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The Huron Expositor, 1949-07-08, Page 2stablisho ism McLean Editor, ed at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- Way afternoon by McLean r-. Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. bseriptiou rates, $2.00 a year in pca, foreign $2.50 a year. Singlei lea, 5 cents each. ' „ dvertising rates on application. Authorized as Second Class Mail Poet Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, Friday, July 8, 1949 Soil Moisture Vital The extent to which soil moisture influences crop yields is indicated in a study in Kent and Essex Counties, details of which have been released by the Dominion Department of Ag- riculture. While the study had to do primarily with Kent and Essex, the conclusions may be considered as be- ing applicable to most of Southern Ontario. •• Long-time averages indicate that the two counties receive an annual rainfall of from 25 to 30 inches, the southern parts receiving less rainfall than the northern and eastern parts. This precipitation comes at the rate of from two to three inches per month during the year. Water need in Southern Ontario ranges from 17 to probably 25 or 26 inches per year in order to maintain favorable moisture conditions. In May the water need rises above that supplied• by rainfall and by mid-July the moisture stored in the soil is practically exhausted. From then until autumn the crops must depend solely on current rainfall for their needs. Water deficiencies during this period have been estimated at an av- erage of from 4.5 to 6 inches, the highest deficiencies occurring in the Southern parts of Essex and Kent Counties. Approximately eight to 10 inches of rainfall per year are lost in Southern Ontario due to runoff through drainage ditches and be- cause of percolation through lighter soils to a depth beyond the reach of plants. Greatest water losses occur during the fall, winter and spring months when the soil is saturated with water and crop needs are low. Science has shown that soil man- agement will influence to a certain extent the amount of water available to crops during the growing season, and it has been proved that' a soil which is high in organic matter will hold more moisture than a soil which tis low in organic matter. Timeliness of tillage is another important fac- tor which affects yields during a year with average rainfall. On the heavier soils of the counties under survey, fall plowing produces a more favorable moisture relationship than spring plowing.Another factor in- fluencing soil moisture is soil struc- ture. A favorable soil structure, ob- tained through applications of or- ganic matter and proper tillage prac- tices, conserve moisture and reduces iwater runoff. • Its Still Monep Everybody wants money, and us - "pally when we think of it we think jof the nickels, the dimes and familiar 'anis around which our -lives revolve. But that is only because we have ibecome accustomed to money in this lfamiliar form. If we were in the Oland of Yap, in the Pacific, for in - Stance, we would start saving large Stone disks—for all the world like .a millstone—about 30 inches in diame- er, and weighing 175 pounds. One of ithese would buy 10,000 cocoanuts, :tnne-quarter acre of land, a canoe . . or a wife. The stone money of Yap is only :lane example of the unique money ;Otandards in some regions of the World. The Chase National bank of New fork has one or two Yap stone •coine On hand of legal tender. They •Mang 75,600 specimens in its ,Usteum collection of money of the The SpeeimenS range hack to the Pnelertt ,spade -shaped •copper money of China, about 4,000 years old. They range in size from the Yap money to a 150 -year-old gold coin of Colpata, Southern India, that weighs one grain and is little bigger than the head of a common pin. The bank has a Swedish eight daler coin of 1663—a copper slab meastring 12 by 24 inches and weigh- ing 31 pounds. The collection demonstrates that some places in Africa are on the salt standard, not the gold standard. A 48 -pound slab of salt encased in wicker is legal currency in those areas. One of them is full payment for a wife. In addition to the salt standard there were, and in some cases still are, the dog's-tooth standard, the rabbit -tail standard; and the stand- ards of copper bells, chocolate, wood- pecker scalps and tiger claws. Stick tobacco heavily flavored with licorice bnce was manufactured in Petersburg, Va., expressly tas money for natives of some south s'ea islands. Among the natives of the Congo, a special type of cotton cloth cut to a standard size of 3 by 221/2 feet still is the chief unit of value. Its worth in terms of exchange is about $1. The ring money of ancient Egypt predecessor of coins, and the clay - tablet due bills of Babylon, first step toward paper money, are displayed. The collection was started private- ly in 1880 by Farran Zerbe, who built it up to 40,000 items before the Chase bank acquired it. • WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY: THE GENTLE ART OF DIVINING (From "News Review," London, England) Cicero told of a Roman augur who said he did not know -how two augurs meeting in the street, could face each other without laughing. 'Relating this story in Science and Technology, New Zealand, Patrick Aloysius Ongley, M.Sc., told of his own tests of diviners. After having put 75 of them through their paces, he concluded that of the hun- dreds "witching" for water, miner- als and oil, not one displayed any semblance of accuracy in divination. In nineteen attempts to identify hidden metals, mineral diviners gave only one correct answer. One specialist in divining from handwriting identified a patient as suffering from four different illness- es, including "inability to become pregnant." In the latter respect he was quite right. The patient was a man. In another case a diviner required a blood sample to diagnose the com- plaint of a man said to have been told by his doctor that he was suf- fering from cancer. Provided with a sample of blood from a healthy rat, the diviner diagnosed cancer. Ongley found that almost all wa- ter diviners operated on flat land where water was readily obtainable. One achieved a notable feat in hill country by finding a water supply for a Dunedin doctor's country resi- dence. "Unfortunately," comments Ongley, "it was not found until work was finished that the supply was wastage from a neighbor's septic , tank." "Companies have been and are being floated on diviners' prospecting prowess," comments Ongley. In the case of one company, when finally. no oil was struck, the diviner apolo- getically announced that he had mis- taken coal for oil. "One oil company is at present de- pending on a diviner for its pros- pecting. This man, as accurate as any other diviner tested, claims to have proved that the main oil supply for California flows from Taranaki under Mount Ruapehu." Ongley, who is at present studying for his Doctorate in Philosophy at Glasgow University, conclude s: "Though 90 per cent of diviners are sincere, it does not lessen the harm they do." 11EltriVitE4144TH OWS BY Harry 4- Bay e "GOAT TAGTIOS!".a'' Buttinska, a VenerahlO ;Old goat who has been the epaaree of More argumentsthan anty other .aingle thing during the peat three year, is about to go. He CW6 in, an un- certain way. A hired: men, who was somewhat addicted to taking snakebite Joii on every pretenleef . . . even when, there •esere no snakes around, won him playing eards in the village, My hon.est opinion is that the hired man had oiled himself as a ,paeeaution against the snakes just a trifle too well . . with the result that. the goat was pawned off on him. Still suffering from: his •binge he went so far as to bring the goat in the house with him. I awaken- ed early in the morning to hear a series of weird noises on the stairs. It seemed. as if the hired'inan was ;bring some fellow-aufferer up the steps and wal repeatedlyi telling him in a buzz -saw -like hoarseness to be quiet. My curiosity: grew to the point where I edged the bed- room door open just ever act slight- ly. It was a alistinct shock to see two faces peering up over the top step. ' One of the faces was that of the hired man. His hat pushed down over a distorted face he was laboring with his task of trying to drag his companion up the steps. In the dim light I oourd hardly tell, what or who was with him. And then the ghostly face. appeared . . a sallow complexioned gen- tleman with a beard . . . and won- der of wonders.... a set of horns! I had heard of men associating with the devil, •but I never imag- ined that the hired man would, go so far as to bring the devil home with him. He tried to step up on the top step . . wavered for a few min- utes and then both of them went sprawling down the front steps. The hired man's friend had a ra- ther strange voice . . . more on the nature of a bleating than any- thing. From where I was in •the bedroom he seemed to be ham - /flexing at the front door in an ef- fort to get out When we got down the hired man was lying peacefully with his feet on the stairs and his head on the floor . . . and his friend. proved to be a goat who sent my Wife and me scrabebling up the steps out of but- ting range. The hired man asked for Me time next day. The good wife was very quiet about the affatr. The goat grazed out in the orchard. Be- fore leaving, the hired Mall 4.eited her if she would mind if he left the goat 'behind Until be got an- other place to stay. Her Ups press- ed tightly into a thin, white line, she said it would be all. right,. Buttinsky stayed on.. For some time he was very quiet and other than to indulge in a :certain amoUnt or butting practice against the aide of the ,barn, he left us strictly alone. The hired mair, through some oversight, didn't bother coin - Mg back to see us. Buttinsky evi- deafly sensing that we had forgot- ten the incident when he arrived. started warming up. 11 you Waned your back on him •in the barnyard he would step back a few steps. and "Wham!" Needless to say, he grew rather uepopular. Suohansuch, our Collie pup, worried over the matter for months. Finally he found a vuln- erable spot on the goat and when Buttinsky found that there was a chink in his armor he gave up try- ing to worry the dog. Somebody once told us that the goat looked like a spry old gentle- man with a beard. Dapper dandy tlkat he is, he has enough animal irtelligence to leave the lady of the house alone. Perhaps he re- alized that she .would exile him at the first sign of his getting care- less with his .butting ability. Yesterday I was in the horse stable looking at the sow and lit- ter of pigs, in the end stall. Three •planks nailed across from the stall forms the pen for the pigs. Care- lessly I left the stable door open, forgetting that •Buttinsky was in the barnyard. Wham! I was picked up With the force of a rocket and thrown clear into the pen. Disgruntled, the Berkshire a looked up surprised, to find, me sprawling in with the lit- tle pigs. She ,grounted and I . . . well, I looked up to see the whis- kers of that impudent goat draped over the edge of the planks as he looked over his damage. Buttinsky is leaving in the morn- ing! Just A Smile Or Two "He was getting along fine in the hospital till he got an awful bruise." "What happened?" • "He,took a turn for the nurse." Barber: "You say you've been here before? I don't remember your face." Customer: "Probably not. It's healed up now!" At the. beginning of his lecture tsur, a clergyman asked a young reporter not to publish any .of the lecture, as it might detract from the attendance at the other meet- ings. Accordingly, the reporter's story read as follows: , "The vicar gave a very interesting talk, but unfor- tunately his stories cannot be printed." Huron Federation of : Agriculture Farm News Test Soil For Some Plant Foodsl analyst, says Dr. G. W. Leggatt, There is a growing list of plant who is in charge of Seed Research food elements. such as boron, cop- rer, manganese, sulphur and oth- ers, which are appearing in mixed fertilizers and classified as lesser plant foods, minor elements or micro -nutrients. The classification does not mean that they are not as important as the primary ele- ments of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash, but rather that the plant only requires a small quan- tity of these elements for good growth. When deficiencies occur, plant growth will not be normal regardless of the amount of other available plant food; so it is es- sential to have a balance of all the required plant food elements. Research has progressed to a point where deficiency signs of leaser plant foods can he recognized, says G. W. Michael, Associate Chief (Fertilizers), Dominion De- partment of Agritulture. Applications of manure which contain some of these elements have aided in keeping a fair level of plant foods in most soils for av- erage crop yields, but higher yields are creating a heavier demand of all plant foods. Due to repeated Cropping and leaching, crops on some soils are showing deficiency signs of lesser plant foods. A bal- ance of plant food is essential and the elements are being added to mixed fertiliaers. At present manu- facturers ar only adding lesser plant foods to fertilizers for speci- fic cases where it is known that they are required for certain soils and crops. Although they are im- portant for plant growth, before using them the soil should be test- ed to determine which ones are deficient and then apply them at the recommended rate. Even though the plant requires them in small quantities, care should be exercised in their use as an over- dose of some elements is toxic to plants. * * Testing Grass Seed is Complex When a sample of seed is being analyzed for purity, the analyst must separate the impurities 'from the good seed. The impurities •that are separated vary somewhat with the kind of seed. For example, In clovers, timothy and similar seeds, it is only necessary to separate other crop seeds and weed seeds, because "inert matter" (i.echaff, dirt, stems and so on), is fairly easily detected and will be foetal by the grader if present in execs- eiVe amounts. But in the ease of the chaffy seeded grasses, this is net so easily dose, and a detailed separation Mast be made by the Science Service, Dominion Depart- ment, of Agriculture. The teL on chaffy seeded grass- es is complicated, because what is commonly called a seed is, in the grasses, actually a fruit surround- ed by chaffy scales. Frequently the scales are present with nothing in- side, but this cannot be known by simple looking at them. Because a satisfactory test cannot be cam- pleted unless these empty scales are counted as inert matter and separated from the good seed, the analyst must remove them from the sample. Formerly this was done by pinching each seed gently with the fingernail or analyzing knife (which may injure the good seeds) or by examining the seeds in the light box, an apparatus that throws light through the seed in such a way that the kernel can be seen inside the scales. The seeds are then separated by hand. Such detailed hand separation clearly takes a very long time. An im- provement was brought about by the introduction of seed blowers which removed the lighter seeds and reduced the amount of seett that had to be worked over for hand separation. Finally, a special, very accurate, seed blower was de- veloped in the Seed Research Lab- oratory, which made unnecessary this detailed hand separation, thus saving many hours of work. The identification of seeds, both weed seeds and crop aeeds, is of- ten a matter of much difficulty. For example, couch grass. in slen- der wheat gras.s, wild mustard in turnip, Canada blue grass in Ken- tucky blue grass, and numerous others must be separated under the raiseroscope. Even the micro- scope fails when separating annual rye grass in perennial rye grass. To make this separation, special equipment is used. A known hum- ber of seeds is placed to germin- ate on blotting paper. They must be spaced wide enough apart that roots from •one seed do not, cress tilose from another. After 10 (1.13 the blotting paper is carried to a dark room and examined Under ultra -violet light' The places where the roots of the annual rye grass reat on the blotting paper glow with a pale violet light, that is they show fluorescence, whereas only a small proportion of the perennial rye grass seeds produce this effect. When allowance is made for the proportion of peren- nial rye ,grass which shows fluores- creme, the ,proportions of the two kinds, annual and perennial, can ealettlated. Spacing the geode (001atintied on Page 7) Mechanical For your infeanation, Although they may get your hands clean There's clanger of she inflammation With substances Ake gasolene. NOWT OF NATIONAL CCCCC N AND WILYARt Years Agone Interesting Items Picked From The Huron Expositor of Twen- ty-five and Fifty Years Ago. From The Huron Expositor July 11, 1924 Word was received in Manley that Mr. Joseph Eckert, Detroit, had slipped off a house he was shingling, falling a distance of 20 feet, the scaffolding coming with him. Misses Mary Gillespie, Bessie Grieve and Norma Hartry are in Toronto this week examining dea partmental papers. Mr. M. McPhee is putting a cement foundation under his home on Louisa St. and making otheaana- paovements. Mr. and Mrs. John Murray, of Owen Sound, are visiting friends in town this week. Mr. Murray Was a thinner employee of the Jahn MacTavish etore. The Lindsay Post Says: "Great credit is due to Mr. John J. Brod- erick of Seaforth for the excellent work done in decorating the streets of this town for the old home weea." He also has the con- tract for decorating Seaforth streets for the Old Boys' Reunion, August 2-6. Seaforth baseball boys played their first game in Wingham on Friday last and trimmed that team 17-2. Don "Toby" Kerslake held the Wingham batters to 5 hits and 18 strike -outs. The Seaforth line- up was as follows: R. Kerslake, c.; D. Derslake, W. Hart, lba H. Norris, 2b.; J. Sills, as.; F. Cudmore, 3b.; W. Sutherland, 1.f.; A. Dodds, c.f.; G. Hays ,r.f. Mr. J. F. Ross and son, Hugh, of Guelph, spent the week -end with friends in town. He was the well- known and popular principal of Seatorth Collegiate and all were glad to 'see him again. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Dale and son, Don, and daughter, Miss Anona, motored to Detroit and spent last week with relatives there. The Misses Mary and Margaret Sproat, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Sproat, returned with them on Sun- day. Mr. Ben Johnson, of Toronto, spent a few days this week with friends in Seatorth and vicinity. Mr. P. Calder, of Toronto, is spending his holidays with friends in Seaforth. • From The Huron Expositor July 7, 1899 Mrs, Thomas Gemmell, Egmond- ville, left this week for Scotland on a visit to relatives, and was accompanied by her sisters,, Mrs. Simpson, of Walton, and Mrs. Thos. McFadzean, of Grey. Miss Simpson, teacher, was also a mem- bers of the party. Mr. and Mrs. George Turnbull returned from a trip to the Old Country on p`riday of last week. Last week' while 'Walking about the yard, Mrs. W. A. Rhynas, of Goderich, stepped ,,a loag nail that protruded through a piece of lumber and the spike passed through the light shoe she wore and pierced, her foot, causing a painful injury. One of the most successful pic- nics ever held in connection with S.S. No. 10, Us.borne, took place on July 4 in Jas. Glenn's woods., where an excellent program was rendered by .scholars and some talent from Hensall. Mr. Allan McDougall, of Hibbert, played tbe bagpipes. Miss M. E. Ford, the teacher, is going to attend Normal and she shall be missed. Two rinks from Seaforth Bowl- ing Club are in Toronto this week competing in the Dominion Tourn- ament in progress there. The play- ers are: E. C. Coleman, T. F. Cole- man, W. 0. Reid, W. K. Pearce, R. S. Hays, F. Holmsted, Jas. Scott, and J. S. Roberts. Mr. Peter McGregor, Brucefield, has just sold three first-class har- ness horse e to William Cudmore for the Liverpool market, The strawberry festival held on Hector Reid's, lawn, Stanley, was a decided success. Instrumental music was given by Messrs. Mc- Lean, Cooper and Crawford, of Kippen; solos by Misses Moore and Kerr, of Hensel', Miss Logan, of Hillsgreen, and McDougall and, Crawford. of Kippen; also club swinging by Miss. Petty of Hensall. Miss Amy Murdoch, Hensall, re- turned home last week from To- ronto, where she has been attend- ing the conservatory of Music. She Passed with honors and has resum- ed her music class there. The fifteenth annual Dominion Day McKillop Picnic was held en Saturday afternoon in the .beauti- ful grove at Grieve's, Bridge. Mr, Johti Lyons, an esteemed miller, has .purchased a half inter- est in the up-to-date flour and Chan- ging mill in Seaforth. The mill at Bortholtia, where Mr. Lyeu'e lived, is for attic Injured In Planing Me Mr. Alex Manning, proprietor of the Blyth Flaming Mill, sustained severe hand injuries on Monday when four fingers of his hand were almost severed 'by 'a saw. Mr. Manning was taken to hospital for treatment and later returned to his home. it is hoped that no ,perman- ent injury will result from the un- fortunate accident. — Blyth Stand- ard. Oldest Voter Mrs. Conrad Fuse, who celebrat- ed her 90th birthday on June 14, is believed to be the oldest .persoiz in this vicinity twgo to the voting booth on Monday to cast her bal- lot, and showing her loyalty to King and Country, and marking her ballot for whom she wished to vote. We are proud of such a fine spirit, even for her advanced age. It is a splendid example to young- er people to do their part itt keep- ing up the country and commun- ity. Mrs. Fuss is visiting at the home of her daughter and son-in- law, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hess, of town.—Zurich Herald. Native Found Slain Thomas Elliott, born in Wing - ham 60 years ago, was discovered dead from a crushed skull last Tuesday in a Calgary hotel. Police said a lead pipe was found near the body. The deceased was a vet- eran of World War 1, and since 1946 had been a night clerk in a downtown hotel in Calgary.—Wing- ham Advance -Times. Return After Extensive Trip Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Eagleson and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cockwill have returned after a three weeks' trip through Western Canada and the U.S.A., going west as far as Banff. They visited many places of interest and were fortunate to see a stampede at Nanton, Alta. They travelled a distance of 5,100 miles and had good luck all the way.—Exeter- Times -Advocate, Elected D.G.M. At Toronto Mr. Fred Boyce, of Brucefield, was elected Deputy Grand Master of the Huron District I.O.O.F. at the Grand Lodge Assembly held in Toronto recently. He has jurisdic- tion over lodges at Seaforth, Gode- rich, Clinton, Brucefield and Hen- sall.—Exeter Times -Advocate. reC.A.F. Recruiting Depot Opened The R.C.A.F. has set up a re- cruiting office in the National Em- ployment Office in Goderich. It is in operation on alternate Tuesdays and July 12 will be the third time that F/0. Douglas 0. Blarney, of London, will be in Goderich on a Tuesday to accept new recruits. A number have been secured so far. —Goderich Signal -Star. Norrnal Students Pecceasful Clintttidents attending Strat- ford Normal School have 41 ibteem successful in their 0-hese/I StitdieS- aud are !being -congratulated hy their frientbil. The stUdditts in- cluded: Trixie Forsyth, Jas. Leon- ard Johnson, Anna Doreen Me! Quire and emenna Mary Wernclorf. Another name of local interest is that of Ruth irene Jefferson, R,R. 1, Munro, a niece of Jeffer s,ort, principal of Clinton Iniblic. school. The .pupils have all been. successful iu obtaining schools and will teach at the following 'points, beginning with the fall term: Trixe ie FOrsyth will go to Hamilton:: Leounard Johnson is to teach. at Tyndall's achool in Goderich Town- ship; Doreen McGuire has obtain- ed a school in Stanley'Township in the Brucefield area, and Cor- enna Wendorf goes to the Ilarlock school in Hullett Township.—Olin- ton News -Record. Awarded Scholarship Harvey T. 13eecroft, son of Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Beecroft, wiho grad. uated recently as Bachelor of Architecture from Toronto Univer- sity, has been awarded the schol- arship in Industrial Design, offer- ed by the Association of Industrial Designers. Thie scholarship pro- vides two ,years of post graduate study at the Chicago School of De- signers. — Wingham Advance - Times. Church Observes 85th Birthday On Sunday two large congrega- tions assembled, to mark the 85th anniversary of the .building of the Cromarty Presbyterian Church, and the 97th ,anniversary of their' first church .which was ;built off' logs and situated one mile, east of. the village. Previous to the build- ing of a, church, services were con- ducted in a log barn on the same farmas the church was built. The services on Sunday were conduct- ed by Rev. W. A. Youong, B.A., B.Sc., student administrator of the Agricultural College, Guelph. (Spe- cial music was rendered by the choir. Mr. Young sang a solo at each of the services, also the jun- ior male quartette comprised' of Robert Laing, Eldon Allen, Gordon, Houghton oand Lloyd Sorsdahl.. There was a number in the even- ing by the senior male quartette, Tom Scott, Ed Allen, Frank Stagg and Ernest Templeman. Mrs. Ken McKellar was choir leader and or- ganist—Mitchell Advocate. To Take Summer Art Course Miss Pepper, of the Exeter Pub- lic School staff, will continue her studies in art at a summer course - in Toronto during the holidays.. Miss Pepper has had. excellent re- sults with her pupils in art during: the Past term.—Exeter Times -Ad- vocate. Frequency Conversion (By Charles G. Macintosh, in Hydro News) di Frequency conversion to the average layman may seem to be just a routine operation. To Mr. gnd Mrs. John Citizen, it may ap- pear that this merely means re- moving 25 -cycle motors and replac- ing them with 60 -cycle equipment in homes, stores or industries. But anyone who laNiks talked to Hydro engineers directing the con- version program will not entertain that impression long. Stated simp- ly, frequency changeover in the 25 - cycle areas of the Southern On- tario system is a tremendous un- dertaking that involves a vast amount of planning, careful inven- tory, skillful engineering, accurate ordering of new equipment and exact timing. Many months have been devoted to detailed planning in order that the entire program may be carried out smoothly and with the mini- mum of interference and inconven- ience to consumers. At present, preliminary surveys are under way in a number of areas to determine what will be required in the way of equipment to make the change- over. First on the books for the fre- quency conversion project is the ScarborO area, which as Hydro en- gineers point out, will be, the "guinea pig" for "Operation Con- version." The things learned, in the Scarboro undertakiag, now pro- ceeding, will serve to ;guide Hydro men in the efficient change -over of other Southern Ontario areas. Rapidly on the heels'a the Scar- boro change -over will come fre- quency conversion operations in the Sarnia area, which likely will be carried out simultaneously with change -over, in the London area. Certain sections of the Hamilton district probably will be done next. This program of conversion by areas will be carried out across the whole of Southern Ontario ma- tt the tithe—possibly about 1964— when. 60 -cycle will, for the most part, have replaced the present 25 - cycle areas in Southern Ontario. The "zero hour', for Hydro men to start their friendly invasion of hofnes, stores, offices and factories in the Scarboro area and begin swapping 60 -cycle equipment Ifor the present 25 -cycle equipment has been set tentatively for October 1. Before the end of December of this year, it Is expected, the whole Scarboro operation will hav'e been completed. Exhaustive Survey The preliminary work in the, Scarboro conyetsion necessitated an exhaustive survey by Hydro men t6 find out what equipment would be needed for the change-, over. A total of 1400 homes were visited in the various districts to determine what electrital equip- ment people actually have in their home. This survey 'deluded visits to the largest and most preten- tious dwellings as Well se to the humblest eottages, giving a erOes- section check on the population so that the domestic equipment re- q t ements ,can be properly esti- mated. The findings from this in- ventory will be used as a yardstick in issuing stock bulk orders for ne•t ors and other electrical equip- ment. Other steps in the survey work include visits to stores and offices to examine the equipment of these commercial concerns and learn. what equipment will be needed. But the biggest task of all in the entire conversion program will be the change -over of industrial plants. This is literally a gigantic task which requires competent checking and engineering skill of the highest order. Individual ma- chines in many cases must be stu- died to determine what changes, are necessary in the phlleye, gears and other mechands•ni. Production in factories cannot be interrupted and it is with this fact in mind that Hydro engineers. and the contractors, who will car- ry out the work for the Commis- sion, are *studying industrial, plants. It will be necessary to, take a thorough inventory of each. factory's needs so that a complete list of requirements may be com- piled for ordering. Everything needed must be on hand when. the. actual "swap" is made. Expect Little Interruption - For the aveilage householder it. is expected that there will be lit- tle inconvenience or interruption in service, The men who will enter the homes to make the change- over may start after a Monday, the traditional wash day, to effect the necessary changes in washing ma- chines, or ether occasional used appliances. Refrigerators, howev- er, will be left to the day of con- version and replacement units will be ready in trucks outside the homes so that a swift conversion can be made. • The ordering for the domestic, commercial and industrial require- ments of the area being changed over is the task of Hydro's Pur— chasing Department. After instruc- tions are -received from the engi- neering and material control staff, orders will be placed for the re - (mired materials. • Opedate According To Plan 411 this involves a/ big problem of stock -piling for Hydro beca'use the necessary equipment must be in the areas when the deadline for conversion approaches. In the case of industrial equipment, much of it may be sent directly to the in- dividual plants. At the deadline, Hydro engineers will operate , according to a pre- arranged plan in, the chosen area, working from the main power feeder line and cutting off districts In a systematic way. Every phase of the work itt each district pre— Viotiely hasbeen charted even to (Contilitted on Page 3) 4 4 11, • 1