HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-09-28, Page 2it's About Time To
Plant Those Bulbs
s From September onward in
the north is the time to plant
spring -flowering bulbs, Daffodils
go in first, then hyacinths and
the little bulbs, Tulipscan be
planted then or later, October
on into November — even as late
as the holes can be dug for them.
In warmer climates, keep bulbs
in the refrigerator until Deem-
her, then plant.
Spring -flowering bulbs are so
beautiful anti so easy to raise
that with a little care a long
season of bloom is practically
assured, Daffodils, narcissus, and
jonquils, alone, can be planned
to spread over many weeks, If
one begins with snowdrops, the
first harbingers of spring, and
ends with the handsome Darwin
and Breeder tulips, the bulb -
flowering season will stretch
from February into May with
a constant unfoldment of loveli-
ness.
Following the snowdrops are
the winter aconite, crocus, and
chiondoxa, Then come scillas and
grape hyacinths. Daffodils are
going on at the same time, and
the quaint species tulips, Kauf-
manniera and fosteriana.
By,then, the colorful tulip
pera'se starts, with the early
singes and doubles, and on into
the . arrot and cottage and late
doilkiles, ending with the Darwin
and Breeder,
If you add some of the other
"lesser" bulbs like Scilla cam-
panulta (wood hyacinth) and
Dutch iris, you have an exciting
display — all for planting bulbs
in the autumn,
It is better to get a few first-
rate bulbs than many second-
rate ones. Even when planting,
say, 50 daffodils on the edge of
the woodland for naturalizing,
it is best to buy good bulbs.
some dealers sell them for natur-
alizing at quantity rates, speci-
fying that they are top-quality
but not named.
Good root development in
autumn is important. Success
calls for loose soil that the
roots can penetrate, plus enough
moisture. If the ground is dry,
soak it well before digging, Dig
the whole area deeply, then
smooth it over and place the
bulbs where you are going to
plant them. The bulbs are plant-
ed pointed end up.
If the soil is clayey a soil
conditioner should be added. For
the first-year blooms the flowers •
already are formed in the bulbs,
so fertilizer is not essential, al -
thought enriched soil is always a
good idea. After blooming they
should be fed so they can build
up for the next season. Good
drainage is important.
Some shade also is important
during the summer after they
have bloomed,
How deep to plant each kind
and how far apart depends to an
extent on the size of the bulb,
also on the soil. Late planting
in sandy loam can be less deep
than early in heavier soil.
When you plant tulips, daffo-
dils, or hyacinths in a perennial
border, plan groupings by color,
advises The Bulb Growers of
Holland. Keep the surrounding
plants in mind in ordering, and
get complementary shades. Plant
five or six of one variety in
a small border, a few dozen in
a large border. A mass of one
color is more dramatic than a
spotty mixture.
And don't forget the "lesser"
bulbs. Grape hyacinth, crocus,
chiondoxa, scilla, and the species
tulips and tiny fragrant jonquils
and narcissus are too exquisite to
miss. You will be glad next
spring that you added them.
DRIVE WITH CARE !
Baptism of Fire for Red Cross Disaster Relief
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Victims of the Ere ht Michigan's Thumb Country ektirvd
floors and stairs of iem iuteked Bad Axe Court House.
The fire that swept the Thumb, Country of north-
eastern Michigan in September, 1861, brought first
operation of what is now the American Red Cross
Disaster Services. Artists for Harpers Weekly maga-
zine at the time, captured qa best they could details
of the disaster. More than 200 died, and some 15,000
persons were made homeless by the fire. The fledging
Sup ' les 'at'Cass 'City" is caption on sketch made following
iltileh gin Are of X885. Yung Red Cross brought relief.
organization, "Clara Barton's Red Cross Society," col•
lected supplies from just -formed chapters in Dans-
villa, Rochester, and Syracuse, N.Y., for delivery to
stricken residents, Red Cross disaster services total
some $323 million spent in 7,800 relief operations
over the 80 intervening years since the first big test
in fire -ravaged farm.and,woodiand areas of Michigan.
`STABLE TALKS
ifiews
One of the biggest U.S. makers
of glass jars publishes a leaflet
titled "Homemakers Earn $150,-
000,000". It says "20,000,000 or
more women get an average of
10 saved pennies for each quart
of fruit, vegetables, and relish
canned at home. Pennies add up
to $150,000,000 a year. And they
get them tax free!"
* • *
Further on in the leaflet was
this: "How is it possible to esti-
mate the amount saved by can-
ning? Start with the assumption
that a jar will give service for
10 years," Estimates were then
given for cost of jar and fuel,
and concluded with: "Add this
to cost per quart for produce,
sugar, and seasoning. Then com-
pare cost of the home -canned
food with the purchase price of
the same amount factory can-
ned."
• •
The last paragraph in the leaf-
let asked: "What other than cash
saved are the dividends of home
canning?" Answer: "Good -tast-
ing meals, well-nourished bodies,
freedom from worry over food
costs, opportunity to exercise or
develop creative ability. But for
many it is the fellowship and
respect which result -w h en
mother, father, and children take
an active part in a mutually
worthwhile project"
• * •
Before you begin your can-
ning or jelly-making,read these
few extra hints: "A teaspoon of
sugar added before closing the
jar for processing helps the
flavor of canned beets, corn,
carrots, and peas. If the recipe
calls for sugar it will be all the
better for a smidgen of salt, Yes,
that goes for jam and jelly too.
Peaches and pears • for canning
are easier to handle if cut into
halves, and peaches pitted and
pears cored before peeling. For
a new, special taste, add a table- '
spoon of corn syrup to each
, quart of tomatoes before process-
ing."
* * *
Canned Apples — Hot Pack
Make a light or medium syrup.
Add 2 tablespoons salt and 2
tablespoons vinegar to 1 gallon
of water. Wash, drain, core, pare,
and slice apples, or cut into
halves or quarters. Drop apples
CONCRETE CURTAIN — An East Berlin girl (foreground), now
living in the western sector, talks to her mother over the con-
crete well that divides the city. Later Communist police used
tear gas grenades to stop the people from fraternizing over
the wall.
TUNNEL TOGS — It's the pro-
verbial man from Mars again.
Pennsylvania Turnpike tunnel
guard Samuel Gabler leaves
an emergency truck at the
Kittatinny Mountain Tunnel.
Outfitted in the latest fire
fighting gear, Gabler is ready
for any incident at one of the
pikes eight tunnels.
into salt -vinegar water. Rinse
apples and then boil them in
syrup for 5 minutes. Pack hot
fruit into hot jars. Cover with
hot syrup. Process 20 minutes in
boiling -water bath.
Canned Apples for Pies
Follow above recipe, but use 1
cup sugar for 4-5 cups of water
when making syrup.
Canned Applesauce
Wash and drain fresh, sound
' apples. Remove stems and blos-
som ends, Slice apples; cook un-
til soft. (May need a little water
to prevent sticking.) Press ap-
ples through sieve or food mill
to remove skins and seeds.
Sweeten sauce to taste. Reheat
to boiling. Pour, boiling hot, into
hot jars. Stir to remove air
bubbles, Process 20 minutes in
boiling -water bath.
Note: Duchess and other ap-
ples which "sauce" without
straining should be pared and
cored before cooking.
* * *
When wintry winds blow and
snow covers the ground, there's
nothing like a bowl of hot soup
to start your meal, Here is a
vegetable soup mixture that you
may want to can now and use
on cold days.
Vegetable Soup Mixture
5 quarts chopped tomatoes
2 quarts of slicedokra or 2
quarts green lima beans
2 quarts corn
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons salt
Wash and drain vegetables,
Chop and measure red -ripe to-
matoes. Cook until soft. While
tomatoes are cooking, slice okra
(or shell beans), cut corn from
cob, Measure. Press tomatoes
through sieve. Mix tomatoes,
vegetables, sugar, and salt. Boil
until thick, Pour hot, into hot
jars. Process pints 55 minutes,
quarts 65 minutes, at 10 pounds
pressure. Note: Any mixture of
vegetables may be canned for
soups, Prepare vegetables for
cooking, Mix, Add water or
broth to cover, Boil 5 minutes,
Pour, hot, into hot jars, Process
for the length of time required
by the vegetable in the mixture
that needs the longest process-
ing.
Women's Opinions On
Modern Packaging
If you ever have had to keep
peace at the breakfast table by
searching around in the cereal
carton for a plastic premium,
or if you ever have thrown the
frozen food wrapper away only
to discover that cooking in-
structions were on it, or if you
ever have tried to select the
charmed thread that unlocks
the sugar or flour bag—unsuc-
cessfully — the packaging in-
dustry wants to know you
better.
Already, the industry has
found out a lot about people
and packaging through a recent
survey in Chicago, Seattle,
Philadelphia, St. -Louis, Cincin-
nati, and Kokomo, Ind,
If some of the findings seem
obvious, they also must be seen
as matters of important routine
that too many may be taking too'
much for granted.
The study — sponsored by
Chicago Printed String Company
which, as a manufacturer of
package — opening tapes and
strings has a special interest in
packaging problems - shows
housewives complaining most
about packages that are difficult
to bpen, those that require use
of instruments in opening, that
tip or will not fit on shelves,
those that cannot be reclosed
properly, that give incomplete,
inaccurate, or obscure directions,
and those that do not stay neat
looking.
The housewives most like
packages with spouts and pull
tapes; plastic containers and
jars that' can be reused easily;
cereals and other packages' with
reclosable tops.
The women feel packaging has
improved in the past 10 years,
but 40 per cent of those survey-
ed (300 wives and husbands in
total) contend that the nation is
overpackaged.
There is a 'strong but defini-
tely minority sentiment , that
yearns for the old pickle barrel
manner of merchandising.
Sixty-one per cent of the
survey respondents appealed
for rip -tape -type openers which
allow a pull of a string to open
a container.
Consumers like spuots on
packages if the spouts are
sturdy and won't fall inside the
packages when pushed—bona
fide perforations which "give"
when punched, cellophane tape
and adhesive tape and other
simple package openers.
Complained one housewife:
"If you are a married woman
and your husband comes homes
at night and says: What did
you do all day?' and all you
can say is 'I opened the sugar
bag,' this is hardly stimulating
conversation for the dinner
table,"
What about prepackaging
foods, meats especially? Most
consumers like the convenience
and santiary aspects of pre-
packaging, but they do not al-
ways feel they get as good
quality as with hand-picked
products.
"In prepackaged meats they
always have the nice side up
and you can never turn it
over," one woman commented,
writes Robert Colby Nelson in
the Christian Science Monitor,
One major complaint concern-
ing prepackaging has to do with
the need for rewrapping such
items. Nearly half the consum-
ers said they have to rewrap
many such izerns, and of those,
03 per dint geld they do not like
to do it,
As for coupons and premiums
on package these rouse mixed
reactions, Premiums that come
ISSUE 38 1061
with packages are much more
popular, it was found, than
coupons for discounts or coupons
that had to be "sent in" to re-
ceive the premium.
Some object to premiums
placed within the boxes be-
cause, it is felt, they short
change the buyer by taking up
product space.
Resentment is greater when
the premium included is some-
thing that the consumer has no
particular need or desire for but
must accept because she wants
to buy that particular brand.
Others feel that if a Manufac-
turer can offer a cost-cutting
coupon, provide • a "bargain"
offer, or give a worthwhile free
item, then that same manufac-
utrer should be able to lower
the price of the product.
Complaints or not, 75 per cant
of the consumers questioned
admitted having at one time
purchased an item because of
the premium offer involved.
Parental Observation: "We're
not taking a vacation this year
but then we did send the chil-
dren to camp."
When Mark Twain
Lectured in tendon
rwor this London campaign ha
had an entourage, having hired.
Charles Warren Stoddard at $15
a week to serve as so-called sec-
retary, companion, and amateur
stage manager. The wages were
theoretical,,' for Stoddard refused
to accept pay for congenial du-
ties.
They moved into a large cor-
ner suite of the Langham Hotel,
overlooking spires and hundreds'
of smoking chimney -pots, and
fell into a pleasant routine, The
day began with breakfast
occasionally with friends, at
twelve -thirty, Then they read
the papers and the mail, which
usually came up with the first
round of toasted muffins, After
that they took a walk through
a park or Hollywell Street or
into Portland Place to see the
Horse Guards, Returning to the
Langham they mixed afternoon
' talk with music, Mark Twain
singing jubilee songs or "Ben
Bfiwline" lh his own piano ac-
companiment. Sometime dur-
ing the day Stoddard brought
the scrapbook up to date, scan-
ning a dozen 'papers for notices
that he carefully clipped and
pasted in with such loving care
After dinner they donned eve-
ning dress, and at 7:50 arrived
at the anteroom in Hanover
Square. For the next half hour
Stoddard stood at the window
counting carriages, while Mark
Twain strode about the room
with such restless impatience
that Dolby sometimes had to
calm . him down, At eight pre-
cisely Stoddard escorted the
speaker to the foot of the steps
leading to the stage, then retired
to' the royal box.
Mark Twain's first action was
to walk to the footlights, took
over the house, and rub his hands
like Lady MacBeth. Stoddard no-
ted the extreme deliberation of
speech and the varying effect of
jokes: a pleasantry that brought
down the house one night caused
only a mild. ripple another.
Laughter was sometimes hearty
and spontaneous, sometimes
sporadic, sometimes an isolated
outburst that gradually spread
over the whole audience. Once
fog, laden with soot, seeped in
to becloud the auditorium in
such hazy gloom that Mark
Twain, a shadowy figure haloed
by misty light, reassured his
listeners: "Perhaps you can't see
me, but I'm here," — From
"Mark Twain on the Lecture
Circuit," by Paul Fatout.
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