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Page Four THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, THU RSDAY, FEBRAUAR 4th, 1937 FEWER COLDS FOR CHILDREN! Preventive Medicine has raised the standard of health in Ontario! On* of th* tories in * tk* JfosjtfM iced labora- The Sixtieth Anniversary of the establishment of the Hospital for Sick Children is more than a milestone where we hestitate a moment, looking children of the Province. It marks also the parallel development of Preventive Medicine in this country ... a development in which observations made in the Hospital for Sick Children on the treatment of tens of thousands of cases form an important part. The far-reaching influence of the growth of this branch of medical practice can easily be shown in figures--the records of Health Departments supply convincing proof. The fact that your childre* are relatively a great deal healthier than those of sixty years ago is due in no small degree to the progress in medical knowledge made possible by the opportunities afforded by the Hospital for Sick Children. Vaccination, toxoiding, etc., commonplace today, had to be proved effective by the actual observation of countless eases. Children of every race and creed are admitted to this Institution, regardles of circumstance. Their ticket of admittance is their need. Their treatment, >, it governed by their n< tlity or inability to pay. Fixed grants made by the Province and Municipalities do not provide for the features requiring extra expense which our progressive child special-fats prescribe. Each year there is a deficit which we ask charitable people to meet. This year the shortage is $70,000.00. Every dollar is urgently needed so that the great work may go on. No amount is too small . .. none too large. Give $1.00, $2.00, $5.00, or $100.00--whatever your circumstances justify--but please give_ something. Send your donation to the A ppeal Secretary. HOSPITAL fOR SICK CrllLDRtTI » "uiHCPe no child koocks <n vain" 67 COL L-E-G-e- ST Dff fr T "T O O H ~T O 2 Tree Planting Conserves Moisture and Curtails Flood Damage nd all 1 efforts. :eetings held at London. Guelph and Bowmanville at which wardens counties along with officers interested organizations attended, plans were made to bring into being a Province wide conservation organization that will have as its prolong term plan which embraces the planting of windbreaks, reforesting land unsuitable for agriculture, extention of county and township reforesting schemes, preservation of wooded and swampy areas and the planting of stream banks, so water may be held back for a more even "stribution throughout the yer. The plan of conservation worked out to a definite conclusion will in-game and fish life, beautify and enrich the country side, attract more tourists and above all will guarantee in future a more abundant water supply so essential to the welfare of man. plants and animals. The plan of organization includes County committees, the nucleus of which will be the reforestation committee of the County Council, district committees composed of three members from each county in the five districts, and a Provincial committee, some of the members of which will be appo'ntetd by the Province and will include one or more members from each district. Recommendations will be made to the Provincial Government to have conservation lessons taught in schools, to have the assessment act revised so. that the assessment, where merited on blocks of growing trees will not be increased until some revenue is derived from the plantation, to have the Province zoned anid a capable forester installed in each zone. Water and forest not new in the Counties of Northumberland and Durham. County forests were started in 1924 and now 2,200 acres, all planted, are owned by the Counties at Penella in Northumberland and at Orono in Durham County. Several Townships have smaller municipal forests. The Village of Brighton has planted several thousand trees as a protection for the town water supply. Warkworth and other Villages have planted trees to beautify surrounding hillsides. The Castleton School Board has planted a block of trees on the school property. The private plantings in the two Counties amounts to about 560.000 trees annually. All this splendid- activity, however, is not sufficient to maintain the tree .papulation, with the result that blow r*aiid areas are increasing in size, so called never failing wells: are drying up, small streams are going dry in the summer, spring freshets are increasing in frequency, and damage to private and public property is mounting at an alarming rate. The Counties' Council devoted considerable time at the January session to the question of conservation and no doubt the reforestation committees will be given authority to proceed as speedily as possible with a definite conservation programme. Any person having clothing, bedding, or children's needs, especially for babies, which can be used as they are or by alteration, please notify any' member of the Welfare Committee of the Colborne Men's Club. These articles will be made ready for use by the different ladies' organizations of the various churches and distributed among the needy here in Colborne. Please give us your support. Nothing is too small. Welfare Committee of the Colborne Men's Club: O. E. Johnston. chairman Rev. P. W. Roberts Rev. W. H. Moore J. G. Waite Chas. McGuire MERCHANTS, ATTENTION The undersigned would remind merchants of the town handling cigarettes and tobaccos that the law prohibits the selling of these to minors, and respectfully requests that they will co-operate in stopping such sale to young boys unless the request made under the recognized signa- re of the parent or some one entit- d to them. Older persons who give cigarettes • tobacco to young boys are also putting themselves in danger of pro- Certified seed potatoes have been moving out very freely scnce harvest, and prospects for futurt- sales are good. The movement star ei in Nova irly i the has contin the sedition. such is proven against Gift of a visit home for Christmas and New Year was the unusual present suggested for the year end by G. E. Carter, general passenger agent, Canadian Pacific Railway, Montreal, as he explained the company's pre-paid ticket plan for sending transportation to out-of-town relatives and friends. Arrangement of details of such visits is extremely simple, Mr. Carter said, and tickets cost no more despite use of telegraph in case of emergency and the guarantee that the tickets will reach the right person. This service is not confined to Christmas and New Year but is particularly popular at this season. August ai Martime steadily all fall, mostly r-:r export to foreign destinations, aud jriacipally to the United States, Cuba. Bermuda, British West Indies, ."'an;.i:.a and Argentine. The movement reached .1= peak In Prince Edward Island .u November and a total of approximately 400,000 bushels of certified se^ from the 1936 crop was moved to Dc cancer 1st. There is, however, aboi ; sufficient seed left to meet the i Mail spring demand. The certified seed cr >p in Nova Scotia has been largely ftfapbsed of and with promises of in reased orders for some varieties 1 lerartors are planning for an increased acreage for pe; i in New Brunswick ! Sep:ember and early October, and total shipments for the fall month to December 1st were 397.016 bueue's. Supplies left on hand sht oj I meet ordinary local- and mand. A good demand to" <;a l\ varieties is in prospect in Or t; r.o as the crop of early varieties r-ducec! by spe-ulators in prosp?::t 4 a rise in price next spring. Tr..;-^- s ibout sur-ficent seed available of U;e late varieties to meet local dsrinnl hut a better fall market is ii e ■iifnce than has been the case for some years. The crtified seed^c'cp in the Prairie Provinces is short of l e-ouirements due to unfavourabe seasonal conditions The crop in Brithi Columbia is about sufficient to n • oral demand at good prices. -I'i- de disorders adequate Canadian and world ski-ing enthusiasts will have an opportunity to test the Rocky Mountains* claim of (having ski facilities equal to any when the Dominion championships of the Canadian Amateur Ski Association are held from March 5 to 8 on the steep slopes of 8,275-foot Mount Nor-quay, four miles from the Canadian Pacific Eailway station at Banff. According to announcement by Canadian Pacific Communications Department Christmas and New Year's greetings of pre-arranged message texts will be again available to the public this year. Within Eastern or within Western Canada they will be accepted at the low rate of 25- cents. Between eastern and western Canada and from points in eastern and western Canada to points in the U.S.A. they will be accepted at 40 cents. Rates are subject to government tax. Preliminary statistics of sheep on farms in Canada, as at June 1, 1936, indicate a slight decrease in numbers as compared with the previous year. Since 1931. the numbers of sheep in Canada, states the Imperial Economic Committee, has been--1931, 3.612,000; 1932, 3,647,000; 1933. 3,389.000; 1934, 3,424,000; 1935. 3.402.000 and 1936 (provisionaly) 3.373,000. These figures incude sheep on Ind.ian Reserves (about 3,000 head). For the first quarter of 1937, the quota to Canada by the French gov-lent include the following agricultural produce--barley, 950 metric quintals; cheese, 240 metric quintals; rolled oats. 3.000 metric quintals; apples. 10,340 metric quintals; sweet-ned biscuits, SV2 metric quintals; calf and small skins, 7% metric quin A metric quintal equals 2,204 Canadian pounds. mile of railroad track was recently stolen in Ohio. We are glad note someone has confidence in A gift to the Province of Ontario from the Kerry Hill Flock Book Society, in North Wales, ten ewes and one ram, of the world famous Kerry Hill sheep are now at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. The gift was arranged through. W. Rupert Davies, President and Editor of the Kingston "Whig-Standard", and the sheep, known in Wales as "speckle-faced rentpayers", are expected to prove extremely popular with stock breeders across Canada. Experts consider the Kerry Hill sheep an. outstanding breed, noted for their adaptability to any environment, and for their general utility. Canadian Pacific semi-streamlined, air-conditioned trains which have been a feature of railway development this year, have had a big reaction on Christmas presents and are now been shown in many of the big department stores in the form of models. These miniature trains are having great success with the kiddies who are given rides in them in the stores and then have the opportunity of getting a toy train for Christinas, built on the sama lines as the miniature. Farmers, Bewti Since many nutrition;: and diseases of farm mat been traced to the lack ol minerals in their rations there has be.en an increasing demand for mineral supplements. Salesmei- are known to be operating extensively throughout the Province and in seme cases are offering so called "ininearl supplements" which are useless and may be worse than worthless and these products may be offered at prices far in excess of that which "he farmer can afford to pay. Recently two striking instances of fradulent practice were brought to the attention of the Dominion Government Inspectors. One material consisted almost entirely of ground limestone. The other of common salt. Ye both were sold at fantastic prices. When in 1921 the "Feeding Stuffs"" A< Canada was drawn up the wide demand for mineral supplements was unforseen. Consequently no measures of control for their sale were incorporated in the Act. Therefore, until a revision of the said Act is completed it behoves the farmer to be on his guard against the insidious advances of these sometimes ignorant salesmen. The farmer should--first, satisfy himself that the mineral supplement is the product of a firm with a reputation to maintain and demand to be shown a statement of analysis, bearing in mind, that calcium and phosphorus should be approximately two to one. The maintenance of a correct balance between these two is considered important. Consult your Agricultural Representative or the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph if you are in doubt as to the analysis of the product which is being offered you. Don't be fooled. The grand total or Hogs graded in Canada during 51 weeks of 1936 was 3,572,496, an increase of 683,682 on the number graded in 1935 (2,888,814). In 1936, the number of hogs graded by carcass was 422,744. as against 111.785 during the corresponding 51 weeks of 1935. Although there is no indication in this village of a "flu" epidemic, it will be wise to take the ordinary precautions against catching cold. By this time everyone should know what these precautions against colds :--almost as numerous as the sure Satisfactory Service Frequent users of the Condensed Advertisements in The Express are well satisified with the results! achieved. The cost is small. These small advertisements are universally read and often accomplish results far beyond the cost of insertion. The Colborne Express Telephone 44