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SEAFORTH, Friday, June 20, 1947.
Not A Good Year
If there • was ' ever any . doubt'
about this being a lean year on the
farm, the heavy ' and continuous
rains over the week -end would just
about drive one too that conclusion.
Farmers who were' rained out of
their grain seeding, and were put-
ting their dependence on buckwheat,
corn and beans, are again up" against
weather conditions. It is true much
corn and beans have already- been
planted, but there is still much to do,
and the heavy week -end rains called
,a'' complete halt to air such activities.
Next "winter there will be a serious
shortage of feed grains, and that
shortage will seriously affect the
production of livestock,' including°
poultry. And unless Western grain
can be shipped east in record quan-
tities, our Ontario farmers will have
hard work supplying the_ local 'de -
man, which will re .duce our needed
exports to Britain too near to the
vanishing point.
The only sunbeam for the farmer
—and the rest of us too—is the 'abun-
dant pasture .and promise of a bum-
per hay crop. And that; again, de-
pends entirely on the weather.
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The Weedless Town
We ' mentioned some weeks ago
that .the enterprising' citizens of the
Town of Elmira were preparing to:
go on record as being the first weed- -
less town in Ontario.'
Last week that threat was put in-
to execution when . multiple sprays
operated by a gang of men from a
highpressure pumper truck sprayed
the lawns, boulevards and adjacent
fields with 2-4-D, a chemical weed
killer. And as a result the citizens
confidently 'expect that dandelions;
ragweed,' ,Milkweed, poisonivy and
a host of other trouble -makers and
dangerous -Weeds are now on the r .
way "out.
The first dose of the ' killer was
composed of 15,000 gallons, for which '
the town and, the citizens will pay
$1,500. Each householders will pay,_
from $1 to ' $2 for' a double treat-
ment, the one just given and a sec-
ond in August.
It is. an ambitious scheme, but ap-.
parently .the citizens of Elmira are
ambitious people, who ' want their
town, already a beautiful residential
one, to be at least in one respect the
most outstanding place in the Prov-
ince.
In this respect we 'hope.. they suc-
ceed, a
uc-ceed,:a hundred'per.c.ent., for the pos-
sessjon of such town -mindedness, on
the part of its citizens, certainly de-
serves _the rewardtheir progressive-
ness merits. ,, Possibly they will need
a year or two more to reach their
„complete aim, but they have made a
good start, and many other Ontario
towns will, follow their experiment
with more than passing interest,
At the least . the people of Elmira
_arewillingto pay to have their town
made a beauty spot and are not ask-
ing the Government, or, any one else,
to even help them out, Perfiaps the
weed killing plan is too ambitious a
planfor a good many Ontario towns,
but there is not one of • them' 'that
could not carry out some scheme that
would la,utify or benefit the health
of their municipality.
.Even_in.Seaforth,_we._couldJnake a-
start- by instituting ' a garbage col-
lecting- system, and from there, go on
to^ greater heights.
.fetter Stay' Where They Are
During the winter months ,a re-
reaentative of . the Alberta Farm-
thlien .(the 'Mimi that went on'
IAA isniner in_ the West and
cost the. farmers themselves, as well
as' the consuming public, a great''deal
of money) addressed a number of
meetings in Eastern Ontario.
. As a result of these meetings, it is
• said that there is now .a move 'on foot
organized by some of the Eastern
farmers, to quit the Federation of
Agriculture and set'up,;an organiza-
tion patterned after the Alberta Un-
ion, which is promising the farmers
an easy read to wealth and conquest.
Farmers' memories, unfortunately
for themselves, are all too short.
. They have before them the rise and
fall of the Patrons of Industry and
the U.F.O.•;' both .colorful and fight-.
ing political organizations that made
similar promises to those of the Al-
berta Union. The fate of these or-
ganizations is also history at their
disposal. .
.It may be that the farmers of
Eastern Ontario prefer that type of
organization . to' the Federation of
-Agriculture. Possibly they may see
more fight and 'fun in it. But ifthey
are looking for or expecting. to reap
.any advantages for themselves, or
for their profession, we respectfully
draw their, attention to the history
of those former farm organizations.
which we .have 'tlentioned. ,
As a matter of fact, the Federation
of Agriculture is the most business-
like; the most soundly financed and
economically sound farmers' organ-
ization that has ever been- organized
in Canada. It is built on a solid
foundation; it has gained the respect
not only of the general public, but
,of governments, and it is doing a
very fine job, both,. in Canada and
abroad. It is non-political, and -as
long as it stays that way, it will con-
tinue to grow in stature and useful-
ness.
Consequentlyif . farmers would
give the same active and aggressive.
co-operation in its policies as. they
.are asked and expected to give to
the Western organization, they
would attain immeasurably better
resultsfor themselves.
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$agpipes Now Legal
Some weeks ago there' was:, a long
and somewhat contentious debate in
the House of 'Commons on a Bill of
Rights. And, if nothing more, that
debate brought to light a lot of :gen-
eral information of interest to the
general public, as well as the 'Mem-
hers. . -
Alliong it was- a bit of Highland
history brought out by Mr. Ian Mac-
kenzie, who 'revealed , the fact that
the Scottish Court ofession in 1746
sentenced a followe of ' King Char-
lie, named Reid, to be ,hanged for
carrying. a weapon of war. And that
weapon of war was nothing less dan-
gerous than a set of bagpipes.
While .the Minister was expound-
ing this to the Members, there was
another Reid there listening. No
other than' Mr. Thomas Reid; • mem-
ber for New -Westminster, B.C., who
in all probability, is a descendant of
that Reid, who was ' hanged for own-
ing
wning bagpipes. At least it would 'Seem-
so,
eemso, for Mr., Reid is a noted player of
the pipes himself, . and every ` time
that. Parliament recesses, the lilting
strains • from his bagpipes float out
from his office .in the Centre- Block,
where he goes to get -relaxation from
his arduous duties in the House.
Members were beginning to , ask
themselves -why, if the British courts
have declared bagpipes to be "illegal
weapons of war Mr. Reid is' allowed
to pipe as hard as he pleases, when
his ancestor- was, hanged for ' the
same thing. But Mr. Mackenzie eas-
ed the strain when he told the House
that 'the courts had, -during the re-
cent war, changed their minds about
bagpipes, and ruled that they were a
musical instrument and no longer an'
instrument of. war. '
At the same time, wwhile you ' can
no longer be -hanged for piping, it
would appear that ' the British Labor
Government was doing everything it
could to discourage the art by impos-
ing a sales tax of one hundred, per
cont. if any one buys 'a set of bag-
pipes. But it will fail because nothL
ing will phase a Highlander.
It is, however; comforting to know
that the bagpipe is now legally an
instrument.:of music, and no longer
can it be classed with the atomic
bomb, as . an instrument of, war, to
threaten the destruction of our civ=
ilizatioit
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(Dy ilarry T. Doyle) -
I -11„.1: occasion last week to ride
from the city on the. train. The trip
is quitei a distance, and, Although, I
would normally ride it 'sitting in
the coach, t, decided this time to buy'
a berth. •
I sat tin the smoking 'ear and tried
my' best • to appear casual .. as,' if
this luxury of riding in the Pullroan
class was a .thing I, was most a.ccus-
tomed to. I carried -it off so well
that. a, man even asked are. what firm
I was 'travelling- for. when `Y told
him I wasn't a traveller, ,but just a
plain, ordinary farmer, he looked sur-
prised. Then he told me how his
ambition was to become' a farmer.
He had a plan all neatly laid out in
his mind for a patch• of ground . .
and he was going to raise chickens
and food for himself and this family.
He also' told me that he was trav-
elling for 'a firm and that he slept on
trains about four night out of every
week. He had in his time gone from
%talifax to Vancouver some twenty
times. He still wanted to buy a small
farm and settle on it.
I retired to the- berth and then the
struggle' started. • I felt like an ele-
phant trying to' urn around in a rab-
b44 hutch. . My legs. were all caught
up "in knots, and the change fell out
of my pants pocket, and •I' , almost
strangled myself with my shirt. Fin-
ally I managed to get under the cov-
ers. 4
It- was a hot night. That berth, Was
a • .prison . of hot air and I • turned "
gadget and. 'a blast of air suddenly
swept in. Then I tried to sleep. The
person above me kept twisting 'and
turning and the springs jiddgled• Be-
low me the wheels kept ' up• a per-
petual clickety-click-clack. Somebody
was snoring. The locomotive kept
whistling at crossings, and there was
a terrific din when we 'met other
trains.
I turned one way and .then tried an-
other way •. . and finally put one'
pillow on •top of my head -and the
other underneath. The porter turn-
ed a big fan on in the 'car and it
roared • and ,rumbled . . . and ,the
wheels by this time seemed to .be
ready to fly off. Then after a lot of
fuss I managed, , to drowse off
when Wham! we stopped for some-
thing and I slid up into the end of
the cubicle do a neat biundle.
I couldn't sleep, after that, so I
started thinking about the traveller.
The thought of four nights'. weekly in
one of those green curtained- berths
was too much • for me: I couldn't
help but compare it with the big. front
bedroom at home on a summer night
with the only sound coming. froth the
breeze whispering through' the old -
spruce trees outside.
No wonder my acquaintance on the
train wanted a place in the country!
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Cop: '"Useyour' noodle, lady; use
your noodle."
Lady: "My goodness, where is it?
I've pushed and pulled everything in
the car!"
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