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Just for change„ here's a iittit '
success story --or rather it storm
about a young man who appears to
be well on his way to success. He
is Hazen M. Cail of Ford's Alills
down in New Brunswick, and he's
now 29 year:; of age.
A few years ago he bought three
old farms which were pretty. well
run down—iu fact, to most people.
they looked as though they were
just about done for. But Cail
started in to build them up, using
ground limestone, fertilizer and, I
imagine, plenty of elbow grease.
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Flow well he succeeded can be
told from the fact that last year
he Harvested 1100 bushels of oats
and barley, 800 barrels of turnips,
and enough good hay for 40 head
of cattle; which sounds like pretty
fair going.'
In 1945 Call bought out the
Herefords owned by T. M. Girvon
of Rexton, N.B. The lot consisted
of one bull and two cows with two
heifer calves. From that start he
now has 20 head of purebred Here-
fords, 10 of which are now old
enough to be breeding cattle.
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While attending a winter fair not
long ago a Polled Hereford bull
was shown by Tuttle Bros. of
Wentworth, N.S, Although just out
of pasture this bull was second in
its class against strong horned
competition. Cain was so impressed
that he decided he would like to do
away with the horns, and breed
Polled Herefords himself. The
Tuttle bull was the first of that
breed to go into Nova Scotia, so
Call wrote to Malcolm McGregor
of Brandon, Man.—who had sold
the animal to the Tuttles — and
asked what about getting one like
R.
The result was that, just a short
time ago, Mighty Otto—whose pic-
ture
iature appears elsewhere on this page
— was shipped to Cail. Mighty
Otto, by the way, is a half brother
to Otto Leader, which was the bull
bought at the 1947 Royal Winter
Fair and flown to the Argentine
where he became Reserve Grand
Champion at the great Palermo,
show. 4' "` 4•
Until his purchase arrived in New
Brunswick, Hazen Cail had never
set eyes- on Mighty Otto. He
planked. down $1500 for the bull,
sight unseen;. and in time hopes to
build up a herd of around 50 head
of Polled Herefords of the better
type. Judging by what he has
accomplished in the past few years,
we imagine that Cail will be suc-
cessful. If not, it won't be from
lack of trying.
In the past I have received
several inquiries regarding the pos-
sibilities of Ontario farmers getting
workers from the Netherlands. Now
I've received information from the
Netherlands Immigration Commit-
tee, which I'll pass along to any of
you who are interested, without
comment.
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"About seven thousand Holland
immigrants have come to Ontario
during the last two years, and now
work on farms in this Province, on
the whole to the satisfaction of the
farmers," the report F. "The im-
migrants, with very few exceptions,
are happy in the land of their adop-
tion. An adjustment to our way
of life and learning the English
language brings its difficulties; but
soon these people will be absorbed
into our rural communities, living
and acting like bora Canadians.
"It is regrettable that they were
not allowed to bring along their
money when leaving Holland, In
many cases these people possessed
valuable property and had money
in the bank, but the Netherlands
Government could pot allow any to
be taken out, on account of econo-
mic conditions caused by the last
war.
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',Beigg excellent farmers they
desire to possess tarots of their
own, but this will have to wait for
a while. until such time at least
Berlin Reds Use This 'P
Chiang Kai-shek
End • of 1948: "We will flight
eight yearrs.".
3949: Fled.
A pro -Soviet political cartoonist, drawing for
Zeitung, sees a parallel between China's retiring
Howley, the United States commandant in Berlin.
pose, with an airplane in the background ready
American-spons
still anoth r
Howley
End of 1948: "it is atnthinkable that
leave Berlin"
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the Soviet -licensed Berlin newspaper, Berlinet
president, Chiang Kai-shek, and Colonel Frank L.
Chiang and Howley are pictured in an identical
to take them ,away. Bowley is shown holding ata
ored newspaper.
when a reasonable down payment
can be made. Some have already
managed to get farms by working
on a share basis. Others saved
enough to rent one. Probably in a
few more years many will see their
desire fulfilled.
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":Aso this coming year, more
plan to conte if farmers in Ontario
needing help are willing to act as
sponsors. To be a sponsor requires
to give the immigrant suitable liv-
ing quarters, either a separate house
or suitable rooms, steady employ-
ment and pay prevailing wages,
minimum being seventy-five dollars
a Month.
"There is a good variety of choice
and qualifications. Dairy and nixed
farmers, gardeners and fruit experts,
florists and nurserymen. Boats are
scheduled to arrive twice monthy,
starting next month. Any one de-
siring this help is advised to apply
at once. Solve your labor problems
before spring is here."
That's the end of the quotation;
also the end of this week's column
except to say that the place to
apply is The Netherland Immigra-
tion Committee, P.O. Box 234,
Chatham, Ont. Phone, 659-W.
Maritima Stuff
The skipper and tite engineer
were arguing. The latter said that
steering a ship was far easier than
looking after the engines, and the
captain said that looking after the
engines was child's play compared
with steering. They decided to
settle the argument by changing
places.
After ten minutes the captain had
to admit he was beaten. "Macpher-
son," he shouted, "I can't get the
engines to start!"
"That's all right," replied the
engineer; "ye needna bother—we're
aground."
Merry Menagerie-ByWalt Disney
vpr 1.11.1 A On, ri„n• n.
"They wear us on hats, coop us
up in cages and steal our eggs.
And yet, they have the ne1•ve to
call us their little feathered
friends!”
Mighty Otto Heads East.—This is a picture of the summer
yearling Polled lit'r'cictrd bull Mighty Otto referred to in our
FARM FRONT `rAninn. Although Otto doesn't look too
shiver , the mercury at ilrandon registered 48 below zero on
the day this picture was taken.
Good Advice
As you haven't asked me for
advice,
I'll give it to you now;
PLUG!
No matter who or what you are,
Or where you are, the how
IS PLUG!
You inay take your dictionary,
Unabridged, and con it through,
You inay swallow the
Britannica
And all its retinue.
But here I lay it f.o.b.—
The only word for you,
IS PLUG.
There's many a word that's
prettier
That hasn't half the cheer
OF PLUG.
It may not save you in a day.
But try it for a year.
PLUG!
And to show you I am e,
competent
To tell you what is what,
I assure you that 'I never yet.
Have made a centre shot,
Which surely is an ample
Demonstration that I ought
TO PLUG. •
—From "Plug"
By Edmund Vance Cook.
A STRANGE CREATURE
Trouble can come to almost any
corner of the world. Right now
it's in the "potato patch." Bugs,
potato bugs, were the problem in
my boyhood days, now—it's prices,
writes R. J. Deachman. Potatoes
can be, at tithes, unusually prolific.
Torben the season is right they niay
wreck us, with abundance! It is
more difficult to deal with abun-
dance than with scarcity.
Man is a strange creature and
wonderfully perverse. He howls to
high heaven when prices are high
and wants the government to solve
his problems. He resents paying •
high prices for things he buys but
thinks, not for a moment, of the
high prices of the things he sells.
When prices drop the Consumers'
League may be silent but the pro-
ducers will go after the government
and ask for a floor under prices.
Strange world, isn't it?
Did you ever think of this pecu-
liar thing? We have a market for
live stock, innumerable factors play
upon that market. The price of
"feeders," the cost of grain, infla-
tion and deflation, the volume of
money, the tempo of business, the
weather, the foreign demand for
meat. All these things work on
that market and, except in very
exceptional times, provide us with
the meat we need at reasonable
price. If there had been no such
market in existence we would have
had to create it and I can't get into
my .mind a picture of parliament
sitting down and starting from
scratch to create a market which
would function in a manner quite
so satisfactorily as the present meat
market. With all the fooling we
inay do with floors and ceilings we
will in time accept the open mar-
ket and stay with it. Then eventu-
ally seek and attain free movement
of natural products, not only with
the United States; but the world.
Fastest Rail Trip
In The World
'You won't believe it if you ride
sin the Vistadome, and watch the
• roadbed curving around the Missi-
ssippi River bluffs ahead of your
train. but the running time of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy's
Zephyrs, from East Dubuque,
Illinois, to• Prairie du Chien, 'Wis-
consin, is the fastest scheduled rail
trip in the world. It takes just
thirty-nine minutes to travel the
54.6 miles from stop to stop, an
average of eighty-four miles an
hour. This is nearly two miles an
hour faster than any other sche-
dule, anywhere, yet the the train
seldom' exceeds ninety -mile -an -hour
top speed.
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It doesn't seem fast, sitting in the
glassed -in roof -top compartments
that are features of these post-war
;trains, because you are so far above
:he ground. It's a different story in
the front end of the Diesel engine
that powee-s the train, especially
when you knife by a long string
of freight cars on an adjoining
track. Veteran enginemen aren't
ashamed of a brief prayer at such
moments, particularly when the
cars block off a grade -crossing view.
The sten who guide the Zephyrs
along the bank of the Mississippi
like the absence of grade crossings
and populated' fawns on their route.
"But we have another hazard," I
;was told by Frank T. Schini,
„Zephyr engineer, "in the rocks that
k'often fall from the bluffs," Affable,
9careful, sixty -six-year-old Schini
played a major role in reducing the.
'risk from rock falls some years ago.
From the cab 'of his freight loco-
motive he spdt'ted rocks on the
parallel track i1; time to flag down
a fast train wl%idh would have been
wrecked. Shortly after, the Bur -
wired fence along the bluffs. A
lingtun installed an electrically
break in the fence automatically sets
back' signals in stop position.
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Once, Schini has eased the 2,000 -
horsepower engine and its seven
lightweight stainless steel cars past
thirty miles an hour. nut far out
of East Dubuque, he sets the
throttle wide open and rooves his
left hand close to the cord of bis
bull -throated air horn, His right
hand is never far from the break
lever, and one foot rests on t, "dead
man" pedal that automatically stops
the train if not depressed. It takes
five or six minutes for the roaring
Diesels feeding smooth electric
power to the axles, to inch the
speedometer to ninety. Before it
travels much lighter, Schini cuts the
throttle, then inches it up when the
speed falls off.
There are plenty of Diesel trains
that, at times, exceed the Zephyr's
steady ninety to ninety-five miles
an hour. They seldom, however,
top 105, though Diesels have reach-
ed 120. But the all-time speed
record still belongs to steam, dat-
ing back to 1905, when a Pennsyl-
vania train streaking across Ohio
reached 127.1 miles an hour.
Health: What people are always
drinking before they fall down.
Childhood
Emma
By
ROGER 5, VREELAND
he house still.stands at 215 In-
wood Lane, Claremont. The In-
wood Lane is important. Remember
that. The number doesn't snake any
difference, because then there wasn't
another house within 500 yards.
Honeysuckle at the end of the
piazza entwined a lattice screen and
you could really suck the honey.
Uncle Clem—who wasn't really my
uncle—had shown me how. Can-
nes grew funnel -shape way up past
the piazza railing. Mother's round
peony garden on the side lawn by
tire swing that my father had made
ti never remembered Him) grew
luscious creamy pink and white
flowers.
Inside was the brick fireplace be-
fore which the three of us would
sit ill the winter, Uncle Clem taking
care of the fire and telling us stories
while Mother sewed, and I would
watch the picture of Nero's Horses
over the mantel until I saw their
eyes roll and breath steam out of
their nostrils.
This was tate house I was born in.
it was big and it was old and it was
full of strange nooks from cellar to
attic. I knew Mother liked it for
she often said she hoped some day
to buy it.
Considering she was a widow,
.my mother did well in providing for
the two of us until Mr. Hale carne.
That was Uncle Clom's real name.
She didn't need the small amount he
paid her. It was just from the kind-
aness of her heart that she gave him
a home. He was old, feeble, bent
aver; he carried a cane most of the
time. I know those things now.
But strangely I remembered him as
spry, full of pep and fun. He was
good and kind and always thinking
cif things to do.
Mother never knew where he
came from, until after he was gone.
The first I ever saw of him was
when he appeared at the door into
the living room and "entertained"
him until Mother came in from the
chicken coop.
Mother was cool to him at first.
She was always suspicious of
strangers. But I saw the kind of
fellow he was right away. He told
her his family was gone and asked
if she had a room to spare. He said
he had a little money, enough to
pay for his room and board.
Uncle Clem spent nearly all his
` time with rhe. Sometimes he would
forget what we were playing, and
sit with a -kind of"dreant e -faraway
look. Then he would snap back into
what we were doing. He got to
calling my mother Mom and I guess
she didn't mind.
Once I heard him tell her that his
working days were over and he en-
joyed trying to be a boy again.
But there were some things I
couldn't understand about him..
When we played hiding games he'd
eeem to have an uncanny sense of
where to look. He knew about the
flat stone over the abandoned well
'behind tate chicken coop before I
showed it to him, the loose board
on the floor of my closet, the re-
cesses over the eaves in the .attic,
and the door to the unused cold
storage vault in the cellar. He
even knocked on one of the inside
walls where it sounded hollow, and
he said: ""There was a window there
once."
When Uncle Clem died I cried alt
night. Mother had to go into his
personal things. His will was made
out to her, leaving her enough to
buy the house. I'll never forget' her
cry of surprise when she cane ac-
ross an old newspaper clipping he
had saved. It was about his retire-
ment from business. 1 have it now.
"Clement B. Hale," it began,
"was served a testimonial dinner
last night by the insurance company
which he has served for 40 years..
This a record for the company, stat-
ed John H. Quinn, the president,
who presented Mr. Hale with a gold
watch. Hale, who now retires on
pension, was born March 19, 1852,
on Inwood Lane, Claremont ..."
Motor Manners
John Kieran is widely known as
a great sports writer and nature
lover, also as one of the experts ou..
"Information Please." Writing about
motorists recently Kieran stated
that most of them drive like "sons
of Belial, flown with insolence and
wine." As proof of the statement
he cited the fact that, in the United
States alone, more than 10,000
pedestrians are killed each year, and
said that such fatalities are usually
the result of bad motor manners.
He also offered the following
polite suggestions for abating what
he calls an "insufferable situation."
Here they are:
1. Drive as though pedestrians
were friends, not enemies.
2. Try using the brake occasion-
ally instead of relying exclusively
on the horn. This will prove that
you really do give more than a
hoot for a pedestrian.
3, Don't wait until the last.
moment and then slam on the
brakes. You might as well kill e.
man as scare him to death.
4. A driver blocking a crosswalk
should not sit there with an arro-
gant air as though the milling
pedestrians were beneath contempt.
At least he could took apologetic.
"Assume a virtue if you have it
not." (Shakespeare).
5. Don't cheat at traffic lights or
corners. Give the pedestrian time
to .get across the street before you
start up.
6, Don't drive so fast. It probably
won't matter if you arrive a few
minutes later.
7. Remember that an automobile
is supposed to be 'a accessory les
civilization and not a homicidal
weapon.
Nip Firemen Acting Really Nippy.—At the annual fire brigade
review held at the Imperial Plaza Palace, Japanese airmen
shinny up and down guy -ropes in a demonstration of their skill.
Almost 5,000 firemen took part in a spectacular review, which
was witnessed by great multitudes.
PENNY
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