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The Seaforth News, 1928-05-17, Page 2How to Attract the Birds Dr, A. H. Palmer Tu one of leis tweeze, Chaucer tells ria that the birds choose their mates on February 14, St. Valentine's Day, For this reason St, Valentine 1s usual- ly regarded as the patron saint of birds, I,''Yetr though we may not de- light in faneitui thought of tufa kind, we all love the birds and wish to see many of, them lu our midstIt we Will but protect them' and provide; them with`. suitable meeting.places, food, and water, they will be our tuti- mate friends. Where birds are shel- tered from harm and provident with ample food' they are frequent visitors. Both in summer anti', in winter,' birds are ever in search of' food and water; whtere these are ,'plentiful the birds will be ptoutiful also. Though many native birds build nests on the ground, most birds nest In trees or shrubs. For this reason' trees and shrubbery are essential fol making a place attractive to our feathered friends. Suety shruba should be allowed to form thickets, and should be pruned back severely when young so •as to provide aumer- ouscrotchee adapted for nesting -sites.' Birdhouses and bird -boxes are sought when no tree cavities are available. Such bird -houses can be purchased r•" e'• mane from dealers, or any boy skillful with, a hammer and saw can easels construct them, The most common errors in putting out bird-houees are choosing poor loc- ations and sttpplytng too many boxes. A bird -house needs only partial shade; houses on poles are usually oecupled. Martins prefer a house standing apart from trees. The wren prefers a small house having a small entrance, and does not fear the close approach. of people, though it is much afraid of oots, dogs and chickens. En- trances to birdhouses should be shel- tered by projecting reefs, and should Lace away from the prevailing wind and rain storms. All bird -houses should be constructed so that the in- terior may be easily examined and cleaned in the autumn; this is Im- portant to permit a season's rubbish to be thrown out before the begin-' tying of the nest spring. As a rule, birds do not like to be crowded; if a place is thickly studded with bird -houses only a few of them will be occupied. Birds not only do not want bird neighbors too near, but are impatient of human meddling. They should therefore be granted as mudh privacy as possible during the nesting season; there is a tradition to the effect that bird eggs will never be leatched if a human being has breathed upon them; one should never go near the bird young in a neat, as 11 trlghtene both flee young and their Pareute, Neste built in shrubbery 401 ikoly to emu() to a bad end it the birds aro disturbed frequ-. eptly, If ground -nesting ,birds, ad bobollulcs, Meadowlarks, and bob- whites are to be protected, gtaae in the nesting fields' must oat be out during the breeding season, .Eng Belt sparrows will drive other birds away; the common bluejay ie aloe a tyrant among birdie and will some, time destroy the eggs and trill, the young of other birds nesting in the neighborhood of its home. Nothing has a more potent attrae- tton for birde than drinking and bath - big places, The birds' water supply should be a pool not more than a few incites deep, the bottom sloping grad- ually upward toward the edge. Both bottom and edge should be rough so as to afford a' Safe footing: A large pottery saucer 15 an excotlent device; or the pool may be made of concrete or even metal, if the surface le rough- eued. The bird bath may be elevated, or on the ground, if on an open space where skulking enemies cannot ale- proaelt too near. A water supply la appreciated in winter as well as in summer, Food supply Is the vital actor in bird life and the most important single offering that can be made to at- tract birds. It is important to' note that an ample supply of food prier to and during the nesting s0son tends to increase the unmber of eggs laid and also the number of broods in a season. Bird food may be sup- plied in two ways, --by plantfag trees, shrubs, and herbs which produce seeds or rfults relished y birds,' and by exposing food in artificial devices, The mast familiar phase of the latter method is winttr feeding, During the 1 their power to attract them Is season when the natural food supply i when winter is over. Winter is at its Iowest ebb birds respond , Ing easily passes into summer DIGNITY AND DIViLMENT Jane Steele, aged 9, who travelled from New York to London'alone, has a bit of fun with a guardsman at euckingbam. gone feed- ,feed - t wild fruit will tide them over. Fortu- nately, everywhere in Canada there are some fruits that persie•t until most readily to our hospitality. Wile -ling, and experience proves that some there is no longer any need of them. ter feeding has become very popular,, birds gladly avail themselves through= It enough are planted, no birda able and the result has been to bring out the year of this easy mode of to live on this class of food should about better understanding between:getting a living. However, by cuitl- starve. The best of these long -per - birds and human kind. The winter! vating their natural food ,plants and elsting fruits are. juniper, bayberry, foods commonly used include suet or aIlov,Ing them to reap the barvest in thorn apples, and related fruits, in other fat, pork rinds, bones 'with) their own way we may induce them a.ddltion to holly and snowberry. shreds 'of meat, cooked meats, cut-up to earp their own living, as it were. Birds devour cultivated fruit princi- apples, birdseed, buckwheat, crackers, Feeding fruit -eating birds Is best ac- pally because the processes ofaultiva- ctumbs, cocoanut meat, cracked corn, compliahed by planting selected tion diminish the wild supply. The broken dog discuits or other bread, species of fruit -bearing shruba and i presence' of wild fruit in a locality al - hemp seed, millet, net meats of all trees, Through late spring and sum -1 ways serves to protect domestic vari- kinde, especially peanuts, whole or mer there is usually abundance of in sties, especially when the wild trees rolled oats, peppers, pop -corn, Pump- sect food in addition to fruit enough or shrubs are of the same kinds; as the kin and squash seeds, raw and boll- for all the birds, So far as fruit cultivated one and ripen earlier, alone is concerned, autumn le the sea- Suitable kinds may be selected for con of overflowing abundance; in protecting various fruits according to winter the supply gradually decreases, the season of ripening. Among those and late winter and early spring are most useful for the purpose are mul- 'the seasons of actual scarcity. This berry, wild blackberries, and wild is the critical time of the year for strawberries, serviceberry, wild cherry many birds, and a plentiful supply of and elderberry. ed rice, sunflower seeds, and wheat. The waste product of grain mills known as screeuings la a. valuable and Inexpensive source of food tor birds. Those who desire to have birds about their homes should not feel that Uncovered At Last THE PUZZLING SPHINX The riddle ancient Egyptians left for future generations to solve is now wholly cleared of sand. Date Palms America it crosses Mexico, just touch- ing the Southern States. The culti- P"®spar In 11 7 cs vation of the date palm proceeded J.t 3 along this line. Toward the East, in China, the date is known as Persian candy. The Arabs brought the palm and the art of its cultivation with their conquests across Northern Africa and into Spain. The Spanish missionaries brought the seed with them to Mexico and Cali- fornia, and under favorable conditions they got good crops and good food. In Assyrian times some wise ob- of the Orient than the Orientals them- server diecovered the art of artiflcia- selves could do. A new industry has ally poilenizing the date palm. That come into existence in that land with- was perhaps the first scientific dlecov- fn a very few years, and the food mar- ery ever made. It has been of vast ket is enriched thereby. Yet very importance to the culture over since. little news of this development has The process became a kind of cult in reached the reading world. Assyria and is portrayed on some of The date palm is perhaps the oldest the old monuments, known cultivated fruit tree in the In the hands of the farmers of the World, The earliest records of the world the art moved very slowly until Sumerian and Babylonian people in the Agricultural Department of the the Euphrates and Tigris Valleys the United States took it up. The Show that the date palm was widely British, the French and the Italians, tended by farmers several thousand who had colonies of Moslem: folk, felt Years before Christ, itis a plant that that eines they had been growing thrives especially well in hot valleys dates for so many centuries they knew where there are possibilities of irriga-all that was possible of the art and so tion. neglected to etudy it scientifically. At the Tropic o4 Cancer all around The United States, possessing ho 1 the world there is a bolt of etiil: air, population of that kited when the Agri- ite the Eastern world it is markedby cultural Department decided to etudy a tine of deserts, beginning with Se, 1 the date, looked at it entirely °bloc• hara and wetting with Gobi, and iu tfvely and found that many new things The Oriental Tree Planted in the Southwest Yields Bountiful Harvest of Fruit America has gone in for date cul- ture. The United Statea is doing bet- ter with the time-honored date palm could be done with the tree, the fruit and the actual cultivation. Shoots of the choicest varieties from many parts of the world, even from the most remote oases, were gathered and studied to seek varieties suitable for American conditions. The Entomological Division was called Into consultation. Ages ago the busy in- sects discovered the value of the date Palm and its fruit, and they have been. getting the first chance at it ever since. All the date palms were found to be infected. Tlie maturing of the fruit was much delayed by various pests, and, atter the fruit had ripened, while it was being artificially dried and, later, was lying for months at a time in the markets of the world, much of it was destroyed, and most of it was injured in quality. The depart- ment worked out methods of controll- ing the pests on the tree, of protect. ing the fruit during the time of matur- ing, of scientifically drying and steri- lizing 1t, and of carefully packing It and keeping it In sterile chambers until the market called for it. Now it is possible to get perfectly clean, sterile and delicious dates in America twelve months in tate year. The production of the date tree has been more than doubted in the last five years. The cultivation of the date has now largely passed from the hands of the department into those of clear- eyed, every -day American people, who themselves are working out minor improvements and especially have de- veloped a co-operative society that handled the marketing. In a desert land they are getting from an acre more than twice as much in food'ratuo as it is possible to get from any acre of corn and three times as much as from any acre of wheat. In market value of product there is even a great- er difference. The cultivator has the further ad- vantage that he can count his dates "before they are hatched." The two things that most affect a farmer are sunshine and water. In the desert the sun shines in the most perfect way for date production all tate year around, and with the recent improve- ment in digging and operating artesian wells the water supply can be exactly controlled. There le a rapidly grow- ing realization in the United States of the value of this delicious, nourishing, digestible food. Mineral Springs of Canada The production of mineral waters in Canada in 1927 amounted to 303,629 gallons, valued at $14,686, and was de- rived from mineral springs located in Ontario and Quebec. Spring waters containing minerals in Solution, or as they are usually termed, mineral wat- ers, occur in many parts of the Do- minion. Many of them are utilized Rayon Industry Likely to Treble In a recent analysis of the ertillclal or rayon silk Industry, the Depart- ment of the Interior, through Its Na- tural Resources Intelligence Service, states that small though the produc- tion, may be, the industry is growing rapidly and output will possibly be trebled in the near future. It is pointed out that Canada holds a pre- eminent position in the world as producer of the raw product -rayon pub,. and that in fact over half the rayon and ltd produots amounting to $7,112,000, compared with 6,600,000 in 1926, There have boon no exports 50 far of Canadian rayon Yarn, but when gee'ineuetry has been expanded suf- fciently to take care of domestic re-. qulrements there 1s Tittle doubt tint Canada will be heard from in world trade le this most useful textile, The Waterway Issue in Canada Canada's hesitancy he going ahead With the St, Lawrence waterway la due chiefly to the fact that the pro- ,feet is about the only thing whish can upset the Mackenzie King .govern- moat. It so happens that the two ale- mon o e neral Party, the sup - opening National Parks is f th L'b to Motorists ! port of which is .abaolutoiy essential The building of flrat-class motor to IV, 1., Mackenzie King's working highways and the provision of camp- J majority, are diametrically opposed to sltee and other facilities„ have served t sash other on the question of the St, to make the Canadian national parka Lawrence, • The Province of Quebec,' world's requirements of this material much more accessible to our own pee, I which gives Mr. King 61 out of its 65 le produced in Canada, pie, and It is a noticeable fact that' votes in Parliament Is the strong- Two processes are ill use in Canada for the ,production of rayon: the eta' ooso process and the cetleose acetate process. The bulk of the world's rayon supply"has so far been produced by the viscose method, in which the raw material is bleached sulphite wood pulp in the supply of which Canada. predominates. The first artificial allit. plant established in Canada uses.tho Yfeeoee process; at present a large addition being erected to this plant will double its output, The second plant, which is just about to get into production- of 'artificial silk, uses the cellulose acetate process, in which the Peincipal raw material is cotton lin- ters. It is notable, however, that large puentitles of acetic acid manufactured in Canada will be used in this imbue try and that it will be a 'large user of Canadian 'iii dra-eleotrio energy. There is also hope that in time meth -ed out," but•not until Mr. King had oda will Im worked out to apply the the hardest, heaviest stiffest, and been forced to agree to the publication oelluose acetate process in the treat- strongest of all native Canadiau tim.let the diplomatic correspondence with merit at wood pulp, thus utilizing Ca- bers, and consequently great quantl- the United States neaten raw materials entirely, ties are used in bridge -building, wharf With;the exception of Ontario and That there is an excellent outlook construction, and heavy framework of the middle weak there is' a < general for the rayon industry In anada is eve- all kinds. apathy throughout Canada regarding dent from the fact that production is —0 the St Lawrence waterway,. This is Still tar from catching up with the Civdiisatibn is the condition in coupled with a belief that once. it is steadily increasing domestic .require- which one generation pays the bast built the control may pass into the meets. Recent trade statistics tor the generation's debts by issuing bonds hands of the United States. The man calendar year 1927 show imports of , for the next generation to pay. in the street especially fears that since Canadian industry is not yet ready to use all of the power, it will be ex- ported to the United States. Later, when Canadian industry needs the power, he fears that the United States will refuse to relinquish it '- In the face of this apathy _and this general. distrust, Mr. Kin.' cannot risk any actual initiative to please the Pro - vine of Ontario, stronghold of the op- position, or even .• to please the farm bloc. Therefore he resorts to 'bar- gaining, and in his notes to Frank B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, he makes a pointed hint that if the United States removed its re- strictions against Canadian fish and against Canadian agricultural pro- ducts, the Canadian people would be much more favorably inclined toward the St. Lawrence waterway. In all justice to Mr. King, however, 1.t should in noted that he personally is heartily in favor of the project and has already done much to win over the recalcitrant power interests of Quebec by promising Louis A. Taschereau, Qaebee's Premier, that no power shall be exported to the United States, and that those sections of the waterway wholly within Canada shall remain wholly within Canadian control.—Edi- torial, Christian Science,Monitorfl Canadian are alive to the opltortuni• hold of the private power interests ties witch are open to them; tourist and js therefore bitterly opposed to records show that a higher percentage i the government ownership phase ee of Canadians 1s visiting these great I the proposal, Middle -western Canadatakes exact- ly the opposite view. For it the St,. Lawreneo means a cheap route to Eur- ope for its gigantic grain crop.; The middle West also send a farm bloc to Parliament whielr gives Mr. King his Working majority." This bloc holds the balance of power. Even more eager./ for the completion of the St, Lawrenrr project than the farm bloc is the Pio.. vines of Ontario. It happens to be the stronghold of Mr; King's political ene. mies—the Conservative Party, .It was a member of this party—T. L. Church' of Toronto—who recently introduced' a resolution in Parliament calling for the immediate construction of the waterway. The resolution was "talit- reserves each year, • Sand and Gravel Pits iin Canada Natural deposits of sands and gra- vels occur in all provinces of Canada, and as a consequence of this wide dis- tribution, the law, value of these ma- terials, and theubiquitous demand chiefly for filling and structural pur. poses, there are a very large number of pits operated in Canada. Our Largest Structural Timber The largest structural timber grown In Canada is produced by the Douglas fir. The wood of this tree ie one of A Picture From Old England TRUSSLING FOR THE BALL "Dixie" Dean (Everton), England's centre forward (on right) and Low (Chelsea), Scotland's lett back in international soccer 'classic at Wembley. Thieves De Luxe Modern Feature Some People Think it Great to Bluff and Cheat There is a growing tendency among modern young men and women to dis- regard what used to be the, laws of common decency, writes Lola de Lar- edo in the London Daily Chronicle. At one tinea, everybody, without ex- ception knew that it was not quite nice to get through life on credit --- These pseudo -smart people will tell' you that they must live decently—they must have their flats in town, they must havetheir suits from Savile row, they must winter at Cannes and they must spend two months in the sum- mer at Deauville. Someone else al- ways foots the bill. So long as they do not appear to be hard dip—most unforgivable crime— they are never ashamed to say, "I simply haven't 'a bean in the world, my dear." It never occurs to one of them to inquire haw the other lives. They know. They all do the same thing They borrow and never pay commercially, both as potable waters back, theyobtain credit without any and for bathing purposes. At several that it was not exactly cricket to incur intention of meeting the debt, they of 'the springs where the waters have debts which one had no hope of pay- bluff their way through life on the curative properties, hotels and sans- leg; that it was not very edifying to tariums are operated. Some of the have to pay regular visits to pawn- 'strength of their elegant appearances. in other words, they steaL thermal springs are utilized princi. shops and money -lenders in order to — Pally for miters] baths. get out of regular tight corners. Theirs is not ordinary stealing -- Now there is a large section of so- they are thieves de luxe, and far more. rials which considers this sort of thing dangerous to society -than the Bill Origin of Name not only excusable but rather smart. Sykes type of thief who would put any Pangnirtung simpleton oh ifs ward INNOCENT BEGINNINGS According to the Geographic Board THEIR EASIEST PREY of Canada Pangnirtung, the •came of In the beginning it is innocent They find the world's workers their the fiord and police post on Bailin he enough. It only becomes dangerous landland in the Canadian Arctic arclripe- when a man grows to believe that by Jago, is of Eskimo origin and means living on his wits he is really doing "where buck deer are plentiful." The what is `.'done" by the best people, and police post at Pangnirtung was estab- when he begins to feel contempt for lashed during the 1923 annual Cana- the type of person who earns $55 a dian Government .expedition to the week by honest hard work and lives northern islands, within his means. A New Type of Power For The Babes HITGHIN' THEIR LITTLE WAGON TO AN HONEST TO GOODNESS LION Trainers at the Uuna Parte Zoo in Los Angeles broke a baby lion to harness, and little Buddy and Dorothy White are shown here enjoying the first "official" ride lit the cart drawn by the frieky cub. easiest prey. No 'dressmaker, for in- stance, would doubt the integrity of a lady who has a flat near Park lane Opium Poppies Displace Food Crops in China Harvest of Drug Plant to be Largest Since 1907 Edict Against Producs — Trans- portation Lack Also Ham- pers Grain Growing Chungking, China.—In the plains and valleys of southwest China the largest opium crop since the govern- ment's anti -opium edict: of 1907 ie nearing- harvest. In this part of China the poppy is a winter crop, harvested in April and May. Openly and with the, encourage- ment of their military overlords, the farmers have planted the poppy so ex- tensively that in some areas food pro- dnrcts are scarce because the fields are given over to opium growing. This is especially, true of Kweichow, where Governor Chow Hsl-cheng ace knowled:ges no master. Like his bro- ther militarists in Szeohuen and Yun- and enters her salon wearing a thou ran, he profits through taxes, of sand pounds' worth of sables;obtain- fines, on land Planted to the poppy.. - ed heaven knows where, or how! No and through direct taxes on consump- Continental hotel proprietor would tion, A foreigner who traveled suspect that madame who occupied the through one Kweichow district report best suite of recons on the first floor ed twenty fields of poppies to one of would give him a "dud"cheque on the day of her departure. Even the most 'hardened of money- lenders would hesitate to 'insist upon security when ased for a little ready cash by some princely gentleman who unthinkingly overdrew his account and is selling out a few hundred pounds worth of shares tomorrow, Wheat. A British engineer recently return- ed from ICweichow brought an analy- sis of conditions which make opium. the principle source of official revenue for that province and virtually the only profitable commodity for export Kweilehow has no roads Connecting it with other parts of China. Trans. exouso that someone who had prom- port is by coolies over narrow trails With regard to his worthless cheques, there is always the time -worn g ised to pay money into hie account ort a certain day let hint down. Such at•e the methods of the thief, do luxe Ho is a store angerous• en- etny to society than a common pick- pocket who does a blatantly dishonest thing with a pretty good chance of tieing arrested. He juggles with the law, he has had 'years of practice. He pities the limits to which he may go with some degree or gaiety. Itis time the law fanned a new name One coolie carries an avers a load o1 seventy pounds, and from Kweiyang it takes him fifteen days to reach a mar- ket .at Chungking on the north or twenty clays to reach water transport at Ltuchow, Kwangsi, to the cast. Ile gets about the equivalent of forty cents a day, If he carries opium his load is worth about $71060 in Kweichow and double or triple that in the Chung'dng or Can- ton market, There woul,l seem to be a hopeful for the Gentleman -who -lives -oft -his- sign' for proepeclty in China in the wits, and decided how to deal With news that IbM cogfttry it hosing him. American overalls in levee cluentftiea