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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1951-07-19, Page 3(Caring For Your Dog ,During Hot Wearer • Your dog cannot put his fur, coat into Winter storage, of course, and he does not rid himself of excess great via his skin. He sweats only through his tongue. Therefore, trimming or plucking will not solve his summer problem entirely --some experts say not at all, contending that removing the coat reduces a dog's protection from the sun's rays. The dog should be groomed at least once a day. Daily brushing and freeing from tangles and burrs will go a long way toward making him comfortable in the heat. You owe it to your pet to give hint some exercise in the cool of the morning. If this is not possible, then he should have his' exercise in the latter part of the evening, preferably before his meal. During hot weather, your dog will be able to do with less food, 'particularly the filler part of his -diet. Meat is not so likely to make hint uncomfortable. lis diet can be varied with some Of the good pre- pared -foods on the market and with such items as f s11;*• eggs, and liver, bat cod-liver oil should be dis- continued. Summer sunshine re- places the cod-liver oil. Most .dogs love to play •in water. In the absence of natural. facilities, a gentle sprinkling will be welcom- t;d by many pets if care is taken not to frighten them. An ordinary wash tub may also prove useful. During these hot months, the dog's drinking water should be re- plenished very frequently, and kept in a shady spot in the yard. If .yours is a house pet, give him water only when he needs it, fresh front the faucet. Many dogs thoroughly enjoy ice cubes and have fun chew- ing them. The basement is likely to be the very best place for your dog during the hottest hours, whether he lives outdoors or in. During these trying days the dog may be troubled with itching. It is advisable to go over your animal carefully each day when he is brushed to look for fleas and ticks, paying particular attention to his ears. The tick attaches itself to the dog. by a pair of pincer -like hooks and gorges itself on the dog's bloodi .eventually falling off: If these insects fall off in your home, they can cause •a great deaf of trouble by propagating rapidly and becoming a matter for the exter- minator. Ticks should be pulled off outdoors, preferably by for- ceps. Avoid contact between the •tick (if it• has been broken) and any open cut or scratch on your fingers. Certain ticks may act as carriers of Rocky Mountain Fever. All should be burned upon re- moval. As for fleas, you can take your dog to your veterinary to have hirn rid of fleas, but it's quite simple to do it yourself with one or an- other of the preparations for this purpose. Repeat the operation with- in ten days or so, Sometimes a dog will get skin.trouble in hot weather. In such cases your veterinary's 'ad- vice should be obtained, for unless you are experienced in the treat- ment of these eruptions, you can do more harm than good by ex- perimenting: Your -,dog may be inclined to snap and become irritated if h'e's teased unduly in hot weather. He cannot be blamed for such con- duct, and this should be explained to childrettr`e : - Finally—and most important — see to it that your dog can get himself out of the sun at all times. For this, and for ,whatever else you manage to do for him to help him through the worst days, he will say his thanks as plainly as could you. The cure of crime is not the elec- tric chair, but the high chair. —3. Edgar Hoover • oole BY' klD.1N4 MILES oard S 1Lmodernironing board has comae a long way since the days when grandmother stretched a plank across the backs of two kitchen chairs. First it acquired legs, folding ones that allowed compact storage. Then, someone discovered metal was less fire - hazardous than wood. Now, a new discovery aids the home -maker on ironing day—a board of metal mesh, Created upon the basic assumption that the time required to iron a garment dry depends upon how fast the moisture is eliminated, this board allows steam to escape through its ventilated surface. Thus evaporation is hastened. This metal web, which is 61 per cent open space, accord- ing to makers, allows much faster drying than solid -type boards which tend to trap the steam. The effort of the home -maker goes into smoothing wrinkles from her laundry rather than into baking moisture from the board, they explain. Warp, rust and burn -proof, the new ironing table is ad- justable to six different heights. Supporting the top, which is constructed of pierced sheet steel that has been stretched into a diamond pattern, are two pairs of rubber -footed, tubular steel legs which lock into place during use and release with one hand when folding -time coupes. e ISO LD„y This yortng woman atlssniu the diamond - patterned meta web that form the top of her ironing bard. Steam escapes through the mesh; thus shortening ironing tttrne. Science may now have a remedy 4for stem rust, the most dresaded and destructive of all wheat diseases. The need for a practical control Method is urgent, as Race 15B of stenii rust has become widespread, and no commercial variey of wheat has resistance to this race. The promise of control conies from Dr. J. E. Livingston, plant patho- logist, who has found in greenhouse tests that certain chemical spray applied to rust -infected wheat de- finitely stop growth of the rust organism. This ';'summer, airplane sprays for rust control are being tes ted. * * * In his work. Dr. Livingston found that solutions of either am- monium sulfamate or actidione were quickly. absorbed through the skin of the plant, and growth of the stem rust was effectively stop- ped, -.although at some expense in plant growth. * 8 'i: • Under conditions favorable for . rust, development, the disease usu- ally takes three generations or cycles of about ten days each to build up to epidemic proportions. If the first infected plants show ,'rust by the time the crop is flow- ering, there is a good chance for a severe epidemic. Airplane spray- ing is expected to reduce at least the nuniber of rust generations and greatly lessen the severity of the attack. In the field tests, spraying is being done 30 to 40 days before the wheat matures, with about one gallon of a concentrated spray applied per acre. One application may prove adequate, and it is be- lieved that two spray should de- finitely be enough, The treatment is believed to be effective with any `race of rust, new or old, including the virulent 15B. It may likewise prove effective against leaf rust of wheat and stent and crown rust of oats. It should be clearly understood that this control method is still in the experimental stage, and no recommendations are being made as yet to growers. Even better chemicals may be found for the purpose. However, such sprays offer an additional means of fight - I t NAI(OLD ARNETT 1 4 ,11 I @tt COAT HOOK LEVEL SA 16 &IN& DRAPERY CRANES wiTH WIRE COAT' HiOKS `ruRNEl INTO WINDOW CASING NEAR OUTER ENDS OF CRANtES, ing rusts, particularly the new races which originate periodically. * * a: A new spray to control pre - harvest drop suitable for a wide range of apple varieties will be available in limited quantities this season, It is TCPPA, a liquid amine formulation dilutable in water and commercially known as Color -Set 1004. • * Excellent drop control of Mc- Intosh, Jonathan, Delicious, Stay - man, Baldwin, Starking, Route, Grimes and Winesap varieties was obtained in tests ata large number .of experiment stations. One ex- pert reports that the new material appears to reduce harvest drop better than any other growth sub- stance he has tested. * * * Another desirable characteristic of TCPPA is . its effect on color, When sprays were applied three weeks before normal harvest and clear weather followed outstand- ing red color 'improvement was noted on several varieties. .Grimes and Golden Delicious developed an improved yellow color. * * * Middle -western dairymen are avoiding mid -summer slumps in milk production by supplemental feeding of hay or grass silage to cows on pasture. This practice has paid off even when pastures were in fair condition. * * * One than has leveled out his milk returns by feeding hay in a Ioafing shed throughout the year.•. His cows seem to like a little dry feed even when they are on alfalfa- bronte and alfalfa -timothy pastures during May and June when growth is lush. Last year this extra hay helped the herd return $489` above feed costs in Jul',sjust $6 less than in February, the peak month. August returns of $437 were com- paratively high. * * * Another dairyman leans on grass - legume silage to maintain produc- tion through the summer. He fences part of his pasture in spring and harvests it as silage in 1\Fay or June. During hot months cows graze ail of the pasture land and get a supplemental feeding of grass silage. In fall, the dairyman refills the silo with corn, covering any grass silage .not used in summer, When the corn . silage is. fed, cows welcome the return to grass silage and it helps avoid an early spring production slump due to dull appe- tite. * * * Still another believes sheltered feeding helps maintain high pro- duction. Cows are more likely to fill roughage needs if they clo not have to graze in the hot sun. This is particularly true if pasture is dormant bluegrass or tow -quality mixture. There's Humor To Be Found Even In Seed Catalogues Countless people have tasted those fat, red, dessert gooseberries* known as "Dan's Mistake.” They are the sweetest tasting of all gooseberries and, as with many other names in a seed catalogue, there is a story to account for tate name, About a hundred 3 -ears ago Dan- iel Spencer was a well-known cul- tivator of gooseberries in Lanca- shire. Year after year he won the first prize at the annual show for the best gooseberry. One year several gooseberry clubs joined to have a super show, and big prizes were offered. Daniel Spencer intended to win the first prize, and started raising his own seedlings, From these he hand-picked the best and gave the others away. On the day of the show there was one huge gooseberry, red in colour and luscious to look at, that beat everything Spencer had exhi- bited, and his face was as red as the gooseberry when he was told it had been raised from one of his oven discarded seedling's. '"i :rant that time it has. always been known as "Dan's Mistake." "Heavenly Blue" There was once a ro°k plant, de- veloped by an amateur, which first appeared in the Royal Horticul- tural Society's catalogue as "Litho- spermtim Dr. Lowe." It did not attract much attention. One day a nurseryman was ex- amining some blooms when he heard a lady say, "What a heavenly blue!" He turned to look at the plant and found from his catalogue that it was "Lithospermum." He traced the amateur and, with his permission, changed the name to "Heavenly Blue," a far better name, and one that is now known to thousands of gardeners. Sometimes nurserymen have flashes of inspiration. One man put a new rose into one of the Royal Horticultural Society's shows and christened it "Crimson Glory." Such a colourful, dramatic name could not go unnoticed, and in a newspaper report next morning the sltaw was actually headed 'Crim- son Glory." The man who gave more names to plants and flowers than anyone else was Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist, and many' of theta are descriptive not only of the flower but of the person immortalized by it. As an instance of this, "Mag- nolia" was used for that flower as a gesture of honour to Pierre Mag- nol, the famous botanist, and Lin - beaus explained that the reason he had given the name to that par- ticular flower was because it "has n very handsome leaves and flowers, recalling Pierre Magnol." "Orange Pippin" He also christened an American tree "Hermandia," after Hernan- dez a Spanish botanist, who once spent a fortune on the investiga- tion of America's natural history and produced nothing very much from it. Linnaeus slyly remarked that he had christened the tree after this botanist because "it has very large leaves and very small flowers." Very often new plants, fruit, or flowers are given names of the creator's family — "Dainty Bess" rose, in honour of Bess Archer, the wife of the man who raised it; the "Annie Elizabeth" apple, named after the daughter of Greatorix, the nurseryman who first grew it; "Cox's Orange Pippin" after Ri- chard Cox, who first grew it in his garden. There is one pear which, by an accident, is known by two names. In England it is known as the "Wil- liam" pear, immortalizing Richard Williams, who developed it, In Anerca it is known as the "Bartlett" pear because seedlings were sent from England and the name lost. The nursery where they were grown was bought by Enoch . Bartlett in 1817. A similar thing happened with the greengage. It was first called "Refine Claudia." A tree was sent to Sir William Gage, but the label was lost during transit, so it was rechristened greengage. There used to be a popular song that began, "I'm always chasing rainbows." It sounds like fun! But if you have a garden you can do something even better. You can plant them, The "rainbow flower" is the Iris. If you haven't kept abreast of the recent developments of this beau- tiful flower you will be amazed at the colors, tones, shadings, size, and loveliness of the Bearded Iris you can put into your garden bor- ders these days. The Bearded Iris is compara- tively easy to grow. It asks very little in the way of care. Any or- dinary, well drained garden soil will satisfy it, although it can serve you better if the soil is enriched. a, * * Well rotted manure buried deep when making the bed is helpful, with top dressing at intervals of bone ureal, superphosphate, wood ashes, or all three. The Iris does not like a too -acid soil, therefore avoid any strong nitrogen fertili- zers or fresh manure. If tl-te soil has not been listed in years, a little night be added, but be careful not to overdo it. * * ,: larIy spring and early autumn are the usual tittles for planting bearded Iris rhizomes, You will find them listed in the fall bulb catalogues already arriving its the mails from your favorite nurseries, They are also divided and trans- planted every three to five years after blooming ---which paeans that, if you have some in your garden slated for transplanting, this is the month to do it, or from July on- ward. any friends with beautiful - Iris make a practice of exchang- ing at this time of year, for the established plants are the better for being divided into single rhi- • zotites when transplanted, yielding to you generous dividends from. your original investment. * * * 'The tall and medium Bearded Iris should be planted from 8 to 18 .inches apart, the closer plant- ing for mass effect. The rhizomes are shaped something like the back of a hand, with the fingers (root - 'lets) spreading downward from the sides and end, and the fan of leaves at the "wrist" end. They should be set into deeply prepared soil with the leaf -end practically at the sur- face, even partly out, the body of the rhizome slightly slanting down- ward, and the rootlets well spread in a natural way, outward and downward, Those you dig up yourself will probably have several of these thick tubers • or rhizomes. Break or cut them apart carefully so each part is a strong single rhizome or two or three smaller rhizomes to- gether. With sharp scissors, cut off the fan of leaves about three incites from the root, diagonally. \•'Vith a sharp knife, trim off any badly withered, rotten, or broken parts of the rhizome and rootlets. * * * In cold climates a winter mulch (leaves, salt marsh hay, straw) is recommended, li the summer weeks following your transplanting and dividing of your established iris turn up a season of drought, give then regular watering. u" * q: Have you a few purple and white Iris from an investment of years ago, that have been neglected some- what but have continued (as is their sweet way) to provide a few bouquets for hone or church each year? Charming as they are, you may little know what glories are to be seen in the hybrids now available. * * * "They look just like orchids!" a guest exclaimed, adnviring each thrilling tone and curve of the exquisitely colored ones in our bor- der. Colors seldom seen in flowers are combined with their lovely fleur-de-lis design. s: a: * If you are new at choosing the hybrids, I recommend getting a nodes¢`collection, specially picked to give you variety in color and interest. Easy To Steal A friend who visited the Tower of London to see the Crown Jewels , (cash value $70,000,000, but histor- ically priceless) tells us that .they have never looked so easy to steal, Yet he was assured by an official that the jewels are safer from thieves than they have' ever been before. The steel bars have bean re- placed by plate glass. Inside, about six feet from visitors, is another glass window. behind which repose the jewels. The official explained that an electric ray operates be- hind the outer glass. acting like in- visible bars. Should an intending thief break the outer glass and in- sert an arm, the ray would be bro- ken, a clamorous alarm sound, and a score of sturdy guardsmen would race to the spot. DOG DAYS — With summer heat once again sapping the strength of than and his usu- ally springy, four -legged friends, short pants are once again fash- ionable in dogdom. Above, Rex, a boxer owned by Bert Thome- . son of Huntington, L. I., exhibits his own tongue -out -of -cheek at- titude toward summer dog days. Arra (DON'T O;777—",";;;;;;;;71 X'M PLANKING THESE PLOWERS•., 11. LET YOU WATER THEM WHEN t'M1 THROUGH By Arthur Pointer