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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1948-9-15, Page 3/. j GOrdot.Satith. If you want spring flowering bulbs—and what gardener doesn't? --you'd best get then into the ground right away, That gives them a chance to become es- tablished before the freeze up. Both to pro- tect the plants, and to provide food for them, it is recommend- ed that they be mulched with well rotted manure after the ground has frozen. This is highly Impor- tant, especially so where there is little winter protection from snow, When the danger of frost has gone in the spring, this winter covering should he removed and dug into the soil. * * * There are many plants, as per- haps I've written before, that bene- fit by being moved to new soil, or by having their roots divided when they have become too big, Michael- mas daisies, for example, should be divided and moved at least every• other year. Phlox can be left for four or five years if the soil is rich, but should then be divided and moved, while iris clumps should be lifted, and all the dead parts re- moval, when their centres get emp- ty, * * * (ledges or forsythia bushes are favorite spots for hornets to start building their papery gray nests, and it can be quite startling to conte across such a nest when working around such locations. A DD'r aerosol bomb will usual- ly put an end to the constant flight of the hornets to and from their nests; but it is just•as well to wait and use it at dusk, when there isn't so much activity of the insects, * * :o Another and simpler method of destruction is to slip a pail of water underneath the hanging hornet nest, then raise it till the whole thing is immersed. There is no guarantee, however, that another bunch of hornets won't start a home the next day just a few feet away from the one that was destroyed. * * * The same type of borer which spoils so notch of the sweet corn crop may also attack some of your flowering plants, such as zinnias and dahlias. DDT dust will do a lot to protect any such plants in whose stents borers are apt to take refuge; but the best way of combatting them for the future depends on your yearly garden "clean-up." * * * If corn stalks are pulled up after the crop has been gathered and they -as well as other plants with hollow stems—are destroyed, you'll be bothered with fewer borers next vear. • * * Still another sort of borer does much damage every year to 'peach trees, and may attack the cherries and plums. These pests usually start on the trunk near the soil .surface, and leave gummy masses as a clue to their being there. Some time in September, while the soil is still. warns, paradichloro- benzine crystals may be spread in a circle about an inch from the trunk, Only one ounce should be used for trees six years or older, half an ounce for three years. An overdose may easily hurt the peach trees, After the crystals are sprin- kled the soil is then piled up over them and against the trunk as high at the borers' holes. The crystals can be removed in about a month. Heading Leftward What the Canadian people should clearly understand, says the Win- nipeg Free Press, is that the CCF does not propose to commit Can- ada to a reform of our existing system, or surely to the semi - socialism of Britain, but to total socialism, to direct Government ownership or indirect Government control of everything—to a system, in fact, which has never been at- tempted. in any free country, at any limo, in any place, As usual, the CCF insists that the sector of private enterprise that escapes the Socialist axe at the first stroke will be left to pur- stre• its owls way, provided it 11111C - tions in the general good (as de- lei-inflict] e-terutitec ] by the Government), But the program of socialism is so wide, and the program of indirect Government control so unlimited that in truth no actually free sys- tem of enterprise ise could survive. All basin . toopagers and all workers woui(I be under Govern- ment dincc i u, 11 the CCF lints !s dt'i,ing left- ward day by day, and has entirely lost its originai complexion as a va,rite protest group time reason is not difficult to identify. Starling mainly a, the organ of depressed farmers in tate West, the CCF has become step by stop the organ of urban trade unions. Tli FARM F ! ONT Could Have Used Some of It Around.Here—More than a thousand square miles in Scotland and the north of England have been recently covered With floods following torrential rain storms, Many marooned families have had to be rescued from- their homes, railways were put out of action, river banks crumbled and ripening crops ruined. Coastguards were rushed inland with life-saving apparatus—and some of thele are shown here helping to assist a 73 - year -old woman from her home in P,erwickshire. Her husband, who is 76, was rescued by the same party. It's been a quiet house this week- end. On Friday Cicely went to Niagara Falls; Sunday Bob was off to Toronto and Johnny, as you niay remember, is westward bound. The last we heard of him he was in Winnipeg—and still travelling. So the week -end has been quiet but the preceding days have been anything but! We had hardly turn- ed around from our first threshing before the machine was back for a second go. Unexpectedly, of course. Stook threshing was in progress on another farm when it named so the 'threshers headed for the nearest farm where threshing might be needed. That happened to be here. It was five o'clock when we got word they were coming. Did we put on a spurt! I just about. went on two wheels around the corners Of course we managed our rush - on my way to town for supplies. order dinner all right and although we were through threshing by two o'clocic yet we had the sten for supper because the machine only moved across the road to our bache- lor neighbour and I offered to put up supper for his men too. After all when one has prepared one meal 11 isn't Hutch more work to do two—and I did have Cicely to help, Thursday we had invited two elderly ladies out for the day. I was just getting ready to go for them when a friend phoned from Guelph that site was coming down by bus that afternoon and would stay overnight. Her visit was the outcome of a standing invitation. Answer to Last Week's Puzzle ASP .'R I P DOSES MYA'EIAVA OVULE 'AL T;"'PYROMANIA SPRIT io? L A I R ;,< ,,`: SHOD (s' ARN 'xr=L O ,V ABODE GALL r',tATONED OBESE P I E R S ' TAD N E ► '"": A C I -I E 5TO ''.:AX I OM ONTE STE D'.'.ORE ANE AR ERAa°U511 t'EERS;dR1lel 5ER On Friday there was a threshing for Bob to go to; my friend to be taken to the nearest highway to catch a return bus to Guelph; a crate of eggs to get ready and to ship, and Cicely to be taken to Niagara. Of course Cicely could have gone on the bus but we had planned that I would go with her and Bob would drive us. Partner insisted that we go on with our plans and he would do the after- noon threshing. I didn't like the idea of leaving hint to it—but oh, that man—he can be stubborn! We' saw Niiegara Falls for aboat ten minutes and it was more beau- tiful than I had ever seen it before. There was more green above the falls—shrubs or brush of some kind which nude the Falls a richer green in colour. The water was very low so naturally there was less spray. As we watched suddenly there ap- peared a beautiful rainbow over the tumbling water—sty first view of a rainbow at the Falls. It was really something to remember. Much, ntuclt nicer than the artificial illum- inations. Saturday the weather had cleared and my two men were drawing in oats and working late. Because they were late, milking was late, supper was late --- everything was late. But so it goes, Its between our joy rides and our big jobs we had a little job — a horrid, repulsive little job. And that was hunting tomato worsts. Just before we threshed I found one of these horrid, fat green things but I didn't think much about it because any time we have grown tomatoes I have found 0114,;. or perhaps two, but no more. Well, the next time I looked at the plants I found to my horror that,.nany of the vines had been stripped of their leaves. Then the hunt began and on our fifty plants we picked off no less than eighteen worms. Never having grown tomatoes extensively we know little ab(btt these pests—how they come' or what steps should be taken to keep them tinder control. But now I want to know alt about them and how to deal with them. .There are things I would like to know about toma- P ZZL A.dROSS 04. Join time eolork - 1..anow I;jb;FvN 7 S�ttntortalned 1. DSs?lt1l'sltes 53, Inset gg itietnine i, Wish 3. Anent $, 3iztst 4, Greenland 0, Iilgyptlan tote goddess 3. ridser! ,,need 1;7. Bo Indebted 5, warming k8. About 10. least Indian 1 3 4 r,4•:s 7 0 9 10 II 12 fabrto 01(,'lap 0, . Appotnttnont 05. 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For thresh- ing I bought a basket of tomatoes and they were hardly fit to use— yellow at the top and tough and white inside.. What we get from the' garden now are first, meaty, and red right through. It is truly maddening These days that so often we have to pay exorb- itant prices for inferior goods. Why is it, when we have inspectors for this and inspectors for that? Every- thing we sell is graded without mercy. Could is he there is one standard for the producer and an- other for consumer? In which case where does all the good staff go? No Place to Go—In spite of the smile on his face fottr year old Gaston Lalonde is homeless— unless, in the meantime, the Montreal children's court has found Rini one. When his par- ents separated shortly after his birth Gaston was taken in charge by a garage mechanic. Tiring of the job the latter took the little lad- for a walk, gave him a nickel for a cone, then walked out of his life. Goodbye Maple Tree? A forestry expert in Southwestern Ontario has warned that the stately hard staple is dying out. He fore- casts that, in another few years, the tree will be as extinct as the pas- senger pigeon. The causes are man- ifold, but chief among them are mis- management of the farm, woodlot and the increase of disease that 'attacks the tree. Southern Ontario has already lost the chestnut tree which was a distinctive feature of its landscape a generation ago, and the New England elm is on the way out. Just Slang "What docs this expression 'Sez you' mean?" asked the judge. The clerk of the court replied: "My lord, it appears that thls is a slang expression of American ori- gin which has gained regrettable currency in the language of our people through the insidious agency of the cinema, and is, I and led to understand, employed to indicate a state of dubiety in the mind of the speaker as to the veracity or . credibility of a statement made to hint." "Oh, yeah l" said the judge. Most farmers lenow the value of limestone for ".stveclening" certain types of soil; but there may be many who are nu4 aware that re- sults from listing depend to a large extent on the quality of the limestone that is use,!. Some varie- ties may rue as high as 10 per cent moisture content, ethers not more than 3 or 4 per cent, And it ;Lauds to reason that a ratan who burs the former variety is paying good money for a whole lot of water. * * * Fineness of grind is something else that should be checked. Coarse limestone releases its benefits to the soil very slowly. For example, recent tests have shown that lime - sone that won't go through a four - mesh sieve—tlfat is four spaces per inch— won't do any good in less than three years, whereas the kind that will pass through a 50 -mesh sieve is 100 per cent available with- in a sitnilar period. * * * A question often asked, especial- ly by those who have installed sep- tic tattles fairly recently, is whether there is any danger in running into such tanks soapy water, or water is which cleaning fluids have been dis- solved. The answer is that ordinary.mitd soaps, or any of the new "detergent cleaners" are not likely to cause any trouble. But care should be taken with the use of strong caustics or disinfectants, as the useful bacteria which work in the septic tanks are even more easily destroyed than harmful germs. * * * So great care should be taken about the use of concentrated lye, chlorine solutions, chloride of lime, carbolic acid and other strong disinfectants. Water in which any of these has been used should go some place other than into your septic tank. * * * It has been estimated that the livestock industry in Canada and the United States is being robbed of up to one hundred and fifty million dollars a year—and not by packing plants, price controls, lack of price controls, or anything of the sort. The robbers referred to are internal livestock parasites. * * * Such parasites, according to ex- pert veterinarians, can be controll- ed — carbon disulfide, hexachlore- thane, sodium fluoride and pheno- thiazine being some of the chem- icals used to fight various types Of the pests. But it's just as welt not to fool around with such things "on your own." Better consult a vet and find out from him which parasites are causing damage, and what is the best method of treat- ment. * * * Mice can do plenty of damage' to a young orchard, as no doubt plenty of you have learned to your sorrow. Three thicknesses of heavy, oiled wrapping paper tied around the young trunks with two or three pieces of string is a simple but effective method of giv- ing them protection. This was proved by sit orchar- ist out on the west coast. Last year he didn't get around to wrap- ping 2% acres of young pear trees —and in the spring he had to re- plant nearly half of that area. But Roy7/0 on five and a half acres—store than 800 trees— that were wrapped, only twenty trees were damaged by mice. * * * Most lovers of cowboy stories, and those who like movies of the "Wild West" type, know that "maverick" is the name given to unbranded cattle. But perhaps you didn't know that the name was de- rived from an actual person—Sam- uel A. Maverick, a Texas politician and cattleman. * * * The tale goes that many years ago Texas cattle-raisers,—tired of "rustling" and the resulting feuds and shootings—decided that each of them would brand his cattle with some distinctive mark, thus doing away with disputes over ownership. So they alt picked out their 'brands," which were registered -- all, that is to say, except one, * * * This was Maverick who said, "Now that all yott fellows have settled on your brands, there isn't any settee in me getting one --I'll just let mine run the ranges un- marked." Which, to the rest of then!, seemed like a fair enough idea—for a while and for nine years the cow punchers, when they came across $ome unbranded beasts, would say, "Olt, those are Mave- ricks," * * * But as time went on those un- suspecting westerners began to real- ize that the herds owned by the wily Mr. Maverick were increasing in numbers at a far greater rate than any of theirs, So at last they clatnped down on the nifty little scheme, and insisted that Maverick get a distinctivelaying brand olt is own, and stop claimtoall the cattle which had happened to escape the annual roundup. But the name has stuck—although no longer with a capital "M." Harnessing of dogs is forbidden in England, but they are used in Belgium to pull small milk carte. Youth prevents disaster stops runaway horse WINS DOW AWARD J1 -•;°' LEAN -PAUL ST. PIERRE OF MONTREAL shows unusual courage in spectacular rescue of child from ice wagon The little boy, waiting alone on the seat of the ice wagon, was not prepared for the sudden jolt which threw him off his balance. The horse, frightened by a truck, had reared and started to charge madly down the street. Several pedestrians tried to stop the runaway animal .. . and cars screeched to a stop when the careening ice wagon reached busy intersections. JUMPS ON WAGON 1,7 -year-old Jean-Paul St. Pierre saw the plight of the youngster and acted quickly. Running out on the street, he jumped on the wagon and grabbed the reins so firmly that they broke, throwing him into the ice blocks behind Back on his feet, he told the child to hold on, and then leaped onto the horse's back. The plunging animal tried to throw him, but St. Pierre helti on grimly . finally working his way Ito the neck of the horse and grabbing the bit with both hands .. . bringing the animal at last to a halt. The heroic action of 17 -year. old Jean-Paul• St. Pierre, of Montreal, undoubtedly saved the life of the stranded child as well as the lives of many in the path of that wild race. We are proud to pay him tribute through the presentation of The Dow Award. 1' firings quick relief. Greaseless, fest-drying no strong odor. Economical sixo 65c. THE DOW AWARD is a citation for outstanding hero, ient and includes, as 4 tangible expression o appreciation, 4 $eoo Cana a Saohtgs Bond. Winners are selected by the Dote Award Committee, a group of editors of leading Canadian newspapers, Seeing the danger to the child as wdill as to the pedestrians on the bus, street, 17.year-old Jean-Paul 8,. Pierre ran out and leaped onto tile wagon. Grabbing the reins, be tugged at them with all his strength, in an effort to check the horse. But the reins snapped—and St. Pierre fell back among the ice blocks. .hone and Hank AW, LEAVE ME ALONEP PLA' WITH SOMETHING ELSE...PLA`1 Wft!1 YOUR TEDDY 4t v��