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rnment 4hd Strikeq,
been very noticeable during
ar year $ that every time
6 is a tabor'strike in this country,
party newspapersThn—mediately
Altp on the Government and accuse
— of cowardice. Apparently these
newspapers believe that the business
of the government in wartinie is to
prohibit strikes, imperiously, and
harmoniously, even. where all concili-
• ation ,efforts have failed:. -
It is noticable, too, that this criti-
cism is reserved for the Canadian
• Government, and is never used on
the British Government, the Ameri-
• can Government, the Australian or
any other democratic government.
There have been many illegal strikes
in 13ritain during the past few
months and only last spring a mem-
ber of the Churchill Government de- °
dared that England was sitting on
an industrial volcano. Yet to date,
we have never heard any one accuse
Mr. Churchill of lacking courage.
• As recently aS the end of June, the
British Ministhr of Labor said in the
House of Commons, that since D-day,
and not including the mining indus-
try, there had been nine ,strikes in
that country, and five of them were
still unsettled; and the workers were
' still out. He added, however, that the
• people should take a proportional
view of, the situation, because for ev-
e*''Y thousand -workers on strike there
• Were tWenty-four million others at
work.
The same situation applies to Gan-
ad.Strikes here have been decided-
ly less;costly to the war effort than
they have been'in Britain. Something
else foi 'Canadian newspapers- and
•;some Canadian people too, is, that
the ' only countries where strikes
have not occurred in wartime have
been -the countries ruled by the -dicta-
tors. So 'if these people want that
kind of government, they had better
move to those 'countries.
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Water Getting Scarce
• Last week the Public Utilities
• Commission of the. City of London
received numerous complaints that,
the deep wells supplying the eity's
water system, were robbing the shal-
• low wells in the farming country ad-
joining the city.
• No doubt there is a great deal of
• truth in the contention of these farm-
ers, although these deep wells, have
been in operation for some ten years
without—any complaint from the
country. But up to this year the wea-
• ther conditions have been different.
*This has been' the driest -summer in
• many districts, in- a decade, as well as
the hottest. Consequently, the de-
• mand of city waterusers has been
far above other years.
The law of nature is that the deep
-wells will absorb the shallow ones in
• -a dry season, but the situation is not
peculiar to the London „ district.
Cities are not' plentiful in Western
Ontario, ancl. consequently they can
not be blamed for the shortage of
-Water in many other districts which
• . are beginning to fear a water fam-
ine.
The fact' of the matter is that the
• extensive drainage schemes- which
• have been 'built to drain or reclaim
farm lands, have done just that. All
the surface water is carried away
• and the -shallow wells which in earlier'
days used to store the seepage, have
been robbed entirely of their water
supply. ,Tlie days when an abundant
• water supply could be secured on al -
'most any farm at a depth of twenty
to fifty feet have passed, and year
•by year the farmer has been won-
dering what has happened to his
once 4bUndant water supply.
There is, how -ever, no mystery
oiily t,it In ordinary years, perhaps
a very •smali..percentage of farm
t(e 4l1
Tr -dry, Mit this :is not an ord-
tzg degtee$ is beginning to af-
ear and a water famine 'of
eria Wide area, Many
nevei l)efOre experi-
Or a aeb, tilniod;
ohs -
weU dziU�1„ IrTarraSe
expeniiiteiOn
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in InallY caR$a 0981141ve
propoSition to instal pumping equip-
ment after a .well bas been, drilled.
There are Many things that•a. farm-
er May be able to dispense 'with. ,on
his farm—but water is not one• of
them,
Regardless ,of weather conditions,
110 absolute dependence can any long-
er be placed on the -surface well for
farm supplies and farmers are fast
recognizing this as a fact, and, like
the towns and cities, going down
through bed rock instead of clay and
gravel tq ensure their water supply.
•
Danger Of Grasa Fires
There was an amazing growth of
all kinds •of vegetation this year and
the lack of rain over a period of
weeks has dried out this vegetation
to the stage where it has become as
inflammable as a trail of gasoline.
We were reminded of this at noon
• on Monday when the fire siren
brought out the brigade to extin-
guish a grass fire at the eastern end
of the corporation. Fortunately, it
was noon instead of midnight, and
as fortunate too that a strong wind
was blowing the fire away from- the'
back of the residential, properties
adjoining the field where the fire
• started.
How the fire originated is not
known, but certainly it was not caus-
ed by lightning, combustion or any
other'of nature's pranks, so that the
human element must have entered
• into it some ,place. A bonfire, chil-
dren playing, or just human care-
lessness might have been the cause.
At any rate, there was a fire and a
bill of expense for the town, but no
real damage done. A grass 11-e in
the same locality last spring b rned
down a frame stable.
There is nota side street in town
where similar danger does not lurk
from long dried grass and parched
foliage. A bonfire, a lighted match
or carelessly thrown cigarette or
cigar end would be all that was need-
ed to start a conflagration that might
cauSe a fire damage of thousands of
• dollars, and still much worse, loss of
• life.
That is not a situation peculiar to
this town. Owing to the continued
• drouth, every town and village in
the district has been placed in a
similarly dangerous position. Conse-
quently, under the prevailing condi-
tions every possible fire precaution
• should be taken, and every citizen
should walk warily.
Same Here!
A recent despatch in an American
newspaper says: "Here's the way
the C. B. Huffman family solves the
farm manpower problem, during the
haying season: •
"Father loads in the field, a 14 -
year -old son works on the stack, a
daughter, 16, drives the tractor that
pulls. the loads, and another daugh-
ter, 17, driv.es the truck pulling the
big fork that takes the hay -to the
top of the staek. _
"Mother cooks."
• Nothing extraordinary about that.
The- process was • repeated on hun-
dreds of farms in 'Huron County
this summer, or at least something
like it. We have seen 12 .and 13 -year-
old boys and girls handling teams
and tractors, and know of quite a
few cases even wherkMother pitch-
ed or built, as well as cooked
No one shirked on the farm this
year. All honor to them.
• •
Boasting?
- Last week the British radio was
riding Hitler again. • ,
It recalled Hitler's great boast of
September.30, 1942: "Let me assure:
Mr. Churchill that -wherever' he may
choose for his next attack, he may
consider himself lucky if he remains
on land for nine hours." •
Considering the fact that the 'AI•;.-
lies have completed eleven weeksin
France, have opened a second front
in that country, and as this Week
,gets under. way are thrusting at -
Paris and Many other' French key
points long. under Gerinan Control,
after Capturing 'many important
jeotiirs4 the tjte. eertallilY
rig* ,tti twit Mt: ilitler ciiihia proud
Oasts, 7. •
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5,9f) Friday Moraing,
barn, driving Abed, pig, pen ,Mid othei
eattafildings with the entire eieason's
crop ea the farm of John, Denhohn;
14tlecorteesstea of Hallett, n.ear
were totally destroyed by fire, entail-
ing a Uwe of upwarde a -$9,000, with
P,000 insurance on the leuilding •
The little son of Mr. an Mrs. John
Hamilton, Cromarty, had his • aria
brokell in two places. '
The following is the list of success-
ful students at the entrance to, Nor-
mal examinations: W. Aberbart, E.
Adams, E. Keating, A. A. Archibald,
H. Coates, B. A. Dodds, Ida Hogg, 3,
L. Kerr, Alvin Oke, I. Souter, p. S.
Stogdill.'3. H. Bristow, W. R.
tow, G. ,K. •Chapman, M. C. Croebie,
W. -Lairig, M. Livingstone, F. McDon-
ald, D. McConnell, Thelma. Pethick,
B. Scott, J. A. Ross.
' Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Plant and eon
have returned from a holiday spent
at his home in Acton,. e„ • ,
Misses Annie and Janet Govenlock
have returned from a few weeks' holi-
days spent at some of the pretty
places along Georgian Bay.
The Robert Bell Engine & Thresh-
er Co. shipped a fine exhibit to the
Toronto Exhibition this week.
Pte. John Earl, a former enipyee
of The Bell Engine Works, , arrived
home from overseas with his bride
on Wednesday.
Messrs. J. C. Greig, P. ,Savauge,
T. F. Ross, W. Robinson, H. Stark
and R. M. Jones of the Seaforth Golf
Club, were in Stratford on Friday
play-ing a friendly game with some of
the Stratford players:
The. following are among the i41.1C-
cessful candidates for entrance to
Normal school at Dublin:. Clara Dill,
Vera Eckert, Gertrude Murray .and
Tessie Weber.
Captain Earl Heron and sister, of
Toronto, visited at the home of Mrs.
George Habkirk, McKillop, recently.
Miss Birdie'Shannon, McKillop, has,
returned to Hamilton to take her
position in the Arcade store atter
spending her holidays with her sis-
ter, Mts. Earl jiabkirk.
Miss Ivie Twitchell, of Brandon,
Man., is visiting at the home of her
grandniether, Mrs. Chart& Golding.
•• Miss Ella Turnbull left this ...week
for Burk's Falls, and her sister, Miss
Mabel Turnbull, for 'Huntsville.
Mrs. Bert Kling, who has ” been
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
Adams, returned to her home in Day-
ton, Ohio, on Saturday. -
From Tlee Heron Expositor
.JOisat 1894 ,
Misfortunes .seldom -come
Mrs. Edward Garrow, Of near Harpur-
hey, met with a very painful accident
on Tuesday evening. While going out-
doors she fell, sprained her arm and
fractured her leg near the hip; •
We learn by the Toronto. News
that Mr. Thomas Soole, an, old Sea -
forth -boy and a graduate of The Hur-
on Expositor, has lately -been present-
ed by Mr. Fred Poster, the horseman,
also .a former Seaforth boy, with a
magnificent diamond ring as a mem-
ento. of the time when they were
boys together.
Miss Jennie Barr, 'eldest daughter
"Of Rev. Mx. Barr, of Harpurhey, has
Seared a good position as teacher
in the Grimhsy high school..
The residence of Mr. Ed. Papple On
the Mill Road, was struck by light-
ning on Wednesday' evening. The
chimney was ellattered and the brick
wail damaged.
• Miss Campbell, who held a good
position in Edward, MeFaul's store,
has secured the position of head mil-
liner in Cannington.
Mr. W. Mulcahy, of tOwn, who se-
cured a second class certificate, leaves
today for Victoria, British Colurribia,
where he intends to teach echool.
While the Dodds Elrothers of Mc-
i'illop were threshing oats on Mr.
James Cowan's - farm last Friday and
Saturday, the dust became so dense
that to prevent suffocation -they had
to cut a large hole in the barn' roof
to allow it ,to egress.
While Albert Vipond and his
mother, of Cromarty, were driving
along the road south of Cromarty the
other day, their horse took fright -at
a log at the side of the road and ran
into the ditch, upsetting the bugge,
with the result that Mrs. Vipond re-
ceived a fractured collarbone and he
had his arm run over.
Word has been received that James
Turner, Henry Monteith and Fred
Waldron have arrived safely across
'the Atlantic.
Mr. Wm. Purdy, of ,Varna, wagon -
maker, met with a painftil accident
on Monday evening last. He was
working with a cirenlar saw when his
hand get ,caught in It, lacerating it
itt a.*fearful manner and severing one
of his fingers. • ..
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Best have re-
turned from their trip up the lakes.
Miss Bella Meratiatte, of Stanley,
has returned to her school in Gleep-
coe, where she is engaged for the
next year.
On Wednesday Morning ,list light-
ning struck the barn' of Mr., John 1Vfo•
Ash on the Parr Lthe, Stanley' -lately
•Oedepled by Mr. •Sohet torrance. the
barn and etabled• were in. a Maze Of
Tames iri a few ininatee There Olz4fe
VO bushels of threOlMtil gralhi and
be barns were '4gaift,ALted. It WAS
*Aired, for $1600a" •
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BOOBY TRAP
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PHIL OSIFER of kuPwr
LAZY MEADOWS
3iHJ.BofIS
These` are the golden days of har-
vest . . grand, satisfying daYs of
burning sun and heat when every
cloud sailing in over the horizon is
regarded with suspicion. yes, we
have • had •harvest weathereea, this
township that no man could complain
about. 'Women smelling of powder
and perfume may sit perspiring in
town restaurants, complaining bitter-
ly about the heat, but the men who
swing sheaves on the en'd of long
forks and who smelt of sweat' and
harvest duet are not 'complaining. •
We were, up at four -thirty this
morning, doing the chores and eating
a hurried breakfast...I went off to
town to pick line part for the binder.
and when 1 was coming back about
six -thirty the fields were -busy with
wotk. Just where I turned on to 'the
line I could see the threshing crew'
working around the separator, and the
big oil tractor at the Stewart place.
Across the fields I could see men
coming with the polished tines of
their forks' gleaming in the early
morning sun.
I, met •Jim Anderson on the road.
• He wee Piet turning in to a field with
his tractor and combine. While the
boy opened the road gateway, he talk-
ed to me for a moment or two. What
did we talk about? We spoke of the'
weather and cocked our heads to look
at the already grinning sun, • We
talked about. the fields . . . and the
,straw . and prospect for the later
'oats and barley . . and then .he
started the tractor with a roar and
moved into .the field, and I went ten
towards home.
We've moved a long way in the
pastfew years. It's only a . genera -
boa or so agthat we used Scythes
and then reapers, and from that to
binders, and now. a machine that cuts
and threshes in the one operatibli.' •
•
• At the Jenkins place they were
drawing in. Even by that time the
sun had taken enough moisture out
of the dew so that they could go
ahead and draw in. 'Paul had his
shirt off. They were close to the
road . . so cies" that I could' see
his muscles rippling under the dark
brown of his sun-tanned hide. Those
muscles seemed to flow in perfect or-
der . . smoothly . . . like the move-
ment of a cat. Sun and fresh air and
hard work have given Paul a precious
Inclowment. •
When, I Came to the top of the big
hill I had a, gilmpe of the farms
across the river. In some iplace,s wag-
ons were rolling laneways; in
others, they were stooking sheaves;
in one place an old steam-engine puff-
ed away stolidly; at another they
• were stacking sheaves . . . and then
the vision was gone as the car glid-
ed down -the -
A woman was driving cows back to
a pasture field. Mrs. Higgins and the
girls were milking in the orchard and
• Ed. was rattling back to the oat field
with the team and wagon. Bruce L'an-
caster, our soldier settler, had a
• helper . , . his wife. Theyeevesteehaule
ing in oats and hoth-gaere me a friend-
ly wave. It made me %el 'geed and I
determined that as soon as I finished
up the east fiele, I would go over and
give them a hand, while the man cul
the other field.
Peter McKay, the hotelkeepet, is
helping me this week. ,Peter hasn't
farmed for at least five years, since
his uncle left him' the New Corona,
but he came out this year to give me
a -hand when I couldn't get a hired
man. His muscles were a little sore
at first, but he 600n showed that he
hadn't lost any of his old skill.
Yes, these are grand, neighborly
h-arvest days! •
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:Hu'ron Federation Of:
:Agriculture-=-FarittNetvs:
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Bacterial, Ring Rot of Potatoes
Though bacterial ring rot is a com-
paratively new disease in Ontario, it
is of a serious type and one that pota-
to growers should regard with con-
cern, says 3. K. Richardson, Domin-
ion Laboratory of Plant pathology,
St. Catharines, Ont. Now is the time
to inspect carefully potatoes in the
field ;and to report suspected cases to
the district potato inspector �r to the
Dominion Laboratory of Plant Path-
ology, St. Catharines, or to the Do-
minion Botanist, Ottawa.
EiretY potato grower should become
faniliar with the Symptoms ot .this
disease, the measures .reconintended
for its control and should then act
accordingly so as to prevent it spread-
ing. To control ring rat requites ells;
Wet -wide attention; npt only on the
-part of irowere, • but of dealers and
shippers as well.
'Symptoms of the Disease: The first
signs of bacterial ring rot, which ap-
pear early in August, consists of a
Wilting of one or more leaves on a
plant. This wilting increases, the af-
fected leaves turn pale, then yellow,
and- the edges roll inwards.. Other
'leaves on the plant -aeon become ali
fected and finally turn broten and die.
One or more stalks of a plant may
show the wilting but all donot neces-
sarily= become affected. Do .not con -
this with tarnished plant, bug in-
jury which shows small svvelliege and
discoloration of the leaf -stalks or ribe,
where the insects -have been feeding.
Look for the ' leaf eymptoMs before
late blight appears; for the preeente
of blight increases the difficulty in.
spotting early ring, rot symptoms.
By the tiate-eln itifeeted plant dies,
Many of the ttibera will • be infected
with the, diseaSe;, thoughSoMe
be' 410414'. 40,1104 Ardifireci tnbeit
the'w-eno,••eXionatSYMPtoinir, but ••
bit ci,orig,•00:,Paseular ritig
Pale #elloW, 'and •Ciiinibly
Atiota• Otiteit .84o34tl�t
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ored sunken areas on the ,surface, us-
ually close to the stolon end, or in
the vicinity of an eye. As these brown
areas enlarge the skin cracks and
allows -soil organisms k enter and
complete the destruction of the tuber.
In Ontario, tubers suspected of be-
ing diseased • sh,auld be sent to Do-
minion Laboratory of Plant Patholo-
gy, gt. Catharines, or -tothe Domin-
ion Botanist, Central Experimental
Farm, Ottawa, for verification. •
Milkweed Pod Collection " _
The Agricultural Supplies Board is
sponsoring the collection in Canada
of milkweed pods. The floss from
these pods is urgently neededfoe the
manufacture of life preserving, equip-
ment for • the armed forces of the
'United, States. •
This program, which is fully -de-
scribed on the endlosed circular, Is
being conducted primarily through
schoole, Bby Seolit'a and Girl Guides.
Howevea•YOur organization can make
a very ,real • contribution to the pro-
gram. :You can do this in one or more
of the following waYS: • -
(1) By actually.collecting and sell-
ing polls to tic Board. •
(2) as lating in the loetti, ar-
rangements -for the distribution, of
empty bags' and the assembling Of
filled bags.
(3) By giving strong support -to
any local group whlbh i collectlig. •
(4) By seeing that information re-
secting the program is .Inatle Meal
able to every part of our etiMmuli
ity.
This is part af the .War effort and
your' ftiIi-eh:operation: will be".greltly
appreciated. if You reqUite any fine
thee tetertnntiteit Plettee write diteet:
to the li'*rd • , • '
Mtiet Win Feattlee/egeiteeltiflatiltila
thelattleettgelaSiVOmeekki!
00# alter the
t(coutillied o
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height It s 0pi ..tq46•14,-o 14;..'
•panklo.'s'farAr•,..`gleooeld•01-a•
Year le amexe.ellrLti. 040,. ;Wier
Procter, a neighbor, -Of
the filnevale Itoad;-aleO *40 4'0E0.0
corn that is very tall and of exce4nti
qUaliti.—Wim0441 JA-04c(erinAlf4' •
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E7nevale Station OperatingAain
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or: some, time „Bluevale station,
e.N,11.„ has been operated free-W:114e
hama but this condition is no more as,
the Station bee been put in shape and
the new station master, Mr. M. W.
Kerr, arrived on the -noon train on
lIkonday. Business hae 'been on the
Mee -ease there andthe ai1Wa authe
orities have on request of theEfleip-
Puerjalea:dsthatitisoilinefilTacekn to t
of ithstI
attonc
area;
p
Status. Mr, Keir has 'just completed •
a terra in the army. "His brother, is
the station agent at BrUssele, eller
Started_ his railroad career at Milvere
ton about 24 years ago and was staT
.tioned_a,t,...Preston•••-end,-did--relieving;
but prior to enlistment' wasetation- 4
vedantaetirNimewes.Hamburg,—'Wingham Ad-
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Lignite #nd Gypsum on Display
We have in our window a sample
of lignite which was given to us by
John Hanna, M.P.P., following his trip,
with a committee of the Legislatnie
to these fields in Northern Ontario,
This ceenznitteee went north: for the
purpose or examining the poseibilityl
of developing this product as fuel for
use in this province. Lignite, accord-
ing to the dictionary, is a nog -caking,
usually lerownieh-black variety of coal
-intermediate between peat and bitum-
inous coal. He also gave us a piece
of gypsinn„whieh is clear soap stone
like substance, and which is found ire
the vicinity of James Bay in large
quantities,Wingham Advance -Times.
To Complete Paving
Work commenced •Thursday•.rnorn-
ing from the Hayfield end of the
southern six miles of hard sarfacing
on the Blue Water Highway, to com-
plete the entire distance froth Ggde- -
rich. The contract has been awarded/
to the Brennan Paving Co., which al-
ready has completed three miles or
the original contract of six mules -
from Goderich south. In some places
cedar logs, some of them 12: inches.
through, are being z)anoved where
they were sticking th ough the sur-
face and 'liable to cause damage to'
the paeerd
rYroirri
etaThearsde oelvageit.i1,0p6Tearosr
ago, were in _a splendid state of pres-
ervation. In one or two cases the
cleats of tractors drawing threshing
machines have caused some damage
to the newly -laid mulch, but a con-
ference of highway and, paving com-
pany officials with .the offending
farmers has resulted, in the tractors
taking to the ditches and fields, and
the planking of the highway where it,
has to be crossed,—Goderich
Star.
Pet Pony Struck By 'Lightning
• _ •
Stanley Darling's pony was struck
by lightning, but a veterinary surgeon.
is bringing it around again: It is like
a circus pony and a favorite wide
both children and grown-ups in Blue-
vale,—Brussels Post
New Well A-1 -• -
Word was received Wednesday of
a recent test of -the water by -the De-
partment of Health that the water is
now in Class A-1, for domestic con-
sumption, and the local management
is losing no time in getting the new
pump hooked up, as the supply of
water during this heat 'Wave has been:
anything 'but Satisfactory. Now With:
moderate use there should be water
for all and a .good pressure, but if
we wish to, sprinkle our gardens -4r
lawns, well a few more each four
thousand dollar equipment will have
to be installed. We ask our citizens
to drink plenty of this good pure
water, as it has for ceeturies past
proven to be the best and most:
healthy drink -for the human system,
and nothing can equal It or surpass3.
it.—Zitrich Herald.
It Was Hot!
What is considered one of theevol•sr
heat -waves in Many a day is with us
at present With the mercury from
90 to 100 daily and. little elief at
nights; the -People are getting sort of
worn out, There is little promise of
any relief. The ground also is so dry,,
lawns and gardens are literally burn-
ing up; farmers are experiencing that
their bean fields are ripening up and'
some are pulling the sable, with less
then, half a crop. Rain ,and cooler -
weather is badly is need, and we
hope for the same in the very .near
future. --Zurich Herald.
Magiettate Honored
1Vlagi,strate 3. A. Illakine at the ethi-
cluifieri e of the police court proceed-
ings: thuisda,y afternoon was honor -
'ed by etitirt and county 'officiels veith
the presentation of gifts in recogni-
that Of his ten years' service on •the.
Huion County) His retire-
- i#Oilt lbOk. Offeet on 'the ••19ili 01 Ang-
ikt kotirtniarked,his last
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