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b AL -- diers. I'll probably mevér be able to go to a cattle show again without thinking of fog and' London, for it was: there on our last fulk day in England that we visited the Smithfield Show in the gloom of the worst fog of the city's modern history. The swirling, billowing clouds of dense, smut-laden fog turned the day into a weird twilight and the night into spooky blackness. For the three of us--Doug Reid of Brampton, champion tractor plowman, Algie Wallace of North Gower, cham- pion horse plowman, and myself, Roy Shaver, of Finch, Ont.,, team man- 'ager--it was an experience we will never forget. We arrived in Londen on the Wed- ncsday night, flying in from Paris, where we had spent a brief two-day trip visiting: the: war graves. _ For- tunately our. first two days were fog free, and so we were able to visit Canada House to meet Canada's High Commissioner Norman" _:Robertson, and then Ontario House to meet Ont- 'ario's Agent-General Major J. 8S. P. Armstrong. At Canada House we re- newed acquaintanceship with Prime Minister St. Laurent, who was then in England to attend the Common- © wealth Prime' Ministers' Conference. He remembered us all from-the Ont- ario Plowing Association banquet af- ter the International match. Mr. Robertson placed a car at our disposal and that day, strangely enough in quite bright sun, we saw St. - Paul's Cathedral, the Tower of London, and watched the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. Only machines, I am sure, could match the clockwork precision of those sol- Our visit: to Buck Palace pro- vided an unexpected thrill for while we were standing there, the little Princess Anne came to the window and waved. Western hats. We visited our second House of - Commons in less than three weeks. ~----While in Northern Ireland we were shown through the House of Commons and Senate by Mr. A. Wilson, deputy to the Ulster Minister of Agriculture, We, of course, sat in the Speaker's Chair. In London we spent the best part of the Friday morning in the British House of Commons. It was, and only 13 government sup were present, with'seven members of the oppolition, one of-whomn was Op- position Leader Clement Attlee, In the visitors' gallery with us was a former Canadian, Russell Ubear, now living in London, That afternoon the fog started to |" come down and it got progressively see ore than a few yards ahead. We were staying at the Cumberland 'Ho- tel, at Hyde Park Corner, usually one of the busiest spots in London, but that night and the next--Saturday-- jt was quieter than Toronto's King and Bay streets are suposed to he at 3 o'clock on a Sunday morning. - An American, who was staying at the Cumberland with us had his own car with him. Saturday night he wanted to drive five blocks to the hotel garage. To do it he had to pay a man to walk in front of the car with a flashlight, while his daughter walk- along the curb with one hand on the car's left front fender. It took them more than an hour to make the five blocks. Beleive me, it was dark out- side, ; The usually brilllant west-end street lights looked like tiny candles, even when you were 'standing be- . neath them, You could hear people and vehicles passing you on the street hut you couldn't see them. It was like moving in a void. If you opened _your_window. to let in some "fresh | air", within thirty 'minutes what look- od like a cloud of smoke would be _ hanging from the ceiling. However, the Londoners' native genge.of humor came to hia rescue and. _ gome very amusing tales came out of the fog. I cannot guarantee. them, but I thipk some are worth repeating Prince. Alexander of Yugoslavia wag driving his aunt, the Duchess of Kent, through. London but became lost in the fog. A constable approached his stranded car and asked if he could help. #1 should be glad to know the way. to Buckingham Palace. I have to get my 'aunt there," the prince replied. "Don't be sarcastic. I'm only try- "ing to help," replied the cop. It ap- parently. took quite a time to persuade him it was not a bad joke. Just around the corner from us at [4] CANADIAN - PLOWME "ABROAD by ROY SHAVER Past President NTARIO PLOWMEN' S$ ASS0CIATION platforms. far below ground. Perhaps she too like our : "|.the fog lifted long enough for us to N Marble Arch a wore) othe displayed this sign: "Owing to the fog, the man. agement cannot guarantee the clarity of the picture." The fog gof évery- where. ~All surface transportation came to a halt several timés and only the Tube (London subway) was run, ning. But the fog even reached the There was no escaping it. On the Sunday we made our way across the city to the vast Earl's-Court arena where the annual Smithfield Livestock show was to open the next day. Officials at Ontario House had 'arranged. a pre-view for us. The fog got there first though. By then several of the prize animals were suffering from severe respiratory ail- Jnents caused by the murk. 'Eventu. ally, I understand, two of the animals died, and one big exhibitor fitted his animals with his own patent gas: masks--or should it be fog-masks. He paured hottles of whisky over sack. cloth and tied the cloth around the animals' nostrils. It was effective too, for the animals stopped cough- ing. : Smithfield has been compared to our Royal Winter Fair, but it is not a fair comparison, for Smithfield is' a.fat stock-show only. The Royal is a retailers' exhibition with the exhi- bitors' eye fixed on the. farmer. Smithfield is a wholesalers' show, Machinery, and excellent machinery 'at that, was on show for foreign buy- ers rather than domestic farmers. Doug and Algie were particularly im- pressed with the machinery exhibi- tion. , On the machines, every part that could possibly be gilded had been chrome-plated, so the whole area glinted and glistened in the are lights. One tractor company had a. model with an all-plastic body, so the engine and frame was exposed to view. The next day, our last in Europe, catch the boat train to Southhampton and then the Queen Elizabeth. I --cotld write a book about that ship, but I will spare you. F would like to say one thing--if you are thinking of going to Europe.go by hoat, it is a wonderful experience. We all appre- ciated the plane trip over, but it could never compare with the return [ journey" on that beautiful craft. unfortunately, private members' dan od Neighbors S-C Joins Film Council The Good neighbours Service Club held their February meeting-on Maon- day the 16th at the home of Myrtle Snelgrove. ~~ Pres; Elinor EIR "opened the meeting with the Lord's Prayer. Be- fore any business was carried on, Mr: Sulman of Port Perry was announced and he showed a variety of films from the National: Film Board. One was an "Eye Witness" of Canadian Acti- vities, another. a beautiful color film of the "Yoho Valley" in the Cana- dian Rackies, the other depicting what can be done by a community if every- one is. co-operative. 'We were so. pleased with the pic- tures and explanations given by Mr. Sulman that before he left, we had decided to join the Port Perry Film Board and so paid him on the spot. The minutes were then:-read and u treasurer's. report given by Merle Murphy. from the last Telephone Euchre, so another one is planned for March 14, Homes offered for this one are E. Davidson, E. Heayn, and F. Smith. --Olive Brown and-W:-Middleton were | chosen to learn how to operate the | projector for the films. We were very much interested with the beautiful gifts displayed by Myr- tle Hodgins which were sent to her and her daughters from Japan by her son "Terry". : Social convener Esther _Heayn could not give us the names of the lunch committee for next month, due to the revision of names. A committee of three was appoint- ed to investigate the possibilities of chairs for the. Community use. Refreshments were enjoyed by all. OBSERVATION If there is to be any change at the next federal election you may rest as- sured Abbott will have it. Nearly $60 was realized |. = LIFE UNTAMED BY B. 8. CRAGGS 2 ; yaa "ONION MAGGOT Almost any amateur gardener who has ever grown onions is familiar with the white "worm" known as the onion maggot, but unless he has made a study of insects he is probably un- familiar with its orlgin. » While harvesting my onion crop a few years ago (grown from sets) 1 noticed a few bulbs completely rotted. This somewhat surprised me as the growing season had been particularly dry and I do not renmiember seeing this condition before in mature onions." I do not think that the onion maggot caused the rot but almost all of the few plants upon which these grubs were working were rotten ones. How- ever, I found one upon which they were just starting (below the ground), Slicing off this portion of onion 1] placed it indoors in a jar for obrer- vation, The greater part of the onion was, as yet, unaffected, and proved! entirely 'edible, Fourteen days after placing the on- jon in the glass it was entirely rotted and beginning to smell somewhat strong. - Onion maggots are apparent- ly hardy creatures, however, as not only did they continue to thrive but had actually grown a little larger. Two or three of the grubs had entered the pupa stage and were encased in a brown shell. Three weeks after placing maggots in the jar the entry in my notes read "maggots still active". At the end of four weeks a lessen- | ing of activity was noticeable and a layger numher of the insects had en- tered the pupa stage. A portion of mushy onion still remained. ; Nine days passed before T again in- apected the container and, therefore, was not aware of the exact date at which the maggots became flies. 1 do not know just what 'I expected an adult onion maggot to look like but I was surprised to find what were ap- parently eight ordinary houseflies buzzing about under the muslin. -In- deed, in any other environment, the uninitiated would have classed them as houseflies without a doubt.. The only perceptible - difference was that the 'adults .of the ohion maggot ap- peared slightly greyer than ordinary | house flies. However, there may he differences in coloration as one agri- cultural authority describes them as | "olive green". As government hulle- tins state that. tle eggs are laid iv | early spring and take only a week to hatch this, apparently, was a late broad. (Copyright). 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