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A. good evil should eon ist
about 45 per vent leek material, 5
per Teitt olganie matter. 3() (col
cent air and 20 per cent watt r. Fie
•quent additions orgitate
arintially if possible, ;nut the least
practical ainettuit of tillage con
stitute much towned keeping the
soil in this woodition. A good start
on veil a program could be Made
this fall.
All soils, escePt Peat tout inuck
labia ;are ;organic soils, originate
front some kind of rock. 1 a piece
of rock ht heated and then .cold
water poured ;over ;it, it will break
into pieces. That is exaetly what
happeue. iu nature. The sInl heat,:
the rock and then rain ;or slum
suddenly ;fools it, with the result
that it cracks. Water seeps down
into the cratits,•and ,when it freezes
it enlarges them possibly Conning
come new °nee. This foicreful break-
ing of the sock la the first step in
the formation ;of any and all
Further Breakdown
As the rain water falls ;to the
earth, it picks elp small atuounts .of
substances that form creak mitts, in
the soil, these ;Mktg set on the
freshly broken rock, helping to
break it into still sandier pieces
and liberating .cliemical .compounds
that plants are able to use.as food.
The breaking down ;oi melt by
chemical and mechanical means is
called weathering.
As rock weathers, it forms parti•
;cies that vary greatly in sizes. Some
may be as large ae .gravel and
;others the size ,of sand. The latter
are a .good bit smaller than gravel,
but they are -still large .enough so
that separate !pieces .can ;be seen,
Some,of the rocks chunk ;down into
particles tailed -silt, which are so
smallethat they ;cannot cbe seen With
the naked. c_eye, Amu ;must be ob-
served -under .a microseope.
Importance ;of Clay
Finally, sonte;voek "beeontes cies,
which has particles so small that
many r of them ;cannot .even be seen
With an ;orclinatie •Microscope. In
wet -weather, :these small ,elay 'par-
tieles .may :absorb water and •swell
up 'like Are, .then cdey .out and he -
tome .small. again. These small ;c1w
particles .are the chemically :acfive
fraction ccd the soil ileum which
plants tobtiin most ,of their nutri-
ents, so Important to good 'healthy
growth.
Nut all trock's are alike, and that
is ,why soils ;differ in varied local-
ities. .Some weather So produce a
large cpereentage.of ,cley, With little
sand and Silt; others become mostly
sand, and ;others -mostly silt. Soils.
however, were not necessarily pro -
Ahmed in the plaoe where they are
?gm island. In same cases, the rock
was ground exp by a glacier, and The
small Pieces transported by wind
-or water to a new location.
If these steal particles occurred
as separate pieces, they would form
A -compact mass. This is easily illus-
trated by -filling a glass of water
with
the following materials:
Marbles to represent gravel, buck -
bot for sand, table salt for silt and
icer for clay. The result would be
A close -fitting mass, since the smale
ler particles fill in the spaces be-
tween the larger ones.
Room for Air
A compact rock mixture made of
the various -sized particles might not
support plant _growth, because it
would be so dense as to exclude
air and water. What prevents the
solid packing of soil in nature is
that clay particles combine into
slumps or aggregates in which per-
ItaPs 1,000 or more particles are
joined together.
If organic material is present in
the soil, it will form a coating to
bind the clay aggregate together
weakly. On drying out, a granule
HERE'S VISIIINS Cir BACK AGAIN
WITH MORE VOCAL FIREWORKS
When he's not &peaking, Aedrei
anearievich Vishinsley is a smil-
ing, benign, .grandfatherly type of
man. But nobody ever accused him
•of anything like that settee he
hegine talkittg.
Russia% Foreign Miatiste,e, who
heads the Soviet delegation to the
UN's September 'General Assembly
is about as ;bombastic an orator as
Russia has ,on its team. Just as
;devious as Malik and sarcastic as
Gromyko, he has .a .fine explosive
-quality all Ids own.
Vishinsky's .vocal .fireworks first
splashed into prominence in 1936-38,
when he was prosecutor ;of the
Trottleyist Zinovief er ro r i $ t"
groups in Moscow. A .cierrespon-
•dent, reporting the trial, wrote then:
"Some .of his former students
gasped as they saw She once -mild-
mannered professor turn tiger, run
his hand over his teed hair, shout
until his pince-nez trembled on his
nose and hurl blazing epithets at
the soused:"
*
The red hair is now white and
the -pince-nez have been replaced
•by plain spectacles, but the Mae -
is formed that may retain its form
for several months. The granule
leaves ;open spaces in the soil, in
the way a particle of sand does,
which permits free movement of
air and water—and the ,develop-
ment of plant roots.
Cultivates Hints
Too much tilling of the soil han-
ders air circulation rather than
helping it, Inc when eais worked,
some -of the clay aggregates are
destroyed. The soil becomes so tern -
pact that there is little room for
air, water and for the hairs of the
roots.
Addition of organic material and
a period of rest are the most effi-
cient ways of restoring the produc-
tivity of such massed soil. The
drying action of sun and freezing
temperatures also do much to help
the process. Cover crops serve a
dual purpose. They add organic
matter when plowed under: also,
the roots of winter rye and other
plants of the grass family do much
to encourage the reforming of the
clay aggregates, to bring soil back
into a condition that will produce
the kind of plants every good gar-
dener wants to grow. Cover crops
are sown in late summer and
through the fail, and are dug un-
der in early spring.
German K,K.K„—Tjqing- a wine cellar and candlelight, members.
of a Kilt-Kittj-1<lan in .ivitinitili, Germany, e.wear in a new !nun-
ber at (-emir e, to 1 the only •K.K.K. outside of the
wae started by trounbers Of a Gerrnart
• Artists! club, Tigette;;1 the Germans wear boo& like American
Ku-Xfuxers, their rtile3 awl laws are reported to he different.
ing epithets ere, still around. One
spectator, svh.e witnessed a Vishin-
sky outburst on his last visit here,
said. "I bet if they looked down
his throat they'd itsd claws on his
vocal chords."
Nowadays. Visbinekete is at. his
oratorical best in his attacks ou
the United States. He has re-
peatedly blasted U.S. "reactionary
circles" for "war-mougering." He
has accused the U.S.. of holding the
atom bomb .as a "sword of Damo-
cles suspended over our heads by
a single thread." His speeches are
usually lengthy. punctuated with
wild wavings of the arms and spiced
with little fables and quo.tatiena
'On at les:: one •-occasion, his
love of fables and quotatione, got
him into trouble—literary tremble,
at any rate. At the Paris Foreign
Ministers' .Confereece fast year, he
tossed in what he said was a -quoea-
tion from the Bibles -You should
not try to cath fleas. lest et carnet
slip through your fingers."
4
That gent etarted a 25 -minute
discussion among the delegates re-
garding fleas. camels end the Bible.
Other delegates said the quotation
didn't appear ie. their Bibles. Fin-
ally, Visbinsky said he leas teuoring
the St, Vladimir version. That
ended the dismission.
He is also given to angry on -
bursts against everything in gen-
eral and r.othing in particular. like
this one at tite General Assembly
meeting last year: "A time will
come when vengeance will be
Wreaked agair.at those who violate
the charter. and their instruments
will be turned against thew-"
Vishiesky is of the old guarel
of Russian political figures. His
revolutionary career dates back to
SAI.CeSegAtiliS
Can't talk any longer, dear; It's
Erie to quit evcrir new."
!HE BIGGEST SHOW
ON EARTH -
15 YOUR COMMUNITY AHD
TqE HOW: RIGHTAIZOOD
YOU- READ ABOUT THEM
IN POUR
OMETOWN NEMPAPER
HO;
UM, end ht; can boast of -tenancy
in some of the Czar's finest jails.
He fought during the revolution,
and Seined the Communist Party
soon after.
e
Vishinsley is a lawys.r. and it was
through law that he entered politics.
He is called "one of the fathers oi
the Soviet judicial system." That
system, with father Vishinsky tit -
tins as state prosecutor, resulted
in the ruthless liquidation of ate.
opposition- He was the
state prosecutor from 1935 to 1039.
Besides precasting law for the
state. Vishinsky also sanest it and
wrote about it. Among his more
than 1Cel looks are stuh. voluntes
ase "The Law ef the Soviet Smte"
and "Trotekyisre irt the Service c.f
Fascism Against Socialism. and
Peace." He also dashed. off a book
called -The USSR and World
Peace."
Vishinsky r.as mwarded for his
brilliant career at legal liquidation
with the post of deputy commissar
for freign affairs in 1542.. Since
then. he's taken part in virMally
every important ieternational eon-
ference, 'from the Pottdam Con-
ference onward.
5 s
In March, 1949, be succeeded
as minister of foreign
affairs. The re.ove, at that time,
aroused. -considerable *or/tit-aide
specie:at:on. Diplomats wondered
if 1: moain any change in Soriet
policy.
So Ear, it hasn't. Tbe Visbinsky
for -Molotov s.stvitclt has turned on:
to be sort of a dielematie
platecon systern—Mcleteee is a de-
fensive type. Vishinsky highly
aggressive.
Back in 1937. when he •.s. -as the
state prosecutor and thus the sym-
bol el Russian law and order. an
American newsmagazine *rote:
'Years of Sovtee press, radio and
cinema propaganda have' made his
ominous features spell "nit Law'
to millions of Russians."
Tc -day, second only to Stalin. his
still -ominous features spell 'Russia'
to millions of lociericans.
Carelessness of Smokers
Greatest Cause of Fires
Only a cigarette stub still burn-
ing; only a match thrown away
unextinguiehed—but each year In
Canada one third of all fires are
due to such causes.
The average value of these
.,:titokers fires is small, $197 in.
949: and the total loss due to
• mokers fires, 53.5 millionor
about 5.45: c.f. the total. But there
ne guarantee that a stnall fire
silt not develop into a big one
and because of the nature of
these sneakers fires, eaused often
by people smoking in bed, death
e=etimes results.
The figures ndicate the need
of greater care by smokers in
disposing of their matches, half
iiurned cigars or cigarettee, even
;,pe$ tot:taming burning tobacco.
Here is an example. A young
'or. -,art smoking on a chesterfield
rose to go home. She rested her
:ialf burned cigarette on an ash
:ray en the chesterfield cushion
intending to pick it up. But she
never did; put on her coat and
honie. The cigarette later
bureed oe until it Gverbalanceeei,
fell doter, between the cushions
of the chesterfield anti i the
middle of the night fire broke
out ca.:sing the toss of two lives.
Itt another itte:tanee a young
man erd his wife were visiting
his obi home one. evening. Just
before :hey left, while picking up
some odds and ends so take to
eerie new flat, the youn.g man
lit a cigarette took a puff or
two. His ribe toceked it up did
the sante er.O: - after a few puffs
they :eft, fearing the burning
cigarette, balanced on the edge of
ash tray cm te:e .1:rang room
table. As it burned along it fin-
ally tilted over and fell on the
table doth. There it burned
through 4/!se tzlek cloth, the sil-
enee cioth and was borning into
the- weleut- • reible.- Jnst- before
terr.ing 4".alt clic iglus me mother
smelt- something- burning- and
found ee!ms v.-ettld have been a
nice little laze in a few mere
minutes.
Match in Waste Basket
In a busy office a hardworking
• executive Et his eigareueshock
bit match- and sinking he had ex-
tlnguished it avid flicked it into
. his -.taste paper basket which im-
mediatele fiered up in a blaze
leur e: 155 feet high. A good
: fire estingtz7rher handily pieced
and z:le Se: that the floor was
firepre,t.f rrevenzed wha: might
ht's de,elrped into a series blaze.
Even pipe 5111f4i5r5 havt been
kr:own T.:, 55: fL,il fire be --
cause they pm :heir pipes still
it in ti -.tit
hazards cif smokers' tires is
always r reserr heeause so raarly
pec,c,te new snieke arc: h's so
earee- to, be ezrelese edth a cig-
aretterile remedy is more tare,
WIlat's the re;:t mos: nommen
cau te of fire t
According to the Dominion:
Fire Centmissioner'e report, let
stoves, furnacee, boilers and smoke
pipes. These 6:etotalled 5.573 and
total monetary loss $4,640,026 an,
average of $833 in 1949.
Here the big consideration is t0.
keep stoves, finnacee,pipes, fines,
etc., clean and in good operating
condition and not to overheat_ them,
In the winter season it's very easy
to get a stove or inmate overheated
with a resulting fire, especially if
the stove or furnace or pipes are
not properly insulated. Piles tof
rubbish or accumulations, of grease
o:- oil near or on cook stoves, etc.,
are a serious hazard.
Third or. the list of Ere causes is
electrical wiring and apParatus.. Fire
prevention c,ifkiate stress the need
of having any wiring in the house
or factOry done prepeily and the
need of using appliances that have
been approve./ by some recognized
authority, such at provincial hydro
conamistior.s, etc. These electrical
fires in 1949 totalled. 4,918 telth a
monetary loss 01 $6,723."3.35 551
average of $1,3ifet.
Irons Neglected
One th, most common perils
is leaving electrical appliances
such as irons turned on. It's so
easy, if a person is called to the
_doer. to leave the iron on, thinking
you'll be back in a minute. It may
turn ant to be somebody wanting
eeee to go to tend a sick neighbor,
In any case you forget and a fire
results.. A kettle may go dry or a
faulty cord reay short circuit. So
itt 5515
titipbrnrit
eeca.'or
rceiucl,e
lsIhta:.
all
elSce
in good shape and that everything
tttrned orf before it is left,.
Then there are hot ashes, coals,
open tires. Even ye:, in spite of
all ;bat has beta published about
the danger. many people persist
in putting hot coats in woad. even
cardboard containers. This is only
a direet invitation to. fere. More-
over don't forger. that if you cause
a fire it your own beree by putting
hot cal, in a wooden or eardhaard
box you will invalidate ycur fire
irirttraree
Antong the other causes of fee
the careless use of kersee, gaso-
line,
eti:„ requires special attention.
Newspaper stories too often tell of
fires cattsel eceuring leeroeene cg
gasoline or, a fire to make it burn
• more readily—resuit a fire, probe
enrle,sie,r. hl death.
• Compared With U.K.
When Canadians rehre that fire
cards in the first eight
menths around $52
rii"ions ccnipared Iti minion
rounds or 30 nti!:iott 1 -.acs in the
1..nited islircdina with a population
1, about three times that of Canada,
se.ver. nrintiit. it emphasises the
need of g,reatt:r csre.
; Here are t;f:e. common. rattSeS
of it itt Cr,nada and the "...rather
nlse.
ORIGIN OF FIRES IN CANADA, 1949
Nc. of Property
Fires Loss $
57'0a d Iflet.545
fisi-.et. fu%nanet. issil,r; Zr. sritoke
Elen....rir-i ,ciring tla app3iawnte 4 ':;1'.z v23 3Z9
If..•.:ses 2'53 73is.442
Deft 'th-,- iii overheated chinineps & flue.s .. _,..z.!2 1)29271-1;-' at,
. co
-a% tt” -3nts; 1:443h:70
-.1.3.7i.inl; 7.tss'...i.s38
7 szhts. .,trter eller. electri7 1,113 1.1.4.213
1.11.4 47:3,444
e,....3 .75.244
5i-5,-; 1..3t[:9,321
42,1 :12 --*8..367
240 lt,i7:52,404
Eighteing
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fres
ir.:aee.ms it'e
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endiaritro
kno :n causes s explosions tire s.nrl,s.
frtoti ;rt. hot grease or metal. :steam arsi hot s.tr..e.:-
9:155. eto 4 4 010 102
Unks:- s 733 32 ;<.!". 'AO
TOTAL
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Stishirt after bombing raids on .two ccnsecnti70 4rLys Ly Nave. and Air Force planes, Nist more
than 10 per cent destruction is evident. Then they sent in the B -29's. Picture at right Slows
what was let't of the plant after the it. IC:c4.e 1 only two out of 4
row o,:•*.' eight 1,uilding.s remain standing arAl th ee.are burned out. The entire complex of build*
ings at is rithing gtr.ted v.,,isted. steel. The rewe tructures at (3) is jukt
ire vff the tr an and C'eA; V471r• 11".*Yr,i 7r. TF..5 rP.;7-«:,! r.,nr;nthnt (4Y
5 snmihed in many ph,..Ps.