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The Acton Press Wednosday Mar 1931 Georgetown cubs Joey Scott Corcoran and cubs Sean McDonald and Sean try to per Clarice to cat some hay at the Cub resource day Saturday Clarice was one of the many activities which kept the boys busy at the annual event Daughters of Knox Australian student guest speaker Spring is sprung the grass is I wonder where the Iambics is The lambles are piled high on Don farm north of Rockwood The Delaportc barn is wall towall lambs at this time of year of them Not to mamas and several tired rams Don is not your average everyday sheep When Don attends a midnight lambing he wears a miner helmet lamp Instead of wielding a flashlight Don is partner in a com of mining engineers Hill and He and his wife Joan have lived all over much of the nation including the Yukon and the Northwest Territories producing five children in different provinces Don didn settle in farming until sit years ago when he purchased his Fifth Line acre homestead He says he from a farming background He originally intended to cash crop his place filling the barns with feeder cattle He has a theory that barns go to pot rapidly If they re not used White chasing after a herd of cattle due to bo sold by auction he suddenly found himself the proud owner of lOewcs Before he could blink the ewes gave birth to lambs and Don was amazed at the of it all Hcwashookedon sheep Rapid expansion followed Don bought another herd and had himself sheep two farms pack of problems between two farms even if they were close together took some of the fun out of sheep farming the a farm and a hundred sheep I found I could handle 3M sheep on this pi act after I built the silo Don comments silo enables him to feed tons of per year Lambing Is pretty well behind the now A few late lambs are expected by end of month With ewes this year a lamb crop of is airly low Twins and triplets are usually encouraged by most farmers Don explains he had a large amount of big single birth lambs this year but is not unduly con He prefers fewer lambs and discourages recent popular practices of breeding for triplets and quads Fewer Iambs mean less work healthier youngsters and faster growth During lambing Don is up every three hours at night checking the ewes assisting those having trouble with labor and providing the preventive care so necessary for newborns Wool Is cheap Sheep are also shorn In the spring relieving them of their heavy fleeces Don a sheep arc half Suffolk a quarter Leicester and a quarter Dorset He also has some breeding from his first herd of Corriedntes Fleeces weigh In the neighborhood seven pounds and sell for cents a pound Although wool is a of the sheep business Don says wool prices have nowhere to go but up With most of world fabrics now synthetic and made from petroleum biproducts Don feels wool is in a growing mai ket He agrees that new wool fibres made more versatile shrink proof and lighter by research are becoming popular However the sheep farmer makes his income from meat and most lambs are sold for this pur pose The current market price is a pound for lamb so it easy to see why sheep farmers feel they don receive enough for their product However Don says lamb Is the upandcoming meat of the Sheep dress out at a higher percentage of meat and have a much lower rate of cholesterol than meats Don ex He cats his own lamb and loves the meat arbequod Don doesn I think he stay in sheep for long Help Is his biggest problem He still works as a consultant fur his company and needs good farm help one full time and several seasonal workers But good help is very hard to find Don says He d like to find someone who run the farm on rental basis hut so for t any takers Until such time as Don quits sheep farming ho enjoys walking through his barns pointing out favourites picking up a Iamb for a cuddle and talking to the cats The regular meeting the Daughters of was held on Monday March 2 President Kae Hansen was In the chair and opened the meeting with a reading I am the Way Living For Jesus was sung and the club mottoes repeated Several guests were welcomed by the president In the absence of the recording secretary Gladys Price the minutes of the last meeting were read by Jane Robertson The roll call was answered with a craft item for the craft sale next Tall The treasurer report was given by Pink Several Items of business were discussed Leathertown and it was announced that the next Brampton meeting would be held on March The meeting was then turned over to and her group who conducted the worship portion Mrs Mathleson opened with prayer and the scripture lesson was read by Von Fleet Jane Robertson read the Meditation hymn I am Trusting Thee Lord Jesus was then sung Psalm was read by Mary The of was received and the offertory prayer given by Faye Pink The hymn Love Divine all loves excelling was sung and the closing Hansen then in troduced the speaker of the evening Miss Jen a Rotary Club exchange student from Alexandra Australia Jennifer gave us a most interesting slide show of Australian scenes and in her common told us many facts about the way of life In country At the end of her slide presentation Jennifer played a piano solo- Waltzing Mali Ida Vivan Swallow expressed the thanks of the Daughters of Knox to Miss Refreshments then served and an hour of fellowship enjoyed History committee meets this Sunday set up in store windows similar to the Actario display at Family Cleaners downtown shop Several long time residents have volunteered to work with Rankin on the committee as well as Hal ton Hills councillor and noted historian John McDonald While the committee now has a few members more helpers are needed not for committee work but to provide facts and memories about Actons leather industry People attending the meeting on March 15 won be drafted for committee work only asked to share their knowledge The next steering committee and public meeting will be held March IB also at North American Piggyback The first meeting of the committee researching the history of the industry in will be held this Sunday at at North American Piggyback Mill St West The public is invited to this meeting Headed by Donald Rankin this committee will research the leather history of Acton and advise the com which will soon be set up to design the permanent walking history lour of the town regarding points of interest the text for plaques which will be on around Acton contents of exhibits and displays which will be set up and the information for a planned booklet for tourists and school trips visiting It Is hoped once research is completed a couple of displays can be Monte Carlo night to aid Leathertown Considerable funds will be needed to promote Leathertown to its fullest as well as develop the permanent walking history tour The Acton Chamber of Commerce has come up with a fun way to raise funds for AMonte Carlo night A committee of Chamber members with experience in staging such events has been assembled and they picked April as the month to hold the Monte Carlo night at the rink The Chamber will be holding projects to raise funds for all year too Plans for the Monte Carlo night haven I been nailed down but it Is hoped they have significant door prizes lotsofgimes a disc jockey and the event will be licenced We want to put on a good big bash Chamber head John Allinson said Leathertown slogan contest Now that Leathertown has a logo the steering committee is appealing to the public and schools to come up with a motto or slogan Leathertown chairman Chip announced last week the committee hopes to have Leather own logo promotional material distributed to local schools to encourage children to come up with a motto or slogan Dog alerts family An Improperly placed smoke detector was use less when fire broke out in Ihc bedroom of a Sixth Line Limehousc home Friday The family dog a beagle alerted Mr and Mrs BcnShcppardofthe fire in their home Tire Prevention Officer Larry Brassard sold the bedroom fire re sulted in an estimated damage Adults in the com mumty arc also asked to come up with and slogans Details of a contest with prizes will be an sometime in the next few weeks