The Brussels Post, 1925-4-22, Page 2M
THE KITCHEN GARDEN CLUB
BY LOIS E, BRANDON,
I was admiring the garden- of the
friend I was visiting in a little town
in Omitted Ontario. The garden; in
an Weal location as far as sunehine
and rich earth were concerned, was
well worth admiring, for it was a and these varieties are used, Occasion-
garden as wall planned and cared for ally changes aro made and each mem-
art arty I have aver seen, and there bez• tries one new varietyof acme vege-
table each year as a test,"
"But surely they do not ail carefor
the same varieties:"
"No. The, club has selected and
agreed upon certain early and late
varieties of the different vegetables
was the greatest abundance of a large
variety of vegetables:
"We never will eat all that lettuce
and those radishes," my friend ex
claimed, "Ido wish I knew of some-
one who could use them."
"Why don't ,you dispose tie them Two ounces of powdered alum, one
'through yotir kitchen garden' club?" Quart of strong vinegar, •Bail the
I asked, for the moment forgetting I vinegar, add the alum, stir until die -
wee Sat talking to the aunt who had solved and apply hot,
been niy hostess the weep before, To make an off floor -mop, cut old
"The kitchen garden club? I have stocking legs into strips one inch wide,
never heard of such an organization," Fasten to a strip of firth cloth and at -
she exclaimed, tech to a broom -handle or clamp mop -
"Then you shall hear of one right handle, Saturate in a solution made
now." And I boon telling -her of the'by mixing one-half cupful of melted
club to which my auntie belonged and paraffin with one-baif cupful of kers
which I had attended as her guest: losenebox, aeBali tight oand
k arehighlyin
They organized as any other club, inflammable.
and their membership includes all the To clean hardwood floors, use the
ladies who have or are interested in a•following mixture:
'kitchen garden. They meet once n : One quart of boiling water,- thio
week and discuss various garden top- ,tablespoonfuls of boiled linseed -oil, one
e.
its, study helpful bulletins and maga tablespoonful of turpentine.
sines and tall incidents of actual ex-. For linoleum, use the hardwood
perience, things they have learned or •' cleanser given above, for a special
themselves
discovered by' trying new methods cleansing. To restore the surface, use
but the thingthat distinguishes this
quarter poundo beeswax over hot
kitchen garden club and makes it water.uStir in one pint ofe A tureen-
kitchen
so far 'as I have been able to tine until the mixture is like a thica
learn, is, its exchange committee. ]atter. Rub in tnoroughly with 'a
"Each .week every member of the weighted brush.
club reports to the committee any-,
thing that her garden is temporarily: Home Champions.
out of and also what she has more of We all know how interesting a con -
than her own family can use. At the • test is even for grown-ups. But did
meeting the committee reports a list' you ever try, holding a contest at
of those who are out of certain gar -1 home, a work contest? Just try it and
den vegetables and those who have you will be surprised how many
a surplus of vegetables. And so ex- things can be accomplished' in a few
changes are made. ,daps.
"The plan works the same way for1
Last spring there seemed to be so
all the members. much to be done -little things con -
"Not only the members of the club nected with housecleaning, gardening,
profit in this way but others who are'' and the like.
not members are reported by the mom -I I was wondering how I could ever
mittee and are divided with in the' get them all done when an idea occur -
same way. One old gentleman and his, red to me. I made a long list of the
wife in that town are so crippled they: different odd jobs to be done, and
cannot work in a garden, but the old tacked it up in a conspicuous place in
gentleman keeps bees and can handle: the kitchen. I explained to the family
them very nicely. All season this that the contest would last until Sat -
couple aro supplied with all the fresh1urday night and that the one doing
vegetables they can use, and that they � the greatest number of tasks would
may feel better about accepting the • receive the prize.
gifts, the club members accept a: The regular work was not to be neg-
pound of honey for each of the two lected, but these could be done at any
club dinners given by the members convenient time, and when one was
during the year. )(lone, the doer was to draw a line
Quite often there is a surplus of through it and then write his name
some vegetable which is easily grown I after
in almost any soil, and this surplus: The children fairly flew around to
from the different gardens is turned help, and there was no quarreling. over
over to the finance committee, who the work as there sometimes is. They)
sends it to a near -by city, and the were all anxious to write their names
money obtained in this way goes into as many times as possible, and by Sat -
the club treasury to be used fur ex- urday noon everything was done and
penses, as there are no membership} marked off, and all anxious to hear
dues." 'about the prize.
"Do the members exchange seed: In. this case the prize was $1.00 and
with each other too?" my friend asked. a trip to the movies, Everyone was
"Yes, indeed, and also young plants.: satisfied, but all were wanting to know
Cleaning Helps.
To clean zine sand tenet, use this
ixtulce
"Thus far it is like any other club, the following mixture: Melt one-
te f
played by vitamines, mysterious sub-
stances necessary to health and
growth particularly in children, has
led to a greater use of vegetables and
much greater care is now taken to
secure fresh vegetables than ever be-
fore. The surest supply and the only
guarantee of first quality is in the
home garden.
No one can have real peas unless be
grows them himself. The same is true
of sweet corn. These two vegetables
cannot be kept longer than four hours
after gathering and maintain their
quality. With the disappearance of
the quality of freshness some of tithe
health -giving properties of the plants
disappear. So the spring slogan
should be "Garden for Health.”—Can.
Hort. Council.
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Do a nice deed along life's way,
Plant a good tree on Arbor day.
grow , should a rope be pulled back and forth habits is through action.
return snail,•„
.e Most authorities agree at Present between the toes, as sometimes is done, One. might says that the .big puts
' TI ULITTLE LADY'S COAT.
Little lar'iee have al'Ynya wanted to
be little ladies. Vera We give an 11-;
lustration of a coat lilt* mother's, Yet, We are now at the grafting season, iidlucneed, fun• wo all.lcnuw that a'weli-J
girlish with its grownup lines, Do. and ree sorts of questions coma up as colored, well-ripe:me tipple is apt to bei
veleped in beige keshe, with darker to how to' de it 'and whet the results better In quality time a' poorly gruwn
tones for collar and cuffs anis front ;tee likely to be. Ono of the common- one; 'ana yet hero again it Would be
g P• etical and •est questions is a1 fi whether tato typo purely a matter of growth, which men bees their. every' day -life.
faciit •,mal es this eoitt . tit
dressy. Kasha, .oke many of the new, of fruit borne by the tree in wbeehj Doubtless there are many things Only now end then do they step from,
loose weaves, is washable; thus it a e tite graft Is set will influence the fruit about this matter of the'infiuetico of the way and do' something out of the
be used in the light shades for pram' borne by this graft when it finally stools on cion that we do not yet uiidor
INFLUENCE OF STOCK ON CION
OUR X T rL HABITS
Habits aro the great highway on
tical wear, and gives tt chessiet altconies into bearing, stand and seine clay we may pair off
pearance in this season of bril114ns, Will n sour apple make 1'altnan. our varieties In such a way as to in -
ordinary,
Habits are necessary. They are
great economizers of time and energy.
co.ormgs, An unlined coat made ftmn- Stu,•,; is grafted Into at less sweet? I fluanme their fruit pi'ofouitdly as to Men wobld ;do little if they were oblig
double-faced material is another stig-, Vrill a bright red stock like ;I3nldwinlcolor, quality, anti .... n of ripenin(r— ed to think out all the little seta that
gestion. The collar comes rn two give us higher-co-ored Meintosh if we but that happy tinea has certainly not they do.
styles, as shown in the picture, and tr graft them on it; and eonversely,1yet come to ease, - But men also have developed ineffi-.
roll oiler, which is more suitable fort would Rhode Island Greening tend to, .-
Omit habits, These, prevent the die-
covering of shorter and eerhaps better
button and buttanhale, or leap made ways to the purposes of life. They
to fabric. One , orU button at feet some of its poornesk into aeplesrened or macerated by' wading in wet keep folks following precedents, re -
from the , greeted on it, and will high quality nein firth and foreign matter; such as gerdless. '
The problem of a Berson who is not
satisiled to continue a life, of routine
is to keep alive the ability to think out
and do new things. Ho must blow
fluence hue been ciaimee, but when prevalent in all old cattle -yards, and oxygen on the little spark ofinitiative
the matter is traced down it usually especially where bogs have been kept, that is within him, a
turns out that the evidence is not cons is' the ono that does most mischief. It Action fixes new habits. They can -
elusive, That is, the variety used as causes death of the tissues it infects, not be established by mere thinking,
the very little girl; Tho coat is £asteii- reduce the color of McIntosh grafted
ed at low waist-:•Ine with one large, hrto 11? Will upoor-quality tieing in -
reduce
in Cattle,
When the feet of cattle become soft -
the top fastens the coat closely about improve the quality of grafts set its it? bits of corncob, manure, straw, grass,
the neck, This coat, No. 1061 i a t� It is probably safe to say that nen earth, sand, or cinders lodge between
in sizes 6 to 14 years. Size 10
y a si of 011250 things will happen. ns sted become infected. The Illth erm
There the toes, lacerations commonly' occur
reuires 2% yards of 54 -inch material, eases where some - -
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.
Write your naive and address plain-
ly, giving number end si'ce of such pat-
terns as you want. Enclose 20c in
stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap a stock does not inject the character- and is the cause of the worst forms Neither will thinking break down old
it carefully) for each number, and $stics of its ower fruit into that borne of foot rot in both sheep and cattle, habits. Thinking is necessary to de
address your order to Pattern .Dept, by the aim , but if it influences the To prevent trouble, the feet should termino what new purpose one may
Wilson Pabiishing Co., 73 West Ade- color or quality 01 the fruit on the be cleansed weekly and whenever seen choose to follow; but the only way our
lade St,, Toronto. Orders tilled by granite is through rntlueneizig its to be foul. On no account however, nervous systems can be trained to new
April!
that-th t f ee gg •anatss Cho zuitatnon and P gne u Sri t
a two
lectors which influen for it a r oso of thea uit sal expel. en
color on apples are maturity and the induces, infection, Restrain the af- stations ie to justify good farming
The willow Svaves hat wand of. green amount of light which reaches the feeted cow in stocks or Stmnchions , if habits, and to find 'better habits to
Against en April sky,fruit. An apple will not color to any necessary tie the leg; then scrub the substitute for inefficient ones. The`
Tho mapte buds ora red and clean extent until it has reached a certain foot clean with soap and hot water, re- great -problem of the extension worker
Liken wood sprites climbing high; gr of maturity, and neither will' move all lodged objects, and cutaway is to urge farmers to discard habits
every scrap of loose or rotten horn that have gone to seed and. develop
With silken footsteps clear and Leen, rt color we..1 if e.haded,
The April' wind goes by. Therefore a fairly slow-growing- of sole or wall. When this has been more desirable ones to fill their places.
stock variety might slow down the done immerse the treated foot in hot This spring a host of farmers are
Arbutus blossoms scent the wood growth o1 the cion so that the fruit water 'containing two ounces of blue- going to plant corn without testing,
Like censers *in the air, would sooner roach the stage for take stone per' pint, hold it there for five sow spring grains without fertilizing,
As stars in woodland sisterhood. ing on color; and at the same time, by rninutea or more, and then wrap the plant potatoes and not spray, continue
Anemone -is fair, lessening the growth, would reduce foot with sterilized cotton, to be held with timothy instead of legumes sim-
He
Hepatica with velvet hood the size of the leaves so that more in place with clean bandages of un- ply because they have gotten in the
Makes carpets soft and rare. sunlight would reach the apple, bleached muslin. Afterward keep the habit -of farming after that fashion.
The stock might therefore ba said
TUb wonder -things of earth and sky to have =influenced the color of • the
Forget the mystic seven; fruit on the cion, and if the stock var-
Full thousandfold from far and nigh iety happened to be i ed the ensu who
Tho goodly gifts are given— did the grafting might feel certain
And who, when April's song is high, that this was what produced the added
Shall dream of other heaven? color, while in reality it. was purely
=John Russell McCarthy. a question of influencing - the growth
o1 the cion variety.
Tile Sunday School Lesson
APRIL 26
Stephen the First Martyr, Acts 6: 1 to_7: 60. Golden Text
Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown
of Life.— Rev. 2: 10.
ANALYSIS.
I. STEPHEN DEFENDS THE TRUE rase -
DOM OP THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION,
6: 8-15.
II. STEPFIEN DIES A 3fARTYa'S DEATH,
'7: 54-60.
INTRODUCTION—AS we have seen,
the earliest Christians continued in
the practice of Judaism, not were they
yet conscious of a gulf dividing the
new religion from the old. But soon
a man arose in whose unerring percep-
tion the logic of the new faith in Jesus
worked towards conclusions of a very
different kind. Stephen, who is first
mentioned in Acts 6.5 as one of the
Some of the members have hotbeds' when we could hold another contest,
and others cold frames and one mem-{ We have had others since, some last-
ber will plant all of her hotbed with ing only for the day and others longer,
tomato seeds, another with cabbage, the prize always being according to
another with celery, and so forth, and the amount of work done. All the
in this way have enough to supply the' contests have been enjoyed immensely.
whole club." '•--C. H. B.
Transplanting the Iris. I bluish-Iaveflder, falls white edged
The iris is not only one of. the most
with lavender. Gracchus, standards
beautiful of perennials it has the pale yellow, falls cream edged veined
other good qualities of being easily with purple and edged. with yellow,
Sappho, standards deep bluish-pu le
grown and transplanted. T PrP ,
he iris'ha
5C
been successfully transplanted at falls rich dark violet purple veined
every season of the year when the' with white near base. King of Iris,
ground is open, but some seasons are standards lemon yellow, falls brown
better than others for establishing an l with broad ofolden yellow border.
iris bed or dividing and removing? the newer varieties are:
Lord of
roots. Removing immediately after; June, Queen of May, Monsrg-
flowering is often advocated, and` nor Rheine Nixe and Ambassador:
where the ground is ready to receive]—Cant. Hort. Council.
them that season could hardly be bet-
ter. All through July nurserymen are Gardening for Health.
busy propagating for themselves and) many a man, and woman too for
sending stocks to all parts of the that matter, whose occupations keep
country to iris enthusiasts who have: them indoors, are restored earn year
proved this time the best at which to to a vigorous condition with the open-
vetablish the plants. In many gar-) mg of •he gardening sea'on• Tne stir -
dens, however, midsummer is nota ling of the sail brings with it a men -
favorable time for doing this work, be-` tal attitnne that is favorable to health,
cause it would disturb the effect of to say nothing of the physical exer•-
heds and borders, and with a plant so else in the sunshine and open air incl -
easily removed it is not worth while, dental to gardening. And then the
Early in September while the ground visions of fresh vegetables and beau -
retains summer warmth is nn excellent +i!ul flowers •give pleasure to 008 gar -
time to plant the iris. This, however,
is not so good a time for ordering new,
plants as. the stock of the best varies'
ties will be getting low in the nursery.
Irises planted in the spring, if care
is taken to see that the week is well
done, usually flower the first seaaon
as the buds are already formed in
the heart of the plant. The bloom will
not be AS fine however, as during the
next or later years.
An iris' bed should not be allowed to
remain undivided for many years.
Every three or four years a clump
should be separated and freshly :ret.
The following' are well tried varie-
tlee recommended by the Dominion
Horticulturist: . Florentine, large,
w]tita, faintly. suffused with pale
grayish -lavender, sweet scented.
Auras, very large, standards mauve,
falls deep purple, Black Prince, sten-
'dards purple, falls' very dark purple
edged with a Iighter shade. Mrs, Ii.
Darwin, siandard'a white, fella white
reticulaiee with vollet near. base,
Madam.e Chereau, standards white
deeply edged and reticulated with rich
•
dener which takes the work out of the
realm of drudgery.
The economy of the home garden
and the necessity of providing fox
ourselves so far as possible, brought
directly 'tome to us during the world
war, still endures and is reeogni-ed
in the hundreds of gardens which now
flourish where none flourished before.
There is a place for a garden in every
backyard where the sun penetrates.
The- only place unsuitable is the yard
in continual shade for plants must
have sun to flourish.
In the very small plot it is best to
grow only one or two favorite vege-
tabies'and to secure a supply of them
rather than a few samples of a great
er number. The health -giving and
preserving qualities of a freer use of
vegetables in the diet is now widely,
recognized. There has been a wide-
spread reform in our habits of feeding
since these 'facts have become time
eughly proved and demonstrated, par-
ticularly in the frequent use of green
vegetables,
The discovery of the important part
will present a rather withered ap- are recommended, Destruble climbing ue ling truck, with just a,: ninny string
pearanee as'they will •probably have roses are American Pillar and Dor beaus as I started out tritli. P^sop:e
bean in cold storage during the win nilly Perkins, pink; a, redndschon. bad their own beans Ot• didn't 001
ter. They should be either buried for aims and memo; Bxpink., red; Dr. W. beans. The gigs wouldn't even oat
a few days in moist soil, root and Van Fleet, creamy pink, These ver- them.
branch, or be soaked in water until ret es are not only all. -good bloomers That same ning ar 51r snail tried
the bark presents a freshened ap-
hitt Choy withstand the c, mate at M. to sell me 80100
evebnn:h ,8and elle ]h;a
pearance, In planting, the hole should taws but require winter protection, of talk he used sot me thinking. My
be dug large enough to allow the roots "-Can. Hort. Council, beans were just as good his brushes.
to be well spread. The tips of the I framed up a litt:c spasch about
roots sheuld be clipped eft' ns this . 1 Paint My Turkeys. the tuerits'3f green hems and t11e dif-
encourages the starting of tiny root The best of neighbors fall out when ferent waysi