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T1melC! Information. n for the
Busy Farmer
Furnished by the Department of Agriculture
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Clean Nes'ts, Clean Eggs ing with soap and water will cure
It takes less time to place clean
straw in the nests than it takes to
clean eggs. Some eggs will become
dirty''.in spite of the best of care, but
the ea'g cleaning work is greatly re-
duced if the nests are cleaned at egg
gathering time when dirt is noticed
and a little clean straw is added' once
or twice each week, This is a good
early morning job before the hens
start using the nests. If you have
no straw stack, keep a bale of straw
in each laying house so that a mneas-
nre of loose straw can be worked up
and added by handfuls to any nests
where the boards ai'e becoining bare
or the straw is soiled.
Clean and Sterilze All Dairy
Utensils
The keeping quality of milk de-
pends directly upon the number of
bacteria present and this in turn de-
pends upon the thoroughness with
which dairy utensils have been ,clean-
ed and sterilized. The use of live
steam or scalding with boiling water
is always effective providing it is a-
vailable in sufficient volume, but as
a general rule the quantity avail-
able on the average farm is inade-
quate for effective results. It is for
this reason that the use of chlorine
in suitable form is recommended by
bacteriological experts: It acts rap-
idly in eold water, and is cheaper and
more convenient than the heat treat-
ment generally recommended. When
properly employed chlorine steriliza-
tion gives excellent results and the
practice, already general among milk
and other food plants, is spreading
to the dairy farms. y
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The Canadian Honey Crop
For the third successive year it
' would appear that the` honey crop
of Canada is going to fall below nor-
mal. The peak year was 1931 when
29,656,097 pounds were produced,
but due to winter killing of clovers,
drought conditions during the sum-
mer and insect damage in certain
regions, the crop of 1932 fell short
of the previous crop by 10,195,597
pounds. An increase 'Of 73,000
pounds over 1932 was recorded in
1933 with another slight increase pro-
mised for 1934. Apparently every
cloud has itssilver lining, for in this
case the short crops have permitted
the producers to dispose of all carry-
over from previous years at slightly
advanced prices. The present crop is
moving quite briskly on the domestic
market at prices slightly in advance
over last year, while a fair amount
is advancing to the export markets.
Although it is risky to forecast pro-
duction, the condition of main hon-
ey producting plants and of the bees
themselves goinginto winter are pro-
mising. however, these conditions are
not the whole story.
Cheap Feeds for Crate Finishing of
Poultry
ring -worm, but scabies or mange need
to be, dipped in or sprayed with spe-
cial solutions such as crude petrol-
eum or equal parts of kerosene and
cottonseed ell, which mixture is also
recommended .for lice, No animal
can give its best milk 'production .or
put on flesh when feeding such par-
asites,
Current Crap Report
Mild weather in November result-
ed in many farmers leaving their
stock out, thus saving considerable
roughage and relieving the feed
shortage situation, 'It has also enab-
led farmers to complete their fail
work under favorable conditions, Too
many potato growers in South Sim-
coe have been forced to market their
crops because of having inadequate
storage facilities, This 'results in
an over -supply on the market and
depressed prices. Buyers. in Ilaidi-
mand are offering as high as $1.00 to
$1.15 bus. for Durham wheat, Potato
sales in Frontenac are fairly heavy
with prices ranging from 50c to 60c
a bag, two carloads of cattle have
beenl exported from Grenville to the
U.S.A., with up to $100 being paid
for accredited and blood -tested cows,
just freshened. Close to 70,000 lbs.
box -packed, government inspected,
dressed poultry, were shipped out to
Prescott & Russell last week. Grade
cows in Middlesex have been selling
at $30 to $35 for best individualsa nd
down to $12 to $15 for common
kinds, and good commercial purebred
cows at $50 to $75 each.
A Remarkable Holstein
A 13 -year-old Holstein cow that
on November 23rd gave birth to her
13th lively calf, and that has in her
lifetime produced 107,750 pounds of
milk and 4,395 pounds of butter, is
something worth while to talk about
and much more worth while to see.
This is the record of Colantha
Tortilla O.A.C., 111839 G.M., a cow
bred at the U.A.G., Guelph, and . still
in the college herd along with seven
.of her own daughters. Three times
she has borne.twinns and seven times
single calves.
Colantha Tortilla represents sev-
eral generations of college breeding.
Her sire, . Sir Paul Colanthus, was
former herd sire at the O.A.C. and
was a double grandson of the famous
foundation cow, Pauline Colantha
Pasch. Her dam was a college bred
cow, Toitilla Rue II., with a four-
year-old record of 15,253 pounds of
milk and 554 pounds of butter fat,
and was sired by Johanna Rue IV's
Lad.
This cow is a splendid example of
a combination of production and re-
production. She and her offspring
will be much in evidence in the. dem-
onstrations .during the agricultural
conference and short course at the
college, January 2nd to, llth, when
scores of Coteries best young farm-
ers- will convene to discuss their
problems and to enjoy ten days of
real college life.
In experiments, in crate finishing
of poultry, it has been found that
buckwheat screenincs or standard A Market Poultry
recleaned screeninps, a by-product .
from the grain elevators consisting
largely of wild buckwheat and brok-
en wheat with a small admixture of
wild oats, flaxseed and other weed
seeds, give excellent results both as
to quantity and quality of flesh. It
was also shown in these experiments
that small unmarketable potatoes
niay be used to advantage • in crate
feeding. Fed in conjunction with
home-grown grains these potatoes
gave 'as economical gains as corn
and produced better colour and finer
quality in skin and flesh. The, po-
tatoes may be fed either boiled and
mashed, or raw and finely chopped,
and mixed with the ground grains
and milk.
Winter Care of Live Stock
With the approach' of winter, farm-
ers should make sure that the barns,
in which their stock are to pass the
cold months are clean and free from
possible infectious diseases or para-
sites. Most progressive stockmen
whitewash their stables at least once
a year, but frequent 'dustings with
an old broom are needed to keep the
cobwebs and dust down. Before
the cattle leave the pastures for the
season, it is good practiceto inspect
the whole herd for possible skin
diseases as rung -women, scab br
mange, lice or warbles, are danger-
ous and each needs special treatment.
Ring -worm is doubly dangerous be-
cause humans may contract it
through handling or from curry-
combs and brushes. Tincture of
iodine applied daily following wash-
Prohtetm
The greatest problem in market
poultry is to find a way to slake
poultry a more frequent dish in the
average home, says the Egg and
Poultry Market Review, issued by the
Dominion Department of Agriculture.
England has achieved this to a larger
extent than Canada through the wid-
er use of a light -weight, well -finish-
ed chicken, which the retail stores
can sell for the equivalent even in
England of one dollar each, or a lit-
tle more. True, the finished big
chicken brings more money to the
pound, but the volume turnover is in
the lighter weights.
The big chicken is more often con-
sidered in the luxury class, a party
dish. This is fine and useful in its
way, but, in order to give the market
the buoya)nee. it requires to makee
meat production in market poultry
profitable, some way must be found
to move ,birds into 'consumption ih
greater volume. •Perhaps the lighter
chicken is the solution.
At October 31, 1934, forty-three
per cent of the land in Canada in-
tended for the 1935 crop was estim-
ated to have been ploughed, as com-
paredd with forty-one per cent in 1933.
Publicity on behalf of Canadian
seed potatoes in Cuba has been'car-
ried out in the form of radio 'broad-
casting in Spanish from Havana.
CANADIANS HAVE WON 'WHEAT
TITLE TWENTY OUT OF
TWENTY-FOUR YEARS
Saskatchewan Wins 11 Awards, Al-
berta 8, Manitoba 1.
Canadians by capturing the world
wheat crown at the Chicago Live-
stock show have sewed a total of 20
successes since the award' has been
made. The United States has gained
the crown only four times in twenty-
four years,
World wheat kings follow:.
1911 Seager- Wheeler , Rosthern,`
Sask,
1912 henry I:felines, Alberta.
1913 Paul Gerlach, . Sask.
191:1 Seager Wheeler, 'Sask.
1915 Seager Wheeler, Sask.
1916 Seager Wheeler, •Sask.
1917 Samuel Larcombe, Manitoba.
1918 Seager Wheeler, Sask.
1919 J .0. Mitchell, Dahinda, Sask.
1920 J, C. Mitchell, Dahinda, husk,:
1921 G. N4''. Craft, United States,.
1922 R. Wilier, Sask.
1923 II. G. L. Strange, Alberta.
1924 J. C. Mitchell, Dahinda, Sask,
1925 L. P. Yates, United States.
1926 Berman Trelle, Wembley, Al.
1927 C. Edson Smith, United States
1928 G. Edson Smith, United States
1929 Joseph H. B. Smith, . Alta.
1930 Herman Trelle, Alta.
1931 Herman Trelle, Alta.
1932 Herman Trelle, Alta.
1933 Frank Isaackson, Elfros, Sask.
1934 John B. Allsop; 'Wembley, Al.
For all Canada, the area estimated
as sown to fall rye in 1934 is 631,000
acres, a decrease o fseven per cent
compared with 1933.
Most of the fruit shipped to Can-
ada from St. Lucia, British West In-
dies, is packed at the depot for' pri-
vate exporters in the Government
packing shed. The shed is also used
regularly by other exporters for pao
king fruit under 'Government inspec-
tion.
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The number of Canadian live cat-
tle exported to Great Britain in 1934
up to November 15, was 47,785, com-
pared 'vith 46,673 in the correspond-
ing period of 1933.
For the first 45 weeks of 1934, end-
ed November 8, shipments of live
stock from Western to Eastern Can-
ada, compared with 1933 (figures
within brackets), included 102,018
(56,702) cattle; 6/754 (3,519) calves;
66,831 (48,831) sheep, and 166,574
(249,601)' hogs.
Stevens to Address.
U. F. 0. Convention
Honorable H. H. tSevens will be
the feature speaker at the annual
convention of The United Farmers
of Ontario which is beibtg held in
the King Edward Hotel, Toronto, De-
cember 11, 12, 13 and 14. Mr. Ste-
vens will speak on Wednesday even-
ing, December 12.
Farmers are anticipating that Mr.
Stevens will deal particularly with
the distribution of livestock and oth-
er farm products and perhaps make
suggestions as to remedial measures
for dealing with the evils and uneth-
ical practises exposed before the
Price Spreads and Mass- Buying
Committee.
Anticipating a record crowd that
evening the officers of the U.F.O.
have engaged the largest hall in the.
hotel, the : Crystal Ballroom, which
seats • between one thousand and
twelve hundred. Andthey are anx-
ious that it should be filled with rur-
al people. While Mr. Stevens' ad-
dress will not begin until 8.30, farm
people who motor in, front a distance.
are advised to be on hand by 8
o'clock as tickets will go on sale to
the publio at 8.10.
Miss Agnes Macphail will address
the convention the follow5ng even-
ing—December 15. At the time of
the last convention Miss MY'aephail
was unable to be present, being in
the hospital then just recovering
from a critical operation. The Uni-
ted Farm ,'Women of Ontario meet
Tuesday afternoon and ,evening .of
convention week. The United Farm
ers' eompany shows a very encourag-
ing balance this year. A stock divi-
dend has been declared and distri-
buted with the announcement of the
annual meeting. '
'Y'oung People hold their sessionon
Wednesday forenoon.
The annual shareholders' meeting
of 'The United Fatmers'Co-operative
Co.,' Limited, will be held Tuesday,'
December 11, beginning `at 9.30 a,m.
The financial statement of the farm -
HIS AIVIAZ ING LOVE
(as. JOSEPIIINE HANE)
I was hurrying across the small
plot 'of grass between the Hospital
' Residence ce one' fine
and the urs
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morning on thel to my office
when I encountered way
a youth loiter-
ing around.
"Are you wanting anything?"
"Yes, I'm just waiting to see Nurse
Robinson." "Well you'll hardly see
her this. .early as, no doubt, she is
on duty." "Oh yes I will, for I
phoned her I'd be waiting around
here about ten, and that she could
see me by .looking out of the win-
dow, but she hasn't come yet."
He was very confident.
I scented a romance right there,
and asked a few leading questions
which brought forth: 'Yes, he'd
been a patient in the Hospital for
five weelrs., had been operated upon
for Mastoiditis. He had no difficul-
ty in pronouncing the word, I' noticed
—"and did I think Nurse Robin-
son would be long?" I did. not,
"for," I said,"it Is my firm inten-
tion of teleponing right away, and
telling her that there is a fine up-
standing chap looking up at her
window, and that will bring her on
the run, I know."
He smiled, with some confusion,.
but with evident relief. `What
Ward is she on, Ward 37 All right,
you wait just where you are for one
minute.
I could not reach my office quick-
ly enough; I was thrilled at my find.
Here was a youngster anxiously
waiting outside of a Hospital to ob-
tain a glimpse of his nurse!. Could
you conceive of anything ;quite so
lovely? One would imagine that
the whole Hospital episode would
make him eager to put miles be
tween him and the place. But no,
there he was, hungering for a look
at the one who had bent over him
in his pain. .fust what tenderness,.
understanding of his plight, and.
real palship, had "Nurse Robinson"
shown that had irresistably drawn
him back, to her?
These were the thoughts that
chased through my mind as I tried,
almost frantically, to get the switch-
board, and my heart blessed her.
"Oh dear, line busy!" Another
minute's wait, and still busy. It
was really ridiculous how impati-
ent I was. I gave a hurried glance
through the window. Yes, he was
still there, gazing intently towards
the building. At Iast; "Is that Miss
Robinson, yes? Well for mercy sake
do take time to show yourself at
the back window, and view your
young Romeo, Yes, Tommie L., do
you remember him? Well step) on
the gas and end his agony of wait-
ing, it's pathetic to see." With a
merry laugh, and "I will," the re-
ceiver was hung up.
I looked out again. ' There he
stood, with such a pleased and satis-
fied look on his younglace. I feel
impatient at my inability to pic-
ture him thus for others to see; the
THURS., DEC, 6, 1934
eager eyes, and such a winning shy-
ness in has attitude as he stood there
in the early
morning stmli ht
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tr i
s a ht and slimas � sapling,with
g a wit
his arm up -raised deawinhr gaze
in his direction, and to my, - per-
haps romantic, eyes, showing just a
hint of his not -too -far -away man-
hood. He was just twelve.
When he was leaving, I called him
into my office. I was anxious to
talk further with him, to draw him
out, and obtain if I could, some-
thing of what was in his heart. But
alas! he was not of the fulsome kind,
and his eyes questioned: 'Why all
this interest?" 'Oh, it hadn't been
too bad; he wouldn't mind being
back, only for the sick part and
of course he wouldn't like to be
operated upon again for he might
die." "Were the nurses good to
him?" "Well, he'd say so, they were
great!" That was about all he would
commit himself to in words, but I
had seen his eyes and he had come
back to the Hospital. That was en-
ough to fire my imagination,, "Come
back again soon" I said as he left,
to see me as well as Nurse Robin-
son."
I sat down quietly at my desk,
stirred at what nod, so unexpected -
1y, beengranted to me—the mini.•
festation of an adoring love of a
small patient for his nurse. A most
wonderful movie had been enacted
right before my astonished eyes, on
a stage presenting a little green
sward behind the lowering walls of
a large and old institution'the Hos-
pital for Sick Children, Toronto. I
wish others could have shared it
with me, but my eyes alone had
seen it.
Had I been depressed that morn-
ing as I started out for my office?
Well just a little, perhaps, but not
now. The whole work had been
glorified for me, and magnified.
How privileged to beon the staff
of an institution where not only
were ailing little ones; nursed back
to health and strength, but where
such an atmosphere of tender and
understanding love abounded as to
make these younsters eager to come
back "to see Nurse Robinson," and
which made possible such a lovely
scene as I had witnessed. Was my
share in it humble as it was, worth-
while? I had been shown it was.
And so I am going to ask you to
help us in this work of curing the
sick little ones of Ontario. The
need for funds is most urgent. Last
year we nursed 7,511 patients in our
cots and gave 93,789 treatments at
our Out -Patient Department, This
does not begin to tell the immensity
of the work accomplished, it merely
gives you a glimpse of what it must
have been. Your contribution may
be H spital fof r Seick Children, To-
ronto.
No amount is too small -'Mien,
littles mak' a muckle."
WINGHAM: Margaret Ferguson, E. Foster, in G.orrie, Mrs. Under -
widow of George Underwood, pas- woad, who was in her seventy-fifth
sed away Saturday morning at the i
year, had been a resident of this to
home of her daughter, Mrs. George cality all her life, having been born
Canadian cattle hides exported to
Japan are wet and salted, similar to
those from the United States, while
the pelt exports front China consist
chiefly ofsun-dried cowhides, weigh-
ing from six to forty pound's.
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The winter mortality of the rath-
er threatening number of chinch bugs
in south-western Ontario this past
season is under observation of offi-
cers of the Entomological Branch of'
the Dominion Department of Agri-
culture against a possible serious: oat-
break in 1936. 9
FRMERS
in Howick Township, and had been
confined to her bed for only a short
Period. She was a member of the
United Church. Surviving are one
daughter, Mrs. Foster; two sons, Nei-,.
ofsonTurnbe r
ix r y, Robert J. of Lon-
don; also one brother; William of
Glenboro, 112an,, and two sisters, Mrs.
Janes Christie and Sits.' Isabella
Davidson of Cypress River, Man`
A CEILTAIN,CURE
Wife—"It's a bottle of hair tonic,
dear;' •
Husband --"Nice of you, dear, but
don't need any hair tonic."
Wile—"No,, but your stenographer
does. So much of her hair is falling
out on your coat"
ACCIDENTS AND
COMPENSATION
During November' there were 4,849
accidents reported to The Workman's
Compensation. Board, as compared
with 5,226 during October, and 3/734
during November a year ago.
Tha fatal accidents numbered 30, as
compared with 33 during October..
The benefits awarded amounted to
$412,309.59, of which $333,798.14 was
for compensation and $78,331.45 for
medical aid.
The records to date this year shone.
50,402 accidents reported, as compar-
ed with 34,621 during the same per-
iod of 1933, and the benefits awarded
this year to date amount to $4,081,-
136,21, as against 53,862,891.10 for the
corresponding period of 1933.
HEPBURN BLAMES LIBERAL
MEMBERS FOR SO MUCH
HEAD HUNTING
But "Just and Sufficient Reasons"
Declared
Dismissals in the outside service
of the Ontario government were
made largely on the recommenda-
tion of local members -elect of the
legislature, Premier Mitchell F. Hep-
burn said the other day. In com-
menting on a meeting held at Grims-
by protesting dismissals of small
g°vetninent employees.
]depburn g•ns-'
byMr, people meg•istelsuiiggestecl' •thethe protestGris-
communicate with Major 8, S, Avery
of St. Catharines, member -elect for
Lincoln,
St
The dismissals weremade for just. `
and sufficient reasons the Premier
said, adding that in the ease of the
government liquor stores the disinis-
sals followed a •survey by Commis-
sioner E, G. Odette which indicated '
the service was overstaffed.`
Mr. Hepburn judged the officials
in' the liquor stores had been "arro-
gant and domineering believing their-'
positions secure." .
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READ THEM
Many absent readers say
they read the advertiesments
in The News -Record, to keep
in touch with business life in
Clinton. Those who reside
here miss a lot if they do not
read these ads., as they can of-
ten save money, save themsel-
ves inconvenience and put
themselves in the way of oh-
taining unexpected good for-
tune by attention to such read-
ing.
Read the advertisements of
the merchants.
Read the professional cards
of professional men.
Read the little transient ad-
vertisements. They are as in-
teresting as the news columns
and often contain very special •*'
announcements. •
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the ads., we' say'— READ
THEM FROM NOW ON.
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THE SUPREME TEST
"Do gentlemen really prefer -
blondes?" asked a writer.
"That's what many girls are dye
ing to find out."
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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 the direction
of the retailer's store, and bearing
his name. It would cost a lot of mon-
ey to set up and maintain thosuands
of fingerposts, and it might be diffi-
cult to get permission to set up these
fingerposts from those having an-
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-
vertisement multiplied thousands up-
on thousands of times, becomes
thousands upon--thosuands of finger -
posts,
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