The Wingham Advance, 1917-05-10, Page 7amine
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in the nation's honour, heed!
Acquit yourselves like mean.
Ar; workers on the land, do yout
duty with all your strength!"
. —Lloyd Geord'dt
THE CRISIS
France, England and Italy in peace times did not
depend upon America but on Russia, Roumania and
Bulgaria for most of their breadstuffs. With these
sources closed the crisis of the hour demands that we
see that our soldiers and the Motherland are fed.
11 Everyone in Great Britain has been put on limited
rations: meat is prohibited one day a week and the
making of cakes and pastry has been stopped. Further
,restrictions are anticipated.
Bread has gone to 28c per four -pound loaf in Eng.
'land, for the first time since the Crimean War.
Lord Devonport, British :Food Comptroller, pro.
'poses taking authority to search the houses of Great
Britain to prevent food hoarding.
Forty million leen, less the casualties, are now on
active service.
Twenty million men and women are supporting
them by service in other war activities.
In the last analysis, the land is bearing this burden.
One million tons of food -carrying ships have been
torpedoed since February .1 st, 191 7.
Germany's hope for victory is in the starvation of
,Britain through the submarine.
Canada s sons will have died in vain if hunger
t compels the Motherland's surrender.
The land is waiting --the , plough is ready—will
yve make the plough mightier than the sword?
Will we help the acres to save the flag?•
World -Hunger Stares Us in the Face
David Lubin, representative of the United States• to the
International Institute of Agriculture—maintained by forty
Governments ---reports officially to Washington that the food
grains of the world on March 31st, 1917, showed a shortage
of 150,000,000 bushels below the amount necessary to' feed
the world until August, 1917. He declares it is beyond
question that unless a greater acreage is put to crop in 1917'
there will be WORLD -HUNGER before the 1918 crop is •
harvested.
The failure of the grain crop in the Argentine Republic,
which is ordinarily a great grain_exporting nation, resulted in
an embargo being placed, in March, 1917, upon the export of
grains from that country to avert local famine.
The United States Department of Agriculture, in its
official report, announces the condition of the fall wheat crop
,(which is two-thirds of their total wheat crop) on April 1st,
1917, to be the poorest ever recorded and predicts 'a yield of
244,000,000 bushels below the crop of '1915. The `1916 crop'
was poor. Even with favorable weather, the wheat crop of
the United States is likely to be the smallest in thirty-five
years, not more than 64% of the normal crop.
Under date of April 10th, Ogden Armour, executive head
of Armour & Company, one of the world's largest dealers in
food products, stated that unless the United States wishbs to
walk deliberately, into a catastrophe, the best brains of the
country, under Government supervision, must immediately,
devise means of increasing and conserving food supplies.
Armour urged the cultivation of every available acre. The
food Shortage, he said, is world-wide. European production
is cut in half, the Argentine, Republic has suffered droughts.
Canada and the United States must wake up I
SAKTOestv s.
Hunger
Tightening
His
Grip
-New Yorlc
Evening Mail
DISRI C r NEWS
George McI<ay, a young Ashfield
farmer, aged 22 years and six months,
tciiedvery suddenly afters a very severe
' >1?,1t`J Of: quinsey.
Six thousand dollars were the total
`f'ttLCipts of the auction sane held by T. 1.
•” Whi(fteid,' citecession 13 of Grey, who
" recently solci'liis 100 acro farm,
Altsg dt MI .s
McKay has disposed of his 60•
tarre- on • the ninth coaceasiee of
4 +r• . r. . r • o
n
People are starving today in Belgium,, in Serbia, ill
Poland, in Armenia, in many quarters of theglobe.
Famine conditions are becoming more wide -spread every
day,
On these alarming food conditions becoming known,
President Wilson immediately appointed a Food Comptroller
for the United States, He selected Herbert C. Hoover, to
whom the World is indebted as Chairman of the International
13elgium Relief Commission for his personal direction of the
distribution of food among the starving Belgians.
Mr. Hoover is already urging sacrifice and food restric-
tions, for, as he states, "The war will probably last another
year and we shall have all we can do to supply the necessary
food tc carry our Allies through with their full fighting
stamina,"
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roblem for Ontario
The land under cultivation in Ontario in 1916 was
365,000 acres less than in 1915.
Consider how much LESS Ontario produced in 1916 than
she raised in 1915:
Year Acres Bushels
Fall Wheat 1916 7nlet37 14,01?,050
..... •. , 1915 811,1'33 24,737,011
Barley and Oats . , . . 1916 529,585 12,388,909
4, tl
1913 532,313 10,,3303,120
Peas and Beans . , : 1916 93,542 1213,970
If ,1
Corn
1, t,
. • .
Potatoes and Carrots . ,
11
Mangel-\'Vurzels
and Turnips . . , .
1315 126,913 2,0-13,01e
19,16 256,332 12,717,072
9915 309,773 21,700,406
1916 130,523 7,103,120
1015 173,031 13,26 7,023
1016 42,793 9,736,015
1915 50,799 25,856,323
1916 DECREASE
Acres Bushels
155„315 9,794,961
24,432. • 7,50440
31,401 799,079
51,441
34,411
8,006
9,043,424
5,858,594
15,690,308
Other crops show as critical decline.
Reports from Ontario on the condition of fall wheat for
,1917 are decidedly discouraging. •
As there is an average of not more than one man on
each hundred acres of farm land in Ontario, the
prospects indicate even a still smaller acreage under cultivation
in 1917 unless extra labor is supplied.
—Photo from London (Eng.) Bystander,
A 15 -year Old Girl at Work •
Miss Alexandra Smith, one of the thousands of British women
workers on the land. She recently won an All -Comers' Cham.
pion prize for plowing. :r
Food Production is the Greatest Probe
the World Faces To -day
Owing to destruction by submarines, ocean ships are.
scarce.
It is much easier to protect shipping between Canada
and England than on the longer voyages from. India or
Australia.
One vessel can make twice as many trips from Canada,
tc Britain` as from India, and four times as many_ as from
Australia.
Therefore, every fon of food stuffs grown in 'Canada is
North to the Motherland two tons grown in India or four tons
grown in Australia.
Why the Call to Canada is So Urgent
EMMY
If this country does not raise a big crop this year, not only
wi11 the people of Canada suffer but the Motherland and her
Allies will suffer and their military power will be weakened if
not paralyzed. Therefore, the right solution of the present war
problem comes back to the farm, as to a foundation upon which
our whole national and international structure must be built
and maintained,
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'l'lle farmers know that they are the last reserve, and
that the soil on which crops are grown is the strategic ground
on which wars are decided. "To their care is entrusted the base;
of supplies. •
To enable the farm to do the work two factors are esseu-
teal. The. first is Time. Whatever we are to do must be ds:aye
at once. Nntnrc waits for no man. The second is Labor.
Tv`tany farmers cannot plant the acres they would because they
cannot get the necessary 1411N are afraid be Ltscreese
t roe°rr
acreage because they fear they would not be able to euiti.
vale and harvest en unusual crop after they have raised it. If
they are to do the work that is eacential for them to do, the inat
roan in each city; town and village must be mobilized at once.
Every man not on Active Service can help. In every city,
town and village are men who, by their training on the far.:n,
or by their present occupation, can readily adapt themselves to
farm work. These can render no greater service to the Em-
pire at the present time than by answering the call of the farm.
Capable men and boys willing to learn should not allow their
lack of farm experience to stand in the way.
Can the employer render a more signal service in this
crisis than by encouraging these men to help the farmer to
cultivate every available acre, and by making it easy for then
to go?
Ontario's farm 1c.7ds are waiting ---the implements ;.re
• ready—the equipment i:; complete ---the farmer is willing --all
he needs is labor.
So short is the world's food supply that without increa:•cd
production many in Canada must go hungry, and even w•th
enormously increased production we cannot expect cheap foe d.
The world is waiting for our harvest.
If peace should be declared within a year, the•food con-
ditions will be no bet • . r, fur the accumulated hunger of t 1e
,..:ental Empires must be met. This will absorb a large part of
the world's supply.
We do not know when this war shall cease. It is endless
its lengthening out has paralyzed the thought and conception
of all men who thought about it and its possible time of cos,
elusion. Three months—six months, we said; nine months, a
year, we said; and yet two years and eight months have pass,'cl
their long dreary and sanguinary length and there is no roan,
who can tell how long this gigantic struggle may yet last.
Lloyd George, in a letter addressed to farmers throughout
the Empire, said:
"The line which 'rte British Empere hol is
"against the Gehrmans i. held l;v those who WOR.
"ON THE LAND as w > 'l as by tdi41ce who fig. d
"on land and sea. .l! it -breaks at any point it
"breaks everywhere. In the. face of the enemy file
"seamen of our Royal naval and mercantile marine
"and the ,soldiers gathered from "every part of ezw
"Empire hold our line firstly. You workers on lard
"must hold your part of our line as strongly. Every.
"full day's labor you do helps to shorten the strug-
"gle and brings us nearer victory. Every idle day,
"all loitering, lengthens the sta'uggle and makes d3 -
"feat more possible. Therefore, in the nation's
"honour, heed! Acquit yourselves like men, and as
"workers on land do your duty with all your
"strength 1"
So, for the honor of Canada's soldiers in France--ar.d'
for the glory of our New-born Nationhood—let it be said ,)f;
Ontario's citizeps that, in the hour of our greatest need, thiir
response was worthy of their sons.
The
Second.
Line
Trenches.
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The 1Cew 5 orli
Amerteun.
We owe a great debt to those who are fighting for us.
Organization of Resource: Committee,
Parliament Buildings, Toronto.
Chairman: His Honour, SU' J'olui S. I•Iendrio, K.C.M.G.,
Lieutenant-Gevernor of Ontario; Vice -Chairmen: Honourable Sir %V,1.;
)lam II. Hearst, IC.C,M.G., Primo Minister of Ontario; N. NV. Rowt11,1
Esq., IL.C., Leader or the Opposition, Secrotary: Albert H. Abbott,1
Esq., Ph,D,
...ra.•i�sYr r_ -„,...gip,,,,;, °:'"""""'""y eiMass_,.Fi,_.,•,...._ ,""""""'s2'
Grey to his neighbor, John Steiss, for
83,000. He will hold an auction sale on
Wedritsday,
I3russels Oddfellowa attended Divine
Service in the Presbyterian church on
:Sunday evening last. A memorial service
was hold for the late Sergt. 3. 12, IlleI-;in•
non, who was killed in France.
The following information is taken from
'the assessor's; roll of the Township of
Grey: 'Total acres, 61,8$4; acres clear,
51,0181,4; value, $1,925,550; busittoss
asseasieent, $',Ootid total taxation teemse.
tncnt, $2,803,450. Total population,
2,601,
A floral curiosity is to be seen at tbo
home of Reeve Shortreed, Jtit line of' Mor
Yi t, ie the form of a Christmas cactus.
It bloomed at the ropier Santa Claus
period, decked itself out again for Easter
and now has a Spring robing of at least
10 beautiful flowers. All who have seen
t pronounce the plant well worth posses-
sing.
Mr, and Mrs. James flood tSfharriston,
received a cable informing them of th
death in action cf their son. Ales, who
has been in tho thick of the battle since
last September, Alex was loved and
respected by all, His p :rents have the
sympathy of the'corr ytunity in the loss of
theireldeet boy. Flags are hying at hall
hast in honour of the dead soldier; he
being the twelfth tlarriston boy to give'
stip his life on the battlefield
judgment in lull was given' by Jude
'Winchester in the county court in Toronto
ifi tate case of Dr, Jano J. Sproule who
atSked $280 from Sam Sciden of Ripley, i
for an operation in which she recovered a
pearl button front the throat cf Soiden's<
two-year old daughter, Bella in the Tor.
onto General hospital. Sekion claimed
tho charf'n was exorbitant, but the
physician submitted expert testimony
showing the operation required shill and
had been very successful.
Rev I A. Barris M A. of Le Have
Nova Scotia, an Anglican clerrgyman was
committed for trial at ile'speler Thursday
ons ehurge of bigaitlys Ito wee taken to
.,
the county jail at l'titcheiter. tie is alleg-
ed to have awite and two"chitdren ,n Nova
Scotia, and to have, married Mrs Gertrude
Clara Wambash, wife of A. 13
Wentbash of Cape Breton, who
was taken into custody with hint ot Res-
peiee by Chief of Police Thomas Wilson
at the :n41igation of \'Vrtmbash who 1111,
lowed theta and who was present at the
i,
itrchmtnatq hearing before Pollee Magi.
stt'.te Sardine,
EVERYONE MUST HELP
slums le not a nice luta Indeed
it is a very disagreeable word. The
condition itself le but a Patos to Pana.^
diu;nar. We are accustomed to connect
the state of famine with India, Ohlea,
Qr solus other foreign country, Never
with Canadaand her broad, fertile
scree,
Men who have wade ti study of
conditions, however, have cease to
the conclusion -- famiee .e. a serious
Shortage of food --is „ladies the world
In the face.
The idea is not a fadtaken up to
scare people who area easily frighten-
ed, It is the result of a thorough
study of facts.
The reasons are various, Ono is
that much food stuff has been destroy.
ed by the German submarine policy,
it is waste of time, however, to etop
to denounce such a policy or the In-,
sane Government Which introduced it,
There is no time for hating, TWO Is
a tune for Working.
It is up to Canada as one of the
most productive lands -on God'3 good
earth to do her very best to avert the
dire calamity.
Not only is it up to Canada, 15 is the
plain duty of the people of Huron'
County to do their very utmost share
in producing an abundant crop during
the present season,
The farmers hold and control the
land, They must realize what respon-
sibility rests upon them to make that
land produce the best poseible results,
while everyone who can do so should
lend a band in order that the extra
work may be done,
The winning or loosing of tbo war
will be greatly effected by the har-
vests of 1017,
Our soldiers on the battzefront must
be fed,
Our munition workers, must not
want for food,
Our civil population looks to the
farmer for bread,
"Even the King is served by the
field."
All can help,
Every bushel of grain or food stuff
of any kind grown on the farm, in the
backyard garden, the vacant lot or the
common will add so mue,h to the
euPPIY,
Read•the advertisement on another
page sent out by the Organization of
Renourcee Committee -of Ontario,
ponder it and then go out and plant
something.
It is not a matter of gain, of profit
or lose. It is a question of helping to
avert world hunger.
CONVINCED AUTHORITIES
'1? iiAT DE.WAS 'STIIAIQD.T
FIGNi`IPIG GARDEN FOES
D str0y Them or 'My May Pe
stray Vol'3' Cop.
SPRAY!'INOx . A BENDY I(I MEDY
Tit'ltf, t7ctl►zztixi the Amateur ;e Iz}�
trod.'tced to bisects and l tt,'z lt•1
So That Re Dray Iinc.,w The= by
ffihcir .First Names.
(I3y G 0. J4L3:,°"q:.r, Vegetal M
fXpe,l, list, Ort�.partril,ent olf
AgTtrulture,
Gnrden toes.
Unfortunately the baolsyard Veget-
able grower has sox -1 d41iiculties to ..
overcome. It will riot '90 all pieasit:',;i
and profit whieh In must look fo:-
ward to because there aro innumer-
able Insects and fungus diseases
which cause much worry Una trouhl,)
and necessitate the use of extraordia-
ary methods to prsveut .or -Control,
Most of these troubles may be over -
eel= by spraying the nleete with
:.niedies which c ,. ,.cured, fro•'2
seed stores ants suss' arms bane',,
ling them.
'he following l.. a lief of the mare
common vegetables and the insects
ane: plant diseesep attacking then
with remedies or preveutives.
t1:5I'r'!.1[ —1T5, Beetles. Blue, bloc z
or yellowish colored, about one-half
idea long, which appear early in May
• and feed en the eoung shoots. Keep
the heal closely cut in the spring or
allow poultry to run through it. After
cutting season is over, spray witfi
arsenate of lead. Encourage the
lady bird bettle which destroys maty
of these insects,
Anthracnose or Pod Spots, Brawn
or reddish spots. on the foliage and
pods. Found on low damp groundi
Plant only seeds which have no signs
of the disease. Pull uP and burn
diseased plants as they appoar,
Ct1BRAG'l;, CAULIFLOWER, AND
BIiTTSSELS SPROTJTS. Root Mag-
got. A small whitish colored mag-
got one-quarter •of an inch.- tong.,
Looks. something, like a grain cif
wheat, found just below the surface
ot the ground either close to or, on.
the roots. They eat the roots, caus-
ing tin plant to E'irop aver. Apply
a solution of corrosive sublimate
o se -half ounce dissolved in five gai-
ters �?' water,' at the rate` of half a
teaeucful over each plant once 0,
steak for. are weeps after they are
s :t out, commencing three or tear
dr.'s after planting,
Cur. Worms and White Gr-u'es,
Grayish white get;. a which wor': at
tie surface o, the .toil cutting off ,the
..cants They may be trapped by
e?tet.d:ng a mixture of poison bran
over Lae surface of the soil close to
t;re p1; .its. A pail of bran with ,ucH-
sot saris green t) highly ^ole. it,
.Ja:;; ba r::o`.t:..rt&d with tnolali'.rS
.a c,u'u e rc:.dily in tr.o
o .ud. 'Pais moisture should be t.ept
u 2 tat ground duz:ng the early port
o.' Ur: season. -
W�..n. A smai: greenish worm
three-quarters of an inch long, which
z 3pea. s quite early in- the - season.
Li/ it : ith pyrc;tl:i am or 'hellebore
rrta. • tz:hen the pints have headed,
du:;, 'vith.a teaspoonful of party
tin-n3z'ed with three tablespooef'.;1
flct.r •,•.hen yoeng. -": piece of
b•u'lap may be used for this purl,ose
. o:• an .fr.ipty can with holes punorhud
it the bottom.
Aph.s also e'll.' i Louse, • elm 11
g.'eyis insects wuic.. in itiply ra-i•1-
ly. T. 'ey may appear at any tim-a :n
tl.a se tson. Spray forcibly with a.
set ation trade fro: a steeping o..a
pot,nd of tobacco ,t .:a in one gtl-
lcn of water. Tisa • ih .ion may *e.
used on all plants c,a which A.pb.nn
are fot<nd.
CE R?'. Lli f .tt. Black spots.
appear on the foliage followed by
winkle of the plant ..tad a soft Ivt
on the stock. Spray each week wit h
a elixt:".re of Borcleoux mixture co-.
ern tae plant,
C1`ICo'7MBERentire, S':riped Beeth.
Black and yellow striped, beett o
which ;:terms r".veno'tisiy on the to:, -
der leoPes of the ph ut In the very
ea.riyr stage of growth. Dust leav( s
Scv.-.;s yet with ashes or air -slaked
11Ezie. -
6quash Ilug. Dark: brown bett e
which sucks the julc.: ;rom the plant.
Haid pick and destroy, Found c a
the leaves.
MELONS. Cucumber Insects usual-
ly attacks and n,iay -.: destroyed_
+given above:
GONION. Onion Maggot. A whito
maggot similar to the cabbagerot,t
maggot, No •effective means of con-
trol. Spread charcoal over the
ground or try teeeorrossive subl,i-
Tnate solution as recommendedabove. -
Biight. A violet color, patches
.appearing on the leaf of the onion.
Some advise spraying with B6rdeaux
mixture from the time the. ' onion
plant is three inches high;
POTATO. Colorado Beetle or Po-
tato Bug. Dust with pari green
when the dew is still on the plant.
or place a teaspoonful In a watering
car of water a_ d pour_ over the
Plant. If possible hove the plant
dusted with parts green before the
bug appear&.
Scab. Easily -recognized by char•
acterlstie rougheess of the slain. Im-
merse the unntlt tuber just before
planting in a solution of two fluid
ounces of formalin with two gallons
oy". water. Dry cut, and plant. .
;alight. Brown spots distributed
over the leafy surface, usually fo-:nd
in ..•;'nly, If they are not prevented
from grpwinee the whole plant will
be once a week
fl. r;' or five weeks with Bordeaux
for foil'
zuixtur,a+fromt July lot.
L1AL)LbH. Root Maggot. tThe the
same retteediee as,given for eabbago,
and anion maggot.
TUMAZO. Tomato Wenn or Horn,
Blower. A large worn which raptd-
1y defesi.tates the .plailt. Band pJ.ek
land destroy. -
Blight. black spots aepeering on
!the leaver. which spread rapidly and
tethao is• pt l. athnets WgolweinganQtigoorodulsolg, Kist
Captain Wm, O. Minifie left
cardine on Monday morning April 30th
with the remains of Mrs, Minifi ', who
was draw,: ed off the north pie,'. The
body was taken to a crema, ory in
Buffalo, and the ashes will be fc rward-
ed to England.
The town has been bubbling s lith elr-
citement ever since the accident. Dr,.
htinifle claimed that he lost a purse
containing ($12,000 in securities. This
was investigated by Detective Reburn
of the Ontario provincial force. If Dr.
blinitie lost the purse no suspicion
attaches to anyone in Yincareine as
he seeped a statement that the last
time ;e had actual knowledge of hav-
ing the purse was in Walkerton.
With reference to the funds ccllectedi
for B algian relief there was a rumor
that tie had not turned these into tho
proper authorities. This is fa,se, as
he funds were tarried over to W. R,
Green of the Royal Bank. and' are in'
els possession, when all .pavmerts and
promisee are made will be forwarded
50 the brotherhood in Toronto, which
is the government authorized iaarties
to receive same.
As to Dr. Mtuifie's military stand.
ing, Major Baron Osborne, London
came here and took the doctor's cre-
dentials to London to he looker, into,
Rumor certainly played a larg a part
in ',baking public confidence in Dr,
'Minifie's standing here, but he claims
that there was no ground for many
unjust'suspicions. One thing '.s cer-
tain, he was able to convince the
authorities that he was straight.
t`
Blyth
The Blyth lodge ctOddfeifows received
an invitation to attend a meeting of owe
of thetlodges in London on. Friday niglit
and a number accepted. They 'were
highly delighted with the function and the
excellent manner in which the degree
team of a Hamilton lodge exemplified the
first degree.
At the last meeting of the Women's In-
stitute it was decided to call to-gether all
the men and teams they could get to•geth,
crfor Friday, for the purpose of cleaning
and levelling Vacant tots on the front street.
There was quite a i;ang at work and made
a good job. These lots were unsightly
pieces of property with rubbish of all
kinds on them, and they are now cleaned
up and levelled and it is the intention to
use them for the purpose. of parking auto-
mobiles.
The adjourned meeting of Trinity
Cht,rch was held last night i8 the churc .i
with a fair sized••itttendence. The Audi,
tors' report showed. the finance in a
h'aitit3 condition, and the recelptA .how.
cd that more thnn 5100 had been eoiteeted
ahead of last veear Dr J A ritoTaggett
and Mr T. 12 11.1cTdt tart, who- has been
wardens for the past five years,, expressed
a wish to resign, sty their poi tleos Were
filled by 1lto rector apriointine. Ur A M.
Tteuben as his warden, and Mr. R. A
Robins tt wets apnefnted prontro`s re'arderri.
The meter expressed his appebcoation orf
'the work el the retirieg w:irctt os rrnd of
the spirit of pod fellowship. owl has
aivrAy's sodsted.
Huron. Crop Prospects;
Spring Poeding is .not' general in
' t:salpy, Tuckerstenth, Sullett, and
«,nderich townships and if•tbe prAuAnt
Ary weeebee nntitinues thn nt+xt fpsii
days will see tlu' largest aereege onwn
fele many years in flu -inn t'1meter.
Land conditions are ntt'wattire fewer.
able iin' witlstitf ridittrt the secant seine.
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