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INSURANCE CO.
HEAD OFFICE — EXETER, Ont.
President, Martin Feeney, R.R
2, Dublin; Vice -President, E. Clay
ton Colquhoun, R.R. 1, Science
Hill.
DIRECTORS—Harry Coates, R
R. 1, Centralia; William A. Ham-
ilton, Cromarty; Milton McCurdy,
R.R. 1, Kirkton; Alex J. Rohde,
R.R. 3, Mitchell.
AGENTS—Thos. G. Ballantyne,
R.R, 1, -Woodham; Clayton Harris.
Mitchell; Stanley Hocking, Mit-
chell.
SECRETARY - TREASURER — Arthur
Fraser, Exeter.
SOLICITOR—w. G. Cochrane, Exeter.
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SEED TREATMENT FOR DISEASE
CONTROL IN SPRING GRAINS
The treatment of seed for dis-
ease control is a widely accepted
practice in crop production. Seed
treatment cannot afford protection
against all types of disease but
does wonderfully well against some
of the destructive ones among
which are the grain smuts, seed-
ling blights and seed rots. These
diseases are serious and can re-
sult in a total crop loss under ex-
treme conditions. Such is particu-
larly true with the grain smuts
which not only reduce yields but
affect the quality of the grain by
the presence of the objectionable
smut spores. Even livestock will
not eat severely .smutted grain.
The seedling blights and seed rots
cause damage by reducing crop
stand which in turn usually reduc-
es yield. Stand reduction can be
compensated for by increased
seeding rates but the cost of extra
seed would far exceed the cost of
proper seed treatment. With the
present knowledge of methods to
control these diseases there is no
need to take the risk of suffering
such losses. A few cents per
bushel spent on seed treatment is
all that is required Co obtain pro-
tection.
Protection against these diseas-
es can be had by treating the seed
with one or another of a n.Anber
of organic mercurial preparations
such as:
Dusts Wettable Dusts Liquids
A, rox C. Ceresan M Dupont 2244
Puraseed Ceresan M -LX Gallutox
San Co-op Mercury Mer -Sol
Halz Oz. Leytosan Panogen
P.M. A. S.
Tests have shown that these ma-
terials are all about equally as ef-
fective if properly applied at rates
recommended by the manufactur-
er.
How To Apply—The dry dusts
wet 1,1(011,
are applied by means of one of
several types of home-made treat-
ers such as the rotary barrel or oil
drum, or the gravity type treat-
ers. (Construction details for
these can be obtained from or
through the Agricultural Repres-
entative's office). Commercial
treaters are also available.
The slurry method of treatment
was introduced to eliminate the
dangerous dust hazard. The slurry
is made by nixing the Wettable
Dust preparation with water and
this mixture applied to grain by
means of the home-made rotary -
drum treater or one of the com-
mercial slurry treaters.
The liquid materials are applied
in a diluted forum by means of the
slurry equipment, or in special
commercial treaters constructed
to handle the concentrated solu-
tions.
Caution: (1) All mercurials are
highly poisonous and care should
be taken particularly to prevent
inhaling the dust or fumes. (2)
For good results, barley and oats
should be treated at least one
week before seeding.
Loose Smut of Barley
This disease is carried over
within the seed so that chemicals
applied to the seed cannot elim-
inate the causal fungus. The on-
ly satisfactory control is to use
clean seed. This may be achieved
in one of two ways:
(1) Use seed with a known clean
history such as registered or certi-
fied seed.
(2) Clean up your own seed by
hot-water treatment. This involves
soaking the seed in unheated wa-
ter for six hours or .more, bring-
ing it up to a temperature of 126
degrees F. in hot water, holding
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THE HURON EXPOSITOR
Basic Factors in Crop Production
Many consider that contour cul-
tivation, strip cropping and grass
waterways are essential to good
soil conservation. As important
as these principles are, especially
on rolling land, there are other
factors which are basic and which
if neglected, will lend to disap-
pointment in any type of farming.
These basic factors are proper
rotations, the maintenance of good
soil structure, the maintenance of
organic matter, the use of lime on
acid soils, and the use of adequate
amounts of the proper fertilizer
for the soil and crops in question.
All are essential and to list them
is not to place one above the other
in importance.
Soils well supplied with lime and
fertilizer are in a better position
to maintain or to promote good
structure. But lime and fertilizer
alone are not responsible for that
it there for 13 minutes, then cool-
ing and drying before seeding. Ob-
viously, this is a laborious and del-
icate sort of treatment and diffi-
cult to manipulate on a large scale
without special expensive equip-
ment. It is recommended that
one treat a small quantity of seed,
say a bushel or two, grow this on
a plot isolated from untreated
grain, and thus produce clean seed
for the following season.
Regardless of the above precau-
tions taken to control loose smut,
seedling blight treatment • should
still be applied- for protection
against covered smut, seedling
blight and seed rot.
WALTON
Mr. and Mrs. John Harris, for-
merly of Walton, are celebrating
their 60th wedding anniversary
April .3, at the home of their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. A. L. Kernick, Waterford.
friable soil most farmers would
like to have. Grass roots are the
structure builders. Legume roots
open up subsoil layers. Lime when
needed promotes better growth of
legumes. Fertilizers in the proper
amount and type import better
growth to both grass and legumes.
Where there is a good sod there is
good soil structure.
The maintenance of soil organic
matter is best produced by
legumes. This is because the
legumes are relatively high in nit-
rogen. If organic matter of the
proper type for crop production is
to be increased in a soil, nitrogen
must also be ,increased. Corn
grown year after year in the same
field can actually or even increase
soil organic matter. But this can.
only be so when adequate amounts
of nitrogen are applied and all
residues are returned. However,
despite the fact that organic mat-
ter could be maintained by such
a practice, it is quite possible that
soil structure would deteriorate,
especially in heavier soils. It is
thus seen that organic matter
maintenance and promotion of
good structure are twp different
things.
If a farmer is to gamble on ob-
taining good crop yields, as he
does every year, his chances of
obtaining them will be better
when he has a rotation in which
a sod crop of grasses and legumes
appear at least once in four years.
The use of adequate lime and fer-
tilizer of the proper kind will
greatly aid in making the gamble
a relatitTely safe bet.
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Old Boys' Reunion .. ,
Oldtime Grocery Store
Seaforth, 1955.
Editor, The Huron Expositor:
Dear Sir: On reading your
paper of this week about Old
Boys' Reunion and the old-time
grocery store, it brought to my
mind a few items about our gro-
cery store of years ago—what they
would now call an old-fashioned
town store, and that the people
would not want to return to.
That is very true. At the same
time people seemed rnore happy
in those days th l' t. d Most
everyone in those days w : strug-
gling along trying hard to make
a living and most were very anx-
ious to pay their debts. Thf.y were
contented and pleased to get what
groceries they needed, even if it
was out pf a barrel.
I remember a farmer from Mc-
Killop telling me one time—and a
good worker and f ,rmer :ie was
and did make a tucces rf it. He
said for years they worked hard
and long summer and winter, and
all they could save was about one
hundred dollars a year. If they did
happen to save two hundred, that
was really something.
Back in the years when I started
selling groceries, bread sold at
that time by the loaf, or by the
pan. Four loaves was a pan of
bread, and anyone wanting four
loaves would always ask for a pan
—four loaves or a pan, twenty-five
cents. At that time wheat price
was $1.00 to $1.25 per bushel. It
was a very regular thing for us to
sell a person five hundred of flour,
one hundred of sugar and 90
pounds oatmeal in the fall. The
farmers very often in late fall
would bring in three or four dress-
ed hogs and take home what I
have just mentioned.
reunion, some of the conversations
may be along the lines I have
written — the old grocery store,
the old red mill, the old recrea-
tion grounds, the old City Hall,
the old rink where Boshart's fac-
tory new sits, the old school which
was taught by the rule of the
hickory stick, the old farm, and
many other things. There is a
sadness to it also, as many, many
people are gone and we will be
talking to sons and daughters,
grandchildren, etc.
There are no friends like the old
friends, but their life on earth is
ended and they have crossed the
threshold into a new life—may
they be with us in spirit at our
reunion (who knows!). We hope
the reunion great success, and
hope everyone will at least do
what they can to make it a suc-
cess, and the people at the head
of it really do have a lot of work.
But what a grand thing for lots
of people who have been away
for some time to get back home
—so very much attached to `those
words, "back home."
Thanking you, Huron Expositor
and Editor.
Yours sincerely,
RUSSELL H- SPROAT
(Continued from Page 2)
cannot meet all the demands for
small sized Foundation and Certt,
fied seed.
Good seed can be defined asthat
which is inbereitly high yielding,
free from disease, true to varietal
type- and in good physical condi-
tion. In this way "quality" in seed
potatoes is dependent as much on
Heritable factors and internal char-
acters as on physical condition
and external characters. Growers
of Foundation and Certified seed
constantly strive to ensure all four
of the characteristics mentioned
above. Therefore, the use of seed
which has the official certification
tags attached to each bag will as-
sist materially in producing higher
yields of better quality potatoes.
The slight difference in price over
ordinary table stock or bin -run pot-
atoes - is one of the best invest-
ments a potato grower can make.
Lists of growers in Ontario with
seed for sale may be secured from
offices of Agricultural Represent-
atives in each county and district,
from officials of the Seed Potato
Certification Service at Ottawa,
Guelph, London, Barrie and Win-
nipeg, or from the Field Crops
Branch, Ontario Department of
Agriculture, Parliament Buildings,
Toronto. Information relative to
official inspection and certification
of crops may also be obtained
from the sande sources.
I remember when we were on
the farm three miles out, many a
time the only way we could get in-
to town in the winter was on
horseback. The roads would be all
blocked for a long time. We would
take a small bag with us, get the
mail, a pan or two of bread (guess
we would be out of flour), some
tobacco, and Mother would say
you had better bring a pound of
Beattie's twenty-eight cent tea.
Do you remember Beattie's
twenty-eight cent tea? In our day
in the grocery business, that is our
early days, tea was all sold in
bulk, by the pound or more. We
got it in caddies or boxes.
In those days a farmer would
bring in his produce — potatoes,
meat, fowl, eggs, butter, etc. I
can remember the butter business
clearly. It would be in butter -tubs
of different sizes, crocks or rolls,
and later on, in pound -prints. We
used to always have an over -sup-
ply and it would be put in the
basement in a large butter mixer
and worked all together and put
in pound -prints, wrapped and a Mr.
Cook, of Cantelon Bros., Clinton,
would come around every week
and buy it. Most of it at that time
went to logging and lumber camps.
It would be packed in boxes or
barrels. By the way, we had lots
of them; we got so many things
in barrels, such as table syrup,
baking syrup, vinegar, sugar, oat-
meal, salt and sodas, and many
i
other things.
I remember one day a couple of
elderly gentlemen chatting in the
store. One morning they got talk-
ing about what they liked for
breakfast. One liked corn flakes,
the other oatmeal. The oatmeal
man said he had never seen corn
flakes. We bad a barrel of soap
chips sitting on the floor near him
and he asked his friend if it could
be corn flakes. His friend replied,
"I have never bought them that
way, but they could be." He at
once put his hand in the soap flake
barrel and helped himself to a
mouthful. Needless to say, in a
matter of seconds he started to
froth at the mouth and flew out-
side to get rid of it all. I do not
know whether his pal has quit
laughing yet or not. He never did
that I know of, pick up anything
in the store again.
It sure was a lot of extra work
to package everything and wrap
and we worked hard and long. I
well remember the delivery boys
coming in Saturday night at 12:30,
the last trip to Egmondville, with
pretty tired horses too.
In those days there was a lot of
heavy side pork used. Cod fish
in the slab that some would cover
a sheep's back, just about as much
salt as cod fish—would take a cou-
ple of days to get salt out of it.
Nevertheless, it was good. Also
sold a lot of salt herrings by the
keg and dozen. They, too, were
very salty, but have long since dis-
appeared. After all; people were
very hardy at that time and work-
ed hard, both summer and winter.
Perhaps some could have eaten a
shingle if it was well soaked in
water, with butter, salt and pep-
per.
One time a male customer was
in our store. The waste eggs and
cracks were put in wooden butter
boats back by the old hand -turned
coffee mill. He used to ask for a
couple and would break and swal-
low them right there and then.
One day he came in—I guess the
eggs had been there too long,
about ready to crack—and he
downed a couple, but without re-
marks walked swiftly out and
never asked for stale or cracked
eggs again.
Those were the days of yester-
years. What a change today, and
no doubt when some of the Old
Boys and Girls return to our 1955
"I haven't seen you at church
lately," a minister remarked to
one of his parishioners one day.
"I hope you're not slipping from
the fold."
"Well not exactly," replied the
man. "But my daughter's learn-
ing to play the harp, and well --
to tellu the truth, I'm not so
pafrticdiae abtlUt going to When
ae I used; to :bei . , ,
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Phone Write See
Geo. T. Mickle. & Sons Ltd.
HENSALL, ONTARIO . PHONE 103
for
A MALTING BARLEY CONTRACT
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We also Supply Fertilizer with
Contracts
Geo. T. Mickle & Sons Ltd.
Consider
the Cow
If your advertisement were in this'
space as many people would read it as
are reading this. But your advertise-
ment isn't here, and people do not
worry whether you are selling real
estate, gasoline, peanuts or popcorn.
Did you ever sit down in the pas-
ture with a pail between your knees
and wait for a cow to back up and be
milked?
Of course not. .You know better
than that.
Well, business is somewhat like a
cow. You've got to go out after it and
round it up. The fellow with the milk
pail between his knees may get some
milk, but the odds are all in favor of
the fellow' who drives up the cow and
feeds her.
Some kind of advertising must' be
done if a business is to amount to any-
thing. Either walking and talking or
writing, or printing. But the least
costly, most profitable and dignified
way is by the regular newspaper,
which goes into people's homes every-
where.
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Established 1860
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Phone 41 -- Seaforth
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