The Clinton News Record, 1932-11-17, Page 71" AGE
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
THURS., NOV. 17, 1932
NEt'JS
HAPPENINGS
Timely Information for the
Busy Farmer
(Furnished by the Department of Agriculture )
Mangels, turnips and sugar beets
are reported as very good crepe
generally throughout the province
and the growers . have been busy
harvesting their yields.
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Reports would indicate that lige
stock, especially cattle, are going
into winter conditions in excellent
shape, and the open weather .is wel-
comed because it prolongs the pas-
turing season and shortens the stab-
ling period.
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The Chicago Show
Ontario fanners will again take
a prominent part in the competitive
classes of the 1932 International
Grain and Hay Show in Chicago,
Nov. 28th, to Dec. 3rd, in connection
with the International Live Stock
Exposition, A. H. Martin, assistant
director of the Marketing Branch of
the Department of Agriculture, has
charge of distributing premium lists
and entry cards in this province, and
will provide copies upon request. The
O.A.C. will have an educational ex,
hibit as usual, and Mr. James Laugh-
land of the O.A:C. will serve as
Canadian member of the small grains
judging committee. Ontario will al-
so have an official representative to
take personal charge of handling the
samples from this province and re-
turning those which exhibitors re-
quest to be sent back. Ontario won
a large share of •the coveted awards
in 1931 and it is expected that our
growers will again make a good
showing this year.
Quantity of Ontario Cheese Con-
signed to England
It has been brought to the atten-
tion of the Ontario Marketing Board
that dairy farmers, producing milk
for the manufacture of cheese, es-
pecially those in the Woodstock and
Belleville districts, are watching with
considerable interest an experiment
to develop new cheese inarkets. Two
carloads of the finest quality grade
cheese have been consigned to Lon-
don, England, by the Oxford Cheese
Patrons' Association, Wloodstoek, and
the Central Ontario Cheese Patrons'
Association, Belleville. There the
cheese -will be sold in small lots
through the regular trade channels.
Experinents will be conducted in
selling cheese in different stages of
maturity and preference for color
on the various British markets will
be investigated. Handling costs of
every nature, including expenses
involved in transportation, trucking
dockage, storage, British inland
freight, etc., as well as the various
commissions and other charges made
by the British brokers and produce
firms will be looked into.
Honey Prospects Bright
A cable•to the Ontario Marketing
Board indicates the prospects for
Ontario honey, on the British mar-
ket, as exceedingly bright. Empire
stocks of high grade honey are low,
thus creating a favorable condition
for the reception of the surplus from
Ontario.' The cable states that 'at
present no old . crop New Zealand
honey is available.
Because of a shortage of immedi-
ately available high grade new cror
honey, present prices en bulk honel
may be abnormally high. It is -ex-
pected, however, that prices will
continue well above those of last
year.
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Service to Growers
"A real service to the fruit and
vegetable producer is being effected
by the Ontario Growers' Markets
Council," said J. A. Carroll, secretary
hf the Marketing Board recently;
In order to be in a position to ans-
wer inquiries and to place buyers in
touch with sellers, the council iv'
sending out query forms in an at-
tempt to determine the quantity of
winter vegetables and at what price
producers are willing to sell. Mr,
Carroll pointed 'out that growers who
neglected to fill in and return these
forms were running the risk of al-
lowing possible markets for winter
vegetables to slip from their grasp.
Prizes For Barley
According to J. A. Carroll, Ontar-
io Department of Agriculture, there
is a very definite market for a good
grade of malting barley. "
Certain interests, with the idea of
encouraging the growth of exalting
barley in Ontario, have donated cash
prizes to be awarded the best exhib-
its of 100 pounds of Ontario grown
six -rowed barley shown at the Royal
Winter'. Fair. The first prize con-
sists of .a gold medal and five hun,
dred dollars. The other cash prizes
are relatively smaller.
'Barley entered in this competition
will be judged more for suitability
for malting than for feed or seed.
The mot desirable features of bar-
ley for malting are soundness, full
size and uniformity of kernel, free,
dom from other grains, weed seeds
and inert matter.
c==icies
Dipping Sheep
Ticks and other external parasites
of sheep are serious enough at any
time and cause more direct loss than
is generally supposed, but during the
period when the sheep are in winter
quarters it is even more important
to rid then of all sources of irrita-
tion. It is especially desirable that
the flock be clean (before and during
lambing, otherwise the infestation it
sure to be passed along to the lambs
which will thus receive a very seri-
ous set -back at the most important
period of their lives.
Properly dipped in the autumn, on
some warm day when the fleeces will
dry out quickly, the whole flock will
remain clean throughout the winter.
unless, of course, other undipped
animals are brought to the farm.
With the very convenient powder
dips, sheep axe put through the mini-
umnt of bother and at a cost of only
a few cents per head. The only thing
necessary is to snake sure of good
dip, diluted to the proper strength,
and -that every animal is passed
through the solution slowly and Bung
oughly saturated.
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Hog Production
Hog production has for many
years been an important part •of
farming operations in Canada, and
especially Ontario. It may be freely
acknowledged that there have been
periods when prices barely covered
costs; but it is a fact that the aver-
age results of any ten-year period
in the history of hog production in
this Province or any part of Can-
ada shows that the production of
hogs has yielded a profit to the in{
telligent producer.
If then, over any period of ten
years the production of hogs has
Proven to be profitable, it would
surely be advisable to develop this
branch of fares production, in this,
as in any field of endeavor, the long
view of policy is wise and necessary•
Plans must be laid for a considerable
time ahead, These plans should pro-
vide for better methods of breeding,
feeding and rearing and the volume
of production necessary to maintain
a position in the world's markets:
Commercial hog production in
Canada began to be important about
1880. In the census year of 1881,
Canada's hog population numbered
1,208,000. Every ten years since
that time the population has steadily
increased, until in 1981 we had 4,-
777,000 hogs. This in itself is aim,
dant proof that hog•produotion has,
on the average, been profitable.
On account of the fact that Canals
produces a largo surplus y. of cheap
feed grains and has a relatively
small consuming population, it will
be natural that this country will pro-
duce a surplus of hog products over
domestic requirements. This inevi-
table surplus must be exported. If
it is a small amount and in uncer-
tain quantities, the marketing of such
surplus is very difficult, Therefore
it is necessary that this country
should develop hog production so as
to have a fair volume of product a-
vailable for export steadily,
In addition to volume, a quality
of product whioh will create its own
demand is an absolute necessity. It
is, therefore; evident -that the farm-
ers of Ontario in their best inter-
ests should produce as large a vol-
ume ,of good quality product as theist
conditiops and means of breeding and.
feeding will permit,
For many years the export mar-
ket. for Ontario' bacon has been
Great Britain, The senthneht 'of
consumers in Britain is favorable to
our bacon. But the trade there asks
thaCthe quality shall be i%equal to
that of other countries and that the
supply shall be dependable. These
are very, reasonable demands' and
Ontario' producers must surely be
prepared to meet them.
Advertisements - are _ your pocket
book editorials. They interpret the
Merchandise news. I,
INTER -ES -T
TD FARMERS
SELECTS—NOT BUTCHERS
The Ontario Department of Agri-
culture has undertaken to inform
farmers regarding .the bacon situa-
tion as developed lair the 'Conference
agreements and the huge quota
granted to Canada. The opportunity
has -been' merely presented, and it
has been left to producers themselves
to decide just what they will do.
No man living knows what Hog
prices will be twelve months from
now. Even the packers who are re-
puted to be all -wise and almost sup-
erhuman in their intelligence do not
possess sufficient knowledge to fore.
cast prices even a •month ahead. 14
is obvious, therefore, that the actual
producer himself will, as usual, have
to take all the chances, There is.
one fact, however, which is unani:
mously accepted, namely, that any
increase in •autgrade hogs is quite
undesirable, and, in fact, detrimental
to the whole scheme of agricultural
marketing. Anything lower in qual-
ity than the bacon grade will sisnply
increase the volume of a product
which can be sold only at losing -val-
ues abroad and still further depress
prices at home. '
Whether swine raisers are increas-
ing . or barely maintaining present
production, they should strive as
they never strove before to produce
nothing inferior to the bacon grade,
and if possible to increase the per-
centage of selects, That means that
the breeding stock must .be selected,
that worms and parasites must be
combatted, and that the proper feeds
must be combined into a ration suit-
able for bacon hogs.
This is one line, of advice that can-
not prove wrong. • It holds true in
good times as well as bad, and what-
ever happens in the next twelve
months it is the right course to per-
sue.—Farmer's Advocate.
A Message to the People of Ontario
From the Executive Committee of
The United Fanners of Ontario.
Ontario agriculture faces a crisis.
The result of several generations of
intelligent, self-sacrificing and unre-
mitting toil is disappearing with
ominous rapidity. Progressively, ex-
ploited for soma time past through
the artificial stimulation of modern
industrialism, it now faces the danger
of rapid decay and general bankrupt,
cy. Ordinarily the farmer faces a
business depression, as he does oth-
er difficulties, with courage and
confidence. But the situation is
different today. The extent, dare,
thin and severity of the present ec-
onomic breakdown . have brought a-
bout a condition of hopelessness whirl -
i; both a threat and a challenge to
every citizen. The farmer's savings
are being exhausted, and his capita`
is being depleted, at such a rate that
the end is in sight. Municipal in•
stitutions cannot be maintained much
longer on the present basis. Rural
civilization is crumbling,
Nor is it the condition of agricul-
ture alone which threatens the fut-
ure. The collapse of prices destroy-
ed the farmer's punccasing power.
The inevitable result was a steady
decline in merchants' sales, a falling
off of wholesalers' orders, a curtail-
ment of manufacturing output and a
marked reduction in railway tonnage,
All along the line clerks, employees
and workers were thrown out of
work, creating an army of jobless
sten, Then followed a further
shrinkage of purchasing power; lig.,
uidations and growing panic on the
part of bankers and leaders, and con-
tinued contraction of credit.
Thus does economic insanity grow
by what it feeds on; thus does the
ancient, primitive and brutal strug-
gle for existence revive, and civiliza-
tion commit suicide; and all at a time
in the history of the world when the
resources available for meeting all
rational human needs are unparallel-
ed. Stupidity and greed consign a
blind Samson to the treadmill, and
eventually the pillars of society tot-
ter and crash.
But, black as the situation may
seem, it is yet not without hope, For
we as a people have been worship-
ping false gods and are now sternly
bidden to renounce them. We have
got lost in the jungle of expediency
and self-seeking and must again look
up to the eternal stars. Absorbed hs
the pursuit of gain, we have been
stricken down. Even now society is
in the remaking and agriculture must
play an important part therein.
What then can .Ontario fanners
do to meet this situation? What
Mild they do if they were united?
WA are quite sure they can do nothv
ing worthwhile as individuals. We
are also quite sure that there is nc
adequate solution of the farmer's
economic problenns apart from a solu-
tion of the economic problem goner -
ally. And we feel confident in say-
ing that the present disorder indi-
cates a deep-seated social disease
which cannot be remedied by make-
shifts and patchwork. Therefore we
submit the appended programme of
economic and social reconstruction
confident that nothing short of such
radical reconstruction will assure
permanent recovery and ,progress;
and we urge upon our farmers, and
upon our citizens generally, the
careful and earnest consideration of
this message,
The realization of • the appended
programme will involve at least
three things:
(1) The development of a social
hind and conscience. Church, school
and all other suitable agencies must
preach and teach .a faith. and an
ethic which call for a co-operative
view and condct uof life.
(2) Voluntary collective action by
groups within the State, -as in the
working out of co-operative ideas,
and methods, to which end there
ahiould be (a)! Legal facilities for
the promotion and protection of co-
operative organizations, 'and .(Ib)
Continuous education in the philis
appy, principles and achievements
of the co-operative movement.
(3) Collective action of a politica?
character through the State.
With respect to political action
there is no hope of permanent pro-
gress in the abdietion of Democracy
and the resort to dictatorship. W0
believe that the so-called evils of pol-
itical Democracy are due to extran-
eous causes, more particularly to the
absence of Economic Democracy, and
that the cure for them lies in snaking
Democracy more real, more intelli-
gent and more extensive; that is to
say, by
(1) The development of the social
mind, and (2) The adoption of such
reforms in our political machinery
and methods as may insure to the
common people active and adequate
participation in public affairs.
As steps towards economic and
social reconstruteion, or in mitiga- p
tion of present evils, we suggest the d
following— e
(1) The establishment of a Na- d
tional Economic Council for the
purpose of giving special attention to h
the problems of the distribution of i
wealth and to economic planning.
(2) Immediate action by the Fed-
eral •Government to effect: a
(a) Parity with the pound sterling,
(b) A. reduction in interest rates.
(c) A scaling down of debts.
(d) A snore liberal extension of
credit; alI of which will help stem
the tide of liquidation, enable in- p
dustry to function, and raise the t
price level.
(Itogramtnenofs EiToPneormailicv6and Social Early History of Clinton Interestingly
Reconstruction.
`(1) The recognition; :of the solid-
arity of mankind and the growing
economic inter -dependence of all pee•
pies, involving, among other things—
(a) The abandonment of war
(b) The removal of all trade bar-
riers.
(c) International action for mone-
tary stability. •
(2) The reorganization of indus-
try
ndustry and commerce along co-operative,
lines, involving, among other things:
(a) The development : of consum-
ers' co-operation, including the retail
and wholesale distribution, and ev-
entually the manufacture, of the
necessaries of life
(Ib) The development of labor co,
partnership associations, and of
"`J'roducers Co-operation" including
the assembling, grading, processing,
and bulk sale of primary products.
(c) Effective co-ordination of
consumer's and producer's co-opera-
tives, so as to eliminate all waste,
and secure and maintain equity as
between producer and consumer.
(d) The development of coopera-
tive • banking and credit institutions,
(3) The abolition of all forms of
special privilege: and to that end,
the shifting of the incidence of taxa-
tion .from Industry to Privilege, so
as to secure
(a) The natural relief of unem-
ployment through the stimulation of
industry generally, by relieving it
of burdensome taxation.
(b) The prevention of exploitation
of the masses by the privileged few,
with its consequent unjust and par-
alyzing distribution of wealth.
(c) The appropriation of commun-
ity created values for community
purposes, and the consequent secur-
ing of public revenues without im-
osing barriers to trade or burdens
n industry.
(4) Monetary and Banking Reform
involving—
(a) Stabilizing -the purchasing
ewer of money, so as to avoid the
isturbing effects of the business
ycle, and secure justice as between
ebtor and creditor.
(b) The recognition that Finance
as become essentially a public util-
ty, and ought, therefore, to be ad-
ministered for the benefit of all,
either• under state. or co-operative
uspices. - _
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On Thursday, Dec. 1st, during
the week of their annual convention,
Tho United Farmers of Ontario will
throw their doors open to all farm
wide of the province. In so doing
hey are giving a lead, looking to-
ward' the unifying of all agricultural
farces, as they did last July in spon-
soring a farners' delegation to Ot-
tawa.
This farmers' mass meeting, which
is entirely separate from the U.F.O
convention, will be held in the King
Edward hotel, 35 King Street East,
Toronto, (pining at 10.00 n.sn., and
running both forenoon and after-
noon sessions,
The suggested agenda for the day
s contained in a vigorous and virile
"Message to the People of the Pro -
ince" just issued by the executive
ommittee of the U.F.O.. as above.
Programme
The United Farmers of Ontario An -
nal Convention, King Edward Hotel,
5 Icing Street, E., Toronto.
Monday, Nov. 28-3.30 p.m.: U.F.
Executive, Head Office; 7.00 pan.:.F.O. (1932) Board of Directors,
(lead Office.
Tuesday, Nov 29-12,00 to 1.30:
egistration; 1.30 pan.: Call to Or-
er; Secretary's Report; President's
ddress; Discussion of convention
usiness pertaining to women's sec
on; 5,00 p,m.: Flection of 'Officers.
Wed,, Nov. 30. 11 ane.: The united
arm Young People of Ontario; Call
o Order; Helpful features on club
rogrammes by delegates; 10.30 a,
.: Provincial Public Speaking Con-
est—"If I Were Premier of Canada."
1.45 a.m.: Election of -officers; 1.00 given the high-sounding title of the
.m. United Farmers of Ontario — Warden of the Forests. He had a
blain Convention; 12,00 to 1.00 pan.: most colourful career, a medical
egistration; Call to Order; Report
of Secretary; Address of Presidents
eport of Ottawa Delegation; Pre-
entation from U.F.O. Executive; Re,
elutions; 6.00 p.m.: Adjournment of
ain Convention until 7 p.m. Thurs-
ay, to. allow delegates to attend
eeting of the Co-operative Comon-
ealth Federation at 8 pan.Wednes-
ay, Hygeia Hall, 40 Elm St., and
attend Farmers' Mass Meeting to
e held forenoon and afternoon,
hursday in King Edward Hotel; 8:00
in.: Public Meeting called by Co-
operative Commonwealth Federation.
Thursday, Dec. 1: 9.00 a.m.:' Dele-
ates will be shown through the
uildings at Head Office, 28 Duke
trees, Toronto. 10,00 a•m.: Farm -
ss, Mass Meeting, open to all; 1.30
in.: Farmers' ass eeting, farm
eople. '7.00 p.m.: U•F,O'. Main Con -
ration; 1.30 p.m.: Farmers' Mass
meeting, faint people; 7.00 p.m.: U.
0. Main Convention; 7.30 pan.:
ection of Officers; Consideration of
vitation to Affiliate with the Co-
erative 'Commonwealth Federation'
Resolutions,
Friday, Dec. 2--9.00 a.m.--ILFO.
Main Convention; Resolution's; Un-
nisbed business; 2:00 pan.; 'U.F.O.,
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I(3) Immediate increase of the In -
come Tax on Iarge incomes to meet
all unemployment relief needs.
(4) Rapid and drastic reduction of
alI customs and excise duties and
sales taxes on the necessaries of
Iife,
(5) Immediate and drastic action
to prevent over -capitalisation and
anti -social financial jugglery,
Finally we do not believe that the
Canadian farmer can materially im-
prove his lot by anything he can do
on his own farm, unless, indeed, the
return to the self -sufficing agricul-
ture of pioneer days may be called an
improvement. Every step calculated
to improve the farmer's lot involve:.'
collective action of some sort, co-op-
erative effort by farmers as farmers
or, collective action by farmers as
citizens. Without this there is no
hope. Organization of some sort is
imperative. The farmer cannot de-
fend himself against exploitation
without organization; he cannot take
part in any worthwhile cons
atruetive efforts without organiza-
tion; he cannot even develop a sane
point' of view without organization.
Without organization he remains a
warring atoan, a weak, ignorant
isolated, ineffective serf, a victim of
his own ignorance and prejudice, a
hewer of wood and a drawer of wat-
er. 'Organization is imperative; and
at no time in the past more impera-
tive than now. Organization is the
first step, without which no further
steps are possible.
. If, then, this be the case, what
type of organization shall the farm-
er support? That will depend ion the
purpose in mind. Special purpose or-
ganizations will serve special purposes
but, over and above all such special
organizations, there is roam
and need for one general purpose or-
ganization of farmers as' farmers—
an organization designed to educate
and unify, to survey the whole field
of rural Iife, to develop and express.)the mind et those who live in'the -opt
en spaces, to protect and ennoble
the tillers of the soil.
The present desperate plight of
Canadian agriculture cannot be resni-
died without organization on the part
of farmers.- The scheme of economy
is and social reconstruction append -
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Paper Read Before the Clinton Home and
School Club
By James Scott, Esq.
some selections from this document: •
"I leave the property of -Galrbraid
(the name of his residence in Col-
borne) and other landed property I -
may die possessed of to ny sisters,
Helen Boyle Story and Elizabeth •
Boyle Dunlop, the former because
she is married to a Minister, whom,
(God help him,) she henpecks, the
latter because she is married to no-
body, nor is she like to be for she
is ati old maid and not marketable.
I give my silver tankard to the
eldest son of old John, as the repre-
sentative of the family. I would
have left it to John, himself, but he
would have melted it down to make
Temperance Medals and that would
be sacrilege. However, I leave my
big horn snuff box to him. He can
only make Temperance Horn Spoons •
with that.
I leave my sister Jenny my Bible,
the property formerly of my Great,
Great 'Grandmother, Bethia Hamil-
ton, and when she knows as much of --
the spirit of it as she does the letter,
she will be another guise Christian
than she is.
I also leave my late brother's
watch to my brother, Sandy, warning -
hini at the same time to give up-•
Whiggery, Radicalism, and all other
sins that do most easily beset him.
I leave Parson Chevasse (hag's
husband) the snuff box I got from
the Sarnia Militia, as a small token
of my gratitude for the service he
has done the family in taking a Sis-
ter
is
ter that 110 man of taste would have
taken."
Ile took an active interest in the ,
affairs of the district, and beyond
for he was appointed Magistrate for
every County in the province, and'
was for a time M.P.P. for Iluron
District.
His influence was, at first, on be-
half of the Company, and later, a-
gainst it as the leader of what was
known as the Colborne Clique.
One of the first enterprises of Mr.
Galt and counted by him as his great-
est, was the making of the Huron
Road which was the first land com-
munication between lakes Ontario
and Huron, entering the ptesent
County of Huron at Dublin through
to Lake Huron at Goderieh, The
building of that road put what was
afterwards Clinton on the map. Thr
London road, intended to connect
London and 'Goderieh, was projected %
by the Provincial Government, and
some time later built, giving to tiro
junction of that road with the Huron
road the name of "The Corners,"
first Vanderburg's Corners, and lat-
er, Rattenbury's Corners. Another
road put through by the Company
was the Base Line running due north •
from the Bayfield River to the north
boundary of Hullett where now is
situate the village of Auburn,
As to the pioneers of Clinton and
the immediate vicinity, we marvel at
the stout-hearted courage and faith
of those heroes and heroines who
bumped over corduroy or trudged on
foot through the bush along blazer`
tracks, grubbed amongst trees and'
stumps and scraped out a percarious
and often lonely existence without
books or papers and very infrequent
letters from friends and relatives.
As one of these pioneers said, "It
was a struggle with bloomin' swamp,
snakes, stumps, mosquitoes and flies."
A teacher asked one of her pupils to
give an account of the afflictions of
Job. Her reply was, "He lost all his
cattle and all his childreu and he had'
to go and live alone with his wife in
the desert" Somewhat the same was
the experience of the pioneers of Iiu-
ron.
The first arrivals here were Jonas
Gib'bings, the grandfather of Mr.
Ben. Gibbings, who cane by water
to Goderieh and in by the Huron
Toad, settling on Lost 23, Hullett, and,
the Vanderburg brothers, Peter and
Stephen, the former taking up thet
North Western Lot of Tuckersmit
and Stephen a lot opposite in Goder-
ich township. The Vanderburgs left
little mark or record of their doings,
Being succeeded, by a Mr. Reed, known
as "Yankee Reed," who bought tho
Vanderburg interest including a log
building on the Tuekersmith Corner
which had been used as a tavern by
Peter Vanderburg. This was ;Con-
tinued by Reed who extended opera-
tions by entering upon mercantile•
business in the same premises. He
was the grandfather` of our towns-
man John •Cuninghane, who has been
an,lronoured resident of tho town for -
many years.
(Continued next week)
In the year 1824 a Company known
as the Canada Company was formed
in Britain by a number of British
capitalists. John 'Galt, poet, novel-
ist, biographer, historian, and poli-
tician was its father and organizer.
Under the Act of 1791, by virtue
of which the provinces of Upper and
Lower -Canada were constituted one
seventh of all lands in Upper Can,
ala were reserved by the Crown as
Crown Reserves, and another dev-
enth retained by the Crown as Clergy
Reserves. This Company made ap-
plication for a grant out of these
Reserves. Upon consideration of
its agreeing to induce immigrants
to settle on its lands, construct roads
and bridges, erect schools and chur-
ches, a grant of about two million
acres of these lands was made to
the Company. The share -holders eI-
ected a Board of Governors with Head
Office in London, England, and
Jahn Galt was appointed Commis-
sioner and came out to this province
shortly after the completion of its
agreement with the Crown, and en-
tered upon his duties as Commissioner
for the Company. Part of the grant
to the Company to the extent of be.
tween 800,000 and 900,000 acres was
made from the Clergy Reserves.
Strong opposition was made to these
lands being granted, representatior
being made principally through Doc -
tot, afterwards, Bishop Strachan.
As a result of the representation
made, the lands granted from the
Clergy Reserves were exchanged for
a solid block of land taken from Iands
recently purchased from the Indiane
in Western Ontario. This tract
composed 7 townships of the County
of Perth, 3 in the County of Middle;
sex, 1 front the County of Lambton
and 9 from the County of Huron,
consisting of what was afterwards
known as the Huron Tract, Subse-
quent events proved the office of
Commissioner no soft or pleasant
job. The Commissioner was a gentle-
man of high principles whod esided to
work for the welfare of the settlerr
and in an honest effort to fulfill the
Company's contract with the Crown
but the Company possessed all the
inherent defects •of absent Landlord:-
who were seeking dividends rather'
than the interests of its settlers.
Hampered and restricted at every
turn, . the Commissioner was so kin-
dred incl spied upon that ultimately
he resigned his office and returned
to Britain a disappointed man, leav-
ing, however, as a gift to Canada twr
distinguished sons in the persons of
Justice Galt and Sir A. T. Galt be-
sides John Galt, his namesake, who
became the first Registrar of Deeds
in the County of Huron.
The Company, through their Board
of Governors in England, attemptec'
to dominate all the affairs of the dis-
trict. As an indication of this, this
story is told: Near the Company's!
office in Goderieh, in the street
leading down to the harbour, two
posts were erected upon which all
notices were posted. A strange
examining the notices on these posts
enquired of a native who was pas-
sing, if all public notices were put
up in that way. With a strong ex-
pletive, he exclaimed, "Public? There
is no nubile! You're either Canada
Company or nothing!"
One of the most remarkable men
whom Galt brought to his assistance
was Dr. William Dunlop who was
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officer in the British army for a time
in India, where he received the sob-
riguet of "Tiger", he having under-
taken to clear from an island in the
Ganges tigers which infested it. The
Doctor was an inveterate user of
snuff, and one means he adopted in
getting the best of these wild beasts
was to throw snuff in their faces.
He was a notorius practical joker.
To indicate how far he carried his
jolting two instances may be given.
He and his brother occupied a re-
sidence together in Colborne. They
were anxious to secure a •housekeep-
g er. A Highland woman, by the name
B of Louisa 1VIoC'all 'had arrived in the
S community and the suggestion wa:f
e made by the Doctor that either he
p. I M M or his brother should marry her and
he suggested as a means of deciding,
the tossing of a coin. The Doctor
invited his brother to take his choice,
He selected Beads. The Hector,
without revealing his subterfuge us-
ed a coin with a head on both sides,
and so the (brother became the vie.
tins. '
The other i$ the remarkable will
which he made. Which has become
the most insigne curiosity in Burro -
1983 Board of Directors, 28 Duke St, gate practice. The following are
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ed, and which alone promises hope of F.
permanent recovery, cannot be real- El
ized without organization. Nor can In
ameliorative or palliative measures op
be adopted without organization.
Nothing can be done either by or
for farmers without organization.
Organization is the prerequisite, the fi
first step, the beginning of all else.
There's something in the adver-•
tisements today to interest you. Reade
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