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THE HURON EXPOSITOR
FEBRUARY 25, 1955
THE 'HURON EXPOSITOR
Established 1860
Published at Seaforth, Ontario,
every Thursday morning by McLean
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A. Y. McLean, Editor
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SEAFORTH, Friday, February 25
On Attracting, Industry
A meeting was held in Goderich
recently, sponsored by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce. The speaker
was .J. E. Turnbull, of the Trade and
Industry Branch of the Department
of Planning and Development, and
the topic was how to attract indus-
try to small towns.
Mr. Turnbull reviewed many re-
quirements, such as a knowledge of
what the town had to offer; availa-
bility of services; accommodation at
reasonable cost, and an evidence of
what the future might hold in the
way of future municipal growth.
These are mechanical require-
ments, and in themselves do not nec-
essarily bring new industry. The
most important thing of all, the
speaker told the meeting, was the at-
titude of the people. This is deter-
-mined by representatives of an in-
dustry as a result of conversations
they have with storekeepers, with a
gas station attendant, or a clerk in
a restaurant. These are the people
who sell industry on locating in a
town. If they are enthusiastic, if
they truly believe in the future of
the community, they are the best
salesmen a town could have. On the
other hand, a response that suggests
there is no hope can do nothing else
but discourage a stranger in the com-
munity.
The obtaining of industry and of
new citizens for a town is not some-
thing far a few to do. It depends
on the wholehearted support of ev-
erybody.
Red Stripe Goes
Canadian housewives have made
their voices heard again. Campaign-
ing by the Canadian Association of
Consumers has resulted in an edict
being issued by the Federal Govern-
ment prohibiting the use of red -
striped cellophane for packaging
bacon.
The complaint has been that the
red -striped wrapper suggests a lean-
er slice of bacon than actually 'is
found to exist when the \vrapper has
been removed. A complaint of a
similar nature was that directed
against the pink netting that at one
time covered baskets of peaches. In
any event, the meat packing and'
vending industry has been told by
Ottawa that under the Food and
Drugs Act, use of such wrappers is
to be prohibited.
In the purchase of many food it-
ems, the greater part of the house-
wife's dollar goes to pay those un-
seen costs that arise between the time
the product leaves the farm and the
time it reaches the dining room
table. It is well that government
looks carefully at any practise that
-light have the effect of unnecessar-
y reducing the value received for
the domestic dollar. It is to the ad-
vantage of producer, as well as con-
sumer, that food products be present-
ed in a straight forward manner.
They Live Longer
Somebody produced some statistics
the other day that indicated that wo-
men lived longer than men, and the
Peterborough Examiner thinks it
knows the reason.
It all comes about because of the
easier life which a housewife enjoys,
the Examiner says. The average
mate finds himself faced with tension
air tension, and works under pres-
a9rties of the kind that send even the
o'bust to hospital.
re this male life with that
ratt happy in her home, the
jt'SS The das of
household drudgery have been ban-
ished by mechanical gadgets, elec-
tricity and small houses.
"The hours of cookery have been
shortened by self-regulating ovens,
prepared and frozen foods, tinned
goods, packaged cakes, so on. In some
homes, only the dishes must still be
washed in the old way; but modern
custom has the husband busy at the
kitchen sink after the evening din-
ner."
Whatever the explanations, fewer
women than men languish in hospi-
tals and females live six years longer
than males.
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY:
MENTAL BLOCK
(Toronto Telegram)
"Do you ever have a mental
block?" a friend asked us.
We were not sure what a "mental
block" was.
"Well, just for the moment I can-
not remember my own telephone
number," he explained.
We can remember our telephone
number but on occasions we have
found ourself looking up the mean-
ing of a word in the telephone direc-
tory.
The really embarrassing lapse of
this kind, is when you start to intro-
duce somebody you have known well
and for a long time, and suddenly re-
alize that for the moment, you can-
not remember his name.
WHAT'S THE REASON?
(Wiarton Echo)
Perhaps someone would be kind
enough to tell us why the Provincial
Department of Highways again this
year cut its grants to municipalities.
Is it because the provincial treas-
ury is depleted? Not likely. We
haven't seen any tax cuts, and there
are more automobiles, more people
and more liquor floating around than
ever.
Is it because the Department
thinks municipalities are squander-
ing their grants? A look at the
streets of practically any municipal-
ity would show that local governing
bodies are scraping the bottom of
the barrel just to keep their streets
passable. -
Surely the municipalities are not
being penalized to make up for cer-
tain "discrepancies" in the Depart-
ment's handling of its business.
The Department pays 50 per cent
of the money spent by a municipal-
ity on its streets, up to maximum set
by the Department. In the past few
years, this maximum for Wiarton
has been cut by $3,000, a direct loss
to the town of $1,500 a year. Other
municipalities have suffered propor-
tionately.
If anyone knows the answer, we'd
appreciate hearing from him.
STUMP FENCES
(The Ottawa Journal)
Where man has lived he has taken
material at hand to build or mark
the boundaries of his property. He
has used clay, rocks, hedges, rails
and posts; he has planted rows of
trees and has dug ditches. Half a
century ago, when Autumn's routine
tasks were. finished, grandfather al-
ways wanted to clear a section of land
where wood had been cut the Winter
before.
Grandfather was a master crafts-
man at stump pulling. He knew
from experience how to adjust the
long chains so that the chunky mares -
could exert the greatest leverage.
The part a farm lad enjoyed was
driving the team to the stump fence
with the leaping, jerking stump and
its tangled, waving roots. Nothing
very exciting, perhaps, in terms of
today's powerful tractors and trucks;
but in those unhurried days of yes-
teryear, a 12 -year -older was always
thrilled when he was allowed to drive
the work team.
Hour by hour stumps were pulled
into the fence line. Father threw the
smaller stumps on top the big ones
to form a horse -high, hog -tight, bull -
strong fence. One sees few of the
old stump fences, today, but half a
century ago they were common. Come
Spring, a boy and his collie knew
that woodchucks would dig dens
among the roots and birds would
build their nests there. Hornets
wank' hang thin grey paper cones
from them.
SEEN IN THE COUNTY PAPERS
Congratulations!
Ex -Mayor of Clinton, B. J. Gib-
bons, celebrated his 85th birthday
at his home this week and his
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. John A. Gibbings, Stratford,
were home for the birthday din-
ner.—Clinton News -Record.
Returned Froin Florida
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Yunblut have
returned from their pleasant visit
to different parts of the south.
They spent some time at the home
of the latter's brother, Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Klapp, who are
spending the winter months at
their residence in Florida. Mr.
and Mrs. Yungblut were accom-
panied by Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
Haist, of Fraser, Mich. We are
pleased to see them safe home
again after seeing all the beautiful
sights.—Zurich Herald.
Clerk Hears Two Pleas -
In the absence of Magistrate D.
E. Holmes due to illness, the court
clerk, Mabel Gray, heard two
guilty pleas in a brief court ses-
ion here Wednesday afternoon.
Wallace Conkey, Galt, pleaded
guilty to a charge of failing to
give a left hand signal and was
fined $10 and costs. Wilfred Bezzo,
driver of the taxi which struck
Kenneth Porter recently in an ac-
cident on Highway 4, causing a
fractured leg injury, pleaded guil-
ty to a charge of careless driving,
and was fined $15 and costs.—
Clinton News -Record. •
Wintering in California
Mr. Bruce Bossenberry, Grand
Bend, who is spending some time
at the beautiful beach scenic re-
sort of Oceanside, California, sent
us a most lovely scenic post card
with the following remarks: Have
a room right on the water front
here. Warm, sunny days, clear
blue sky and blue water, cool
nights. At post office yesterday
a man saw my Ontario license on
car, came and asked where I was
from. He was born at Kitchener
when it was Berlin; name is Man-
gold, related to Ameil Rarick. He
says a policeman. in Zurich. I told
him I knew of Raricks in Zurich,
but not by that first name and as
a policeman.—Zurich Herald.
$65,000 Contract For Elevator
G. A. Cann, president of Cann's
Mill Ltd., announced Wednesday
that the contract for a 40,000 -bush-
el grain elevator has been let to
Trudgen .. Phair, construction
specialists of Blenheim. Price of
the contract, $65,000, does not in-
clude all the eqiupment, Mr. Cann
said. The elevator will be built on
the east side of the railway tracks
south of Victoria St. on property
now owned by Cecil Jones. Fea-
ture of the construction will be
the use of steel and concrete
throughout the building to elimin-
ate fire hazard. Metal grain
chutes will be installed instead of
the usual wooden ones. Equip-
ment in the mill will include a
hydraulic hoist to facilitate the un-
loading of semi; trailers and large
trucks.—Exeter Times -Advocate.
Marks 91st Birthday
Gorrie's oldest resident, Mrs.
James Armstrong, celebrated her
91st birthday on. Monday, Feb. 14.
She was the recipient of many
cards and gifts and in the after-
noon friends called to offer best
wishes when Mrs. W. C. King en-
tertained for her. Mrs. Armstrong
is able to be around a good deal
and although her sight and hear-
ing are failing, her memory is very
keen. One of the things she likes
to recall is attending receptions in
Winnipeg given by Sir Daniel Mc-
Millan and Sir James Aikins when
she was a delegate to Sunday
School conventions in that city,
while residing in Manitoba. She
,has lived in Corrie for the past 28
years and is the widow of the late
Dr. James .Armstrong, veterinary
surgeon. who lived to the age of
95. Since giving up her home five
years ago, she has resided with
Miss Etta Burns.—Wingham Ad-
vance -Times.
Registering For Tournament
Entries are literally pouring in
for Goderich's sixth annual Ybung
Canada Week, and by Tuesday,
entries from 25 hockey teams in-
cluding ten new ones, had been
received by Guy Emerson, secre-
tary of the Young Canada Week
committee. New entries are from
Stouffville, Granvenhurst, Leaside,
East York, Galt, Ferris, Preston,
Lambeth, Collingwood and Shallow
Lake. Teams which have been
here in previous years to partici-
pate in the event and have signal-
Ied their intention to return this
year are from Winnipeg, Kingston,
Goderich, Listowel, Toronto, Mild-
may, Exeter, Port Perry, Wing -
ham, Woodstock, Tavistock, South-
ampton, Strathroy, Ebenezer and
God'erieb Township. So, all indica-
tions point to the busiest and most
successful week in the tourna-
ment's history. One of the high-
lights again this , year, as it was
last year, will be a game between
Goderich and Wiimipeg Pee Wee
entries for an East-West cup.—
Goderich Signal -Star.
Explosion Startles Group
A group of villagers and district
farmers gathered around an oil
stove at Norman Gowing's Service
Station on Si,turday afternoon en-
joying the hospitality of their host,
were suddenly Frought to the re-
alization that there is danger
amidst the most tranquil scenes,
when the oil stove gave a mighty
puff and scattered soot and an oily
substance all over the visitors, as
well as the interior of the premis-
es. The explosion was in reality
a double-barreled one, because at
the same time a coal stove in the
basement also blew up. Cause of
the explosion was the application
of some oil to the coal fire. Both
stoves are connected to the same
chimney and the basement explo-
sion set the oil stove upstairs • to
bouncing as the concussion raced
through the pipes. A passerby at
the moment saw the pipe atop the
chimney on the building lift about
a foot from its moorings, and then
gently settle back into place, which
to say the least, must have been
something of a startler. No dam-
age except some black, oily faces
and soiled clothing. The vacuum
cleaner was used to give the gar-
age interior the once-over, it hav-
ing been completely saturated with
the oily substance from the stove.
—Blyth Standard.
Says Wing Would Be Nucleus
"Goderich must have a new hos-
pital," representatives of organ-
izations attending the annual meet-
ing of Alexandra Marine and Gen-
eral Hospital Association were told
on Monday night by R. C. Hays,
past chairman of the hospital
board. "We can build an arena
and other things in town," Mr.
Hays said, "I think the time has
come for the town to get behind
the building of a new hospital."
Mr. Hays, who is chairman of the
board's planning committee for a
new addition, said he felt that
most people in Goderich realized
that it was absolutely necessary to
build the nucleus for a new, perm-
anent hospital. The government
says our hospital has become ob-
solete—and it has," he said. He
poinied out that everything that
had been done in connection with
new building and alterations at
the hospital in the last decade had
been with a view that the day
would be coming when a new hos-
pital would be needed. "That day
is here," he said. "It's the town's
hospital; I think it's the responsi-
bility of the town as a whole." At
the regular board meeting which
followed the annual meeting, Mr.
Hays was authorized to confer with
the Ontario Department of Health
in Toronto to determine 'the de-
partment's opinion of sketches of
the proposed addition.—Goderich
Signal -Star.
SOME FAMOUS MISQUOTATIONS
(By Sy( -1 Harris in the Pittsburgh Post -Gazette)
"Pride goeth before a fall",
murmured the man at my side, as
we watched a couple of experts
being badly whipped in a bridge
lourna ment.
1 nodded in agreement, but won-
dered (as I have many times be-
fore) why most quotations are so
persistently misquoted when the
original is just as simple to give,
and often makes more sense.
The Bible says. "Pride goeth be-
fore destruction, and a haughty
spirit before a fall", but almost
nobody else says so. Why should
the distortion be popular. and the
correct wording abandoned in lim-
bo?
We are told, in the same wide-
ly read book, that we shall eat
bread by the sweat of our face—
which everyone changes to "brow"
for reasons too obscure to fath-
om.
Shakespeare has suffered as
many changes as the Bible. The
most famous distortion occurs
with a line from "King John",
where he tells us it is a ridiculous
excess "to gild refined gold, to
paint the lily". •
Yet everyone turns it into "gild
the lily", which is not only a
change in word, but a change in
sense: For Shakespeare meant it
is silly to paint the lily even whit-
er than it is, just as it is silly to
put gilt on gold.
In mimicking Hamlet's grave-
yard scene, 99 persons out of 100
,will declaim: "Alas, poor Yorick!
I knew him well", instead of, "I
knew him, Horatio." How did
"well" happen to creep into the
phrase?
Likewise, in "As You Like It",
theester, Touchstone, speaks of
his bovine country maids as "an
i11 favored thin, sir, but mine
own". Even writers, who should
know better, insist on changing it
to "a poor thing but mine own".
In `The Merchant of Venide",
one of the characters makes the
ttow classics &Mnntellt, "The devil
can cite scripture for his pur-
pose". This phrase is used all
the time—and"cite" is always
changed to "quote".
No particular harm is done by
these misquotations, and only a
pedant would seriously object to
them. Yet, they illustrate not
only how the words of the past
are perverted by time but also
how errors often become more
firmly embedded than truth in the
general mind. The devil may cite
scripture, but few of us really
quote Shakespeare.
QUICK CANADIAN QUIZ
1. Of these, which is the longest
river: Saguenay, Churchill, Ot-
ta wa ?
2. In 1941 Canadians spent $3A
billion in retail stores. How
much are they spending today?
3. Sales and excise taxes collect-
ed at the factory on a low -price
Canadian -made car are $150,
$290, $402?
4. no Canadian fur trappers
nually take more pelts of t
beaver, rabbit or the muskrat?
5. Of ail taxes paid by Canadians,
does Ottawa take 30 per cent, 50
per cent, 70 per cent?
ANSWERS: 5. Ottawa takes
70 per cent of all taxes. 3. $402.
1. The Churchill, 1,000 miles long.
4. The muskrat. 2. Over $12 bil-
lion.
A summer visitor wandered aim-
lessly through the strange coun-
tryside until he realized that he
was lost. He was overjoyed when
he finally met a native. "Say,
pal, exclaimed the visitor, "am i
glad to see you. I'm lost."
"Is there any reward for you.?"
inquired the native. '
"No -=why?" asked the visitor, a
bit pu`$zle'd.
"Well," replied the native, "then
you'restill lost!'°
YEARS AGONE
Interesting Items picked
from The Huron Expositor of
25 and 50 Years Ago,
From The Huron Expositor
February 28, 1930
Mr. Pat McLaughlin, Manley,
had the misfortune to fall on the
ice, but escaped with a severe
shaking up.
Miss Lucy Eckert, Manley, who
had a severe attack of pneumonia,
is now recovering, her many
friends are pleased to learn.
Mrs. William Pullman, Tucker -
smith, isvisiting her daughter,
,
Mrs. David Stief, at Monkton.
Mrs. Fred Course and Mrs. Dav-
id Laidlaw visited with Mr. and
Mrs. S. G. Houston, Tuckersmith,
for a few days last week.
Mr. A. E. Erwin, Bayfield, is
at Goderich this week engaged in
auditing the county books.
Mr. George Beatty, Sr-, Varna,
spent a few days in Toronto last
week.
Miss Margaret Chuter, of Gode-
rich, is spending a few days with
her aunt, Mrs. Reid, Varna.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Elliott and
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Elliott, of
Staffa, spent Sunday in Mitchell.
Mr. Joseph Spew and daugh-
ter, Miss Ada, have returned to
Staffa, after spending a couple of
weeks in Vineland and Harriston.
Mrs. James Moodie spent part
of last week at the home of her
brother, Mr. George Thompson, of
Brucefield, caring for her mother,
Mrs. Samuel Thompson, who had
the misfortune to fall and break
hen4high bone.
Mr. Louis Forrest, Brucefield,
has bought Mr. Wilfred Aiken -
head's share of the Tebbutt and
Aikenhead truck.
Miss Jessie Finlayson, Kippen,
who is attending Stratford Nor-
mal, visited recently with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Fin-
layson.
Mr. Stewart Beatty, Hillsgreen,
spent the weekend at his home
near Londesboro.
Mrs. K. Cochrane and daugh-
ters, Agnes and Annie, of Clinton,
spent a few days with their
friends on the Parr Line.
Mr. Elmer Willert, Zurich, has
sold his dwelling property in Dash-
wood to Mr. Valentine Becker, of
the Bronson Line, Hay, who gets
immediate possession.
Messrs. Joseph Dill and Lorne
Cronin, of Detroit, were week -end
visitors with their parents in Dub-
lin.
Mr. and Mrs. Dawson Smith, of
Toronto, spent a few days with
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Smith, Win-
throp.
Miss Jean Lawson, Constance,
goes to. Toronto on Friday to visit
her brother, Mr. Lorne Lawson,
and other friends.
Messrs. George Eberhart and
Murray Savauge motored from
London and spent the weekend at
their homes in Seaforth.
Messrs. Gerald Stewart and J.
E. Keating, Seaforth, spent a few
days this week in Toronto.
•
From The Huron Expositor
February 24, 1905
Rev. Mr. McLennan, of Kippen,
was in Clinton one day last week
and on going into a store he slip-
ped and put his arm through a
pane of glass in the doorway.
The other morning Mr. and Mrs.
Crittenden, of Blyth, were awak-
ened by smoke and found some
clothing in the room on fire. Mrs.
Crittenden threw the clothing out-
side and in doing so was badly
burned. How the clothes caught
fire is a mystery, as there was
no fire in the room.
Miss Minnie Dundas, who was
in Toronto since . the beginning of
winter, has returned to her home
at Leadbury.
There was considreable excite-
ment caused in Brussels for a short
time Thursday afternoon. Owing to
the blockade a snowplow was pre-
ceding a train eastward. The plow,
after leaving Brussels, got stuck
about three miles oat, and while
the conductor of the train follow-
ing was in the Brussels station
awaiting orders, the engineer, by
some misunderstanding, pulled out
without him, and it was only by
good luck that the snowplow staff
pul out a flag about 100 yards be-
hind them, thus preventing a ser-
ious smashup.
It is rumoured that Mr. L. Beat-
ty intends leaving Varna and tak-
ing up his residence in Exeter. He
is anenterprising and pushing cit-
izen and will be much missed.
Miss Lilly Babb, of Mitchell, is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. F.
D. Hutchinson, Staffa.
Mr. A. G. Smillie, clerk of Tuck-
ersmith, who is earning a well-
deserved reputation as a breeder
of thoroughbred Shorthorn cattle,
has recently made several sales
from his excellent herd. He sold a
17 -months -old bull to Mr. Roger
Northcott, of Hay Township; a 7 -
months -old bull to Mr. W. L. Mc-
Laren, Hibbert, and a three-year-
old heifer to Mr. John Patterson,
of Hensall. These are all Mr.
Mr. Smillie's raising, and are a
very fine lot.
Mr. J. McArthur, Hensall, has
sold his fine brick residence to
Mr. Robert Drysdale, of Drysdale,
who intends moving to Hensall in
the spring. Mr. McArthur, who is
one of Hensall's old and prosper-
ous residents, will not be leaving.
the village for some time, but hav-
ing a good opportunity to sell and
thinking of moving to London lat-
er on in the interests of the fam-
ily in an educational point of
view, concluded he would sell.
We are pleased to report that
Verna, the young daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Miller Adams, Constance
is improving from her reeent and
dangerous illness.
Mr. and Mrs. William Murdoch,
Jr., left this week for their new
home in High River, Alta., havin
spent a pleasant honeymoon With
their- friends in Brucefield.
Mr, 5'. G. Neelin, Seaforth, slip
ped on the sidewa'1k tits Monday
and got a• ver see5e fall.• abut
teas not seriotig�y injtf'ro
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TO THE EDITOR:
Toronto, Feb. 15, 1955.
Editor, The Huron Expositor:
Dear Sir: On behalf of the
many children you so kindly as-
sisted in the recent annual Christ-
mas Appeal of the Hospital, may
I thank you for your valuable sup-
port.
People all over the Province and
beyond were most generous and
we are sincerely grateful for the
wonderful help we have received.
To the official thanks of the Hos-
pital "where no child knocks in
vain," I would add my personal
appreciation for the support
which you and through you, your
readers, gave us. We sincerely
hope that we may look forward to
your co-operation in future ap-
peals.
Yours sincerely,
J. GRANT GLASSCO,
Chairman, Board of
Trustees.
Toronto, Feb. 18, 1955.
Editor, The Huron Expositor:
Dear Sir: In many areas of On-
tario our 1955 March of Dimes is
drawing to a conclusion and we
believe our results will indicate
this to be the most successful
campaign we have yet conducted.
Our achievement is due in no
small measure to the publicity
which we have received from your
profession.
Taking the message of the need
of Ontario's polio. victims into the
homes of the public is the most
important factor in conducting a
charity campaign of the magni-
tude of "The March of Dimes."
The results of this past campaign
prove that your paper and nearly
every other paper in the Province
have done an excellent job.
Therefore, may I extend the
thanks and appreciation of my-
self, our officers, and the volun-
teer workers who comprise The
Canadian Foundation of Polio-
myelitis.
Yours very truly,
D. G. WILLMOT,
President.
Toronto, Feb. 17, 1955..
Editor, The Huron Expositor:
Dear Sir: I see by that front
page report on the regular meet-
ings of various farm forums, that
"opinions were divided" in deal
ing with the theme question:
"What benefits can farmers
expect from an orderly mar-
keting program for livestock un-
der produce -controlled marketing
boards?"
To be frank, I was not surpris-
ed at this division of opinion up-
on so obviously controversial a
theme. Indeed, e d, it would be more
surprising if there was unanim-
ity.
I have attended many meetings
in towns and cities and cannot re-
call an instance in which, when
dealing with a major or controver-
sial problem, there were not a
variety of views expressed. In
this respect, therefore, the voice
of the opposition is always heard,
whether the meeting is a gather-
ing of farm folk or city folk. On
the other hand, there is, accord-
ing to my observation of both
groups, a difference in the atti-
tude, or, at any rate, the result
of these 'divided opinions.' In the
urban approach, the principle of
the majority vote is relied upon,
i.e., either a straight majority of
as little as a single vote, or of a
two-thirds of those voting in a
matter of major or basic impor-
tance. Among farmers and coun-
try folk, apparently the flame of
individual freedom is more in-
tense, and the tendency is to ex-
press the pros and the cons, and
to leave it at that.
This latter characteristic in
rural thinking is quite significant,
especially in terms of its power to
slow -down , the opportunity of
thought transforming itself into
action. Undoubtedly there are
merits in the slower rural pace;
but, in matters of the marketing
mechanism, there are also grave
dangers. This is why organiza-
tion among gainfully -employed
workers up in the city is com-
parative child's play contrasted
with similar efforts down on the
farm. A great farm leader un-
doubtedly had this in mind when
warning the producers: "If you
fail to unite, you will be the de-
light of your enemies and the de-
spair of your friends."
UNITY IS STRENGTH
Farm News of Huron
Because of deep snow, bush
work' and other outside activity
has been brought to a standstill in
the north end of the county. Road-
sides are piled high with snow and
while all roads are now open, an-
other storm could cause serious
blocking of the. roads.
Huron County 4-H CIub Leaders
Association had their annual meet-
ing Friday and completed plans
for 29 4-H Agricultural Clubs in
199; these will include 10 beef and
three dairy calf clubs, six swine
clubs, five grain and cash crop
clubs, three poultry clubs and one
tractor maintenance and one for-
estry club.
The Huron County Hereford Club
members' visited nine breeders'
farms in the county on Thursday
and were most pleased to have as
their guests the Western Canada
Directors of the Canadian Here-
ford Club. Reports received this
week indicate that a total of 12,266
calves were vaccinated in the
county in 1954 on a volunteer and
compulsory basis. This is 8,931
more calves than were vaccinated
in 1953.
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'Brooding Chicks
The care which chicks receive
during the brooding period will
have a great effect on the finan-
cial returns from these birds at a
later date. Probably no mistake
is more common than the ten-
dency to put too many chicks in
the brooder house. The excessive
losses, uneven growth, and can-
nibalism that result are often at-
tributed to other causes, yet it
must be expected if the house
contains too many chicks for its
size. Now is the time to check
the available space and equipment
and to make plans for the brood-
ing season, says A. P. Piloski, In-
dian Head Experimental Farm,
Sask.
The brooder house should pro-
vide at least 72 square inches of
floor space per chick up to eight
weeks of age and the floor space
should be doubled if chicks are to
be kept in confinement for a lon-
ger period. In addition to ample
space a wide range of tempera-
tures to suit the needs of the chicks
is necessary. Over -heating, chill-
ing and drafts are harmful, with
over -heating the major fault.
Where chicks are being brooded
late in the spring some provision
should be made to ventilate the
house and hold temperatures
down. When chicks crowd to the
outer walls and are seen to pant,
then the temperature is too high.
The choice of a brooder stove
is important, especially in con-',
struction, as there is always risk,
of fire. The stove should be set
up and in operation at least three
days before the chicks arrive. A
good rule to follow is to have a
temperature of 95 degrees under
the brooder for the first week and
to, reduce the temperature five de-
grees each week. It is advisable
not to raise more than three hun-
dred chicks under one brooder.
For the farmer who raises four
hundred to six hundred -chicks two
brooders would be more satisfac-
tory.
Ample feeding space is also a
necessity for fast, even growth.
Two four -foot feeders per one hun-
dred chicks would provide approlii-
ifriately two inches td feeding
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factory until the chicks are six
weeks of age. If chicks are to be
confined for a longer period, then
the space per chick should be in-
creased to three inches. Some
poultrymen follow the practice of
covering the litter _with newspa-
pers for two or three days while
the chicks are learning to eat.
An adequate supply of fresh wa-
ter should be provided at all times.
Two waterers of two -quant capac-
ity are more satisfactory than one
of a gallon during the brooding
period. If later a change is made
to a larger waterer the small ones
should also be used for a short
period until the birds get acquaint-
ed with the new supply.
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Treating Seed of Farm Crops
Helps To Control Weeds
If a person takes a pot of soil
and sows a seed in it and then.
waters the soil to sprout the seed
and keep the plant growing, the
resulting single plant grows tall
and lanky, eventually bearing
many flowers and much fruit. If
more than one seed of the same
kind are sown in a similar pot
with the same amount of soil, the
number of plants is larger but
their individual growth, and their
flowering and fruiting are greatly
reduced, for the amount of plant
food available to each is much
less than when only one seed is
sown. It is possible to sow too
many seeds in a given amount of
soil. When this happens, the
weaker plants die from various
root diseases and the surviving
plants are small and weak.
In mixed equal populations,
where different kinds of plants oc-
cupy the same space, competition
for food and light is as intense as
when the plants growing together
are of the same kind, but sooner
or later the kind that grows faster
under the conditions provided will
overgrow its slower -growing asso-
ciate, shading it by a profusion of
leaves and starving it by taking
through a predatory root system
the "lion's share" of the plant food
available in the soil. However,
when the population of the slower
growing or weaker kind of plant
exceeds that of the stronger by a
wide enough margin, it can often
successfully resist aggression.
The behaviour of mixed, compet-
ing plant populations has been the
basis of the idea that weeds may,
under certain conditions, be cots -
trolled by treating the seed of the
crop grown. This was demonstrat-
ed on the experimental field oper-
ated by the Science Service Plant
Pathology Laboratory at Winni-
peg. When diseased seed of wheat,
oats and barley was sown at low
ayes in plots polluted with seed
bf a plant resembling wild mus-
tard, every one of such plots was
yellow with bloom of the weed.
As the rate of seeding for the cer-
eal crops Was increased, more and
more of the plots became free of
the yellow bloom, which indicated*
successful competition with the.
weed. However, when the diseas-
ed seed was treated with a well-
known organic mercury seed
dressing, its germination was con-
siderably improved, and the re-
sulting increase in the population
of the crop permitted control of
the Weed 'at seeding rates consid-
erably lower than these necessary
had the seed riot ,been, treated.
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