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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. CpLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1928 ^firm Notes the heap is 4 to 5 feet high. The heap Gf-Allrin*y I inna should be kept moist but not ealur- OiaifOHg L.IOIIS ^ By Automobile For the Movies Mf, repeating the j MANURING LAND FOR ROOTS. The labor involved in growing roots Without a fine quality of cream is impossible to make a good class butter. Not only must it be produce ; for Kve gtock stands _ . from healthy, properly fed cows, but Wg acreage on most farme. As the it must be cared for so as to preserve | crop is a heayy feeder it pays to it m fine condition. The production; supply a genermls anK>unt of fertil-and care of cream involves many con-1 izer with rich land a heavy tonnage siderations that are systematically and i may be harvested from a cornpar. clearly presented m Pamphlet No. 37 | atively small area. Fortunately heavy of the Dept. of Agriculture at Ottawa j manuri for this is not a!1 takcn on "The Care of Cream for Butter-1 up by Jt fcut ct>nsiderable s. u« ;„ making. This circular enumerates -the various causes of ill-flavored cream and tells how this may be avoided. When the delivery of Adventures of Party of Camera Men in Big Game Quest GOOD FORTUNE Four Hours Within 70 Feet of King of the Forest utomobile is a by the patrons is done only wee, it is recommended that it must be ept down to at least 48 degrees, requiring the use of ice. The circular urges upon the creamery that his equipment is such that the cream is handled in the most efficient way, that the testing is done accurately, and the the creamery itself is a model of cleanliness and a standing cfoject lesson to the patrons. The profit one makes in the raising of hogs depends to a larger extent than many suppose on the treatment the litters receive while they are quite young. Years of experience and EC ores of experiments on the Experimental Farms have justified the conclusion that the character of the feeding and management of th sucking and weaned pig has as great influence on the economy of production- Circular No, 61 of the Dept. of Agriculture at Ottawa recommends teaching the litter to eat three weeks before weaning. The use of a creep which will admit the little pigs but not the mother, is recommended. For best results at weaning times, sweet skim milk is regarded as a practical necessity, subsequently sour skim milk or buttermilk may be used. Middlings mixed with milk are easily digested and very nourishing. It is recommended also to scatter a few handfuls of dry grain from time to time in the tedding. This ensures the little pigs taking exercise in hunting up the ker-r.cls. Overfeeding is a frequent cause of i'l-health and stunting. If two litters a year are to be raised it may be necessary to wean the pigs at six weeks of age, but if the litters are more widely distributed they should not be taken from their mothers until they are two months old. This circular, written by Mr. G. B. Rothvvell, the Dominion Animal Husbandman, a*d his assistant, Mr- W. G. Duns-more, which is available at the Publ cations Branch of the Dept., recommends ideal rations not only for the weanlings but for all classes of hogs. It also gives very helpful advice how to avoid or overcome ill health "Square Deal" Plea for Wild Life Made to U.S. Nation by Dr. Hornaday Zoologist Controverts Claim That "Game Belongs to Sportsmen Who Alone Have Saved It"--Finds 1000 Slayers to Every Defender of Game By Dr. William T. Hornaday. Formerly Director of the New York Zoological Park. Stamford, Conn.--To the humane society people of America, the impulse to "Be Kind to Animals" never gets beyond the limits of the home town. As a rule, the rule seems to be: "No Wild Ones Need Apply.' No matter what may be the reason for this, such a policy is illogical, wrong and at times vicious. I And there is another theory pre-I vailing that is even worse. It is the t day at the eleventh hour | appalling sentiment that "the game belongs to the sportsmen, who alone | have saved it." This is a travesty of | dance. |truth and justice. [bought, Perhaps the baubles of this bejewel- the ground for the use of succeeding time, graphically described by Hon. led crown of the Ill-fated Romanoffs crops- And not only that, but the soil Denys Finch Hatton, in the London are among those known to have been thus manured and given proper culti-. Times, who writes:--My two com- smuggled into the United States from vation is put in excellent condition for panions and I statrted from Nairobi Russia. a heavy yield of grain the following on September S with one light car and --■-- year. The usual application of barn- j two one-ton lorries. The road, for ! our very yard manure for root crops such as an African bush road, proved excel-j we obtained a Hon picture as good turnips and mangels is from 12 to 20 lent, and we reached our destination, ' any of us had ever.hoped for or ev tons to the acre. Experiments carried [ the Serenget Plains, in three days' dreamed of. on for fifteen years at the Central easy travelling, a distance of some- At Close Range. | The facts are that shooters of game ' at from $2 to $11 per head, thrust in Experimental Farm at Ottawa and thing q,ver 200 miles. | We were cruising along the bank of are alone responsible for 90 per cent, the spring into strange "covers" (!) reported in Bulletin 94, "Growing and | The principal object of our trip was ■ a dry river course in the car at about of the slaughter that has brought the and shot in the fall by "tame" sports-Feeding Field Roots," distributed by, to obtain moving pictures of lions; 11 o'clock; the going was good hard game of the United States down to the Publications Branch, Dept. of and this we believed we could best ac-j sandy soil, with large mimosa thorns 'just about 2 per cent, of its peak Agriculture, Ottawa, showed average ^ complish from a motor-car provided : here and there, and occasional patch- : abundance, and up to date, the yields of lOVis tons per acre when no : that we could find them in suitable ' es of thick bush in the river bed. We "sportsmen alone" have saved no was used. An adjoining plot country. We knew from experience had been out since dawn without see- game whatever on a permanent basis ured at the rate of 15 tons per!the great difficulty of getting near . ing anything to picture, and were be- of free hunting. "Imported Game" Plan Minimized. Will any free-for-all shooting remain 40 or 60 years hence? No! Nothing worthy of mention, nothing but remnants of species--solitary specimens, widely separated. Already here in the East we are down to a few white-tailed deer, traces of black bear in two states and a lot of poor specimens of ruffed grouse, and the last lone remnants of woodcock and snipe. Oh, yes! We must not forget the dispensation in "game abund-"Imported game!" It Is reared on state game farms yielded a little more than 21 tons enough to Hons in the open and on j ginning to think that our luck per acre. Another plot that was given |foot t0 eet good pictures, and our idea out, when we came upon a small pool IV2 tons of manure to the acre and a waB that 11 we could happen upon |in the river, with a good reed bed mixture of commercial fertilizer at lions which had not previously seen above it. Upon investigation the watte rate of 100 pounds of nitrate of a motorcar they would not connect tor proved very brakish, but we found soda, 300 pounds of superphosphate this strange sort of animal with man, recent signs of lions, and 75 pounds of muriate of potash , and mfSht therefore allow us to ap-.tato the car, we crawled c per acre, yielded practically the same Proach clo6e enough to them for our,and after going 300 yard! as the plot that received 15 tons of PurpoEe- tw° lions and 1 stable manure. Other plots were given I With thIs end m vlew we fixed a right out in the commercial fertilizer only at the rate bratket and a universal^ joint-fitting j bare red ant hill, of 400 pounds per acre and yielded for !he cinema c a little less than 20 tons of mangels. | J1™^"** °i^e, It will therefore be seen that it is possible to grew heavy crops of mangles, either with the full quantity of stable manure, or stable manure Hunters Well Organized. Is It not even yet possible to take hold and "save" the game? No, it is not! The killing laws are too many; the killing privileges are 50 per cent. Criminal Wastefulness Charged. I too great; Bnd the game killers are The "American system of free-for- Just 2,600,000 too many. 11 shooting" is absolutely wrong. The ! The killers are reas over which it has practically ex-' get what they wi Getting back terminated real game and game hunt- it, and as many ai on nn stream ing are vely Sreat and their boun are 1000 killers t panding. I have fender of wild life. A large number specify or show of the men who draw salaries a well organized and when they want y can kill. There ) every one real de- i teed up ( 1 upon the left-' graphic position, about 60 yards from maps. And I will refer b; to the nearest examples. Consider the fertilizer, from fertilizer MARKING HOGS FOR GRADING Hog raisers located far from the river We steamed slowly up to within 20 yards of them, and, turning the car right-handed came to a halt broadside on with the camera and .460 bearing upon the group. The came slight whirr of gears; one lioness got mildly interested l™^*!.?***™' itarted with \ the operator being in the seat next the driver; the man with the gun for repelling any boarding parties was to be in the left-hand rear seat back of the camera man. We subsequently found that this arrangement worked very well. On the Plains. September is at the very end of thej«P and walked off to another dry season. We found the plains (30 yards to the left, the other one, af- ketinz centres have not received the I themselves very bare and holding out; tor raising her head for one sleepy keting centres have not received the bugh fl£ lhe iook) lay back and cloBeA her eyes. benefits of hog grading to nearly the, ™™*ndl country, however, there One lion sat upright observing us same extent as those living close to; ^ lmmense herds ot zebra, wilde-.with some show of interest, while the marked that the lions the stock yards The difficulty ofjbeegt and congoni- As we drove the other continued to look in the op-'very well, and that 1 getting the grading benefits back to!^ through tnem they dia not dis- pbsite direction. We realized that we ! very hungry we ought the farmers so situated tas^ hindered turb themselveg more than enough to had here the matter for a perfect lion igoni for them as bakec "A keep out of our way and to make the picture, and after taking 200 feet we j had finished taking car the excuse for an occasional gam- j moved slowly out of earshot and out j This seemed to us an bol. Zebra and wildebeest form the (of sight to prepare more film and gestion, and gave staple food of lions; and so' apart ; more cameras, praying to the God of j ing to get from the stories we had already been j the midday sun to keep the_ .drowsy j ing 01 told of this district, we felt fairly con-;victims under his spell. Our'pray fident in finding some during the fort-,were night which " gettii of game are afraid of the j sportsmen! In the East there is a great combine to get legislation favor-the heath hen, the bobwhite, the ruff- able to hunters and to defeat attempts ed grouse, and "many other grouse spe- to reduce the big bag limits and long cieE, the wild turkey, Gambel quail, open seasons. woodcock, snipe, Eskimo curlew, gold- i To-day a dozen evil influences are plover, black-breasted plover, the sweeping away, the game. About 500 irning dove and men and women still are fighting for night hawk. ] the last rights of game. Leadership Of the big game, the story of slaugh- in Washington Is totally absentt. But ter and criminal wastefulness is too so long as the wild life, game or not long to even begin to tell. Only a few game, remains alive, we will carry on glorious fauna and fight to procure for it at least a remain. semblance of a square deal. 1 behal The "Sugar Jack" process thod recently put on the market for the utilization of dry, c< palatable forage. It is an ensiling process in which a so-called verter," the Sugar Jack Converter is used to moisten the dry forage before it is placed in the press or small silo. An experimental investigation of this process has been made " Animal Husbandry Division Central Experimental Farm and the results published in a new bulletin entitled "The Conversion of Dry Roughage into a Succulent Feed." Analysis of the "Sugar Jack Converter" has shown it to consist largely of common salt plus slaked lime and a little vegetable matter. In fact • water alone and warm water common salt used to replace the Sugar J-;k Converter proved to be as satisfactory in the processing as did the solution of the converter. Judging from the results of practical feeding tests and from chemical and bacteriological analysis, Sugar Jack processing does not add to or improve the nutritive value of the original roughage. In the feeding trials the Sugar Jack raticn produced considerably less milk than silage and was much more expensive. The production of milk and fat from the consumption of the unprocessed dry roughage was equal to that from similar roughage processed by the Sugar Jack system, and the dry roughage was equally palatable. Be.-xdes, the Sugar Jack system requires much more labor than is necessary in feeding either corn silage or unpioeersed roughage. As a matter of fact the Sugar Jack process is simply a development of an old-fashioned method of feed preparation long since discarded in favor of modern methods ftuch as the Silo- The bulletin is distributed by the Publications Branch of the Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa. HOW TO COMPOST PEAT AND ,-•'* MUCK. Peat and muck, when composted $ith barnyard manure, make an excellent fertilizer, particularly for clay grnd sandy loams. Instructions for .composting are given in a new bulletin on Manures and Fertilizers, available at the Publications Branch, pept. of Agriculture, Ottawa. First, peat or muck, is spread on the ground to a depth Of 1 or V/2 feet, making the heap about 8 to 10 feet wide and as long as necessary. Then a layer of manure is put on from 8 to 12 inches thick, and alternate layers of peat the general application of hog grading throughout the country. This difficulty, however, has now been overcome by a change in the legal hog grading regulations which not only requires the grading of all hogs offered foi- sale in lieu thereof the marking >, placing at the same time the responsibility upon the drover or shipper of seeing that the shipper's hog grading manifest showing the producer's name, the grade or the identification mark is sent forward with the is they looked heesh when we their pictures. 1 excellent sug-the idea of try-picture of the lions com-to the kill. So we went off in and shot a congoni on the edge photograph-j of the plain, not more than 600 yards had allowed ourselves ing those lions for four hours in many jfrom the lions. Tying the antelope to good picture. And find positions and at all distances from 50 j the car spring by a slip knot we drag- them we certainly didi for in the 14 yards days we were there we saw no fewerjp. j>uriu than 70 lions, counting males, females enough and cubs, in varying groups, from making 70 feet. iged him down to where the lions v that time we were lucky ! lying, and loosed him as we passed i 0 get a picture of one lioness full sight of about 35 yards. 1 unsuccessful stalk of s shipment. The grading will then be singletons up to one magnificent gazelles, while her companions watch-! tree about 40 yards from the kill' and checked and the information in re-1 troop of 20 which was seen when It (er every move of the game with the [ got ready to take the picture. We had gard to the grade can be sent back to the producer. To help shippers where they elect to mark in lieu of grading, the Dominion Live Stock Branch of the Dept. of Agriculture at Ottawa has prepared a pamphlet setting forth the regulations outlining a system of marking that is easily applied and easily read at the point of destination- The pamphlet, No. 88 of the Dept. of Agriculture, gives diagrams showing the marks that may be " These include cross bars, X's, s and H's that may be applied to the top of the shoulder, the centre of the back, and the top of the rump. marks from one to five are suggested, which means that by cross marks alone fifteen farmers might ship their hogs in one car each carrying his own identification mark. It is suggested that the marks be made with clippers ox scissors, hut at sea-of the year when the hair is short and thin, it is also recommended that paint be used. The pamphlet offers additional useful suggestions for carrying out this marking system. Religious Unity-York Herald-Tribune--(There excuse, said Bishop John M. Moore, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, for "sixteen varieties of Methodists, or fourteen kinds of Baptists, or a dozen kinds of Presbyterians.") Can we look forward then series of religious coalitions which will reduce the 164 Independent religious bodies listed in Dr. Carroll's to a dozen or less? Perhaps The Roman Catholic Church, with its 16,735,000 conmmunicants, ill, of course, stand apart, and there re numerous other groups--the Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarians, the Budhist Oriental Temples, the Shaker ana communities, the Latter Day Saints (Mormons), the Pillar of Fire and Pentecostal churches and the Spiritualists, for example--which are available for any conceivable scheme of amalgamation. But if the tendency continues, and if the advo-catets of unity gain adherents in the tt few years as rapidly as they e in the past, there may well be important developments in this direc- Not Swell Enough Tel-bury. Eng.-When the Prince of Wales won a steeplechase here recently a local farmer who had never seen the Prince or any of the royal people asked a neighbor to point him out. A slim young man in very ordinary riding costume, who was leaning against a v all at the moment, was indicated to the farmer as his future King. The wortfiy agriculturist at first the ght he was being Joked with, but being assured of the Identity of Hl» Royal Highness, burst out: "Lor! and I've bin a-looking for somebody all poshed up!" ill fate to be engaged in re- greatest interest, and paid not the j not waited for more than a minute be-pairing one of our lorries. 'faintest attention to us in the car;fore a lioness left the group and cau- i The largest number which I saw to- about 300 yards away. On one occa- j tiously crept up to the congoni, final- \ tne largest Hon to bring the remains gether myself was a troop of 11 llon-sion, when we got too near the wind, ly taking possession with a little rush .ot the congoni to them in the shade, esses without a single male with an eddying gust gave them a suspl- i from six yards off. The others came Aftel' a few minutes he picked up the them. We had left the car behind and , cion, and they were up in an instant | up one by one, and the feast began, j half-eaten carcass of the large ante-were after a certain black-maned lion scanning the surrounding country I Every now and again a blood-red face loPe in his mouth and carried it to the whose skin we coveted more than his with concentrated gaze for enemy j was lifted to take a look at the car as treeas easily as a retriever carries a picture, and we thought we had run man, apprehensive and alert. So un- i we crept up by stages to get closer bare, but with a slightly straddling him to' ground in a dense patch of easy were they that they eventually ! pictures. Intent upon the business in swagger due to the congoni's trailing bush covering a waterhole where he decided to move out some 400 yards | hand, they showed no apprehension 'egs. had apparently drunk. We arranged farther into the open, where they lay 1 even when we reached 70 feet, the ' We had been photographing busily a drive which resulted in 11 lionesses down upon an ant hill which com- j closest photographing range, which in- »H this while, but unluckily the cam-being bolted past us one after the manded a more complete view of their j eluded the whole group in our 6 In. era now jammed, so that we did not other of about 40 yards' distance; and ground. After giving them ten min- lens. ,get this very interesting closing inci- it was but little consolation to us for utes to settle down we moved right | After about half an hour they seem- dent. It was now nearly 4 o'clock, not getting the black lion to think up tc them again in the " what a wonderful picture of them we received with the same apathy as might have got if we had brought the fore. It was clear that they in no w tripod camera with us. But fate had connected the motor-car with man held better things in store. After [ A Decoy, varying fortune with the camera, on About 2 o'clock my gunbearer e 1 ed to be temporarily sated, and evi- and after taking several still pictures dently felt the sun to be too hot for of them under the tree we pulled out y j full bellies. One by one the two lion- . for camp, leaving the lions as uncon-esses and the youngest Hon walked ' cerned with our movementst as they slowly away, and lay down under a had been upon our first appearance !-1 big umbrella thorn near by, leaving in the morning. It had been a great zz=z=========z=z====zzz^======^==z= day. I cannot remember having Bliss Carman Honored Ottawa.--Bliss Carman, sometimes called the "poet laureate of Canada," has been awarded the Lome Pierce medal of the Royal Society of Canada recognition of his contribution to anadian litterature. This medal is re cognized as the highest literary dis-inction a Canadian can win. "Say, Bobby (to his sister's beau)- .ntinued until Mr. Hangoff, ain't Leaving Their Home Land For Sultry Penal Settlement )f the taken out to the pi her criminals. F all the perennial flowers tha peony is perhaps the most gorgeous and the most generally grown in Canada. The shortness of its blooming season has been charged against it, but by a careful selection of varieties season may be extended to a considerable length. Both in whites and pinks there are both early and late 5 and there is some variation in the reds also. The blooming dates of different varieties grown at the Kent-, Nova Scotia, Experimental Sta-, were- recorded by the Superintendent, Mr. W. Saxby Blair. These published in his report for 1326. In the white varieties there are almost two weeks between the dates of the earliest and the latest comm.? into m- Festiva Maxima, one e" th» best varieties yet produced an, fortunately one of the cheapest opene,d its first buds on July 1st. Two days later Duchesse de Nemours commenced to break open. A week later Marie Lemcine was showing fine color and on the 13th of the month Couronne d'Or was coming into bloom. Of the pink varieties the earliest to open was EduMs Sup-erba on July 4. The following day Marie Crousse broke from the bud. This was iollowed the next day by Triomphe de l'Exposition de Lille and on the 13th of the month Marquise d'lvry and Rubra Superba commenced to show their beautiful color. Livingstone, one of the deep pink sorts broke bud on the 11th. But two varieties of the red are reported upon, Henri Demay broke bud on July 4 and that fine old standby Felix Crousse three days later. Selfmade men 'generally employ 'varsity tutors to make their eon*