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the georgetown herald wednesday evening feb h 1953 page 8 eavestrougmng plumbing heating don houston phone s47w highest prices paid for scran iron steel metals batteries miscellaneous fafm scrap delivered to our yard 175 caroline st n hamilton l waman sons pholjfe hamilton 27061 and 8 3611 flowers for every occasion design work a specialty bonded member td3 telegraph delivery service flowers by wire anywhere in the world irton flora bill garbutt plumbing and heating all types of repair work water systems ea est rough tag sarah st georgetown phone 505r hartt jshoe in georgetown exclusively at silvers travel notes tours new york 3day all ewpense tours from washington 4 days irom miami beacn a wonderful iwdayvacauonjjgq 7150 john r barber travel advisor kum c thompson rsdkanob bkstvlce hft kfltstrmt the mail bag w editors note roy shaver of finch ont past president of ontario p plowmen a association accompanied douglas s red of brampton ont and al- gie wallace of north gower ont canada s champion plowmen on their trip to the british isles eire and france this is the third of a series of five weekly articles he has written as team manager about thir experiences and impressions rather than try to recount every stop we made and every town and farm we visited in scotland nor thern ireland eire and england 1 thought this week i would tell you of some of the impressions we gai ned of farming in those countries we means doug held of bramp ton 26 year old canadian tractor plowing champ algle wallace of north gower j5 horse plowing champion and myself roy shaver of fmch ont their team manager first of all i would like to make one point 1 do not think it is possible to compare ade quately canad lan and british forming meth ods or farms climatic differ ences for in stance make it dougtes s reid almo3t im siblej discuss cattle feeding or in england they ate able to pasture iheir cattle during months that in c inada it is impossible to do so an rea against son is ihe many old farm buildings wc s iw which defy modernization and are consequently h indtcaps lo cititicrfcy one of the first things the boys noticed was the absence of barns as wc know them in this country on the majority of the farms they hid byres which in essence are really only four rposts with a roof on top in these byres the cattle shelter from the we ither md feed dunnr autumn and winter pasturing the factor whith most impressed doug in british farmink was the weed control and 1 think 1 ngrce with him the weed control on the british farms is outstanding there is not a weed to be seen on the l majority of the farms while the three of us were agreed that british farming eould stand to be more mechanized and were a little tstonishcd to see the imount of heiy w rk that is done m the fulds by women we still had to tike tui ten gallon hats olf to the bi ilish farmer in the mitlcr of yield per acre they are jtill ahead of us there it is haid to decide wl y tins she uld be pcih ps it bet nisi th lind is rich i or imybc they look atfer it better or fertilize it more one form wc wont forcet in a htirr bcciusc there we saw some thji k that ups t all our notions about eatll- bicede rs it was the f ir n of i o nt ti just outsid belfast mi oncil farms his h0 at res ji st iboul jsinlensiely as 100 acre can be farmed with a i c rd of mote ih in 110 ayrshnts he w is ktci ink more thin one tow li le w ith mi fcedinj them court ntr ile ht feeds hum onl insilied 1 ty ilxjut 00 hun is tr d iy ei row his h ly w s t mil u b i it ntil il in 1 v is tt slink abo i 14 per eitt iuujw i all of which is you will ilrec w is iy loki ill we wt re in pressed by this performance but then mr o neil told us that he hadn t bought a male or female in six years he wis obviously an en thusiastic supporter of inbreeding and we were hard pushed for some thing to say ior to us his herd howed every sign of the need for new blood stock three of the larger farms we visited in scotland and england were breeding and milking hol- steins and some of the cattle were direct descendants from two of on tario s best known blood lines bt first let me tell you of a fact which struck us as rather strange in scot land the farmers thought very ill of the canadian type holsteln both nilkers while eng lish farmers could not say enough to the credit of kolsteins on- the farm of edwin de gray seaman in huntingdonshire we came across a son of marksman the animal that packed the alliston farm house of j j e mccague with so many blue ribbons mp sea man was farming i 800 acres 800 of which were reclaimed marsh he was running 300 canadianbred holstelns and would write an un solicited testimonial for them at the drop of anyone s hat at calthoipe we found our sec ond ontario expatriate in a nour ishing son of the stride f oxford county tom dents sovereign he was on the 1200 acre dairy farm of james alston all of mr ais ion a 250 holsjteins were f rpm can adlan blood lines he was milking 100 with an average test of 3 7 per cent incidentally he also had one of the finest stables of clydesdales that wc saw in the whole of our though he did not voice it to any of the far mers doug had one suggestion for improving the british farms he thinks they would be well advised to uproot the hed gerows with which the eng- lish countryside ahwwallaet atoounds he admitted willmgly that they were picturesque but his practical canadian eye decided too much land is wasted on either side of the hedges if they were my farms he said i d get a bulldo zer ind root them all out then re place them with an electric or sta tioniry fence of some kind one questioi i havtv been asked repeatedly since ouricturn is how is the butish farmer making our though we did not have an opportunity to speak to what we c in loosely refer to as an average firmer i would siy lhat for a long time the britisn firmer hasn t been is well off as he is now most of the farmers we met were operit ing fairly larkc farms that could be called showpl ices but ill of them ilreed ihty hdn t w int anything age for awhile chough th y ic up an mist hjh feed prices they e guaranteed markets with gov t rnment supiorted rices for ev cry think thej can produce th it they tinnot produce enoukh ls easil dcmonjlruted lggs are rilioued it one md two per person per wetk depend ink upon iail iblc supplies they cost ibout 14 tents each or 1 68 t dflzin if i tell jou that six pounds or 1050 is a more than atiake weekly sal- iry m the british isles i don t think there is more i need tell you about the food situation don t fail to ccorgctow n the industr at lc ist one of industrial plants on 1 tours tomorrow its a long long time from may to september dear editor i realize this letter will be some what of a shock to you as you are no doubt not used to receiving letters from what is somctrmes vul garly referred to as the canine world however on my masters as surarrce that you are a true be liever in freedom of apeech for all 1 dictated these few thdughts to him to put down on paper as i am not quite as versatile as daffy the dog in mickey mouse first let me introduce myself i am a young lady three years old spinster no fimiiy of course of lhat grand old breed called english bulldog and have been a residents of georgetown since coming here as a youngster six weeks the reason for my writing as you know sir its a long sum iner feing locked up in the back yard or in the house but heing a good law abiding bull dog like the vast majority of other dogs we lol- crate that as best we can and real ize its all for the best what with vegetable and flower gardens beau ttful lawns etc however comes the fall the vegetable crop is ukon in the weeds overrun the plot where once there were flowers and the lawns arc frozen much too hard lo bury a bone in so mr edi tor why persecute us just because we cant talk back very well we enjoy the odd run in the fall and the winter we cant do any harm so please folks lets not have any hasty 5 ik natures on a petition that means we dog have to live a dogs life on the end of a leash 365 days of the year we realise the kcntleman who is circulating ihetpctition is probably 1 little tired of seeing dogs after be ink in chart- of collecting dog taxes last year we know its a toukh lhankleso job but wed like to ask a fair question how would he like to sit down in his office tied by the neck seven days a week never to be able to go out in the fresh iir try it for a week sir nci winrvemiifc to say yrn will klidl forsake your petition for more worthy pursuits mistress thinks perhaps that we dogs eould kct o ir point across bet ter if we picketed your office 4mic ill the dogs in town 111 ficmt of your office with signs say ink w want justice or you can w ilk iround untied mr dog tax collector how nbout us the boss lhals what 1 e ill the master tho he s tgimst that idea figures we ould make yuu get the point a lot faster and sharper if every time jou come to the door to get your 1 tition the dog of the house is i howed to inswer the door think it over folks and remem- on tour own signature cash when bills pile up get 50 to 1000 fast at household finance 1 loans made without bankable security repayment plans to fit your income up to 24 months to repay phone or stop in today for fast friendly dependable service i 230 year n canada househ0id f inance s moln st south iocom floor phono 130 brampton ont 116 wyndhom stroot phono 793 guupm ont we are prepared to do all types of pxjllmaing new bathrooms installed or remodelled water systems repairs of all kinds ken nash phone59r georgetown king street ber a dog s life is just what you make it please don t make it any tougher than necessary thanks for the use of your paper to present our side of the case mr editor and trusting our thoughts on the matter will help further canine human relations yours very truly farm news pigs only company n pr s sh during the four year period 1947 to 191 fifty commercial hog pro duccrs kept detailed cost figures on their enterprise in cooperation with the ontario dept of agricul ture in this st idv feed labour inter est depreciation insurance and olher current ercnditures were ta ken into consideration these fig ures indicate that on the average during this four year period it cost h 02 to raise a pig to weaning age irom weaning to market weight of 200 lbs another 27 12 is involved which brings the total cost of rais int i hog up to market weight to st j 14 a two hundred pound mar ket hog on the average dresses out around 75 per cent of 150 lbs when the announcement was made a few months ago that the floor price would be reducea on january 1st from 26c to 23c it can be readily understood why such a large percentage of ontario hog producers lost interest fn the swine industry one does not need to be much of a mathematician to figure out that a 200 lb hog with a dress ing percentage of 75 per cent would bring the producer at the 23 cent price approximately 3450 one may like swine but after all the ptfffi c is t goingy to oon tribute anything towards meeting the taxes and other current expen ditures for expert eye care consult o t walker optometrist 3 main st north brampton over abells drug store phone office 599 res 830 hours 9 am to 8 p m daily evenings by appointment dawn of a new telephone era to business subscribers with the introduction of dial service a new number ing system will be estab lished pleasekeep this in mind when ordering any mater lal which includes your tel ephone number in september fast convenient dial service will be in troduced in georgetown and well before the change a new streamlined telephone will be installed in your home a new telephone building on mam street is well under way and skil ed telephone men will soon be putting in the complex equipment which will automatically serve you when you dial a number the dial telephone is designed to give you raster more convenient service and increase still further the value of your telephone wo misener manager the bell 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