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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1957-03-15, Page 23t Sime 1860 Sewing Ithe Community Vicat R,Nsheel at S•eafortb, Ontario, every Thursday'- morning' by ]McLean ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year. United Staten (in advance) $3.50 a Year. SINGLE COPIES — 5 CFfNTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MARCH 15, 1957 rming Community Faces One of our subscribers has sent us a letter, extracted from a recent is- sue of the Canadian Countryman, with the request that we publish it, because "it has so .much truth in it about the farm picture that we thought it might be enlightening to urban readers". We appreciate that all too fre- quently urban residents fail to realize the extent of the problems with which their farmer neighbors are faced. They don't understand that many farmers find themselves in a transitionary period as far as agriculture is concerned—faced on the one hand with static, or, in some eases, .lowered, income and on the other with higher costs of produc- tion and of living. Space limitations prohibit repro- duction of the letter in full, but here are relevant portions of the letter which "Confused Farmer" wrote to the Countryman. While the letter describes many of the farm- ers' problems and thus serves to bring those problems to the attention of many who are unaware of them, we cannot agree with the conclusions which are reached. We -are convinc- ed there is a future for farming and the farmer in Canada, and that means will be found whereby he can enjoy *returns more comparable to those be- ing received by those in other indus- tries. "At the present time after taking a realistic look at conditions, my opinion seems to be that it is nearly impossible to make money on 100 acres. First of all, every person 'knows that if,,you specialize in any particular enterprise, it requires a great deal more labour, .especially experienced labour and a lot more refined detail. At the present time most farms haven't enough labour without specializing. "Second, financial returns are not '.stable enough or high enough at the present time to warrant serious re - Brew., Publishera Member of Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Many Problems modelling in order to specialize. "Take 'poultry as one example of a specialty. Everyone knows the an- swer: fair returns for your labour one year, and the next year one has to be fortunate to stay above cost of production. The same has been true of hogs, good one year, bad the next. Even our marketing co-op for hogs, which I think is a step in the right direction, has not yet been able to stabilize the market, as ilrustrated by. the $3.00 drop hogs took in one week recently. . . . "At the same time as this has been happening our cost of living has been steadily increasing. This brings us to another problem, efficiency, which is something that I have never been able to understand completely. We read in the newspaper one -day, that we are barely producing enough for home consumption and that we have to produce more efficiently. The next day we read that the price is so low because of too many surpluses. . . . "However, if as a result of this in- crease in efficiency we should create a surplus we would not even have that much. This'leads a person to believe that efficiency is not the com- plete answer for higher returns. "There is also the need to work much longer hours to haul double the volume to the barn, and feed double the number of live stock and in all possibility require more expensive equipment and therefore more over- head and depreciation. . . . "In 1856 one man produced food for six people and in 1957 for eigh- teen people. When you delve into this situation further you find that the average man in Canada produc- t ing this food today is over 60 years. "If the present trend continues, as it appears to be doing, and if agri-' culture does not organize with a sound program, all I can see is for prospective Junior farmers to Ieave agriculture, especially if they have any education. They have nothing to lose and a lot to gain." TIME passes quickly and before we fully realize it another year has gone by. This is particularly true in regards to subscriptions. We think we paid that subscrip- tion just a few weeks ago, where- as actually it was many months ago. So just to make sure you are up to date, will you please check the date on the label on your copy of THE HURON Ex- POSITOR. If the date shown is earlier than MARCH 1, 1957 then you are in arrears. If this is the case, your remittance would be appreciated. Either drop into the office or mail the amount to THE HURON EXPOSITOR, Seaforth. Thanks a lot. . Fishing Last Sunday Messrs. Ray and Joe dunking, Ben and Cliff Walsh, .Bob McClie- they, Bill Riehl and Ted East mo - Weed to Pefferlaw op Lake Sinlcoe last Sunday to try their hand at the popular sport of ice fishing. They came home with a string of nine perch and one herring, and had a very enjoyable outing,— Blyth Standard. Student At Bursary Service Bursary Sunday was observed in Knox Presbyterian Church, Bluevale, on Sunday when a stu- dent minister, Mr. McPhee, gave the address. Assisting in the ser- vice were Miss Lillian Campbell and Ian Mundell. Bruce (Robert- son sang a solo, "Supplication." A special offering was taken fdr the Student Bursary Fund.—Wingham Advance -Times. Change in Engineering Staff John Jay, who has been a mem- ber of the CKNX television engin- eering staff since the station opened, left for Prince Edward Island last Wednesday to take the position of chief engineer with the Charlottetown station. Roy Major, from CKWS television . station, Kingston, has joined the CKNX staff and his wife and four chil- dren will be moving to town as soon as accommodation can be found.—Wingham Advance -Times. Displays Scouts Birthday Cake Bill Haysom, the Goderich Queen's $cout who will attend the World Jamboree of Scouts in Eng- land this year, proudly displayed the birthday cake which the Sec- ond Goderich troop of Scouts had, made for them. The cake was shown at the father and son ban- quet of the Scouts at the Legion Hall Friday night. It observed the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lord Baden Powell and 'the 50th anniversary of Scouting.—Goderich Signal -Star. Fifth in Spelling Bee A last minute change of mind eliminated Judy Teenant, of Exe- ter Public School, after she had reached fifth place in the zone fin- als of -the Ontario Spelling Bee in Stratford Monday night. Judy, who competed against 18 other girls for the right to enter the provin- cial finals in Toronto, went down on the word `soliloquy'. She wrote it down correctly on her practice pad but added another letter when she spelled it orally for, the judg- es. Nevertheless, the 12 -year-old grade eight student lasted until the fifth round of the competition and saw 13 other girls from the district eliminated before her. — Exeter Times -Advocate. Lush Suburbs A lush layout for better : type homes on a landscaped area over- looking Lake Huron, about half a mile south of Goderich, is schedul- ed to spring into being this spring. The proposed residential subdivi- sion will encompass more than 100 acres of land near BIue Water Beach. the ' project1rtly ap- proved by Goderi cel i'gynnshjp; Council and by the Goderich Area Planning Board, is being Planned by Air Vice -Marshal J. A. Sully, president of DRMVMCO Just - as soon as the final O.K.is &leen the project by the Ontario Department of Planning and Development and by Health authorities, work: will proceed. Exact location 'of the area is north of the Blue' Water Beach road on the Bayfield, Road. —Goderich Signal -Star. How Many Cakes Can A Boy Eat? How many pancakes can boy eat at a single sitting? The question wasn't definitely answer- ed at the annual Shrove Tuesday supper at Trivet Memorial Angli- can Church this week, but ladies of the Women's Association esti- mated some of their younger cus- tomers consumed upwards to 20. "It was a hard job for us to get some of them filled up," said Mrs. Henry Bierling, one of the W.A. members. She reported one boy predicted he would eat 40, but he didn't make it. The ladies served nearly 1,000 pancakes to the 150 who attended the supper. They of- fered their customers all the cakes they could eat for 75 cents.—Exe- ter Times -Advocate. Absence of Sidewalks Discussed Concerned about the dangerous situation on Princess Street, where for the length of a half a block absence of sidewalks on either side is combined with a deep hol- low in the roadway itself, Rev. A. G. Eagle voiced the opinion of many a town parent Tuesday night when he approached the town council in this regard. In the half block west of the Clinton District Collegiate Institute there is a deep gully. Owing to the great amount of fill needed on each side of the road to accommodate sidewalks, these have never been put in. Novy - with over 300 students at the Col- legiate, plus about half of the pub- lic school enrolment using that particular bit of street, the situa- tion has become serious.—Clinton News -Record. Blaze Destroys Boiler Boiler in the plant of Tuckey Beverages Ltd., Main Street, was destroyed Monday when a fuel line control broke down and fed the heating, unit more oil than it could handle. Intense heat turned the metal white before the blaze sub- sided and there were anxious mo- ments when an explosion was fear- ed. Outside of the boiler, however, no major damage was suffered. General Manager R.,Ross Tuckey said production of soft drinks in the plant will be held up for sev- eral days until the unit is replac- ed. It was used to supply hot wa- ter for sterilizing bottles, as well as for heating purposes. Exeter firemen were called to the scene and used carbon dioxide ,ex- tinguishers on the blaze. — Exeter 'dimes -Advocate. YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Huron Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. , From The Huron Expositor March 18, 1932 Mr. Charles Deitz. McKillop. had a very successful wood -sawing bee Tuesday afternoon. Mr. W. A. Crich has carpenters at work this week remodelling the old Princess Theatre building on Main St. A fine modern store front will be put in, and when completed the store will be occu- pied by E. W. Thompson, of Lon- don, who will install a line of boots and shoes and gents' furnishings. Mr. Paul Masse has moved onto the farm.on the Bronson Line, re- cently vacated by Mr. Louis Wal - per, who with Mrs. Waiper, have moved to Dashwood to reside. Miss Helen McKercher, of the Department of Home Economics, gave a splendid address on "The Diet of a Pre -School and School - Age Child," at' the regular meet- ing of the Home and School As - 4 sociation at the Seaforth Public School. Mr, R, L. Thompson, local C.N.R. operator. had the good fortune Fri- day evening to win a fine wrist watch in a contest over the radio. Mr. J. W. Good, Hensalt, who has conducted a harness business in that village, has decided to re- turn to his farm, west of Auburn. From The Huron Expositor March 15, 1907, 1 Mr. James Henderson, son of Mr. George Henderson, has rented the J. H. Hays farm on the second con- cession, near Roxboro, for a term of three years, at an annual ren- tal of $300. Mr. David Boyd, of the 13th con- cession, Mcleillop, recently pur- chased from Mr. Archibald Hislop, M.P.P. of Grey, a very fine young Shorthorn bull, for which he paid a good figure. One morning last week Mr. Mc- Vitie' Hullett, had the misfor- tune 'a have his fine • bank barn destroyed by fire, The stock and a few implements were saved. The insurance was $800. William Scott has sold his fine farm, 11/a miles east of the village of Auburn, to James Hewett. Mr. George Bates has disposed of his grocery business in Egmond- ville to Mr. James Currimifg, who has already taken possessiol. Mr. C. H. Brdadfoot hadthe mis- fortune to slip and fall:on the steps at his residence, fracturing his collarbone and two of ' his ribs. Mr. A. E. Cels6n, the "new �nan- eget of the 1Lidlniiarl Batik has been in be .n "tli#k wed all }fid, id nS'�LY`t oc��,,�itldh btu y ftltfro ar Th ae`''ii4�'AdiaS+l posed of his residence on Chalk St. to Mrs. McConnell, of John St., for $850. Mr. James Weir has disposed of his residential property on the cor- ner of Goderich St. East and Chalk St., to Mr. Patrick Walsh, of Mc- Killop. Mr. C. Welker, liveryman in Zur- ich, was offered and refused $500 for his handsome team of black drivers. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kyle have purchased the home of Mr. D. C. McLean, of Kippen. 1: $ From The Huron Expositor March 17, 1882 Mr. Robert Jamieson has return- ed home after a trip to the Old Country, Mr, Robert Scott, of Londesboro, has been offered the sum of $400 for a bropd mare. Mr. John Campbell has dispos- ed of his residence in town to -Mr. Charles Lowrie, for the sum of $1,000. The curlers of Goderich and Sea - forth had a match here on Tues- day for the county medal, which was won `by the Goderich players by six shots. Mr. John Harry,.of Egmondville, While working in Mr. T. Kidd's salt works here, accidentally slip- ped off a plank on which he was standing and fell into 'the boiling brine, severely scalding his legs. Fortunately he got hold of the pan and saved himself from beipg ter- ribly scalded. A sidewalk from Queen Street to the village school in Hensall is be- ipg agitated. Mr. J. H. Evans, who has car- ried on a 'bakery business in Hen- sel for some time past, left this week for Exeter, where he intends carrying on the same business. The directors of the Hullett But- ter Factory have decided to erect a building on the 10th concession of Hullett, Mr. Thomas Moon hav- ing offered a free site for the pur- pose. Mr. Henry Cook, who owns the flouring and saw mills in Zurich, has exchanged his mills for a jior- tion. of Mr. Henry Heyrock's lands on the Sauble Line. Messrs. A. G. McDougall acid John C. Steele &et'.'eller1 from Mani- toba on Tuesday. • .Lest Saturday as Mr. William Carnocliian was coming in from Brucefield With qne bf Wilson's egg wagons, and as he was riding on the top of a load of boxes, the iagdn gave a sudden lurch and to ng his balance he fell of the dr and ell of 'the' wlie/els" 4 n ri1►1slieelio hi lsitt 6 ; t". $a attd i ►;#,#ler a tures Qntario fahiners are becoming ;jnereasnely aware of the value of the grass -legume crop and reeog- tee& the need for carefully plan- ning their grassland program. The selection of suitable hay and pasture mixtures is one of the im- portant considerations, but many Metiers might make better. use of the plants at their disposal. There are four main points .in making up hay and pasture mix- tures, states Dr. W. E. Tossell, Field -Husbandry Department, On- tario Agricultural, College. These are: (l) Dee both legumes and grasses; (2) Fit the mixture to the rotation; (3) Consider the purpose of the mixture—for hay or silage or for long term pasture; and (4) Tailor the mixture- to suit the drainage conditions of the field. Legumes and grasses each have their advantages. Legumes are higher in protein, calcium, ,, and phosphorus; legumes fix nitrogen from the air, which is used by both the legumes themselves and the grass growing in association with them; legpmes give higher produc- tion in mid -summer. Grasses 'on the other't hand are more winter hardy and 'hence more depend- able; they do -not require as high a soil fertility and areinfluenced less by drainage condity'ons. Grass- es also reduce the chances of bloat when they make up one-quarter to one-third of the mixture; they withstand grazing better, and they are more effective in soil erosion control' than legumes. In fitting the mixture to the ro- tation, it must be kept in mind that the species used in short-term mix- tures (say one. to two years) must have the ability to establish quick- ly and produce at their maximum in the year folioWing seeding. Red clover, orchard grass, and timothy meet these requirements and are important species in , short-term mixtures for hay, pasture and 'soil building. If the mixture must pro- duce for two or more years, brome grass, which is slow to reach its peak production, and perennial legumes such as alfalfa and ladino clover may be added. The purpose of the mixture— whether it is for hay -pasture, long- term pasture, or silage—will de- termine the species and the pro- portion of each species to be used in the mixture. Alfalfa is the key hay -pasture legume while ladino and white Dutch clover are the main legumes for long-term pas- tures. Timothy is. an excellent hay plant and is the basic grassin mixtures used only for hay, but is not satisfactory as the only grass in hay -pasture mixtures. Orchard grass and brome grass should be included in hay -pasture mixtures because they produce nearly twice as much as timothy in mid -sum- mer. Furthermore, a d d i t i o n al grass in the mixture in mid -sum- mer reduces the danger of bloat. The proportion of orchard grass, however, should be low in hay pas- ture mixtures, since it does not produce as high quality hay as brome grass or timothy unless the hay is cut early. Orchard grass Is especially use- ful in pasture mixtures because of its rapid recovery after grazing and its good growth during the dry mid -summer period. It is especial- ly suited to pastures which are di- vided into sections and rotation- ally grazed so that the orchard grass is not allowed to mature. If a pasture is to be left under - grazed during the first half of the season to build up a pasture re- serve for the second half. of the CROSSROADS My Socially Acceptable Car (By JAMES SCOTT) The other day in one of the papers I saw an advertisement which asked the very blunt ques- tion: "Is your car socially ac- ceptable?" This, I must say, is a consideration which had not crossed my mind before, but the more. I thought about it, the more 1 ,emitted that a lot of us buy automobiles for not any better reason than this, At the moment, I think I can say that my current car is socially all right. Ey this I mean that it .season, as is done in some beef pasture systems, the proportion of brome grass should be raised and that. of other grasses lowered, be- cause brome grass retains its pal- atability when mature, more so than orchard grass, timothy, or the eescues. Mixtures must be made up to suit the drairfage conditions in the field. The various classes of drain- age—good, fair, and poor—and the grasses that are adapted to them, are listed in Circular 296, "Field Crop Recommendations For On- tario, 1957." Additional informa- tion on hay and pasture mixtures is contained in this publication, obtainable at the office of the agricultural representative. ' Mechanical Grazing Mechanical .grazing is a method of feeding animals where the fresh pasture feed is brought to the cat- tle in a feed lot. This usually in- volves the use of a forage harves- ter and self-feeding wagon or feed bunks. In 1956, an experiment compar- ing this method of feeding_ with fresh daily grazing was made by the Animal Husbandry and Field Husbandry Divisions of the Central •Experimental Farm. Ottawa. The animals in the feed lot were fed from a self-feeding wagon that was loaded each day by using a shred- der type forage harvester. The equipment required cost ap- proximately $1,500 plus a 3 -plow tractor and one operator. Time required for each day's feeding was as follows: hook-up and un- hook harvester, 8-16 minutes; trav- el (1/4 mile), 8-12 minutes; cutting time per ton, 10-20 minutes. One ton of green feed will sat- isfy 15-20 cattle and requires ap- proximately 26-48 minutes of time each day to feed the animals. Col- lecting two tons of green feed re- quires 36-68 minutes every day when the larger load is hauled, Shredder type forage harvesters seem well suited to this type of operation- providing fields are suit- able for mechanical operations. One man can perform the opera- tion without undue strain in ap- proximately one-half to one hour each day when 25-30 cattle are be- ing fed. After a long hard winter. the little old lady was looking peaked and so her doctor recommended a course .of ,sun lamp treatments. "Well now, I don't know Doc," she said. I haven't much faith_in those new fangled things." "Come, come, ' urged the doctor. this treatment will have you look- ing 10 year's younger in a few weeks." "Oh dear! " wailed the little old lady. "It wcn't affect my pension. will it?" is not likely to disgrace me in most of the company I keep. it is a '1956 model, ni good shape, with not too many miles on it. 1 try to keep it reasonably clean and looking as if it were used to good company. In return, it taken me where I want to go with no com- plaints; it has good manners and it is not so flashy that it looks vul- gar. Oh .yes, it's a socially ac- ceptable car. Now I would like to be able to take credit for this, but 'in all truth I am afraid I can't. The• real truth is that it is just an ac- cident that I happen to have such a car at the moment. As more•• than one of my friends will easily remember, I ,have not always own- ed such a vehicle. In fact, no. more than a couple of years ago. when I had occasion to travel through .this county somewhat ex- tensively, I , was driving a car which, apparently, was not so ac- ceptable. It was a nice little fliv- ver—Morris Minor, painted a light grey which- didn't show the dust. It would travel forty miles on a gal- lon of gas and right up to the last it could usually be relied upon to' get me to my destination. It couldn't do a hundred, eed some- times I had to stop to stretch my legs. but it was a car with charac- ter and a real faithful servant. I: used it during an election cam- paign. and I was proud of my lit- tle auto and y6t do you know what a fellow said to me not so, long ago? I had pulled up at the • service• • station in my shining new eight - cylinder job and this fellow came out to look her over. "Jim," he• said to me, "if you had had a car like tis last election you would: have won." ! I think he was joking, and any- way I am sure he was not exactly., right, but just the same he had a point. A lot of us these days judge a man by the kind of automobile - he drives. Just recently I have been following a comic strip where they are telling the story of how the whole neighborhood thinks a man is„ on the verge of bankruptcy' simply because he is driving an. old beat -up Tin Lizzie. There's more truth than fiction in that yarn. of course, nothing could be farther from the truth. It's the man behind the wheel that counts. You can be just as big a fool in a Cadillac or a Pack- ard ackand as in a Morris Minor or a Model T, • as the accident reports in the newspaper will tell you any day of the week.. You can be an even bigger fool in a fancy, two- tone, high-powered car if your bought more automobile than you: can reasonably expect to pay for. And what's wrong with the old;.' Tin. Lizzie anyway? It and lots of other' good old faithfuls have put in an enviable record of great ser- vice to the motoring public. Re- member the old Chevs and Over lands and Whippets and Stars and a whole score of others? There are not many of us who have driven for quite a while who can't recall a time when we were mighty glad to have the kind of transpor- tation those simple, inexpensive- cars nexpensivecars could provide. We may be driving Lincolns or Imperials now, but it was not always thus. No. I don't think that cars make• the man yet. But manners do and. good manners on the road are. the only signs of social acceptability that mean anything. .' Most Precious Metal STEEL is the foundation of the material well-being of every nation. Without steel 'there. could not have been much progress. For steel is in almost every- thing.' There is steel in the modern church, school, hospital, and college, and in the making and pre- paring of all building materials. 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