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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-05-10, Page 2formalin, The grain was turned Witt► Citi i • a shovel while the solution was spray-. Noe ed over the seed with a sprayer such as is used in applying fficera in insecticides to trees or garden crops, Theo Icherge of the work advised that care Spring Flowering Bulbs. must be taken to apply the spray very In the spring of the year when the evenly to the seed, One quart of the dowering bulbs are at their best many 'spray was found to be sufficient to of us decide to plant a bed for future treat -fifty bushels of grain. After the years, but when the autumn has ar- seed was treated it was covered for rived when the planning should be four or five hours with canvas or bags done, our spring decision , has been moistened with the ordinary formalin forgotten and the planting is over- I solution. Seed is ready for sowing rut looked. The growing of such bulbs the end of the treating period, The as tulips, daffodils,' and liYacinths is • Report of the • Rust Research Labora- a very simple matter but it does re- tory, that is available at the Publica- quire some knowledge of the culture tions Branch of the Department of Ag - that should be given and of the dif- rlculture at Ottawa, also describes a Terence in varieties. To supply this system of treating wheat smut with a information the Department of Agri-' gas grain pickier. The seed was culture at Ottawa has brought out a !divided into smolt compartments in an bulletin entitled "Some Flowering' 'ordinary a perforated waggon box ,pipehroug the bch Bulbs," covering not only the history passed near and culture of many of the bulbs that i tom. The grain was covered with a released In this country, but also the canvas and charged with gas gener- lessons that have been learned in a ated from paraformaldehyde subject - study of the subject by an expert- ! ed to a heating process. The effect of enced horticulturist. In dealing with 'the treatment was to submit the grain the culture of narcissus, the bulletin, t to this gas for a considerable period. which is number 95 and available at Not only was the method proved to the Publications Branch of the De- be of little or no value in killing the pertinent, says that the best time to smut, but it also had the effect of Plant to obtain the finest flowers is damaging some of the grain.—Issued early autumn. The bulbs may be left rent of the Agricur lture, itof PtOttawy, Depart - undisturbed for years in ordinary good loamy soil. Deep planting even to the extent of six inches and three inches, apart is recommended with strong bulbs. In a few years these will have Seek multiplied to an extent that will en- able one by digging them up and separating them to greatly extend the plantation. The daffodil may be followed in the summer months with annual flowering plants which 'can easily be planted with a slight work- ing of the soil and the adding of some easily worked in manure. It is the habit of the daffodil to die down. This occurs some weeks after the bloom has faded and gone. The old foliage ould, however, not be remove un - sh d til Mine Riches With Aeroplanes Method in Vogue this Spring Saves Weeks of Time for Prospectors NEW IDEAS WORKING Hudson Bay Country North of The Pas New Eldorado it has become yellow and unsightly the bed. Winnipeg—Prospecting by aero - A new industry of promising Ma plane has passedthe experimental portance is being developed at the 1 stage and is now at the point where Pacific Coast in the growing of sprang' it is by way of becoming ahutndrum flowering bulbs for the Canadian mar- operation.ket. On Vancouver Island and on the • Just now prospectors are being sent Pacific slopes of -the mainland of Bri- into the north in. large numbers by tish Columbia the industry is develop- ing and the value of the home-grown product has been amply demonstrated. A need bulletin written by the Super- intendent of the Experimental Station for Vancouver Island, and published for the Department of Agriculture at Ottawa, entitled "Some Flowering Bulbs," gives interesting information en the methods of propagation. The usual plan, it is stated, is to take the young bulbs that appear as increase at the base of the mother bulb and plant them in the autumn in good loamy soil where they may be left un- disturbed for two or three years. By this time they 'will have multiplied considerably and are ready to be lift- ed and divided into planting size and smaller bulbs for further develop- ment. The time for lifting is when the foliage has natured in June or July, when it will have turned yellow. In commercial production the larger of the bulbs are marketed and the others replanted in the fall and treat- ed as in the original bed. This bulle- tin covers the propagation and cul- ture of many of the kinds of bulbs that we have been i nthe habit of im- porting from Holland and other Euro- pean countries. M The Wizard of Wireless and His floating Laboratory. VP Wert,07 INVENTOR OF WIRELESS AND RADIO BEAM William Marconi will start out in his yacht Electra for a four -months tour of the Atlantic' in an effort perfect "beam" or directional. transmission. IIe will communicatet with all beam statio'1ns from Australia England. chines, constantly in use for ,remote paints north, even as far as Forts Churchill and Nelson, on Hudson Bay. Dog Train is Passe. Routes that were matters of weeks. to negotiatewith loads• but a year ago I are now traversed in a few hours. Dag trains and snow autos have prov- en too slow in the mad rush for de wireless, is planning a cruise of sever - miles over a region a thousand ing authorities are to give British lis - miles square. Bundles of rich furs al months' duration on the Atlantic toners their first,; specimen of the re - that have come down by the slow aboard his floating laboratory yacht • sults of the "hush-hush" experiments'''. process of canoe and dog sled from Electra to,learn more about the action th Hudson B company for a gen Ways of Happiness EDITH I., REID. i, All mothers have the •secret hops 4 that their children will always ba happy and that their lives will be free front heartache. This is of course a natural longing born of love. YeI sometimes mothers do not use the sures est means for bringing it to pass, George was pulling his little wagon about the yard none to gently when he bumped it against a tree and knocked a wheel off. He began to cry loudly and stood 'gazing helplessly at his broken toy. His mother, hearing his wails, ran quickly from the house, notice�ed what the trouble was, and im mediately gathered hum in her arms. "That's too bad, dear," she consoled, at which sympathetic tone George boo- hooed louder than ever. His mother continued, "Don't cry any more, and we'll take the wagon 'down to the cor- ner shop and have the man put the wheel on again•" So George stopped his sobs, the wagon was repaired within a short time, and he was, as his mother felt sure, entirely happy once more. This is one example of how to give a child happiness. But such a course fails to provide for happiness in the future when Mother, or some other person equally indulgent, is not pres- ent to sympathize and to reliee the trouble. In contrast to this let us notice the boy next door to George, in connection to I with a similar accident. Clarence was to running a small mechanical automo- bile which operated by winding a spring. He was having great fun with this when it ran into the wall of the porch and bent one of the front fend- ers so that the car would not run straight. Try as he would Clarence could not make it follow the right course. "I bent my auto," he called to his mother, but with no thought of crying or complaining. His mother asked casually. "What can you do about it, Soni' "I don't know yet, but I'll do some- thing," replied Clarence stoutly, and there was no more said about the acci- dent for some time. But Mother heard Clarence in the basement rattling tools and wire, and at length he came hurrying towards her, exclaiming, "See what I invented!" The invention was not perfect, to be sure, but it comprised a front bumper to the auto. 'It was made of a stout piece of wire that the small boy had bent with the pliers and twisted into place across the front of the car. He had also straightened the bent fender. "Now if my car hits the porch ••ail the fender won't bend, for my bumper will • Marconi Tackles Fading Mystery Inventor of Wireless Plans Study Cruise in Floating Work- shop ---North Magnetic Pole Blamed for Interference With Radio Beam Gugiielmo Marconi, inventor of gram on slightly different frequencies.s 1 Very shortly the British broadcast - of his world-wide beam transmitters. that have been taking place for e n son ay months past, a clear indication that tury are now being shipped into 1 Marconi and British broadcasting . considerable progress has been made. Winnipeg byt these returning -Planes. engineers are wo_'iing together to It was stated some time ago that no Daily wireless orders are received i overcome the fading difficulty on further relays from. America would ;t erre definite im- pecting will actually be done by u tion (take place unt planes. In fact, this summer, pros - lies y merchants in the cities for sap- short-wave long-distance reception. lies to be tushed out the same day The Marconi engineers are said to be provement in the methods of relaying planes, that is, pictures will be made from the air, developed, and prospec- l by this or that plane. In several interested in increasing the reliability tors landed •at points selected from 1 cases this winter injured men have of the beam services and the broad - the aeroplanes • with their camp equip -lb tlstby the transported a o the froc l2'enot - casting experts in paving the way for ment and supplies. For the remote a regular interchange of programs, recognized to be the Heaviside layer, cams where wireless is not available l points and recently .a wireless was re- with America and the Dominions. 1 the ionized strattum of upper atmos - for calved from the Central Mining region The beam service that suffers most phere which deviates waves. Pro - calved rapid communication one company 1 ``- tobring a" doctor f fading i said to be the one to fessor E. V. Appleton, a noted British had been achieved The cause of all the virtues and vagaries of short waves is generally has secured a number of carrier requesting a p ane from a rag s a pert stated in a recent lac and return with an injured Canada, the theory 1 normal night the pigeons for emergent connections, So much competition • because the beam Records . Broken 90 All records for improved prospect- ing rospect ing of a mining region are being broken in the north country just now. There has been nothing like it in the hectic search for precious metals anywhere iu the world at any time. Prospectors are being sought by men of means everywhere. Instead of old miners seeking "grub stakes" to -day as of old, the money is being literally "thrown at the prospector" to-day- Advertiseinents are appearing in the daily papers as far west as Vancou- ver seeking "men of experience who desire a grub stake—liberal terms as complete equipment for an unlimited period." Where a grub stake,in the old days of development in the Cobalt, British Manuring for Turnips. The turnip grower who feeds his crop and takes good care of the man- ure from the live stock will have little difficulty about his fertilizer question. The turnip, however, responds well to applications of phosphoric acid and to -small quantities of nitrogenous and Potassic fertitlizer in addition to a limited dressing of farmyard manure. These fertilizers, according to Bulle- tin 94 of the Department of Agricul- ture at Ottawa, "Growing and Feeding 'Field Roots," give best results when applied in conjunction with the farm- yard manure. They may be applied broadcast or as a top dressing at planting time, but the safest and best results are obtained from the fer- tilizer when applied a few days in ad- vance of planting, so that it may be- come thoroughly incorporated with the soil. On average farm land this bulletin recommends for turnips from 8 to 10 tons of manure per acre in addition to an application of from 300 to 500 pounds of superphosphate. A mixture that is recommended includes from 100 to 600 pounds of nitrate of soda, 300 to 500 pounds of superphos- phate, and 30 to 50 pounds of nitrate pf potash. ]:red man. beingthat it is ra ro e. 1 protect it," he said, and his eyes shone has been inpasses close to the , tura thatduring ig •a night ' byis therefore height of this layer may varyfromwith the true joy of taccomplishments plane, per that passenger o north magnetic pole and t are not more than 11 subject to interference from to 130 kilometers, but on occasions, in I He had met a difficul y . plane, mile,specially i four times the railway tariff for sun spots and magnetic storms. , Winter, heights from 250 to 350 kilo- similar distances. For freight the The practical experiments, which meters have frequently been mea - charges are proportionately heavier -are being carried on in Essex, have cured in the three hours before dawn. than other means of transportation, been directed at finding methods of ,He also referred to the results of the but not so high that fur companies, reception whereby the fading on one elaborate tests carried out in Britain mining enterprises and kindred in- receiver from a given signal is -exact- on the occasion of the eclipse of the dustries in the north can't afford to ly the inverse of the fading on an -sun last year. The eclipse produced pay the increased price. from other Combining the results obtain -'a definite effect on the Properties of Daily, eugineers and investors ed from two such receivers in simul- the Heaviside layer responsible for de-' We can either hand out temporary Toronto, Montreal, Nov Yorlt and taneous use would give an unvarying fleeting waves of 300 to 400 metrtes i happiness because it is within our su- Cliicago arrive in Winnipeg, having signal strength. It is claimed that back to the ground. There was a I perior power to do so, or we can direct wired in -davance for their plane re- great success has been achieved in • great increase in the intensity of the children towards achieving happiness servations and within au hour after this direction by the use of a horizon- downcoming ray. This niay be as- by preparing them to solve their own their arrival, are on their way by the tal and a verticil aerial attached to ' cribed to the increase in the height of problems without the of air route northward. I different receivers. This method was ; the /stratum, and the rapid removal of adults. The teaching of supervisionrceful- James Stanley and Marcus Parr, en disclosed recently by T. L. Eckersley, ionization in the lower layers of the Hess is the wisest and surest means of gineers from Chicago representing of the Marconi Research Department. ' atmosphere. insuring continued happiness with re- linneapolis interests, came north in His brother, Captain P. P. Eckersley, i. A striking feature of the observe- Bard to all the things which such re ttimetheec it, thus employing his own natural power of vision and intelligence. He was not helpless, as George had been, in the face of what to a child was no- thing loss than disaster. Clarence had gained happiness in winning a victory over adverse conditions. So it is in all.phases of child life. lipse sourcefulness. can reach. i Columbia and California meant a such a hurrY that they wired for a of the British Broadcasting Corpora- tions was the s for meagre supply of beans, bacon and plane to be chartered for their exclu- tion, proposed a different method, effect lasted, varying from 20 to 60 the White Mud Falls' die- 1 the "spaced aerial" system. !minutes, while the moon took nearly flour, prospectors i id i to have ur the ros ectors being grub stak sive use into to i namely a number of re hours to pass th sutt This ed for the Hudson Bay Country, have after their i spread over a carter distance, means that q a selection of food that ought to pro- duce a first class case of gout, the t t U E the effect can be detected by best tools money will buy, a small wireless receiving machine, a avic- trola, clothes, tents, blankets and, in fact, all the luxuries of civilization. Must Know What's What But. the prospector must know more than his counterpart of old. The ' desert rat" and the "mountain va- grant" that masqueraded as a pros- pector in the old days has no part in the army of alert men now doing the world's work in these remote spaces to day. Most of them are college gra- dilates, chemists and able to con- struct a passable retort from an old kettle and a few pots. He works un- der better conditions, but he must have a better mental ' equipment. And his rewards are proportionately greater. One thing is certain, the Hudson Bay mining region will be more ra- pidly and more thoroughly explored lin a year than most other mining sec- tions of the world have received in ten, yes, fifty years. When a favor- able claim is located, there will be the diamond drill brought to the spot Controlling Cereal Smut. by plane and efficient men transp'ort- At the Rust Research Laboratory ed to handle it. In a few weeks ail at Winnipeg tests were made of a approximate idea of the "find" will number of methods of controlling be pretty definitely known. And the smut' in seed grain. Seed treatments money is available for the develop - with Formalin and some copper car- ! meat as Soon as the engineers have bonate preparations weto conducted given a favorable decision. That"is. in co-operation with the Experimental one interestilig feature of the present Stations at Brandon, Manitoba, Indian rush into the north. Money is seek- Head eek Head and Scott, Saskatchewan, and ing the mine that is worth developing. Lacombe, Alberta. The testa were Spectacular interest, of course, sur - made with oats covered with smut rounds the aeroprane rush into the spores. Varieties such as Longfel- i north Trips of one thousand to'fif- low and Leader, both highly suscept- teen hundred miles, continuous flight, smut were used. Of the dif- 1 are so common out of Winnipeg into trict, 700 miles away. They were out of the city in two hours arrival. Brings Home the Bacon Recently an order for delivery of a thousand pounds of beans, a ton of miscellaneous canned goods and five hundred poilnds of bacon was receiv- ed for delivery by plane to Cold Lake, 8.00 miles north in the Hudson Bay section. The jobber that filled the order had difficulty in finding a plane without a full charter to make the journey. Before the ship left another His ea Isacross e quite au appreciable frac- and and to use them all together. Yet a ' tion of the sun's rays must be cut off third scheme is to have two transmi- :before ting stations radiating the same pro- wifeless. ible to , terent preparations tried, formalin the mining region and hydro and rail- yeas found to be the only ono that can way construction camps, of that see` he relied upon to destroy smut in tion that they are no longer "first es. oats. The other substances tested page" features for the local daili yeditced the amount of stout, but Machines ilhat carry five tone of none gave even fair control, In the freight and three or four passengers lase e of formalin the spray treatment are hi use by three different compan, seeiried to be superior to either the les operating out of Winnipeg from as t or the sprinkle method, The many fields, From The Pas, five hun- t..,�., .w, there o north the Western Aero order for an electric drill and other machinery, weighing a ton, had been received for shipment by the same plane. Soft weather of the last few days has interferred somewhat with the companies• operating in the air. The planes -have found no ,difficulty dur- At Work on the Sand Bag A ing the winter landing on the ice of lakes and rivrs when no other open available but the ice has spaces were Prince's Cousin Gets Promotion Lord Louis Mountbatten Made Lieutenant Commander in Navy London. — Lieutenant Lord Louts become dangerous of late. Except Mountbatten, cousin of the Prince o in special cases where camps . have I Wales, has been appointed Lieutenant - landing fields prepasei there will be Commander some delay, for a few weeks in the operation of planes northward. This new method of filling emer- gency orders is responsible for the ra- id advance made in the construction Lord Mountbatten entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1913, when he was only 13. Three years later -he went to sea as a midshipman, and in 1919 became a p i sub -lieutenant. He accompanied tY of the first 60 miles of the 100 mile line from the Hudson Bay road into prince of Wales on his Australian and the Flirt Flon this winter This.piece New Zealand tour as flag -lieutenant to of road constitutes a record for rapid Rear Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey construction in the history of north- ern railway building in winter. The right of way was cleared in zero weather, while the surveyors worked ahead and'rails laid behind them re- gardless of cold and snow. The ballast will have to be completed this spring, but th entire 100 miles will be in operation before next winter, A mile a day has been considered pretty good speed in railway construction under favorable conditions. and the job from Mile 6 on the Hudson Bay to Cranberrf Portage, en route to the Flirt Flon, 52 miles• away, has beaten this record in sub -zero weather. —4 aboard H.M.S. Renown, and became a lieutenant in 1920, ScarcCiy. Great, "'you've visited his studio, -els he a great Lt'ti5t." 7 "1 hardly think to. 1 could make out at once the subject of every paint- ing he- showed nig." GBNE iurn9 Y TRAININd FOR ISEENEY FIGHT - r y of paYkittg is a crowd at Mianil minters watching . champion Where 'there s ltdent space, nobody wants it, and ideas p too the forayer died miles nor t ciaet3 Wee equal parts of water and flame company has a fleet of sit ma- keeping in shape to meet all comers. iiti�ength of this sot* -17. to seem to feel that way, , f,< Full oi Fords. "Few countries have as'many auto- mobiles as Norway and Sweden? I, didn't know that," - "Oh, yes, they're full of Fjords." Canada's bacon hog policy and the clean bill of health, in so far as live stock is concerned, has tended to in - Crease Canadian exports of Bacon hope for breeding purposes.' During the past year shipments of bacon taint breeding stock were shipped tom e 'United States, South Africa, W Zealand, . Jamaica and 'the British Wiest Indies, Recently a shtpmp-,•;: Canadian bacon type I3erltst,1s-es were shipped ed to Port of Spalu, Tt��nitlat • pp and other orders are pex`g fe�v British West Indies, 1