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weekly editors cite troubles collecting subscriptions in hard times proves tough proposition regina the longsuffering weekly newspaper editor fills a unique place in the community he serves while his paper fills a definite need in the surrounding territory his subscrib ers arc indifferent to his adversities during depression years his troubl es increase and the conducting of a country weekly requires a large measure optimism some of the difficulties surround ing the business were recounted here at the annual convention of saskatchewan weekly editors ef forts to have subscribers paid up resulted in many and varied pro posals being put forward in lieu of cash one editor recalled he had traded n years subscription for a reel of old garden hose and was quite sat isfied with the bargain further north another accepts furs and blueberries as a substitute live stock and poultry are accepted mediums for barter and several editors avowed they toured their districts in old cars equipped with chicken crates picking up several arrears in oc form of poultry hut one northern editor led the list easily with a story giving a new angle to the situation he had taken almost everything offered until one day a hard pressed farmer tendered a weekly quart of butter milk until his account was paid the editor didnt like buttermilk however and suggested butter instead bring butter to pay my sub scription said the farmer indig nantly as he stormed out of the office i should say not i can sell hutter for money flashes the present consumption of ef in canada per head is estimated at 6866 pounds 5609 in 1933 pork 6636 pounds 7458 in 1933 mut ton and iamb 628 pounds 32 in 1933 poultry 99 pounds butter 3092 pounds cheese 364 pounds eggs 2281 dozen per capita first passenger command average farm values per head of sheep swine and poultry in 1934 increased over those of 1933 cattle alone showing slightly lower values milch cows decreased in value from s31 to 29 per head and other cat tle remained unchanged at sit sheep increased from 4 to 418 swine from 899 to 9sc and poultry from 56 cents to 59 cents per head according to the latest estimates there were 55700000 sheep in north america in 1934 canada had 3400000 the united states 52200000 and newfoundland 100- 000 in 1933 the number or sheep in the world was estimated at 08s- 300000 the wools of prime interest in international trade are merino and crcssbred canada new zealand the british isles irish free state argentina uruguay chile and brazil which also grows merino and spain which also produces car pet wool are producers of cross bred wool merino is the prevalent type of wool of australia union of south africa and the united states carpet wool is turned out by soviet russia china indian french africa turkey iran syria peru bolivia mexico and ecuador when farmers begin to there were two farmers in this office recently and they were seeking information showing the average yield i of various kinds of grain in canada covering a long period of years writes the stratford beaconmerald one of the visitors happened to remark that jie was pleased his old binder had come through the 1933 cutting as he had dcubts about it our recol lection is that he said he had secured it in the year 1910 and had been running it continuously since he admitted there were several home made repairs 0 it cutting had been bad this year because so much of the grain was down and so he was glad enough the binder had no gone too much out of condition would he have to secure a new one the ans wer came quickly i would get one right away or before next season if i coidd seemy way clear to pay for it and it would help a good deal if the prices were to come down fudging from the conversation or these fanners there are many things which are needed on farms one claim was this i think i could lake a pencil and piece of your papjr and sit right down here and make out quite a list of tilings i would like to get and farm machinery and barn equipment 1 would till quite a share of it we will buy just as soon as we can and 1 know of other farmers who are in exactly the same position wo have not got the ready money now and there is not a farmer i know who wants to go in debt some of them are stuck in debt now and we all know what it means to them but tiere is no doubt about the largo amounts or machinery and equipment which is needeil on ontario farms lodav it would make a lot of business when it gets going we believe that is a correct state meat and it is interesting because it jias to do with a basic industry actually with the basic industry as far as this country is concerned when the farmer reaches the point where he has some money left over ho is going to start buying perhaps hecausc lie wants to but mainly be cause he will have to that is a very old law about the farmer being the basis of our prosperity and we are pt to forge it at times or pay little attention to it it conies to life once more when one hears farmers saying hey are going to start buying just as soon as they have the money to do tho paying and when they start buy ing the rest of us are going to find the going a great deal better i skunktail grass or wild barlov is a native perennial occurring from lake sunerior westward partieular- ly in alkaline soil where better glasses cannot thrive it is found occasionally in eastern canada this grass is a serious enemy to western stockmen being a source of injury to horses cattle and sheep through the barbed seeds and awns penetrating the soft tissue of the animals mouths and causing irrita tion and inflamed ulcers according to the dominion bur eau of statistics the production of factory cheese in canada in 1934 totalled 99346637 pounds valued at 9797398 reaching both for quantity and for value the lowest point recorded during the present century compared with 1933 there was a decrease in value of 1330- 5sc or 12 per cent while the aver age price per pound dropped from 1001 cents to 986 cents ontario and quebec together pro duced 96 per cent of the total the former with 73301029 pounds or 74 per cent and the latter with 21- 676738 pounds or 22 per cent slight increases over 1933 are re corded for new brunswick and british columbia with decreases for the other provinces no factory cheese is produced in nova scotia the number of dairy factories in operation in 1934 was 2652 com prised in that number were 1231 creameries a decrease from 1933 of five 1053 cheese factories a de crease of 73 347 combined butter and cheese factories an increase of 16 and 21 concentrated milk plants a decrease of 2 the total number of factories shows a decrease of 64 the combined total value of all products of dairy factories in 1931 was 92629905 or an increase over 1933 of 5411594 or 6 per cent more immigration urged for empire delegation asks british government aid in co ordinating schemes london a request for govern ment action to stimulate british em pire immigration was recently placed before j h thomas dominions sec retary by a delegation headed by the lord mayor of newcasueontyne the dominions secretarv told the waxing poultry j hatchery records i tie preferred method of prepara provide uon of poultry for the use of wax in the complete removal of all kiuds of feathers is that of dry roughing that is stripping the greater part ot the readily removable feathers from the carcass as fully explained by dr grace in tie bulletin on the use of wax in the plucking of 1oul- try issued by the national re search council in cooperation with tho dominion department of agricul ture most birds can be successfully wax plucked following dry roughage delegation that in his opinion all im- j but there are two exceptious 1 niibration problems should be cousid- very pinny young birds and 2 poultrymen with permanent and accurate details probh ered from the viewpoint of costs in volved if plans for cooperation with tho dominions are drafted he added the government will give all aid pos sible his visitors said the government should intervene to aid in such plans members of the delegation said tiey favored granting greater powers to organizations which would be call ed upon to fix details ot such plans creation of a coordinating commit tee with the dominions secretary as chairman was advocated by the lord mayor teaching the child fire prevention captain george k baillie new commander of tiie donaldson atlantic liner letitia who brought this scottish ship into montreal harbour recently as his first passenger command captain baillie was for fourteen years master of the donald son freighter cortona trading between glasgow the river plate and vancouver captain baillie is a highlander and served his early apprentice ship in sail he was last in montreal during the war as an officer on the casandra the produce prices united farmers cooperative co saturday were paying the following prices for produce eggs with cases returned a large 38c a medium 36c a pullets 27c b 22c c 20c butter ontario no 1 solids 24 vic no 2 23 c hay and straw no 2 timothy hay baled ton 10 to 11 no 3 timothy hay ton 8 to 9 straw wheat baled ton 7 oat straw 6 ion wholesale provisions wholesale provision dealers are quoting the following prices to the toronto retail trade pork ham 21vic shoulders 13vc butts 17c pork loins 194c picnics 14c lard pure tierces 15vc tubs 16c pails 16mc prints 16c shortening tierces 10ic tubs 1 1 4 c pails- llc prints lhjc canadian exports from quebec rise si canadian exports of ood asbestos and newsprint from tho port of quebec showed an in crease during the present season up u the end of september w09j sports totalled 5660251 feet as compared with 4456629 feet for t fvs2 pbnoil in 1534 newsprint exports nmountcd to jl167 tons this year against only 1163 tons last year the increase in asbestos exports amounted to 3- 814 tons to drive home to farmers in gen- erall the importnt place of good seed in an agricultural programme requires that a continuous persist ent sound educational programme be carried on over a period of years said professor robert summerby of macdonald college in his president ial address to the canadian seeil growers association under the track shipping point wheat lamb feeding project c7c oats 21 to 2gc barlcy 30 to increased repeat orders 35c eo f to 55c rye 35 to 37c many of the farmers of eastern canada who fed western lambs dur ing the 193435 white dominion are placing in many cases asking for double the number of lambs they fed a year ago the applications particularly from quebec and ontario reflect the abundant supplies of hay grain silage and other crops in eastern canada grain quotations following are yesterdays closing quotations on toronto grain trans actions for carlots prices on basis cif bay ports manitoba wheat no 1 nor 914c no 2 do s9c no 3 do 834c no 4 do 77c no 5 do 72 vc manitoba oals no 2 cw 39c no 3 do 34 ac extra no 1 feed 33vbc no 1 feed 31c mixed feed 32c manitoba barley no 3 cw 38c no 1 feed screenings 1350 per ton south african corn 65c ontario grain approximate prices 63 to malting barley 38 to 40c the kicker kicker i always long one large duck farm in eastern canada is planning to ship 2000 boxes of ducks to england before the close of navigation at montreal and to hold tjjem in storage subsequent sale the calf club show i hate to he for peace but the wheel that does the squeak ing is the one that gets the grease its nice to be a peaceful soul and not too hard to please but the dog thats always scratch ing is the one that has the fleas for 1 1 hate to be a kicker means nothing in a snow for tho kickers in the chorus are the ones that get the dough is results declared of the l6h canadian and the 15th on tario egg laying contests winners in the 16th annual can adian egg laying contests also the results of the 15th annual contest for ontario were announced recently by tihe poultry division experimental farm dominion department of ag riculture the winners in the lgth canadian contest were 1 g s taylor bloomfiem ontario pen no 24 single comb white leg horns 24g17 points and 2209 eggs 2 p c evans abbottsford bc pen no 25 single comb white leg horns 24402 points and 2195 eggs 1 kenneth slacer clarkson on tarlo pen no s barred plymouth hocks 23794 points and 2232 eggs for individual birds in this contest the first three winners were as fol low 1 g s taylor bloomfield ontario no 247 single comb white leghorn 3509 points and 102 eggs 2 w g giant moose creek on tario no 112 barred plymouth rock 321 points and 270 eggs 3 f c evans abbottsford bc no 250 single comb white leghorn 1112 points and 2cs eggs the winners in the fifteenth on- tarid contest for pens of birds were 1 g f kaufmann tavistock on tario no 2s barred plymouth rocks 25138 points and 2510 eggs 2 ii l zummach eganville on tario no 02 single comb white leghorns 21s1 points and 2408 eggs 3 a j urquhart greenfield on tario no 3 barred plymouth rocks 2157 points and 2203 eggs winners for individual birds in the ontario contests were 1 g ii kaufmann tavistock no 290 barred plymouth rock 3004 points and 300 eggs 2 a j urquhart greenfield no 34 barred plymouth rock 3559 points and 31s eggs 3 ii c mitchell clairinont on tario no 44 barred plymouth rock 3179 points and 274 eegs officials of the poultry division central experimental farm state that the results in this contest com pare favourably with the best of any of tho 10 that have been held in the dominion and ontario contests the child of today is the citizen of tomorrow in a comparatively short space of time our children will be the heme builders and business men and women of the nation the respon sibility will soon be their of direct ing its destiny and of bearing our torch of civilization onward we can not prepare them too well for this great purpose the progress that may be made in our and their day to ward the ultimate goal of human happiness will depend largely upon how much we teach them of what is good helpful and progressive you no doubt know about the little things which start big fires many of the causes are simple things and are not too complex or difficult for the child mind to grasp and un derstand children cannot be taught the simple fundamentals of life too young the younger they arc the more plastic their minds and the more receptive to truth to make them understand requires meeting their minds with child thought and language the failure of so many even of teachers in school to teach children successfully is because they try to teach a five year old child in fifty year old language and thought another reason for failure is because of a lack of love for the child to love a small child is instinctively to influence it the child just as in stinctively shuns those who do not love it now while they are eagerly grasp ing every fragment of knowledge which comes to them and while their ways are being moulded into life long habits commence the teaching of fire prevention teacli them the dangers of heat that is stoves close to woodwork or stove pipes through or close to wood walls or ceilings or of oils wiien mixed with cotton or other fibres and hence of furniture polishes and other things which con tain oils keep on leaching them until they understand not neces sarily why but that these and many other simple things if misused or neglected become dangerous hazards which might harm or destroy them the most opportune time for teach ing fire danger to children is in the impressionable or plastic age during the lowest grades of school after that time it becomes increasingly difficult to genuinely impress them the older they become the more stereotyped are their habits and when they reach tho absent minded age they are hopeless if you have small children you are vitally in terested for you want to know that they are safe from danger of fire so begin at once to teach them the safe way and continue until you feel that they are competent to care for themselves moulting birds where the pin feather is small and poorly developed these two classes do not give uniformly satisfactory results unless the bird is semiscalded prior to roughing semi scalding is the second method of roughing birds dry roughing be ing the first and preferred great care must he exercised in the use of the semiscald also call ed the cold or soft scald as tie skin of the bird is apt to suffer ab rasions through carelessness the bird is killed allowed to bleed for two or three minutes the large tail and wig feathers are pulled and the earcas is jhen immersed in warm water for a period of about a min- ute the water temperature should be 12s degrees f for chickens and 130 degrees f for fowl these temper atures must be maintained with care as small variations either way will render the cold scald ineffective temperature control of the water in semiscalding is the most exacting feature of the whole process of wax plucking during the minute in the water the bird should be gently agi tated to ensure penetration of the warm water to the roots of the fea thers after the one minute in the water the rough feathers are removed with j care because barking of the skin will occur very easily after roughing the bird is hung and the body heat will evaporate residual moisture in from one to two hours this hang ing period both dries and ocols the bird and thus prevents the smearing which occurs when very warm birds are waxed the operator is warned against wax coating a bird before it is thoroughly dried if moisture is present the wax cannot adhere to the feathers and pins the bulletin referred to is available free on re quest to the publicity and extension branch dominion department of agriculture ottawa it is generally recognized that the improvement in quality of chicks produced by the larger hatcheries is tho most rapid and effective means of improving tthe farm flocks and it is also weel known among poultrymen that the hatchery regulations in can ada under the live stock and live stock products act are the results of cooperative work between the dominion and provincial depart ments of agriculture on the cue hand and the poultry industry on the other in administering tbeso regulations the poultry services division of the dominion department cf agriculture has issued information as to the best method of keeping the standardized records for use by liateherymen und er the hatchery approval policy these records consist of four forms nos 1 2 3 and 4 which have been designed to help the approved hat- cheryman keep his records efficiently with tho minimum amount of labour and time the first three forms are ledger sheets which will be kept at the hatchery by the hatcheryman and which are to be checked and initial ed by the hatchery inspector period ically the fourth form no 4 is a report which the hatcheryman must fill out and mail to the hatchery in spector immediately after taking oil each hatch hese forms not only require a mini mum of labour and time in making the necessary entries but they pro vide the hatcheryman with a perma nent and very detailed and accurate record of his business transactions including such information as pur chases of eggs from individual flock owners percentage of chicks thatch ed sales of day old chicks price paid for eggs price obtained for chicks surplus chicks and their disposal and a number of other details which it is essential a hatcheryman should have readily available if he is to con duct his business with the maximum of efficiency over a period of years dressed poultry large and increasing ship ments of canadian product to british isles the weeks wit two sailors were discussing where they would live when they gave up the sea v said one when i get ashore after this next trip im going to get a nice pair of light oars and im going to sling them across my shoulder and start walking inland when i strike a place where people say what are them things youve got on your shoulder thats where im going to settle down extract from homer odyssey book ii line 121 about 800 bc go with thy shapely oar till thou comest to the land of the men who know not the sea and when a pass erby accosting thee saith that thou earnest a v on they shoulder there rest punch lon don slips that pass in night ill consider myself successful part in showing 160 calves and year- tvhen ive done all the things ive lings and in the different judginf always wanted to do bing cros- by rt jr- art of soft soap spreading st n d bo a h tie tt p1u and stales clubs at the sherbrookc winter but the guy that wields the hammer fair held recently was the largest j the guy that drives the nails assembly of its kind at a provincial let us not put any notions that arc exhibition two hundred and twelve harmful in your head calt club members from every disbut the baby trict of the province of quebec tocjk baby that keep yelling is the baby that gets fed many ifcoplo i do not like at all j o mhj irvym a uu iivt iifwc at ail contests for selecting teams to go interest me far more than the people to the royal winter fair toronto i do like sophie kerr university veterans dine the thsnd annual dinner of the university veterans leaguo will be held at tjie prince george hotel toronto on november 9th at 7 pm in the spring of 1933 the university veterans league was formed it aims to perpetuate the comradeship of the great war and to call forth again in tho present crises of the nation and the empire those qualities of leadership so superbly displayed by canadian university men in that great crisis as with the previous rcunlons a 32 commerce and finance the typhographical error is a slip pery thing and sly you can hunt till you are dizzy but it somehow will get by till the forms are off the presses it is strange how still it keeps it shrinks down into a corner and it never stirs or peeps that typographical error too small for human eyes till the ink is on the paper when it grows to mountain size the boss he stars with horror then he grabs his air and groans the copyrcader drops his head upon his hands and moans the remainder of the issue may be clean as clean can be but that typhographical error is the only thing you can sec there has been an exceptionally good market for canadian dressed poultry in tho british isles this year from january 1 to september 30 1935 a total of 2331105 pounds of chickens turkeys fowl ducks and geese have been shipped from the dominion compared with a total of s32090 pounds for the corresponding nine months ot 1931 and 4375 pounds for the similar nine months in 1933 of this years shipments 1089750 pounds were chickens 570025 pounds were turkeys 30240 fowl 47s00 pounds ducks and 2500 pounds geese the british isles import annually about 45000000 pounds of poultry and according to officials of the poul try services live stock branch do minion department of agriculture canada has never had a greater op portunity than at present t get a share of that market as a result of lie increased volume of poultry ex ported from canada prices have ad vanced to canadian producers h however canada desires t continue to hold the british market more at tention must be paid to producing milkfed a and b grades the major ity of poultry that has been exported has been selected b and c grades the two lowest commercial grades reports received by the dominion department of agriculture from great britain would indicate very clearly that better than selected b and c grades must be shipped if the market is to be held the production of milkfed birds is comparatively easy all that is required is to crate fatten them from two to three weeks before killing on a ration of equal parts ot ground oats wheat barley or buckwheat mixed with boiled po tatoes at tho rate of about onethird of tho volume of meal mixture and then mix with sour milk tho greatest demand for chickens in the british isles is for hird3 of four pounds and under when dressed always speak the truth the philosophy of thinkers is the instinct of the broad masses adolf hitier largo attendance is expected an in- vltaion is being extended to veterans who served overseas with university units and to any veterans who ever attended a university capt e a baker m c obe will race history omaha is the brilliant turf sen sation of the last few months he is the 3ycarold son of the great gallant fox and is already eclipsing the outstanding turf records of his famous sire last season omaha came in first only once out of 9 starts but this year the shoe is on the other foot or should i say hoof following very closely in gallant foxs famous footsteps omaha won the kentucky derby following that act as chairman at this years re- crcat achievement with a win in the union dinner belmont stakes be the matter what it may always speak the truth whether at your work or play always speak the truth never from this rule depart grave it deeply on your heart written tis upon your chart always speak the truth theres a charm in honesty always speak the truth there is meanness in a lie always speak the truth he is but a coward slave who a present pain to waive stoops to falsehood then be brave always speak the truth when youre wrong the folly own always speak the truth theres a triumph to be won always speak the truth he who speaks with lying tongue adds to wrong a greater wrong then with courage true and strong always speak the truth selected