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The Seaforth News, 1958-03-13, Page 7(7 -At GliSEN JJlaai„' as There may be some argument as to whether or not there is one distinct race of Canadians. But no one will deny that we have a distinct. climate. In fact, we have several climates all Canadian, For that reason the flower and vegetable seeds we sow and the nursery stack we plant must be specially selected for Canada. Something that may give wonderful results in Eng- land orr. Virginia or the south seas could be a terrible flop here. When one selects seed from a Ca- nadian seed catalogue, one can be sure that that seed is suited to Canada, that, in most eases, it has been field tested under ac- tual Canadian conditions and is especially bred for our short but quick growing climate. LAWN WORK EARLY The new gardener is too much inclined to rush the season and get out digging hardly before the last snow drifts have melt- ed. Much more harm than -good results from this haste with most garden jobs. But there is one we can hardly start too soon. 'That is repairing, rebuild- ing the lawn or starting a brand new one, Grass grows best when the weather is cool and moist and the sooner the seed is planted in the spring the better. Of course, we can't or shouldn't start to make or dig while the soil isthe least bit muddy. But oven' before the last snow goes we can put up a wire around the lawn to protect it from wandering children and adults who should know better. Then a• little later we can smooth out any bumps and fill any holes and re -seed. With the new Iawn to -be, too, we should start raking and levelling just as soon as the soil is dry enough. Grass, it should be remembeged, is a plant just like a flower or vegetable, and if we want it to do well, we plant the best seed available and in good fine soil. FOR AN EARLY START About this time in the cooler parts of Canada or where the real spring seems to have been unduly delayed, one can get a . head start by sowing some seeds of the tenderer sorts of flowers and vegetable in shallow trays or flower pots and putting in a sunny window. With a bit of luck and if we follow directions, we can get a substantial supply of started plants, such as zin- nias, marigolds and such things in the flowers and tomatoes, peppers and even a few extra early melons in the vegetable line. These boxes should be watered frequently and turned around frequently so that the plants do not get spindly. NOT TOO DEEP One of the commonest mis- takes of the new gardener is to plant far too deep. Little seeds like that of aster, zinnias, por- tulca, alyssum, lettuce, carrots, and so on, is merely pressed in the ground with perhaps a tiny bit of the finest soil or sand sifted lightly over. Bigger seeds like those of peas, beans and nasturtiums should be planted about half an inch deep, corn and beans an inch deep, and potatoes, gladiolus, dahlias she to eight inches deep. MAKE THEM WORK "It's useless sowing seeds two feet deep," Pothers advised his neighbour over the garden fence, "I know,' was the repsly, "but It annoys the birds." NAME YOUR BRAND — Well branded is this telephone booth in Tucumcari, N.M. What ap- pears to be "Greek" lettering on the glass of the booth is in reality the cattle brands in use throughout the area. Every pay phone booth in Tucumcari is decorated with the brands to. let visitors know that they real- ly are in cattle country. ZETA edazzles Watchers Outside there was snow. The roads were covered with a sheet of ice. Traffic, cut adrift from time, gingerly felt its delayed and darkening way across Berk- shire. Inside Harwell, in a concrete shelter in a onetime aircraft hangar, Britain's H -power ma- chine ZETA lit in perfect safety a whirling nuclear fire that flared for a fraction of a second at temjieratures a thousand times as hot as the surface of the sun. Reporters — more reporters than the Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment had ever seen before at one time— saw the flash in a mirror, dark- ly. They groped for under- standing and the words to .eon' pass it. The clock said it was 4:15 p.m, The calendar said it was Jan. 23, 1958. These were but partial facts. To the reporters it was just another day, yet also obviously a new hour in a new age. Which was confusing. Swimming in an abstruse sea, they clung to the few hard facts' they had grasped. Within a year ZETA will far surpass the temperature not on the surface but at the way cen- ter of the sun. The sun burns there at 15,000,000 degrees cen- tigrade. ZETA may go to 25,- 000,000 5:000,000 degrees. A new British H -power ma- chine is about to be built which is to touch between 100,000,000 and 300,000,000 degrees. The next step after that will be to design a practical thermo- nuclear power station. This may be built in 20 years' time. This station may directly 'pro- duce electricity, cutting out al- together the costly and cumber- some heat exchanger and steam turbine gear of today's A -power stations. The fuel will be sea water. Supplies of coal may last 100 years, supplies of uranium 300, but supplies of deuterium (from sea water) will be available for at least 1,000,000,000 years. But the newspapermen want- ed more. They, wanted to freeze a moment of history, too. Just what kind of a mark was set on the night of Aug. $0, 1957, between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. when neutrons were thrown out of , deuterium gas heated by Zeta to temperatures between 2,000,000 and 5,000,000 degrees Centigrade? Had H -power been produced by Zeta? l'Oo, said the research- ers, no power at all, Ii or non H. . What had been done? Let's have the facts, said the 'news- men, Let's pin it down, The natural scientists on the plat- form of Cockcroft Hall—includ- ing Sir John Cockcroft himself, who 25 years ago discovered atomic .fusion — smiled and sighed and tried again. Well, asked the reporters one after other, phrasing, it first this way and . then that, was it the first time a controlled thermo- nuclear reaction had been ob- tained in a laboratory? Well, no, not exactly, said the natural scientists, They would not claim even that. They were not sure yet, Sir John said he was 90 per cent certain. But no man :work- in on Zeta would, on the record, go as far as that. Problem Remains "Well, if none of your re- searchers will say they have done it, Sir -John," one corre- • spondent asked plaintively, "will your press officer perhaps say it?" Tension dissolved in a great pulse of H -laughter. But the problem remained. What then was the "remarkable British scientific adhlevement?" to use Sir John Cockcroft's own description. After all, there are other ma- chines, as we now have learned, in Britain and in the United States which have produced -temperatures of 4,000,000, 5,000,- 000, and 8,000,000,0 degrees and may also have produced a fu- sion reaction, writes John Allen May in The Christian Science Monitor. "Look," at last said the head of the Zeta program, Dr. Peter Clive Thonemann, He has a deep, confident, patient, and amused Australian voice. "Look, he said, "this question, have we 'produced a controled 22 - power reaction? It's really irre- levant. "We have held a ring of gas inside a metal tube—held it - there at these 'vast tempera- tures without it melting its con- tainer—held it for relatively long periods. That is our success. "We know how to do it. That is our breakthrough. When we get up to higher temperatures, as we will, we are boun4 to get a thermonuclear reaction." ZETA'S particular value seems to be in its scale. It is easier in a big machine to keep a ring of star -fire flaring for useful periods. And ZETA is by far the biggest piece of experi- mental H -power hardware in the world. It weighs about 150 tons. It stands in its shelter looking like the engines of a ship, a great thick circular metal tube threaded horizontally through two upright circular electrical j,'ansformers. The diameter of the tube is one meter. The diameter of the circle it makes is three meters. (The pore of the tube of the Los Alamos "perhapsatron" is tivo inches.) Inside that tube the heat of the sun,is reproduced in flashes of a few, thousandths of a second every ten seconds. The flash is a whirling electric circle of gas and of fired and fusing atoms, 30 .centimeters thick, kept in place and away from the walls of the tube by the invisible checkreins and guiding rods of various magnetic fields. The next stage is to keep these short, rapid pulses going for a full second and to get them to a hundred million degrees. "It requires the design of electrical engineering equip- ment which no one has yet even envisaged," Dr. Thonemann STICKING TOGETHER - Having a high ball ,in•West Berlin, the Bragazzi brothers bounce around on their pogo sticks, decorated with cartoon characters. The Italian clowns were an act in the once -traditional "Men, Beasts and Sensations" circus show resumed for the first time in 15 years at the rebuilt Deutschlandhalle. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING • • ▪ D AGENTS WANTED • GO. INTO BUSINESS for yourself. Sell our exciting house- wares, watches and other products not found in stores: No competition. 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