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Page Four THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, FEBRUARY 10th, 1944 NORTHUMBERLAND AGRICULTURAL NEWS Ontario Fruit Growers' Meeting The annual meeting ot the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association, held at the King Edward Hotel, Toronto, on February 3rd and 4th, 1944, was attended by a number interested in apple growing in Northumberland County. Among those at the event were Harry Sirett, S. J. Tinson, Leigh-ton Rundle, and Morley Webster, of Brighton; Kenneth Crews, Trenton, Chas. Quinn, Castleton, and R. C. Banbury, -Representative of the Ontario Department of Agriculture in the County attended the sessions and also the closing events of the Hol-stein Breeders' Association convened at the Royal York. Among those seen were A. H. Martin, now Assistant Director of ths Agricultural Representative Branch and previously Agricultural Representative in Northumberland. Speakers emphasized the point that in many fruit and vegetable crops the farmer got less than half of the price which the product sold for. Efficient marketing was necessary ac present pegged prices to give satisfaction. Fertilizer problems were discussed by Mr. Fowlds of the Fertilizer Administration, who pointed out the amount of commercial fertilizer used had doubled since 1940 and that potash was somewhat scarce, necessitating a 2% cut in all analysis except for tomatoes in which a special arrangement could be made. He recommended highly granular ammonium nitrate to replace nitrate of soda at one half the cost per unit. He pointed out that all spray materials would be available in sufficient quantities for our orchard and vegetable needs. Mr. A. Leitch, Chairman of the Ontario Commission of Enquiry, urged a study of all factors of land and farm people and urged a more complete course of study in the public schools to round out practical needs for farm children who could go further in education if they desired. Mr. M. M. Robinson of the Ontario Food Distribution Council, who was \ heard by many Northumberland farm- j crs at the recent Northumberland and Durham Apple Growers' meeting in Cobourg, urged organization to meet present and post-war problems. He foretold potatoes in short supply with dehydrating and usual requirements and urged orderly marketings of the tubers that they might carry through at ceiling prices until the new crop was available. At the evening banquet Col. Ken-redy, Minister of Agriculture for Ontario, briefly urged that farmers solve their own problems and ask the Government only for legislation and technical assistance. He foretold . population doubled after the war with much more local consumption. Poultry Meetings Agricultural Representative R. C. Banbury is planning a series of poultry meetings for Northumberland County to be held during the week of February 14th as follows : Wooler hall, 2 p.m. Tuesday, 15th, Warkworth hal, 8 p.m. Tuesday 15th; Grafton hall 2 p.m. Wednesday 16th; Coldsprings Orange hall, 8- p.m. Wednesday 16th: Campbellford library, 2 p.m. Thursday 17th; Harwood hall, 8 p.m. Thursday 17th, Roseneath Twp. hall, 2 p.m. Friday 18th; Cobourg Front Road west school house, S. S. No. 2, 8 p.m. Friday 18th. Mr. J. E. Bergey, of the Poultry Department, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, one of the best informed and most practical poultry-men in Canada, will be the speaker. Emphasis will be placed on baby chicks and laying hens, but turkeys and other factors will be considered. The program will be supplemented by a set of slides, "Profitable Poultry Keeping," which should be of interest to those-in atendance. C. N. R. TIME TABLE Eastbound Trains-- No. 14 Daily ...................... 11.29 a.m. No. 10 Daily (Except Sunday) 4.02 p.m. No. 18 Daily (Except Sunday) 11.02 p.m. (*) No. 118 Sunday Only 11.41 p.m. (*) (*) Stop to detrain passengers from Toronto. Westbound Trains-- No. 19 Daily ........................ 3.59 a.m. No. 9 Daily (Except Saturday) 6.36 p.m. No. 5 Stops on Saturday for mail ........ 3.23 p.m. Wild buckwheat seed is the most common impurity in cereals, being abundant in Western grain. It constitutes a large percentage of the week seeds occurring in elvator screenings. Wild buckwheat is considered good feed, especially for poultry. A process for dehydrating molasses and packing it in dry form has been developed by the United States Board of Economic Warfare. Finished solid blocks of molasses can be stored for indefinite periods in ordinary ware houses and sheds, and can be shipped, handled and stored as general dry cargo. LETTERS FOR SOLDIERS (By John Steinbeck) To the G. I.'s in the field or in barracks, or on manoeuver, letters are nearly the most important things that happen or don't happen. In five minutes of talk with a soldier you know whether he has heard from home or that letters do not come. It is a constant source of conversation, of worry and of gladness. A group of men sit down together and they do not know one another, but in a very short time the wallets come out and pictures are passed about, pictures of wives and children. This is taken as a matter of course No one is bored with it. And if a letter has been received, even a dull letter, it is usually read aloud and everyone is interested. And if the letters are worry letters the man shows it in his face and the Army doctors say that often he gets sick and doesn't even know what caused it. The private letters are from his wife. She was a whiner. Probably always had been. She was living with his parents. Things were not going well. They were spoiling the baby and the baby had been sick. She wishes she could move away but there wasn't enough money. She hadn't been feeling very well herself. Nothing you could put your finer on, but just run down. But she wasn't happy and she wanted the war to be over so he could go home and she could have the things she was used to. He finished reading the letter, and his face was filled with worry. "She's very delicate," he said. He pulled out the inevitable wallet and showed a picture of her. A spoiled, pout-mouthed little blonde, who was probably strong enough to lick two men, a complete whiner. "I wish she could go to California," he said. "I wish 1 could send her." He turned the letter over and there was a post-pt. "I don't know how long I can VERNONVILLE February 8th, 1944 A quiet wedding took place on Thursday, January ,27th, 1944, at 8 p.m at The Church of the Redeemer, Toronto, the Rev. Cannon Armstrong officiating, when Curtis E. Barrett and Kathleen Ethel Larry, were united in marriage. They were attended by Mr. H. Larry and Mr. J. Collins. After a short trip East they will reside at Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. H. Larry and baby rnd Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett spent the weekend with Mrs. A. Larry. Cecil Deviney spent the weekend with friends at Oshawa. Mrs. J. A. Deviney and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Robson, on' Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Robson, of Trenton, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Robson. Mr. Gordon Broomfield, Billy, Alex' and Douglas spent Sunday with Mrs. Wm. Broomfield and Mary. Pte. Russell Warner, V.T.S., of Kingston, is spending a few days with bis wife and family. Born--At Cobourg Geueral Hospital, on Sunday, Feb. 6th, 1944, to Mr. and Mrs. E. Woodruff, a son. Mrs. Ada Tripp visited at Hastings on Wednesday. Twelve ladies met at the home of Mrs. C. B. Turk on Thursday and completed a quilt for the Red Cross. Tea was served by Mrs. J. A. Deviney and Mrs. J. Leeming. Miss Margaret Harnden, Toronto, visited her mother, Mrs. Esther Harnden and sister, Effie, and brother, Henry. Mr. Gerald Blakely, of Castleton, is busy these days hauling ice for Mr. Henry Harnden. Our school teacher and scholars are holding- a Valentine party on Monday. The children are providing Mr. and Mrs. J. Haynes of Virdon, Manitoba, and Mrs. Sarah Usher, of Eddyston, spent Friday with Mr. and keep this up," the postscript said. have to think a little bit of myself, j Mrs" J. Leeming. and after all, I'm not getting any j Mrs. Ada Tripp is visiting with younger." Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Tripp and fam- There was the threat, the. thing ! ily for a few days, that was putting worry in his face, j Pte. Dana Gillespie, of Woodstock, She was threatening him and he knew j spent the weekend with his parents, it, yet he was holding on to this thing Mr. and Mrs. C. Gillespie and family and arguing with himself. He was |--------■ - --= putting in tremendous days of work j never be so bright, nor every kindness snd at night had to go to bed with the £-nd every gentleness remembered the picture of his wife going off with • way it is now. They have great power another man. She had the knife in I now, and so many of them misuse it. hi mand he knew it. And he would So many use it to hurt and to worry, not rest and after a while his stomach i And a man in the Army hasn't time would go to pieces and he would be tor these things in the daytime. Only hospitalized. ; when he should be sleeping can he Another man brought out a little j consider the overtones of letters or book and in it were columns of dates j think up possible reasons why there and check marks, a year of them, a sre no letters. check mark for every day in the year. | And a man feels trapped. If some* Every day a letter was written. It thing is wrong, there is nothing in amazed him. Some times they were the world that' he can do about it weeks arriving and he checked them | He cannot go back to a sick wife, nj^ egainst the postmarks. He had six of ( can he revenge himself on a creeper, them in his pocket. They weren't j He is here and helpless, and one good terribly interesting letters, but one j letter can make the difference be-was written every day and, although j tween a good soldier and a sick man. late in knowing, he knew what | a large number of the men have only SUMMARY OF ANNUAL REPORT OF BELL TELEPHONE CO. Montreal, February 9.--An increase of nearly a million dollars in wages to employees, payment of almost three milions more in taxes in 1943 than in the previous year, and a sharp decrease in earnings per share, are reported in the 64th annual report of The Bell Telephone Company of Canada for the year ended December 31 last, issued to-day. Although gross revenue from all sources rose 6.5 per cent to $60,222,-814, net income for 1943--after provision for fixed charges--dropped to $7,539,808 as compared with $8,055,-678 in the previous year. Total pay roll, for 11,915 employees, was $21r 340,257 against $20,369,030 in 1943. Taxes, excluding the refundable portion of excess profits tax, amounted to $11,955,000, an increase of $1,-951,000 or 19.5 per cent over 1942. The refundable portion of the excess profits tax amounted to $1,654,000, bringing the total taxes payable by the company to $13,609,000. In addition, $7,046,000 in taxes was collected by the company for various public authorities. Earnings, excluding refundable excess profits tax amounted to $6.85 per share of average outstanding capital stock as compared with $8.76 in 1942. The refundable excess profits tax was equal to $1.95 per chare in 1943 and 85 cents in 1942. To pay regular dividends in 1943 it was necessary to draw on surplus to the extent of $893,381. The annual report, signed by C. F. Sise, President, points out that "rigid conservation of telephone material throughout 1943, in order to provide for essential services, resulted in a marked reduction in the installation of new telephones." Thus, the year's net gain was only 30,699 as compared with 37, 600 in 1942, bringing the total number of Bell telephones in service in Ontario and Quebec to 956,113. The report also reveals that new construction amounted to only $6,200,-000, less than half the 1942 figure, most of this expenditure being to provide additional long distance circuits necessitated by wartime actvi-ties. At the end of the year, 1,998 men and 201 women employees had enlisted for war service. Of these, 22 have given their lives, 101 have returned to their civilian duties, and the remainder are still on active service. Of the company's 24, 491 shareholders, 23,288, or 95.1 per cent, live in Canada, and they hold 72.1 per cent of the outstanding stock. URGENT NEED TO SALVAGE EGG CASES happened every day and there no worry in him. He wanted desperately to go home but he felt that he had not been cut off. Another had not heard at all, no letters, no word at all. And he used all sorts of little explanations to himself. The ship that had the letters on board had been sunk. Maybe there was someone with his name who was getting his letters. Maybe the censor bad taken them. He used all of these on himself. Maybe she was sick, maybe she was even dead, but what he was saying all the time to himself was that almost surely she wasn't writing. This is a great time for wives. They will never in their lives be so beautiful as they are now. Their eyes will revenge for bad treatment of this kind. When it really gets through to them that they are being ignored and forgotten, they go out for other women. Their self-respect demands it. They are a curiously faithful crowd. For all the talk about what soldiers do, they want terribly to be related to one woman. They build a sort of image of perfection that couldn't possibly have been true, and they hold on to it as long as they can. and they will only abandon it when they have to. Good food can be given to a man, and entertainment and hard work, hut nothing in the world can take the place of letters. They are the single firings and when they are cut the morale of that man is shattered. Due to some neglect in the return of egg cases to wholesalers, some careless handling, a shortage of lumber and other incidental causes there is now a definite shortage of egg cases in Canada, states the Dominion Department of Agriculture. This shortage threatens not only to handicap the movement of eggs into the domestic trade but also to egg drying plants where egg powder is made for export to Britain. In view of the fact that it is difficult to obtain adequate supplies of new cases, the Department makes a special appeal to everyone handling egg cases not only to return them and the accompanying packing material promptly to the shipper but also to avoid damaging them in any way. Plan to Grow Tomatoes THIS YEAR FOR Campbell Soup Company Tomatoes are one of the Highest Paying Cash Crops Our Colborne District Growers RECEIVED 15% more THAN THE ESTABLISHED PRICE IN 1943 Why not investigate our 1 944 prices before contracting Our Representative will be at HECKBERT'S WHITE ROSE SERVICE STATION FRIDAY and SATURDAY, FEB. 11 and 12 For further information fill in coupon below and mail to Campbell Soup Company, Ltd., New Toronto, Ont. To Campbell Soup Company: Please have fieldman call. Name .... Address RAWLEIGH PRODUCTS A.B.D. 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Yet, Hydro's contribution to the welfare of the people, up to now, is but a preview of the promise which the electrical world holds for tomorrow. Since war began, Hydro power has been, and will be, available wherever and whenever it is required by Ontario's war industries. When peace comes, electricity supplied by Hydro will perform services that are certain to contribute much toward creating new and standards of living. This indispensible element, everyday life, lightens tht way in everything