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proper soil conservation rule on the eugene lemon farm bj lu r webber it shall be an essentia part of this agreement that as song as this land is leased the two south fields shall remain in hay c pasture and shal not be broken up for corn or oats such was the content of an unusual lease made many years ago by a farmer at stouffville ont when through illness he was unable to work the farm and he prepared to hand over to his son gene lemon when we visited the lemon farm in york county recently the two j fields in question were still un- der sod practices to control soil erosion and were pasturing more cattle than ever before the wisdom shown by father lemon has paid off many times this farm has produced 68 bu shels of fall wheat per acre the county record a couple of years ago the milk from the guernsey herd brings in prem ium prices on the whole milk market these highproducing milk cows are fed entirely home grown produce except ifor their special desserts of concentrates and minerals a rarm famlly today gene lemon of the fourth generation in 126 years takes a special and creditable pride in showing visitors ar ound the farm it is not a show- place for like most down-to- earth ontario farmers the buil dings appear older than those painted in bright colors there are no fancy fences or gates but miles of portable electric fencing that commands the re spect of the cows gene and his sixyearold son jonathan have a particular knoll on the farm to which they take visitors and from this slight elevation relate much wisdom that is both agricul tural and historical the lemon farm lies on the south slopes of what geologists often refer to as the oak ridges moraine a large acreage of rolling and hilly sandy soils uncovered many years ago when the last glacier melted away father i lemon had the situation well sized up when he realized that his farm lay on the long smooth slopes adjoining the rugged moraine and in this position could be subjected to damaging floods he insisted that the land be covered with grass clovers or trees the year round water and the pioneers for centuries these sandy soils have acted as great filter beds to supply the streams with clear water many streams or iginate in these hills and by welldefined courses unite to form the little rouge creek which in turn joins the rouge river at highway 2 just east of toronto it was a combination of good soil and choice sites for waterpowered mills that in duced the early settlement of whitchurch add markham townships in his book the settlement of york county john mitchell noted that in 1842 the towns of stouffville and markham each has a flour mill an oatmeal plant a tan nery and a distillery depend- ifor fail and winter feeding this livestock food is stored as bales of hay in the barn or stacked outside gene filled his barn with nearly four thousand bales of hay and rather than build an outside stack he pre pared an open trench silo most silos of this type are large holes dug in the soil near the barn an expensive opera tion as a matter of experiment in building a cheap silo gene lemon used fence rails and posts to build a rough retain ing wall against which he piled bales of old hay to act as bar riers against the free passage of air it would not give an air tight sea but the hay has serv ed its purpose the chopped fresh grass was blown into the enclosure and packed by run ning the tractor back and forth when we scraed away four or five inches of waste material on the surface we found under neath a moist light brown sil age with a peculiar odour that we were told was much relish ed by cows it was estimated that this silo contained 90100 tons of silage representing a lot of lowcost feed there was no expense for building materials and it took two men one day to get the silo ready one has to recognize a farmers ingenuity in hand ling in a short time tons of green feed that otherwise could not have been stored in the barn as to its feeding value three pounds of silage is said to be equal to a pound of dried hay it seemed to us that gene lemon was a typical ontario dairy farmer and an exponent of conservation farming early in life his father firmly im pressed the basic principles of soil conservation on gene and as if to make an expression of good faith wrote into a land lease the unusual provision not to break out of sod two par ticular fields today genes con cept of conservation is very simple keep the soil in the field if you were thinking of con tour plowing as a means of achieving conservation then this farmer catches you off guard by a further statement that he does not believe con touring is necessary on his farm and that he has not used a plow for three years soil erosion as manifested by thinly covered hilltops shal low rills like wagon wheel marks or deep gullies is evi dent when excess surface wa ter accumulates in large enough volumes to erode or carry away the topsoil it has often been said that if all the rain soaked into the soil there would be no erosion problem a farmer has several ways of managing a soil so that snore water is ab sorbed and less available for surface runoff the soil on the lemon farm is a fine sandy loam characterized by plenty of soil humus in the surface lay er while underneath are per meable subsoils that offer lit tle resistance to percolating waters a farmer must keep the surface soil loose and open if ing on waterjor power today inslllowetto bake or be a part of stouffvilles water supply originates on the lem on farm from where we stood we could see the remnants of an ambitious and hardworking generation almost covered by thorns and chokecherry bush es is a kiln where the limestone rocks were burned to pro vide the quicklime used in the foundations for the barns and a stone house on the farm nearby is a manmade ridge all that remains of the grand trunk railway spur line from stouffville to tle resort town of sutton this line was built around 1800 but was discontin ued in the late twenties when motor transport became a part of rural and urban life john mitchell tells the story of an english settler who was a pioneer in this area around 1800 for the money that he would have spent in england on rent taxes and tithes alone in whitchurch township he cleared 20 acres of land fenc ed it built a cabin and bought his livestock consisting of a yoke of oxen and three milk cows thus settler with his 3 cows set the pattern for the townships type of farming dairy farming gene lemon is classed as a dairyfarmer with more than 30 head of cattle to feed the year round in the spring and summer months the livestock feed outside but a large part of the farming business is to provide winter feed each cow will need around 3000 pounds of hay and 7500 pounds of sil age for winter feeding while during the whole year she would like a ton of grain and 56 hundred pounds of expens ive protein supplement all of this feed is produced on the farm except the protein supple ment salt and minerals on dairy farms hay and pas ture are the two most import ant crops providing hay for wnter feeding and pasture for summer grazing when nature if unusually kind with just the s kiw right amount of sunshire and sahu tn more pasture is available mmsraju tf sn curreiuv needed for sum- 1 pi m n r granncthe farmer hari m vetc th sw cioversl come very hard water cannot enter the surface layers and should a heavy downpour occur soil erosion would be serious no plowing here as we study the soil conser vation methods of gene lem on we learn that through ex perience or by observation he realized that it was nearly im possible to set furrows on their edge in his sardy soil the soil went one of two ways either completely inverted and buried al the surface organic debris or rolled back leaving a miser able example of plowing with stalks and stubble shaken up a bit but still on the surface with the bare inverted ioil exposed to heavy rains erosion occurred but the poorly plow ed land weathered the storms with less soil and water losses several year3 of observation convinced our friend that the poor type of plowing was bet ter for his and and that in fact he could accomplish the same effect by a stifftoothed or deep cultivator this imple ment loosens the soil several inchees deeper than the ordin ary plow and leaves most of the straw and stubble on the surface to act as a mulch soak ing up water and allowing rhor to trickle very gently into the soil you leave the lemon farm convinced that he doesnt need contouring or the moldboard plow the absence of erosion and the good crop3 are ade quate proof mam farmers mostly those who have never tried it re sure that they could not oper ate a grain drill through the mulch gene lemon recom mends coulters on the drill to move the mulch from the path of the drill shoe or to cut through the debris other farm ers have heard that it is diffi cult to control weeds when a deep cultivator is used exclus ively our friend admitted that without the plow as a tillage implement you were more de pendent on the weather for kill ing the weeds the cultivator covers very little of the weed roots but leaves most of them on the surface and if the wea ther is wet the roots begin to grow if warm and dry weather follows your cultivation most roots loe their vitality and are no longer a problem we were told that a field might be gone over several times depending on the weather before the weeds and cultivated grasses were dried tip enough to be sure they would not start growing and compete with the wheat or oats among his offthefarm activ ities gene lemon has contrib uted his talents as a director of the york county crop improve ment association this group serves as a county nucleus of farmers who are often the first to introduce new crop varieties or to adopt different farm man agement practices such as strip crop farming or changes in rates and methods of fertilization for the past three years he has taken a fourday holiday early in january and attended the short courses at the agri cultural college in guelph be sides contributing at these ses sions he becomes acquainted with the newer things in agri culture ml pi5gar mr metro sudeyko under went an operation at toronto general hospitai on mondav mr and mrs r k smith and girls visited mr and mrs pe ter ferguson al ringwood on saturday former pupils of mrs walter craig will be pleased to know she is able to be at her home at buttonville now following several months spent in st johns convalescent hospital at xewtonbrook mr and mrs george boynton and boys visited on sunday with mr and mrs jack osuili van and family at new toronto we congratulate mrs leigh baeristo on winning the pop up toaster at the canada packers cooking school on tuesday night last week keep sundav februarv 30 open for the andrew service at chueh come and bring a friend the home school assn will meet at no 7 school on monday night feb 14 at 830 dr a w boland of aurora will speak on dental care al so at this meeting will be a white elephant sale no clo thing please the trustees and some rate- pavers of no 7 school visited ballantrae school on wednes day night of last week fourteen young people gath ered at the home of mr and mrs chester pattenden last saturday evening for a party in honor of miss doris cham bers and mrs pattenden birthday pays a visit to gibraltar try tribune scratch pads for convenience globe mail subscriptions new or renewals may bo paid at the office of the stoufftille tribune crossword puzzle puzzlk v s horizontal 3 stringed instrument s fa cine direc tion from which uclflr implnfca rhymtr 14 sonx 15 hxc tneyed m feminine name 17 fortune wor 18 troubled 9 paper measure 30 separating 33 apportions out 34 sum up 33 cancel 3 male duck 3ft abstract beta 30 desists from jcertlon 34 disturb 35 unit ot cciercr 3 lofty 37 coin of timor 30 nreafcxtst 41 tb wlnt 41 rutjd cnirxt 51 trade agreements 54 division of year 38 turkish regiment 5 separate part in an account 1 demeanor 3 part of harness 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ship rolls to and fro but it doesnt bother us much we left africa at night the lights along the shore were beautiful so bright and so many of them we got through the straits of gibraltar passing the rock on our right the town of 22000 people is at the bot tom of the hills close by the seaside on top of the rook is one can non and all down the sides of the hill are a lot more on ter races in the harbour we had a funny experience i looked over the side and there was a whole fleet of rowboats com ing toward the ship the mo ment they got close wooden things started flying over the deckrail with cords attached we must have been about fifty feet above the water with these cords they conducted a sort of market they waved their hands and kept shouting dol lar and they waved bright colored scarves if you shouted back they put a scarf in a rush basket and send it up to you you put your dollar in the bas ket and send it back one wo man pulled up two or three and then remanded a free one commission she got it too i wouldnt have had the gall anyway we got two of them for 2 just before the police boat came along and chased them away a hard way to make a living they rowed out a mile rowed hack a mile two men in a boat the harbour of gibraltar is very big and very deep aur ship was able to turn around without backing up we sailed around the rock and viewed it from three sides it is not a port in the accepted sense we didnt dock we just anchored and a tender came out and took the passengers off the wea ther was warm the water very blue and the tops of the moun tains were covered with snow from gibraltar we travelled up the coast of spain and we keep getting glimpses of the mountains there were eight stops up the coast and each time passengers got off but none got on ours was the sev enth stop and so we arrived at barcelona about 3 pm we got what seemed to be the only englishspeaking taxi driver and he said he would take us around for two hours for s3 cheap the taxi must have been fifteen or twenty years old but we got there we had trouble with the police over our guide who was apparently an unoffi cial guide and couldnt sit up with the driver the streets are all cobble stones we visited a sort of model village where girls were making nice fancywork their weaving is very pretty to watch we passed a huge coli seum but i couldnt make the driver understand that i want ed to stop and take a picture we drove by the bullfighting arena and a beautiful cathed ral there seemed to be every kind of automobile about from a cadillac to a little austin we were in a plymouth there were no mules or donkeys and all the horses were good we passed banks a stock exchange british and american embas sies the driver laughed when he showed us a huge sign co ca cola american movies were advertised the policemen stand in the centre of a box framework in the centre of the intersections theyre all painted up like bar- i her poles only in belgium have i i seen the same ides frederick j yacher to be continued k 306s is ct in slses tttt m4 mj ut ms ssvt 4 mi- sh 14i dress and bolero 4 yds sln no 137 11w wide met woehel rnnaox lace ms 8 17 m4ln sonsre drain fl br in included adaplabh nllpnrposa desltn file ehrt to- trnctlous send 35c for each pattern with name address style num ber and size to audrey lane patterns po box 70 place darmes montreal que born at lemonville 71 years ago born at lemonville seventy- one years ago earl melville pipher passed away feb 2 1955 in york county hospital newmarket son of the late john pipher his early years were spent in this community fortytwo years ago mr pipher moved to newmarket where for many years he was connected with the office specialty he was an ardent church worker and only a few weeks ago was made an honorary deacon of trinity united church mr pipher is survived by his widow the former mary win- terstein two daughters mrs f penrose lelia mrs w brown dorothy north bay and an only son william was killed in world war ii with the rcaf there are five grandchildren a brother clif ford stouffville a sister mrs mames eva of newmarket and melbourne of toronto funeral services were con ducted from the chapel of roadhouse rose on monday feb 7 1955 with interment in newmarket cemetery pallbear ers were walter pipher ken pipher melbourne haines harry haines dr m eagleson and dr douglas marriott ne phews the tribune stouffville ont thursday february 10 births tew mr and mrs edward j tew ne doris vague are happy to announce the birth of a son brian edward on feb 3 1955 at toronto east general hospital symes to mr and mrs victor n symes claremont out on saturday jan 29 1955 at the ajax general hospital a daughter sheila marilyn wideman mr and mrs grant widoman nee dar- line gray markham are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter donna joanne on february 8 1935 at brierbush hospital stouff ville jenkins mr and mrs well ington jenkins markham are happy to announce the birth of a son randolph david at the brierbush hospital sto ufiyille on feb 2 1955 a brother for ronald and der ek mcglnty mr and mrs bern ard meginty gormley are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter don- elda shirley mae at the brier bush hospital stouffville on feb 3 1955 vandebeek mr and mr harmon vandeheek stouff ville rr 2 announce the birth of a son ronald at the brierbusn hospital stou- fkille on feb 1 1955 a bro ther for bert magda and jeannie yakgley mr and mrs lloyd yakeley goodwood are happy to announce the birth of a son lloyd jaeph at the brierbush hospital sloulfville on feb 1 1955 new 1955 hillman models now available increased power at- lower cost- make the new hillman a car to see before buying used tires for sale a good selection of 670 x 15 tires 1 new retread 900 x 20 jeep tread midtown garage stouffville ontario l pine orchard we extend our sympathy to mrs j lundy in the death of her sister mrs wagg of stouff ville miss jean johnston of to ronto was a weekend visitor with her brother walter and family mr and mrs rae mcclure myrna and danny were sun day guests with mr and mrs j franklin of toronto mrs wm galley visited mrs wesley lundy over the week end miss beth johnston visited her parents a few days mr and mrs kirk dobbey are spending a time with mr clarence preston and boys mrs harold eveleigh spent the weekend with her parents mr and mrs r chapman the ww was well attended at mrs roy codys home on wednesday despite the cold weather- and a nice lot of sew ing and quilts were completed mrs edson johnston has been in newmarket taking care of her aged aunt mrs breckon who injured her shoul der some of our junior crowd have measles 40000 for police in markham private homes their record of theft recovery was exception ally good largely because of their knowledge of the local situation its tdie to order groves chicks a breed for every xeel white leghorns leghorns x jtliodo islam red sussex x rhode island rod and white rocks with egg prices low you will show a profit with groves highspeed layers customers re port unusually high egg produc tion eg 299 eggs from 317 groves white legaorn6 order now and be sure ot your chicks on preferred dates groves pousiry farm- mnrkhmii rri 393 phone 67701 stouflvillo the following piano pupils of bertha stouffer have been successful at the february ex aminations of the royal con servatory of music grade iv elaine forsythe hon joan gayman grade vi lois stouf fer hon easy does it n hamuli auction sale horses cattle east hale lot 21 cox 7 whitchurch township wed feb 6 the property of robt radford horsks bay mare 12 years old gray gelding 9 years old 1 complete set of team harness cattish black white cow 6 years of age pasture bred the police committee for black w cow s years of markham township presented age full how their report on monday after- black white heifer 3 yre of noon for formal reading a age full flow save your tissue paper from packages throughout the year and youll find that crumpled wm ideal for cleaning and polishing mirrors and glass when shoes have become soaked or even damp from the weather do not place them too close to registers or heaters ior drying this will parch leather let them dry at room temperature save yourself steps by placing chenille or lintlcss dusting cloths in drawers in every room in the tmmsebswbmmsimmsmaekkm stouffville sand gravel limited arc prepared to supply your requirements of crushed ora- vel sand concrete gravel pit run delivered or at tho bin plant phone 12t office phones 370 1 2a ebzzzezzzsassmzzziaazsa ew of the outstanding recom mendatitons contained in the report were made known to council last week but the full text recommending a budset of 10000 was read on monday this budset figure is about double that of last year and reeve lemasurier asked that further consideration be riven the report next week both deputyreeve clark and council lor grjffin were absent from mondays meeting the report in its entirety as presented by chairman a g little and councillor deacon is as follows the police committee has carefully considered the recom mendations made bv chief con stable clarence wideman in his report to the 1951 council in november last these in eluded the installation of a ra dio communication system in three circuits and the addition to the force of four men recent situation until 1017 the township got along with onlv one constable an increase of 100 in the population as well as the ex pansion of metropolitan toron to have greatly increased the demand on the force in an ur ban area adequate police pro tection requires one man to every 1000 population in a rural area one can get by with one man for every 5000 people unfortunately although mark ham is still largely rural some sections are coe to heavily de veloped areas and the whole territory is atfeeied by its im mediate proximitv to a city of 1 m million people in 1954 the police force in markham consisted of the chief and four constables one of which was assigned to mark ham village thov gave us ex cellent protection especially when one considi ra they r no have snv mean of intr- communication ad all calls iiisr hours had to so v their black hoitor hied red hoifor 3 years of age full flow- black white heifer bred 3 black white heifers open black heifer open red heifer open black white heifnr opnn roan shorthorn bull good 2 black white heifer calves durham heifer cif pile of scrap iron saleat 2 pm sharp terms cash ouxkit rbtimvg iioyi tlrxmr clerk s i poiiari auctioneer recipe of the week banana tea muffins makes 16 small 1 cup silted cake flour 2 teaspoons baking powder vi teaspoon soda yi teaspoon salt cap shortening 54 cup sugar 1 egg 1 cup mashed bananas silt together flour baking powder soda and salt beat shortening until creamy add sugar gradually and continue beating until light and fluffy add egg and beat well add flour mixture alternately with bananas mixing until batter is smooth turn into well greased muffin pans and bake in a mod erately hot 400p oven about 20 mmutea serve hot or cold bouse you can then dust who youro in the room rather than having to go to get a cloth nutcrackers ore helpful wheel kept in your kitchen cutlery drown cr use them lor opening small screw topped jars and bottles it brass or copper fixtures a lamps doors or drawers tarnish readily polish them tborougfclsi then apply clear lacquer to them to prevent tarnish from forming decorative ceramie coasters so sizes to fit eon be placed undea flower and plant containers to pre vent moisture from seeping on to window sills or table tops remington portable typewriters sold by the stouffville tribune