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The Wingham Advance Times, 1930-02-27, Page 7'1!hgrsday, February 21th, 1930' ititio11111p■1unlitimi11111■I111111r111/IIInomIII/pistil■III IIIIMUI/11111111/III/Illrlll/111111111. POULTRY WANTED LIVE OR DRESSED • We have just installed modern equipment for dressing poultry, and are now in a position to handle live poultry in large quantities. WE PAY HIGHEST MARKET PRICES -- Call 166 -- Poultry Taken Any Day. . Bring Us Your Eggs and Cream. 1 Wellington Produce Co.,�O. W. B. THOMPSON, MANAGER Phone 166 Win halm Branch. 1 6BIr111/Illtlll�ill■III■III®III■Illilil/Iii■III�II1011111II■III®III®I I I�Ii)I�Irll®IJ I■III/III■111■1!I/IIIMI/1 News and information For the Busy Farmer • (Furnished by the Ontario Depart- ment of Agricuituee) Valuable Crops Hay and pasture crops, including' grasses, clover, and other forage plants constitute the most valuable group of plants grown on Ontario farms. Over seven million acres •of land, which is about half of the total area in cultivation, are used to pro- duce the hay and pasture crops of the province. This hay and clover crop is valued annually at more than $50,000,000 for the past 45 years,and. over $80,000,000 annually for the past five years, 1924-8. Spray Early and Often At the Experimental- > Farm, Ottawa it has been found that in some sea- sons, six or more applications of spray material are required to ,entire- ly control the apple •scab, but it is well worth the extra labor and cost when one obtains clean fruit. The first application must be made very soon after growth begins, if not when the tree is still dormant. The best plan is .to have the spray machinery and materialsready at the earliest possible date and prepare. to ` begin in time. Weekly Crop Report 'The weel.ty crop report of 'the On- tario Department of Agriculture in- dicates that .farmers throughout the province are experiencing a hard win- ter in feeds particularly, due •to the fact that live stock went into winter quarters in a poor condition. Algoma is an exception, however, and rough feed is plentiful in that district. Hay is being brought into Carleton in large quantities and the possibility of a feed shortage is apparent in Duffer - in. Good prices were obtained by. Durham farmers for cattle shipped while egg production there is report- ed as being only fair.' In Frontenac rnilk and cream •is plentiful. Haldi- mand has had a great demand for good seed grain, which indicates a re- newed interest in, good seed. Huron farmers are having a shortage of root and silage feeds. Milk is far below the average in Lennox encl. Adding; ton, while Peel indicates a surplus in the supply. Importation of New ,Zea- land butter has lowered the price of that commodity in Lincoln. In Te- misk'aming seed grain is said to be moving slowly with a light deinand. • Potatoes, however, are good. Apple Market in France A recent bulletin issued by the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontar- io points out the possibility of France being developed into an attractive znarket for good quality Ontario red ,apples. Satisfactory prices can be se- cured for fruit that • meets 'the demand of the better class• trade as the gen- eral run 6f French apples arcinferior an quality; although a large quantity of apples are. 'produced annually in the country. It is predicted that in the next fifteen years good quality apples will have to be imparted in inereaging numbers owing.'to the de- preciation of the orchards, Interesting Figures Interesting statistics issued at Ott- awa recently show that Canadians brink a pint of milk a day on an av- erage, inaking an increase of approx- imately one hundred per cent, since lft21. Canadians are also said to eat snore butter per capita than any other people in the world as indicated by a figure of 29,31 pounds per man, wo- man and child annually. The per cap- ita consumption of milk is 470,8 lbs. a year, 'which is compared with 45$ pounds per capita . for the United States. Ice cream, likewise, has shown an increase, the 1928 figure being 7.04 pints per capita asi com- pared with 5.26 pints for 1921. The consumption of cheese in the past seven ;years' has also risen from 2.51 pounds to 3.54 pounds per capita per year. Canadian Bacon Supreme An interesting fact is the state- ment recently issued which showed the decrease in the bacon export- trade with Great Britain in the last eight years or since hog -grading was entertained as a general practice. Eight years ago Canada's exportof bacon amounted to more than 100,- 000,000 pounds. In.. 1929 it had dwin- dled windled to less than 38,000,000 pounds. The reason given is that grading has in reality improved the quality of Canadian bacon and thatmoreand more of it is consumed at home. The reputation of Canadian bacon stands supremeon the American continent and is equal to any bacon offered in Great Britain. The most • pressing need at the present time in relation to the Canadian bacon industry is larger production and continuous sup - Farm Machinery It has been proved that the use of modern machinery can reduce the costs of production on all crops. However, the buying of machinery should be done only after careful con-. sideration, .and machinery will not turn; a .deficit into a .profit. ,Mach- inery wil not take the: place of good seed and good cultural practices nor will it serve as a substitute for intel- ligent inanagenhent. In fact, the more machinery there is on the farm, the greater is the necessity of following the best • farm practices because in- vestment costs are higher, risks are greater'and losses may be heavier. Sow Correct Seed Farmers should rememberthe value of sowing weed -free seeds and seeds of tested varieties of grain. By so doing one may increase the yield from 30 per cent to 63 per cent above the lowest yielding varieties.' In oats it has been shown that large lump seed will average 62 bushels to the acre while the small ° seed wields only 46.6 bushels; in barley the ratio is 53.8 and 43.2 bushels. Fanners are advised to get a copy of the analysis of the:sante before buying seed. our local agricultural office can furnish desired information on this subject. Quality of Cheese Improves There has been a steady improve- ment of the quality of cheese year by year since grading was undertak- en by the goverment some seven years ago. It was recently authorita- tively stated that a new inark was attained in the past year when 93.1 per cent, graded was found to be of the first grade. This was an increase of 15.1 per cent over 1923, when grad- ing began. All provinces showed a marked improvement but Ontario par- ticularly made an astonishing record with 96,7 per cent.: of the highest. grade. In the province there were approx'rrnately 780 factories in opera- tion receiving milk from thousands of fauns, , Getting Under the Fifth Rib Customer—"To what do you owe your extraordinary success as a hou- se-to-house salesman;?'' • Salesman --"To the first five words I utter when a woman opens the door "Mis's, is your mother in?" -Tit - Hits. .. Modern Bossy Will Excriange electric washer for ow—Att ht the Joplin News -Herald. nria>Cisk 110(014. . Good health tollows personal care, Plat' good food and take fresh air, Drink cold water day by day, And clothe yourself in a proper way, Go to bed early—get a good rest; Rise se early,—morning' air is best; Let your breakfast be 'very light, Take a full repast at night. Eat meat only onee a day, '"ha: helps keep sickness away; Give your stomach rest 'tweeu znealh, •�.4 .,u. Valle ouservea guuu unani. .,egular in habits,—regular at meals, Regularity always appeals. Don't worry when things go wrong, a Braes up and sing a cheery song. These rules are simpte,=try theat well— In a ell—In"a short .time results will tell. J. B. Rittenhouse. Toronto: THE PEARL KING: Japanese Wizard Makes Pearls to 'r- Order. For untold generations alchemists have worked at the problem of turn- ing base metals into gold and they have'. not yet succeeded, but a poor J,apanese boy, who made and peddled macaroni among the fisher folk of his.village, began forty years ago an experiment.almost as audacious. He succeeded and has lived to make many millions out of his dream. He makes pearls to order. . Kikimoto, this Japanese Wizarti, now thepearl king of the world, liv- ed in the pearl fishing district' of Japan. Forty years ago he was chosen to go to Tokio to exhibit pearl oysters at a fair. AU sorts of people came to the oyster bootbto look at the queer creatures. Among thein were two scientists who argued over the oys- ters. One of them said it should be possible to create pearls because the real pearl was merely a coating which the oyster built up over any irritant that got into his flesh, and that by artificially introducing an 'irritant, an experimenter oould force the oyster to produce a pearl. To them it was a scientific theory. To the eager young peddler it was a revolutionary idea. He went back to his village and secured 'a few pearl oysters. If an oyster could' be induced to create a rare gem just because he "had a pain in his little inside, why Kikimoto Would' see to it that they were all provided with pains that required at- tention. Into the membranes of the oysters he introduced tiny bits of; foreign substance. Four years later Kikimoto was able to show a pearl he had produced by artificial irritation. It was not a spherical pearl, but at least It was a pearl, but it was an- other decade, the year before the war broke out, before he produced the perfect :spherical pearl and set the pearl market of Paris, quaking. Kikimoto was sued in the courts of Parte for putting artificial pearls on the market, but the suit failed be- cause Kikimoto was able to prove that his pearls were true and gen- uine pearls and he won the right to sell them in .the jewel markets of the world without an indication of their origin. • INCOMPREHENSIBLE DISTANCES. Unfathomable Distances Reecho dby Ingenuity of Man. Few looking upwards on a starry night realize the almost unfathom- able distances reached by the ingenu- ity of man and modern science. To gain some idea of astronomical dis- tances says an item in the Atlantic Monthly, let us imagine that the Golden Arrow, whose recent record of 231 miles per hourr astonished the world, should travel around the earth at the equator, contenting itself with' a speed of 200 miles per hour. It would complete the journey .in live days. It would arrive at the sun in fifty-three years. Neptune,- the out- post -planet of our solar system, would not be reached until 1,500 years had elapsed, and then through interstel- lar space the Golden Arrow would speed on and; on for thirteen million years before It would reach a neigh- boring star. After 90,000 million years, when it has passed through all the stars of the Milky Way and aa: rived at the e6nfines of our galaxy-- like alaxy—like a travellerwho comes to the bor- der town of his own country—in a sense the journey has just comment- ed, the exploration of the universe ie about to begin, To Grow Clams for Button Industry. Constant and better supplies of fresh -water clams, whose shells . are used in the manufacture of buttons and various novelties, are visioned as. the result of an improved propagate ing and restocking program to be un- dertaken by the Government in streams of the Mississippi valley. Dr, M. M. Ellis, of the TJniversity. of Missouri, has developed a nutri- tive fluid which can be deposited in the river beds and is said to remove. much of ,the uncertainty ofthe early life df the young clams. The first two weeks of their lives are the most dif- fieult, for they are left to shift for themselves, and only a few can find the right kind of food to insure their growth during the tint twelve or twenty days. Lighting a House with Cornstalks In a huge agricultural country the, quantities of cornstalks thrown away as waste are tremendous. Two chemists of the University of Illinois have now discovered a wayof using eernstalks to light the homes of the farmers. • A circle of farm hind eight miler;: across rowill now be isble to %nuke enough gas to supply a town of nesai- ly 100,000 people. Cornstalks are put Into a chamber where they etre fer- mented by microbes, and a mixture of carbon dioxide and marsh gas is produced equal to 'coal" gas for trait and, lfllimib.atlon. ') V AN CEMTIMEs' HOES IN PRANCE., It Is Estimated That There Ai r. Approximately 3,2100,000, The 'automobile is not replacing the horse in France,, an official survey reveals. The total number of horses in°ll'ra>ioe this year is estimated to be r nea1 the seam e Y asIn1913, when the h automobile was not :a serios menace to horseflesh: The Government' survey shows that in 1913 there were approximately 3,200,000 horses in France. During the war millions of them were, killed. in action while many were eaten for food. The years following the war look- ed dark and it seemed for some time that the fields of France would no longer see any horses. It was thought only the rieh.could afford a horse as a riding mount while the few left over would be sought by;" the . mu- seums. • But the farmers of France have staged a great comeback: They re- fused to introduce tractors and, in- stead started breeding new herds of horses. As a result France is now Awell furnished with horseflesh. It is lso stated the quality is much bet- ter, and that more horses are butch- ered at an earlier age because the public demands more tender meat. Horse flenh still remains a popular meat in France and special butcher shops proudly bear great metal horses' heads over their doors. That France intends to continue increasing the number of her horses• is evident from last year's export and import -figures. France imported 17,- 000 horses and' exported only 7,872. GOOD SWIMMERS. Squirrels Are Quite at Horne In the Water. One does not think of squirrels as swimmers, yet they are quite at home in thewater and, have been known to swim quite cosiderable distances at one time and another. Of course, there is hardly an animal in existence that cannot swim if it is thrown into the 'water and left to its own devices, but there are plenty of animals that would not enter the water of their own accord.- The squirrel is not one of these. If its destination lies across water in' he goes! As a matter of fact squirrels have often been seen swimming across large rivers. Spectators who have seen these gallant little swimmers say that they start off with their busy tails held clear of the water, but by the time they have gone half way across their tails are dragging in the water, giving the squirrels the ap- pearance of rats. . The strange part about it is that they seem to havea peculiar sense of direction. 1f taken. in a boat they know exactly when the boat swerves from the required di- rection, and have been known to promptly jump overboard and finish their journey by swimming. Of course, the squirrel really be- longs to the rat family, so perhaps its swimming capabilities are not so strange after all, for rats are well known as good swimmers, preferring to live near water than away from It. WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN JAPAN. Organization Started Five Years Ago Now Has 1,000 Members. The Woman's Suffrage League of Japan observed the fifth anniversary of its founding recently, Its original nxerobership was less than 100, but has now grown to more than 1,000. The organization is entering a period of more rapid growth than has been experienced at any time in the past due to the increased' public support. The league was formed by a group of women who had the assistance of pallticians encouraged by the move- ment which resulted in the passing of the universal manhood '•suffrage law in Japan in 1925. At first, women of the middle and upper classes would not associate themselves with the league, but this early prejudice shows signs of giving away before the increasing' propaganda in favor•of votes for women. They expect that within five or six years the woman's suffrage move- ment in Japan will have become quite as active as was that of manhood suffrage in the years immediately preceding its granting, Acquire Ancient Altar. A .Romanesque . altar throne of pink marble, recovered from centur- ies of oblivion, has been given to the Pennsylvania Museum of Art at Philadelphia. It was found in a mound of debris behind the apse of the church at St. :Gents des Fon- taines, France. Francis B. Taylor, the curator of medieval art at the museum, said the throne served as the seat of the abbot of the monas- tery or was reserved for the special visits of the Bishop of tTrgel and Vichy, in whose diocese the abbey was then situated. The style of the throne goes back far beyond medie- val days to the Roman Empire, Epis- copal or bishops' thrones to -day are derived from this source, the.; most ancient example being the one in St. Peter's in Rome. Modern Blackboards. Blackboards of translucent ground glass lighted from behind are propos- ed as a substitute for the usual black surface finxil'ar to every school child.. The old type of blackboard is, dilboult to illtzzaiaate so that all the room ean see, but the ground glass,` electrieally lighted from the rear, al- lows everything chalked upon it to be 'seen from all parts of the room, even when a combination of daylight and artificial illumination is being used. Can Travel by 'Drain '7,000 Mlles. It Is possible to travel by train right across Europe and Asia, from Calais to Vladivostok, a disteLnce or 1,000 'miles. Seals' Eyesight, Out of the water, seals have pool"' eyesight, a fact Willett aids greatly the work of the sealskin gatherer*, Hints For Homebodies Written for The Advance -Times By Jessie Allen Brown Mistresses' and Maids The maids in France have delivered In ultimatum. They refuse to work rom before daybreak 'until nine at right, any longer. It seems hard for ts,to realize that such conditions can itill exist. There the house servants lave the disadvantage and : in this ,;ountry, one sometimes wonders if t is not the mistresses who get the short end of the stick. When you employ labour, 'ou nat- urally expect to get a return for your money, and to have an `opportunity to find out the prospective employee's experience and qualifications. Just try to engage a maid and see what happens! :Itis you who are bombard- ed with questions, Tbe'first one is usually, "have you children?" Some- times that is the only question, be- cause that settles the matter. If there are children they will not come.. Sometimes, they get as far as asking how old they are. Then follows, how marry are there in the family, when do, you have dinner, what time are you through at night, how many nights off do I get, have you a wash machine, do I have to polish hard- wood floors, do you entertain much. If you try to ask them what they can do you are answered by another ques- tion. The maidue ti h q es on seems to bea difficult one to solve from both the maid's and the mistresses' point of view. if a maid is clean and a good worker, she is apt to find the child- ren a nuisance. Sometimes the good cooks are a bit short in temper. May- be they are very good to the child- ren, but are not clean. So it goes. If both the mistresses and the maid would just_ remember that the other was human and try to abide by the golden rule, in their relations one to another, many of the present difficul- ties would be straightened out. The idea that doing housework for a living was degrading, is losing ground, and there is an increasing number of girls who formerly worked in stores, factories, and offices, who have found that financially they are farther ahead when doing housework. There expenses are much less, as they save on the wear and tear of ` their clothing, silk stockings in themselves are a big item, .and they all wear them for the street, there is no laun- dry to pay for, and no car -fare. Last but not least, the meals that they get are better than they can afford to buy when they have to board. The status of the house -worker is ;gradually be- ing raised, which is as it should be. Diets This dieting business has even ar- rived in the songs, and whatever would the comedians do if diets were removed from their jokes? You must have noticed the number of times -that , grape -fruit figures in the so called know. We can get millions of dollars dietary jokes. If you are not famil- iar with the 18 day diet, you might wonder why grape -fruit was mention- ed so frequently, For a time this diet to keep out of these selfsame insti- was included in no less that 42 meals out of the 54 in the 18 day diet. For a time this ,diet was so popular that restaurants included it on their menus and people ordered their food by the day at which they had arrived. So it was nothing unusual to hear a person order 4th day, or 9th day, or 14th eat leafy vegetables, whole wheat. and; so on. RIIEUIVIATISM? T -R-4 'ic give safe, speed re1i+� f' 3'' from Pain and Stiffness Listen to Mr. E', C, Benedict, TI►ediorer, Ont: "In the Morning Iwould Mtbauble, to move one arm unlessllif ted it with. the other . , it would feel as though it vete oingto break. I am glad to recornlo ret. �R-G's". Equally good for Sciatica, Neuritis, Neural , Lumbago, Nohann. ful drugs. 50c and$1 at your dealer's, Zaa �� TlNR69ii�"i'i3Fi"�i / M t w r CAP51014•7 a to spend on good roads, publicbuild- ings, hospitals and institutions, and: next to nothing' to teach people how tutions and hospitals. We are puttnng the cart before the horse. The next generation of city children are going to be healthier than the children born in the towns and country. City mo- thers are going to. clinics. before their children are born and are learning to Diet in Eye Trouble Within a week I Have heard of .2 patients being put on special diets b� P y eye specialists. We do not usually think of diet affecting our eyes in this country. There is a disease of the bread, eggs, fruits, to drink milk, and to take cod-liver oil each day. Their children will start life... with properly formed bones and teeth. The teetiz are one of the most important parts of our body, and no effort is too great to start a child in life with sound,, eyes caused by the lack of 'Vitamin healthy teeth, Apple Whip Beat 2 egg whites until partly stiff: Add sweetened apple sauce (about 1i cups) and continue beating until stiff. Chill thoroughly. Serve with Custard sauce made with the egg yolks, l teaspoon sugar, cup milk and a few drops vanilla. Cook very slowly, un- til the mixture begins to coat the spoon. 13 which is very prevalent in Eastern countries which is never met with here. One woman told .me that the eye -specialists had prohibited tea, cof- fee and pork in any form, and there had been an immediate improvement in her, eye condition. The other case was a growing boy, his diet was to include' daily, a quart of milk, raw fruits, 2 salads and no white bread, just whole wheat. He could have any other foods but these but these he must have each day. That diet is just about the one we advocate for everyone to give us ro- bust health. The Effect of Diet Diet has a limited effect on adults. It is not reasonable to suppose that a diet can make over a body which has been in use for years and make it as good as new. Bones, teeth, tis- sues already made can only be alter- ed to_ a limited degree. But the ef- fect of diet on children who are in the formative condition l's an alto- gether different matter. But the ap- palling part of it is that they do not Call the Board of Health Night Club habitue, (staggering out of a night club at 4 a.m.)—"Good:` Lord, what is that strangeodor ar- ound here?" Doorman—"That, sir, is fresh air:" —Humor, quoted by the Lampoon. Or Something Like That Mistress—"Whose was that man's voice I heard in the kitchen?" Maid -"Oh -''m -my brother -'m." Mistress—"What is his name?' Maid—"Er= I think it's 'Erbert,'rrt.." -Punch. 1 1 Wouki You P.y ,r Two � r.. Two_° 1111 II IiSI I■I I Ii11I I<11I I1i1111Eligili a-11. Doesn't sound reasonable, does it? And still it's being done: ¶ An account of $2.00 is owing to a firm. Notice is sent that it is due. No reply. Next month the account is rendered again. The account has already cost the firm 20 cents in collections and is still not paid. -' ¶ It is i:onservatively estimated that the cost of rendering an ac- count each time is 10 cents. If the management is lax the account may be rendered again and again without a reply. g g IT One of the greatest arguments for cash business On small ac- counts is the neglect'which the average debtor adcords them and the annoyance and expense they cause the creditor. • IT ' Newspaper subscriptions are on a paid -in -advance basis because of all the man easy, small accounts to forget, - Yr, Y9 >; ,the weekly news- paper subscription heads the list. If LOOK AT THE LABEL on your paper it carries the date on which your subscription expires and is a constant reminder to re- mit promptly or cancel, as you desire, by that date. If How is your subscription NOW to 1111!1A1 11 111191111■if 111111/11 I®Ill The Ad "LOOK AT THE LABEL"