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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 119
Local Federation Presidents Give
Reports At Meeting of County Unit
(By J. Carl Hemingway)
Huron County Federation of
Agriculture held their regular
monthly meeting December 12,
with the new president, Elmer
Ireland, of East Wawanosh,
presiding. Since there were se-
veral new township presidents,
each was asked to identify him-
self and tell the type of his
farm operation.
Ab Bacon, president of the
County Hog Producers associa-
tion, reported that the results
of the hog feeding project
would be completed before too
long and it is hoped that some
valuable information will be
Advice Given For
Baby Sitters
If you have never been a
baby sitter before, your chance
may come along during the
holiday season this year.
A good sitter is one who has
a sense of responsibility.
There are certain things a
good baby sitter does not do,
such as raid the icebox with-
out permission or make long
distance telephone calls.
If you are serving as a baby
sitter for the first time this
holiday season, the Canadian
Underwriters' Association off-
ers these suggestions:
Get His Phone Number
1. Ask your employer to
leave with you, in writing, the
phone number of the place
where he will be. Tell him this
is merely a precautionary step,
and you will not call him ex-
cept in an emergency.
2. Also, have him give you
the phone number of a friend
of the family who lives nearby,
or the phone number of a next
door neighbor.
3. Ask your employer to
leave the telephone number of
the fire department and the
family doctor beside the phone.
4. When you enter the home
where you are to baby sit,
make a mental note of where
the exits are; then, in case of
fire, you can get the children
out of the house quickly.
Know Where Flashlight Is
5. Ask your employer where
he keeps his flashlight. You
might need it suddenly if the
lighting should fail.
6. Take a look around and
make sure that any matches in
the home are out of reach of
children.
7. If fire should break out,
follow this procedure: Get the
child or children out of the
house, then call the fire depart-
ment, then notify the parents.
forthcoming,
Charles Thomas, of Grey
township, reported on the
Poultry Producers meeting on
an egg marketing plan that was
held in Toronto recently. At
this meeting a motion was pas-
sed instructing the Ontario
Poultry Producers directors to
take the necessary steps to
draft an egg marketing plan.
This means that a petition
signed by at least 15 per cent
of the egg producers will have
to be presented to the Farm
Products Marketing Board re-
questing a marketing plan for
eggs produced in Ontario. It is
hoped that this can be done by
the end of February.
After this time a plan will
be drafted and presented to the
producers. A vote will then be
taken which will require that a
reasonable number of produc-
ers vote and that two-thirds of
those voting vote in favour.
The winter short courses at
the O.A.C. were discussed and
it was agreed that the County
Federation would sponsor two
delegates to the marketing and
co-operation conference, held
January 2, 3, 4, and 5.
The Education Committee
reported that steps were being
taken to hold a second Huron
County leadership training
forum early in the new year.
Details will be available short-
ly.
In closing just a couple of
items from recent Ottawa Re-
ports. "Minister •of Agriculture
Hamilton is seriously consider-
ing the advisability of Govern-
ment making provision for the
accumulation of feed grain re-
serves."
I suppose there are people
who are interested in guaran-
teed feed supplies but our re-
serves of feed grains over the
past several years hasn't made
it easy for family farmers. Just
when do reserves become huge
surpluses? Certainly "reserves"
of pork products in government
hands didn't do much for the
hog producers.
Again I quote "The Prairies
may be threatened by a much
more serious drought in 1962
than in 1961." The building up
of feed grain reserves by go-
vernment under these circum-
stances could only result in lo-
wer prices for Ontario grain and
therefore livestock products
would also be lower.
When so many people have
been lamenting the plight of
the farmer in the cost price
squeeze for several years it
hardly seems reasonable that
steps should be taken to keep
him here.
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all our good friends the
fulfillment of their greatest expectations.
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Christmas
Cards
Friendly, merry, reverent,
grateful — Christmas senti-
ments find expression in greet-
ing cards at the holiday sea-
son.
Just when the sending of
greeting cards first began is a
question that may never be
settled, especially since it is
always possible that early ex-
amples of printed Christmas
greetings are waiting to be
found among private books
and papers.
The Cole -Horsley card is con-
sidered by many to be the first
published Christmas card. It
was designed in Britain in 1843
by John Calcott Horsley, a
well-known artist of the period,
for Sir Henry Cole, director of
the Victoria and Albert Mus-
eum.
The card bears the now -uni-
versal greeting, "A Merry
Christmas and a Happy New
Year to You." It shows a joy-
ous family seated at Christmas
dinner.
A copy of the card, discov-
ered in England in recent years
by a representative of Hall-
mark, is now part of the Hall-
mark Historic Collection, hous-
ed at the greeting card com-
pany's headquarters in Kansas
City, Mo.
Louis Prang of Boston, an
Christmas greetings in the
U.S. He conducted art and lit-
erary competitions for greeting
card material, and published
cards of outstanding high
quality.
art -loving lithographer, pub-
lished the best known early
Plants Made Ideal
Christmas Gifts
Such plants as cyclamen,
semi tuberours begonias, and
African violets are popular
Christmas gifts. These sugges-
tions from horticulturists with
the Ontario Department of Ag-
riculture will help to keep
these plants blooming over the
festive season.
Cyclamen does best in a cool
location (55 degrees — 60 de-
grees). It needs good light but
should be shaded from hot sun.
Apply water early enough in
the day that the base of the
stems become dry before night.
The best method of watering
is to stand the pot in a bowl of
water until moisture appears
on the soil surface. This will
avoid getting water in the
crown of the plant. With this
treatment, your plant will flo-
wer from 4 to 6 weeks.
Your begonia will last lon-
ger in the . house if the plant
is kept cool (50 degrees — 55
degrees F.), in a well lighted
window. Water whenever the
soil appears dry.
The African violet is a very
popular house plant. It requir-
es little light and if it is not
over -watered and is otherwise
properly cared for, will con-
tinue to flower for a long per-
iod.
African violets do not like
strong sunlight, so place them
in a spot where they get bright
but diffused light. Try to keep
them at 65 degrees — 68 de-
grees F. at night,and about 10
degrees warmer during the
day. When watering, be sure to
use slightly warm water.
We're brimming with good
wishes and thanks to 311
our wonderful friends.
O'Brien's Produce
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King Whyte, the veteran sportsman who offers tips on
hunting and fishing each Saturday night on CBC -TV's King
Whyte Show, knows his guns lock, stock and barrel. In his
game room, King has a total of 15 shotguns and rifles and
three pistols, each as good as the man who fires them. He's
been elected honorary member of rod and gun clubs the
length and breadth of Canada.
Chiselhurst WMS
Christmas Meet
The Christmas meeting of
the Womens Missionary Society
and Womens Association of
Chiselhurst United Church
was held Tuesday afternoon,
with the schoolroom very at-
tractively decorated in Christ-
mas motif. Presiding for the
W.A. was president Mrs. A.
Ross, while Mrs. Alvin Cole
conducted the worship period.
Motions were passed to send
$25.00 to the M and M, and $25.
to the Capital Fund.
11Irs. Jack Brintnell and Mrs.
Percy Harris were appointed
a committee to decorate the
church for Christmas Sunday.
President Mrs. Russell Brock
took the chair for the W.M.S.
and gave a Christmas poem.
Mrs. Clarence Coleman gave
the missionary prayer, and Mrs.
Sim Roobel showed lovely col-
oured slides and gave a com-
mentary of her trip to Holl-
and this summer. She was as-
sisted by her daughter, Mrs.
Don Dodds, of Seaforth. Re-
freshments were served.
Twenty five members and
guests attended the meeting.
Lighted Christmas Trees Cause
Plenty of Excitement At Yule Season
The story is that Martin Lu-
ther created the first lighted
Christmas tree—our most cher-
ished symbol of the Yule sea-
son next to Santa Claus,
about the size and shape of the
sharpened end of a lead pencil,
come in a full colour range ak:cl
give a beautiful effect on the
tree.
Looking out of a window on More and more homeoa Pars
Christmas Eve in a castle where are using the new artifSeial
he was a guest, he saw the trees, These are most realistic
stars shining brightly through looking. They make no mur 1 of
the boughs of a giant fir tree. needles and can be folded up
One very bright star stood in and stored for 'use year after
the firmament at the top of year. Besides coming in the
the tree. So Luther chopped natural green they are available
down a small fir in a forest in a number of pastel shades.
near the castle .and brought it They are made from visca
inside. He secured candles which is fireproof—an added
which he put on the tree with
the largest one at the top—the
Star of Bethlehem.
The prince and his princess
were delighted and they placed
all their gifts for their child-
ren under the tree. And when
the children saw it in the
morning they were ecstatic
with joy. And that is how our
lighted Christmas tree origina-
ted.
Today, Christmas lighting is
part of our Canadian way of
life and we have a huge var-
iety of lighted decorations
from which to choose.
The modern trend for Christ,
mas tree lighting is away from
the bright and somewhat gar-
ish effect when brilliant, clear
bulbs are used. The tendency
now is to use subdued "cool'
colours in the larger bulbs.
Recently introduced are the
"midget" type lamps and these
have become enormously popu-
lar across Canada. These are
advantage.
And for the safety of your •
home and family be sure that
your Christmas tree lights are
equipped with a safety 'Elise
plug. These strings have out-
lets at the free end into which
other strings may be plugged
and the safety fuse also pro-
tects these.
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TO ALL OF YOU - -
- - FRAM ALL OF
us!
Let us renew our dedication to I-Iim
and fervently pray that good will
and eternal peace will be the
shining gift to all mankind.
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