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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS^ COLBORNE, ONT., APRIL 27, 1944 MAKE YOUR OWN CIGARETTES WITH MACDONALD'S Fine Cut A MIIOER TASTIER TOBACCO • itES of GINGER FARM I have been outside looking for signs of spring. And, believe it or not, I found them. There was the sound of frogs singing in the pasture swamp; the shrill scolding cry of a blue-jay, as he flew towards the big oak tree; a red-breasted . robin strutting around; lilac buds definitely swelling and, by scratching away at the dead grass, I found several yellow-green shoots of daffodils. There were also some healthy looking rhubarb crowns--it only there were sugar to go with it-- and here and thete seedlings of burdock and chicory. Come late spring or early, the weeds are always with Down at the barn there are other signs of spring. I don't have to look for them, they make their presence known from afar. I mean the calves--there are four of them, and all heifers. Yesterday we stopped their horns. Farm people will ' ow what I mean by that but for the benefit of those wh~ don't live on a farm perhaps I had better explain. Calves are born without horns just as babies are born without teeth. But the roots are there--little hard knobs on either side of the head known as "buttons". They appear quite harmless and can hardly be felt at all until the calves are about a week old. But leave them alone and watch those buttons develop into murderous looking horns. It depends on the breed of cattle how murderous those horns are likely to be. Our cattle arc Ayrshire and that breed has about the worst horns of any. So to keep the horns from growing we rul the buttons with a caustic pencil. If the job CARRIES TORCH The chap above literally "carries the torch" for the RAF. He's traffic director at RAF station in England, and is pictured using a pair of torches to signal landing directions to bombers returning after night raid over Europe. is done carefully the calf doesn't even feel it. But if one is clumsy and gets caustic on the surrounding flesh then the poor little calf gets bad burns and no doubt suffers pain and discomfort, But believe me, it is quite easy to bungle the job as the fighting strength of a week-old calf is amazing. Incidentally it is quite as easy to burn oneself as the calf. Caustic sho.ld be handled with respect. Here is how Partner and I tackle the job. I gather up my supplies, rubber gloves, scissors, cup of water and caustic pencil in a bottle. Partner corners the calf to be treated, straddles its back and tries to hold its head steady. With the scissors I clip away when I get a chance at the rough hair around the buttons. Sometimes I get quite a bit done done before the calf realizes that something queer is happening, but sooner or later it "catches on." And Skin Eruptions fra-ing nntU.iptic' oil that brines ,iy relief i.'viu the itching and Not^only does this healing antis-■ r.'Jc oil promote rapid and healthy in none ni op:;; soros and wounds t»u boiU and simple ulcers are " j-i i'kin at'fc. fions the itching of T iii * 'ii ' i' " d. Pimples off";.: :i"vi'ry fi.v.:"ila'i The same U line of Itat-her's Itch, Salt ■■:'■' nl'iamma'ury skin disorders. Oil i;. tli.: o; '::;> hot: if. at any -.'rug-store. Satisfaction gtuar- then the fun begirs. It twists and it wriggles and it sticks its nose up in the air. Every time I get the scissors in position for another go the calf gives a mighty lurch and I have to back up or catch the calf in the eye. Partner tries to do my part as well as his own. "There now, he says, "get her now____oh, you're too late again." And then I start telling him what to do____• "Watch out.. . .hold her steady... . down--down--how do you think I can work with her nose in the air?" And so the job goes on. If it is too prolonged we get out of patience with each other, the calf and the job in general. But we ahvays persevere and finally finish the job. The worst part is rubbing the buttons with the caustic pencil. This is dipped in water and rubbed very firmly on each button until the skin is rubbed off and pinpricks of blood are showing. Care has to be taken to see that both sides are done evenly. One time when we were dealing with a particularly unruly calf I didn't make too good a job of it. One horn grew and the other didn't. The horn that grew was stunted but it was still a horn and certainly made the heifer a queer looking animal. However I think we made a pretty fair job of things yesterday and the calves are none the worst for their ordeal. We did only two--the others were not quite ready. English Train Escapes Blitz Courageous Action of Driver And Fireman Averts Danger To Passengers Few passengers, if any, on a London night express recently knew that only the. prompt and courageous actions of the driver,. Herbert Blunt, and his fireman, William Page, saved them from great danger. An air raid was in progress when the packed express entered a tunnel, and most of the passengers were asleep. When about half way through, Blunt saw that the end of the tunnel was silhouetted in a dazzling white glare and that incendiary bombs were showering He slammed on all his brakes and stopped his train just inside the tunnel. Then, with shovels from the engine, Blunt and Page about extinguishing the bombs, some of which had already set fire to the wooden sleepers: Despite the danger from possible explosives they carried on and extinguished nearly 40 incendiaries lying on the track. Other incendiaries on either side of the em-countryside around. Having completed their task, Page telephoned from a' lineside iox to the next signal cabin, briefly reported the incident and said :haf as no high-explosive had been Iropped and the track was safe :hey proposed proceeding "at caution." This thev did, with a total time loss of only 30 minutes. On arrival at their depot neither nade any mention of what they lad done, and it was a clay later vhen the district locomotive super-ntendent heard of the incident hey did not report the matter, Blunt, who is r>7, ansiverecj, "I did ibout nothing." Cat Vision A new kind of goggles has been leveloped, fitted with plastic lenses >f a deep red color, David O. Woodbury notes in C dlier's. They re being worn by thousands in t ; rmed forces to adapt the men's yes for exacting night duty. After he war, this scientific short cut or establishing night vision will be vailable everywhere to truck and us drivers, railroad men, plane . ilots, seafarers and automobile wners, and will help cut down the C at V sic n A new kind of goggles has been developed, fitted with plastic lenses of a deep red color, David O. Woodbury notes in Collier's. They are bcingworn by thousands in t ; armed forces to adapt the men's eyes for exacting night duty. After the war, this scientific short cut for establishing night vision will be available everywhere to truck and bus drivers, railroad men, plane pilots, seafarers and automobile owners, and will help cut down the high accident rate associated with darkness. THE WAR • WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Indian Army Of 2,000,000 Men Largest Volunteer Army In World In, sing : campaign has centred attention on the Indian scene generally, comments the Montreal Star. It is doubtful whether the general public, in this country or in the United States, has more than a vague idea of the part that India has played and is playing in the world-conflict. Some data recently i.-^ued by the Government of India Information Services in Washington serve to emphasize in a graphic manner India's share in the struggle. Hew many people, we wonder, realize that the Indian Army is the largest volunteer army in the world--two-million strong. The regular recruiting has beer, 511.1100 men per month, and it would have been infinitely larger but for th; fact that it was limited by the amount of the equipment available for enlisted India's Army Nearly one-fourth of India's army the Fourth Indian Division played a most important part in the overthrow of Mussolini's African Empire, during which it suffered some 15,000 casualties, or one hundred per cent of its strength, hut it captured over 100,000 German and Italian prisoners. Field-Marshal Lord WaveH has also gone on record as saying; "Without the assistance of India, both in troops and in material, we most certainly could not have held the Middle East, which has been, I think I can claim, the keystone of Royal Indian Navy The Royal Indian Navy personnel is today thirteen times greater than at the outbreak of the war. The Information Services state that ships of the Royal Indian Navy have played their part in the Battle of the Atlantic, in the operations against the Italians in F.ast Africa, the campaign in Iran, the operations in the Dutch East 'ndies .waters, the defence of Singapore, the Battle of Burma, and the' invasion of Sicily. Today they arc engaged in the duties of escort, patrol and mine-sweeping throughout the Eastern and Middle Eastern Waters.' Indian Air Force 1 tie Air Force ha-, developed also in a phenomenal way, having expanded ten-fold since the beginning of the war. India was one of the first countries to establish a training school for parachute troops. The response of volunteers to this extremely hazardous branch of the air services has been HfmlfTt, mild. it is "stated that hot!: Indians and Gurghas have been found to make first-class parachutists,'The Force has played an important part in providing coverage for Allied shipping both going and comin , with troops and war supplies. In addition Indian air units have made many important raids on enemy territory. Some idea of the expanse of the Force may be gained, it is pointed out, from the fact that during the past year more than one million men have been engaged day and night in the work of aerodrome Shipbuilding The war has brought about the development of one important new-industry to India -- shipbuilding. Before the war there was r.one in the Indian Empire. Today Indian shipyards are building ships ior RECEIVES M.C From the hands of Lt.Gen. Sii Oliver Leese, Eighth Army Commander, Capt. A. J. Charbonneau j of Ottawa, former star football j player with Ottawa Rough Riders, ! receives the coveted Military Cross. | for valor in action, I Ove vessels of all types were repaired in Indain shipyards in the first two and a half years of the war. War Industries The development of war industries has been little short of amazing. From the outset of hostilities up to March, 1942, India supplied the bulk of war material for the Middle East. She produces the latest types of artillery, and her ordnance output has grown by leaps and bounds. She makes over 8,-000,000 garments per month for 4,000,000 p; " All t • the i e above figure and should save the deliberately purblind that India is behind the war effort heart and soul, despite the lugubrious prophecies of Gandhi and his satellites that the Indian people would not back the Allies until the British. Government had withdrawn from the sub-continent. India has every reason to be proud of her war OTTAWA REPORTS That Problem Ahead of Canadian Poultrymen Is To Produce Eggs More Efficiently ' The problem ahead of Canadian ihg production, but of producing egg- :n.ire eiticieutly, according to officials of the Egg and Poultry Marketing Service, Dominion De'-partment of Agriculture. The betu the Special Products Board . ncl the British Ministry of Food calls for shipment of a minimum of 8,400 .(short) tons of dried egg powder annually during 3 944 and 1945, the equivalent of 48,000,000 dozen eggs. With the delivery of 847,149 cases freim the first of the year, as against 329,il2 cases in the same period last.jrear, indications are that the quantity available for drying for British shipment in 1944 will greatly exceed this amount. Prewar egg exports to the United Kingdom were around one million dozen eggs a year. Shipments of dried eggs in 1943 were the equi-velant of 34 million dozen eggs. Canadian eggs sold for approximately the same price as those from Tolland and Denmark on the Bri- order to ' meet this competition, greater efficiency on the part of ' Canadian poultrymen will he necessary. Marketing Service officials Bn Grade "A" hogs which packers formerly paid to producers has been abandoned after negotiations between the packers an', the Meat Soard. Dominion Department of Agriculture. Instead. as from .April 10, this is now being paid as an increase in the dressed weight price of both "A" and grade "Bl" The increare in the dressed to about 10 cent-a hundred. Approximately £S ; , cent of hogs te| .,1 'e 1 I n 1 e 01 those grading into both "A" and "Bl" is as high as 75 percent. Discounts previously made for "'heavies" and other off-grade hogs have also been discontinued, and the three "C" grades, and three "D" grades have been consolidated into one grade each, ' with weight range of "heavies" being narrowed by 10 pounds, and that of "extra heavies" widened b. the same Federal premiums of $3 an ! $2 otrthe two top grades are now be-in- paid on - iTic-alh-cradcd hogs .direct to producers. Some provin- top „i,-< In \7l ot t i" is3 additional to the increase added to the 'Sales of used trucks, trailers and bu.es by individuals not in auto- dcr a-price ceiling, according to the motor-vehicle controller. The new 1 \e-s- i * < les Ly hotme'ioid clients. Maximum prices vehicle ' prices with percentages to allow for depreciation according to the age of the model. A net increase of $443,959,015, or nonnccc! by'the Minister of' Xatio::-»1 e t u< II n C V G Gibs n The Steel Company of Canada. Limited rices and Trade Board Order mtrolling sale and distribution of >rn does not apply to sales of corn i a farmer for use as feed on j.is vn farm premises, the order points The Book Shell Bedford Village By Hervey Allen Bedford Village is a novel of high adventure, a story ' of people and events so real, so vividly alive that you cannot help but become a part of their lives and fortunes. With it, Hervey Allen takes full stride as a storyteller in his portrayal of American frontier life in 1764. While the story is centered in Bedford Village and Pendergasses' tavern, it also moves in the bleak wilderness about, as Captain Jack and his Mountain Foxes stalk Indians through the forest to a bloody climax of death at The Salt Kettles. Through it all runs the story of Salathiel Albine and his fight for his white heritage, and the complications of his search for a vanished wife. 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