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tion because experiments have shown that chicks that cannot mature before winter are a poor investment. Many Poor Hatches Reports received at the Experimental Farm. Ottawa. indicate that chicks are not hatching as plentifully as usual this spring. Hatches as low as 10 per cent. of the total egg are reported, while 20 per cent. and 25 per cent. hatches are not common. This condi- tion seems to be fairly general through- out the whole of Canada. These poor hatches. along - with the late season. may have a decided effect upon egg production next winter. Buyers should be advised to buy late chicks with cau- Heavy rains have assured ample moisture in practically every part of Ontario. Cr0ps are looking splendid. Fall wheat. clover and alfalfa are mak- ing excellent growth. The apple bloom is very heavy in most orchard districts, and a considerable increase is shown over the province in the number of orchard being sprayed. Farmers are coming to realize that they must either spray or cut down their orchards al- together. Growers‘ Markets Council. Hamilton, about the apple orchards in Ontario These facts all indicate that the av- erage farmer is not only taking advan- tage of low prices but is doing his part toward meeting depressed prices. He is doing everything possible to increase his yield per acre and thus lower the production costs which enables him in some degree at least to successiqu meet the present low prices. “TELLING T OMMY” Strange to say there has been an un- precedented demand for registered grain. Hardware merchants report a wonderful sale of screening materials (or fanning mills. Dmggists report greatly increased sales of Formalin for treating grain for smut. Seed cleaning plant Operatiors report heavy increases in business. Better Farm Practices In spite of the depression and the shortage of ready cash farmers every- where in Ontario are using this year more careful and thorough farm prac- tices than ever before. Seed merchants report that they have never had such a demand for high class seeds. All available sapplles of al- falfa. alsike. red clover, wheat, barley. oats. buckwheat and peas have been purchased and sown on Ontario farms. Seed corn. this year, it not only rea-- sonable in price. but is of exceedingly high quality. A few extra tons of high protein hay, and a well-filled silo. will be of considerable assistance in reduc- ing the feed bill next winter. Plan Your Program Now is the time to plan next win- ter's feeding program, not next win- ter. At this time, farmers can estimate whether they will be short of hay and succulent roughage before nevt spring comes round. There is still time to sow annual hay crOps, such as soy beans. or a mixture of oat and peas. Both of these cmps give high yields. and high feeding value. An extra acre of corn (or silage might be valuable. The Apple Mug“ According to a recent statement by gin during the last three years, and satisfactory yields of Lima beans re- ported. The 'average yield is 1,300 to 1.500 pounds to the am. The acreage of soy beans in the county will be Will Gm Linn Beans A fairly large acreage of Lima beans will be grown in East Elgin for can- lng factory use. according to reports received at the St. Thomas office of the Department. Production tests have been made in both East and West El- PAGE 6 The Canadlsn wheat wry-over July 31. 1932, will be in the neighborhood 0! 103 million bushels, according to an estlmtte published by the Bureau of mm. This is the smallest carry- over slnce July 31, 1928. NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE BUSY F ARMER (Furnished by Provincial and Dominion Departments of Agricultii're) By Pim Weekly Crop Report I Battling the Weeds l Through a series of Annual Meetings, 9 lone in each County. more than 1000! Weed Inspectors in Ontario were brought together along with Reeves and Road Superintendents. The Weed Act was explained and suggestions and instructions were given by A. R. G. Smith. District Weed Inspector for Western Ontario and John D. McLeod. District Inspector for Eastern Ontario. Weed inspectors reported Sow Thistle to be the worst weed on cultivated land I with Twitch Grass a close second. Both:' these weeds are now found in every county. Some counties reported Sow. Thistle to be spreading while others maintained it is decreasing. One town- ship reported a decrease of 35 per cent. All inspectors reported a marked in- crease in the co-operation and support of the rate-payers in the municipality. With the exception of a few individuals. farmers generally are anxious to have the Weed Act judiciously and vigor- ously enforced. Road Superintendents voiced the Opinion that Wild Carrot and Chicory were the two worst weeds on roadsides. Both these weeds grow rapidly after cutting and many road authorities felt that they would have to resort to chemicals to destroy road- side weeds. throat." 3 Ontario Plums for Britain i The ten per cent. tariff which went 1into effect March lst, 1932, on foreign plums entering the United Kingdom, in the opinion of Andrew Fulton, fruit égrowers' representative in Britain, of- ?fers a splendid opportunity to the On- ;tario plum industry to deveIOp this po- ‘ tential export outlet. In 1930 the United ‘ Kingdom imported 44 million pounds of plums, which is more than twice the annual production of Canada. At pres- ent the greater proportion of these plums comes from EurOpean countries. In Mr. Fulton’s opinion there is no rea- son why Ontario should not capture a large portion of this trade. On the basis of prices received in recent years, the Ontario grower would receive prices ranging from 35 cents to 80 cents per ll-quart basket at shippng point.’ The Ontario varieties that have given the best satisfaction have been Grand Duke. Greengage and Reinclaude. In anticipation of meeting this demand, growers should thin their plums this summer, if the crop is heavy, Mr. Ful-J ton advises. In his opinion, plums can! be packed and shipped sucecsfully only| through central packing plants and. plums for export must be picked, pack- ed and pre-cooled in one day. New Advbory Board , . Hon. Thomas L. Kennedy, Minister of Agriculture, has announced the ap- gpointment of a five-man Advisory iBoard under the chairmanship of D. ; 0. Bull of Brampton to assist the De- ;partment in matters pertaining to the [live stock industry of the province. The [other four members are: W. A. Dryden, Brpoklin; J. E. Brethour, Burford; Wal- ter Scott. Sutton West; and J. D. Brieni of Ridgetown. All members of the new Board are widely known for their in- terest in the live stock industry of the province. Mr. Bull and Mr. Dryden are past presidents of the Royal Winter Fair. Mr. Bull is famous for his Jersey herd. Mr. Brethour has specialized in the breeding of bacon hogs. Mr. Scott is a prominent live stock breeder, and Mr. Brien is chairman of the Live Stock Records Branch. Ottawa. "Miss Jackson, will yo’ hab a peach?" “No thanks, I nevah eat peaches, are infected with the apple maggot. The infestation in the main is slight, but there are some heavily-diseased or- chards in some counties. Mr. Andrew Fulton, overseas fruit representatives, have advised that Britain will place an_ embargo on all early supplies of appes if maggot is found in one ship- ment. This danger necessitates grow- ers taking every practical measure to eliminate the insect from all commer- cial orchards at least. They are urged to spray thoroughly for control of these pests. White; de seeds scratch my mime sorrmmlrsm 0’ " 1cm “”0" If; T‘1 c 55w MY 50mm 77!: “3"” .., .. cums or mmmms. s-u- - Y ', " \ ~aâ€" ' fi ’. w ' ‘ xx "' H" ‘; P kl ‘ 41 5 I \ _\ n woman m new vomcm MAKES um uv- . -‘ ‘ . - me [mums cmomsmo mutnroanen ‘ "J ‘ bouts mom ms or PEDESIRWfi mo mom 0: mm sun’s mats m Govmmm sum: am can JOBS. ONE mm snouw AP 9m TD mm Gums ‘5 mm or onion (mm 0 1 J! f“: CT me tmmme GHDIERS mo mm roman bouts men ms or PEDtS‘IRIANS monom am or mum sm’s macss m Govmmrm 5mm: HAVE 00D JOBS. out mm suouw M». 9m m mm ems :5 mm or omcuu mum 1 He was desolate for life had sud- 'denly lost its meaning for him. Then the idea occurred that perhaps he could rehabilitate God by setting Him ’up as the First Causeâ€"the moving power behind natural law. But there lwas small comfort in this thought. A {God who had created the world and gthen left it to govern itself by natural law had hedged Himself about by bar-i riers through which even He could notl break. Though he might exist Hel could not be of service to man. Ob- viously such a God would be too re- mote, too inaccessible, for the purposes of religion. When he was thus per- ‘plexing himself the famous Scopes itrial occurred and the young student’s ,eyes were Opened to the difference be- tween the Modernist and the Funda- ’mentalist. He came to the view, which we believe most non-religious people of the Fundamentalists is the only one. For instance we find the Rev. Dr. Shields an extremely amusing char- acter, but we would back him in any argument he might have with a mod- ernist. He would either win any con- ceivable argument or he would prove the modernist not to be a Christian at all. That is to say a man who does not believe the first chapter of Genesis has no pretensions that we can admit_for insisting that he is a Christian. How Clergymen Are Trained Having arrived at this conclusion and being unable to recapture any shred of his old faith Mr. Wentworth informed his parents who were naturally shocked and wounded that he could not contem- plate the notion of becoming a clergy- man. His father, after a good deal of ruing a generation ago. McClure's, it we remember aright, published with an air of mingled astonishment and hor- ror an‘ article entitled “Blasting at the Rock of Ages,” which was an account of the ii'religious instruction in Amer- At the time of the maguine muck- ican colleges. We were reminded of this. article by another in the current At- lantic Monthly, “What College Did to My Religion," by Philip E. Wentworth, who went to Harvard as a prospective Presbyterian clergyman, and left it with what the Old Soak used to call a damned little atheist, or something worse. Mr. Wentworth is convinced that this is the natural, almost inevitable result of a modern education it the student is a serious-minded person and enters college with the old-iashionedj religion which is much more generally} encountered in the rural sections of; the United States than in the large cities. He was brought up in a Chris- tian household where prayers and Bible readings were part of the daily routine. His parents were deeply re- ligious and all his friends and ac- quaintances seemed to accept the teachings of the Bible without ques- tion. The essential attribute of the God they all worshipped was, of course, His lability to perform miracles. No Room for Miracles Bu when he got to Harvard, he soon came to the conclusion that everything he was being taught was implicitly at variance with this fundamental princl-l pie. It was when he was studying his-i tory that his faith was first shocked} and challenged. He says: “To my mind} the rise of Christianity out of the ashes E of Imperial Rome had seemed the ma-j terial evidence of a transcendental; truthâ€"a revelation of the hand of Godl at work in the affairs of men. Not so my professors. All events in history, were manifestations of cause and ef-l fect operating upon the natural level.‘ The institutions of society evolved ac- cording to natural processes. Religion, was itself subject to these processes. I] shall never forget one lecture which traced the evolution of Godâ€"from the- fierce, bloodthirsty Yahweh, tribal de- ity of a few Semitic nomads, through successive stages until He finally em- erged in the New Testament as the gentle, merciful. forgiving Father of all mankind." All his other studies con- firmed the theory that everything was subject to the laws of nature, and there seemed to be no room in such an or- derly universe for a wonder-working, CAN RELIGIOUS FAITH SURVIVE COLLEGE? (By J. V. McAree in 11311 and Wire) Fundamentalist; vs. Modemlsts THE DURHAM CHRONICLE Mr. Wentworth believes that there is only one thing for the man to do who has lost his religious faith. That is to create a philosOphy which, with- out calling upon the supernatural, will reassert the effectiveness of the hu- man will as an instrument for govern- ing the desires and passions. Then it will be possible to restore to good order the essentially human values of life which lift us above the‘ level of mere animal instinct. The system of ethics which would be enforced by such a philosophy would not be strikingly dif- ferent in many particulars from the moral code of Christianity, but the rea- son for obeying it would be found whol- ly in the satisfaction of the good life itself, not in the promise of reward or punishment after death. It strikes him also that the building up of such a philosophy is not a task for which every unbeliever is competent. Only persuasion, consented to permit him to remain at Harvard whence he eventu- ,ally graduated. Before he had entered that godless institution he had been warned by the Presbyterian clergyman in his native village that he would be! exposing himself to certain morall risks, and that he had far better at- tend a little Presbyterian College which would fit him for the ministry and at the same time protect him from unsettling doubts. The thought that now arises is that this must be what happens to other young men whose preparation for the priesthood must consist largely in the study of theol- Garafraxa St., Durham Hot House Cucumbers .................... 8c Asparagus ...................... 3 bunches 25c New Carrots ................ 2 bunches 17c FANCY BISCUITS Mb. box 31: COFFEE («mall's Own New! lb. 45c SODA BISCUITS $.15: ' FINE TEA Special Ceylon lb. 29: ~ ml... 1:. \oq :8 19.. t: E. .2... not 2‘ Q25. Dl~§la~oooau 28 3.! SA}: '81. clan-.035 m's CHOCOLATE * SYRUP 16-01. 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By mutual agreement the Economics Branch is now the collecting agency. A Central Bureau of Records of Farmers' Business Organizations is be- ing established in Ottawa by the Econ- omics Branch of the Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture. The immediate aim of the Branch is to build up a sta- tistical record of the number and loca- tion of such organizations, to ascertain the number of farmers marketing their products co-operatively and to obtain reliable information on the volume of business handled in this way. START RECORDS BUREAU OF FARM ORGANIZATIONS the few could achieve it. In so far as'z'rhe Branch will thus provide a direc- the colleges destroy religious faiths ? tory and will become a consulting agen- wlthout substituting a vital philosophy ’cy for farmers' business organizations to take its place they are turning loose upon the world young barbarians who} Due to the anxiety of the avenge have been freed from the discipline of‘Ifarnier to secure the highest possible the church before they have learned yield per acre this Ye“ M11 3- A- CI?- how to discipline themselves. ‘1‘011. chief of Weed Administntion in 80lP1235° l 5.0..5 Pads 3;,“ 23C huddlâ€" P 8: G CLARK'S PORK and Waxed Lunch Papa ‘ Para-Salli '0: Switch to Carrollsm Quality-«Economy St. Charla' Evaluated To Clean Aluminum 12-055." 2m35¢ "Hall. '9 F".hâ€". 2mm Lemons ..................................... doz. 27c Oranges, medium size ............ doz. 35c Grapefruit, seedless ..............3 for 25¢ OF ALL THE JOBS DADDY TOLD HE ABOUY THAI CANDY TESYIHG JOB SOUNDS BEST. 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