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The Seaforth News, 1948-05-27, Page 9Students Learn Horticulture -Nineteen young nten are •attending the Niagara Parks Commission training school just below the Whirlpool. In three years they learn enough horticulture, floriculture and aboriculture to fit them for top jobs.' Director of the school is J. B. Liddell (left), who came to Ontario front the Royal Botanical Gardens at Edinburgh. hely students anywhere have as pleasant surroundings (right) for their classes. Requirements for entry are three successful 3'ears of high school and, preferably some practical knowledge of horticulture. t TABLE TALKS Muffins and Jam Strawberry Rhubarb Conserve 2 cups (r/a pound) prepared rhubarb 1 cup seedless raisins 2 cups sugar ]l cup corn syrup 1 large orange A cups (1% pounds) prepared. strawberries $ cup blanched walnuts, coarsely chopped To prepare rhubarb, wash and cut into /-inch pieces. Place. in deep kettle. Add raisins, sugar and corn syrup. Remove peel from orange and cut away one-half of Inner white part. Chop peel and add to rhubarb, Cut orange pulp, entirely free from membrane, into .small pieces and add to rhubarb. Meanwhile, wash about 1/ quarts fully ripe strawberries. Drain and hull. Add to rhubarb mixture. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, Re- duce heat; simmer, stirring occa- sionally. until thick, about 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from heat and cool about 5 minutes. Blanch wal- nuts by covering with boiling water for about 3 minutes, then drain and cover with cold water. Drain; chop and add to rhubarb mixture. Pour Conserve into hot sterilized glasses. Paraffin, Makes 7 glasses. (6 fluid ounces each). Serve with: Breakfast Muffins 13 cups sifted flour 3 teaspoons double-acting baking powder ei teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons sugar 1 egg,. well beaten 1 cup milk 3 tablespoons melted shortening '/4 cup wheat flakes Sift flour once, measure, add bak- ing powder, salt, and sugar, and sift again. Combine egg and milk and add all at once to flour mixture; add shortening. To mix, draw spoon from side of bowl toward center - (16 times), turning bowl gradually... Chop spoon through batter (10 times). Add cereal and mix (about 5 .strokes). Turn into greased- muf- fin pans, filling each about % full• Bake in hot oven (425 degrees F.) 22 minutes, or -until done. Makes 9 large muffins. ...THE GREEN THUMB... By Gordon L.. Smith With so nfuch to be done out doors right now, :it is very easy to forget about your house plants. But many fascin- ating kinds - in varieties 5 o m e - times hard to get from .a florist - c a n readily be grown from seed, • which should be s o w n n o W, s o that they w i11 have time to develop into blooming size by the autunni. • Flowering maple, a favorite of grandmother's era, has been much improved by recent hybridizers. Pendant, bell-shaped flowers one to three inches long come in deli- cate shades of yellow, red, pink, salmon, orange and while -some with light veinings of contrasting color. Patience plant, another old fa- vorite, blooms all year round. Those that have flowered indoors during the winter may be set out in a shady spot to bloom through the summer, Because they grow so readily from cuttings and are so easy to grow from seed, such plants are often !lard to buy and you will be amazed at the results from a packet of mixed hybrid seeds. But don't forget the one great require- ment of these ever -blooming flow- ers -plenty of water. Begonia semperfloreas is another ever -blooming candidate for a sun- ny spot in your window. Christmas Cheer, with its scarlet -crimson blossom.; above dark green foliage and Christmas Pink, with bright pink bloom and lighter green foli- age, are also well worth'while. Seeds of begonias are so tiny that it is best to plant then} in very finely -sifted soil, and just barely covered. \Vith all such seedlings, n'atering should be done with great care. The soil should never be al- lowed to dry out entirely, as the drying of the tiny root -hairs is fatal Geraniums, often grown from cuttings, are also easy to raise from seed. But don't disturb the flat in which the seeds are planted, as c OSSWOE W PUZZLE ACROSS ` 1. Cultivators 5, Likely 8. Lath 12. First man 13. 33oundless expanse 14. Beatdo 15. Noon 1R. Presently 18. Beverage 19. Aptitude 21. Verdant 24. Worlr 25, Manners 20. Eye of a bean 27. Toward 29. Record 30. Pirst eppear- ance 31. Label 32. By 1 33. Train of wives 24, Not any as. Wall painting 36. Sudden thrust 37. Cutting. tool 39. Ship's boat 40. Residue 41. Depute 46. Russian city 47. Rather than 48. Vico 49. Ilxisted 60. Noise. 81. Look atter DOWN Son of. Noah Poem 3. Attention 4. Striker' 6. Continent eb 6. Size of coal 7. Metal 8.. Ski race 9. _Passenger steamer 1 0. 11. 16. 21. 22. 23. 24. 26. 27. 2'8. 30. lantu Nl W®®® English river Canvas lodge Private room Border Festival Disorder tVor]c unit Printed defamation Proclaimed Strong taste Molding Venture ' 1. Unit of ship. capacity 3. Burry 4, Lump ofmetal ' 5, Skinflint 8. Recline . 7. Bird 8. Present 9. Dingle 2. Worm 3. Rail 4. Metal 45. Olden times 11 The answer to this, puzzle s elsewhere on this page. some seedlings may appear within two weeks while others may take four times that long before s` eee- fng. Periwinkle is a charming annual which makes an exceptionally good house plant because it endures heat well. It develops slowly into a ' 12 -inch plant with pholx-like fow- ers and waxy green foliage. Prim- roses take six to eight months front: seed -and require'cool growing con- ditions; although there is one vari- ety, with salmon pink bloom, which is supposed to be quicker, and flow- ers within four months after seed ing. Seeds sown in shallow bulb pans or flats are easier to care for than those in open ground. Fine seeds should be pressed very carefully into finely sifted soil, covered very lightly with soil or ssand, end the container soaked until the surface looks damp. Glass or newspaper should be placed dyer the top un- til the sprouts appear. Once up, they require sunshine and :a con- stant supply of moisture. Your seedlings eheuld be moved into small pots,_ or later on into larger ones, only when the roots begin to crowd Grown outdoors all summer, carefully watered and. fed, they should develop into hus- ky plants for your fall and winter window garden... About 10 per cent of the total area of the Philippines is under cultivation for rice. Just For Fun "Mose" said the Southern Col- onel to his colored houseman, "I'ni going to have guests for dinner on Sunday and 1 want you to get a nice turkey. But be sure it's a tame turkey - !tot -a wild one like you served last tinge as my guests are Northerners and might not like the gamey flavor of the wild kind. Sunday dinner arrived, and a noble -looking turkey adorned the board, sure enough. But when he was halfway through his port tion, the Colunel_angrily sum- moned his houseman. "Mose," be said, "I thought I told you to be sure and get a TAME turkey!" "And days what .1 slip enough did, Bossy" was the reply, "Then how do you account for these two buckshot I bit out of the slice I'in eating?" "Dot's a tame bird all right, Boss, I wouldn't tell you no lie. De fac' of de matter is, dem buck- shot was meant for ME, not for de turkey!" Pubic Talks Need Priv t e Practice d All of us are called on at one time or another to make a speech - to make a presentation, to acknowl- edge a gift, to welcome a visitor. Do you get tongue-tied when it's your turn? Suppose your club is having a debate and you feel strongly on the subject; are you able to express your opinion? Think out your first sentence word-perfect and scribble a few phrases to hilp you make your point, Let's say the topic is "Inadequate Schooling." Your 'first sentence would have to be a bombshell. "Every day, twenty-five harried teachers try to control AND teach over 1500 students. That's 60 of our children for one person to handle." Yoti go on, reu'tincling. thcln how hard it is to handle two or three chihlren in the home. You give statistics ofr teacher's salaries and then offer a possible solution, one that the group can act on. There are 5o many situations that you can meet with confidence and poise once you know the ins and outs of public speaking. See our P .idtr Service booklet No, 83. for various speech samples, parliamen- tary procedure and voice improve ment. Send TI-IIRTY CENTS in coins for "Self -Institution In Public Speaking" to Reader Service, Roont 604, 371 Bay Street, Toronto. Print name, addrr s, borklet title and No. 83. How CMnese Do It Since my arrival iii this country- wrote a Chinese visitor to London -I hat,. observed with dismay the English way of making tea, In time of shortage it is unnecessarily ex- travagant and I have been able to convince friends here they can save nearly a third'of their ration by mak- ing tea properly. After warming the teapot only one and a half teaspoons of tea are required for an ordinary -sized pot. The tea is only just barely covered with boiling waterand is allowed to stand half a minute. A little more water is then added and allowed to stand; this is repeated until the pot is filled. The pot must never be completely emptied before adding the water for a second pouring. Koreans developed moveable type 50 years before Gutenberg printed the Bible. CHRONICLES OF GINGER FARM By Gwendoline P. Clarke . s Everyone'`seems to be fed up' with the ,weather -rain, wind, cold, thunderstorms -and atilt more rain. Water, water, everywhere. It is too bad for the farmers . who have not yet finished seeding -but -there is not one thing. anyone can do about it. We were watching the skies anxiously ourselves towards the end of last week but thank goodness we were just able to get through before the rain. came. We were so glad. It is a tiring busi- ness-to say nothing of the worry when seeding drags on through the weeks. It must be particularly dis- couraging to those who have re- cently taken up "farming -we old- timers are more or less hardened to the vicissitudes of farm life! * * * I wonder if this unusually active period of buying and selling farm lands is general throughout the province? In all the years we have been here we have never known so many farms change hands in such a short tiine, In this district it doesn't seem long since we rated as "newcomers." Now, by compari- son, we can almost be classed as 'old-timers" as, one by. one, neigh- bors pull stakes and move into town. I wonder how many will be contented? Often we hear of re -r tired farmers who are so lone- some in their town homes they hardly know whai to do with them- selves, Probably the women settle down more happily than the men -glad of the opportunity to give more tine and thought to their hones without the interruptions in- cidental to farm life. They like to be able to step out, do their own shopping and then walk home again. If they have nostalgic yearn- ings very few admit it. * * * And then what of the newcom- ers to the country -the man - from the city who suddenly decides farming is the life for him( Some- times I wonder . . perhaps that type too, keep their feelings to themselves. "The simple life" is often eulogised through lack of ac- tual experience. Personally my heart aches -and my indignation rises - when I hear of a middle-aged man, quitting his job, putting his money into a hundred -acre farm and ex- pecting his wife and family to ad- just themselves to an entirely dif ferent way of life, possibly without the conveniences to which they have always been accustomed. For them "the simple life" very soon becomes nighty complicated. Of course, a few acres with a com- fortable home, that's something else again. l can think of nothing bet- ter in these days of over -crowded living quarters. But r hundred acres -oh not Not if you haven't been used to farming. Then there arc those who think of farming, with a stable full of cows, as a part-time job - quite possible if properly organized, Usually there comes a rude awa- Make It Stick Putty applied to barewood is likely to, "unstick" and fall away after a few months. That is why crafts'nlen recommend that a prim ing coat of paint be applied to the wood beforehand so that the putty can adhere better. It is not neces- sary for the paint to be thoroughly dry before the putty is applied. Painting over the putty after the job is done also helps the filler to "Stay Put" while at the same time masking the puttying job. kening; enthusiasm wanes -gad ao- other farm is up for sale, But the newcomers that I think we all welcome, and' who should be given everyencouragement, are the young couples setting up for 'them selves. You just sort of go along with them, sensing their courage,: their energy and their ambition and you hope to heaven' life will not deal too harshly with them. Disillusionment can be a bitter ex- perience for those who cannot rise above it, bu't a challenge to those - who can, Sure, these young fanners will make mistakes, sometimes cost- > ly ones -they are young -'yet . in experience. But what 'they lack in experience they make up for in initiative. Most of them are pro- gressive' -the chances are they will give that "new look" to farming - and their wives, if they are the right kind, will be right there with them, The future of agriculture lies in the hands of these young people. They probably will not be required to face the physical hardships that their grandparents knew, at the same time livery age has its prob- lems. So we say, more power to the younger generation. The world needs you -your strength, your vi tality and your brighter outlook. Answer To Thic Week's Puzzle ®0®i�i` vii® ,e. ®OUY oov© ©vUANA°o© 0©©©© 0©000 .; ... 000© ©E0©0© ©0 00© i MU= 000 0© ©0©0©' ©Oi i ©o©vv 'vii©; 0©0©©E@! ©v0 EM©©E UU UME© ©GM i ri i ISE= r'�pE Soothe them with MINARD'S LINIMENT ► Rob on Keely, endnote 35C Cutek relief. reeaeke.Q. LAt6CCCONOMICAI -•drying. 1Vo a 8ab6 sat 65e DOES INDIGESTION WALLOP YOU BELOW TIE BELT? 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