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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1948-10-13, Page 3�GPEEN MUNE • /,Gor'don5nuth With outdoor gardt'uiug about finished for the Season, Hoary are starting to gel busy with repotting they hoose planta, and a few words 0. about proper me- thods of doing so might not be amiss; and right at the beginning It might be web to say that repotting of a n y plants should he done when the plant needs it, and not ac- cording to the calendar. In other words some plants will not nerd repotting for years; others almost every twelve months. If the soil in the pot seems to be hard - packed, or if a rootlet should be hanging out the hole at the bottom, the chances are that it requires such attention. Tap the pot all around and on the bottom until the plant and Its soil curve out intact. Take off the outer part of the wood, and if the plant is pot-bound trim the roots all around, and if necessary reduce them by one-third, loosening up those remaining. * * * Whether you use the same pot or a larger one, it should be clean and have pieces of broken pot at the bottom for drainage purposes. Fill it about a third to a half with soil, then set in the plant, arranging the roots naturally. Fill in the rest of the soil gradually, joggling the pot at intervals to shake the soil all through the roots. Press it with the thumbs, or in case of hard -rooted plants with a stick, leaving room at the top for watering, Be Sure you don't leave any empty spaces among the roots. * * * Plants either newly potted or re- potted should be watered only mod- erately and left in the shade until their appearance tells you that they have become used to their new sur- roundings. And it might be a good idea to look around for some young, bushy annuals—such as marigolds, petunias and verbenas—for bringing into the house. Pot these up now; keep them outside or on the veran- dah for a while, unless there is too great danger of frost -nip; then bring them inside and they should bloom for several weeks. * * * For potting most house plants this mixture is recommended; 1 part each of leaf mold and sharp sand; 2 parts loam?; / part dried cow man- ure; and a 5 -inch flowerpotfull of bone meal added to each bushel of the mixture. For potting rooted cut- tings taken from sand you can use, with good results, 1 part loans, 2 parts sharp sand, 1 part leaf mold or peat moss, the latter for acid -loving plants. * * * This is the time of year when the temptation to burn fallen leaves, also pulled -out plants and stalks, is very strong. But doing so is a real waste of valuable garden material, and all should go into the compost -heat. Proper composting of waste mate- rial such as grass clippings, weeds, leaves and roadside cuttings gives you an excellent natural fertilizer which will be an important factor in making your garden more produc- tive in future. * * * But it is well not to use compost until it is properly rotted, and this will take from 12 to 18 months, For instance a pile started this summer and completed this fall should be turned over twice during the winter. Then it should be ready for use in the fall of 1949. That seems a long distance away, right now; but the years have a way of slipping by much faster than we realize. Learning How The Human Body Is Built—Recently opened in the old Normal School building the new Ryerson Institute of Technology will function as the province's only poly - technical school for students above high school level who are unable to take regular university courses. Above, Miss J. F. Young, R.N. explains human bone structure to a student taking the nurses' aid course. : ot The Master Mind By G. A. HEiNTZMAN Sam Shapiro was down to his last two bits. As he walked away from the poolhall he tilted his hat down over one eye and muttered unkind words about all poolplayers and their descendants down to the third generation. Into Sam's fertile mind came the 64 -dollar question: How was he going to hoist the two bits into a decent roll? Sant didn't know exactly, Yet somehow he had always managed to stay in the dough, right from the days when he used to shoot marbles with the boys until later in life when he graduated to the poolroom. Sam attributed his success to his great ideas. He also held the firm opinion that everything in this world was a racket. Saul pushed up his hat and scratched Ins noggin. Idea No. 1 was to drop over to Joe's lunch room and meditate on ways and means. Idea No. 2 was to put what- ever he ate on the cuff. Sant smiled. He took the quarter from his pocket and began flipping it in the air. Just as he passed the Banker's Trust building he missed a catch and the coin fell. Before he could recover it a strange hand darted out from one side and picked it up. Sam turned quickly and saw a pleasant -faced beggar with a tin cup, sitting on the bank steps. "You missed the cup, sir," the beggar said SIDE GLANCES 'ptiE1•eRtPYloN6 , 1 By Galbraith +Ff X90 *0e11,.,144600 IA ar101Or, INC. T. M. ata.. ..a. par, Ors, "Why do you have a drug store sig .& you do not carry saad- wiches and salads?" smilingly, "but I don't mind reach- ing—not for a quarter." Sam's eyes popped. He stared at the quarter. Only a fool would try to snatch two -bits from a beggar's tin cup an a busy street He wished it was dark. Sam scratched his noggin but all was quiet. The beggar's cheery voice spoke again. "You seem to be thinking, son," he said. "Will you tell me your name?" "Sarn Shapiro," Sam snapped. He hadn't thought of an angle on how to get his quarter back. He was road. "Sam Shapiro is a nice name." There was a strange quality about the beggar's voice. But Sam was not one to appraise matters like that. He even failed to notice that the beggar had produced a check book Sam was mad. He hadn't though of an angle. and fountain pen and had started to write. He tore off a check made out to Sam Shapiro, $100. He handed it to Sam. "Don't ask ole the reason, son," he said. "Just walk into the bank and cash it. It's good," San took a squint at the check and his eye riveted on the signa- ture. He saw idea No. 3 right there in that signature. Everybody knew that E. Wilson Dodds was president of Banker's Trust. And already Sam could see Mr. Dodd's face when he informed him that a screwball beg- gar was outside handing out checks with Mr. Dodds' signature. It should be good for a five-spot at least. Inside the bank, Sam stepped u to a cage marked "Paying Tellers' and held out the check significantly: "I'd like to see Mr. Dodds about this." "Mr. Dodds is out," said the tell- er. He took the check with a courte- ous smile. "It won't be necessary to see Mr, Dodds about this," he said, "If you can identify yourself I'll cash this for you." Sam gasped. He couldn't figure out the game. Nevertheless they weren't going to catch him napping, "I'm not going to cash this check, pal," he said, "I'm only trying to inform you that there is a screwball outside writing out checks with Mr, Dodd's signature on then?." The teller laughed out loud, "It's quite, all right, sir: That was Mr, Dodds! He often wondered if there was such a thing as charity in this modern' world. So today he put on that disguise and decided to give $100 to the first ten people to have pity on hien , , Anil let urs con- gratulate you, sirs Yon are eat ?lest Orson to eash a chew-," TIIEARM FRONT Jahr, dr In large twills that manufacture commercial stock feeds, the grain, before It enters the grinding ma- chinery, usually has to pass under suspended horizontal magnets; and it would really surprise most folks how many metallic objects are col- lected in this way. And while sim- ilar procedure is hardly practical on the average farm, great care should be talon to make sure that such ob- jects do not get into the feed for livestock. * * Both in Canada and in the United States there are large numbers of cases where cattle have died sudden- ly on farms and in feed lots, and where pest mortem examination showed that such things as nails or bits of wire had entered the heart, Meat packing houses on both sides of the line also report consider- able damage from the same source discovered after slaughter. It is impossible to estimate accurately what the losses must be from such injuries, but if it were it is certain the figures would point to the need for greater care both on the farms and while the animals are in transit. * * * Labor saving devices are becom- ing increasingly common in farm operations and one such device more and more commonly used is the automatic hay and straw baler of the pickup type. Then in many commercial feed lots the hay and straw used is purchased in haled form, and practically alt the bales are tied with wire. Post mortem evidence indicates the need for extra precautions to make sure that the short ends of the wire do not be- come nosed with the feeds. * * * The waste of finished meat prod- ucts, proceeding from condemnation df livers, hearts, tongues and so forth, is only a small part of the ac- tual loss from such causes. Cattle with digestive disturbances or other internal ailments resulting from swallowing pieces of metal or other foreign bodies, cannot make good growth, nor can milk cows so handi- capped produce as they should. * * * Death loss among farm animals, brought about in this way is un- doubtedly very high, and it is up to every forward-looking farmer to try and cut down the toll. A com- mon sylnpton of pain in the animal is head stretched forward and back arched—or when the animal is seen to lie down and get up again almost immediately. But when these are observed it is usually, too late to do anything about it. The big thing is to see that your stock doesn't get a chance to swallow such death -deal- ing objects. * * t: You probably knew this already, but another warning mightn't be out of the way. It is quite possible for dangerous gases to form above silage—so dangerous that fatalities may result. For example, last fall out in Iowa a mother and two sons died in a silo because of this. One boy tried to save the other, then the mother attempted to rescue the sons —but all three perished. To prevent such tragedies, as fast as the silage settles, doors should be taken out so that the gas can es- cape. If it is necessary to go into a silo, test conditions with a lighted lantern first. If it continues to burn, you are probably safe, * * * You don't need to be a poultry raiser on anything like a wholesale scale to know that water piped to the poultry house saves a heap of labor. But it also saves a lot of feed by keeping the hems from getting thirsty. That's because a hen needs at leant two pounds of water for each pound of food consumed. * * * And here, just for a laugh, is HOT- Are you going thru tho functionae'middlo• ago' period peculiar to women (38-52 yrs.)? Does this make you suffer from hot dashes; fool so nervous, high-strung, tired? Then no try Lydia D. Piukham'a Vegetable Com+ pound toreileveauch aymptemal Plnkhom'e Compound also has what Doctors call a stomachic tonic effect) LYDIA E. PJNKIIAMI'S ‘c71411 something called "The Song of the Lazy Fanner" and I'm only sorry that I can't tell you the name of the author. It goes like this: "Whene'er my corns begin to pain, thus indtcatin' it will rain, then 1 enjoy my misery 'cause I can loaf some more, by gee. When raindrops fall I cannot go outside to plow or even hoe; the wife cannot complain a bit or tell me to git up and git. She hates it, but leaves me alone, and so my time is all my own; at least that's how it's worked to date, of course there's no use pushin' fate, it's possible if I should stay in her sight on a rainy day, she'd think up some obnoxious thing that 1 would have to do, by jing. * , * "So when the rain begins to fall, I never hang around at alt; I get some place where I can lay and pass some pleasant time away. My fav - 'rite spot is in the mow, there's nothing quite so nice somehow, as restin' on the hay up there and watchin' drops fall through the air. I love that sweet alfalfa smell, and that of fallin' rain as well; It's never long until my eyes get heavy as the stormy skies, then I crawl back into the gloom, where it is dark with lots of room, and stretch out there upon the hay and soundly snooze most of the day." Skirts, Maybe—Chester Klos, five, of. Galt, Ont, is decidely interested in the kilt worn by Pipe Major J. A. Ward of the Highland Light Infantry pipe hand. It's an age-old, world- wide curiosity. Frogs do not drink water by mouth — they absorb it through their skins. ',TEST YOUR 1 Q. Natural History Quiz here's a Natural history Quiz, and you should know most of the answers without looking at the cor- rect ones which appear upside down below. Make a stab at then anyway before taking a peek. 1. What bird is fanged for lay - Ing her eggs in other bird's nests? 2 How many toes has a horse? 3. Does a firefly give off heat? 4. Do coffee beans grow in pods? 5. What color are the eggs al canaries? 6, Do bats have feathers? 7. Is there sand under the deep- est part of the ocean? 8. What modern creature—ani- mal, bird or reptile—has the longest life span? 9. How many toes has an ostrich? 10. In proportion to its size what living creature has the largest brain? 11. Can you tell a rattlesnake's age by the number of rings on Its tail? 12. Is the spider an insect? 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