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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1955-02-04, Page 6IS SSOCIATION PLANS IDE TOUR FOR GUESTS OOPS et the Canadian Here - O 4,SaoCtation from Western a VW. be guests of the Hur- W eieefFoal d Association on a one - day 'tour, February 17, of Huron (o ty; President of the county organization .is Stanley Jackson, U.*, % Ktppen• l±iaecutive of the Huron group rna,e plans for this project which wile • follow the two-day annual meeting of the Canadian Hereford Association in London, February 15 and 16. It is expected the ex- ecutive of the Ontario Associa- tion will join the tour. According to G. W. Montgom- ery, agricultural representative for Huron, an itinerary of the tour 'PRINTING PROBLEM, 41 The Huron Expositor SEAFORTH .13111•1111, willj be sent to ailij members of the Huron group inviting them to take part. Continue Support The meeting held in Clinton on Tuesday agreed to give continued support to the 4-H Calf Club pro- gram. Each 4-H Club boy or girl completing club projects with a registered Hereford calf will re- ceive a cash award of $4.00, while a Hereford grade heifer or steer will bring $2.00. A total of $150.00 in prizes was given by the association for this work last year. The annual spring sale was set May 10 and the annual fall sale, December 1. Both will be held in Clinton with James R. Coultes, of Belgrave, sales manager. Tues- day, December 6, was set as the date for annual meeting and ban- quet. At a future directors' meeting, a one -day bus tour May 31 to the Ontario Agricultural College, at Guelph will be considered. • More Supervision The meeting recommended more supervision be given at regional shows by the Ontario Association and that a provincial director be on hand to supervise each show and to check all pedigrees. An invitation was received from the Seaforth Agricultural Society to held the regional Hereford show in Seaforth again September 23. NOW IS THE TIME TO PLAN FOR SPRING BUILDING and REPAIRING We are proceeding with the con- struction of a new plant in which will be installed the most modern equipment.' This is your guarantee of the best quality Cement Blocks, Brick and Flagstones. ESTIMATES FREE Let us quote you on a new garage, or on a new building or repair work. SEAFORTH CONCRETE PRODUCTS Phone 22 Seaforth a - Careful Attention To Selection Of Hay, Pasture Mix In the selection of hay and pas- ture mixtures, it is important, not only to select a balanced mixture of legumes and grasses, but also to pay attention to the selection of the best legumes and grasses for the particular situation. Re- cent information shows that such plants as ladino clover, birdsfoot trefoil, brome grass and orchard grass could be used to a much greater extent than is currently being done. The important considerations in making up a hay and pasture mix- ture are that there are both grass., es and legumes in the mixture and that the grasses and legumes are the proper ones to fit the rotation, the soil, the drainage condition of the field and the purpose for which the crop is to be grown. Legumes in a mixture provide a higher protein, phosphorus, and calcium content, than do grasses. They also fix free nitrogen from the air and make it useful for growth of the crop. Good legumes usually give a better production of feed in the dry mid -summer per- iod. Some legumes and grasses are better fitted to rapid production of hay than are others. These should be included in a rotation which is to be down for only one or two years. Specially valuable in these short' term mixtures are red clover, orchard grass and timothy. If the mixture must produce over a period of two or more years, brome grass and the perennial legumes such as alfalfa and ladino clover are needed to keep production high. In the making of a long term pasture mixture, ladino and white Dutch clovers are the key legumes while alfalfa is the main hay -pas- ture legume. Timothy is a good hay plant, but is not adequate for a good hay -pasture mixture. Orch- ard grass and brome grass should be included in hay -pasture mixes because they produce nearly twice as much feed as timothy in the important midsummer period. An- other advantage of orchard grass is that it recovers very rapidly from grazing in the dry summer periods. The drainage conditions of the field place certain limitations on the selection of the mixture for a field. While alfalfa and sweet clover require well -drained soil, alsike clover and Bird's foot tret foil will do well on soil of fair to poor drainage. Similarly, orch- ard grass does not like poor drain- age, while red top and reed can- ary grass are well suited to such poorly drained ,soils. Detailed information on the pro- per mixture for each type and condition of soil on any part of Ontario is included in a new circu- lar prepared by the Field Hus- bandry Department of the O.A.C., the Western Ontario Agricultural School and the Kemptville Agri- cultural School. The circular con- tains information on regular and supplementary hay and pasture mixtures for the five different zones of Ontario. Circular No. 239, entitled "Hay and Pasture Mixtures For Ontario," is avail- able from the office of the agricul- tural representative. l'o ? SUREST WAY T O TELL 'EM stS ALL AT ONE TIME OP co44 IS BY ADVERTISING IN HE HURON....EXPOSITOR "The Newspaper Everybody Reads" vW, 4id ca�zwtAftL1 1rond'� IMPORTED '1 IPS OF THE DESERT' FOR TRANSPORT ON THE PLAINS (By Roy L. Abltott in the Milwaukee Journal) "It shallj be unlawful for the owner of any camels or dromedar- ies to permit them to run at large on or about the public roads of this state." The above was not from the laws of some African or Asiatic nation. It came from the State of Nevada, part of a statute passed in 1875 and effective until 1899. "But hold on!" you say. "Why not a law against saber toothed tigers or mastodons as well? Cam- els became, extinct in this coun- try thousands of years ago." So they did, and so did horses. But horses were brought back by the Spaniards and camels were returned to North America, the land of their origin, because Jef- ferson Davis, then secretary of war, had a dream. The fabric of that dream bad been suggested to him by Major Henry Wayne, who got it from Major George H. Crossman, but Je%erson Davis, who was to be- come president of the Confeder- acy in the civil war, first really saw it as a connected whole. The dream cepsisted of camel corps soldiers Mounted on the swift, powerful beasts, linking the far flung and relatively unprotect- ed frontiers of California and the southwest to the populous east. For were not these camel corps almost like naval units; not fixed to any course or direction, mobile and independent of base? Yes, they were. And in Davis' vision Iay the answer, he thought, not only to the transportation prob- lem between east and west, but also to the problem of attack up- on the transportation system and the frontiers by hard riding In- dians. Camels could carry half a ton each 50 miles a day, and could follow eaasily and swiftly into whatever waterless country the In- dians fled. Davis proceeded at once to try to make his vision a reality. As secretary of war under Pierce in 1853, almost his first act was to plead for his camel, corps. "The dromedary would supply a want now seriously felt in our ser- vice," said his report to the presi- dent. "It would remove an ob- stacle which now serves greatly to diminish the value and efficiency of our troops on the western fron- tier." • Congress was unmoved by this plea, but in his next report Davis tried again, this time recommend- ing an appropriation to i ntroduce a few camels for experimental purnoses. As a r'esult of this ap- peal the army appropriation bill of 1855 carried an amendment calling for $30,000 "to be expend- ed for the purchase and importa- tion of camels . . . for military purposes." Davis sent Major Henry Wayne and Lt. David D. Porter of the navy in charge of an expedition to procure the beasts. It was hard to obtain camels of the one -humped variety. (Wayne had discovered that the two -hump- ed kind was too slow for cavalry use.-) The one -humped Arabian camels had nearly all been brought up for use in. the C imean War, then in progress. But Wayne and Porter were not discouraged. From Tunis, where they were presented with two camels as a gift, they went to Smyrna; from there to Constan- tinople and even into the Crimea, where British officers praised the camel's value in war. 3,000 of the animals already being used in the fighting there. "I hope to see the day." wrote Porter to Davis, "when every southern planter will be using camels." From Constantinople, where they found nothing. but worthless, itch ridden, beasts, they hurried to Egypt. There they met new dif- ficulties. The Egyptians refused at first to allow more than two camels to be taken from the coun- try. The vicceroy then offered, as a gift to the United States, six worthless beasts, which Wayne in- dignantly refused. Nine satisfactory camels were eventually obtained, however, and the rest of the cargo of 33 was made up at Smyrna. One of the camels was so large that Porter, had to . cut a hole in the deck, which formed the roof of the camel stable, to accommodate the creature's hump. Six calves were born during the voyage, the first being named "Uncle Sam," but only two lived. The others, Porter believed, were killed by treatments administered by a Turkish camel veterinarian in charge. Porter sneered, as well he might, at the Turk's prescrip- tions for various ailments, one of which was "to tickle the camel's nose with the tail of a chameleon." The cargo was landed near In- dianola, Tex., May 14, 1856. The strange beasts, feeling the earth once more beneather their feet, became almost uncontrollable, some of the males even attempt- ing to attacok each other. This last circumstance led Porter to believe that even if camels failed otherwise, they might be used by enthusiastic Texans for the sport of camel fighting, an amusement then popular in the Orient. Forty -fur, more camels were added to the herd as the result of a second voyage, and a perm- anent camel camp was establish- ed near San Antonio. From this camp, in June, 1857, Lt. Beale, acting under orders from the war department, set forth to give the camels their first real tests. Us- ing them as carriers, Beale or- ganized the first and last United States camel corps, and, in a more or less interrupted journey, drove 25 camels, each carrying about 600 pounds, from San Antonio, Tex., to a point near Bakersfield, Calif.. and back to Fort Defiance, a distance of 4,000 miles. From Beal's report and the diary of young Stacey, who ac- companied the expedition, we know that the camels made good as "ships of the desert," although they never travelled more than about 25 miles per day. In fact, Stacey was .discouraged at first, and believed the beasts a failure: "They cannot keep up even with a six mule team," he wrote. But the strange creatures astonished Beale by refusing the finest grass and • showed their ability to beat the desert not only by feeding off mesquite and greasewood but by drinking "only when water hap- pened to be convenient." In his final report to the secre- tary of war, Beale summed up the expedition in a sentence: "The entire adaptation of camels to military operations on the plains may now be taken as demonstrat- ed.' A news story about the camel convoy in Harper's Weekly for: September 12, 1857, said: "Every unshod animal reached El Paso lame but the camels, not one of which exhibited even fatigue." Although the secretary of war recommended that Congress pur- chase 1,000 camels, nothing came of it, and the Civil War, quickly following, ended the experiment. At its outbreak the government- owned camels were widely scat- tered. Some were in California, some in Missouri, some in Texas. When the Confederates occupied Texas, they gave little attention to the beasts, and several escap- ed into the wilds when turned out to graze. Those in Missouri were sold at auction, as were the 66 remaining in Texas at the close -of the Civil War, these last being sold at $31 a head to a man who later dis- posed of them to circuses and zoos. DUBLIN ,NEWS Mr. and Mrs, Harold Stlnuck and daughters, of Kitchener, spent Sunday with Mrs. Loretta Moly- neaux. Miss Dorothy Anne Costello, of London, spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Costello. Mr. and Mrs. John Cleary, of London, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Evans. Miss Mary Stapleton, Kitchener, visited her father, Mr. Carl Stap- leton. Miss Marie Dalton, nurse -in - training Kitchener, spent the weekend' with her parents, Mr. THE. WEEK and Mrs. M urlce. Patten., Mr. and Mr's. John Mercer and family spent Sunday in Goderich and Seafprth. Miss Joanne Evans, Seaforth, spent the weekend with her par- ents. Mr. and Mrs. F. Evans. The golfer teed up, swung, miss- ed, swung, missed again. "It's a good job," he said grimly, "that I found out at the first hole. This course is at least two inches low- er thanthe one I'm used to." RE-VIT4,I;.1ZED CLEANING le Better Than Ever at Buchanan Conners MPunt Foreet Moro Spots and Stains Removed Garments May clean longer; 'well wear longer. Phone 230 - Seaforth ANDY CALDER AGENT MON. and THURS. MORNING Expositor Want is Bring Results -- Phone 41 THE MARCH OF DIMES CAMPAIGN of the Ontario Chapter of'the Canadian Foundation for Poliomyelitis WILL RUN IN SEAFORTH during the week of Monday, February 7 to Saturday, February 12 inclusive Give Generously ! — The Need is Great t Space contributed in the service of this Community by John Labatt Limited : o:t" Pass $50,000 By -Law for Hospital A special meeting of the town council was held on Monday night to pass the first and second read- ing of By -Law 1276, authorizing the council to issue debentures for $50,000 to cover the town's com- mitment to the Wingham General Hospital, under the pro rata scheme set up almost two years ago. Mayor R. E. McKinley, in explaining the by-law to council, said that he had been to see thfe Ontario Municipal Board in To- ronto last week, and that he had been advised by the board that the by-law would be approved as quickly as possible after the first and second readings had been passed .by council. Mr. McKinney said that the matter was an urg- ent one, since the hospital is in need of money for its building pro- gram because of the slowness with which money from the participat- ing municipalities was coming in. He felt that the payment of Wing - ham's share of $50,000 would do Much to hasten the contributions which other municipalities pledged some time ago. — Wingham. Ad- vance -Times. • fz Wing' that captures the ey.e- power that commands the road! First in style! New Horizon wind- shield is the first true wrap-around design. Its corner posts are swept back so the glass can curve around at top as well as at the bottom. 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