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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1955-04-01, Page 6N EYACIDS yourRest.. Many people never seem to gel a good Slakes, rest. They turn and toss—blame it en'aenes'—when it may he their kidneys. Healthy kidneys filter poisons and excess acids from the blood. If they fail and impurities atay in the system—disturbed rest often follows. If you don't rest well jet and use Dodd'a Kidney Pilla. Dodd'a help the kidneys so that you can rest bitter—and feel better. ' 136 Dodd's Kidney Pills USBORNE & HIBBERT MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. HEAD OFFICE — EXETER, Ont. President, Martin Feeney, R.R 2, Dublin; Vice -President, E. Clay ton Colquhoun, R.R. 1, Science Hill. DIRECTORS—Harry Coates, R R. 1, Centralia; William A. Ham- ilton, Cromarty; Milton McCurdy, R.R. 1, Kirkton; Alex J. Rohde, R.R. 3, Mitchell. AGENTS—Thos. G. Ballantyne, R.R, 1, -Woodham; Clayton Harris. Mitchell; Stanley Hocking, Mit- chell. SECRETARY - TREASURER — Arthur Fraser, Exeter. SOLICITOR—w. G. Cochrane, Exeter. WE PRINT IT 41 The Huron Expositor SEAFORTI4 v a r 3 V r W vn r � l� w ,r, � r t�.. R I, M IA , J' • cu t � 1 AA � �I� SEED TREATMENT FOR DISEASE CONTROL IN SPRING GRAINS The treatment of seed for dis- ease control is a widely accepted practice in crop production. Seed treatment cannot afford protection against all types of disease but does wonderfully well against some of the destructive ones among which are the grain smuts, seed- ling blights and seed rots. These diseases are serious and can re- sult in a total crop loss under ex- treme conditions. Such is particu- larly true with the grain smuts which not only reduce yields but affect the quality of the grain by the presence of the objectionable smut spores. Even livestock will not eat severely .smutted grain. The seedling blights and seed rots cause damage by reducing crop stand which in turn usually reduc- es yield. Stand reduction can be compensated for by increased seeding rates but the cost of extra seed would far exceed the cost of proper seed treatment. With the present knowledge of methods to control these diseases there is no need to take the risk of suffering such losses. A few cents per bushel spent on seed treatment is all that is required Co obtain pro- tection. Protection against these diseas- es can be had by treating the seed with one or another of a n.Anber of organic mercurial preparations such as: Dusts Wettable Dusts Liquids A, rox C. Ceresan M Dupont 2244 Puraseed Ceresan M -LX Gallutox San Co-op Mercury Mer -Sol Halz Oz. Leytosan Panogen P.M. A. S. Tests have shown that these ma- terials are all about equally as ef- fective if properly applied at rates recommended by the manufactur- er. How To Apply—The dry dusts wet 1,1(011, are applied by means of one of several types of home-made treat- ers such as the rotary barrel or oil drum, or the gravity type treat- ers. (Construction details for these can be obtained from or through the Agricultural Repres- entative's office). Commercial treaters are also available. The slurry method of treatment was introduced to eliminate the dangerous dust hazard. The slurry is made by nixing the Wettable Dust preparation with water and this mixture applied to grain by means of the home-made rotary - drum treater or one of the com- mercial slurry treaters. The liquid materials are applied in a diluted forum by means of the slurry equipment, or in special commercial treaters constructed to handle the concentrated solu- tions. Caution: (1) All mercurials are highly poisonous and care should be taken particularly to prevent inhaling the dust or fumes. (2) For good results, barley and oats should be treated at least one week before seeding. Loose Smut of Barley This disease is carried over within the seed so that chemicals applied to the seed cannot elim- inate the causal fungus. The on- ly satisfactory control is to use clean seed. This may be achieved in one of two ways: (1) Use seed with a known clean history such as registered or certi- fied seed. (2) Clean up your own seed by hot-water treatment. This involves soaking the seed in unheated wa- ter for six hours or .more, bring- ing it up to a temperature of 126 degrees F. in hot water, holding iliTTPSt I. rn A THE HURON EXPOSITOR Basic Factors in Crop Production Many consider that contour cul- tivation, strip cropping and grass waterways are essential to good soil conservation. As important as these principles are, especially on rolling land, there are other factors which are basic and which if neglected, will lend to disap- pointment in any type of farming. These basic factors are proper rotations, the maintenance of good soil structure, the maintenance of organic matter, the use of lime on acid soils, and the use of adequate amounts of the proper fertilizer for the soil and crops in question. All are essential and to list them is not to place one above the other in importance. Soils well supplied with lime and fertilizer are in a better position to maintain or to promote good structure. But lime and fertilizer alone are not responsible for that it there for 13 minutes, then cool- ing and drying before seeding. Ob- viously, this is a laborious and del- icate sort of treatment and diffi- cult to manipulate on a large scale without special expensive equip- ment. It is recommended that one treat a small quantity of seed, say a bushel or two, grow this on a plot isolated from untreated grain, and thus produce clean seed for the following season. Regardless of the above precau- tions taken to control loose smut, seedling blight treatment • should still be applied- for protection against covered smut, seedling blight and seed rot. WALTON Mr. and Mrs. John Harris, for- merly of Walton, are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary April .3, at the home of their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Kernick, Waterford. friable soil most farmers would like to have. Grass roots are the structure builders. Legume roots open up subsoil layers. Lime when needed promotes better growth of legumes. Fertilizers in the proper amount and type import better growth to both grass and legumes. Where there is a good sod there is good soil structure. The maintenance of soil organic matter is best produced by legumes. This is because the legumes are relatively high in nit- rogen. If organic matter of the proper type for crop production is to be increased in a soil, nitrogen must also be ,increased. Corn grown year after year in the same field can actually or even increase soil organic matter. But this can. only be so when adequate amounts of nitrogen are applied and all residues are returned. However, despite the fact that organic mat- ter could be maintained by such a practice, it is quite possible that soil structure would deteriorate, especially in heavier soils. It is thus seen that organic matter maintenance and promotion of good structure are twp different things. If a farmer is to gamble on ob- taining good crop yields, as he does every year, his chances of obtaining them will be better when he has a rotation in which a sod crop of grasses and legumes appear at least once in four years. The use of adequate lime and fer- tilizer of the proper kind will greatly aid in making the gamble a relatitTely safe bet. A little boy caught in mischief, was asked by his mother: "How do you expect to get into heaven?" He thought a minute and then said: "Well, I'll just run in and out and keep slamming the door till they say, For goodness sake, come in or stay out,' then I'll go in." Now! 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Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir: On reading your paper of this week about Old Boys' Reunion and the old-time grocery store, it brought to my mind a few items about our gro- cery store of years ago—what they would now call an old-fashioned town store, and that the people would not want to return to. That is very true. At the same time people seemed rnore happy in those days th l' t. d Most everyone in those days w : strug- gling along trying hard to make a living and most were very anx- ious to pay their debts. Thf.y were contented and pleased to get what groceries they needed, even if it was out pf a barrel. I remember a farmer from Mc- Killop telling me one time—and a good worker and f ,rmer :ie was and did make a tucces rf it. He said for years they worked hard and long summer and winter, and all they could save was about one hundred dollars a year. If they did happen to save two hundred, that was really something. Back in the years when I started selling groceries, bread sold at that time by the loaf, or by the pan. Four loaves was a pan of bread, and anyone wanting four loaves would always ask for a pan —four loaves or a pan, twenty-five cents. At that time wheat price was $1.00 to $1.25 per bushel. It was a very regular thing for us to sell a person five hundred of flour, one hundred of sugar and 90 pounds oatmeal in the fall. The farmers very often in late fall would bring in three or four dress- ed hogs and take home what I have just mentioned. reunion, some of the conversations may be along the lines I have written — the old grocery store, the old red mill, the old recrea- tion grounds, the old City Hall, the old rink where Boshart's fac- tory new sits, the old school which was taught by the rule of the hickory stick, the old farm, and many other things. There is a sadness to it also, as many, many people are gone and we will be talking to sons and daughters, grandchildren, etc. There are no friends like the old friends, but their life on earth is ended and they have crossed the threshold into a new life—may they be with us in spirit at our reunion (who knows!). We hope the reunion great success, and hope everyone will at least do what they can to make it a suc- cess, and the people at the head of it really do have a lot of work. But what a grand thing for lots of people who have been away for some time to get back home —so very much attached to `those words, "back home." Thanking you, Huron Expositor and Editor. Yours sincerely, RUSSELL H- SPROAT (Continued from Page 2) cannot meet all the demands for small sized Foundation and Certt, fied seed. Good seed can be defined asthat which is inbereitly high yielding, free from disease, true to varietal type- and in good physical condi- tion. In this way "quality" in seed potatoes is dependent as much on Heritable factors and internal char- acters as on physical condition and external characters. Growers of Foundation and Certified seed constantly strive to ensure all four of the characteristics mentioned above. Therefore, the use of seed which has the official certification tags attached to each bag will as- sist materially in producing higher yields of better quality potatoes. The slight difference in price over ordinary table stock or bin -run pot- atoes - is one of the best invest- ments a potato grower can make. Lists of growers in Ontario with seed for sale may be secured from offices of Agricultural Represent- atives in each county and district, from officials of the Seed Potato Certification Service at Ottawa, Guelph, London, Barrie and Win- nipeg, or from the Field Crops Branch, Ontario Department of Agriculture, Parliament Buildings, Toronto. Information relative to official inspection and certification of crops may also be obtained from the sande sources. I remember when we were on the farm three miles out, many a time the only way we could get in- to town in the winter was on horseback. The roads would be all blocked for a long time. We would take a small bag with us, get the mail, a pan or two of bread (guess we would be out of flour), some tobacco, and Mother would say you had better bring a pound of Beattie's twenty-eight cent tea. Do you remember Beattie's twenty-eight cent tea? In our day in the grocery business, that is our early days, tea was all sold in bulk, by the pound or more. We got it in caddies or boxes. In those days a farmer would bring in his produce — potatoes, meat, fowl, eggs, butter, etc. I can remember the butter business clearly. It would be in butter -tubs of different sizes, crocks or rolls, and later on, in pound -prints. We used to always have an over -sup- ply and it would be put in the basement in a large butter mixer and worked all together and put in pound -prints, wrapped and a Mr. Cook, of Cantelon Bros., Clinton, would come around every week and buy it. Most of it at that time went to logging and lumber camps. It would be packed in boxes or barrels. By the way, we had lots of them; we got so many things in barrels, such as table syrup, baking syrup, vinegar, sugar, oat- meal, salt and sodas, and many i other things. I remember one day a couple of elderly gentlemen chatting in the store. One morning they got talk- ing about what they liked for breakfast. One liked corn flakes, the other oatmeal. The oatmeal man said he had never seen corn flakes. We bad a barrel of soap chips sitting on the floor near him and he asked his friend if it could be corn flakes. His friend replied, "I have never bought them that way, but they could be." He at once put his hand in the soap flake barrel and helped himself to a mouthful. Needless to say, in a matter of seconds he started to froth at the mouth and flew out- side to get rid of it all. I do not know whether his pal has quit laughing yet or not. He never did that I know of, pick up anything in the store again. It sure was a lot of extra work to package everything and wrap and we worked hard and long. I well remember the delivery boys coming in Saturday night at 12:30, the last trip to Egmondville, with pretty tired horses too. In those days there was a lot of heavy side pork used. Cod fish in the slab that some would cover a sheep's back, just about as much salt as cod fish—would take a cou- ple of days to get salt out of it. Nevertheless, it was good. Also sold a lot of salt herrings by the keg and dozen. They, too, were very salty, but have long since dis- appeared. After all; people were very hardy at that time and work- ed hard, both summer and winter. Perhaps some could have eaten a shingle if it was well soaked in water, with butter, salt and pep- per. One time a male customer was in our store. The waste eggs and cracks were put in wooden butter boats back by the old hand -turned coffee mill. He used to ask for a couple and would break and swal- low them right there and then. One day he came in—I guess the eggs had been there too long, about ready to crack—and he downed a couple, but without re- marks walked swiftly out and never asked for stale or cracked eggs again. Those were the days of yester- years. What a change today, and no doubt when some of the Old Boys and Girls return to our 1955 "I haven't seen you at church lately," a minister remarked to one of his parishioners one day. "I hope you're not slipping from the fold." "Well not exactly," replied the man. "But my daughter's learn- ing to play the harp, and well -- to tellu the truth, I'm not so pafrticdiae abtlUt going to When ae I used; to :bei . , , ..0'MNAT 4,pi' mil44g' ,nut '":., 0.4i:Pi,:4 '-'1"4,i6,0°"' Phone Write See Geo. T. Mickle. & Sons Ltd. HENSALL, ONTARIO . PHONE 103 for A MALTING BARLEY CONTRACT Don't Wait! Limited Amount of Seed Available rl We also Supply Fertilizer with Contracts Geo. T. Mickle & Sons Ltd. Consider the Cow If your advertisement were in this' space as many people would read it as are reading this. But your advertise- ment isn't here, and people do not worry whether you are selling real estate, gasoline, peanuts or popcorn. Did you ever sit down in the pas- ture with a pail between your knees and wait for a cow to back up and be milked? Of course not. .You know better than that. Well, business is somewhat like a cow. You've got to go out after it and round it up. The fellow with the milk pail between his knees may get some milk, but the odds are all in favor of the fellow' who drives up the cow and feeds her. Some kind of advertising must' be done if a business is to amount to any- thing. Either walking and talking or writing, or printing. But the least costly, most profitable and dignified way is by the regular newspaper, which goes into people's homes every- where. THE HURON EXPOSITOR Established 1860 McLEAN BROS., Publishers Phone 41 -- Seaforth rlu 2 Y Ai[fiiel h Yiu.