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SEAFORTH, Friday, May 5, 1950
Floods and Erosion
It is at this season of the year
when small and insignificant streams
"become roaring torrents that the
damage done by failure to provide
for proper water control is brought
home to the majority of us. This
weik, damage estimated at hundreds
of thousands of dollars, has resulted
in Manitoba and hundreds of fam-
ilies are homeless following' a spring
rampage by the Red River. Right
at home are evidences of damage
done by Silver Creek and the Bay-
field and Maitland Rivers while in .
flood.
Less popular attention is paid to
the fact that the same vicious condi-
tions which endanger life and de-
stroy property in the spring are at
work the year around, washing away
farm incomes and • promoting the
foundations of famine in a land of
plenty.
• "The report of Ontario's Select
Committee on Conservation has
adopted the term `wounded land' to
denote once fertile meadows which
have been gullied by freshets, rob-
bb'i of their top soil by splash and
run-off erosion, and by winds during
dry periods after the grass cover has
been killed. This wounding of land
is merely the first blow. The ulti-
mate wounds are inflicted upon our
economy. We may stand by a swol-
len stream, thick with soil, and
think: 'Oh; well. It's just water
and dirt. That doesn't cost any one
anything."
"But it does. Consumers pay for
it in higher prices for everything pro-
duced on the land. The farmer pays
for it in an increasing area of marg-
inal land, finally in useless land. We
would be 'better off, all along the line,
from the producer to the consumer,
if we paid for adequate protective
measures to prevent this waste re-
presented in the slow, unobserved
wounding of the land all the year
round, and the more spectacular
" fatalities during the spring break-up
periods. Certainly we must pay for
conservation. But the extra trouble
of contour plowing keeps both water
and soil where it should be kept—in
the land itself where fertility pro-
duces crops.
"Splash erosion alone can move 100
tons of soil per acre during a rain-
fall of one inch, if the land is bare
and unprotected. ,-_A study of 22,000
acres in Durhafn County showed
that 62.5 per cent of the area suffer-
ed various degrees of erosion, from
slight to very severe. Durham is
still a pretty fine county. But with
the equivalent of 220 farms of 100
tions large-scale dam and water.. '.
storage °04ties along the routes of.
streams, do 'n thug , llU4t trap x°Un-off
water and eroded silts. They still es-
cape
scape from thin .natural locations,
where they should ►e kept. But both
plans are needed. Erosion through
Ontario has gone_so far that reser-
voirs are needed for irrigation of
land already fatally wounded.
acres showing the results of wound-
- ing over more than 60 per cent of
their surface, how long will its pre-
sent character be retained? This
wounding is a progressive process.
It gets worse each year—unless it is
stopped.
"A four-year average of erosion
losses related to land with no pro-
tection and with various kinds of
cover are recorded in the Conserva-
tion Report, Land in summer fallow
loses each year 31.9 tons of soil, 228
tons of water per acre; land in corn
loses 21.1 tons of soil and 289 tons of
water. how look: Land in corn cuts
soil losses down to .9 ton and water
losses. to 58 tons, while land in alfal-
la loses only .1 ton of soil and 28 tons
P;•
of water per acre per year.
"that's whereconservation must
*ti that and the replanting of
h
an watersheds
LL, tro`o cover on,
al l rwtzl zi le. /Without
ntibn'l;o 'these.. x ary pr'eeat -.
"Sound conservation," the Globe
, ,rid Mail warns, "starts in any mea-
dow where wounding is . still pro-
ceeding unchecked. It's everybody's
problem. And everybody should be
interested in it beyond the eye-catch-
ing disaster headlines of the spring
season."
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Summer Band Concerts
For many years the people of Sea -
forth and district each summer have
enjoyed a series of Sunday band con-
certs. The average person probably
gave little, if any, thought to the
work and planning and hours of
practise that were necessary before
the Band was able to present its con-
certs. As in so many cases when a
service has continued over a period
of years, it becomes natural to take
it for granted. It is not until the
people are deprived of something to
which they have become accustomed
that they express concern.
And so it is in Ingersoll. Here
there is a fine bandstand, but no
band. And lacking a band, of course,
results in there being no band con-
certs.
The Ingersoll Tribune noting the
lack of band music in the commun-
ity, points out that there must be a
lot,of people who would support and
welcome an opportunity to attend a
series of summer band concerts. It
goes on to say that "music seems to
be one of the items sadly lacking in
life in this community, yet the facili-
ties are here. In Memorial Park we
have a very fine bandstand and an
ideal setting for such afternoons,
and within a 30 -mile radius are en-
ough good brass bands to supply In-
gersoll with an eight -or -ten -week
Sunday afternoon concert series
through the summer months. What
more pleasant a summer Sunday af-
ternoon is there than one sitting
quietly in a pretty park such as ours
listening to a concert of music?
Now that the summer series of
concerts shortly will commence in
Seaforth is a good time to remem-
ber the extent to which the Band
contributes to the pleasant life of
the community. And to give thought
to how much it would be missed were
there no band.
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tntere+siing Items rom;
The Huron Expositor 'of Tweet,.
tyflve and Fifty Ygare AOo4'
(Article EIeve,n)�
1 suppose the youngsteers of this
generation would wonders how we
ever had any fun or ami$ement in
the days of which I write. We
didn't have all kinds of `bougbten
toys. We didn't have any! Town
and city kids all had gaily -painted
steel -shod hand sleighs.We made
our own, or our fathers made them
for us. When I coudn'-t get that
old velocipede, to soften my dis-
appointment, my father .went to
the bush, cut a pair' of -hickory
saplings, and made me a pair of
stilts. They were fairlyi high, and
1 was soon able to get over a lot
of ground in long strides. As for
skates, there was just one pair in
the neighborhood, and they belong-
ed to me. I had traded a pair of
rabbits to a town boy for this old
pair of wooden skates—rockers, I
think they were called. The steel
runner curved up in front over the
toe. They were fastened to the
boots by screwing them on at the
heel, and strapping them over the
instep. 1 had them screwed on a
pair of large long boots, and all
the neighboring kids took turns in
taking off their own boots and
pulling on the skate boots. (I nev-
er saw a real ice rink until I was
well into my teens). But what
uproarious fun we had, out on the
icy meadows, in the cold, crisp
moonlight. Sometimes we burned
dried "cat -tails" for torches, ff
there was no moon. No supervis-
ed playgrounds or recreation in-
structors for us! And we did very
well without thein, and it didn't
cost the taxpayers a cent. And
juvenile delinquency were words
nobody had ever heard of.
We had little parties in the
homes, too, where we played such
thrilling games as "Post Office"
and "Drop the Handkerchief," We
sang songs, in joyous chorus. We
didn't know anything about B
flats or high C's, or symphony or
"movements" in B minor. ,(you see
I don't know anything about it
yet), but we .got there just the
same.
A .brother and sister . one time
invited the crowd of us to their
house on a certain night for a
little party. They had never had
a party there before, as there was
an invalid in the house. I guess
the brother and sister. just invit-
ed us right off their own bat,
We arrived, and congregated in
the big, warm cosy kitchen, and
had just got nicely settled in
chairs in a circle (no games start-
ed yet, and it was only eight
o1olook), 'when the head of lbhe
house, a tall, kindly'Map,. Game i>r„
looked us over, smiled pleasantly,
and then said, in his exquisite
Scots burr:
"Weel, bairns, I= think ye'd -bet
ter sing 'Shall We Gather At - the
River,' and then a' rin awa home;
it's time ye were in your beds!"
And we had just got there!
But we "A' rin."
As I have said, I have prided
myself on knowing broad. Lowland
Scots very well, but I do get stuck
when it's too "braid." A docu-
ment turned . up in our family,
which was a chronological tree of
the family, or parchment. It trac-
ed the gang from the time of
Oliver Cromwell—you know the
sort of thing, like in the Bible, how
somebody begat somebody else, and
then they kept on begetting to
beat the band. right down the ag-
es. Well, a lady ancestress of.
mine in Scotland, about the 16th
century, was apparently begatted
with a title—she was a Lady Some-
body. The record went on to say:
"The •puir leddy deed in her 30th
year. She,•had sneckit her craig."
•.
Seeding Is Late
Everybody says it is a late spring.
Here it is the first week in May and
almost no one is at Work on the land.
The weather has been raw and cold
and wet, and within the. past week
there have been flurries of snow in
the air. It just isn't possible for a
farmer, no matter how anxious he
is, to start his spring sowing.
When the fourth month of the
year arrives, man grows impatient
for the welcome warmth and green
growth that assures him another and
a new growing season is under way.
Old-timers dogmatically assert we
no longer have the kind's of spring
we used to have. The year now
seems to go directly from a late win-
ter into an early summer, they claim.
Perhaps they are right, but it is on-
' ly two years ago that few farmers
were finished seeding until near the
end of May; and the Goderich Sig-
nal -Star is authority for the state-
ment that seven years ago, on the
last day of April, there, was a gale,
accompanied by snow and rain, and
the temperature was down to freez-
ing on that day, as well as on the
first of May.
Somehow the fears for a good
crop, so common as April drags on
with day after day of cola weather,
are forgotten when the warming
days of May finally arrive. With
them comes a return of . that full
faith that prompts man to sow
his seeds each year, firm in the
knowle ' e, that when time has been
se etly th largest will be ready, .
4.
From The Huron Expositor
May 8, 1925
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Fell, Staffa,
are .enjoying the pleasures. of a
new sedan.
Mr. M. G Deitz, Zurich, is fitting
up part of the second floor of his
business block for a dentist's of-
fice.
Mr. E. E. Steele, teller at the
Hensall branch of the Bank 'of
Montreal, has been compelled to
lay off duty for a time owing to
eye trouble.
Among those taking part in the
musical part of the anniversary
services of Carmel Church, Hen-
sall, on Sunday were: Mrs. W. A.
MaoLaren, Mrs. Lee Hedden, W. O.
Goodwin, C. Cook, W. A. MacLar-
en, Clifford Moir, Mrs. M. Drys-
dale, Jessie Buchanan, Jessie Park
and Helen Elder. -
Shortly after one o'clock Wed-
nesday morning the residence of
Mr, George Seip, Market St., was
discovered to be on fire. The blaze
originated in the kitchen and con-
siderable damage was done to the
remainder of the house.
Messrs. Duncan Johnson and
Wesley Searle, of Walton, met with
a severe accident on Thursday as
they were driving into Seaforth. In
coming down the hill at Grieve's
bridge, he stepped on the gas in-
stead of the brake, and the car
shot through the guard rail and
down a 20 -foot embankment; strik-
ing a tree head-on at the bottom.
Mr. Searle was only slightly .injur-
ed, but Mr. Johnston was badly
bruised and shaken up.
For years I pondered on what
the deuce had happened to her. I
asked all the Scots who spoke the
broadest Lowland, and they didn't
know. The old fellow just shook
his head and said: "Dinna fash
yer heid—she's deed, onyhow."
But when in Glasgow on my first
visit there, in 1912, I met a real
old -tinier Scot, whose speech was
so full of Scotch b -r -r -s you'd think
you were listening to a burdock.
I told him the story of the un-
fortunate 'tleddy," and told him
what the record said had happen-
ed to her,
"It Hays 'she sneckit her Craig',"
I explained. "I never heard of
that happening to anybody. It
must have been something fierce,
like a head-on collision."
The bearded old Scot pondered,
a while. He puffed thoughtfully
at his clay pipe. Finally he said:
"It'll juist mean the leddy three -
pit her craw."
"But, good heavens'." I exclaim-
ed, "that's worse than ever! Can't
you just tell me in plain English
just what happened?"
"Aye," he said, putting his pipe
in his pocket, "it'll juist mean
that she cut her. throat."
So now we know.
Huron Federation of
Agriculture Farm . News
(By Gordon M. Greig)
The Dominion Government's ace.
bombardier, the Hon. James Gard-
iner, has dropped anothembig one
on the Canadian farmer by an-
nouncing a 5c a pound cut in the
floor price of butter. This is the
third blockbuster dropped by Mr.•
Gardiner since early last fall, and
all, have landed squarely in the lap
of the agricultural producer.
Both hog and poultry producers
received, a terrific jolt when egg
prices dropped to as low as 25c
per dozen for 'A' Large, and pork
prices sagged to around $25:00 per
hundred for top quality. After. a
considerable loss had been sus-
tained and many protest meetings
were held, the Government made a
half hazard attempt to relieve the
situation by placing floor prices on
both eggs and pork. Since that
time eggs have climbed to some-
thing resembling a reasonable
price, while the hog price has been
as unstable as a cork in the ocean.
The price will climb to $28 per
cwt. and then drop back to $26 per
cwt. and climb again for a week
or so, only to take another tum-
ble. Manipulation by the buyers is
the only logical reason for this un-
steadiness.
The cause for the present price
of butter can be laid at the door
of the Provincial Department of
Agriculture. In two Provinces we
have margarine banned and there
is no butter problem there. If two
provinces can ban the sale of mar-
garine, what is to hinder the oth-
ers from doing likewise? Before
the introduction of margarine we
had a shortage of butter, and in a
very little over a year we find the
Government tholdi g a surplus of
around 2,000,000 pounds. How can
we expect our dairy farmers to ad-
just themselves to such a rapid
change of markets? Milk cows are
not lids a water tap—you cannot
shut them off and go away and
leave them. The normal lactation
period for a good cow is around 11)
months, so a farmer with a herd
of fresh cows in March or April
will drop several dollars per week
from the price he received last
year for his cream.
Mr. Robert McCubbin, Parlia-
mentary Assistant to the Jilin-
ister of Agriculture, in a speech
at Clinton, less than a month ago,
stressed the faqt that our founda-
tion stock is being depleted and
that farmers should keep more
cows to raise mord young cattle
for our export market. Most far-
mers rely on a cow to produce
milk as well as raise a calf. If
one part of this dual income is cut
off the other part will probably
suffer also. If we have to produce
butter at a loss or at starvation
wages, then you will see the foun-
dation ' stock depleted even more
than in the ,last two years, . and
the supply of beef will dwindle in
the next few years instead of in-
creasing, as Mr. McCubbin hoped
It would.
The drop In farm income comes
at a time when we find labor still
demanding higher wages, shorter
hours and • social securities. We
have been sympathetic toward lab-
ors' fight for a better standard of
Living, .but at tale present time.. it
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Sewerage Disposal, PI ,„ Relied
Mr. Taylor, of the Kilborn. En-
gineering Co.' I,td., was in town on
Tuesday afternoon and discusses
the problem :of sewerage 'dlallosa
with the town council at a special
meeting. Wingham: Advance -
Times.
Purchased Residence
Mr. Stanley Sibtborpe has pur-
chased one of the George Radford
dwellings on Dinsley St. The pro-
perty was formerly occupied by
Provincial Constable Chas. Salter.
Mr. and Mrs. Sibbhorpe are doing
some decorating and will shortly
move from their .present home
which they have sold. — Blyth
Standard.
Did Big Job
Mr.. Earl Thiel and staff did, a
big job the past week by clearing
away the concrete pieces and re-
mains of the old water tank. It
From The Huron Expositor
May 11, 1900
Mr. Henry F. Eilber, Crediton,
met with a painful accident last
Friday while.George Holtzman was
removing the telephone wires and
the pole gave away, and George
thinking he was going to fall,
jumped and fell on Harry, running
the spur of his climbers through
Harry's leg.
Mr. John McNevin, Kippen, was
in Seaforth on Monday disposing
of his large stock of lumber to the
Broadfoot & Box Co.
Some fine herds of cattle were
seen going through Hensall to-
wards Exeter on Wednesday morn-
ing of last week. They were pur-
chased by Mr. Ironsides, of Mont-
real, and are to be shipped to the
British market. -
William Graham, James Aiken -
head and Malcolm McEwan, Bruce -
field, left last -Saturday with a
large shipment of cattle for the
Old Country market.,
Mr. Archibald Wrigh
resided in town some ti
moved to Shelbourne,
tends going into the electric light
business with his son.
- Mr. Alex Lowery left town on
Tuesday for Saut Ste. Marie, where
he expects to get a job.
Work has commenced on the
new parochial residence in con-
nection with St. James' Church.
Mr. J. B. Foster, Zurich, had
over 30,000 fresh brick frozen this
week and had to have them made
over again.
is beginning to reach a point
where every concession labor
gains adds to the burden of the
farmer.
As yet we have not had a strong
enough union among farm people
to enforce our demands. The Fed-
eration made recommendations to
the Dominion Government that the
prices be as follows: $36 per cwt.
for wiltshire sides at seaboard;
30c per pound for cheese instead
of the 28c now paid; eggs to re-
ceive a support price of 42c in-
stead of the 38c now paid, and
butter to remain at 58c instead of
the 52c now offered. In not one
of these cases did the Government
accept the recommendation of the
Federation. If this had been a
labor union we would today be
facing a nation-wide strike that
would be tying up the food supply
of the entire Dominion, and at
once the Government would call a
negotiating 'committee to discuss
the grievance.
Until such a time as we can put
teeth in our organization, we can-
not hope to negotiate on a par
with other organizations, including
the Government.
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ne, has re -
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Tuberculosis Found in Crows
During the past 25 years a great
deal of research work has been
done -by scientists of Canada's De-
partment of Agriculture in study-
ing and combatting the spread of
tuberculosis in farm flocks and
herds. And now another page has
been added to the tuberculosis
story by Science Service animal
pathologists. who have found that
25 out of 263 crows examined were
infected with tuberculosis which
under certain conditions might
conceivably infect the farm poultry
flock.
"So far the crows examined have
all come from 'Western Ontario,"
said Dr, Chas. A. Mitchell, Domin-
ion Animal Pathologist and co-
author with Dr. R. C. Duthie, in a
recent issue of the Canadian Jour-
nal of Comparative Medicine and
Veterinary Science dealing with
this subject. He said that it has
not yet been determined if crows
in other parts of Canada are also
subject to tuberculosis, but hoped
that research workers in other ar-
eas would report on the extent
that this disease is being carried
by the common crow.
Tuberculosis usually produces an
emaciated or rundown condition in
its victims, but strangely enough
the crows examined did not show
any evidence of these symptoms.
The autopsy findings on the 25 in-
fected crows showed only slight
lesions in 16, with nine showing
more extensive lesions. These
were generally confined to the
specific organ attacked, with no
marked tendency to generalize,
which Dr. Mitchell considered per-
haps explained the absence of
emaciation. Lesions were found
most commonly in the liver, in the
spleen and less frequently in the
lungs.
In all, seven different strains of
tubercle bacilli were isolated and
Dr. Mitchell said -that it was of
interest to note that these did not
conform to the . pattern, of the tub-
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toolp M'ny a heavy: shoveful and:.
many a big lift to get all those
huge chunks of concrete on the
wagon, and then the fine stuff .was
not easily handled. -Zurich Her-
ald.
Farm House Saved NearBrucefieid'
In response to a telephone call
for tielp, Clinton's volunteer tire
brigade travelled to a farm in,,
Tuckersmith, half a mile south of
Brucefield, about 3:40 p.m. Sun-
day. The farm' is owned by A.
Johnston and is occupied by J.
Zeto. Fire Chief Grant W. Rath
stated that a grass lire in a front
field had burnedup to and was
threatening the house, but was
1 pretty well under control when the
' Clinton truck arrived. Neighbors
had used shovels, spades, etc., in.
keeping the blaze in check. The
brigade used the hand pump.
Clinton News -Record.
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1—Sudden fright
4—Celerity
7—The ocean
8—Throw
10j4toritontai
11"—Rover
15—Epoch
16—Academy awards
19—Floor covering
22—Sheared
23—Rind
25—Cuban dance
26—Hardwood tree
27—Emao,ate.,..
30 --Cry of doves
31—Enlist
34—Fairy
37—Ovum
38—Remotest planet •
40—In that place
41—Coloring pigment
42—Urn
45—Illustrious
46—Idler
49—Distant, in view
52—Cow's lowing
53—An ass
56—Bearish
57—Additional
58—Employ
59—Bottomless gulf
60—Indigenous
DOWN
1—King's house
2—At no time
3—Girl's narpe
4 --Mister (Ger.)
5—sol
6—Organ of sight
7—Woolly animal
9—Segment of circle
12—Assault
13-12 dozen
14—Scope
17—,Public road
18—Defensive arms:
20—Nearly
21—Written.
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24 -.—Surpass
28—Armscovering
,29—incites
32—Irritate
33—Musical drama
35—One-eyed sailor
36—Relating to the
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38—Languished
39—Belonging to a
city
43—All arms can hold.
44—Eat away
47 Wind instrument.
48—Spring
60 --"Hear ye"
51—Speck
54—Plural of ovum:
55—Clef
SOLUTION ON PAGE 7
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