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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1933-10-13, Page 33 ti.�.tvr�4irtypi OCTOBER 13, 1933. Seen in the County Papers 'Lantern Upsets; Fine Barn Burns (While Mr. Milton Kilpatrick sat in his oar in 'Dungannon complacently (talking with Mr. Frank Glenn, the larger percentage of Dtingannon's citizens raced in cars to a fire, some six miles away, which completely de- utroyed his fine barn on concession 9, 'A'shfield. .IMr. Kilpatrick was un- aware of 'the fact until °a neighbor told Mrs. Glenn, who passed the startling newts on to the owner of the barn, who immediately hastened Ito the scene. The fire `occurred about eight o'clock on Wednesday evening of last week, and was a. most spec- tacular one, lighting the country for miles, and a very large crowd soon gathered, some coming from Wing - ham, illearly tw'e'nty miles distant. The upsetting of a lantern while sheaves of oats were being put down from the mow for feeding, caused the - conflagration.. The barn was one of the finest barns in the township and. contained the season's crop of hay and grain, in addition to some of last year's hay. No 'live stock was last, Hens, hogs and horses •being taken out ere the fire reached them, but a lot of good machinery was 'beeped, nne1uddng a manure spreader, fertil- izer drill, binder, and all the haying equipment. The barn was 40 ,x 60 feet, with a wing 36 x 56 feet, erect- ed only a year or two ago, and while +Mr, Kilpatrick carries same insur- ance, the loss will be a heavy one.— Goderich Star. Old -Timer Here A welcome, and interesting 'visitor to God,erich this week is J. H. Haw- kins, former hardware, merchant who, with Mrs. IHlawkins, motored from Ednvonton, their home, to renew ac- quaintances in Gott -rich and Port Albert, their native place. It is 25 years since they left for the West and Lady Luck has been most kind tbo them. They go from here to Cali- fornia to spend the winter. They ex- pect to be gone seven months. The West is a fine country, Mr. Hawkins *thinks, and he should' know for he travels out, of Edmonton for the Western Flour •Mills. This year, he says, the crops in North:rn Alberta are good, people have more confi- dence and there is a feelingt• of op - tin -dm -re Business actually is better. Too much wheat is being grown, he says, 'but the law of supply and de- mand will •even•tually rectify this. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins have four sons, Eric, Kenneth and Edward in Ed- monton, and Dr. Donald Hawkins, a dentist, in Westlock, sixty miles north of Edmonton. He was but two years old when the family left Gode- rich.--Goderich Star. Serum Saves Child The second case' of 'infantile par- alysis in Goderich within a month was treated on Saturday, when it was found that Joseph, four-year-old son of Mr. and ,Mrs, Harold Kaitting, had been sttricken with the disease. When'' -the boy became seriously ill and it has. learned that the disease was infantile paralysis, his parents were given a clear road to London, where they obtained serum from the Institute of 'Public Health. The trip was made in the early hours of Sat- urday morning. At Hensel!, on the sebum trip, tt14e auttomiotbile broke down and another was caminandeered to complete the journey. The serum was administered immediately on, its arrival here and the child is given an excellent chance for recovery. ; Sev- en year old Vera Wiggins, daughter of A. Wiggins, of Dtearborn, Mich., was a victim of the disease while • speeding the Labor ,.Day ho'lid'ay with relatives here. S:etum was obtained and administered in a short time, however, and the child has beenable able to return to .her 'berme. No other' cases have . been reported by Dr. A. C. Hunter, M.O.H., and according to authority there is no reason to fear that these two cases are the fore- runners of an epidemic. Goderich Stas'. A Curious Tree IMr. H. E. Rorke has a peculiar tree growing on his property facing Orange Street, the peculiarity being that while most trees shed their leaves in the autumn this oxite not only sheds its leaves but also its branches; leaving the trunk standing 'straight and bare of limbs. The tree is still not very tall, but it has grown eighteen of twenty inches during the past summer, sending out healthy looking limbs with large green leaves at intervals of a few inches' up the stalk. tIt grew and flourits{hed all enntmer but all but one limb is now gone, having dropped off one by one. 'In the spring it seemed to +branch out from the place it had left off the autumn before, and if it -does- that each year and keeps on going up, it may grow quite a height. It is cer- tainly a freak in the tree family and ought to be worth watching. Mr., Rorke says the name he got for it was the "devil tree," though it seems a bad name for so innooent looking a stripling.—Clinton News -Record. Accidents Mrs. Milton IMcOurdy, 'of Uslborne, had the misfortune to fall •down the stairs at her home Tuesday with the result that she suffered a fracture of the right aim, at the wrist. The frac- ture was set by Dr. Dunlop and Mrs. McCurdy was taken to London for an X-ray.—Exeter TimestAd'vocate. A Narrow Escape' The' following appeared in The Free Press on tlVfonday. It seems to refer to a former resident of Clinton. Looks like "Ernie" had a narroiv es- cape all eight. His -old friends will waft congratulations: "-Ernest Jack- son, Stratford, is glad to be alive to- day, but he doesn't know quite how it happens that he is. Jackson was driving across a level crossing when a train came along, backing across the road. The coupe which Jackson was driving, was struck by the train, carried along for 60 feet then drop- ped, a pile of twisted wreckage, be- side the track. The driver, however, was, uninjured."—Clinton News -Re- cord. Burglary Burglars practically cleaned out the garage of H. S. Wein last week, jimmying thelock of the back door, they entered the premises an.d stole all the stock of tires,batteries, bulbs and tools including an electric drill and motor' and Mr. Wein'.s car to cairy away' the loot, 'removing the cushions first so there would be suf- ficient room to load the material. Dis- covery of the robbery was made by L. Bender and G. Ro'sen•dahl at four o'clock. Mr. 1Rosendand having risen early to go on a fishing trip noticed' the front door of the garage open. It is estimated that the value of the goods taken was in the .neighborhood! of $700. The ear was •-•found next day, east' of Exeter, but up, to date no trace of • the bruglars has been found,—Zurich Herald. . Miss Ellen Perkins There passed away in Toronto on Monday •evening, Sept. 25th, at the apartment of her niece, Kenneth Av- {iue, a former and much respected resident of Gorrie, in the person of Miss 'Ellen Perkins, who in company with her sister, who predeceased her in 1907, conducted a grocers- store in this village and in this capacity was favorably known and highly esteem- ed throughout ,the community. The 'deceased was • a native of Lanark County and when she became inca- pacitated through ill health, she res turned to Perth, Ont., where she re- sided with relatives until 1931. Go- ing to Toronto for medical attention she entered a private hospital, but the past year was spent with her niece, and where she 'passed peace- fully away in her 90th year, having retained her faculties almost to the close of a useful life. 'On. Tuesday• evening a service was held in the Wm. Speers' new funeral chapel, on,, Dundas St. West, conducted by Rev. Mr. Cox, Rector of St. +Martin's, and on Wednesday rmorning the remains were conveyed by motor to the resi- dence of her niece, Mrs. H. V. Holmes. At two o'clock the cortege proceeded to St. 'Stephen's church, of which she was 'a devout member, and where an impressive service was conducted by her 'Toronto 'Rector, assisted by Rev. R. S. Jones, of .this parish. Inter, anent was made in Gorrie cemetery. Many beautiful floral tribute's and the presence oP relatives and a large cir- cle of close friends from Perth, Chat- ham, Mabei•ly, Toronto, Barrie, Ham- ilton, Milverton, 'Clinton, and Wing - ham, testified to the respect in which the deceased was held.-!Wingham- Advance-Times. `kY it Pet PERSONAL "I will not be responsible fog any member of ' pry family who takes stomaoh tonics, in- digestion remedies, soda, calo- mel, salts, laxative pills, eta. to try to get rid of indiges- tion, constipation bloating, sour stomach, bad breath or headaches. I have told them all to use Sargon Soft Mass Pills,the new liver medicine whicmakes the liver get busy and furnish enough bile to digest their food and stop constipation. Everybody ong'hb. to take Sargon Soft Mass Pills two or three tinea a month if they want to feel good. All good druggists b ve them," rl I Like To Go When I Have To Go (When I -Hake, my plans to leave for somewhere at 7 o'clock, I hate to wait around till 8.15 (before the last member of the party is ready. It wastes my time, spoils my disposition and makes me late at the other end. That's why I like to take the train —it starts on schedule and arrives on time. I hate to sit crarnped for hours, accommodating my legs and feet to extra luggage on the floor. I like to sit comfortably stretched out when I travel—and so II take the train. I don't like to dodge around those giant inter -city trucks. They frighten me. They look dangerous. They make good drivers nervous. They make ,strong !mien to _swear and lovely lad- ies to scream. It's almost as bad to be scared half to death as it is to be killed. Talk about road hogs those intercity trucks are worse than hogs - -they're insolent, roaring, swash- buckling bullies . . . They're so big they'll, mess with an ordinary conveyance but they never bother ins when I ride on the train. I don't like these drivel's that are always looking for a read race. A race is .all right at Indianapolis or Daytona Beach, but it's no good on Trunk Highway 13. Of course, every so often one of these speed boys rac- es a train to the crossing, and I al- ways .feel sorry'for the poor saps that •were riding with him. They'd be much better off riding on the train. .I like to read as I travel. . I like to slee'p at night stretched out horizontally. I like to take 'my clothes off when I go to bed. .I have slept on the ground many a time --•but when I'm travelling .to. ar- rive somewhere --ion a •business trip or the start of a ,vacation—I like to get 'sleep that leaves me rested. I like to wash my face and hands at intervals, and it may be a foolish notion, but' I like to dry them on a clean towel. On a private towel. !Thoth why I take the train. - tt like a drink of water when I'm thirsty'. I may not care about it when someone else is thirsty, 'or when, we come to a drinking place on regular schedule;, but when I -myself am thirsty. And I canhave it on the train. I like ,to eat when I myself am hungry. They let me do that on the ,train. • .I have never been able to schedule a business trip according to weather. Very often I am obliged to travel when it is bitter •cold, or in the midst of heavy rain, snow or fogs'. The train takes me through on schedule —rain or shine, hot or cold, day or night, summer • or winter, low ceiling or high. It's the dependable factor in travel. Worst of all, 'I hate watchful wait- ing for the last twenty miles before the next rest stole I know that ev- eryone else is watchfully waiting, too. The air 'becomes tense. The sit- „uatiorn nerve-racking. Friendship cease:) for when a lot of people want to go out at the same time, and there's only one door to go out through, and only one door to go in through, and only one or two you - knows when you get to the place— then, I say, friendship ceases and strife (begins. Every man for him- self, and devil (or cramps) take the hindmost. No sir, I much prefer to go when I have to go. That's another reason why I take the train. There are five Portland cement fac- tories in Argentina. Keep ROYAL YEAST CAKE handy in your kitchen... FOR over 50 years Royal Yeast Cakes have been the standard wherever dry yeast is used for home baking. 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Let rise tilt not $nd bake about 25 mine. in a moderate oven, `375° F. tre d`aYalm �i 'l f t4f H � ut�frate ki elk i31%lvvs! Our free booklet, "The Royal Road to Better Health," tells how Royal Yeast Cakes will imptfove your health, and sug- gests pleasant Ways to take them. Bt1Y MADE -IN -CANADA GOODS T nti laRoN E��".' SITOR • (By R. J. Deaeb rna:n) lit is well that our sins 'find us out —regrettable that the discovery confess so late. 'Chiokens drift home to roost but it is Oben a sad and (bedraggled bird which finally tucks its weary head once more under its wing in the domestic domicile. 'Nations as well as individuals pay the price of their folly\ It's a sadder world because of past mistakes. The joy is that we are beginning to find out that men reap what they sow and that the state of body, mind and soul at the end of the journey re- flects, as in a mirror, the adventures and misadventures along the way. Two and two still make four. The maxims of Euclid are an extension of the n:loral law. The Beatitudes of the Sermon on the IMount are a safer guide for the nation than the pro- gram of the C. C. F. A quaking world now knows that pian is his brother's keeper. We are beginning to realize that selfishness doesn't pay and that there is !solid economic worth as well as Moral value in the old adage: ' "Honesty is the best .policy." We have forgotten the war cad its abysmal horrors. There lingers only the task of paying for it and that proves rather painful. The whole world cannot, over a period of years, turn from proo'ess•es of pro- duction to processes of destruction and expect,. when peace is declared, to find at once its former case of mind ands freedom from trouble. This truth, constitutes one of the most Hopeful things in the world outlook.' I watched the other day a young lad of possibly twenty su timers, turn of- er the pages of Laurence Stallings' pic'tna history of the first world war. "My God!" she exclaimed, "I Had no idea war was like this." She had seen war only as a gliantpse through the mist of romance. She saw it again in a different light as revealed to the eye of the camera. If the horror did not linger, if 'pay- ment were not prolonged, national spirit might be roused without bring- ing up the ghosts of the past and we should march-. forward to• another holocaust. 'Thought of prolonged ag- ony of pay -anent checks the mad fer- vor for another • plunge. Suffering foe the past saves the future. We o'verbui'lt 'our• railways. Our dream's carried us too far. Our plans were vaster than our capacity to cai;ry them out. Every little while'someane suggests that the ob- ligations incurred should be repudi- ated. Then someone. of milder type of thought puts forward the idea that the debt ought to be written off, written off from the railways, whit - ten on to our federal obligations. We have a elamtor for the reduction of freight rates land- the request !for high wages. But the mistakes of the past must .be paid for and we shall pay for them even if we re- pudiate thein. There has been no way yet devised by the mind of man by which -a nation. can be carried away on the wings of a program of folly without in some way being com- pelled to face the obligations which arise and pay' for the mistakes which have been made. For years we prospered. We were not satisfied. We listened to the sir- ,en't call. We were told that 'there was another way to get rich. We were to cease accepting the goods of the foreigner which came ifi exchange for the products which we produced, We • were told that all • these things could be made at home and if we made them at home we would be rich, happy and prosperous beyond the dreams of atarice. We said not stopto think—we seldom do. Econ- omists could have told us that ex- ports acre shipments and imlpar•ts are payments received for exports. They could have told us too that we are not by nature capable of becoming a self oontair ed country. Climate, geography and physical . feeler', have combined to make us a great trading nation—we cannot change our spots. But we went the other way! We asked for thle restriction of imparts and we asked that the re- strictive laws be applied with the fullest force and the greatest sev- erity. This was dyne. New we pay the price. We pay it in reduced vo]- nose ofekrusines's and in the greater percentage levy of taxation upon the reduced volume. It is a painful thing indeed but the direct result of the policy we accepted. There is no escape ,from it until we decide' to go in the other direction. Once More our sins have found us out. We are in the midst of a financial depression. We know from past his- tory that man has been powerless to avert these periods of economic eris'- es. (Sometime perhaps this will be done --sometime, perhaps, even the waves will obey man's will. That period has not yet arrived—the de- 'sira'ble end is not in sight. We h'av'e introduced into our eco- nomic system a rigidity of structure which adds greatly to the difficulty and prolongs the period of tension. Everyone has seen pictures of the devastation wrought by hurricanes. It seems ahiue'et impossible to erect a strutture strong enough to stand) the fury of the forces aroused, but the great ship on the broad ocean with ample leeway outrides the storm —it's indoiwenient to the passengers —it delays arrival at the desired port but little real damage is done. 'Our econoomic str'ulctux(e has be- come too ,ri'gi'd. In the old days with 'smaller corporations, prices were lowered when strenuous times carne, in order to keep men at work and greeds moving. The larger corpora- tion's of to -clay with ample reserves, hold prices firm, 5iose down their plants, wait for other days. Bank- ing corporations which control vast 'aggregations of capital retire within their well pa -whiled lines and wait for threes to change. Labor, with its powerful unions, fights wage adjust- ments which, in older days, would have taken place aubomlatieally as part of the process of adjust -fluent. Elasticity is going from, the economic 'structure' the inflexibility which has taken its place prolongs the danger, the damage done is greater Wider the new conditions --the depreseiou Lasts ion •er—+the ship that rides the waves feels less of the impact of the hurricane than the fixed a truc- tures along the shore. Therein lies one of the diffreulties which tnuet confront :our pew politi- cal party, the C. C. F. All flexibility tenet disappear. It would substitute for the free play 9f eeonomie laws a, system of planning all its `own. The stern laws of economics Inlay, ' per- chance,ignore the plans of the arehi- teoto of the new party. There will be under the new system, scant chance tro ride the storm. State owned en- terprises will nit' adjust to new con- ditions. 'Manalgem,nt will fall se- cure on its throne. The fa'v'or of the ruling powers will be more valuable than a good 'balance sheet. Govern- ment owned banks may he reckless of eredit risks but poor credits may wreck government owned banks. The debris of economic disaster, nmder eua• present sy's'tem, is promptly cleared away. It is a painful pro- cess but effective. Under C. C. F. plans it will cling, threatening with every wave to engulf the ship. The driving force of individual initiath e may, at times, be far from faultless but it holds more of hope than the fluttered meetings of Cabinet Minis- ters worrying about trivial things and failing to comprehend the vast- ness oto the problem in sight. Man has two tasks before, him—he must learn, if possible, how to control the storm—no simple matter! If that cannot be done he Must ride it out, There is 'more chance, infinitely more, of doing this under the free- dom of action inherent in the present system than within the cramping framework of the new structure our youthful, architects would build for us. 'Canadian sewing machines hese,. ousted Canadian wheat flour as the chief Canadian export to Brazil. The popular dried currant of'conn- merce was known to the Romans as Raisin de Coranoe and to later peo- ple as Corinth noir. The production of currants began in the thirteenth century around . Corinth and ;oon achieved world-wide fame. Tests by the Dominion Division of Agricultural Bacteriology n proved that the preservation .of honey could be achieved 'by a 0.025 concentration of sodium benzoate. This amount is only one-quarter of, that permissible in food stuffs and has no effect what- ever on the flavour or other charac- teristics of the product.. Scotland is the nearest country to Iceland, 500 miles distant. Norway is 600 moles from Iceland and Den- mark 90Q. 'Phe logical route for Canadian goods to Iceland would, therefore, seem to be via Scotland. 'As a source of supply to Greece, Canada improved her position in the first six months of this year from fifteenth to tenth place. In wheat, Canada moved from third to second place, the Argentine bring the chief supplied of wheat. He Is Canada's First Aviator IThe youth who at the age of 21 made the first aeroplane flight in Canada is still in aviation. He is Douglas McCurdy, pf Baddeck, N. S. Then a pioneer, he is now a manu- facturer of aircraft. In his office safe he keeps the re- cord of his pioneering`dtays in avia- tion, and there is only one other re- cord of those event's, and that is in the library of the Smithonian Insti- tute. The story of that first flight, as contained in these records, is sum- marized in the words of Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, who cab- led on February 23rd, .19073, to the' London Times: "First flight of a flying machine in Canada occurred here to -day, when Mr. Douglas McCurdy, native of Baddeck, Nova Scotia, flew a dist- ance of about bre-half mile at an elevation of about .thirty feet above the ice on Baddeck Bay in an aero- drome of his own •design•, named the Silver Dart." When war broke out, McCurdy or- ganized a training school for pilots near Toronto under government aus- pices. McCurdy with Baldwin and Cur- tiss, formed the Cumtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, and, while this organization has grown into one of the largest air manufacturing plants in the world, the three early experi- Menhirs iieiainled togethelr. '(Theyr pooled their early patents, which lat- er were sold to the United States and British governments. Goldfish For Lunch It is,the !boast of London's cfiefs that thy are levier baffled. No mat- ter what extraordinary dishet may be asked for hi their hotels, they can be served—providing the diner is willing to pay a high price. 'When an oriental visitor to the British capital went into a hotel re cently and ordered goldfish for lunch- eon the waiter may have experienced a terriffic shock.' ut not sb the chef. 'The visitor got his goldfish; and they were cooked just as he wanted them, too. 'When an 'American gave a dinner party in London and requested that alligator soup should be served, he gave the hotel a few days' notice. Three chubby baby alligators were obtained in time for the party, and when the dinner was served alliga- torsoup was on the table. 'Truf ,es are another pecuiiat dish which have been asked for in London hotels. Hogs are especially trained to dig these pungent morsels from their 'beds under trees in the country- side. Not many Englishmen eat them. Kangaroo tail is another dish which has (been: asked for in London—and served without question. But if you want this you'll have to pay a pretty stiff price! For five pound's you can obtain in London -4f you give the chef sutffiei- ent notice --a rare and esteemed Chinese delicacy, snake meat. This dish has been asked for by wealthy -The economical and delicious table syrup THE CANADA STARCH CO. ASWAMMV.AWAY/16515.5,691BMI14355v: , LIMITED. MQNTi MA, •Chinese visitors. The •snakes are. caught alive and rendered uncon- scious. Specially selected portions of flesh are then cut from them. They are next wrapped in edible .seaweed and !boiled. One chef was not even dismayed when asked for braised dromedary steaks and muskrat pie for French guests at a luncheon party! Winter Feed For Horses For the idle horse in winter, or for horses that merely require what may be termed a' maintenance ration, "The Feeding of Horses" circular, is- sued by the Dominion Department of Agriculture, recommends for every hundred pounds of the horse's weight a feed of one pound of mixed hay. cne pound of clean oat straw, and one pound of turnips. To this might be added a small feed daily of bran and oats in equal parts. Ensilage, although sometimes used in place of turnips and straw, is not a standard horse feed. The feeding of mouldy ensilage is to be guarded against. Some authorities claim that it induces spinal meningitis. Other rations that have been found satis- factory are: No. l --Grain compos- ed of 3 parts oats and 1 part barley; No. 2—Grain mixture of oats, three parts, and corn, 1 part. No. 3— Grain mixture of oats;19 parts; bran 2 parts; oilmeal, 1 part; hay with rations as above outlined. No. 4— Grain mixture of oats, 3 parts; bran, 1 part, fed with two green -cured oat sheaves, and a limited amount • of straw. This is a ration particularly adapted to horses on very light rain ter work in the western provinces. No. 5—Grain mixture of oats, two parts; corn, 2 parts; avid bran, two parts. To this may be added linseed oilmeal, 1 .part, or 2 pounds of mol- asses daily if -the horses are not inclined to relish their grain, or are in a low condition., Airman Of Arctic One night recently Cape Town was in an uproar. Police searched the city frantically. 'Streamer headlines blazoned in the press, Bernt ,Balch - en, tamtaus flier, had mysteriously dis- appeared on the eve of an operation for appendicitis. The -next day, when he had finally been located in one of Cape Town's hospitals, the young, blue=eyed Nor- wegian giant .calmly explained that he had met a friend on the way to the hospital and stopped off to have dinner with him. The mere prospect of an operation couldn't spoil Bernt Balchen's even- ing. He has learned to enjoy to -day and worry ` lilbout to -morrow 'o qt" row. He has had to. The world first heard of him in 1925 when he braved the Ar _040 wastes to ' search ' for hte R4natd Amundsen party. While he was at Spittbergen in 1926 with the Norge expedition, he met Commuander ? and when Byrd returned to the lift- ed States after his successful flight to the North Pole, barrel-chested Bern! Balchen camie with him. He wanted to oome to Amberiea because he °,said, "it is se beeg." In 1927 Bak:hen was chosen pilot Byrd's plane across the Atlan- tic. For forty hours the ship battled through wind and rain and blinding, fog. Once again with Byrd, this' time in the Antarctic, Balchen demonstrated his ability and cool courage during the epochal fright over the South Pole. Taking off in • weather like a bowl of milk, by sheer force of will he lifted his ship, staggering imde its 15,0.00 -pound load of anent equip- ment and food, over the grim death- trap of mountains that separates lit- tle America from the Pole. • Now, as soon as he is released from his hospital bed he will be off with Lincoln Ellsworth and Sir Hubert Wilkins on a hazardous 3,000 mile flight of exploration from the Bay of Whales. • Cereal Crops Augmentation ,Much interest has 'been aroused in the agricultural circles of the lead- ing nations of the world intim strik- ing triking results of recent investigations in regard to the possibility of mat- uring and augmenting yields of cer- eal crops through artificial stimula- tion. In order to appreciate these arkd co-ordinate what .benefits may be derived therefrom to Canada, the Cereal Division of the Dominion De- parbmtent of Agriculture has con- ducted • preliminary ,experiments at the •Central Experimental Farm, Ot- tawa, and has arrived at results sim- ilar to those obtained by the original experimenter, Lysenko, a Ukranian plant breeder, who named the process "Varovization." The 'Imperial tBuz- eau of Plant Genetics' anglicized this! name' to "Vernalization," which con- sists in the pre-treatment of, seed by soaking it in water until the gym swells conspicuously end exposing cit to a temperature of 27 to 40 degrees F. from 6 to 30 days in darkness. 'The periods of cold and •darkness rvtaries with the varieties of winter and spring cereals. ----In this manner it is claimed that the crop yield is greatly augmented. Later, the Cer-• eal Division contemplates reporting some definite data after summarizing the additional field results. When the folks are out for the evening—and time begins to drag—you weed not lack for congenial companionship. Just pick up the telephone and friends are at your call, whether they live in the next township or county • or half a continent away. 1 For 30 cents you can telephone about 100 utiles by making an "any- one" call (station - to -station) • after 8.30 p.m. See list of rates do front of directory.