The Huron Expositor, 1947-05-16, Page 2E PQSIroR
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WN ,POSITOR
Established 1860
:ejth McPhail McLean, Editor. •
PublishOd at Seaforth, Ontario, ev-
,e47, Thursday afternoon by McLean
Bros. , ..
Advertising rates on application.
Authorized as Second Claes Mad,
Post Office Department, Ottawa.
isEAFORTH, Friday, May 16, 19471
It Carne. After Ail •
Sprung came after all, We 'worried
" nd fussed about it, but that really
did not help any. Perhaps there are
people in the town who are still a lit-
tle skeptical about it, but take a look
at the country. ,
Last week there was nothing but
brown earth and withered grass.
This week everything is changed.
And what a change. From the high-
way one can see the different shades,
of green in grain and grass. From a _
distance the buds on the trees show
purple and gold, and the' view across
country is closing in. ,
'But still the season is' late, and
when compared with • last year, very '
late and very backward. There is
little seeding ' done much land , to
cultivate before seeding can be start-
ed. Pasture has still to eome..Most '
of .the stock is yet in the barns.
However, fall wheat looks good
and given a' few days of warm sun,
the country will be another place
next week and farmers will be .well
away on • their great annual gamble.
We hope their gamble this year will
be as successful as last. And even
more so, because all the world, as
well as the farmer, is depending on
his successful, efforts.
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A Warning
It is. not only in the United States,
but 'i'n Canada, that many warnings
have been .given by men who can
speak with authority,'that unless the
upping of prices is stopped, serious
-consequences will follow to. our na
tional economy and in particular to
"business, Iabor .and industry.
A short time ago the President of
the Canadian Manufacturers' Assoc-.
iation told Canadian industry that it
should exert itself to' the uttermost
to restrict advances in prices. Now
the Minister of Finance follows in his
recent budget speech with a more
direct warning on the'matter' of
prices. -
He said: "A short time ago in this
House, I urged Canadian.. °business-..
amen to reduce their prices as their
volume and efficiency of business ex-
pand. I stated that it is neither pro-
per nor even good business to charge -
all the traffic will bear. I want to
einphasize that view again now. We
in the.. government, and the vast ma-
jority in this House and in this coun-
believe in ' what is now called
" ree enterprise" as , a sensible way
of getting things done. -It must prove
itself and, justify itself by results.
Canadian business'enterprise is in a
most favorable situation., We ,all ex-
pect it to show its metal, both in pro-
duction and"in marketing. We ex-
pect it .to show its ability to keep
down costs_ and prices. In its own
long run interest, as well as in the
national interest, business must keep
its prices' down and. its profits within
reason."
But a more severe warning than
the, words of Mr. Abbott or'anyone
else, is the growing attitude of the.
buying public -towards the increase
in prices. That warning has already
had the effect of ' reducing prices on
a considerable number of goods by
the retail merchants of both Canada
and. the United States.
Naturally. the retailer, because he
is in close contact with the buying
public, is the first to feel the pres-
sure; blit it is. not fair, nor will it be
sufficient to limit the reduction to
the retailer alone. The system will
also have to- be adopted bythe mane-
lacturer, and that is something that
:.should be particularly noted by labor,
as well as ,by industry as well.
Old Veterans Will Remember
';few . weeks ago a small para-
graph appeared in the -papers an-
nouncing the death of Alfred James
'Walden. How many old veterans say
it, or recognize the name if they did?
It is a far~ cry from i the days of the
,I< 'last World. War, when thousands of.
y g 'Caaij adians crossed. , the ocean
t in• the tren ,1,0', of`"Prance.
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tier,. �thigs' h.ve, ' changed since
Se war ye; .rs" 'Maly of those' old
war veterans have gone. All those
who are left are older and different.
Their memories of thos'e fiery days
have faded until: now they are like a
dream.,
Huf one thing will al
with thein.. The fries
were made and tried in
es. .The "'tedium they we
bear has . largely been
but there were joys in
years, too, and among
memory, often recalled, '
ish, gay and brave little
always brings back the of
are gone, but will never b
And that' memory is the
tantalizing and immortal
"Madem-
oiselle From Armentiers.
Now the author, an
lonely old man, has go
words once Jived on the
marching army, and c
veterans read of his deal
tial pang. •
ways remain
friendships that
the 'trene'h-
re forced to
forgotten,
those war
them is the
of that fool-
ish, which
d faces that
e forgotten.
tune, of the
obscure and
gone, but his
lips of a gay,
countless old
death wth'a spe;
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How The Union Works
For twenty years George Turner
had been a hard working, conscien-
tious policeman in London, England's'
odoriforous Billingsgate fish market.
Then a vacancy came in the serge-
ancy rank, and Constable .' Turner
was promoted..
That started the fireworks. The
promotion stirred up a heated
Fate in the labor union. Turner's.
ten fellow constables went on strike
because, they •'said,• Turner had been
shown rank favoritism.' Each should
have been given a chance to' apply
for promotion. ,
Then Billingsgate cleaners walk-
e>tl out, because Constable Turner had
forgotten he was a" policeman and
once, in an emergency, had helped
the superintendent wash down a
dirty corner of the fish market.
Also in sympathy, and without
warning, out walked 1,000 other Lon-
don workers, market and street
cleaners and grave diggers: The
movable sections of the Tower Bridge.
went up and stayed up because the
seventy employees who operate . the
drawbridge in shifts had joined the
sympathy strike over George Turn-
er's
promotion.
The bridge stayed up for a week
forcing traffic to detour over London
Bridge, which couldn't carry it all,
and Central London had a merry
jam, with traffic tangled in three-
mile long . snarls. Thousands of peo-
ple in London were forced to; walk,
murmuring Billingsgate oaths on
the Billingsgate strikers.
°By the middle of that week many
streets were littered with uncollect-
ed 'rubbish, and the-' city's health
authorities began to worry. Funerals
had to be postponed or held in 'dis-
tant cemeteries.. Londoners found
the doors to public lavatories lock-
ed; the attendants were o°n strike..
too.
Few strikes had ever caused as,
much inconvenience and discomfort ,
to the generalpublic, and Billings-
gate reputation for smells went up to
an all-time high. The streets around
it were covered with fish slime and
other dirty refuse, and as one of the
porters expressed it: "If this 'ad
'appened in the summer, we'd,'ave 'ad
to :wear our rudder gas. masks."
And all because. Constable Turner,
after working and waiting' for 20
years, had been promoted to , the
rank of sergeant. From this distance
it looks pretty much as if the British
Labor Government had taken unto.
itself power to control everything
else in the country except labor.
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Fish
We do not know whether you like
your fish fried, baked or broiled, or
whether you like them at all. + But.
regardless of your inclinations to-
ward fish as to taste, it is a pretty
safee'het that you have no realization
of the extent or importance of the
fisheries of the -Great Lakes.
For example, unless you have per-
sonally, counted the fish in Lake Hur-
on,
ur
on, you do not know how many ~fish
there are there. But do you know
'that 75,687,800 pounds of fish, worth
$11,000,000,' were taken froli the
Great Lakes by commercial fisher-
men alone in 1944, which is the last
. year for which figures are available?
And these figures are just for the
United States. If Canada's share of
the catch Was added, the 1944 Catch
of fish., would total 106,814,000
ponds.
"And still they say there are just
J'
as good fish n the sea as ever came
punt ,) f it
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Interesting items picked frons
The Eapositqe of fifty and
twenty-five .years ago.
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From The Huron Exposeitor
May 12, 1922
• On Friday evening last 'Mrs. A. Mc-
Lellan, of Staffs, was presented with
a chair et the home of Mrs. William'
Jeffrey ..from the choir of which she
is a member.
The 'property of the late James Al-
len, •SSte fa, has been purclxasec1 eky.
the financial eom,mittee of the Metho-
dist ,Church; the price being. $300.
An interesting debate was held in
Egmontvi1le Presbyterian. Church 'on
Monday evening under the auspices
of the Young People's Christian En-
deavour Society on the subject, "Re-
solved that picture shows do • more
good than harm:" Those on the af-
firmative were W. Eyre, Alex Alexan-
der and Miss Howatt,- and on the nega-
tive Leslie Bell, Edwin Chesney and
Miss Wilma Chesney-. The negative
succeeded in getting the most points.'
• Mr. F.. L. Hutchison, a graduate of
Seaforth Collegiate, has added another
-scholarship to his already brilliant
university career, having been award-
ed the British . scholarship on the
basis of the best year's record in pub-
lic speaking.
Seaforth played their first •game of
football on Wednesday night in Clin-
ton and finished with the long end of
4-0 score. The following was the. Sea-
forth
eaforth line-up: Goal; C. Adams; backs,
'Dot Reid and Angus Kennedy; halves,
P. Doig, Dawson Reid and E. John-
ston; right vying, C. Workman and C.
Consigney; left wing, W.. -Parke and
Pat Chesney; centre, Roy 'McGeoch,
Mr. W. A. Crich has purchased a
new motor truck and intends deliver-
ing bread to outside villages. and
towns 'in this vicinity.
Mr. Reg Reid left this week for
Port •Oolborne, where he will enter
the Imperial Bank.
Mr. J. M. letMil]an, formerly' of the
Bank of Commerce, has been appoint'
ed Manager of the new Ontario Gov-
ernment Bank, which will be opelied
shortly- in the .Sills' block.
Mr. Wm. Mackay, of Toronto, was
in town this week. He was connected
with the Ogilvie Mills, but now is with
the Goldie & McCullough Foundry of
Galt. ' His fim was the successful ten-
derer for the electric pt<imps to be in=
stalled in the new waterworks system
in Seaforth.
Mr. W. J. Dickson is having a fine
verandah • built _en his. residence on
James St. Mr. R. Frost is doing.the.
cement work and Mr. A. Kennedy the
carpenter work.
Messrs. J. Doig' and ,sons, of Kippers,.
are busy sawing logs .from their yard
and intend building anew house for
themselves this summer.
Gordon McKay',has secured the ear -
age occupied last season by J. Par-
ker, in Bayfield, area will also oper-
ate
penate the gasoline pump. • .
Dr, A. Moir, Idensail, has returned
frons St. Joseph's' Hospital, London,
where lite had been suffering with
blood .poisoning in his hand, ••
W. H. Coats and Alvin' Oke have
successfully passed their first year at
the School of Practical Sciene, To-
ronto.
HI..L O- I ER of
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LAZY MEADOWS
By Harry J. Boyle
You just get sailing along happy in and he worked while the rest of them
got an education.
They al' •II. me home for holidays
at ..got jobs in the cities.
they married anti-had•fam-
ept ,. corning back to the
farms to visi Looking over at the
Macarthur place in the summertime
on a .Sunday aftereoon, it Would re-
mind you of an auction sale.
Tom kept on plugging away at the
farm. As he once said to me a little
-bitterly, '"I work ten hours a day, for,
myse'lZ. ,and' ten hours to get enough
to feed_tli.e visitors." When. the war
came along he jumped at the chaeta..
to enlist, but he was turned down for
active service. Two years ago he had
the notion of starting up another ser-
vice.station in the village. That seem-
ed a little foolish, because there
seems to be a service station in the
village foe every three people that
live there. . ° •
T wonder"if Tom hasn't got a sense
those bees. The hives are actually
quite close to the buildings, and some-
body's bound to get stung this slum, -
ser when the family pull up to visit
"Good Old Tom:"
theidea that .spring has arrived when
all of a sudden a. cold spell ' sets in.
.Yesterday we were sitting but on the
back veranda in, our shirt sleeves and
t11,is morning the weather had chang-
ed completely. ' . As a matter .of fact,
it was quite chilly here this morning.
Tonight we have afire in the heater
in the front roans and we're darn glad
that we have. There's a robin out,
side the living room window com-
plaining in a bitter way about the
treatment he's getting in the way of
weather since coming back.
Things have been mighty quiet
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around here this last while. Most
folks are seeding ... and the work is
starting to roll up around our ears.
First thing we know it'll be the twen-
ty-fourth of May.
One of our neighbors has sold out.
He's going to move into the village
and take aver the, apiary that Tom
Macarthur used to have. I don't think
Ned knows a solitary thing about bees.
The point is that he' wants to get
away. from the farm.' . Tom was the
oldest boy in .the Macarthur family
From' The Huron Expositor
May 14, 1897
Mr. Thomas Bickell, •of Egmondville,
was so unfortunate last week as to
fracture his ri<ht arm near the elbow.
He was jumping 'over a •temporary
fence,' erected in front of his father's
residence, when a board gave way'.
W. D. Bright, .Robert Logan, Ww.
Ament.and. J. M. Best. drove to Ben -
miller on Friday last to enjoyea day's
fishing: . They :bagged about 30 each.
.. Mr. G. W. Holman has been engag-
ed as principal of the 'Bayfield public
'school as successor to Mr. A. E.
Thompson, who has resigned.
A most unfortunate accident•occur-
red on Saturday evening in Hibbert,
near Mitchell, throughwhich Mrs.
Henry Grey, Sr:, lost her Iife. She
was returning home after doing setae
shopping and at the turn of. the road
a tug broke. and the horses ran away.
eShe was apparently .thrown out and.
injured internally:
Mr. Wm. Plewes, of Brucefield, was
so unfortunate as•.to have a horse so
seriously injured that it had to be
killed. The horses, while harrowing,
turned too ,tehort and upset the har-
rows en them, breaking the leg. of one
of the animals.•-•
The eleventh annual meeting of the
Seaferth Skating .arid Curling Ass.ocia-
t]on was .held in the Grip Hotel on
Tuesday. The, following,. officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, F, Holmsted; vice-president, A.
Young; treasurer,. W. O. Reid; secre-
tary, G. E. Henderson; managing
committee;• A.• Young, 'i", F. • Coleman,
•J. A. Wilson, George Patterson, E. C.
Coleman and. Jas. •McMichael:
Alexander -Brown, of Bayfield, has
obtained a position on the survey
boat, "Bayfield," and. joined the crew
a.t Port Stanley.
1dr. Jacob Barrows, McKillop, is
collecting material .with a view to-
wards building a new resid.e.rrce' this.
season.-
Mr.,
eason;•.Mr., ITawe,•from near Winthrop, has
rented Mr, Samuel Dickson'ea50-acre
farm, near. Leadbury, for a term of
years.
The first 'football match of'thie sea -
Son was played on the recreation
grounds on.Saturday evening between
Galt and Seaforth Collegiate Institute
teams for the Haugh ,Out,
Mr, S. Reid.,, of Harlock, has rented
his blaclnemiitle shop and refridence to
Mr. Shiel, of Michigan, for a 'period
of years, Mr, Reid intends removing
to Tuckersmith and taking the farm
recently vacated by Alexander Gray
on the Mill Road.
Mrs. Hugh Grieve left here on Wed-
nesday for,'V;arleouver, B.C., to join her
husband, who is located there.
Mrs, George Fach, of Brttcefield, hair
sold her property south of the villegr3
to Mr. Scott, of I3amilton, for $750.
The •nautical cornie Opera, "M MS.
.Pinafore," was. presented • in •Catt'Ltra'e
Hall on Monday evening to,a i'aii audi-
ehce by eta entateW' (odextch ;Cohn
patty. . d
and they
Later on
!lies and
:JUST A SMILE OR TWO:
Mistress (to charlady)-: "And you
think your Lizzie would make me a,
good housemaid; Mrs. O'Brien?"
Mrs. O'Brien: "Sure, an' she is
that. She's up and has all the beds,
made of a morning before• the rest Of
us is . awake at all!"
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Mother: "Harry, where are the
apples gone that were in, the cellar?"
Harry (after much hesitation):
"They are with the cakes that were
in the cupboard, ma."
Editor (interviewing a visiting cele-
brity): "Do you believe -in clubs for
women?"
"Well, er—yes," replied the digni-
tary, "but only after kindness has
failed."
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The bachelor -was paying a visit to
the house o f a friend, a married man,
and found himself rather bored by all
the :talk about the son and heir of
the house,
"JAnt, fancy," said the adoring
mother, "he's only seventeen• months
old and he's been Walking for nearly
nine months."
"Really?" sai`d the visitor, wearily.
"Don't you think it's about time he
sat down?"
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Two small boys were, examining
some • mummies in the Egyptian sec-
tion of the museum. "What does the
card on this mean," said one, "it says
.B.C. 3,300?'"•
"Don't be so stupid.," said the other.
"That's the number of. the ear that
hit him."
Magistrate Leaven Hospital
`.Magistrate Jamey Morley; after sev-
ei:al weeks in Victoria Hospital, Long
don, has recovered sufficiently to re-
turn to his home in Exeter and is ex
pected to resume his duties as• Huron
County magistrate in two or three
weeks.—Goderich Signal -$tar.
Catches 15 -Inch Trout
Unfavorable weather conditions,
have not been conducive to good trout
fishing -tu tlils•'district since the sea--
son,
eason, opened, hence the laek of good
fishing stories. In order to•keep the
morale of local fishermen up, Mr. 'Rol
land ,Vincent, an ardent trout ashen
man, reeled in. a 13 -inch trout last
Friday and on Monday came home
with a 15 -inch 'beauty. • M•r. Vincent
left nothing for granted. 'The editor
measured the 13 lecher, and, Gord.ou, .
Elliott. measured the 15 -inch one.
dome on, you -fishermen; who can bet-
ter this mark?—)31yth Standard.
Averts Farm Dwelling Fire
Quick action on the part of Mrs.
Machan and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Creigh-
ton, neighbors, very probably; saved
the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. •Ch'as.
Machan just- before noon Friday. Mrs.
Machan discovered the fire in the attic
over the kitchen. She was alone with
the children at .the time. She immedi-
ately phoned the Creighton home and
Mr. and Mrs. Creighton • responded
hurriedly. Together with Mrs. Machan'
they were able to extinguish the blaze
with fire extinguishers. Damage was
confined to smoke and the smoulder-
ing of a few clothes.—Blyth Standard.
County Affiliates With Federation
Huron county council is now an af-
filiated member of Huron Couaf r Fed-
eration of Agriculture, and its repres-
entative is J. D. Beecroft, reeve of
East Wawanosh. This matter, as well
as others, was decided at a meeting
of the 'Agricultural Committee of the
County Council in Ontario Department
of Agriculture, Clinton, last week. A
grant- of $100 was. made to the Junior
Livestock Judging Competition • which
will be held in conjunction with the ,
Federation Field Day at Exeter next.
month.—Clinton News -Record.
150 -Acre Farm Brings $9,200
Mr. George Link - 'held a successful,
auction 'sale of his 'farm, farm .s•tocle
and implements Thursday- afternoon
of last week, .conducted by Mr, Frank
Taylor. The farm of 150 acres on the
15th concession of Stephen trwnship
was purchased by John B. Turnbull, -
son of Mr. Max Turnbull, of theeBlue
Water Highway for the sum of $9,200.
Calves sold for $40 and $42 and 'cows
from $140 to $190. A hay loader sold
for $257 and a bean scuffler for $100.
Exeter Times -Advocate:
Crediton Man Loses Finger
Mr. Edgar Penhale,, while working
at Smith's sawmill'Tuesday, had the
misfortune to lose theei.ndex finger of
his left hand when it came in -contact
with a circular saw. Ed. was working
in a pit and was getting out whets his
hand came in contact with the saw -
•He was attended by Dr• Dunlop.—Exec
ter Times -Advocate.
,Wins Fifth Prize
Congratulations are extended to
Verncn Heyw-ood, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Vernon Heywood, as winner of
.fifth prize in the Robin Hood oats am-
ateur art contest, age group six years
and under. Vernon rere:. e i a cash.
donation of.$5.00. Jones & May, who
sold the rolled oats, also received a
donation of-, $5.0Q.—Exeter Times -Ad-
vocate. •
Engage 'New Teacher
The Exeter '.School Trustees .haver
engaged Miss Jean Gann, daughter ,pf
Mr. and Mrs. Robert -Came, of 'Os-
borne.- as a member of the teaching
staff. Miss..Can.0 is a graduate of Lon-
don Normal and the salary is $1,500:"
:Miss- Mary Laing and Miss M.argarett
.Taylor, members of the present staff;
have tendered their resignations. --
Exeter Times -Advocate.
Injures Knee Following Fire
A second' injury, but minor in na-
ture to the one befalling the late, Gin-
ger Elliott, .occurred at the fire hall
following their brief run to, the Horn
property to answer a grass fire on
Tuesday morning of last week. IID
some manner Carman Wolfe, in hand-
ling some of • the .fire apparatus, sus-:
tained a torn. cartilege ,in one knee.
Mitchell Advocate.'
Purchases Lovely Home
The lovely old Babb home on St.
George St., with its beautiful grounds,
was sold this week by its ow-ner, Miss
Lillian Babb, to Laird Thiel, Mitchell.
It is understood that Miss Babl, will
remain in the hbme.—Mitchell Advo-
cate.
Donates Stove To Legion
The regular meeting of the Ladies'
Auxiliary to the Canadian Legion was
held in th'e, Armour. es on Tuesday eve-
ning, The members were unanimous
in their thanks to the Western Foun-
dry Co, for the generous gift of one
of their finest Clipper ranges for the
Legion home' kitchen. A motion was
unanimously adopted expressing ap-
preciation to Mr, F. W. Spry, man-
ager of the foundry, for• this .beautiful
and useful donation.—Wingham. Ad.
Receives
Receives Clinton Contract
M . Norman Inintoul has received
the contract for installing all kitchen,
cabinets And shelving in the -hew Pub-
lic Hospital at Clinton. — Wingham
Advance -Times.
Honored Before Leaving Town
Several delightful gabherings have
been held this last week in honor' of
Mrs.. Lorne Kress, who, with her fame
ily, will leave Wingham next week for
London, where Mr. Kress is employed
with the Canadian Bank of Commerce.
Mrs. Kress 'was the recipient of many'
lovely gifts which included two cran-
berry glass •vases, a silk umbrella,.
lovely cups, and saucers .and a table
lamp.—Wingham. Advance -Times.
Chosen May Queen At Noraitai School
Miss Audrey .Smith, daughter of Mr.
andMrs. Wilfred L. Smith, R,R, 3.
Groderich, has been chosen May Queen
at Stratford Normal School. This is
a high honor, -as the May Queen is
chosen 'by the entire student body of
the school. Phe crowning of the May
Queen will take place on May 16, and.'
one of the Queen's attendants on this
occasion , will be 'Miss 'Mary Lebne
Chisholm, daugkrter of Mi and; 'Mrs -
Leo CT liholm, 'R,R, 2, 'Godericli.--
Goderieh Sdghal1S�tar.r -9
"Who's that close-mouthed fe118w
over by the stove?"
"He's just waiting for the janitor to
return with the cuspidor." • '
•
. Jiggs: "Many. a man has a talent
far conversation which he has had no
opportunity of turning tie account;"
Jinks.: "Um—er—yes; I am mar-
ried myself." -
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Little Betty was, very fond of her
firet-grade teacher. At the end of the
term she was in tears at the thought
of leaving her.
"Come,. now, 'Betty," comforted the
teacher. "You ought to be glad that
you,.knoweedough to be Promoted in-
to a higher class."
"I am," said Betty, "but if only you
]mew enough to -be promoted right
along with me!"
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"A young Scottish recruit . was put
on sentry -go outside the general's
tent. In the morning""'the general
arose,• looked out of his tent, and said,
in a stern and loud voice: "Who are
you?" • . ,
The young -man turned round'smert-
Iy and replied: "Fine, ,sir! Hoo's
y ersel'?"
The hooter had sounded for dinner.
The foreman_ noticed how quickly one
of .the men, a notoriously lazy fellow,
put down `pis pick. -
"I believe," he said sarcastically,
"that if the hooter sounded when you
had your pick in the air you would
�.
leave it there."
"If it got as near to the time as
that," replied the man, "I Wouldn't
trouble to lift it up."
Huron Federation Of
Agriculture--FarmNews
Helpful Hints To Sheep Shearers
As a means of increasing the yield
-of high-grade wool, great care should
be taken when the sheep are being
shorn. By following the recommen-
dations of the National Sheep Com-
mitte_e- for. handling fleece wool at
shearing, the yied and profits may be
Increased through the prevention of
damp, wet and dirty wool .appearing
in the clip.
These recommendations are:
(a), Shear on a clean floor and avoid
second cuts. In the case of sizeable
range flocks, the holding pens should
haveslatted floors. .
(b) Keep all ehort, hairy leg and
face clippings away from the fleece.
If there is any quantity of these clip-
pings, pack them separately in a
small sack. -
(c) Spread fleece, flesh side down,
on a slatted. table or on a clean sur-
face.
(d) Remove all tags, dung locks or
very muddy bellies. Pack separately.
(e) Remove any bellies that are
very burry, chaffy or strawy and also
any other such badly affected, fleece
parts. Pack separately.
(f) Fold fleece twice from one side
to bring back portion uppermost, Roll
from britch to neck., Tie each fleece
with one strand of paper twine. Nev-
er'use binder or other sisal twine.
(g). -.Any reject fleeces or fleece por-
tions such as black, dead or damaged
dhould be packed separately-.
U. K. Poultry Contract
Total purchases of poultry up to
April 1, 1947, under the ,British 1946.47
contract were 7,932,421 pounds, of
which 6,657,302 pounds have been
shipped, made up of thirty-seven per
cent fowl and 6,3 • per cent chicken.
Purchases will continue under this
contract until the quantity stipulated,
namely 12,500,000•' pounds, is filled,
says the Current,,Review of Agricul-
tural, Corddtions. in Canada,
Bottle Mouse Trap
A devastating plague of mice in the
Mabee.district of Victoria, Australia,
has, resuscitated an old idea of a
mouse trap, with en Australian angle.
to ,it. A piece o4 oheese for bait 'is
plugged into the anouth of a beet bot-
tie which is .treed horiennt ally above
a kerosene 'eche ille& .With water.
LeadingtoU a Tigard,. tie., trap is 1i , , wp
Willett the mouse climbs ~'surf ring
along the, bottle towards the. cheese,
but slips on the well grease& fleck of
the bottle. The mouse falls .into. the
water and is drowned. One farmer,
says} the Australian "News," claims
to. have caught 2,400 mice in this way
of humor about him 'in buying all
within twelve hours.
A prolonged winter followed by
windy, wet weather greatly delayed
the seedings of spring grains in On-
tario this, year, and at May 1 only
two per cent of the planned wheat
acreage, five per cent. of 'the okt acre-
age and three per cent of the barley
acreage was seeded, the monthly crop
report of .the .Antario. Agriculture De-
parfinent showed this week.
Last year, seeding was .completed by
May 4 .in all areas except Northern
Ontario and some eastern counties.
Greatest progress in this year's • poor
seeding season has been .in Northum-
berland 'and Prince .Edward . Counties,
where from 25 ho 30 per cent of spring
grains have been sown.
Ontario farmers this year have gen-
erally shown intentions of increasing
the acreage of sugar beets, corn for
husking, dry beans, soy beans and
field peas. An increase in the price
of seed flax from the former $3.25 a
bushfj to $5.00 '(Montreal basis) will
probably result in a larger acreage
of this crop.
In spite of shortage of feed grains,
it is not expected, the acreage of
spring grains will increase, and pota-
toes are expected, to declinesiightly.
Fall wheat and hay and clover
crops experienced a small amount of
winter -killing in most counties, with
greatest damage reported from. North
Simcoe where smothering by snow and
spring frosts have killed an ;estimat-
ed 25 to 40 per cent of the fall•wheat
'Acreage:
With the except4on ..of -•some small
animal damage to apple. tre'es in bhe
Georgian Bay, area and breakage from
ice formations"to .fruit trees in the
Niagara Peninsula, all fruit trees,
vines and, small . fruit plantations in
Western Ontario wintered well with
little low temperature damiage, .abut
recent cold winds have retarded bud
development to a later than normal
stage.Acreage contracted for sugar beets.
in Ontario,- mostly in .the Ohatham
area, was 26,600 up to May 3, com-
pared to 28,30b 1946. Indications
at present are that one factory or the
Canada `and Dominion Sugar Company
Will operate in the area for the sixth
consecutive, year. The company has
More than '500 ininiigrant applications
approved .and the Werkere far West-'
ern ° 01£tat iO beet 'gelds. covered. 4n
these ,applications will arriire as soon
as ahli ing is. ; available; '