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It is UP that neeleeelou
seeds started in this manner ;end,
planted 1;11 01' on, pet. and all, in
'the bilis never know they were,
transplanted, and they will boar
week ahead of vines from seed-
sown in the open.
in many small Atut$11
housewives are being freed from
some of the drudgery that was
once the common lot, MOW
now have small gasoline motors
for their washing =chines, the
same "one,lunge0 models which
power the Saws and hammer
mills used by the men, writes.
Mabel Slack Shelton in the
Christian Science Monitor.
Modern day buggies arm also
seeing changes toward more con.
venient designs, They will al-
ways be drewn by horses, of
course, but Trine and En's buggy
has side windows that can be
closed from the inside, and there
is upholstery for easier riding.
Yet there is no fear of them ever
'becoming slothful. The love of
work is too much a part of them,
and finding easieleways of doing
it only means that more work
will be done,
Emmeline is all for the im-
proyernents in their way of liv-
ing, even if she does take a nos-
talgic look back into the past
now and then. "Fun it was to
bundle up in the old days and
sit wrapped in horsehide robes
in a bobsled when we went to
church or to' visit relatives on,
off Sundays," she says. "Bells
on the harness rang out so joy-
ful ever the snow, Fun, too, to
walk over the frozen fields as a
short cut to singings," But she
is too jolly and outgoing to pine
for ,joys that are past and finds
the present well worth living,
Amos remembers when farm-
ing was more profitable than it
is today for the small farmer on
a general farm growing wheat,
corn, oats and hay to feed a 1
dairy herd, hogs, and chickens.
The low price of corm at gather-
ing time last fall was a blow to
the cash corn farmers, which
takes in almost all in our corn-
munity. And as usual, they look-
ed to Amos for' advice, meeting
in his home in what for them is
a combination Town Hall and
Grange meeting, though it is giv-
en no name as such.
By Pev, WarreA, B.O.
'the Importance of Diligence.
Proverbs 6;6-9; gg;26; 24;30.34
Ecclesiastes •3;22
SNAPPY - in Japan as en our
own country, the old 'stereo-
type of the farmer iseems to
have vanished, Tetsun'obu Ma-
saki, above, looks more like
o photographer than what 'he
is, an •apprentice farmer come
to the U.S. to study methods.
He was one of 58 top agricul-
tural students !selected and
was photographed as he ar-
rived In San Francisco.
and then setting the price. The
trucker in turn would 'then take
his cut and pay off the growers.
Thai the growers began to rebel
was inevitable,.
Forty-three winter rhubarb
growers decided' during the past
winter that all chances of equit-
able returns for their product
were non-existant so long es
they 4pread their rhubarb around.
among wholesalers on a cemtnie-
siert basis. They decided, to chap
Mate the competition ley putting
their output through one coin-
mission house only. One or two
of the big buyers didn't like It
and tried to nullify the effort by
seeking supply elsewhere, As the
Noble 43 held 80% of supply the
moat Obdurate buyers had to suc-
cumb.• Thus, all were paying 'the
same price, From the chain store
standpoint this was good on the
premise that each knew' what
the competitor was paying, On
the other hand It destroyed the
freedom essential if they were to
under-cut the other fellow,
*
For two years apple packers
and growers representatives have
maintained a voluntary pricing
system, A joint committee meet-
ing each week has established,
recommended minimum prices
for apples. 'It has worked and
the apple industry has recovered
from the dismal state it was in
two years ago, The retail prices
of apples moved up without any
reduction in amount sold.
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The Grower has contended for
a long time that the inability of
Ontario fruit and vegetable
growers to adjust gross income
to increased costs of production
is simply due to the silly system
under which the fruits and the
vegetables are sold, If govern-
ment wants to help, and it does,
the help can come, not in the
form of subsidies, but in the
form of regulation of which the
first would be the abolition of
the open ticket by declaring "it
illegal. This could be followed
by some' regulation of imports
received on commission and by
self-imposed controls on the On-
tario Food. Terminal.
• •
The other day a Leamington
dealer invaded the Terminal with
a load of Ohio hothouse toma-
toes. He sold part of the load at
a firm price to one wholesaler
and then dumped the balance of
the load with two or three other
wholpialers on commission. Thus
was a market "stablilized". A
grower of onion setts paid a visit
to the Terminal and hasn't re-
covered from his inability to un-
derstand a market in which setts
were selling all the way from
$4,50 to $9.00 per 50 lb. bag. What
was the true price? Who could
decide?
without a single head of livestock
on the place and spend the prof-
its," he continued, "No business
can operate that way. Still, these
men think this should be enough
to earn a living, so they look to
the government for help.
"On my place we don't even
know who the secretary of agri-
culture is. We don't want any
help from the government, and
don't think very many people
really need it," this rather per-
eeptive gentleman continued.
"A young man can still make
good living on 200 acres or less
if he raises all the grain he can,
feeds out a carload of cattle a
year and has some brood sows
and even a few chickens and a
garden. Farming always did take
time and a lot of work and it still
does. It will be a long time be-
fore the eight-hour day comes to
the farm,"
This is one type of farm pro-
gram more farmers and legisla-
tors should advocate,- Drovers
Journal (Chicago)
'I don't say a dress should be
tight, but I do think that when
a woman gets into a dress we
should have some idea of where
she is.'
Bob Hop.
ticket, began to accept produce
from the farmers on the same
basis. The end result was the
gradual disappearance of the
firm sale involving a set price
marked on the sales receipt at
shippers platform.
Thus the present ..:day system
became established,' It was nice
for all but the farmer who' never
knew what he was getting for
his produce. It added to the
fierceness of the competition am-
ong shippers, among truckers,
among wholesalers and among
retailers. What could be nicer,
from their standpoint, than the
acceptance of produce without a
price tag. All that was neede to
assure profits for the various
handlers was volume, Certainly
it permitted all kinds of, abuse
and, out of the abuse came steps
to meet the situation.
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The uninitiated ask why the
farmers permitted such a system
to develop. The question is a
good one and the answer is that
the farmer, dealing in perish-
ables, was always seeking a
market home. • If he had one he
was afraid of losing it. He
operated in a realm of fear,
In self-defense the growers be-
gan to challenge the system with
group action co-operativesj
compulsory marketing b o a r d
and ,even voluntary marketing
groups. In other words, group ac-
tion grew out of abuse and as it
grew the antagonism of the dis-
tributors grew also• for they
could discern, and rightly so, the
loss of the freedom so generously
handed to them with the open
ticket:.
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I. Shoshonean 32. Low-priced
Indians 33. Provide 7, Artificial 15. Chromium
language 16. Animal's Isom,
1. Far and wide 18, Stiff-legged
9 Dodge wading bird
52. Plant need 10 Sleeper 40. Day's march
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54. Large volume 15 Killed Alto
55. Cilltivr tor 17 Not married 44. Filthy place
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1. Deserter.
(slang')
2. Self
3. Deer flesh
CROSSWORD
PUZZLE
Then too, there should be in-
vestigation and action on split
cars; on claims on the railways
for damaged produce.
The average farmer will 'accept
what he gets for his .produce if
the true law of supply and de-
mand is allowed to function, The
"open ticket" doesn't permit this.
All it does is establish and main-
tain pressure on the farmer re-
gardless of actual supply.
Wonder what chain store .stock
certificates would be worth if
a buyer could place his order
with a stock broker and decide
the price aftet he, the buyer,
received the certificates? What
price, for instance, Loblaw stock
sold in, this fashion?
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opera. 33 Discord
25. Select body
47. vigor •
48. Dove's note
49.1Pemale, sheep
51, Measure of
length (ab.)
ACROSS
Book of the
Bible (ab.) 4. More than
three
3. "Thin Man's"
dog
12. Span of years
13. Wheeled .
vehicle
14, Tribe of India
15, Shave the
heee 17, Archangel In
".Paradise
Lost"
13, Poorly
19. Clentleman
(Sp.)
El. Possessions
14. Rouse from
sleep
27. Flat-bottomed • boat
23. Confined
10. Behold
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knowledge
23. Infant
11, Insert exactly
34, Tyne measure
MN. Rebuke
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t. instrument 17, recent= 33. Barred 41. Hobo
43, Soft metal
44 Kind of
naillnl vesari 46. r4rfterl for
riches
23. Semester
No Eight-Hour Day
For The Farmers
It has long been recognized
that those engaged in the prod-
uction of fruits and vegetables
suffer from the fiercely compe-
titive nature .of the merchandiz-
ing services. It is equally true
that all merchandizing, irrespec-
tive of the commodity -being of-
fered for sale, is highly compe-
titive, but it is held by many that
no other commodity, be it a
primary product or a product of
secondary industry, is 'subjected
to the same degree of pressure;
to, the same frustrating strains.
The reason for this is clear for
it can be said with some degree
of justification that no other in-
dustry endeavors to get by with
such free use of the "open tick-
et". It can be said, also, that it
is doubtful if any other industry
makes use of such a ridiculoue
tool in the movement of product
to market, writes M, M. Robin-
son in a recent issue of "The
Grower."
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The "open ticket" is the direct
result of the development many
years ago of ' the commission
market at wholesale level. The
commission market came into
'being because of the uncertainty
of daily, supply' of perishable
products, The commission whole-
sale operation worked fairly
well until the advent of the
modern chain store system. Then
the picture changed, for the
chains, operating their own
warehouses and engaged in fierce
Competition for the consumer's
dollar, began to seek and receive.
Produce ostensibly on commis-
sion with the variation that there
Was no salesman's commission or
handling charge. It became the
open ticket wherein the receiver
paid his own price for What he
received. Sometimes the ulti-
mate price paid bore some rela-
tion to tile price-on -the legiti-
mate wholesale commission mar-
ket and sometimes it did not, -
depending upon the whim or
mood of the chain store buyer
or his estimates of how badly
the fel-trier wanted his goodwill,.
From this it was not a far cry
to the trucker who, picking
supply at the farm, was being
handed the produce also on an
Open ticket: The shipping point
'shipper, finding that he had to
ship to the chains on an, open
"I never knew e man who wq
botii a good fariner And a good
pool player," an elderly farmer
and cattle feeder commented re-
cently.
"Too many men today think
they can plant crops' in the seen-
mer, then sit around all winter Answer elsewhree on this page
The writer has heard a chain
store executive tri t icize the
wholesale market and the Wide
price fluctuations which Charac-
terize that ,,rnarket. He was
thinking in terms of his inability
to read the opposition's moves.
His criticism of the wholesale
Market was justified, but 'what
110 either did not know or was
not prepared to accept was the
degree to which Ontario fruits
and vegetables moved to market,
no price attached,
4t •
Recently a small group of
growers, fed up with existing
practices, decided upon collective
action in all effort to put Semi
stability into the merehendishig
of their produce. They had been
turning a large percentage of
their produce over to one or twO
truckers-turned-dealers on the
open ticket, The truckers or deal-
ers, hi turn, were doing the same
thing With the outlets they had.
established hicledirig brie or two
eheiiis. When the, buyers for one'
O'f the chains heard about it they
Were a bit'disturbed because they
feared the loss of what they deee
ebbed es t'a good deal", The
chain in question was in habit
of taking in three days' reeeints
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BAR EXAMINATION - Two young men indulge in the medieval
sport of pillow fighting on a greased pole. The contest, in
Brunnsvik, Sweden, was performed 'by student's. Jon Pettersson
took on all corners, and kept his balance.
A Time Of Melody
On The farm
Spring came reAucteently to our
valley. Even in rnid-April snow
fell, great winds roared, and the
told caused the tender snow-
drops to ewer back toward the
del*, chilly earth from which
they had. so recently emerged.
Late cold end snow caused the
heads of daffodils to droop, and
not pop Up again as they have
been known to do.
Planting is over en act of faith,
but to see the Amish farmers
following their horse e down
plows over the fields was to wit-
ness an act of utter trust,
Now, however, the cold has
IxWed and we realize once more,
and poignantly, that this is the
wonder season. the time of re-
birth and renaissance, A time of
tender green, of alternate show-
er and sunshine, of returning
melody and swift bird flight
through the skies.
It is also the season of resur-
rection. We. find the Moravian
evay of remembering Easter
thrilling, In the town near us,
every man and boy who can play
a band instrument is welcome to
join the Moravian band for this
holy celebration, the only stip-
ulation being that they gather in
the,town square in time to be
ready to play at 2 tem,
Several hundred strong, they
assemble with their leader and
at a signal they raise their shin-
ing instruments to their lips. All
the sleeping people in the town
are awakened by the glorious
burst of Easter music, and indi-
vidual prayers are said as the
tremendous impact of the good
news of resurrection is once
more conveyed..
The players are sent in groups
to the north, south, east and
west, to every part of town,
playing hymns of joy which have
for their message Christ Is
Risen.
After two hours, they all come
back to the church, where a
hearty breakfast of ham and, eggs
and sugarcakes awaits them.
Then the players reassemble. At
the stroke of 5 the church doors
open and the Bishop steps forth.
"The Lord is risen!" he pro-
claims in a loud voice, and all
the people who have gathered
for the sunrise Easter service
answer, "He is risen indeed!"
This is a Moravian Easter.
The season was also a time of
birth in the home of Trina and
Eli. Now they have a baby son,
and Emmeline and Amos a new
grandchild, Thy named him
John. Not for any relative,
merely because he looks the way
a "John," should. Already self-
contained and solemnly aware,
he resembles Amos in nq small
degree. Molly and Mel, 'the rosy
twins, are ecstatic. No hint of
sibling jealousy here. They are
yet too young to have been
taught the belief of their people,
that pride is a sinful thing, and
it' is plain to see they think their
"Jonriy" 'tile most wonderful
baby in the. land.
Emmeline stayed with Trina
and the children for the first
few days, then Hilda, who had
kept house at home meanwhile,
changed places with her mother.
But Trina is not one to stay in
bed, a minute longer than neces-
sary, and before many days had
passed she was in the kitchen
long enough to bake gumdrop
bread and "pink lozenger" cake
for a. treat for the twins. The
bread, a great favorite with Mol-
ly and Mel, employs the use of
dates and chopped fruit flavor
(no black) gumdrops. The cake,
pretty as its name and delicious,
calls for three-fourths of a cup
of pink lozenges dissolved in
one-fourth cup of water. 'This
takes a whole night," Trina says
gaily,. "but it's well worth wait-
ing for,"
"And what is growing in the
peat pots on the kitchen win-
dow sill?" we ask, seeing hew
luxuriant vines are already
twining down front them.
"Mtishrnelons," t h e twin
chorus together:
ISSUE 20- 1961
IIEFARM.FRONT
JokuuLat.
Memory Selection; Whaisnevoi
ye do, do it heartily, as to the
;Gerd, and not unto men. Colo*.
signs 3;23.
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How true is the saying, "Sa.
tan finds lots for idle hands to
do." A policeman friend tells me
that with more unemployment
they have more people in the
cells.
A few people worlr themselves
to death; some hate work; the
rest of us get along with it with
varying degrees of toleration and
enjoyment. The habits formed
in childhood and youth are im-
portant. 'The girl who never
learns how to set a table and do
other chores around the home
until she takes a course in Home
Economics at High School is to
be pitied, One of the advantages
of being raised on a farm is that
everyone learns 'to work at art
early age. They learn to be re-
sponsible concerning little chores
and are able to meet the bigger
tasks as they grow.
Just over a century ago Lord
Shaftesbury led in passing legis-
lation in England its protecting
children from overwork in fac-
tories and mines. When we hear
today the question, "What can
we get for the youth to do?", It
too often means, "How are we
going to entertain them?" Chil-
dren who earn a little money
selling papers, shovelling walks,
mowing lawns, etc., often turn
out to be leading citizens,
Paul commanded, "If any
would not work, neither should
he eat." 2 Thessalonians a:10.
It is unfortunate that so many'
take an unfair advantage of our
welfare state, It is amazing how
those for whom the municipality
must provide housing are able to
secure money to be drunken
much of the time.
When a person commits him-
self to Jesus Christ, he has a goal
for living. His life which wax
self-centered is now Christ-cen-
tered. He says with Paul, 'Tor
me to live is Christ." He wants
to share the good news of salva-
tion with others. He wants to
help in the sending out of mis-
sionaries and in advancing the
kingdom of God in every way he
can. Life is a joy and work is a.
privilege when it is done to the
glory of God.
Helping Emmeline and Hilda
*with the serving we heard some
of what Amos had to say that
evening.
"With corn bringing only 94
cents ae bushel now (in mid-De-
cember), and 85 cents at gather-
ing time, it should be kept on'
the been and turned into dollars
in the form of beef, mutton,
pork, milk, eggs, and fryer
meat," he told his neighbors.
"Feeding 84-cent corn to 18-
dollar hogs, is a corn-hog ratio
of 2140,1," Eli Murmured. He
is not yet a "graybeard," yet h.
knows how to figure scientifi-
cally,
"And we all know that apy-
thing, over 15-to-1 is good," an-
other farmer said.
SO they Plan, pooling their
ideas to get the most out of what
they work so hard to raise,
When farmers with their modern
tractors spill up the rich earth
in sections, Amishmen are' plod-
ding along, one foot, trying to
plow an acre in a day. But this
is never mentioned, and prob-
ably never thought of. They do
the best, they can while preserv-
ing their way' of life. Their best
cash crop, has, lost one-third of
its value', still ihey are happy to
have a plan that calls for feeding
all the Corn they grow and, if
necessary, buying more.
And as Gus Ginnerich points
out; while spearing a delicately
broned fried oyster from the
platter, "One sure thing about
farming is, you always have
plenty to eat,"
Plenty to eat, homes where
parenthood is respected, where
children are a joy and a blessing,
and where the Heavenly Father
is spreme as the, Giver of all
good and perfect gifts. Is it not
enough? They think it is, apd
so do we,
Even if you are on the right
track, you'll be -run over if you
sit down too long,
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Of it Ot het sWamped by dozens of ballOon-shaped, world globes. Mandoville is vice west,
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