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The Clinton News Record, 1936-09-24, Page 6'PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORIE THURS., SEPT. 24, 1936 NEWS AND HAPPENINOS Timely Information for the Busy Farmer '( Furnished by the Department of Agrieul re) Plan Speaking Contest Asa special feature in connection with the club contests to be con- ducted at the Royal Winter " Fair next November, a public speaking contest was planned at a meeting ,qf the Executive Committee of the Canadian Council on Boys' and Girls' Club Work. This public speaking contest will be open to boys who are members of organized' junior clubs. The age Limits are from 18 to 20 years in- clusive. The number of contestants: is limited to one from each , pro- vince. The subject matter of each address is to be related to the op- portunity' or position of youth in agriculture, with some reference to club work. The contest will be con- ducted under the direction of the Canadian Council. It is intended to expand and im- prove the display of club exhibits of seed grain and potatoes. Corn clas- ses are being provided this year for the first time, The regular club project contests will _be conducted in much the samemanner as in 1936 and the same six projects will be in- cluded — dairy cattle, beef cattle, poultry, seed grain and seed pota- toes. Seed Selection Important While Canada as a whole will har- vest a light grain crop this year, fortunately there are normal crops throughout the Maritime' Provinces, in Quebec, and in certain areas of the other provinces. However, these crops will scarcely offset the short- ages which exist in other parts of the country: B y judicious planting even a light crop may be used so advantag- oously that n o serious inconven- iences will be entailed. In so plan- ning, first thought must be given to the seed supply for the following year, he explained. Indeed, seed supply is the prime consideration whether the crop be light or abun- dant. When, as in 1986, the bulk of grain from which seed is to be se- lected is much less than normal, the matter of seed selection id para- mount and should receive the early and careful consideration of farmers. Some crops harvested may be al- most entirely unfit for seed awing to lack of weight or because of in- jury to germination through weath- ering, but _on most Canadian farins, at least part of the grain harvested will be of a quality fit for seed, if properly cleaned and, graded; Farmers who take stock of their grain supply soon after harvest and reserve, wherever possible, a portion of the best quality of thein wheat, oats, barley or other grain for seed next year 'will not only benefit them- selves, but will perforin a valued public service, Threshing—An. Important Phase of Crop Production Threshing is one of the most im- portant operations in crop produc- tion,The product of a whole year's laisour ~is handlgd several times ' the threshing crew, and in less than one minute frdm the time the shea- ves are delivered into the ;feeder the 'drill is threshed from the heads, inIlifaced. cleaned, cc�eiglied aha at, livered into the bae'a oi! granary": ' ri cart, samiefore, be seen that the re- sponsibility of the thresher is very great. Considerable experience is neces- eary in order to operate a machine successfully when threshing the var- ious crops and under the constantly varying conditions that are met with. It is very important that the thresher possess a knowledge of the principles, operation and adjustment of the machine, a well set machine running at correct speed, a cylinder and concaves with a full set of straight new teeth. Concaves, chaf- fer, sieves and wind blast should be properly adjusted : A weed screen the width of the shoe and as long as it will permit together with steady even -feeding are important factors in improving the efficiency of the. threshing machine and the quality of work being; done. It is now necessary for every threshing machine in the province to be registered before starting opera- tions, also for the threshing machine and all equipment to be thoroughly cleaned before moving. This legislation has been enacted. by the Department of Agriculture with a view to improving the condi- tion of the thresher and his machine, thereby assisting in the control of weeds and improving the quality of the work being done. A registered, well equipped, • clean threshing outfit is an .indication t� the farmer that the operator is inter- ested and efficient and should lead ;to more business, revenue and pro- fits. The co-operation of every thresh - ex is solicited in improving this im- portant phase of crop production and in helping to place it on a snore profitable basis, Plowing Motel Plans 'Prather definite indications that the 24th annual International Plow ing Match and F.a3.ror Machinery 'Dein- onstration to be held at Cornwall, Ont., from 'Oct, 6 to 9 was to be "the. biggest and best ever' were receiv- ed eceived this week by 1 .A. Carroll, .Sec- retary -Manager of the Ontario Plow- men's Association, in the form of an unprecedented number ofapplica- tions for exhibition space in the con- cession area. "This year's 'Tented. City,', as the area is always known," stated Mr. Carroll, "will house the largest and most complete exhibition of farm implements and equipment that has ever been assembled hi Canada," He said that the committee had found it necessary to revise the ground plan for the "Tented City" so that it' could readily be expanded to accommodate the many exhibitors who were applying for space. More than 30 industrial and agricultural organizations bad been granted con- cessions, Mr .Carroll stated, as well as a great many to' concessionaires whose chief concern would be to see that the vast throng of 100,000 per- sons who will attend the match are well-fed. Of the many new features being introduced at this year's thatch which are expected to attract wide inter- est and attention, Mr. Cdrroll re- marked, are the demonstrations to be given by ex -champion plowmen and Dr. E. S. Hopkins, chief of field msbandry for the Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture. The plow demonstrations by exper- enced match plowmen and capable. demonstrators will be conducted each day near the match headquar- ters. eadquarters. Differences between types of plows will be explained and plow ettings will be discussed and actu- ally demonstrated . This year will be the • first time this feature has een included an the program of the International Match, Mr. Carroll ointed out. Laud will be, provided at a conven- ent location' on which manufacturera will demonstrate agricultural imple- ments of every description and the 'exercise paddock" for high-spirited ut controllable tractors will again e a feature of interest. Multiple -hitch demonstrations, con- isting of three to five horses work - ng in one team, properly hitched and riven, will be given each afternoon nd the different operations exhibit - d by competent experts. s b p b b d a e BRIGHT PROSPECTS FOR CANADIAN HAY, BRITAIN The market for . Canadian bay in Great Britain looks very favorable at the present time. Latest reports indicate that not mare than 40 per cent of the available . hay crop hi utip,)and can be considered good, due to the continuous wet and ineiement weather during the spring and sum- mer. Norway will be a factor in the control of the nicU ket, the Norwegian. Gni sbp- Ibis year doing i?'artarteit fig excellent, although prices at present appear to be too high to effect any business. .1- la' Motorists Can Save Money By Buying Licence Plates Early To strike a bright;. 'colorful note during Coronation year, automobile license plates for 1937 will .display, white crowns' on a military scarlet background, it has been officially an -1 pounced. Following the system started last year, the license plates for the new year will be available on Nov. 1 The! system was designed : to stimulate purchase during the period of en -1 thusiasm aroused by the display of. the new models during the annual motor show and also to savemotor ists several' thousands dollars in' transfers fees. i In addition, motorists purchasing cars during the last two months of the year will save the half -yearly fee formerly collected during these two The Canadian Animal Products Trade Commissioner in London, Eng- land, writes that a well-known Bri- tish buyer of horses is expected to sail for Canada in September with the object of buying heavy -work Can- adian horses for shipment to the United Kingdom. NEWS OF HAPPENINGS IN THE COUNTY AND DISTRICT HENSALL: Death claimed Mrs, Edward .Sheffer ,on Saturday a re- sident of Hensall for over 60 years. She was in her 81st year. Before her marriage she was Belle I--Ianna and was born on the Bronson line in Stanley . township, daughter :of Janes and Mary Batma. She had been °ill about one week.' Surviving ;are .a daughter and a son, Mrs. (Dr.) W .H. Reid, of Port Rowan, and William, Toronto.. There are also two grand- children and i;nree great-grandchild- ren. Tire funeral was held on Tues- day morning' at 7 o'clock with ser- vice in St Bomsiface Church, Zurieh, and burial at the St. Bonifice Ceme- tery, HOWICK: A county constable, de- tailed on a chicken thieving case, vouches for this one: Two strange men last week .called •on a Howlett Township farmer's wife, seeking to buy her flock of chickens. There was no deal. They called again next day and still no sale. Next morm- ing the chickens were gone—stolen,, but in walking about the barnyard, the woman spied a wallet lying on the ground. Examination showed it to contain $400. No one has since called to claim the money, and at the farm things are going along just about as usual, EXETER:—According to the terms of the will of Mrs. Grace Hooper, of Exeter, who passed away recently, the Centralia United Church benefits to the extent of $1,000. Mrs. Hooper who before her marriage was Miss Grace Oke, had lived in the Centralia community practically all her life and had been a devoted member of the United Chuch there until her removal to Exeter a few years ago; WINGHAM:—Lost in a field for a period of almost 35 years, a gold watch was found by Norman Voisin, son of Mr, Frank Voisin, who lives on the 12th concession • of Culross Township. It was while stooldng oats that the time piece was picked up. Upon telling some of the neighbors it transpired the watch was lost 35 years ago by Sam Lindsay, who formerly owned that farm. The case of 14 -karat gold stood the test well, but the works' suffered.—Advnace Times. DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD Detroit Police. Head On Scouting "We feel that the Scout Movement has done more than any other one factor in reducing juvenile and youth crime and misdemeanor in Detroit." —Chief Inspector Charles Rhodes, of the Detroit police force, at Ebor Park Scoutmasters' training centre, Ont. • Seuot Leaders Of 12 Countries Traits Together -Scout leaders fromtwelve different countries and parts of the Empire were numbered in the 118th Training Course at Gilwell Park, England, this. summer. The Scouters came from Belgium, Leichtenstern, Egypt, Swe- den, Switzerland, Holland, France, Ceylon, Malaya, Kenya and Southern. Rhodesia, and Canada. Only 3 Out of 30,000 Were Sondes In the course of a tribute to the effectiveness of Boy Scout training during it discussion Of juvenile d'eI- inqueney at the world conference of Rotarians at Atlantic City, Dr. Amos 0. Squires of Ossining, N.Y., stated that statistics showed only 3 out at every 30,000 criminals had ever k!e@n. poy Scouts. __AI 1�, I, t s a __ «..'T Tailnutte Scouts Give Their Bl'ood'. During Wastes • Epidemic Eight Rover Scouts of Heston and Isleworth, London, have been present- ed certificates with the seal of the Borough Corporation, in recognition% of the giving of immunized blood dur- ing an epidemic of measles. Serum,, from the blood was used to protect patients convalescing from diphther-• is and scarlet fever, for which cases' the after -results of measles are dans geous. The Rovers, all recovered measles cases, offered themselves - when the medical authorities were unable to secure the desired blood. from the usual transfusion sources:, 13 "Kings" Meet -13 "Eagles"' Thirteen icing's Scouts from differ- ent places in Alberta and thirteen, Eagle Scouts from Montana took a• prominent part in an international' friendship programme at the Water- ton Glacier Peace Park during the - summer. An International Goodwill Cornmitte of Canadian. and American Scout leaders was formed to arrange for future international' gatherings at the Peace Park. Horse dealers in S'eotland speak highly of the contingent of the 84 heavy Canadian horses shipped from Montreal in July. The horses were sold in Perth, the highest prices be- , ing. $440, $485, $410, and $400, most- I iy for .Clydesdales. The average price for the 84. horses ranged about $315.' INTEREST TO FARMERS "ORDEAL FIRE" By Harold Markam "A distinguished guest-" Fire- man Joe Crouch read aloud from the "Clearstowe Courier" for Sub-Offi-. eer Woodgate's edification, as they sat waiting for other people's hooses to catch alight. "Sig -nee -or Angelo Car-wriggly-etty, however he pro- nounces that lot, the fatuous `'opera singer. And he's making a short stay at .the Metropole Hotel and last time he sang for the films he got two thousand bloomin' quid. How's that, Tim'? A hundredth part of that old blighters screwed about put you on velvet, ell?" Tim nodded. Twenty pounds would pay for a ,.course of instruction for the Institute of Fire Engineers'' ex- am, xam, and passing this would mean be- ing able to write "A.M.I Fire E." after his name, 'with the chance of a brigade of his own; and a bri- gade of . his .own would mean enough salary for a house of his own and Mollie, to whom he'd been engag- ed for the last :three years. "It's taken hie over a year to save half that," he said gloomily. "And now the Council's talking of cuts in officers' pay!" "Blighters!" "Oh, 'tisn't their fault. It's what the last mob let them in for, that Lido and dance hall and so on. Well, if that's all the news in our local rag, Joe, I'm going to wire on those couplings." As he went through the appliance room to the shops at the back of the station a little, black -coated man with. thin sandy hair accosted him. "Excuse me, sir, but can you as- sist me in finding Mr. Joseph James Cranch?>, "In' there." Tint jerked his thumb at the watch -room door and went on. Five minutes later:, in the middle of wiring the coupling on to a new length of hose, the bang of the shop door interrupted hint and, looking tip he found Joe, breathless, white as plaster and trembling behind him. "Tint!" He croaked hoarsely, "Read this.!" The typed letter was a cruel docs - pNwwr. �. nient. It was about a cottage bought on the instalment plan and an old women who was to be to be turned out of it. "Y'see?" Joe spoke between his teeth. "That's my mother, Tim, Thirty. quid or go --and all my fault!" "Yours? How?" "Hail the stuff last week. Backed a cert that'd have cleared off the full purchase price, Carne in last" nodded, then locked'up, "I've that teener if that'd help," Before Joe could answer there eau e the whirring brazen clang of the a- larm, and hi less than 90 seconds both of then were on No .1 machine rac- ing through the town. In another 30 seconds the escape was un -shipped before' a blazing house, Joe and a mate on the windlass and Tim on the "levers" and its topmost ladder on a level with the roof before either pro- perly .realized it . was the Metropole Hotel. "Enough!" Tim shouted. "Come on Joe!" and the two went up at the double. A cloud of smoke wrapped them in a fog of poisonous redish- grey. A jointwas under Tim's foot then another. Sweat and grime ran down his face. From below carne the staccato jangle of another bell, then another, then a third. A tongue of flame snatched at him from a broken window and the hair, shriveled on the backs of his hands, Now he saw the sky through a rift in the smoke; now he'd one leg over the parapet and now he stood on the roof. "Oh, Santa Baibara! Oh, pietosis- sima Santa Barbara, Patronessa di Pompier! Salvame, salvame, subito!" A fat man, dressed only in shirt and trousers, was kneeling with his hands clasped, his eyes rolling and tears streaming clown his- face. "Stop that noise!" snapped Tim. "Can't you see there are wonmen Here? Joe, Ransome, Smithers- Get those women clown and make it snappy!" "I can manage alone thanks!" said an athletic -looking girl with a tight shingle, as Joe offered to carry iter._ •l ',1'0U11.11\G.. with an Easy Mind they keep in touch with ho ne: by TELEPHONE At first the Hendersons couldn't bear the thought at being away from the familyfor any Iength of time. Then someone suggested Ieaving an itinerary behind; "You can always depend on Long Distance to find you if anything crops up . . and you eau call home when- ever you feel like it yourselves." . . The telephone is ready everywhere to serve you, Speedy, dependable, in- expensive, it keeps you within reach wherever you go. Recent reductions, and low night rates after 7 p.m. and all day Sun- day,now make Long Distance cost oar pP less than ever before. Ransom took an elderly woman, Smithers a white-faced maid, and all five were instantly out of sight. "Now you sir!" called Tim to a broad -shouldered ratan in a dinner jacket, who was calmly smoking a cigar. He was determined that this cowardly Italian should go last. The man's eyes twinkled, but he didn't move, "Well, well!" he drawled, I'll say that'd be just too bad for my old: friend here! You take him first, cap- tain; for he's certainly scared out of this senses and then some!" "As you please, sir!" Tint bent over the Italian and then stopped. An idea bad struck him. Firemen do not accept tips, of course, brit there are ways of doing these • (Continued on page 7) Find the Cream of the TRADER'S SPECIAL OFFERS! They are in Our ADVERTISEMENT COLUMNS! 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 i The Clint�� �Vew�-Record is a good advertising medium.