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: : $1.50 per year in advance grown there, ng erected so constructed of tw | incl plazh, and is a fine structure. In 1884 it was threatened | by fire but remained an almost sole survivor from the hlaze that s| destroyed almost the entire town. : There is a wealth of information regarding grain and seeds in the items which follow. Mr. McCulloch, the present phen he dutaile the present manager seed and grain business from the lake to Lindsay is largely ; ogg & th ; Limted, whose places of business are situated at Oakwood, te. L Picton, Oshawa and Port Perry. "Seed and Grain" covers :-- ? : Grain--wheat, barley, buckwheat, oats, peas, corn. ; Seeds include--alsike, red clover, alfalfa, sweet clover, timothy, millets, rape, turnips, mangels, all varieties of garden seeds. The notes that follow give some valuable information as to these seeds and grains. Wheat--The old days are past when long strings of sleighs or wagons loaded with wheat made a long slow trip to the elevator at Al limi The Warden's Banquet, held in Whitby last Thursday evening, was a fine tribute to the hospitality of Mr. Somerville. The place, the presence of the ladies, the pleasing program, and the selected list of toasts com- pleted an evening's enjoyment that was a fitting close to the work of the County Council and Warden Somer- ville for the year 1932. Mr. J. H. Ormiston, editor of the Whitby Gazette, was toast master; 'and did the honors fittingly. bert or Whi Tavice: Si wheat and no difference is ¢ i The following tribute paid to Miss| Wheat; although the two kinds must be kept separate for the mal. Olive VanCamp and Norma Hooey on| ing of flour--the chief local purpose for which wheat is winning second and third prizes re-] used. The balance of the crop largely goes for chicken feed. be A Barley--Twenty five or thirty years ago a great deal of barley was grown in this district. This was grown almost entirely for malting purposes and grea the weather to produce a ht 8 change in the mal 1 d business carried on almost exclusively in peg, The local brewers have been buying ncerns, and the barley has been grown in the there has come a call for Ontario batley for the British market. This has had a tendency to give a better price 108 barley and if the demand continues, the price should re- As a feed barley is considered ood, with st heat i qualities. It eT oueiger go Jong heat Producing awa;Crown Attorney J. A .McGibhon; best results, and is indeed a da .| BR: A. Hutchison, public school inspee- - .Buckwheal--The writer can remember the day when the man} tor; Dr. James Moore, county regist- who grew buckwheat was looked upon as a poor farmer. rar; Lt.-Col: R.B. Smith, officer in ; is past, and a very considerable acreage is now command of the Ontario Regiment: is an export crop, which is shipped to Holland and is used! County road superintendent D. J. for the production of gin. "Some s; supply is kept in the coun-| Kean; Samuel Farmer, editor of the try for grinding into Aunt Jemima's pancake flour, and some ig| Port Perry Star; His Worship Mayor 3 : used for feed, when mixed with other grains. It is very heating| Bowman; Reeve Albert W. Jackson lined by Miss Hooey whose appear-| and if used for feed at all must be handled carefully. .| and Deputy-reeve Fred Rowe, Whitby; ance and general delivery were both] Oats--This is the grain that old Dr. Jonson said was fed to the officials of the Town of Whitby, in- good. by Scotch and to horses. Now the Scotch are dropping the use of | cluding John R. Frost, clerk; H. L. "Miss Olive VanCamp was the final| this cereal somet and if the "canned" idea of life keeps on| Pringle, engineer; H. W, Quantrill, speaker and was by far the most| the day may come when the horses will have the oats all to them- chief of police; G. W. P. Every, sup- dramatic speaker of the evening. Shel selves. al oats-are grown in the West. Ontario oats have erintendent of the Public Utility Com- must have made a study of stage| not the meat body, and the hull is too thick and tough. It js] mission, also W. J. H. Richardson, posture and delivery for she certainly| notable, too, that Old Country oats are in high favor for cereal] inspector, and Dr. J. F. Lavery, gov- excelled in these points. She spoke] production because of their high quality. ernor of the House of Refuge; reeve on "Memorials of the Great War" and| Peas--This grain is a favorite for human beings and--for pigs, | Chapman, Pickering; reeve John Ross, used for her opening lines the whole| years ago there used to be a great demand for marrowfat peas,| Thorah; reeve G. B. Johnston, Can- of the poem "In Flanders Tields.") and a premium price was paid for this product. But that day 1s| nington and others. ¢ past. Golden Vine peas are favorites, and the crop goes largely] mn. toastmaster was Mr. J. H. Orm- to the factories, There is a peculiarity in some peas in| won. editor of the Whitby Gazette that they will not "boil"--that is to say that peas grown in some| ,n4 Chronicle, and many toasts were localities will boil hard and are not suitable for canning purposes, Proposed and responded to. Ly. Pree There is no reason can be given for this defect in these Deas from irene county citizens. The program particular districts. The other peas are ground for feed, or split] aie; included vocal numbers by Mrs. for use in lumber camps, =. : P. N. Spratt, of Whitby, with Mrs. 'This grain is not much grown in Ontario, although some Josephine Parrot as accompanist; variety is produced in Essex and Kent, The Dent{ join selections by Mr. V. P, Stouffer, Condensed from the Oshawa Daily Mimes At Head Table With the warden at the head table were His Honor Judge Thompson, W. H. Moore, M.P., for Ontario riding; James Blanchard, M.P.P., for North Ontario riding; Dr. T. E. Kaiser, Oshawa; Mr. Frank L. Mason, Osh- . brought it into. reference with her subject was excellent. The whole ad- dress was most emotional and certain- ly stirred the hearts of those who heard it. In length it was consider-| 'ably shorter than the first prize win- ner's talk and it did not cover as dif- ficult a subject, but as far as appear- |. Ra a late crop for hogs, cattle, or sheep. Can be sown as late as August and is a feed until frost, being valuable after | regular past e fails. oe amc frost, being valuable after ix well known crop was quite glorified when it became the basis of airs ad Ciher ina of am; but that day is past. However, turnips are shipped to 'the tes for domestic use because they cannot be lps are mainly used for cattle feed. are grown extensively for a succulent feed for not used. They are a good feed for of millet is used for canary seed. " the canary seed man, will Dr. T. E. Kaiser The Toast to "The Parliament of Canada," was proposed by Dr. T. E. Kaiser, ex-M.P. for this riding. After paying his respects to the County Council, and opposition to the move towards their abolition, Dr. Kaiser turned to Federal parliament and de- clared that there was no better gov- erned country in the world than Can- ada. ~W..H. Moore, M.P. Replying to the Toast, "The Parlia- ment of Canada", W. H. Moore, MP, said that while parliament was a talking institution, he feared that sometimes its members talked too much. He wondered if later on it would not be wise to devise something better than the present party system, which among other things was pro- ductive of much talk that retarded legislative progress. He agreed with have taking part in government, the better that government will be. He favored, however, a decentralization of power, whereby the provincial gov- ernments would give more legislative power to county and township coun- oils, the members of these bodies be- people, Frank L. Mason cial Legislature", Frank L. Mason ex- pressed regret that Mr. W. E. N. Sin- clair, K.C.,, M.P.P,, was through ill- ness unable to be present, and ex- pressed the hope that he would soon recover, Mr. Sinclair had rendered a year. less expense. J. A. McGibbon The toast to "The Judiciary", was very ably proposed by J. A. McGibbon, the past been brought into this country from the Unit- f Port Perry, and Miss Helen Mellow, recent Jey ent owing to hi h tariff is the im- o on ddr the plano, and hum- | of.corn from South Africa. Tis n is of very good orous numbers by Jack Oldfield, ven- a Bossi triloquist, Toronto. can alike now for about $4 a bushel. During toot 0.00. That is quite a difference, Presented With Watch war has made the change. Germany used| During the evening Warden Som- of alsike even poorer grades. But the war |ervillb was presented with a hand he : i gold watch as a token of esteem from p feed, and large quantities of this seed | his colleagues in the County Council, 0 Great Britain, New Zealand, and Aus-| this presentation being made by reeve this trade has ceased. In Britain this|G. B. Johnston, of Cannington, while ie fact alsike is mixed with white clover, and| Mrs. Somerville was asked to accept 1 on'the moors for sheep pasture. at the hands of Mrs. Grant Christie, ship a considerable quantity of alsike to the | wife of the reeve of Reach, a hand- Josiay the tariff au alsike is $4.80 per bushel : d crop, AN universally. | able leadership in the Council, his fine ance, delivery and diction were con- cerned, she did "exceptionally well. Judges stated that the margin be- Miss Wightman, the first prize and 'Miss VanCamp was ex- y small. Miss Wightman it is a most prolific grow- | had given to the service of Port Perry may easily be grown, and | over ¢ atively new crop. - Forty | his colleagues, and to many years he|- ada for ministration of justice. are striving to get along, and bespoke for them a tangible expression of| had some nice things to say about In his| newspapermen of Canada and par- official capacity as crown attorney he | ticularly of this county, when he pro- came in contact with much that was posed the toast to "The Press", Mr. sad and depressing, but he adopted | Samuel Farmer, editor of the Port the policy of giving every man a fair | Perry Star, made a plea for a and liberal chance to improve his greater spirit of loyalty to Canada and the Empire and less loyalty to party interests. He expressed the hope that Canada would never resort to the American election system. sympathy and brotherly love. position. '| Township of Mara, which 25 years THE WARDEN'S BANQUET DELIGHTFUL HOSPITALITY AND GENIAL GOOD FELLOWSHIP MARK THE OCCASION 'travagant, it should be known that the largely covered by the previous speak- er. The next time he was speaker at| J. H. Forder, L. E. Mountjoy, W. A. VanCamp, R. Byers, Wm. Beacock, Edgar Mr. Ross stated that the| Wright, Wilfred A. Williams, Rev. Dr. R .P. Bowles, Earl Dorrell, James Byers, R. W. Philp, Lewis Swain, Roy Ferguson, Clarence Marlow, Robert Hamilton, N. 8. MeNally, Creighton Devitt, Leith Byers, Dr. F. W. Mar. Dr, Kaiser that the more people we of Whitby. ing more direct representatives of the manding the Ontario Regiment, pro- . | great need for the militia in Canada. Proposing the toast to the "Provin- Col. Smith stated that Ontario County county regiment. great public service to the city of| of a system of national defense, and Oshawa, particularly during the past] that in days of peace it should be en- Mr. Mason figured that the| couraged and amply provided for by County Council rendered a valuable| the government was the contention of service but favored cutting down the| Dr, James Moore. This County need- membership to one representative| ed the Ontario Regiment, and he from each municipality, believing that thought that the Council should make just as efficient work could be done at| an annual grant of $1,000 without any hesitation so that it might properly function. crown attorney and president of the| posed by Mayor Bowman, of Whitby, Ontario County Bar Association, who| who referred to the long years of paid tribute to those who presided | faithful service rendered to the public nal and civil courts in Can-| by Warden Somerville. eir able and impartial ad-} needed more men of his type, said He pleaded| Mayor Bowman. for those' who in these trying times| a suitable reply. \ R. A. Hutchison : Proposing the toast to "The County of Ontario", R. A. Hutchison, public school inspector, stated that he had travelled practically over every inch of this county and many times mar- velled at its progress in so short a time. There was not an Anglo-Saxon citizen in the county 140 years ago. The U. E. Loyalists, coming here about 1800, were the first settlers and pioneers, and because of their loyalty and perseverance the people of their banner county of Ontario today en- joyed a wonderful heritage. There had been great development, the ago was partly uncultivated and had no roads, and today boasted of splen- did farms and roads, was but an ex- ample. We owe a debt of gratitude, said Mr. Hutchison, to the men and women of the past. A. W. Jackson Albert W. Jackson, reeve of Whitby, replying to the toast to the county, had no fear for its future despite pre- sent conditions. Its debenture debt, although somewhat large he consid- ered an asset, as the county had re- ceived good value for all money ex- pended. The county had 180 miles of county roads, 100 miles of paved pro- vincial highway, 150 bridges and 8 culverts, all of them modern, and 32 others not on the county road system, and it had 50,000 happy people. If the County Council appears to be ex- County is by no means in financial straits. He believed that expenditures should be undertaken where needed in order to provide work for the im- the farms, John Ross, Thorah dean of the County Council, replied very briefly to this toast, stating that what he had intended saying had been a banquet of this kind he hoped he would be called on ahead of the reeve County Council faced many problems, but he was sure that every member tried to give his best service to the people. Lieut-Col. R. B. Smith 1 posed the toast to "The Canadian Militia." Council was one of the few that did not make an annual grant to its Dr. James Moore That the militia was the nucleus . « C « . Other Speakers The toast to "Our Host," was pro- The Warden made Reeve E. L. Chapman, of Pickering, The Ladies W. J. H. Richardson knows how to (continued from column 1) and W. M. S. of the United Church for the wonderful banquet and the faultless and generous way it was served. i ; ~ At the head table sat President J. C. Devitt, an old Cartwright boy him- self, who was director of ceremonies for the evening. With him were Dr. Fred W. Marlow, of Toronto, the yuest speaker of the evening, Reeve N. R. Green, Mr. Norman Taylor and Mayor Geo. W, James. After the dinner a musical program was en- joyed after which President Jim Devitt welcomed the guests which in- cluded members of the Township Council and municipal officials, trus- tees of the seven school sections of the township and directors of Cart- wright Agricultural Society, to the festive board. Short addresses were then given by Mayor James and Mr. Dave Morrison, after Which Dr. Fred W. Marlow gave the address of the evening, a copy of which will appear in the next issue of the Blackstock news. Dr. R. P. Bowles, formerly Chan- cellor of Victoria College, Toronto, and now a resident of Cartwright ex- vressed the appreciation of the Cart- wright people to the Club and to Dr. Marlow for his address. He extolled Cartwright, even though it was not his native township. In recalling his boyhood days, he stated among other things, that he received a licking every school day for a year. Mr. Geo. Chase expressed the ap- preciation of the Rotarians to the provement of trade, particularly on|SPeakers of the evening, and to the ladies for the splendid supper pro- vided. Reeve N. Green and Mr. Nor- man Taylor, President of the Agri- John Ross, reeve of Thorah, and] cultural Society, moved and seconded a hearty vote of thanks to the Rotary Club for their hospitality. The meet- ing closed with singing Auld Lang Syne. The guests present included: Gibson, 8S. Jeffrey, Jabez ow, John Wright, Ira Argue, Carl J. Lieut.-Col. R. B. Smith, officer com- Wright, Isaac Whitfield, Wallace Mar- low, John J. Jobb, Rev. Dr. C. E. Whittaker, E. M. Larmer, R. C. Hill, He said that there was aj J. Bruce, Garnet Wright, Stanley H. Malcolm, W. D. Ferguson, Nelson C. Marlow, Rev. F. W. Newell, Fred Taylor, Reeve N. R. Green, Norman Taylor, W. H. Marlow, L. H. Corner, Dr. John McArthur. We are very sorry to report that Reeve Green met with a serious ac- ident on Saturday evening last while doing his chores. He had been put- ting down straw out of the mow and on finishing started to slide down to the barn floor but his progress was impeded by the open granary door. The doctor was called and Mr. Green was taken to a Toronto Hospital and operated on. At time of writing he is doing as well as can be expected. We hope for his complete recovery. BIRTHDAY PARTY to be given by the Ladies' Bible Class at the United Church on the evening This county | of December 2nd. We hereby extend a most kind in- vitation To you and your friends or any re- lation To come to a party, second night of December, And spend a gay time that you'll al- ways remember. For each month of the year will a table be spread, Where, for twenty-five cents, right well you'll be fed. From New Year's to Christmas, every month will be shown, And you'll sup with all others the same as your own. A musical programme of very rare merit tribute for his unfailing kindness and| toast "The Ladies." An equally fine] Will be given to those who will just co-operation was unable to be| reply was made by Deputy-reeve Fred reply with him to -this| Rowe, of Whitby, who moved a vote toast. Judge Thompson gave some of thanks to™the ladies who served interesting facts concerning the coun-| the banquet in such an acceptable ty's history and the service rendered| manner. The vote carried unanim- by those who had occupied the bench. | ously and with hearty applause. grand jury as an unnecessary and| made by Mrs. J. H. Ormiston, presi-| As 8 dent of the Women's Institute ,who said that the service d been a great pleasure to the ladies and was in keeping with the ideals cGibbon of service on which the Institute as lighten| an institution was founded. The reply to the vote of thanks was d had come to hear it. You'll be met at the door and shown * to your table, Where you'll eat just as long and as much as you're able. We'll meet young and old, with greet- ings most hearty . you come at 6.30 to your own birthday party. ABOUT CLEANING SIDEWALKS Mr. Householder, if Jou can, plots. X The National Anthem brought a) front of your property--and BLACKSTOCK a is bss i Sh hs