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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1948-04-29, Page 3Rain, Rain Go Away -Mr. Abercrombie and Mr. Stanley arrived in Chicago from their home on the African coast and Were greeted by a downpour that threatened to Wrinkle their formal attire. So Jini Roche, hostess on the plane that flew th•eni from New York, gallantly supplied an utunbrella. The penguins will live in the Lincoln Park Zoo. Some Notes From The Farm Front Items of Interest to By John In The United States great concern is being shown regarding 'the rapid falling off in the number of live stock, said to amount to something like fifteen per cent' in the past lour years. This should be of real interest to 'Canadian stock raisers as showing the modern trend. Somc department of Agriculture officials south of the border are reported as wanting to :advise farmers to start rebuilding their breeding -stock right away, but are 'held back from doing so by "top poiicy' makers who still want to put the emphasis on grain -production. However, several of the great State agricultural -colleges are already tell- ing farmers to hang on to their breed- ing stodk. s * rt Some time next Fall apple grow- ers are due to receive a lot of free, but still very valuable publicity for their product. Walt Disneyts 'big feature picture "Melody Time" will star Johnny Appleseeil, the almost legendary character Who went about the count t y planting appleseeds Isere and there, anti to whom millions of apple - TABLE TALKS Muffins - Mixed The Pastry Way Blueberry Variety Try this new way of mixing niuf- • fins It's the same idea as -mixing shortening and flour for pie •or tea biscuits, It'•s quick -no shortening 4o melt -and the results are perfect. fal cup shortening a cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 2 tablespoons sugar teaspoon salt 1 egg 1 ,cup milk 1 cup blueberries Cut shortening into •sifted dry ingredients with pastry blender. Use a light, quick mixing 'notion. The mixture should look like coarse crumbs before the liquid is added. Spoon a"well" in The center of the dry ingredients. Combine well - beaten egg, :milk .and, well -drained .canned or frozen blueberries; pour into well .at onoe and mix just until dry ingredients.are moistened. Bat- ter still will be lumpy Dip hatter into greased muffin pans, using two spoons. Don't over - stir the batter by scooping to the bottom .of the bpwlfor each spoon- ful. Fill sack muffin pan a little over half full. T3alce in hot oven (450'). 20 to 25 minutes or until muliifis are a shiny, golden brown. Serve riot with a big pat of butter. This recipe makes 12 medium-sized muf- fins. Our Rural Readers Russell lovers owe a deep debt of gratitude. "The Apple Song",.sung by Dennis Day, is expected to have folks not only humming the tune hut also craving and buying more apples. s * * Low -duality hay used to mulch a block of 25 -year-old Northern Spy apple trees was found to bring re- sults worth many times the costs, in experiments conducted over a 7 -year period. Starting the very first year the mulch was applied, yields increased by 5 bushels per tree, and have aver- aged that much increase each year since. The hay not only saves mois- tune but acts as a fertilizer, In the experiment a quarter -ton of hay was put around each tree to start with, them added to as it decomposed. About a quarter -ton every three years is about the right amount to he ad- ded. * * v On the farms of Canada, and es- pecially Eastern Canada, there are probably millions of acres drat are too wet for profitable cultivation. Yet, property drained, sucli wet- lands often yield huge crops. More than that, when put into production they help "take the load" off a farm's poorer, steeper lands, which may be allowed to lie fallow for a time, or planted with trees. But whether the tile or open -cut method is used, proper drainage is' an exacting operation, requiring both knowledge and skill, as it must leave tt t sufficient water on the land,lent not either too much or too little. But as many lune found 'out; when properly done it can really pay. * * * A quarter century ago 120 eggs .a year was considered pretty fair pro- duction f r a leen. Today, with nod - ern methods of breeding and feeding, the average throughout the country is probably around three dozen eggs a year better than that. However, there is still plenty of room -for improvement before general egg production approaches the mark set by a hen called "Miss Massachus- etts" back in 1944. She laid 351 eggs in just 357 days; and what is more, each dozen of those eggs scored per- fectly for size, weighing 26 otmces or better. * * * Back in prewar days there were 38,000 Ontario acres in sugar beets. Because of labor and price control difficulties, totals dropped so greatly that the entire industry in this Prov- ince was threatened. But at a meet- ing held in Chatham recently, with representatives of both the growers and manufacturers present, it was decided to snake a real joint effort to save it; and with more labor and labor-seviiag machinery available, the future shottld offer fewer difficult- ies for the Ontario beet grower. CR! SSWORD PUZZLE ' ACROSS y. Fruit 3. 1 CoastersAssail 6, Wood 4. Appoint Wo 2, Wood soo irees 6, Paralyse" 12. Turkic shelter Mushroom 18. Turkish title C. Pr Mushroom 14. Magic 7, Proportion 15. Careen 16: Rodent "n 17, Assistantti 19. Night before , 11. Continued stories 21. Restraining 23. Artificial language 86. Not profes- sional .27. One entlrely lost 29. Minute 32. Entitling ,s material 4r 33. Spoken 24. Transportation charge 85Word unit 44. 36. Mastic 1 bitumen 41 Cited 43 Men's name 44 Frog gentle 44 Put ugh ' 47 Piece' i,. 48. whirlpool 49 Cretan mountain 10 Hebrew month 51 Remunerates Gd English letter 53 Contradict DOWN 1. Made uplarge bundles 8:06 the mouth 30, Road -bun eine- s. ines. Kitchen 10• Moreover 11. Understand •10. Moved very slowly 20. Infuriated 22. Sailors :patron. saint 24. Lair 25. Fragment 28. Hebsw measure 20. Anthropoid animal material 81. Dress fabric 33, Chains 34. Front elevation 87, Clear 31 Sultan's decree 39. East Indian gateway 40. Record 42. Time entre 44. Twilled cloth 41 Ohio colleget• town 47. Small cushion The answer to this puzzle le elsewhere on this page. CHRONICLES OF GINGER FARMS By Gwendoline P. Clarke Spring,,., we know what it le, of course. The time of year when there is new perennial growth; new- planting, new seeding; tractors, frogs and robins; the time of which poets sing - "when a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love", '1'he time when it Is a.emercy that that spring feeling, or, some- thing, calls the hen outside to rake the yard or polish the car, for there is no place for theist in the horse - it being also the time for spring housecleaning; * :k * ' Yes, actually we all know what spring means I do too - but yet, just now, I was;tempted to find out what definition my Oxford dic- tionary gave for the word. The des- cription was 'very apt and applies to many activities. "Spring„ , jump from the ground" - yes, that is true of flowering bulbs, wheat, clover and r it u b a r b. "Sudden movement from rest - bring sud- denly into action or view." Well, now, that surely applies to house- cleaning at its best - or worst, de- pending on your point of view. Could it be that Messrs, Fowler and Fowler were married and spoke as men of experience when com- piling their dictionary? Men, natur- ally, wonlil think housecleaning was a "sudden movement from rest"! because they themselves are inter- rupted and disturbed by it. In winter, when routine work .in the house runs along "smoothly; meals appear on the t' ble well prepared and nicely served, that, to the mas- culine mind, inditates that eery little wnrk has been involved, and plenty of rest for the lady of the house has therefore been possible. "Bring suddenly into action or view". That surely, could have no other meaning than what happens in a home when the housewife gets busy. If it were of for houseclean- ing many things would he perma- nently lost especially when there are people around who put things away so carefully they never know where to find then afterwards. And their number is legion - and among their number is myself. But still, the lost things that are sud- denly brought into view stake spring a time of excitement and anticipation. * * * But oh dear, if we couldjust get on with the work without inter- ruptions. But no, just es sure as extra work is in progress there are unlooked for hindrances. A matter of business that has to be attended to; invitations for this and that that cannot very well be refused; phone calls and more phone calls; and the chances are that one of the local organizations to which one belongs decides to cater for a ban- quet. quer, Youn feel you just can't space the time for it until you remember .that probably ninety-nine per cent of the members feel exactly as you do. So you pitch in and do your bit - and then it's tate end of the week and you loole back, realizing how little you hare accomplished. But then, if you are philisophical, you look forward and think - "Oh well, there's another week coming - surely there will be 110 hindrances next week? 1 ean't think of any- thing that's likely to come up any- way. * * * No, you may not know Of arty- thing - now - but interruptions will come, you can be sure of that. And if they do, what then? It isn't really the hindrances that count. is Long Bob Along with ankle socks, saddle shoes, Sloppy -Joe sweaters and the }nevitable string of pearls, the swinging shoulder length hair style of teen-agers is out -"but defin- itely." According to fashion experts in a recent style show in Toronto, the former "Swoon Kid" will take to ladylike clothes and short hair styles this spring. Aro you gob g through the functional middle age' period peculiar to woman (39 to 58 yrs,)? Dom thle make you suffer from hot fleshes feel so noruoas, high- strung, tired? 'i'hen no try Lydia 16. ?inkhorn's vegetable Compound to relieve such symptoms. Pinkhom's Compound also has what Doctors call a stomachic tonic effect! %LYDIA E. ;PINKNAM'S COM oe it? - only how we deal with thein; and whether we let them get us down. Why try to do anything in a given length of time or start on a strenuous job when over -tired? The chances are a cat -nap, followed by a cup of tea, would do much to mens. frazzled nerves and give you a better start After all, in England, there is very little that a cup of tea can't cure! Who knows, it may be those cups of tea, at the right time and place, made all the difference in helping England do her share in winning the war. Well, that's that! Now I'll get this typed, and after that a cup of tea, and then P11 be ready to wade into a pot of paint once more - unless, of course, there are inter- ruptions! The Smooth Dancer Rapes More Cut -Ins To be a popular dancer, scarcely able to circle the floor without a cut -in -that's every girl's dream! Why not snake it cone true? What makes a girt fun to dance with, anyway? Perfect rhythm, of course, plus feather -lightness , and responsiveness to every step and turn. A large order, but you can fill it if you have balance. Balance means carrying your weight evenly over the balls of your feet. In stepping backward, for instance, keep your weight on the ba of t' -e forward foot until your stepping foot is in place, ready i) share the weight. Also, swing from the hip and reach back as far a possible with the toe. Chop- ping off those backward steps is just inviting yr partner to tread on your toes. To be a gt.-d dancer you must be able to do the waltz, rumba, samba, tango, fox trot and lindy with equal ease. Our Reader Service booklet No. 37 teaches the latest steps by means of footprint dia- grams and actual photos. The au- thor is one of the country's well- known instructors. Get your copy today! Send THIRTY CENTS .(in coins) for "How to Do the Latest Dance Steps" to Reader Service, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St., West, Toronto. Print name, address, book- let title and No. 37. Alberta Indians Giving Up Horses The large herds of horses form- erly maintained on the Indian 'Re- serves of Southern Alberta are rap- idly becoming a thing of the past. Most of them are finding their way to processing plants at Swift Cur- rent urrent and Edmonton where they are transformed into meat rations for hungry Europe. This signifies a quiet reVolution in Indian customs. Before white settlement began in the west, the whole life of the Blackfoot tribes centered around their horses. On horseback they rode towar or hunt- ed the buffalo which were their prin- cipal source of food -and a man's wealthwas estimated by the number of animals he owned. But in recent years the younger Indians have been taking an increas- ing interest in scientific farming. Many of thein are raising purebred cattle while others have broken up their land and are growing wheat. Some of them even own and use a full set of power -driven implements. And so the horses have become more or less of a nuisance and there is a growing tendency to sell them off. ANSWER TO THIS' WEEK'S PUZZLE Ia000 '.,�j vHpsle ad r ZI A R''' 4® RDEE M NEITHER DIO I } kis .' a t• lip 1,u� 1 1 u} L M15110r, .77.3.'. RR1'.''.AIG,E t ... � E V AP DLO®/Gle,,+�E P020L rI £ean2 R101m,qafim4EIR0 dNo/ Sk 5©2 i / Ap$`, oa:.aEj 1 E'Fa p1 r ..<`. TE RON ®p Lift' GUMCE�`. 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