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Page Four THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 29th, 1948 WANT A GOOD LAWN? GET THESE LEAFLETS To set off a new house to the best advantage a good lawn is essential. It isn't a difficult job for anyone to construct a new lawn, if the instructions in the leaflet "The Constructions of New Lawns" are followed. A copy can be obtained free from the Division of Forage Crops, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. In the spring of the year is the time to start the work that consistently carried on will eventually transfer * tired looking lawn into one that*irtll look like a fine carpet. IRISH PLOWMEN TO COMPETE AT INTERNATIONAL The first time in the history of th€ International Plowing Match conducted by the Ontario Plowmen's Association, a team of expert plowmen from the British Isles will be present when the big event is held at Lindsay in October of this year and will take part in the horse and tractor competitions. J. A. Carroll, Secretary-Manager of the Ontario Plowmen's Association, has been notified by the secretary of the Northern Ireland Plowing Association that a party of The pamphlet referred to five officials and plowmen wiu be gives the know how. How can a lawn be kept in the best condition? The answer is given in easily understood detail in a phamplet "The Care of Lawns" which is available free from the Division of Forage Crops, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. REDUCING RISKS OF FARM LABOUR Accident figures show that mishaps on the farm take a high annual toll among Canada's farm population. Accidents may be the result of a moment's carlessness with a farm implement, the result of a fall down rickety steps, or the result of one of the oldest mistakes--leading a "gentle" bull to water with a rope instead of a lead stick. And there are about 8,000 fires a year which destroy term homes and buildings. The prevention of farm accidents is most important. Believe it or not, farming the peaceful countryside is the most dangerous occupation there is, next to mining and lumbering. WE LIKE TO GET THE NEWS The main aim of the weekly newspaper is to give news of its own district. It may have other aims, such as to give the merchants a chance tell of their goods in its columns to try to influence public oponion through its editorial columns; or to amuse or instruct; but first of all, it must give news. Some of this news is not easily obtained and no editor can cover it without assistance. Therefore, we ask our readers' assitance. Especially is it true when you have visitors. Many of the ladies think that personals are the whole paper. Your visitors naturally are glad to have their names printed. So send them in. Sometimes people come in and give the impression that they are asking a favour when they want us to insert the names of their friends who have been Spending a few days with them. No person need fell that way who has an item of real n VENEZUELA BUYS CANADIAN DAIRY CATTLE Venezuela has recently placed order in Canada for 100 head of dairy cattle, which will leave shortly for Caracas. This purchase of Hol-stein Friesians is reported to be one of the largest made in Canada for any of the Latin American countries. Venezuela is making an effort to im-jprove the strain of its dairy cattle, and attention is now being directed to Canada as a profitable source of purebred stock. United Church, Colborne Rev. G. D. Campbell, Minister Sunday, August 1st-- 11.00 a.m.--Union Service in United Church. Rev. A. N. Reid, M.A., of Old St. Andrew's, will preach. Evening Service withdrawn until September. Salem United Church 2.00 p.m.--Sunday School. 3.00 p.m.---Rev. A. N. Reid, M.A. Trinity Church, Colborne Rev. R. E. Lemon, L.Th., Rector Sunday, August 1st-- 'I0 00 a.m.--Church School 9.30 a.m.---Holy Communion and attendance at the Lindsay Match, and has been requested to enter them in the various classes open to them. The three experts who will plow in competition with the contestants from Canada are James Morrow, Glenann-agh, Bangon, County Down, a former champion horse plowman; R. A. Er-win, Kilcross, Crumlin, County Antrim, a former tractor plowing champion, and T. C. Reid, Balyknockan, Ballygowan, County Down, an expert tractor plowman. Accompanying them on the t rip to Ontario will be John Hart, Coleraine, County Derry, chairman of the Northern Ireland Ploughing Association. The party has completed arrangements to sail on the Queen Elizabeth for New York on October 1, arriving there on Ovtober 6. After day or two in New York, the Irish group will come on to Toronto, and will go on to Lindsay for the period of the Match, which is from October 12 to 15. The three Irish contestants are sending their advance, and these will be shipped about the first week of July, so to be here in plenty of time for the match. Horses and tractors will be provided by the committees for the International Match. J. A. Carroll, commenting on the entry of the three Irish experts for the International events, said this marked a new venture on the part of everseas plowmen, and was the direct result of the interest which has been created by the visits in 1947 and 1948 of parties of Ontario plowmen to Ireland, work of the visitors from Ireland would be watched with keen interest when the match is held at Lindsay, and would give a truly international significance to that event. St. Peter's Church, Lakeport 3.00 p.m.--Service Old St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Colborne Rev. A. N. Reid, M. A., Minister Sunday, August 1st-- No Service during July and Sunday, August 1st. St. Paul's Church, Lakeport-- 9.45 a.m.--Service Baptist Church, Colborne Sunday, August 1st-- 2.00 p.m.--Sunday School. 10.00 a.m.--Service, July, August Rev. H. A. Wilkinson. Monday-- 8.00 p.m.--Young People's Meeting United Missionary Church, Rev. A. C. Berry, Minister Sunday, August 1st-- CAN SAVE FOOD BY DESTROYING PESTS Maximum production of foods is not only good business but in view of the world shortage almost a humanitarian duty, contributory factor in achieving high food production is the timely use of the appropriate pest control product to prevent losses from disease and the ravages of insects and rodents, says A. M. W. Carter, who is in charge of pesticides for the Dominion Department of Agriculture. DDT and other equally effective insecticides now make possible an almost complete control of insects in houses, stores, restaurants, hotels institutions and warehouses. No one need be pestered with bedbugs, cockroaches or flies. A fly spray containing as littl e as one-half . of one per cent will kill practically 100 per cent flies as compared with only 65 per cent for the best old type sprays. The value, too, of residuald-type sprays ir barns, stables and piggeries is well-known. In wide areas of the United States, striking increases in meat and dairy production have resulted from the use of DDT on livestock, and in barns, stables and piggeries. There is also a rat killer, Antu, that has proved very effective when used properly. Rats are extremely cautious redents and poison baits e used skilfully. Antu at strengths of from 10 to 25 per cent dusted lightly along the Walls where rats are known to run makes a tracking poison. The rats pick it up on tails and feet, and eventually lick it off with fatal results. It may be used baits at 2 per cent strength. When used, untreated baits should be first exposed for three or four nights to create confidence. • The directions on the labels of all pesticdies offered for sale have been checked and apporved by the Dominion Department of Agruculture. The wise use of pest control products is profitable undertaking. VIGOROUS YOUNG LEADERS SOUGHT This is a non-political club and this is a non-partisan plea, directed to both old parties, which are about to choose new leaders. This Club has active branches in Montreal and Toronto, and Pathfinder veterans of the R.C.A.F. and R.A.F. are now organizing in Winnipeg and Vancouver. As president of a group of young men whose role in the air in the last war is well known to all Canadians, there is a thought I would like to leave with the men and women who will be responsible for picking the new party leaders: The Progressive Conservative Lea-der h?jg|MW»«BVsigned because he st ^pB^^rty needs a vigorous young man at its head. All of those the press mentions as his successors are comparatively young. Yet the two men most often mentioned to succeed Mr. King as Liberal Leader are both older than Mr. Bracken. Surely in the Liberal Party there are younger men of proved ability. Regardless of which party gains power, it is vital that younger men be at the helm in the difficult ahead of us. Youth worAhe war. I submit that youth shoulJmhave a chance to rect the fightWto keep the peace if war comes,^iat young men who can carry the ^tshing load of war time in high oiW^should head the Government andlB Oppositi Toronto. Wm. BTS President, llfc Canadian Pathfinders (Mb. itiojL TRIP FOR FRUIT GROWERS The Northumberland and Durham Fruit Growers have been invited to visit the Georgian Bay fruit area with special attention to a demonstraton of equipment planned at Thornbury on Thursday, August 5th. Arrangement has been made for a bus to carry thirty from Newtonville for a fare of $5.00 each. Details are being worked out by the officers of the organizations, but it is expected that the croup will leave about 7.00 a.m. and plan to return the same day. Those interested are asked to let either E. A. Summers, Agricultural Representative for Durham County, Bowmanville; or Ralph C. Banbury, Agricultural Representative for Northumberland County, Brighton, know their intention before Saturday evening, July 31st. Should sufficient not be interested for a bus, one may go by motor car. 'OLYMPIC WAY" Next week tens of thousands athletes and visitors from will be making their way to Wembley for the opening of the biggest international festival of sport ever held. They will approach Wembley Stadium by a fine new avenue specially constructed for the occasion. The Oplympic Way, as the new road is called, is a magificent avenue 6( feet wide, leading straight from Wembley Underground station to the entrance of the Empire Stadium. Many of the visiting athletes have already moved into the big Olympic Centre which was officially opened at Uxbridge July 7th and which will house teams from some 15 countries, including Canada and the U.S.A. The Centre is a large R.A.F. camp which has been specially adapted to accommodate Olympic Games competitors during their stay in Britain. WATCHING TOMATOES FOR LATE BLIGHT Late blight was such a serious c< dition last year that all interested tomatoes are watching developments closely this year. To date quite a number of sporadic troubles hare been reported to Agricultural Representative Banbury at the Agricultural office. Some time was spent with the Canning Crop Specialist, A. N. L. Butler, on Thursday, July 15th, and number of these patches visited, t no late blight was found. In several cases peculiar conditions causing small loses were found, some of which are hard to explain and will be watched with interest. A warning charge of Prof. J. D. FLYS ON THE FARM With the fly season and warm weather expected this month, farm-will find much relief from the of DDT. Many of the old sprays gave only partial control and cows and people had to put up with the annoyance of the fly pest. Now there o reason for this inconvenience. The Dominion Department of Agriculture at Ottawa recommends the following mixture which they use at the Experimental Farm: "Mix one pound of DDT water-dispersible powder in 2'/2 to 5 gallons of water.' This is the strength to be sprayed on animals, and will give protection. If done every day the more diluted solution is satisfactory. To spray windows, stables, etc., where the tion will remain for sometime this spray is made up of " one pound of DDT in one gallon of water." Agricultural Representative Ralph C. Banbury states that flys cut down milk production greatly and that $1.00 spent on DDT would protect most herds and pay for itself many times in milk and satisfaction. C. P. A. TO FLY PACIFIC Canadian Air Lines has been granted permission for regular passenger and cargo flights on the two tran-Pacific routes shown in the above map, adding a total of 14,420 route miles to Canada's international air services. Now on order for the routes are pressurized four-engined Canadian planes, with a capacity of 40 passengers and three tons of cargo, mail or express. They will be manned by experienced trans-ocean ocean C. P. A. pilots--Canadian Pacific inaugurated wartime transatlan- tic bomber delivery flights in 1940 and many of the pilots later flew four years with the Ferry Command and have since returned to the company. Operational and servicing headquarters will be at Vancouver with the C.P.A.'c domestic overhaul work, now being carried on out there, being transferred to Edmonton. Canadian Pacific, experienced in trans-Pacific travel since 1886, already has an extensive traffic organization in the countries the new flights will serve, which places it in aposition to start operations with a minimum of delay and with no wasteful expendi- ture of Canadian dollars abroad, Regular flights vill probably start by next summer; it is felt that an early start is essential if the Domin-ion's position in* the field of Oriental trade, as well as international air transport, is to be developed and maintained. From Vancouver to Sydney, by way of Honolulu, Canton Island and Fiji is 7,865 miles, and the Great Circle route, Vancouver-Kodiak-Shemya Island-Tokyo-Shanghai-Hong Kong is 6,555 miles. New Zealand will be served with a branch service joining the through Vancouver-Sydney route at Fiji. 1299 Delegates to Liberal Convention August 5-7 Will Choose New Leader, Build New Party Platform TRACTOR EFFICIENCY Tractor expenses can be kept at a minimum by: Thorough and timely lubrication. A complete spring or fall check-up with replacement of worn parts. Careful operation, avoiding loading and high speeds. Selection of proper size of tractor belt work. tractor Ottawa--To elect a new Leader of the Liberal Party, and to build a new party platform, 1299 delegates with 840 alternates will come here from all over Canada for the third national Liberal convention to be held August 5-7. The delegates who vote on questions put to the floor will, in a sense, represent the twelve millions of people of the Dominion. The delegation which will vote will comprise all Liberal M.P.'s and men and women who were Liberal candidates of the last federal election. There will be 735 delegates proper from the constituencies in the nine provinces, and 735 alternates. The Senate will be represented by 62; provincial representatives will total 140; there will be 12 national and provincial Liberal association presidents. Representation of provincial Liberal associations will be impressive. There will be 27 from women's associations; 27 from young Liberal associations; 51 from university Liberal clubs. Public and party interest, _ of course, will center upon selection of the man who will follow Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King as Leader of the Liberal Party and as next Prime Minister of Canada. That election will be an out-m^the-open affair. Nominations will be thrown open and there will be no restriction as to the number of balloting itself will take pla„ _ the last day of the convention and will be accompanied by every known device to insure that the votes truly express the free will of the delegates. The ballot forms were printed two weeks ago; and upon their arrival were stored in a safety vault by a group of officials of the National Convention Committee. Just before the balloting is due at the convention, these ballots will be taken from the vault --ag: Con THESE BALLOT PAPERS, 1 Convention to be held in Ott__ succeed Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King as Leader of the Liberal Party. The printing, collating and stitching of these ballot papers necessitated special measures to insure protection of the documents, which later were transported to a safety vault in Ottawa, there to remain until taken under guard to the floor of the Convention for use by 1299 delegates. transported under guard to the Coliseum. There, under the eye of officially appointed returning officers and scrutineers, the ballots will be opened and distributed to the voting delegates. After each vote, the counting will be done also under the eyes of scrutineers. The Convention, the third which the Liberal Party has held since Confederation, will bring to Ottawa more than 3,000 Party members-At the Coliseum, where sessions will take place, there will be ample accommodation for the public in Idition to delegates. The official programme follows: /■ UL'upt 4--Registration. August 5---Registration; Convention opens; official address of welcome; election of Convention officials; appointment of committees; adoption of rules of procedure; speeches by representative Liberals; committee sessions. August 6--Reports from corn-mittees;" speeches by representative Liberals; general business; election of scrutineers and tellers. August 7--Reports from committees; speeches by representative Liberals; reading Of rules governing voting procedure; reporting of nominations of candidates for Party leadership; election of Liberal leader. TRY The Colborne Express for your PRINTING NEEDS