Leominster News - August 1920
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Leominster News 6th August 1920 - Page 6
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| Date | 06/08/1920 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Leominster News |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 6th August 1920 |
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44441 . 12 6 LUDLOW . SIR BEVILLE STANIER , BART . , M.P. , RETIRING . Chairman of the Association , presiding . business was THE LEOMINSTER NEWS AUGUST 6 , 1920 : EFFECT OF DECONTROL ON APPLE PRICES Asked by a Press representative what would On Friday a special meeting of the Ludlow be the effect of a temporary decontrol of Division of Shropshire Conservative and Union - apples a Covent Garden merchant replied that ist Association Central Council was held in the various kinds of apples would get ade- quate prices . " Some will doubtless go down , the Council Chamber , Mr. A. Rowland Clegg , he said , others will go up . Under present to consider the representation conditions we are selling the best apple ob- of the Division in Parliament at the next be a levelling down of prices . tainable . When control comes off , there will Election , Sir Beville Stanier , who was re- turned for the Ludlow Division of Shropshire at the last Election , having intimated to the Chairman of the Unionist Association for the Division that he would not be able to again offer himself for re - election . Lord Windsory eldest son of the Earl of Plymouth , who owns estates in the Division , was invited to meet the members of the Council . The meeting was very largely attended by representatives from every part of the Division . A vote of regret that Sir Beville Stanier could not continue and thanking him for his past services was Lord Windsor made an excellent passed . speech , expressing his views on the political situation at the moment . He was a Unionist before everything , but was a supporter of the present Coalition Government . Lord Wind- sor's speech met with the greatest approval and he was unanimously and enthusiastically adopted as the prospective Unionist Candidate for the next Election . DEATH OF MR . C. J. COBBIN , PARISH CLERK " Contrary to the general opinion of those outside the trade we do not object to control provided it is graded . For instance , when be rod . for all grades . The price to be equit control is reimposed , the price per pound will able should be is . for dessert and 7d . or 8d . for cooking apples . If the Ministry consulted We believe that control is the best method of us they would find us always willing to help : solving the apple question . All kinds of fruits from Southern France are plentiful . ROYAL SHOW SURPRISE DEFICIT . HEAVY OUTLAY ON SHOW YARD . The estimated financial result of the recent Darlington show of the Royal Agricultural Society will be received by the members and general public , particularly in the show area , with unfeigned surprise . Darlington and district supported the show so generouly , in spite of wet weather , that On Sunday morning the death took place of the total revenue at the gates and stands was Mr. Charles John Cobbin , of Mill Street , Ves - only a few pounds below the unprecedented try Clerk and Verger at the parish church of Cardiff figures of 1919 , which yielded a profit St. Lawrence . Deceased had held the posi- of £ 12,000 . It was known that the cost of tion of Clerk and Verger for a number of materials and labour had increased , but the years and was attending to his duties on Wed- fact that a direct revenue of more than 30,000 nesday , the 28th , when he was taken ill in from the gates and stands should be sufficient the church and had to be carried home . He to meet the cost of the showground is hard to passed away on Sunday morning about 8 credit . The official statement , however , is de- o'clock . Deceased was Secretary of the Court finite and irrefutable . The accounts presented Whitcliffe Ancient Order of Foresters . He by Mr. Adeane on Wednesday showed charges leaves a widow and young family . amounting to £ 35,000 for the erection of the showground , against £ 18 , coo at Cardiff in 1919 . The funeral took place on Tuesday , after noon at the Corve Street Cemetery . amid many expressions of regret . The deceased had been . Parish Clerk for over 17 years , Shutters , were -up at shop windows and blinds were drawn in respect for deceased . The cortege left the late residence of deceased in Mill Street in the following order : the funeral car contain- ing the coffin , mourning coach containing Mrs. Cobbin ( widow ) , Miss May Cobbin ( daughter ) , Mrs. George ( mother - in - law ) , Mrs. Connell . Then followed Mr. Charles Cobbin , Mr. Austen Cobbin ( sons ) , Mr. Arthur George ( brother - in - law ) , Mr. Connell . Mr. George Rich , Mr. Butcher , Messrs . G. Partridge , H. Steele , T. Wyile , E. Saunders , J. Jones . T. Parsonage , W. Nash , R. G. Brookes , J. Thomas , T. Watkins . W. Robinson , J. Price , Members of Court Whitcliffe A.O.F. , Mr. T. Wainwright . The coffin was conveyed to the church . In the church were Mr. J. C. Gallo- way ( Church Warden ) , Mr. E. Venables , Mr. S. H. Valentine , Mr. , M. Woodhouse , Mrs. G. Woodhouse , Miss Lloyd . Miss Brereton , etc. The cortege was met at the church doors by the Rev. A. E. Lloyd Kenyon ( Rector ) and the Rev. A. G. Hale . The Psalm was read by the Rev. G. A. Hale . The Lesson was read by the Rev. A. E. Lloyd Kenyon . At the onclusion of the service in the church the coffin was placed on the funeral car and con- The service at the veyed to the Cemetery . grave was conducted by the Rector . coffin was of plain oak with brass fittings , the inscription being " Charles John Cobbin , died August 1st , 1920. Aged 56 years . " TENBURY FARMERS ' UNION . The EMPLOYMENT OF SCHOOLCHILDREN . FORTHCOMING INCREASE IN AGRICULTURAL WAGES . tary ) . MILK AND DISEASE . FARMERS OPPOSE GOVERNMENT BILL . At this week's meeting of the council of the Bath and West Society , held under the chairmanship of the president , Lord Bledisloe a resolution was moved by Lord Strachie , and seconded by Lord Somerville , declaring that the Milk and Dairies Bill was unnecessary seeing that a far - reaching and valuable Milk and Dairies Bill was passed in 1015 but was not put into operation owing to the war . " themselves half - hearted in their approval of Lord Strachie said that the Government were the Bill , which , in so far as it differed from the Bill of 1915 , was costly , and put too much power in the hands of the Ministry of Health , who would be able to engage in every branch of the milk trade short of owning a dairy farm . Lord Bledisloe maintained that all necessary DIABOLO CREAM SEPARATORS For Particulars Write Have secured the highest awards in Europe Clean skimming , Reliable Easy to Manipulate .. Guaranteed for Ten Years Sent on One Month's Free Trial .. RJ . Fullwood & Bland , 31,35 . Bevenden St. Haxton , London , N1 . TOBACCO CROWN IN ENGLAND . Many people will be interested to know that the question of tobacco - growing in Eng- land has been thoroughly examine 1 , and that perimental stage . A PESSIMISTIC CROP REPORTS . AGRICULTURISTS ' ANXIETY FOR BETTER WEATHER . THE TALE OF BRICKS . SAYINGS OF THE DAY . " Work ought to rank as one one of the highest forms of national service . This truth is realised by those in authority in Soviet Russia . There labour without idling , and work without stint , are extorted , under the severest penalty , shortness of supply . During the war we had One of the chief causes of high prices is BY GEORGE W. GOUGH , THE WELL - KNOWN ECONOMIC WRITER . from every citizen ; but the results in Russia turn our energies to defeating a powerful provide a tragic lesson of the futility of labour without the co - operation and the as kind of productive work and went into the enemy . Millions of men ceased to do any fighting services . Hundreds of thousands more who stayed at home devoted themselves exclusively to the manufacture of all kinds of sociation with it of the trained organiser and man of business . " - SIR LYNDEN expert MACASSEY , K.B.E. , K.C. " It is clear that no part of this great body war materials which , however urgently they were needed , were , from the economic point ( Europe ) , which is geographically one , can of view , produced only to be destroyed . Under completely regain its normal health as long these circumstances there was bound to come paralysed . " MONS . E. BRIAT ( Vice - President , period when supply would fall short of de- mand , thus leading to higher and ever higher French Higher Council of Labour ) . prices . as any one of its members remains starved or MORE . " This is a commonplace , but the unfortunate Other This was It was not asserted that Burgess had got the men " Efficiency is not energy . It is rather less energy better directed . It prevents the waste thing is that it is precisely the commonplaces of energy - HERBERT N. CASSON , " Efficiency that matter most and are most frequently for- gotten . No apology is needed therefore for Magazine . " drawing attention to Dr. Addison's Tale of " One of the great sources of Britain's Bricks . It is not an extract from the Arabian wealth has been the inventive genius of her Nights , though it rivals in interest any of the people , but what would our Watts and fancies recorded in that famous collection of Stephensons and Arkwrights have been to us Eastern fairy tales . It is an account , in plain if the human hand could not have carried out English prose , of what happened only the the brain's device ? " MRS . ALICE J. WHIT- other day in England . Viscount Curzon asked the Minister of Health whether is was correct that a number " First make your employees and they will of bricklayers engaged on a housing scheme at make the goods that is the policy of the Hayes left work as a protest against the it may talagedeport by Mr. A. V. fering recently is having a very serious effect HERBERT N. CASSON , " Efficiency Magazine . " was so . The fa The weather from which we have been suf- most efficient and progressive managers . " alleged number of bricks being laid by some Dr. Addison replied that it Campbell of the Rothamsted Laboratory , who on crops of all kinds , and only a prolonged The facts are that a gang of brick- visited the tobacco - growing centres of Ire - spell of fine days , with plenty of sunshine , is " Science has shewn what it can do by way layers under a foreman named Burgess were land , Holland , Belgium , Germany , France , likely to avert disaster . of destruction ; we have only to turn its laying 700 bricks per man per day . and the United States , confirmed the opinion " The weather is threatening all the might to creative uses in order to work a gangs , under other foremen , were only laying of the Development Commissiones that the crops , " said an official of the Ministry of Ag - like , but more beneficient , miracle of achieve- 350. The latter thereupon sent a deputation question is not whether saleable obacco can riculture , in course of conversation with a ment . " - Miss A. MAUDE ROYDEN , the famous to the contractor which stated that unless be grown here , but whether it can be grown Press Association representative . " Thous preacher . Burgess was dismissed the men would leave . at a profit . The report showed that economic ands of tons of late hay have been spoiled , No accusation of any kind was levelled against cultivation must be on a considerable scale to and now the corn crops are threatened . And , " It has been well and wittily said that the Burgess . The men under him were doing give satisfactory returns . As a result of in- in view of the fact that all the long strawed business man who does not advertise is like twice as much work as the others . vestigation and experiment trustworthy data corn , or at any rate most of it , is very badly a lad who is throwing kisses to his girl in the head and front of his offending , so they are now to hand regarding the most suitable laid , even if we get a spell of fine weather the dark . He may know what he is doing , wanted him to be turned off , as one unfit for districts for tobacco growing . The best harvesting will be a very slow and costly but nobody else does . " - HERBERT N. CASSON , their company , a mere malefactor . methods of cultivation and curing are also process , because in place of the self - binder " Efficiency Magazine . " fully ascertained . Experiments , carried out machine farmers will be compelled to run Those who pride themselves on their man per day by harrying them , or pressing of his gang to do their tale of 700 bricks per by the British Tobacco Growers ' Society in scythe in many places . It is particularly un- many parts of England have proved that the fortunate from the farmers point of view , be - internationalist sympathies would do well them to work unduly . The bricklayer who crop can be grown successfully on poor soils cause the corn crops , are very promising in- to ponder on the pernicious effects of ca cannot lay 700 bricks a day without sweating not suitable for wheat , and that this plant deed . " RT . HON . G. N. BARNES , M.P. himself , oughtn't to be a bricklayer . He is canny . can take its place in the ordinary rotation of " The potato crop is threatened , because far better fitted for a life of repose . So the the farm . At the Ministry's Experimental this is just the very weather to induce blight . Farm at Methwold , where the seemingly Every grower of potatoes is strongly recom- beginnings , achieved an immense fortune . charging Burgess . " We admire the man who has , from small contractor refused to entertain he idea of dis- hopeless breck land of Norfolk has been mended by the Ministry of Agriculture to We might as well point to the biggest savage ried out their threat and left the job . The men thereupon car- Not all brought back to profitable cultivation , take advantage of the first fine day to spray with pride as a proof that a man can have of them , however . Burgess's gang remained tobacco - growing promises well . now in cultivation were first raised under ture . If this is done in fine weather , well enough ! It is the men who , having more The plants his potatoes with Bordeaux or Burgundy mix- all the wives he wants if he has muscle at work with Burgess . The country is short of commodities . Pro- and good , but if it should not be possible to brains than most , refuse to use their advan- duction is down on all hands . Mr. McKenna , do this there is every indication of a very bad tage to get more than they need , but turn who has exceptional sources of knowledge at blight setting in . them to the service of the community , that his command , told us the other day that pro- The late fruit crops are bad , and apples we should judge . " - Miss A. MAUDE ROYDEN , duction in this country was down to 75 per and plums are very scarce and expensive . the famous preacher . cent . of its pre - war level . One of the highest Altogether the outlook is very bad all round . authorities in England told me the other day Figures that are available at the Meteorogi- that this estimate was much too favourable . cal Office for the first three weeks of July in- He said that it was down to 60 per cent . Now dicate that the weather we have been ex- there is no single commodity in which produc- The dry method of bottling pluins , suitable periencing is really only what may be ex- tion is down so much as in the production of houses . also for gooseberries , has the abvantage of pected at this time of the year , and the From the outbreak of war till the being simple and profitable ; in fact the product figures in connection with temperature and Armistice no houses were built , and the conse- SO what superior in flavour rainfall closely approximate to the average " Employers must realise , the best quen of this method is that at the present moment the to that obtained by others commonly employed . as shown by the tables that have been pre- employers do , that increased production is country wants at least 800,000 new houses in not for their sole benefit . " - SIR LYNDEN order to meet its needs . For the preliminaries , the ordinar rules are pared from 1881 to 1915 . Try to imagine what followed ; the fruit must be carefully selected K.C. MACASSEY , K.B.E. , this means . There are not 800,000 houses in and should be slightly unripe as this will keep Glasgow , Liverpool , Manchester , Leeds and If all the men preservation . The plums should be stoned and large juicy specimens may be cut in half wat all dirty should be thoroughly cleansed in with silver or plated knife . Any fruit that runing water . It is then carefully packed dry into bottles and jars and heated in an oven until it begins to sink . At this point the bottles are removed from the over and filled up to the neck with boiling water , the cover or seal being immediately attached . Any of the ordinary forms of cover , parch nent paper or gummed on , will answer , provided the bottles are afterwards kept in a cool , dry place . sealing or bottle wax and the old method of Corks may also be used if they are sealed with Big piece of bladder is fairly satisfactory Bladder covers should be cut so as to leave attention to this simple method of fruit bott- fair - sized margin below the string . Careful ling will save much garden and orchard pro- duce from a waste that neither the individual nor the nation can afford to incur . glass , and then set out on thirty six acres . Taking all considerations together a very good case can be made out for tobacco - grow ing on English soil . THE DRY METHOD OF BOTTLING PLUMS . legislation was already in existence . This Bill introduced a system copied from America , but in that country the system had already been found unworkable in many districts , notably New York . It had been found that a plentiful supply of milk was a greater foe to disease than a small reduction in the number of bacteria per cubic centimetre the skin from breaking during the procesis of The resolution was ananimously agreed to . It was resolved to hold the Bristol show next year from Tuesday , May 31 , to Saturday , June 4. An invitation to hold the 1922 bition at Plymouth was accepted . POULTRY NOTES . THE CHARACTER OF EGGS . Poultry - keepers should be careful when breeding for increased numbers of eggs not to overlook the almost equally important question of size . The standard of weight set up by the consuming public for a first- grade egg Therefore no more nor 20z . A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Tenbury Farmers Union was held at the Swan Hotel on Tuesday , Mr. H. T. Nott presiding . There were also present Major F. E. Prescott , Mr. E. P. Froggatt , and Mr. B. H. Giles ( Secre- less is needed , and the aim of the breeder should be to build up a strain producing the The Chairman stated that the Executive Com- maximum number of eggs coming within that mittee of the Worcestershire County Council category . and number of eggs are inh had forwarded a circular letter with regard to Both size and number of eggs are inherited the employment of schoolchildren and asking characters , and are capable of development for observations on the subject . selective breeding , and poultry - keepers , in carrying out their operations , should have After discussion the Chairman mentioned that ing loss in the other . a meeting of the County Executive , would be due regard for both qualities , carefully avoid- held at an early date and he would bring up ing excess in each direction , as any extreme the question of the position as regards the either way results invariably in a correspond- children who assisted fruit and hop - pickers in the season . The new proposals would virtually prohibit children from districts other than local districts assisting in fruit and hop picking . AGRICULTURAL WAGES . • It has been proved abundantly in the numerous laying tests held in this and other countries that size , like prolificacy , is more a question of strain than of breed , all breeds ANOTHER FIVE YEARS OF HOP CONTROL . " No one country can isolate itself or sel- fishly provide itself with its own necessities . Trade is a world affair , and production of food and other things a matter of common activity . RT . HON . J. R. CLYNES , M.P. as " If there are workmen who believe in res- Birmingham put together . tricted output and in any way practise it , and women who have got married since the they are committing an offence in ignorance , war began were alive to - day , had one child to and that offence is committed against their each couple on an average ,, and lived in the same place , they would make a town nearly own class . " - RT . HON . J. R. CLYNES , M.P. as big as greater London . That is the prob The Bill introduced by Mr. McCurdy for tem- porarily continuing the office of Food Control- " We may say of trade between Britain lem we have to face , and in order to help us ler came before the Standing Committee of the House of Commons , presided over by Sir and Russia that the God of nature has made face it cheerfully and manfully the bricklayers these lands such that they should and could of Hayes propose to lay one brick a day where Samuel Roberts , on Thursday , any It is important to note that these men were working on time rates . Employers would no doubt be willing for them to work piece - rates , but their Union refuses to allow them . not want bricklayers to be sweated . I want On Clause 4 , which continues the powers of benefit one another greatly , but that the they could lay two without stretching them- the Food Controller in relation to hops , and minds of men who inhabit them have created selves . stipulates than an Order under , the Act pro- artificial obstacles more serious than viding for the transfer of such powers , may nature had provided . " - AYLMER MAUDE . ceeding five years from the passing of the Act , of high prices for the necessities of every ferred until the expiration of a period not ex- provide for continuance of powers so trans- The policy of ca ' canny is the policy Colonel Spender C. Day moved an amendment working - class household . RT . HON . G. N. which was carried , definitely fixing the period BARNES , M.P. of control at five years . The Bill as amended in various other parti- culars , was ordered to be reported to the House . MIXTURES FOR SILAGE . HOW THE INDUSTRIAL SITUATION MAY BE EASED . them to have a fair and full day's wage . I do I go know bricklayers have peculiar difficulties , due mainly to weather conditions . If they are not satisfied with what they are getting , and with working conditions generally , by all means let them stand up and say so , The people will see they get a square deal . My point is this , that , once the wage is agreed on , it should be One of the main difficulties is the shortage earned . If Burgess and his gang can lay 700 PIC KEEPING AND INSURANCE . of raw materials in many European coun- bricks per man per day , so can other foremen The work of forming and re - organising Pig It is recognised that , in mixtures of oats tries , a shortage which it is extremely diffi- and other gangs . and tares on useful land , the tares often breakdown of international exchange facili - dence that no one could refute what is the cult to make good , owing to the comparative I should like to see it established by evi- Insurance Clubs , hitherto carried out by the In a report forwarded to Rural Industries Branch of the Ministry of smother the oats . Agriculture , will in future devolve upon the the Ministry of Agriculture by Mr. A. W. ties . Most of the European countries , with tale of bricks that a bricklayer can lay per No one wants a bricklayer to County Agricultural Committees now in pro- Oldershaw , Agricultural Organiser for East their vastly depreciated currencies , find it ex- day , and day by day , without unduly tiring cess of formation . It is to be hoped that the Suffolk , he states that from what he has ob tremely difficult to import essential raw himself . When this is established , Committees will make the fostering of Pig served at two local centres , he has come to materials from the West and East , in spite home so exhausted that he cannot enjoy family Insurance a prominent part of their activities , the conclusion that the best mixture for of the attempts which have been made , both and social life . in the interests of the exporter and the im- provided that the bricklayer is getting a fair as there is a wide field for the development standing up is that of two bushels of tares The rye keeps the porter , in order to tide over this difficulty , wage for hih work , the country ought to in- of this movement . Pig - keeping by cottagers and half a bushel of rye . Although feeding undoubtedly has an in- has declined seriously and it would be to the tares off the ground , prevents rotting , and Very considerable credits have been granted sist that the bricks should be laid . These men be issued for an increase in the minimum rate fluence on size , and good feeding tends advantage of the countryside if this profit makes cutting a comparatively simple matter . by British and American bankers , but they at Hayes are not injuring the contractor . The A mixture such as this should be cut before are quite insufficient for the purpose and contractor gets his price , and he knows before of wages in Worcestershire , from 42. to 46s . make a bird produce the maximum of her able industry could be restored to its former he sends in his estimate what the men will the rye becomes too old . In one case where the solution of the problem is one which They did not yet know the date it ability , it will not cause a layer of a normally flourishing condition . Nowadays cottagers , do . It is the country that suffers , most of all would come into force , but at all events they small egg to produce a large one . On the except very few counties , do not keep Mr. Oldershaw observed this mixture grow would tax the genius of a Napoleon of finance , Mr. J. knew the increase would shortly take place . As other hand , incorrect feeding results not only pigs to anything like the extent that was ing in the next field to a mixture of oats and It has been suggested that an international the working people of this country . floated , secured by the repara- H. Thomas said the other night that the work- tares , the oats and tares were flat on the loan might from July 19th an employer who found board in the production of few but also of small the rule fifty years ago . It would be well if and lodging for a workman could deduct 17s . eggs .. cotcagers could be brought to realise that the ground and quite 18 per cent . of the tares tions to be made by the Central Empires ing classes of this country had put out their was under the Peace Treaty . One may , however , thinking just as the upper classes put out their were rotten , whereas the rye mixture 6d . per week for same instead of 15s . Very infrequently undersized eggs are due pig is the most paying form of live - stock . be permitted to doubt whether such a loan washing . The epigram is just , but Mr. REGULATION OF DAIRIES . to birds being brought on to lay at a very early Not only does it provide food for the home standing up splendidly . would successfully appeal to the investors in Thomas might have gone a good deal further . age and before they are fully developed and market , but it helps to fertilise the gar- the various countries in which it would have The working classes of this country have often den and the small holding . It is therefore a to be issued . Such an issue could hardly be put out their thinking to men who cannot a success unless it were well supported by think correctly , and who therefore try to per- investors in the United States . As , however , suade them that they are benefiting themselves has been explained in a former article , the when they practise " ca canny . What is , In regard to the wages question the Chairman possessing good and bad strains in those said the Wages Board met on the 12th August , respects . on which date or soon after it an Order would per week . Mr. Nott also reefrred to the fact that there through the too free use of forcing and HOPPICKERS ' FARES . The matter was , at too London , S.W.1 . STOCKS . The improvement of fruit trees is a ques tion of vital interest to growers , but it is not THE HONEY FLOW . WEATHER DIFFICULTIES . must cause the position to right itself . The A TON OF COAL . wages had been some talk of making some new stimulating foods . This may happen not- valuable producer directly and indirectly . regulations in regard to milk and the control withstanding the fact that the birds may Landlords could do no better service to their of dairies , etc. He had pointed out at the have inherited the large egg faculty , and , tenants than by providing them with well- County Executive that present there was given proper treatment , would have performed planned and strongly - built accommodation for machinery in existence for inspecting all dairies . in accord with that character . their pigs . Wherever pigs are kept there The uncertain weather of July has given American investor is by nature so conserva true of the people of Hayes is true of every- tive and has so many opportunities in his one of us everywhere . What is not pro- and that it seemed useless to multiply inspectors should unquestionably be a Pig Insurance great trouble to bee - keepers . The hives have own country that it is doubtful whether he duced , cannot be consumed . We shall never and create a new department in that respect . safeguard against loss . demanded constant attention . While in some Already any man who had a dairy near a town , and number of eggs young pullets should be In order to get the best results both in size Club to provide In These Clubs also serve a very useful end in favoured districts honey has come in freely , would be enthusiastic over an international live in unbuilt houses . loan secured in the manner indicated . or any farmer selling milk , was liable to have brought on steadily by the use of good , enabling pig - owners to procure , by co- there has been a marked scarcity throughout his cowhouses , etc. , inspected at any time and had to keep them in a fit state . He thought plain foods , consisting largely of grain , which operative buying , the best food at the most the less fortunate areas , the position has be process of time the ordinary , economic laws latter should be scattered in deep litter so moderate prices . Rules for such clubs and come more than ordinary difficult . Nuclei depreciation in the European currencies has the suggestions foreshadowed a new Milk Bill , as to compel the taking of exercise required also for Cow Insurance Clubs and other means and newly hived swarms require feeding after the effect of encouraging exports and discour but he thought it was better that local authori- to produce the hard and vigorous bodily con of safeguarding live - stock , can be had free of three or four days of unfavourable weather aging imports . The adverse trade balances Sir Robert Horne has had compiled a very ties should deal with the control rather than dition and general fitness essential to a good charge on application to 6 , St. Jame's Square , and it has been necessary greatly to augment would , therefore , it is probably safe to say that there should be other inspectors going layer . stocks where queens have been especially in- that the recovery in the value of the instructive table showing by analysis the cost round in addition to the local inspectors . of a ton of coal . This reveals the cost of pro- troduced . In a normal year when stocks are sterling should be much more rapid than The progeny of highly fecund stock are strong and there is ample supper space , the some of the pessimists would profess to be - ducing a ton of Best Derby as 33s . 3d . Of that 33s . 3d . , 22s . 8 % d particularly precocious and prone to prema- directly paid The Chairman also mentioned that the Rail - ture production , and consequently special care DEMONSTRATION FRUIT TRIES AND bees may be left very much to themselves lieve during July and will take full advantage of It is not suggested that a further tempor- and a good porportion of another 2a . 8d . , in- way Companies had stated that they would not is needed in their rearing and feeding . the flow but as soon as weather turns unfavour- ary depreciation in the value of sterling may cluded in which is the cost of supplying the able and foraging becomes impossible , bees not be witnessed , but there are many factors be able to convey hoppickers this year at any- Should pullets begin to " redden up miners with coal at preferential rates , can thing below the ordinary fares . Hitherto they early an age they should be frequently moved The share of the are compelled to rifle their own stores , and had always conveyed them at fare and a quar- to new ground and fed entirely on grain , and care must be excercised to see that these do work to improve the value of the ster- justly be added to that . capitalist is 2s . 8d . , 2s . Id . for the owners ter for the double journey , but they said they that somewhat sparingly , though not to such very generally known that for some years One might in- standard profits and 7d . for royalties . Besides comparatively short time . could not do so this year . out swarms there has been much trouble of this , the owners receive one - tenth of the sur- however , being taken up . an extent as to cause a severe check , which , past systematic efforts have been made to not fail . In the case of hives that have sent ling , whose influence should be felt within a probably , would bring on a moult . This wards the improvement and standardisation late owing to the unfavourable weather . The stance the dividends upon our investments in shipping freights , plus profits of exported coal . Before the coal creditor countries , our of stocks . To this end valuable work has treatment will generally retard production . reaches the consumer another 23s . 11d . must be been carried out at the East Milling Re- virgin queens left behind have been unable banking services and so forth . The effect of to take their nuptial flights and it is a curi- the vast credits which have been granted to added over and above the pit - head price , of search Station in Kent , and enquiries have been directed to the better cultivation and ous fact , but one well authenticated , that the exporters both in the U.S.A. and in this coun- which a certain proportion is again , paid in try must be to add appreciably to the process wages to those who distribute the coal , loaders . MAD BULLS BROUGHT DOWN WITH standardisation , not only of Paradise stocks bee community grows very impatient with a A RIFLE . but of apple trees generally , together with virgin queen who returns repeatedly from her of inflation - wages have to be paid to the carmen , etc. , and the remainder is divided or export amongst railway rate , wagon hire and so forth . The results of the apple short trials without having ventured on that workers ; but the manufacturer pears , and plums . merchant , in return for his goods , probably The coal merchant takes 1s . 3d . a ton , making experiments are the most advanced and the longer journey upon which the prosperity of Sometimes the bees will a total " profit " of 3s . 11d . out of the 57s . 2d . influence of standardisation on the different the hive depends . One may be sure that not one person in a preciating currency , against which his ban- Two Hereford bulls , which had been pur- variety of apples is now known . The stocks destroy a queen whose hopes have been frus- receives a promise to pay in a steadily de- trated by bad weather , and there is reason to Agent : " This vacuum bottle will keep any chased by a Bromley butcher and were be grown at this Station are keenly sought after believe that unless the nuptial flight is taken er grants him a credit be renewed indefi- that ruch realises when he buys a ton of coal present conditions has to an enormous proportion of the price thing hot or cold for seventy - two hours . " ing taken from Sevenoaks , suddenly broke by nurserymen and commercial producers within a certain time it is ineffective . Conse - nitely owing to the inability of the importer he pays goes into the miners ' pockets and such Mr. Tripples : " Don't want it . If I have from the drover in London Road , Bromley , As soon as trees and stocks becom : available a comparatively petty sum into the capi- Women and anything worth drinking I don't want to keep and ran amok down the street . for growers ' use , the question arise as to quently bee - keepers are advised to destroy to discharge his debt ; at the same time the banking account . what would be the best way of introducing queens that do not lay within three weeks of foreign demand competes with the home de- talist's it seventy - two hours ! " children ran screaming into the shops and Miners are busy planning another huge wage houses , and traffic was held up . An elderly ) them to general cultivation . After careful hatching or introduction , and to replace mand and tends to force up prices in the ex- porting country . It may be possible to de- demand . It is clear from the above figures that Scotsman ( seeing drummer in the band with man named Nicholls was knocked down and consideration the Ministry of Agriculture ar them . vise some artificial means for the improvement there is nothing more to be extracted from his coat off ) : " Auch , it's the first time I had to be treated in a local surgery . He was ranged with the Research Station of the existing state of affairs ; but the only profits , " otherwise no one with a penny to knew you had to take off your coat to play the removed to his home , and on Friday , was re- vide County Horticultural Committees and real hope of salvation lies in work and econ invest would ever even think of putting it at serious condition . A Provincial Colleges with an annual supply of drum . " Cockney : " Oh , is it ? That is noth- ported to be in a omy every individual , rich and poor alike , the disposal of the mining industry . It would In Scotland they have to take off their woman was also knocked down and is suffer- these trees and stocks . In this way the col trousers before they can play the bag - pipes . " ing from cuts , bruises , and shock . The in- leges will be enabled to make demonstrations It was reported in the press recently that must do his or her bit - produce to the limit then perish through starvation of capital : it of his capacity , eliminate waste and cut down must therefore come from the furiated animals were ultimately cornered in with the specimens supplied , and later on , at one of the Army dumps great damage had expenditure , more particularly upon luxuries : pockets , who consider £ 3 a ton already a por- Browning had lately taken to lecturing on the front garden of a builder's yard , where they will be in a position to distribute stan- been done by rats and the statement , which in this way , and only in this way , can the tentous burden . the teetotal platform . So you want to marry they smashed up everything moveable . dard types throughout their art as . The was freely repeated , led to careful investiga- my daughter , sir ? What are your principles Slaughtermen , armed with humane killers , prices to be charged will not , it is expected , tion of the conditions prevailing at the place world gradually recover from the grievous for the position of son - in - law . " Temperate ! " evidently gone quite mad , and finally the aid arrangement will have a two - fold usefulness . tirely incorrect and though this fact alone Are you temperate ? " he asked a candidate were unable to approach the bulls , which had greatly exceed commercial quotaticns . This named . It was found that the story was en- wounds inflicted by the war . " the reply . " Why , I am so strict that it of Captain Cook , of the West Kent Regiment . Not only will the demonstrations play a use would not have justified comment , since pub- was sought . Armed with a service rifle , he ful part in educating fruit cultivatos , but the lic mis - statement cannot claim the quality of pains me even to find my boots tight . " brought down one animal with three shots , and actual introduction of the stocks into or novelty , it is interesting to know how the then climbing a wall , put a bullet through the chards will improve the quality of fruit pro position had been handled by the Ordnance The slaughtermen finished the duced and will bring a better and more profit- Officer in charge . He had employed an ex- second one . work with their axes . able article upon the market . FUN AND FANCY . The Ex - Kaiser has told a newspaper man that the Peace terms have " set his brain in a whirl . " How that fellow does brag , to le sure . ing . A school inspector in the north was once ex- amining a geography class , and asked the question : " What is a lake ? " amused when a little fellow answered : " It is a hole in a can , sir . " He was much " Ramsgate boasts a donkey that drinks Government Ale , " says a morning paper . He must be an ass ! " I In great distress she burst into her husband's office and cried , " Oh , my dear , I dropped my from my finger and I can't find diamond ring " That's all right , Muriel , " " It is quite safe . it anywhere . he said , soothingly . found it in my trousers pocket this morning . " " There is a foreign couple living in the flat and they are simply a torment to my wife . " They quarrel incesantly , and " Why so ? " she can't understand a word of it . " ALARMING STAMPEDE AT BROMLEY . LADIES are highly recom mended Tablets Triumph ( Regd . ) for all Irregularities , Anemia , Lassi tude , Nervousness and Kindred Ladies Ailments , Prices : 3 / - and 5 / - per bottle . Obtainable from all Chemists , or generous Free Sample And Manual of Wisdom , " with Testimonials sent upon application The Manageress , LeBrasseur Surgical Manufacturing Co. , Ltd. Dept. E.4 . ) 90 & 92 , Worcester Street , Bir- mingham . Telephone - Midland 2596. Works Passy Paris Telegrams Surgical , B'ham . " IN - COME TAX . pro Tenant : " You've called for the poor rate , have you ? What is the poor rate miy I ask ? Visitor : " It's for the benefit of people with out means , sir . " Tenant : " Ah , then , you mean von've called with it , not for it ! " RATS AND ORDNANCE DUMPS . gamekeeper as a part - time rat catcher , and BUTTER IN SHORT SUPPLY . consumers HORSE BACKS TRAP INTO RIVER . TWO LIVES LOST IN WALES . Mr. Evan Owen , Hafodgarregog , Beddgelert , a well - known Carnarvonshire farmer , was driv- ing to Portmadoc market , accompanied by farmer's wife , Mrs. Hughes , Garregalltrem Bach , and a boy aged 12 , when the horse shied whilst crossing Craesor Bridge , a wooden structure spanning the River Glaslyn , three miles from Portmadoc . The bridge handrail gave way , and the affrighted horse backed the trap into the river , which was high in flood . time , but Mr. Owen The boy jumped out FOOD CONTROLLER'S WARNING TO THE PUBLIC . in the six months following September last that keeper destroyed upwards of two thous Supplies of home - produced and imported and rats , chiefly in the hedgerows and ad- butter are decreasing , and the Food Control- joining policies . Dogs , ferrets and traps were ler warns the public that , in their own in- employed . By carrying war into the enemy's terest , they should , so far as is practicable , country this energetic ex - gamekeeper has continue to purchase their butter from the kept vermin from approaching stores that retailer with whom they were registered un- would have been very susceptible to their der the rationing scheme . Allotments of im- attack . It is quite clear that while trapping ported butter are still being made to retailers poisoning , and the rest may be handled with on the basis of the number of customers little training during the winter months , registered with them when rationing was in Dr. Tarlton , a visitor staying at the Glaslyn when rats tend to congregate in buildings , it force . Retailers are expected by the Food " I want land reform . " A contemporary is is very advisable that the services of game- Controller to effect an equitable division of Hotel , happened to be only a short distance quoting a perfervid orator .. " I wait housing keepers should be sought during the summer their butter supplies among their customers , away . He ran to the scene and dived in with reform , " he continued . " I want electoral re- when rats take to the hedgerows and the and if necessary should adopt a " marking his clothes on and managed to bring Mr. Owen form . I want educational reform . want banks of rivers , ponds and ditches , and can off " system of their own to ensure all their ashore , but death had supervened . share to Hughes's body had not been recovered at a Chloroform suggested a firm voice from only be traced by the trained eye and des- regular customers obtaining the the rear of the hall . late hour . which they are entitled . The horse swam ashore . troyed by the skilled hand . WHAT HE WANTED . and Mrs. Hughes both fell into the river and were drowned . into the river Mrs. CRICKET . KINSHAM COURT V. BRAMPTON BRIAN . There was plenty of excitement for play- ers and spectators alike at Brampton Brian on Saturday last when the Kinsham Court team went over to play the return match . Rain that had fallen on the days previous had kept the wicket on the soft side and both teams found that runs did not come along very easily , es pecially in the first innings . Having won the toss the home Captain thought it best to have first knock , but wickets fell rapidly . Seven were down for 13 runs , and all the side were out for 31. The Rev. Hastings claimed 23 of these , put together in his usual good style . The Kinsham side gave an inglorious dis- play when their team came to bat , and play- ing too cautious , could do nothing with the of bowling Lloyd ( who did the hat trick " ) and Anderson , and were all out for 13 runs , of which Rollings made 8. It had been agreed to play until 7 o'clock and after having tea , which was thoroughly enjoyed by all , Bramp- ton Brian again took the wicket . With eight men out and the score at 42 Captain Harley made a sporting declaration and closed , leav- ing the visitors about 40 minutes to get the necessary 61 runs required to win . With the order of the day " hit hard or get out , " the Kinsham men took all risks , and the first two men paid the penalty before any runs were scored . However , when Pugh came in things . began to get interesting . He hit a 6 for start and raised the hopes of the Court team . The 3rd wicket fell at 27 , and the 4th at 31 . Restall came next and finding that Pugh was set , kept his end up well and the two were to- gether until Pugh , amid great excitement , got a six just before time , which put the re- sult beyond doubt . With the last ball of the match Anderson bowled Restall , but it was too late and Kinsham Court had won , on the two innings by 7 runs . Pugh gave a masterly display . His total of 46 not out , out of 67 runs was invaluable to his side . The fielding on both sides was keen , and a number of nice catches were taken . Scores : Brampton Brian ( 1st Innings ) .- Rev . H. F. Hastings , b Rollings , 23 ; E. Moore , b Mel- lors , o ; Major Lloyd , b Bevan , 1 ; E. H. Bevan , b Bevan , o ; Capt . J. R. H. Harley , c Restall , b . Mellors , 3 ; A. Aldridge , b Mellors , 2 ; A. Beasley , st . Restall , b Mellors , o ; J. White- man , not out , 2 ; Crockett , e Mellors , b Roll- ings , o ; Anderson , e Rollings , b Mellors , o ; B. Aldridge , b Rollings , o ; Extras , o ; Total , 31 . Bowling . - Bevan 2 for 15 , Mellors 5 for 11 , Rollings 3 for 5 . Kinsham Court ( 1st Innings ) .- W . Bevan , c and b Lloyd , 1 ; G. Rollings , e Moore , b Anderson , 8 ; W. Mellors , b Anderson , o ; W. Pugh , c Beasley , b Lloyd , 1 ; W. Restall , b Lloyd , o ; B. Smith , not out , o ; H. C. Gar- stone , b Anderson , 1 ; J. R. S. Arkwright , st . Hastings , b Lloyd , 1 ; J. Griffiths , e Moore , b Lloyd , o ; T. Wiltshire , b Lloyd , J. Mor- gan , e Whiteman , b Lloyd , o , Extras , 1 , Total ,, 13 . Bowling - Lloyd 7 for 7. Anderson 3 for 5 . Brampton Brian ( 2nd Innings ) -Rev . H. F. Hastings , b Mellors , 16 ; E. Moore , c Morgan , b Pugh , 6 ; Major Lloyd , c Mellors , b Pugh , o ; E. H. Bevan , b Mellors , o ; Capt . J. " R. H. Harley , b Pugh , 11 ; A. Aldridge , b Mellors , 2 ; A. Beasley , not out , 1. Anderson , b Mel- lors , 3 ; Extras , 3 ; Total ( 8 wickets declared ) , 42 . Crockett and B. Aldridge did not bat . Bowling . Mellors 4 for 10 , Pugh for 20 . Kinsham Court ( 2nd Innings ) .- W . Bevan , b Anderson , 4 ; G. Rollings , b Anderson , o ; W. Mellors , lbw . , b Anderson , 4 : W. Pugh , not out , 46 ; W. Restall , b Anderson , S ; B. Smith , b Lloyd , o ; Extras , 5 ; Total for 5 wickets ) , 67 . Bowling . - Lloyd for 7 , Anderson for 31 , Beasley o for 15 , Harley o for 7-1 ONE AMERICAN EQUALS THREE ENGLISHMEN . A STRAIGHT TALK ON SOCIAL TRUTH . Ye shall know the truth , and the truth shall make you free . BY GEORGE W. GOUGH , M.A. at I take these famous words as a text for a lay sermon without hesitation and without the slightest feeling of irreverence . The Jews , to whom they were addressed , murmured them . They did not like the imputation cast upon them for they thought they were free , being of the seed of Abraham . They were mis- taken , for they were in bondage to error , and when men are in this sad case only the truth can make them free . The error to which most men are in bond- age is an economic error , old and foolish , but And the error is that dreadfully persistent . If a it is only money - wages that matter . working man was asked to say what his weekly income was , he would never think of replying : " The use of a six - roomed house , the use of two suits of clothes , six pounds of beef , seven pounds of potatoes , three four - lb . loaves , the reading of one novel from the Free Library , seven newspapers , one football match , one visit to the pictures , 12 tram- rides , the use of clean and well - lighted streets , " and so on to the end of his list . He would sum it all up by saying " Four pounds a week . " But suppose he got each week forty of the things called " pounds , " but after getting them had to revise the catalogue of his real income as follows : " The use of three rooms , the use of one suit of cloths , three pounds of beef , no football match , no visit to the pictures , 12 walks to and from work , dirty unlit strets , " and so on . Is it not sun - clear that he would be much worse off ? Everybody would answer this question in the affirmative . The crudest Bolshevist , the high and dry old Tory , and all the gradations in between would hestitation cry out " Yes . " Now the curious thing about social truth is that nine out of ten of those who recognise it as truth when it comes before their minds as an intellectual proposition , straightway defy it in The cry every detail of their working lives . to - day is universally for higher money - wages and all the time the world is slipping steadily back towards a poverty from which it has been lifted by two or three generations of active work before the war . SOME TEST CASES . The Let us look how things stand abroad . truth is hard to see when it lies at your feet , but if you see it afar off you are likely to re cognise it as truth . Let us then turn to Germany . According to the Union of German Engineering Works , the average output of a foundry worker in 1014 was 42 metric tons , a metric ton being slightly smaller than an English ton . In 1919 it was only 22 metric tons , only a little over half a much . The foundry worker is very important to industry . Industry to - day in this country is still suffering severely from something which the general public have by now com pletely forgotten - the Ironmoulders ' Strike o a few months back . For the foundry feeds in dustry . German industry only gets half th food it used to get from every foundry worker Consequently it is sick unto death . On th other hand , the average yearly wage of th German foundry worker increased from 1,46 marks in 1914 - a mark used to be a shilling to 5,444 marks in 1919. The consequence wa that the cost of wages for every metric ton o iron increased from 344 marks in 1914 to 248 marks in 1919. Of course , so far as marks ar concerned , this looks excellent for the foundry man , whereas the weekly catalogue of his rea income has dimished very greatly . He is no better off , but much worse off for a chang which is apparently all in his favour . Take France . The Minister of Public Work recently stated in the French Chamber tha the total output of the Coal Mines which ha not been affected by the events of the war , ha fallen from 29 million tons in 1917 to 20 millio tons in 1919. Before the war the total outpu of the miner was seven - tenths of a ton a day At the present time it is only half a ton . wave of idleness is passing over the country , he said . Take America . The Annual Report of th Republican Iron and Steel Company show that in 1915 every workman got 2,700 dollar and turned out 142 tons , whereas in 1919 h turned out 99 tons and got 5,400 dollars . " Fortunately for America this extreme is no typical of her industry as a whole . " Som decades ago , " says the " Economic Review , when England was the recruiting office of th world , the average industrial worker in Eng land did as much work as three America workers . Now the average American does a much as three Englishmen . THINK IT OVER . I have been told by a competent authorit that output in England is down to 60 per cent " |