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page two i the tribune stouffville ont thursday april 30 1942 lj tmtffttiu gfrtimne established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario eight to twelve pages average circulation 1650 copies subscription kates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa 3250 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments thinks term should not be shortened the st marys school board has done the unusual to come cracking down on this thing of letting the school youngsters down easily by shortening the school term allegedly to allow the boys to assist in seeding operations on the farm come to think of it what can such an average youngster do in the way of seeding ask any farmer for the answer then as the seeding term lasts for but little over ten days what is the footfree youngster to do during the rest of the term there is still another way to look at this thing going to school does not make a scholar its the training in the school or the university that does the trick and such training takes time we recall the results that en sued during the last war when some school and college terms were shortened the youngster passed under such circumstances but in many cases proved utterly incompet ent and consequently failed under lifes stern test of ex perience a shortened term simply had not given him sufficient training educators who know their work assure us that education cannot be taken in or obtained hastily war or no war there are exceptions of course but they are in the class with hens teeth the stand taken by the st marys paper is sound and while a boy can be of great value during seeding time as the st marys paper points out this rush lasts but a few days the observation of this paper is that school boys and girls of the age of those attending stouffville school is that the term should not foe shortened too much if at all judging by the youngsters going about the streets every evening of the week in waves they are not spending any overtime at home work to make up for a shortened term of course as it has been pointed out before some parents grouch because their children get too much and some be cause they get too little home work the majority of people feel too little is given which is due we believe to the diver gent opinions of parents 1 when should stores remain open beginning next week may 1st the stores in stouff ville will revert to their summer timetable of remaining open three nights a week tuesday thursday and saturday evenings and of course remaining closed each wednesday afternoon which is a yearround halfholiday to reimburse the clerks for the night work there is a good deal of doubt about the necessity of remaining open on tuesday eveningsr as the crowd in town is usually small and advocates of remaining closed are of the opinion that closing at eight oclock promptly could at least be adhered to however this move could only come from the lousiness men of the town at best eight oclock is a nuisance hour for it spoils the evening for the merchant in case he wished to work at home but it would give the dihtory buyer a chance the opinion of this paper is that the stores may well remain open every thursday and saturday evening during summer months and that they should check carefully the tuesday business if not warranted then close it is only the poor cooperation of the merchants to attend their own meetings when called that prevented an adjustment of thisvtrouble last week motorists save antifreeze with zero and subzero weather all over for this sea son and warmer weather just around the corner garage and service station men are advising motorists to save the anti freeze in their radiators the reason of course is that there is an anticipated shortage of this fluid the advice is timely for motorists will be changing to clear water shortly how ever the conservation plan is not without its complications if radiator alcohol is the antif reeze that has been used alcohol is temperamental and presents storage prob lems ibecause it is highly volatile and inflammable and for that reason cannot be stored for the summer in any old container that might be handy the fire risk must be considered unless the motorist has a suitable receptacle he may have difficulty in dbtaining an approved container of the required capacity for his alcohol storing the inflammable liquid in glass containers is risky if someone has a sedition perhaps he will come forward the warmer days are fast approach ing and the seasons in their regular order do not wait for motorists or approved antifreeze containers such simple things at potatoes we imagine that every farmer is aware of the fact but to some of the town gardeners of the greener class like the writer it will be a fact worthy of note that potatoes to do their best should toe planted in this section of ontario from early may to midjune of course planting a little later is better than not getting them in at all imagine but this year things should be done just right so that best pro duction may be assured there are other interesting points too about the potato business a farmer can have no assurance of a good market- i able crop of high quality potatoes unless he uses good seed states a bulletin on successful potato pioduction in on tario issued by the ontario department of agriculture it is only by the use of good seed that ontario farm- weekly editors to convene in toronto a way in which weekly newspapers they will visit manning pool of the can contribute to the piomotion of the war effort will be the theme when ontario and quebec weekly newspaper publishers and their whes convene in toronto on friday and saturday may 8th and 9th the morning sessions the publishers will devote to business friday afternoon r c a f and a bren gun plant at dinner on friday evenlngthe guest speaker bishop r j renison left will tell of conditions in wartime britain at lunch on saturday when the group will be guests of the tor onto daily star the wellknown star writer greg clark right will carry on with bishop renisons theme and tell of the red cross british bomb victims fund mr clark will present to one of the publishers the handsome joseph t clark men orial tiophy centre won last year by the dundalk herald the stouff ville tribune was the first paper to win this coveted trophy for best newspapei in ontario and quebec of towns 1500 or less business directbry dental e s barker ljxs djdlfll honor graduate ot royal cooew of dental surgeons and ot tk university of toronto office in grubins block phone 274 markham every tuesday office in wear block medical agriculture goes on in wartime england this is the 14th in a series of article on conditions in wartime britain and parts of europe written for the weekly neus- papers of canada by their own reprcsentativ e hugh templin of the fergus xewsrecord no doubt many readeis of can adian weekly newspapers would like to know something of agnculture in wartime britain and how the farme fares travelling with a gioup of editois of city papeis i had not as much oppoitunity to study farming conditions as i would have liked but i was able to pick up a good deal of information in trips outside london the farmers in britain fill just as important a place as the soldiers or the munition workers one hears that said sometimes of canadian farmers but while there may be some doubt in canada there is none in england and scotland before the war more than half the food consumed in britain was im ported either from denmaik and other european countries or fron canada and other places across the oceans not only that but some of the fodder for animals was imported and a large part of the chicken and hog feed the people of britain must eat all imports from europe have been cut off except occasional shipments of oranges from spain and portugal all imported food must be brought from canada or faither away that costs money and- lives shipping space is precious it cannot be used foi animal foods or bulky articles such as packaged breakfast cereals and eveiy ton of extra food that can be produced in britain is despeiately needed cost has become a secondary consideiation farmers told what to raise a few months before the war actually started a bonus of some s 00 an acre was offered to faimeis for eery acre of new land biought undei cultivation a canadian travelling in england for the first time gets the idea that every acie of land is in use there are no unsightly fencecorners for that matter there ie few fences evidently wood and fencing matei- ials are scarce and and so hedges arc used most fields are smaller than in this countiy and the farms all look neat and tidy but evidently there was much waste land not only on large estates but on smau farms swampy pieces have beenrained meadows that were in grass for hun- dieds of years have been turned over bj the plow and actually millions of acres of extra land are cultivated what the farmer grows on his land in wartime is not left to his judgment every county has iu war agricultural committee and these in turn appoint committees in all dis tricts these committees are not made up of politicians but of work ing farmers land owners and farm workers the agricultural colleges have been closed and professors and other experts serve as fulltime ad visers on these committees every farmer is interviewed every year or oftener he is told what hp must grow the committee may even go so far as to give him a plan of his fields telling him what to plant in each field that sounds drastic and is drastic actually in practice the system is largely voluntary because nearly all farmers are willing and anxious to cooperate as anpatnotic cuty they pride themselves that they still live in a democratic country and because their own neighbors are on the com mittees the plan works largely as a voluntary cooperation but to an outsider it looks rather different if a farmer will not cooperate the committee has power to force him to do so if he is entirely incompetent to produce more he may be taken from his farm a few rugged individ uals have even gone to jail ksstntial foods conio fust if the british farmer does not produce nioe many people will go hungry and some may stare theie- foie the committees concentrato on the pioduction of those foods which will go farthest towaid feeding as many as possible and they trj to cut out waste of all kinds wheat and potato pioduction seems to have soai ed oats are largely giown ind alf alfa seemed to me to be a favorite crop the growing season last year was excellent with a damp summci and a long sunny autumn the section crop of hay and alfalfa was excellent i saw stiange objects in inny of the fields which i took to be stacks of hay or gram wound aiound with what looked like tai paper and net ting i learned that they wsie tem- poiary silos emphasis is being put on ensilage as the best method of pioducing the most cattle feed theie are othei makeshifts a pio- cess has been discoveied foi mak ing a pulpy feed out of stiaw on farms with sufficient water supply snaw oi chaff is cut up soaked in caustic soda solution and then wasn- ed for a long time m running watei it takes the place of tin nips school children aie paid to gathei ucoins to teed to the pigs quimtitj of km in stock lmmoied live stock is contiollel by the committees as thoroughly as field ciops for instance an attempt has been made to weed out mferioi cows lessening the number while keeping up the milk supply sheep are also consideied essential hogs have been reduced diastically in numbeis they used much imported feed so did the chickens besides it doesn take so long to build up theii nunibes again as a result poik and eggs are ver scarce all owneis of poultry flocks with more than 50 birds must sell theh eggs to the government they get a certain wheat ration in return those with less than 50 hens can dis pose of the eggs as they like many town and village families keep a few hens or even a pig feedii jiein the scraps or a pig may be kept by a club with several neighbors pro viding scraps and having a share in the hog the number of tractois in use in england surprised me many of them were made in canada in a countiy where gasoline and fuel oil are de cidedly scarce i did not expect to see so many tractors but this was another evidence of the desper ate need of food private cars have al most disappeared from the road but tractors are kept going long hours there is one handicap which those farmers close to airports or along the main roads suffer which might not be thought of by one who had not seen their countryside these fields are full of traps for planes and some times for tanks as well these are of several types but all takes up space and it must take time and trouble driving around them in seed ing tilling and harvesting opera tions farmers observe the same black out regulations as people in towns and cities i am not sure that this is compulsory but it is the wise thing to do there are many instances in earlier months where hostile pilots have seen a gleam of light from a farm and have dropped a bomb on the chance that it might be a factory there have also been some instances wheie farmers were attacked in day light raids and their stock machine- gunned from the an farmers are grten protection in manj ways the british farmer is probably better off than ever be fore his hired man is in the same position prices of all kinds of farm produce are set by the government high enough to ensure a profit and wages of farm laborers are also set when i was in england in october the time was approaching when the minimum faim wages would be set for 1942 the hired men were asking for 60 shillings weekly and seemed likely to get about 55 shillings or about 13 00 ifaimeis sons if not entirely ex cinpted from conscription enjoy the same standing as munition workers farm help is scarce of course dur ing the harvest months last fall many experienced farmeis now with the canadian army in england were sent to faims near their camps to help out they did a good job one faimei leports that they were fai better than any hiied help he could get in his own countiy working far longei houis ungiudgingly one of the womens auxiliary un its in biitam is the womens land army it is not as popular as some of the other blanches of the service possibly because the khaki uniform does not look as well as the air force oi the womens royal naval ser vices their jobs may lack some of the glamoui too but there is no doubt about their usefulness i-sup- pose that in some cases they take the place of hned men but those i saw seemed to be working in threshing gangs going fiom farm to farm in groups wheie is some grouching and com plaining of couise we heard one poultiy farmer say that he was al- continued on page seven dr s s ball physician and surgeoa xray office cor obrien and phone 19 coroner for york co j insurance thomas bireett sow general insurance agency stouffville ontario established 1908 insure in reliable companies at reasonable rates prompt service phone 25902 stouffrtbo h o klinck 37 classic ave toronto for your insurance needs its fire life automobile bnrgnw and all casualty lino a c bureholdes insurance canada life assurance -alao- antomobile and fire barristers office phone residence pfeoiu 310 3s14 arthur w s greek barrister solicitor notarr i 6 king street bast oshawa ontario resident partner wcpollardk c oxbridge ontario branch csoe port jttti pnaoa n office phone elgin 7021 residence 1 kingdato tsst samuel d borins barrister solicitor etc 603 temple bldg 62 richmond street w- toronto brierbush hospital government licensed main street bast stottmdk maternity medical and surreal s cases taken ambulance service stoupfvdlle marble granite works orders promptly executed p tarr proprietor phone 4303 ers can hope to regain market prestige in his province officials state there should be no waste of food products during wartime they point out and diseased seed potatoes will produce a poor crop with resultant waste farmers who have not purchased their seed potatoes would do well to immediately consult their agricultural re presentative as to sources of supply in their own or nearby counties late planting is one of the chief causes of reduced yields according to experiments conducted at the ontario agricultural college guelph over a period of years each days delay in planting from early may to midjune resulted in approximately one and a half bushels reduction in yield per acre per day l e oneill stouffvtlle funeral dntector and embalmer continuous telephone service day and night business phone residence phone registered nurses and 24 hoar service mrs e r good phme im a c kennedy chiropractor charoh street stoaffwia monday wednesday fruajv to 12 am phone ki 4812 r ha0tw ernest w huntkb chartered accodntabir i auditor residence ooee 61 chilton rd room m toronto 57 bloor st w r c clendening funeral director ambulance service phone markham 9000 a s farmer licensed auctioneer 20 years experience york county oxbridge and picker ing townships v farm stock and furniture sales a specialty telephone stouffville 72t address gormley po clarke prentice phone aginconrt 52 ws milufeea licensed auctioneer for the counties of york and on tario successor for corpj sea prentice of casf and of the lata j- h prentice former prentice prentice farm and farm stock sales a specialty at fair and rea- sol ble rates