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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1932-07-07, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Clinton News -Record With whieh'Is Incorporated THE'/N1 W ERA Terms of Subscription -$2.00 per year in advance, to Canadian ad- dresses; $2.50 to' the U.S. or oth- er foreign countries. No paper diseoiitinued until allarrears are paid unless at the option of the publisher. The date to whish every subscription is paid is denoted on the label. 4 dvertising Rates—Transient adver- tising 12c per count line for.first insertion. 8c far each subsequent insertion. , Heading counts 2 lines. Small' advertisements, not to ex- ceed one inch, such as "Wanted", "Lost," 'SStrayed," etc., inserted once for 36e, each subsequent in- sertion 15c. each for display ad= vertising made known on applica- tien. Communications intended for pub- lication -must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. • G. E. HALL, , M. R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. There's something in the adver- tisenrents today to interest you. Read then. M. D McTAGGART To finally wind up my business I have moved my' office to my home, Corner Princess and Shipley Streets. Office hours 9 to 12 a.m. and at ether times by appointment. Please use side entrance. Phone 99. H. T. RANCE Notary Public, , Conveyancer Financial, Real Estate and Fire In- surance Agent. Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies. Division Court Office. Clinton. Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public; Successor to W. Brydone, K C, Sloan Block — Clinton, Ont. CHARLES B. HALE Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, etc, Office over J. E. Hovey's Drug Store CLINTON, ONT. The advertisements bring you news 'nf better things to have and easier ways to live. B. R. HIGGINS Notary Public, Conveyancer General Insurance, including Fire Wind, Sickness and Accident, Antq- mobile, Huron and Erie Mortgage Corporation and Canada Trust Bonds Box 127, Clinton, P.O, Telephone 67. DR. J. C. GANDIER Offiee Hours:—L30 .to 3.30 pan., 6.30 to 8.00 p.m. Sundays, 12.30 to 1.30 pm. Other hours by appointment only. Office and Residence — Victoria St. DR. FRED G. THOMPSON Office and Residence: Ontario Street — Clinton, Ont. One door west of Anglican Church. Phone 172 Eyes Examined and Glasses' Fitted DR. PERCIVAL HEARN Office and Residence; ,Huron Street — Clinton, Ont. ' Phone 60 (Formerly occupied by the late Dr C. W. Thompson) Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted DR, H. A. McINTYRE DENTIST ECfRACTION A SPECIALTY Office over Canadian National Ex- press, Clinton, Ont. Phone 21 D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Metro Therapist Masseur Office: Huron St. (Few doors west of Royal Bank). Hours—Tues., Thurs. and Sat., all , I day. Other hours by appointment 1 Hensall Office—IVIon., Wed. and Fri forenoons. Seaforth 'Office—Mon., Wed. and Friday afternoons. Phone 207. . There,. spread before him was the great' city . , . he had been around it: many times . , this 10 -year-old -boy —.ignorant, unschooled; but withall a sturdy tugboat barge hand.. Each succeeding trip found him gazing in growing fascination 'toward the piles of buildings banked upon the shore. He noted and reonembered many things about the city , , . the sharp metallic clang of fire engines , . the clatter of horses, iron -shod. hoofs on Belgian blocks; the harsh rattle of elevated trains . , , and how fast they, went , .. could he ever ride on one? Where did life lead? ' The answer was but a few hours a- • way .. , that turn of the wheel which tossed him up amid surroundings as fearsome to him. as a primitive jungle aright be ... life unfolding in 'such a rapid series of sequence that his confused brain' could scarce grasp its meaning.. , All of this tapped the well of a dormant quality in Johnny 'Breen. . . . He fought back—he struck out boldly with his hard, brown fists .. , and in this battle for food ... for a lied ... for knowledge . . , for life itself, unfolds the thrilling story of "FIRST LOVES." "FIRST LOVES" touches upon all phases of life in that great melting pct of humanity--N'ew York . , . from the Bowery to Park Avenue to River- side Drive . , . It is a graphic picture of the people, the hates, the loves, the fears and the kindnesses of city dwellers in all walks o1 life. It is from the pen of Felix Riesenherg, author of "Endless River" an5 "Pas- sing, Strangers." This story, `FIRST LOVES," is an embracing study of the formation of the greater city of New York—et story that will stir your emotions frons beginning to end. FIRST INSTALLMENT Warm mist. filled with vague feruts hung above the lower stretches of the Hudson. A boy, his arms folded, leaned on the cabin trunk of a barge, the Cav- alier, of Haverstraw. "Gee---!" The 'bey kept repeating the one word—"Gccl" His arms bare to above the el- bows, were capable arms, browned by the sun. His doubled fiats were hard and his face was freckled. The barge raveled way with her, as the water slapped her low side, for the Cavalier was at the stern end of a tow. Far ahead a tug, it little wooden puffer, exhausted white vapor in her struggle with the river. The last tow, whipping about as the course was changed to avoid the fer- ries, seemed the tail end of a gigan- tic kite, sometimes in view and some times lost to sight. A large black double-decker wash- ed by. her paddles drumming an en- ergetic tattoo 00 the sluggish river, her sharp stem carving and binding the water into an °pen greenish scar, her bows throwing elf brave, white whiskers of seething foam. Rows of lighted cabin windows marched by hilt, square parts exuding radiance and offering glimpses of a strange interim' region of flashing light and congested, breathing crowds. A thought occurred to the boy --- hew he wanted to know those people. 'Their names must all be different. But is there so many names?" He :• peke aloud, to himself, as he often. diel. "They must be more'n a hundred —X guess." The boy was nearly sixteen. Still the great gilt letters on the sides of ferry boats r were unfathomable to bier. IIe searched his mind for a meaning—but all letters were weird, mysterious. W -h -e -e -l -i -n -g. His eyes traced • the similarity of form. Down in the little cabin of the Cavalier. the boy, John, Breen, often lay in his bunk, behind the dresser, istening to Mother Breen reading a- oud, or half aloud, her lips proving, GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record: Clinton, or by calling phone 103 Charges Moderate , and Satisfactior Guaranteed, 1 ANAtlikl 'ilbl 9 TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo, and Goderich Div. Going East, depart 6.58 a.m. Going East depart 3.05 p.m. Going West, depart 11.65 o. m. e „ 9.44 pan. London, Huron & Bruce Going South 3.08 p.m. Going North 11.58 THE McEILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. President, J, Bennewies, Brodhag• en, vice-president, James Connelly, Goderich. Sec. -treasurer, D. F. Me- Gregor, Seaforth. Directors: Thomas 1VLoylan, R. R. No. 5, Seaforth; James Shouldice. Welton; Win. Knox, Londesboro; Robt. Ferris, Blyth; John Pepper, Brucefield,'' A. Broadfoot, Seaforth; G. R. McCartney, Seaforth. Agents: W. 3. Yeo, -1t.B. No. 3, Clinton; John Murray, Seafor'tb; ,James Watt, Blyth; Ed. Pinchleyr Seaforth. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank.' Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or et Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect incur- once or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applied, then to any of the above officers addressed to their respective post of- fices. Losses inspected by the direc- tor who lives nearest the scene. "!Speaking out, of the paper" Cap- tain Breen,• uho held all book learn- ing in conten pt, listened on such oc- casions and smoked his pipe, shift- ing his ehort legs about in uneasy fashion, his eyes peering from un- der shaggy eyebrows. "Mother kin' read!" Johnny Breen' always said thi'i to himself whenever he thought of reading. Johnny Breen had, been around. the city manytimes, but each succeeding trip around the Battery found him gazing in growing fascination toe ward the piles' of buildings banked upon the _shore. IIe noted 'and re- membered Many things about the city, The sharp metalic clang of fire engines the clatter of horses, iron - shod hoofs on Belgian blocks; the harsh rattle of elevated trains—how fast they went! Would he ever ride in. one? Captain Breen was a dogmatic man close on • sixty, a squat, incapable man, seeing but a short distance through a vell of red. Harriet Breen, the woman who married him, man- aged him. .Sixteen years before, when the barge was new, lie accepted a responsibility. The owners pre- ferred a married man. Harriet came on board the Cavalier. She was au upstate girl. Breen rubbed his eyes, but he was ready to accept any- thing even a wife, for she demanded her papers. Four months later Breen became the father of a son. He ac- cepted this gift without undue com- plaint. If he drank to excess, Mrs. ,Breen was not the one to complain. The detachment, and strangeness of the broad river suited Harriet Breen. She sang to her baby boy. A calm insensibility possessed her. She was still a handsome woman, twenty years younger than the captain, -when the Cavalier rounded the Battery on that misty evening in spring. The years gd fast on the river. John Breen became a str'onn,' and cap- able barge hand, an expert swimmer, a great help and comfort to his moth- er. Suddenly he dead peewit, grown almost over night, bursting out of his clothing. The fact that his laugh and a certain trick of pawing through his hair reminded her of another wild impetuous boy cause'1 Harriet Breen to flush. John's fath- er had been only a fete yens% elder. when she came to the• Cavalier. "We got to put Johnny to school," Mrs. Breen remarked to Captain Breen, busy at the small coal stove, turning a pan of biscuits with the heir of her apron. "All right, Mother, we'll send him, when we lay up this year." IIe be- gan filling his pipe, "It's getting mighty thick." "Where we now?" "Turned up of the East River. Them'% the Fulton Ferry bells. I'll call John—" .Tohnny, his eyes drawn into the deepening blur of the warm envelop. big night, hearing strange sounds. thinking huge thoughts, heard the talk be1rw. coming un out of the square of light. How he loved his mother! Ile was going to school — perhaps to school in the city — the monumental city shrouded in the fog, Suddenly there wee a crash! Tn the Morning Advertiser of Sat- urday, May 12th. 1900, rimed; page: column six. near the bottom of the page, smothered on one side by a reading notice for Peruna, was a "cant news item: • THREE DROWjN ON BARGE The brialc barge Cavalier of haver'- straw, llTeGnrtney Brothers Brick Company collided with an unknown craft in the East River just south of Rrroklyn Bridge during the heavy, frg last night and sank. Captain Brene, wife, and son are missing. At the point where. Manhattan shoves an elbow into the river and the Brooklyn 'Bridge swings high above the shipping, we must take un the story of Johny Breen. His dream ing kept hint on deck. The conversa- tion below, the warm mystery above the river moaning anrd whisnering. bold him in a spell. Then a terrific blast was followed instantly by a crash of rending. wood, the snarl of ruching water, the nanic cry of Mother Breen—"Johnny!" It }vas the last' word he heard; he was tossed over the sideby the sudden frontlet and sank beneath.thesurface. The 'weight of"water drutimled in his ear, as he went down. Ile struck out boldly. Ile gained the lin!;@ of peir's, 'his hands slipped from the slimy cluster piles, . he washed u•» stream, swimming brave- ly. At the next pierhead' he made a desperate effort, lifted himself on a cleat roughly nailed to the rifting. It was the bottom of one of those rude ladders sob otimes found on pier endsp dei'iees •nulled by the river rate --the lhievhsi Johnny Breen dragged his aching body above the water climbed tb the stringniiece ,and rolled the rear . and off fore ,other excite- exhausted in the mud,/ignite, but the zvave •continued. , For a time., Johnny .Brenn lay Johnny, running into newer and TIIIIRS., JULY 7, 1932 there Atunned. Ilis muscles' were sore, his head throbbed, he was sick, nauseated, fi'oni vile water he had swallowed. The: world spun about frim in a maelstrom 'of disaster. IIe stood, then walked unsteadily in ,the dark, He saw the afro' shadow of. .a covered van. It offered shelter, he climbed in. • ITe sank between two. bales, the sounds of the river were stilled. The -water was blotted from his clothing', a warm glow crept over him, strong aims seemed to enfold' him. .The terror and turmoil of the night melted away. THE GHETTO Johnny was awakened by the move- ment of the wagon: ' "Mame!" he cried with a start of terror. The horror of the night burst upon him anew. A torturing thirst closed his threat. .His torn shirt was streaked with mud and grease. His hair was matted with clriecl slime. eye -lids stuck together, his swollen lips were dry and hot and his pants were hanging by hall their buttons. IIis bare feet and lege were bruised and caked with dray mud and manure. He began to cry, tears forcing through the sticky eyelashes, streak- ing down his pitiful -face. He had the aspect of a forlorn waif, enly his bare :body was brown and muscular. but his mouth curled down and ut- ter sorrow claimed hirer. His bed, among the bales of waste paper, was jerking and swaying, and, as he cried, a canvas flap was lifted' An evil face glared into the van. "What tha hell!" A thick and un- friendly voice shouted at hint. The face had a wicked rnouttl, edged tvitlt broken teeth, brown and green. Johnny saw a monster, a dragon, glaring and ru^sing him. "Git tha hell rut of there•! Git out, ya cram, my rat!" JoIniny, still crying, sat up amid the bales. Ilis head bumped the ribs of the von. He rubbed dirt into his eyes and smeared the dried filth on his face'wet with tears. He was a disnml sight. "Out ya gitt'• The driver reached for his whip; Johnny slipped back ever the load of paper. "Out an' to lull wit yal" The team, fresh, full of fear, sensing the whip, started on a gallop with the heavy load. The wagon reeled toward the curb and Johnny, sliding from the bales of paper, dropped to the tailboard out under the end flap. He let go and fell to the gutter, stunned by his im- pact with the cobblestones. The street was on a fringe if tene- ments, where the Ghetto touches the wharves, It was a fearsome neigh- borhood. High houses loomed over him. strange smells and ttcises con- founded hien as he slowly rose to his feet, standing in the midst of a cur- ious crowd of half-grown children who suddenly materialized, as if sprung from the stones. It was an eager Saturday morning crowd of water'frent boys -ea gang, "Hully thee, leokit dat bum! What in 'ell's bitin"im? Ice's lousy. Whew —what it stink!" The crowd rubbed near Johnny. ile turned ns they milled about. He backed to the center of the street 110(1 stead defiant, legs apart, his trous- ers torn and half down, covered with dirt, his shirt ragged and streaked, his matted yellow hale over his eyes Hostile ,beys closed in and surround- ed him, "Dotty. Where ja conte,, outta de reeves? Hey stiokeyl: 'Soak 'int! Lonnie at 'im!" Several bigger boys, tough, daring, with the heartless ethics of the pack. kicked and cuffed as Johnny turned in torment. Idle men in shallow der- bys, hien in black coats, and bearded teen such as John had .never seen, paused to watch the Julys, "De Grogan Geng is out! Oy, what a business, de Grogan Geng1" The tough boys were really the Grogan Gang, or part of them. A boy taller than the rest, wearing a dented der- by; came close to Johnny and spat in his face. A hard dirty brown fist shot out with desperate force. The tall boy howled, .his derby rolling at his feet in the gutter. The blow was utterly unexpected. It caught hitt in the stomach, and he doubled up. The crowd backed and then came at Johnny. "He hit 'im below de belt. Re foaled rim." The crowd looked ugly,. end missiles gathered from the guts ter began to fly. "11(111 'int!" Sncl- denly there was a hush; Down by the river a blue coat moved toward them. "Choeee it. do cops! Cheeze it, beat it! Cops!" The crowd began to run, Johnny 'fireen at their ,head, having dashed through the circle of boys Under a rain of tin cans and refuse. By e.'euereime effort he distainced tiie Mob and the Grof;ans, long lost in stranger crowds, suddenly was greet- ed by a terrific crash of noise as, he dodged under 'the •shadow of,a cross street. The maw of the city seemed. 1bout to Grasp and vied him, body and soul. In. a finaleffort to escape annihilation, he closed his eyesand plunged headlong into a hole; a hu- man rat seeking oblivion.. He jemmi- ed /into umped/nto an open basement doorway— an elevated train thundered overhead and behind him. • For long while he lay in the hole, his head doubled under his • amus, In a darks' damp corner among rubbish,' All was dark; many trains passed by, and he began to regain his breadth and sense. At last he determined' to crawl toward the light, when the trap door to the walk flopped down. lie heard the snap of a'pac:lock. (Continued Next Week) DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD Extra Holidays Given Scoutmasters The well-known British firm of Beckett & Sons, following the 'exam- ple of several banks and' insurance companies, are this summer giving extra holiday leave to Scoutmaster employees who are taking their troops to camp. English Scouts to Visit Norway A contingent of English Scouts will visit the Norwegian Scouts' Na- tional Camp near' Ohristiansand in July. The Norwegian Scouts were sub -camp comrades of the Canadians at the International jamboree of 1920•, Hungarian Scouts Train as Guides In preparation for playing host to Scouts attending the Wiorld Scout jai/tone near Budapest in 1933, Hungarian Scouts are taking training under experts in service to tourists. They have been acting as guides at the different congresses held in Hun- gary, and have given excellent ser- vice. A Scout Musical Event An Ottawa musical event of June was the visit cf the Boy Scout choir of the and Quebec Troop, of the Bas- ilica. Their church and folksong singing attracted enthusiastic aid, ienecs, , For their secular numbero the boys changed to Scout uniform. The beys were guests of the French- Canadian Semite of the Capital. The trip wase holiday treat given the boys by Archbishop Villeneuve, Scouts' at the Empire Conference A number cf selected Scouts rep- resenting various parts, of the Do- minion will act as supernumerary messengers and guides in connection with the Imperial Economic Confer- ence at Ottawa in July. The boys, all of First Class rank, will be hom- ed at Dominion Scout Ileadquarters, Otherwise they will meet all their own expenses. The opportunity of , service and of seeing the great Hm- lrire figures of the day will be their reward. The Cost of Liquor Revenues From the office of the Prohibition Union A recent Canadian press despatch front Ottawa eallel attention to the large revenues which governments, provincial and federal, have 1'0eeiv1(1 from liquor under Government sale. These figures are impressive. In nyder to fill out the financial picture, social students will need to put a- longside these total revenues the totals spent for liquor sold in the various poovinces. To collect $36,274,390 liquor re- venue in ten years there was expend- ed in British Columbia 8139,126,788. To collect 814,872,131 liquor reven- ue in seven years there was expend- ed in Alberta $84,316,108. To collect 813,668,688 liquor reven- ue- in six years there was expended in Saskatchewan 866,446,139. To collect $12,260,261 liquor rev- enue in eight ,yeare there was ex- pendod irr Mairitoba $67,487,087. To collect 843,706,458 liquor re- venue in four years, five months there was expended in Ontario 7235,- 575,320. 236;676,320. To collect $68,032,472 liquor re- venue in ten years there was expend- ed in Quebec 7689,944,934. To collect 55,329,788 liquor re- venue in four years there was ex- pended in New Brunswick $16,663,- 844. 16,663;844. To collect 7774,368 liquor revenue in a' little over one year there was expended 01 Nova Scotia 86,602,823. There has been expended in Canada under Government sale a total of $1,194;762,613. It is sometimes claimed that the indirect cost of liq- uor is equal to the direct cost. 1If this be so the cost of liquor sold in already reached an amount more than equal to the total national debt, which is over $2,261,000,000, apart from that arising from the Canadian National Railway. Canada under .Government sale has Somewhat Unstable Of x11 sections of Ontario the City of Windsor with its environs has been in the last ten gears the most openly favorable to tenor and the fn eest .stamping -,aground for hila Trade.de. It is techa s not w ithout si ngficance tiret the onlyacana-. ledged liluneipal bankruptcy in the province ie in this area and is some- what genual. • The. six municipalities concerned:' all close to Windsor, Ontario, are: City of East, Win riser, Town of Sandwich. Township of Sandwich 1!;: Town of Riverside. Township of Sandwich W,, and Town of Tecumseh. Each one :cif thole municipalities' has became sub•1ect"to th0 provisions of the new. law with respect, to places which have :Coiled to meet their obligations er seem likely to do so. The six municipalities will, no doubt, be governed by a commission set up under this law until, in the llLumcipal Board'b opinion, 11 is deemed advis- able to give them back their eaten - only. The Management of Several Huron County Woodlots Timber Coining to. be Valuable Cash Crop 1.. C. Merritt, Forester, ' Ontario Forestry Bi'ancn. . One hundred years ago Huron County was covered with a heavy stand of titnber. To -day there are many well tilled farms with fine buildings that are a credit to the people who settled the County. Some of the farms Have the entire acre- age cleared and !under cultivation. Others have a woodlot, that has little value, as it has' deteriorated follow- ing excessive cutting and pasturing. Won;Id it not be wiser to keep a per- centage of the farm in productive woodland to provide fuel and logs for lumber I Steep . hilIsides, stony, gravelly, sandy and swamp soils should have been left in trees, as cultivated crops and pasture give meagre returns from these soils. An increasing number of farmers each year are protecting their woods from stock and helping the natural reprodueticn by planting trees that are furnished free by the Ontario Forestry Branch. The favm of. Jaynes Caruochan, Tuckersmith Township has 12 acres of woodland that has never been pas, tared or severely culled. Thirty cords of 14" wood has been cut off the, bush annually for the past 32 years. Considerable logs for lumber has also been taken out at different times. Sugar maple makes up more than 60 per cent. of the stand with bass- wood, white elan, rock elm, white ash ironwood, black cherry, and yellow birch. * ;Scattered single trees are cut here and there, as they show signs of de- fect caused by decay and brealcages, Largo mature trees are, taken oat for legs and fee'hvor.d. The wcodiot al- ways presents an unbroken front as no large openings are made. The openings are seen filled by seedlings that start from the seed blown front neighboring trees. A woodlot cut in this mnnn•'r gradually becomes un- even aged with all sizes and ages of trees represented. It is the ideal type of woodlot for the farmer who plans to make annual cuttings for fuel wood as there will be trees reach- ing maturity each year. The farmer may cut these and they are equival' ent to the annual wood growth on the woodlot. A woodlot as fully stocked as Mr. Carnochan's should grow 1 1-2 colds of 4 ft. wood per acre per year. ii?r. .7. S. IGernghan of Colborne Township owns an 18 acre woodlot that has been managed similarly to Mr. Carnechen's, It is a sugar man - le, beech, white elm bulb with beech and maple predominating. Twenty cords of 15" wood are cut annually end logs for lumber are taken nut. Timber is different from other crops as it doer not have to be harvested in a nartirular seasen or year. It may be left until prices are more favorable or ,can be used for an em- ergency. Many bushes have supplied the money for the big payment on the farm. More consideration should have been given to the cutting and after care of the woodict, so that it would be in a condition to furnish an- other fine cutting in 10-30 years. Both woodlots present a fine en - Pea -mime as all the defective trees have been cat. Trees are a crop and there should be cuttings to remove the decayed and broken trees. Manu owners are allowing trees to rot. while they pride themselves on the harvesting of their other crops profit- ably. Ten acres were lett in Woodland 011 the farm of 3. C. Smllie, Hensall. The cutting of 40 cords of 14" wood an- nually and pasturing was gradually opening up the bosh. It is a typical hardwood bush with sugar maple, beech, basswood, white and rock elm. Five years ago the cattle were shut out and planting 01 the openings commenced. An acre at the back of the bush, that had been cleared years ago was plowed end put into beans. In 1930 it was planted with white ash and red oak. It has been cultivated and the trees have made a fine growth. The white ash averages 5 ;feet and the red oak 4 feet fn height. Pines and spruce planted in furrows or spot -planted make a fine planta- tion but hardwoods (maple, elm, bass- wood, ash, walnut) require cultivation to give 1110111 a start. They do very well spot -planted in a bush that is 11.012 too open. Natural reproduction of white ash, sugar maple, beech and basswood "has comae in well. The large maple and beech 11(111 gradually be cut out for fuel and it will give: the young trees n better chance, as the big trees hold theui. back :bytheir shade and coue- pete for the moisture and nourish, anent. - Mr. C. B. Middleton of Goderich Township is leaving 40' acres in woodland and planting 30 acres of rough hills and flats along the Bay - :field river; Forty acres have never been cleared and pastured for years. The pasture Iand had Tun out and weeds on it were becoming a menace. Ho decided that trees would be the most satisfactory .crop 'on this rough land, as ho did not wish to 'break it up again and the trees would be an effective weed control. Twenty-five, acres have been refor- ested to pines, spruce, walnut and poplar. 'My are making satisfactory growth and in a few years will ]cf11 the weeds by their shade. Natural reproduction has come in thickly through the bush and in the grass land adjoining the woods. A pleasing !feature of the reproduction is the large percentage of white ash. White ash wood is very valuable and is in great demand by handle makers, im- plement manufacturers and is also used in the manufacture of skis. •White ash will not seed up in a thick bush as sugar maple and beech do, but if there is a seed tree near an opening there is gennerally a great number of white ash seedlings and saplings growing. 1Vir. Middleton practices selection cutting. In 1929 Ile sold 200 trees en the stump. The trees selected for cutting were large mature trees scattered through the bush. Their removal is not noticed particularly and saplings and small trees already started will make a faster growth as the competition of the larger trees l'an been remove 1. 1VIr. Noble }Tolland of IIullett Township decided that his 7 acre wenddot was an asset that should he protected. It was a second growith maple stand with trees 8" to 14" in diameter. He was cutting out the defective and dead trees for fuel - word. He also tapped 100 maple trees, which produced 130 gallons of syrup annually. The bush was pastured and the stock were browsing; off the seedlings each year soon after they germinat- ed, n 1926 the stock was shut out and planting in the openings com- menced. Pines, spruce, walnut, white ash and black locust have been plant- ed. Natural repr'oducticn has also conte in and along' with the 331111111(1 trees make up a fine young stand. A berry patch illustrates the difficulty in securing natural reproduction or successful planting in a thick berry patch. Mr. Holland rd intends to gradually take out the large trees as they in- terfere with the young trees beneath them. He intends to improve the grooving conditions in the natural stand by cutting out the wood spec- ies (ironwood) crooked trees, defer: tive trees and trees too closely spac- ed. Mr. W. J. Washington of West Wa- wanrsh Township has 18 acres of hardwood bush that was pastured un- til 1925. It is a second growth sugar maple, beech bosh with trees C," and 16" in diameter. There were many largo openings and there are no trees under 6" diameter, showing that all natural reproduction for '80 years has been browsed off by the stock. Natural reproduction has been slew corning in under the trees and in the open places that were grassed over since cattle were fenced out. It 14 coming in slowly but is not rencr'ai. He has nlanted red nine. white pine, walnut. butternut and red oak in the aper places. Mere fauns in Huron ('aunty have weedlots than many of the Count -lee of Western Ontario. There are still sril'fieient seed trees of the more de- sirable in most of them --Co seed them nn naturally. If there are revenue. producing woodlots 50 veers henna, foundaficns need to he laid now by protecting the small seedlings that error in naturally; or by stetting. plantations. Fereatre may he nractised inten- sively in farm woodlots ns the mater- ia] removed in thinnings end lmnrov.'- ment cuttings makes flee fuelwaod that can be used or sold ley the 'farm- er. There will alwave be a market - for logs, and proximity to markets good roads and truelse will tend, to make timber grrntvn on farm wood - lots very valuable. .There ere many, fine venlig steeds (2-8" in diameter. 20-60' high) that wnnld be benefited iry wise thinning. The owner conk! improve his pronerty and at the s"me time secure vahiable fnedwood, There.• are many woodlots that have treses whose removal . would improve the grnnving conditions. TR.esidenta of villages and towns can .heln the ferni- er by planning to burn a few cords of wood in the fall and sinning. The motley would 00me back to the nl r chants, as the farmer wonlcl frenuene tly spen(1 it before leaving for home.