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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1941-03-13, Page 7Thursday, March 13 th, 1941 BRAY CHICKS “are Everything You Said” COCKERELS! IF you have the brooder space to handle them,, don’t forget the profit pos­ sibilities in Bray cockerels and capons. They’re bred for size and fast growth— and very reasonably pric­ ed. Ask for our “Daily Special” price list, Harry Magee, Desboro, Ont.—“I got 375 cockerels —averaged about 4 lbs. at three months.” Mrs. John Rintoul, Clay­ ton, Ont.—“I bought 100 day-old cockerels, and sold 98 at five months averag­ ing 7 lbs.” Homer Smith, Stanstead, P.Q.—“At four months cockerels dressed 4% lbs. ‘The Bray Chick Does the Trick’ doesn’t speak well enough.” CAPONS! Last year Martin A. Connell, Little Barti- bog, N.B., raised a flock of Bray Chicks, In October, Mr. Connell wrote Bray’s a letter. He said: “Your chicks are every­ thing you said about them," A letter like that shows how Bray Chicks really are “delivering the goods” and standing up to the practical farm test; And it is only one out of hundreds of sim­ ilar letters, from all parts of the country. Just,take a look at these: S. S. Mainse, Lyndhurst, Ont,—-“No losses whatever, never had a sick pullet. At six months in 75% production.” Thomas Oram, Sydney, N.S.—“My Bray hen,s sure made a record here for con­ stant laying and large eggs.” Mrs. Douglas Graham, ’Simcoe, Ont.— ’ “Lost only two (out of 100). Sold pullets in first week of July. They started to lay during July (March hatch) and in August the eggs were .past the pullet stage. Sep­ tember and .October proved almost too much for the owner of these wonderful layers! They are still laying well, and such large eggs,” Mrs. George Boon, Fredericton, Jet., N.B. —“My pullets have proven very satisfac­ tory . . . started to lay at 4% months, and have laid ever since.” Mrs. G. W. Dyer, Bothwell, Ont.—- * “Those New Hampshires I got from you were the loveliest chickens I ever saw—■ so large and nice, EveryoneR that saw Ahem said the same thing. Such lovely •large eggs! I don’t wonder at people sending for your chicks year in and year out.” A postcard will bring you full informa­ tion on Bray Chicks. Don’t delay—write today. A. C. ADAMS, Wingham (CHICKS ON DISPLAY) . “ ’ ’ BELGIUM’S WAR EFFORT GROWS by C. H. de Sausmarez (Well-known Authority on Belgium) Fate has been particularly cruel to Belgium in this war. After, the col­ lapse of the Dutch defences before heavy odds, shejiad to bear the main :,brunt of the German attack. The cap­ itulation of .her army, coming at a most critical moment, brought much undeserved odium upon her. Her King was most unjustly and irresponsibly .accused of treachery and the fighting •quality of his troops called in question. Actually the latter fought very bravely and the successive withdraw­ als from the Meuse to Lys were made necessary by disasters in other parts of the battle front. The decision to surrender has never been publicly crit­ icised by anyone who has known all the true facts. For so small a nation, Belgium had raised -a remarkably large army to jus­ tify her policy of independence. From the end of 1939 she had 600,000 men in the field. She was thus mpre real­ ist in her policy than other neutral States. . After the a potential of her men sent to France immediately after the invasion. Yet they too were caught up in' the subsequent French collapse and prevented from continuing the strug­ gle. New Army Formed A few members of King Leopold’s army succeeded in escaping to Eng- capitulation she still had army intact, for 200,000 of military age had been UPPER LEFT, borne on a mechanized gun-carriage. Major J. McGarry, LOWER LEFT, carries Sir Frederick’* war medals and decorations. The scene at the graveside as the body of the great scientist was carried to his last resting place is shown, LOWER RIGHT. Citizens from all parts of the Dominion gathered in Toronto to pay their last respects to Sir Frederick Banting, discoverer of insulin, who was killed in a plane crash in Newfoundland while flying to England. A view of Convocation hall is shown, UPPER RIGHT, during the funeral service, eondur’ted by Dr. H J. rMv The f,r,c,-draoed cac,’^t is shown. WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES playing a more active part in African operations. ‘Belgium, be it noted, is the only one of o-ur Allies to have de­ clared that a state of hostilities exists between herself and Italy, with flip ex­ ception, of course, of Greece. In the economic field Belgium’s con­ tribution is no less important. The Belgian .Minister of Colonies has de­ clared that the rich products of the Congo will be devoted to the Allied cause. How best these resources can be employed has recently/ been the sub­ ject of discussions between the Belg­ ian and British Governments. The im­ portant Belgian gold reserves, most of which are fortunately still at the disposal of the Belgian Government, must not be forgotten. It is a valuable asset for the purchase of war supplies. The Belgians, too, are giving ‘con­ siderable help with their propaganda. The Belgian B.B.C. programme is in most skilful hands. There is a power­ ful transmitter in the Congo which re­ lays the BBC news in French and can be well heard throughout the French African possessions.t GERMANY’S REAL STRENGTH IN AIR to assembile opening as- German air- CANADA MOURNS THE PASSING OF SIR FREDERICK BANTING land to form the nucleus of a new Belgian>force. Its members have been swollen first by comrades who proved their courage and devotion by escap­ ing from France and North Africa, and, secondly by new levies raised by the Belgian Government soon after its arrival in England from among the re­ fugees and Belgians living abroad. This force, like those of our other al­ lies, now guards a sector of Britain’s defences. Among the earliest to arrive were a( group of Belgian airmen. As the Bel­ gian Air Force used “Hurricane” fighters bought from Britain before the war, these airmen were quickly ab­ sorbed into the British squadrons'and played their part in the great air bat­ tles of August and September. They suffered casualties but inflict­ ed far greater ones on the enemy. Their numbers, too, are growing and they are all eager to avenge those helpless refugees whom the Nazi air­ men machine-gunned on the Belgian roads. The majority of the Belgian .mer­ chant fleet made good its escape. Its crews together with many Belgian fishermen continue to carry on their dangerous but vital work on the high* seas for the allied cause. Many of them braved the same perils in the last war. Congo Effort There is a second army in the great Belgian colony of the Congo. During the critical period that preceded Gen­ eral Wavell’s great offensive, this force was quite rightly employed in the defence of the Colony. With the threat now removed it may soon be CHALLENGE SKY RAIDERS Dotted around all the focal points of Canada’s east coast modern fcntl-altcraft guns such as the one illustrated m this photo, The crew Is shown at drill while a giant Stranraer coastal patrol plane soars over­ head Germany’s strength in the air is es.- timated at an absolute total of 40,000 machines of which fewer than 18,000 are combat types. The number avail­ able for full operation at any given time is about 9,000. According to au­ thoritative estimates, it is unlikely that Germany would be able 6,000 aeroplanes for her sault on Britain. Estimates which place strength as high as 70,000 or 80,000 “fighting types” are dismissed as non­ sensical. The air correspondent of the Lon­ don Sunday Times, in an analysis oB German air strength, points out that Germany has seven regular air fleets. To these must be added the naval air services operating separately and an operational training division which to­ gether constitute total “first line” strength of the Luftwaffe. These formations have a first line strength (including first line reserves) of 24,400 with an operational strength of 12,000 available at any moment. Behind, lie reserve pool and unfin­ ishes machines amounting to approxi­ mately 50% as well as some 5,000 trainers and communication aircraft. This brings the grand total of all Ger­ man aircraft to about 40,000. The estimate is incomplete, howev­ er, without mention of production losses. Records show R.A.F. have scored nearly 6,000 confirmed victor­ ies over German aeroplanes in all en­ gagements since war began. Exper­ ience suggests as a reasonable estim­ ate that for every machine lost in com­ bat two were put out of service by ac­ cidents and unrecorded victories. This does not include training losses usually estimated at 15% per month. _ Thus total losses of the Luftwaffe since war began counting Polish, Nor­ wegian, Dutch, Belgian, French and British campaigns are not far short of 24,000 machines. When war opened, German produc­ tion of first line types was about 1,000 a month. It is now estimated at about 1,600 per month (total about 2,300 all types). An average of 1,400 first line machines per month is probably not far wrong. Thus, to replace losses of 24,000, Germany has built about the same number of aircraft and Luftwaffe can­ not be said to have expanded during the war. _ Tlie Royal Air Force, on the other hand, has more machines than when war began. PIGEON MESSENG­ ERS OF THE R.A.F. From May to November 1940, 320 messengers were sent from R.A.F. air­ craft by pigeon, and 30'7 were deliv­ ered. Only a very small proportion were S.O.S. messages. One of the messages brought news from Holland to the East Midlands in four hours, ten minutes. An excep­ tionally good performance was that of two pigeons which were released 340 miles from home in an entirely strange direction. They had to cross two countries and a sea, but both homed, the first in 11 flying hours. One yoting pigeon delivered an S. O. S. against a Channel gale over 175 miles of sea, taking eight and a half hours to battle through. Pigeons are particularly vulnerable to heavy rain, fog or gales when fly­ ing over the sea. One bird homed from Norway through a blizzard last winter, but subsequently died of the strain, Homing pigeons are under the con­ trol of the Signals Directorate of the Air Ministry, The section responsible is officered exclusively by experts who have gained distinction in the sport of pigeon racing in peace time and also have a wide active service experience. Acting tinder the general direction of the Air Ministry is a committee of prominent facing pigeon fanciers set up to organize the Racing Pigeon Ser* Mly It-w fvice. Through this organization thou­ sands of racing pigeon fanciers are en­ abled to put the services of their birds or their own skill at the disposal of the nation. The National Pigeon Service ,vol- •unteers .breed pigeops for the R.A.F. or the Army, and have already sup­ plied thousands. They employ their own birds or lofts directly on message work for the Services. Their wives of­ ten help in the labour entailed in this. The volunteers also‘assist the local police or customs officers in duties in­ volving pigeons. The pigeon’s task in this war is much more difficult than in the last, Owing-to the greater speed and range of aircraft, and the fact that modern message forms are now attached to the bird’s leg, enclosed in a message car­ rier, before the flight. A white patch *on the outside of the carrier enables the position of the distress to be writ­ ten in a few seconds at the moment of release. f In c.ase the bird alights on a ship instructions for the re-transmission are printed on the back of the S.O.S. form. This has saved much time on at least one occasion. The shooting of homing pigeons is an offence. For their better protection against birds of prey the destruction “of peregrine falcons has been author­ ised. A survey has disclosed 78 eyries. From some of these a heavy toll has been levied on message-carrying pig­ eons. The R.A.F. has a number of pigeon lofts of its own in charge 'of N.C.O.’s and airmen known as “pigeon keep­ ers”. These men are all expert pigeon fanciers. 300,000 BUS. SEED CORN FOR WAR­ TIME PLANTING Ontario Seed Corn Marketing Assoc­ iation Guarantees Purity of Strain * Despite adverse weather conditions in Essex and Kent counties, the home of seed corn in Ontario, the newly formed Ontario Seed Corn Marketing Association announces their members will have in the neighborhood of 300,000 bushels of seed corn for war time requirements this year, through regular dealer channels. New regulations — both federal and provincial — have resulted in consid­ erable change in the .production and marketing of seed corn in Eastern Canada and has brought into being the Ontario Seed Corn Growers’ Market­ ing scheme and the formation of the Ont. Seed Corn Marketing Assn. New regulations guarantee the pur­ ity of the strain and make it possible for the buyer of seed to be sure he gets the same strain eahc year. Until the present system was started this could not be done. All inspection is done by officials of the Dominion De­ partment of Agriculture. The corn will be all definitely tag­ ged and sealed as a true variety, ac­ cording to the type produced and sold through the Association. fully lick it off and then push it back in again. On closer examination I found that she had pushed the open paper bag on its side and she was busy eating the pile that spilled out. Smiling as if to say that she liad had enough sugar anyway, she went back to playing with the. dolls. After a time 1 went back to my story. At the end of a chapter I heard a dull clang, and lopked up to watch as she padded away from the kitchen door and fished a spoon from the table which was set for dinner. Then back to the door and as quick as a flash she slipped the spoon down the large- crack which I haye been intending to fill for years. Investigation disclosed that this was the third spoon gone, and a quartgr- hour of fishing yielded nothing. Engaged in trying to make a hook out of a piece of wire, I noticed her playing with a comb. That seemed like a harmless sort of toy and I went on with my fishing for the lost spoons. Soon there seemed a strange odor in the kitchen. It was a smell that de­ fied description . . . something like a sugar shanty smells like when you burn old tires in the stove. A belch of smoke poured out of the oven, and Patricia Ann yelled with glee. Then came a burst of flames. The comb was burning in the oven. Getting her well back out of the road, I tried fish- ing it out with a broom and dust-pan. I got the burning comb out all right, but the broom burned down to a char­ red stub in the process. That was too much for me. Patricia Ann saw me coming and I guess there must have been a glint in my eyes, be­ cause she scudded around the table as fast as two very dimpled fat legs could take her. When I did catch her, two- chubby arms slid around my neck and. she purred, “Da Da”. Now I ask you, could I be blamed for not doing any­ thing about it. Besides, she didn’t know any better. Everything cooled off then. Patricia, was happy trying to pick the eyes out of an old doll, and the lure of the story was too much. After a while there was a strange silence. There was no sign of the baby. The cellar door was securely fastened, but the pantry door was open and there she was . . sitting on the floor with a pound print of lard. The lard package was open, and she was covered with it from head to foot. It was in her hair ... on her dress . . . and as I came in she was. polishing the floor with it. Mrs. Phil came home,, then, just as I was removing her from the pantry. She didn’t say much, just stopping ort the way to get the baby’s bath pan, to say, “Oh no . . . she’s too small to get into any mischief.” CANADA BUILDS MACHINES FOR WAR YOUR EYES NEED ATTENTION Our 25 Point Scientific Examin­ ation enables us to give you Clear, Comfortable Vision F. F. HOMUTH * Optometrist Phone 118 Harriston MONUMENTS at first cost Having our factory equipped with the most modern machinery .for the exe­ cution of high-class work, we ask you to see the largest display of monu­ ments of any retail factory in Ontario. All finished by sand blast machines We import all out granites from the Old Country quarries direct, in the rough. You can save all local .deal­ ers’, agents’ and middleman profits by seeing us. E. X Skelton & Son it West End Bridge—WALKERTON A. H. McTAVISH, B.A. Teeswater, Ontario barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public and Conveyancer Offices Gofton House, Wroxeter every Thursday afternoon 1.30 to i 4,So and by appointment Phone Teeswater 120J. PHIL OSIFER OF LAZY MEADOWS By Harry J. Boyle “MISCHIEF” Last Sunday morning Mrs. Phil de­ cided to slip over and see Mrs. Hig­ gins, who had been ill for some time. She roused me out of the Sunday pa­ per and impressed upon me that I would have to keep my eye on Pat­ ricia Ann, or else she would be into mischief. “Mischief,” I said, in that madden­ ing way of all fathers, “Why, she’s not big enough to get into mischief yet.” Mrs. Phil looked at me ’sort of strangely, and gently but firmly, took the paper away and put Patricia Ann I on my knees. There wc sat. The baby was as quiet as a church mouse at church time. For a little while she ■ fiddled with my watch chain and then clambered down and toddled over to the corner where her toys were. I watched until quite certain that she’ was behaving all right and then buried my nose in the paper again. It seemed suddenly that everything was very quiet and so I lowered the paper. Sitting beside the kitchen cup­ board with the door open, she was cn- , gaged in eating sugar, I watched her, fascinated, She would push Ker finger down into the sugar bag and then cate- A first demonstration of Canadian-built Universal carriers was at* ranged recently by the Ford Motor Co. of Canada, In this picture one of the sturdy steel machines is making its way over particularly difficult terrain, showing how these carriers will climb over rough ground at .a fast pace.