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The Huron Expositor, 1974-03-07, Page 4p All _... • I x 171"Ill 1441t4 Ilt#XI ? ITM aPFpl$M M114KH 7.197coupleG � 411;1w a. Wool' auction,1, , '.. tri'Austrr�� ate (Mrs. Bewley and her husband, Canadian had been the last day in other rooms for a total of „..ansi.a hot dry wind blows down might bead rent 'alio! We-' Walt, Spent a month visiting their driver! We -started out for Bolac over ten thqusand bales. Geof had from the north, the danger is didn't see any but tht<y;fiald they r4 daughter_,._and_, son-in-law in with Watt driving, Marie, seven differept grades for a total great. The least spark could burn were common, poisonous and • Australia this fall,) ' Carman and 1 as map -readers and of 4.2 bales. The prices were good out the whole country, Everyone about four feet long. ' By Jean Bewley back-seat drivers. in Australia, so everybody was happy - it was a ploughs firebreaks of between Not far from Xarum Park, we they drive on the opposite side of good time to visit! During the late eight and ten feet around their saw an echidna.,(spiny anteater) the road, signs are in different sixties, wool prices had been very fields and the sheep keep the churn its way down into the 1# places and the car on your right poor and sheep farmers were paddock around the buildings ground to get away from us; a As we continued down the has the right of way regardless. 'seriously considering more clipped very close so a fire can be kangaroo jump out on the road in Hume Highway, toward Stop signs are scarce and diversified farming but with the kept away from the buildings. front of us and birds of all polours, Melbourne (over 500 miles) wt everybody seems to know where prices of last year and this, they At Xarum Park, one of the large and small. This was about saw more fields under cultivation they are going. uckily, we made will probably remain the way they largest farms around, near the 14 or 15 miles from where Mary Y - t and more sheep, some sheared it out of the city and on to the are. Grampian Mountains, where the and Wayne live. and some not. There were fields Western Highway which, Geof's sheep are Merino, risk of fire is great, they have a L . completely covered with purple « w according to our map would lead raised mainly for their wool, but, total of 600 acres ploughed as fire ",x�*�„ flowers with no green whatever us to Lake Bolac. take it from us, the meat is breaks - of course the farm itself GENE4AL showing. We argued whether it Mary and Wayne rent the delicious too, is 23,000 acres. It carries 29,000 ,1 y� y.r had been planted or not unfHwe second. house on a sheep farm Joe Arnold, nearby, raised sheep and 2,000 Hereford cattle. ACCOUNN� '�r saw a mountain completely Choradales which are a These Herefords are beautiful t ;a located between Lake Bolac and covered. In one field, we saw a Wiliaura, two small villages about crossbreed and are bred for both animals and bulls are sold all over g SERVICE lone steer in the middle of a twice as big as Walton. meat and wool, • One of his Australia, The owner was a - purple field. Later we were told That evening just as we were problems - when they get fat and millionaire who also owned that it was a weed and toxic to almost ready to sit down to their wool is long, if they are department stores so the farm INCOME TAX cattle but harmless to sheep. We dinner, there was a knock at thechased and fall, rolling on their i as really a hobby. The sheep �r really should have stopped and door and Geof and Marg Bygrave back, they cannot get back on produced about 99 bales of wool Returns prepared. Account, put that steer out of the field as he and their children arrived, Geof their feet. They must be checked each year and that money was all ing Assistance for Small is probably dead by now. 2 c carrying a Passion Fruit cake and often or the mortality rate is high. invested back in the farm. Businesses, Before we crossed the border g p Forest Fires Mar a Pavlova (a most delicious The paddocks are checked each c„ into the State of Victoria, they 9 g The Laidlaw's gave us a tour of R. RIGHj Australia dessert). This was our morning for weak lambs, sick �. ; • : , „ kept warning us to eat any fresh fruit we had in our possession or First real experience of Australian sheep etc. If a lamb is too weak to Yarum Park which was quite close o hospitality and it continued for protect itself, the crows will pick to their farm and at the foot of the else dispose of it. Apparently the remainder of our visit. out its eyes even before it dies. Of 76 Market Street there are no fruit flies in Victoria Y Grampians. The scenery was and the will not allow fresh fruit Sheep Farm course the crows do good too as beautiful. If it weren't for the Box 542, Seaforth Y p they dispose of dead animals. forest fire threat, it would be an PHONE 527-.1086 from the north to come in, in case Life on a sheep farm was No Winter th b ' fl' ith th thrillin Driftin draft in ideal place to live. The snakes a ma a amp oyees mus use e stairs. I'll bet the women's ey ring some les w em. When we reached the border, the g• g, g" dipping, crutcbing, shearing - all We thought how nice it would% be to live in a country with no work. A good shearer can make bus and everybody in it, was were foreign to us. Rick and winter - no hay to take off in the harvest and the wild grass grows sprayed. David (sheep dogs) were real summer - just enjoy the warm ° ,. • The Maternity Hospital has a Since we were only in experts at herding sheep. All weather, They take off hay in while holding a sheep with once g P Melbourne for two nights and one Geof needed, to do was whistle November and often are feeding the Australian climate. day, we didn't see too much of it. and the order was carried out. it the same time as we are. Their ' t of threeand, a,half � acres of glace ?lectocall� prated and w the y . f7i'ey fiad� coli ms `with''the" lass o' Bratton we saw A£ '� "' p Iniad four The buildings are more Rick could even pick out a sheep seasons are different though. about forest fires. if there isn't 1 weathered than in Sidney and infested with blow flies (maggots) Some years, they don't have to i a they ' can have four seasons many are built of bluestone rather and hold it until Geof arrived to use any but if it is hot and dry and farmer must see that he has than sandstone, which of course, treat it. I'm afraid we sometimes they become short of pasture; moment to place an Expositor makes them look darker. Like held back the work as Rick's only 'they must feed hay. Last year Everything is either bigger or Sidney, wrought iron has been vice was a desire to be in every many had to and their supplies MACDONALD .BRIER?- No these curlers and the spectator above them watching used extensively as fences or picture. David, the younger dog were low so everybody was through the glass are at the Junior Farmers' Curling Bonspiel held in the curling decoration on older houses. never stopped working. They getting ready to cart hay when we club on Saturday. Broomball teams were competing at the same time Saturday in Originally it had been used as always work in pairs and the older left. It has been fairly wet this the Community Centre. y ballast in ships but later it was trains the younger. year so they will not use too much manufactured. The amount of The Bygraves had made but it will keep until next year, ° wrought iron trimming on your arrangements to see different stored in opensided buildings. house denoted social standing. sheep farms at different stages. They grew grain too - Geof had .. One tall building is equipped The thing that really made our about 200 acres of wheat and oats with a glass -encased staircase trip was the fact that everyone and it was a beautiful crop - - �.:. about 10 stories high. There is went on with their work and let -us shoulder high and thick. The oats only one lift in the building so see them just as' they were. No have wider leaves than ours and consequently there is a ruling that one seemed self-conscious, just the grain itself is heavier -about. 11 1 I f th ke t ri ht on with their work a ma a amp oyees mus use e stairs. I'll bet the women's p g Shearing .,is back-br caking 44 lbs. to the bushel. They don't have to buy grass seed just leave, �5- libbers didn't complain about work. A good shearer can make the field for a few months after that! $50 a day, every day of the year harvest and the wild grass grows Maternity Hospital and he earns every cent of it, in abundance. Joe is expert- ° ,. • The Maternity Hospital has a working in a bent -over position menting with a field of lucerne large statue of a green stork in �, ''�1�, •c � . ,t•, g g while holding a sheep with once g P (alfalfa) to see how it will fare in t�k�. ✓ y���'& front of it. Appropriate, eb! hand and using the shears with the Australian climate. k r�` Another large building has a total �,.• i"v: g g the other. The shears are At Christmas, when we are ' t of threeand, a,half � acres of glace ?lectocall� prated and w the y . f7i'ey fiad� coli ms `with''the" lass o' Bratton we saw A£ '� "' p Iniad four w grried about snow, they ; wo;Fy r ,' p g .• • # falling out due to changes in the 'shearers working at once. They about forest fires. if there isn't 1 a � R•,r •�� 'k ,�, weather. Our guide told us that cannot shear sheep that, are 'wet' too much rain for a week or two . i a they ' can have four seasons so if it is a rainy season, the e weather in one day andI believe farmer must see that he has Remember ! It takes but a him. The day we were there, it enough sheep under cover, to keep moment to place an Expositor r changed hourly. them going -otherwise he has to Want Ad and be money in pocket. Everything is either bigger or pay the shearers whether they To advertise, just Dial Seaforth higher than its counterpart in work or not. A week of rainy 527-0240. TRIP TO NEW YORK- Anna Lee Stevenson right daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Stuart Sidney or else the one they are weather can make quite a Stevenson of R.R.2, Brussels will be taking a two week.trip to the United Nations building will be higher when it is difference to the profits when you done. - Just like Toronto, and are 'paying several shearers and the Eastern U.S. and Canada this summer. Anna Lee won first place in the Montreal! wages and not getting anything Oddfellows and Rebekah Lodges, Huron District, public speaking contest in Clinton They haved -elm . trees in done. last week: The fifteen year-old student at Seaforth D.H.S. talks with her mother, Melbourne and the were just' The wool is graded, baled, left and Mr, and Mrs. James Rose of Egmoridville following her win. coming out in leaf in October. We ' weighed in kilos and stamped didn't go near them - I hope we right on the farm, then shipped to weren't carrying any Dutch Elm a wool sale. Bob and Geof sent Brussels girl wins UN tri germs. Here's hoping they don't their to Dalgetty 's in the city of g p get the disease, then when we get Geelong on, the. coast west of it under control we will be able to Melbourne. They took us to the i n IOOF-Rebekah con to s t , import some trees. sale the day their wool was sold. � The next m orning, four of the That was a real experience! In the � most frightened people in, morning we saw the,wool on � ome Anna Lee Stevenson, A Grade subject was the Value of Grass, School Australia went down to Avis car display - every bale was open for pe 10 student at Seaforth District and Ladders for her impromptu Anna Lee Stevenson, by rental in downtown Melbourne to inspection. Buyers from all over Vigh School, won over eight other speech. winning first place, will be one of pick up our rented station wagon. the world could be seen looking, c'bffal, ontestants in the public speaking Other contestants were: Don 30 High School students from Perhaps we should have gone to smelling, snapping it between contest in Clinton Wednesday Meladv. R.R.2. Dublin, a Grade across Ontario who will spend a the park where they had their fingers then makingweretooh night sponsored by the 10 student at Seaforth District two-week holiday in Jul vision miniature streets laid out notations in their books. Thev told Independent Order of Oddfellows High School:. Barbara' Ratz, New York and they United complete with lights, where us that the wool in that one huge and the Rebekah Lodges of Huron R.R.3, Dashwood, a Grade 11 Nations, Gettysburg and classes of school children were room was worth about three District, student at South Huron Washington in the United States taken to learn road sense and million dollars. Anna Lee, the fifteen year-old Secondary School; . Ernest and Montreal and Granby in rules by riding three-wheelers Wool Auction Others say Were conservative. Most daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Quebec. Students from the other through all the different traffic That afternoon, the Dalgety g McMillan, GoGoderi a Grade I] situations. Much to our relief, the auctioneersold 963 bales in lots of. people see us as unbiased, which is what Stevenson of R.R.2, Brussels, student at Goderich District provinces of Canada and across p p • spoke on The Child Abusers in station wagon already had dints from one to 28 bales. There were P Collegiate; Cathy Madill, Blyth a the United States participate in in both front fenders ' maybe a two other companies selli'n that we try to be You can rel on What her prepared speech and on Grade 10 student at Central similar programs., Y P g Y Friends in her impromptu speech. Huron Secondary School, Clinton; The judges were Rev; John you read in the EXpo'sitor. The runner-up was Kathy and Lorry York, Bayfield, a Grade 0estreicher of Clinton; Mrs. DeJong, 15, of Centralia, a'Grade 10 student at Central Huron Margaret Robinson of Zurich and ARNOLD STiNNiSSEN 11 student at South . Huron Secondry School; Flora r John Boyne of .Listowel. TO 13llibSeri'be fill Out the COtipoll. Secondary School in Exeter, Her Nabrotzky. Teeswater, a Grade II LIFE —HEALTH and ACCIDENT ^� a tud t t F E M d'll S d Alex Meikle of Exeter Huron"a. Now* of McKillop Correspondent Mrs. Ed Regele Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Regele were Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Preszcator and Barbara: and Lorna, Brenda and Barbie Glanville of Crediton and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Glanville of Mitchell - Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hoff of Seaforth visited with Joy Hopper on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Regele visited with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Regele last Tuesday evening. Mr, Edgar Elligsen has re- turned' home from Stratford Hospital where he underwent surgery. Mrs. William Roe. who has been -a patient in Seaforth Community Hospitai, has re- turned to her home in Stratford. s en a a i econ my Registered Retirement Pensions School, Wingham: and Barbara District Deputy Grand Master ofIncome Tax Deauctable Registered' a 'Box 69 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO Ryan, R.R.1, Bluevale, a Grade District No. 8, IOOF, was Retirement Annuities. 10 student F.E.Madill Secondary chairman for the evening.— REPRESENTING — , z 1 w �� women teachers meet 400 women teachers from alt h ld h B F over Ontario met at the Westbury Hotel in Toronto on Friday evening, February 22, Saturday and Sunday to discuss change in society. The conference was sponsored by the Federation of Women Teachers' Association of Ontario. Attending from this area were Mrs. Doreen Oesch of Zurich . Public School; Mrs. Margery Huether of Brussels School, Mrs. Sandra Morris of Usborne School - and Mrs. Evelyn Merrill of Blyth School. Speakers included women's rights advocate Laura ' Sabia, Ontario NDP Leader Stephen Lewis, medical writer Joan Hollobon, McMaster professor .fatties Daly, Dr. Goicoechea and others. A vanipl disucssion was I wit arbara rum of CBC as moderator. W.I. Notes The Seaforth Women's Insti- tute will meet Tuesday. MaFA 12 at 1,;30 p.m. at the home of Nits. Lorne Lawson. This is the Citizenship and World Affairs meeting in charge of Mrs. Ross McGregor and Mrs. Lorne Dale, Mayor Frank Sills will be guest speaker discussing "Work on the Council." Roll call, Citizenship is a lot of little things, name one. Motto, Citizenship like charity begins at home. 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