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the tietown hpramrwed neiclay eveningv january 17th 1940 w ftgrkoltaral supplies committee to lovesligate farm cosls and prices m view ol the importance of maln- t farm costs in line with the prices of things fanners sell the agri cultural supplies committee estab ttshed under the war measures act tt investigated various price rela tionships one phase of this work has led to a comprehensive study of jong term relationships between pri ces of mlltfeeds and prices of livestock products with a view to estimating 4he fairness of present prices of bran ahortd and middlings in relation produce quality chicks cheaply although the largest proportion of chicks produced today is hatched in mamma th incubators there is still a great number of fanners and private breeders operating small units for thosc who desire to use the small incubators the dominion depart ment pf agriculture has issued a re- lttstttiiclrcnmr on artificial inei jg price o d arfgkfcgz products tha price of millfeeds as bypro ducts or the flourmllllng industry might be expected to bedtennlned largely by the prevailing price of vheat wlule wheat prlcesare an im portant factor in determining the prices of these feeds however sevefal other factors have proed in the past to be quite as important as or even more important than the price of wheat one of these factors is the monthly production of the individual feeds since production determines the sup ply available for the market at any given time the supply of home grown feeds in relation to numbers of live stock on farms is another factor entering into the price of mlufeeds be cause of the competition of these 4 feeds with the milled products in the live stock ration the prices fanners are receiving for animal products again becomes a factor since it is with the returns from livestock sales that farmers are able to purchase supplies of feed if these returns are low farmers cannot pay high prices for additional supplies of purchased feeds exports too enter into the picture because of the opportunity which sellers have of disposing of their products on an outside market if such market sare more favourable lhan the domestlcmarket it is through the inter section of these and other factors that the final selling price of milled feeds is armed at in the market the farmers chief interest how ever is not so much that of price as that of price relationships it is this i latter factor that has been the mam concern of the committee in its study i of nnjlfeed prices as compared with prices of livestock products the re i lationship of the price of any one product to the price of millleeds ma be calculated by seeing how many pounds of the feed is equivalent in i price to a given amount of the animal i product for example in december 1939 100 pounds of live hog in toronto wai equivalent in price to 690 pounds of shorts the average relationship be tween the prices of these commodities for the 10 cars 1929 to 1938 the study shows was 100 pounds of live hog in toronto to 680 pounds of shorts hence despite the rise in shorts pri ces during the late fall of 1939 ui price in december was approximately at its average relationship with die price of hogs similarly in december 1939 one pound of butterfat in ontario was equivalent in price to 23 3 pounds of bran at toronto compared with an average of one pound butterfat to 21 2 pounds bran over the past ten years thus thedce of butterfat was slight ly abdve lls long time relationship wltrithe price of bran while uie price relationships early in 1939 were less favourable to he dairymen than to the hog producers- study shows this situation has been corrected by the recent rise in butterfat prices it should be added that the agri cultural supplies committee is con tlnuing to keep in close touch with the situation with a view to seeing that the farm buyer is notplaced at a disadvartage in the market quality chicks at lowest possible cost in choosing n incubator the alee and type of machine required will de pend on several factors such ao che number of chicks to he hatched at one time the length of the hatching season the number dt hatches than ran be taken off successfully the size of the breeding units and the type of fuel to be used whether electricity coal or coal oil in short the choioe will depend upon the individual re quirements of the poultryman con cerned the circular deals in detail with everything important that should be known the location of the incubator the kind of incubator how to operate it temperature humidity turning the egg testing taking off the match in cubation of eggs of other species source of eggs for hatching holding eggs for incubation and other infor mation the circular may be obtain od free of charge on request fiom the publicity and extension division do minion department of agriculture ottawa urges farmers to practice science taking the 100year old motto of land practise with science as the subject of his recent address to the british association sir thomas mld- djeton a leading british agriculturist pointed out that during the decade 18311640 the land of great britain maintained a population of about 17 millions it now provides food tor about 14 millions and this although farmers of today have available as lheir predcessors had not artificial manures firstrate implements im proved varieties of crops and al the assistance which a century bf scien tific study has given to agriculture although it was ari easy thing to criticize much of the farming one sees today in great britain said sir thomas it would be unjust to fix re sponsibility for the- farms condition upon the occupant of the farm all who are in contact with the industry know that in the postwar period ris ing costs and uncertai pri have so 1830 cannot do without his mid in 1989 while the farmer hnw if he is to do his part as fcia forefathers did must take as his watchword practise with science culling of poultry by the term culling inference is made to selection for the production of eggs culling should never cease but should be practised throughout the entire laying year poor layers do not pay for their board whlle the pullets for laying should be selected at the time they are moved to their laying quarters a thorough culling ought to take place again some weeks later and the action of every bird noticed carefully thereafter in a group of birds hatched at the same time and given the same care the best layert are usually those that mature earliest and consideration should be given to that fact at the outset when selecting the birds for the laying house certain standard methods of select ing good laying hens have been de- crippled the resources of the f armer yeloped among the main quantise which are definitely established as be ing necessary for high egg production body capacity and vigour are parti cularly important plenty of room for a large fully developed digestive and reproductive system is essential observes k mcbean offlcer-in- charge dominion experimental sub- station smlthers b c a heavy egg producer must be vlg vino qk l i that he is quite unable to bestow on his land the same careful treatment that it got from his forefathers and no one regrets its condition more than does the farmer himself in the pre parations for defence the position of agriculture is a large one but be its place large or small it is for services rendered in connection with defence that farmers can legitimately ask the nation to pay as it is paying and j orous she must be a hearty eater paying heavily for the services of i great activity at feeding time and others similarly engaged j promptness to pet off the roost in the looking to the future the old motto i morning are characteristics of vigor practise with science is still appll cable the nation which relied on the british farmer for lu food vttfae kings advice ilie fol owing article from the pen ol wallace haveloek robb ic taken from the canadian countryman appealed so sliong to us that we repioduce 11 here cbc war song has its premier jess jaffray toronto cbc baritone who is to give the new song over here for over there its world pre miere on the cbc house of variety programme friday january 19 8 00 pjn has just returned from new york where he attended rehearsals of paul robeson s new stage show several c03o personalities have collaborated on the canadian war song which is specially arranged tor this broadcast toy percy faith jess showed his song to robeson who predicted that it would ba hit sweet caporal it amused nit gieaily to not the contusion of tht literary high brows over hit quotation used by his majesty the king in his addiess here s wha h mlsiy quoted 1said to a man who stood at the gate of the ytar oive mi light that 1 may tread safely into uil unknown and ht leplied go out into the dark m sd and put your hand into thi hand ol ocx tint shall be to jou belter ih in light und salt r than an known way this morning as i wnti thi dav iter box tat duj thi nt w u portei on the radio suiud that the author of these hut his been ound ht gave litr name foi u wis hei not a his and i didn i umh it bu it wi 1 b n tlu ut pupus ol th dav ant j hiiii mak no t 1 i in mv case it linns out to ix a school teacher of mid england and sin wrote the si lues about lwinl years ago md th v win p iblished in a littii volume of her poliy so then you have it a poi t aid though she was not known outsidt her own little locality und though she had to havi lu r piliious vnses prlvalt i v printed piobabh btiause nobody took any notiet ol htr lh it ood in whose hand slit own and in whosi almighty lov slit undoubtedly plitid in of poems- well do jou tvl uu duft of what i mi xtmni h came a day a christmas day whtn his majesty knit let say to his troubled pwpes all ovu thi woild somi ihinj thing lasting soinetj life itai in lug and lomloi lint sgnielhni hid true that nobody loild i ni lo gi i itu messagi yd somi in faith and leudeislup jts something of personal faith a lulionil owcr and that w ls u laige loud to pit on tilt kn a most difficult hung to do to suv so muli in so it w woid tint timr i inu and hl mujisty spok n vva not w id un ptt laureau which tamed tin loid it wi tins wind ing thought of an obstine md utlu known ikm t and us i reached tlu king and impnssd his majisly well that 1 thought lusclf and now is to the undirlying dt th of mi uning l thai ls ioi iveiy human jul to work out m lns jr ht i own lilt as lor myself ahead i iiave itsolved lo hivt moie oonlldintt in my own ob scurc tkktry and i think- each and every leiidir and ttachir and jxet and preacher should take ht it fiom this grand gt stint of tin king if i wen the reeve of my township pittsburg in pronumitc- county i should be very proud indeed or were i a couut lllor iliati the whole point of the thing im going to go about my work in lj40 along uns thought which king george has given us who knows when out suun efforls may land us or where our homst thoughts may find thei the general condition of symmetry and balance ipply in strength of beak and head with bright bulging alert eyes art the best m dicators of vigour and vitality when s zing up the capacity of a hen her laying condition will very naturally be observed at the same imi the abdomen or thi good layer is soft and pliable when she is in ifood conalllon and laying heavily poor layers tliat use feed for storing up fal ratlmi than for e production ill gtnerihv have a hard lumpyiabr domn in a flock of nattimlh yellow i shanked and vellow knmed birds such is ht bined plymouth rock hit breed ii pr it nled at the experi- mtnuil sub st ition smu tiers bc thi bird usuallv have a considerable iinount of piminud txd lai stored in tlic skin shanks and other sec- tions of the bodv liurlnf a period of lieivv unit th i ls a tindemv to draw on uils resent fit supplv for emiki mattnal the elow co lour distp nr witli tht rat the hank and skin becomnik much lighter cokiui afttr swiwal montlis of de laval fktpwddiibist separators and milkers to other equipment will give you aa much profit and pleasure as dc ival creamcoarator and milkers dc irfival cream separator and milkers de laval separators skim cleaner run eaner and lait longer than juiy other and soon pay for themtelvea the de laval milker whfmljk your cowa better latter anttcleaner than any other method and likewise pays for itself de laval separators and milken are built in a wide variety of stylo and sixe with price and terms for every need and purethey can be obtained on auch easy terms that they will pay for themsei de laval dealers also provide frgec trial demonstration thi de laval company limited vancouver lethey insfclws tyers milk products limited phone 162 georgetown ht avi un in placed her v 1 w m bi oiui v linpii iulj i11hk wtl a of ts hi lih and wlnn uppliki b tin h it i s in tht hanks wn i laving ii hi betu wlule lav nay it j vvoids th poor a umsiderable plnwnt m th v inril iim nnd f i thost whith mou i j i hive- r h disirab e i l 1 lavr sh 1 lit breed v h v mu moult fa vellow- i ulci ftavt fiuitd ml inonths of laing i n bi culled bv the j i micti rtstics nun u of h triipnest n w n low pos i ax iimiik abllitv or nay some tunes w noticed over take the loeal newspaptr ror instant as good as the big city journal but i v ano eskcially the last few ytars hut th im going lo be prouder thun ever of tin i in going to feel thai ihe obsiure and unknown id wi tne local fair may land one day in tht tattle stalls i king im going to believe honestly and deep down wn neighbors arc as good as any on eaith and ean prudm or live stock as anyone juiy where we ve ot to git mark feel i hut it 1st t pt riot of yeaih i i lily good mj hmi locality h mil calf in hls m ijesty the li n i that my as good grain this idia that big publicity big notse and big money have a monopoly on wlsdom and leadership and happiness i m grateful lo tils majesty the king lor showing us all in tills impressive way that the smallest among us may turn out to be the chosen one let us all take our klngfs advice be it a pi tcli fork or a poem we 11 build locally honestly proudly regular exercie ls almost as lm jxirtant as good 1 1 cd in the develop merit of tin roal daily exercise should be planned it will help to de- vclop boil and musde and keep the i and l1 should be trimmed when foals legs in good condition the necessary foal s fet i should not be neglected i lne te treated kindly ls tlielr dt n lopmt nt should im watched i broken early to the halter and its con radio repairing u tean bpebene we specialize on this work j sanf08d son keep production cost hogs down the jmiwruuice of keeping the cost of producing hogs aa tow as possible was stressed by a w peterson ohlef live stock andoultry produc tion servic dominion department of agriculture in a recent address to the eastern ontario yorkshire breed ers association the canadian government has now made a definite undertaking to pro vide regular weekly shipments up to 5 800 000 pounds of bacon and other pork products to great britain at un assured price mr peterson iointcd out that the cost of production might be a factor determining whether canadian hog producers can continue to supply the united kingdom with bacon at the same time it is neces sary to continue improving quality ft hogs and in bacon mr peterson compared the present situation in the canadian hog indus try with conditions at the outbreak of the war of j9j4lft at that llmp fivftrt prices advanced sharply but hog price did not the relationship between the price of feed and the price of hog was not favourable to swine produc tion during the period of the hut war great britain doubled her imports of bacon while exports from can ada were increased this export did not opine aboutentlrely through an in crease in canadian awlne production it was done partly through imports of tmcon from the united states al though gvcat britain doubled import at the outbreak of the present war there wire tremendously increased areas in crop production hi canatia feed supplies were plentiful in all sec lions feed prices were low while hog prices were at a satisfactory level the relationship between reed and hog i rices was and still is favourable to ho protfttctlmi a condition which has prevailed tor some time as a result wnkly marketings of hogs in ihe last few weeks have been the largest ever known exports of pork products to or at britain have also been heavy mr peleison said that breeders of pun bred hogs would benefit fiom the d velopmenl of the hog industry they produced breeding slock of quality which would help commercial hog producers to make satisfactory profits wintlk cake ol toals the future value or uie foal de pends largely on the care given dur ing the winter months state j g fttnthurl anlmnl hncknnfy- py form stioi id in riulon or about bone mi al or b mixture a riv rels or turnips ujenct s ipplud with t u ad nt per cent of edible mt tluir to the grain roots carrots man will add variety and to the wintei it pays to buy the best t wm does the trick v hey sure live up to the extra profit so far i have only lost one chick otiilr years i have bought chicks at a lower price than i paid for the ones i received from you and lost a good percental of them i can see that it pays tob t be tl ji s what henry pope weston onl wrote us about his 1939 llotk of bray xtiaproilt chicks its good advice for 1940 too bjy the best the important fact when you buy ihicks is n ji whit the chick tost vou at one day old but what your pullets cost you bcn they go into the laving house what vour cotji el cost you to grow to the right weight and finish and wlit returns ihey are equipped lo give vou the inability kiowlh earlv maturity and stajlnr power of vour chicks have a might bu influence qn both costs and returns li pav- to buy the be t und the j eadv application of high standards in breed ing m lection feeduil and blood testing year after year have given bray chicks a ieal claim to that titk ask any of your iiei wliu ev r bray chicks fred w bray limited john st north hamilton ont no writing no money orders no bother save yourself time and trouble bv placing vour order for bray chicks through vour local agtnt no letters io write no money ordeis to bother about just tell me what you want and nhen you want them a dozen pure breeds and four lines of cross- breds to suit every purpose george c brown nerval ont telephone 382r21 georgetown ndenoe gained the owner will be re paid with a thrifty steady working horse german bomber shot down in france central experimental farm ottawa a little extra attention will mean ad chuonal dollars or power when the foal is mature bone andjhuscle building feeds are necessary for proper development the foal will not grow properly on a ration of hay alone crushed or roll ed oats with a small proportion of taan and a good quality mixed hay form an ideal growing ration a sa turday night bran mash with a tea- spoonful of saltpetre added is a good of bacon m the last wmr it does not i regulator necessarily follow that tnlff will nap- salt- 1 essential and minerals may pen la the present situation be helpful blocg wit lfl pie iodised britlaft wr oinc pfcotcrw cap rrt s v british and lyench air forces on the western tatont working fn close coflperettoa at mnthm oat magnificent work in this photograph the fuselage ols big german plane la mb setae totad thrmlbs ths street of a french town trophy which will afford msrah valoahle lufmeieltim uill lllsss