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10 The Acton Free Proas Wednesday Jan 1978 Angus McEachem is real oldtime farmer by Jennifer Barr with a half million dollars Most of them are older men Just such a farmer Is Angus had a string of colts nobody travel the same route cutting Are there any real oldtime Invested in machinery and and women Hearing retire- whose family has got around to selling Mrs wood far stoves and furnaces farmers left in this most real estate But the small without massive lived on their RR farm since McEachem recalls many a Sometimes I sawed wood progressive semisuburb of farmer who has time to smell mortgages People who have thelB40s The hundred acre time the neighbours would be for six weeks at a time Canada largest metropolis the flowers farm situated on the Fifth treated to the sight of old With all this Not the food factory farmer Fortunately there are who have gained a wisdom of Highway Polly ambling down the road McEachem still had his With members of the Steam weir eagerness to have a Club Mr travels head rubbing or the herd working producer more than you may think from it doesn t look like a food for a visit trailing her family chores to do feeding stock factory small farm of colts the weanling the and milking the Ho I steins for house sports a new white yearling the twoyearold his cream contract siding coat and an old sum and During the bummer he kitchen The bam is a If I was younger I made hay until threshing weathered compact cattle be feeding cattle Id lime rolled around In late byre with more alleyways love to have a good mare July than stalls The garage muses Mr steam club member probably used to shelter a quite a bit and visits steam shows He been to the old country Scotland twice the States and Manitoba He says he likes to travel Is there a futureT And t know whats to become of farmers Truckers are getting I all the wood stove Mrs McEachem bakes on and the combination oil and wood fur Angus Is so proud of The shed and basement are lined with neatly stacked split logs but Mr McEachem can hire a man to help him cut it Things are terrible out or balance when you have your own heat and can t afford to use it But things all bad when three farms in a row are still owned by the families Model T and the wee house out back lists to the right And it t feel like a thresher Not only was Mr McEachem a full time far but he was also a custom food factory The animals are have tea by the wood stove threshing the grain farmers had cut looked harvested and stored in their barns McEachem old his overalls and favourite steam thresher and chair letting the conservation threshed grain for a now over him until the sub- of six or seven miles ject of his cattle Is broached year taking five or six Oh they re all pets he months to do it grins his face lighting up and Some times we were still with a glow belying hlB7Hdd threshing at Christmas he There too many of remembers loves the memory of his steam engine In fact he a member of the Steam Club in Milton and his nephew Ron s iho proud restorer of several steam engines but his first love Is the steam engines and fine draft horse J Z of years gone by two before the farmer can do nun me lammes J Land out of the whosettledthem ffJrwii now is W to the are the century fflrm8 Vet his cattle don I know changed hands round here in Bruce Lcitch that They show him the years and used for far It s wonderful how three affection they always have families could slay so long They recognize a patient Mr also has neighbours says Angus caring farmer who loves trouble getting help to fill his the man who has them like children and they woodshed fall and spring It been a real farmer alt his show it their quiet lowing takes a heap of wood to fire life and always will be THE ALLEN COW a special friend of Angus McEachem has produced calves for many years A Holstetn Hereford cross the cow is the best stock cow he ever had claims Mr The Acton farmer has farmed his century farm all his life MP Frank Philbrook Key issues in to Olfcc it could remain a Asked what effect his stand of some of our democratic branch of government It against the government cuts ways according to Liberal could become a crown cor on transit would have MP Frank In a re- porn or the whole works on a possible promotion Phil cent interview Philbrook said be turned to brook said he really dldnt that wage and price controls vate enterprise know noted the danger April but could be lurning to private mentedonceagainif business and organ zed labor do not act responsibly claimed that the decontrol period will be in force controls are lifted and It isn t certain how long that period will lost With or without controls though the government will be monitor Ing price increases and sal settlements in order to keep tabs on the rate of tion in the country prise would be facing a lower level of service or no service at all in some areas of the country now who would take on all the problems the debt and the unions According to by making the Post Office a crown corporation it would tidy up the operation At the riding level Phi Referring to the recent scandal involving the Mount noted the general reaction seems to be that Individuals He talks of the Allen cow a he bought at a sale some seven years ago 1 had her home a week and she gave me the prettiest little Hereford heifer you ever saw She looked straight Hereford never had a black calf best stock cow I ever had Mr McEachem still has that cow and most of her off spring He now has 33 head of mixed Hereford cattle of which will have to go to mar kct by spring so Mr McEachem can keep the herd within limits Cattle are the only livestock on the farm these days but Mary McEachem Angus sister in law who keeps house for him remembers days when the farm boasted some fine Pcrcheron horses 12 There hardly a house locally he hasn t slept in or eaten at adds Mrs McEachem For a half a day or perhaps three dayi Mr McEachem stayed with each family eating the huge meals laid out on plank tables He loved his George White outfit of a 1921 engine and separator ten years younger He still has the separator but the big old steam engine has been sold probably for scrap says McEachem Change to gas He changed to gas powered thresher In but likes the steam much better He had to go to gasoline He says too many barns burned down and farmers blamed the sparks from the wood fired steam engine uel cost McEachem anything in those days because the farmer always BACK TO THE GOOD old days when threshing was done by steam engine Angus McEachern used this George White thresher and separator for custom threshing in when his picture was taken at Crewsons Corners on the farm of Alec Angus and his brother John ran the year old engine until 1938 when a gasoline machine took over milk cows pigs and had a pile of wood for him to chickens use m inuiviiiiiais Every one of those animals And some of it wasn was a pet always the best saiESsiSs force should be aged to do their job Philbrook noted will to be a problem during this year The government has Just chickens under their arms for cuddles Mr McEachem s favorite dog rode the tractor with him in all weather Polly the more with the gasoline changeover the thresher had to provide his own fuel When threshing was done Angus McEachem would pick up his old circular saw and Philbrook says he feels con trols should have started to Commission problems come off in the fall but I being key problems for Hal How people behave when ton people they do come off goodness balked at the brook sees public transit and reached a point where Unemployment Insurance it c pe any more to knows But if they don t responsibly there is the possibility they come back harder than ever perhaps even in the form of a freeze I hope not but there is thai possibility The MP said the economy is now and is likely to be the main issue for the federal government during He explained the unity issue has taken a second place to the economy but at some point the unily issue win be brought to the forefront Looking at the economic situation on a world wide basis Philbrook explained Canada will have to take an active role in assuring the gap between the have and have not countries in the world spread too far apart Just as the country will have to provide aid for poorer parts of Canada similar aid will have to be found for poorer nations According to the Post Office has become a big irritant for Canadians Phil brook said there are three ways to go with the Post If you own a van dont chances I You need a superior muffler government stand on urban transit last year and after a number of Liberal back benchers supported stand funds released provide jobs but rather de pend on private enterprise to provide the jobs Philbrook indicated that the predictions of some ex perls would sec the number of jobs outstrip the number of people able to work by the early 1980s Missed Your Free Press Please Let Us Know Our carriers do their best to give fast courteous service but mistakes 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