Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 25, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba free August 11 the Farmers forum a column for the discussion of All matters of interest to the Farmers of Western to Farmers editorial comment Over Trio country at we Aro Apt to become Tho of yet if becoming a Public through iteration and re arouse Public opinion s question to the Point of of one would be almost to be regarded As a Public the and go to jail for the of a sow Thistle id Oats in Saskatchewan wild of with russian Tho South in rus and tumbling Oats and stink Weed be show themselves this a Junly to Alberta South of Gainie of All of these toll of moisture in a country of it in the semiarid of it needing every drop palpitation to take care of the 413 j snowfall will help to spread weeds Over the indeed snowfall will not Check russian As it is a common sight to see them bounding along Over the shedding seeds that sink into the ground with the melting Snow in Spring time and Start new colonies of the Success wit i which the grass Hopper plague has been fought this season carries with it a suggestion of hat cooperative team work might do la the Case of the combined forts of the provincial and Muni Cipal governments together with the cooperation of the Farmers the where the menace War a definite when a few Days delay might were mean the loss of an entire communities could be and of Uspul to definite and immediate action they wore ready and willing to follow instructions Given by Crement but weeds do not off growing wheat s and says a Felgare pretty bad this season be of the late speak to municipal officials and they nine we re 1910 in Southern Alberta 5 of Ljuslin Thistle was almost unknown Bustard the rare to Lita Hun p 7 in Fol la i full net m x sept i a before your when government and municipal officials try to secure co operation in the Des a Farmer and he shrugs Striction and eradication of weeds they Are regarded As enemies and not and far too the rules in regard to weeds arid the advice and admonition of Weed inspectors or members of the Weed commissions Are either tacitly ignored or openly disregarded yet it is conservative to state that for every Bushel of Grain lost this year through Grasshoppers three have been lost through in a few More years there will be if not of acres of other Wise Good land that will be unusable for crops owing to and these like running will be Ever invading new professor Bedford hit the Nail squarely on the head at the recent conference in he said one of the chief sources of Weed trouble was the attempt to operate a 640acre farm with an equipment Only sufficient for 160 the Farmer who is so Little alive to his own interests As to deliberately grow weeds where he might grow is not going to take any Active interest in protecting his neighbor from the results of his if a tithe of tie eloquence which has been expended at Grain growers meetings in railing against unjust dockage had been expended in urging upon the members the Economy and profit of ceasing to grow thereby providing an excuse for Dock something might have been As a matter of Learned from personal inspection of their the eloquence of speak ers against dockage has generally been in direct ratio to the weedy condition of their v these two weeds alone have Able Possession of thousands of of land in both Alberta and which has been Roien and to some extent i year the wild buckwheat has tottered acres of in Southern Manitoba Field after Field t a Little As if seeded to in reality sow Thistle in loom wild Oats Are so bad in some a strict of All the provinces that 1 getting into the Fields it is in tilt to decide whether lax or wild Ous was the crop every High wind from now until Cool and delicious the thirsty weather 1 try Cooling drink enjoy its True fruit Gin your family this surprisingly inexpensive treat Ray Only 35c tube it your grocers or drug 32 lasses to made in cauda by poorer limited open an account bring in a no matter How sign and receive your pass if by Forward remittance by Money order or registered giving us you full and perhaps the Grain Farmers need As to per they May advertising any livestock which they Sharp an Awakening As the cattlemen received last fall when the United states suddenly enforced to the letter their somewhat drastic regulations against Mange for years individual cattle who had cattle within areas where Mange was known to suffered but no amount of per work a Little higher by reason of but this is no time to be a Bull on grasses Selling at May have for for example every year at the Central experimental there is a deluge of 59 to Are an Uncertain Proposki enquiries As to the possibility of Pur wobbling about to the extent of chasing Youngjr animals of the various 7oc to per weekly with the i classes of needless say get Busy and dip their cattle at stated intervals and get rid of the it was less bother to go to the farm is unable to fill All for obvious such As being sold out of the particular class of Stock wanted not having animals of the age or sex wanted and not keeping representatives of the Breed in an Endeavor to assist our correspondents to locate the animals they wished to Purchase it has often been and sometimes too that cattle that 1ealize to a breeders right in their own Vicinity train of 800 Pound Wyoming exl had animals of the class of Stock trend always Supply is running considerably below last year at this time when every Market in the country was glutted with drouth refugees from the on this occasion that area is Long on cattle Are being held Back suasion would induce cattlemen to i to afford an Opportunity to acquire weight and put on a hard Omaha is getting strings of Dakota cans reached Chicago this week to meetings and rail against the Blanket Heliat but the Range season has Mange when not fairly opened and will probably not be in full swing until Well along they realized that their profitable i in Gep Ternberg the general disposition being to hold cattle Back owing to abundance of feed and the Prospect certain percentage of Market was about to be closed against they got Busy and went in for a cooperative plan for dip Ping and getting rid of the possibly if the government were to Amend the Grain act so that wheat carrying Over a Weed seeds would not be allowed to be taken in at any Public or the need of getting Busy and cleaning up the weeds might be brought Home to the individual in the meantime the Grain grower associations might Well Back the efforts of the provincial govern ment and municipal their system of locals would enable them to do very effective work along these we heartily endorse bed Fords suggestion that appointment of Weed inspectors should be in the hands of the provincial government rather than the municipal and that these men or As the Case May should be paid an Ade quate and where they proved efficient they should be retained for where lands Are lying vacant and covered with weeds the municipality should have the Power to plough the land and seed them say to charging the Cost against the land and later crediting the land with sales of Hay from of could be Given limited time on which to decide whether they would clean up the land and keep it cultivated or leave it for the Munici Pality to put Back into Hay and Pas roadsides can possibly Best cleaned up adopting the system Vogue in som of the municipalities in where roadsides Are seeded to Barley or wheat for a year or and then permanently seeded Down to for doing a certain amount of this work the Farmer has the first right to the Hay which will annually be gathered from the Section in front of his own by this method Miles of Roadway by the beginning of August were showing an even Green after math where Hay had been Cut and would afford no Safe har borage for Grasshoppers to Lay their leg wanted for but As they had not been advertised for Sale nor had the intending purchaser advertised his both parties missed a Chance to do business which would have benefited from the above it would seem that of a bumper Corn crop which will Rei a More extended scheme of Advertis Vive feeder elsewhere on the part of breeders who Are which has had a dry the 1920 Corn crop promises to be a record despite tight Money the either in need of or wish to dispose of Stock would be profitable for All parties this advertising Stock j need not be very a Small cattle Market has come to prices notice in the proper column of the advancing about per during the past two but As a burned infant dreads so is the average feeder afraid of cattle costing 11 and current demand is for steers costing s to on which Bankers arc prepared to make the logic of the situation being that those who put in better cattle will show Good judgment As they will be be tween now and december we Are Likely to have a grab bag Market with violent As killers Are buying from Day to local paper or in one of the farm papers which is popular in the District would serve the desired purpose quite if the number and Quality of the animals warrant a larger advertisement with an illustration would be in advertising of of particular value in disposing of Breeding Stock or animals not in fit condition for Sale on the regular the writer has in mind Ono particular class of aged pure bred Dairy bulls of Good Quality and known of their packers Are supporting the hog there is a Stock of pounds of lard to and ers beef must carry the Bur oodles salted meats for which Europe is expected to bid eventually meanwhile packers Are under the necessity of carrying the hogs Are now Selling at to largely Consumers Are paying War prices for As they the step Industry is threatened with bankruptcy Between a collapsing Wool Market and a vicious slump in live Choice lambs Are Down to against recently fat ewes Selling at to cull stuff is not Worth the expense of getting it to the native Industry has sustained a Black and the raise More sheep theorists have destroyed of the cavity in Refuge when the the whereabouts which they took crash present indications Are that like motor cars will be a liability rather than an the Wool Market is dealers hav ing decided to place the Burden of carrying charges on the Republican presiden tial is making overtures to the agrarian interests for promising reinstatement of a heavy Tariff on livestock of All meats and it will catch the cattle and sheep states which Are incensed Over the manner in which Swift and Morris have deluged this Market with Frozen Lamb and Mutton from the Southern and Boston has been made a dumping ground for British government own must have skill and patience to handle a problem of this kind As after a few there May be a revulsion Back to the old ancestral some herds have been built almost to with the exception that possibly a single defect May be noticed through the entire the owner is a True Stock breeder and wishes to have As perfect a Herd As he decides to secure a new sire and Correct this to selects an animal not Only Strong it self where the defect is shown in the but the breeder finds that the animal is from families perfect in this this sire is More certain to Correct the fault than an animal who is Strong but or of his ancestors Are this is where the real of a Pedigree is it is not so important to know simply that an animal is purebred As it is to know that the Strain in the Herd is of the very making High milking records c us j i uni Btij Ulii Day Only enough cattle to take care to be Breeding Good Many 01 these find their Way to the butchers every year when it would be much to the advantage of the As Well As to the banners disposing of them and Lucky enough to get if they were kept for further years of ser vice a Little timely advertising i would in Many cases accomplish this advertising must More or the greatest de cattle and Swine less Mand for Dairy Breeding Stock is usually Winter and Early while sheep Are More in demand in late summer and plan the advertising to meet the seasonal requirements and it can then be done most economic the Cash value of a Pedigree All animals have some sort of a Pedigree but the purebred is Worth All animals have whether a Pedigree purebred Only the purebred animals have their Pedigree registered and of Cal vju11li ii oj1 i loll guv cd w l j a de australian and at this j have Pedigree certificates a hardings election looks like a Best tip Burn disease on potato plants experimental farms a trouble which is widely distributed and very prevalent in some seasons and to which the name tip Burn has been is to be found among our potato this trouble takes the form of a gradual burning isolation compelling this practice to be universally adopted would soon clean up roadways at Small what the situation How is not so much any particular cast Iron but in realization of the danger Ana concerted action in dealing with cattle Trade getting bumped no Market for hides and other byproducts Are accumulating in packers by Union Chi m Pandora being some pro Parat ively Early stage in their growth in Many allowed to go on slowly but surely involving the whole or the plants so that they die Down a considerable time before the tubers Are fully de Tho appearance of this trouble in the Fields is often mistaken by grow ers for late there a marked distinction Between the for late blight May commence by at taking any part of the and stems water soaked in its Early stages is Damp to the while tip Burn invariably commences at the margin or tips of the leaves and has a decidedly dry appearance and touch with the exception of after it also appears much earlier in the season than late blight has Ever been and does not cause death of Tho plants so the nor of Manitoba to vice Box Ever contained is visited on livestock growers philosopher has described life under savings head office 335 Garry City branches 274 main 872 main present conditions As one darn strike Duckers bump follows bump in rapid now that the hide mar Ket has disappeared All kinds of byproducts Are accumulating in pack packers Are Saltin at is to until that Market returns to life beef is staggering under the resultant but the wonders that the Public buys it at As re Tail Cost is still on a War few prime Bullocks Are Worth the Money has it Ever been proven so destructive As late although evidence has been obtained that in seasons when it is severe and where no Effort is made to Check a considerable reduction in the yield of marketable due to the premature death of the plants from this May re investigators of this trouble Are not yet in agreement As to the the observations of some have led to the belief that a period of dry weather during the growing season causes leaves to throw off Mois Ture More rapidly than it can be furnished by the the result being the appearance of tip this be Lief to be disputed the fact that the trouble is not founding the hot regions of the West Ern where the temperature often becomes excessive and the air is especially More recent investigations Lead to the belief that this burning of the leaves probably follows the depredations of the insect known As the potato Leaf these investigations Are not yet hut enough evidence has been produced to serve As a warning to potato grow i ers to keep these insect pests thoroughly under control in an Endeavor to avoid tip we have found in our experimental work with potatoes that Bordeaux mixture to a Large control this in when it was extremely we had Sev eral plots to for the purposes of Bordeaux mixture was not these plots suffered from a severe attack of tip Burn and the plants were All killed Down by the second week in while other plots on the same and to for the control of late Bordeaux mixture was regularly and thoroughly suffered to a very plight extent the plants remain ing Green until Frost Bordeaux mixture acts As a repellent to the Leaf As Well As a Protection to the Many other cases in addition to that referred to have come to our attention bears nay evidence that re Gular and thorough spraying with this mixture will reduce to a mini mum the ravages of tip Plant value of advertising the livestock Pedigree is valuable Only when it proves some fact that is Worth while about an either favor ably or we frequently hear comments of some such nature As i do not care about the papers it is the cow i speaking that May be Good business for a but the real Stock breeder is paying More attention to Pedigree than Ever and we often hear him that is a Beautiful but i do not like her the Man who attaches the most value to a Pedigree is the one who knows the most about its True the Pedigree student May learn of a of that has had a Brilliant show ring she May be Partick Large pleasing to the Eye in form arid he studies tier Pedigree and finds that she has sprung from ancestors that were of Little value and immediately decides to let her regarding her As a on the other he May find a cow that is not a particularly Fine animal in but he studies Iier Pedigree and finds that she has for ancestors some of the very Best animals of the he decides to buy the doing so on what he knows about her he has made use of the Pedigree to select a but he has As so Many Are inclined to paid a big figure for Pedigree does not make 11 decides value by establishing the his tory of the cow backed by several generations of Good producers is much More liable to be the dam of producers than the cow whose dam of All ancestors is a this does of always hold just As we frequently find a Good individual with a poor line of ancestors so do we find poor individuals with Strong ances As a general produces but the Law of variation ii also the Pedigree student studies these Laws and draws his when a cow is purchased for a Breeding Herd two things Are kept in mind the value of the cow for what milk she will produce the effect she will have upon the future of the a Prover upon Good judge of Dairy cattle can Esti mate closely her value As a milk pro but her Worth As a Herd in must be determined chiefly in Merit is very important and should not be overlooked yet it must not be the main deciding history shows us some excellent individuals Havo v f swung t from inferior Stock and later have become wonderful foundation cowl such animals Are valuable if properly but the owner Mother California syrup of figs Childs Best laxative to the established breeders of livestock any advice on the value of advertising is super flu for in tie Large majority of cases it has been by proper advertising of High class goods that they have built up their the purpose of this article is to Call the attention love its fruity Kun of the smaller the beginners on each you must Bay in the to the possibilities in accept California syrup of figs Only look for the name Califon a on the you Are your child is having Best and most harmless physic for the tue liver and l the Holstein Herd on the farm at will soon num Ber 150 head of All with milking records worthy of at pres ent the top of the class is Ruth with an official record of pounds milk in 12 second place is held by Lassie Devol with and butter maid this year this farm has 25 acres in Sunflower that will yield about 20 the and they Are also putting in a silo a mixture of peas and in the poultry Chicks have been hatched and the daily collection of eggs has run from 600 when season at its and pres ent when receipts Are something Over Rhode Island reds and barred rocks Are the Breeds municipal Hospital i at Drumheller the mining town of has recently opened one of the finest municipal hospitals As yet erected in the the town of Drumheller purchased a Beautiful site on the red Deer outside the town and presented it to the Hospital this site includes a Little natural Bluff run Ning Down to the this will later be developed into a Pleasance for the use of the nurses and convalescing the building is an artistic one of dark red and inside is a Model of there Are two operating rooms with All the latest and in the basement is established a very elaborate xray the Hospital has 41 Beds and spacious Sun the nurses residence is on the third and they have a cosy sitting room which affords a full View of the the staff at present is 4 graduate and 5 Pupil miss the lady is a graduate of the general Hospital of and enjoys the distinction of having had charge of the first municipal Hospital in a few years ago established at Lloyd miss a linger was engaged before the Drumheller Hospital building was completed and had the satisfaction of planning Many of the details of she was Given the pleasant task of furnishing the hos Pital and has purchased everything in it from Garret to the maternity Section has received her most Especial and in planning for her nurses she has kept in mind the idea of Home and of a place that As far As banish the idea of an the provincial health has taken a deep inter est in the erection and equipment of this and it is but the fore runner of a Chain of such hospitals which it is hoped in a very few years will fully meet the needs of the people in outline in this Hospital there Are no private wards and no Ward with More than four there Are single time of rates per Day Ore whether you have a single or double the Hospital in a thoroughly democratic ins Titu the Only claim for special consideration is the need of the Northwest Millers review of United states flour Trade suit Northwestern Millers weekly review of the Trade says a break of 7 to 15 cents in Cash wheat and of 5 cents in the december option on August 23 resulted in reductions of to 40 cents in Many Mills quotations for Patent which is now Selling for less than at any time since last but even so buyers show Little inclination to make purchases and the Trade is very relatively Low Price of december wheat is keeping buyers out of the Market and a least temporar1 holding flour paces the flour output is Erra Anahy the Kansas and Oklahoma hard Winter wheat Mills reporting last week an output amounting to is per of the Ohio Valley soft win Ter wheat Mills 47 per and the Spring wheat Mills 43 per Hamiota girl fare welled a few of the Young people town and District held a social evening in Mecon Nells Hall on to bid Farewell to miss who left saturday for the first part of the evening the form of a which was followed by a Dainty lunch and Dan has had 754 Forest fires far this season there have been 754 Forest fires in British costing the government More than according to the latest fire report of acting chief conditions Are somewhat but Are still the report personal banking service aggressiveness and has an essential feature of Sterling Bank an aggressiveness is Strong enough to overcome obstacles in its path and to persevere until the service desired is an aggressiveness has been a potent Factor in the healthy growth of our own in this aggressiveness shows itself in Many ways in faster and More Complete collection returns in a speeding up of the service in the different departments of the Bank in a better 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