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twenty-five years John .T-
rppers has been selling inip rted
, lily and daffodil bulbs to the
+,'.thy: In doing so he has made a
ilO Une, but this he regards as sec-
> lltt!ary. His real .reword, he says,
pt) beau bringing beauty into the
ab lives of millionaires who, but
tip , thim� might never have known
't,lhe lovely pure pink of Clara Butt,
:'the 'magnificent cherry red of Profes-
sor Rauwenhof, or the pale -violet
.agpauve of Mr. Herbert Hoover. These
are varieties of tulips which; accord-
ing to Mr. Soheepers, "stand on their
Own feet and look you straight in
tbe eye." It is- his contention that
one can no more estimate the in-
trinsic value of a rare tulip than one
can estimate the price of honor. To
him the highest moment of history
,occurred in 1636 when a single bulb
was sold for 4,600 florins, a new car-
riage, two gray horses, four oxen,
eight swine, a suit of clothes, a silver
drinking cup, and a bed. This took
place in Mr. Scheepers' native Hon
• land during the period of that mad-
ness ,known to historians as tulipo-
mania, when flower lovers bought and
sold tulip bulbs with such a lavish
reci:lessness that the ordinary indus-
try of the. country was neglected and
the government finally had to inter-
fere: One merchant, 'according to a
story of the period, gave his entire
fortune for a bulb, which he momen-
tarily left. unguarded. He was ruined
when it was eaten by a sailor who
thougbt it was an anion.
Mr. Scheepers has never been able
to persuade anybody to give a fortune
for a bulb, but before the depression
he did manage to create a mild state
Of tulipomania, largely conflnd to the
Long Island estates of the latter-day
patroons. In 1925 she sold hundreds
of John T. Scheepers, tulip bulbs
which were valued by him at $500,00
each, and almost as many rare daffo-
dils for $250 apiece. The price of
bulbs, however, fluctuates. A new
variety will be expensive while it is
a rarity, but when it becomes com-
mon the price goes off. The John T.
Scheepers, for example, are now a
dollar- apiece, and this spring Mr. J.
P. Morgan ordered a cool two hun-
dred of them. Rare tulips sell at five
to ten dollars each and more cora-
mon varieties for five and ten dollars
a hundred, Many daffodil bulbs are
priced at twenty-five dollars, and
others are sold for as little as a quar-
ter, Once in a great while a new
hdlb as rare as the John T. Soh•e•epers
of 1925 will come along, and the
chances are it will be introduced to
the United States by Mr. Soheepers.
Wien he arrived in New York in 1906
at the age of nineteen, tulips were
regarded with little more respect
than violets. Today some gardeners,
in the sthort interim between delivery
and planting, keep rare tulip bulbi itt
safes. Mr. Scheepers' competitors ad-
mit that his early tactics had a lot
to do with raising both the respect
end the prices for tulips in this coun-
try. While the present state of a£-
feirs cannot be calked even a mild
tulipomania, the tulip business is, as
the phrase goes, .good.
There is poetry in Mr. Soheepers,
and to this quality the is inclined to
attribute his success. His idealism,
he says mn'1 it a sort of blasphemy
to sell cheaply a rare exotic variety.
He founded a new psychology•in tul-
ip salesmanship. American salesmen
had a tendency to find out what color
effect was wanted and then, as often
as not, tell the customer that a cheap-
er variety would look about the same
as a more expensive type if you stood
twenty feet away from it. They
thought low priices would mean larger
orders. Mr. Soheepers attracted the
best customers by dliiowing the rich
with what disrespect tihey were being
treated. An unusual person, he would
say, requires an unusual tulip. An
artistic soul does not quibble about
price when beauty is concerned- A
tulip that would not stand close !n -
speetion is an insult to a connoisseur.
One of his early competitors once
said,_ l"Soheepers took most of, our
.rich customers away by quadrupling
the prices- we charged them."
Th'ip same high-mindedness brought
Mr. Scheepers to the top of the flower
world, a specialized comntunity which
has almost as many castes as the Hin-
du religion and as numb intrigue as a
political convention- Although teen
nically he is in trade -a fact which
M'r. Scheepers finds it difficult to con-
cede -he is nevertheless a member of
the committee which Tuns that yearly
blue-ribbon event, the International
Flower Show, at the 'Grand Central
Palace. He••is also a member of the
board of the Horticultural Society of
New York, wihich represents the ar-
istocracy of the amateur gardeners
and is a notch above the Garden Club
of America. The members of the lat-
ter organization believe themselves
a little superior to the Federated Gar-
den Olubs, whose membership is
largely, recruited from sub -urban
housewives.
ARof Mr. Scheepers' fellow -offic-
ials an the Horticultural Society are
his customers. but be prefers to call
them his :fiends. If the exigencies
of business force him to use a more
accurate term, he is sometimes will-
ing to call them clients. But never
customers. He makes a distinction
between himself and his competitors
by saying "They sell commercially."
His friends and colleagues of the
Elorticultural Society include some of
the wealthiest gardeners in America
Henry and Pierre S. du Pont, Mar-
shall Field, Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, J.
P, Morgan, Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs.
Samuel Sloan, Mrs. T. A. Tavemeyer,
Mrs. Harrison Williams, Miss Marie
L. Constable, Mrs. Robert H. Fife,
Mrs. Samuel Seabury, Clarence L.
Hay, E. S. Harkness, Mrs. Harold 1.
Pratt, William A. Delano and so on.
For years Mrs. Soheepers hes suc-
ceeded in having his way with this
distinguished company as far as pol-
icies of the Horticultural Society go,
being always actuated by the very
highest motives.
Mr. Soheepers and his wife who was
Miss Rose Heywood of Boston, live
in an apartment at 173 Riverside
Drive. They have no children. He
has an office at 522 Fifth Avenue and
two country places, one in Rhode Is-
land and the other at Broowville;
Long Island, The formal title of the
Brookville estate' is Paradou,• but Mr.
Se/beepers likes to call it "my Dream
Garden." Paradou is the word for
"Paradise" in the Dutch tongue. The
estate consists of thirty-nine acres
• containing almost every known varie-
ty of daffodil, tulip, lily and many
other bulbous flowers. It is a sort of
living catalogue and Mr. Scheepers
invites his friends to view it as a
e'imulation to their sense of beauty
He charges an admission fee of 75
cents.
He is a ruddy -faced little man of
fifty-one and almost always wears a
dark -blue suit and a dull -red tie. His
eyes are very blue and solemn; his
manner is sometimes testy, often
moody, but always highly lyrical
when he is in the •midst of a bulb
deal,"His moodiness derives from an.
occasional suspicion• that he is being
persecuted by the unfair trade prac-
tices of unprincipled rivals. He still
lass some diffticulity with English and
because of this is occasionally silent
whet he is simmering within. Such
silences are usually followed by out-
bursts misinterpreted as• displays of
temper by those who do not realize
that Mr. Scheepers is merely force-
fully upholding his principles. His
basiniess cards describe him as public
relations counsel in this country. for
the Holland Bulb Exporters Associa-
tion ,an organization of Hollanders
who wisih to increase the sale of bulbs
here. He is rather vague about" the
exact duties this post involves and if
asked about them will say, "Oh, I
am an unofficial ambassador of good
will from Hallaud." The sa - of .u1bs
he says, is ubordluatei to such, finer
things as 1 ternabional a co mer-
tial coepelr thee In his apael y as
unofficial ambassador the ve annual
garden patties at Paradou n honor of
the birthday of Princess Juliana of
Holland until a few years ago, when
he discontinued them because of the
expense. In 1932 Queen Wilhelmina
made him a Knight of the Order of
Orange -Nassau. He Carries on an un-
official
nofficial campaign, by word of„ mouth,
against 'the American habit of call-
ing his cotrntrymsn, "Dutchmen." He
tells people that "Hollanders" is the
correct term.
It is Mr. Scheepers' sincere belief
that there would be no more war if
people would only turn more whole-
hhartedly to flowers. A gardener, he
likes "to say, has no time for the fool-
ishness Of war or, he is apt to add
rather fiercely, for .bridge, or smok-
ing, or cocktails. Mr. Scheepers in-
dulges in none of these pastimes and
attributes his strength of character
tr• his love of flowers, "'there is no
such peaceful relationship in the
world," he says, "as that between
flower lovers."
Mr. Scheepers was born in 1887 an
the town of Arnhem, on the Rhine,
near the German border. His father,
who held advanced social theories,
never entered business but dissipated
a small fortune in good' works among
the poor. "My father was a fearless
critic," the said once. "I am too. I
can always tell when something's
wrong in a garden color scheme even
when I don't know what it is." Mr.
Scheepers likes to think of (himself
as a born tulip, lover, destined for
his role by •heredity. Although none
of this ancestors raised or sold tulips
professionally, so• far as he knows, he
finds pleasure in believing that their
lives as tradesmen and sturdy, self-
respecting burghers were brightened
by bulbs. He is fond of telling how
he frequently played hooky from
school.to ,teat tulips from the mar-
ket plce and public -gardens, and
says that by the age of eleven he
had; a bookful of pressed blossoms.
• When he was nineteen, after his
graduation from a preparatory- school
where he learned English of a sort,
the embarked for the United States -
to "study the commercial situation,"
he says now, as solemnly as if he
were speaking of a great industrialist
instead of a boy with very little
money. At any rate, on the beat he
met a Dutch bulb exporter, who offer-
ed him a position as American re-
presentative of his firm, and he took
the job. For five years, until 1911,
when the was twenty-four, Scheepers
travelled here selling bulbs to green-
house proprietors. Each summer, af-
ter getting his orders, he would re-
turn to Holland and come back in
the fall with his bulbs. His yearly
trip to Holland was to keep in touch
with the latest developments in
bulbs.
He went into business for himself
in 1911. For two years he sold im-
ported tulip bulbs to the owners of
greenhouses and was very unhappy.
He calls this "my short span of com-
merce" and says, "I found that the
greenhouse men were speculating
with my money. If they had a good
year, they would pay me. If they
had a bad season, I was out." He had
several soul -searing experiences. On
one occasion, after -he had advanced
$3,000 to a florist at• Middle Village,
Long Island, he heard that the (man
was about to go into bankruptcy and
sped out to protect his interests.
"When I got there," the says, "all I
found was this bat." On aro tee oc-
casion he gambled desperately to bol-
ster up a customer so that the latter
could pay him- "First 1 paid) his coal
bill," he says with an anguish that
the years have not lessened. "Then
I was paying for This help. Flinel•ly I
was paying for his seeds. It got so
was working for him. I lost five
thousand dollars."
Mr. Scheepers had still to find him-
self. • As yet he had not become con-
scious of the American aristocracy.
"I was a greenthorn," he says, "and
all I wanted then was to make mon-
ey." His competitors of those days
remember him as a short, dour Hol-
lander whose most noticeable trait
was an amazing persistency. He was
not above putting his foot in the door,
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they say, with the boldness of a Ful-
ler Brush man. Despite this, he lost
money until one of .those little things
happened that often change the•
course of lives and industries. He was
boarding in New Rochelle with a bro-
ther of former Governor Odell. "Why
don't you sell direct to the rich ama-
teur gardeners instead of peddling to
greenhouses?" said the Governor's
brother casually,
Odell walked, away without waiting
for an answer and probably does not
know to this day that his words were
to take the bulb salesman out of com-
merce and place him in something a
whole lot more advantageous. Mr.
Scheepers doesn't even remember
Odell's first name. He does remem-
ber that he had to work fast. It was
midsummer of 1913, and he realized
he wiould have to get his orders swift-
ly so that he would be able to make
htis deliveries in the fall, when most
b'dlbs are planted. He bought.a sec-
ondJhand Ford and dirove as fast as
he could to Newport.
The first friend he made was Mrs.
Ellen French Vanderbilt, "She didn't
quibble at prices," he says, "That en
courage() me." He sold her a small
collection of tulip bulbs for $1,000.00
and made an important discovery:
Mrs. Vanderbilt seemed pleased when
as she was about to order a cheap
variety, he told her, "Oh, they would-
n't do for you, Mrs. Vanderbilt!"
Mrs. Vanderbilt told her friends
about Mr,' Soheepers. They found him
irresistible when he said in halting
English, "Blue is the color of dis-
tance for the garden, like the blue of
the sky," or when he spoke of a
flower, "with amber -Lights and a
rosy glow all over" or of tulips with
"a certain little charm." To them it
seemed delightful and appropriate to
buy Holland bulbs from an authentic
Hollander. Salesmen who talked pric-
es and talked American were at a
Serious disadvantage. When he left
Newport late in August he had orders
totalling almost $50,000.
Another of his early clients was
Pierre S. du Pont, who, says Mr.
Scheepers, "gave Me carte blanche,
and that's the way I like to•do busi-
ness." His highest encomium is to
say of a man, "He gave me carte
blanche." He says it as others might
say, "He is the soul of generosity"
or "He is a man amtong men." In•
this instance, Mr. Scheepers ••ecided
that Mr. du Pont's estate at lming-
tan required, in addition
t tulips,
thirty-six azalea bushes which he had
once seen growing on the estate of a
count in Belgium. He went abroad,
found that the count had died, nego-
tiated with his hears; and returned
with the azaleas. Mr. Soheepers
charged Mr. du Pont $50,000 for the
job, but this gives him little pleasure
today. "If I knew what I do now,"
he says, "I would shave charger] $100,-
'000." Tihen, as if afraid that this
might be construed, as a slur upon
Mr. du Pont, he adds, "He is a won-
derful man. He lives in a modest
house but his flowers, live in a pal-
ace."
From the beginning of bis new ca-
reer. Mr. Scbeepers avoided mention-
ing price as far as possible. The only
reference to monetary matters was in
his bills- His contempt for the mon-
ey, side of his art was sc marked
that son nes he did not get around
to sendin bills until the bulbs he than
sold were un the ground. He suffered
a few rebuffs.. One fellow, a Chica-
goan, was so outraged by the bill that
he dug up the tulips he had planted
and sent them back. On another oc-
casion William R. Coe, of Oyster Bay,
refused to pay a bill of $50,000.
Soheepers filed suit and the case was
settled out of court for about $30,000.
In 1913 the International Flower,
Show was started, and in the follow -
Ing year it was taken over by a com-
mittee composed of members of. the
Harticultural Society and the New
York k'}orists' Club. From the begin-
ning it was an outstanding event. A
show medal won in the class of com-
mercial exhibits was more than an
honor. It was virtually •a guarantee
of increased sales, because people be-
lieved that if a commercial exthibi-
tor's products won him prizes they
themselves might win prizes by buy-
ing from him.
The dominating figure behind the
Flower Show was T. A. Havemeyer.
From 1914 to his death in 1936 he
was president of the Horticultural
Society and a power on its board of
directors. In 1915, Mr. Scheepers
went :out to Mr. Havemeyer's estate.
Cedar Hill, at Brookville, in an effort
to sell httn bulbs. Mr. Havemeyer
took an immediate liking to the bulb
salesman, a ,fact that was inexplic-
able to Scheeper's rivals, who have
had no chane to hear the phrases
that have convinced Scbeeper's cus-
tomers that, he is first a genuine afi-
cionado and only secondly a sales-
man. They say today that whale Mr:
Havemeyer and the Horticultural So-
ciety made Scheepers, Soheepers be-
lieves that he made the Horticultural
Society, Mr. Scheepers does not like
to argue about this. He only says, In
a voice tbrobbing with emotion, "Mr.
Havemeyer is sorely missed. He was
my hest friend and a great lover of
flowers."
In 1916 Mr. Havemeyer nominated
Scheepers for the board of directors
of the Horticultural Society. He was
elected, and ileo became a member
of the committee that ran the newer
Show. In the ensuing twenty-two
years h'e has won twenty -ane medals
for the excellence of his exhibits at
the Flower Show, which is only cora,
menearate with his own excellence as
a flower grower. Mr. Scheepers was
not awed by the fact that he was
the only person in trade .on a direc-
torate that included some of the
wealthiest people in "the country. He
frequently spoke in the country. He
frequently spoke up in meeting and
had his wap most of the time, His
position made it .possible for him to
fight more more effectively for his
principles. For exariiple, When an ex-
hibitor had an especially large dis-
play in the Flower Show and had
been overlooked in the awarding of
prizee, Scheepers wse, able to recom-
lne' 0 that be be a Wardied a. speoia1•
eonsolatiOn, prize. Re stover adivonat-
ed a consolation prize, ° however; Un-
less the exhibit was, in hiiaGd u ,
of such excellence that it would have
been a shocking injustice to ignore
it. Ip addition, he saw that a pro-
pex, proportion of the prizes went to
those exhibiting tulips ..and daftoddls.
Because a large number of contestants)
won prizes in this class a proper in-
terest in bulbs was 'Stimulated, Which
Mr. Scheepers considers aesthetically
important. Since Mr. Havemeyer's
death, it has been a little more dif-
ficult for Mr. Soheepers to carry out
this ideas. Now and then he.josest this
temper at meetings of the board of
directors. He is .said sometimes to
think that Richardson Wright, the
chaiT•man of the boards,overlooks him
in appointing important committees.
He is too proud to protest, but often
this friends do, calling Mr, Wright and
suggesting that Mr. Scheepers be ap-
pointed to the committee on which he
wants to be.
By 1920, Mr. Scheepers had so soar-
ed above the purely commercial deal-
ers that he felt "he had no competi-
tors. About that time daffodils, lilies
and other bulbous flowers were in-
creasing in popularity, and he began
to push them briskly along with tul-
ips. Though other dealers in bulbs
and flowers sent out skimpy • cata-
logues free of charge, Mr. Scheepers
sold his catalogues for three dollars'.
apiece, and made a profit on them,
They were large and ornate, 'leather-
bound, and filled with colored plates,
and almost every page emphasized
Mr. Scheepers' poetic side. One of
the quotations with which the books
abound is from the Dutch and is
Needed "The Tulip. The Sweetest
ife in the World." "If' the Tulips,"
it begins, "should be made common,
the civilest Dealing that is in, , the
World would thereby be taken away
from Men and they would be depriv'
ed of the sweetest Communication
that is among honest Men." Another
cautions "Gentlemen and Gentlewo-
men to be as careful witth these fine
.tulips as the would be with so many
jewels." To the (horticulturally illit-
erate, some of the descriptions of tul-
ips may be a trifle startling, such as
that of "Mrs. Beecher Stowe, a fine
deep purple of good form and splen-
did stem," "Mrs. Harold Brown, a
most pleasing coinbin•ation of arange,
brown, and yellow, a truly magnificent
novelty," and "Helen Eakin, chaste
and noble." The explanation of
course, is that Mr. Scheepers often
names a new variety of tulip after a
friend.
The lyric note common to his cata-
logues is also maintained in the print-
ed invitations to his estate at Brook-
ville, which, without mentioning that
admission is seventy-five cents, begin
with the verse: -
Came out! My garden is my love, my
every dear delight.
I long to share its oharm and beauty
with true friends.
Mr, Soheepers calls Paradou "tlie
realizatiohi of a Life Dream" and says
that its flowers are colored "from the
palette of the Master Painter,"- The
realization h'
a of his Life Dream post
him $250,000. Seven years ago he
started ,transforming an ash ,heap at
Brookville into Paradou. In addition
to planting air extensive natural gar-
den, he built a latrge brick house,
modelled faithfully enough on a fif-
teenth -century Dutch farmhouse to in-
clude a moat and a drawbridge. The
larger wing of the structure houses
his bulbs and is a •show'room as well.
1 be smaller wing contains offices and
living quarters. Wooden shoes are
arranged at each side of the entrance
above which flies a Dutch flag. Mr.
Soheepers spends an increasing num-
ber of his week -ends there, as his dis-
like of the city grows with tbe years,
"Give me a sunset," he says, "and
the green grass. Let me away from
the city." His only recreational plea-
sure. in New York rerives from at-
tendance at symphonies and operas.
M'st evenings in his Riverside Drive
apartment are spent with the radio
turned on. He is fond of paying gal-
lant compliments to his wife, who, he
says, "is my constant inspiration, my
greatest helper." Almost every Fri-
day they leave for Paradou, where
Mr. Scheepers sometimes supervises
the work of his four gardeners from
the saddle of a horse named Popeye.
In midsummer they go for -a few
weeks to the other country place, The
Crictets, at Jamestown, Rhode Is-
land, near the scene of lhls early tri-
Lmphs at Newport. There he relax-
es, sees few friends, and enjoys this
garden, which has in it, besides tulips
and daffodils, numeroue non -bulbous
plants.
About six years ago Mr. Scheepers
engaged a hostess, who still adds to
the atmosphere of Peradou by clump-
ing about in wooden shoes and Dutch
peasant costume. Her name is Klas-
nia Mathilda Keesen and she comes
from Aalsmeer, ire Holland. Some-
times she serves tea to the guests
as well as besoh'uitses met muisjes,,
or biscuits with aniseed. On such
occasions she also serves a specially
imported Dutch cheese which Mr.
Scheepers once considered adding to
his line of bullet Each fall be used
to import about eight •hundred four -
pound cheeses made from October
cream and each Christmas sent them
to friends as gifts. They enjoyed. the
cheese so much that last fall Mr.
Scheepers imported about twenty-five
hundred of the cheeses and sold them
easily at three dollars each. He was
tempted to continue the praotice, but
finally decided that it was .somehow
not quite appropriate.
If it had not been for his, adapta-
bility, Mr. Scheepers might have been
severely hurt by the depression. One
of the items of expense which rich
men can most easily cut down on is
their outlay for bulbs. Many did,
along about 1931, and Mr. Soheepers
turned reluctantly to those w ho
thought in terms of fifteen -and twen-
ty dollars instead of fifteen and twtgn-
ty thousand. It was not right, he
told people with as much fervor as
he could, that only the very wealthy
should have fine flowers. Aided by
1,500 lantern slides, he spread his
new gospel before silbua'ban gardfen
clubs which could not boast a sing):
member of boo Horticultural Society.
He got a hundred dollars for each
lecture, and many orders. "So much
glamour has surrounded me," the ex-
plains, "that it has done 'me harm,
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EURYBDDY SDQULV ENLIST
IN THIS' SAFE Y CAMPdRN
Hero is something for every mother
to ponder over. According to a lead-
ing recognized Medical authority,
tharrheed, and entiritis (whieh are
synonymous with summer diarrhoea)
was the fillet cause of deaths amongst
children, . from the second to the
twelfth month of -life, in Ontario dur-
ing the period 1925 to 1929.
It is acknowledged in medical and
scientific circles that common house-
flies 'harbor germs' in and on, their
bodies and may, therefore, introduce
infections into foods on which they
crawl.
How important It is, then, to pro-
tect milk' and other liquids, feeding
bottles and other receptacles from
these filthy pests that threaten the
Lives of children with typhoid, diar-
rhoea and other dangerous diseases.
The dirtier the surroundings, the.
more flies will"'swarm and multiply in
their myriads_ Out-of-doors breeding
spots such as covered garbage
should be tightly covered; all refuse,
manure, 'rotting matter, etc., should
be cleaned „up; all food and drink
should be protected with coverings,
`eind windows and doors carefully
screened. If, however, with these pre-,
cautions taken, fifes should find their
way into your Thome, a few Wilson's
Fly ;Pads, placed around the house in
convenient places, will soon kill them
all And, if the pads are kept in
place during fly -time, they'll go a long
way towards protecting your children
from summer epidemics and your
family and yourself from the dangers
and irritation that are caused by flies.
farm ..Notes
Crop Reports
Recent estimates indicate that the
Ontario tobacco crop may slightly ex-
ceed 71,000 acres this year, made up
of nearly 60,000 acres of flue -cured,
9,500 acres of burley and slighhtly ov-
er 2,000 acres of dark tobacco.
The tomato crop for canning will
not be as large as a year. ago. A
small percentage 'of the acreage was
set out late in May and the remaind-
er during the first week in June.
There have been fewer complaints
of insect injury than in, the average
year, with eevetral 'donspicuous• ex-
ceptions. The Eastern Tent Cater-
pillar is one, nests, of which can be
seen on wild cherries and unsprayed
apples all over the province. Many
of these tri" s have either been al-
ready stripped of their foliage or soon
will be. Sprayed orchards., however,
are free from damage as the arsen-
ate of lead in the spray quickly kills
the insects.
Sugar Beet Crop
The acreage • of commercial sugar
beet crop is estimated at 28,000 ac-
res this year. The sugar beets bave
come along wast and give every evi-
dence of being a good crop. Thinning
operations have been, carried out and
the stands' are excellent- The con-
tract price of sugar beets callsfor a
minimum of $6.25 per ton for beets
delivered to the factory and $5.50 for
delivery to outside weigh. stations
with a bonus of 25 cents per ton for
each one per cent. of sugar in the
beets above 14 per cent.
Potato Beetle Poison Spray
In spraying potatoes, the poison
should always be mixed with Bor-
deau, as bras material is not only a
valuable fungicide but repels the at-
tack of destructive insects lake flea
beetles and leaf -hoppers•. Two or
three applications in a stason should
give sufficient protection from all in-
sects when applied thoroughly and at
a time when the new damage first be-
comes evident in each case. In spray-
ing, cover both the upper and lower
surfaces of the leaves and use an
abundance of materiai. When the
plants are small, 50 to 75 gallons per
acre, and w'hien fully grown 100 to 120
gallons are not too much at each ap-
plication.
Growers wibo prefer to apply the
poison in powder form should use a
dust composed of one part of arsen-
ate of lead to six parts of hydrated
lime. In dusting, best results will be
secured if the application is made in
the early morning or late evening
when the vines are wet with dew and
when the air is calm.
Potato beetles lay their 'eggs on
the underside of the leaves of the
potato plant in yellow masses and
when a number of these have hatch-
ed the first application of poison spray
should be made. The best and cheap-
est poison to use is calcium arsenate,
at the rate of one and a ball to two
pounds in 40 gallons of Bordeau mix-
ture (copper sulphate 6 pounds, lime
4 pounds, water 40 gallons). Should
arsenate of. lead ,or Paris .green be
preferred as a poison, two to three
pounds of the arsenate and one-half
to one pound of Paris green may be
substituted for each 40 -gallon barrel
of spray.
There is an awful row among the
New Dealers as to how to spend the
billions set aside for pump priming.
The situation is fast developing into
a regular cat and dog fight. Mean-
time, there are several hundred thou-
sand' hungry people who are getting
hungrier wihile the politicians scrap
among themselves over the pork to
be distributed. The people of Can-
ada should be more than thankful
they have a level headed government
which refuses to follow in the wake
of the pump -primers of Uncle Sam.
People think I only sell to the rich.
People tpday are bargain bunters. 1'd
sooner deal with a poor man who has
a little back yard and will go with -
chit sheaf; to buy ten bulbs" Perhap$
Like so many others, Mr. Scbeepers.
has been spiritually enriched by the
depression --Richard •O. Boyer.
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Does ,UR SySt* 1
MakeEXcessAcid? 4'
Acid Indigestion, golds.
Headaches, Bilious Attacks.
Constipation
OFTEN START"THIS WAY
Some people are what are known es
acid -makers. They caret help it -•-acrd -
often_they don't know it. The results
of an excess of acid may seem just like
ordinary stomach trouble - but they
can't be put right by ordinary stomach
remedies! Excess acid may be the
reason why you wake up flat, sour, ,
bleary-eyed,,• bilious -,and the reason
why fierce purgatives only leave you u5
the grip of a weakening habit and the
same old symptoms.
But there's one thing that acid cant
face. That's the neutralizing power of
Vange Salts, the alkaline, remedy with
the natural mineral spa action. A tea-
spoonful in warm water surges through
your system just like the medicinal
spring water far away in 'England
where Vange Salts come from. Excess
acid is neutralized quickly, painlessly.
Your blood is purified of poisons. Your
sore stomach walls are soothed. And
that mass of hard, poisonous waste
matter lying in your intestines is
softened gently, naturally, and passed
out of your body. Then do you fed
good! It's marvellous! But the most
marvellous thing is that Vange Salta
are only 60 cents a tint At your drug-
gist now -but• if you're wise, on your
bathroom shelf tonight'
With another war in the making in
South America, things continue to-
pick
opick up so far as selling arms and
munitions are concerned. Seems like
the wbole world is headed for a.
knock down and drag out spree. Ap-
parently no one wants to find out war
does not pay.
✓ * *
Anticosti Island would have been a
nice place for the playful Nazi to pull
off a few stunts, but Jack Canuck de-
cided he could still pay taxes on the
real estate, to say nothing about the
Union Jack looking better. than the
Swastika banner floating in they,
breeze.
* * *
* at *
Right now France is occupying n.
decidedly shot spot. She's got to get
busy or be strangled by the noose
now being fashioned in Continental
Europe. Question is: Will the Dem-
ocraoies be ,able to hold the fort.
against a combination of Europe's
dictatorships?
s
* *
Canada is a most fortunate country
when we consider some of the nations
of continental Europe. For instance,
the budget of France for 1937 called
for the huge sump of 48 billion francs.
Ninebillion five hundred million of
which were for defence.,
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G%i'rortia-
A QUIET, WELL CONDUCTED,
CONVENIENT, MODERN 1.0
ROOWW HOTEL -85 WITn MATH
WRITE FOR FOLDER
TAKE A DE LUXE TAXI
FROM DEPOT OR WHARF -25g
1
LONDON and WINGHAM
North
A.M.
Exeter 10.34
Hensall 10.46
Kippen 10:52
Brueefleld , 11.00
Clinton 11.47
Londesboro 12,06
Blyth' 12.16
Belgrave 12.27
Wingham 12.45 0
South
Wingham
Belgrave
Blyth
Londesboro
Clinton
Brucefleid
Kippen.,
,Hensall
Exeter
C.N.R. TIME TABLE
East
1.50
2.06
2.17
2.25
3.08
3.28
3.38
3.45
8.58
A.M. P.M.
Goderloh 6.35 2.30
Holmesvdlle ..... 6.50 232
Clinton 6,58 3,01
Seaforth 7.11 3.16
St. Coiumban 7.17 3.22
Dublin 721 3.29
MitchellL30 3.41
West
Mitchell 11.06 9.28
Dublin 11.14 9.36
Seaforth 11.30 .9.47
Clinton .. - - 11.45 10.00
Goderich 12.05 10.25
. ,,,
C.P.R. TIME TABLE
East
Goderich
Menet
McGaw
Au horn
Blyth
Walton
McNauglvll
Toronto
Toronto
McNaught
Walton
Blyth
Auburn,
McGraw
Menset
Goderich
West
P.M.
4.20
424
4.33.
4.42
4.52
5.05
615
9.00
A.M.
8.30
12.03
12.13
12.23
12,32
1,2.40
12.48
:12.95
ass
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