HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1932-06-10, Page 6ersrnit ;Man Celebrated
nth Birthdayon June 6th.
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:Henry McGavin, Who Was
89 on Monday Last, Re-
calls Early Days.
NO HONEYMOON TO
NIAGARA FALLS THEN
week now," declared Mr. MaGrivin in
commenting on the trend of the times.
At that time London, Huron and
'Bruce line of the Canadian National
was not heard of and teaming was
done to 'Seaforth from as far north
as 'Brussels. I can recall teams and
wagons in large numbers plodding
along the road. For many the trip
meant an overnight stay and the ho-
tels, therefore, did a big business.
"What do I think of cars?' Well,
1'll tell you. Cars are all right in
their place and if a man can afford
one and knows how to use it, I like
to see him have it. Many of my
neighbors have cars and they use
them when they have to, but they
don't go gallivanting all over the
country Cars, however, have hit
the farming business and there isn't
the deniand for hay and oats that
there was in years gone by. Even the
blacksmiths are not getting much to
do, because there are so few horses
on the road."
And while on the topic of hay and
oats, Mr. MoGavin said he had never
seen the price of wheat below 60
cents and he never knew a- time pre-
viously when one couldn't :borrow
money. In the olden days people al-
ways seemed able to raise the money
to pay their taxes, though of course,
they were lower." When Mr. Mc -
Gavin took over, his farm the taxes
were between $20 and $25. Last year
they were $107, but they have been
even higher than that.
"It is sad the way things are go-
ing," said the old gentleman rather
mournfully. "Farmers, who a few
years ago were considered wealthy,
are now being eheriffed out." But
this frame of mind did not continue
for long, the little twinkle came `into
the eye,. his face brightened axed he
said, "but• 'surely it won't last much•
longer."
Mr. McGavin was reticent to pass
opinion on the present-day youth and
on the state of happiness and con-
tentment of the people • now as con: -
pared with those of 50 years ago. In-
deed from the conversation it was
easy to conclude that .Mr. McGavin
was a man who was pretty much giv •
en to keeping his own counsel and
not interfering in the affairs of his
neighbors:
"I think the people on the whole
are happy in any age," said Mr. Mc -
Gavin, "and so far as the young
people are concerned I think they are
as good as they ever were. Our
neighbors to -day are as good as any
neighbors we ever had'and their boys
have given us valuable help on many
occasions. The children to -day get
more schooling than they formerly
did. 'Many- farmers send their boys
to college to be business farmers and
then they quit the farm. But then
education was never a load to carry,
around and comes in mighty handy
at times."
Sixty-eight years ago last Febru-
ary Mr. McGavin was united in mar-
riage to Caroline Graham, a native
of Goderich, but who at the time of
their marriage was living in Stanley
township. They were married in a
good old log .house, the home of the
bride's father, by Rev. Wm.' Yokum,
of the Methodist chiirch.
Where did we 'go on our honey-
moon?" !Mr. McGavin smiled. "We
just went back to ,work in the bush.
There were. no trips to Niagara Falls
in those days. -
Indeed Mr. `ZleGavin was never
very much on travelling. In all hi.;
years of farming he has had 'but
two holidays, each of a week's dura-
tion. About 40 years ago he went to
visit relatives in Marlette, Mich., and
about two years ago he visited mem-
bers of his family in Windsor and
Detroit.
Mrs. MoGavin who is 85 has not
enjoyed good health for some time
and comes down stairs only on es-
sveciai occasions. Mr. and Mrs. Mc -
Gavin were 'blessed with eight of a
family, all living. Arthur is in Read-
ing, Pa.; Alf. and Dr. Ed., in Wind-
sor; Fred J., in Detroit: John and
Mary, at home: Mrs. L. Tasker,,
Windsor; Mr's.. Ralph Elliott, Sea -
forth."
Mr. Henry MoGavin, for many
years a resident of Tuckersmith Tp.,
on Monday last celebrated his 89th
birlthd'ay. He was visited recently
by a 'Stratford Beacon -Herald re-
porter, and to him he told many
reminiscences of the early days. The
BBeacon-Herald says:
"'There are few people in Seaforth
or the Township of Tuckersmith but
who know Henry 'McGavin, but there
are not many who would believe that
. he will be 89, years of age on Mon-
day. next, fore his appearance belies
his years.
'Stooped, yes a little, but who
wouldn't be after heavy farm work
during the greater part of his life.
An abundance " of white hair
crowns his head and a trim white
beard lends dignity to the face that
contains not a wrinkle. And there is
that little twinkle in his clear keen
eyes that would snake it almost im-
possible for him to deny the land of
his nativity -Erin's Emerald Isle
Yes, on Monday next, June 6th,
Henry McGavin of the township of
Tuckersmith, will be 89 years of
age, but it is unlikely, owing to the
failing health of his life • partner,
that there will be any celebration
beyond receiving congratulations
from relatives and friends. Henry
McGavin doesn't like fussing and for
him it's just going to be another day.
And Henry McGavin's day doesn't
consist of lolling before the living
room heater or lying abed in the
. mornings. He still plays an import-
ant, though lighter part, in the every
day routine of the household over
which he has presided for more than
68 years, for it was in February last,
that Mr. and Mrs. McGavin celebrat-
ed their °68th...,wedding anniversary.
Mr. McGavin's - day now consists of
going down to the road for the mail,
and it is quite some walk too, keep •
ing the cattle out of the yard and
• orchard, and other every necessary
chores.
One day this week we called at
Mr. ;McGavin's 100 acre farm on lot
12, concession 5, Tuckersmith town-
ship. Here he resided with his wife,
a daughter Mary, a son John and
John's wife. It was rather early in
the morning but, Mr. McGavin, was
up and about. We caught sight of
him /miming through the orchard,
'flaying driven the cattle to pasture.
He carried a stout stick with him, but
hurriedly explained, let we should
think he needed a cane, that he used
the stick to shoo the stock. And as
if to give proof to this staterhent
he placed the stick against the wall
• of the house before going indoors.
• Mr. MrGavin was born on . June 6,
1843, in County Fermanagh, Ireland,
where he spent the first 17 years of
his life. At that age he• left Liver-
pool in a sailing vessel. The trip
from Liverpool to New York ocep-
pied 36 days and ^as . he remembers
it the -weather on the whole was fair,
though there were a few -rough days.
when the -waves 'washed -the decks.
After a few days' 'visit with two sis-
ters who had preceded him to New
York, Mr. McGavin left for Ontario
and came to Seaforth, where he got
in touch with an older brother. For
14 years he worked Xs a farin labor-
er in the district, "mostly in Stanley
township. For 15 years he worked a
rented farm and then he came to his
present farm in Tuckersmith Which
he has occupied for more than forty
years. .
"When I first came to Seaforth
there was more business done in a
day in that town than there is in a
QIKRlI!1C111I11�1 fe
Some "5000 'Russians coxae every
day to the vast Red Square in Mass-
eow, form a docile. double lice, and,
wait patiently until the. new Tomb
of Lenin is opened' 'by its Tied Army
guards.. The tomb is built of finest
-dark, blood -red marble 'polished slick
as glass.
Inside the tomb 500 -watt , bulbs
bMze on the glistening walls of blood
for did not Lenin say: "Electrifica-
tion plus the Soviet 'power equals
socialism!" At the foot of a marble
stair is a glass case surrounded by
a vast, dramatic subterranean gloom.
There • he lies--VLAT)rIMIR. ILYTCH
ULANOV, whose father was en-
nobled by Czar Alexander III for
service to the State which ..the son
overthrew. Most Russians to -day
speak- of the Master affectionately a3
"IIytclt,"° though history may con-
tinue to use his 'pen. name, Lenin.
What of the life that 'Lenin's social
-order created?
The last of the Romanovs styled
himself "The Orthodox and Pious and
Christ Loving, the Absolute Autocrat
Crowned and Elevated by
God. . . ." To -day the State is
anti -religious. But the only Ruis-
sians who are required •to profess
atheism are the members of the
(Communist) Party. Since Party
membership is a -privilege difficult to
obtain, no $ussian has to forswear
his faith. The organizations of
communist youth naturally have ath-
eism as part of their creed. Still,
atheists are even now only a cupful
in the Russian bucket, and priests
still perform services in some 12,000
churches throughout' Russia.
The anti -religious attitude of the
State is important 'because it attacks
not freedom of belief (which is per-
mitted) but in fact belief itself. Bill-
boards, which persuade Americans to
buy cigarettes and automobile tires,
in Russia persuade people to despise
Christ, Buddha, and Mohammed. Re-
ligion is by
by newspaper, by
theater, by poster, by radio, and a-
bove all by education. The young of
the next generation will naturally re-
gard religion• as a sin.
Goldessness is the creed of com-
munism, but not lovelessness. When
we speak of "Russian marriages" we
do not refer to the mating of a few
psychopathic Reds to whom easy div-
�rce is the Open Sesame to lust; we
refer rather to the solemn wedlocks
of the great mass of the Russian
population, wedlocks which holdso
remarkably well that there is but one
divorce for every four marriages in
the Soviet Union. Our own divorce
ratio, under the immeasurably
stricter U. S. laws, is one to six.
In 'Russia divorce is granted by
the State upon application by one
or both spouses. If a woman walks
in and says: "I want a divorce," the
clerk asks: "Any children?" and if
there are none simply fills out the
necessary • forms and nails a card to
the husband, informing him, that he
is divorced. If there are children,
both parents must be called in, and
must agree to support whoever needs
support (but never with more than
one-third of his or her salary). In
principle, the Soviet .'Government
stands against the family because
the family ties and family accumu-
lation of wealth conflict with the
State's aim of securing all loyalty
and all wealth to itself.
In thousands of miles of travel one
never sees a fat Russian, or an em-
aciated, one. Doctors tell us that we
eat too much, and the accelerated in-
crease of the Russian population on
a restricted food supply seems to
prove the doctors' point. 13 u the
'Soviet State believes that growing
children need -abundant food, and
serves billions of 'bowls of infant food
- from its'. "factory kitchens." Before
childbirth the mother reeives two
. months' vacation on full pay, which
is extended after childbirth for an-
other two months; and even after
that her wages are raised 245 per cent.
for the next nine months.
Almost 'before the child can talk he
is swept into the ambitious five-year
plan conceived by the neighborhood
children to trap a quota of rats or
raise a quota of chickens. Enter-
ing school, a child in any of the large
cities will be led by something re-
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sen!bling the "advanced" American
Dalton System into vocational train-
ing .along his own' particular ben;
and will find that he simply has to
read, write and figure or he cannot
do what he and the other children
want to do. He will therefore "phhk
up" his three R's from teachers will-
ing to' . enlighten him, but probably
too busy with other children to give
him all he wants. The child has. to
fight. A Soviet boy probably will
not get more than four years' school-
ing; but if he fights his way up inn
to 'Soviet institutions of higher learn-
ing, he will find that most of what
is taught there is science in one
form or another.
Young men and women may or
May not become, . communists. - A
candidate may join the Party (1)
after his character, record, and par-
entage have been exhaustively scan-
ned; (2) after being proposed by two.
Sponsors already members of the
party; and (3) after abjuring "re-
ligious prejudices." 'Once inside, the
Party man or woman must expect
to 'be re -scrutinized on the slightest
provocation, and regularly • when
'party "cleanings" take place. At
such times the Party expels thous-
ands of unworthy members. Even
Trotsky was expelled. Yet "Trot-
sky" was once a name greater than
Stalin.
The sum total of a youth's train-
ing is that it makes him an insuffer-
able little zealot,' contemptuous of
'God and parents -a boastful little
bureaucrat who magnifies his own
importance because, although •only
one grain, he is the salt of the earth.
After the youth's education comes
the man's career in agriculture, in-
dustry, trade or finance. If he works
with his hands he will have a maxi-
mum food allowance and as much
pampering as the State can provide
for so large a class. His maximum
salary will be 230 rubles a month
($116), but with piecework and bon-
uses (introduced to speed up the
Five -Year Plan) he may earn several
times as much.
Religion, sex, education, wort:
amusement are the major aspects of
living, but life itself is a multitude
of little facts. In Russia, life is
composed of such things as the fol-
lowing:
'Members of the Communist Party
carry their colors to the grave. They
are buried in red caskets. Others
put up with mere white coffins.
The Russian taste in literature in-
cludes Jack London (Lenin --had his
wife read London to him•on his death-
bed), Upton Sinclair, Edgar Rice
Burroughs (Tarzan) among Ameri-
cans. Henry Ford's autobiography
was a best-seller, but the perpetual
best-seller is the works of Karl Marx
which occupies the place of the Bible
in American 'bookselling. The Bible
itself sells about 50,000 copies a year.
Tea and black bread, tea and boil-
ed eggs, tea and bologna sausage are
the common fare. Everything is
Scarce inthe ' cities. For everything.
obtained from the government the
people stand in line waiting for hours;
for food and 'clothing '(for which
they pay), and fbr abortions and ap-
pendicitis operations -(which are both
free).
The old Russian names -such as
Ivan, Dmitri -saints' names, are still
comimen,- .but pew names are reflect-
ing the new ,political regime. A pop-
ular name • for little• Red boys and
girls to -day is "Electricity."
Female office workers are no more
above powdetr and rouge than our
stenographers, but men no longer try
to dress well. They strut most
proudly in their shabbiest rags, which
constitute a badge of true proletar-
ianism.
any ,appreciable injur . 'by` he corn
barer ?lad it hard to realize that the
'insect is ranch of a menace, and
some o% them even thinly that there
is no 'longer any need of enforcing
the Cern Borer Act. The fact is that
it is a great, compliment to the ,.Act
that they have not suffered, or it
was to ptxevent injury that the- Act.
was passed. I have 'been observing
and studying the insect since it was
first found in the 'Province and I am
oonvinced that had it not been for
the Corn Borer Act the growing of
sweet corn would by now have been
abandoned in practically everyrcoun-
ty under the Act, and field corn
would in many counties have been
seriously damaged. In Essex, Kent,
and probably also in South Lanabton,
West Middlesex and West Elgin, all.
corn growing would have ceased sev-
eral years ago. The best friends the
corn grower has are the Corn Borer
Act and the inspector who enforces
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Weekly Crop Report..
Huron County estimates about 40
to 5Q per cent. of last year's apple,
crop. Spring grains, fall wheat and
all clovers are looking well in Peel.
'Canadian bred Jersey cows of good
breeding brought prices ranging from
$110 to $250 each at an auction sale
near Brampton recently. North Sim-
coe will have an increase in barley
and buckwheat this year. Recent
rains have benefited the crops of al;
falfa and clover in Dundas, as else-
where. Hatcherymen in Lanark- re-
port this has been their best season.
Local demand for baby chicks . was
much better than usual for two reas-
ons: 'People are 'buying more chicks
and are buying them from the local
.hatcheries. .Durham anticipates a
good average crop of apples and a
considerable reduction in acreage of
early and late potatoes. An increas-
ed. acreage of ,'strawberries is noted
in nearly every district where they
are grown. Fall wheat is reported in
excellent shape in .Southern Ontario
counties. Due to showery weather,
the planting of field corn in Kent
was fully ten days behind 1931. To-
bacco growers have also been retard•
ed in their planting throughout the
southern belt because of backward
weather during the first part of May.
FARM NOTES
-Dirty Seed a Menace.
"Dirty seed" is defined as meaning
seed that contains noxious weed seeds
in such quantity as to pollute the
land with weeds that are difficult and
costly to eradicate. One of the prin-
cipal mediums for the distribution of
weed seeds in Canada is dirty seed,
particularly clover and grass seed,
because of the fact that most of the
noxious weeds have seeds of about
the same •size and shape as the seeds
of clovers and grasses, and hence
are difficult to remove. .This reason
alone should be sufficiently important
with the intelligent farmer' to en-
sure the preference which is due it
for inspected seed.
• Crop Acreages.
(Intended acreages of the principal
crops in 4ntalrio in 1932 as compar-
ed with 1931 are shown in a ¢
compilation by the Statistics Branch
of the Department. The table is as
follows:
• Intended
Area 1931 Area 1932
Acres Acres
Fall wheat 626,000 489,000
Fall rye '616,000 52,000
-Spring wheat99,600 96,000
Oats . , . 2,344,000 2,307,000
Barley . 439,000 • 442,000
ltMax seed • • '7,000 ". 6,900
Mixed grains 1,000,000 1,022,400
A comparative statement of winter
killing of fall wheat in Ontario for.
1926-32 shows the smallest loss from
this source for 1932 since the winter
of 1925. tIt was four per cent. of the.
total area in both years. The loss
was greatest in 1928 and 1930, be-
ing 23 and 24 per cent. respective-
ly.
Corn Borer Still a Me ace.
iln a recent interview + rofessor
'Caesar of the 0. A. C. mad the fol-
lowing clean-cut and emphatic state..
anent:
"Farmers who have never suffered
O.B.S. Records.
An interesting summary has been
made by the Poultry Husbandry De-
partment,0. A. C., of the results of
all flocks entered under O. B. S. for
the year 1930-1931. The summary
shows:
Total number of -flocks in- .
eluded in summary 363
Minimum size of flock 43
Maximum size of flock 1,005
Average size of flock - 211
Average per cent. of birds '
culled .at time of banding. 27.0
Average feed purchased Per
-flock $341.52
Average home grown feed
per flock $119.78
Highest average flock produc-
tion 187
Lowest average flock produc-
tion 56
Highest average winter pro-
duction per bird to Mar. 1.. 60%
Average egg production, . all
flocks considered ....i.,^.... 1_39
Averaged per cent. of reactors
in blood test
Highest per cent. of reactors
in one flock 61",
Number of . flocks having no
reactors • 105
The report also Motes that the
flocks haye....:practiically+ doubled in
number over theprevious year, while
the average_size-of--.flock; was -.•same-.
what smaller. Receipts' were down
on the average 31 per cent. as com-
pared with 1930.
Marketiii'g • Ontario Fruit..
One result of the depression is the
increased work in systematic mark-
eting. The latest manifestation of
this is the announcement of Colonel
Thomas L. Kennedy, Minister of
Agriculture, to extend .the present
fruit selling organization in the ether
Canadian Provinces, This will be ef-
fected through the Ontario Growers'
Markets Council.
Permanent commercial represen-
tatives are to be stationed in Winni-
peg, Montreal and the Maritimes,
during the selling sgason, while ef-
forts in Great Britaih are to be in-
creased in order to supply best qual-
ity produce, shipped in the .most sat-
isfactory manner. .. ,
Strenuous endeavors will. be made
on the Prairies to regain the market
enjoyed by Ontario in.years gone by.
British Columbia is a large fruit pro-
• ducer, and Ontario, despite the ex-
cellent reputation of its fruits, will
have a powerful opposition, especial-
ly when it comes to packing, and
maintaining standards. Our small
fruits, cherries and strawberries in
particular, and our hamper packed
apples as well as :peaches, pears and
plums,.should appeal to' Western peo-
ple, many of whom formed an appe-
tite for such delicacies before mov-
ing from. Ontario 'to the prair es.
Montreal is a market for all varie-
ties of Ontario -produce. A commer-
cial representative in that city can
do much towards • promoting orderly
marketing, preventing gluts and price
cutting, and adjusting claims on an
equitable basis.
Acid - - Stomach, Since Chiba
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Don't ban a food -because it: disagrees'"
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digestion. ,1? it that right, arid you
can - eat to the order of your appetite.
That is just what happened with this
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I have been taking Kruschen Salts
for about three years. I began its use
for rheumatism, •to which I was
becoming a martyr. IKrusgheu soon
arrested that, and I now auffer very
seldom from, it. But I have experienced
the greatest good in the correction of
constant acidity of the stomach, from
which I suffered from a child. I could
never eat butter, nor very little fat
of any kind. Now I enjoy butter
especially, and eat plenty with no ill-
- --effects^ I have recommended Kruschen
in hundreds of cases." -A. M. W.
Consider for a moment the cause of
your indigestion. Your internal organs
• have lost tone and, as a result, your
gastric -or digestive -juices are failing
to flow freely. Your food, instead. of
being digested and absoilbed into your
system, is simply stagnating in your
stomaeh,and intestinal tract, and pro-
+ ducing harmful acid poisons. Let it
be made clear that these poisons not
only give rise to the discomforts of
indigestion '► they dull your brain,
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Get Good Stock.
In gardening the greatest outlay
is the trouble and care taken by the
gardener himself, yet no matter how
much time and work is devoted to
the business unless the seed and nurs-
ery stock are right the results are
sure to be disappointing. Because
these things only .cost a few cents
sometimes one is apt to overlook the
importance of securing the most sat-
isfactory. First of all both nursery
stock, that is rose bushes, shrubs,
plants, trees and so on, and seeds.
must be suitable to Canadian condi-
tions and if one lives in a northern
part of the country, must :be.suit-
ab'le to local conditions as well.: Sec-
ondly the best quality, such as that
handled by a reputable seed, house,
is imperative. In: nursery stock the
goods must be packed carefully, so
that the roots. will remain moist, the
stems green and pliable and in the
case of roses, shrubs and other woody
plants there must be plenty of live
buds. Given that sort of stock, and
handled so as to avoid needless ex-
posure of the roots to the air, one
is off to a good start. Only with
seed, grown and matured by experts,
who take every precaution against
mixing of varieties by bees and other
insects, will give the individual col-
oring, and delicate shapes found in
t1(•ie best flower's to -day, and the earl-
iness and crispness of the only vege-
tables worth growing in the home
garden. • One mullet -afford -to risk
all'the thought 'and care that is put
into a garden by taking a chances on
seed and nursery stock of - an un-
known or amateur origin.
Commercial Fertilizer.
'Commercial fertilizers offer a good
substitute for well rotted manure, and
to hasten many of the leafy vege-
tables along . some of these chemical
manures are almost indispensable.
For the average garden, a good 'com-
plete' or `mixed' commercil fertilizer
is advised. All of these are sold with
the formulae attached and one should
insist on at least four per cent. -nitro-
gen, eight per cent phosphorous, and
from four to eight per cent. of pot-
ash. Technically, this is. known as a
4-8-4 to a 4-8-8. The effect of' nitro-
gen on the growth of a plant is
more quickly marked than that of
either of the other two elements,
states the regular Vegetable Garden-
ing Bulletin issued' by the Ontario
Agricultural College. Nitrogen has
a direct influence on the develop/nett
of the leafy parts,of the plant and
imparts a deep green color to the
leaves. It is, therefore, very valu-
able for those leafy types of vege-
tables and also as a tonic intrans-
planting all vegetables. With later -
maturing sort, such as_ tomatoes and
corn, nitrogen should be applied in
the early stages only. Phosphorous
fertilizers are usually found to• be
'valuable for growing vegetables on
practically all soils. This element
haestens maturity, increases root de-
velopment and builds up resistance
to disease. Potash, the third element
in commercial fertilizer, is essential
to starch formation, and green plants
and root crops particularly need it.
OU sandy and .muck soils especially,
potash is advised, as these soils are
usually deficient in this valuable ele-
ment. But one ''must be .careful .in
applying commercial fertilizer as it
is Bible to injure foliate or seed if
it comes in, direct contact. In the
small garden the safest plan is to
dissolve in water and simply sprinkle
along the rows with a watering can.
One can also broadcast the dry fe•A-
tilizer over a lawn and then soak
thoroughly with a hose or if this is
not ,possible broadcast just 'before a
rain or during one. Fou larger gar-
dens fertilizer is best applied as a
separate operation. Last season, the
writer secured very satisfactory re-
sults from: an ordinary high -grads
mixed eom:rnercial fertilizer.. In the
'ease of potatoes, tomatoes, corn, and
similar vegetables, a scant handful
was dug in. beneath each hill, care
being taken to see that the fertilizer
did not come in direct contact with
the !seed.- With beans, ,eas,-.eartots,
lettutee and such things the fertilizer
was -applied at the time of seeding
as a side dressing at the rate of about'
a- small handful to the yard of roes.
A few weeks later, when growth had
nicely started an application of a
Straight nitrogen fertilizer was giv-
en to those leafy vegetables like spin-
ach, lettuce, celedy and cabbage.
Fruits For the Small Garden.
;Some people desire to include' sante
fruit trees and bushes with the gar-
den. If there is room, a summer ap-
ple like the Yellow Transparent.,
Astrachan or Melba can be chosen
for dessert purposes, or Duchess for
'cooking; for fall; Wealthy; for early
winter the McIntosh or Delicious;
and for late winter, the Northern
Spy. In the Prairie Provinces • or
Northern Quebec or Ontario, one will
probably have to forgo these varie-
ties, but there are some new hardy
types as well as good crabapples
available. Among the sweet cherries,
Windsor, Bing and Tartarian are re-
commended, growing of course only
in. the warmer districts, while Mont-
morency and Early Richmond are
standards of the other type- Clapp's
Favorite is ..one- -of the best pears,
coming very early, while Bartlett is
a good later sort. Plums are grown
almost anywhere in Canada, as well
as currants, raspberries, strawber-
ries, blackcaps, thimble berries, Lo-
gan berries and gooseberries. Grapes
are fairly hardy, and among the best
are the Lindley, Brighton and Dela-
ware, In making a selection of the
_various kinds _and d varieties, particu-
larly •for the home garden, it is im-' -
portant to remember the season so
that one will have a 'steady supply
of fresh fruit from the first of July
on.
LONDON AND WINGH'AM
South.
p.nt.
Wingham 2.05
Belgrave . 2.22
Blyth . 2.33
Londesboro 2.40
Clinton • 3.08
Brucefield 3.26
Kippen - 3:3
Hensall
Exeter
North.
Exeter
ITensall
Kippen
Brucefield
Clinton
Londesboro
Blyth
Belgrave
Wingham '
C. N. R.
East.
M - mer
3139 .01
3.53
10.59
12
11.18
11.27
11.58
12.16
12.23
12.33
12.47
a.m. p.ni.
Goderich - 6.35. 2.40. ;t
Holm'esville ... 6.50 2.56
Clinton 6.58 3.05
Seaforth
St. Ciolumban - 7.18 3.27
bublin 7.12 3.21
7.23 3.32
West.
Dublin r 11.24• 9.12
St. Columba'. West.
Seaforth ' 11.40 9.25
Clinton 11.65 9.39
Ifm
Godersville 12.05 9.53
Goder ch • 12.20 ---10.0'6
r
C. P. Ill: TIME TABLE
East.
Goderich .....
Menset
MOGaw
Auburn
'lyth
Walton
McNaught
Toronto
West.
Toronto
lVIeN,aught
Walton ,
Blyth . .
A'uburn
McGaw
Vienne'
Goilerieh
•
ad
a.m.
5.50
5.55-
6.04
6.11
6.25
6.40
6.52
10.25
a.m.
7.40
11.43,
12.01
12.12
12.2't
12.34
12.41
12.45