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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-03-20, Page 7GDi i N THIUPNB Gordon Fmt.ih Thanks to the plant breeders it is now possible to get a much longer `supply of tender vege- tables just at their best, Corn Is a notable: example. Not so Iongago there Was very little choice, mostly just one Golden` Bantam and one or, two whites like the old Country Gentlemen or Stowell's Evergreen More- over in a great many places we couldn't get a variety hardy and quick enough to be sure of a crop. It is very different now With the new hybrids we can sow an early, medium and late and have a continuous feast from 65 clays or even ,less on- ward. And there has been a lot of similar improvement in other vegetables too. They grow fast- er, are more tender, yield big- ger crops and are more resistant to disease and bugs. Like women's styles, flowers and vegetables are constantly changing but for the latter at least these changes are an im- provement, LABOUR SAVERS There are all sorts of new things in the seed stores now that will help make gardening easier and more interesting, short cuts, back savers, new weed and pest controls, For instance there are metal and other strips on the market that are used to keep grass out of flower beds and flowers out of grass. Sunk flush with the ground they are invisible and one can run the lawnmower or edging tool right over them, There are new chemicals which will kill twleh grass and all sorts of other weeds. Some are dug in, some are sprayed on. They will save a lot of hard work. There are soil condition- ers and chemicals to turn, refuse into valuable humus. There are our old friends the little waxed paper tents, that look like straw hats. These are really minature greenhouses only they require much less at- tention. They are used for plac- ing over tender plants like tomatoes, petunias and such things which we can set out two or three weeks earlier if we keep them covered with these inexpensive caps until weather is safe and warm. We can also use over tiny beds where we have sown extra flowers or melons or cucumbers and thus lengthen the season by nearly a month. In the new tools, hand and power, there are a great many useful labour savers. There are sweepers that keep lawns look- ing like fine broadloom, special edging tools that eliminate stooping, automatic watering hoses and sprinklers, long han- dled hoes, rakes and cultivators to save backs, dusters, sprayers, both hand and power operated. There are flowers, feeds, shrubs and other things that are used to attract the birds and there are whirling devices and noises makers to do the very opposite, STRAIGHT ROWS HELP Using a string to keep vege- table rows straight and regular spacing within the rows is not just an indication of neatness or fussiness. The wise gardener does this so that he will know where to expect the things he has planted and thus can safely cultivate' even before they come up. Corn and potatoes and many other things, and especially the first, sowings, may take a week or more to show up. If we wait until they are plainly seen we may have a weed battle on our hands. If we mark the rows and know that each hill within the row is say 18 inches or two feet `part, then we can go ahead OPENING WITH A BANG — Spring training is a time when rookies try their hardest to make the big leagues and even old. pro Freddie Hutchinson shows the determination of a youngster. The St. Louis Cardinals' manager was batting out fly balls for outfield prospects. Britain Thsrough As Major Power ? Joseph Alsop, an astute if seldom optimistic observer of the world scene,. has revisited Lon- don and set in motion a debate among British writers, publish- ers, and politicians by concluding that Britain is on the verge of accepting defeat in its efforts to remain a major world power. The Alsop thesis is partially documented by such attitudes as that of Ludovic Kennedy, nearly saccess£ul Liberal Party candi- date in the recent Rochdale by- election. Mr. Kennedy takes as his political premise that Britain no longer can afford to be both d great nuclear power and also a welfare state, and hence had better give up trying to be a great nuclear power. What might be called the Alsop -Kennedy debate bears heavily on Britain's future value to the United States as an ally. If the alternative is as clear and simple as Mr. Kennedy puts it and a choice is forced on the British nation, the chances are it would elect to subside into being a welfare state, at which point the United States would cease to possess the invaluable partnership of a robust and sometimes independent thinking ally — and Alsop premonitoins of Western doom would appear to have further support, But what is the real propor- tion of these matters? Beyond doubt Britain, like all Western countries, is passing through a phase of truly agoniz- ing reappraisal of its world role. • The road ahead is not clear or easy, and there is a confusion of conflicting views about how the compass course should be set. Problems are infinitely less simple than in the days of World. War II, when it was just a matter of straining to the utmost to make headway against the pur- poses of our enemies. For example, does it really make sense for Britain to spend, a substantial proportion of its budget on being a nuclear power when Washington disposes of probably enough nuclear power to serve the purposes of military deterrence? Would it not make as much or more sense for Brit- ain to leave the deterrent role to its bigger and richer ally and concentrate instead on comple- and cultivate right from plant- ing time and weed killing will be no trouble at all. As a mat- ter of fact one is quite safe to cultivate both corn and pota- toes lightly right over rows for the first time or two. ARCH OF TRIUMPH—Crowds, of cheering Syrians parade under an arch in Damascus as they carry banners bearing the picture of Egyptian' President Gomel Abdel Nasser. Theyre'celebrating the outcome of the plebiscite in Syria and Egypt which almost unanimously approved the merger of the two countries, They Also approved Nasser as the first President of the United Arab Republic. menting United Statim deterrent power with conventional weap- ons and forces? There might be more need for the conventional power someday, and it is in- creasingly in short supply. These are valid questions, aL- though the answers are not clear. Many London thinkers are seeking the answers without claiming to know them, But the budgetary saving would he smaller than would seem rea- sonable to expect. Only about a '!fifth of the British military budget actually goes for nuclear power, and some of this would be spent on research for peace- time purposes anyway. Again, what is Britain's fu- ture pattern of relations? Can it find its destiny primarily with the Commonwealth or with the United States or should It at long last cast in its lot with Western Europe? There are strong arguments in favor of each one of the three courses, but as yet the argument is not conclusive. It is an interesting commentary cn the difficulty of the problem that Harold Macmillan started. his prime ministry on a policy of moving toward Western Eu- rope and found himself after nis first year closer to Washington and much further away from Paris and Berlin. The idea of British participa- tion in either a European cus- toms union or free trade area is apparently in abeyance. Yet, at the very moment when the pro- ject of economic integration wan Western Europe seems to have been downgraded, the American economy hesitated enough to raise grave doubts about the wisdom of tying closer tie, across the Atlantic as an al- ternative. For Britain the course ahead is definitely unclear alike in military, political, and economic affairs. It cannot abandon a world role in any one of the three areas. For one reason, its welfare state is based on world trade without which there would be major unemployment at home. Britain is the last country in the world which could afford economic isolation. And if it must trade, it also must preserve its Commonwealth ties, its al- liance -ties, and that means in- evitably a share in the defense of the alliance. No one yet has come along who can see the right way ahead as clearly as Winston Churchill did during the war and thus be able to convince all others. Until such a person does emerge, there will be, conflict of council in Britain and agonizing reappraisal there as in other allied countries. A new sense of vision certainly is needed for the whole Western alliance. Until it emerges, there is bound to be confusion and perplexity. But it is out of just such perplexity that new vision is generated. —By Joseph C. Hersch in The Christian Science Monitor. REAL DELICACY "My wife is a remarkable cook," said the city man. 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