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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1937-04-08, Page 7I� YO r Garde By GORDON L. SMITH The old idea of planting all the vegetable seed hi one afternoon is a hang -over from pioneer days when both seasons and time were Limited. Only a few vegetables were grown in the early days. Seedsmen did not have the, variety to ober, and the average man regarded the gar- den as part of the farm where one crop was about all that could be ex- pected. No Excuse For Running Out But all is changed now, Experts point out that there is no excuse for running out of lettuce early in the Summer, for example, when after the season for the leaf variety head lettuce could be grown, and then during the hot weather the Cos type.. The latter is a compact, conical - shaped type which defies the heat. Like the head variety, it should be started fairly early, probably a week or two after the first leaf lettuce ia. sown. And this range of variety runs through almost all vegetable classes. There are early, medium and late corn, peas, beets and scores of other vegetables. There are differ- ent sizes and shapes to suit various uses, such as salad material, pickl- ing, .canning, etc. Easily Grown Flowers A brilliant garden of flowers, even the kind that the neighbors will re- gard with envy, is not difficult creation. True, there are some of the rarer varieties of roses, lilies, gladioli and similar things that re- quire skill and not a little amount of luck. But for the average man or woman, with only a limited amount of time, space and money, there is really a wide range of variety, color and height. 'Many of these things are almost •as easily grown as weeds. Once planted, and possibly thinned, they will flourish despite neglect and insects. In this •category will come cosmos, mari- gols, alyssum, calliopsis, batchelor buttons, calendulas and portulaca. Inc es Rise In Old Cou try LONDON, ENG.— After steadily declining for some years, there are 49 more millionaires in Great Britain and Ireland last year and 2,030 more persons with annual incomes exceed- ing $10,0000, while the aggregate la come of all such persons increased by $85,875,690. The full figures, which are based on ?surtax assessments made at Sep- tember 30 last on 1934-35 incomes, are • included in the report of the commis- sioners of inland revenue for the year ended March 31 last. The number as- sessed was 85,449, with an income of $2,121,697,220. Those with annual incomes exceed- ing $150,000 or the millionaire •class, number 824, compared with 775 the previous year. There were 60 persons last year with incomes ranging from $375,000 to $500,000 and 69 with in- comes exceeding $500,000. • In the previous year the nambers were 50 and 64 respectively. Demand Good For Canadian Cattle Britain: ` Could Also take More i . Cattle, Says Floud TORONTO. — The United Kingdom could absorb all the store cattle Can- ada would like to send and could do with a lot more Canadian bacon, Sir Francis Floud, British High Commis- sioner, assured a Iarge gathering of stockmen, farmers and exporters at a luncheon meeting of the Royal Ag- ricultural Winter Fair Association here this week. Sir Francis spoke on some aspects of the Anglo -Canadian trade agree- ment as applied to Canadian agricul- ture. He believed the interests of the farmers of the United Kingdom and of Canada could be harmonized. Those interest on both sides of the Atlantic were most vital and stabiliz- ing factors in the economy of the two countries. Pointing out the first clause of the new agreement continued to Canada the right of free entry to the United Kingdom for the great majority of the Dominion's agricultural products, the High Commissioner directed at- tention especially to its provisions re- specting cattle. Canada was permitted under the agreement to send to the Old Coun- .try market also at least as many fat cattle as in recent years and Iast year there was a considerable in- crease. It was desirable, however, that British imports of this class be kept at a fairly even level, for the regulation of the home markets. MORE BACON WELCOME. While a strong effort was being made to increase production of ba- con in the United Kingdom, and im- ports from foreign countries had been GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Capsules Fine for Weak Acid Kidneys and Bladder Irritation STOP GETTING UP NIGHTS One 40 -cent box of these famous capsules will put healthy activity into your kidneys and bladder—flush out harmful waste poisons and acid and prove to you that at last you have a grand diuretic and stimulant that will swiftly cause these troubles to cease. But be sure and get GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules -- safe and harmless—the original and genuine— right from Haarlem in Holland. Mil- lions have kidney and bladder trouble and never suspect it—some symptoms besides visits to bathroom at night etre backache, moist palms, puffy eyes and scanty passage that oft - tinges snnarts and burns. reduced considerably, more Canadian bacon, i.p to the maximum set by the agreement, would be welcomed. Canada benefitted greatly with the preferential arrangements in respect of this product. - As to dairy products, Canada also received preferential treatment from the United Kingdom and would con- tinue in that advantage should it be found necessary to raise the bar- riers against inportation of this class of foodstuffs. Sir Francis reminded his hearers the British farmers had been hard hit and the Government found it neces- sary to guard their interests in every way possible. At the same time, the United Kingdom was a great import- ing country. Half the country's food had to be brought in and Canada with other Dominions was enabled by the preferential agreement to take every advantage of this trade. 1,526 Divorces In Can. During the Year 1936 Increase . of 150 Over 1935; None On Prince Edward Island There were 1,526 divorces granted ' in Canada . in 1936, 1,486 being granted by the courts of seven provinces, while 40 were granted by the Dominion Parliament. Thirty- six of the 40 were granted to appli- cants residing in the Province of Quebec and four to wives residing in Ontario whose husbands were residents of Quebec. The increase over 1935 was 150 or about 11 per cent. The follow- ing were the divorces by provinces in 1936 with the 1935 figures in brackets: Prince Edward Island none (1), Nova Scotia 41 (52), New Brunswick 38 (36), . Quebec 36 (26), Ontario 511 (463), Mani- toba 179 (145-, Saskatchewan 79 (60), Alberta 209 (209), British Columbia 433 (384). Up -till 1924, Canada's divorce statistics differed from those of most other, countries in that they showed a majority of divorces granted on the petition of the husband, but in that year wives obtained over 51 per cent of the decrees granted. In 1925 husbands were again slightly in the majority, but from that year on- ward wives had the larger propor- tion, rising to 64 per cent in 1936, this condition being probably due to the passing of the Divorce Act of 1925 which removed certain anom- alies that .formerly operated to the prejudice of wives. As among the nine provinces, British Columbia showed the high- est percentage of divorced persons in the population while Quebec show- ed the lowest, with Prince Edward Island very, close to Quebec. In that province one divorcie was granted in 1913, one in 1931 and one in 1935. The number of divorced men in Canada at the census of 1931 was 4,049 and divorced women 3,392. In 1935 the number of divorced men who remarried was 814 and divorc- ed women 696. The number of di- vorced leen who married divorced women in that year was 94 com- pared with 85 in 1934 and 63 in the year 1933. The indication is that the number of divorced persons re- marrying is, increasing with the number of divorces. Damage to Roads by Trucks As to damage to pavements by trucks, the opinion recently offered in these columns was not that of the Sentinel -Review, but of R. M. Smith, who for many years has been deputy -minister of highways for Ontario. The statement was made at Tillsonburg in April 1932. It took a good part of Sunday after- noa,n to find it hi the files, of which fact we trust The Tulles -Journal will be duly appreciative. Here it 151— "There is also the connection that we are building highways for the truck, and tbo true]; js a eons- petitor putting the railroads out of business. They contend we build a much higher type of highway be- cause of the truck. As a matter of fact that is not the case at all. We are building a high type of road be- cause of the traffic it must take, to start with, and we mustanticipate climatic • conditions. The Toronto- Hamilton highway has a surface to- day almost as good as when built, We have a pavement west of here that shows the effect of climatic conditions in the vicinity of . Blen- heim. There are fractures on the surface and it is only going on its sec'ond'year. To all intents and pur- poses it was heavy enough—and certainly bus and truck traffic has not turned it . up—but there are breaks in the surface even now."-- Woodstock ow."-Woodstock Sentinel -Review.. tuff anal onseaase Friend—Did you get any replies to your advertisement that a lonely maiden sought light and warmth in her life? Spinster—Yes, two from an: elec- tric company and one from the gas company. - -o-- If o—If a man's got the money, he might -as well let his wife have what she wants, first as last.. — o— The difference between sucoess and failure is that the former lives on last month's income and the lat- ter lives on next month's. —0— An I. 0. U. is one kind of a paper wait. --o— Read it or Not:— Sap of trees does not rise in the Spring of the' year. —0— Jerry—Say, Bill if you had $5 in your pocket, what would you think? Bill — I'd think I had on some- body else's pants. —0— - The fisherman who is too lazy til pull up his line occasionally to see if his hook is properly baited, eat salt pork for his supper. tw; — o— Husband — Was Mamie please when you gave her that lovely undo for her birthday? Wife—Yes, but she cried a Litt Husband—She did? Wife— Yes, she said it'was h first slip. Big Corn Crop eeded in U.S.. Feed Supply Low .--. Number of Hogs, Cattle Greatly Decreased WASHINGTON. The Western corn belt needs a bumper crop this fall, Government farm experts de- Clare, if the area is to regain its place as principal producer of hogs and important feeder of cattle. Corn supplies in relation to the number of hogs were reported 40 per cent. smaller than after the 1934 drought, The feed situation was ter - ailed more serious than two years ago by, the Bureau of Agricultural leo- nornics. Fattening live stock on Corn and feed grains has been the major source of income for the fertile region that includes Iowa, Nebraska, the Dako- tas, Minnesota, Missouri and Kansas. The drought, however, brought a decline in the number of hogs and cattle fed, Income , has beeen maintained by selling off large numbers of livestock but. government economists said fur- ther revenue from this source is un- desirable. . They called reduction of livestock by farmers similar to a sale by a fac- tory owner of part of his equipment toe maintain income. Federal surveys showed the number of":hogs on farms in the United States was reduced from 62,000,000 to 43,000,000 between 1933 and the start ofr:this year. The Western corn belt accounted for most of the decline. The number of cattle declined from 74,000,000 in 1934 to 67,000,000 at tilt start of the year. The corn belt total dropped from 23,000,000 to 19, 00%00. The number of cattle west of he Mississippi River is the small- est,in 20 years, the survey showed. o New Method Pr :of System Proves Boon to Mathematicians — Tought To Understand COLUMBUS,• o.—Many 'teen-age students balk at The study of mathe- matics—but that'll be changed at Ohio State University's high school by'#a course which has neither text- books nor home work. Darold P. Fawcett, the instructor, ihp established the model class — about the most popular in the school — declared that ordinary chases in mathematics merely were "ag'bn zing memory courses." Oise of the big objectives of his cod's-:, he said, was "to lead pupils to xdei•staud the nature of proof." ri °� a can't do that by having them m _�.,;lee something out of a book tivr 'questioning whether the met- aled- therein are correct," he kited. . icett said that pupils were led to ntlerstand "the proper place of definitions and assumptions in any discrxssion and the .'relation between ;he'iconclusions reached in any area of thought and the definitions and assunrptrttns in any discussion and the r0lat1on between the conclusions reached inany area of thought and the : definitions and assumptions on which these conclusions depend." Interest in the nature of proof, said the instructor, opened up new fields of thought—in other courses as well as mathematics. "We expect the student who clear- ly a dersta;Yds the two aspects of the 'ature '+ot proof to select signi- ficant' words igni•ficant`words and 'phrases in any state- ment,which Is important to him, and ask that they be clearly defined, and to require evidence in support of any conclusion . he . is pressed to ac- cept." •- Fa'wcett declared that an associ- ate in the field of education has said that "people can be roughly divided into two classes — the sponge -mind- ed and the critically minded." "We • are trying to avoid develop- ing the former type of student — porous as a sponge, for a brief time their ;minds absorb but do not as- similate," said Fawcett. "We 'want to develop students so that they will search out hidden as- sumptions, unwarranted inferences, and false analogies." —o— A woman using rouge reminds one of a fellow using intoxicating: liquor—the longer they use it the... more they take. -0-- The prisoner was being tried for stealing a pig, and a conscientious witness, to whom the accused , was said to have confided, was being ex- amined. The witness was asked to repeat the exact words of the ac-• cused. Witness—He said, sir, he took the pig. Judge—Did the witnes say ''He took the pig' or `I took the pig'? Witness—Oh, your honor, he said he took it. Your honor's naive was not even mentioned. —o— Health should be prized above everything else because it is the es- sence of happiness. —o— Airman (after landing in a tree) trying to make a new —I was record. Farmer—You did. You're the first man to climb down that tree before climbing up it. —0— The old-fashioned man who used to go around the court house square and pay his bills every Saturday has a son who buys everything in 18 monthly installments. --o-- Teacher— o—Teacher— What lesson do we learn from the busy bee? Smart Boy—Not to get stung. -. —o— It is easier to keep up than to catch up. —o— Uncle Josh (to his visiting nephew) — First time you've ever milked a cow, is it? Well, you do it a dern sight better than most city fellows do. Nephew (flushing with pleasure) — It seems to come natural some- how. I've had a good deal of ex- perience with a fountain pen. . WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE — And 'You'll Jump Out of Bed in the Morning Rarity' to Go The liver should poor out two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is notflowing freely, yonrfood doesn't digest. It just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats on your stomach. Yonget constipated. Harmful poisons go. into the body, and you lees sour, sunk and the world looks punk, Amore bowel movement doesn'talways get male cause. You Beed something that works on the liver as well. It takes those good, Old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you feel "up and np". Harmless and gentle, they make the bile flow freely. They do the work of calomel but have no calomel or mercury in them. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by acme 1 Stubbornly refuse anything else. 25c. Issue No. 15 — '37 D-1 "Family Life" Class Approved Vassar College Finds Less Chitter- Chatter About Sex Poughkeepsie, N.Y.—Vassar College has brought the subject of family life out of the midnight "gabfest" into a lecture -hall with the result, one young woman . said last week, "that there is less chitter-chatter about sex among the students." TESTED FIVE WEEKS "When you talk such things over frankly in the open and know what's true," She said, "you Can stop 'wor- rying' the subject and go on to something else." It was five weeks ago that Vassar launched an experimental non-eredit course of ten 'evening lectures on "Marriage and Family Life." Similar lectures had been held at the University of IoWa, the University of North Carolina and Syracuse Uni- versity and a Brooklyn college start- ed a course this week. The Vassar course, candid discus- sions of subjects ranging from "Bio- logical :aspects of Marriage," and Cut it coarse or flake'', as you like DIXIE burns slower and lasts longer. If's cellopkane. wrapper, with the convenient easy -opening ribbon! IVi.,t"•f�'w huro�y?tn�wnlix "Courtship and Choosing a Husband" down to "Philosophy of the Budget," has been built in a "straight from the shoulder" doctrine and has found quick approval on the campus and in college offices. "We approve the intellectual and frank approach there has been to these problems," the retiring board of the Vassar Miscellany said in an edi- torial. Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken, pre- sident of Vassar, who always has been interested in the student's adaptation to society, also approves the course. `'TRUTH MAKES YOU FREE" Vassar's young and attractive war- den, Miss Eleanor Dodge, a graduate of 1925, said the students' sincere in- terest has showed a real need for the course. "I think," she said, "that it is in line with the fine old saying, `know the truth, and the truth shall :make you free'." Young Dr. Mary Stewart Hooke, as- sistant physician of the college and another leader in starting the study, laughed at the idea that it was de- signed "to help Vassar girls find hus- bands." "But it will help them to face facts realistically when they get engaged," she said, "and not go thoughtlessly to the altar in a cloud of white and orange blossoms." The students attend the lectures bareheaded, or with a bandana tied over their hair, wearing the simplest sports clothes. A spe tker, man or woman, chosen for his knowledge and "common sense" talks for about an hour. Some of the gi"ls take notes, others mere- ly* listen, All who wish stay for discussion. Most of them do. They sometimes "fire questions" at the speaker for another hour. Faculty members say the girls "are very forthright"' and "come as they would to any class." Toasted Hay Is Rediscovered "Toasted hay" is not a new cigar- ette, nor' yet some esoteric breakfast food. Rather, it is exactly what its name signifies: Hay toasted to pre- serve nutritious qualities lost in field drying or ensilage. Last month, at au agricultural con- ference at Oxford University, the Literary Digest notes, British gentle- men farmers waxed loud in their praise, as they revealed that 1936 was the first big year for this "new" de- velopment which they dubbed "toast- ed hay." They were astounded to learn from Captain A, T. Price, agricultural or- ganizer, that hay -driers were on the market in England in 1330. In that year, there were 24 in operation; and though some of them are still extant, "toasted hay" has just been rediscov- ered. The agricultural conference might have been just as surprised to learn that in the United States, twelve years ago, just two years. before the English rediscovered it, a Chicagoan, .thur Mason, put on the market a machine for toasting hay. RE CO -DISCOVERERS As so often happens in fields of science, two disconnected research- ers, in this case, Mason and a Bri- ton, Doctor Woodman, of Cambridge University, started at the same point and reached the same conclusion. Scientists long have know that in a zone of average humidity, one-fifth of sun -cured hay is lost in the field. Of the remaining four-fifths 20 per cent. of the .original protein content is lost. This has cost hnrnanity un- told billions of dollars in food val. ues, agricultural experts believe. Mason and Woodman, working from that knowledge, discovered that when hay is toasted, its food values are sealed up. Forage crops artificially dried retail all vitamins, carrotin, pro. tein, fat, taste and other natural e]e• ments. Drying removes only the water. While the Bureau of Agricultural Engineering estimates that between 25 and 50 companies manufacture dri- ers (mostly as ,side lines) the price is prohibitive to all but large-scale farmers. The Arnold Dryer Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 'for in- stance, markets three driers, that sell for $5,.500, $7.700 and $10,100 respec- tively. The Arnold Company's medium -Pric- ed machine, said to be capable of drying from 300 to 500 acres a sea- son, dries fodder by the conventional hot-air system. The chopper fodder is passed into a revolving cylinder through which air, heated to a tem- perature of from 1,000 to 1,500 de- grees, Fahrenheit, is shot from the combustion chamber. One dry ton em- erges from the machine at a cost of between four and six dollars. ENGLISH CHEAPER Though cheaper at the outset, 1,000 pounds will buy the very best. Eng- lish machines cost more to operate. The cost of English toasted hay is between five and six pounds a ton (25 and 30 dollars in American cur- . rency). Both the American and the English machine will produce up to one and one-half tons of hay per hour. The significance of the hay toaster is obvious to dairymen. Young grass supports a milk production of five to six gallons per cow per day. Natur- ally dried hay supports a,produotion. of only two gallons per cow per day due to the loss of nutritive con- tent in drying. Artificially dried hay retains al the characteristics of young grass and will support the same milk production. Real -Life and Stage This should be placed somewhere near the top of the list of queer coincidences. Professor Henry Alexander, of the English department of Queen's University, Kingston, was playing the part, in a play at Convocation Hall, of a convict who escaped from Dartmoor and was later recaptured by the police. On the same day at Dartmoor, England, Henry Alexander, a con- vict, who had escaped from the prison, was captured by the police, Not only was there an identity in naives and in prison, but the cap- tures in the play and in real life were the same, both taking place in deserted huts.—Queen's Review. Classified Advertising PLAY MUSIC BY COLOR ORIGINAL, SENSATIONAL, YET VERY J practical way of playing piano, guitar and ukulele, by matching colors. Canada's own, but the world's latest musical sensa- tion. No teacher or Instruction necessary. You can play today the Musicolor Way. Write for free Booklet now. Representatives wanted, with first-class references. 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