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ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS

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RS REUNION

' “Byery succeeding Pioneers’ Re-
union seems to be just a little
better, fa little bigger and a little
_ more enjoyable, if that could be,
than the last one,” stated E. A.
Barrett in mentioning to THENEWS
that Tom DeLair will be caller
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and floor manager at the M-S-A
Pioneers’ Reunion and Dance in
Whatcom Road Hall on Friday,
at ‘May 16. “There are certain fea-
tures about the reunion,” Mr. Bar-
ett added, “which help to main-

WY. MILK PRODUCERS

~~ SHARE IN RICH POOL
cee "Milk producers serving the me-
___ tropolitan. New York market re-
cently shared the second largest
a pool ever equalized under the.
_‘Federal-State marketing order.
Reporting a total of $9,984,359.44
; pane) tb be distributed to farmers for
March milky N. J. Cladakis, mar-
‘keting administrator, said the
money represented 512,018,433 lbs.
of milk from 59,597 farms in six
states. The highest pool was $10,-
101,777.60 in June, 1940. The
March pool is based on a value of
$1.95 per hundredweight (47 qts.).

All bacteria in the soil are not
‘beneficial. While some produce
substances that assist in control-
ling plant dieseases, others are the

direct cause of disease.

J. B. Dennis

Auctioneer

CHILLIWACK, B.O.
Telephone 5661

Sales at the Dennis Auction
Barn Saturdays at 12 noon

and 7:30 p.m,
Poultry and Hogs, 12 noon.
Cattle, not before 1 o’clock,

Farm Dispersals Conducted
anywhere

Agricultural News and Notes of Interest

DEVELOPING EARLY MATURING HOGS

ion.

Photo Courtesy B.C. Electric Agricultural Di

An effort to develop early-maturing ‘hogs of good quality is being made by
the Provincial Government Colony Farm at Hssondale, B.C., where a
swine-recording system has been in practice since 1937. This program forms
the basis of the farm’s selective breeding schedule which to date has proven
a tremendoustsuccess. Frank Clark, M.S.A., assistant superintendent of the
farm, under whose supervision the plan is being carried out, uses a large
metal punch which pierces the piglet’s ear and leaves its tattoo mark of
serial numbers. Piglets are tattooed before they are eight weeks old as
Yequired by the Canadian Livestock records, The tattoos tell the piglet’s
sire and dam, its date of birth and from this information the age of the animal
is able to be known when it is butchered and the best breeding combinations
for early maturity with necessary market weights. Colony Farm supplies
Essondale mental hospital with parece: pork, mill and most of its green
vegetables for the institution’s daily total of 12,000 meals. Blectric power
is used to a major extent throughout the farm’s many phases, helping to
accomplish this tremendous job.

FSM-10

for $95. Young stock ranged from
$18 to $38, beef cows $23 to $78,
bulls from $30 to $80 and calves
from $1.25 to $14.50. Other prices
were: poultry, 60c to 70c; weaners,
$3.60 to $6; butcher hogs from
$10.75 to $14.25; sows $18 to $28;
sow and litter of seven pigs, $36;
horses, $18 to $50.

JERSEY BRINGS $95
AT DENNIS AUCTION

A herd of Holsteins fetched an
average price of $75 while top
cow at the Dennis Auction Mart
on Saturday was a 5-year-old Jer-
sey fresh one week which sold

Look at the value
that’s packed into
the 1941 Ford! It’s the lowest priced
car you can buy in Canada. It’s the
longest inside. It has the greatest total
seating width. You get extra knee-room
‘ and front head-room.
Larger windshield. Longer spring-base!

Ford riding comfort this year is a
revelation. On the new “slow-motion

‘Wider doors!

| Plus the
POWER AND SMOOTHNESS
ot a V-E Engine

Only Ford at its price offers you
the power and smoothness of a V-8
engine. Hight cylinders for smoothness!
Small cylinders for economy! Extremely
low gas and oil consumption as proved
in one official contest after another!
Long life and reliability.

Ford this year is built with greater
strength than ever. Frame is twice
as rigid. The whole car has a heavier,

springs,” with improved shock ab-
sorbers and new ride stabilizer, you
simply glide over the bumps. There’s
a softness and smoothness new to cars
at this price.

“Big-car” feel. See a Ford dealer.
$35 a month with reasonable down
payment buys any Ford V-8

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ABBOTSFORD MOTORS LTD.

FORD SALES AND SERVICE

Telephone 62

Abbotsford

| 500 POULTS AT

FARRANT FARM
Earle Farrant

Farrant Turkey
Ware road near Abbotsford, is
filling orders for baby turkeys
from Vancouver Island, all parts
of the Mainland and eastward in
Alberta. He has about 500 of the
poults at the farm this week and
reports excellent hatches this sea-
son. With some 1000 eggs to turn
daily, Earle is kept pretty busy
but results from the attention he
gives his incubators is found in
hatching records running as high
as 88 per tent this year.

AID TO GROWING
ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS
IN M-S-A GARDENS

The honeysuckle, lilac, and mock
orange in their improved varieties
are still the most popular shrubs
for general use in Canada, but they
are no longer all-sufficient for
Canadian gardens of the present
day. At the same time, the plan-
ning, planting, or perfecting of a
garden calls for expert knowledge.
The use of shrubs to give the best
artistic effect, the kind of shrubs
to select, their propagation and
care both before and after plant-
ing are only a few of the principal
factors to be considered. Consider-
able assistance in these and other
problems connected with ornamen-
tal shrubs and woody climbers
most commonly used for landscape
purposes throughout Canada will
be found in the well illustrated
bulletin No. 100 on this subject. It
can be obtained from the Publicity
and Extension Division, Dominion
Department of Agriculture, Ottawa.

ELECTRIC BROODERS,
WATER HEATERS, PUMPS -
ADDED TO M-S-A FARMS

The ever-growing popularity of
electric forced-draft brooders ia
sweeping the Marshall road, Ab-
botsford, according to Farm Ser-
vice News. Messrs. C. Schroeder,
H. Loewen, H. Heppner, B, Doerk-
sen and J. H. Doerksen have all
recently added these convenient
“chick helpers.” Mr. Friesen, on
Huntingdon road, has also instal-
led a new model brooder.

E. Aho and A. Matthews of
Matsqui are enjoying the constant
use of their electric brooders, The
chicks appear to thrive exceeding-
ly well and feather out at a very
early age.

Hot, steaming water, always on
tap, is essential for the modern
farm dairy. Mel Fadden, Straiten
road, and H, Quadling of Sumas
Pumps have both added these con-
veniences to their dairies.

G. A. Paull and Sons Ltd., of
Matsqui recently changed over
their pumping unit to a new-style
plunger system that is giving ex-
cellent service.

operating the

Farm on the

WATER FOR RABBITS

In the feeding of rabbits, the
necessity of liberally supplying the
does with water cannot be too
greatly emphasized, as neglect of
this precaution has caused the loss
on many a good litter, says the
bulletin"The Feeding of Rabbits”
which can be obtained from Pub-
licity and Extension Division, Do-
minion Department of Agricul-
ture, Ottawa.

FARM {TEMS

In the production of baby chicks,
the incubator has outstripped the
setting hen in efficiency, labour
economy, and general care.

The present-day system of hand-
ling milk and dairy products is al-
most entirely the result of knowl-

edge based on research in bac-
teriology.
The soil chemist and the field

crop specialist are able to deter-
mine the amount and kind of plant
food needed for various crops on
various soils and to recommend
fertilizers that will produce profit-
able crops.

The total sales of fruit nursery
stock reported in Canada for the
year ended May 31, 1940, had a
wholesale value of $250,561, apple
trees numbering 392,158 and valued
at $101,855 comprising the largest
single item.

Caragana had the largest sales
in Canada among ornamental
shrubs for outdoor planting, ac-
cording to the annual statistics of
nursery stock, 1940.

Mosaic, leaf curl, leaf spot, yel-
low blotch curl, bluestem or ver-
ticillium wilt, powdery mildew,
spur blight, cane blight, anthrac-
nose, crown gall, orange rust, and
late rust are some of the diseases
affecting raspberry bushes.

There are 22 railway points in
the Dominion at which, according
to regulations, all empty stock
cars arriving or passing through
are cleansed and disinfected under
the supervision of the Health of
Animals Division, Dominion De-

partment of Agriculture,

Disking’s DOUBLE EASY
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POWER-CONTROL
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save time, fuel and muscle at every turn. 9
No stopping, slowing, or backing;*‘you just
pull the trip rope and the gangs are angled or
straightened by power from their own rota-
tion. Come in now and see this popular power-centrolled
harrow. You'll like the way it provides positive control of
penetration by both gangs, the way rear blades are kept cut-
ting between those ahead, and several other valuable features,

Westminster Farm Equipment Ltd.

Farm Machineny Distributors
R.R. 1, New Westminster Pacific Highway at Toll Gate

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PETE MARTIN

i:DAIRYMEN

PEAS — OATS — VETCHES

Be sure to Sow a mixture of these grains to supplement
your Pasture and provide Summer Silage.

B & K CLOVER AND GRASS SEED
We Specialize in Hay and Pasture mixtures for all types
of B. C. Soils.
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SWEET TABLE CORN — SILAGE CORN
Table Corn makes a splendid cash crop on many farms
—Silage Corn yields a heavy crop of succulent Dairy
roughage.
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Write for your copy of the B & K Monthly Letter.

THE BRACKMAN-KER MILLING COMPANY LIMITED
Gordon Peardon Local Manager

Phone 52 Abbotsford
BED eReReRa ee

PROTECT YOURSELF }
BY PURCHASING d
The Chicks which ;

Give Results

Write, Telephone or Call for your copy of our
“BANNER YEAR” BOOK

It contains many new and added features that will help
you in the production of more eggs.

Rump & Sendall

TELEPHONE 199 LANGLEY PRAIRIE

HOTKAPS
PROTECT YOUR YOUNG PLANTS

—AN INDIVIDUAL HOTHOUSE FOR EVERY

PLANT—PROTECTS FROM RAIN, BIRDS, INSECTS.
WRITE FOR INFORMATION.

Tie Your Plants With TWIST-EMS

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