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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1953-02-12, Page 2ff F NICD ' FINGE FARM 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 X listened to accounts of all' the various farm meet- ing that were taking place — Federation of Agriculture, Crop Improvement Association, Milk Producers — and a few 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 11 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 farmers left to 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- ancial juggling to realise what is, or maybe, happening to ag- riculture then there should be a hue and cry coming from all farmers. And who is better qualified to raise the stun total of that hue and cry than the Federation of Agriculture, pre- ferably with Dr. H. H. Hannam as its spokesman. Dr. Hannam has done wonderful work for 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 farmer can solve to a certain extent for himself. Farming, like char- ity, begins at home. I have in mind a farmer who was an ac- tive member of a certain live- stock improvement association. Caine the time of one particu- lar annual meeting. Before leav- ing home this farmer asked his wife to take a look at Bessie, a pedigreed Shorthorn, while be was away — she might calve during the day. A neighbour was corning in to do the night chores. At noon his wife, who knew next to nothing about livestock, went clod=n 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.m. before the farmer got home. He looked in 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 12f5s 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 Christmas -card scenery. Luscious' JON EY BUN! Ritkqe. 1 1.1ick to make with the new 1Fast DRY Yeast ,e Hot goodies come puffin' from your oven in quick time with new J leischmann's Fast DRY Yeast! No more spoiled cakes of yeast! No more last-minute trips . — this .new form of 1ieischmann's Yeast keeps in your .cup. board! Order a month's supply. is Scald 34 c, milk, ,it c. granulated sugar, 1/ tsps, salt and 4 c. shortening; cool to lukewarm. Meanwhile, measure into a large bowl j e. lukewarm water, 1 tsp. granulated sugar; stir until sug- ar is dissolved. Sprinkle with 1 envelope Fleischmaun's Fast Ris- ing Dry Yeast. Let stand 10 mitts., THEN stir welt Acid cooled milk mixture and stir in 1 well -beaten egg and I tsp. grated lemon rind. Stir in 2 c, once -sifted bread flour; beat un,• til smooth. Work in 2 c. (about) once -sifted bread flour. .Knead on lightly -floured board until smooth and elastic, Place in greased bowl and grease top of HONEY -BUN RING dough. Cover and set in warm place, free from draught, Let rise until doubled in bulk. Punch down dough and roll out into an oblong about 9" wide ;end ,24" long; loosen dough. Combine c. lightly -packed brown sugar and c. liquid honey; spread over dough and sprinkle with g. u, broken walnuts. Beginning at a long side, loosely roll up like a jelly roll. Lift carefully into a greased 8titube pan and join ends of dough to form a ring. Brush top with melted butter. Cover and let rise until doubled in bullk. Bake in moderately hot oven, 375*, 45-50 minutes. Brush top with honey and sprinkle with chopped walnuts. Saalasitantletraearelassetwalszeletanateakestma eee Lucky Fish—Held high by his cater, pretty Mary Timm, this fat fish has a smug look of satisfy tion. The curly-haired girl holds the title of California Tuna Quegn. 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 Mfrs. Housewife—throw away that pesky darning needle. Pre- sent the sock stretchers to, Jun- ior so he may use them as boom- erangs. Get rid of your darning yarns. With the introduction df 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- men's "fashion" circles is that Canadian hosiery manufacturers are now making heavy work socks of nylon staple ,yarn and wool blends. These socks will outlive the ordinary types sev- eral times. They are warm, 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 nyloneWeeel? blends on' the Canadian market today -10 per cent nylon and 90 per cent wool, 20 per cent nylon and 30 per cent wool, 50 per cent nylon and 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-half times. The 20 per cent nylon blend will last four to five tunes longer. A 100 per cent nylon staple sock is mildew and moth resistant and is non - shrinking. Manufacturers of nylon -wool blend and 100 per cent nylon staple work socks foresee a ready market among farmers, oil and bush workers, trappers, pros- pectors, hunters, hikers, skiers, bachelors, and, of course, the married men whose wives con- sider sock mending as the chief barrier to domestic bliss. • Buckets of Tears .In Old -Time Songs THE other day I was singing as I made the beds, and my small daughter, who was stand- ing by hugging her doll, began to laugh. "What's tunny?" 1 said, "You singing that song. if you think you're going to make me cry. you won't," write "J.P." in "Answer:: Then I remembered, 1 was singing a song my mother used to sing when I was a very small child. it was "Alice, Ben Bolt," and every time she sang it 1 was reduced to tear:. Strange that my daughter's reaction should be so different front mine i was brought up on tear:: -.• buckets of- them. Perhaps I was more emotional, or maybe ray mother's rendering was more poignant and her voice more suited for heartrending ballads, but the fact remains, her bed- side lullabies and recitations cried use td sleep night after night! "You take to the boats, lads, you save your lives" --- remem- ber that? Couldn't I just picture ghat galant sea captain standing fast 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 chil- dren and wives:" And couldn't 1 picture hien going down "in the angry sea with the ship I love." Then there was the battlefield one: I<l3SIlly 5 * 1953 aR • wade by side in the crimson tide in tete days of long ago, On we i.dashed and our sabres clashed .as we conquered every foe. One by one ere the day was done I saw my comrades fall, And I was the only one left to answer that last Roll Call." "That's daft!" I did not have the analytical mind of my daughter, who said that it was a daft song and not possible, anyway. I believed pathetically in "The Flight of Ages," "The Banks of All.an 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 front day to day. •Think well of all I've said, honour the man you wed ..." Perhaps the tune had some- thing to de with the effect, but t1? s was etways s a sure winners Then the poems, which Were • fully in keeping witli the vocal efforts, were enough to have stamped me for ever as a :tuner= 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 frozen 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 she 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 meribu nd ballads and poems. In fact, the last time I found my- self singing with much feeling "Silver Threads Amongst the Gold," -she 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!" 4NNE I4IPSI "Dear Anne Hirst: here are the facts of niy problem: 1 ant in love with the mother of a col- lege mate, and she is 20- years older than I are, She admits the idea is crazy --but she loves me, too. "We have about everything in common: Religion, love of art and sports, ottr sense of humour is identical, and we even get along with the same people. We hold marriage as a sacred trust, and 1 am sure I can be true to her forever. "The only reason I hesitate is I'm afraid some of her friends will scorn her for marrying a man young enough to be her son; I honor her too much to expose her to unpleasant relti- cism. She says she can take it. what do you think? T.R." DON'T * As a regular reader of this * column, you know that I am * on 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- " l.y their own age or younger; * to flaunt this law is to invite * trouble. You may stay true to * this woman for a number of e years, 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 own * generation, and, though you may hate yourself fo it, you * will be powr less to prevent a * Meanwhile, this woman will have endured the censure of * her contemporaries, as you will have become the laughing * stock of yours. Psy"hologists some ti rn e s * blame the mother complex for "' the fact 'that _so many youths '' become enamored of older • women. It is a common habit. °i Properly approached, it can ` mature and benefit a young * man in many ways; to contem- " plate marriage, though, is to * go off the deep end indeed. * No matter how willing this * woman is to become your wife, * you will be doing her no kind- * ness to encourage it. I hope * you will stop seeing her im- * mediately. Seek your friends * among your, own generation " and temperament. You will be 4' surprised to find how soon you * will attract another love and * another Inspiration. It is ioolhartly to act again* nature's (Mn laws. Not ontl>tr you, but the other one iu'vOXvea will have to pay for it. Consult, Anne Hirst ,and know you gest trust her judganenat,. Address bee at Hot 1,. 123 Eighteenth Ste New Toronto, Oast. A cleric in Lincoln, England,,, who had appealed to his corsgre•• gation for a stuffed owl to put in his church belfry for fright- ening bats received so many spe- cimens that he had to advertLee to get rid of them. And Me RELIEF IS LASTING .For fast, prolonged relief from,,. headache get INSTANTZNZ. This prescription -like tablet contains not just one, but three proven medical ingredients that ease the pain fast,. 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