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TUSDAY, APRIIL 25th, 1946 7lEUUNÀMI"6 11-lMO'u%'sD% ymllv CANADIAN BOISES INVADE ý'FRANCE If visitors to France in the near future see outstanding draft hor- ses at work on thousands of farms, the probability is the horses will be from Canada. Last year France brought, principally in Western Canada, about 650 well broken draft horses, chiefiy Per- cherons and Belgians, from three to eight years old, weighing 1,300 pounds and upwards. A French purchasing mission is in Canada buying several thous- and more horses of the same con- formation, but weighing not less than 1,500 pounds f.o.b. Montreal. So far about 1,400 have been shipped in 1946 and by the end of the year it is expected that a to- tal of about 20,000 will have land- ed in France. Prices for the hor- ses bought, most o! which are from Western Canada, run from $110 to $165 each f.o.b. Montreal. Out o! Eternity the new Day is born; Into Eternity at night will re- turn. -Thomas -Carlyle. b WANTED Live Hens and Broilers We Bell Direct to the Consumer and can pay you more for Live Poultry. Get Our Prices - Transportation arranged for Large Lots. FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS PHONE OR WRITE PICKERING FARMS 11 0. Whitby - Ontario PHONE: WHITBY 336 DAY OR NIGHT j Family Afair It is fast becoming apparent that milk production on small farms must soon become a family affair, where hours of labon do not count. The next question that arises is how long at the present returns will even this condition prevail. There has got to be some equity in ahi this, and I cannot foresee one group of. people indefinitely accepting being on the job 365 days in the year (and this is what producing milk for fiuid consump- tion means) unless there are high enough returns to gîve them some compensation. Until very recently, however, the returns seem to have been adequate as in the past thene was generally plenty of pressure from the lower priced brackets of pro- ducers to get into the fid mar- ket. This pressure was no doubt de- veloped by only seeing the diffen- ence in pnice without an adequate knowhedge of the rathen expen- sive factors that go with unifonm al-the-year-nound production. Up until the outbneak of the wan in 1939 the labor factor was by no means the serious problema it is today. Not Fit In Milk production is just one of the jobs in the wonld today that will not fit in with short houns of labor and will not yield retunns high enough to provide for a dou- ble shift in habor at present val- ues for milk and milk product9. What the ultimate answen to this pnoblema will be I do not know, but I think it will be de- cidedhy unfortunate for any coun- try which cannot find some other solution than decneased produc- tion o! mihk. With the increased production we have been showing each year, many will think thene is no cause for alarm, but I would point out that hast winter there was not a city in Canada with a surplus supphy, and in two or three cities thene was a decided shortage. I read somewhere recently that the pages o! history do not dis- chose that any nation had ever be- come great by short hours of ha- bon, and disbursing a large part o! its national income in social services. I wonder sometimes if history may not repeat itself. THESE POTATOES ARE NOT FOR SEED Considenable quantities of po- tatoes are being imponted into Canada from the United States tagged as "Wan Appnoved Seed" or "Seed Potatoes-Not Certified." Such potatoes do not qualify for seed purposes in Canada and thein sale is contrary to the Destructive Insect and Pest Act o! Canada, states the Dominion Depatment of Agriculture. The Department. pointed out that Wartime Pnices and Trade Board regulations specify that the imported potatoes in question must be sold within the ceiling pnice for table potatoes and, the Department emphasizes, shouhd not be used for seed purposes in Canada. The only potatoes im- ported from the United States which comphy with the regulations applicable to seed potatoes are those certifled by a State or other officiai certifying agency, said the Departmnent. Just Cannot Fit Cows Into Eight' Hour Day Program By Gilbert McMillan (Written for The Ottawa Farm Journal) We are ready to admit that we are beginning to wonder what is going to happen to the production of ail products derived from millc. Milk by ail standards of nutri- tion is admittediy one of the best foods, for at least the white races, in the world today, and in point of nutrîtional value one of the cheap- est. Due to the fact, however, that the economical production of milk cannot be brought within the or- bit o! a 40 or 44-hour week, or even an eight-hour day, there is just a possibihity that the produc- tion of this valuable food rnay be drastically curtailed in thé near future. Hardly a day passes but we hear of someone 's help leaving to get a job where there will be shorter hours and no work on Sunday. Had we stili been living in an age when Sunday was respected and considered a day of essential rest, we might have seen some reason for it. But when one con- templates how Sunday is now us- ually spent, you cannot attribute the refusai to work as due to bod- ily fatigue. Same Elsewhere We in Canada are not alone in thîs respect. I have before me an order under the Agnîcultural Wa- ges Act (Scotland) and the Holi- day With Pay Act, which goes in- to effect there April 1, 1946. Under this order byremen (herdsmen) and dairymaids from May tili October shahl work an alternate -6-hour and 48-hour week, and from October to May two 61-hour weeks, one 52-hour week and one 48-hour week. Al working hours to be compheted be- fore noon on Saturday. In addi- tion one full day's holiday with pay for every eight weeks' work.. This means that work on Sat- urday afternoon and Sundays has to be paid for as overtime, or get someone else to do it. The com- ment on this order is "If this re- duces production, the government must accept the blame." If farmers continue to stay in the milk production business, I doubt if it wihl reduce production, as cows will continue to produce mihk on Sunday just the same, but it will undoubtedly increase their costs. LESS SHEEP IN U.K. In spite of a wartime bonus to farmers in Great Britain for graz- îng sheep on otherwise unpro- fitable hill pastures for the pro- duction of mutton and lamb, the number of sheep in the United Kingdom has declined from the 1936-38 annual average of 25,785,- 000 to 20,053,000 in 1945. The de- crease has resulted mainly from ploughing up 7,000,000 acres of grassland for the purpose of pro- ducing food crops. Hehping the decrease in fiocks was the reduc- tion by 6,000,000 long tons (2,200 lbs. a ton), or 6,720,000 short tons (2,000 lbs. a ton) of feeding con- centrate imports. The increased diversion of cereals to human con- sumption and a shortage of skihl- ed labor were also contributing factors. Build today, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure Shall tomorrow find its place. -Longf ellow. Business Directory L EGA L W. R. STRIKE Barrister - Solicitor - Notary Solicitor for Bank of Montreal Money to Loan - Phone781 Bowmanville, Ontario LAWRENCE C. MASON. B.A. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public King Street W., Bowmanville Phone: Office 688 Residence 553 W. F. WARD, B.A. Barrister - Solicitor - Notary 9 ½ King Street E. Bowmanville - Ontario Phone: Office 825 House 409 MISS, APHA I. HODGINS Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to M. G. V. Gould Temperance St. - Bowmanville Phone 351 DENTAL DR. J. C. DEVITT Assistant: Dr. E. W. Sisson Graduate of Royal Dental College, Toronto Office: Jury Jubilee Bldg. King Street, Bowmanville Office Hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily 9 a.m. to 12 noon Wednesday Closed Sunday Phone 790 - House phone 325 X-ray equip3ment in Office p I c j DURHAM COUNTY FIGURES In Durham County the make of creamery butter in March totailed 44,066 pounds as compared with 51,828 pounds in March, 1945. The total make for the first three months of this year in Durham County was 105,519 ppunds as compared with 132,710 pounds in the same period of 1945. FAIR APPLE CROP EXPECTED IN DURHAM With abundant fruit buds re- ported in ail good orchards, a "fair crop" of apples, perhaps two-thirds of a normal crop, 15 predicted for this district in the Dominion Department of Agri- culture weekly crop and market report. Most varieties of small fruits, are reported as looking well and showing very littie win- ter damage. Most apple growers have ap- plied or are applý'ing dormant spray to their crops, which is earlier than usual, the report states, adding that. orchard work is being carried on earlier than the last two seasons due to the dry condition of the soul. While buds are not developing as quick- ly since the weather turned cooler and are not ready yet for delayed dormant spray, most orchards are showing more buds than was first expected and some orchards that lost their foliage hast season are showing a fair supply of buds on varieties not subi ect to scab. Some planting of potatoes con- tinues and strong demand is re- ported for certified seed, Irish Cobblers being most in demnand. The report states that more grow- ers than ever before are buying their seed potatoes. Peas are be- ing sown as rapidly as land will permit. It is a mystery to many people why it is possible to kili one plant with a chemical spray and not kill another beside it. In some cases, the reason is stili a mystery even to those who have given the subi ect careful study. In other cases, the answer is simple, says George Knowles, Field Husband- ry Division, Central Experimen- tai Farm, Ottawa. The first evidence of selective weed kiling was observed when mustard growing in a grain crop was killed by copper suhphate spray which did not kili the grain. The spray burned the leaves of the grain and the crop looked dead for about one week. Then the grain commenced to turn green again, but the mustard made no furthen growth. The explanation of the recovery of the grain is that the growing tip o! the plants of the grass family (and this in- cludes oats, wheat, barhey and rye), is enclosed in a sheath or covering and the caustic copper sulphate spray could not touch this covered gnowing point of the grain. In a few days the unin- jured shoots emerged and soon the field was as green as if noth- ing had happened. The growing point of the mustard plant, how- ever is open and exposed. Then too the heaves of this weed are waxy and covered with short hairs which holds ample spray that soon burns the life out of al parts of the plant. Most annual weeds can be kill- ed in peas and in fiax by Sinox. This is the trade name for a re- cently introduced chemical weed kihler. It is thought that the rea- son for this is because leaves o! peas and fiax are waxy but with- out hairs and the spray runs off themn like water off a cabbage heaf. The weeds that have not a waxy surface are killed by the spray. Another example of sehective weed killing is the spraying of carrots with oul. The oil wets the leaves of the carnots just as it wets the heaves of the weeds, but for some unknown reason the oil kilîs most of the annual weeds and does not kill the carrots. It might be said that carrots are not allergic to oul sprays. The latest and most remark- able of ahl the chemical weed kill- ers, 2-4-D is more highhy selective than any known herbicide. Most ROBERT H. CALE 24 Odell Street BOWMANVILLE Telephone: 476 KOLOFOG BURLINGTON ONTARIO KO LOSPRAY ONTARIO CANADIAN POTATOES SHIPPED TO FRANCE The French vocabulary may soon be expanded by three un- translatable North American words: Warba, Chippewa and Ka- tahdin. These, together, with Early Rose, are names of Cana- dian-grown seed potatoes, a sam- pie shipment of which the Do- minion Depàrtment of Agricul- ture is sending to France. At the request of the Northeast Potato Producers' Research and Market- ing Association (Societe d'Etudes, de Vents et d'Achat des Produc- teurs de Pommes de Terre du Nord-est), the Horticulture Div- ision, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, has just prepared a ship- ment of 10 pounds of each of these four varieties of potatoes. They will be grown and tested by the Central Station of Plant Im- provement (Station Centrale d'- Amelioration des Plants) at Etoile de Choisy, near Versailles, France. Fred S. Browne, assistant for co-operative experiments, Horti- culture Division, who has select- ed the seed potatoes and prepared them for shipment, says that he welcomes this request from France as an opportunity to de- monstrate to that country the su- perior quahity of Canadian pota- toes. Virus-free, high yielding, and grown only in selected areas, Canadian certified seed potatoes are marketed only after being in- spected according to strict gov- ernment standards" he said. Despite these high standards, Canadian seed potatoes are not well known in France. Only in 1945 did France buy Canadian seed potatoes when it purchased a total of 279,333 bushels. The test- ing in France of this sample ship- ment may eventually lead to fur- ther orders, said Mr. Browne. Canadian farmers are indebted to France for the parent stock of practicahly ahl vegetables except potatoes. Yellow celery, radishes and broccoli are only a few of the Canadian - grown vegetables oni- gînated by French horticulturists, he said. MYSTERY LINKED WITH SOME WEED KILLING FARM selective weed killers discolor, temporarily, the crop in which the weeds are killed. This is not so with 2-4-D, it kilîs many spe- cies of weeds without causing any perceptible iury to plants of the grass famiiy. The Industrial Aircident Pre- vention Associations announce that a refresher course for in- dustrial nurses will be given at the University of Western Ontario, London, from May l3th to l8th. Discussions will cover personnel policies, nutrition, accident pro- neness, protective equipment and its care, venereal disease, etc. nmr r(A lvA TrTA 1'.T 'A 'PWMAN. BOWIEANVIT.T .. ONT'ARIO Gov. Slmeoe's Papers Given to the University By R. S. McLaughlin President Sidney Smith an- nounces that the University of Toronto has accepted with grati- tude a valuable gift from Mr. R. S. McLaughlln, o! Oshawa. This gift consists of the Simcoe papers, including the diary kept by Mrs. Simcoe, wife of the first Lieuten- ant-Go'vernor of Upper Canada, Lieutenant General John Graves Simcoe, whose Original idea it was to establish the University o! Toronto. Included in Mrs. Sim- coe's diary are many pictures of IMPROVEMENTS N/ AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND EQUIPNENT New or used. VFARMHOIJSE OR OTHER FARM BUILDINGS Construction, improvement or repair of dweiling, barn, silo, ice-house, garage, labourers' cottages or tourist cabins; Painting farmn buildings; inter- ior decorating of your home, or adding one or more rooms or storeys. ~~~/~~ new EEU1hL~ Or used y~ installation 0 - ne Ofth tel, Or ',)d,""zatO fte present One. VFENICING, DRAINAGEý MIENT, ROADWORK LARD IIIpROVE. IflCiuding ditche PuMfPing and dik tlinfg, drainage, sewale disposali ng installations» SYStem in recJamatbon and soilC ' le SYSIE14equiPmnent,' ,jdigwood, coal, gasan lcttdiC n aCesad boilers, water heaters, PIPifiS. buit-la sinks and tubs, etc-,or repair or modernization O rsn systemn. WHICH DO 1 NEED MOST? a 0 And when you've decided on the improve- ments that will mean most to you in oper- ating your farm, cali on your nearest B of M X ILO C4DANHY manager to discuss the best way to finance your plans. He knows the farmer's problems, and you wiIl like his friendly, helpful way of doing business. Remember, wvhen you ask for a loan at the B of M, you do flot ask a favour. Call or write for a copy of our folder on farm improvement loans, '"Quiz for a Go-Ahead Farmer". ]3ANK 0oF MONTREAL wvorking with Canadians in every walk of lJile since 1817 Bowmanville Branch: F. O. McILVEEN, Manager b 'M r. Farmer Milk is in demand - it 's both patriotic and profit- able to get every possible pound of milk from your cows. Cows must be fed on pasture or they loue flesh and you lose mi]k; 18 Guernsey cows fed on pasture at the Purina Experimental Farm produoed 1750 pou.nds more milk per cow during their lacta,- tion as compared to 18 cows not fed on pasture. THINK WHAT THSMEMANS TO YOUR COWS. HERE'S THE FEED FOR EXTRA MILK YOUR MILKING COWS 0.0. MARLOW'S 16 PER CENT PURINA CHOWMIX YOUR CALVES p 0 0 0 D o i i i i i g n Ir t --- . -- . --- --.. .-.- The National Film Board pro- motes genuine national unity by giving Canadians a complete pic- ture of their country and its problems. This successful former in Kent County had good rich sali for his soybean crop, due te) his crop rotation pIari. Soybeans, which aidd some nitrogbvl ta the sali, wark well in crop rotations, such as sugar beets, corn, oats, soybeans . .. or corn, soybeans wheat and claver. Ontario farmers are sure of a ready market for soybeans, too. Because Victory Milis has investècd over $2,500,000.00 in a new plant and plans ta buy more than 3,000,000 bushels of soybeans a year. SOt/ND RFA SONs FOR Lýýr4I dGROW/N6O SOYBFAN#4S! I.Soybeans are a Hardy crop-resis- tant ta drought, ight frosts and heavy rains during growing season. 2.They're a PROFITABLE cash crop. 3.There's a READY MARKET for ail you con grow. (Soybeans need a MINIMUM 0F LABOR-can be harvested with a combine whenever weather is suitable. 5.A real SOIL-BUILDER, improvîng soit tilth and adding some nitrogen -soybeans fit into any "crop rotation" planning. Victory M'mlIo LRET E D 2835 LEET STREET EAST TORO NTO, CANA DA We are pleased to Announce that NIAGARA MATERIALS may be obtained in this district from PURINA COW CHOW m - m - - - V'ICTORY MILLS Limit.d 283 RuET STREET EAST - TORONTO, CANADA >Iease send "HO W TO GROW SOYBEANS- The Profitable Cash Crop"- without cou or obligation to me. Ask your Agricultural Representative or Local Grain Buyer about SOYBEANS. MICRO-FLOTOX (Micronized Suiphur) FLOTATION SULPHUR PASTE NIAGARA LEAD ARSENATE NIAGARA CALCIUM ARSENATE and a fulli une of Spraying and Dusting Materials Niagara Brand Spray Compan-y Ltd. Bave labour, save rnilk, save money and rai3e better calves. Every bag of Calf Startena replaces 350 pounds of milk, and no millç is f ed after your caîf is one month old. TO DO A BETTER JOB FEED MARLOW'S CHOWMIX PURINA PIC STARTER ...... $2.60 cwt. MARLOW'S CHOWMIX PURINA LAYING MASH $.. 2.85 cwt. ORDER YOUR SUPPLY TODAY WHIL-E WB HAVE A GOOD STOCK ON RAND Marlow Transport TETLPHONE - PORT PERRY 106 - R - 2 BL.AOKSTOCK, ONTAIIO . ý N«R-.M" 1 M a i PAGE NINE historical value, as wefl as some volumes of correspondence. The material has been deliver- ed to the University of Toronto li- brary where it will be used by the staff of the Department of Eis- tory and by graduate students. President Smith stated that this gift will be of great benefit to the staff and students of the Univers- ity and particularly to those who work in the field of the early his- tory of this province.