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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE. ONT., MAY 18, 1944 icobac j U The Pick of Tobacco OTTAWA REPORTS That Canada's Output Of Farm Machinery In 1945 Will Equal Average Of 1940 and 1941 Good news for farmers is the Wartime Prices and Trade Board announcement that total tonnage of farm machinery to be produced in Canada in 1945 will equal the average output of 1940 and 1941, and there will be no rationing of farm machinery repairs, and no restrictions on the quantities of these to be manufactured. The administrator of farm and construction machinery points out, however, that rationing of equipment will still be necessary next year and only the most urgent and essential needs can be met. In addition to the tonnage of farm equipment being made available for ordinary domestic use, the administrator said that Canadian manufacturers will produce an additional tonnage specifically for the establishment of war veterans on farms. Canada's contribution of farm equipment for rehabilitation under the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Association program also will entail an additional tonnage. A former Senior Livestock Field-man at Moncton, N.B., who has taken an active part in boys' and girls' farm club promotion, Ed-tnond F. Pineau, has been appointed Associate Chief, Livestock and Poultry Division, Production Service, Dominion Department of Agriculture. Mr. Pineau will be in. charge of co-ordinating boys' and girls' farm club policies throughout the Dominion. He was among the first to form boys' and girls' clubs in New Brunswick and coached several provincial cham-iion teams for the annual compet- Arrangements have been completed with the British Food Mission for the purchase of any dried white peas produced in Canada in 1944, surplus to Canadian requirements, the Agriculture Department has just announced. Canada's plan to deliver 600 million pounds of bacon to Britain during 1944 seems well on the way to fulfillment. Since the first of this year inspected packing plants have processed more than 300.000 hogs a week on an average topping the record of last fall when for the first time the weekly number was 180,000. In order to meet British and domestic needs, the • Dominion Department of Agriculture advises that every good -quality hog that can be produced will be required. T. F. Ritchie of the Central Experimental Farm horticulture staff says that a number of the green podded varieties are equal, if not superior, to the wax beans which are in short supply. All the winter and spring care by staying at FORD HOTELS Modern, Montreal Toronto and the LORD ELGIN '"Ottawa as low os $|50 no higher per person per person, |:|;J|{|jf]:: jffl No higher.' .J ',-i_^ffl JttSi! 400 lovely rooms with radio! THUMBS HER WAY Leave it to woman's ingenuity to transfer the lowly thimble to war-plane production. Hazel Porter-field, worker in Douglas Aircraft Company's Santa Monica plant, is pictured with chimble screwdriver she devised because her work involved holding large pieces oi metal in one hand and awkwardly balancing screws and screwdriver with the other. Her gadget, which won a plant suggestion award, is now used extensively throughout the plant, wasted if the colonies are not closely watched during the period between the early flow from dandelion and fruit bloom and the main flow from clover, advises C. B. Gooderham, Dominion apiarist. The early flow stimulates the colony to its maximum production of brood but seldom permits a surplus to be stored for emergencies. Any shortage of food at this time-results first in a reduction of brood rearing which in turn means fewer bees for the harvest, and secondly it may end in starvation and death of the whole colony. A few lbs. of sugar given at this time may save a colony of bees and a lot of To shorten milking time, the Dominion Experimental Station at Normandin, Que., has tried to do away with stripping the cows by hand after milkng them by machine. J. A. Belzile of the Normandin Station says, "We have not succeeded entirely with the old cows, that is, those milked by hand before a milking machine was installed, but heifers started on.ihe milking machine at their first lactation do not generally require stripping by Output Of Aircraft Soars In Australia Australia's aircraft industry is still expanding, with at least two plants having turned their 1,000th plane over to the Royal Australian Air Force. The Federal Department of Aircraft Production, which is manufacturing' Beaufort bombers, delivered its 500th plane as long ago as last November. Both British and American-type war the men who build them work- THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current tivents All People In Britain Calmly Await Hour of Coming Invasion of Europe Berlin up the peoples London noted face there was the final stage the great test' last side around the capital as well as from the northern tip of Scotland to the westernmost point of Cornwall Britain was one vast armed camp thronged with men awaiting the signal to go. Mood In Britain Londoners, and all Britons, have been "sitting on top of a volcano" sj long they are neither particularly excited nor e .pc dally nervous. The hour when invasion become, possible has been longed for as one which will mean the beginning of the end in a war which for the British his lasted nearly five years. They view the coming Allied assault with a mixture of gladness, relief rry for their fighting Tai Lo The ves from the German side if: hvaing no effect whatsoever. This is partly because the British ;hafl heard it all before, partly he-cause everyone is so busy there is no time to worry now about what the Germans may do, partly because of the British lack of imagination, which stood them in such good stead in the earlier and darker periods of the war. "On the streets, in the trains ar.d buses and restaurants, it fj» not invasion that is the topic of conversation but such things as the tulips in Birdcage Walk and the price of lettuce. There is practically no speculation as to the date of D-Day. Londoners know it is coming and are willing to leave the date to General Eisenhower. People preserve their normal appearance. Reports from New York appearing in British papers, depicting the American people as sitting on the edges of their chairs, are read with som|l astonishment and jpersous rarm\m0 in Britain remark with some -fie-wilderment on the calm normality.. Except for the newspapers there is little to remind a Londoner of the great drama about to unfold. Railroads Blasted The blasting of railroads went into its third week and British transportaton experts said that every railroad yard of any impor-tane in a 100-mile deep stretch HONORS HEROES could now handle even moderately heavy military traffic. Trains could still run, but the systems could no longer support emer- jonibs, complicated switching igements and 'choke points" d up, roundhouses and heavy tables obliterated, hundreds ieces oi- rolling stock smashed fields in western Europe was equally methodical and tar-ranging. Fro,a the English Channel to Clermont-Ferrand, in cen-•tial France, the Luftwaffe's bases and facilities were being smashed. While runways can be quickly restored, the damage done to parked aircraft and to service and repair hangars cuts heavily into the operational value of these fields, and to observers in London it seemed likely the Germans would have to rely on more remote bases for their main air activity. The Fortress Garrison By the latest estimates the Germans arc supposed to have sixty-nine divisions -- 760,000 men -- Europe. Some of these are air forces. Fifty-two divisions--573,000 men--are beieved to be in France and the Low Countries under Field Marshal General Karl von Rund-stedt. Within this command is a separate field army of nine to twelve divisions, to be moved wherever it is needed, probably under Field Marshal General Erwiu Rommel. In Norway there are perhaps twelve divisions and in Denmark five. Against this the Allied have in Britain forces numbered in the millions, representing British, Canadan, American and other Allied armies, and with countless weapons of all kinds. More than that, there is for Germany the great threat in the east. All signs point to a large-scale preparation for a new Red Army offensive to start at the sa as the invasion from the west. Most observers feel the main weight of the attack will be aimed through Poland. Supporting this view have been the heavy Russian a during the last ten day behind the front. Threat of Encirclement Finally there is the prospect of an Allied move in the south coincident with D-Day in the west. The Germans openly predict such an attack hut are as unsure of where it will Europe. Last week they claimed to have taken new defensive measures in southern France, central and northern Italy and in the Balkans. Throughout this area Allied bombers were^ pounding hard at large This eucircli tig threat, p rotracted day after da v, emphas zes the Nazis' probien ". Not kno\ ving the "where, when and how i mch" of the Allied pla i they cam ot make final dispositio a of their c efending a fluid situat on, for d feints and seco idary attack s. Thev must be able t y keep,their mobilitv as thev develop. The air attacks on their Princess Beatrice Photo above is the latest camera portrait of Lt.-Gen Walter Kreuger, commander of the 6th Army in the southwest Pacific, taken when he recently . pinned a "streamer' award on the colors of the Headquarters 1 Corps of the 6th at an advanced base. Corps was citea for action in defeating strong Jap forces on Papua, northern New Guinea. e Isle of Wight Pruritis-lnlense Itching Relieved quickly by this Medicinal Ointment There are two forms of itching which are especially distressing. First pruritis vulvae--• from which only women suffer and second | pruritis ani--itching at the rectum from piles. 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Approximately 7,000 calves wer vaccinated against Bang's Diseas n British Columbia during 1943. BREATH OF LIFE Girl Scout life-saving training of Mrs. Davis Evans of Chicago, saved life of her 15-months-old daughter, Margaret, with whom she is pictured. Baby was choking with convulsions, and Mrs. Evans breathed into her mouth until in-halator squad arrived. VOICE OF IHE PRESS A c 3 be 100 1: i the r "8 living of one's own business. And that, of course, is what makes the centenarian virtually as rare as tin dodo and the great auk. --Ottawa Citizen Lack of Space When we told a lady subscriber the other day we didn't have spact to print a long story about her club'i doings, she replied. - "I don't set why not; you always have plenty of space for that old war and thost old politics." --Brandon Sua Is That New? Equipped with the latest scientific knowledge, according to a writer, a 98-pound woman can throw * 190-poUnd man to his knees. Whaf l so new about that? Hun Hides For Sale Relieved of air attacks, Malta will soon resume the shipping oi hides to Britain. The Maltese must have a lot on hand, principally ol German and Italian fliers. --St. Thomas Times-Journal Or 16, or 15? And, if there is a case for giving the ballot to the 18-year-old, why not at 17, when he--and she-knows everything? --Edmonton Journal Another Green Unless you get busy, the first thing to turn green this Summer will be your envy of the neighbor'* gardens. --Kitchener Record And Deep The same slogan is appropriato for Victory Bonds and Victory Gardens--dig down! --Stratford Beacon-Herald Do not discard the outer 1c if lettuce, cabbage, escarole, tip or beet tops. They coi uore healthful iron than the i LOADING A THOUSAND POUND BOMB A one thousand pound bomb on its way to the under-carriage of a Kitty-bember operating from an advanced airfield in Italy. The wing to which these men belong has, in one day, operated in support of the 8th Army, 5th Army, ever the beach-head south of Rome, and helped the partisans in Yugo-slavia. REG'LAR FELLERS--Eternal Spring Problem By GENE BYRNES