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Pickling, Onions, "omatoes and Cucimbers. Caitorer "poor showing There on many be summed up in two words--bad on. raise pintwo w titions] raised, bition stan ! adverse] se Admitti ng that it thay there is no money in ext as those that live in towns; and they from their statute labor. It is very raise the standard of firming in His own At & seeming financial loss. In doing own 2 Mtereats. He simulates i desire oor. He creates a 'market for his air etc, among his neighbors. Soon his oe farming, and buyers from a distance there is so much good stuff air bas ty. gratifying for the © up th prize among shag. feos. but if ig; be would know that it would pay him to put forth his best "There are very few better neighorhoads than this for stock. cal stock raiser would make a showing at Port Perry Fair, we rs, and compel the buyers to come to us. What the Grahams, Stones, Pollock. Lee, | and a hundred other persons, who raise a exhibits. Let the cities and big places .. They don't tus, and we could do without them in of fairs if we only 30. We're big enough. Are we loyal eeing? - We can't spend thousands of dollurs on amusements and races, but we can show the a £ but right to'sdy that the showing of horses was good. . In cattle Sheep, pigs and poultry were away below the mark so far as the mumber of exbibits was concerned. + A wery regrettable feature of the day's doings was the accident, by which ; H. Collacutt had his shoulder broken, and, Mr. Will Anderson's ng was as result of a collision between Jas Vrooman and Herb. judging of the gentleshe not / "feature 11 the tent was Mr. John Nott's sunflower guess- 3 contest. The total number ofseeds in the flower was 5400, the lowest v Laud C Bruce came nearest in his guess of 099; ave the sunflower as his prize by.applying to Mr. John Nott, who was himself offered & prize for his exhibit, but we are told he refused to +A good of excellent ns turnouts. v the town hall at night. There was a wealth # worthy of special mention. Notable - ventriloquist, Morgan the boy singer, and Prize List ! High Steppers-- 1 S McMillian, 2 Percy Graham, 3 Geo Brown. Special Prize by H McKenzie, foal of 1912-- 1 Sam Baird, 3 Robt Prenttce; 3°Geo Forder, 4 John H} McKee. : SpecialsHorse by W J Henders, foal 1912--~1 W M Real, 2 Wilson Bros, 3 Hareld Goode. Special by R M Holtby, Acme or Torris, foal 1912--1 Jas. Rennie & A 1San, 2 Joseph Stone, 3 John Christie. Special by R M Holtby, Hackney foal of 1912 by any hackney horse--1 R W. McClintock. TRIALS OF SPEED FREE FOR ALL Roy Brook, 1 1 1 J. Noble, Tor- onto; Adrian Pointer, 2 2 2 Geo. Gray, Toronto. arry Hill, 3 3 3 John Mead Time 2.25}; 1st heat; 2.22, 2nd 1 heat; 2.26 3rd heat. f '2.35 CLASS V, 1 11 Joe Vassau, To- PORT PERR at are} : Letters from a Self- Made Farmer to HisSon Oakville, Ontario, August 28, 1912 To Mr. James Tompkins, ' Port Perry, Ontario. Dear Jim-- I was noticing your Ma fix up some apples for apple sass the other day. You know apples round these parts these days is terrible .. poor, and judging by the showing of that there fruit at the Port Perry Fair, we'll be paying $5 a barrel for them. I could tell you a whole lot of what I thought about those ex- hibits, and a whole lot-more about the people who have good stuff and Won't show. it; bat I don't: need to, for you know pretty well what I think about it anyway. But to get back to them} apples your Ma was peeling. There was a whole lot had specks on them, but apples being scarce; she couldn't afford to throw them away, so she sits right down and goes at them with a knife, and I'm free to confess she did considerable trim- ming; but you'd have been surprised what a lot of good there was in them scrub apples. Well your Ma she peeled and peeled uptil she was plumb tired out, and there was about half a pan full left. Them apples stood round waiting to be fixed up for about three days, your Ma being busy at other things. Say you never saw such a sight as them few apples had got into. Your Ma she just gave one look, and she says: 'Joshua, yon'd best take them apples out to the pigs, for theyre all spiling." And sure enough they was. Now folks is an awful lot like them apples. Most of us has our bad specks, but if some decent soul 'll come along and trim us up a bit, they'll find us pretty clean at heart. The trouble with a whole lot of good people is they wants to throw us out to the pigs first thing. 3 They've learned that "beauty is only skin deep;" but they forget that a whole lot of badness isn't any deeper. I get awful'tired of hearing folks tell how bad the world is, and standing round doing nothing to make it any better. Nearly every- body can kick, but it takes some energy and some ideas to make the world over. Now that the Fair is over there are a hundred and one things that were wrong, and ever so many people can tell you how it had oughter or badn't oughiter be, but before the Fair I don't suppose they come round with any brand new ideas, or any offers to help. Some folks reminds me of SiPerkin's mule--he was always ready to kick, but you had to Jambast him some if you wanted, to make him pulk Some folks is most awful afraid they'll be taken for a goat when there's any work around to do do. They hate to be butting in, you know. After the time to work is over, of course, it's different, - My idea is that the man that bas energy enough to do anything had oughter be let run it to suit himself, and if you or me or the other fellow doesn't like the way it's done, then we'd better take off out coats and get busy and do the thing right. bi "The rule had oughter be--no work, no kick, Of course I know it's asking a whole lot of some folks, bu it do. Scum to me that if Somebody comes along and does the chares for me 1 had oughter be decent enough to say "Thank you," and not be growling about the way he did the job. what right have I got to kick ? None. This old world's struggled through a lot of worse pola than | we're having now. | The fact is that real badness is "scarce., * About the: i It didn't cost me mothing,