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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1931-08-21, Page 3rs . l ' ll: sl air ,.4;Jiti BARRY Pl4,ANTATIQINT When establishing a new lxlentation of raspberries, preparation and. fere ti:lization of the ,soil are' twit urain e nentials for good production.A welly drained clay or clay -lope spil 1nsn fertilized with a heavy appltcatien of manure previous to planting Senate to meet the requirement far bush growth as well as fruit yield. At the Dominion Expeiciinental 'Sta- tion, Kapuska!sing, Ontario, i has been found that the fall planting of the bushes has given a slightly higher " yield than when planted in the spring eecause they commence growth very arly. 'Also, it has been fmilnd that rows six feet apart with thirty inehes between the bushes is a very satisfac- ltory distance. Well rooted, one year old plants are quite satisfactory for transplant - bag. , When re -set they should be planted slightly deeper than they were , in the nursery, the soil well packed around the roots, and if pos- sible watered at that time, otherwise they may dry out and die. 'Occasional shallow cultivation dur- ing the summer is an excellent prac- tice as this forms a mulch and pre- vents the soil from becoming too drjr. Additional applications of manure may •be required during successive growing seasons as a rich soil is needed for a prolific growth. The fruit is produced entirely on ,wood of the previous season's growth, thus special care should be taken when pruning so that sufficient old wood is left for bearing. Old canes should be removed after the fruiting season or early the following spring. Most varieties of raspberries need winter protection. This can be ac- complished by bending the canes over and placing a few shovelsful of earth on them to keep them in position un- til covered with snow during the win- ter. The canes may be pinched back when about two feet high so that they will not grow too tall, and thus may be covered with a protective covering of snow during the winter months. Two of the best varieties of rasp- berries tried at the Kapuskasing Sta- tion are the Newman and the Cuth- bert. ' PATTbR Automobiles. Prospective purchaser of midget car: "How do you get into it?" 'Salesmen: "You don't get into it —you put it on."—Forbes. * * * Lou Holtz's newest squelch is:— 'You stole my Austin—you pick- pocket."—New York Mirror. Big accident—Machine skidded and hit a lady in the safety zone.—Am- beret Lord Jeff. * * * Safe driving at a moderate speed requires nothing but self-control and a strong rear bumper. — Dubuque American Tribune. * * * My wife drives the car in an ad- visory capacity.—College Humor. * * * Aviation. There are a lot of timid people whd won't take an airplane trip until the law of gravity he.s been repeal- ed.—Christian Observer. k * * Golf. Golfer's alibi fort neglecting has business: "The doctor says I must take my iron every day."—Boston Transcript * * * 'Hle plays a fair golf game—if you watch him.—Denison Flamingo. He says little on the golf links, but wherever he spits the grass never grows again.—London Opinion. Food. * * * A ningenious Englishman asked bow he served his gooseberries: "I always shave mine and serve them as grapes."—Boston Transcript. * * * Creaser: "We have some very fine string beans to -day." Mrs. Youngbride: "How much are they a string?"—Boston Transcript. * * * There is really more in this grape- fruit than meets the eye. — Boston Transcript. * * Then there's ;the insomnia victim who was such a fervent vegetarian that he counted carrots jumping over a fence.—Life. * :k * Marriage. The modern husband may find the safety -pin okay as a substitute for a button, but it is not so ,,good for dos- ing the hole in the toe of •a sock.— Cincinnati Enquirer. * * * Pd marry if I was sure I wouldn't get used to it.—Life. * * * She has no doubt had many chances to get married, but I infer that she's not taking any chances.—Pathfinder. * * * He and his wife always think ex- actly alike, only she usually has the first think: Washington Star. * * * It's getting to be a wise child in Hollywood 'who knows his current step-father.—Farm Journal. * * * Her parents displayed no great emo- tion at the wedding, but I imagine her father shed a few cheers.—Boston Transcript. * * * Wives should remember that the average man is like an egg. If you keep him in hot waterr he soon be- comes herdboiled.-Canton Repository * * * Things are reported, to be bad in Hollywood, and many of the lesser lights of the filmrwor'ld are out of work. Indeed same of them& ate1nalb. ing this year's divorce datill things are better.—Punch (London). * * .* 'Most of these love triangles turn into verecktangles.—Becton Transcript * * * Maud has made some swell nn4r- riages but divorced all her husbands. Raving outgrown select ciirelefr, she now bnovea, so to speak. in the hest triangles.—Bost*on * * Transcript. Modern Youth. ' Oother: You know, Geoffrey, Nor- lova740! Yat lt her tau iearn any- ng,girls Of teeday hardly reach Via, teens be#are they are at their mop nes—Bosten Transcript. `Familiarity :breeds attempt, ---Corn- ell Widow. * * * She doesn't kiss or neck ex anything ..she isnobody's fuel.—(Colgate Ban- ter. * * * "You are burning the candle at both ends," said a parent, admonish- ing his spendthrift son. "But, dad," the youth returned, "you always told me I should try to make both ends meet." --Boston Tran- script. * * * The Scotchman saki he loved blondes because of the lighter over- head.—Baptist. * * * She is always complaining that she has so little to wear—anl last night at thee ball sha seemed to be wearing it.—'Pathfinder. * * * That 'girl must be 25. She's stuck, to the same story all the years I've known her.—Pat'...inder. * * * • She's the kind of woman that talks on and on about the things that leave Her speechless.—Pathfinder.' * * * She is a rarely beautiful girl—very rarely, indeed.—Boston Transcript. * * * Dubious compliment: She is as pretty as she can be.—Pathfinder. * * * Children. Little girl: "My, what a pretty', baby. How old is it?" Mother: "fro months." L. G.: "Is it your youngest?"— Carnegie Tech Puppet. * * * "Sam, Ah jes' seen a alligator eatin' outs younges' chile!" "Umm-uh! Sho' nuff? You know, Ah thought sump'n been gittin' our chillun! "—Life. • * * Visitor: "Well, Joe, how do you like yournew little sister?" "Joe: "Oh, she's all right, I guess, but there are lots of things we need- ed worse."—Pathfinder. 5 5 5 Our new maid from New York speaks of the nursery as the "nois- ery," and I rather think that's the way it should be pronounced.—Boston Transcript. ,5 5 * Nature. A scientific expert says that fish kill mosquitoes. But who wants to keep a fish on his pillow?—Punch (London). * * * We can't understand how the ant acquired such a reputation for being so industreous. Nearly all we ever saw were on a picnic.—Thomaston (Ga.) Times. College. "Yes," said the professor to his cl•asl one balmy spring afternoon, .'it isn't the 'heat, it's the stupidity."— Reserve Red Cat. * * * Whenever I see this ill-assorted con- glomeration of hopeful youbh (a class of incoming College freshmen) they call to my mind the young lady who said to her physician, "How soon will I know anything, after I come out of the anesthetic?" "Well," replied the doctor, "that's expecting a good deal from an an- esthetic."—Albert Edward Wiggam in Marks of an Educated Man. * * * Business Depression. Sometimes the prophecies that he (Sir George Paish) dispenses with such a lavish hand are eventually re- alized, but as one commentator ob- served at the height of the barrage of business forecasts last year, "even a stopped clock is correct twice a day. —New York Herald Tribune. * * * Although net in the etiquette book, one must learn how to bow to the in- evitable.—Boston Transcript. * * * You never heard of a racketter lay- ing off any. of the help.—James F. Montague in New York Herald Tri- bune. 5 5 5 Silver lining: You don't have to wait at grade crossings, as you did in the summer of 1929, for a freight train 1,7-8 cars long to pass.—Frank- lin P. Adams in New York Herald Tribune. * * 5 Lord Dawson, of Penn., relates this in the Atlantic: A farm laborer in England had been out of work for many months and had been living on the dole. He remarked to his physician one day: "Doctor, do you know I !rad an of- fer of work some days ago which would have given me five shillings more a week than I am getting from the dole, but after giving it thoropgh reflection I preferred to remain inde- pendent." -Boston Transcript. * * * Lady: "Have you ever been offer- ed work?" Tramp: "Only once, madam. Aside from that, I've met with nothing but kindness.—Hudson Star. * * * The editor of a country newspaper retired with a fortune. When asked the secret of his success, he replied: "I attribute my ability to retire with 'e $100,000 bank balance, after 30 years in the country newspaper field, to close application to duty, pur- suing a policy of strict honesty, al- ways practicing rigorous rules of econ- omy ,•and to the recent death of my uncle, who left me $98,500." --Boston News Bureau. * * * A man may put all his savings un- der' his pillow every night, but that doesn't mean that he has money en- ough to retire on.—Christian Obser- ver.' * * * We don't knew- about Opportunity knocking at our door. but certainly we seen .tb be onits mailing list.— Boston Transcript. * * * The get-rieh-ggiek schemes that of- fer you a return), of 25 per cent. on y uk" r!}1. 110 iilWa004l;'i min NOW • W ha 41- tot Q.tl}eP 75 per cent .Axl444.s e,gazette, Sanies l,;e is anne is the triumph -0 xnjnd aver pa'tt ee. a* teal Tl'k script.. 'Seasickness, Cure for seasickness; A plan you' ,might try is to bolt down your meals. --!Beaton Transexipt, * * * Cenversatlon. • He who laughs last laughs best but he soon gets 'e reputation for being dum.—Pathfinder. * * * * You can't believe everything you hear but you.; can, repeat it.—An- ewers (Landon). * * * Alice: "I thought you oouldc 'keep a secret?" Mabel: "Well, I kept it for a week. What do you think I am, a cold stor- age plant?'—Boston Transcript. * .,; * It's a queer world. Remain silen+ and others suspect that you are ignor- ant; talk and you remove all doubt of it.—The Baptist. * * * Words of the Month. Impropaganda.—Life. Swellegant.--Walter Winchell. Intestinal fortitude. Reno-vated (divorced in Nevada). —Walter Winchell. * * 5 Definition of the Month. Radical; A conservative out of a job.—Richmond News -Leader. 5 * 5 Capsule Wisdom. A journey of a thousand miles be- gins with one step.—Chinese proverb. 5 5 * Americans have more time -saving devices and less time than any people in the world—Thomaston (Ga.) Times. * * 5 The man who starts out tp borrow trouble finds that his credit is always good.—Chicago Journal of Commerce. * * * Boiled down to the bottom of the pot, a moron is anybody who doesn't agree with you.—Dr. Louis E. Bisch. * * * If some people lived up to their ideals they would be stooping.—South Bend Tribune. MANY MASTERPIECES REJECTED BY EDITORS Correspondents who address the edi- tor and find their communications un- noticed, and readers generally who ate accumulating a variety of rejection slips will be interested to learn that some of the best as well as best-sell- ing literature produced in the past century, to go no further ,back, has been refused by publishers. John Bakeless, writing in The Bookman, says that one nemesis and one alone sits at the elbow of the lordly mag- azine editor and the hardly less mag- nificent publisher. It is the fear that that he may reject., a masterpiece. We should imagine that this fear would be less terrible than the fear that some other editor or publisher should discover it. Walter Hinee Page, for instance ,brilliantly successful though his career was, never lived down the fact that he had rejected "David Har - um." Page had some excuse, perhaps for while he confirmed the rejection, it was originally inspired by a spin- sterish reader who reported it to be vulgar and smelling of the stable.• It later sold about a million copies, al- though the author was in his grave before its phenomenal success had be- gun. Nevertheless, • Westcott had some confidence in his brain child for he wrote: "I have had the fun of writ- ing it anyway, and nobody will ever laugh over it more than I have." George Meredith, the novelist, was perhaps the most distinguished of publishers' readers, and when he was thus employed for Chapman and Hall he pulled some notable bloomers. It was he who prevented publication of Hardy's first novel, "The Poor Man and the Lady." although whether he did so because he had a low opinion of Hardy or because he believed that he was destined to do much better work is not quite clear. He also re- jected "Villier's" by Ouida, "Frank Tressilor " byr G. A. Henty, "The Heavenly Twins" by Sarah Grand, "Erewhon," by Samuel Butler and George Bernard Shaw's first novel, properly named "Immaturity." Of this lot only' "Erewhon" was a work of genius, but most of the othere were destined for tremendous com- mercial success than to foster gen- ius that publishers remain in business. Shaw's novels, five in number were rejected some 50 or. 60 times. Mere- dith refused W. I -I. Hudson's "Mr. Abel," an •early and now forgotten work, but was quick to recognize the genius in "A Naturalist in La Plata." Some of Meredith's comments upon rejected manuscripts have became classics. We recall "Feebler stuff than this might be written. but would tax en ape," and Mr._Bakeless notes "According to the dates given this was done in a month. It has no other merit," and "Dreariness of verse has hardly ever surpassed this collection" and "Must be accused of every defect that goes to make a work of fiction unreadable." But he was a constructive critic, too. He made many valuable suggestions for the improvement of George Gissing's "Unclassed," and compelled the com- plebe re -writing of "The Story of an African Farm." Mr. Bakeless notes that Ellis Parker Butler re -wrote "Pigs is Pigs" three times under the expert direction of the present edi- tor of The Atlantic, and we may note that he would have' to re -write it three or four more times before we would think it any good. 'Rejection came to Rudyard Kipling after he had all Anglo -India talking about him and was beginning to be heard of in England. `Hlarper's actually turned down "Plain Tales From the Hills," "Soldiers Three," "The Pran- tom Rockshaw" and "The Story of the Gadsbys," the first named twice This probably establishes a record of some kind. Have many know that "Vanity Fair" Was rejected by several publishers of whole the name of only one sur- vives? This was Henry Colburn of the Neve Month-ly Magazine. Of course the merits of the work Were Royal _ York -- • Price 127.501 Think of the hundreds of Suitings represented in these three big ranges. Mink of the buying advantage of these fuels through volume purchases and direct contact with the leading British manufacturers. Think of the op- portunity of choosing your new Fall Suit from materials selected for pattern and quality by the most competent judges. 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But perhaps the rnost astounding, the rnost incredible rejection in his- tory was that of rdealet Fitzee nine' translation of Omar. This was submitted to Fraser's magazine, and the editor kept the Ms. for a year before returning it on Fitzgerald's request. Finally Fitzgerald published it at his own expense, and sent two hundred copies to Bernard Quaritch, the bookseller. They were to be sold at five shillings, but there was so little demand that the price was reduced to a penny. It was then that Rossetti discovered the treasure and soon the price was thirty shillings. For some years thereafter American admirers of the clank were endeavoring to get Am-• merican publishers to issue an edi- tion. Richard Watson Gilder, then as- sociate editor of the Century, wished to publish the quatrains in the mag- azine but knew that J. G. Holland, the editor, would object to the glorifica- tion of a4ne. This has been set down as the worst error in the history ,of the Century, being. approached only by the other blunder which resulted in an unidentified stranger being thrown out of the office. Later it was discovered that the steanger was Robt. Louis Stevenson. EVEN ENGINES IN HOSPITALS Locomotives, like human beings, occasionally get "run down" and have to go into "hospital" for a thorough overhauling. In fact, from the time an engine is built to the day when it retires to the breaking up shed it is watched with the utmost care and when "ailments" develop they are promptly remied. The reason for all !this attention is obvious. An express locomotive costs many thousands of dollars to build, but of still greater importance is the fact that upon the well-being of the engine depend the lives of hundreds of passengers. The "life" of a railway engine de- pends on its duties; a locomotive en- gine engaged in transporting passen- ger or freight at express speed will naturally require much more over- hauling than will a shunting engine for example. There are locomotives running to -day with the same fram- ing that they had when` first put in service 20 to 30 years age, though they have during that peried been given new Wheel tires, drank tildes and a new boiler. Generally speaking, an express en- gine has a working life of 20 years, during which period it will earn for its owners anything between $100,000 and $300,000. There are at least 3,000 working parts in an engine. Every years each locomotive goes into hospital for a thorough examination and general repair. All engine fitting shops are. constructed on the same principle ; the engine stands over a pit about three feet deep, which enables the fitters to work with comparative ease beneath it. The engine is first of all stripped of its outside mechanism, suer as 'etc., to enable the wheels to be taken n away; this is done by lifting the locomotive bodily in the air by means of a crane. The engine is then lowered on to specially prepar- ed stands, and the fitters take off all the working parts. Then, the loco- motive being completely dismantled, the railway "doctors" commence their examination. The framing is tried aver to see whether it is suffering from strain ; new axle boxes are fitted, slide valves are refaced, and so on. Mean- while, other workmen are overhaul- ing the boiler, replacing defective tubes with new ones and clearing out the year's accumulation of dirt. After a thorough overhaul and the replacement of worn parts the giant is cleaned up and sent out to work again—practically as good as new. JUNK MAN PURCHASES 60 OLD LOCOMOTIVES New railroads from old skyscrapers and bridges from obsolete battle- ships, 1932 sport cars from automo- bile graveyards! This is not a pro- phecy, but a cold statement of a rou- tine,rniracle of the steel age in which we live. At the rate of several million tons a month, outworn, mangled, dis- carded articles of iron and steel, from borings and tin cans to ships and locomotives, are collected, pre- pared, and finally transformed into brand-new articles of steel. More than 39,000,000 gross tons of such scrap went into the making of the 65,000,000 tons of steel produced in this country in 1929. This "worth- less' material was eagerly bought by the mills and foundries for half a billion dollars. Used alone, it would have produced enough steel to have built the skeletons of a thousand 50 - story skyscrapers, writes Ken*eth M. Swezey in the Septenvbear Popular ,Science Monthly. Not long ago a railroad offered for sale about 60 old locomotives. To a certain scrap dealer they were a prize. Many of the locomotives were in first class working condition. Some of these, the dealer found, he could sell outright to manufacturing plants for hauling cars about their yards; some to smaller railroads, for ser- vice that did not require the most modern equipment. Two he sold to a motion picture producer for a scene that required a sensational wreck. After the wreck, his men salvaged the pieces. The remainder were destined for the furnace.. A crew of experts, equipped with cranes, pneumatic chisels, and acetyelene torches. were sent down to "location." Gages and other measuring instruments, copper and brass, all parts that might be re- sold as second-hand material, were first stripped from the locomotives. Then the torch -men and chisel -men cut the engines apart, piece by piece, nee '"^.l' r, :es and shapes as would be acceptable at 'a mill. The whole tonnage of this scrap was finally shipped to mills that had contracted for it, to be remelted and transformed into rails, girders, au- tomobile parts, or maybe new loco- motives! Locomotives are just one item in the daily business of a big scrap dealer. Sometimes he buys a whole railroad, and then has all the rails and cars to scrap. A New Jersey dealer recently contracted to scrap nearly 300 obsolete stree cars. After the Naval Treaty of 1922, one dealer in Philadelphia had a tonnage of battleships tied up in his water front yard equal to the combined navies of Italy, France and Japan! News and Information For the Busy Farmer. Prize money for the special class of registered and certified seed at the Royal Winter Fair this year has been increased to $1,666. Prizes for this class last year totalled $765 for eleven sections. The number of sec- tions for 1931 has been extended to 21, to include field peas, field beans, mangels, swede!, corn, garden beans, beets, onions and garden peas. • Many farmers in Oxford County are reported to be preparing exhibits to show in the competitive classes at the World's Grain Show in Regina next year. One noted mangel seed firm at Norwich will send samples of its chief product in addition to at least ten different kinds of vege- table seeds of their own growth ,in-• cluding beets, cabbage, radish, pars- nip, sweet corn, spinach, tomatoes, 'beans and peas, cucumbers, squash and lettuce. Corn Borer in Essex. Despite an increase in the infesta- tion of Essex County cornfields by corn !borer, County Inspector James Hedrick does not believe that dam- age this year will he heavy. He has completed an inspection trip through the county and fotecaats a good crop of corn. ` ssex farmers have co -tipµ erated heartily in the fight against the corn borer. The borers were comparatively scarce last year, due to dry weather, but the frequent rains this summer have brought them back. Continuance of drastic measures to combat the nuisance is planned. Improving Poultry Flocks. For the season 1930-31 there are approximately 500 flocks under in- spection in Ontario under the On- tario policy for approved farm flocks or breeding stations. This involves a total of around 175,060 birds. This policy became operative in the sea- son of 1928-29, with 150 flocks, 45,- 000 5;000 birds under inspection. In 1929- 30 there were 300 flocks embracing 100,000 birds, and to have this in- creased to 500i flocks for the 1930-31 season shows a keen desire on the part of flock owners to improve their laying stock. Barley For Hens. As experimental work continues, suitability of barley as a feed for laying heps becomes increasingly apparent. 'The results of a series of studies conducted over a period of five years show that barley will not only replace corn in the ration, but that barley -fed birds produce larger eggs at a lower cost. This is titularly true at a time like the sent, when the bulk of the corn sup- ply for poultry feed has to be im- ported, and when barley is available at the lowest prices in many years. Barley used for poultry should be plump, heavy and of good quality; and when barley is fed it should be accompanied by a good grade of tested cod liver oil to supply the vitamin deficiency in the barley. Pasture For Pigs. Supplying good succulent pasture for growing pigs is a practical way in which to effect economy in feed costs. As a result of a series of tests made at Brandon, Manitoba, the use of pasture over a period of years made an average salving of slightly over 100 'pounds of meal with every 100 pounds of grain. Ev- ery farmer will recognize that this is an important saving, particularly if he has to buy his grain feed. A number of- pasture fedds were tried out and rape was found not only to have the greatest carrying capacity but it 'also proved satisfac- tory from other standpoints. The rape should not be more than six or eight inches high when the pigs are turned out on it. In turning pigs out onn pasture the farmer should k p in mind that protection froin burnig sun or rain is neeessary and for thus purpose cabins should be provided, For the treatment of skin.} 'b:CtiUpi tions on pigs thathave beeomo atilt! 'b'eamed the appligat'en of'.th need eleankelise till and one tY&it coal oil will tarred • the 'Ortd>titi Y7 nabbing posts wrapped baa cif ' Isarelting ,and beaked with iG m`at'ure Will also go a iiringt both preventing and entreating. hint and in dohieyititt lite, t .