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brings Joy to thousands
throughout the United
(to none more than Mrs.
ingling, Nebo for the greater
"years has made her home
;keit 'ea the ;lot with elephants
eihboiis, acrobats for friends,.
e±' whiff of tanbark as a eon-
feowpanloa
eq. one, however, makes less of
e things than. Mre. Ringling. She
,;peret understand how euyone could
aspect her to make stories out of
them., -Trhinge have happened. Sure-
ly. L�ts of them. But why should
she be expected to remember them
any more •than i she had been house-
keeping in a small town all those
years and someone suddenly challeng-
ed. her to sum up the events of her
days.
What does natter to her is that
.ante is a contented person. She has
alwAys had what she wanted, but
then she adds, "Perhaps it is just
that I have wanted what I could
have."
,Keepaa is the Becitgraunda ---
Mrs. 'tingling laughs.-. as she de-
scribes the two circus men who
fainted at the sight and remarks
composedly, "I was all right." And
that in itself is a variation from her.
usual conversation, for Mrs. Ringling
ordinarily praises men. She refuses
to take the credit for any part of her
husbandfs work, or to anytlhing
which would make women seem
more remarkable than inert. Her idea
is that men should . be is ..the fore-
ground, and that if a woman ever
gives them a..bit of good advice, she
should keep still about it and never
claim the credit for what the men
do as a result of it.
lairs, Rangling, however, does like to
tel•l of the day when she saved• Fan-
ny. That was after the time of the
encounter, and, shows that Mrs. Ring-
ling at least bore no malice. There
' was a train wreck and one of the
cars w.lsioh was demolished carried
three elephants. The other two
scrambled to safety, but Fanny went
down on ,her back in a .culvert, the
water nearly covering her. It was
Mrs. Ringling who thought that if
they lifted up Fanny's trunk and held
it in the air, she could breathe, so
she directed these operations. And
then Babe took a hand, Babe being
the famous old elephant who for many
years led the Ringling herd. Or should
it be -said that Babe took a trunk.
Anyway, Babe stood at one side of
the culvert, stretched out her trunk,
booked it around Fanny's neck, and
lifted her out onto•dry ground.
Three Elephants Instead of 43
There are }some things " that Mrs.
Ringling likes better than others: for
instance, A. day when 'the weather is
fair and business is ;good. She Pre-
fers the small towns Where she trav-
elled when the circus had three ele-
phents.. instead of 43, when the show
was small enough so that the per-
formance was a neighborhood affair
instead of the later "great eggrega-
rbion" with- the necessity for seeking
bigger audiences in bigger townsr
And above all, Mrs. Ringling likes to
have the bigtop -set up' somewhere
a trout stream where she can
go fir 'ng in her spare time.
She was working at her needlepoint
wlben I saw her -a huge, piece for a
huge. chair. "I have probably used a
ton of wool in needlepoint and knit-
ting during these 47 years," she said.
If you insist, Mrs. Ringling, will tell
a few stories, bat it takes a powerful
lot of coaxing to get her started. Per-
haps she will tell about the day that
Fanny knocked her over. It is Fan-
ny, by the way, who makes Mgrs. Ring-
ling a little reluctant to give her
whole -hearted approval to elephants.
Fanny,. the Elephant
Fanny belonged to the Ringling cir-
cus a good many years ago. She was
an African elephant, not the Indian
variety which makes up the major
part of the circus family these days,
and which is preferred for its docility
and intelligence.
On the day that Mrs. Ringling and
Fanny had their encounter she was
silting in the door of the big top
waiting for the return of the parade.
Fanny was the emallest of the tlhn-ee
elephants, the two larger ones being
her good friends. The parade stop-
ped. The . canvas was lifted and the
two larger elephants walked inside
the tent. Somehow the canvas was
dropped and Fanny was outside and
alone. Fanny lifted up her trunk and
trumpeted. Then she started for the
door. Neither Fanny nor Mrs. Ring-
ling hesitated. In fact, it may be said
that Mrs. Ringling was tile quicker
of the two, for she leaped from her
chair beside the door -but, only a sec-
ond
eo-and before the elephant smashed it
into kindling wood.
FREE FROM SCIATICA
FOR 35 YEAS
With. Small Boys
There es one thing that Mrs. Ring-
ling does not do these days, and that
is to take small boys free into the
circus. She used to do it. As a mat-
ter of fact, sire used to sit in her car
down near the main, entrance and
watch for' the smell boys who' had no
Money with which to pay • their way.
When the performance started, Mrs.
l:ir.gling would round up ten or a doz-
en of them and escort them to seats.
But one night she found a very small
toy among the group wistfully sur-
rounding the gate.
She took in the others and sent an
older brother home to obtain permis-
sion for the little chap to go inside.
The brother was so long returning
that Mrs. Ringling went inside and
held a tattered and very dirty urchin
on cher knee. When the brother fin-
ally returned he was accompanied by
a rat -eat and a policeman. The par-
ent insisted that she was -a kidnapper
and he must be paid for his worry.
Mrs. Ringling talked her way out of
that difficulty but she never has re-
peated an invitation Which might be
misunderstood.
To -day her great interests are the
second and third generations of th-e,
c.rcus family, and Gargantua; the big
nee gorilla. Between times Mrs.
F'ingling bestows affection upon her
own family, counts the happy days
she has had with the circus, every one
of which she insists has been happy,
and looks forward to many more of
them.
THE DESERT WILL BLOOM
The Al1-Ameriean Canal, 'i$ow un-
der construction in Southern Califor-
nia, will be America's largest irriga-
tions ditch. For 70 years, individuals,
private companies• and government en-
gineers have talked of such a canal,
entirely' on United States soil.
across America's most forbidding des-
ert, sometimes called •the American
Sahara. In old geographies it was
named the Colorado Desert.
Until the latter part of the nine-
teenth century this region was mostly
consdder+ed a total loss, save for its
hidden pockets of golds, its enchanting
sunsets and restful quietude. The
poundiiing of the motor -driven machin-
ery and occasional blasting on the
desert stillness for the past - four
years makes one hesitate to call it
desert any more. Possibly, a genera-
tion thence, When it may be teeming
with cultivation, it will be a "former
desert."
The All-American Canal will be a
In Perfect Health at 73
-Thanks to Kruschen
Thirty- five years ago this sep-
tuagenarian was helpless with scia-
tica. Then he heard of Kruschen.
Since that day, he teas enjoyed per-
fect 'health. Here is his remarkable
story: -
"Thirty -five years ago, I had a sev-
ere attack of sciatica., aril could
scarcely move for about six weeks.
Then I started taking Krusehen
about half -a -teaspoonful every morn-
ing in hot water. In a few 'weeks, I
got rid of the awful pain in my hips.
I have never had to consult a doctor
since, and am still in perfect health
at 73 years of age, which I can only
attribute to taking Kruschen Salts
every morning."-T.A.
Most people grow old long .before
their time because they neglect one
vital need of healtie---•the need of in-
ternal cleanliness. Eventually, they
start the healthy Kruschen habit.
Then, probably for the first time in
their lives, they start getting rid, ev-
ery day, of all waste matter from the
system. The result is renewed health
and vigour. Ailment due to clogged
systems vanish, youth returns, and
lite becomes really worth living.
EXi fTOR •. "
riv!eii''vM'klh. a (*peaty fOr 7.0 per cent
of the average 'flow of the Colorado
Raver at Boulder Dann. It will have an
initial flow' of 15,000 second feet, which
means than 15,000 cubit feet of. water
-flows past a given point. in one sec-
ond. At Siphon Drop, 2,000 second
feet, will be diverted to the Yuma• pro-
ject, including an area arounn, Yuma
both on the California and the Ari-
zona sid„kis of the river.
There is a natural dropan the route
of the papal at Pilot Knob, making
suitable location for a power plant
e biOh ds . planned for the future to
utilize the water flow an excess of
that needed for irrigation.
Beyond the mountains, except for
10 miles dire ugh the sand Bills, the
canal extends almost parallel andnear
to the Mexican border most of the
distance to Imperial Valley. Sections
of the canal where the earth is por-
ous have been lined with compacted
earth.
To prevent sand from blowing into
the canal off the dunes to a great ex-
tent, a 20 -foot berm has been built on
each side of the canal through the
dunes at the mesa floor level. Should
this proteotion prove inadequate, one
of the following- methods will be
tried:' (1) Growing vegetation on the
banks by irrigation; (2) spraying the
banks with crude oil; (3) covering the
sand with a coarse materiel too heavy
to be blown by the winds
Across the desert there are many
washes, dry every day in the year,
save one or two, perhaps, when even
a desert sky will belch forth a down-
pour that makes raging torrents in a
few °minutes. To prevent these wash-
es from invading the banks of the
canal, siphons have been constructed
across the canal, making rivers across
a river in times of heavy rain. The
most tutruly of these is the "Unnam-
ed Wash," for which, it seems, no one
has thought of a name quite descrip-
tive enough. Along • the Coachella
route there are approximately 180 of
these washes, which will be taken
care of in.90 structures by using train-
ing levees and diversion channels.
The new Imperial Dam was not in-
cluded in bee original plans for the
canal. It was intended to divert the
water from the Colorado Itiver at
Laguna Dam, completed in 1909, the
present headwaters of the Yuma Main
Canal. About 1930, the engineers saw
that if a new dam were built five
miles up the river from Laguna it
would raise the water level 30 feet,
making enough less excavation.
through the sand dunes to pay for
the dam, which with the desilting
works under construction will cost
approximately $7,500,000. Considering
the advantage and the- fact that ex-
tensive alterations were necessary in
alt events, it was decided to build Im-
perial Dam.
Near the site of the new dam there
is a small city of construction work -
ere,' besides a camp for government
employees and numerous. trailer thous -
es. 'I7he dam will require 2,489,600
cubic yards of excavation; 1,065,000
cubic yards of concrete; 113,400 lineal
feet, more than 21 miles, of concrete
piling; 5,203,000 pounds of steel sheet
pi -ling; 2,660,000 feet board measure
of timber sheet piling; 18,255,000
pounds of reinforcement steel and in-
stallation of 7,632,000 pounds of gates.
The desiltiag works is, a new fea-
ture in engin eering, designed to pre-
vent- a
' bewee poe44-- --sift is the
canal. It will include three basins,
each 5011 feet by 800 feet, 12.5 feet
deep, with provision for a fourth bas -
111 if and when it is found necessary,
Silt deposited in. the basins will be
sluiced out into the river below by
means of 72 huge motor -driven rotat-
ing scrapers, each 125 feet in diame-
ter. The scrapers may be controlled
individually or in groups of 24.
The darn is of the slab -and -buttress
type, with a total length of 3,430 feet.
.I•ts maximum height will be 45 feet
ani`I the maximum base thickness 75
feet. Both abutments are built on sol-
id rock, but between it is a floating
type dam built on the sandy river bed.
To Charles R. Rockwood, more tban
to any other individual, goes credit
for• making Irrigation of the South-
west a reality, though the idea of the
All-American Canal also looked im-
possible to him. The record of his
efforts, defeated hopes, sacrifices, and
perseverance, as well as of those w'ho
worked with him, in trying for eight
years to obtain funds to carry water
through the barren sands, is a thrill-
ing story. After years of fruitless ef-
fort, ridicule, and travel to many
pointe of .the United States, Mexico,
and Europe, be succeeded in interest-
ing one capitalist, George Chaffey. Ev-
en then the owtcome was net entirely
happy.
The first water reached Imperial
Valiey in June, 1901. There were num-
erous private irrigation companies
during the next decade, more or less
conflicting in interests until, in 1911,
when by popular election. the Imper-
ial Irrigation District was created
with power to levy assessments, pur-
chase holdings, and issue bonds as a
municipality. From that day ithe his-
tory of irrigation ran more smoothly.
At every meeting of tee district di-
rectors the subject of the All-Ameri-
can Canal was discussed'. At a .mass
meeting In November, 1918, the pro-
ject was given popular approval and
Secretary Lane of the Interior was
petitioned to make a survey. The sur-
vey was made at a Dost of $45,000,
(me -third of which was borne by the
district.
From its inception the project In -
eluded plans for controlling the Colo-
rado River at Boulder Canyon, thus
preventing recurrence 'of disastrous
floods of former years and storing the
water needed for the .All-American
Canal. In 1924 when it was learned
that the cost ;of the • canal would be
at least $30,000,000, deterhi need op -
Position to the Canal part of the pro-
ject arose tb ough an. organization
called the Colorado River Control
Clu''b, favoring control ` of the river,
but maintainiiig that It was unwise
to saddle the •people with the Arran -
Mal burden' at that -time. The bill,
first kaewn as. the Swing -Johnson )3111,
had Vii. stormy ,•,e.areer in Congress be-
fore boiuig pafi9ed.. do its • entirety ,as
th+e•? deer (NAVA Project Act, Bea.
21, 1928, ••
WAWA the MeW Canal is put into
operatibne 1t :Mil be tire largest - ae,
cempllshment $t dta kind on the West -
tern . Hemiepheee, Pew "prWeets hays
take)), as' Mneth,tante, 1iiVeetti'gation,
;101thaing,. ere otantetng, Acetolding , to
monument to pioneers who have had
their part in making the "desert re-
joice and blossom like the rose," from
earliest pioneers who carried water
in bagels and jugs to sturdy, tanned
surveyors who knew Chat if the desert
could be watered, the agricultural pos-
sibilities were almost unlimited, but
shook their heads at the thought. If
it could be done, they said, it would
be necessary to curve the waterway
into Mexico along the -sand dunes.
These picturesque dunes, remnant of
a pre -historic sea, were a Red Sea to
engineers of a generation ago. En-
gineering skill could; go around them,
but not throu$ them. It is the sup-
posedly impoasibie that is now being
accomplished.
This great waterway project is un-
der the Bureau of Reclamation of the
Department of the Interior. It will
provide an adequate supply of water
from the storage basin at Boulder
Dam for Imperial and, Coachella Val-
leys of Southern California without
the obligation of sharing the water
with Mexico on. a 50-50 basis, as has
beep done for 35 years under the pres-
ent system of irrigation. Approxi-
mately 1,040,000 acres of desert land
-an area greater than the farming
area of the State of Delaware, are in-
cluded in these valleys.
More than half of that area, 500,000
acres in Imperial Valley and 16,000
acres in Coachella Valley, are already
under -cultivation. The Itxrperial Val-
ley has been getting water from the
Imperial Main Canal, which diverts
from the Colorado River a short dis-
tance south of Yuma, Arizona, and
loops 50 miles into Mexico around
the sand dunes. The system has made
numerous .complications with Mexico.
The Coachella Valley 'has so far' irri-
gated from wells. The new land to
which water will be available throng -Le
the canal will not be opened for set-
tlement until needed. - '
For the completed canal, more than -
65,000,000 cubic yards of earth will
have been excavated, nearly all of
which is sow done, creating about 14
miles of man-made foothills against
the pudple-tinted Cargo Muoacbo
Mountains from the point of diversion
on .,the Colorado River to the sand
dunes. Thirteen tote of TNT were
required for blasting •through the
mountains at one point. The main
canal will be 80 miles long and ,the
branch leading from it to the Coach-
ella Valley will be 130 miles long,.
total of about four times the length,
of Panama Canal. The canal width
at water surface below Imperial Dani
(will be 232 feet, the bottom width 160
feet, and the water depth 21 feet.
The canal, actually, will be a large.
BORROWING AT THE BANK
to.
mote
FARMING, DAIRYING,
STOCK RAISING -and other
lines of agricultural business often'
'need improvements or new equip-
ment, to stop waste and make
better profits.
Good man-
agers inevery
line of busi-
ness know
where small expenditures would
increase efficiency and
profits. If they can
spare the money from'
their working capital,
they will spend it
promptly for such
purposes. If they have good se-
curity, but not the ready cash,
they will wisely borrow.
Wherever,
in Carnada,
agricultural
,-'business is
carried on, VA..
there is a branch of the Bank
of Motltreal, acquainted with
local needs and
conditions, ready
to consider appli-
cations for loans
for such constructive
purposes. .
.,B K O -N T R E 1 L
A'STABLISHRD 1817
"a bank •where mall acdrwwit#''are welcome"
Clurton Bi anent H M M4IEiT> 1, Maiaaget•
• Heiman Sawa: • W. Il: A. CROSIS, Mtuager
tivrege1d (s, Agency): Olen Toesdsit and & ay
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Bare Spots in Lawns
Disfiguring bare spots in an other-
wise good' looking lawn can be re-
moved, though the Job will require a
little patience. Like a disease the
cause must be analysed before treat-
ment can be attempted. There may
be various reasons, such as short cuts
by children, milkmen or dogs, sour,
or poor soil underneath, weeds, or
starvation, or shade.
If the grass is simply worn thin by
traffic then tee owner must decide
whether the path is going to be con-
tinued. If so, experts advise giving
up the attempt to -grow grass and
paving with flag stones, cinders, brick,
sand or similar quick drying mater-
ial. 'If a path is rat wanted, then it
may be necessary to protect by wire
or a hedge and make sure the prac-
tise of short -cutting is discontinued.
If soil is poor or sour underneath,
it will be necessary to dig up, re-
move any gravel or stones filling up
with good earth and sowing thickly
with a good quality of Canadian grass
seed.. For this purpose and for new
lawns it is always best to get a good
Mixture of high quality, packaged
grails seed blended by expert seed -
men.
Sour soil can be corrected by an
application of garden lime once or
twice every few years. Moss is us-
ually the sign of sour soil or too
much shade, For partially shade pos-
itions it is advisable to use a special
shade seed. mixture. Every big seed
house puts up such.. Of course close
to the north side of a house or under
trees or shrubbery it is difficult to
grow good grass in any case and
sometimes rather than make the at-
tempt it is advisable to fill in with
shrubbery or pave the areas with flag
stones or plant wild flowers'.
Where weeds are the.cause of -the
grass dying the remedy will be dig-
ging out the offenders, adding rich
sail and treating once or twice with
a liberal application of commercial
fertilizer or manure. Grass is a crop
just like vegetables or flowers and
must have good soil.
To Hasten • Growth
Where the gardener is anxious for
very early vegetables there are var-
ious short cuts at his or her commend.
Professional market gardeners who
must have things early in order to
secure top prices, start moat vege-
table and flowers in, pots or shallow
boxes In greenhouses. The amateur
gets the same results either by pur-
chasing these started plants' •or he
grows them himself in a 'hot bed or
Irrigation. District and the Federal
Government, the entire cost of the
canal and dam, not. to exceed), $38,500,-
000,
38,500,000, le to be repaid to tihe. Governmlent
over a period cif 40 years, ,probably
to be ileanced by sate of power, de-
veloped by hydlro-electric plants on
the waterway.' ; Power possibilities
fronn imlpeiital lam to Mad including
i6lphol DIfepi are reserved eirrved by; the Fed.
41ho agreement botwe'ert t$ 1mpei era% i4alitc,
w. y
sunny window.
For earliest results these plants are
grown indoors in individual pots. In
the case of tomatoes they may have
their first fruits well advanced or be
at least in blossom when ready for
outdoors. Flowers like petunias, cos-
mos or marigolds will trove buds.
Such well advanced things must be
transplanted; carefully with ittle dis-
turbance to the roots. Sometimes
the pot or box is broken off gently.
and the inside, roots and soil is plant-
ed without any , distu-rbance at all.
Immediately after planting the gar-
derier waters liberally, adds an. appli-
cation of quick acting commercial
fertilizer, rich in nitrogen. To pre-
vent burning roots Or foliage, this
fertilizer is usually 1issolved in wa-
ter before applying.
Mulch Paper
Another short cut for vegetables is
the use df special mulch paper. This
Is heavy black material similar to
tarpaper, only tougher. It is spread
over the whole of the garden where
the early stuff is to be grown, holes
are punched .in it for the plants or
seed.
The paper saves all cultivation and,
of course, keeps the soil underneath
much warmer than usual- Growth is
amazingly rapid, especially if soil is
rich and well fertilized. The paper
is held down with long wire staples,
either home made or purchased. Only
the very earliest crop Is treated in
this manner. Use of mulch paper of-
ten permits the growing of such ten-
der things , as corn and tomatoes in
those northerly districts of Canada
where there are only a three months
or less of summer without frost.
• Next Week -"Window Boxes, Hints
on Transplanting."
VEGETABLE. INSECTS
A 75 -page bulletin, profusely illus-
trated, on insects attacking Ontario
vegetables,written by Professor Law-
son Caesar, Provincial Entomologist,
Guelph, iii just off the press
and may be obtained) free eif charge
by writing the Statistic& and Publica-
tions Branch, Ontario Departntent of
Agriculture, Toronto.
This booklet will be of value to ev-
ery, vegetable grower in Ontario, con-
taining as it does the description, life
history and control methods of in-
sects that annually, level a lose .of
hundreds of thousands of, dollars to
Ontario vegetable crops.
Vegetsble experts state that there
re a i emedy for every insect peat at-
tacking .vegetables and these reme-
dies are all outlined in• Professor
Caesar's valuable phoanalau1et which is
yours for the asking.
Write for, it hour.
llhe lightning ,bug is a brillian thing,
nut the poor twig ie so blind
It, gner-oruartvmrblfng theenget the weed Memuet'
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Teacher: "Now, can any boy give
me a sentence using the word 'dia-
dem'?"
Pupils: "People who drive care-
lessly .across railway tracks diadefn
sight quicker than those who stop,
look and listen!"
LONDON and WINGHAM
North
A.M.
Exeter 10.34
Hens .1l 10.46
Kippen 10.52
Brucefield 11.00
Clinton 11.47
Londesbero 12.06
Blyth 12.16
Belgrave12.27
Wingham 12.45
South
Wingham
Belgrave
Blyth
Londesbero
Clinton
Brucefield
Kippen
Hensel)
Exeter
P.M.
1.50
2.06
2.17
2.26
3.08
r3.28
3.38
3.45
3.3ii
C.N.R. TIME TABLE
East `
A.M. P.M.
Goderioh 6.35 2.30
Holmesville . , ... 6.60 2:52
Clinton 6.58 3.00
Seaforth ... 7.11 3.16
St. Columyban 7.17 3.22
Dublin 7.21 3.29
Mitchell 7.30 3.41
West '
Mitchel} 11,06 9.28
Dublin 11.14 9.36
Seaforth 11.30 9.47
Clinton, - .... 11.45 10.00
Goder ieh 12.05 10.25
C.P.R. TIME TABLE
East
Goderidh
Menset ....4
McGaw
Auburn .
Blyth
Walton
McNaught
Toronto
Went
Toronto
McNsught , .... .,
Wla1tadd .s's's .: r
Biyrth
Auburit
MeGittivy
4....
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1 lit i9�7r7
P.M.
4.20
4.24
4.33
4.42
4.63
5.05
6.15
9.00
A.M.
8.3q
12.03
12.113
12.23
,.12.32
602.46
13:66
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