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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1931-04-30, Page 3Thurrsday, April 30,th, 1931 "Spring fever means nothi : g t® hirGn o .1° "Notice how he keeps going. all day long while others get dull and drowsy these spring days? It's because he eats right..I happen to know he always eats Shredded Wheat -and Shredded Wheat you. know is the ideal spring tonic. It's light, easy digest and still very nourishing. And it contains all the bran needed for a, clean system and a clear mind." TUG CANADJAN SHREDDED WHEAT COMPANY LTD W TH ALL THE BRAt4 OF THE WHOLE WHEAT Help. Canadian Prosperity by eating TWO "Shredded Wheat" Biscuits a day. 6attabt t Service OF THE edirat A', uriatiun Editcd'by GRANT FLEMING, M.D. ... ASSOCIATE SECRETARY — J COMMUNICABLE DISEASES. 4' The conmmunicable diseases are so named because they have certain characteristics in common, the most outstanding and important being that they are all spread from one person to another. Communicable diseases are caused by living agents called bacteria, par- asites or disease germs. Each dis- ease has its particular germ. The germ of diptheria never causes any disease except diptheria, and so it is with others in the group . The germs are usually passed dir- ectly from one person to another. Most of the communicable diseases from which we suffer in this coun- try are spread in this manner. The germs leave the body in the secre- tions of nose, mouth and. throat. In the acts of coughing, sneezing, ex - WHEN ARIES r n Irv. 'THERE are times r Iwhen• a baby is too fretful or feverish to be sung to sleep. There are somo pains a mother cannot pat away. 13ut there's quick comfort in Castorial ;.. For diarrhea, and other infamrlfle ills, give this pure vegetable prepare - don. Whenever coated tongues tell of constipation; whenever there's any sign of sluggishness. "'astoria has a good taste; children wve to take it, Buy the genuine—with Chas. H, Fletcher signature on wrapper. ' pectorating or loud talking, these se- cretions are thrown out into the sur- rounding air, into the faces of per- sons who are nearby and who receive the germs in, this way. It is obvious that we should cough and sneeze only into .a handkerchief, and that we should not talk directly into another person's face. The saliva is, of course, deposited on all eating and drinking utensils which are placed in the mouth or which come into contact with the lips. If these utensils are used by another person before they have been cleansed, that person takes into his mouth the first individual's saliva, which may contain the germs of dis- ease. That is why it is unsafe to use common eating or drinking utensils, the common drinking -cup constitut- ing a very real danger. It is also why dishes should be thoroughly washed after use and why there are laws requiring the sterilization of dishes in public eating -places. You may agree that such care is reasonable, providing some person in the home is ill and that it appears sensible to • be careful outside the home, but you are apt to feel, when everyone in the home is apparently well, that no particular care is nec- essary, that it is quite all • right for everyone to use the common cup at the sink when drinking between meals. The reason why this is not all right and why you need to take care at all times is first of a11, because it is only by remembering to be care- ful at all times, that you continue to do so when this is necessary. The second reason is that it is not pos- sible to tell which persons have dis- ease germs in their noses and throats. The germ is, of course, present in those suffering from the disease caused by, that particular gents, but germs inay also be present in per- son erson who have recovered, anct in the case of some diseases, even when the person has not ,been ill, The ;spread 'of the communciable diseases may, to some extent, be ar- rested by the control of coughs, sneezes and expectoration, and by the avoidance of common eating and drinking utensils, Questions concerning Health, ad- dressecl to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 134 College St, Toronto, will be answered personally by letter, THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES News and Information, situation in the province; H. B, Clones is manager of the United For the Busy farmer farmers' Co -Operatives J, B, Fair- bairn is Deputy Minister of Agricul- (Furnished by the Ontario Depart^ lure and Mr, Carroll is director of Ment of Agriculture) the Crops and Markets I3ranch. .It is. further announced that sales' ag- Barley Outyields Qats exits, appointed by the shippers, but In periods such as the present, maintained partly by the Governs when the making of a profit requires meat, will be located, in 'Winnipeg, the most careful management, it is Montreal and the Maritimes. Acting of especial interest to note that bar- as liaison` officials, these agents are ley is consistently a more profitable expected to prove invaluable ': in ob- grains crop than oats. This is shown taining for the Ontario grower bet- by statistics over a period of the past ter markets and higher prices for 47 years in Ontario, during which their produce, barley has outyielded oats by approx- imately 160 pounds per acre, while in Too Many Potatoes? years of unfavorable weather, , such Before increasing their acreage, as 1930, the °increase amounts to commercial potato growers should twice that figure, Undoubtedly of all study the market: outlook, advises J. graincrops, barley is least affected A. Carroll of the Crops Co -Opera - by unfavorable o-Opera-byunfavorable' weather. tion and Markets Branch, He points. out that the price of potatoes inOn- Soybean Facts for Ontario Farmers tario is controlled almost entirely by There still continue to be many the size of the North American .crop, enquiries corning to the .Agricultural the larger proportion of which is con - College at Guelph for authentic in tribute(' by the United States. The formation regarding the soybean crop 1930 U.S. crop totalled about 361, - and its possible usefulness in Ontario. 000,000 bushels, Indications are that For this reason a handsome folder acreage will be increased to such an under the above title has been pre- extent that an average yield of 118 pared and can be secured from the bushels would result in a' total of Extension Department at the college. 434,000,000 bushels in 1931, with av- Many varieties of soybeans have been erage weather. Prospects are that under test for many years at the Col- the yield this year will be very little lege and there has been much experi- below that of 1928. The marketing mentation as to the best time of of that crop was disastrous. planting and best methods of grow- Growers should consider very care- ing and handling the crop. The cir- fully before increasing their acreage cular gives brief but definite informa- and concentrate their energy on get - tion about this work, ting a higher yield per acre. It' is For the past two years demonstra- expected that only those with a low tion plots have been placed on a cost per bushel will have a profit number of farms along the highways this year. The surest way to de - from Windsor and Sarnia to Tor- crease the cost per bushel is to in - onto, and this work will be repeated crease the yield per acre. this season. Farmers should watch the growth of these plots throughout the summer. Deforestation Injurious Deforestation throughout Western Ontario was given as the reason for the winter water shortage by W. R. Smith, a London engineer, in an in. teresting paper before district town- ship road superintendents recently. He declared that too much land - clearing and too much draining was the cause of the ever-increasing wa- ter famine. Ten per cent. of the acre- age of farm lands should be of for- est to provide a proper water supply, while the percentage in some coun- ties was as low as one-half of one per cent. As a result farmers were compelled to drive cattle four and Bre miles to water and to pay a dol- lar a barrel for water delivered. An- other danger of deforestation was the resultant loss of bird life. Birds; the speaker said, were •essential to agri- culture. It had been said that if they were to go on strike but for a single day, insects would render farming im- possible. The increased .need for in- secticides was a direct result of bird depopulation. In Planting Grass The fine seeds of grasses and leg- umes require a firm soil that is fine in tilth, and moist, They are very small in size and if seeded too deep- ly will produce plants which either lack in vigour when they 'emerge ab- ove the .ground, or are completely smothered. The soil should be firm so that the seed will not be buried too deeply and so that moisture wiII be Bear the surface to facilitate the germination of the small seeds be- fore the nurse crop becomes suffic- iently well established to smother the small seedlings. Use Only Best Seed Regarding the preparation of ex- hibits for the World's Grain Exhibi- tion to be held in Regina in 1932, , L. H. Newman, Dominion Cerealist, advises the sowing the best seed ob- tainable on a piece of specially pre- pared ground, letting the crop fully mature, cutting and shocking it as usual, The best stooks should be covered, protected from the weather, and the best heads threshed by means of a flail. The grain then should be run through a sieve and later hand- picked to get the most uniform seeds, because at a Fair of this kind the competition will, be very keen and the prizes well worth working for. Paarity of variety will he a very im- portant factor at this World's Grain Exhibition because a growing test will be made with every sample sub- mitted. New Marketing Board The new Ontario Marketing Board throughwhich the province hopes to assist agriculture by scientific and., modern practice, has been named by lion, T. L. Kennedy, Minister of Ag- riculture. It will consist of W, By. Somerset, H, B. Clemes and Jas. B, Fairbairn, while John A, Carroll will act as secretary, No remuneration is attached to the offices with the ex- ception of the secretary who will re- ceive an honorarium. W. B. Somer- set, the chairman, recently compiled a repast on the fruit and vegetable Weekly Crop Report Generally optimistic is the tone of weekly crop bulletin. Seeding is practically completed throughout the province. Most districts report fall wheat, clover and alfalfa as having came through the winter in fine con- dition. Live stock, generally appears to be in good condition. ' Early sown grain is showing in Brant with most of the seeding fin- ished. Alfalfa, clovers' and livestock in Bruce have all wintered. well, There is considerable enquiry for ear- ly oats in Dufferin. Dundas reports orchards in excellent shape with more land being seeded than ever be- fore. Little winter killing has been evident in Durham with conditions good. Elgin reports a considerable acreage ,of grain sown while Essex shows • considerable interest in pota- toes with a shortage of early potato seed. Glengarry reports conditions as three weeks ahead of the average year with land in fine shape for work- ing, In Halton, interest in better and :cleaner seed is evident while Has- tings indicates a larger acreage of .alfalfa than ever before. Fall wheat in south Huron is in fine condition but in the north there has been some smothering by the heavy snow. Oats in ICeut will show a decrease with barley slightly ad- vanced. Potato growers there have been unable to secure all the certified seed they wished. Wheat in Lamb - ton looks well with clover showing a splendid stand. Lincoln reports the growth of fall wheat and clovers as phenomenal and the peach buds already out. Prospects for 100,000 barrels of apples are indicated in Nonfalk while a marked increase in alfalfa acreage prevails in Perth. Fall wheat and clovers came through the winter better in Teterboro than in many years past, Waterloo re- ports livestock in good shape with prices disappointing. SLAT'S DIARY By Ross Farquhar Friday—Pa' put 1 over on Ant Emmy tonite at the super table and I don't beleave she has saw the point of it Yet neither, She was asting why suns of the Musikal shows witch, shows on l3roacl Way stays for sudsy long run snm times and pa answered and replyed they run so long on acct they ' have so litany Taiga, Saterday - I overherd a eon- versashun of 2 men tawking today and they bot( was all bandiged alp like they had ben in a supple rocks or suns thing, 1 roan sed to the uther man. What happened to you and the tither' man sed I ben lerning my wife, to drive the ottonmbeel what ` hap- pened to you and the other matt re- plyed in answer and sed Well Ire- fused to lern my wife to drive the ottomobeel. And so I , thot of areto the distinguishing characteristics 'AG TJ RTE Sunday --Pa dussent no weather he will have his job tont.orro or not be- cuz in the : paper the other day he puts the rong headline over the peace about the new wimerls litery society and it red Museum of Antickities Opened, Sum of the wimen is pritty sore at the editer and the later is sore at pa. Munday—Ma and pa has been ,in- vited to go to tlhemaskerade' ball and pa was a saying he dident no what to make up as. Ma .sed Well you have ben reading aboat them Suthern Kernels and ect. why dont you Em personate a, gentelman. And pa got about I sore at 'ma, General Sore- ness seams to pervade. Teusday—I am afraid that if the teecher dont take back what she sed to ane today I will be kwitting skool. She sed if 1: diddent emproove in rithmitic why she was a going to send me home for good. Even at that I dont supose it wood be very piesant at home if that wood Happen to Occur. Wensday—Jake got kep in tonite. The teecher was a trying to show what the wird Dignifide Ment. So she sticks up her hed and walks accost the room and ast Jake how she walked and he sed Bow Legged. Thirsday—After skool I told Blis- ters that his ma was looking fer him and tonite .when he cum up to are house why he woodent set down. So I gess she must of found him, FARM NEWS AND VIEWS Published by direction of Hon, Robt. Weir, Minister of Agri- culture, Ottawa, 1931 Pure Maple Products One effect already noticeable in connection with the 1931 maple pro- ducts crop is marked improvement in the purity and quality of the syrup and sugar coming onto the market. This is attributed to the provisions of the new Maple Sugar Industry Act and Regulations which came into ef- fect March 1. Under its provisions commercial manufacturing and pack- ing plants selling their product out- side the province in which the plant is located require to be licensed, and all other commercial plant require to be registered. In the case of private owners of sugar bush or orchard a license is required only when the pro- duct is sold outside the province in which it is located, and for this li- cense there is no fee charged. What Are Screenings. The Seed Branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture has auth- orized the following specifications for screenings: First: "No. 1 Feed Screenings"— consisting of broken and shrunken wheat mixed with wild buckwheat and which may not contain more than 3 per cent. by weight of small valueless weed seeds. Second: "Mixed Feed Oats"—con- sisting largely of wild oats but with small perecentage of domestic oats and barley. Third: "Refuse Screenings" — which are made up of chaff and in- jurious weed seeds and so are unsuit- able for feed purposes. What Housewives Say In reply to a questionnaire issued by the Department of Agriculture at Ottawa in connection with its Beef Grading Service to over 1200 house- wives in the twelve leading cities in Canada, 65 per cent, of the Iadies sending in replies stated that the of- ficial brand mark in red or blue was their guide in buying beef of depend- able quality, the other 35 per cent. stated that as yet they knew nothing about branded beef, Those who bought by grade stated without ex- ception that they were satisfied with the quality of the branded product, while a majority of those who were not even familiar with branded beef stated that they wonld buy and use more beef if they could be sure of getting beef of dependable quality, New Wheat Area In a recent radio talk on "Pushing Canada's Productive Grain Area Nor- thward," L. H. Newnan, B.S,A,, Do- minion Cerealist, made the following interesting statement': "One of the most productive, and potentially one of the most extensive wheat growing areas of Western Canada is now found far to the north in the great Peace River Country. In extent this great frontier occupies an area ex- ceeding the combined areas of Ire- land, Scotland and Wales. With the. advent of new early ripening varie- ties wheat production in this area is extending rapidly, the output having increased enormously during the past ten years. Seed Potato Tags With the near approaeh sof the planting season time I7oininion Dept. of Agriculture again calls attention teechers town on cos en effect, of Official Certified Seed Potato PATHFINDER TREAD THE deep cut, slow wearing, sure traction tread. The live Supertwist carcass—standing up under strain and rough wear. The price much better than any similar tire. This is the Pathfinder Tread Good- year. We want you to see it — the big value quality tire that anyone can buy. See therm first. See them now.. WMo I G AM Wingharn, Ontario There's value, quality and saving in Pathfinder tubes Tags. On the front of these tags is marked the imprimature of the Fed- eral Plant Inspection Service, the variety, the certificate number and the grower's number, while on the back appears the official certificate ande sp coal instructions. Yellow -col- oured tags denote the "Irish Cob- bler" variety, green -colored tags the "Green Mountain" and buff manila tags alI other varieties. For certified seed potatoes small sized 1I. to 3 ounzes only, a special blue -colored tag is used. Eliminating. Pulloruni Following the Iead which has been given by the Poultry Division of the Dominion Experimental Farms, the Department of Agriculture for New Brunswick in its annual report just issued has this reference: "The Poul- try Division has again conducted a campaign for the blood testing of poultry to eliminate carriers of pull- orum disease. More than 21,500 birds have been tested (1930) as compared with 16,000 in 1929, The percentage of birds reacting was 8,8 as compar- ed with 9.5 last year. Since testing was begun in 1928 there has been a marked improvement in the livability of chicks." Helps Sheep Breeders One of the outstanding advantages of Ram Grading in connection with Federal assistance to sheep breeding through the Live Stock Branch of the Department of Agriculture at Ot- tawa, is the fact that individual far- mers, clubs or associations can now either buy by mail order, by individ- ual selection at the breeder's farm, or in the sale ring with greater as- surance that the graded animal pos- sesses most of the essentials of a good sire. The value of ram grading to the industry is reflected in the steady improvement which is noted in pure-bred flocks throughout the Dominion. Going Ahead A summary of the report of a re- cent survey of the poultry industry in Ontario made by the Poultry Di- vision of The Dominion Live Stock Branch, indicates an increase in poul- try flocks for the present season. Of the reports received 15 counties anti- cipate flocks will remain at their pre- sent numbers, 6 expect a decrease, while in 8 counties a substantial in- crease is expected. Cellophane Cellophane is one of the nicest of modern inventions, Food wrapped in it, when offered for sale, is kept sani- tary and clean. Yet, the purchaser can see plainly what she is buying. Chain stores often offer foods wrap- per or put up in bags, so that you cannot see what you are buying Too much like a pig in a poke. I like to see what I am getting, and the cello- phane allows that. Have you ever used colored cello- phane to make roesettes or some sncla fumididdle or fancy dress costume? When the light shines on it, it makes a very effective ornament. I must say, it is not the easiest thing in the world to work with, A tramp came to the front door of a house in the country, asking for, a piece of cake. The Woman—"We have no cake,: but you can have bread, butter and coffee." The Tramp—"Nope, this is nmy. birthday and I must have cake." There are birds still so dumb they think mistletoe is a foot disease. For sending money cheaply and safely The Dominion Bank maintains complete arrangements with corre.spoii- dents throughout the world. If you are sending drafts and money orders, or walking cable retnittances, any branch sof this 1Satalc will be glad to serrVe you courteously and ei icietatly. THE'' DOMINION BANK nSTAaxas i1Eb 1'sy1 A. M. Bishop, Branch Mgr., Wb,tn harm»