The Goderich Signal-Star, 1946-10-03, Page 13OC I J.L';1R, 1940,
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11 Piowing and .duration
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Written for The Sig><n -Star R�7 Dr a " Willliiiam Sher' owl
President, I niversity of Western, Ont• rdo.
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'Plowing and Education are very
mach alike: trach. in ite sphere is an.
Absolute fundamental. Indeed, so mach
.alike are they t�rch►in a cingeable sense, the
two terses , are
Plow-
ing is the first step In the education
of' the soil;• while education is, at bot-
tom, the plowing of the human mind
in Order• to make it productive. One
might go even farther and truthfully
claim that plowing off., the soil is funda-
mental to education, for unless the soil
be brought to production mazy lacks
the means of living and, therefore,
also the Power to develop any of the
amenities of social existence. Un-
doubtedly, it was the o re tea t onofDaniel
this thought that p inP
\'t'eb$ter over a hundred years ago to
say: "When tillage begins, other arts
fell'ow.. The farmers therefore are the
founders of human' civilization." This
utterance was spoken out of deep eon-
viction and not to , catch rurtlm votes
in an election.
There is• a deep though simple phil-
osophy behind plowing. But because
the process is so obvious to everyone(
has become so common and is so much
of a routine, (h e have tended to over-
look this philosophy. It is so easy
for the human mind to ignore the sig-
nificance of the things that lie closest
at band. Plowing is the first and in-
dispensable step .in dealing with the
soil just as man finds it. Upon its
quality directly depends, in the long
run, the quality and quantity of the'
products of the soil upon-- which man
sustains his life. Upon these in turn
depends the" duality of the human so-
ciety that consumes them.
Let me illustrate. As a stuident I
spent some time in the Balkan, Pen-
insula, chiefly in Greece: The t3~lle o
rural life there is deplorable. For deed brings its- reward. Anything that
the most part, the physique of the encourages thoroughness in a matter
farmer is poor, his stuck IS scrawny so vital to human well-being deserves
and lacking in vigor, his ,crops are the wholehearted support of all our
meaglje and his buildings mere huts. citizens whether rural or urban, for
As one would expect, his social and ultimately all alike profit by it. That
political organization is loose and dn.- is why ' I commend the international
effective. ear re to be helm] in
aunties
ving Events On Oct. 15
lotions �, �+ Po Xn t Open
7th.laze: °
The four'day program of the Inter.
aat oIaa1 " VictQ "'lowing 1 tcTth
Port:Albert iti an tutusive one. Fir'1t
play of the 1 latvh, Tuesday, October' 3.t,
'has been tet aalde as Ideal 1CD:a `Q i u
wh els 'couipetitton will 1 e held. fur
ref idents of I-iva'pn, llruce and. "lath
Bounties. p .;
Wednesday, October 10, 'gill be fol'
stubble plowing; Thur. sday, Oetober 17,
for sod:' plowing, and Friday, Oetobe
1a, 'for °pen connpetitian.
Following are„the rules for the ��+ igen
County Local Day plowing eompetition8
on the opening, day :
1. All competitive events ,in this sec-
tion are 'Somite(] ' to contestajnta .
from the County of iluron. Q .
2. Unless, otherwise specified,. all ruler_.
and regulations .of .the Internatiou.-
' al Plowing Match will'apply.
4.. Jointer plows must, be •used i>ln tt11
classes.
The
e per class will be' $1.0(). .
The committee• is: Chairman, Ubgla
Hill; Goderich, lt.lt. No. 4 Secretary,
LeRoy` U•. Browse Department of Agri-
culture, Clinton.
- Donors of prizes in this section • are
North Huron Plowmen's Ass(ciatien,.•'•
South Huron 1'lovt'wen's Ag'g relation;
Huron County Council, all' To*nship
- Councils of Huron, all Village Councils
into I of Huron, end all individual donors.
tions rThe prize, list for Tuesday, October
15 is as follows:
23� \..thetiiPrt.11(17tItisaosbstih.rlot-hseday
Stubble--Horseswhohadnotreached
_ree by October 15, 1946.
of Directors in charge: Clark Fisher,
Exeter ; I3o :Michie, Brussels.
1st prize 10b0
ative'
1924 ; „
3rd
regio-
et'ember 5th ts i.
DO, WILLIAM SHERWOOD FOX
Palestine and other Mediterranea
countries in the pre -Christian era. H
merely scratches his soil; • never has
he systematically succeeded in drawing
upon its real resources. The unhappy
results are for everyone to see, and
in them one may perceive one great
reason why the • .Balkans are the
poi.veler-keg of Europe. The same crude
agricultural methods and their natural
,sequel I • have also seen in South and
Central -America. -
With these contrast the conditions
in those regions where plowing is
-deep and thorough. a Thoroughness in,
�k •
natural
y1
Teat
i
nal
n
'n t
1 g
' the )'list step n
too, is
conditions, as they are found - -Sou-
diti:ons of the mind and soul. But
schooling and education are not neces-
Th is that grace his life plowing eont(sts that a boo II is only
•are• few and generally crude• If you "Huron County In October. I,share my sttril�y the seine thilag•,� r g
reason for all this; look at his fellow -citizens' pride in the honor diel Dart of ts hehe efaland must conspicuous
ss of a .
_sEsk,a t, It
l:.. .,- -Still uses, ..he.. erool d,„ done ,,l.bf - �,nnIZ„,..
)wln Ike sl[3t . _..a�. ,_- , ., t. .t.•,rr h(1.;..�Ir��..ir..1l�i t --and cannot be
pl( .. . . o` re fIflember- Ira`r; R- _
em to r . ,earl -an -6y .
w(ioden�plow-of-the�tYl7e ..employed in _,lint tiyhat about t e dispensed wlth. I3utas a
process' of -developing the.-peeuliarly
human faculties goes on unceasingly
from the first days of consciousness' Sinee there are so mitny different They have provided ;Malek for the great
to the very last of life -in the home,' kinds of cattle in the world, it \vuulrl cattle ranches (7 -North 'American and
• r best fl
, 4 are It
They (,
breeds. I
rue e (
> 11•(1]1 y
everywhere
• he Meld, S.very \�
'n• t ,
1
ore
shop, r, m
s )1
in the upon., ,
p touch ltl h >
t •
•c' u I � of
' ble t . � h farms
that ,than employs iia powers of be itupo. • 1 precialtecl when seen u11 the
]naught and judgment. The one thing thou a few at• ji (flue, but these play agricultural I nglat d•
essential to education is that it involve taken as • 13.1)•cul of the race. Many years ago :urope had its own
the effort of the individual himself._IleFrom. the earliest days, .•rtrz'in lids l,isou..\vhith rate. \vjld in Lithuania
That is -why a person -whether child rattle fur
1'r
r
Cornpiiments
0
erhart'
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MERCURY CARS and TRS.• K.S
LINCOLN CARS
REPAIRS TO ALL MAKES OF CARS
GENUINE F0
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D PACTS
Goderich
CATTLE
Wild and
f
ora estic
By
food and and the CatietiS 1 . Not unlike that
or adult -may go to school and, be- depended upon the "I:* the' 'Newl 01itt buffalo in a
lueffort ppear-
clse he puts forth no eort himself,(•1ething and for this reason alone -they :inceit burn; were (sinner, its coat
t attain to \\h'1t \\e term :may be (l.1sx( a one' of the most Ilot �u heavv a;Icl it. hall an ashy-1)lack
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L� 'the1 \Inui u
ager,
don,
ater-
held,
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Drone]], December 1928 ° to February 7th
• k(.t
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'�I a >� ':-
chairman
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19,;,, , secretary OntarioZ;th
Board, April 1931 ; member ancl' vice 9th
chairman Agr•icultllral • Development
111(11 �' 7.00
Board, January' 1931 to August 1933. Class --Sod-]florae, "
Since Febriratry 1933. he elms- been. open to those who had se reached
titipPPII1tE'n414"nt of A iclltural and their 20th birthday by Cktoher,15, 1946.
I1ot ticldtural Societies Branch. Directors hi charge: Ed. •Shapton',
<lazetied ]lout( pant '0th Halton
Exeter; Nelson.Cardiff, Ethel, R.Ib. -.,
Hcifles._..h2_t '•t ]ler 1l � :.l eti enZri i �,o 11. •
Eneope_ a it Wo r 1916-1 1: tat price
164th •Battalion: _- C.E.F.:- *February' -
191ti; ;lieutenant Royal Artillery, B.E.
F. November' 1917;" served with Z'.
Battery. It.1I.A., Belgium, France and ,
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and
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1 C
Germany; 11\varded ac•tt\S ,Sri�
victory medals
Member of the senate. University rsity of
Toronto, ]926-3'2 ; a cberter member
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9.00
8.00
7.00
7.00
7.00
7.00
7.00
7.00
$10.00..
2nd ,I.00
3rd " ,8.00
4th - 7.00
7,00
:)h
t
lith 7.00 .
7th " $ ' 7.00
Stn 7.00
9th
" 7.00
Cioniclia(11 `uciet3.of '1'echnts*a1 Agri- ltlth r' 7.00
c•ltlturists : se(•retary of the. Ontario
Class 3-Sod-Horses
7.00
Association. Ontario AS Open.,
utterly fails • o a a1' . 40( 1x11011 of Agricultuiai societies,
f "inlllurtant annuals -in existel>ce: Association.. and I)*rectors in charge: Hugh Jerry• Kirlt-
hide 'Vegetable' Growers' tau : '1'lt(rs: Leeming, Walton.
I VegbsPlowmen's ,> •:oc i.ttictat : samanager oInter 1st prize 10.110
the Bal .an l extinct lh( a>" i the Ph 1
Plowing Match; tl direct(,t t )n
s •
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ll'IInS('lf. to •blame. -
. But our society.. itself has a respon, (Putney. Iluge in nee, they •
at i 1
ibility for proiuoting "Sleep plowing' a beiglit _: of six feet• at the shou1SIers
in education. We should see to it not a.lnd Over nine feet in, length so -it
would •tppear that our domestic cattle
educiltion." Like I) of our domestic cattle sprang from the r• -
1' S; such person is only last
The water -buffalo or "carabao" is a
c1atcllml, his intellectual soil, If he - uroc 1' r I10\\ , Sums-sleeted0variety in le i ippilj€s a 1111tioll11 ' o' ing - a (' 'nd 9.00
as an unhappy future he has chiefly `=luruch '_tc)n was killed in .i 'Polish 'In(1 a stili TY dwarf buffalo of talcio• �eecl. (=r+,\vers' Association; has <ird 8.00
° - - , , furc>st about the mdll 1 'tj
cultural papers and. periodicals.
s.
Past Master in Free Masonry, mem-
her of .the United Church.,
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th drool makes "shallow
elle of the t, 1
•�IiuSlunho, I'. L; is the tii>lttrau. contributed numerous articles to Agri -4th' _' 700
FINISH
• ,•have shrunken in size . considerably,
only that. e s The tdni,ll sholtrd be planned early
plow 1111, 1rnposs1l)k but also that It •CHANGE �'\)T9 REST
is . equally impossible in otir other though they have improved otherwise' by figuring- out the number r and . t i
• "i\•e bht'fa.tio of the prairie,
'g /r size•
The lux.._ 'Vary your chores. 'Unrelieved ap-
fome. of
5th " . 7.00
til 11 7.00
7th -" 7.00
tll ", 7.00
9th 7.00
10th • " .7:00
pl• ication
'on, to one *phase of labor` Makes • Class 4 -Sod -Horses
church, trade gui c s, -_ fissility. ,The t tail of the lest three'.1'w ; _. 41 u tl t+-+ vkl-tillers''-(1<� 3eklrs-of g�_
jtotnc, the rlltl tunny millions, -is now batt al 1'n( 1101 u
.9.01 - dullne 11111 *x11(1(,. r'ftic'tenc,�
societies -fat these too 111.1 dnstrC-
but its ulelnu111)1> re<(,i1rl le+'s\ei a(1t round• should measure from �0 to `")1 This i the advice of the Department and ( et•
ment5 of education in the broadscn�e i.. t'tlus of �N•lttlre'; � - National 4) • , t 's charge: • 411tsofl
church trade guilds - ' alatoundnig numbers ran into of farrows, In order to 11101nta1.11 11111- rtl+llc
'11-Welfare\\'h('�''
. sional II(+alth and Welfare. Tic*-' ile or ill c 1, JohnAllison,
f 'the term. If we are lax in our con- indelible sta.ntp• lc inSht'�,,ea,ul ; off .ill \\'z(1th and depth. of _ aI
o f( ries and In ln'. powers of destruction, health experts d.eelart•-that, while work • Exeter: :Matthc Armstrong,.
trol of the standards we set for these ' It ,1 v lu,. , 1•+ to 1l, tic ll(_•� or 'til la �t
or 1llIizatiotis and permit their mens- this seething 11111„ and 1111111itude 01 probably newer killed allly�,ne• a cl�an#:e
g` cattle \which roamed 11 vast expanse two st (11(1111 furruivs. The Salt oft is as good as a rest• and there should
hers t+o participate in their activities - -
without effort on their of three hundred toile, in len�i'th and furrow should be about + to 7?:� inches 1 be variety to -add spice to everything
and intcle. t t\wo but (lre(1 lutes ins, width 11&'11 1 wide 1 412 to .) inches deep. leaving ill w�,t•lc and platy.
part, and in the most formal and per -ti to ti inches to turn toward the
functorw, manner, \�e ate guilty of en- -eventually cxtcrl,unate(1 -in \valutuil r; �`T _ lth
r "shallots )lowing" and. our wastefulness by 1111 Bully settlers Of (]'01111, which should not lie 011 11 1 too • The at,"anic bola') mate m,�an the end
( utlraj,inj, I that territory. I11 the s•1 (•4 of eight 1 c•lee )}r• The Solt'. f(rrew should (10' be rut tulles, we ,make a 111'x\- beginning. :-,111
society will suffer accordin:;ly, Our: 1_� Gth ,,'
example should bre the thorough p�l(iw-iyears they were practically, destro>e.d .I (0 :,*aches avv'ay from the bultuni of
Hatt) and the reward. he reaps from' by professional bliff:111) limiters and it the last cast off fnrru\w and bruiglrt up If the atnl„sphervat breakfast time • 7111
i i is not'so lung ago that the last herd to \v 1111 4 fiches of the (1Il of the is (:hat: d• '\\'e pay fast it all day. nth
his thoroughness and zeal. was rounded up and c1111€1((1 to their - 9th There comes back to rue at this' , last. furrow. Ifo not preys the sole
m(nilent two lines froni a Stow forgotten sauct41114 in the great \atiuual Ile furrow too, much, (41 this ;;Ives the If volt keep ltittiie t"he Hall] on the
poet of,*the last c_entery--1111za Cook: "serv;ltiull at Ranff. fetish a wide appearance. ] heal] it becomes a sure 1)nint.-
"God speed the plow," be this a prayer, i 1 t1 cele, Mill
Lond('sboro; Tom Archiblad,
tell. RR. No. 4. • - -
7,t prize $10M()
2411 - ' 9.00
3rd'" .8.00
' 7.04
7'•00
7.00
7.0(1
7.00
7.007.00
11 (W('Ver, t fere are o ter sp
TI) ,find itsecho everywhere.
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THE INTERNATIONAL. PLOWING MATCH
and to
our many customers attending it-
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in existence in \au•iolts parts of the!
world. Some,.are• distinguished' by 1
greater or 1(4sser size. Stones hovel,
enormous dewlaps. great, hefty
1 shoulders and horns which differ extra-:\
i ordinarily. - Nevertheless, they- are the l
slue tribe.
The ('uugo or \Vest African buffalo !
is one of 'tile smaller ineubers. 1t has;
Short, upturned horns 1(1)1 large lith: i ,,,,
growing. ears. • It lives mostly iIs .
swampy 11)titis ((1'. along ,river ba11ks.
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{ I 1 your Pilina (1(aler tells \ lot that 11c 14 lull111e t() supplyrhe 'yak,. 0 nu)sSIve creature 'in 0 coat of Shaggy hall. roams the1igh-
lands
of Tibet and ('],mils lireferring v'011 witl•1 Ptl1iii i Chovv's, (1011 t Wattle him. ...Dee) 1,lit'111, us•
the cold mountuinS to ''the \vernier) l,itlltot': ,, a
pit ins.
Soule are used ;,as beasts of 11'( 111a111111'•Ictill'lllg 111(41'e Chows than .,•Vet• 1)e-'
burden. They 1(1.0 1)1'01111('' the natives furl', 11111 ('Vel1 sO At'(' l'a111.t k(,'('11 1111 11.1111 t11t'_(1(1)1441111. 111tH
"\\'itii'1l111k, .Another pecu1iarity of ihis > (� 1'r ,,, y
( l'eatltl'e is 'that 11 llo('s-1111( 14('llu\\' like
1C1 - can :r••l't more high -qualify lllgrt 1111. 111,. 'up tla Purina
1111],:.( -oxen. 1511( gl`t111t i Ifs:(' '1 pig. I sta11lla141�, a1111 stet) 111) 011'1' 111,111111•0)ttll'i11,�'. eapa,•tty, it is.
alt
The'I-Ii};llland.cattle are the nearest •(�Ihl�r tO be 11x1']]�l'4 tO ,.;c -t_ all till' (�h(,1v• A (,1t 1wa111t ]lj,t
approach to the original \wild .c ittle „- 1lll`
and are poS"sibly descendants 'of an ill- when viol \\•aant.. he111•
1lfge1no1ls 111)11ve race. 111 some re111(1) "
s(,
- loth „
(ea,Tltl nlle(1 on page 7 1
a
OT "PLAYING HARD TO GET
((1(115 they arc semi -411(1
'I'll(' I1141(011 doilles,ticadted )x 0l' 71'1)1 I>lit. 10'ea111.,e R -e hal\'(' t•t,1141,tt'lltls- refused, ts Piil'1i1a1
14 It ell as al hc,Ist 0f hItl'11e11 tn. Indla, +,x11(111'(1' ;4.
1 sill
can "et them,l 1l lir\' l , i! •1'1 ill °l; l) 1„1 \ „al.
East Africa and Japan. He hal, huge ,
shoulder5•and :l large(1('\wla1,, 11; \1„1.111 \\'pile.to he(,�)1,11 ii -k411_' l,,.t' 1 1 111.
Found in the islati(1 of the Celebes is, I*
th•e smallest of the Willy forest buffalo..
1 ('alltd the allow, it is only three fe(rt
high. i"f i, \ery shy,„ b(J11c'ver: aid
little is lottown Of its 1'lahits. -
Allkol0 Catt10.'11atiles o1 I,a-t Africa,
are renlarlcalble for the length and mas-
sivness of their magnificent s(;ythe-
like horns. •,1, 1�1 I
Order your Purina S ---ed
Corn Early
1'Y1rlI' -l(f . t1>. },1('P t.:,}}1 she .IIs,\ t3 l .. ._ _... ..,.
carriage of thc•hlithiin. `tardily built µ
with a tine delicate head. i°tom hoofs are' People \i ht, planted 1'llrilla llyltrid Seel ('„r11 this iih,t)11
\well adapted t'(, the rough Hilly forests I. \\.ill 1)11 1'011 that it 14 teal nee([ x(111 1)i'(•(ltleel1 a real] , 1911.
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of Assam,
The i0usk-ox, half sheep and ball ' ( llitario•,(2'1'oWll a nd (111tario-teste(1, it 14 -tailor 1041,1(1 1'ot'
0%, i, a queer \t� ericalu creature. It , Your requirements. ('„1.11 for grain is rall)illl\ .111'( il(lilif." '411'
has flattened Willis and humped I h(>` -and Alda]( 11,('(1 tt•) 1)e c011si'cle"red the •'etwil counties, .
shoulders, anti duoslls strongly of musk.
The largest of the wild oxen nnowall(1 Purina Iislrid Seed Corn is 011('
of the reasons\\ 1y•
living is the gu111' or 111411all 1)1F011• It 'I Make sure (11 your 41111111 for next 41"114(.111 l,y, 1)0( l{illi \11(11 ,
11001hif;a the ' forests of India a>�id \-(1411. Ptlri.n;1 dealer now.
Mti11I3'a• in some instances it attainsl.
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a height of sib ,feet ,at the' shoulder's �i
tind over. nide 'feet in length. Except
for while - legs. it is black with close- '
cropped hair: the hoists point upward.�
lead ;l• -pe -tipped- with black.
Probably the most dangerous of the
tribe is the Cape buffalo, noted for
its massive head across the hlow of
which •t he heavy horns 'moot in a
tla•irless armor )111te
• ere is. perhat --finer breed in all
the world than t o
There
Y+:nglish bull,
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There's no ' profit in potiring good
feed into unthrifty pigs, -.chickens,
or other stock. To knock out worms
and other parasites, and to protect
• against disease ;, Purina offers a full
line of Sanitation Products. •The
next time you are near a Purina
-dealer's store or mill, ask, him for 'a
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copy of the latent Purina, ,book, Pro- -
fl;table Feeding, and checkup on how
you can lift your profits by cutting
down your losses.
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Woodstock. :..
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