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mowing districts convey expecta- fl of increased planting. Essex and no: will both have more com and .2 than average attention is being nuns received from practically all In an attempt to meet the demand d sugar beet growers in the southwest aunties for information or. the kind all quality of a commercial fertilizer to increase the yield and im~ love the quality of sugar beets. tho ne agricultural representative in baton county reports that fertilizers I! coming into more general use Dare each year. Vegetable growers are using quantities; of mixed fertilizers; ad farmers: are using commercial. ma- unis on tall wheat. sugar beets; and. .c com fields. An especial increase 3 noted in the use of unmixed nitrate. “h and phosphate. flowers. which make up the most val- uable part of our hay craps. require sect soil. The Reactosoil. prepared by I. O. A. C. a simple and. accurate test. .ickly tells “hethei or not thc sci! requires sweetening A. kit containing “ugh material to test about 100 sam- fls can be obtained directly from tho allege 01 from you. county agricultural mentativc aAC. Depirtmeht of Chemistry in ducting a series of tests in co-Oper- tin with the agricultural representa- Ins, J. A. Garner and S. B. Strothers. and representative grower of Kent and flex counties. fAGE 6. In a recent conference of weed in. actors. A. R. G. Smith of New Ham- ht, District Weed Inspector of West- “ Ontario. declared: "We are slow to mehend the serious situation that currents us. It is necessary that we m the hearty co-operation of the icing the possibility of a greater .ud of weeds, especially those desig- nated ‘Noxious’ and under the ban of lie Ontario Weed Control Act. Weeds coming to beat us it we do not awaken to the seriousness of tho sit- dm. For instance the perennial sow title is now in every county of On- tario." All inspectors are asked to have I Mough inspection made at once. hey are also urged to make their nation definable as “weed advisors” in fine of “inspectors” in the ordinary case of the word. This year alsike and sweet clover are ' '3 moderate in price and both will Induce an abundance of late pasture; C may cut as hay. The alsike can' be mixed. with timothy and it. like tho met clover. can be sown any time dur- ing May or June. Alfalfa also will sup- I fly a lot of feed if sown alone any line during these two months. Fur- 1hermore. any of the crops mentioned he can be left over the winter and my will give a good crop the next fleavy Wintenlfllflnx O! the 670.000 acres of winter wheat awn in the province of Ontario last an only 509.000 acres will be har- nfled. according to an official estim~ ate. The dinerence of 101,000 acres re- mts the amount winter-killed. Tho gel-centage is 24. as compared with 5 per cent in 1929 and 9 per cent the av- Cxe for the ten years 1920-30. On- trio also lost 16 per cent of its hay Tobacco Acreage Grows Approximately 15,000 acres of flue- aned tobacco will be under cultivation 81 Norfolk County this year. accord- ing to an oflicial computation by J. K. Ferrett. departmental field man. Thin oommres with 10.000 acres in 1929 and 5.000 acres in 1928. The warm weather a: early May brought the plants on rapidly and planting started. the middle NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE BUSY F ARMER of the month. continuing during tho mt two weeks. The Imperial Tobacco Canpany is completing the erection of Weed Situation Serious Annie and Clover (Furnished by the Ontario Department of Agriculture) with's per cent last year! in Elgin. Norfolk and SOME OF CANADA’S DELEGATES GO TO COMMERCE CONGRESS ! The Department of Field Husbandry of the O. A. C. is planning to have {our plots of two are extent for the de- imonstration oi soy bean growing in Kent county this year and will use two varieties to determine the most prac- tical type. It is stated that a number iof mills in Ontario are willing to pur- chase soy beans from the farmers for ;the purpose of extracting the oil from 'the product and for the manufacture of meal. Soy bean growing has not been way extensive during the past !years owing to the inability of finding '2. marke for the produce. With the fpurchase of beans for manufacture the Eprcducticn of this crop is expected to } gain in popularity. Turkeys Found Profitable Turkey breeding is not the difficult undertaking that is generally supposed when the breeding stock and. poultr. are properly handled. Essential; tn suc-o cess; in turkey breeding are: clean soil. mature stock. for breeding, free range. and above all, the keeping oi the turkey flock away from other barnyard fowl:. a new half -mllllon dollar drying and grading plant at Delhi, the centre of the districc. , The suggestion has been advanced that a trap crop of corn consisting 01’ about half a dozen rows of early sown rapid growing corn, if put in as early as the ground is fit, will in most years lessen the amount of injury done the main am; by corn borers, it the main crap is sown only a few days later than the ideal date. The trap crop should be cut low about the end of the first week in August, when all borer eggs have been laid and should be removed and fed. to live stock. This business 0! robbing hen roosts is becoming more and more precarious. The Provincial Government through the Provincial Police are making every eflort to apprehend those who steal the chickens. and to punish them with a penalty that the crime deserves. Hon- orable John S. Martin, Minister of Agriculture recntlye reported that Gen- eral Williams has instructed his men to make a strong eflort to check this branch of crime and the results speak for themselves. Imprisonment has been meted out to 92; fines to 24; suspended sentence, 12; dismissed. 10: withdrawn. 3. The penalty in one case for theft of chickens was two years in Kingston Penitentiary. June Meetings at 0. A. C. The month of June is well known as a busy one at the Ontario Agricultural College and this year, judging by the meetings already announced, it is going to be even busier than ever. The ten- tative list is as follows: Tuesday. June 10â€"Dairy Cattle Breed- ers’ Field Day. Tuesday and Wednesday. June 10 and llâ€"Poultry Breeders’ Meetings. Wednesday and Thursday, June 11 and 12â€"Yorkshire Breeders’ Field Day. Saturday. June l4â€"Wallinkton County Jr. Farmers’ Judging Competition. And then comes “Farmers’ Week.” with the following days allotted to tin variou'z counties: »Monday, June Iiiâ€"Counties of Lambton, l Wentworth. Lincoln. Welland. Nor- l Tuesday. June 17â€"Halton, Waterloo. Dufferin, Perth. Huron, Grey and Wednesday. York, Ontario, Durham, Northumber- land, Hastings and Eastern Counties. Thursday. June 19â€"Brant, Oxford, Wellington. Middlesex, Muskoka, Vic- torin and Peterboro. Policeman: “.Miss you were doing sixty miles: an hour!” She: “Oh, isn’t. that splendid! I only learnt to drive yesterday.” folk. Chicken Stealing Unprofitablc Soy Beam Tested Trap the Borer and Haldi- SELECTION AND msmffis'rmN or sum PO'IfA'l‘OES (Experimental Farms Note). The selection of seed potatoes should begin in the field the previous season. for virus diseases can only be detected on the foliage, and not on the tubers. Dominion Government certified seed is the best seed available, for it has been produced in fields practically free from virus diseases. Even if such seed is not used, much can be accomplished by carefully selecting the tubers in storage. Only good size tubers should be sel- ected for planting. Tubers under three ounces should be discarded, as they were mostly likely produced by weak or as mosaic and leaf-roll. produce most- ly small. unmarketable tubers. There- fore if the cull is used for seed. the per- centage of virus diseases is greatly increased. and a low yielding strain is selected. Off shaped tubers should also be discarded. as they may harbour dis- eases. such as spindle-tuber. Plants affected with this virus disease usually produce much elongated tubers, hence the name "spindle-tuber". All tubersâ€"showing any trace of dis-; ease and of frost or mechanical in-I jury should be discarded. Frost and} mechanical injury permit the entrance; oi micro-organisms that often cause the sets to rot. The diseases that oc-l our on potato tubers are rhizoctonia. black leg. common scab and powdery? scab. Rhizoctonia appears like specks of dirt. firmly adhereing to the surface of the tubers. These are the resting bodies or the fungus. When this dis- ease is present, the cleanest seed pos- sible should be selected. It should then be disinfected. as some of the small specks are sure to escape unnoticed. ‘Black leg usually causes a black rot lot the tubers at the stem end. which rot progresses towards the center of the tuber. Such tubers should be discard- ed and the rest of the seed should be disinfected to kill the germs of the diseased p'lants.’ Observations during six years have clearly shown that plants affected wit!) visas diseases. such disease that may be adhering to the surface of the healthy tubers. So far, mercuric chloride has proved to be the best disinfectant for seed potatoes. Common scab and powdery scab are diseases that attack and disfigure the tubers. These diseases are controlled mainly by good cultural practices, such as crop rotation, suitable fertilizers, etc. However, it will always be found ad- vantageous to select and plant clean seed. But seed. disinfection cannot be recommended for these diseases in the majority of cases. For further information, apply to the Dominion Botanist. Central Experi- mental farm, Ottawa. or to the Domin- ion Laboratory of Plant Pathology situ- ated in your province. The importance of live stock in the establishment of a sound agriculture has long been recognized, and many farm families in Western Canada are beginning to realize the lesson already learned in the East, that live stock is too important a farm adjunct to be overlooked. They are also beginning to realize the important part poultry plays in the general scheme of farm revenues. F. C. Elford. Dominion Poultry Husbandman. who has just re- turned from a trip through the West reports that many farmers are increas- ing their poultry flocks this year, and that the demand for certified hatchery chicks has assumed unequalled. promr- tions. Following the drought of last year and the almost complete crop fail- um in many sections. hundreds: of farm families frankly admit that had it not been for the cash coming in from eggs and poultry they would not have been able to pull through. The “quack" finds a new geld of oper- ation in connection with the control of stem rust in wheat. Many prepara- tions are now advertised for the disin- fection of the soil and for the treat- ment of seed to prevent rust. The Rust Research experts of the Dominion De- partment of Agriculture find that the organism which produces rust does not develop in the soil, therefore disinfec- tion of the soil cannot destrov the or- ganism. They also point out that rust- ed wheat kernels when sown do nor. ae- ‘velop into rusted wheat plants: and for this reason seed. treatments are useless as a means of control of ruse. “QUACK’S” CUBE-ALL FAILS FIND POULTRY PAYS THE DURHAM CHRONICLE of the U. P. A. group stirred up a horâ€" net’s nest when he asked for the ad'- journment of the House, May 22, to dis- cuss “A definite matter of urgent public importance". in connection with tho Hydro Electric development of tho Sbulanges section of the St. Lawrence River by the Beauharnois Power Cor- poration, and its various subsidiary companies. The Government. Mr. Gardiner asserted. had by Order in Council. approved the development over the head of the joint Board of Engin- eers. which investigated the St. Law- rence project. He asserted also that the Beauharnois Power Company had violated and exceeded conditions. im- posed on them by the terms of the Order in Council. R. O. Sweezey has been the moving spirit in the enter- prise. and while under the agreement with the Government. they were al» lowed to divert only forty thousand cubic feet per second. Their advertis. ing intimates that they will control the full flow of the river. He declared in summing up the situation that R. O. Sweezey and his associates had received in cash and securities. one hundred and four million eight hundred and sixty thousand dollars, and all tho assets of the concern. although there was no evidence that they spent a dol- lar of their own money. E. J. Garland of Bow River asserted the Company was selling bonds to the public on representation that it expect. ed to control the entire flow of the St. Lawrence at the point of development, This was “misrepresentation and fraud" Mr. Garland said and he called for cancellation of the Order in Coudcn. The Hon. R. B. Bennett asserted that the whole. situation should be subjected to a judicial enquiry. He felt the sit- uation was a menace to the industrial and economic life of Canada. The Hon. J. C. Elliott. and the Hon. Lucien Can- non replied tor the Government. Mr. Elliott said the Company was incorpor- ated under a charter of the Province of Quebec, and the Dominion was con- cerned in the matter only to the extent of safeguarding the navigation rights on the St. Lawrence. The Hon. Lucien Cannon said that the province of Quebec had jurisdiction in the matter. and that Province had determined rightly or wrongly, that private owner- ship was the best medium for the development of water power. Colonel Geary thought that Parliament, not the Cabinet, should have said whether or not the approval should be granted. J. S. Woodsworth pointed out that it a youth commits theft of even a small article or sum of money, he gets a jail sentence. while these gigantic steals are allowed to go unpunished. Many of the directors and. parties interested in this company are in the Capital City today including R. C. Sweezey. . The election in all probability will be July 28th. Certain changer havw been made in the Election Act. It will be possible this year for the Agents of the candidates to pay for the hall the night of the meeting, which will be a great convenience. Privileges are be- ing extended to voters afilicted with blindness. They may take their rela- tives or friends with them to the poll- ing booth to mark their ballots. In the past this has been done by the deputy returning officer in the presence of scrutineers. Miss Macphail’s Letter The Pensions Bill has passed through all its stages. The bill revises the machinery for dealing with appeals of soldiers from the Pension Board. It provides a Veterans Bureau to orepare the cases for soldiers, and it aims to deal with all those cases which exper- ienoe has shown were not dealt with. 11113 has been a rather festive week. I was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred- erick Philip Grove at their summer cottage on the Ottawa River. Mr. Grove has written several books. Dos- or were unsatisfactorlly dealt with in the Act as it now exists. It was stated in the House that there was nothing partisan in the bill. or in the methods by which the Committee worked. Mr. William Irvine remarked that he hoped the same splendid c00peration would be extended to all legislation. The Act comes into operation October lst ‘930. Major Power. the Chairman. declared that the reason for this was the desire of the Committee to have the appoint- ments to the new Boards made by the Government. that would assume office after the General Election. When the items of the Budget were being discussed some rather sweeping changes were made. On early .vege't- ables and fruits a change was made from an all year around ad valorem ’duty to a seasonal tarifl. extending over different periods for different pro- ducts. Mr. J. S. Woodsworth made a spirited attempt to have the hours of labour of the men in the steel mills of Cape Breton reduced below twelvo hours. He pointed out that under the new tariff schedule the industry is en- joying a stifl increase in protection by tariff. and some of that benefit should Ottawa. May 23, 1930. Withthe present uncertainty which prevailsinthewheatmarkettheDoâ€" minion Department of Agriculture finds that farmers are paying more attention to the marketing of grain crops through live stock. Some important and interesting reams have come to lightkand not the least interatini i the experience of an Alberta Farmer who had a light crop which he could notsellattheelevator. Hehadanock of poultry and started feeding the wheat to them and marketing it in tho form of eggs through the local egg pool. When the winter was over he fig- ured up his costs and found that he had sold the wheat thus fed at an av- erage price of $5 per bushel. Another western farmer with a modest flock of 150 birds kept his family throughout the winter on the income from the Croat _ Sutherland Hardware Co.â€", NEW USE FOB WHEAT Farad- By mm:- m in JAILâ€"W Sun. We will admit min-it a man is the champion cum drawer oi the United States he is the champion gum chewer of tho world.â€"Meaiord Mirror. 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