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ONLY A YEAR AGO
Someone once coined the phrase
"a old and forgotten as yesterday's
news", How true this is you may
discover when you attempt to fill
in the blanks in the following quiz.
Each of the ten sentences below
deals with an item that made head-
line news,during 1947. Can you fill
in the missing names? •
L In January 1947 the British Roy-
al Family left for an extended
trip to (name
of Country).
2. On April 21, 1947,
(name of man) bettered the ▪ re-
cord of service as a prime minis-
ter of an Empire Commonwealth
previously held by Sir Robert
Walpole,
3. It was in April of that year that
a chemical blast started a series
of fires and explosions that razed
(name of place)
in one of the worst disasters on
this continent in recent years,
4, The spring of 1947 also witness-
ed another great loss in the pass-
ing of (none
of man), former head of one of
America's great industrial enter-
prises. He died peacefully in
Michigan.
8, A world champion, .
(name) was given a car by
home -town enthusiasts;„ had to
give it back to retain amateur
status.
6, The Arctic supply slip
• • (nameof ship) went
down in July 1947 after running
aground tiear Cape Dorset,
T. Britain ended her 150 -year rule
in (name of Country)
in August 1947, when that coun-
try was partitioned.
8. On October 5, 1947, Russia an-
nounced the formations of the
nine nations • •
(name of organization) osten-
sibly to block the Marshall Plan,
9, In December 1947, under pres-
surefrom the Communist Party,
(name of Ring)
abdicated his throne.
10. And 'twas just about Christmas
time a year ago that
(name of city) had its record
snowfall 'of 25.8 inches, crippling
the city for days and costing in
, the millions.
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Costly Fishing
A magistrate in New Westmin-
ster, fined a fisherman $25 for
fishing in his sleep.
Ed. Simmons of Stevenson told
Magistrate H. J. Johnston he set his
net at 3 a•m. and set an alarm to •
- awaken him at 5 a.m. The alarm
failed to awaken him and a fisheries
patrol found Mi. Simmonds, still
asleep and with his net still in
position, at 7.50 a.m.—an hour after
the fishing season closed.
The magistrate disregarded Mr,
Simmonds' plea that "there was: no
conscious violation."
Off On her Way To Claim Eighteen Million —Ursula Bauer, seen at the extreme Ieft
of the picture, enters a snow white bridal coach in Berlin with her American bridegroom..
She had never been able to leave Germany to claim the $8,000,000 fortune left by Henrietta
E. Garrett of Philadelphia, but the marriage made it possible for her to cross the Atlantic
at last.
SIX CROPS A YEAR
Boil each acre of soil on your
farm with steam for 85 minutes,
then get ready to plant—and har-
vest—from six to eight crops a
year. The methods might be worth
the trouble even for a • "victory
garden." It has proved practical and
payable on an 11 -acre farm near
Edinburgh; Scotland.
Steam -heated pipes pass about
two feet below the surface to give
the soil a warming glow, but far-
mer David Lowe and his three
brothers have to work hard to keep
the crops on. their way. They are
probably the most successful truck-.
gardening experts in the British
Isles.
They boil their soil in December,
killing all vestige of weeds. David
Lowe calls it "soil sterilization."
Each year, • every acre is given no
less than 100 tons of fertilizer and
decomposed matter. The 1943 crops
that resulted from the intensive
treatment were greater than those
for 1942, but the latter seen!„ im-
pressive enough. Here they are:
A total of 343,695 heads of lettuce,
945,000 turnips, 1,102,800 carrot
46,000 heads of cauliflower, 1,500,-
000 leeks for transplanting, 2.1,9130
bunches or radishes "(25 'to the •
bunch), 271,320 heads of celery, 560
pounds' of, onions, 7,517 marrows,
1170 pounds of cucumbers, 518
pounds of French beans,
480 bunch-
• es of mint, 2280 pounds of tomat-
oes, six tons of rhubarb and 284
twenty -pound bags of brussels
sprouts. This year the production
of celery and radishes has been'
doubled.
The plot is broken by by wooden
frames. • As the days grow colder,
these are covered 'with glass and
the heat from below is intensified.
Lettuce, turnips, carrots and
cauliflower grow together. The car-
rot seed is first broadcast, then the
ground rolled and the lettuce plants
placed. Six weelcs later, turnips are
planted in every remaining avail-
able space. As soon as the lettuce
heads are cut, the carrots jump sun-
wards. Simultaneously, cauliflower
is planted, and. at ,about the same
time the turnips mature, followed
shortly afterward by the carrots.
Surveyors have been working to
map out 40 acres which will be
added to the original eleven.
MO
SY byGLADYS PARKER
WHAT THE MATTER, THEODORE, DONT
YOU THINK IT°5 POLITE TO. POINT?
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The hot waters of Iceland are
the only ones found in any abund:-
ance in far northern regions; a
large proportion of them are hot
springs rather than wal-m;:they are
located in the most populous and'
best agricultural areas, and what is
• of prime importance fr2.Firethe stand-
point of utilization, they carry a
smaller spercenta:Os• of dissolved
mineral matter addrgases than is
ordinarily found in prings of this
type. This is most important be-
cause it minimizes the amount of
mineral scale which Would be de-
posited in the •?plumbing systems,.
and decreases the obnoxious odors
so often ‚attendant in such types of
underground waters.
Twice as large as Nova Scotia,
Iceland is a vast volcanic pile of
over 40,000 square miles. It is a
young land, having been built up
for the most part during the last.
ice age by outpourings of tremend-
ous lava flows. Twenty of its 200
volcanoes have been in eruption in
noslern -times. The greatest of
these occurred in 1783 when lava
streams from Laki covered an area.,
Of 218 square miles and spread a
e of three cubic miles over
The youthfulness of its volcanic
activities indicates that there exist
widespread and numerous pockets
of molten matter which have itciot
yet reached the surface. This insures
a permanency of subterranean fur -
aces,. Freshly stoked with white -
,hot molten rock, these fiery pock-
ets will heat the underground waters
for a long time to come,
As' geological surveys are made,
hot waters of a higher temperature
than those now emerging at the sur-
face will soon become available to
transform this paradoxical land of
ice and fire into au Arctic oasis
where subtropical fruits and -veget-
ables will he raised the year round,
interrupted by the vagaries of
seasons.
Before long the day may come
when Iceland will become the hot-
house pf • the world, and the only
country where fuel will be as free
and plentiful as the air itself.
Business Getter
An old Italian who was blessed
with that certain spark that distin-
guishes a great merchant decided to
open . a shoeshine parlor near the
gates of Camp Upton. His friends
did all they could to dissuade him,
pointing out that there were already
six :shoeshine emporiums on that
self -same street,
"I fix," said the little Italian—and
did. 'Within two weeks five times
as many soldiers were patronizing
his little stand on their way to New
York for a beg weekend as all his
competitors could muster together.
Directly over his stand was a sign
with big letters that read:
"One shoe shined free."
In 1907 the United States Mint
coined eagles and double eagles fat-
. ., ter in the middle than at the rim,
with the result that the Y would not
stack and had to be withdrawn.
Profit Drop
It is always possible to ',find in-
dividual companies which appear to
be making an abnormal profit. (It's
equally easy to point to those which
are losifig money.) On closer ex-
amination the excessive profit often
springs from a temporary and non-
recurring condition, or represents
the peak years of a feast and fam-
ine industry.
At other times it is .merely a
statistical phenomenon. For in-
, stance, a man n't” start a small
. business with a capital of $5,000
• And within a few years.(or 'decades),
• by dint ofhard work,' May be earn -
that much in a prosperous year. To
say his profit of 100 per cent on the
original investment is excessive is
meaningless. Yet that is often the
basis of the distorted slogans which
are flaunted by those who embark
on witch hunts for profiteers. In
their haste they ignore those enter-
• prises which have fallen by the way-
side,
The Canadian Manufacturers' As-
sociation recently examined the re-
cord of profits in Canada and found
in the figures published by the De-
partment of National Revenue that
• 6,278 corporatio is repo .ted losses in
1945 against 20.,'S made a
profit.
tV.Inao,
Also, total prbn s afta:: Ine
1939 represented 11.4 per cent of the
national income, while in 1947 they'
-were only 9.4 per cent. Similarly-,
dividends in 1939 amounted to 6.7
per cetit of the national income. Last
year they were a mere 3.8 per cent.
In other words, stockholders'
share of the national income had
shrunk by almost half since 1(139.
Converted Cactus
Cactus doesn't grow by the side
of the road to be a friend of man.
And yet—1
Cactus blossom honey, cactus
candy, jani, jelly, and conserves are
sugar saving dainties cif growing
appeal. Commercially they're mark-
eted by mail and sold direct to
tourists. So are many- plant snecieS
on a scale running well into thous-
ands of dollars annually:
Cactus canes and oddity souvenirs
are an -old &tory,' but not to be,
scorned. Nor are the fresh and
dried cactus fruit displayed at
Spanish-American markets.
• Cactus pa1? affords cough syrups,
a heart mecheine, and strong alka-
loids which intly have a big future
in medicine.
Near home- cactus has long serv-
ed as very prOiective hedge fencing,
fuel, and building material. Dust
bowl years proved its value as nu-
tritious fodder; then' cactus on pas-
ture lands enabled grass to make
• a welcome come -back.
Rope and binder twice come from
hennequen, a cactus. Prickly pear
is host to cochineal insects, which
yield a standard red dye. Silky cac-
tus cloth, too expensive now, is a
possibility for the futuie.
Perfume, soaps, cleaners, water
softener, and boiler compound are
chief among the modern cactus.
products from which we benefit "all
unbeknownst." It • stars at soften-
ing water and cleaning the innards
of radiators, -heating systems, etc.
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111:1SAIM 'FRONT
This is the time of year when
Most of us make good resolutions
for the cotning year, even though
we know quite well that they're
liable to last about as long as a
snowball in—well, you know where.
Personally I never hear of "good
resolutions" without thinking of old
Sandy McTo-h, back in Bruce
County many years ago.
*
Sandy's chief weakness was "the
drink" until one day, when he was
in a repentant mood, "The Meeti-
later" got hold of him and gave him
a real talking-to. And Sandy, whose
head was aching terribly, finally
broke down, said he'd been an aw-
ful fool,. and solemnly resolved
never to take another drink.
* *
• Full of pride, the next day, he
• walked down the main street of the
village, passing by the door of his
favorite tavern without so -much as
s. sideways glance. Fifteen or
twenty steps farther on he suddenly
stopped short and said, "Weel done,
good resolutions, ye deserve a drink
for that," Whereupon he turned
back and went into the tavern.
* * *
However, Sandy and his resolu-
tions haven't much to do with farm-
ing, which is what this column is
supposed to be about. So let's see
if 1 can't scare up a few items
• which might possibly be of some
interest and service, So here goes.
• * • *
It's said that comparatively few
hatcherymen or producers of broil-
ing fowl realize the extreme impor-
tance of large size hatching eggs .
in obtaining big and profitable
broilers at 10 cr 12 weeks. Under
exactly the same conditions chicks
from eggs weighing 26 ounces or
more per dozen will actually weigh
a quarter pound more apiece when
sold as fryers than chicks' hatched
from eggs weighing 21 ounces per
dozen.
* 5 *
This extra quarter -pound could
many times tsean t,e difference be-
tween ,a fai •sse..,u-n 1--,..tane:s labor
and no labor income at all.
of eggs—also size of day-old chi
—should be taken into considera-
tion by broiler growers as a really
important factor in profits.
*
According to an American writer
that -old joke about putting green
spectacles on mules and then feed-
ing them on sawdust nsay, not be so
far off the beam after all. Success-
ful feeding of poultry on chemically
treated sawdust has been reported
from the States of Washington.
* * *
The new feed ingredient is a form
•' of molasses' produced by an acid
treatment of sawdust. It is said to
contain around fifty per cent of
sugar, and has been added to
chicken and turkey diets as a substi-
tute for wheat and corn. From here
it sounds sort of like a foul deal
for the fowl—but maybe the diet
isbetter than the pun, at that.
* *
Right around now might be a
good time to start repairing any
farm machinery that may be in
need of a little fixing. Foreign aid
as well as military defense programs
are putting the squeeze on steel
—and there's a chance that it may
be quite a bit harder to get within
the next year or 80.
* *
No doubt you already know it—
but thick frost p the walls or ceil-
ings of your livestock buildings is
a sign that they're not properly
ventilated. Slot type ventilators
work best on low -roofed buildings.
Flue type ventilators are O.K. for,
buildings with enough height to
keep air moving up the flue.
* *
If this is true—and its told as a
fact— it looks as though farmers
ought to strike out for even higher
prices. For it's said that one hun-
dred years ago one farm worker
produced enough agricultural pro-
ducts to support himself and only
three other persons, whereas today
the average farm laborer produces
enough to feed himself and thirteen
and a half others.
• * *
Just how you support a half -per-
son I really wouldn't know—but
possibly that represents the amount
of food that would be raised by s.
lot • of persons who write, telling
farmers how to run their business,
present company NOT excepted.
• •* *
According to tests made by a big
packing house, carcass losses from
improper treatment of hogs aver-
age around 48 cents a head from
bruising alone. The tests were made
in over a thousand good and choice
hogs selected at random and thirty-
nine per cent of them were found
to be bruised.
• *
• What is even more important
nearly half of this bruising occurred
on the farm before the animals we
loaded for shipment. Forty'- eight
cents may not sound_lite a whale''''. ---°-‘1
of a lot of money—,litut multiply it
by fifty or a hundred and it mounts
* * • *
Which should be )bout enough
of this for one week, don't you
think? And, yo don't really need
to „shout tha horus of "Yes's"
up.
1Y.
QUICKLY BEM
COUGHING SPELL
Fast Action of Lymoicis
Leaves Man Grateful 1
"'have used LYMOIDS for cough relief for
malty years,"writes a Bruntfordresident, "and
their quick action almost always relieves irri-
tation." Carry LYMOLDt
aiwaya with you. With its
concentrated medicinalaai
oils, TAMOIDS usually
brininatzt relief in
throattickle, coughing and
hoarseness. Most stores
sell LYMOEDS, but if
unobtainable, send 10e in
stamps' or coin, to
LYMOIDS, tlaPearl S ,Toronto,
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Battling A Japanese Black 1.4arket—In Tokyo black marketeers
have been getting from 5,000 to 8,000 yen for second-hand pants.
To combat this condition, the Tokyo City Government con-
ducted a 10 -day public sale, with all items sold at officially -set
prices. Japs waited all day to purchase clothing at about half
black market prices. Sign at right advertises men's trainers
at about 2,000 yen.
PENNY
9-13
• By Harry Haenigsen
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