HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1924-09-25, Page 2DAIRYING IN BR
Greeter attention is being Dahl vitt
the'prasont time to the eucourgaei lent
of ;dairying in British Columbia, in-
terest no doubt being stiznul'cited to
coupe extent in this province by the
unique sueees'i which lias attended
similar efforts in the adjacent Prai"lo
Provinces, which in a roe -Lai -10)1y
short space sof time have turned a de-
pendency on imported dairy prorduets
into an excess et production which
makes available for export millions of
pounds of butter annually. Having re-
gard to export conditions, the Pro-
vince of l3ritish`Columbia is more ad-
vantageausly situated and has every
justification for extending its efforts
in this direction.
In the mild and beneficent climate
prevailing over the greater part of the
year in British Columbia the dairy in-
dustry may be profitably followed in
many seeticns of the province. It is
especially adapted to Vancouver Is-
land, the Gulf islands, and all sections
of the mainland. The principal de-
velopment at the present time is in
the Lower Fraser Valley, Vancouver
Island, and the Okanagan Valley, on
account of the splendid growth of
grasses, roots, -and fodder crops in;
these sections'. '
Farmers and fruit growers in the
Okanagan Valley in particular are
branching out in the line a dairying,
the Provincial Government having ex-
tended certain assistance to dairymen
there in the commencement of opera-
tions. The present year has recorded
a substantial increase in the number
of cream shippers' in the area, and
there is a considerable increment in
the export of butter from creameries'.
Organization has likewise taken place
in the Windermere and Columbia Val-
leys, which offer especially fine open-
ings for engaging' in dairying under
very advantageous, conditions,
TIE. COLUMBIA
Dairying .Surpasses Fruit Production.
In the fame British Columbia has.
won as a fruit -producing region it
comes as a surprise to learn that at
the present tine dairying is its princi-
pal
rinc:pal and most profitable phase of agri-
cultural endeavor; it has reached this
stage after a rapid ,'groa•th. In the
year 1910 the value of the province's,
dairy products was $393,838. hive
years later this value had beeeme duly
$453,724. It increased remarkably in
the next seven years, being placed at
$8,001,135 in 1922. The way the in-
dustry is ,developing may be appreci-
ated from the fact that more than a '
millicn dollars wen. addei to this value
lin the next year, it standing at. $9,234,-
576.
9,234;576.The quantity of butter produced
in British Columbia last year was 4,-
221,704 pounds, representing an in-
crease of 7 per cent. over the previous
year. There are now thirty manufac-
turing creameries, two cheeee fac-
tories, three coudenseries, and several
ice-cream plants in the province.
A greater future in dairying is fore -
Columbia in the
s�hadow•ed for British
recent adoption of Vancouver as the
point of export and the utilization of
the Panama Canal route for Western
Canadian dairy products to the British
Isles and European continent. The
inaugural shipments of Alberta butter 1
in this manner proved its absolute
feasibility, and this is now becoming a 1
regular movement. British Columbia
dairymen are a good deal nearer to
the point of export and have this ad-
vantage over prairie competitors,
There is a possibility of the province
developing a substantial trade with
the countries of the Orient and Eur-
ope. In this connection it is interest-
ing to note that the Vancouver Harbor
Board has in contemplation the erec-
I tion of a cold storage plant at tb e har-
bor.
Weaves
All Boston turned out to see the arrival of the American 'round -the -
world flyers and they were given a tremendous reception. Photograph shows
the airmen signing the register immediately they stepped ashore.
Autumn.
Spring was a pledge, the rarest pro-
mise given
To truant souls who light their hearts
in heaven;
Faith with tine down plucked from her
mother breast
Built youth's celestial dreams an earth-
ly nest.
This is the spring's fulfillment: every
morn
The golden goal for which the past
was born.
Each crims'on mass of flame in aut-
umn's gray
Found birth in some lave -sanctioned.
yesterday;
The crumpled bloom of earth's desert-
ed bowers,
Shall live eternal In next season's
flowers;
And 1, whose restless heart no longer
grieves,
Can hear God speaking in the falling
leaves.
—Clara E. Putnam in Youth's 'Com-
panion.
Free of Snakes.
The Canary Islands share Ireland's
good fortune in having no snakes:
Women's hands must be growing
larger; the average size of a glove
-hold a few years ago was 614. and 61;
it has now increased to 61 and 6%,
while the gloves themselves are made
slightly larger in each side.
Fuller's earth rnade into a paste
with household ammonia will remove
medicine or wine stains from linen.
Spread the paste on the stains, lot it
dry thoroughly, and then wash out in
lukewarm water.
The Color of Water.
To speak of color in water seems
absurd. °A tumbler of water from the
tap ,shows no color at all. How many,
instances are there, though, where
water seems to be oolored, either by
reflection of light or by material or or-
ganisms contained in it.
As a rule, tropical seas appear quite
blue, and as one travels farther from
the Equator the b1.ue•gradua11y changes,
to green.
The color varies according to the
amount of salt in solution in the water,
and as the concentration of salt is
greatest .when evaporation is greatest,
and therefore where the eau is strong-
est, the blue is intensified ° towards the
Equator.
In the caste of the Mediterranean the
'salt is further concentrated owing to
the fact that less fresh water is de-
posited into it by rivers. The blue sky
also increases the color of the ,sea by.
its reflection.
Sweet peas have not yet been grown
It, yield both yellow and blue flowers,
tins peculiarity marks -all blossonis.
To clean a saucepan that has beets
burnt inside, fill with het water, add
u piece of soda, and leave to soak for
a few hours. Then put on the gas and
bring to the boil, and the burnt mutter
Will peel oil quites easily,
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This war memorial at St. John's,_
Newfoundland, was recently unveiled A newly -rich man, buying a piano,
by Earl Haig during hie recent visit there. The work was built at a cost of was concerned over the size of the
$75,000 and is .said to be the 'finest on this side of the Atlantic. instrument. He impressed upon the
D tasters in Japan Take
Heavy Toll of Life.
More than 40 men were drpwned at
Yokosuka recently When a picket boat
from the battleship' Nagage eesl, rote a,
crowded naval barge. Both 'boats
:.sank,
A third-class express from ahinion-
asekn to Tokio left the rails near Iiai-
ki. Nine people were killed and 24)
injured.
Twenty persons wero killed when a'
typhoon swept the soutLeastern coast
of -Japan. The fatalities resulted from i
residents being pinned beneath houses
wrecked by the disturbance. Several
other persons are missing in Belling
boats caught in the area of the ty-
phcon.
The meningitis epidemic now sweep-
ing Japan has resulted in 2,630 deaths
out of a total of 4,888 cases reported,
according to Government reports,
which placed the death rate at 54 per
gent,
Turkey's only woman doctor arriv-
ed recently in London; it is only
twelve months spice the Turkish Gov-
ernment allowed women to practice
medicine in the Ottoman Empire.
The Wise Head •Master.
For ten years, ruefully. admits Mr.
Stephen Leacock in' College Days, " I
was .appointed to the staff, of a great
Canadian schcoI. It tool; me ten years
to get off it. Being appointed to the
position of a teacher•. -.ins like being
hooked up . through are braces and
hung up against a wall; it is hard to '
get down again.
From those ten years, I caa•ried away.
nothing in money and little. in -experi-
ence—indeed no other asset whatever,
unless it be here and there a pleasant
memory or two ,and the gratitude - of
eny former pupils. There was nothing
really in ney case for theinto be ,grate-
ful about. They got nothing from me.
in -the way of intellectuai food except
a lean and perfunctory -fere;'' and any-
thing that I gave them in the way of
sound moral benefit I gave:.gladly and
never missed. But schoolboys have a
way of being grateful. It is the decent
thing about them.'
A ,schoolb•oy while he isat school re-
gards his masters as . a mixed assort-
ment of tyrants and freales. He plans
vaguely that at some future time in
life he will "get even" with them. But
somehow a schoh1boy. is: no sooner.
clone with lies school and out in thee.
business of life thaYt e, soft haze of re.„'
trospectsuffuses anew coloe ever all
that 11 Y:k y the tones
of the ool thesee is a mellow
sound that he never beard in his six
years of attendance.' In .the color of
the old. "red bricks there is a warmth
that he never saw •before, and 'in the.
brook or in the elm trees beside the
school playground there -is such a
oharm and sadness; that'he will stand
near them with a bowed and reverent
head as in the silence of a cathedral.
I have seen an old boy who has been
out of school perhaps only five years
gaze into the open door of an empty
classroom and ask. "And those are the
same old benches?” witha depth of
meaning in his voice. The benches al-
ready seem to hint infinitely old! That
by the way is the moment' and the
mood in which the "old boy" may . be
touched for a subscription to the
funds of the school. That is the way
as a matter 'of fact in which the saga-
ciems head mester does it.
a The foolish head master who has not
yet learned his business takes the
"old boy" round and shows hith all the
new thing's-+the•fiine new s>iimning.
pool built since his day and the new
gymnasiuc with up-to-date patent ap-
paratus. That method is all wrong;.
the "old boy" is bored. The wise head
master takes him, by the sleeve and
says "Come." He leads him out to a
deser•teed corner of the -playground and
shows him an old tree behind an ash
house and the "'old boy" no sooner
sees it than he sa.ys•:
"Why, great Caesar! That's he
same old tree that Jack Oounsell and I
used to climb up to hook out of bounds
on Saturday night! 01(1 jimmy caught
us at it one night and licked- us both.
And look here, here's: my name cut on
the boarding at the back of the ash
house. See? They used to fine us
five cents a letter if they found it.
Well! Well! The "old boy" is deep in
his reminiscences, examining the
board fence, the tree and the ash
house.
The wise head master does not .in-
terrupt hint. He does• not say that he
knew all along that the "old boy's"
name was cut there and that was why
he brought him to the spot. Least of
all does he tell hini that the boys still
"hook out of bounds" by the same
moans and that he licked two of them
for it .1as't Saturday night. No, no,
retrospect is too sacred for that! Let
the "ol•dboy" have his fill, and when
he is quite overcome with the burden
of it then as :they walk back to the
school building the :head. niaster_may
cls a donation from 'him that falls
e:,a ripe tliimbleberry.
New Piamines.
.Scientists• at the University of Cali -
forma are working on taro recently:die
covered vitamines which may prove.
of great importance in•lengthening life
and in preventing animal sterility.
One i,s a vitamine discovered in tea.
It has been named "biros" and is sun -
posed to have 300 times the life-giving
qualities of other similar vitamines
previously found in yeast. "Bois" was
.discovered, it is reported, as a result
of abserdationrs that tea drinking peo-
ples, including Chinese, Japanese,
Iris hand English, are longer lived
than some other nationalities.
The second substance discovered,
flake extracted from wheat, 1,3 said to
have increased animal fertility to a
marked degree. However, the sub-
stance is present in such small quanti-
ties that only a few flakes were se-
cured form a ton of grain.
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The greatest Eritish-built ship in
the world, the Olympic, weighing 46,-
'000
6;'000 tons; was recently towed into a
floating and lifted a freight of
fo'idsy ..feet out o•a the water.. The lift-
ing operatiot. occapied 3 hours, 45
salesman that it must be full-sized—
the largest, in fact, that they nianu-
facture&: "It's for a young and gzo;
ling girl," he explained, "and I dor
want to have to buy her another in
year or
Toothbrush Loses Its
Grip in England
A despatch from London says:—
Little ,Johnny's objection to the tooth-
brush has, after a11, 'scientific justifi-
cation. The British Dental Associa-
tion refuses to discard 'it altogether,
but .at its annual meeting the tooth-
brush was accorded far less respect
than it receives in the average mod-
ern household,
Sir Leslie 1Vlackenzie, medical mem-
bet of the Scottish Board .of health,
read a paper on dental hygiene, in
wbleh he declared that the way to have
sound teeth was to watch the diet,
first of the mother during pregnancy,
then of the mother while nursing her
babies, and then of the children them-
selves. According to Prof. Mellanby,
as quoted by Sir Leslie, teeth defects
are not caused by bacteria, and the
toothbrush is .a broken reed.. Sir Les-
lie would not be so sweeping.
"With all its shortcomings," he said,
"the toothbrush, given our present
feeding methods, has ` some effect in
preserving the teeth and in keeping
the mouth clean. The systematic us-
ing of the toothbrush always involves•
rinsing the mouth at least with clean
water, if not with a mild disinfectant,
When one reflects that scarlet fever,'
diphtheria, tuberculosis and other in-
fections may: be represented among
file infection germs incubating in the
rearih. th.• 1.osel-ai use is a convenient
,ern -leder ,f 1a dusty to keep the
mcn'th a: a tee _ 1. :fit the Baine
i:nC, - r, �. l ey spree.%
Earl Haig ',a shown starting out to open a regatta at St, John's New-
foundland, on his recent visit to that city.
Electricity From: the 'Air.
-The idea of utilizing khe electricity
in the"''°atmosphere fors, industrial and
other purposes has always been a fas-
cinating one.
Mr. Bhattacharyya, of Patna, Ben-
gal, has experimented with large
paper and linen kites. These were
woure with •a network•of copper wires,
and it proved desirable later to replace
tiro copper wire 'by silver, owing to
the rapid oxidation of the ocpper sur-
face.
The. kites rose to eight or nine hun-
dred feet, when it was found that
sparks could be drawn at short inter-
vals from an insulated rad attached
to the lower end of the metal kite -
string. 'Phe intermittent sparks were,
made to :yield an alternating current
by means of a special transforming
device.
Experiments are now being tirade
with aluminum balloons filled with
minutes. hydrogen gas. •
Scornful Cookery Phrases.
Why the business of the cook should
be used as a vehicle of scorn and re-
venge is a mystery of our mysterious
language.
We boast that we "have settled his
hash" when we have "squashed" a
man, and when counsel very «severely
cross-examines a witness, or a mis-
tress gives a servant what Is common-
ly celled "a piece of her mind," we say
that both got "a jolly good roasting."
If anyone has been thoroughly bam
boozlbd,'or tirade a fool of, we say he
hes•been "done brown."
Why do we say that certain circum-
stances or happenings have put a man
"Into a pretty s.te.w,'t or that a certain
young man has."got himself into boil -
trig water," which alinost certainly re-
fer.; to the dropping of some living
animal,: Bite the lobs'ter, into the pat?
And why do we refer to someone who
has shown a lack of intelligence as
"only half' baked?"
The phrase "I've cooked his goose"
has an ancient origin. When Eric,
Icing of Sweden,' reached a curtain
town withvery few soldiers, the
enemy hung out a goose for hint to
shoot, Finding, however, that it was
no matter for jest, the townsfolk sent
heralds to learnwhat he.. wanted. His
reply was: "To cook your' goose for
you."
-4.--
Fisherman Returns Fortune
to Depol'ted Japanese..
Through the honesty of a fisherman
of Victoria, B.C., Yokichi Fukuda, a
Japanese deported from Seattle, has
regained his savings of . five years
which he lost in an attempt to swim
ashore from the steamercarrying'
him back to his homeland.
V ive months ago • Fukuda was ord-
ered to return -ter Japan when immi-
gration authorities in Seattle learned
that he hadentered that port five
year s ago without a passport. He
Was placed inboard the Nippon Yusen
+laisha -steamer lye Marin. :When, the
steanier was far from shore Fukuda
dived overboard with a box contain-
ing $50 and a bank book recording
2,350 yen deposited in the Yokohama
Specie' tank Branch in Seattle tied to
his back,. His attempt to smuggle him-
self into Victoria failed 'and he was
returned to the ship, but in his strug-
gle with the waves he lost his pre-
cious box.
Five months -after his arrival in
Tokio the box was forwarded to him
bet,a5 Bi Columbia. it tlr
b y a fisherman, i+ e
rt of British
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