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The Clinton News Record, 1934-08-02, Page 6PAGE 6 ,uaa,MIMr1•Ine THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORII, NEVJS �N Timely Information for the Busy Farmer d• ( Furnished by the Department of'Agriculture ) Separate Sexes Early Pullets will develop with greater uniformity if separated from the cockerels when they are eight to 12 weeks of age. The ,males are dom- ineering and tend to claimthe feed hopperspace that has been allotted to the females. Furthermore it is good economy to sell the males be- fore they become staggy. Value of Cooling Milk It is a simple matter to control bacterial growth in milk. At 40 de- grees P. there is practically no change in the number of bacteria at the end of 24 hours; at 50 degrees the number :increases four fold and at 60 degrees nearly a hundred times as many as at the start. Milk should be cooled as promptly as possible. Freshly drawn milk contains a sub- stance known as lactenin which is able to restrain bacteria for a ter, tain period. I£ the cooling is delay- ed the effect soon passes off; by prompt cooling the lactenic .effect May be extended even to 24 hours or longer., Notification of Animal Disease Horses, mules and asses of all ages and classes are liable to contract any of the serious contagious diseases of the skin known as mange, scabies or itch. Mange is scheduled under the Animals Contagious Diseases Aet, which requires that every owner, breeder, dealer or veterinary surgeon suspecting the existence of this dis- ease shall immediately notify the nearest veterinary inspector. Treat- ment is carried out under quarantine, the following mixture being used of- ficially for hand treatment under the supervision of an inspector: Sulphur 2 lbs., oil of tar, 8 ounces; raw lin- seed oil, 1 gallon. Pig Feeding Methods Although there are several meth- ods of preparing meal mixtures for feeding pigs, the following rules are recommended as safe practices hi producing hogs of the desired type: (1) Grind all grain. Fine grinding is recommended especially for young pigs (2) Soak meal mixture Between feeds; do not use too much water but feed as a fairly thick slop. (3) Hand feeding is the best method for securing hogs of a desirable type. (4) If necessary, a self -feeder may be used after pigs have reached the growing stage of development, (5) Keep pails, troughs and other feed- ing equipment clean. Mouldy or de- caying matter will cause feeding troubles, and (6) Supply clean drink- ing water. Pasture For Pigs Pasture for pigs may undoubtedly be made good use of on the average farm. This method of feeding, how- ever, has disadvantages, particularly with the active beacon hog, owing to the opportunity for excessive, exercise from the standpoint of fast finishing and the liability of little pigs to stunting through sunburn and, the combined effects of sunburn and dew. With plenty of skim milk or butter- milk, both the experimentalevidence and that of practical feeders would indicate that growing bacon hogs may be fed for market more econom- ically indoors or in well shaded pens, supplied with racks for green feed, preferably in the form of alfalfa or clover. Racks ,are essential to the prevention of waste. • Fresh Water Important When all classes of live stock do not have access to fresh water, they suffer considerably . during the hot weather. The owner in turn suffers, as the animals, deprived of the re- quired amount of water, do not put on flesh or produce milk as they oth- erwise might. A. good water supply is a necessity on every live stock farm, and provision should be made to make it = available to the animals. Poison Ivy Poison ivy is rather difficult to eradicate except by persistent work, declares J. F. Clark, horticultural lecturer, Agricultukaill Societies Branch. If the patch is not too large, you can get rid of it by using one of the weed killers obtainable at seed stores. This should be applied accord- ing to the directions given, which specify that the ground should be. saturated with the liquid. One or two applications applied a week or so apart will usually destroy the weed completely. Under some cir-, cumstances it can be exterminated most readily by the use of a plumber's torch in the hands of "someone who is immune from poisoning. A thor- ough burning out of the branches and roots is very effective, especially if an application of some weed killer is macre shortly afterwards. Anoth- es way of getting rid of this poison plant, when. it is growing on the ground, is to cover as much of it as possible with boards or heavy roofing paper held down by boards. ` In the course of several weeks the lack of air, water and sunshine will cause the plants to perish. Salt Mine is sometimes used, but it is too mild a remedy far large patches. * * :is Weekly Crops Report Reports submitted by agricultual representatives show that in spite of showers and thunderstorms in var- ; foes sections, an all -day rain is bad- ly needed in most districts of Ontar-. io. Hail storms doing severe damage in limited areas of. North Wellington and Dundas Counties are reported. Haying is nearing completion .in Central, Western and Eastern sec- tions and about 50 per cent. complet- ed in Northern Ontario. The crop is reported to average about 50 !per cent, normal. The wheat harvest is nearly completed in Southern On- tario and well under way in Western Ontario. Yields reported are from 8 to 45 bushels per acre, with the higher figure being the exception rather than the rule. In South Simcoe potatoes are yield ing as much as 120 bags per acre with prices offered of around 75c. In Dufferin, growers are holding for 41.00 per bag, but sales are reported considerably below that figure. Se- cond crop alfalfa is being harvested in Lambton and is a very light crop. Raspberries have .Been retailing there at 25e a box. Durham County reports the apple crop as likely to be only 20 percent. normal. The quality of peas is good Leaves ski \NNtP,cON' 0 Z-411 C,‘‘ Lt. TORONTO Daily at 10.50 p.m. (E.S.T.) The ContinentalLimited —Canadian National's train de luxe will speed you smoothly across Canada to Vancouver and Victoria. See Jasper National Park—Mt. Rob- son—the majestic Rockies. Mountain Observation Cars. Easiest gradient and lowestaltitude. Convenient con. notions for California or Alaska. Full particulasa from any Agent. Ito Eo PS' CANADIAN_ Jasper Golf Week, Aug: 26 Sept. 1 7 -DAY STOP -OVER NAiWAYS " JASPER �— PARK $47.5" idtiAL RAILWAYS LODGE Spec room and meals Special Prepaid Rate HAPPENINCS Of INTE in Hastings, with the yield 1i/ to 2 tons per acre. In Ftontenac, lambs are corning on the market in good numbers at $5.5O' to $0.00' per head. The blueberry harvest is now under way in Temiskaming with the crop below average in quality and quantity and prices arelittle above cost of harvesting and transportation. A Much -Banned Weed There is probably no weed in' the universe so much legislated against as Clover Dodder, which was intro- duced into Canada from Europe, It is a serious pest in France, Spain, Italy and other Southern Suropean countries in Chili and other parts of South America; in the United States; and in fact in all countries which have long summers without frost, During the years of shortage in clo- ver seed crops in Canada it was fre quently introduced and distributed in imported seed, but its ravages on red clover have been noted only in a few instances in Southern Ontario' and the Pacific Coast in .years fol- lowing an exceptionally late fall without frost' until October. The dod- der is- an annual pa:metre with' slender !p yellowish;' and, reddish . stems which twine about the host plant and be- come attached to , the clover stems by suckers through which it obtains nourishment. Alfalfa dodder has given trouble in Southwestern On - tali() and in the Prairie Provinces where it is known to have continued in alfalfa for three years. Badly in- fested fields .should be plowed under before seed forms. The Value of f;irds to Man One spring day many years ago the people of Killingworth held a meet, ing in the town hall, They said that the birds stole their grain and fruit and spoiled their crops. Only one man did not want the birds killed. Ile told the people that the birds were their friends. He said that the birds ate the insects. If there were no birds, the insects would destroy the crops. But to no avail! the majority carried the day and the birds were killed. Summer came. The days were very hot. The grass was dry and yellow. There were many, many caterpillars, bugs and worms. They ate the grain and,vegetables. The people could not rest beneath the shade trees because there were no leaves, when they walk- ed near the trees, worms dropped down on them. Autumn came. There were no crops. The worms and bugs had eaten them all up. The people felt very sorry that they had killed the birds. The next spring a great wagon was sent into the country. Birds were col- lected from everywhere. They were put in cages and taken to Killing- worth. Birds flew out. They built nests in the trees and soon the in- sects disappeared. The people were not cruel to the birds again. Such, in brief, is the actual essence of Longfellow's famous poem, "The Birds of Killingworth." More and more as the years go by, the world is learning to have a better appreciation of the great economic value of birds. This is quite too mild a statement of the case. The birds are not only of immense value to the world, they, in fact, are the only thing that stand between mankind and utter disaster and starvation. Though man claims to be the domin- ant power on earth, in reality he is nothing of the sort, for "the true lords of the universe are the insects." And it is true. Man can bridge the ocean, harness the cataract, subdue the lightning to his will, and has mastered all the great mammals and deadly reptiles; but against the mul, tiplication and devastation of insects he is impotent. It is true that by the use of certain poisonous and suffo- cating sprays he is able to repel to a certain extent the attacks of a few de- structive insects on his orchard and garden. But "out in the fields, and forests he becomes, before any great eruption of insects, a helpless panic- stricken fugitive." Few people have any conception of the enormous number of insect spec- ies or of their amazing fecundity. Over 800,000 species have been do- scrib'ed, and it is considered not ins., probable that twice that number re- main yet to be described, and nearly all of these get their food froman- imals and plants; it is readily to be Imagined what their potential de- structive powers are., The rapidity with . which many in- sects multiply staggers the imagina- tion and is almost beyond belief. It is computed that one hop aphis, de- veloping thirteen generations in a single year, would, if unchecked, have multiplied to: the inconceivable num- ber of ten sextillions of individuals - one followed by twenty-four ciphers. "If this brood were marshalled in a Iine, ten to an inch, it would extend to a point so snug in the profundity of space that the light from the head of the procession, travelling at the rate of 184,000 miles , per second, would require 2,500 years to reach the earth." Kirkland has computed thatone pair of gypsy moths if unchecked, would produce enough progeny in eight years to destroy all the foliage in .ire United States while, a Cana- dian entomolobist states that a single pair of potato bugs would, without check, increase in one season to 60,- 000,000. 0;000,000. In Asia and Africa swarms of locusts have been seen that cover- ed hundreds of square miles in area and hundreds of feet in depth as they fly in the air. Rivers have been blocked by them, and one swarm, dri- ven into the sea by the wind and washed up by the waves, formed a bank on the shore three•or four feet. deep and fifty miles long. What po4 tency for evil lies hid in the eggs de- monstrated that if we rose control and every egg were permitted to hatch and the young locusts come to matur- .ity, there would not be left on the Eastern Hemisphere one single leaf or blade of green. A robin will eat as many worms as can be held in the hand, and does this two or three times a day. As many as three hnudred of the de- structive cut worms have been found in the stomach of one robin, and of course this was for only one meal. Three thousand ants have been taken Irma a flicker's stomach, while a chi- kadee will eat two or three hundred eggs of the canker worm or other destructive insects at one meal, and he will take several such meals a day. A Nighthawk had eaten 340 grass- hoppers, 52 bugs, 8 beetles, 2 wasps and a spider. A Bank -swallow was seen to devour 68 cotton boll -weevils. A. Killdeer's stomach contained 300 mosquito larvae. A Flicker's stomach contained 28 white grubs. The stomach !of a quail was found to contain 2,326 plant lice, 568 mos. quitoes, 106 potato beetles,100 chinch. bugs, 30 grasshoppers , 12 squash bugs, 12 cut worms, 12 army worms, and white grubs. The contents of the average crops of the 200,000 ibises of Australia were 2,410 young grasshoppers, and the farms and pastures of Australia have been saved from destrution by these birds. In brief, the continuation of veg- etation on the earth is dependant on the birds. Man can partially, and only partially, •control the insects in garden and orchard. But in the open field he cannot do so, as sad exper- ience has proven so often. Here we are absolutely dependant on the birds. But Mr. Buckland says, "birds attain their greatest usefulness in the for- ests." The trees have innumerable insect enemies in root, wood, bark, leaf, bud, fruit. The oak alone has over 500 insects that prey upon it. But for the birds, these would soon so increase that the forests would not survive, and Mr. 'Buckland fully a, grees with Mr. Frank M. Chapman's statement, "that it can be clearly stated that if we lose our birds we also lose our forests." HAPPINESS The Greeks said grandly, in their tragic phrase, '?Let no one be called happy till his death," To which I add, Let no one till hie death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out, and the labor done; Then bring your gauges. If the day's work's scant, Why, call it scant; affect no eons. promise; And, in that we have nobly striven at least Deal with us nobly, women though we be, And honor us with truth if not with praise. —1Elizabeth Barrett Browning. WORLDLY If to love the world be worldly, oh. worldly then am I, For ever lover I have been of earth and sea and sky. God clothed the world in beauty and He gave men eyes to see The glory of the flaming dawn, the green of budding tree. Oh there, is joy within the heart when life and beauty meet, And eyes are lifted from the, dust about life's weary feet, Then the hour is filled with splen dor that no 'dross of earth can As we watch a sunset's glowing, or the shining of a star. If to love the world be worldly, oh worldlythen am I, For ever .lover I have been of earth and sea and sky. —May Robinson, READ ALL THE ADS. IN THE NEWS -RECORD --1T WILL PAY YOU asssanialaionewasaaanal F TO THURS., AUG. 2, 1934 W INGHAM: That black knot is a very troublesome disease on trees was proved beyond doubt by Joe Wil- s'on, who .for two or three years has been cutting black'knot off his cherry tree. On Monday he decided to dig the tree up and about 18 inches be- low the ground, found a black knot growth on the root which measures 18 3-4 inches around and about 6,1/c inches . deep.. It is now on display in our window. It was brought .to this office by T. Saint.---Advance-Times. HE:N'SALL: The funeral of J. W. Lloyd Davis, who died in Toronto on Friday following an operation was held at the Hensall Union Cemetery on Monday, the service being private. Mr. Davis, who was a son of the late W. C. Davis and Mrs. Davis of this village, had been on the Molsons Bank staff in Clinton, Exeter, Lon- don, Toronto, Montreal and, Winni- peg. He was married in Winnipeg eight years ago to Jane Hollowell, who survives, as well as his mother and sister, Mrs. A. W. .E. Hemphill: of Hensel'. 'He was in his 4Sth year. GODERIGH: The remains of Mrs. Margaret A. Maidel reached here Monday from Montrey Park, Calif., where death took place last Thurs., day. Mrs. Maidel, who was 68 years of age, was Margaret Cousins, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cousins before her marriage. and was born on the sixth concession of Colborne Township, near Benmil- ler. Her husband at one time con- ducted a tannery at Saltford just out of Goderieh, and on his death de- ceased moved to Detroit to be with her children. Two years ago she went to California to live with her son, Herbert. There survive two sons and two daughters, Harold of Detroit, Herbert of Montrey Park, Calif., Mrs. Gibson and Mrs. Graham of Detroit, also four sisters and two brothers. The funeral took place Tuesday at two p.m. from Brophy Bros. Chapel, at Colborne Township Cemetery, near the scene of liar birth. . ( SEAFORTH: Mrs. Harold 0. Wihite, 31, Seaforth, is in Wingbam Hospital with a fractured.skull in a critical condition as a result of an . automobile accident .near Bluevale at * 11 o'clock Monday morning. Her hue, * band, driver of the car, escaped with * chest, facial and leg abrasions. Tra- velling at a fast clip, according to Traffic Officer A. G. Rupp, White, proceeding east from Wingham to Bluevale, sideswiped another car dri- ven by Miller Proctor, R.R. 2, Wing - ham, as it was coming out off his farm drive way. The : 'White car is said to have turned over four times and came to rest forir wheels in the air. 160 'feet from point of impact. Mrs. White was thrown from the car fifty feet *. from the scene of the collision, but * her husband was still behind the * wheel and was able to extricate him- * self. Both injured -were reinoved to Wingham Hospital by passing motor- ists. Proctor was uninjured 'and his car not damaged. * eb WROXETER: Gains Piffner was the victim of what may prove a ser- * ious accident. He was employed in Turnberry Township in cutting a tree when his axe was struck by the axe of a fellow worker, causing a splinter of it M enter Mr. Piffner's head just above the eye. He was taken to Vic- toria Hospital, London, for treat- ment. WROXETER: The July meeting of the Women's Institute took the form of a picnic held. on the grounds of Miss M. Davidson's hone with a good attendance of members and vis- itors. The usual business meeting was dispensed with and an enjoyable afternoon was spent in games and contests. For the two contests, "Jumbled Canadian Cities," and "Ar- ticles Our Grand -Mothers Never Had,'" the company was divided into four groups No. 3 winning both. A bean contest was won by Mrs. N. • McLaughlin;,graceful walking, .Miss , Lily Waller; paper bag race, Mrs. S. McNaughton, Mrs. Jas. Sangster; • stepping stones, •Mrs. A. 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