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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1946-06-14, Page 21 a, rQso. onto pail.,MeLean, Editor. t a at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- lxrsdar afternoon by McBean >t bscription rates, -$1.50 a year in ,"Adv r<ee; foreign $2 00 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each. . Advertising rates on application. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. SEAFORTH, Friday, June 14; 1946. Salute To The Canadian Farmer The Canadian. Federation of Agri- culture has agreed to the proposal of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association to join with them in a nation-wide .0 "Salute to Agriculture" during the week- of June 17th this year, and this week's Expositor is carrying out that theme. The' weekly new>5paper is, perhaps, Closer to the land than any person or collection of persons outside the pro fessioir of farming itself. Farm peo- ple are our neighbors, and . as we Iiave mentioned many times during the war years, we are proud of our neighbors, and their great war record. Only the armed services gavelmore than our farmers; few, very few, others gave as , much. ' They over carie great odds and great handi- caps, in lack of •• help, in worn and en- tirely_ . n-tirely__. inadequate • machinery, - and the weariness that years bring on menand on women. But in .the face of 'all this they , 'actually 40 increased food -production by overper cent. and by so doing they tipped the scales of victory. But having won the battle, are we going to win the peace? No peace will ever survive in a hungry world. And the world is hungry." today_ In ." fact the forecast from Great Britain is that three times as many people Will ;die of starvation in -the next six months as were killed in the' whole of the war, and the number of 'paten- tial famine victims at the end of • six months is estimated at 60,000,000 dead. This is.. the -picture that- faces our farm producers. Will they live up to it and surmount it? Undoubted- ly they will, just the same as they did during the long six years of war. No one outside of the farmers them- selves" will ever know 'how hard a task it will be, but sometimes we won- der if they are not just a little pes- simistic about their work and their profession. "In one breath they de- plore the terrible._hardships--of-the. farm, and the next they deplore the leaving of 'their sons and daughters • from -the farms to the cities: Such pessimism will neverimprove agricultural conditions. In fact, un- til farmers come to realize this, there never will be an improvement. Every farmer should read and memorize the words of the Canadian Minister of ,Agriculture, 'spoken in the House of Commons last week: "If we want to keep our boys on the farms, we shall 'have to preach a different kind... of philosophy from , what is being preached today in this House and elsewhere.; We, must preach the philosophy that there is nothing bet- ter, or more worthwhile, than pro- ducing food and • clothing, the two thing's that are necessary to -all of us. If farming, producing the things we need the most, is not considered the best of all-the—professions or trades, or whatever you like to call it, there is something -wrong with our way of thinking." We believe that farming is the best profession, or trade, or whatever you like to call it, . in all the world: And that it is getting better 'all the time. That is why we join in a salute. to agriculture, not only for its war effort and victory, but for the effort it will, without a question of doubt, put forth to win the peace. The Sarre Here This town and a good many others ,, could listen with profit to the words ryn,, editorial published: by the Pic- tan' "inties in .:.its 'last taste: • "Then here Is. the matter.... of parking ears fly P" hsi., Street, e► is cagniZa,U. of ''t ?e, congested trafficcondition on Main` Street, especially as Week ,; nd Shoppers eo e to town." "Thi- ' : es believes thafthe pollee could inst upon more careful park' ing with the =aim of providing more )space for parked cars. The town in. the past has gone to the expense of marking out definite parking areas. If motorists were compelled to park their cars, diagonally, into these spaces, there would '• be sufficient room • between all cars and at the same time there would be no space wastage, .As it is at present, cars are permitted to park at all sorts of • crazy angles; most ' of them taking up the space of at Ieast., one car and a half. The result is patent.i there's just not enough space on Main Street for all the cars which couid be pro- perly parked if .the police would in- sist upon motorists. keeping to the liner • - "'he Times believes that the aver- age motor car driver needs only to be reminded to, take only_ .•his due share • of Main Street. As for the stubborn or= obnoxious driver --well, let the town police take care of him! But at least let us get as many, motor cars on to Main Street, and in pro- per parking proportions, as possible. To afford this accommodation to the country people who come to town to do their shopping and general busi- ness is rightful service for the mun- icipality to extend, and The Times 'Considers that it is the definite re- sponsibility of our municipal em- ployees,, m-ployees,, the town police, to see that this situation is corrected—and im- mediately." This and a good many other town citizens will further agree with The Times when _ in the same .editorial it - said : "It apparently required the disgraceful traffic blockade of two `funerals as they proceeded along -Main Street to raise the wrath and indignation of our police officials. The blockade was primarily caused by the racuous antics of wedding celebrants, with their crazy fast driving to the accompaniment of in- cessant .horn tooting. This absurd behaviour has been going on in Pic - ton :for more weeks and months than we can count. ,But nothing, appar- ently was ever done. ,to curb :the disturbances of these misguided youths." As a result of this traffic empasse, when two funerals were stopped by ,,two noisy wedding parties,® the fol- lowing public notice has been pub- lished in that town "It is strictly contrary to law to keep sounding, Motu horns and thereby create a disturbance and all persons are here- by notified that henceforth the law will be strictly enforced and post- -nuptial blatancy must' -be teriniilaterd; or otherwise participants will be sub- ject to the penalty of the law." As we say, .Picton -is not the only Ontario town that suffers from lax. , parking laws and blatant post-nup - tialevents; but, apparently, Pieten is one of the very few towns that is doing anything about it. • • The Auto In The_ U. S. Fifty years ago there were but sixteen motor vehicles registered in th'e United States. Since that time, however, more than 90,000,000 cars and trucks, costing $64,000,000,000, have been produced and -at the pre- sent time there are 30,000,000 in use on the 1,400,000 miles of highway. In 1903 an annual production rate of 10,000. was reached, but the fol- lowing year when production reach- ed 22,000 vehicles, capitalists over the nation :warned that the industry was becoming over expanded. In the year before the States en- tered the war, 4,800,000 vehicles were sold, and . the peak year was 1929 when sales went to 5,360,000. In •_ the same year overseas sales reached the high level of 700,000. . Between 1900 and 1916, six of ev-" ery seven companies manufacturing automobiles went out of business, and in the half century more than 2,500_. automobiles of various makes have cone and gone. The- industry today includes some • 1,050 plants, owned by an estimated. 850 motor and • parts companies, as well as suppliers in 10875 cities and 44, States.. - •, elegiac Kele picked trona eater of. Atte and tweneyeave years ago. Frlorn The Huron Expositor' June 617,' 1921 On Friday evening last,, the Woburn football ,boys played Clinton in Clin- ton and a gond hot game was wit- nessed, The score at the finish stood at:2 to 1 In favor of Klnburn, Mr. W n. Carter acted as, referee. :Mr. George Chambers, of Chisel- hurat, 1Xas, been ill for Some time and on Tuesday was taken to Loudon and underwent an •operation ,fox appen- dicitis and is now improving. *lea M. Mellis, who has been teach.• er :at S.S.' No. 3, •Tuekeesmith, for the past three years,_ has been .re- engaged for another year. The neighbors _of Mr. Edgar Hutt, of Kipp?en" did him a good turn . last week when some thirteen teams turn- ed out and drew 30 cord, of ;heading to the station for , hint, which he is sbippingg ,to Mr. William Ament, Sea- ter,*• On' Tuesday evening cast, about 9 o clack,' tl a rig khouse of • Messrs Drummond'. & Son, passe �m xchants of Hetteali, vas discovered '' t be in -flames';: • and •before the scene of the fire could, be reached six Pigs' were burnt to death and the remaining six were barely saved. The slaughter house would have been destroyed al- so but for the quick action of the fire brigade. 'L'he ;piipiis' of the intermediate" room of Hensel' public seliool were all in excitement op Friday afternoon when birdhouse, aprons and handkerchiefs, made by theboys and girls, were ar- ranged for exhibition in the school room. Those winning prizes for the girls were: Avis Lindenfield', Thelma Hudson, Olive Workman, Alma Scru- ton. For the .boys, prizes went to Roy Laramie, Stanley Bean, Ray Pfaff, and Fred Steacy. The judges were T. Welsh, F. Wickwire and Wm. McKay; for the girls, ;'Miss McAllis- ter, Miss Ellis and Mrs!> F. Simmons. The following took honors in First Form at Seaforth. , Collegiate Insti- tute: R.' McNaughton, M. Stewart, Dorothy. Reinke, 13. Beatty, A. Strong, Myrtle Sharkey, M, Bickell, Mary Reid, • R. Simpson, A, McRae,, Eva Fee, F. Crich, I. Lowery, M. -Case Ruby McRae, S. • Datal's, G. Carno- ch'an, W. Patrick and Jean Cluff. In Second E•orm (A) they were: Mary' Webster, Keith Webster, M. Thome son, V. Scott, A. Brodie, V. Bolton, V. Patterson, H. Alexander, W. "Smith, H. Smillie, M. Grieve, C. Merner, E. Edmunds, Ae 'Dodds, R. Johnston, F. Scott, T. Purcell, M. Reynolds, M. Shine, E. Cndmore, A.'Smitki, M. Webster, J. O'Connell, H. • Hays, T. Lane. ' The following is the report of S.S. No. 7, McKillop, for May: ' Sr. IV— Sadie VSadie Tomlinson. Jr . IV—Lindsay Stewart. Sr. III—Marguerite Balfour, Harold Tomlinson. Jr. III — Archie, Somerville, Alex Clark, Arthur 'Me - Gavin. Sr. II—Eva Scarlett, E. Bal four, Ela HMII. Jr. II—Grace Somer- ville, Balite Timmer, Gordon Holmes. Pt. i—Arthur Balfour, Orval Holmes. Sr. Primer.—Dorothy Somerville. Jr. Primer—Dorothy Driscoll, Helen Som- erville.—E, M. Little, Teacher. ER 0 4W$ -, _ • By Beta,L. Boyle .....p.:,==...Pwign-R-ginsamiewisamm— There's_something good about the Bound of ehildren'e voices, I', couldn't' help 'but think"of that as I Qame by the schoolhouse on the Concession the other day. If was just after the last recess „•end 1 guess they were having their song period. The Windows were open and the sound swelled put and flowed all around me. The voioes' stayed with me all the 'way down the road. I started hum ming the same song. It seemed the perfectly natural thing to do 'Some- how off' other "my heart was, lifted ug .just a . bit, and by the time I got home e was in a better. mood than I have been for week"s, Just think about the sound of a group of children... playing or sing- ing. I well remember being in a city a long time ago. " It was 91) first real trip•to a big city and r was really only a boy. The acute pain of line - illness kept nipping at my heart with a •persistence that left me only the recourse of tears. I was too grown- up for that, however, and the digi- eulty of restraiding the tears only mad'i' me' feel worse. • It was a hot July night. The cur- tains hung limply, tired and just a bit dirty and dejected looking. The room was stuffy. I didn't want to go out on the street. The milling crowds. of people only made me.' feel worse than ever. All of a sudden I heard singing. A group of children down in the, street were singing. The words have long faded from my memory, but even to this day I can feel the heart warming sensation that came to ties from having `heart)) those ehil- dren . . . happy and excited. The othe, rtime I remember so viv- idly was on a Christmas Eve. I had gone to attend the funeral of a dear friend. The train service was b d and I couldn't get home until Chris Was- morning. Being alone on Christmas Eve in a strange place not an expere which a man count as being ,haPpY. It was snowing...: big,., soft Ill of snow that came tumbling down a if they alere p,nxi?us to wet to earth pat Vie lioliclajF. a The. , s'tbres were bright and gay and the happy chat- tering of the crowds of people only added to my 'misery. I didn't want to go to a show and I bad eaten about six times just to be' sitting down in a warm place. 'There was a church door open and I stopped, by: I walked on. Finally as . the crpwde thinned out at mid - eight and I hada four hours until •train, time, I popped to the. •church. A boy ,poloist started singing. '•'Adeste Fidelis," --I cried with the sheer ''lea of, listening. All the pleasant, warm memories of home and Christmastime .and, the faces of people I"knew kept crowding in oa „my =Hind. That boa's. elear voice served . as the background for the most pleasant dreaming I've ever eneeYed in my life. There are thgge .with babies at home who will dispute My argument, especially when the youngsters starts• serenading them in the middle of the night. On the other band, who is there that could argae-"agaiest.,,the gurgling and cooing of a"happy baby" in a cradle! "- r� can kes• ouniyPapera Receives Cheque ,From i.. G. B. The Town Treasurer has redeived a cheque for $837.09front the patarioa Liquor Control Board, being ,twenty per cent. of hotel apthorit ' feet; for the past year. Tli•.ie .lie - 44 increase over last year's cheque, which was $794.29, .This is the 10$ payment to) be received by ,thea teeth,, this ac- unt,, since the C.T. Act anis now 1n effect hetes and no further &&tshorities will be issued.-40derieh Si ai-Star. Gets Hand Caught in Washer Master Glenn Reichert, 2r,,4 -year-old son of Mr. and, Mrs, Harold Reichert, had tbe tip of his right hand thumb nipped off when he got his hand into the cog wheels of their hand washer, unknown to hie grandma, Moe Wm. Beichert, who was operating' the ma-` chine: Dr. P. J. O'Dwyer attended the little patient who is getting along as • well as can be expected.—Zurich. Herald. + OR • "Mrs. Williams always asks the price of anything new that I happen to be wearing," said Mrs. Brown., "Rather a cheek; don't you think?" "Decidedly," replied Mrs, 'Black. "What bas she been trying to find out recently?" „ "She wants • to know how much I paid for this dress." "Wbe$ an inquisitive creature she must be. How much did you tell her?" • At a first-aid 'class, the question of fainting came up. The instructor ex- plained to the class that •the'cause of tainting was primarily a fault of car oulation and that it could be prevent- ed by getting the head lower than the. heart. "For instancen he said, "if you feel faint, and don't '"want to call atten- tion to it; just lean down and' tie your shoe lace over again." , A woman in front asked: "Wliat sort of knot is used?" •. From The Huron Expositor. June 19, 1896•• Mr. J. G. •Stanbury,• son of Dr. Stan - bury, of Bayfield, hag -been appointed. assistant manager 61 the Lorne Park 'Summer Resort Co- Toronto, at a good salary. ^ A rather startling occurrence took place the other day at Foster's brick yard near Hensall. Wishing to drain a pond 'the men sunk a deep well and the man at the bottom of ,the vice71; suddenly feeling the earth give away under him;' seized the bucket and '.bad barely time to escape. In a few minutes the well filled to the top. Mr. Jas•. Scott' of the firm of Scott Bros., is an a lnrsiness trip to New York. Master Harry Scott's pony ran away ,from him on Sunday afternoon -•last. Harry was thrown out, but was, not injured. The cart, however, was bad- ly broken. - • The annual reunion picnic of the Horton family and their friends, els- borne, was heart last Saturday in Mr. John Norton's' woods on .the north bouddary: Cooling refreshments in the fern of lemonade and ice Bream, •prepared by Mrs. 'Thos. Dickson,. of Seaforth, were highly'appreeiated. One day last week as Mr. Lewis Hawn, of the 9th• conceseloin of Hay, was engaged irk drawing gravel from a pit in the performance of his sta- . tete labor, he met with a very pain ful accident: When fixing a part the harness which had :become mis- placed; he fell beneath the horses while standing on the tongue. The wheels of the wagon passed over both arms add one wheel struck his head, 'one arm was broken, ands he received a bad scalp wound. Tom and Will Benson wheeled up from London and spent the week -end with Mr. P. A: Edwards, Hayfield. Miss Fanny Wild is home on a vis- it to Bayfield from St. Louis, after an absence of three years: The following former students of Seaforth Collegiate took;.•+• honors at thQ ,relent ,,examinations in •connec- tion with Toronto University: First year, William' Rae, J. L,'Hogg; second year J. M. McKinley,, C., !L: Willie; third year, J. A. Jackson, J. S. Mute drew; fourth year, A. Cozens. The BeaV'er J.aeross•. team of Sea - forth played their . first scheduled g'am•e in the Western• District• series at Clinton ma Thursday last and fully upheld the former reputation of the club by deflating the Clinton boys by four goals to one. Mr. D. C. McLean, of Kipper, who pride's himself on having the West herd of steers, in that vicinity, bad them 'photographed on Saturday last. Mr. C•hrlstoplter Miller, of the 1'4th concession of Hay,." reppi-ted that 10 head of his cattle had been poisoned. Six of them. have •already died. • • •Sailor (wanting into recrl 1ti;iig of- flee): 1111ntfse that 01' . sales talk again; flet Igbt'titt' klnaa discouraged." , A young mother was giving a shower for her bride-to-be sister. "Now, Sally," the mother explained -to her four-year-old, "before having, your nap, you may come in to speak to the guests, and see Auntie in her, new dress. We 'are giving Auntie a shower this afternoon." The.child looked admiringly "at 'her aunt, then warned her: • "You'd bet- ter get out of that new dress, Auntie. lust in case you don't know it, this crowd is planning to duck you in the shower." ,.. .. • David Lloyd George's quick wit was capable of coping with any dis- turbances 'daring his; political speech- es. 'Once an inebriate tried • to inter- rupt the famous statesman's dis- course by loudly crying: "What we need • is a., change of government!" ; To which Lloyd George quickly re- plied: "I disagree. What you need is a change of beverage." Seek Agricultural Facts Froin Canadian Farmers 1 5 Toured Eastern States • Back in Goderich after five months spent in the United States,• during which time they covered moat of the Eastern States- cities on one motor- cycle, are John -.McLean, nephew ,,,of A. D. McLean and Mies • Amelia Me- Lean, of Goderich, and Ed. (R.B.) Bennett, son of Mrs. Claire Bennett, • East Street, town.—Goderich Signal - Star. Remanded -For Preliminary Trial 'Mrs. Ella lylartha Rose, fortyethree- year-old"`*ife' of Alfred Rose, Light- house Street,- Goderich, charged with the murder of heir sixteen -day-old baby, ,Sheila.Lily, was remanded until Thursday afternoon, June 13th, for preliminary trial, when she appeared before Magistrate J. W Morley Thurs- day afternoon at the• Court House.-- G'oderich ..Signal -Star. Receives• Rases -'By AirMail The very laudable aim of the Unit- ed Nations Organization on food and agriculture, recently created in Que- bee City, is to improve the distribu- tion -of food among the peoples of the world. This gigantic undertaking will require the co-operation of many peo- ple representing all of the food -pro- ducing and consuming countriesof the world. Canada is one of the ma- jor surplus • food -producing countries and will play an important role in the success of the Food and Agriculture Oi ganizat(-orr. --Tha-'s ccess orthe or- ganization will mean much to Cana - e I diatn farmer`s:••. One of • the first re- quirements will be the complete and accurate knowledge of what food sup- plies we have and may expect to have in the future. In order to secure these facts,, the Agricultural Branch of tbe Dominion Bureau of Statistics is now distributing survey cards deal- isig •with crop acreages, live stock numbers and other factors at June 1. You will be helping yourself, Canada and the food consumers of the world by completing•and returning your ear by `cereal -Ong and returning your 'card promptly. " Salute to Agriculture" Shows Appreciation of Farmer's': Wartime 'doh By Ohl. H. HannarrN, ,President, Canadian Federation of Agriculture The 'Canadian Federation,". of Agriculture bas accepted the proposal of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association to join with them in a••nation- wide 'Salute to Agriculture" during the week' of June 17. Many farm organ- izetione across Canada are planning to bold their'annual picnics during that Week, and it is to be hoped that eventually this week in the year may become established by the method of practice and custoni, to be national farmers' week, with • ,possibly one day an •the 'week selected as National Farmers' ,Day, just as there is a national Labour Day. The 'Canadian Weekly Newspaper's Association has always shown a keen' interest in farmer organizations, and in farming in general, and for a very' good reason. The average comniuhGity vt'eekly newspaper editor is very close to the people !who make their living from the soil, end generally speaking he has an understanding and appreciation of their problems and their wap of life: The inauguration --of the- national "Salute to Agriculture" thi-'yuear is taking the form of an apiireciatlon of the wartime job done by the farmers of anada. 111'1940, with mans thousands of young men and womean leaving farms to join the armed forces. (a total of 450,000 left threfarms daring the :war to enter the services or to gb to war industry), the farmers were faced 'with the stupendous task of producing a large volume of the food required by the allied nations for.. their armies and navies and air forces, That the farmers of this Dominion accepted the challenge and met it nobly Is amply evidenced by the 'records. - r During the'five years from 1940 to 1944 inclusive, the farmers of Canada exported overseas more than two million tons of bacon, beef, dairy products and poultry products for the use of our own and allied armed forces and to feed the beleaguered people of Great Bfitain. In order to do this and meet domestic requirements they stepped up annual beg production to a point 14, per cent. above pre-war production, increased beef production by" over 30 per cent., • sbeep and Iamb proddetioe by over 30• per, cent., total milk production by up to two billion pounds yearly, more than in pre-war years, with an in- crease in cheese •production as Leigh as s•0 million pounds a year above pre- war production, and butter production by over fifty million pounds yearly. Having given their best efforts to the task- of food production for war- time, foam people are turning their thoughts • to the post-war world. 'They believed that we fought for an opportunity to build a better• kind of security and freedom for all men than we have bad heretofore. - ..•They want to see 'stability for agriculture oa an economic plane that will makeit possible to maintain the fertility of the soil and insere"'a decent live- lihood for the., number of families required to man pur ,farms and farm them Well. Farm people believe that if we were able to. apply a general price tell- ing in wartime to save us from disastrous'infiation,'we'can equally well apply, a general floor puce sunder .farm products to save us from the disasters of deflation. They do not believe it is necessary that the bitter experiences) of the 30's have to be repeated. .11 regulations and .controls are necessary to give security end stability to rural life., our farmers are willing to aeoept them. nut better, still, they would like regulations self-imposed as far aa, possible, and administered • largely by offeials selected from among them selves. That 15 What detnocracyt mentis to them. Mrs. G. R. Augustine received, a lovely gift of roses (aip_;mail) on Mon- day- from he sister, Mrs. C. M. Tas- sie., Port Alberni, B.C. The roses had been picked from Mrs. Tassie's gar- den' in British Columbia, and arrived; here' in splendid 'condition. — Blyth•, Standard., Project Heid Up • For the information of •those inter- ested in the proposed recreational. centre for which a 'meeting wag fish• earlier in the spring, • the ..eoii'mittee have on band a blue print of the pro-• posed •building, and have' been en- deavouring to' Secure, ,Prices from firms as to the proposed cost of such a structure. So far this information has not peen ,sent to the committee, and until some definite -information, on the cost of the structure is avail=' able, the committee deem it inadvis- able to proceed with any further plans.—Bay th Standard. Finds Old Coin An - old coin was picked up last week in the orchard of Mr. Ed. Weat- cott, of Usborne Township. It isa 'a ball penny of the Bank of Upper Canada and bears the date 1854... The penny is very light in•_weight and has a hole in it.—Exeter Times -Advocate, Suffers Broken Legs An unfortunate accident occutred on Monday afternoon about 2.30, when Karen,' three-year-old- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Lepard, Jr., of •tow,n, , had both legs broken just above the knee. Karen was sitting on the curb Meant of Smi"t-h'a-grocery,'-w'ffilea-aer motherr was shopping inside, and had her feet up.der a parked car. Mr. M.' L. Balfour; of Markdale, who lied been across the street at the Hydro Shop, returned to his, car arid got in 'on the opposite side, not noticing the liittlh girl. He had only moved the car about three feet .'when he heard the' child• •scream, but by that time theft accident had happened. Dr. W. `ell. Connell was' called and took her to the hospital. Chief of Pollee T. W. Platt; investigated, and we understand no blame was attached to .the driver. wingham_.Advence-Times.. •• Horses Bring Big Prices Jackson •Motors, Limited, •Listowel;, and R.' L. Marshall, Fordwich, have sold their famous Tennessee walking litallion, "General Manager," and, a year-old colt to Horse Fanciers, Sault Ste. 'Marie, Ont. The animals, were delivered two weeks ago. The price paid forateleneral •Manager" was one of the highest paid for a horse in Western Ontario. He is' an out- standing, animal, ann was a great fav- orite at horse shows, fall fairs, etc., •being`admired wherever he appeared.. —Brussels Post. • s . Buys Wroketer Property ' The house .and lot in Wroxeter for= merly owned by Dr. Irwin Campbell, now of St. Oathariees, `has been pur= chased' by Dr, R. B:'"Palmer, of Lon- don, who has established a pedctice in the neighboring village. Mai Pal- mer was the former Miss Jean Lane, of near Wroxeter. — Wingham Ad- vance -Times. Attended Fur Farriers' Course A. R. • DuVa1 attended the fur far mers' short course at the Ontario Vet- erinary 'College-, Guelph, last week. One full week of fur meeting estab- lished arecord of attendance, with' rancher from coast to coast of .both the Dominion and the United States attending, With standard ranch mink reaching $76, and Silver Blues hold- ing at $194 on the last sales, much. excitement prevailed on Mink Muta- tion day. David Borenstein, manager to the Montreal Fur ,Sales, tipped our local rancher off last January 'about anew pastel 'mink that had..appear- ed On a Qniebec ranch. At the con- ference this week one of these pre- cious pelts was exhibited and caused a furore. Reg. caplet •affldrd to be a little cotnplasent as' he took advant- age' of the good tip given him and had signed last January for the tap trio of this latest nuttation.—Wing- hatn Adkante.'rlmes.