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The Brussels Post, 1960-04-07, Page 7this right away, writes IVIillicent 'Taylor in the Christian Science Monitor, you may feel that your lawn is too small to justify the ex- pense of a spreader, Once yen, have used one, however, you wij, be glad YOU invested in it.. A little later, when the grass has begun to grow and the crab- grass and other weed killers have done their work, you prob- ably will have some bare spots. These may be small enough 'to scratch up with a rake, fertilize, 5111d reseed, Larger sections might be dug up to a depth of six to eight inches, the soil prepared as if for a new lawn, and reseeded, Cover with brush or lightweight burlap and keep moist, Spring rains ought to take care of moisture for established lawns. However, if these are scarce, the lawn should be given regular watering, for this is the time when grass plants grow strong. Deep watering is neces- sary to send the grass roots down where they can maintain them- selves during the hot weather of midsummer. As soon as the grass has grown a bit, give it an early spring mowing with the mower set about two inches high. If mow- ing is done frequently enough all summer the clippings need not be raked up. They will then return fertility to the soil and also protect the crowns of the grass -plants. Where the growth gets ahead of the mowing, or there are high places, a light raking with a grass rake is better, with the grass clippings added to the com- post pile, Hints About That, Lawn Of' Yours For most of us 4 good lawn is an important part of the home grounds. While trees and shrubs come fir'', We house is most at- tractive`v set off by a carpet of grass. Grass plants germinate and grow best in cool weather. The time to feed the lawn, therefore, is in early spring and late sum- mer or early OPL1111111., In north- ern parts the first gardening task of the season is giving one's lawn a generous "breakfast in bed." If ,you Dave moved into a new home, your lawn may have been planted by the development company or be waiting for spring. In this case a permanent lawn is best planted toward autumn, and attention given this spring and summer to building up the soil a.nd getting rid Of weeds. Whatever grass gets started the first year is all to the good, but the real, lawn-building in this case can wait until fall, Established lawns, howver, need that breakfast in bed, A good feeding in early spring is of prime importance. This can be an all-purpose fertilizes' but even better is a special turf food. Among these are several organic turf foods which do not burn and can be used at the same time as reseeding:. First job, of course, is to clear up the debris of winter, Sticks, branches, leaves, and trash should be picked up and the lawn gone over with a grass rake. If there is any bad heaving the section could be lightly roll- ed or tamped. Whatever crabgrass and weed- killer program you settle upon (and there are many under their various trade names), follow the directions on the containers. As some can be used even before or at the same time as the first spring feeding, and some are combined in a weed-and-feed ,operation, it is wise to look into. Most people leek at least 10 bu- shels, sonic Of them as many as 25,. We'd back up to the cellar- way bulkhead, tote the bags down and dump the potatoes in, the bin, We always retrieved our hags. Thus the whole winter's supply of pestatoes would be laid in at one time, and the bulkhead could be closed tightly to keep the long winter out. A most important thing about pctatoes, then, was the variety, Today, a woman doesn't ltnow one kind from another, Mostly, cur people lilted the Green. Mountain because it was mealy, We don't go for a "wet" potato. But we had other kinds, and the buyer would usually ask what kind you were growing that year. Today it's hard to find a Green Mountain, because the professors have invented newer potatoes that yield better, resist blights, handle better, and re- turn a little more profit. It is a kind of progress without im- provement, because the Green Mountain is still the best pota- to to find on your plate, So nobody much planned to trot to the store after 10 pounds of potatoes at a time: The potato- bin way not only guaranteed against running out of potatoes hut it saved money. It was con- sidered respectable, then, to save money. Central heating, along with home improvements, and the de- velopment of ,the packaged gre. eery helped each other along. You can't keep vegetables in a cellar that has a furnace. Here at the farm, along with our mo- dern house cellar with its cement and heater, we also have a se- parate vegetable and fruit cel- lar with a dirt floor and low temperature, where a potato or apple can want out the winter without a shrivel. But villagers didn't care about potato storage, for by now they could run to the market and get 10 pounds any time. In the deep winter, with snow banked about the foundations, the cellar accumulated a fla- vour and smell that was close and musty, but it was a good smell. Since snow had to be kept over the windows against frost, the cellar was dark, and a' lantern was usually kept at the top of the stairs. You'd light it and, carrying also a big pan, you'd descend to, pick up the day's ingredients. 'There was no heat in the cel- lar other than a natural under- ground warmth, so everything was earthy. Once in a great while rime-frost would begin to work in at the underpinning, and sometimes there would be a rusty old cast-iron stove piped into the base of the chimney which-could be lighted to bring up fife temperature. So you'd make your tour and fill your pan. A dozen potatoes, a turnip, apples for two pies, a jar of jelly, and perhaps some "preserved" pears. You could get beets and carrots down there, too, and mincemeat, and all sorts of things. You'd blow out the lantern on the top step, and leave the cellarway perplexed as the burnt-out aroma of kerosene tried to mingle with the ever- present richness of the. dry salt cod suspended from his nail. This attempted amalgamation never quite came off, so you could open a cellar-way door any time and always smell .both smells — each distinct, But this was just at the landing:' Down cellar there was a 'definite potato smell dontinating — where forty or fifty bushels were prodlaim- ing prosperity. P. P. P. — Prior to Poly-packs. — By John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor, UNDAY SCtl001 LESSON With An gyp. To The Potato In the eenstant search for tors ward and. progressive action,. the Maine Potato industry is curs rently cheering over a new "PO1Y-peels" of t e n pounds ct washed, graded, and superlative- ly turned e out potatoes which will surely catch the eye ref the housewife as she wheels around the eencliments and selects her commodities. This is good. .Pota. teea it, the raw, untutored state have been e tough nut to crack in our modern goslings for beauty. Their eye appeal runs largely to a dirty look and a low forehead, and dressing, them up hasn't been easy L.' this poly- pack passes as prettiness, all to the good, What I deplore is the necessity in our time, of going to all this trouble. The poly-pack doesn't do anything for the potatoes; it merely beguiles the housewife. • She has so thoroughly lost con• tact with the realities of food that she thinks a poly-bag is a bargain, She thinks a vegetable needs glamour. All she's doing really, is wasting her husband': Bard-earned • substance for a poly-bag that has neither vita mins nor calories, and will have to be thrown .away. I can tell her honeolly that she is getting the, same old potatoes. True, they're sized and artfully laundered, But they are still 'potatoes, and the bag they come in is not much to go by. The old-time potato bin, down cellar, is a thing of the past. So is the whole business of . deseend- ing • to the cellar in winter to load up with mealtime goodies, The farmers still live that way, but the villagers don't, The gene eration of householder's and housewives who wouldn't be 'bo- thered buying ten pounds Of po- tatoes is gone. The kind of liv- ing eating, and housekeeping that used to cook off ten pounds. of potatoes at a crack is also gone. It - wasn't too long ago every home, farm and town, had a po- tato bin. We had standing orders from about a score of villagers who expected us to grow their .potatoes for them. At • harvest- time, we'd run our own potatoes down cellar, including seed for next year, and then we'd bag up the rest by bushels. Burlap bags, not vain and handsome trans- parencies. People knew what a • potato looked like. We'd get out the wagon, and. afterward a truck, and deliver these potatoes house-to-house. Sy Bev, It. B Werrenk Thu •SireltOtit of 10;4014 1114ttliow Luke .144, 144 IVPIlturY SOIedient liTct$0ever exalteth himself shall be ahaSedt and he that limnbleth. .himselff shall he exalted, Luke The greetes example of intmille ty is Jesus Christ, He, as ged„, "was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fash- ion as a man, he humbled him- self, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." Paul, the greatest of the apostles, regarded himself as less than the least of all saints, The day he met Jesus on the road to Damascus, be, the chief of sinners, obtained mercy. A vision of Jesus humbles us. Jesus did more for the human family than any one, I would place Paul Second. He took the Gospel to many areas of the world, Thirteen of his letters are included in the Holy Scrip- tures to bless the world, There is a relation between humility and service. We only find our true height of service as we humble ourselves, The propriety of humility is well illustrated in the story of our lesson. How much better to take the lower seat and be called higher than to take the higher and be sent lower, In the first case the person is exalted and in the second he is humiliated. Many feel that one must as- sert himself and exalt himself to make a good impression. They say that that is the way to suc- cess in the world, True, it may seem to give an advantage. But it is short-lived. "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haugh- ty spirit before a fall." In Pro- verbs 27:2 we read, "Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips." We must humble ourselves in order to enter the kingdom of God and we must grow in the grace of humility if we are to be any use in the kingdom. A man's true greatness is indicated by the depth of his humility. Let us be more like. Jesus. ?a 1.. DUTY-BOUND — Postmistress Sylvia Swanson stands beside what may be one of the largest balls of string in the world. She started the ball growing in 1927 when a federal directive to her Twelve. Mile, Ind., post office urged employees to save string. THE FARM FROM JokA Wrong-Way Pigeons Any Boy Scout worth his First Class Badge can tell direction by checking the position of the sun against his wrist watch. But if his watch is wrong, this mod- est bit of celestial navigation will lead him astray. In the current issue of Science maga- zine, zoologist Klaus Schmidt- Koenig of the Max Planck In- stitute in Germany reports that another celestial navigator, the homing pigeon, has the same problems,. Like many animals and in- sects, homing pigeons contain "internal clocks" that are set by -the light-dark cycles of day and night. To prove that homing pigeons find their bearings by a comparison of time and the sun's position, Dr. Schmidt-Koenig "reset" the clock of three groups by exposing them to artificial day-night cycles, so that "day" began six hours early for one flock, six hours late for another, and twelve hours late for the third. The groups were then re- leased. The results were clear. For example, the pigeons with their clocks half a day slow flew off exactly in the wrong direction, apparently believing that sunup was sundown, and consequently that east was west, "This fact," writes Dr. Schmidt-Koenig, "was underscored by a drastically de- creased homing performance." In other words, most of the mixed- up birds never did get home. $1,000 less than the single-side concentrate sprayer currently in general use. The power to drive the pump and blower is supplied from the tractor power take-off, in- stead of from an auxiliary en- gine. The blower and pump are mounted on the three-point hitch of the tractor and the spray tank is mounted on a trailor. The total weight of the sprayer is only 800 pounds. * * • A centrifugal fan of the squir- rel-cage type provides the air" stream that carries the spray particles through the trees. The air stream has an average vel- ocity of 120 miles per hour and a volume of 7,100 cubic feet per minute. The diaphragm pump is operated at a power take-off speed of 540 strokes per minute, and at a pressure of 100 pounds per square inch. Pump and blower require about 16 horse- power. In extensive trials during 1959, the experimental sprayer gave as good performance as the best concentrate sprayer on the mar- ket, it is claimed. At least three major pests of apples, peaches and plums can no longer be controlled in some Ontario orchards with post-war insecticides that originally were very effective. This phenomenon, says the Canada Department of Agricul- ture, is similar to the develop- ment of resistance by some dis- ease organisms to antibiotics such' as penicillin and streptomycin, and by the house fly to DDT. 4' * 4, The European red mite is now highly resistant to parathion in most peach and plum orchards in Ontario, and the codling moth, which caused wormy apples, has recently developed a strain chat cannot be controlled with DDT in three or four orchards in the Niagara Peninsula. The red- banded leaf roller, another major pest of apples, is showing signs of resistance to the related in- secticide DDD. * * * Research at the department's entomology laboratories at Vine- land Station and Simcoe, On- tario, has shown that the resist- ant strains of these pests can be controlled by other pesticides, states. G. G. Dusters. For example, Sevin and Guth- ion each reduced codling moth injury to less than two per cent in an orchard where DDT allow- ed 86 per cent wormy fruit. Ex- periments also shOwed that strains of the European red mite resistant to parathion can still be controlled by Tedion, Gutthion and some other miticides, al- though these may also lose their eefectiveneis in time. * * A snail farm? Federal authorities have said "no" to a request to establish ' a snail farm near Kitimat in .Btitish Columbia — not from a lack Of appreciation of fine foods, but because snails are re- garded as a potential menace to agriculture: 4' * 4: On a number of occasions snails of different species haVe been imported into Canada by restaurateurs for satisfying epi- curean appetites, bUt this mark-e ed the first time that Some one had Wanted to go into the pro- duction business on a large scale. The applicant planned to id-s- port the‘ snails from West ,Ger- many, * 4, 4, Plant Protection DiVislon, Can- ad,a Department of Agriculture, used the Destructive Insect and Pest Act regulation to reject the scheme after seeking the advice Of Arthur H. Clarke, Jr„ ASS181,- ant Curator` c'.2 Invertebrates, National Museum of Canada, 4, * * Mr. Clarke said, that the grottp of snails that are commonly tele- ed for food in westerii Europe have becothe an agricultural pest in areas in CaliffitIlia and Michi- gan. They seriously damage to- n-lathes, lettuce, cabbage and strawberries, "And", he notes," "radishes are eaten so avidly that it is now impossible to grow them at all in these ovens", 4' 4' * Canada Department of Agri- eulture etientists have develop- ed e low.cost, eoncentrate omit- and sprayer which is now being built by several Canadian and British Manufacturers, It will be Sold kir at least The polar bear should be corn- plimente'd. Although he often takes a cold bath in the winter, he never bores anybody bragging about it. ISSUE 15 -- 1960 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking /13 a 5 V G 010 3 w 0 5 V S 3 O a 3 d O a V A a 0 a V DECEIVING — Jacqueline Chan,. a "China doll" in real life, ap- pears-in this unattractive get-up as a 'yum yum" girl in the forthcoming "The World of Suzie Wong." The 24-year-old beauty once dated Antony Armstrong-Jones, Princess Mar- garet's fiance. 0 5 w H 9 I 3 d 3 a V O 9 z 9 5 5 Y 9 O H V S n V 3 N O w Summer Evening In An 'Indian 'Orchard' A summer day ends 'in the Aor- . chard with the slanting of `the sun's rays to the tops of the mango trees. They light up the curved, dusty leaves and the yel- low fruit ,hanging ,singly from stringy stems. As the light departs, the great evensong of Orchard voices, too, comes to a close. The piping and twittering*, the cawing ' and whistling, all the noisy clamor of birds preparing for the night, is lost in the gathering gloom. A hush descends. The malt (gardener) ceases to shout 'boil" "hail" up the trees to frighten away thieving birds; he stops rattling the tin cans tied to the branches, Swinging his lantern along the narrow paths, he makes his way to his little mud hut on the clearing among 'the trees. He knows the hour is at hand when the Great Peace reigns in the orchard and one must not go into the silent shadows to disturb nature's sleep. In the young summer night the moon rises from among the tree trunks; round and large and glowing red; then it grows paler and. smaller as it climbs into the sky. It transforms the darkness' of the clustered trees into a blue mysterious haze, The kamini now opens out its thousands of fragile little White flowers to fill the world with fragrance. Uncles' the light of the moon its tiny petals delft sound- lessly down and el:need a white carpet On the grass. Suddenly a koel breaks out into song, that great diVe of the orchard, commanding the silence of the trees with her' plaintive cooing. Yet even, the keel, praised through the ages by the great musicians • in their songs, IS humbled by the Ochs throaty splendor of the paptieha When it sings its heart out into the sil- ent night — "pee Johan? pee Italian? pee kahrtri? (where Is my love?)," its repeated question rising rapidly to ti pitch of frenzy, until you think its la- the heart will surely break, 11,111N 3 1. .L ;31 33.L , d X a 3 0 A a w N 0 0 N 3 AN ON 15 Clad V 3 'PATHFINDER — This, globe rep- lica will enable America's as- tronaut to "see" where he is as he orbits the earth at thou- sands of miles an hour. He'll look down at the small globe exactly as though he were see- ing the real thing through a window in his vehicle. Arithmetic teacher: "Yottlhave ten fingers. If there we're -three missing, what would you, have?" Elsie: "No music lessens." 4. '(dung Ox • 27. Ascent,. 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Stare in, . baseball.113, Military nsalstant 49, Faithful 40. Window shade 42, Cup for ctittifig , diamonds 43', Wilt of reitietatice 414, . particle 48.. Renting agreement 2 4 10 3 5 6 8 ins *Se 12 13 - 16 is 21; 20 19 f::: C., 24 25. 23 22 28 26 27 31 29 a 34 33 32 14* 37 35 36 V 3? 38 sst•telet.e SUNNY SIDE OF THE HOUSE — Thai is no greenhouse, above, which the Harry 1, thornasort family lives in.• the glass covers solar beating plant oh the side of the three-bedrooni house.. It enabled fliestiiasort to heat his home Hilt winter with energy from 4141 sun dild 15 gallons of fuel Oil burned in ei standard furnace, To demonstrate,- Mrs. Thematan and the kids cavort in an outdoor pool filled with Water also warmed lit the .solar omit. Daddy livens up the party with 'a unsolicited snow. 43 41 42 40 48 • 46 47 bs 50 51 49 Answer ekei-V1 are 'Oh'this'