p0TATOES ARE the chief cash { hard work and considerable ex. of Prince Edward Islandnpense from the time the seed is in an annual return of,pla'nted in the spring until the
till) bllllglng - : t t t - . W my ten million. Po.a opota oes are shipped in the fall
g".é‘_.\.5,,g involves a great deal of. or during the winter months. Sev-
Potatoes Should Be Eaten Every Day -- Not Fattening
OTHER FOOD VALUE Potatoes contain quite a lot of other food value than calories. Vitamin C or ascorbic acid, vita- min B1 or Thiamine, iron and other minerals are all present in raw potatoes.
Potiatoes may have saved many Candaians from scurvy in the Past. Scurvy is nto common in this country but for the last 400 years it has never been very far from being our most serious nu- tritional problem.
In 1955, there were several hundred cases of scruvy in Can- ada, especially among babies, and a few cases among older people. They were not as serious as in Jacques Ca-rt.-ier’s time, and only a few died, but the fact that they existed shows how far we are from applying nutritional knowledge.
Vitamin C prevents scurvy. Vitamin C or ascorbic acid is found in lemons and oranges and grapefruit in c 0 n s id e I‘ able amounts. Tomatoes, either fresh or canned, are also good sources. But citrus fruits are imported‘ into Canada, and therefore too expensive for many people, while tomatoes are not always avail- able.‘ \ UNIVERSAL USE .
The one vegetable that l.s al- most universally used in Canada is the potato, and to this we -might add turnipis and also green vegetables like cabbage. All of these vegetables contain, in the raw state, quite a lot of vitamin C.
In our Canada's Food Rules, which give an outline of a good diet, we are forced to mention citrus fruits, because people are very careless how they handle vegetables. It potateois or cab- bage are cooked in too much water, and for too long—sa they frequently. are-—then it is prob- able that the cooking water con- tains most‘ of the vitamins and minerals.
In fact more vitamin C is lost thh-t way i-n Canada than is pres- ent in all the citrus fruiits that we import. .
The place of potatoes in our [fgnafllall diet is simpl that they should be eaten every day, by raciically everyone. .
Potatoes share with milk, to- matoes. other vegetables, cereals and meats the job Of keeping us We and well. Each of these foods is nientioiicd in Canada's pond Rules, and has a special ¢()y1fiI'lI)I.I|I,l‘0I1 to make to health.
Grant harm has been done to me public, as well as to the po- (313 industry by the common mi”. that "potatoes are fat- ter.iiig." We all know that mnay pe(ple have become “calorie conscious" and have avoided eating valuable foods like bread and potatoes. Yet these same people continue to eat foods like chccclate and pie.
NOSE FA_T'I"ENING
No food is fattening, in itself, on the eay it is used. All foods prcvlfle calories, but a gani in weight results only when the total diet supplies Inore calories than the body is using up in activity. It is not the kind of load that adds weight, but the amount of all food eaten, in re- lation to activity.
Fat folks should stop shudder- ing at the sight of good foods like bread and potatoes. It would be better to take a good look at that cherry pie, doughnuts, cookies, or ice cream sundae. ; sugar is just pure calories while Enicotoos have daditional food
\:‘.'.'cs that mah be vital to life
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Therein lies the danger of many fcods—they do not carry enough other nutritional values with their calories. Thsi danger becomes caute as we grow older, Ibecause older people need more and more minerals and vita- mins, but fewer and fewer carot- ies. And yet \ve keep on with the same food habtis and even the same appetite just when we should be judg:iii.g our calories by the company they keep—do— they have extra nutritional values? filter the age of 40 every bite you eat should include protective nutiients in addition to any cal-
ones it may provide.
Tnssiiouid Not Be Bred ‘ Until Properly Developed
Yorkshire shows weighri-n~g around 300 pounds when they should be from 400 to_500. says._J- G- SW1- tart, Dominion Enperrimenital Sta- tion, Lacombe. A:I<ta- 111 many cases, this can be traced to too early breeding, although feeding -also may h3Ve PM-yed 3 The yiocumg sow her first litter is still grcwomgi and it 15 most important that she reach a
,. 4.
The time to breed a gilt de- lends not so much on age as on the stage of development. Gills should not be bred until Ihey reach sufficient size that tithing their litter will not af- Itct their future growth. This is Ienerally at about 225 to 275 .Il!ilIids and from seven to 10 months of age.
kw one sees mature
profiii: when the sow is finally
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Our tree-cutting by-laws have
: stopped the clearing off of wood-
lots. However, the most wide-
. spread abuse of woodlots is using . them for pasture. Forestry and
pasturage cannot succeed on the same piece Of ground.
Tests have proven that the food eaten by livestock is far inferior to that of an open pasture. An area of open pasture will main- tain six to twelve times the num-
’ - ber of animals that can be main-
eral sprayings are required dur- ing the growing” season. A po- tato sprayer, tractor ldrawn, is seen in operation. (National Film Board).
good size befroe being bred. Then she can continue her own de- velopment as well as produce a strong litter. , ,
Dollars and cents should ‘not be overlooked, for the extra 25 to 50 pounds on the..gilt, before being bred, often means 100 to 200 pounds more on the mature sow. This in turn means more
mrainkiete-d. It also means a bet- ter developed .sow; onetiiiat can raise a large litter without going too far down in flash; and me in condiition to the bred agiain» shortly after weaning.
The bred gilt should receive every consideration in and ifee-ding. Rememiber she is still Igrocwiing and theireufoire needs extra protein and minerals to allow for her growth, and for the drevelopiment of her litter. The value of pasture or green feed cannot be overestimated tor the pregnant gilt; or the pregnant sow for that matter. Possibly it is the combination of sucucvulenice in pasture, along with the exer- cise the animals get, that allows for the «complete Iiitilization of the grain ration, and makes pasture or green feed a ‘‘must’' in [hand- ling gilts.
In winter, well-cured alfalfa or clovevr =lIaIy placed in a rack a little distance If-rocm the sleeping quarters provide ‘excellent feed and HIIIIIOIW Ifior exercise.
Drain And Flush Auto Freeze —’ From Truck-, Tractor
Frost damages truck and urac- tor motors on the farm every winter. Owners becmne careless about draining water out of radi- ators or boil away anti-freeze by over-heating.
Although anti-freezes now on the market are guaranteed to be nearly no-olprooif, there are occa- sions when damage is caused by
tained on a similar forest area. Cattle destroy young trees direct- ly by eating the foliage and ‘trampling on them. They ruin older trees indirectly because they damage the roots and trunk and this exploses the tree to fun-
, gus diseases which either kill or ' damage them. Because cattle eat
Sm-his. This should be followed
by thorougih-Icy flushing out the
. radiator with a pressure hose.
One old-time thresherman who ‘had a way with motors and things mechanical, used to say he had a foolproof way of beating frost. He conducted his test on an old model T Ford for a numlber of years and cliaime-d it never failed. He flilled the radiator with valve oil used to lubricate steam engines. This he kept in the year round.
It would never be affected by frost in winrber. Ilt would with- stand heat. He -claims it would leave a radiator shiny bright in- side with no trace of scale or impurities caused by water or anti-freeze with alcohol bases.
Pays To Keep Cattle
Woodlot
the young trees it is only a mat- ter of time until the remaining trees become old enough to cut or die. After that the forest such as hawthorns and crab apples disappears except for weed trees which are not touched by live- stock. .
When livestock have been in a woodlot for a period of years it will be noticed that the spongy humus and trash that used to be on the forest floor have disap- peared. This layer of humus is the most important factor in the control of water run-off.
A pastured woodlot is almost useless as a home or shelter for wildlife.
The high cost of fencing has been the excuse that farmer’s give for not keeping livestock out of their woodlots. However, the cost of fencing is much less than the cost of planting a new for- est, and can be offset by the own- er applying to his local assessor for taxation exemption for his woodlot. Under the Assessment Act, one acre of woodlot for ev- ery ten acres of farm may be tax free.
When a woodlot is cut off it will very often grow up again from the seeds left by the trees taken out. by sprouts from the stumps, or by seeds which blow in from nearby trees; but when cattle ruin a woodlot it has no hope for the future unless it is fenced. Farmers who p a s t u 1' e their woodlots are to be consid- ered in the same class as the
unscrupulous log buyers who» would slash off areas of trees.
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poultrymen solve some of their rearing and feeding problems. Poultry researchers at Ottawa stress the fact that to produce broilers economically they must grow quickly. This is done by feeding a starter ration high in protein (21-25 per cent) for the first nine weeks. Then by chang- ing the ration to one containing less protein further growth is discouraged and the depositing of fat encouraged. This is made
exercise brought about by con- fining the birds in closer quar- ters.
During the final finishing period the mash should consist of about 13 per cent protein and nine per cent fat, according to recent ex- periments conducted at Ottawa. This is made up of definite pro- portions Of ground grains as corn, wheat, oats, soybeans and
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imon salt, c e r 0 g T35 5 ‘rapid- Ily dried grass clippings) and brewers yeast. _
In recent years minute quan- tities of vitamins as B1. I‘lb0- flavin and choline ‘have been added to the fattening ration with excellent results. These and certain other c h e mi c a 1 com- pounds added to a carefully bal anced fattening ration, are con- sidered by many poultry !1_11tr1- tionists as providing an entirely new approach to the finishing of poultry and help greatly in pro- viding the consumer with poultry of the highest quality.
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