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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1925-05-22, Page 61 t.rt D11. F. dryA:'li Goadaat,o in, Lit* saisb$4rit pandOgden is, London, ITTA deaxao °telta, Lin1aQ . Baal:aitOletla. OS Wattattaa Staeet Bim. D tV'Ruaa0,444.' 6t OW area aiat :iai'sia•i i is ew Zit Vhlr a -,- er ,,$oleate an the 11' rot,Itietlon of 01411437 Sliaa taa tri'Rttated' by Ontario Department of tysr1eu1ture. Toronto.) SIM/1001W said '"The proof of the puddiziels the eating of it," and so the proof of Ontario being the breed- ing ground for sheep to supply the other provinces' in the Dominion as well as the United States, was proven beyond all doubt by the winnings made by Ontario's Sheepmen at the International Show held in Chicago, Ill., in December, 1924. This show is the common battle -ground for breeders throughout the length and breadth of United States and Canada. All the best flocks in the United States are represented, and in order that the Ontario sheepmen might try conclusions with American breeders, the Ontario Department of Agricui- ture'has been assisting these provin- cial exhibits by financial assistance in the form of payment of freight charges. This was necessary in view of the fact that the prize money offered at the show is relatively small. The greatest reward comes from the honor of winning. The following summary shows the remarkable win- nings made by Ontario breeders, in the eight breed classes in which they competed: BREEDING. CLASSES. TOTAL ONTARIO WON. CA,IYiIY';lill,$.,. ' of Ontario. Ve University of Toronto. a) f: do aeatto animals treated anost. u o6w a. prion l s. 4 reasonable. Day or aught omptly attended to. Once 011 -Steetet, 1iensall, opposite Tpwn one 116. LEGAL e No. 91. JOHN J. ' UGGiRI➢ rrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc. Beattie Block - - Seaforth, Ont. It. S. HATS Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. Office in rear of the Dominion Bank, Seaforth. Money to loan. BEST & BEST Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyan- cers and Notaries Public, Etc. Office in the Edge Building, opposite The Expositor Office. JAMES L. KILLORAN Barrister, Notary Public, etc. Money to loan. In Seaforth on Monday of each week. Office over Keating's Drug Store. a VETERINARY F. HARBURN, V. S. • Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College, and honorary member of the Medical Association of the Ontario Veterinary College. Treats diseases of all domestic animals by the most mod- ern principles. Dentistry and Milk Fever a specialty. Office opposite Dick's Hotel, Main Street, Seaforth. All orders left at the hotel will re- ceive prompt attention. Night calls received at the office. JOHN GRIEVE, V. S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. All diseases of domestic animals treated. Calls promptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderich Street, one door east of Dr. Mackay's Office, Sea - forth. MEDICAL DR. J. W. PECK Graduate of Faculty of Medicine McGill University, Montreal; member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario ; Licentiate of Medical Council of Canada; Post -Graduate Member of Resident Medical Staff of General Hospital, Montreal, 1914-15. Office, 2 doors east of Post Office. Phone 56, Hensall, Ontario. DR. A. NEWTON-BRADY Graduate Dublin University, Ire- land. Late Extern Assistant Master Ratunda Hospital for Woraen and Children, Dublin. Office at residence lately occupied by Mrs. Parsons. Sundays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2866-26 Office and residence Goderich Street, east of the Methodist church, Seaforth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. R. C. MACKAY .t, .jo e U4 N . '+e 7.72 0— a, L. Breed. ZW ;°p a, Shropshire 2 9 1 1 2 4 Dorset ... 1 10 2 3 3 2 Southdown3 8 6 4 3 2 Oxford .. 2 8 2 6 1 4 3 Cheviot . 1 8 0 1 3 3 1 Leicester. 1 8 7 3 2 0 0 Lincoln.2 8 8 4 4 8 4 Cotswold. 1 8 4 2 2 2 2 w 6 8 7 m a 4 ci m U a 2 2 2 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 2 2 0 2 13 67 42 24 20 20 18 4 9 10 It is worthy of note that while Ontario did not have more than per- haps twenty-five per cent. of the ex- hibitors in these classes, Ontario breeders won sixty-three per cent. of the possible first prizes, fifty-five per cent. of the total Championships, and sixty-two per cent. of all Reserve Championships. FAT CLASSES. ONTARIO WINNINGS. Talisa," olaeul4 - 14,0ai*tw° eabeet t ui$ty aa, ter Iaatchilsg toe allow them te laaa'de#a off, awl the be reinovetd, to the breeds erand fed. ?tae teMperatu e a that brooder should he about. 95. degrees F. for the first weeks and then gradu- ally lowered. For the arae foxed uee bread crumbsanoistened with • water. Squeeze the water out of the bread, moulder it up fine, and feed it on a fiat board. Sprinlde arise and and chick size oyster shell over the bread_ before feeding. This. serves as grit for the baby ducklings. Provide fresh water at each feeding in a self-feed- ing fountain. Feed the ducklings four tines daily for the first few days. Care should be taken not to over -feed for the first three or four days, but there is little danger from' overfeeding after that time. About the fourth day start feeding some mash mixed with the (bread crumbs and gradually eliminate the bread during the next few days. The mash should consist of equal parts bran, middlings, and cornmeal to which has been added about five per cent. beef scraps and five per cent. ground charcoal. Feed the birds five times dairy from the fourth day. After the first week green feed should be added. Fine- ly chopped clover makes excellent green food, but any finely chopped green forage could be used. About the eighteenth day the green food should make up about one-third of the entire ration. Experimental work at Ottawa would indicate that a large amount of green food is not necessary for the growing of market ducks. We believe, however, that when birds intended for future breeders are being reared with the market ducks, 'a liberal supply of green food inthe growing ration is essential, says A. G. Taylor, Poultry Husbandman. When the ducklings are three weeks old the amount of beef should be increased to ten per cent. Fine sand should always be sprinkled over the mash before the feeding. Never make the mash sticky or slop- py, but just moist enough to hold together nicely. Continue to feed the birds in this way until they are six weeks old. About this time _the cornmeal in the ration should be gradually increased until it makes up half of the ration.. Fattening should be commenced about the sixth week and the birds should be ready for market at about nine or ten weeks of age. When fattening commences the amount of green feed should be gradually reduced. Make sure that clean drinking water is regularly supplied and that the ducklings are supplied with ample shade if the weather is extre- mely hot. "Green ducks" should be dressed for market just as soon as they have completed their first coat of feathers C, Mackay, honor graduate of Trin- ity University, and gold medallist of Trinity Medical College; member of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Ontario. DR. H. HUGE ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago; Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office—Back of Do- minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. Night galls answered from residence, Victoria Street, Seaforth. AUCTIONEERS F. W. AHRENS Licensed Auctioneer for Perth and Huron Counties. Sales solicited, Real Estate, Farm Stock, Etc. Terms an application. F. W. Ahrens, phone 634 r 6, R. R. No. 4, Mitchell, Ont. 2996-52 OSCA W. REED Licensed auctioneer for the Coun- ties of Perth and Huron. Graduate of Jones' School of Auctioneering. Chicago. Charges moderate, and sat- isfaction guaranteed. Write or wire Oscar W. Reed, Staffa, Ont. Phone 11-2. 2965x52 OMAS BROWN Licensed auctioneer for the counties of Huron and Perth. Correspondence arrangements for sale dates can be made by calling up phone 97, Seaforth, or The Expositor Office Cl-rges mod- erate, and satisfact;^n- g'14ranteed. onor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- tionel School of Auationeering, Chi- cago. 4pecial course taken in Pure Bred Liae Stock, Real Estate, Mer- dhandiee and Farm Sales. Rates in treeping with prevailing market. Sat- fisfaction assured. Write or wire, °tear Klopp, Zurich, Ont. Phone 2866-52 theense8 adetioneer for the County ot Fitton. Selee attended to lei a arts of the county'. Seven years° en- 4ft rat The tinitzo ostiottworoilislr Shropshires 3 Oxford Dorset 3 Cheviot 3 Cotswold 3 Leicester 3 Grades and Crosses Me - Grades and Crosses Long Wool. 4 4 4 4 This summary shows Ontario win- ning fifty-nine per cent. of all the first prizes in those "fat" classes in which they competed and also win - winning fifty per cent. of all cham- pionships, and sixty per cent. of all reserve championships. In addition, Col. Robt. McEwen & Sons, London, Ont., succeeded In winning for the third time in suc- cession, the Grand Championship for the best car load of not less than fifty lambs. Belvoir Stock Farm stood fourth in this competition. These results were accomplished by years of wise mating, careful selec- tion and good feeding on the part of our breeders. The policy of breeding the best to the best which has been zenerally followed brought results. By the use of the best rams and ewes obtainable at home supplemented with very high-class stock imported from Great Britain, Ontario's sheep have attained a very high standard. Time and money has been spent by the sheepmen in obtaining this envi- able position in the sheep -breeding fraternity of North America, but their efforts are being repaid by the de- mand which is now experienced for Ontario bred sheop. POULTRY Chicks that are hatched in incu- bators in which the temperature has run too low or too high for an appre- ciable period of time will be weak chicks and the same may be said of chicks hatched in an incubator that is provided with too little moisture. When the ventilation is so inadequate that, upon opening the egg chamber, a foul odor greets the operator, the hatch will in all probability be a poor one, both in numbers and quality of the chicks hatched. If you find the evaporation pro- ceeding at more than the normal rate you also know t'hat the chicks will be few in number and of poor constitu- tions. The operator should frequent- ly examine the eggs as to the size of the air cell. On the third day with normal evaporation an egg will show an air cell about one-fourth of an inch deep; on the 8th days, about three -eights of an inch deep; and on the 19th day, the air cell should ap- pear about three-fourths of an inch Points for the Lambing Season. Just at this season of the year it may not be out of place to mention some important considerations which must be given at the lambing season because after all the success or fail- ure of the lamb crop determines largely the profit for the year. It is absolutely necessary for the attendant to be on hand frequently both day and night. The loss of not a few lambs, and in some cases both mother and lambs, can be avoided by prompt action on the part of the one in charge. A week or two before the ewes are due to lamb all the dung locks and dirty, straggling wool on the hindquarters of the sheep should be cut away withthe ordinare sheep shears. It will be necessary to handle them carefully at this thine otherwise considerable injury might result to the heavy in -lamb ewe. The removal of this superfluous wool will mean that the young lamb will be able to nurse with less difficulty, it will lessen the danger of wool balls in the stomach of the nursing lamb,, and the ewe will be much cleaner at lambing time. The ewe about to lamb can be properly eared for to mach better advantage when separated from the main flock. Provision should be made far a few small pens on the warmest side of the sheep I C13 qr. for thi, purpose No one has evct been able to de- § -(.1,p syse13) whereby poultry rould he made profitable by ke-eping tbe flock in a mite -infected !mese. Michigan man weds half an hour after getting a divorce. , Ele didn't keep spite long,—Kineardine Reelect'. When the Gospel is faithfully preached, the preacher mar eount receiving more Welts than halfpence, "As indispensable as the Telephone" "As indispensable as tine Telephone" is now a favourite slogan used by many large manu- facturers in their advertising, when de- scribing their goods. A frank recognition that speed of communi- cation is the most vital factor in _expanding business and social life. Indeed, a firm's position in the business world may be fairly,judged by the extent to which it uses the tele- phone—and especially Long Distance. We now handle an average of over 41,000 Long Dis- tance calls a day. Cods elaOtay tit =Mut Ai 4% Otte tie eel g• Jeehou a who.4 t aia��tad ahaiuld beeere' 2 I�tRxtt ,s posslnla, 'uaa?ag ;nugiw'IM 3 Totten, sand at �e w'oll to 1,�raigl posted osa t7/ Via.; hiuee,aFq; tempera,tin, tiaualapg'A: coolilag , : cher details, net :aiialy *eta o as a check aguite& negleolt, beet ...very often a sal tahI ; and aistepeatieg ;lesson may be learn= ed byWiping over back mate. The last tale or three days of tn, eubation *slay 1De considere1 a rather, critical gtei)d, that is, if any period of incubation spay be called more critical than •any other. Besides the usualpeaetice of supplying moisture as soon es the first egg has pipped, keeping itbe incubator closed•to cont serve tbe'aame, and making certain Mat the tray, is in right end to, it is also geed practice to put dry sand in the bottom of the machine to pick as soon as they are allowed to drop into the nurser r. Clean bright sand will eliminate much toe melting as at this age the picking up of bits of dry, clean sated is a natural instinct of young chicks. Toe -picking 4s an evil for which the operator is to blame. During this hatching period, good ventilation is necessary, By that we do not mean; that it is necessary that all unpleas uit odors be removed from the egg chamber as soon as peesible without causing dangerous drafts and unduly exposing the eggs to changes in temperature. Considerable 'atten- tion to detail must also be given in order to harden the chick for the brooder. The change from incubator temperature.. to brooder temperature must be very gradual. No chance for a chill should be permitted. T,he brooder should be heated and the heat regulated for two or three days before the chicks are put into it. This is necessary as a safeguard a- gainst ,variations in temperature which, especially during the first days under the brooder, may prove fatal. A great deal of mortality is direct- ly attributed to too wide contrasts in temperature at different times, par- ticularly the warmer temperature during the day, to which closer care and the heat of the sun's rays con- tribute very much and contrasts with the cooler temperature of the night, due to the absence of both .the sun's rays and the care of the operator. Perhaps the most important element in brooding is an adequate and even heat at all hours of the night and day. ROMANCE OF DEAD CITIES There: is ailvveys fascination attach- ed to stories of lost and abandoned cities. The east has many such plac- es, once teeming with life—now the abiding TlaCe of lions, monkeys, snakes and jackals. For instance, the holy city of the Budhists, Bare- boectoor, in Java, had been forgotten for 6001 years when Sir !Stamford Raffles rediseovered it and it won- derful temple, the eighth wonder of the world. •The jungle of Siam has hidden ite ancient capital, Ayuthia, for four %centuries. Its inhabitants fled before the conquering Burm,ese, and never returped. It is now said to be the lurking place of thousands of enormous snakes. Mystery sur- rounds the dead city of Thibet, which Captain Rawling discovered. It is a vast collection of palaces, monasteries and dwelling houses, but the Thibet, ans professed ignorance of its exist- ence, and also of the reason for its abandonment. Five eenturies ago Angkor had: a population of three- quarters of a million. To -day it is the Dead City of Cambodia. The carved stone elephants, the immense causeways, the majestic temples still remain, but the jungle has invaded the streets and squares. ONTARIO EXTENDING ACREAGE OF SOY BEANS The feeding value of the soy bean has been found to be greater than that of any other forage plant ex- cept the peanut, according to a re- port issued by the United States De- partment of Agriculture. The acreage of soy beans in On- tario is increasing as the crop be- comes better understood and as the most suitable varieties are grown. The soy bean crop may be used for pasture, for green or dry fodder, for silege, for ploughing under for enriching the sot or it may be al- lowed to ripen for the production of grain for human food, for stock feed, for oil, or for seed. At the Ontario Agricultural Col- lege last year the highest yields were obtained from seeding a medium ripening variety in the last week of April and the first week of May, a medium early variety about the mid- dle of May and an early variety at the end of that mairth. The seed can be sown at the rate of one-half bushel per acre in rows twenty-five to thirty inches apart, or it can be sown from all the tubes ?if a grain drill at the rate Of one and one-half bushels per acre. Cultivation is necessary in the former, which is the usual method. About one hundred varieties of soy beans have been tested at the Ontario Agricultural College within the past twenty years. Many of these have proven to be unsuitable for growing in this Province. The high- est yielder of the twenty-three varie- ties grown in 1924, and of the ten varieties for four . yoga, was the 0.A.C. No. 211. The average yield per acre per annunt in the four-year period for each of five varieties was bushels; Early YellOw, 29.4 bushels; Quebec No. 92, 2111 bushels; Ito San, 20.5 bushels, and Early Brown, 19.4 bushels. In the four years' trials the 0.A.C. No. 211 produced the high- est average weight of grain per measured bushers and Was one of fodder, producing' 8.2 tot% per acre. suoccrsfully tested With. tett). of tere other varieties the eo-operative experiments threntglielit Nigeria v [ M Y tom- . �,►,`.�,,,�, � " —�. "DIUNLOP"IMILLOCIN . TIRES MEET YOUR TESTS For Sale by oteesteeereetelee eight farms in the past two years. These tests were made in the coun- ties of Kent, Lambton, Huron, Mid- dlesex, Sinmoe and Victoria. Four of the tests were made on clay loam, two on sand, and one each on gravel loam and clay. The two years' re- sults show the following average yield of grain per acre for each .of the three varieties:—O.A.C. No. 211, 19.3 bushels; O,A..C., No. 111, 16.4 bushels, and Early Brown, 14.0 bushels. - The O.A.C. No. 211 variety of soy beans was originated at the College from the most outstanding individ- ual plant which made the best rec- qrd of performance of thirty-four se- lections made from about 10,000 plants of the Habaro variety obtain- ed from the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture sixteen years ' ago. 'It is a vigorous grower with a large leaf development, has reached an average height of fully twenty- seven inches and has produced ma- ture seed in each of the six years in which it has been grown in the ex- perimental grounds at Guelph. It is a heavy yielder of yellow -eyed yel- low beans which are about the same size as the common white pea -bean of Ontario. About three hundred bushels of choice seed of this new variety of soy beans were produced in Ontario in 1924 and the interest in this new crop is shown by the fact that it is being used in the co-operative ex- periments on about one hundred On- tario farms in the present year. • LUSITANIA WAS SUNK JUST TEN YEARS AGO Ten years ago on May 7th the Lusitania was sunk. which prompts a writer in the New York Times to ob- serve that the event which really de- cidea the outcome of the World War, occurred at ten minutes after two, just ten years ago last Thursday af- ternooe What he means to say is that it was the sinking of the Lusi- tania which drove the Upited States into the war. It is a graphic rather than an accerate statement, for it was not until neerly two years later that the United States did enter the struggle, and only then after Ger-' many had chosen to face Arp_erican belligerency rather than give ua her submarine warfare. The sinking of the Lusitania will always be remem- bered as one of the most terrible of the incidents of the war. The Cer- man officer who fired the torpedo, Lieut. -Capt. Schwieger, was lost two years later, and thus passed from the possibility of Allied vengeance. His photograph shows him- to have been a mild -looking young chap, wearing the ine:vitable iron cross. His diary recorded the sinking of the Lusitania as follows:— "Right aheaa appear four fun- nels and two masts of a steamer. . . Clean bow shot from 70e metres range. . . Shot hits starboard side right behind bridge. An. unusually heavy detonation follows with a very strong explosion cloud. (High in the air over first smokestack.) Added to the' explosion of the torpedo there must have been a second explosion. (Boiler or coal or powder). "The superstructure over point struck and the high bridge are rent asunder, fire breaks out and smoke envelopes the high bridge. The ship stops immediately and quickly heels to starboard, at the same time div- ing deeper at the bows. She has the appearance of being about to capsize. Great confusion on board, boats being cleared and part be- ing lowered to water. They must have lost their heads. Many boats crowded came down bow first or stern first in the water, and immedi- ately fill and sink. "Fewer lifeboats can be made clear on the port side. owing to the slant of the ship. The ship Maws off. In the front appears the name Lusitania in gold letters. . . It seems as if the vessel will be afloat only a short thne. Submerge to twenty-four metres' and go to sea. I could. not have fired a second tor- pedo into this throng of humanity attempting to save theraiselves!' His „belated compunctions did not prevent him from firing another tore pedo, at a Cunard freighter an hdur later, but it went wide, and the cap- tain proceeded on his way. The Lusitania left New York eit Itay lot, with a large passenger list despite the fact thal- a short time before the sailing AD uhreAleoroent had teen published in the New Irerk German Einte'ly Wilting Anted - Thursday aftorekon es the Ship ap.. proaehecl the danger tone, Captain > 4 William T. Turner received warn- ings that submarines were about, and he gave a wide berth to Fastnet Rock on the southeast coast of Ire- land, where the U-boats were sup- posed to be hunting. There was a slight fog es the Lusitanie approach- ed Ireland, and for a time the speed was reduced to fifteen knots, though later increased to eighteen. Captain Turner was timing the vessel" so that she might reach the Mersey bar, outside Livoupool, at high tide on Friday morning. At two o'clock on Thursday afternoon she .was near enough the Irish coast to sight the Old Head of Kinsale. Many of the passengers were still at lunch, and Captain Turner was taking a bearing. Suddenly a lookout on the fore- castle head shouted to the officer on the bridge that a torpedo was com- ing on the starboard bow. His cry ' was re-echoed by a second lookout !in the crow's nest, and an instant 'later, before anything could be done, the torpedo struck_ There was a ' shock that broke nearly .all the glass in the portholes in that part of the ' vessel and a moment later another shock. The explosion broke the main steampipes end flooded the I boiler -room so that the power was ' cut off immediately. The wireless operator had time to send out a call for help as the vessel began to list I to starboard. She slowly heeled over, struggled to right herself, and then heeling again till her funnels filled with water she plunged bow forward to the bottom of the ocean. It was agreed among the survivors that discipline did not break down among the crew, but the momentum of the vessel, and the angle of the decks made it at first a matter of great diffi'eulty and in a few minutes an inlipossibility to launch lifeboats. Captain Turner remained on the - bridge and went down• with his ship, but was picked up later and lived to have another liner, the Ivernia, tor- pedoed under 'him a year ortwo af- terward. There perished on the Lusitania 765 men, women and children. Of the crew of 702 persons only 289 were saved. Of the passengers lost sixty-three were infants or children. Only four of thirty-five babies aboard survived. One family of eigh was completely wiped out. It was said by Germans after the crime that the Lusitania was really an armed vessel and that the second explosion was caused by the bursting of the shells she carried. But an inspec- tion before sailing proved that she carried only cartridges, shrapnel cases and infantry equipment. She had no cannon, and was unarmed. The news of the destruction of the Lusitania was received with feelings of horror, amazement, and fury in the United States. More than one hundred American citizens had been destroyed. Millions of Americans demanded that wear should be de- clared. It was generally suepposell that President Wilson would prompt- ly abandon his neutrality, but three days later he made his speech about a nation being "too proud to fight," one of the mast extraordinary re- marks made by anyone in the course of the war. Thereafter he engaged in an exchange of letters with Ger- many which was prolonged until April, 1917, when the United States accepted as a fact that state of war which Germany had thrust upon her. MV BURN IT TO KILL. a 1 MOSQUITOS S AND FLIES a Se Dumb woman spoke at Moreton Hamstead, Devon, and foretold her own death. She died within the hour. The lady was a well known local resi- dent. In her youth she euffered from a severe illnees which, left her deaf and dumb. On the occasion cited she spoke for the first time isipee the af- fliction of early days. She asked that a doctor be sent foie as she Wag go- ing to die. She passed away, as stet - ed, soon afterwards from heart fail- After en'ting or smoking Wrigley's freshens the mouth and sareetene the breath. Nerves are soothe& throat is refreshed and diAestiOn aided. So easy to carry tat little packet! I '1" OUR 1007 PUR iNT & VA NISHES SOLO titY Seaforth, Ont.