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1hursday july jbwl 1m4 the acton free press acton ontario page seven chronicles ginger farm written specially for the acton free press by gwendoline p clarke montreal op a phantom mil ay the lachtne jacques carticr id malsonneuvi has folded ttr nn existence of 45 years on paper the company 3 history rocs bock to 1909 when the grand trunk railway obtained a charter for a branch line for access to thi malsonneuvi industrial district 111 montreal east the line was to 01 built from suburban lnchine time extension for its contsruction was granted 111 1911 and others succcs sively in 1914 1917 and 1919 u j i 1 rf j i following the first world war minutes had it ue fedfetaf government took over we had a shower of rain this morning it lasted for exactly five i hours wi wbutdhave been better i pleased it must be at least a month since we had a real ram every j thing is looking brown and shrivel ed grass shrubs plants gardens yes and even the weeers however in spite of the dry weather we had our first picking of green peas today and they sweet and tender as could be how they mimged to pod and fill 111 never know i notice on many farms wheat has been cut and stoo ked which will be a great relief to the owners after a prolonged dry spell there is always that fear that a storm will bl w up ind flatten whtat bef re it is tut and e is noth ng more discouraging farmer things- orm fhttened i field of fcnin maybe we ar wrong but partner and i hove i feeling thit farimr have fai they had in years gone by far mure dry weather lick of help more expensive michmery fertilizer lo buy rcgulat ons for this and th it and with it all the price of wheil so low in compinson with the cost of productu n small wonder that so manj farmers sell out when a good offer comes along for their property but have you noticed there are young and middle aged farmers selling out than older people those who are young enough to work out take a chance but the older man hangs on to what he has got if he can sometimes he has little choice as for instance if his land is needed is part of a new road or the st lawrence seaway he may put up some opposition but the final result is always the same it was the same when the railroads were bung built i was told one i time of a man who said they would never lay track across his farm no sir sure enough when work gangs finally appeared i this ild fellow went after them n axe how the differences i were settled i don t know but i jdo know that the track was laid well i really believe partner i feels like a schoolboy on holiday t loast for i day or two our hay all in the barn and of course of it got wet how could if since we finished haying two cows have freshened so now if partner has less work in one way he has more in another and that s the way it goes but we certainly needed those cows to come in dry pastures do little to increase the milk flow hot dry weather is also hard on the hens by the way i don t think i ever i told you about our little small hen this is what happened phantom railway now written off number of rail syste h subsequently became the canadian national railways in eluding the grand truck and the canadian northern as the cana northern already had a lint the maisonneuve develop menl and the main terminal th proposed lachim jacques cartier and malsonneuvi was no longer re quired the phantom railwa howevir corporate body until recently with the streamlining cf he c rporatc slructurt ol the cnr t has lost its official identity crated bronze bell stumps historians st johns nfld icp hislorun win slumped i11 re reuritly whti cirpmurs repairing thi old c urt house found a big bronze bill still crated in the roof one man who workid in thi building for 34 years didn t know what to make of the wholi thing and ncilher did somi 20 othir men questioned by the carpenter finally a department or works engineer came up with the answir a clock in the buildings tower used to ring he said until one day the striking mechanism fell through the roof into the sheriffs office so it was recrated and put ifack the roof that was about 15 clown by emmett kelly with f beverly like a circus here is n book trials a circus on paper if ou saw the moving picture the greatest show on earth m ve seen emmett kelly one of the best known of clowns his sad face and tattered molhcs arc his trademark clown is history beginning with his childhood on a farm in kansas he fell in love with the music and and color of a circus parade and left home for the city he worked for a while as a cartoonist and incident al v met another cartoonist walt disney whin hi joined a circus troupe he doubled as clown and tra peze artist it was later that he adapted one of his favorite cartoon characters thi unhappy hobo to his ow n make up for circus perform ances hi proposed to his first wife on a canadnn firris wheel his tame in thi circus tint spread and he play id alt oir america ind europe now nl r lit has reached the big tirm of lh bie top a featured ihwn with ringlmg bros and bar- num uid bnik combined shows inc the urcus is t plice where al most anvtluiik can happm kelly wc mil ibout train wrecks affairs fire tr lining tents blowing down nil the dingers and lutint ccurrnces of thi business clown has a good stock of photo graphs from the first showing killy it the aje of three to the last as he looks todav including pictures of two sons most of them are in make up ind his endearing look of tupidity is as evident in still pic tures as in person on the sawdust of the tent floor there are also a scries of delight ful drawings one morning about six weeks ago i was looking out of the livingroom window and out in the front garden something moving about among the shrubs i kept watching nd presently i saw it was a hin well now how did you get there wondered 1 asked partner if had left thi door open in the hinpen or if there was a broken window any when the answir was no and why thin 1 nalizid the hen i had was red and our own wire black and red the mystery deep it couldn t be a stray from a neighboring farm as neighbors has red hens thtre was only one sohilion the hen mut have escaped from a chickm dealers truck and come in from the road the hen stayed in the shil ter of the shrubs all day night we caught her and put her with the other biddies she settled down quite happily in ho new quarters until the time came for her to start laying again did she use a nest box like the other hens oh no nothing so common for this hen she gets over the top of a partition that separates thi henpen from the granary once the granary she makes a nice cosy nest for herself lays an egg and then gets back to the henpen the same way as she left it that has been going on now weeks sometimes she scratches around in the barn for awhile and she could escape altogether if she wanted to but no every day our little nd hen goes back to the pen quite of her own accord quite a personality our biddj now i should tell you ibout mitchic white remember he had one leg almost severed by the r last year wc wondered if tht same thing would happen this year as long as the long standing hay was milchu s favourite hunt ing ground however pirtner was on the watch and on his first round he aw a white streak tearing down the f eld like mad along by the fence we didn t need to worry any more m tchie and ihe mowtr were never again in the field at the sime time but once the mower and tractor were back n the sfitd mitchie came out of hiding and spent ihe w hole evening hunting am d the new mown hay well i hear the dogs barking that means bob and joy have arned for supper expert cooks test tempting recipes by peggy tbemaa canadian preaa staff writer ottawa icpt how should a huge raw beef tongue be cooked delectable dish for the family what is the best way to prepare asparagus stack in a saucipan like cord wood or tie in a sheif and stand upright in the pot does iodized salt really turn pickles into a soggy mass these are the type of questions home economists m the consumer siction of the agricultural depart ment try to answer in their test kitchens purpose of canada s k tchen as it is called is to encourage the use of canadian food products the economists concoct and test new and tempting recipes aimed at en couraging the housewife to use more homegrown products they also issue helpful hints on the best way to cook various foods and at the moment are working on the asparagus and iodized salt problems the last word the test kitchens are the last word in streahned convenience and the amy of equipment would turn any housewife green w ith envy they have big refrigerators deep freeze electric stoves and vast quantities of cupboard space since 1950 the consumer sections kitchen has grown from a small one to three thus permitting a variety of tests to be made the main pro- jt cts are meats and vegetable cookery the idea is to collect as many recipes as possible and try them out a tasti panel rates the food for color flavor texture and decide which is the best this is a pleasant job when the kitchens for instance are working on rhubarb sherbet a cool summer dessert but there are disadvantages at one time the kitchens engaged in prol nged research into potatoes for thru weeks the tasters swal lowed potatoes n innumerable dif ferent forms and without salt or butter no fm1ng saicer summerside pei rcp citizens kepi close watch on a strange sphere like object that hovered several hours ovir this prince edward island town and an rcaf plane was smt to investigate it was a united states wiathir obseravation balloon gome on in hhaujafabfine enjoy the healthful outdoor vacation activities at one of k ontarios popular resorts 3 k and a restful bus trip there j y fy and bacl v wasaga beach 705 collingwood 765 midland 775 round tup by bus v harold wiles agent