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Of! the peach crop it is the Yellow St. John, Crawford and Elberta and standard "peaches of a similar variety, that is the "goose" yet the fruit growers, or a vast majority of them, kill the "goose" by planting and growing earloads of ruvbbis1r:c-beeause the early peaches and plums are nothing more or less than this--and this rubbish thrown on the market "kills the goose that lays the golden egg."' It is my firm opinion that the only way to bring real prosperity to the fruit growing 1'ndmr.. try of the Niagara Peninsula, is to start a firm and active cooperative movement in the plant- ing as. well as the marketing of the base of our livelihood. ' V T . all k h The fruit grower who plants, grows, picks and market early peaches right up to the Yela low St.-Jo-hn is not only killing his own business as a peach grower, but he is robbing the con- M1mer---as I do not consider that in one thou- sand baskets ot early peaches there is one dol1ar's worth of! value; the consumer is-robbed of his money no matter how little he pays for a It there never had I gated; if there had me planted; if there had grape' invented;---) in the Niagara Penins And I would go further-I would not only organize with a view to preventing the planting of any early varieties of peaches or plums, but the tr blame I would organize with a view to choppirurdmyr1 the trees of these two fruits that are such a curse to the industry. -', _ I have often heard goose that' laid the every fruit grower is planta worth the p1 puttin during ries C out of tion to' g profit the j ( than In My. opinion is that the Niagara Peninsula Growers, Limited, or no other body of fruit deal- ers could do any better, under existing circum- stances, than is being done. end-tt trying those N .2. 0-0-0.0-0-I WI need: Low Prices-amd Who is to Blame'. As the fruit season jogs along, 1 use“. mum plaints, on. every side about the price of plums and the cheapness of peaches; and some fruit growers are inclined to blame the Niagara Pen- insula Growers, Limited, for this, situation. C .2.)-U-0-0-0-0-0-‘ enlt o_o-o-o-o-o-o-r-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-rr-o Co The r not i TWO ft D-()-t)-0-0-0-0-1 I1 h Members Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Member Selected Town Weeklies of Ontario'. Member Grimsby Chamber of Commerce TELEI Issued of, I Established I885 JAS. A. LIVINGSTON & SONS, to FANCIES thf 116 n ent tin oduc bdut II , THE ' INDEPENDENT II rketi liOI J. ORLON LIVINGSTON, JAS. A. LIVINGSTON, THE PEOPLE'S PAPER ell on prosperous J. A. M." LIVINGSTON, trc Frank Fairborn FACTS ep blishe Owners and Publishers JT rodu ole lit IONI th but but u ha Business Manager b ble with the fruit industry today arketing end, but in the growing 3 lies, not with those who are 1d dispose'of the'trriit, but with General Manager who fif h V d rowing industry wapts,: and gooperatiofh in the ‘mayrketingg the 'highe§£ class bt ci-opAriir- thedf it and by that I . mean ng matter as.t0 conthl the AND n tt it ot Main sbv. planter in year oast it krower blame the expression "killing the golden egg"----) nearly doing so. _ I Jeen an never been a unamplon the lot of the' fruit grower ;u1a would have been a one' indeed. idltor nd ot lit >-0-0-0-0.0-0-0-‘ culc trying to mat tit in the Peni: sc sitation in n m O vogue in the Niagara a to some extent, \for "vers-but it is riot to the trouble and wor- Je B1tsint fool kill fifteen and 1long, I hear com- the price of plums as: and some fruit in en ‘-0¢.0-0-o-n-(010 1C C) 11 1n 1t m' the Offic bak Streets, that the fruit sula would be Peninsul »-o.o.o.(oio plum I ot th 1rly It good, fair ictively on 1m prop0- ly peach Champion Offic Hg tattle 210ne kil IE hat " I' do-not th grower of th thirtv wears. fraudulent nurserymen they have _roared, vidually, about the nuisance and evil of the varieties of peaches and! plums and yet up t present day they have never taken a single in the direction of righting these matters. and 'ihe Niagara t’eninsula brewers, Limited, was an absolute necessity; but it was no more of a necessity than the organization of an asso'ci- tion, and a strong one, is, to dd away with the present and prevent the future destruction ofthe fruit groWing‘industry, by the planting or use- less varieties- of fruits, and the planting of nursery stock false to name. who purchase stock under f IS In ex13tence upon these thin velous industry The fruit growers roared a sion men and the local fruit years, before they tbok the me hands and formed their own m The murder of Michael Collins, leader of the Irish Free State Government, and Command/er-in- ehief of the Free State army, is positive proof that the rebel Irish will stop at nothing in their insane efforts to keep up a state of turmoil and anarchy in their own country. _ The Real "Irish" Object. . _ . Many, many times, in these columns, have I said that the minute Irishmen got throughlight- ing with England, or Great Britain, they would start infighting themselves--and so it has proven. the nursy dolla Here is a winter’s work for you, f er; get busy and show results. Outside Influence and Support. It is not of the Irish, however, that I wish to I would go further vocate that all fruit , Year ser peacnes now bemg growr early plums now bearing; vacate that the growers tieverr to plant another e; tree or another Champion ' I would therefore effort of all sensible cutting down sevent peaches now being f "Grab off but I would off" because without vah The Nia grapes are no good either-hut I little earn; money with them every I have heard men say peaches are no good, ar. plums are no good, and l Any man who pays five cents for a' basket of early peaches is a fool, unless he wants the basket to carry groceries in. How can fruit dealer fi peaches tha growers no semblance ot a for their: work-and they a1 ket tor the better and later If every 'early peach and plum tree/and every Champion grapevine,in the Niagara Peninsula was .cut, out and burned tonight, 'it would be the greatest blessing that ever happened to the fruit growing industry in this district." Nearly every word that I have said about early peaches is applicable to. early 'plums-in all the' thousands of baskets, and of all the carl. loads of early plums that have been marketed, almost up to the present time, there has been little or no value to the consumer-It is almost a straight case of robbery to sell early plums to the people ot the country, _ basket of early peaches oricE I this rotte l the nurs ty s ot the Niagara Benin anted, and taken care o dive years and when w " The y stock which be false to name uit dealer sell first IN h wers; the wond ld The curse, of'the early peach and plum that they destroy their own market, giv owers no semblance of a reasonable, tt ode 1e Know 3 has weél urnisl II 1estl last peaches for a fair and after the country has been tloot " off" is the right word-it is a grab-off; ruld not cal it so; I would call it a "steal [use any man who sells fruits of any kind value is, in my opinion, a thief. guarant start Ive roare " 11 one fruit had at 1e 11112 th PIU. n 'lous trutts that I upon' the unthinl 1111' Il an ll rserN 1tion of the two big District Grape Growe :ara Peninsula Growe nsible fruit growers, to therend of seventy-five per cent. of all early reing grown; fifty per cent. of all 'w bearing; and better, t would ad- " growers co-bperative together ', another early peach, early plum their the ‘pr re not fruit at coope fruit growers 11 :run growers Company, or my commission merchant, er, still, than this: I would ad. t growers unite in a solid body ursery for themselves. or else lsayt all stocl pPh;1 rrth'e direct loss to the ','ara Peninsula, in the tter about for trom Itat advocate the co-operative It 1n r thepountry h thirty cents per nt ndI TIC be r who. in ti grapevine n tl [ know the' early 10w the Champion )ut I grab off a ttet ptl ot 111' 111 but pi 11 tnow dish n 1E iatio troy the n ruit year ndd 1nd m thei 1e 11pan1es- Limited th lit Grow which fol th hant, sell profitable m is this iving the d " 1'6 st te Jraslr thi Ila: THE INDEPENDENT, GRIMSBY, ONTARIO d ear with 11 tu rn the 111 een 1t on IN lions o th dérin money from the United States has flown into Ireland, for many years, for the sole ‘purpbse of keeping up an army of agitators and shouters for, "freedom", who have now turned out to be bandits, firebrands and murderers. The pouring of United States money into Ire- land has gbne on unstintedly and uninterrupted ly for thirty years, until' a few _days ago when a court injunction stopped the send of two mil- lions of dollars from New York to help th'e mur- but they put up the1r money from the Unite Ireland, for many years Columbus discovered Amerit recognize it. That seems to b our discovery ot Europe. Conan Doyle says the spirits marry, but don't have children. He is mistaking New York for heaven, as all fictiouists do. Russia is howling for the same treatment that other nations are receiving. The first thing she knows she's going to get it. Pessimists will note that the proposal to make the 'House of Lords an "aristocracy of brains" instead of an "aristocracy of blood" is saCCtym-. partied, by a proposal to reduce its membership more than' half. ' th Now she alle shé could lawi though she did At least the messages Dr. Doyle transmits from the dead are as authentic as those some people get from the living. _ The motor accident record indicates that there are too many speed trials on the highways and not enough in the courts. now the a that it tn] ing at the therefore might thong they youn lute, bring least flood least excuse l’u lubricate my flood 'of music loose to charm I chanted luscious lays and F. love and home, and eggs that were broken on my' dome. A that bruised mf. slats from n thrown, and,cauliflowers angi and broken slabs of stone. 2 so ghastly raw, at last in pa voice was like a crosscut saw rasped. From that day for? voice in golden song; to si, g the Rift is villainously wrong stron ill to speak now, but of the fool politicians and pub- licists all over Canada, England United States, and the rest of the world, who have loaned their influence and moral support to the Irish rebel factions, for years and of the Canadians who have done it, particularly. ', t1 th ilton 'Timesi', before other Liberal newspa; tariop and Throughout Canada, o the cause of the Irish against G 11 selve r01ce WI 'asped. Voice in he gift he ibulation it rm. On b the 1t The Editor of the Ind hundreds ( yen their mora oel Irish factio n mis he sitt 11i " only they 11 " re W man tl b were it rc 11 thoughthm: igned to m a seads, to T IS t1 nly tl dt orevent n " ham n rltons The fake bring, whe imagining It lilli " the wif thou State ti " me pl fi yet the tl me tha in n 11 infiuenc 0 UNCLE JOSH ub that the Ire 1t than hei BI It ttl ope 1en n nt 14 ew and 11 ot Lor 1ts th H It any 1n bar. 11 influence n if In pain " n n ohto 'Globe', the Ham- demise, land of mahy in the Province of On- oada, openly advocated Linst Great Britain. rilnlw igwh Y( tt 1t o be ti ol II it h N111 N1 1th " 1C it IN ere tin 1ar 1d, thus the n I grasped " Speak t Gnd hin MI IT of th bein whet nc " n but DE " th n " Wh en It ts ru 1ld not lift 1 one has ink-h tl 11t ontaine .llegal. radida e 1t the ', he didn't trouble _ with o 11 xistin IYMES t youth an ere obslolet Iry n SE 11 high It It had th 1nd tu'rn 1( SCD Jit it SUIT to D tt ney W th st Whitne re coul le d " n ll rut W their n n tl n Were cats ruth, my rilla eat Sh nd m it 11 1n u it it " wards the abolition of war and the "establishment of universal peace among the nations upon a solid basis and in addition have given strong proofs of their sincerity in this mat- ter by materially reducing their armaments on both land and sea, it must be remembered that by no means all the -other nations have followed, their example. France, for instance," practically refuses to dis- arm at present, and there is much to be' said for her point of view when we consider the very doubtful atti- tude to say the 1east--of Germany towards this question. Great Britain has also greatly reduced her aviation forces of late notwithstanding warn- ings from experienced (and well-in- formed persons of'the danger ind folly of proceeding too far 'in that means all th followed, their instance," prac arm at Dresen for fol dir fo .0-0.0-0-0-0.0.(1 obtu archist party ,it is asserted, is rapid- ly acquiring complete‘ control of all the country's resources and arrang- ing all its forces not only for the Ile- storation of the monarchy and the violent repression of the repub1ie,Ht its heads prove obstructive, a new war of Yevenge based renudiation of the Versailles This view is based firstly on lief that Soviet Russia is des co-operate with Germany, W, ondly that the suspicions o As for arms, eac., it is known that, despite the destruction accomplished by the commissions of inspection, stocks and supplies are simply in- calculable, while the means for turn-r ing out poison gas were never so abundant as they are at present. It is to illicit auxiliaries of toxic furthe establishm among the and in ad N0TESANr) COMMENTS n i I Ive The Gem tt " tish ma, plume of arts that , . Living God."* What! Does God use His hand in any .- Yes, he does, but the man who falls into involuntarily, suddenly and awfully. Think of a man who has all his life lo: hands of Jesus Christ; think of a man who ha unto me all ye 'that are weary and are heavy I rest" and has refused to come; think of a man of Jesus Christ with the nail prints in ther salvation,' actually turning away from those cliihtt gong gaps _ _ tfiat- ApFEARFGL THING V of ction hilE CURRENT EVENTS BY PETER PETERKIN 1y bee "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the rtic State the a of ot ti ittle the 10 tl 1ny 11 n to th in b world v has th n the .nown zine. 11 kn IT th of whom couraginz " ty th the t1 1d d fi 11 n n tional " 11 n u 11 liS lish ortnightly ‘nd intlt der the t1 1t -o-o-o-tr-o-o-o-o-o--o-o-o-o-o-oH re 11 ctive, but tol based on 'the sailles treaty llfi set st h in 11 hi hit an of 1t u 10 It n ned to ut for h e11 d h ll toni terr D hem- only t1 Mon- apid- all ti " may the JOC fu in he 36 of to tt " Is “Another getting made W Electric descri; party ronto Dewa whe Kin O darl feet Wishing for a jug filleth not the mug. . flyer What's worth brewing worth brewing well. A little moonshine mow and then often tarries the worst of men. A man was before a magistrate on a charge of chicken-stealing. There was no lawyer present to defend him, and when the prosecution had com- pleted its case, the magistrate said: “You are charged with stealing chick... ens; have you any witnesses?" piece. "My the bobbe realistic pu real live li, mal will DU Ing the f the adve Finance. "No sir," answered the prisoner. "When I steal chickens, I don't have witnesses." m TE A little brewing now an experienced by lots ot men The better the brew the better the "stew". sen o Il 1eld It his, 1m ver ly " ll he ill be e ntrol Revenue officers often find the 211 where busy hands homebrew. )OD l few swallows of homebrew make man think he's a "bird" of a "high- he n Ontat ;1e 11mg .,he remarl any Kings around drawing to (hem." O It rt HS tt hi d tc a exchanged tot e same rate ( lvertisement of n lunche 1n Ir " I'E the with II t1 n n ounCil ther tomn of aresentin UNCLE JOSH n nds m s offer rally, nunicipality cast-iron the Ont: MI or way than 3 hands R n tl " you f II na (11 It out m n Ontario Hydro _ whereby the streets has The Ford City anted a fran- IN 10 1tl th Wt ked th he IS comp between he n w-bonds bear interest. Se to bless :t’s ther that nly and then' is 1t W 0 H be dv U Hdn. [on i There is re- 1greement , Hydro ‘eby the tnts te 1 thing h od all is amentl " ly mils Pom I'c DI 011 " nt sure the old boy there has paid his fare twicep Think I had better tell him about it?" A Mate: No-o! Ask him for it again." "m"""""'"-'-'--'--------- IlllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllll MEDICAL _ - u..,r.., .,. 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