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The admiral made the com- ment at his first press confer- ence as flag officer of the Pa- cific Coast.

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subject of discussion as there are still a few instances which do not appear quite equitable in the Maritime provinces.

PASTURE RECOGNITION

On Wednesday evening those who were involved in this year’s Pasture Competition met for aI social evening at the Charlottc- ‘ ‘ town Legion. Prize winners were

By J. LINCOLN DEWAR

The fine weather during early part of this week w ,a real break for those with grain to harvest and potato digging to finish.

The excellence of the Island grain crop this year is demon- strated by the estimate of 521i bushels of oats to the acre. only one other province exceeds this

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13 1 g 1 7 E ', By NEIL A. mmasou Provincial-Farm Editor

AJI. MUTCII of Cherry Valley has some unusual souvenirs and stories explosion which shattered Halifax on rfecember 0, 1917. back in the days of the First Great War

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Then in the Army. stationed In Halifax, the genial ram and beef cattle breeder recalls "I was one and one-half miles away from the scene of the actual explosion, but I thought, la shell had dropped right behind me. concussion was so heavy, you would wonder why you weren't killed."

The munitions ship Mont Blanc was loaded With high ex plosives and she blew up with devastating effect on the city when she collided with another ship the lmo in the harbor.

Mr. Mutch has a piece of the Mont Blanc he picked up on the street several miles away. He also has a piece (f 2: Halifax fire engine—it was new at the time—«that was bloun to bits and scattered all over the city.

> He remembers. after 47 years. the orders of an excited ,oifircer wlho shouted “Get under cover boys. look out for flying stones."

“Wind wrs came In. doors came don-r and a stove pipe fell" but the gun crew “was ready for action not two minutes later."

l Security Scare Yarn Is Unusual

‘ MR. MUTCII has a fund of stories of the event. but I picked

;'this: Jimmy Bayer was a captain in the heavy artillery. but

;he was also a professional photographer—he operated a studio in the building now owned and operated by Cleve Craswell

you Great George Street.

i There s gnave suspicion that the enemy somehow

. known . sceuu'iy was tightened to an unusual degree. ‘To make the problem more difficult, many of the top security mu: had been killed or otherwise put out of action by the

People arriving at the port were subjected to a thorough examination and it developed that one lady coming In was lfound to have printing on the part of her anatomy on wind) - {she sat down. This stirred a flurry of excitement lest some secret information, or 5 being smuggled in by this

most unusual method.

l So Capt. Jimmy Bayer of the artillery was called In to photograph the printing on the most unusual base. But the ktlalse alarm was nothing more than that. The lady was from Poland and on the way across the Atlantic she took every possible precaution against contracting disease. One precaution included the of the toilet seat with paper. fore she sat on it. In her case she used a sheet of newspaper she had in

or on, tinting came off on her skin.

But there was little humor in the terrible explosion after- math. “'Ilhe Richmond printing company had employed 30 girls, but only five got out alive". he told me. And that story was repeated right across the city. The devastation was in- ldescribable in many places.

the Rritish Empire, as it was

international competition, Five Canadian products won gold medals. (CP Wirephoto).

1 be more than 200 years old. “It’s the same type", be told me, farm “’35 to be preserved at an 1 "as the one you wrote about in your column that you saw at the home of William Johnston-e. Kcnsingfon RR." a number of factors such as the l Th ‘ 0 his province by the first Irvin; value of maintaining the rural man who came out from Scotland. He settled first in Man-ray community and its institutions, Harbor, then came to Cherry Valley and an ancestor of the Irvinvgs who live there now, I was to .

Mrr. Mutch's grandfather bought the old clock at a sale about h100 lyears ago. He thinks was1 stamewrhere abguldt 17:6 . that t e one was brought 0 e Isan . “It's so ”. o “0?: Ithese .5213” {armﬁ could quipped. "that the shadow of the pendulum has long since worn "‘3 e 0 50°19 Y genera y- .a hole in the back of the case." The Mutch family are Scots.

where in

the value of farming as a way i of life and the contribution which . the surplus population coming

Most of these reasons are still .I

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Ontario and that by a very

narrow margin at 53.2 bushels.

For barley the Island average

of 44.6 bushels per acre leads

Canada. It is interesting to note at P.E.I. grows more bar

than does the large province of uebec.

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With the end of October ra~ pidly approaching farmers will be feeling a real sense of urgen- cy so far as unharvested crops are concerned. Generally the only crop that was considered safe in November was turnips — a crop which is no longer as

recognized and for this Centen- nial Year rather than having a program dealing with the glor- ies of grass the audience heard an Island author, Rev. Francis Bolger discuss certain aspects

of Confederation and this pro- ,t

vince.

The form in which this annual competition will be carried on is now under review and certain modifications are being consid- ered. Certainly during the past six years there has een an ‘ creased emphasis on pasture management and it can pro

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valid but it now begins to an- per that there Is very great pes- simism on the Score of saving the small farm. The full forces f mechanization, specialization and the need of volume produc- ion per unit have certainly caught up with farming. M o r e and more volume is required to meet continual increasing farm and living costs and it is in this department that many smal farms find themselves in a straight-jacket.

Just how far this trend is go« ing to continue and whether it

gust there must be a vein of Irish with their wit some ' ha

. nod. The old clock is still keeping pecrfect time. It has the My! ‘of the month and s of the moon on it. though the moon has faded so much that it Is no longer visible. has a beautifully polished mahogany case. the best on an old clock". Mr. Mutch told me.

“It I've ever seen

Rural Mail In Pioneer Day:

SOME mgfﬁnasrmc stories of the pioneer days of looking

after rural I came my way urmg my recent visit to 1 West Prince Mrs. e Mountain of A who is bright and cheerful at the age of 87 had an inter ' mo.

ably be assumed that the com. petition has played some part.

NOVEMBER. 10

Again this week we draw the attention of our readers to the proposed meeting for potato growers to be held in Summer side on Tuesday evening Nov. 10 at the Athena Regional High

hool. ‘

The meeting is designed as a two-way effort, first it will bring

important as once was the case. WINTER FAIR is is a reminder that at the end of the week the second At- lantic Winter Fair is getting underway. Island livestock exhi- bitors are well represented and those who go as spectators will certainly meet friends and ac- quaintances. For the first five days of the Fair, Mary Lou Farrell, Miss

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of John Mountain and it remained in the family through the years. Later it was in charge of a brother, James Mountain. In 1900 it was taken over by Mr, and Mrs. Alvie Mountain who kept it until it was closed—Mr. Moon In ied . 'mg some of the more interesting events the tier days, . Mountain who reads without glasses, said her husband carried the mail from the train to the office which was about one-half mile away. For this he received $18 every three months, or six dollars per month. They were paid $45 a year for keeping the post office which works mat to

$.75 per month. THE RAILROAD station at Alma was a small shed, closed on three sides, and there in the telly cold dead of winter nights Mr. Mountain often waited for hours for the arrival of

will eventually reach a point where it is reversed even tin. experts cannot predict.

The income position of the farmer and his family is of pal ticular concern in the Atlantic provinces and considerable ell fort is being exerted in devising policies both Federal and Prr vincially which will assist.

However, in practically all cases these policies are more apt to help the farmer who is in

Dominion of Canada will be pre- sent. On ednesday, Nov. 4 Miss Farrell leaves for London to take part in the World's Beau-

to growers information on cer' tain aspects of their industry and will, secondly, provide them with the opportunity of bringing

a better position than the one who is in real trouble_ While the re are certainly many un-

the mail train. Due at 10.00 pm, the snorting monster of the cam engine days often was one to two hours late, or even

later. which put it past the midnight. hour. n‘. untain never deserted his lonely and chilly waiting

ty Contest. On opening day Miss Farrell will officially declare the Atlantic Winter Fair open.

FEED GRAIN POLICY

Early next week feed grain administrator and. rather curiously this office is now in the Department of Forestry, will

forward ideas with respect to policy for the industry. Certainly it is to be expectevi that potato people will be hap- pier with the marketing situa- tion than was the case a vear

ago. The crop is excellent and the

post betore the train arrived. Mira. Mountain recalls some unusual experiences. Same at them caused her more than a little worry. There was libe time the school teacher came to mail two letters. They were left temporarily on the kitchen table while Mrs. Mountain looked lot the bread she had in the oven. ; WHEN SHE returned to the table she found one of the lchildnen had grabbed the letters and cut em n ' «with a scissors the child had grabbed. “Sn”. she said

economic farms in the East this facet alone is not enough to im- pel people to-leave them. For m a n y persons these s m a i l farms are a home and a way 1-? life that they have no intention

leaving even though condi- tions may be far from ideal.

price about double comparxl with this time last year. As Pre- sque Isle, Maine occasional sales are being made up to $3.50 per barrel as compared with $1.50 - this time last year.

LARGE 0R SMALL

As recently as ten years 'go there seemed to be a very strong body of opinion that the small

meet in Moncton with interest- ed Department of Agriculture and farm organization represen- tatives to discuss matters relat- ed to a permanent feed grain po- llcy for eastern Canada.

Specifically the federation of Agriculture has recommended that an agency he established which would have the responsibl- ity of supervising and co-ordm-

FARM FORU them y lo , r them ba

Farm Forum 1964'65 Re“ 5”" ‘my regrets. but the. teacher fixed them up and told me not to d‘irway “xi M9nday evening lworrv". the Alma lady told me wnh the mplc being “The Pnce' "The teacher, Eliza McKclvle was a lady she recalled of Life." Medical costs can lwml appreciation" weigh heavily on those with low . incomes or more than their; I share of illness. Would a stand-i s Almanacs D'sappear ardized medical plan. public or r private distribute the burden of medical care more fairly?

BUT THE most unusual disaster was the disappearance of lithe bundle of Dodd's Almanacs. “Some time later the almauacs were found hidden in an

ating the movement and storage of Western grain for the East. It will be recalled that certain changes were made early in September In the policy for freight assistance and no doubt

new regulations will be the

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OTTAWA (CPI—Free educa tion at all levels is only an ideal at present but Canada's Job should be to remove as many financial barriers to the ideal as possible. Prime Minis- ter Pearson sa .

Speaking at the annual din- net- of the national conference of Canadian Universities and Colleges. Mr. Pearson said com- pletely free education is " Ideal to which we cannot ex- pect to move overnight." .

There were other priorities In the education field that had to! be met '

‘But we must not Indefiniter tolerate all the financial Imped~ Iments which now exist. If we really appreciate the value of ta at, importance of our human resources, then clearly so young man or woman of tal-

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Pearson Urges Easing Of Education Costs

rold trunk where one of the youngsters had hidden them among 1his treasures."

For the benefit of the younger readers. the Dodd's almanacs were a part of the kitchen literatlu'e in most every farm home Iln those days. Many a farmer turned to his almanac in winter months to see what the predicted weather was. and they put last as much faith in those lone-range forecasts as many mod- can people 0 in the daily \\'(‘al".l(‘l‘ bulletins they receive based

1 e best knowledge of meteorolozkts of trday.

I cannot recall for sure whether the Dodd‘s almam carried the weather forecast. bul Dr, Chases surclv did.

Mention of those two parent remedy suppliers reminds me of student days at Mount Allison University where our Bis ological professor OIIC'l came into clas: withd large Shae: .. . covered with nif‘lures .iz‘ sf‘vt‘l‘nl 02M men an women. in the Maritimes m‘ght 3° “5 he would tell. u: “ith Illlll‘f' samcasm. “these are not the work in T°r°m°‘ ifounders of the nation. flu-<0 are the people who were cured DRAWBACK [N K 'by a certain kind of kidnvy liver pills"

This mobility :otl:c;g‘:c. M. s. Annie 1 Donald. u-hnsr husband is a Grandson of, o - ‘ lJames Mountain, has the Alma post office now. So it is still perate as one would wrsh be H“ m, 1‘.) mm familv een the marsh-speaking and r___.._' “" -Weﬂr’ ,

I th F h- ' . resistant.“ “m " Firm Stand r He hoped for a greater ex-I Is Urged On I Canadian Water

tion-wide—a student graduatirs

a continental. resource.

He warned the Common. mlllCS. forests and waters cont mitlec L’nrted Slates interests- at the moment non - govern mental arc casting eyes a (‘anada's water resources.

change between the two major; cultures and suggested thisl might be done through estan l lishment of post - graduath schools.

"I wonder . . . whether "I ‘3‘ OTTAWA “CPI > Rf‘wul'r'N The object appeared to be I could not be a co - mutate Minister 1:31an has Called use Canada as a vast wate agreement to establish an in.“ n a. C 0 m m 0 n S t‘mllmlllf‘t‘ storage area for continental wt lute for advanced midi“ in midyml Great Lakes “ﬁnder resources. Although such

vels to take a firm stand in favor of treating Canadian wa~l fore as a Canadian, rather than

program would involve billion of dollars in storage costs, 111 crisis in water resources we

say, economics in Montreal; III. say, physics in Toronto; in pub- lic administration in Ottawa.

In chemistry in vgncmvﬂ; m approaching so rapidly the agriculture in sukuoon; in I”. might be for our university life such sums soon would becom lilies] scion” in Quebec (my. as a whole, a from which in! economic.

"ad! would benefit." 3 Mr Larng said water is Car

Eduntlml l8 8 mall" "I PW ada‘s most important resourct vinclal Jurisdiction and wrll re- ‘Ilts management would deter . main so. Mr. Pearson said. But mine the economic future t In: bone to wonder whether there are ways In which edu- ‘ this country and the prospect: cation is of real concern to the of Canadians for all time I M m “I” then hderal government. some

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