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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1954-04-09, Page 21K fi at 1 toF! to +a•. WO: THE HURON EXPOSITOR APRIL 9, 1954 IIVRON;'iPOSIT' fi Established 1860 Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- 4017 Thursday afternoon by McLean - A. Y. McLean, Editor $ttbscription rates, $2.50 a year in Wince.; foreign 83.50 a year. Single pies, 5 cents each. Member of Canadian 'Weekly Newspapers Association. Advertising rates on application. PHi),N 1 41 Authorized aSecond Class Mall Post Offi,•e Departeteet, Ottawa SEAFORTH, Friday, April 9,, 1954 INDIGENT HOSPITALIZATION TO INCREASE The recent announcement by the Ontario Minister of Health that mun- icipalities will be required to pay a 50 per cent increase for hospital in- digents will be welcome news for hos- pital boards across Ontario.. The announcement, we fear, will snot meet with the same enthusiastic response from the average municipal Council, already faced with the prob- lem of a local tax rate which has climbed to a level equal to or perhaps beyond that which real estate can be expected to carry. Dr. Phillip's, the Minister of Health, is reported to have indicated that the increase will make the hand - :ling of the indigent problem more =equitable," will tend to lesson the "penalty". some cities pay because of leaving 'better hospital facilities and will help hospitals "tremendously" in .sheeting deficits. Certainly the hospitals have been providing a service 'in many cases at less than cost, and to this extent the proposed increase will be of assist- ance in correcting a bad situation. Out it is difficult to understand the degree of benefit which will come to. the average rural taxpayer when he is forced by the Provincial Govern- ment to pay additional municipal tax- es in order to assist a nearby city hospital to meet its deficit. -TSE TAX DOLLAR— WHERE IT GOES From time to time there arises a cry concerning the amount of the Canadian tax dollar which the Fed- eral Government receives as compar- ed with the proportion going to the remaining two levels- of government --the provinces and the municipali- ties. It is suggested that in recent years .the proportion has changed to a degree that reflects unfavorably in so far as the provinces and munici- palities are concerned. Of course those that voice such a complaint ignore the extent to which Federal responsibilities have increas- ed in recent years—defence being but one aspect of the problem. They ig- nore, too, the fact that part of the taxes collected by the Dominion are turned back to the Provinces in the form of rental agreement payments, bsidies and health grants, to name but a few. In the fiscal year 1953, these payments to the Provinces by the Dominion totalled $382,578,000, which the Provinces get from the Federal treasury in addition to the taxes they collect themselves. Ignored, too, is the extent to which old agesecurity payments and fam- ily allowance contribute to the econ- omic buoyancy of municipalities, thus rendering less liable the municipality to the payment of welfare and relief costs. It all boils clown to a matter of the relative responsibilities of the Federal Government, as compared to those of the lower levels. Mr. Ab- bott, the Minister of Finance, dealt with the question last fall, when he "If we could cut our defence costs b the 1949 level and all other federal, provincial and municipal figures re mined unchanged, the federal share of total tax revenues would drop from the present 75 per cent to 65 per cent. "If, in addition, we subtract the yt of paying veterans benefits and bt .interest arising . from World mat' II, the federal percentage would to 60 per cent wee make a further adjustment to recognize that the federal govern - k1, as a result of the tax rental agreements, is collecting taxes which the province would otherwise have to collect for themselves, the figure would fall to 53 per cent. "And if there were no federal fam- ily allowances or universal old age pensions, the federal government would be taking only 43 cents out of every taxation dollar. This would be five cents less than in 1939." Perhaps the problem is not so much that the Federal tax receipts are too great, but that the Provincial -Mun- icipal relationship needs examining. Certainly the extent of the surplus which the Frost Government was able to amass, suggests the desirabil- ity of some relief being afforded hard pressed municipalities by the Provincial Government. SPRING, IT'S WONDERFUL! Spring does different things to dif- ferent people. The reaction of the Owen Sound Sun -Times to this annual phenomen- on is indicated in a piece contained in a recent issue: "Farmers scan their water-logged fields, the backyard horticulturist scans his seed catalogues, the house- wife reflectively plans the re -ar- rangement of furniture which will follow the annual spring houseclean- ing chore, and the small boy hunts high and low for his baseball glove, mislaid somewhere during King Hockey's reign. Merchants and motel owners look forward hopefully to the next tourist season: Will it be 'bigger and better' than ever? "The advent of Spring is the an- nual season of hope for everyone, as nature sheds her drab and tattered Winter garment and slowly dons her brand-new, colorful Spring ensemble. "It is that glorious season when the earth and the peoples on it hover on the threshold of re -birth. It is _another, 'a new year full ,of resurg-, ence and bright new prospects." Obviously the writer wasn't in this district last week -end. What Other Papers Say: On the Tax Bills (Belleville Intelligencer) Now the Ontario Government wants municipalities to state on their tax bills the amounts of all grants— or perhaps the amount by which the mill rate has been "reduced" by rea- son of these grants. If municipalities are compelled to do this, they might consider also stating the amount the mill rate has been increased by rea- son of the province's refusal to pay its fair share of the cost of welfare and other services which ought not to be a charge against real estate. The Magic of Interest (Canadian Doctor). In 181,.9 a certain proud father, in a moment of parental bliss, deposited ten dollars in his son's name at a New York bank. The following year he _made another deposit which brought the balance to- sen d liars, and proved to be he fina inv . ment. „Retell t e ame ba It credited its 313th cons utive dividend to the ac- count which brought the balance to $4,638.84. The family of the original depositor has died, leaving no heirs, and the bank retains the fund as a memory to its first years of business. The results of thrift, however, can be great, providing you live long en- ough. Mixing of Metaphors (Kitchener -Waterloo Record) Speakers frequently get their met- aphors mixed. Perhaps the most famous mixed metaphor on record is the one that came along some years ago when an M.P. declared indignant- ly: "If the government persists in ramming this thing down our throats they will have a long and rocky road to travel." This recalls that a Charlottetown mayor some years ago delivered him- self of this statement: "I don't care whose ox is gored, let the chips fall where they may." Then there was an Irishman who declared: `I smell• a rat. I see him brewing in the air, but I shall yet nip him in the bud." Which reminds us of a Canadian parlianientarion who congratulated his political opponent in these words: "I am glad to see the old war-horse back in the saddle." SEEN IN THE COUNTY PAPERS Wins Substantial Sum Leonard Connolly, Bornholm, drew a sweepstake ticket on a horse which raced latst Saturday hi the Grand National Ssteeplechase, No. ZT60395, Paris, New York, and won a substantial cheque.—Mitchell Advocate. Suffers Broken Arm John McBride, local resident, fell at his home the other day and frac- tured his left arm. Mr. McBride is about 81) years of age, and was tak- en to hospital for treatment, and. Later returned home- We wish Mr. McBride a speedy recovery.—Zur- ich Herald. Injured in Plant Accident Earl Dickson, 57, of R.R. 1, Wing - ham, was admitted to hospital last Wednesday as a result of an acci- dent in the Fry & Blackhall plant in which he caught his' hand in a planer, severing three fingers of his left hand. — Wingham Advance - Times. Wins $900 Scholarship William A. Andrews, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Andrews, Clinton, was awarded a $900 scholarship by the Research Council of Ontario. This applies to the academic year beginning this fall. The main pur- pose of the scholarship is to en- courage scientific research. After graduating this summer, Bill will continue with post graduate work at the University of Western On- tario for another two years. He is specializing in physical chemistry. —Clinton News -Record. Named Vice -President J. W. Bushfield, Q.C., of Wing - ham, was named vice-president of the Huron County Law Association at its annual meeting in Goderich last Thursday. R. C. Hays, Q.C., of Goderich, was elected president, and Frank Fingland, Q,C., of Clin- ton, secretary -treasurer. A com- mittee was appointed with power to act to replace the Law Library. which was destroyed when Huron County Court House was burned on February 26. — Wingliam Ad- vance -Times. A Rarity Arthur Hoy, Angelesea St., Gode- rich, has seen a lot of muskrats in his day. In fact, he has a muskrat farm about four utiles northeast of Goderich""in Colborne Township But when he caught a white musk rat this week he saw something different. "I've trapped all my life and never heard of or saw a white muskrat until 'I saw this once," he told the Signal -Star. Several other hunters who do considerable trap- ping, agreed that an albino musk- rat is quite rare.—Goderich Signal - Star. 1.0.0.F. Degree Night Seventeen members of the I.O. O.F., three from Goderich, six from Lucan and eight from the local lodge, received their third degree at the Exeter lodge rooms. Tuesday evening. Several brethren from Goderich ands Lucian accompanied the candidate's. The visitors were welcomed by N.G. Bro. Bill Cham- ers and Degree Master Garnet Flicks and his officers exemplified the work. D.D.G.M. Albert Keys paid his official visit to the Clinton Oddfellows lodge Tuesday evening. He was accompanied by Clark Fish- er.—Exeter Times -Advocate. Nimes mums Plane Spots Fishermen A Dakota aircraft from R.C.A.F. Station, Centralia, spotted two fish- ermen adrift on Lake Ontario and sent rescuers out to bring them to safety on Tuesday. The plane, pil- oted by F/O. I. A. Stephenson, was on its way back to --.Centralia from Trenton when it was diverted by a radio message to look for the fish- ermen. The men were adrift all night in an 18 -foot dory during a heavy blizzard. They had set out from Salmon Point to tend their smelt nets. An R.C.M.P. launch brought them to shore, and they suffered frog} exposure and lack of food.—Exeter Times -Advocate. Gets Hand Burns At Fire Earl J. (Spike) Reynolds is re- cuperating from hand burns re- ceived when he helped to exting- uish a small fire that started in the rear part of Ellwood Epps' Sport Shop. "Mike" had been in- stalling some plumbing in the build- ing and the partition was ignited from his blow -torch. Quick action by Mr. Reynolds and employees of the firm had the fire extinguished before members of the fire brigade could arrive on the scene. _Damage was estimated at $100. The hand burns were of a minor nature, but will keep Earl away from his work for a week or two at least.—Clinton News -Record. Dutch Newlyweds Arrive At Farms It's been quite a sweeping change for Ad De Kort, 30, of Holland, who with his Dutch bride, Johanna Bertens, 25, has arrived at the Zurich district where he has a house and a job on the 200 -acre farm of Phillip Durand,, farmer for whom he will work. Ad De Kort was one of a party of four Dutch bridegrooms and brides who arriv- ed at Montreal on Saturday on the first lap of their journey from Hol-' land to farm jobs in Western On- tario. He and his three sisters made up half of the aforementioned party of newlyweds. Only a few weeks ago Henricus Kart and his wife of Enschot, the Netherlands, married off five of their daughters and one of their sons in a single church ceremony. Every man, wo- man and child in their part of the country -3,215 to be exact—turned out to celebrate in the two-day fes- tivities. Another couple will go to Thedford where the husband, Jan Van Haaren will work on Fred Donald's horticultural farm. The other couples will go to Thames - ford and Embro. It was a 12 -ring wedding service when the one Kort boy and his five sisters were all married at the same time. The girls were all gowned exactly alike at the wedding and all the wed- ding rings and bands were identi- cal. Reason the couples decided to come to Canada rather than to other lands was that they've heard such glowing reports of friends Iand neighbors who had emigrated and prospered here. In the Neth- ', erlands, they say, with the po['ula- tion increasing 290,000 a year, land is being swallowed up by town i developments. A farther with 25 acres in Holland is considered well- to-do.—Goderich Signal -Star. How the Police Work Out Speed of a Wrecked Car (I3y R. F. Rodgers, M.A., Mathema- tician -Physicist, R.C.M.P. Crime Detection Laboratory, Ottawa, in the Mounted' Police Quarterly). Have you ever wondered how the scientist can estimate the original speed of an automobile involved in an accident? All you need is ,a lit- tle mathematics and a few facts. For example, consider the fol- lowing recent automobile accident itt the Maritimes. Thedriver, in a 1950 Plymouth, sedan, skidded 72 feet across the plummeted then highway. He down an eight -foot diteh and skid- ded 98 feet through the clay swamp dutch. After this, he struck and uprooted a tree and travelled 32 feet (horizontally) through the air before coming to a stop. The driver said he was travel- ling at 45 m,p.h. Don't look now, but at what minimum speed would you say he was going before he started to skid? Seventy miles per hour? Or 80 miles'per hour? The determination of this answer is an interesting problem. Here is how it's done: First of all, we start a•t the end and work backwards. How fast was the car moving through the air? A little calculus shows that the minimum speed would result if the car leaves the ground at an angle of 45 degrees to the horizon. In such a case, its speed would be 21.9 m.p.h. If the angle differs slightly from 45. degrees, the speed would he greater, but the increase is not great, and the effect on the Initial speed is even less. Hence, we may take 21.9 m.p.h. as the speed just after uprooting the tree. Next, on the order sheet as we continue to move back is the tree. How can we accurately estimate its effect upon the car's speed? Ac- tually, we don't have to make an accurate estimate. The effect of the tree is so slight, that even an appreciable error in the estimation will have only a negligible effect on the final answer. The tree had a trunk diameter of four inches. Now, it was esti- mated that three men poking fair- ly hard could uproot a one -inch diameter tree. Since three men could exert a combined force of 500 pounds, the force required. OO uproot the larger tree would be 500 x 16-8,000 pounds. This is so because the larger tree has a cross- sectional area 4 x 4-16 timed 'great er than the =allot one. If we takethts.fgxoe as acting through one foot, - the mechanical work done by the automobile is 8,000 foot-pounds. Since the auto- mobile weighs 3,155 pounds, and the passenger 280 pounds, this work produces a loss of 1.5 m.p.h. in speed. Hence the speed just before hitting dthe tree is about 23.4 m.p.h. - Skidding in the ditch is the same in principle, as skidding along thle highway. That is, if we know the •final speed, the distance skidded, and the friction coefficient, we may compute the initial speed. As we know the first two factors, the problem boils down to finding a suitable friction coefficient. This was experimentally in the follow- ing manner; An open clay region was made wet until it represented fairly close- ly the description of the clay swamp in the accident. A suitable car, with brakes locked, was drag- ged over this wet'clay. A spring balance, kindly loaned to the writer by the National Re-' search Council, showed that the av- erage force was about 915 poutlds, Since the test car and contents were found to weigh 3,700 pounds, the adopted friction coefficientiy was 915/3700 or 0.25 very nearly. This gives a speed of about 35.3 M.p.h, at the beginning of the swamp skid. Next, the effect of falling down the ditch must be considered. Those of you who remember your high school physics will recall that the Ioss of potential energy in fall- ing must equal the gain of kinetic energy. This gain Is about 3.6 m. p.m., so the speed at the end of the highway skid is about 32.2 m.p.h. - Finally, the effect of the road skid must be considered, and then we have solved our problem. The friction coefficient for a wet, hard - surfaced and level road is usually about 0,525. Using tail value, we get a speed Of about 46.5 naafis. just before skidding. Since the friction coef- ficients adopted may differ slightly from the actual values at the acci- dent, the driver could have been travelling at aibout 45 m.p.h., as he said, although calculation shows that he was probably going slight- ly faster. How fast did you originally guess the car was travelling? It pays to mak the calculation! Incidentally this shows that the calculation can be favorable to the accused, al- though it Usually shows he was travelling at excessive speed:. T[ACHING A CHILD 10 BE TIDY AND NEAT SOMETIMES CAN BE QUITE A FEAT. COOPERATION IS THE CLUE. ITS BETTER THAN FORCE FOR CHILD AND YOU. Dept of National Health and Welfare Years Agone Interesting Items Picked From The Huron Expositor of Twen- tyflve and Fifty Years Ago From The Huron Expositor April 12, 1929 On the evening of April 8, the debt on Duff's Church, Walton, manse was cleared when there was a large gathering assembled in the church. The speakers were Rev. Chandler and Dr. Bainsby. There were also three presentations made to Mrs. R. H. Middleton and Miss- es Annie and Maud Ferguson, in appreciation of their services in the church. - Mr. Roy Lamont, of Stanley, met with an accident recently which will lay him off work for awhile. While riding horseback to another farm, he was thrown off, alighting on a stone and receiving a severe bruising and shaking up. During the severe -.. electrical storm which passed over Zurich last Friday night, lightning struck the large barn on the farm of P. Deichert, Jr. The fire totally dh- stroyed the structure. Mr, Alex Powell, who has been an employee of the W. R. Smith store, town, ,for several years, has accepted a position on the Kitchen- er police force. He leaves for that city on. Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sadler and son, William, of Dublin, were ban- queted at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John}, Jordan Wednesday night, Mr, Joseph Nagle, Reeve of Hibbert, read the address and Messrs. Lorne Pethick and Patrick Maloney made the presentation of a library table and chairs to Mr, and Mrs, Sadler. Mr, E. Knife, Hensall, has dis- posed of his tbakeshop to Mr. Gar- net Case, who takes possession im- mediately. Mr. Bert Wren has accepted a. position for the summer months at the Hensall Bakery. Mr. Thomas McAdams, Zurich, has purchased the 100 -acre farm on the Bronson Line from Mr, John Hartman, of Seaforth, and gets im- mediate possession. On Sunday afternoon while Mr. Hey, Jr., Zurich, was preparing to drive out of his lane, the horse started before he could get into the buggy and made a wild dash around the village. Two autos were slight- ly- damaged and the air -filler at L. Prang's shop was wrecked. The ani- mal was caught when it slipped on some ice and fell. CROSSROADS' (By James Scott) WHAT EVER BECAME OF . . . ? On December 7, 1919, a small in, signlficant-looking little chap with a drooping moustache .stepped into Queen Street, Toronto, walked 1.lotng' to the corner of Bay Street, stopped to buy a paper - - . and that was the last that was seen of Ambrose Small. That was thirty-five years ago, and to this day nobody knows what happened to this little fellow. Now this is not the first time that mild -looking fellows have drop- ped from sight and never been heard of since- Time after time you can read in the paper about some man who said to his wife that he was just going to step down to the corner store for a package of cigarettes before supper and. who, .in some strange way, got himself mislaid and never return- ed. When this happens, most people take a good look at the little wo- man who is left behind, and often enough come to the conclusion that if they had to live with such a harridan they too might take a stroll some fine day and never re- turn to the family hearth. It's too bad, but, as they say, it's happen- ing all the time and nobody pays too much attention to it. But Ambrose Small has never been forgotten, and for a very good reason. When he disappeared, he was carrying a cheque for a cool mil- lion dollars in his pocket! That, my lads, ain't hay! As many people know, Ambrose Small was the one and only really great theatrical financial genius Canada has ever produced. He is the only man in our history who ever made real dough out of the legitimate stage. When he got that cheque for a million smackers he owned a chain. of theatres all across Canada and that cheque was a part payment on them—a sort 01 down payment as it were. He had a theatre right there in Western Ontario, and it is a happy thing to know that, unlike many of the oth- ers, it was not converted into a movie house, but to this day open ates as a legitimate playhouse. It is in London—the Grant? Theatre owned and operated by the London Little Theatre Club. The Grand, As a matter of fact was Ambrose Small's favorite house. In it he incorporated al the features which he liked bes in all his other threatres and, he considered it to be one of the fin est in all the land. Some say, tha even to this day, his ghost 'walks on the opening night of a new play That may be. Certain it is tha nobody has ever found out what From The Huron Expositor April 8, 1904 The 25th annual meeting of the Western Football Association, Can- ada's oldest sporting organization, was held at Berlin on Good Friday. Seafgrth was represented by Wil- liam Murdie and Charles Sills. H. M. Jackson was named one of the board of referees, he being chairman, Mr, Thomas "McMichael, Hullett, has disposed of his young Clydes- dale stallion to •a gentleman from Manitoba, and delivered him in Exeter last week. This is one of the finest colts that has been bred in this county, and weighed 1660 pounds. There was no opposition to the Contine Electric Railway bill when it came up before the Railway Com- mittee in the Legislature last week. The time limits for begin- ning and finishing the road were reduced to one year and three years, respectively. The bill will be recommended for a second read- ing, which practically means that it will pass. Mr. G. G. McPherson, Stratford, solicitor for the promot- ers, on being interviewed, said: "The s tratford is com- plete, as is also of the route between St. Joseph and Hensall, where the ties and posts are al- ready on the ground. Mr. Hamel, the engineer, tells me that as soon as the Snow disappears he will pro- ceed to make the survey between Stratford and Hensall. Robert Charters & Sons, of the Mill Road, have disposed of an- other good Shorthorn bull. The purchaser is Mr, James M. McLar- en, near Kippen, Mr. R. P. Bell has purchased the Clarkson residence, being vacated by Mr. Robert Bell. The Seaforth Collegiate Institute March examinations resulted as fol- lows: Form I: D. Constable, A. Soole; Form 'II: A. Campbell, B. Smith, G. Campbell, M. McKinney, A. McGavin, H. Roberts, D. Hall; Form II -A; R. Davis, L. Norris, E. Robb, B. Wlattgh, R. McLean; Form III -B: G. Watson, M. Gillespie, A. Smith; Form IV,: C. )Knight, RR.. Hartry, A. McKenzie; Commercial Form: F..Mc! eod, E, Box, F. Wein and, E. Gottschalk, E. Abell, E. Lausse. ever became of Ambrose Small. -Some said he fled to Mexico—which is strange, for surely he would have cashed that cheque first! Others say he was killed and his body burned in the furnace of the old Grand Opera House in Toron- to. But he left the Grand to buy a paper. It is doubtful that he re- turned. Still others say that he was lured away and murdered in a hotel room out along the west end of King Street. About seven years ago, a henna - haired lady of considerable propor- tions, came into my office in To ronto and after carefully closing the door she whispered into my ear, "I know what happened to Ambrose Small." Then .she poured forth her tale. It seems that this strange lady— whom I had never seen before— believed she possessed psychic powers. On the trail. of Ambrose Small, she went one night to the King Street hostelry where he was supposed to have been murdered and, directed by her psychic power, rented the room where the foul deed was supposed to have ,been done. She lay down on the bed and went to sleep. Exactly on the stroke of mid- night, she was wakened by a soft voice calling urgently. When site opened her eyes she saw, lying flat on his back in the wall beside her bed, the figure of a small slight man. "Get me out of here," the ghost- urged. hosturged. "I am Anibrose Small." Then the' vision vanished, but in the morning my lady informant' felt all along the wall where she had seen Ambrose Small, and sure en- ough there was a patch in the plas- ter just the size of a little man. She told the police about it, and those crude fellows laughed at her, but in the end she had the last laugh. A few, years later, when that sante hostelry was being torn, down, what do you think they, found? You're right—the skeleton of a small -sized man embedded in the wall of the same room where my acquaintance slept that strange night! That was her story anyway. Me? I don't know what ever be- came of Ambrose Small All I do- know oknow is that he left his widow two million dollars, and that this week when her estate was finally wound up after some twenty years of legal bickering,. there was not enough left to pay all her creditors. The way the cost of living has gone up since.1919, I have a pretty good idea what became of Ambrose Small's money anyway. . , • Farm News of Huron The demand for swine breeding stock continues. Boar owners re- port increased sow breedings. The lamb crop is arriving and some farmers have commenced shearing operations. Colder weather and four to six inches of snow at the close of last week are a vast contrast to two years ago when seeding was about completed. Egg Shell Quality Important The keeping quality of eggs de- pends to a large extent on the qual- ity of the shell. Any crack or im- perfection in the shell results in rapid loss of interior quality. A good hard shell which can resist considerable shock is a- highly de- sirable characteristic. There are a number of factors which affect egg shell quality. The breaking strength of. the shell lower in hot weather. As egg pro - 'duction decreases, fhe breaking strength tends to decrease and as thebird d approaches the end of its laying year, egg shell strength de- creases- But two factors are of paramount importance in egg shell quality, says T. M. Maclntyre, Poul- try Nutritionist at. the Experimental Farm, Nappan, N.S., the inherited) ability to the bird to produce good shells and the diet of the bird. Experimental work has shown that it .is possible to improve the .quality of the egg shell by selective breeding. The hardness or thick- ness of the egg shell of the average flock can be considerably improved by a selective breeding program, in which hens producing eggs of poor shell, quality are removed from the breeding flock. Present knowl- edge indicates- that by this prac- tice most flocks dan be improved to a certain extent, but ultimately a point is reached beyond which further improvement is practically impossible without affecting other hereditary characteristics„ 'Nutritionally, a lack of minerals and vitamins, particularly calcium, manganese, and vitamin D has an adverse effect on egg shell quality. In egg shell quality studies at Nip - pan it has been shown that the source of calcium, as well as the presence or absence of insolulbie grit, has an effect on shell quality. Birds fed clam :shells or oyster shells plus insoluble grit •produced egg shells of superior quality to those from bird fed oyster •shells. The clam shells fed in this trial were harder than the oyster shells or limestone, and it is thought that the presence of a ha.rd substance 'n the gizzard In the form of in- soluble grit,er a hard! calcium com- pound favors the production of bet- ter egg shell. In a study of different feeding methods it was found that birds fed an all-imash ration •prod'ucetl eggs With 'stronger shells than diidl birds fed a grain and mash or grain and pellet ration. The explanation for this seems to be that the •birds on' the all -mash ration, being unable to pick and choose their feed, receiv- ed a more balanced diet. Fertilixing House Plants Fertilizers should be used with caution and restraint on house plants. Plants which are well es- tablished in the pots hi which they will flower, will benefit from light applications of a complete fertiliz- er, which should be discontinued when the flowers show color. This does not apply to plants which bloom continuously over a protract- ed period. Young plants in small pots which are at an intermediate stage of growth are better trans- ferred to larger pots in preference to fertilizing. Old plants which have occupied Large pots for a con- siderable onsiderable time, and those which are in pots which will carry them over to another season, wiLl bene- fit from regular supplies of nour- ishment during the spring and early summer. Fertilizing in most cases should cease at the approach of winter. Sickly plants should not be fertilized as they are in no con- dition to absorb plant food. When good wholesome fertile soil is available and plants are manag- ed so that only youthful and vigor- ous specimens are maintained), there will be little_need for fertil- izers- There are some few plants which are known to be heavy feed- ers and for these a little fertilizer such as bonemeal may be mixed with the soil at potting time. Pro- prietary fertilizers should be used with care and strictly according to directions on the container. Fer- tilizers in tablet form are efficient and convenient, For the farm home, manure wa- ter from the cow barn or drainage from, a manure pile is an excellent nutrient. While its use is objec- tionable in the house it can be 'ap- plied to plants which are placedd' outdoors for the summer. It should be diluted to a strength of one -half- pint in a gallon of water, and ap- plied once a week. After a while the strength may be increased to one pint per gallon. Tea leaves and coffee .grounds have no fertilizer value and 'ate only un•tidy+. Soaps, oils, epsom salts and aspirins may be quite harmful or useless. Any fancied benefits are imaginary. Asesoesoraufaireseirmasaerossaerassaseassausasss- Smileor Two .rrrararearrowar- "We've told the .Tones we're aid- ing o-ing to Toronto for our holidaYs- Wouldn't it be awful if we walked smack into them at Montreal," • The landlady brought in a plate- ful of extremely thin slices .of bread which dismayed her hungrY Men boarders. "Did you out these, Mrs. Brown?" asked one, "Yea, I cut them," was the stern reply.. "All right," said the boarder, "1'11 deal." a 4 f i if f 5 4 4 1 A 4 i T • 11 .4 • a 4 ► .1