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Wednesday, April 8th, 1942 THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE if THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE PublUned on Collingwood Sut, Fleaherton, Wednesday of Meh wk. Circulation ovar 1,000. Price in Canada $.00 pr year, irhen paid in advance $1.50; in U S. A. $2.60 per year, when paid in advance $2.00. F. J 111 I US'ION. ICdltor. Agriculture Carried On Bravely In Wartime Britain Under Difficulties TORONTO LINE NORTH Mrs. George Stewart spent Sunday with her parents at Brampton. Mrs. L. Wright of Toronto spent the past week with Mrs. A. Stewart. Miss Evelyn Brown of Toronto spent Easter with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brown. Miea Gertrude Lever of Richmonc Hill spent the holiday week end with her mother, Mrs. T. Levr. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Richardson and family visited on Sunday with Mrs. Wilson at Barrhead. Mrs. Albert Stewart and Gertrud* Lever visited on Sunday with Mrs M. M.-I;.-. . . who Ls ill in Markdal hospital. Mr. Leslie Humphries has move< from the West Backline to the Sled farm on the highway. Mr. Stanley Wood and Miss D. Findlay of Guelph visited on Sunday with Mrs. T. Lever. MAY PAY DEBTS Maybe the gas rationing this sum- mer will work all right. During re- rent years some car owners have been spending so much money on gasoline for pleasure driving that they had little money left to pay their honest debt*. Let's hope that driving restr- ctions will enable pepple to divert wome of the money saved in the pur- chase of gasoline to wipe out their debts which should have been paid long ago. Weekly newspaper subscrip' tton lists should benefit if this prac- tice IK indulged in. You have to (jet behind your work to get ahead and use yiowr head to Vep from getting behind. An advertisement tell* us that a ulky plough is for sale, thing for a balky team. Jiwt ttie NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER of the Estate of "William Hendry, late of the Town- ship of Collingwood, in the County of Grey, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pur- uant to the provisions of the Trustee Act, S.O.R., 1937, Chapter 166, that all creditors and others having claims or demands against the estate of >he said William Hendry, who died on or about the 8th day of July 1941, at the Town of Collingwood, hi the County of Simcoc, are requir- ed, on r before the 17th day of April, K)42, to send by post, pre- paid, or deliver to the undersigned Solicitor for the executors of the last -will and testament of the said deceased, their Christian names and surnames, addresses and descrip- tions, the full particulars, in writing, of their claims, a statement of their ar-.ounts, and the nature of the se- curity, if any, hckl by them. AND TAKE NOTICE that after such lest mentioned date the exe- cutors will proceed to distribute the assets of the said deceased among the parties entitled thereto, havintr regard only to the claims of which they shall then have motice, and thnt the executors will not be liable for the said assets or any part thereof to any person or persons of whose claim notice shall not hnve been received by them at the time of such distribution. DATED at Thornbnry, Ontario, thl* 17th day of Mf.rch. 1042. El .MORE C. CATTR, Solicitor for the executors. This is the I llh in a series of articles on conditions in War- time Britain and parts of Europe, written for tyie weekly news- papers of Canada by their own representative, Hugh Templin, of the Fergus News-Record. No doubt many readers of Canad- ian weekly newspapers would like to know samething of agriculture in wartime Britain, and how the farmer faros. Travelling with a group of editors of city papers, I had not as much opportunity to study farming conditions as 1 would have liked, but I was able to pick up a good deal of information in tripe outside London The farmers in Britain fill just as important a place as the soldiers or the munition workers. One hears that said sometimes tof Canadian farmers, but while there may be some doubt in Canada, there is none in England and Scotland. Before the war, more tihan half the food consumed in Britain was import- ed, either from Denmark and other countries, or from Canada and other places across the oceans Not only that, but some of the fod- der 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 Port- away. That costs money and lives. Shipping space is precious. It cannot be used ft>r animal food or bulky artioles euch as packaged breakfast cereals. And every .ton of extra food that can be produced in Britian is desperately needed. Cost has become a secondary consideration. Farmers Told What To Raise A few months before the war ac- tually started, a bonus of some $8.00 an acre was offered to fanners for every acre of new land brought un- der cultivation. A Canadian, travelling in England for the first time, g*t the idea that every acre of land k in use. There are n unsightly fence- oornere. For that matter, there are few fences. Evidently wood and fencing mat- erials are scarce and so hedges are fields are smaller than in this country, and the farms all look neat and tidy. But evidently, there was much waste land, not only on large farms, but on small farms. Swampy pieces have been drained meadows bhat wore in grass for hun- of hay or grain wound aroui.d with what looked like tar paper and net- ing. 1 learned that they were tem- porary silos. Emphasis is being put on ensilage as the best method ol producing .the mos/t cattle feed. There are other makeshifts. A pro.t cess lias been discovered for making a pulpy feed out of straw on farm* with sufficient water supply. Straw or chaff is cut up, soaked in caustic soda solutfcxn and then washed for a long time in running water. It takes tjie place of turnips. School children are paid to gather acorns .to feed. to the pigs. Quality of Farm Stock Improved Live stock i controlled by the committees as thoroughly as fiek crop. For instance, an attempt ha been made to weed out inferior cow lessening the number, while keepin up the milk supply. Sheep are als< considered essential. Hogs have been reduced drastically in numbers. They used much imported feed. So did the chickens. Besides, it doesn't take so long to build up their numbers again. As a result, pork and eggs are very scarce. All owners of poultry flocks with more .than fifty birds must sell their eggs to the Government. They get a certain wheat ration in return. Those with less than BO hens can dis of the eggs as tihey like. Many em.ugh feed for his rather large luck. And he didn't think the dis- tribution of eggs was well carried jut, some of them going bad. In other cases, the county committees vidently guess wrong. As eo often happens with farm produce, an art- clc that is scarce one year will be overgrown the next. In the spring of 1941, onions were seldom to be at any price. Last fall, there were too many onions and a danger that some would rot. Vegetables were plentiful and they helped fill out many a meal in Bri- tain in the past few months . Liter- ally millions of persons were grow- ing vegetables in their private gard- ens or ."allotments." They had sac- rificed many of their flowers, though nearly every garden still had roses and the blooms in September and evening in October must have cheer- ed many English eyes, as they di< those of a Canadian visitor. About the time I left England Prime Minister Churchill wrote to a mass meeting of fanners and farm works: Never before have farmers and farm workers carried such a heavy responsibility as you dto in this struggle. Never before h ve you responded to the country's call as you have done in the last two years. It is due in no small measure to the efforts y|o<u have made, in spite of many difficul- ties, that we find ourselves today in a better position on the food front than at any previous time since the war started. town and village familiesi keep a few hens, or even a pig feeding them the scraps. Or a pig may be kept by a "club."' with several neighbors pro- riding scraps and having a share in the hog. The number of tractors in use in England surprised me. Many of them were made in Canada. In a country where gasoline and fuel oil are decidedly scarce, I did not expect to see so many tractor*, but this was another evidence of the desperate need of food. Private cars have al- niost disappeared from the road bat tractor* are kpt going long hour*. There is one handicap which those farms close to airports or akmg the main roads duffer, which might not be thought of by one who had not seen the countryside. These fields are full of traps for planes and sometimes for tanks as well. These are of several types, but all take up space and it must take time and trouble driving around them in seed- ing, tilling, harvesting operations. Fanners 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 arc many in- ireds of years have been turned ove r | stances in earlier months where hos- by the plow and actually millions of BAILEY'S MEAT MARK.ET Fresh AND Cured Meats PHONE 47 We save you money acres of extra land are Cultivated. What bhe farmer grows on his land in wartime is not left to his judgment. Every ci.-unty has its War Agricultural Committee, and these, in ttirn, appoint committees in nil district?. These committees are not made up of politicians, but of work- ing farmers, land owners and farm workers. The agricultural colleges have !><>en closed, and prt< fessors and other experts serve as full-time ad- visors on tlieHe committees. Every farmer is interviewed every year or oftencr. He is told what he mu.,t grow. The committee may even po so far as to give him a plan of his fields, telling him what tlr plant in each field. Thnt sounds drastic, and is drastic. Actually, in practice, the system is largely voluntary, because nearly all farmers are willing and anxious to co-operate as a patriotic duty. They pride themselves that they sbill live in a democratic country and because their own ncighh-rs are on the com- mittees, the plan works largely as a voluntary co-operation. But to an outsider it looks rather different. If a farmer will not co-operate, the committee has power to force him to do so. If he is entirely incompet- ent to produce nv>re, he may be taken from his farm. A few rugged indi- viduals have even ifone to jail. K.Hsentlal Foods Come First If the British farmer does not pro- pnee more, many people will go hun- gry and some may starve. Therefore, tjhe committee concentrate I on th*. production of these foods which will Co farthest toward feeding ns many as possible, and they try to cut out waste of all kinds. Wheat and po- tato production seems to have soared. Oats are largely grown and alfalfa seems to me to be a favorite crop. The growing season last year was excellent, witih a damp summer and a long, sunny autumn. The s^yond crop t-f hny and alfalfa was excellent. T saw strange objects in many of tile pilots have seen a gleam of light from a farm and have dropped a bh>mb on the chance that it might be a factory. There have also been some instances where farmers were attacked in daylight raids and their stock maehine-erunned from the air. Farmers Are Given Protection In many ways, the British farmer is probably better off than ever be- fore. His hired man is in the same position. Prices of all kinds icf farm produce are set by the Government enough to ensure a profit. And wages of farm laborers are also set. When I was in England in Oc- tober, the time was approaching when the minimum farm wages w> iild 'be se.t for 1042. The hired men were asking for GO shillings weekly, and seemed likely to get about 55 shillings, or about $1.1.00. Farmers' sons, if not entirely ex- empted from conscription, enjoy the Mu mo standing as munition workers. Kami Jii'lp is scarce, if course. Dur- ing the harvest months last fall, many experience*! farmers, now with the Canadian Army in England, were sent to farms near their camps to help out. They did a good job. One farmer reports that they were far better than any hired help he could get in his own country, work- ing far longer hours ungrudgingly. One of the Women's Auxiliary un- ite in Britain is the Women's Land Army. It is not as popular as some of the other branches of the service, possibly because bhe fehaki uniform does npt look as well as the Air Force or the 'Women's Royal Naval Services. Their jobs may lack some of the glamor, too. But there is no doubt ahnut their usefulness. I sup- pose that in some cases they take the place of hired men, but those I saw seemed to be working in thresh- ing gangs, going from farm to farm in groups. There is some grouching and dr-m- plafnlng, of course. We heard one poultry farmer say thnt he was al- most out of business. In spite of the TENDERS WANTED IN THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM HENDRY The Executors of the Estate of William Hendry, deceased, offer the following valuable farm property for sale by tender: 1. Lot 22, Concession 14, Township vt Qsprey, County of Grey, con- taining 116 acres more or less. 2. Lot 26, Concession 14, Township of Osprey, County of Grey, con- taining 114 acres more or less. 3. Lots 10 and 11, Concession 1*. Township of Osprey, County of Grey, containing 200 acres more or less. 4. Part of the West half of Lot 1 Concession 6, Township of Colling- wood, County of Grey, containing 99% acres more cr less. 5. East half of lot 18, Concession 12 Township of CoIHngwwd, County of Grey, containing 100 acres more or less. 6. North half of Lot 11, Concession 5, and south-East quarter of Lot 12, Concession 5, both lots in the Township of Euphrasia, County of Grey, containing 160 acres more or less. 7. East half of Lot 18, Concession 2, Township of Euphrasia, County of Grey, containing 100 acres move or less. 8. Lot 17, Concession 2, Township of Euphrasia, County of Grey, containing 200 acres more or less; Tenders as to the above described properties to be open up to the 10th day of April, 1942. The highest or any tender not necessarily accepted, and the tenders to be filed with the undersigned. DATED at Thornbury, this 2<St day of March, 1942. ELMORE C. CARR, Solicitor for the Executor*. th> fields, which T took to he stack*' scarcity of opus. TTo could not get RED CROSS Euchre Dance ROBINSON'S HALL FEVERSHAM Tuesday, April 14 under auspices of Osprey Red Cross EXTRA SPECIAL DOOR AND FLOOR PRIZES donated by Feversham Citizens Draw will be made for a Pig FIRST CLASS ORCHESTRA Old Time and Modern Dancing Admisison: 25c Lunch lOc A REAL TIME FOR EVERYONE SPRINGTIME IS Clean Up- Pain Up Time A FEW SUGGESTIONS PAINTS, VARNISHES, ENAMELS BROOMS, BRUSHES, MURESCO MOPS, POLISHES, FLOOR WAX FLOOR CLEANER, WAXING BRUSHES PAINT, OIL and TURPENTINE PLOW SHARES, CULTIVATOR POINTS HAME STRAPS, BUCKLES, SNAPS COLLAR PADS, CURREY COMBS TOOLS, HAND SAWS, WRENCHES POULTRY SUPPLIES ^BROODERS, JAR FOUNTS, FEED TROUGHS F. W. DUNCAN HARDWARE FLESHERTON MMMMIIMMM' A* f^*.^*/^ UL*. SJM*A Ontario fanners produce food for Vic- tory. Be a Farm Cadet or a Farmerette and make a real contribution to Can- ada's War Effort this Summer. Hun- dreds of farmers have registered their need for help already, and more are registering every day. Last year more than 14,000 young men 15 and up and young women 16 and up, pitched in and lent a hand. Thousands more are needed this year. Get full particulars from your High School Principal, Y.W.C.A., Y.M.C.A., or write On- tario Farm Service Force, Parliament Bldgs., Toronto. Volunteer TODAY ! CREST: Farm Service Volunteer} are entitled to wear this distinctive 3* Crest (right) supplied on application to the Ontario Farm Service Force. * IS ONTARIO INTER-DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE - AGRICULTURE - LABOUR EDUCATION - AND DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR, OTTAWA