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$EAFORTH, Friday, August 14th
•
The Harvest
Given another week of good wea-
ther the harvest of 1942 will be a
thing of the past. And what a har-
vest! In this district, at least, the
weather from seed time down t� the
present has been about as perfect as
any normal man could desire. Con-
sequently grain crops are bumper
,ones. Wheat was heavy; the yield
large and the quality excellent. Oats
and barley are equally good and the
Toot crops promising.
There seems, too, to be an unusual-
ly large acreage of corn this year.
Corn which used to be' a general
silage crop on almost every farm has
for some years past been passed up
on account of the corn borer, but this
year it seems to be corning back
again and the crop, at least from its
appearance, will be heavy.
There is still some grain to be cut
and a considerable amount is still in
the stook, possibly because of the
labor shortage, .but a large acreage
has either been threshed or hauled
to the barns.
Harvesting at best is never an
easy. job, • but • this year, on most
farms, the weatherman, did his
best to help along t he work.
It is true that there was a lot
of wheat down, some oats and
some barley likewise, but these in-
stances were spotty and not general
over, .a wide .or any particular, sec-
tion. In fact, the situation was
peculiar. One farmer would be able
to run his binder around his fields
without the least trouble, while his
neighbor next him or across the
road, would have to ,cut it all one
way or combine it.
The variety of grain or the quality
of soil may have had something to do
with it, but generally , speaking, it
was just perverse nature.. A thunder-
storm, wind or rain would flatten
the grain on one side of the road and
skip the fields on the other side_ It
just seemed to be a matter of luck,
or on which side of the road you
happened to live on.
Good crops are the farmer's bless-
ing, but good prices are sometimes
even. better. Unfortunately, howev-
er, these two things too rarely come
together. L-'T#i {s( y=ear is, apparently,
going to be an exception. Bumper
crops and good prices are running
hand in hand: That is good for the
farmer and what is good for the
farmer benefits the world at large,
and both the farmer and the world.
need all the help they can get at this
time, and will need it for quite some
time to come.
There is another ' harvest in the
offing, more heavy and luxurious
than that of the fields and one:which
unfortunately, both for the farmer
and the country at large, no one
seems to have any intention of gar-
nering. That is the stupendous crop
of wild carrot and other noxious
,weeds that smother the ,right-of-way
along the concessions and sideroads.
That, we would say, would be so'm'e-
thing for municipal councils to chew
on. But as far as we have been able to
hear or react; the only action that
Owe councils have taken has been to
reach the decision not to do -any-
thing about it at all. Instead they
are asking the farmers to cut the
weeds along the right-of-way adjoin-
ing their own 'property. OP
The excuse is, of course, the short-
age of labor and the great expense.
That, 'however, is only playing the
ai'ne of passing the buck in its most
injurious way. It would be far
cheaper for town councils to have
lk .ponds on their main streets to.
theexpense of paving them.
hat.* ianot be g 'od for busi-
eerie . along" the lroiiAces.
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That has happened to a good many
fields already and the result of
sinful neglect is in evidence on every
fay. -fin. No farmer, no matter how
good and industrious he is, or how
farsighted he may be, can keep his -
own farm dean, if his neighbors
won't . keep theirs in that condition,
or if the concessions are let run wild.
There are some good farmers who
cut the weeds on the roadside along
their own property; others who
plough the land, and still a few
others who even crop it, but the av-
erage farmer has either not the time
or does not consider it to be his busi-
ness. And many will agree with him
on that point. He is not .expected to
either ,make or maintain the conces-
sion roads by his own labor, why
should he be expected or asked to
keep them clean?
There may be a difference of opin-
ion about a municipal council's auth-
ority to 'force a.farmer to keep his
right-of-way clean, but there is a
very general agreement that a mun-
icipal council hasthe power to assess
the land for that purpose, as well as
any other. Why don't they do it?
Not so many years ago it would
not have been a matter of ten cents
on a hundred acres, but viewing the
stupendous roadside crop of this
year, we doubt if a dollar would do
it. And, in the immediate future,
unless some speedy action is taken,
the cost will became almost prohibi-
tive.
•
India FIs At It Again
Trouble is brewing in India, and a
lot of it too. Over the week -end
riots broke out in many citiesand
there was great destruction of pro-
perty.
The power that a few leaders in
that country, Gandhi in particular,
have over its millions of subjects is
amazing. Still worse, that power is
being directed against Britain,
which almost alone stand., between
India and slavery.
It is all right for Gandhi to say he
does not, and never has, sided with
Japan, but if he was a Japanese him-
self, he could ,not better the game he
has' been. playing in the interests of
that nation.
The quick action of the British
authorities of arresting a number of
the Indian leaders may have a ..salu-
tary effect on the others who large- -
ly control the opinions and actions
of millions of their fellow men, but
the ultimate outcome seems to bein
the lap of the .gods. -
To say the least, the situation is
not promising and it comes at a
time when Britain and her Allies
have enough on their hands without
trouble in India. -
•
Some Comfort
The rationing of sugar has been a
hard blow to many people, bringing
home to them the fact that Canada
is at war, even more clearly than the
rationing of gas and tires and many
other things.
To these it may be of some com-
fort to know that five pounds of
sugar per person per year was the
average consumption one hundred
years ago. .
And yet those ancestors of ours
were a hardy race one hundred years
ago. They worked and played and
lived and loved and fought on five
pounds of sugar per person per year
and thrived mightily on it, or with-
out it. Otherwise, we would not be
here to tell it.
'•
How Would You Like It?
'Speaking of war restrictions of
food, how would you like to live in
England if you are fond of eggs in
any form? •
In that country the egg ration this
summer is four shell eggs per month
per person. And next winter the
ration will just be one egg per month.
However, America is going to help
out some at least, as millions of five -
ounce packages of dried whole -egg
powder, each package the equivalent
of one dozen shell eggs, are being
sent to England.
These packages are now 'being d'is-
t ibuted at the' rate of 'one' •package
a 'itoiith,• for.a....fariil.....of threes Or
every e,
Dile aC 8r threnen th n s for
Fitt:. ttema 'picked front
The lees for of fifty and
twe &tyA a years ago.
From The Huron Expositor.
August 37, 1917
Edward Hardy; aged 27, of London,
a lineman in the employ of the Bell
Telephone Co., was instantly killed at
Exeter shortly after four o'clock en
Wednesday 'afternoon, when he came
in contact with a live hydro electric
wire, while assisting In extending wir-
ing to a house for the installation of
a phone service in the home oft W,"
S. Cole. ' r
Mr. Arthur Caldwell, of Hensall,
has sold his 50 -acre farm on the 3rd
concession of_..Tuckersmith to Andrew
R. Bell, of the same township.
•Miss Margaret Williams,. Seaforth,
has accepted a school in Abell, Sask.
Misses M. Sproat, Janet Hays, Mary
Edmunds and .Ruth Sproat are spend-
ing the holidays at Bayfield.
Miss Isabel Scott, of Roxboro, has
accepted the position of organist in
North Street ,Methodist Church at
Goderich.
Mr. Clifford Bell, government in-
spector of munitions at Galt, is spend
ing a few holidays -at his home' here.
A cordial and enthusiastic reception
awaited Pte. Alex Muir here as he
stepped off the late train on Monday
night. A large crowd was down, ev-
en though it was known only a few
minutes before the train came in
that he was coming home. He was
wounded in the Battle of .the Somme
a year ago and was invalided home.
Wednesday of -lastweek was the
initiation of Walton's Civic Holiday
and its.. success was so complete there
should be no difficulty in making it
an annual event. A Red Cross pic-
nic was held in the grove belonging
to James Rea, east ' of the village.
Several games and races were held.
Miss Mabel Bruce won the obstacle
race. A crosscut- sawing,.match was
held and. Aldin McGavin and James
Rine carried off the palm. A most de-
lightful time was spent and the sum
of $271.92 was deposited in the bank
to .carry on for future years:
Mr. Wm. Powell, 'business and ad-`
vertising manager of Printer and Pub-
lisher, one ,of the largest trade jour•
nals published . by the Maclean Pub-
lishing Co., of Toronto, was visiting
relatives in town this week.
The knitted coat donated by Miss
Lukes in July for the Red Cross So-
ciety was drawn for on Thursday and
was won by Miss C. Barbara Nispel,
of Preston, 1E3 being the lucky num-
ber. •
Mr. G. K. Holland, of Beechwood,
received word .from the war office on
Saturday that „his. son, Leo Holland,
had been won `'deal in the thigh and
arm while lighting with the Canadian
Forces in France.•
'MUST 14, 14 4
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• •
Lazy Meadows
Well there isn't a great.deal of time
these days to think up, something for
the column, so we'll just ramble
along. Mrs. Phil is busy preserving.
It seems these nights that the house
has the aroma of chile -sauce or cu-
cumber pickles . . . or some kind of
canned fruit all the time.
You can always tell when Mrs. Phil
is preserving by the amount of flies
that cluster on the screen door. Ev-
ery time you come near the door she
stat is ready with a forded newspaper
to brush them out. Then after you
do come in . . . there's bound to be
the odd one slip by the guard . . .
You have to hunt& the culprits down
and exterminate them. When the fin-
al one has been mangled by the swat-
ter you feel a quiet glow of satisfac-
tion and forget about the flies ,
that is until you get the newspaper
out and try reading. They seem to
head right out of their hiding place
then.
Have you ever felt anything more
maddening then a fly skidding to a
stop on your nose when you have just
settled down to a quiet evening of
reading. He'll be off at the first
twitch . . . but comes back repeat-
edly to itch around above your collar
and tantalize you until finally you,
keep Swatting up vainly in the air,
all the while, trying to concentrate
on the war news. Flies are about the
most persistent, maddening things to
be found anywhere.
We're busy at the •harvl`est these
days. Some of the fellows from the
village have come out and they cer-
tainly do help a lot. This week we
had a couple of our former hired men
come back in air force blue and khaki
to help for couple of days. They
were on leave and just itching to get
stocking sheaves again for a while.
We had two city cousins out last
evening at milking time. They fussed
around and first of all wanted to get
the cows. Back to the pasture they
From • The Huron Expositor
August 19, 1892
Mr. George Turnbull, of Seaforth,
sent a third lot of horses to the Old
Country last week.
Messrs. James Archibald and Robt.
Scott leave here this week, for Mani-
toba.
Mr. Wm. Ireland, who works in
Ogilivies Mill, Seaforth, met with a
painful accident recently. He fell
while carrying a bag of grain, injur-
ing his knee severely.
• Paul Freeman., of town, is a cripple
since the lacrosse match at St. Marys
last week, when he got hit ern the
knee by a lacrosse bat -
Miss Maggie McIntyre, daughter of
Mr. John McIntyre, a telegraph oper-
ator, left Mitchell and has gone .to
Gerrie where she has secured a good
position.
Mr. Frank Gutteridge, of'town, has
secured the contract for the mason
and Brick work on Strong's new
block. The price' is $3,940.
Messrs. Broadfoot - & Box are .hav-
ing their establishment lighted by
electricity. They will have their
own plant and run it with their own
power.
Miss Frances Brine, of Seaforth,
left on.. Monday for Z• russets where
she will visit with her sister, Mrs.
Peter Scott. -
Mr. James Graves, of Seaforth, has
the contract of painting Union
Church at Brucefield."
' Mr. James Davidson, of Leadbury,
has erected a fine stone milk house
and intends going extensively into
dairying.
John McMillan & Sons, of Hullett,
have sold to Mr. Charles Dalgleish,
of Chesterfield, their splendid young
Clydesdale stallion, ,: