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The Wingham Advance Times, 1931-07-09, Page 7'Thursday, :lily 9th, 1931 Giro eitth Service Gambian J� OF THE t.btrailosariation. i;aitowby GRANT FLEMING M.D. . ASSOCIATE SECRETARY TETANUS die Lockjaw is the name commonly ?given to the°disease tetanus. 'It des- cribes one of .the symptoms of the disease, the firmly -fixed mouth which results from the contraction of the muscles of the jaw. Tetanus is one of the cornmunic- able diseases, and is caused by a germ which usually gains entrance to the body through a wound which tears or punctures. the tissues. In many ways, the germ of tetanus is unlike most disease germs. It lives in the intestines of cows, horses and sheep, and is present in the bow el discharges of these animals. Con- sequently, any wound received on the farm, or 'anywound contaminated 'with dirt, particularly if the dirt is ; at all likely to contain manure, is very apt to contain tetanus germs. We havestated in other 'articles, that most disease germs die fairly ',quickly outside of the human or an- imal body. The tetanies germ is one ,of the few exceptions to the general rule for the reason that it is able, to form spores. The spore is a resist- ant state into which the germ goes when conditions for its existence are unfavorable. In the spore state, it can lie dormant for long periods of time. The spore becomes an active germ again when conditions are again favourable, such as when it is intro- duced into the body by way of a -wound. For these reasons, earth which has once been contaminated with manure containing tetanus germs will, for years, be dangerous, and will have the power to cause tetanus if it gets 7kr into wounds. Another peculiarity of the tetanus germ is that it grows best where, there is no air, ' Wounds which are favourable to tetanus are those made, by a nail or other piercing instru- ment whereby dirt is carried down to the bottom of the wound to a point which the air does not reach. We can say that in the case of any wound where dirt is forced under the skin, there is danger of tetanus. Every wound, no matter how slight should be thoroughly cleansed with soap and water, and then covered so as to keep it clean. Every wound, where dirt has been driven under the. skin, should be treated by a doctor. Tetanus can be prevented. Wounds. should be properly cared for, and, in addition, if they are the type of. woundin which tetanus is at all like- ly to occur, tetanus antitoxin should be given. Tte tetanus antitoxin that your doctor injects has the power to neutralize the toxin or poison which the tetanus germ gives off and which produces the symptoms of the dis- ease and causes death. It is . a; Pre- ventive measure and, as such, is most successful. During the Great War, it was given to every wounded man, with the result that tetanus was prac- tically •eliminated. Tetanus antitoxin is also used for treatment, but once the disease has developed, the out- look .is bad. Reasonable care of wounds and the. use of tetanus antitoxin will prevent tetanus. Questions concerning Health, ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College St., Toronto, will be answered personally by letter. News and Information For the Busy Farmer (Furnished' by the Ontario Depart- ment of Agriculture) Fifty-seven Ayrshire grade cows were shipped out of Glengarry and Stormont Counties during the third, week of May to settlers in Northern Ontario. The selection of these cat - tie was supervised by L. E. O'Neill of the Ontario Live Stock Branch. Seventeen head went to settlers in the vicinity of the Hearst Demonstra- tion Farin and the rest to other nor- thern points. Increasing Yields The application of a definite scheme of crop rotation is being found' an important factor in reduc- ing feed costs. The chief advantage sof sucha practice is: (1) Maintaining and improving soil fertility, thus in- creasing yields; (2) Assisting in weed control; ` (3) Assisting in the control of insect and crop diseases by havirig various crops on fresh soil each year; and it makes a more even distribution of labor throughout the year possible. Increasing the yield .per acre is one of the best ways of reducing cost of production, and in this respect crop' rotation plays a real part. Graded Beef Popular A rapidly increasing demand for government graded beef is shown in Ontario. Indeed the Beef Grading Service inaugurated by the Federal Department is becoming more popu- lar throughout Canada as indicated by an increase of over 70 per cent. in the volume of beef graded in the Dominion between April and May of this year. Only a little over a year in operation, the Service graded and branded a total of 1,199,357 pounds of "red" and "blue" brand beef in April last and in May this total was raised to 1,983,022 pounds. Of the May total, 1,333,247 pounds graded "good" for branding "blue" and 649,- 775 49;775 pounds "choice" for the "red'. brand. THE WINTGHAM ADVANCE, -TIMES ages, nearly all of which went to the British markets, Evidently butter production in this country has set- tled down to ee export market basis, which inay in the long run prove a real benefit 'to the Canadian farmers, Weaning tine Litter Natural weaning gives the best re- sults with a litter .o young pigs, and to obtain this, feed suitable for the young pigs should be provided in the creep, A good mixture for the pur- pose is half and half combination of middlings and finely ground oats froni which the hulls have been sift- ed. Young pigs will start to nibble et feed at about two to four weeks of age, and by the sixth or seventh week should be eating quite freely. Under such a procedure shock incidental to more abrupt methods is overcome and weaning develops as . a natural event. Butter Exports Up Farmers and dairymen are taking a renewed interest in the export of butter overseas. Last year during. the export period, May 1st to June 7th, Canada exported a total of 937 packages of butter; this year for the same period exports totalled 26,012 packages. Exports for the week end- ing June 6th, totalled 14,672 pack - HYDRO L MPS "The Loa Life Lamps" for rviee a,u _'I,wilt,l°idrQl_ tl2't> is Neva Carton of fix Lamps k the /"/muse Wingham Utilities Commission ter. Crawford Block. Phone 156. Look e6r on Louros you 647 Borrowing; to Save A uniquie development in farming this year is the extent to which far- mers' are borrowing money from the banks in order to pay .cash . for com- modities such as. fertilizer and there- by by effecting a material saving in in- terest payments, according to a state- ment issued by the Seed Branch, Ot- tawa. The trend to economy is noted par- ticularly in the purchase of fertilizers. Buying this year is practically all be- ing done in carlots and payments are being made largely in cash to take advantage of liberal discounts accru- ing from cash payments. Both federal and provincial depart- ments of Agriculture are giving ac- tive support to this movement toward practical farm economy.'. In addition to being-' good business the practice is one which has a four fold benefit. It makes fertilizer act- ually cheaper to the farmer; it bene- fits. the fertilizer trade in making it possible to sell for cash, therefore at lower cost and in larger volume; it benefits the banks in providing a new field for roans for well secured purposes; and it benefits the railway companies through the larger volume of freight carried. Better Farni Contest The Richmond Hill Agricultural Society recently staged a Better Tarin Contest. Each contestant had to be a ,bona fide farmer residing within ten miles of Richmond Hill. Ten entries were secured. The judg- es in making the awards took into consideration tie Condition of Soil 'and Crops, Freedom from Weeds, Buildings, Live Stock, Condition of Fences, Implements and General Ap- pearance. Mr. W. E. Watson, R. R. 2, Wood- bridge, was awarded the sterling sil- ver tea service which was offered to the society for this purpose by John Patterson, a prominent farmer in the County of York, Mr. Watson has for .upwards of 20 years conducted his farm as a dairy farm. .Me has on the farm at present 13 purebred accredited Holstein cows all of which are on. R. O. P. test. Mr. Watson can show from his milk re- cords the amount of milk given by each cow kept on the farm each day for the last 20 years. Thefarm consisting of 132 acres is beautifully situated, sloping grad- ually toward the buildings. The crops consisting of fall wheat, alfalfa, al- sike for seed and spring grain, were in excellent condition. The cows were in alfalfa pasture to their knees. All fences were straight and are in excellent state of repair. Fence rows were kept free of brush and weeds.. The farm house was of brick con- struction, fully equipped waterworks, electric light, and all modern conven- iences, and was surrounded with well kept lawns .and flower 'beds. The barn and outbuildings were all paint- ed and in a splendid state of repair. There were four . other winners of cash prizes in the contest. All the farms visited were in ex- cellent condtion : and a real credit to the owners, It is interesting to note that all the farms in the contest had from 12 to 80 acres of summer fal- low. Tractors were found on eight' and careful 'clean-up methods, were kept under control. Clover and alsike crops on all farms were shorter than usual. The Judges in the contest were: Harry Legge, Jefferson Geo. Mc- Kenzie, Willowdale and A. H. Mar- tin, Department of Agriculture, Tor- onto. Mr. Patterson who contributed the first prize, was so well pleased with the contest that he has promised the directors a special prize for a similar contest in 1982. The directors of the Society are to be congratulated on organizing this contest, Competitions. of this kind will do tunes toward itnproving the general appearance of farm surround' ings in the Province of Ontario, Business may have turned the cot - tier, but it must have struck a rough detour on the way.. ONE OF NATURE'S WONDERS 'i1ow .the Swn Toad krises Tis Family—Have No Tongues. One of the most extraordinary methods in natural history of rais- ing a family is that adopted by the Surinam toad Pipa Americana, The masupial, with its pouch, is a cur- iosity, but as a freak it is not to be compared for one instant with Ma- dame Pipe,. She is number one in Class A of nature's wonders, writes P, B. Prior, in Iiaaxnane Pleader. The Surinam toad is nota true toad, though it is a batraehian, that is, an amphibian which goes through a tadpole stage before becoming ful- ly adult, so you see it is in the frog and toad family. It is a rather flat creature, 'much like a fat toad in ap- pearance, with a short, wide head, coming ' to a curious narrow point. Its hind legs areenormous things, and are supplied with webbed feet which have a real outsize spread. The forelegs are not so large, and the toes or them are not webbed. Eaeh front toe, however, is provided with a curious little star-shaped•pro jection, The color of this animal is black- ish -.brown, and it is not small as toads and frogs go, seeing that it grows to a length of nearly twelve inches. It is a swamp dweller, from the neighborhood of Surinam, South .America. A few fairly close relatives of the animal live in Australia, but they de not adept the remarkable family - rearing method of Madame Pips. This Is her method. Her back is covered with a very thick, soft skin, and when she lays her eggs the male toad stays by her, watehing closely. As the eggs are deposited, the male earefally lifts them up with his front paws, oneby one. He then presses. each egg hard into the soft skin ef his mate, piercing the skin and get- ting the egg into the underlying tis- sues. When all the eggs are pressed into the baek of the mother, the lat- ter arter then gees into the water and stays there for about three months. The pierced skin heals, and grows over each egg, so .that the eggs are held, as it were, each in a separate cell. Soon the eggs hatch out, won- derful to relate, the little tadpoles :de not emerge. They stay embedded un- der the mother's skin and live is the soft tissues ef her body. For three solid months the mother gees about under the water -with her offspring tucked in under her skin. Then, one day, she comes back. to land again. Her children set to work to break out from their mother's back and soon each one hops out of his prison cell, not as a tadpole now, but as a perfect little toad! How the mother enjoys the break ing-ont process I cannot say, but the skin over the baby -cells is very tough, and the tearing open of it can- not, I should imagine, be a very pleasant sensation. After her babies have come out, the mother casts her skin, and so obtains a new back-cov- eaing, ready,.to earry out her most remarkable job once more. It is eery difficult to account for the origin of such a method of de- veloping the young. Why should only this toad of all the batrachians which osist, have evolved such a cur- ious manner of birth? I cannot say. But ignorance of .the cause does not lessen my wonder at the fact, In one way, Mr. Pips, is fortunate among husbands. His wife is not pro- vided with a tongue. But as nature has left that organ out of his make- up also, thebenefit works both ways. Nature, you see, is impartial. 1/40fiTElR,IleG Wilda LIFE. Seedy of Habits to Continue Over a Course of Years. Science is advancing in various ways to conserve and restore wild life, and one of the latest innovations is that of the tagging of deer in or- der to learn more of their life his- tory, ranging and feeding habits, and altogether determine the ideal enrironnsent for them, the American Game Protective Association reports. Tagging of fish, ducks, upland Game birds, and even song birds has been in operation for some years, and much .valuable data has been ob- tained, watch is being made use of to create ideal conditions of living for the various species. For instance, the lite beetory of different kinds of ducksis being discovered rapidly, their night lanes established, their favorite foods determined, and other conditions necessary Tor their welfare ascertained. As a consequence, really satisfac- tory refuge and sanctuaries are being established along the flight lanes. .15eer are now being scientifically con- atdered, and the coneervatton depart - Ment lent of Michigan is tagging wild fawns as rapidly as they can be caught. When a tagged deer is taken later, comparisons with the carefully noted original data will be made. The study will continue over a course of yeaztii. MEN WEAR 'VEILS. Toriarege Veil Feces Because Thee Thinks Month Is Ugly. Of all the tribesmen 'who went to Algiers last summer to help celebrate 100 years of French rule in that sec- tion of the world, none, attracted more attention than the veiled men of the ¶row regs fresh Hoggar, in the Southern Sahara. Contrary to the custom prevailing among nations of other Mohamme- data the women Of this tribe go un- veiled. Also the rule the home, and it is they, rather than the men, woe do the divorcing. The men veil the lower part of the faee because they think the Werth ugly, The covering is kept in place even ,at meal times, for they hold that to be seen chewing food puts them on a levet with beats. Dinner table eonversatien, tbereforc, is not touch of an art among- them. The 'tonssreg men went into Algiers after a 148011-safie trip aerosis the des- ert sands. the jouniey meant three taunting on the road. cadmiin Oopp e Chile is .now the second oltiper producing country. in the Niior1d, duo to the large ittveetrilent of .American tekelxril in mining tee telopmatat there. DEAD 151 -Ali D 9iumbet' of Islands, Emile/sly Lnisala ited, are Now "Without Inhrabitant.% People talk of St. Kilda as if It were all one island, but in reality it Is a group of several islets, of which l:iirta is the principal, Forty acres of Hirta were cultivated, and the rest was sheep Ciro. But now Hirte is de- serted. All. the people and all the Sheep have been removed to the mainland, Forty miles northeast of St. Kilda lie the Seven Hunters,• sometimes called the Flannan Islands, rocky pickets against the vast surges of the Atlantic. Land there to -day and you find nothing but a few sheep, the property of people on the big island of Lewis, sixteen miles to the east- ward. For centuries no one has lived. on these wind-swept rocks, yet in the centre of the largest island you may see a ehapel or cell, built of unhewn stones, with a roof of flat stones. Legend mays that We wise the home of St. F'baaunn, who itis s.: t0ie seventh eentnxy. There are two oth- er buildings, and a wall of stone runs right across the island. Obviously at some former time even these barren islets held people. Other far northernislands are los- ing their people. At the last census Holm, which lies in themouth of Harbor, had but rbor . t t wo resi- dents left Runde, south of Kirkwall,' only three; and Copinshay's popula- tion had been reduced to seven. The population of the whole Orkney group is steadily diminishing. Some eighty miles north of Tene- riffe, the picturesquely named Sal- vages lie in the blue Atlantic: Steep,. black precipices surround them, and their summits are rounded green hills covered with grass and . brush. The sea round them is sown with perilous reefs. Some time ago treasure -:seekers, looking for a fortune of two millions in silver dollars said to have been buried on a beach of one of these is- lands in 1804, made a strange dis- covery. Great Salvage, the largest island of the three, which is now completely deserted, except for the occasional visits of Portuguese fisher- men, is Criss -grossed with old stone walls, showing that the •whole of it was once cut up into small en- closures. These walls are immensely old, and there is absolutely no record of their builders. The island is so small and barren, it seems impossible that it could ever have carried any consider- able population, yet certainly it was once all cultivated. One ;explanation is that the Sal- vages are merely the remains of a much larger island, the rest of which has been washed away by the sea. There is no doubt whatever that this is what has actually happened with regard to that Pacific mystery, Easter Island, with its rows of huge images carved out of stone, each weighing many tons, and `its enor- mous stone platforms, 500 feet long and made of wonderfully cut slabs of reek. Some of the statues are seventy feet high, but many are incomplete. There is every evidence that the amen who made them were forced, suddenly to abandon their work. The truth seems to be that Easter Island was the centre of an empire whose pee- pee lived in a ring of islands which were overwhelmed by some tremen- dous cataclysm. Of all dead islands the strangest lies In Puget Sound. Formerly it was thickly wooded with firs, cedars, and other trees. About, twelve years ago these trees began to die, and now the once .beautiful island is covered with a skeleton forest of dead trees. And no one has ever discovered the reason for this strange devastation. FATHER OF THE FlialS. Frenchman Actually Produced Films Several Years Before Edison. Nobody quite knows who was the originator of the cinematograph, and there are several claimants for the distinct/ea. 'Though Americans 'load that Edison was the first of the Alm- ers, there is no doubt that a French- man named Louis Aime Augustin le Prince actually produced films sev- eral years before Edison. Le Prince was a huge man. He stood six feet four inches and was broad in proportion. He went to Eng- land as a young man. and at Leeds, in 1888, he photographed pictures with a one -lens camera and also made a projector. His Invention at- tracted considerable attention, though he was never able to exploit it eommercially,for he came to an untimely and mysterious end. On September 16, 1890, he .entered a Paris train at Dijon and was never seen again, Tfis widow always be- lieved he was the victim of foul play and that he was "bumped off" by an unscrupulous gang that wanted to obtain control of his invention. Leeds firmly upholds the claims of Le Prince to be the inventor of the "movies," and he is to be honored in Yorkshire by the erection of a memorial. WINDSOR CttlAf tS, Brought Into Vogue by George I. of England. Shelled you have a Windsor chair, writes Catherine Shellabarger in the Brooklyn Eagle, remeniber it was brought into vogue by King George T. of England. The DKii t,n, talking 00 lid OS his farmer subjects,. iada ti t filet seat on which he sat, the back of which was made of slender spindles.. Ile thought so much of the chair that he ordered a set made for his palace at Windsor and so established the popularity of the Windsor chair, Among famous Americans who were partial to 'Windsor chairs was Thomas , elterson.;On this eha.ir, with wide arms that served es .a writing desk, and which also had a double seat, he wrote the first draft of the 't)e'claration of Independence. Children Moine Cautioahs. t bildren are more eautitittg, in crossing busy thoroughfareis than adults are, 'according to the atattatiisis of road naeldeatsl, Rich y and ole as blossoms in its flavour `Freda from the gar ens' Here and There Scotia fish catch foe December last was 12,161,600 lbs., having a landed value of $266,111, as -compared with a catch of 10,480,- 790 lbs. with .a value of $329,552, for the corresponding month of the previous year. Total .amount of capital invested in. Canada from other countries as at the end of 1930 was ;6,375,533,- 000, an increase of $229,000,000 as compared with the total at the end of 1929. _ Of this outside investment, 61 per cent. is said to be from the United States; 35 per cent. British; and 4 per cent. from other C01132- tries. oontries. 4 The yield of potatoes in Canada in 1330 'totalled 81,933,333 bushels, from 574,500 acres, an average yield of about 142 bushels per. acre. In. 1929 the yield was 66,550,000 'bush- els from 543,727 acres, or an aver- age yield of 122 bushels per acre. Potatoes are grown successfully it! commercial quantities in every province of the Dominion. The Canadian Paeific Railway has announced placing of orders with the Algoma Steel Company of Sault Ste Marie tar 30,000 tons ce 130 lbs steel rail for spring deliv- ery, representing a value of approx- imately $1,500,000. This unusually heavy rail w1'11 be laid on 150 miles of the company's main line in the Mountain Division of British Col- umbia, Prescott, Oat.. !rational port, IT metes teniessam ing completion. The $5,500,000 terminal which the Canadian Gov- ernment is building there as a turning point for the Upper Great Lakes grain boats when they come down through the Welland Canal in the spring of this year will be ready for traffic in advance. Canoeing history was made .at Quebec recently when the seven Lavoie brothers piloted their craft over the ice -dotted waters of the St. Lawrence between Quebec and Levis in the remarkable time .of 9 minutes, 43 seconds, and took first place in the canoe race which was one of the features of the Quebec Winter sports season with head- quarters at the Chateau. Frontenac. "Melody Mike", Canadian Pacific Railway radio feature given every Monday night, is not only attract- ing wide popularity in Canada; the United States also like it and the railway's radio department recently. had a letter from a school teacher in Angola, New York state, asking for 55 copies of Melody Mike's Fa- vorite Irish songs, for distribution among her pupils. In 1930 the Dominion's gold pro- duction was valued at $43,000,000, an increase of $2,000,000 over 1929. The capital investment in the min- ing industry in Canada at the end of 1929, the last year for which sostplehe isditstriai itatistics are as yet efflailideleb S, la SS — S tdirtrf saes employment to 95,000 men and paid out in salaries and wages 425,000,- 000. The establishment of a $75,000 marine leg for handling grain at the Ocean Terminals is one part of the programme for the develop. ment of the Port of Halifax recom- mended to the Federal Government recently by the Halifax Board of Harbor Commissioners. This ad- dition, in the opinion of the chair- man of the Commission, would at- tract more shippers and vessels to the port, and would save in one year an amount equal to the cost of t140 equlpinent, ha- CHAU'TAUQUA OVER FOR ANOTHER'''YEAg To, the Editur av all thim Wingham paypers. Deer Sur:— Lasht wake we wus either passin another moile shtono be rayson aw gittin thim Chattququa maytins in the big tint over fer another year. I hei€- thrubble in remimbcrin how to shpell that wurrud, but tink I her it roight,; an 'tis a good wurrud, fer nobody knows what .it manes. ivlebby it is a Frinch arr Rooshian shwear wur rod, fer annyting I know to the con-. thrairy. Whin I saw that Yankee,- lad ankee,lad dhrawin thim pickters on the, , the lasht noight. l tought the name. shud hev been Chalktalkaway. I Link lie wits the shmartest bye in the- whole show, barrin Miss Elmore, the girrul who cud change her • clothes an be half a dozen payple insoide av- a few minits. She cud be annyting from an ould grandmother to a kid av tin years ould. She cud change from a Dutch girrul into an Irish; colleen so sniek that it tuk ,a fellates: breath away, an the nixt, ting ye knew she wus be a harrum-skarrum bye.. She cud change quicker than army pollytishian I ivir knew, an, shure„ T hev known some goodvans in me 1 toime. I tought the missus cud der some quick change shtunts, from he in the lovin woife an good house- kayper. to a shlave dh.roirin Mass cz-. lina, hurryin troo wid her wurruk h.. ordher to attind some badge perdue arr pink tay, but she isn't in the same class wid Miss Elmore, at all, at all, so she isn't. Shure, 'tis the foine toimes intoire- ly, we do be havin at our house at prisint, wid Katie an Nora anthe grandchilder all home, fer Mishter Wilford's ould home wake. Toimes do be be party bad in some parts av Alberta this year, an av course I had to sind the money fer the tickits, but that wudden't be so bad, if 1 hadn't to buy oice creme cones fer the whole ti gibe av kiddies whin I take tbim clown town, to give theer mothers an grandmother a chance to -talk about thine. The missus tinks she has the Loin- est lot av gra.nchilder in the whole wurruld, an tinks army wan av this' is jist as good as the resht, but, av cuorse, she has only the natcheral disarnmint at- a wumman, ' They do be all shmart childer, but young Tim, Katie's bye,is head an shawlders above army av team, both` fer appearance an brains, an is the very image av what his granfather wus whin he wits the same age, ae- cordin to an ould pickter av mesilf I. shtill hev. I belave young Tim will be premier av this counthryyit if he doesn't be foolish enough to jive up. wid thim le.F.O.'s out in Alberta whin lie is ould enough to vote. Whin. 1 git him aff wid me alone, jist the two av us all be otirsilves, I do be tcllin him av all the wonderful tings. the Tories hev done fer the counthree an I belave that bye undlierslitands nearly iviryting I tell him. Yours till nixt wake, Timothy Hay. If that lie -detecting device is ev- er reallyperfected it will be a sad blow to fishermen and golfers. 11g MENEIlE511 ISSOMMINIIISMESSIN MI HUMS SSW �r, r d Creamery1 ilk UYERS F THE E EGGS I 11� .Cali us for rices... UNITED FARMERS' COnOPEfATIVE COMPANY, LIMITED. W n barn, - Ontario. Phone 271 S***.ui*** Pi*fel*aiui 0iII** is