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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-08-13, Page 3111EFARM FRONT ?:1 0 V 3 v+4 n 3 d 0.e NaN I 1 VtiV Ny smOid eV1 ISSUE 32 — 1959 This frablic shovel, wasn't set to digging by the sorcere's apprentice. But it did spring into action untouched by human hand. Wandlike object, below, is a tubeless, transistorless sub- miniature radio,. Protruding from the top is an antenna, from the bottom, a handle. The tiny (less than an inch in any direc- flan), experimental transmitter was used to send a signal io the shovel v?hich electronically broke ground for a new GE plant. The radio can operate for hundreds of hours on a crystal- controlled frequency using a battery no larger than a small coin. How to Root Those Geranium Cuttings In midsummer with geraniums gayly blooming in window and porch box, in raised beds and pots on the terrace, and in open beds in th(t Eiden, their use as a house pie 4 to usually far from one's mind Yet it is none too .soon to me).te the cuttings which will become husky plants for winter flowering in a sunny window These have the vigor of youth and will give a much more satis- factory performance than the older plants, which by fall will have become too large and leggy to be moved indoors as they are.. Moreover, if one is not inter- ested In winter flowers, small plants raised from summer cut- tinge may be carried over in a semi-dormant condition in a cool but frost-proof place, for flower- ing outdoors next summer, Fortunately, geranium cuttings root readily if a simple proced- ure is followed, They should be taken from vigorous tip growth usually three to five ins, long. 'Try to make the cutting as short as possible for it is difficult to keep a long cutting from de- veloping into a tall, ungainly plant. However, the length of the cutting is not a important as the condition of the stern. Sheet- jointed shoots that' 'are brittle and snap when bent at the point where the cut is to be made are ideal for rooting. Such a con- dition is usually found three or four inches from the tip of young, vigorous 'shoots. Cuttings taken where the stem is soft and succulent will rot and where old, and hard will root with difficulty. The "snappy test" applied to several shoots will 'quickly give one the knack of determining the correct place to make the cut. Sometimes overly rich soil and excessive moisture cause quick, 'succulent growth which makes it difficult to find short cuttings that pass the "snap test." It may 'prove helpful in this connection to allow the cuttings to lie from a few hours to a day in a shady place to harden up before insert- ing them. Use a sharp knife to make a .clean cut just below a node, which is the point where the leaf Joins the stem. All foliage except several leaves at the top should ; be carefully cut away. Although some gradeners root 'KEPS HIM WARM — Suited to all environments, new Mark IV "space" suit keeps' wearer warm in his icy prison. Engin- eers say insulation permits survival of an hour's immersion in Arctic waters at 60 degree below zero Fahrenheit. CROSSWORD PUZZLE .. ACT:OS.5 1.l t. ackVirara ofteleaey 1. ruins insect 12.'7S:tea \it 7 ;1. brotitict tIrtzelle • 30. Stone 7. 11.et,c)1,n 79. :(tal; bren tl no. (Thad 21. titled fe;T roe 22. Still:et? thti. l'aney , 20. Volk, 27. A tiymnts 31, 'Flu, I Ring. 30, Silminfq` Y 10. 7 fore prana 11. •L•:. Indi„n Nlieeb A2 boaltiott tab 7 111. 1,'oelrle alt.* it. ',or t sinall hunter 51, 1.17.,lra, port leprival ian 'n. ',Inger 49. tr. letter 2, 'al 1170,111g 45. or 46. 7,1ntiro 7-171,f,,115111 ,.,t 1"avnri ts en, n ee. Tee, .teewe I I a o txr 7..7. 1 1 4', rinse I. 7,9r.a 0 4,... geranium cuttings in sand and peat-moss mixture, and even, the sandy, soil of the garden, clean, Sterile sand remains the ideal rooting medium. This should not be the .fine seashore sand, but coarse builder's sand free from organic matter, If the sand available is net clean, it is p simple matter to wash it in a large tub. Cover the sand with water and stir. Af- ter the sand has settled the dirty water should be Retired Off and this process repeated until the sand is thoroughly clean. If several cuttings are to be made, a shaded frame is best, It should be well drained and have at least four inches of clean sand, wet through and well firmed over some drainage material such as ashes or broken pots, If onlya few cuttings are to be made equally good results may be had in a flower pot or bulb pan filled with hard, moist sand and placed out of direct sunlight. writes Gisela Grimm in The New York Herald Tribune. As such a small container dries out quickly, moisture control may be greatly simplified by sinking, a small pot, filled with peatmoss in the center of the larger pot, and keeping the peat- moss saturated with water. A small pointed stick may be used to make holes for the cut- tings which should be sunk about half their length into the sand, which is pressed firmly about them, The writer usee ,a brick to pack the soil hard beween the row of cuttings in the frame. After they are lel place, not closer than an inch apart, they should be watered lightly, and thereafter only when the sand becomes slightly dry. Geranium cuttings, being fleshy, should not be kept too moist or they will rot, Evenly moist, not soaking wet, is the ideal for which to strive. Cuttings of most plants re- quire a close glass cover of some sort to create a humid condition. This is not necessary for gera- niums unless they are made un- der very drying conditions in the home, Even in this case, the glees jar, or whatever the cover may be, should be removed frequently to permit the moisture which has condensed on the leaves to dry off. As soon as a nice cluster of roots has formed, usually in' two or three weeks. the plants should, be carefully lifted out with the sand clinging to thein, and pot- •ted in small containers of sandy soil. A. two-and-a-half-inch pot is ample, and as the little plants grow they may be easily shifted into larger pots. It is important that the soil in which the rooted cuttings are planted should not be too rich, as slow, stocky growth is desired. Sink the pots in a sunny, place, far enough' apart to permit the air to circulate freely about them. If they should tend to grow tall and lanky, pinch out the tip to encourage branching. Not only the zonal geraniums, which are the beautiful flower- ing ones, commonly called the• garden geraniums, but also the rose and mint geraniums and other of the delightfully scented ones may be propogated from cuttings taken during the sum- mer, Age-Old Custom —Looting Losers The trinkets in Hong Kong's shops last month were fit for a king, or a Dalai Lama, to wear. On display were old, gilded Buddhas, heavy,.6-foot-long yak- skin belts studded with silver o rn ament s, and headdresses made of .semiprecious stones. Careful scrutiny revealed the articles were genuine relics from Tibetan temples. They were the first shipments of Communist Chinese loot brought out of the conquered Himalayan land and sold in Hong Kong to earn for- eign exchange for Peking. Golf In Japan. Is 'Big Business early on a Sunday =Thing slake Kishi, a Bank president, public course southwest of Japanese Prime Minister Nobtt- a round of golf at Sengoktthara and, two politiciaps teed off for Tokyo. Hard on their heels came another foursome; The lady owner of a leading Tokyo bar, trig 'Bead'` hbstess At g fa- mous restaurant, and two popu- lar geisha girls from the exclu- sive Shimbashi [quarter — all modernly attired, in slacks and blouses, :, It used to be that Japan's favourite pastin3es, aside i. from baseball and mah - jongg, con- sisted mainly of visits to the local teahouses, where old-fa- shioned geisha girls wearing' ki- monos strum:n*1 soft imueic. Now, it seems, almost evpryone who is anyone 'in Japail plays * golf, By last month, more 'than 1 million out of,Japan's 92 . mil- lion people were playing the game, in one form or enothex. And they were spending $200 million a year to do it., The golfing b u g, like jazz, really hit Sapah during Ole U.S. occupation. Today, the E Japan- ese have 130 private clubs with initiation fees up to $4,000 and have waiting lists totalling thou- sands. Prosp e, ri n g IVIusaehi Country Club, Which opens this month, collectedt $2 milleim from 1,700 eager metrbers —1, before the first course was eve'i com- pleted. With 601 new links be- Mg laid 'out, another 100 plan- ned', the Japanese Min4try of Agricult4e is 4receiving coin- plaints that far too much! of the island's p:recioui farmland is be- ing turned over. to golf. i. For these who can't sq ueeze their 1,va.4 onto ,the greene, there are thousands l driving ranges o — nearly 200 in Tokyo alone. One —the Shinagawa — t accom- modates 150 club swinge at a time, grosses $255,000 a year. Other range's are perched in steel_cages` atop office Ibuild- ings, some at athletic fields or in vacant lots_ scattered through the city. Why open at 8 a.m., within minutes are jammed with work-bound businIssmen. Why golf? "Men don't feel like 'gentle- men unlees,,,they,, play," said one gentleman ,gelfer. "Washing ma- chines now edo our w d,r k at home," explained . a housewife duffer. Another explanation is the sha yo zoku (the business- man's expense account). Pre- war, many business transac- tions were consummated at the banquet table with the host sup- plying the geisha girls. Today's big deal more often than not is concluded at the nineteenth hole. Breast Cancer And Heredity Breast cancer, the commonest female malignancy, is not inherit- ed, and does not occur more fre- quently among relatives of breast-cancer victims than am- ong others. These are the encour- aging conclusions submitted last month by Dr. Douglas P. Murphy of the University of Pennsylvan- ia and Dr. Helen Abbey of Johns Hopkins University in a report "Cancer in Families," published by the Harvard University Press. The conclusions were the result of an eight-yeat study of some 12,000 women. For the research, two groups of Subjects were picked, one consist- ing of 200 women, 40 to 65 years of age, with breast cancer, and the other, the same number of women, of comparable age, who had never had cancer. After that, at least 12,000 relatives of the 400 women, representing two suc- ceeding generations, were inter- viewed by women field workers to check the presence of cancer of any kind in the families. The results unexpectedly showed that cancer was slightly higher among relatives of the women without cancer than in the cancer group. Pitching a Tent When Camping A little knowledge of camp lore adds much to the pleasure of tenting out, Remember these points. Don't place your camp fire too close to your tent. Avoid burning5 soft wood which throwee outlive,coals. Keep your cooking fire ,at -least a canoe length or car length from your tent, - If the sky overcast and looks like roily dig or scrape a small trench all around yoUt tent, cleee to the sides so that the water May be carried away from the tent ih case of a storm. Retneinber to slacken , off the guy relies when it starts to rain. This will save the tent pegs from being pulled out of the ground by the shrinking of the canvas and ropes. In a- Wiricisteem, ham- Mer the pegs well down acid' tighten the guy ropes. In order to ovoid your tent be- Mg ruined by mildew, make" cer- tain it is bone dry hew e 'enticing Or storing away. Canadian farmers like their independent way of life, but dis- like the uncertainty of income that goes with it. These are part of the findings of a survey carried out under Dr. Helen C. Abell, rural sociologist with the Canada Department of Agriculture. About 300 - people were interviewed in.Ontario and Alberta on what they considered to be the best and worst in rural living. • * • Explains Dr. Abell: "When theie values are expressed and carefully considered, it becomes possible to formulate plans to perpetuate and improve ,the. best things and to overcome or, if necessary, accept the worst." STEP UP — Blonde Mary High. tower del! its this year's low- ering corn of the Missouri Penne ors Assh. The best in rural living: —Closeness to nature, with plenty of fresh air and privacy. —Friendliness and neighbor- liness*of the rural community. —Increasing availability of running water, electricity and labor-saving machinery. —Economic advantages — the opportunity of owning a home and farm business, a lower cost of living and fresher food prod- ucts. —Special educational services, such as home economics and other agricultural extension courses, music festivals and an increasing number of consoli- dated schools. S. • * The 'worst? More than half of those inter- viewed mentioned economic fac- tors — including irregular, un- certain or limited income, uncer- tainty regarding crops, wether or farm labor, long working hours and hard physical labor. • • • One-half to one-fifth added: —scarcity of poor quality of community facilities (sometimes abfro_athiur)s,t. sainncitlaurdying some schools people such as self pity, lit- tle intoler- fire protection, and a lack of cultural facilities. the work involved in keeping up an old home. ance and a lack of interest and participation in community and roads, a scarcity of' medical doctors and registered nurses, the farm, particularly an in- charcteristics of some rural equality in living standards and —Certain personal or person- ality —A lack of conveniences on and objection- able environment conditions — roadside litter and garbage, flies and mosquitoes, sanitation in some rural schools and homes-. Corteurles tr. Abell: "Today more and more rural tontine's are consciously or unconsciously weighing the best and the worst in rural living to decide whether to join the flow to the cities or remain on the land as part of the small but essential farm popula- tion of Canada." * Co-operatives In Canada did it reeord-emrisiting business hest year, With the total v011ithe amounting id $1,244,55/,000 lecrease of $9t Million over the previous year, * * This was reveated in 4 report 'by the 'Economics -Division Of the Canada Department of Agri- culutre, whose .officials tabulated figures submitted by min co* operatives across the. nation. Co-.operatives marketed. about 33 per cent of all agricultural products entering commercial trade in Canada last year. — the highest proportion since 1953, An overall increase in the sales "VOI- pme of co-operative merchan- dise, farm supplies and ,commo- dities was reported in 1958„ # A significant development is the. fact that marketing co-op- eratives did a $895 million busi- ness, the highest on record and $77.7 million more than in 1951. All provinces shared in this in- crease, The previous high was in 1953, when a carry-over from the 1952wheat crop was market- ed, Reporting to the Economics Division were marketing, pur- chasing, fishermen's and ser- vice co-operatives. Estimated total membership is 1,592,000, Service co-operatives include: housing, rural electrification, medical insurance,. transporta- tion, recreation facilities, tele- phone, custom grinding, seed cleaning, restaurants, boarding houses and miscellaneous, • There are fishermen's co- operatives in all provinces ex- cept Alberta and Manitoba. Saskatchewan, which boasts of its wheat growing, has an ace tive fishermen's co-op whose. members carry on a thriving business in the Reindeer Lake district. 4, The The ten co-operative whole- sales operating in Canada last year reported a gain of $31 mil- lion to reach a total of $250 mil- lion in sales of supplies and farm products, Of this amount, sup- plies accounted for $138 million. Flour, feed and fertilizer made up 37 per cent of the sales, with gas, oil and automobile supplies in second place in importance. Marketing of farm products as reported by wholesale co-ops reached $112 million — an in- crease of $18 million over the 1957 figure. The largest items handled were livestock and live- stock products (54 per cent) and dairy products (30 per cent). About Those Rattlesnakes There have-been two venom- ous snakes found in Southern Ontario. The. Timber Rattler, found in the Niagara Gorge, is nearly extinct and the Massas- sauga, found in the Georgian Bay area and the Bruce Penin- sula region. The Massassauga is a thick-bodied snake, 21/2 to 3 feet long with dark blotches down its back and like all, snakes of this species has a rattle.on the end of its tail. In Ontario the odds are a mil- lion to one against getting a snake bite, yet it is wise to take precautions. The first of these is to learn,, to recognize the Massas- sauga Rattler and to leave it alone. When in rattlesanke coun- try, watch where you walk and if the terrain is reedy, bushy or rocky, so that a snake might be concealed, wear protective cloth- ing, heavy leather shoes, socks and long pants 'or-jeans. Do not kneel or sit on the ground. E. B. S. Logier, Hematologist, in his book "Snakes of Ontario" gives the following first-aid pro- cedure for snake bite: 1. Immediately use a tourniquet to prevent the spyeading of poison. 2. Make an incision at the snake bite and suck out the poison:' 3.13y: all means, 'do not give the patient alcohol. 4. See a doctor as soon as pos- sible. Britons bought nearly 261 million pounds of tobacco pro- ducts in 1958, a sign of good times, with "Melees, to burn," In '57, some 256 million pounds of tobacco' went up in Smoke, were chewed or, taken, as snuff. UNDAY SCH001 LESSON ftev R, 134rclaY Wanes 841). God's Steadfast Love Xoamentations 3:2g.26, 31-40 IKemory Selection; It Is of the Lord's mercies that we are net consumed, because his compas sions fail not. bamentationS 3:224 The city of Jerusalem fell to the invader, Nebuchadnezzar, head of the Babylonian Empire. Jeremiah, the prophet, had fore- seen this evil day and had given warning. The King of Judah burned his writings, Jeremiah wrote arein. He was cast into a dungeon because he brought a message of doom to these sinful people. The Book of Lamentations is a lament over the fallen city, But there are shafts of light in this book, too. The memory selection is followed by the words, "They are new every morning: great is thy faithful- ness," From, these words Thomas .Chisholm caught in- spiration for his well known hymn, "Great is Thy Faithful- ness." The Book of Lamentations has its counterpart in the world today. Listen to the refugees; some because of their illness have not been accepted in a new land; others, fairly con- tented, have the memory of oppression, suffering and the slaughter of their loved ones. This week I have been visit- ing in hospitals, an Ontario Hospital and a penitentiary. Here, too, we hear lamenta- tions. Some are suffering be- cause they deliberately ig- nored God's holy command- ments. They are learning too late the significance of the warning, "Be not decieved; God is not mocked; for what- soever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Here is one who cracked under the tension of an unhappy home. "Oh, no, it wasn't all her fault." He ad- mits that. God was left out of their lives and their children set against the church. The men in the penitentiary do their best to appear light hearted before the others. They smile and crack jokes. But when talking alone with the coun- sellor the lament comes forth. "The wasted years! I'm deter- mined to leave the drink alone when I step into freedom in three months. It was my down- fall." And one doesn't need go to these institutions to hear laments. They can be heard in the homes of the poor and the rich. The world still has its lamen- tations. The reading of this book will help us to understand them better. We can point them to God's steadfast love. 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