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unpacking The official Hoard of the filtlllllt liawlwsloiie rharge met at the lilllllllf lniled fliuieli Hit llli ltev lQllflllllli iitgtlliil After an opening not top by the lIlllllslfl lll mt lrllkillliss were discussed Elev lleQiiet IfVlllt expresswt hi ippreeii firm of the many tlllllllilllllfll made in the iiiiriiteis hoiise Ill ltllrll At lilTidi The budget for 1971 was ar cepted Lorrig Johnston is lay representative for 197879 Mrs Bruce Robinson is recording steward again She was hearti ly congratulated on her ex cellent service Mrs Ron Shaw is secretary for the charge Refreshments were served at the close of the meeting Aaron and Scott Bertram of Midland spent last weekend with their grandparents Mr and Mrs It Bertram and their sister Tricia was with the family of Caldwell rugby by Beatrice Johnston 326681 Mr Marilord Horne passed away suddenly in the Soldiers Memorial Hospital flrillia let Mr Horne spent all his life in ltughy oiiirnunity till lehliic Brandon 1969 when he moved to Moon Beach The funeral was held last week at the Mundell Funeral Home with burial at St An drews cemetry in rillia Deepest sympathy is extend ed to the family VISITORS Recent visitors with Mr Harry Langman and Margaret were Mr and Mrs Hon Broad foot and Mr and Mrs Don Richardson and Mr and Mrs Doug Richardson and family all of Toronto and Henry Westlake rillia ongratulations to Mr and Mrs Bordon Home on their re cent 23th wedding anniversary Mrs Harry Langrnan and Margaret attended the Bible Conference inJarvis St Baptist hurch Toronto and also visited with Mr and Mrs Hon Broad foot riiintrng Inst shopped around it Hanks and llll riiiipaiiies lltlltVt llll Trlll lllllil my plate lflf lieriiiing saying and lriiii llieir gririrl and rates fTSOnrlllffl ervrt lll tfllll irig If you live or work within 10 miles of Barrie you can become welcome member no membership fees no shares you have to buy lust come in and open an account Youll be glad you did in form with difference Life goes on of an easier pace By BRIAN BAKER OLDWATER bored with always visiting ultramodern ultraefficient farms with the biggest clusters of silos the biggest tractors the top producing herds the most acres wanted to visit farm that was totally different where life goes on at an easier pace and where the owners farm as way of life free from the race to be biggest and most impressive and generally beat the neighbors In the centre of Matchedash Township north of Lovering on County Road 17 we found such farm in the 2tltlacrc farm of John Silk tltltl Coldwaterl who lives with his wife in comfortable frame house per ched on the edge of great out crop of Canadian Shield granite on the farm his grandfather Joseph Silk cleared prior to 1884 The novelty of finding the workable fields nestled bet ween the typical great rolling folds of treecovered pink and greytoblack granite im mediater appealed to us We were fascinated by the variety of wild plants and wildlife and by Mr Silks description of farming in this unique corner of Simcoe County and the areas history DOLLAR AN ACRE His grandfather who originally came up from Caledon near Orangeville ob tained the land for about dollar an acre when he took title to the land in 1884 under the Clergy Reserve Act dont know whether you would have learned about the Clergy Reserve Act in your time but when went to school we learned what this meant explained Mr Silk Even at that time well past the pioneer stage the govern ment still wanted more set tlers and at the same time the churches wanted to open up new churches and build up their congregations The government then gave the churches tracts of land mostly not the best for agriculture in return for bringing settlers into an area Many of the settlers first worked for the big lumber com panies and mills that operated in this area in the later 1800s to help pay for their land Even in my mothers time logging and lumber milling was big industry in this area In order to float the logs down to mills at Port Severn and Waubaushene the creeks par ticularly the Black reek which runs behind my property had to be dammed up in the spring to keep the water high enough to float the logs down little Each dam was fitted with chute through which the rushing water carried the logs When mother went to school during the spring log driving season the fields were all flooded and the only way she Tom Duncan lilt lfl lift Sue and Still Shane and when flll iil 2mm could get to school was by boat myself remember the log drives TEAM OI XEN It is interesting to note that the lumber for the barn built by his grandfather was brought in scows up the Black River to the back of the farm from where it was hauled by his gand fathcrs team of oxen to the construction site The framing timbers were all hand hewn from trees grown on the farm The original house was two storcy log house When it bur ned down in 1906 his father who died in 1916 just before Silk was born was badly burned He was trying to save some of the family momentos when he was forced to retreat As he came back down the stairs collapsed and he fell into feather mat tress abandoned at the foot of the stairs He was smothered with burning feathers and was only just dragged to safety in the nick of time by neighbors The farm was covered with huge pine trees originally and his grandfather worked for local lumber company before buying his land When he cleared the land all he had was team of oxen and axe two strong arms and true pioneering spirit that bad faith in the future Silk has early photos showing his dad and his grandfather in later years clearing the stumps by means of horsepowered stumping machine When they were pulled out and stood on edge some of them stood to to 12 feet high one shot showing Silks dads brother standing on roots that stood over 12 feet high Until the stumping machines came along the stum ps had to be cut out and pulled out by oxen The first crops planted by his grandfather were between the pine stumps There were few if any wolves in those days and like most other settlers he kept sheep to keep the regrowth of stumps and brush down as well as to provide food and clothing for the family Thc team shown on binder owned by his dad were con scripted into duty on the Fren ch battlefields during World War Silks dad John used to walk four miles through the bush to North River School mile south of Lovering Store Silk himself only had mile or so to walk to the old Ridge School which still stands limide the whitepainted St Johns Anglican frame chur ch which was the first in the area RITVFIIIYIKll Until well into the 19305 what is now ount Road 17 ended mile north oinlack River tfp until that time it was not even snowplowed and the only way out was by sleigh and horses It was sandy rutted trail about one vehicle wide with trees lltlllltf xllli one new lfrlll tllr tltllll lllillxl flll feel is ll riii tire begging Itllll lllllflll llllllllttS iiirl lielpliil Paul Smith leir llll lvr ilways irlvir troni rerlit llnion llllllrllt interest rates ftttlVitl are very lfltllfll Its like rl liig lrllIllly good honest and when on lflrlllS rerlit Union has the better leiil Credit Union is local financial service for local people Brute Mclean loan llll er Interest rah tilaterl llrllillll rill only And you an make partial of loans is llllllt ipiil till lite insured the unpaid HIT ll ltllrllllllll tyitliritit penin BARRIE COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION LTD lBllllR SlRlll friend indeed liARRll Nl 14M Nil 728 Ill growing right up to the edge of the road Now it is paved highway right up to the Severn River It is however still deadend road at 10 miles the longest and busiest deadend road in Simcoe County Back to the present in for mer years Silk has sold cream and milk but today he operates cowcalf beef operation of 30 to 40 head which he can handle himself without unnecessary overhead or complicated housing problems In Winter they are housed in the barn but are free to wander out into the sheltered yard In summer they have excellent natural pasture to graze and they also can range over the many acres of rock and bush on which the animals make good solid gains He bales the hay for winter use and also grows oats and some mixed grain to keep the animals in good growing con dition and put nice finish on them at market time Two shallow 12foot wells provide ample sparkling clear water for house and barn In ad dition creek gurgles and splashes its way past the corner the house natural rock basins hold further supplies of water The fields below his hillside barn and house is an ancient beaver meadow which in his grandfathers day was tamarack swamp Even when Silk used to work the field with horses the whole mass would shake and quiver under the pounding of the horses feet Later when he bought trac tor it frequently bogged down Hundreds of feet of time drain ended the problem completing the natural cycle from lake to swamp to bog to beaver meadow to bush to stable cultivated field He finds that binder and threshing machine still lend themselves well to harvesting his grain crops DIFFERENT PROBLEMS Fencing in the rock areas presents different problems Where solid rock prevents the digging of fence ixrsts trees make good substitute especiall for electric fence Steel stakes can be driven into crevices Sections of snakerail fences stand up beautifully across bare bedrock For ari chors and for woven fencing Silk builds up threefoot square log cribs filled with rock Not only is Silk farmer he is also trapper and out doorsman Each spring he taps just enough of his 400 or so ma le trees to provide few gal ons of syrup for the house lorrnorona Shops OR envelope with sufficient Advent mm Value $450000 $45000 $70 Mutations shopsvs own not An evening at Ma le teal Gardens tor eight people includin dnncr and hockey glme January 1978 Phi An ElectrohomeAdveni Color TV Protection System with foot diagonal screen SECOND PM Electrohomr 14 Portable Color W5 25 MD MI Micron Ml Hockey Skates featuring the cxclusrvr hidden hinge design and Nylite blade To other print your name address and telephone number on contest entry plea of paper and to enter with prool of purdiase from any uct or proof of purchase rom artrcipahng food servrce outlets nd drawn facsimile not mechanica reproduced mail to Shopsys Hodtey Ni hi it the Gardens Contest Box 7051 Adelaide Street Station Toronto nuno M5C 210 No purchase necessary Enter as olten as you wish Each entry must be submitted ill separate Dumber 1977 lien in selections will be made from all eligible entries on Dumber 1917 Selected entrants in order to run 91110 must first answer oorrculy timelimited arithnictial skilttesting question admmislered by phone or mail by the contest lodging organization All entries become the property of Shopsys Foods limited and none will be returned fly antenna contosunt agms to the use of hisher name address andor photograph in any forthcoming publcity Before being declared winner the contestant may be mulred to enter into an agnement to that effect Prim Grind Prlzo An ovenin ll Maple Leaf Gardens for eight eople lndudiny tinder and bodily game anmr 1978 Pin An Electro onto 50 Color TV Prolaction System In tool diagonal screen Approxr Sooond Prim Einarohome 14 Portable Color TVs Approximate Value 25 Third Prizes Micron Ml llociiey Slulcs futurin the excluswe hidden hinge Mgand Nyite blade Approximate Value Jr nest $55 00 Sr Sizes All prim must be accepted as awarded no substitutions will be made This contest is open to alt residents of Ontario 18 years of age and over monotone and members of their immediate lamiles of Shopsys foods liml rts advertising agendas agents and theindeptndent contest lodging orgmrntion This contest is when to all federal provmcial and local burs and For II oi winners send stamped untiddrcssed envelo Hockoy Ni ht If the Gardrnt Contest iii of Winners Shopsys and timed Hurley and Weston Ontario MSM 1H1 John Silk RR rildwater shows one of the rockfilled wooden cribs he must build in order to anchor woven wire fencing across areas of solid tral Matchedash farm Photo by Brian Baker Each year he traps some eight beaver muskrats by the hun dreds raccoons six or seven timber and brush wolves and other fur bearers He has shot one young bear on his farm but six years ago neighbor son of Bill Baker shot 450 pound bear in Silks bush They are scarce now but once rattlesnakes were very common and have killed them right on our lawn said Silk Many years ago now one man in this area on canoe trip pulled up to the bank and set little twoyearold girl on the bank accidentally right on rattlesnake It bit her on the ankle and the poor fellow had to make desperate canoe trip downriver and eventually to the rillia Hospital to save her life She always walked with limp LEISIIUILY WALK Most pleasant was our leisurely walk back along the lane through sunny clearings and shaded bus between loehy light If the Indus Context rage To be eligible an entry must be moved by to Shopsys ENJOY voun FAVOURIE SHO great bumps and ridges of con torted banded granite up to 40 feet high to the back pasture Amazingly shrubs of juniper seemed to grow out of solid rock thick patches of green and grey shaggy lichens and pretty mosses clung to barren rock Pines cedars oaks trembling aspens sugar maples birch and been in glowing fall colors made up the woods Then there were unusual fer ns and brakens What pastoral scene all this with few pioneer pine stumps still remaining all this made with the cows grazing peacefully in the background We noted black squirrels chipmunks cottontail rabbit deer tracks noisy blue jays warblers hawks chickadees as part of the fauna of the rock country But the highlight of our walk came when Silk poin ted up to great black bird wheeling low over the trees above and showing the un mistakeable fingerlike wing feathers of turkey vulture Vancouver Canucks diagonal screen SECOND PRIZES Electrohome 14 Portable Color TVs 25 mm Ar Micron M1 Hockey Skates featuring the exclusive hidden hinge design and Nylite blade Iuhyllghtcttho filiapsvs The winner and seven guests will spend the evening of January 1978 at Maple Leaf Gardens with hockey analyst Bob Goldham as their host included in the evening is dinner at the famous Hot Stove Lounge and the use of Hockey Night in Canadas private box during the game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the new Color Television Viewing Experienced PRIZES KW Tlnlandingidgo Young Biggin Realty World are pleased to onnouce tho of Mr Robinson as Manager of our Barrie office Clare has been in real estate for many years and invites all his friends and to drop in to see him at our office of 89 appointment acquaintances Collier St An ElectrohomeAdvent 750 Color TV Projection System with 61001 granit bedrock outcropping on his cen to L1 Gubuflntut NAME EAE EA RSS EH API ADD CITY PROV Posmcom rEL ENTRIES MUST BE RECEIVED BY DECEMBER 1977 sfiopsv PRIZES DELIVERED IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS Id PSY PRODUCT ENTER 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