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MOO YEARS OF PROGRESS
AS LATE AS 1794,wooden moldboards And Massey-Harris mowers, bind-
were hewn from tree trunks, and when ers, combines and other machines
the first cast-iron plows were made, handle crops more speedily than would
farmers believed that the cast iron have been thought possible a hundred
Ppoisoned the land." Then came lighter years ago.
weight steel plows. Soon plows were
being made in factories at much lower
cost than they could be made by the
local blacksmith.
Since 1847 when the first Massey
plant started producing plows and
other farm implements, machine
methods have almost completely re-
placed hand labor on the farm.
Plowing requires more power than
any other farm operation. Today on
thousands of farms in Canada and
throughout the world, Massey-Harris
plows drawn by powerful Massey-
Harris tractors speed across the fields,
enabling the farmer to plow twice
the acreage he formerly plowed
with a four horse outfit,
today Matioy.Hants metal* a type of
plow for every purpose...y/441So
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The past century has been one of
steady expansion forthe Massey-Harris
industry. To the farmer it has brought
happy release from much of the back-
breaking labor.connected with farm
work.
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vertible into U.S. dollars. * *
BRITISH FINANCIAL
STRATEGY
As the date approaches when Britain
must make all sterling receipts from
current transactions freely convertible
and work out arrangements to clear up
Outstanding sterling 'balance, the. Brit-
ish strategy is becoming apparent. Out-
standing sterling balances total 83,-
500,000,000 ($14,000,000,000).
There has been no discussion with
the U,S, regarding revision of the U.S.
loan due July 15th, nor for a new
loan. Instead, Britain will endeavor
(1) to persuade sterling bloc countries
not to demand full convertibility on
current transactions and (2) arrange
Small yearly taut payments to star.
ling creditors, such as India and Egypt
at the same dine demanding that the
debt totals be scaled down on the
ground that they were incurred in the
defense of those eountries. * *
WEEKLY THOUGHT
The 1Vastet-Paintet is fast tomplet-
ing His spring masterpieces, A few
short weeks ago Ile painted Out the
white scenes which Vve saw all winter
and presented to Cur view landstapes
colored with various shades of greys
and browns. Now Re has nearly com-
pleted the task of painting in the vat•
loos shades of green, Which, with the
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UNSOLVED MYSTERY
Nature has perfected a priceless in-
vention that enables birds year after
year to migrate each spring and fall
over hundreds of miles to familiar nest-
ing and feeding grounds. Science so
far has been unable to fathom the
-mechanism of this instinct and this
phenomena is a major unsolved mys-
tery of life,
In springtime the Golden Plover
navigates the vast distance from Ha-
waii to Alaska, without experience,
With unbelievable "pinpoint" accuracy
it finds the locality, the tree, the very
branch it left last autumn. Every year
the Bronze Cuckoo does an all-ocean
flight from the Solomon islands to
New Zealand, Hundreds of other spe-
cies perform similar migratory wonders
Here in Southwestern Ontario we
have been blessed by the return of
many of our bird friends and others
are still coming. How do these birds
limit their flight to one precise direc-
tion, and how Ado they return long after
over hundreds or thousands of miles to
the starting point?
This extraordinary instinct or skill of
migrating birds opens before us the
possibility of some revolutionizing new
techniques for safely navigating planes
and ships, if science can ever solve the
mystery. European storks, for example,
return year after year to the same nest
from far away wintering grounds,
which would be a mathematical impos-
sibility if chance governed their flights
so the instinct is 100 per cent fool proof
The mystery deepens profoundly
when. we turn to fish. Certain schools
of cod spend eight years Maturing in
the Barents. Sea, then head straight for
the Lofoten Islands on the west coast
of Norway. There they spawn, and t h e
newborn larvae drift slowly back to the
northern sea. Salmon return from the
ocean to breed in the very pool where
they were born years before, Timing
and direction are so unbelievably ac-
curate 'in Nature's instinctive travel
mechanism that it stretches human
credulity pretty far to believe it.
-Solution of these natural mysteries
will give us scientific clues of immense,
unpredictable value. Nature showed us
lightening ages before we used elec-
tricity. So it was with steam, radio
waves, disintegrating atoms. When -men
understood the basic phenomna
ved they saw how to use and excel
ture's elementary mechanisms. Equip-
ment and techniques as yet undreamed
may be awaiting us in the primitive
brains of cuckooi, salmon, dogs and
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DEATH RATES
The Bureau of Mines in the U.S.A.,
states that the death rate from accident
in bituminous coal mines. is 1,3 for each
million hours' work by a coal miner.
The following computation by Harvey
1,,,ocurtis, Physicist, Retired, National
Bureau of Standards, shows that the
death rate for people riding in auto-
mobiles is approximately 1 per mil-
lion hours' riding: (in USA.).
Average mileage per ear per year
8,500. Average speed (m/hr) 30. Aver-
age hours a car is run per year .300.
Average number of riders. 2, Number of
autos licensed 25,000,000. Number of
deaths to riders per year 15,000. Deaths
per million hours riding, 1. ,
The statistics on airplane travel give
about 3.2 deaths per million hours,
whereas for travel -by train the rate is
only 0.1 per million hours, and for bus
travel considerably less than for train
travel because the speed is less, *
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many different blue-tinted panoramas
of sky and water, charm our eyes with
the entrancing loveliness of piceures-
que scenes ,wherever we look, Take
time this week to really "admire the
beautiful masterpieces that the Master-
Painter has painted on the canvas of
nature all around you.
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KNOW WINGHAM
Wingham is really a "Forest Town",
Nearly all the residential streets are
lined with stately, shady maple trees,
which give shade and shelter to our
homes and provide meeting-places for
our song-bird friends. Each street is
a beautiful -archway through long
rows of friendly, enduring trees that
give a feeling of security, safety and
permanence to all. Wingham is a town
of trees that make the homes even
more pleasant and home-like.
CONTRACT BRINE
This hand was played in the Men's
section of the Bridge Club tournament
last week. At the table under obser-
vation North offered the declarer his
contract as a gift, but East failed to
grasp the opportunity.
South dealer
Neither side vulnerable
S-K J 9 7
H-J 6 .
D-A J 9 6 4
C-K 2
S-A 8 3
N-Q 9 3
D-Q 3
C-A Q 9 7 3
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S-Q 4
W
SE H-A 10 7 4
D-K 7 2
-C-5 10 8 4
S-10 6 5 2
H-K 852
D-10 8 5
C-6 5
The bidding at the table in question
was:
South
West North East
Pass 1C 1D 1H
Pass 2H ' Pass 2NT,
Pass 3NT Pass Pass
Pass
East's two no trump bid was a gam-
ble, but a fairly sound one, With his
club support and ' West's raise in
hearts, it appeared that one diamond
stopper might be sufficient to bring
home a no trump contract, whereas
game in either clubs or hearts might
be quite impossible.
SoUth led the ten of diamonds, the
three was played from dummy, and
North made the error of playing the
ace. If North had followed with the
six,—his correct play—the contract
could not have been made.
North returned a small diamond, the
queen winning in slummy. At this
point declarer led the queen of hearts
from dummy, hoping North held the
king, but when South won and return-
ed his last diamond the contract was
doomed.
The declarer missed a play at the
third trick that would have assured
him his contract despite almost any ad-
verse distribution. His correct lead
was time ace of clubs (the king might
be singleton) followed by another
club. North would win and knock
out East's king of diamonds, By the
time s'the three good club tricks were
run both North and South would have
been so embarrassed for discards that
the declarer might have made an extra
trick over his contract.
PHIL OSIFER OF
LAZY MEADOWS
By Harry J. Boyle
You just get sailing along happy in
the idea that Spring has arrived when
all of a sudden a cold Spell sets in,
Yesterday we were sitting out on the
back veranda in our shirt sleeves and
this morning the weather had changed,
completely. As a matter of fact' it was
quite chilly here this morning.
Tonight we have a fire in the heater
in the front room and we're darn glad
that we have. There's a robin outside
the living room window complaining in
the way of weather since coming back,
Things have been mighty quiet
around here this last while, Most folks
are seeding , . and the work is start-
ing to roll up around our ears.- First
thing you know it'll be the twenty
fourth of May.
One of our neighbors has sold out.
He's going to move into the villa.ge 'and
take over the apiary that Tom Macar-
thur used, to have, I don't think Ned
knows a solitary thing about bees, The
point is that he wants to get away from
the farm, Toni was time oldest boy in
the Macaethuf" family and he worked
while time rest of them got an educa-
tion,
They all Came home for holidays and
they later got jOha in the Cities, Later
On they _married and had families anti
kept on coming back to the (anti to
visit. Looking over at the Macarthur
place in the summertime on a Sunday
afternoon It would remind you of an
auction sale. -"
Tom kept on plugging away at the
farm. As he once Said to me a little
bitterly, work ten hours to get
enough to feed the visitors." When the
war came, along lie jumped at the
eitallee to enlist but he was hilted
dowit for active service, Two years ago
he had the notion of starting up an-
other service Station hi the village;
That seemed a little foolish because
there seems to be a service SWIMS in
the Village foe every three people that
live there,
wonder if Thin t a sense of
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Canada's adverse trade balahce with
=. the United States reached an all-time
high in March. In the month Canada
exported to the U.S. goods valued at
more than $83,000,000 while the value
of imports from that country was
$163,000,000, giving a deficit of $80,-
000,000. The deficit in January was
$56 000 000and in February $67,500,000
=I making a total deficit for the quarter • of $204,100,009, or roughly twice what
it was for the corresponding quarter in
1946, These figures do not include
gold exports which offset the adverse
L"---- balance somewhat and amounted to -r.- $22,700,000 for the first quarter.
!! Canada's unfavorable trade balance
a with the U.S. in 1946 reached the
normal total of $496,700,000, and; if • the present trend continues, it may be
close to $900,000,000 this year. In.its
trade with the United States, Canada
has always had an unfavorable balance,
but the average yearly deficit from
1935 1939 was only $87,000,000.
In the first quarter this year the over
all trade picture shows a favorable bal-
ance in Canada's favor of $44,400,000,
and we had a favorable trade with the
United Kingdom of $104,700,000. So
this country would be in an excellent
position of solvency if we were paid
in United States dollars for all our ex-
ported goods, as was the case before
the war.
If Canada's reserve of American dol-
lars is not to receive a staggering' olt
this year some or all of the following
things -must happen: 1, Greater sales
of Canadian gbods to'the U.S., or a cut
in our buying there. 2, Increased U.S.
investments in Canada, which are un-
desirable and would only provide a
temporary relief. 3, Greatly increased
spending by U.S. tourists in Canada,
and less spending by Canadian tourists
in the U.S. 4, Customers must make