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The Brussels Post, 1926-5-26, Page 6Wanted We pay Highest Cash Price for Cream. 1 cent per lb. Butter Fat extra paid for all Cream delivered at our Creamery. Satisfaction Guaranteed Brussels Creamery Co. Phone 22 Limited ' FAMILIAR WILD FLOWERS IN THIS AND OTHER DISTRICTS Displays of Nature Are Well Worth Watching For and Constitute a Constant Source of Delight—Fur- ther List of Blooms Which Can be Enjoyed Without the Care of Cul- tivation—Mother Nature Is Very Lavish in Her Monthly Exhibitions Providing She Has Half a Chance Continuing the study of familiar wild flowers in this district, June, July and August blossoms have now to be considered. "Flaming July" is as applicable to the floral color schemes of the midsummer period as it is to the wealth of sunshine and intense heat. For July blooms are the gaudiest of summer glories, deep painted, brilliant, all ablaze. To this intensity June leads up, from it Aug- ust begins to detract, and with Sep- tember plant life assumes more mod- est dress, paler tints, awaiting the long sleep of a new winter. A few perpetual bloomers defy the chilly winds and darkening days, and re- nnin sumptuously clothed till the end. So far as passible the Rowers here described wiri be such only as may be Seert witif:11 reasonable distance of the town. Even they are so numer- ous as to need ail :ie space at dis- posel and include many rare beaut- ies well worthy of study. As a reversal of the trend of pop- ular favor for the rlcher gems of cultiveted improved plants, it may be remarked that many persons are once more devoting part of their back gardens W following the old English cottage garden plan, where the most beautifulengine the wild flowers are cultivated, bringing the cheese of the countre lane, the woodlends. the bush to one's own home. So just eommon ferns, but- ter -ceps. the wild tepee the seentless viol(t. end meey another peep up in a fitting dslieht to many to whnm 1It f1dare dmied, welcome eent red to the stately .2'1:W - due, the itinerate thn. bloom- proi71, oTrani June and July Blossoms. Perennial Lupine—ThiF showy, bright idle, floweeed pant is of the pea ftedly !MA Ma!: he found plenti- fully ie Senth eV -stern Ontario, and anywhere suath,rir le Florida. An- other Lupin, tr.ap'es villo ms) s a native of the steithsrn Stetes and rennet endure this colder client°. The leaves are palm-liie. mei +hemp downward front stsne the plant is sennetimes Pa114-41 t1W Wolf flower (Ilinug meaning e welt!, it is also vaned the "Sundial," for its Icavee turn ever on the stele to face the sun. At least, so it is said, and the statemett may be worth Iryine out. Blue Vervain is a July bloomer, Its lestVt'S grow upright op' the stem, and are long-cone-shaprde arieh green, divided by a ring of beauti-' fel blue. The leaves are very orna- mental, long, slender, with deep pur- ple marking. The plant is aneestor of the garden verbena. It grows by the roadside, and M low situations. Cone Flower—,It is of the sum flower family and is often ealled "nigger head." Very showy, and of bright orange -yellow, with disk, dark purple -brown. Monkey Flower—A habitant of maeshes and ditches, flowering right through tin falls though at ne best in July. The palate has a splash of yellow on It. Colors', lilac, deep vio- let and rarely epen white. It is two - tipped, and may with it stretch of tansy resemble the grinning face of o moltkeY- Hep Clover is of the pea family, the flowers coming in dense, pare yellow heads. It is an importation from Europe' or Asia. Search for it. in! fields, ' The quaietehare's foot is a lower 'growing variety! As hop- cloverlipene the' flOWera Change te a rcb brown. Greets 1:1neetly On POO 'soil. A My bieotnet, Corn Cockle, of the pink fansily, , is one of the most handsonie plants. I Found among standing grain and a !great pest. The leaves are pale green with a tinge of blue, which ! the blossoms blend in crimson and magenta beautifully. The hairy ispikes all over its stem, leaves and sheeting streamers from its pretty , yellow eye, distinguish it from all other flowers. Cardinal Flower, a wild lobelia, runs up three to four feet high, the leaves alternate and are dentate. Grows beside streams. Its vivid red is rare at any season of the year. The petals hang down. It is well worth long search. I Evenine Primrose. This is as its name implies eight -flowering plant and it is vry beautiful seen in the evening twilight. It is a biennial land is more or less hairy. Grows : from thre. to five feet high. The leaves an' Along, four or five inches long; the 1 eters are very large, long, terminal. The flower petals are gen- erally four, eup-like in shape if not full blown and of rich yellow. Comes in July. Sweet Brier (rose family): No thast e in passing can excuse the om- mission of this sweetest scented of all familiar wildflowers. But can the reader find it? A rose to all in- tents and purposes. A native of Europe and prominent in poetry and {romance. It has five petals, of pale t pink, yellowish centre. Arrow Head. Note the beauty of the arrow -shaped leaves, delicately net -veined. Flower white, with yel- low centre. Calopogon, or Narth Atherican or - elle!. If found here it will be in ettessy meadows, coming from out of the enamel, not from three joints Ins in the tropics. Somewhat marshy sithations. Slightly fragrant, light pink flower: long slender leaves. The purple fringed orchid Is a varient, sitniler (event for the rich purple flower, with yellow eyes. Thorn Apple is of the deadly Night Shade family and one of the most poisonous. An old world im- portation, yet its largely shaped white flower and yellowieh green bed' nre worth s,eiting if only to be and passed by. Yellow Fox -Glove, familiar to ev- ery immigrant. from Enteland and many make- Cenadians. These are of the die:Rene family and contain dearllY nelson. The flower grows on long spikes, and is drooplug often; Heti- yellow. with darker yellow markings. D'avee long, and dark green. Green Laurel. It is cousin to the beau( i Nil A salf,as, and little less gau- dy and imitating. Growe to immense heights along water courses. The !towels; vary from pale pink to fil- med pore width and large five -pet - tiled leatms, long, mixed shades of reddish -brown, anti yellow ion green. Rare. Shortening Days When the days are shortening fast end the nights grow cool, the rural roads, the ripening fields, the fruit teflon theca, the whiteeing, waving buckwheat, are so pieturesgue that lintels, might perhaps spare the soft- ertmted flower, But to the careful celter it is there. Then comes the glowing goldeu- roil, making up by its abundance the toes of brilliant flowers; the deli - nate marsh -mallow, pale -tinted cup- like flowers, with (tuitions fantastic twitted leaf. The purple /utter with its fair tints of azure blue, and long flowing Ina, that decks the roadside in August and September; then comes also the Great-Wilow Herb, dull -red, four -petalled blooms; the butter -cup sprittga up again; the Starsvort (of aster family), with its quaint clustering leaves and many petaled, reddish flowers in early September replaces the Prottit droop- ing bell -like Rattlesnake Root find the °fringed Gentian, blue -fringed„ fonr-petalled flower, makes last at- tempt to be gay. The Turtle -head' large, bluish -white flower will linger 0111111 October in sheltered spots, end the Marigold leaves only in Sep- temher, The eommon Tansy lingers lone, and the spreading Aster, like its rultivated cousin will survive eur- ly frosts, and its pretty golden eye peeping out among the dull blue pet- als may look last on the familiar will flowers- on the browning fields or the whirling flakes of early snows. Hereancirrhere 1 Eighteen fishery overseers from the Maritime Previnees and Que- bec recently took a *two weeks' course at Halifax in the latest methods of preparing dry and smoked fish at the Dominion Biolo- gical Station and at Dalhousie Uni- versity. A crowd of citizens and officials gathered at the Canadian Pacific depot at Vancouver recently to welcome the Canadian Pacific spe- cial mail train when it pulled in after having completed the journey from Winnipeg in six minutes over the record of thirty-two hours. The journey across Canada from Quebec occupied less than three and a half days. Regardless ofs the great strike in the British Isles, Windsor Station in Montreal was filled to overflow- ing with travellers towards the last few days of the first week in May. They were all taking the boat train to sail on the Canadian Pacific liner Minnedosa from Quebec. Two spe- cial trains were made up carrying five hundred passengers from all parts of Canada. Revenue of the Prairie ProvinceZ Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, last year from all sources • is es- timated at $1,050,000,000 represent- ing,a huge increase over the sum of $860,000,000 for the previous year. The returns were derived as fol- lows: agricultural, $725,000,000; industrial, $150,000,000; tourist, $50,000,000; mines, fisheries, etc., $40,000,000. Figures issued at Ottawa show that employment at the beginning of April was practically unchanged as compared • with the previous month, while the situation was more favorable than on April 1 in any of the last five years, in four of which a downward trend was indicated on that date. Manufac- turing showed improvement and transportation and construction registered greater expansion than usual. Recent improvement in Oriental trade is being indicated by the heavy Cargoes carried by the last feNV lin- ers sailing for Japan and Chins. from the Port of Vancouver. Van- couver merchants view the partial recovery in the volume of bueiness being done with China as a sure sign that the country is coming back to normal. This improvement is noted especially in the recent heavy bookings of the Canadian Pacific steamers. Whole families of Indians -on the Island of lilanitowaning, in Georg- ian Bay,. work all winter making twelve -inch bark canoes which . are sold as ornaments. A shipment of four thousand eight hundred of these passed through Dominion Ex- press yards at Montreal recently ler a New York destination. The old-time Indian canoe is represented in every detail and, every one of the tiny vessels is beautifully decorat- ed. A passenger on a Quebec train was suddenly stricken with an epileptic fit and collapsed in the Wiedsor Station, Montreal, recent- ly severing an artery in the neck, Constable W. W. Peterson, of the C,P.R. investigation department rendered first aid immediately until the ambulance was called. On ar- rival at the hospital the house sur- geon complimented Peterson on his clever work. Constable Peterson is a member of the C.P.R. Police First Aid team, . . A USEFUL BOOK Much that is interesting and in- formative has been found in the re- cent, publication of it famous book of war niemoire, but it is doubtful if one could suggest so many unique advantages to be obtained from its possession as does Finley Peter Dune's; well-known Mr. Dooley. The latter says, "Such a book is Mo- hr to keep th' dure ajar, to prevent tit' newspapers -Wm blowin' away, to press ferns in or to stOW away hills ye Want to frget." THE BRUSSELS POST ON GROWING POTATOES IMPORTANT CROP IN ONTARIO AS IN ALL THE WORLD. Although Universally Grown Not 1:veeeOte:s the Best Method ‘1tutizoos (Contributed by Ontario Department of Agriculture, reroute.) The potato Is one of the four prim- oinal food crepe of the civilized world. More land Is devoted to the potato in eountries where it is grown, than to any other vegetable crop used Lo' human food. Important In Ontario. in Ontario the potato crup is one of great Importance. There are cer- tain well donned areas where it is grown almost exclusively as either an early crop or as a late crop. Other districts grow a proportion of both crops. The real early districts are located in Peel, Wentworth, Lincoln, Norfolk, Elgin, Kent, Essex and Lambton 'counties. The late crops and seed crops are grown pretty gen- erally throughout the other counties and clfstricts of the Province. Soil. The market gardener and truck grower aim to grow au early crop and desire a well -drained soil of a sandy or Beady loam nature, Such a soll miist be supplied with plant foods and be in such a mechanical condi- tion as to retain the necessary mois- ture. For the late or main crop any good loam, well drained, friable and rich will give a good crop. Thorough Boil preparation is essential in all Manures, Fertilizers and Their Plate In Crop Rotation. Crop rotations play an important part in fitting soil for potatoes aud it is generally considered that Pota- toes following clover sod, preferably manured and ploughed under during the previous autumn for -the early crop, is a good practice. The soil should be kept rich and open, avoid the use of fresh manure, as such is liable to create conditions favorable to potato scab. Commercial fertiliz- ers can be used to supplement ma- nures. Under the conditions gener- ally experienced in this province phosphorous and potash are the ele- ments most needed. Where clover and manure are used it is generally not censidered necessary to use com- mercial nitrogen excepting in parti- cular cases with the early crop. On light sons, where manure and clover are used an 0—(10 to 14)-4 ap- plied at the rate of from 800 to 1,200 pounds per acre should give good re- sults. On heavier soils, under the same treatment, the potash can be reduced. Where chemical fertilizers alone are used as the source of plant food, a 2 to 4—(10-12)-4 to 6 mix- ture applied up to one ton per acre may be used. Planting. Sets containing two eyes and of at least two ounces In weight should be used. These are planted trent nine to fifteen inches emelt in rows from thirty to thirty-six inches apart. The late crop should be planted thirty-six inches between taN,VOWS. Cultivation. Frequent end thorough cultivation early in the season meets with mark- ed response. Deep cultivation early in the SeaSOU gradually becoming shallower as the root systena develops should be the practice. Some grow- ers make it it rule to cultivate during the early season after every rain. While others will start the barrow over the potato field as soon as plant- ing is completed and continue this method of shallow tillage until the plants are two or three inches high. The practice of billing is only recom- mended when necessary to smother weeds or prevent sunburn. Harvesting. The early crop is often harvested before it is fully mature, in fact the site of the potatoes and the market demand influence the date of the har- vest. Witb the late crop, however, where the season allows for matur- ity, harvesting hi not advised until fully ripened. For small lots the digging fork is commonly used, while for greater areas the plough or po- tato digger can be used to advantage. Care must be exercised during har- vest to prevent damage to the tubers that niay reduce the market value. 863rilig Potatoes may be successfully stor- ed in cellars or pits. When cellars aro used the question of air Oscula- tion Is very ilnportant. The storage temperature reeve should be between 82' IP, and the atmosphere should be Just medium moist. Bins should have a false, or slatted bottom, and if the quantities of potatoes are large, air shafts should connect the air space beneath the potatoes with the venti- lators. Pits should be made in a well -drained location, twelve to six- teen Inches deep and four or five feet wife. Ventilators should be put in, a,nd covering provided as the weather grows colder.—Dept, of Horticulture, 0. A. College. How to Rill "frfuststrd." A system that will do away With mustard in ten years is a three-year rotation of Fall rye, seeded down and followed by Recl Clover, Which is ploughed and the third year planted with beans in rows 80 inches apart and cultivated. Fields very bad witb mustard aro reduced to that it can be band pulled. Buckwheat will not kill out mus- tard, but it is agro at help as it grows very thickly and Shades many ef the weak sickly plants so that they do not amount to very much. Grenadian Apple Excels'. In the Imperial apple show in Eng- land, during years 1922 to 1926, Canadian apples won 64 first places, IS seconds, 24 thirds and 22 special prizes. In 1925 the British Colutn- bis. Jonathan was Judged to be the best deesert apple in the British Em- pire, and the prentler cookleg apple Seas the Ontario Rhode Wand Green- ing. In 1924 awl 1924 Canadian. grown Melatosh apple wee Judged to be the best dessert apple in the • e"dlitASIS(ffiliMBAStilielediel sariema...0a,aamaNardwainaa/blaala Planning for Better Bloom in the Border Spring is the time of the year when the herbaceous border is most ellioYed and, after spring, the border in autumn, if well planned for entir animus bloom, gives us most satis- faction, 11 is not (Moult to have flowers during the summer months, there luting inany fine varieties aveit- able Well bloom then. When Bit snow has gons in the spring the lover of flowers eagerly coalmines the bor- der to learn what is coming up mid if anything promises to bloom soon. A few bulbous plants, such as Snow- drops, Glory of the Snow, (Mono - doge), Squills (Seine), Grape Hytie- inth and Crocus' give very eaely bloom and these with some daffodils and tulips will be much appreciated. Bulbs are obtained in the autumn. Plants, other than bulbs, which are among the best for spring bloom are Primroses and Polyanthus where they will succeed, Iceland Poppy, Rock Cress (Arapis), Columbine, Globe Flower, Bleeding Heart, Perennial Candytuft, Barrenwort (Epimedierm) Trillium and early varieties of Iris. There is liable to be quite a dearth o fbloom in the border in autumn un- less one plans to have a number of sorts which Wean at that time. The perennial phloxes often continue to bloom until late and, as they are very valuable for summer, one should have some of the best varieties of these. Other plants which will ensure a stic- 'cession of bloom until hard frosts in October are the Michaelmas Daisies or Asters, Aconitum Fischeri, autumnal° and varieties, Lilium speeiosum, Hibiscus koscheutos and varieties, Salvia azurea grandMora, Japanese Anemones in several varie- ties, Rurbeekias of several species. These, with other varieties, will help to keep the garden gay well into Oct- ober. . CAMPERS INCREASE Thousands of motorists each year take the opportunity of seeing the collage in the cheap and enjoyable way of camping out. It has been estimated that this season's motor toueist population will be the great- est in history. s Bronze beads are used very ef-1 feetively on a gown of ping georg- ette crepe. NOTE OF CONTRAST ,SMALLER DOTS Polka dots are much liked for the new evening Owns that show the bustle effect They are untrimmed and depend upon their color and line for theig charm. =Oa aaaraila lake °dal With Fou yNcEDENTs on the bout a and events around the house make pictures you'll enjoy more and more. Snapshots of the children you'll refer to with pleasure again and again. It's all easy with the KODAK. Select Your Kodak Here ilavelopifig and Printing Careful finishing makes most of your fihns. Send them to us. JEWELER 4.1 . WRoXETER MILMAIM.M.••••• ALFALFA THE BEST HAY CROP BUT POOREST SILAGE CROP UNDER TRIAL The advisability of making alfalfa into hay, rather than into silage has been deMonstrated by experiments conducted at the Central Experimen- tal Farm at Ottawa during the past two years. Considerable difficulty was experienced both years in mak- ing a desirable types,. of silage from alfalfa; while corn, sweet clover, sun flowers, and a mixture of oats, peas and vetches have all made a very good quality of silage. In view of the greatly increased acreage in alfalfa, the results of these trials may be of some interest. Seven experimental silos were filled each year with alfalfa and only from one silo each year could the silage be considered of first class quality. This good quality alfalfa sdage was secured by cutting the crop when it had just reached full bloom and wilting it in the field for approxhnately 5 hours in the sun befoee placing it in the silo. Alfalfa which WEIS ea one day and ensiled the next,' however, - Was overwilted and developed pockets of meld. When these pockets were very numerous the cattle refused to eat the silage but even a small number of pockeie made the silage undesirable for feed. Unpalatable silage with a very dis- agreeable odor was secured in every case where alfalfa was ensiled im- mediately after cuttng. .It is quite /obvious. that the natural moisture which is present in the plants at the time of cutting must be somewhat res 1 duced before ensiling, if a silage is to be produced that will be relished by the cattle. • Into one silo Was placed a mixture of cut straw and green alfalfa. The addition of cut straw did not meter- ' fatly improve the silage. The amount of straw, however, was small and in further trials an increased amount of strawwill be used. In view of these results which, however, are not conclusive, it would seem advisable to spare no efforts to make alfalfa into hay rather than to attempt putting it into the silo. Al- falfa has been the highest yielding crop at the Central Experimental Farm at Ottawa for a number ,ef years and the hay that has been se- cured is tuisurpassed for feed by any other hay crop. "Picturesque America" includes Picturesque Canada n I. Twin Toho Glacier. 2. A Raft of Fun—Lake O'Hara, OEM you imagine a span of a thousand million years or so '7 If you tan, try to picture to yourself the Place where the Rocky' Mountains now Mend, with their enow-crowned peaks towering into the sky, at the bottommost depths of an inland sea, Do you knovv hew the Rockies were formed ? By what Titania forces these groat masses were crumbled and folded and lifted bleb in the air ? It is a most interesting story that geology tells us s concerning the formation of this gigantic range through the ages—aeons before the human race dwelt upon the earth, and only ono of the many other faseinating things that One learns about one's own land, In turesque Almelo," a de -luxe volume, superbly illus- trated with 500 photographs anti charmingly Written, which hos been nublisbed recently by "The Resort arid Playgrounds of America," New York. It is it compliment, and not one undeserved, to Can- ada, that this, book, which describes so clearly and well, the wondere end beauties of the parks and beauty opote of North America, ehould give over more than ate -quarter Of itti entice to Canada's groat playground. Vet it cannot but be recOstized that her parka are 0(2)110 itt thotr trusettifieenee of fornt arid 'Monty of yRcortamtrieid:r,t,4yyziiiietliGeirreyp,reservation of game and wild crea- tures, and in their posse,ssion of great virginal forests and vast regions. as yet unexplored. The National Perks of 'Canada are 14 in number and. range In area from a few square miles to 4,000 square miles. For the most part they are found in the ' western part of the country; while the three Most. beautiful Rocky Mountain parks, Bente Yoho awl. Glacier, lie along the main line of tho Canadian Pacific well-keown 'writers, euch ate Robert Sterling Mary Roberta' Rinehart, Henry Van Dyke, Charles Lumrtnis, Arthur Stringer, Mary Carolyn Ditylee, and J. B. Harkin have contributed to this vol- ume, which maintains is lidgh standard of literary (ma- lty throughout, Verses 01 nature by equally well- aludidoewaa ornl)ttpo ot ainert: Index seatt c r e a throtighout, and there ie . and bibliography. Hence be- sides the charm of the book it is inveleable as one ot. refereime. It woeld seem that its purpose—to make ),better isa .1tn own and thus hotter appreeittted the eteitio inervele ot Ameriea's Wenderlands, Must be mom.