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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1935-09-06, Page 6fey • T RON ,`(` ► T down the ladder off lvme rocky coast, say of Maine or 11 V,tassaohusette, We pass qqi�ckly beyond the t arnaele zone !', below west tidemark„ where things' have been, wet since creation. Fax- ther down we perceive great clinging roots of the giant seahheds, their leathery fronds stretching up and up to the surface. Two or three fath- oms down, in the h'om:e of the fbeau- tifuff basket starfish, we take our seat upon a mat of seaweed and watch ❑ the life of avid water. Shrimps in great numbers drift past like ghbets; tthe first squid seen, head on, will nevertbe forgotten, nor will a galaxy of jellyfish 4hen the sunlight 'sets their cilia ablaze. Small, curious crabs elamrber upon our canvas shoes and suddenly a 'thousand comets d'as'h past- a ethlool of 'herrings ix% search of spawning grouinds. Our first dive in the tropi's com- pressed us by the great increase in ljfe and the unbel'ievab'le IbriTiie y of color. Dere, corals form boulders sfix feet across, or branched growths in- to wthic'h we can climb. Anemones and fish are rainbow -tinted; horny corals send up 'purple branches like nothing conceivable above water. Over ail the eeuetoxial south seas, the islands offer indescribable riches for the Helmet Explorer of the fu- ture, be he artist, scientist, or just one filled With a desire to experience the supreme joys of this world. the wise diver will refrain from written descriptions 'of , his experi- ences. Just as undersea colors are nameless in klhe gamut of terrestrial hues, so language beclomes 'too thin and vague to fashion adequate sub- marine imagery. Even the common- est fishes are different creatures when viewed from their own level. Instead of gazing down .through glass-iblottomed boats, or Watching the fish milling about .in a ariums, get 'a helmet and make all hallows of the wbrdd your own. Start an ex- pploration Which has no superior in jungle for mountain; insure yourself from possibility of boredom, and pro- vide yeurseif with sights and adven- tures which no listener will .believe -- until he too has 'become an active member of the Society of Wonderers Undersea. I,( s:. CIETY OF ERS UNDERSEA ('Condensed from "'Half Mile Down" in 'Reader's Digest). 11 For a lovely skirl free from FRECKLES Use ()THINE (Double Strength) At all leading Drug and Dept Stores +pie many years, along bhe -sea- ,oar d of the world, hostesses will be ening . their house 'parties to view with them off shore,. to put on la diets dive and inspect the new !Coral plantings which a seascape gar- dener has lately arranged. Later in the year his purple and lavender sea "'anemones will take prizes in the lo- • cal seafiower show. Boys will play pirates in the •old wreck just inside the reef and three • fathoms down. Submerged artists will wax wroth at a clouded •sky because half-drnished paintings of the canyon, 24 feet 'be - hear the surfaoe, must have full sun- light to show its miraculous color- ing. Even.,;to-day, in scores of plac- es, these things are being done. A few fears bred , of ignorance: need only to be broken down to make the spbrt of helmet di'v'ing widespread. Adventuring • undersea is an un- . earthly experience. If kept from the wa,ters by tales ,of omni -present ` sharks, barracudas and octopi, then to ,be consistent we must keep off our streets because of the infinitely more deadly to dealbs, wear masks to keep free of malignant germs, and never go to the country beeauseLof wasps and toadstools. From my second dive onward, submersion seemed rea- irEvery IOc Packet of \ WILSON'S FLY.PADS \WILL KILL MOPE FLIES THAN ',SEVERAL DOLLARS WORTH \OFANY OTHER FLY KILLER lOc WHY PAY MORE Best of all fly killers. Clean, quick,, sure, cheap. Ask your Drug- gist, Grocer or General Store. THE WILSON FLY PAD CO., HAMILTON, ONT. sonable and familiar. In this King- dom, plants are animals, fish are friends, colors are unearthly; here miraoles become marvels, and mar- vels recurring wonders. There may be a host of terrible dangers, but in 1•undreds of dives we have never en- countered' them. One thing we can- not escape; --forever after, the mem- ory of the magic of water and its rife —this will never leave us. If you must descepd 300 feet, a complete diving suit is necessary, and hours are required to become us- ed to the pressure; but if content to look upon the Kingdom of Five Feth- oms Down,... our apparatus for con- quering the undersea is simple: , A lair of rubber -soled sneakers and a bathing suit, a glass -fronted helmet kilt may be made from a gasoline tin a,ri some glass), a length of garden hose, and the hand pump from . an. automobile. •A folding metal ladder is excellent, but a rope is quite suf- ficent. Down you go into two, four, six, eight fathoms, swallowing, as you descend to offset -the increased pressure. (If your tars pain sev- erely bellow the surface, ascend at once and go to an auris't, for some- thing is wrong and should be attend- ed to, whether you ever dive again or rot.) Once submerged, the absolute apartness of this place is apparent. Above, one weighs 160 pounds here one can leap 12 feet, or li'f't oneself with the crook of a finger. A fall from a coral cliff is only a gentle drifting downward; and one's whole activity is akin to the It ace of a ,slow motion picture. Don't be lured to deep, for ears cannot withstand too 'great pressure. Forty feet is a good limit to set. Indeed, the most brilliant, and.. exciting forms of life lie in the shallower depths. If you wish to make • notes, get sheet zinc or pads of waterproof pa- per, land write, as easily as if sitting in the boat. Be sure to tie your pen- cil tightly around; otherwise the wood will separate and float to the sur- face, while the lead sinks, nibbled at excitedly by small fry. Motion pic- tures can be taken down to 20 or 25 feet, by placing the• -ea' in a tight brass box with glass in front. If you wish to paint, weight your easel with lead, waterproof your canvas, and sit 'mown with your .oils. You will have to brush away the Small fish, for paints have an alluring odor and your palette will sometimes be covered with 1 ungry inchlings. And, ,seated on a cdral reef, you may be attacked; not by giant octopi or barraculas or sharks --don't give them a thought— but you may feel a nip at your el- bow:'there is a little fish, a demoisel- le shorter than your thumb, all az- ure and gold, furiously butting at you. In defense of her nearby hl3me n{he fears -nothing, Which swims,' crawl's or dive's. But soon she will accept you as a harmless new kind of sea creature, and 'off She goes. ;If your tastes incline to sport. in- vent submarine crossbows and shoot your fish with bathed arrows of brass wire. If you wish to make a garden, choose some beautiful slope or grot- to and with a hatchet chop off coral boulders with waving purple sea •plumes, golden sea fans and great parti-colored anemones. Wedge these into crevices, and in a few days you will 'have a new and miraculous sort of sunken garden. As bards col- lect about a garden in the upper air, so hosts of 'fish will follow your la- bors—great crabs and starfish will creep . thither; now and then fairly jellyfish will throb past, superior in beauty to anything in the upper world, more delicate ''and graceful than any butterfly. Search out the hiding place of an octopus and here you will find a collection of the ex- quisite, empty s'he'lls • of mollusks, which he has carried to his lair and devoured at leisure. For your garden border, collect small, rounded brain corals all thickly covered with tube warms. 'When you place them, they Will be of a drab, dirty white. It is their momentary winter; but wait; in five minutes spring appears, in a host of pasted buds; another five, and full summer .arrives—your ivory mounds are 'ablaze with scarlet, mauve, bhue, yellow and. green ani- mal blossoms, and all in motion. When the summer sun has warmed our northern waters, 'we can climb GREATEST INVENTION 2 'ATHLETE'S Golfers, swimmers. e terms and baU pinxea ;Buffer from nth44etee foot. All who wall! mach. • have seblos. atingle&. Itohhlg of the feet cad I toes. Applied after warm bath Dr. Cbase'e Olob went adheree to the int. tated akin and quickly soothes and rellevee. In (Oondensed from Esquire in Reader's 'Digest). LONDON'S PEA-SOUPERS (Condensed from The American Traveler in Reader's Digest). - The first London fog I ever experi- enced was, to 'Londoners, just an Other "pea-souper," but to me it was an adventure in which the great city, 'my fellow men, and I myself became strange entities that never could have existed outside that sulphuric mist. The adventure began 'when I left my hotel one Janlrary afternoon, walking stick in one hand, flashlight in the cther. The fog 'had set in only that morning, but the City was already paralyzed. "Visibility nil," the Auto - Mobile Assn reported, and motor traffic dragged along invisible streets at inch -worm. 'price, guided by torch - bearing linklboys, or trailed' a tram- car that had a track to follow. I was fairly familiar with that sec- tion of London but after walking 20 yards 'I was utterly lost. Recogniz- able landmarks 'vanished. Blurred hu- man faces swirled ,past me like sym- bols in a surrealistic d.r•eame groping hands grazed mine and figures disap- peared into the fluorine murk, frrnn which they had emerged. At street intersections men with acetylene torches convoyed groups of pedes- trians across. I shall never forget the mink -coated dowager with whom I collided- during one such crossing. Feeling her way down the middle of the street she was calling to her chauffeur, "This way, Oscar, 'this way; we seem to be in the 'Strand." I have clanged a ship's bell, watch Sri, watch out, through dense "'frost smokes" off the Labrador fishing banks, and once was lost for hours in an abandoned 'gallery of a Silesian coal mine, buit never have 1 felt so hopelessly disoriented as I felt that day in London. What causes these blackouts, so peculiar to the British capital? Lon- don .has a generous supply of the three ingredients: coal dust, warm moist air and a cooling breeze from the sea. Stir ,these together and you get a -"London particular," as .Dick- ens ;used to call ib --a fog that no other city has ever attempted to chal- lenge for ,density, duration and mys- tery. The durst particles act as ker- nels upon which fog droplets are formed when the breeze condenses' the moisture in the air. This would make only an ordinary fog, white or gray, but now eight million London- ers get up, light their countless soft coal 'home fires, and by 9 a.m. the city is a (howl of brown soup. An inky pall hangs 200 feet above the city, blotting out, the sun. Tbree.hundred tans of sulphuric adid are Doured daily into London air by soft coal fires; on foggy days a citizen inhales 200 billion of these gas par'ti'cles --- s imost a million •times n ore than are found in clear mountain air. The ef- fect on health es disastrous. During one historic fog the death rate rose from 16 'to 19.4 and lung diseases in- creased 250 per cent. As the fog sprawls over the city, men and things begin to feel the ghostly pressure. And to .make mat- ters worse in London, no two streets run either parallel or at right ,angle•s but curve and ramble, se -that the fog blinded pedestrian soon loses all ,sense of direction. During the great fog of 1932, traffic ventihiin a radius of 35 miles of London was. brought to a standstill. The fnain thoroughfare from . Hammersmith to Hyde Park was 'blo'cked solgdly for miles. Police called for volunteers „to control the traffic with searchlighits. Linkmen, with white handkerchiefs pinned:, to their back, giufidee long convioys of stranded mdtomi'sts. In the heart of 'Lot don, bus conductors Walked along the curbs, shouting directions to their sirivers, who could net see two feet a'hea'd. On election clay in October, 1932, ibell ringers were sent oat `to ide voters in Clapham; while in SDuke London a tree of etrhilte arrows twas carefully chalked on the ground Ito sihiow the way to the polls. 'Under the d'rea'd' 'spell of such fogs mall trucks cannot collect mail; ,phys- i'cia'ns attempt to make none but the gravest emergency calls. • Cabbies, laborer, news vendor(, often became nauseated, bimostasphyxi'alted, by the foga end ivospilbala get i"ead ; !K'`a"'hh Who- Pays? Messrs. Jones and Messrs. Smith both make shoes shoes exactly similar in quality and style. Messrs. Jones do not advertise. Messrs. Smith do, and sell a very much greater quantity than Messrs.- Jones in consequence. Who pays for Messrs. Smith's advertising? Not Messrs. Smith—because their profit–non the, quantity sold—is Messrs. Jones' profit multiplied many times. Not the public—because they get, for $4.00, shoes of -a quality for which Messrs. Jones charge $4.50. Not the retailer—because the profit is the same in both cases. No one prays for advertising. It is an economy—not a charge. It does for the operation of selling what Messrs. Smith's ma- chinery does for the operation of making shoes—speeds it up, and multiplies its efficiency. It makes possible big -scale pro- duction and so reduces costs. , --it paps to advertise J. • THE HURON EXPOSITOR McLEAN. BROS., Publishers, SEAFORT I R In the early pant of 1917 when the World War was, occupying the first ° page -Vol all newslplapers, one of the. office boys of the New York World came Vo my desk with a message that Commander Earl P. Jessup, sen* for engineering officer and Captain of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, ha,d some- thing of importance to tell me. I Bird hen spacing hack and forth in his loffilce, obviously under sup- pressed excitement. "I have just seen something," he said, "that all my technical knowledge, all my com- mon sense tells me is impossible. But if `try eyes deceived lane, certainly my instruments of ,precis +o ri did not. In short," he went on, "we have just finished testing an invention that gives every indication of being .the greatest since the invention of gene powder." e n' - powder." The substance of what he told me was .this: As senior engineering officer, num- erous inventions designed to improve war efficiency had been referred to 'him. He had. found most of the ideas impractical. 'Butt one inventor writing from McKeesporft, Pa., was se 'persistent that he was finally told to come on. This inventor claimed that he had devised a chemical mie- ture which ;Would give to water— either fresh or salt --the explosive force of gasoline. He said that the chemicals were se inexpensive as to make the cost 'of this mixture almost negligible, about .two cen£s a gallon. The man, John Andrews—a Portu- guese—had arrived at the Yard the preceding day, travelling in an auto- reobile. In . the laboratory of the Yard was a Navy .mater boat engine with edtynamelmelber attached. This was used .for the test. "We gave Andrews a bucket of water drawn 'from the Navy Yard hydrant by one of the Yard attach- es," Commander Jessop said. "He got into his car with a gallon can which we inspected and found to be empty and a.little satchel he carried with him. In ablout a minute he handed out the filled can whish I .per- sonally carried to the open feed tank. While pouring the liquid into ,he tank Andrews held a lighted cigar- ette close to the liquid Which did not ignite; thee showed .it was not gase- ous or inflammable at that part of the demonstration, 'which to me • was most 'impor'tant." And then came the amazing thing. "'Ihe engine," in Commander Jes- eou's words, "caught just as qui,cldy as it would have done with gasoline, and miter a Moment's adjustment the carburetor, it settled down to its work, developing fid,, ver cent of its rated Ihoesepower, a remarkable showing with any fuel with so slight - a' readjustment of the carburetor." Upon leaving the Yard afterthe fresh water demonstration, Andrews said he essquld be back the next morn - jag( and Would run the engine on salt water, if the Navy Yard would pro- vide it. In this second test Andrews was placed in a bare, concrete room with no drama. and no possible way for disposing ,of the .bucket of salt water that was paissed be him, ex- cept by placing it in his gallon can. "In a minute,". Commander Jessop said, "he emerged with the can filled and ,the engine again used -it up, no difference being noted between salt halter and fresh. Besidles myself, Rear Admiral G. E. Burd, the Indus- trial .Manager of the Yard, was pres- ent and with the pregaulti'ons we had taken -our own Navy engine, tank and cafibuxetor and bur own men sup- plying the water -,there was no pos- sibility of deception. "From a military viewpoint, it is almlost impossible- to visualize what sueh an invention means. It is so important that we have hurried an officer to Wlashington to snake a per - smell report to the Navy Depart- ment. It is obvious that Andrews has discovered a combination of chem- icals, which bre los Blown water to a a a form that is inert until mechanical- ly vaporized by -the caxlburetor, when the spark causes it to burn, asgaso- line burns." Asked the w'hereab'outs of Andrews Conunander Jessup said he had reg- istered at the' Continental Hotel and on my way the/e I thought of the many i•mpla.'cations of that invention: airplanes dropping a suction hose into the ocean to draw hp fuel; sub- marnes keeping at sea indefinitely; and 'in the commercial field—no limit. for imagination there, At the Con- tinental I was told that Andrews had checked out about an hour' before. Lining no time, I took the train for McKeesport and began a search for him •early next morning. His name was not in the directory or telephone book, No one seemed to keow him, but finally a.man of whom I inquired said, "There he is, just getting out of his car." Andrewis was opening the gate of a little eotbage, a two or three room place, when I aedosted hem. He greet- ed me with a scowl of i'ns'tant suspi- ci6n but twthen I ,said, "I have come from the New York Navy Yard," he opened the gate and invited me in. On enotering,his humble quarters, An- dresses a -:cede a hurried examination of every part of the house—opening closet doors, peering behind doors and out of windows. Finally he quit his inspection, and froze when I said: "While It is thue that I came di- rect from the Navy Yard, I do not want to sail under faLse colors. I am Navy editor of the New York World. Commander Jessop told me about your inven'ti'on and I have come to taik to you about it." No, not a Word would he say. Finally I told him I had not had breakfast and would be glad if he would east with me. With mulch reluctance he con- sented. ' There were plenty of vacant tables in the restaurant Andrews, selected but he led the way to one in a dark Corner and seated himself with hack to wall where he could' command a view of everyone entering the place. And whenever .anyone did enter he susperded breakfast to make a close survey of the entrant. "I am being followed everywhere, day and night," he' said excitedly. "A lot of people know about my inven- tion --know it Will put every oil com- pany in the world out of business,. Two cents a. gallon for a substitute good as the bestt they can refine! I'll tell yon," and be became more excit- ed, "my lifeis not wet -that that!" He snapped his fingers. "Think of what my invention means to nations at war." I mntereepted his nervous ,+chatter with this suggestion; that I go -to Washington and make an arrange- ment with the Navy Department for an official and thorough test of eels invention. "Can you do that!" he eagerly ask- ed and the more he thought of it the more the' idea appealed to him. With the understanding that I would do all that was possible and that he would await -the outcome in McKees- port and keep in close touch with the telegraph office, I left for Washing- ton. • 'i'nere •I found Secretary Jos- ephus Daniels and Assistaht S• i;re- tary Franklin D. Roosevelt both -ab- sent and the department in charge of the Senior Bureau Chief, a' fine old Navy man, but as rurimagina- Live as one of his blueprints.' "I have attended vtaedeville shows, this unemotional gentleman said, "1, have seen sleight-o-ha'nd performers draw a rebbit out of a silk hat—that is, it looked as iff,they did. Thi is another thing of ,the same sort. the New York Navy Yard is all steamed up about this vaudeville show and sent one of its officers down here to tell us about :ib. I am' not interested I believe it merely another kind of flim -flats." There.slploke ,bhe voice of 'tlhe Old Establishment. Often had it been heard before, 'when Dr. Gatling, beg- ged for ta, test of his howfaanotis machine gun; , when Hotchkiss asked a triial of his revolving cannon; when Holland triaanored. for a .tryout of his rinrlbtmarine. Not. one of these imlper'tant inventions Was adopted. here; all of the patents were event- ually sold abated and. we herve had to buy the rights' of these American inventions front foreign lcountlriea'" oxylg(en tanks to revive them. Pick- poekets thrive. Employccc'of large business houses make up,. Walking (parties to ,itheir 'sulburlban homes, 'sometimes giving it up and falling a- •sleep•'on sitrange doorsteps. Dinner parties are called off by phone or else the ]lonely hostess stares at vac- ancy while her guests wander aim- lessly, Typical incidents reported in the papers on the day following a pea- souper: are, bath ludicrous and tragic. A couple returning from a wedding plunged straight into the Wednesfield canal and Were drowned. The royal musicians playing , outside Bucking- ham Palace reported that they could not see their music and were oblig- ed to play from memory during the changing of the guard. Firemen in Balham 'walked to a fire carrying a lantern ahead of the apparatus. A duck and a drake which. had Lost their bearings amazed the .guests of the Strand Hotel by alighting , on the pavement outside. Conductors had to • ci'imlb signal towers to decide whe- ther lights w'e:ee red or green. One train got en the wrong track and chugged 30 miles out of ithe' way be- fore the engineer discovered the mis- take. During' one of the fogs of ` 1928 a visiting (potentate, the King of Afghanistan, was unable to see the spectators along the line -of the wel- coming parade, and they—not 'to be outdone by His Highness --were un- able to see him. In a 1931 fog one airplane out of four that tried to land managed to find Oiioydon air- port, 'bust the pilot got lost while taxing from the center •of the land- ing field to the hangar. -A search- ing party also' got lost, and half an hour elapsed while everybody looked for everybody in the 50 -acre field. During the terrible fog of 1.932, the misfit seeped into Great Albert Hall where Galli -Cunei was giving a con- cert, and partially obscured the fam- ous diva's face. All these foggy com(plications;• are borne by Londoners with exception- ally good spirits. The usual British reserve breaks down -when a fog rolls in and dmmrvediately hy'er'y(body be- comes helpful, v'heery and full of good will. But even the most 'loyal Londoner cannon deny 'that a pea- souper means an enormous economic loss. Incoming steamers must wait at the moiebh of the Thames for tihe curtain to lift. A three-day fog in 1930 cost the Port of London •AiUth'or- ity and other business undertakings $15,000,000. The extra gas and elec- tric'iey used on a day of black fog would supply a city of 50,000 popu- lation with illumination for a year! One statistician figured ori, that fogs. cost London about $26,001,500 a year, what with the lose of health, w'as'te mf coal, cleaning bills. (Kew Botanical Gardens have a deposit weighing 6 bons of soot'to a square mile), extra gas for lighting, traffic tie-ups and the like. The 1iuman loss from illness is•: terrific. One might .su(ppo)se that London- ers: Would try to- de soniething about his black plague that visits them every winner.' Well, they do try— `teey't'e been, trying for centuries. Six hundred years ago, 'Edward I made it a penal offense he burn soft coal, and presentfeen'oke Abatement com- mittees urge the use of other fuels to Iteep down the quantity of shot in the air. But soft coal is the tee tion) fluel of Londoners; it is ranch dreaper than gas or electriicity. Not until al cheap and sdotleas substitute for stott coal is discovered: and adopt- ed by the citizenry will London's drag) fogs be a thing of tble•apast,- taboo: box. D .Chase's 01 NTME Secretary Daniels returned the text day and; after he had heard the story promptest said, "Tell the mean to CAME! on at once; I vvtilil have a submarine) and airplane detailed and ready for him on his +aeriv'ai." . I sent e telegram to Andrew's. Hear- ing nothing from him, ih due time I ser.t another and still another and finally had the operator ask MlcKees- port if the ,messages had been . deliv- ered. None of them. had. Hurrying back to McK'eesiplort, I knocked on the door of the little ` Cottage, but got no response. ' During several hours spent in fruitless asking of People at telegraph office, ,'restaurant and other places, if they knew of the wherea- bouts of Andrews, it came to me that those nervous apprehensions of his, which seemed. so fantastic at the time, were not so preposterous after all. I finally took the case to police headquarters. .Men were sent with me to tike cottage• where an eatamine- tion revealed marks of a struggle, a trunk .broken open and bureau 'draw- ers ransacked. But bhere was no trace (of Andrew's. Nor was any ev- erfound or any clue. A recent letter from Captain Jes- sop—now on the retired list — who would have been among the 'first to be informed, said that nothing had ever been heard of the mess' in- ventor. ']huts. i.nitfo`. the limbo of the unsolved vani.sh'ed Andrews and hiss iniv'ention; into the dusk with Doro- thy Arnold, the collier Cy'cl'ops an other silent, baffling mysteries. Farm Notes Pig Feeding Methods .Although • there are several meth- ods of preparing meal mixtures for feeding pigs, the following rules are recommended as safe practices in producing hogs of the desired type: (I) Grind all grain. Fine grinding is recommended especially for young Pigs. (2) Soak meal mixture between feeds; de not use too mulch water but feed a's a' fairly thick slop. (3) Hand feeding is the :best method for se- curing hogs of a desirable type. (4) If necessary, a self -feeder may he us ed after pigs have reached the grow- ing stage of development. (5) Keep pails, troughs and , other feeding. equipment clean. Mouldy or decay- ing matter will cause feeding trou-. hies, and (6) Supply clean drinking water. Head The Hive With a Prolific Queen The foundation for the next year's honye crop, says the 'Dominion Apiar- ist, is laid by making sure that ev- ery colony is headed by a young and) vigorous queen early in August so that she has sufficient time to pro- duce a large force of bees before the end of the brood rearing season. To perform the duties expected of her the queen must have ample room for maximum egg production and there must always be an adequate supply of food available for the brood she leproduces. Other conditions being ° satisfactory, strong colonies headed ' with a young vigorous queen in the Fall are the best assurance of strong colonies the following spring and a strong force of field bees in time for harvest. Feeding' of Lambs Quality is 'important in lambs. Fin- ish and weight along with breeding (play an equally important part in, determining quality: While improve- ments in the breeding and feeding of lambs has increased the quality of the finished product, there is stiff much to be clone in order to supply', the trade with what it requires throughout a greater portion of the year. 'Buck lambs do not please the consumers, and tend to discourage Ibuying of lamb. For .a number of years the price of buck lambs has been cut below that of wether and ewe lambs, and on and after July 2 off this year 2 cents more hell be paid for ewe and wether lambs than for bucks. A premium will be paid for good quality, well-finisihed lambs 'up to 90 pounds over those ranging from 100 to 110 pounds. In order too get top price castrate all male lambs not intended ,for breeding purposes and finish the lambs to a desired weight. This requires extra feed, and it will he necessary to grain the lambs on pasture. With the way this sea- son is starting off grain feeding on pasture may be necessitated- more than 'in the past. It is a good plan: to pick out the earliest and fastest- growing lambs and crowd them for market. As the season advances the price may drop. Early summer sales are always at higher price than fall sales. Light lambs should be held back until they have taken on the desired fleshing. It isby paying at- tention to market requirements that the best returns the obtained from the (look. - 5