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The Huron Expositor, 1931-12-25, Page 6Informi. ion for the Farmer Increased Acreage. ,.akgricultural statistics released from ttawa as part of the 1931 census re- *eal an increase in the acreage sown to the principal crops in every case except oats. Wheat jumped from 20 tb 26 million acres, and barley in- creased by one and one-half million acres. Oats declined by about one and one-half million acres, There were eldest increases in the case of pota- toes, cultivated hay, mixed grains and rye. Clean and Sterilize All Dairy Utensils. The keeping quality of milk de- pends directly upon the number of bacteria present and this in turn - depends upon the thoroughness, with which dairy utensils have been cleaned and sterilized, The use of live steam or scalding with boiling water is always effective providing it is available in suffi- cient volume, but as a general rule the quantity available on the aver- age farm is inadequate for effective results. It is for this reason that. the use of chlorine in suitable form is recommended by bacteriological ex- perts. It acts rapidly in cold \sates, and is cheaper and more convenient than the heat treatment generally re- commended. When properly employ- ed chlorine sterilization gives excel- lent results and the practice. already general among milk and other food plants, is spreading to the dairy farms. Prime 7.'''lleister, poietted out that the eso t holds a greater number of ?arm tr. oe tgages than any private compane, and he intimated that leg- islation would b.p brought, down at the next session to previde for a modi- ied moratoriumon mortgages. "We ealise that in these times of financial stress niaily farmers who otherwise would he able to meet their payments a•e in tensiderable difficulty and the ,vernment is anxious to help them o' er this period of financial string- ei cy," said Col. Price; adding that he had asked loan companies to be len- ient in this regard and made the same request to sheriffs and bailiffs. The proposed legislation will seek to pre- vent the mortgage being foreclosed in case of default of interest payments, giving the mortgagor an extension of number of firsts. ,Canadq, made an enviable showing at Chicago, capturing ten champion- ships, and threereservesin the grain division, and 10 crowns and 10 re- serves in the live stock. Leading all Canadian exhibitors for individual showing was Herman Trelle of Wemb- ley, Alta., with five crowns in grains and seeds. No one else among the entrants in the show equalled the re- cord. Put Flesh on Market Cattle. 'With the plentiful supply of feed, the cattle going on the market this winter should be well -fleshed. Well- hnisheci young cattle command a pre- mium on both the home and export markets. he poor quality, under - time. fleshed animals have a depressing ef- fect on the market. Steers or heifers showing breeding and type make good use of the home-grown feed. Time alone will tell what the profit will be on the hundreds of cattle going into the feed -lots this fall. But, it is reas- onable to expect that it will be the (10e0, rnellow-fleshedbullocks that command the top prices when they go on the market. Inferior feed or a ekimpy ration does not make market toppers of even the best type of cat- tle. The Inter -County Live Stock and ' Seed Judging Competitions conducted at the Ottawa Winter Fair brought teams of young men from fourteen 'eastern Ontario counties. The A. H. Acres Trophy for seed judging was won by the Renfrew County team for the third time and it thus becomes the permanent property of that county. Renfrew team scored 1.305 out of a possible 1.300 points, while the Leeds !team were runners-up with a score of 12301e. The Peter White Trophy, emblematic of the live stock judging championship, was won by Prince Ed - !ward County, which county also won it in 1928 and 1929, while Lanark was successful in 19:O. Dundas Iwas runner-up this year, Winter Fair Contests. In competition with teams repre- senting 26 counties, ; Peel County' junior farmers carried off the late fion. Joni S. Martin trophy, emblem- atic: of the live stock judging cham- pionship of Ontario, at the Provin- cial Winter Fair, Guelph. The win- ners met with stit? opposition from the Middlesex team, only five points separating them. Bruce County rank- e.I third, York fourth, and Durham 'fifth, and only sixty-three points stood between the five high teams in the esent. • The possible scpre was e00 Peel havine the excellent count Junior Farmers at Chicago. Fourteen boys and twelve girls, Junior Farmer prize winners in their various classifications. represented Ontario at the Annual Congress of the 4-H Clubs in Chicago during the first week in December. Under the care of W. K. filiddell, departmental re- presentative, and Miss Edith Hopkins of the Women's Institute Branch, these Junior Farmers joined with the 1200 4-H Club members, representing most of the States of the 'Union. Each of these farm boys and girls have achieved a distinction in some branch of agriculture. All were prize win- ners locally and the tangible evidence of their pre-eminence was the trip to Chicago to attend the Internation- al Live Stock Show and to tour var- ious industries in the city. :of 2278. Ontario county took highest •tantiing and won the Glen Ormond ' trophyefor judging of heavy horses. Durham County team won first place and the Fischer trophy in the inter - county seed judging competition with , a score of 2593 points. being follow- • ed by Oxford, Peel, Grey and York. Ontario Wins at Chicago. Ontario Seed Exhibitors at the In- ternational Grain and Hay Show at ;Chicago more than held their own against the finest entries of grain and • grass seeds from all States in the Union and other Provinces in the Do- minion. Slightly more than 1(10 ex- 'niLits were forwarded to Chicago and upwards of 75 prizes were awarded to Ontario exhibitors. The winnings in- cluded championships in corn, beans and clover seed. Mrs. M. E. Maycock, of Milford, has the distinction of winning the field. bean championship for two years in succession. Remi Lemarche, of Casselman, a new exhibitor at Chicago, won the championship in red clover. Incident- ally Mr. Lemarche also won the red clover championship at the Royal and Ottawa Winter Fairs. Other prize winners were J. H. Frisby, Gortnley; J. H. Lampman, Ridgetown; Peter Clark and Sons, Highgate; John E. Alton, Rockwood. In the pea classes Tom Berberetch, Jr., Mildmay, and H. L. Goltz Brape- bridge, were well up at the top. Ontario also scored heavily in the live stock division, taking first place among the provinces with a total of nine crowns. She was second to Al- berta in the grain and seed divisions. Ontario, led the Dominion as to total Farm Mortgages. The Government has notified the Ontario Agricultural Development Board, which holds $35,000,000 of farm mortgages, not to foreclose un- der any circumstances when mortga- gors are unable to meet their obliga- tions. Hon. W. H. Price, Acting Ottawa Fair Contests. Crate -Feeding Pays. Farmers who are in a position to follow the practice, find that crate - feeding of their poultry pays them big dividends. There are several rea- sons for this. It produces the milk - fed grades which bring the highest prices; the leading wholesale merch- ants are now buying poultry by Gov- ernment grades with substantial dif- ferentials between each grade; the premium assured for birds which grade "milkfed" makes crate -feeding worth while; and all poultry intended for eating pprposes should be proper- ly finished before being marketed. The farmer who has poultry to mar- ket would do well to remember that it is the last pound which brings the finish and increases the value of the bird by 50 or 75 cents. A gramophone has been made which will play in any position, even upside down. It seems a great pity!—Hum- orist. FREAK ACCIDENTS Last year in addition to killing 99,00,0 Americans, accidents are esti- mated to have caused us a direct ec- onomic loss of $3,000,000,000! Contri- buting to these alarming statistics were innumerable fatal and non-fat- al "freak accidents"—seemingly im- possible to guard against, yet appar- ently surrounding us on all sides with strange perils. Appropriately, the astute Voltaire wrote: "It is the danger that is the least expected that soonest comes to as." Not long ago a secretary, busy in an adjoining room, was startled by the sound of a sharp explosion in her employer's office. She thought: "Some- one's shot him!" But when she rush- ed in, the man could only say uncer- tainly: "The inkwell blew up." Later a physician found that one of the hard -driven fragments from the ex- ploding inkwell had struck the man in the face and one of his eyes was cut so badly that its sight was endan- gered. Anaccident? An insurance adjust- er could find no other plausible ex- planation of the incident. So he guessed that the morning sun shining through the heavy glass of the ink- well had produced sufficient heat to cause the ink in it to explode. Chem- ists denied this possibility. The ad- juster shrugged his shoulders and added another to his list of unex- plained mishaps. Quite as unexpected was the dan- ger that overtook a factory worker recently. His glass eye exploded while he was at work! He was knock- ed unconscious, and suffered severe and painful injuries But neither exploding inkwells nor exploding glass eyes are so common as to be accident hazards serious en- ough to frighten most of us. Even less common is the accident of being struck by a falling meteor. Yet stones from meteoric falls are picked up in the United States on an average of one every 16 months, and mathematic- al sharps have calculated that once every 9 300 years an American will be struck by one. Only 25 years ago a falling meteor put an end to a Central American rev- olution. General Pablo Castilliano, leading a revolt against the Nicarag- uan government in 1906, was sitting quietly in his tent one night in a jungle camp near Puerta Cabetas. A meteor hurled out of some unknown reach of space ripped through the canvas and killed him. His soldiers, believing that Castilliano had been re- moved from the world by an act of God. straightway decided to quit the revolution. Much more immediate is the dan- ger of being struck by lightning. The odds are only 7,000' to one against an individual 'being struck at some time during the span of a 70 -year life, and only 500,000 to one against him being struck during any given year. Those are the mathematical odds, but the bolts from the heavens didn't run true to form for M. Caesar Beltram, a citi- zen of Lyon, France. Monsieur Belt - ram was struck by lightning no less than five times before he died — and 1pifnee:timonia, not lightning, ended his The danger of flying accidents is one we are all well aware of; but most flying accidents occur on the • Tell Us, Please About Your Business. yOU provide employment for many. •The money which you pay out as wtges amounts in the year to a ver! large sum. You pay a good deal, in the form of taxes, to the cost of maintaining our town services. Your products, sold afar, advertise our town favorably. Yet we who live in this town really know very little about your activities, and our ignorance is disadvantageous to you and to our town. We suggest to you, in the name of citizens, that you should give us in- formation, periodically, about your- selves, your products, your markets, in order that we may get a more acute sense of your importance to this community. Tell us in this newspaper where :/our raw materials come from, about what you do to make your products widely known and consumed, about your patents, about interesting man- ufacturing processes, and so on. We'll read, avidly, all that you tell us in the form of signed advertise- ments in this paper. Even though we of this community may not buy much of what you make, we'restill deeply interested in all that you are doing, attempting a n cl; achieving. Goodwill and understanding will be increased if we know more about your enterprise. As citizens, we like to tell others about our industries. So give us information about your- selves. This invitation to you to make your individual businesses better known to us is one which we hope you'll accept. R.S.V.P. to th 0 newspaper. The Seventh of a Series issued by the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association of which The Huron Expositor is a member. !se". l.••• • 41„,erry Selaienette • ground: of 314 recent air-transper lisle accidents, 230 were caused b :forced landings, or were landing, tak or taxiing mishaps. But i the ease of P. Wiggins, of Scott City I(ansas, even when the ilier was 'safe ly' in the air, a most unexpected per il turned up While flying alone a an altitude of almost a mile, he wa bitten by a rattlesnake! He was for tunate enough and level-headed en ough to make a safe landing, and t obtain medical assistance before th poison had a fatal effect. Just ho the rattlesnake happened to be. a pas senger in the plane remains a mys tery, but Wiggins thinks that it mus have crawled in while his ship wa parked overnight. Somewhat similar and equally tin usual was the experience of an Eng lish motorcyclist. Speeding at nigh along a quiet country road, he was in jured in a collision with an elephan "Safe at home" is an expressio that sounds well—but one that cease to mean much when you realize tha about 30,000 Americans are killed eac year by accidents in their home Palls, cuts, burns, and asphyxiatio are the most common home danger And apparently one of the most dan gerous things that anyone can do i to take a bath. It is calculated tha when you step into your bathtub yo are running a thousand times mor risk of injury than you do when yo board a railroad train, and two hun tired times more risk of accident tha you do when you climb into a license airplane. In fact, the bathing hazard has be come so formidable that an acciden prevention expert recently suggeste that all bathtubs be made with fla bottoms and thate'etey be equippe with handrails. Falle, of course, ar responsible for most home bathing in juries, but electrical appliances dos to 'bathtubs have caused many terribl and fatal accidents. Not long ago man standing in his tub happened t touch a water pipe, which had bee charged with electricity by contac with some piece of home electrical ap paratus. The shock the bather re ceived startled him so badly that h jumped, lost his footing in the slip pery tub, and fell out of an open win dow. Under normal conditions the low voltages used for house lighting ar not dangerous, but even the skin i wet, as when bathing or even when person is perspiring freely, or ther are cuts or bruises on the skin tha touches the electric wire, even iow voltages sometimes affect the hear action sufficiently to cause death. Fo this reason, some safety experts ea that portable electrical appliances such as heaters and curling irons, nev er should be used in bathrooms. One of the most unusual of all ac cidents happened when a business man was playing what seems at firs glance to be a mild and safe.outdoo game. This man swung at and miss ed a golf 'ball, hit the root of a tree solidly with his club-head—and los the sight of one of his eyes. Although he didn't know it, he was a victim of a not -uncommon eye disease in which any severe jar is likely to result in blindness. Several persons have lost their sight when well -meant friends slapped them heartily on the back. Another type of unexpected danger lies in the possibility of one accident causing a subsequent accident. In -Ev- anston., Illinois. a milk -truck driver stopped at a filling station, somehow he got some gasoline on his coateand ashes flicked from a cigarette set it afire. The startled driver pulled the coat Of and threw it away from him. The then -blazing coat landed on the tail of a horse standing near by. The outraged horse switched its tail, throwing the flaming coat on to a pile of hay. And the burning hay set a barn on fire! Less spectacular but no less unus- ual are two "domestic" incidents. Re- turning after a short absence, a young titan called on his best girl. She prov- ed that he was glad to see him by hugging him so hard that she broke three of his ribs and sent him to a doctor for costly repairs. W'hile still another swain was dancing with a woman, a pin in her hair pierced his eardrum, causing deafness. Yes, it is the danger that is the least expected that soonest comes to us. Many queer accidents have prov- ed the truth of that saying—none more convincingly than the experience of a man who was painfully injured by being struck on the head by a good luck horseshoe that he had fastener over his doorway! Air Conditioning—and Then What? Air conditioning is much more than a cooling system. It is much more than a summer service. Without get- ting into technicalities, air condition- ing is a year 'round proposition, whose purpose is the control of indoor wea- ther for comfort and health. In the winter, it not only warms a room or a building, but it also adds moisture to the air, without which the indoor atmosphere would be dryer than that of the Sahara. In the summer, you may thin1 that it makes you comfort- able beta se it cools the air—but the far more iportant job of taking ex- cess moist e out of the air is what does most of the trick. There is lots more to air conditioning than this, but it is sufficient as it stands to bring about a Big Change. You see, it is not the theater or restaurant alone which will use air conditioning. Nor the exceptional of- fice building or factory. In a very few years air conditioning will be as much of a commonplace as electric light is to -day. It will be in service in every up-to-date bank, hotel, and home. For homes aro even now serv- ed by air conditioning --many more homes than there were automobiles at the corresponding stage of develop- ment of that Big Change. It's a hot, muggy August night in 1940. The Jones's home is air con- ditioned. Doessanyone mop a fevered brow and desperately sigh, "Let's drive around in the car for a while. It's too hot to stay here!" No One does. To go for a ride is relief to u' now, but it will be torture then. What do you sell? Gasoline? Watch for dropping sales curves in the summer of the air-conditioned erat Bok— magazines? Theretll 'be mere read- ing in the comfort of air-conditioned homes—day and night. Candy? There is eyery chance that comfortable peo- ple will want more candy—and may- be different candy from what is,now bought in summer. Electrio fasts! As useless then as they are now to. the mythical Eski- mo. Soft drinks? 'Well, prohibition aside, the summer consumption curve is bound to 'be affected by air condi- tioning. New drinks perhaps? New vertising? Certainly new- conditions slogans—new sales appeals—new ad- vertising? Certainly new conditions to face. How about Mr. Jones' appetite? Won't he want a heavier meal in comfortable conditioned air than he did back in 1931? (Note please that Mr. Jones' office—his stores -his bank and so forth will also be conditioned in 1940). It seems logical to assume that he will. What price summer salads? Not discarded, of course— but certainly a reduced consumption of canned fruits, salad oils, fresh veg- etables. And a corresponding in- crease in consumption .of the ingredi- ents that go tq make up heavier, heartier meals. The doctors and dentists may be Neatly interested in this question some day—probably af- ter the event. And Mrs. Jones. 'Where the flims- iest of sun -suits suffices to -day for Junior and Sister as they play out- doors all day in the open air, in 1940 more clothing will be needed for the children in the summer as they play indoors in conditioned air. (Nor will they be rickety. They'll get plenty of ultra -violet rays through the pro- per kind of glass). These homes will be conditioned. That means power or fuel. The chanc- es are that both gas and electric light companies will gain a tremendous ad- dition to their summer load—just the time they need it for most profitable operation. Conversely, since the same system will be in service in win- ter, the coal and oil interests will lose business. But let us leave the home and go into the city. Mr. Jones works in an office building. It is conditioned, of course. Most of the things that apply to him at home apply here. No electric fans. Not so much time wasted on discussing the hot weather, in getting drinks of ice water, in taning off and putting on coats. Nor will Mr. Jones have that yearning for a frosted chocolate that keeps the soda fountains so busy to -day. It does not seem likely that' he will be satisfied with a sandwich at noon, when there is a cool, conditioned restaurant where he can sit comfort- ably and satisfy his craving for 'real food. If he has to do a hit of shop- ping for Mrs. Jones he will find any store he goes to as confortable as his own home or office. The streets will be the only hot places—and win- dow-shopping will probably not be as prevalent as it is to -day. More, Mr. Jones will take his time when he shops —arid much more important still, so will Mrs. Jones. It will be wise for merchandisers to watch the apparent- ly unimportant factor of leisurely buy- ing, which may affect many a pro- duct which depends in a greater or less degree on quick purchasing hab- its. Mr. Jones will go to the movies now in the summer, because the moving picture theaters have practically a- dopter air conditioning as standard practice already. By 1940 legitimate theaters will probably have seen the light. ancl Mr. Jones will have made possible by }is patronage a theatrical season without a summer slump. Hotels will feel the effects of the big change. too. When Jones goes on tour, will he patronize the tourist camp in preference to the comfortab- ly conditioned hotel a few miles fur- ther? Will Mr. Jones' file clerk go back home to Buffalo via bus, when she can travel in the comfort of an air-conditioned train? Unless the buses can adopt air conditioning, their threat against the railroads may be only transitory after all. There really is no end to the possi- bilities offered by the Big Change of air conditioning. • P&Down the Wall Trade between Canada and the United States is greater than between any other two countries in the world. The North American continent is in maty ways a complete economic un- ity, the northern half the complement of the southern half. Similar lan- guage and culture, similar political and economic organization make for similar standards of living; automo biles, coupled with an alternative to prohibition, bring one American in seven to .Canada every year; the radio, the talkies and the press make con- temporary life in the two countries closer than ever before; yet the last decade has seen the tariff wall be- tween the two countries rise to un- precedented heights, with consequent friction and disorganization of trade. These two countries are necessary to each other, and the present volume of trade, large though it is, is admit- tedly but a fraction of what it would he uncler reciprocity, or free trade. What the United States has to offer Canada is obvious -,the resources of half a continent and the economies of standardized, competitive production for the biggest market in the world. What Canada has to offer the United States is probably not so well known to American readers, but it may be briefly summed up as the undevelop- ed resources of the other half of the continent—a half that is now the largest exporter of wheat and forest products in the world; that produces 90 per cent. of the world's nickel, 85 per cent. of the world's asbestos, 10 per cent. of the world's gold, and be- tween 5 and 10 per cent. of the world's zinc, lead, silver and eopper; and that has 15 per cent. of the world's coal reserves. A half that is second only to the United States is total water- power development, and that is fifth among world countries in both exports and imports. Yet Canada has only 10,000,000 people, fewer than New York State. In short, there are immense unde- veloped resources in Canada, waiting for idle United States money and idle United •State's men to supply American and world markets with agricultural, forest and mineral commodities at lower tosts The profit to both par- ties is obvious, but the objections of the opponents of free trade must be considered. First and most pressing, we ;have the vested interests that have grown up in the shade of the present tariff: the urban and rural communities largely dependent on protected indus- tries, the stockholders who have in- vested their money in good faith, the workers who have spent their lives learning a trade, which may be an artificial and ' uneconomic one, but which is their livelihood. Now, as a matter of fact, protectioa is a false friend to even the individual induetry itself. For protection bene- fits an industry—always at the ex- pense of the rest of the country in, higher consumer prices—only when the protection is constantly increasing. Once the protection becomes stabiliz- ed at a certain level, the profit goes. Either additional capital enters into production, and competition then forc- es the profits down; or, if the indus- try is a monopoly, it Jacks the stim- ulus of international competition, con- tinues the use of obsolete machinery' and methods, and while other compan- ies are reducing costs, its costs re- main constant, which is a relative in- crease. Finally the industry suffers because substitutes are developed. Abolition of the tariff would most seriously affect the agriculturist in the United States and the manufactur- er in Canada. It would be a brave man who would suggest letting in $100,000:000 'bushels of Canadian wheat duty free to the American market at this moment. Yet in ac- tual fact there is no danger to the farmer in this, for the price of wheat, a product of which both countries have an exportable surplus, in both Can- ada and the 'United States is norm- ally set by the price in Liverpool, and this is likewise true of every other agricultural product of which the United States has an exportable sur- plus. There would be no sudden dis- aster, but a steady tendency away - from grain growing in the United States and to a greater grain produc- tion with. the aid of cheap American machinery in the Canadian North- west. In other words, the present tendency in the United States would simply be accelerated. The effect on some of the manu- facturing industries in the Canadian East would undoubtedly be more dras- tic. Many a small, uneconomically laced, obsoletely equipped, inefficient- ly run plant in eastern Canada would close down, with immense local loss and distress. Vaat this loss and dis- tress would be nothing beside the per- iodic loss and distress of disorganized markets clue to tariff readjustments to -day, is not enough to convince those interested of its necessity. The average Canadian pictures the im- mediate closing down of factories and the forced depopulation of Canada. in the face of unrestricted competition from the American industrial euper- machine. He does not realize that his position would bel simply that of the inhabitants of the great majority of American State, who, it is true, are dependent on some large centers for their specialized products, but who form a link in the whole chain of interdependence themselves, without whom the huge centers of mass pro- duction could not exist, and who are certainly not any the poorer because such specialization in the production of wealth has developed — wealth which could not be produced without specialization Canada would increase in prosperity and wealth. And the American manufacturer would find not only new markets, but new and virgin fields of natural resources, with resultant Tower costs to American con- sumers. Against this we have the argu- ments that quite recently won an el- ection for the highest tariff party of all time in Canada. We have the ig- norance expressed in such slogans as "Keep the money in the country" and "favorable balances of trade." The fallacy of the last remnant of mer- cantilism, with its confusion between money simply the measuring piece. of wealth, and real wealth in the form of consumable goods, flourishes, 'more actively than ever. The average Can- adian really feels that he and the country are .benefiting by his paying $200 more for an American automo- bile made in Oshawa instead of De- troit. To meet slogan with slogan, "Keep the money in your pocket" might' be suggested. As for Canada's unfavorable balance of trade with the United States, this is offset by the tremendous American tourist traffic in Canada, valued at over $300,000,- 000 annually. Finally the opponents of free trade say, we have the exaseple of the United States itself. The United States has a higher tariff than Can- ada; the United States is richer than Canada—the answer is too easy. The real answer, of course, is that Ameri- can prosperity has been built up on the largest free -trade market ol; all time. Half a contincuit, with rich and varied resources, a population of 125,000,000, and unrivaled cheap trans- portation, gives us the answer. Reciprocity, then, between Canada and the United States should be the first aim. The immediate gain to both countries would be greater than in th ecase of any other two nations; the obstacles, with a common speech, common standards, and common ties, would be less. This is the nearest - home and most logical place to attack the tariff walls. Headline: "Miss Carr Loses Driv- er's License." Auto been more care- ful.—Cuelph Mercury. Giving until it hurts sounds like a lot of money, but the trouble is that it starts to hurt right away, — The Argonaut. The people of Vermont are for a government supported by the people rather than a people supported by the government.—Governor Stanley C. Wilson. Uncle Joe Cannon long ago describ- ed the rare but ideal public servant— a "No! No!" man. — The Country Ticfine. 'Science says our blood might have been green. Green, perhaps, with envy, wanting to be blue.—Kingston Whig -Standard. Clothes are the symbol of a mental tate. the index of a eivilization.--aliss Wilkinson. . yne j a P B D, la in ar; ani ter -eri an