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By John C. Kirkwood
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You can be taught fishing - ang- held this month h New York.
For the most part men's garden
clubs have been formed. by, small,
groups of :professional and business
men with a common interest in gar-
dening. lisuually a small group - 10
or more in number -form to,establish
a club. In some communities an in-
formal noonday luncheon brings the
members together. Informed gar€ten-
ers, who have skill and experience,
may give 'their help and wisdom to
the others present. Sonia of the larg-
er clubs isstie monthly bulletins -
mimeographed. The main effort of
the club is directed toward the goal
of improving. amateur horticulture.
• ling - by Columbia University! An
eottensien course of this institution
teaches one about baits, hires and
plugs, how to cook your catch, •and
how to mount your big ones, and a
great deal else. The course is nam-
ed "The Theor=y and Praotiee of Fresh
Water Angling." What' a fine Christ-
mas gift this 'course would be! You
just pay for it and wish it on that
kinsman or friend of yours who bores,
you with fish talk.
About that word "bore.", I heard
ai, definition of it which was new to
• me. A bore is a man who persists
in talking about himself when you
want to talk about yourself.
Now and then Herr Hitler thanks
God for something or 'other, which
suggests that he has religious im-
pulses. And the German people, whom
we have come to believe are not very
saintly, bought more Bibles in 1939
• than they did in the preceeding year.
Perhaps they think that the posses-
sion of a Bible is a talisman - even
as do many of us who live in Canada,
They bought 275,000 Bibles in 1939,
and only 108,000 in 1938. Poland
likewise increased its purchases of
The fairy tale of "Jack and the
.Beanstalk" had its root in magic
beans. But there really is a magic
bean - the soya bean. Out of its
substance many things are or can
be made flour, margarine, plastics.
Soya beans are much relied on in
Germany for food and margarine.
They are rich in protein and oil. In
1935.36 German imports of soya
beans amounted to about 500,000
tons. By 1938 the imports rose to
800,000 tons, and in the first half
of 1939 the imports were r500,600
Bibles - from 54,00 in 1938 to 135,000 tons. Most of these supplies were
in 1939. In Belgium the 1939 sales obtained from Manchuria. Ever since
were double those of 1938. The same 1933 Germany has been financing the
is true of Roumania and Hungary. cultivation of the soya bean in Rou-
In China the 1939 sales rose 10 per! mania, in Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia.
-cent in 1939 - the total being about! The Germans paid $10,000,000 in ad
2%a million copies. In Japan, how- vane for crops of soya grown on a
ever, 1939 sales slipped - from 544,-1 million acres in Bessarabia - now oc-
000 opies in 1938 to 363,000 in 1939.! cupied by . Russia.
These figures have been obtained! It is both passible and probable
front the British and Foreign Bible that much' of the food supply of the
Society in London. I German army is soya bean products.
Iced coffee is regarded by many as! It is a safe guess to make - that
-one of the noblest of summer drinks.1 you have never beard of Dr. Lewis
To be at its test, it should be fresh- I M, Terman, inventor of the intern -
made. You pour it into tall glasses gence test. In the early 1920's Dr.
nearly filled with ice; add heavy , Terman selected - or singled ,out - by
cream, plain or whipped, and the mteliigenoe tests 1300 exceptionally
right amount of powdered sugar. 1 bright children from 200 children
Coffee is the standard drink of the' in eack of 300 California schools.
people of the United States. During' These 1300 persons have been kept
the first four months of this year ;under observation ever since they
they drank over 682,000,000 lbs. of were picked out for acute attention.
Their present ages range from 22 to
37. About 90 per cent of thein enter-
ed college, and 93 percent of them
graduated. Two-thirds of the men
and one-half of the women did grad-
uate work, and today 50 are Ph. D's,
50 are doctors of medicine, 85 are
lawycre, and 35 hold graduate engin
fee is almost tops with the Eskimos eers' or architects' degrees. The aver-
age income at 30 years of 'age is
$3000 for the group, A dozen are
earning between $10,000 and $15,000.
Two-thirds are married, The divorce,
mortality and insanity rates are be-
low the average.
it - or about 5 lbs. per capita. But
omitting little children and, let us
say, Indians, the average per capita
Consumption in these four months!
might be nearer 10 lbs. than 5 or'
more than a pound per month.
The Italians want coffee even as
they do wine, and in Greenland cof- C
rT'H URS., JULY 25, 1946
IL OSTER OF
LAZY MEADOWS'
By Harry J. Boyle
• "HONESTY"
Fletcher Witley has quite a reputa-
tion as a man of level thinking. He
once spoke of them being few honest
men, and I rather laughed at the idea:
After thinking it over, however, with
a certain amount' of natural evidence,
I've had some interesting 'thoughts.
MTs, Phil was shocked beyond.
words last night when, her eonnmer-
cial travelling cousin; Popped • ,in for
the night. He presented her with a
pair of bath towels!, and she was
pleased until she found the name of
an hotel on them. However, he just
laughed and said, "Oh, they're just.
souvenirs, You pay for therm in your
hotel bill!"
This souvenir -hunting business may
be perfectly legitimate; but somehow
it doesn't seem honest. It makes me
think of the time that we raised six
fine collie pups from infancy to a
point where they could be sold. Com-
ing out of Tim Murphy's store the
sound of a pup yapping in a tourist's
car attracted by attentionto where
an overgrown boy of fourteen or fif-
teen was holding on to a pup. It was
certainly one of the collies from Lazy
Meadows, and the tourist - who was
having the car filled with gasoline
argued that it was a souvenir they
had picked up in a farmer's lane -
way. After several minutes and
argument :he handed back the sou-
venir.
among things of desire.
Man is forever trying to gyp Na-
ture. Take the case of quinine, by
way of example, This is' a natural
product, being obtained for the most
part from the Dutch East Indies.
Should supplies of quinine from this
source be cut off, as a consequence *
of war, then man will make it
synthetically - just as he is making
rubberand vitamins and silk and so *
many other natural products in the
laboratory,
THE WEED OF THE
WEEK
POISON IVY
Quinine, an anti -malarial, has its e
consumption increased by war, and is, .
of course, always in demand for colds Poison Ivy may be found growing
and chills-. The name of the artificial under a variety of conditions through
product is "atabrine," Its use 1s said out Old or Southern Ontario. Every -
to be more efficient, restoring the, orle should be familiar with it and
sufferer to normal life and usefulness should' take immediate steps to eredi-
enuch sooner than is the case when cafe it. It is sometimes mistaken
quinine is used. for Virginia Creeper, though is easily
Another natural product now being `distinguished by its leaves which are
trade artifically is cryolite - a min -
the
groups. of three, whereas those of
oral found in commercial quantities j the Virginia Creeper are in fives.
only in Greenland, where it has been I The leaves of Poison Ivy are quite
mined for a century and more - sand smooth, glossy and firm,
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in only one spot in Greenland - Ivig-1 Poison Ivy hesa distressing toxic
tut. Cryolite is otxensively used in action on the skin. The active man -
the making et aluminum. It is a ciple of the plant is an oil which is
mineral which has the appearance of present throughout root, stem, leaf,
alum. But if anything should hap- flower and fruit and even, the easily
pen to make Greenland cryolite dif- I detached hairs. Tearing or bruising
fieult to obtain, then the mein. of 1 of any part liberates 'the oil which
science would compound it - as they comes in contact with exposed parts
are alrady doing on 'a commercial of the body.
scale. • -
"•- Poison Ivy can be .entirely eradi-
cated by the use of chemical sprays.
' About Greenland and Ivigtut. If One nsetbod is to dissolve 1 pound
you have believed Greenland to be a of Sodiiiin Chlorate in 1 pound of
Godforsaken country, then let this Elephant Brand Ammonium Sulphate
change your mind: at Ivigtut there to 1 gallon of water . and spray to
is -a community telephone exchange.) sutdration any time alter the middle
There is a public water -works sysel of •June, using a fine nozzle sprayer
tem: In .most homes - there are not with as much pressure as possible.
100 of them - are to be found elect-; Wet the infested area thoroughly.
rically - operated gramophones and ; Use Eelephant Brand Ammonium
very choice records. In many hones Sulphate,
are short-wave radio sets. There is
a community dance hall, and those) CAUTION: Da not mix sodiumChloratego to the dances go in formal, Chlorate and Amntoniunt Sulphate in
attire in "tails", in.the case of men. dry form., Each ingredient should
And they have daylight-saving there!' be put separately into the welter -
black flies and mosquitoes! In i nted%:stely before spraying.
Ivigtut the eartire population is Dan- A second method is to spray with
ish - n0im
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E k os.
Killer, o rad
Atlaculc Weed 1Ci er, 2 lr u s per
And on the bleak East Coast the gallon of water. Apply this solution
women wear calico skirts - in sum= in the form of a fine spray any time
mertiane, and in other ways are being during the growing season. If new
Europeanized or; Americanized. , growth -appears late in the fall a
A letter posted in Ivigtut on June second spraying will be necessary.
28th reached Toronto. on July 9th;
and it was not carried by airmail. 1 Thorough cultivation will eradicate
Poison Ivy. Handpulling is often.
the simplest way to eradicate it from
The gregarious nature of male be-' very small areas. Trailing parts
ings'has led them, all the United .should be pulled or grubbed out.
States, to •forrn local garden clubs. Gloves should be worn and proeau-
Pr.•oba.bly'in.Canada are to be found tions taken to prevent transferring
such clubs, So highly developed has the oil to the elan. Persons highly
the movement for "more pants in, the, susceptible. to poisoning should leave
garden" become that a national con- the workto others, Cattle, sheep and
aeration of ig.es's' Garden 'Clubs was goats relish Poison Ivy, •and can :pas,
Banks seldom make mistakes. In
the village branch bank yesterday a
than orated loudly on the swindling
tactics of the bank and cited the
case loud enough for everybody to
hear how he bad just been cheated.
The teller checked up and paid him
out fourteen cents of a mistake which
be had made. That man was quite
right in demanding his full amount,
but it seems -strange . to recall how
just a few weeks previously he cash-
ed a cheque and received an extra
two dollar bill. He didn't take it
back because, as he expressed it,
"The banks make it out of us any-
way. They'll make a mistake some
day in their own favor and I won't
notice it!"
® Greater safety every male of the
way. That's why we're proud to tell
you about Dunlop `Fort'.„ the -
world's finest ...the only tie with
2000 solid tubber teeth . over 5000
sharp edges to bite and grip the
road for silent, safer traction on all -
roads in all weathers. , r
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G. WATERS Automotive Parts
NEDIGER'S GARAGE
Chevrolet & Oldsmobile Dealer
LESLIE BALL, Pontiac Dealer,
Londesboro.
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SOWING SEEDS
OF BIENNIALS
Something for nothing! That's the
rule of the clay with a great many
people. Of course, there's always an
argument to make it seem honest.
Take a day off in the Fall and come
back in the middle of the afternoon.
The chances are you'll find somebody
filling the back of their car with
apples. Generally it's some folks from
;the city , . some distant relations
who say, "We knew you wouldn't
mind because you've got so much of
this kind of stuff anyway."
Another very honest kind of man
is the one who borrows your tools
He's generally in a hurry ... and
he's broken something . or he's
going to town in the afternoon, to
buy one . . . and could he borrow
such and such, Yes, he'll bring it
back at such and sueh a time. He's
always careful to tell the exact time
when it will be returned. Days go by,
and weeks . . - and years . and
when you try to claim it he'll pro-
fess ignorance of having ever bor-
rowed a certain hammer or saw. He
claims to have the bill in the house
showing wheeze he purchased it. Per-
haps he forgets]
How many men doctor up a heavey
horse and then after propping him up
in a corner say without flinching,
"Sound as a dollar." It's all in the
spirit of good clean fun known as
horse -trading. There's no harm in
doing it, of course, because the fel-
low you're dealing with would do it
to yen.
How many pounds of clay and sand
have been sold as potatoes? We won't
discuss the men who fill up -the centre
of the bags with a stove -pipe and
stories. That's dishonest. But, it's
perfectly all right to sift four or five
pounds of, clay or sand into a bag of
potatoes and sell it all by weight,
Perhaps!
The church is another institution
in which there's fun to be had. Some
men take the most delight in pawn-
ing off slugs and plugged nickels on
the church. I guess they must think
that clergymen have the right to use
that kind of currency without clanger
of being classed as dishonest.
My, oh my, but the human race
has strange codes of scruples. A man
who would take you to the Supreme
Court if youmentionedhis being dis-
honest will do the strangest things
just because he feels nobody knows
the difference. •
(Experhnental Farms News)
Biennials are plants that flower
the year following the sowing of the
seed and then die. July and August
are the best months to sow the seed.
A cold frame or open bed can be
used, or, if there is only a small
amount of seed of a variety, pots or
flats are convenient. A suitable cam -
Post is madeup of loam, leaf mould
and sand. In the open ground the
surface soil should be well broken up
and made fine as for other seeds,
If a place which is shaded from the
hottest sun can be found, it is best,
but if none is available then scene
artificial shade should be provided.
The seed should be sown in drills
about six inches apart and about one-
half inch deep. The seed should be
sown very thinly and the weeds
should be destroyed as soon as seen.
The young plants should be trans-
planted inta cold frames or prepared
beds as soon as they are large enough
to handle. If the seedlings have
room to develop in the seed bed they
need not be transplanted, although it
is better to do it. A dull showery
day should be chosen for this work,
if possible, and the plants should be
shaded for a few days. Some of the
best known biennials are Canterbury
Bells. The young plants should be
kept in a cold frame over winter in
districts where the climate is severe.
They flower in June. There are sev-
eral varieties, some of which have
single flowers; others are double. The
cup and saucer forms are described
by the name. The seed can be ob-
tained in pink, mauve, white, .or in
mixture.
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be ploughed into the soil as soon as
possible after spreading.
It is sometimes desirable to store
manure to kill weed seeds or to place
it in a pile to prevent washing .on
sloping land or to meet some other
large amounts of the soluble matter'
contingency. When stored in this
way, leaching by rain "may. remove
Iarge amounts of soluble matter
from the manure. Much of this loss
can be avoided by building a well
compacted high heap on a relatively
small base. The manure at the top
will be leached but this will serve as
a seal to prevent access to air to
the lower layers. Keeping the pile
compect and excluding air encour-
ages fermentation and retains fertil-
ity elements. A good method is to
pile the manure on a concrete founda-
tion with walls high enough to' retain
the liquid portion. Re -distributing
the drained liquid over the pile helps
to keep the manure moist and aids
the fermentation: process. Driving
the team and wagon over the pile or
allowing animals to trample over it
helps to keep it compact.
It is not always possible to follow
the ideal method but is is well to -
keep in mind the principles involved
and as far as possible made an ef-
fort to avoid losses of fertility ele-
ments.
Sweet William with its flat clust-
ers of bright coloured flowers is well
{ known. The young plants can be
( planted in the beds in autumn and
• will generally survive the winter. The
seeds can be obtained in separate col-
ours or in mixture.
Siberian Wallflower (Cheiranthus
Allianii) has orange coloured blooms
which are very snowy in June or lat-
er, according to the size of the plant.
They self sow and the plants niay
spring up in unexpected places,
Bedding Violas and Pansies should.
be sown at this time. At Ottawa
these plants are wintered in cold
frames. They require rich soil for
best results, and some old manure
should be mixed with the soil when
filling the cold frame in which they
are to grow.
Hollyhocks have tall spikes of
showy Dowers. If the seed is sown
now the plants should be large
enough to put out in September. Af-
ter the ground is frozen some brush
or cornstalks should be laic, over
them to protect them from the alter-
' nate freezing and thawing which is
so harmful to plants.
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Cai'e of Barnyard Manure
ture in it without any harmful ef-
fects.
Space does not permit a1en t
hy
discussien of treatment for poisoning
so. it is suggested that all interested
persons should write the Crop, Seeds
and Weeds Branch, Parliament Build-
ings, Toronto, for the pamphlet,
"Poison Ivy." It will be sent lin-
mediately free of charge.
Ontario, with its thousands of
children and its ,enormous revenue
derived annually from tour'i'sts,.
cannot afford to neglect this
weed. Municipalcouncils, organiza-
tions, summer resort owners, park
commissioners, 'school trustees, toad
authorities and the general public
are urged to !completely eradicate
this weed.
(Experimental Farms News)
As manure is so valuable for main-
taining crop production and as losses
in its plant food can take place so
readily its care and preservation can-
not be emphasized too strongly, A
number of important points might be
suggested which will lead to- consider-
able saving of the valuable fertiliz-
ing nutrients in manure. '
First of all, says J. Mooney, Field
Husbandry Division, Experimental
Farms Service, Dominion Depart-
ment of Agriculture, precautions
should be taken to see that the liquid
portion: is not lost. In the stable, this
includes providing plenty of bedding
material to absorb the liquid, Straw
is probably the most satisfactory
material and is available on most live
stock farms. f
• rm . Ii suf icient straw is
not available, sawdust, fine shavings,
peat moss or dried peat may be used..
Superphosphate scattered thinly on
the floors lessens the odours of the
stable, absorbs some liquid anal im-
proves the balance of plant food of
the manure. All cracks or Weeks in
the gutters should; be repaired to
avoid seepage through the floors.
Hauling manure directly from: the
stable to the 'field and spreading it
daily is a good practice. 'If manure
spread on the field is subjected to
warm city wirkis, considerable loss of
nutrients may occur. It is recom-
mended, therefore, that the manure
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MORE THAN 7,000,000
"EDGE TOOLS"
To Be Made By Britain Por ,
World's Farmers
Britain's edge tool industry has
organised its own Export Group to
send overseas this year more than
7,000,000 "pieces", nearly all of them
agricultural implements. These are,
for the most part, plantation hoes,
forks, picks, spades, shovels, scythes
and hatchets used in the production,
of sugar, tea, coffee, rice, maize,
cocoa, cotton, rubber, palm oil, soya
beans, oranges and bananas.
About two thirds of them will go
to the Empire including Australia,
New Zealand, India, Ceylon, Burma,
Cyprus, Malaya, North Borneo and
the Mandate of Palestine. The others
will be exported to Greece, China,
Indo-China, the Netherlands East In-
dies and the Philippine Islands.
The plant is stow at work, for the
greater part in the' English Midlands,
on this considerable output, It has an
important bearing on Britain's food.
supply which might suffer from lack
of tools for agriculture; indeed, after
30 months of the last war the dearth
of tools in Nyasaland became so
acute that the Government made an
order that their manufacture should
take precedence over, war work al-
ready in hand.
CHEESE EXPORTERS TO
REPORT HOLDINGS
Another order of the Dairy Pro-
ducts Board under date of July llth
states: "That all cheese exporters,
wholesale cheese dealers, distributing
warehouses for retail shops, manu-
facturers of process cheese and any
other organization in Canada holding
more than 200 boxes of Cheddar
cheese must report immediately to
the Dairy Products Board, Ottawa,
the quantity held by such organiza-
tion on the first day of July, 1940,
irrespective of where such cheese is
stored, indicating the quantity of the
total held for •domestic trade and the
quantity, if any, held for expert.
Monthly reports containing informa-
tion as outlined must be furnished
t4 the Dairy Products Board, Ottawa,
showing the stocks of cheese on hand
on the first day cif each calendar
month, and should reaeh the office of -
the Board on a date not later than
the 5th of the month.
"YOUR HOSIB STATION"
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1200 kes, WINGRAM 250 metres .
WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT&
FRIDAY, JULY 26th:
8.00 am, Breakfast Club
9.00 a.m. Piano Ramblings,
10.30 a.m, Salvation Army
7.00 pro., The Four Belles
SATURDAY, JULY 27th:
10.30 a.m. Shut -Ins' Program
12.45 p.m. Bill, Pete, Shorty
6.15 p.m. Harty J. Boyle
7.45 p.m. Barn Dance
SUNDAY, JULY 28th:
11.00 a.m. St. Paul's Anglican
12.80 pan. Harry 5. Boyle
1.00 p.m. Melody Time
7.00 p.m. St. Andrew's Pres.
MONDAY, JULY 29th:
1.00 pan. Gene Autry
7,00 p.m. The Novatones
'7.15 pain. "Eb 5c Zeb"
8.00 p.m. Sarah and Her Guitar
TUESDAY, JULY 30th:
10.30 sen. Church of the Air
12.45 p.m. Songs for the Soldier*
1.30 pan. Glad Tidings
7.00 p.n1. Joyce Alhnand
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3ist:
8.00 a,m. Breakfast Chub
9.00 aan. Piano Ramblings
6.15 p.m. Harry J. Boyle
7.00 p.m. The Four Showmen.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1st:
11.00 a.m. Piano • Ramblings
7.00 p.m. Gwen Williams
7.30 p.m. Xing's Hawaiians
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