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SEAFORTH, Friday, May 4, 1956
Longer Shopping ' Hours—
Or Less?
One of the matters that seems
never to be settled in a manner that
pleases everyone is the time at which
places of business should close each
day. There continues to be a strug-
gle between a desire for shorter
hours, on the part of business on one
hand, and the need for more shop-
ping opportunities for consumers,
particularly rural consumers, on the
other.
In a recent issue, the Rural Scene
carefully reviews the situation:
"Two recent public opinion surveys
—one nation-wide, the other Ontario-
wide—have found that seven out of
ten Canadians are in favor of being
allowed to shop at retail stores one
or two evenings a week. In many lo-
calities such a change in store hours
would require a change in existing
early closing by-laws.
"Both of these public opinion polls
report that rural and smaller town
residents are more strongly in favor
of evening shopping than are resi-
dents of• the largest cities, a disclo-
sure that has surprised some com-
mentators.
"There are, of course, sound rea-
-sons for this variation in opinion. To
many city families, shopping is not
a real problem. When necessary the
housewife can get to the store. and
home again within a few minutes, or
one of the children can be sent, or
father can stop at the store on his
way home from work. Also, most
city workers are on the forty -hour
week, which leaves one whole day
available for the family shopping ex-
pedition.
"The farm family, obcourse, has
neither as much time free for shop-
ping, nor are stores as easily avail-
able. Probably no group in the whole
population would benefit as much as
farmers through reform of store
hours regulations.
"The early closing laws as they
now exist in most of Canada are an
anachronism. The first of such laws
was enacted in Ontario about seven-
ty years ago. Its primary purpose
was to protect child employees
against exploitation.
"In the intervening years provin-
cial labor codes have taken over this
function of the early closing laws,
setting maximum hours for store
clerks just as for factory workers
and other industrial employees.
"But the early closing statutes re-
main on the books and, in most places
in Canada, municipal councils must
impose six pm. closing on all stores
in any particular trade if such a by-
law has been requested by three-
quarters of the shopkeepers in that
trade.
"The public has no control over
such by-laws, nor have those retail-
ers who might wish to remain open
in the evening. Today the early dos-
ing laws exist solely for the conveni-
ence of those retailers who prefer to
close at six p.m. and who do not want
competitors to be free to remain op-
en while they themselves are closed.
"It is hardly surprising that pub-
lic opinion polls find that 'farmers,
whose work hours normally extend
well beyond six p.m., .would prefer
to have opportunity for evening
shopping one or two evenings a
week."
Spring is Late
ethaps by the time this is in print
.ng will, in fact, have arrived. On
esdaytbere were slight indications
,at
dna
' l th weather was about to
l e
'e.calendar.
dohite%lte'"
slight breeze was cool, it held out a
suggestion that net too much would
be required to convert it into some-
thing considerably warmer. There
were' murmurings of growth and
green in grass and trees was becom-
ing evident.
It has been a long backward sea-
son, the type of weather that per-
mits one to excuse those pessimists
who wondered if warm spring wea-
ther would ever arrive.
But despite the doubts, the late
seeding and the delayed jrowth, it is -
well to remember that this is not the
first year in which. Spring has been
late. It won't be the last either. De-
spite the departure from normal,
there will be crops, and probably
good crops, just as there were in
those other years when Spring was
late. Nature has a way of looking
after these things.
Worthwhile Appeal
Announcement is made elsewhere
in this issue of the annual appeal for
funds with which to assist the opera-
tions of the Salvation Army. As in
previous years, Seaforth and district
citizens will be asked to contribute as
generously as their means permit.
Certainly there are few, if any,
more deserving appeals than that of
the Salvation Army. While it is true
that those of us living in rural and
semi -rural areas are not in contact
to the same extent with the work of
the Salvation Army as are those in
larger urban centres, there are few
who, atone time or another, have not
been made aware of the contribution
to the welfare of the needy which
the Army makes.- To the down-and-
out, the sick, the needy, the Salva-
tion Army is the helping hand`t?'that
often makes it possible to carry on.
What Other Papers Say:
SEEN'IN THE COUNTY . RAPE"R�
(Roy Rescued (public-spirited citizenwould' be
Fight -year-old Bobbie Wallace, glad to give these extra plants to
beautify Harbor Hill. — Goderich
Signal -Star.
Better Phone Service Planned
Work has started on an under-
ground line which will provide bet-
ter long distance telephone service..
between Goderich and London.
The plan will involve the removal
of hundreds of telephone poles,
eventually. Representatives of Bell
Telephone Company •of Canada
have been calling on district farm-
ers to obtain permission for the
laying of cable across fields. Gen-
erally speaking, the cable will fol-
low the -C.N.R.-railway--tracks _IK
W. Haysom, district manager of
Bell Telephone, states that the en-
tire project will cost $136,000, with
$12,500 to be spent on the. Gode-
rich-Clinton link. It will take
about 18 months to complete the
work. "Instead of going through
Stratford, calls from here will go
direct to London," says Mr. Hay-
som in explaining the better ser-
vice which the new cable will en-
able the company to provide 'be-
tween Goderich and Londop. Sim-
ilarly, the.: new underground line
will benefit Clinton, Exeter and
other intermediate points.---Gode-
rich Signal -Star.
son of Dr. and Mrs. John Wallace,
was rescued by Joe Webb late
Monday afternoon when he fell
into the harbor waters while fish-
ing. Bobbie was none the worse
for his experience when taken
from the water.—Goderich Signal -
Star.
Check 200 Cars in Road Block , "
Two hundred cars were check-
ed in a floating road block set up
by Ontario Provincial Police on
No. 4 Highway, just north of Exe-
ter, on Wednesday. Ten constables,
all from the Mount Forest division
of the force, conducted the road
cheek in eo-operation-.with--the lo-
cal detachment. Several charges
were laid for faulty brakes, and a
number of warnings were issued.
—Exeter Times -Advocate.
Grain Pouring Into Goderich
Five ships delivered a total of
958,000 bushels of grain to Gode-
rich Elevator 8: Transit Co. during
the past few days. The Starbelle
and the Superior docked on the
weekend with cargoes of wheat,
oats, screenings and rye. The Can-
adoc arrived on Sunday with a
load of grain from Fort William.
The Algorail reached port on Mon-
day with wheat, oats and barley,
and the Soodoc came in on Tues-
day with wheat and oats. The
tanker, Imperial Welland, was in
port on Sunday with a cargo of
fuel oil. Commercill, fishermen
report catches have �i'(k'proved, but
market prices have 'di'pped some-
what.—Goderich Signal -Star.
To Join Montreal Radio Station
Unwelcome Potato
(Reader's Digest)
Few foods in the history of man-
kind have had to overcome such bad
publicity as has the potato, before
winning public acceptance.
For a century after its discovery,
the potato was said to cause leprosy,
tuberculosis, rickets. It took sever-
al distinguished pioneers to persuade
the people that this food, which was
found in South America by the Span-
iards in 1537, was fit to eat.
There Are Good Drivers, Too!
(Ottawa Journal)
Mr. James Allan, Ontario's Min-
ister of Highways, is quoted as an-
nouncing that he is engaged in "a
one-man war against careless driv-
ers". -
It is hardly a one-man war, how-
ever. With the Minister of 'High-
ways, march in solid array police,
judges, magistrates, safety experts
of sundry degrees, newspaper editors
—and a host of drivers who are not
careless themselves but who realize
that to a considerable extent they
are at the mercy of the comparative-
ly small class of drivers on which
Mr. Allan declares war.
Thek most careful driver in Ontario
may be killed in an accident to which
he did not contribute and which he
could do nothing to avert.
That brings up a point which needs
to be made more often–the great
majority of drivers are careful of
their own and other lives. There are
hosts of men—and women—who
have driven tens of thousands of
Miles over many years without ever
being involved in an accident of any
consequence. There is some slight
element of luck in that sort of a re-
cord, perhaps, but more than luck is
the driver's sense of responsibility,
his appreciation of the fact that oth-
er people too have rights—and the
fact that through experience and ap-
plication he has become a competent
operator.
There is too much of a 'tendency
to ascribe to all drivers the faults
which pertain to a comparatively
small number of them. Actually
traffic in the modern scale and man-
ner would be quite impossible if it
were not true that most drivers are
careful. ''Ther k ss
x
f ec -1e s - minoritydoes
Present a problem nobody yet t ha
s
-b ,to
,reSolve, .
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Visiting Junior Farmer
Robert Howie, of Ballimbreich,
Newburgh, Fifeshire, Scotland, is
spending 10 days in Huron County
as one of eight British Junior
Farmers chosen to tour Ontario
on an exchange arrangement with
Ontario Junior Farmers. The other
young Scottish farmers in the par -
Vin Dittmer, sales manager on try, Alastair Grant and David Oag.
the CKNX-TV staff, has accepted are visiting in Middlesex and Ox -
a position with radio station CF'CF ford Counties, respectively. They
in Montreal, and will take up his will all leave for Scotland again
new duties there on July 3. Mr. on June 29. Mr. Howie is a guest
Dittmer will be program director at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs.
on the station, one of Canada's
oldest, which is owned by the Mar-
coni organization. Mr. Dittmer
came to Wingham ten years ago,
after two years of radio experi-
ence in Latin America, and other
work in the field, both in Canada
and the United States. During his
stay here he served in many ca-
pacities with CKNX radio and tele-
vision, and was well known for
his work in local dramatics, being
president of the Wingham Com-
munity Players for the past two
years.—Wingham Advance -Times.
To Beautify Harbor Hill
With. the co-operation of local
residents, the Goderich Horticul-
tural Society hopes to beautify the
rock garden at Harbor Hill. Plans
for the project were discussed at
an executive meeting, at which
H. Glenn Hays presided last week.
At this season of the year, it was
felt that many gardens will be
overcrowded and have perennials
to spare. It was decided to ask
anyone having perennial plants to
donate to the rock garden, to kind-
ly notify Mr. Wilfred Peachey. He
will arrange to have them collect-
ed when the time is suitable for
planting them. It was felt that
•
Possibly huxan affairs cause
the angels to laugh and weep at
almost the same time.
One of the strange developments
in current history is the casting
down of Joseph Stalen. There was
a time when Stalin's name and or-
a time when Stalin's name and
portrait were to be encountered
on almost every hand throughout
the Soviet Union. He was exalted
almost as a god. It may be that
in the minas and hearts of some
Communists he took that place,
which should only belong to Christ.
Stalin might have been a more
humble man if he had been re-
quired to eat grass like King
Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. But
apparently he encouraged the hero-
worship which was accorded him.
In his lifetime he was not over-
thrown, but death claimed the
strong man, and now after. his
death he is being made the scape-
goat for many of the ruthless and
cruel things which have been done
within Soviet Russia and its satel-
lites within recent years. Soviet
leaders are telling all the world
that their idol had feet of clay.
Kenneth Taylor, R.R. 3, Walton,
with their son, Boyd, a graduate
of the two-year diploma course at
the Ontario Agricultural College,
Guelph. Boyd Taylor is president
of North Huron Junior Farmers
and first vice-president of the
county organization. From April
26 to May 1, at which time he will
move on to Lincoln County, Mr.
Howie will be the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew Gaunt, Lucknow,
with their son, Murray, also a
graduate of the O.A.C. diploma
course, and winner last year of
the Queen's Guineas at 'the Royal
Winter Fair Toronto. Robert Howie
helps his father in the manage-
ment of the farm of Ballinbreich,
and has been in partnership 'there
for the past four years. The farm
is of 245 acres, and seed potatoes,
seed oats and barley are a spec-
ialty with them. Their stock con-
sists of 35 breeding cows and a
small flock of breeding ewes.•Hur-
on County is to be honored by hav-
ing one of the English Junior farm-
ers also, when Miss Wendy Spur-
geon,' of Alby, Norwich, Norfolk
County, England, makes her ex-
change visit to Ontario. She will
spend from June 26 to July 6 in
Huron.—Blyth Standard.
YEARS AGONE
Interesting items gleaned from
The Huron Expositor of 25, 50
and 75 years ago.
` From The Huron Expositor
May 8, 1931
Miss Myrtle Powell, of Goderich
Township, has been engaged to
teach at S.S. No. 4, Tuckersmith.
Miss Dorothy Reinke has resign-
ed on account of ill health.
Mrs. J. G. Wilson, of Seaforth,
is leaving next week for Etonia,
Sask.
Mr. Graham Kerr, north of town,
had his arm broken while cranking
the tractor last week.
Miss. Minnie Habkirk has resum-
ed her position as manager'of the
local office of the Bell Telephone
Co.
Mr. John A. Eckert, of Manley,
is,busy putting up a fine garage
in that burg. He is a real mechan-
ic and makes a specialty of re-
building used batteries. The chick-
en ranch is now a side issue.
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Neelin, who
spent the winter in Florida, have
returned to their home in Sea -
forth.
Mr. R. O. Willis Left Seaforth this
week for Toronto.
Preparations are complete for
the 1931 Seaforth Minstrels, which
promises to eclipse all others to
date. The new idea of employing
female voices will prove a pleas-
ing touch, while the several spe-
cial attractions will surprise and
delight the audience. The endmen
will be as funny as ever, led by
the veteran J. F. Daly, who for
the last twenty-five years has de-
clared that each succeeding year is
his last, yet when the time comes
he is right there.
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CR aSDS
WHAT IS TIME?
(By JAMES SCOTT)
Last weekend I had a funny ex-
perience. On Saturday night I was
in Toronto and that was the night
we were told to set ,our clocks
ahead. I was at a large meeting
and dinner with a few distinguish-
ed Canadians as speakers. It was
not the kind of evening that you
get to bed,. too early. So 1.' really
begrudged that hour I lost when I
finally crawled in between the cov-
ers. • ..
However, the nextcday I came
home ,and when I Arrived I re-
membered that here in Seaforth
-we-wes-e- not--putting-our e1ecks_an
tour head until Sunday night. It.
was. very nice to get back that
hour I lost in Toronto when I' got
home,. and I hope I put it to good
use.
But then along came Sunday
night and away went the hour
again, and unless I can find some
place which has not yet gone on
Daylight Saving Time, I'm going
to have to wait until •the end of
next September before I get the
hour back.
In two days I had lost, gained
back and lost again an hour of my
life.
That sort of /makes a fellow
think, If it is possible to play
around with time like that, I be-
gan to wonder just what is time
anyway. Does it really mean as
much as some of us Seem to think
these days?
I know of people, for example,
to take pride on being what they
call "always on time". What do
they mean? Well, they mean that
they always get to where they say
they are going when they say they
are gning to be there. And this
• is supposed to be a very praise-
worthy thing. -
Maybe it is, but I can think of
episodes in my own life when, on
looking back, I have wished I
hadn't taken that attitude. I don't
know about you, but hundreds of
times I have said, "I wish I odulq,
but I haven't got the time." What
I mean when I saythis is that
there is something else I think I
should be doing at that moment.
That's all very well. All of us
Apart from his despotic ruthless-
ness, Stalin may be remembered
in history as a great military lead-
er. But the great of this world
are judged by God, who notes even
the sparrow's fall.
Governmental sins are being
charged\to the account of Joseph
Stalen, but those who now rule in
Russia can not thereby escape
their own moral responsibility. But
the fact that they are trying `todis-.
associate themselves from some of
Stalin's acts may indicate an
awakening of conscience, and a
desire to improve relationships
with other nations.
It may seem strange that Pre-
mier Bulganin and Nikita Khrush-
chev should be entertained for tea
at Buckingham Palace, but it is
better than a barrage of angry
words directed at either country
from the other. •
of Hensall. His name in "Crown
Gold." Mr. McGavin weighed him
last week and he brought down
the scales at 1,177 pounds, and he
is not a year old.
Italian laborers have arrived at
Walton to begin work on the
Guelph to Goderich railway line.
Fred Haycroft, Brussels, arriv-
ed home from San Francisco last
Saturday night. He lost all his be-
longings, excepting the suite of
clothes he wore, as a result of an
earthquake there.
§ §
From The Huron Expositor
From The Huron Expositor
May 4, 1906
Mr. John Murray, near. Lead -
bury, has bought the 50 -acre farm
of Mr. August Hicknell, the price
agreed upon being $2,300. The land,
is goad, but ,the, buildings 'are of
little value.
In excavating for the sewer on
the east side of ieaforth Main St.,
workmen unearthed some, of the
old giants of the forest, as well as
some relics of the pioneer days of
,Seaforth. From Victoria St, to
John St., the finds -of this nature
were most numerous. Trees that
had lain there for a century and
had been covered up in building
the street, and old log crossings
and board platforms, were dug up.
The wood is still in a state of good
preservation.
The Seaforth Woollen Mills re-
sumed Operations this week and
will run at•. ull force for the fi
titre under new rima a ement
Mr.. Jahn. ire iavin, o eadbur
hasliu!shaseh vain* o y n>
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lltalliOn rom hOli as Berry,
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76!
have to make up our minds about
that kind of thing every day. We-
aren't going to be here forever,
and we have to decide what we-
think
ethink is best to fill 'up our time -
with. with.
The trouble is, it seems to me,,
that we don't always decide or
the right things.
Take, for example, the fellow 1
saw the other day. He had told a
friend of his he would meet him
for lunch in the city at one o'clock.
The traffic had been heavy ands
'lie had not travelled as fast as he
-thought he-40011:1_,andhe was gcL-
ing to havF to hurry if he were
going to reach_ ,his destination in.
time. Now, e—is one of those fel-
lows who ..hn sthat he never is
late for ..iin;'a"ppointment, and so -
when he came -tearing down the
road and came upon an old man.
standing behind his old flivver,
which had a flat tire, he never
gave the matter a second thought-.
He knew that he had no time' to•
stop and give that poor old fel-
low a helping hand.
Sure it was raining, and the man.
was old, and it was bad luck to.
have a flat tire and maybe if the
old man had to stand out there in.
the rain waiting for some one to
stop and help him, he would catch.
his death of cold, and some dear
old lady would live the rest of her
years in loneliness, and a dear lit-
tle girl would . never see her be-
loved grand -dad again. Yes, all.
these things might happen, because.
the world is full of fellows who be-
lieve that it is more important al-
ways to be on time than it is to
stop to lend a helping hand to a:
fellow man.
There are two sides to the ques-
tion, of course. Who knows which_
isright? But, after all, that jig
gery-pokery with an hour dost and'
gained over the weekend, I'm not.
so sure that time is so all -fired -
important anyway.
And I am sure it is important:
to help a man in distress.
Modern Farm : Problems
Discussed by
Dr. J. G. De Pape, S.S.A., MSc.. Ph.D.
ECONOMICS AND ENERGY
During the past year much has
been written and morecs been
said about energy contentf feeds;
and on its influence on r turns to
the feeder. The basic facts in the
case have been known for many
years. The new emphasis stems
from the publicity which the prob-
lem has received, and from the
ready availability of animal fats
to permit raising the energy level
to any point desired.
Whenever anything new is dis-
covered—or rediscovered—it is ov-
er -emphasized in the "popular
feed press." Eventually, howev-
er, the new information takes its
proper place. What must be re-
cognized sooner or later is that
nutrition requires balanced propor-
tions of all essential' nutrients. An
excess of any one nutrient can
never make up for, a deficiency of
another essential factor. In many
cases such unbalance merely pre-
vents full realization of the poten-
tial growth and productive capac-
ity of the animal or bird. In oth-
er cases, the unbalance created by
an excess -of one nutrient can be
definitely harmful. As an exam-
ple, one might cite the production
of parakeratosis—skin disease of
swine of the past decade—by an
excess of calcium and a deficit of
zinc. •
One might cite The example of
"hemorrhagic disease" as a case
involving nutritional' relationships.
The demand for high-energy ra-
tions has encouraged the develop-
ment of formula feeds with a mini-
nium of fibre; hence the elimina-
tion of much of the alfalfa meal.
Also nutrition research has made
possible the use of solvent extract-
ed soybean oil meal—meal, with
practically all of the oil removed.
Since alfalfa meal and soybean oil
meal are good to excellent sources
of vitamin K, these changes result-
ed in a serious decrease in the
vitamin K content of the rations.
Laboratory experiments and field
tests have established one type of
hemorrhage to be the result of a
vitamin K deficiency with or with-'
out the influence of other nutri-
tional factors.
The development of synthetic
detergents after World War II
eliminated a big market for ani-
mal fats formerly used for soap
making. Now, animal fats, a sur-
plus agricultural product that ap-
peared doomed to accumulate on
the market, are being mixed into
formula feeds. The price of ani-
mal fats has been stabilized at ap-
proximately the value on a caloric
basis as compared With high en-
ergy grains. The following are
approkimate values given in cal-
ories of productive energy per
pound: corn 1140, wheat 1020, bar-
ley 790, oats 810, dehydrated al-
falfa meal 300, and animal fat 2900
calories per peund„
Barring a* gross deficiencies
of any essential nutrient, the
quantity of feed required to pro-
duce a 'pound of grain in weight,
or to produce a dozen eggs, is de-
pendent upon the energy content
of the feed. Thus the quantity o£
feed required to produce a unit of
product decreases as the energy
content of the feed increases. It
takes approximately four pounds
of an 800 -calorie chick 'starter for
each one pound gain in weight,
while birds on a 1,000 -calorie diet
will make a gain of one pound for
each 2% pounds of diet consumed.
Obviously the higher.,energy ration
is worth more.
The advantage in feed. conversion
,is suffitieiit .reason fer the ,,:po01-
tryman' tttz,seleet. n high, energy
fah* ' w J;liddrti*rthl �reksoris,
illiglit� be hi ted 011e --1s" "that the
May 6, 1881
Mr. M. P. Hays has fallen heir
to a legacy of $25,000 by the death
of an uncle in Cork, Ireland.
The era of wooden pumps is
about at an end. This spring a
great many people, especially
farmers, are very prudently re-
moving their wooden pumps from
their wells and are replacing them
with iron ones.
Mr. John Henderson, of McKil-
lop, has purchased the residence
on North Main St., Seaforth, re-
cently owned and occupied by Mr.
Lyall.
Mr. James Stewart, assistant at
the Commercial Hotel here, is
leaving to assume the proprietor-
ship of one of the leading hotels
in ListoweI.' He was presented
with a gold ring on his departure.
Mr. Peter Daly, Seaforth, has re-
tired from the butchering business
and is now engaged with Mr. D.
D. Wilson.
Mr. Alonzo Leech has again
been engaged as the cheesemakerl
-in the Seaforth factory. He is one
of the best cheesemakers in On-
tario.
The workshop of Pullman and
Company's carriage factory had a
very narrow escape from destruc-
tion by fire Mr. M. Pullman hav-
ing some matters .to attend to at
the shop, cameto it at an un-
usually early how to find smoke
in the loft, and the clames creep-
ing up the rafters. He immediate-
ly procured water and the fire was
extinguished 'without - much dam-
age.
The reeve of Brussels has had
erected, . at his own eXpense, on
the Market Square, g bandstand
of a very pretty design, which is
a great ornament to the Square.
A dairy farmer, after thirty
years producing milk, retired with
a comfortable forhine of $60,000. ,
lie amassed, this large' sum
e
through' irYdirstry, courage, ter-
n
Wri a Careful buying and selling,'
'-'fid the Heath -''tart (Meld *bo deft
hint ;sgs,
bird's digestive tract may .be too
small to handle enough of the bul-
ky, low energy feed to permit
maximum growth or production.
To say that the bird will simply
eat more of the;,low energy,..feed--tai;
achieve the" sa'nie end. result" over`,
looks'" the limits irh}wsed by the
capacity of the digestive tract.
When this •limit is exceeded the
bird is unable to eat enough feed
and the g owth rate, or the rate
of egg pro di reis reduced.
The finish of the bird is gov-
erned by the quantity of fat de-
posited under the skin and be-
tween the muscles. Workers at
several experiment stations have
reported that fat deposition—and
finish—in broilers is determined
ebiefly by the energy content of
the broiler feed. Even if the bird
is able to consume enough feed
to permit maximum gain, the fin-
ish may be impaired to the point
that the grower must accept pen-
alty when he markets birds raised
on a low energy feed.
The feeder simply cannot afford
to use the older, low energy type
rations if he wants to compete on
today's market. It is like driving
a model T Ford on a fast trip over
the turnpike! Use modern tools
for a modern job.
"For a modern house," com•
mented the prospective buyer,
"these walls don't seem very stur-
dy ,,
`Well, maybe," the seller agreed
grudgingly, "but they're not paint-
ed yet."
Losses Through Insect Damage
The annual loss in Canada due•
to livestock and field crop insect
damage has been placed as high:
as $312 million. In the United:
States it is estimated that for
each dollar spent on insect contra.
an average of $52 is returned: On
this basis Canadian livestock men
can sav: more than $67 million,
annually by carrying out recom-
mended chemical control measures,
against insect pests.
Field crops have suffered con-
siderably over the, ..years front
damage by insects', sbcli as grass-
hoppers, wireworms, cutworms and.
sawflies. This loss has gradually
been reduced since the introduc-•
tion of newer and better insecti-
cides. In Alberta for example, in:
1951, treatment of 296,000 for grass --
hopper control saved a crop va-
lued at $6 million. This was done!
at a cost of $50 000 and represents
a return . of 120 to 1 on expendi-
tures. In 1949 the grasshopper con-
trol campaign in Saskatchewan.
saved a crop worth $50 million at
an expense of slightly over $1 mil-
lion, The return on the invest
ment in this case was approxi--
mately
pproxi-mately 41 to 1.
Advances in the field of insect'
control cannot entirely be attri-
buted to the use of insecticides.
Cultural methods have been im--
proved and different and . better•
methods of applying . chemicals •
'have been devised. Perhaps a
clearer understanding of the need.
i for control has been instrumental
in reducing agricultural losses;.
from insect damages in Carted
Although many advances h
been made in this field there ist
still much to be achieved. The-
1956 World Congress of Entomol-
ogy to be held this coming August.
in Montreal, will give technologists-
from
echnologistsfrom all over the world an oppor-
tunity to discuss their mutual pro-
blems.
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CLEAN HOUSE ON UNWANTED ITEMS
QUICK. CASH — OR TRADE THEM
FOR WHAT YOU NEED
If you're Spring cleaning and discover furniture, small
appliances, toys or clothing you no longer need, let a low-
cost want ad sell or trade them for you. You'll be pleasant-
ly surprised at how many folks are seeking those very items.
But, you've got to tell them in order to sell them. Use the
WANT ADS for economical and really1fast results.
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