The Seaforth News, 1944-04-20, Page 2OTTAWA REPORTS
That Food Production In Canada
Has Increased 150 Percent
Over Pre -War Levels
The Canadian farmer, by his
food production efforts is playing
a gL eat part in winning the war,
and at the saint time is helping
to lay the foundation for perman-
ent world peace, K. W. Taylor,
Wartime Prices and Trade Board's
food co-ordnator, told foods of-
ficers at an Ottawa conference re-
cently. With a labor force only
75 percent of the pre-war total,
Canadian agriculture has increased
food production 150 percent over
pre-war levels.
"We can't look for a decent and
lasting peace settlement in Europe
if negotiations are carriedonin an
atmosphere of hunger, misery and
despair," said Mr, Taylor. "It is
in our interests to see that the
people of Europe get at least basic
requirements so as to arouse in
them hope for the future,"
Much of the food for Europe
at the end of the war will have
to be sent from Canada and the
United States.
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St,ipments of food to Greece will
lst increased to 31,200 tons monthly
in 1944,. Prince Minister King
announced early this month in
the House of Commons. The
major part of the increase consists
of 0,000 tons of wheat a month,
a gift by the Argentine Govern-
ment. This will be in addition
to 15,000 tons monthly sent to
Greece since that summer of 1942
as a gift of the Canadian people.
The United States will supply
through lend-lease monthly 4,700
tons of pulse (peas, beans. etc.);
1,000 tuns of fish; 000 tons of veget-
able stew mix; 500 tons spaghetti;
300 torts soup; and 600 tons can-
ned milk.
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Experiments conducted at the
Dominion Experimental Farms,
Napan, N. S., an a medium clay
loam soil, (not nnderdrained), in-
dicate that a direct saving can be
made in reducing the average rate
of seeding. Over a period of 15
years, oats seeded at 2 bushels an
acre gave a yield of 40% bushels;
at i4 bushels the yield was 50
bushels, and at 3j bushels, the
yield was 83.7 an acre. When bar -
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help in general nervousness, sleep-
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and irritability due to nervousness.
In'tho meantime, eat more natural
food.... get your vitamins and take
sufficient rest. Effervescing Nervine
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ley was seeded at 134 bushels an
acre, the 5 -year .yield was 30.0
bushels; at 2j4 bushels an acre the
yield was 35,4 oushels, while the
3 -bushel rate of seediag gave 35
bushels an acre. 1 gists also in-
dicate that the heavier 'grain seed-
ings have a tendency to reduce the
clover yield the following year,
* * *
This year as last, farmers are
asked by the Dominion Depart-
ment of Agriculture to tie fleeces
with paper twine which does not
injure the wool. When a fartnter
tics fleeces with binder or other
sisal twine, Ile has to take a dis-
count of a cent a pound .front the
market price of clean wool because
fragments from sisal often become
tangled with the wool and siaow
up light in woven cloth since
sisal does a not take the dye.
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A fifty -cent subsidy on every
pound of packaged bees imported
f,om the United States up to
June 15 as encouragement to far-
mers to go into honey production
is announced by Wartime Prices
and Trade Board. It will also
help offset increased costs of U.S.
s . cks, it is pointed out by the
Board.
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Little pigs don't need much 'iron
but they do require More than the
sow supplies in her milk. The
Dominion Department of , Agri-
culture advises that one of the
simplest ways to provide this
necessity is to give each litter a
sod or shoveful of earth every two
or three days until the pigs are
four weeks old. Sucklings pigs
raised indoors need - iron if they
ale to stay lively and healthy. If
they cannot be given earth, thein
tiny amounts of chemical iron
should be fed, but if the latter is
used, direction should be followed
carefully. Too much is not only
wasteful but may be harmful,
SCOUTING .
New Zealand now ]las 13,000
registered Buy Scouts.
• The Chins tip- Fund, raised by
Canadian Boy Scouts to help their
brother Scouts in Britain and ht
conquered Europe after the war,
has just passed the 214,000 stark.
*
light year old Roger Widdowson,
a British Wolf Cub has for • s past
year been Staging Punch and Judy
shows for his friends. In that time
lie has raised nearly 2135 which lie
has put into War Savings,
* * *
:1. record unigt.e in Canadian
Scouting was chalked up recently
when ten members of tite 8th Osh-
awa, Sea Scout Troop received their
King's Scout Badges at one time.
The - King's Scout is the highest
rank available to Boy Scouts and
was inaugurated at the suggestion
of the late King Edward VIT.
1, * *
Just before he died at Edmonton
recently, -Dr. Geo. H. hfalconnson,
former Provincial Commissioner of
the Boy Scouts Association in Al-
berta asked that the Scout Promise
be repeated at his futneral. ThisWas
done by W. T. Dick, President of
the Alberta Boy Scouts Associa-
tion who was attended by a guard
of honour of Boy Scouts.
March Sets Record -
For New Planes
Aircraft assembly lines in the
United States moved at record
speed in March with 0,118 new
'planes, Aircraft Production Chief
Charles E. Wilson reported,
Nearly 87 percent, of the 'places
were combat craft—fighters, bom-
bers and transports, '1'h- previous
monthly', record was 8,700 in Febru-
ary.
•Wilson said tic "remarkable"
March output may represent the
:10.4 aircraft prodecti':n. peak.
THE WAR ...WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events
Britain On Eve Of Invasions
Lull On The Italian Front
England last week was so
caovvded with invasion forces that
Britons had to change their way
of daily life, ,says the New Pork
Times, They had been used to
queuing up for rationed foods;
now they were queuing up- for
biases and tubes, for places in a
lunchroom or tea shop. Civilians
had to leave for their jobs earlier
and get home later, . In London
the streets were jammed with
British, Dominion and Allied
troops. "Snowdrops" — the Loss -
don nickname for white -helmeted
American military police -- Wert
patroliug the sidewalks in ever -
greater numbers, Londoners could
catch a glimpse of a four -starred
black limousine rushing General
Eisenhower from one conference to
another. Someone said: "That car
attracts as touch attention as roy-
alty used to."
Invasion Date Set
This is England's Fifth year 0t
war, the third spring which has
been filled with invasion talk. Bri-
tons are tired and war weary,• but
this time they know the invasion
of Europe is really coming, that
the date has been set, At merchant
marine officer recently returned
from England said: "It looks to me
as though you could walk from
Land's End to Edinburgh on pack-
ing cases, trucks tanks and air-
planes." There is still room, how-
ever, for signs of spring to poke
through, crocus and daffodils are
in bloom, gardeners find moments
to spend on eases a.s well as veget-
ables.
Russian Advances
I.oudon's- heauades last week
told of the great new Rtassian ad-
vances: They told, too. of new
BEARING UP
Like most visitors to Australia,
Lt. -Col. Mary Agnes Brown, WAC
director in the southwest Pacific.
is quick to make friends with the
Teddy -bear -like koala, No. 1 pet
of the Aussies.
regulations cuverng. the coastal'
areas of England facing the Con-
tinent; of the severance of tele-
phone connection with Leland "as
part of the general measures to
prevent a possible leak of vital
inforination" of the cancellation
of all leave and travel permits for
nientbcrs of the British armed
forces, although this was said to
he aimed chiefly at preventing an
Laster week -end travel jam,
Domestic Crisis
While all -these things were heigh-
tening tension in 1!rtish minds a
domestic crisis arose. Strikes in
Britain's coal muses, which have
Waxed and waned for six weeks
while disputes over wages and con-
ditions of work were under con-
sideration spread to new mining
areas and broke out in other in-
dustries, About Og000 miners went
out in Yorkshire, 20;000 shipyard
apprentices in Clydeside and Tyne-
side struck, about 30,000 shipyard,
aircraft and ettgitteering workers
were reported out in .Belfast Ap-
peals by Government and labor
leaders brought some mens brick to
their jobs and all signs pointed
to a more general return after the
Easter week -end.
There was no sign that problems
had been solved and the crisis met.
-'.s a result the British War Cabinet
drafted a new regulation to lasnke
the incitement and fomenting of
strikes an offense against the state.
The powerful Trades Union Con-
gress, joining Labor itlinister
Ernest Devin in warning against
outlaw strikes, said a csntiauance
of work stoppages would bring
about a !major national _disaster,.
imperiling the prosecution of the
war and labor's future.
Italian 'Lull
On - the Italian front last week
there was a loll in the fighting.
.Artillery was engaging in violent
duels --no fun for those where the
shells laird, but involving only a
few people, Planes were in the
air now ' and again, brit their
activities meant little to the Hien
on the ground. The Germans had
tried a sizable thrust. at the Anzio
beachhead, but had been pushed
back. Even patrol activities fell
off.
A lull does not mean that the
• frontline soldier is called back to
the rear areas. He stays right
Where he is—in or near his fox-
hole, He sleeps nsore, perhaps
takes more time to eat his K
rations, He uuty even try to
write a letter, if he can find a
flat surface, But shellfire is
usually audible even if the bursts
and the 'scream - of fragments are
not close. Such luxuries as a -
show line for hot food and a
chance to wash himself and his
c otic; are far froth possible,
even though the fight has slacken -
Hope For Letters
t\'ithin their limited areas of
rttnvetnent the soldiers at ,such
times are apt to go in for slightly
longer and tsrikier "hall sessions".
They gripe about the usual sub -
NAZI BATTLESHIP CAUGHT BY BOMBERS
The 41,000 -ton Nazi battleship Tirpitse is pictured as it lay he -p,. in
Norway's Altera Fjord while British dive -bombers scored at least 24
hits on her. Caught by surprise, the previously crippled ship was at-
tacked on April 3 by the largest group of aircraft ever concentrated
against one ship.
VOICE
OF- THE
PRESS
Battle Of Britain
A sentence in a speech by Flight
Lieu-, Teeling, in the recent for-
eign affairs 'debate, in the IIouse
of Commons, provokes fruitful re-
flectios: "People do not realize
that only 700 people took
part in the battle of Britain,
wbich was as important in many
ways as Trafalgar and Waterloo."
—London Spectator
—o—
Fighting Gurkhas
As a fighting man none is better
than the Gurkha of India, A. unit of
them underwent a trying ordeal for
twelve days on hangman's llil! at
Cassino, but they returned with
their assoi•ale unshaken..
—:Hamilton Spectator
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"Dream" Horne
.1 "dream hone" is a place to live
in where the taxes are low, the in-
sulation thick, the dog friendly,
the neighbors generous, the garden
pretty; the outloolc good, the inlook
better.
—Loudon Free Press
Like•The Front Line
Here's how you can get a pretty
fair idea of what the front is like,
according to a paragrapher. Note
how you feel when Jightniug keeps
striking close and multiply by 10,-
000.
--Kittliener Record
No Guns Needed
Lard boundary between Canada
and the United States is marked by
5,483 monuments — and no guns.
European nations, please note,
—Chatham News
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From
0_From Bad To Worse
A contemporary says Germany
has lost her reputation. It would
be more accurate to say that site
has made a had one worse.
•-13rantforai Expositor
New Diamond Field
Developed In Urals
i.)uring the war inittensive dia-
mond mining ]las developed in an
arca of the Western Urals. The
Urals' "Diamond Land" was dis-
covered in 1829, when the first
Russian diamond was found in this
area. ]luring an entire century
only 230 diamonds were trained.
-After the Revolution the "Dia-
mond Land" was carefully explored
and its industrial exploitation be-
gun. The deutaud for diamonds,
which arc widely used in the min-
ing, rubber, silk and weaving indus-
tries, and above all in tank and
aviation construction, has increas-
ed greatly during the war,
As a result, new mining districts
with small electric power stations,
industrial buildings, dwellings and
clubs have sprung tap in the dia-
mond area of the Urals, where for-
merly there was only virgin forest,
and even the huts of trappers were
few and far between. - -
jests, talk a little shop, then swing
into talk about -sports or things
at home, They smoke plenty of
cigarettes, hitt they light n0 fires
in the open oto matter itow cold it
gets, Smoke by day or flame by
night are too obvious targets, The
sten at a mortar site get off a few
sl.elis, "just For practice" as they
say. No matter where a span is
there is always a hope that e courier
will come sq. asith letters, for the
mail follows the infantry into the
most incredible places.
Waiting And Waiting
Basically, when a unit is in the
line a period like the present brings
li•tle rest in the usual sense, It is
all waiting and more waiting —
eitlaer for ettcany shells or bombs
or for wtord to he relayed along
from the compasiy commander
through the platoon leader that
something is up that will mean
the end of the break, What the
next "something" would be wits not
clear last Week, In recent weeks
both sides have tried stiff offensives
and both sides have been stopped.
Cassino was still in German hands;
the small beachhead below Rome
was still in Allied !lands with a
small gam repotted yesterday. The
current staler nate was rusuting into
its third week and further Allied
progress scented to hinge on new
decisions by the High Command.
WHEREZIT:
Map above shows how Japanese
forces invading India from Burma
have cut, north and south of
Imphal, the Manipur Road main
supply route for British forces
operating in the Kabaw Valley.
Above Imphal, British supply base
for the area, Jap thrust may turn
north westward against railroad
which connects with Ledo Road
and supplies Chinese-American
troops driving southward toward
Jap base at Myitkyina.
Diamonds are found in four diis-
tict colours, The absolutely colour-
less, known as "white," are the
most valuable; next come blue,
yellow and brown,
BACKACHE?
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