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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1919-10-17, Page 6Intolerance � Compromise? A Challenge to Common Sense! : • at � the D0N'T let anyone tell you that on 'October 20th is� "The Beer issue. or the Boy"—"Is Alcohol a Poison , "-=-" Econom or. ,Extravagance" -- or not Y Zany such, an abstraction. - ' The plain situation is three sections o of this Province are absolutely, thepeople _ dissatisfied with the Ontario Temperance and want new ; legislation that will Act permit the sale of light beer and wine generally, and the sale i of pure, spirit- uous uous liquors. only through Government agencies. These three sections of the population are—ninety per cent. of organized la- bor, by actual vote; a large number of returned sol- dier organizations, by actual vote; thousands of the rank and file of the electorate who have joined the Citi_ zen',s Lib- erty League. The plain issue then is-- Are -you going to vote for the ‘safe, acne, fair coin.; promise that o these men and women want; or, are you going to insist on the retention of the unsatis- factory, Ontario Temper - ance Act—insist on 'the retention of legislation 'that is breeding and vwiil continue to breed dissatis- faction and .,discontent among our workers, re- turned men and a lairge section of the citizens 'generally? Which are YOU � for COMPROMISE and 'HARMONY, ' or INTOLERANCE and Widespreacl Resentment? -• Study the Ballot and analyze the situation conscien- tiously. This is one of the most vital concerns you have e just now—a settlement of Ontario's vexed temperance problem that will be in the best interests of all the pegple. Vote "Yes" to all Four Questions Mark your ballot with an X. Any other marking will spoil it. .Remember - also=Every voter must vote on every question or his ballot will be spoiled` • CITIZENS' LIBERTY LEAGUE ( r '6i� �IBERSHIP FRE ONE DOLLAR CITIZENS LIBERTY:LEAGUE J t , 1 - ( PROVINCIAL HEADQUARTERS 22 College St., Toronto T. L. CARRUTHERS, - Secretary ,fes Please enroll me as a member of the League, for with T enclose my subscription.: • Name ,Address Occupation To enable the League to carry on its good work and achieve its present purpose, active membership and funds are required. Show pour true spirit ! fill in the coupon and become a mem- ber of the Citizens' Liberty League at once_ . T. L. CARRUTHERS, Secretary 22 College St., Toronto ( ( 1 1 Hon. _President: SIR EDMUND B. OSLER President: LT. -COL. H. A. C. MACHIN, M.P.P. Vice -President: I. F. HELLMUTH, K.C. Hon. Treasurer: F. GORDON OSLER li OW EXP WHEAT FROM' THE ANTIPODES Well bred wheat is Something in which the fanner is vitally•inteerested. Good breeding is one of the things that makes life worth while. On the fern). it means both pleasure and profit to the proprietor and to his I family. Take the average farm where well-bred livestock is kept and you will find a prosperous farmer. Good breeding And happiness are com- panions. It is comparatively easy to start with good seed wheat. The invest- ment in better seed will pay for it- lelf with the first crop. It may take an energetic farmer a few sea- sons to work over his beef or diary cattle into a better type, but the de- velopment work already has been done for him when it comes to wheat. That intangible characteristic of good breed• ing, which means larger' and .better- quality crops, lies dormant in the.gern1 of tthe grain, ready to do service, to mankind if man will take advantage of it. It is for the farmer to decide if he shall profit himself and his brethren of the earth by using it. Over in Australia a number of years back the agricultural scientists i of the . government started to - work with. wheat just as the Channel Is- landers did with Guernseys and ; der- 'seys many generations ago. They bred, selected and - discarded, planted and propagated. As a result of many years of effort certain types of wheat fi d a-, ROOS. Rolm lea. Stull ; Beals—Keep your Eyes' Strom and Healthy. If theyTire. Smart, Itcb, or Burn, if Sore, Irritated, UR Inflamed or Granulated, use urine often.; Safe for Infant or Adult. At all Druggists in Canada. Write .forFree Eye Book. Marina Company. Chicago. U.S.A. going back in, wheat. growing. The millers were in seriious difficulties, for it was becoming necessary to ship in more wheat for grinding. George Freeman, of the Arizona Experiment Station, took hold of the problem, and being familiar with the. Australian He wheats, imported several varieties. settled upon Baart as the most promis= ing for his country and it proved ` so. From that day to this the Arizona wheat has improved until now that state, while having asmall area, leads the country in yield an. acre: , Early Baart spread from Arizona into the wh"hat-growing regions of Washington, Idahe and Oregon, almost completely surrounding California, be- fore it gained entrance through the frontier county of Modoc.' It was five years ago that the little batch of Baart was purchased by the miller's buyer on the •Eastern} California pla- teau. Thea lot was taken to" the mill and put through a Iaboratory test. Not alone was the berry uniform of healthy luster- and good, hard quality, 'but it baked a larger loaf than could be got from old California wheat. were developed. They were of xe Since the baker wants to get.the characteristics, more desirable than' largest number of loaves possible from the old kinds as to adaptability and a barrel of flour, it was apparent that this wheat was' the kind the miller wanted and; therefore, would ask the milling quality: What came of this work is now being felt on the Ameri- can Continent just as we enjoy to -day the early efforts of the Channel Is- landlers, the British and the Scotch for the livestock industry. Being in a broad country suited to extensive farming the Australians turned their attention to improvement of wheat with the true instinct of rood rig ole d their cousins of the. country of breeders back home. am not sa that others have notdone worth- h' 'work with cereals, too, but I am to authoritatively, that the Australians have spent more effort and money in the development of better wheat than the people of any other country in the world. The West Coast of the United States reaped a harvest of better wheat this season because Australia bred better wheat. Seed wheat of fixed charac- teristics, combining early maturity and better milling quality, has made it possbile to plant wheat on lands here- tofore thought unavailable for such use, to get larger yields than formerly and to sell at a better price. It was only three years ago that growers of California tried out commercially an Australian variety which now has be- come very popular. To -day this par- ticular variety comprises a fourth of the California acreage, and the Bureau of Crop Estimates tells us that the state produced this year 13,916,610 bushels, which is approximately three times the 1918 crop. The new variety is not the only thing that has in- fluenced increased production, but it has played a part ins the upward trend of wheat. The'story of what happened in Cali- fornia to cause .growers to turn to a new and better variety of wheat and the effect that it has upon the fanner and the milling industry should be of value as .an example,.to others. The "better wheat" campaign has .shown that it is possible to bring about a big improvement in a short time, be- cause ,wheat is an annual crop and the results come in one season' and because the experiemental and de- velopment work already has been done. For many years I had heard the statement that California was ap- proaching its finish'°as a, wheat state, that soils were worn out for the cereal and that some other sort of farming must be followed upon wheat - lands. As a matter of fact wheat farming has been succeeded by other kinds of farming in many cases. Al- falfa plantations, . rice and orchards now thrive upon what was worn -out - wheat land. It was known by pro- gressive farmers, of course, that bet- ter cultural methods would bring back wheat land, but there was something else wrong. Even qp new lands the wheat did not yield as it should and millers were reporting 'a steady de- terioration in the quality of the grain they were buying. They were compel- led each year to import more and more hard wheats to fortify the Cali- fornia cereal in the manufacture of flour. It was apparent to men who meth - tatted upon the wheat situation that the old California varieties of Sonora, Club and White Australian were "run- ning out." The berries were becom- ing peaked, shriveled and seemed to lack vitality. The stalks did not stand up with the vigor thatt-indicated pride in ancestry and the seed was becoming more finical as to soil and and mois- ture. When harvest carne ther were high spots and depressions, like hog- wallow land, instead of an even stand. Seed wheat of different varieties -had become badly mixed; there had been no effort at seed selection; uniformity was gone and only mongrel wheat re- mained. Possibly California growers, somewhat shut off from others in the United States, let their wheat de- teriorate more than it has done else- where in the United States. _ l CR1MMOKS Thoroughly, Disinfect • Against the "Flu" At the present time it is reallylnece§;sary . to thoroughly disinfect the dome and Office. 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A detailed description of Early Baart is given herewith: "Bearded.wheat was thin but elastic straw; matures fifteen days earlier than' White Australian or Bluestan; conditions better than most varieties; not inclined to shell any worse than other milling varieties; heavy yield- ingel matures where others fail; grades -No.11, hard white." The early maturing nature of Baart was immediately recognized as de- sirable for the reason that much wheat normally suffers from hot weather which cines coincidentally with dis- appearance of- moisture. Warm rains in early spring and cool weather in early summer always mean a good crop of 'wheat, while weather that delays growth early in the year and then becomes hot when the grain is in the milk is disastrous, That is why barley is so popular in `California; it matures early. Baart could be plant- ed on some barley land, for it matured from ten to fourteen days earlier than other varieties grown. When the first seed. from the ex- perimental farm was available wheat farmers in the neighborhood of Farm- ington were encouraged to plant it. George Young was one of the first growers of Baart and he has been an apostle of the.variety ever since. The milling concern sent seed to farmers in many parts of the • state, asking them to try it in their locality, and `the following year even more seed was distributed in this way. Farmers were informed that the history of Early Baart elsewhere and in Cali- fornia as well had proved it a heavy yielder and that the mills certainly would be glad to pay the best price for it. ' Growers needed no better as- 1 surance to encourage them in trying something new and try_ it they did. From this small. begining Early Baart -thus became established. After three years of try -out on the little experimental farm at Farmington and then among e'the- farmers themselves, a definite "Better Wheat" campaign was launched before the planting sea- son of 1918. Interested• -persons, in- cluding some milling nen ..and- some fanners, made an automobile jodrney into all parts of the state preaching that it yielded heavier and brought a better price. There was not enough seed available in California and so some was imported sfrom Arizona, Orelton and Washington. - New stories about Early Baart were published in the country papers and in the farm press. The result was a big increase in plantings of this variety and 'a bigger crop the following year for those who planted it. The campaign was continned in the fall of 1918 and this season approximately 175,00 acres of Early Baart wheat, about a quar- ter of the state's total for wheat, was harvested. In the early stages of experimental work with Baart in this country, the Panama -Pacific Exposition vas being held in San Francisco and the Australian Government had a build- ing there. Prominent in the exhibit was a showing of the new wheat''. varieties, thirty-two kinds other than Early Baart. At the close of the ex- position this seed wheat was obtained for experimental .purposes in Cali- fornia. The Australians were reluct- ant to have someone else_ get the bene- fit of their work, as the samples were of unusually high quality, but finally ponsented to waive the request that the exhibit wheat be ground into flour. All of these varieties were planted at the experimental place near Farm- ington and were put through the same tests as Baart. Two of the thirtyo varieties seem promising for this country. One of these is Bunyip and the other Dart's Imperial. Both have now pass- ed the experimental stage and are' be- ing planted commercially. They are early maturing and possess the de- sirable uniformity, fixed characteris- tics and good milling quality. The Farmington district, which is one of the oldest and most consistent wheat' sections of California, hasbeen virtually transformed . by : the new Australian varieties. Along with the campaign for the planting of better wheat varieties farmers were urged to give more at- tention to the preparing of a seed bed. It was natural that these. two things —better seed and better cultivation— should go together just as painstaking care goes with a nee automobile. So Early Baart was given a real oppor- tunity to make good. tiv Further experimental work in Cali- fornia has been encouraged by. the success of the campaign. The •Cali- fornia Experimental Station at Davis now has large experimental plots of 'the different Australian varieties and as seeking some information about how best to handle them. Ita is also proposed to do something that will definitely assure a constant supply of pure seed should these varieties get mixed and begin to deteriorate. Experimental work with the Aus- tralian varieties has beton carried on at the United States Plant Introduc- 'tion Garden at Chico, California, for a number of years and the men there are very much impressed with Hard Federation, which is superior in yield and milling quality. Though this - variety has not yet been given a com- mercial tryout in the' United States, in the experimental plots it has out- yielded- all others and matures a few days earlier than Early Baart. Pos- sibly m..re will be heard of this variety as the trials progress. '0BEE 17, 1919 1ER CASE SEEMED HOPEIES But "Fioit+tn►1s" Bonet Neagh and Strength 29 Sr. Ross Sr., MONTREAL. "I am writing you to tell you that Iowernyiifeto "Fruit -ca -fives", This medicine relieved me when I bad give up hope of ever being well. I was a terrible sufferer from Dyspepsia•—had suffered for years; and nothing I took did me any good. I read about "Fruit-a-tives" and tried them. 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The first batch of it was found by chance upon the farm of a frontier wheat grower in Modoc County, which forms the northeast corner of the state and is joined topographically, to Eastern Oregon. The farmer thought he was offering California Bluestein for sale, but the buyers who examined the sample pronounced itthe best wheat he had seen in California for many years. Investigation proved it to be a lot of Early Baart, one of the Aus- tralian varieties, a bearded wheat and fanged on the Pacific Coast now for -its uniformity, early maturity and 'mill- ing quality. This little batch had entered California from Oregon, Washington or Idaho, where the var- iety had been grown to some extent - unidentified by the man who planted it. It was decidedly a find and to -day with a quarter of the California acre- age in this variety, it has proved more adaptable than any kind thus far us- ed and the millers are delighted to get it and to pay the best price for it. 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