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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1928. )ferm Notes Where Broadcasting is a Science HOGS IMPROVING UNDER GRADING Hog grading is approaching the stage that is ensuring to nog raisers values for their stock consistent with their quality. A long step towards this desirable objective was taken when grading was made effective at the market centres and abattoirs. Farmers living far from the market and not able to ship thir hogs cooperatively, did not receive much en couragement to raise the highest grade of stock becauee they were unable to receive the benefit of the higher prices for the improved stock. Last autumn the regulations were further improved providing for either compulsory grading or marking for identification of ownership of hogs bought from different farmers. The new regulations are reported by offi cers of the Federal Live Stock Branch to be working very well, ninety-flve per cent, of the shippers in Eastern Ontario and seventy-five per cent, of the territory west, complying fully with these requirements. There has, however, been some defiance of the law, a shipper sending forward a load made up of stock purchased from several farmers without either grading or marking. The case came duly to the courts in the city of London and the shipper lost his case. Ontario hogs under the grading regulations have shown consistent and steady improvement and now that producers are provided with means of being fully rewarded for their prospect that Ontario hogs and their products will, like Danish hogs, ultimately be of such a quality as to give them a preference in whatever market they may be presented. These regula-i tions, like most of the regulations causing modification of usual practices, have been objected to by some shippers and recently a drover at a Western Ontario town undertook test the strength of the law in this matter. He sent forward a load of market hogs of mixed ownership without grading or marking in accordance with the regulations. The eaee was reported to the authorities and tried in the London Police Court before Magistrate C. W. Hawkshaw of that city. It will be gratifying those who are doing their full share in improving Ontario hogs to know that the regulations have been upheld an dthat the shipper was found guilty of breaking the law. This being of the first cases to be brought to the courts in connection with hog grading, no fine was imposed. BENEFICIAL AND HARMFUL INSECTS All garden insects are fortunately not injurious. A few of them at least are beneficial. Some of these are pictured and described In the new Bulletin No. 99, "Insects of the Flower Garden and Their Control," by Mr. Arthur Gibson, Entomologist. Among the beneficial insects referred to are the well-known ladybird beetle that feeds almost exclusively on plant lice and scale insects. Then there is the fiery ground beetle, Calosoma calidum Fab., which destroys cutworms. Other insect friends of the gardener are the large harpaius and some of the four-winged and two-winged parasitic flies, predaceous mites, and spiders. Thes i, however, are infinitesimal in their number when compared with the very many injurious varieties of bugs and caterpillars that are so evident at this season of the year in the flower gardens of Canada. This bulletin, which Is obtainable from the Publications Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, pictures and describes the more important of these and gives explicit instructions for their control. --Issued by the Director of Publicity, Dominion Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. RADIO HOOK-UP FOR REPUBLICAN CONVENTION The main control room of the National Broadcasting Company, New Yorfc Here a single wire from the Repufc-an Conyention at Kansas City came in and the broadcaster's report was redistributed throughout the woTld. Sunday School Lesson While the loss in field crops annually from the depredations of insects is estimated to run into hundreds of millions of dollars, damage to garden crops is relatively no less serious. While the damage done in the fields and orchards may not be as apparent to the observer, it is perhaps even more annoying when it is happening to roses, irises, dahlias and many others of the beautiful crops of the flower garden that are continually under observation. In combatting the bugs and worms that work in garden crops it is necessary to have some knowledge of their life history and habits. An observation of how the insects feed will help materially in deciding- the proper remedy to apply. To assist gardeners to understan dthese matters the Department of Agriculture at Ottawa has Issued Bulletin No. 99, entitled "Insects of the Flower Garden and Their Con-' »trol," by Mr. Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomologist. The author points out that injurious insects may be divided j roughly into two classes by the nature of their mouth parts, which indicate! whether they destroy by eating the ] teking the phiniums, the snapdragon and the columbine, by arsenical sprays and powders, also the aphides or plant lice that yield readily to sprays of dilute nicotine. STANDARDIZING HONEY The Dominion Department of Agriculture in co-operation with the handlers of honey are engaged in the ' July 8--Lesson II--Acts 7i 54 to 8: 3i preparation of grades for the stand-j 22: 19, 20. Golden Text--Be thou ardizing of honey. It is intended that' faithful unto death, and I will give such grades apply first to the export! thee a crown of life.--Rev. 2: 10. trade. ANALYSIS Canada exports honey to the United I. the death of the first martyr, Kingdom, France, Belgium, Denmark,1 54-60. Germany, Holland, Norway, Sweden II. the youth who looks on. and the United States. These exports Introduction--Stephen occupies an last year amounted to 1,668,712 important place in the story of Paul. „„„„. . , . . - „„„„ to „„ He was the first official to be appoint-pounds, which in four years is an in- ed by thg £ar]y ^ chosenPwkh crease of over 200 per cent. Bix otherg to help in the distribution Beekeeping on a national commer- of a«Mg among the poor widows. He cial footing is practically a new in- was also a man of great intellectual dustry, but it Is increasing by leaps ability, belonging probably to the mofe and bounds. The honey cro pin 1927 liberal-minded Jews, and was able to showed an increase of 77 per cent, see very clearly what i over 1926, and now stands at 23,647,- JJf ttf^^.f^Ml 268 pounds. , valued at $3,660,629. explained by the suppositon that the Roman law was not so strictly enforced during the latter years of Pontius Pilate who left Palestine in A.D. 36, *r else it may be that under his successor special priveleges were granted to the Jews in this regard. Vs. 59, 60. These verses describe the death of Stephen (see Luke 23: 24). He kneels down in the attitude of prayer, places himself in the hand; of Jesus, while as he looks upon hi; wild and angry persecutors, he ask; God to forgive them, thus following the example of his Master. S . fell asleep. Into the peaceful sleep which was also to be ai awakening into eternity, and into thi immediate presence of his Saviour whom he loved. II. the youth who looks on. V. 58. Laid down their clothes at oung man's feet, whose name ws Saul. This is the first mention of or who is to prove such a leader in tl church. He may have been as old t thirty, was probably a member of the Jewish court, or Sanhedrin. It is doubtful whether Paul had been in Jerusalem during the trial of Jesus, but at a later time he may have returned as a rabbi or minister in one of the local synagogues. His active participation in this trial is shown by the fact that the witnesses placed their clothes at his feet, while he afterward confessed that he gave his vote against Stephen. Ch. 8:1. A great persecution, j began those attacks upon the Chris- volved in saw that the attitude to the temple and mosaic 1 legislation was now entirely changed. The Publications Branch of the De- Hig great gpeech in Acts 7> ^evealgehig partment of Agriculture, Ottawa, has originality and entitles him to be call-a number of interesting pamphlets on ed the first theologian. Also his bold-beekeeping which may be had on ap- ness i nasserting his conviction raised plication. I up the stricter party of the Jews ILLUSTRATION STATIONS Xty'r. ^ 8° ^ beCamC the fifSt The Illustration Stations Division of ""^ DEATH 0F THE FIRST MARTyB) the Experimental Farm reports an ( 54-60 increase for the fiscal year ending y 54 Gnashed on him with their! fen'church which were to pro' March 31, 1928, of 45 stations, bring- teeth An example of the fury ami formidable at different periods during ing the total up to 195. From these hatred which so often accompany reli|tt»e next three centuries, and by which stationo ia8t year there wa8 Boid to siouS bigotry, aH was also seen in_th«*s#iny conf.-s-- farmers in the vicinity of each 30,9-12 attack made on Jesus. ^upon to seal their faith With their bushels of seed grain, 11,893 bushels V. 55. He . . . looked up stead- Uuod. Hw stories are more moving of seed potatoes, 20,080 pounds of grass fastly into heaven. Stephen's .aim-1 than th^-e whieh toll of he courag and Cover seed 266 purebred bulls -fft^giSd^ and heifers, 106 hogs, 165 sheep, 602 Hg jg fil]ed with the power of the maidenr. who would rather surrender cockerels, 682 pullets and 1,528 set- jheavenly spirit, he sees the glory of life itself than der.y their Lord and tings of eggs. God, and looks' upon Jesus standing Saviour. These illustration stations are!at the right hand of God. The Holy At Jerusalem. It is not unlikely chosen by Experimental Farm offl- Spirit represents the active help given. that an immediate attack was now cials in districts where it is felt it;by God. The Holy Spirit is God in'made upon those who wer«| known to will be of advantage to introduce in W ™ f^^^hXIsaiah SobJwTpTnl led the £3TS £n a practical way the work being done fc d j h temple (see I "ach 6) was the persecution that it led to the by the Experimental Farms. The ^ Jn ^ of the congregation at owner of the farm continues to oper- ,have the firglt mar>istation of the Jerusalem, and the members were ate, but does so under the supervision glorified Christ who was soon to ap- scattered throughout the whole of Sa-of an expert appointed by the Domin- pear to Paul on the road to Damascus,1 maria and Judaea, thus extending the ion Department of Agriculture. By and whom John afterwards saw on gospel to new places, this system each station becomes a the island of Patmos. Jesus is stand-1 V. 3. Saul . . . make havock of the centre for the growing and distribu- j"? and therefore ready to step in to,church. He is evidently the most tion of high-grade seed, purebred live stock, and also as a demonstration th* office of the mediator) whi,e he is ingly mad against these heretics. He station for the best type of cultural a]g0 waiting to receive and execute the searches them out in their homes, has methods. \ messages of God. j them shut up in prison where they One of the outstanding accomplish-! V. 56. I see . . the Son of man. j wait their trial gefore the Jewish ments of the illustration stations is This was the title which Jesus chose'courts which would pass sentence on the production of clover seed in British 1 for himself, and it expressed his Mes-; them. It is doubtful whether these Columbia. The first clover seed ever! sianicclaim in a way that revealed! Jewish judges ventured to execute nroduced in Hritish Columbia was har ' both hls S^ory and also his humility, any more, but they robbed them of produced in British Columbia was har- very rarely used by any other in their property, took away their homes, vested last year at the Prince George j theSNewy Testament refused to give them any work, and and Salmon Valley Stations. y. 57. And ran upon him. The' condemned them to poverty--a condi- Reports ton these stations may be Judges, as in the trial of Jesus, are I tion which remained in the Jerusalem had by applying to the Publications filled with indignation, and look upon church for a long time and which later Branch, Department of Agriculture, him as a blasphemer. But the marks called forth the^generosity of the Gen- Ottawa. Gets Back Old Tablet of deliberation are even fewer here than in the great trial of Christ. In wild fury they rush him outside the city because their law demanded this, and there they stoned him to death, absence of 242 years from | Much discussion has been given to the the Protestant Temple of Saumur, the question how these Jews could per-headuuarters of French Protestantism form so unlawful an act. In the case from 1562 to the revocation of the1 °f Jesus the Jewish authorities had to Treaty of Nantes in October, 1685, the! obtain the permission of the Roman, return of the famous Tablet of the 1 ^lef <sef ^n i8:31), w.here it is d,s-,„ . , . . , T '| tinctly stated that the Jews did not Laws will be celebrated on June 30, haye ythe rf ht to sentence of the 242d anniversary of its disappear- death. But in this case their anger I carries them beyond their rights ;^and fithin the further divided njurious, each of and definite in- Two years ago the tablet, which is the fact that they did a sheet of slate 4% feet wide and 6 feet high, on which are engraved the Tables of the Law, was discovered by M. Meteyer, pastor of the Temple, in the Catholic Church of Varrains, only two miles from Saumur, although, in the meantime, a countrywide search had been going on for it during two centuries. The tablet is now restored to the Trotestant Church on the order of the Catholic Bishop of Angers Whc:. the Temple was demolished by Royal authority in 1686, the tablet became the property of the Cesbron family, the present head of which, Senator Cesbront, in 1815, bestowed it on the Catholic Church of Varrains. The Senator, curiously ignorant of the search being made for the tablet by the Protetsants of Saumur, on the discovery of Pastor Meteyer, immediately interceded with the Bishop of Angers to have the tablet returned. In a letter to the pastor he expresses hts pleasure in associating himself with the gesture of Christian fraternity, "which, after more than 200 years, repairs the injustice of which the Protestant Church of Saumur was the tile churches. Thus we are presented with a situation of great dramatic interest. The leaders of the Early Church are attcked with fierce hatred, while he who is the most prominent among the opponents is soon to be won over and become the most aggressive preacher of the new gospel. A Scotsman was booking a ticket for Manchester, putting down a £1 note for his fare, the booking-clerk said: "Change at Crewe." The Scotsman said: "I'll have it noo!" DIGNITY AND IMPUDENCE Who Will Win the Marathon ? Interest in the Third Wrigley Marathon continues to increase as the summer draws on, and each day the entry list swells so that the prediction may be made that even a greater number than took the plunge last year will make a start at the two swims to be conducted by the Canadian National Exhibition in August and September. Some of the best American swimmers, particularly in the women's section, who were unable to compete last year, have indicated their intention to take part in the Third Marathon. Among these are Mille Gade Corson, the first mother to navigate the treacherous waters of the English Channel; Mrs. Lucy Dimond, who swam so impressively at Lake George last year; Ethelda Bleibtrey, a world's record holder and Olympic champion, and others. Ethel Hertle, who made her-' self universally popular before and during the swim at Toronto last year, and who won first money for women, will be again a contestant. She is, perhaps, the finest stylest among swimmers of the world, is exceptionally strong and is again favored as being the woman to beat this year. ■ f Alameda, California, writes that he will be here and that he is a different performer entirely than he was in 1927. He recently won the annual 14-mile swim around the City of Alameda in record tirr.e. Ernst Vierkoetter is now located in Milwaukee, and while his entry has not yet been received it is taken as a foregone conclusion that he will again be seen in action. George Young continues to improve and will make his skill felt in the big contest. At his camp are also Helene Galand, -a Spanish swimmer who swam for six hours last year and Edith Hedin, "the sweetheart of the The Banana Details of an Industry Which Engages the Activities of 70,000 Men From a "sea of bananas" in the tropical jungle to banana-bearing ships steaming over the ocean to our ports is but a phase of the services being rendered by a great industrial army of 70,000 men. Divisions of this army are located in various countries of the Caribbean area, such as Cuba, amaica, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico. I "It is an inspiring and romantic storf--the story of the innumerable activities of this, the greatest agricul-. tural army in the world," says a booklet recently issued by the Pan American Union. "The banana stem (rhizome) rapid- > ly changes from plant to tree; the latter contains about 85 per cent, of water. It is probably the largest plant in the world not having a woody stem above ground--it is subterranean. The food stored in this underground stem, as well as that furnished by the leaves, nourishes the flower-stalk of the fruit. From the root-stalk arises a mass of cordlike roots, of about the diameter of a lead pencil. Running through the central part of the roots is a system of veins which act as conduits for the transmission to the stem and leaves of the water and raw materials. "Three to four weeks after the rhizome has been planted the first leaf appears. In twelve months the "tree" has reached a height of fifteen to thirty feet. By the tenth or twelfth month, the stem which is to bear fruit has pushed itself up through the centre of the leaf-sheaths, and the blossom has 'shot.' From three to four months are then required to develop a bunch of bananas ready for cutting. Cutting of the fruit is done at least once a week, and sometimes twice. Since the fruit is in various stages of development, a practiced eye is required to select the bunches of proper grade for shipment. A cutting ganjr usually consists of three men: the 'cuter,' the 'backer' and th? 'muleman.* "Without loss of time the fruit is earried out on ppek animals in charge of 'mulemen,' or is loaded on tram-cars for,transportation to the railway. According to the location of the plantation, the pack i the hau by 1 of ' Geneva Meeting Seeks Protection for Bird Friends International Commtitee Urges Government Legislation to Aid Birds Geneva.--Speaking at Geneva before the members of the International Committee for Bird Protection, Dr. Gilbert Pearson started by dividing bird life which should be better cared for by man into five groups: (1) upland game birds; (2) ducks, geese and shore birds; (3) insect and weed-eating species; () predatory birds, and (5) those killed for their plumage. For the upland game birds, Dr. Pearson, while allowing for their value as food, drew attention to the fact that wild game birds could not long survive the vast commercializtion hich modern cold-storage plants and wift transportation make possible. The adequate protection of migratory birds was a complicated problem. Ducks and geese, for example, annually traverse many degrees of latitude. In many cases they pass through a number of states, each with wn laws and each with its peoples feeling they should have opportunities capture their full share. With regard to insect and weed-seed-eating birds, Dr. Pearson said that the food value of these birds is small that it was possible that the bird sold for a franc would, if left alive, render services to the agriculturist and fruit grower to an extent of many francs annually. He was told, he said, that in Italy, southern France, Belgium, and Spain many illions of small birds were killed nually for fcod. Every sort of device was used, and the wonder was that so many survived. Predatory birds were usually de-itroyed by gamekeepers, and these, together with the thoughtless type of gunner, formed a mighty force of destruction to hawks and owls, many of them valuable as destroyers of rodents and which played their part balancing the numbers of wild life nature. Could not this problem, asked Dr. Pearson, be solved on a basis of justice to both birds and In conclusion, having reviewed the uman activities which were operat-lg to reduce the wild-bird life of the rorld, Dr. Pearson suggested that if the attention of the League of Nations ere called strongly to the situation way might open for speedy and beneficial action by governments. Separate governmental legislation was necessary. The" International Committee for Bord Protection is composed of men women officially representing groups of sportsmen, naturalists, and bird lovers in Australia, Austria, Canada, Czechoslavakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, and the j United States--17 countries in all. distance. used to draw the trams, while on others small locomotives are employed on account of the long, heavy hauls. "Immediately upon the arrival at the wharf of the first train of fruit, the loading of the r*-amshrp begins, and it continues day and night without interruption u til "cmpleted. the cutting orders and the schedule of th# of fruit i red that of 85,OCO bunches is dispaiche from twelve to fifteen hours. "The problem of discharging ana cargoes varies with the local ditions existing at the different \ While the stemship is nearin>? wharf, every preparation is made aboard the vessel and on the pi commence unloading as soon as ship is made fast. "In transit from seaboard to tinaticn the bananas are inspected the temperatures taken by caret; called 'messengers,' who report oi condition of each car and make changes in ventilation, heating i ing necessary to insure the arriv shipments in good condition. "In the winter season the cars papered and more or less he 'strawed,' i conditions, •ording to the weather id heated as an added precaution to insure good deliveries. At northern seaboard points the cars are given an initial heating before they are loaded, and, when necessary, they are again heated before they are started on their way. "At present, bananas are marketed all over the United States and Canada and in all European countries, except Russia. In Great Britain, within twenty-four hours of the arrival of a cargo of bananas from Central America, the entire shipment is safely housed in the jobbers' stores in every part of the United Kingdom." French Parking Tax Ended By Order of State Council Paris.--Town constables who dislike things modern have lost their right to collect toll from visiting automobiles. The Council of State .after years of argument, has held that the parking tax, usually collected only from "foreign" cars as they entered certain inhospitable communities, is illegal because it discriminates. AN ANALYSIS nan surely has. been i Well, as a golfer he c plenty of lie abilities."