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PAGE NINE
Nevis . Briefs.
For • the second • time in a
month Milverton has been hard
hit by fire, Firstly the new I.G.A.
store was gutted and recently
the feed mill . was destroyed..
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Alfie Fromager, 10 -year-old son.
a 'of Mr. and Mrs, Alfred Fromager
• drowned. in Owen . Sound harbour.
■ His father has appeared frequent-
■ ly on CKNX,
ill A token fee of $3,00, will be
ehargedthe parents . of children
•11 who accidently;. break .windows, at
• Elmira Public School. The full
■ , cost • will be charged in case. of
La malicious "breakage.,
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mi The Paisley tax rate this year
u will jump 5:3 mill's for commer-
cial purposes to° 86.40 mills and
in the residential to. 83.20:
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■ The new Zion E.U,B. Church
in Elmira was opened on Sunday.
Cost of the new edifice is estim-
ated at $135,000 with Rev. J. W.
Siebert earning special mention
in ,achieving the goal.;
Chesley theatre, closed but ;brief-
ly, ; has : been ,•' rented , by Murray.'
Johnston, mayor , of Wiarton who
,operates. the..' theatre m that town
and the Orangeville ,drive-in.
Visit Lush :English Farmland Country;
Except/ieda€ For � ges Like Huron -Bruce
Dear Friends Especially those caterpillar tractor. Some of the speaking,'• the trees were more
on farms - • , barns' are open a ..metal roof severely pruned than I' 'ever saw
Now .what to tell: '`you loiI�ay!. on metal supnorts. I' saw • one at home. In fact 'in Sandringham
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Did ' you know •; that England is where bales.. of hay . had ,heen.gardens, I saw . apple:. trees which
growing? 'And I . am not referring stacked . around, it. Many, of . the looked .lake small poles stuck in
to the populations , explosion! A, older barns are large' rambling, the .ground. with a few tufts of
few weeks- ago we' were in :port one -storey buildings, of° brick .or leaves .and' clusters of both., apples.
towns from which the. sea had. stone. I did not see any 'wooden and blossoms in the same •clus
receded . two •or three miles, ..and barnsat all. .,"..ter.
the siltedup land is . new in . pas We ' saw many fields : of u hay ^ - I ; cannot . forget those miles .: of
tune.: • This week we were:' in a and grain.and the. farms` are, -drained fenland - one time the
countryside whichhasbeen drain- completely mechanized: The . imp- haunt of waterfowl; outlaws' and
ed :and . reclaimed, and. ' you would Aements at . work were exactly :as
think could be seen only in Hol- of home mover,, rake, tedder;
land ,-- miles of ditches, dykes, baler; • forage harvester, and: we
roads •, on the dykes and a- few saw 'combines `ready . to use. In
windmills. ; But if is in England some . 'places the' baled hay is •
• and is there, thanks to. a Dutch. fed on'the farm; ' in othe,s it . 'is
Man and. •a Duke - ..Vermuyden kept until winter' and . ship ` d to
and the Duke . of Bedford. ' The.i the north where it is needed mare:
Duke supplied ` the money . and, the We saw . 'a / number of . ;old hay,,,
Dutchtnan- the . knowledge- and -the i stacks, ' .some coveted with: tar
g auli or ' plastic; In one •district
result:: isone of : the . most. fertile f. he stacks
were, , sha ed like �a
and "intensively cultivated . areas ; p, a
of , England. Part of , this'same .house .,or barn. We even saw veg.
part could be:: Huron or Bruce; ? etable boxes piled . up that way!
the roads •'could have been". any.t I understand the :grain crops
40-hour': week l
roadinsome radiating from ;Lucknow, or , .mostly..,.bariey and ' it is'. used for
Lake' Shore 9"feed In the flat:. reclaimed land,'
Hereward the Wake, the last'Eng-
lishman, ' and now one of . the most
fertile and productive: : gardens 'of
England,/sunny, , peaceful a n d
• beautiful. the. day we drove
through. The next. `day, a few
miles away, in an • ordinary mix-
ed farming land, we got 'to • the
top of a . hill and saw before : us
- ` a 'coal mine! But'` 'I wish you
had been :along -to.-'see-the farms.:
Sincerely, 'The Country Mouse.
Staveley, Derbyshire,
P.S. There are still- farm
labourers in . England working a
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Places the
road.' I;. felt .quite at home, except 1 barley: and wheat are grown for
for , the ',hedges in .'place of the !seed, rather .than feed. There are
wire fences '.• at .home.• ..: also. many'. experimental plots; of.
I• ' am . referring to, that bulge.: grain. .I .saw. one large field :of
on the , Eam.. side pf.:England' ex , what looked like mustard, and It
tending .roughly from' the Thames; I � rmahas a factorybfor; processing.
ne well-known.
Estuary to : The Wash., It,. is re- ;
mustard in the area. And, I' was•
puted to have the Tightest ram- � told that 'mustard . ploughed.m 'as
fall • and' the most sunshine in • the l •
whole ' Island, A few generations , a green manure has .ar , unusually
ago Essex was famous ;for wheat, I beneficial. and purifying effect on
Suffolk produced 'a .special' breed., the soil.' • ' •
of heavydraft . horse and ` Nor -'1. ~~ We spent one night •� in a camp
folk waone . great sheep pasture: site near .one of .. the largest' tur
:There . are two .distinct types .of , key farms in England, and the
landscape the uplands, 'which,! site itself.was on; a farm grow,
are 'really, not very hilly ,at all,'ing a large numberof '.pigs.' They areblack and white, . a '.mixture
and the fens, broads, or marshes,
which have .been drained and. are of. Essex and Landrace. In that
extremely productive. 'Until the 1 same district,. there were many
inand. road-
beginning of the ;last war, much' large birds the.fielq
of this' reclaimed land was in sides,,pheasants or quail, I. sup
'sheep since the war, I poSe. One. part of ,Norfolk has, a
heeppasture but
there has been a complete change.;: Very distiiictir•e crop , .. .,,.reeds for
and. ` I: saw very few sheep - thatching. We saw men at work
. Just. gardens, , gardens, ' gardens. !. on a roof , one day, Wheat straw
f I but ,.used : to be used.' for thatching
The uplands are well treed too - before the days of cbfm-
on the: fenlands,the most con-
'things. ' the horizon bines. In.the uplands, there. is
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spicuous thin s • .on
are . . .iccit� towers. They re{.i•onsiderable reforestation going on
the elect, ytoo. 'The land. is Certainly not
minded me of the grain . elevators': . o ' Th
on the prairies. In the ' old days, ... come ~. to those.
thousands. of acres Would. be own- And , now . w e
ed by one 'man and. he would, miles and Miles, acres and acres,
e , _Yf. various :.saws S. tf absolutely flat reclaimed 'land:_
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rent out farms o
.. who worked . them. it is one ell garden •and all
to the men g have � , crap: ' we grow at.
Of late,manylarge. estates ; thegarden
there except �tpmatoes
been broken up and the fhrine
who formerly paid rentwere,. able ''acid sweet cxn. The tomatoes 'are
prow;; in the .hundreds of glass
to buy their'farrris".. ` . • Y • � rh;e m the sun,
to a1:, ,sparkle
low We stopped '.one of . .morning and ,ioto, and .grown . at
houses
l��rri� asp ust
a�. huge herd of • Holstein: ��' all. ���} .���rr � :men 3 women.
.cross the- road. There rrc;i•c� over
00' in • that herd and . the farmer , working kin,g 'rr•" hoc. in one sugar
beet field, thinning ' the leets, I
. owned more than 100 on anothcer . a ,ryf,ttd rr i ;rrgr several, tt•, 1
farm.•
, They are ',moved tram am f i ld , , pt •
to field in suiintner to - pasture, 1, tor drawn cultivators. at „ w'o'k.
The „��t most eoii�zt�oii crop was
� and even in whiter are ,holt to � �itY�itoew•. thew peas, broad beans, t S.
get some grass from the iielcls.: l��al�btigc• c�Yiuliflor.�r s p r o ' S
This is supplemented With, NitliW •arty breis; c"ai`rots ;-' `,'" .•clung...
au`d' grass. siaage. 8srrteat tonic ` the small fruit crops, we saw
yi
have the tall silos as it `siriirrl3<�i ries, ltceberries a' n. d
but many have trench or. 1✓ ' currants- . 'There Wore sonic apple
silos. We saw one pile of green an,l •I;eatY i,i�rhar d:' anti genet all
y
forage being .'t'a'mped' by a small, ,
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