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The Huron Expositor, 1939-08-18, Page 6Itt 1J. YY� i iltat �.1F A• ?~i i45 0• HE IRON E'Q l s l`! ' 't4 • X411., d1 ,4p t 3`i'tk 4'i tJt y}� Pei 'tE ii m Gold " In Sandy Fields sti r,F st f'. li w 1.0 (By - Eric Hutton in Star Weenie) _ w kind of farmer in i# days. He lives in a big towns, wears $60 suits, goes. tofei; Je every ramming and has c[xraitl1 a cow or plowed a 'fur- y44t hie' life. Iiia', ldlrea, not harm hands, but resi- %Manalgers and crop experts. And 1n;}ehes money. Not the money eenteeted Ito meet the instalment on ilio ! u0rtgage and buy 'his wife a new Oletell and 'make a down payment on 'second-hentf combine. He makes ;Chunks of "folding money," like 'nee -presidents and sales -managers. (Demonshated by R.C.A. \Actor engineers) What's the future of Television? How does it work? Are the images clear? Are the sets easy to operate? How far can it be brdadcast? The Canadian National Exhibi- tion this year offers you the first public demonstrations of Television in Canada. Superintended by R.C.A. Victor engineers the demon- stration covers all phases of , television. You can see people actually being tele- vised. It's really an historic occasion ...don't miss it! Advance Ticket Sale: 171 Bay Street, WA. 2226; Moodey's, 90 King St. West, EL. 1098. George Br 'Wen + Elwood A. Hughes President General Manager 'CANADIAN NATIONAL i ♦ i ♦ �a a AUG. 25 TORONTO SEPT. 9 Ile is a tobacco •t'• rm er A His pro- duct le "brdwn goldd.' - ' Now there acre big men in daary- ing and fruit -wowing and in mixed farming, and tther,e are astn'a,ll farmers -manly of them) --who grow tobacco. But never, probably, in all the history of Ontario teeming, have hard-headed business men, looking for an fnrviest- mentr put so n neh money into the souln' as have these' sponsors of the province's newest ,big-time . crop -to- baroo. - Not that all tobacco mien go around with broad smiles on their faces. They grirrosble, too, like any good. farmer, and (have .troubles of their own- They worry about prices and too little rain and not enough sun and too msioh wind and any tell at all and the possibility of frost. • But it is the kind of worrying that big business amen do, not the kind that afflicts the farmer who wonders if the ie going to break even on the year. "We are not; as a matter of fact, interested in, ,breaking even," one to- bacco man told me. "It costs a lot of money to grow tobacco, and we must make money on i;t - or we wouldn't be in it." You catch on to this feeling as soon as you look over the great Beide of broad-leaved tobacco. There's some- thing impersonal about tobacco, row after row after row, unbroken. There is nothing of the "good earth" feel- ing about it, like growing potatoes or corn, that makes so many men con- tent to wrestle with the dint year af- ter year for a bare living. And those kilns, gaunt and bare and business -like, not friendly like a barn. There's no erne/Is-abate a tobacco farm either. You'd think the whole place would reek of the stuff. But even when you crush a leaf and snuff .it, there's only a green smell. it takes Curing to make it the "fragrant weed," But there's no doubt about it - there's money in tobacco. Plenty of money to be taken out after plenty .of money has been put in. - Take ,the case of Cecil Elliott, who has 100 acres of tobacco in the Brock- ville area, one of the newest dist • of the ever-expanding tobas , oun- try. A $20,000 Profit "We have put," said Elliott, "$30,- 000 into this 100 acres. And we haven't taken a cent out of it yet. But this is the first year we have grown tobacco. This will be our first crop. And if the rain and the sun and the hail and tihe frost give us a break, we may gross $50,000 on our crop." A $50,000 return on a $30,000 in- vestment in one . year -and in farm- ing! It seemed incredible. "But," remi.ude 4 Elliott, "if things go wrong, we uray be out a, sizeable portion of that $30,000." So there's an element of chance, of speculation, about tobaeco, too. • Anyway, Oatario's 4,000 tobacco growers, large, medium and small, expect to reap no less than $20,000,- 000 off their 77,000 acres in the crop that is now being harvested. Away back in the early drays of tobacco - growing in Ontario -4n 1919, for ex- ample -the growers received as high as 58 cents a pound for ,their crop. But in recent years the price has been between 22 ane 30 cents. a pound. It costs around 15 cents a pound to' pro- duce tobacco. Essex county is the centre of On- tario's tobacco indus•tsy, but the acre- age has increased almost every year for .the past 20 years. New areas not even considered for this crop a few years ago are now planted to tobac- cso, and the belt now extends .through Kent, Norfolk, Lambkin, Elgin, Mid- dlesex, Oxford and, most recently, Brant county. • This year's ;high acre- age of 77,000 may be greatly increas- ed in the near future, if suitable, sant dy soil can be found suitable for to- bacco -and if Canada's 50 -cent pre- ference in the English market makes it possible for 'this country to "steal" a portion of the huge United States export to Britain --140,0'00,000 pounds a year. ;%Canada's "bright Virginia" tobacco is !almost identical with the United- States product, and already England buys several million pounds a year here, proving that Canadian tobacco is acceptable to Englisch smsokers. Hundreds of men are suffering sleepless nights in the •tobacco belt this time of the year. They are take expert curers, many of them south- erners, who tend! the kilns by day and by night. On their care and skill rests the fate of the crop. In the three or four days of curing, the best leaf may he spoiled., and turn out to be worth only half the market price. If you could listen in to the whole of the tobacco area these nights, you would hear a great symphony of tink- ling alarm clocks as curers, cat -nap- ping beside their kilns, are awaken- ed to check their temperatures. No father of a new-born babe is more alert to catch the faintest cry of bis pride and joy in the still of the night than are these curers to the music of their alarm clocks, warning that their kiln -full of tobac- co needs attention. Even heat' is ;the important thing here. Too much or 'little may ruins a fine batch of cco. co bas 1an international flavor to so.. 'ves,rn Ontario: In earlier day thousa 1;de of skilled pick- ers and cu'- rom the southern states used to cone north for the crop, and. although Canadians now are able to do most of this work, a number of southerners., confident that tobacco had a, bright future in this "land of ice and snow," have settled in Ontario, become growers them- selves. Scores ;have married Cana- dian girls, others have brought their wives north and their children are I see pM4Er • whenN or of ;t; he's' right- ole where e t think ou End arrythiso comparable ompar tie? �nihere in ,e -for so very �e _ so !tach or night, the tele - minute, day serve your acetal, e�daa oto mai' phone is ready 'to b ess or emergency to this service basin grown accustom og talking have grO think nothing ! yell may oceans across continents you realize you Jo thm h ne eroron rea the tot tha when yodern telephone ice that them ofi greatest value � Alone/ ems" bay - I 'ACID FEET? Feet That Sweat, Bum and Give Off Offensive Odors' Tonight do thin -give your tired achigoodng feet a .goad hot foot bath using a soap; rinse and drythoroughly. Next pour about a teaspoonul of Moone's Emerald 011 into the paint of your hjid and rub thoroughly over each foot, rubbing well lnto soles ---repeat the rubbing in the moms This brings relief and quickly, top, at tired aching burning soreness goes and you go about your work again happy and comfortable. Unpleasant foot odors from excessive foot perspiration gone for good. Moone's Emerald 011 does not stain - Is economical and sold satisfaction guaran- teede'or money back. Any progressive drug store will be tied to supply you. Canadian -barn Hundreds of Belgian families, too, moved into Omtario.as tobacco work - era Many started growing craps in shaves, and: eventually 'became inde- pendent farmters. The little town of Delhi, for example, in the heart of the tobacco country, becomes much like a Belgian village on market days and holidays, Recently an elaborate bicycle track, said to be one of the best in Canada, was oantetructed at Delhi. Cycle raoes are the favorite 'sport of the Belgians. The farmers .cure -their own tobac- co in wooden kilns, Some 15 kilns are needed for 100 cores of tobacco, and they ;cost $550 each, oonsume four tons of coal and four cords of wood, at a total cost of $46, 'during the time of curing. Tobacco is grown frame: steed which has the consistency of durst- There are no fewer than 350,000 seedta in a single ounce, and an ounce and a. half will grow seedlings enough to fill a greenhouse 100 feet Tang by 22 feet wide. The seeds are planted in wood ashes, in perforated cant. The green - 'houses, incidentally, are not artificial- ly heated., but the temperature is maintained by the beat of the sun_ Manymore seedlings than are needed are grown. Only, the sturdier plants, are selected for the fields. At the age of six weeks the seed- iings are transplanted. By the mid- dle of August the leavens are turning yellow, and are ready for picking. Us ually the pickers ;work in gangs of ix under a "boes ,pieker." The leaves ripen "from! the ground up." The first picking will take those nearest the ground, about .three leaves Prem each plant. A field will have to be picked as often as four or five times, • until the topmost "layer" has been taken off. Only skilled pickers rrc employed, 81008 much of the va- lue of the tobacco is lost if the itavess ane damaged. As the pickers pass along the rows 'which are 41 inches apart, they place the leaves in a (horse-drawn "boat," a narrow canvas oontainer on run- ners. 'As each boat is filled, it goes at once to the kilns, since it is im- portant that the curing prooese begin as soon as possible after picking. Nimble-fingeredgirls then take cov- er. Two assistants pass • leaves, three or. four at a time, to the tiers, who, with a quick flack of the fingers, fas- ten them on alternate sides of a four - foot lath, When the "stick" of some 112 leaves is'acompleted, it is passed up to a worker in the kiln, who plac- es it On a rack. Each kiln holds 1,- 250 to 1,450 "sticks," ruching nearly to the roof. • Fast Work These skilled girl "stringers" pro- vide the one bit of fast action in the 'harvesting of tab�a000, which other- wise is quiet and unspectacular- For months the leaves have grown and matured. After they have been cur- ed, there need be no ;hurry in hand- ling theta. But in those minutes be, tweed tale picking of the leaves and the. begininin;g of their heat treatment every mirntute counts. The leaves are as, perishable as .fish after they are (hauled from the water. A good sitningesr can loop cher hands of leaves es fast as two helpers can hand thtem from the "boat." She stands -beside a wooden "horse"; a- enes which is placed a four -foot lath. The helpers hold the hands of three or four leaves high on the stalk, and tith 'one swift movement the strin- ger grasps them, loops a length of string around the stalk, and lets it fall to one side and the other, alter- nately, of the lath. They leaves fair- ly dance into position under the fin- gers ngens of a facet stringer. Then up the "sticks►' go, into the kiln to become tobacco as we know it. - Flue'cured tobacco is by far On- tario's largest crop or the "weed," and it is thas tobacco that is respon- sible for the Western Ontario boom. Burley, grown for tall a century, cov- ers fewer than 10,000 acres, compar- ed with lever 60,000 acres for flue -cur- ed. But burley growers are prosper- ous, too, and stick faithfully to their choice., Burley is darker, its used largely for chewing tobacco and some pipe biends, and does not require the same elaborate curing as, the Virginia bright. Some 2,700 acre's are grown to "dark tobacco," used for bleeding. The leaves are dried at 80 degrees, then the furnace is stepped up to 110 degrees for the coloring pi'ooesis and the curing is finished off at 18g) de- grees. This takes three or four days• during which the leaves lose 75 per cent. of their weight. A cured stick of leaves weighs about a pound and three-quarters. The colorful tobacco auction of the south, with the queer' babbling jargon of the auctioneer, are not held in Ontario. Instead, tobacco• growers visit the farms and make an offer for the .cured crop. ' After that, it goes to help make the seven billion% cigarettes (yes, 7,- 000,000,000) that Canadians smoke each year. e Mother; to grocer; "I'll take a box of these strawberries and make a shortcake." Little Susie: "Olr, Mama, take two and make it .long!" • Mistress: "Where's the idly, Brid- get?" Bridget: "Why, you told me it was moulded, so I threw the Stuff a, way(" • Teacher: "Yes, dhildren, an tndian wife is called a squaw. ;Now what do yea suppose radial babies are paled?" Tifgiht Poll: "1 kfow--squuwk- ers." The Romance of Commerce (By W1 McL. Clarke, F.I.C.S., in Can- adian Busdnees) Oommenoe dates back to even be- fore the dawn •of history. Perhaps the finst recorded (trade and money transactions in the world was the pur- chase by Abraham ;of the cave and field of Maolvpelath, as a burial place for Sarah, tie wife. A woman, too, was the avowed prompting ,of one of the most compenetsttng trade missions of all times, for although ;the beauty of famed Helen of Greece led the Aohaean chieftains ;to sal aoross the Aegean dal their high -beaked ships, it was really the treasure (house of Troy that warranted this marauding expe- dition. It was 'because Chaldean wo- men wanted 'precious stones and fe- male help that ardent caravans went east to the great wails of China as many years. before Christ as we are after Eon. It was because Ring Minas of Orete ;desired trade ;to brisllg him the things the and this court moat coveted Abet he put, down piracy. Ly- dian eyes ,sparkled when they saw the glint of the ftlt gold coins, an invention whikdh was just. as Import- ant as the gold ;discoveries of Cali - females the Klondike, Australia and the Rand a and • which signalizes, in fact, one of the chief .legacies of the 'ran ciIan t time% to the progress of the wtoeke Commerce, therefore, is older than histery. 'nets we know beeause arch- geological discoveries reach back into the past, far beyond the time of the earliest historians, and show us the irnniense antiquity and riomaace of trade. In 1492, Columbia', in the service of the King aned Queen of Spain, gaz- ing forward over ;the waters of the undhartered Atlantic which he had been traversing for many weeks in his diminutive Caravels, espied in the distance, through the dankness and ;the meet, a light of what was doubtless a glowing fire of native Inr drrans or. Caribs on one of the Ba- hamas. Ames ca was discovered and the cornerstone of S'prain's Colonial Empire was 'laiid,, with its treasure garfeons, buecaneers and lavish opul- emree This original ;adventuring and the isubsequent pillaging of the Inca and Aztec empires was romance and yet behind the rommance was the lure of trade. Columbus set sail not to find a new world but to reach India and to bring the gens and spices of the storied East to Europe by a water route whiesh he believed would be more ac- cessible than the old overland and long distance caravan road across the mountains and desserts of Central Asda. It was a similar desire to trade with the Far East that sent the eaptaiins of Prince Henry the Nav- igator to explore the coast of West Africa, seeking sea rants for their ships to the fabulous lands about which Marco Polo had written. Viseo de Gama ,rounded the Cape of Good Hope to secure the riches of the Ori- ent for his master, the King of Portu- gal. Jacques Cartier, drawn by the same lodeesteate, •sadsled into the Gulf of St. Lawrence and explored the shores of the Baie de Ohaleur. Sam- uel la - uel de Champlain, ascending the St. Lawrence River more titian three ;Cen- turies ago, still sought the magic path of Lachine. Hudson, with the same hope of finding the Northwest Passage to the Spice Islsamds, was set adrift by his own crew in the bay th'at bears 'dies va,me. Drake's world • cruise In the Golden Hind; was un- ' doubtedl'y the most brilldaat piece of seamanship ever accomplished by an English navigator; but •it also Mark- ed an epoch in cominercial history, as his gallant piracy proved that the Spanish and Portuguese trading mon- opolies could be frustrated. Trade has ever been the forerun- ner of discovery. It ,hats also been tee handmaiden of culture and civiliz- ation,. Litenature, painting, sculpture and the fine arts trust all pay tnibute to commerce as its sponsor and bene- factor. The winds •of commerce have a wafted the seeds of science; its Ar- gosiee have presented men with those tangibles which retoucth the standards of Iflvfltng, dies, Muscovy or Rugsda, commerce took on what we may, term an inter - motional ohauraetem, Modern Commerce irdern commerce did not make Its appearance until the beginning of the 19th loentury. The fact that so much importance at this time was attached .to the trade in sugar, to- bacto and tea 'is au ttndisoation of the change wlhtit& shad come over long dis- tance tradle. 'Commerce was now' sup- plying • the neceas riles of the many, rather -than .the 'tluxuedes of the few. ,Sine ;these . indispensabies were, only to be obtained in •exchange for other geode, the increasing demand pro- moted other industries in the trading countries. England, which had at- tempted to use Colonial staples in order to .become a nation of .shop- keepers, 'found herself converted into the workshop of the world, and her own and our present economy was foresihadbwed. A series of nseohaanical inventions such as the steam engine, the spin- ning pinming jenny, and the power loom, swept away domestic industry and brought into existence the modern factory system. Men no 'longer work- ed in their, cottages, turning out a cin plete ;product, but were employed alt only a single operation in a fac- tory. So industrial society was or- gamized du accordance with thee prin- ciple of the division of labour•. The production of goods was expanded to such an extent that they Eould no longer be consumed in the home mar- ket and had to be sold abroad- Al- though England was the first to en- ter this' stage of international' 'econ- oany and hence, of world marketing, ?this industrial phenomenon gradivally 'extended itself among the Western States of Europe. Industrial Reformation The flying of ehuttles, the, scream ;of whistles, the whirling of machines may not have, one can claim, the same ;romance as the old spinning wheal, the madrigals of the hou,se- wife and the handicrafts of the fire- side. England may have achieved a remarkable • prosperity superfieiatly, but did the economic welfare .preju- dice the enelal conditions? What a- bout ithe starvation wages, the long hours, the child labour, the unhealthy housing and plant conditions, the harshness and injustice of life? It was these very things which provid- ed rovided a challenge, welch became the ro- mance. Reformers appeared. Mill thundered against the administration ori justice "els that most peccant part of English Oonettitutions,"- Sir Robert Peel, an employer himself on a large stale, was sincere do has advocacy when he claimed that a solution to the welfare problems would only come about with a change of mind on the part of employers in general and the development of a !tore pa- ternal and kindly spirit. Lord Shaft- esbury became the champion, you will recall, of social legislation; Rob- ert Owen of Trade Unionism ; Lord Grey of the Reform Bill; Macauley of Liberalization. Efforts were be- gun In the early 19th century 'days which have sservee as beacon lights to guide auocesaiive generation in their 'approach •to Capital -Labour re- lations. We have not yet, by any Means, reached the optimum in the appTicatrion of the social sciences but wee have gone a long way forward from the sexpenimeenital stage. In fact, Om growth of ihumiatn interestedness, of genuine unselfishness, of the re- alistio attitude toward our social pnobletms oan the part of the better -to- do is a eery •envelotped in an ;atmbss- ph'ere of dmaginaltdon and romance. Would-be ,leader•e of the people soinetfinies condemn the capitalistic systema and sail its works. How un- eonseious their must be of their stu- ei'di'ty' or else bow shockingly ignor- ant they are ;of time onward 'move of events. "The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the sum." Business men, generally, are net the cafe dlwellers so many rant - tines would have us ,believe. A hun- dreJd years has seen, industrially, the boiitttion of shavery, •the freeing of *Ahem from exploitation, the voles star•p'developmentt of pension, old age and workmen's protection;, the par- tial clearing of slums, the spread of sanitation, the setting up of factory bodies, the adlvansoe of minimum wag- es, holidays with ,pars, of the short- ened week, of plant councils, of cape talrieibour co-operation and;, in short, of the pouring out of the milk of hu- man kindness, The distance we have travelled along the Samaritan road of gaodhvidl and of effective social happiness as a story of intense ro- mantic interest. • Turning to -she romance of our own oommaeree, we recall that Canada, a land of only eleven minion and not three 'generations Old as a nation, is amiong the first five trading countries of the worldt To this status, we have comae because of the native, wealth of our coutnitn-y and because of the kind; of •people we are. No state bas more actual and potential resources, no people ak more pivotally situated ansd no country .hes a finer strain of oapital 'sand labour. The farmer of the Red Raver, the logeanan of the Lautnentians, the anther of the Koote- nays, the fisherman of the Banks, the skilled mechanic are' all cumula- tively responetble for the production w.hdch enters into our dernestic and foreign commerce. At their touch our bounteous earl h yields herr in, crease, the gigantic Douglas. fit is Cut down, ;the nickel ore is released, the harvest •of the sea is gathered in. the casting is poured out and the -radio tube installed. It is not only' • hese men, however, but asp oar leaders; of industry; eine- Deng, merchandising and financing, who are contribU'blmg to our progres• sive economy. In entterprdstels imvole-. ing 'hundreds of madihions of dollars we are Indeed ,fortunate lam having in Canada t ae mens of sagacity, of vision, of executive ability and of un, tiring entry. We can match Shef- field With I3ltotn, Paris with Mont, treat, . Hamburg -With Vancouver, In• short, i4 le because our natural as.' sets arae coupled with intelligent and honest labour and dilreoted by res sponsi;ble and . tear -seeing capitalists, that the produele of the Dominions are being /consumed at home and ear- titan ito the four !corners Of the earth. Oiir imports, moreover,' bring • into play the nierehants sof Canada who Use of Money The first use of money miarks • an eta in the history ,of commerce- In fact, it is the beginning of commerce .as we know it. It. seems, now but a simple. piece of imagination on the part of the grazer in that early dark - erred land of like world --tee Euph- rates Valley -who, tired of goading his slow ox to and fro among his neighbors until he could trade it for corn or ail, took a bit of leather and svm atohed on it the outline of an ox -in Latin, Pecus--and called it Pe- cuzela or money, which these pastoral people came to accept for their pro- dince as the leather represented va- lue. Yet 14 was in this primitive way that barter was supplanted -by money as the medium of exchange. in due time, the leather money became gol- den and later paper and credit in- struments were established. The Ina- aginetiventess of the Babylonian far- mer was romance. After the collapse of the Roma.n Empire, international trade lapsed In the Dark Ages, reviving again w,lth the Crusades which 'stirred the wh!'le European world and opened trading avenues again with the Near East and the Mediterran an. Trade Was still mainly in arties of luxury • for the wealthier classes. Guilds supervised the crafts' and developed) the retail trade. The po'werrful Hanseatic League, formed from the towns of North Germany, emergedi to suppress robbery 'one the roads and piracy at seta, thereby developing commerce. In Bruges; for, 4nmstensce, the League ac oupded ra most important position, Where the merchants en Northern Purope aped the Mediterranean. carne into erect oomltact for excblanging. English wool,and Fil'emislh cloth. Ev- en in London this League had a..iret- tlement ()ailed ;the "Steel Yard." .The Mredhtesreanean trading area was yield- ing its irorportanee to the North Sea and the Atlantte, which deflection was lacoeleratted by the. rivalry be- tween England and Holland. WW1 the -hsaunehling of ;the gr at trading companies t ,of Merdhaiitt Ad'teteturers, heading into the Lev%atmt, the Eaat' In, REALLY One pad lolls flies all day.agd every day for 2 or 3 weeks3 pads lin each packet. No sprayljag, no no bad odor. Ask your Dig Grocery or General Store.to 10 CLt1 TS PER PACKET WHY PAY moREr THE WILSON ERY PAD H�rtoor.. Q� cater to our tastes for the ;morning grapefruit, the after-dinner coffee, then delicacy of silk fatales. There is a great interioolaing of our economic in- terests because of our ,domestic and foreign trade: This commerce isr perhaps the strongest fulcrum con: Which our matith al unity can be sup- ported. The dasamptive tendeneie.s of. ultra -provincialism may at times seem to weaken our broad-based: na,- tonal many. Ultimately, however. we must return to the faith of the Fathers sof Confederation If for nm other reason than trade and com- merce. By it we shall' be obliged t• fill up the unsympathetic gaps and to link our common destinies from coast to coast "Jack, you do not Iove me any more. This is the third • time you have gone home before Dad has made you go!" • Paul: "I get paid for what I know, not for what I do." Penelope: "Bat how do you live?"' • Of all the terrors known to Haan The ;greatest, 1 assert, Is to wear a fifteen collar Upon a sixteen shirt. A QUIET. WELL CONDUCTED. CONVENIENT, MODERN 100 ROOM HOTEL -3S WITH serail WRITE FON FOLDER TAKE A RE LUKE TAX FROM' DEPOT OR WHARF -28o Fairs and EYhindons, 1939 August Lambeth Aug- 30 Sarnia Aug. 16-16 Tillaonbuag Aug. 29-31: Woodstock Aug. 22-24 September 1-9 Durham Sept. 7-8 Elmira Sept- 1, 2 & 4 Fergus , =Sept- 8, 9 Goderich Sept. 7, 8 Napanee , Sept. 7-9 TavIetoekSept, 8, 0 September 11-16 AnK Sept: 15, 16 Blyth Sept. 15, 16 Londorn (Western Falun) -Sept. 11-16 Midland Sept- 14-16 Milverton Sept- 14, 15 New Hamburg _ Sept. 15, 16 Orangeville Sept. 14-16 Wharton Sept. 14, 15 September 1823 Accton Sept. 19, 29 Ai11aa Craig Sept. 21, 22 Alliston ......Sept 21, 22 Attwood Sept. 22, 23 Clifford Sept 22, 23 Dresden Sept 19-21 Exeter ' ......... 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Grand VaNey , ...Sept. 29, 213 Ilderton Sept. 2 IngentoIR Sept. 28, 20 Kirktan Sept- 28, 29 Lucknow Sept. 28, 29; Mitchell.Sept. 26, -27 Owen Sound Sept. 30, Oct. 2 & 3 Paisley Sept. 26, 27 Palmerston Sept. 26, 27 Parkhill a Sept- 29 Strathroy Sept. 28.30' 'Medford Sept. 26, 27' Wingham Sept. 27, 25 October 2-7 Dungannon Oct. 5, 6' Gorse Oet, 6, 7 St. Marys Oct 5, 6 Teeswater+ Oct; 3, 4 Tiverton Oct 2. a October 9-17 Fleetest Oct. 10, 1L N.BI--Dailies of Paha fisted are sub- ject to change- - Inlileruatiioeai , Plowing Match ant Farm Machinery Den onetration,. Ontlarlo H>aspdtai Farm, Brockville, Ont„ United Counties of Leeds and Grenvine Oct. 10, 11, 12, 13 Ottawa Winter Pair- ......Nov. 14-17 Royal 'Master bistir,. Taranto r Nev', 21 -tat' alleiPlielitroter Fair'...... "-Dee. . Deo:- .b 7' • tx '?f:1:'tt�jr04.2Yh l 'i a a• 4 , 4