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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1951-03-22, Page 3X It's One of the Best . Asa hubby, recreation, exercise, or whatever you call it, gardening is one of the best, It is inexpensive - a few dollars• will buy all the s seeds, tools and fertilizer necessary, it is elastic—one can spend as much or as little time and energy as one hikes or the doctor advises. It takes us outdoors into the sunshine, "lets us follow the natural spring t urge of digging in the soil. And, finally; gardening gives satisfac- tion that conies only from creating • something with our own hands, 4Tith a few tiny seeds and plants one can have a flower garden that is as individual as a painting. With a few packets of vegetable seeds one can produce fresh quality that simply cannot be purchased for any price. Planning Will Help It's not necessary, of course, but it will add to the interest and fun to do a little planning, :Moreover, ' until the weather and soil really , start to warm up, planning is about all the gardening one can accom- . pus's just now in many parts of Canada. Some people prefer to make a -- drawing 'store or less to scale, This 'will show the main permanent feat- ures of the property, the position of the house, garage or any other buildings, the fence or property 'lines. It will also include any prominent objects like big trees, sidewalks, gates, etc. in laying out a garden, the flow- ers and shrubbery are usually grouped about the lawn and ar- ranged informally. The vegetable garden, of course, for reasons of convenience is usually laid out in straight lines. In this planning a good Canadian seed catalogue and possibly a special government; bul- letin or two, which the authorities *re usually willing and glad to pro- vide free, will prove helpful, The main purpose of planning in flowers and shrubbery is to keep the big things at the back and the little things in front, so that noth- ing will be hidden. 'As for spacing it is a good general rule to allow half as much room between plants as these will be at maturity, That Means a few inches for little things like alyssum, dwarf marigolds and such, and tip to two or three feet for small shrubs and much more for the larger things and trees, In. vegetabies,.it .is advisable .to allow froin one foot to three between the rows, depending on size at maturity and whether or not cultivation is to be by hand or with a garden trac- tor. raytor. \?There space is limited sole roost can be saved by putting trailing things over fences or ar- Veteran Railroader Celebrates Century—Paddy Caesar (centre), Canadian Pacific Railway agent at Bolton, Ont., made a trip to Vanco over recently to attend a celebration for the 100th birthday of his father, John Caesar (right oldest . pensioner on. the CPR system and formerly station agent at Markdale, Ont, 111 :es sages from the King and Prime Minister St. Laurent were among those read at the occasion. Harry Mills, president of the CPR Pioneers° Association at Vancouver whic h arranged the party, looks on. ound the edge of the vegetable garden. First Jobs There are, however, some out- door jobs that can be started al- most anytime. One of the first ,will be lawn repairs or the start- ing of new ones. Grass seed makes its best growth in' cool weather, in fact it must be sown just as soon ass the soil can be worked. Sweet peas also must go in early for best results. They need to develop their deep growth before the weath- er gets warns. If a hot -bed is attempted one should get a govern- ment bulletin right away on how to build it. Pavement Artist Leaves Fortune A London pavement -artist pro- testing against the decision of the local council to evict hint from his pitch so that a garden can be built on it, has revealed that his busi- ness is worth £C9 a week in sum - Mer and :g7 10s, a week in winter. Another, summoned for speeding (he owned a car) was asked by the magistrates how he came to be a pavement -artist. He replied that it was the only job he knew that provided an aver- age income of ten pounds a week, with no appearances to maintain, and in which Ire could have a day off whenever he wished, His only regret about his pro- fession was when some elderly passerby, looking rather poverty- stricken, threw a copper into his cap. He feat sure conte could ill afford it, but how was he to know: SALE\"S SALiLIES Stir says some guys named Gib- son ;;•anneal up on hit's at a party.'' The true pavement -artist is known as a "screever" because he "screeves" his drawings on the actual pavement and can be watch- ed doing it. Many pavement -artists prefer to do their work on canvas and are always ready 'to prove their ability by drawing lightning sketches of "customers." A really good pitch is worth a fortune to a pavement artist, One Itas only to stand near and count the offerings thrown into the artist's cap to get some idea of how rich some of then must be. A Parisian pavement -artist named Eduard Loffe died recently and left an estate valued at &45,000. One artist usually works three • to five pitches hi turn during the week, for if be stays on the same pitch all the time people cease to . take any no:ice of him. Besides, the police frown upon an artist who filly to "'stove on" at fairly frequent intervals. That stoney begets money is a fact well known 111 this profession, A cap or a circle of chalk with a coin or two in it are likely to at- tract more coins, So the first coutribntion often comes frdm the Locket of the artist himself. Work usually starts about 7.30 a.tu,. when the actti ti screeving begins with craybu or chalk. It takes five to fifteen minutes to draw a complete picture, \b'e( weather is the .pavement - artist's bugbear, for it sadly re- duces the public's artistic appre- ciation and with it the artist's Bank haianrr . If world citizenship were estab- lislted, what could. we do with 4 man who has to ba deported? Really Suffered For Beauty's Sake The feminine cult of beauty has been so intensified since the war that today almost incredible amounts of money are spent on beauty preparations. But even though they undergo a certain amount of :discomfort wiaex� applying a face pack or undertaking' a slimming diet ,it is nothing to,xhe torture women in the past were prepared to bear in order to attain the standard of beauty fashionable in their particular age. Museums and art galleries dis- play pictures of Italian ladies ssiith srn000th high foreheads. Thtbse • beauties were not born looking i:n- tellectuals in order to make the hair -line recede, they applied quick- lime. • 'An equally painful treatment for the complexion was common its England in the eighteenth century, when women peeled off the outer layer of skin with carbolic oint- ment. • Sometimes the result was not exactly what they hoped for, and "they had to spend a week or so ha seclusion While the -raw sur'face healed. Often the' most unpleasant ingre- dients were used for the sake of beauty. Take the hair dye used by the ancient Romans, For sixty days leeches were left to decompose in an earthen vessel filled with oil and vinegar. The result was guar- anteed to make the tresses jet black. During the Romantic Movement in the ninetecnll century, the fash- ionable pose was one of languor. Women pecked at their food, and Byron wrote to Lady Melbourne, "A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lob- ster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine viands,": Hygiene Came Second Instead of eating roast beef, they swallowed gravel, coal dust and candle wax, and as a result lost digestion, appetite ,and rosy colour- ing. Pallid sallowness was the ad- mired complexion. Throughout the centuries, with martyr -like devotion, women have constricted their figures. Ill 'Cudor days a slab -of iron was inserted down the front of Or bodice, so that relaxation Wit s made impossible. lnFrance; at toughly the same time, the most fashionable model of corset was a hard and solid ,mould into which the wearer had: to be compressed, A Parisian, writing of those days, says that splinters of wood "pene- trated the flesh, took the skin off the .waist, and made the -ribs ride un ogre over the other." x;later years, in this country, irisin shell early teens were plac- e: lan ed i# rfYni or"sels; so that by the times they had reached the age of twenty, a twenty-three inch waist would have ?teen reduced tc, thir- teen. Cleanliness,'a course, was a se- condary; ' matter. In 1866, a girl wrote horse from boarding -school to say that. her stayq? were sealed up by a mistress at .the beginning of the 'week and retrained on her body until Saturday;when they were removed for oite hour onlx, so that she could wash. One African tribe adds a ring a year ••to `a womans neck until it is elongated' like a giraffe's. 'Another tribe bind's the head of every girl child, so that eventually it is a fair imitation of n Rugby ball. Why, oh Why,? Ideas of beauty vary according to time and place. Tartar women used to pare away their noses between the eyes; Virginian wcnnen Sat 1650 • used an iron stamp on their faces which left the mpression of a bird or fish. Why do wotifcrf go to all this trouble when Wren throughout the ages have complained that they like their wives to look 'natural?? As far back as the reign of Queen Anne they were complaining abotrt it. One husband, after describing how he had found out chat his wife's jet, hair and beautiful face were at the result of art. said: s'1 shall talc the liberty ort parting from her immediately. unless her father will male her portion suit- able to her real slot arse sed, couutenanec. HAIRCUTS BY THE MINUTE Barber Icor Fawcett of Kings- teighton, England has grown weary of sparse -haired customers con- plaining about paying as much for haircuts as youths with heavy• shocks of hair. From now on, his customers will have tite option „i' r ;0 Ing the usuai flat rate r r a st,i':•ia1 rate of 1' , cents a nritntt, If your interested in increasing' you're yield of oats—raising more bushels on fewer acres—the fol- lowing will be, I hope, of inter- est and value to you. Out in ts mid -west state a group of promin- ent farmers were asked for their suggestions long this line, and stere is what tuey Lads, to say. y: * 4' The questioners assumed that most of the fanners would sow the newer high -yielding varieties of oats; also that they would clean and treat such seed before sowing. So the questions concern- ed the use of fertilizer; when to sow; whether to drill or broad- cast; whether to plow the ground or to disk it, The farmers were asked to list their yield -increasing practices in order of their impor- tance. APPLYING NITROGEN; Over one-third of the farmers out nitro- gen application in the top spot. Almost another third placed nitro- gen in second place. And fourteen per cent put nitrogen application in third place. 4: 4 fi '.Chis shows conclusively that these successful farmers are really sold on' nitrogen for oats. Prob- ably a lot more farmers would ad- vise the use of nitrogen except for two things. First, nitrogen is sometimes hard to get and, Sec- ond, eaond, oats is often used as a nurse crop. * 4: Grass and legume seeds cost considerable, one farmer pointed out. So, naturally, you don't want- to antto use enough fertilizer to make the oats smother those seedings.. To this objection, Edward Entz— one of the "questionees"—answer- ed, "Apply your fertilizer accord- ing to the test of your soil." '1: The soil test and Agriculture • Department recommendations will tell you whether phosphate or potash is needed. But for nitro- gen requirements you should con- sider the past use of land in ques- tion. If your oats land has had, say, only one crop of corn since it was in sod,'you can afford to go light on the nitrogen. You can also leave nitrogen out on spots that have been heavily snanured, or on low wash -over ground. But you should put nitrogen— in recommended amounts. o f course on thin fields or thin parts of fields. The amount usu- ally. recommended is from 15 to 20 pounds an acre on fields that are thin or have had more than one crop of corn. . • * * * EARLY PLANTING: Almost one-third of the farmers put early seeding" in first place; one-fourth in second place; one-fifth said third place. 4: :r "There are really only three good days to sow oats," said Oscar W. Johnson, "and the last two of them are one and two days too late." That might be a slight exaggera- tion; but tests at experimental sta- tions fully back up tine farmers early -sowing beliefs. A four-year test at one such station showed that ,each day's delay in seeding cost about one bushel per acre in yield. That, my friends, could represent a whole lot of oats! * v,:* DRILL INSTEAD O;ir BROADCAST: One-sixth of the farmers questioned put this prac- tice first in importance. Over half of theta put drilling in either first, second or third place. - "Drilling is seed economy," said :Usury J. Bode. But "not much dif- ference in yield" was the comment of George Leffler. And several of the farmers pointed out that, if you drill, you are often forced to delay seeding. That is to say, you may have to make the choice be- tween broadcasting early or drill- ing late. *So in deciding whether to broad- cast or drill, soil conditions and the kind of spring weather are impor- tant, But if you have the machine and can avoid delay, by all means drill. ' ra* PLOW INSTEAD OF DISK? On the whole, No, The favourable vote for plowing was very light. Only around eighteen per cent of the farmers put it in first, second or third place. Still, there are some who believe in it. . * For example, on the Elmer Bass farm oats land was fall plowed or dislc'tilled after corn picking time in 1949: Yields were 70 bushels per acre from three varieties, "It was very beneficial in 1950" says Bass. But what w^r4 ad `yell aw MSS seo- ti0ri may dote be as 066 in an- other. 'Last Spring I used six acres o fall -plowed land for oats,". said Lloyd Albers. 'The yield was •rery much less and the stand of clQver was poor." So possibly it might pay to plow for oats in certain areas; but not if the oats seeding is delayed thereby. M, '1 OTHER PRACTICES. A warn- ing that came from several farmers was—don't disk the land when it is loo wet, You can't cultivate oats attd break up the baked soil. But "be sure the disk is sharp and gets into the ground deeply," advised ]?red Ludwig. Others added that the land should he harrowed down smooth. * "Use a roller to firan the seed- bed," advises Martin Ringoen. Clar- ence Decatur advocates "rolling and better seedbeds." Fred Bruene says that weed control is highly important, adding that "probably a combination of all these practices would be the best policy—leaving as little as possible to chance." * *. 't Now, in conclusion, I'd like to repeat that this survey was made in a grid -Western State. 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