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HURON
LUMBER
COMPANY
Phone 48 Exeter
Dashwood Fire Brigade
Will Assist In Stephen
Stephen council entered an
agreement with the Dashwood
police village for fire protection
at its last meeting. A retaining
fee was set.
The council purchased a used
half-ton truck from the Charles
Beaver estate for $900.
Approval was given Emmerson
Desjardine to operate an open
air theatre on part of lot 15,
concession 1, of the township.
The provincial grant on the
Kuhn and Dinney Municipal
Drains was approved and paid to
the ratepayers pro-rata,
Rebates and subsidies on the
Kuhn drain amounted to: Jasper
Olah $5.51; Gerald Godbolt $4 6.-
88; Sanford Lawson $11.02; El
mer Powe $29.15; Cooper Mc
Curdy $24.03; Leslie Richards
$200.90; Ben Dietrich $24.82;
John Flynn $3.94; Wm. Schroe
der $339.18; Russell King $101.-
24; Fred Hogarth $223.75; Win.
Ellerington $59.88; Melvin King,
$198.94; Henry Pfaff $2.75.
We Will! Make You
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Lifetime!
See Us Before You Take
Anybody Else's Deal!
Edward Lamport $11.02; Karl
Kuhn $224.16; Charles Glanville
$2.75; Edward Sweitzer $25.60;
Sam Lawson $37.38; Carl Brock
$14.G1; Fred Kerr $57.12; Coun
ty of Huron $8.5 6; Canadian Na
tional Railways $6.69; Township
of Stephen $73.36. Total $1,733.-
33.
Subsidies on the Dinney Drain
are:
Russell Finkbeiner $2.94; Al
lan Finkbeiner $4.25; William
Schwartz $6.54: James Mawhin-
ney $65.44; Isabella Dinney
$653.29; Robert Pfaff $224.21;
Ed Denomme $58.24; Jerome De
nomme $40.89; Alphonse Hart
man $178.33; Township of Ste
phen $132.54.
Chalmers Family
Meet At Park
The Chalmers Clan held their
picnic at Riverview Park recent
ly with 79 members present
for supper. Letters were read
from a number of members who
could not attend and a minute
of silence was observed for those
who had passed away.
The following officers were
elected: honorary president, Mr.
William Moody; president, Mrs.
Robert Duncan; vice-president,
Mr. Willis Gill; secretary-trea
surer, Mrs. William Sillery.
Table committee: Mr. and Mrs.
Alvin Warden, Mr. and Mrs.
Lloyd Miller, Mr. and Mrs. An
drew Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs.
Doug Parsons,
Sports committee: Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Ballantyne, Mr. and
Mrs. William Passmore, Mr. and
Mrs. Alex Duncan. Mr. and Mrs.
Cliff Miller.
The races and ball game were
called off on account of rain.
Report On
Crediton East
By MRS. W. MOTZ
Graham Arthur
Phone 210 Exeter
Mr. and Mrs. William English,
of London, visited last Monday
with Mr. and Mrs. William Motz.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Baynham
spent last weekend in London.
Mr. Mark Mitchell has return
ed to his home in Exeter after a
week’s visit with Mr. Charles
Anderson.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis and
son Heber and Mrs. L. Wein
svent Sunday at Grand Bend with
Mr. and Mrs. Alec Hamilton.
Mr. and Mrs. William Motz at
tended the surprise party which
was held on Monday evening for
the forty-ninth wedding anni
versary of Mr. and Mrs. William
Horney in Exeter.
Down
to
Earth
By D. I. HOOPBH
What Price Mechanization?
This question of buying or hir
ing a high-priced piece of ma
chinery is very complicated. So
many factors enter into the pic
ture. Number one, the capital
cost. Any piece of machinery, to
be used on the family-sized farm
in this area, costing more than
$2,000 must be operated a mini-
imum of more than 300 hours or
its depreciation figured at 15%
will be more than $1.00 per hour.
This means that many labour-
saving machines are not feasible
on mixed farms.
Let’s take grain harvest equip
ment for example. Let’s list the
different items the average farm
er thinks he requires. In the old
conventional way — one binder,
one threshing machine driven by
the farm tractor. If the farmer
has done away with horses he
will require an extra tractor to
move wagons. The first two items
Old Thresher
For Museum
Anyone got models of either
the second or third types of
threshing machines used in On
tario? There’s little chance of a
trade-in arrangement, but a man
looking for such a machine today
is Joseph H. Neill, curator of the
Huron County Pioneer Museum
here.
Mr. Neill has a model of the
first type thresher used in the
province, set up in the new wing
of the museum, and has room
for the next two models.
The first machine, owned by
John Stevenson and operated in
the Ash field area from 1871 to
1875 is an upright 12-horse pow
er boiler type, which was drawn
by horses. It was made at Brant
ford.
The next model, says Mr. Neill,
which was in use about 1885, has
a horizontal boiler, and then
came the steam-driven tractor.
Mr. Neill recently completed
his chain of time pieces at the
museum, from an ancient sun
dial, to a modern atmospheric
clock, and including primitive
forms of Greek, Chinese and
Egyptian clocks, most of which
work on a water system.
will only he operating a total of
approximately Hi hours actual
running time. The rest of the
8.76<i hours in a year they are
sitting in the machinery shed
taking up space, covered by a
wind and fire insurance policy.
If modern harvest equipment
is used, e.g. swather and com
bine. these figures still apply.
Too Spread Out
We heard the question raised
lad Saturday night on Main
street: ‘‘Have we become spread
out in our different types of
crops?”
Could be, especially when we
feel that to harvest these differ
ent crops we must buy so many
high-priced nfachines to plant,
maintain and harvest them. Our
capital cost depreciation is too
large to show a net profit over a
period of years. One chap, handy
with figures, stated that the de
preciation on a new 40 h.p, farm
tractor ($3,000) figured at 20%
costs more per year than it does
to park it on a city meter at a
nickel an hour. Amazing isn’t it,
but nevertheless true — 20% of
$.'l,OOO = $600 vs 8,760 hrs @ 5<f
— $4 3 8.
And so it goes. One young far
mer we turned this over with,
said: ‘‘I don’t believe I would
buy too much machinery if I had
it to do over again.”
He thought that if he had con
centrated more oil livestock and
built up production in this man
ner that today he would have
had money left over enough to
buy more livestock (a negotiable
investment).
It would he too bad if we all
did this. 'We’d have over-produc
tion —- worse than we have to
day. prices would be lower. But
it does give a line of thought
worth spending some time on.
DID YOU KNOW?
The thing most people save for
a rainy day is a picnic?
TRIS WEEK
Hands out!
■Wheat harvest
Work wheat land
Family picnic time
Just two months until Fall Fair
Plan to take in the Crop Im
provement Twilight Meeting at
County Home Farm July f9, at
8;i00 p.m.
Crop Meet
At Clinton
Farmers who attend the an
nual twilight meeting of the
Huron County Crop and Soil Im
provement Association next Mon
day evening, July 16, will be the
first body to view the newly-
completed Huron County Home
at Clinton.
W. P. Watson, livestock com
missioner for Ontario. Depart
ment of Agriculture, Toronto,
will be-.the principal speaker at
the meeting which will be held
in the auditorium of the new
Home. Mr. Watson will review
the ‘‘Agriculutral Outlook”.
The program includes a tour
of the rod-row oat and barley
variety test plots that were seed
ed on the Huron County farm
last sprnig in co-operation with
the Field Husbandry Department.
O.A.C. Guelph. Professor James
Laughland will be on hand to
comment on the different variet
ies of oats and barley seeded in
these plots.
Long term pasture plots on the
farm, sown by the Association in
the spring of 1953, will he exam
ined. Mr. C. H. Kingsbury, field
man, crops, branch, Ontario De
partment of Agriculture. Guelph,
will discuss the relative merits
of the different grasses and clo
vers as to their use for hay and
pastures.
Russell Bolton is president of
the Association. G. W. Mont
gomery, agricultural representa
tive, is secretary-treasurer.
Senn Family
Numbers 529
Some 50 descendants of the
late Joseph Senn met at Strat
ford Park on Saturday, July 10,
for their thirty-fifth annual re
union. Dinner was served at 1
p.m., after which sports were
conducted by Wilbert Kirkby
and his daughter. Mrs. Laverne
Rodd. Members were present
from different parts of Western
Ontario and Ohio.
Ther are some 529 descendants
of the Joseph Senn family, who
was one of five brothers who
emigrated from Switzerland, go
ing to Wales, Canada and United
States. Many of these are filling
prominent positions in the world
today.
Officers elected for 1955 were:
honorary president, B. W. F.
Beavers; president. John Senn;
secretary-treasurer, Edith Senn;
sports committee, Wilbert Kirk
by and Barbara. Rodd.
The 1955 reunion will be held
at Stratford Park the second
Saturday in July.
A gentleman being asked the
difference there was between a
clock and a woman instantly re
plied, ‘‘A clock serves to point
out the hours, and a woman to
make us forget them.”
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