Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . l poli-tics along popular lines so that the bal-lot is not a farce, nor the cabinet rule aclass one. Class politics, the privileged /classpolitics, the dominating overlordship ofmen whose chief business is to remain inoffice—these make the real class govern-ment. The farmers along with all rightthinking citizens know that these thingsshould not prevail. It all depends onthe farmers of East Elgin, Their an-swer should be decisive. Side issues andspecial pleading should be scrapped just as effective-ly as the present government has scrapped everyfarmer
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . l poli-tics along popular lines so that the bal-lot is not a farce, nor the cabinet rule aclass one. Class politics, the privileged /classpolitics, the dominating overlordship ofmen whose chief business is to remain inoffice—these make the real class govern-ment. The farmers along with all rightthinking citizens know that these thingsshould not prevail. It all depends onthe farmers of East Elgin, Their an-swer should be decisive. Side issues andspecial pleading should be scrapped just as effective-ly as the present government has scrapped everyfarmer consideration since the last general word to the farmers themselves! Carry on aclean campaign. Do not import the type of farmerpolitician who talks wild. There are some of themabroad and their sins are an excuse for many farm-ers voting against farm measures. The whole pro-gram of speaking by the farmers should beplanned locally and only those men invited to helpwho can present the farmers case in a correct andattractive Slash-Burning- PreventsForest Fires T~\ESPITE a somewhat elaborate system of firepatrol established by the Government to in-sure our standing timber from loss through forestfires, the yearly loss from this source is still offrightful magnitude. One thing which has contri-buted largely to our forest fires, and which has notbeen fully appreciated by Government officials, is theleaving of large areas of slash unburned, along-side of valuable green timber. Fortunately the lum-ber companies, themselves, are beginning to see themenace in this practice and are now voluntarily burn-ing the slash resulting from their logging operations. According to A. V. Gilbert, writing in Conservation,the Schroeder Mills and Timber Co., with headquar-ters in Milwaukee, and operations in Florida, Michi-gan and Ontario, has evidently decided that slash-burning is good business. This company, in its op-erations south of the French river in Parry Sounddistrict, Ont.,
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