THURSDAY, MAY 7th, 1925. ~~~~~~============= 1 1 Ontario County to Havt. Talking of Gardens ! Stock Judging Competib · For Young Men. . I Prizes for Comm~nity Teams To-day we are thinking about soils Plans are being made and a very at- in the garden, so our thoughts Bprel!d tractive prize list is assured for a I to ~ spot'where the garden is plant- competition for the boys and young ed. Is it already chosen! or can you men of Ontario County_ in judging live I re-clloolie it! If the latter, .try and stock. The contest Wlll be open to · choose it so you cim see it from a young men, 25 years of age or under, I window; so that you ean do a bit out- 1 who h~ve neve.r taken a regular of-doors picture making. I course m an agncultural college. Ten Unfortunately many gardens sutrer rings of stock will be judge~, as fol- from the cellar digger who piles up j lows:-2 horses, 2 beef, 2 drury cattle, the BUb-soil on top of what might be 12 sheep, 2 swine. very good grass loam. Then, too, old Cards will be provided on which to gardens are often ,too shaded by bad- mark placi~g and 50% will be allow- ly kept hedges, old lilacs or ayrlngia ed for placmg ~d 50_% f~r o~ l_es- shrubs, so g.:> to work and clear out sons. A splendid l?nze hst 1s bemg all old wood and over-hanging branch- prepared. ~here wall be two classes, e~~, and be very stem with, your 6e'll- one for seruors or yo':lng m_en who timents-for soil, like everything else, have h~d. some expenence m such must have sunlight to make it por- Competition and the. other for those ous. Soil should be so crumbly that who .are n':w !lt the JOb. through a magnifying glass it wou~d 1 Pnzes ·Will m.clude a trophy for the look like a lot of little marbles. Tins te~ of three ~gh me'! from any c~m makes for drainage and warmth, and muruty and a smgle pn~e for the high the fiber roots can mat and make good man from any commu"!~Y· anchorage to weather the storms and Forty some co"?mumtaes have OO:n assimilate food hom the various ele- 'named, so wrty high men may get 1ft ts th t to make up mother I the .money. W. M. Cros_kery! the local men 8 go agncultural representative, 1s arrang- earth. . need ing the details, and will write the boy~ J South Ontano has ~ry pronou - whose names he has concerning the · ly three types of sot!, _sandy loam, 1 contest. I loam soil and clay sot!, from the . great Iak~ that in ~edill:g left auch NEW BOOK ON CANADIAN PACI-, definite rna~ o.f tt~ ~xtstence be- FIC RAILWAY IS VALUUABLE ' hind. Yes, if thts sod 19 underst~od CONTRIRUTION TO HISTORY you still have the elements of a n~ _ mixture to your hand.. If your 8011 Ju~t forty years ago thi>< fall the is stiff" and heavy with clay, not only clang of a hammer in a remote fa.<;t;- furtilize it with well rotted stabl_e I ness of the Rocky Mountains broke a manure, but get some real sandy 5!>11 silence which until a few months be- and scatter that over the top wath fore had not been disturbed since the sr.me wood asht;s, al_>o~t two in~hes Dawn of Time. The wielder of the deep. As ~ou ~tg thiS m throe_~ ) ledge wa.~ a vigorous, white-beanfed handful of lime m the trench to"~~ · man. Around him were gathered a en your mixture; If your sot! IS small crowd of lookers-on. As the light and thin-bring to it some clay I echo of the last stroke died away, and old sod-but be sure and tum cheer after cheer burst from the your sod upside down. in your trench crowd; Why? The scene in it~ de- and cut it up well WJth your spade. tails was common-place, except per- All soils need moistures, and that haps for the magnificence of the set- mmns drainage, so lreep your brok~n ting. Why should they cheer the driv- atone, your brick bats, etc., and dag ing of a . mere spike? Because this a trench deeply in the fr~mt of _your wa.<; not a mere. spike. It was the lalrt , bed and cover these despased fnen~s spike in the main line of the Canadian out of sight and see what tlrey wall Pacific Railway, driwn home by the do for you. The ideal bed is pre- hands of Sir Donald A. Smith (after- pared by drainage two feet below the wards Lord Strathcona), bringing ground, sods placed like a saw on into fulfilment the dreams of genera- top· then stable manure, if possible tiom<, binding the far-flun~ provinces ela; and loam mixture, with a top of British North America into orre uni- dressin« of leaf mould. Sueh a bed ted Dominion, and finishing the British J.t wood for aeven ,ears anCI needs Empire "all red route." No wonder Uttle reMWinc. these men cheered. No wonder O.al Next week we will chat about plaDt- within a few hours of the event eabled ing your garden. I congratulations were fi11Rhing joyou.<~ly Canada-ward from all part.q of the world and from the Queen-Empres,; Ontario County Rural 1 down. Sch 1 Children Received 1 ~uch hns happened since that hi"- 00 Seed tone an<l tremendous day. Canada ha.~ Vegetable and Flower s grown to be a power upon the earth, -- 1 in many fields a leader among nations 3,800 Pupils Talc:e Part and the Canadian Pacific Railway ha>< B h r th 0 developed from a desperately strug- t~e ri~c~~<;::~~:y of ~';¢c~ltur! fi~: gling road, which . its ene~ies said · h d h P d' t ·b ti" n r School Fair would never pay 1ts way, !"to thl' as e t e 1s n u o o . , . atw bolnsportu•u•a-ay.,.. ,;cc<.b an_u elfil&-.ttho ncar~y ~0 0 tari tern, with a network of steel covering and chtldren roug 0.u n ° the whole Dominion, with a mighty County last w~k, according to Coun- fleet of huge liners and freighters on ' ty R~presentative, W. M. Croskery, of both oceans, with a .gigantic telegraph Uxbn~ge.. raJ h 1 had the I and cable auxiliary, a far-reaching a"-J>:u.Ptls m ru sc 00 s . root or Rociated express company, with doclts, ehotce of one package of grllln, elevators lands a powerful coloniza- vegetable seed, and · one package of tion and develo~ment department, a flower seed free. Four hundred and huge irrigation plant, a ohain of pals- twenty-five dozen b~-~lay Barred tial hotels. I Rock eggs we~ also distribub!d at 65c I The Canadian Pacific will celebrate per dozen. Ea_ght hundred five-pound the fortieth anniversary of the driv- sample~ of lnsh Cobble~ ll;"d Green ing of that spike, and it is fitting that Mountain potatoes from certtfied stock the company should make 1925 a ban-I were se~t out. . . . ner year. It is also fitting that in The hst for free distribution was as 1925 should appear a book which will follows:- serve to tell the whole story of the Oats .... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · • · · · Banner company in a manner that must thrill Barley . · · · · · · · · · · · · · · O.A.C. No. 2l the blood of every reader. This is a Field Com · · · · · · · · · · · · Golden Glow copiously illustrated book, recently Sweet c6m · ····· · ·.Golden B!'-"tam published by the Ryerson Press, ToT- Mangels .•.. . ·····Yellow Levaathan onto, and written by R. G. MacBeth, Turnips . .'. · · · · · ·······._.Good Luck and its name is "The Romance of tlie · Beets ...... · · · · · · Detroat Dark Red Canadian Pacific Railway." Carrots .... · . · · · · · · · · · · Chantenay Here we have an invaluable contri- Onions . . ..... Yellow Globe Danvers bution to the history of this Domin- Parsnips .. . .... . . :··.Hollow CT?wn ion, penned by a man who knows his Asters ..... . .... Gaant Comet, Mixed subject thoroughly, though he writes Zinnia entirely independently of the Cans- Cosmos dian Pacific il<elf, who ha.q never serv- African Marigold ed in its employ and therefore ta1c:es French Marigold the impartial viewpoint. Mr. 1\fac- Salpiglossis Beth was hom and bred in that we<t· I System of Distribution Difl"erent From em country, which has been the com· Other Years pany's chief freld, a descendant of t_he I d r d li · .,..lies to first old Selkirk settlers, and ha.'l hv· 1 Jnh"tend 0 e ';;"tg ~up,been the e<1 in the West all. of his life. He ha< 1 • eac an every sc oo as ns h d t t f · g the Cana custom in the past, twenty-one differ- t. e ; va.~. a ~ :. u see;~m the beg!~= : en~ distribution centres we~ chosen d;~n. 0~c~~rn~ lai~ro number" or' it>< \ throu~hout the County, and the seeds 11 ff'g 11 f bcin~ thoroughlv nu ! were left at _these places. The teach- ~al~ce~t~n thi: country's story in nil I ern wel'e not1fied of the clay and place •ts h To this he adds a ra~'<' 1 and were n~ked to ha,·e ~orne of the 1.t p n.~e~Tty 8 t~nncious mPmorY childl'en or parents call for the sup- 1f1 erary a ! •._:...,•ti"n"' ~ide Jiahl" o~ I · or many an...,, •·' .. . .... phes. the mntter in hand and a fine appre- Some objection ha." since ~n heard ciation of the romance and splendour about this. metho<! of . sendmg out that underlie the recoT<Is ~f ~he Can-, f;i School Frur supphes ,so Mr. Crosk- adion Pacific, nn orgnmznt10n acl- u-c::: ery informs us. One man, presumably vanced and made ~at in the face of 1 ru a parent-it is not known whether he terrible difficulties by the dauntless J was a truste~ or not-wn.~ ~eard to faith, unyielding courage nnd fierce, I remark that at was the la.~t time he stern effort of a host. of strong m;n. would call for school. seeds as the a~- Mr. MacBeth <bows true apprecm- ricultural representative was well prud tion of the lne!ltimable benefits the 1 to · deliver them .. The sta~m~nt was corporation ha.'l brought to Ca~ada.l evidently mad~ :-v1thout . t~10klng, or and of its importance to the nattonal . without knowtrug_ anythi"!g of ~e unit. Dlt!lnterested ·people the wo.rld duties of the offiCJal mentione~. This over have declared that the Canad1an same week re<Jl!ests were receav~ by Pacific Is the best advertisement for the representa~ve for three dramage Canada that the Dominion has ever surveys, two rught meetings, one re- had and the most active agency In quest .for orthanl ad'?ce, cream and furthering her advance. When Can- milk tests for ten dlfl"ereut farmers, dlans and Indeed Britons every- besides the uaua1 heavy run of farm !here have read as they should read, help applications and correspondence ·~ Romance ~f the Canadian Paci- at thia time of the year. flc Railway," they will understand the The reason this plan of distributing truth of thelle dsertlons. The record, the material was chosen wu to save In Mr. MacBeth's capable hands, Is time and expense, and get the seeds not a dull one, bat a living, breathing out in good time. It Ia the aystem chapter of Canadian history, packed which Ia favored by head office and Is with per.10nal touehea, character in use throughout the province. Know- sketches little lrnown farla, all thoe ea- lng this, It Ia hoped that greater co- sentfal ~utllnes, romance and adven- operatlon from the parents will result ture, which make this narrative of the another year. gigantic company a veritable epic. Meetings In North and South On- _ _ . -- . - · · tario are being arranged with the Uxbridge Bonn! of Trade hu de- teachers, trustees and school inapec- cided "'to place signa at dl~nt tors this week, for the purpose of dia- points on the main highways leading I eusslng School Fairs and revlt!lng t~ into the town givinig distance IUid prize !lata. directing tourl~ts to the free PP ··- • ing facilities. It is also the •-· Brooklin Spring Fair w.Ul be held tion of the membel'!l to hav_e at the Community FJeld, Brooklin, on erected on the main ~11.da jus Monday, May 26th. of the town. PAGBSKVBN Com mane's Saturday, May 9 •I ·The Doors will be Op,e~ed to the Public at 9 a.m., and the Sale will Co•ntiinue for Fifteen Days of SEN S.4 Tl 0 N 4 L SELLI· N-=-=G::.:::..•----~!_ i Engel's, of Oshawa, h·ave taken ovc Store, and will carry 8 1 high class line Millinery, Dry Goods, ~~n's Wear and Be this opening event we· offer to \ Dry Goods ldy-to-Wear, In honor of merchandise at~fpri~es you seasonable unheard of. .. ,, MEN'S WEAR MEN'S TR01JSERS $1.49 50 pairs Men's H~vy Work Trousers in all patterns~ nu week only $149 KHAKI l'llOUSERS in extra heavy quanty. All sizes. Reg. $2.00. Opening S~ial $149 MEN'S BIG 11" OVERALLS in blue stripe only. Opening special $149 BLUE CHAMBRA't WORK SHIRTS large make. O~r 8J)eCial. 7!tc · • ENGLISH BROADCLOTH SHIRTS in all shades, all sizes. Reg. $3.50. Opening Sale :139 . MEN'S N ~=G CAPS in wool veloun, , tweeds. Reg. $2.00. Opening Sale $129 I ' BOOT and SHOE DEPT. EXTRA..SPECIAL • in men's heavy work, double outside counter. Reg. $4,00. Opening special se ps ,_ I MEN'S FINE CALF OXFORDS Goodyear Welts, rqbber heels. Reg. $5.50. Opening ips MEN'E FINB CALF BOOTS in black and bnn, with or without toecap. Solid Gfodyear. Reg. $6.00. OpeningS~ s,·gs. ' MILLINE~Y 50 MISSES' & MATRONS' HATS every spring color, every spring style. Sold regularly from $3.50 to $4.50. In · honor of our Opening Sale. While they -last-- ..., ______ - $198 ANOTHER LINE OF LADIES' HATS in all colors and shapes. The very new- est and exclusive styles. Reg. $(.50. $249" LADIES' DRESSES 10 only Ladies' Serge Dresses, all styles. Reg. $10.00 to $115.00. Opening Special $398 SNAPP CANTON & SILK DRESSES Newest styles. Opening Special $995 CHIWREN'S WOOL SERGE REEFERS Sizes 2 to 6 years. Reg. $5. 75. Opening special $298 LADIES' GINGHAM HOUSE DRESSES in all patterns. Very neatly made. Reg. $1.50. Opening Sale 98c LADIES' SILK HOSIERY in all shades, including sand, peach, pongee, black, etc. Reg. $1.00. Open- ing Sale 49c LADIES' SILKENLISLE BLOOMERS Regular 85c. Opening SpeciaL 49c ----1----~ -·· Watch Windows for Other Specials. It · ~ill Pay You. ENGEL'S _(f<rmerly Economy Dry _Goods Store) . ~ · ~ - ... . .. - ~ ~. . ' WHITBY · ·--~ · I I I I I