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The Brussels Post, 1938-11-9, Page 6WEDNESDAY, NO'VIOMBDR 9t11, 9 -Tube All Wave Console and 10 -Tube. Push Button Console Introduced Lata Last' Year. Mfr. Clearing Balance at Genuine Saving B.VODDEN ETHEL T he Brussels Pdst FOUNDED -1870 It W. KENNEDY — Publisher Published Every Medneeday. atternacan Subscription price $1.50 per year, paid in advance. Subscriptions in United States will please add 50c tar postage T1JE 'OST PAINT BRLSSF'.a —:— CANADA Telephone 31 Brussels, Ont. DRIED APPLES AND CHESTNUTS Twenty-five years ago we worked In a general store in a small com- munity centre. It was one of those general stores that catered to the farming trade. There were hundreds of similar stores in Western On- tario in those days, Saturday was the big trading day for the farmers writes Hank in the St. Thomas Times-Sournal. They brought their butter and eggs throughout the years and in the fall these staple products were supple- mented by potatoes, chestnuts and dried apples. We have rather vivid memories of the dried apples and the chestnuts —because it was our job to handle the bulk of them. We bought our granulated sugar by the barrel then, in order to have the barrels for packing and shipping the dried apples. Sometimes we Shipped the chestnuts out in barrels; more often in heavy sacks. Every armer's wie, who had an orchard on the farm, dried apples then, She dried them on slat frames or in shallow pans over the big wood -burning range in the kitchen. Some of the frames and pano were placed under the stove. 'Occasion- ly the family cat, cowing in out of the cold, crawled on top of a tame of dried apples to enioy the warmth Then there were times. when, Grand- pa stoked up too hot a fire and scorched the drying apples; or Minnie, the hired; girl got at little careless in preparing the apples and left on bits of the. peeling or forgot to remove the wormholes and. wotims. But they all went into the dried apple sack on the farm and were taken to the store, and then it was our responsibility to pass on the quality of... the product and establish a price. 'Of coarse every farmer's wife thought abe had first quality dried nipples and our Judg- ment was often challenged, For- tunately, the boss usually backed Us up, Buying chestnuts was easier. Un- less the nuts were small and wormy we paid an average pnice for them. Our real work however, was pack- ing the dried apples. in the barrels and reading up the barrels soundly for shipment, and sewing and label - hag the tops of the sacks contain- ing the chestnuts, It was surpris- ing what a lot of dried apples and chestnuts a community store with a wide farm trade handled twenty - d yeas ago. They don't do it nowadays. We doubt if •many of the young people en our farms ever saw a dried apple. Few of thein have enjoyed the fun of eliestnutting, iioonomic conditions and modern transporta- tion have made it unprofitable to dry apples while the deatriuotive blight has just about destroyed all the chestnut trees in Western On- tario. The clay of trading our farm produce in country stores is past, also, What country stores remain do business like city stores. Rural li:0 lost something When the old custofns went otic of bust. bass practice, ADVll21ISIHG RATES Card of Tbattka 25c• Engagement Notices Birth and, Death Notices to efesaoriunt as"0e FREE. 350 Classified Advta, ........ 250 Caah (Over the Phone y 36e) • A +GIRL OF 10 NOTE AND COMMENT MARRIED It is Bard for people in our tits, triet to understand the wedding of a snap of 84 years to, a girl of 10; hard also to believe that the girl's mother was a panty to it by swear, ing that herchild was 14 years of age. That`bappeued in Kentucky and Thee officers went to make an arrest they fonna no person at home. In this instance hone Is a cabiu in which there are to win- dows and .where the bride and groom live with three other relativ- es elativees in two rooms, Shrieking of course. But that is in Kentucky and we darn say there have been hundreds of similar cases of which nothing has been heard, Tbe law of 14 years Is only of recent vintage and people resent it. Early marriage has been the order in that strange land for a long time and they do not have divorces there. Like a good many- other people who do strange things they want to be left alone to live their tiles as their folk did before - Passing through the hill country it is possible to gather some idea of what life is like there. Tbe houses which cling to a spot on. a hillside are crude things; they ap- pear to have a chimney at one end and the house has been built around that. There is no beauty in the house or in its surroundings. Dull barren, and ugly the whole patch of corn and most of that goes to a still which is secluded some place in the mountains. The family may own a couple of hogs bat they are probably out in the hush rooting for acorns and. a living in general. If there is a cow it is thin. If there are children arounelr--and that is generally the case—they are also thin and often enough sick. If officers failed to fiud the bride of, ten years. and the husband when they called at the cabin they may look a long time because the moun- tain folk in Kentucky do not like officers and they have . their own system of sending out warnings when any of them enter the district. There is no desire on the part of these people to work and. accomp- lish anything in particular. The man has a good time when he takes his long -barrelled shotgun and spends the clay in the bush and manages to shoot a squirrel. If they ever come out of their hidings to go to town it is when there, is a court case about some boundary dispute and that lasts for days as the boundar- ies are poorly -marked. And yet strange as it may seem the people who inhabit the hills in Kentucky are descended from same of the original stock which pioneer- ed United States. A strange, sullen and uncommunicative people they are; they resent the coming o1 a stranger; they are poor and they apparently want to stay that way; they are lazy and shiftless and they have no desire to make a change, Regardless of what the law says and what scrotal conven- tions of civilization recognize as proper standands, the people of the Kentucky hills will see nothing wrong in a girl of ten years getting married to a man of 34, 'Fortune In Ivory There is a -.fortune in old teeth, provided the teeth are., pure ivory, like those of elephants, hippopot- ami, ippopotami, walruses, narwhale, sperm whales and animals of the wild boar class. The teeth and tusks of such animals come under the beading of ivory, which is designated at. a very dense substance with pores close and compact, filled with a gelatinous substance that facili- tates; high polish and makes it easy to work, HOUSEHOL11 HINTS Keep a bows of sugar In the bread, box and ft' Will not harden, Eggplant stuffed with chopped meat, onions and crumbs makes a one -dish ,meal. •Or you Wright use rice for the atuffling and season with onion. To make a coat hanger In a hurry roll a newspaper and. tie it at the middle, Hang up by a loot/ at the centre, This serves very wall for coats, etc. Cook bents with their skins on In order to avoid loss Of flavor and'. color, Grate a raw potato and add it to your soup when you ,putt too much sait in, The potato absorbs the salt. Main bfireet, Australian saga he cannot under- stand cheer leaders at Canadian football games, But then who eau? The new license plates, white letters on black, should make the game little tougher for the bit and-ruu drivers, The fact that Eddie Shore is a holdout at Boston calls attention to She early opening of the profes- sional hockey season. We uotic'ed where an On farrier who died recently left au estate of over $70,000, but we doubt whether he matte it by selling wheat at 50 cents per bushel. Wife beater in court at Walker- ton got six months and the lash, And we cannot think of any good reason at the moment why there should he any protest. A party returned empty-handed to Sudbury after a week's hunting with bows and arrows. That of course only proves that they were not very- expert archers. We noticed` the name of a story "Shot at Sunrise." That would be bad of course, although we can re- call having heard of several people who had been half shot at about the same hour, One Toronto nurse says she be- lieves patients in hospitals are wakened too early in the morning. That states:nent will receive a eyan•- pathetic hearing outside of the hospital too. St, Thomas police officers went out looking for eu;.plies of beer on Sunday after -noon, probably be- lieving that the people would all be at Sunday school at that time. We may be a bit dull in the head, but we find it hard to read of people in this country .win- ning thousands of dollars by sweepstakes and of others wtko are being arrested and fined for selling tickets for lotteries, The thing does not add up right, The 1931 car markers are for sale and the 1935 ones are good for some time after the first of the year, so we will have two sets of market's on parade for some time after the turn of the year, ht takes a government department to think up all these strange things. Hunters at Pelee Island say they had trouble shooting pheasants be- cause they could not get close enough to the birds. Possibly a number of amateurs would like the birds trained so they would sit still until they were as close to tihem as the length of a fence post, * * * M * * * * * TOO BAD * * (By A. R. K.) * * * it One tree has caused a lot of woe, because it ;picked a place to grow, where boundary lines, should meet; and when the .fence was built they, say, the kindly tree was 'in the way, a matter of free feet. i( A new man came and bought the dorm, and put new shingles on tate' barn, had lots of changes made; and. then he looked the fence o'er, till he could: look around no more, then had the plate surveyed. if They found this tree of goodly size, they gazed upon it with sur- prise, 'twee nigh anti time of root; but 1t was where the line fence stood, the new man thought that none too good, it started a dispute, ij And finally they came to court, and had an argument of sort, 'twos quite a day In town: the new man claimed the only way, to settle things. so they would. stay, they take the big tree down. If The kindly tree had stood for years, seen all the neighbors' joy and tears, had seen them buy and trade; and whenthe summer sun was hot, 11 made Indeed' a pleasant spot, and offered kindly shade, ti And when that tree that was young and small, it meant no trouble 'there at all, I'm sure that must he so; for years 1t stood out there and grew, and I am sure it never know—'tuns where it should- ntt grow. * WILLIAM SPENCE Estate Anent, C onveyancel and Commotiones General Insurance dunce +-- Ethel, Ontario LET US LOOK AT THE PAST sten Aro item, rake Trois r4.. Of the P00* 0/ 11 SW lu Years A, 25 YEARS AGO GREY Garrison Jacklin, of Sluaekleton, Sask„ arrived home last week, Ernest Bray and family, Hamil- ton, who have been spending a few days with their uncle Wm, 13tuty, on the 16111 con„ have returned home. Mrs. Geo, t Westbrook, Detroit, Mich„ wha has been visiting at the ]tome of her mother, Mrs, Wm. Blake, 14th con., during the Past week returned home Saturday, ac- conrpanied by her mother. MORRIS Geo. Cole has arrived home after spending the past few weeks in hte vicinity of Regina, The residence of Hugh ivioses, lst line, was injured by lightning Fri- day evening when the chimney was knocked off and the gothic damaged, BRUSSELS Percy Thuell left Wednesday for Buffalo, N.Y., where he expects to secure a situation,- * Dan Denman, yho has, spent the past 7 or 3 months in the West has returned home. * * * Mrs. Joe Hanna and baby Gordon o Henryn, were the guests of Mrs. T. M'oFadaeau last week. W ROXETE R Miss Etta Smith has taken a position in Monroe and Co„ general store, * * * Samuel and John Willis, London, visited on Sunday with their sister, Mrs, Ino, Gibson. * s * Wim, Harris and James Bell have returned from Muskoka where they have enjoyed a few weeks hunting, BELGRAVE S. T. Bobier, wife and family, of Guelph made a short visit among their many old friends here, They yere guests of 31,, and .airs. Johnston at "Sunvmerland Farm.' * „ * Rev, Mr, Kilpatrick, Itichaad Procter, Dan .Geddes and Jas, Scott, of this locality represented the three Belgrave churches at the Missionary Conference at Goderich last Friday, ETHEL W. E. Sanders will attend the District Library Association meet- ing in Stratford this week. a + * Noble McKee has gone to Strat- ford where he has secured a Posi- tion in the 0, T. R. shops, 50 YEARS AGO GREY Miss Mary Mitohell has gone to Detroit, .She left on Friday of last week, * * * Root. Menzies has leased ilia farm, to John Dick andwill have an auction sale of farm stock on Fri- day afternoon of next Week, * * Harry Beattie, Seaforth, has taken Joseph Coombe's place as teacher in the 2nd con„ school, Mr. Coombes has settled down to be a tiller of the soil, * * * U. J. MciFadrlen, son of Uriah Ma Fadrden, is engaged in S. S, No, 9, McKillop township for next year, Miss Lydia Campbell, his assistant, Is leaving at Ohristnsas, ETHEL I'. C. Heffertman was at Buffalo With another carload of lambs Last week, * * Mrs• W 1', Davies, cif 'Minnesota, daughter Of W, Spence is here to spend the winter with her parents, BLUEVALE Jae, Ross aria his sisters were visitors In B1uevale 61118 week. * * We are pleased 10 state that Miss Black has been appointed teacher in the Millar department of. obit' scliool beat year, AMMON BRUSSELS Mrs, George Pito and family have removed to Michigan where that iii. News and Information For the Busy Farmers (FURNISHED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE) U, S, Alfalfa Crop Owing to the considerably reduc- ed production' of alfalfa seed in the United ,States this season, there should be a good •demand for Canadian seed, states the Canadian Trade Commissioner to New York, The reduction in the United States alfalfa crop was caused largely by heavy infestation of grassltopcere in the mare uortheru producing areas and by excessive mitts in legions east of the Mississippi, Essential Elements The three "essential'' elements of fertility are nitrogen, phos - phone acid and potash. These elements have received this name, not because they are any more es- sential to the growth of crops than the other nine or ton elements en- tering into the composition of Plant tissues, but because they are the three elements which must be constantly, returned to the soil 11 its productiveness Is to be main- tained under ordinary systems of farming, Small Potato Crop According to the first estimate Just issued, the 1933 potato crop in Canada, is plared at 36,643.000 cwt. This is the smallest prop on record since 1916, and is 14 per cent, be- low that of 1937. Short crops in recent years were 33,000,000 cwt. in 1935, and 39,000,000 cwt, in 193„ ann In 1936, The October first estimate of the 1933 United States potato crop is 373,.71,000 bushels, a decrease of 20,014,000 busbels on 1927, Tobacco Price Set Atter a two-day session of .di- rectors of tate Flue -Cured Tobacco Marketing Association and of the Market Appraisal Committee, the price question was settled amic- ably for the 1933 season, The min- imum average price for the 1938 crop will be 22h cents per vound this year. In 1937 the minimum average was 241,, cents, while in 1936 the figure was 25 cents, Actual avenge paid growers during the last two years, however, was 27.2 cents in 1937 and 29.2 cents in 1936. Buying will commence in the Nor- folk area on November 3rd and in the Leamington District on Novem- ber 14th, This year's crop of 67 million pounds is tar in excess of the former record of 56 million pounds last year. and the 23 million pounds harvested in the drought summer of 1936, The unexpectedly large crop may average in excess of 1,100 pounds to the acre, Royal Winter pair Tlrls year's Royw:l Agricultural Winter Fair which opens at Toron- to on November 15 is to be still mere extensive in scope, with great- er variety and larger prizes than In any ,former year. On account of the improvements made in the Royal Winter Fair classes, judging times, and accom- modation, a larger display of live- stock is anticipated, and entries fro new copetltors, notably in dairy cattle and sheep,, have been received. Also it is expected that with herds from Prince Edward Island and British Columbia, all the nhta provinces of Canada will be represented. The new Seed and Grain 'Show promises to assume an importance coinme0surate 'with iCanada's tn- . a lona] status in ,grain grow - Ing, and, as a result of the Im- proved crop and economic condi. ' tions, the entries from the Prairie Provinces vromise to create a re- cord, The space devotee] to pod. try has been largely increased and tend making their home for the present, * * J. I1, Sperling and faintly of Grey township moved into towtt this week, Mr, Sperling and Mrs• Watson Atnlay at'e brother and sister, Notice of Removal—Dr, Graham has removed his office and viace of residence from ills brick block, Turnberry street, to his new reel dunce opcosite Melville ehui'c1t, Practically a whole floor has been taken for what will prove to be au outstanding industrial exhibit by the combined' efforts of the poultry industry of Canada, the Dominion Department of Agricul- ture and ibe egg ,producers' an'd manufacturers ' of supplies, Western Ontario Fruit Crop Weather conditions have been Hevorable for the development and harvesting of all fruit crops. Apples ileac sized and ' colored exceptionally well, Although scab and late infestation of codling moth were quite prevalent in some areas, fungus and inseet pests generally Were kept under control in well cared for commercial orchards, Hall damgae has been comparatively slight and conflned to the occasion- al localized area, Damage by wittd has also been negligible, the only serious loss reported being to one orchard. in Georgian Bay district, ;Conditions were favourable for good development of plums, Some brown rot was in evidence in most varieties throughout the season, but no serious loss Was incurred. talth the exception of souse loss by brown rot In peaches, particu- larly in the Rochester variety, and a somewhat greater than usual amount of split pits, caused by excessive moisture, She quality of the fruit was generally good. The quality of pear's -was excep- tionally good ,this season, The crop was practically tree front in- sect injury and sizing was above average, tliarvesting of plums, peaches and •pearss,has been completed. Hopper damage to gaapes was quite prevalent in many vineyards, but the quality of the fruit was very good. Owing to contin- ued mild weather the Light crop is practically all off tate nines. The low bunch set reduced production which is nomestimated at 45% below that of last season. Fats Preparation of Sod Land for Grain A good grain crop is one of tate best forms of farce insurance and may well determine the difference between success and failure in our farming operations, One fac- tor that has a direct bearing on the yield secured is the time of seeding, ]n normal years, the earlier the crop can be seeded, the better chance there is for a satisfactory yield. To seed early, the land must be partially prepared the previous tali, particularly sod land. Experiments have been conducted at til e Dominion Experimental Farm at Nappan, N.S,, during the past fifteen fears compacting various methods of soil preparation for the grain crop. 'Comparisons are matte of oat yields following sod land ploughing at different times. Angus ploughing, followed by toT> work - Ing, has given an Per acre of 40,6 busbels.The average yield treatment followed by ribbbmbing g late in the autumn 62.9 bushels; has, averagel 52. Ploughing in Septum, d top -working, 51,9 bushels; October ploughing with top-wonking 60 bushels and without t0p_W0rking, 50,5 bushels; ploughing shallow in August, top -working and re - ploughing late in autumn averaged 51,6 bushels; and ploughing in the spring, (no autumn treatment), av- eraged 48 bushels, The results indicate that on Medium clew len -01 soli, li,ffall plough- ing is preferable ni p g iod tgh- Tolaworkig of all ploughedec land does not avpear to be an econ- omical Practice, except for weed control. Early plougliIhtg and fre- quent tephworiting aids in the con- trol 0 perennial weeds such as sow thistle and couch' grass ',and .also annual weeds, as mustard, wild radish, hemp, nettles, etc. Tlieel' is a digerettee ]sere; Habby—"Don't bring one any More blllg, dear, I can't dace dicot;'' Wife --"you needn't, darling, p only wain you to moot them,' F, F HOMUTH Optometrist Phone 26X Hartiston, Phone 118 In Brussels the Second Thursday each month.