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the georgetown herald wednesday may i oth 1944 the georgetown herald news op georgetown norval glen williams limeiiouse btewarttown asiigbove ballinafad hornby terra cotta acton brampton milton subscription rates canada united sates ana overseas 2 00 a year single copies 5c advertising rates will be quoted on application telephone n 8 walter t biehn publuhei gar held l mccilvray mary h biehn editor j bolia memocj j the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec division of the cwna theyre putting vtdvory first the editors corner milkweed looming in importance through the cooperation of the public school children in georgetown halton county and through out the province thousands of pounds of dried milk- week leave have been gathered and sent to the national research council for large scale investigations on the extraction and application of milkweed rubbergum the leaves have been supplied to a pilot plant which is a miniature of a large industrial factory this plant is now turning out twentyfive pounds of milk weed gum daily the gum is being forwarded cana dian rubber companies for large scale blending tests results of these tests should be available in the near future and will determine whether or not milkweed rubbergum will have a place in the synthetic rubber industry we were interested to read of the many possible uses for the milkweed plant the gum may be used in the manufacture of chewing gum already the floss is being used in the united states as a substitute for kapok for filling lifebelts the fibre in the stalks can be made into paper the seeds produce a valuable oil and the roots have medicinal value it is quite within the realms of possibility that a commercial demand for milkweed products may be created in canada when the lowly weed will assume an importance we would never have believed possible selfreliant small towns many smalltown weekly newspapers report that local organizations have set up postwar commit tees these committees try to find out how many jobs ymw be available for the boys when they get out of uniform so far it has been noticed few small towns are proposing that local problems be settled by having the dominion and provincial governments spend money locally to provide jobs perhaps the small towns realize they havent the political influence to exert sufficient pressure on ottawa and provincial capitals this is in pleasant contrast to the great cities where there are organizations which are asking or in tend to ask that the dominion come forward and help in a big way the bigger and richer these big cities are the more certain they are that the taxpayers in smaller places should help them out the printed word extra rations fortextrahfarm help extra rations of food for the extra farm help engaged seasonally in all parts of canada will be pro vided this year on the basis of a limit of five meals per person per day the canadian federation of agriculture has been advised this means that any farm household in canada engaging seasonal help for such work as threshing silo filling woodcutting etc will be able to make applica tion for extra rations for these crews up to a limit of five meals for each member of the crews if five meals are being served each day this rule was in effect last year but only in a comparatively small number of cases was it utilized to the limit application forms for he extra ra tions will bear a statement this year to the effect that rations may be applied for up to five meals a day per person if required ration administration officials believe that this extra allowance will enable farm homes to meet their needs for most rationed foods for the extra gangs how ever they also point out that sugar is still a scarce com modity and no further concessions can be made in this respect pertaining to the horsepower situation transportation via horsepower has been coming back into the limelight again since trrewar has limited cardriving to an essential minimum but it seems that even as car owners have difficulty in getting tires so horse owners in some localities are having dif ficulty in getting horseshoes often a blacksmith has to be taken to the outlying districts where there is no local smithy to fit shoes on horses many weekly news paper that come to this offwenave commented on this huatiop and also speculated on what will happen when tttpfment generation of horse shoers is gone appa- r there are no apprentices to the trade newmarket and orillia are both down on the weet 0 to speak as each place is using up its last re- f uacksmith so the local editors are doing some orillias only blacksmith has just died and in lor away places the men ol ca nada keep canada in their minds fa miliar names from heme are not in frequent along the tough steep road of the italian campaign and here in characteristic fashion an italian rout intersection displays a name well- known to rural ontaiioans olapplson s corner is familiar to all who live in the torontohamilton district the picture shows lloyd moore cbc engineer rtert and mat thew halton famous war correspon dent standing with the cbc mobile unit number four at clappteons cor ner five miles from ortona note the blacked out section a cen sors cut just under the beaver club sign on che left hand side at the picture as we see it by j a strang it would be interesting to tnov why some of the air mall letters from oereas come through so quickly while others of the same kind are so slow recentl we had a letter ritun on a wednesday arrive here the following monday and llthen shortly after that we had another blue air mail that ft as posted april 9th arrie here on ma the 3rd you will notice uiat all letter are cen- red now also ind that must take time and we would naturall think might ulso cause a uruin unuunt of delay now iter the seem to be getting through verj wtll considering etr- thing hie bovs find it dlmctill lo fill their letters ivjw as the art allowed to tell m little these important das so far tliq ltilmir han t diluted a single word troin aiij of the letters that we have receed to date a klcent letter recched from the north land they were telling us about the run of tap up then this season the run was not aa heavy as it usually is however the quality was above the average how much sap does it take to make a gallon of rup maybe we should label this one the sixty four dollar question any way the answer is forty gallons what would you have answered to that one there mut have been a great amount of work done last week it was a real week for gardening and cleaning up wasn t it funny how the work seems to pile up all at once as soon as the weather is favor able lsn t it during the previous weeks it seemed as though we were just marking time and then all at once the weather man turned the heat trfcfltfdl kind awaited ou attention we have mentioned the long awaited warm spring rain and we are still waiting for it as we write these lines the outlook for a crop is better than it was thli time last year right now but we do need that warm rain out west they have had it too dry altogether and the outlook is discouraging for a bumper crop of this year we understand that they are doing away with the quota j system in regard to wheat growing from now on so there will be no mow paying the growers to not grow grain any more the wheat surplus seems to be fading and if it should happen that this years crop is below the aver age there might be quite a shortage of wheat we never could see the sense of paying so much for not grow ing wheat the more the grower dldn t grow the more money he got as a sub- idy it just didnt make sense it has been several years since the land worked up as nicely as it does this spring and it is so easy to work as well last year the heavy rains had it pounded solid and it was difficult to get any mulch as top soil at all this year the story is so different and with very little working we are able to get a nice deep seed bed however we understand that on real heavy land the men are unable to get on the land yet as it la too wet tor working tiie worst of it is that the season is getting along and is later than usual now aa a general rule the later sown grain isnt as good a crop as is the earlier sown however this rule doesnt always apply the potato situation has has about faced from last fall you will recall that the potatoes were never too plentiful all winter and some stock was wld that was be low par in quality it seems that the celling price on potatoes was jacked up a little each month all winter with the top price listed for the month of april naturally potatoes were held for that top price and this meant that potatoes were so scarce during the winter months that one hundred and fifty cars were imported from the fetate of maine in the usa however when april rolled around there were more potatoes offered for sale than there was demand for and now the growers that held on to their stock find uiat they will have to use those potatoes for pig feed the price offered even at digging time last fall was a very fair prlce and as a result there is very little sympathy being handed out to those growers that are really left holding the bag so to speak many fine records made by local holsteins the largest record performance teat completed by a halton county hoi- steln during the past month was that of mona rag apple plebe owned by fouryearold she gave 15891 lbs milk containing 016 lbs butterfat in 365 days on twlceaday milking close behind her in the same class was fordholm posch snow the property of emerson ford hornby with 607 lbs butterfat from 15051 lbs mil rose countess reecho from the herd of o tasker milton with 56 lbs butterfat from 15718 lbs milk and lesslytm swan lake rag apple owned by o perclval leslie oeorgetown with 568 lbs butterfat from 15064 lbs milk in the mature class of the twioe-a- day milking section of the yearly divi sion rose jemima countess the pro perty of o tasker made 550 lbs butterfat from 13354 lbs milk and se- gis prilly dixie from the emerson ford herd gave 551 lbs butterfat from 13873 lbs milk ashville rosena findeme twoyearold owned by p pelletterto milton finished with 491 lbs butterfat from 13483 lbs milk in the 305 day division reecho pon- town horses will have to be taken to the few remaining blacksmiths located in the suburbs if they are to be shod every six weeks as town horses should be at newmarket the editor of the era tells of a business man driving 28 miles there and back to van- dorf to get his horse shod the smithy knows the size of the shoe otherwise he might have to make more than one trip to get a new pair of shoes for his steed we noted some of the above comments in the stouffville tribune and the editor there is congratulat ing the town on having a good blacksmith on the job all the time as far as horseshoeing is concerned unfor tunately georgetown is classed in that group which has to repair to other centres when horses have to be shod the village of ballinafad about five miles out is the nearest place where this service may be had farmers who use their horses for transportation at this time have another axe to grind with regard to horse accommodation in georgetown we have no hitching posts or driving shed for them here however with the summer months ahead and all the winter gas ration saved up for use now the worst of that situation is over for this year uac countess still another member of the o tasker herd produced 568 lbs butterfat from w0 mm milk as a flveyearold walls tbe pelletterlo four- yearold aahrille margie dekbl gave 404 lbs butterfat from 13404 lbs milk and her threeyearold stablemate ashville nancy dekol made 444 lbs butterfat from 1206 lbs mok with evaporated muk coupons win be carried out gradually as priority users apply for new cards to replace thoss wfclob ban been exhausted restricted is include most of quebec and southern ontario together with urban ta in the western provinces new coupons fob t evaporated mqdlk new coupons for the purchase of evaporated milk in restsjeted areas throughout the dominion are about to make their appearance they will have the same values as those now in use m order to d between eva porated milk which is bought in res tricted areas and free areas the present a coupons are to be withdrawn from use in the former where they will be replaced by new coupons marked evaporated milk the o coupons will remain in use in unrestricted areas the replacement of o coupons the need is greatest now buv victory bonds directory f f r watson djjfl udb georgetown office hours 9 to fi thursday afternoons dr j burns milne dental j9ukqeon xkat georgetown pbone 80 dr clifford rfjd una dim dentist phooe 410 main street georgetown elmer c thompson insurance names o p railway and allied steamship suaoier kxoursionb phone llsw or j qeoetetown monuments afatutmfw aid ixttskdsq pollock a ingham osxer naatgna on tteqiwt wmua 3m8 our woes lerordale kc m 5 jail bennett ba kenneth m langdon banister bisshif notary hboc ptrst uartgage money to loan office gregory theatre bjdg mffl street c n r timetable daylight saving time goxno bast 701 am and man ltuo ajn and man 708 pro sunday onlyaal pjn dally 93d pjn this train was formerly oyer but nielsen the chiropractor drufiles therapist 31st tear of pmcttoe lady attendant hours 36 88 pja closed thursday ove dominion store oeorg rtone isow dr s e magwood veterinary burgeon phone 11 office be division court clerks office and the ifew municipal bufltttng at the ear ner of main and mm surest oakville monument work designs h good display of monuments en band tour patronage tru radio repairing we specialize in this work 18 tears experience j sanford son rbone craoboktxywn s4w frank petch licensed atfotf onebk prompt service phone 581 georgetown po bex us gray coach lines timetable now n i rmyllght saving time leave osorgktown pob toronto 7m am a44 pja 934 am 0j4 1m pjn b loa pjn for london r 10j0 un a tjf u ruoftm kuopj 4mpjd 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