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' Swing Clipping I Clipping the horses in spring is a 1 nactice claimed to be advantageous by . nany farmers. It is stated that clip- I lng saves the animals much discom- ‘. at thereby enabling them to develop . 3 given amount of power on less feed. ' mormigh grooming during the working eason also increases the horse’s eni- The Extension Department at the )ntario Agricultural College has Just eoently issued a series of extension lrculars which are attractive. brief and well written. These should be very ueul to those who want information The Weed Act Owing to public demand plans are inder way for a more strict enforce- nent of the Weed Act this year. hrmers will be well advised to avoid. nconvenienco at or near harvest time n planning now to control weeds. Seed. should be caretully cleaned. Weed. )oluted fields should not be seeded. vithout proper preparation even if thi". 'equires late sowing of a special crop. Weed inspectors have an opportunity to do their most helpful and pleasant ”rt between now and planting time. educing the cost of production of farm trope. The Ontario Agricultural Col- ege has issued a circular describing In opportunity to see for themselves may phases of Ontario’s agricultural and industrial life. The contest is open in all farmers and farmers’ sons and full details can be obtained from the iocal agricultural. representative. More horses per team so that men an individually accomplish more work ray of increasing farm efficiency and. .uitablo hitches for four- and five-horse In the past three years 1407 young men have participated in the trip to the Eoyai Winter Fair sponsored by the Dntario Department of Agriculture. This trip is being held again this year hiring which time the guests will have use increases yields in both wet and dry seasons. Well drained soils result it lower costs of production. llens the period for crop growing, nukes cultivation easier and increases the efficiency of the soil. Tile drain- Underdrslnage of much of Ontario’s fin: lurid is recognized as necessary if womable returns are to be secured. Underdralnage lowers the water levels at soils. removes surplus water, leng- Use care when cultivnting in spring mt to spoil a good job of plowing. If you use a toothed implement in work- ingthesoil youureolmoetsuretodng to stubble up and make more work for yourself in picking. The best method .uslly is to roll the soil before working 3. then use a disc, and if necessnry, n packer to pulverize it, then sow with Noriolk led the counties in reforesta- Ien in 1929. when 677,000 trees were finted. The objective of the county for 1930 is 1.000.000 trees. to be pleated at non-agricultural land or for wind- Circular No. 1â€"“Debates”. Circular No. 2 â€"“Mumple Home Kit- Circular No. 4â€"" ’AGE «1 NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE BUSY F ARMER Multiple Horse Hitches: Dues 0! Sub; Iain “9““ gm! Crop Rotation”. NO. That Boys! Trip Spring Cultivating A05._:otu< uc Eonâ€":35 2.25 2â€". .3 1235: n: A 1,000 milebout trip from Vance through the colorful Inside Passage. glacien, the Klondike, - GO" ecenery . . . Congenhl ' travel Touts may be made by m m â€""-' â€"V'- Vmile a when of M butane At this time of year there are usual- ly some agents offering new varieties of grain and other crOps at fancy prices. Extravagant claims are made for these which are alleged to offset the price and leave a very favorable balance. If farmers can procure more suitable sorts than they are now using they should do so, by all means, but why not permit the government farms to do the experimenting. Trained ex- perimenters at these stations are test- ing hundreds of varieties every year and no farmer is justified in paying a high price for “something new” until he learns how these kinds have produc- ed in comparison with others on the government farms. The crop report for the latter part of March comments on the increased interest which has been manifested in better seed. The demand for registered grain and certified potatoes is keen and supplies of such stock are rapidly becoming depleted. Although it is too early yet to make definite statements about the condition of fall wheat and clover. a great deal of anxiety prevails throughout the southern part of the province. are described in the report from Essex County. Brood sows are bringing as much as $75 apiece at sales in Lanark County. while in Leeds farmers have been disappointed over the stopping of the sap flow. In Muskoka and Parry Sound live stock is better than had been anticipated with conditions in general about normal. Norfolk will use about 325 cars of fertilizer in 1930. A. R. G. Smith, superintendent of the Soils and. Creps Train, says “we are getting all the people we can handle properly. Questions are numerous on many problems but particularly those connected with soil management, chemical fertilizers and weed control.” This train. directed by the Ontario De- partment of Agriculture coooperating with the Canadian National and Can- adian Pacific Railways, is making 55 stops in Eastern Ontario. The attend- ance to date has averaged over 360 at each stop, the highest being 1,000 at Bellevillc. This is governed by regulations of the Destructive Insect and Pest Act. amendments to which became eflective on March 12,1930. unless they are vigorous and free from serious diseases and have been so certi- fied by an inspector of the Federal De- partment of Agriculture, who has in- spected the growing crop and also the tuber: after harvesc. The term “Seed” when applied to potatoes must mean something in fu- ture. It is illegal to advertise or offer for sale potatoes described as “”Seed flargo attendance at special crop meet- gings this year. Special speakers were provided by the Ontario Department of iAgriculture to communities requesting ,their services. G. A. McCague, agricul- :tural representative in Huron, reports an attendance of 825 at a series of 15 gmeetings in all parts 01 the county. ’This was an average of 55 at each point. The Lincoln County average was 75. In Welland the average was over 100. Special meetings of this kind are being conducted in about 30 counties. The demand ior speakers is so great that} there has been difficulty in supplying suitable speakers. As these men are practical farmers and most of them running large farms, it has been diffi- cult to persuade them to leave their private arrairs to render this public Circular No. 6â€"“8011 Reaction, Lime and Manure." Better Seed in Demand Soils Train Appreciated “Wonderful Varieties” Seed Potatoes tons per acre. Nine northern grown lots averaged 3.13 tons ,per acre in com- parison with 0.98 tons for the five Southern European sorts. tive and more valuable by the planting of trees, shrubs, vines and flowers, and a well-kept lawn. The cost of the nursery stock required is one of the most profitable investments a farmer can possibly make, because such im- provements will actually increase the money value of the place by many times the amount spent in a simple plan of home planting. It will make it more valuable as a home and it will cer- tainly command a better price if out up for sale. It is surprising how a few improvements will turn a mere house into a real home. In addition to its increased monetary value the at- tractive farm home goes a long may in holding the family together; in keep- ing the young people on the farm. They will love their home and be proud to bring in their friends. ' In 1929 the yield from five Southern European strains was 1.95 tons per acre, while four Canadian and ,{me Swedisll stra_in_ _ave;raged 3.19 tons per In 1927 five Southern European lots averaged 0.98 tons of hay per acre as compared with a yield of 3.20 tons per acre from four Canadian and one Swedish strain. Two Canadian and two Swedish, Mammoth strains, yielded 3.04 acre. The yield from two Canadian and two Swedish, Mammoth strains, was 3.13 tons per acre. In this case nine northern grown strains averaged 3.16 tons per acre in comparison with an average yield of 1.95 tons per acre from five Southern European sorts. Over the three year period the South- ern European lots averaged 1.59 tons per acre in comparison with an aver- We cannot change our climatic con- ditions, but we can choose those strains which are best suited to our condition. When ordering clover seed, but sure and ask for Canadian grown. If this is not available, secure it from a coun- try whose climatic conditions are sim- ilar to those of Canada. age yield of 3.09 tons for the north em grown strains. acre, while five Canadian and one Swedish strain averaged 2.60 tons per acre. Three Canadian and two Sweed- ish, Mammoth strains averaged 3.50 tons of hay per acre. Combining all] of the northern grown strains, the yield was 3.05 tons per acre as com- pared with a yield of 1.91 tons for the Southern European lots. In 1923 at the Experimental Farm. Nappan. N.S., our Southern European strains ‘gyerage 1.91 tons of hay per Few seem to realize that a large per- centage of the losses due to winter kil- ling of red clover seedings can be traced to the origin of the seed. Seed from certain areas is definitely suited to conditions as they exist in Eastern Canada. BEAUTIFYIN G THE FARM HOME VARIETIES AND STRAINS (Experimental Farms Note.) (Experimental Farms Note.) The monster's laugh shook his bulk from headlight to tender, 329 tons of laughter. It was only the"conceit of the youngster that prevented him from diving under the ' t's trucks and scuttling to a safer piece. But the monster was good-natured. “Where are you going ?" he asked. ,“To Beauharnois." 66 ;2.t, climb on," rumbled moo. 01“ RED CLOVER THE DURHAM CHRONICLE “Thanks for the Buggy Ride, ” Said the Little Locomotive Conservative speakers suggested that It was tantamount to a violation of the spirit of the election law. It was, they pointed out, the equivalent of a threat against five of the great Cana- dian provinces. The election law pro- vided against threats or inducements upon the part of an individual. Did it say nothing about threats or induce- ments coming from a Prime Minister? Upon the score of Federal responsi- bility, I. McDougall (Cons. Inverness) has shown in the course of the debate that ii the present government would enact the protection to which Cana- dian industry is entitled, there would be no unemployment. If Canadians only made at home one-half of the goods which they import from abroad, he emphasized, additional employment for 500,000 workmen would be provided. In lieu of the prosperity which a pro- tective tariff policy would bring, unem- ployment had come. For this condi- tion, Mr. McDougall emphasized. the government was directly responsible. The debate is still continuing in the chamber. It is altogether probable that a vote will be reached upon it this Tuesday. For 9. Prime Minster to openly draw the “color line” politically in the matter of disbursements from the Federal treasury was altogether unprecedented in the chamber. At any rate it has proven a highly provocative statement aggravated by the fact that it was reiterated by the Prime Minister after the Conservative benches had greeted it with cries of “shame” it was attacked by Hon. Hugh Guthrie of the Conservative group as “the greatest imprOpriety of which a Prime Minister has ever been guilty.” scope, was not emergent and was a local,â€"or at most a provincialâ€"prob- lem. Prime Minister King in the course of the House of Commons debate on un- employment has declared that he will “not give one five cent piece to any Conservative Government”. Thereby he has stirred up political commentary, both Liberal and Conservative, to a new high pitch of interest. It is generally agreed amongst both parties that the declaration, which was thrown out entirely gratuitiously in the course of the Prime Minister's ad- dress, was a major indiscretion. It was unnecessary to Rt. Hon. Mr. King’s ar- gument, which was to the eflect that unemployment, while national in its Our. Ottawa Letter “Come on, boys!" nhouted the little fellow, mumbling up on the flat our. “Here. what’s all this?" thundered the bigone. “Plan, there are only fourteen of us," said the young“ in a wheedling “No, yor 'on’t,” snowed 6100. “I'll Ottawa, Ont., April 4, 1930 on the starter, the whole system went dead. He blamed the attendant, which is not my idea of being fair. The moral of all this, of course, is to keep an eye on the lightin’ system, or have the service station do it now and then. I know of a case of a motorist whose lights had suddenly blown from such a cause who drove into a station and bought two new headlight bulbs. He just asked the attendant to install them, never indicating that something was wrong. He was in too much of a hurry to be bothered. Well, the minute he switched on the lights and stepped Usually, however, the car owner’s given a tip when somethin’s wrong with the lighting system. If it’s a loose wire or something wrong with the switch, the lights are likely to burn al- ternately bright and dim. That's the motorist’s cue to stOp and check things or drive into the first service or fillin' station he sees. A jarring bump. shift- ing the wires around is likely to finish everything at one time. The old mechanic says: It takes a lot of bulbs to light a modern automobile. The motorist needn’t look very long nor hard to discover that fact for himself. Not with headlights, cowl lights, dome lights, tail lights, stop lights and park- in’ lights scattered all around him. The point I want to make about all these lights is that when they blow out, as lights still do when something goes wrong with some part of the wir- in’, the motorist is out considerably more money than he used to be. Yes, sir, when he has to buy a whole new set of bulbs at one time he’s spendin' more money than he ever would have though: necessary. KEEP WEATHER EYE tabethreeorionrdyon nte I’vegotothuwrktodqnndllbl‘: hangedif I'llbenureennidtonlitter oilocomotiye pt." 50 this in or the fourteen loco- motive-cemetogeterideonoenilrond train. Built at the Canadian Loco- motiveWorbetKinwon, Ont.. they 0N LIGHTING SYSTEM «nation ind genes-a1 construction work on the Betcha-nob Light, Heat andPovu'Compnny'onewmnal. They m oil-burners. small but sturdy and Molly active. __v-â€"“-uuu w Railway. to Beauharnois Sue: therethey y:dllb_euaedin rock It has been very positively stated that none among the apes and monkeys can accurately hurl a missle or will attempt to use a weapon. Dr. Raymond Dit- mars, chief curator of the Zoo in New York. says that he has never seen a savage monkey or baboon attempt to use a stick or club in defensive or of- fensive tactics, nor has he ever noted any except baboons accurately cast a 'missle, but he relates the following in- .cident that occurred at the Zoo: Having noticed a disturbance among the visitors outside the Primate House. we investigated a row of cages where several large and savage baboons were quartered. One of these animals had loosened a panel of cement sheathing. which had fallen upon the stone floor and broken into sharp pieces. These were being hurled at visitors through the bars. in deliberate fashion and with excellent aim. The crowd had retreat- ed to form a large semi-circle. and the fragments flew straight and hard. and with enough force to produce serious injury. Keeper Palmer and the writer after- ward made a number of experiments with this big yellow baboon. 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