MARI-I 4, 1929'

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FARM NOTES

SEED POTATO OFFICE. Attention is called to the change m me address of this office as given w e paragraph elsewhere on this e. This change should prove my gcceptable to the farmers gen- mny, as it will enable them to get mg hand information in a most mvenlent manner, and all less ex- penditure of time-a "commodln" met passes only too quickly when m visits the city. .

SOMETHING ABOUT PIGEONS

The pigeons in the city are much

excited by the approach of the air- ppm, in fact one can tell when it's coming by their wild flying. Watching mm the other day, I recalled some mg which may interest my readers. I once stayed at afarmhouse in the Old Country, which had a large gar- den in which was a “columbajsiumﬂ only the farmer didn't call it that- den called it a "ducket" (dove-cot.) ft we; e. circular stone building about ten ieet across: inside, stonework pro- jections from. the walls formed s. sort o! thoneycomb" all over the interior, each cell being space for one nest. 'l‘he thing must have taken a immense mount ofvlabor to build, but they didn't mind that in the old days, es- peciﬂliy with the prospect of nnumer- ‘he pigeon-pies ahead of them. Pig- eons are very common [on all the ln-ms, but this was the only time 1 1nd seen them en mssse and I won- dered what the neighbors thought of the idea, for pigeons are great for- egers.

In some parts of the country the people, young and old, are, "pigeon isnciers,“_and a great amount of money changes hands in the purchase of fancy breeds, such as Pouters, rantsiis, Tumblers, Homers, etc. The Homers, sonietimcs called Carriers be- cause they carry messages, in quills strapped under their wings, are re- gularly trained to make long journeys. The usual method is to place the bird in a basket and give it to the train "guard" (conductor) with directions to liberate it at s. certain station, not too for away at first. Ultimately the bird is able to find its way home from two or three hundreds of miles away.

Then it is put into competitions with other trained birds, and s. race is on: the pigeon first home to its ducket wins, and a good bird would bring its owner money in two ways. its progeny would sell well—825 was a fslr price for a young untreid bird in those days-and inevitably, with the

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Anglo-Saxon ‘propensity to wager, there was a stake put up on the re. suit. Some birds had the homing m. stinct highly developed as the follow- ing stories will show. A village breed- er of Homers in England sent to a, correspondent in Guernsey angsdd pigeon that he had altogether omitted to train. The recipient kept it shut up for some weeks. then released it, and the bird disappeared. Within 24 hours it was back to its old home in Eng- land.

-At the same time it must be stat- ed that such long journeys by un- trained irds are rare: usually the bird gets ‘lost and is trapped by some other fancier. One other instance only occurs to me, and in this case the bird took several days to fly one hundred miles. This it must have done tentatively.

It is s. pretty sight to see a train- ed bird go up, circle in ever widen- ing sweeps to get his bearings, and then dash off, straight as an arrow flies to his distant home!

TALK ABOUT COWS.-

There ls a. cow owned by Miss An- nie Smith cf Eldon, which deserves passing notice. The cream from this cdw was sent to the Nsieral Dairy- ing Oo. during the time the factory operated May 10th to Dec. 19th. The same cow provided milk for the household, and the total receipts from the factory amounted to $88.50.'Dur- ing the summer months this cow was given no feed otherthan pas- ture. If the majority oi cows throughout our Province made this record in the near future, this Island would" become a “second Denmark", and need have no fear of New Zea- iand competition. This cow is a descendant. of good Ayahire. sires, owned by the Farmer's Organization in this,dlstriot in past years. Good breeding pays in the long run. Fur- thermore this cow is still "on the jo " milking welL-(lilldon, March l. Pre- sident Federal Dairying co.)

Believing the higher cost will be offset by resistance to corrosion: I Genus/n shipyard will - build two vessels with steel plates 2B per cent cop?"-

One spout of s. Chicago inventors can is used to fill an automobile radiator while on the 01190530 Bide is a broad perforated one to sprinkle a cars for washing.

If vvewere an, Au- tomcbile Manufac- turing Province our Represenjatives Might Have Some Excuse for Support- ing imported Butter at One Cent Duty.

_ FASHION IN FOODS

A London letter to the Canadian Press says:

"Fashions change in foods cs Well’

as in clothing, according to newly compiled figura. People are eating less bread and less meat as the years so by and if the present trend keeps on it may have serious consequences for the British farmer. Each Exigiish- man in i928 ate 40 pounds less bread than each Englishman in 1835. There are signs that the good old roast beet which was the pride oi England for centuries B giving way to fruits and vegetables as a staple article of diet.

"Statistical studies show that the consumption of wheat rose steadily during the Victorian years. As civil- ization in Europe was held to date from the‘ beginning of grain farming about 2.000 B. 0., so the eating ui bread was taken as a symbol or a cultured people. But it was either a false symbol or civilization is on the road back to barbarlsm. The slump in bread consumption began just be- iote the war and has continued slncef‘. l

This does not seem to be] strictly ac- curate, in regard at least to the con- sumption of meat in Britain, unless home production has been greatly curtailed. The February circular oi the Canadian meat packers gives statistics o! Britlsl-rmeat trade, from ma m ma, showing that imporm c: bee! increased in the fifteen years from 1,030,770,000 pounds to 1,373,901,- 000 pounds, mutton from 603,498,000 pounds to632,338,000 pounds, pork from 55,588,000 mounds to 71,040,000 pounds, bacon 544,083,000 pounds to 989,815,000 pounds, and hams from 95,759,000 pounds to 108,437,000 pounds. Camda does no; figurevely llfioiy in this trade, sending but 34,- 861,000 pounds oi bacon aud 12,920.- 000 pounds of hams. ‘Denmark and Holland supply Britain» with more

‘than two-thirds oi her bacon imports,

while Argentina. supplies most oi the beef and New Zealand most of the. mutton!

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Value speaks more plainly and unmis- takably in today’s motor car market than it has ever spoken in the past.

There you can lay your ﬁnger directly en the main reason for the unprece- dented, swift advance of the Chrysler- built Dc Soto Six to its present heights

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Entirely aside from‘ the fact of its Chrysler origin, on its own individual merits, the Dc Soto Six deserves every ' iota of the wldclpfeld "bk?! _ an eager public is confcffln! "W" it»

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Fruit Industry . Asks Protection

HAMILTON, March 2-Frult grow- ers have not shared in the prosperity of late enjoyed by other lines of en- deavor and lack oi tariff protection. and western competition were held responsible by Harper Secord of St. Catharines, whose address on the un- grnded package featured the opening session this afternoon of the joint convention of the Fruit Growers‘ os- sociatlons of Ontario and of Niagara. Registration totaled close to 500 to- day and the sessions will continue in

and Wednesday. Mr. Sccord believed that growers

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fer nohardship.

Discussion on grading showed that dissatisfaction existed over the un- graded package. It was evident that the producers were not pleased with

lation l6 or’ the Fruit act, and a com- mittee was named to discuss the question with the resolutions com- mitts-s, with a. view to having the word "ungraded" changed and' culls eliminated. Under the ‘clause fruit growers are permitted to sell apples, mlums, prunes. pears, peaches, ﬁeld tomatoes, cherries, grapes or apricots {in a pack known as ‘ungradedf’

‘ "The culls contained in ungraded {fruit are thrown into the garbage by the housewife. She is doing our grud- ing yet we have paid the transpor- tation costs, basket charges, etc." Mr. Secord declared. ‘I think, instead of labelling such produce as “ungrad- ed," we should adopt the word “cau- tion" for the package permits one to sell anything. '

J. Onsiow of Niagara-on-the-Lake. ‘declared that the “ungraded" pacif- iagc was purchased in preference to- No. 2 grade. Ije thought that too many grades would confuse the pub- lic. '

Speaking in favor of the existing ‘rcguiation, R. C. Stock of Clarkson, said that in his district it had been benellciol and lie thought it should at least be given another year's trial.

Greetings weﬁ conveyed- by S. Stirling, M.P., from British Columbia. Controller Dr. Bell delivered an _ad- dress of welcome at the opening of the convention, to which Col. H._L. Roberts of Grimsby, replied. H. T. Foster of Burlington. president, ex- pressed the hope that the day would

obtains fair return for labor and in- vestment. »

Prof. T. G. Bunting oi MacDonald. college, Quebec, spoke on small fruits and deplored the fact that Canadian conditions allow the importation of small fruits in quantities detrimental to Canadian growers.

New Table Beans

Said to be high ylelder and resistant to disease

CALLED GENEVA RED

"me on: hundred and eighty m‘ more bean growers of the State Wn° have been co-operating with the BX- permintal Station, Geneva, N. Y-y m testing a new bean variety °Y181FB5°5 on the station grounds have found it to be a consistently higher yleider than Welds red kidney, the standnld variety for New York, and t0 be i199" idedly more resistant to bean disease. syas W. O, Gloyer, plant disease 893i!- ialist at the station and originator oi the new_ variety. It is expected that when reports have been received from all the co-cpemtors, much worth-while information about the variety will b! available.

Geneva is the" PTOGiIct of ten Wm’ selection and testlnil 0f I "i" b9‘ tween a, high quality Whlh kidiic! bean and the common Wells red Illn- ney, says Mr. Cilcyer. The new variety possesses the quality and other desir- able characters of the white PIN"? but the color oi the Wells, it is laid.

YIILD OI’ SEéONDABY IMPOR- ANCE. '

"If yield alone were the decidinl {actor in obtaining new bean vario- tiqs, it would be simple ‘matter to 0N- dyjeglnew gem," says jlr Glcyer. “it *hwev~r. the‘ yield is a qecondary isctcr, and that resistance to bacterial blight. anthrac- ncse and root rot. as well as color. shawl. Ilse of plant and seed, and

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are the drains that are the most diffi- cult to stop. Many causes of serious loss to the livestock industry are not readily apparent to producers. At the packing plants, however, the whole sorry story of neglect or lack of knowledge is laid bare. Sometimes when packers tell the facts in an en- deavor to be helpful to the industry they are misunderstood and have on

occasion been charged with ulterior the Royal Connought hotel tomorrow mimves- B“ “m9 h" iteﬂdlly vindi- cated the truth.

For many years the loss due to dis-

did not share the prosperity of other 99-59. DPlnBIPBUY tllbernlllﬂols. nﬂt b0- ing reECJ-y evident to producers, was

“The tariff isof great importance," not believed. There has been much he Said. “We exhausted our treasury agitation on this question- But the last year in sending deputation: w fact-s were stubborn thlnss and in the Ottawa to‘ appeal for consideration, 601159 0! time a combination of evi- dence silould now concentrate on requesting bfonﬂnt hOmB l0 llVe-Stvllk men i118 a seasonal tar-iii’ is a matter roi- this necessity o! active steps btlns taken convention to decide. We seek fair l0 Onmblit inn 1068- F01‘ WM‘! m9 n08 treatment and the consumer will suf- End in”? 1111105!!! nil-B 8011394 "0111 parasitic troubles that have lost mil-

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lions of dollars to the industry. It

was no:, however, until these troubles

got so bad that they were apparent to the producers through death in

this condition, provided for in Regu- their stock that serious notice was

taken of the drain. Then investiga- tions formed the ground work on which an intelligent understanding of the prevalence and deadly char-

Aithough Germany is obliged in import about half of its pulnwwd it has taken the lead among Europ- can countries for the manufacture of paper and impel‘ 110M4-

canning qualities. The Geneva seems to meet of all these requirements, and in addition is.a high yieider as com- pared with Wells.

"It is vigorous, high-yielding bush plant which escapes bacterial blight to a great extent, being much super- ior w Wells in this respect. Under ordinary conditions, it will outyleld

and has better eating and canning qualities than Wells. 1t is about five days later than viliells, and should be planted from. June 10 to 15.

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Wells. Also, it is free from “hardshell "l ‘hornless cattle are shipped and pen-

Losses From Horns ' i And Other Sources

The hidden losses in an industry‘

acter of these parasites is being dis- Year after year tanners and packers have" point- ed out to farmers the terrible d2- struction to hides that ' is brought about by the warble fly. No active re- spouse-is yet being made by- thevstock grower but investigators have been spurred to look for" practicalvreme- dies and have been succeasfulf There is now no reason why at least in Eastern Canada this pest should not be extcrminated. Conditib ‘in .the shipping and handling ' of livestock have long been sources of heavy loss. Then there is the long combatted evil of horns on cattle, which is still with us and growing worse. Probably it is conservative to estimate that $20,000.- 000 is annually lost to the livestock

industry as a whole through these ‘

various causes.

Of all the sources" ciloss that‘ the’

industry inﬂicts upon itself, that from horns on cattle appears _to be the most unnecessary. For niany years theloss from this source has been pointed out to farmers. Meth- ods of removal of horns have been perfected and it has long been dem- onstrated that cattle are much better on the _farm to be hornleasas well ss at the period of shipment. It has been demons uted that the, use of ‘caustic potash _on calves at the proper time is a simple operation and eminently satisfactory w prevent the develop- ment oi horns. All of these things are today commonplaces and should be

as well known to farmers as is any

other oi the arts of production. Edu- cational campaigns by many agencies have for years been carried on in at- tempts to get rid of this evil. It has all unfortunately been in vain. - A. certain percentage offarmers have adopted proper methods of dealing with horns. But there still remains too big a percentage that refuse" to advance to permit of the industry reaping the beneﬂtefrom those that do follow proper methods. Under ‘our condition oi marketing horned and

ned together so that tojsomc extent the hornless cattle suﬁer worse_ from horn damage than do those that are

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March 4th. to, . . > Prince ‘of Wales College y \ ,

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ssoxnsv. MARCH {tip-Provincial nulrymeua Association cs0 1Q

l‘. M. imminent Dairymen will attend. 1_ g»

TUESDAY. MARCH Stir-P. E. I. Cooperative Egg and Poultry Meeting at 9.30 A. M. 1 r. as. and Banquet.‘ Delegates at 6 l’. M. 3

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6th—9.30 A Mr-Uolnblned Business Meeting; a Sheep and Swine,

Assoclatlonl. ' , l ,- .1. 2.00 P. ﬂL-Dr. Lionel Stevenson Lori Veterinary College will‘ an autopsy on apecinaﬂa Ifﬂ

tnrllty Sheep and S 1 ' 3 ' 1.30 P. M.—Lerture by m. stevenson, on aasa- _ sites In Sheep and Swllao.

milasnar, MARC!’ wan-soc A. Mp-Meeting of Central formal-a 2.30 r. life-Meeting of rout» Growers‘ agsoeﬁ- ‘ non. _ 7.30 P. MuP-Addl’!!! by Dr. Stevenson Olflllﬂlﬂ to nil Live Stock men. v Poultry Show and Seed Fair will be _held during Farmers‘ Week's‘ ' l-‘annera shoulrl plas- io attend all Meetings. ' »~'

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take such action, will be Probably the only sensible rnetlicdldl dealing with the damage irhmylicrlﬂ on commercial cattle will tively discount the price of those that bear horns. E‘ l "

horned. Furthennore, as the caustic method of treating calves is not gen- erally practised and as cattle are not usually dehorned until approaching two years oi age. and our cattle are coming to market at a younger age than obtained years, ago, conditions witlrregard to horns and horn injury ‘aro getting worse.

It looks as if some means should be adopted to protect the producer who does his duty and to rid the industry of this intolerable loss, intolerable because its only reason for existence is neglect and carelessness. Losses due to such cause as disease and parasites presently reach a remedy because they becgme so apparent that the producer is forced to action. But with an evil" like horns, which does not immediately affect the health oi the‘ animal. it would appear as if only ac- tion onthe part of the buyers, no matter how loath they may be in

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