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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1953-01-29, Page 6-H 'st,Y.lflICLLS JNIGERFARM We used to have a neighbour, very active in various social or- ganizations, who was often heard to say — "Well, I can't work and run around too so I guess I'll have to quit work!" And that is just about what he did. I thought of that neighbour last week as I listened to accounts of all the various farm meet- ing that were taking place — Federation of Agriculture, Crop improvement Association, Milk Producers -- and a rev; others that I have forgotten --- and I wondered how on earth farmers had time to attend so' many meetings. And then John Brad- shaw said he had received an- nouncements of fifty annual meetings that were coming up within the next month! Looks as if there should be at least two men on every farm during the winter months — one to work and one to run around. Any one farmer could quite logically be- long to ten or twelve associa- tions. Could it be that farmers as a class are over -organized? Can they afford the time and expense thus involved? Attend- ing meetings regularly takes time. As for expense, the Federa- tion of Agriculture asks for 2/5 of a mill on the assesment; the Cream Producers one cent on every pound of butterfat; the Milk Producers 1?' cents per 100 lbs. of fluid milk, and I suppose there is an equivalent charge for other organizations. The point is are all these organizations necessary — isn't a certain amount of over -lapping inevit- able? We have a Federation of Agriculture. Isn't the main func- tion Of the Federation to improve and protect the farmers' interests in every line of agriculture? Certainly the present threat of synthetics to the dairy industry is a challenge to the Federation of Agriculture to prove its strength. If synthetic dairy products are allowed to flood the markets there won't be many farm meetings called because there won't be many fanners left *.O attend them. Dairy farmers will either be in bankruptcy or absorbed by industry. Actually, the basic economy of our entire country is at stake. if the feder- al Government is too absorbed with defence projects and fin - amid juggling to realise what is, or maybe, happening to ag- riculture then there should he a hue and ery coining from all fanners. And who is better' qualified to raise the sum total of that hue and "Cry than the Federation of Agriculture, pre- ferably with Dr. H. H. Hannam us its spokesman. De. Hannan: has done wonderful work far ag- riculture in the past. We are sure he will see the light and hope he will be equally successful in this present emergency. We don't doubt his ability at all but that ability will be considerably strengthened and increased if given the whole -hearted sup- port of the farmers. In the meantime there is that problem of over -organization to be considered, which the fanner can solve to a certnin eutent for himself. Farming, like char- ity, begins at home. I have ite mind a farmer who was an ac- tive member of a certain live- stock improvement association. Came the time of one particu- lar annual meeting. Before leav- ing home this farmer asked his wife to take a look at Bossie, a pedigreed Shorthorn, while be was away — she might calve during the day. A neighbour was coming in to do the night chores. At neon his wife, who knew next to nothing about livestock, went down to the barn. What she saw frightened her. She phoned for the vet, but he was out. It was nearly 3 'oclock before he get there. It was 1 a,tn. before the farmer got home. He looked m at the barn before going to the house. The calf was dead — and so was the cow, The vet had done what he could but the poor cow, through lack of at- tention at the right time had been unable to survive the or- deal. Well, one thing is certain — Partner isn't likely to attend too many meetings. He doesn't get time for the ones he would like to go to . . so he reads about them instead. He has been to only one meeting this year — and at that the chairman told his audience "the outlook for the dairy farmer was promising!" Our big worry lately has been water shortage. The outlook was serious. And then came rain — enough to start the creek run- ning and to almost fill the cis- tern. And this district was par- ticularly fortunate. The ice melt- ed off the trees; there was no power shortage; no plugged roads and no ice to slither around on. We are truly thankful and able to enjoy to the full the Christnws-card scenery. Luscious' HONEY BUN RING - Quick to snake with the new Fast DRY Yeast •0 Dot goodies come puffin' from your oven in quick time with new hleischmann's fast DRY Yeast! No more spoiled cakes of yeast! No more last-minute trips this new forret of Pleisrhmann's Yeast keeps in your cup, hoard! Order a month's supply. telle eif Lucky Fish—Held high by his captor, pretty Mary Timm, this fat - fish has o smug look of satisfaction. The curly-haired girl holds ' the title of California Tuna Queen, Her main claim to the crown is the 15 -pounder dangling from her line. Apparently hooking a poor fish is no problem for Miss Timm. Men's Socks That Need No Darning Mrs. Housewife—throw away that pesky darning needle. Pre- sent the sock stretchers to Jun- ior so he may use them as boom- eratgs. Get rid of your darning yarns. With the introduction of the new wool -nylon socks you're about to be emancipated from one of the most tedious of house- hold chores—sock darning. The latest news in working- nnen's "fashion" circles is that Canadian hosiery manufacturers are now making heapy work socks of nylon staple yarn and wool blends. These socks will outlive the ordinary types sev- eral times. They are warns, com- fortable, non -shrinking, or will shrink very little when being washed—depending on the amount of nylon in the blend. But even with the slightly - shrinking blends, sock stretchers are not required. There are several nylon -wool blends on the Canadian market today --10 per cent nylon and 90 per -cent wool. 20 per cent nylon and 80 per cent wool, 50 per cent nylon aid 50 per cent wool. One Quebec yarn manufacturer is producing a heavy 100 per cent nylon staple yarn for work socks. According to laboratory abra- sion tests, the 10 per- cent nylon blend work sock will outwear an ordinary wool one by two to two and one -halt times. The 20 per cent nylon blend will last four to five times longer. A 100 per cent nylon staple sock is mildew and moth resistant and is non- shriuking. Manufacturers of nylon -wool blend and 100 per cent nylon staple work socks foresee a ready market among fanners, oil and bush workers, trappers, pros- pectorc, hunters, hikers, skiers, bachelors, and, of course, the married men whose wives con- • sider sock mending as the chief barrier to domestic bliss. \\C0010116 \ 144 Oltt`\ Acts ettys , "° es Scald is r. mill;, ;; c. granulated sugar, 1 r tsps. salt and % 11, shortening; cool to lukewenii. Meanwhile, measure into a large bowl 54 ce lukewarm water, 1 tsp. granulated sugar; stir until sug- ar is dissolved. Sprinkle. with 1 envelope llcischmaniis Vast Ris- ing Dry Yeast. Let stand 19 mint,. THEN stir well. Add cooled mill: mixture aid stir m I well -beaten egg and 1 tsp. grated lemon- rind. Stir in 2 c. once -sifted bread flour; heat un- til smooth. Work in 2 c. (about) once -sifted bread flour, Knead on lightly floured board until smooth and elastic. Place in grassed howl and grease top of HONEY -BUN RING dough. Cover and set in charm place, free from draught. Let rise until doubled its hulk. Punch down dough and roll out into an oblong about 9" wide and 24" long; loosen dough. Combine c. lightly -packed brown sugar and T,i c. liquid Loney; spread ovrr slough and sprinkle with 1j r•. broken walnuts, Beginning at a long side, loosely roll up like a jelly roll. Lift carefully luto a greased 854" tube pan and join ends of dough to form a ring. Inrush top with melted butter. Cover and let rise until doubled in bulk. hake in moderately hot oven, 375", 45-50 minutes. Brusly top with honey and sprinkle with chopped walnuts. Buckets of Tears In Old -Time Songs THE other day I was singing as 1 I made the beds, and my small daughter, who was stand- ing by hugging her dpll, began to laugh. "What's tunnel" eaid. 'You singing tient song. If you think you're going to snake me ere, you won't," write ".1.1',' in '.Answer:-." 'l'hen 1 remembered. 1 ryas singing ti song my mother used to sing when I was a very small child. It was "Alice:, Ben Bolt," and every time slue sang it 1 was tec'utcd to teare. . Strange that. my daughter's reaction should Le so different from mited- I was brought up on leave - bttckets of thein. Perhaps 1 was more emotional, or maybe my mother's rendering was more poignant, and her voice more suited for heartrending ballads, but the fact remains, her bed- side lutiabies and recitations cried. me to sleep night after night! 'You take to the boats, tads, you save your lives" —. remem- ber that? Couldn't I just picture that gslant sea captain standing East to his sinking ship, issuing orders to the loyal crew to save themselves because "I've got no one to love me, you've got c:hil- dren and wives," And couldn't 1 picture him going down "In the angry sea with the ship I love." Then there was the battlefield one; :ISSUE $ -- 1953 "Side by side in the crimson tide in the days of long ago, On we dashed and our sabres flashed as We conquered every foe. One by one ere the clay was done I saw my comrades fall, And I was the only one left to answer that last Roll Call " "That's daft!" 1 did not have the analytical ntiiid of my daughter, who said that it was a daft song and not possible, anyway. I believed pathetically in "l'he Flight of. Ages," "The Banks of Allan Water," "The .Better Land," "Be- cause I Love You," and "Break the News to Mother." Like. Alice in Wonderland, I fairly wallowed in tears over: "There'll come a time some day, when I have passed away, There'll be no father to guide you from day to day. Think well of al] I've said, honour the roan. you wed ..." Perhaps the tune had some- thing to do with the effect, but this was always a sure winner! Then the poems, which were fully ie keeping with the vocal efforts, were enough to have stamped me for ever as a funer- al director's assistant, "The Gam- bler's Debt" — that harrowing epic of a bad man who gambled through the night and returned in the morning to find his wife and child irozen on the fireless hearth, "The Little Match Girl," the story of a lovely but unloved lit- tle girl who had to sell matches in the bitter weather — how she watched other children enjoying their Christmas party, striking the while her matches to keep her little hands from freezing; how site was found the next morning frozen in the snow, her last match spent. My young daughter's sanguine temperament, so different from my own, will not suffer these Moribund ballads and poems. In fact, the last time I found my- self singing with much feeling "Silver Threads Amongst the Gold," site interrupted even be- fore I'd. got to the end of the first verse by saying "Oh, mummy, try . 'Sugar Bush: You'll feel much better!" ANNE '' 41(014A Pao "Dean' Anne Hirst; Here are the facts' of my problem: I ant in love with the mother of a col- lege mate, and she is 20 years older than I am. She admits the idea is Crary ---but she loves lie, too. "We have about everything in common: Iteligion, love of art and sports, our sense of humour is identieal, and we even get along with the salve people, We hold marriage as a sacred trust, and I am auto I can be true to her forever. "The only reason 1 hesitate is I'll afraid some of her friends will scorn her for harrying a man young enough to be her son; I h01101' her too much to expose her to unpleasant rciti- cism. She says she can take it. what do you think? T.R," DON"! * As a regular reader of this * column, you know that I am " oat the side of lovers whenever * I honestly can be. But I am * not on your side 'today. * Nature requires that men * marry women of approximate- " ly their owvit age or younger; * to flaunt this law is to invite " trouble, Yuu may stay true to " this woman for a number of * year's, but after that, the age * difference will transcend every * other problem. Try as she may, " she will not be able to assume * a youthfulness she cannot feel, * You will find yourself more at " ease with women of your awn " generation, and, though you '' may hate yourself :to it, you " will be powe- less to prevent * it. * Meanwhile, this woman will • have endured the censure of * her contemporaries, as you * will have become the laughing * stock of yours, Psychologists sometimes * blame the mother complex for the fact that so many youths " become enainored of older * women. It is a common habit. " Properly approached, it can mature and benefit a young * man in many ways; to contemn- * plate marriage, though, is to • go off the deep end indeed. o* No matter how willing this * woman is to become your wile, * you will be doing her no kind- * ness to encourage it. I hope " you will stop seeing her ins- * mediately. Seek your friends " among your own generation " and temperament. You will be * rtirprised to find how soon you " will attract another love and " another inspiration. It is foolhardy to ate agat»esi: stature's own laws. Not only, you, but the other one Involvei will have to pay for it. Consult Anne Blest and know you utas trust her jndgment. Address bee at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. 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