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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER -18, 1959,
• 7NA T NEW 7,e/Cie
sineo- OF 8E/AG .
• mwiro mr.ivere
SAIPLY SLIPORI,
Does Tax Deduction Encourage Higher Rates?
With new increased unemplo3rinent
, -
insurance rates about to .go _into ef-
fect, .,workers and employers alike
•across Canada Will find :they will be
contributing a little more to the goV.'
ernment coffers at Ottawa
The increase in rates, introduced
by the Diefenbaker government at
the last session of parliament, is de-
. signed to bolster the recently deplet-
ed insurance fund.
While • there may be initial coni -
plaint about the increase, it Will be
Soon forgotten. The process of de-
ducting on the new basis will go on:
inexorably until the government de-
• cides still additional amounts are nec-
essary and initiates a further in-
• crease. •.
•
We wonder what the situation
would be if it became illegal for a
government to deduct such things as
at the the source? • Wouldthere be • the
same readiness on the part of goyern-
ment to raise rates if it was kilown
that collection was to be• by annual
payment by the individual, rather
than by the perhaps too simple meth-
od of deducting.
Certainly it is an efficient system.
The government .'obtains, its revenue
°with no apparent effort, thanks -to
the co-operation of thousands of em-
ployers across Canada -who serve as
Why Is it?.
• Why is it a man wakes up in the
• morning after sleeping under an ad-
• vertised blanket, between- ad-vertised
sheets, on an a,dvertis_ed mattress,-
• pulls Off his advertised pyjamas,,
takes a bath in an advertised tub,
• washes with an advertised ,. soap,
•• shaves with an advertised,razor, puts
on advertised clothes. . . sits down
th
to a breakfast of a vertised food,
brushes , his teeth ' advertised
toothpaste, puts on an advertised hat
. . . starts an advertis d car with an '
advertised -battery, drives on'adver-
tised tires. . . sits down at his adver-
tised desk, talks on an advertised _
telephone, writes With an advertised
pen—then refuses to ' advertise be-
cause advertising doesn't pay. But
if business isn't good enough, he ad-
vertises --,"Business For Sale.” -.(St.
Marys -Journal-Argus).
,
tax eollectors.-.,
:What would, happen" if it. became
necessary for every .ta,ipayer to write
out a cheque and Mail it Once a year
in PaYinent for 44 taxes and other
charges?Would there be a greater
realization of what taxes collected by
'Ottawa amounted to? Would:there
be a de/nand for lower,taxes?'Would
there be perhaps an indication that
some of the services the governMent
at Ottawa is providingcoUld be done
away °with now that itwasrealized::
whatthe cost Was inAerrn of taxes'?
We wonder.
Necessar
• •
ThoUghtfiil and -.concerned
diariS.-Will" endorse the,..Udmonitioil by.
Ole Canadian Chamber ;Of 'corilmetoe,
to the -federa1 government to cut
down ,OiritS -Spending in
:an
effort' .to
:ecOneMyH'-(TrentOr4,,, Ont.,- CoUrier-
AdvoCate).::::,
Saved • For n Accident?
Medical experts predict that major
breakthroughs against heart and
blood vessel diseases in the next 10
years will save thousands of lives in
the younger and middle -age groups.
Now, if they could just find a cure
for the reckless driver 'many more
cod live to a really ripe old age—
(Kitchener-Waterloo Record):
C re In Spending
• There would ,be much less tal
• about high cost, Of living•if the young-
er generation were as frugal as some
of the 'older. This is demonstrated by
a simple example.
, n acquaintance is given to wear-
ing out, the outside edges of his heels.
The heels get a rundown look. Most
young.men, in such case, would sim-
• ply have new heels put On the, boots,
Not this fellow; =he's too smart to
• '.waste his' Money thusly.
• He simply_ takes the shoes to the
repair shop and has the man switch,
the rubber heels. It costs less than
• half the price of'a new pair of heels.
He's been doing -that for years, ever
since his youth 'hen a penny saved
•_meant_ something.—(Windsor Daily
Star). •
(BY REV. ROBERT R. RARPER)
DEBRA., '
Septernber .is usually the.-nionth
when ,cyclones wreak destructien
of property and causes loss of life.
But this year,' the dread seasoe of
cyclones began in July with the
•advent of Debra on the, coast of
Texas and far 'inland. -
•
After • 'the raging ' storm bad
brought such disaster to Texas,
some, 'man in Houston criticized
the Weather BUreati, for sending
out warnings of Debra to date for
people to, take any Possible pro-
• tective Measures. ,
The present wtiter' hat, no aletire
.and intention to lin e with the
Houstonian or the Weather Bureau.
But L am balling attention to an: -
other .complaint from certain lad-
ies who object t� the use of fem-
inine names to, designate this or
that storrn.: • '
• It oes not seem, appropriate to
.give pame that has .been asso-
ciated- with. love • and kindness' to:
dread storm that destroys pro-
perty ,and kills helpless men, wo-
men and children. Let us cease
f,roxn giving revered naines to rav-
aging tempests. , '
.Plans Are .Changed
• The 'Clinton News,,Iteccird,; which
'purchased. the old building
atsrn1ijith the
idea ,of moving - into .it; has -'.chang,
ed its plans.' ..The building has
been-sold-by.--.'lle-:-News7RecorelLte
Galbraith Radio, of ClintOn.--'7Gode-
-rich Sig-nalStar. • •
, ,
'GrOundedsk tightning
,
•
Mrs: .Will IlatCrostie flew home
from Saskatoon on Friday night
16 attend the: funeral -of -her moth
• er,'..Mrs. John Webster, Whicir'Was
.heldfrom ;Currie's Funeral Parlor;
Wingliain, on. SiindaY. -afternoon.
The plane on Which she -.Was..trev-
elling was struck :11.Y 'lightning.. NO
damage as done but the aircraft
was .gianiaded ...at ; Winnipeg.- for
three "hours While mechanics ,.gave
:it a thernagh
,CrOstie says:' "It:Wasn't toopleas-
antaneerience"-Luckiow/Sen-
Will
,
Repave Road
Charles S.. MacNaughton, MPP
Exeter, recently was notified- by
peOple in the Clinton -Blyth area
of. the bad condition of Highway
,4, from Clinton- to •Blytlai.:. and „he
has since taken -the matter -up with
the Minister of Highways. Follow-
ing investigation by departmental
engineers, the ,minister has decid-
ed to „include a reconstruction pro-
gram for this section. in 1961. PrO
viously, this- was scheduled for the
1902,63 period. "In the -meantime,'
says" the ,minister's letter to Mr.
MaeNaughton,-, "every attempt will-
bemade maintenance -Wise, to en7
sure satisfactory. driving . condi-
tions.linton .News -Record.
CTA Allows Beach Dianks!
A group of cottagers from the
lakefront at Port Wake appeared
before the;Hay Township council
on Friday night, with complaints
of rowdyism and ditorderly 'eon -
duct along their beach and on the
road leading to their, 'cottages.
They claimed, there was no end
held along 'the beach, :and that
they had. repOrted;the 'Matter to
the Provincial' .poliee..andrio-action-
hadlie'el-laiten. It was---ekplained
to, the 'group. that under the Can-
•.ada: Teinperance4ct there. was no
Jaw.„agaipSt-drinking,ori-thebeaeh-,-
pr any . -other Public place,,,- and
that the .Polite are: ppwerless 'to do
anything abont it,==-ZUrich... Citizens
News. •. • •, ,
To Enlarge PinerY
•
, Six hunched -more camping lets
may be:. 'developed; inithe .Pinery;
provincial . park this Winter at a
result aif the; surging pepularity. Of
this J. new recreational; .area.'.'Offi-
• cials' alSo revealed' parkingfacili-
ties en, the beach maYe• , enlarged
and more etimfoit: statiOns con-
ttinoted. A 'neW .St.ation it AlreadY
being ereeted.. Over :the weekend
the ;154 caiiiiiing at. the. park
were-filled:And others -.Were estab-
lished in ',Other tectient
provision for .the crowds. Over. 500
,carriping 'PerMits -.have been ,isaiied
by park authoritieS.' sinee the park:
opened.iii June. Nearly 20,000 ve-
hicle .perMits. were purchased.' Of,
fieials estimate: 'over 200,000 ,have
.visited ,the
ark -'Exeter Times -
Advocate. I
Blood-Thirstyllumans99
• A dead kitten, its blood spatter-
ed
sink, and ceilingwas
discovered Satniday in the men's
lavatery in the haSernent of.,gurcin
teatitY- Court Hae. it
that torneone • 'had • . deliberately
•swung the kitten against :a smk;
,the , animal, said. Town 'Cop -
Stable' A. Sellar. 'Police saY the
dead kitten ' half-siiinnerged in We.:
ter, was found .Saturday rnormag
when ,Casey Hudson, 'a toWn-,em-
ployee, -went over :to inspect the,
public lavatory.' The public wash-
rooms in the .Court housearelook-
'ed afteby -the. town. Police are
not takiag-the --matter lightly, and
every effort is bearig made to find
,the person ,responsible for .the cruel
rniSdeed, 'states Sergeant IL Cal -
to the ....amount of drunken parties, Nett =Goderich Signal -Star. '
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11011 are -aecept,ect at par.
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MORTGAG
How abeut'a spot of - book review-
ing this week, for a change? Any-
one who doesn't read books, and
there are plenty of them, might as
Well turn to the classified ads, be-
cause this. won't interest him.
Inordinate a rd „uncontrollabl&
reading is one of the several • ma-
jor. flaws, -in- eharatter_ Print_
on paper is to me what ferineated
or distilled liquithrn a containeris
to, an alcoholic. , •
' , * * •
Like -the alky, I prefer the good
stuff, if I can get it, but if there's
none aroond, itake whatever is
• available. Sometimes when I've
reeled through a reading binge,
and there's .nething left hi the
house, and the booksellers are clos-;
ed, -1 wind tip gulping' feverishly
from such are as- -the- Ladies'
Horne Journal, a Superman comic,
or °tie of the kids' Thin' and Do
• 7 I've even beet reduced, at the
end of &itch a lost weekend, to
reading in French and English the
literature on the breakfast cereal
boxes.•
I have no ideahoW tnany books
I read in a year. 'There's no way
- of keeping tra'ck of them. I delib-
• erately read four or five at a time,
keeping them in different places
in the hOnse, .in order na confuse
my Wife, who abhors my addiction.
• I read, crunched over the batk of
the toilet, •while I'm rubbing the
• lather into my face for a shave.
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Frequently, when I havefitlith-
ed. writing thit column, about 2
a.m., I'll sheak into the living -
room, pull a brand new • paper-
baek from under the piano; and
guzzle it before geing to bed, This
produced sympathy the first couple
of tunes 1 tottered down, red -eyed
arid careworn, to go to work in the
morning. But she caught Me at it
one 4 nem.
Anyway, I've swilled my *ay
through a few, interesting books
1 tely and theught I'd, • tnention
thdni.-DPia-expect" a gelielail'y re-
view, 'witeplot dyable, tracing of
Syrabolisni, literary Vantecedents
and all that. jazz. I leave, if for
the earnest English -students:
• I've. been nipping' at one of the
books between paragraphs of this
pffort. It's written by Harry Gold-
en, of 'whom I have -Wever heard,
and is called- Only In .America.
'Golden is a Jevv who lives in the
•deep South, and puts out a news-
paper_in which there is nothing
but editorials. His book is a collec-
tion of short pieces, pithY, shrewd,
Witty, learned aud very human.'
Highly recommended as a bedside
companion; -if you can't do better
than a bet*. '
• I've just finished Lolita the book
which has had such an friflamma-
tory effect on would-be ceilSors,
scaredy-cat publishers and •timid
'head librarians. No; you can't hor-
roW my cOpy, It is a brilliant,
bawdy book, taunting 'and hilar-
ious. Some of it is as funny as
anything I've read, •some as tra-
gic. The morons won't' understand
it, and the teenagers won't have
•the .patience to sort -it' out, so- I
don't know whose morals it threat-
' Another iS Dr. Zhivago, by Boris
Pasternak. It won a Nobel prize,
which Russia wouldn't let him col-
lect, and I don't blame them. It's
n. devastating picture of Russia
from 1900 to about 1950, A fine,
poetic work, if you can Stomach
the • interminable Russian sur-
names, nicknames, given names
• and pet names.
• And there, is Watch Thai- Ends
the N,ight, by, Montreal novelist
Hugh MacLennan. This is a revolutionary approach to the modern
novel in that it tells a story. Its
language is apparently siniple, but
what it saYs is sensitive, Wise and
strong. One of Canada's best,
MacLennan has a 'control ancLnia.
turity few writers of fictiOn on this
eontinent can boast. • This book
• alone is ample proof that Canada
produces more than haekey play-
ers, maple syrup and rye whiskey.
There you are: four hooks as dif-
Terenr as could -be. -And if I've in-
terrupted you juSt when the Mick -
e? Spillane hero Wet abut to
• kick the lady in the -grin 1 110Pe
the pipe-smolung professor,s,, And yoU'll pardon' the :intrusion,
,
(-Prepared-by -the-Research-Staff
• of Encyclopedia Canadiana)
•What Cet-76.-al-Giain---.Makes Bed
• Us e floor ' Soil?
, Rye Makes better use of 'dry,
poor and sandy sell than -any other
cer,eal, grain. It is also drought -
resistant.' Rye is used as feed for
hvestock, for flour, production and_
for the manufacture of ,whisky. In
Canada its primary use is for feed,
• but 'abOut 3oo-,000,bushelsare, mill-
ed annually into flour for bread -
making and about 750;000 bushels'
are used for distilling purposes.
Production, of rye in. Canada has
varied .frOin 8,000,000 to 28,00%000
bushels a year since the Second
World War: - ' "
When. Was the Nelson River,.
•. Discovered?
,Thxs 400 mile river, which drains
Lake Winnipeg. into Hudson Bay;
was , discovered in 1615 by Sir
Thomas' Button, Who named it af-
ter his sailing masthr 'who had died
orrAhe voyage. ,Its' mouth. j.n. flud-
son Bay was for many ,years the
scene • of ,bitter, -struggles for the
fur trade. The Nelson's' drainage
basin extends frcim the •-Rocky
IVIountains for noo miles from the
source, at the:Bow. RiVer; it in-
cludes the -Worth and South Sat::
katchewan Rivers, the Assinilioine
and the Red, with a total, arenex-
ceeding 440,000 square lanes, '
Where Does the IVIalemfite Come
, ' Front?
-Alaska: It is the oldest native
dog known there and itis one of
the feur distinct and 'recognized
breeds of, northern sled dogs or
huskies.. The others are tlie Eski-
mo, Samoyed and ,Siberian' husky.
The ,IVIalemute was, • originally
known as the Mahlemut, froni the
native tribe Innuit Mahlemnt. It is
about the same Weight and height
• as the „Eskirrio;-shoidder-height for
males ranges from .22 to 25hiches
and Weight from 65_ -to 55 pounds.
It has a• broad eyes set„
obliquely °in .the head. It carries
its plume tail over its back when
not working."TtieMalentute, May-
fly ,bened and'museled in the fore
and hind quarters, has large com-
pact feet with thick tough pads'
and a heavy growth of ,fur between
the toes.
When Was McGill a World Research
Centre in Atomic Physics?
, .
In the ear1Y. years of this cen-
tury, _when Ernest-Riitherford was
„
THE
A *DUFF OTTAWA REPORT
'A BAD DREAM FORGOTTEN.
•
TOKYO --The -dream-of World
conqdest by force is -only a distant
'memory now in the land of the
Rising, Sun, •'
Emperor Hirohito still rules from
the Imperial Palace and the eur-
rent prime .roinister is, a -man, who
served a term as..a war criniinal,
:But Japan has turned a full page
in its history and now the emphasi
is, on 'trade: . • •
' Sarprisingly, there is virtually no
bitterness . • over the two • atomic
bombs, and the systematic smashv
•ing of Japan's great citiesby Am-
erican bombers in World War' IT.
Nor is thereany sia°n of the catas-
trophic damage thebombs caused,
just 1.4 years ago.- Thanks in large
measure to the benevolent occ.upa-
tion of . General 'Douglas ,MacAr-
-thur, Americans are the object of
deep admiration among the Japan-
ese people,
. Juke boxes, a relatively recent
addition to the ` 'Japanese •scene,
blare, Atherican rock 'n' roll tunes
in terrifying high fidelity. The
neWspapers are full of .the gossip
• of Washington and news of other
foreign' lands , as seen. throngh Am-
erican eyes. . Tokyo's 'thlevisiOn
stations carry the latest episode of
„"Lassie" and other American' TV
potboilers -with Japanese dialogue
•dubbed in -when they're', not busy
with live coverage .of baseball; the
nation's most popular sport. • ,,
• The western -style ' hotels ---and
night clubs are doing' a roaring
busiiiess, catering to traders from
the four points of the conipass: .
• Arid " everybbcly is too busy . to
waste time talking anent the long -
forgotten war: To most Japanese
today, it's -just a bad dream that's
better banished from the memory.
Besides„ times are remarkably,
The •cost of living 'has remained,
almost constant 'since the freezing_
of the currency during the occupa-
tion years., But ,the standard of
living has "shot up to a remarkable
degree Tt's_Istin • far ,1)101,17„, the
American or Canadian standard:
The average. Japanese considers
himself fortunate to take home a
monthly pay packet of $70, which
• doesn't go far on the purchase of
a new car In' even a television set.
But it keeps him well-fed on the
Japanese diet . and leaves a little
over for travel on the remarkably
cheap services of the Japan Na-
tional Railways. ,
. The' Japanese are not a nation
of large families. The' economy
•still doesn't permit it, and the
hard facts of geography' are
• against it too. There just isn't
room for many more But •ton,
versely, the crowded Japanese
can't he persuaded to move. Im-
• migration barriers haVe been low-
ered for years in 'Brazil and other,
South American' countries. " There
it even land to spare in the north-
ern , island of Hokkaido. .But the,
• millions still prefer to cluster to-
gether along the • balniy, • Pacific
shore of rriairdand Honshu. '
•There, are 9,000,000 of them in
noisy, dusty, ;brassy Tokyo, now
the world's largest -city. Another
11,000;000 live withinthe reablr of,
'the -Tr transmitters on Tokyo
Tower,-;„. _a ,rePtita,- .the , •'Eiffel
ui
Tower Paris. Yokohoma, Osaka,.
,
professor otphysicS at the:Mon-
treal UniVersity. Born in New Zea-
land in 1871 and. -educated-there
and at. Cambridge, Itiitherford be-
gan his -teaching career as.IVIcGill's
Macdonald prefessor, Of physics
from '1898 to 1907. In 1902=03, in
collaboration With Frederic:lc Sod-
dy of the chemistry department7,
vvhoin 1921 -won the Nobo. prize for,
eliemistry-he copcincted eXperi-
rnents in radiation. The statement
of his hypothesis of. the '-spontan-
eous disintegration of' '•atoniS
hrought hilt( wide recognition and
made McGill for the. time hehig
the world centre of Thretearch 'in
atomic 'physics, besides giving an:
unprecedented inipetith to physical
researeh throughout Canada. Tn
1908 Rutherford wen the Nebel
prize for chemistry and in 1925 he
received the -Order of Merit. He
went from ',McGill to Manchester
thiiVersitY and thea returned to
Cambridgeas director of the Cav-
endish Laboratory. Rutherford,.
knighted' - the year 1914 And
created' Baron Rutherford in. 1931,
Wats a.founder• Of atomic physics
and •A 'world' authority on radioac,
tivity. fdietl-hr London in:1937.
,
YEARS
From The Huron Expositor
• September 14, 1934
George McClure, teenage son of
Mr.": and Mrs.' Roger McClure, lac -
=op, Suffered a brokeh wrist
early Thersday afternoon. when
throvvn from his bicycle on North
Main Si. Young McClure,who is a
student at Seaforth:Collegiate.filsti-
tute, was coi his way to school
when Beverley Beaton, six-year-old
son of Mt. and Mrs. Beverley Bea-
ton, ran in front of the bicycle. In
avoiding iiim, McClure .waS throvvii
from his 'Wheelth resulting in-
juries.
Principal G A Ballantyne "an-
nounced this Week the winners of
the scholarships , presented by 'the
Seaforth Collegiate for excellence
ill seven 'Upper SchooLpapers. Miss
Winnie Savauge wom the first prize
of $25 in Cash', and-; Miss ,Iessie
Smith., second, $15 in cash. James
Stott, who had previously this year
won the S.C.I. Alumni 1VIerriorial
Scholarship, ranked third
Rete are-scimetornatoes for. arna.
teur gardeners to ,abn at, and all
three grown by Mr, 3ohn Purcell in
his garden on Market St. One is a
beautiful yellow, rneasnring latizx
11 in.chn..and Weighing one pound.
The other two Were a the red var-
iety, measuring 111/2X1.4 inches and
, weighing brie pound sin ounces,
and the other is 12iAx12 inehes
weighs one poundtwoounces,
• While worMng at tile Bell Engine
and Thresher Co. plant on. .Thurs-
day of -last Week,: Ernest Geddes
suffered painful' injuries, to,bis eye
Splashing metal 'caused..., serious
burl*, which necessitated medical
attention,
• .
AGONE,
Nagoya, Kobe and Kyoto are all*,
in, ,the million -plus category,
."Little" Hiroshima, with a pOpii,
lation of 400,000, is building fast. :
and -regaining its positieil as the
industrial' centre of the southwest. .
.Thatts- the tame population it had
before 'August 6,.1945„ when a sin, ;
gle aterniebonib killed 240,000 per-
sons, injured 160,000 Others - and re-
duced 60per cent of the city to.
Only ' one . building- reinains •in
-ruins to Mark the day the atomic,
age began. A Modern ;American-
style 'hotel now Stands near the
.hypo -centre of the A-blatt, Sur. •
rounding it is a --peaceful green
park, dotted with monuments .arid
gay Japanese lanterns, where 14 "
years. ago there Was only death: '
'Nagasaki, the target of atortic
;bomb NO., 2 threetlays later, has
made the 'same remarkable re-
covery. And, there, aS- in 'Hiro, '
shima, the talk is not about War;
but the 'necessity for Peace. '
Nagasaki- was • lucky, ' The , sur,
roiinding' high hills' confined the
damage to one crowded area,leav-
ing the rest, of the .eitY almost un,
'scratched. But the toll Was still
high .by any ,standard. Mere than'
.73,000 People, died; %another 74,000
were harped Or. infected by radia:
, And Japap learned hard- that -its 'I
dream of, World conquest byforce
was a terrible mistake,. A mistake
it doesn't want to repeat. •
NoW -the nation. of 90,000,000 is.
.set on 'a new course of honorable
trading, in quality' goods at a lea,
,sbnable .price. The new Course is
paying, off handsomely.
The' air 'age .. has made .its in-
roads. Toda,y Japari is only eleven
hours away' from Canada't
fic coast, when the wind is right, -
and the influx. of tourist dollars,. is,
'becoming an important part of the ,
Japanese economy. Most ef the
„tra.ffic'is, frorn.,:the__United States,_,
but a -growing member/ of -Cana..
diaris a'r,e making-7We journey,Tand
finding it thoraughly worthwhile,
' For-J-aparir only,41--years ago -a •
, hated. enemy, .shows _promise today -
-of becoming a strong and :depend.
able 'friend On the. rim, Of. _Gene,
monist .Asiaan, ',area • where we
need all the friends we Can make'.
,
, A Tourist's Notes: Japanese
taxis are probably the 'eheap-ist,..
and perhaps the most frightening,
transportation anywhere. ',Six 19...
Yeri pieces, abont 16 cents; will take •
you :on a hair-raising, ridethrough
dense traffic ',that the. imagy
ination. The law -says "Keep Left",
but an side of the' street will do,
for Japan's suicide drivers . •
The trains .are fast; 'cheap, and in-. ,
variably right on. time, but accorn,
'itiodation is poor and oVertrowd....
ing ,fierce . .' 'Bring' ,your 'own
,soap. and ',towels.. They're seldom
supplied . Tired of expensive
haircuts?.:1'folcyo barbers will .give
you, a , a shave and an unix. '
• terniptect view of televitiOn base, -
ball for' the princely sum,of ,25.
cents., Botzbthei-things are xpen,
sive- 'Butter and coffee each cost
• in the neighborhood of $2 a pound,
gaSoline about 60 „cents: a gallon.
• '
FALL-$PRAY1NGr
Generally- Speaking the' beSt
,time, to spray weeds is early'in
the ,season; and, for ' ,ammal weeds.'
this. means in the 'Spring.' .But '•
-many of thetroublesome weeds are
biennials and a'rein their .Seedling, , •
stage an' 'late summer and _early
fall. Examples of such weds .are
wild carrot, yellow roeket, pasture
'thistles- and Mani, of the, knalN•
weeds..
The Field Crops Branch,. of the
Ontario 'Department Of Agriculture
,reports that fallspraying, affects,
these Weeds at their nno.st, suscep-
Stage. In„ pastures .,and- • on .
roadsides, .grass • groWth:;, „at, this •
period provides les' cover for 'the
Weeds: ,These..tW6 factors .cornhine
to make it good dollar-andhceitts.
propositiOn to use the spraYer..in
-the fall ,aswell- as in the spring
•In the ;ease Of resistant peren,
such as leafy spurge, Canada
Thittle, and sow thistle, a. spraying_
in the. spring 'does only liall:p. job.
Fall spraying more than doubles
the effectiveness, of spraying -as a,
control measure. In addition, to
killing, or weakening weeds, fall
'spraying. interferes- -With-normal.
hardening -off for - -winter.. Many
vireeds that.wouldnormillY survive :
ere 'winter killed. following .a fall
• Interesting items gleaned from
The littron Expositor of. 25, 50
and 75 years ago. -
E '
om e uron xpositor
September 17, 1909 •
• Mr. William Scott, of Goderich
St, had his- valuable driving horse
sericnisly lajured in a barbed wire'
fence last week-
• Mr. James S. Smithrof Winthrop,
recently sold his Shorthorn bull to
Mr. James G. McMichael. Mr. .Me.
'Michael' took the aninial to Toron-
to, Where it was Ole best in a class
of '30, and brought three-quarters
of a cent per pound Acre than any
other bull on, the market. •
On 1VIondaY 'morning last Mr. T.
S. Blue's delivery herse was stand-
ing in front of the store when an
automobile' tame along. The ani-
mal became frightened and bolted
onto the sidewalk, where it slipped
and fell, seriously injuringitsell.
We are pleased tp learn that Mr.
George joynt, of "Hentall, intends
reopening, the evaporator' for this
season on Monday with -a large
staff of hands. ' .
_ Mr. Alex. McKenzie, of Eipnen,
is having his workshop overhauled,
and improved. 1,1Ie" it having a
cm -Ant foundation placed under it
and Mere roomeriade for his ever
hicreasing business, . 6'" •-
• As we mentioned last week, the
'change in the firm tontrolling the
Seaford' flour nailis to the Seaforth
• Milling Co. Ltd.means a ednsid,
i
erable increase n the storage an
milling capacity. A.itmnb.er of the
extensiOns and lint4roverrients ,will
be,proteede4 with at once; To the
west of the present mill'and' along-
side the railway wM be erected a
storage shed, about 200 feet long,
Froni The Huron Expositor
' September 19,1884 ,
Mr, „Henry Cash, of .
had in town the other day a ,
ple of Democrat wheat whieh was,
tested • at Therapson.'s' Mill and '
weighed 65, pone& to " the bushel,
Mr, Cash says it will average" 49
bushels of clean wheat per.adre.
Dr_ c.Coleman. offers his Jots on.
Main Street for, market purposes -
for $1,300; whieh is very reason-
able.- • •
• Mr. Francis Murphy, Of the Hur-
on Road, lithbert, has purchased
the 50 acres adjoining his own
farm frein Mr.. Themes, McCann,
paying therefor the sum Of $2,900.
There are no buildings on the place.
On Wednesday afternoon of last
week the liarn-of Mr. MelVlillain On
lot 19, eoncession 3, Hullett, was
discovered to be on fire; but the
flames had gained such headway ,
that nothing could be done to stay '
them, anclisthe-barn and adjoining'
stables and sheds, with'their con-
tent, were completely ' destroyed.
It is ziot knoWn how' the fire orig.-
S. G. IVIcCatighey ,and Win -Log-
an have entered into 'partnership
for the purpose of carrying Ona
private banking *business in this
town. They have 'leased the prem-
ises formerly occulded by the old
RoyarCanadian Bank, and are hay,
Mg them 'fitted up And put in good
shape.
Mr. D, O'Erien has sold his farm
on the 6th,COnCOS 1011 Of Tucker-, -
smith to Mr; WM. reening for the
Sun). of $0,50. ,The farm contains,
whichNM have a storage, tapacity 1Ooaers and has on it good frame
for 1,800 barrels of flour. •'