The Brussels Post, 1948-3-17, Page 6THE GREEN THUMB
Or
'How Does Your Garden Grew?"
By Gordon L. Smith
Make Plans Now
'there are 1• is of things a 1(4141•
liner can do before the ground is
Steady or planting, and it ig nr,t 4
bit too earl:,
either, to sti t
looking strncnd
for damage, u.
see what silrnhe
and flowers
have conte safe-
ly through the
tt inter, to make
a note of gaps
v , . to Le replaced.
In this preparatory work, plan'
ming for '1+e coming season is the
most important and Probably the
most ple•asasit. Ago, 1 'red earn
Logue will 'help. in this will be
found important point, :desist Lana -
colour, time of blooding or,
in the ease of vegetables, time of
maturity. Remembering these fa=ts
will help prevent mistakes. $uch a=
planting small things Leftist: larger,
getting big vegetables erceeetes tea
close together, hating ,rla-hire
colour, or long intersats oh<n tt arc
is no bloom at all.
By noting carefully the lithe of
blooming or the num},e: of days to
maturity it is possible to plan and
create flower gardens that will
bloom cantin .ously until frost. and
a continuous supply of tite sery
freshest of vegetables. In both
cases in addition t using early,
medium and late varieties, it is also
advisable to plant several tinea.
say, once a little ahead of normal.
then normal, then later than nor-
mal, This will spread out vege-
tables a ,1 flowers, too.
Grass Seed Early, Too
Grass lutes cool weather. 11 it
doesn't get its start while there is
plenty of moisture in the ground
and before the sun gets too hot
new seeding will not give best re-
sults. So, just as soon as one can
walk on the ground without getting
one's shoes really muddy, is the
time to plant new 'awns or re•
pair old apes. The soil should be
worked as fine and level as possible.
It is much easier to get a lawn level
before the grass is sown than after-
wards. With new lawns work soil
thoroughly, then roll or allow to
settle and work again. Not only
does this preliminary cultivation
tend to get the ground level but it
also kills the weeds and here again
the job is easier before the lawn is
established than afterwards.
Good seed with lawns is vitally
important. For special purposes
like shady places there are
special types of grass or mixtures.
Select a day with as little wind as
possible to sow the grass seed,
and sow it both across and length-
wise. Sow plenty of seed and fer-
tilize. Thick, well-fed grass will
crowd out most weeds.
Bonanza
"Hurry;" said the auditor's wife,
"aren't attics the wont wonderful
things to have around?"
"Wes, indeed;" agreed the agree-
able man. "What did you discover
now, darling?"
"The new look," replied the hap-
py housewife, "in an old trunk."
T -I -M -B -E -R -R -R I—Because of newly -developed, process,, of
handling and marketing. hemlock—once looked on 'with disfavor
by lumbermen—is rapidly developing into a "big business"
Canada.
proposition, Here a tyre is being "topped" in Western tern
Hemlock, Once Neglected,
Now Basis Of Big Industry
Hentkc's trees hate prelatic Leen
growing M British ('olumh for as
many centuries .t. they have in ether
Canadian p -s Mere, but it nes '.ray
a few year, t„r. that %ome -Te 1, anted
how to e, n crt them into a profit-
able business.
Rich stands of Douglas fir card
cedar—tinier that produces the "lay
dirt” in the html•eriag business --
attracted all tate mention of the tim-
ber operators, and the longe l nt
plentiful hemlock was ccmphtely
overlooked. And no wonder—fee it
paid only about tite dollars tar alta;;_
sand board feet.
The story r,f the new 1erel, cli in-
dustry- in Britian Columbia lias jest
been told in pictorial form, and will
likely be corning your way on the
rural film programs now showing in
many of the counties of Ontario. T1te
story is presented in the new "news-
reel" series of the National Film
Board. entitled. "Eye \\itnest". De-
signed to !.ring information ::bout
Canadians to Canadians, the series
will be presented, one reel for every
program on the rural film circuits
from now 00.
Saw Possibilities
The sturdy hemlock, as we started
out to say, was neglected — until a
Czechoslovakian family, used to
handling this wood in their native
land, arrived in Canada some nine
years ago, the tictims of Hitler's
persecutions.
To them, the stands of hemlocks
represented a gold mine. In spite of
the gloomy headshakings of the old-
timers, they set out to market the
hemlock. They had a scent, of
eonrse, and it lay in the proper grad-
ing of the timber.
The new "hemlock family" soon
developed into a fourish:ma company.
To -day there are over 35110 employ-
ees. Wages are high, and living and
working ct nditions are excellent —
all tecattse the Czechs knew how to
make the hernia k pay. Because of
their skill the price per thousand
beard feet has risen mer frvc times
its 1939 calve.
Correct Grading
Most c.f the operations in the woods
are mechanised. Power saws, trac-
tors, cranes are to he seen in all their
operations. At the comrany. mill,
experienced graders grade the hem -
tock at all stages of its transforma-
tion into the finished product. \Vood
that is straight -grained and free of
knots is planed and left in long
lengths. It is specially "cured" so
that it can be used for interior dec-
orating as well as outside work.
Knotty wood, and wood weakened
i.y curved grains is cut up into small-
er sections of all shapes and sizes.
Intelligent research has found new
markets for these smaller and form-
erly unprofitable bits of wood. One
of the readiest markets has been the
food packing industry. The small
pieces, which have no odour, make
excellent packing cases.
The camp in which the workers and
their families live is as tip -to -date as
possible. Recreation grounds and
halls are side by side with attractive
billets. The camp even boasts a
tennis court and a moving picture
theatre.
4;k ITIAZI
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What happens to a 14,000 -foot cloud bank !then the weather -makers go to work on it is shown
in this Signal Corps photo, taken 44 minutes after the clouds had been "seeded" with dry ice.
Dark area across the center is a channel of precipitation, 1.2 miles at its widest point. Scien-
tists figure thus far they've caused more headaches than they have rain.
Weather -Makers' Biggest Headache
In the opinion of many scientists,
tip to now the various "rain -mak-
ing" experiments in different parts
of the world have been the cause of
more headaches than actual mots'
lure.
The government's "foolin' around
with God's work has been blamed
by the skeptics for the forest fires
in Maine, New York's record snow,
the hurricane in Savannah, Ga., last
fall, the high ptice elf corn and prac-
tically every other weather calm -
:jay of the past year.
A western rancher has filed a
claim for the exclusive rights toltae
the clouds above his property. Two
states are about to sue each other to
determine legal ownership of the
clouds passing over their territory.
A delegation from the Kansas State
Chamber of Commerce recently ar-
rived in Washington to demand that
a rainmaking project be set up in
their state to prevent further
drier hts. And the manager of a
southern baseball club has appealed
f• r help, claiming that a rival league
is sabotaging him by causing all
his home games to be rained out.
Those are just samples of the
storm.
?:first cf the trouble, a spokesman
far the weathermakers says, is caus-
ed by exaggerated claims made for
the possibilities of making snow.,
and rain. So far, he says, the best
they can do is cause a little rain or
snow to fall from clouds which are
just about to produce rain or snow
anyway. You can't make it rain
or snow if the proper clouds aren't
in the vicinity, he points out.
But hating gone only tbis far in
the research, the expert claims, has
stirred up enough trouble for the
future. He envisions "cloud raid-
ing" by competing farmers or com-
munities in dry areas. Seeding a
"ripe" cloud with dry Ice, plain
water or silver iodide at just the
right time could divert rain from
one district to another.
The proper rationing of clouds is
ultimately going to have to be des
tided by a Government agency, the
expert predicts.
Happy
Landings
By
wry evinlsTopllE1
aa. AS a bright afternoon, with
the sun !lashing on half a dozen
sat, that bellied in the soft itin,' on
lh• shimmering bake. Deis along
..a the getel road its his dilapidated
czar. Stanley Frsay had sad s!si"ns
el ;medlar luckless day.
These two fish poles and the clear
bus of artificial flies in the hack
aver here Ionising for new rawness --
special 'misers w'ho were s • 'the and
dcscrriuy. He enttld the! na else
ia Ise se, mel h, need those te,a poles,
1'nit lie and 31aeg'e had n., need
far any mote.
Suddenly he saw the young man.
The young man's bowed Intel and
slow snit suggested distress. Also,
;bent a hundred feet ahead, he saw
;cin.-ti„ured young lady. She was
wanting quickly. It was quite oh -
1 ,) Stanley that stencilling was
wrong. Had he really discovered a
Pair of prospects? He tante to a
grinding ]salt beside the young man.
"Hello, Want a ride? 1 got some-
thing for you!"
"Okay, what's the gag?"
Stlontc laughed. These young
peo-
ple
o-
ple nowadays! "No gag. It's an
offer, providin'—just like I said. But
first, tell inc. You're in trouble, ain't
you?"
"Could be. But that's my tti(ie.'
"Nope." The reply was abrupt.
"That's the rime, sort. Fishing. 1t'!t
heal sick hearts just like medicine
!could n wound. I knots it sounds
Crary, But there ain't a better remedy
for a situation like you'd gotten yer•
-
.self into. It's better that listrttiia' to
Tara music, or !akin' a ?calk, or plate
ride just to get away front everybody.
Most people don't knots it, but schen
they do these silly things they're just
breaking their hearts into a lot »tore
little pieces."
The young man reached for the
door handle. "This is where I get
off, mister. Guess I've taken the
wrong bus."
Stanley grabbed his arm. "Wait a
second, son. I ain't too old not to
know what I'm talkin' about, and I
ain't crazy, either. The secret is sit-
ting in the boat—the two of you, out
there on the lake."
The young man frowned. "In a
boat? The two of us?"
"You can sit acrost front each
other an brood your steads off, but
you can't run away from each other
like you're doing now. Sit tight,
son," he said, turning to the wheel.
"That's her, ain't it, welkin up
7iAtIt a.91%'
4\r,m'
Mead there? alight, in a hurry to
gat hew:. liar:"
The tail chugged aloftg. Presently,
Stades halted 0 alongside the girl.
Plenty pretty, she was, tum,
"Ilellol" said Stanley. "flop in
bark. still you?"
ifsr nes flicked to the young ntiul.
She' '.tartr l to walk ou.
"11'11 rain;" Stanley called, "You'll
get soaked to the skin. See that rain -
cloud up ahead?"
Stanley turned off toward the lake
and stopped the car. Several row-
boats were drawn up nn shore.
"'Wait here a minute, tulles," Stan-
ley said. He went to a small building
nearly., keyed open a door, and re,
htrne•i with a pair of well -polished
oars. Ito placed them in the oarlocks
of one el the boats, then went to the
car end got the two fish poles and
the Blear box of flies.
The girl stared wile -eyed. "But
I've never fished before! Anyway,
wind is this alt about? And, what
about the rein?"
Her husband clutched iter hur-
riedly l y the arm. ''Oli, don't argue
with hint, Mae, and get in that boat
before he changes his tnind. Didn't
you ever hear. that it's Lest to sat-
isfy a crazy man if you want to
keep' him happy?"
The young. matt pushed the boat
out and the girl jnntped in.
"Happy landings;" cried Stanley,
waving,
Smiling, he watehe'l them go out,
then turned, a little sadly; back to
his car. Maggie wouldn't care,
now,
that he'd given the poles away. They
had flailed with then many times
while she'd been alive. Anyway, they
might do good in the hands of that
nice, young couple.
He and Maggie, he recalled, must
have been their ages when somebody
had given them the fish poles.
Hurricane Chasing
Is Hazardous Job
For Cameraman
In it sailing vessel (or any
other ship for that matter) it
might seem plainly the part of
wisdom to bend every effort to
avoid hurricanes. However, men
have been known to literally chase
hurricanes in windjammers for the
express purpose of getting the
ship's decks swept with Iashing
waves and some of the ship's can-
vas torn to shreds by the howling
winds.
* * a•
These hurricane chasers go out
at the bidding of Hollywood mo-
tion picture studios who want ac-
tion shots of heavy weather in its
native haunts, says a writer in the
Christian Science Monitor. So, of
course, a camera crew goes along
to record the required film footage.
The life of a camera man on a
hurricane -hunting expedition may
be quite exciting. He may, if the
script requires it, be lashed to a
masthead 80 feet or more in the
air, his cancra pointing vertically
downward to get. angle shots of
deck action. As the ship rolls in
heavy seas the masthead may
swing through a 25 -foot arc, with
the result that part of the time
there is nothing but foam -flecked
water below the daring photog-
rapher.
Who Wouldn't?
There was a young man of Maur-
itius
Who used to get frightfully vitius
Whenever his spouse
R"alked out of the house
And left him to wash up the ditius.
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Noisy Fish Break
Silence of "Deep"
Piss that laugh, whistle and
stake tt clacking noise with their
teeth resembling lower plate wob-
ble are the bristles hued stars of a
movie in the utokitti•.
Tee'vtiClatns using special under -
0011* rantertts and hydrophoncs
have been recording the strange
noises for many !vee ea. !\lost fish,
the picture prow., are Pretty noisy,
and the ocean's Itptbs, referred
to in song and story its the "silent
deep' are still deep but anything
but silent.
Navy underwater li,.teuing posts
discovered during the war that fish
were aquatic magpie.. Surprised
schools of fish sometime.. cut loose
with a racket rivaling that of an
approaching enemy battle fleet.
Some of the fish in the movie,
Deep", actu-
ally='\`nice of the 1 1" esu -
ally sound as though they are
whistling. O.Iters emit laughing
noises and those with the appar-
ently lower plate wobble neverthe-
less have long and very sharp and
well anchored molars.
Bank of Canada notes, which are
legal tender, are the main source of
paper money in Canada.
Worse Luck
The ntru were dining in a grotty
iu an army vamp, discussing tory
subject that torose to pass the titre,
One of the s objects was rein-
carnation, and one of the sten was
't liens believer and was giving
Itis views to the rnrpo•al, one of
the 'met dislikccl men in the camp.
„Yes,' lie insisted, "when we
clic we always relurn its something
or someone else,"
"Rubbish!" :.napped the corpor-
al. "1Jo you nteiut to say that if 1
died 1 might come bark as a
u•nrnt i"
"Nut it hope!" put in one of the
num, seizing an opportunity.
"t ou're never the same thing
twice!"
YWJNG (--J, .
2g: Jit
OTHER
Relive dis-
tress of baby's cold while he sleeps.
Rub on Vicks VapoRub at bed-
time. Soothes, gm p� S
relievesduring r' est
night, Try it! Y A P O R U 6
an is hero
!Amman
in headon
frain cra
crash
5 DOW AWARD
ALEX TlPLER
OF NORTH BAY, ONTARIO
shows endurance and
courage in rescue work
Alex Tipler was riding in the
caboose of the freight train when
it happened. The terrific impact
of the collision, with the accom-
panying scream of steel smash-
ing against steel, sounded like an
explosion in the pre -dawn quiet.
The brakeman was thrown onto
the floor ... and for an instant
he lay, dazed and semi-conscious.
In a few seconds, however, he
was up ... and, plowing his way
along the icy stretch beside the
train, he reached the twisted
wreck of the locomotives. Extri-
cating a fellow brakeman from
the debris, he carried him back
the full length of the train to the
caboose. Then once again he
returned to the engines ... and,
in spite of a badly bruised back,
helped to get the young firemen
out of the wreckage and back to
the caboose. Then, his back
giving him great pain, Tipler
stumbled for two miles through
deep snow in the sub -zero dawn
to a small village. Here be was
able to get a message through to
the railroad headquarters about
the accident.
The courage and unselfishness
of this young brakeman merits
great praise. We are proud to
pay tribute to Alex Tipler of
North Bay, Ontario, through the
presentation of The Dow Award.
THE DOW AWARD is a
citation for outstanding hens
ism and incltules, as a tangible
expression of npprecietion, a
$coo Canada Savings Bond.
Winners are selected by the
Dow Award Committee, a
group of editors of leading
Cnnadfatt newspapers.
On a sharp curve near Cobalt the two
freights crashed head-on. In a second
the locomotives were a mass of
twisted, steaming steel. Box -cars
tumbled off the tracks like toys.
st,
Having already done pore than his
share, Alex Tipler nevertheless did
not quit. Walking two miles in the
sub -zero temperature, he summoned
more aid and sent word of the smash-
up to railway headquarters.
'JITTER
YOU CAN COME'IN NOW, eir•DONY LET DAD
CATCH YOU- I THINK HES MAD AT YOU FOR
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ARE YOOi DAD?
WITH A LEG OF CHICKEN
'AND SOME AULK WAITING
FOR MEIN THE ICE B05,
S C0utDtt'T 00 ANGRY
WIrN ANYONE'!
By Arthur Pointer