HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-08-25, Page 3THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
Hensail Onion Growers
Object to U.S. Surplus
Many Growers Race Loss as Price
Forced to New Low
lief, T. C. Joynt stated that many
woqld be forced to apply to the mun
icipal authorities if the dumping duty
was not put back on. Mr. Joynt said
he had received word from the On
tario Minister of Agriculture that he
would make representation to the
Dominion Government to replace this
duty.
Schoolboy Howlers
Following is a list of schoolboy
howlers compiled from replies by
students to questions on examina
tion questions:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1038
MARKET IS FLOODED Blames Knowledge Lade
(By Eric McVeity in the Toronto
Globe and Mail)
A igrass widow is the wife of a dead
vegetarian.
What was Adam’s punishment?
He was to keep Eve.
My father has been decapitated
for a number of years.
Wrigley’s Gum helps you keep fit!
Relieves that stu^y feeling after
eating. Cleanses crevices between
teeth, too... assures sweet breath.
A simple aid to health!
Buy some now! Small in cost
but oig in benefits! Enjoy it after
every meal—millions ao! cs-m
50 YEARS AGO
August 23, 118181
Times is sixteen years old to-
Because of a lack of knowledge on
the part of the Federal Government
scores of tons of Dutch Sett onions,
representing some $(8,000 in seed and
labor value, lie rotting in bushes
around here. In one case a well 25
feet deep has been filled with last
year’s crop and left to decay.
Local growers and warehouses
were seeking a way to abandon their
stores of onions because the home
market was flooded with over 100
tons of Dutch ’Sett onions, the sur
plus crop of the United States onion
districts, growers say. Such is the
plight of this 450 square mile district
regarded as the most productive
ion growing land in Ontario.
on-
James Oke shipped from the Blame Government
The
day,
Mr,
Exeter station last Thursday two
car-loads of fine cattle for Montreal.
A number of young folk of Exeter
spent a very pleasant day at Bay-
field on Civic Holiday.
The barn and other buildings be
longing- to> McCormick ■ Bros., of
Khiva were struck by lightning and
burned to the ground on Thursday
night.
Mr. Wm. Balkwill shipped a car
load of sheep east last Saturday.
about,
Feder-
Oh e
on-
re-
the
“I don’t thing the Government re
alizes what it is all about. I would
like to see Mr. King spend a day in
these fields when the temperature
is uP -around 90 degrees. If he had
to get down on his knees for hours
and weed these beds and then at
the end of the season find he could
not -get the cost of the seed out of
the crop he would soon put the duty
back on again,” said Mr. Joynt, who
added that he is a Conservative in
politics but a great admirer of Prem-
ier Mitohell Hepburn, another onion
grower.
Henry Phyle says he has been a
cripple since he was 13 years of age.
Last year he sowed and harvested a
ton of Dutch Sett onions. The seed
cost him $1<4 and he and his wife
seeded and tended the crop all sum
mer. This spring rather than throw
his crop- away, he was forced to sell
the whole harvest for $10, he said.
Paul Boa,
wise makes a
to his home,
ters of a ton
he was unable to sell them and fill
ed a 25-foot well with
seed for the crop dost
borhood of $12.
T. C. Joynt planted
last year and told his two’teen-age
sons that if they cultivated the crop
it would be divided three ways. The
cr^p was cultivated, harvested, but
when it came to marketing, said Mr.
Joynt, there wasn’t anything to di
vide three ways.
Every grower in the district had
substantially the same story to tell
When interviewed. While they have
not abandoned their crops this year,
much will depend upon the fall -and
spring markets as to whether onions
will continue to be the most produc
tive crop in this district.
The male ostrich sits on the nest
eggs for hours, during the day, while
during the night he watches
ily.
Taxes are things what
won't pay. They are used
the roads nice,
his fam-
people
to keep
Milk is very good for babies. It
keeps them quiet while mother has
a gossip.
The Arctic Circle is the circle in
the Arctic region where it is day
all day long.
A -stethescope is a spy-glass for
looking into people’s chests with
your ears.
A mosquito is the child of black
and white parents.
! 25 YEARS AGO
August 2*8, 1913
thisMr. Wm. May was in Toronto
week -on business.
Mrs. S. Fitton, who has been vis
iting with friends in Winnipeg re
turned home last week.
Miss Ollie Quance and Miss Maud
Rollins have returned from attend
ing the millinery opening at Toron
to.
Mr. W. C. Rivers has recovered
from iliis recent illness.
iRussell Balkwill, son of W. A.
Balkwill has left for Forest where
he wil enter the Bank of Commerce
as Junior Clerk. ~
Mr. Frank Johns returned to To
ronto on Tuesday. He was accom
panied by his mothei’ Mrs. Welling
ton Johns while Mr. Joihns is visit
ing in Jackson, Mich.
Miss Allie ,Handford spent Wed
nesday in London, wilas Reed re
turned with her and will visit here
for a time.
•Mrs. R. N. Rowe left Monday
Visit with relatives in Clinton.
Mr. and M.rs. W. S. Howey are
Toronto this week.
to
in
15 YEARS AGO
won
They
wins.
gave
but
to get in tihe money.
L. Day Sr., and daughter
Day returned home last
after spending several weeks
All this has been brought
the growers say, because the
al Government last year lifted
dumping duty on United States
ions. In lifting the tariff, those
sponsible failed to realize that
United States crops were one to two
months ahead of the Ontario crops
and that there was a difference be
tween Dutch Sett onions and the -con
tention of growers who were inter
viewed in the district.
The ^Federal Customs officials are
examining reports from Hensail that
farmers are suffering severely from
an onion influx from the United
States, particularly Dutch Setts. So
far as is known at present no pre
vious complaint has been received
nor has there been any demand for
the impositions of the dump duty
against Dutch Setts. It was put on
in 1931, but taken off tihe same day
and there has never been any de
mand for it since. The valuation
for duty purposes was placed on on
ions on June 28th this year for On
tario and Quebec, for Manitoba and
the West July 1.2th, and it went into
effect-August 16th in the Maritimes
Ic applies generally to commercial
onions, the dates being set to meet
climatic and production seasons in
the three areas.
It costs in the neighborhood of 4
cents a pound to produce Dutch Setts
say growers. This price allows only
a margin sufficient to take care -of
hired labor, yet because of the flood
ing of the market by the United
.States growers prices went down to
ZL cent a pound, and as is evidenced
by the mounds of rotting onions, it
was impossible to give tihem away.
According to Fred W. Smallacombe
of Hensail, who is regarded as the
“father of the onion growing indus
try” here, the authorities failed to
specify, whqn they lifted the dump
ing duty, what type of onion sih-ould
be exempt, but included all types ol'
onions. The importation of the
large commercial onion would not
have previously affected the home
market, but when no protecting was
afforded the Dutch Sett, a small on
ion like a large marble used for
green onions and seed for the large
onion, the bottom fell out of t'he
home market.
Miss
Sat-
Forced to Compete
The opposite
is a downright,
idiot but B is a
of an upright man
A is an upright
downright idiot.
Milk is chiefly brought in tins' hut
it also grows in cocoanuts and goats.
When is the best time for picking
apples? On Sunday afternoon when
the folks is in church.
A sincere friend is one who
nasty things to your face.
says
Hospital Costs in Huron
Are
By C. H. O. in Stratford Beacon-
Herald
who traps and other-
living and contributes
havrested three-quar-
of onions. He declares
the crop. The
in the neigh-
over an acre
CLINTON—Mr. A. T. Cooper, who
underwent an operation foi’ appen
dicitis in Clinton hospital was suffici-
iently recovered as to be removed
to his hoime on Wednesday afternoon
LEIGH—GREAVES
At Obe home of the officiating
minister, Rev. -Duncan McTavish, of
■London, the marriage was solemn
ized of Helen Elizabeth Greaves,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Greaves
of Lonodn, to Stanley Russell Leigh,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Leigh,
of Lucan. The bride wore a white
suit with white accessories. After
a trip the couple will reside on Cart
wright street, (London.
millions in paper profits the farmers
were getting big prices for what they
sold . , . But two months later the
bottom had fallen o-dt of things and
the depression had arrived « , And,
as far as we can determine, it Is
stil with us.
Nine years ago Friday hogs were
bringing the farmer $14.50 while
they are bringing $12.25 in Strat
ford . . , Wheat was selling at
$1,30 a bushel and today it is worth
around 60 cents . . . Oats were sell
ing at 6'0 cents and today they are
25 cents , . . Barley was 75 cents
a bushel and now it is bringing 40
cents ... Eggs were 40 cents a dozen
and butter was 42 cents for the best
grade. Now eggs are 26 cents for
Grade A and butter is 23 cents . .
Lamb^ were selling at $13 in August
1929,.and today they are quoted at
around $8.50 ... All of which
gives you an idea of how the farm
er has fared since the days of '29.
Church Meetings
August 23, 1*923
A rink of bowlers from town
the first prize at tihe Blyth bowling
tournament on Wednesday of last
week. The prizes were silver cake
dishes. The rink was comprised of
E. J. Wethey, Geo. Snell, Dr. Roul-
ston and C. B. 'Snell, skip,
were the only rink with four
Two other rinks from Exeter
a good account of themselves
failed
Mr.
Mary
urday
at !Sault Ste. Marie.
■ Messrs. J. G. Stanbury, R. N.
Creech, Chas. Pilon, Kenneth .Stan
bury and Tom Pryde motored to the
Bigwin Hotel, Muskoka, where the
latter two joined the Boy Scout camp
there and will act as caddies on the
golf course there. While there they
witnessed the b'ig fire that destroy
ed the Wawa Hotel Sunday morning.
Master Ted Taman is holidaying
in Detroit.
Mrs. Clark Fisher and family Mrs.
Wm. Baker, Mrs. Beo. Hirtzel, Mrs.
Alvin Baker and daughter have been
camping at “Detroit Cottage” Grand
Bend.
The Horitcultural Society Flowei’
Show will be held on Friday and
Saturday in the Public Library to
which the public is invited.
Miss Alice Handford and Miss May'
Jones have returned ihome after a
■delightful trip up the lakes on the
S. S. Noronic. '
Twin Cities and
luth. They also
Detroit on their
■Mr. and Mrs.
companied by Mrs. E.
mortored to Toronto and Belleville.
there were sold at 1 to
pound, while local- grow-
themselves confronted
and seed costs of 3 to 4
They visited at the
went as far as Du-
spent a few days in
■ return.
W. W. Taman ac-
J. Spackman
Summer Complaint
Few1 people, especially children,
escape an attack of summer com
plaint, but let it go for a day or
two only and see how weak and
prostrate it will leave you.
The quickest and safest way to
get rid of it is to go immediately
to your drug or general store and
got a bottle of Dr. Fowler’s Extract
of Wild Strawberry,
This bowel complaint remedy has
been on the market for the past 92
years. You do not experiment when
you use it. Bo Sure and get ”Dr.
Fowler’s” and feel safe.
Tho T, Milburn Oo., Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
By the time the United states
growers have harvested.and market
ed their crops, the Ontario crops are
about ready for harvesting, stated
Mr. Smallacombe. This means that
unless the grower is under contract
for his crop he must, now that the
dumping duty is off, compete with
the surplus crops of the United
States. The United States growers
having supplied their own market
find that it is best to sell tliei-r sur
plus at any -price and, as happened
this spring
25 cents a
ers found
with labor
cents a pound.
T. C. Joynt, local merchant and
grower, stated that to make a profit
the grower should realize 7 to 8
cents a pound for Dutch Setts in the
spring after storing them all win
ter, or at least 5 cents a pound in
the fall when they are harvested.
Unless a protective tariff is put on
imported Dutch Setts the (growers of
the Hensail district stand to lose
tons and tons again, and must aban
don the growing of Dutch Setts al
together.
Price Tumbles
Twenty years ago, remarked Fred
Smallacombe, he had 200 growers
under contract for a large seed house
the growers were paid 6 cents a lb.
for their Dutch Setts, yet today with
prices ranging from 1 to 2 1-2 cents
a pound, there is no difference
the retail price Of t'he onions.
Just what the onion crop means
the growers -of this district may
realized from the fact that nearly
every farmer in. this 450-squaro-mile
district grows from one to ten tons
of onions. To many the onion crop
is the main crop, and unless tihey
are under contract to some large seed
house they must sell on the open
market.
While Hensall has no ono On re-
W, M. S. Meeting
Tihe W.M.8. of the United church
met in the s’chool room of the church
on Thursday afternoon last and
held their monthly meeting. There
was a splendid attendance of mem
bers 'present. Mrs. w. B. Cross,
president, very ably presided. The
meeting opened with.* hymn 85, fol
lowed by the Lord’s prayer in uni
son. The devotional leaflet “Social
Welfare” was given
•McDonnell. Prayer
Mrs. Wm. Dougall.
read aand approved,
business discussed,
solo “Whispering, Hope’
by Miss Eleanor Milley, who is a
guest with her cousin Miss Goldie
Cross, her -cousin also accompanied
her at the piano. The study “Fac
ing a New World” yas ably given
by Miss Jennie Murray and was very
interesting,
the
the
■by Mrs, C, A.
was offered by
Minutes were
Roll call and
A delightful
was sung
One of the many results of the
depression, which soon will be blos
soming into its ninth year (although
it seems a lot longer) has been the
increase of indigent hospital costs
Huron County offers as good as ex
ample as any of how these costs
have rocketed in the last few years.
The following figures will show
quite clearly how the costs have ris
en in Huron since the first full year
of the slump:
1930 .................... $ 9,362
11931 ............7.7.... $10,532
1933 ................ $18,697
(1935 ................... $19,220
1937 ................. $19,942
The big jump in the costs took
place, it will be seen, between 1931
and 1933—That was during what
they called the very bottom of the
depression, but instead of decreasing
since then they have 'continued to
rise slowly—In some towns and
townships the annual cost of hos
pitalizing indigent patients is actual
ly higher than the cost of supplying
and administering relief.
When an indigent patient is sent
to the hospital, Huron County pays
the full bill and then charged back
50 per -cent, of it to the town, village
or township in which the patient re-
it can uarry more sides. After 9 0 days in hospital
: however, the county assumes the full
*eost of keeping the patient there—
The cost is $1.75 per day.
Last year the total cost
County Tor hospitalization of indig-
Mussolini is a sort of material
used for ladies’ stockings.
A pedestrian is one of those people
motorists run over.
T'he Gorigons looked like women-
only more horrible.
The function of the stomach is to
hold up the petticoat.
Immortality is running away with
another man’s wife.
The equator is an imaginary lion
running through the tropics with
both ends meet in the middle.
The cold at the North Pole is so
great that the towns there are not
inhabited.
Ambiguous
wives and not
of them.
means having two
being able to get rid
is a man who looksAn optimist
after your eyes; a pessimist looks
after your feet.
Explain the phrase “missing the
mark.” This means a woman who
hasn’t got her man.
The lifeboat is
structed so that
than it can hold.
•wonderfully con-
so far off that itMar-s is a star
would take a million years to walk
.there in an express train. ’
What is the difference between a
window and a widow,? You can.see
through a window.
When Englishmen on one
fight Eglishmen on the other
called a General Election.
side
it is
'Shakespeare was a very polite
man. He often said “Go to” but he
never finished the sentence.
Cliver Cromwull had an iron will
and a large red nose, but underneath
were deep religious feelings.
the
to Huron
. Of thisent patients was $’19,94'2 .
sum $12,213 was for patients con
fined to regular hospitals and $7,-
729 for patients confineG to sanitoria
. . . Instead of getting back over
$6J100 from the municipalities as
their share of the cost of the patients
in regular hospitals, the -county got
back only $3,40 3, which reveals that
many of the non-pay patients re
mained in hospital much longer than
90 days ... At the present time
one indigent patient in Huron has
been in hospital for nearly two years
and another one forgone year . . .
The cost of maitaining each of these
patients in hospital for a year is
$638.75, but tihe county igets back
only $1'57.50 from the municipality.
On” July 1 this year the province
took over full cost of sanatorium pa
tients, whereas the -county previous
ly had shouldered the entire burden
. . . Being relieved of this cost
will mean considerable to the coun
ty annually, as sanatorium patients
last year cost Huron $7,729.
While on the subject of what the
depression has done it might be in
teresting to compare the prices of
farm produce which obtained on this
same August day in 1929 .. .
Things were booming nine years ago
now and people were riding the crest
of a wave of prosperity . . . Wages
were good, stocks were yielding
EXPORT REQUIREMENTS
FOR APPLES TO U. K.
In view of the approach of
Canadian apple season and the large
annual exports of this fruit to the
United Kingdom, tihe following of
ficial notice with reference to the
United Kingdom Customs require
ments in regard to imports of fresh
fruit and vegetables is of special in
terest to the Canadian apple indus
try:
“On account of a case being re
ported of a Canadian exporter hav
ing furnished an imperfect certifi
cate or -origin for vegetables export
ed to the United Kingdom, attention
is called to the relevant United King
dom Customs requirements. Fresh
vegetables and fresh fruits. Fresh
•apples, require United Kingrom ‘cer
tificate or origin form 119’, A revis
ed text of this (certificate was adopt
ed in December, 1936, but in order
to give exporters time to use up ex-1
isting stocks of old forms, it has
been compulsory only since April 1,
1938.
“This new form requires the place
of first consignment to be stated,
while the -older form -did not. When
the product is packed at some inland
point and Shipped to a port from
whkih -is it exported by a buyer,
broker, or agent acting on behalf of
the packers, the new form, when
properly (completed, shows to the
pustoms the place of first consign
ment to the United Kingdom, the
‘.port from wihich shipped, and the
JUnited Kingdom port to which con
signed.
“When a. number of producers are
involved in a shipment, the column
of the certificate headed ‘Name of
Grower or Producer’ should be com
pleted by the insertion of the follow
ing words: ‘Narious Growers in Can
ada.’ If an'exporter uses tihe words
'Various Growers’ only, or the place
of a packing organization, there is
no actual declaration of origin, and
the document is therefore incom
plete.”
* *
Ladies’ Aid
Ladies’ Aid Society
Hymn 9 5, followed by
Mizpah benediction concluded
meeting.
*
Cromarty
The Cromarty
met at the home of Mrs. S. Miller
on Wednesday afternoon with the
president, Mrs. Reidie in the chair.
Mrs. B. MacDonald was pianist and
Miss M. B. Currie read the scripture
passage. The secretary, Mrs. An
drew McLellan and treasurer, Mrs.
Quance each gave satisfactory re
ports which were adopted. Consid
erable items of business were discus
sed and voted on. The society de
cided to again provide a noon dinner
for the Presbytery ministers who
will meet in the Presbyterian church
here next month. The meeting closed
with part of hymn 688 and prayer
by Mrs. 'S. Miller. An abundant 1-un'ch
was then served by the appointed
committee assisted by the hostess
which brought the pleasant social
afternoon gathering to a close.
* * *
Hensail W. M. S.
The regular monthly meeting of
the W. M. S. was held in the school
room of the church on Tuesday af
ternoon of last week with sixteen
members and two visitors present.
Miis. Arthur McFalls presided and
the meeting opened with the reading
of the theme “Life is What We are
Alive to.” followed by hymn 361.
Scripture readings by Mrs. Arthur
McFalls and Mrs. Skinner. Hymn.
3 66 was sung and prayer was offer
ed by Mrs. A. McFalls. The subject
for discussion “Social Welfare” was
taken by Mrs. N. Mitchell, Miss . F.
Davey and Mrs. George Hicks. After
a short business session the meeting
closed with 'hymn 32il. Lunch was
served on the church lawn. On Sun
day last the members of the W.M.S.
took charge of the service in the
church here.
gone
AS FENCE IS HIThelady-
a bit
of Paris are call-
is one who looks
fatal diseases are
Liberty of conscience means being
able to do wrong without bothering
about it afterwards.de-
old
T,he inhabitants
ed Parisites.
A polygon with seven sides is call
ed a hooligan.
Doctors say that
the worst.
The population of London is
too thick. . -
Rhubarb is a kind of celery
bloodshot.
A quack doctor
after ducks.
The feminine of bachelor is
in-waiting.
LIGHTNING KILLS TWELVE
CATTLE NEAR WINGHAM
First Gossip—“iS'he got cruelly
ceived when she married that
man.”
.Second Gossip—“Why, didn’t
have any money?”
First gossip—"Oh, yes, plenty,
but it turns out he’s ten years young
er than he said he was.”
Not So Cruel
Exeter
DUNLOP
9-T-l”
Twelve head of cattle weighing in
the neighborhood of 1200 lb. per
head and an estimated value of $1,-
500 were struck by lightning last
week-end and killed. The cattle
beasts were lined up near a barb
wire fence and a bolt struck the
fence killing them instantly. The
owner, Thomas Fells, of Wingham,
local meat dealer, had the cattle
pastured in Morris Township. The
entire herd of twenty from which
the twelve were killed were insured
it is understood.
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