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AFORTH, Friday, August lith
A -God Harvest
Nature has been unusually kind to
The country and the farmer this
year, both as to ram and sunshine.
In fact we have repeatedly heard it
stated that no singe year, for some
generations, has been favored with
as percet weather for the growing
Of crops and for .the harvesting of
them as . we have been given this
year. And that coversallcrops on
the farm.
Cutting has been finished and the
greater part of the grain harvest
now in the barns, and much of it has
been threshed. It is an excellent
yield, harvested under, excellent.con-
ditions. But that is not allithe story.
The beans, the corn and the roots are
yet to come, and like the grain and
hair, they promise a buraper yield.,
Labor, of course, is lamentably
scarce, but it is really surprising
what the farmers have accomplish-
ed under the prevailing labor condi-
lions. The weatherman, too, has been
-tumsually gracious and helpful. He •
has not pushed- the farmer for time.
The.next day has been just as favor-
able as the one before, and his good
immor gives every promise of con-
tinuing for some time to come.
It is a farmer's year and all the
'Country rejoices with him: He has
certainly earned it. And what is still
better, his prosperity is passed on to
the test of the world. In faet, world
prosperity can come in no other way,
except through the farmer.
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The Price' Of Eggs
With Canada's poultry population
millions in excess of what it has ever
been before, many homewives have
been a. little disturbed because the
price of eggs has consistently failed
to react to the increase of produc-
tion. •
But there seems to be a very good
reason for the stability of the egg
market. According to Mr. Gardiner,
Dominion Minister of Agriculture,
15,000,000 dozen of Canadian eggs
will be shipped to .Britain this year,.
which is. more than double the num-
ber sent over last year. Consequent-
ly, the Canadian housewife; who as
a rule, is a- reasonable person, if she
understands that the price of eggs
here is due ta exports so far above
anything in the past, that they leave
barely enough for home consump-
tion, she will feel much more satis-
fied and will not. complain.
Canadians should also remember
that eggs are not rationed in this
country. We can use as many as we
care_to pay for, and so far the price
has' never been prohibitive to even
the lowest income household. Com-
pared to Britain, that is a food lux-
ury indeed. There a fresh egg a
month is looked upon as a luxury,
and even dried eggs are very limited.
This has been a bumper year for
egg production in this, part of On-
tario, and it should spell prosperity
for, 'the women on the farm, who as
rule,.. manage the poultry end of
the business. But at that, it will
• only help to average up ,the meagre
prices that so long ruled in pre-war
years.
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Is There Trouble Brewing ?
Itecently the Toronto Telegram
'and the Globe and Mail, the two most
dveclsin-theswool Tory papers in
.Catiadas had a little squabble as to
was or-iWaS not .pushing John'
ragken around. •
he ttdtible started when the Tele-
ti1bd an Ottawa story to
it -the Tory party was
'indeed over the ef.
arieis Prattler 'Drew
r' Oullagh, owner
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tawEStory, hut it let out a blast whei4
the Telegram carried it, and
Drew refused to see a Telegram re-
porter When he came seeking some
comment on the affair. But at the
same -time he gave out a statement
to the Globe and Mail, and, natural-
ly that peeved the Telegram.
Then Mr. Bracken gave out a
statement to the effect that all this
was -a deliberately inspired campaign
by, some one to create an impression
of disunity in the Tory. party. This
statement was right down the Tele-
gram's alley, and it pointed out that
Mr. McCullagh was reputed to be
sitting on the party's finance com-
mittee, and it wondered out loud how
he got there. And, further, it won-
dered if the Tory party committees
held their meetings in' the Globe and
Mail office'.
Mr. McCullagh, through the Globe
and Mail, hasn't answered that ques-
tion yet, but the Toronto Star enter-
ed the ring to pep up the fight by
quoting the Stratford Beacon -Her-
ald, a strong Conservative paper, to
- the effect that Mr. Bracken's speech
at Stratford was a disappointment,
And left a negative impression of his
calibre as a public man. Then it
went. 031 to quote the Midland Free
Press -Herald as saying Mr. Brack-
en lacks color and on the platform
he does not click.
So far neither the Globe and Mail
nor the Telegram have answered
the Star's lead, but if they do, John
Bracken's backyard will much more
resemble a Donnybrook than the
peaceful plot, it started out to be.
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Discipline
in. this part of the world are
a little too /axone to look upon dis-
cipline as something that should be
administered to children in large
doses. Above , school age, however,
discipline becomes more impersonal.
It is still a very necessary part of
life and living, but. its application
concerns only the other fellow. So
we think.
- seem to be too impatient a
race to submit to discipline as a
whole. We have never disciplined
ourselves even to a strict observance
of the law. We consider laws and
regulations governing life very nec-
essary thing h too. But, like discip-
line, necessary only for the other
fellow.
For ourselves, we reserve the
right to disobey the laws, to criticize
and evade the regulations.. We cons:
• bider that one of the privileges of
living in a free country.
It is different in Britain, perhaps
the freest country in the world, but
a country that gained its freedom
by disciplining itself in respect to
law and regulation. 'There a law -iS
„ something. to be obeyed—by' an. And
no matter how much regulations are
resented and complained 'about, they
too, are obeyed—by all.
The Manchester Guardian, one of
the greatest British newspapers, il-
lustrates the point nicely in a recent
edition: "A number of patient shop-
pers standing in a queue outside a
butcher's shop in a southern English
town beheld a flying bomb making
in their direction.. They broke formss.
ation, hurried into the shop, and
threw themselves to the ground. The
bomb exploded near by and sprayed
them with glass from the shop win-
dows. They got up, shook them-
selves, went out into the street, and
reformed the queue in its original
.order. The butcher, however, was
not .visibly impressed. 'You don't
want to buy this meat,he said: 'it's
full of glass'."
Could you even imagine that scene
in any Western Ontario town?
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The Send-off
A woman always has the last,
word, but sometimes its worth say-
ing—and hearing.
Two Scots from the same town;
met, on the beaches of Normanady;
and began to exchange confidences.
"What manner o' send-off did yer
unman gie ye, Sandy, when ye left
.hame?" asked Jock presently.
The question seemed to amuse
Sandy: And he chuckled and replied.,
"Says she, Noo, there's yer train,
Sandy; in yet get, ansee an' do yer
duty., By jingo, ma rnannie;
thocht ye wad, shirk it oat yOnder
Wild see ye waS wounded, afore ye
gang oft. Thaes the settd.a.
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Ie item new PidIFed from
The F4pOSittir of tyty • and
twentY-11TO, years age.
Frain The Huron Expositor
'Azzausl 15, 1910 '
Four pupils passe d the -Lower
Schaal examin,atiqes at pul4i.n. They
were John Nagle, Hazel kills, K. I.
Eckert and C, F. McQuaid. •
Mia''Igebel Turnbull ha n taken a
position as teacher in- thekHuntsville
school. ',.
Mr. J. J. ^Mentor, M.P., of town,
has purchased the William Govenlock
residence on North Main Street for
$4.300.
Mrs. Robert Bell and Miss Anna
Bell left on .n. trip 'to Seattle on Fri-
day.
Mr. S. J. Duncan has purchased
the residence of Mr. G. A. Sills,•op-
proescitteiii_ -gyleaternieaw park
residenceMr. 013.ali
111;t
Street. .
A. young son of. Mr. P. Kropf, of
ZUrich, met with a bad accident re-
cently. He was hammering a nail
-when it flew up, the end striking him
in the eye.
Mr. Michael Hoffmanaof Zurieladaaa
'purchased the residential property of
Mr. John Zettle, in that village. ,
A great Orange deraortstration was,
held at Harbor Beach, Michigan, on
July 12th, when Post State • Grand-
,- master William. McLaren Doig, gave
a' fine address. Mr. Doig's home is
near Kippen.
Miss Jean Hamilton and. Master
Jimmie Hamilton, of Staffa, have ie -
turned from Niagara Fails. ,
Messrs. Lorne and George Hutchin-
son, of Mitchell, are -visiting in Staffa.
Mr. Yamen 'McDonald, of Stanley,
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was taken to a London hospital to
undergo an operation for appendicitis.
Mrs. Isaac Jarrett went with him and
remained a few days. •
Joseph Arden, has sold hia400-acre
farm on' the '9th concession of Mor-
ris to John .Marshall, of Walton, for
the ,sum of $6,000. •
'Misses Kathleen and Eliza Ryan,
of Chicago, are guests at the home
of 'their 'sister, Mrs, M. Broderick.
At a' meeting of the Great War
Veterans' .Association, Mr. A. D. Suth-
erland 'was presented with a hand-
some gold locket, beautifully engrav-
ed, as a token of appreciation of his
eficirts in their behalf while they were
at the front and his many kindnesses
to mothers, wives arid families of the'
Soldiers at honie. --..
Mr. and Mrs. Arch Scott left Sea -
forth ou a trip to Edmonton to visit
their Son, Mr. C. M. Scott.
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_ From The Huron ExpOsitor
siziohst 17, 1894
On Monday last week the barn wit
contents OP' the farm of Mr. Thoma
Rundle! near Farquhar, was destroy
ed by fire. The steam thresher o
Bolton Bros: was, working at th
barn and a- spark from the engin
started it.
Dr. Belden, dentist, has now go
comfortably located in his nevi,- qua
ters in Kidd's block, over Mr. Pick
ard's etore.
On Friday afternoon last Miss Ef
fie McKay and Mrs. D. McKinnon, o
Tuckersmith, were driving to Sea
forth, and when opposite Mr. Leath
erland's place a bicycle caught u
with thein, and the horse becani
frightened and threw the occupant
out. Miss McKay was the worst af
fected of the two.
Mr. W. Adams, of Seafoz:th, thresh
ed on the Foley farm recently 2
loads of wheat, 5 loadof oats an
one load of peas in four and a hal
hours.
Mr. George Anderson, who ha
been teaching at Gannoque, has re
turned to Seaforth. Next year he has
been engaged to teach in the Wind
sor Collegiate.
One day last 'Week Messrs. A. J.
Bright and William Amenr caught 90
fine trout in about five hours in a
stream near Betgrave.
Sortie 10 years ago when Messrs. A.
G. VanEgmond & Sons rebuilt and
enlarged their woollen mill lx town,
they got a loan of $5,900 for, 10 years
free of interest. They paid the
amount in full recently.
Dr. R. W..Bruce Smith, of -Warn.,
has been appointed medical officer
at Orchard House, Hamilton Insane
Asylum. He was Chosen from a list
of 51 applicants. ,
Mr. R. Roche, of Seaforth, who had
a string of horses at Toronto this
week, was the hero Of a stirring in-
cident on Tuesday' afternoon. He was
driving the horse Saranac, owned by
Mr. Dolrnage, Wieghana, and in scor-
ing the fourth heat, the liziess broke
and the horse ran away. Mr; Rech
crawled out of the sulky onto the
horse'a back and catching the bridle
aeon stopped the horse. •
Chief W. H. Cline left on Wednes-
day ter IViontreal 'to attend' the treat
Firemen's Convention in that eitY, aa
representative from the Seaforth
Hri de. '
M'r. Tom Connolly and dile little
son, of the 6th concession of Hibbert,
werirto Mitchell Ott itkinday night to
detiVer a horae. 'Ailitfut an... they
Started home and the. entreat Was
rather fractious and ietell, ugly ae
SOOtt_aS theY were seated. PintillY it
fiPSet the buggy and are* the deolt,
tants' Out
in Thirsk, Of Blakey ltinitk
atterautmo azo.'
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I was called tIP On jury duty last
week and stayed at the hotel in town.
Not being used to the sounds of early
morning traffie, ,sleep vanished about
six o'clock when a fleet of army
trucks rolled' through. , Getting 'up, I
sat downbeside the window that look-
ed out on a quiet street and had a
smoke.
. Across froth -the hotel there was a
little white house. I saw a lazycurl
of smoke streak up from its kitchen
chimney and pretty anonsthe screen
door opened and, an 'bld man came
out. 'He was smoking a stubby pipe
and his shoes trudged on the gravel
path in his garden. Watching him, it
seemed that bere was perfect con-
tentment. '
Probably he was zr retired farmer,
or working man schooled in the hab-
it of early rising. Old age. didri't
mail' breaking that habit of long
years. I wish you could have seen
him, smoking away and then bending
over to examine the rose bushes glis-
tening with the dew and bright morn-
ing sun. The smoke from his pipe
wreathed up around his head. Now
and again he stopped to pluck out a
weed or gently kick 'a whitewashed
stone into place ardand a flower bed.
Having completed the flower gar-
den examination, he tucked a trailing
rose vine into place over a trellis
and stood at the front gate looking
up and down the street. Two men,
on their way to work with lunch baa-'
kets, called out: "Good morning,
Pop!" , One of the men, casting a
glinapse at the new sun, observed, "It
looks like another hot one," and the
old man nodded gravely. -
He walked back around the house
then to 'the vegetable garden. With
care he looked ,over the potatoes and
carefully lifted the leaves of the bean
plants. A green apple plopped from
the tree into the' dew -soaked grass
and. he searched for it and later put
it into a trash can at the hack kit-
chen door.
A newsboy whistling away downthe
street brought him back to the front
yard. The boy swerved in on his
bicycle and' tossed- a folded newspa-
per in on the front veranda. The old
man picked it up; sat down on a rock-
ing chair and 'carefully took a pair
of glasses from his vest pocket. He
was very delilierate in breathing on
the glasses and then, wiping them .off
with his handkerchief. Then adjust-
ing them halfway down his nose, he
relit his pipe which had evidently
gone out, and picked up the on -Per
and started reading.
I shaved - and came back to the win-
dow about fifteen minutes later'and
the old man had his paper down to
chat with the milkman. He sat there
Peering over Ms glasses when the
milkman left Until somebody appear-
ed in the back kitchen door. It was
a little, white-haired woman who call-
ed, "Dad, come and get your break-
fast." He got up and walked back
around the garden walk and she wait-
ed for • him. I beard him say, as he
went In the door with what seemed
at that distance' to be, a chuckle', "The
Germans. are sure catching it now,
Martha!" •
That was a scene I'll never forget.
There was something peaceful and
gentle about, it., Old age can be a
thing of grace and beauty. • '
Huron Federation of:
:Agriculture—FarmNews
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„tiges For Livestock Show
Dates for the Commercial Livestock
Show, to be held at the Union -Stock-
yards, Toronto -Under the auspices of
'the Ontario Provincial Winter Fair
Association, with the co-operation of
the Ontario Department of Agriculture
will be November 30th and December
1st and 2nd, it is 'announced by L. E.
O'Neill, Director of the Livestock
BranCh of the Department. An ex-
tensive prize list has been prepared,
providing for five classes and a cham-
pionship in each of the three main
breeds of breed cattle, Shorthorns,
Hereford and Aberdeen -Angus. The
five claases for each breed' are as fol-
lows; (1) Steer or heifer, 750 lbs.
and under; (2) Steer or heifer, 751-
850 lbs.; (3) Steer, 851-1,9011 lbs; (4)
Steer, 1,001-1,100 lbs.; (5) 1,101 lbs.
and over. There is also a special
class for the best group of six steers,
a class for the Grand Chanipion Steer
or Heifer of the phow and the Prince
of Wales Prize Class for. the best
group of three steers or heifers,' own-
ed by one exhibitors which have been
shown singly in the regular Classes.
In addition to the cattle classes
there are two Classes for market
lambs and two for swine. The mar-
ket classes are for a pen of five we-
ther larabs,. weighiag n: total of not
over 475 lbs. and a pen of five wether
lambs weighing a total of over 475
lbs. and under, 550 lbs. The:tsitia Claes-
es for bacon hags are: (1) Pen of
live barrel/Ss ar sows, bacon type,
weighing 180-22.0 lbs. each; (2) Pen
Of time barrows, bacon type, weigh-
ing 180-220 lbs. each.
Further details of this Commercial
Livestock Show will be made avail-
able' to prospective exhibitors as soon.
as they ars cOMPieted, along with
lists Of spenial prizes which are now
being Arranged for by the officials in
Charge of the show.
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rertiliter Available For Fairns
The derbArtaii of the fanners -0M:hi,-
izers and of certain fertilizers which
are needed for special crops, have
borne fruit, and an order has been
issued by the Fertilizer Adniinistra-
tor, on recommendation of the Ad-
visory Fertilizer Board for &tarifa
approving the fertilizers which will be
available for sale to Ontario, farmers
and growers during the fall of 1944.
:The fertilizers approved are those
with the following analyses: 0-14-7,
2-12-6, 4-12-6, 4-8-10.' Superphosphate
and other materials may also be ob-
tained: It is also announced' by the
Fertilizer Administrator that farmers
may now obtain, as much fertilizers
as they want, whereas last year they
Could obtain only 80 per cent. of their
previous year's purchase of fertiliz-
ers. ,
An improvement in the potash situ-
ation makes it possible to raise the
2-12-4 analysis to 2-12-6. This analysis
has become very popular for use on
wheat and the increase in potash
should mean more bushels to the acre
and better krain. Additional potash
may also be procured if evidence is
provided by eon test or by recommen-
dation of a competent Government
official that any specific soil is in
need of greater amounts of potash
than is provided in any, of the ap-
proved mixtures. This inforination
should be forwarded to the office of
the Regional Supervisch- of Fertiliz-
ers, 86 Collier St. East, Toronto 5,
whereupon a p,erinit inay be secured
for the additional potash required.
Peikchases taf potash up to 500 lbs.
-Muriate of Potash may be made by
farmers' Without a permit.
'The point of interest at this time
Is that the effective use of fertilizer
of suitable analysis increases crop
yields materially on moat soil's and
the ne laP,y,:::07rTnInead
gineer Harry -rerfiri :
The ptpea have maw seen laid "for .
Was in town"' and "nada one acillleta
Department as to. the ,"sitatea ;testimg
'errerO; ti
Toeoitnttlas7wordtbe enatO
O.K., the new and morS: 1)4Yrflitiq •
pump will be hooked Up 'and 43spa-
'this is connected the sypply of ,water-,
will be 'four times as great aS
present, that is with both Weil. ljut
that does not inean that tour time.
as much water should be run through.
the open taps. /Customers should al-
ways remember th,at this water has
to be lifted nearly '390 feet' at a big,:
Hcoesrtalod.fpower and eqUiPment.-7-Zurich
tittle Girl kno-viler Catedhisni
Last Sunday at Knoa Sunday schoids
little five-year-old Betty Lou Walling-
ton who makes her home with her
aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Yudtrtosva, Ave the superintend-
ent, Ross Wright!'af hos Plreni
when she repeated 31 ;answers UP:"
'questions in the Catechism, the,
Lord's Prayer and the Ten Corcunand-
meats in , their entirety, ' Sheis in
the infant class of the school and a.
pupil of Mrs. Isaacs. An astounding'
evidence of gob& memory on the part
of a child of this age we ,wonder
how many twice, three times or teu
times her age can do the same thing.
What she was 'able to do certainly
speaks well for the training she has.
received.—Mitchell Advocate.
.bentistry 'Students Successful'
Robert Keith McGill, Mitchell, was;
successful in his -fifth and final year
examinations at the College of Den-
tistry, University of Toronto. Ken
Carroll passed his fourth yearcarry-,
ing over the subject of pathology.—
Mitchell Advocate.
Church Window Being Repaired'
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The main front window of Grace -
Lutheran Church is being repaired,
and corrected. On Monday the large
sash with leaded glass was removed
and shipped to a glass company Rs
London, The former lettering, "Evan-•
gelische patherisehe Gnadon Gem-.
einde," is to be removed and the
wording, "Grace's Lutheran Church,"'
will be inserted. Needed repairs win
also be 'made. The job is being paid
for by individual members of the'
congregation, who prefer. that their'
names be not•disclosed.—Mitchell Ad-
vocate,
Fliers Lose Lives in Crash Landinw
Two flying instructors from No. "9
Service Flying Training School at
Centralia lost their litres as the re-
sult of a crash landing at the relief
field at Grand Bend Friday of last
week. The two pilots- were flying au
Anson and • were making a landing.
when the plane crashed and both
were seriously injured. The. two men
were brought by ambulance to the
hospital -at the Centralia Airport, and'
survived onlya few hours. One
of the officers -was PO. Thosmas J.
Muicair, aged 27, son' of Thomas' .J.
Mulcair, Otitremont, Qsiebec, and the'
other was 'FO. Clifford R. Russell 4
Pring, aged 20, son of Ernest Charles.
Pring, of Young, Bask. The bodies.
were, forwarded to their homes ac,-
cempanied by an escort: Cause of the
accident has not been. determined. Are ,
investigation ns ow being in 'progress,
—Exeter Times-AdYlacate.
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Real Estate Transfer
Mr. Samuel Jory, who recently sold
his farm in Stephen Township, has
purchased the residence of th,e late
William Rivers on Sinacoe Street. --
Exeter Times -Advocate.
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Reurns From Western Tour -
Jack Thynee, widely known as the
Kansas Farmer, has returned from a
month's engagement with the Great
Western Racing Association of Mani-
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toba. Mr. Thynne reports a SUCCeSS-
1'uiNttybr Of Western. fairs. He says the,
crops.there are good. While, there he,
met at Deloraine Fair, Jr.' Buchan--
nan and Jack Pepper, former resi-
dents of,Brussels community who are
directors of the fair. Next summer
Mr. Thynne is under contract with.
Barnes -Carruthers Of New York and
will entertain at some of the largest.
fairs in North America, including the
State Fairs of Texa-s, Wisconsin and
Minnesota.—Brussels Post,
Qone To Windsor
Mrs. Jead ''''''''' has sold her
dwelling on -Dinsley Street and left
on Saturday for Windsor, where she
will in future make her, home With
her daughter, - Mrs. Eric Bowyer.
Many friends will learn of Mrs, Craw -
1' ord's departaife with, -regret-s-Blyth
Standard.
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Muoh Improved Road
Those of us Who have had the mix-
ege Of driving over the provincial
ighway, front Hensel' to St. joSepla,
'town as the Zurich- Riad; cannot.
sip but comment of the fine collat-
or' this toad is at present. In fact
o do not remember of ever seeing
fin so good e. condition. This le
rgely due to the untiring efforts of-
t% it, H. Taylor, IVI.LA.,- of Dash-
obti, who has Worked hard to have
oth the road through Zurich and
ashwOod receive this Vestment of
phadt and oil. 'There le no dust in
dense and 'the roadbed is •as
a board walk, Dr. Taylor adviseat
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labor supply most, offpient,,
pretaratioU fOr fall Wheat, if tui as
Maptire -has "been added or lege-Vile ell
niattuto nIseived, Under. gO9 to ,ae
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