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'* onabee township, Peterboro Coun- "PAGE TEN THE OSHAWA D LY TIMES, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1930 DAVID 'FIFE'S GREAT REN FOLLOWS IN ~ WHEAT KING'S FOOTSTEPS Deséiautiol Red Fife. Wheat Producer Wins Honors «With Marquis Variety--Fife's Experiments Nearly Century Ago The growing of a fine sample of Marquis wheat was no extraordin- ary accomplishment for this rural school boy. No doubt many other boys of his age throughout On- tario and the rest of Canada have done as well; but the fact that Donald David Fife is a direct lipeal descendent in the fourth gen- eration of David Fife, whose am- bition and intelligence led this country far along the path of agri- cultural predominance, introduces little chapter that lights up the past with a new interest, and set fourth in clearer perspective priceless work of David Fife far back in the log cabin days of our national life. Peterboro (Written for The Canadian Press by Harry Theobald) Peterboro, Ont., Feb. 6--On the © same - farm and almost the idéntical plot of ground where his great grandfather, David Fife, matured nearly 90 years ago the three shoots of Red Fife wheat whose seed eventually altered the economic destiny of the Canadian Northwest Donald David Fife, 12- Yeur-old son of Edwin Fife of Ot- "ty, last year won the first prize for " Marquis wheat at the rural school championships fair of the county. Donald Fife's success may have been only a turn of fate, possibly an obscure reminder of the nations failure to recognize his grandsire's » memory; but who would say that | ir the spirit of David Fife did not re- | . visit the acres he had cleared as a ~ ploneer more than a centriy aga, and 'lend the magic of his spectral todeh to his gradson's harvest from "his school allotment' of Marquis wheat, {the improved variety eyolv. By Tossing Red Fite with hand who gave first his community and variety that had originated in In- | then hig country the wheat that dia! . yi of | became the basis of Canada's agri- Jdial | { cultural wealth probably was gen erally forgotten in the democracy of the school yard. mentioning that this boy received | Mair Fell Out Terribly. Healed by Cuticura. no discriminating attention from "My little "girl had had eczema very badly. It started in small blotches ronuher head and then formed scales all over her scalp. Later it spread behing het ears and formed wet, sore eruptions. Her hair fell out terribly. She wis botheredabout three months. "'I tried all kinds of remedies but the trouble kept getting worse. A friend advised Cuticura Soap and Ointment so I purchased some, and after using three cakes of Cuticura Soap and five boxes of Cuticura Oint- ment she was healed." (Signed) Mrs. Lyman Earle, Pleasant Lake, N. §., Aug. 13, 1928. Give Cuticura Soap and Ointment the care of your skin. Soap Be. OF Ofntment 2 and 50c. county rural schools ber as a separate Donald David Fife, who had re- ceived his portion of the wheat dis- tributed by the Ontario Depart- ment of Agriculture for she pur- pose of the rural school contests. His kingship with the David Fife { the school's Marquis wheat. In a garden plot on the ed his wheat, harvested it, display- ed it at his school fair, won first | prize, and then on to the i championship at Norwood. for Marquis retains all the excell- enced of its parent Red Vife; the talent of his agriculture has great its inherited grandfather, romance, too, David Fife was born the fifth of ten sons of and Agnes Hutchinson married in Kindcardine, shire, Scotland, Nov. 23, 174 amily came to C anada in 18 settled on what is now the fourth | ronecession of Ontoabee township, Peterboro county, David married Jane Beckett in 1825, rude home on the 100 aeres { mediately north of his fs a1'y. Sixteen years of pioneer farming | convinced David Fife of the nead Sample each free dares C 1 ana- | of a variety of whe: mn a Depo 3. T. ait Limited, Montreal BO Caticars superior to the grain thes n in == in John Fit who were Perth- The 2 0 Stick 25e. |g here, Resistance rust was to special quality he sought. So, when the | | gold | time, championships were held in Octo- | department and | adjunct of the Bast Peterboro was | | David And it is worth | his teacher in the distribution of { ances- | tral farm Donald David Fife plant- | County | A Fife had won with a Fife wheat | and | Donald David Fife seems to have | 1805, and | Tt | | pre and built a | im- § | Marquis | Red | tion of the a friend, William Struthers ' of (Glasgom, was leaving for Scotland after nearly a year's visit, David Fife asked him fo try and get some wheat arriving from other coun- tries, A vessel discharging at Glasgow a cargo of grain from Dantzic sup- piled Struthers with the samples he sent to David Fife in 1841, In the following spring this wheat was carfully planted on the Fife farm, but, as it ripened, only one variety appeared to be immune from rust. This was the first so-called Red Fife wheat sown in Canada or North America and only five heads of it weret ripening, One day an ox wandered into this precious plot, and cropped off two of the five ear of wheat before a daughter of the house ran out and chased the ani- mal away. . On such a gossamer of chance hung the splendid future of Can- ada which those three remaining ears of wheat were yet to produce, { They hung from the'ceiling of the kitchen until the spring of 1843,) when they were taken down and the grain gently loosened into the palm of David Fife's hand. One by one they were counted, and later they were dropped like pieces of into. the ground at seeding David Fife gave small quantities the prairies from the destiny of graezing lands. And all this wealth and empire once potentially de- pended from the ceiling of the little log cabin that has long since disappeared from the farm' where Donald David, the great grandson of David Fife, planted last spring his prize- winning Red Fife-bred Marquis, CANADA AND JAPAN ADVANCED IN 1867 AMBASSADOR SAYS 'L. Tokugawa, Japanese Min- ister to Ottawa, Compares Changes in Government (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ottawa, Feb, 6.-----~A fascin- ating pieture of old and new Japan was glvan by Hon, Iyemasa Toku- gawa, Japanese Minister to Can- ada, in an address to promote and maintain' good understanding, he declared. "Although by mere coin- cidences," © Mr. Tokugawa 'sald, of the wheat to neighbors after his first few years of anxious husban- dry, but David Henderson was the | first to buy a bushel, for which he | paid the current price of ordinary wheat, The progress and produc- tivity of Red Fife wheat are indi- cated by the fact that in the spring of 1849 Otonabee Agricultural Sos | clety bought 260 bushels to. dis. | tribute among its members rather han let it immediately pass from township. And jt is said of] Fife that he never soug tht | financial advantage from his wheat, | but sold it freely at the ordinary market price, } Red Fife wheat, actually a Gali- clan variety, as Dr, William Soun- | ders of the Dominion Experimental | Farm discovered, was Introduced | into western Canada about 1883 | and for 26 years it was the leading, in fact the standard spring wheat | varies, in "the East as 'well as the Wes kt. "It wag the variety which came to be taken as the basis upon which adian official and commercial gradeg of wheat were established," IL." H., Newman, Domion | ist, Ottawa. in a recent pam- shlet d<sued by thé Department of | Agriculture "Thus the original 3 required that, in each case, » must be a certain minimum | centage of Red Fife present. | of further interest to note that tically all of our leading spring | wheat varleties in Canada today are more or *.83 closely related to | Red Fir There Garnet and From 1862 until 1968 when wheat reached the West Fi was 1 1% the founda- d Tatle |] | | varieties include Marquis, Reward aelaimed | WORTH WHILE SAVINGS For WEEK -END §HOPPERS ROAST BEEF Chuck Roast 1b.20¢ Blade Roast 1b.25¢ Wing Roast ib. 34¢ Round Roast 1b.28¢ © Amato COTTAGE BRAND FINE CREAMERY Excellent Value bs sic Buatter 2s COFFEE sie Poe mene 1b, 39 LUX smanpkg. 3 for £45¢ California Prunes 2 = 21¢ Jamaica Snaps 21bs.21c P0040 000000 00000005, RegularLowPriceltems Post Toasties .........upkg 10¢ Vitonle (health drink) 1%. ... 54c Chocolates--Country Club-- 3 1b. box 99¢ Aylmer Fancy Crosby Corn, 2s. 15¢ Millionaire Sardines. «oes tin 16¢ Young Ontario LEG « « Ib. 34¢ LOIN DOMESTIC | or EASIFIRST 2 1b. 3 1b. 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(1) An as- sembly shall be formed and all af- fairs of state to be decided by im- perial® deliberation, (2) All ministrative measures shall be con ducted by co-operative efforts the governing and the governed (3) All the people shall be Efren opportunity of satisfyin~ their gitimate desires, (4) All absured usages shall be abandoned and justice and righteousness shall re gulate all actions. (5) Knowledge { and learning shall he sought all over the world and the foundati of the empire be firmly establish fed." | Then Mr. Tokugawa enumerated various reforms which were car | ried out in quicl edsion, an« crcumetances in whilch the constitu tion of the Emperor, and the mties with reign powers were revised so abolish extraterritoriality 'cover tariff autonomy, The Japaness Minister explai ' to what all those reforms in intiomnl life of Japan wert and why such a program wa ible in comparative time, "The primary ndamental cause was the v, the determination, and the nurage of Emperor Meijl, support- d by unceasing and arts of his counsellors, and by the trong and unqualified aspiration of his loval gubjects. 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"At first, Japan's . intercourse with foreign countries did not go beyond Corea and China, though there were some exceptional in- | stances of interchange of visits be- | tween Japan and Europe. It in the beginning of the tury that the Portuguese, Span- nigh, Dutch and British traders be- gan to frequent our shores. They were followed by Jesuit 'Fathers. was | 16th cen- | and Christianity began to spread | steadily in Japan. Toward the end | of that century, however, the acti- | vities of Spanish aroused suspicton-of political -mo- tives, In the heginning of the 17th century, the spreading of Christ- missionaries | ianity was prohibited and in the | end trade with European countries was forbidden with the exception of the Dutch, who were allowed to live in Nagasaki, An American his- torian writes, 'The shell-fish had resolved to gugrd itself against | the fishermen's net spread eastern sea shell tothe outside world.' "'Sinee this expulsion of 'toreigd- ers and prohibition: of foreign trade, Japan's door was closed to foreign intercourse, until about over | by closing tight its | the: beginning of the 19th century, | European and American ships be- | gan again to appear in Japanese | waters, and finally in '1863. and envoy ¢me again-the U.S, to Japan to 'ask. her to trade, and the first commercial treaty hetween those two countries, as I have already told you in 1854, "This policy of seclusion cer- tainly delayed the introduction of ~ " Japan- was proc laime® hy as short | and the most | sagi- | | emamine | told you, though very briefly, that the way was being paved, gradu- ally but not steadily, long before the actual abolition of the feudal system, to the reception of the western civilization on a broad basis, Before the curtain rose in 1867, the stage had adready been prepared and a suitable backgrond set up for the great drama of the making of young Japan, "Some of you may have expect- ed to hear from me more about old Japan, It is trne that old Japan presents a series of narratives of absorbing Interest, if they are pro- perly told; but you will under stand that I have had to be very brief on all points, The main point I wanted tor make clear today wag that' after all that old Japan was not in the least an obscure. and backward existence, while the young Japan is no mere upstart suddenly rising from insignificance, Japan has the tradition and the pride of an old nation and has vigor and the energy of a young. Here lies again a resemblance be- tween Canada and Japan---Canada, | a young nation with vigor and en- ergy, having behind her the time honored traditions of the old great races, 80 Jet me remind you once mpre of the happy future in store for both of us--a friendly co-oper- ation between the two countries { for the greater good of humanity." Christies Graham Wafers Edward Tapp, 92, oldest resis in the new pound package, are the same delightful fresh, crisp Graham Wafers you have always liked best. Excellent for children. enthusiasm for reading and walking. : | into Japan, | access to the | altogether Japan i duting the | the intel- | Japanese! foreign in- ad civilization an ear,y western fluence would beneficial to for western in have been open: to que 200 venr Iusion, lectual cul » of the people, undisturbed by tarference, made a marked tion, Also sold in bulk. ye overlooked, at | that the learning | s not entirely neg- 18th century, ! allowed to | and Dutch the sam of the We lected, Even in the Japan« tudents tudy from Dutch book teaches in Nagasal This pro- | duced ) Japane holars | of gcience and | uage, and these were really tho forerun- | Lg progressive reformers | tablishment ot | 'This is latest portrait of Prince ible in later | George, youngest son of the King : {and Queen~--Photo by Dorothy Ww , London, ee ee | Christies Biscuits ftandard of 2ualily ince 1653 were of different branche the Dutch Jan seliold ners of have All the Thrills of Rag of Arar R Kenr SCREEN-GRID RADIO SPORTS The year's best radio entertainment is just ahead of you! 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