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The Clinton News Record, 1939-09-21, Page 6'AGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD." THURS., SEPT. 21, 1939 easatessaliteteeser «s+"'r".RM tM' iHtersesWW .e«estea+WWW.,W nformation for t Farmer tixt . �;,tt (Furnished by the Department of Agriculture) 'HOW, TO CLEANSE DAIRY, Carrots, beets and parsnips should EQUIPMENT be keptvery cool, and if well dried before storing may be put • in large Where it is impractical to have pro piles, 'so long as there is no disease. 'pen equipment to clean -milk cans,' present. If carrots showsigns of pails and other dairy utensils than rust -fly injury, the soots should be oughly With steam or scalding watea, stored in smaller quantities, as one. chemicals may be used with good re- blemished root will spoil many in a sults. very short time. Repeated) tests have shown that it Potatoes keep well in a dry place is no enough just to wash or rinse where the temperature is between 30 dairy utensils with clean water. and 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Something has to: be done actually to kill the bacteria in the cans or CARE OF COLTS pails. Experiments carried out by the Dominion; Department of Agriculture This is the time of year when colts indicate that chlorine compounds foaled last spring are being weaned now on the market in either liquid Livestock men agree that a little or powder form are, effective if extra care before the early fall 'is mast important foe' the future grow- th of the colt. Proper development, induced by proper feeds, makes a strong, healthy horse in later years. pm the ►Damtilnion Experimental Farms, where many methods of feed- ing have been tried out, it has been found to be good practice to get the colt eating grain as soon as possible either from the mare's box or from a creep in the pasture. Two thirds whole or rolled oats and one-third bran is the mixture recommended. It helps to build both bone and muscle. The colts should be fed three to five pounds daily from weaning until one year of age. Good horsemen have long since realized the value of fresh skim milk for colts after weaning.. It is safe to give from to four to five quarts daily. Along with the grain, colts do well on clean, bright hay, preferably mixed timothy and clover. During the winter months, two to four pounds of mangels, carrots or turnips help digestion and healthy growth. The sale box should be kept filled and the colts given plenty of exercise. directions are carefully followed. While chorline sterilization is cheap convenient and effective, it does not take the place of thorough cleansing The first step is to rinse the utensils with Bold or lukewarm; water. Then scrub vigorously with stiff brush, 'losing hot water containing sal soda or any good dairy cleanser. Finally give a rinsing in dear water and put the pails or cans on draining rack to dry until next milking time. Sterilization with chlorine is done just before milking. one pail is filled wth dear cold water and the proper amount of chlorine added. This is stirred and allowed to stand in the pail for a quarter of a minute. The solution is then poured into the next pail until all the utensils used are treated. Bath should be drained be- fore taming in contact 'with the milk. No taint of chlorine has ever been noticed on the milk in pails so treated and marked improvement in the quality of milk has been noted where chlorine Sterilization. hes *placed hot water sterilization. USEFUL HINTS ON STORING VEGETABLES Unless vegetables which are in- tended to be stored for winter use PREPARATION OF BEES FOR WINTER MONTHS The production and conservation of all foodstuffs throughout the entire are grown to as nearly full maturity Em,ire now becomes a matter of as possible, they cannot be expected vital importance. The beekeepers of to keep well. On no account should Canada have their part to play in the squash and pumpkins be exposed to present conflict by maintaining pro - the least frost. As scion as the rind ducing power and preventing, in so is firm enough. to prevent 'piercing far as possible, the spoilage of their by the fingernail, the fruit may be product The season of the year is taken off the plant. Pumpkins and approaching when beekeepers must squash should be stored in a dry consider the preparation of their bees place at a temperature, of from 40 for winter. A Large number of col - to 50 degrees. At all times they onies die each winter which a little should be handled as carefully as more care and better management eggs. The slightest bruise, even would have saved, explains C'. B. though not noticeable, is likely to' Gooderham, Dominion Apiarist. Un - cause decay in storage. When large' d'er the present emergency, greater quantities are to be stored, slatted' care should be exercised in the pre- paration of bees for the coming wint- er so that as many colonies as pos- sible may survive asproducing units next spring. The main essentials far successful wintering are: (1) strong colonies of young bees. This condition is secur- ed by having each colony headed with a young, prolific queen. The bees should have sufficient food to main- tain maximum brood production throughout the fall. (2) Each col- ony shc•uld have an adequate supply of wholesome food for winter and early spring. Feeding the bees dur- ing the winter months, or very early in the spring is dangerous to the colony, therefore, at least 40-50 pounds of food should be given to each colony before the latter is pack- ed away for the winter. The food given should be either the best qual- ityhoney, or syrup made of two parts best white sugar to one part water. A super containing the required amount of honey can be added to the colony during the latter part of Sep- tember or October. If sugar syrup is used it should be given while the weather is still warm enough for the bees to store and ripen the syrup. palter lodged in them and store it'll When feeding sugar syrup, it is well a cool dry place. If there is' good to remember that 12 ppunds of sugar circulation of air in the storeroom, made into syrup will provide the the head's may be piled in several layers. Small quantities may be pulled without cutting off the heads and suspended from the joists in a tiny cellar, The roots may be left ony but with all eutar leaves removed. shelves should be used so that the fruits may not pile on top of one another. For the storage of Onions, a cool dry cellar, with the temperature not over, 40 degrees at any time is ideal. Shallow slatted shelves or crates are satisfactory if the bulbs are not piled to any great depth. Occasionally, onions may require some help to ripen in the fall particularly in dis- tricts where the season is short. As soon as the tops of a few plants fall over, all tete top should be bent aver. This checks the flow of sap and causes the bulbs to ripen, A few days later the plants should be pull- ed . If the weather continues fine, they should be cut turned over oc- casionally until the tops are fairly well dried, when they should be cut off and spread in the open or in slatted crates to finish ripening.. When well dried, they can be placed in storage foe the winter. The Danish Ballhead strain is the best of cabbage for winter storage. All the outer leaves should be re- moved and the heads handled care- fully to avoid bruising. Select a day day when the heads 'have no rain 'WRITE NOW 8eadrldgo and rafter measure. moots or area to be roofed, patched or re- paired Council Stand. and Tite.Lap" metal roofing is a wand, per - =anent er,manent investment.' Absolutely weather- tight. Greatly reduces fire hazard. • SOLO ON A 25 YEAR GUARANTEE Prime this Fall are lower because of Sales Tax exemption. Save money by writing Manufacturers also of famous Preston Steel Truss Barna and Jamesway Poultry equip- ment. Address: 808 Guelph lit., Preston. Ont. Eastern Steer FI'Oducts r�nited PRESTON ONT reonrrs71s0er MournsnL ETbno.ao bees' with approximately 11 pounds of stored food. (3) Protection from cold and changeable weather. Bees may be wintered in suitable cellars or in out- door wintering cases. A suitable cel- lar is one that can be kept dark, anf dry at ,t' uniform temperature of about 45 d'egreee Fahrenheit through- out the winter. The bee& should be taken into the cellar as soon ae pos- sible after the last good cleansing flight they are likely to get in the fall, usually during the first week of November. If the bees are to be wintered outside they should be plac- ed in their cases during the latter part of. September or early in Octob- er, and then fed and packed. Provis- ion must be made for outdoor winter- ed bees to take flights whenever they so desire. As part of the winter protection for outdoor wintered bees, good windbreaks should be provided on at least three sides of the apiary. If natural protection is absent, then wooden fences can be provided. The neglect of any one of the foregoing essentials is to pulify the benefits of the others, and thus invite disaster. Prepare your bees' with the idea of bringing through 100 per cent of your colonies as producing units next spring. PRAYERS FOR POLAND Kneeling humbly before the altar of of a Washington church, Count Jerzy Potochi, Palish ambassador to the United States, prays for his :stricken country. In the background is Gen- eral Osinski, President of the Polish Red Cross. AN ARCTIC LAND OF PROMISE Pioneers Are Transforming Bleak Polar Regions In the last few years Soviet Russia has been taking a leading part in the exploration of the Polar Ocean, sending planes across it, establishing a hut on a drifting ice -flow to the North Pole, and sounding the ocean depths. But (according to The Child- ren's Newspaper) their most premiss ngachievement and their most busi- ness -like purpose has been through- out to establish a new colony on the Polar Ocean's shore, and to find a practicable way of navigating the icy North-East Passage from Archangel through the Kara Sea and along the Siberian coast to Wrangel Island and the Bering Straits Papanin, who led the expedition which drifted on the ice -floe from Russia to Alaska, took a very roseate view of what could be done. For nearly half a century before the Run. sian Revolution only 55,000 tons of freight was taken along the North- erly coasts in all that time. But in the six years since the Soviet took charge in 1933 no fewer than 1,188,- 000 tons have been carried. The Soviet ice -breakers blazed the trail, and have since escorted hun- dreds of cargo vessels. Even at this time, when transportation by the Northern sea route is in its infancy, the cost of taking goods to Asiatic Siberia, in such a northern section as Yakutsk, is only half as much as by rail or river. The Siberian rivers, the Lena, Yens ilei, Kolima, which hitherto have seemed to fall uselessly into the Northern seas, are also being brought into commercial use. Shipping along them is being developed so as to transport the timber and other pro- ducts of the land. A yet mare powerful instrument of development has been the aero- plane. Aeroplanes now fly over '7,500 miles of Arctic Russia, carrying the year before last 8,000 passengers and 1,600 tons of freight. Regular com- munication between the remote out- posts of the North and the chief towns of Russia is now assured, Te consolidate the gains that have been won Russian workers are popu- lating the Arctic shore. There are porta at Igarka, Dickson Island, Tixie Bay, and Providence Bay. There are ffty Polarstations on the coast and the islands for continuous research and for the maintenance of communi- cation by wireless. There are Polar settlements, Polar towns, like Igarka, wth a permanent population which in a few years has leapt up to 20,000, and has factories, an aerodrome, a technical college and a theatre; or like Khibinski which houses the workers in the mining and chemical industries of the Kola Pen- insula. Here is the new land from, which Russia is drawing minerals-, timber, phosphates, and coal. It is a Land of Promise, though a hard one in which to glean a harvest. OFFERS HELP OF 100,000 SCOUTS Willing to Lend Assistance, Says Beatty Ottawa, Sept. 11. -- Assistance of Canada's 100,000 Boy Scouts in any activity in which they can usefully serve "in this grave hour" has beery offered to Prime Minister Mackenzie King by Sir Edward Beatty, presi- dent of the Chhadian: General Coun- cil of the Boy Scouts Association. "I think you will .be aware that the special training anddiscipline which they undergo fit them. for quite reasonable work," Sir Edward informed the prime minister in a let- ter made publib today by the as- sociation).. "You' have only to give me an ins. thnation of your desire to enlist their services, and I shall see to it that representatives of the association will meet any „ departmental officials whom you may wish; to delegate." INDUSTRY AT BRUSSELS i STARTED ON BTG SCALE; FELL TO MISFORTUNES By Harry J. Boyle Of all the villages of Huron County for which high hopes were. held out in the last century theo(1e which rankedi forcinost 'from) the standpoint of optimism for its future was Brussels: Everything pointed to Brussels becoming a great industrial centre by the way in which it gained importance shortly, after it was in- corporated as it village in 1872. Hard luck played: a big part, in dashing Brussels' -'hopes because three of the town's most important industries fell prey to flames; 'on dit- ferent occasions. Perhaps the most important Ins dustry was Brussels' Steam Fire Engine and Agricultural Works, established in the village's earlier days by J. D. Ronald, of Chatham. Being anxious to have industries, the municipal councillors had approached Mr. Ronald with the offer of a bonus. After accepting, the manufacturer moved into newly erected premises in 1879. Previous to this he had been en- gaged in the manufacture of fire steamers and heavy agricultural implements, his partner being a Mr. Hyslop. Many of the older readers will re- call the famous old "Centennial" engine made by the Chatham works of Ronald and Hyslep. This 'was an attraction at a great exposition and it was later purchased for use by the Town of Paris. Farmers will, of course, remember Ronald and Hyslop for their grain separators, the first in Canada being the "vibrator" type. Dominating the industry of the prosperous Village of Brussels, the works were conveniently located on the main street, a feature . being an upright steam hammer made accord- ing to specifications by a famous Glasgow firm. Mr. Ronald was of an inventive turn as was shown by the fact that the motive power for his works was a machine of his own construction. It was of the compound and double- acting pattern, of 40 horsepower. The Brussels works sent their pro- ducts to many parts of the world, one of the finest engines they built going to Newcastle, N. B. The price range was from $3,000 to $5,000. However, steam fire engines pas- Ised from popular use and aa the main industry for the town faded away so did many of the other factories. Fire wiped out the business sec- tion on several occasions and Brus- sels today is a quiet village, a mere shadow of what she might have been had fortune not handed her indust- ries these set -backs. SALVATION ARMY MOEILIZED FOR ACTIVE SERVICE When the ominiaus clouds of war, hanging low over Europe so long, burst' over the British Empire, in- cluding of course Canada, it found The Salvation Army with its Y110.22/ - fold resources and facilities ready for. service. Observing with deep concern the obvious signs of the times, the lead- ers had, with wisdom and foresight, planned to meet any emergency which might confront the Oaganization in the Dominion. Officers fully -equipped and with a wide range of experience have in re- cent months served as chaplains in a number of military camps, and their efforts without exception have met with the highest approval of the authorities. During the last World! War the services of The Salvation Army at home and overseas were readily acknowledged from the highest to the lowest. The work of its chap- lains, ambulance units, music and serving ,men and women provided one of the brightest chapters in a calamitous conflict. Twenty-five years after The Army is ready again to place its resources at the dis- posal of the nations to bring com- fort, uplift and succor to combatants and 'non-combatants alike. In a true sense it may be said that The Army's forces are always mobilized for the hour of need. The Organization is accustomed to hard- ship and its work and people have ever thrived in times of adversity. Its practical work has commended itself to all who have any knowl- edge of human need. On Thursday afternoon, September 7, the Commissioner presided over a War Council at Territorial Head- quarters, specially convened to dis- cuss plans and ways and meansfor determining the most effective meas- ures of aid dining the present war emergency. Besides planning for the servicing of men in training camps through- out the Dominion, every branch of Salvation Army activity will be called upon to. do its part. Immedi- ate needdi call for organization oi1 work to supply woollen goods, socxa and sweaters and other comforts needed by men serving under the colors overseas. Salvationists and friends able to supply wool and other items should immediately get in touch with the nearest Corps Officer for instructions. The Red Shield, a familiar sign during the days of the Great War, will be revived and again will be The Army's war -time insignia. Men on military service will be welcomed and serviced, and assisted in every ,possible way. Centres will be opened Where women of the Red Shield' Auxiliary may m'ee't and work together and supply necessities. Home Leagues, the League of Mercy, Youth Groups and other branches of Army activity will co-operate. Sewing machines are specially needed for this work. In Great Britain The Army has given splendid assistance in connec- tion with the recent evacuation of children front the cities. A MEAL PREPARED ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO Qarrots packed in tins for Captain Parry's third expedition in, search of the North-West Passage in 1824 have just been opened and found to be in perfectly good condition for eating. They smelt and tasted sweet, al- though 115 years in a tinned can had given them a slight •metallic flavor. The "tin cans" iru which fruit and vegetables were packed more than a century age were iron con- tainers coated inside with tin, and were first used by Bryan Donkin in England; he was one of the directing minds of Hall's Engineering Works which still carry on at Dartford, the oldest works of their kind in t'he country. Not all fruitscould be tinned then. however, as there was the danger of acids attacking the coating. The tin lining to -day is itself coated with a highly resistant chemical varnish or enamel which makes it possible to can any kind of food from a poached egg to a lobster's tail. Before the use of canned vegetables and fruits sailors suffered greatly from scurvy, caused by eating the salted meats and dried soups which were carried by ships. Some of the meat in the century - old can was eaten with great de- light by a cat in a laboratory. The label said that the tin should be opened with hammer and chisel, the word tin-opener not having yet come into existence. GENERAL IRONSIDE Chief of the Imperial Staff is seers. above in London going to the War • Office carrying his gas mask and a tin hat in case of sudden emergency. Lord Gert and General Ironside are the two men on whose shoulders the British have placed the responsibility of guarding the destinies of the British troops. SWEET CAPORA Tle p. e,t fe,a to phial teheate res he ardied" 1 THE WORLD'S GOOD NEWS will come to your home every day through THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Am international Daily Netuspaper xc records for YOU the World'. clean, constructive doings. The Monitor dose not exploit crime or sensation; neither does It ignore them. but deals eorrectivelr with them. Features for busy men and all the family, including the Weekly Magazine Section. 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