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the acton free press acton ontario thursday april 29th 1954 farm news from haltons farm lands legvme cultures in strong demand the new form of legume cul tures no being prepared by the department of bacteriology at the ontario agnculural college are meeting with popular demand the demand at the milton oflficeofthe ontario department of agriculture has been keen during the past two or three week the legume cultures which an now in power form can be applied to the seed in a few moments and sell at the normal price of 25 cents per can which is sufficient to in oculate two bushels of seed in tin opinion of a goodlv percentage of hallon farmer these legume cul tures arc good insurance to secur ing a catch of small seeds inasmuch as only a limited quantity is stocked by the milton agricultural office those who have no already secured their re quirements would be well advised not to wait until the da when they are required 4 b acrtenlnnl clubs organised the court house milton was a veritable bee hive of young people on tuesday evening of last week it was organization night for hal tons three 4 h calf clubs and also hajton h grain club art ben nett associate agricultural repu sentatrve assisted by local club leaders had a busy evening some 76 young people between the ages of 12 and 20 inclusive signed up in one of the three calf clubs and 12 in the grain club kalherlne merry speaks a pleasing feature of the even ings program was an address by katherin merry miss merry who placed second in the estern ontario secondary schools speaking com petition took as her subject the meaning of the 4 h club emblem others who spoke brief in ad dttion to the popular art ben nett w ere a t w iodle chair man of halton s 4 h club leaders council and agricultural rcpre sentative j e whitelock the off cers f r the three cau clubs were js follows hahor 4h hoteuin calf club president rilph cunt i gham v n president tom huntir sccretar trasurer carole hunter hilton 4 h jere guernsey cilf club president mary lou alexin der vice preidtnt eleanor joe sec u g halton 4h bcif and dp c club prcsidrnt k mlr vice presidttl robt rt coxe si retard treisur r ew h n mckaj the organization meet ngs 1 the 4 h grain- club and th 4 h tmctor maintenance club will be held in the near futu thte thev visited various depart ments of the ontario agricultural college and mncdonald institute the members o fthe group were guests o fthe ontario agricultural college for lunch needless to add lhe returned home a tired bu hippy group halton janiar dairy herdsmen complete protect two jears ago sixteen halton i junior farmers enrolled in a new project known as a junior dairy herdsmen s project to date this is the only group organized in the province in short they acted as a guinea pig group to try out the idea during the two years the oung men attended 20 or mot meeting w here thej received lectures from some of the top stnlf of the onario department of agr culurc in guelph and toronto the ilo enjoyed a day at agri cultural and veterinarj colleges and visited at least one top diiry i farm in short they have received in struction from leading authorities on such subjects as feeds and feed mg animal breeding breeding pro blems and records stable renova tion milk houses disease prcven tion and control labour studies milk sanitation and others judging by the comments heard from those participating in eluding some of their fathers it has been one of he most w orthw hilc projects ever mtiated for senior junior farmers eleven of the young men completed this two year project the final session being held on fndaj evening last when prof art robertson of the frm ecnno mics branch at guelph discussed firm f nances with the joung men in recognition of thou- effort the young men will be guests of the ontario department of agriculture at a special dinner to be held at the ontario agricultural college guttph on maj 12th the oung ho successful h completed the course and who will thus be h nourtd ire gordon alton bur i ngton r r 1 clarence ford jr milton r r 4 sam harrop milton rr 5 don joce milton rr 5 colin marshall milton r r 4 don matthew- act n rr 2 fraser mcnabb gtorfcclown rr 2 john w picket hon b r r i r j fo junior hoaemakera visit macdonajd institute eight tw i of halton s 4 h jun ior homermkers travelled by bus to cuelph on fda last under the direction f mrs mabel borg storm horn economist assisted by locil leadirs the toured the plant of tht gutlph mtrcur follow ihj patricia ann beauty salon hair stylist all lines of beauty culture cloud all day monday for appointment phone 34t llbuchner optometrist in acton every wednesday afternoon offce at h mainprize barber shop hous i 30 t 00 vi lity an if for appointment telephone us somerville acton rr 2 john starkr milton rr 4 and fold wickson bronte rr 1 halton plowmen invited to the 1954 international plowing match is to b held in waterloo countj near brolnu this coming october the local match open to the plowmen of the host county nd immediate district is always held the da preceding the opening of the international halton county has received an invitation to participate in this outstanding event and at a meeting of the local plowmen s association held on friday evening last those present were unanimously in favour of halton county participating president spencer wilson and vice president geo reahead were nppointed as delegates to at tend t meeing in gait during the current week it is seldom that halton county is sufficiently close to the site of the international to participate in his special local counties match our readers can rest assured tht if the final de tails can be ironed out and halton mouldboard artists are declared eligible for the event they will win their share of the laurels at breslau next october meetings feature readings music intended for last week the april meeting of the w m s and w a of ebenozer was held at the home of mrs george ro bertson with mrs s trousdale in charge a lijmn was sung and prayer followed mrs w bewley led the devot ions on the subject esther mrs bljfth read the scripture lesson roll coll was esther mrs slum seng a sofo the old rugged cross mrs w early gave a reading and mrs a normh thi ntud book a hymn was sung to cloe the wms mism w rtfii w a mahon muting ind ok charge the eirtlary mrs m ad the minuus of march ards lettei from sick members a baking sale un the market was arranged and i committee to conduit the salt was appointed mrs a frank conducud thi programmfs- dunbar rvad 1st kings of the ntw version mrs frank gave an informative reading how the bible is building isratl the mertuig closed with jesus keep me near the cross and prayer by mrs frank mrs dun bar thanked mrs robertsoi the use of her home for scout ateaa tl i be f intended for last wteki the new akela of the cub pock murray scoyne was glad to welcome over 30 cubs nt the meet ing in the scout hall last thurs a about eight of them were former cubs and the rest were ill new ones he hopes there will b a good crowd again tonight last week was a get acquainted night and he led the boya n games and a sing song games and a nmp fin ton ght the akel i i ifra d that since there are few i 1 tdrs he iu have to limit tu pack to 24 boys until next fall it s a good idea to come and msrkt i iim ur nim n on his list the brownies held their regular meeting at the scout hall on monday april 12 ibm after the opening exercises mrs cook and sheila paul took the golden bar brownies nut to pass traffic rules peggy bradthau kept tht tervlerfoot brownie at th hill anffed a g me whn they kl back to the scout hall wt cirried on with test work for about 15 minutes then the bkowmcs coted the meeting by singing taps he kingsize roar of 54 giant all laugh show 3 fun days thursday april 29th y6m wanted acton district we t i re proprt es n your s r we hive cl ents for f acreages phone he mills son real estate brampton 267m2 it no 3 stimtsvilh so delltioo as yoi ivof cvniel h itke the 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