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Judy Seed Catalogue
14 [lleh ' maligned seed catalogue
ra; le a. Imine of information for
average gardener. Contrary to
humorist's conception this publi-
?ore is (thoroughly reliable and is
'crated with actual photographs.
ieae catalogues (put .out by .the'large
1►s contain much more than a mere
ereention of the many flowers and veg-
etables available in Canada. They
e+peeify important points such as time
(planting, resistance or lack of re -
T elastance to frost, height, color, season
�rpf : ible'amang, whether scented, and al-
so the suitability- of the flower for
cutting purposes. All of these points
(should be taken into consideration in
planning a real garden, " authorities
state, as only with such knowledge
can a cpmprehensave and practical
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scheme be worked out. Little plants
latest not be hidden by tall things, and
there should he' as" much bloom in
the garden as possible from early
June on. The most satisfactory plant-
ing, also, will gi'vte plenty of material
ifor bouquets and there ;should be
some (plants noted , for their, scent. A
good flower garden is, similar to a
good library. It will reflect the in-
dividual :preferences 'of, the owner,
and there will be something to fit
every occasion.
Nursery Stocks
Early spring is (generally consider-
ed the most favorable season for
planting nursery stock, Under the
latter heading comes a wide variety
of plants, including rose bushes,
shrubs, fruit and ornamental trees,
perennial flower plants, vines, rasp-
berry 'hushes, asparagus, stravtberry
plants and a host of other penmlanent
things.
!In purchasing such material auth-
orities emphasize the importance of
securing fresh stook, from a reliable
Canadian source. Roots and stems
should be pliable and moist and if
there is any upper 'growth as in the
case of shrubs and trees there should
be evidence of live 'green ,buds. On
receipt the plants should be immedi-
ately set outside in their permaneftt
quarters if this is :possible but other-
wise buried lightly in a trench with
the soil firmed about the roots or it
theun
clic d is frozen the stock should
be stored in a cool, moist place so
that there is no chance of it drying
out.
Continuity in Vegetables
Most people realize that all vege-
tables deteriorate in in storage. The
early potatoes are always tastier than
those coning out of frosty cellars this
month. The former taste better be-
cause they are not ripe. To get this
quality in all vegetables experienced
DON'T RISK BAKING FAILURES
"WHY RISK FAILURES WITH
DOUBTFUL BAKING POWDER?
LESS THAN 10 WORTH OF
MAGIC MAKES A FINE, BIG
CAKE. AND YOU ARE SURE
OF SUCCESSFUL RESULTS,"
says MRS. CLARRY HUNT,
Chief Dietitian for Gillett
Products, Toronto
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your c Baking Powder
la free from elan or any ui ingredients
Canada's leading cookery authorities caution
against trusting good ingredients to doubtful
baking powder. They recommend MAGIC
for fine calms!
MADE
IN
CANADA
tgardenere 'Spread their seedingseaa'e
on over a period of weeks They re-
,al!ize that (vlegetables leterietate in
the' garden just as t)aey do in storage
an dl so they always have a few feet
of llettu'ce and a royv pr two of spin-
ach, corn, (beets and practically every-
thing else coming on rather than the
whole gardening maturing at one
time. There is nothing to equal Ifresh
peas, tenter and juicy, when taken
right out of the 'garden and put in
the pot, but if the same peas are left
on the vines for three or four days
after they are ready the best (flavor
has gone. To have a succession of
really tender vegetables, one is ad-
vised to make at least three sowings
from the one packet, at intervals of
ten days to two weeks and to still
further extend the season by us'irig
early, medium and late varieties: For
instance by using leaf lettuce for the
early crops, head lettuee for June and
July and again in the fall and Cos
lettuce for the very hot 'weather, a
fresh, tender supply of this salad ma-
terial is 'available all season.
Early Jobs
Unless spring is unussially early or
the gardener lives, in the warmer dis-
tricts of Canada there will be more
indirect than direct garden operations
this month. Of the former the most
important will still be planting and
of the latter there will be a number
of jobs such as pruning, seeding the
hot bed, ordering supplies and pos'-
s'ibly a few hours preparing some dry
spot in the garden for sweet peas.
Incidentally the finest sweet peas are
those from seed grow -n just as early
in the spring as possible. It is a
cool loving flower and must get its
root and stem growth before the
weather becomes too warm. A clim-
ate where the nights are cool even in
summer is recommended.
Pruning
Pruning is not a difficult task, ac-
cording to garden authorities. The
main object, they state, is to open
up bush, tree or gine so that sun-
shine and air will circulate, cut out
all dead • growth, remove any branch --
es which rub against each other and
keep the general shape symmetrical.
These are :general 'rules only and. for
special types it is advisable to bear
in :mind are, grapes must be pruned
severely and early :before, the sap
starts to rise,' all old canes are re-
moved from the• raspberry patch any
time after the fruit has been har-
vested. Young fruit trees except for
appearances and possibly dead' or in-
jured branches do not need any prun-
ing until they start to bear. Most
climbing roses should have the 'bulk
of the, old wood removed anytime af-
ter blooming each year while tender
bush roses are pruned nearly to the
ground. The light pruning necessary
for shrubbery takes place very early
with late blooming varieties but with
such things as the average Srpirea,
Forsythia and others, which 'bloom
April to July, priming is delayed un-
til after blossoming.
Water Damage
An inspection of wintering plants
is advisable early in the spring to
find out how things have -withstood
the second cold winter Canada has
had in the minimum space of two
years. Incidentally, it is claimed, now
or a little earlier is the very tome
that (most of the damage occurs. The
sun coming a little higher over the
southern horizon each day, gets
warmer and warmer with the tem-
perature rising as high as 50' or 60
degrees around noon. This encour-
ages these plants which stay outside
al ']winter, especially where the snow
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TO DEVELOP A NATION'S RESOURCES
In 1842, followingthe union of Upper and Lower Canada,
when the 'Bank opened a branch at Toronto to succeed
die agency there, and established offices in nine other
hies of Upper Canada, the 'Honourable Teter McGill,
then president of the Bank, explained why the directors
bad entered upon a policy .of establishing .benches or
agencies in the then western provinoee
"The Legislature having conferred on dee Bank important
privileges, and authorized the •creation and employment of
a lame apitpt,,ihe'Board, instead of:toncentrading it all in
the large cities, felt it to be (Celt duty gradually to extend
throughodt the province the benefits derivable from the
use of it bythe esrablishment of branches and agencies at
such points and in,such localities as appeared to them tett
calculated to encourage and assist the agriculture and com-
merce of the country, to develop its resources, and to pea
mote the increase colts exportable productions.., "
Even before the union of Upper. and towret Caaida, the '
tank sought constantly ro encourage those factors 'In
trade which would. contribute effectively to the tap.
building of the counue-t purpose whip!) is as thong
today, as ever.
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has melted and they are eaepo'sed to
the full rays of the sun. The sap be-
gins to rise from the roots. Then
the sun goes down and the mercury
may fall. to zero or 'below. - Before
the sap can escape it may freeze and
seriously datmlage the stem,' or the
tiny roots or %ven the tender bars
of the trunk or main branch of such
things as roses, trees, shrubbery or
vines. To guea-d :against this old
gardeners cover their perennial fl•oWer
:beds, roses, strawberries and other
plants which remain outside with a•
light mul h• of strawy manure, or
even leaves or other garden refuse.
This is arranged loosely- to hold the
snow, which incidentally is Nature's,
own 'protective covering against the
blasts of winter.
Experienced .,people plant eery ten-
der things in a northern exposure,
where the temperature is more like-
ly to remain constant and roots and
ground continuously frozen.
Rot Beds
Where a• fairly 'large quantity of
flower or vegetable plants are to be
started 'early indoors a hot bed is in-
dispensable but where only a few of
each variety are wanted the job may
be carried out successfully in a sun-
ny window. The hot bed is Usually
prepared early in March and simply
consists of a bed of fresh horse man-
ure, which supplies the heat, about
18 inches deep. On this two or three
inches of fine soil are placed and af-
ter the, bed has heated'• up and then
cooled down again, a matter of three
or four days the seed is sown in
rows a few inches apart. The bed is
protected by rough 'boarding along
the side on heaped up earth and on
top about 10 to 18 inches above .the
:Teed is placed a window sash well
glassed, and sloping towards the
south. When the plants have de-
veloped their second set of leaves
they are thinned out and 'before be-
ing transplanted( outside they are
hardened in a cold frame which is
simply a hat bed without any heat-
ing material. Government bulletins
giving details of construction are
available in every province. The
window hot bed is simply a shallow
box or three inches deep filled with
fine soil, kept well moistened'. Very
early radish and leaf lettuce may be
planted in the hot bed and used di-
rectly from that.
Sommerville's
Remuneration
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REPLY TO ORDER OF THE HOUSE��
OF COMMONS
(Votes & Proceedings No. 31, Page 1)
(Questions by Mr. Golding)
1. How many days did Norman
Sommerville, K.C., act as counsel for
the Committee and Royal Commission
on Price Spreads and Mass Buying?
2+- What was his remuneration per
day?
3. What was his expense allow-
ance per day?
4. 'How many days did the Com-
mittee sit?
6. ;How many days did' the Royal
Comrmission sit with Mr. Somtmerville
acting as counsel?
6. What was the total amount paid
hurt for services and expenses?
ANSWERS:
1. Mr. Norman Sommerville, K.C.
acted as Counsel for the Commvittee
and the Royal Cotrdmdssi•on of Price
Spreads and Mass Buying for 196
days; 124 days of this period were
spent in actually attending public
sessions of the Committee and the
Commission, while the balance of 72
drays was devoted to interviewing
witnesses, consultations with auditors,
investigators, and in preparing the
evidence to 'be adduced before the
Committee or Commission.
2. Mr. Somlmle'rville's remuneration
was $150.00 per day for the above
period. This rate of. remuneration
was authorized by the Committee and
later confirmed by the 'Commission.
During the summer Mr. Sommerville
devoted a considerable amount of
time to the gathering and prepara-
tion of evidence for submission to the
Commission, to consultations with
auditors and investigators, and to in-
terviewing of witnesses, but for this
work no account 'was submitted and
no remuneration paid.
3. His expense allowance was $15
per day.
t 4. The Committee held 59 public
sittings.
5. The Royal Comimission held 65
public sittings, with IMr. Somltnlervill'e
acting as counsel.
6. The total eanount paid to Mr.
Sommerville for services and expens-
es was $32,581.96.
Poultry Breeding
Too often in selecting the stock for
baieedfiiig, High egg records or some
outstanding. feature of the sire or
dale are allowed Ito intfiienee the
judgment, without due regard to vi-
tality or good breeding qualities that
May or ni'ay not be'l resent.
The seleetion for vi'goixr and for
those desirable trualilScatibns that
confeiin' to the breed is c?m(pai a'tnye-
ly •simple; 'ki obese 'Ilte*Se tit' mealy
vlaible chars, to t tie cab Mole bilosdn
by conpari'toi if gOtirOvideittiaaty
the earz`iate, d'esireilble Body weight
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pairs,
The reasons for watches having
been dlazniage•d are many and varied.
IMr. Savauge pretented his Repair
Book, foom theords of which we
got information about accidents -to
watches that were of an unusual fea-
ture. - '
Every instance cited is said to be
authentic. It is claimed: that, with-
out exception, the watches after hav-
ing been repaired, gave satisfactory
results as time -keepers.
On one occasion a watch brought
for repairs had been submerged in an
alkaline liquid solution for three days
and three nights.
Another was unfortunate enough to
pass through a threshing machine
from the feeder to the ,cylinders, of
the separator, right through to the
stack at the end of the carriers. The
watch struck the handle of a fork
being used by the man at the head.
of the carriers and was picked from
the straw -.at his feet.
Once a farmer came to the shop
with a watch that was in a most
dilapidated condition. His' explanation
was that pigs feeding from an ord-
inary wooden trough took advantage
of an'opportunity to test their chew-
ing ability upon its shining surface.
The result may have been gratify-
ing to the swine. The watch looked
as if its days of usefulness weregone
foreaer.
While standing on the platform cov-
ering a sixty -foot well, the owner of
a watch was unlucky enough to let
it drop. It 'slipped through an op-
ening between boards. The jolt it got
on reaching the bottom of the well,
stopped the works} but, nevertheless,
did not put then! beyond repair.
Survives Fire
Fire which consumed a pile of
brush, •also had a chance to play
havoc to a watch which an owner
happened to let fall into it while
throwing niiore brush on the flames.
The watch gota thorough scorching
but after getting certain special trea-
tment, was again put into service.
'Another man got a -great surprise
when he unearthed a watch that had
been buried nine years before by a
ploughshare: The repair shop prov-
ed that there was still the right kind
of "tick" in the old relic.
A similar incident can he related
about another watch. It was lost in
a 'ploughed .field where it remained
for seven years.
A watch was taken from the
pocket in a vest en the body of a
young man that had been in the wa-
ters of Lake Ontario for more than
forty days. The brother, who became
its new owner, says that since repair-
ed the watch performs its mission of
usefulness quite satisfactorily.
The sum of $20 was paid willingly
for conditioning-. a watch that had
been valued at $85. It was a keep-
sake that had been run 'over -by the
wheels of a well -laden, farm wagon.
A similar accident came to another
ill-fated timepiece. It was run over
by a wagon on the gravel road that
connects Seaforth with Brussels, The
repair shop was the cause of its days
of inactivity being of short duration.
Recovered From Ditch
Imagine the amazed look that cov-
ered the face of the' personwho, while
at work in a wet ditch, dug up ' a
watch that was made to keep time
for him at a small cost. s'Hle did not
learn by whom it had been owned,
or how long it had been in the ditch.
A person by the name of Ryan. had
a watch that was forced to carry a
burden greater than its back could
bear. It was run over by the wheels
of a heavy .gasoline tractor where it
lay on a hard gravel road. Many of
the parts were completely ruined, but
sdme "go" was put into its mechan-
ism and no 'complaint forthcame about
the time it kept.
A misha,p that befell a farmer one
day was to have his watch put out
of comimissi•en by passing through the
manure spreader while it was .in ac-
tion in one of the fields. Any per-
son would know afterwards by close
inspection that it once had been a
watch, but it would be hard to believe
that for a small am•oun(t of money it
was made to operate again.
Another person lifted: his watch
from the barn floor after it had fallen
into it from a place of fifty feet a-
bove where it lay. Sometime later
he was pleased to learn that it was
in condition to shot*, him the time,
day or night.
9'he wife of one man seelmdngly
was not satisfied with the harm done
to her husband's watch by letting it
'get badly abused in the washing ma-
chine, 'because she ran it through the
wringer afterwards to complete the
job. The husband, however, still car-
ries the watch.
The last watch eve mention was
brought to the repair shop to he
awakened. 'It had gone to sleep in
a barnyard about six months before
in the fall of the year, and although
springtime was at hand when found,
it showed no signs of awakening.
Back in the long ago any kind of
a watch to keep time was a luxury,
something to be proud about.
!Nevertheless the time dad •geve
serious thpu'ght to was the time it
took to grease heavy, unwieldy,
cow -hide jack -boots. Mother's con-
cern about time was trying tp make
her .pruneIla gaiters wear as long a
time as possible while little Johnnie
tried to solve the length of time it
wotidd be before he could 4trut about
in something other than -joist plain
feet.
Uowevem the time, arrived
most persons in every home carried
a timepiece. It is that way now. And
no one knows neither the day nor the
hour that his watch may receive sinme
jar, jolt, bump, accident of some
kind fillet will cause it to get a p
to the repair shop."
P.141/11. OTES
Repair of Machinery
• Careful repairing of;,+tillage •ana-
okiner'y each' *inter or early 'spring
with replanelnt bf dbttbtfluj. oM *Oh
Parta's;Veen` !Owen to& pass laaige
diroH r w pmtirenthig relaller Ca
ly le(»•airs. t Vigo& finqihnfiblitaS b-
drolly', reed less
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al► alma: I noshed, c1u t of wOj1
done anuli tiee'dom from ''the. nece'isity
of costly -repairs axed. delays. De-
lays due breakdowns .dealing the
rush tillage season .of spring and
•snxmmex are cantly and , ea nily prey
vented if the farmer, with a few tools
and 6 lii'tl'e trme, will cheek' over
earefiully. every working or wearing
part long before he is going to use
the machine.
Check over every mlaehine care-
fully for loose, worn or stripped
bolts; replace broken spring washers
and check all loose 'or slack parts.
'Wheel and power lift 'bearings, disk
iboacings and all snowing .parts should
be adjusted for wear. Clean all
working pelts of old 'grease, oil, dirt
and steel particles with kerosene
and replace with plenty of fresh lub-
ricants.
The Importance of Alfalfa
For a-°nuaniber` of years the forage
crap specialists at the Central Ex-
perimental Parra have beeir s•tud'ypng
the species and mixtures best suited
for pasture in this district. Among
other things it has been found that
the inclusion of alfalfa wherever.pos-
sible, on land to which it is adapted,
increases' the yield of good quality
hay and produces an early second
growth which Imlay .be cut for hay or
grazed at a time when the older pas-
tures are at a minimum level of pro-
duction. The innportanee of this fact
cannot be over -emphasized, (because
good hay and goodepastures are very
necessary for the maintenance of
high production 'herds.
The use of some alfalfa bas also
been found to ipro'iong the life of the
field as pasture for an additional year
or two, for, being a .perennial plant,
alfalfa (persists after red clover has
risappeared.
Current Farm Conditions •
Reports from Dufferin County
state that feed is the limiting factor
so far as the condition of livestock
is concerned. There is a Targe per-
centage of livestock in that district,
however, being carried along in fair
flesh, and they will be turned on grass
in good condition. Many farmers
there are feeding cattle for market.
A recent largely attended sale in
Grey County brought forth prices of
$40•to $45 for grade cows and 'over
$100 for (horses; implements also sold
well. Home mixing of fertilizers is
alive live topic in :Halton and it is ex-
pected that a -goad deal of home mix-
ing Will be done this year unless
(mixed fertilizer prices show a decid-
ed decrease. There is a brisk demand
for horses in Huron, and good prices
are being realized. A team: of Clydes-
dale nares, 4 and 5 years 'old, were
sold las tweek for $4100. Farmers
there are also in a more helpful
frame of ,mind regarding cattle pric-
es. Hay dealers are offering $12.50
to $13.00 for baled hay. In North
Simcoe there is sufficient hay and i
grain to meet local stock require-,
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inents for this spring, although sonde
farmers will need to do Some 'Evading
to get t'hrou'gh the winter. Good qual-
ity timothy or clover hay, loose, is
selling at 116.00 a ton in that dis-
trict. -
Creamerymen in Haldimand report
that production is 'holding up reas-
onably well, considering the short-
age of feed. A good supply of eggs
for 'hatching .purposes is noted in
Lincoln County, but the demand is so
heavy that market eggs are becom-
ing scarce and _ prices advancing.
There is a keen demand there, too,
for good alfa'l'fa hay at $20 per tem
lalalect,l lw'i'hh rliijm(athy ranging from
$16. to $18 a ton, , w(hiledealers aro
offering $10 to $12 a .bushel for al-
falfa seed. !Extensive plans are bee
ing made in Middlesex, Norfolk and
other countries for an intensive warble
fly campaign.
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