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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-05-13, Page 3(; ,,, GPELN TI1111111 J % ,,Oo clork Slia i-avvn Care when it's hot When the real summer heat commences, one should make a few changes in the regular lawn care. Grass is a cool and moist loving plant and in most parts of Canada it 'is not likely to get that sort of weather in July and August. It won't make much growth when the thermon'teter goes much above 75. In conse- quence one should •cut less often in hot weather and also set the mower higher. And even if we remove the clippings earlier in the -spring it is a good plan to let them lie where they fall in the summer. They will make a mulch • which with the longer grass will protect the roots from the burning sun. Early summer when the nights get fairly warm is the best trine to apply the chemical weed kill- ers. Used with reasonable care it is amazing how these will wipe out dandelion, plantain and most broad leaved weeds. One should cover the whole lawn but one must be careful to miss any flowers or shrubbery because these sprays will seriously dam- age if not kill them. For a real job one should always repeat the spraying in about three weeks to a month's time. This second application will catch those weeds which have sprouted from seed since the first treat- ment. It is best to keep one sprayer for this weed killing business only, otherwise one,. must be most careful to wash machine and nozzle thoroughly 'before using for any other pur- pose. They need support. Sweet peas and the taller ;regular garden sorts and also other climbers will need support. Borne people use chicken wire or old tennis nets or strings, but a better. material is brush if a uppjy can be obtained. This is pushed firmly in the ground long the rows and before the itants are more than a few nches high. Depending upon the locality brush from three to fix feet high is suitable and the bushier the better. Most of the taller annual flow • ere will also benefit from' some support especially where winds er heavy rains are liable to do a 'omei damage?,' Often stakes ''a little shorter than the plant is high and driven in close will be sufficient. The plants are tied to these loosely with soft twine, raffia or any of the special twist- ing materials sold by seed stores. With low bushy • plants like peonies, sometimes a hoop of wire or wood is placed • about them and a foot or so above the ground. In England around del- phiniums they stick bits of brush in the ground. Gradually the plant grows about this and hiding it but being firmly sup- ported just the same. Most people nowadays stake their to- matoes. Usually a six to seven foot stake is driven firmly in the 'ground when the tomato fIant is set out. About every oot of growth the stem is tied loosely but securely. All side shoots are nipped off and to- wards the end of the summer to hasten maturity of fruit the main stem is also nipped. Proper Watering Watering the garden will prob- ably be necessary sometimes in July and August Here a lot of mistakes are made by those un- familiar with the likes and dis- likes of plants including lawn grass, One thorough soaking, *tat will take the moisture down a couple of inches is worth a dozen sprinklings and it will last for some time. Sprinkling buy Cottons Early, A sheer chambray in pearl gray is used for this sleeveless vires. Front and collar are Sucked; skirt is wide through use of soft leathers. o 4ssuI!. •1 r El NA COTTC)li" has become `a. year around fabric., 'this spring's °cotton crop in- cludes cottons that' are .suitable; now, if you live aril a warm. cli- mate, or ready to go, :into, a,. "nest egg" for summer, if you". live in a part of the country:: where spring means suits and, ornfort se• as toppers. Having such a nest egg against hot summer weather saves both on your budget and your temper. If you shop for,, cottons now; you',11 have them; ready against the first simmer- ing day. This day usually arrives when your closet is empty of anything even remotely wearable. Last summer's cottons have somehow managed to collapse during the winter and just don't look right. Anyone who's ever been forced to wear a heavy suit or dress on a hot day (and apologize for it) knows that buying ahead is just as much insurance as taking out a policy. You needn't pay a lot for a whole wardrobe of smart cot- tons. Clever cottons at budget prices are being shown across the country. And they ober smart fabrics as well as good design. S iesellu-top cotton dress gram wide•.skirt with soft, unpreesed .01 t; Scalloped neckline la triimm,ed with taord, vindt belt is Irpl;net. never gets the moisture down more than a fraction of an inch and the roots must come up to the surface to get it, thus expos- ing themselves more and more to drying and killing by. heat and sun. Heavy soakings, how- ever, does not mean turning the nozzles on full blast. The near- er we get to a fine mist the better. Half A Million Mies y Taxicab - A London taxi has arrived in Capetown, South Africa after having been driven all the way from England. Drivers of the cab, registered number BUC482, are Wally 'Wright, 25, Derrick Dixon, 25, and George Hadiaris, 26. They drove right across Europe, and went to Capetown by way of Johannesburg and Durban, • Their travels so far have cost them about $1500, and now they need someone to finance them before they can go to America. The outside of their cab }s a mast of scribblings that pro- claim its various achievements, among others that it hag done more than 500,000 miles, So far, repairs have been rela- tively few. The replacement of two front springs and 'two tires have been among the most ex- pensive items. Gasoline, so far, has cost them nothing. Derrick Dixon explain- ed: "A well-known oil company has supplied us with free gaso- line." The interior of the cab is lit- tered with pennants and souve- nirs from the various countries they have visited, but probably the most prized of theor posses- sions is their mascot "Gonzales," a doll dressed as a Mexican cowboy,..' • NDAY SCi101 LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay ;Warren, B.D. Micaiah Withstands Fats•s Prohpets `1 Kings 22:5-8, 13-18, 26-28. As the Lord liveth, what the lord saith unto me, that will 1 'speak. 1 Kings 22:1. Ahab, the wicked king of Is- :rael, invited Jehosaphat, the eking of Judah, to join him in an attempt to recover Eamoth Ifrorn the King of Syria. Jehos- Ehaphat agreed to go but asked that Ahab first inquire of the Lord,' Four hundred prophets were gathered. They unani- mously approved the expedition, 'sewing that God would grant loess But Jehosaphat wasn't is ted. He was a good man, Auras snaking a wrong. move Bring into an unholy alli- s th ..Ahab, ' This accounts uneasiness. He asked 0 e were not another prophet. ccordingly Micaiah was called fetid asked to join the others in peaking good to the king. Mi- caiah said he must give what God revealed to him. The king „(wanted an affirmative answer Micaiah gave it. But the g easily detected the irony and asked for the truth. Then iVticaiah told him in the form of sa' parable that he would be slain and: his army scattered. This 'brought reproof from the other prophets and a sentence of ;prison with a bread and water diet from the king. But Micaiah 'did not waver. The king be- lieved the majority and went to ;battle and was killed. A prophet or minister natural- ly prefers to give a pleasing ;message. The occasional indi- vidual delights in irritating peo- ple but he is rare. It means much to declare God's message without fear or favor. A minis- ter needs to beware lest he un- consciously compronlise so as riot to offend those whose so- cial prestige or wealth gives them greater prominence in the church. We are a church -going people yet our recordof broken homes and crime in its many forms is bad. Is the ministry failing to lift up God's standard for righteous living? Are we failing to exalt Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour? Are we tell- ing the people plainly that God is displeased with their sins, but if they will repent and believe in Jesus Christ they will be saved? If we faithfully present God's salvation • to the people, the nation's morality should im- prove. I've tried a lot of ways 01 brooding chicks, but none com- pares with the concrete slab," says O. E. Funkhouser, Yell. Co.; Ark. as reported in the Phila- delphia Farm Journal, He has brooded 12,000 chicks (in four broods) on slabs for less than a half -cent per chick. His initial costfor putting in the slab brooders figured out about 10 cents per bird --- "about the same as • other brooders," says Funkhouser. Here's how he made the brooders: * *. He put in an 8'x10' slab for each 1,000 chicks. First he put down four inches. of cinders or washed gravel, and covered it with building paper. Then he poured on two inches of in- sulating concrete, and on top of that, two 120 -foot lengths of lead -covered electric soil -heat- ing cable. Then he topped the cable with twa more inches of regular ,,concrete, and smoothed it. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 4. Eloquent 1. Spantah caln . spoalter 5. Light`strolte ' 5, woody plant 0. Sloths 7, Fatherly 8. Partakes 8, uesvilider 12, Den 1a. Lees. inlet 14. Present 15. wild buffalo 10. Disunite 18, African fly 20. Acquired by l;rbor 21, Soft murmur 22. Algonquian Indian 23, Number• 20. Stair 30. Wunder 11, Thong 88. South America n rivet' 14. Cry. 10. Greek . 3. Swoethop 40. Sea earths 41. Tea 44, tine to fasten a sail 47, without trees* 49, 18xeltan5;e Preinfant 50, Smell S1. Likely $2. Tissue 53, Small and weak Alkalin* *cantle', 05, filiueed 1)OWOf 1, Town site 3. 0011cem of eerie rinse job 9, Southern 22, .xntreat' state tab.) 18, Thin 10. Press . 37, 1lietake4i 11. Haglike 19. Distant 17. Girl's name (prefix) , 19. Topers 41. Halt 22. waxes 42. Hindustani 23, Not many 43. Mexican 24. Unrefined laborer metal 44. Princely 23. Airy family 27. Medicinal 46, liver tit. powder Egypt 38, Slender finial 40. Ruminant 29. Alocsa.sh ,48, itiscover 6 7.777-1-15-1"" .< t ha is r� ii & rasa elsewhere on this page, A thermostat, with a bulb mounted fiush with the top of the slab, controls the current to the soil -heating cable. A hover with an insulated top and cur- tain urtain sides covers all but the out- side eight inches of the slab, and holds the Beat clown on the chicks. By leaving the eight - inch strip around the outside of the slab, moisture doesn't con- dense around the edge, says Funkhouser, and he has the out- side space for feeders and waterers. • • * * Other reasons why Funkhous- er likes the slab -brooding so well: . • There's no fire ,hazard, • Controls on the heat are automatic -less work. • The slab is easy to clean. • Chicks drink up to three times as much water as they do under some other type brood- ers, because the slab keeps the water warm, • There's no wet, caked litter around the brooder. • There's little danger of power failure, and little danger of losing chicks, even. though the power may go off for a while, * * e Funkhouser says: "One night last winter when our chicks were a week old the power was off for eight hours, and the outside temperature got down to 20 deg- rees. But we didn't lose a chick, because the concrete slabs stay- ed warns enough to keep them comfortable." * t• This method of breeding isn't brand new; poultrymen in Geor- gia and some Eastern states like it, too.. * r * Since the Arkansas Power and Light Company ,whelped Funk- houser install his brooders in April, 1952, five other Arkansas broiler men have followed suit, They're brooding clucks at an , average cost of .88 cents each, figured on this basis: 28,000 chicks brooded for an average of 84 days, with an average elec- tricity cost of 2,3 cents per kwh, If you're interested in trying concrete slab brooding, your locale Hydro should be ,•able to help you set up the system. "Can any boy explain what is meant by foreign entangle- ments?" "Yet, sir, spaghetti!" "He was So good at figures hih boss advised hint to give tip bookkeeping for art." More Mystery Races Com ing To Light The imagination of the civiliz- ed world was gripped recently by the amazing broadcast of Samuel Browne from Kuala Lumpur, when he reported the sudden appearance there of a mysterious race of "Abominable Fang Men," They were seen on Christmas Day by Wong Yee -Moi, a Chi- nese girl. Her description was that three strange, fearsome • creatures approached her, Their bodies were covered with hair. They wore loin cloths and car- ried long, curved knives. They also wore moustaches growing thigh length. All three had long fangs which protruded ft o in their lower lips and down to- wards their chins. The same day, Corporal Tahib saw them and his description was identical with that of the Chinese girl. Later, they were seen by a Malay girl, who ran away as fast as she could. Then an Indian rubber -tapper report- ed that the same three creatures crept up behind him ... and he felt the hairy arms of the female around his body. Re struggled free, then fainted. Anthropologists, staggered by these reports, and anxious to in - v e s t i g a t e these Abominable Fang Men, have insisted that the creatures must on no account be shot. It is amazing that in tilts shrinking world of ours there are still mystery races of whom scientists know nothing. Many times in the past few years ex- plorers have caught glimpses of tribes that were not known to ' exist. Den Haan, Dutch Government explorer, was hacking his way into unknown territory in New Guinea when he was suddenly surrounded by giant, naked sav- ages, well over six feet tall. They were armed with peculiar four -pronged spear s, and had never seen a white man. There was no official record of the existence of this tribe yet, throughout the war, 'p lanes must have fought above thein. An American soldier escaped from the Japanese in Burma, and made his way through trackless forests to safety. He must have wandered through country completely unexplored, for he reported having seen, and even eaten with, a tribe of light - skinned natives none of whom had any arms. He reported that there were ino signs that their arms had been cut off. They ap- peared to have been born with- out them, doing everything with their toes. Australian patrols in New Guinea during the war discov- ered a race of pigmies in the mountains near Milne Bay. There had been rumours of such a tribe for many years but no one had ever seen them before. Average height was -three feet, and their clothes were of tree bark, Dr. Paul Zahi, a New York scientist -explorer, journeyed into the unknown forests of Vene- zuela a few years ago. He dis- covered a waterfall much higher than Niagara and, at the foot of it, a tribe of natives who had no word in their language for "anger." Within living memory no member of the tribe had ever lost his, or her, temper or shown any signs of jealousy, Ivan Sanderson informed the Royal Geographical Society that the century -old legend of a tribe of white Indians somewhere in America was correct. He had found one member of it, a young girl who had strayed away from the tribe and lost herself in Nato jungles, appearing suddenly fit Paramaribo in a state of cols lapse. Before she died she told him that none of her tribe even sue» pected that other white people; existed. Although a full-blooded Indian she was as white as an English girl. One day, some intrepid ex- plorer may try to follow up the Eskimo legends of the "Little Men" who are reputed to live beyond the Arctic Circle. Stories of these dwarfs, who are sup- posed to be extremely strong, are being told every day he Eskimo camps and trading sta- tions. Upholstered Wails Latest Thing Leave it to the do-it-yourself movement to develop an interest- ing new trend in decorating. It consists of using wallpaper- ing techniques on upholstery fab- rics to cover a wall. So, instead of painting or papering the wall, you upholster it. Materials are usually vinyl plastics with strong cotton backs. These are coated fabrics which were developed specifically for upholstering and duplicate the look and feel of fine leathers, textured boucles, tweeds or mate - lasses. Since they are also as color -conscious as the new paints and drapery materials, they are adaptable to most decorating 'schemes. Small areas which suddenly a s s u m e greater importance through such wall treatments are fireplace chimneys, the walls of powder rooms and the wains- coting in halls and along stair- ways. When used on large areas, coated fabrics can bring a new richness and softening warmth to the entire room - whether modern or traditional. Their resistance to scuffing, marring and cracking make them one of the most practical wall coverings for basement play rooms and children's rooms. All that is required in the way of maintenance is an occasional once-over with a damp, sudsy cloth, followed by a quick rub- down with a soft dry one to re- store the lustre, • New recruits to the do-it-your- self movement should acquire a little know-how before plunging in, Old wall surfaces should be cleaned free of dirt, grease, wall- paper or calcimine. To ensure good adhesion on gloss or semi- gloss, the extra smooth surface can be washed with a solution of washing soda and then rinsed. For successful results, wall. sur- faces should be perfectly smooth, All imperfections should be cut out, filled with patching mater- ials, allowed to dry and sanded with course paper.. Then, give the wall surface a coat of good quality glue -size and it is ready for hanging. (Upside down to prevent peeking) Pickpocket -- C. S. Edrninston arrives at the San Dego Plaza with a good supply of corn and the pigeons are there to greet Mini„ They cluster on his arms, shoulder and hands and one bold fel• low gets right into the supply Tin --his pocket.