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The Wingham Advance Times, 1931-11-12, Page 7Thugs. November 12, 1931 'IN OUR STORE R Arrange to make this personal test of the 1932 Rogers Superheterodyne Radio today —there will be no obligation. a With volume about one-half "on,' move station -finder slowly across the entire dial. Then- 1. hen1" Count the stations. 2. Notice how "sharply each one comes in; no interference of one station with another; no "cross talk' 3. Listen to the quality of the tone, a weakness in some superhetero- dyne receivers. If reception conditions are at all normal, you will be amazed at Rogers sharper selectivity; finer tone fidelity. This ROGERS SUPERHETERODYNE RADIO COMPLETE WITH 8 et FULLY -GUARANTEED 441 ROGERS TUBES 00 Other 1932 Rogers Superheterodyne Models, $127, $139 and $154. THE W' N ' IAM ADV.ANC],-TIM] a. Is• i r. f ,w.La EEST• YOUR HOME WINGHAM UTILITIES COMMISSION Josephine Street, Wingham, Ontario $,dentists Baffled +y 3Ulaiignafjit Tsetse F y Ruling a modern empire is not whet- ly a matter of troop, trestle, and trade agents. Shock battalions of scientists may be required to combat native enemies far more menacing than an uprising of aborigines vcord- lug to the National Geographic smarty. For example, in eastern Africa the British recently captured 1,30;1 one, mies in a day ---dread Insect eeemit:s, tsetse files, which were caught in 18 imitation animal traps. The tsei e fly lives in the bush.'. When tin waned wanders into the bush and is infected by the insect the natives tlee the re- gion, just as they die before the swarms of the locusts or Bible times and do in present day history Only the tsetse fly is a much deadlier enti, any than the locust. It has erfeetively wiped out habitations from extensive area areas in Tanganyika as large as California and regions as extensive as other of our states in ithodesia, Nyasaland, Uganda and Zululand, Throughout these units of Britain's political domain cultivated patches of land have been abandoned, farms and pastures have gone back to the hush, and the tsetse fly resumes its jealous reign. Protecting Berry Plants after permanent frost has set in and spring. While plants will often come For the protection of raspberry the ground is quite solid, the plants through the winter without protec- •and strawberry plants against the should be covered with a light coat- tion it is best not to take any risks. rigours of winter, the Dominion Hor- ?;'+ iticulturist has some valuable recom- mendations. In the 'ease of raspber- Ties he advises that the canes be bent adown just before winter, sets in and held in place by a little soil being placed on the tips. Before bending /the canes a little soil should be re - 'moved from one side of the hill and 'the canes collected in a bunch and Tressed down by a fork. When pro- tected in this way the canes will get through the winter in good condition, while if not protected they will be badly injured. ' For the protection of Strawberries, ing of clean straw, that which will not pack closely over the plants being best. Marsh hay is good as it is free from weed seeds. The mulch of this type prevents alternate thawing and freezing of the ground in the spring- time and protects the plants in case there is not sufficient snow during the winter. It also prevents heaving. Where injury from spring frost is fre- quent it is desirable to hold the plants back as long as possible. For this purpose after the first heavy fall of snow the snow may be covered with straw or evergreen boughs, which are left on as long as possible in the Watch Cheese Curing During Fall Months Dr. J. A. Ruddick, Dominion- Dairy Commissioner, calls attention to the importanoe of maintaining adequate temperatures for the curing of cheese matte during the fall months, partic- ularly October and November. The temperature of the curing rooms should never be allowed to go below 60 degrees F., and the •cheese should be turned every day. A fire in the curing room keeps the air drier and gives the cheese better rinds while maintaining adequate temperatures. Greatest of News . . 0 • READ THE ADS THE LOCAL AD$ THE FOREIGN ADS r • . THE WANT ADS READ THEM ALL THE ADVANCE.- TIMES PHONE 34 :-: WINGHAM, ONT. Alownlimstamomormak 1 11111111111111111.1111111111111111111111111111111111111111101111111111111.111111111111111111111111111111111111116. 5 11, Hungry London Consumes Foodstuffs by the Ton Nearly 450 miles of bread are eaten by Londoners every day, The weekly ration is 25,000,000 half -quarter loaves, and, although they vary in size and shape, if they were all of the •"sand• wick)" type. about seven to eight inches lone, they would extend. if placed in a straight line, for 3,100 miles. Very large quantities of foodstuffs are unloaded at the London docks every year. The figures for last year, according to a statement made by the port of Londnn authority recently, in- eluded 1,400,820 tons of wheat, 218,000 tons of flour, 000,000 tons of chilled and frnzen meat, and 1(10.000 tons of Nutter. One astonishing figure was 621,000 tons of green fruit and vegetables. And London also imported 491,000 pounds of tea, enough to make 94,320,- 000,000 4,320;000,000 cups -between six and seven every clay of the 305 for every man, woman and child in England and \Vales. News and Information for the J3us ' Farmer (Furnished by the Ontario Depart- ment of Agriculture) The poultry crop all over Canada this year is likely to be decidedly short, The poultry which comes on- to the market this fall, however, will probably show a high degree of fin- ish because of the abundance of feeds and most of it will sell on a basis of official grades, ].'rice will be e big factor controlling volume. Growers in the Medford district are shipping one of the best celery crops yet grown in that noted cel- ery -producing area, It is estimated that three hundred car loads will be shipped this year. Special arrange- ments have been made to transport the celery in special refrigerator cars in order that buyers may get it crisp and fresh, Weekly Crop Report Livestock men throughout Ontario have benefitted by' the open fall as many dairymen have been able to carry their milking herds with con- siderably less grain feeding than us- ual. All livestock will go into winter in excellent condition. Cheese factor- ies report an increase in production over last year. An increase in the number of hogs going to market has been noticed during the past week, but unfortunately too many heavies and unfinished hogs are included in the offering. Fall wheat is causing some concern, due to having made a phenomenal growth this fall. Many growers are pasturing the fall wheat in an endeavor to remove some of the heavy top. Boys' Foal Clubs A competition for members of Boys' Foal Clubs in Ontario is an - Quinine Tercentenary The tercentenary of the first .use of quinine was held in St. Louis at Shaw's garden, October 31 and November 1, 111:10. The earliest well -authenticated ibstnnce of the medicinal use of ein. chena bark is found in 1638, when the countess of Chinchon (hence, the name), the wife of the governor of Peru, was cured of an attack of fever by its administration. The medicine was recommended in her case by the corregidor of Loxa, *he was said to have practically experienced its su- preme virtues eight years earlier. A knowledge of the bark was dissem- inated throughout Europe by members of the Jesuit brotherhood, whence it also became generally known as Jesuits' bark. According to another account, this name arose from its value having been first discovered by a Jesuit missionary, who, when pros- trated with fever, was cured by the administration of the bark by a South American Indian. Noted Scholarship Fund The Harriet Hurd Schelde scholar, ship was founded in 1928 at Princeton university a by an anonymous donor with a gift to amount to $50.000 to establish scholarships of the value of the annual undergraduate fee, plus $100, to be known as the Harriet Hurd Schelde scholarships. in the award of these scholarships, preference is give en to candidates who are sons of Pres- byterian missionaries, or Presbyterian educators, or, failing such candidates, to those who are sons of ministers, missionaries or educators of a church holding the Presbyterian system, who Without the assistance thus provided would, in the opinion of the university authorities. be unable to obtain an ed- ucation at Princeton university. Award is made in accordance with the gen- eral princi:ptes of the Rhodes scholar ship pian; Wassailing Apple Trees The ancient custom of "wassailing the apple trees," which dates bacic'300 years, was recently observed at Car hamptott, near Minehead, Somerset, England, Two men carried a bucket of eider into the orchard. set it down under the largest tree and hung pieces Of toast soaked in cider to the c,ranc•hes for the robins and good spirits, 'rhe wassail incantation was then chanted, and when It ended the villagers began to shout and cheer, while guns were fired through the branches of the tree. This custom is supposed to preserve the apple crop, by driving off tree " hoggards" And other bad spirits. "Railroad" and "Railway" The reason that one transportation company is called a railroad and an- other a railway is sutply that rail- road and railway are corporate names, (Mee when a railroad goes bankrupt it 'must reorganize under a different name. For example, the Chicago, Mit waultee & St. Paul railroad went into the heads of receivers and when it emerged it was the Chicago, Milwau- kee, St. Pant & Pacific railway, the adding of the words "Pacific railway" making a new corporttte mime. Like.: wise the changing from railroad to railway changes the naive of the corps oratlotl. Here and There Montreal with 996,000; Toronto with 627,582; Winnipeg with 217,- 587; and Vancouver with 245,307, show as the four largest cities of the Dominion on the Federal Gov- ernment census returns for 1931. Saskatchewan ranks second to Ontario as an egg -producing pro- vince with an estimated produc- tion last year of thirty million dozen eggs. Total value of poul- try products to Canadian farmers in 1930 was $30,000,000. United States motor traffic to New Brunswick for the current season up to July 31 was 12 per cent. heavier than for the corres- ponding period of last year, ac- cording to a tabulation just is- sued by the Provincial Govern- ment Bureau of Information and Tourist Travel. What is regarded as probably the highest park in the world is ,the National Park on Mount Rev- elstoke in the Canadian Rockies, on the main line of the Canadian Pacific trans -continental system. It covers an area of 100 square miles and is above the clouds, There is a new motor road to the summit of the mountain. Evangeline Memorial Park, Nova Scotia, with its chapel and museum dedicated to the memory of the heroine of Longfellow's poem and of the Acadian pioneers, has been visited by more than 94,000 tourists since it was open- ed in 1924, it is announced from Dominion Atlantic Railway head- quarters. Steady development of young Canada's interest in farming has increased to the point where a Canadian Council on Boys' and Girls Club, Work has been formed to co-ordinate the junior agricul- tural movement as a whole. The programme has been broadened to include practically every line and department of modern farm- ing in Canada, Harassed officials of theCanadian Pacific Express Company at Van- couver played nurse recently to a mother and her family of 14 when "Fanny," a saeeeyed re- triever, carried by the company from Nelson, B.C., became the mother of 14 puppies. ' Hurry -up calls were put through foe the consignee, a 'Vancouver youth, who was overjoyed to find the unexpected parcel. When Dr. Josef Wielawski, sur- geon of the S.S. Polonia, suffered an attack of appendicitis, his life was. saved by the intervention of Dr. A. B. Taylor of the Canadian Pacific liner Duchess of Rich- mond, who attended him after a boat had been lowered and the stricken physician taken on board the Duchess, Theincident oc- curred recently when the Duchess of,Richmond was 300 miles off the coast of Ireland. With a jammed rifle and a rear- ing grizzly, a few yards distant, Dr. L. 8. Ifingrey, of Portland, Oregon, guest ,at the 'Banff Springs Hotel, on a bunting ex- pedition In the Palliser River sec- tion of the Canadian Rockies, had a narrow escape. The huge animal delayed its attack long enough for the doctor to clear his rifle and shoot it. kris bag ori the hunt was two grizzlies, four black`.bears, three goats and two elkS. (781) La} vely hinaware in each package of. P GT sTv Qwcx QUAKER OATS marked "CHINAWARE" 1924 flounced as a new and interesting ly at O. A; C, Guelph, The Middle- class by the Royal Winter Fair, be- sex l;oys' Potato Club team was an- ing held November 18th to 26th at pounced the winner, scoring 1028 Toronto, in this competition the points out of a possible 1200. The boys will show foals of their 'own runners-up were the Wellington Boys raising and in addition to the prizes Potato Club. All of the team mem- offered for the foals by the Ontario Horse Breeders' Association, the Do- minion Government offers special prizes for "Horsemanship". This will be judged on appearance and skill in handling in the ring. Foals will be shown 'without shoes and with only such decorations as are trade by the boys themselves. The boys showing at the Royal will all be winners at the local county fair contests. Dur- ing their stay in Toronto they will be. guests ,of the Department of Agri- culture and during the two days will be in charge of an official of the De pertinent. A' Valuable Bulletin Farmers are asking more and more questions regarding the factors that influence productivity of the soil. With this fact in mind, Bulletin No. 364 has just been issued by the O. A. C. This bulletin deals with such fun- damental questions as: Composition of soil; function of the different plantfood elements; home sources of plant nutrients and use of fertilizers. Much attention has also been paid to the latest method of testing for lithe and to recognition in the field of the need of lime under various soil con- ditions. Practical farmers will find here a clear statement of factors en- tering into the fertility of soil and science teachers will find full descrip- tions of the functions of the various elements of soil fertility. This bulle- tin will be sent to ,any fanner free on application to O.A.C. The Potato Situation In an effort to improve the pre- sent potato situation the Ontario Marketing Board has sent a letter to every mayor in the towns ands cities of Ontario urging the purchase of potatoes for relief work at the pre- sent bargain prices. It is pointed out that many municipalities will have to. buy supplies to feed unemployed this winter and where this will be neces- sary touch money can be saved by taking advantage of the very low fig- ures. Prices run all the ways from 15c to 50c per bag just now. Not on- ly should immediate purchasing be uf very direct value to the Relief Com- mittee buying now, but it is also stat- ed, such purchasing: will have an in- direct effect also, as this sort of thing should help the farmer and therefore the whole country. The Ontario Mar- keting Board' still maintains there is no surplus of potatoes in Ontario if we take into consideration the fact that this province normally imports a couple of thousand carloads cv:ry year. bers judged and gave oral reasons on four classes of potatoes and also answered ten questions based on club work, growing and marketing of po- tatoes. A total of 26 Boys' Potato Clubs, with a membership of 879, were organized in 1931. They are do- ing a splendid work, not only in gain- ing the boys' interest, but also in im- proving cultural practices of the po- tato crop throughout the province.. Real strides have been made .in many potato districts in recent years by re- placing with standard varieties a large per centage of the innumerable var- ieties which were formerly used, as well as by focusing attention on low- er costs per bushel, secured by means, of larger yields as a result of improv- ed practices. The Middlesex team wilt compete with winning Potato Club: teams from other provinces in the na- tional contests at the Royal Winter Fair. Potato Club Contest Teams of two club members each, representing the Boys' Potato Clubs in Ontario "met in competition recent - Judge: "Do you understand the na- ture of an oath?" Mrs. Scruggs: "Well, my husband is a golfer and my son drives a sec- ond-hand flivver," Y BA Y «]E can never be sure just what VVee'' makes an infant restless, but the remedy can always be the sans"s. Good old Castorial There's comfort in every drop of this pure vegetable preparation, and not the sltgritest harm in its frequent use. As ofteo ast Baby, has a. fretful spell, is feverish:, or cries and can't sleep, let Caslorta soothe and quiet him. Sometimes it'e a touch of colic. Sometimes constipa- tion. Or diarrhea—a condition that should always he checked without delay. 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