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the tribune stouflviue ont thursday december 22 1949 cream for best results ship your cream to stouffville creamery we pay two cents more per pound butterfat for cream delivered to the creamery cold storage lockers and fast freezing facilities stouffville creamery co to have our truck call phone 186w canadians good fanners dressmaking and alterations stouffville telephone 33 jl i eggs wanted by registered egg station highest market prices free pickups prompt returns john m offen cedar grove phone 86rl3 markham nmtitmwwmwmwwwiwwm canadian farmers should take a great deal of pride and so should all other canadians in the show ing made at one of the biggest and most important agricultural shows in the world the international hay and grain show at chicago when representatives of a nation of some 12500000 people can take three out of four of the major awards at a show open to the farmers of a nation of nearly 150- 000000 people it is really a praise worthy effort particularly when that great nation is one whose pro gress in the field of agriculture is considered one of the miracles of the modern world and yet this feat is one that representative canadian farmers performed this year in fact where wheat is concerned canadian farmers have shown the way no less than 26 times in the 30 years that the big chicago show has been held this year the worthy successor to herman trelle and other wheat- growing greats of the past was a woman 5gyearold mrs amy grace kelsey of erickson bc and this was not the the first time mrs kelsey has been adjudged the north american wheatgrowing champion she also won the crown in 1946 being the first woman ever to capture the us wheat prize she also won the worlds wheat championship on nov 15 at the royal winter fair in toronto mrs kelseys work with wheat is of especial interest for her experimental plot is in the east kootenays of bc a region not often thought of as wheatgrowing territory in the past canadian prizewinning wheat has generally come from the more northerly peace river or grande prairie dis tricts the wheat queen specia lizes in reward wheat a hard red spring wheat of excellent milling qualities her prize winning sample weighed 66 pounds to the bushel 10 per cent over the accept ed standard of 60 pounds an alberta farmer sydney h pawlowski of spedden brought canada the grand championship in oats for the 10th successive year with an exhibit or victory oats weighing 482 pounds a bushel well over the normal 45pound bushel mrs pawlowski is barely out of the junior farmer class be ing only 21 years old the rye crown at chicago went to saskatchewan the winner being albert kessel of rosetown 220 miles northwest of regina mr kessel also won in the rye class at the toronto winter fair and two years ago won a fourth prize in the wheat class at chicago while the westerners took a large share of the honors in the four top grain competitions ontario farmers more than held their own in several other impor tant classes one of the most sur prising victories was that of earl brackett of morpeth who won first prize in the yellow corn com petition it is generally coneded that united states farmers lead the world in corn quality and this ontario win must have come as a surprise mac gibbons of adamstown won the alfalfa championship another field in which american farmers specialize intensively canadian petition it is generally conceded by all to be among the highest in the world so it was no surprise but it was most gratifying all the same when ontario farmers won or placed highly with entries in the bull junior bull and native lamb classes truly our canadian farmers are doing a wonderful job and it is pleasant indeed that their efforts re bringing our countrys name to the forefront in international com petitions s alberta gas could supply nearly all canada ernest ridout real estate ltd sve have clients wanting farms resi dences and business properties in this area if you are considering selling your property give us a call for prompt efficient service if you are contemplating buying pro perty in this district get in touch with our office we may have just what you are looking for call thos j wignall main st markham phone 239 head office 1172 bay st phone princess 3324 muskox and caribou found in al interior valleys of ellesmere island in the arctic feed on lichens doukhobors repent projiise to reform confession repentance and no re petition of violence was the promise laid down last week by the radical doukhobor fringe blamed for years of unrest in the rich area of south- central british columbia according to word from uelson bc elaboration of that promise comes sunday at nearby krestova centra of the sons of freedom group of the religious sect where british colum bia police officials will attend a pub lic meeting of the sons members recognition that it must clear it self of such doings and come to the right open path of spiritual life was made in a signed statement hand ed to police special squads of provincial police officers have patrolled the area since the provincial government instituted a lawenforcement plan at the start of the month to end railway bombings and put an end for all time to arson and violence inspector r s nelson told use fourman delegation which presented the statement signed by themselves on behalf of the sons that it remain ed up to the sons of freedom mem bers to make the promise stick the four signers anton koles- nikoff john j perepelkin william j zmoif and sons leader john lehe- doff said their move followed a warning last sunday from provin- cfal police that the sons this time had gone too far three attempted dynamitlngs of cpr rail lines two successful had precipitated a crisis among aa- gry citizens and railway workers tie railwaymen demanded and got bridge guards and patrols lebedoff had his home burned dec 4 by his own followers for no apparent reason other than that horns burnings accompanied by hymns and chants of the sect have occurred be fore the promise if kept would mean the end of active resistance by tie sons of freedom eggs move prom east to west during the fall the egg market took a somewhat unusual turn for the first time in nearly forty years there was a large movement of eggs from eastern to western canada during septembernovember no less than 4s cars of 20876 cases moved from the east to the prairie provinces and northwestern ontario the unusual demand posed some thing of a conundrum because baby chick sales in western provinces last spring increased by 85 per cent over the previous year the movement seems to have arisen from unprece dented demand and a scarcity of eggs in british columbia the normal source of supply for additional re quirements for the prairies a barn in new jersey blows hay into feeding racks a german firm just delivered to a belfast barber six razors ordered late in august 1930 and apologized for the delay dance dance saturday even i ngs at veterans memorial hall stouffville music by gary lewis and his band admission 50c