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
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ere 8th', 1925
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Auto Repairing n and Sp ci.a1ize can.
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or any iu kel
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.sgunNING PROOESS.
Gas, toil, Crrn " s, Tires and all Accesso h:
M„
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Stand Arounthan
S fiver
Lasve Everythin
t« Fate
Gali r round at E.
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you Up -To -Date
, • Tti:
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WHERE :SHE GOOD CLOTHES COME FROM;
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Boxes, Erasers, Rulers, Compasses,
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