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GARDEN HINTS
It is the exceptioual hardy border
that does not, as summer advances,
show decided deficiency in bloom in its
fewer planted sections. The tendency,
of almost everyone in putting down a;
border is to place early flowering
Varieties in the foreground. This
practice has its happy results for the
early summer but all too often leaves
the border with its taller varieties
flowering profusely unsupported by
bloom in more conspicuous front sec-
tions.
Annuals offer an excellent remedy
for this deficiency. If started in fiats
asters of the lower growing varieties,
Stocks, clarkia, candytuft, and a host
of others offer the most attractive of
fillers for the spots that give promise
of looking bare as the summer ad-
vances.
There are several annuals which,
because of their self -breeding habit,
will fill in spaces in the border with
little work. Corn flowers or bach-
elor's button, most of the poppies,
calendula, coreopsis, annual larkspur,
pansies, kochia and, annual gaillar-
dias may all be counted upon to sow
themselves for the next year's crop.
If the hardy border Is not worked
over until after these seeds, all of
which germinate at surprisingly low
temperatures, have made their start,
it is possible to leave patches of them
to come along and fill in among the
seedums, saxifrages and other low:
growing sorts.
The summer flowering bulbs offer
a chance to add color to otherwise
all -green sections of the border. The
unfailing gladiolus has a distinct
• mission in this regard, and the more
tender lilies which it is difficult to
.make Fast over more than one winter
in this climate can be put in for sum-
mer flowering and then taken up in
late fall, cleaned and packed in fine
dry sand in the cellar for the winter.
A HARDY BORDER BEAUTY.
In the planting of the hardy border
beauty of plant forms should govern
the choice of varieties as greatly as
the beauty and profusion of flowers.
Judged.from this point of view of at-
tractiveness of form, there are few
plants adapted for hardy border use
that give greater satisfaction than
the Funkia or True Day lily. There
are two distinct types of this plant,
each of which serves a different pur-
pose.
Funkia Subcordata (Haste) , grow-
ing at its best only from 14 to 18
inches highadapts itself to a semi -
shaded position in the centre of the
border, where its heavily ribbed,
glaucous leaves will form a spot of
deep green beauty all summer long,
Then starting in July and continuing
until October it will throw up a series
of flowers stalks each of which bears
from three to eight creamy bell -like
flowers. The leaves are heart shaped
and well able to withstand most of
the common garden enemies except
snails and slugs. These must be
guarded against.
Funkia Varigata is a green and
white variety of this plant having
lance shaped leaves and growing to
about ten inches in height. The bell.
like flowers of this type are pale blue
In color. As a denizen of the front
of the border this variety is an ex-
cellent relief as its foliage adds var-
iety to the color scheme. It does not
stool out as does its larger cousin and
while the former will make clumps as
big as the top of a bushel basket in
a couple of years, the Varigata seldom
increases to more than the size of the
top of a pail before it should be
divided.
Nether of these plants are par-
ticular as to the type of soil in which
they grow. Any well worked and
moderately rich garden soil will do
fro them. They should have partial
shade and will repay plentiful water-
ing. Both are quite hardy in all but
the most northern parts of the Pro-
vince of Ontario. At Ottawa, some
gardeners see that they are covered
along with the other hardy border
plants. ,They are likely to make an
earlier start in .the 'spring if they are
moderately protected during the win-
ter.
All of the 1'unkies are increased
by divisions of the roots. The divi-
sions of the Varigata are best made in
spring, but both kinds may be divided
with success either in spring or in
late August.
USE FOR OLD SILK
Waste Material XJsed for Satis-
factory Hen -House,
When a person has anything good
I believe in passing it along, and in
these days of high-priced building
material, I believe this idea is really
"Good."
]laving an old stave silo which had
done its duty for the last eighteen
years, and as some of the staves had
decayed so they let in air and became
impractical for use, I decided there
were enough good staves in it to make
a brooder house. I tore the structure
down, or I should have said, tipped it
over, piled the staves up, 'took the
door frame and cut out two door
:lengths, removing the centre piece,
leaving one continuous door about six
feet in height. I set this where I
wished to build, and plumbed it,
rounded a complete hoop and laid it
in place, on the ground, cutting the
staves the same length as the door
frame. I set them up much the same
as building the silo:
For windows, I simply cut a piece
of stave eighteen inches long and put
in at the bottom, and the same length
at the top, doing this until 1 had he
window he desired width,. I placed
three windows at the south and one
at the north, using glass cloth for the
openings. I built the window frames
so that they act as ventilators, tilting
them in at the top about eight inches
and by placing a lid on the opening I
have ventilators that I can open as
much as I like, or close them entirely.
I used two hoops, one at the bot-
tom and one at the top, which makes
it firm and tight. I believe I have a
very good building, and have had many
compliments on the idea, It is round,
wind -tight, and warm. Of course, a'
swinging door is used instead of the
original silo doors. I have enough
material from a 12x26 -foot silo to
make three, possibly four, by cutting
carefully and using every available
piece of sound material.
As'the staves are being set in place,
use barrel staves on the inside to hold
them" until the hoop is put on and
ready to tighten, lath nails answer the
purpose and pull easily, it is very
simple to build. A concrete founda-
tion is almost necessary to get the
building level, and it also is well worth
it to the building.—Ervin D. Moore.
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The Old Story.
The Saskatoon Western Producer
(Frog)' The farmers have had too long
and too bitter an experience with the
organized grain trade to be deluded
by friendly overtures at this stage of
the development of the marketing re-
velutio i. They know that the' friendli-
nese• of the trade for the farmer, Is the
friendliness of the, butcher for the fat-
ted calf, the kindly concern of the
spider far the .fly, the playful. sym-
pathy of the at towards the mousse,
the tender earn of a gamekeeper for
his birds. The farmer may take a
choice between, the Grain Exchange
Method of selling and the Pooling
method. It should not be, difiiou1t.
When a genbleman with ni;ohey itt his
punepe •haa the choice of being eeeet a
panted home ell a dark night by a helel4
up man or a pallcenian, his !course 31
reasonably
dear.
,
Milk -Can now' be produced that will
keep in perfectly good condition for
from 96 to 120 hottr'eS
LOSS TO CANADA
Largest Single Importation of
Thoroughbred Horses Gone.
ONLY A FEW REMAIN.
The wreck of a freight train near
Hornepayne on April 19 last, not only
caused the death of seven trainmen
and stockmen, but brought about the
destruction of all but a few of the
largest shipment of . thoroughbred
horses ever shipped from England.
Among the men who were killed when
the freight train was derailed by a
"washout" was Captain. William Rich-
ard Lidington, who with his father
had made the shipment; Mr. Garnett
13111, an amateur jockey, who acted as
trainer, and Mr. Herbert Henry En
dersiey, a groom.
Father and scan established a stud
farm at Thome, Oxon, England, and
built up an important business in
breeding thoroughbreds. When the
Prince of Wales acquired' his ranch in
Alberta, the bloodstock was supplied
by Captain Lidington and exported un-
der his personal supervision.
Major W. R. Lidington, father of
Captain Lidington, was fortunately de-
tained 1n Ottawa owing to an indis-
position and hence escaped the fate
of his son.
A few of the horses that set out up-
on the ill-starred voyage from England
escaped, by being purchased en route,
the downfall of their fellows: They
were as follows:
Bryan Boy, Otford, Jeddart, Gold
Coast, Malone, Square Peg, Herophula
(a brood mare), purchased by G. A.
S•aportas of Malvern, Pennsylvania;
"Lord Norths:ea," purchased by T. C.
Bates of Ottawa. "Tangle Toes" re-
puted by horsemen to be the very best
of the shipment was purchased by T.
B. J•enkinson of Markham, a. dealer of
horses in a large way and the owner
of an extensive range in the west. He
I bought the horse while the consign-
ment was stopping at Ottawa, pto•ceed-
' ing to thatcityfor the purpose. "Ta'n-
gie Thee" is said to be a consistent
winner on the flat and over hurdles.
Famous Winner.
"D•inkie," one of the horses to be
killed, created a sensation in 1924 by
winning the Roai Hunt Cup .at 60 io 1,
beating the king's, horse, Weathervane,
Seven years old, Dinkie won several
races of minor importance. When
greatly -fancied ' for the Liverpool
Spring Cup in 1925 he brake down half
a furlong fro -m the winning post and
finished second. -. Captain Lidington.
bought him privately ht M=arch of this
year.
Other horses of note whioh am,onget
thane composing the shipment and
possibly cants to an end with their
companions were: Longtown, sire of
Gagne He last year's winner of the
Irish Cesarewitch; +11a reset, son of
Lemberg, a Derby winner; and a
three-year-old! theigenet, St. 'Barna^
bright, sea of Sihistate another Derby
winner, -
e examined
e can new be So mCu
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nutoly by 'a new appliaticts that even
the corpuscles circulating in the blood.
' vessels ate visibia;
Fad Work in the Air.
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NEW PHOTOGRAPHS OF HUDSON PLANES SPEED HERE °
Speed marks 'these •Illustrations
given herewith. In the first place they
will be need in oonneotion . with the.
Hudson Strait .government air dash to
the north in the summer, possibly one
of the most hazardous Aretic under-
takings., ever attempted. In the .second
place, the photographs on the lett
were taken late on Friday, April 29,
at Camp Borden, the plates being de-
ve!loped Friday night. A 8 o'clock Sat-
urday morninga plane left Camp Bor-
den bearing them,- Exactly. thirty!
minutes later it reached Leaside, near ,
Toronto, a distance of forty miles
They were rushed to the oMoe of a`
Toronto newspaper far early edition.
Qn the right is shown Flying Officer
-W. J. Riddell, who piloted the plane.
Left. to right in the upper photo at
the left are: Group Captain J. Stan-
ley Scott, director of; the Canadian Air
Force, and • Flight Lieutenant F. A.
Lawrence, eomnrander of the north
i air survey. Lower is shown one of
the new Fokker universal planes
which are to be used in the expedition.
ADVICE 'ON SHEEP
Now is the Tiine to Prepare for
Good Fall Prices.
The consumption of Canadian Iamb
is increasing steadily as a result of Rer Cross Doing Yeoman Ser -
the better care farmers are taking ink vice in Saving Valuable
producing this article, according to;
Colonel ,Bobt: McEwen, prominent
sheep breeder of London, Ontario, and
president of the Canadian Co-oper-
ative Wool Growers. "That `Spring
lamb' is one of the most popular meats
DEATH RATE AMONG MOTHERS
MUCH TOO HIGH IN CANADA
Lives.
girls have received the sort of in-
d,ividual instruction to which Dr. Win-
slow referred. Already from those
who have to date received this valu-
able training there will benefit ,at least'
48,000 people in the families to which
IGNORANCE AND INCA- they belong.
PACITY COMBATED. Touching on the Visiting House -
;
t
is evidence by the prominence given';
to it on the menu cards," he states, •
adding that if restaurant keepers
and hotel men were always careful to
supply this meat when demanded, in-
stead of something which should real-
ly be called mutton, the consumption
could be developed to such elle/rent'
that the present supply would not be
able to meet the demand.
"Grow the kind of lamb you prefer
on your own table," is - Colonel Mc-
Ewen's advice to the farmer. "In
order to do this the ram must be se-
lected with care, avoiding leggy, long -
necked and slim -waisted animals., It
is recommended that ewes be bredto
have the lambs dropped on the grass,
that they be kept en pastures that
will keep them in good condition, and
that all lambs that are fat enough
be sold by the first of September be-
fore they are too heavy for the mar-
ket
arket demands."
Evidently leading Canadian pack-
ers are in agreement with Colonel
McEwen, as they ' are distributing
leaflets this week announcing the
usual cuts on heavy and buck lambs.
Culls and heavies, they declare, will
be picked out of the general run of
lambs received and be priced from
one to three cents below that of good
animals. It is .also stated that be-
ginning July 18th, a cut of $2:00 per
hundred pounds—and after the 1st
of October, $3.0D—will again be effec-
tive on all buck lambs. Their advice
I s to dock and castrate early, and fin-
ish the lambs so they are ready to
market between 80 and 90 pounds at
the farm.
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How to Plant a Rose Bush.
To plant a rose bush dig a hole three
feet deep and fill it with loam ,pre-
pared in the following way: 1-3 part
sand, 1.3 common loam, and 1-3 man-
ure. Put in a layer of the loam, then
a layer of small rocks, and another
layer of loam. Before putting the bush
in straighten ant the roots • and prune
off any that are broken or bruised.
Right in the eentre is the taproot
1 which must be supported in the bole
by a mound of earth so that the crown
et the plant will come just above tite
level of the ground when the plant is
set. Straighten out the roots around
the mound and put in enough loam to
I hold thein in place. Then fill the hole
with water several times and allow it
i to soak away untie the plant is washed
quite firmly .into the earth. Then fill
the hole with loam and stamp it down
• as the filling proceeds. Lastly, prune
it off within 6 inches of the ground.
A Hard Thinker:
"
ls�t Stticl�ent Ourp rofessor of
geology iso a hard thinit;er,
2nd Student_.. --"How do vitt know?"
ist Sttelettt "I•laett`t he always got
roast and stottes en his tiled?"
"The mortality rate for women in
childbirth in North America is -ane of
the highest among the civilized nations
of the world,' said Dr. C. E. A. Winslow
of Yale University and a Past Presi-
dent of the American Public Health
Assooiiatien, in speaking recently to
the Social Welfare Conference in To-
ronto on "Public Health and Com-
munity Welt Being: "Of the many
new problems arising in the realm of
public health one of the very greatest
is that of maternal and pre -natal mor-
tality. The only two countries in the
world which at all adequately deal
with these important matters are Hol-
land and Denmark. In both countries
tsuch deaths rates are very low be-
cause the . health authorities have
made generous provision for skilled
and supervised nursing care for moth-
ers before, after and at the time of
fthe birth of their •children."
"Education," the speaker went on to
say, "is the only thing which can suc-
cessfully change people's habits of
Diving. In such education the public
health nurse is the dominant factor
'and we are coming more and more to
see that individual instruction such as
is given by the nurses of the Toronto
Health Department, a department
which is one of the most wonderful in
the world, is the only satisfactory so -
ration of the problem offered for our
too high death rates among mothers."
The figures to which Dr, Winslow
referred -for these include Canada as
well as- the United States—show that
in the Dominion in 1925—the last year
for which detailed statistics are avail-
able -1,196 mothers• were lost in child-
birth, over half of whom were. in the
prime of life. Stillbirths accounted for
the loss -of 8,043 lives and even with
the always increasing reduction in in-
fant mortality rates In most of the pro-
•vinces, there died 23,310 infants under
one year of age and exclusd.ve of the
stillborn. The total losses of infant
life throughout the Dominion in that
year, therefore, amounted to 30,353
babies., Realizing what these far from
oreditable and. largely preventable
l-asses•mean to Canada, where new set-
tlers are being brought at great cost
from long distances, to populate the
country, .bout governmental and volun-
tary agencies in recent years have
been making real efforts to provide
pre -natal, natal and post -natal care for
mothers and to do definitely education-
al health work. -
keepdn.g Centre in Toronto, another
Red Cross activity, Dr. Winslow said:
1 "It was one of the mos:t unique, inn
portant and *useful-experim-ents in
economics and social service now be-
ing conducted en the American con-
tinent," and pointed out that in time
this institution, whioh has already 23
women trained in the field, w•i11 have!
performed not merely a local but a-
natioual service by reason of its front-
al attack on the hitherto insoluble
problem presented by the family _ in
which illnes, ignorance or incapacity
do their worst work of disintegration
and degeneration.
Red Cross Helps.
In this connection the Canadian :Eted
Cross in its thirty-nine Outpost hospit-
als in pioneering sections has done an
effective, piece of conservation. In the
past year over 6,000 patients were
nerved in these institutiot, among
therm being 743 Mothers who must
Otherwise have One without skilled
care when their children were bern.
lti addition to sttch practical assist -
aline, the Otttpost nurses diad an itn-
release.
amount of •educatio-val work
.g
amonthe settlers in their'd'istricts, a
work which follows every Outpost in.
be the ftotitlers.
Then through the 305 new Red Cross
Home Neesing C1
asses Started ted
last
ear all over Canada and the hundreds
which have been •completed in the past
three.: years, over 12,'643 tunten.• and
NEW PROFESSION
N.Y. Women Form Society to
Solve "Servant Problem"
Which Will Interest
Ontario Housewives.
New York.—Women•of society have
undertaken to solve the servant prob-
lem through the organization of a
corps of trained "domestic employees"
not servants—end the elevation of
household service to the dignity of a
profession. This will be done through
Scientific Housekeeping, Inc., a co-
operative organization, all of whose
members are listed le the Social Re-
gister. Mrs. Richard Boardman ie
president of the organization.
Scientific Housekeeping will engag-e
a corps ,of domestic •employees. In
ivI•i. 13oardman's .own home, amid con-
ditions which prevail in the best .re-
gulated New York households, with in-
structors and supervisors in attend-
ance, the 'domestic !worker will receive
training which should ,enable her to
qualify. in personal appearance, de-
portment and efficiency of service.
There will be no servant problem
for the mistresses ot New York homes
under the new o,rganization, A000rd=
ing to Mrs, Boma -keen, "Ones a cook,
waitress or maid, or an entire staff of
domestic employees, has been engaged,
we will do the rest, Our supervisors
will oversee the work of the staff, look
after the proper uniforms, keep an
eye on expenditures in the kitchen and
adjust all differences that may arise
between the mistress, of the house and
her employee. '
The sponsors of the organization say
'that it le an experiment, that the work
is largely of an,educational character.
They believe the experiment will work
beca•u,se it will raise domestic servicer
from its present mental position to the
dignity of a profession and viii attract
to scientific housekeeping a corps of
domestic w'orkees proud of their estate
and ready and obis to give -the tittnost
in service to their employees,
The domestic worker of the filter°
will be strictly a professional worker.
She*ill work not more than nine hours
a day, with a fixed scale ot pay for
overtime and will live and take her
meals out unless other arrangememie
are made. Iii that event she will pay
thetn.rof h
fete 1 t.
sitthe tots e
an agreed
upon sun for her board tt b dice attcl lodgfttgs.
In other wards, she will live exactly
like her sisters in .oiliees, stores and
elsewhere. Moth— Welt, .you're all D. upl'•
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BAR VISITORS
New Knowledge of Bird .
Habits Acquired by
Recent Study,
wag regularity of the reappear-
ance
eappearonce of birds every spring has ]ed to
many theories to account for their
amazing sense of direction. Some
scientists say that they have amag-
netic .sense and are drawn toward a
magnetic pole. Others maintain that
a nasal sense enables them to identify
air currents. Telepathy and heredi-
tary memory are other suggestions
that have been advanced. It has,. also
been suggested that they guide their
course by the stars, the moon and the
sun, though this does not take into
consideration foggy weather. The fac-
nett' for orientation in carrier pigeons
is well ltniiwn and has been developed
by fanciers to an amazing degree.
This., problem or orientation will prob-
ably be eventually cleared up by ex-
perimentation'
but at present the
ornithologisthas an explanation to
offer that is very lucid or convincing,
A MYSTERY.bottom of the
ns
actor may be
to cause. It has_
and climabia
used to think
at with great -
re difficulty in
ught to take
gratory flight
bergs of the
"The nest of another bird of the
north, the surf bird of Alaska, has
recently been discovered for the first
time. Though he spends most of his
life on the rocky reefs of the Pacific
Ocean, the surf bird :turns to the
mountains when he wants to raise a
family. His home site was discovered
for the first time last summer on
Mount McKinley, by scientists from
the University of California.
"Much of the mystery of .migration
has been cleared up by the gigantic
system of bird- census -taking institut-
ed by the U.S. Biological Survey,
known -as bird banding. Tempted by
an alluring display of food, birds are'
enticed into large wire traps where
the operator attaches a numbered
aluminum band to the leg. This serves
as an identification tag by which the
movements of that particular bird
are traced at any other trapping sta-
tions where he may happen to stop.
Those ' that are roughly' approached
never conte bark. but they respond to
kindly treatment, and there are rec-
ords of many shat return to the same
locality year after year.
"Any bird student over eighteen
years old, who satisfies.the authorities
of the Biological Survey that he is
competent to identify birds and turn
in the desired information, may re-
ceive a Federal permit to operate a
trapping station. He should record
the number and • name of every bird
he bands as well as that of every `re-
turn' and every visitor to the station
who already has a band. This in-
formation is sent to the U.S. Bio-
logical Survey where it is filed and
analyzed by experts working on the
migration problem. From this source
ornithologists expect some day to get
answers to such questions as, how
long birds live, how long birds stay
married, how fast they travel during
the migratory season, and others of
greater scientific import, if of less
sociological interest.'
"The reason at the
long trek twice a year ia mystery.
The entire act of migration, accord-
ing to Dr. Wetmore, is so utterlycoin
plex that no' single f
ascribed as the`absolu
arisen, he believes, from movements
induced by seasonal
changes until it has become a heredi-
tary instinct that is now actuated by
physiological causes.
"Early ornithologists
that most migration took place above
feet. The experience of avia-
tors shows, however, th
er altitude there Is mo
maintaining height and speed. Most
migration is now tho
place below 3,000 feet.
"The preference for perpetual
spring displayed by the barn swallow,
the bobolink, and many other birds,
is not shared by the arctic tern, that
makes the longest mi
known. It makes its nest close to the
North Pole, and has as a southern
winter resort the ice
Antarctic.
MYSTERY BEING CLEARED.
Trees. -
Treei are historians who tell upon
their pages
The pageantry of ages,
No earthly dwellers they
Who watch all - day .
The scenic splendor of the sky
Drifting by,
Rattles and beauties, palaces that rear
Imperial domes within the painted at-
mosphere, -
Princes on prancing steeds•,
Iterate deeds
Unseen ot than, whose eager hours
are spent
In ways unseemly to the firinement..
--Angela Morgan, in Poem&
N
Same 'Thing.
14loth "You're Intoxtca,ted again,
Mr. Candle."
Cuddle—"What do you mean, in-
toxicated?"
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