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The Clinton News Record, 1932-11-03, Page 6THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD TTTIJRS., NOV. 3, 1932 .111Etli HA•PPENINGS QF - -- PROTECTING FRUIT TREES Timely Information for the Busy a . the ( Furnished by Department of Agriculture 1 November 16=24 --Royal' Agricul- tural Winter Fair, Parente. Dee 6 -8 --Ontario Provineial Win- ter Pair, Guelph, Ont. Canadian barley, mostly from On- tario; has been going forward to Britain steadily since August 16, as high as 1,337 tons in a week. Ontario Rutabaga Crop Showing Good Growth "Market prospects for Ontario rutabagas are bright,"' said Charles E. Brougton,;Ontario Department of Agriculture. ""While a certain a- mount of maggot injury has come to my attention, the crop in general is showing good growth. So far as brown heart and water core are con- cerned, I may say that very little of either has been reported.. Advice from Federal authorities indicates that the crop in Prince Edward Is- land has been :seriously affected by brawn heart." Weekly Crop Report Splendid crops of rnangels and tur- nips have been reported from nearly every part of the province. Consid- erable rot among potatoes has been in evidence as a result of late blight. Growers who sprayed carefully throughout the season with bordeaux are not experiencing this condition to any great extent. Dufferin county reports its cattle in particularly good condition •owing to the abundance of pasture, stimulated by frequent showers, and similar reports come from other counties. Cattle in Glen- garry are being tested for the third time, with very few reactors being found. Eastern Ontario has had considerable rainfall, but fall work is fairly well advanced, with snore than 50 per cent of fall plowing done. • C I Boys' Swine Club Content The provincial competition open to Boys' Swine Club teams washeld in Toronto district on October 190. Ten teams were entered, each team con- sisting of two lnembers between Id and 20 years of age. The Hastings County team captured first place, :followed by Durham, Grenville, Mid- dlesex, Victoria, Ontario, Lennox and Addington. It, S. Duncan, Director of the Agricultural Representative Branch was in charge of the competition, ase sisted by L. W. Pearsall, Director, Ontario Rog Graders; W. P. Watson, Ontario Live Stock Branch; Prof, R. G. Knox, Ontario Agricultural Col- lege and IL D. Maybee, Dominion Live Stock Branch, To the winning team goes the Ontario Farmer Trophy and also- the honour of representing Ontario in the Inter Provincial Swine Competition at the Royal Winter Fair in Novem- ber, Potato Prices Higher According to J. T. Casein, Ontario Department of Agriculture, late blight of potatoes lias become very serious where careful spraying has not been practised, He estimated thn 1932 crop at twenty-five per cent. lower than last year, with rot serv- ing to increase this figure. Farmers are realizing higher priees than in 1931, and further increases are anticipated if rot becomes more extensive, Where to Look • for Grubs A special circular just issued by the Dominion Entomological Branch' in connection with white grub con- trol in Eastern Ontario for 1933 includes the following statement: "In planning for 1933 it should be borne in mind that the greatest number of grubs are to be expected in fields which were in timothy sod or pasture on light loam muck, or gravel in the spring 1932. . ,Smaller numbers of grubs but of serious con- sequence can be expected.ta be pre sent in land which was in small grains or weedy hoed crop on lighter land in June and July of 1932. The small est number of grubs is to be expected in land clean of crop or well cared for hoed crop during the flight period' of the beetles; -while heavy clay or clay loam can ilSe considered as likely to be comparatively free of white grubs, irrespective of crop or culture in the spring of 1932: Boys' Cattle :Club Contesst, The ,provincial competition open to Boys' Cattle Club teams was held in York County on Oct. 19th. The team representing the Boys' :Short- horn Club in Peel County won the "Ontario Farmer Trophy" emblem- atic of the provincial. championship for cattle clubs in 1932. With it goes the honour of representing Ontario in the Interprovincial competition at the Royal Winter Fair. Twenty-four clubs were entered, with each team. having two members. The competi- tion consisted of judging and giving oral reasons on four classes of cat- tle as well as the answering of ten questions based on the feeding and management of cattle. The members of the winning team were: Tames Pinkney of Cookeville and Gordon Robinson of Bolton and their coach, ,J C. Shearer, Agricultural Repre- sentative for Peel. The teams ranked in the following order; Peel, South Simcoe, Perth, Iluron, Renfrew, Duf- forin, North Simeon, Halton, Lincoln, Mdidlesex, York, Lanark, Carleton, North Simcoe. Minister's Statement On Hog Production A. statement expressing confidence in hog production for Ontario farms ers and emphasizing that quality must be the keynote has been issued by the Hon. T. L. Kennedy, Minister of Agrieuture for Ontario, His mes- sage is as follows: While prices of hogs over the last year have beon.]ow and ebnsidered by many as not remunerative; nevevthe- less, the fact rennins thatethe swine industry gave asegood:returns as any class of livestock that"ciime'bff On- tario farms and, ,over a period of years, has progen ,one of the most profitable products. In view, of these facts, Ontario can hive"iabsolute faith in the sounlness,of•,a program to produce quality Bogs. The extreme lows to , which hog prices descended is due ..to, the con- centration on the Brandt market or of great quantities of bacon from foreign countries that previously had found a market in other coun- tries, and to an increase in produe- tion in European countries. Germany with 23,000,000 hogs,` Poland with 6.000,000 hogs, Denmark with 5,000,- 000 hogs and Central Europe with 20,000,000 hogs, all within easy reach of the British Market, shipped their surplus to England while Canada had only 4,000,000 hogs for home con- sumption and to ship to England. This condition has made hog produc- tion in the United Kingdom unpro- fitable as well as in the British Do-, minions supplying the Briish market. At the Imperial. Economic Con- forence in Ottawa, the United King- dom announced a plan which she hopes will restore conditions that should make bog production more favourable for home producers and, at the same time, will give Canada free entry to her market. The plan is to limit the amount of bacon im- ported into the United Kingdom so as not to permit such excessive quan- tities of baton being sent forward to that market as to result in very low prices. The bulk of Canada's bacon pro- ducts of export quality has. in the past, conte front Ontario, therefore the stabilization of the British Market, under the plan announced by the Bri- tish Government is of the utmost im- portance to the hog producers of On. tario, The country that produces the quality of bacon which sells at the highest price, and at the lowest cost of production, will win tinder any Conditions. Ontario farmer's should win, and to .win we must pay close attention to every detail of the process of pro- duction and marketing. ; We must hn- prove the quality of, the hogs, feed.. them intelligently, prevent parasites and disease, The hogs must arrive at the packing plants without heavy loss from bruising and 'must be transported as cheaply as ,possible, The packers must then, in the process of manufacture, maintain and dovel- Op the good qualities of the bacon. process it at the lowest possible post and market it intelligently so as to realize the best possible price for the bacon. In the past we have all made mis- takes by not working unitedly to- gether:to the one common end, Let us now unite to canture our share of the world's great bacon market. • Advertising beings a, naw world to you home. PROM MICE AND RATS (.Experimental 1e audits Note) Although 'the advice to protect fruit t t r(.esf mice ro n is i i e and iabhitednr- .thewinter r gt months has often o s.1 been given by the Experimental Farm, Ottawa, to those 11aving young trees, the warning cannot be given, too of - i ten that a if trees are left unprotected. one tray find his trees girdled in, the spring and injured beyond re- covery, or else so march injured that they have received a severe set -back. One should considee protection from mice and rabbits as an insurance, and not neglect taking the proper' Pre- caution to prevent injury which may occur any wintei . The mice usually work along 'the. surface of the soil, under the snow, if there is any, and attack the bark of the tree close to the ground. The 'rabbits, ,on' the other hand, work on top of the snow and it can be read- ily seen that, if the snow is two feet or more deep, there should he enough of the tree protected above the snow that the ralbbits `cannot reach the unprotected parts. Little or no in- jury has been experienced et Ottawa where the trees art protected regu- larly. The trees may be protected with newspapers, with building paper or with wire protectors. The advantage of the first is that it is the cheap- est, but it is good for only one win- ter. The advantage of the wire pro- tector is that it will last for several years if it is painted or galvanized, but it is the most expensive method at first. Whatever protector is us- ed, it should be brought close to the ground with, preferably, a little soil thrown up around the base to pre- vent mice getting under. If rabbits are not troublesome the paper or wire need not be more than eighteen inches in height, but where there are rabbits, three feet is none too high. If one fails to put the pro tectors around, the next best plan i to tramp snow around the base of the tree after the first good snowstorm which will do much, 'to. keep the mien away from the tree, Some 'cow man- ure put around the base just before winter will, when frozen, help to keep then away, Milli is be,0i; to give pro- tection shortly before winter. INtEfl EST FABh9Efl5 Britain Demands Quality Bacon Bit Will Absorb over 2,000,000 Cann dian Hogs of Right Quality. From the standpoint of the Cana- dian producer, perhaps one of the most important effects of the regula- tion of imports of bacon by Britain will be the prevention of gluts in th4 market. The objective will undoubt- edly be to steady supplies so as not to have, on the other side, abnormal- ly high prices which are injurious to consumers, nor, on theother side, ab- normally low prices, which are injute ious to producers.,„, If this is accom- plished and conditions Created reason,. albly favourable to hog production. by, their Home farmers, it should as- sure to s-sure.to •Canadian farmeet a fair op- portunity, Canada's Part in the Plan In this plan Canada has been given a special , place; 2,500,000 cwt, has been reserved, which this country will have an opportunity to `supply, At 112 lbs. per cwt, 'the amount is' 280,- 000,000 lbs„ which, on a basis of 120 lbs. of export product per hog, is e- qual to 2,300,009 hogs, In other words, Canada, ' has the opportunity to produce.'eacit-year for the British market, under regulated conditiono 2,300,000 hogs. It would not be wise or feasible far Canada to attempt, at once, to'inerease production to realize the export of 2,300,000 hogs per year It must be recognized absol- utely and unequivocably •that in- crease in numbers should be only of the quality to make exportable bacon. .The present numbers of nnexportable quality must be re duced. As the agreement is for a period of five years, Canada will, in that time, have the opportunity of building up her hog production on a quality basis, and after that, if the agreement, or some other agreement, is continued, - ishould be in an assured, position. In any event, during this period a foots hold should have been attainedwhich Many preparations to be put on the trees. -to keep off .rabbits have been tried, .but most of these' are not sufficiently durable to last the winter, The, . most promising one that is known is, the following: Repellant for rabbits: Take one quart of linseed, oil (either boiled or raw) and heat it to 470 degrees F. outdoors where no fires will be start- ed by accident, because the oil may foam over. Use a container five, Ones as large as the volume of oil. Use a thermometer to determine tene•, perature. When 470 degrees is reached set the container away from the fire and immediately add flow- ers of sulphur while the oil is very hot. Adel the sulphur a teaspoonful at a time and stir the oil thoroughly after each teaspoonful. Add three ounces of the sulphur to each quart of oil. After the sulphur has all been added the liquid should be black and thick. Avoid getting it on the clothing because of the smell, which is persistent. It can be washed off. the hands with soap and water or dissolved by gasoline. - This thick sulfonated oil is about the right consistency to paint on tree trunks, Paint the trunk liberally to about two feet above the snow line, The trunks should be dry when the oil is applied. This should stay on all winter, but a second painting to- wards spring may be desirable. HURON COUNTY ORGANIZING IT'S PROHIBITION FORCES The organization of Huron pros hibition forces is proceeding, 'meet - Mgt being planted throughout the county following a general meeting held at Goderich last week. This county already is "bone dry" under the Canada Temperance Act, but temperance interests propose to con- tinue with an educational campaign. Among other things the Huron County prohibitionists have gone on record opposing any extension of the privileges of the sale of beer and wine in Ontairo. The necessity of alert; mess in view of the alleged activity of the liquor interests is einphasiz. ed. Following are the newly -elected of- ficers of the Huron County Prohibi- tion Union: honorary president, A, T. Cooper, Clinton; president, Gordon L. Lamb, Goderich; vice-presidents, .Miss Jean Murray, Exeter; 3. B. Mc- Lean, ICippen; Mrs. McGuire, Brus- sels; secretary, Rev. C. J. Moore, house, Brussels; assistant secretary, Calle FingIand, Walton; treasurer, Ai M. Robertson, Goderich. Dr. C. C. Ramage, Gorrie, was appointed con- venal, of the committee on childhood and youth, and Miss Mabel Baillie, Goderich convener of the committee on education and publicity. +Sections al leaders, Brussels 1'. A. McArthur.; Ethel; Wroxeter, David Weir, Wrox- t:tor;. Exeter, George MaWsori, t'Ixe. ter; Goderich, Gordon L. Lamb, .:God. ericli. would permit Canada to meet m petition, What Britain will require of Canada To take advantage of the oppor tunity offered it is reasonable that Canada will be expected to do three things: Supply first class quality of bacon. Maintain a supply in steady volume throughout the year an increase of '175,000 hogs per, year for five years .will be necessary. .1 The plans for the regulation of bacon imports into i, p r o Britain will take some'i 1 1 tt e time to be made effective, and Ontario would not be in a posi- tion to take advantage of them 11 they were immediately effective. It is -then very evident that action should be based on the expectations of the future and certainly not on conditions of the present. The price .I of hogs is still low and may not in Increase the supply from ' year to year so as presently to take up the whole volume of the allotment, The British 'Government has stip- elated that the product shall be of "good quality" and it is, reasonable that .Canada should be expected to supply bacon of quality equal to that now enjoyed by the British semiswe- et. It is also reasonable that the supply should be steadily maintain- ed. It is expected that great Britain will, progressively reduce the impor- tations from foreign. countries, but this of course, will only be possible if Canada is in a position to fill the deficiency with progressively in- creasing quantities of Canadian ba- con. ,. Ontario's Part in the Plan, If this urogram is to be met, each `Province. will have to set its hpuse in order, and do its part in the pro- duction of quality and quantity ac- cording to its conditions. Ontario produces the best quality of hogs -in Canada. It is from Ontario that the built of export product has been se- cured. This Province then occupies a key' position in the situation now developing. The Objective for Ontario Ontario is now producing approxi. mately 25 percent of the select bacon grade, and about 55' per cent of the Bacon grade of hogs. If this Pro- vince is to do her part in taking ad- vantage of the opportunity offered, an objective of 40 per cent of sel- ects and 50 per cent of bacons, and the near future be very high. Btu action to better the quality and ins crease production a year from now smut bp taken during this autmnn's, breeding season and in the menthe which follow. AMMUNITION FOR LITERARY: FIGHT London Times, A $night and a Cam- bridge Man Re -Open Selkirk- Crusoe Locale Argument The Selkirk Crusoe argument goes on apace and promises to become as voluminous as the Shakespeare -Bacon argument, Recently the London, England, Tunes published the account of a cor- respondent who bad visited the island of Juan Fernandez, which he calls "Robinson Crusoe's Island," He des- cribes the visit as "a pleasant exper- ience though rather shattering to the illusions of childhood." Simultaneously A. Harker, of Cambridge declares: "Juan Fernan- dez was Selkirk's island, but not Crusae's—On a clear day be (Crusoe) could see the coast of South America to W and W. S. W." Thus Harker gives weight to the contention that Defoe, inspired by the authentic. Sel- kirk or not, intended his Crusoe to be marooned for 25 years (not 4 years, as was Selkirk) on an Atlantic island, i probably Tobago, near Trinidad, south erly,al visited 1 British colony vrs to d Gana- b a Y Y d dian National liners and freighters. Sit Algernon Aspinall says in the Times that the fatuous book was published in 7.710 and that the date • explains why Crusoe's Island was' giver: •i g v as latitude 12 degrees, 18 min- utes, instead of the accurate 11 de- grees, 9 minutes, But says Sir Al, gernon, Crusoe advised the ship's master to "stand away from'Barbad< oes" from British Guiana and to take • a N. W). by. W. course. This course • would certainly take them, in the region of Trinidad, far indeed from Juan Fernandez, which is in the Pa- cifie Ocean near the west coast of ` South America. HAND OF DESTINY , James Spearin, North Ward, Digs Startling Freak Prom His Garden Turnip Grew in Foam of Human Hand, If "Jim" Spearin, joviai North. Ward Irishman, had lived in the olden days of siiperstitian, he night have been burned at the stake far witch- craft, for on Saturday he brought to The Journal -Argus .office one of the most startling freaks of nature yet seen in these clearings. •liMr. Spearin had been foraging in his garden' plots and there came upon a turnip, rather a small speeirnen which he pulled up by the roots. He was surprised tq find that the root had grown in the.. form of a human hand, with a thumb and five fingers, palm and wrist and.. all. The hand 'partly closed and the ends of the digits taper to a point not unlike the nails of a Chinese • mandarin of the old shcool. "Jim" had seen some queer sights in his life but he wasn't prepared for such as this, so ,he called in the neighbors, and aII agreed that the monstrosity was worth .showing to the world. Aeeordingly he brought it to the Journal where it was white ted to the crowds on Queen street through the medium of the front win - ow. This oddity is still to be seen - there and is really worth noting. — St. Marys Journal -Argus. G rVERNMfEN•T -I F THE 4% IL F N ---193 2 2'he Minister of Finance offers for public subscription $80,000,000 Dominion of Canada 4% Bonds Bearing interest from 15th October,1932, and offered in two maturities, as foliowst $25,006,000— 3 YEAR 4% BONDS, DUE 15th OCTOBER, 1935 $55,000,000-20 YEAR 4% BONDS, DUE 15th OCTOBER, 1952 Subject to redemption at par and interest on or after 15th October, 1947 Principal payable without charge, in lawful money of Canada, at the office of the Minister of Finance and' Receiver General of Canada at Ottawa or at the office of the Assistant Receiver General at Halifax, Saint - John, Charlottetown, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary and Victoria. Interest payable half -yearly, 15th April and 15th October, in lawful money of Canada, without charge, at any branch in Canada of any Chartered Bank. Denominations: 3 YEAR. BONDS, $1,000 20 YEAR BONDS, $500 AND $1,000 The proceeds of this Loan will be used to retire $34,449,950 of bonds maturing 1stNovem•• ber, 1932, and to provide for the general purposes of the Government and the Canadian, National Railways. The Loan is authorized under Act of the Parliament of Canada, and both principal and: interest are a charge on the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada. The amount of this issue is $80,000,000. The Minister of Finance, however, reserves the right to allot or reject the whole or any part of subscriptions received, provided such allot- ments do not increase the principal amount of the issue by more than $25,000,000. Applications will not be valid on forms other than those printed by the King's. Printer:3. ISSUE PRICE•.�•YeYar Bonds,y 99.20 and interest, yielding to maturity 4/.28%- • 2 i0 i i L?® ds, 93.45 and interest, yielding to maturity 4.50%O. Payment to be made in full at time of application or in the case of the 31ear bonds, on allotment.: Subsctipti8d lists Will open on 31st October, 1952, and will close on or before 16th November. 1934., with or withouttiotice, at the discretion of the Minister of Finance« Subscriptions will be received,by:,, may branch in Canada of any chartered bank and by recognized dealers from whom official application. forms may be obtained. • biliVtantmT 'eV Ei MINIC0, Ottawa, 3ls"t'()ttober-, 19932 AMC