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The Clinton News Record, 1943-06-10, Page 6'THE CLINTON NE sltEcoii THURS., JUNTA, /0, 194 Girls Farm Camps Already Opened in -Ontario Sections supervision of the Y. W. C. A., with experienced eamp staffs, and with recreational directors who wili'organ- (izethe leisure time activity of the girls, so that theywill be under re- fable guidance." • One camp' will open at St. David's on June 5, and two More, at Riverview- and iverviewand Queenston, are scheduled to open on : June 14. Girls wishing ;to spend the summer holidays, and particularly after August 15, in farm work camps should make their application at once to the Ontario Farm Service Force, Parliament Buildings, Toronto. V Big Demand for Girls for Fruit Farms Likely from August toseetober Seven •camps for girls working on farms in Ontario, mostly in the fruit- growing sections of the Province, are already in operation, according to Alex McLaren, director of the Ontario Farm Service Force, under whose jurisdict- ion these camps are functioning. Four of these are government op- erated .camps, located at Saltfleet, Vineland, Fenwick and I{ingsvilIe, while the other three are private camps at Jordon, Vineland and Dixie. The 175 'girls in these camps have been at work on fruit farms for some weeks, tying grapes, working in green -houses, and performing other tasks which are essential at this season of the year. These 175 girls, however, are merely the vanguard of a great army of girls mostly high school students on vacat- ion, who will undertake farm work, during the summer holidays and will be housed in camps throughout the province, In all, 25 camps for girls will be operated this summer under the jurisdiction of the Ontario Farm Service Force. These camps have a capacity, when filled, of from, 3,000 to 3,200 girls, who will be required from the Huddle of July until the end of the season, with the maximum de-. nand being reached between August 15 and October 15; when the fruit - picking season will be at its height. "We will require a great force of girls for the fruit and vegetable har- vests between August and October," said Mr. McLaren. The camps in which they will live will be under the Hundreds, Boys From High Schools Needed on Farris Many camps' will be operated to help Relieve Shortage of Farm Labour "Hundreds of Ontario High School boys are urgently needed for individ- ual placements on Ontario farms which are short of help, and to fill up the camps which will be operated throughout the Province under the auspices of the Ontario Farm Service Force," states Alex McLaren, direct- or of the force, in an appeal to the youth of the Province to volunteer for this important wartime service. Five camps for high school boys, three op- erated by private farming interests and two under the jurisdiction of the Ontario Department of Agriculture, are already functioning, with a .total of approximately 200 :boys occupying them and working on farms nearby. These camps are located at Burlington, Leamington, Harrow, Brantford and Holland Marsh. So far, however, these camps are far from being filled to capacity, and over 400 more boys t Machines and men must work harder than ever... ey- NEVER BEbORE was good farm implement service so important. Farmers are bending every effort to make A- good on the delivery of the greatest food production program ever required of them. They and their families will do more than they have ever done and machines too will be called upon to work longer and harder. This year well-designed and soundly -built machines will prove their worth. The cervices of an organization ready and equipped to keep these machines on the job will be needed and appreciated, too. Geared to war -time needs, the Massey- Harris organization through its branches, distributing centres, and hundreds of local dealers is prepared to support the farmers of Canada in their efforts to grow more vitally needed foodstuffs with the best service it is possible to give. Ask your local Marrey-Harris dealer about repairing and reconditioning your farm equipment, • \- 'me' • '� Provide Now for Future Buying Some day you will be able to make those improvements you are plan- ting, buy new household appli- ances, and get the latest and best in equipment. In the meantime build up your capital by buying Victory Bonds and War Savings Certificates — it's the best way to help your country and help yourself. MASSEY-HARRIS COMPANY LIMITED • Esmblished 1,847 6• The Service Arm of the Canadian Farm TORONTO MONTREAL MONCTON WINNIPEG BRANDON REGINA SASKATOON SWIFT CURRENT YORKTON CALGARY EDMONTON VANCOUVER can be accommodated and are urgent ly required for essential farm work. One of the largest of these new camps will be in Essex, and 200high schoo- 1 cowl' b ll be'required `t Y o fill it up, The requirements of the other camps are as follows: Leamington, 60 boys; Burlington, 20 boys; Holland March, 100 boys; -Blenheim,' `50 .boys;' Harrow, 50 boys, Help for farmers in these areas will be urgently re- quired early in Tune, and the boys who volunteer will be kept. busy until after July 15. Applications for places in these camps are now being received and should- be sent at once to the Ontario Farm Service Force, Parlia- ment Buildings, Toronto. In addition to the 400 or•rnore boys required for the farm labour camps, which are operated under Y. M. C. A. supervision, 'hundreds of boys can be placed on individual farms through- out the Province. Fanners are an- xious to secure husky lads for the whole summer holiday season. In many cases, placements can be made through the local farm help committee or by application to farmers in the neighbourhood. Boys who are unable to find farms through these channels, can be readily placed by applying to the above office. V ('Annuals Provide Pasture High in Protein Shortage of high protein feeds and concentrates compels the farmer to grow crops that will meet his require- ments. Legume hay of good quality and pastures properly managed will offset this shortage. But, in the event that perennial grass and leg- ume pastures are not adequate for the livestock .carried this year it is necessary •to resort annuals. If graz- ed and kept in the young growing stage these will provide abundance of feed high in protein, says F. S. Nowosad, Central 'Experimental Farm, Ottawa. Spring rye •seeded at 2 bushels per acre will give the earliest pasture. It is ready to be grazed in about 4 weeks from the date of seeding. Oats seeded alone et 3 bushels are more productive than the spiting rye and may be grazed in 5 weeks after seed- ing, While oats seeded alone are most commonly used for pasture, it is more desirable -to seed them in a mixture with other crops. A mix- ture of 2 bushels of oats and 1 bushel of spring or fall rye, or 2 bushels of oats and 20 pounds of Sudan grans will give excellent pasturage early in the •summer. The last mentioned mixture should not be seeded as early as oats alone, because Sudan grass makes its best growth when the soil is warm or when the conditions are suitable for corn. Sudan grass alone at 30 pounds per acre or corn drilled in may be used to good- advantage for late summer pasture. Rape seeded at 4 to 5 pounds per acre broadcast or in drills at 2 to 3 pounds will provide excellent pasture left in the fall for sheep, hogs or beef cattle Further information on supple- mentary pastures is given in Special Wartime Leaflet No, 20 entitled "The Use of Annual Forages" issued by the Dominion Department of Agri- culture, Ottawa. V T.C.A. Main Lines Service Extended to Victoria The main line service of Trans -Can- ada Air Lines will be extended to Victoria, B. C., on Sunday next in order to expedite air mail, express and passenger service. The .flights have previously terminated at Van- couver. Announcement of the exten- sion of Canada's transcontinental air route was made here by the minister of Munitions and Supply, the Post- master General and the President of Trans -Canada Air Lines. Their statement said that there are important military and other estab, liniments on Vancouver Island' in ad- dition to the governmental and com- mercial activities of the British Col- umbia •capital. The Board of Trans- port Commissioners had found that the "present and future public con- venience and necessity" required that the service should be given,. and that this extension of the transemtinental route of Trans -Canada, while furnish. ing a much more expeditious through service between the eastern and prairie cities and Victoria, would re- quire no addiitonal expenditure of public money. All .air mail between the Island and .the mainland will ,be carried by the Trans -Canada •planes as the reports of the postal authorities have shown that there were frequent and substan- tial delays in the carriage of airmail to and from Vancouver Island under the farmer arrangement. Trans.Canad`a will also carry to Victoria pasengers and air express originating at points east of Van- couver and passengers and air express originating on Vancouver Island and • +, destined to points beyond Vancouver.; The Board of TranS rt Commission- ers did not grant to T.C.A.`: the right to carry passengers or air express lo- cally between Vancouverand Victoriaalthough passengers from the prairies and ,the east shaving through tickets to Victoria may make a stop over at Vancouver. Under the ,new schedules T.C.A transcontinental planes will arrive at Vancouver at 10.40 a.m. and at 10.40 p.m. each day and will then proceed on to Victoria, (Patricia Bay Airport) about .46 flying aniles distant. The flight time bteween Vancouver and Victoria will be 25 minutes. The planes will leave Victoria at 4.15 p.m. and at 1.30 a.m. daily on their east- bound flights. As :the result of the extension to Vancouver Island the east to west. transcontinental route of T.C.A. from St. John's Newfoundland, to Victoria will be increased to 3,911 miles, the longest on the American continent, and in addition the national air •ser- vice is operating 872 miles of interna. tional and north and south routes. Officials of the Department of Civ- il Aviation stated today that the extension to Victoria was contem- plated from the inception of Trans- Canada ransCanada Air Lines in 1937, but has had to await the provision of airport facilities for land type planes on Van- couver Island. V Mustard Control in Fibre Flax (Experimental Forms News) Fibre flax is one crop that will not successfully tolerate or compete with weeds. Not only is the yield per acre of straw greatly reduced by time crowding effect but the quality' of the fibre is •seriously reduced when weeds are present. The type of soil that is most fav- ourable to the production of flax is also admirably suited to the growth of common wild mustard. Mustard is a heavy seed producer and the seeds will remain in the soil for many years without Iosing their ability to grow. For this reason it is almost impossible to completely eradicate mustard by cultural and rotational. practices, but it is easily controlled by chemical sprays and although this method is rather expensive, it appears to be the •only means of salvaging a erop of fibre flax once it has been thoroughly infested. The most commonly used chemical. for the Control of mustard in flax is copper sulphate or bluestone. A 4 per cent solution in water when spray- ed on the young mustard plants, gives almost 100 per cent kill. The spray should' be applied when the mustard leaves are about the size of a fifty cent p'*e and before the plants are' in flower. A convenient method of preparing the spraying solution is to weigh 10 pounds of copper sulphate into jute or cotton bag and hang the bag in a 40 gallon barrel of clear' water over. night. The use of hot water speeds up the dissolving rate of the blue - stone. The solution is poured into the spraying machine through a copper mesh sieve to ensure that no lump or tint is present to block the spray nozzles. Copper sulphate has a corro- sive action on iron and so all metal parts which come in contact with the solution should be made of copper or brass, The spraying solution is applied at the rate of one hundred gallons to the acre and care should be taken that the entire area is well covered, and should be applied on a warm, dry day after the plants are thoroughly try and the mustard leaves are calling for moisture, With bluestone costing $11.00 for a 100 lb. bag, the cost of the •solution to spray one acre would be $4.40. It 'should be noted that the above mentioned procedures control mustard in flax without any injury to the flax crop, V School Teachers Needed for Farms Opportunity) to Spend Six Weeks in Camps in Ontario Corn Belt An opportunity for from 125 to 150 Ontario lady school teachers to spend six weeks in farm work camps during °July and August is announced' by Al- ex McLaren, director of the Ontario Farm Service Force, who states that three such camps tobe located at Blenheim and Eirieau, will be op- ened on 'July 10 and will be in opera- tion for six weeks, Help of this type will be urgently needed during that period for de -tasseling corn, work that is not arduous and that can be done quite readily by lady school teachers who are desirous of making a valuable contribution to Ontario's farm production. Applications are nolw being re- ceived from .teachers willings to un- dertake this work, •and should be sent to the Ontario Farm Service Force, Room 904, Parliament Build- ings, Toronto, ' fAT /S AMMUN/BION! Fat and bone conservation begins at home and ends in the firing line DO YOU KNOW One pound of fat supplies enough glycerine to fire 150 bullets from a Bren gun. Two pounds of fat will fire a burst of 20 cannon shells from a Spitfire or 10 anti- aircraft shells, Bones produce fat and aircraft glue. If we saved fat at the rate of one ounce per person per week this would mean 36,000,000 pounds per year, enough to produce 3,600,000 pounds of glycerine for explosives. OUR FIGHTERS DEPEND ON YOU "Every householder who delivers to a retail butcher, collector, or Salvage Committee, any rendered or unrendered fats or bones shall be entitled to receive from the person to whom they are delivered 4 cents per pound net weight for rendered fats, and 1 cent per pound for unrendered fats. The above paragraph is a direct quotation from Order A-642 of The Wartime Prices and. Trade Board. "Rendered fat" means fat melted down and strained to remove solid matter. It includes drippings and strained pan grease resulting from the cooking of meat. "Unrendered fat" means raw or partially cooked fat free from lean meat and bone, but not fully rendered. "Bones" means row or cooked bones of cattle, sheep and hogs. EVERY OUNCE COUNTS ! SAVE AND STRAIN EVERY DROP TO SPEED VICTORY. SELL IT TO YOUR BUTCHER OR GIVE IT TO YOUR SALVAGE COMMITTEE. NOTICE TO BUTCHERS, HOTELS, ETC. You have been mailed a copy -of Order A-6.42. This Order affects operators of hotels, restaurants and other establishments where meals are served, It is of immediate importance to butchers and slaugh- terers. if your copy has been lost, you can obtain another from the nearest office of The Wartime Prices and Trade Board. 'THE WARTIME PRICES AND T°RADE_,ROARD THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad—But 'Always Helpful and Inspiring BRASS TEAPOT Our old brass teapot, up on the shelf, Looks very worldly-wise by itself, As it gazes down on the tea cups old, Blue willow patterned and trimmed ° with gold, That Grandmother brought in days of yore in a huge oak chest from Scotland's shore, Along with the teapot, then new and agleam, Part of a fond young bride's sweet dream, What tales it could tell, if only it would, But it silently stands, whets for years it stood, Looking down on a world all changed and new, Save for Grandmother's cups, gold trimmed and blue. — Dorothy Harrington. V RED CROSS "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren ye have done it unto Me." I cannot fail them; they are trust- ing me. To give them what their sacrifice de- mands Look. Can't you see them stretching through the miles, This countless multitude of pleading hands ? Bands which had once played marbles in the street, Or grasped a pencil in some school boy's task, They need my help; they're fighting over there; Can any heart deny them what they ask? They reach to me from vessels on the seas, Red with cold, and coated with the brine; Shall someone prove unable for his task Through unconcern or negligence of From Russia's steppes, from lonely prison camps From where the palm trees fan Tun- isia's sky. 1 hear a host of voices calling me: "I thirst, I hunger, 'Help .me, or I die." If Christ came down, as man, to earth again. Would I deny Him, or resist His plea, Or fail to bind. His wounds? And yet He said. "Whate'er ye do, ye do it unto Me." Alexandria Ont. Dorothy Dumbrille V THE SHOWER It's raining, but so lightly, It's not disturbed the bee, There is the bahn, the warblers Flit through the apple tree. Now here, now there, from high to low, And back to high again, They've beard no knocking onthe leaves, They do not heed the rain! The pug dog lies beside the steps His wrinkled velvet bead In warm content and drowsiness Between his forepaws spread. _ And 1, above my open book, Glance -at the little shower And think: "Such rains as this aright fall From any dew -wet flower." Elizabeth Coatsworth. V LIFT THE RED CROSS By Laura E. Richards, daughter of the late Julia Howe, author of the Battle hymn of the Republic. Now while the fierce bombs crash The wiid'flames toss Once more in God's great name Lift the Red Cross! Death holds high carnival Over the sea; Leading his ghastly troup Jocund rides he. Hunger and misery Close at his side, Spare not the new-born. babe The new -wed bride. Here in our springtime fields— Mayflower and moss— Here in our smiling streets Lift the Red Cross Withhold your help today Tis your soul's loss Once more in God's high name Lift the Red Cross! Yliiti:L Sl$TelltS Hang up this glinting toy. This tinkling trembling thing of paint– ed glass— And to all winds that pass It shall speak joy. Strung from its gilt brass ring By threads of scarlet, all its affairs -- Hexagons, oblongs, squares— Spin and sing. gay Day in; day out, it makes A fantasy, a harmony — turning turning— Like fragile ice burning. By night it wakes.' And faint as drowned bells— Faint, faint as the ,ghost of the echo •of a chime— Tells .its own fairy time That no clock tells. —By Audrey Alexandra Brown.. V DL;AT11 What is death, I wondered, Whence does it come and why? What is that fear we have of death,? I pondered with a sigh; , Long hours I sat thinking, No answer could I find, And strange it seemd that life must. cease For any of mankind;. Night carne and then I fell asleep, Awoke with answer clear, That quelled the tumult in my heart, And drove away all fear: E'en as when day -is over, Night comes to give us rest, When life's long day ,of toil is o'er With sleep eternal we are blessed, F. H, ,Tohnson