountiful soil, from which we derive
our very sustenance, is fairly teeming
with the spores of that dread disease,
awe" An
much importance was attached to '
J ;And the more fertil th odl
f
s
tunes. But the vital importance of
sanitation in its relation to production
was but dimly recognized a gonenation
or two ago; and small wonder. In a
day when ignorance and superititi.on
attributed sill des2ass either to chance•
a• to a visitation: of providence, not tetanus, mere commonly called "lock-
. NO DIET NO DISEASE..
It 'is important that the health of
live stock, as well as the health of
the huananebecepants of •a farm be
considered.. In his own interest the
farmer cannot afford to have un
render it, ii possiblo,. more fertile. But healthy live co.tock' or live
-we cant. and should see. to it, that this! !resistance to iiv stock whose
l-ne has been so law-.
dirt," which is et 'once life's camping erredd by.unsaniear housingconditions,
ground and death's burial ground; that they"catch"
o o The
to g itch o.nythiuig going... The
the life -giver ver :an ' � i .,
dt
1 g death c.caler; is :towel •animals acre subject to quit as,
kept where it belongs, outside cf, and many ailments as is Haan'
They must
eev
e
.r
.1 a lnl
tie
d
to 1 to,
the animal, not only be pq•,operlynourishe(, 'but
body. I they must be protected from the germs
Disease andg
n dirt go "hand -in -Ironed. of•di�seia•so if theysere to be k
iy should
a
e may aptly paraphrase' the French healthy condition. Farmers si
y g ; "afflictions" noel( re-
sts in in. moral ifflictions" seek member that health maintenance, both
the woman, by saying: in contagions' for: men. acrd stock, is far more a mat-
ter of prevention than of treatment.
That "en ounce of prevention is worth
a pound of cure" is true. But, in the
light of modern science, we may go
farther. In a strict sense, there is no
"cure" for disease, there is only
treatment. Unfortunately, treatment
does not euro disease, it merely re-
lieves the eulferer. There is :a great
deal of confusion on these petiole. The
only important thing to remember is
that where there is no "dirt" there is
no •disease. In this connection,, the
farmer, who 15 ,Vitally interested irv.
these matter, will do well to.. remem-
ber that if he keeps hie buildings clean
and sanitary; :ie he keeps his outbirild
inigs, particularly those that louse the
live stook, dry and we'll -painted.., he
will establish sanitation, • promote
health and efficiency and thus realize
greater returns an his investment.
Hair
brushes that have become old
and limp may<be stiffened from am time
to time by dipping them in a .'strong•
solution of alum and water, . i'•