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IF TRADE IS GOOD, WHY OBSTRUCT IT

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | AUGUST 18,1910 | THE FARMER'S ADVOCATE

By opening avenues of trade, negotiating trade treaties and otherwise, nations recognize the economy and beneficence of international exchange. There is mutual profit in a fair trade, or, as the catch phrase has it, “Fair exchange is no robbery.” Strange, then, that tariffs and other devices are so ingeniously invented to obstruct a commerce which instinct, reason and experience

This cartoon originally appeared in the August 24, 1940 issue of Canadian Countryman. It depicts a uniformed egg labelled “100,000,000 Bushels of Canadian

Bee smokers have existed in various forms for thousands of years. While there have been countless varied designs throughout history and across cultures, the basic aim of

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Across the Plains of North Middlesex

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | JULY 11, 1912 | THE FARMER'S ADVOCATE

That the Province of Ontario possesses a plains country essentially similar in some respects to that of the great Prairie West, will come as a surprise to most readers, but a trip north from London on the Huron & Bruce branch of the Grand Trunk, or west from Stratford along the Port Huron line will bring the fact home with depressing clearness. There are many wide, level stretches of

John L. Stansell

JUNE 17, 1875 – OCTOBER 21, 1956

John Lawrence Stansell was a model Ontarian farmer and livestock breeder who actively involved himself in the development and growth of the livestock industry. He was born on June 17, 1875 in Haughton, Norfolk County, the son of Joseph A. Stansell, a descendant of United Empire loyalists. He attended public school in Aylmer before attending the Collegiate Institute in the same town, reaching an academic level that was considerably higher than that of the average farm boy of the time. Upon his completion of school, he took up the farmer’s calling, something that most young men of such

YOSHIKAZU “JOE” TSUKAMOTO

SEPTEMBER 12, 1925 - NOVEMBER 2005

Yoshikazu “Joe” Tsukamoto, born in New Westminster BC in 1925, dedicated much of his life to agriculture. After the death of his mother at the age of six, his father moved the family back to Japan where Mr. Tsukamoto studied at the Nagahama Agricultural School. When Mr. Tsukamoto graduated at the age of 16 in 1941 his father sent him back to Canada to avoid the imminent conflict in the Pacific.

Luckily, Mr. Tsukamoto came to Canada on the last boat to leave Japan before the war began. He lived with his aunt and uncle in southern B.C., working on a fruit farm that they

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News from our rich agriculture history

IF TRADE IS GOOD, WHY OBSTRUCT IT

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Bee Smoker

Across the Plains of North Middlesex

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John L. Stansell

YOSHIKAZU “JOE” TSUKAMOTO