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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1931-08-06, Page 7iursday, August '6th, 19:;1 THE WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMJS .eaith Service (!anahi .n OF TI L trat Anonittt utt rentaJ 4r . GRANT FLEMING, M.U. a•+ ASSOCIATE SECREYARYwassamaisruer. ll SUMMER DIARRHOEA faulty diet, for example one which contains too much sugar,or to germs which later usually gain entrance in- to the body through contaminated. milk. Diarrhoea is always a serious condition and no mother should con- sider herself able to deal with it; she needs the help of her doctor and she. should secure his assistance without delay. A common mistake is to think that the diarrhoea is due to teething or ,some other similar condition. Many. mothers seem to think that diarrhoea is 'something from which every baby suffers and that it requires no partic- ular attention, or that it can he cured by repeated doses of castor oil. It is just because it is not taken seriously that so many deaths occur. If when diarrhoea does occur, proper treatment is secured promptly, then, in most cases, the serious and fatal results can be prevented. It is, of course, best to prevent the condition, but if it does occur, proper treatment is secured promptly, then, in most cases, the serious and fatal results can be prevented. It is, of course, best to prevent the condition, but if it does occur the mother should un- derstand that delay in securing treat- ment may cost the baby his life. The baby should be breast-fed. Fail- ing that, he should be fed according. to directions, and the milk should be pure and safe. :If in spite of precau- tions trouble does occur, prompt treatment is needed. Questions concerning Health, ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College St., Toronto, Diarrhoeas are due either to a Will be answered personally by letter. Every ,year there occurs an appal - 416g' loss of infant lives from what is ommonly known as summer diarr- fboea, In Canada, one death in every five is that of a baby who has not reached his first birthday, Of this, large number of infant deaths, a large "percentage are due to diarrhoea. The best and surest protection :against this , condition is breast feed- ing, Whenever such deaths are in- vestigated it is found that most of the cases, have occurred amongst in - lents who were artificially fed. Pro- viding'the mother is healthy and that she is living a healthy life and using proper foods, her milk contains the right materials., for her child. In ad- dition, breast milk is sterile, and be- •causeit ` is not handled, there is no danger of its becoming contaminated -with germs. .. There` are many other good reas- ons why a mother should nurse her child, but the one reason that it pro- tects against diarrhoeas should be suf- ficient to make every mother realize -what her duty is in this matter. The baby who is artificially fed should be fed according to the direc- tions which the family doctor gives. It will be necessary to change his feedings from time to time as he grown older. Every care must be taken to secure a safe milk and to 'keep it cold, clean and covered, Pas- teurized rnilk is safe milk. If there is any question as to the purity of the milk it should be boiled. News and Information For the Busy Farmer '(Furnished by the Ontario Depart- ment of Agriculture) "{�. The annual convention of Canadian Florists' and Gardeners' Association takes place at O.A.C., August 12th to 14th. The importance of the dairy, Indus- try ,in the historical development of ;; nada is about to be recognized by he erection of a cairn on the site of the first cheese factory, in Canada, which was located in Oxford County, Ontario. Milk -Fed Bees Tests have been made recently by the Federal Bee Division in regard to stimulative feeding for brood pro- duction. A syrup composed of sugar and milk was used in place of the usual sugar and water syrup. In an average of four colonies not only were a large ntimber of combs cover- ed by bees up to mid-July, but each 'milk -fed colony produced an average of 23 pounds more honey than ,the check lots. Feeding Cattle Flies are a great nuisance and re- sponsible for a part of the midsum- mer slump in production by dairy herds. However poor .feeding is. more often responsible for the low returns Pastures were not good early in the summer and proper measures to sup- plement ' thein were not taken by many dairymen. The man with some silage left is fortunate. Where the hay crop is large, some hay may be fed where pastures are short, ` For the best cows a fairly liberal grain ration is also advisable. A good mix- ture may he made from six parts of ground oats and barley and one part oilcake meal. If farmers are to main- tain the production of their cows, they must maintain their weight and that means feeding is just in propor- tion as the pastures fail. Ontario's Blueberry Crop Following copious rains, a big blue- berry crop is expected in the Mus- koka, Parry Sound, Nipissing and Temiskaming districts. Arrange- ments have been made to move .a large number of unemployed into the area to harvest the crop, with the prospect of three to six week's labor at fair wages. Consumption of blue - HYDRO LAMPS " The Long Life ,damps" 4 nes Hy or rvice mind ouaronteed Neva Carton Of Sfr Lamps inthe /tlo se Wien ham Utilities Commission Crawford Block. look Mb Lab*/ Phone 156. O» Lumps You 6147 berries is rising steadily and the mar- ket is providing an income for many a family in Northern Ontario, The Marketing Board is making.a special study this year of the shipping, mar- keting and cold storage possibilities of: this luscious wild fruit. l3uleber- ries are easily kept in storage, retain their flavor and freshness and come out months later in splendid condi- tion. Nearby American cities are proving to be large consumers of On- tario blueberries, while housewives generally are beginning to appreciate the value' of blueberries for canning ,purposes: The ease with which raw milk can become contaminated owing to un- sanitary conditions was recently de- inonstrated in the town of Burling- ton, where complaints had been made regarding the milk supply in that lo- cality.: Two officials from O.A.C. visited 'the district and found that the bad flavor of the milk was due to fly- spray material used in the barns, The proper fertilization of a straw- berry pl'antat?on may' require fall ap- plications of a commercial fertilizer. In September the strawberry plants are forming their fruit buds for next year's crop and during this period they require good nutritional condi- tions to make their best effort, Gen- erally speaking a light application of a good fertilizer late in August will result in a big increase in next year's crop. Controlling Weeds Repeated experiments have shown that summer plowing of sod land and the subsequent cultivation of the soil until fall very materially assists in the control of weeds, especially of perennial plants such as couch grass. It has been found that plowing the sod land in July and cultivating at ten-day intervals until the fall freeze- up almost entirely prevents the growth of couch grass and other weeds, whereas plowing oncee in n the late fall or early spring with no sub- sequent cultivation, has practically no effect on the weeds. .ley, adaptable for malting purposes, would be Made shortly, the Minister announced. E1 heavy demand in Eng- land is expected for this type of bar- ley, known as O.A.C..No. 21. O. A. C. Methods It is interesting to note that the time for working the home orchard at O. A. C. this year was cut down from ten to three, days by using a tractor -drawn, stiff -toothed cultivat- or followed by a disc, instead of a plough. A system of early ploughing and early seeding of the clover crop is being followed in the orchard. The cover crop thus gets an early start and no check. Oats at the rate of two bushels .per acre have been used in the past ,three years and these are cut just before they head out, the resul- tant second growth adding consider- ably to the amount of green matter per acre. • Feeding Is Important Which is the major factor in poul- try production, feeding or breeding? The following interesting results were obtained with three pens of hens at O. A. C. between November 1st, 1930 and June 1st, 1931. The first pen was bred for egg production and the ration fed was poor. In the second pen the breed- ing was for other characters than egg production and the ration was very good. The third pen' was bred for egg production and the ration fed was the same as that given to pen No. 2. The results were as follows for the period stated above,— Pen 1. 38 eggs per hen—high hen laid 74 eggs.' Pen 2. 34, eggs per hen—high hen: laid 75 eggs. Pen 3. 94 eggs per hen -high hen laid 167 eggs. Here 'aria There'i The Minister Speaks County and township fairs in On- tario may be reduced in number, ac- cording to plans under consideration.. by Hon. Thomas L. Kennedy, Min- ister of Agriculture. . The Minister points out that in many instances the government grants have been found higher than county grants to country fairs. One reason for the failure of fairs, he believes, is the tendency to depend too much upon ,the govern- ""tent for 'assistance instead of getting results through their own initiative and enterprise. Reduction in the number of fairs, with government aid being apportioned more discriminate- ly, may follow. The Minister also feels that the existing seed erops• competitions should be abolished and replaced by registered seed competi- tions. With the free seed -cleaning policy now operative, seed com peti, tions would do more to bolster the farming industry than the crops type of competition, he believes. Speaking on the subject of grading milk, Hon. Mr, Kennedy foresaw a time when city dwellers would de- mand a higher quality of milk. Steps were now being taken to clean 'tip cattle areas and free them from dis- c ease, and the time seemed ripe to get a milk -grading organization un- der way: Shipment to tngland of a special type of Ontatio-grown bar - Production of newsprint paper in ' Canada in 1930 totalled about 2,- 600,000 tons,; a production consider- ably greater than that of; any other country. Canada will have a large and at- tractive exhibit at the Buenos Aires Exhibition, March 14 to April 27. Canadian manufacturers will also bye exhibiting their products in • the Canadian section. Hotel accommodation in the Pra- irie Provinces, according to the lat- est computation, is arrived at as fol- lows:—In Manitoba, 285 hotels; in Saskatchewan, 400; and in Alberta, 419. Portugal is the latest recruit to the forthcoming World's Grain Ex- hibition and Conference to be held in Regina in the summer of 1932. Eleven other countries have so far notified their intention to show. Oil production in. Alberta is dr,. cidedly on the upgrade, according to provincial government figures recently compiled.' Total output in 1930 was 1,433;844 barrels com- pared with 999,152 in 1929. Placement of 1;600,000 salmon fry and 1,000,000 trout has been made throughout different sections of Nova Scotia, a generous percentage of which went tothe brooks and streams of Annapolis Valley. Life, fire, accident and other in- surance companies collected a total of 510,366,636 in annual premiums on policies in force in Nova Scotia during the past fiscal year. This represents an increase of nearly $1,000,000 over the previous year. A combination of high speed at sea, special rail facilities at Quebec including a tunnel under the fam- ous battlefields—and special trains to New York and Chicago will shorten the time between London and most Canadian and United States cities by from one and a half to two days. Freight transportation require- ments of the United States are equivalent to hauling 400 billion tons one mile every year and there is no other instrumentality that can handle more than 20 per cent. of these requirements, it was stated recently in an address in New York City. C. B. Andrews, of Winnipeg, has been appointed district passenger agent at Saint John, N.B., in sus. cession to George S. Beer, Mr. Andrews joined Canadian Pacific service in 1910 and has worked his way up froin a clerkship in the superintendent's office at Souris, Manitoba. Co-operative associations in Can- ada numbered 1,095 in 1930 with a total membership of 690,685. In 1929 there were 936 of these or- ganizations which reported 512,835 members. They include grain growers, dairy farmers and fruit and vegetable growers in the east- ern provinces. Enrollment in the Saskatchewan Government's corresp o n d e n c e school has .now passed the 5,000 mark, according to information re- ceived from the office of Premier J. T. M. Anderson, Minister of Ed- ucation. Applications are still coming in, as many as 43 being re- ceived in one day, and up to the present the department has been able to handle all applications. 706 Hints For Homebodies Written for The Advance -Times By Jessie Allen Brown Anaemia Anaemia seems to be a modern condition, as it is prevalent in more or less degree, in a surprising num- ber of people: Anaemia is a lack of red blood cells, and is not to be con- founded with pernicious anaemia, as there is no connection between them. There is a wonderful opportunity in the sutnnier to build up the red blood cells, as the sun is the best cure. Get as large a surface of the body tanned as can .be managed. It is not nec- essary to be in the direct rays of the sun to help anaemia, although this should be done, too. Spend hours out of doors, when the sun is shin- ing, but be in theshade, as there are reflected rays, which are very bene- ficial. In . your search for the sun, do not overdo it, as sunburn is both dangerous and uncomfortable. When there is an anaemic condi- tion, the diet requires iron, Doctors give this in medicine, but they find that very little of it is absorbed, and the modern physician prefers admin- 1stering iron in the food where it is absorbed frilly. Liver has come to the fore for anaemia. It is specially beneficial in cases of pernicious an- aemia, and is good for general an- aemia, too. The use of it need not be overdone, in the latter case, as once or twice a week is sufficient. i idney makes a good substitute for liver, One pleasant way of us- ing it, is to have veal or lamb chops with the kidney left in, Steak has a certain amount of iron, but none of a Signalling Trans Through New uebec Tunnel Through a mile -long tunnel, under the historic Plains of Abra- ham, where Wolfe de- feated Montcalm and won Quebec and Can- ada for Britain in 1759, passengers from the Canadian Pacific Railway .Company's palatial White Em- presses make their first entry into Canada, from the Wolfe's Cove docks, joining the main line of theworld's greatest transporta- tion system at St. Malo, thus saving a long trip through local terminals and speed- -•:::!�='w:'•�`...x. •+ .../.fit<°::ivi:.�"% c;;•r '};;.::, :gin. 4Rr:••_ .. n.::..• their'oure to .:�;�• .�• lug upjourney ...<.�}•:::.. ,:r;i�;. .:•;.�:>.„� 1:' .,;:. 33 Montreal and their <.:.:}..;�..;..,...:.�:•::'.>••.;:s:+..:.: ::.�: _w .>,:.:•....::}; •}:?ni:;:':'y.,:}„: •:•• +?. `M• •!:%�„}vw.M .:}. ;2.;� �;:Yi?; ? respective destination t 'ssvr r :;.......,:>:<:}:., } ? >.a ti s�.e:: w :•a :>...... �i�??�}:::ci a,.. ,., . .,., beyond. The signal system in connection with the new tunnel is of particular interest, for it not only handles trains through the tunnel and on to the main line, but covers tramline and railway cross- ings which are made on the way to the tunnel mouth at the land end. A signal cabin on the main line, at the outskirts of the city, houses the control system. The operator faces a board, shown in the top picture, which consists of a number of electric levers for opening and closing switches and also has 20 rotary buttons, for operating the lights of a like number of signals at various points on the trackage covered. Bythe•same board, the operator is able to locate his train or trains at any moment. It will be noted that the control board is practically a map of the tunnel tracks, the numbers on it corresponding to those on the signal posts. The line running down the board is the tunnel and the lines.across the top of it represent the tracks of the mainline. The signals to engineers ., from the posts are made by means of red, yellow and green!'cautiolin” and ghts, indicating "stop, res ”, ,:•gip °proceed" pectively. The system was supplied by the General Rail- way Signal Company, and in- stalled by the C. P. R's signal forces. the muscle meats have as much iron as the organs. Leafy vegetables es- pecially, but vegetables of all kinds, contain iron. Fruits are a good source, as are eggs. Milk has very little iron, but it has so many other necessities, that its use should not be omitted by the anaemic person. Get plenty of sun and eat quantities of fruits and vegetables in the summer, 'and build up the red blood cells to withstand the rigors of winter, Watermelon It seems as if it were just the oth- er day that I wrote about watermel- on, yet it must be a year. The mon- ths roll by so quickly. If you have looked on watermelon as a fruit just to use at picnics and son on, you are missing something, as it has many other uses. From a dietary standpoint it is a good fruit, as it contains the minerals of vitamins, that most of us are striving to get. Have you used watermelon as a breakfast fruit? Thoroughly chilled, it makes a delicious breakfast fruit, and is so easily prepared, and that is not to be despised. If the fruit is thoroughly ripe, it will not require sugar, so try to ac- custom yourself to doing without it, when possible. To those who are in- clined to be constipated, watermelon is specially valuable, as it is a laxa- tive fruit. Watermelon may be served for des- sert in thick luscious slices. Or it may be cut into cubes, lightly sugar- ed and piled into sherbet glasses. Watermelon must always be well chilled, or it is insipid. If you like your foods pepped tip a bit, use ground ginger on your watermelon, but use it sparingly. Watermelon iS not a suitable fruit to add to fruit salad, as its texture is so much coars- er than that of the other fruits. Most mothers like to encourage the young people to gather at their place S for their good times. Sometime, af- ter a heavy day, they rather dread preparing the inevitable refreshments, Watermelon fills the bill ante more, From the mother's standpoint, it is easy to get heady, simple to serve, and last but not least, inexpensive. From the young people's standpoint Oh well! What's the use of going into details, But did you ever see a young person who did not'like water- melon? I almost forgot another use for the moderate watermelon. It is a real friend to minutes. our fat friends, who are trying to re- duce. Hunger is caused chiefly by an' -empty stomach and when one longs for food watermelon is a good one to choose, as it is about 96% wa- ter.' Obviously, it does not contain many calories. It is a wise choice for dessert for the over-plump—fill- ing but not fattening. Blueberry Pudding 1i cups flour cup sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder •4 tablespoons butter cup milk 1 egg teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla Blueberries Sugar Butter Cream butter and sugar, add well beaten egg. Sift dry ingredients and add alternately with milk. Have the blueberries• washed and drained, and cover the bottom of a baking dish with a layer of these from 1 to inch thick, Sprinkle generously with su- gar, and dot with butter. Pour the batter over the berries and bake in a oven at 375 degrees for 40 Peanut Macaroons 2 egg whites 1 cup confectioner's (icing) sugar ,t teaspoon salt 1 cupful peanuts coarsely chopped cup pastry flour Beat the egg whites until they are stiff and dry. Add. the sugar,flour and salt. Stir in the peanuts and drop from a spoon on a greased baking, sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for ten. These cookies spread in minutes. baking. Fifteen hundred performers take part in the Canadian National Exhibi- tion pageant. 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