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The Seaforth News, 1948-05-27, Page 7Students Learn Horticulture -Nineteen young men are attending the Niagara Parks Commission training school just below the Whirlpool. In three years they learn enough horticulture, floriculture and aboriculture to fit them for top jobs." Director of the school is J. B. Liddell' (left), whp came to Ontario from the Royal Botanical Gardens at Edinburgh. Few students anywhere have as pleasant surroundings (tight) for their classes. Requirements for entry are three successful years of high school and, preferably some practical knowledge of horticulture. TABLE TALKS Muffins and Jam Strawberry. Rhubarb Conserve 2 cups (1 pound) prepared rhubarb 1 cup seedless raisins 2 cups sugar 1 cup corn syrup 1 large orange 4 cups (15,4 pounds) prepared strawberries N cup blanched walnuts, coarsely chopped To prepare rhubarb, wash and cut into 14 -inch pieces. Place. In deep kettle. Add raisins, sugar and corn syrup. Remove peel from orange and cut away one-half of Inner .white part Chop peel and add to rhubarb. Cut orange pulp, entirely free from membrane, into .small pieces and add to rhubarb. Meanwhile, wash about 116 quarts fully ripe strawberries. Drain and hall, Add to rhubarb mixture. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Re- duce heat; simmer, stirring occa- sionally until thick, about 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from heat and tool about 5 minutes. Blanch wal- nuts by covering with boiling water for elle:tit 3 minutes, then drain and cover with cold water. Drain; chop and add to rhubarb mixture. Pour Conserve into hot sterilized glasses. Paraffin. Makes 7 glasses. (6 fluid ounces each). Serve with: Breakfast Muffins 45 cups sifted flour 3 teaspoons doable -acting baking powder teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons sugar , 1 egg, well beaten 1 cup milk 3 tablespoons melted shortening s'4 cup wheat flakes Sift flour once, measure, add bak- ing powder, salt, and sugar, and sift again. Combine egg and milk and add all at once to flour mixture add shortening. To mix, draw spoon from side of bowl toward center (18 times), turning bowl gradually.. Chop spoon through batter (10 times). Add cereal and mix (about 5 strokes), Turn into greased muf- fin pans, filling each about 24 full. Bake in hot oven (425 degrees F.) 22 minutes, or until done. Makes 9 large muffins. ...THE GREEN THUMB.., By Gordon L. Smith With so much to be done out- doors right now, it is very easy to forget about your house plants. But many fascin- • ating kinds - in varieties some - times hard to get from a florist - e a n readily be grown from seed, • which should be sown now, so that they w ill have time to develop into blooming size by the autumn; Flowering maple, a favorite of grandmother's era, has been much improved by recent hybridizers. Pendant, bell-shaped flowers one to three inches long come in deli- cate shades of yellow, red, pink, salmon, orange and white - some with light veinings of contrasting color. Patience plant, another old fa- vorite, blooms all year round. Those that have flowered indoors during the winter may be set out in a shady spot to bloom through the summer. Because they grow so readily from cuttings and are so easy to grow from seed, such plants are often hard to buy and you will be amazed at the results from a packet of mixed hybrid seeds. But don't forget the one great require- ment of these ever -blooming flow- ers -plenty of water. Begonia senperflorens is another ever -blooming candidate for a sun- ny spot in your window. Christmas Cheer, with its scarlet -crimson blossoms above dark green foliage and Christmas Pink, with bright pink bloom and lighter green foli- age, are also well worth *while. Seeds of begonias are so tiny that it is best to plant then in very finely -sifted soil, and just barely covered. With all such seedlings, Watering should be done with great care, The soil should never be al- lowed to dry out .entirely, as the 'drying of the tiny root -hairs is fatal. Geraniums, often grown from cuttings, are also easy to raise from seed. But don't disturb the flat in which the seeds arc planted, as, CROSSWORD _ PUZZLE ACROSS ' 1. Cultivators 5. Likely 8. Lath 12. First man 13. Boundless expanse 14. Reside 15. Noon 17. Presently 18. Beverage 19. Aptitude 21. Verdant 24. Work 25. Mann ars 28. Aye of a. bean 27.Toward 29. Record 30. First appear- ance 81. Label 32. By 133. Train of wives 84. Not any 35. Wall painting 36. Sudden thrust 37. Cutting. tool 39. Ship's boat 40. Residue 41. Depute 46. Russian city 47. Rather than 48. Vice 49. Existed 50. Noise. 51. Look atter DOWN Son of Noah .Poem 3. Attention 4. Strikes 5. Continent G. Size of coal 7. Metal 8. 5 ci race 9. Passenger steamer 10. I.Inglish. ri ear 11. Canvas lodge 1G. Private room 20. Border 21. D'estival 22. Disorder 23. 'Work unit 24. Printed defamation 26 Proclaimed' 27 Strong taste 28 Molding 30. Venture 31. Unit of ship capacity 33. Hurry 34. Lamp of metal 35. Skinflint 36. Recline 37. Bird 38. Present 39. Dingle 42. Worm 43. Hail 44. Metal 45. Olden times The answer to this puzzle is el ewhere on this page. some seedlings may appear within two weeks while others may take four times that long 'before s' r-v- ing. Periwinkle is a charming annual which makes an exceptionally good house plant because it endures heat well. It (lave lops slowly into a • 12 -inch plant with pholx-like flow- ers and waxy green foliage. Prim- roses take six to eight months from, seed and require 'cool growing con- ditions; although there is one vari- ety, with salmon pint: bloom, which is supposed to be quicker, and flow- ers within four months after seed- ing. Seeds sown in shallow bulb pans or fiats are easier to care for than those in open ground. Fine seeds should be pressed very carefully into finely sifted soil, covered very lightly with soil or sand, and the container soaked until the surface looks damp, Glass or newspaper should be placed dyer the top un- til the sprouts appear. Once up, they require sunshine and a con- stant supply of moisture. Your seedlings should be moved into small pots, or later on into larger ones, only when the roots begin to crowd. Grown outdoors all summer, carefully watered and fed, they should develop into hus- ky plants for your fall and winter window garden. _. About 10 per cent of the total area of the Philippines is under cultivation for rice. Just For Fun "Mose" said the Southern Col- onel to his colored houseman, "I'nm going to have guests for dinner on Sunday and I want you to get a nice turkey. But be sure. it's a tame turkey - not a wild one like you served last time as any guests are Northerners and might not like the gamey flavor of the wild kind." Sunday dinner arrived, and a noble -looking turkey adorned the board, sure enough. But when he was halfway through his port tion, the Colonel, angrily sum- moned his houseman. "Mose," he said, "I thought I told you to be sure and get a TAME turkey! "And dat's what I sho enough did, Boss, was the reply. "Then how do you account for these - two buckshot I bit out of the slice I'm eating?" "Dot's a tante bird all right, Boss, I wouldn't tell you no lie. De fac' of de matter is, dem buck- shot was meant for ME, not for de turkey!" 074) Public Talks Need Private Practice All of us are called on at one time or another to make a speech - to make a presentation, to acknowl- edge a gift, to welcome a visitor. Do you get tongue-tied when it's your turn? Suppose your club is having a debate and you feel strongly on the subject; are you able to express your opinion? '`Bink out your first sentence word-perfect and scribble a few phrases to help you make your point, Let's say the topic is "Inadequate Schooling." Your 'first sentence would have to be a bombshell. "Every day, twenty-five harried teachers try to control AND teach over 1500 stucknts. That's 60 of our children for one person to handle." You go on, reminding them how hard it is to handle two or three children in the home. You give statistics on teacher's salaries and then offer a possible solution, one that the group can act on. There are so many situations that you can meet with confidence and poise once you know the ins and outs of public speaking. See our P adcr Service booklet No, 83 for various speech samples, parliamen- tary procedure and voice improve- ment. Send THIRTY CENTS in coins for "Self -Instruction In Public Speaking" to Reader Service, Room 604, 371 Bay Street, Toronto. Print naive, addre, s, horklct title and No. 83, How Chinese Do It Since my arrival in this country - wrote a Chinese visitor to London -I hat, observed with dismay the English way of making tea. In time of shortage it is unnecessarily ex- travagant and I have been able to convince friends here they can save nearly a third of their ration by mak- ing tea properly. After warming the teapot only one and a half teaspoons of tea are required for an ordinary -sized pot. .The tea is only just barely covered with boiling water and is allowed to stand half a minute. A little more water is then added and allowed to stand; this is repeated until the pot is filled. The pot must never be completely emptied before adding she water for a second pouring. Koreans developed moveable type 50 years before Gutenberg printed the Bible. CHRONICLES OF GINGER FARM By Gwendoltiae P. Clarke Everyone seems to be fed up with the weather -rain, wind, cold, thunderstorms -and still more rain. Water, water, everywhere: It is too bad for the farmers who have not yet finished seeding -but there is not one thing anyone can do about it. We were watching the skies anxiously ourselves towards the end of last week but thank goodness we were just able to get through before the rain came. We were so glad. It is a tiring busi- ness -to say nothing of the worry when seeding drags on through the weeks. It must be particularly dia• couraging to those who have re• cently taken up farming -we old- timers are more or less hardened to the vicissitudes of farm life( + * * I wonder if this unusually active period of buying and selling farm lands is general throughout the province? In all the years we have been here we have never known so many farms change hands in such a short bine. In this district it doesn't semi long since we rated as "newcomers." Now, by compari- son, we "can almost be classed as "old-timers" as, one by one, neigh- bors pull stakes and move into town. I wonder how many will be contented? Often we hear of re-* tired farmers who are so lone- sone in their town homes they hardly know what to do with them- selves. Probably the women settle down more happily than the men -glad of the opportunity to give more time and thought to their hones without the interruptions in- cidental to farm life. They like to be able to step out, do their own shopping and then walk home again. If they have nostalgic yearn- ings very few admit it. * ** And then what of the newcom- ers to the country -the man from the city who suddenly decides farming is the life for him! Some- times I wonder . perhaps that type too, keep their feelings to themselves. "The simple life" is often eulogised through lack of ac- tual experience. Personally any heart aches -and my indignation rises - when I hear of a middle-aged man, quitting his job, putting his money into a hundred -acre farm and ex- pecting his wife and family to ad- just themselves to an entirely dif- ferent way of life, possibly without the conveniences to which they have always been accustomed. For then "the simple life" very soon becomes nighty complicated. Of course, a few acres with a com- fortable home, that's something else again. I can think of nothing bet- ter in these days of over -crowded • living quarters. But a hundred acres -oh no! Not if you haven't been used to farming. Then there are those who think of farming, with a stable full of cows, as a part-time job - quite possible if properly organizedl Usually there comes a rude awe - Make, It Stick Putty applied to barewood is likely to. "unstick" and fall away after a few months. That is why craftsmen recommend that a prim- ing coat of paint be applied to the wood beforehand so that the putty can adhere better. It is not neces- sary for the paint to be thoroughly dry before the putty is applied. Painting over the putty after the job is done also helps the filler to "Stay Put" while at the same time narking the puttying job. .las kening; enthusiasm wanes -and an. other farm is up for sale, ,. But the newcomers that I think we all welcome, and who should be given every encouragement, are the young couples setting up for them- selves. hem selves. You just sort of go along with them, sensing their courage, their energy and their ambition- and you hope to heaven life' will not deal too harshly with them. Disillusionment can be a bitter ex- perience for those who cannot rise above it, but a challenge to those who can. Sure, these young farmers will make mistakes, -sometimes cost- ly ones -they are young yet in experience. But what theylack in experience they make up for in initiative. Most of them are pro- gressive -the chances are they will give that "new look" to farming- and their wives, if they arethe right kind, will be right there with them. The future of agriculture lies in the hands of these young people. They probably will not be required to face the physical hardships that their grandparents knew, at the same time every age has its prob- lems. So we say, more power to the younger generation. The world needs you -your strength, your vi- tality and your brighter outlook. Answer To Thir Week's Puzzle ► Rub on freely, and note 3Set quick relief. Greaseless. taloa moaeu,cat door 1 drying• Nostrongme 65c 6 DOES INDIGESTION WALLOP YOU BELOW THE BELT? 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