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The Wingham Advance Times, 1925-10-08, Page 5Thursday'. atolier St!%., BLYTI•I FALL FAIR List of Prize Winners at Blyth Fall Fair held on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 24th. and 25t1,- Agricultural—Brood Mare accom- panied by ccom-panied'by foal, Albert Hunking, Foal horse or, rnare,_Albert Hunking; .Geld- ing or Filly, 2 years, Wilbert Taylor; Gelding or Filly, one year, Albert Hunking; Team of mares or geldings, Chas, Stewart, R. R. Fear, ' Johii Wright; Mare or Gelding, any : age (Sweepstakes), John Wright. Heavy Draught -Brood Mare, ac- companied by foal„ Jerry Bridges; Gray Bros.; foal, horse or mare,. Gray Bros., Jerry Bridges; gelding or filly, 2 years, Geo. T. Dale; mare or geld- ing, any age (sweepstakes) Geo. T. Dale. Clyde—Brood mare accompanied by foal, Gray Bros.; foal, horse or mare, Gray Bros., Gray Bros., two year old filly, Gray Bros., Gray Bros:; ,one year old filly, Gray Bros., Gray Bros.; one year old filly, Gray Bros., Sweep- stakes, Gray Bros, General Purpose; Team of Linares or geldings, W. Decker, W. Decker. Roadsters—Jas. 'Heffron, Robt. Beattie, J. C. Currie, E. Lewitt; Lady Driver, J. C. Currie, Geo. Lewitt; Team of Mares or Geldings, J. C. Currie; Gentlemen's Outfit (speed not necessarily considered), John Weir. CATTLE Pure Bred Durhains—Milch cow having raised calf in 1925ii or with calf,'. positive proof required, Jas. Brigham,. Wm. Heffron, J. S. Scott; two year old heifer, J. E. Ellis, Wm. Heffron; one year old heifer, Turnbull & Son, John Barr; Heifer calf, Jno. Barr, Turnbull & Son; Bull, one year and under, 2, Thos. Taylor & Son; Bull Calf, Turnbull & Son; Turnbull , & Son; Herd, bull :and '2 females, 'Turn- bull & Son. Grades; Milch cow having raised calf in 1924 or with calf, positive proof required, Jas. Brigham, Alf Haggitt; two year old heifer, Robt. McDonald, R. S. McGowan; two year old steer, Robt. McDonald, Wm. ° Heffron; one year old heifer, Jno. S. Scott, John Barr; one year old steer,, W. S. Me-- Gowan, cGowan, John Barr; 'Heifer calf, Robt. Wightman, W. S. McGowan; steer calf, J. E. Ellis, Wm. Heffron; fat steer, any breed, John Barr, W. S. McGowan; fat cow or heifer, any breed, W. S. McGowan, Robt. McDon- ald; three fat stock steers, not shown in any other number, not to exceed i000 lbs., Wm. Heffron: • SHEEP Leicester—Aged ram, Chas. Wight man & Son, Wm. Craig; ram lamb, Chas. Wightman & Soil, ist and 2nd.; aged ewe having raised lamb in 1925, C. Wightman :& Son, Wm. Craig; shearling ewe, C. Wightman & Son, Wm. CraigEwe lamb, Wm. Craig, C. Wightman' & Son. Shropshiredown—Aged ram, W. J. Stewart, Thos. ` Fairservice; shearling ram, W. G. Ross, 1st and 2nd.; ram 'lamb, W. G. 'Ross, 1st and' and.; aged ewe having raised lamb in 1925, W. G. 1st. and 2nd.; shearling eiVe, W. G. Ross, 1st. and 2nd.; ewe lamb, W. G. Ross, 1st and 2nd., Any other kind—Aged ram, Cecil Coultes; ram lairib, Cecil Coultes, ist and'2nd.; aged ewe 'having raised lamb. in 1.925, Cecil Coultes, Thos. Fairservice; shearling ewe, .Cecil Coul- tes, Thos. 'Fairse'tvice ewe lamb, Ce- cil Coultes, Thos. Fairservice; fat sheep, ewe or .wether,; .W.• G. Ross, Cecil Coultes. POULTRY Pair Turkeys, any large variety, H. Weymouth, Jno. Barr; Pair Geese, small variety,: H. Weymouth; 1st.' and 2nd.; Pair Pekin Ducks, H. Wey- mouth, 1st.' and 2nd.; Pair Ducks any other variety, H. Weymouth; Pair Hamburgs, black, H. Weymouth; Pair. Hamburgs, • spangled, H. Weymouth; Pair Hamburgs, "pencilled, H. Wey- Mouth; Pair Wyandottes, white, Colin Fingland, H. Weymouth; Pair Leg - horns, single comb; white, H. Wey- mouth, 1st: and 2nd.; Pair 'Leghorns, any Other variety, H. Weymouth; ,Pair' Houdans, H. Weymouth,' 1st. and and:; "Pair` Plymouth Rocks, barred, H. Weymouth, 1st. and 2nd.; Pair Rhode Island` Reds, 11. Weymouth; Pair Bladk Breasted Red Game, Ed- ward: Haggitt;, Pair ,any other breed named, John Barr, H. Weymouth. GRAIN One bushel red fall wheat, Edgar Wightman, J. and F. Laidlaw; one bushel six rowed'barley,' J. and F. Laidlaw; one bushel two rowed , J bar- ley, Barr; one bushel White Oats, long, Robert ' McDonald; one bushel white oats, short, J. and 1. A Laidlaw, Chas. Stewart; one bushel striall peas, Robt. Shortreed, ward; one ,bushel large peas, jolua 13arr; half bushel timothy seed, W. C. Ctinnitighain; six best stocks ensilage corn, Wm. Jenkins, Cecil Cartwright. ROOTS Collection of garden prodtice, Jno. Grieve,, John Wright, Olive Wright; half bushel potathes, late, ChaS. Stewart; six garden carrots, long, Ro- bert ivicbcoald, Fred Toll (sr.); six garden carrOts, short, John SomerS, W$NuRAlVi Aj,7v'Al\IMTIM'ES FARMER'S �iOME M. ce. Are they right? What are the Fa,c Western wheat farmer out of it, it could be proved that ever 800 of what the Ontario farmer produces is consumed by this hornymarket. The reason some people have an exaggerated idea of the titan-. portance of the export market for farm produce is that they have. looked at it solely from the standpoint of wheat! It is true that .r. export in one form or another about 75 per cent of our entir+s we.p wheat crop. But the wheat crop, important and all as itis, re;,, presents only about one-fourth of our total annual agricultural 'h production; and it is only when we take into account what be; comes of the other three-fourths that we can arrive at a true es- timate s timate of the value of the home market to the average Canadian Low Tariff Politicians belittle its iaxportarn ROBABLY no part of the business of farming is less under- stood and Tess appreciated than the value of the home market to the average Canadian farmer of to -day - First and foremost, given. a Government that is sympathetic with you, the home market is one that you can absolutely con- trol, at all time„, at least against the foreign farmer who would invade it. On the other hand, the foreign market is one that you may be legislated out of at any moment by the vote of a foreign government that has decided that it. wants to give its own farmers an advantage over you! -„ Next, the market that is best worth cultivating is always the • market that absorbs the largest part of your production. The fellow who year after ,year buys more than half your • crop is worth more to you. than the fellow who 'only buys 25% of it. ,, That's fundamental! There's no getting away from it! F From the ,figures below we prove absolutely that the home market absorbs at .the very least 631/2% of the produce -not of the Ontario farmer--rbut of the average Canadian farmer, Including the wheat farmer of the West. If we were to leave the farmer! Here is our calculation, Check up our figures from the Canada Year -Book, the, official statistical publication issued by ,the; Gov- ernment. Subject our deductions to the most searching investi- gation and you will find that if we have erred at all, we have, under -estimated, .rather than over-estimated the importance of the farmer's home market. TOTAL EXPORTS, FISCAL YEAR 1924, OF Agricultural and Vegetable Products. including fresh dried an4 preserved fruits, grains,, flour and milled products, bakery products and prepared foods, vegetable oils, miscellaneous, ' but dbeverages rubber,su(other than rnaple), mbacces fand to tired asuct maple fyC nadian ag ie cultural orig nle but excludingaar whose export value is prepared vegetables, molasses and.confectionery, as products not. of g - - _ out of all relation to the value of the agricultural products used hi their production. - Animals and Animal Products. includingg live :animals, hides and skins, leather, fresh meats, cured and canned eats m black and ilk and its prod fox oils, fats, greases, eggs, honey and miscellaneous, but excluding fish oils, seal and whale oils, and furs other _ - - - f iagricultural origin. - - - - . - - - Fibres, Textiles and Textile Products. including all wool and woolens, also flax, jute and hemp products, but excluding binder twine, manufacturers of cotton and silk, manu- facturers of mixed textiles, and certain kinds of wearing apparel, as products not of Canadian agricultural origin. Grand total exports, all kinds of farm produce - • - Now the gross agricultural revenue of Canada for crop year 1923 is given as $1,342,132,000. Deduct- ing the grand total exports, as above of $489,094,124, leaves, a balance of $853,037,876 to represent' what must have been consymed by the home market. In other words, the export market took only 36A% of our farm production. The balance, 6334%, was consumed in Canada! • TWO THIRDS OF WHAT THE CANADIAN FARMER RAISES, HE' SELLS IN CANADA $394,407,246 91,939,305 2,747,573 $489,094,124 Export Prices that Fail to Govern Home Prices. In attempts to belittle the home market, the argument has been used over and, over again that the prices obtainable in the export market always- govern the prices obtainable in the domestic market. Statements of that kind constitute one of the meanestforms of dishonesty. It is probably true that, in the absence of an effective wheat pool, the ' Liverpool price ',pretty nearly fixes the domestic price of : wheat. But the Liverpool price of hay, or of potatoes, is almost negligible" in its effect upon the local prices obtainable for those commodities in Canada. And the reason for the difference is that wheat, besides being a commodity that can be stored indefinitely, has been provided with terminal facilities that enable it to be handled at a minimum of expense, and is carried at the lowest of all freight rates, whereas 'transportation costs on hay and potatoes substantially protect the pro- ducer against surpluses only a hundred miles away! Hay and Potatoes for Instance. In 1923, for instance, farmers' in Nor- folk County received an average of only 811/g• cents a bushel for their potatoes, while farmers in Welland ' County, less than fifty miles.away, received $1.00 for theirs In that same year farmers in: Perth. County received an average of only $9.28 a ton for their hay, while farmers in the adjoining County of Middlesex re- ceived '$11:05 for theirs. Discount these illustrations as much as you- like on the ground that differences of quality had something to do with the differences . in price, yet do they not serve , to shake your faith in the man who vcrould haveyou believe that Liverpool prices always govern. domestic prices? Did Thun- der Bay farmers, for instance, get $19.64 for their hay in 1923 because it was of such superior quality, or ' did. they get it because of the high cost of bringing $8.98 hay, from Huron County, or $10.11 hay " from Lambton County? If Liverpool prices governed hay in the way and for the same reasons that ,they do wheat, Ontario farmers would have to pay shippers a premium to take their hay away! What's Sauce for the, Goose is Sauce for the Gander,. Belittlers of the home market assert that a tariff on farm products is of no benefit to our farmers. Is the United States tariff On farm products of no benefit to United States farmers? Is it no detriment to Canadian farmers? If a foreign tariff is a detriment to Canadian farmers, -why should not a Canadian tariff be a detriment to foreign farmers and consequently abenefit to our own? What a New Industry, in your Market Town, Means to You! It increases the prosperity of the town, gives, work to the unemployed, adds to the population gets the empty houses rented and starts the build- ing of new ones. The town immediately has:. ,. more money to spend on the butter and eggs, the: vegetables, fruit, milk and grain your farm produces. The foreign market is admittedly an..important market, but after all what does it consist of? Isn't it made up entirelyy of town and city dwellers— wage-earncrs—who cannot -obtain from their own 'farmers as much food as they require so they n{us;t buy from you? Is the city dweller an asset to th Canadian farmer only when he happens to dwell in a foreign city ? If we persuaded him, by the offer of a better job than he now"has, to come and live in Canada, would he not be a bigger asset to our farmer than he is at present ? Those who scoff at the home market would en- courage those dwellers in a foreign city to stay where they are, thus leaving our farmers in the position where they must take a chance on ship- ping their products long distances, and then selling them in competition with other producers from all over the world! Isn't the plan of, those who would build up the home market a vastly better ones A higher tariff will give more workers good jobs in this country. Canadian workmen with good jobs are the best customers 14, the Canadian farmer will ever have. TE C FOR HIGHER TARIFF AND FOR LOWER TAXATION Liberal-OanserVAUVO Viatncy Oommlttee. 880 Aar 81.. Tsrd2tOi John Denholm; six swede turnips, `A.' W. Smith, Edgar Wightman; four Fred Toll (sr.), John Barr; half bush- named varieties of fall apples, John el commercial turnips, 3 to 4 inch, Somers, Edgar Wightman; Baldwin, Wm. Jenkins, John Denholm; six Jas, 13. Tiernay, John Somers; Dings, turnips, any other kind,A. W. Smith; John Somers, John Tiernay;•Northern six beets table use, long, A. W. Spy, James B, Tiernay, Edgar Wight - Smith; six beets, table use, round, A, man; R. L Greening, John Denholm, W. Snaith, Jno. Denholm; six sugar Fred Toll sr.; Ribstien Russett, John beet nnan gg olds, white, Grey Bros., A. Somers, Duncan. Laidlaw; Golden Ru - W. ` Smith; six n angold wurtzels, sett, A. W. Smith, John Denholm; David Laidlaw; 'no, Barr; six Seek no further, A. W. Smith, John globe, 7 ranig old wurtzels, long, A. W. Smith, Denholm; Spitzenburg, John Wright, g Gray Bros,, six man olds wurtzels, 1V Cr. Lydiatt; Wagner, John Denholm,, yellow, long, David Laidlaw, A: W. John Somers; Ben Davis, John Den - Smith;' one pie pumpkin, Jno. Den- holm, ,john l 1 Somers, Gravenstein Jno. holm, A. W. Smith; one pumpkin, Jno. Barr, John Denholm; one squash, Jno. Denholm, two citrons, Olive Wright, :David lLaidlaw; two water- melons, atermelons, Cecil Cartwright; two musk- melons, Cecil Cartwright, Mrs. Telfer; Two heads C cabbage, named, Olive Wright; Two heads' cauliflower, Cecil Cartwright; Two heads celery, John Grieve, Cecil Cartwright; Six ears of corn,' Dent, braided, Cecil Cartwright; six cars Sweet Corn, braided, John Ho- ward, John Wright. FRUIT ,Six named varieties of winter aPPZes, 10 varieties, obtained from any ' Stewart; Hard soap, 4 lbs., Mrs. P. tart pie; native fruit, filling, Duncan; 'source, John 'Somers, A. W. Smith; Crab 'apples, JohnSomers, Fred Toll, Gardiner, John Grieve. DOMESTIC SCIENCE, HOME "sr.,; Winter pears, named, John Som- BAKING ers, A. W. Smith; Fall pears, named, • Loaf, white bread, yeast, Olive A. W. Smith, John Denholm; named' Wright, Chas. Stewart; loaf brown plums, arty variety, John Grieve; 12 bread, Cecil Cartwright; loaf nut bread tomatoes, John Wright,' Mrs, P. Gar- quick, Russel Richmond, Duncan Laid diner. " law; six plain yeast buns, Cecil Cart DAIRY PRODUCTS wright, Duncan Laidlaw; ;x plain ba Dar • ry butter in crock, 15 pounds, king � unds, powder biscuits, Duncan Laid - Robert McDonald, John Wright; dai- law, Russel Fear; Six plain graham Y r butter in prints, 5 pounds, Robert gems, Mrs. Lydiatt, Russel Richmond; Wightman, John Wright; Dairy butter Si oatmeal cookies, Russel Fear, W. , roll pounds, Duncan Laidlaw; Chas, Jenkins six fried cakes, Mrs. Telfer, , Miss' Casemate; six scones, Robert Shortreed; rolled jelly • cake, Robert ' c1)onald; soft ginger bread, -Olive Wright, Cecil Cartwright; sponge ca- ke, Cecil Cartwright; light layer cake, Robert McDonald, Cecil Cartwright; dark layer cake, Duncan Laidlaw, 'Ol- ive Wright; dark fruit cake, Cecil wright, Duncan Laidlaw; light fruit cake, Cecil Cartwright, Duncan Laid- law; six lemon tarts with meringue, Mrs. Telfer, Mrs. Lydiatt; six tarts, native fruit filling,: Robert Wightman, Mrs. 'Telfer, apple pie, named variety ea'z to be marked, Miss Casemore, C. of apple, Olive Wright, Mrs. Telfer; Denholm A. W. Smith, Chas. Stew- Stewart; Sweepstakes,' best • butter art; Tolman Sweet Edgar Wightman, shown, should score net less than 90 A. W. Smith; Mann, i ith; Mrs. Lydiatt, points, .Duncan Laidlaw; Home rend - John Somers; Stark, John Somers; ered lard, 3 pounds, John Wright. 'Snow, John ,Somers, Somers, Jas. B. Tierney; APIARY AND OTHER PRODUCT Ontario, Joint Somers, Fred Toll, sr.; Honey in comb, 5 sections, A. W. Box any kind of apples, packing and Snaith, Cecil Cartwright; Honey ex - fruit considered, A. W. Smith, Jas. B 'tracted, light, one half gallon, Russel 'Tierney; Wealthy, Gray Bros., John Richmond, Cecil Cartwright aple Denholm; Canada Red, John Somers; syrup, one quart, 'present year's snake, Colvcrts Sohn Denholtn, Joht Som- A. W. Smith, Win. Jenkins; one doz- ers; Alexander, Cecil Cartwright, J. ern' hen's eggs, white shell, Duncan Somers; Twenty' ounce Pippin, John Laidlaw, Chas. Stewart; "One dozen Somers; any other variety named, F. hen's eggs brown shell, weight of ea.. Toil, sn, Jas. B, Tierney' Collection )ples Laidlaw; Plum pudding, '.give recipe,, Cecil Cartwright; vegetable sal small, Cecil Cartwright, ''Mrs , e1' Dessert dish, other than pas jelly, Cecil Cartwright, Alice Gi fruit salad; small, ,Cecil Cart; Alice Gillespie. M1 FRUIT, PICKLES, ET � 1IC �. Maple cream candy, recipe attar. Mrs. Telfer, Robert McOonaid;"'x ned rhubarb, Robert McDonald, �"' ie Cartwright; canned red raspleri rel, g , 1 Russel Richmond, John Wright;•IKie1; tied plums, green or yellow, :Layer Wright, Olive. Wright; canned di torn,; ries, Russel Richmond,' Du ascan Laeta-. law; canned peacyhes, yellow, .R`usn- Richmond, John Grieve; preserveda A, pies, Robert McDonald, Alice Gil'ic 1-. pie; preserved citron, Mrs. Teifer tied pears, Russel Richman, Ro14 years. Donald; gooseberry jam, Dun, 11 years draw; orange marmalade, Duran, velda dlaww; canned tomatoes, Rttsse, Hugh„ mond, Olive Wright; mixed,. r'8 years pickles, Robert McDonald, C r i; ; man wright; mustard pickles,' Mrs, Robt. McDonald; sweet trickle (Continued on page -s