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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1944-07-14, Page 3a Vf Vii•'. i(( (Croatiiatteil Ltro z • tiaitLg , surtfiei'ent° •!teat fop ,.th4e-,Fr4J9er , length' of time an : by Using' airtight' POUtainers to Preveq.. ,. }!e-iafectietee { 'this way, the e . rtattiral tendency of s' d Ye bI an •fruit eta, ea to decay through the ' growth of bacteria Moul`16,/ yeasta and enzymes is• Cour} teraeted: Alt Provfncem Share Joint Farm. Labor ' Program In connection with the jeint'001.010- dom:Previncial farm labor program for the current .fiscal year, the govern- ments ot the nine 'Provinces of ,Can - , Can, ada have now completed agreements with the Dominion Government,.,preti Priding for 'participation in the scheme. The agreements all date back' to April 1, 1944; and cover the joint activities of the Department of Labor .and the Provinces already carried out .since that date. Under these agreements the Pro- •vinciai Governments share jointly YES; INFO ° 5#0010” .. in fact, quite a serious shortage of bottles and caitons. However, it can be overcome if 'custom- ers 'return their empties, in the original containers, propnptly —= to the nearest Brew'er's Retail Store—as these can be .used over and over again. In this way you can help us Maintain steady supplies for you. Tie BrewingIndustry (Ontario) 9 with le • Vor01uior{' the cost of r 01.14 ing, placing ` ansa .11'anei►optit., woritera 'for the agricultural indust »store `effectively Within the proacitkc The Doiiaiiion agrees• td.' pay the . F vi1lcial 'Governments. up to a • total $52$3 400 as i>4s share of the joist e 'penditures.: In addition to supportii}g the �'ro. Mees (financially ' in recruiting an transferring farm labor, the Dominic Gpvernment bears the entire expert.. es of interprovincial farm,'.,.movelnents A sum of $300,000 has. been provide for • this purpose. At the •prese, time..two- interprovincial ;Movement are under way'. Fruit pickers. in co siderable numbers from- Alberta .an possibly ' some . from Saskatchewan have been Made available to British •Columbfk. Also, a number of agrieul tural workers from the Prairie Prov inces are arriving in the East. to as silt on Ontarte terms. It -'}is expect- ed that about 750 farm workers from the -.West wilt be available for work in the East but in all. cases will be returning to the Prairies in time to assist in their own harvest. Canada's Oldest Agricultural Fairs With the opening of the 1944„ sche- dule of Agricultural Fairs in Canada comes a reminder that these fairs are among the Dominion's oldest. institu- tions. Arrangements• are being 'made to celebrate this year the centenary of the fairs at yankleek Hill, ,,Ont., and Richmond, Ont. The 'first organized agricultural fair in Canada was held at Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1765-179 years ago, and at Pictou, N.S., the first fair. there was held 1t8. years ago. In Ontario .the Niagara Agricultural Society held a fair in 1791. In 1822 what *as then considered a great fair was held at Qiieenston,•.Ont. It. was intended to be, the first all -province fair. The're- cords disclose that "the fair was in- conveniently crowded." For the'centenary celebration of the Nankleek Hill Fair a spaniel program is being planned.' The first feature of this program, the planting of ever- green trees In the fair. grounds took place recently. It was'part. of a gen- eral beautification, and improvement plan. The Vankleek Hill' -Fair started in 1844„under the name of the County of Prescott Agricultural Society. It is interesting to note that the first fair there ended with a credit balance of threes pounds (sterling) and seven shillings. English currency was used in Canada at that time. -In 1844 agrf"ciilture was not v'eay ex- tensively developed in the Vankleek Hill district, but now it is a progres-• siye temp..,in one.of the most pros- ;j3ei`o'ti1 farming sections 'of Ontario. Richmond, a village about `:`b miles• from Ottawa, takes its •name after the 4th Duke of Richmond, the' same Duke, who with his wife,:the Duchess, gave the famous ball in Brussels, Bel- gium, on the night. before the. Battle of Waterloo, June `18; 1815. • The Duke died of hydrophobia in;a barn near Richmond, Ont., on August 28, 1819, the result of a bit from a pet' fox. The agricultural fair in Canada has been a great factor in social and ece- nomic progress. After the war it will 'probably be bigger and better than, Shade For Hogs Hogs de not' sweat, but in warm weather, the- may become ill ' with the heat or too hot to eat' enough to show gains_.. Tbat is why shade for hogs in the open is soy important. llog,s do not drink much water at one time. They like to drink.a little and often. ' A supply of"water phould be within, reach at all times. Prices of Honey Under New Order Ceiling prices for boney in the new order Which came into effect on June 26th, give producers a higher return for No. 1 white honey than for other grades. In sales of buck honey at wboiesaae, this price difference is one cent per pound, ' with No.- 1 white .honey price half a cent hip, -her than the 194$ highest price for non -pasteur- ized honey. In direct sales to con- sumers, a producer is allowed .the re- tailers' mark-up. , The new order divides Canada into two zones. Zone 2 takes in the low production areas of British. Columbia, the Maritimes, and .. that part of Quebec east and north of the Coun- ties of Compton, Richmond, Drum- mond, Yamaska and Mackinonge and north of the southern. boundary of the County of Abitibi. All the rest of Canada is in Zane 1. Highest firices at, which an•y person may sell at wholesale, in hulk, any honey produc- ed in Zone 1, is 13 cents a pound for No. • 1 White honey, and 12 cents a pound for any other honey; f.o.b. the seller's-shiptiing point. Bulk honey produced in Zone 2. and sold at whole- sale to. a buyer in that zone can sell at one cent higher to make the selling price approximately th$ same as the delivered •price of shipments brought in from areas of higher production in Zone 1. . The order allows one and one -guar-, ter cents per pound to processors to cover the cost of pasteurization and granulating. This allowance is not available for Berk honey, • Britain's 'Praise Por' banacdlan Eggs 'The following is an e"xtraet. fl'om a piers 'report •, issued by the .l ritieli Ali'n1stry of blood. to the British jpt4o pAe; l'egarlfrig tire• filkh 4oa 'tjr- of Oan.- adldu driei 00. stat 144 it :3ig: This L6 &y a timieS T gq r me a al ch y that Ivlli,oas of PAP. 0440446 'Yng seen AO- 01a09 is til:se w9r4 :, wig 'tot ',Mea • ff,A9* what iia 416 ean toy, sm_eil #�a zaQ.nioi•r'tlte brave Perkuiue of it! Hew far :have we zt,dr yaeced along .the road of- indus'trial- Lzation, urbanization and demoraliza- tio>t • t:v en. meet. of our people have never felt a pitchfork iz their hands!' But -to- the Canadians who have come off the land haying days are a Moving memory, the supreme festival of the year; -Haying was hard woek but it became a kind of game, a rat to get the. hay into the barn, and to the lonely farm it brought - new •fac- 'es, the .:boys. of tlie.haying• crew, and everybody , behaved as if it were a holiday. Those were the days before modern machinery. On the farm, where I worked as a boy there was not even a mower. We reaped the acids with scythes; and r have always held since then that no man. really knows hay untilhe has learned to scythe. It is the perfection qt the athlete's art, the final co-ordination`of muscles and it has in it more rhythm ,,than a symphony. Tirelessly, like' a well-balanced ma- chine, the farmer swings his scythe, turning it upwards at the end of the swing to lay the hay in a neat win- drow, and with' every swing of his body he sees the line of 'his attack pushed back a few inches and thus, hour by hqur, he advances across the field. IG,is, a battle against the, mass- ed hosts' of the hay from dawn to dark, •in which the muscles of one mane seem pitted against the whole forces of nature. All the satihfac- tion of conquest has'' been lost with the disappearance of 'the scythe. After such tabu.. how • sweet was the noond ay rest! The right kind of Canadian farm had a brook running through it, with cool trees and water chuckling over the boulders and per- haps a trout or two dozing in the shade. The farmer's wife had made up a sPecial drink flavored with lem- on and (for some mysterious ther- apeutic reason of her own) with oat- meal, which was supposed to cool the blood. Or perhaps we had brought out a crock of buttermilk which was sunk in the stream to keep it celd. Then with some loaves of fresh bread, homemade, ,,the lunch became a banquet, sitting rattler heavily on the stomach when we came out into the heat of the hayfieldagain • - Then came the job of cocking the hay—a skilled roperation if each cock was to be built like a roof, 'to turn t'he•.,,rei.n. Then the 'loading of wag- ons, tile -lift of hay into the loft and the joy of leaping into it from the rafters. How -sad to think' that many. Canadiartoys have never **own theses delights! And still fewer Can- .adians, I suppose, have slept on a haycock in a summer field. It was the great English actress, Ellen Ter- ri; who first declared that no one head known life or seen the universe" whole unless he liad slept thus, but I daresay ,our ancestors knew It long before her time. On a haycock, better than on any other bed, you can look at the swarm- ing stars of the summer sky And see how the bowl of the ,heavens Tilts slowly during the night, a fact unsus- pected by the„ sleepers on spring mat - '."If ever you .sigh for a fresh egg .las you reach for the familiar brown .packet of dried eggs from Canada, bring this picture to your mind. In Canada there are several full; •time egg -drying ,plants. In these. there stand at long tables, rows. of girls in .immaculate white, uniforms. The only thing these girla do ie break eggs—real eggs such as you dream about, Before them, are steel. trays, each about the size of a bake -pan. Across the top of each tray- is a metal bridge with a knife-like edge. The girls b'ieak the eggs' on the bridge and let the contents drop into a cup where they are examined '''Then the broken egg passes through mixers, sieves and clarifiers, emerging from them as a smooth, yellowish liquid resembling . rich cream. This liquir, is poured into stainless steel storage vats maintain- ed at a constant temperature • of 40 degrees F. From here the liquid is pumped utider pressure of 4,000 lbs. per square MO through , a' pipe, 'through which a pin could not pass, and is blown in a fine spray :into a large metal cone 50• feet high. On the opposite side, hot air is driven in. The moisture in the spray is immedi- ately turned into steam and the sub- stance drops to the bottom of the cone in the form of Powder. "Sb," continues the '$ritish Ministry to the British people, "net time you prepare an omelette or scrambled eggs from the well-knot}'n Canadian packet, don't think of it, as: some sort of egg substitute. Think back 'a bit to those girls in immaculte white who a short time before were relieving you of the effort ,of removing the shell from your. egrgs," Canada sends to 'Britain about 60,000,000dozen eggs every year. 4, Common Chickweed Common chickweed in spite of Its frail appearance is a very,hardy•and persistent' weed. Not originally native to Canada, It Is to be found In all parts of the • tlbminion, where the sell is •moist ands shah, The seed is 'malt and is 'fretitieiitly found in'elover and tiinothq. Linder laboratory testa, nattily samples, particularly of titiw th'y, are : reie'dted•' On 4teetrrnt of the tt+lar40000 Of 0litekweed teed, .fi (1.3y , Bence ;klntc isoatft Winnipeg ,he �trpP, aaiaa- r ething deee,TM ire ..e tr,aases,• You Gam;0„ aaatiOuf of ,$ a 0.#1 iy : in the " deritneea, { n of the ground `itself and:,;.p,PO:' all,• the ..clean iperfsmie of the--1te�r a own hay, oo p- Paret�i' with wit'iciq. 'ai}, tFe bottled Per- fujnen, the lionhle ,ai)led seeute of cwmnerce and theeerp xa Rif beautiful worTien are,, garish .arai eheap- Pitt >i do not e$pegt , anyone but a grown-up. farm boy .;to understand' this. • Perhaps even the modern farm- er, with his great g'alie1ine machines, has forgotten, it. • I eri}aps it is only' possible `•to. understand the glory of haying tiihe• if yoci r latter with, your hands, and certainly you can never understand - it unless You are young.. The city person sniffs the new hat as he. drives his car along a country road, and_,die says' it is a pleasant amen', As well say that the Rockies are pretty or, .as one of Dickens' Fharacters said, 'that, Shakespeare 'was a clever fellow.. - The smell of hay, oh, poor under,,privileged city dweller, is the smell' of, nature and Creation, it is the glory of the year's whole growth, . it is the memory of our • youth when the world 'was mag- ical, ' FRESH AS A DAISY In a spick and span cotton dress who wouldn't be? Practical, too, for Canadian summers. But ,remember that many dresses are .npt guaranteed for colour fastness . and yours may take a poor view of bathing. Try a bit of coaxing with'' these tips in mind: Keep it away from ether clothes when it is wet. . Just,aa soon as you have finished washing it, knead from it as much dampness as you can and hang in the shade till- nearly dry. e ou; ' erg (t+'. otxt4n Led Artie d Page' x3 ; last' tlWing to u>dusua), s7t11o?iEPg. A14' titer and threaten to ;QxerlaP„wtth•'ilte hay1 zg. These facts: Were etaifir..:lcped. at the Selective Sexv'ice office "ad^ nesday 'diel bas°. heen -b ,siegod: with 'calls for . farm •Mhz, .' uQt only frorxt: Huron County, lest from. other Selec- tive Service ofiees : throughout con- tario. One farmer made the .sugges- tion thpt it would, in the Ipng run Pay" merchants and other employers of non-essential Labor to closetheir:. stores and industries on midweek days, such as all day' Wednesday, ttz permit employees to help garner the harvest, which has all the earmarks.' of being a record one • this year.— Goderielt Signal -Stay.+, e' Potatoes Are Whoppers Speaking of early potatoes, Mrs, George Seigrier, town,dropped into this • office on Friday, morning with a basket 'containing a dozen that she had' just dug out of two hills. And 'half of them were what we• would call whoppers, each one big enough for one person for one meal, and a good meal at that. = Mitchell Advo- cate.• Had Successful Fishing 1.Trip In the' wilds of NorthernOntario, north of Thessalon, 10 fishermen made a peat catch, Ther ere three in the party, Dr. W. M. Connell,' Trow- and Sherbondy and Fred Armstrong, from Goderich. They were a week in the bush and they came home with their full quota of speckled trout, and three lake trout that totalled 25 pounds in, weight. The speckled trout were truly dandies, the largest of• 11 which 'weighed 5ts..e t➢v 414'11604, and 'Seine were of .the: d 1430lsnd 'variety. They were/ tit .. :ewer to a tishernxau:g dxear, ,TIi lake trout were caught th, ,i nth Bay on .the way:; baelf. Winghaap. Advance- Txmes... New Pump Installed . The experts of the Beatty 'Company at• Fergus were intown earlYaita tha. week and installed the pump.' 'in, . the new artesian well, recently drilled 441.111084 r J MINCE TOW NOM n HOTEL WAVERLEY VADNA AVL oottso I AL RATES 5r -6e $3.50 Optic $2.50 - $7,00 A MODERN. WELL- CDHUUCTED •CONVEHIENTLT• LOCATED HOTEL wTt Mom MOLAR a WHOLE DAr's stSHTSEEiNQ WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE A. M., MOW4L ♦RAsiocur a ' `�apao?ItY 9, the. to;9v4 s1Lal d teh •Herald. Rot Wea1 i Buy flour land oereels 4nantities and more Often. thiel''' •summer months and store containers. . Even if food. is " still waw $+1# Book ag put it fn the refeigerate r', when the mercury hits the tap ,ot::tbA thermometer . . .lees ; we it sounds extraordinary but here'ste angle . . - tite saving in food there, than offsets the slight inareasy; tit: the operational cost of the refrigerar; tor. And saving food is your jolt Dgn't leave the tender young pegs' "• table you've winkle¢ out of, your wase! time garden to wither in the desert' air of July. Wa.sli and put in thee.. crisper ... or wrap with damp pallet' , • and put into the ice -box , ,ild'kieer otherwise known as. "wilt ,not wtG not. 71-dor No. 47 AMD BLOOD PLASMA. ANCD. ALI-THESE CARTONS ARE MADE OF WASTE. PAPER'S®... EVERY SCRAP IS PRECIOUS Saving waste paper is a patriotic duty in which everyone can. share. Save every scrap you cap. Tie it securely in bundles. Watch the newspapers for infor- mation as to when and where it will be collected. JOHN LABATT LIMITED , London Canada Z -07z ' HYDRO The. Way! Ready to serve = . . 24 hours a day • In the early days of commercial flying, hours of daylight were far too'short. The mantle of night automatically cancelled flying schedules. But . . because electrical engineers discovered ways and means of flooding runways with light ... swift couriers of the air tonight are cutting hours off time, carrying precious burdens of humanity and vital correspondence that may mean the saving of thousands of dollars before tomorrow's°workday' has been completed. Electricity has not" tl'ly helped to make flying economically sound, but, with the aid of modern electronics, flying is safer. Today ... tonight .. , airplanes are guided efely,'Siiri lj% bn their course' by G beam of electrical waves Which. "eleefronics 'made • possible. In every Heid of endeavor, as in the field of aviation, electricity stands ready to serve 24 -hours a day. The development of electrical devices in the Held .of aeronautics is but one indication of what lies ahead for the world of tomorrow. In the electrical Reid it can be truly said .. , thebest is yet to tome. Electricity is the servant of mankind. hi. com- merce ... in industry... at home and on the EOM . tt lightens oui't'i'isks, makes life° more comfortable. Plan and save now, so that,. when Lire clary -Fi ice arrives, yoi ., will be ready to enjoy more of the benefits that electricityr can bring you. R innito ELECTRIC roma tommission or.o. i,.