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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1959-09-03, Page 3Next Year's Bulb Beatty Regaf5 Now August -may seem a strange time to be planning for blooms in the spring garden, but the autumn bulb catalogues are com- ing in with discounts offered to entice early ordering, Tulips and daffodils are on al- most everybody's lists, but for special delight and a spring treatment of entrancing little places on the home grounds, some of the so-called "lesser" bulbs should be planted. These includesnowdrops, crocus, scilla, grape hyacinth, chiondoxa, and winter aconite, The little bulbs give us the earliest flowers in the spring, and are the first ones to be plant- ed in the fall, The snowdrops come first - in northern climates coming up under the snow and blooming as soon as it melts, They are always a delightful surprise and a promise of the season to come, Find a place where you can see them from a window or when going in and out a door. They like a moist shady location, un- der shrubs, Set the bulbs fairly close together two to three inches deep. The galanthus with its dainty white bells comes from Asia Minor, where it growskwild in high mountain valleys, After the snowdrops come the scillas: These lovely blue flow- ers like a sunny place and mul- tiply from dropped seed. A car- pet of scillas is a thrillingsight in early spring. They are also called wood hyacinth, Scotch bluebells, and squills. Earliest are the Scilla Siberica, in gen- tian -blue and in white. The Scilla Hispanica come later, and add lavender, other shades of blue, and shades of pink. Scillas • are charming in the rock garden, or in among snow- drops, as a carpet under high - branching deciduous trees, or even in the border. Never plant less than 12 to 18 bulbs in a clump, about two inches deep and three inches apart. The Muscari or grape hyacinth will flower in both sun and shade, beginning with the crocus. Don't be disturbed when leaves come upthis autumn, for this is right for the plant. The sturdy ribbonlike leaves appear soon af- ter the bulbs are set In, and re- main under snow and winter covering all winter, writes Milli- cent Taylor in the Christian Sci- ence Monitor. The flowers in a tight clump of blue balls on stalks, about five inches . high, make a handsome dash of color in the spring gar- den or under trees. . There are white and violet varieties as well as the blue we all love. Little known are the winter aconite (Eranthis), a buttercup type of flower in a collar of green leaves, and the chiondoxa or Glory of the Snow, a dramatic wide-eyed flower, blue with a white center. .These also come in pink and in white. Eranthis blooms just before, and chion- doxa blooms with the crocus. Plant Eranthis under trees (they grow only three inches high so should be in front). They will seed themselves and form a colony, as also will the chion- doxa (six to seven inches high) which need sun or not more than half shade and are fine in the rock garden. Eranthis two inches deep and chiondoxa three inches deep, both about 18 bulbs to a square foot. For brilliant spring coloring the Dutch crocus is the favor- ite. Whether naturalized under a tree or planted to give a splash of purple and gold and 'blue in some surprise corner, they are an unfailing delight. These flowers have. been great - 3y improved in recent years. You will find it worth your while to explore the new offerings and get top quality bulbs. They go TRIPLE DEAD HEAT - A Russian troika team goes through its paces at Roosevelt Raceway prior to a pre-raceexhibition. The team was presented to Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus Eaton by Nikita Khrushchev last year. TIILFARN FRONT Important aids to the small farm and to the capable farmer wishing to establish himself on his own holding' are contained in the new -Farm Credit Act, states Agriculture Minister Douglas S. Harkness. The three. developments in the federal farm credit system which won the ap- proval of the House are: Extension of the lending au- thority of the Veterans Land Act: Increase of the maximum guaranteed farm improvement loan under the Farm Improve ment Loans Act: Long-term increased mortgage credit to farmers under the neW Farm Credit Act. The new Act increased to' $20,000 from $15,000 the amount of loans for purchase of a farm or for farm improvements that may be made on a first mort- gage, and made other provisions more flexible, For instance a loan can be based on 75 per cent of the appraised value of the farm instead of 65 per cent as. formerly. Supervision is avail- able for the loads on a volun- tary basis. 4 4 a A new type of assistance - the supervised loan - can be. made to applicants between 21 and 45 years of age to enable them to set up an economic farm - unit. Successful applicants must have had five years farming ex- perience. Supervision of the pro- posed farm operation. will be a requirement when the loan ex- ceeds 65 per cent of the ap- praised value of farm and build- ings. This type of loan may be as high as 75 per cent of the ap- praised value of the farm and chattels, but may not exceed $27,500. two inches deep and two too three inches apart. All spring -flowering bulbs• need to be left undisturbed after blooming so their foliage can. ripen. If planted in the lawn, the. grass should not be cut where they are until the foliage has. yellowed and died. Otherwise new plantings have to be made every autumn. CRSSCROSSWORD 6. Forever V1 ORD 7. Infrequently 8. 131tter PUZZLE 10. Proper 0. o inngrings 11 English letter .�- AC:3WSS 63. Tear 1.4reaka'ater DOWN 20.16. ReSulpastsgod 5. 'Plusher 1. Crazy 21. Dish of herbs 22. Worship 3. Float 2. Numeral 28. Plat 18. Dil:smed 3. Acid fruits 29. Lukewarm 17. 20. Zealand 4. Musical study 25. Zaglestone parrot 14. Large lake 38. Gravely 17. Measure 18. Stereo* room 10. Evil spirit 21, nstlonal 13. Abate 20. 13uslness getters 17. Mechanical 28. Vurl aluable 26 Behold 80, Size of paper 81. Rubber tree 22, (1r, letter 40. Sucendlarlem - 15, Siamese come 86, Deep hole 87. Explode 80. Mann factnred 40. Separate 61. X'6ssian community 42.5'estiVal 114, riAgailedLtaten 48, 99,7dlann 30. First garden 51. Tahi4t0 52. Rain? 27. Flowering plant. 20. 13arrcl =ken 21. Indian 74. ltegular 41. Harmonize 30, Procession 08. Dart 170. Gold digger 41. Musical note 42; Dude 43, Girl's. name 45. Entangle 46. Twice five 47. Term !nal 2 3 4 6 7 9 10 12 13 14 15, 16 17 18' 21 22 7�t 23 19 20 24 25 26 27 26 29 30 31 32 31 34 35 37 38 y e: 36 39 s✓ 40 41 42 43 44. 46 46 47 48 40 50 51 52 8-e 53 Answer elsewhree on this page When such a loan has been reduced to $20,000 or to 65 per cent of the appraised value of the farm, whichever is the lesser, the applicant may be eligibile for assistanceunder the Farm Im- provement Loans Act. 4 4 4 The Corporation' will provide supervision of the farm through the VLA and will continue su- pervision if the borrower desires it, after it has ceased to be com- pulsory under the agreement. Interest on the loans has been fixed at 5 'per cent which, the Minister .said, would be more equitable .toborrowers than a fluctuating rate based on the cost of the money to government. The Minister also indicated that this rate of interest over a period of time was expected to cover the operating costs of the Corpora- tion. 4 4 4 Appraisal o: the farms will be done by the VLA and will include forest products. Life in- surance will be taken to cover each loan. The part of the loan based on livestock and chattels security will,, have to be repaid in ten years; the part based on land might be a.mortized over a 30 -year period. The cost of a loan to the far- mer therefore includes the inter- est rate of five per cent; insur- ance; and appraisal fee (not more than $100); and the super- vision fee. * 4 4 The Canadian Farm Loan Act will be replaced and succeeded by the new Farm Credit Act with the new Farm Credit Cor- poration taking over the assets and responsibilities of the Cana- dian Farm"Loan Board. The Corporation will comprise _five members to be named by the Governor -in -Council. These will be assisted by an advisory com- mittee to be appointed by the Minister of Agriculture. Mr. Harkness saidthat in gen- eral the approach of the govern- ment has been to enter the field of farm credit to ensure that family farms and those who work their own farms may be. able to get sufficient credit to cope with the rapidly moving commercial agricultural develop- ment in the face of a reduced farm labor force and increased' output per man-year, The bill makes it possible for younger, :energetic farmers to take up farming as a perman- ent occupation and to establish themselves more quickly, It will encourage the. best ' personnel, those Who can continue this in- creased production per man- year, to remain on the farm. The Minister said farmers' have had to supplement their capital with credit more and more during the last 50 years and increasingly so since the ad- vance of mechanization and the investment required for livestock on commercial farms in the post- war years. For that reason the extension of credit provided 'in the new Act, incorporating the Canadian Farm Loan Act, was among the, most important :pieces of legis - lotion considered by the House. The Act had been devised af- ter studies of the small farm family problems and suggestions advanced by farm organizations. Credit is needed not only for the operation of an economic farm unit but forthe transfer' of the fano from owner to owner caner and from generation to genera- tion.. The investment in live- stock and equipment • has been growing in proportion to the in- vestment in land but farms have also had to be made bigger to conform to new economic condi- tions. This means a farmer needs considerably more capital to start in on his, own or to expand into a profitable unit. A survey of 5,000 veterans es- tablished under the Veterans Land Act, which administers supervised farm loans, shows that where • credit is extended to provide an economic farm unit the farmer can pay reason- able costs for money borrowed and still be in an improved po- sition fn net returns, Well Remembered Railway, Journey Sarah. Dalerymple and I sat side by side on a train bench watching the conductor on the platform below the window. He stood there holding his big silver watch on iths thick chain, glanc- ing at it now,and then, the way a mother glances at her baby, absent-mindedly, hoping it is be- having well.... "How much longer will it be before we get to Wilton?" I ask- ed Sarah. "Not quite an hour," she ans- wered quietly. She had been, ans- wering me in that quiet way at the different stops ever since we left Grand Central after saying good-bye to my mother who put us on the train.. , , We were the same age, eleven going on twelve, and we were in the same class at the Brearley School. Today was Friday and we were on our way to Sarah's house where her mother and fa- ther lived all the year at Wil- ton, Connecticut. Sarah spent the weekdays in New York with her grandmother. This was the first visit I had made away from .home. It was very. exciting, the idea of spending two days in the country before school stopped for the summer, and I was in a great hurry to get there. The conductor shouted "All aboard" on the other side of the window and the train began to move. I was so glad to feel the motion again that I decided to spend a nickel out of my leather snap purse to buy two sticks of licorice the next time the boy with the basket came through, one for each of us. Mamma had given me Andrew Lang's "Blue Fairy Book" to read, up and back in the train, but I had finished a good many of the tales by now and felt ra- ther too restless to go on. Sarah's grandmother wanted her to con- tinue with the wool work she was learning to do, when the train did not jiggle too much, making flower patterns with a big needle in red wool on a piece of canvas. Sarah was "clever with her needle," everyone said. My grandmother was also clever at sewing but Mamma did not care for it ... and she depended on pins when she trimmed' hats, for Marjory and me, the Italian straws with wide floppy bows that we wore in springtime. There was one on the rack above me just now. Mrs. Satterlee, the seamstress who came to us two afternoons a week, had made the bows safer against the wind by placing a few stitches between the pins, Sarah was planning to make her own clothes when she grew up but I had decided to let someone else make mine, and to play the violin instead. - From "Gramercy Park," .by Gladys Brooks, In Alfreton, England, when the government told Farmer Samuel Critchlow that he must snop neglecting his venerable 15th century manor house, which is lacking part of its roof, has tomatoes blooming in the ban- quet hall and sweet peas growing in the dungeon, he explained, "The real blame lies with Oli- ver Cromwell, who came here with his cannon." In Victoria, B.C., a 13 -year-old boy reported to the radio station that his family barn burned down, won $2 for the best news tip of the day, later confessed that he started' the fire. TAKING A BREAK - Cine -hero Clark Gable flashes a smile and sporty hat during a vacation at Cortina, Italy. He is filming a Picture' in that country. ISSUE 35 1959 N AYS OX JISSON By Rev R. B Warren, B.A., 0.111. THE PERIL OF PRIDE Obadiah, Verses, 1-4, 10-15 Memory Selection: Seek good, and not evil, that ye may livor so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. Amos .5:14. The prophecy of Obadiah con- cerning the Edmonites, descend- ants of Esau, is only one chap- ter of 21 verses. But it teaches some important lessons, Jacob and Esau struggled within Re- bekah's womb (Genesis 25:22) and the struggle continued be- tween the men and their prog- eny. The Edmonites had taken advantage of the Israelites in the day of their calamity when they were being taken captive by foreigners. The Edmonites had taken of their substance and had slain of those who escaped from their captors. Obadiah predicts, "As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head." One should be a defender of the weak and not a mocker. Oc- casionally it happens in school that one child may hold another up to contempt because of his poor clothing or some deformity and persuade others to do like- wise. Parents should teach their children to rally to the side of the oppressed, the poor and the orphans. It is cowardly to run with the crowd to do evil. The Edmonites were a proud people. Their dwelling place high in the mountains of Seir, afforded excellent protection from any enemey. But the Lord said, "The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high: that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord." Today desolation reigns on every hand, and Obadiah's warnings and predictions have been woefully verified! "Pride goeth before destruction,and an haughty spirit before a fall." We have seen this scripture ful- filled in such well known fig- ures as Hitler. We have witness- ed it in our own communities. Shame, disaster or disease can soon humble the proud. Let us humble our hearts before the Lord. All we have we owe to Him. Let us say with Paul, "Go& forbid that I should boast, saw in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto this world." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking N 000M. €.1iilOWU 1[i)oA3111121r Manna `©©© i]i70© .©©�Do©i» ©II J M©0 DUkJIA cm ' ©EI iJ rji ' 00 0 MOB [KM ©©off©oo© `©D Doig©o OCR] ?- Di]® HEM =©rAi0 DMO ©lir Mink Barometer Forescasts Boom By Ward Cannel ' NEA Staff Correspondent New York - In these odd times it is hardly surprising to find that the mink has become an important omen of the nation- al economy. In fact,the whole fur .mar- ket - now winding up in New York - is usually six months ahead of the nation's business health: declining before a slump; rising before a surge. As mink occupies 75 per cent of the industry, listen first to Mike Forrest of Coopchik-For- rest, a top mink wholesaler - manufacturer: "This is our best year ever. Retail store ordering was tre- mendous, especially in mink coats. This is most important when you realize that the bulk of mink apparel is bought in small pieces: stoles, jackets, capes, boleros." And from Herman Meltzer, et: - owner of the Evans Fur Co. in Chicago - largest fur retailer in the world: "This should be a much better year than last year. We have never had such exciting furs to offer the woman." And from the entire fur in- dustry, J. George Greenberg, executive director of the Associ- ated Fur Maufacturers, Inc.: "'It is conceivable that the in- dustry all-time high will be closely approached - or possibly 8urnassed," He is talking about the late 1040's when the retail volume of furs in America reached $450 million dollars, But last year, it was about 300 million. So it is wise to listen with reservation to predictions from men in the skin game. "But even if you cut their op- timism in half," according to Ed Stanton, long-time fur market observer, "it still looks like, a good season ahead - at Ieast'60 million dollars up." But not because mink 'prices have come down. Actually skin prices have gone up substantial- ly. What will account for the in- creased market is a curiously as- sorted hutch of puff, muff and science. For the first time in its history, the fur industry turned to heavy promotion, beginning with the forination of the FIFC - the Fur Information and Fashion Coun- cil- supported by everybody: Fur advertising will be heavier than ever this year. Several manufacturers have paid 'heavily to have top Euro- pean couturiers design appealing - but moderately priced - fur collections. Other manufacturers have signed on American and Cana- dian designers. * .4 4 Science has come up with new processes and dyes. Consequent- ly, once heavy beaver is feather - light today and available in most of the cotors that match women's lipsticks: green, red and white. Rabbit is.out in every color in the rainbow. Otter has been treated to give it prestige. And hair, seal (a version of otter) is described as a "hot item." While full garments of rabbit, moleskin,: hamster, American broadtail and pony will be beck- oning from store racks, retailers also report they have never seen a season with 'as man fur - trimmed garments. Fox is back as a top coat and suit trim. Raccoon and mink are being used widely for trim. Hats and handbags are either all -fur or fur embellished. If it is, everybody tells me, a fur year, then it's going to be a fat year. And as fat years cost money, Dad, you'd better have an agonizing reappraisal of the family budget. MUTATED MINK: Good times for everysno but him.