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the tribune stouffville onl thursday july 14 1949 saturdarys downpour of rain will correct much of this trouble record drought which has prank chapman left and hit ontario is discussed by will westney who is warden of ontario county and reeve of pickering where he is a farmer corn which in normal years high by now is stunted by fully ciemonstrates many of wouldbe close to three feet drought as mr chapman rue- the stalks have not yet made their appearance above ground the average age of topranking hollywood male movie stars is 40 years the women average 32 they say casey jones the railroad engineer celebrated in the song was a real person john luther jones and was killed in the well- sung accident on april 30 1900 tooooooocsacjdoooooc stouffville sand gravel limited are prepared to supply your requirements of crushed gravel sand concrete gravel pit run delivered or at the bin rv plant phono 125j j office phono 370 fidoooooooooooood drought disastrous for pickering twp pasture frank chapman who owns a 2-10- acre dairy farm at audley about three miles north and east of pick ering village placed a foot on a slat of a rail fence and cast a speculative eye over a stunted field of hay frank has so head of fine jersey cattle and already he is worrying about how- he is going to feed them next winter ive been farming here since 1922 he said and ive never seen the drought so bad so early in the year he swept his arm out over the yellowing field there are 12 acres there he said usually i get a- bout three tons of hay an acre off that land this year i dont think i could have taken threequarters of a ton off it and ive had to turn it into pasture as you can see ive divided the field up into threeacre sections with wheatland day large scale demonstration of improved wheat production practices leichcroft farm no 7 highway 8 miles north of toronto 2 miles east of yonge st wed july 27 displays open 10 am weed spraying 11 am addresses 1 pm speakers hon t l kennedy minister of agriculture w h waddell wheat specialist oac combining of test plots 20 acres modern machinery in action sponsored by crop improvement association w m cockburn secy cliff wallwork pres newmarket ont stouffville ont morris the supreme english car minor series the small car with the room and comfort of a big one full hydraulic brakes torsion bar front suspension 45 miles per gallon coach 1595 delivered convertible 1650 delivered immediate delivery on most models and colors oxford series big comfortable and powerful sedan 2095 delivered george abell ringwood phone stouffville 344j for demonstration electricallycharged fences the cat tle are allowed in one section at a time ordinarily a section would last about a week but in this kind of weather it lasts only four or five days and by the time the cattle have reached the last section the first hasnt had a chance to grow winter feeding already right now my cows are getting grain mixes equivalent to winter feeding ordinarily we cut that down to half in the summertime but this year we just cant do it the lovely rolling farm lands that usually make pickering township a shimmering patchwork of green from lake ontario to the blue ux- bridge ridges in the north are yellow and wilted now since last may there have been only three showers in the area and the drought is now going into its fortieth day the sun has laid its searing fin gers on farms along lake ontario as far east as durham and prince ed ward counties and as far west as ox ford in the woodstock area the damage extends as far north as the simcoe counties and into peel and halton crop loss estimates run into the hundreds of millions of dollars but to dairy farmers like frank chapman the continuing drought is creeping close to disaster for dairy farmers depend upon the cheap sum mer feeding to offset the more ex pensive feeding programs of the winter months like frank many of them are now stable feeding their cows and because there are no corn and hay crops to tide them over the winter they see their expenses rising like the mercury in the big thermo meters outside their barns water is becoming a problem to the dairymen in the pickering area the streams are drying up and the level of water in the wells is falling in some of the pastures water is being carried in milk cans and dump ed into large tubes so that the cattle can drink buying water and just the other day frank chapman paid 375 for goo gallons of water to replenish the 37foot well he had dug last fall ive been able to hold oft buying water he said because last fall i had my nephew dam up a gully with a bulldozer there was a regular little lake there but it has fallen to about a foot and a half now if it would rain now it would be replenished but farmers throughout pickering and whitby townships who hadnt frank chapmans foresight are pay ing from 3 to 425 to have their water hauled from whitby yesterday an interested little group of men stood at the barn on will westneys farm which borders frank champans and watched his new forage harvester at work the for age harvester chops the hay up and blows it back into the hay wagon which is in tow and it gets most out of the runt hay crops jvliich are prevalent this year george dick and fred squire who operate a big beef cattle ranch and harry bayes the president of the ontario ayrshire breeders associa tion watched while henry westney wills son operated the harvester all were worried about winter feed and the harvester was at least a part answer to that problem and a big reply to the labor shortage never so bud ive been here since 1s92 said will westney who is the warden of ontario county and the reeve of pickering township and ive never seen such a bad drought so early in the year ive travelled through this country a lot and the only good corn crop ive seen is west of uxbrldge town the rest is all stunted last year as an experiment i put hay in my silo for winter feed and was pleased at the result this year im not putting anything in the silo 1 at all what i can get im putting straight into the barn and hay i right- now is being quoted at 35 a ton the farmer is the greatest gamb ler in the world he takes a chance on the weather aluthe time but this year the odds are really against us and down in pickering big burly friendly arthur mitchell who has a coal wood and lumber business has his hands full hauling water to parch ed farms ive been hauling water since 1934 he said and ive never seen anything like this in the past two months weve delivered 700 tanks of water and each tank holds 600 gallons we dump it into cisterns wells and in a good many cases right into the water troughs for the cattle i had three trucks going steadily until midnight moaiday night and we are still getting requests for water this is the worst drought i have ever seen down here and remember what we normal ly call dry weather is still to come ing their last respects to their friend and neighbour mrs orville brillinger enter tained mr and mrs randall spofford on sunday betty shropshire is visiting her sister and brotherinlaw mr and mrs haines congratulations to mr and mrs murray mcclure on their recent marriage mrs mcclure is the former carolina bruni sunday visitors with mr and mrs chapman were mrs spofford and miss muriel of stoufiyille also mr and mrs w johnston and earl 1 fall wheat cleaning treating dry dust method usual rates pine orchard mr wilbert widdifield spent a few days with his sisters here miss l smith visited mr and mrs w johnston a few days last week our community was cast in gloom thursday evening when it was learned bert dike fell off a load of hay and was instantly killed mr dike was a friend of the whole community the children expecting his smile and fun the older ones knowing his help was always there when needed without being asked our sincere sympathy is extended to his wife and two sons delbert and bill the funeral was held from wesley church on saturday with a large crowd pay- buying top 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