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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1922-05-11, Page 3mirmimarand the Worst is yet to collie i • HELPFUL HINTS FOR MOTORISTS. Preventing Rust on Fenders. A common cause of fenders rusting at the fastenings is neglect in not washin'g the under side of the fenders, which are sure to accumulate dirt and mud. A rust preventive or an .appli- cation of oil will and in preventing this condition, but the most reliable pre- caution is to prevent the accumulation of mud. Overcoming Engine Knocks.. Knocking, in an engine is most com- monly caused by loose bearings, car- bon in cylinders, causing pre-ignition and 'knocking at high spark, opening the throttle too quickly or driving with spark too far advanced. Straight Tire on Detachable Rim. It is possible to mount a straight - side tire an a quick detaohable or split clincher rim, but the practise is in- advisable, because the clincher risn will cut the side wall of the tire near the head. In other words, the straight - side tire will be rim cut if used for any length of time on a clincher rim. Advice to New Drivers. Many drivers unfamiliar with a ear make the mistake of not opening the throttle lever far: enough and of ad- vancing the 'spark lever too far, They wonder why the engine will riot, run, and ,also what •causes the baelc,icicicing and funny noise when the starter but- ton is depressed. They do not realize that each ex- plosion in a .cylinder, .being timed too soon, is working in •oppo•sition to the starting motor by driving the pistons back down and revolving the engine the oppositedirection to that in which the engine should , run. Retard the spark for starting. If the engine was cranked by hand with spark advanced a back kick might seriously injure the. person cranking the car. Test Wheels for Side Play. Every car owner ought to make it a practice to test the wheels, for side play at least three cm four times a year. If the motorist will jack up each wheel in turn, and, grasping it firmly, push and pull it, any side motion will be readily apparent, - Clean Generator Brushes. Examine generator brushes about twice a season. The main troubles brushes are subject to are brushes sticking in holders, holders overheat- ing, brushes fitted poorly to commu- tator, weak holder. springs or brushes grounded by dirt, oil or carbon par- ticles, - Turn of Wheel Stops Skidding. When the ear begins to skid the only thing the operator cando is to turn the steering wheel the direction of the skidding, with little or no pressure on the brake. This will .correct the skid before the damage is done, pro- vided the speed is not too great. Another way to prevent skidding is to leave the clutch engaged and the engine pulling slightly when the brake is applied. The slight pull of the en- gine when the 'brake .is applied pre - Run Engine by Temperature. To get the greatest efficiency from a motor and at the same time with maximum economy, it should be op- erated at a temperature point a little below the boiling point of water. This prevents condensation of gasoline, bad results from cold oil, and excessive wear to motor parts, not only because of poor lubrication, but also because motor parts have not had the oppor- tunity to expand properly. In other words, hot motor parts fit. And the motor should reach the proper tem- perature point as quickly as possible. For this reason radiator shutters and a motormeter are standard equipment on some cars. They insure long life; and continued satisfactory perform- ance. Testing for Leaks. Compression leaks in an engine are more noticeable at low than at high speed. If an engine has good com- pression there is a springy resistance vents the locking of the rear wheels when cranked by hand, although the and in that way prevents skidding in best way to test the compression is by a large measure. use of a gauge, Weird Music in the African Wilds. . During a recent tour in Africa Prince Arthur of Connaught was greeted by the most amazing efforts on the part of a native band. There was only one instrument, a huge xylophone, many yards in length, upon which a score of blacks whacked and banged to their hearts' content. Those ,at one end pounded small pieces of wood, 'which gave .out high notes, whilst pieces of considerable size supplied the bass tones. A few empty petrol tins placed here and there gave drum effects. As a rule, the savage prefers some- thing that he can bang, but any noise is better than none. In the East, wild music is played on pipes made of bamboo, while hollow gourds of vari- ous sizes provide the African "savage with home-grown flutes, clarionets, and bassoons. Sometimes he will arrange them so that they form a kind of piano. l'He sits surrounded by a circle of dried toba and British Columbia. .'a'r ttatiTS WU- SP Sty ro{2, 66 kNc' GF P 6H09 .. e.1II79*Cr`.. HONEY PRODUCTION CIO IN WESTERN CANADA PROGRESS IN MANITOBA traits, whose hallow skins give- out high or low notes, according to their j size, as he taps them with his fingers. i Bagpipes are not peculiar to Scot- land. Yon will find them in almost any hilly country. If a man is walk- ing uphill he naturally gets out of breath, and he needs an instrument that will play itself when he has no wind left. A goatskin forms an excellent air reservoir. It ,can be blown tight whilst walking on the level, and during up- hill walking it will go on playing if it is squeezed between the arni and the side. The Swiss makes music on an ox - horn; the Polynesian uses a large sea' shell. Reeds, grass stems, hollow bones, and even flat pieces of wood, whirled round the head at the end of a length of Lord, provide the music for which man's soul craves in other parts of the world. PHENOMENAL. But There is Still Ample Room for Development in the Other Western. Provinces. bees in the 'Kelowna (British Cplum- bia) district. In Manitoba, the first settled of the Prairie Provinces and the West's most eminent wheat.era, the progress made in` beekeeping has been little less than Items of !merest to Canadians With a oatch,'of over 90,000 pelts, the Newfoundland sealing fleet hoe coracalndedd- .a fairly good season, an oording to wireless reports received at North Sydney, N.S. The Batches of the ships are as follows; Vilcine, 14,- 700; Terra Nova, 17,000; Tlxetic, 15,- 200; 5; 200; Eagle, $x.4,000; Neptune, 14,200; Seal, 2,200; Ranger, 4,296; Sa•gona, 8,908. Lumber exports from the province of Quebec during 1920-21 amounted to 422,260,945 feet, compared with 394,- 411,630 feet in 1919-20, and 324,066,754 feet in 1918.19, according to statement tirade in the provincial legislature, It was further stated that one-third of the wood cut in the province of Que- bec was being manufactured outside the province. . At tlhe opening of the summer sear son• Mile noviincia,l experimental farms' that members of the "Legion" should wear uniforme and be under semi - military d'isoipllne, would be guaran- teed three years of farm work' and at the end of that period wound each. he placed in possession of one hundred acres of land. During the three years they would have acquired valuable -ex- perience in Dominion farming methods and would then be entitled to a loan to en. from the Federal Government able them to finance the working of their land. More than fifty-one million pawn - gees were carried on Canadian rale ways in 1921, and there were only 4 killed. and 240 injured, according to the statistics of the Board of Railway Commissioners. Of a total of 125,177 employees engaged in railway work during the period 91 were killed and 1,344 were injured. of Quebec will number fourteen. Seven Water power now developed in Canada represents. an investment of new farms will be put in operation in Lake St. John county and in counties along River St. Lawrence for the in- struction of the farmers in these vari- ous regions. The Great Lakes Pulp and Paper Company will, it is stated, erect a large paper mill at Fort William, Ont, The capacity will be 100 Amu a day and the plant must give employment to 600 men by February lst, 1925. An agreement to this effect has been made with the Ontario Government. The novel suggestion that a "British Land Legion" be formed as a means of colonizing Canada is being put be- fore the British authorities and the public by F. C. Wade, Agent -General for British Columbia. It is proposed $520,000,000, according to a report is- sued by the Water Power branch of the Department of the Interior. The present developnnent represents an an- nual equivalent of 20,500,000 tons of coal. By 1940, sbtouni the rate of growth of installation during the past fifteen years be continued, the arirount of. investment will have grown to 31,- 000,000,000. Wool production in Canada in 1921. was 21,261,456 pounds, according to an estimate of. the Bureau of Statistics. At an average value for unwashed wool of 140 a pound, the total value of the wool clip amounts to $2,975,000. The total number of sheep and lambs in Canada in 1921 was estimated at 3,- 675,860. trade figures show that in the fiscal year 1921, whilst Canada exported to the United Kingdom, United States, France and other countries honey only plienemenll and it has assumed a long to the extent of 36,929 pounds, valued lead overtheother provinces of the at $9,195, she imported from the Uni- ted States, Australia, Jamaica, Hawaii, and other countries the same product to the extent of 683,149 pounds vaiuod at 3128,751. The Western provinces should not only wipe out this necessity of importing but widen the scope of Canada's honey exports. Wisps of Wisdom. He is a wise man who says nothing West in the matter of honey produc- tion. Its crop in 1921 amounted to 903,000 pounds derived from 14,721 colonies of bees. As far back as 1903, the Manitoba Beekeepers As- sociation was former and it has now well over one thousand members. In certain settlements, notably Beaese- jour, Ladywood, and Brokenhead, bee- keeping has become one of the leading A noticeable feature of Western industries. Instances of success in this Canadian agriculture in recent years cult are reported from the Swan River has been the progress recorded in the Valley in Northern Manitoba, where a adoption of beekeeping and the pro- farmer secured a return of $1,500 in ditcti•on of honey as a .commercial ven- one season from thirty-three hives, Lure, a line of farming hitherto not and at Dominion City where from, a commonly associated with the Can stray swarm settling on his farm six adian West because not practiced there years ago, a farmer now has seventy - to any extent. In the earlier days of six colonies and last year sold more Western Canadian 'settlement, farm- than two tons of honey at 35 cents ing was largely conceived in terms of per pound. extensive grain fields and giant herds 1,000 Pounds from 13 Hives. of cattle, and the impression was Production figures of the province created, when farmers gave thea a of Saskatchewan are not available; most exclusive attention to hese ' the output is substantialff r less than branches, that the land was unvsuite- that of the sister province, though it to other.phases of•farming which sub- possesses the same opportunities and Sequent developments have disproved., similar advantages. The settling pro - As the farmers of the West have be - cess cess to the same extent among farm - come more settled, however, and dis-' ers, has not yet taken place nor the covered by experience and experi-( lighter sides of farming been adopted mentation the actual virtues and pro-! to the same extent. The posibilities of parties of the soil and olimate, the the province in apiculture are, how - more general pursuit of diversrfi !ever, ably illus'trated'by the single ex - farming has 'become the rule. It. has ii perience of a farmer in the Grenfell incidentally been discovered that thei district who obtained one thousand t' rail their' 1 from thirteen two -frame hives in Western provinces, pax icu y ad - pounds of first-class honey last year irrigated sections, are admirably' adapted to the production of alfalfa dition to which his bees increased to and other clovers, and this has ad- seventeen colonies. He only started Says Sam: An �artom of action is t ministered a pronounced stimulus to beekeeping as an experiment and hob - beekeeping which has made remark- by in 1917 but is now an enthusiastic remark - worth a tan of tall.. — able progress,- particularly in Mani- advocate of its general adoption in the province on a commercial scale. • Wonderful Story of the Wireless Telephone y Canadian honey .is unsurpassed in Alberta also lags behind as yet in quality, and owing mainly to the the matter of beekeeping, though its warmer summer and abundance of The wireless telephone was not in- miles, and Marjorana, an Italian in- nectar -producing flowers until frost, vented in a flash. Its story is like ventor, sent messages from Rome to the average yield per colony is greater that •of' many other great discoveries. Sicily, a distance of three hundredthan, for instance, hi the British Isles. First' came a brilliant inspiration; the miles. Whilst Eastern Canada has had a thing was seen to be possible. There Gradually distances were increased, large annual honey production for followed years of patient labor, ex- but the apparatus required was still years, a general disbelief prevailed periment succeeding experiment, fail- too expensive and too cumbersome to that honey could not be produced sue- managed, by importing high -bred ure following failure. Then suddenly be of commercial value. -In 1914 eess'fully in British Columbia, and only , queens, to so improve it that in a few the key wee found, and from that day Marconi invented his oscillating valve, comparatively recently has it been ' years he had a purebred strain of its development went forwardat ex- which made it possible to use quite proven conclusively that bees thrive Italian bees. He keeps from ten to press speech small currents. as well and honey to as large extent fifteen hives and disposes of the in - As long ago as 1885 Sir Wil'li'am Then came the Browning invention, and of the same high quality can be crease in the spring or fall He has Preece succeed',ed insending a mes- the thermionlic valve, which 1s so raised in the West as in the East secured one hundred pounds per hive, sage a distance of a quarter of a mile, sensitive that it can pick up and use not through the ground. Possibly you know that when are.thousands of times too feeble to a current flows through a covered work any other apparatus. electric cable disturbances are set up In 1915 the Atlantic was bridged. outside the cable itself. If a second V nl s' i k to wire is Placed parallel with the first, these disturbances will affect it; in fact, they will cause an electric cur- rent to flow through it, even though it is not connected to a battery or a generator. If the current that flows through the first wire is made stronger, the peeond wire can be moved a greaterdi�s+tan'ce away and it will still be charged with the rnys'teiious current by the disturbances set up by the first wire. This effect is cabbed induction, and it is increased if the wires are buried in the earth 'or immersed in water, For nearly twenty years all those rho sought for the key to the wire- less telephone experimented with in- duction through earth or water. 3y 1002 its range lxad been increased twenty miles, but enormous etu'reirte were use Ied. In the meantime, wireless tele- graphy had come into existence, and the telephone investigators turned lr the air'. The their attention to first real success was o' tamed in (far- rri�any, where in' 1906 Messages were sent fr'em Nanien to Berlin. Two years later the Eiffel Tower erpake bueneescolly at a range off thirty at the right time. We learn wisdom from failure mush more than from success. Better believe yourself a dunce and work away than a genius and be idle. If you do not like a man, what is the use of telling him so? It only makes him dislike you. �,n, Make it a life rule never to be dis- Finish every day and be clone with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in—forget them as soon as you can. To -mor- row is a new day and you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your own nonsense.— Emerson. Humor in Naives. The recent marriage of a couple whose respective names were Deer and Love does not create a record in curious coincidences in surnames. Not long ago a case was reported in Ireland where a man named Scratch chose for his bride a girl named All- turbed or thrown off your balance by days, while recently the Manxhester anything that can happen. newspapers announced the golden wed - A 'country is not made great by the number of square miles it contains, but by the number of square people it contains. In rn.aking your living, try to make yourself agreeable to others, and thus help to make the world go round more harmoniously. In the assurance of strength there is strength and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their power. The wise man enjoys his present possessions, and does not waste his time wishing for something new until he has extracted from the old all the joy they contain. The bee that carries the most Honey to the hive is riot the dine of Bacon and Herring. It was an equally curious coincid- ence that brought to the altar a couple harmed Silley and Woodhead. More re- cent unions were those of King and Cole, Heaven and Troy, and Adam and Hamlet, while one can imagine the South of England clergyman's e:. - pression when he married Talke and Argue. Sonie parents seem unable to resist the temptation to make jokes with the Christian names of their children. The birth registers testify to the ex- istence of a Mineral Waters, a Frosty Winter, and an Alfred Days Weeks, Again there is a Happy Jiggins, u Haystack Brown, an Anno Dosriini one that flits from flower to (lower, i Davies, a Jolly Death, and an Ananias but the one that extracts from each Culling. all the sweetness it contains. To complete the list, the names re- gistered in• more recent years include Sticks as Receipts. Odious Heaton, Partridge Roast, One - Too -Many Johnson. Not -Wanted In one of 'the corridors of the Smith, ands Noah's Ark Smith, Affa- British Houses of Parliament there bilityBox and Sardine Box, Chancery - advantages are yet greater than either is a curious exhibit which looks like LanIllingworth, and River Jordane two of the other prairie provinces. a bundle of kindling -wood. It repro- The playwright, H. J. Byron, once The experience of an Edmonton bee- seats all that is left of the account attended the wedding of a friend keeper illustrates what can be done in "books" used by the Exchequer dui -i named Day, Who was marrying a Miss honey production even away from the ing the Middle Ages. ! Weeks•. He handed them the follow - alfalfa districts, Starting out with a The bundle consists of "tallies,"i ing impromptu:— foundation swarm of mixed bees he notched sticks on which accounts were A Week is lost, a Day is gained, kept. When an :account was paid a But let us not complain; stick was split. One half was kept There'll soon be little Days enough and the other half was given as a To make a Week again. "receipt." ..-.-,,;,._-.-._.- When this crude system was aban- doned; and proper books were kept, Dunning the Debtor. there was a vast accumulation of During the early part of the last these tallies, and early in the last e'en- century there lived in England a con- tury an official had the happy thought stable named John Dun who was a of saving on fuel by using this Testi very successful collector of dente, No hoard of tally -sticks as kindling -wood. job was too hard for him tcPtacide. It was actually by the overheating Dun would prick the debtor's con - of a stove by using too many of these science, or shame him into payment in tally -sticks that the old Houses of one way or another. Parliament caught fire in 1834 and One of his pet schemes was to •call were burned down. upon the de'bter twice, and on each of these first two visits the would wear his ordinary clothes. Then, if the debt force of old associations,as was still unpaid, Dun waul'd dress in The lsome extraordinary costume --a scar - Edward Fort learned one Sunday let cloak, or a pair of green tights— morning, is something against which in order to make himself as conspicu- to be on guard. After thirty years of cos -as possible. service as a railroad man, chiefly in Thus attired, and ringing a bell, he the capacity of senductor, Fort had + would return a third time, and it was retired, 'and was spending his days seldom that the debtor withstood more quietly in his native town. than one of these public. announce Just after he bad taken his ac- mems of his delinquency, customed sweat one morning in church, Because Constable Dun was so nic- he was requested to perform the duty' easeful in the collection of debts, it of .an absent deacon, by assisting in became common in such cases to say, taking up the coll,eotio�n, He was pro- "You'll have to send Dun for your ee'edjng d'ederousiy alongl the aisle money," or "You'll have to Dun him with the plate, when, halfway down to get it." the aisle, he came to time Doolittle,.._ .e_. ..._... ew. On this morning Mrs. Doolittle's "Active, energetic races have, in the p Uncle Henry, who happened to sit matin, small and shapely feet," says a next the aisle) had dropped off into scientist; "indolent ones have clumsy, a plea's'ant litho nap. • flat, or otherwise ill•-shapen ones. When Fort espied time old man he The Irrigated Districts Great each of which returns him 340. air but thrauah the electric currents so minute that theyHoney Imports Greatly Exceed Exports. h Experimentation in beekeeping in Airiin'gttonh in !a couver, po. a for bees, and the alfalfa fields of the the Western Canadian provinces has Paris; The words were recognizable, irrigated districts, fast arriving at the been extensively carried on by the though very faint. Four years later premier place in this respeot on the government experimental farms with the lVI•arconi Company established suc- continent, and the clover beds of the the result the following figures were cessfud communication between Eng- northerly and central districts, give obtained as to the net value of produc- land. and Canada by means of a adequate supplies of nectar and pollen tion per colony of ''bees in the different development of eve valve apparatus. for countless hives: There is no ques- provinces: Brandon, Manitoba, $8.27; 'Since then we have advanced by tion of the excellency- of conditions in Indian Head, Saskatchewan, $11.83; leaps and bounds. Amateurs in the British Columbia particularly in the Lethbridge, Alberta, $16.49; Lacombe, States have recently writ signals to renowned fruit districts. Manitoba's Alberta, $12.79; IuGolumbia, $13.26, Smmerland, British Columbia, $11.81. Though the produotion of honey in. the Western. Canadian prcvin•ces is not as yet very great, Sufficient has been effected to prove that this is not due to unsuitability of location but to the fact that •apiculture has never been ex- tensively followed in these areas. Ex- Perts are satisfied that the West can prd.Re . e,s ._ ood honey as the East, p +and the -Worries are—Coining in an ever increasing extent to be less de- pendant on Ontario and the Eastern provinces as well as the United States for their supplies of this succulent edible. There is ample room for a substan- tial development of the industry in "Western Canada, and those content.. plating the adoption of beekeeping need have no apprehension of difficulty in disposing of 'the output, Canadian Producers. The natural bloom of Alberta through- out the season affords abundant food Scotland, using no mere current than would be needed to light half -a -dozen ordinary electric lamps! The cumbrous apparatus of ten years ago has vanished into the past. Today an ,efficient serf can be made that will fit into a small attache -case, and even a power•ul receiving outfit will occupy little more room than a gramophone! If he has a valve set, the 'amateur need not go to the trouble of rigging up a long 'aerial wire. A gutter -pipe will answer pe feetiy. He carr go oilie better than this; he Gan have his aerial indoors if he wishes! A cope per wire running round the 'ceiling of his own 'room will! pick up wi'reles's waves, which penetrate brinks and, mortar as easily as air. In emery gencles gas -brackets, wine fences, and even the spring mattresses of beds have boon nee with perfect suaos sl successes stand as proof of adaptabil- ity, whilst the similarity of conditions in Saskatchewan indicate all that might be done in the province of bee- keeping. British Columbia's' honey crop in 1921 amounted to 809,074 pounds, ad - cording to the provincial apiarist, which sold at an average price of 29 cents per pound realized a revenue of 386,681, Duj}n the the number of apiaries in trev province indreaeed from 1,896 to 2,072 and the number of hives front 9,589 to 10,829. The Okanagan Valley, fanlou6 bhe world over for its f'rWit, ixas taken enthusias- tically and seriously to apiculttfl e to which the valley with its tkousands of trait trees is so admirably ,adapted. During the year an intpott alit eoneign- tient of Dutch bee's, 4olebrated for their honey -producing qualities, was introduced to improve the strain of Habit Was Too Strong. unconsciously doffed the demeanor, The maximum weight which a sold - suited to thep lace and became officiald ler should be 'bile to carry without Ile tapped the sleeping man on the breaking down is about one-third of p shoulder. "Ticket, please!" be de -1 his owu, .--Le,, a man weighing 10 stone mantled sharply and audibly. I should be able to carry 47 poluids.