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The Seaforth News, 1960-04-14, Page 3With An Eye To The Potato In the constant search for for- ward orward and progressive action, the Maine Potato industry is cur- rently urrently cheering over a new "poly -pack" of t e n pounds of washed, graded, and superlative- ly - turned - out potatoes which Will surely catch the eye of the housewife as she wheels around the condiments and selects her commodities. This is goon. Pota- toes in the raw, untutored state have been a tough nut to crack in our modern gropings for beauty, Their eye appeal runs largely to a dirty look. and a low forehead, and dressing them up hasn't been easy. of this poly - pack passes as prettiness, all to the good. What 1 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's hard-earned substance for a poly -bag that has neither vita- mins nor calories, and will have to be thrown away. I can tell her honestly 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 descend- ing to the cellar in winter to load up with mealtime goodies. The farmers still live that way, but the villagers don't. The gen- eration of householders 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. PATHFINDER - This globe rep- lica will enable America's as- tronaut to ,'see" where he is 4ss he orbits the earth at thou- sands of miles an hour. He'll look down at the small globe xacfly as though he were see- ing the real thing through a window in his vehicle. Meat people took at least 10 bo. shell, some 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 bags. Thus the whole winter's supply of potatoes 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 potatoes, then, was the variety, Today, a woman doesn't know one kind from another, Mostly, cur people liked 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 aoninst running out of potatoes but it saved money. It was eon. sleeved respectable, there, to save money. Central healing, along with home improvements, and the de- velopment of the packaged gro- cery helped each other along. You can't keep vegetables in a cellar that has a furnace. Frere 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 wait 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 the 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 Iantern on the top step, and leave the cellarway perplexed as the burnt-out aroma of kerosene tried to mingle with the eser- prerent richness of the dry salt cod suspended from his nail, The,' 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 dominating - where forty or fifty bushels were proclaim- ing prosperity. P. P. P. - Prior to Poly -packs. - By John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. Arithmetic teacher: "You have ten fingers. If there were three missing, what would you have?" Elsie: "No music lessons." CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS Nurtured IArgot 5' Easily frightened 1S. Playing card 13. Drift 14. Pineal on a pagoda 16.t orrelative of r 0. Corrode T. Watchful 19. Saltpeter 51. Arabian prince SI. Extend over 29. Drain on one's finances 20. Sign 27. Or. theologian 38. 2 xetumntlon 39. Ringed cover 80. 1Plagran t Si Droop 32, "`Coe WiaarS of --" 33, Grain to be ground 64, tOendtand 20. Repetition (music) 27. Soars in baseball 38, Military assistant M. Faithful 40. window shade 43. Cup for cutting diamonds 42. Unit of reluetanee 40 lillectrie Particle 40. Renting mareenrent 48. Equal (comb. 40, Decimal point 60. 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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. it 4 8 The European red mite is now highly resistant to parathion in most peach and plum orchards in Ontario, and the codling math, which caused wormy apples, has recently developed a strain that 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. 4, 4: 0 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. Dustan. For example, Sevin and Guth - ion eaoh 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, Guehion and some other miticides, al- though these may also lose their effectiveness in time. c a' A snail farm? Federal authorities have said "no" to a request to establish a snail farm near IKitimat in British Coltunbia - not from a lack of appreciation of fine 'foods, but because snails are re- garded as a potential menace to agriculture. 4 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- ed the first time that some one had wanted to go into the pro- duction business on a large scale. The applicant planned to im- part the snails from West Ger- many. 4. " Plant Protection Division, Can- ada Department of Agriculture, used the Destructive Insect and Pest Act regulation to reject the scheme after seeking the advice of Arthur H. Clarke, Jr., Assist- ant Curator of Invertebrates, National Museum of Canada. b * 4' Mr. Clarke said that the group of snails that are commonly rais- ed for food in western Europe have become an agricultural pest in areas in California and Michi- gan. They seriously damage to- matoes, lettuce, cabbage and strawberries. "And", he notes, "radishes are eaten so avidly that it is now impossible to grow them at all in these areas". 4, 4 4, Canada Department of Agri- culture scientists have develop- ed a low-cost, concentrate orch- ard sprayer which is now being built by several Canadian and British manufacturers. It will be sold for at least $1,000 less than the single -side concentrate sprayer currently in general use. v 41 The power to drive the purup and blower is supplied front 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 traitor. The total weight of the sprayer is only 800 pounds. 4' + 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 ethic 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 is the best concentrate sprayer on the mar- ket, it is claimed. The polar bear should be com- plimented, Although he often takes a cold bath in the winter, he never bores anybody bragging about it. MY SC11001 LESSON By ltev. R. 1B. Warren, B.A.., 13.D. The Strength of humility Matthew 5; 3-0; Luke 141 7-14 Memory Selection: Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that hnmbleth himself shall be exalted. Luke 14:11, The greates example of humili- ty is Jesus Christ. He, as God, "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 Ile met Jesus on the road to Damascus, he, the chief of sinners, obtained mercy A vision of Jesus humbles us. Jesus did more for t he human family than any one. I would place Paul second. He took the Gospel to mr;:y 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 web illustrated in the story of our lessen. How much better to take the lower seat and he 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 exait himself to make a good impression. They say that that is the way to suc- cess in the world. True, it may seem io give an advantage. But it is short-lived. "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haugla- 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. Hints About That Lawn Of Yours For most of us a good lawn is an important part of the home grounds. While trees and shrubs come first, the house is most at- tractively 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 autumn. In north- ern parts the first gardening task of the season is giving one's lawn a generous "breakfast in bed." If you have 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 and getting rid of weeds, Whatever grass gets started the first year is all to the good, but the real lawn -building in Oda case can wait until fall. Established 1 ;Wins, howver, need that breakfast in bed. A good feeding -in- ,early spring is of prime importance, This can be an all -puri ose fertilizer but even better is a special turf feed. Among these are several organic turf foods which do not burn and can be is:ed at the same time as reseeding. First job, of course, is to clear tip 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 „50015 can be used even before or at the same_ lithe 25 the first spring feeding, and some are combined in a weed -and -feed operation, it is wise to look into .this right away, writes Millicent Taylor in the Christian Science Monitor. You may feel that your lawn is ton small to justify the ex- pense of a spreader. Once you have used one, however, you wit 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, and reseed, - Spring rains ought to take care of moisture for established lawns. However, if these are scarce, the kiwi should be given regular watering, for this is the time when grass plants grow strong. Deep watering' is neves- sary to send the grass roots dots n 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. ISSUE 15 - 1960 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking d 21 3d 4iH ag 3a,1.1 0 5 Vi3 -1:; < N 1 1 9 Efl•Jna d 3 O O R• 7- 0 '1 0 35 • 1 �? N34 3 -s'0 ©A i i W 2J j0fl 31b t��lab 0 0 0 N 33 t$; X35 SUNNY SIDE; OF THE HOUSE - That is no greenhouse, above, which the Harry T. Thomason family lives in. The glass covers a solar heating plant on the side of the three-bedroom house. It enabled Thomason to heat his home this winter with energy from the sun and 15 gallons of fuel oil burned in a standard furnace. To demonstrate, Mrs. Thomason and the kids cavort in an outdoor pool filled with water also warmed In the solar unit, Daddy livens up the party with a little unsolicited snow.