The Brussels Post, 1948-7-7, Page 7Always
A Payoff
By
&CATIHRYN BEMIS
1tort ILall carne breezing into
his suburi,an bungalow, No Mandy
In the cit -hen, no wife Grace in
sight. ' Grace will warm up some --
thing a:.d call it dinner!" he sputter-
ed. '•\t:l.y does she play bridge on
1\land}'s u;: off?" But after liv-
ing ten ye:,rs with a bald -header!,
flat -chested little scrimp of a ratan
like hiun=e:i, a modest -salaried man-
ager of r. women's apparel shop, he
▪ couldn't tlante Grace for craving
entertauaaent.
• I-ic etwitchecl nn a lamp in the
living room and settled into his
chair by the radio, His gaze lighted
at his encyclopedia.
iTe te,k out the first volume his
hand touched, Perhaps a little
Shake -,•else would brighten his
tall. He started as something flew
out from a leaf, zigzagged to the
rug.
A ten dollar bill! He snatched it
• up, stuffed it into his billfold. Grace,
hiding her money in books! IIe
yanked out another masterpiece,
shook it. Two more tens fluttered
before Henry's eyes.
Within a few minutes, he had
shaken down $200 instead of meaty
knowledge, from the awe-inspiring
tomes.
But from that night on, Henry
was worried. The allowance he
gave Grace was small. She must
have scrimped on household ex-
penses a long time to save that
matey. What sinister project was
she planning? •
So he was greatly relieved one
evening when she• met hint at the
door and quavered, "Oki Henry, I've:
been robbed:"
Henry managed to look. concern-
ed. He asked, "Robbed? What's
gone:'
"Two hundred dollars I saved
"Where the dickens is my old suit?"
he called downstairs.
from the house -money! I hid it in
the encyclopedia! I've slaved -
done without Mandy days on end -
saved what I would have paid
her-"
1!er bitter disappointment over-
came his desire to punish iter. He
jumped up, saying, "Wait! Just a
minute!"
Ile raced upstairs to his clothes
closet. IIe reached into its dark
confines for his old brown coat. The
brown suit had unaccountably dis-
appeared!
"Where in the dickens is my old
brown suit?" he called downstairs.
"That moth catcher? I warned
you I'd give that rag -away or burn, -
it up! But I did even better. The
old clothes man gave me 50 cents
for it!"
From 'now' on, Henry was a
changed man. Finding that old
Proper Recreational Facilities For Young And Old are coming to be looked on as one of the
mosl• important features in any community, and the best means of fighting juvenile delin-
quency, West Lorne, Ontario, is only a.comparatively small community -some 800 people in
all -yet it has just completed this impressive Arena and Sports Centre at a cost of more than
$30,000.00. Situated right next to the Bowling Green, the Arena will serve for many com-
munity activities during the Spring, Summer and Autumn. In the Winter its ice surface of
100 by 180.feet will be used for Hockey and Skating.
brown suit had become his obses-
sion. Then one morning when giv-
ing instructions to one of his sales-
women, he abruptly wheeled about,
dashed out to the street. IIe grab-
bed a passing man by the collar of
his shabby brown coat, demanding,
"Where'd you get that suit?"
The voice of the stranger shook
with fear of the madman he judged
Henry°Hall to be. "Griss and Gris-
com made it for rue - five years
ago," he said conciliatingly,
"Iia!" jeered Henry, not relaxing
his hold. "Criss and Griscom made
that suit for me -the label's inside!
Smart, aren't you?"
'What's coming off here?" snap-
ped a policeman, thrusting Henry
aside,
"This man's wearing my suit -
he's got the money -he's-"
After the matter had been talked
out before the police sergeant and
Henry was convinced that the
stranger had once .been affluent
enough to buy custom-made suits
and now was clothed in one of
them, he returned to the shop, a
chastened man.
Mandy's black face wore a broad
grin that night when she placed the
beef roast before Henry. She said,
"Mr, Hall -you know what? My
boy fren' looks swell in your old
brown suit he bought off'en that of
clos' man. He's sure generous, too."
"What's that?" asked the sud-
denly alert Henry.
"You see, we's fixin' to git mar-
ried, Mr. Hall. Not havin' steady
work, I ain't saved much, but that
man's makin' up fur it! He's already
boughten me a white 'lectric 'frig' -
rater -big as two like you'all's got!"
The End
Just For Fun
An official conducting a Gov-
ernment quiz called on Mrs.
Jones and asked her what she
did with herself all day.
"I keep the house clean, cook
the meals, wash the dishes, do
the laundry, mend the clothes,
attd queue for food," she replied.
The official thanked her and
made an entry in his notebook:
"Mrs. Jones - housewife - no
occupation."
SIDE GLANCES .
13y Galbraith
en ». inc DY art 9wevise. tae. T. 0ars u, s, PAT, ocR
"1 never thought I'd live to seethe day I'd actually be hungry
for thotsi'ghttbFodgvr}'lean, neat uniform I"
4,1
So much interest was aroused by
Ontario's first Grassland Day, held
last July at Woodstock, that it was
decided to hold three of then this
summer in different parts of the
Province. Their purpose is to
demonstrate best methods of hand-
ling the hay crops on our fartns.
The first of the three was sche-
duled for Thursday June 24 on the
farm of W. H. Ruthven of Alliston.
Eastern Ontario's demonstration
will be on Thursday, July 22 at the
Kemptville Agricultural S c h o o I,
Kemptville; while \Western On-
tario's Grassland Day will be at the
farm of George Innes, Woodstocic,
on Wednesday August 4th.
* * *
Here's a tip for hog raisers. A
farmer in New Jersey plays music
to his four thousand hogs as he
says that it helps to fatten them.
He also claims that experiments
have proved that Guy Lombardo
and Bing Crosby have the greatest
amount of "]tog appeal".
* *
*
Before putting tile in any of your
fields, it's a good idea to check on
the acidity of the soil before decid-
ing what type to use. Either cbn-
crete or clay tile will give good ser-
vice' under normal conditions; but
It is said that its high -acid or high -
alkali soils, concrete tile shows a
certain tendency to deteriorate.
* * *
IIay stakes cheap protein feed for
the winter months -but you should
be sure to get the greatest amount
of protein per acre by cutting your
hay at the correct time. Authori-
ties say that the best time to cut
red clover, or red clover and timothy
mixed, is when the clover is about
one-half to three-fourths in bloom.
Alfalfa should be cut when from
10% to 25'c its bloom.
* * *
If you have a cattle -beast that
shows signs of lameness, maybe
you're overlooking something valu-
able. Anyway, that was the ex-
perience of Millard 'F. Holcomb, a
New Mexico farmer. He had a cow
that had been limping for six years
and recently he found -and dug out
-the cause. IIis wife's long -lost
diamond ring was firmly wedged in
its hoof.
.*,- * *
A great many hens stop laying in
July, and that's a good time to cut
down wastes by culling the slug-
gards, as they will eat six or seven
pounds of feed a month in spite of
their not -production. Birds with
bright combs and uncolored beaks
are the layers -and should be kept.
* * *
Some chicken raisers say "I al-
ways get more eggs when 1 tura
my chickens mit for the summer."
But the records say that this
shouldn't be the case, and that if
your flock gives more eggs when
turned out, the chalices are that
they're not getting a proper diet
indoors. - • •
"I used to turn. my chickens Out
but haven't done so for years," says
Mrs. IIarvey hostel:, ".jt just doesn't
pay to do soli '
She should know because since
she has kept her hens slhut'iup, yearly
egg prtt ici t on 1168,0 jumped from
;113 to 1' 5 per hen, And careful re-
cords kept of. the Iowa Detnotstra-
tion Flock show that with confined
hens the profit per bird was $1.82
as against $1.1:3 each for those that
were given a "summer outing".
* * *
This is about the time when many
grain fields throughout the Province
will be showing evidence of mus-
tard -one of the greatest "robbers"
we have. This bright yellow weed,
if allowed to get thick, shades the
grain besides competing with it for
plant food and moisture, thus cut-
ting down the grain yields consider-
ably.
A light infestation of mustard in
the grain may be controlled by hand
pulling; and with the advent of
2-4-D, mustard in wheat, barley
flax, oats, etc. can be controlled
without injuring the grain crop, if
properly applied. It is not recom-
mended, however, where fields are
seeded to clover.
Best methods of controlling and
eradicating mustard by cultivation,
as suggested by the Ontario De-
partment of Agriculture, are as fol-
lows: Give thorough and repeated
after -harvest cultivation to destroy
successive crops of seedlings; put in
a hoed crop -either roots or corn -
the following spring, then sow with
grain the next year and seed down
with clover. .
* * *
Canadian cattle are certainly
"seeing the world" these days. At
the end of May forty, purebred
heifers left Malton Airport to be
flown to Quito,•down in Ecuador.
This was the ftrst•.shipment of any
importance to that particular area,
but more dairy cattle are scheduled
to follow.
* * * • .
Much interest is being shown iu
the findings of a New Jersey cattle
raiser who discovered that by add-
ing salt and molasses preparation,
potatoes could be made just as palat-
able and fattening to steers as corn.
If his idea works out, as it seems
likely to do, it may accomplish
future wonders both in easing grant
shortages and in providing a profit-
able method of getting rid of sur-
plus. potatoes,,.......
* *
-Then there's the oM one -that Joe
Weber and Lott Fields used to pull
in vaudeville. "See that cow over
there," Joe would say; "She's worth
a thousand dollars." "Is that sof"
Lou would reply, -'My-''t'intltilvdt_
I wonder how a cow could ever
save up that much money!".
Egypt has an area of 363,200 square
miles and a population - of - about
16,000,000. .
800 Population --$30,000 Sports and Recreational Centre -Above is an interior view of the new
Arena Puilding, just completed by the citizens of West Lorne, Ont. --a striking example of what
real, live community spirit can accomplish, and one wbirh might well be followed by other
f tutario towns and villages.
Average Prices Received by Ontario Farmers May 15, 1948, with Comparisons
May 15 May 15
1947 1948
Wheat, per hits. c
Oats, per hits. c
Parley, per bus, c
Rye, per bus. c
Flaxseed, per bus $
Buckwheat, per bus. c
Potatoes, per cwt.
Turnips, per cwt. -
c
c
IIay and Clover, per ton, loose $
IIorses, per head $
Milk Cows, per head $
Beef Cattle, per cwt., live weight $
Calves, per cwt., live weight $
Sheep, per cwt•, live weight $
Lambs, per cwt., live weight . $
Togs, per cwt., live weight $
Butter, per lb. - c
Chickens, per lb., live weight c
Turkeys, per lb., live weight c
Ducks, per lb., live weight c
Geese, per lb., live weight c
Eggs, per dozen c
May 15
Aver. 1931-34
70.0
37.1
45.2
51.0
120
49.1
84.2
32.0
10.09
91.76
45.41
4.48
5.26
3.40
6.84
6.03
22.4
13.5
13.3
127.4
67.3
89.4
203.9
3,03
88.2
172.0
75,7
13.18
94.02
129.44
12.56
14.28
6.52
14.13
17.10
484
24.3
31.9
24.0
24.7
32.9
153.3
96.1
126.5
260.5
4.85
130.6
304.1
108.4
414.
89.0
139.81
15.3
18.27
7.4$
16.80
22.27
69.$
27.0
34.8
26.7
27.9
38.9
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Otze o> a series o (tdveljsenren iu tribute
o those Caw.adiatts iac the Mee o the Ore
MA, DIDNT YOU TELL`
MRS GEARSHIFT TWAT 1
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