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The Seaforth News, 1941-03-27, Page 7THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1941 THE SEAFORTI NEWS THE ONLY NATIONAL. APPEAL THIS YEAR FOR OUR MEN IN UNIFORM c WAAD RIAN SERVICESN A tA. HUTSAN tA JAMS ATION ARMY **1.0.0,E *Ind.'. Home Service ee **for Western QnlY yroylncef • $or the things that are not given to a fighting man with his uniforms .. things that are not part of his military equipment ... things of the spirit ... Canada's fighting sons, wherever they may be, rely on you. The Government provides them with uniforms, rifles, ammunition— but for comforts—recreations and wholesome opportunity to make their precious moments of leisure a genuine boon ... they rely on you. Of course you help to buy airplanes, guns, ships, tanks—BUT for the things that express to the soldier the affection and thoughtfulness of the folks back home ... he relies on you. Six greit national organizations labour unceasingly to provide hint with those things. They can do it only with your money. Your money started this work—your money is needed to carry it ong The need is urgent. Be generous. Let the volunteer helper who calls on you carry back your pledge of fullest support for our fighting men. THE BOYS RELY ON THE FOLKS BACK HOME IIf you have not been canvassed—if you are not canvassed—send your contribution to your local committee or to: National Headquarters -200 Bay St., Toronto, Canada SIXAPPEALS att• » 61) [ARAUTAN WAA SERVI[ES F 7Ged� :5,500.a�� q CHAIRMAN FOR ONTARIO—CONN SMYTHE, ESQ., TORONTO BURNING NEW LAND (Experimental Farms News) The burning of new land during clearing operations greatly reduces the cost of clearing and is a 'widely adopted practice in Eastern Canada, says P. S. Stobbe, Field Husbandry Division, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. However, by careless burn- ing the soil is often seriously dam- w`.5S7i�ra.�!'.:5.3•o.><r..�,,,r>�."w.>..�>"ay.:>>>r:.Y.�->:.>rc.�i::� The World's News Seen Through THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. 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Against the harsh .background of the Scottish mountain side, the herds stand out - shiwly moving shapes tip - on a 4iedd of grey, From the 'Border Hills to the uplands of Inverness stretch many a league trf sheep coun- try, for Scotland was a ,wool -bearing region long 'before the tapestries of Arras and the Low -Countries were woven front Scottish fleeces. The rule cif 'Mans has so contrived things 'that in these strenuous months of war only old men and young lads ,can `mind' the folds and keep watch over The sheep -paths. That, indeed, has always been the manner of it since tate 'beginning. The story caf Scdtland is full :of illustricnus names of men who began life as herd laddies, commencing with St. Cuth- bert and not ending with 'Janes Hogg - saints, 'Poets, creative spirits in (lit- erature, mystics, scientists. In these wild days, the job, always a lonely one, is rendered even more so Iby the dislocation :of traffic, Iby lac:k of winter fodder, and the recent inclemency of the weather, which can ,be 'ferocious at times in the S•coftish hil•Is, In the snowbanks and -wreaths the shepherd must search .for newly drop- ped Iambs now appearing in ones, twos and even threes - for' triplets are by no means uncommon - anti he must carry them sometime- across a mile or more of heavy, untrodden snow to shelter, where they can Ibe fed from the nozzled ‘milk -bottle. It is a task for a .gentle spirit, and most shepherds are in fact gentle men, Bttt on occasion they can reveal the old warrior sentiment of the Scot. As the'ilocks are being thinned out by those who keep watch and tally over the nation's food -supply, this means many a weary nla0rtaed tramp. for the shepherd in the short hours betwixtbetwixt dawn and du,y l,. The work of selection is difficult and the choice of (beasts for slaughter often entails longi consultations in a biting wind. In order that the flocks of the future may not 110 sacrificed Ito immediate needs, the most fertile ewes of gond type must the ,preserved, nor may the local tweed industry be threatened with extinction by the en- tire loss of that native H-o,rl from which its choicest webs are woven, 1.lueer4 the ,story of a shepherd in Berwickshire who Watched a dog- fight'between. a Heinkel !bomber and a ,British Spitfire. A hail of dropping tracer.hattlets fell about Itis ears and drove him to seek the shelter of a dryetene dyke which ,parcelled two adjoining stretch- es of sheep -walk. Again and again, he told me in his own !broad ''Doric", the Spitfire at- tacked the 'Nazi bomber discharging its lethal 'bursts of machine-gun fire, until at last the Heinkel whirled wild- ly like a :wounded fulmar and then swiftly downwards to where a level rare of heath -clad moorland lay be- tween shave and brae -side. Frcvtn tine 'bowels of the stricken bomber emerged a trio of crop -head - eat Tuetons. .looking as sheepish as Jeem.s s own elves, one holding an aril which dripped scarlet. As the yaungter approacited them they pave the Nazi salute, and en- quired in passable English as to where they were. 'And. maister." laughed the herd lad, "wud ye :believe it, they didna ja- loose whit I said. They askit me what tongue I wis speaking, and when I tent them it was the Laltan Scots they juisr gied heir choppit heids a shake." But if the Nazis could not wider - stand _Items, 'Jeeons could conprelt- end them after a fashion. He guided them across a mile and "a Ibittock" of moorland 110 a spat on the 'highway where stood a, road - man's cottage where the giuidwi'f8 re- galed 'them with tea and ,hannocks - for even the sharpest racial enmity ,cannot quench the 'traditional sense of Hospitality in (tire moor heart. "They were great unuckle Suuuphs," Jeems told me. Stuffy lads, ye kin, but chaps like that'll no' 'win 'the war, Amfie sma' hers they .seemed to hae, and they ike,pt on askin' ane if they wad Ibe shot. 'When I told them oor way wisna heir wry and we .didna murder folk yin 'cau•id blood they seem- ed aw'fie relieved." Then ;there w•a-s the ,brace Of es- caped prisoners. ,Jeenis helped to track 'down. They were so weak with cold and. httuger,that he and his mate of the next Sheep -walk "kirave' them 'to the. 11'eares't police -station as though they had (been a couple of their own half- grown flambe. So the Scottish herdsman must watch the sky as well as the land, must keep a keen look out for Nazi wings as well .as for fleeces and snowbound ewes and "ginnmers.' aged and it frequently takes many Years of Intensive 'raveling to correct. the damage done to the soil during a Pew hours of burning. In order to prevent serious soil damage it has been found advisable to burn slash on new laud at a time when the leaf mat on the surface of the soil is wet and will not burn. On wooded soils the organic mat- ter is mainly confined to the leaf mat on the surface and is not distributed throughout tate upper layers as is the case with grass lands. This layer of organic matter Is rich in soil - humus, lime, phosphorous and potash and when the land is broken for crop production the best results are obtained when this organic mutter is incorporated into the soil. When new lii'nd is burned during dry seasons the organic natter is destroyed by the fire on the well - drained soils. Such land may pro- duce a fair crop for a year or two but after that the productivity be - conies very low unless some special measures are employed to restore the organic matter. NEW WAVE LENGTHS The authorized frequencies of Canadian broadcasting stations after March 29th, 1941, will include the following: Montreal-CFCF 600 Montreal—011LP .... 1,490 Montreal—CKAC , ... 730 Montreal—CBM ... . . .... 940 Montreal—CBF .... . , , . 690 Rouyn—CKRN .... .... ... , 1,400 Hull—CKCH .... , . .. .. .. 1,240 Ottawa—CKCO .... ... . , , 1,340 Ottawa—CBO .. .. .. . , .. 910 Kingston—CF'RC .. ... 1,490 Prescott—CFLC .. • , .. . , , , 1,450 Toronto—CBI, 740 Toronto—CBY ... 1,010 Toronto—CFRB 860 Toronto—CKC'L .... , . .... .. 580 Hamilton-CKOC ..... , .. .. 1,150 Hamilton—C'HML 900 St. Catharines—CKTB . , . ... 1,230 Chatham—CFCO .... . 630 London—GrFIPL .. . .., . 1,570 Stratford—C3CS ... ... 1,240 Brantford—CKPC 1,380 Owen Sound—CFOS . .. , 1,400 Windsor—CKUW .. , 800 Wingham—CXNX . , .. . 1,230 Kitchener—OKCR ...... .. ,. 1,490. Cobalt—CKMC 1,240 North Bay--CFCH .... ... 1,230 Kirldand Lake-CJKL 560 Sudbury-CKSO 790 Timmins-=CK'G'B . , .... .... 1,470 Sault Ste. Iviarie--CJ'TC .. .... 1,490 Fort SVitliarn-.CK:P,R ., .. , 580 Kenora—CKCA .. .... .... 1,450 PAGE SEVEN NO TOYS, THESE , . Not playthings are these model aircraft being burned out in technical schools or Canada. Built to scale in minute detail, with gun emplacements, fuel tanks, etc., marked, they are used to teach student pilots and gunners of the R.C. A. F. and Empire to identify both allied and enemy planes at a glance. HYBRID CORN—ITS LIMITATIONS (Experimental Farms News) While it is important to stress the many good qualities and features possessed by hybrid corn, such as high yielding ability, uniformity, good strength of stalk and resistance to disease it is nevertheless well to understand some of its limitations, states F. Dimmoek, Division of For- age Plants, Dominion Experlmettlr Farms Service. Probably one of the greatest dang- er's in the growing of hybrid corn is the temptation to harvest seed from the first generation crop to plant the following year. Where such a prac- tice is followed the result will be a bitter disappointment for second generation hybrids have invariably yielded from 10 to 20 per cent lower Bum first generation hybrids in either grain or ensilage. Therefore for maximum production the grow- ing of hybrid corn should be limited to the use of first generation hybrid seed. flood Judgment must be used in choosing a hybrid even as in choos- ing a variety. There are many differ- ent hybrids, both good and pony, early and late, and it is essential that a good. well adapted hybrid be selected for a given locality. But even the choice of a good hybrid does not of itself ens'u'e a bumper crop of Corn. Certain favourablecon- tlit3ons tnnstbe provided, such as a good, well selected and well prepared piece of laud, 'Hybrid coni cannot be expected to overcome the handicap of a depleted soil. Neither Call it be expected to give satisfaction under conditions of late planting or int• proper handling. Hybrid seed is too expensive to waste. but those grow- ers who use it intelligently and in the manner intended Will realize that the limitations of hybrid corn are quite easy to avoid. Want and For Sale Ads, 3 •Weedcs 'Son GRADED CHiCK SALES - SHOW 810 INCREASE Last year 18 6 3,000 graded chicks were produced in Canada by Record of Performance breeders and ap- proved hatcheries. '''Itis was an in- crease of more than one million chicks over the figures for 1939. Three grades of chicks al'e pro- -duced under the National Poultry Improvement Program. Only Record of Performance breeders and ap- proved hatcheries can produce grad- ed elucks. There are three grades of chicks tinder the national program --- R. 0. P,. R. O. P. -sired, and approved. R. O. P. 'hicks are produced ac - coding to record of performance standards. Both male sad female breeding stock in pens producing R. 0. P. chicks are of at least two gen- erations of 200 egg breeding or better, About 50.000 R. 0.P. chicks were sold in Canada in 1940, R. 0. P. -sired Chicks are the high- est commercial grade. They come front flecks of approved females mated to R.O.P. sires. In 1940 a total of 3,400,000 R. 0.P. -sired chinks were produced. Around 15 'million chicks of the approved grade were sold in 1940. Want and For Sale Ads, 3 weeks 50r earnerlrOU The Secrets of Good Looks ,;y 15bcolnoth,o,�i THE SECRET OF MAKE-UP Make-up need not be a "hit or miss" business, or the result may be —and ofteu ist--disastrous. All make-up must tone with skin, hair and eyes. I have a make-up chart which is the result of actual face tests on hundreds of women. Write me if you'd like a copy, free. The basic rule for make-up, as it is for genera 1 skin health, is to cleanse the shin thoroughly. Por your make-up do use the new "six minute make-up" method, using Three- Put•pose c ream and powder, rouge and lipstick to match. And here is how you make-up to best advantage. Cleanse pores and skin thoroughly of foreign matter by massaging Three -Purpose cream in gently. Re- move all cream with a damp, warns cloth. Smooth on a little more cream and wipe face gently with a damp, cold cloth. This leaves a fine flint of cream that acts as a powder base without clogging pores. Lightly smooth on rouge with finger-tips, and shade it. Avoid over- doing. Start powdering at base of .throat and apply in a succession of upward movements. Now apply lip- stick on the outside and also a little inside the lips, and press tightly to- gether. A word about eye make-up. Mas- cara on upper lashes darkens and lengthens thein. Eye -shadow 00 up- per lids lends brilliance to the eyes. .Apply sparingly. lit place of eye- shatlaw, you nlay use olive oil --Just a spat on the upper lids. A young girl's make-up should be natural. In the twenties and thirties It may be smartly sophisticated.. As one grows older, avoid being too ob- vious. You'll find my booklet on Beauty Care most helpful. Send four one - cent stamps :to cover postage. Write: Miss Barbara Lynn. Box 75. Station Be Montreal, Que. The class had been instructed tc write an essay on winter. Before they began the teacher gave them a few hints, and among other things he suggested that they might intro- duce a short paragraph on migration. One child's attempt read as follows: "I0 winter, it is very cold. Many old people die in winter and many birds also go to a warmer climate." Want and For Sale Ads, 1 week 35c 0. Herbert Lash, Director of Public Information, was in Winnipeg for the inaugural broadcast of "Canadians All;' the series of broadcasts now he - Mg presented over the OBC national network on Wednesdays at 10.30 p.m. EDST. He is seen adntiriag the colorful national costumes of Poland attd Norway as worn by Frances Galdzinski and Marion Kummen, young Canad- ians who trace their ancestry to those countries.