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Page Four THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 1st, 1934 HONIED BAKED APPLES "Wash and remove core, pare the upper half of the apple and mark ■with the prongs of a fork. Place apples in a baking dish with a little boiling water. Put a teaspoon of honey and a small piece of butter in each core. Baste frequently while cooking. SPRING SEED REQUIREMENTS Farmers who desire to assure thei seed supply at minimum cost are a ready taking stock of their spring w quirements. Those who have seed of their own will be taking steps to have Tf properly cleaned and graded before the spring rush. Others, fortunate, will be well advised this fear particularly, to secure what they require as soon as possible, making sure that they are getting varieties which are most highly recommended for conditions such as theirs. PLANTING EARLY CABBAGE Early cabbage is a very good money crop. More value may be obtained £-om an acre of it than from the same area devoted to many other crops. Seed sowing should be done early in March and the plants grown in flats or thumb pots and later put in four inch pots. Hardening off before plant-ing in the field is very important. This will make the plants frost hardy. As soon as the plants show signs of growth in the open field, apply a dressing of nitrate of soda. 'Early cabbage does best on a sandy soil. Golden Acre is a good variety, which is recommended by the Division of Horticulture, Dominion Experimental Farms. Announcement has recently been made by Hon. T. L. Kennedy, Minister of A.grioulture for Ontario, that .a general Ontario Cheese Factory Patrons' Asosciation is now being formed which "promises to restore our cheese exports and largely increase domestic consumption and producer. Kennedy said that the new organization has the support of the Government, which will aid it financially in its early stages. The movement, he added, would be backed by the whole energy of the Ontario Marketing Board and the Dairy Branch of the Department. Central ofifces of the associa he said, would be established in Belleville. He declared that about 20 Ontario Counties have committed themselves to the scheme. FEEDING OPPORTUNITY According to A. A. MacMillan, Dom inion Live Stock Branch, there ie an excellent opportunity for groups of farmers in the vicinity of Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg, M Jaw, Saskatoon, Regina, Prince Albert, Calgary and Edmonton, if they could be interested in lamfo feeding. At these points a supply of feeder lambs is readily available each year. If groups of farmers undertook lamb feeding, the freight from stock yard or abattoir to the feed lot would be reduced. The making up of carloads of finished lambs would be easy, each group of farmers would benefit by the experience of neighbours. Thousands of sheep raisers, in both eastern and western Canada, could increase returns from lamlbs by resorting to careful selection at weaning time, marketing only those that are finished and of desirable weight, and putting the balance into the feed lot for a short term feeding period. FARMERS DEFRAUDED IN THE PURCHASE OF HOGS Toronto, Feb. 3.---Ernest Lampers-bach and Rasenhold Meyers were arrested charged with defrauding farmers of more than $1,000 through purchase of hogs. Police claim the m advertised in the farming districts purchase hogs at high prices, but that checks tendered in payment to the farmers proved worthless. According to police the hogs ' shipped to Toronto, where the two men are alleged to have sold the: bargain prices. John Alia of Th Ion, Ontario, claims he was defrauded of $802 on January 25th on an a ed fradulent check advanced to him in payment for hogs he sold the two accused. A Armstrong, of Orangeville, charged he was tendered a. worthless check for $127. A third farmer, F. G. bett of Orangeville, alleged he given a check for $362 which proved worthless when presented at the bank. CUT HOG COSTS While hogs have been climbing to the best price reached since 1931, Clark Young of Milllken, Ontario, has been busy establishing a world's record for cheap production. He reports a hundred pounds gain for every 281 pounds of feed used, which is eight pounds • better than the record of the Indian State College previous holder of the record. Authorities at the Ontario Agricultural College conisder one pound of pork gain for every four and one half pounds of feed decidedly above the average. Mr. Young gives his total cost per hundred pounds of -pork for the entire six months feeding period as $4.78 which represents more than $13.00 net profit per 200 pound hog at present prices. Not only have Mr. Young's hogs been fed cheaply and quickly (they were marketed at six months) but the quality according to the grading at Toronto and the bacon reports from Great Britain, where the pork was marketed, has been the best. Mr. Young figures his costs from weaning to six months as follows: 2,050 pounds of mixed home grown grain, 400 pounds of shorts, 1,650 pounds of special concentrated feed, total cost $69.57 for one lot of eight hogs. News and Information For the Busy Farmer Canadian Soyabeans Limited, of Milton, Ontario, reports to the Ontario Marketing Board that there is a definite market for at least 250,000 bushels of Ontario-grown soya beans, ex-ive of the export demand. HOW MUCH SHALL I SEED PER ACRE The following rates per acre for seeding are general recommendations based on experiments by the Field Husbandry Division of the Dominion Experimental Farms Branch: Oats 2% bushels, fall and spring wheat 1V2 bushels, barley 2 bushels, mixed grain barley 1 bushel, oats 1 bushel, peas, large size 3 bushels, peas small size 2 to 2% bushels, buckwheat 1% to iy2 bushels, corn % bushel, potatoes 18 to 20 bushels, mangles 6 to 8 lbs. turnips 3 lbs, rape 3 to 4 lbs. 1934 PLOWING MATCH 3cepting the invitation of York County plowmen, the recent convention of the Ontario Plowmen's Association decided to hold its annual match at Maryvale next October. It was stated that the first plowing match in the York district was held exactly one hundred years ago. The site will be the 550-acre farm, "Mary-vale," owned by F. P. O'Connor. Hundreds of plowmen including many with international reputations, will participate in the contests, which will include every class of tractor and team plowing. CARE OF THE HEN Natural incubation is still used extensively on the farm, for the hen can do good if she is properly looked aftei. However, if the hen is to be used for incubation, see that she gets a fair chance. Set several at a time in clean ne.ts, preferably in a separate room or colony house. See that they are free from lice, put feed and water in the pens, and give them well selected eggs. By testing out the unfertile eggs it may be possible to transfer the remainder from three hens to two and return the third to the laying quarters. When the chicks are hatched it may be that one hen can take care of them all. Keep the mother and her brood away from the res' the flock, in a sanitary coop, on clean ground. TOGACCO COMMITTEE The spread between the price paid for tobacco in the leaf and tobacco from the retailer will be examined by a sub-committee of the AgricultuT Committee of the Ontario Legislature now in session. It was pointed out by those requesting the special inquiry that, while raw tobacco prices have maintained a steady downward trend, the onlyVeduction in retail prices has been forced by last year's cut in the CLEANING AND GRADING FIBRE FLAX SEED FOR EXPOR When cleaning the filbre flax see< for export the greatest care should be taken to see that the seed is not only cleaned up to standard grade but is entirely free from noxious seeds. The elimination of broken, shrunken darkened seeds greatly increases the germination percentage and improves the appearance so that a much better price is received on the export market. ONTARIO PASTURES Over twenty-three per cent., or one acre out of every four of the improved lands in Ontario, is in pasture, says Prof. N. J. Thomas of O. A. C. The estimated total returns on pasture in the form of live stock and their products from the month of June to October is approximately $40,000,000. Of this $34,000,000 is derived from dairy produce. Results of experiments have shown that by proper management and improving the fertility of the soil, returns can be increased from 100 to 200 per cent, on a very large proportions of pastures. ABORTION IN CATTLE It is possible that some farmers are having troulble about this season with cases of bovine infectious abortion in their herds. If so they should write to the Health of Animals Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, for Buletin No. 150, N.S., on this subject, which gives the latest information regarding the disease and offers the assistance of the Department in its eradication. All Dominion Experimental Farm herds are now practically free of this dread disease and allied troubles as a result of the application of the blood test and isolation or elimination of reactors as recommended in this bulletin. HOG'PRODUCERS ORGANIZE Representative swiine raisers from all Ontario counties west of Lennox and Addington met in Toronto recently and undertook the formation of an Ontario Swine Producers' Association. Official! state that the organization is purely for the benefit of hog raisers themselves and the organization will be entirely in the hands of the farmers. Aims of the association are to encourage the production of high quality market hogs, to endeavor to stabilize production and marketing throughout the year and over periods of years and to promote better marketing conditions. Mr.W. P. Watson, Livestock Branch, has been loaned to the association to do organization work. It is planned to hold meetings in each hog producing county for the purpose of forming local associations. this sturdy little stove. It meets practically every cooking need in kitchens, cottages, home laundries, dairies; in fact, any place where clean, quick cooking heat is required. Carry and use it anywhere. It makes and burns its own gas from untreated motor fuel. Lights instantly with a clean, blue-gas cooking flame. Available in Maroon Brown baked enamel or Soft Green porcelain finish. Priced surprisingly low. In January 1934, 500 commercial vessels passed through the Panama Canal, paying $2,160,-679.83 in tolls, according to an announcement by the United States War Department. In the same month of 1933, 415 commercial vessels passed through the Canal, paying $1,762,808.56 in tolls. Canadian canals are operated by the government free of toll, and the cost of operation Is borne by the Canadian Taxpayer. Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, grandson of William Lyon Mackenzie, first mayor of Toronto, will be the speaker at the Centennial dinner to be given by the William Lyon Mackenzie Chapter, I.O.D.E., at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto, March 5. He will be introduced by ex-Mayor Thomas L. Church and a number of former mayors of Toronto will be present at the function. Bringing back a United States speed skating title, Miss Edith Kingsmill was greeted by a large crowd of sport enthusiasts at the Canadian Pacific railway station at Winnipeg recently on her return from Chicago where she had won the 440 yard speed skating race for women, shattering the American record. Miss Dorothy Standish, of Banff, is now "Queen Dorothy" of the 1935 Banff Winter Carnival. She was escorted down the aisle at the ballroom where the function took place, knelt at the feet of the late Queen, Miss Violet Davis, of Edmonton, and was crowned by her. Queen Dorothy thanked her subjects and expressed the hope she would make as good a queen as her predecessor on the throne. Something new in ski-ing has been evolved in the Laurentians, skiers' paradise to the north of Montreal. This is the "Flying Kilometre" claimed to be the first time ever tried out on the American continent. Entrants wore crash helmets and ran the race down a specially prepared 35 degree slope. A speed of 53 miles an hour was recorded. "The dogs like altitude," was the comment of Tom Wheeler, well-known eastern Canada musher, as his team of huskies swept over Montreal in a six-passenger plane heading for the Laconia, New Hampshire, Dog Derby as a test for the Quebec international Dog Derby in which he is also engaged. No less warm for being a trifle overdue, 600 Winnipeg sportsmen tendered a banquet and presenta-us to the Winnipeg Rugby team the Royal Alexandra Hotel in lat city recently. They were in ie play-offs for the Dominion Rugby championship last Fall. It may look like a long winter this time of year, but A. D. Bain, manager of Canadian Pacific mountain hotels and bungalow camps in the Rockies states they will be opened earlier this year on account of large conventions scheduled for the latter part of June. June 22 was stated by Mr. Bain to be the date when they would be opened. Mr. and Mrs Alexander Cochrane Forbes honeymooned at the Seigniory Club, Quebec, after their marriage at Ottawa recently. Mrs. Forbes was Irene Helen Robbins, daughter of Hon. Warren D. Robbins, United States Minister to Canada, and a relative of President Roosevelt Fish foods are especially valuable in the diet because of their content of Vitamin D., which is so effective in preventing such ills as rickets. Honolulu! 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