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The Huron Expositor, 1931-06-26, Page 6;t, tI avings Account its 4 SelIjng P AFETY AVAILABILITY VALUE increases ENCOURALQEMENT to thrift. THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE PAID-UP CAPITAL 30 MILLION DOLLARS RESERVE FUND 30 MILLION DOLLARS News and Information. For the Busy Farmer Purchase of Limestone. George R. Paterson, who is in charge of feed and fertilizer distri- bution work for the Depaitluent, points out that there appears to be some doubt as to what type of lime- stone to advocate: "The situation is such that at present the various grades of agricultural limestone of- fered in Ontario are about equal in value according to their degree of fineness. We do not suggest where limestone should be purchased, but we feel that location of quarry and freight cost should form a major consideration. Local quarries that offer material of a suitable nature at satisfactory prices might well be patronized." Mortality in Young Pigs. A high mortality in hogs on farms in Simcoe County is reported by Stewart L. Page, agricultural repre- sentative. Young pigs have been dy- ing when only a few days old and in many cases have been still -born. The mortality has been higher in young pigs than in more mature animals. Mr. Page states that it is due in part to the dry season experienced last year and to the fact that poorly bal- anced rations are being fed in many hog areas rEleme-grown 1'atiQne are: often deficient in proe a and xrn3uexal; matter and for this reason many hog producers find it advisable to feed. some mineral, mixture as recommend- ed in Charts supplied. by the" depart. ment, -Whichare available at your lo- cal representative's office. A mixture of 50 pounds of bone flour and thirty pounds of slake lime or pulverized limestone, with ten pounds of common salt, 5 pounds of iron sulphate and 3" ounces of potassium iodide is re- comrnened to be fed in addition to honn•e-grown feeds as a measure di- rected towards lowering mortality. Look out for the cabbage maggot. The cut worm is !best avoided by cir- cling your cabbage, cauliflower and lettuce plants with a tinned paper or mulch paper protection, sunken a few inches into the ground and stand- ing an inch or two above it. Three hundred students of Went- worth County recently visited and made a tour of inspection of the On- tario Agricultural College, as a re- sult of which they obtained, much worthwhile information. It is hoped that other counties may follow the lead set by Wentworth. • Growers' Council Organized. ; Giving force to the recommencla- ti'on made in the Somerset report, re- presentative fruit and vegetable grow- ers to the number of about 60 met last week in Hamilton and organized a Growers' Market Council" Th e gathering was sponsored by the new Ontario Marketing Board as one of its first steps to aid agriculture in this province. The function of the coun- cil will be to develop the orderly mar- keting of Ontario fruit and vegetables with special consideration to extension of markets and also to deal in an Ad- visory capacity with the various prob- lems of growers. A petition was di- rected to Premier Bennett at Ottawa, imploring him to impose as soon as possible fixed values for duty on cab- bage, cauliflower, tomatoes and early Patching only delays the necessity of REP -ROOFING When your roof is worn out and commences to leak you never know what damage will be caused to your decorations even though you make temporary repairs. 9 Better save yourself trouble and moneyy by re -roofing NOW with Brantford Asphalt Slates. They cost less to buy, less to lay and nothing for repairs. Speak to your Brantford dealer about the more than 100 dif- ferent colour combinations ob- tainable in beautiful, fire -safe Brantford Roofs. Brantf.r ROOPS Brantford Roofing Company, Limited, Head Office and Factory: Brantford, Oak Branch Offices and Warehouses: Toronto, Winnipeg, Montreal, As,lifax, Saint John, N.B., and St. John's, Nfld. L lag FOR SALE BY N. 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Write fes,4 New Prices TERMS TO SUIT ALL Exclusive Distributors for OLIVER HART -PARR TRACTORS and full Viae of Farm Equipment lowly 1 r � r R co, T ET RID QF . . Ac. NSTIPATIQN: J e Dr.r'a famaue 4itde laver P illa' v'� gentle but effective,, bad after effects. For 60 yen* they have givenrelief from biliousness, Hontdaches, Inndiigeadon, Acidity, Bad Coln• i4ex ions. 25c & 75c red packages Ask your druggist for TER'Sminus potatoes, on the basis of the recom- mendations of the Canadian Horti- cultural Council. The following of- ficers of the Council were elected : H. L. Craise, of St. Catharines, chair- man; M. M. Robinson, of Hamilton, vice-chairman; the provisional Board of Directors includes: Representing the Fruit Growers—James E. John- son, of Simcoe; R. Mills, of Sparta; F. Watson, of Dixie; Howard Leav- ens, of Picton; J. Smart, of Coiling - wood, and Chairman Craise ; repre- senting Vegetable Growers—Edward J. Aitkens, of Leamington; H. Car- rothers, of Thedford; W. J. Cooke, of Kingston; M. M. Robinson, of Ham- ilton; W. B. Broughton, of Whitby, and Cecil Delworth, of Weston. The fifty-second annual report of the Agricultural and Experimental Union for 1930 is now available. It contains a complete resume of results achieved in the way of co-operative fertilizer experiments, utilization of home-grown feeds, soil improvement, crop rotation and numerous other im- portant agricultural features, The Department will gladly furnish a copy of this !booklet to any applicant. Campaign Against Weeds. The provincjsl authorities are leav- ing no stone unturned in their cam- paign against weeds. Many of the highways have the usual prolific crops along the sides of the road. Some of the farms throughout the country have crops of weeds which will soon be ripening and spreading their seeds to the four winds. Delinquents in this respect will be given an oppor- tunity to explain the reason for their contempt of the law as soon as the weed inspector makes his rounds. Summer Homes For Hogs. The hog does not require an ex- pensive home. Not only that, but best results are actually obtained from the cheaper; equipment. Two or three cabins and a box -stall for the farrow- ing sow will supply the necessary housing in the case of the farmer who grows a few hogs. Experiments have proved successful with cabins con- structed of strong though relatively light material and provided with hing- ed sides for free passage of air in the summer season. They are built on runners so as to be easily shifted from place to place. The A -shaped cabin is subject to damage by the pressure of the begs from the ince. The upright cabin with the peaked roof will last for years. A circular is available at your local agricultural office giving specifications for a suit- able summer home which when tight- ened up and properly protected, makes an all -year hog house. Pull Weeds Now. Where farmers are figuring on saving a field of clover or timothy for seed, the weeds in the field should be pulled out now while the ground is soft. If impossible to clean up the weeds, the crop should be cut for hay as the seed would be so polluted with weed seed that it would be worth little in the fall. "Cut all doubtful fields for hay" is a good rule to follow. As the present acreage of both alsike and red clover this year are very small compared with other years, and there is now a tariff of three cents a pound on these commodities it may be well worth while to go to a little extra trouble in cleaning up` doubtful fields. The same is true of timothy, the duty on which was raised to two cents a pound in the new bud- get. Last year we imported 81/2 mil- lion pounds of this seed so there should be plenty of room for all the clean timothy we can grow in Can- ada. The chief trouble with Canad- ian -grown timothy has been the high percentage of weed seeds and mix- tures of glovers and other grasses. An weeds should be pulled out at this time, particularly the ox -eyed daisy. It is also good policy to cut a swath right around the field at haying time. This removes the weeds creeping in from the fences. Catch -fly, campion, dock and sweet clover are among the most serious weeds which should be pulled. It is policy to remove the _ to the edge of the field and destroy. Soils and Fertilizers Exhibit. You will probably practise a crop rotation on your farm. Why do you do it? Your neighbor across the way had a better wheat crop than you did last year and it is ahead of yours already this year. You know he us- es fertilizer, but haw much of it? And when does he apply it? How does drainage affect soil fertility? Upon what three factors does successful crop production depend, and how are soils built up? These and many other questions of a similar practical nature will be an- swered by word of mouth by demon- strations and by special exhibits at the Ontario Agricultural College dur- ing F'a"rmers' Week, to be held from June 15th to June 19th. This is buts one item of the excep- tionally interesting progralnine and if you are anxious to keep abreast with. the times it is an opportunity you cannot afford to miss. Don't forget the dates, June 1Gth to June 19th. Phone your district agricultural ice-' presentatbive for further information. Dairy Exhibit at O.A.C. • iHlave you ever considered putting up cheeses in small 'packages for the home market? It is thought that if this method were adopted', Ontario would consume all the honve-niiade cheese. A visit to the Ontario Agri. cultural College Adding Farm "tel' Week June '15th to' lune 1'9ith, Will enable you to gee a .'u eetilibit pohtt- Ing out the advantages of this m th- oil and showing the best size of 'pude-, age tg use. "Eternal cleanliness is the pmiee o success," and "The production o clean milk requires sanitary methods combined with prompt and efficient cooling." These two slogans have long been in the forefront of the Dairy Department's campaign for bet- ter and more, efficient milk production in Ontario and you can do your part by making a point of visiting the 0. A. C. during Farmers' Week and see- ing for yourself just how efficiently and just how cheaply these two fac- tors can be put into practise. Trapping Corn Borer. A fair acreage of corn is being planted in Ontario. Farmers are ,co- operating splendidly in most corn - growing areas with the inspectors who have charge of the Corn Borer Act enforcement and it is hoped that the menace may be greatly re- duced this year. Many growers are finding, that a trap made by sowing a dozen rows of early rapid -growing corn around the field works well. This trap corn is sown early, with the main crop going in a few days later than the regular time. Early in August, when all the borer . eggs have been laid the trap crop is cut and used up at once. Wool is arriving at the new West- on warehouse of the Canadian Co- operative Wool Growers in heavy volume with over 100,000 pounds from Ontario alone thus far. Accord- ing to officials, there has been no trouble in securing contracts with sheepmen this season. The Co-oper- ative expects to handle at least 3,500,000 pounds of wool this season. INSTANT RELIEF "I'd feel so relieved if I only knew if Jane were better," said Beth to her husband. "It's easy to find out," said the latter. "Did you ever hear of Lang Distance? Well, why not use it? !It's times Iike this when it's so handy!" In a few minutes Beth learned that her friend had improved and how glad she was she had called! HOW MY WORLD WAGS By That Ancient Mariner DEAN D. HURMDY These days, the June bride -elect is apt to get a shower or two. After marriage, she will do the reigning. * * * "Ste. Rose du Lac boy shoots off toe." And lots of people who shoot their faces off every day ,never get in- to the papers. * * * At Regina, a man named Gettle was fined for pulling a child's wagon down the street. The wagon contained sev- eral quarts of home made beer. The scheme didn't work. Gettle will have to settle, and won't feel in such fine fettle as when he stuck to the old metal kettle. * * * Some words seem to be on the bink no matter which way you take 'em. Recent newspaper items illustrate this point: (1) The provincial police arrested a man for having in his possession a mash suitable for the manufacture -of spirits. v 2) A young man was arrested for trying to mash the face of a hated rival. (3) An old gent was arrested for trying to make a mash on a young lady on the street. Ergo, avoir the mash, e'en as you'o shun the plague, or else the machine of the law willget* * you. * Etiquette Solutions. Ques:—I have a private income. Would it be polite to accept an old - age pension? Anse—Only on condition that you exercise the good taste to keep abso- lutely mum about the primate income. Quer —I am homely, but have a lovely disposition, and earn $20 a week. I worship from afar a beauti- ful girl, who is said to earn $50 a week. Shall I venture to propose to her? Ans.—Better wait till leap -year and maybe she will propose to you. And we do mean maybe. Ques.—I am a small man, married to a lady dentist, much taller and heavier than yours truly. When peev- ed at me she sometimes threatens to full my teeth full of lead. Now what do you know aibout that? Anse —She may be a lady dentist but she is no gentlemen. * * * "Pipe This!" Who was the noble red man Who first invented smoking? Perhaps behind a solemn mien He really just was joking. The Irish made the bagpipes And laughed as though they'd choke, yet For fun they game them to the Scotch, Who haven't seen the joke yet. So, poss'i'bly that red man, Don't Swat Flies and stain your walls. Hang up Aeroxon. A wider and longer rib - ben is coated with the sweetest Of glue that will not dry. Good for 3 weeks' service. • At drag, grocery ,ad hardwtre store 3'oli ANnfa 1NEWTON A. $.ILL' OS Print at. E. Toronto A invented eP Oking for a jf'srt +$u b s ore :twas 011 the lever. And 'vy!1,,,ta he'd get the chieftains "11-s4ilaitting and a -puffing, Ie laughed 'inside, and nearly" buret Tti think he'd just been (bluffing." CharAbletoutr Lrpaan Jbst ptraceig, wroteindeedtan essay Yes, Lamb loved pig, and flow'r-like girls Quite often love "the weed." 1 can't abide to see thein, A -smoking up their noses, (Like NI'ister 'Lamb would smoke a ham) And with affected poses. You ask at what I'ra driving", 'And why I isn; feeling sore? I've smoked my strongest pipe all day, Tongue's burnt to nigh the 6hre. THE HISTORY OF THJS KING BBE 'Honeycomb is made up of cells of two sizes, the larger beingused for the raising of drones, which are male, while the others serve for the smaller and more numerous workers. These latter, though practically neuter, ai?e essentially female. As each of these varieties of cells affords just enough room to accommo- date a full-grown grub of the sex for which it is intended, it is necessary that each shall receive an egg accord- ing to its kind; and in this particular the queen makes no mistake. She lays a male egg in each of the larger cells, and a female in each of the smaller. That an animal can have this abil- ity to produce one sex or the other in conformity with some outer circum- stance is rather hard to believe. But the fact takes place without explana- tion or apology; and when we patient- ly look into other facts in hope of, ex- plaining this one, we find new won- ders. A virgin queen—one that has by no possible chance become impregnated —can lay eggs and produce young quite as readily as an animal that has become a mother in the usual way. But her eggs will produce only drones or males. After she has met the male in what is known as her "wedding flight,'" she can lay eggs of either kind. The queen holds in her body a lifetime supply of the sperm acquir- ed in her wedding flight, and she can apply it or withhold it as circumstanc- es require. That this is the truth has long since ceased to .be a matter of doubt. The modern microscope has enabled investigators to arrive at the inner facts. A queen bee, or perfect female, al- though she differs from a worker bee in size, shape, function and a whole set of instincts, is hatched from the same sort of egg as the worker. The difference is wholly due to feeding. Nurse bees will take any one of the recently hatched larvae in the small cells, and simply by giving it a differ- ent diet and a little more room will cause it to become a queen bee instead of a worker. In fact, any beekeeper can make this change; and among those who raise; queen bees for the market it is a matter of everyday practice. The operation consists in transferring one of the young larva from one of the small cells into a very large one, a queen cell, which the beekeeper makes artificially; where- upon the nurse bees take note of the change and bring up the little worm as a queen. 'On each of the hind legs of th worker is a brush for gathering pol- ldn,itnd a basket for carrying it home. On the legs of the queen bee these tools are lacking. On the abdomen of the worker bee are pockets which extrude the plates of building wax; the queen has no such device. The worker is able to reach into the nec- tar bearing chalices of flowers and gather honey, while the queen with a shorter jaw, can do no such work. The queen is sexually complete, while the workers have but the rudiments of their sex. But it is in the mechanism; of the sting that we find the most surprising contrast. The worker bee has a straight sting consisting of two barb- ed spears which fit against one an- other inside a sheath. They operate by a pumping movement, the spears thrusting forward alternately and thus taking a deeper and deeper hold whil formic acid flows into the wound. The sting of a worker bee takes such strong hold that it usually resists the bee's 'best efforts to extract it, and when it pulls out of the bee's body it is likely to bring a part of the intestine with it. In consequence the bee dies" A queen bee, on the ether hand, has a sting that is curved like a scimitar and is easily removed from the wound. It is never lost and may be used repeatedly. But, though she has this formidable -looking wea- pon, a queen may be handled without fear. The sole function of her wea- pon is to kill rival queens. She is not a defender of the hive, and so she acks entirely the instinct of stinging. In these instances we see two crea- ures with quite different tool equip- tnent—'a fitting of the means to the nd as byi an intellectual response to what is needed. Yet it is all due to, he giving to one of a richer food than to the other. The same egg could ave produced either. In what secret ecessee of the elements, in what ul- imate interstices of carbon and hy- rogen and nitrogen does the mystery of life hide itself? Certainly this seems to, be a great deal for mere ictuais to de! It is simply a fact. When a queen is five or six days ut of the cell in which she was hatch- , and is about to become the active ead of the hive, ,she takes .what is nown as the "wedding flight," high n air. It is the only time in her life hat she leaves the hive without' the warm. In this high, swift flight she s pursued by drone bees, -the strong- st flier among the number finally etching her; and when she has been mpregnated she, turns back toward the hive, while the male, hawing done hex a 4ifetime service, drops dead in maid -air: And although a queen us - ally lives and romiains active until onietinie in her fourth year, and hough 'the can; 'gat the height of the eason, lay more than 8,00o eggs a ay, She. is able to touch each egg at she strops in a worker cell with s o*vit arnall share of the dead aether's snlbtit¢ei1 - She is now prac- ctah lr ;bottu ride and female. A's a f"arrok. 4n'ust make hay while e e 1 t e t h r t d v e ed h k s e c id s d th itf t eitit‘ 40111 • uprose ot ed he ugttl I`rtilait�+$ootl,s $fi[va 1 'earst lkativa00pl;1ty ati pqtairtoo'iiozwe Aria ate is wide l druggists* .. the sun shines, so the bees must do the year's work while the flowers are in bloom. If there is not a great mul- titude of these short-lived 'workers; in May and June, there will not lee en- cugh honey to carry the clustered swarm through the dark months of winter; and besides, there must be a surplus of children in order 'that migrating swarms may go out and in- crease the number of colonies in the world, This is fundamental in the economy of nature. The trees in the orchard, like the clover in the field and the vegetables in the garden, have got to be impregnated in order that they may bear; for male and female created He them. As man lives large- ly upon the yqung of others,—grain, nuts, fruit and eggs, it is most im- portant to him that the winged com- merce be carried on. Summer's mis- sion has not begun until by some de- vice there has been a meeting between the plants; and so much of this work devolves upon the bee that it may be said not to live for itself at all, but fundamentally for plants. From this general view of the state of marriage in the hive, the reader will now readily understand why it was that up to quite recent times not one fact was ever discovered regard- ing the sex of bees. And yet the mysteries of bee life were a continual source of speculation. Virgil repres- ented the bees as having no sex at all, and thought the young were somehow generated from the inner material of flowers. In fact, all th: way from Aristotle to Shakespeare, the princi- pal bee of the swarm, catching the eye by its distinctive size, was known as the King Bee. The bee has always •^been used; to point a moral. Kings have often us- ed the "king bee" as an example to their own human status. And yet while the House of Valois was making garments embroidered with aureate bees, and bearing the assuring motto, "The king bee has no sting," and while Napoleon was adopting the golden bee as if it were Nature's stamp and seal attesting the validity of his form of government,—the sup- posed kings in the beehives of the world were going their perpetual rounds and doing their best to keep up with their task of laying eggs. Nowadays the institution of royal- ty is not in such favor, and we are told that the bee is "a highly social- ized insect," raising its children as the property of the state. Thus the bee, but yesterday a Royalist, is well on its way to becoming a Communist. Now the plain truth regarding • bees is that the principal bee is neither king nor queen nor the head of a "commun- ity." She is simply the mother of the whole lot. If a gold -banded Ital- ian queen, for instance, be put into a colony of German or black bees, in place of their own queen, it will be but 35 days before the whole swarm will consist of pure-bred Italian bees and there will not be a black bee left. It was by such experiments that we have been able to determine. the maxi- mum length of life of a bee during the working season. When we consider that for centur- ies before cane sugar came into use the beehive constituted the sugar fac- tory of the world, we naturally won- der why all the beekeepers of the past discovered so little about them. We must remember that the hive—whe- ther artificially made or established by the bees themselves—was a place of inner darkness. To get the honey, the ancient beekeeper had first to de- stroy the bees. The invention of the observation hive, banishing the dark- ness in which the bee had usually dwelt, and the perfecting of the mod- ern microscope, spying into sperma- thecae and making manifest the in- finitely title, discovered in a few years what the ages had been unable to come at. In retrospect, it seems a pity that the modern style of scientific hive, in- creasing the output of the swarm many times over, had not been in- vented when the world most needed it. A thousand years ago it would have made its inventor immortal. STOP CONSTIPATIO THIS PLEASANT WA , ( ONCE PEOPLE thought pills and drugs were the only way to re- lieve constipation. But the mod- ern, safer method is to include sufficient roughage in the diet. Kellogg's ALL -BRAN, a de- licious ready -to -eat cereal, gives you this bulk, and overcomes constipation naturally. (-Bead this enthusiastic letter: "Mine was an extreme case of con- stipation. I bad almost given up hopes of ever being relieved. 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