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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-04-22, Page 1Tlq NEAR of eClose- ut Th Sale of the former Greig Clothing Stock Days -22 More Sale Positively Ends 23rd Saturday, April Don't—Don't Miss It. READ CAREFULLY EACH DAY'S ATTRACTION Free Daily events Last s y Minute Share in Every 'One of Them. Soimethiag Doing every FRIDAY, APRILL 22nd, 4 to 5 P.m- 7 Pm. Another man wins a $33 Suit for $2 at 4 P•m. Follow- ing this event for ONE HOUR ONLY a reduction of $8.00 off the sale price will be made on all suits and overcoats sold during the one hour. "A SUIT SALE EVERY MINUTE FOR ONE HOUR." From seven to 8 o'clock Friday evening, another HOUR SALE will be held and a reduction of $3.00 off the sale price of any suit or overcoat will be made for the benefit of those who cannot share in the afternoon event. POSITIVELY ONE HOUR ONLY. SATURDAY, APRIL 23rd, 3 p.m., 9 p.m., 10 p.m. From 3 to 4 p.m. another HOUR SALE will be held. A $8 reduction off the sale price will be made on any suit or overcoat. ONE HOUR ONLY_ At 9p.m. another $35 Man's all -wool Suit of Clothes goes for $1.00 to the man it fits nearest perfect. For ONE HOUR following this event, a $3.08 reduc- tion off the sale price will be made on any suit or overcoat. ONE HOUR ONLY—"B1IY NOW OR REGRET LATER" MERCHANT'S DAY MONDAY, APRIL 25th, the day my extended lease on the store is up, will be Merchants' Day. The store, fixtures, cases, desks, along with any mer- chandise that -nay be left from the sale, will be sold to mer- chants. The fired railroad and 'gasoline inducements men- tioned dlsewhere in this ad:, will hold good on Merchants' Day. Remember the date. I'll make some prices that will remind you of the wholesale prices of 1914. P. H. RANGERE. Read About T 11 E SENSATIONAL SUIT -FITTING CON- TEST EACH . AFTER- NOON AT 4 O'CLOCK LAST TWO DAYS. (Win a Suit for $1) FreeGasoline A GALLON OF GASO- LINE FREE FOR EVERY 10 MILES TRAVELLED WITH A PURCHASE OF $15.00 OR MORE. - '(2' days left) OneHourSale SHARE IN THE ONE- HOUR SUIT SALE ON• FRIDAY (4 to 5) (7 to 8 p.m.) AND SATURDAY •.(4 to 5p.m,) (9 to 10 p.m.) (Never again such induce- ments.) FreeR.R.Fare RAILROAD FARE PAID UP TO 80 MILES DIS- TANCE WITH A PUR- CHASE OF $16.00 OR OVER. (Buy now or regret later) Buy >NOW or Regret Later.. INFLATED PURE -WEDS At a sale of purebred beef animals spme time ago a cow was up for sale. She was a good individual as far as ttyyppe and outward appearance, went. She was Of --a fashionable blood line. The owner of the cow offered her as sound in every way and guaranteed that the purchaser could have hiq money beck if she should..not prove to bd as represented. So with much enthusiasm on the part of auctioneers, field men and breeders present she was sold to a new breeder who was looking for additional foundation stock for his herd. I don't remember the exact sum, but to illustrate' my point, let us say, in round figures, the price was $1000; The unsuspecting buyer, thinking he had bought a good animal, took her home to his farm. But when the time came to breed, the cow proved to be a nonbreeder. She was worthless except for beefsteak. He complain- ed to the man from whom he had bought the animal, and in due course the sow was returned and the money refunded. Now the seller knew that this ani- mal was of no value. But •he sold her and•received $1000 in cash, which on deposit in the bank returned. him good Interest until such time as he should have to•pay it back. The man who bought lost the interest on his money; hteefound himself at the end without the animal he needed for his herd. He had lost confidence in the seller and possibly to that extent in the pure-bred breeding business. It is a regretted fact that such a practice as this one has been carried on by sonic men in the pure-bred business in the last few years. Not only have nonbreeders been sold but tuberculous animals as well. If it were just once, it would not be se bad. There might be reason for sup- posing that the seller was innocent. But in a good many instances, no sooner had the worthless animal been returned than it was immediately sold again to another unsuspecting breed- er, who in turn discovered that he had been cheated and so brought back his purchase and had his money refunded. Some nien possibly had several such animals in circulation. I have been told of instances where a worthless cow had been sold as high as five times in one year in such manner as I have related. In the fail of 1919 I was on a cer- tain Iowa farm where a sale of Po- land -China hogs was to be hold in a few days. Looking over the ani- mals to be sold I saw' a pig that was a good individual, so I asked a friend bid on :it for me up to- ¢506 -at -h -e highest possible worth of the animal, as far as I could see. When the sale was held that animal was sold for $1100, the top price paid in the sale. Before the sale season was over and before the animal was two years old it was sold again for a reported price of $20,000. • Now I have been judging hogs for years at state and national shows, and I believe that I know fairly well the value of a hog when 1 see one, but one of bwo things must be true: Either I didn't know hog values and did not leave enough money or else the man who paid $20,000 for that animal paid too much money for it. Selling of worthless or inferior ani- mals under false prletences; buying at sensational 'high prices for specula- tion; spending large sums in unnec- essarydisplay and promotion in con- nection with sales; conniving between auctioneers, field men and holders of sales to obtain fictitious high prices; making fictitious sales at high prices in order to catch the unwary; trading back and forth among breeders to such a degree that when I bought cne hog at a sale recently I found five transfers on his pedigree papers, though the animal is not yet two years old -these are all practices that have been prevalent in the pure- bred industry in recent years. But notice that I have not used the word "breeders? in speaking of these things. These• practices have been carried on by some breeders, of course; but they were indulged in chiefly by the speculators, the pro- moters, the dealers, the men of ample means who were in the pure-bred game for excessive gains or for play. The roan who would plunge, make a splurge and reap a quick, big profit has been in the limelight in the past few years. The real breeder, the man who makes of the breeding of high-class animals a business of a lifetime, has not been receiving or paying excessive prices for his pro- ducts, nor has he to any great extent indulged in these practices. • Omitting the few spectacular, high- priced sales, the average pure-bred animal has sold for prices that were, not so much out of proportion to the prices we have been paying for other things as we have imagined. Prices of pure-breds were inflated, it is true. But so was everything else. Hoa ever, the general public remembers the $30,000 or the $50,000 paid for one animal and is likely to foirget the general average of all sales, which is much more indicative of the real state of affairs. But, regardless of the degree of inflation, the boom has now collapsed and prices of pure-bred animals are down. People have come to their senses once more. With certain breeds the deflation has been more pronounced than in .others. Hogs were the most inflated of all types of animals on the whole, and so the collapse has been correspondingly greater. Where a year ago sales averaged up tp $300 $400 and $500 a head, many sales of the best blooded are down to an- where from a fifts in the counth to a tenth of that Beaver pare Board Board Sanitary, Serviceable, and Decorative. For Paint finish and Panel effect,. use BEAVER BOARD. For covering with Wall Paper, use FIBRE BOARD. Cleaner than Plaster. Will mit Crack or fall off. N. CLUFF & SONS SEAFORTH - ONTARIO. price • now. With Poland -China, for instance, the breed papers carry re- cords of sales in January running as low as $47, $49, $55, $63, $84 and $96. Some sales are still high, running up averages of $325 and $343. As I analyze the pure-bred business naw, taking all classes and breeds in- to account, there are three outstand-, ing facts: First, the speculator', day is past; second, the legitimate breed- er who has remained steadfast to his business and breeding ideals is com- ing into his own. As a result of these first two, the third fact is plain to see—now, if ever, is the time for the new breeder to get into the busi- ness.. For right now he can buy the best blood in the livestock world at reasonable prices. As one swine -breed paper puts it, "Now is the time to get twin -six hogs at flivver pieces." The day of the speculator hip gone, for the pure-bred industry awe whole still remains on a solid basics, eepite the damage that has been do. . Pure bred animals bought by a who expects to stay in the busirl sa and produce other pure-breds foreenle and build up a permanent herd -worth whatever price is current: in breed at the time, .and if, a map sticks through periods of depresaiel tt ways come..fll - periodieellyt be safe when period of .p per- ity comes again. But the speculator or the dealer who rushes in on the Food tide of prices, buys and sells for the profit of the day—he's the one who is caught when prices drop and he is forced out, for he is not inter- ested in breeding. His business is trading animals that the breeder has produced. A man makes an investment in a heed of pure-bred livestock, be it cattle, hogs or what not, for one reason only—he expects to make an interest on that investment. Now I do not believe there is any form of business in which a farmer can en- gage in which he can make as good interest through the years as he can with pure-breds. Take a man who has either enough capital or credit to establish a foun- dation herd of pure-bred beef cattle. If he started with ten cows, says, he refight well afford to pay as high as $2000 for an average price. This would be $20,000 for the herd. Let us assume that all the cows are in calf. From these he will possibly get one calf that will sell for as much as he paid for a cow—$2000. He will have possibly five calves that will sell for $500 each, or $2500. Ile may have three that will sell for $800 each, making a total of $5400. At least one calf can •be expected to die. But that will bring a gross return of $5400 for the first year, or round 27 per cent. That is too high for the average herd. More calves may die. *Prices may be lower. Next year the cost of the bull must be added to the invest- ment. Yet, when the net profit is figured out, there is a geed interest or, the investment. Pure-bred live- stock pays. But in figuring profits one must not expect that each ani- mal will make his full profit, A breeder must expect to take some losses. Despite what seems like a period of depression now, after a period of inflation, the pure-bred business is on a sound basis and will soon face a condition of prosperity. If in the next five years general business conditions in this country, on the farm as well as in the cities, re- turn to a normal basis, we shall see farmers by the thousands who will want to buy pure-bred animals. There is no question about" the intrinsic value of pureakreds. In the feedlots they can win out over the grades and scrubs. I dett�onstrated it to my own satisfaction wlft•tt I saw pigs from my registered Poland-C•aa sows out- weigh and outsell had on hand whet my pure-bred her One tro le wit scrub pigs I was beginning yYb the purebred business the past few years is that the small buyer and general farmer have been driven out of the market ar-d the breeders have merely been trading among themselves. They have overlooked in large part their best market—the new man and the farmer who wants a few good ani- mals. The more breeders there are the more customers for good animals Y ea By refusing .'Eu_ mal. '.vas r &aloe with' p tutted individuals R1! • irl yet did not payan oxo meet We are . going luta, toe par business on evennartent basis;: expect to breed Shorthorn Cattle Poland -Chinas„ for the rest ,ei' lives. .We purchased. our ie stuff with that basil in'milnd . individuals for a lifetime 11 1+ood'trading ''•Stiff for a next c, We have . learned .three thii�st ,7N+e could get good aninfals-degpitye•big► prices; it did not pay to buy ev - thing at sales; it pays to buy ' best we can afford. ' The first animal we purchased was the bull. We had looked found over the country but had bought nothing. At the Anoka Farms sale we saw a young bull that suited us exactly. We obtained him for $4100. Our judg- ment was vindicated when within 12 months we refused a fiat offer of $20,000 for him. He won second in hire class at the International over a large showing. We bought twenty-eight cows all told for our foundation herd. Our purpose was to establish a herd with sufficient cows and a good sire so that in a few years we could have a herd of our own breeding, outside of the foundation animals. The highest price we paid was $2900 and the low- est $400. About half we obtained at sales and the other half by private 0 Wednesday afternoon closing in Seaforth com- mences the first Wed- nesday in May and will be continued through May, June, July, Au- gust and September. purchase. We secured our herd f r an average of about $878 a head. We started our herd of hogs in 1918 with fifteen gilta and two male pigs. The gilts, both fall and spring, averaged about $150 a head, and though they are of high quality, we were able to buy them without pay- ing exorbitant prices. To -day every pig on our farm except the founda- tion stuff is of our own breeding except two. Our last crop of spring pigs sold at an average of fifty to sixty dollars each at four months of age, with one at high as $200. We shipped one pig to California for $150. We are told that this is the best Poland -China boar in that state to -day. We were offered $1500 for our herd boar, but it would have done our herd no good to sell him. These prices are not at all sensa- tional, neither what we paid no what we have been selling for. I believe no breeder of hogs can afford to buy his breeding stuff at prices so high that the product from them cannot be sold at a profit for breeding or ,fpr market. In conclusion, I to enaPhasiae three -things about the pine-bredt busi- ness at the present time: First of all, there is an inspiration in pure- breds that nothing else -gives. The farm boys coming to manhood or the men already engaged in farming need such inspiration to keep them on the farm, contented and prosperous. To the man who has good purebred live- stock there is an inspiration to do better farming all round. Second, the man who goes into the pure-bred business to succeed must go into it for a lifetime job. No natter how modest the beginning, it is sticking to it that brings success, nor does one need -a large herd. What we need most is a large number of small herds on the average farms. I can think of numberless breeders who have succeeded from small be- ginnings. W. C. Rosenberger and Sons have one of the best herds in Ohio to -day. They make the Short- horn herd the business of the whole family. Their herd of about 200 head is an example of what can be done. C. A. Branson, of Cadiz, Ohio, has a typical Shorthorn herd. By use of good sires he has built up a herd to a place of prominence in the state. In Iowa, I could mention Carl Rosenfeld of Kelley, who, because he there will be. The signs all point to such a market. There are to -day between 3000 and 4000 Shorthorn herds in Ohio. A large number of new men are atartirg small herds, especially younger nien.. Particularly should a breeder want other breeders of the same kind of livestock in his own community. A half-dozen men having the same breed will attract far more buyers, either for private sales or auctions, than just one breeder. The county pure-bred associations are developing this very feature. is a real cattleman, has developed a small herd of Angus cattle that is Perhaps our own experiences in the past two years would be of value. widely known. He began on borrow - For a number of years I have been ed capital at that. Dean C. F. Cur - associated with purebred stock as tiss, of Iowa State College, is an - judge at shows and as head of ani- other. Dean Curtiss began in a vial -husbandry work at Iowa State modest way about 1906 with a few College and the Iowa Agricultural Ex- Shorthorns. To -day his herd is out- periment Station. But I wanted to standing, and animals from it have get away from teaching and cxperi- won International grand champion - mental work. ships - So in the fall of 1919 my father The I decided to go into the pure-bred business in a partnership arrange- ment under the firm name of John Pew and Son. We selected for our purpose a 1100 -acre farm in Portage County, Ohio. We set out to buy our foundation anhnals at the peak of high prices. vltimoe Air a : up a late' with 0 promise , fmmut , fi ,cons tali. hund elf. and' seveaty five , - in spite .of the ,fact out of twenty-'f'ive cities favors( •portation, the �j ty vote split p hically even with the Wanes silt ly in favor of the "dry." •.Outside. of the strictly urban ridings the "wets" strength centered' in- the north:in Waterloo north and alai! the Windsor border. There s to be some doubt as to. Frontenac but latest returns indicated that it had gone "dry." The majority in Toronto in favor.. of importation still remelt in doh, latest figures with 81 polls to +hear;. from showing a "wet" balance ef.�- approximately 6,000. TheToronto .... Referendum Committee which is tabulating from ofllcie! returns claims that the majority winl na'IE exceed five thousand. THE; RESULT IN HURON South Huron. No. Yes. Maj. • Seaforth 266 693 327 Clinton 270 631 361 Exeter 136 695 559 ,... Bayfield 62 134 72 Hensall 80 284 204 612 404 Goderich Township 108 Hay Township 436 477 41 • Hullett Township - 160 509 �34�9, Stanley 124 641 417 ' Stephen Township 348 842 499 Tuckersm(th . 182 648 468 Uaborne 92 734 642 McKillop .. - 298' • 426 ,; Totals 2640 7284 North Huron. • : No. Yes:`'" Goderich 6771069 %'' Wdngham 225 746'' 561'. Blyth 301 241 148 -, Brussel 96 856 260 Wroxeter 25 162 187 Ashfield 274 810 586 Colborne 83 530 447,. Grey 118 950 887, Howiek 170 978 808 ' Morris 123 662 589 Turnbjiry 89 627 468 East W+awanoeh West Wawanosh 300 764 464 Totals 2858 8446 6085 Grand totals 4998 15680 10682 SOAPS Sunlight, Comfort, Surprise, Gold, P & G, Naphtha, etc., 3 cakes for •••••••• Corn, Peas, Tiinlntoes,—First Quality— pertin. ............ Maple Syrup-- Clarified, Sterilized, Standardized and guaranteed absolutely pure, at per PiCr quart JCr Tam—Raspberry, Sti<awberry and Black 90c Currant, reg. $1.13, in 4 ib. tins for 7 �r AT HUTCHISON'S GROCERY Phone 58. 25c 15c e third thing r would emphasize is that now, if ever, is the time for place, at Clinton on that day. The a young breeder to begin. Prices are deceased lady was a daughter of Mr. low. Good animals are selling for and Mrs. P. Bowey, of Kippen, and less than they are worth. Our do- she leaves, besides her young hus- mestic market is bound to develop. A band, one child of two years and an foreign market is opening up in South infant of clays. She was but thirty America. Purebreds are always years of age and her early death is. worth more than common stuff, and keenly regretted, and much sympathy to the man who sticks and who uses is felt for the bereaved ones. right methods they are always pro- —The sad intelligence was receiv- fi•table. Out of the recent period of ed from Brigden on Monday last that inflation and its accompanying prac- Henry Jackson, a well known resi- tices has come the best opportunity dent of Morris from his birth, had of a lifetime for the progressive far- , passed away of anaemia, in his sixty-, aver who wants to get a start in pure- fourth year. He and his wife were bred livestock.—By W. H. few, in The • visiting their daughter, Mrs. Roy Country Gentleman. McDonald at. Brigden. Mr. Jackson had been in failing health for the • HURON NOTES — While working at a stave -cutting machine in Ament Bros. factory, in Seaforth last Saturday morning, William Thompson, of Cargill, had the misfortune to have the first joint of three fingers on his left hand taken off. — The Easter vestry meeting of St. ' George's church, Walton, was held as usual when satisfactory reports were presented. .John Bolger and Fred Scarlett were elected wardens; Rich- ard Hoy and Thomas Bolger, Sides - men; Charles Case, vestry clerk, and R. H. Hoover, treasurer; representa- tive to synod, James Humphries. —A flock of wild geese alighted upon a pond on the farm of Mr. El- dred Yeo, of Goderich township, on Saturday last and • remained quite a while. They were on their way north and this probably looked like a good resting place. It is said to be very unusual to see geese alight in this vicinity. —A pretty wedding took place in Burns' church, Hullett, at high noon, on Wednesday, the first marriage ever solemnized there, when Miss Annie Reid became the bride of Mr. W. Norman Shepherd. The Rev. James Abrey performed the cere- mony and the church officials pre- sented the bridal pair with a Bible. —The Brucefield community was shocked on Tuesday to learn of the death of Mrs. Drew Swan, which took THE REFERENDUM VOTE ' past one and a half years and deapi all that doctors and loving care Incomplete returns on the refer-' could do gradually went down. He er.dum frmn seventy-two of the :vas married in December, 1882, to eighty -on, electoral districts in the i Miss Annie McKay, of Morris, who Province show a "dry' niejnrity of I survives him, along with a son and approximately 135,650. three daughters. The subject of this As first returns indicated the rural notice was one of six brothers, of distrie'ts voted overwhelmingly in 1 whom only Peter, of Tisdale, Sask., favor of the prohibition of impor- j survives. There were seven sisters: talion. Outside of the city ridings I Mrs. William McCall, Brussels; Mrs. only five electoral districts are in Fear, Mimico; and Mrs. A.'iltntth. the "wet" column, end two of these Fort William and Rainy River, and Port Arthur and Kenora have 8e far reported very meagre returns frena the rural sections which are was brought to Blyth Tnesd'ay showing small "dry" majorities. .41- 1Ing and the fun�l t ,place f grime East Timiskaming ami Essen the home of Willie& Bent, l 1 are the other rural districts in the on Thursday afternoon,, ft'hte1 "wet" column. j ing made 133ykh Brussels, are living. Mr. Jackson. was held in high esteem, by all Who - knew him and was a name ante industry and high ideal8. 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