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The Huron Expositor, 1950-02-10, Page 2�!1 1k%v 1^ ON EXPOSITOR Established 1860 A. Y. McLean, Editor Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- y Thursday afternoon by McLean Bros. Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Subscription rates, $2.00 a year in Advance; foreign. $2.50 a year. Single copies, 5 cents each. Advertising rates on application. Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, Friday, February 10 Sound Reasoning Sound advice directed at labor and management is contained in an ad- ivertisement which appeared recent- ly in the Canadian Unionist, the monthly magazine of the Canadian Congress of Labor, over the signa- tures of Hon.. Charles E. Greenlay, Minister of Labor in Manitoba, and his deputy, Mr. W. Elliott Wilson. The advertisement has been pre- pared by an organization that has no axe to grind—that is impartial in that. its efforts are directed to the benefit of all citizens, be they farm- , ers, laborers or executives. It is not, as a government department, con- cerned in the continuous tussle be- tween labor and industry. Here is the ad: "We said it a year ago—and heart- ily repeat rt- now. The Department of Labor, Province of Manitoba, ex- presses xpresses its sincere hope that indus- try and labor will, to a steadily in- creasing .extent, offer to and receive from each other practical co-opera- tion in attacking and solving the problems of "1. Maximum volume of best qual- ity goods and services. "2. Maximum efficiency in produc- tion and distribution. "3. A fair return to all involved reflecting the contribution each has made. "All surely leadingeto lower- prices —the only general wage increase." In making an approach in the man- ner indicated bye the advertisement, the authors wisely suggest that in the final analysis lower prices are in themsely.,s a wage increase—provid- that such lower pric- ly to all groups and ob- ihnei' of goods. It is hive lowered food tachinery necessary to od continues to sell at es ape 1;, te-n 7:i' a a h.;h • Cure is Edsential At this time of year. when Farm Mutual Fire Insurance Companies ar; hoaling their annual meetings, .at? entit n naturally is drawn to the annual e.�atements of profit and loss, wl ich each issue to their policyhold- er; •.' Reading the reports one can - MY, hes;.) but wonder the different stc ry t' at Wo,dd have been "told and the: lc -;'red insurance rates that 'lir(aold i, lve b ,en in effect had a lit- tle more care been taken by each policvhr'':•ler. To what extent could th( Ions.:; , have been avoided? of cc '..:::c t Here is not much that case he e . il'' v, :)'?n lightning strikes a cal tie l•.:'::,.:t in the field. But on the oil er h..:; ad, lam many' of the losses re Lilted from a carelessly discarded ITU tell. rt Aefective chimney, or faulty eletric '.vim illi•-? It is in these cases that -householders can be more care- ful. Fire, which is uncontrolled, is bad any place, but in rural areas it is par- ticularly terrifying. Statisticians estimate that before 1950 has ended there will be destroyed by fire farm, property valued at some $10,000,000. Much of the loss suffered in rural fires results from the 'difficulty in bringing fire fighting apparatus to the scene in time to quell the blaze before it reaches large proportions. Sortie townships have recognized this problem and have provided modern pumpers which can be on their way to 'a fire within Minutes of an alarm. tit even with this equipment be- � cause of the distances involved the `ssi'b` i',t ��..�; .. 1� t e� ;(,1`f a" rural' fire being g + ti lit under eonttd in lits early ' ',ate 'telae "l.. . � h eskahan in the case hy . 1 n'� 1.� t �. `moi. or r ' ,.�. h pat'ticnla ' , iii efts it that every possible precaution be taken and that each farmer institute his own fire protection program.. - Outbreaks of fire can be prevent- ed if a few simple rules are. followed Keep basements, attics and outbuild- ings free of rubbish. Store gasoline and other inflammable liquids at a safe distance from main buildings. Provide a safe place to dispose of hot ashes from stove or furnace. Watch the careless smoker and the' child with matches. Be careful using kero- sene when starting a stove fire. Be sure hay is well cured before putting it in the loft, unless there is a safe mow -curing system. Inspect the lightning rod system once a year. Each spring and fall check over chimneys and flues for cracks that would permit flames to reach other parts of the house. A ladder long enough to reach the top of the high- est building on the farm should be kept in a handy place. If there is a water system, a few well-placed hose connections are good protection. If not, a barrel of water painted red and lettered 'For Fire Only' should be kept near every building and used only in case of fire. • WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY: Growing Things That Are Cheap (Goderich Signal -Star) , Despite the drop in the price of eggs, brisk selling of chicks is re- ported already this year, and evi- dently some of the hatcheries are continuing business as usual. Pos- sibly they have the same idea as had the well-to-do farmer who was asked how he made his money. "By grow- ing things that were cheap," he re- plied. When any product had a poor market he figured that many farm- ers would leave it alone the -follow- ing year and it would be scarce and high-priced, and that was his time to grow it. In the case of eggs there is too much investejd for any wholesale abandonment of the industry. • Hoppers For 1950 (W. L. Clark, in Windsor Star) Grasshoppers will be on the ram- page on the prairies in 1950, if pre- sent reports ct3Fsne true. The farmers will have to get on the job with pois- on, if they are to have their crops. That is one point about the hopper threat. Steps can be taken to offset the damage. By putting out poison, the farmers can kill off most of the insects. The stuff has to be set at the proper time of year and when it is neither too hot nor too cold. It is all done under agricultural scientists who have made a study of the prob- lem. The grasshoppers are just another of the menaces to successful farm- ing. They are added to hail, drought, frost and all the other disasters that can destroy a crop. • 150 Miles Per Gallon (Owen Sound Sun -Times) One day Roy J. Greenshields drove his car the unbelievable distance of 149.95 miles on one American gallon of gasoline. He did it by modifying the engine -and chassis considerably, and by a special driving technique. No ordinary motorist could use the method evolved by Mr. Greenshields. His tires, for instance, carried a rock -hard 110 pounds per square inch of air to cut rolling resistance. His method of proceeding was to start the motor, accelerate as quick- ly as possible to 20 miles an hour, and thecoast till speed dropped to five miles. Then he started all over again. The stunt was part of a race, re- miniscent of the bicycle races when the boys try to see who can be the last over the finish line 'without fall- ing off. But it does show that there must be possibilities for mileage per gallon of which g ch .not one motorist in a million takes advantage: Correct tire inflation, engine turn- ing and all those measures So widely recommended while the War was 'on have been More or Tess forgotten by the a.:ferage driver. Econoln.,is not so, vital to'' national .Survival. But Y .motoriats With economic notions will be .,fasciha possibilities ted' : b ` the...• o � � SSib1;(ItYeS shoe here: [(MON EXPOSITOR 0 OSIFER. of LAZY ADOVW S '�I�. By Harry J. Boy "THE. SM1Tki,Y" I was waiting downs at the village today for the afternoon train to bring in that new .kind of seed grain that I'm goingto try this spring. Got tired of waiting down around •the station, so.1 ambled over to see Tom Smith, the blacksmith. "I'll be confounded if there wasn't a gasoline pump in front of the shop, and the general land- scape for several hundred feet around covered with oft signs. Oh, well, I was going to start bemoan- ing the fact that all the old land- marks were passing, but what's the use. They're going to disappear anyhow, and my talking certainly :s not going to pretrent the change. It's far easier to climb on the band wagon than it is to try .and hold it from moving pn. Tom Smith's father started that shop a good many years ago. I can remember what a treat it was to get going to town with my father. One of his regular places of cal was at the blacksmith shop. It was always bright aid dusty out in front of the shop where tramp- ing horses made it impossible for any vegetation to survive. Once you stepped over the threshold into the shop, everything became dusky and dark. There was always a row of horses stand= ing on each side it seemed, and over all there was :that most pecu- liar odor of scraped hoof . . . and the smell of a fire . and heat- ing metal. In neat tiers above you would be rows and rows of horse- shoes, and empty kegs that had been thrown up out of 'the way. To the back of the shop there was the forge, and as you stepped back towards the rear there would be a sudden roar as the smith be- gan to give the bellows to his fire. Then a sudden cascade of sparks would go shooting up, like a minia- ture lst of July celebration. There were always men around the shop, most of them farmers in waiting for their horses to be shod. Some of them were ca-t.e-bu and a great many of the older tired farmers from around th.. \•. '` lage. The greatest thrill of all wa when the smith would draw a heat ed iron from the fire and then i:. a it on the anvil and start to han mer. That hamiher would seemato float through the air there would be a spu: t of, s;;ar as the sound would ring out to r the little shop up to.breaking po. with the noise, Another fascinating thing was t• see the smith grab a red-hot irc: and plunge it into that big tub o water that was just outside th • back door.. SplInge! Siss! Or tr see him setting a buggy tire or s wagon tire. ' That backyard of his was a great place to ramble around too. There was always a great pile, of scrag metal of all kinds, with every pos- sible form of contorted image. With the average small boy's • imagina- tion, it was quite easy to imaging all sorts of wild things. Perhaps the finest time of all was to be allowed to go to the black- smith shop on a rainy afternoon. The natural darkness of overcast skies would make a perfect set- ting for the display of sparks. The odor was even -stronger than on other days.. There was 'always a. convenient place to slip in and watch and listen. Oh, yes! The listening was also an attraction. I heard of many strange things while crouched down behind a wagon wheel, and when I was supposed to be 'inter- ested in watching the smith's help- er with the horses's hoof between his apron clad knees, driving in the nails. My father would get interested in the conversation, and then suddenly remembering, me, would say: "Time we went home. This ain't no fltten place for a boy. Don't go telling your mother every- thing you heard around here!" 13ut times do change. Just. A Smile Or Two • "My grandfather lived to be over 90 and never used glasses." "Well, lots of other people pre- fer it out of the •bottle, too," • "I saw a girl the other day who had a good method of beating the heat wave. She took off her stock- ings, turned them inside out, and put them back on again." "What possible good would that do?" • "I didn't know either, so I asked her. She said her legs were hot so she turned the hose on them." When Noah sailed the waters blue, he had his troubles same as you. For 40 days he drove the ark before he found a .place to park. • A policeman was interrogating a woman who had been knocked down by a hit-and-run driver. "Did you get the license number of the car, madam?" he asked. "No," replied the "victim, "bu the girl driving it was wearing a natural straw sailor . hat trimmed with daisies, a tailored chartreuse suit, and a white blouse." Huron Federation of Agriculture Farm News ',y -Product Feeds For Dairy Cows In the winter feeding of milking cows it is important to balance the :unlity of the roughage fed with rotein feeds. The main protein upplement feeds used are by-- products of industry, and milling. Other by-product feeds are used to supply bulk, succulence and ev- ?a7 replace roughage. The most common (high protein supplements in the dairy ration are linseed oil meal, cotton seed oil meal, soybean oil meal and corn gluten meal. The oil meals are by-products of the paint and edible oils industries, while corn gluten meal is a by-product in the manu- facture of corn starch. These feeds range in content from 30 to 45 per cent protein crude analyses, and are interchangeable in the ration for dairy cows. Dried brewers grains, rye and corn, distillers grain and gluten are by-products which might be con- sidered intermediate in protein feed content, ranging from 18 to 30 per cent crude analyses. These feeds may replace each other and are quite suitable for dairy cows n providing up to one-third of the grain ration. Wheat bran, a by-product of flour milling, is one of the most com- mon dairy cattle feeds. This feed provides bulk and its laxative ef- fect is desirable for high produc-' 'ng cows. Wheat bran fed as a hot mash is a favorite for newly -fresh- ened cows. Other by-products such as sugar beet pulp and apple pornmace are fed to dairy cattle when available. Sugar beet pulp, a by-product of sugar -refining, is a succulent feed when mixed with water and is prized by showmen, although its value relative to its costs is ques- tionable. Apple pommace, the resi- due from juice canning, provides succulence but its use is limited to the vicinity of fruit area as yet. Similarly wet brewers grains .are a suitable dairy cattle feed where available. While numerous other by-product feeds have been tested as cattle feed, the groups discussed here are a. in common use and the individual feeds used in making up the dairy ration depend largely on their price and 'availability. In preparing rations for milking cows at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, says V. S. Logan of the Animal Husbandry Division, the practice followed is to use oats and barley -as the basic eanbohy- drate feeds and; mix these With the protein supplement feeds. Equal parts of oats and barley constitute half the ration and two or three of the pt`otei.n supplenien'ts are added to make a ration of from 17 to 20 per .cent crude ,protein de pendln . g on the type of legume rough age ge ;fed'... Soil Conservation Begins on Parks Sell conservation, 11k0 chalrltyr'3 • • •• much more° effective when it be gins at home: lYtost farm'operators can find signs of 'the need for sot conservation practices by periodic ally making • a careful survey o their own farm. Every year a lit tie' bit of somebodly'S valuable top soil either blows away or is wash ed 'away. With it goes not only much of the natural soil fertility but the value of the .farm is also ldwered and eventually the farm family's standard of living de clines. Soil conservation doesn't mean that farmers should • do something for nothing. The practice of soil Conservation is simply a sound business proposition, paying good returns over a long-term period. It is only good business to protect an investment and that is what every farmer does when he takes steps to prevent soli wastage on his own farm. No farmer will. willingly see many tons of soil per acre washed off his fields if he knows he can correct this by planting on a well planned contour system. Tests have shown that plots planted to grass or legumes, or other crops cultivat- ed on the contour, lose little or no soil. A farmer's experience may teach him that some soils and some fields, should never be left without some kind of cover; in fact he may find that in Mite long run it is better farm practice to put some of these soils under grass for the production of seed or livestock. There is no official "must" about preventing soil wastage on a man's own farm box if the operator hopes to stay andmake a diving there, the top soil must remain there too. Soil erosion is nothing new., Whe- ther due to wind, rain or over- grazing, it has played a vital part in bhe risd and fall of nations throughout recorded history. The story—and the session—is: there for those in Canada who wish to learn. Gone are the days when a farmor- cotfld' plow up, wear out.and move on to greener pastures. Today the wise farmer knows that if he takes care of his soil, the soil in turn will Look after him. Big Increase in Farm Tractor Use There has been a fourfold in= crease in the number of tractors in the past twenty years in the major farming •regions of the world. But in 1947 tractors still provided only 15 per cent of the draft' power on farm's, aceording to a recent F.A.O. report. Latin Atneric'a, the Far East, the Near East and Africa, containing tokether nearly half of theworld's ouitivated land, have only 2.5 per rent of the tractors, the remaining 97.5 per dent being, in North :Ainnc'rich. ILurop e, the U.S.S.R. . and (Jre'e ' i . a The!,,rapid ntedhanisatten of farm- ing in i 3trxope ib bringing -a y ethic-> tltYn',p'iff ttie' indtiufcettlfire e t r n ,21(teontirnted ort i*age i HERE'S HEAL+' 141" Miss Bitty Tees 1u the rarkrc horn • took vitamin D from •babyhood d• her bones are strong • though the winter's long • and the sun doesn't thine as much as it should •(WV •/ ,l.TJUM.t MGLTH AND w Years Agone Interesting Items Picked Front) The Hurbn Expositor of Twen- ty-five ' and Fifty Years Ago. From The Huron Expositor February 13, 1925 Mr. Oscar Neil, who for 25 years has conducted a most successful confectionery and restaurant busi- ness in the same store on Main St., last week disposed of the business to Ko Wing Bros:, of Toronto. The name of Oscar Neil's restaurant will recall many pleasant memor- ies to old boys and girls in town and country wherever they may go. The carnival held on Friday eve Ming was a very successful one, ev= en if the ice was soft. The prize winners were: Boys' comic, over 14 years, John Crich, Karl Ament; un- der 1.4 years, Tom Sills, Leslie Bate- man; girls' comic, over 14 years, Jean Brodie, Hilda Baechler; under 14 years, Doreen Hudson, Rhia Rut- ledge; gents' character, Ernest Edge, Robt. Reid; ladies' character, Beatrice Seip, Marian Porterfield; gents' comic, Don Kerslake, Wm. Hart; national costume (Canada), Annie Stewart, (Uncle Sam), Robt. Venus. - The first thaw since the second week la Debember set in on Sun- day and on Monday there was a heavy rain which made the country roads impassable. The mail car- riers were unable to make their rounds, but to many farmers the rain was far more welcome than the mail, as the water shortage had been acute. Mr. Wm. Hartry is in Toronto this week attending the annual convention of the Ontario Horti- cultural Association, at •which he will give an address on "Rose Cul- ture," J. D. Gemmell and D. Fothering- ham of Tuekersmith were in Wat- fordon Saturday attending the fun- eral of the -late Rev. E. H. Sawyers, a former pastor of Brueefield church. Miss Clara Pinkney ,is visiting friends in Toronto and Hamilton and taking in the millinery opett- lugs. G. K. Holland of Beechwood is having a sale to reduce his stock. Hes .has kept store there for many years and deserves a well-earned rest. About 7:30 Monday morning fire was noticed in the belfry of the Bayfield school. It is supposed that a spark from the newly -kindled fire lodged in the belfry and set it on fire. Not much damage was done as willing hands soon had the fife under control. • From The Huron Expositor February 9, 1900 Mr, John Beattie, J.P., has been appointed police magistrate for the Town of Seaforth. The concert given in Cardno' Hall Wednesday evening under the auspices of the 33rd Battalion Band and in aid of the Red Cross South African Fund, was a splendid suc cess in every way. Among those who furnished the program were Miss Grai;e • McFall], Miss Daisy Lewis, Thos. Murray, W. G. Willis Miss Bessie Young, D. Campbell W. Brodie, Mrs. J. C. Greig, S Watson and W. McLeod. Miss L Willson was 'the pianist. On Saturday at noon some• gaso line leaked from the tank which supplies the engine in W. H. Wil lis' shoe factory and caught fire When noticed the fire was climb- ing the wall and In a short time things would have been serious. -- Mr.• Harry Beattie, barrister, son of Mr. James Beattie, intends open- ing up a law office in town short- ly. Mr. Henry Chesney, of Tucker - smith, had a very successful wood bee last Tuesday afternoon, The boys worked like• Trojans:' with their saws aitd axes and then re- paired to the house for a sumptu- ous meal.' Dancing was enjoyed la the evening. Mrs, Park, who has lived for some years in the Aitcheson house -between Harpurhey and. Roxboro, has leased the comfortable resi- dence of Mr. Wm, Copp in Egmond- ville and will go there to live short- ly. • Ortwein & Abell have opened a n@'vv grocery store in the .Carmich- ael block. Mr.. W. K. Pearce, manager of the Dominion Bank here, who has been laltrup with a sprained ankle, is now able to walk around. *Rh a pair of hutches and to get dowse to business. 'Mr. N. S., Hawkshaw, of Glan- worth, the we1I kndwn Canadian breeder and 'impeller of sheep, re-' den dy purchased (rotaMr. "seHectorRei d.• Brueefield,'12 df his sheep. • Last 'Saturday evening the choir, and a rittmb'er of the meraber;s of Duff's Church, Whiten, assembled at the hdMO of Mee Annie F'drgu- sen andcited res ' p her With i b an,ad- di'etal'and a gold 'wabeh and tahaiti, itt redagifition of het` set"vices ,ts organist:= The address was read by 1tr. A. mtQirw.ig;. rr: 1 > 1, FERRU X 10r 1,p50 Seen In the C00.04.:Papers Hon. Jas, Gardiner Visits Usborne Hon. J. O Gardiner, of Ottawa, in. Exeter the latter part of last week. He spent the week -end at his farm in Usborne Twp.—Exe- ter Times -Advocate. Buys Farm Mr. George Smale has purchased he former Balfour/farm Wearied on of 6, concession 4; Hubbell., and is now doing some renovation to the home Mitchell Advocate. Presented With Caps In a candlelight ceremony at Victoria Hospital, London, on Wed- nesday of last week, fifty-two girls intraining received their caps. Among them were Janet Kestle, Exeter, and Joanne McCurdy, Cen- tralia.—Exeter Times -Advocate. -To Present Easter Cantata Main Street Uniter Church choir under the Ieadership of Mr. E. C. Harley, will commence prepara- tions of an Feaster cantata, "From Darkness To Light," this week. The music of this work is by Tschaik- owski.—Mitchell Advocate. Attends Exeter Ceremonies J. W. "Hanna, M.L.A. for Huron and 'Bruce, attended the official op - e i1ng of the half million dollar new high school for Exeter District last Wednesday. He also attended the plc men's meeting held in Brussels last Thursday:'—Wingham Advance - Times. Nevy Store Opened Mr. Kelly Houpt, of Mitchell, has opened a new store in Blyth, stock- ing men's and boys' wear and war surplus goods. The location is in the former Kechnie Radio Store, next to the post office. Mr. Houpt purchased the building. — Blyth Standard. Poems By Former Teacher - A book of poems, with the title, "Mosaics," has been presented to the Benmiiler school library by the author, Sofie Patton Durst. Mrs. Durst (then Sofie Patton) taught in, the Benmiller school in the late 70's and quit teaching to marry John K. Durst, of Stratford. She is now a resident of Berkeley, Cali- fornia.—Goderich Signal -Star. • Nearly Electrocuted While doing some electrical re- pairs at Lloyd & Son Door Factory this past week, Mr. Norman Keat- ing enmployee of Wingham Utili- ties, came in contact with a live wire. Had help not been immedi- ately on hand a very tragic acci- dent might have resulted. Norman was taken to Wingham General Hospital for trea.tnient.—Wingham Advance -Times. $65 Lost in Wallet A young airforce couple in _Exe- ter find themselves in a very em- barrassing position. It was pay day at the Airport Tuesday and on Wednesday while the party was do- ing some shopping in Exeter, 'a brown .alligator leather pocketbook containing about $65 was lost. It would,be just too bad if this young couple would have to go on short rations for the next two weeks.— Exeter Times -Advocate. Masonic At -Home Enjoyed A fair crowd enjoyed the annual Masonic At -Home held in the lodge rooms Friday evening. Sickness prevented many from attending. A venerable guest was Mrs. Frank Metcalf. Cards were played and prizes were won by Mrs. R. D. Philp, Dorothy Poplestone, Harold Vodden, Douglas Morrison and Mrs. A. H. Tierney. A delicious lunch was served by the members of file lodge. W.M. Borden Cook extend- ed a welcome to•the ladies.—Blyth Standard. Retires From Meat Business With the end of January a change took effect in the firm of Allison & Heitman, Walter Heit- man retiring after twenty-one years association with Earl Allison in the meat shop on the west eld . of the Square. Mr. Heitman will take a well-earned rest and with Mrs.. Heitman leave for St: Petersburg, Florida, to spend two months; or so in the sunny South. On. Saturday night Mrs. Allisoi entertained at her home for Mr, and Mrs..Heit- man. In the Bourse of the evening Mr. Heitman was presented wiith a silver table lighter and Mrs. Heit- man with a perfume pen, accom- panied by cordial good wishes for the guests of honor..—•Godericlr Sig- nal -Star. Attended Reception • On Friday evening last a :goodly number attended the Hartman -Ger- ard reception given at the home of the groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kuno Hartman, of the Goshen Line South. All were well entertained by dancing to old-time music as well as modern. A de'icious lunch was served and refreshments as well. The night was nice and mild for home going, but some prefer- red tb wait until the wee dawn hours toreturn home. Songs and other amusements followed. Sortie - thing unusual but very fitting, was the .lullaby song, sang by the groom. After many good wishes to the newlyweds, who will make their home in WIndsor, the happy couple ' left with words of praise for the Hartman family. —• Zurich. Herald. , Caretaker Retires. From School Robert Orr did his duty as care- taker of Bayfield Public School for the last time on Tuesday, Jan. 31. Owing to failing eyesight this en- ergetic "young" man of almost 83 years, tendered his resignation to, �J the trustee board and it was with genuine regret, on the part of all concerned, that it had to be accept- ed. During his six and a half years- -of caretaking at the school, Mr. Orr took a pride in his work. He en- joyed his contact with the teachers• and children and earned the affec- tionate regard of many of the pup- ils, Two years ago he lost the sight of one eye and now that the other is fast tailing, his activities --'mar- vellous for a man of his years— will be curtailed; Ile was sexton - of Bayfield cemetery for 21 years, which position he was also forced to resign owing to his handicap. He resides with his elder daughter, Mrs. Walter Westlake, Bayfield.— Clinton News -Record, it The Yorkshire Wins (The Winnipeg Free Press) Of all the creatures, (human and otherwise, who served mankind with distinction during the last re years, the humble Yorkshire ho has perhaps been given the leas recognition. Man and women were grante awards for their wartime braver Dogs, mules, and even a pigeo and a cat were presented wit medals. But the animal that yiel ed up his life by the hundreds o thousands to help Britain sta alive has gone without reward o any kind. Indeed so short is the memor of some Canadians that they ar even suggesting that he be pe mitterl to suffer the final indignit of race extermination. They admi that he did a good job during th war but they say that like th battleship hes44, obsolete, his per tat of usefulness is ended and h is destined to disappear. They argue that the qualit bacon hog, of which the Yorkshir is -the top breed in Canada, wa developed only in response to th demands of the British market Now they say, that market ha largely disappeared and there i no longer the compelling need fo Canadian farmers to ,produce thi type of animal. But this• kind of tali-- reckon without two'• highly important fac tors, the Canadian housewife and the soy bean. Because of them there is good reason to suppose that the predictions of disaster are nonsense and that the Yorkshire hog, far from falling a victim of post-war reconstruction, will em- erge as full of life and •with as many twists in his tail as ever. If he does, a good many people in Canada, Government officials, farm journal and packing house re- presentatives, will be very happy, After .spending the best part of their lives in the often thankless but successful task of propagandiz- ing farmers on behalf of the bacon hog, they would- hate like poison to see their good work dome to natrght° The• main virtue of the Canadian bacon hog, as.'oontrasted with the four -footed tubs of lard favored by U.S. farmers, is that he has no ex- cess fat and is a real meat pro- ducer. He i9 long and streamlined and the .bacon and! pork chops made from hint are decently efi- deWed with good lean anent. This quality enable • q enabled y. to do more than win friend i' s n the' Brit- ish rit- ish market. without their know- ing it, he infltteii•(;ad the>Cgnadian hetiliewtte trcinend8usly`. a gave thea; a roast of pork thZt would w g d Y• n h d- r - • I not melt away in the, oven and bacon with some real strips of lean on it, not just thin sliver* embedded in a mass of fat. He gave her an appreciation of quality in pork that she never had before. She will continue to de- mand that quality and •the premium which she is prepared to pay for it will make the raising, of good Yorkshire hogs still worth the pro- ducer's while. 4 Meat packers, too, will want to• have nothing to do with the mas- sive lard -hog types. The reason for this Is strikingly shown in the latest market letter of the Indus- trial and Developinent Council of. Canadian Meat Packers. It explains .that.in the old days, both here and in the United States, it was the custom of packers to trim away large amounts of fat from the. hog carcass. This was profitable in, that the fat would be rendered into lard and the lard would be sold at a good price, • • But ,the increasing production of soy besot and other vegetable oils has spelled the doom of that happy arrangement. The extent to which: this competition had, over the years. taken the profit from lard production, was s-hown by a speak- er at the recent annual convention of the Association Meat Instituto,' in New York. He said that in the decade after 1910 lard was selling at $5.50 per hundredweight above the live weight of hogs. In the next de- cade the differential bad fallen to $3. And now lard is. actually worth about $6 per hundred less than the - cost of the hogs from which the lard was tilken. Thus the lard on a hog has be- come a liability and the U.S. peel- er, who is stuck with the heavy - lard types, is spending a,,good•,deal of time worrying about the prob- lem: they have created. Brut in Can- ada'kthank§ to the educational wbr,.done years ago, there is no sueh problem. The bacon hog has supplied a ready -tirade answer. The 41d battle between the lard' hog and -the 'bacon hog is over, won by the streamlined fellow with, -the. • ,r aid""of 'Canada's cooks •and vege- table oil. ,And the Yorkshire, as t! Canada's premier bacon hog, will be• right up there in front when i thy prizes of victory are being handed out, Two friends ware a dascu g ssi ri new neighbai•. "I believe Mrs. th'een is a great gossip," remarked one. . "Yes," replied, the other, "she Ji hoe a keen sense of .rumor,"