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4-H DEMONSTRATION
local fall fair was one x ____ ______
on Saturday. Hugh Rundle, John Pym and Tom Easton were in charge-of this demon
stration. Over 175 4-H members from the southern part of the county attended the
day, organized by Arthur S, Bolton, assistant ag rep. —T-A Photo
DAY—Fitting of this Aberdeen Angus calf for show
of the demonstrations presented for 4-H members at
at the
SHDHS
Sunny Days Aid Harvest,
Expect LightRains Ahead
District farmers, heartened by
four uninterrupted days bf sun
shine, worked feverishly this
week to get in their grain har
vest.
The stretch of good weather,
first in weeks, started Sunday
and is expected to last until at
least Thursday, The .Centralia
weather office predicts more
rain during the next five days
but it will be light.
Few farmers enjoyed the
Labor Day holiday — as town
people drove through the country
to various attractions in the
district, farmers Ayere busy in
the fields.
SHDHS reports that a number
■ of parents requested their child
ren be excused from school for
a few days to help with the late
harvest,
The warm weather has helped
root and corn. crops ' but didn’t.
come in time to help the grain,
Farmers did their ^best to get
what they could out of the fields
but most of the crops were
flattened and rotting. A number
of grain and white bean fields
have been plowed under.
Highest temperature of the
week came Wednesday when
the mercury rose to 83.1 Over
Sunday and Monday the tem-
perature ranged from 56.2 in
the evening to 76.6 during the
daytime.
Over two-tenths of an inch of
rain fell on Thursday and Sat
urday of last week.
The five-day ^weather forecast
from Chicago predicts tempera
tures from four to seven degrees
below normal. Rainfall from
September 6 to September 10 is i
I estimated at from one-half inch
to one inch.
| Total rainfall for the month of
f August, as reported by the met.
section at Centralia, was 6.58
I inches, more than double the
previous high of 3.23 in 1947.
The 6.58 record was at least four
times more than the average
rainfall of the past three sum
mers for the month of August.
Second Section THE EXETEIR TIMES-ADVOCATE, SEPTEMBER 6, 1956
Dearings Break Own Record
With Major Sweep At CNE
I Champions for many years of
—I the Dorset Horned sheep, com-□ mPr I fAP*? petition at the CNE, Preston VXI UCl I I CCw Dewing and son, Gerald, of R.R,
Early: Dep t
Though September seems a long
way from next April, landowners . champion and" reserve champion
who plan to obtain trees for ( honors for both ewe and lamb
planting next spring from the | and blue ribbons in
> In'addition, the Dearings won
t every third prize but one and
• the flock lost this prize only be
cause one lamb was ill. The
t sick lamb placed fourth and
i was the only Dearing entry tn
; be beaten by a competitor from
I another flock.
1 Exeter, broke their own for*
midable record for prizes last
week by taking every first and
second in the class.
The Dearing sheep carried off
... $7.75 to 12.00.
.... ISJfO to’17.60.
... 18.60 to 27.00.
..... 36.00 to 68.00.
... 28:00 to 33.00.
. 121.00 to 138.00.
. 13.50 to 31.50.
. 18.00 to 50.00.
Takes Off Across Fields
Even livestock gets stage | Assistant Agricultural Repre
struck. A..(.U..„
A Holstein calf, due to take
part in a 4-H demonstration at
SHDHS Saturday, became fright
ened at the prospect of appearing
before 175 young farmers and
took off across the fields.
The animal didn’t get far, how
ever, and its eager pursuers
caught it near the Darling sta
bles, Sanders Street east.
Brought back to the stage, th#
calf performed nobly for the
youngsters as it stood for a fit
ting demonstration by Mrs. Ross
Marshall, wife of the owner.
Preparing the dairy' calf for
show at the fair was ‘one' of *a.-
number .of demonstrations given
the 4-H members during the af
ternoon. It was the final club
meeting of the year before to
morrow’s farmers , compete iy
their Achievement Days through
out the county.
sentative Arthur Bolton \tas in
charge of the event, at which 15
clubs in the southern half of the
county were represented.
Three veteran 4jH-ers, Hugh
Rundle, John Pym and Tom
Easton, showed the youngsters
how to clip and curl the hair on
a beef calf to. catch the judge’s
eye. They made the demonstra-
tration on Hugh. Rundle’s Aber
deen Angus.'
Tom Hern, senioi' member of
the Exeter Dairy Calf Club, as
sisted Mrs. Marshall with the
dairy calf demonstration.
Carfrey Cann, c ne of the lead
ers .of. the, new, ...grain corp, club,
slrdwecL -how to'prepare exhibits
of this crop and William, A'mos,
Parkhill, fieldman. for the Can
ada and Dominion Sugar Co.,
demonstrated the preparation of
sugar, beets. __ _______ ___ __
All;of. the club meiribers wrote Laboratories, Charles City, Iowa,
tests on their summer projects, said in Exeter on Saturday.
FOUNDER MARKS BIRTHDAY—Dr. J. E. Salsbury, founder of the famous Dr. Sals
bury’s Laboratories in Charles City, Iowa, celebrated his birthday here Saturday while
on a tour of this area with Dr. J. E. Wilson, director of the British government’s
veterinarian laboratory in Edinburgh, Scotland. The two men are shown above with
Jack Weber, Eastern Canadian distributor for Dr. Salsbury’s, and Ted Grieve, sales
manager for th'e local firm, during a reception here. —T-A Photo
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Vs. Metric
1 qt.
1 gal.
1 peck
pecks -- 1 bus.
'way back in public
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Sometime ’ _
school was when we first be
came acquainted with this quaint
old table. Well do we remember
having to memorize it along with
Avoirdupois weight tables. Just
as it gives today’s young school
students trouble so has it given
previous generations the blues.
Just why educational authorities
still consider these the standard
of measure “Dry Measure” is
debatable.
Several factions in the agri-
rultilral picture are definitely
trying to throw out this outmod
ed system and replace it with
the hundredweight system.
Perhaps the loudest voice is
from the feed manufacturers
and dealers throughout Canada
and the U.S.A. This voice is loud
enough that the Canadian Wheat
Board and the U.S. Department
of Agriculture have been roused
from their legarthy to consider
whether a , metric system has
merits in their business. The
manufacturers and. dealers as
sociations have H requested the
dropping of bushel completely
District Breeders
Enter WO Fair
Western Fair’s $400,000 live
stock pavilion will be jammed
to capacity with a total of 2,060
animals when the- fair opens
Monday, September 10. The
entries include 804 dairy cattle,
261 beef cattle, 468 sheep, 195
swine, 227 light horses and 105
heavy horses.
Entries from Huron include:
Hcrefords:-W. Coates and Son,
Centralia; Heber J. L. Ecdy,
Dungannon.
Holstcins: Ross Marshall, of
Kirkion; Huron . County Home,
Clinton; Morley II. Lannin, Dub
lin; ' Peter Simpson, Seaforth;
Harold W. Bodley, Walton; Bax
ter hnd Turton, Goderich; Ed
ward F. Bell, Bly th; Hume
Glutton, Goderich.
Light horses: A. J, Darling,
Exeter.
Sheep: P. E. Dearing and SOn,
Exeter 1 Enhriam SiielL Clinton.
from, the grain and feed business.
They say they buy and sell tons
and cwts. Even their scales are
designed on the metric system
and so they ask-why confuse
their beautiful blonde bookkeep
ers and waste valuable time in
converting bushels and various
domestic weights and measures
back and forth.
In our belief it is stubborn
holdover from our ancestors who
settled in this country after em
igrating from Great Britain. The
Domestic weight and measure
system in agriculture is as use
less as the pound sterling. Along
with this should* go the "long
toil”. The only place we have
ever found it used is in the ex
port trade to sterling areas.
Surely agriculture in. the U.S.A,
and Canada is as strong as the
jewellery and the drug trade
which has for many, many years
accepted the metric system.
Many European immigrants
would find themselves much
more at home if at some time
the "brains???” should even see
the light and be man, enough to
a’dmit their mistake.
We don’t 'bxpect complete suc
cess in our lifetime or perhaps
even in the next generation.
Common sense docs have, a habit
of smothering foolishness, even
tually.
DID YOU KNOW?
Young pigs like^secdling cockle-
burs and can eat enough of them
in a few minutes to cause death
within a few hours.
Touring- this area with Dr. J.
E. Wilson, director of the British
government’s veterinary labora
tory in Edinburgh, Scotland, Dr.
Salsbury said in. an interview:
"We don’t know at the present
time how we will be treating
poultry diseases five years from
now. The changes may be even
more revolutionary than they
have been in the past.’’
As a sample of the rapid de
velopment of the industry in re
cent years, Dr. Salsbury cited
the vaccination of poultry by
means of mixing vaccine in drink
ing water. Not many years ago,
this task had to be done by treat
ing the birds individually.
The Iowa City veterinarian,
who founded his poultry pharm
aceutical business 32 years ago
and has built it into the leading
industry of its kind in the world,
celebrated his birthday during
his visit to Exeter.- He was -a
guest of Jack Weber, Eastern
Canadian distributor of his prod
ucts, and Ted Grieve, salesman
for the local firm, at a lunch
eon at Armstrong’s restaurant.
A native of England, Dr. Sals
bury came to the U.S. when he
was 21 and graduated from the'
Kansas City College of Veterin
ary Science in 1914. During the
early jtears of Iris practice, he
became interested in the poultry
disease field and at the end of
eight years relinquished his gen
eral practice to specialize in the
preparation of pharmaceuticals
for fowl.
His industry has grown stead
ily and it now employs 450 people
and boasts one of the most, mod
ern research, laboratories in the
agricultural industry. The doctor
distributes his products to 26;
foreign countries.
Dr. Hudson, who
Canada around the
August, says farmers
are suffering from
problem as Western
farmers—too much rain.
arrived in
middle of
in the U.K.
the same
Ontario
______ ... ____ ___ "We
had a very dry spring and' every
one prayed for rain. We prayed
so hard we haven’t been able to
stop it.’’
Dr. Hudson is making his se
cond tour of Canada and the
U.S. to observe development of
veteriarian treatment here. He
said the poultry industry in
Scotland operates on a much
smaller scale than in North
America but it' is starting to
develop. "Turkey is still .con
sidered a luxury which can be
enjoyed only at Christmas time,’’
he said.
Middlesex exhibitors include:
Beef cattle: Alfred Nicholson,
of Parkhill, Shorthorns; W. S.
O’Neil and Son, Denfield, Hcre-
fords; Edward Bros,? Arva,
Angus.
Dairy cattle: Delmar C.
Barnes, Denfield, John Donald
son, Ailsa Craig, Lyle Stokes,
Ailsa Craig, Guernseys; Duncan
J. Fletcher, Ildcrfon, Hblsteins.
At the shirt counter:
"Now Madame, these are the
last three shirts we have in
stock. If none of lhes; will suit
him, perhaps you could change
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Ondap° Department of Lands | evfenrya^f&
and Forests are being urged, to
order early.
Regulations provide that an
owner of a parcel of land of at
least two acres, exclusive of any
part occupied by structures, may
obtain nursery stock from the
Department for establishing, re
plenishing or enlarging a "wood”
or “shelter belt” at a cost of
$14 per 1,000 for Scotch Pine and
$10 per 1,000 for trees of other
species.
"Application for nursery stock
for planting in the spring of
1957 should be made as soon as
possible as there may not be
sufficient stock to meet all ap
plications,” say officials of the
Division of Reforestation.
At present, stock of the fol
lowing species is available for
spring, 1957: Scotch Pine, White,
Red , and Jack Pine, White
Spruce, White Cedar, European
Larch, Tamarack, White Ash,
Silver Maple, Red Oak, Carolina
Poplar and Black Locust.
Applications on prescribed
form must be made in the name
of and signed by the owner of
the land on which the nursery
stock is to be planted. Stock
may be delivered to the appli
cant at one of the Department’s
nurseries or shipped by express,
as instructed, express charges to
be paid by applicant.
Department foresters at dist
rict offices will gladly examine
properties and advise and aid in
planning reforestation and wood
lot management projects. This
Coates' Herd
Cops Prizes
Despite the fact that the Here
ford competition at the CNE was
the largest in history, Whitney
Coates and Son, R.R. 1 Centralia,
placed in the prize money with
12 of the 14 head they entered.
The local breeders won third
prize with a summer yearling
steer and fourth with a cow. In
the heifer classes, they captured
two fifths, a sixth and a seventh.
AU of their bulls placed in the
prize money.
A large number of breeders
from the United States were en
tered in this year's competition.
' Wife: "Darling, I always wor
ry when you're away from me.”
Hubby: “But, dear, I’ll be
back from my trip before you
know it.”
Wife: “That’s what worries
me, darling.”
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