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snow was an inch or so deep | “There were a tremendous num- in places. Pemnants remained ber of farm implements at the until nightfatl | show-—and- —a- - turnip—harvester
wasn't the latest on record, “fhe” May snowfall” spoiled the opening of the. city’s beau- ty spot. Similar snow-covered scenes- were to--he--seen—Mon-
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S jcaught their eye. It's built much | \like the ‘potato harvester _(com-_; {bine} we know here, though it’s jnot nearly so big. It tops and trims the turnips as it, takes them up to be loaded. | This part is adjustable, but- the | turnips would have to be exact- lly straight and uniformly even in the row, ‘for the harvester to | do a 100 percent job, the men | ~totd me: When -the- turnips--are-|- not even, some of them get slic- | ed, they said. ~ “Bill comes from Scotland so it was a trip back home.for him. I asked Almon, though, if he -..,found...the.,. Scotch. hospitality as.
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\before in ‘Gretna Green ‘is a Dumfrieshire, near the English border. In 1770_an_act—was—pass~ ed in England‘ that made hasty marriages more difficult became. the custom for runaway couples, who wished to get mar ried quiekly to cross the border to Gretna, where they could be married under Scottish law.
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ttenaal “to everyone. A point of special Green where riages”’ uged to be performed, a3 Bill Brown told me. ~~
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- Bill Brown tells me the. couples would be married: by a blacksmith~ who kept the Bible ready on his bel- lows, and performed the marriage ceremony at his anvil. The blacksmith held a license — which enabled—hi
| te do the.job legally.
Many marriages are ae to ae. place at this anvil’ befo: the English marriage law was changed in 1856. ‘
BA Oil 2 &) Plans To Sal er U. S. Company
-™ORONTO (CP) Rnitish American. OW Co. id. “an-| nounced plans Monday to sell a | “wholly-owned © subsidiary in the
| United States for $182,544. 000.
Aftér paying off some current
“debts, the company. will have
$81,600,000 left and will use it to _finance—further—expansion of site” Canadian operations, the .an- nouncement said. 2
The subsidiary—British- Amer- {ean Oil Producing Co.—wwill be a- non- profit charitable and educa- tional organization in Dallas, Tex., if B-A .shareholders ap- prove the plan at a. special meeting May ae :
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It’s one of the best known cat- “me, “when a 0, is los ler |warm. as he's expected. The re- 1 the shows in the United. King- The sBason- in Scotland. was the snow. -bécause its location 18 ply was an emphatic “yes.” 5 dom, and theresare many more three weeks behind normal. But not found in time to save the | Both men were just-a lit- ¢s showing than’ any farmers had finished their animal_——— | the surprised, I think to find
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other breed of cattle. Bill spring seeding before the Island While thes were in Scotland, ~~ Brown, Kensington - and -Almon—men-left; -and-that~would~be*ear> We Marshfield told me about ly in the last week of April: The-'to bring 50 ‘‘Hoggs’’.in from the |
afew days ailer they young cattle were all “Out” on Ils The “Howes” “are yearti
pee from-a_trip ae: eee pasture, but few of the mature | jewes that will be bred this fall. | They were talking _ the cows were “being” “Teft out over- | Ayr -cattle show which Me in Ayt- night. ia
-Seotland_z —rip-was—made—possible, ee prising -to learn the Ayrshire Mr. Wood told me, by. -his two-/Turning to the cattle world, a cattle -are- still ift the majority.sons Wallace, one “of - the “most: later | is called—a-‘‘bullock”’ and There were probably 250 Ayr- progressive Ayrshire _bréeders | ja-young -heifer is_a—“stirk. ae
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ee shires. at the fair." sss in the business,-.and_Don__who | The—Island—visitors—saw— “The Derby’ is the feature runs the’ Prima fertilizer plants | about a dozen Clydesdales class of the Ayr show -and it in the province. at the Ayr show, but the big
“Bill's nephew~used ~three™ “dons
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the Gaelle ‘language being* |
emphasized in Ireland.
Even the _ telephone eos pul : told més were
with ‘the names - and “neal: un, in Gaelic as well as in English. : + No “Gaelic “was— | the part of on they. sited, though ‘i¢-is- as the “northern—islands.
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eattle selling. It's held’ every). & Moaday r “ es There were. some Friesians ‘there -- Holsteins tous but
mo mame he farms they saw are ‘
features 3-year old lheifers.
There were 26 heifers in the ring- -——their— headquarters
and the judges-took about two most part, with Willie Cal--- hours to place them. Jan, Bill Brown's nephew. “A N aturally 1 asked Almon and Mr. Callan has a. grade nnounce ew
Bill why it took so long to judge
the class. They told me_ there . was ‘tremendous quality, and uniformity: among the heifers.
“You could go right down the | line and you wouldn't find a poor udder, nor an animal with: poor 4egs-’—Thetegs—and the udders— were strong points ‘noted in. ani- mals they saw; and the two Is- |. land men visited some of the top Ayrshire -herds in Scotland.
The eattle had good tops also,
“but neither man liked “the pins .. the rear ends” as much as they do the same. featurés. on
the cattle here.
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the Wood-Brown pair agreed on. |
“We like a good, square fear- end in Canada”, the men _ob- served... That was the only ser- fous criticism the twa men voie- ed of the cattle they saw at the fair, though they explained the eriticism did not apply to all of the animals.
They really were impress- ed by the uniformly good udders, and. the “Good, straight ‘legs’. .The Scots explain a cow won't last long unless their underpin- ning is good. The Sents to whom the Island men talk- ed “‘just don't want a cow tm their herd, unless she has good legs.”’
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~T think the system of picking “judges will interest you: Five men are named for the fair. All five names are placed in a hat The first two names pulled. out judge the milking ~ classes “and the heifers. The next two judge the dry cows-and the bulls. The fifth man is an umpire. He de. cides when the two judges. mak- ing the placements do not agree.
And disagreements are not in- frequent, I gathered. : “IT asked Almon how he liked the grand champion. Ayrshire Zl
cow cof the show, if) -he would like to have -her in. his own herd He liked the charming hut he thought “she wa¥’a little under- sized’. She won the grand rib- hon. on her excellent: udder and on her legs,, Mr. ‘Wood. suggest- ed think -her-dder-—was—as- wide as it was deep’, he. added The shape of the udder and the teat placement are two high priority, factors, the two men ex: plained , i Mr. Wood and: Mr Brown af, tended the Lanark sale, the bié - gest sale—of-its type*m the U.K There would be upwards of: 300
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“black and white cattle we know John Powell. from the Holstein head’ office in Brantford, Ontar- io told me when he w as here/re- that thes? do -nof have heef cattle in. Furope That's he ‘explaitted, the Eutopean Friesians are more of ‘a dual purpose type than the hig dairy type cow we know’ here. ;
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—Fhe—sheep—are— —never—inside-— There's usually some bare spots in winter, so they can-dig down” for-.some grass. In:severe storms the men scatter hay: bun- dles so the animals can feed on: them, Bill told me. i
There are times when’ the’ 'sheep: are buried in a big snow storm, when they are lying in. low land, or in“hollows that are filled with snow drifts. But the Border Collies can locate the an- imals from the breath of the
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