HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1967-11-09, Page 2Visitors last week with Mr..
and Mrs,. Gershon Johnston of
Wingham were Mr. and Mrs.
Ross McMichael, Linda and
Bruce of Seaforth and Mr. and
Mrs, Harry Miller of Teeswater,
On Saturday Mr. and Mrs, Jim
Johnston and family of Listowel
visited with them.
On Monday Mrs, Gershon
Johnston received word that her
sister, Mrs. Chester Longman
of Windsor, had passed away
and that the funeral was to be
Wednesday, This community
extends sympathy to Mrs. Johns-
ton.
Miss Lyla Humphrey of St,
Helens spent the week-end.
with her sister. Mrs. George
Walker and Mr. Walker,
M. Frani:. Moo: of %Crow-
ter visited Friday with his bro-
ther Walter Moore, Mrs. Meore
and family,
Jack c.,7oulres, Leo Roberts
and Ralph Houo:on of Dresden
and Ken Carter of Wingham
were hunting deer in Mo:ris
Twp, in the vicinity of Blue-
vale on Monday when Leo Ro-
berts suffered heart attack in
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FORDYCE CLARK, R. R. 5, Goderich
ROY STRONG, Gorrie
MRS, 0. G. ANDERSON, Belgrave
GORDON KIRKLAND, R. R. 3, Lucknow
LLOYD MONTGOMERY, Wingham
BERT IRWIN, It R. 2, Seaforth
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KENNETH JOHNS, Exeter
GORDON RICHARDSON, R. R. I, Btutetield
ART WRIGHT, Seaforth
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Personal 'Notes from Whitechurch
a field and had to be taken to
Wingham and District .Hospital,
Leo Roberts, Ralph Houston and
Jack Coultas were staying with
Jack's parents., Mr, and Mrs.
Albert coultes. This commun-
ity wishes Leo Roberts a speedy
recovery.
Whitechureh 4-H Club, the
Woollees, held a work meeting
Monday evening with one per-
son absent.
Mrs, Samuel Reid of Luck-
now and Mr. and Mrs. Charles
MacDonald of St. Helens were
Sunday visitors with Mr. and
Mrs, Garnet Farrier and family.
Spending the week-end with
their parents were George Conn,
Muriel Conn, Janette Janston,
Jim Robertson and Edna Wall ,
all of London.
Mr. Lloyd Gollan has ob-
tained a position in Woodstock
General Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Moss
of Plattsville, accompanied by
Lloyd Gollan of Woodstock,
visited Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Carl McClenaghan and
Mr, and Mrs. Ben McClenagh-
an. On the return trip Ben ac-
companied them to visit for a
week.
Mr. Paul Geiger of Waterloo
is spending a few days with Mr.
Carl McClenaghan.
OTTAWA-- A federal-pro-
vincial ARDA contribution of
50 percent of the cost of finan-
cing Ontario's $850, 000 Farm
Pond Assistance Program over
the next two years has been
approved.
Federal forestry and rural
development minister Maurice
Sauve and provincial agricul-
ture and food minister Wm. A.
Stewart have announced an
equal cost-sharing of the $425-
000 expenditure by the two go-
vernments.
The purpose of the program
is to improve the efficiency of
agriculture operations in Ont-
ario by providing farmers with
financial assistance for the pro-
vision of an adequate supply of
water for livestock, spraying
and irrigation through the con-
struction of properly designed
ponds,
Under the Ontario Farm Pond
Dear Editors:
The enclosed reproduction
of the artistry of Mr. R. R.
Sallows with a camera -- ap-
pearing in your paper a few
weeks ago, stirred up a lot of
memories of my teen-age youth
in the 1890's. Mr. Sallows
was for me, an almost daily
experience during my first year
in high school in Goderich in
1901. He served the Goderich
comm unity, the same way the
Wingham Advance-Times
photo service ministers to the
Wingham community in the
presentation of local news,
But a photograph, however
intriguing as a part of local
events, can never probe below
the surface, My memory of
that "Simple old Instrument"
of leg, arm and eye torture,
leads me to exclaim, in the
words of the Queen of Sheba,
-- "The half has not been told
me!"
I invite ANY of the budding
"new math" wizards to draw a
diagram to show how many
jabs of the planter (the least
number) required to plant a
single acre of corn, arranged
in rows, checker-board pattern,
in rows spaced wide enough to
permit cultivation with a
horse-drawn cultivator -- in
two directions at right angles.
And, when the acre gets plant-
ed, reflect that that is just the
merest start, A whole summer
of battle with millions of fox-
tails, burdocks, thistles, and
or just mere grass lies ahead--
provided, of course, that the
corn sprouts, and gets big
enough to be cultivated.- That
benevolent old man that Mr.
Sallows recorded in his photo-
graph could just as well have
been my Grandpa Wightmari, or
any of his sons, including my
father, or even ME, before I
had my first shave I
According to my mathemat4
ics; I, The least number of
plants for an acre is in a per-
fect square; 2, The square has
each side 12,65 rods in length;
Miss Florice Leaver visited
on. Thursday with Miss Amelea
Leaver, of London.
Huron Juniors
receive letter
from India
The Huron county Junior
Farmers met in the agricultural
board rooms at Clinton with
15 members present. Murray
Hoover was in charge of the
meeting with Jamison Ribey
reading the minutes, The trea-
surer's report was read by Mur-
ray as Don Pullen was not able
to attend.
The Juniors will hold a ban-
quet in Belgrave and tickets
must be purchased by Novem -
ber 14. There is also a draw
ticket sale and the draw will
be made at the banquet.
The Huron Juniors received
their first letter from the child
they adopted. The child is
male, 13 years old and lives in
India. He will be supported
by the organization one year.
It was decided to hold the
curling competition the last
Saturday in January. The coun-
ty will also have another hock-
ey competition this year.
policy, a grant of 50 per cent is
provided for farmers who under-
take the construction of an ap-
proved farm pond; the maxi-
mum grant being $500 for any
one pond per 100 acres of land
or fraction thereof.
The assistance includes the
cost of drilling test holes, ex-
cavation, levelling and fencing
and is exclusive of the owner's
labour, machinery or material.
To qualify under the pro -
gram, which is supervised by
the Ontario Department of Ag-
riculture and Food, a farm
pond must have a minimum of
6,000 square feet of water sur-
face and 1,500 square feet of
water to a depth of 10 feet. In
addition the farmer must own
the land on which the pond is to
be located and during the pre-
vious year he must have realiz-
ed an income of at least $3, 000
from his farming operations.
3. A rod is 198 inches; 4, One
can plant 5 plants per rod at
a spacing of 39.6 inches bet-
ween plants; 5. A square 12.
65 rods to a side takes 63 plants
per row; 6. the complete acre
takes 63 times 63 plants which
in my arithmetic comes to
3,969 plants, which is a lot of
jabs with that"simple old tool" !
Yes -- Mr. Sallows was an
artist of whom Goderich and
Huron County may well be
proud. But his art with a cam-
era could never record the pure
grit it required to get Old
Mother Earth to grow in her
abundance the sustenance re-
quired for a mere handful of
animals to survive the 180 or
more days of an average East
Wawanosh Winter.
The farmers of 1967 can
well be thankful that the old
corn planter that Mr. Sallows
photographed had but a brief
day in East Wawanosh. The
speedy methods now in current
use in seeding, cultivating
and harvesting the crops for
either seed or forage are all
the result of the eternal means
of knowledge since the days of
Adam. The method of "trial
and error"! And even the
school drop-outs are a part --
the error part of that natural
way of getting knowledge.
I hardly expected the pic4
tune of that benevolent old
veteran to evoke such a flood
of personal remonstrance
against that clanking old tool
that ruined so many of the
sunny hours of my long-long
ago July afternoons,
Very truly yours.
Gordon E. Wightman
Since writing the above, I
have been reading avidly the
book East Wawanosh 186741961.
I find the description of corn
harvesting and silo=filling as
set forth on page 55 a story
that pOints up My retiarks abOut
what learning by trial and er-
tor involved in the closing days
Of the Nineteenth century
G.E.W.
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