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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-6-3, Page 7LEN 1UMB OAT'clOtt alttil Something Will Grow No matter what sort of a spot we hage there are some things that will grow. In gardening one steal's much of fine,' rich loam and sunshine, and while those conditions may be ideal for "a tot of plants, there are others that actually prefer a location far less favorable. In poor dusty soil, for instance, there are, hardy flowers like portulaca, alyssum, zinnias, and many more that will make a good showing. Then the dark corners near walls or under fairly dense shades are ideal places for begonias and pansies and certain fern -like flower's that shrink away from the bright sun, Even soggy corners have their favorites and poet wind- swept rocky slope s. Rugged climates, too, are no handicap. Indeed in some northern gar- dens are grown the very finest., of vegetables and the brightest of flowers, Away up or rather down on the northern tundras in the summer time the ground is aflame with bright bloom. In any ,good Canadian seed rata- , Logue will be listed flowers and vegetables that will thrive in unusual places and it will pay to study these special 'likes if we are to do the best with unusual locations. Hot Weather Flints The wise gardener will change his methods when the days turn hot, With the lawn he will cut less frequently, and not so short, and he will usually let the clip- pings lie where they fall to form a bit of protecting mulch. In the flower and vegetable garden, even if no weeds have been allowed to grow, he will continue a light cultivation once a week or every ten days, to create what is known as a dust mulch which will peeve n,t evaporation of moisture' from the soil. Before going. on holidays it is en excellent plan to go over flower and vegetable gardens lightly with grass clippings or similar materia] to conserve' the moisture. If necessary and pos- sible one should water thorough- ly the night before the final -pre - holiday cultivation. Still Time There is still time for a show of flo*ers and a fine yield of vegetables. In fact one can go on sowing all sorts of seeds and setting out plants right up to July in many parts of Canada and still get good results. With a bit of luck in the weather, mostly inthe way of showers, growth is very rapid during the extraor- dinarly long hours of sunlight we have in June. To catch up experienced. gardeners will use a little extra -care with these late started gardens. They will make sure the soil is well cultivated and enriched where at all pos- sible with chemical fertilizer or manure. They will thin seed- lings to give them plenty of room. With certain flowers and veg- etables that require a long sea- son to bloom or mature they will use well star t ed plants, watering carefully and perhaps shading from the hot sun for a few days after they are set out. HOLLYWOOD Gad! But Hollywood is a godly town) It's 7 to 3 if you live there you have never been divorced, and 2 in 19 you have never been drunk, and 3 to 10 you don't smoke, Who's and hy's Why do dog sled drivers yell "Mush;"? It's a eor'ruption of a French word, French-Canadian drivers starting up theirteams yelled 14Iare1ons '-"Let's ga." Eng- lish-speaking drivers naturally, anglicized it; it became "Mush - on," and then just, plain "Mush: ' 4. 4, 4. Why does paper turn brown with age? It's doing a "slow burr." -the chemists Call it oxidation. When oxygen combines with 'another material at a very rapid rate - as in the gasoline engine -an exploslon..oceurs. When the rate is slower, burning, results- and when it's very slow -oxidation, as in the case ofagingpaper. Who make the best drivers - intelligent persons or morons? Morons. Traffic e x p e t, s acts that the smarter you are, the less likely you are to be s first- rate drive? You simply don't give enough attention to the business of driving. Your mind is too 'restless, forever straying off to other matters. But a moron with a mental age 01 10 to 12, once taught to drive properly will usually stick to the rules 01 good driving. He gives al) of his attention to it, 4 4 * Wily is the phrase "of the first water" used to indicate top rank? Originally, the phrase belong- ed to the gemologists. The finest and most valuable stones are colorless, and years ago, the gem experts used to test uncut stones by immersing them in water. The colorless ones natu- rally were invisible. These were called stones of the first water The ones with color in them were graded as stones of the second water, stones of the third water, and so on. C o 4 Why' does the full moon look larger on the horizon than it does overhead? Scientists have been hunting for the answer to this illusion for 20 centuries: The horizon moon should, if anything, look smaller -it's 4,000 miles or so farther away than the overhead moon. Yet it always looks bigger. Nor does the one "explanation' sci- entists have come upr with so far -that we observe the moon in relation' to familiar objects nearby -hold- water with many of their own number. The skep- tics point out that the illusion persists evenover the sear when there are no objects at all near- by. The fact is, they sadly ad- mit, there is no adequate ex planation. However, for your own amusement (and the prob- able puzzlement of your neigh- bors), here are a few simple ex periments suggested by psy- chologists at Harvard to show that the illusion is really an illusion: Try "pinching" the horizon moon between your forefinger and thumb. It imme- diately shrinks. Look at it through 'a tube, and the same thing happens. And if you're an uninhibited type, ' turn . your back, bend over, and peer at the moon through your legs. Again, it has shrunk to its "proper" size MERRY MENAGERIE "We just concentrated on TAILS Instead of EARS!" CROSSWORD PUtizit' ACROSS DOWN 1. Drool,.i, Slight taste 4. ipoedily ,1 t1'7nti,'olyo., V. Reath retort i • 1lo 12, Sick u rho ymnr 13 Youngtel i1 Oo t(1chd ' , to 11 rp n4 8C1 14 rink, . 1n a '•cooled ili. additionamariner 17, (lamed the *14248(1 18. ils Animal's t8. Anln(ur'o 4,1u11001t 71 411448490 21, Ibree004 (0b 23. Spread 18 4111' 27 bolt of 0ileray 241That theme 25Repentance 33. Age 84. Device. ifi noon hale 38 On 7 Support 22 Dna tithing 404r.1 Flrmuor "oun T 42 4.1 rue 1True 48 t entrees 4s Ont ens 48, non rtlv tlnokatl(' 20. HI 1 p5 1 h (I'd g1 hill 53. Loa float 58 VI at ole rifi ltleA 82. Dike 88. And Mit 00. Sheep 80. NNxpert 81, 1.051 0pwlor 7. Joined A. Typo Inenau1ro 5.011 (44 10. flay on 111 orris 11. Years of one's rise 18. Sill, raht•ie 18. Witty person 20, Moisten 22, Sa5nerthnn 23, Put on 24. b113 -Up 28. Pitt nlnne7 in the bunk 29. Presses 30, Spanish dean 21, Pooter 82. Net anything U. slender anuli 38. Speak 39Drown bay 22 Soak up atastleatory 44. Atelndy 13. tnlat 47. Largo receptacle 48. Stamping ferns 4A. Tier 51, Corded fabric E2, Enemy 54: Attempt 10, Afuslenl note 27. And ftrir,l Anawer Ellsewhe'e ou This Page Cheese .wills Add Food Value to Salad BY DOROTHY MADDOX WE all turn to salads when the weather gets 'war'1n. 11 salads W1' Include some form of protein such its cheese, eggs, fish or meat, they can be used as main dishes for luncheon. Here are two main -dish salads and a delicious buttermilk. cote slaw, 1 (MOT CHEESE BALLS (Makes 6 balls, about VA inches hl diameter)'. One package (3 ounces) cream cheese, Vs to 1,1y cup candy -coated puffed wheat. Form cheese into balls and roll in cereal. Serve with pineapple, orange, or other fruit salads, For an attractive salad, center 2 or 3, crispy cheese balls on lettuce or other salad greens. Arrange fruit sections in swirls around the cheese balls, BUTTERMILK COLE SLAM Shred e head of crisp cabbage very thin. Then slice thin 2 small onions, 5 or 6 stuffed green olives, and add with 10 capers to the cabbage. Salt to taste. Dressing: Use 1 teaspoon salt, pepper to taste, 1/4 teaspoon i paprika, a very little curry. powder, 1 teaspoon caper juice, 1 tea- , spoon Worcestershire sauce, and Vz cup mayonnaise. Next add just enough buttermilk to make it as thick as cream. Toss dressing and salad unfit thoroughly mixed. TOSSED MACARONI SALAD WITH BLEU -CHEESE DRESSING (Makes 6 servings) One tablespoon salt, 3 quarts boiling water, 8 ounces elbow macaroni (2 cups), '/h, medium-sized head lettuce, shredded, V4 bunch chicory, broken in pieces, 2 medium-sized tomatoes, cut in wedges, 2 tablespoons chopped onion, y3. cup chopped celery, 1 green pepper, cut in thin strips, 114 -ounce package bleu cheese, 2 tablespoons vinegar, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 1/4 cup salad oil, 1/2 teaspoon meat sauce, V4 teaspoon garlic salt, 11/2 teaspoons salt, VA teaspoon freshly ground pepper, dash paprika. Add 1 tablespoon salt to rapidly boiling water. Gradually add macaroni so that water continues to boil, Cools uncovered, stirring These crispy cheese balls will turn any kind of fruit salad into a main dish tor an attractive summer meal. occasionally, until tender. Drain in colander, Rinse with cold water and drain again, Chill. In a large salad bowl, combine chilled macaroni, lettuce, chicory, tomato wedges, onion, celery and green pepper; toss lightly but thoroughly. Chill. Crumble bleu cheese. In a small bowl, combine bleu cheese and remaining ingredients; mix thoroughly. Add bleu cheese dressing to chilled salad; mix lightly but thoroughly, lb DAY SCIIOOt, 'FF n... LESSON 81.1 Hes 14 Oarctup teurrel, 8 el. D Principles of Christian Stewardship 2 Corinthians 9 Me'mor'y Selection: Every lean according as he purposeth in his heart, so let hila give; not grudg- ingly, or of necessity, for God loveth a cheerful giver. 2 Corin- thians 9:7. `The church is often criticized because of its frequent appeals for money. But how little the church receives compared with what is spent for liquor and to- bacco! The Anglican Council for Social Service in its report to the General Synod last November estimated that the costs and loss- es of drinking in Canada for the 10 -year period was $4,586,273,000. Of this $1,922,~33,000 went to the provinces and Dominion, govern- ment as retfesittie; 'leaving a net cost to the people of $2,664,040,- 000. We believe the churches use the comparatively insignifi- cant amount which they receive for more worthwhile purposes In the instance .of our lesson Paul was appealing for a good offering for the needy Christians at Jerusalem, The poor people of Macedonia had responded most generously, They first gave themselves to the Lord. What would the church at rich Cor- inth do? Paul had predicted well of them but he sent Titus in ad- vance just'in case they had ne- glected to respond to this appeal. In his exhortation he cited the greatest example of giving: "Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he be- came poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." Someone' has suggested that there are five levels of giving. 1. The "Tip" level.- Those who give a small coin to the Lord, the same way that they tip the waitress. It is just a little 'rat- ter of appreciation for the Lord. 2, T h e Entertainment" level - those who refuse to pledge and give only when they come to church. They give as they give to a theatre, or the ball game. They give when they go. 3. The "Emotional" level- those who give only when they are emo- tionally stirred, They refuse to give when their feelings la's' hurt. They may give once or Twice a year according to feel- ings, 4. The "Promise" level - Those who pledge but neglect the promise. They never or sel- dom pay up. 5. The "Bible" level- those who give systemati- cally and proportionately. Frere Is cheerful, joyous, regular giv- ing,week by week- both to their local church needs and to the wider work of the church. Coll loves the cheerful giver. When a clothing salesman says to you, "We'll just take the shoulders in a little and peen' look like a million barks that':. propaganda, And if you be. lieve him the chances are your income is pretty low because low ine01130 groups are much more susceptible to propaganda According to the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt's' National Re- sourcesComtittea, people in low income groups are almost. even odds to be duped by propaganda The odds drop until they reach the high earning power group where the chances are almost 20 to 1 they won't believe what they hear or read when it's propaganda or ballyhoo. Blind' Spot. Spotters -Acting on the premise that color blindness is affected by abnormal conditions of the optic nerve, two William Smith College coeds, Helen Gardner, at left, and Teresa Mondy, map the color fields of professor Shelton MacLeod. They discovered color blindness is accompanied by irregularly shaped blind spots. Till, FARM FRONT jolu\Thaell A lot of folks will tell you that sheep ruin a pasture for cattle because they "Graze it down to the' roots -and below." I have always contended that more often than not the fault lies with the poorness of the pasture -or else that too many sheep are grazed for the size of it. This contention is borne out by the Department of Agricul- ture at Ottawa. Here,is their dope. A * e Pasture areas improved by re- seeding and fertilizing can be kept in good condition and better returns secured from them by grazing with mixed sheep and cattle than by sheep or cattle alone, judging by the average of seven years' resultsat the - Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa. 4 * This seven - year �experiment showed that a pasture treated with 10 tons of manure per acre every four years, and grazed with both sheep and cattle, bad a carrying capacity 23 per cent greater than an adjoining field given a similar application ot manure but grazed with sheep alone. Compared with another adjoining field of permanent pas- ture, receiving ,no' manure and grazed by sheep alone, the in- crease was 50 pert rent. On a fourth adjacent field, not immured but fertilized with 100 pounds of sulphate of ammonia per acre each year plus 300 pounds of superphosphate and 75 pounds of muriate of potash applied every four years, Mixed grazing gave an increase of 4,1 per cent over the immured field grazed with sheep alone; 6.6 per cunt over a similarly fertilized field, grazed with steers alone, and 74 per cent more than the untreated field. Each of These fields consihted of four acres. In ten's of actua' meat produced, the anti eated field showed 169 puuuds average ,yearly gain in weight by the sheep grazed on it. The manured field grazed by sheep alone pro- ducedduced a gain of 192 pound.. The S l sheep t manured field grazed1 and cattle produced a gain of 145 • n 2 r the shoe and 1 6 pounds for p pounds for the steers. The fer- tilized field produce a gain of 152 pounds for the sheep arid 185 pounds for the steers. A field given the same fertilizer treat- ment and grazed by steers alone produced a gain of 248 pounds for the steers, still below either of the mixed -grazed fields in total meat production. All gains are based on 150 days of graz- ing. e n 4 P. E. Sylvestre and S. B. Wil- liams, of the Animal Husbandry Division at the Farm, state: "Grazing with cattle and sheep resulted in a definite increase over grazing with sheep alone. This was not only due to the greater number of stock carried on that pasture but also to the higher daily gains of the lambs in the mixed -grazed fields. There . was a better utilization of the grass available. Little of the herbage was noticed going to seed in the mixed grazed fields, while there was considerable waste on that account in the fields grazed by sheep alone. Thus the mixed -grazed fields did not require clipping. The quality of tit- sward was also improved. The mixture of clovers and grasses was considered almost ideal in the mixed -grazed fields while there was little improve ment in the others. n "A certain amount of care must be exercised, however, in the proportion of sheep to cattle Three ewes and their lambs to one two-year-old steer avet ex• Celle it results." 4 0 Considerable interest has arisen in recent years in the possibilities of chemical thinning ot tree fruits, particularly apples. In vestigations are being carried on at Ottawa and at various branch stations. At Summerland the sodium salt of dinitro ortho cresol and certain hormone ma tcrials have been reasonably el fective. The standard method of applying these sprays has been with the conventional sprayer and hand spray guns. Using this method, about 1.5 pints of sodium dinitro cresolatc per 100 gallons of water are applied to the tree the full -bloom stage as a drench- ing spray. Tests have also shown that apples can be thinned jus, as effectively with concentrate its with hand sprayers, and that the amount of sodium dinitro credo late required is approximately 15 pints per acre. This, diluted with 100 gallons of water, gives an application of about two gal ]ons per tree. Using a hormone spray of alpha naphthalene acetic acid, 73 grams of hormone per acre gave satisfactory results. a v Difficulties arise, however, 01 the use of these chemicals. The dinitros are caustic and burn the floral Barts and leaves severely, while the hormone spray may cause severe distot'itinn and dwarfing of the foliage. Recent reports indicate that delayed ap- plications of hormones up to four weeks beyond the calyx stage would reduce this injury. Investigations are under way at Ottawa to determine whether delayed sprays will reduce the injuries arising f r o m these sprays, and at the same time give effective thinning` of the fruit. Results so far, indicate that with certain of the hormones, at least, delayed, spraying is a pos- sibility. The Vast Amazon The Sea River (Amazon) has eleven hundred known tributar- ies. Ten of them are larger than the Rhine. Seven are a thousand miles long. The Madeira is three thousand miles long and collects ninety tributaries of its own be- fore it joins the Amazon. Stand- ing where they join you can just make out the other shore of the Madeira but you cannot see across the Amazon. , . . Place the mouth of the Ama- zon at New York and its arms would reach up into Canada and down into Mexico and almost to California, Straighten out the kinks, and the smaller end would stretch twelve hundred miles out into the Pacific. (It seems unbelievable, but figure it• for yourself. The breadth of the con- tinent is twenty-eight hundred miles; the length of the Ama- zon, according to corrected sur- veys, a little over four thousand miles,) All Europe could be placed within the Amazon basin and have room left for half a dozen Japans. The Amazon is nut satisfied with Brazil. It 'sends its feelers far up into Bolivia, Peru, Ecua- dor, Colombia and Venezuela and the Amazon basin includes gen- erous portions of these nations. The sources of the great river are high Andean lakes only eighty . miles from the Pacific coast, - From "The Amazing Amazon," by Willard Price. ILLITERACY If you live on this planet, it's 3 to 2 you are illiterate. There are 1,200,000,000 totally illiterate people in the world. New Mercantile 'lank . Acquires Property The Mercantile Bank of Cana- da, chartered by Aet of Parlia- ment on 11/1areh 31, 1903, has ac- quired the Hanson Building, 25$ St. James Street West, as tempor- ary Head Offices and banking quarters. The bank has also bought land and buildings on the north-west corner of St. James Street and. Victoria Square, where it will erect a modern head office build- ing at a future date. The announcement •of these property purchases was made by Mr. Henri Moquette, in behalf of the Mercantile Bank's provisional directorate. The provisional Canadian dir, ectors are Senator P. H. Bouffant of Quebec, and the Messrs. Ar- thur Cross, Montreal industri- alist, and J. B. Carswell, promin- ent consulting engineer of Van- couver. The Victoria Square site, occu- pying a frontage of 177 feet on the Square and 130 feet on St, James Street, is at present occupied by several buildings, the largest of which is known as Dale House' and was formerly -the head office building of the Dominion Textile Company. When the site becomes avail- able on the expiration of leases, the first unit of the Mercantile Bank's Head Office building will. , be constructed there. Plan for this unit, and for subsequent ad- ditions which will cover the entire ground area, have been drawn by Messrs. Lawson and Betts, Archi- tects, of Montreal. During the interval before the new building is erected, the Mer- cantile Bank will utilize the Han- son Building as Head Office prem- ises, and the main banking office will open for business as soon as occupation can he secured and in- terior alterations made. The Mercantile Bank of Canada is the first bank to receive a charter from the Canadian gov- ernment since 1929. Capital for its issue of shares has mainly been subscribed by the Nationale Han- dlesbank N. V. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, of which Mr. Henri Moquette is a Managing Director. Three Canadians and two nomi- nees of -the Handlesbank will comprise the original Board of the Mercantile Bank. Mr. Moquette also announces the purchase by the 'Mercantile Bank of a property on Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver, where building operations will commence within sixty days. Other branches will subsequently be opened in principal Canadian cities. The Mercantile Bank of Canada will conduct a complete domestic banking service in Canada, and will also specialize in the Pacific trade, through the widespread facilities of Handlesbank. These facilities include branches in Japan, India, Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore, and through- out Indonesia, as well as in such Netherlands centres as Amster- dam. Rotterdam and The Hague. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking a A3 J. U a 21 0 ,1, v d Mi 0' '1 1 1 V d S j 0 V d vj"• Y S, Handy -Cycle - French inventor Charles Duval, above, thinks he's solved a big problem for cyclists. He claims that log . muscle strain can be eased by switching to hand pedals which he has mounted on his bike's handlebars. Or, if you prefer to make a jet, you con use both hand and foot pedals to increase your speed. The gadget is one of many shown at the annual inventors' exhibit ir, Paris. map 6 6 8 mama . ®■ „no X18 ,.Mika t��wel7 o4 III 19 .70 .ami St4onom 28 29 l 31 11® .k4 3 1i1�11 ®111 36 a NINA ill b WM $o K MI it ill Anawer Ellsewhe'e ou This Page Cheese .wills Add Food Value to Salad BY DOROTHY MADDOX WE all turn to salads when the weather gets 'war'1n. 11 salads W1' Include some form of protein such its cheese, eggs, fish or meat, they can be used as main dishes for luncheon. Here are two main -dish salads and a delicious buttermilk. cote slaw, 1 (MOT CHEESE BALLS (Makes 6 balls, about VA inches hl diameter)'. One package (3 ounces) cream cheese, Vs to 1,1y cup candy -coated puffed wheat. Form cheese into balls and roll in cereal. Serve with pineapple, orange, or other fruit salads, For an attractive salad, center 2 or 3, crispy cheese balls on lettuce or other salad greens. Arrange fruit sections in swirls around the cheese balls, BUTTERMILK COLE SLAM Shred e head of crisp cabbage very thin. Then slice thin 2 small onions, 5 or 6 stuffed green olives, and add with 10 capers to the cabbage. Salt to taste. Dressing: Use 1 teaspoon salt, pepper to taste, 1/4 teaspoon i paprika, a very little curry. powder, 1 teaspoon caper juice, 1 tea- , spoon Worcestershire sauce, and Vz cup mayonnaise. Next add just enough buttermilk to make it as thick as cream. Toss dressing and salad unfit thoroughly mixed. TOSSED MACARONI SALAD WITH BLEU -CHEESE DRESSING (Makes 6 servings) One tablespoon salt, 3 quarts boiling water, 8 ounces elbow macaroni (2 cups), '/h, medium-sized head lettuce, shredded, V4 bunch chicory, broken in pieces, 2 medium-sized tomatoes, cut in wedges, 2 tablespoons chopped onion, y3. cup chopped celery, 1 green pepper, cut in thin strips, 114 -ounce package bleu cheese, 2 tablespoons vinegar, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 1/4 cup salad oil, 1/2 teaspoon meat sauce, V4 teaspoon garlic salt, 11/2 teaspoons salt, VA teaspoon freshly ground pepper, dash paprika. Add 1 tablespoon salt to rapidly boiling water. Gradually add macaroni so that water continues to boil, Cools uncovered, stirring These crispy cheese balls will turn any kind of fruit salad into a main dish tor an attractive summer meal. occasionally, until tender. Drain in colander, Rinse with cold water and drain again, Chill. In a large salad bowl, combine chilled macaroni, lettuce, chicory, tomato wedges, onion, celery and green pepper; toss lightly but thoroughly. Chill. Crumble bleu cheese. In a small bowl, combine bleu cheese and remaining ingredients; mix thoroughly. Add bleu cheese dressing to chilled salad; mix lightly but thoroughly, lb DAY SCIIOOt, 'FF n... LESSON 81.1 Hes 14 Oarctup teurrel, 8 el. D Principles of Christian Stewardship 2 Corinthians 9 Me'mor'y Selection: Every lean according as he purposeth in his heart, so let hila give; not grudg- ingly, or of necessity, for God loveth a cheerful giver. 2 Corin- thians 9:7. `The church is often criticized because of its frequent appeals for money. But how little the church receives compared with what is spent for liquor and to- bacco! The Anglican Council for Social Service in its report to the General Synod last November estimated that the costs and loss- es of drinking in Canada for the 10 -year period was $4,586,273,000. Of this $1,922,~33,000 went to the provinces and Dominion, govern- ment as retfesittie; 'leaving a net cost to the people of $2,664,040,- 000. We believe the churches use the comparatively insignifi- cant amount which they receive for more worthwhile purposes In the instance .of our lesson Paul was appealing for a good offering for the needy Christians at Jerusalem, The poor people of Macedonia had responded most generously, They first gave themselves to the Lord. What would the church at rich Cor- inth do? Paul had predicted well of them but he sent Titus in ad- vance just'in case they had ne- glected to respond to this appeal. In his exhortation he cited the greatest example of giving: "Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he be- came poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." Someone' has suggested that there are five levels of giving. 1. The "Tip" level.- Those who give a small coin to the Lord, the same way that they tip the waitress. It is just a little 'rat- ter of appreciation for the Lord. 2, T h e Entertainment" level - those who refuse to pledge and give only when they come to church. They give as they give to a theatre, or the ball game. They give when they go. 3. The "Emotional" level- those who give only when they are emo- tionally stirred, They refuse to give when their feelings la's' hurt. They may give once or Twice a year according to feel- ings, 4. The "Promise" level - Those who pledge but neglect the promise. They never or sel- dom pay up. 5. The "Bible" level- those who give systemati- cally and proportionately. Frere Is cheerful, joyous, regular giv- ing,week by week- both to their local church needs and to the wider work of the church. Coll loves the cheerful giver. When a clothing salesman says to you, "We'll just take the shoulders in a little and peen' look like a million barks that':. propaganda, And if you be. lieve him the chances are your income is pretty low because low ine01130 groups are much more susceptible to propaganda According to the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt's' National Re- sourcesComtittea, people in low income groups are almost. even odds to be duped by propaganda The odds drop until they reach the high earning power group where the chances are almost 20 to 1 they won't believe what they hear or read when it's propaganda or ballyhoo. Blind' Spot. Spotters -Acting on the premise that color blindness is affected by abnormal conditions of the optic nerve, two William Smith College coeds, Helen Gardner, at left, and Teresa Mondy, map the color fields of professor Shelton MacLeod. They discovered color blindness is accompanied by irregularly shaped blind spots. Till, FARM FRONT jolu\Thaell A lot of folks will tell you that sheep ruin a pasture for cattle because they "Graze it down to the' roots -and below." I have always contended that more often than not the fault lies with the poorness of the pasture -or else that too many sheep are grazed for the size of it. This contention is borne out by the Department of Agricul- ture at Ottawa. Here,is their dope. A * e Pasture areas improved by re- seeding and fertilizing can be kept in good condition and better returns secured from them by grazing with mixed sheep and cattle than by sheep or cattle alone, judging by the average of seven years' resultsat the - Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa. 4 * This seven - year �experiment showed that a pasture treated with 10 tons of manure per acre every four years, and grazed with both sheep and cattle, bad a carrying capacity 23 per cent greater than an adjoining field given a similar application ot manure but grazed with sheep alone. Compared with another adjoining field of permanent pas- ture, receiving ,no' manure and grazed by sheep alone, the in- crease was 50 pert rent. On a fourth adjacent field, not immured but fertilized with 100 pounds of sulphate of ammonia per acre each year plus 300 pounds of superphosphate and 75 pounds of muriate of potash applied every four years, Mixed grazing gave an increase of 4,1 per cent over the immured field grazed with sheep alone; 6.6 per cunt over a similarly fertilized field, grazed with steers alone, and 74 per cent more than the untreated field. Each of These fields consihted of four acres. In ten's of actua' meat produced, the anti eated field showed 169 puuuds average ,yearly gain in weight by the sheep grazed on it. The manured field grazed by sheep alone pro- ducedduced a gain of 192 pound.. The S l sheep t manured field grazed1 and cattle produced a gain of 145 • n 2 r the shoe and 1 6 pounds for p pounds for the steers. The fer- tilized field produce a gain of 152 pounds for the sheep arid 185 pounds for the steers. A field given the same fertilizer treat- ment and grazed by steers alone produced a gain of 248 pounds for the steers, still below either of the mixed -grazed fields in total meat production. All gains are based on 150 days of graz- ing. e n 4 P. E. Sylvestre and S. B. Wil- liams, of the Animal Husbandry Division at the Farm, state: "Grazing with cattle and sheep resulted in a definite increase over grazing with sheep alone. This was not only due to the greater number of stock carried on that pasture but also to the higher daily gains of the lambs in the mixed -grazed fields. There . was a better utilization of the grass available. Little of the herbage was noticed going to seed in the mixed grazed fields, while there was considerable waste on that account in the fields grazed by sheep alone. Thus the mixed -grazed fields did not require clipping. The quality of tit- sward was also improved. The mixture of clovers and grasses was considered almost ideal in the mixed -grazed fields while there was little improve ment in the others. n "A certain amount of care must be exercised, however, in the proportion of sheep to cattle Three ewes and their lambs to one two-year-old steer avet ex• Celle it results." 4 0 Considerable interest has arisen in recent years in the possibilities of chemical thinning ot tree fruits, particularly apples. In vestigations are being carried on at Ottawa and at various branch stations. At Summerland the sodium salt of dinitro ortho cresol and certain hormone ma tcrials have been reasonably el fective. The standard method of applying these sprays has been with the conventional sprayer and hand spray guns. Using this method, about 1.5 pints of sodium dinitro cresolatc per 100 gallons of water are applied to the tree the full -bloom stage as a drench- ing spray. Tests have also shown that apples can be thinned jus, as effectively with concentrate its with hand sprayers, and that the amount of sodium dinitro credo late required is approximately 15 pints per acre. This, diluted with 100 gallons of water, gives an application of about two gal ]ons per tree. Using a hormone spray of alpha naphthalene acetic acid, 73 grams of hormone per acre gave satisfactory results. a v Difficulties arise, however, 01 the use of these chemicals. The dinitros are caustic and burn the floral Barts and leaves severely, while the hormone spray may cause severe distot'itinn and dwarfing of the foliage. Recent reports indicate that delayed ap- plications of hormones up to four weeks beyond the calyx stage would reduce this injury. Investigations are under way at Ottawa to determine whether delayed sprays will reduce the injuries arising f r o m these sprays, and at the same time give effective thinning` of the fruit. Results so far, indicate that with certain of the hormones, at least, delayed, spraying is a pos- sibility. The Vast Amazon The Sea River (Amazon) has eleven hundred known tributar- ies. Ten of them are larger than the Rhine. Seven are a thousand miles long. The Madeira is three thousand miles long and collects ninety tributaries of its own be- fore it joins the Amazon. Stand- ing where they join you can just make out the other shore of the Madeira but you cannot see across the Amazon. , . . Place the mouth of the Ama- zon at New York and its arms would reach up into Canada and down into Mexico and almost to California, Straighten out the kinks, and the smaller end would stretch twelve hundred miles out into the Pacific. (It seems unbelievable, but figure it• for yourself. The breadth of the con- tinent is twenty-eight hundred miles; the length of the Ama- zon, according to corrected sur- veys, a little over four thousand miles,) All Europe could be placed within the Amazon basin and have room left for half a dozen Japans. The Amazon is nut satisfied with Brazil. It 'sends its feelers far up into Bolivia, Peru, Ecua- dor, Colombia and Venezuela and the Amazon basin includes gen- erous portions of these nations. The sources of the great river are high Andean lakes only eighty . miles from the Pacific coast, - From "The Amazing Amazon," by Willard Price. ILLITERACY If you live on this planet, it's 3 to 2 you are illiterate. There are 1,200,000,000 totally illiterate people in the world. New Mercantile 'lank . Acquires Property The Mercantile Bank of Cana- da, chartered by Aet of Parlia- ment on 11/1areh 31, 1903, has ac- quired the Hanson Building, 25$ St. James Street West, as tempor- ary Head Offices and banking quarters. The bank has also bought land and buildings on the north-west corner of St. James Street and. Victoria Square, where it will erect a modern head office build- ing at a future date. The announcement •of these property purchases was made by Mr. Henri Moquette, in behalf of the Mercantile Bank's provisional directorate. The provisional Canadian dir, ectors are Senator P. H. Bouffant of Quebec, and the Messrs. Ar- thur Cross, Montreal industri- alist, and J. B. Carswell, promin- ent consulting engineer of Van- couver. The Victoria Square site, occu- pying a frontage of 177 feet on the Square and 130 feet on St, James Street, is at present occupied by several buildings, the largest of which is known as Dale House' and was formerly -the head office building of the Dominion Textile Company. When the site becomes avail- able on the expiration of leases, the first unit of the Mercantile Bank's Head Office building will. , be constructed there. Plan for this unit, and for subsequent ad- ditions which will cover the entire ground area, have been drawn by Messrs. Lawson and Betts, Archi- tects, of Montreal. During the interval before the new building is erected, the Mer- cantile Bank will utilize the Han- son Building as Head Office prem- ises, and the main banking office will open for business as soon as occupation can he secured and in- terior alterations made. The Mercantile Bank of Canada is the first bank to receive a charter from the Canadian gov- ernment since 1929. Capital for its issue of shares has mainly been subscribed by the Nationale Han- dlesbank N. V. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, of which Mr. Henri Moquette is a Managing Director. Three Canadians and two nomi- nees of -the Handlesbank will comprise the original Board of the Mercantile Bank. Mr. Moquette also announces the purchase by the 'Mercantile Bank of a property on Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver, where building operations will commence within sixty days. Other branches will subsequently be opened in principal Canadian cities. The Mercantile Bank of Canada will conduct a complete domestic banking service in Canada, and will also specialize in the Pacific trade, through the widespread facilities of Handlesbank. These facilities include branches in Japan, India, Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore, and through- out Indonesia, as well as in such Netherlands centres as Amster- dam. Rotterdam and The Hague. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking a A3 J. U a 21 0 ,1, v d Mi 0' '1 1 1 V d S j 0 V d vj"• Y S, Handy -Cycle - French inventor Charles Duval, above, thinks he's solved a big problem for cyclists. He claims that log . muscle strain can be eased by switching to hand pedals which he has mounted on his bike's handlebars. Or, if you prefer to make a jet, you con use both hand and foot pedals to increase your speed. The gadget is one of many shown at the annual inventors' exhibit ir, Paris.