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While Canadians have been fortunate this year to escape wide- spread damage from wind erosion, they nevertheless have erosion problems in many districts Priceless top soil is being washed away by ram and uncontrolled spring ftoods due to the lack of sound soil conservation practices. At one time no one thought of soil as a natural resource. Soil, it was generally considered, was an inexhaustible birthright and was used as such. In recent years. however, Canadian soil scientists have come to realize that our soils could be depleted like other resources. The main thing this year is to vote. The complacent attitude of those who do not vote, may receive a rude shock if they continue with their present attitude. If the wrong government gets in, it might then be too late to do anything about voting for the government he would have liked to govern the country. It could be that he won't have a vote. It has happened in other countries. Farmers. who have prospered in the past, look with worry upon their bare, parched acres, Merchants carry an over-burden of credit in their books. Banks no longer welcome the rural loan-seeker. This fall a formal course in soil conservation will be established for the first time at the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph. The Conservation Council of Ontario has been set up, one of its prime functions being the promotion of soil conservation. Canadian chap- ters of the Soil Conservation Society of America are being formed. Provincial and Federal departments of agriculture have launched long range research program dealing with soil conservation. But the problem of sun erosion cannot be licked solely by agri- cultural sctenttsts. conservation groups or governments. The man who holds the key to the >uccess of any soil conservation program is the farmer became in- dwns the soil these various bodies are try- ing to conserve His co-operation therefore rs essential. It also might be a wise thought this year to read and study the claims of the various contestants rather than ask your neighbor how he is voting. You can't hope to know all the politicians personally so you can only judge them by what they have done in the past and what they promise for the future. Don't be too impressed by glow- ing promises. In some cases the person making the promises prob- ably thinks that he or she will try and keep them, but few of them will. It takes a strong min with a great deal of public backing to stand up and buck party policy. and if this same policy does not agree with what the individual wants to do, then he usually loses out. (From C-I-L Agricultural News) Reminiscent of the early and mid-thirties in the prairie pro- vinces. the soils are on the move in Texas. Clouds of dust roll across the country, obscuring the sun, covering the highways and fences, seeping into homes, leaving in their wake scenes of despair and desolation. Actually, if you are too lazy or feel your are too busy. to get out and vote, you cast one anyway-but for the side you do not wish to see get in Certainly your vote makes it more diiBcuit for the side you oppose, Just as certainly they are helped by you staying home. There is, and always will be. good and bad features about any government you help to elect. However, it is not all bad, nor can it afford to push you too tar, as happens in countries where the right to vote is controlled by guns in the hands of soldiers', and where a vote tor the wrong party can easily mean imprisonment or worse. (From Fergus News-Record) The truck drivers on strike In southern cities have been utterly stupid. Not only have (My turned business to the railways but by their lawlessness, they have caused people to say, “What else can you expect of members of the Teamsters' Union?" While it is a foregone conclusion that none of the potstical aspir- am: will keep all the promises they are now making, still a country is only as good as the party In power and much can be accomplished either by voting or not voting. Aiga has rour%ttspring living, Her oldest son heads the herd of Henry White & Son, at Chatham, NB. She also has a yearling son, and her two daughters are now on test. During her recent record, she was milked and cared for by George Healy, a young farm boy from Richmond, Quebec. Arden Baker is. tarm manager and Mr. Baker reports this is the fourth 1,000 lbs. record made at Avondale by three cows, and Alan carries the blood breeding of the other two, A izEazE ther Editors Say Take Your Choice 413m Vote lit 1ftecomtttentyety Service In [In South Nuance M L“ through the recommendation of those whom we have served EACH YEAR OUR SERVICES ARE ENGAGED BY MANY FAMILIES Ebwarb IR. (Boob FUNERAL HOME (GUEST EDITORIAL) Shifting Sells The other school of thought consists of those with whom I de- sire to be classed, namely. the ones who believe in man's con- trol. For illustration, if the pota- to vines are attacked by potato bugs I believe in using Paris green, not in waiting for God to send some other insect to kill the potato bugs, it always has seemed foolish to me to see a group of sportsmen hopefully liberating I shall never understand how it is that some students of Nature hold out for the protection of such predators as the great horned owl, or the common red tux, in localities where pheasants and up- land game birds are so scarce that the hunter IS allowed only two days' or a week's open season. A single specimen of the predators named would kill at least one game bird daily. Or let us put it this way: We have laws to re- strict man's killing of game birds to two days in the year, but at the same time protect those predators that commit the same act three hundred and sixty-five days a year! _ _ A _ By Manly F. Miner eldest son of the late Jack Miner, Canadian Naturalist. Since I am now Mty years of age I can say with authority that as I grow older, more and more fully do I subscribe to the theory of game management propounded by my late fat er, and to his phi- losophy eapressed in the follow- ing quotations trom his writings: (i) "Nature is wonderful; Man is more wonder; God is most wonderful." (2) "Man is Natures first assis- tant, or God's Viceroy. What is man without God, and what is God without man? They are -- or should be - part- hers." (3) "God put the birds and ani- mals here for man's use and for man's control. The same is true in regard to plant life. God made the weeds at the same time that he made the vegetables, but it is man's job to destroy the weeds so that vegetables good for man can exist." m this beautiful world we have two schools of thought on this point. One school is composed of those who believe that if a hunter shoots certain species of hawks, coyotes. or a timber-wolf, man is upsetting Nature's balance. That might be true it man never had shot a game bird or animal for food; but the minute man shoots a deer, man upsets Nature's bal- ance, and it becomes his responsi- bility to reduce, in turn, the ene- mies of the deer in the same pro- portion. It a man shoots a half dozen ducks, for for, Man upsets Nature's balance u less he also slaughters the crows, and other enemies of the ducks, to a similar extent. --0lt. Bert. o! ' all PM Hub Timber stands in the Kenora District as seen from the air. Aerial photography and air-grhund mapping played an important part in speeding the comprehensive survey of Ow tario's forest wealth carried out by the Department of Lands and Forests, Timber Management Division. Forest resources inventory will aid in charting future management plans. Predator Control DAN-V 'e WCIKIND In! ”0.. Bake" ot Th. Yolggun. plou- gonna “a Tet, Caviar-Id..- a not an... a». I» “no... any Ird w O... Ton-n1. It 7% [Min "Ott. Tris TELEGRAM DAILY ’9' And in referring to pheasants, let me observe that recently a new school ot thought has sprung up which is opposed to tteg,,',',',-, pagation of this game bird. ven the editor of one highly respected conservation magazine aspen: to have adopted this attitu e, for in a recent issue there was published a picture of pen-raised pheasants, which was captioned: Pttt Waisted." I cannot agree wit that opinion, because there would not be a pheasant in North Ame- rica if man had not imported, pro- pagated, and liberated them. I believe in propagation, plus pre- dator control, and, in addition. food, shelter-belts and proper ha- bitat provided. It may happen that in a particular locality. one at these features is more essene tial than the others; but in a gen- eral way, one is as necessary as the other. Certainly, all are high- ly needful. To illustrate my point: It would be foolish indeed to liberate pheasant in the Fall, where there was no food or na- tural habitat; because an ice- stonn tor instance, which would cover all food, would mean the annihilation of every pheasant within a week. It is equally ri.. diculous to literate a ttock of pheasants when some man in authority has the idea that you also have to have a great horned owl, coyote, fox, weasel, mink, with perhaps a tew timber wolves thrown in, to balance Na, ture. Actually, the balancing of Nature was all left with Man when God said, "Let man have dominion over all." I said once, lo two young uni- versity graduates who had spe- cialized in Nature Study. when they were visiting our Sanctuary: "If the sportsmen liberate two hundred pheasants this spring, and the predators take fifty dur- ing the summer, will you have as many in the fall?" They both answered. "Yes; Nature will bal- ance itself." The sad part of this is that both these young men are employed by the Canadian Fed- eral Government in managing the destiny of our game. I cannot be- lieve that the more pheasants the predators kill, the more pheasants you will have! I still think these young men ought to have majored young It,','h",ae'2: hatched at a cast of undreds-yes, thousand: s--ot dollars, while the Game Com- mission, sitting in otBees in the Capitol buildings, have no pro- gram tor the control of predators and take the comfortable attitude that "Nature will balance itself." The tact of the matter is that here, at out Sanctuary, we have known one small weasel to kill thirty-two young pheasants in one night._ Some people will say. "But that happened on a congest- ed area-on a Sanctuary." My re- ply to that is: "The habit of a pre- dator is the same outside such a game preserve as within its bor- ders." -" III Ignnoo M ouomou In one of our mid-western States a group of young biologists are trying a new experiment. namely that at training the tar- mers in the proper setting of traps to catch coyotes and foxes, so that their livestock may be protected, ‘That is very good for its purpose. I feel, however, that game war- dens should have the same train- ing and spend the same time in the control of the predators that prey on the wild game birds and animals. I think it would be far more reasonable that the increase in deer herds be utilized as food for humanity, than that these ani- mals should be beaten, twelve months in the year. by the preda- tors. In other words, the deer in that State are wild mutton, and the pheasants a species of wild barnyard fowl, just as essential to the needs of humanity as the domestic sheep, turkeys, chickens, etc. Let me put it this way: If there are one thousand head of deer in that State. and one thous- and wolves, and this fall the hun- ters shoot five hundred deer for food, then someone should shout, or trap, the same number at wolves. The same proportion of control, or control methods. should be applied to the enemies of the upland game birds; because it man takes his share ot the ed- ible wild life for food, and um control measures are employed. against the enemies of the wild life, then Nature is out of balance. l It is up to man to maintain the, balance ot Nature. In the name of God-and I say it rryereptly.-; let us apply common sense to this problem, and not so much nen-‘ When Christopher Columbus landed in North America and fired the first shot, he upset Nature's balance. As Mr. Harold Titus, the prominent wrlter on outdoor themes, said recently: "When the first steamshir went up the Mis- sissippi and b ew its whistle it in- terlered with Nature." Man has I am proud to oe 3 member ot The Humane Society, and always have advocated the Buck Law. Yet when the does are allowed to grow so old that their teeth start to drop out, and when they are allowed to become so numer- ous that there is not gutBeient food for all. so that they are dy- ing of starvation from both these causes. then l feel I am tar more humane in wishing to see a pro- gortion of them shot toy food for umanity. Also, I consider it in- tusitely more humane to shoot them than, as some people advo- vate, to import some timber- wolves into such an area. to tear. these creatures to pieces, alive. and in that way to 'balance Na- ture'. in arithmetic rather than in wild lug management - A "I’d like to say this to all Canadians..." " At Delta. Man, men stationed at the research post found sever- al duck nests. and visited them daily. Ot these nests watched, twenty-one percent were de- stroyed by crows, eleven percent ' by ground squirrels, and nine per- cent by skunks. tn other words, forty-one percent of them were wiped out before ever the duck- lings Here hatched. The readers can imagine what percentage of the young would be devoured by (snakes. turtles. hawkes, owls. fish. land other predators. after they ‘were hatched, One is compelled to believe that the statement [made by my father so many years ‘agu. was accurate. "Personally, I do not hunt or shoot. But I see no more harm in taking the overflow. or surplus increase, of our wild game than in taking that of our barnyard flocks. combined his killing of wild ani- mals and wild bids with that of the predators, so that today thr ture is all out of balance. and man is asking "What happened to the ducks?" Some thirty or more years Mo, my father. the late Jack Miner, both in his writings and from the lecture platform, said this: That seventy-ttve per- cent of the wild duck em laid in We_u_e_rn Canada._ neyer matured to lull-grown birds able to ity out of this country, Last year, some thirty years after he made that statement, it was proved correct by the following tact: NORTH WATERlOO AUTOMOBILE CLUB Please note that our office, 4] Queen St. North, Kitchener, Ont., will be closed from August 15th to August 22nd. inclusive for Staff Holidays. Members contemplating motor trips requiring routings, etc., please contact the office well in ad- vance of above mentioned date of closing. MPORTANT NOTICE VOTE lIBERAl! In such a PariiamenGithout she icaiiership and responsibility of I united national party, how could the government help being well: and insecure? We believe most Canadians want a government which encourages enterprise, promotes trade and fosters the exploration and den-lop- mm of our resources; and you hum it as well as we do, that r ultes balanced budgets, paying all debts in prosperous times 'a', I m: nurture w ich, while fair to all, i, adequate to meet these dementia. . " - We have increased our employment, our' production and our mtioml income every year; We have had the greatest ex ansion of our primary and secondary industries - truly en industrial) revolution; Do we want a weak and divided government to deal with the formidable problems of the next few years? I ask you. IS it really time__fo!' tfhange? __ - UNDER 3 Liberal government, Canadians have added every year In the national strength and national unity of Canada; We have had the greatest expansion of social welfare in our -We have reduced the national debt every year, and, in the last Matters, reaped the reward in tower tax rates. we want all that to be continued? " Do you really think it's time for a change? For a change to a Purliament of regional groups - I handful of Social Crediters from the Far West, a few Socialists from the Prairies, a few more I unwrvalixes from Ontario or the Maritime: nnd some so-called Independents from Quebec? Because of ttie outstanding mnuibutimi of the members of our Navy, Army and Air Force, we have been able to do our lull share to prevent and P stye ComtP"tiuyyuressioo; - _ For a Greater (anode: I feel this increase was intended for men's use, and not for the up- keep of hordes ot predators that have been alltwed to increase out ot all proportion to he wildlife on which they subsist. I take this attitude rather than that of the school of thought which believes that "the more "we the preda- tors kill, twelve months in the L% the more nine you will ve n TO MEMBERS OF iii/iii-ii)!!!?.!?,,',,',)!)-?.),)? FINANCE . ' I. J. Hols-I, Mono-r " (In. St. South, who 200. new Moor. m 5-5200 WAMlOO, 0N1. NATIONAK “KIM "DOArON or CANADA lie clued am not. out at to midst at the euqW--er. um. Sime God is everywhere we' may get "was trom his in strange places. Maybe in our dd- ly labors, even in our hour. ot recreation, maybe in a garden. /M,’£M A BIBLE "006-1 '0. m4! MAI-In.