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A uy - . Fo PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7th, 1962 HE A ALE : a LAr Vine DSN bE Sah Fe] EN BT I ATA FRI wm end of the banquet, which was at- - 'Denmark about half are from one _ to spare if this letter is to catch interesting because they tended to were above the average size. Newquay Cornwall. --It is after midnight and we have little time the overseas plane and our dead- lines in Canada. We have just come from the banquet of the West of England Championship plowing match which was held a few miles from here, to-day. The banquet ended in a personal triumph for Gene Timbers, our 18 year old champion horse plowman from Milliken, Ont. He carved another notch in his plow shaft by winning the open class for under 21 in today's tourney. The win- ners were announced toward the tended by some 350 plowmen and West of England farmers. The match, at Newlyn East, was held under ideal conditiens; the weather was. springlike and the ground good. It attracted a large entry. For the moment that is all on our first venture into competitions on this side of the Atlantic this year. We are now all looking for- ward to the international match at Belfast next month. I will tell you more about today's 'exciting event in my next letter. In the meantime I want to bring you up- to-date on the rest of our tour of Europe. : : In my. last letter I promised to tell you about the two vastly dif- ferent farms we visited in Den- mark. We, I should explain, are Eugene Timbers, Norman Tyndall, the tractor plowmen and myself, John Carroll. Our visit to these farms was for all of us.the agricultural high- light of the Danish tour. The farms were moye than ordinarily show. both ends of the scale in Danish agriculture. Of the 210,000 farm holdings in and a half to 25 acres in size, and only another 4,500 are of 100 acres or more. The balance varies be- tween 26 acres to 100 acres. There is very little bush or wasteland to that in most cases the total area is. arable. Both farms we visited The first was owned by an ex- tremely well-to-do couple, Mr. and Mrs. P. Borge Kastberg., Their estate ran to just over 1,600 agres | valued at between $300 to $400 an acre, or something near half a mil- lion dollars. Despite his wealth and the size of his farm, Mr. Kastberg is not an absentee farmer by any means. Not. once did he call upon his agent or foreman to answer ques- tions, but enthusiastically explain- ed the farm's operations to us. There was no doubt who was the active master of the Kastherg farm, Mr. Kastberg has almost com- pletely mechanized 'his farm. His elaborate horse stables now house only two animals, one a Shetland pony. His pre-war 82 draft an- imals have been replaced by five tractors and three self-propelled combines. = Other machinery on the farm includes the latest equip- ment in sugar beét farming and elevators for passing grass and sugar beet tops into silos. He has one of the finest seed-cleaning plants I have ever seen, It has 2 divisions; the first to dry and clean grain as it is harvested, and the other to.clean small seeds. Custom cleaning of small seeds is done in winter, and this ingen- fous Dane even makes use of the chaff and cleanings. He blows {t through a pipe about 100 yards long to the furnace which heats the estate castle. Nothing short of castle can de- scribe the beautiful Kastberg home. Laid out in the familiar European courtyard style, it was first built in 1748, and is still standing as proud as it was the day those 18th Century stone- masons completed it. The Kastbergs run a mixed farm, supporting 100 milking cows 120 other cattle and--until they were sold earlier this year--200 hogs. There are 200 acres in rape ~still green when we saw it-- the ~ CANADIAN PLOWMEN ABROAD... _.\_ 'by J. A. CARROLL Formerly Setretory Manager * ONTARIO iy PLOWMEN'S ASSOCIATION pi : seed of which is pressed for oil. There are 80 acres of beets for sugar and another 80 acres for feed. Mr. Kastberg estimated his whéat yielded 32 times seed sown, and other grains yielded 36 times seed sown. This indicates good land -- and more important, good farming, j Erik Larsen, our next -host, dressed and looked like a young executive, but he was farmer through and through. He rents his 90-acre farm from his father, paying $2,000 annually for land, stock and implements. In addition he pays $1.000 in taxes. "What the Larsen farm lacks in size it makes up in efficiency, plan- ning an equipment. We marvelled at the large well equipped build- ings; the. main barn is 100 feet long with a 50-foot T-extension. It is all tile-roofed. Every rod of the Larsen farm is put to work. It support 20 milk cows and an equal number of young cattle. One hundred bacon hogs had been marketed in the past year. There are seven acres under wheat, five acres of sugar beets, and two and-one half acres of sugar beet seed Larsen keeps two men on a year- ly basis--against 14 on the Kast- berg: estate -- a cow-man and a field operator. Their wages aver- age $60 a month, with cottage sup- plied. The overhead and lahour bill seemed high to us for a 90- acre homestead, but Mr. Larsen said he made a good profit on hia operations last year, His profit may not be so high this year for his cattle contracted foot-and-mouth 'disease, which hit about 15 per cent. of the Danish herds. Serum was supplied by the government and appears to have checked the epidemic, for the last count reported only 80 new cases compared with 400 a day at the peak about five weeks ago. While the Danes are mechaniz- ing as rapidly as possible they have less than 30,000 tractors on farms, and horses are cammonly used, the most general being the Jutland breed. On some small holdings "we saw a Norwegian type, about the size of Welsh ponies. - Our trip from Copenhagen to Stockholm--by air--was unevent- ful, except that the plane was late and by the time we reached Swe- den our schedule was shot. We immediately entered a round of visiting local officials and held a press conference, The interest shown by Europeans in their Can- adian guests and Canada -con- tinued to amaze us, SE: "The field of Sweden gave us our first sight of snow since leaving 'Canada, and we felt quite at home when we saw the Swedes wearing clothing similar to our own' win- ter dress. An immediate contrast to Denmark was the number of new cars on Stockholm streets and others offered for sale--none has been imported in. Denmark since 1938. The days in'Sweden were short for darkness came on about 4 p.m, and it was still dark at 9 am. in dull weather. This is not sur- prising when it is remembered that Stockholm is on a latitude of 59 compared. to Toronto's 43 and Vancouver's 49. On a Canadian map, Stockholm would be ahout the middle of Hudson Bay. Our jaunt into Europe has given us many a chuckle, trying to adjust to ptrange facilities and new customs. All European ho- tels ask guests to leave footwear outside the door for cleaning over- night. Since we are travelling light with only one pair each, we have been afraid to take advan- tage of this. One night--at 2 a.m. -- I was awakened with the thought we were being burgled. It was only the frustrated shoe porter creeping around my room seeking my shoes! A bath incidentally is not just a bath. In London it was six and one half feet long ;my. first chance for a full stretch since swimming in the "crick". In Hamburg we had a man-gsize tub, but not so big as London's; in Stockholm the bath respmbled a milk cooling vat, and in Copenhagen it was a sit. down tub shaped like a chair. An extremely cold seat first thing in the morning! Our hotel towels have varied as much ag the baths. Perhaps a-psyehiastrist-could-interpretna= tional traits from this evidence, but for us hotel linen has provided a continual surprise, : Towels varied from pocket handkerehief size in Copenhagen to carpet size in London and Stockholm, where they were six feet by four feet. Changing countries and cur- rency every three daya left us easy prey to the unscrupulous. Our practice has been just to hand out bank notes and meekly accept whatever change we get. The mathematics involved would take too long! But now we are back in England and to-morrow will start off on a tour of Wales, so all we have to worry about are our Welsh ac- cents and control of our pounds, shillings and pence. We'll keep you posted on our linguistic and financial progress. Blackstock We rejoice with Gwen Dean, Burke- ton, former pupil of B, H. S. on her return home after a six-month stay in Toronto Isolation Hospital, a vig: tim of Polio, and we wish her the very best in the future, Durham County feels a particular pride in 'the fact that the new Gov- sey is a Durham boy. Dr, Herbert Bruce, one time Lieutenant Governor for Ontario, was also a product of Durham. He was born in Cartwright township on the farm now owned by Murray Byers, spent his first five years here, then lived in Port Perry, attended public and high school there. Congratulations to Miss Evelyn Taylor, Solina, on passing the final examinations at Peterboro Hospital and is now a Registered Nurse in the Peterboro Civic Hospital. She is a neice of Mrs. E. Larmer and Miss 'L. Taylor, who viaits Cartwright Public Schools being one of Durham Health Nurses. On Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Geo. Wolfe and Mrs. Harry McLaughlin Prag o> had a silver tea at the home of Mrs. Wolfe in aid of Presbyterian Manse Fund. - The rooms were lovely with spring flowers. During the afternoon Mrs. Geo. Nicholson gave a talk on "Life among the Eskimo" showing the. 'Tandwork of the women. Mrs. G. African Violet, The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe, Bryan Richard, was baptized in St. John's Anglican Church on Sun- day evening, January 27. His Christ- ening robe and-shawl were gifts of his grandmother, Mrs. Richard Wolfe, County Cork, Ireland. The rector, Rev. Geo. Nicholson; conducted the service assisted by Mr. H, McComb of the Nestleton Presbyterian Church. Mr, and Mrs. Harry MelLaughlin were the Godparents. The second euchre party sponsored by Blackstock W. I. was held in the hall on Friday evening, Jan. 26 with group leader, Mrs. Murray Byers in charge. Prizes were won by Mrs. W. Archer and Mrs. Carl McLaughlin. Sorry to report that John Grieves Marlow gave 'a talk on growing the | | wood, visited Mrs. Will Locke in at Oshawa General Hospital. He started work after the New Year, the first since his accident and will be at home for another few weeks. Mr. Sam Ferguson - is recovering daughter, Mrs, C. Venning. Misses Gertrude Henry and Jean Ford visited their parents over the week-end. Mrs. Art Ruston, Hamil- ton, visited her parents, Mr, and Mra. R. Ford last week. Mr. and Mrs. Staniland have, re- turned home after visiting their fam- ily in Toronto, last week. Pine Grove Mr.. and Mrs. Eldred Cather- Toronto, on Sunday. Mrs. Locke is to undergo an operation this week. We wish her a speedy re- covery. : Mr. and Mra. Jack Hill visiting Mr, and Mrs. Herman Walker Sun- day evening. has had another operation on his leg from pneumonia at-the-home of - his ding anniversary instead of Mp. and Mrs, Robert Nesbitt, Sr. and Mrs. Enoch McKnight, and at: tended Sunday School at Epsom, and also visited, Mr. and Mrs. F. Munroe, on Sunday. *Mr. and Mrs. Jack Simpson and family had dinner Sunday with the latter's parents Mr, and Mrs. Cliff Elford. Mr. and Mrs. Talbert Evans with Mr. und Mrs. Don Perry, Fifth Line, Sunday. ; Rev. 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