A Avenue resident of Newmarket reported a strange incident Friday A panel truck pulled up in front of her bouse during the afternoon A of truck opened and two dogs jumped out then the away and left the dogs On Saturday the dogs were roaming neighborhood J What was the explanation would assume that it was convenient way of getting rid a couple of dogs from florae a low trick particularly during the reject epidemic 1 Eight deer were seen La the area last weekend were reported to be quite IK- If would cooperate they would make an attractive for the Audubon at Pickering College farm to held thia coming Saturday afternoon J recently returned from Alaska will be present Tea and will be from to 5 pro This week we are pleased to have Mr Ed Stephens assisting us Ed Is a senior journalism student at and is here to see how a weekly newspaper is produced He has written a number of stories which appear in this issue and in addition is guest columnist for Catnips on this page It is not the first time he has contributed to this newspaper In when he was 11 years of age he submitted an article predicting the outcome of World Wax He three years early being outguessed by the German economist Dr who kept German economy functioning longer than most authorities expected two year ftjfjrr sir mm Exprtsi and Bateau t Ottawa JOHN I WOMB Sponsored by the Telegram the program Saturday Is one of a series being held in Ontario Leading Ontario naturalists will be conducting groups of people- on nature tours of the acre farm property The program from to pm Motion pictures on nature aubjects will be shown at the college assembly hall from 2 to pm William a Walt Disney photographer who from the Files of All final year students in course are visiting weekly newspapers this week Besides helping out with the production of papers they are giving valuable suggestions for improvements But prob ably most of them are discov ering the best theories some times clash with problems con cerning mechanical shortcom ings and staff shortages We congratulate for its contribution to journalism and thank Mr Stephens for his help this week March The Honorable with Mrs arid Master made a call Saturday afternoon when they spent an hour with old friends Mrs Dick and Miss iiWck at Comfort Lodge Misa McGregor and Miss Tape conducted a program of athletics after the sing song at on Friday I the representative for the contest is having quite a bit of practice at impromptus and we hive every hope that she will bring the honors for the Newmarket high school The March rifle for members of the A rifle team closed this week Out of a possible J and Beckett obtained th highest scores with followed by Boyd A Smith and J Hamilton is spend i4 the winter with her sister J D A Brunton is the guest of her sisterinlaw Mrs John Hunt of London Mr and Mrs A Cornell and Mr and Mrs Kenneth Miles motored to Lindsay last weekend and were snow bound Mr of Thornbury has a guest at the home of Mr Charles Miss Margaret Strange of Toronto spent last weekend with her sister Mrs If Mrs J and small son Malcolm Los Angeles are visiting her sister A Morning Mr and Mrs J drier of Kingston are visiting Mr and Mrs D Stoddard Miss Mildred Drysdale of Indiana is staying I with her sister Mrs F Guyatt The curling picture and near ly all the views are the work of Mr JN Wilson of this town as well as many of the photos which speak for them selves as to his artistic ability- Last Sunday morning George Bowman met with a painful accident He was burning pea coal in a small stove and in order to hurry the fire which was rather low he poured on a small quantity of coal oil Instantly there was an explosion and the flames shot up in his face singing one side burning off his moustache His eyesight had a narrow escape It is hoped that his face will not be disfigured This a warning not to use coal oil on a coal fire It is expected that a joint stock company will be formed in the near future to manufac ture peat in the vicinity as a very rich bed has been recently discovered at the head of the Holland River on the line of the Trent Val ley canal extension The Commissioners met the beginning of the month and passed accounts amounting to to The large item includes for a car of coal and also 144 for dry goods and gro ceries that properly belongs to month of January but the bill was not presented There are now about inmates and they all appear to get on very nicely with the new superin tendent and matron News comes from the north that an account of mild weather absence of snow and the impassable state of the roads lumbermen are unable to get out and many of the smaller operators and jobbers will be ruined The price of lumber is likely to soar and building to be more expensive than ever INDOORS BUT SOON OUTDOORS be snowing and blowing but spring Is just around ley when tulips cineraria and na indoor This at a Toronto store Is reminder ok at the garden tools toe coming seasons Job nd ifmiRIALPAGE THURSDAY THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF MARCH NINETEEN HUNDRED AND J AT THE END of each summer the Trade Fair has been a popular event in Newmarket for the past num ber of years It is recalled how the merchants have congratulated themselves on the fine displays of wares which are offered for sale in local shops and how the good feeling and cooperation during the Trade Fair has made the commercial life of Newmarket more pleas ant- The sponsoring organization the Newmarket Hor ticultural Society is sometimes forgotten In fact this year it has been forgotten completely Seventyfour let ters were mailed out to merchants recently asking for cooperation in planning the 1956 Trade Fain The So ciety received one reply We would suggest that the Horticultural Society drop the Trade Fair altogether Most of the members feel that they would prefer spehding their energies on beautifying the town and other activities which are more closely associated with horticulture Nevertheless they are making one more attempt at organizing the Trade Fair in spite of the merchants apathy A meeting has been called for Thursday March 22 in the Agricultural Department board rooms at 8 pm If the merchants do not turn up there will be no Trade Fair sponsored by the Horticul tural Society DILEMMA OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURE HAS had a new awakening The reason is that farmers are in a critical economic position Stimulated by a drop in farm organ ized farmers are showing a burst of energy all direc Oh the local level the county Federation of Agriculture has improved its public relations program much as organized producers have been doing on a national scale Township Federations are more active One notices the change in outlook of individuals the determined attitude the eagerness for action on the part of organizations and governments Sometimes one senses that individuals with a back to the wall feel ing would want any kind of action as long as it is extreme Can we blame them This week commodity groups are meeting in Tor onto to discuss the problem of falling incomes Self help is their motto We wonder how much longer it will be possible for them to help themselves and if the new awakening is too late Offsetting the problem somewhat is the organization of agriculture as an in dustry Some farmers still are reacting against organs men like Mr Theodore Parker who claims that the farmers system for marketing hogs robs the indi vidual of his freedom farmers know that they cannot remain in the hog producing business without accepting some regimentation But still existing in this highly integrated society there are individuals who think we can get along without regulations Unions protect the workers from exploitation of their labors What guarantee will the farmers have against exploita tion without similar strong organizations But organization alone is not the solution the problem of agriculture Agriculture is in a dilemma all farmers should produce less or there should be fewer farmers- An economist said recently that all refrigera tors are produced by nine factories yet one of the fac tories could produce a large enough number to meet the demand The nine factories remain and the companies are successful Can agriculture do the same In the first place agricultural production cannot be controlled like that of refrigerators and commodity groups do not have common market problems so the answer is difficult In spite of the public relations efforts it is doubt ful that the average Canadian will understand or he may not want to understand the complexities of the agricultural economy A year or so ago there was a hue and cry about the wheat surplus and the govern- meat subsidy on western wheat People grasped at an idea about sending the surplus to the hungry people of Asia Why not send it We are spending millions on the Colombo plan so why not spend wheat instead But it is not so simple Giving away all surplus wheat to the hungry peoples of Asia could cause an economic catastrophe the experts say But the other kind of assistance through technical aid for these peoples is of permanent value enabling them to produce goods raise their living standards and become cash custom ers for our wheat This strengthens the argument that there should be fewer farmers particularly wheat farmers It is argued that it is morally wrong to hold a vast surplus of wheat in Canada but how moral is it to tamper with the world economy by making wholesale gifts of wheat to the hungry millions The time would come when the gifts would be cut off and the hungry would be hungrier A moral solution and economic facts do not seem to go together and thinking about them is not satisfying to the soul And while we try to understand the farmer and the agricultural economy we can be sympathetic but we can do little to help him in the pre sent dilemma of agriculture OUR SIDE OF THE STORY TIME FOR ACTION IN THE NEAR EAST The sale of arms to Egypt aroused concern in the democ racies and consternation in Israel Eden and Eisenhower held a consultation The Secre taryGeneral of the United Na tions visited the Near East and reported that we were not on the brink of war We all heaved a sigh of relief and went on about our business Our view of the ArabIsraeli issue has been distorted by two errors We have tended to think of the quarrel as one in which we are not primarily concerned And we have been too much influenced by consid erations of power politics ra ther than by regard for justice We seem to think that we can win the friendship and support of the Arabs by giv ing them money and some arms and by being neutral In their quarrel with Israel Vain hope The Arabs entertain a deep and abiding hostility to the West They not only nurse their anticolonial hatred but they also blame us for the Is raeli trouble The ignominious dismissal of General the British Commander of the Arab Legion is just ono more example of Arab hostility like the Iranian seizure of Anglo- Iranian Oil Company and the Egyptian seizure of the Suez Canal contend that there would not have been any need for a Jewish state if the Christians had been willing to give the Jews fair treatment The Arabs feel that it Is all very well for the Christians to be ashamed of their treatment of the Jews and to try to atone for their sins by giving the Jews a homeland Thay do not see why that homeland should be carved out of an Arab state Why not they say give them a piece of some Christian state The Arabs see the whole Zionist Movement the desire of Jews to have a state in Palestine as result of Chris tian persecution The Arabs The Arabs resented the League of Nations decision to establish a national home for the Jews in Palestine They resented the partition of Pales tine a UN action and at tacked the new state of Israel as soon as the British forces withdrew To the wonderment of all the Israelis repelled their attackers The armistice which ended hostilities left the Is raelis occupying a larger area which merely increased Arab hostility by arousing the desire for revenge Some Arabs who left Israel during hostilities ore now encamped along Israels bor ders subsisting on UN relief Meanwhile about tho same number of Jewish refugees half of them from Arab states have come to and have taken the places vacated by Arabs This stream of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is continuing and the Israeli gov ernment could not stop it with- out being false to the ideal for which it was set up The quota for this year from North Africa is and that is less than half the number that would like to leave Morocco atone What is taking place is an exchange of populations be tween Israel and the Arab countries similar to the ex change between Turkey and Greece around The diff erence is that the Arab states are doing nothing to settle their refugees Indeed they are ob structing the efforts of the UN to effect a resettlement The project to dam the Jor dan River and reclaim large areas for both Israel and Jor dan was blocked by Syria Jordan has announced that she will attack if Israel undertakes the project alone Israel has announced that she will start the project on April That tells us exactly how much time we left in which to act The Israelis have always been ready to enter negotiations for a settlement that would re place the present truce and end the costly blockade The Arabs refused to negotiate ex cept on terms that seem quite unreasonable The Arabs maintain a tight blockade of Israel on the land side Egypt illegally keeps the Sue Canal and- the Gulf of closed to Israeli ship ping The blockade costs Israel an estimated 40000000 a year In fact tho total cost of the blockade to date has ex ceeded the value of the proper- by Harvey which the refugees when they left Israel Through the United Nations we set upthe state of Israel It would seem that we have a duty to defend it But as in dividual nations we have no treaties with Israel which would justify our sending forces to her aid And any N action would almost certain ly be vetoed by the Soviet Union Therefore we must take some joint action outside the UN There are several courses open to us One would be to send Israel enough arms to en able her to defend herself An other would be to make a treaty with Israel obligating to defend her in case of an Arab attack A third course would be to put pressure on the Arab states to negotiate with Israel and to resettle refugees We are in a position to put powerful pressure on the Arab states UN is supporting these refugees Britain pay ing Jordan a subsidy of a year Saudi Arabia is practically living on pay ments from Western oil com panies Egypt is requesting aid to finance billion dollar dam at Aswan Do wo need to be reminded that Israel is the only democ racy in the area and our only reliable ally Self interest as well as justice dictates that wo take action now The state is the servant not the master of the people the state is their guarantee against ring em tat on their rights their agent in international national issues it is not the function of state the direo- Hon of which rest MtmiuaW t f j NONSENSE MOW AND THEN IS I V RELISHED BY THE WISEST MEN- ANON Slim came into the office the other day looking worried and a little upset and if theres one thing we cant stand it friends with troubles that we dont know about Whats the matter Slim we asked Its this here rabies epidem ic thats what the matter is He sat on the edge of the desk and consoled himself with one of our cigarettes Theres two squirrels black feUers that live in the old maple at the end of my lane I guess they aint rightly my responsi bility but they been around a long time now and I feel kind of responsible for em Is that all bothering you we asked Am snorted Slim Say if you knew what I been through in the last few days tryin to get them squirrels squared away you wouldnt be so all fired smart Tell us Slim we said not that he needed any encourage ment but just to be polite Well said Slim ever since the notice come out about and animals I been to find out whos to look after them squir rels Theres a lot of people in this town take an interest in squirrels but nobody knows what to do Slim crossed his legs took another smoke and went on I asked the mayor at the local coffee shop but he only choked on his coffee and referred me to the town solici tor so I goes down to the town hall and tells my story again It looked simple at first but then I mentioned that the tree those squirrels live in is out on the edge of the road and was they rightly my tenants or did they belong to the town Well sir that jolted somewhat and he reaches copy of the Ontario Municipali ties Act and tells me to come back in half an hour When I get back he tells me that since the tree was at the edge of the road and the road is a county road that them squirrels is rightly the responsibility of the county Slim uncrossed his legs sighed and looked mourn ful We gave him another smoke If it- comes right down to that I dont mind a li cense for the squirrels to give them some kind of legal status but Til be darned it take em for a walk on a leash And if it comes to that I doubt if theyd let me or any man for that matter and I reckon I know squirrels better than any man in this town Anyway off I goes to the county Them fellers down at the county were as nice as they could be even if they didnt talk much They went into a huddle in the wardens office One comes out his brow and says why dont I see the health department about gettin them vaccinated which still dont tell me much about them licensed but he says maybe they know about that too seem as how theyre real close to this rabies thing Slim lit up an El cigar I went over to Health and they sent me to Fish and Wildlife- Fish and Wildlife sent me to the Department of the Provin cial Secretary but all they got is corporation licenses nary a word about squirrels Well by now I was a little tired of all this Slim said We didnt blame him and we told him it was a typical bureaucratic run around Slim nodded wisely and said Well I be one man whod know all about things In this province so I went to see him is a mighty so ciable man when you get to know him He said he was al ways glad to talk to the people about their troubles and that his was the party of all the people I reckon he included squirrels too so I told him He listened real quiet with his chin in his hand and that smile of his Then he ask ed me if there wasnt some pos sibility that them squirrels might have come from out the Province cause if there was thatd be a mat ter and he could it up with Ottawa I said there wasnt that Id known them squirrels their life and they wasnt much for travelling Hadnt even been out of the county as far as I knew Real homebodies just like me He sighed and said hed the best he could I left him sittin there thumbinV through his copy of the BNA and Its a ten Its a constitutional terV Slim got up and started for the door You off now Slim asked Yep you fellers may have nothin to do but sit around and gab all day but I got to out about them squirrels we 3 The letter that came in just before press time was post marked Ottawa We didnt know anyone in Ottawa Kletchkoffsky was going there on the weekend but it wfift from him because he was stilt in the office Dere fellers the letter went and we knew I bin here good old Jack He is to see the Minister of National Health and Welfare with me Hope old Leu aint hurt bout me over his head this way Regards for now Slim by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches Lately we have been inves tigating the possibility of a couple of improvements that seem to be in line with the re cent trend to grassland farm ing Now the word grassland farming is the latest in the long series of universal reme dies to whatever ails the farm ing business in general and dairying in particular Much has been written on the subject and it all has a great deal of merit What is usually seldom mentioned is that in or der to have grassland forming at its full meaning there is a chance the capital investment will be just heavy as in any other type of farming The savjng between the cus tomary way of feeding cattle and grassland farming is not in the cost of getting equipped for it it is in the long term saving of getting a better per formance out of the cattle at less cost per unit of milk or beef produced Nor Is grass land farming just the of switching the methods of farming In order to feed increasing amounts of rough ages there must be housing to accommodate the cattle where can be given at the lowest possible labor cost But to got back to the we have been look ing into first there is the ques tion of a hay drier In order to make the quality of the hoy independent from the weather and to got maximum pro present in the hay and incidentally affect the- saving in buying concentrates hay must be dried artificially either by pushing a lot of air through it or heated air or by drying it and it Drying with ordinary fans and air has been used success fully in some cases It has also been found to take too long and the only system that has worked satisfactorily that we know of has used cut hay very roughly and knocks off too many leaves To dry in the baic and to handle the hay only- once requires drying on daily made wagons The least expensive system on which have been able to get prices- so far is running close to 5000 It may be possible to or harvest an extra six pound of protein per lbs of hay or pounds per ton On tons of which is really half a ton per day for a day- season this is pounds of protein Now oil cake or pro- in the form of oil cake is pounds for about or J 145 cents a pound On that J basis one should be to I save worth of which has been previously lost through leaching or just plaint weather If this could bo for about 4 a ton of dried bay or total operating cost seems that the installation could be worth looking into The more so since the thus saved is superior to that one can buy in a bag six percent protein in hay very conservative estimate The situation is somewhat different when it comes to other problem namely Lost year was the time to start thinking about it ever it is generally admitted that irrigation while it is sound for cash crops and some hoed crops is marginal for pas tures and hay and it also in- the great question mark where to find the water source Just in case somebody wondering about it let us you that a garden wont do It just gallons of water to one acre one inch deep takes Inches per acre to a job If one had fiveacre plots done once three weeks one would have have thousand gallons a week As they say that I This has the disadvantage of hay Just ask the necessitating handling twice town council if you equipment that treats lieve it