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The Clinton News Record, 1936-09-10, Page 6PAGE- 6' NEWS AND THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD) TIIURS., SEPT. 10, 1936 HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST Timely e Information for the y � a enof Bu �,r s Farmer ( Furnished by the Department of Agriculture ) Maple Sugar and Syrap will be a lot of after harvest cultiva- tion done this year in Ontario 'C t Canada's maple trees are estnnated to have yielded maple syrup and maple sugar to the value of $3,71.3,- 781 during the 1936 season, an;in- crease of 5,4 per cent. over 1935. The production of maple syrup' is placed at 2,022,719 gals., valued at $2,655,719 and the output of maple sugar is estimated.; at 9,231,803 pounds val- ued at $1,058,062. In 1935 'the pro- duction of maple syrup was'2,250,769 gallons valued at $2,782,275, while the maple' sugar production amounted to 6,538,960 pounds valued at $740,145. The 1936 season . was not quite so favourable as in 1935 in the Maritime Provinces and Ontario"because of unusual weather conditions with very. little frost,in the ground' and few night frosts, although in' some districts of Ontario there was :a,good run of sap, with syrup of excellent quality. Blacklist Dodder Dodder, a parasitic 'weed found in some, clover fields of the wanner sec- tions of .Ontario is to be put on the black list bytheDominion art- Depart- ment of Agriculture, seed authorities learn.' Seed of Dodder is described as found, about the same size as small' mustard and greyish brown or yellow in appearance. The plant is practically leafless and the small thread-like stems wind themselves a- bout the clover plant. It is under- stood that 'henceforth no clover seed `containing dodder will' be allowed sale in Canada. As most' clover seed importing countries have similar reg- ulations against the weed this means that any seed containing it will now be practically unsaleable. Farmers with dodder -infested fields are advis- ed to cut for' bay, and patches of the weed should be cut and burned. Warm open falls, with no early frost favor the spread of the weed. • Creamery Butter 'Grading In Effect September 1st All 'creamery butter sold in prints in Ontario, beginning September 1, must be marked according to grade and will be subject to rigid inspection by the staff of the Ontario Depart ment of Agriculture. The prints must be plainly marked and must adhere to the grade so marked. The grades will be as follows: First, Second and Third Grade, and No Grade. A creamery official stated that the step would be of great benefit both to the consumer and those creameries which have maintained a correct grading of butter voluntarily. Many creameries have been offering a First Grade butter for many years, he said, but some have been slipping . in Se- wn] Grade butter as First Grade. 'With close • inspection no only Would the grading be reliable land give the deligibiel' 8 better guarantee of iliicllit�ll' ilt it may also eliminate in.: - IS -roper storage of butter, which allows grades to deteriorate, Many creameries .have advocated the new regulations for some time and were largely responsible for thein being adopted by the government,. the local official said. The system of inspection will, be that government .insilectors will check ' butter wrapped and graded at cream- eries and also in stores where it is being handed over the counter. The latter. may eliminate improper stor- age, he said, as butter not kept- in refrigerators, or kept near fish' or other odorous merchandise will be - Come tainted and will not pass accord- ing to the grade marked. o.- Current Crop. Report Bruce County reports lamb prices holding up well and returns satisfac- tory. Hog prices although now closer in line with current feed prices, are still gratifying. The yield of oats in Huron County is rather disappointing, with averages from 20 to 25 bushels per acre. Dealers there• are paying 90 cents for barley and 95 cents for wheat delivered. Wellington has had some rain, described as a godsend to late potatoes, roots, pastures and to those now preparing for'fall wheat. Yields in Haldimand are generally' ' quite low, particularly spring crops. Total yields of 200 to 300 bushels on 100 -acre fauns are reported. 'Very few catches of. small seeds are in evi- dence and as a result there is a great deal of after -harvest cultivation being. carried on. A heavy increase in acre- age of fall wheat is contemplated. Lincoln County reports pullets com- ing into production. Roosters weigh- ing from 3 to 7 pounds are in demand ' .at present and (suite plentiful. The prevailing prices. for peaches there is now 40 cents for sixes, with best quality retailing at 50 cents. 'Pota- toes hold at around $1.75 Per bushel, cauliflower at $2.75 per dozen and large eabbage $1.50 pet' dozen. There arto -our y, The grain c: op Prince Edward is the smallest in years. -A large number of brood sows are being marketed each week and the demand for spring er and fresh cows keeps keen. In Vic- toria County the high price for malt- ing barley is satisfactory to some farmers, who have a fir. *yield of good quality. Alsike is being quoted, at around $8.00. Pastures there are showing improvement. Turnips and corn, as well as late buckwheat, will also be helped. Thebovine.. B. Free Area Campaign in Victoria is ‚progres- sing very well. York County reports light yields of inferior quality grain, with low feeding value. Corn Borer Increasing Various reports have appeared re- garding the' effect of the corn borer on the 1936 crop.' Apparently there has been considerably more activity on the part. of the moths than for several years past, and the- entomol- ogists emphasize the importance 'of a thorough clean-up of the corn fields in order to prevent a return of con- ditions as we had them in the corn - growing district mine ten years ago. The following paragraphs were writ- ten by George M. Stirrett, the Domin- ion Entomological Laboratory, Chat- ham: l An increase in the numbers of corn borers; in the present corn crop is indicated by, the number of moths in flight and the number of eggs laid per plant in experimental plots of the Dominion 'Entomological' Laborat- ory at Chatham during the present season. The moths observed' in the plots in- creased from 27 in 1934 and 29 in 1935 to 132 during the present year, while the number 'of eggs laid per plant"increased from: .5 in 1934 and 1.9 in 1935 'to 13.8 in the present year. It is too early yet to secure the mortality of larvae after, hatching, and before they become 'established in the corn plant. The infestation in the autumn depends to a large extent- upon xtentupon the success of the borer in en- tering the plant. However, at the present time, we know that during the• flight 'season this year more moths la4d considerably • more eggs per plant than during'the last two •years, The increase • in the , number of borers forecast above does not mean that the •corn crop will be ruined, and that we will have returned to -the con- clition of 1025=26. It means only that in some fields borers will be conspic Vous and do more damage than dur- ing the past two years, and that in other fields they will be more numer- ous but still do little drnaage. •There is a warning, however, in the predict- ed increase in that growers should re- alize that, although there will not be much commercial damage this year, the borer under favourable conditions, will increase markedly, and if two or r three such seasons occur in succession it may increase enough to ruin the crop if strict clean-up measures are not practised, year after year. �'�!i■■ti■■■■Y�i■i■Y■■�■�i■i ■■■"a■a■: fo•:■.i�■Yi ■■■•■Y■■�■■ti■i ■Y■•a•.•.■■•.i■ri■.:'� YOU WORLD AND MINE MINE r by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD 5 (Copyright) ■ i'■i,■■"■■■Y■•■.Y■WY■SYa■■S•■•.Y■•■'.■a"o■a■r■■"■VAB ■■.■MAYi i r'■ AVa I had occasion quite recently to be France; likewise discovered the way with a man connected with the alum- to make aluminon—by a process i- inum industry: I went to interview dentieal with Hall's. There was and him; to get a story' about the adver- is no question of one stealing the Using and sales practices of the Can- other man's idea. It is just an illus- adian makers of aluminum, but I tration of the fact that "great minds went away with more information a- in kindred Channels run." bout the metal, its history and ro- mance, and its uses than I took away in the way of knowledge concerning The mien who took up Hall's pat - how, aluminum is marketed. And now e» is established a large manufactur- I want to pass on to others what I learned about a metal which had not possessed such of my interest. I feel that the readers of The News -Record will find what I write interesting, and perhaps instructive., Aluminum, as most persons know,, is our lightest metal. In its pure sponsive. For one thing, the price form it is rather soft and perhaps' of was very high—about $5 a pound; for not much use. But when it is made another, steel was preferred: mann- into an alloy -90 % or more of alumin- factures knew how to use steel, did um and the remainder iron or copper not know how to' use aluminum. So. or some other metal—it becomes hard the makers of aluminum themselves and most usable. I do not know how had to become manufacturers of al- uminum products, and so they became competitors of the very firing whose custom they wanted. In the course of time other manufacturers began to appreciate aluminum , and., so bought it—in the form of aluminum alloys. The chief merits 'of the me - gra', fotiiii h]most everywhere, bKt it tal are; it is very light—about one - is iii brisk a few places and countries third the weight of steel or copper; it, where it occurs in such abundance is non-corrosive—to air or rain; and that it pays to mine it. One of the it is a good heat conductor and con- most productive countries is British doctor of electricity. Today the „pro Guiana in South America. There the ducts using aluminum are. many, for mineral is found in a pinkish -grayish example, cooking utensils, power cab - clay which is easy to dig and treat, les, chemical aparatus, architectural and which yields pure aluminum in details—girders and spandrels; airy liberal amounts. This clay or source craft, automobile parts, street car material is called "bauxite". This bodies, paint, collapsible tube contain- word is derived from the name of a el's,'washing machines, cream separ- place in France, where aluminum' is atoms, vacuum cleaners, chairs and also found. tables, ornaments. This is but a par- tial list. It is used for the wrapping Bauxite has not been found in Can- of 'candy, of tea, of cigars of chewing oda, though, of course it may be gunm, in the form of foiI, and for the some day. This bauxite is brought to insulation of; houses, trucks,. railway Canada frons South America to a ears and refrigerators: Indeed, it large plant in Quebec, at Arvida. Would take a good deal of space to There the clay is treated, in order td ' itemize all the uses of alumimrm. ing plant tomake aluminum.' They had plenty of vision. They ' saw many profitable uses for aluminium. They imagined that the world was just waiting for aluminum. But when they went to firms to sell the alum- inum, they found them quite unre- many varieties of alloys there are, but always the research men are finding out some new alloy with spe- cial properties, and so widening the commercial and industrial uses of al- uminum. Aluminum is a rather common ruin separate the aluminum. This plant in Quebec. is there because of the proximity of immense hydroelectric, power plants, for a. huge amount oi' electricity is equned to treat the'elay And here, perhaps, is the pla'c'e flit a little story. Away back in the 80's of last century a professor in a tech meal school or college inOberlin, Oh- io, said to his class that 8 fortune awaited the man who would discover a way py which to snake aluminum in commercial. quantities.This re- mark fired the imagination and am- bition and resolution of a youth in the class, and forthwith he set him- self the task of finding out a way by which he could make aluminum. At first he experienced, with chemi- cals, with no progress. Then he tried electricity. Electricityb was the right idea, and one day he found at the bot- tom of the vessel being used a few pellets of pure aluminum. Then he patented his process, and interested capitalists in them and his discovery. This young man, named Hall, became an employee. , He was given stock in the ;company which employed him, and in the course of the years he was promoted, until he became a high exe- cutive, and wealth was his reward. Just here I mention that almost sim- ultaneously a Frenchman, working' in Thad ate today aluminum shingles veijr light, and these shingles are parfifed to midi the Coloring of the, bhlding. Altilrliiiurgi paint has become largely ii"sed en both outside and in- side Whlls. The paint, microscopical- ly, is flaky, and the flakes overlap, so making a metal surface which sum and exposure:does not'injure. Orr in-- side is-side walls and on machines, the alum- inum surface given by paint makes I daylight last longerand so save's, money by reducing artificial light bills. I They make milk cans of aluminum, and beer barrels, and tank bodies for the trucks' of oil companies. For ex ample, a milk truck' with as capacity ! of 225 five -gallon milk cans would carry a load 1125 lbs lighter than the load would weigh if the milk cans " were made of, steel. The increasing weight and size of locomotives and railway cars and passenger cars was proving too much for . the rails over which they ran, and so locomotives and cars had to be Iightened, and this lightening was .accomplished by using, aluminum. Sky -scrapers were getting. too heavy for their foundations, and;;: sod as they grew taller, there was ne- cessity for reducing the weight 00 'foundations, So now they are using. 'aluminum girders: ,and spandr'el's to rOlacei steel and stone. They are building bridges with al- uminuns Aluminum is much used in the automobile indnstry—for cylinder heads in .engines and for engine eas- ings, and in the shafting. and gears. inercial use goes back only 45. It was discovered only abou years ago, whereas iron, copper, tin, gold, silver and numerous metals have histories going thousands of years. years, t 100 lead, other bbackThe minueral is 'found in almost every country. It is'present in the soil almost everywhere, 'but for min- ing purposes it has to be found in abundance. It is not }mined in Canada,. but bauxite from British Guiana .is brought -to a' reducing plant. in Que- bec, and there the annual production of aluminum is' enormous. The loca- tion of the reduction plant in Quebec province is because of the cheap and abundant hydroelectric power gener- ated in the'. St. John-Saugenay dis- trict. In this story of aluminum is an in- spirational message to young men. The young, Hall, who discovered a method of making aluminum on a commercialrcial scale worked in a wood- shed, with home-made apparatus, His intelligence, his industry and his reso- lution were rewarded, and his name is inscribed on the: world's honor roll of- benefactors. Goodyear, the dis- coverer of the way to 'use rubber in commerce, like Hall, was started on the way to .fame and fortune by a chance remark: someone suggested, in his. hearing, that a fortune await- ed the'man who found a way to make rubber usable in commerce. So Good- year set about the business of stak- ing this discovery. He tried dor years to find a way, and was in debt often, and was imprisoned for debt; yet in the end he triumphed. And so one could go on and on telling of the effort of youth and young men to solve the hard problems of the world —often without capital. I suggest to my young readers that they should read the lives of famous inventors and discoverers. Thus they may be' inspired to attempt great things, and it is in attempting that one, achieves and attains, Aluminum is a metal whose coiii- FARMERS Vengeance is Mine By J. C. LENEHttN There was a• twisted smile on to Englandthirsting for revenge. Ralph Warner's ,sallow face as he put down his pen and read what he had written=his own obituary •no- tice: "Died .suddenly ." he muttered with 'a little shiver of fear. "That ought to keep John. Preston in New 'York•.for good. I'll see that a copy of the paper reaches him. The notice will have td be contradicted in the next issue, but Preston, won't get a copy of that." ' The scheme couldn't ,possibly go wrong No one really knew him in this little country village, six- miles from the nearest town. The manag- ing editor of the local paper would insert a prepaid notice without any attempt at verification. Rarely did such a notice need to be verified. Warner ,took from his wallet •a. letter addressed to his London home,, and his face went white with anger Soon .after the receipt of .the let- ter, Warner had purchased the little cottage. His original idea had .been to -use it as a -funk-hole, but gradu- ally he had lost faith inthe plan. Preston was sure to find him where - ever he hid. Two clays ago he had. come here to:plot 'ways and means— and the obituary notice was the re- sult. He hurried outto where his car was housed. The patch of ground belonging to the cottage was sosmall that, when the garage had been er- ected, , the " short; drive • which led clown to the road,had to be construct- ed over and around the old disused Well that had formerly supplied the needs of the cottage. • On his way to the provincial town, Warner's brain 'was busy testingthe scheme at every point. He . would and dismay as he scanned it for the have to pay .someone to take the' thousandth time, obituary notice to the newspaper of- fice, • Tomorrow he himself would . A swine like.you is not fit to call on the managing editor.` He live," John Preston had written. "Dri- would be just a little indignant and ven you wife to suicide ...'My little very sarcastic. The 'managing editor would offer apoolgies In town he had little difficulty in finding a man willing to deliver the obituary notice for aconsideration. Much safer than writing: Highly satisfied, he returned to the cottage sister, Edna . . the only relative I 'had. And you've got all her money now. That's what you wanted, of course. But I loved that little sis- ter of urine, and when my present contract expires --and it will expire in less than six months—I am com- ing over to England. . You can then begin to say your prayers. Don't at- tempt to hide: I. shall find you where- ever you are. And when I do .. . Blisters of sweat stood out • on Warner's brow as he tore the letter into fragments which he threw on the fire. Had he dared, he would have shown it to the police. If only preston knew, if only the police knew, that he had helped -physically helped—with the suicide! What would Preston say if he knew that Edna's place seemed likely soon to be filled by another? Joyce Dunning. Splendid girl. An heiress, too. How . cold she bad seemed until Edna had died, but how quickly she had warmed up after that. Obvious- ly an opportunist like himself. The letter had been written four months ago. In less than two months John Preston would be coming over and '.drove the car into the garage' Most of his thoughts were now with Joyce Dunning: Presently he opened the door of the cottage and: stepped in inside. stele. His darting gaze. alighted on :a buff envelope lying on the floor . of • :the tiny hall. From Joyce, probably. Getting a0)1100s, no. doubt. His eyes narrowed and' gleam-- ed, and then opened wide •as ize read' the four words of the message—four words: wordsR'and the signature... He made, • his way to a little sit- ting -room, where he sank heavily ins a chair. Again he stared at the sheet: of paper that 'danced before his eyes. Handed in at a London post -office: about an hour ago. The boy he had. met on the red bicycle? Must have, been coining to. the cottage with the telegram. Starting now! A three hours' run, from London. In another two hours Preston would be at the cottage. Or - would he arrive sooner? With Pres- ton, one never knew. In, the..letter- he had said six months, yet only four months had passed. Why was- he coming two months before his.' time? As he .disposed of the letter, so. now Warner dealt with the telegram. Then he went to a cupboard and helped himself to a stiff ' brandy.. His hand was fairly steady as he lowered the empty glass from his: lips. Again he filled the glass . Thoughts, like worms in a tin, coil. (Continued on page 7) From all Stations in Eastern Canada GOING DAILY —SEPT. 19 to OCT. 3 inclusive Return Limit: 45 days TICKETS GOOD IN • COACHES at fares approximately leper mile. • TOURIST SLEEPING CARS at fares approximately 13.ic per mile. • STANDARD SLEEPLNG CARS at fares approximately, Ilia per mile. COST OF ACCOMMODATION IN SLEEPING CARS ADDITIONAL BAGGAGE Checked. 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