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TRAVEL SERVICE Reservations. EXPRESS TELEGRAPH Gan. National Station Steamship W e. Bmt Britlin and the Continent. Premier service to West India. PA SSPORTS ARRANGED FOR Rail tickets and sleeper People who take no reforms. Saturday: Jake taken Elsy to the pitcher show last nite & sed to her says he I reckon youve been out with worse looken fellers than me. She diddent anser & Jake as her agen. Then she sed she herd him the 1st time & was tryen to think. Jake told me he diddent get the idear. Jake gets no brighter fast. The 1 I xamined- had 32 sed Blisters, who & I ,& Jake nose are wirms from a to z. Friday: The teacher thot she wood ketch Blisters napping, witch he neerly was. How many laigs has a 1000.1aigged_wirm got sh‘e ast him. Thursday: Seen in the noosepaper Where 1 of the Simeas twins got marryed. & I cant understand how the new husbend is a going to take the 'bride to the pitcher show and etc & leave the rest of the famibly to home. Mead Hill '- 3- Trucy. Amt Phone ms Wednesday: I excel-ted Jane home from the partie last nite & sed to her with me you are 1 in a milIyun. She replide & sed with me so are yore chantses. I dont no xactly what she ment but feel it was a dirty crack of sum kind. Septic Tanks Installed Pumps Barn & Stable Equipment 74 Yonge Street Phone 92F PHONE 71 GLEW’S DRUG STORE Tuesday: The teecher yesterday told Jake to find out what fratri- cide meens & this a. m. in the class he sed it meens sum thing to kill the insects Witch blong in collidge sosie’cys. Teecher lookt tickcled so I dont know if it was the korect ans. But it sounded OK. R. H. KANE TIN‘SMITHING FURNACES - PLUMBING HEATING A LAZY LIVER the farmer sed they cuddent go in but he diddent mind‘ them taken off thare close. I & Jake & Blisters mist the preformants. Tuff. S. S. .& to skool When I IbeliSh cept ft. that has done :11 now. Manda. good 1 0 Elsy. The a crick country f ice swim THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10th, 1936. SLATS’ DIARY CAN CAUSE MANY AILMENTS Parke’s Tl LIVER r z TONE (By Oliver N. Warren) will quikcly restore that liver to normal healthy action, re- lievin'r constipation. biliousness, head- aches. etc. It also aids the stomach. A month’s treat- ment for $1.00 no risks secure Monday: Got a good 1 on Jane & Elsy. They went to a crick in the country for a cold ice swim & after they got their close offen them The success of such a scheme will depend on the co-operation and the ability of the municipalities to join in. Unfortunately many municipal- ities are already broke: it will be difficult to get much done there. The obstacle of excessive municipal taxation will also have to be met. It Will take a lot of patience and courage to make such a project a success. The federal government will not build such houses, itself, but it will probably provide a considerable sum ‘ of money at a very low rate of in- terestâ€"perhaps as low as 21/; per centâ€"to assist municipalities and housing corporations to construct, blocks of such dwellings, securing if possible the advantages of mass pro- duction and thus lowering the cost. This will be to provide homes for the average Canadian worker, able to pay perhaps $15 to $25 per month rent. pos:""'-. from the temper of the deâ€" 5' bate in Parliament, to find out what the Canadian public will stand“ for. There will be no attempt. I gather, to formulate a forthriozht policy and tell the country to like it or lump it. That does not fit in with the political philosophy of Mac- kenzie King. Rather, an attempt will be made to appraise what are the wishes of the majority of the Canadian people, and give them that. If the Canadian people want a big. ger air force, a renovated military 9 'force, and a few destroyers, and are ready to raise their taxes) to pay for them,‘ they will get the whole bag of tricks. I gather that so far, a- bout all the government is prepared] to offer on its own initiative is a. more active air policy, conrfired as largely as possible to commercial aviation, but capable of fairly rapid and ready conversion to military use in case of a crisis. Not many types of ’planes, it is said, are dual pur- pose, but a thorough training of ai pilot for commercial flying- is ex- 'pected to :be a good start for a war flier, especially if his work is car- ried on in the northern or western pioneer territory, where grit, re- sourcefulness and other qualities are given a severe test. (Aspects of Housing Plans) The housing legislation is expect- ed to have three or four different aspects. First there is the present Housing Act, which prevides cheap Isecond.mortg‘age money for prospecâ€" tive home-owners. It has helped a few people in the middle income- brackets (say $2,000 to $10,000 per year) to go ahead with building plans. It has been of no value to the average workman, farmer, semiâ€" skilled laborer. It will be examined thoroughly to see if it can be broad- ened out. Second, there is the home t improvement plan now getting well i i: under way. It needs legislation in ih order to guarantee the banks, who ‘ y went ahead on the unvlerstanding x“ that such would be passed. Third, b there are some slum clearance pro- n jects to be considered. Fourth, and it much the most important, is theiN stateâ€"aided low-cost housing pro- ject. dun-mu-.. ._.. 0: H cussi') situat espec‘ (Early Speculations) There have been rumors of an early budget. There have been, 31. so, reports that substantial cuts in the British duties Will be made on ‘a Wide range of textiles, iron and steel. irlachinery. boots and shoes ‘etc. At this distance such speculaâ€" tions have not much value. But they fit in with the probabilities pretty well. Canada knows that it is going to be tough to renew the United Kingdom agreement on the old favâ€" orable terms. But it is a prize worth striving- for. anrl every effort will be made to retain free enti'yéwith- out quotasâ€"into the British market. The quota on- hams and bacon is one of the most vulnerable. Canada could afford a small cut in this without much loss, however, since we did not make use of more than a good fraction of it in the past five years. lible by deferring a number of imâ€" portant statutes and discussions. It may well develop. as the session goes along, that it is desirable to ad- journ for a while and come back in the late summer or early fall. Time will tell. ‘ There will, of course, be numerâ€" ous minor matters. The intention is to get all business accomplished by May 1st. This may only be poss- ible by deferring a number of imâ€" lportant statutes and diseussions. It 2. Canada’s national and imperial defence policy. 3. Stateâ€"sided housing as an im- portanb employment measure. By Wilfrid Eggleston IOttawa, Dec. 8â€"A session beginnâ€" ing- on January 14th which will cope with three major matters is now in sight. The highlights promise to be: 1. The United Kingdom trade a. greement. It will b (D"'”-*rxe Policy Prominent) will be impossible to keep dish on awn" from the international than and Canada’s defence needls, :lnlly if tl'-e European cockpit is “'naclng‘ as ever. It will be Ottawa Spotlight "2 from the temper of the deâ€" in Parliament, to find: out the Canadian public will staml There will be no attempt. I man-Law is for the Agricultural Societies to tackle it. And preferably not on a field crop competition basis, but raâ€" ther on a progressive farmers in north, south, east and west sections of the Township to take on the grow- ing of such areas as choise pedigreed seed can be procured for. Pay them well for the extra care they would‘ have to take in the cultivation and fertilizing- of the soil. Guarantee them a fair price for the crop. Asâ€" sist them in cleaning, treating and marketing- this improved seed and try to get every farmer in the Town- ship to grow Erhan only, if demon.- stration plots show it to be out. v- one between the Banner Oat and the ‘ variety known as Early Ripe has proved to be a “winner.” It has been called the ERBAN to show its - two parents. For nearly thirty years lt (this hybrid oat has been continu. t ously tested and compared with other 9 oats on the experimental plots at - the O‘.A.C. For over ten years it a has yielded more than 12 bushels an - acre more than its Banner parent r and on an average matured 5 days ? earlier. In addition to these im‘. ’ proved qualities of heavy yielding and earliness, it has proven excepâ€" l tionall‘y immune to smut and rust. Undoubtedly it looks to be the Oat that our farmers should be growâ€" :inrg! Unless, of course, they already [have a better oat of their own. This ‘ year and last, pound lots of the seed ‘were tested (toâ€"operativer by mem- bers of the Experimental Union in many parts of the province. In this, lit made a prrtiozlnrly good showing. I Mr. A. W. Mason who was in charge of the Exhibit informed me that their quarterâ€"acre plots in several counties last summer had also won ’many friends for the Cat and that by 1937 there will be considerable ‘seed' available for any farmer who [may wish to grow it. Well, if all this is true about the Erlban Oat what is. the best way of doing something- about it? My vote the In the meantime, anyone may proâ€" fitably inquire into the matter lo- cally. Just ask yourself what evi- dences you can see in Hunzg-erford and Huntingdon Tvrps. of improve- ments in status of the average far- mer arising from the big and little Fairs that get so much publicity in the papers? I have asked this ques- tion in a considerable number of different places throughout the pros- vince and in almost all cases the discernible benefits are very meagre. Is it possible that we are just fool- ing‘ ourselves about the actual value of Fall Fairs? Fall Fair for that matter, really adds much to the prosperity of farmâ€" ing. Of course it is commonly held especially by the city Press, that great and direct benefits come from Agricultural Society Fairs. But this is a. very difficult thing to prove. Merely saying so does not prove it. There is really need for some defiâ€" nlite research on the question. The suggestion comes from the Ex- hibit of the Experimental Union in the Agricultural College display at Toronto Exhibition. Some readers may hold the View that neither the Toronto Exhibition, nor any other I suggest that Agricultural Socie. ties could give leadership for rural reconstruction better, perhaps, than any other organization in the coun- try. Also I propose to offer a. defi- nite proposal for their consideration which, put into effect, might, inside two or three years, add several mill- ion dollars yearly to the'income of our farmers. Sounds rather crazy, doesnr't it. (Io-operation for Increased Oat Yields (By S. B. McCready) THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO J MARKHAM RD. GARFIELD YER EX I know that the thing is possible. For I have proof of it. About 25 years ago, a young school teacher named Hansuld demonstrated the possibilities of increased crop yields at a school’ near Tavistock. Through qua Now suppose for the sake of argu- ment, that there could be an average increase in yield of one bushel per acre? At 30c. a bushel that would add over $700,000 to the country’s wealth. And if it were an increase of 2 bushels per acre that would be nearly a million and a. half. And 5 bushels’ increase would be three and a half millions; and 10 bushels, seven millions! It beats the stock ten bushels’ increase is not a fanâ€" tastic market for getting rich quick! And a dream, for the average yield per acre on the Guelph Plots over the past ten years has been 85 1/2 bushels. According to the Statistics’ Branch of the Department of Agriculture, there were over 2 1/3 million acres of oats grown on Ontario’s 195,000 farms in 1934. The yield totalled 81 1/2 million bushels, averaging a little over 34 bushels to the acre, and had a. money value of $28,534,- 000. Oats are by long odds the largest and most valuable field crop grown by farmers. standing. Such plots comparing the fainored varieties might be on the Fair Grounds or on an adjoining farm. There Are Millions In It! Is it not reasonable to believe that an expert giving all his time to imâ€" proved seed growing could pay his salary a good many times over for any Township in Ontario whose farâ€"- mers took the long view of their job? A. Zavitz’ dlepartmemt. The first year’s squareâ€"rod demonstration plot ‘tested again other local barleys, proved its superiority. The seed was kept and grown on a larger plot the second season. 'The third season ev- ery acre of barley grown in the school section was sown with the‘ product 0f the handful received two years before. His; salary was paid for many times over by this little experiment in crop improvement. But the country cannot afford such tea. chers! He is in a city .school now. the Schools’ Division of the Ema-Llme mental Union, he received a hand-l ful of choice seed of O.A.C. 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