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The Clinton News Record, 1936-02-13, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., FFB,, U , I9,3G" N 0 INTEREST TO FARMER they could not hear the speaker. 'irnely ,Information for the d Busy Farmer Furnished by the Department of Agriculture ) Elgin County was the leader in the Western Ontario' district for the highest ,percentage of first grade cheese in 1935 with Oxford in second place. Oxford was first for the high- est average score with Perth in se- cond place, according t o Frank Herns, chief dairy inspector for Wes- tern Ontario. •' The application of fertilizers to plants through -the air instead of the soil is foreshadowed by Dr. Earl S. Johnston of the Smithsonian. Institu- tion. He had conducted an experi- ment in which he said wheat produc- ed better by feeding it large quanti- ties ofcarbon' dioxide, a common con- stituent of air. The experiment show- ed wheat plants which received about four times as much carbon dioxide as is normally present in air.produe- ed more and heavier heads, more grains, and heavierstraw than plants grown in air alone. Market For Toronto Hon. Duncan Marshall, Ontario Minister of Agriculture, has announe- .ed a committee headed by Paul Fish- er of Burlington, an official of the Ontario Vegetable Growers' Associa- tion, is investigating his proposal for a $1,000,000 wholesale fruit and vege- table market in Toronto. Mr. Fisher has visited( Montreal ' and Detroit to inspect similar mar- kets; and presented the Minister with an interim report. After a full report has been made Mr. Marshall will call a meeting of growers in the latter part of Febrn- .ary to go further into the proposal, The plan is to have this market near the waterfront in Toronto and pro- vide under one roof facilities for growers disposing of vegetables and fruit. Mr. Marshall said some time ago the main problem connected with the ' project was one of `finance, and at that . time he indicated the Provincial Government would not likely make a contribution. The Plowing Match Effort§ are being made by organ- izations in Guelph to ,secure the ,In- ternational Plowing match for' 1937. • This event is to be held this year near Cornwall and the custom is to alter- nate between eastern and western Ontario. There has been a steady growth in the number of entries in the ploughing match since it was organ- ized in 1918. This grown; in the number of entries has been paralleled by a corresponding increase In at- tendance. For the first two years, the ,match was held at Sunnybrook Farm, .Toronto,' with 32 and 29 entries, re- gpectively. By 1919, when the contest was held at Qhathani, and tractor competitions • wore introdueed, the number had risen to 90, while two. years later at Woodstock it jumped to 216. • When the competition was held at Stratford in 1930 there were 439 en- trants, and last year at Haldimand County, near Caledonia, there were 544, Clover! and Grass Seeds A fair demand Continues for most items • and prices have changed little during the past month. There is still available in eastern Ontario some 360,000 poundsof red clover, 250,000 of alfalfa, 50,000 of alsike, 300,000 of sweet clover and 2,000,000 pounds of timothy in principal pro- duction localities. AIsike is in par- ticularly good demand at the present time with little available and tim- othy and red clover are in stronger demand at present than alfalfa and sweet clover. Prices _tp growers.basecl on cleaning to no. 1 grade range from Inc to 15c for red clover; 10c to 13e for alfalfa and 31/20 to 5c for timothy.Most of the good alsike has already . been sold and thatremaining is. selling at from 10c to 15c per pound. Ih south-western Ontario thnothy is plentiful but mostly of the lower grades due to off colour. and hulling, Some 4,000,000 lbs. are estimated in this part of the province. The alfalfa and alsike has' nearly all moved to the trade. Red clover is being thresh- ed steadily and is in fair demand. Prices paid growers based' on cleaning to no. 1 grades range from 10e to 12c per pound for red colver; 14c to 16c for alfalfa; 12c to 15c for alsike; 3c to 4%c for sweet clover; 3c to 41hc for timothy and 3% to 4e for country run Canadian blue glass. There is still some seed in north- western Ontario in the Ox -drift and Emo districts, possibly 13,000 pounds of red clover, 55,000 pounds of al - slice and some mixtures. A large quantity of timothy-alsike mixtures is reported in northern Ontario but a great deal • of it is low grade owing to immaturity. Corn Borer Threatens The corn growers of Southwestern Ontario are ,viewing with more or less alarm the amount of corn still standing and the absence of clean-up measures in some fields that should haave been instituted last fall in or- der to control the corn borer. The borer has not been so prevalent the past two or three years, but it has by no means been eliminated, and there were, enough borers in the corn last fall to create a real menace to the crop next year if the weather should be favourable at the bine the moths are emerging. At a meeting of the Ontario Corn Growers' Association the following resolutipn was endorsed: "Whereas it is the considered opinion of the Ontario Corri 'Growers' Association that control measures as recommend- ed by those in charge of the admin., istration of the Act are important factors in the control of the corn borer we respectively ask that muni- cipal, and county councils in tho corn growing areas urge the ratepayers to Blake every effort to effect a highly satisfactory cleanup of the large 1938 crop an unusually large percentage of which remained standing as winter approacheed. With this in mind we would further recommend that the county corn borer inspectors com- mence activities immediately and by so doing render valuable service to the individual grower and to the far- mers of Southwestern Ontario gen- erally, ' Breeding Troubles Following long winters with deep snow, as this winter promises to be, a great deal of trouble is unusually experieneed with hairlessness i n young pigs, goitre in calves and lambs,. and joint ill in foals, It is suggested that these troubles may, be traced to a lack of iodine in the thy- roid gland of the pregnant female, and losses from this cause may be a- voided by feeding iodine, in the form of potassintil iodide, Potassium iodide has a generally stimulating effect, toning up the' whole system, and exerts a parti- cularly strong influence on the gen- erative organs, Females which are apparently' non -breeders -will often become pregnant after this drug has been administered for a few months. For cows, dissolve two ounces of potassium iodide in a cup of warn water: sprinkle this solution over 100 pounds of salt spread evenly and in a thin layer en a clean floor, and mix well. When the salt is dry, place. it in a box where the animals have free access to it. For ewes, -• foliow the same method as for cows, For sows, dissolve one ounce of potassium iodide crystals in one gal- lon of water, and mix one tablespoon- ful per sow daily in the feed or drinking water., For mares, give each mare a half teaspoonful of pot- aissum iodide in .thc feed grain or water on the first and fifteenth of each month. "A.V'.•.Yr,•r"`.".v:'S,■o .°.•r.•.': a r.'u".W'.•r.•,l'.•.'r■■.•.■r.■.•.'.•.'.■r w.ra„4[- M ■."a i aYAN'iiY.Y4%■.•.•°"r■e"w° NISI"s"eWn■r i's'iiNVi .■a''AM.r lit A Sail ee YOUR WORLD AND MINE by JOHN C. KIRKW©OD (Copyright) "The first requirement is that he seats.' For over an hour he talked, shall be heard." This was the con' and even those in the front rows had ment made by a man, who, from the nature of his occupation, has to lis- ° ten to a great many lecturers and, speakers—at conventions, dinners, clubs and .small -group meetings. He was speaking particularly of a doctor who addressed an audience of 1000 in a room notoriously hard to speak in. This doctor could not be heard by hose behind the first 4 or'5 rows of to be most attentive to hear the speaker. I suppose that every reader of this contribution to The News -Record will agree that the first duty of a public speaker is that he shall snake him- self heard by all his audience, They will likely agree with this view be- cause they must have sat in rooms and in a place in these rooms where.; o The man who was complaining to me told nye of a very famous Scots- man—a very learned man—who was brought to Toronto by the University of Toronto to give a series of three lectures on Sir Walter Scott — this Iwo years ago, when the centenary of Scott's death was widely celebrat- ed. This man, speaking in Convoca- tion Hall, had, the first night, a very large audience, because his lecture was well advertised. But he, could not lip heard. He readhis lecture, and he spoke to the reading desk rather than to his audience, andhe spoke softly. The second' lecture was at- tended by very few, and the third lecture by a still smaller company. This; man was brought all the way from Scotland to Toronto, and when he got on the platform, he could not be heard! Probably the chief offenders among public speaker' — offenders because they do not make themselves heard— are professional men, and among professional men doctors' are great sinners. I have heard, about scores of doctors who, when they speak in public or at banquets or at gather- ings of doctors, can be heard only a few feet away. And if my informa- tion is 'right, doctors taken as a class are as keen as children in their de- sire to be seen and to talk. 1 But not to talk for just 15. or 20 minutes. They want to talk for an hour or two hours, even when the time assigned them on programmes is specified. These long talkers seem to lose all sense of judgment and courtesy when they get on their feet. They profess to forget that there are other speakers to follow them. They are like a baulky horse in the sense that they can't be budged when they get on their feet. A man given 20 minutes will take an hour or longer, and he is likely to be exceedingly tedious. I heard two good stories about men who stole the time of others without apology or shame. Here is one of these stories: A man was asked to speak at some church gathering. He was to be the only speaker. He was a famous man, a fine speaker, with a subject of such interest that a churchful of people' were present to hear him. The chairman, the minister of the church, saw in the audience a former pastor of the congregation, and before cal- ling on the guest speaker, he invited the former pastor to the platform, saying that he felt sure that every- body would be glad to hear a few words from Brother Jones. Brother .tones was delighted to get on the platform, and to talk. He talked tin - 111 nearly 10 o'clock, and when he sat down, he was as proud as Punch: he. had excelled himself, Then the guest speaker arose, and said that because of the lateness of the hour he ,would not give_his ad- dress, but would just tell a story. "There were two men," he said, "who were discussing the fate of a man charged with murder. 'He will be hanged for certain', said one of the men. The other said he would not. And the argument waxed hot. Finally the man who said that the murderer would be hanged asked the other why he wouldnot be hanged. 'Because they don't hang men in New York State,' the other replied,. "They kill 'em by elocution(' " • The other story goes back to war days. In: Toronto at noon an invited party of rich znen were at a luncheon whose purpose was ' to get pledges from those present to buy war bonds. To get them worked up to a pitch of enthusiasm a well-known Baptist minister of Toronto had been invited to be the speaker—an eloquent man of large influence. Just when the luncheon was over, and when the chairman Was about to eall on the Baptist Minister to begin his talk,, there walked in on the gathering a former financial minister of Canada. The chairman felt obliged to ask him to say a few words The visitor spoke for 40 minutes —this at noon- day, anis before he sat down, there began a departure of those assembled to hear the Baptist minister. When the minister arose he said that eitiee' the tune for the gathering had Coble to an end, he would just tell a story. "A southern coloured man,"( lie said, "sent his son to the State agticitltar- al college, When the son had receiv- ed his degree, and had returned home to stay, his father said to him, 'Soh, what did you learn,. at colleget' 'I learned,' said the Son,' 'how to fatten hogs in half the tinte required by old ways of feedings 'Soft', said the father, 'if that's au you learned, T wasted money in sending you to' col- lege, for what's ' time to a hog'" I am told that these two nen - ' the . former financial minister of Canada and the Baptist minister --- are not now bis speaking terfnsl 'My object in writing kbetit 90blic speakers is to inform all of them who reap this oontiibutieli 16The News-lieco'd that, first of all;' • they ought to make sure that then can be heard over all the Midler/6e chamber when they are addressing a company; and second, that they aught to find Ut in advance the precise 'amount DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD Dr. E. Benes, the new President of the Czechoslovak Republic, has for many -years been :Preident of the Czechoslovak Boy Scouts Associa- tion. .. A Roumanian. Honour Per B. -P. The highest Roumanian Scout 'de- coration, the Virtutea Cercetaseasca (Scout Virtue), has been awarded by of time allowed them for their a'd- dr'ess, and Oen stick rigidly to this amount of time. Public speakers owe much to their audiences. They owe it to them to go prepared in relation to their sub- ject, and to be as •interesting as pos- sible, and to avoid all , mannerisms which annoy listeners—playing with a pencil or a rubber band, by way of example; or . heming and hewing. They owe it to their audience not to be tedious. I am hoping that what I have writ- ten will penetrate into • the con- sciousness of some public speakers who read what I have written, and that they will resolve to getrid of their faults as public speakers. Then, too, what I have written ought to make those who listen more acutely 'conscious of the sins of public speak - eras. And here is a point for those who issue ' invitations to speakers: get good speakers—those whocan be heard and who can talk interestingly, in preference to men with great names who are "dud" speakers who can't be heard and who; are tedious. Just another story: . A minister staying at a country home in Western Ontario preparatory to attending an evening meeting in the local church where he was to be the principal speaker, would take no supper before the meeting, declaring that he spoke better on an empty stomach. When the meeting was over, his host re- turned to his home and his wife ask- ed how the minister spoke. "He'd bet- ter have et" was the disgusted reply. His Majesty King Carol I to. Lord Baden-Powell, International Scout Leader Honoured The highest Roumanian Scout dec- oration, the Virtutea Ceretaseasca, has been awarded by His Majesty King Carol II to Mr. Hubert Martin, the International Scout Commission- er. Scout Good Turns In Jerusalem Stories of the colourful gathering of pilgrims at Jerusalem for ` the Christmas services and festivities make mention of Palestinian Boy Scouts in the well known dress, ex- cept for a flowing turban. The boys acted as guides, and in other ways made themselves useful to the throng of visitors. The "Bronze Wolf" Official announcement has ' been made by the . International Commit- tee of the Boy Scouts Association of the institution of a new world-wide Scout decoration, the "Bronze Wolf." The new award is somewhat similar In form to the "Silver Wolf" of the British Empire; the ribbon is dark green with a narrow edging of yen- ta*. The new decoration will be a- warded•by the International Commit- tee for exceptional services to world Scouting. Scouts' "Thanks Badge" Made Good The Boy Scout "Thanks Badge," given by a Scout unit in appreciation of outstanding help received from an individual, carries the promise of service to the wearer if needed. When a blood transfusion was required for Dr. W. H. Wildfang of Tillsonburg, Ont,, the wearer of a Thanks Badge, gravely wounded in a hunting acci- dent and brought to the Kincardine hospital, every member of the Kin- cardine Rover Scout Crew volunteer- ed. Three having the right blood type were used, and the patient's life was saved. OUR VETERANS ARE DIFFERENT Leading Canadians constantly point out that, because of our geographical situation, anything happening in the United States, is, in some degree im- portant to p us in Canada.' We read American newspapers and magazines. We sea American motion pictures. We listen to American radio programmes. Without knowing it, we absorb day after day countless American influ- ences, many of them no doubt, good; others, quite definitely not so good. This being the case, it is not sur- prising that, here and there in Can- ada, individuals are beginning to talk about the recently adopted leg- islation . at Washington which will pay a lump sum bonus to amen who served in the American Expeditionary Forces between 1917 and 1919. Some of this opinion is frankly envious, and there are people who, without think- ing, express the view that if this bonus is to be paid in the United States, something of the same sort might be done in Canada. It seems to be the part of sound judgment at this moment to point out that circumstances in this country are entirely different. Our Canadian veterans were much more generously treated at demobilization than Am- erican soldiers. Our pension system is more generous, too, and, most im-• portant of all, the .basic spirit • and temperament of Canadian veteran or- ganizations is vastly different from that of the American veteran body which, after years of vigorous, some- times drastic, political campaigning, has smashed the bonus vote through Congress over the Presidential veto. Canadian veteran organizations have never played politics, and that, we think, is to their credit. They have concerned themselves entirely with the personal welfare of the vet- eran, not threatening, not attacking parliaments, or individuals in high places, but seeking facts, presenting evidence in orderly fashion, always avoiding extravagant words or ac - 'tions which lead only to antagonism, even in victory. The conduct of our veterans has, ever since the war, been admirable. Much of this consiliatory co-operative spirit is due to the nature of the or- ganizations pledged to forward the welfare of the Canadian ex -service man.. The oldest; of therm all, The. Army and Navy Veterans in Canada, hasm record, of. ninety-six years be- llied it • Fenian Raid, 'Reil Rebelion,. and' Bber,war veterans were members. of this organizatino many generations before 1914. With such a tradition., behind them,. Canadian veterans are• less disposed toward political exces- ses, than those ambitious young ;nen of the United States, Our veterans. are different. Official figures havejust been is- sued showing that the prepared foods, indusjry"in Canada in 1934 produced 53,543,360 pounds of prepared foods. (corn flakes; bran flakes, wheat.. flakes, shredded wheat, muffets, and force) valued at '$7,670,510; unpre- pared cereal products $591,200; stock,. and poultry foods $249,738, and oth- er products $280,964. Such unpre- pared cereals as oatmeal and rolled' oats, which are exclusively produced in the flour milling industry, are not: included, in these figures. The total amount of branded beef' sold in Canada during December 1935. was 2,677,165 pounds. POULTRY EQUIPMENT- . The- reliability of Jameaway posh*.eqquipment bas become eo well known that . damesway Hatched" ie equivalent to a guaruntee of quality. Besides incubators, C.anada'sleadingpoultry- men use the Jamoaway oil and coal burning • brooders. (now reduced is price) battery brooders. feeders and waterers of all kinds,. steel nests, laying cages, oat apraaters, oat germinators and complete brooder houses. Manufacturers ()tall hinds of sheet metalballdang materials Buy bom yowl oral ism eswaydealer crwritedIrecita Factories also at Montreal and Toronto J 1 Rerneber!!! That The Best Goods are al- ways Advertised. Therefore, if You wish to secure the Best Value for your money. Look Carefully Through the ADVERTISEMENTS in this Newspaper CALL ON THE NEWS -RECORD FOR YOUR PRINTING. 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