CHARLIE FARQUHARSON is a national institution; his wife sometimes thinks he should be in one. He was conceived on an Ontario farm in 1942 (his creator, Don Harron was getting his grade 8 the easy way, as a member of the Farm Service Force working for six months at the princely sum of twenty dollars per month.) But Charlie wasn't born until 1952. It happened on a stage during a performance of the annual Canadian topical revue "Spring Thaw". It was a five minute delivery, and it started a cottage industry which has produced ten best-selling books, not to mention eighteen years on the television series "Hee Haw" which Charlie calls "Sesame Street for Grown-ups".  Among the tomes Charlie has turned out a Histry of Canada 1972, a Jogfree of Canada, the World and Other Places, 1974, a KORN Farmer's Allmynack, 1976, a Parry Sound version of the Bible, Olde Charlie Farguharson's Testament, 1978, a hysterical review of the years 1972-1982 entitled Yer Last Decadent. Charlie was a contributor to a book by his rich city cousin Valerie Rosedale in 1984 called DeBunk's History of the Canadian Establishment.  In 1986, Charlie almost gave up on agriculture with his book Cum Buy the Farm. But the book is full of agricultural lore including advice on composting. "If yuh takes from the soil yuh gotta giv back. Works fine with plants and animals. No waist there. The wife and I has His and Hers piles of rotten old stuff. Hers is called composst and contanes anythin' that'll give life to her gardin by rottin itself to deth. Tee bags, old lettusses, carrit tops, sawed dust, straw, twigs, hedgy clippins, plus domestical garbitch. It all gits together and cooks over a long, long time. Yuh can't buy stuff like that, ya has to make it yerself, and practickly ennybuddy kin do it hoo has jist had lunch."