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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1925-10-08, Page 4The most urgent requirement in Canada's Agricultural r uct CANADA produces every year large quantities of wheat, oats, barley,, butter, cheese, bacon, beef, eggs, apples, potatoes, grass seed an clover seed. that she cannot consume.. l -Her natural outlet for these pro- ducts is, of course, • Great Britain—the one great consuming country of ;the world Wath an open market. Unfortunately, nearly every other country with any surplus of food. 13roducts seems to want to send its surplus to this same market. The keenness of the competition on this, our only market, and the energy and resourcefulness of our competitors began to impress them- selves upon the Department of Agriculture some time ago, but it is only within very recent years that the real and only way to grapple with thia problem has been, discovered, or at least put into effect: This Department - now believes, as do also most of the farmers of this country, that the "grading" of our agricultural products is the policy and practice that is seeing us through the struggle and will assure us of our rightful place on the British market. "Grading" means the classifyin of products, whether they be hogs, bu ter, cheese, eggs or anything else, int what might be called in a general\wa "BEST", "GOOD", "FAIR" an "POOR" e1 g 18 shillings a long hundredweight below t- Danish, has gradually grown in the esti - o mation of the British wholesale buyer y until it is now quoted at only from 1 or d less to at most 5 or 6 shillings per long hundredweight below the best Danish.. This improvement in price. is, of: course, due to quality and has come about very gradually, the spread nar- rowing down by a shilling or two a. month until now it is not at all a rare occurrence to see best Canadian selling; .on a par with the Danish article. • Eggs ---Canada was the first' country to grade and standardize eggs. These grades and standards apply not only to• export, interprovincial and impart ship- ments, but also to domestic trading. The basis is interior quality, clean- ness and weight. Standardizing Canadian eggs has: established confidence between producer and consumer and between exporter and. British importer, and has resulted in a. greatly -increased demand for the Cana- dian egg both at hone and abroad. Other products might be mentioned where grading has worked to the great advantage of the producer, and to the advancement of Canadian griculture. .Already Great Britain recognizes our store cattle, wheat, cheese, eggs, apples and oats as the best she can buy. It is for us to so improve our other products, particularly our butter and bacon, as to bring them also into this list of "the best on the British market" and consequently the highest priced. Grading enabled us tb do this for cheese, wheat, eggs and apples. Grading is helping us to 40 it for butter and bacon. • 'These exact words are not used in describing the grades, but that is what is meant. The purpose served in grad- ing is threefold— (1) EthicaltiCaraa.i. When the pro- ducer sees the relative quality of his product he is spurred on to maintain that quality if it is the "best" or to improve the quality where necessary. (2) Fair Play. When products are not graded the inferior article for various reasons often brings as much as the superior article, and the credit and advantage of putting the superior pro- duct on the market is lost to the one who really deserves it. (3) Facilitating Trade. =The dealer learns to have confidence in the article he is buying and buys more free- ly, because it is guaranteed by grading, and gradually everybody gets to know what the "best" article really looks like or tastes like. In short, grading brings about standardization andensures to the producer the best price. Canada now grades her cereals, grass seeds, hay, potatoes, apples, eggs, but- ter, cheese, wool and bacon hogs. The results have been in every case bene- ficial and in some cases quite markedly so, ieven though the grading system has been in effect in some cases for only two or three years, thus:— Cheese—Grading began April 1st, 1923. Canadian cheese the year before had fallen into such disfavour on the British market that New Zealand cheese was quite commonly preferred. Today Canadian cheese commands cents per ;pound higher than New Zealand. BUtter--Grading began, same time" as for cheese. The reputation of our but- ter was then indeed at low ebb. Canadian 'butter today, while sot the best 'an the market, is rapidly improving in quality and gaining in .reputation. Hogs—Over two years ago the De- partment of Agriculture began to grade live hogs at the packing houses and ;stock yards. The 10% premium paid by :the packers for'"select" bacon h •as :against " thick smooths"tas classed by 'departmental graders :has Clone wonders sm improve the quality of our hogs and. 'develop the bacon industry. Best Canadian bacon„ which ordinar- ily was quoted two yearrsago from llip to Quality Counts -Quality ia or the Canadian export trade, aus the nd, then objective (steady, regular supply. It it along these lines the Department of Agriculture is working by educational methods, and the result of this policy, is seen in the growing volume: of Canada's agricultural exports Look- at these figuresaY • Canada's Principal Exports of Farm Products 1920-21 1924-25. 537 Wheat ourt4bbble ya M 126,017,032 215,157 111,029,227 Bacon and Hams (cwt.)882,338 1,208,721 ;- $eef Cattle 296,511 218,084 CButter (04.) 2 ) " 9 739,414. 24,501,981 Apples fb1ws1 )) ,�- 1366 493 1,269,632 1 353,499 1,406,237 Oats (bus.) 14,S21,048 32,775,761 ar]ey (bus.) ..-..... -8,563,553 22,820.434 Rye (bus.) . -. 8,20 ,430 7,524.895 Bran Shorts and Middlings •(cwt) 819,781 8,667,038 - Oatmeal and Rolled Oats (cwt). Clover Seeds •r 39,7,•256 Tobacco (lbs.) .........-- 200158. Cream (gala. „- Flax Seed (C,bus.').,... 1'342..331 For farther anforaneSon and publicai8ions write DOMINION DEPANTIVilIT XOF AGRICULTURE. OTTAWA -'the Speed limit for automobiles Rich every section of the United es will be arcked to adopt are lit4A =lies an hour in the open co- astal/T... 20 miles an hour in resid- asarttal districtts, 15 miles an hour in r e "lousiness districts, 10 mile. an sox 'passing ;schools and cros.ing tarear :intersections, and 4 wiles kate %sour crossing sidewkals or cotn- aratz Out front alleys or pir private a wsys. p. FARM FOR SALE '•or Seale Lot No,. 8, North Bonn- y Tpa 2; miles west of /ipeni, containing 80 acres. Ths s e the premises a ;(rare honke- r :balm and shed combined 'ai tie 5l1X4l3 and 36.24. Tan acres of katdavood bush. Apply to Mrs. %. Cochrane, R. R. 2, Hensall. FOR SALE i'Llk limited quantity of good dry lamed wood. .Apply to Sol. Gin- 3e3n, It.R. 3, Zurich. STRAYED .Hillaberer• 336, ;Rena Koehler :2u' 830,046 417,907 3,631,422 3,384,186 3,030,104 501 and intends loading another this RReta Fleischauzr 299; Louise Nail- Week. lert 251; Pau] Hesls- 281; Vera Dei -'l Mr. Will Hart raised The frame chart 274; Shirley- Koehler 273 -Vera of his barn'lalst Saturday and with good weather will soon have it .closed In and ready for, ,''linter. Reichert 274; Shirley Koehler 2T3 ; Ralph Uttley 2a0. ' .ifr, I—iLel •nd Schwalm 3.49, Mor- ley S.ainiou 311; Blanche i.laeraer302 Sr. Pr. A & B—Edith Deiehert 107; Velma Dengie 180; Fred Bt•:rokwa 1S4; Beatrice Meidinger 180; alert - rand Deichert 180; Karl Rembe 171 Romer Salmon 170:; Ruth Foster 155. Theresa Zettel 135; Wm. Brown jai Beatrive .Thiel 1013 :Albert Clans- ius 100. DASHWOOD The regular annual nleetila g of the .Ladies' lit !rf Calvary Evan - g eiieal Church was held on Thurs- day afternoon last, with the pas- tor Rev. F. B. Meyer in the. chair, 'Otaieers for the • ens ueing year were elected as follows --President; 11:rs Jr,]';c,—Hubert Smith 99; Mia-•'�, B el,;er; Vi:ec- follows—President; .alga dfred Maier 78, Edna. Kochems 7.5; C° Reid; Ree► Secy, Mrs.. E. Kee'b Lawrence Bedard. 70, Louis Thiel 31, , ( 7a,•rs. G Koeililer, Teacher.•'Corr'-Sscy' Mrs.. R. A. Goetz; Ss c"asurPr M15 W. onell O let > , rgan and 'C'harisltnr, Mrs, D. Tiemen. Mr, and Mrs. P. I STANLEY TOWNSHIP.ltl.c saac spent, " I Sunday is London, Anniversar3' Services were held I Mr, and Mrs, "W. SC1i.ultz of De- in the United. Church, Vanua on trait visited thie'latter' parents,Mr, Sunday last, 'taken Rev. Mir, Jef-: and Mrs.' L, dRader L erson of Goderich preached sex- I Mr. Les eotz has returned to cellent serlr_ons to large anal .ap-!Chicago ,after spending, the past preei•itive audiences. I two weeks with his part;t)ts Sunday,. ' ,tato my October WIN. • premises, Hay Town- I Harvest Thanksgiving 'sere ices. -,ill hila, a yearling heifer, owner can ii la "Sante by paying expenses and storing property. Conrad Siernon tl':3. IN MEMORIAM be in the Angij an church, Varna, at 7 o'clock. 'fill': and Mrs, Geo. Lilley of Sea tarn. .#inC1:111r and Mrs. Linos. Leh- man of StWuffviIle spent S:.]nclit' Iza tt ltln friends nn Go'shert, • lVie Leh- loving m:unor;,T of Mrs.t ,nxlar, will no'doubt see mei it cha.n- Ato t p,, who entered"into ete1ges .since he ;spent hips.arrhood rest, October lith,, 1924, days :)line over 40 yearla gej, 'Name/1111y •sleeping, reefing at last, NI r Root T 1cChnchey is lard up i lay at leer home in )31 'thy;sjorrow�s and 'suffering pest:I N' ith an attaclr of Plenres , v. l yso aua has taken thee( home to Ilia-la.Ipai ha will soon+ be able to 1) Mrs. 11• . Fin and son 'spent breast, 'around agate, wen Mas C,. nd in and:beiner !spe:nt tale g :so, lieacefillly,lerewel at' Albert Durnant, see of Rev. 'X. Mr, eand 'Mrs Sarnia, Reid a`nri mini Dllrranit of Varna 1].ad th.) nlisfor-I all:ter Sarah of Bayfield visited .Cil- RtlsbajJ and Clnilclr'n tnrle for hove his . • 1 1. Mr, Alex. Zimmer has eneved in; Zto his new Horne o siMain 'street. as Miss Rose Guenther`leit on Mon- day for \Vindsor, Mr, and Mrs, Wni. Rhode ofVan '4�•otiver are vi81ting friends in town, Mr. A .Seldon and son Richard anti Miss Fanny ?teeter of Inger- soll pent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. 7I Hoffman. . Mrs(; Elva Richmond-sp:3nir Sun- SCHOOL RETORT, tar September, '.trtnl rlf7 •c!"'n .as rads in ti)Wil on Senda-y 1- rr, v by falling fr(.)n a ATOP, A'J:r M, shank vi tted in Walker. l�i:. eticl :1,' i y 1h, 14,,t `�,an eYn Sundr•1 -, ` 1pin; apples'.ti the W('at anon thus 4 Dont' forget the fowl su.]pper::fo DAIS Jttltnatoal 33I, Lz~ucr. loaded i I'lSi ter fl .7`I'j; IiLI:I in the Iiral) e1i4+a1 al:ed's on October 21st. • A rumor has been ;spread that J. O. Reid,* Co. were not buying dutch. setts', this fall. This is in- correct n ec,rrect and they are prepared to buy dutch. setts at -any ctinre, BORi7 Evel'and—On Satlrrdlay; Oct-,. ober 3rd to Mr„ and Mrsj. Wm; E� etannd, a son. •- Dr. ' ii., H. C OWE E lila 4 L D. 131, D. D. S. DENTAL SURGEON; At 'DEITZ:.BLOCK, GURICI3.' ev- ery Thursday, Friday and Satur- day.. Main Office EIARTLEII3'S BLOCK, DASHWOOD. COAL POOAHAN TAS 00 -KB Mi11r Creek Soft Coal GOOD 'ETP LY ON $A,ND Case ° Son 1 'i±NSA.Lt4 -t r,x'o dIt 35 '1'>1Tylglli[ ere 8th', 1925 EPAIRIN We are in .a positiOnxpert Auto Repairing n and Sp ci.a1ize can. imaufmantantoo,Asfisowatimixew.mig'dom ogoim . Mci 1aughh or any iu kel of Car. AW work guarap teed. nta BATTERIES eCHA e.GED AND EEP.AIIuiD. A .. HAVE YOUR MOTOR CLEANED FROM OLD CARBON BY GUM .sgunNING PROOESS. Gas, toil, Crrn " s, Tires and all Accesso h: M„ L Pran'S {Old 9 i t1, .. Zurich Stand Arounthan S fiver Lasve Everythin t« Fate Gali r round at E. Wuerth's and hewill you Up -To -Date , • Tti: li Tailor, Menis Furnishings - Zurich, Ord, WHERE :SHE GOOD CLOTHES COME FROM; Zupjh _l' , 1 Y . SCHODL UPPLIES We have a coMplefd New Stock Off all the mew Text �3e��.s,. also Scribbler's, Note Books, Writing Books, Drawing Books, Pencil Boxes, Erasers, Rulers, Compasses, Water Colors, kik, Pens 1113.61 i Pen- oils Imo a Full Line Ztationcry r. J. 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