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*AFORTII, Friday, March 16th
FarmIncome'roxes
A survey. was recently publisli-
ed in the Financial Times, of
farmers coining under the income
tax. The figures whiCh cover the in-
ome taxes paid in 1941-42 and 1942-
•• 43 are not_Official,•as the rdepartmert,
• is away behind in pabliShing
'!date statiStics. Consequently, the
• Post says that "coniplete, accurate
-figures as to just how many farmers
in Canada do pay taxes, are ,about
s halt ter. find as hen's teeth."
The figures given, howe,ver, are.
believed to be reliable, 'and by them
it is Shown' that 25,000 farmers are
believed to • have paid income taxes
• last year, compared to 3,500' the year
before. ' This would indicate that
• only about one per cent. of all indi-
• • vidual taxpayers are farmers. If
true, the farmers' response has been
• disappointing, because, it is believed
• there are at least 223,000 farmers
coming within the income tax group.
• The figures also give some other
rather, astonishing information., For
• instance, during the 1941-42 period
farm income taxes collected In On-
tario amounted to $20,922, and in the
1942-43 period -the taxes reached
•$79,831.- Compared to this the farm-
ers in Saskatchewan paid income
taxes of $59,771 in the first period,
• and $205,835 in 1942-43.
It is not hard to see; therefore,
that collecting income taxes from
the farmers in rural Ontario has
still a long way to go. It will take
-g� ikr de01 of explaining, too, be-
fore the Saskatchewan farmer is
aa '
convinced that he should pay in in-
come taxes nearly, three times the
amount his brother farmer does in
• Ontario.
One possible:, exp1anation for the
• disparity in payments is that the
Satkatchewan farmer's crop is
largely wheatand other grains.
which are marketed at the elevators,
virhere a complete record of sales are
kept, which enables the tax collec-
tors to check on farmers. The same
information not being available to
the same extent in Ontario.
• That, however, is small consola-
tion to the Saskatchewan farmer,
who is well aware that Ontario has
many more well-to-do farmers than
there are, possibly, in the combined
Western Provinces. No one likes
paying .taxesbut what is the West-
ern • farmer likely to think if his
• brother farmer in Ontario escapes
comparatively free?
•
•
A Garbage Collection
We notice that Goderich town
council has inaugurated a system of
garbage collection for, the whole
• town. • That is a move in the right
direction, and one that should be fol-
lowed by every town in the county.
The day when every household
could dispose of its own garbage
without much effort, has longsince
passed, and from the' standpoint of
health alone—and there are many
other good reasons—the day has
Come when municipal councils will
have to take immediate action to
• deal With this question, and make a
• thorough job of it too.
To be properly done, a system of
• garbage collection will cost some
money, but it is a work of necessity,
and no public spirited person is like-
ceinplain. And complaints, if
there are any such, should be totally
&retarded.
,i,iiir.,113rakott Knows
• Saturday Night 'expresses the
• ..kion.that if be contiimes.:his wild
It �rnt 1i1 Mr 3�lin
_ cast at-
elt JAI vern*en' t 1or hrlitg;ri
ing Cana:cla into the war on the basis
oT no conseription for q?verseas ger-
vice, Mr. )31'404%1 said: "What a
nice partisan way to run a country,"
when_he knows full well that the
ConServative party, -Of which he is
the leader, was just as much oppos-
ed to and pledged against conscrip-,
tiont:as the Liberals were.
• Speaking in Quebec City c during
the 19401:igeneral eledtion campaign,
when the war was already well un-
der way,,Dr, Manion, the then -leader
of the Conservative National Gov-
ernment party, had this to say: "I
stated just about a year age, in the
}louse of COMmons that I was op-
posed to conscription because of its
failure in the last war, and because
it had stirred tip -misunderstanding
and strife in our country when, the
duty of our public men isto •hold this
country tegether, rather than to
break it up. I have -not waited until
I carne to the Province of Quebec to
make this statement. Pmade it a
month ago at Brockville in the open-
ing speech of my campaign. I have
made it more than twenty times
since then in almost every speech
which I have delivered as far west
as Victoria, B.C. Thus I have set
forth my attitude in five provinces
of Canada before coming to Quebec,
and .1 state here again tonight S that
I am against conscription, and that
a national government such as I pro-
pose, will not, put in conscription."
That was precisely the. same party
that Mr. Bracken now leads, but now
Mr. Bracken says, and\ expects the
people to believe, that it was' the Lib-
erals alone who misled the people of
Quebec by preaching "no conscrip-
tion." And further, Mr. Bracken
went on to- say, "Mr. King and his
government—not the so-called, flag-
wavers and Imperialists—led this
nation into the greatest war in his-
tory."
People's memories, particularly in
Quebec, are not as short, by any
means, as Mr. Bracken seems to
think. -
K• eeping OurFeet on the Ground
There has been a lot of loose talk
• on the air • recently, put there by
• some political parties—as vote catch-
ers—about what should be done by
Government to create, prosperity
booms in peace time, similar to or
greater, than the prosperity that
has come to the people of this cbun-
. try through wartime production and
wartime markets.
This from the News -Herald of
Vancouver is a sample: "The Cana-
dian people having seen the miracles
which can be wrought by the nation
in war, will resolutely refuse to re-
turn, to a life dominated by the in-
ability -of our old financial ,system to
'deliver the people the potential bene-
fits of our creative capacit3r.",
In answer, the Financial Post very
• aptly and truthfully replies: "This
is very fine -sounding talk, except
that it is complete, titter nonsense.
The fact remaias that now, at the
greatest peak of activity Canadians
have ever reached, our national pro-
ducttvity is per capita about $600,
which must, pay for each citizen's
food; " clothing, housing, his street
car rides, his Movie shows, his doc-
tor's bills, his church -contributions,
and his contributions to all and sun-
dry forms of government expendi-
tures."
Granted, that the Post's figure of
$600 for our present per capita pro-
• duction may not be the correct fig-
, ure, it4 is perfectly correct in saying
that even in our wartime boom, Can
adians are not creating anything
approaching the wealth that some
people' imagine, and certainly not
nearly enough to provide the life of
• Riley that some political parties and
;Iilany other socialistic prophets are
promising us after the war is over.
No country has over atcomplished
that. No country is doing it now.
We do not mean to -say -that Canada
• can not produce more -after the war
than she did before and -thus secure
a higher standard of living. Wean.
But to.accomplish it; we will not only
have . World p6ac;bitta
Vyorld, One hat
take' and, bur and I1
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ron1'h HO,/ gActicOtOr' •
' a'llitarc h 19, 1.920
' fag the pat Weelg aar Normae
Otiato EiltPell;'4100.042qt.
e4 am of OW aw vat3e4il4 geld -
to xi% woug, o P4ptaa, the
,;„*Lataebe!aa9" -aa0444$41/a,
Edward DaleY, *rim has 3 beett
'44'10,14°Yea &
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g 41 -PR/ f$040,ta,4ir a: 41.mnic.
' 1Of years, lute 40400d1nto
netlal,iip with Mr G. Rourke, another
faataparth boy, in "the •,tailoring !Met
a0/47',171 Walkerton. •
• The handseMei and i0Ohilitadiahe
W.V. elabaiefillataFin the Oddfell0161601
bhiack' in town, Were' opened en
•Ul'OPy' evening, vlr44 Were. abet 50
"blee of cards, at *latch there was..
de*ing to Lombardo's Orchestra,
49,0*.
Mr. G. A. Sills-aatnds movanglinto
theaapuse recently Vacated ba?dr. El-
• ton alinbachaentat Ise new home as
eaMPleted. Mr. W. 3, Duncan has
&reamed Mr. Sills' residence teeing
Viteinria Park.,
Mra,Lockaart -.1ohaston has beet
ittada*eared aromaStafaiath tcetha",Vaide,
*.branch of thelikialltaor boMineree:
lahere he will aia,s teller.
Mr. G. W. Npt, of Tuckeraniith,
has sold his far4n ace Mr. Garrett, of
*alton, the consideration being
$.1.0.,O00. Mr. Nott has purchated the
fittra of the late' Wm. Dale, west of
Seaforth, and will move there short-
ie.
• Mrs. Wm. Scott, of Seaforth, was
canna to St. Marys owing 'to the ill-
ness of her daughter, Mrs.• Stewart
_Neantosh. •
Mr. A. A. Naylor, a former. princi-
PALO the Seafolith public school, was
granted a raise in: his salary, making
"the total $2,0010 a year., He now teach-
es In Chatham. •••
Miss Isabel •Scott leaves this week
to take a position in Brantford.
M. F, C. Jacksith, of Montreal, who
has been visiting his eister, Miss
Margaret Jackson in Egmondville,
repented to that city on Monday.
From The Huron Expositor
March 22, 1895
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An enjoyable evening was spent on
the 14th of Hullett at the kesidenee
ea Mr. F. H. Schoales, when the For -
resters gathered at his home to spend
asocial hour with him and his family
previous to their departure for Aa-
• goina. They presented him with a
gift and an addreeaawas read by Mr.
George Stephenson.
• 4ames-'1aleCoaniell, o Hibbert,
met with a painful accident -on Tues-
day. He was attending his horses
when one of them kicked him and
broke his arm.
Mr, , Joseph Brown, of Hareurhey,
intends erecting a new brick veneer-
ed residence as soon as spring opens
up. •
Miss Susie Govenlock, daughter of
Mr. Thos. Govenlock, has gone to To-
ronto to pursue her study of paint-
ing.
Miss Lettie Ewing left on Thursday
morning for New, York to take a
course in a hospital for a diploma as
trained nurse.
Mr. James C. Laidlaw has dispos-
ed of his grocery business to Mr.
Fred Davis, of Mitchell.
The contract for the erection of
the barn on the' House of Refuge.
farm, 'Clinton, has been let to Mr.
Alexander McBeath, Bracefield; for
$821.00.
There was a taffy pull in the Royal
Templars Lodge, Varna, on Tuesday
evening last as a send-off to Mr. W.
McNaughton, who is leaving for Clin-
ton.
Messrs. Fred -Hess, C. Greb and Al-
bert Heidman, Zurich, have bought
the flax mill and the farm on the
Goshen Line South, from J. Living-
ston. They intend to run the busi-
ness quite extensively this year. ""
Mr: E. Bossenberry, auctioneer of
Zurich, had iialarae sale. of stock and
implements for Mr. D. D. Wilson, of
Seaforth. ••
••
The young ladies who place the
flower decorations in First Presbyter -
Jae Charcha Seaforth, had a lovely
shamrock in full bloom placed airota-
Meetly in the centre just before the
pulpit last Sabbath,• in 'honor of St.
Patrick's Day.
Messrs. D. and H. McRae and Wm.
Grieve, of Mciaillep, left on Tuesday'
for Nimbi:to, B.C., and Mrs. John
Clffleft the saline day for Reno,
Ne -vada.
The town_ line from Benneweisa
mill in McKillop was never anewn to
be as bad y1th pitch holes as it is
at presanta' A large amount of weed,
and lumber is being hauled, however.
Mr. Patricki Woods;' of MeKillop, is
preparing, tobuild a large' sfraw shed
with 40.1.6..S!,ntitig epr,ri in connectioi
thls cel
, a •
The mother and daughter were very'
busy with the wedding plans wheal
the bridegrooin-to-be aI1ed.lio
watched the Pireparations rather' itti-
Patient& Waal his Ratite
wife noticed his Icriax., of 'annoyalleai.
"Darling; We have -such a bat to
do," she' Seethed, "and if we want'f6,
make mit 4Wedritng a, big suceeas Wt;
ferget ,the Most-. inalglificant.
detail." ' •
dat*Werry about
Pfired t6*t64.ilati*
"YOUR ItED CROSS'AT:111S SIDE"
.nr
Picked ii'01,0141116
As the SPrllag alalreaebaia • We are ,
ever on the,faiikalaa PrS'4giles."Of the ' •
faller weatiLer 'that ata- tR"• aeiMe.
have reported giarlar aladi Varimia
other so-palied. stgagTat NiF4/AtL3
fweoret' :•ket laew, en'O:11f1..t4c11 1Pirct 314Wd i:1:144j17 artd asbt7
ahiatg that ailaiag!Ciamet helitr away 6,
as she op SWAM' 'Waked' alleantiful
1.'IRMINitetAif "pahale# fati,*,all,aaa garden,
.4P..heyt!'irihre :0Pech#000,11d Were.
admired by many who saVa them at
our office.—Wingliam Advalice-Times,e
Fractured Wrist and 'Re
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Excitement le running at, high' pitch
around Lazy Meadows. The other
morning when the slim seemed to
have a really good warmth to it, a
robin was heard. In fact We roused
ourselves from the drowsy arms of
sleep to hear the plaintive and yet
cheerful sound of the merry little fel-
low.
Lighting the fire -in the kitchen
range I noticed him perched on -top
of the old post in the backyard. With
his back to the wind that did have
.a sort of edge to it, he was sounding
the first strains, of spring weather
and I hastily looked at the calendar.
It was the first of March. That old
saying kept running through my mind
about "March comes with the lamb
and goes out with the lion." • I sud-
denly felt aorry for this brave feath.-
ered friend who flitted into our lives
to mark the opening of March, and
in doing so more or less sealed his
own doom.
Mrs. Phil put some brad Crumbs
out and a little string of suet, but
he scooted away and the sparrows
had a busy time of it, chattering
away as if in amazement at, their
good fortune. In their secret 'coun-
cils tbey must have marked March
first down as an indication of good
fortune for the year, because provid-
ea food is particularly endowed with
around this. farm.
–Patricia Ann was quite •fascinated
by the whole affair. She immediate-
ly demanded to know where the rob-
.
In had been .alI• winter. iSumaioning
up all our powers of,imagiliation, we
told her about the' flight 'of the birds
to the south and the pleasant clim-
ate, whete they basked, in bright
sunithine, While we braved the cold
blasts of particularly harsh winter.
- Her next question was a lot trick-
ier. She wanted to know what birds
thought about. Up to that tim4 I
hadn't particularly bothered about the
thinking ability of • the birds. The
question was sort of intriguing. Do
birds worry about food supplies and
the danger- from hawks? Do they
ever sit down and plan out campaigns
to elude the newer tactics of cats?
How do they know when to head for
the south, or is the matter decided
by the'older and wiser ones and the
Word spreads around? • In that case,
Our robin friend on the first ofalarch
must have been a very rash young-
ster; to go against the general rul-
ing that robins should return on ,such
and such a "date. Possibly he was
only the advance scout, who skim-
med up to get a general lay of the
land and take back a report.
Man .knows so much and yet he
knows so' little. Where•weeld he be
if he had to depend, on his instincts
as we're, told the birds do? Think-
ing of some of tbe situatiOnS; thy
'own .instinct, Or so*alled "'horse
sense" has gotten me into, I shad.:
dered and left for the barn and the
chores . . . just a trifle puzzled, and
all because a- robin decided to skew
up on March first.- •
Huron Federation Ofl
Agriculture-FarmNews
Bacon ,Factories That Are Unique
When the .eail for more bacon for
Britain sounded in the early days
of the war, two young farmers of the
Shawinigan Falls district ot, Quebec
decided to make pig -raising a major
project on their 300 -acre farm. Te -
day they are raising 600 pigs of their
own and shipping around 5,000 from
neightioring farms annually. E. M.
•Snilner, the older brother, looks af-
tei the feeding and marlteting of the
bogs, While:J. W. looks after the feed
pariduction end of the business. Both
boys are graduates of Macdonald
College and thus have a thorough sci-
entific knowledge of feeding •livestock
and growing crops to aid them in de-
veloping their project
Right beside the piggery they buflt
a grain storage and equipped it with
a grnder and mixer. To get properly
balanced pig feed for each stage of
growth, they purchase hog concen-
trate and mineral suppleMents, and
As the ground grain goes from the
grieder to ' the mixer, the right
amount of concentrate Is added to
•
give a growing feed or anishing feed
as: desired. e • a
Young pigs, re left with the sow
until eix and aahalf to seven weeks
of age, then moved tq the growing
pen and from there to the finishing,
pen. They are marketed at 5%
Months of age. Outdoor yards are
provided for breeding stock only. The
growing pens are equipped with self -
feeders and a constant supply of
fresh water. To maintain. good _bee -
on type great care is &ken. in Beide-
ton of young sows, and these are
bred to *vanced registry Yorkshire
boars: A high percentage of tfieir
marketings come in the A 'and B-1
grades, and „they find that the 66v-
ernment bonus on these grades helps
greatly in keeping the business on a
profitable basis. • Winter . Weather Is
'eery severe in this part at Onebee,
and hot water heating systefa has
been installed to -provide warrath far
a sufficient number of pens to take
care of winter litters until they, are
stroneertough to eseapeathe dangers
of chilling
The Manure pile hat; notbeen rieg-
leeted eittier. At the lower end of
the piggery there is A big nehient pit
With the top of. the Rit loVer that
tiheide 11:fertheept
l the
the etireitabrd to iperriiit:: 0101#gttie
,
et
10-ektilan t4 j'
Mrs. Fred Preszcator, Siephen,
had the misfottune to fall while pap-
ering at the' home- of her sister, Mrs.
George Link, 'of Dashwood, Tealating
in a fractured wrist and some "frao-t,
tured rias. It was thought that she
had possibly sustained anjuraine to her
back and was taken to -retell* Hos-
London, where an Xlay reVeal-
ed there was no Serious
Exeter Times -Advocate.
iXteen Receive Third Degree
Ten •candidates from Seaforth, five
from Brucedeld and one from Exeter
received their third degree.--at•the
eter 1.0.0.5`. lodge rooms Timothay. ea -
ening before a gathering that taxed.'
the capacity of the hall. The "newly,
organized third degree team demon-
stratogil the work in a manner thatta
won much merited 'Praise About 45
visitors, were present. They •were
welcomed by the N.G., Bro. Nan
Hodgert. A number of short speech -T
es were made and refreshments were
se4rvvoecdctteat._
the close.—Exeter Times -
Advocate.
Play 'Presented At Grad Bend •
The play, "The Man From No-
where," presented by a group of patri-
otic young people of Grand Bend, was
a tremendous success. It was presei
ented before a packed house and the
applause of the crowd certainly stow -1
-0 their appreciation of the efforts of
the- cast and the support of Miss"
Mary Yeo and Johnston Patterson in.
making the play the success it 'was."
It was presented under the auspices*
of the Grand Bend Red Cross and the
eaoceeds amounted to $73. This is ar
play well worth seeing. --e Exeter
Tithes -Advocate.
•
Takes Over C,P.R. Uptown Office
• G. P. Rumsey, who for several
years has been assistant at the C.P.R.
uptown office, is now in charge as,
agent, succeeding Gordon E. Smith,
who had alarge of the effice, fore
some eight years and is now in the
operating .department of the 'railway*
at. Toronto. Beforetaking over his
new duties; Mr. Ramsey spent a>
month's holidays at his home at Chat-
ham, Ja.H. Culp, of Grimsby, reliev-o
ing agent, having -Charge of the office
for the month.—Goderich Signal -Star.'
Farwell to C.P.R. Station Agent
the manure is always maved down-
hill. To prevent lass of nitrogen and
to increase the phosphate content of
the manure, granular superphosphate
is scattered on the floor of the pens
each day after cleaning. .
Close by the Snilner Mem there is
another big piggery, especially note-
worthy for its strange design. The
builder did not like handling manure,
so he built the piggery on a huge
rock jutting out into the river where
the water was plunging down a steep
grade. The floor of the piggery fol-
lows the slope of the rock, and each
morning the •raan, in charge simply
turns a tap and flushes the manure
out of each pen into a eentral ) gut-
ter which leads to the river: Actual-
ly, this piggery is on an island, for a
narrow but deep breech of the river
cuts in behind the rock' and flows
swiftly down. This division of the
river bas 'been harnessed to operate
a grincling and mixing plant to sim-
ply balanced rations for the hogs.
' Treat 'Seed ' Grialti Now
Seething time is not far away.
When the rush of spring work begins
there ire 89 many things which newt
be 'done that there is a tendency tia.
neglect those things that seem less
important. Among those often re-
garded as less'important is treating
seed grain, yet if properly done will
pay- for the labor and cost many
times, says Bruce MacLaren, Domin-
ion Experlmental Station, Charlotte-
town, P.E.I. It is a jobjhat can be
done now and the treatd seed put
away safely until the land Is ready
for . seeding. The seed hmild be
treated with organic mercury eona-
Pounds used in the form of very line
dasts. , The object of treating is to
cover each seed with a fine film tit
duet which kills the spores of,' any
disease WhiclytaY e. -present onthe'
seed coat. Diseases sifeh' ita.t4iatit,
root rot, and seedling 'blight are
readily controlled by- this tieatilletit.
afaehinee for apPleing the 'duet ralaY
lither be purchased Or eolleaueted
n the 'farm. A good tight, baii'eT lif-
ted 'With a few baffles anaaa. aPindle
•trett*eilt0;• '06114'::°0 il!'•4
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;611'01061W •tiu` 0.0.A a-031. , r i
•Atter treatinetit the veed Mar be
easeedi as long as t6Va',,thonthos nilalliii,,
on which it inay be rotated does a
good job of treating.
t ' Milk lib
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bee t 44e0 ..artiew#.
' ki4iitiiiti
F. W. Thomas, for the past sevenA
years C.P.R. station agent here, was
.the guest of honor at a-cliither given;
by twenty-five industrial and business
associates of the town at Hotel Bed -f
ford on Wednesday night. Mr.
Thomas left Thursday for Shelburne
to tike" over the C.P.R. 'agency there.
R. ,G. Sanciersafi of the .Goderich
vator Co., presided for the after-dip-
ner speeches. The preaentation of al'
handsome pipe was made to Mr.
Thomas by B. M: Menaies, manager
of Purity Four Mills, and ispeeche,
expressing, regret at his••departure
were made by Mayor D. D. MooneY,4
H. M. Monteith of the Bank of Mont..
real, A. d. MacKay, C.N.R. agent, ando
Harry Sanderson o the C,P.R. -office.
Mr.-a:Thomas expreesed his appreciaa
tion of the honor accorded him and
of the happy business relations he'
had enjoyed In Goderich.—Ooderich
Signal -Star. •
Slipped on Ice
ffThe friends of Mr. William S. John -
Ston are pleased. to See him able to
return to bis duties after -an Injuarg
received to his ankle by slipping on -
an icy step, and Mr. Harry Galimane
had sipped on ice after diamounting
from his truck and sprained his back.4
'Both men are getting along nicely -
Zurich Herald.
Legion Purchases House
Wingham branch NO. 180, Canadian*
Legion, B.E.S.L., has purchased the
-Stevenson house, corner of Centre
and John Streets, and will make the
necessary interior changes to adept,
for use as, Legion cmarters. The mem-
bership of the Legion and the Ladies'*
Auxiliary to the Legion have increas-
ed greatly with Sro" many in the arm-
ed forces an new rooms were nee
essery for them to carry on their
service to veterans of the town and•
aistrica—Winghain Ticiaraiiet-Tithes.
• Wetinded In Actian- •
'
Mrs. beiii(41* bas received
word that. -her on,,,pte. Win. Leiper,
has beet wounded to aotion, on the
Western aWe have. not been
able to ascertain the extent ,p1 his
wounds. --Blyth gtatidard.
In Action
Natt 'and Mts. Hilahaeetripbell, of
' rofi TV--ar Mk* aileeiVea
14?rd last Week that :their son, CO, -p
ao-i'
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