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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1938-08-19, Page 5a r. .1 a r- rf e y 4, • t ^r1IN • y, - .4 r 71' , '1 mnttwummi�cr�enwwwxw�ma�.ewwoum�wvs� EAFORTH oder irl:,AW#Qftt.0i#i Inc :..... snay ;ether, NQ £til lain Zoe E Brown ' n i ' } "'WIDE .oppi PAGES"'` • nob Ante MOSSO,' Stewart "RAN¢E!N STEPS. iM'1 Mlli!NigHT Si4o*f • SundaY, Aug.' g1,7. beginning at 12.05 Menday Tliesdalr, Wedlle8'uaY1 The reckless Ritz boys off on an- other laugh fuel --n "KENTUCKY -MOONSHINE" Tony Martin Marjorie -Weaver Slim Summerville Next Thursday, Friday. Saturday Gene Autry "BOOTS AND SADDLES” Smilev Burnette Judith Alien Gene Autry helps an impoverished Earl to manage his ranch! Coming— Alice Brady - Chas. Wieminger • "GOOD-BYE BROADWAY', Early Peach Crop A peach crop survey conducted by the Ontario Department of Agriculture last week shows that canning peach- es of the famous "V" type, Viddette, Valiant and Veteran, will reach On- tario markets the week of. August 15. 'These varieties, originated at the Horticultural Experiment Station, Vineland, have largely replaced the Crawford in the affection of Ontario ' housewives. They Will be followed by the Elberta two weeks later. The entire crop will be ten days earlier than last year, growers agree. They point out that Rochester, a good canning, peach, but not quite so free at the pit as the "V" peaches, was first picked last year August ' 19th and was ready by the 10th this year. In discussing crop prospects, grow- ers stated that owing to";i'n'creased production as a result of more trees coming into bearing for the first time this year, "V" peaches will show an increase of 15 per cent. Over 1937. Elbertas are down 10 to 15- per cent - which will makethe canning crop just about equal the total for 1937 with ivali-ty better than last year. Prices will be just as reasonable, growers predict. Tested , • .Pecs es t In view of the abundant crop of I leaches' this season, the fallowing l recipes for home canning of this fruit prove useful. • 1' Peach Marmalade . 18 peaches , Sugar r 2 oranges Water. ' Peel and stone the peaches. Re, novo- seeds from oranges and put,I hrough a food chopper. Mash all to - weigh and allow an .equal i (mount of sugar. First cook the food intil tender in a small amount of we- er, then add heated sugar and boil c iuickly until thick. Pour into hot i sterilized glasses. Cool, seal with r raraffin wax, and store. _ Peach, Cantaloupe Marmalade 12 peaches x eitntelpitg i" su�al�: it '10010[0100C.4 t.'',` - RLRlfh;'fil,.''�.h, , Pepl and Stone Vie Aeac1 es. ,'ek4 „gran' Wu remove u ,4.rom thin Melon. ,S11ce , Pruit tuely'., Measure weight and add an equal quantity sugar. lion quickly until thick. Seal and store. - Peach snd 4pplo Marmalade Use equal Zlarts of apples and peaches diced. If lbe apples are a good color, do not . peel -them, Add three-fourths as much sugar as fruit. Cook the mixture slowly until it is thick and clear. Seal in clean, hot jars: Equal parts ,of rhubarb, . peaaChe es and apples --may be used. Five Fruit 'Pickle Sauce 6 peaches 6 apples 6 pears 20 tomatoes - 1 pint pitted plums 3 red peppers 5 cups sugar 2 sticks cinnamon!1 tablespoon whole cloves 1 tablespoon mixed sauce 2 tablespoons salt 1 quart vinegar. Boil three hours. jars. Makes seven pint Peach and. Cantaloupe Preserve 3 cups diced peaches 3 cups sugar 3' cup blanched shredded almonds 2 cups diced cantaloupe 2 oranges, juice and rind. Mix all -the ingredients and .cook until the mixture is thick and clear. Four into sterilized glasses. When cold cover with hot paraffn wax. Nurse: "Who stuffed that towel in the patient's mouth?" Patient's Husband: "I did, because you said the main thing was to keep her quiet." • "Sales taxes are• causing many busi- nesses to revamp their methods." "Yes, even the panhandlers now say-: `Brother, can you spare eleven cents?' " •, 'My grandmother," a n no u n c ed Brown to the world in general, "is a wonderfully strong old lady. When I ast saw her she was sitting at the ireside, patiently knitting." "Indeed!" scoffed the listener. "Anti suppose that proves her strength?" "Well, not exactly," replied Brown, lnietly, "But if you had seen her as saw her—knitting wire -netting with -couple of crowbars—I guess you'd' igree that she's tough for her age." • Many a clerk or secretary, or civil ervant, says an article, dreams of raking money by novel -writing. So does many :a novelist. • "Pa, what is the difference between enius and talent?" "Talent gets paid every Saturday, ry son." A young lady, wsho has just become ngaged, said to her father's garden - r: "Well, Giles, I'm going to be married. "Ah, well miss," replied 6-iles, you've had a pretty good time, aven't you?" ClieSNAPS1-101- CUIL A PICTURE A DAY - Indoors .. , Outdoors... Wash- day . . . Birthday .. family history Is being made. NOT long ago a young friend of mine married. He is a camera fan, like the rest of us, and he told me: "My family history is going to be kept in pictures. I plan to take at least one roll of pictures a week— many more whenever possible. Whenever we do anything—move to a new house=-go'on a week -end trip —plant flowers—celebrate a birth- day or an anniversary—add a new member—whatever it is, the story will be told in pictures." His plans go further than that, too. His picture record is to be kept in handy, useful form. "There will be a new picture book for every year," he told me. "1: plan to have the best shots enlarged, and mount -the others contact size. Everything - goes into the book, where we'll al- ways be able to find it and recall— from our own snapshots—what we 'did in past days." There, now, 15 an idea for all of us. In every family, things happen each day that we would like to re - / member. We buy. new furniture, plant gardens, build a trellis for roses, put new screens on the back porch, take vacation trips. Children are born, grow up, change year by year. We, change, too. And'a true •day - by - day picture -history of all our bveryday activities, as well as .activities not - so - everyday, would greatly enrich our memories in later • years. Let's Make a mental note ---make Each family plcture-book be- comes more treasured as the years toil by. it a household ritual, and abide by It. "A picture a day keeps the family history up to date. And a complete picture -book each year keeps it per- manently." 201 Jolurvan Guilder. ki !bpRrY ?l:�i • Can, I afford, a tractor? asks. F. E. Ellis in: the b`amily Herald 'and ,Week- ly star. •• This bas for years been question and, problem with thousands of farmers in every province of east. ern Canadh. Once the questions of farm prices and labor scarcity are ,dis- posed of, tihis question. of farm power is almost certain to come up next. At least, that is nay experience as ]l have moved around among farmers for the past few• months, At the Corn Show, at Chatham last winter,. the folks were more interested in the tractor display than do the corn. One man expressed the feeling of all when he said: "We are looking to farm power and equipment to take the place of the experienced help that we don't seem able to get any longer." A month later a dairy farmer in Ox- ford County, farming under 'entirely different conditions, made the same remark to me. He was getting along on 100 acres with less than half the help that ,his father would have con- sidered essential but with two or three times as much mechanical equipment. Perhaps tlfe extreme tis found on an 80 -acre farm in • Waterloo County, where a young man is doing all his, work with tractor power and equip= ment. The only ,horse on the place is an old mare, kept partly for senti- mental reasons and partly to scuffle the garden. It is unfortunate that there is so little accurate information to guide a man in deciding whether or not he can use a tractor economically in, his farm setup. The advice that comes from agricultural leaders is conflict- ing, to say the least. Take the •discus- sion at the Clydesdale field day, at Guelph, as, a sample. A visiting agri- culturist from Michigan said that, in his State, the tendency was back to horse power. "In good times, when every pocket was bulging out with money, our farmers all bought trac- tors," said he. "Now that times are :rand, they are going' back to horses, convinced that it is better and cheap- er bo grow horse feed than to buy gas." A little later Dr. Christie, Presi- dent of the College, stated his firm conviction that "the horse is still the most economical farm power," Every one has heard much more of the same. Work More Cheaply A little later I had a chat with an agricultural engineer who has been studying this problem for years. He was not prepared to state that every farmer should own a tractor. In fact, he was quite certain that the more machinery some farmers have; the more quickly they will go into bank- ruptcy. Other farmers might have the same equipment and make money with it. His general conclusion, however, was that tractor ownership is good business for any man with mechanical inclinations and a fair acreage and that, in most field operations, the tractor will work more cheaply than the horse. Then he handed out some excellent advice: "If farmers are go- ing to trade in tractors on the same basis as most people do motor cars, then they will spend the rest of their lives working for the manufacturers ,and finance corporations and the last line of democratic independence will have been broken. The original life of, a farm tractor was about eight years. A late report from a survey in the United States indicates that farmers who buy new tractors are now keeping them just four years. The trade-in is becoming the fashion." "Then you do not consider the de- preciation through age is the import- ant factor in tractor cost? "No, tractors are not so subject to ohange in design as cars and as long as they work efficiently they are not out of fashion. My idea would be to buy a tractor and get as much work out of it as the manufacturer has built into it. I would take care of the tractor and expect it to serve me well for 20 years. In fact, I know of plenty of tractors, not so well built as they are being built today that are still giving good service after twenty years of work. Of course, there are exceptions. Improved design might make a tractor obsolete. Some change in the system of farming might make another type of tractor desirable, such as change from conventional to row type. As a rule, however, we just lose money when we trade in a trac- tor that is still capable of doing our work,," Years of Service After this chat I started to run ov- er in my mind the lift of some trac- tors that I had known. A 10-20 trac- tor has been doing the work on a 100 -acre dairy fprm -with a limited amount of custom work for neighbors for nine years. Just one team of horses is kept and the tractor takes the heavy end of the field work and the belt work. Its owner assures me that his total upkeep expense with that tractor in nine years has been five cents for a new washer. He ex- pects to use the same t.raCtor for the next 15 years at least. In Haldimani County one of the cheapest tractors built has-been in continuous service for 18 years. In recent years the son of the owner has been getting his wages by doing custom work for the neighbors. The son would now like to have a new and up-to-date tractor but admitted to me' that the old ma- chine, with the occasional tune-up that he is able to give it himself, is doing good work. Last spring i saw a tractor relegated to the scraphe , ' that had done all the tractor worl: on, three adjoining 100 -acre farms for 15 or 20 years,—the owners not being sure of its exact age. - All of which proves that tractors, well cared for, will last about as long as other farm equipment. In fact, most of the far- mers with whom I have talked and who have had tractors for 10 years or longer, are sure that the deprecia- tion that they must charge agaitfst their tractors Would not keep the farfn 'in, the horses qty the tractor dis- Places.- . Here IS snot tern angle: Thls .maul has an: excellent 300 -acre dairy farm.' He ilnMeafl lnnd l• ihis'.eistluip�eebtantent is' n incexcellentiedashapeai.. He would make an ideal (tractor oper- ator, In fact, 'he ,did have a tractor for some years andit never cost 'him anything for repairs. He sold it and has not since 'oWned a tractor. He has no intention of getting ' along without tractor service, however. He Rude that 9t is cheaper to have a• cus- tom operator come and do his heav- iest field work and then earry through with good horses, This last spring he had such an outfit cultivate his land for spring crop twice over for 80 cents an acre. Whatplowing ,he had done was at $2 per cre. As long'. as such service is available, this man is quite satisfied to let someone else carry the tractor Investment. Young Men As Operators Not long since I was 'talking with E. G. Webb, instructor in mechanics at the O. A. C. He believes that there is a real place for such custom work in eastern agriculture. Many Hien are excellent • farmers' but inefficient op- erators so far as tractors are con- cerned. In .the same section will be young fellows with a real knack for machinery. They are machine mind- ed. They do not care to farm but would stay in the country if there were a place for them. "In the mid- dle west such boys are buying com- plete equipments and actually con- tracting to do certain tillage word at certain times," Mr. Webb told me. At other times they will do other me- chanical work to keep them busy. 1t is a shame that we now lose these boys to the cities when there is a place for them rigrt in their own' community." Mr. Webb looks forward to the day when such boys will have courses made available to them, per- haps at the agricultural colleges. Whether farmers can afford a trac- tor or not, economically speaking, the fact of the case is that they are buy- ing them in greater numbers than ev- er before. They are not so much con- cerned with the econona,ics of the sit- uation, once they have decided to buy as they are with the type, size and wheels of the tractor they will choose. On the whole, smaller tractors are being purchased than a few years ago. Many farmers are purchasing tractors for field work and will be content to continue to hire heavy belt work done. Two and three -plow . tractors now seem to be the rule. There also seems to be a leaning towards high combustion engines, though how far this is due to well.. directed propagan- da would be hard to determine. This is another point on whioh independent advice is lacking. The great argu- ment now, however, concerns rubber and steel traction- The tractor, com- panies seem to believe that in the very near future practically all farm tractors will be sed -on rubber. Rub- ber tires reduce fuel consumption and lengthen the life of the motor. They are handy for .heavy transportation. They do not injure new seeding, when hauling the binder. And so on, ad infinitum. Some of the men who purchased rubber tired tractors in the past cou- ple of years, however, are not so sure. One man of my acquaintance, who op- erates two tractors on a custom basis, says that she makes more money with his old tractor on steel, as he can work anywhere at any time. Another neighbor also with two tractors for customs work, says that he would nev- er again buy rubber were it not that he operates a grain combine and with it rubber is necessary,,.because of t1ie large amount of road work betwe, n jobs. In the same neighborhood are half a dozen farmers who have rub- ber tired tractors for their own work and are entirely satisfied. They admit that there are times when the tractor will not work because of slippery traction but they have found that the tractor has so speeded up their work that they can afferd to wait till the traction is right and still be well ahead with the work. An English Authority One of the world's greatest authori- ties on tractor farming does not live in America at all. so we hear little of him. In Great Britain, howeve, Mr. S. F. Wright, Director of the Insti- tute for Research in Agricultural En- gineering, Oxford University, ani Consulting Engineer to: the Royal Ag- ri ultural Society, is regarded as a w informed and sane adviser on all agricultural eugineering problems. Mr. Wright sees a place for three types—steel-wheeled, pneumatic and tracklaying. Let us quote from a re- cent statement by him: "From the simple' point of view of efficiency, the tracklayer leads. It will do more work- than a steel-wheelr.l machine, and quite as much as a pneu- matic -tired one. for a given expe'ii;li- ture on fuel and labor; and it w ill develop its full power, and can safely be used, regardless of conditions much more consistently than either of the other types. "Against these advantages must be set various disadvantages, which are serious from the farmer's point of view. Their first oost is about two- thirds higher than that of wheeled machines, and both for, this reason, and because the extra cost is large- ly accounted for by vulnerable mov- 'na pr-tc they are liable to extra de- r;at' charges, which are gener- ally more than enough to offset their sa.viiig in fuel—sometimes even when the tracklayer has a Diesel engine. They are low -geared and so rather un' economical for transport work, and their fixed track width 'makes them unsuitable for general use in row -crop euitilration. Also. there is a big gap in the range of available sizes; most of them are either too small or too large for the one -tractor farm. They Will be found on the large general If ' you : are tired ordinary dresses, ni 5 d to meet some If you are Style' e04.10011 wish to look your Iva, knew), r) are wearing whist is new and entic. And you will be well pleased with the reasonable prices, too. New Navy -or Black, trimmed with White; short or long sleeves, sashes,;: belts. Crepe Dresses Plain or fancy floral and spot patterns. All colors. Sizes 14to52 ... 2.95 Porch Dresses High Quality Prints, full sizes, zipper or but- ton fronts. Sizes 14 to 4QQv1.59 farms, but there is an increasing ten- dency to reserve them for particular jobs, such as seed bed preparation in the Spring, and to rely on wheeled machines for the general work of the farm. Many more tracklayers would be used if 2-3 furrow machines of standard type were available: More- over, the absence of this size of ma- chine will eventually prove a serious hindrance to the spread of mechan- ized farming on the clay lands, where farms are small, and yet tracklayers are essential to tractor farming in most seasons." The w=riter uses a small, rubber tir- ed tractor on an 1t^0 -acre farm. We are keeping up with our field work more easily than we were ever able to do with horses. We are getting in crops that otherwise we would not have gotten in at all -25 acres of fall wheat instead of five last fall, as a sample. With it a boy can do the work of a man. But we ha'd to buy blindly, so little has tractor farming been stu- died by our various colleges and de- partments, Here is one place where research and survey work is badly .needed. CURRENT CROP REPORT Threshing of alsike and wheat and cutting barley and oats have been rhe chief activities of Simcoe County farmer:. In Brant County rains held up threshing operations. Quality- of wheat there is not too high as much of it is shrunken as a result of dry hot weather and rust. One farmer in Brant reported an average of sixty bushels of Alaska oats per acre over a large acreage. In Haldimand rain has also held up harvesting, but threshing is continuing with all pos• sible speed. Harvesting is well ad- vanced do Lrtmbton County. The corn crop there has grown splendidly-. 'Mid- dlesex reports that hogs have regis- tered disappointing price recessions in the la,t few weeks, dropping from •11.75 to $9.110 per cwt. From this county also come. reports of wheat yielding 50 bushels per acre. barley 65 'bushels and oats over 80 bushels. The apple crop there is sizing up splendidly, Some wheat fields in Ox- ford are yielding as high as 45 bush- els to the acre. Corn and root crops there look promising and quite a few fields of buckwheat are in bloom. Wentworth reports, that early varie- ties of sweet corn a.1'e retailing at 15 cents per dozen" Raspberries there have been a heavy crop and some difficulties were experienced in mar - feting, the pt9'ce per crate of 36 pints running from $1.50 to $2.00. In Eastern Ontario, Renfrew reports that harvesting is ten. days earlier than usual, with yield's only average. Spring wheat crop there is almost a complete failure due to rust. Corona- tion Wheat, however, stood up 100 per cent, against the rust and will yield from 20 to 30 bushels per- acre- Tbe quality of grain in Grenville will be good but the yield not heavy due to dry weather most of June and July. Early potatoes there were a poor crop, but late potatoes look bet- ter after recent rains. Boys' and Girls' Contests Rural boys and girls; to the num- ber of over 2,0.00. will participate in special competitions at Class "A" fall fairs to be held within the next few weeks, Ontario Department of Agri- culture officials have announced. These competitions cover special -ac- tivities associated with • boys' and girls' club work and Junior Farmer and Junior Institute projects. These activities were considerably curtailed last year owing to the epidemic of infantile paralysis, but reports recent- ly received, point to t'he most suc- cessful competitions in the history of club work. A 'live stock judging competition for boys' will be held at Peterborough Industrial Exhibition Wednesday, Aug. l T uh, with home making club exhibits and judging competitions for girls who will also stage inter -county team demonstrations. On Thursday, Aug. herb, the boys will hold calf club and showmanship competitions, Hon. P. M. Dewan,'Ontario Minister of Agri- culture, will address the boys and girls at a banquet on the Wednesd'ry evening. Hon. Mr. Dewan will also address the Junior Club banquet at the Central Canada Exhibition, Ot- tawa. Similar competitions will be held at Ottawa, Toronto and London Class "A", Exhibitions and at the following Class "B" Fairs: Barrie, Belleville, Brampton, Galt, Kingston., Leaming- ton, Lindsay, Port Arthur, Renfrew, Richmond Hill, Simcoe, Woodstock and Stratford. Excellent prizes are offered at all the above fairs with speoial enter- tainment being provided the boys and girls by the fair managements. lidding ceased suddenly while the auctioneer examined a slip of paper that had been sent up to him. "Gentlemen," he said, "I under- stand there's a gentleman among those present who has lost a wallet containing fifty dollars in banknotes. He is prepared to offer ten dollars for ite recovery." A Voice: "Eleven!" • A hard -tip sportsman bought a hun- ter and put off payments far a time. When a week or two later, he met the man who sold•r'im the horse, be tried to. shuilleNiutelef the bargain. "I am not "satiafiede'w•ith that ani- mal," he said. "Why, what's the trouble?" asked the seller. "Well, it won't hold its bead up,• said the sportsman "Oh that's all right, sir; it's his pride. Just you wait till !ms's paid for?" • Two explorers, bearded and soiled, met ie. the wilderness, and crouched over a fire of brushwood. 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