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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, IF ,,...�+,.,.�„+d'ry:y,r::•„•}jv• .���.�; 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. __a.,11 .. 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 c . e of the *ir':; who took part in the Enter-coil/fly household ld epts g . it a ° t.i 1., S,m L 1i a �Irclgrn„ r,omlet�i �n . t the Canadrah National Ia�clnl>mtrorr arc �lic,rl. utm.,� tlie T• ., . t ' • stmt- . r �i 7 ,tsotlid '66 less aside s fou Minrstem of Agriculture for Ontario, Flop, John. S. Martin. From left to right they aro. Mabel Schopf, of Willramsford, Grace Brand,. of Jarvis; Ilon. ,,, • , John S. Martin; Marjorie Toole, of Newmarket and Pearl Church, of Streets a .anus do be ilomre for u:s and iin,re care. Newmarket,v;lto, u, fy one tc as: fire .,na,t uroi;lrrin ba d