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The Clinton News Record, 1934-11-29, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS.:, NOV: 29, .1_934' NEVIS AN 0 11APPENINGS Timely Information for the Busy Farmer ( Furnished by the Department of Agriculture ) The second estimate of -wheat pro- duction in the Prairie Provinces for 1934 is two million bushels lower than the preliminary estimate of 265 million bushels made on 'September llth last. In the Boys' and Girls' Farm Clubs •eompetit'ion at the Royal Winter Fair, Ontario carried off the trophy' in the Dairy Cattle project through the Markham Dairy Calf Club, and also the trophy in the Seed project' through the Durham County Boys' Grain Club, SIF*1IF Why Burn Straw Stacks? s'When with the use of suitable' chemicals they can be converted into manure the question .'Why burn straw stacks?" is really per'tinent., Straw is worthsomething more than as a bedding material, and not the least valuable is its use for the mak- ing of artificial manure. The use of 100 pounds of ammonium sulphate and: 100 lbs. of lime to each ton of straw, and this thoroughly soaked with wa ter produces a manure of distinct fer- tilizer value. From three to six months are required for the organic changes to become effective and the resultant substance has much of the appearance and practically the same ,value as 'barnyard manure. Grain Class Winners The Grain 'Class open to Agricul- tural Societies at the recent Ottawa Winter Fair resulted in very keen competition among ,Societies in Eas- tern Ontario, where the production' of high class grain has developed .so. rapidly in recent years. The purpose of the competition was to encourage the Society to foster the production of different kinds of high class seed grain by its members. 'The Renfrew Agricultural . So- ciety was awarded first position, with a total of 450 paints of a possible 500. The lots of peas, barley, alfalfa and oats each scored over 90%, wheat a- lone fell -lone'feII slightly below this high standard. The leading Societies were placed as follows: 1st, Renfrew Society, 450 points. 2nd, Pakenham Society, 439 points. 3rd, Carp Society, 434 points. 4th, Vankieek Hill Soc., 422 points. 5th, Drummond Society, 420 points. 'IIF * Burning Stubble 'When stubble has been burned off and the /and again seeded, after a minimum amount of cultivation, the yields of grain have proven this me- thod to be superior to any other treat Silent. Objections to the burning of stubble are loss of nitrogen, loss of moisture, and some loss of soil fertili- ity; while supporting the practice are p conven- ience. control,clean :oro and ience. Potatoes For Poultry Farming increases in value as an occupation just in proportion to the extent to which incidental by-pro- ducts can be marketed at a . profit. Not only Must the farmer sell all his good quality products at a fair price, but he must also find a market for as Much as he can of the unsaleable pro- duct. It has been found that greater net profits per bird can be made and a finished bird of finer quality ` and flavor produced through crate -feed- ing on a ration of equal parts of mid- dlings, rolled oats, boiled potatoes and skim -milk than is the case where eorn-meal is fed. Potatoes, finely ground or boiled; are proving excep- tionally good for finishing poultry, particularly when fed in conjunction with the "white" grains and milk. Crate -fed poultry offers a really ate tractive market outlet for cull pota- toes. Cod Liver Oil, and Cattle Cod liver oil has never attained very great prominence in supple- , nrenting the .rations of the larger farm animals because the nutrients which it can supply, or help to make available, can be procured almost e- qually well, and much more cheaply, from the ordinary farm live stock feeds, plus a minimum of purchased supplements such as protein feeds and minerals. There are some ,occasion, howeve er, when cod liver roil constitutes a valuable feed for the larger farm ani- mals. Pigs being grown during the winter months sometimes develop an ,unthrifty rachitie condition, resulting from an evident deficiency of some of the vital feed elements. Such ani- mals can often be brought into bet- ter condition by feeding cod liver oil. .40,.,.:.1..... If trouble is anticipated, small` doses of the oil willprobably correct any tendency to a rachitic condition. i• 8F 0 • Preparing Turkeys Tnriey growers are now beginning to finish or fatten their birds for the Christmas holidays. It is customary to begin the process of preparing the luscious turkeys for the nation's festive dinner tables by feeding them small amounts of grainwhich grad- ually are increased until the birds are on full feed. Due to the large sup- ply of wheat available, this grain be used to advantage in the fattening. 'ration. Wheat has nearly the same fattening qualities as corn, but does not produce the rich yellow color of flesh that yellow corn does. It is im- portant, however, that all grains be free from moldiness and they should be fed in hoppers to counteract cer- tain diseases that cause heavy lose. Do not confine turkeys for fattening. especially if they hale been run •on a range, for range birds cannotstand confinement.. llc* 32 Boys'. and Girls' Farm Teams Competed at the Royal Fair In the annual National Club Con- tests in connection with the Boys' and Girls' Farm Club movement thirty- two club teams of two members' each, representing all of the Provinces of the Dominion competed in several live stock and field crop projects at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto, last week. The actual contests were •con- ductel on November 20 and the six- ty-four contestants remain in 'To- ronto until Friday evening, Novem- ber 80, visiting the Royal Winter Fair and other paints of interest under the direction of the Canadian Coun- cil on Boys' and 'Girls' Club work. These club teams earned the right to compete in Toronto by winning their respective provincial elimination con- tests. An unusual feature of these con- tests was the inclusion of an oral ex- amination with a judging competi- tion to form the complete contest in each of the projects included in the national contest program. After. several years' experience, it is felt that this form of contest provides an opportunity to measure the gen- eral ability and knowledge of the con- testants, and, in turn, has the effect of encouraging, on the part of all club members, more thorough study of the projects in hand. Reports for 1934 show a total of 1544 fully organized boys' and girls' farm clubs in Canada with a total en- rolment of 26,700 members. The pro- jects undertaken include a variety of farm activities under the general headings of live stock, poultry, field crops and home economics. The re - salts that are being obtained are sig- nificant ignificant and it is widely recognized that this junior olub work has far- reaclling economic and educational importance. Boys' and Girls' Farm Clubs Hen. Robert Weir Presents Trophies at the Winter Fair At the Royal Agricultural dinner at Toronto on Wednesday, 21st inst., Hon. Robert Weir, Dominion Minis- ter ,of 'Agriculture, presented trop- hies to the winning team clubs of the Boys' and Girls' Farm Ciub move- ment . who were present at the din- ner as guests of the President and directors of the Royal Winter Fair. Thirty-two teams . of two members each, representing all the provinces in the Dominion, competed for the championships in six livestock and field projects. Ontario carried orf the trophy in the Dairy Cattle pro - Pict through the Markham Dairy Calf Club, and also the trophy in the Seed project through the Durham County Boys' Grain Club. Alberta won the championship in the Beef Cattle project, the Lacombe Beef Cat- tle Club proving to be the top scor- ers. Nova Scotia gained the chain- pionship in the Poultry project through the Markham Dairy Calf Club, and also the trophy in the Seed project through the. Durham County Boys' Grain Club. Alberta won the championship in the Beef Cattle project, the Lacombe Beef Cattle Club proving to be the top scorers. Nova Scotia gained the championship in the Poultry project through the Cambridge Poultry Club. Saskatohevvan was the champion in the Swine project through the Wat- INTERESi rous Swine Club, while the Ste Sabine Potato Club carried off the Potato championship for Quebec. In presenting the prizes, Hon. Mr. Weir, who is the father ,of the Cana- dian Council on Boys' and Girls' Club work a few months ago, read. a letter from the •Governor. General as follows: "I am very sorry that circumstances make it impossible far me to be present in Toronto until the end of this week, but I am looking forward to seeing the Council's stand when I visit the Royal Winter Fair next Tuesday. Meanwhile, I hope you will give my best wishes to all conneoted with the Council and tell them how very keen- ly interested I am in the ,work it is doing. (sgd.) Bessborough.'.' Couch grass is an extremely diffi- cult weed to kill with sodium ehlor- ate, and the practice is not recom- mended by the Field Husbandry Di- vision, Dominion Department of Ag- riculture, unless under exceptional circumstances: Usually three spray- ings .of a pray-ings•of.a ten per cent solution are required, using 100 gallons per acre. The cost of this material, say at 10 cents t pound, would be $30 an acre, a prohibitive cost for all ordinary conditions. * *.* The work of the Dominion Divis- ion of Forage Plants which is car- ried on at the different Dominion Ex- perimental Farms and Stations in Canada is concerned not only with herbageplants, which include the various annual and perennial bay and pasture plants, but also with several crops which are grown primarily for feeding purposes, such as cern, sun- flowers, and field roots. Experiments with turf grasses are also part of the -work of the Division, as well as cer- tain special crops, the most important of which are soybeans and sugar beets. A Canadian Exile Most Historic Apple Tree in North America Although no longer in Canada, the most historic apple tree in North America is intimately connected with the Dominion. This 108 year-old tree which still bears fruit annually is located at Fort Vancouver in the State of Washington where it was planted in 1828 . by officers of the Hudson's Bay Company who were the rulers of Old Oregon and thereabout. Prior to the treaty of 1846 which fix- ed the boundary between Great Bri- tain and the United States at the 49th parallel, Fort Vancouver was the principal Pacific depot in Canada and distributing centre of this Cana- dian company. The Fort was built in 1824. Later on, anticipating the result of the 1846 treaty, the Hud- son's Bay Company decided to move to unequivocally British territory and selected Cainosan, the Indian name for the territory, on the southermost end of Vancouver island. It is the site of the city of Victoria, but C'am- osan was chosen not with a view to becoming a city, but as a favourable spot on Which to erect a fort. This was done in 1843. Shortly afterwards, the name of Fort Outman was changed to Victoria in honour of the late Queen Victoria. The story of the planting of the tree is as follows:—In 1826, at Lon- don, England, a farewell dinner was given to Captain Simpson and a number of other officers of the Hud- son's Bay Company, who were ready to set sail for the Hudson's Bay post at Fort Vancouver. Apples were be- ing •served for dessert. One of the. ladies seated next to Captain Simp- son, on cutting an apple, dropped the 'seeds into Captain Simpson's pocket, telling him to plant them when he reached his destination, and perhaps they would grow. Upon the arrivai of the party at the fort, the factor, Dr. McLoughlin, insisted that the seeds should be planted immediately, detailing his own gardener to - look after them, The seeds were planted in small boxes and kept where they could not be touched by anyone. Af- ter several years, the tree bore its first crop -one apple. This apple when . ripe was picked by Dr. Mc- Loughlin, who carefully cut it into 17 slices, one for each person seated at the table. Next year, the tree bore 20 apples, and has been bearing fruit ever since. Cattle hides used by the leather' in- dustry in Canada during 1933 weigh- ed 03,8 7,012 pounds; calf and kip skins, 12,510,117 pounds; and pickled sheep . skins, 3,621,803 pounds. The cattle hides were 72 „per cent of Canadian origin. JUNIOR WAR CLOUD A good many, people would be only. too glad if perambulators were abol- ished—•1Provineial Paper. But babies would soon be up in arms. CALENDAR January snowy, February flow,, March blowy. April showery, May flowery, June bowery. July "floppy, August croppy, September poppy. October breezy', November wheezy, December freezy. —Richard Brinsley Sheridan. 11110110.40.. GODERICH:, A. wedding of in- terest is that , of Miss Olive Marion Young, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Noble Young to Clarence MacDonald, well known young people of this town Which took place quietly Saturday at N'oath Street United parsonage, Rev. W. P. Lane officiating. The groom is mechanical superintendent of the Goderich Signal. The couple were unattended, the bride being attired ina brown tweed ensemble with matching accessories and carried roses. A. . wedding, breakfast was served at the borne of the br9,de after the ceremony. The happy couple went to Quebec on their honeymoon. They will reside in Goderich. YES, WHERE! "Where's your pencil, Alf?" "Ain't got one, teacher," "How many times have I told you not to say that? Listen: I haven't got one, you haven't got one, we haven't got one, they haven't got one --a" "Well, where are all the bloontin'. pencils?" No fewer than 19,779,062 fruit and vegetable packages came under the inspection of the Dominion Fruit Branch for grading and marking dur- ing the year ended March 1934. in addition, 1,151 inspections were made under the Standard Package regula- tions; 59,388 inspections of fruits and vegetables and containers; 20,402 commercial inspections for export and 17,634 for domestic shipments. THE TO RBMEfls 'UDE By F. Morton Howard It is unimportant. how Mr. Henry Tidson came to be in the popular sea- side resort of Mundringham, The outstanding fact is that he was now desperately anxious to leave there. Not that he had been guilty of any, wrong -doing as yet. In all his thir- ty-seven years little Mr. Tidson had always managed to keep on the right side of'tho law. Luck had been a- gainst him for several months, and here had he drifted into M'undring- ham, this very morning, to learn by chance from a fellow nomad that his pal, Bill Potter, had achieved the miraculous' and become the trusted foreman of a large new iron north of London. The tidings nearly overcame Mr. Tidson. That Bill Potter would give him a job was a certainty. And Mr. Tidson, becoming almost dizzy as he thought of regular work and regular pay, resolved straightway to seek out his old friend. What seriously troubled Mr. Tid- son was that the railway fare to Lon- don from Mundringham was no less than fifteen shillings and threepence, and he had no more than threepence - ha'penny. And Mr. Tidson was in a hurry to make sure of that job, The promenade at Mundringham is high. To gain the beach from it there are provided massive flights of concrete steps, angled and parapeted. The sands had thinned for the lun- cheon hour. Mr. Tidson was mount- ing to the promenade by one of these sets of steps. Simultaneously, a bul- ky old man eras descending them. He was a well-dressed, wealthy -looking old man and Mr. Tidson decided to approach him for financial help. Suddenly, however, the bulky old man slipped, tobogganed down three or four steps, and came untidily to rest in a sitting posture on the stair- way. Mr, Tidson darted forward to help him, but the man at once rose to his feet. He took no notice of Mr. Tdison. Instead, he raised his voice and passionately denounced the authorities of Mundringham for the steepness of their steps ignoring Mn' Tidson's very existence, the elderly one continued down the stairway, still furiously stigmatizing the authori- ties. Mr. Tidson sighed. He was about to resume his climb when hesaw, lying before him a gold watch attach- ed to an old-fashioned fob seal.. Plainly the lumpish old man had shed it in his fall. 'Mr. Tidson picked up the watch, intending at once to return it. Elated, he thought of a reward; then it seemed to him as possible that the old man, in his ill humor,, might just snatch the watch back, with no more than bad-tempered thanks, At the thought of Bill Potter temp- tation assailed Mr. Tidson. Ile glanc- ed about him. The steps were empty. At long last in his blameless little career he fell--. He slipped the watch into his pocket and proceeded tip the steps. He sauntered along the promenade, trying to look unconcerned. But soon be began to fancy that people were looking at him; and suddenly his nerve buckled. He didn't feel safe with the watch. He would rid him- self of it for a time and retrieve it when the position seemed safer. So, at the end of the promenade he went back to the beach, wrapped the watch in an odd bit of newspaper and surreptitiously buried the packet in the sand. Then he strolled away. He allowed an hour to lapse be- fore he returned to the spot. To his dismay he saw someone seated on the sands within a yard or two of his buried treasure. He resolved to wait. He lumped himself on a breakwater and fretful- ly regarded the interloper, who was a large, effulgent man of middle age, sportively attired and wearing a pan- ama hat. And with the man was a shaggy dog. The tout interloper was engaged in throwing pebbles for the dog. To M2. Tidson, brooding on the break- water, the game seemed interiAln- abie. There was a train leaving for London fairly soon, and he would' have to be active about his business if he were to catch it. At long last the stone -thrower de- sisted; then, spreading himseif com— fortably, tipped his hat over his eyes•• and disposed himself for slumber; Mrs Tidson was baffled. He watched the. shaggy dog, bereft of stones to purer sue, begin to dig vigorously in the sand almost ` over the exact spot. where the watch was buried. Mr. Tidson rose and crept across toe the dog. The dog took no heed of him, but burrowed on. Mr. Tidson poised• ready to snatch the packet and_ make - off with it at any moment, The big man stirred and pushed' back his hat. "Hello'" he remarked,,, with surprise. "Er-•.'ullo." said Mr. Tidson. (continued on page 7) The second estimate of wheat pro' duction in the Prairie Provinces fort. 1934 is two million •bushels lower - than the preliminary estimate of 266 million bushels made on Septeinber- 11th last. * 515 * The estimated 1934 production of" peas, buckwheat, mixed grains, and' corn show increases compared with 1933. The increase in mixed grains was 41/4 million bushels, while corm registered an increase of 11 million bushels. All the increases were due- mostly to increased acreages. THAT DEPRESSED FEELING iS LARGELY LIVER Wake up your LiverBile —Without Calomel You are "feeling punk" aimpty besaese your liver isn't pouring Its daily two pounds or liquid bile into your bowels. Digestion and elimination aro both hampered, andyour entire system V being poisoned. What you need lea liver stimulant. Some. thing that gone further than salts, mineral water, oil, 'native candy or chewing I,•un, or ronghsao winch only move the bowels—ignoring the teal cause of trouble, your liver. Take Cartnr'e Little Liver Ville. Purely wee... table. No harsh calomel (mercury). Safe. Sura Ask for thorn by name. Refuse substitutes 2.5o. at all drugged". Fa ssolffresavsaillasasastIssiiratiMesat 1 Advertisements are PAINTERS A retail store will do more business if attention is directed to it by thousands of pointers. Imagine thousands of fingerposts scattered over a retailer's trading area, every- one of them pointing in Otte direction of the 'retailer's store, and bearing his name. It would cost a: lot of mon- ey to set and maintain thosuands of fingerposts, and it might be .diffi- cult to get permission to set up these fingerposts from those having au- thority. But if one could have them, they would be good advertisements--. good directors. Advertisements in one's newspaper are in very truth pointers. Every copy of the newspaper carrying the retailer's, advertisement makes that advertisement a fingerpost. The ad •itertisement multiplied thousands up- on thousands of times, becomes thousands upon thosuands of finger- posts. _ A GOOD NEWSPAPER IS PRESTIGE The Clinton News4tecord $1.50 a year. Worth More AND IT'S A GOOD ADVERTISING MEDIUM