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The Huron Expositor, 1945-02-02, Page 3) y (9onthn'ugd frPege 2) the remits'afacaurae, ruig'hi have heeA -r °'quite diffet'ehte' A eizpilaz test • w •' londtlr�'ted ,r..*be fap attd'Wn4 4i 1ng,,t e; .sante years with. regent wheat -v, O.A aCr. gX ;barley ad (here again the, t'. conclusion drawn were t'hec. eagle. AN the seed, used iu these 04 0, wad' ri of cour!;i):e, thorotxghly Cleaned d graded ao there could he ne MHO* " ity of, differences arising due to var> ,,, taint Eh, the quality sof-the"pseud qe ed. These tests,, aril 94any ethers *• that Dave been conducted 'sine• the; Experimental Farms :were ¢:rganfaed in 1886, (have clearly shown that where the seed used is 'clean; well graded, and belongs tc a variety- which is well suited° at the 'district that, it does not make a' great deal of "iI'iffer- •,•ence whether the seed is obtained' at home or whether it is brought in from sone other point. The poi ance of using good seed of th rite € '°ties found to be well adapted to the conditions ,where grovel,continues to ,occupy first plya`ce. Wartime Program For Milk in Britain - Farmers in Great Britain and ` Northern, Ireland have• managed 'to. avoid a: serious, •• decline in milk production since the beginning of the wart i' by'he r response to a govern- mental overnmental _wartime program that gave milk first place among foodstuffs ''because of its vital place in , •the ` national diet. The United Kingdom -consunies more fresh milk at present • than at' any other 'time in'the history (of the country. Tri fact, the present Agate is 35 to 40 per cent above pre- -war level 4" Dairy herds 'have •been substantially increased; • but it has riot been .possible -to . maintain normal output per cow. Producers have been ser- iously handicapped by a shortage of , "skilled labor,a decline in. imported feedstuffs of approximately 6,000,000 ''long tons (2,240 lbs.) and the plowing iup of 7,000,000 acres of grassland. The .shortage In feedstuffs has only been .partially, relieved through a diversion f supplies from pig and" poultry pro, .'• ducers to. dairy farmers, and by ra- tioning in proportion toy the amount :,of milk sold. The .Milk Marketing Board now purchases all milk directly from •pro- 4ducers, with payments varied; accord- ing toregion of production.. The 'Board sells the milk to the Ministry .,'of Food at prices prescribed by the "Matter, grade differentials being b s- • ed on quality tests conducted by.: the Ministry of Food. Finally, the Min - ti istry of Food sells the' milk Whole- sale to distributors and manufactur- ': ers, again at controlled prices that ,,are uniform regardless of how, the -milk is'used. Larger quantities have been made 'available for consumption , in the "s -original form by the diversion of milk to fresh use :from other uses that could be dispensed with" or; met by imports more • easily than by domestic production. Part of the milk • formerly'utilized in the production of butter and cheese, for example, has ' been channelled into the fluid trade[ The manufacture of cream and •ice *cream has been prohibited, and the quantity of skim -milk fed to , .1iVe , stock has ' been drastically reduced. • To encourage farmers to produce ' the increased quantity of milk likely to be rc 1uired during the .next four , years, • the government guarantees prices up to the summer of 1948 e at not less than the prices now prevailing. Useful Library The Departmental Library of the , • Dominion Department 'of Agriculture has again proved its usefulness to ' farmers, agricultural students and sci- entists. Total loans by the Library for the 12 months ended March 31, 1944, amounted to 36,8.66 publications', These include /woks, pamphlets, per- } iodicals, microfilms, photo -prints, pic- tures, and inter -library loans. 'During i the year also, the ,Library staff sup- plied specific information in answer to numerous requests, includingfacts for' the compilation of biographies. Need Fall Eggs In 1944, chicks were produced early L . .s, J ..v. .;;T A'' Yi'in•" f . T fG The S i t -training rifle &honnaboie r d e- ve10ped f,orsAbe" purpose of teaching recruits how-to shoot, ;ia-a device designed le Caad and used solely by .Canadians.. The muz*ie, of the :rifle is withi,il, ate, lnch of the. target,.and When the trigger is squeezed, a little arrow plerceh the target and shows just wh,ero the recruit was Malin*,' . The instru'ee tor can thus accurately determine if the recruit is editing the rifie, aiming inclorreotly or 'pulling' the trigger, It' has proven a''valuable trainingaid and While it looks as if everyone should hitthe bull from ,such close range; the bull corresponds to' one at 25 yards. These pictures were taken at the Prince Albert training centre, commanded by Lieut: -Col. F. Thompson. Pointing put features Of the rifle Is C.Q.,, �. M.S. A. M. Mackie, Saskatoon._ in the year, with the result that there was the greatest fall, production of eggson record. Early, c'hick's (Feb- ruary and *March) are necessary for the :highest production of eggs when Britain needs them most.- Early chick's also 'make' the hest foundation . for Canada's postwar export trade in 'eggs. • Clean "Seed, Best Crop 'Insurance If there is any one thing more important than another to a farmer, it }. is clean seed. ,In - a serprisingly short time it will be seeding time again and the wise farmer will have the seed he is going to plant cleaned anis tested for germination before spring comes. Although large, well equipped seed cleaning machinery is available to farmers at -*many places throughout Canada, it may not be conveniently near to some farmers whose only- alternative nlyalternative is to clean their own seed. The farm -sized fanning ,mill, however, can do a good job, if care- fully operated. The labor of cleaning and handling seed on the farm may be consider- ably reduced, . Where • the facilities permit the elevation of the seed from' the cleaner to an overhead bin. From r _item. this. t h e seed may be spouted back fp, th.Ltanning. mill for a second cleaning. It is necessary to -run seed through a farm fanning mill at least twice and sometimes three times to make a good job. If seed is to be cleaned a third time, it may be elevated to a second overhead bih which is 'within spouting -distance of the fanning mill on the floor below.' The grain should always pass, thii'lly over the screens, otherwise proper sepp,ration of the small seed and weed seeds cannot be properly separated. The top or scalping . sieve of ' a seed -cleaning machine should be bare- ly large 'enough to let' the • grain through. The size , of the grading screen*, should be determined by the size and shape of the. seed being cleaned. The use of clean, "well graded 'seed is one- of the best form's ,of crop In- surance. Clean' seed means more production and more profits. To have seed ready for spring planting; clean it now. . * • State Marketing in New Zealand Wartime , bulks -sales . agreements •be- tween'Britain and New Zealand have resulted in the latter country in d general extension of State marketing to all the major export products. This is known as the Control Board move- ment. Various control boards were created hi New ,Zealand after the 1921+ depression in agricii,Itural prices; The work of these boards differed from commodity to commodity, but all made important contributions tbwards improving the efficiency of the coun- try's ,export — marketing methods. They were not used 'to: raise prices of co umodities for export substantial- ly above world prices. Acting as agents for the producers, the export :control boards ,secured cheaper freight rates, better refrig- eration and better handling and stor- age methods in Britain. They intro- duced new '-and improved' grading techniques, and by ,advertising made the 'British aware'of the high quality of the .New Zealand product Some of , the boards entered the market, re- duced competition between traders, and exercised complete control over the export marketing of .their pro- ducts. *These functions have begin gradually taken over by the Market- ing Department established in '1937, 1 until at the present'time, the princi- paI activity of the control boards .is to represent the 'producers in nego= tietions with the government. New' Zealand -has more foreign trade per capita of the population their any other -country. It is smaller and further removed from •Britain than any other British Dominion. Its position in world trade, however, is far more important than is indicated by its size, location and population. The 'United Kingdom takes 80 per cent.' of New' Zealand's exports and supplies 50 per cent. of its imports. Tomato Juice Popular In the past 14 years there has been in Canada a phenomenal increase in the •popular demand for tomato juice. The pack in 1930 was only 6,828 cas- es -24 twenty -ounce , tins to a case. From the 1944 crop of Canadian grown tomatoes the pack was 4,000,- 000 cases, a 77 per cent. increaseaover the 1943 pack and about '58,500 per cent. increase over that of 1930. Seventy per cent. of all tomatoes processed are packed in plants ,situat- ed in Ontario. The remaining 30 pee, cent, is packed in Quebec and British Columbia. The tctal pack of toma- toes., Banned 'from the 1944 crop was 2,155;000 cases, or 655,000 cases more than in 1943. One of the largest packs of Canadian canned tomatoes was in 1941 when the total 'was 3;500,000 cases: A case of canned. tomatoes contains' 24 dans of '•28 ounces each.• - Heavy Demand For, Package Bees The importation of package bees, from ' the Southern .States is an• important feature of Canadian . bee- keeping, and 'se great has been -the` demand that -many beekeepers have already placed- their orders months ago. For those who have not already ordered their bees for the spring, there still' may be a possibility of obtaining them, if the orders •are giv- en at once. Dominion Apiarist C.. B. Gooderham says that the demand for package bees is at an all-time high, and that 'United States :producers have been booked to capacity for some time. However, although ham- pered by shortage :of labor and ma- terials, some of these southern pro- ducers now hope to be able to -make' additional deliveries in the late! spring. But present supplies of packs' • age bees are so limited that repres- entatives . of Western -Canadian honey producing organizations made special trips to the Southern States last fall to contract for their spring needs. And many other old customers have placed their orders months ago. These are the reasons , why Mr. Gooderham says, "Order your pack age bees now or you'll be disappoint- ed. isappointed. And," he warns, "you may be disappointed anyway." Full information on 'how to order package bees and how td care for them is given in Special Pamphlet, "Package Bees," which may be ob- tained from the Dominion , -Depart- inent of Agriculture, Ottawa. Child .BadlyBurnecd Larry, 118 -month's -old son of Mr. and Mrs. Laurie Scott, 8th concession of Mor'ris, met with a painful accident Saturday when she upset a pail of bo#ling water over his shoulder. He suffered severer pain. Mrs. Scott had drained potatoes into a small pail when her 'young Soo grabbed'' It up and upset 1t, Dr, I'iodd was called in and although the little boy suffered intensely, the 'Write. ei'e ild't consider- eel riatte.—Brussel " Post. • uueul'tr. ?(tellingtell Johnston,' !ave TOO i iauy frienis, who -would eften drive wiled. 04 i?f' their Way.tti value to;; P/10 4. and' b. Itesti# at' the Do- ;ninton *nook ,. "i 'ii 1.4,1 er d. hI,r, sad: 1rs ' ohnst la tpitet)d, ` 0t g new retiidenee on t eiri let .,eoutlk a nit:F'er the hotel, '141oii 'w9 V -z Lake a ITT* nice .loeatiom Lott ,4,400,4e, Ztarit h' a a1S1: Wins Distinguished Fiyin Mass On Tannery 19th B.C,A,F lteat3quar- tez's announced the awaa)d4 pf t1le Dis- tinguished Flying Gress•, te. F1jng••,Of- ficer Speak, citation fellows; This officer has completed numerous op- erations against the enemy An the course of which he has invariably dis- played the utmost fortitude,courage and devotion to duty." , Flying Officer Speak has returned from overseas and has been spending his leave with his wife and daughter 'at the - home of the former' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ryan, Brussels. — Brussels Post: • A Lot of Snow Mr. Ituno IIartman, • silo, lives a few miles south of Zurich on the Goshen Line, managed the other day to get tb town, this being the • first time- since before Christmas. 14Lr. Hartman,' who looks' hale and hearty regardless, of his winter conflement owing to the high snowbanks, 'advis- es us that in order to get on the main road, from his laneway, he wag oblig- ed to get out and lift up thetelephone wires to let the horse through, and we wonder if he will be able to see any 'wiree 4 all after the storm that Is prevailing today (Wednesday),— Zurich Herald. - Blaze is Probed • The. inquest into the death last Thanksgiving night, 'Oct. 10th, with twenty witnesses• heard and which lasted all afternoon ' and until ten o'clock at night, resulted in a verdict that ,Bruce Moore, 56 -year-old bee- keeper: of near Bayfield, .died from fire and smoke of undetermined ori- gin. • 'Moore 'Wes -foiled, dead in' the ruins of his home when persons pass- ing were attracted by the flames and investigated. Dr. W. J. Shaw; coroner of Clinton, presided at the hearing, and Crown Attorney Dudley E. Holmes of --Goderich, questioned the witnesses. On the jury were John Howard, John 'Castle, Malcolm Tom, John Cameron (foreman),. and Lawr: ence Scotchmer.—Zurich Herald. One Clock Leads To Another • To 'more subscribers who read the items in the past two issues of The .Standard about old timepieces, have come forward 'with still more stories about clocks which they have in their possession. OnSaturday Mr. Robert Craig, • of Morris. Twp., dropped in to tell" us about the official timepiece in theirhome and, its history. The clock is of the grandfather type, standing 7 feet high,- and' 'was brought :to this country from Scotland by Mr. Craig's father, the fate James Craig, 82 years ago. The clock, which is wound with a craft, and kept going by weights, is keeping good time, in spite of the fact that it is over 50 years since it was last cleaned. It also tells the date of the month. Mr. Craig hasn't the slightest idea. hole old the clock is, or how' long it has been in the family, but it would take a handsome sum to lure it from 'his possession. Then a few minutes after Mr. Craig left, Mrs.'.A. E. 'Quinn, of East Waw- anosh, dropped in to say that she had a clock which to her knowledge has ✓ in the family for 60 years, end she believes, for many" years 'more.. The clock is a Seth -Thomas make and has to be wound every day. It also establishes a record for clean- liness, not having been to the clean- ers for over 60 years.—Blyth Stand- ard. - Candidates And. Issues (By Grant pexter id Winnipeg Free Press) ' The reasons which have prompted the Conservatives and the C.C.I. to oppose the Government in North Grey are not •clear. That there is a difference of 'opin- ion in, the Conservative party is plain. • The Bracken point of view is said not to jibe with the Toronto attitude and, as has frequently occurred in the past Mr. Bracken bas failed to carry the day. - . Mr, Bracken is said to favor re- serving all ammunition until the'gen- eral election takes , - place. in, the meantime the party ought not to oyer - play its hand. The strongest Bard in •this hand, Id the public antagonism to the -Government. If the election could be held off until the war. in Eur- ope is over, the disposition of the voters to ohange the Govetlititient would be muni stronger. The4eotsile are . het likely' to eoto the Cottduria- tivee into akiee, lint they are.;, tgoat • Slat aYi1 ing up. Further, 'hd the 0, o the Case tiaEP� a l xnixgd rfl razz as a.r he iu . U134 i •imcoe, e?id wsa 'beaten by far P ter 4,931: �h � ���0 he tau 'in ;North Garet' as ,a7.1100414). Lib eral Proge$ sive *4.14. poi 0; MO iu a' roto 'of W- 743, n #g10. ; e. t194 ones, is COL: &date- w$' ar i?t, n#0--- kztaNY -r W91, wow its 110144 '1'r, Case'ls• :A'r't 13,1 191,4-.18 'ie nt?t 1>:gowA: to tl itt writer' but dolai►tiess: ' tti .he Calivaleind, as the; by-elg0t,lei . nnoct e* s. Niven after Mr. Case Was noreinat-• ed there seems to have been some' notion Of pulling hili out. There was a repert'toi'this effect in the NJ<pntreal' Gazette en January 3rd. The Gesett:a' usually; .3,a sot far astray in hareem* ing Conaervativa strategy: '' The re- port was spiked by Mr. McTague, the. national, chairman, on January 44 - Mr. Bracken, ' in the meantime, was off to Europe. It ,l& a matter of corn- -lent at Qtttawa that the party 'leader should ba'Te gone an a• long trip while so important a . by-election is being fought. And it will be interesting to see who; of . the Conservative. high command, suopdrts Mr-' 'Case. With regard to the 'C.C.F., the by- election is equally . surprising. It has been commonly supposed that the C.: C,F. is 'apposed to an early election. Mr. Coldwell, in a national broadcast on Decem_ b'er 20th, justified the C.C.F. dentition to line ug, with -the Govern- ment on the final vote in the con- scription session on the ground that by so doing an election was avoided. Mr. Caldwell developed this • line of argument, as follows (Canadian • •Press report); "An election at present ,would place in "power on. a war issue •a government which would have post- war problems to solve. He held that a Parliament elected to deal With these problems should be elected - 031 ,postwar policies, with every opportunity to vote given the rnen and women now overseas." He said, also, that only "irresponsi- ble political elements were clamor- ing" for an election and that,such an event /would seriously disrupt. the common war effort. Mr. Coldwel•I had reference, of course, to -a campaign beginning in Mid -December, but there is not much difference, in this regard between then and now. The C.C.F. candidate is an import from Leeds County (Brockville) and is a • distinguished airman. He has been a member of the C.C.F. for`some time and apparently is well acquaint- ed with General McNaughton, , for whom he worked in the -early 1930's. The issues 'of the 'campaign have Yet to be developed. Presumably the Conservatives will run on the con- scription and anti -Quebec line. Rev. T. T. Shields has already invaded the ;constituency and delivered a blast— "a vote for McNaughton would be a rote for the Roman Catholic hier- archy." Mr. Shields was not sponsor- ed by the Conservative party and the reports,:did not disclose who he back- ed. The C.C.F. is expected to con- centrate on postwar policy. 'The Gov- ernment will ask for the return of a minister so that the war ;administra- tion may go forward. General Mc Naughton is conceded to °fie Vulner- able on the , conscription issue, but whether. Mr. Case is the elan to knock him out is another question. Preliminary • toots (in "tar's - panty. trumpets are to be heard. Hon. Col- in Gibson, Minister of National Rev- enue,has expressed unbounded confi- dence in the outcome.- The Liberals, he affirms,,,will win, The C.C.F. pa- per, the New Commonwealth, has sur- veyed the constituency and reports that "present indications are that General McNaughton hasn't a chance of winning." The Conservatives, says the Commonwealth, have only a lit- tle 'more strength. So ,the campaign proceeds. A boy went to work in an engin- eer's shop', and after lie half been there three weeks announced his in tention of leaving. His employer ask- ed- the- reason, whether ,,the herds were all right, and the money all right, and the boy replied: "Yes, those are all right, but I don't like it, and I'm sorry I learned the business now." • 0 .a Z'rI (By„ s, A. it 'Goold. ani; Winalzpeg`. Press) I,.(2 N, 7 hei;e was a IntIP in Pne. #4 ,',0), evenifg`,papers the otli ee day abonnt a Canadian soldier Nolo, Was "el►:arged'w;ttlK •'stealin 0ap1 s •e, ff g rt?i., &roll Orilla-ea ' ina south :of England t'avgzli! , . . ,The 'law caught up wrath him and, when he appeared in a civilian police court•_ there was apparently a strong Plea on leis' behalf'. The deeinee lawyer evidently the man was • 3ust a trapper frog Northern :Sas'katchevien and, Contend- ed he. hadn't developed very much' and his mentalit*,' was about that of a child of .eight. As that score Isn't very high in any league, the story rankled a lite tle and I made some inquiries at our :headquarters• over izere. ' ' • I've seen a .good deal of trappers from our north woods with the army on the- continent and, while they're not all anatriculants,• they seem pret- ty smart gays who have done a mag- nificent job. Some ,of them have ra- ther important ribbons and I could go into stories • but that might get too close- to, identities, and a trapper isn't usually friendly to .publicity. But they're sure-fire stuff and not guys, I'd put in the eght-year-old group. And another thing was 'this: How does it happen that we have men of that group over here at all? Seems a little 'lbw considering the sort of army, tests we've, talked about all these years. After some inquiry it was disclos- ed that the •only .Canadian soldie3r of the name given was a 36 -year-old citi- zen front a place called Toronto, and there is no record of him ever hav- ng been in Saskatchewan, which is some relief. You don't mindso much if they say things like than about To- ronto people. But wbat about our army examin- ers? Well, the record showed that this was a category case, a man suitable for general duty in Britain but not for the $ghting fronts, and that when he enlisted the. army examiners gave him a score corresponding to that of an 11 -year-old which, considering ,the normal is 14, is considerably better, than, the London report. • That seems ,to straighten out • my feelings a good deal, Earlier in the war I was in the army and saw a great many of these army examin- ers' reports. :These experts were school teachers mostlyand a few were psychiatrists.' They called it an "M" test; not ara intelligence test but an adaptability test which seemed weighted in favor of mechapical, ra- ther than academic, talents. • • Hut maybe these reports were jest tucked away on 'some shelf and for- gotten. No, I ' was told,* they went with a 'soldier's pay book, wherever he went, and there is always a record of how he started out, what his score was, and how he stood up. It was. tight there in the case of the soldier ;Na Pd acid zs 'in his 'a:lpxlit te. 'leatii zrzueh.;, after the everY1500y, seems tg learn pkblzR"ra other people.: If he: !6tartS a!?u: mental age of eight he to grow out cif it., many' nen• an the'' group n e s �, don't know: Its something t7r; might be turned u)x Jn Ottawa reeood aird would make a : ]ince $aid, own impression f IS t, 'much higher. The heartening thing obottt�'1 bless is that the army i(,a oplyx $ t,1►l tests are used ,not:Merely to o f • ,: a man to his first ` impact: WO' tbp •services, but..,. all the:: way' thkouOit and that they .ate referred to rej,eatr edly. ' Then when he hi up. for Ilii- charge they are looked at once nimrtit and he' is given guidance for "roes,- tional or .other draining tto fit hi* civilian: life. ! The important thing wonl4 app to be the skill and time of the; ex amtners, coupled with the use tat which resultant information is pat So far ,as. army life is concerned, t appears to get good use over ;kern. What happens to it from now e* w will be interesting. It is the old hinge '- nese of keeping sggare pegs out of round holes, which is purely, a voce - tiox al point and, if it can help nn . a, major way to steer veterans in Sbs ' right •direction this year, it will TIOP one of the greatest factors in, rehab- „ it e Iab- it • 11 1,07 I CHE.Ka ✓1ffy CKEi' TC =or Money e 8 alk For quick relief front itching caused by eczema. athlete's foot, scabies, ,pimples and otheritching conditions, use pure. cooling, medicated. liquid D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. Greaseless and stainless. Soothes, comforts and quickly calms intense itching. Don't suffer. Ask your druggisa today for D. D. D. 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