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PAGE 0. verimental Union. 194 co-Oputtive fer- tilizer experiments were conducted with NEWS AND INFORMATION ‘ t FOR THE BUSY FARMER tum crops on eept where land is drilled for root: in which case the fertilizer is brought. the drill. On meadows and 3118113 the in“) enteritis. Commenting on the work, Dr. mutt, Professor of Chemistry ht 0. IL 0., emphasizes the necessity of let-miner must necessarily be spread on the surface. but where possible the ma- terial should be put into the soil and near but not in contact with the seed, Current Crop Report Crap reports received from Repre- sentatives would indicate that the ma.- )ority or livestock are in good condi- tion and have had the opportunity of seasons past. A number or poultrymen ”put that their flocks are starting to! moult due to heavy production early in the season and the supply of eggs mullen ofloshlchassoperoent. in some counties. Considerable concern is expressed regarding the supply or ice md wood, as there has not been suf- ficient cold weather and snow to supâ€" mu m. and allow for transportation 7â€", of ice find wood. Down in Glengarry, for con. 9. condition that had never before prevailed in that section of the country. Peel county states that baby chicks are being hatched now for the mad for baby mus this spring. Wat «100 County reports that the farm out nine months. and that there is a ten- lunsatisiactoy. my for prices of farm products to With this information available for unprove. Wellington (:0th has in- gOntario as provided for in the regis- oeased its alfalfa acreage irom 10,000 i tration forms, an accurate estimate of to 10.000 acres in the last five years ‘ Ontario production can be made and and with the cheap alfalfa seed this -. thus closer working facilities can be year it 1-8 expected that m0“ 31‘3““ . arranged between all the fruit and than ever before will be sown. 'vegetable producing Provinces in order -â€"-â€" that the greatest possible advantage Weed Killer lumen“ lmay be taken of all markets. Registra- co-Operative “1313 With chemical ' tion will serve many other purposes weed killers were conducted in 1930 such as pest and disease control, pro- and 1931 by Prat. J- 5'- Howltt 0‘ 0- 5- vide mailing lists for marketing and (9., assisted by Mr. W- M. Gammon. other information. yet its primary pur- T’ney achieved favourable results. 8°“ pose is to enable the Council to know 1118 8 complete kill in some 03393 With who produces the various varieties of one application, bl“ With stubborn fruits and keep growers informed of weeds. two applications and sometimes opportunities to sell at better prices. wee applications were required 0X- Blank forms can be obtained from the eye dalSY. Wild carrot, blue weed and Ontario Growers' Markets Council for burdock. were killed with one applica- this purpose. Weed Killer Experiments Co-Operative trials with chemical weed killers were conducted in 1930 and 1931 by Prof. J. F. Howitt of O. A. (3.. assisted by Mr. W. M. Gammon. They achieved favourable results, get- ing a complete kill in some cases with one application, but with stubborn weeds. two applications and sometimes three applications were required. 0x- eye daisy. wild carrot, blue weed and burdock. were killed with one applica- tion. Poison ivy and chicory were some- times killed with one application, though occasionally new growth ap- peared. Twitch grass and field bind- weed required three applications, and it least two applications were found necessary to exterminate perennial sow thistle. A study of residual eflects showed no marked damage to crops the following year, when only two applica- proved quite injurious to crops in the yen after treatment was given. With 11ml“ seed cheaper today than naive for the farmer. but own vegetables, meats and fuel, and my will use alfalfa and sweet clover to pm. from energy into the 3011. Al- talh an be grown over a wide range a territory. but sweet clover should be u no danger of getting it mixed with the mill seed crOps. Seeding down a field at $113119. is easily equal to a 11b- Mine humus to light. 0113. Once es- tablished, it rm in a few years smother out most weeds. To derive most ad- vantage from this cheap fertilizer, it should be followed with heavy feeding seedingdowniorthemstmne.uxs advisabletosowattherateofmto W6 um“. optimistic than for needs on his with celled m the history of corn growing 111 this Province. is now oflered the On- tario former, states (3. R. Paterson of placed on a higher level this year. Im- proved eelection in the field and more rigid government inspection will add Ontario Seed Corn. Ask your dealer to supply you with Ontario Grown Seed. The varieties 0! Dent and Flint are especially suited to your needs. An abundance of the better varieties of Sweet may be obtained, also, from rev liable sources. During years in which the European Corn Borer played a disastrous part in curtailing production of corn in On- tario, growers of silage and corn tod- der in Eastern Canada became more or less dependent on sources other than Ontario for their seed requirements. Much seed, as a consequence, has been imported from other seed corn produc- in; areas. It is a well known fact that, for Canadian conditions, northern- grown seed is superior to that. produced in southern climates. It will not be necessary to import any seed corn for Regbtering Growers The Growers’ Markets Council at the present time is asking an fruit and vegetable growers to register their acre- age under cultivation and the amount of each crap they produce. Forms are being sent out as widely as possible and any grower who does not receive a capy is asked to write in to the coun- cil for one. A concerted effort Ls to be made to provide next year against any repetition of the disastrous marketing season experienced by growers last (all. So far as fruits and vegetables are concerned, dependable information has been available irom practically all producing districts in Canada with the exception of Ontario. This has resulted in Ontario production always being a most disturbing factor on domestic and export markets and the net returns to éthe growers for their production highly iunsatisfactoy. Hardier plant and root growth ensure increased yields, and better quality wheat is reported as the result of us- ing fertilizers in raising wheat on prairie 80115. It is probably only a mat- ter of time and price until the use of fertilizer in grain growing becomes fairly general. “Germination did not appear to be eflected by use of fertilizers but three weeks after fermentation the treated plots invariably showed stimulation in growth Greater tillering and quicker root development, as well as a deeper green color were quite evident on most of treated plots. Where any appreciable amount of blowing took place in spring the treated plots showed less eflects and recovered more quickly. 1 At time of heading, the treated plots1 in some trials were from 4 to 9 days ahead of the untreated and showed a diflerence of from 10 to 12 inches in height at this stage of growth. Later ion the untreated plots appeared to icatch up and differences were less ‘marked at harvesting time, while in some cases the treated plots showed a tendency for retarding the weed tendency for retarding the weed' standard The Hon. H. H. Stevens,‘ growth. Early maturity, ranging from Minister of Trade and Commerce inade two to five days was observed in 1929 {an excellent speech on money stand- but not so marked in 1930, no doubt due ards throughout the world. The Prime to the heavy rust epidemic along with Minister was all for the gold standard the dry season at time of maturity. On' ‘Few things have done more injury. a late variety like Marquis a difference using the word in a broad sense, than of two grades was noticed between the the action taken by Great Britain in treated and untreated plots, while the going ofi- the gold standard, ” he said. early maturing varieties showed little l In opposition to that view, Mr. Coote or no differences in grade. [of MacLeod, said that Great Britain From indications it appears there is a had made her greatest mistake in go- place for commercial fertilizers on ing back on the gold standard in 1925. Manitoba farms providing the price is .He showed that unemployment figures such that it will be permissible for i have dropped considerably in Great ”farmers to use it without expecting Britain since she abandoned the gold phenomenal yields, but that they my standard He quoted at. Thomas White expect increases around four, five and and the.Plnancial Postuhaving said sixbushelsperacre,whenlanduaedis that Great Britain had gained an ad- properly muted 81111 in 80°C! P11351081 vantage in foreign markets by leaving condition.”â€"Depfltment 0f WWW". the gold standard. Another member FERTILIZER HELPS GRAIN The ten percent cut on Civil Service salariesoccupiedthetimeotthem cnPridBy.'I'hetenpercentistoapply to all Civil Servants receiving 31200 a year and over, except Lieutenant Gov- ernors, Judges, members of the Mill- tary, Naval and Air Forces, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In‘ short, all the elements of force are to ,be paid in full. There are more highly paid men in the Department of Na- tional Defence than in any other de- partment of the service. 139 people re- ceive between $4,000 and $4,900; 30 mph: receive between $5,000 and 85,- 900 and 15 between 06.000 and $6,900. We seem to have enough arm-chair generals to swing a good-sized war any time and they take no out in salary. ThePrimeMinistex-hasbeensayingon more than one occasion that the Civil Servants of Great Britain, also the teachers, policemen, etc., were most Miss Macphail’s Letter willing. even anxious to have their sal- aries reduced. It is close enough for us to recall the near-mutiny of the British Navy over the cut, in fact it is rumored that this threatened mutiny scared the bankers into advising the Government to go of! the gold standâ€" ard and we all recall reading of huge demonstrations of public workers in London. Of the all round slashing of expenditure in Great Britain, Lord Marley said: “We have a bankers’ Gov.- ernment carrying out a bankers’ policy to meet a bmkers' crisis caused by bankers’ mismanagement.” Which seems a rather neat way of putting it. In sharp contrast to the fat living of the arm-chair military officers is the fate of several hundred privates in the last war. The Canadian Legion has a shelter for single, destitute soldiers. It was opened on December 8th, 1930, with sixty beds and when I visited it this week I found that four hundred of these men were being sheltered ev- ery night. They are serving fifteen hundred meals a day. A few men still ’have a room but no money to buv food, so they eat at the shelter. These last few months, many ‘white-collar’ work- ers, are forced to seek the hospitality of the shelter. Two buildings are occu- pied, the old Perley Home and an old Government building. Everything is kept very clean and cooks. waiters and workers of all kinds are drawn from their own ranks, except the nurse in charge of the hospital. A group of med- ical doctors give their time to the sick. in is financed as follows: $10,000 from the sale of poppies; $10,000 from the city of Ottawa, for direct relief and $10,000 from private donations by the public. Each meal costs on the average 5’/2c. I ate there and had good soup, beef and potatoes. pie and coffee. They get clothing and supplies direct from the manufacturer at the lowest pos- isible cost. When outfitting a man for {work in the north woods or on the na- tional highway. the Colonel in charge told me they did it for $8.95. The House discussed this week the advisability of a bonus on sugar beets. The question that naturally comes to the mind of a member for a mixed farming district like Southeast Grey is how is the stock farmer to pay a bonus to the wheat farmer, the wool farmer and the beet farmer. There is no end to this bonusing business once we start on it. An astonishing thing happened early in the week. The Prime Minister re- fused to allow Mr. Woodsworth to in- troduce a bill to amend the Criminal Code. a bill which has already five times passed the Commons and as many times been turned down by the Senate. The Opposition challenged his right to exclude the bill. but of course were defeated, 72-49. When the Speak- Ier, following the usual routine, said: “Shall the Hon. Member have leave to introduce his bill?" the Prime \Minister in a loud voice said “No!" And after la general hubbub and a lot of warm sult given above. A resolution was introduced asking that the British Empire Conference meeting in July in Ottawa be asked to study the stabilization of currency in an endeavor to work out economic un- ity in the Empire. The debate showed a great difference of opinion in the Commons on the question of the gold voted the Hon. Reginald Roxanna, vote was taken with the reâ€" THE DURHAM CHRONICLE president of the Midland Bank of Great Britain, as having said in Jan- uary this year: “The time has gone by for the child-like belief that as long as a country is on a gold standard all is well. We must have a managed gold standard by an international agree- ment or we must definitely abandon gold and rely on a managed standard of credit and currency without any metallic base at all. " And in the same speech the Hon. Mr. McKenna said: “The world crisis is due in part to the inefficient working of our monetary One thing is very clear to me. Can- adian agriculture is at a great disad- Britain, paid in British funds which when translated into our money brings to the producer less than it would it we were on a parity with the British pound sterling. At the present time the pound is worth in Canada $3.97. The old value was $487. When we send cat- tle to England an animal which brings 33930. If our currency were at a par with British currency the same animal would bring the Canadian producer $48.70. We loose $9 on the exchange racket. Take one other example; a shipment of wheat bringing £1,000 ln Liverpool funds, when translated into Canadian would at the moment bring $3,970 to the Canadian grower. If our currency were at a par with the Brit- ing our money to fall in value to the British level. The monied interests in Canada meeting payments in New York are entirely against this policy and want as rapidly as they can to bring the Canadian currency but to the American level, in other words to the gold standard level. This week has brought me many op- the price .. aflarticles urid"‘8pecia|"isgod ollyfro- Thursday-nil: until Monday light. Aftet that regular prices apply. net Brice of £10 in Liverpool my. 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