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champion piowmen to the brttlib lata u many tenmar and sweden newquay cornwall u la after midnight and we have little time to apare if thla letter la to catch the ovaraaaa plan and our deadline in canada we have just come from the ban quet of the wert of fngland cham pionship plowing match which was held a few miles from here today the banquet ended in a personal triumph for gtrne timbers our ib- year old champion horse plowman from muliken ont he csrved on- other notch in his plow shaft by winning the open class for under sla in today tourney the winners were announced toward the end of the banquet which was attended by omc aso plowmen and west of england farmers the match at ncwlyn east was held under ideal conditional the weather wai apringllke and the ground good it attracted a large entry por the moment that is all on our first venture into competitions on this side of the atlantic thla year we are now all looking forward to the in terns t innnl match at belfast next month 1 will tell you more about today exciting events in my next letter ip ihe meantime i want to bring you uptodate on the rest of our tour of europe in my last letter i promised to tell you about the two vastly dif ferent farms e visited in denmark we i should explain arc eugene norman tyndall the champion trac tor plowman and myself john car roll our visit to these farms was for all of us the agricultural highlight of the danish lour the farms wire more than ordinarily interesting be cause they tended toshow both ends of the scale in danish agriculture of the 211000 farm holdings in denmark about half arc from one and a half to 25 acres in size and only another 4 500 are of 100 acres or more the balance varies betwetn 25 acres to 100 acres there is very little bush or wasteland so that in most cases the total area is arable doth farms wc sited wore aloc the average size the firt was owned by on ex tremely wellto do couple mr alid mrs p borge kastberg their es tate ran to just over 1500 acres val ued at between 300 to 400 an acre or something near half a million dollars despite his wealth and the sie of his farm mr kastberg is not an absentee farmer by any means not once did he call upon his agent or foreman to answer questions but enthusiastically explained the farm pperatlons to us there was no doubt who was the active master of the kastberg farm mr katabcrg has almost complete ly mechanized his farm his elab orate horse stables now houc only two animals one a shetland pony his prewar 32 draft anmas have been replaced by five tractors and three selfpropelled combine other machinery on the farm includes the latest equipment in sugar beet far ming and elevators for passing grass and sugar boel tops into silos he has one of the finest seedcleaning plants i have ever seen u has two divisions the first to dry and clean grain as it is harvested and the other to clean small seeds cue t clean ing of small seeds ts done in winter and this ingenious dane even make- uso of jhe chaff and cleanings he dlcetae good land and more im portant good farmlng- rtic lrsv oar next host dree- sd and looked ike a young exec utive but be wu fanner through and through b reel brtoware farm from his tether paying 2000 annually for land stock and imple ment in addition he pays 1000 in taxes v what the lrsen farm lacks in slse it makes up in efficiency plan ting and equipment we marvelled at the large wellequipped build ings the main barn is 100 feet long with a 50footextenalon it is all 1 1 lc- roofed kvery rod of the ulrsen farm is put to work it supports 20 milk cows and an equal number of young cattle one hundred bacon hogs had ijren marketed in the past year there sre seven acres under wheal ive acres of sugsr beet snd two and one half acre of sugar beet ired iirsen ken t men on a yearly basis against on the kastberg estate a cowman and a field op erator their wages average about m a month with cottage supplied thi overhead and labour bill seemed high to us for a 00 acre homestead but mr isirsen said he made a good profit on his operations last year his profit may not be so high this year for his cattle contracted the dread footandmouth disease which hit about 15 per cent of the danish herds serum was supplied by the government and appears to have checked the epidemic for the last count raported only 0 new rase compared with 400 a day at the peak about five weeks ago while the dunes arc mechanizing an rapidly as possible they have lens than 30 000 tractors on farms and horses are commonly used the most general being the jutland breed on lomi small holdings we saw a norwegian tyje about the lzi of welsh ponii- our trip from copenh igen to stockholm by a t r was u nc ntful except lhit the plane wtr kite and by iiil turn we re i i hud sweden uur schedule wn- shot wo immi- dlatt ly tntored e eugene timber i mhhki of visit ing local officials uhd hi id a press conference the intercut shown lv eurojrinn newspapermen in their canadian guests and canada contin ues to amaze us the fields of swedtn ac us mil first sight of snow since leaving canada anrwe felt quite at home when we sawthc sweden weiring clothing similar to our own winter dress an immediate contrast to denmark was the number of new cars on stockholm streets and oth ers offorcd for sale none has been inioiiid in denmark hi nee 103tt the days in sweden were short for darkness came on about 4 p in and it was still dark at 0 a m in dull weather this is not surprising when it is remembered that stock holm is on a latitude of 50 compared to torontos 43 and vancouver s 49 on a canadian m ip stockholm would be about the middle of hud son bay our jaunt into europe ha kwlu us many a chuckle trying to adjust to strange facilities and new cus toms 411 europeans hotels nsk guests to leave footwtir outside the door for chaping overnight since ve are travelling light with onl one pair each wc have been afraid tb take advantage of this one night at 2 aro-r- 1 was awallcned-uuth- br aetata bas wm spsrtattam sfottr j s a widely known brampton man harry sproule died on january 3ft son of the late ur and ura lease sproule he was the eldest of ttw sons and moved from napanee to brampton with his parents at the age of twelve he was the ekuet member of the family and died total 62nd year hla parents and brothers all predeceased him he started his business crer in brampton as delivery hoy with hob- inaoo and work department store at the same time acting as night op erator ins the telephone nrh lie had considerable musical talent and was tenor soloist in qramptona first motion picture theatre the uljou dreenv in the premise bow occupied by the amp store ibs solos were illustrated with coloured still pictures as a special program feature he was a member of qraee church chair and for many yaexa was in demand as a soloist at con certs and garden parties when stlli a young man he wes employed as clerk in twm mccand- lst mens furnishings store and for over forty years continued in that business at the corner of main and queen streets he took over the business after mr mccandlese death later it was taken over by the f t 11111 company and he became manager he continued li that pos ition until a few years ago when he was forced to retire due to 111 health as a youth mr sproule played hockey at the old llrd rink he was a smart skater and comjieted in skating races so populai in the early part of the century but it was in lacrosse that he starred and noado a name for hi nisi if he was an outstanding home player in 12- man field lacrosse teaming w itli his brother george who pre deceased him fifteen years ago they developed a fine combination and were a scoring threat to every team that visited rosalea from 1010 onward ho was a nn mler ol the first excelsior ti am which made the trip to vancouver in quest of the mann up he played no small part in bringing ontario lacrosse champion ships to brampton in later years lawn bowlm curl ing and cribbae were his hobbies he was a post masur of the bramp ton masonic lodge in 10ij he mar- i led hazel tuck of georgetown she with two sons jack of ik llovlue and william of toronto a daughter marion mrs 11 allan heatley of brampton ami three grandchildren are the surviving membtrs of the famll hev j a mcdermid conducted the fum ral service pallbearers wire jim bob and bill mcartcr norm anderson tom mcmurchy and v j ah ii mower bearers were ihrc young nun of his own house hold along wiui numbers of tho 1014 mann i up team and other la crosse assoclitev aji onj thi fiord tri butts was floral lacrosse btitk done tn tin exuliior colours of iol and wluli as a token of iispctt from hi lairotso associate inter ment was nvodi m brampton cem etery the prairie lily flaming orange as it wan is amid the grasslands is the flower symbol of the province of saskatchewan bui now we are back in rnuland and tomorrow will start off on a tour of wales ro all we have to worry about arc our welsh accents and control of our pounds shillings and pence well keep you posted on our linguistic and financial progress hisoumbmnck his got a lot behind him and a lot still ahead now bo becomes manager of his first branch years of work and study and growing responsibility have prepared him he saw lot of canada as he moved to different branches he got to know the people in farming suburban and industrial communities and how they use the bank now he takes over from the man who moves up and the road to tho top is open for both of them call upon the manager of your chartered bank you will find him experienced understanding eager to serve you one of a series by your bank laundry cul zenith 13600 v no toll laundry services the furnnco t which heat the norman atyndall cue ofitla nothjnff abort of eaatla xnn hm- erlbe the beautiful kaitberg home ijld out in the funlllar european courtyard ttyle it wu hot built in 1748 and is atlitatandbui as proud at it was the day those 18th cen tury stonemasons completed it the rfastborgt run stmixodj farm tho thousht wc wcro bclne burgled it was only the frustrated shoe por ter creepinfl nrqjuid my room scrk- lns my shoesl a balh incidentally is nol just a bath tn london it was aix and one half feet lone my first chance for blows it through o full stretch since swimming in tho a pipe about 100 crick in hamburg wc had n yards long to mansficd tub but not to big as lon dons in stockholm tho bath re sembled a milk cooling vat and- in copenhagen it was a altdawn tub shaped like a chair an extremely cold scat first thiryrjn tnb morning our hotel towels have varied as much as the baths perhaps a psychiatrist could interpret national traits from this evidence but ior us hotev linen has provided ncbntln- ual surprise towels varied from pookot handkerchief also in copen- r is the silken string running through the pearl rchaifroftl virtues jlosbphhali supporting 100 milking cows 120 tiagenjo carpet size in london and other cattle and until they were stockholm where they were six feel old earlier ul year s00 hoot by four feel l- toere we 200 serts inrape atul changlna countries and currency atfmush w w jtrb seed of evry throe days left us easy pray which is pressed for au there are to the unscrupulous oar practice 5ufll b5n jttrt- to hand out lit 0rr0 w prachcr muz