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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1955-03-11, Page 2"rx f ' '{ d1Y 'tift'. T.1 MO i �a �,�; u:- T ; Htf tt11 EXPOSITOR Eti i9kfwt 2'TM"0 MARCE 11, 1955 THE HURON EXPOSITOR Established l$ 6O Published at Seaforth, Ontario, every Thursday morning by McLean Bros. A. Y. McLean, Editor Subscription rates, $2.50 a year in advance; foreign $3.50 a year. Single copies, 5 cents each.. Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, Friday, March 11 Congratulations! Seaforth curlers, for the first time, welcomed district curlers to their new rink on the occasion of an invi- tation bonspiel Wednesday. The or- ganization may well take pride in the •completion of this newest contribu- tion to the already excellent facili- ties for sport which Seaforth enjoys. At the same time, congratulations from the community are in order to those who conceived and brought to a successful conclusion the construc- tion of the new modern curling rink. Every proposal which has as its pur- pose the improvement of or addition to community facilities is a benefit to all the citizens of the community, in that it makes the community a more pleasant place in which to Iive has the effect of attracting addition- al people to the community, either as permanent residents or for visits. Worthwhile Project Since the Lions Park was estab- lished more than 25 years ago, there ar e , if any, individuals or organ - tion in the Seaforth district who have n t at one time or another bene- fitted by the existence of the park. It may have been only a short visit on a hot day. Or perhaps it was a family or church picnic that was held at the park each year, year after year. In many cases, the park has been a factor in the lives of two gen- erations — the boy who learned to swim there is now a father, who in turn takes his children to the park several times a week. Knowing this to have been the sit- uation through the years, there .should be general support extended to the campaign announced last week, which has as its purpose the raising .of funds to permit the con- struction of a new pool at the Lions Park. Built at a time when swimming pools were almost unknown in the smaller centres in Ontario, the Lions Park pool has accommodated literal- ly tens of thousands of swimmers in the twenty years it has operated. It has brought to the town returns, in publicity, in dollars and. above all, in pleasure, many, many times the amount it has cost the community. Now, because of conditions over which the Lions Club has no control, new accommodation must be provid- ed if the' Park is to continue to serve the citizens of a wide area in the future as completely as it has in the past. The Lions pool has depended on the flow of fresh water in Silver Creek to maintain it in proper, condi- tion. Unfortunately, fresh water, in the quantities required, no longer is available in the creek. The report of the Park Commit- tee, on which ttie decision of the club was based, has this to say about the water difficulty: "As long as the flow of water in Silver Creek continued at a substan- tial rate, no difficulty was experienc- ed in maintaining the water in the pool in good condition. However, about ten years ago it became appar- ent that the flow was decreasing and for the past eight years it has been necessary to inject chlorine manual- ly to maintain the water in a reason- ably clean condition. Each year this has become more difficult as the flow sof water continues to decrease. "The situation in which we find ;ourselves is not peculiar to Silver Creek, but rather his an outcome of the lowered watertable which exists throughout Western Ontario. One can discuss at length the reasons for this lessening supply of underground hater withoutperhaps reaching an Unanimous conclusion. But the fact ildll?E', as evidenced by lowered and sr necom completely e p eters useless i p,,in the district, that each year *der in ereekt and s'trean s than in previous years." In view of this situation, the Lions Club had no alternative to the course it adapted. The construction of a new pool—independent of the river —will be costly, but it will be but a small part of the cost with which the community might be faced were its children and its families denied the health -giving benefits which the park and pool make available dur- ing the summer months. Details of the Lions Pool cam- paign will be announced shortly. There should be general and enthusi- astice support of the campaign, not only by those thousands who as indi- viduals or as members of organiza- tions, have through the years used the park facilities, but also by .the district as a whole, to whom the park has meant so much. Must Resist Pressure Canada's development during the years has depended on those periods during which the principles of free trade have been permitted to flour- ish. That this continues to be the case has been emphasized again by Canada's Minister of Trade and Commerce. Speaking in Halifax, Hon. C. D. Howe said that Canada's progress is as certain as anything can be in these uncertain times, but he warned, how- ever, that Canadians must stick by the free trade principles and must "resist the pressures to scurry for what is thought to be safety when there is a temporary pause in the rate of our resources and industrial development." Looking to the immediate future, Mr. Howe foresaw a very good year. Because economic conditions are im- proving in,the U.S. and overseas cus- tomers are in a better exchange posi- tion, and "a larger volume of export is indicated for 1955. "The present economic outlook ap- pears to be: Some improvement in exports, capital spending continuing at a high level, industrial activity ex- panding and consumer expenditures rising. "If all these circumstances mater- ialize and we have at least an aver- age crop, we can expect 1955 to be a very good year," Mr. Howe said. Dairy Farmers Help Themselves Dairy farmers during the past year have been taxing themselves by means of a hold -back on the sale of their products to create a fund to ad- vertise dairy products and thereby assist in increasing Canadian con- sumption. Now it is proposed to en- large the scheme in an effort to es- tablish a further fund that could be used to assist in exporting surplus products. This month is butter month and domestic consumers are urged to as- sist in keeping pace with production by increasing their requirements. Discussing the job which the dairy industry is doing, the Ottawa Jour- nal says: ". . it is a brave plan and deserves watching. If it works it should dispel the old idea that farmers always run to governments for help without first trying to find a cure of their immediate ills." WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY: IN SIX FIGURES (Brockville Recorder and Times) But these new Ontario markers— they promise to be even more confus- ing than their many predecessors! With no letter to recognize as a local marking, the six numbers instead of four will take a bit of getting used to. In fact we will go so far as to state that it will be even more dif- ficult than ever to "get that number" when a car splashes or otherwise calls attention to the driving habits of its operator. POULTRY FARMERS (Port Arthur News -Chronicle) A newspaper has an article about a poultryman in Eastern Ontario who has been getting an average of more than 90 per cent from his lay- ing hens. As far as the production of layers is concerned the poultry in- dustry . has probably reached its peak. What the experts at the ex- perimental farms and elsewhere are now doing is concentrating on the raising of broilers for the market the factors being fleshing and rapid growth. SEEN IN THE COUNTY PAPERS Visited in Montreal Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cantin, of St. Joseph, who spent a few pleas- ant weeks in Montreal with their children, have returned home. Mr. Cantin, who has not been in Can- ada's largest city for some time, notes many changes and develop- ments. They made the 500 -mile trip by auto.—Zurich Herald. Returns From the South Mr. and Mrs. Ward Fritz and Mr. and Mrs. Orville Witmer, who were on a motor tour to Florida and many interesting places along the way for the past three weeks, returned home on Monday, having had an enjoyable outing in the land of warmth and sunshine.— Zurich Herald. Attended Funeral of Aunt Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Walker and son, of Lansing, Mich., attend- ed the funeral of their aunt, the late Miss Lydia Edighoffer, and were visitors at the Edighoffer home, also calling on other friends. Mr. Walker, Jr., is attending col- lege where he is taking a theologi- cal course, and we wish him ev- ery success.—Zurich Herald. Hospital Receives Grants Province of Ontario has awarded grants totalling $6,176.66 to South Huron Hospital for development of facilities in its basement. First grant of $5,113.33 was announced last week and Tom Pryde, M.L.A. for Huron, said Monday an addi- tional $1,063.31 has been granted. Part of the grants are for the furnishing of quarters for nurses aids and their ,training.—Exeter Times -Advocate. Gin' West! "California, here we come' will be the theme song of a quartette of Goderich girls this week -end. On Friday, they pick up a car at Detroit and deliver it to a car dealer at Los Angeles, California. By so doing, they are provided with free transportation to Cali- fornia. After a stay in California they plan to return home by air- plane. They will be away three weeks in all. The girls are Bar- bara Schutz, Polly McCabe, Joan Menzies and Marion Samis.-God- erich Signal -Star. Sent To Prison For Seed Theft Eric McDonald, 29, of R.A. 2, Monkton, was sentenced to one year in reformatory Monday af- ternoon when Perth County Judge H. D. Lang found him guilty of theft of seed from the Mitchell Co-operative Seed Mill last No- vember. Judge Lang, who had reserved decision in the case which was wound up a week ago, said that the. crown proved "beyond a shadow of a doubt" that the seed which McDonald sold to a mill at Exeter last November 11, was the same seed which had been stolen from the Mitchell mill the night before. The 52 bags of seed, va- lued at $845, were taken from the Mitchell mill, loaded on a railway hand car and transported to a rail- way crossing where a truck was waiting. The seed was sold to Jones, McNaughton Seeds Ltd., Exeter. Defence counsel told the court there was "every likelihood" of an appeal.—Exeter Times -Advo- cate. Young Man Fined Magistrate D. E. Holmes show- ed leniency and fined Leslie Ray- mond Bell, 18, R.C.A.F. Station, Clinton, $25 and costs, or two weeks in jail. The charge was that of failing to hold a permit for a firearm in his possession. Bell had been found late February 19 sitting behind the wheel of Con- stable R. Quayle's car as it was parked on Victoria St. Quayle dis- covered that the man was in pos- session of a Ioaded .45 calibre Remington automatic, and obtain- ed the man's story that he had been hitchhiking to Western Can- ada, and had gotten into the car to get warm. Bell pleaded guilty. "Rather extraordinary evidence" introduced by E. B. Menzies, Clin- ton lawyer, showed that the man had been examined by a psychia- trist just three days before the in- cident, and this examination had indicated possibilities of just such an incident as, bad occurred. Crown Attorney trays the fact that the boy had taken the revolver from another airman, and also said that apparently the boy's girl friend, who was out West, had "transferred her affec- tions elsewhere." --Clinton News - Record. Doubt Hydro Rebate Goderich may hot share in re- bates on 1954 operations to be given by the Ontario Hydro -Elec- tric Power Commission. P.U.C. Manager Elmer Weaver said yes- terday that he would not "specu- late too heavily" on Goderich re- ceiving a rebate. He said that the local F.U.C. would have to pay its :share of rebuilding a high tension line from Seaforth to Goderich and this would make the rebate doubt- ful. The rebuilding project has been underway since the first of the year. Poles are being relocat- ed because of the rebuilding of No. 8 Highway. Mr. Weaver was commenting on a report made in Toronto by Hydro General Manag- er A. W. Manby at the joint meet- ing eeting of the Association of Munici- pal Electric Utilities and the On- tario Municipal Electric Associa- tion. The Hydro General Manager said that about 300 of the 336 mun- icipalities that buy power from the O.H.E.P.C. would receive re- bates totalling $3,520,932 on 1954 operations. It would be the high- est rebate total in recent years. Mr. Weaver attended the meeting along with three members of Gode- rich Public Utilities Commission, G. G. MacEwan, Mayor J. E. Huckins and Tom Taylor. Mayor Huckins is on the executive of Dis- trict 6 of the O.M.E.A.—Goderich Signal -Star. New Method of Canning Apples A new method of canning apples to provide a more continuous pro- cess than formerly, to preserve a better flavor, and to retain the shape of the apple pieces, has been developed by the Experimental Station at Summerland. B.C. Scientists in the Fruit Process- ing Labooratory at the Station con- structed a stainless steel vacuum chamber for the treatment of apple tissue in the preparation of solid pack canned apples and apple pie filling. The process consists of ex- posing the apple tissue in this chamber to a vacuum of about 27.5 inches (30 inches on the mercury tube is a complete vacuum) for a period of from five to seven min- utes, and then releasing the vacuum with steam. Tested under factory conditions, this chamber proved satisfactory. processing from 550 to 600 pounds of prepar- ed apples per batch in a 15.minute cycle. 1: Viruses Attack Man, :Animals and Plants In the last 50 or 75 years, man's exploration of the utra-microscopic has brought to light the amazing role of viruses as causes of dis- eases in most forms of life. In man alone at least forty virus diseases have been discovered already. These range from minor nuisances such as cold sores, warts and the common cold, through more ser- ious complaints such as mumps, measles, chicken pox and jaundice to those ancient and modern scourges of mankind, smallpox, yellow fever, influenza, pneumonia and poliomyelitis. Among the virus disease attack- ing the lower animals are some that affect man's health and many that affect his equally sensitive pocket -book. In the first group one might mention rabies, cowpox and parrot fever and in the second such varied disorders as foot-and- mouth disease of cattle, hog chol- era, distemper in dogs, Newcastle disease of chickens. silkworm jaundice and sacbrood of honey bees. The picture, however, is not all dark. Some viruses have been or are being put to use. Myxoma virus, fatal to rabbits, has been successfully employed to control that pest in Australia. The possi- bility of using lethal insect viruses in the battle against insect pests such as the spruce bud worm is being explored in Canada. In the medical sere, studies of the tum- or and cancer -producing viruses of rodents are contributing to our knowledge of cancer. On the other hand, great strides have already been made in the control of virus diseases in man and his animals, either by the use of an immuniz- ing anti -serum or vaccine or by building up resistant populations. The virus diseases of plants are on the Whole less spectacular than the animal- disease but more diff!.. cult to control, says Dr. R. S. Willi- son, Plant Pathology Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, St. Catharines, Ont. Plants lack a circulatory system in which anti- bodies can be produced. Plant vir- us diseasesare nonetheless of ser- ious economic importance. The list of susceptible crop plants is form- idable and includes a varied as- sortment, such as potatoes, sugar beets, sugar cane, cocoa, cucum- bers, beans, wheat and fruit trees among the food plants, and asters, dahlias, tulips, lilies, gladioli and shade trees among plants grown for ornament. Control measures are limited at present to control of insect carriers, breeding for re- sistant varieties, maintenance of virus -free planting stocks and heat treatment. Virus investigations oc- cupy a great deal of attention in most parts of the world. In Can, ada, many of the virus problems are being tackled by the Federal Department of Agriculture's Sci- ence Service laboratories located at strategic points from the Mari- times to the West Coast. Each pro- blem in the virus field has many ramifications and its solution is time-consuming, but considerable progress has been made and more can be expected in the not too distant future. 1: Potatoes As `Boilers' or `Bakers' Most consumers desire mealy potatoes for baking and for mash- ing but for boiling and serving whole these same customers want a potato which is not mealy, which will hold its form and not slough during boiling, states the Markets Branch, British Columbia Depart- ment of Agriculture. Potato chip processors and those processing frozen French fries de- sire mealy potatoes or those high in specific gravity. On the other hand, the potato canning trade must have low specific gravity potatoes, which remain firm and whole after cooking. Thus con- sumers desire potatoes that pos- sess certain characteristics de- pending upon how they are to be cooked and the purpose for which they are to be used. There is no such thing as a general purpose potato because all varieties very extensively within the same lot. By separating lots of potatoes in- to specific gravity groups accord- ing to whether they sink or float in salt solutions, each lot can be labelled and advertised according to their best cooking purpose such as "Excellent for Baking", "Guar- anteed to be Mealy", "Will Not Fall Apart When Boiled", etc. Experiments conducted by the British Columbia Department of Vegetable Crops, indicate consum- ers are willing to pay 7 cents more for 5 pounds of "Bakers" than for the same potatoes unseparated as to Specific gravity without any re- duction in ' o1unt4e of sales., ll!b: YEARS AGONE Interesting Items picked from The Huron Expositor of 25 and 50 Years Ago. From The Huron Expositor March 14, 1930 Miss Marjorie Reid, teacher at Saltford, spent the weekend at her home south of Walton. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Johnston, of Blyth, spent a few days last week with their daughter, Mrs. C. Fingland, Walton. Miss G. Cardno, Reg.N., Sea - forth, has been nursing the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Eckert, M nley, who has been suffering with pneumonia, but is now on the way toward recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Doerr mov- ed their household goods and farm stock to the farm recently pur- chased from Mrs. Fred Koehler, Manley. Mr. and Mrs. James Finlayson, Tuckersmith, are visiting friends in Toronto this week. Miss Verna McGregor, of Sea - forth, spent the weekend with her cousin, Miss Vera Forsyth, Tuck- ersmith. On Monday evening about 25 of the friends and neighbors—young and old—gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Haney, in Tuckersmith, it being ,their tenth wedding anniversary. Syrup making is now in full force around Varna. Sap suckers are busy. Mrs. L. Beatty, Varna, is visit- ing with her daughter in London. While returning from Toronto last Friday with a new car, Mr. J. Hill, Jr., Zurich, was forced in- to the ditch on the highway near Hamilton by another car. Both autos landed in the ditch, but luckily no one sustained any ser- ious injuries, although the cars were damaged. Mr. William Lyon, Londesboro, had the misfortune to be thrown from his sleigh and received a very painful injury to his shoul- der. We believe that Mr. Wilson Carlisle, who recently sold his farm near Hillsgreen, has rent- ed the dwelling property of the late Mrs. Logan, Hensall, and in- tends moving into the village in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. James Paterson and Master Jack Drysdale, Hen- sall, motored to Toronto on Thurs- day. Mrs. T. J. Berry, Hensall, who has been spending the winter vis- iting with her sons in Windsor, has returned home. On Tuesday morning Mr. W. H. Golding, Seaforth, took his son, Arthur, who has been confined to bed for several months with trou- ble in his hip, to a Toronto hospi- tal for examination by a special- ist. The trip was made in Mr. Robert Smith's car, in which a stretcher was placed for the boy. Sugar making, at date of writing, is the order of the day around Hensall, and the run of sap is re- ported good. Mr. John Clark and daughter, Edna, of Listowel, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Charles MacKay, Tuckersmith. • From The Huron Expositor March 10, 1905 Mr. Julius Black, of Zurich, has purchased the 50 -acre farm of Mrs. H. Otto, adjoining his farm, for $2,400. Mr. Henry Koehler, of Zurich, sold a fine year-old horse to Mr. J. C. Wallace, of Clinton, for which he obtained the high figure of $180. The animal is light bay in color and of the heavy draft class and is a fine type of the farm horse. Mr. George Oliver, Staffa, has gone to the West for the summer. Miss Fannie Fotheringham, of Wingham, arrived in Brucefield on Monday morning to be present at the marriage of her brother, which takes place on Wednesday. Mr. John Bell, Usborne, this week moved his wife and family to Exeter. They have taken a house on Huron. St. Mr. Bell in- tends going out West shortly. Mr. Cleminshaw, of Moose Jaw, N.W.T., is visiting friends in and around Cromarty. Mr. Thos. Brooks, Hibbert, is retiring from farming and has bought a home in Egmondville, where he will spend the remain- der of his days enjoying in retire- ment from farming the fruits of an industrious and well -employed life. Mrs. John Evans, of Maple Lodge, who was so seriously in- jured in a runaway accident a short time ago, was in Exeter last week the guest of Mrs. Jones, Mr. Campbell McMordie, of Niagara Falls, is\paying a pleas- ant visit to the parental home in Kippen, of Mr. and Mrs. R. Mc- Mordie. Mr, and Mrs. Josiah White who came to Tuckersmith from Mani- toba to spend the winter, have now decided to remain here for the present. G. Corey, who came with them, returned home last week. Mr. G. Hughes, who was assist- ant at Hensall station, has taken a similar position in Lucknow, his place being filled by Mr. James Bonthron, who was formerly as- sistant in Hensall, but was oblig- ed through illness to resign his position for a time. Mr. Edward Eagleson and wife, who have been spending the win- ter in Bayfield, left for their home in Langdon, North Dakota, last week. Mr. John Sparrow, who was in Manitoba with a load of horses, re- turned home to Varna on Satur- day. He had a good trip, and says there is no snow of any account west of Winnipeg. A number left Constance Tues- day for points in the far West. Among those were Mr. William Dunlop, for Deering, Dakota; Sin- clair Sutherland, for Kenton, Man., and Robert Madale for Winnipeg. Mrs. John • McNab, Seaforth, who has been in Dungannon visit- ing her son, has returned home. Miss Ella Moser, Blyth, goes to Zttrich as a milliner for this sea- son. ik�id4.•,dat^.wiltek8 ia,SrHr ,S, 4f>dUab"�s!rN" WHAT GIRLS ARE MADE OF (From Answers, London) "Sugar and spice and all things nice—that's what little girls are made of." Or so we were told in the nursery rhyme. Perhaps you never felt inclined to believe it, anyway, but now the legend about the sweetness of the female should be demolished for all time by the findings of a profes- sor and his assistants at Albany Medical College in New York. Af- ter an exhaustive survey of the chemical constituents of girls, the report says they are made of: Enough , chlorine to disinfect five swimming pools; 1,400 cubic feet of oxygen; 30 teaspoons of salt; 10 gallons of water; 5 pounds of lime; 31 pounds of carbon; enough glycerine to explode a heavy naval shell; enough glutin to make five pounds of glue; enough magne- sium for a photographer to take 10 flash photos; enough fat for 10 bars of soap; enough iron to make a sixpenny nail, and enough sul- phur to rid a dog of fleas. No spice, you will notice. But the sugar? Here the analysis makes some concession to the nursery rhyme. The average girl's body contains sugar to the quantity of—four ounces! 7 BILLION IN FARM PRODUCTS (From the Des Moines, Iowa, Register) The United States government has nearly seven billion dollars in- vested in farm products stored un- der price support programs. A year ago, the figure was around 4.5 billion dollars. These are shocking figures. They raise serious questions about the soundness of present farm in- come stabilization programs . . . This total inventory is valued at the support prices paid in ac- quiring it . . . The size of this farm commodity surplus dramatizes the need for radical changes in farm policy. The action of the last' Congress in moderately lowering some price guarantees will barely touch the problem. The accumulation of farm commodities is continuing and will continue during the year. Ideas have changed in recent years on how large farm com- modity reserves should be. Bigger carryovers have been found to be worthwhile as protection against drought. In a time of world crisis, obviously the nation requires siz- able amounts of storable food and fibre crops on hand. Reserves of grain and cotton, for example, are as vital to national security as re- serves of zinc, lead and tin. It should be recognized that the government stockpile of non-farm strategic reserves also is very large. The government has been spending about a billion dollars a year for the last four years to put strategic mineral reserves in the defence stockpile. Reserves of perishable food com- modities cannot be defended on the basis of strategic stockpile ne- cessity. The government now holds nearly a half billion dollars' worth of butter and cheese, for example, which ought to be mov- ing into consumption. Just removing price supports and letting farm income "go hang" is a solution few people would advocate. Farmers have taken losses in income already, because of somewhat lower con- sumption demand during the past year. Both political parties are agreed that the farmer is entitled to protection against declines in the general economy or by chang- es hanges in the international situation, The surpluses also should stir Congressional thinking on possi- bilities of expanding consumption in the United States and abroad. It is indefensible for the United States government to accumulate surpluses so long as people are in need. And many people are, even in these prosperous times. Farm subsidies should be paid for increasing consumption — not for cutting production or for building excessive -reserve stocks. INTERPRETS HURON PROBLEMS FOR LEGISLATURE BENEFIT Speaking in the Legislature Tast week, Thomas Pryde, M.L.A., Huron, said in part: A new plant for their construc- tion was recently built in Hensall, and the manager immediately con- tacted me and asked if I would assist him in making an offer of immediate assistance. ual- ized the'need of a ad - quarters for relief. agencies, and offered, without reservation, the use of a fully equipped mobile home, suitable for use as an of- fice and with living accommoda- tion for several people. Through the hon. Prime Minister, this was placed at the disposal of the Red Cross, and was delivered and all services installed within 24 hours. As soon as plans could be devis- ed for some way to provide shelter for the homeless, this same firm immediately put forward a plan'to build some 30 mobile homes for the government at their regular price, and to re -purchase them next spring at a moderate depre- ciated value, when it is hoped the emergency measures will not be found necessary. So efficient was this little fac- tory, that they stepped up produc- tion to deliver these at the rate of three per day. Personally, I was very proud of the effort of the General Coach Works, because they are not just thrown -together shacks, but all-weather, comfort- able and beautifully equipped homes, with every modern con- venience built in, equal to high- class apartments. In addition to this company play- ing such an important part in a national emergency, I like to think of it as evidence that an industry established away from the large centres is under nos handicap. In this case, they found extra avail- able labor able and willing to do a job in a hurry, when speed was the greatest need. Let me tell you what the wet fall of 1954 did to the farmers in my riding, when twice as much rain fell in two weeks as in the preceding four months. A consid- erable acreage of white beans are grown, and although there were prospects of a bumper crop, when it came time to harvest them, be- ginning early in September, we experienced one of the wettest seasons on record. Only 50 per cent of the crop was harvested at all and only about 20 per cent of that was in good condition. The rest was a total'loss. 1953 statis- tics revealed that 18,100 acres of beans were grown in Huron Coun- ty, with a total value of $1,193,200. It will be seen, then, that on this basis the loss to bean growers in Huron County this year was about $1 million in income alone, which does not take into consideration what was lost in seed, fertilizer, and the labor involved in planting the crop. Two thousand acres of sugar beets were grown in the southern part of Huron, and after consider- able difficulty and expense, about 1,875 acres were harvested; 125 acres were lost completely, repre- senting a monetary loss of over $10,000 on this crop alone. A similar story can be told re- garding turnips, but there has been no panic. Only, may I say to those who are continually call- ing for a reduction in food costs, consider that the primary produc- er of your food is taking a severe licking at the present time. It must be realized that farm labor costs have a more direct relation to other labor costs than formerly. Today, the average On- tario farm is highly mechanised• and the price of rttachjnery and 'Ff%Jv hMA�r3RE,iii>7'.fell,�F4U!<Iz+.144Vi equipment necessary to operate a farm is all based on present-day costs, so also.is the fuel to operate them. Hydro bills and other ex- penses of modern living all must be paid for in cash. No longer does the farmer plod along with a team and have all the family em- ployed just to get a living. In the old days, if crops were poor or prices low, so much more was taken out of the hides of the family. May I point out, due to mechan- ization, farm product output per man has risen by 70 per cent since 1935. •Again, compared with a few years ago, with 35 per cent fewer men engaged in farming, they are producing 25 per cent more crop. Referring to farm products, Mr. Pryde said that farmers have the know-how to produce food in abun- dance, either in the form of grain, dairy products or all kinds of live- stock and livestock products. What is wanted is a stable market at a price which gives them a fair re- turn for their .investment and labor. True, people in the city, who are not engaged in this form of pro- duction, wish to get food as cheap- ly as possible. That is understand- able. Bdt it is to nobody's bene- fit to ,get it at such a price that the one who produced this food did so at a loss. He in turn can- not purchase what the factory worker produces, and hence the cycle is complete and we have unemployment. Part of the remedy lies beyond the power of the provincial gov- ernment, because it appears to me to boil itself down to two things: (1) ways and means to get markets outside the country for our surplus agricultural pro- ducts, or (2) increased numbers of people to consume them at home. As this is beyond our jur- isdiction, I will refrain from com- menting further on this aspect of the matter. What we are concerned about is markets. Is the answer in ex- port markets? Are we producing the proper grade of beef, pork or other foodstuffs? Would exten- sion of the Farm Products Mar- keting Act be a help?Is it a selling job that is required? Or must we have more research to find ways and means to cut costs and acquire greater efficiency? I submit, Mr. Speaker, that our. whole economy depends upon a healthy agriculture. As I have indicated, our farmers know how to produce foodstuffs, but means must be found to get markets which will give them a fair return for their labor. If we can solve that problem, the wheels of in- dustry will soon be turning at full speed. Larger markets will be. created for farm machinery, auto- mobiles, home appliances, and ev- erything which concerns our way of life. That would solve the problem of unemployment. Another matter I would bring to the attention of the House is in the field of social welfare. We have old -age assistance, dis- abled persons' allowances, moth- ers' allowances, blind persons' al- lowances, all on the mean§ test basis. I do not suggest that the government increase these allow- ances, but I do propose that the allowable income for a recipient should be raised. We have a very high standard of living in this province, and to say that a single person must not have a to- tal income of more than $60 a. month and qualify for old -age as - (Continued an Page 7)