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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News Record, 1921-4-21, Page 2G, D, MerACMART 81, D. Ms,TAGGA:11T McTaggart Bros, GENERAL BANKINO EtTS1. NESS TRANSACTED. NOTES DISCOUNTED, DRAFTS ISSUED. INTEREST ALLOWED ON DE- POSITS. SALE NOTES FUR' CHASED. —E. T: RANCE — NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY- ANCER, FINANCIAL REAL ESTATE AND FIRE INSURe ANCE AGENT, REPRESENT. 1NG 14 FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. DIVISION COURT OFFICE, CLINTON. BRYDONE. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, NOTARY PUBLIC, ETC. Office— Sloan Block —CLINTON DR. J. C. GAND1ER !Mike Hour8;—L30 to 3.30 p.m., 7.30 to 9.00 .in. Sundays 12.30 'te 1.80 a.m. Other bours by appointment- only. ,OilIce and Residence—Victoria S. CHARLES 11. JULE, Conveyancer, Notary Public. • Coramiesioner, Etc. REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Issuer of Marriage Licenses HURON STREET, — CLINTON. GEORGE ELLIOTT - Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Iluron. Correspondence promptly answered. ,lmmediate arrangements can be . made for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by calling Phone 203, Charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. A IVV_AV t4TeRIMa GRAtk —T1.511.5 TABLL— Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton Station as follows: - BUFFALO AND oODERICH ting east, depart 6.33 a.m. 2.52 p.m. aolng \Vest or, 11.10, dp. 11,15 a.m. ar. 6.08, dp. 0,47 P.m e 64 ar, 11.18 pm. LONDON, HURON & BROOD DIV. Going South, ar. 8.23, dp. 8,23 a.m. 4.15 p.m. Going North depart 6.40 p.m, " 11.07, 11,11 a.m. The licKilop Mutual Fire Insurance antimony Bead office, Seafortli, ()tit. DIRECTORY ?resident, Jamas Connolly, Godorices; nee,, Jamas Evan., Beeettwoodi BecoTreasurar, Thos. E. asps. Sna- terth. Directera: George McCartney, Sea. Forth; D. F. /dearer r, Seaforth; J. G Grieve, zel.; WeitWin. nine, Sea. 'birth; McEwen, Clinton; Robari Ferries, Helena; John lienoeweir, I Brodhagen; Jai. Connolzy, Coderleb. I Agent: Alex Lettere Clinton; J. W. Goderich; Ed. Hinctuey, Seaforth; jeV,, Chesney, legmonoville; 30. G, teeth, Brodhagen. Any money e• b• paid la. may he yaid to Moorish Clothine Co., Clinton. or at Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiri.g to tet insurance ortransact other bust:nes _will be prompter attencled to On application M say of the above ufficere aclareesea their respective post office. Ieessee lese,, led ay the director who ilea ' ...carest the scene. Clinton Ileids-Flecord CLINTON, ONTARID. '1 el zus of subscri8tion-1,2.00 per year, in adValle0 to Canadian addreasea; $2,50 to the U.S. or other foreign countries. No paper discohtinued until all arrears are paid Maga! at the option of the publisher. The date to which every eubseription Is paid is denoted on the label. I AdverLising zates—Transient wirer. tisoments, 10 cents per nonpareil line for first insertion and 0cents , per line Tor each subsequent Inser- tion. Small adveritseraehts not to theeed one melt, such as ' "Strayed," or "Stolen," etc., insert. ed once ler 35 cents, and each subse- quent insertloa 15 cents. Communications intended for publics'. 'lion must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. G. E. HALL. M. 32. CLARK. Proprietor. Editor. To Figure Faint Needs. In 0 gurizeg the II -mount of paint re- quired for your Immo, you will find the following rule quite helpful: While the quantity of paint required V11 11100 SCrinewbat with the nature of bile surface to be covered, and the oon- clitions under which it is applied, a gond grade of profited paint will ordinarily cover it least 850 square feet to the gallon, using two teats. Piret, measure the dietanee around the house and multiply by the average height, then devide by 350, orta the re- sult will he approximately the number of golione to buy. Of thie quantity, one-fifbh will ropeeeent the pahit required fee WM- /hinge, ornioes, ete, Otthada took a aompetatively portene pert in the South African wet by seeding th 0.,p00 troops, includifig e Straelicona Mew, a mounted trooli, the cest of which eves contributed by Lord Strathconai Address communications to Aprer!ornisf; 72 Adeleitie et. West, T roniA. Minerals in Swim Ration. at is true that mineral requirements for swine is practically a new' thing' in feeding swine, yet it Promises to be one of the foremost steps in improved methods of securing maxinpro growth and' health. Practical feeders for years have been allowing their hogs access to wood aeltee and to 'charcoal or sof and and the like fer the supplying of these minerals. Such sirbstanees have been very good, rind did soPPlY some very essential material, end yet in the few experiments that are being made at any of the stations at this time will bring out some very valuable facts, Up to this time it seems that about the same errors are being made in the use of minerals to swine that were originally made in the earlier feeding tests, in which they attempted to argue from the complex to the simple rtither than from the simple to the .eomplex, which seems to be the logical way to approaeh these subjects. It took scientists many years to awaken to the fact that some things about otir common feeding practices woula never be understood until we began with the use of a' very simple -ration and then worked into a com- plex one, so that an accurate check could be made upon the true value 4:if various feeding materials, under vary- ing conditions. The wonderful dis- coveries made during the past decade have been ample proof that this was the proper method of making the • feeding trails and more actual history as to the value of feeding materials than has been, accomplished during several such periods previous to this time. It is a common practice for some swine feeders to feed certain minerais not for any specific action which they expect to obtain, but simply because it has been a timeehorzored custom. Such agents as sulphur, copperas, charcoal, ,seem to have very little, if any, beneficial action for swine, and may, if not given properly, actually prove harmful, and yet swine breeders have hong used them in their tonie and mineral mixtures. We must depend more on our late experiments to tell us about these materials. At this time sulphur is rarely used as a medicine by veterinarians, and then usually in an ointment for its effect in killing parasites of the skin. If -it is taken into the animal's -body iefairly large doses over a long period it may bring about a serious blood condition, It turns tae feces, or manure, very dark in color and gives it a very foul odor, and should be given in very small amounts until eve learn more about it. Copperas, or iron sulphate, is a com- mon remedy, arid while it may be given in small quantities for some time, it earl not safely be given in very large doses; -our latest informa- tion'on iron is that it is a food rather than a tonic or a medicine, and later day veterinarians use 11 10 that way. It is also thought to be a WOrM de- stroyer, but tests have proven this without ally foundation.; it is very readily changed into another form When exposed to the ordinary atmos- phere and if it was to be given it should be kept as nearly dry as pos- sible. With the knowledge that we have of this material at this time it is doubtful 14 11 is advisable to feed it to swine. Charcoal is' found in teed forms, that which is Aide from Wood and that from bones. The action of char - coal is that of .no. &lamitbent, pod s function in the intestinal tract is to absorb any methane gas that; may be generated in the intestines.' This ran be of vaitte ionly, in eases qr. fermenta- tion, end than only JO veeY *holt period of time- 'Extensive tests have proven that 11 18 eliminated !trent the body in the same fermi that it is taken in and ha 'S hirt,very liLb1 Use 111 a swine mixture. The ;minerals' that are most likely to be deficient are calcium or 'lime, Chlorine; .sotlitim • and phosphorus. These are the elements that enter into the formation of the skeleton in thb larger amounts, It_may be 'possible that iodine is 'sometimes needed, but this only in sections -where there are hairless nigs,-and, that Is due to the fact that in some sections the Soil is' depleted jn'the'se *elements and there- fore the crops do not contain a normal amount. This can be easily and cheaply supplied.' The following ma- terials furnish' the minerals common- ly used Very .cheaply and at a very _slight cost: Sodium .chloride' or e0M- mon salt, ground rods phosphate, ground bone meal, either raw or steamed, wood ashes, emir/Tony others. Common salt or sodinsn chloride furnishes both sodium and chlorine 'in sufficient quantities. Stean-ted bone meal or ground raw bone meal furn- ishes both calcium or lime and phos- .phorus; wood ashes or kainit furnish potash, but this is not so often needed. A very goad mixture consists of equal parts of salt and steamed bone meal; enother of salt and raw bone meal; another of salt and wood ashes; an- other of salt and raw rock phosphate very finely ground. All of these may be mixed equal parts and fed M self -feeder. Animals will consume about one pound of such mixture a each month; this can be provided for in this way: Mix a pound. of the mixture with an amount of tankage that they will eat in about a month. If they are eating about fifty pounds of tankage per month, then add two pounds of the mixture to each one hundred pounds of tankage and you are certain in this way that they get that amount. If they aro eating more, increase it, and if less, •decrease it. This should be very well mixed. and fed in a feeder; most animals will eat about this amount of it, if it is fed alone in a ,self -feeder; this will depend somewhat upon the individual. It is not advisable to attempt to furnish all the minerals that are needed by the animal in this way, but there are certain feeds thee are very rich in minerals, and much of the minerals should be supplied through them. Aznon,g these feeds are Alfalfa and clover hay, bran and soy beans, The hay can be, and should be, fed to brood sows in -a rock during the winter months, or when they are not on pasture; 'sows will consume about one to one und one-fourth pounds per each one hundred pounds of body weight per dey when 16 18 fed in this way; the use of pasture crops, such as alfalfa, clover, rape anti the like," also provide large amounts of miner- als for the breeding and growing ani- mals. The min•eral requirements for swine need- occasion the breeder no alarm; it can be very easily handled, and quite inexpensively also; all it requires is a little good judgment in the selection of feeds, and possibly some simple mixtures that we have outlined ib this article. The Welfare of the fipme The GhT0 Own Rocnn. Sy ADE:Willi; 13,. WHIT/PORI). Having one's •own room is the be- ginning (the very small beginning, of Coarse./ of haviug one's own life; fejt it sets ttpart is place ,Where one 'ts to do and think for herself, eXPreSS her °wit preference in coloring and furn- ishings, gather and arrange 135 She likes, her first possessions—the little personal belongings which hav$ begun to aecumulato. It i$ to be riot only theplace where one sleeps comfortably at night but a quiet lovelyreom 'where 0110 rests a 111;t10 now and then' by thy; an ideal spot for sttftlY, reading, letter writing, or sewing; and possibly for what is more important 4tt an hour's qUict thinking, ' After years, of experience in raising poultry on the farm, I find that my best aid in blearing the poultry houses of vermin is the kerosene brush. For the eradicabion of the pestifer- ous red chicken mite I take an old brush and s.otne kerosene, and go over all the roost supports, joints, 'seams in ihe nest boxes, uprights, and wall cracks with a penetrating coating of the keroeene. It is sure death.to each and every.mite it touches. I find that this is all the care ,needed in the hen houses, winter and summer, after the spring find fall cleanings . and the usual whitewashings or creosoting of the intericr surface% nests, and roosts, 1 examine the roosts occasion- ally in the winter, every three weeks in the summer, brushing the seams and joints with the kemserie. If there am any mites, they will appear. If none, you eon be thankful, But if their numbers seem legion, go over every inch with kerosene. And this is not its Only use. If the scaly -leg mite appears in youe flobk, take up the kerosene bru.sh again and paint the scaly leg with it, being care- ful not to touch any of the feathers around the knee joint. Usually one apelike:hole will kill the mite that works and causes this scaly ap.peaa- ance of the legs; but if not, I continue th.e °replications until the legs are cored. The powder .shaket, evith a good commercial louse powder, is the eas- iest remedy or lice, But with a farm flock on range, with boxes of .ashes and dust baths available, it is seldom that reinedi52 wIihl have to be re- sorted to. Th•e average hen will take ore of herself under ordinary condi- tions. 1 UN the powder on the set- ting hens at least three or four times, being careful to make the last apple. cation a few days •before the eggs are to hatch. Suecess is ten pee cent. opportun- ity and zeinety per tent itteltifeent hustle. An optimise is et mon Who ,believes he eae geow oven better Vegetables then the •eataloguo slietve. Wellaerentleated quertets that, ttre Olean and eheetY, and supplied with an abundance of bright Streefe Dittote, tend in Make healthy .birdaiand sixth al% the births that lay the golden eggO, Fight the Corn Borer. Observations recently Made in Elgin County, Ontario, particularly in the district of St. Thomas, by officers of the Entomolagical Brands of the DO - minion Department of Agrecuttare, and others, indicate that the European, Corn .Bome found in Canado for the first •Hane in August, 1920, has . come theough 'the winter in a very healthy condition. The Department Lieges, therefore, the assistance of all farm- ers in affected districts, Iti the efforts which are being made in conthollieg this dreaded poet ane preventing its fereber spread. The borer or caterpillar is the de- structive stage in the life of the in- sect and it is in tine stage at the present time within coen stubble, piethe 42 etalk, old ears, or other parts of the corn plant which were large' enough to sheltee it during the. winter. Partners, therefore, should realize tee importance of destroying, at :once, preferably by burning, • all unused portions of corn stalks, cobs, waste, etc. Cozy refuse around- silos and also that leet during the winter eft infested corn fields should be carefully gathered up and deetroyed by burning. Felds within the infested district should be kept free from weeds, as the lover has -been Mind in thick stemmed grasses, Tagweed, smart - weed, lambs' quarters, etc.—Artitur Gibson, Dominion Entorrzolegist. Making BiddyExercise. A fairly common peaotece among poultry keepers is to suspend cabbege co mange% in a string -sack on a, mid. The object of course ie to encourage Ohielcen exercise,. I find 16 heat, bow - ever, to hang the •green aeod only a reasoratble. .dietance off the floor, Jternping is etrenuous exercise. It brings pares under steain that the hen nonnelly isIthe nese. ,When a flock is laying betzeily, there is danger of rape Mee if the cabbage is'bung high. Dry, deep, eieW letter, in Wheal scratch grate le enrinkled, le a better exor- cism. .Ottbbages and beategels may be spiked to boards or invoke oh wall epikes. I like to split the mongees in hale. Any 'gement food oari be /1111304 and fed in o hot wet blush, Ode hundred Iritteute fowls toquire apptozknagely 400 vignette feet of fame epece. A liouee eixtedie fset, wide and Weill4'-4Iva feint loeg wile be sells - factory Inc n 110011 tf bhis sizu, POT 1410 YeaTs lived here are the growing; shaping years of a girl's , and every inspiration which comes to her, whether through church..or sehool or friendships, will be brought into this room to be ,worked out and thought Over until the finest ones, let us hope, become her OW11. No other ;born in later years, even in memory, Cart mean quite as muhli es this ono and for this reason it should be from the first, whether large or 521315211, an especially lovely room, and fortunate- ly, it may be so. It hardly matters how .simple and inexpensive the ma- terials are, such a room responds to the owner's personality more quickly than any other in the hous.e; possibly because youth counts tor so much, and the spirit of youth is .so easily cap- tured and 'brought into a romn's at- mosphere by the right touth in -color and furnishings. The freshness of spring and sone ef its delicate coloring belong here; .simple, light weight furniture, and the owner's careful choice of pictures and small belongings expressing her own taste, for the room will gain muoh in personal charm if it is worked out by slow planning and as far as pos- sible, by her handiwork. This last does not mean an endless amount of old-time embroidery, cro- cheting and drawn -work, for artistic bed &ambers of to -day have but little if any, -decoration of this kind. Dresser and table covers, bedspreads and cushions, are much plainer than of old, but snore attention is paid to hav- ing these .artioles of colored materials, to carry out the rooirds definite eolor scheme. Instead of colored embroid- eries on white, colored cottons and Ibsen materials one used in plain Or figured designs, and these are as fre- quently selected from cotton dress goods, or lining materials, as from the regular drapery stuffs. 'Whatever gives the right color -effect in a room is the thing decorators use. Voile, sateens., poplins, cretonnes and colored linens in cheap or expensive qualities are used and aside from the things ono may buy, there are great possibil- ities in the home dye -pot. Old pieces of coarse cotton cloth become very dignified and attractive when colored different shades oe old geld, pale yel- low, or orange for chair pillows in a north room, or shades of green, gray, lavender or dull blue for -use in A Beall Mom. The different simeles of color being obtained, of course, by using more or less water to each pound of material to be dyed,. A lit- tle practice gives one courage to do a room's complete outfit if necessary. In using these simple materials their good style is broughet out, not by fancy trimmings, but `by making them up carefully, with straight smooth borne, and often with the nar- row gimp edgings which eost but a few omits a yard. These are used on window han.gings, bed spreads, box covers, and so on, and are made to take the 'place of hand -work edgings wherever possible. . Of eourse, A well-planned room never has in 11 21 aftVeleAS mixture of aoluya, nor mixtures of figured ma- terlals, Its ono color harmony is 'kept in.yitrw definitely throughoot the work of famishing and no .other equally Strong color is allowed to creep in. If, for instance, soft rose is the color one wishes to emphasize, and cretonne it to be used for part of the furnish - logs, th.e principal design in the .ere- tonrie should be in soft rose shades. If this material were used for window hangings and one or two .ehair cosh - ions and a dress box eover, that am- ount would be all that the average •room should contain of figured stuff, the other articles such as dresser and stand cover and book shelf curtain, should then be of plain material ex- actly snatching OTie of the rose shades In the tretonne. Thee brings Hee whole room into a harmony Of mee. As a background foe this oolor, walls and run should be a neutral tone in gray or soft, gray .green, end ceiling and woodwork, cream, while the floor Would be: painted a darker bone of dull green, ' In such a room the simple furniture would be esPecially_good if painted in pale gray, Or grayegreen similar to the wall color, the gray willow- chair 'given rose colored cushion, and, ae a note of contra -et, a blue or green flower bowl filled with likes or sweet peas would supply the final bit of color amen. You will see from this description that such st 000111. as this is not built up out of one whith is already fume hazed. It has leo mixeurgs but shows a definite planethroughout. This is the secret of a successful room. In deciding about the use ,of color in your room, you may have it in one a two ways. The first method is to paper or paint or Icalsognine the walls in a soft hazy balm, which must be a yellowish creara, er a pale soft buff in north or sunless rooms, or a cool gray, gray -green or hazy blue tone for a youth room, er one having plenty of -sunsbine. With these aoft tones on the walls, you would then have gaily figured window hangings, ohair cush- ions and so on, with the principal calor of these repeated in plain ma- terials for ether articles. The other method is to use an all- over pattern of flowered paper on the walls, the design being usually of spring blossoms with yellows or pinks predominating la the room is north or dull, and with blues, greens or laven- ders as the principal color ie used in south or sunny rooms. With We figured wall, window draperies, bed spread, cushions and 00 all be •of plain stuff, either white, or of cottons matching the principal color in the paper, and on a much flowered wall there should be only one or two pictures used, if any. You can manage' either of these methods if you vemeenber first; for the plain -toned walls, be sure to use only soft tines,- never the .strong colors. Tones which make 'your walls leolc like a lovely fog of sivoky yellow or dim greens and grays are what you should have. Foe the figured -papered room consider its size. Small rooms unmet stand largo patterns and all wall -paper patterns and colored Woe- soms should be very indistinct or the walls will soon be extremely tiresome. Ceilings are cream, or as white as the background of the figured wall paper, • Woodwork is usually ivory white whet used with creamy or yellowinh walls, and a very light gray if walls are gray. Floors are always darker than walls and walnut brown, or dull olive green are good caters. THE PICTURE I WOULD PAINT The man who can paint the inno cence in a child's smile, the purity in a woman'seyes, the loving tenderness lurking in the drawn corners of a stern man's lips, io the world's great- est .a•rtist. Hes model is. in his heart. He can have no other. . 1 can not deem a straight line. can not amuse the youngsters , who play at Iny knee by Making a picture in any wise resembling a dog or amow. By dint of herculean effort I can draw what I proudly think lathe vomewhat like a house, with square doors and windows; but th,e wisp of smoke which add: (with a Speneereart flourish) atop the clvimney, is usually taken by the juvenile spectators to be a pig's tail. Yet I ehould nether be an artist' than anything else in the world. In my mind's eye I can eee the...pic- ture I should like to paint. There is, a doorway tie a' eort of frame for al mother and a little girl. The lovef light is shining in their eyes, their faces are aglow with welcome. Up the, lane, toward the house, comes he whot is King of the little household; men - ascii of he surveys. A tousled - haired youngster is enthroned on one of the big :horses coming in from the field, while a young6r brother rides , astride his father's shoulders— shout- I dem stooped but a tattle since with the day's toil, now straight and squared, because love hag thrilled the man anew. Father and boys are wav- ing to the enothee and girl who stand M the doorway, through which streams the welcoming light •ca Heine. They call cheerily to eath other, these lev.ed and loving ones. The peace of night .falls again over that humble, yet glorious, ceetle of Love and Faith and tope. There would hnye to be A 451111)52111013 plettlre, to get it ahl in, A little 'wood is gathered about Liz° father's kneee, while the mother does her chores nearby. The brood listens eagerly 'While the father reads or tells such Stories as children -have loved eirice the boothezeng of time; childish eyes grow big, hut there are strong arms nearby to protect, foar vanishes, Slowly but surely the father leads them on, from King Arthur to Him who is Lord of lords and King of king's, Night mimes on apace. The stars come out The stairs •oreak. The little brood gets closer. IVIether joins the circle. And the heads of all, old' and young, bend low, while a deep, tender voice, supple., mented by childieh treble, intones "Our Father, which art in heaven." Then one by one the little folks go "pigbegdyaback" up the creaking stairs to ' Who can paine such a picture? Yet who can not see it in his mind's eye? The man who can not see it has Met two-thirds of his life; the woman nine - tenths. There are no team hot anougll to drown that picture, from our mentoey, You say it can not be painted; there are problems of technique which can not be overcome. Our art will not •be Art, until such a picture is painted. Our life will not be Life until such a pietuve ie in every man's and every womn a's mind, visible alike in the light and in the dark. "He who i$ far from home 13 near to home" As the journey earls, and we passthrough our own door, that peace which pa.seeth understanding settles dm-71.1.mm us. We drop the pack from our shoulders. We are froa men •agoin. Boleind the closed doer is the solace of Sympathy, tat tenderness .f.'4"11°Is. he the verse you grave for me, Hero he lies., where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the eea, And the hunter home from the hill." A Good Whitewash. • Melee en•Behalf busthel froth leree wieh beleing water, °everting it to keep In the steam. Semen the throogh a fine sieve and ada seven peonde of fine salt, previously dis- solved ln warm water; Chree 'pounds ground rice, boiled to a thin paete and zeirred in boiling hot; on•eelvalif 1)521034 bolted gilder's whielng; one pourvA vellife glue which' finst 515213113 oced water until swOillen up, then zrzelt over 4 flee, avoiding beetling t. Add five get:1km hot water to the Mixtuee, Mir ssc11, n,d let sterol 0, 4 55, deeps metered tep, When ready to use the wash, Make It boiling hot. A pint oa thift nehnzero wile coven nee* a square. yard: Rend flowers when the sivk friend gets W5i12 instead of when he doesn't hat Tired Feeling, Is Jutzt As Much a Warnino "(nom leook end laisten," It indigene run-dowo 000ditlents tuna uniane that you roust ettrgY your blood, renew your strength - tone and your "power 84 reelet- anoo," or be In great danger of so - Hems sicknese, tho grip, flu. fevers, contagions and Ineeottoutz dieeeteech De not make light at It, It Is serloue. Give It attention at onoo, Asa your eruggiet or Hood's laarsaInuelet. De knows tine gooa old fanollY raedlolne is , Jut. the Thlott to Teles1 In 4144 for that tired feellrle, lows of PIMP? tine deiellne It no an ael-thee, , year -mend neeetelne, wondertuli le ogeeouye in 100 treatment ot sore *; ula, catarrh, rheurnathmt and ru 4 . down after-disogeo conditions, 4.. "My husband ban taken HOOdli, sarsaparilla aVerlrroprin* years, and It always puts ram shape. rto ts 50 years Ind." Moze be. Campbell, Decatur, Ill. A. mild lexative, Moon: rills. Hood's Sarsaparilla' OVERCOMES THAT TIRED FEELING, BUILDS UP 6'lEAL13111 My Visit to England's Glass -House Fanners The little river Lea, Tieing in seuth- ern Bedford, flows' eestwordly acrose Hertford to the border ibetween Hert- ford and Essex, where it is joined. by the Stern corning down from the north, and, turning aouth in a broad, flat valley, it reachee the Thames near the eastern limit of London, a total course of some 50 miles. In this Lea Valley, there has grown up a great glass -house industry, more than 1,000 acres now being covered with glass in a district some 12 or 13 miles long, in which:are half a dozen towns and cities of 5,000 to 50,- 000 population each. The men engaged in this industry had become SO .7111p1'00304 With til0 value of .scientifie research in the problems related to their work, large- ly as a result of the Rothameted ine vestigations, that in 1913 they decided to establish an experiment station in their midst, having for its •sole object the study of these problems. They therefore organized an association for this purpose under the name of the Nursery and learloet •Gardon. In- dustries Development' Society, Limit- ed. In the spring a 1014, a site of about two aeree, within the limits of the town of Cheshunt on the main London to Cambridge road, was per - chased and buildings were elected, consisting of an office, one botanical and one chemical lieboTatory, five cu- cumber and five tomato houees, and an isolation house for pot experiments and disease inoculation work. The county councils of Hertford and Essex made small grants in support of this work; the Duke of Bedford contributed $2,000; the members of thesociety raised among themselves about $4,000 for constroction and as much more far a maintenance fund, and the National Board 0,4 Agriculture and Fisheries agreed to furnish nearly $10,000 for construction and mainten- ance. The equipmerit was not cern- plated until September, 1915, and by that three the war had seriously inter- fered with the work, although the work was kept alive and some pro- gress was made during the strenuous period of the war, Front the outset' the work has been closely associated with that at Roth- aineted, a part of it being conducted in the Rothamsted laboratories. With the end of the war inereesed interest was talcen in the work of this station. The number of shareholders increas- ed, and the larger annual subscrip- tions permitted the employment of specialists in entomology and plant diseases. Some idea of the character of the work may be gained by the fol- lowing brief summary of the work re- ported for 1910: In an experiment on slow versus forced growth of tcmatoes the forcing orthe •crap by raising the heat caused an earlier ripening of a small part of the crop, but decreased the betel yield by about 10 per cent. Houses in which the nielsture in the air ha.d been increased by overhead spraying have given somewhat larger June pickings of tomatoes, in three seasons out of four, than thcee not so treated, In exporimente with fertilizers on tomatoes the omission of nitrogen in - created the yield, while the omission of potash caused a material redaction in yield. The largest yield was pro- duced by phosphntes and potash corn - bitted. No further increase was pro- duced by the addition of manure to the chernical fereilizers, In the case of cucumbers, increae- ing the temperature above 85 deg, F. sufficed to prevent the leaf -spot clis- eaea, azol considerably increased the weight of the early pickings as well as the total yield. Experiments in soil sterilization are being mode in eo-operetive commer- cial gmenhouses, under the guidance oi exteneive research .conducted in the Rothazrzsted lo.bovatories, in which the effect on the soil and on the growing plant of n large number of chemical eubstanees is 'being etudied in cons- perieon with steam. Most of the dieficulties encountered by the gardener, under glass, are due to microscorpie soil organisms. These,' uzider the glass -house conditions MI which the natural action of molti organisms upon each other lowed with, attain an importance that is not matted in the open field.' Among these are the n•ematodes (small eelworms that infest the roots), and the bacteria and fungi that cause the "damping off" of seedlings, and some forms of blighting of the ma- ture plant, All these may be reached by soil sterilization; but there are other organisms in the soil that are beneficial—for example, the nitrifying bacteria. How so to adjust our treat- ment as to hat our foes without injur- ing our friends is a delicate problem of strategy calling for the most elab• orate :scientific research, To the solu- tion of this problem a very large peel of the resources of the Rothanesteel Station ere now being directed.— Charles E. Thorne.. Summer Reading Important. There le a rather general idea that farmers as a these do most of their reading during the winter ereeson; teat they do not have time in the -busy summer season to keep posted! 011 =- rent matters of interest to them. This idea has been eepeatedly proven to be erroneous by investigaeions mode among the up -to -dote farmers of many communities. As one meth farmer well said: "Things are happen- ing mIglity fast these days, and' if we want to keep up with them we must reed, and read all the time." True, tlein,ge are happening fast, and partithearly things which are of inter- est and importanee to farmers. Tim development of organization among farmers; legislation, both provincial 'Mid federal; changing oecnomic con- ditions; and many other things uhich have an important bearing on agri- cultural prosperity ars gencral sub- jects of great intermit to every farm- er. None of us can be too we'll in. formed or know toe much about these general economic subjects, or about our own business. And we must -reed the year around to keep well inform- ed, "Time and tide' wait for zto maze" Nor will the history of the recon- struction period which in now beino, made. But th,e well informed man will have a part in making it and will pro - 231 'thereby, Consistent reading in summer as well as in winter is siwaya important, but is even more impertant now than ever before. Reserving the Aborigines. The commonwealth of Australia haa - Laken stops for the preservation of the aborigines of that country arid has as- signed a tract of public lands in 0.1:, Northern Territories as reservation for the tribes. It includes the Man and Petersoe Ranges and practically the whole pf Lake Amadeus. Tho Coveruments ot South and western Australia have set aside adjoining areas for the purpoee of this reeerva- non. We should more fully appreci- ate our opportunities cculd we realize what a blind person with a love of 1110 beautiful would give tor just a glimpse af the marvelous world, which is all shut out from him and free to us. What would he not give if he could Ju,st have las eye:, beetled for a few months and be allowed to travel over this beautiful earth and drink 1)0 the world's beauties? Just to be able 60 see the flower, to get one glimpse of the landscape which we see so often that it makes almost uo impreesion up- on us, what 150(114 it not mean to him? ;Tio—rri—o- re headache fore you --take these" 1)012 Just "smother" the headache without removing the wine. Take Chnmberlain's Ctomach and Liver Tablata. 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