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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-12-09, Page 1i• 11 A f ` .nP'Ya en WHOLE NUMBER 11811 SEAFORT$,; FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1921. osilins# You Can Do Your Christmas Shopping to Wonderful Advantage at Greig Company's ig Sale Just think of the hundred and one Suitable Gifts which may be selected from a splendid stock such,:5 �. - as ours. Men, Women, Boys and .Girls can all be handsomely remembered. Below we sug- gest a few leading lines ; FOR MEN Neckwear ....s 25c to $2.00 Gloves 75c to $2.50 25c to 41.25 $1.00 to $6.00 Sweaters ...40..60 to $9.50 Mil/Hers $1.00 to $2.50 SuspenOE 60c to $1.00 CaUnderwear *$1.00 to to �1.00 50 FOR WOMEN Hope Shirts • FOR BOYS Stockings 25c to $1.00 Ties 26e to 50c Coat Sweaters 51.60 to 18.60 Gloves 76c to $1.00 Braces 25s to '50c Caps 76c to $1.26 Shirts ...... .. .. . $1.00 to $1.50 Underwear 60e to 31.00 FOR GIRLS Fur Stoles $5.00 to $25.00 Coats $7.00 to $12.00 Fur Muff $6.00 to $25.00 Wool Seta $2.60 to $800 Per Collared Coats ....$20.00 to $30 White Fars 35.00 to $10.00 Fancy Cc .ts $18:00 to $80.00 Stockings 26e , to. 41.00 Plush Costs $26.00 to 336.00 Mitts 50e to 75c Wool Sets $2.76 to $1.00 _Scarfs $1.60 to $2.00 and .dozens of other suitable lines. The Greig Cloth ing Co. • Did You Get Yours ■ We have already sold a good many dozen Christmas Cards in the last two weeks. Did You Get 'Yours These are exclusive cards and cannot be duplicated. That is the reason you should see them while the assortment is complete The Huron Expositor - Seaforth • DominionStores,Limited Chain Grocery Stores of Canada Seaforth Specials until Thursday, Dec. 15 Sugar, 10 1b4 82c 100 pounds $8.00 Currants, per Ib 19c Rainains, per lb ' 26c Walnuts, per lb 69c Almonds, per lb .. ... 69c Rolled Oats, 6 lbs 24c Cream of Wheat, 4'lbs 25c Peanut Batter 20c Mince Meat 1.9c Shredded Wheat, 2 pkgs. 27c Corn Flakes, 8 pkgs 88c Comfort Soap, 10 bars 89c Castile Soap, 7 bare 26c Fancy Biscuits ... • r -,..85c Soda Bisoutts 18c Toilet Paper, 6 for •7*-'?' Mathes, 2 batter". Ammonia, 8 pkgs. Pearfne; 8 pkgs. Seeded Ralabys --- Seedless Seedless Raisins ▪ .27e °• tl16c 28e Oorn Starch ...10c 24e 1 lb Matte IitienjeibinllMi' 84c Dominion Stor Pure Lard,2 lbs Choice Figs, 2 Ibe Choice Prunes, per Ib New Peel, lb Christmas ,Candies, db Cheese Roll Bacon Shortening, No. 8 Pure Lard, No. 8 Corn, 2 tine Peas, 2 tins Special Tea Special 'Coffee. Sardines, 2 this Salmon 2 titch ! o the statue of the owner of a good Lyles syrup 30cade herd 'into that of an entatenr Pure Respberry jun, 4 As 17c' `Ingbiler Where the. latter has' used 36c 19c 37e 22c 25c 22c 60c 65c 26c 80c 87c 39e 15c 25c THE CASE OF THE GRADE . DAIRY COW. zriCanada, for nary years to_ come, grade dairy cows iuuat continue to , be the srhiel producers of souk. The; grade dairy cow is the backbone of • the dairy industry. Of course we must admit that a condition such as exists in sections of the older,coun- tries et rarrope, where praettcaily all animals are pure bred, ra ulttnaately desirable yet it will be many years before such a condition exists in this country. In spite of the increase in registered stock during the pasts few years, a very email proportion of our farmers keep so much as a pure bred sire, to say nothing of j regie}tered females. In Oxford Coun- ty, which ,has possibly a larger per - I centage of registered stock than any other country in Canada, it is said , that the total number of pure bred i animals, if divided evenly over all the farmers of the country, would allow only about two head to a farm. Furthermore, the resultant condition, were it made immediately for pure breds, would, if possible, be even more serious than the present condi- tion. tsuoh a' move would mean the indiacriminate marketing of inferior pure 'brads and, at the sante time, the slaughtering of many profitable grade dairy cows. But public opinion moves slowly and, whether for better or for worse, the grade dairy cow must be depended upon, for many years to cope, for the bulk of our milk supply. It is important, there- fore, that, with the building up of pure bred dairy average production of our herds, a corresponding strengthening in the' grade dairy herds as well. Has this been the case? In answer to this question, 1 can but quote a prominent Western dairy- man who recently stated that "a few years ago it was an easy matter to come east to Ontario and pick up a few carloads of choice dairy cows in any of the outstanding dairy dia- triCts. To -day," he said, "it is a much more difficult matter to do $o." Speaking personally, I could point to several farmers that 'I know, who 10, 15 or 20 pears ago, were posses- sors of splendid herdssof grade dairy cows, To -day, they. are breeders of pure breds and their registered -herds neither in _Appearance nor in produc- tion of ,milk, are as good as the grade herds which ;they fe`rrrierly possess, ed. What is the reason for these fescba,_ and what can we do to main- tain our grade dairy herds as a fac- tor in milk production, at least until they are=replaced by pure bred- herds of equal or superior commercial val- ue? It is of course recognized that improvement in grade or "scrub" herds' is largely due to the influence of desirable pure bred sires. The first reason why wo have not as good grade cows as formerly is the fact that recruits for the ranks of pure bred breeders have been drawn from the farmers who kept the best grade cows. The aid grade herds owned by these farmers were gotten rid of and supplanted by reg- istered stock. These farmers, seeing the value of a grade cow of their par- ticular breed, saw, or thought they saw, an infinitely greater value from the standpoint of milk production in a pure bred cow. They also saw the additional source of revenue from sales of young stock. They had grown tired of selling calves or calf skins for little more than enough to pay for marketing and saw a nice source of revenue in the marketing of registered stock for breeding per - edges. But that is not the whole dif- ference. In the old grade herd, a cow had to be a real cow in every sense of the word to maintain her place in the herd. If she was not as good a mfllitr as she ought to be, under "farm conditions," she went to the block. The same thing happened if she was a "tough milker," if she lost a quarter, if she missed a year or if she learned to jump fences. This selection was further strengthened by the raising of possibly only two, three or four calves each year from absolutely the best cows; and even these were usually quickly weeded out the first year if they did not coma up to the mark. P3rrthermore, they were sold to the butcher, not to- some neighboring farmer desirious of "im- proving" his herd. Siieh a system de- veloped the class of grade dairy herds which were common in dairy sections of Ontario, not so many years ago, but which have been replaced, as de- scribed, by pure breds. The second reason for the disap- pearance of good grade dairy covey lies in the lack of recruits from among the ranks of farmers keeping "scrub cattle" to fill -the ranks of farmers formerly keeping a good quality of grade cattle, but who now are "breed- ers." This had not been due so much to the failure on the part of farmers keeping only "scrubs," to adopt pure hied sires as to the lack of judgment, through ignorance ----and other rai- sons, too -on the choice of herd sires to improve their "scrub" herds and replace their "scrub" sires. The farmer, making the first attempted improvement in his "scrub" herd through the use of a pure bred etre, usually obtains a bull calf from his neighbor recently graduated from 26c Fry's Cocoa, iii, lb 27c Bulk Dodos, 1 lbl- 1De es, Linsited,,Sesiorth, Onh 3, Weeks More Tien Christmas AND SAN'A CLAUS WILL CATCH YOU IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT. And all the greparistion for this great event must be finished in that abort tptlee. Now, ap all Jewelry is preeminently of a gift nature, wo ssgqbmit that there is no better place to make a real Christmas Wdt selection titan at our Jewelry Store. Them, . too. the feet that our Jewelry is of the "Gifts that Fast" Quality, an- hencea the value and prestige of the gift, We Weald Sargest: FOB -Eel. FOR HER. Solid Geld 0.iff d:.inks...J6 up 14k Pearl Leveller $8 up Gold *Ilea Pocket Utile 48 UP Diamond Ring $20 up Solid Gold Iiearf Pin..31.50 up Diamond Necklets $15 up Waldirtsar Watch Chain $2 up 14k Pearl Brooch ....$7.60 up Ivory Shaving Set 36.00 Gold -Oiled Watch.......316 up Pearl Ring, 14.k 45 up Waterman Pbuntant Signet Ring ... '$2.60 up Pen 32.50 up Ideal Gold Pen, Everaharp head Pencil..31 up Waterman ..32.50 up Solid (old Signet Ring..$5 up Gold Evers -harp Pencil $6 up Silver Mounted Ivory Brooch or Mirror $4.50 up Umbrella $6 up Ivory ,Manicure Set .34 up • Military Brushes 35 up Pearl Beads, indestructible 36 up With better .goods, larger stock, and LOWER PRICES we of- fer to you 'for your Christmas shopping "GIFTS THAT LAST" and are aWolutely guaranteed. You can buy the best of goods and yet sive money by doing your Ohristmaa Shopping at this store. All gifts beautifully cased. Fred S. Savauge JEWELER AND OPTICIAN Phone 194. Residence 10. We "babe a Calendar for each Customer at this Store. ferent way altogether from the meth- ods they adopted in the weeding out of their grade herds. To them, a pure bred cow has a value from the sale of her calves, apart altogether from her value as a producer of milk. The average stnall breeder culls Out no females for the first few years of his experience as a breeder. His de- sire is to *mg -on to them all, in order that in'.j.s t as few years es possible he may hate a fall herd of pure bred females with their double revenue. Unfortunately, he does not usually consider himself as qualify- ing for recognition as a full-fledged breeder until he has finally gotten rid of his last grade cow. During this process, he may sell scores of bull calves to surrounding farmers that would a hundred times better be treated in the same manner as the bull calves born on the farm from grade cows. This condition is magnified many 'times by the fact that, to the average man,•buying his first pure bred sire, about the only question of import- ance seems to be "Has he got the papers?" If the "papers" are avail- able, particularly if they can be pro- duced for immediate inspection, even though they be as unintelligible es Greek, that is too often all that is asked. To him, one pure bred is just about the same as another. He con- siders that he has taken a great step;; and so he has, -if he .has landed upon f the right kind of an animal. To him, 1 it is the step of buying the "pedigree" rather than buying the "animal." His ------------- -. - _..- discrimination as to the comparative value of bull calves and their pedi- f Anniversary gresss, too often stops at that point.i If such a farmer is the possessor of a herd of real "scrubs," the results ,. Occasion of his first cross cannot help being a I vast improvement over the cows he ! Dr. S. Banks Nelson, D.D., of Ham - formerly kept. The intensity of pure Ilton, will conduct anniversary ser - bred blood lines sees to that. The vices in the Seaforth Presbyterian second cross, owing to one of the ec- Church next Sunday, December 11th, centricities of breeding taws, will not at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. be a great improvement over the first Nelson is very much a man of cross and, unless he is -particularly ' of this New Age, is endowed with "lucky", in his choice of succeeding wide and warm sympathers, has the sires, he will never be the possessor ready wit and ready tongue of a typi- of a grade herd that will show little cal son of Erin and abounds in evan- more than the color markings of the gelical'fervour-is a real pulpit ora - breed they represent to indicate an improvement as the result of hist venture. This does not mean that it is im- possible for the farmer making his Como to the entertainment in the first purshase of a pure bred sire to church on Monday evening at eight secure animate of the kind that will o'clock. Miss Jessie Alexander, with improve his nlhigrel herd and at a the capable assistance of the choir, price to suit his pseket. He must, will do the entertaining, and she however, get over the ic/ae.that all pure breds are alike. He shote. buy knows hew. lb hear Miss d ssie from the man who has used the same 'Alexander is an event in one's life care in building up a pure bred herd, aria Creates in the mind a series of as he used in the weeding out of his former grade cows. He should go in- to that man's barn and make minute inquiries as to the daft of the bull calf which he intends to buy. The man who takes these precautions in stepping from"scrubs" to grades will have a herd " cows such ss' we have already referred to. Unfortunately, however, such men are rare. Conse- quently, the growing scarcity of good grade herds. The responsibility of supplying suitable herd sires to improve "scrub"- herde, cannot be s'hooldered entirely sary in its day, but I honestly believe, and I think many other farmers and breeders will agree that that cry has, as a sure indication, outlived its use- fulness in many ways. Previous to the raising of that cry, it was custom- ary to value a dairy cow according to Icer "points,' but with the em- phasizing of the "pail' -strictly speaking, the scales and "Babcock" - the use of "points" rather fell foto discredit. Possibly a combination of the two would be best. Unfortunate- ly, during the past few years, there has been a growing feeling that we have let mere records blind our eyes Bazaar and Supper Will be held by the Catholic Women's League in MR. SILLS' STORE on Saturday, Dec. 10 Afternoon and Evening. Doors opened at 2.30 p.m. Afternoon Tea to 4.30 p.m. -15c Supper, 5 p.m. to 8p.m. Adults, 35c. Children 25c 'tor. Special Music by the Choir. Special Collections. living pictures that remain as mem- ories, some pathetic, some intensely amusing, all inftresting and repre- senting the perfection of srt. As an Impersonator of men, wom s and children of various types and in many situations, she has no superior in Canada, for not only does she put sympathy, imagination and mirth in- to her work but brains as well. She makes you laugh all the harder be- cause she makes you see so vividly, feel so deeply and aprreciate so thoroughly. Miss Jessie Alexander has the rare faculty of getting on the were mutton in the developing upon the amateur breeder. It is a re excellent terms with 'for audi- of s regiatet.ed herd, as he did with r eponsibility that must be distributed encs fm.m the very enact and the his trades, the c'hanees ane 'that the all along the line. Ten or 15 years delight grows steadily till the end. aunt , doming to hitn fora low Weed ago, a great cry went up throughout Be there. bap bail may get one that will work dairy live stock circles to the effect ADMISSION: e rilst'itnprovement in hie 'her& Un- { that the "pail" ea the only way to fot6tllistslyi boweirer, tattlers nne� ! tell the value of a dairy cow- It was Adults seM Met is pure li eds do itisn 4W vn valuable Motes, and possibly Ames- 'Children ., to other natters; and poasibl}� the general adeptlon of "big reeoralrt'a e4 a standard of perfection has done snore• than any other.aingle factor to give the knock -out blow to the geed grade dairy cow. Possibly it :would be more nearly correct to qty, the mistaken interpretation of "big re- 1' $2,00 A year in Advance McLean Bros., PubBalsam /am average farm, records that bear out in a large measure the prices that the progeny bring, He would rather 'see the Holat e -Friesian breed pro- ducing 1,000 rows that, under aver- age conditions, can make 15 'pounds of butler in a week than to produce one that 1',n produce 40 pounds. cords." `. There 18 no question but that we The unfortunate fact is...thet the, have Wen carried away and have laid average farmer fails to realize that the Bost of production does, pot enter into the makiug of these reeorda, or that merely having_the mane of some famous animal somewhere on the ped- igree does not insure exeelieoce. Too many farsaers, breeders and non - breeders, become possessed with • the • d4 is well to know the posailiilities of idea that if they could..but obtain s the buds but wa shotrld not mks - herd sire connected in some way witk take pinsio_heefl 1 i * 1 moor one of these wonderful cows, even for the real service a meq seen though this relationship be as remote..der. as that of the man who claimed re- + lationahip with'a neighbor on account' Vote the alleged fact of their grand -1 . The • �J ote by fathers having traded-horsea tp the: a old country, their success would be Provinces, assured. Thus, in *e ,pnrohase of a herd sire, they will often sacrifice Lib. Coo. Pros tabor sine, individuality, apparent produe- Ontario 22 87 28 • ing ability and every other indication Quebec of real value in immediate ancestry,. P. E. Island .. 4 - if- there is but somewhere in the New Brunswick 6 6 pedigree the name of some outstand- Nova Scotia 16 ing animal. This exaggerated ap. Manitoba 2 . . 19 1 predation of the value of remote re- Alberta 1 . 10 cords, the small breeder who form- Saskatchewan 1 1{i erly had good grade cows passes on British Columbia 3 7 $ tc the beginner who buys tree, hi n.. 'Yulomt It is not my intention to discourage or to under -estimate the value of re- Totals 118 50- 64 2 `. cords but, rather, to emphasise the too great •emphasis upon the excep-. tional cow. It is what the average of the breed will do that determines its .contribution to the dairy industry. The exceptional animal is valuable in proportion as it contributes to in-• creasingthe production of its breed. necessity of a proper interpretation of records. The small breeder and the : The Election ' in beginner must consider the conditions under which the records were made South Huron and the nearness of relationship of , record animals to those that they The election as far as this Purchase. They must judge animals was concerned was one of the dwelt. by their appearance as Weil as their and hardest fought in the history of - records and as to the likelihood of South Huron, and even yet there is them nearly enough duplicating their some doubt as to the result, although performance under commercial con- up to the time of going to press ditions. Records, as we know them, m figures it was Possible to Be are valuable as a means of estimat- eure give Mr. William Black, the U. ing the productive ability of a cow F. O. candidate, a majority of 16. under maximum conditions Genera It has been zmpossrble to secure .a ally speaking they area good inti- complete return of the vote by polls cation of commercial capacity, but but those given below are the only not always. It is the failure to s ft i figures that will be obtainable until out the latter cases -usually reveal - that the official count is made. . ed in the individuality of the animal, - Seaforth. that has led to the marketing,. among atrial' breeders and dairy farmets of Imre bred animals, both male erns fe- male, that have been both a discredit 4 M x. to the breeds they represented and • ' have worked a positive injury- in the Poll No. 1 183 212 4rE proper developing of good trade dairy Poll No. 2 92 111 cows. On the otber ]land, marry Poll No, 3 49 61 farmers fail to adopt better sires be- Poll No. 4 72 _ 22 7.. ':,use they have no faith in records. Poll No. 5 126 1 g :": That attitude represents the other - extreme and ie equally unwise. Total 521 499 ' 87 Possibly the most effective method to improving grade herds lies in a thorough weeding process within the grade herds. Advantage should be taken of every facility available for the ascertaining of the individual value of grade cows as producers, par- ticularly as they are dependent on milk production alone for their abil- ity to make a profit for their own- ers. There are two such tests avail- able for owners of grade cows. One of them is the grade cow section of the various Winter Fair Dairy Tests. The other is the Cow Testing As- sociation work being carried on through the Dairy and Cold Storage Total 325 429 427 Branch. The latter, particularly, is McKillop - simple, practical and extremely econ- No 1 18 147 omical. In this test, samples are No 1 47 106 118' taken of the milk from time to time No 3 37 79 116. and kept in a preservative for a No 4 compound test. This composite sam- ple is tested for butter fat by the Total 164 367 focal dairy inspector. ,at certain in- tervals, and milk weights are kept. No 1 Year by year record keeping is made `,, 2 more difficult with the general use 3 Na• of milking machines, but, wherever No • 4 possible, it should be done, even if Nn. 1 possible only to weigh the individual 6 meikings, once a week or so, and .'-`..c-o 7 strike a total by basing the week's pro -auction on one day's milk. Any Tata, of these tests will reveal remarkable ` facts regarding the variance as pro- Total ducers of the rows in the herd. These methods, and a sane selection of herd Nn. 1 sires, should re-establish our grade No 2 dairy, herds in the importance that N r• 3 once they held, and keep them there N`' 4 until they can be replaced by pure , bred herds of greater productive abil- Total ity. 11 S8. cents 26 elate Total Total Clinton. 535 Exeter. 492 HensatL 177 Total Bayfield. 168 Total Tuekersmith. No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 447 244 19'7 44 100 183 40 8s 78 82 63 63 89 53 17 44 99 27 81 72 Hullett. 22 38 33 '38 32 _93 62 84 88 20 482 414 90 11 102- 3g 02 67 33. 228 376 Stephen. 339 397 683 ' Usboree. 44 24 161 2$ 46 18$ 117 24 96`: 218 154 512 Hay Total 237 419 628' PRODUCTION AND NOT FADS President Lowden of the Holstein- No 1 Friesian Association of America has No. 2 Stnnley33 19 53 6661 e\pressed himself on what he believes No. 3 136 2084 56 to be the breeder's greatest need at No. 4 31 69 76: the present time. The Holstein No, 5 Friesian World reports him to have - ssid: "We have overlooked the, great -Total 268 236 est duty of breeders in this country Goderich Township. 93 42 71 80 71 46 44 10 69 18 45 28 393 189 in that we !rave almost without ex- i No. 1 eept.ion, failed to evolve some con-; No. 2 siructive plan in our breeding opera- No. 3 tions. We have followed fads and, No. 4 fancies, chasing into every by way to No. 5 catch the ever changing fancies of No. 6 the huyiag public and have failed to evolve and build up a system of con- Total strttctive breeding that would insure $arr:mary. a perk to all who fiioicnp tihe work." Seaforth 621 499 President Lowden points out the Clinton 58(3' 447 necessity of improving the dairy herds Exeter 492 244 in this country and holds that it is Hensel' 177 1Y? discouraging to know that the aver- Bayfield168 '44 age cow produces but 4,000 pounds Goderich Tp. 898 189 of milk a year. In commenting upon Stanley .... 258 286 records, es is reported by the World, Usborne .... 218 154 he has made a very sensible state- Hay 287 410 ment, Ile does not want producers Tuckeremith 325 429 of seed stock whose chiefs dependence McKillop 164841 for their sales le a lot of sensational snag* LI records. He denims those herds to he Stteien • founded upon the bedrock of solid, productive ability, to MilduCe, underliC�y S.r Bli 4f166 a4 cosssYrtdons that may be. duplicated oe - li, 322 37 38. 61, 67 67 69• 289 87 100 183" 40 88 289 822' 512 628 427414 Hat