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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1964-07-01, Page 9THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, ' LUCKNOW,. ONTARIO WED ... A , JULIE 1 • •0,„. 1.944 •. ' _„•..-_...,-..._....-_.,..�,._- ■ :. ■ 'FOR CONTINUED HEATING COMFO • . a ■ ■ RT ■. ■ :. ■ IN Ir aif111.................. . i ■ : P ■ ▪ : it a a: ■ •■. r I. TOP. QUALITY ESSO 'HOME 'HEAT• - ■ HEATING EQUIPMENT I SERVICE ' ■ Bo o ca p>tgmet,10 years to pay) . AT N0, COST TO YOU ■ ■ "ROY HAVENS '■ Plurlibing an. d Heating. •.P hone528=.30'12 Luc know ESSO OIL BURNER SAW' and SERVICE HOME ■ HEAT 'SERVICE . ' • 1na■twun■enn 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.. *! * * 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., a * ** 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: ■ f ,, * ■ 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 • 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 • • 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 •• 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:_ _ . 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, , :. RIPLEY MEAT MARKET Custom Butchering. . „ Mondays -T. 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