The Brussels Post, 1956-05-02, Page 7own agricultural colleges; but it
certainly wouldn't hurt us to
take stock of our own colleges
arid conside4, r more,: prtctiCal work',
I've referred InOre than once
to the SWediell farmer's fortun-
ate position en his country's
economy, and mentioned sonic,
Of the reasons for it. However,
there is one factor that really
Puzzles Me. What I'm referring
to is the Swede's inclination to
eat large quantities of his own
country's food products. I under.,
stand that ' the Swedish govern
ment Ieefrictg the itnPert of cer.,
fain" 4 e;epenetere , foodstuffs, but
that ,doesn't explain why the
,si,edes eat *es much as they do
of their own foods, Take butter,
for instance-"A Swede would be
dismayed if aliyone offered him
one of the pithetie little pats of
butter that we are accustomed to
receiefing in betels and restaur
ants. They serve butter in a por-
tion the size' and shape of a
peeled banana. We sat down to
dinner with Swedes who thought
nothing of spreading one of
these banana-sized porticos on a
single slice of bread -- and then
going back for more!
At this point our .city friends
especielly will be objecting that
they can't afford to eat that much
butter, 1;iut rite convinced that
if Canadians w o u 1d eat even
half as much butter per capita
as the Swedes do, we farmers
would have the incentive to pro-
duce far more than we do, Our
butter market problems would
be solved, and the price would
be 'bound to come down.
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I'm sure my women readers
are thinking that they would
never eat 'such quantities of but-
ter even if it were 'free. They'd
be too afraid of what such a diet
would do to their figures.
What sheer and utter non-
sense! You can go on counting
your calories if you want to, but
the Swedes I saw were obviously
not counting theirs, and I can't
recall seeing even one fat per-
son — male or female '— all the
time I was there! I'm not trying
to say that fattening foods won't
make you fat. But I am saying
that the Swedes are living proof
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shall all men know that Ye arra
my disciples, if ye have love.
one for another, 4ot= AP,.
The Petrie' church, was VW(
to, heed the.command Oven
them by Jesus; "Go ye into all
the world, and preach the gos-
pel to every creature," Mark
16;15. The whole church re-
sponded, Today's lessen records
the response of one of the seven
men chosen .:4) care for the
daily ministration for the needy,.
He was full of the Holy Spirit
and wisdom, He went over to
the city of Samaria and preach;.
ed. Christ to them. They gave
heed to his words and marvel
led At the miracles wrought at
his hand. Unclean sPirits crying
with loud voice were cast out
and the sick were healed..
"There was -great joy in that
city."
This awakening was followed
by a visit from the apostles
Peter and John. They praYed
for the people that they might
receive the Holy "Ghost. Xte-
lieving on Jesus was followed
by the receiving of the gift 'of
the Holy Ghost. We see a simi
lar pattern in regard to ,the
church at ,Ephesus. Acts 19:5,43.
A study of the biography of
many Christians indicate 'that
believing on "Jesus Christ for
the forgiveness of ,sins is fre-
quently followed lay the receiv-
ing of ,the Holy ..Ghost purify-
ing the heart (Acts 15:9) and
giving their power to witness.
Lawson in his book, "Deeper
Experiences of Famous Christi-
ans" shows this in detail in, the
lives of many as Moody, Earls,
Finney, Wesley, etc. Different
terms are used to describe this
experience. It is called" This
Baptism of the Holy Ghost, Thil
Spirit. Filled Life, The Come-
crated Life, The Higher Life,
The Deeper Life, Perfect Love,
Entire Sanctification, etc. But
the main point 'is that the be-
liever grasps the privilege of
going deeper with' God and be-
coming more effective in His
Kingdom.
Philip's next assignment look-
ed like a demotion. He was
sent to the desert. But it was
an important mission. He was
sent to minister to an Ethopian
in his' chariot. As Philip ex-
plained to him the passage
about Jesus in the prophecy nt
Isaiah, the man believed and
was baptized. Philip' settled at
Caesarea. He had four daugh-
ters who prophesied. (Acts 21:9)
There were many others in the
early church who gave them-
selves and their families to God.
Stand New
,Ven people Who WW1 just
moved lute a brand, new' house
can have ,a good garden an4
have it this season too, Even
these'who rent and, move every
few years can also have an ex-
cellent showing. In these cases,
of course, we rely on annual
flowers rather than perennials
which must get established. And,
It is amazing what can be done
with annuals exclusively, We
can, get vines that will, cover a
porch in a matter of weeks,
things like scarlet runner beans,
the modern and vastly improved
morning glories, Or we can use
window boxes filled with trail-
ing nasturtiums, and semi-trail-
ing peteniias, marigolds and,
zinnias,
For big screens, to act as
hedges there are all sorts of
rapid growing bushy annuals
like cosmos, African marigolds,
spider plants larkspur, hibiscus,
rn alope and Othere that are listed
in , any Canadian seed catalogue.
'These quick growers reach two
to four feet and will take the
place Of shrubbery and give
privacy as, well' as abundance of
bloom. As for the regular beds,
there are hundreds of annuals
from which to choose.
Where we have just "moved in
we can combine, 'special annuals
with the permanent perennials
which will eventually take their
Place. In amongst the tiny new
shrubs, climbers, and trees, we
plant liberally withleig "annuals
and we' continue to do this ter
the first few years until the
permanent stuff has got estab-
lished. and requires the full
room.
Can't Buy This Quality
We all know the old, argu-
ment about it being cheaper to
buy vegetables than fer the ur-
ban man to' grow them. That is
all very well but it overlooks
an important point. No matter
how handy the 'store and how
fast the transportation, it just
isn't possible to.buy the sort of
freshness that only comes with
vegetables',grown in one's own
garden, Aeelettle plot where we
have a few feet of lettuce,
onions, radish, carrots and per-
haps a rovr of beans, tomatoes,
or corn, will repay itself many
times over just in freshness
alone.
Not a great deal of room will
be necessary. To, make it go
further there are various ways
of growing two crops, or 'prac-
tically so, on the same piece of
land. Of course in this intensive
sort of vegetable gardening, ex-
tra . fertilizer is essential and
the soil must be well worked
and rich. In double cropping,
we alternate rows of an early
kind with a later one, for in-
stance radish and carrots, or
lettuce and beans, or peas and
corn. We also have less space
than normal between the rows,
if necessary no more than 12 or
15 inches. The early stuff; of
course, comes on quickly and
is used up, before the later ma-
turing vegetables require full
room. Another practice is to
follow the harvesting of the first
vegetables like the peas, 'lettuce,
spinach, radish, early onions,
etc., with another sowing of the
same or something else that will
be ready say in August or Sep-
tember. Then there are certain
crops like squash, pumpkins,
that we can plant in the outside
rows and we can have staked
tomatoes along the end of any
vegetable row and cucumbers
along the fence.
Don't Bury Them
Almost every one is inclined
to plant far too deeply. With
tiny seed such as that of lettuce,
carrots, cosmos, zinnias, poppies,
and alyssum, which are not
much larger than the bead of a
pin or shingle nail, it is not
necessary to 'cover at all. We
sow these in the finest soil and
merely press in. Then, if 'pds-
sible, we keep the soil dampen-
ed until germination starts. With
pie who knew her well, One of
them remarked that Miss ROM -
bin was a charming and whole-
some girl from a very line lane-
ily. Then he said something that
I thought was far more remark-
able, "She's very pretty," he
said, "but we never considered
her any betterelooking than the
rest of the girls around here."
This remark was not intend-
ed to disparage Miss Ittembin in
any way; it was a simple 'and
honest observation. I feel sure
he would have said the same
thing about such famous Swed-
ish beauties as Garbo, Bergman
and Anita Ekberg. Right 'there
I began to. realize that the
Swedes make a regular habit
of achieving near-perfection —
and then taking. it for granted.
Fortunately I don't have to rely
on anything as intangible as
feminine charm to prove this
over-all impression of mine. The
base, proof was what I saw of
Swedish farming methods. And
what is true of the farm folk is
probably true of the majority
of the population for about one-
quarter of Sweden's 7,200,000
citizens liVe .on farms.
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The ability to achieee• near-
perfection is evident everywhere.
You can see, it in the forests
which cover well over a third
of most farms. Here in Canada
we have talked for years about
tree conservation but are just
getting ,around to converting our
words into actions. In Sweden,
forest conservation practices,
such as selective cutting and
methodical replanting, were
started at least a century ago
and are now standard procedure
in every forest, whether owned
by a farmer, a lumber company, •
or the government. No Swedish
farmer, I was told, would dream
of cutting a „tree \without con-
, suiting a goVernmenNorester be-
forehand. The result is that the
Swedes are decades ahead of us
in reforestation. Both Canada and
Sweden cut a lot ofetimber every
year, but our forests ai'e dwind-
ling while theirs ease'increasing
lit sizee Furthermore, the Swed-
ish farmer usually gets far more
-rain than he wants, so he clod
not have the incentive we do to
plant t4es for water conserva-
tion,
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To be, pereectle,e fair, I must
mention that their forest floors
are covered with, a natural moss
that undoubtedly helps to pre-
vent fires, so they don't suffer
the timber losses we do each
summer. But that's all the more
reason why we should be doing
more to conserve what we can,
I was even more amazed when
I saw what happent'' when the
same philosophy applied to
crop farming. Here Ontario,
a man who gets 60 bushels of
wheat to the acre is a really good
farmer. The average iwheat yield '
in my own WaterloO county, ac-
cording to the last figures I saw,
was 35.1 bushels to''the acre, In
. Sweden I met farmers who pro-
duce as much as 70 bushels of
wheat to the acre, and the last
published figures show that Swe-
den's wheat production, per acre,
is about 60 per cent higher than
Canada's. (With yields like this,
the only reason their total pro-
ductivity is not as high as ours
is that the country is so small;
for every acre they have been
abl'eto cultivate, . we have 38
acres of 'farm land or potential
farm land.)
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What's the secret? I knew there
mustbe one, because nobody
When Will Beetle of Galt, Ont.
went to Sweden as manager of
the 1955 Canadian plowing team,
lie took a good look around,
What lie saw impressed him,
Here's, his report on their farms,
forests, diets, way of life, and
their beautiful women, as report-
ed in. The Imperial Oil Review,
4. 4, 4.
I suppose e„very nation be-
lieves — or likes to believe —
that its women. are the most
beautiful on earth.
Had anybody asked me a year
ago, I would have said, quite
honestly, that I thought Canada
had the best - looking women.'
But I'm going right out on a
limb and say that' t4 most at-
tractive Women I've ever seen,
as a national group, are not
Canadians, but Swedish girls, It's
a conclusion I came to after
spending two weeks in Sweden
last, fall.
Any friends reading this will
probably be wondering, "What's
this got to do with the price of
wheat?" They know I'm a far-
mer, not -a playbpy, and that I
went to Sweden last October, not
as a, movie talent 'Scout; but as
manager of the 1955 Canadian
plowing team. (Our boys, by the
way, did very well in the com-
petition 'for the Esso G o Id en
, Plow, at the Werld Plowing
Match. :clean 'McLaughlin of
Stouffville, Ont., came second
and Joe Tran of Claremont, Ont.,
was fourth,e out of, ,24 plowmen
from 12 countries.) And our
friends on the Canadian Council
of Plowing Associations, which
sent us overseas, and at Imper-
ial Oil, which provided our pass
sage, understood that the tour
we made of. Sweden after the
match was to enlighten us about
SWedish farming methods —
not about Swedish beauties.
*
Well, we did concentrate on
farming — believe me! — end.
the only reason. I bring up this:
question of feminine loveliness'
is that it helps me explain my
most vivid 'impression of Swedish
farming. This impression became
Vern in my mind (after a con-
versation with some local resi-
d0s) when we visiting ploWrnen
and managers stopped not' ,,fer
from the honee of a girl net-4d
Hillevi Rombin. Her name may
not mean much to you, but per-
haps it will when I add that she
is !Miss Universe of 1955. We
didn't see her ourselves; for she
was in the United States at the
tithe; but we did meet some pee-
tl
FOR VilATCHING 'DRY'PROGRAMS? -- Camel saddles have sup-
plied a welcome, oasis in a financial desert for Razouk Matik,
26, above, Lebdnese student{ qt Southern Illinois University.
Shippedbere from dollar-short Lebanon by hisIcitheroas.o means
of supplying' with funds, the sheepskin-covered hard-
wood,rLsodelles, ore- 9,nc:png: a ready market for use as TV
Yig.Wing ete491
gets crops like that year aftee.
year, • just ley .luck or ,accidet'et.
• I found Swedieh er 4.1$e$
tretiiendenes qnantities' Of fertile
ier, For a, gtalie crop On Which
we; would 'llseeeeerhap-s• 200 op.300
pbutide?pf fertilizer per acre, the
'Swedish farmer will ,use tip to
2,000 pounds 1,500'in the fall
and erctiler 500 in 'the spring.
I' need'liddlyi add that' the eitre
yield' more than Covers the cost
of the . extra eertilizere
I don't know of a farm in Can-
ada with land that could utilize:
anything near 2,000 pounds of
fertilizer per acre. Does that
mean that the Swedish farmer
happens to be lucky? Not at all.
The reason he can use such quan-
tities of fertilizer is that he and
his forefathers have been condi-
tioning their lands to it for gen-
erations.
There's nothing we Canadian
farmers could do that would en-
able us .to get our lands into
this condition this year, next year ,
or even five years from now.
But unless we make sure now
that we are planting the right-
things in the right soil, are ro-.
tating our crops properly and are
doing everything else possible;
to improve our soil conditions,
even our great - grandchildren
won't be able to do as well as
Swedish farmers are doing now.
Another secret of the :agricul-
tural success in Sweden their
system of testing stations, where
samples of soil and produce! are
analyzed. I doubt if there's a.far-
mer anywhere in Canada who
has to be sold on the advantages
of scientific testing, but here
again .I found die Swedes have
set us' a good example. Our test-
ing stations are just as good as
• theirs but they have a lot more'
of them — about 200 in a country
half the size of Ontario. Thus
the great majority of farmers
find it easy to get scientific
guidance in every phase of their
work. My own farm happeris to
be within easy driving distance
of the Ontario Agricultural Col-
lege at Guelph, Ont., and I use
s its testing services quite often.
But I know there are some far-
mers in Canada who haven't a
testing station within 200 miles,
and no doubt their farming suf-
fers as a result. I I. I
You could argue that there's
11 t tl,e point increasing our
yields in some crops, such as
wheat, if we can't sell what we
are already producing. But con-
servation projects take a long
time — sometimes a lifetime or
longer — before they begin to
pay off. I can't see any justifica-
tion for robbing our descendants
of good lands just beeauee we
have marketing problems.
The Swedish fernier is in the
happy position of being able to
sell, quite readily, almost every,
thing he can produce. Part of
this is due to: luck, but planning
has something to do with it toe.
The luck lies in the fact that the
population of Sweden is just
abont tight in proportion to the
amount of Food that can be pro-
duced On the land, and since
the country is physically striall
eoitipated to' Canada, the Swedes
haven't e6e tly transportation
prohle iri e. The planning that
helps' him takes the fain of co-
certainly het sold
on. all lierreiS Of ed-ops, In fact,
convinced that 0-on etetee,
as We saw them in Britain, • are
not in the beet interests of the
general public, Or What is beery*
body's bueiheee keen bectinlee
tibbody'S.' business, and everybody
entree, especially the etietOiner,
'The Swedish to-Ops Were not
bitt coops' hill by pro,.
ettibere and It Was 'ail eye-Seidler
t6 see and hear- lidee the 'Sevedieli
lathier Wee. •theill. to Market his
goods and indititeite fair priees,
Co-ops also come into the pic-
ture often at the processing
stage, too, with the farmer using
co-operatively-owned plants that
would be too expensive for him
to own alone. That's the case
sometimes, for example, with the
big drying plants where they
must reduce the moisture con-
tent of their grains before they
can be stored safely.
I wish I could say at this point
that our post-war trend toward
mechanization has put us far
ahead of the Swedish farmers
in this respect; but it just isn't
so. Granted, they• have fewer
pieces of equipment per farm,
but their farms are, small, even
by Ontario standards, with an
average of 80 acres, and 50 of
these in. forest. From what I saw,
I'd say they were just as well
mechanized as ours. However,
several Swedes told me they
thought Canada produced, the
best combines in the world, and
I noticed them using many of the
makes of tractors that are so
familiar to us.
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When some 'of us noticed that
the tour itinerary seemed to in-
clude only, the big, expensively-
operated farms and other special
agricultural showplaces, we asked
if we could also 'visit some typi-
cal farm that was neither the
best nor the worst itiethe country.
So , our obliging hosts took us to
the farm of Bengt Stegander,
who was manager of the Swed-
ish plowing team at the first an-
nual world match at Cobourg,
Ont., in 1953. We found that he
had 40 of his 80 acres' under cul-
tivation and that his major
pieces of machinery were a trac-
tor and a combine,, which were
about all he would need. His
house had modern 'plumbing and •
such appliances as a gelectric re-
frigerator, washing machine and
electric stove. Mrs. 'Barrie and I
both got the impressiOn'that they
didn't have the small appliances
such as electric mixers, vacuum
cleaners and shavers, but it was
a comfortable-looking home.
Even though we have more ma-
terial comforts than our coun-
terparts in Sweden, they seem to
be at• least as happy as most of
us, and they certainly have more
success than we do in keeping
their young people home on 'the
farm. (They are'needed there,
too, even though the farms are
small, for the average farmer
gets a sizeable part of his income
from logging during the winter,
and this calls for more manpow-
er than would be needed merely
for Mechanized brining.) I've'
heard it said •that more young
Canadians Would take up farming
if 'they could have City comforts,
PeOple who think so ought to
visit Sweden, The Swedes have
a less superficial idea of what
induces a young man to go in
for farming,
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No doubt their ability to pro-
duce plenty and to sell what they
produce has a lot to do with the
nUrnher of farmers' sons who
follovr in their fathers' foot-
steps, But part of the answer'
• can also be found in their agri-
cultural colleges, which are
schools of practical learning, as
different from academic colleges
as a farm job is front an Office
job, Everything done at the col-
leges is calculated' to stir the stu-
deht't interest in tartii life. We
visited one agricultural college
during the middle of a term.
There was hardly a soul around
the elassrooms; they were all in
the fields or the bares, getting
practical' exPeriefice in the sort
of real-life work and problems
they would later be encounter,
iitn as ferlitets, riot Saying
that a briber eldest* heed a
oat deett of the theoretical
knowledge that Is taught in our
TOP DOG-Lassie has proved
to be 'on of TV's leading 'actors.
The canine star poses in New
York after having won a George
Foster Peabody award for dis-
tinguished achievement on tele-
vision during 1955. The show •
was picked as best youth and
children's program.
larger seeds such as nastur-
tiums, peas; beans and corn, one
should cover lightly, say a
quaeter to half, inch. With bulbs
or corms of gladiolus, dahlias,
or 'potatoes, one plants four, to
eight inches deep;
So 'Young, Too
A four-year-old got sunburn-
ed, and it had reached the peel-
ing-off stage. As he was wash-
ing up for dinner, his mother
heard him mutter, "Only four
years old and wearing out al-
ready!"
that peoPle can eat large por-
tions of the basic, wholesome
foods, including some of the so-
called fattening ones — without
growing fat, providing the
meals are well-balanced and the
people get plenty of exercise,
preferably otitdocirs. ,
knoW plenty of Canadian
women Who talk a good diet; but
they'd eat a better and less fat-
tening one if they forgot about
calories and ate as the Swedish
women do, The Swedes ,go in far
less for the articici'ally - sweet
foods, such 'as candies, and eon-
centrate on the more natural
foods like fruit, vegetables, fowl
and fish (they eat very little
beef, incidentally); What's More,
they get' plenty of outdoor exer-
else. In Sweden, almost every-
body gets around by bicycle.
There wore probably 10 times as
many bikes at the plowing match,
as there were cars. Oil most city
streets there were probably as
many bikes as there are 'cars in
Toronto or Montreal. These are
not all teen-agers' bikes, mind
you, T saw women who must
have been 70. or 80, pedaling
along with their grandchildren
snug in carriers on front or back.
Meybe this is a dangerous
stand lot tne to take in till oil
company magazine! But I hon-
estly believe that we all need
more outdoor exercise than we
can get by walking out to our
patios or by joining the weekly
line-up of Sunday drivel's on the
highways. And exercise, in Swe-,
den, is by no means eonfined
to cycling, Sports are activities
that Ordinary people take part
in, het jeet things you buy tic-
kets to see, We tented only
frattion of the totintry, but
bet We passed elindst as many
Ski tuns as thete ate in all Of
Canada, arid I was Iola that these
and Many' other types of sports
fields get plenty Of iise.
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convincing, whether it's a com-
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somebody's wedding. Leo Feline,
above, demonstrates the form
that brought him the Debate
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