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The Clinton News Record, 1930-09-25, Page 6THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURSDAY, :SEPTEMBER 25, 1980 1 NEWS AND 'INFORMATIO,N, FOR THE 'BUS'Y FARMER ( Furnished by the Department of Agriculture ) All £arm products were reported proximately $225,000, of which about moving slowly on the market with 1$125,000 was recovered from fire in - r= suranee• the' balance of $100,000 re- berlow. Peaches' Were selling •- at.75 � presents actual loss 'to the farmer cents to $1.00 per 11 -quart basket;-, whose property was destroyed. Most eggs, fresh firsts, 33 cents per dozen;I of the fires arose within the separator wheat 70 cents per bushel:; barley I or the Newer. pipe. The Fire Marshal intends to request the passing of an enactment to ensure greater safety in this regard. For the purpose of con: sidering this legislation,a meeting will be held on Friday, Oct. 10th at 10 a.m. in Room 340, Main Parliament Bldgs., when all interested parties are Forty-three bushels to the acre invited to attend. was the yield of wheat at the Ridge - town .Experimental Farm, according to Superintendent W. R. Reek. This (The department is shipping a car - Farm makes a specialty of distribut- load of sows to Ailsa Craig district ing seed grain to farmers in the towards the end of October with a view to bettering the stock of that dis- trict. The stock were selected from Ontario packing plants by the Dom- inion swine grader. 35 cents and oats as low as 27 cents per bushel.; potatoes $1.00 to 81.40 per bag and cheese 13'A cents per pound. district: This year's wheat. crop, thirty-four acrosin all, has been sold.- The crop of thirty acres of beans has been spoken for, to be tak- en away next March. There is a heavy- demand for brood sows. Ninety three spring pigs were raised on cheap grain this year at the Farm: Proper Potato Storage.. Cold storage experts advise that by proper curing most of the dam- age caused to potatoes held in low temperature storage can be elimin- ated. It is found that the more ser- ious injuries come from the placing of tubers in storage temperatures a- round 32 degrees F. within two or three days of harvesting. When placed itf preliminary storage at temperatures between sixty and sev- enty degrees F. for a period of six days potatoes have an opportunity to properly "cure". They may then be placed in storage at low temperat- ure without . serious injury for the balance of the storage season. Hon. Robt. Weir Wasn't keen about, Moving to Ottawa "'Tis not an mortals; to command success, but We'll do more, Sempron- ius; we'll deserve it."-4Addison (Cato, act 1, sc. 2). These' words could well have been spoken by Bon. Robt. Weir, M.C., member -elect for llfelfort, Saskat- cjhewan, and minister of agriculture in the new Conservative cabinet, on leaving the old red school house, No, 9 in Turnberry, Ont. • With fewer advantages than the average boy of the present day pos- sess, Major Weir, by dint of hard work intensive application to the work nearest to hand, and by much self-denial, has risen and outstripped Itis compeers, tilt, at the age of 48, he has been appointed to cabinet rank. "Bob" Weir, as he is affectionately known among the farmers of the t Weldon district, isdeservedly one of the most popular men in the province of Saskatchewan, and his appoint- ment has been received with almost unanirtious approval. Born in Wingham, in Huron coun- ty in the year 1882, after passing through the public school young •Weir- attended the Clinton high school for nine months. He after- wards graduated from London nor- mal school, taught school in Huron, and then was appointed principal of Marmora public school. He also for four years taught heavy classes without remuneration, during the evenings. Throughout the whole per- iod, however, he had one definite goal in sight—the university.' To obtain the necessary. funds, Weir spent his vacations at any place and in any position that would en- able shim to save a few dollars. As in teaching, he was a success as a hired man on a farm, a digger of ditches and wells and as a laborer in the sawmills on Cockburn island. His diligence was rewarded and he was able to enter the University of Toronto, graduating in 1911 with first class 'honors in the honor spec- ialist courses in mathematics, phys- ics and acturial science, During his final year he was assistant demon- strator on the staff of the univer- sity. Sets Good Example The township of Hallowell in Prince Edward County has set a good ex- ample to other municipalities in the way of enforcing weed control. A pet- ition drawing attention to the menace of noxious weeds generally, and of the sow thistle in particular, and asking, for effective co-operation in the com- plete eradication of the "deadly peril," was circulated and received the sig- natures of over a hundred farmers in the township, including endorsation of the reeve, deputy reeve and two coun- cillors. Weekly Crop Report Reports from representatives throughout the province indicate that due to long -continued drought, the acreage shown to fall wheat this year will drop almost 50 per cent below the average. In many sections it has been almost impossible to plow and where cultivation has been as- complished there is not enough mois- ture to sprout the seed. The corn and root crops have also suffered severely during the dry weather and many farmers have been filling their stlos early because the corn is drying up and depreciating in food value. Grain Melds throughout the province have been generally good. Wheat has yield- ed from 25 to 40 bushels per acre and oats front 45 to 80 bushels per acre. Several counties report alfalfa seed yields of .from 2 to 10 bushels per acre with the quality exceptionally high. Lincoln County reported a very large crop of peaches, while Prince Edward County reported tomatoes to be not more than half a crop. There is a smaller area in Western Ontario under after harvest cultiva- tion this year due to dry weather. Eastern and Northern Ontario, where more rain has fallen, report that farmers are paying more attention to summer fallowing and after harvest cultivation and are making an honest effort to keep in control noxious weeds that have become so troublesome on most Ontario farms. Loss from Smut A survey of 200 farms in Oxford County made during the past summer under the direction of the local agri- cultural branch, showed that approxi- mately 44,000 bushels of wheat was the annual loss to Oxford County out of a total production of 627,000 bush- els. The loss was brought about by the disease of smut. Only 18 of the fields were free from the disease. Plowing Match Next Month The next great agricultural event of the near future in (Mario is the In- ternational Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration. This fea- ture ,annual match, which brings to- gether the best farm implement nten in the country, is scheduled for Oct- ober 14, 15, 16 and 17 on King's High- way No. 7, near the city og Stratford. J. Loclde Wilson, manag ng director has been hard at work for the past few months and the four days of plow- ing this year promise to out -class any previous events in tlhe matter of en- tries and contests. The awards are very generous and every farmer in the country is eligible. Too Many Fires The threshing season of 1930 has been most disastrous since the incep- tion of the Fire Marshal Office in re- spect to fires caused to farmers' barns and dwellings through thresh- ing operations. Between Aug. lst. and Sept. 10th reports were received of 28 separate fires resulting in the destruction of six dwellings and 27 barns with a large number of small outbuildings, involving a loss of ap- 2 Glasses Water, Not Too Cold, Help Constipation One glass water is not 'enough— take 2 glasses a half hour before breakfast. You get quicker and bet- ter results by adding a little simple, glycerin, saline, etc., (known as Ad- lerika) to one glass. Unlike other remedies, Adlerika acts on BOTH upper and lower bowel and reproves old poisons you never thought were. in Your, eystern4 Adler- lita stops. GAS and sour stomach an 10 minutes( `' 'Relieves ' `constipation in 2 hours. W. S. R. Holmes. Winter Wheat Experiment's A total of more than 300 varieties of winter wheat consisting of hybrids and plant selected strains have been under test at the Ontario Agricultural College for a period of five years or more. The Dawson's Golden Chaff (O.A.C. 61) and the O.A.C. No. 104 still continue to be the two leading varieties -of winter wheat under test at Guelph. In the average of the last eleven years the Dawson's Golden Chaff (O.A.C. 61) produced a yield per acre of 65.4 bushels per annum and the O.A.C. No. 104 of 63 bushels of grain .per acre per annum. The highest yielding variety of red -grained winter wheat in the experiments which was the Imperial Amber (O.A. C. 92), produced an average yield of 57.2 bushels per acre. The Dawson's Golden Chaff and O.A.C. Azo. 104 var- ieties of winter wheat are grown on more than 30 per cent of the winter wheat land of the province. t y � spreading of infection.- the seed o£ disease is spread. The Health Service of the Canadian Medical II The germ of tubercnlasis leaves case who spends sometime in senate - opium .learns there how to, live and the body in the sputum of the sick haw to :control the cough, or if it is Association. II person, and it is the dissemination necessary for him to cough, how to d�of this germ laden sputum that is collect and destroy the sputum so as notAll to adults shendangerould prothers._ ote responsible for the spread of tuber- protect children eulosis from one human being to a- by the•observance of common decency; nether. in refraining from spitting. be overcome providing that those who..a careless manner are responsible fo I dressed toThe danger from human beings can Coughing, sneezing and spitting in Questions have the disease know it and take the spread of the germs of tuber- I Association, eulosis, because in these actions a ronto, will the necessary care to prevent" the spray of droplets is scattered, and so by letter. TUBERCULOSIS AND CHILDREN danger of contracting tuberculosis 1 from the milk. Tuberculosis' is a disease which oc- curs at all ages and which may af- fect any part of the body. Itis one of the communicable diseases and by this' we mean that it is ,caused by a germ -called the tubercule bacillus which is passed from the sick to the well. , These are two sources of the die- ease, persons suffering' from the tub- erculous and tuberculosis ani- mals. i\fore than one - case of tuberculosis frequently occurs in a family but this does not mean that the disease is hereditary. It usually indicates that the disease has been passed from one member of the fam- ily to another. When a case of tuberculosis its found in a child, a careful inquiry will nearly always reveal another case in the home or amongst relativ- es or friends with whom the child has been in frequent contact. Tuberculosis occurs in the lower animals, and cows are very frequ- ently found to be affected with the disease. Tubercle bacilli may gain entrance to the milk as it leaves the cow's 'udder or by way of dirt off the cow during milking. Children are susceptible to the germ which causes the tuberculosis in the cow. This is known as the bovine type and differs somewhat frons the 'human type. (Children must be protected from infection from these two sources if tuberculosis is ,-tq be prevented in childhood. The danger from milk can be a- voided by having the milk pasteuriz- ed. Pasteurization of milk supplies is advisable for many. good reasons. one of these being that through pas- turization children, who should use milk freely are protected from any Wool Salvaged There will be little loss to those sheepmen who shipped their wool to the Canadian Co-operative Wool Grow- ers Ltd., as a result of the fire which completely destroyed the Weston ware house a short time ago• Very little of the 3,400,000 pounds of wool in storage at the time was burned,though all the wool was seriously damaged by scorching and smoke, and further damage was caused by water poured into the building to quench the blaze. To check heating. which immediately followed soaking, the wool was remov- ed to a nearby and spread out loosely in the sun to dry and this quick action resulted in a salvage of well over three million pounds of wet and damaged wool. The sale of this, added to the insurance carried, offic- ials state, should balance a reasonable market value of the wool at the time of the fire. On the building and bus- iness onarations for 1930, however, there 'lvill be a loss. It is expected that a new warehouse of absolutely fire -proof construction will be erected in time to take care of next season's crop. RUTS The' world is full of: ruts, my bey, •(Some shaller an' some deep; An' every rut is full o' folks • As high as they can heap. Each one that's growling in th' ditch Is growlin' at his fate, An' wischin' he had got his chance Before it was too late. They lay it all on :someone else Or say 'twos just their luck --- They never once consider that 'Twas caused by lack of pluck. But here's the word o' one that's lived Clean through from soup to nuts The Lord don't hand no derricks 'round T'h'st folks out of ruts. —Kiwanis Magazin EXETER: A special meeting' of the Trivitt Memorial A. Y. P. A, was held to honor Harry Jennings, Jr, who -leaves this week to enter Iluron College, where he will take a course leading to a degree in arts at Wes- tern and a course to train him for holy orders in the Anglican ministry After meeting in the parish hall the inenibers adjourned to the hone of Barry Jennings, Sr. Here an ad- dress was read and the young' 'man was presented with' a leather club bag, bearing his initials, "H.L.S." The father, who is recuperating af- ter an injury to his' hand a week ago, was presented with a bouquet. A social evening followed. ' .G0i lualICH: The canning factory, is doing a rushing business just now. Milverton, .. • , ' Considering the dry weather, the Parkhill . . quantity of vegetables add :fruit St. Marys . • brought in, is amazing. The employ Tat/stock , ees have beenworking all day and of:, 'TeesWater . • ten ,until midnight for several clays. Wingham . During 1012, while employed in the acturial department of the Confed- eration Life. he undertook post- graduate work in acturial science. His health broke down, and, being forced to make a change, ,he went west and taught mathematics in Re- gina collegiate institute until he went overseas. During the war he served in the Flanders front, was awarded the Mil- itary Cross and was eventually put out of action in the fighting line when he stopped a "packet" at Pas- scnendaele ridge. Even while in hospital he had to find an outlet for his overflowing energies, tlith' the result that he commenced a corres- pondence course with the soldiers, later becoming a director in the de- partment of the khaki university, eIbich took over bis correspondence department. Prior to his leaving England he accepted the offer of Premier Martin of a school inspec- torate in 'Saslcatchetvan. His work lay chiefly among the non-English speaking people and his understand- ing sympathy and enthusiasm gained hint many friends. In April, 1926, Major Weir resign- ed his position to take up agriculture in Melfort, since which he has be- come recognized as a scientific far- mer of experience. He has given much. study to the breeding of Per- cheron horses and Hereford cattle, in addition to being interested in Clydesdales, Belgians and Short- horns. His residence, Hereford Park Farm contains a 1.000 -acre area, three miles west of Weldon, Saskatchewan. Besides his intensive breeding and studying of nureberd stock, the new minister cultivates about '700 acres of land and the farm is one of the show places of northern Saskatche- wan. ;The remarkable fact about the possessing of such a collection of prize-winning stock, as Major Weir is known to own, is the fact that the has spent comparatively little in the acquisition. He netted $8,500 last year from colts raised from a $250 mare, and two grade geldings, un- beaten on the class A fair circuit this year, were raised from a mare that was a second cross from a bronco. Major Weir believes in work for man or beast, and three of his prize win- ners shown this summer'were dart of a four horse outfit tv;hich seeded 250 acres of land this spring. There may have been an element of luck, but those who are better ac- quainted with the minister of agri- culture attribute his success chiefly to hard work and application to the task on (hand.—Toronto Star Weekly. SCHOOL FAIR DATES IN HURON Grand Bend .. ..........Sept. 25th Blyth . - Sept .2613 Crediton ...............Sept. 29th Zurich Sept. 30th FALL FAIR DATES Bayfield . . . . . ...... ."..ISept. 24:25 Blyth . ............ .Sept. 25-26 Brussels . • Oat. 2-3 Dungannon . • . Oct. 7-8 Embro . Oct. 2 Fordwieb .. , .0ct. 3-4 Elarriston . . .... Sopt. 25-26 Kirkton , Sept. 30 -Oct. 1 LudknoW . Sept. 25-26 ,Sept. 25-26 Oct. 2-3 Oct. 7-8 Sept. 26.27 Sept. 80 -Oat. 1 Oet. 7-8 SOME WEDDING CUSTOMS Why does 'a bride wear a veil? Why is rice thrown over a bridal couple as they leave the church? Why is the wedding ring put on the fourth finger of the left hand Why is an old shoe thrown after a mar- ried couple as they drive to the sta- tion? Why have a wedding cake? The questions are asked and answer- ed in London Answers. The veil is but a continuance of the ancient eastern rule that a ratan. save her husband should see a wo- man's face, and not even hhn until af- ter the ceremony. The throwing of rice is another eastern custom. Rice is the staple food in the east, and throwing it symbolized a wish for plenty. The choice of the fourth finger of the left hand for the ring is an old custom of pagan Rome. It was be- lieved that a nerve went direct from that finger to the heart. Shoe throwing is another adopted eastern custom. The Oriental bride's father gave an old shoe to the bride- groom as a symbol that the surrend- ered to him his parental right of beating his daughter. The wedding cake is Roman in ori- gin. A. ,cake made of flour, salt and water was always eaten by the Rom- an couples in the presence of the priest. It formed part of the mar- riage rites. ' Behind the question: "Wlho giveth this woman to be =rived to this e e belief that was man?" the accepted d p a woman was a "chatteI," life fur- niture, at the disposal of some man. It is curious, in view of the ad- vancement of women, that they still cling to these old customs. cementing Health, ad - the 'Canadian Medical 184 College Street, To- be answered personally 11 Making the... Demand Egpal the Supply In olden days the merchant who oftentimes was also a manu- facturer, went from house to' house peddling his wares, Then times changed, and methods changed, and the itinerant merchant disap- peared. In his place carne the merchant of today—the mercthant who is a purchasing agent for his community. As a purchasing agent the merchant buys as he believes the people in his community will buy from him. Sometimes this sales are many, at other times they are few. Always, however, his supply is equal to the demand. But the demand, unhappily, all too often falls very, very far below the supply. Which means poor business. Take your own case. You have, let us say, enough of the goods you. handle to supply a goodly number of the people in Clinton who require these goods. Do they demand these goods in such great quantities as to make your supply inadequate? The odds are they don't. 11 Still, you can't do as the merchant of old did and create a de- mand for your goods by peddling then from house to house. So you take advantage of the very best means available and advertise in your local home newspaper. Valuable as this is there's still another selling force—and that is the advertising of the manufactur- ers whose goods you want to sell to Clinton's buyers—which ,should also appear in' your local sponse newspaper. And you can go far in getting this aid by talking about Clinton to the salesmen, through whom you buy your merchandise—by in- oculating them with the thought that local demand can be created and directed chiefly through your legal, home newspaper—by making them see how necessary it is to your business welfare to have the advertising of their companies i nyour local, home newspaper. This newspaper has joined with the town newspapers all over the country in a nation-wide campaign to convince national adver- tisers that they can best assist small town merchants by advertising in the local, home town newspapers of the small totvn merchants. You need the advertising aid of the manufacturers whose goods you stock—'urge their salesmen to recommend your local home newspaper. HOW IS YOUR SUBSCRIPTION NOW TO THE CLINTON NEWS -RECO "LOOK AT THE LABEL" Phone 4 BE a man of ction. _ It doesn't pay; to delay when a -ew ro aryf is needed -The " sizzling" d akes shingles t ii s, crisp. q y s of s shiner have ord Asphalt Slab Slates 3inl These extra heavy Asphalt Slates may be laid right over old shingles. Laboiur is plentiful. Do it NO* --at low cost. New Colours—"York Red", borrowed from the Lues of the Yorkshire sunset—"Banff", . the reds and • purples of the majestic Rockies conspire to make a roof of unique charm—"Devon", . the deep buff shading into reds will he familiar to those who know the thatched roofs of Devonshire—"Lincoln Green", leafy greens blend into the tones of mossy banks and thick soft turf. Consult your Brantford Dealer Brantford Roofing Co. 'Limited; Heed Office and Factory: Brantford, Ont. Branch,, and warehou.ea at: Toronto, Windsor Winnipeg, Montreal,. Halifax, Saint John, N.B. and St. John's, NIid. 1' 1750 "BUY N l RMALLY" AND THERE WILL BE NO UNEMPLOYMENT! Clinton Hardware lir Furniture Co. FOR SALE BY.