The Huron Expositor, 1947-03-21, Page 6uRe
ARCH 211, 1947
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QN,—Smote my ,last letter we
to the. Ding's farm at Wind-
.
ind?ttother points of agricultural
+{t8a..in eouthern England. But be-
e. T !try to describe anything else, 1
;tililt;ij should' began with London, the
ett,;l' that requires so much of the
(Qlt• Agee, of these island's and Of the
eat of the world:
On Citi second day here, Major R.
H. Stataleford, of'Canade House, 's w•-
=••Cdr us 'around the main section ofrtbe
...
-..City, Like all other � travellers we
• - were impressed by the transportation
system. .Above ground it is nea..riy all
by double-decker buses. and cabs, with
41a , few .electric street car lines (they
r... 3l them -trains) in the ctntre,of the
City area.•
But the main transportation system
s r , is the wonderful -subway far beneath
• the earth. It serves many parts of the
city, uses electric trains of six cars
and is very speedy. Some of these
"tubes” are more than '150 feet deep
and they saved many, lives when peo-
44,
Take no chanc
a '['bag
on hand for • each SfiO ,••
chicks you brood
11 contaiiieal-the vital
•.g, *th grid health,'fac=`
loll sibfclJy`' ilteded
• bt growing chic ks •
#tbl`ao� ":will never •
ler • you or your chicks'
down" -
4.
that ,chicks up to• six
• we s require hall• -.a square
loot brooder spate each
and, ti co.nfs•ned• to nine
Weeks, they will require one
square foot per bird.
ple took refuge there during the blitz.
The • London Transport Commission
has. S'7,000 employees and they pro-
vide a splendid service.
We were taken to many places we
had,heard about or read about in his-
tory: Trafalgar Square, Buckingham
.Palace; the Tower of Loudon; and•
many others,. We passed through
great sections of bombed ,areas, 'muck
of which' have not bean rebuilt, du:e,t°
lack of Material. . In the residential
area near Regent's Park, there are
many houses still unoccupied because
of blitz damage.
Visit To Canada House
At Canada House, where the affairs
of the Dominion are handled, we were
received by Hon. Norman Robertson,
the Canadian High Commissioner. Lat-
er we. went -to Ontario House, where
Major J. S. P. Armstrong gave us an
interesting talk about the work for
the Province cond'ncted there.
Sunday • morning all, our party at:.
tended service in St. Paul's.'The build-
ing is beyond my powers of descrip-
tion- That it stands today is a mir-
acle, as practically all the building's
•
around hs.ve been demolished. Even •
now 'some windows are still boarded
up because 'of the glass shortage.
Our two days of sight-seeing gave
us many things to remember' about
i.or.don---but perhaps the Trost' iml,o:--
t•ee is Leel the -peeler, Vele reel
leoh: all the food we can send th nt.
Mond'ay.,n cetteiug a priehe bus took
us 30 miles to Windsor to see the
Castle and the King's farm, We t;aw'
the great walls and.inner building of ,
the fortress, built in the Middle Ages;
we visited St, George's Chapel, .one
of tine most beautiful in the world;
and we were shown the tombs••of many
British monarchs. -
* After lunch we were taken around
one , of the Royal farms by the -man-
ager, a Mr. Ritchie, It contains about.
700 acres and is stocked with ,.some
Jerseys and -Scotch Shorthorns. A
large ,flock of sheep were grazing on
the hills. •
This was• our first British farm ,and
rather a special one. Since then we
have visited quite a few others and
have formed some opinions—though
you will understand they; have been
made in a hur+y,. - '
The following is not based, on what
we saw at Windsor but in general we
have found that farming methods • dif-
fer•greatly from those at hbme: There'
doesn't seemto be any. adute labor
sbcrtage and farm wages are not as
as in Canada. The average farm
no as highly mee1ianized and there
are few storage facilities for crops,
because,. in England at least, they are
mostly put ''in stacks and thatched.
Later they are hauled to theembarns
and threshed as, required. •
• On the whole•• operations seem .to
be much slower than they are •in com-
bines. Artificial dryers are required
because of the climate, Grain prices
are mucfs higher with wheat at $1.90,
oats at 95c, malting barley $2.30, and
hay $33 a ton.
They have very large yields with
'potatoes and turnips 'at 500.' bushels
and 1,300: bushels respectively per
acre. Some • turnips still are in the
field: The farmers are compelled to
grow a pereentagel of sugar beets in
certain areas. •
.Ori To Cambridge
•On "the Tuesday morning we went
by 'bus to Catwbridige, ..60enilies froom
London, ...and tivere *et- by Mr. Vin
cent;: •an . agi iicultural district ` 'officer.
(Hio: pdsitidVnioneepon ti 4o ,otsr..ag'
ricultural representative). He took us
around the • University farm, but the
sehe •suckietatti i Yiafited our iifspec'
tion• of -everything; except the cattle • in
the sheds. , They have a small herd of
-milking Shorthorns with 'a production
average of•`10,600 pounds 'M 3.8 'per
•cea ftfdiilk per cow. • ,.
The cows were• loose in large cov-
ered •sheds with lots of bedding and
were tied only, during milking. They
also have a small herd of Essex- hogs:
After dunch in Cambridge we went
to Chivers and Sons' fruit farm. at
Histon. This firm is noted the world
over for its lams, jellies and canned
goads. The factory is very large and
covers 40 acres. Here we sa,w farm-
ing on a Large scale for altogether
they, work between 9,000 and 10,000
acres. •
The manager, Mr. Topper, showed
us the stock. • They • are believed to
have the •beat herd' of milking Short-
horns in• Britain, about 400 in number
and they were A. grand lot •of' big,
growthy cows, carrying an abundanc
of fleshe,
_ Apparently , the English
breeder goes More. for• herd" average
ft
VO • i a t , v'idllat Vgglgihie
'One o fi<beir best eow8. was 14 yNearp,
olsi`r alt r ough SIM did not leek it,. and'
Abe haa`7i 'oduoo t Allot 150,Q00 P,auq,d.
'aR 4..47 per gent Milk. In her •best year
Che gave mere than 20,00.0 peltrete.
Weather ooalditions kQpt •the cows
confined to their sheds, bedded to' the
knees with long, ewes* straw wbioh
indicated the rank growth they get in
England.
This farm also has a large stable
of Pereherons azld they breed annual-
ly between 80 and 110 mares of their
own. They had both male and female
champions last year at most of the
leading shown.
The' C'bivers farm is noted for their
large white Yorkshire pigs, one, of
their gilts last year selling at auction
for 400 guineas (about $1,700). .,
A Cattle Sale
Wednesday morning we drove • to
Reading; a distance of some 40 miles.
Because of the extreme cold we -were
late in; arriving"at •-a ,sale' of pure-bred
Guernseys in the market auction ring.
This is where most of the large sales
of England are held and it is modern
in eyery way. Some very good prices
were recei4red for the class of stock
offered.
'We 'theft drove out to the stock art-
ificial insemination station a' few miles
from town. This is considered the
largest station of its kind in Britain
and serves an area of about 15 miles
radius. They keep several. Shortht rn,
Guernsey, and Holstein bulls. Short-
horns are the popular dairy cattle in
England. .
We were accompanied by Mr. Bur-
ton, <of the Salada Tea Co., who en-
tertained
ntertained us at ted: before returning
to London. Tomorrow we are to leave
1'or Y orks•hire, and then on to Scot-
land.
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