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A certain tolerance is allowed un- der the Act in consideration of var- iations which naturally must occur. HOWever, of the three hundred sam- ples or more tested annually, more than (Half have shown a greater length to the pound than the label called for. In samples which did not meet the guarantee, the defi- ciencies in length per pound were in- considerable, and only in occasional cases did the deficiency exceed the limit allowed. Since 1930, the pro- portion of samples found to have shortages has not amounted to three per cent. of the total number of samples tested, the proportion in 1935 being less than half of one per cent. BROTHERTON’S SteamshipBgfigG Crate Feed Poultry and Increase Income A substantial amount of money in the aggregate is lost by farmers Special Sailings to the Homeland by Ctmdian Pacific, Cunard and Anoior-Donldson lines at Lowest Rates. Photos and Passports Secured All onquiries confidential W0 look after your wants right from your home. Phone Willowdnle GSJ Office Stop 6 Yonge St., Musing There has been little complaint as fto the quality of binder twine sold in Canada in recent years. The law requires that each ball of binder twine sold, whether Canadian made or imported, bears a label showing the number of feet per pound in the ball. These statements as to length, for example 500, 550, 600 or 650 feet to the pound, are checked by inspec- tors of the Seed Branch. Current Crop Report Cutting of grain nears completion and threshing is general. Fall wheat is an average crop of good quality. Barley and oats ripened prematureâ€" ly, resulting in light yields of only fair quality. Canning peas suffered from unfavourable weather resulting in a curtailed pack. Sweet corn is well below normal. Yields of small fruits were below average. Har- vesting of late tomatoes is under way, with expectations of below-avâ€" erage production. Early varieties were scalded by intense heat, reduc- ing the yields. Field corn and roots have benefited from recent rains but indicate below-average yields. Hay of good quality was stored under favourable conditions. Second growth has shown no progress and pastures are in poor condition, necessitating continued supplementary feeding. Peaches are above early expectaâ€" tions and marketing has commenced. Grapes are expected to be 50â€"75% of average. Late varieties of apples continue to progress. Tobacco has suffered from prolonged drought which has affected yield and qual- ity. Give Good Measure in Binder Twine PLUMBING AND TINSMITHING Thornhill, Ontario Hot Water Heating and General repairs. A. C. HENDERSON TRAVEL SERVICE Glasses that suit you is what you want. You may have your choice of our guaranteed “DE- LUKE’S‘" gold-filled rimless mounting or frame, latest shapes, plus best quality single vision Toric lenses. Stemhip Reservations to Bneat Bnitajn and the Continent. Premier service to West Indies. PASSPst ARRANGED FOR F. E. LUKE & SON 163 YONGE s'r. Mmond Hill ‘3'. B. Tncy, Agent Phone I“ Gan. National Station Opposite Simpson’s â€"â€" Take Elevator Reservutions. EXPRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS ANDINFORMATION FOR THE BUSY FARMER Rail tickets and sleeper For Day or Evening Appomtment Phone EL. 4820 SPECIAL PAGE SEX Including Examination The grape crop is considerably re- duced this year and is now estimat- ed at 60 per cent. of last year. The drought is causing serious vine mor- bality in many vineyards and the fruit is somewhat smaller than nor- mal at this time of year, particular- ly on vines located on poor mois- ture retentive soils. Blues and Whites are mainly a two-bunch crop, with Reds showing heavier. Hopper inâ€" jury has been very light. First ship- ments of early Champions, Port- lands and Fredonias are expected aâ€" bout August 25th, with commercial mixed carlots, together with Wor- dens, by September Ist. The beginning of the feeding per- iod is most important. If the birds are placed in the feeding crates have food in their crops they should miss a meal and should be fed sparingly for about two days. Immediately on being placed in feeding crates birds should be given a purgative in the ‘form of Epsom salts in the first feed, the dosage being at the rate of one pound of Epsom salts to one hundred birds. The salts should be dissolved in water and the solution used for mixing the first feed. Feeding the birds all they will eat the first day results in loss of appeâ€" tite and weight. It is better to leave the birds Withoutfeed for the first twenty-four hours after putt- ing them in the crates than to over- feed them. For the first few days the birds should be kept fairly hun- gry and never satisfied until they become used to their confined quar- ters. After that as much feed as they will take may be given two or three times a day. After every feed, however, the troughs should be cleaned, andasupply of grit should be available two or three times a week. Fruit Crop Conditions In both Central and Eastern Onâ€" tario apple production will be larger than last year, but, of course, much smaller than the years preceding 1933 when frost killing was severe and extensive. In Western Ontario moisture con- ditions have continued unfavourable and sizing of apples has been ad- versely affected in practically all districts. Scald damage was more pronounced on early and fall varie- ties than on the winter vlarieties. Temperatures have been unsatisfac- tory for good colouring, particularly in the case of early varieties. Fungus is less prevalent than- usual, but side-worm injury is becoming‘ not- iceable. The apple crop in Western and Southern Ontario is estimated at 25 per cent below last year. The sizing of peaches has been fairly good to date and pest injury has been generally negligible. Drought has increased to some ex- tent tree mortality throughout the Niagara Peninsula. With early rain- fall peaches are expected to be a fair crop of excellent quality, and only about 35 per cent. below the heavy yield in 1935, Pears have not been affected as greatly as expected by the drought and the fruit is sizing slightly be- low normal. Unless early precipi- tation is received, however, Bart, left-s and later varieties will be un- dersized. Pest injury so far is very slight. The 1936 yield of pears will approximate about 70 per cent. of last year’s crop. ' At August 15th, the apple crop for the entire Province was placed at 80 per cent. of the 1935 output, with varieties showing the follow- ing prospects, expressed as a per- aenltage of a year agoâ€"early varie- ties 83%; Wealthy 87%'; Baldwin 90%; Spy 125%; Greening 100%; Stark 108%; Snow 60%; McIntOsh‘ 63%; and other varieties 95%. ing. The crates should be put in reasonably warm quarters free from draughts and the birds should be fed morning and evening. The follow- ing ration is recommended: Equal parts of oats and wheat, with barâ€" ley or buckwheat; add potatoes at the rate of one-third of the total weight of the meal mixture; mix, with sour milk so that the mixture will pour easily. There are various fattening mix- tures that give good results, but the point is to make u5e of the feed produced and available on the farm. The best results will be obtained if the birds are put in disinfected crates 2 or 3 weeks before market- The sure and certain way to raise the grade is by the comparatively simple process of crate feeding the birds on a ration of finely-gi-Ound home grains, potatoes and sour milk. every year due to sending their poulrtry to market not properly fin- ished. Far too much of the poultry offered on both the domestic and export markets is below the Milkâ€" fed A and Milkf-ed B classes for which a premium up to as high as three cents per pound is paid over the Ibwer grades. He sighed. He didn’t blame her for not listening; now that they were out here with nothing to do but talk, neither of them wanted to listen. That bit of money he had inherited all of a suddenâ€"ziplâ€"kicked' him ‘right out of life. Funny, it had ‘seemed the greatest blessing when ’he got it, and nowâ€". It had seemed Such a swell idea to retire and buy a bungalow out here near their daughter Sallyâ€"a bungalow with ‘a Bourgainvilla vine on it just like Mrs. Pomeroy’s on" the left and the Martin Simpson's on the right; but ‘nowâ€" Well, they hadn’t figured on a lot of things. Among them, this busi- ‘ness of getting talked out. They ‘used to get one of their principal pleasures from talking everything bver, but now, because each knew ‘what the other was going to say before he heard it. they had both 'stoprped listening. And heâ€"Ex-Of- ficer Brundage thought sadly â€" had even stopped talking. They brought her along to listen. And there she was, listening, while he tried to develop a selfâ€"protective ability to go on with his own thoughts. His own thoughts! He used, he remembered, bitterly, to ‘have some; but nowâ€". How could 'he have thoughts, when he never did anything? He doubted if he could have got along at all if Jim had been in some other business. His talks with Jim, the news the boy brought him of the only world he had ever been 'closely interested in, came pretty 'close to being what he lived on, mentally. He who used to be in the thick of things, where the waves ran high, helping to administer laws 'of his country, dealing with people all day long, the stuff of life itself, now sitting at home waiting with an eagerness it made him sick to think ‘about for any news from the front his son-in-law would bring him. Gracie prosing along to dumb Mrs. ‘Pomeroy for only one reason and ‘that was because she would listen. That, he acknowledged miserably, 'was why they brought her. Mrs. ‘Pomeroy had no car, nobody else ‘much to take her to ride and no sense. He was in the heart of the jam before he realized it, and at the mo~ ment after neither he nor anybody else could proceed forward, backward ‘or sidewise. As an exhibition of what could happen on a corner ‘where there ought to have been a traffic officer and wasn't it was a complete success. The first thing he thought was how often he had said to Jim that there ought to be a. traf- fic officer on that corner. He had feelingsâ€"naturally and ‘thoughts about how an ex-traffic ofâ€" lficer should drive; some very nice ’points he was fond of making about ‘the letter of the law and the spirit; ‘some comparisons that ought to in- terest anybody of the traffic laws of New York and New Jersey (where he had indeed enforced them) and this California, Where he hadn’t done, 'or helped anybody else do, anything; ‘but Gracie wouldn’t listen. She had heard all of it many timesâ€"as wellâ€"â€" damn itâ€"as everything else he knew, thought, felt or had ever been. But not Gracie. With a start he 'realized that she had gone right on ‘into her speech about the duty of ex-tr-affic officers. Just as though ‘he and Mrs. Pomeroy hadn’t heard it a thousand times! Didn’t she re- member, or was she sunk so low that she didn’t give a darn? Good God, they weren’t old or dopey en- ‘ough for that! He looked longing-1y at the boy’s ‘uniform, pressed and clean and ready, rlaid out beside him there with just a piece of paper pinned around it, and it was no wonder that when Fate rangâ€"as it wereâ€"his telephone “number, he answered it. A traffic jam, a disgruntled Spry-minded, in- dependent-thinking ex-traffic officer, ‘a uniform coat; of just about his sizeâ€"no wonder at all. This was the high spot of his day, driving way out to a little new tailor shop in the edge of the town to get Jim’s uniform that they’d taken there to be cleaned because the fel- low charged so little. Jim was his Son-in-lawâ€"Sallie’s husbandâ€"a likely young man who was already a ser- geant on the force out here. ' That was Gracie’s cue. “Humph! ‘If an ex-traffic officerâ€"” and Gracie ‘was off. Exâ€"Traffic Officer Oscar ‘Brundage dropped back to thirty. What was the use? She‘d talk till ‘he did. “Pops,” Gracie said from the back 'se-a.t, “you’re going too fast. Limit ‘Jlong here‘s thirty miles.” “That kind of a speed limit on a tttretch like this,” said Mr. Bi'und- ‘age, “is all foolishness. Nobody pays ‘any attentionâ€"” “STOP ! GO ! ” THE LIBERAL RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO B-y Alma and Paul Elerbe It was the chief himself. Ex- Traffic Officer Brundage knew him from his pictures, but there was in addition a. sufficiently conspicuous plate on his huge, shiny, expensive car. He was a new broom, having been in office only a. month or so, and according. to Jim, doing a lot of clean sweeping. He was looking in- tensely at Brundage, and Brundage looked back at him. It wasn’t as though he hadn’t known all about him, from Jim. “Back,” he said, and his voice had that old quality in it that was like a stturt of gasoline into the listen- er‘s cylinders. “Back a foot and a half. Easy, now. That’s it. Cut your wheels as far as they’ll goâ€" hold on!â€"-before you give her the gas. Noâ€"all the way. That’s it. Now, ease her forwardâ€"three feetl Watch my hand. Whoap! That’s it. Now, you! Hey, there Pontiac, wake up! No, cut her the other way. Not so much. Step on it. Ford! Care- ful there! All right, make it snap- py! Move up. Keep coming. He eased them forward and held them back. He conducted them as an orchestra leader, with the old easy authoritative gestures as definite as words that are the gift of SOme and forever beyond the reach of others. He conducted them back into a sym- phony of motion with a proper traf- fic rhythm running right through it. And as he did so virtue flowed into him again. He was beckoning Brundage ac- ross the street, and his eye was sharp and cold. For the first time since he had plumbed the discom- forts of unlimited leisure. Oscar Brundage was glad he wasn’t on the force. He strode over to the chief of police that he and his fellows had put in office with the insoueiance of Unless you are trained, it takes some looking to find the key-cars 'in a really first-class traffic jam. Unless you know your onions you ‘are likely to begin hammering at the Wrong drivers and make things worse. Traffic Officer Pro Tem Oscar Brun- dage was trained and automotively speaking, he knew his onions. He followed his nose to the key-cars as a dog- to a covey of birds, and he spoke briefly and to the point to the only driver who could loosen things up quickly. “Oscar!” Grace said intensely. “Look! He’s ’been watching you from the beginning! He saw you put on Jim's coat, andâ€"~and everything!” “A hard man,” Jim had said. “A hell raiser and a hustler. Every- body on the force is scared to death of him. From the look of things, he’s going to fire about half of us.” After the last trace of the jam had disappeared he still stood there holding up traffic in one direction, paying it out in the other, evenly and expertly, stepping up the tem- po, shortening the waits, getting that easy swing and steady, unhurrying swift rhythm into it that keeps city driving from being a chore and makes it a pleasure. A smile no one had seen there for a long time returned to his natur- ally good humored face, and he got better looking. People spoke to him as they rolled past. Some of them thought they knew him. He showed that town (or, rather he would have showed it if only the town could have been there to watch) how much faster and more safely its traffic could roll along under the direction of a man who knew his job; and he was happier than he had been for a long time. â€"or réther it was the old way, that was the real man, come back again. “Yeah? Well, whoever he is, he saw a good job, if I do say it,” and Oscar turned carelessly to follow her glance, and froze. The next thing he thought was, why didn’t somebody up there where the key-cars were that were causing ‘all the trouble do something. The next thing he thought he thought with his muscles. It had been like that with him many times in the old days. You learn to think with your arms and legs in the busi- ness that used to be his. Ex-Traffic Officer Brundage unpinned, so to speak, the “Ex” from his title and swapped it for Jim‘s coat. He wasn‘t conscious of putting on Jim’s coat. 'He had himself into it and was gone before Gracie could say “Pops! Don’t." He was gone where he be- longedâ€"up front Where the key-cars ‘were. When at last he dropped-his hand and walked back to his wife and car, there was a new way of putâ€" ting down his feet about him, of looking around, of carrying his head “Well,” he said to Gracie and Mrs. Pomeroy, leaning on the side of his car, expansive, at ease, adjusted for the first time in many months, “I haven’t felt like this sinceâ€"” a mature, property-owning citizen'fic Officer ascar Brundage, as h who has done something he shouldn’t, walked back toward his wife, bar but what of it? the look of a wider, taller, heavie “I don‘t remember your face. and much ymmger man. What’s your name? What do you‘ mean by failing to salute? And whatll ! a that hat?” 1‘ Hullcrest are you doing in those pants and “What do you think I was doing here,” the chief said, “taking the air? What’s your son-in-law’s name? “Jim Wheaton.” “He’s a good man.” They looked at each other for a moment. “Re- port at my office tomorrow at half past eight.” “Atâ€"at your office? Why?" “For duty. We need a few like you. I’m so sick of these pussyâ€" footing mollycoddles I could cry. City Hall, Struthers,"â€"-to his chau- ffeur. And then to Brundage again withâ€"for the first time â€"- a smile faint as a water-mark: “Go on hold- ing your head up and saying what you think, and we’ll get along.” And the chief was gone. A man cannot himself add a cubit to his stature, but sometimes an- other man can do it for him. Traf- “I’ll pay for my fun," he said. “It’s worth it. I’ve been a traffic officer back East all my life, until a year ago, when I came out here. Now I’ve got so damned little to do I put on my son-in-law’s coat and broke the law by impersonating- one. After you’ve run me in you might consider putting somebody on that corner. He’s needed." Ex-Traffic Officer Brundage grin- ned comfortably straight into the grim visage. The chief’s chauffeur gasped. It would have been hard to put Ex-Officer Brundage out of humor at the moment. To ThoseWho Use The Highways At Night for either driving or walking I APPEAL to the motorists of Ontario to make night driving (and night walking) as safe and enjoyable as driving (or walking) by day. I believe it can be done -â€"by the simple expedient of applying the principles of COURTESY. Let us make it an infallible rule to dip or dim our. lights when meeting other cars. It will soon become almost automatic for us to do so. Oncoming drivers will respond. Within a very short time, this “deliber« ate gesture” of Courtesy (as it now is) will become a‘ fixed habit. Do not crowd the other Fellow when meeting or. passing. If he is inclined to be a nervous driver, he may easily misjudge distance at night. We don’t know. And it costs us nothing to give him several feet of clearance. Let us give pedestrians MORE than ample space for; walking. We have all the advantage when we are driving and the other fellow is afoot. Let us not use that advantage in a bullying way. On the other hand, when we are walking, let us show true courtesy to those who are driving. When we walk WITH traffic, we place ALL the responsibility upon the motorist. Always walk facing oncoming traffic, and wear or carry something light that the lights of oncoming cars will pick up, even if you carry only a partly opened newspaper. These are a few instances only, to demonstrate the SPIRIT of Courtesy which I am suggesting and recommending to the people of Ontario. Practise and preach the golden rule of the roadâ€" “Show to others the same courtesy that you would like to have shown to you”. PROVINCE OF MINISTER OF HIGHWAYS Sincerely yours, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3rd, 1936 Beauty Parlor RUTH RUMBLE, Prop. PRICE LIST Septic Tanks Installed Pumps Barn & Stable Equipment 74 Yonge Street Phone 92F TINSMITHING FURNACES - PLUMBING HEATING . . . . . . $1.50, $3.50 & $5.00 Manicure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251:. 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