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Dreams
yNirbien we buy a lac packet of seeds
are literally buying a dream which
ill come true. Unlike almost any
apther purchase We is only the be-
innimg ,of our pleasure but the end
rof tlhe expense.
It is something that will grow into
beauty or usefulness, a hundred, per-
haps a thousand times mare valuable
that the few cents we 'hand over the
counter of the corner store. We are
not buying a hundred tiny, shiny
seeds, in a bright lithographed pack-
et, but baskets of crisp tender vege-
tables, or tall stately plants that, in
the summer, will transform our back-
yard into a riot of color and beauty.
Seeds
The seeds, while costing little, are
nevertheless very important. We must
be sur, that they will grow into
floweret' vegetables suitable to our
rigorous Canadian climate. They
niust be from pure strains, selected
and packed by reputable dealers.
•
• MODERN, EXPERIENCED BANKING SERVICE
. The Outcome of 121. Years' Successful Operation .
vlelieee
What I like about this
bank is the friendly, help-
ful way they do things
for you." -
BANK OF MONTREAL
, ESY'ABLISHE❑ 1817
Clinton Branch: H, M. MONTEITH, Manager
Hensall Branch: W. B. A. CROSS, Manager
Brucefield (Sub -Agency): Open Tuesday and Friday
"SERVICES OF THE BANK OF MONTREAL" -Ask for booklet vs,
Sense Sowers which will tlo hand-.
melt stn.. areae wanner climate of
outtherA England or the United
States may prove a sore disappoint-
ment in Canada. The seeds rot in
the ground 'here in April, or the plants,
may not reach blooming stage u=nit
the first frost threatens next Septem-
ber.
Even those seeds which we saved
carefully from our own garden last
full are often a failure. They are
likely to have become mixed with
other flowers and poorly colored or
sheenken blooms will be the result.
In vegetables, strains may have be-
come mixed or we may have unwit-
tingly selected those from too late
matur?wg plants.
Seed saving is a job for the experts.
Best commercial seed comes from
special farms operated by profession-
als. When we get our seed from a
reliable Canadian seed "'house, we do
net have bo worry being assured that
the picture on the packet represents
the final result, if we follow the sim-
ple directirrns fend give a little care.
Plans
In the average garden the amount
of land at one's disposal is limited
but even a few square yards will give
amazing results. Where space is
small, it is advisable to follow a strict-
ly in.form'el layout with the central
portion of the garden cleared of beds
and .s'b ubbery and devoted entieely to
grass. Around the edges will be
grouped beds of perennial and annual
flowers, leading up to vines and
shrubs along the walls or fence boun-
daries_ This open centre adds to the
effect of spaciousness and if the rigid
boundaries are softened and partially
hidden, so much the better and in-
triguing.
Where the garden is large, experts
advocate screening off a portion by
bringing forward the surrounding
shrubbery at one point, or using a
hedge, wall of trees so that the whole
affair will not be entirely visible
from any one point of observation.
This well add further to that air 'of
spaciousness and also provide a se-
cluded corner or two for a children's
swing or sandbox or possibly a seat
or trellis covered table, where on hot
summer days the. family ,may enjoy
outdoor meals.
Kitchen Gardens
In the kitchen garden it is advis-
able of course to keep a plentiful sup-
ply ref salad material like leaf and
head lettuce, onions and possibly cel-
ery. The latter is set out in the gar-
den-Aas well -started plants, usually af-
ter all danger of frost is over.
Sweet Peas
Sweet Peas must be planted early.
This plant develops its extensive root
growth and upper vine structure when
the weather is cool. If it does not
WHAT GOES ON IN
EVERY H I ME !
• Watch in your own home how The Huron Expositor -or any
other good newspaper -is read. Possibly the weather for the day
or the morrow is a first matter of interest; and perhaps the main
headlines on the front page are scanned; but it is'a pretty safe
thing to say that women readers will turn very early to the ad-
vertisements of local firms which advertise fashion items, food
items, and other offerings related intimately to current needs
and desires.
• Every woman knows what she wants -not perhaps in the
precise form of color, or variety or manner, but certainly in the
main matters of her desire, or need. This applies to clothes, hats,
shoes, food items, beauty preparations and many items pertain-
ing to home furnishing. And so women are eternally on the
watch for information -and for temptation! ' They are swiftly
perceptive of the advertisements which present and propose the
t of their desire or need. And obviously it is those retailers
advertise to them who stand the best chance of their custom.
• It is the same in the case of men. Pew men buy impulsively.
When they leave home each day for their place of employment,
it is not just to get rid of their money. What they buy is mainly
something whose purchase has been planned -clothes or other
forms of apparel, hardware items, motoring sundries, shaving
and other bathroom needs, plants, books and so on. Men, like
women, have been reading advertisements in line with their
ripening desires and intentions, and of course they go in larg-
est numbers, to those retailers who have been informing them
and soliciting their custom.
• All of us, instinctively, go where the light is, not where the
darkness is. Advertisements are light, and so they attract the
buyers to those stores which they illumine.
• The way to get business is to ask for it. Can the truth of
this statement be successfully disputed? And here is another
equally true statement: The public biiys from those who invite
its custom. -
THE HURON EXPOSITOR
MeLEAN BROS., PUBLISHERS Established 1860
with rich blood and
Steady nerves by using
NI ► ET M
get itd feral weld down into the soil
then, when the days turn hot, it is
liable to wither and cease furnishing
Rs daily quota of color and fragrance.
Planting" dil'eetions are simple, but
important. Successful gardeners ad-
vice a treneh, dug at least a foot deep,
(fulled within two inches of the top
with rich soil, mixed with well -,rot-
ted manure or old lea.vea. Seed, is
planted about an inch .or two deep
and just as soon as thre soil can be
worked. Rains will wash more soil
into the trench ft,Lling it up gradually
and the adding further to root
gnowth.
When the upper plant starts to de-
velop it will be necessary to supply
some climbing support in the form of
brush, strings or chicken wire. These
are listed in order of preference.
Flowers should appear by July and
must be cut dysury. This cutting and
frequent heavy watering in hot wea-
ther will entourage full blooming
and those long stems so desirable for
cutting purposes.
,.r
NEXT WEEK -Dawns, hotbede, in-
tensive vegetable gardens and mqre
plans.
THIS SYNTHETIC AGE
Ice skating isr made possible all year
and on the floor of any building by
a newly) invented artificial ice. High
temperature melts Iceolite into a liq-
uid which, poured an inch thick on a
floor, hardens into a smooth surface
so durable it will last for years. Pro-
fessional skaters who teeted it at its
world debut in Toledo, Ohio, declared
it to be as fast as natural ice. -Chris-
tian Science Monitor.
* * *
Tight fl-ows through rods nnade of
Lucite, a du Pont plastic, as water
flows through a pipe. This piped
light emerges at the far end undi-
minished, even after turning sharp
corners. Moreover, it is cold light.
Lucite does not transmit heat.
An important use for the new plas-
tic is in sungery. Lucite instruments
with electric bulbs in the handle, can
be used to illuminate body cavities
and incisions without risk of burning
tissues. Easily softened in hot wa-
ter, Lucite' is made into surgical
splints of any desired shape; there-
after X-ray examinations of knitting
fractures can be made without re-
moving fiche srplints, a thing never pos-
sible before.
Reflectors made of Lucite, installed
along both edges of an 85 -mile Michi-
gan highway, are found to be 10 times
as efficient as 'glass reflectors. The
light from each reflectors penetrates
fog, is visible beyond the glow of on-
coming headlamps, and outlines the
road for a mile ahead.
* « •
Toothbrush bristles that will not
softens in water or saliva are made
frog. Extran, a plastic. Hairs of any
length or thickness can be produced.
Ext'ron is expected eventually to re-
place the natural hog bristles hereto-
fore used in the best toilet brushes.
* * *
Doing research work on gold com-
pounds for the treatment of arthritis,
Dr. Ohratries S. Gibson of Guy's Hospi-
tal, London, hit upon a method of
coating fabrics, glass, or china with
a thin film of pure gold, at siight
cost. Sheer fabrics ,"dyed" in the so-
lution become cloth of gold for about
$2.50 a yard.. Dr. Gibson displays
glass goblets Which cannot be distin-
guished from solid gold. Gold dinner
services come within reach of almost
any family.
• • *
Since the triumph of rayon, the last
important market for &ilk Is for hos-
iery. In 1940, in an $8,000,000 mill
now under construction of Nylon, a
plastic made from coal, air and wa-
ter, which 3n More elastic than any
natural flbe.r, and will knit into sheer,
elastic stockings. Utterly different
from rayon, which is a cellulose pro-
duct, Nylon can be fashioned into
lustrous filaments as fine as a spiders
web, yet said to be as strong as steel
of the same diameter. It is suitable
for velvets and &beer underwear, as
well as for tougher uses such as rac-
quet strings and fishing lines.
• • •
Water is made wetter by adding a
few drops of a new alcohol; it in-
stantly soaks anything it touches.
Spray it on old wallpaper, for instance
and the paper will peel off at once. It
makes a better spreader for insect-
icides; It lays dust that ordinary wa-
ter sprays will not catch. The new
alcohol is made from waste gas and
was developed by the Mellon Insti-
tute.
* * •
Italy has been making a wool substi-
tute from casein, a component of
milk, for some years; it has been ex-
peneive and not too satisfactory. The
U. S. Department of Agriculture an-
nounces a new and improved process.
The American fiber is said not to be
",itchy,' and to shrink less than wool.
It will cost about 50 cents a pound,
which is much less than wool brings.
Froom casein there are already made
billiard balls, toilet a.rticles, buttons,
fou:ntairepen barrels, coating for lea-
ther, and writing paper.
• • •
AIsifilm look•e like paper, but is
made of clay, and no fire burns it, no
acid corrodes it. Or it can he made
transparent, like cellnpha.rie. It should
be the surface on which to print or
write permanent records. Tasteless
and odorless, it is a. good wrapper for
food.. Microscopically, it has pra.ctic-
ally the same structure se mica and
it is as good an electritei Insulator -
better, because it is pliable, and it
can be macre into sheets of any size
or •thickness. Best of ale it is made
from raw material which costs but
one `cent a pouhd'.
Aleifilm was discovered by researdh
workers in the Mrassachusette Inst-
itute of Te'c'hnology who were studying
bennrtbnibe slay„ the avbendaxlt earth
that is used 4m foundry molds, in
toothpaste and ballet powders.
(From The Ann
Oree Indians call 'him St:i- zrlprrn-
malogistg label him Meplhitis mephitis
-and his- pelt is apt to be camouflag-
ed as Alaska Sable. Plainest and
commenest name of all, certainly the
most richly fraught with disparaging
imnpliacation, is , plain --skunk r ley that
terse epithet he ie known from coast
-to coast, and seldom do we speak it
with affection.
But seldom, either, do we make
any effort to know Mephitis better, or
to understand him and This skunkdy
way of life. It is too Abad, for we
miss acquaintance with one of the
most amiable and entertaining of all
our wood -folk.
It as usually in late Ap-i1 or in May,
when the veined green spathes of
skunk cabbage are thrusting up in
marshy" places, that the baby skunk
is ushered Onto life. He is one of a
titter that may contain almost a doz-
en, and tlhe place of his birth is most
often a vault -chambered burrow in
the frozen earth, patiently lined with
dry leaves and matted grasses against
the chill of spring nights.
Newborn Mephitis is a helpless mite
no larger thaw a meadow mouse. His
babyhood is long. Wihen the has reach-
ed the age of a month -an age at
which wild birds are fully fledged,
and the white-footed forest mice are
nearly ready to beget progeny of
their own -he still weighs no more
than ten or eleven ounces, and, has
not yet ventured to peep out upon
the sunny wonder -world at his door-
way.
But already there are clear signs
that he is a skunk. The downy black
fur of his wedgeshaped little head
bears a white stripe from between his
eyes to his nose; and there are white
stripes along this sides. He is begin-
ning to develop a gait which will be
characteristic of him all his life, very
like a bears.
By the seventh or eighth week
young Mephitis, at last weaned, is
ready for forays into the Great Out-
side. As he waddles solemnly in bis
mother'e wake among the daisies, his
small fdrry head is filled with an im-
mediate consciousness that this is "a
world which holds no terrors for hili.
He stares at it with e kind of com-
placent acceptance and blurry affa-
bi]i'ty'.
Ile begins at once to earn his way.
It is his good fortune to have an ap-
petite almost uniquely catholic and
comprehensive. He eats his weight
several times a week in grasshoppers,
crickets, June bugs, field mice any]
potato bugs, all enemies of the farm-
er. He likes tobacco and tomato
worms; he is the best destroyer of
army worms. He is, in short, the
most valuable of all animals as a pest
destroyer.
Mephitis, full grown, is as' large as
a house cat and weighs eight or ten
pounds. Of his 28 inches from nose -
tip to tail -tip, fully ten inches is tail.
A superb sand lovely tail it is, nearly
as bread as it is long, and tipped
with pure white. It trails behind
Mephitis as en undulant feathery
plume -a suitable tail for a creature
so amiable and imperturbable.
For such is the character that
Mephitis has developed with matur-
ity. His bright black eyes show nei-
ther hostility nor terror, but have a
kind of philosophic calm. His con-
tentment is not even marred by that
urge toward personal independence
which so often makes young animals
and young human beings fretful. With
his mother and the whole full -mown
brood he continues to 'inhabit the
earth -burrow where he was born•, and
the whole family still goes on periodie
huntifig trips together. On these oc-
casions they all proceed, by some cur-
ious ancient understanding, In single
file. Sometimes, too, they play.
Not Many men have witnessed the
playtimie of the skunks. It hi =ally
in the early dusk that the little com-
pany. forgathers for the game. Five
or six or even mere of them range
themselves in a circle, noses pointed
toward the center, and there ensues
a kind of ceremonial dance. In uni-
son the plumeatai]ed players advance
by stiff -legged 'hops until their noses
touch, and after a moment they re-
treat with the same prancing gait to
the periphery of the circle. As .many
as a dozen times they act out this
grave and grotesque ritual, each move,
as unvarying and precise as clock-
work. Then quite suddenly the little
gathering disperses on the nightly
quest for bugs ansi salamanders.
Theme comes a time, of course,
when Mephitis must undergo the ex-
perience from which no creature of
earth is exempt: ,he must meet an, en-
emy. The miomtent when Mephitis,
lumbering placidly along a country
lane, is confronted for the first time
by a hostile farmhouse mongrel, is
the moment when he achieves the
full expression of his skunifhoodl It
is now that he follows, at the bidding
of an instinct suddenly awakened, the
immemorial, behavirceepattern of ail
skunks.
Tranquilly, with neither fear nor
malice, he eyes the mongrel in his
path. So great .Is his reluctance to
mar the peaceful tenor of his evening
that he stands for a , moment quite
still, heeeful that the din of barking
will presently subside and the barker
take chis leave. 'Instead the dog ad-
vances in a growling nab. It is a ser-
ious error. - Very slowly Mope, itis.
lowers .his furry striped head, delicate-
ly arches his back, and with grave
earnestness . thumps his forefeet. on
the ground. It is not a terrifying
sound this .little pattering stacca.to,
but the wild wooer -folk understand it
perfectly, and respond to it as quick-
ly as to a rattler's whirr. But the
dog sees Meprhit.is' -,gesture as only a
silly antic, and' he makes another
charge.
Not yet does Mephitis respond to
the challenge. There Is a prescribed
skunka-itual for such times as this,
and Mephitis follows it scrupulously.
Standing stock still, he stares straight
before (him with unwlnking eyes, and
very slowly he shakes his head from
side to aid+e. It is an odd gesture --a
fanciful naturalist might almost read
it as a rueful one. It is Part Two of
the three-part warning.
Still the uncomprehending dog gives
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no heed, and, the time has come for
tibe third and final caution. Grace-
fully Mephitis lifts his broad plumed
tail. He raises it straight over his
striped back, and the drooping white
tip is gradually erected. Only for an
instant Longer does he hesitate, then
abruptly wheels and presents this
rear to the dog. His strong little
back ardhea 1n a 'sudden convulsdve
movement. 'A thin jet of liquid glim-
mers phosphorescently' in the summer
dusk.
As far as a rod from where Meph-
itis stands, the tree o and grass are
spattered by a burning spray. An
acrid choking odor saturates earth
and leaves, and drifts on the air for
hundreds of yards around. Chip-
munk's scurry deeper in their gran-
nies to escape the suffocating fumes.
From fan away there reach Meph-
itis' ears the agoni'sedi yelpings of a
running dog, who never again is like-
ly to trifle with a skunk- His hide
has been drenched by the sulphide
that scientists call mercaptan, and
the fiery spray has entered his eyes
ands been inhaled into his lungs. For
a day or two, at Least, he will be to-
tally blind.
Such is .the way of Mephitis when
reluctantly the is forced to warfare.
But such encounters are rare, and
mostly he waddles abroad In the eve-
ning coolness, learning how .to pinion
the little green grass -snakes with his
heavy flatsoled paws, and.becoming
adept in catching bees and wasps. He
routs them out, as a bear does, by
prodigious seratehings, and then as
they swarm angrily around his furry
head be beats them to earth with bis
strong forefeet. They often sting
him on the inside of his mouth and
lips and gullet but he does not feel
the stings at all, He is ‘totally im-
mune.
All through the autumn Mephitis
continues his nocturnal prowlings.
Sometimes one of This tribe will raid
a poultry yard, but such individuals
are rare. As the first snows come
sifting .down, he hunts and eats with
mounting ravenousness and his gait
grows slower. `Mephitis is very fat
now. In the new -fallen snow his zig-
zag tracks show a furrow of dragging
feet between. At last on a blowy win-
ter evening he does not come out
from his burrow at all. Snow chokes
it, sealing out the cold, and Mephitis
remains unmoving in his goass-lined
nest. His mother and his brothers
are there with 'hrim, and usually ,a
friendly visiting skunk or two, and all
of them lie curled together without
sound. Mephitis bas entered into his
winter sleep.
He will stay there, dreamless and
hardly breathing, until a subtle im-
pulse warns him that mid-March of
his second spring has oome and that
it is time for him to set out search-
ing for a mate. After he has found
her, he will remain strictly faithful.
In keeping with the staid temper of
his ways, Mephitis is an unwavering
monogamist. He will beget his own
striped progeny and he will resume
once more his leisured quest for
grubs and. beetles. Year after Year
this will continue to be the unvarying
cycle of rods life.
Efforts are increasing to take Me-
phitis out of his fields and to domesti-
cate him on fur farms. Some prudent
skunk -farmers make a practiceof de-
priving him by surgery of his musk
glands, - but others have discovered
that tibis is needless. Mephitis takes
to domestication with perfect equabil-
ity. So long as he is gently treated
he makes no effort to employ his form-
idable battery. Given a wire pen and
a nest -box alieroximating the size of
his natural biome, he breeds and dozes
as complacently as though be were
no prisoner at all.
Mephitis remains unchangeably the
same --a grave and friendly' little fel-
low, who wants he Mete (bet wants
this much with inexorable insistence)
than to be treated with civility.
It is good) to know him not only
because he is a vaduable economic
ally; not only because one of our
great American cities, Chicago---Sak-
akro--'was named in his ;honor. It is
good to make this acquaintance for
the pleasure of meeting, in these dis-
tressed and war-torn times, one fel-
low creature who will use his weapons
only for defense, and in whose sim-
ple earth -born philosophy the frag-
rant peace of a summer evening is
cause enough for whole-souled con-
tentment.
TOM THUMB ON THE FARM
Midget cows which produce more
mirk and consume only half as much
feed as a normal-sized cow ,have been
bred by Otto Gray, an Oklahoma dairy
farmer. Two years ago, Gray started
experimenting with a small breed, us-
ing an under -sized' Angus •cow and a
normal Hereford bull; today his mid-
get third -generation herd °Desists of
seven costs and one bull, standing
from 30 to 37 inches high and weigh-
ing from 450 to 500 pounds, about
half the heft of normal Jerseys. One
cow gives five gallons of milk daily;
another averaged 41 pounds of milk
daily for 11 drays. -virtually her own
weight. of 455 pounds.
• « •
To meet the demand of the average
small family, whieh does not want a
15 -pound turkey nor a young one
which has Little meat in proportion
to weight, the Department of Agricul-
ture's research farm at Beltsvi1Ie,
Maryl'and, has bred a bird that weighs
as little as six pounds when fully
grown, leas chunky "drumsticks and
plenty of tender white meat. These
turkeys mature early, have a high
egg productivity, and low mort>ali:ty
rate.
• * *
Small watermelons of excellent flav-
or, which will fit into bhe average el-
ectric refrigerator -•a cross between
a Siberian baby, melon and a domes-
tic one -have also been developed at
Beltsville.
* * •
FIor apple -growers who are tired of
elitnbing up 40 feet to pick their
choice fruit, nurserymen are produo
For Ecz�ma
Skin Tr�ibIes
Make up riar 'wind today that you ala
gett"wwell. Go to youro wive aFood drug storend or
an origami bottle of Moonds litoaerald p
It lasts many days beeauso it ie bigWy coop
oentrated. '
The very first application will five !toureli.
stoppedodeeru�ptionnss dry a is
off
iastalatki'
a very few days. The name in true of Ite1s
Ing Tees and Feet, Barber's Itch, Balt Rheas
and other skin troubles,
Remember that Moore's Emerald Oil is s
clean, powerful, penetrating Antiseptic lilt
that does not stain or leave a greasy residue.'
Complete Satisfaction or money back.
ing from dwarf rootstock trees that
mature at a height of about tens feet,
and can be planted 15 feet apart as
compared with 35 feet for ordinary
trees. They are much. easier to
prune, spray, and pick. Some twen-
ty standard apple varieties are now
available in dwarf sizes, according to
Dr. H. B. Tukey, horticulturist for the
New York Experiment Station at Gen-
eve.
Cooks Know How ButterHelps
Wise cooks use butter because they
know it adds a quality to food that
can be obtained with no other fare
Butter on vegetables -butter in ekes
and cookies -transforms these simple
dishes by adding distinctive flavor and
increasing their food value. Tho lib-
eral use of butter is the most prac-
tical everyday method of including
enough vitamin A in the diet.
George Rector, famed culinary ex-
pert says: "I've been hanging around
kitchens for about 35 years and I've
discovered a few things about cook-
ing. But the moat ianpoetant thing
I've discovered in all my experience
is that when you take butter and eggs
and milk away from the kitchen you
simply have no kitchen.
Dairy products are to a obef what
pigments are to an artist. What
would we do in`our homes or in our
restaurants without the thousand de-
licious sauces in which butter is such
an indispensable ingredient, without
our fresh bread and rolls, puddings
and cakes!
"The ps...t lots la whicI
tobacco cite be smoked"
LONDON and WINGHAM
NORTH
•r
Exeter 10.34
Henisall 10.46
Kippen ..r 10.52
Brucefleld 111.60
Clinton 11.47
Londesboro 12.06
Blyth 12.16
Belgnave 12.27
wingham 12.45
SOUTH
P.M.
Wingham 1.50
Belgrave 2.06
Blyth 2.17
Landesbono 2.26
Clinton 3.08
Brumfield 3.28
Kippen 3.58
nenaall 3.45
Exeter 3.58
C.N.R. TIME TABLE
EAST
Goderieb
Holmesville
Clinton
Seaforth
St. Columban
Dublin
Mitchell
WEST
Mitchell
Dublin
Seaforth
Clinton
Goderiob
A.M. P.M.
6.35 2.30
6.50 2.52
6.58 3.00
7.11 3.16
7.17 3.22
7.21 329
7.30 3.41
11.06 9.28
11.14 9.36
11.30 9.47
11.45 10.00
12.05 10.25
C.P.R. TIME TABLE
EAST
Go'derich.
Mengel
McGaw
Auburn
Blyth
Walton
McNaught
Toronto
Toronto
McNaught
Walton
Blyth
Auburn
McGaw
Mentet
G oderlch
WEST
P.M.
4.20
4.24
4.33
4.42
4.52
5.05
5.15
9.00
A.M.
8.30
12.03
12.13
12.23
12.3E
12.40
12.46
12.55
ie
E
le
ea
tb
58
fit
Pd
al+
L.
fa
C
fr
di
11
0
7
4