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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1907-04-19, Page 6— ryone, needs something to create and maintain strength for the daily round of duties. • There is nothing better than an Ale or Porter, the purity and merit of which has been atteated by chemists, physicians and experts at the great exhib- bitions. Oran' 'Fa* REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. TeitOPERTY Folt SALE -The farra and town" ell property belonging to the McGinnis property, not having been disposed of by 'auction, the same can now be purchased by private sale. Far further particulars apply to B. S. HAYS, Barrister Sea - forth. 2d48-tf PM LET -The undersigned will rent his fatm on the lake Shore to a good tenaut for a term of five years. Thefarra consists of 210 acres of good land, nearly allunder Cultivation and In good con- dition. For full terms and particulars. apply at once. DANIFL SMITH, St. joseph F. 0 198 tsf IPIDROPERTY FOR SALE.-Forsale, cheap, a moat; JL desirable house and lot, situated at the comer of Isabella, and Railway streets, in the Town < of Seaforth, the property of Mr. James McCann. Thee house is a good frame one, with brick cellar ander - heath. There are two lots in csonnection, nicely situated. Good well. For particulars apply at the residence of MRS. JAMES KEII0E, Seaforth. 20504 illieRMITABLE INVESTMEMTS. can lend .11 money on improved quarter mations of 160 sores eeth at from az to 10X, per annum. Only first mortgagee taken. Ample security given. Torrena aitle System is. perfect. From 3300 up earth° lent on farms worth from $1,000 to ta,000. For further particulars write to me. J. A. JACKSON, Barris- ter, etc., Fonoka, Alberta. 1959-tf. 16-101a SALE, a eorrefortable frame house in ag- moneville, with three acres of land, cellar and also a stable. The house contains; 1 bed room, par- lor dining roem sea kitchen downstairs and two bed rooms and a large hall upstairs. There is plenty of bard and soft water. The property is doeetio both ehereh andisehool. Will be sold- cheap. Apply to JAMES S. BROWN, or box 357, Seaferth F. 0- 2628-tf WARM FOB SALE -The subscriber offersfor sal his farm Of 103 acres, being lot 131., 3rd concert eon, IL Re fa Tuckersmith. Ad cleared and under cultivation except a aeres ; all but 18 aeres in grass. Frame house, bank barn, hay barn and. other out- uuildings, bearing Orchard, good water, schoolhouse on thepremisee. It is within six Miles of Seaforth and five from Olinten. Will be sold fon easy terms.. WHFITIELD C111011, Clinton P.O. 2009-x8tf "VARM FOR SALE -For sale, Lot 24, Concession 2, 1 Stanley, containing 100 acres- Ninety acres are Ieared and m a good state of cultivation ; there are 10 acres of good hardwood bush. The farm, is all well underdrained and well fenced. There is a two- storey brick house with slate roof, a firsteolass farm house. Bank barn, 4011, x 80ft., cement silo, pig pen, driving' house; There are two never failing wells, and an acre of orchard and small fruit. This' excellent farm is three miles from Brneefield and five miles from Clinton, with goad gravel roads. For further particulars apply on the premissee oraddress ALBERT NOTT, Clinton P. Os 194841 4 MIAMI FOR SALE -For sale, Lot 5, Concession 14, Ifullett, contain ng 120 acres. The farm is ell cleared and 211 a high state of eultivatiOn. It is well drained and well fenced. There is a. large two-storey brick house with woodshed and Idtehen. There is a large bank barn and two smeller' barns and driving shed. Two good orehards. There are two never fa.ilingsprings on the farm,which make it on excel- lent one for either stock or Jrapping. There is also a pump at the barn, with windmilL IlUs excellent farm is two miles from trarlook four miles from Blyth. Terms to suit purchaser as the prop- rietress wishes to leave the fann and, if not sold, will be rented. This is the fann of the late John Arsdia For further particulars apply on the premises or addrese, Harlot& I'. 0., MRS. JOHN NITTA 201.4xtf 1 00 ATIleforms'agh. 8 that rne.PO4st-d eirei rabtlieerth prop- erty known as Lot 6, Concession Tovenshipof Bianshard, Perth County. There are, on the prem- ises, a good brick house 82x 24, with kitchen attach- ed, 16 x 26, both in good repair ; large _bank barn, 70 x 70, with good stone stabling underneath, one first-class cement silo, 12 x 37, and other . useful • buildinge. The farm is well watered, both in front and in the rear and ie adapted both for grain ar.d stock raising and is in a high state of cultivatioo, Avid& is well known from the fact that the propriete • or has resided thereon for nearly fifty steals, being one of the most saccessful farmers in the township. 1118 centrally located, being near both church and school, and within easy reach of agood market. For further particulars address JOHN SUTHERLAND, iiirkton P. 0. 2909-tf 141ARMS FOR SALE. -Lot 15, Concession 2 Lot J.' 15, Concession 3 ; S. 1 Lot 14, Concession 1, and 8 Lot 15, Concession -1; Huron Road Survey, Township of Tuckeremith, County of Huron, contain- ing 300 acre, situated within two miles Of the thriv- ing town of Seaton's, one of the best matkets in Wes- tern Ontario. This farm was awarded the gold medal in the farm competition of 1$3.1. The farms bave been all pastured for the past ten years and would TrOW be in excellent shape for general farming. Soil good cher loane-two-storey brick dwelling house and kitchen with briek woodshed -hot air furnace - hard and moft water in kitchen -line grounds with shrubbery, evergreens and cedar hedges --orchard with spruce windbreak on west and north -good barns with stone stabling -30 acres of hardwood bush, maple and beech -well watered with spring ereek and river, Will sell altogether or would divide pro- perty. No better pr-operty in the County of Huron. JOHN T. DICKSON, Seaforth. 2.026-tf WARM ON THE LONDON ROAD FOR SALE. - ..a: The undersigned offer for sate Lot 10, Conces- sion 1, Tuekersmith, being part of the estate qf the late 13enja.min Stnillie. This fann coniains 100 acme, 15 aeres of good hardwood busb and 85 acres cleared, . well fenced, thoroughly under drained with tile and in att exeellent etate of „cultivation, consisting of 8 acme of wheat, 2 stare orahard, 30 acres pioughed for crop and the remaining 45 acres. seeded to . grass, There ie, ott the promiees, a good large brick house - with large hitehen end excellent new - hank barn, 50 x 70, aleo conerete silo, a. pig pen and driving shed. There are three neer-tailing wells. is a very desirable preperts and is situated one utile north of the s instep ; Hensall, WILIAAM MOIR et BEN- JAMIN sMILLIE, Executone Remelt P. O. 20381 . Fr0133. Far Off The following an extract/ from - prIvate letter, recently receited -from ItOratet A. Kemp, eldest Rou, rs.T.O.Ketttp, formerly of Seaforth, and now, or Terooto. *Kr, Kann lett Torento. afilentt ta year ago to take a. pooltioar ea„ inahrootor la 'Bowie Col- lege, avu Maw, China, He -At arresenb I am just eetarning from he New Year's lialldays after lamina pent 'two three. Wiaokat up the rend Canal in the taxable dltriet; As there wag a elaortage of foreign assistants it fell to my good fortune .to able to It has been vetbr Interesting many .way a 04Inil seems to conf,tors ithe growing Q0311014 that edueatioe. Pie people should De ohe og the rnoSt soccessful avenues' for - the introduetion or Chrbetiaaity. You, are .doutetleao interested in the, faro- ine in this diett'riet and, so .1 will tell you 'ail I know. - -The district alas on _the great -flats Which 1111 Immense triangalar area, the hese ..P.Ina of. Which lies on Itias Yang isa Kiang -between , Shanghai and, Harikow and Whose apex is Pekin. • This part a the country has the ap- pear/nee of tteing altogether orttled 4a7 enctitrians Silt deposits oZ the two -great rivers and, so level has the • land . been formed therehy,,,Ithati00 hill whatever is to fnq ;Seen I and any mound, ot a. height of not Mare than thtrike feet all; 'MC ano4te has 'Iva)! built up wind. driAted sands or as • river tank or eenne, stream, which eventually, worked its way out, to the ocean by an altogeth,eri differ*It4 Outs& Thisa is noticeably, the Case" of • the Yellow River, lin the old' bed or ,which I stoodE near ,figiing Kiang; Pu. Here is now, only a small stream Wad the present course ales .1twol hundred miles away- to the north, having been !resorted to by the triver, at a 'very Short =Aloe. • -Thie manouver formed, a new month far the river. into the sea, about two hundred miles_north or form:er mouth. - The district is reached `1,byl the Yang al. The pass- WARMa Fon SALE 011 TO RENT, -Lot 14, .on J. 3rd Coneeeeitin, and South Hall 14, 4th Conces- sion, in tia Township of Ilullett, are offered for sale or to rent. The eonsait. of 150 acres, all in grass ex- cept la aeres in Miele A goad two - storey frame house, good bank barn, su x 70. with. power mill, a driving sated, x 5o, and sheep house, 20 x 36.: The leave is well watered by a spring, a -drilled. well and the riser. It is situated V miles from Clintoa and is well adepted for steek or grain, Also Lot; 12, on eaecta coneession, eonsieting of 100 acres, twelve acres Meat, the rest seeded down. A never failing: spring with the wind mill for pumping. a These 'arms will be sold toe:ether or separately and on. terms; to suit the purehaser. If not sold will be rented. N. MILLER, box 25, Clinton. 2046-tf FUIMFt tit SALL. -F or sale, that valuable farm o 175 nerve:situated on the 7th Conceseioe ot Stanley. It ie citify a half a mile from school, three - quart ere t,t a mite Ooze Methedist 'and Preebyterian chuteueatid iin4t, office, seven miles from Bedevil and Voir trete K1ppen statien. There are, ;in the prentieee, a bents, otte x 40, one 70 x ae and the other 51,. x es, all in good reirair : comfortable frame arid tea is eae. There ate. e2 aeree of fall wheat sown. Tht farm is well fenced and 100 stores ungerdrafeed, the other 75 aeree being dreined by the toeasase (use meninx thrnagh. There is a. never -failing well at the muee with a new Brantford pumping. mill, also 0 ren. er-faillue spring- teeth on the farm, • There are aeree of good bearing orehard, The farm is in a tirstatiaai grate. of cultivation and is situated in one of the best grain growing eeetions 111 the province. Will be sold (-heap and on terms to suit purchaser. For further itsfortnation apply on the premises or addreee GEORGE COLEMAN,. Hills Green P. 0. 10a2x13 tee and the Grand an • . ewers poet the river steamers trans- fer at Chin Kiang, abut 100 miles from' the sea. , Here they travel north in the junks or the- small !river launches and towing house 'boats, through the Canal. =less strialI ibOatie travel as far north( at the edge of the Famine district and transfer their freight at Using Xiang Pu. It was here that I helped; with the for- warding of the flour to the other innall canals and, into the eouhtiry to the‘ more desperate sectioes. ' ' On the :road- up, the canal passes over very flow lying landi and through shallow la,kep, which almost dry: up In the dry aseason and( ...become quite( large in the rainy sewn. In, no place was the adjacent aand much: higher than the welter in the, canal, so that It is a comparatively simple matter for an exceesive rain to inemdate the whole country side. Last summer the amount of rainfall was -exceptionally greet, =eine natural result was the flooding of the counf..ry 'through- out large sections, and, is the dra,in- age of the cots -dry has teen much neglected, this water stood oh the aand for some time, so that it was possible for sailing boats ito 'cut a- cross the C0t1.11 from one ,canal to 154i3 another. It that the present position - of the ountrY of China is much telaind what it was some time ago, when the influents of foreigners' Is left out of account, for at one time these great toods were dealt with by large drainage canals end other ptib- liceworks. seere cesecuted to meet nth- er`contingencies. Of late, these greaa works a:re ,-being slowly allowedi to fall tato mire and the failure to do the work that the3r once did, stile- es for our•welfare, he sent us on our ieete the country to many; disasters. It is for this reason' that educatim From Fort Erie we wont along the ep 'she mines mountain through. Sraithville and An - of the yoiereg Chinese, -tcorthe CQUI1- easter to Brantford, and from there try is gradually coining to .reigize on to Ayr, where we arrived in four that the lax ways oil the tetras are days: We stopped for dinner and to responsible for many therdships, which feed our horse t at Dolman's Hotel, fall on them. So they are nalturally Ayr. The barrotom was filled by. a turning to -foreigners for ideas and are crowd of excited Sootchmen, who neglecting the old. established: 'vs- ;were discussing the attempt ,to close tents of education which is the only ti road between Ayr and Sedburgh by training neeessi4- for the educatIon. falling trees into it, and Were., filling. of the whole o Octal class, and are in the pauses in heated argument by finding in rn;odern methods of educe,- taking drams of whiskey, I could un - tion Just such a.- peaeticail- training as derstand very. little of what was saik. the ,agaits of the country dernanl, and had serious roiegivinga that our, especially at :this critical time, when Scotch nertghbors, though sound Presa, the' countri seeing to be being weigh- byterians, would not form very cone ed in the if:Waives. genial aceuaintances, a raisgiving NDOUt Tiling Kiang Pu very little which happily was without founds, - was being 'done to help the: suffer- tion, 'as the sequel proved. era, for the offielalS were; timorous •Alter dinner at Dolro.an'e We drove lest Ithe foreigners should', by giving around by Nithvale to OUT new home, heap, a,ttract country people froin oth- Which lay one mile south, of Ayr. The er parts. They felt safer it the pea- farm upon -which. we were to move pie were not allowed to get near contained two hundred acres, to which them, fon Othen they would ibe held another one hundred acres was added xesponsibl for any disturbances, and within a month. After stothag OUT I it 'might Cost them their beads or load of household goods in the house, their 'poet ions. At one time there which was vacant and ready for our *8.8 gathered about, this place a very occupation, we drove to our father's large camp of rebegees, about five uncle, Williara Scott, one mile farther. 'hundred thousand, but the soldiers south, where we stayed overnight. broke up 'the camp and sent the pea- Leaving my brothers there, I return - 1e 'home. It was perhaps a wise ed next day to Oainsville Landing, plan for there Would have been greet three miles below Brantford, for a danger •of. disease spreading in the load of our goods which. had. been left camp arrid4 killing more people than there by the steamer Dover. In the New Home. actual starvatian. Where the Famine Relief Commtttee are 'giving 8417 help it is ming done by tlietributing tickets to the, most needy of the sufferers. A foreigner visits each house, hunts for food, dtp., and if thought proper a ticket is given to the house, entitling there to buy a small quantity of flout for each ' t sked, suits of iast erear'e c which. t at es. I had been used to worlung in •was 'flooded mid did nOti grow. Tbs No ; York, and understood -the -heal- "people _dig beam tits up, afew head- nes verr, well. I fOund that the work fula a day, Mut at 'them * _, . earoed with, mo, 4nd I soon became Pm-ter/UT' thlekind a fendwill also too& - ant . toned,seandccn.i1d r - be exhansteds - and. then it would apt foirin all the kinds eef work that I had pear, that they must die If nothhig te, to do with ease. Tile soil, it was easy done to feed !them. As it. many will to)eee, was an excellent one„ and the be ualat.11e to live on this kind a food, pOespect for art adequate return for and are now becoming so run down a the farner's toil was so much better /that they &TO 1111140eptib1e to all kinds ; than it had been in Cattaraugas that at disease, so that small -pox is Beoer I Was highly pleased with the comet eeeelYWheret I suppose that 'in the eentre of the section the Want will be sren 'greater. ;Winter here h 'been ver Y mild, and people very" well 01" not. Fortunate y We 'have pleyed tennis in, every mentia-e we were net .long in discovertng that now it is eoeurreneing to get wartn a7 the neighbors around uls Were pleas - gain. In Seeforth 'the snow will 'be, ant, intelligent follt with the virtues PethaPta lbeginning to mall cof 'MO of honeety and industry fully develop - warm dayee However, the fine eold ed. I faund no difficulty in being sat - weather which, you, have in Canada in he file despised, and, taking it all rround, it appears that Canada is tot at all a bad place ist which live. However, -China is not so bad as it is painted, in marry weys, and the peo- ple are emite eases Ito get on with, and not at ell tratilelesomee WS a rule. Judging Iron/ the reporie papers, the famine has becom,e very' mita; more acute since ;. shove try, and US I had nothing to do but stay at home and -work I cicterroined to be contented whether I- lilted ; the • isiled. with My- surroundings, and we all made up our minds to decide that , the move to Canada was a good one My father and mother almost lin- , mediately after our arrival connected themselves with the -conseregation of the United Presbyterian, Church at$ Ayr, of Alexander Ritchie was pastor, which naturally increased the -disposition of our Scotch. neighbors to treat us in a friendly -manner.. I soon learned to use the Scotch dialect; with was written, ane -outside aid u:r- Considerable feeility when I desired Saltily', needed. In many patoto spec- to do so, and made acquaintances as la' collections' have been, taken in -the rapidly as I wished to do. churchea, seat In ,other eases !privetel a A Thriving District. alci; has teen given. Itts Keane seems Lo ,rever,aeb. oitualtect for the lee Ayr at this time was a thriving, and - fllenot by any means an unattractive diciouss dist:riled:ion or aid, and we are country- village of perhaps five hundred sure that oni funds eziltruSted, to him inhabitants, surrounded by a pro - would tee faithfully, and wisely used. - Ed. ,Ebrp. . • du.ctive and a evell-cultivated country. The Scotch farmers understood their _ a . ----- - business, and gave diligent attention ONTARIO 50 YEARS AGO . an exception were thrifty, frugal peo- to it, and our neighbors with scarcely pie, who were year by year reducing the debts upon their farms and add- was not pleasant working through rhe ing to their stores of worldly sub- dense cedar swamp -where the etre ane. ran, and I concluded that work on stance. - ,, . the farra would pay better and W118 Canada West, OT Ontario as it has been called since cenfederation, eves just as enjoyable. at' this tirae increasing at a reason- No Self -Binders Then. separatect 'Mks. the"ChAff- erten the hand lanithlg Mill. When our Wheet crop was thrashed we found that the yield averaged a little over twenty- six° bueliele to the, acre, noted:thee:ant-1- g that most of the land Vat; 1 ES 11,111p-/- Unfortunately the price tree lova and the greater eeart of th,o ',thee we had ,to Sparc, after saving -bread and feed, eves sold at about 56. cents per bushel. At this time Dundas and Brantford were the chief points, for the shipment of grain or flour from Brant, Waterloo, Oxfrod and parts of other counties adjacent to them. All . grain for shipment had to be teamed to these places. After the:Great Wes- tern Railway was built in 1854 Paris became our principal market town, though we still went to Brantford at timea. Life on the farm wile a pleasant and an active or.. ' I was not troubled with a desire for dress,jewellery or ornaments. There was always work to do, and I found great pleasure in do- ing it. In the winter I allowed- the others t? do the -werk about the -barn, but I did most of the work that re- quired the -ifie of the axe, which re- lieved me from doing chores and gave me more time for 'tea.dhag and study at night. The second winter after we came to Canada I did most of the work in cutting our own wood, and cutting enough more to pay for an open cylinder thrashing machine bought of John Watson of Ayr. This wood my brotlaer George teamed to Ayr: In one of my years on the farm I lost but one day, and that was spent in fishing for trent in Cedar Creek, where my father and brothers frequently,e or at least occasionally, went. I had very good sport and caught a good string of fish, but it RECOLLECTIONS OF WORK IN COUNTRY BY M. CHARLTON. Settling In a New Home Half a Cen- tury Ago—A Thriving District -- Work On a Pioneer Farm --No gration was considera,ble, and the able rate irt wealth and population. In 1851 we had a very heavy bar - Men were .hopeful of the - futute- and had faith* in the ceuntry, The Self -Binders Then -Cradled Three emigration to the United States tom- paratieely • light, The population of Acres a Day -The Northern ar- the Province was. about 900,000, ad Ings -Reciprocity In Work. , • its increase up to this point had been fairly rapid. ,The Huron. 'district, was I was born 'near Caledonia, N w York, in 1829, writes MiJohnCh 1 - ton in The Globe. My parents were of Scotch and Northumberland. stock, I went to Canada West, now Ontario, with my father, April, 1849, when I was twenty years old, With him were• ray three brothers and five sisters. When my little brothers and my- self parted from the rest of the family at Buffalo and struck. out alone we anticipated 'a tedious journey. We had one span of horses and a -single horse, with a lu.mber wagon and a buggy. We crossed. the Niagara, on the ferry- boat at Black Bock. Major Kirby was then the Oanadian officer of customs at Fort_ Erie, and I had heard many stories of his strictness and severity, In my load I had a barrel of sugar, a quantity of tea and some other gro- ceries, and I was in doubt as to how I might get along with the Major. He was very courteous and kind, how- ever, and in-' reply tO my full state- ment of what the load contained he informed me that all goods destined for the family use of immigrants were free of duty. An hour and' a. half wits taken to make the entry and explain how the lest of the family and goods had gone up by lake steamer to Dunn- ville, and then up the Grand River to Brantford. After this, with kind wish - way. . person each day. In this way all the money at the disposal aq the mime mittees is being used and it is not likely tha,t much will 'oe wasited by providing food for starving people for a short time and then at a. critical point 'mine; unable to help them fur- ther so that they will finally coma to their death. For the plaaa is justto give out as many 'tickets, as can oe filled with flour continuously until the distress ends. Pa,rt of the time I spent at one of the distriouting or selling stations in the c ountry and give" out a fele tick - eta. Nothing very noticeable is to be seen just at this time, for the people are not yet dying in aaa-ge numbSeet and they are too pasSive to make any g-reat demonstration, However, by go- ing 'xi this way 'through the small mud huts one can quicklyestimate what 'food they- have on hand and what they will be forced to ,exist on for it amounts to practically nothing. Not in one per cent. of the huts was there found any nourishing food.. In every one, of course, we found one kind of food, in the' shape of second growth vegetable tops dried ; 'the growth from vegetables, which had never grown on account of the flood. But this Stuff eau raerely act as a filling, and will do very little good in keeping' body and soul together. In many of the huts a second kind of reed is now 'being prepared by grating down the (bark from the trees, us- ing the inside lining. This is made into a meal and cooked' into cakes. The only other food to be found in the houses was small quantities of water-eoeked p eanuts. Theise are ,the We were soon settled in otir new horae, and I was at work ploughing with the team I had brought from New York. Andrew Muir became our hired man, and a very efficient and industrious man- he was. In a short time we had sowed a fair amount of oats and 'peas., and had planted no - just set d was then called the Q eenis Bush,'13ntf0rd contain- ed about 3,500 inha.bi ants, Paris 1,- 700, London 6,500, St. Thonaae 1,200, Sinicoe 1,400, Woodstock 2,000, Galt 1,100, and Guelph 1,750, Toronto was a city of less than 80,000; Hamilton had something less than 14,000, with a number of pushing, enterprising business men who thought its geo- graphical position would enable it to take the lead of Toronto in a few years, and whose 'efforts to secure hi. creased business and rapid growth earned for their town the title of the "Ambitious City." The English Corn Laws had been re- pealed but a few i years, having been itt force up to 18461. Under their opera- tion the country had enjoyed great prosperity, for the Canadian as well as the British famer was protected in the British market, and the price of wheat was considerably higher in Canada than at corresponding points in the Miffed States. Now, with the removal of the exceptional advantages conferred by the 0' ni Laws, a period of depression had et in, and the fu- ture of the count seemed slightly .beclouded. Work On a P oneer Farm. After the spring rops were put in we turned our attention to ploughing the fellows for wheat. By the time this was done, and ,the Swedish tur- nips sown and potatoes dressed out harvesting commenced. Ours was done in the old-fashioned way, The grass was cut with the scythe, and the hay raked up by hand. Mowing machines, horse rakes and patent forks • were then unknown, and I mowed, raked and pitched hay till our hey crop of over fifty tons was all secured in goad order. Very soon after hayhig the har- vest came on. The beautiful 'fields of red chaff wheat were a sight that the mountains of Cattaraugus could not furnish. All of the t crop was cut with the cradle and bound into sheaves by hand. I was accustomed to the use of the cradle, and could easily lay down three acres a day. With a very, moderate amount of assistance we put our crop of sixty acres of wheat into the barn. Then came the ' pea harvest, and soon after the oat 'har- vest. Both of those drops we cared for with our own help. At the proper time the summer follows were thoroughly harrowed to keep the soil free from weeds; as soon as possi1l4 after har- vest they were cross -ploughed, this' work not being completed till after' the oats were cet. Late in. August we on the third ploughmg,call- ed the `.`seed furrowing," which left the land as mellow as a garden. Between September 10 and 20 the wheat was sown, a half a day's thrashing hav- ing previously been done for seed. Then came the cutting of clover seed, the digging of potatoes, the fall ploughing, and the pulling and stor- ing of turnips and various odd jobs, As soon as convenient after the fall work was done our wheat was tlirash- ed with an open cylinder machine, as separators were not then in use. The straw had to be raked from the floor in front of the machine._ and -the grain EATE$T. Those who use it get welt. A certain cure for all run down conditions and wasting disem es. Highly recommended for Insomnia. vest to take off. We had put in eighty acres of wheat the previous fall; sixty acres of it was on sod The land WO all summer fallowed, being ploughed three times, thoroughly eultivated and put in the best possible shape for the seed. The wheat grew rank and lux- uriant and when it came into head the growth of straw was heavy enough for forty bushels td the. acre. When 'the grain was in the mills a couple of heavy thunder and rain storms beat the stalks down badly, and more than half the crop was either lodged of twisted by circular VAS of wandinto "swirls." When the grain was ripen- ing a few misty, muggy days prevent- ed. going into harvest; and when the weather cleared up so - that work could commence all the wheat in the country was dead. ripe. The tesuit was a sharp demand for b.arvest laborers, and as we were off the m4in line of tra,vel from the Queen's Bile& north of uo, where most of the harvest help came from, we could not get a -Mall, and there Wag nothing for it but to o on with. our harvest teith our oien elp. We had two hired men and. ould run two cradles with the neces- ary help to take up after them arid ehock up the grain. Andrew Muir and I did the cradling; Peter Bawtinliamer and my brothers George and Thomas bound after the cradles. Bawtinhamer Was as activei as a cat, and could take op after one cradle and help my bro- thers with the other e My father and younger brother shodked up the sheaves and brought water and lunch. With a determination to do our best we set to work: we were in the field in the morning as soon as the dew would permit work to commence. At mid -forenoon a light hatch was brought to us in the field and then we kept on till dark. The work was very heavy and we averaged three acres per day to each cradle in the swirled and lodged wheat, which, was fully eetual to „four and a half acres per day in 'an'iorlinary crop of wheat that stood ini nicely. It is needless to say that this ,*as all that muscle and will power could dd. Before we could get any help, about fifty acres of our wheat was cut and in stock. The waste from shelling was less than we expecte -ed, and we got through with the her- . oaken task with more eorafort than we anticipated. After our own wheat was cut I turned in and helped some of OUT neighbors. I cradled eighteen days in wheat harvest that year, and was obliged to lie up a couple off days with a larae side when the battle was over. The farmer of to -day with his bind- ers delivering the sheaves ready to be put into shock knows little of our sensations in facing a harvest of eighty acres of heavy lodged 'wheat, -with two cradles and the number of men and. boys necessary to keep up to them. Hard work and severe mus- cular exertion.' were the order of the day on Canadian farms fifty years ago. The condition. of > things existing then was not without its advantages, how- ever, for when hardships ere endured, hardy, self-reliant men are produce& The Northern Clearings. At this time the work of the pio- neer was nearly completed in the sec- tion where my father settled, but in many of the surrounding sections the. work of clearing away the primeval forest was still in progress. North and northwest of us, in the region embrac- ed..in. the _counties of . Huron . and - -A 0 Toile ace_ giadlY of Is not all we elaim for it, and 11111E0 no charge used in trying it. We make it good to hire., Lead Packets Only. 25c 30c, 40o, 50c an e per Pound. r what has At All Or Wederaea. IOW ING CLOT -'111111111r Now is the time you should be getting into your Spring Clothes, If you have not ak ready ordered them, call on us and see what we can do for you rn this line. We carry all the best lin.es of Tweeds and Worsteds,413.d our -reputation as high-class tailors is unriva- led. There are many other spring needs, such as Spring Underwear, Spring Shirts, Ties, Etc. Let us fit you out for Spiidg. - --, B 15 17 & BAILS BEI? 8 , SitFORTE. Brace and a portion of the counties of , Wellington and Grey, was a new country which was just being settled. and which received the name of the Queen's Bush, to which I have pre- viously referred. It is now a well-set- tled and highly -cultivated country. At e the time of which I write, many of the settlers were in the habit 'of cow:- ing south through haying' and -wheat and oat harvest in Brant,. Oxford and older settled eotmties. Borne only came for the Wheat harvest, as 'wages, ware the. beet then. The small' sum' of meney earned would often suffice to pay -the ettler's taxa; and buy a much- supplyof meat and flour while h was waitln,for his modest crop, wages in haytng and oat ha ere -usually 75 cents per day and board, and in -wheat harvest $1. On raze occasions the wheat harvest rate would be $1.25 or $1.50.- Many men 'ho afterwards were the owners' of large and valuable farms, vrell stoke 8Thrl with good buildings, were glad in this ,way to earn a few dol- lars with whieh to meet the most pressing needs while bravely strug- gling with the backwoodsman's eliffi- ties, and with patient toil laying the foundation of future competence and independence,. The pioneer in his own way WM a hero, and we hardly realize now how much the State owes to these hardy,courageous men Who with patient toil subdued the wilder- ness and fought a brave and winning battle with privation's and poverty, emerging from the ordeal at:last sub- stantial and well-to-do citizens. • arend Trunk 'Railway Railway Them Tidal* System. • &Value leave Beater% aa follows: 0.50 a, in. For Gederloh Wingharean Ezearehie. For Clinton and Goderich For Clinton, Wingbsm and , Ninny cline 12.46 e. ie. d.18 .ri. 10.1,20t.. xis. For 'Clinton siid Gederloh, 7,49 a Class by Itself , I is quite true FERROL is an emulsion of Cod liver 011 and a particularly good one at that. But it reenbinee Iran and Phosphorus with the Oiltasid these art lust what are needed to make the emulszon perfect and they are jest what all other emulsions lack. FE is un ue because It combines Iron and map - Cod Liver It is pleasant totake and easy te dig It holds the record for increasing weight (95i lbs from the use of u5 bottles), ' The formula is freely e 'sed bona -fides are vetiche. for by emi- nent analysts in Canada-, the Vnit States and Great Britain. It is endorsed by prominent clans of all schools. is used in all the Jeadin esplhd* Sanitariums and other Public Isi futious. The London.(Eng.,)Lancei,after ful analysis in its own labora fully endorses it. We are prepared to substitutiat the above statements. FERROL is the embodiment strength and vItalith and 'You know what yo A. take"_, For ilbreNord, Guelph, TCrttnt° f Orillls North Bay and pohits west S Some Item Belleville snd Peterboro fad point. eget. of Interest S S2 p. in. Ter Stratford, Guelph, omit*, Mon. treat and while east. t 5.85 p. in. For Stratford, Guelph and Toronto. 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