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How To Grow
Big Squashes
BY MR. WM WARNOCK, GODERICH, ONT.
Who Grew a single specimen of Rennie's Mammoth Squash weighing
365 pounds, and exhibited at the World's Fair, Chicago, in 1893.
Also a Squash weighing 403 pounds, which was
exhibited at the St, Louis Exposition in 1904.
"My land is made in good condition, being, heavily manured every year,
it is of a gravelly formation with about sixteen inches of clay loam on top.
A three hundred pound Squash can be grown on any part of it by the
following method of cultivation: For each hill I intend to plant, about the
first of April 1 take two good wheelbarrow loads ofhen manure. and mix
with four barrows of good soil taken from some other part of the lot:
this is mixed a second time the middle of April. The first of May I add
four barrows of well rotted manure and mix thoroughly, then about the
eighteenth of May make the hills and plant, dig out a. space seven feet
in diameter and fourteeninches deep, fill in my compost mixing, and with
it some of the best earth which was thrown out, and when finished, the
hill will be about ten feet in diameter and six inches higher in the eentre
than the surrounding level. Then ndant the seed. Hills want to be about
twenty feet apart; work the ground well until the plants commence to run.
When about three feet long 1 mulch the ground all over for twenty feet
in diameter around each hill with horse manure three inches deep, and
stake the vines down with sticks to keep the wind from rolling them about,
so that they may root at every joint. It is of great advantage to keep
the vine from fruiting as long as possible. by pruning all fruit bloom off
until .about, the last week in July; this will give time enough to mature a
Three Hundred Pound Squash by the first of October. for there must be
a big vine to produce a big Squash. I practice fertilizing a few of the
first bloom that come, when I think the vine is strong enough to grow a
good specimen, by cutting off some of the fresh false bloom. trim the
corolla or flower leaf off, and rub the stamen in around the fresh fruit
bloom. This is necessary when fruit bloom opens on a morning that is
unfavorable for bees to do their work, and it assures the setting of the
specimens just when you want them. It also gives extra vigor to the
growth of fruit to be well pollinized. When the first perfect specimens
have set well, say four or five inches in diameter, cut all other fruit and
blossoms off, and nip the ends off vines and all bloom that shows twice a
week, so that the vine is not exhausted with the great quantity of false
bloom that would naturally come. Now while the great growth of the
Squash is going on I use liquid manure twice a week along three or four
of the principal vines of each hill, often six pails to the hill if it is in a
dry time., Great care must be takeni to give plenty of water; for instance,
in 1893,s when I grew the •great' specimen , that..was,:the..largest on.exhibitipn
at Ake World's Fair, it was a dry time with. us. at Goderich, .and, having
the.advantagerof•the'town water service, I sprayed each hill twice a,week
through =August and the first t vo weeks in September, drenching the
ground each time."
P.S. I expect all have heard of feeding • Squash and Pumpkin by
injecting milk or other stuff. This is a ridiculous silly humbug. I have
practiced several methods along this line when I was younger, but it
only makes me ashamed to confess it, and I am now quite satisfied the
only thing that will increase the size of the fruit comes out of the vine,
and the vine must get its support from the natural roots.
Warnock's Giant Squash
and Children's Parade
Wonders of Exhibition
Huron Old Boys
Association of
Toronto
The annual meeting of the above
association was held on Friday even-
ing lastin the Y.M.O.A., Dovercourt
Road, with an attendanee represent-
ing every section of the old county.
The popular'presid'•ent, Ii. M. Jack-
son, occupied the chair, and very en-
couraging reports were read from the
Secretary, 'Treasurer,' Auditors, the
latter showing a comfortable' balance
on hand, and on motion all` reports
were adopted,.
A motion, with a standing vote, was
adopted, thanking the President for
his splendid services during the year,
aleo one of congratulation to Mr. J.
A. McLaren on ' his golden wedding
anniversary.:
TO MR, J. A. I1icLAREN:,
Moved by D. D. Wilson, seconded
by Dr. G. F. Belden—
"That the Huron Old Boys' Associa-
tion, in meeting at the West End Y.
M. C. A., Toronto, en Monday even-
ing, January 29th, 1940, wish to ex-
tend to you and Mrs. McLaren their
heartiest congratulations on the gold-
en anniversary of your wedding,
which we understand is being cele-
brated to -night.
That the members hope that you
and Mrs: McLaren may le blessed
with many more years of happiness
together and wish to express their
deepest appreciation of your many
gifts to this Association and your
interest extending -borer the past forty
years.
That this Association direct the
Secretary to forward the above to
you and Mrs. McLaren, expressing the
hope that the Association will be
honoured with your continued interest
and good fellowship to all Old
Huronites."
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year, viz:
Hon. Presidents, Hon, J. A. Gard-
iner, T. A. Itussall, J. A. McLaren,
E. J. B. Duncan, A. C. MacVicar, Dr.
G. F. Belden.
Hon. Vice Presidents, Mesdames G.
F. Belden, W. A. Buchanan, W. A.
Campbell, D. D. Wilson, G. E. Ferg-
uson, H. J. Hodgins, B. H. McCreath,
L M Pringle, J. Moon, D. Thompson,
G. R. Dane, T. Mustard, Madame Mc-
Creath, Jos. Beck, R. Holmes, S. L.
Scott, E. Floody, Zimmer, M. Mc-
Kenzie, Mr. H. M. Jackson.
President, Dr. J. G. Ferguson; Vice
Presidents, R. Brooks,- W. E. Hanna,
W. F. Cantelon, A: G. Smith, G. M.
Chesney, Dr. B. Campbell, M. Scarlett,
A McQuarrie
Hon. Secretary; E. Floody; Secret-
ary, R. S. Sheppard; Fin. Secretary,
John Moon; Treasurer, Dr. H. J.
Hodgins; Chaplain, Rev: R. C. Mc-
Dermid; Auditors, H. I. Morrish, G.
E. Ferguson; Convenors of Commit-
tees, Reception, Mr. J. G. Ferguson;
Refreshment, Mrs. D. Thompson; Pro-
gramme, S. M. Wickens; Publicity,
E. Floody; Visiting, Mrs. I. H. Brown.
Chairman of District Committees,—
Goderich, B. H. McCreath; Clinton,
E. Floody; Seaforth, Dr. H. J. Hod-
gins; Wingham, R. Brooks; Brussels,
L. M. Pringle; Blyth, J. Moon; Wrox-
eter and Corrie, Geo. Beswetherick;
Bayfield; J. A. Cameron; Exeter, Dr.
Byron Campbell.
By Victor Lauriston in the London anent, the persecution would become
Free Press unbearable,
But when the great afternoon had
It's a long, long time since I saw come and gone, my father relented,
the Great Northwestern Exhibition at with the result that, instead of march-
Goderich, and a still longer time since ing with the other children, I enjoyed
it was an event to which the boys'a personally -conducted evening visit
and girls of the old Central School to the Great Northwestern, a new
eagerly looked forward from the and ravishing experience.
opening of the fall term in August.' Yet, except for a vague impression
I suppose it was the first fall fair of crowds and sunshine and dust,
I ever attended, and to my jadedi there is only one feature of the Great
fancy the New York World's Fair last Northwestern in those bygone days
year was far less alluring. 'that comes back vividly, and to which
The Great Northwestern was one I returned eagerly year after year.
of Huron's most popular institutions.' That was the Warnock Mammoth
To the childnen of the Later 80's and Squash.
early 90's it ,seemed an established' The Warnock Squash couldn't ap-
end perpetual fixture in human af- propriatey be spelled with anything
fairs, very much like Queen Victoria, I but a capital "S". For many years
who had been reigning as long as it was a feature of the fall fair at
any of us could remember, and was, I Goderieh, the cynosure of all eyes,
we subconsciously felt, destined to go including mine. Nothing like it was
on reigning till the end of time. I ever' grown anywhere else in Squash,
dam.
My first fall fair experience must
have been in 1889 — a good, or per-
haps bad, half century ago, when I
was a very young pupil at what even
in those days seemed a very old Cent-
ral School. The Goderich Public
School Board in those days had a
very pleasant arrangement under
which thehili d admission
The Mammonth Squash was grown
by the late William Warnock, in his
gardens on Albert :street, Warnock
was an excellent gardener and horti-
culturist; his fruit, especially grapes,
was famous throughout Huron; but
the Big Squash attained international
recognition.
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BULLET PROOF TYRE
Runs 50 Miles After Being Shot
Through
A British Army lorry has just done
a run of °50 miles after a marksman,
dropping down on one knee, fired
several shots from only a few yards
range at one of its inflated pneumatic'
tyres.
The lorry returned from the, run
with the tyre's efficiency unimpaired
by the' fusillade of bullets which had
gone straight' through' if and. into a
pile of sandbags beyond.
Britain, which gave the world the
pneumatic tyre with the invention of
John Boyd Dunlop just over fifty
years ago, has now perfected an air-
filled tyre which is bullet proof. The,
process is a closely guarded secret'
and is the result of years of research.
The 'tyres are not bullet proof in
the sense that armour plate may be;
although bullets will penetrate them,
there is no immediate deflation, and.
they are so little .affected that vehic-
les fitted with them tall run at nor-
mal speeds to a place of safety for
replacement.
The new cars which are now being
built are flitted with these tyres. More
than 50 types are are being produc-
ed in Britain at a rate exceeding the
pace of production achieved by any
country in the world, and the bullet
proof tyre is only one of .the many
war transport invientions which are
making the mechanised Army the
most efficient ever put into the field.
Ainong special vehicles ane those
fitted' as laboratories, wireless sta-
tions, laundries, 'workshops, offices
and sterilising ,stations.
TAILOR OR EXCHEQUER?
Straight Talk by Overseas Trade
Minister
Britain's exports are going to play
a vital part in shortening the war,"
said Mr. R. S, Hudson, Minister for
Overseas Trade, in a message to
British manufacturers and consumers
the substance of which is "exports
must come first."
Notes
Dr. J. G. Ferguson, the new Presi-
dent, is a native of Morris township.
is popular in the medical profession,
and will be a go-ahead President.
Mr. 11. M. Jackson, the retiring
President, received a special resolu-
tion of thanks for his splendid ser-
viices during the past year.
Mr. W. E. Hanna, Vice President,
is Principal of Humberside Collegiate
Institute.
rc children ren secure a mission Mr. Geo. Beswetherick, chairman of
to the fair at the modest fee of five the •Howick committee, carries on a
cents each. Perhaps it looked bigger to a school millinery business on Danforth Ave.
boy than it would today to a grown W. F. Cantelon, Clinton Old Boy,
On the second afternoon of the. man. But "Believe-It-or=Not Ripley" and West End druggist, was one of
fair the children assembled at the same years ago 'made a feature of the original members of the Associa-
school as usual and secured from the one of Warnock's squashes which at- tion organized in 1900.
There was general regret at the
untimely passing of the late Thorn-
ton Musteil, Principal of the Normal
Indian file clear across town to the How Warnock contrived to produce School. •
fair grounds, handed over their tick- Mr• J. ,A. McLaren was absent for
such monsters is still something of a the evenin
ets, passed through the turnstile, and g•, while attending. his
mystery. A contemporary tradition' olden weddinganniversary,
were left to their own resources. averred that he "fed them milk." g y, but the
I cannot recollect that in my public Another version is that he made in- I members did not forget him..
days bad weather ever inter-
march.
nter- cisions in the Geo, Ferguson told of the apple-
schoolgrowing vegetables ane'
uron
fered in the least with that annual fed them honey. He produced some paring• bees, 30 years ago, and Geo.
were r always skiesbluabove Ltl a ake cinder
sizable pumpkins, probably) by the ' in the matte ofn'speed amst Hulled
same mysterious method, but na. D. Wilson recalled the days when
paths which in those days served as grower since his day has surpassed the D.
m sinal' boy, and "Brown!'
a
sidewalks in the greater part of the his record with the Mammoth Squash.IJackson trained the youth in baseball.
town, were always dry andlittle The Warnock Squash was never a and hockey and they did it well,
' dusty. As I recollect, the only plank disappointment. But one year in, the
walk was that which encircled the 90's when I hadgraduated to the The Annual Picnic will be, belt' ani
' Wednesday, Eine
er in
Square, which, as Huron old boys Gaderie.h High School, there wan 0 Exhibition Grounds19th,
roattlCentro Is -
well
know, is the business centre of dismal disappointment indeed. The
the coanmunity, land. It all depends on big move -
directors, in an enterprising moment, meats of the troops. If the troops
To miss the fair was sheer heart- had engaged a famous aeronaut of are moved to the front, the picnic:break. On, one occasion I went that day, Miss Lulu Randall, to make wall be in• the •sane area as last.
through all the preliminary symp- a balloon ascension and parachute year, if not, at Centre Island.
"toms, After a bout with my annual jump. When the time came, the Mrs, W. D. Sprinks is a new ad -
fall colt}, I'd emerge shakily convales- ero'wd was there, and an its collective dition ,to the Reception, Committee;
cart, but with my upper Hp adorned toes; the hugemass of deflated San- She is a Blyth Old Girl, daughter of
with some Idnd of black disfigure vas representing the balloon was Charles Hamilton.
ment, which, had I been older, might there; Miss Randall was there—but
have been mistaken for an incipient the 'weather was, for once, unpropi-
tious,'and. the ascent was called off
as too dangerous. Not long after the
aeronaut took a chance toe many,
and was killed in a parachute; jump
somewhere in Michigan. '
The last time „I saw the Great.
Northwestern was in the fall of 1906,
when, living away Irani Goderich, ,1
teachers large green tickets. Then
each class, with the teacher in charge,
marched in a seemingly interminable
tained a recorded weight of 362 lbs.
Oddly, this wasn't by any means the
biggest.
moustache. In daylight it was pain-
fully conspicuous, and venturing out
of doors—even to attend the fall fair
-was manifestly' impossible. In my
normal state, the bigger boys —
"Banty" Sharman, !Neck" Tighe,
"Skunk" Watson, "Scrooge" Atkins,
and the rest persecited •me un-
mercifully. With this, added allure- nnade a trip back there at the prop=
itious moment. In. the early evening
I dropped in on Bill Robertson, "Let's
go out to the fan," he suggested. So
I saw it once more, in all its glory.
In fact, I made a retlun trip next
day.
But something was lacking. There
Wasn't' any Mammoth Squash.
"Everything that home consunvers
can do without is something saved
for export trade, a n d therefore a
direct contribution to the success of
the war," he said. "There is no waste
in exports. I • dibi perfectly certain
that every pound and every ton of
raw materials that can be saved for
exports will bring a good return. The
world needs these goods more than
ever; and we need the money.
"As a' homely .example, let us say
the civilian does net buy a suit 'of
clothes. That piece of cloth can be
sold for export, and he can always
lend' the money thus saved to my
colleague the 'Chancellor of the 'Ex-
chequer. 'I do not think he would
refuse to accept it- He has goods
himttlf for sale—bonds and certifi-
sates-•which he will 'be delighted to
trade. And they, unlike •a suit of
clothes, will not wear out.
"One hears people say time is on
our side in this war. It is certainly
not true of our struggle to get our
exports going. Time there is of the
one can say when we can regain
essence of the problem. The markets
are there. If we do not satisfy them
we shall lose them, and once lost no
one can say we can regain them, if
at all."
BRITAIN'S HUGE RAIL ORDER
£9,750,000 for Wagons, Engines
and Equipment
Then thousand good wagons and
240 locomotives, together costing
£8,000,000, are being built in Britain
for use as section of the French rail-
ways operated by the British Army.
About £1,750,000 worth of railroad
and dockside equipment has also been
ordered.
The locomotives, which can be used
in Britain after the war, will be of
the latest tendertype for heavy goods
work on the London Midland and
Scottish Railway, and are known to
engineers, and to many schoolboys, as
"2-8-0", which refers to their two
front bogie wheels and eight large
wheels.
The 'huge order for the B.E.F. will
not prevent British engineers from
continuing to build for overseas cust-
omers.
"After negotiations with the Min -
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NOW
On Monday, February 12th, the Canadian
Legion launches a financial:appeal for $500,000
to Carry `on`a great, new, and much needed
program of eiducatdona1 and personal services
among out' eniisted�nen.;
While the first job; isto, win the war, every •
men must be prepared for the inevitable return
to Civil Life. Tlib Canadian Association for
Adult Education is collaborating with the -
Legion to provide educational and vocational .
training for our mon.
Through its 1100 branches in Canada the,
Legion will assist in the solution of personal.
and business problems. Soldiers free of private.:
worries are better soldiers. Legion services ,
will also, include facilities ..for • leave,sports,
reading, soldiers'. concert parties• andother•
entertainment.-
Giye generously to this, great, new cause.,
Send or take your contribution to your nearest:'
Legion branch.
NATIONAL APPEAL, FEBRUARY 12th
CANADIAN LEGION WAR SERVICES
FOUCATIONAI ANO PERSONAL SERVICE APPEAL
istry of Supply we were able to agree
on the amount of producing capacity
to be demoted to munitions, the
amount for B.E.F. locomotives, and
the amount that was to be devoted
to export trade," said Mr. R. S.
Hudson, Secretary for the Department
of Overseas Trade. "We sent tele-
grams to our representatives abroad
telling them 'You can now approach
our customers in the important mar-
kets and say that if they will place
orders at once for locomotives, we can
guarantee delivery'."
The endurance qualities of British
locomotives are famous throughout
the world. Six of the world's largest
metre -gauge engines made for Kenya
and a diesel locomotive for the
world's highest railway, in Bolivia,
were among British achievements in
1939. Orders have also been given
for 58 locomotives for Turkey and
big consignments of rolling stock for
Egypt and South Africa.
RESIGNS PASTORATE
BRUSSF.r —Rev. Harry J. Mal-
oney, minister of Brussels United.
church, announced at the annual
meeting of the congregation that he
will relinquish his pastorate on June
30th 1940.
NORTH HURON LIBERALS
NOMINATE ON FEB. 12
Meeting in a 'closed sedsion the
executive of the North Huron Liberal,
Association selected Monday, Feb-
ruary 12th, at Wingham town hall as
time and place for their nominating
convention to select a candidate for
the forthcoming federal election. The
1 convention will convene at 1.30 p.m.
'According to President R. S. Hether-
ington the meeting last Thursday was
enthusiastic with only one of the 32'.
executives absent, the absent member
I being ill.
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