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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1951-7-18, Page 7By Richard N. Willtinson The matt who had rent,•.1 bred:, the outboard num,. told her that any fool could run one of the things. However, right now, drifting in the wrong direction in the middle 01 Mirror Lake, with the sun beating down unnlercicully, she would have .given a good deal to have the roan's neck between her two hands, Just for luck she gave the crank one more spin. The motor went "chng- urg, clmgurg"—and d "Damn!" exclaimed Freda. She was so furious she could have cried. Instead she stood up and began to wave wildly at a boat that had sud- denly appeared around an island point.; The boat kept serenely on its course and Freda. was 'about to give..01) yelling and abandon her self to fate when the other craft swerved and headed in her direction. Two minutes later a black -haired youth was grinning up at her pleas- - .ant•1y.., `-Trouble?" he asked, "There's not a thing wrong with this motor,".said Freda, "except that it won't run." The, young- man climbed aboard. He hada wrench in his hand. "I'll fix it," he said, Freda thought he was pretty con- fident; but a ntotilent later she changed her mind. "Strainer got clogged," he said, "Pan an expert on outboards, My business is retricvin"'em," "Retrieving them?" Sure, Plenty of motors lost in this lake every year. I invented a special magnet to find 'em, then I grapple for 'em, haul 'em up, repair 'em and sell 'em, My name's Len Curtain, What's yours?" "Freda Brandon," said Freda, • 'witlitkti't"even `slopping to. think. "Freda Brandon, eh? You're the Freda told Len Curtain 'her name without even stopping to think. girl who's going to macry .Ray Hubbard. Well, they say money will do' anything; but deliver me. Well, so long," Freda didn't catch her breath un- til she got back to camp, Her mother bad news. "Daring! Ray wired he's coating up! He's arriving tomorrow." Ferad's spirits sank. "Goody, goody," she said sourly. Freda set off in the outboard the next morning 10 minutes before Ray was due to arrive. Thirty min- utes later she saw a familiar look- ing boat anchored in a cove and came up alongside, "IIi!" grinned Len Curtain. "How things?" "Tine. Say, look, what do you do in the winter?" "00, this and that," Len hauled in his grappling iron. "False alarm, Nothing here, How about anchoring that scow and taking a ride around with me?" Ray Hubbard was waiting on the ' dock when she got back. He didn't like the idea of her not being at camp to greet him, but she didn't care. The day after Ray departed Len Curtain carte into the dock and Freda went down to see what he wanted. "It's .11 funny thing, but • t'lu ill love. Will you marry me?" Freda almost fell into the water.. "Goodness! I'm going to marry Ray," "Psahwl You don't love him. Afarry me and we'll have fun," Freda caught herself wondering if that wouldn't be a good idea, She laughed, sounding like a frog with a s0'e• throat, "Marry you and fish for out- boards all summer—and do what in the winter?" 'Ray grinned, "There's no fishing in the winter. ,We'd get along: .I've just sold my grappling magnet in- vention to the Sca Denson' outboard people. That's only the beginning of tine. things I can, invent," Freda`, ,blinked. Good heavens,,. was he going to be as startling as that an his life, "I'll have to think it over,,, "Give you five minutes. I1op in and we'll ride around in the mean- time," Freda heard of people being hyp- notized, and 'sire guessed that wan what was wrong w•itli her. Site hopped in 'and they rode around, Wheat five minutes was up Len Curtain kissed het incl she kissed lint back and that settled the whole business.. Caring For Your Dog During slot Weather Vont. dog cannot glut his fur 0101111to whaler storage, of 00111se, and he does 1101 rid himself rat (•secs, heat via his skin. !le sweats only through itis tongue. 'Therefore, trimming or plucking will not solve his summer problems eutirely—some experts say not at all, contending that removing the coat reduces a clog's protection f1'o111 111e .1111':, rays. The dug should be groc..med at least once a day. Daily .brushing loud freeing from tangles and burrs will go a long way toward making him comfortable .in the heat. You 05(0 it to your pet to give h1111 some exercise in the cool of the iuorning. If this is not possible, then lie should have his exercise in the latter part of the evening, preferably before his meal. - During hot weather, your dog will be able to do with • less •food, particularly the tiller ON •of his -diet. Meat is not so lil:ely,to make hint uncomfortable. His diet can be varied with some of the good pre- pared foods on the market and with such items as fish, eggs, and liver, but- cod-liver 'oil 'shout!!" be dis- continued. Sttnlnter sunshine re- • places the cod-liver.0i1, Most dogs love to play 111 water. In the absence of natural -facilities, a gentle sprinkling will be welcom- ed by many pets if care is talceu not to frighten them. An ordinary - waslt tub may also prove useful During these hot months, the dog's drinking water should be re- plenished very frequently, and kept in a shady spot in the yard. 1f yours is a house pet, give hint water only when he needs it, fresh from 1115 faucet. Many dogs thoroughly enjoy ice cubes and have fun chew- ing them.... - The basement is likely to be the very best place for your dog during the hottest, hours, whethec,.te dives outdoors or in. During these. trying. days the dog may be troubled with itching, It is advisable to go over your animal carefully each day when he is brushed to look for fleas and ticks, paying particular .attention to his *ears. The tick attaches itself to the dog by a pair of pincer -like hooks and gorges itself on the dog's blood, eventually falling off. 1f these insects fall off in your home, they can cause a great deal of trouble by propagating rapidly and becoming a matter for the exter- minator. Ticks should be pulled off outdoors, preferably by for- ceps. Avoid contact between the tick (if it has been broken) and any open cut or scratch on your fingers. Certain ticks may act as carriers of Rocky Mountain Fever. All should be burned upon re- moval, As for fleas, you can take your dog to your veterinary to have hint rid of fleas, but it's quite simple to do it yourself with one or an- other of the preparations for this purpose. Repeat the operation with- in ten days or so. Sometimes a dog will get skin trouble in hot iveather. In such cases your veterinary's ad- vice should be obtained, for unless you are experienced in the treat- ment of these eruptions, you can do more harm than good by ex- perimenting. Your dog may be inclined to snap and become irritated if he's teased unduly. in hot weather. He cannot be blamed for such con- duct, and this should be explained to children. Finally—and most important — see to it that your dog can get himself out of the sun at all times. For this, and for whatever else you manage to do for hint to help him through the worst days, he will say his thanks as plainly as could you. The cure of crime Is not the elec- tric chair, but the high chair, —J. Edgar Hoover eeds I� ning By EDNA MILES r l -1.1i; modern ironing board has (101110 a long way since the days when grandmother stretched a prank across the backs of two kitchen chairs. First it acquired legs, folding ones that allowed compact storage, Then someone discovered metal was less fire - hazardous than wood. Now, e new dtscovcry aids the home -maker on ironing day --a board of metal mesh. Created upon the basic assumption that the time required to iron a garment dry depends upon how fast the moisture is. eliminated, this hoard allows stearal to escape through its ventilated surface. Thus evaporation is hastened, This metal web, which is 61 per cent,open space, accord- ing to makers, allows much faster drying than solid -type boards which tend to trap the steam. - The effort of the home -maker goes into smoothing wrinkles from her laundry rather than into baking moisture from the board, they explain. Warp, rust and burn -proof, the new ironing table is ad- justable to six different heights. Supporting the top, which is constructed of pierced sheet steel that has been stretched into a diamond pattern, are two pairs of rubber -footed, tubular steel Iegsr which lock into place during use and release with one hand when folding -time conies. This young woman adnitrce the diamond - patterned meta web that Koreas the top of her ironing board. , Steam escapes through the mesh; thus shortening ironing time. Science may now'have a remedy for stein rust, the most dreaded and destructive of all wheat diseases. The need for a practical control method is urgent, as Race 15B of •stent rust has become twidespread, and no. commercial variey of wheat has resistance to this race, The promise of control comes from Dr. J. E. Livingston, plant patho- logist, who has found in greenhouse tests that certain chemical. spray applied .to rust -infected wheat.de- finitely .stop growth of the rust organism. This summer, airplane sprays for rust control are being tested. In his work, Dr. Livingston found that solutions of either am- monium sulfamate or actidione were quickly absorbed through the skin of the plant, and growth of the stem rust was effectively stop- ped, although at some expense in plant ,growth. * * * Under conditions favorable for rust development, the disease usu- ally takes three generations or cycles of about ten days each to build up to epidemic proportions. If the first infected plants show rust by the time the crop is flow- ering, there is a good chance for a severe epidemic. Airplane spray- ing is expected to reduce at least the number of rust generations and greatly lessen the severity of the attack. In the field tests, spraying is being clone 30 to 40 days before .the wheat matures, with about one .gallon of a concentrated spray applied per acre. One application may prove adequate, and it is be- lieved that two spray should de- finitely be enough. The treatment is believed to be effective with any race of rust, new or old, including the virulent 15B. It may likewise prove effective against leaf rust of wheat and stem and crown rust of oats. * * * It should be clearly understood that this control method is still in the experimental stage, and no recommendations are being made as yet to growers. Even better chemicals may be found for the purpose. However, such sprays offer an additional means of fight - O tQARNETT LEVEL SAGGING DRAPERY CRANES WITH WIRE COAD` KOOKS TURNED INTO WINDOW CAIN NEAR OUTER ENDS OF CRANES, ing rusts, particularly the new races which originate periodically. * * * A new spray to control' pre - harvest _drop suitable for a wide. range of apple varieties will be available in limited quantities this season!' It is ..TCPPA, a 'liquid amine formulation dilutablc in water and commercially, known as Color -Set 1004. * * d: Excellent drop control of . Mc- Intosh, Jonathan, Delicious, Stay - man, Baldwin, Starking, Rome,' Grimes and Winesap varieties was obtained in tests at a large number of experiment stations. One ex- pert reports that the new material appears to reduce harvest drop better than any other growth sub- stance he has tested. - ' t, * * Another desirable characteristic of TCPPA is its effect on color, When sprays were applied three weeks before normal harvest and clear weather followed outstand- ing red color improvement was noted on several varieties. Grimes and Golden Delicious developed an improved yellow color. * * * Ivfiddle-western dairymen are avoiding mid -summer slumps in milk production by supplemental feeding of hay or grass silage to cows on pasture. This practice has paid off even when pastures were in fair condition. * 4. * One than has leveled out his milk returns by feeding hay in a loafing shed throughout the. year. His cows seem to like a little dry feed even when they are on alfalfa- brome and alfalfa -timothy pastures during May and June when growth is lush, Last. year this extra hay helped the herd return $489 above feed costs in July, just $6 less than in February, the peak month. August returns of $437 were com- paratively high. * M+ * Another dairyman leans on grass - legume silage to maintain produc- tion through the summer. He fences part of his pasture in spring and harvests it as silage in May or June. During hot months cotes graze all of the pasture land and get a supplemental feeding of grass silage. In fall, the dairyman refills the silo with corn, covering any grass silage not used in summer. When the corn silage is fed, cows welcome the return to grass silage aed it helps avoid an early spying production slump clue to dull.sppe- tite, * * Still another believes sheltered feeding helps maintain high pro- duction. Cows are more likely. to fill roughage needs if they do not have to graze in the liot sun. This is particularly true if pasture is dormant bluegrass or low -quality mixture, There's Humor To Be Found Even In Seed Catalogues Countless people have tasted those fat, red, dessert gooseberries known as "Dan's Mistake." They are the sweetest tasting of all gooseberries and, as with many other flames in a seed' catalogue, there is a story to account for the name. About a hundred years ago Dan- iel Spencer was a well-known eul- tivator'of gooseberries in Lanca- shire. Year after year he won the first prize at the annual show for the best gooseberry. 'One year several gooseberry clubs joined to have a super show, and big prizes were offered. Daniel 'Spencer intended to win the first prize, and started raising his own seedlings. From these he hand-picked the best and gave the others away. On the day of the show there Was one huge gooseberry, red in colour and luscious to look at, that beat, everything Spencer had exhi- bited, and itis face was as red as the gooseberry when lie was told it had been raised from one of his own discarded seedlings. Froin that time it has always been known as "Dan's Mistake." "Heavenly Blue" There was once a rock plant, de- veloped by an amateur, which first appeared in the Royal Horticul- tural Society's catalogue as "Litho- spermunt Dr, Lowe." It did not attract Much attention, One day a nurseryman was ex- amining some blooms when he heard a lady say, "What a heavenly blue!" He turned to look at the plant and found from his catalogue that it was "Lithospernnum," He traced the amateur and, with his permission, changed the name to "Heavenly Blue," a far better name, and one that is now known to thousands of gardeners. Sometimes nurserymen have flashes of inspiration. One man put a new rose into one of the Royal Horticultural Society's shows and christened it "Crimson Glory." Such a colourful, dramatic nave could not _go- unnoticed, and in a newspaper report next morning the show was actually headed "'Crim- son Glory." The man who gave more names to plants and flowers than anyone else was Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist' and many of them arc descriptive not only of the flower •but of the person immortalized by ft. As an instance of this, "Mag- nolia" was used for that flower as a gesture of honour to Pierre Mag- nol, the famous botanist, and Lin- neaus explained that the reason he had given the name to that par- ticular flower was because it "has very handsome leaves and flowers, recalling Pierre ]vvlagnol," "Orange Pippin" Hc also christened an American tree "Hermandia," after Hernan- dez a Spanish botanist, who once spent a fortune on the investiga- tion of America's natural history and produced nothing 'very much from it. Linnaeus slyly remarked that he had christened the tree after this botanist because "it has very large leaves and very small flowers." Very often new plants, fruit, or flowers are given nasties of the creator's family '"Dainty Bess" rose; in honour of Bess Archer, the wife of the man who raised it; the "Anhie Elizabeth" apple, named after the •daughterof'Greatorix, the nurseryman who first grew it; "Coles Orange Pippin" after chard Cox, who first.grew,' _it- int his garden, . There is one pear which, by an accident, is known by two names. In England it is known as the "Wil- liam" pear, immortalizing Richard Williams, who developed It. In Amerce it is known as the "Bartlett" pear because seedlings were sent from England and the name lost. The nursery where they were grown :was bought by Enoch Bartlett in 1817. A similar thing happened with the greengage. It was first called "Reine Claudia." A tree was sent to Sir William Gage, but the label was lost during transit, so it was rechristened greengage. GREEN THUMB 5 Gordon Smith There used to be a popular song that began, "I'm always chasing rainbows." It sounds like funs But if you have a garden youcan do something even better. You can plant them. The "rainbow flower" is the Iris. If you haven't kept abreast of the recent developments of this beau- tiful flower you will be amazed at the colors, tones, shadings, size, and loveliness of the Bearded Iris you can put into your garden bor- ders these days. The Bearded Iris is compara- tively easy to grow. It asks very little in the way of care. Any or- dinary, well drained garden soil. will satisfy it, although it can serve you better if the soil is enriched. Well totted manure buried deep when making the bed is •helpful, with top dressing at intervals of bone meal, superphosphate, wood ashes, or all three. The Iris does not like a too -acid soil, therefore avoid any strong nitrogen fertili- zers or fresh manure. If the soil has not been limed in years, a little might be added, but be careful not to overdo it, ' * 9 Early spring and early autumn are the usual times for planting bearded Iris rhizomes. You -, will find tllenl listed .in the fall bulb catalogues already arriving in the nails from your favorite nurseries. They are also divided and trans- planted every three to five years afterblooming—which means that, if yon have some in your garden slated for transplanting, this is the month to do it,'or from July on- ward. any friends with beautiful Iris make a practice of exchang- ing at this time of year,, for the established plants are the better for being divided into single rhi- zomes when transplanted, yielding{ to you generous dividends fro your original investment. * * 4, The tall and medium Bearded Iris should be planted from 8 to 18 inches apart, the closer plant- ing for mass effect, The rhizomes are sitape(l, something like the back, of a hand, with the fingers (root•• lets) spreading downward from the sides and end, and the fan of leaves at the "wrist" end, They should ba set into deeply prepared soil with the leaf -end practically at the sur, tace, even partly out, the body of the rhizome slightly slanting down- ward, and the rootlets well spread in a natural way, outward and downward. * is Those you dig up yourself will probably have several of these thick tubers or rhizomes. Break or cut them apart carefully so each; part is a strong single rhizome or two or three smaller rhizomes to- - gether, With sharp scissors, cut off the fan of leaves about three inches; ,from the , root,, diagonally. With a sharp knife, trim off any ' badly withered, rotten, or broken parts of the rhizome and rootlets. * A: 4, , • In cold climates a winter mulch (leaves, salt marsh hay, straw), is ' - recommended; If the sunnier weeks • following your transplanting :and dividing of your established Iris turn up a season of drought, give then regular ,watering. - Have you a few'purple and white Iris•fifoiri`an investment of years ago, that haye been neglected some- what but have continued (as is their sweet -way) to provide a few bouquets for hoine or church each year? Chwining as they are, you _ may little know what glories are to be seen in the hybrids now "They look just like orchids!" a guest exclaimed, admiring each thrilling tone and 'eufve, of the -exquisitely colored ones in our bor- der. Colors seldom seen in flowers are combined'with — their lovely fleur-de-lis design. + x * If you are new at choosing the hybrids, I recommend getting a modest collection, specially picked to give you -variety in color and interest. Espy To Steal A friend ,who visited the Tower of London to see the Crown Jewels (cash value $70,000,000, but histor- ically priceless) tells us that they have never looked so easy to steal. Yet he was assured by an official that the jewels are safer from thieves than they have ever been before. The steel bars have been re- placed by plate glass. Inside, about six feet from visitors, is another glass window, behind which repose, the jewels. The official explained that an electric ray operates be- hind the outer glass, acting like in- visible bars. Should an intending thief break the outer glass.and in- sert an arm, the ray would be bro- ken, a clamorous alarm sound, and a store of sturdy guardsmen would race to the spot. DOG DAYS With 'stulmer heat once again sapping, the, strength of man and his .Wsu-. ally springy, four -legged friends, shortpants are once again fash- ionable in dogdom, Above, Rex. a boxes' °wiled by nt Pao11431.$ son of Huntington, tI,, exhibits lits own tongue-out-nf-eheek.at- titude toward summer dog days, JITTER PONY GMT IN MT WAY WHtsN" T'M PLANTING THESE PLOWERS„•kit. LET YOU WATBRTHEM WHEN I'M THROUGH By Arthur Pointer