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Safeguarding The Farmer

(‘mronto Mail and Empire)

Mr. Weir, "Minister of Agrlcult Root Vegetable Act, Hon. Mr. ‘Mother- inister of Agriculture, and Mr. E. J. Liberal member for Weyburnfdisagreed as to not imported new potatoes should be graded urposes. But while members of the Opposi- widely diflerent views, Mr. Weir was able Government had received a number of re- from Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick

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t all potatoes there should be graded; that, indeed,

.. wading ghould be made compulsory and covered by cer- Iraéfltgg of inspection. In addition, the administration hgg received resolutions asking that new potatoes be

brought 1.1" hese

der the same regulations as other potatoes, resolutions being subscribed to by the Canadian

Foriieultural Council, the Ontario Vegetable Growers’

sociation.

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f’ Gardening

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' outside or a little cultivation a- l m“ me annual flowers and in the wgetable garden. zfiirtahs prOllt from the results enials shrubbery, fruit trees and w 0,, will he confined to removing bloom or fruit. We should not en- courage more growth by ferlzilizlrll m- cultivating but should try in harden growth already made so '»‘ ihht ihereywill be less runs; back pl the tender branches by frost “gm ivlnter are 1n. There is One J, mmg ihnt we can do at this time, g. hcwgilci‘, and thBt 1S t0 study the 3 garden we planned so many months y“, “ml also to peck over the hedge k ‘i the rosults of our neighbor. Per- Lihpe tlirre have been some blind more; ihut is, periods when there i.’ was no bloom. 1t is well to make a i not oi lhcsc and put down onour order book somct-hing for next year which \\')il flower at the time re- qqulred. Miybe some of our colors .('ll7.5ll. Usually there is B. flower a- _:mss the road which we would like . to have, but will not, unless we make a note of it now. A certain

e rcgctablc may be orcvlns so popu~ f h. yarn the family that more oi e it should be planted next year. yhile pJrllilllS just the opposite ad- ; vies holds good for something else. it may be advisable to make a note regarding a deficiency in salad ma-

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Refreshing- Delicious!

Y Sussex Ginger Ale.

It has an elusive, ro-

freshing goodneu so hard

to describe, but so easy to

detect-that places it head

and shoulders above ordi- nary beverages. ‘

Ask for Sussex Dry Ginger ' Ale. It is the only ginger ale on the market that is made from tho- famous kovernment tested Sussex skiing Water-and what l difference it makes!

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there is nothing this time of year except to

o; om- efforts so ilar. Work amonB

the South Essex Growers’ Co-operative, and l Ontario Potato Growers’ Association. The fact is that while members of the Opposition quar- e Government steadily adheres to 15 policy of aifordi _g agriculture a protected home 1 as it provides manufacturers and city work- er; with a protected home market.

terial. Lettuce is usually running rather short in the average garden just new, but there are things such as Cos lettuce, Chinese Cabbage and Endive which might have been planted so that the supply would continue. A record of dates of ~49- ual bloomilm. the first use of eel‘- taln vegetables, amounts and i-e- sults of different fertilizers and sun liar ftemfl are very interesting and also valuable in makfiig plans for another year.

PESTS AND DISEASES

Control of insect pests and com- mon disease is not difficult where prompt measu es are taken just as soon a8 the enemies appear or, bet- ter still, before. It is very import- ant however, that we know some- thing about the habits of these foes that we are trying in cmobat. Roughly speaking. insect pests are divided into two groups, those that take their food by biting holes in the 50119-86. and those that simply suck out the juices. ‘Ilhey otters are soon discovered, While the oth- ers.make their presence known by wilting or dying foliage. When some think like this happens in o, garden nearby or in one portion o: your own. take precautions immediately. For the eating insects apply poison such es Paris Green or Arsenate

London Letter

BY GLANVILLE OABEW

LONDON, July za-m. George hillbilly. the Commissioner of Works is fut becoming the most nebular member of the Govern- ment- H! 1B. by contrast with the "Thou-Shalt-Isbt“ school of politic- ians, the leader of the Fllou-may- li-you like" party, woefully small though that may be.

The other day a band o! dry M. P.'s bristling with fanatical rage leaped at Mr. Lansburyb throat. Why-they demanded hysterically- why had he granted a license for the sale of liquor at Hampton Court? Why had he taken this dastardly 8WD. and did he propose to repeat it in other parts fithout consulting Parliament? Their spokesman threat ened him with the wrath of the country, talked a lot of sanctlmon- ious balderdash about the ethics of drink, and then listened with awed astonishment to an unqualified ad- mission of guilt and an equally un- qualified declarstion oi impenitence on the part of the criminal.

If Mr. Lansbury is indeed contem- plating something similar to the beer-gardens of Germany and Den- mark, the temperance reformers should be grateful, for it was with the utmost justice that he declared

be able to take his drink where his wife and family could sit with him. Our Commissioner of Works is a teetotaler, but his attitude has been well expressed by the poet who sanfl wisely, of a famous temperance e.- postle:

"Dr. Clifford and I have differed; “He disapproves of gin-i dsnpprove of sin."

I suppose the words, “Wigs by Clarkson" must have appeared on more theatrical programs through- out the world during the past 40 years than any other three words in the language.

And now “Wlllle" Clarkson- known almost as widely as his wigs and costumes and make-ups-is retire. . But for him it is probable that two of the greatest hoaxes of the past 30 years would never have been

it all to the good that a man should '

o; Mad’ while the wuckers, are con perpetrated The hero, both of the trolled by a may that Wm bum famous visit of the _Sultan of Zan- them but not damagégthe mmmt zlbar to the university town of Under this hflding comes Nicotine Cambridge and of the Abyssinian

'Carvell Bros, Ltd.

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Sulphate or more commonly known as "Black Leaf 40". Whale Oil soap Lime Slllllher or any other repell- ant recommended by eedsmen. Of- ten we can get a combination of burning and poisoning in a. special mixture and this is usually the best to procure for small gardens as it is prepared especially for the purpose we desire. Cut worms, which should hardly be bothering now, are at- tracted by poisoned, and sweetened bait. Fungus diseases are usually controlled by dust powders like special, finely ground" sulpher. In the case of the black spots which appera on beans during a wet sea- son there ls very little you can do except keep out of the patch when the foliage is damp and to plant this vegetable in a different spot next year. v

HURRYING MATURITY

Ripening of melons, plunpklxis, to matoes, cucumbers and similar rank growing things will be materially encouraged if we nip off the end of the main stem and PBrhB-DS 11 portion oi the leaves as well. To mature the melons evenly, particu- larly in wet weather it is often a good plan to slip a shingle under each fruit and to turn the same a little every day to prevent rottlns and ensure even ripening. We can also encourage late flowers like C55- mos and Dahllss to come into bloom earlier if we trim back the surplus growth.

SHRUBBHIY

It is Just as important to remove the dying bloom from shrubs as it is from the annual flowers because

bhB plOdlIOtlOTl 0f BQBd pOdl tBlCCfl much energy out oi’ the plants. Early-blooming shrubs such as gpirefl, and syringe. should also be pruned at this time. One sfiolfid stop cultivating around slmrlibery. woody wines and fruit tifles now as the new growth must be hardened so it will not kill back next W111i?!- m order to time up the‘ lifrplua moisture in the soil around these plants, it is o. good plan to set in will grown annuals which will 001'- respond to the cover crops of oats, buckwheat, vetch or other M11188 whieh‘ Large growers sow in £11911’ orchard for the same reason about this time of the year.

800 MILES OF BAYOU oil-ED

MIMPHIE, Jilly 28. (U. PJ-In an

15115 carrying mosquitoes city en- glneerl oiled more than 80) miles of bayous, creeks and other bodies of water in and around Melnphl-r- Mhre than 111,000 gallons of Vi!“

oil were used.

effort to prevent breeding of 1111-,

princes to H. M. S. Dreadnought, was a certain Mr Horace de Vere Cole—alumnus of Cambridge. Prob- ably on neither occasion would he have escaped detection had it not been‘ for the masterly make-up of the conspirators by Willie Clark- son. ‘

Cambridge still resents the trick playedupon her about 1003 when a civic and university welcome was given to the pseudo potentaie while the real Sultan of Zanzibar was be- ing entertained in London. Spur- red by success. Mr. Cole turned his attention to tho Navy. This time he and his friends were painted and arrayed by Willie so that even an Abyssinian would have accepted them as fellow countrymen. In due course the perpretators of the hoax arrived; they were met with the ceremony due to their rank; they were accorded all the honors of the battleship. And the captain report- ed to Whitehall in due course, too. That the adventurers escaped detec- tion in the first instance was due to Willie Clarksons skill in dis- guise.

Many years ago when money was more plentiful than it is today, a fund was raised to erect a monu- ment in Westminster Abbey to the memory of Lord Mansfield, the famous Lord Chief Justice of the Eighteenth Century. The sculptor was instructed to use up all the money that had been subscribed. With a modesty all too uncommon among folk of artistry, he decided that he would not increase his fee, and so absorb the surplus, but would take it out in size. So he produc- ed a gigantic effigy of a bulg equiv- alent to that of all the Lords of Mansfield together from that day to this.

And now the.Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey have decid- ed to move this mountainous mon- ument.

Many of the statues and memor- ials of the Abbey are uttrely merci- rlcious memorials to nonentities in the pretentious manner of the 18th century and the bsnalitles of Victor- ian times. George the Third admir- als clad ln Roman togas and laurel- wreathed and surrounded by piles of cannon balls stand cheek by iowel with whisker-ed Victorians in Sundsy-go-tn-meeting frock-coats. The Dean and Chapter have made a good move. At prvent one can- not see the wood for the trees. No cathedral or abbey in Europe is more beautiful. None is so choked with statues and other menwrlels of long forgotten nobodles-

When the House of Commons is transacting business in committee of

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Committee occupies a scat to the right o! the clerks, at the table, and the Speaker's chair is vacant, The other night when the House was in committee, a Socialist member re- ported that some other member was sitting in solitary state in the Bpeakerkchalr, and he began to make a fuss about it. He rose and asked whether it was in order to so profane the chair and he looked rather disappointed when the chairman ignored the matter.

But the incident induced every- body in the House to stare hard at the Speaker's chair, and there- sitting well back in deep shadow- was none other than Sir Austen Chamberlain. The front opposition bench was crowded at the time and Pfflbflbly he had not been able to obtain any other seat. As an old parliamentary hand, he knew that it is quite in order for a member to sit in the Speaker's chair while the House is in committee, provid- ed that his conduct is seemly. Once, I have heard, a member did get info trouble when so seated-but that was because he used his point of vantage to create laugher and disorder by making grimaees at the chairman from that gentleman's back.

' EXPERHHENTS IN POULTRY HUSBANDBY HAVE GREAT INFLUENCE ON FARM PRODUCTS

(Experimental Farms Note)

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I Quebec Bridge —- 8,239 feet long with central span of 640 feet-in the largest bridge of its tyre in existence. lu bulld ng constitutes the world's record in cantilever bridge construction.

EXDeriments in poultry husband- ry have resulted in ,,. rnendous sav- ing and increased profits to the P0111“? keepers of Canada. Just how_ great this saving is, and what tile increased profits are, it is impog. slble to accurately estimate but some idea may be gained in con-

features on which experimental work has made great changes,

FEEDING

Experimental work has demon- strated that by the use of cod liver oil, the difficultry of raising early chicks or raising chicks in confine- ment have been eliminated. The old trouble of leg weakness in the laying stock during periods of heavy production under confined winter conditions has also disappeared since the introduction o!‘ cod liver oil into the ration. ' Experiments have demonstrated that cod liver oil and alfalfa fed to the breeding stock have resulted in better fertility and hatchability of the eggs and stronger chicks.

Work conducted on tlTé Experi- mental Farms over a five year peri- od has demonstrated that barley fed in conjunction with cod liver oil is equally as efficient ac corn 1n the poultry ration. As corn is very largely an imported feed and as it is very considerably higher in price the saving to the country resulting from the substitution of barley for 00m is very considerable.

The adoption of the hopper sys- tem of chick feeding as used 811d advocated by the Experimental Farms saves at least 75 per cent of the time used in the system form- erly in vogue.

These are but a. few of the recent changes in feeding methods that have meant tremendous savings to the industry.

DISEASE

On the Central Ehrperimentsl Farm there was for the years. 1923- 24-25 an average chick mortality oi 24.7 per cent. Testing for pullorum disease was inaugurated in the fall of i925 and hll reacting birds were disposed of. The year fall... 1 mortality had dropped to 10.8 per cent and with continued yearly test ing the mortality has decreased uh- til in 1030 it had dropped to 3.7 per cent, a saving in chick mortal- ity of 21 per cent. If this Farm is taken as a criterion of conditions on the farms of Canada, the sav- ing by the general adoption of pull- orum testing throughout the coun-l try would, conservatively estimat- ed, undoubtedly amount to between i/wo and three millions of dollars as there are, roughly speaking. 1111" wards of 100,000,000 chicks hatched in Canada each year.

BREEDING

‘Ihrough the breeding policies a- dopted and fostered by the Govern ment of Canada, there have also been vast sums made or saved 101' the people of this country, through the use of sires of high pr- ‘uction

lng of their offspring, combined with s.‘ better knowledge of feed- ing and handling them, as demon- strated by experimental work, the ‘annual production is being BIB-dil- ally increased.

In the yr 1919-23 the average production of the 1610 birds in the Canadian Egg Laying Contests W88

has been usteody increase until in 1920-30 the production had in- creased to hn avenge of 170.1 eggs for the 4320 birds then in the Con- test, on, increase of 55.8 eggs per

siderlng a few of the outstanding‘

lines, and the testing and pedlsree- _

122.5, eggs whcrnu each year there‘

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length and breadth of

Canada, Turrefis are making new records

cause of their outstand- ‘a

After all, nothing can replace good, honest tobacco; grown and ripened right out in the field under Naturc’s own sunlight—nothing artificial about that—-

ality is “inbred.”

Mild and Fraqranl;

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sents a fair increase for the hens throughout the country it means an increase in production of 27!},- 000,030 eggs, which valued even at the low price of s, cent a piece, represents a value through lncrras- ed production of $2,780,000. Those figures, touching as they do only a very few of the phases of investi- gatlonal work, and although very conservative, indicate rather than sbpw what a. tremendous value Canada, is getting for the money she is spending on research work in poultry husbandry.

PREPARATION OF ‘LAND FOR SILAGE CORN

(Experimental Farms Note)

An experiment was conducted 81 the Cap Rouge Station to find out, whether summer and fall ploughing, fall ploughing only, or spring, pluoghlng only will produce the| largest crop of silage corn, and the! cheapest crop per ton. Part of the field was ploughed in the summer and again in the fall, part in the {all only, and the rcsi; dnly in the spring. All other worl; was done as nearly alike as possible for all plots a complete record was kept of man ual and horse Labour, and the crop was all weighed for each lot. The soil was a sandy loam of average natural fertility, well tilled and manured, was not suiiarins from lack of drainage.

The experiment was conducted nine years comparing autumn and spring ploughing, with practically tm same cost per ton, but as the

in Central Quebec, it was deemed more advisable to plough in the autumn instead of leaving that work until spring. Then summer and autumn plough ing were compared during flve years with a noticeable difference in fav- our f0 slimmer ploughing, the yield of lvonEfellow corn being at the rate, of 26,032 pounds per acre at a cost‘ of $1.92 per ton, while with putuinn ploughing the yield was 21,248 pounds and the cost per ton 3.37.

The conclusion is that summer ploughing will give the pest re- sults in Central Quebec, helping at the same time to keep weeds in check.

Walnut Bleach

Lime, soda and sulphuric acid combine to form a bleach with which walnuts are treated to give them the attractive nut-white color which has such an eppealio the appetite" during the holiday season.

The walnut at the present time

bird.

Ar there are upwards of 50,000: Pacific coast. Many nut trees have pt the whole House, the Chairman of‘ 000'hens in Canada, if ‘this repre- been planted for ornarmnial and sas City musician, who is teaching

"T1113 WATERRS kTNEI" Among the thousands who found relief from the hint was lltilct. Patriokt Cole, shown hare after she had enjoyed a. "dip" in the lake.

shade purpoes. and substantial, plantings have been made at o. number of farms and ranches. The Dominion Experimental Stu-l ticn at Sidney, B. 0., contains an‘, lntercsiing description oi ivalnut; bleaching, The nuts are gaihcrcdf

prepare them for commercial or table use they are then lilcachedm The formulae used comprises 6 lbs. of bleaching powder (chloride of

crop growing season is rather Shortillfe) 12 pounds of sal soda and 50

gallons of water. The sat soda is dissolved in about 4 galllns of wat- er, while the chloride of lime, in powder form, is dissolved in an equal quantity of watre. The sol- utions are added to each other and stirred well. When the chloride o.’ lime settles to the bottom cf the mixture the clear liquid is drawn off and water added to make a iot- al of 50 gallons. The nuts are plac- ed in a large dripping box or lnih crate, which is lmmersczl in the liquid, and then 1 1-4 pounds of 50

per cent sulphuric acid added nnd the whole agitated by raising and‘

lowering the dipping box. The bleach is reached in from five to tcn secons, when the nuts are re- moved, washed in clcm- water and dried. BFATTERED WAR CORNET RELIC