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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-05-06, Page 1vcv SES -f BIG BARGAINS Greig Clothing Co.Stock East Side Main Street. 25 Beautiful New. Spring Coats all the new col- ors for Women. Your choice $19.75 25 Men's Suits in all Sizes your choice $19.50 25 Boys' Suits, sizes 28 to 32. Your Choice $5.75 50 pair Boys' ' Knickers, good goods $1.39 50 pairs Mens' Overalls $1.75 10 dozen Work Shirts for Men ____ $1.25 yards Fine Blue Serge 75 ia Reg. $10 to $12 a yard f$495 15 Womens' Rain Coats at $595 Clothing The GreigClothing.Co. A. A. Cockburn BARGAIN STORE MEN'S Lisle Hose. All colors. Beg The, for 40c MEN'S Leather Belts. A sample, 1 o t 50e to 90c COMBINATION Overalls. All sized. Reg. $5.50, far $4.65 MEN'S Light weight all -wool Sweater Coats at . $5.00 CHILDREN'S Bloomers, in four colors, selling at 65c LADIES' Combination Underwear, weight. Reg. $1.50, for Stammer 95c ARMY PAINT in gallon tins only. White and Grey • .$4.95 Harland Black Enamel at... -$55.50 LADIES' Black Silk Gloves.Reg. 52 for..$1.25 Black and Grey Lisle Gloves..$1.00 ARMY SWEATERS A Real Good Coat. Werth AS. for $3.50 10 DOZEN Ladies' all-over Aprons. Reg. 51.00 for 75c 16 ONLY Men's Seats. To clear ab, -$2 ,00 A BIG BARGAIN in rests. Worth 5bc, CHILDREN'S • klamttn.r Vesta at - ....25. anis 3k Nit INFLATED PURE -$REPS It would be pleasant to asguse breeders of pure-riared .lip that their !Wetness is taking:the • Y upgrade of reconstruction on lt.cylinders, with no seriousdp ubta :to the im- mediate future. 'It wo be. much easier to write *rime hap hypocrisy of that sort thi�4 it iii, point out weakness in thel'busine hich, if unremedied, Offeeten ai make the aaterrt unnecess4rilya if not actually precarious. uch eeanr- ance would fool none of the majority of breeders who keenly realize that certain and sundry things have been and are wrong, - They know that some of the cylin- ders are missing, that the business is carrying an overload end that there is a good bit of water in the gasoline. Wherefore it becomea the part of wins dom to take honest 'stock of the situ ation in order that necessary improve- ments may be made before it leads to a breakdown. Once the top of the grade is reached there is every indica- tion of a long level of smooth going for the pure-bred swine business. We should be Shortsighted indeed to for- get this alluring future prospect for any immediate headway gained at its r expense. The significance of the simile em- ployed is readily grasped. sure -bred hogs have bought, enough automobiles for those who have raised thein to make the gas chariot a symbol of the business thoroughly in keeping with its financial possibilities. The un- necessary overload it is carrying is familiar enough to all breeders, for they know to what unfortunate de- gree speculative and unethical meth- ods have crept into the enterprise. Prices of stock are the "juice" that supplies motive power, and the past three years have seen the greatest watering of pure-bred prices in the entire history of the business. Constructive breeders have known and deplored these facts from their rise back in 1914, when the boom which collapsed late last summer be- gan. But undividually they seemed powerless to restrain the rising tide of wild and dangerous speculation. A boundless enthusiasm was in the air, helped on by a four-year_bull market, including practically everything from shotguns to shoe laces. It was a sel- ler's market, a great, glad heyday in which the man who bought something for more than it was worth could term round and sell it to an 'eager pur- chaser at a price even more fictitious. Farmers went to pure-bred sales, bid on animals wbi'eb they perhaps did not seriously contemplate buying, but sometimes got them and -had the stock home only -a short ;time when a buyer appeared and •ofilered arnrice that included a nice profit. There was a shortage of pure-bred stock; and breeder's keep track of buyers, knowing where each animal of good breeding goes. An experience or two of this sort was likely to bring any farmer who profited by it back to the sale rings in search of more of this q ckly and easily made money. The idea that there was quick, easy money in the pure-bred business was cultivated by superenthusiastic breed- ers, zealous field men and shrewd auctioneers. They naturally support- ed the mistaken idea that by spending enough for highly bred stock the be- ginner could start in on an equality with men grown old, wise and gray in the business. One has only to look back over the sales of the past three or four years and note how many of the high-priced animals have gone to men just starting in as breeders. Rooted in this fertile situation, a great inflation of prices grew and flourished. It enticed the speculator and gambler, and long before the height of price expansion had been reached and a decline was imminent, the temptation to bolster prices up by unethical methods was too strong for some to resist. There were reci- procity" sales of animals at figures that brought a gasp of envy from the uninitiated, yet which often mounted to no more than swapping checks. Many of the uninitiated were thus lured into exchanging the proceeds of two -dollar wheat and dollar -fifty corn for animals whose prices ran in- to four figures, and now, with the recent slump that has revalued some of this stock in three figures, maybe two, there are things said about it all by some of the victims that, if quoted, would not add to the value of this article for home reading. Truly, as one philosophical humorist has re- marked, life yields us, along with wisdom teeth that can be left over- night in a glass of water, a good deal of shop-worn experience purchased at the highest market price. EXTRA SPECIAL in White Lisle Hose. Regular 55c, for 35c A FEW PAIRS of Ladies' Black Hose selling at 29c JUST 19 PAIR Corsets, in odd sizes, to clear t $1.00 LAMS' GIRLS' Bl..etetn, whits only. Rfliredia SLIM. 'BineedSee h' Y1iea trona 10 to 14 4115 sma iplies. . i. -Red Ce4ar Shingles Brantford Asphalt Slates Brantford Roll Roofing Vulcanite Hexagon Shingles Our Roofingand Get Our Prices. N. CUFF & SONS SEAFORT ONTARIO. when the end came. Those who were must pay the forfeit, just as the reader may have had to pay many a forfeit that hurt his pride' and dignity in the game of Jack's alive when he was a youngster. The .sad difference is that in this game the forsfeit must often be paid in cash that cannot be spared, and it is paid hi a measure by every player. - The pure-bred business as a whole has suffered by making *speculative game' of it, for the sale9;of breeders have been lessened to a degree great - ter than would have oaeurred had prices during the past flour years been kept closer to a utiliforian basis, We would have had to ibtske the up- grade of reconstruction ju$t the same, but it would have been touch easier with less water in the price gasoline and less dead weight to Karry in the shape of sharp practices that are common knowledge to wise farmers everywhere. More tolls have. been'tttaken from the pule, -bred business than it can well endure. Some were' unjustified as to volume, others as to character. Consider this case as an -'instance of the latter: The field man of a certain breed paper was approaehed by a man who wanted a ;rood boar. He the latter, had confidence iia the:.efie man,, for • carried the ,te, and prestige of,p,ptihtieatib$ thought- of among breeders. "I know, just what you want," said the field man. "I know your sows, and I know exactly where you can get the boar, you need. He'll cost you 1$2000." And he proceeded to extol the virtues of the animal until the breeder, feeling that he was get- ting fatherly advice from one who would sorrow grievously if his herd was not brought up with the best, gave the order for the purchase. The result? Well, the man no doubt got pretty good boar, but when he paid is 52000 the field man got $500 of it, this representing the "under -cov- er" commission to that shrewd agent in the transaction. In this and similar ways the cost of putting pure-breds into the •hands of the farrier or beginner went too high. Advertising has been over- done, auctioneers' fees have reached four figures. Costs have been in- creased here and there until' the total all along the line mounted to figures that the pure-bred hog could not carry, big -boned mammoth that he has become. It must never be lost sight of that the big outlet for pure-breds is to the farms. They must finally be paid for by market prices far meat, fat, lard, -skins, and similar products, if the business is to be on a utilitarian basis that will allow it to live and grow. Failing this, it foce3 a small, precarious market made by a limited number of wealthy farriers and by rich city men who take ue farming as a fad—a market subject to specula - Plain dishonesty there was in some cases undoubtedly. Mediocre stock was too frequently sold at prices that even an inflated market did not just- ify. But for the most part the whole situation resembled a game you may have played back in the days when your worldly aft bitions centered about the acquisition of long trousers and a manly resistance to the razor on your upper lip. Jack's Alive was the name of the game, I think. The players stood in a circle,, and a stick with just enough fire .oar -the end to make it smolder was passed from one to the other, each player saying as he did so, "Jack's alive." The un- lucky youngster in whose hands the last spark was extinguished had to say "Jack's dead," and a forfeit was exacted of hire. Rather4ike:that the pure-bred busi- ness had become prior to the recent smash or prices, not values -tea game: in which ifictltiously, priced .. aninlu1 were partied fror;;i -one to; another; each senting that the thing •eonld ooh lost, but hoping ,riot' to lie cane&& tion, soon sold up to the saturation point, depending for its life on young farmers coming into it at a cost too great for their safety and on addi- tional tional wealthy men with hobbies tak- ing the enterprise up as a plaything. The everyday farmer who earns his living farming and who has a small herd simply cannot buy boars at high, speculative prices. He must divide the cost of a boar among a small number of hogs sent to market, and his average profit margin is surpris- ingly narrow. Many farmers have decreased their hog feeding business because they did not wish to feed stuff unless it was raised from a pure-bred boar. They saw the handwriting on the wall pre- dicting the present hog -feeding loss period and refused to pay good money for boars in sums that there was no indication of the fat -hog market's re- paying. So it is that breeders are loaded up with hogs that under more STRAND A First National Attraction Thursday, Friday; Saturday The Most Astounding! Amazing! Fascinating and Extraordinary Picture ever Filmed! Marshall Neilan's Mile -a -Minute Melodrama Of Newspaper Life. "Go and Get It" A Sensational Photoplay of the Romance, Excitement, Thrills and Dangers of Newspaper Life. intbae :cond�i� i pa}k a'"d nn.ao nd T*topd Bs':1 ail pure Owed hogs imat tfaianelrd can pay arp. Thdra rider.: fi limited number are of high'; atructive breeders, whose , to fellow breeders, others: :kat is, tp both breeders and stili others whose) farmers. The investments effort 'involved in -Bash Claps (etch :individual case ate .ef fila return. We need er4'R Of superior' merit that fs there should be a prise lncen1sva ta'.: s eteadY the breeding of more .of tide :lit y increasing fait$': But there should be ,no ;pipe itjt- "utilitybrad" atut The centive to the unethical, praetlea of �Glentail.'' masquerading ordinary anjtmla .•ip virtues of great kin and selling for more they can ever reel�y' gi). That is anethan th menace of high ecetl, be guarded against, just as the men- ace to the pure-bred business as a whole consists primarily hi speculat- ively forcing the level of pricer, into the clouds, way above an earthly utility basis. The entire field of market -pork pro- duction—its vast total of farm herds is open to the breeder and should be assiduohaly cultivated by him. His great And primary function is to pro- duce high-class seed stock for these farm herds that will improve the economic type, the vigor, the pro- lificacy and the artistic or picturesque values in a steadily increasing de- gree. Surely this is a service to stimulate both imagination and ef- fort by the vastness of its field and the financial, altruistic and educa- tional opportunities it offers! It is a real service, a service so great that we must not allow ourselves to be lured from its possibilities of satis- fying achievement by the mirage of some passing delusive fad. I wish to emphasize type, for it is a thing of tremendous importance, and one in which the .fad principle may carry us far astray. It isnot enough that an animal merely trans- mits type. Lacking other essentials required from a breeding, nutritional and meat -producing standpoint, type is a tinkling cymbaL Types are con- tinually changing and it is inevitable that they shall change. We are now experiencing an evolution amounting almost to a revolution in the phys- iological and conformational structure of animals. The two are so inter- related that great skill and experience are required. to knows just how far wecan safely go ' hanging type. Witness the• le we arrived . at. in d vetaping th lard type. It was a wonderful ac nevement so far as conformation we t, a bulging parallel- ogram with plump, hanging jowls and splendid color markings. Genetically the breeders of this type were mar- vels. They produced something asi uniform as a string of tin 'sizzles, but unfortunately something subject to internal shortcomings. Lard then had a monopoly which has later beeh destroyed by the advent of tropical and domes tic vegetable oils and the advances made in preparing these in palatable forms. What was the result of this type development? We found that in that fat -laden carcass physiological func- tions absolutely indispensable had been inhibited to an extent that gave rise to great breeding difficulties with some breeds. The size of litters had been seriously decreased. We had evolved an animal, a chuffy, watch - charm sort, so built that it really lacked breeding and feeding capacity. In all this lies a sharp warning to the breeders of to -day net to overdo the bigboned mastodon type. Breed- ADDED ATTRACTION "Jimmy Aubrey" in "The Mysterious Stranger" A Big V 2 -reel Comedy Special The Biggest and Best Show Ever Offered in Seaforth for the Money. Adults 25c. 8.15 p.m. Children 15c. New Strand A BARGAIN in BLACK TEA That is a Snapper -de -Cracker. Cost the Wholesaler 40e lh.; regular cost to retailer, 45c ib.; it would cost the Consumer 50c to 60c according to the elasticity of the dealer's conscience. We offer this Ten in 3 Pound Packages for $1.00. We didn't buy it when nobody was at home, either. REGARDING THE FLOUR OF HARVEY BROS., EXETER; whereas most millers buy at least two grades, and many of them three grades of Manitoba Wheat, Harvey's buy only the First Grade. For that reason, whether you buy their MANITOBA'S BEST, made of all Manitoba Wheat, or their MODEL, made of Manitoba blended with Ontario Wheat, you can always depend on the quality being FIRST CLASS To be had in Seaforth only AT HUTCHISON'S GROCERY BBODHAGEN Notes.—Mrs. Frank' &her who has been seriously 11!. is i tug slowly.--Miss'A-rspie ' • bas been very sick at Dublin,;_ now convalescing Mrd' Kiehna, of Sebrin V,p; F ?tif"; with Mrs. George. MiloW&Xt few ,weeks. Mr.• John .Roa,'k4 of Nevada, la visiting reiatjves ire for the summer.—Miss Ida ;Koints„ oar. teacher, and Mr. John Amatein spent. Sunday at Baden.—Mrs. Fred, FiserlIer- gave a very enjoyable progressive euchre party on Monday evening. • present report a splendid' Bert Gibson, our -butcher, sold property. here to Mr. William Muell.e. of Bornholm, the latter to get posses- sion in December. Mr. Gibson will'. erect an up-to-date butcher shop, more Centrally located, next win" tor,--. The -laying of the corner stone for the new St. Peter's Lutherane.11ttrch. has been postponed from May 8S to - May 22nd.. Further announces arta. will be made later. — Rev. W. H. Campbell, pastor of the Evangelical church for the past five years,- flea: been transferred by the Conference" t Stratford to Elmwood, Out..:p*r. Campbell preached his farewell 'iatm mon on Sunday afternoonto a congregation. We are so to1Joaei+.4 Mr. Campbell and wish hied "ev'ery'• ' success m his new field of labof- --•!) STANLEY Notes.-JMiss Ethel, daughter of Mr. Collins, .passed away at ' her home last, week. She was ' it of tuberculosis for -some time. Thetfun- eral took place from het holm ::to Baird's' cemetery, her pastor, .Rein:, . D. McIntosh,. officiating.- -.n A et marriage took place in Kippen Manse last week, whee Mise Jane Smith Was united in marriage to Donald Mc- Donald, of Bayfield.—Mrs..Cochrane visited her daughter • in Clinton last week. School Report—The fallowing is the report for April of School Section No. 10, Stanley: Sr. 1V.—Vera Seeley, Rena Johnston, Bruce Foster, Wilfred Chuter, Roy Dawson. Jr. IV --•Phebe Calcleugh, Mabel. McClinchey and Ellwood Epps, even. Sr. III— Irene .Johnston, Irene Chuter, Cassie .Johnston,.. Jack Raymond, Shirley Dawson, Melvin Webster. Sr. II. - Clayton Elliott, Mabel Pilgrim, Mil- lard Robertson. Jr. IL—Rached Johns- ton, Jean Johnston, Jean. Foster,. Grace Seeley, Gordon Raymond, kismet, Steep, Ada Steep, Orrin Dowson-' Primer.—Ruth Elliott, Calvin Foster, Mary Chuter, Tommy Chuter.—G. C. Shillinglaw, Teacher. Another of an Early Generation Gone.—Another of the few remaining of a generation, passed away in Exeter -i on the 29th ult., in the person of Mr. ' ers of this type have made progress John Jarrott, formerly of Stanley along sound lines, but the history of township, at the mature age of 82: European, Chinese and Canadian years. Born in the township of" - swine tends to make us view with !Vaughn in 1839, he came with Jus caution the 1200 -pound boar and 800- parents to Huron County and ,set.tketh.;x pound sow. in Stanley township. As a boy he be -.'r Is it necessary to have size of bone held Huron's primeval forest and the; such as would easjly hold up a ton rudaments of a country which by in - bull as underpinning far a 200 to dustry was to become a beautiful, 250 pound market hog? Is it nec- land of harvests and happy horses. essary to compete with the lurid rain- To the youth of that day fell'e-, bow- 111 building a hog's back? Is it task of transforming the wilderne4 s - economical to carry 1200 -pound boars s the gtachievement fir•' and 800 -pound sows as averages of a reIllsmovw•ae the forest and acreate hithe inod- breeding herd to produce market pigs ern homestead. The stalwart young weighing 225 pounds? Isn't it well woodsmen of sixty years ago, now so to stop running from one extreme to rapidly passing, are deserving of the another? highest tributes. They were the arch - Is it not worthy of serious con- iteets of physical destiny: the builders sideration that the bigger we make of the century, and reared the founds- . the hone the more complicated he- lions of a nation. We are standing conies our 'feeding problem? It is on the service and sacrifice of difficult enough now, for all ordinary Mr. :Jarrett's strong and noble gen- to-dayba.sal swine feeds are lacking in bone- oration, which honored honest labor, forming elements. Is the packer or which enthroned simplicity above butcher interested in hig bone? Cer- luxury, law above anarchy, devotion tainly the housewife is not, above greed, and faith above blas- Whal the Americsn consumer phemy. in 1858 Mr. Jarrott was wants is flavory, appetizing hams married to Miss Nancie Jamison and bacon, lean meat tastefully daughter of Mr. John Jamison, of warbled with toothsome fat. This, Parr Line, Stanley, and for sixty-two with sufficient bone to get the animal years they shared each others devo- to market and maintain vigor, should tion. For many years they resided mark the ideal animal—a leaner, bet- in Stanley township and some years ter -hammed, more highly developed in Hay township, and finally retired baron type. The virtues of hig-type to Exeter. During the last -two years development incline this way. Mr. Jarrott was a patient and untom- It is folly to say that we cannot plaining sufferer, abiding the Master's produce in the Corn Belt a lean -meat call, -and passel sweetly to his re - trim -ham hog that will make good ward. The funeral took place on: bacon. We not only can but we must. Sunday from his late residence in The consumer, whether domestic or Exeter to Exeter cemetery, and was foreign, wants neither bone nor lard attended by a large concourse of old when he buys pork. He wants real friends and neighbors. The Rev. Mr. lean meat, nicely flavored with fat, Lundy, of Kippen, conducted the ser - all with a minimum of waste. vice at the house and at the grave - The farmers of America mast -look side. Mr. Jarrott is survived .by to the breeders for the seed stock devoted wife, three edea and Si that will shape their' herds: to the daughters -Jame$ and market ideal. To aupply that , stock IHills Green, andAloxst is the breeder's mission and ,it is+'Mr's. Jahn rT . s o Of a•mission.,of profit on widcik load{({ out -to .the degree that, :business becomes a int� l j warts sea, of