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4r 493x cm nouns wuhx lam ca this cums anar Mn rv kn five 1F CEMENT PLATFORM provides both feed alley and manger in the beef barn of Jim Sinclair Barrie RR The door onvthe right of the alley leads to the silo chute Arub hertired wheelbarrow is used to distribute ensilage along the manger HOME ECONOMICS SERVICE ULFILLS IMPORTANT DUTY LIFEfOF RURAL PEOPLE By RUTH SHAVER Home Economist Womens Institute Branch Ontario Dept of Agriculture Simcoc and Ontario Counties nation cannot fise above the gavel of its homes therefore we Women must work and study to igether to raise our homes to the highest possible level This state iment taken from the early minutes of the first Womens In stitute organized at Stoney Creek Lover fifty years ago expresses in nutshell the real purpose and ob lject for whichW0mens Institutes fiwere organized Soon after the organization of that first Womens Institute the NLinister of Agriculture for On tario received requestfrom these gwomen for support and assistance Ilnecturers were appointed to help this development This speak er service as it was called carried knowledge advice and inspiration iinto the rural homes and commun iities pf Ontario From this speaker service jgrew the extension service known Branch and Home Economics Ser wnnmcn HEREFORD FARMS today as the Womens Institute vice of the Ontario Department of Agriculture It provides extension education for the homemakers of rural Ontario For theséhoinemlakers great variety of extension courses are available In earlier days these courses were mostly in food and cooking sewing and home nursing These subjects are still the most popular However today in foods both experienced and inexperienc ed homemakers attend courses to buy clothes health education and how to safe for all rural women Institute is the agency that spouse FREAK RABBIT OAK RIVER CPFrank Hay hurst shot bush rabbit Whose body was encasedin tin can He believed the rabbit must have been caught in the canopen at both endswhen it was young RAIN MAKERS SASKATOON CPFarmers in 12 districts near Saskatoon have organized to help nature provide rainfTheir action resulted from visits by Lloyd McSorley of Hart ney Man representative of rainmaking firm hear new ideas for oven meals and supper dishes how to feed their families to keep them well how to get their moneyswprth in food hOWtO have variety of food the year round by canning or freezing Education in clothing is not lim ited to sewing There are courses in dressmaking and making clothes for children The women learn all about the new fabrics and how to and the types of clothes most becoming to them Aregistered nurse teaches the women home nursing general guard home against accidents There are classes in home furnish ing and all sortsof homecrafts from needlepoint and rugmaking toleatherwork psychologist is in great demand for courses in family relationships child guid ance and understanding lthe teen ager Womens Institute members are very much awag that they have responsibilities outside the home so at the womens own request courses are now provided in cit izenship cultural interests public speaking and how toconduct meet ings The extension services provided by the Womens Institute Branch of the Ontario Department of Ag riculture are not intended for In stitute members alone They are The local ors the service The local Institute women7 have an important part to play in bringing this service to all rural women by going out on the highways and byways and bringing in busy young mothers women just arrived from other countries and women from groups other than the Institute The Womens Institute Branch and Home Economics Service grew out of request from the women themselves over the years it has provided technical training for rural horneinakers With the re cent addition of cultural subjects the extension services give the rural women as someone has said something in the nature of aUni versity education SHAKELLS GARAGE And Electrical Supplies All makes pressure pumps supplied and installed Electric and Acetylene Welding Repairs to Tractors and all farm machinery Plumbing suppliesand installations Cement Well Crooks RRI LEFROY 0n Hwy 11 South of Stroud PHONE Stroud 531121 COMPLETE DISPERsAL Saturday June 1954 At 1130 pm To be held at the farm South of Barrie Bulls 35 Females Accredited VAHorned and Polled Blood Tested Vaccinated Hazlett Rodauz Wyoming Hereford Ranch Blood lines predom inate along with our recent mported Herd Sires that will be eyrepresented as several of the females are carrying their ser vice um SIHES RINGWOOD TOZAIONE MONARCH LARRY DOMESTIC PRlNCE FRISKY MISCHIEF Watch for the sign of our Bull on Hwy ll For Catalogues write fn WARNER BARBIE and SEN RR If Us JAMES HANCOCK FRANK STONE Associate Ag Rep North Simcoe Associate Ag Rep South Simcoe HERES 6061 NEWS LE ROY ELEVATORS Now open for businessunder the manage ment of Wm Kelly and Blake Constable OFFERING COMPLETE SERVICE IN COIII also available call us for highest possible quotationion cereal and feed grains nrccn FARM insecticides etc PICK UP AND DELIVERY PHONE 28W FOR 705 QUALITY BUY ES BEE BRAND Blowers Grasses SeedEmu seed Corn Pasture Mixtures Highest quality Grade No1 Seed packed in lBushel bugs BEE BRAND Seeds are available from BROWN AND CO LTD BARRIE HARRY BANTING IVY LEO CAVANAUGH MINESING DALE HDWEL SCHoNLBERG LAW SEED co BEETON Wrile or Phone In prices SEED GRAIN CLEANEDANDTREATED We are buyers in season of lllsike Sweet Clover Timothy Alfalfa lied Clqver etc CO Established 1890 PHONE BEETON or write BOX 133 BEETON ONTARIO We handle Jedo Highland The Worlds Finest Anthracite Trade marked coal whole grain commercial feed and molas Lundy fence binder twine salt fertilizers recovery may ixgt Sweeter nayMrfirmm mm snag AUTOMATIC CONVEYOR places ensilage in front of the registered Holsteins on the farm ofv Ferris Barrie RR with MM FARM FORUM HAS IMPORTANT PART IN RURAL LIFE By JEAN MacLEOD What is National Farm Radio Forum Every Monday night from November to March people in farm neighborhoods across Can ada turn up their radios to hear the beginning of familiar pro gram This is National Farm Ra dio Forum These people are not just listen ing to their radios at home as they read the evening paperthey are listening to their own program in company with neighbors who have travelled over good roads and bad to meet at the home of one of the group They are meeting as FarmForumtheir purpose is to listen to the National Farm Forum broaclgast and afterwards to discuss its topic What is discussed over the air and by the Forums ranges from problems bf xjgfiediate concern f6 the farmer to hose of wider in terest On one evening panel of speakers may be trying to discover whydopeople leave the land in following broadcast the prob 1cm may be are hunger and poverty the real causes of war Most of these topics come from suggestions of the Forums them selves most of them are directly concerned with problems about which Canadian farm families are thinking But they are not con cerned entirely with the farmers Own backyard The question do We need world food bank leads from the farmer his fam ily and his éommunity to national and international interests Na tional Farm Forum provides in formation and gives rise to ques tions which promote more in formed and greater interest in the world at large But the farm community itselfl is an important part of the world JERRY coucmm The Auctioneer Generul Farm at large and Farm Forum are in terested in putting their neighbor liness into practical action at home Out of the discussions on Monday nights come variety of ideas as to what the local Forum can do to better its own neigh borhood new community hall touch of paint on weathcrbeaten mailboxes building bee for neighbor whose barn has been destroyed by firethere are all sorts of suggestions once the For um has started thinking about local problems Out near Swift Current Saskatchewanlast sum mer the Wymark Forum decided to do something about section of highway which has been win ter trouble spot for years With the hel of treeplanter borrowed fro he provincial De partment of Agriculture and equip pad with 40000trees donated by Dominion Forestry Station the Forum membersset to work The results of their activity will be evident in few yearseleven miles of highway beautified and protected from snow by long stretch of trees irAsThe Swift current Sun put it Here were group of people who wanted something bad enough to lift it by its own bootstraps and not holler for some higher agency to undertake it They have co operated in doing something worth while Ior themselves at the same time making good use of avail able services more recent Forum project is that of the Marshall Road Farm Forum near Dunnville Ontario This Forum is busy with plans for landscaping and beautifying their new school grounds To raise money for the project local feed dealer agreed to sell them calf which he had been feeding for demonstration purposes With the proceeds realized from the sale of tickets and draw for the calf the Forum is off to good start in putting into action its plan for more attractive school with better surroundings These various prOJects are one Auclitm Sales Furniture Sales Phone 5449 minimum of human effort and time Forty head of cattle may be fed in six minutes practical aspect of the Farm Forum program But people ask What results come from the Forum dis cussion Who hears about the Forum findings The information about what farm people are think ing is useful in number of ways it is publicized over the air and through the papers It is useful to officials of farm organizations and to the government It all the more important because it does not come from one section of farm ers but from farm people as wholeand this includes the wom en as well as the men Forum discussions are important in another way As one Forum has put it We have observed that members who prior to joining Farm Radio Forum often hesitated to venture an opinion in public are now sure enough or them selves to be able to lead meetings and express themselves with clarity and conviction which re flects credit on their Farm Forum training This is all part of the job that National Farm Radio Forum is trying to do CALL THE ENE FOB PRINTING PHONE 3414 Farm Progress Report Slmcoe Federation of Agriculture FRIDAY APRIL I954 13 THE BARBIE EXAMINER Yes why not have clty conveniences on your arm Hot and cold runn lng water on the turn or up Let us give you quohtlon on BEATIY BROS Pumping System SEE DOUGHERTY BROS INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER DEALERS 35 High Street Barrie Phone 4963 PRICES HAVE BEEN REDUCED 0N GRASS SEEDS WE ALSO HAVE SEVERAL GOOD USED SPERMIRS PLIIWS TMCIOBS COME IN AND LOOK OVER OUR STOCK WHY BE THAT FIFTH FARMER Seed drill surveys reveal that every fifth farmer Sows REJ ECTED seed Poor Weedy Seed Means Lower Vitality Loss of Plant Food Lower Yields Uneven Stands More Weeds Loss of Moisture Lower Quality Added Labor Higher Costs Reduced Profit OOOO For Best results use REGISTERED seed It guarantees variety quality and germination Treat the seed to control seed home diseases Use suitable highyielding improved varieties Arrange for your supplies at your County Seed Show THE ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF IIGIIICIILTIIIIE