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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1941-06-12, Page 2ving nt.aria's Natural Resources In Lighter Vein: "Enough Is Enough" Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (No. 44) THE WATER TABLE One of the most important con- siderations before consezvatienists to -day is the question of the depth of the water table in our agri- cultural districts. The height of this water table determines whe- ther or not springs go dry in summer, how much the stream flow is decreased in August, and the depth to which wells must be drilled for a year round supply* of water. Most of us think of the water In the ground as occurring in streams, or flows, but this is not so. The underground water is ll`ke a lake whose surface follows the contours of the land. It is usually found at a certain depth all over a district rising up over the hills and dipping down into the valleys. We tap this under- ground lake when we drill a well, the springs are surface outcrops and all our streams are dependent on this underground lake, the water table, for their flow. Only Source of Water There is only one source of water, the precipitation from the atmosphere either as rain or .. snow. This rain or snow can get away in two ways. It can flow over the surface of the land, as streams, or it can sink into the ground to reappear later. In a countryside where most of the precipitation flows away at the surface there will be floods in the spring and water shortage at other times for, and this is im- portant, most of our rain and snow conies down in the fall, win- ter and spring months. So it can be readily seen that the under- ground water is a surplus to car- ry through the dry season. Vegetation helps to hold the surface water until it can sink into the ground. Grass, brush and trees, in that order, are the sponges that prevent too rapid a runoff in wet seasons, with consequent floods, and allow the water to sink into the ground. Since this is so we must have trees, the best water delayers, over a certain per- centage of the land and this I will discuss next week. Canada Nears Gas Rationing Consumption Must Be 'Cur- tailed, OR Controller States G. R. Cottre.Ylle, oil controller in the Department of Munitions asld Supply, said in a statement in To- vonto the end oe. May that it is enecessary to control" prices of gasoline and that "we are faced 'with a curtailment in consumption whether we like rationing or not." Mr. Cottrelle said he could not say when gasoline price control would come into effect. "Oil tankers ordinarily in use to eapply the United States and Can- adian markets from Gulf ports, the Butch West Indies and South Am- erican countries are being drawn en for the transatlantic service," taid Mr. Cottrelle. "There is no doubt that we are faced with a euetailnent. ''-n consumption wheth- er we like rationing or not. "The loss in volume to the Can- adian oil industry and the necessity of spreading overhead over a less- er volume together with the ir- e -leased tanker rates and the in- erease in world petroleum pricee point to the necessity of two things ----control to lessen distribution ousts by the industry and control of prices. "Ordinarily gasoline prices go up with. each increase in the price of orude. Ae a result of oil control this has not been permitted. "The oil industry is an impar - tent factor in our war effort. With- out it Canada cannot make the contribution to the war effort ex- ratted xlRected of leer. It is necessary therefore to face the facts and necessary to control prices. Orders 001, 00A, 002 and 003 (orders pub- lilshed by the oil controller in the Canaria Gazette) were made to pre- pare the way for these things we are now facing." " Say: —do you think we are getting the boys OVER trained?" ✓ OICE OF THE P RESS PICNIC PESTS "Even the picnics of the season are often ruined by insects," says a writer. Especially those pests who Ieave the corkscrew and tin- openee behind. —Montreal Star. -0— ONTARIO'S "H" MEN Names of four men figuring in cabinet and departmental changes this week. all began. with H—Hipel, Heenan, Horton and Hepburn. —St, Thomas Times -Journal. —0- 1,300 TO DIE THIS YEAR Thirteen hundred healthy, happy Canadians will die in traffic acci- dents in Canada within the next twelve months. Traffic mishaps take a toll in Canaria equal to the wiping out of an entire town every year, figures reveal. --Quebec Chronicle -Telegraph. —o— CHILDISH PRACTICE Judge Wearing, of Lonclon, Ont., calls noisy, horn -tooting wedding parades through. city streets an "outrageous racket" and has in- structed the police of that city to suppress them. If Similar instruc- tions were issued elsewhere, it would do much to eliminate an an- noying and exceedingly childish practice. Conference on Wheat Planned U.S. Calls World Meeting to Discuss Surplus Problem An international wheat confer- ence is being called by the United States within the nexf few weeks, It was announced by the state de- partment at Washington. Representatives of the Eggs For Britain 25 Cents, Grade 'A' Agriculture Department offici- als recently said that selling priees for Britain's new order in Canada for 5,400,000 dozen eggs are com- parable with prices of 25 cents a dozen for grade "A" and 23.4 cents for grade "B" eggs shipped this spring. They said the eggs will be ship- ped to Britain prior to Oct. 81 next and in the meantime will be stored in Canada at 'Britain's exa- pellsc. '.Phe order . raises to 510,000 cases the total sales of Canadian eggs to the British Food Ministry since San. 1. Sales to the Minis. try in 1040 totalled 856,000 cases, four big exporting nations, Canada, Austra- lia, Argentina and the United States, are expected to attend, as well as representatives of Britain, the chief and almost the only free importing nation left in the world. It was not immediately clear but it was assumed that the confer- ence would be a meeting of the Wheat Advisory Committee which was formed at the London Eco- nomic Conference and has rune - tined ever since, holding at least twe general meetings in London. Ccornmon Foods For Vitamins .. Keep This List Before Yoe If You Have A Vitamin De- ficiency Oar grandparents, says Betty Barclay, ate pieuty of rough foods. They plucked fruit from the trees, berries from the field, nuts from the bushes and drank large quan- tifies of mills. Perhaps they ob tained all the vitamins they needed without thinking or knowing about such a thing as a vitamin. Appar- ently most of them did. Anyway, they had no vitamin pills to buy. SOURCES OF A, B, C. G IPave you been told that yon need more vitamin A, B, C or G? If so, here are a few conwitm foods that will be glad to aid you without worry and at very Little cost. If you have a vitamin deficiency, keep this list before you. Vitamin A: Butter, broccoli (ex- cellent), carrots, cheese, whole milk, cream, eggs; liver, spinach,, squash, water cress and sweet po- tatoes. Vitamin B: Bread, string beaus, cabbage, celery, corn, cream,.dates, ice cream, lettuce, milk, lemon juice, oranges, peanut batter, green peas, pork, potatoes, rice, walnuts, oat meal and mutton. Vitamin C: Green cabbage, can- taloupe, cress, grapefruit, lemon -juice, oranges, parsley, green peas, raspberries, tomatoes, water cress, watermelon and turnips. Vitamin G: Broccoli, buttermilk, cream, eggs, heart, kidney, liver, miin and beet leaves. FOUR BIG EXPORTERS It was suggested that the main purpose of the Washington confer- ence would he to attempt to achieve agreement among the big foul- ex- porting nations to limit produc- tion. At the peesent time, because of war conditions and the German oc- cupation of practically all of Eur- ope, the exporting nations are choked with wheat that cannot be sold. Canada, for instance, held 660,000,000 bushels on May 1 and this same surplus position was try to a greater or less extent, in. Au-- tralia, Argentina and the United States. Ontario To Serve Summonses By Mail? Service of summonses in by- law cases by nail instead of by police officers may become a pos- sibility, says a communication sent out to municipal bodies by C. L. Snyder, Deputy Attorney General. Mr. Snyder stated that at the last session of the legislature the Summary Convictions Act was amended to provide for the ser- vice of summonses by mail in Highway Traffic Act cases. "The amendment has not as yet been extended to cover munici- pal by-laws, but that possibility may be considered when the pro- cedure has been tested in connec- tion with the Highway Traffic Act," Mr. Snyder stated. Free AeropicinePict s BARB IS ALL YOU IilAVE TO DO; to get photos of the following aeroplanes Spitfire ... Defiant - .Hurricane .. . Avacobra . . Fahey Nettle Plane . . Lockheed Hudson . Bristol Blenheim Vickers Wellington Blackburn Sino -Dive Bomber ... -Fahey Swordfish ... Boeing Plying Fortress ... Sunderland DOO Plying Boat and 15 other modern planes (all are the latest official photographs in full detail). For each aeroplane photo you wish send two Durham Corn Starch labels. Specify plane or planes wanted, your name and address, enclose necessary labels and mail requests to the St. Lawrence Starch Co. Limited, Port Credit, Ontario. Keep Potatoes Well Spr,..;yed Failure To Spray Consistent- ly East Year Cost Ont. Farm- ers $1,200,000, States J. T. Cassia "It DOES taste good in a pipe! HANDY SEAL -TIGHT POUCH -150 1/54,13. "LOK-TOP" 'PEN --650 also packed in Pocd:et Tins the Sanitaria for Consumptives Act, which becomes effective June 9, gives authority to medical health officers to initiate the action with the approval of the provincial health department. The new legis- lation also provides for segrega- tion of patients in a sanitarium ou the order of a magistrate and for the recommittal of any patient leaving the sanitarium against the advice of the superintendent. The new legislation, Dr. Brink said. applies to a patient wlio is "unwilling 01' unable' to conduct himself in such a milliner not to expose other members of his fam- ily or other persons to danger of infection and refuses to be admit- ted to a sanitarium or hospital." Failure to spray potatoes consist- ently through the growing season last year cost Ontario farmers ap- proximately $1,200,000, states J, T. Cassin, in charge of potato work for the Ont. Dept. of Agriculture, Toronto. Mr. Cassin points out that average production for the 147,- 000 acres potatoes grown in On- tario last year was but 77 bushels as compared with the average of 98 bushels over the past ten years. "Many growers who kept potato foliage covered with tl1.e proper sprays last year harvested good - crops yielding from 150 to 200 bush- els per aore," said Mr. Cassin. "The timely use of arsenates and Bordeaux will protect the plants .•roan insect pests and late blight caused by continuous wet weath- er?' eath-er?' TIME TO BEGIN The time to commence spraying for fleabeetles is when the plants are from four to six. inches high, says Mr. Cassin. Arsenate and Bor- deaux should be applied regularly to repel attacks from potato bugs, leaf hoppers and late blight. Arsen- ate is required only for protection from fleabeetles and potato bugs. Bordeaux mixture repels leaf hop- pers and gives protection fioni late blight. Every- farmer growing potatoes In commercial quantities will be in- terested in obtaining Bulletin No. 390 of the Ont. Dept. of Agricul- ture, "Successful. Potato Produc- tion in Ontario." It may be obtain- ed from the Agricultural Represent- ative in your county. Ontario T.E. Law Stiffer All Cheddar For Export Ontario, Quebec Cheese is Earmarked For Export to Un- ited Kingdom The entire cheddar cheese pro- duction et Ontario and Quebec is being earmarked for export to the United Kingdom, the Dairy Pro - darts Boards has ruled. The board's order was lows: "All cheddar cheese manufactur- ed in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec on and after May 26, shall be white and unwaxed, not less than 14ee inches in diameter and not less than 76 pounds in weight, and all such cheese shall be export- ed to the British Ministry of Fooci through the dairy products board by exporters licensed by the board." Since 93 per cent of all cheese produced in. Canada conies from Ontario and Quebec and the pro- duction in the other provinces does not meet domestic consumption in those provinces this means that until the order is rescinded, the bulk of domestic consumption in Canada will have to be provided from stocks already in storage. 112,000,000 POUNDS IN YEAR Canada has undertaken to pro- vide Britain with at least 112,000,- 000 pounds of cheese between April 1, 1941, and March 31, 1942, and officials said the board's order is being put into effect to ensure that Canada exports at least that ani- ount. as fol - Sufferers May Be Committed to Sanitarium Under New .Rule, Whether They Like It or Not Dr. G. C. Brink, director of tuber - cillosis prevention in the Ontario Department of IIealth, told the On- tario Health Officers' Association conference meeting recently in To- ronto that any person suffering from tuberculosis in an infectious state who is unwilling to take ade- quate precautions for the protec- tion of others may be committed to a sanitasinm by order of a magis- trate. BY ORDER OF MAGISTRATE Dr. Brink said an amendment to earth Vivid ,g0 ale Cured Only in Exceptional Cases Are Canadians Allowed to go to U. S. for Treatment Drastic. stops have been taken to curb the drain on U. S. dollars through health visits of Canadians to the United. States. Following negotiations with the Canadllait Medical Association. anew ruling has been made by the Foreign Ex- change Control Board, says the Fin- ancial Post. BEST IN ('.NADA Hereafter, only in exceptional cases will it be possible for citi- zens of the Dominion to go to the U. S. for medical treatment. The F. E. C. B. has apperelatly accepted the claim of the Canadian Medical Association that almost without exception Canadian citi- zens are assured of the best pos- sible medical. care in Canada. In regard to climate, howeeer, 110 special claims are made. It is un- derstood that, for some cases, the drier or warmer air of the southern. states is aomittetiW more beneficial 'Oban anything that Canada cau of- fer at certain seasons. desir- ing recently the person d ing to go to the U. S. for reasons of health, made application threneh. his own doctor, who then had the responsibility of renhorizing the trip. NOW UP TO OTTAWA If this authorization were not given, doctors complained teey might lose a patient; and that pa- tients might shop around mill a more manageable doctor was fe'.md. Under the new 'system the pa- tient applies directly through his bank to the F. E. C. B. In thio application must be cited IHa°un for wanting to leave Canada' oleo name and address of his own doc- tor. The applicant's hank then sends the doctor a for of medi- cal report which he will fill out after an examination of the pa- tient, and which the doctor will forward direct to the F. E. C. B. at Ottawa. The patient need uct'see the report nor know what is being. confidentially communis'ated by pia doctor to the Board. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Frea Neher mc• ixq ? "it's moving day . - . isn't it. t 113,31 GENE BNES REG'LAR FELLERS—Happy LandingsSigomenneesmosaccom*renamimenassonscgoasiagraermar......11+ wl-1ATcl-lU Boys P HER U T 8 • t r'»` • �� WE ru FELL OFu5 OURtt�, C �_`f I @kCYCI.,ES!0 1 az ✓r "� Ycb9°,-0 I,sme. tt. s. n.e; ares-. 1511_ea)'t