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stouffville ontario thursday august 11th 1938 clover good as corn for silage says 380 farmers a new york state agricultur al magazine reports that of 380 farmers recently contacted 83 per cent reported that grass sil- of the crop was apparently the difficulties arose because the determining factor thirtynine silage was either quite putrid be- per cent of those farmers re- 1 cause of insufficient preservative ported that grass silage improv ed milk color the color was in fluenced by the amount of silage fed three hundred and thirtytwo age was equal or superior to corn i of those farmers reported that silage of the total number 95 the cows ate the grass silage per cent reported that it is equal i readily 26 reported difficulty or superior to hay the quality in practically every case the save money tiiuecoar now low may prices will save you money on every ton phone us today gormley elevators frank harvey prop office phone 7307 t inoi quiet dzuufoe s of georgian bay travel by motor coach and steamer 7 days at royal hotel 3805 7 days at belvedere hotel 3640 7 days at delawana inn c 2 days s00m1le cru1sb 1450 s days at ojibway hotel prices apply fron toronto and include return fore by motor coqch ond steamer meols and hotel or stateroom accommodation shored by 2 persons ask for your copy op reservations must vacation tours be made in advance describing 30 dollflhrful tout slofovera arranged if desired vacation services effective saturday june 25th information at stouffville mansion house phone 161 gray coach lines als1re we are in the market for alsike seed submit your samples before selling we are also buyers of wheat barley and oats coal poultry feeds salt cement land tile fly spray s w hastings phone stouffville 169 for best results ship your cream to our creamery for safe and wholesome butter ask your grocer for stouffville creamery prints made only from cream produced from t b tested herds stouffville creamery co open tuesday thurwlay and saturday evenings phone 18601 or because the material was too dry or of poor quality three hundred and fortysix of the farmers used molasses as a preservative 34 used commer cial phosphoric acid of the latter two decided that in the future they would change to molasses the clover or alfalfa to be en siled is cut green and is put into the silo just as quickly as poss ible after cutting if it lies and is wilted by the sun water may need to be added to bring the moisture content up for the mak ing of the best silage the moisture in the ensiled materia should be 70 per cent for alfalfa and clovers 80 pounds or seven and a half galj ions of molasses is recommend ed for each ton of green material about an imperial gallon to each ton of green material is recommended where phosphoric acid is used none of the 34 farmers who used phos phoric acid suggested applying more than this amount and in all cases of severe spoilage the trouble could be traced to the use of a lesser amount one oper ator suggests that with a little experience one can judge the amount of acid to use he says that if the right amount is add ed the material will have the taste of a good salad the results of this survey do not indicate that phosphoric acid is a more expensive preservative than molasses it is easier to handle and when properly used there is no more spoilage the silage seems as palatable to cattle and gives as good production results as does silage made with molasses according to the report no minimum wheat price in ontario ottawa august 6 ontario farmers growing winter wheat cannot have a minimum price set for their product under the canada wheat board act pre mier king has informed hon p m dewan ontario agricul ture minister the terms of the act apply only to wheat produced in mani toba saskatchewan alberta and british columbia mr king said he was replying to a request by mr dewan for consideration for ontario grain men alleging dis crimination against farmers of this province by the fixing of the minimum wheat price at 80 cents a bushel for western pro ducers mr king states the government in approv ing the price fixed by the wheat board were acting under the legislative authority conferred by the canada wheat board act as enacted by parliament in 1933 the wheat board act is re stricted in the terms of its application to wheat produced in the provinces of manitoba sas katchewan alberta and british columbia as the powers of the govern- forth in the act it is not possible ment are confined to those set under existing legislation for the government to empower the wheat board to extend its opera tions to the province of ontario former resident tendered banquet a toronto book publisher re cently tendered a banquet to one of his authors francis pollock of shedden ontario and a well- known resident of stouffville some twenty years ago mr and mrs pollock resided in the residence now owned by the editor of the tribune a v nolan while in stouffville mr pollock became interested in bee keeping and established a small apiary here and another in alabama for the winter he has made himself known to thous ands of young people through his books some of which are bitter honey the life of the bee and wilderness honey much of my childhood says mr pollock was spent in a vill age in north huron county a primitive spot where deer and bear are still occasionally seen i spent all my available time with a gun or fishing rod or a boat or snowshoes i wish i could find a place like that now i after wards went to the collegiate institute at st marys at the same time as t a russell and arthur meighen afterwards to toronto university where i did not graduate but instead went to cuba to write special articles about the revolution then in pro gress i spent part of the next year in france italy and new- york and did a year of teach ing in an ontario rural school the next years i spent in writ ing fiction and verse for the new york magazines later i became interested in beekeeping and had a small apiary at stouffville then t determined to build up a real business which would earn a living and leave me half the year entirely free to write i established this at shedden ontario with a modern honey- plant power driven machinery and a lot of old cars and trucks the fruits of this life half rural half literary are so far the two recent novels and some very fine poetry as to the later however fine it will probably bring only one to every hundred or more readers of mr pollocks prose yet it is typical of the sense of literary reality possess ed by this experienced and un usual writer that he should say looking back and looking for ward my long suit is poetry do you recall when they all do it flour and woollen mill near looyrs old for close to one hundred years the almira flour and woollen mill has carried on a trade in the hamlet of almira just west of the 6th concession of markham and for 58 of those years the establishment has been in the name of lehman sons the mil as it stands today was erected somewhere about the year 181 1 by john bowman who also built a number of hous es in almira with brick baked right there in the district from this pioneer miller the business passed to all spofford while just 58 years ago last april s b lehman father of the pre sent owners bought the con cern john bowman the origin al builder was the grandfather of mrs h b lehman so that in all the century it has not passed far from the lehman wool requires four stages pick ing carding spinning and weav ing in the picking stage the wool receives its application of wooloil 10 lbs oil to 200 lbs wool which gives the yarn its elasticity and prevents the threads breaking the cards a system of rollers give the raw wool its first appearance of a spun product the fleeces being joined into long fluffy threads spinning is done on what is known as a spinning jack oper ating 200 spindles at a time which together pull out 500 yards of yarn every 30 seconds an automatic regulator on the machine can be set to give the yarn any required fineness no 10 cotton warp is used for weav ing 2400 fine threads being connected from the 1000 yard spool through the loom this a hen is not supposed to have much common sense or tact yet every time she lays an egg she cackles forth the fact a rooster hasnt got a lot of intellect to show but none the less most roosters have enough good sense to crow the mule the most despised of beasts has a persistent way of letting folks know hes around by his insistent bray the busy little bees they buzz bulls bellow and cows moo the watchdogs bark the gandeis quack and doves and pigeons coo the peacock spreads his tail and squawks pigs squeal and robins sing and even serpents know enough to hiss before they sting but man the greatest master piece that nature could devise will often stop and hesitate before hell advertise the old link and pin coupl ings were in use on railroad cars six drinks were sold over the bar at hotels for 25c and some times seven drinks the prickly horsehair sofa was in your parlor your best girl wore bangs a high lace collar reinforced with whalebone and high buttoned shoes 400 bills and 25c shin plas ters were in everyday circulation a teninch hat pin was used by the women to keep their hats in place you had a black cord attach ed to your straw hat to keep it from blowing away coaloil could not be bought after sundown your car had to be jacked up in the fall and all tires stored away in a dark room beer and whiskey were plenti ful at barn raisings the fanning mill sewing ma chine range or stove and weigh scales sold his goods off the wag gon and always drove a smart team of horses the woman sat in the buggy or cutter while the old man had to have his toddy goose grease was a positive cure for rheumatism and colds in the chest the old hotel managers fed you and your horse for a 50 cent piece and a drink thrown in the turkey red table cover with white flowered patterns was on display on your front room table you gave ashes for bars of soap and kitchen tinware shining the families shoes on saturday night with the old paste blackening name the mill is a threestorey brick building the grist and wool sharing the three floors gasoline and waterpower are used to operate the machinery the two units together generat ing about 66 horsepower the woollen plant is quite unique since as mr lehman ex plained it is the only one of its kind in the distrct or as far as the owner can ascertain in the province in the neighborhood of 5000 lbs of wool are manufac tured by the plant each year and is all purchased from local farmers except the black wool which comes from western ontario the largest shropshire producer is r norton of kes wick this quantity of wool is made up into an average of 200 pairs of socks and 2000 lbs of yarn per season the yarn is spun into quarterpound skeins all the output said mr lehman is sold locally to in dividuals or in stores within a radius of 30 miles machine turns out one complete blanket every hour the plant is- equipped with two power knitters of which live dozen pairs of socks are turned out a day an interesting thing in the knitting process is that it requires only 15 seconds to make up a leg while the toe and heel take five minutes an added process in large woollen mills which is omitted here is napping this machine pulls the wool from the centre of the blanket to the outside giving it a very fine soft text ure but as mr lehman explain ed this allows the material to shrink the centre yarn being very fragile when robbed of its wool homespun wool is very durable and just prior to the visit of the tribune several blankets had been completed for a lady customer on the seventh concession who had spun the yarn by hand nearly forty years ago four hands are employed dur ing the busy season which is the manufacturing of the raw from april till october used car jw2 values used cars and trucks for sale lford delux tudor radio heater and defroster 1937 lford delux tudor heater and defroster 1937 1 lafayette tudor special 1937 2 ford 1 ton panel trucks 1934 1 ford ton panel truck 1934 1 chevrolet 2 ton heavy duty dump truck 1934 1 ford 2 ton ford stake truck 1935 1 chevrolet 2 ton chassis truck 1933 1 cadillac special 6 sedan like new 1932 1 durant special sedan 1931 1 plymouth standard sedan 1930 1 chevrolet standard coach 1930 also a number of other good reconditioned cars and trucks lfordson tractor 1 gordon tractor draw of eighteen tickets prizes as listed marriages in canada increas ed by 12 per cent in june as com pared to last years showing for that month the old two-can- live etc theory seems to be coming back into favour we have had our first monthly on august 1st 1938 1st 6 tickets drawn 100 worth of gasoline free 2nd 6 tickets drawn 1 gallon of motor oil free 3rd 6 tickets drawn 2 quarts of motor oil free d f holden sons phone stouffville 18401 phone markham 120 poultry wanted we pay highest market prices for lire fowl apply at e pennocks phone 163 sam golden send the friends tribune to absent trucking local and long distance trucking gravel hauled live stock h r storry telephone 5803 a