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With more and heavier work in
prospect for farm tractors and
care, the following suggestions
irorn the B.C. Experimental Sta-
tion, Depr 7 anent of Agriculture,
are well worth studying.
Manufacturers consider all the
.main features of a spark plug
when designing their engines.
For this reason it is generally '
best to replace a wornout plug
with one similar to the' original
in all of its essential features. '
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Spark plugs vary in many ways
such as head or diameter size,
threads, length of 'barrel, kind of
insulator, the number and ar-
rangement of points, head resis-
tance and general design.
Head diameters run in 1 inch,
s/s, inch and Vs inch sizes for some
englines. In others they are made
m 10, 14 and 18 millimeter sizes.
4, 4: 4:
The spacing of the electrode
points 'varies from .020 to .030
inches, depending on the kind
and size of plug and engine mak-
er's recommendations. A prop-
er spark plug point gauge should
be used for setting the points.
Points that are spaced too far
apart cause missing, especially
under heavy loads and high
compression. This, in turn, re-
sults in fouling of the plug, .It
may also cause pitting or burn-
ing of magneto breaker points
and breakdown in the condenser:
Where points are set too close,
missing may also occur when
the engine is idling or on a light
load. This again may cause foul-
ing M the plug.
The correct length of plug is
important, Usually the bottom
of the 'spark plug barrel should
be about even with the inner side
of the cylinder head or cylinder
wall, depending on where it is
located. Plugs that are too short
may foul easily, while the points.
of plugs that are too long tend.
to cause pre-ignition and' burn
away faster. Short plugs are us-
ually cooler plugs because they
transfer heat over a short dis-
tance to the water cooled jacket
of the engine. Long plugs run
hotter, because the .heat has fur-
ther distance to travel before it
reaches the cooler engine parts.
*
En some cases, due to other
engine inefficiencies, fouling of
a spark plug may persist, and the
'3 use of a longer, hotter type of
plug may be necessary Until
zither engine deficiencies are
remedied, On the other hand, if
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Cerro' -Trap - Guiseppe Archim-
boldo, 16th -Century pioneer of
the surrealistic school, had a
rnarket-place approach to his
art. His "Greengrocer'," above,
now on exhibition in Paris, is
right out of the garden. Other
tasty subjects for the Italian's
hungry brush included crabs and
fish.
burning off of points or pre,ig-
nition persists, then the cooler,
shorter type of plug may serve
satisfactorily.
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When overhauling an engine, or
before the beginning of a season
of heavy work, it is often worth
while to have spark plugs clean-
ed . and tested at, a local garage
or establishment where special
equipment 'is available for the
purpose.
Egg quality begins to decline
as soon as an egg has been laid
and it continues at a steady rate.
The .rate of decline is greatly in-
creased by the high temperature
and low humidity of the warmer
•monthsof the year. This means
reduced profits for the poultry- .
man especially during the sum-
mer months. Many poultrymen,
however, do not realize how rel-
atively easy it is to produce high
quality eggs throughout the year.
Walter Hunsaker of the. Poultry
Division Central Experimental
farm, Ottawa, suggests a few
simple rules which will help to
maintain egg quality, and com-
bine greater profit for the pro-
ducer with betterquality for the
consumer.
4- 4, 4,
1. Gather eggs twice a day in
winter and three times a day in
summer and cool' quickly. Heat
is the most important factor in
the loss of egg quality. An egg
that has been left in the nest all
day will be little better, by the
time it • is gathered, than a 3 -
day -old egg.
44. ,
2. Use wire backets to, gather
and cool eggs. Eggs will cool
twice as fast in a wire basket as
in a pail or egg case.
4: 4:
3. Hold eggs in a cool moist
place. A temperature of 50 de-
grees to 60 degrees Fahrenheit
and a relative humidity of 70 to
80 per cent is recommended.
. 4. 4, 4,
4. Case eggs the next morning
after they have been thoroughly
cooled. Cases and fiats should be
coaled as well.
4, 4. 8:
5. .Place eggs in case with the
large end up. Handle eggs care-
fully at all ,times to :avoid crack-
ing the shell.,
4, * *
6. Market eggs at least once a
week and twice or three times if
possible. The best time to sell
an egg is as soon as possible after
it hag been laid
7. Feed a complete ration. This
paeans a good laying mash,
scratch grains, oyster shell or
limestone and plenty of fresh
clean drinking water.
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8. Provide plenty of nests and
change the nesting material fre-
quently in order to reduce the
number of dirty eggs.
9. Confine the layers until at
least mid-afternoon. This ` will
help to keep the eggs clean dur-
ing damp, rainy weather. In ad-
dition the birds will eat less
green grass and other materials
outside which cause objection-
ably dark yolks.
10. Produce infertile eggs. Fer-
tile eggs lose their market value
very quickly if held at high tem-
perature due to rapid develop-
ment of the embryo
. 4: 4
A satisfactory egg cooler may
be constructed quickly and at
reasonable cost, Plans .for such
-
a cooler may be obtained by writ-
ing to the Poultry Division, Cen-
tral Experimental Farm, Ottawa.
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24, Shovel
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single *vent
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aby`s Bottle Bounces the 'Ounces
. Ble. EDNA 1V 3LE$.
rrHE new plastic nursing bot-
tle may well prove to be the
greatest boon to mankind since
sliced bread, Just aslt tiny
mother (or father) who's. strias-
gled with rebottle at $ a. m,, only
to have it crash to the floor, •
And if you could interview
Baby, he'd tell you he likes a
bottle on which he can get a
grip. He'd also tell you he ex-
pects to lereak a number of bot -
ties, and' at this point Mother
will step in to tell ydii that not
only is this true, it's expensive,
The answer to these .problems'
was thought up by an irate
father who got up in the wee
hours, fumbled the baby's bot-
tie and decided there must be
some easier way to . go at the
whole thing.
As he caressed his bruised
left loot, his eyes fell on a tas-
te cosmetic container belonging
to his wife. And a brand-new
polyethylene nursing bottle was
born, one that's odorless, taste-
less, harmless to formula and a
natural insulator as well,
Formula, the makers of this -
bottle claim, keeps warm five;
times longer than in glass. This
is an extra boon If yours is a
slaw -feeding baby.
Going -going --but eat gone. Whets Baby •heaves one of the neon
plastic nursing bottles overboard, there's a crash, but no smash.
Easy to Clean and heat -retentive, the well-nigh unbreakable
' bottles are a real boon to mother, Dad, and the pocketbook.
Use Dog As
Poultice For
Stomach -Ache
Most people have heard of the
stormy petrel; the wonderful
little sea bird that skims the
waves within a few inches of
the water, however rough the
sea may be. Few know 'the re-
markable stories about it.
Travel author Carveth Wells,
who saw some in the Atlantic;
esoutl_ of Iceland, says that for
hundreds of years mariners be-
lieved -- and some old salts
still do - that petrels never
approached land, the female lay-
ing her one egg at sea and car-
rying it under wing until it
hatched. In fact, the petrels of
the North Atlantic that are any-
where within hundreds of miles,.
of the Cape Verde Islands lay
their eggs there, .underground
and in the most desolate place
they can find.
A legend that no one ever
found a dead petrel led sailors
to believe that they have some
secret place to which they fly
• when death approaches. We
know- that the birds do have
their own private cemetery on
the uninhabited island of Chea
where there is a plateau cover-
ed witl. the tiny white bones .of
millions of them.
Exploring Lapland, Mr.' Wells
=discovered some unusual things
about the dogs there. They are
regarded as honoured members
of the household. When a Lapp
girl is born -he writes in a fine
travel book, "The Road to Shal-
imam"-her father gives her two
presents: a female reindeer, to
start a herd for her dowry, . and
a female' dog.
There were four dogs in the
house where Wells stayed. At
meal tinges they watched pati-
ently while their food was be
ing prepared, then at a word
from the master the oldest walk-
ed slowly towards it and took
his share, each in turn doing
the same, with no barking or
fighting.
Lapps say dogs are very sen-
sitive to punishment. For small
offences they must be scolded,
for serious ones whipped, but
never whipped and scolded at
the same time, however badly
they behave, for such treatment
breaks a dog's spirit. They sleep
with, members of the family,
snuggling into the small of the,
back, turning over when the
sleeper turns.' When a Lapp has
stomach-ache he makes a dog go
to sleep on his stomach, and
soon the dog gets the ache, hav-
ing drawn it out of the rnan!
Noteso many years ago ances-
tors of the Lapps used to locate
a lost reindeer by means of a
drum with a map of the locality
drawn on the drumskin, and on
this a small iron ring. Bolding
the drum level, the Lapp tap-
ped its side with a small ham-
mer made of reindeer antler,
This caused the skin' to vibrate.
and the 'ring to dance about. As
the vibrations ceased, the ring
came to rest on the spot where
the missing reind55r was to be
sought,
If it' wasn't found there 10 wee
assumed to have wandered else
where. The drum was then con-
sulted again and again, and ev-
entually tlee' lost aminal was lo.
sated,
At Tromso, Norway, Wells sa'w
the bombed German battleship
Von' Tirpitz, half -submerged and
upside flown, with Men remov-
ing valuable machinery through
a huge hole in her bottom. it
must be a gruesome job, he says,
for when she was hit and cap-
sized she had more than a thou-
sand sailors on board. He heard
that a tea room for sightseers
has been built on the bottonal
Plying from Oslo to India,
Dress It Up -Dorian Lovell-Pank,
4r scot the thrill_ of a lifetime at
recent wedding in London,
England. He had his headgear
adjusted by Charles Cassie, of
the 3rd Hussars from Dingwall,
Scotland.
Wells .and his wife hired a house-
boat on. Dal Lake in lovely Kash-
mir, ._and one cold morning the
owner, Dundoo, came in looking
unusually fat and portly. Lift-
ing his shirt, he pointed to a
small wicker basket slung round •
his waist. "Kangra," he said.
"Must keep warm. Very cold
day."
The "kangra" was lined with
earthenware . and filled with
glowing charcoal, for in winter
a Kashmiri carries one with him
wherever he goes, and occasion-
ally, overcome by carbon mon-
oxide fumes, he may fall asleep
and burn himself severely.
All kinds of pedlars cane in
boats. They included a vegetable
seller who steered with a long
pole a small floating island on
which the vegetables were grow-
ing! Dundoo, too, had a floating
island anchored near his kitchen
boat -with a house on it for a
hen and her chicks.
As the Wells were near Srina-
gar they had to see the Shali-
mar ,of the Indian love lyric.
It is a lovely shady park about
600 yards long with velvety
lawns, huge trees, lone straight
flower beds, fountains, lake, and
mountain stream, Climbing in
four terraces towards snow-cap-
ped mountains. On each terrace
is '1 pavilion, the fourth at the
far end being the most beauti-
ful, with exquisite black marble
pillars.
It was laid out by the Mogul
Emperor Jehangir, and here the
royal harem ladies rested in cool
seclusion while member's of the
court stroliecl under the trees.
His beloved wife was Nur Jah•
an, Light of the World, . whose
son, Shah Jellan, built the Taj
Mahal foie the toiaab of his own
beloved queen, Mumtaz Mahal,
Glory of the Palace.
A long procession of elephants,
pack -horses and gaily decorated
sedan chairs containing the har-
ern ladies used to arrive at Sha-
limar from Delhi, accompanied
by as many as '30,000 servants,
SAY SHOE TO' tt GOOSE
Very' soon .klow Hungarians
will be able to buy shoes made
from goose -skins, Special pro-
cessilig of the skin proved it to
be durable and comfortable in
the footwear line, Manufactur-
ers aim to produce 5,000 pairs of
goose -skin shoes in twenty dif-
ferent shades for general wear
this spring,
Occupation: Hobo „
That delightful song, "The
Happy Wanderer," seems to
have burst on American radio
audiences at the wrong time so
far as factual background is
concerned. That is, unless it is
designed to suggest a backdrop
of the Tyrolese Alps rather than
the rustic byways of Merrie
England.
For, according to Ernie Hen-
son, a bearded wayfarer to
whom 30 years of tramping the
roads of Britain represents "a
way of life," the welfare state
has played hob with the life
of a hobo. "We have been regis-
tered, checked, urged into new-
fangled reception stations, per-
suaded to take regular jobs,
bathed, questioned, and general-
ly treated as prehistoric freaks,"
he says.
Your true tramp or hobo deep-
ly resents the implication that
his career is one of worthless-
ness. He is an itinerant, a vaga-
bond, a follower of the open
road, living off the countryside,
but he has his dignity. And he
is not looking for security; he
has it - or did have until far-
mers took to sending him to the
nearest hostel, sometimes in a
tti'xi, to be put to work.
And he has no more liking for
bureaucrats with their forms
and red tape than did Henry
David Thoreau when he retired
to Walden Pond. In fact, that is
what makes other fields, pos-
sibly French or Italian fields,
look greener to Ernie Henson
and his few remaining compan-
ions in Britain.
The Labor government which
inaugurated "fair shares" missed
the point that not all the indi-
vidualists are capitalists with
something tangible td share. Mr.
Henson's "boys" report that "the
French and Italians are prepared
to let us alone as long as we be-
have, and that is all we have
ever wanted." -From The Chris-
tian Science Monitor.
Cloths for cleaning windows
without the use of water can be
made with a semi-liquid paste
of benzine and calcined mag-
nesia. The cloth, which should
be of coarse linen or something
free from lint, is dipped into this
mixture and hung in the air
until the spirits have evaporat-
ed and it is free from odor. This
cloth may be used again and
again, and is a great conveni-
ence. When soiled, wash
)1IJAY SCilOOL
LESSON
By 1tev. R. Barclay Warren.,
.43 B.D.
Elijah Rebukgs Ahab
1 Kings 21:1-4, 16.20.
Memory Selection Thou shake'
not covet. Exodus 200.
Ahab was one of the ablest
kings who ever occupied the
throne of Samaria, but in mar-
rying Jezebel, he had united.
himself to a dominating per-
sonality who often determined
the king's policies and actions
with dire results to himself and
to the nation. In the telling
words of scripture, Ahab "di
sell himself to do that which
was evil in the sight of the
Lord, whom Jezebel his wife
stirred up." If you are contem-
plating marriage, ponder long
and carefully before you select
a wife or husband. The right
one can help make you a bet-
ter"man or woman and enhance
your chances of success in life'
the wrong one at best will ham-
per you so that your life and
accomplishments will be less
than your best, and at the worst
may actually kill your desire
and will to do right, and .lead.
you into sin. Better spend a
lifetime of indecision on that
issue and marry nobody at all,,
than pick the wrong one and re-
gret it for a lifetime.
Ahab coveted Naboth's vine-
yard. But Naboth, true to the
law which forbade the selling of
one's inheritance outside of one's
own tribe refused to sell. Ahab
sulked like a spoked child but
Jezebel went to work with dia-
bolical design. She accomplish-
ed the death not only of Naboth
but also of his sons who might
have claimed the inheritance.
2Kgs. 9:26. Then Ahab went in-
to the vineyard he had coveted.
But Elijah met him and pro-
nounced God's fearful judgment
upon him. History records the
fulfillment of these predictions.
The dogs licked his blood it this
vineyard and his wife, Jezebel.
was eaten by dogs by the wall
of Jezreel. Because Ahab hum-
bled himself the judgment upon
his descendants was delayed un-
til after his death. Then his sev-
enty sonswere slain.
The story reminds us of the
fateful end of tworecent ty-
rants. The bodies of Mussolini
and his mistress were subjected
to mob abuse and later buried
in unmarked graves in the pau-
per section, of the cemetery in
Milan. Hitler is thought to have
committed suicide along with
his former mistress, Eva Braun,
whom he is thdught to have
married shortly before his death.
Thus is the end of Tyrants, an-
cient and modern.
HONEY (Ull!) MOON
"How is Brownson getting on
with his young wife?"
"Well, a month after the wed-
ding
edding a belated telegram of con-
gratulation arrived and they re-
fused to accept it."
.(Upside down to prevent peeking)
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Weather Testing •- An Air Force "Molly Dick" weather balloon
Is released at the Grenier Air Force Base. The huge balloons
carry instrument packages suspended beneath them so research-.
ers at the base can receive automatic reports of weather data
through radio relays. Officials say the balloons aren't dangerous
and all aircraft inti the release area are notified of the ascents