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The Huron Expositor, 1925-04-24, Page 63i 6? p'. it r? J J1V t'►. $ will buy all 'eel and row]. cV Pd HALER hinds of Jum, fides, Ui1f pay good pric. f'IAZ WOL$ i ;e gefSf+nitft, o $$ ,• • - retrenIte do If,l nx rise, luted Stat qM PanSetrOZ _Ir e slDl;ayed ail an amn _ease:nine:at ni.' r 1 s mostly acles, m t 'Useless; here• are rpet to k needles, fragments tacks, 'fns 0ed e f is A plus, , eR combs an eyeglass d lass frames. thu b- y Cin irks, bits of wire, shoe laces, pieces f bed springs, paper clips, metal cgs, washers, certain hooks, car- riges, shut, safety -razor blades, teeth oth natural and false, spoons, hair - ins, phonograph needles, safetypins, ragmen of bone, watermelon and ther seeds, coffee beans, pieces of older, beads strung and unstrung, nd coins, the last almost entirely of ienominations less than half a dol- ar. Such articles, you would say, would sake only a poor display in a museum case. They do. It happens, however, I virtually every one of the thou- sands of articles so displayed repre- sents a human life that was saved, writes Ada Patterson in Popular Science Monthly for May. For these odd collections of useless hardware, vegetable matter and trinkets are made up of the odd things people wallow. People take these singularly indi- gestible objects into their systems for a variety of reasons. A small percentage pass into the stomach. throat or lungs by accident. The most careful person is likely to swal- low a? peach or prune pit, a - small bone, a pebble, or bird -shot with his food and not realize that he has done so. Most of these foreign bodies that are swallowed, however, are taken by intent. The professional swallow- ers—"human ostriches" as they call themselves—who entertain in the side shows at county fairs have con- tributed many weird additions to the odd surgical museums. Many other persons swallow sharp objects—nails, needles, knives, and razor blades—with suicidal intent. Other habitual swallowers are men- tally deranged, or suffer from some peculiar physiological condition that cause them to enjoy the irritation hard or sharp objects set up in their integral organs. Then a great many of those who have been operated on have . been infants whose careless mothers or nurses have left bright and attracrtive, but dangerous, ob- jects within their reach. Not long ago an operation on a fifteen -year-old girl in Michigan re- sulted in the removal of almost a thousand things she had swallowed. These included safety pins, earrings. watch chains, stove bolts, coins, metal street car tokens, brooches, adhesive - tape, shoe laces and bits of ribbon— almost four pounds in all. A professional swallower in Chi- cago yielded 272 metal objects in an operation, the contents of his stomach including upholstery tacks, nuts, bolts, screws, a can -opener, a couple of handfuls of thumbtacks, almost a box of fair sized nails, cartridges, safetypins, paper clips and coins. Removal of foreign objects from the throat or windpipe has been facili- tated greatly by the invention of the bronchoscope by Dr. Chevalier Jack- son, of Philadelphia. This device consists of a long, flexible tube within which is a series of mirrors that re- flect an image of the object to be re- moved. Illumination is supplied by a small electric Iight. Through this tube, the operating surgeon inserts his forceps and readily withdraws the object that has been swallowed. yr3t'. ale F 01e s ete There is no roan so f]riendless hut: l�, what he n• ea find a friend sincere enough to tell bine disagreeable truths, Bulnver Lytton. The idea of some persona to bring about national unity and prosperity in Canada, is to close their eyes and to keep on shouting " urrab.l' —Man- itoba Free Press. Bolshevism has sent not only Dives to hell but poor Lazarus also.—Ayl- mer Maude. CURRENT WIT AND WISDOM When you demand the best for yourself never forget that it is your duty to give the best in return.—Mr. J. H. Thomas. Seems to us a lot of these letters on Church Union could be appropri- ately terminated: "For argument's sake. Amen!"—Dundalk Herald. Also, there's many a true word spoken in earnest.—Manitoba Free Press. If a dog is present when music is played he hears a noise, but he does not hear Beethoven. — Sir Oliver Lodge. When we read of a man being lost half a day in a Wellington county swamp, we are inclined to wonder if he had been still hunting. — Fergus News -Record. So far this month we have had an earthquake, a cyclone, thunder, light- ning, wind, rain, snow, frost, a Pres- bytery scrap and Friday the thir- teenth:—Alliston Herald. Girls once closed their eyes while kissing. Now they don't even keep their mouths shut 'afterwards.—,Sar- nia Observer. It might help to humble some men if they would reflect on how much their wives would enjoy being widows. —Montreal Herald. Many a man who started out with the intention of leaving his footprints on the sands of time finished by leav- ing his finger -prints at Scotland Yard. —Lord Dewar. The trouble about many a going concern these days is that you can't always tell which way it's going.— Manitoba Free Press. We knew the radio was dangerous. A man sang over it; a girl heard him —and they were married.—Halifax Herald. An education which does not culti- vate the will is an education that de- praves the mind. Anatrole France. What you fall for isn't as important as what you stand for, which isn't as important as what you help with.— Wabash Times -Star. Equal suffrage gives women the same right not to go to the polls as the men haver--4Brandon Sun. The knee will be visible this Item, says' a fashion expert, but tho ear surely will remain discretely covered. A woman writer says that mischief causes dimples. Some people are under the impression that dimples cause mischief. --Chicago News. Only thing you can tell by some watches is what time it isn't—Halifax Herald. History is the essence -of inumer- able biographies• --Carlyle. A large population is in no way essential to national greatness.—Har- old Cox. We are never so happy or so un- happy as we suppose.—La Rochefou- cauld. It looks like spring, it feels like spring. Perhaps it is spring.—Bor- der Cities Star. Three mode: *nventions will light- en the task of the educator and the educational administrator—broadcast- ing the motor car, and the cinema.— Mr. H. G. L. Fisher. Canada'ns new dollar bill looks, but it doesn't stretch a bit farther than the old one.—Brockville Recorder. Parliament reminds us of an ararm clock. It always gets cussed for do- ing the best it can—Kingston Whig. Fact is there are so many other things these days infinitely more in- teresting than party politics.—Ottawa Journal. It is estimated that only one out of every 10.000 mechanical patents is worth anything.—Wall Street Journ- al. A philosopher is just an ordinary man who has whittled down his am- bb:ion to fit his capacity.—Baltimore Sun. It's the little things that count. A drop in the bucket is the beginning of a bumper sugar crop.—Brockville Recorder. It is a point of wisdom to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well. —Plutarch. The robins have returned, showing that they have no doubt as to the future of this country. Manitoba Free Press. It is said that women are more for- giving than men, but men equalize things by being more forgetful.—Kit- chener Record. You can't always judge things by their looks. Shaving lather looks just as good to eat as whipped cream. —Kitchener Record. It's the fellow who can pay his debts but won't that is blocking the traffic on the road to prosperity.— Des Moines Register. It might seem as if the Home Bank was called the Home Bank because the higher officials used to take home most of the money.—Manitoba Free Press. Do we not know ourselves? Ay! so well that we one and all determ- ine to know somebody else instead.— George Meredith. e standee ll vi i• rginal9kauccat4 91 ; iaparc the n A CERTIFIED SEED POTATO STANDARDS FOR CANADA Owing to the wide interest now taken in the production of certified seed potatoes, our readers will ap- preciate the information which we are able to give on the standards for 1925 which govern the inspection of their potatoes. The field standard remains the same as last year, viz., Blackleg 3%, Leaf Roll (Curly Dwarf, etc.) 2%; Mosaic 2%; Wilts 3%, Foreign 1%, providing that in no case shall a total of more than 6 per cent. disease be allowed. No field shall qualify for inspection unless separated by a reasonable dist- ance (say two hundred feet) from any other potato field, or unless the latter field measures up to the above standard. The tuber standard has been modi- fied slightly this year to make the standard more clear to growers, and will include 5% for Internal Discol- orations other than due to variety. The standard as it now stands is as follows:— Wet Hot (bacterial) 2% Late Blight and Dry Rot 3% Common Scab and Rhizoctonia— severe5% Powdery Scab 1% Necrosis, Wilts and Internal Dis- coloration, other than due to variety 5% Providing that in no case shall a total of more than 10% be allowed. Not more than 2% of the tunbers shall he foreign, badly off type or damaged by sunburn, cuts, cracks, bruises, insects, etc. No frost injury shall be allowed. Not more than 5% by weight of the tubers shall be below three ounces or above twelve ounces. • It must be understood that the to- tal of 10% does not mean that there can be 10% of rot, or 10% of Povrdery Scab or 10% of severe Common Scab, but the 10% can be made up' -6'f some of each of these diseases, providing Mere is not Mere of each disease than stated in the standar& 'Common. Scab a;ad lthieoctonia severe, 5% does not mean that 5% of the tubers shall be covered, with large scab., spots or black sou, as all such tubers should be ,reilnove4 ';when grading; but it does admit, of 5% of tubers showing enough spots_ to be considered severe, but vylaich could have passed the per- son at the grader unnoticed. Oc- casional small spots of scab not read- ily apparent on casual examination are not considered in this standard. The inspection service for the cert- ification of ;:seed potatoes is becoming more popular each year, and there were produced in Canada in 1924, ov- er one and a quarter million bushels of certified seed potatoes, which was more than :h 100 per cent. increase over the 428 crop. The inspection system Ia.:. Carried on by responsible inspectors under the direction of the Dominion .I3otanist, Experimental Farm Branch, who are stationed at the following places throughout the Dominion: P. E. I., Charlottetown—S. G. Pep- plin, Plant Pathological Laboratory; N. S., Truro—W. K. McCulloch, P.O. Box 500; N. B., Fredericton—b. J. MacLeod, ;(Pathologist-in-Chairge) Plant Pathological Laboratory; Que., Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere—B. Bari - beau, Plant Pathological Laboratory; Ont., Guelph—J. Tucker, Ontario Ag- ricultural College; Man., Sask., Alta., Saskatoon—'. W. Scannell, Plant Pathological Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan and H. S. MacLeod, Plant Pathological Laboratory, Uni- versity of Saskatchewan; B. C., Vic- toria—C. Tice, (Chief Agronomist), Department of Agriculture. Completed application forms for in- spection- must be received by the Di- vision of Botany, Central Experimen- tal Farm, Ottawa, not later than June 30th, or inspection cannot be grant- ed._ Application forms may now be obtained from the above address. IRELAND Bequests to customers were left by a Belfast tobacconist. He left £50 each to the executors of the will, and desired that his estate should be "squared up as soon as possible, and no dilly-dallying about it." Among other bequests he left "to all his monthly customers, as per ledger, one month's goods, and to the weekly ones, as per ledger, one week's goods, those who have not paid promptly not to participate. I loved all my old customers, and wish them well and prosperity." Irish woollen industry could be saved from extinction only by a pro- tective tariff, said Mr. Thomas Ing - erten, Organizer of the Irish Trans- port Worker rUnion, addressing a meeting of workers engaged in the woollen industry at Athlone. Pro- tection, however, would not succeed unless the Government also dealt with the "profiteers." Manufacturers expected the same profits to -day as they made during the war. The man- ufacturers' greed for.profits was lar- gely responsible, he said, for the present bad state of -the Irish wooI- len industry. Reduction of drink bill has been de- cided upon by the Galway Hospitals' Committee, and £60 a month has been lopped off the amount to be expended oh stimulants whiskey, wine, stout and minerals—in the Central Hospi- tal. The house physician reported at the last meeting that in spite of the vigilance of the staff drink was being smuggled into the hospital. Some time ago a patient managed to get in a quart of poteen, and he died i two days. He pointed out that fever patients, who were numerous, got nothing but beef and milk tea. Two hundred foot fall to death was the fate of an Irishman poteen mak- er (moonshine), it was revealed at an inquest held to inquire into the cause of the man's death. It was stated that he was one of a party of me who commenced illicit distillation early in the evening in a secluded spot on a cliff overlooking the sea an worked all night making poteen. is surmised that while attempting to hide apparatus in the cliff, the nian fell a distance of over two hundred feet to a projecting ledge and was killed. With the aid of a rope his comrades dragged, up the body. The jury brought in a verdict of acciden- tal ccid tal death, and adopted a rider to the effect that poteen making can only be stopped by an embargo on sugar used in its manufacture,' and they request- ed the Government to prohibit the importation of sugar. The Coroner said that he had been in all parts of the world, and nowhere were condi tions worse than there, with squall homes and people underclad and un- derfed derfed. Dublin civic survey, which was be gun in November last and has no been completed, has disclosed an a- bominable state of affairs in many parts of the city. Forty per cent. of the whole city area, it appears, is insanitary. When the work of the survey was taken up it was found that the hygienic standard was fifty persons to the acre);.anti the death rate was 18.3 per cent. of the popu- lation. The City Architect, address- ing the members of the Dublin Rot- ary o ary Club, described the position as "appalling." life pointed out that th four central wards of the city were )g EVES e i�t�fa idtLv,.• r5trefflepk Ob#4. 4:; vex c►811040f � cod Af $lta b subso b e514 ,,. theadan4lint . ' a ARTIFICIAL 1IJ-. The term. earti'facial Manure" hits' been applied:to' a preduet resulting from the treatment of ;tray' by'cerl' Iain chemicals, The outstanding fee,, ture of the methods is the conversion. of straw into manure without being first used as a feed or litter for [tech —the rotting down of the etre* be- ing brought about, as ill: the case' of ordinary manure, by bacteria wluaah in this process are nourished and en- couraged • by the chemicals added to the straw, These bacteria are ever present in the air and therefore there is no necessity to purchase or otherwise procure a special culture. In order to accomplish their useful work on the straw it is merely nec- essary that they should have a cer- tain amount of soluble nitrogenous food (supplied by the chemical, sul- phate of ammonia): moisture and air. The investigatory work which led to the devising of a practical process for making this' artificial manure was carried out at the Rotha.mstel Experi- ment Station (England) during the latter years of the World War, when the general principles involved and more or less of the details of the process were discussed in the agri- cultural press by the authorities of that Station. • More recently the Rothamsted Ex- periment Station has patented the process, with a•view of building up a fund to be devoted to further research work. This action renders it impossi- ble for us to give the details and di- rections as issued by Rothamsted. However, the. U. S. Department of Agriculture following up with lex- perimental work the earlier publish- ed accounts of this method has made public that the addition of 100 pounds of ammonium sulphate and 100 pounds lime to each ton of straw, will give satisfactory results—a manure -like substance of distinct fertilizer value. The materials—sulphate of ammonia and lime—may be scattered on the straw as it comes from the thresher the straw being kept moist by a stream of water. If the straw is al- ready piled or stacked the "manure" can be made by spreading on the ground a layer of straw—say, of two feet or thereabouts in thickness and broadcasting over it the requisite a- mount of sulphate and lime, thorough- ly moistening the mass and repeating the procedure until the heap has reached a height of say, eight to ten feet, above which it is not convenient to work. If there are no ready means to renew the moisture from time to time and there is reason to think that the rainfall will not be sufficient to supply the water lost by evapora- tion, the heap should be covered with soil. It is stated that the conversion of the straw into the resultant manure - like material will take from three to six months, that the loss of plant food during this period is less than that which takes place in the rotting of manure, and that this, "straw and sulphate" manure is practically equal in crop production to ordinary barn- yard manure. But the evidence to date is necessarily limited and the whole matter cannot be said to have passed the experimental stage. . Essentially, this is a method for making humus—or a humus -like ma- terial—the nitrogen of which has been supplied by added sulphate of ammonia. It is a process which might have a practical value for the utilization of straw in districts in which it can be used neither as a feed nor a litter for live stock and in which climatic conditions are favour- able to the rotting of straw. n FEW PERSONS CAN WALK CHALK LINE Have you ever tried to walk a chalk line? If you have, you prob- ably found it difficult. The reason is obvious—your supporting base was narrowed, and you had to sup- port your body almost on a point: n But can you walk in a straight line, employing your usual gait, with feet at a normal distance apart? IWithout hesitation you will say "Yes." However, unless yours is an unusual case, you are wrong. You can't do it. This has been proved definitely by interesting scientific tests recently completed, writes Rob- ert E. Martin, in Popular Science Monthly for May. en- Try it yourself. Walk across a wide plaza or through an open meadow toward an object on the other side. Unless you make a con- centrated effort, not permitting your vigilance to relax even for a second, you will probably find yourself veering off sharply to the right or the left. d At the Johns Hopkins University, n Baltimore, Md., Dr. J. Q. _Holsopple of the department of psychology is investigating equilibrium and orien- tation, which meal'is your ability to keep your balance and your direc- tion. The straightest of all walkers —virtually the only straight walker among mankind, Dr. Ilolsopple says, is a blind man, for the• blind man has learned to walk by ear. That does. not mean by listening, but through understanding of the' mes- sages transmitted to the brain by the semicircular canals in the ear, t that govern our ability to maintain our balance and our equilibrium. e These canals contain a fluid that moves in one direction in - which we move when we whirl rapidly about, the fluid i distrilbuted and we 'become dizzy. When we trove for- ward, the fluid moves forward and we receive the sensation of forWard motion. When 'we stop, the- Make of the fluid stops and trafisuits to the brain a sensation' Of alroty, i' lug in the opposite direction. Oleee your eyes in a rrailro'ad afel or an elevator as it, stops. ' Vii' hlottt ?our.: iy{ lel 1.!•, i...il II. .t 1 ,., d1 a' t, o t. 4' M p s s 1 t iU I,. _.y t 7 ' - Jc, n: art. 2t -'-ali$4l Keeps and Keeps ilii NUGGET • ",— free "Nugget" Dont le i� �, 111. Iw , III. l M.. Aif'-'. W '-L tnil� _== - _ preserves it f fable, smoo, from cracks. it "Young". Did yon your shoes this mornivngkt 1 lish ac? Tan, Toney Red. gown and White. Dt. l �I 0 ���. .d A ' a t � � i, ail., ffiyl on , 1 I '.P 5 r: t 1 *a 7r ( 1} N Camra oy - FEMALE Part or full Steady income q��.,� TRIS Dept. 32. AGENTS WANTED nub -agent time, appointing assured. Write immediately. t3ANTe L]LA Co.. P. 0. !Bos 416. 33eatrnL 0 NOT READ THIS Unless you can get Goodyear guaran- teed Waterproof Raincoats bearing Goodyear Label for less than $6.90 2 for $13.00. We can furnish you with same for men, women or chil- dren in any size. Money refunded if not satisfied. AGENTS WANTED Address The Goodyear Waterproof Coats Ce., 240 Albert St., Ottawa. Ont. $200.- � 00, to lend on Farms, First, Second ' • Mortgages. Call or write me at once and get your loan arranged - by return mail No advance B. R. REYNOLDS, 77 Victoria St., tomato. Agent, Henry Lawrence, Mitchell HEIRS Missing throughout are to -day erty who know it. Send for and Next fully authenticated heirs and have been abroad. we offer of names American, Irish, Welsh, gian, Swedish, other newspapers, ers, executors, contains Courts of dividends Your name do the list. at once for International . Pittsburgh, WANTED sought people pov- do not of them. Heirs care- missing which here and Heirs thousands in Scotch Bel- and by lawy- Also and Irish unclaimed England. may be dollar) Agency S. A. 2980-tf Heirs are being the world. Many living in comparative are really rich, but You may be one Index Book, "Missing of Kin," containing lists of unclaimed estates advertised for, The'Index of Missing for sale contains which have appeared Canadian, English, German, French, Indian, Colonial, inserted administrators. list of English Chancery and list of Bank of or your ancestor's Send $1.00 (one book. Clainii Dept. 296, Pa., U. THE McKILLOP FIRE INSURANCE HEAD OFFICE—SEAFORTH, J. Connolly, Jas. Evans; lit F. McGregor, Alex. Leitch, "W. E. Hinchley, ray, 'Egmondville; rich; R. G. William John Bennewies, Evans, Beechwood; ton; James Baoadfoot, Grieve, No. Harlock; Seaforth; MUTUAL CO'Y. ONT. President Sec.-Treas. Clinton; Mur- Gode- Seaforth; James Clin- Alex. J. G. Ferris, No. 8, Brucefield. will the University. this in University, a 1910. occasioned the be British Ont.—At Society of the outstanding or discovery grain the and as raw steadijy auction Europe, later. • tourists, railway, according the bureau. OFFICERS: Goderich - - Beechwood, Vice-president Seaforth, AGENTS: R. R. No. 1, Seaforth; John J. W. Yeo, Jarmuth, Brodhagen. DIRECTORS: Rinn, No. 2, Brodhagen; M. McEwen, Connolly, Goderich; No. 3, Seaforth; 4, Walton; Robert George McCartney, Murray Gibson en e e 8 e 9 47 Persons • ing supply 8 W. D. e Seaforth. 0. gas power; 4 . PHONE e 4b.en 0,"O c e 0 e c e NOTICE 0 e e e e e -fail- e see e Driller, e e 4> 222. e e e 0 e in need of a never of water should HOPPER, Well Water guaranteed; prices reasonable. 54-8. BOX e e 4> 4 e with an of 17.8 bushels ove years, excels the Unit Russia, Argentite: in production, accord Dominion fief - • J J1V t'►. $ will buy all 'eel and row]. cV Pd HALER hinds of Jum, fides, Ui1f pay good pric. f'IAZ WOL$ i ;e gefSf+nitft, o $$ ,• • - retrenIte do If,l nx rise, luted Stat qM PanSetrOZ _Ir e slDl;ayed ail an amn _ease:nine:at ni.' r 1 s mostly acles, m t 'Useless; here• are rpet to k needles, fragments tacks, 'fns 0ed e f is A plus, , eR combs an eyeglass d lass frames. thu b- y Cin irks, bits of wire, shoe laces, pieces f bed springs, paper clips, metal cgs, washers, certain hooks, car- riges, shut, safety -razor blades, teeth oth natural and false, spoons, hair - ins, phonograph needles, safetypins, ragmen of bone, watermelon and ther seeds, coffee beans, pieces of older, beads strung and unstrung, nd coins, the last almost entirely of ienominations less than half a dol- ar. Such articles, you would say, would sake only a poor display in a museum case. They do. It happens, however, I virtually every one of the thou- sands of articles so displayed repre- sents a human life that was saved, writes Ada Patterson in Popular Science Monthly for May. For these odd collections of useless hardware, vegetable matter and trinkets are made up of the odd things people wallow. People take these singularly indi- gestible objects into their systems for a variety of reasons. A small percentage pass into the stomach. throat or lungs by accident. The most careful person is likely to swal- low a? peach or prune pit, a - small bone, a pebble, or bird -shot with his food and not realize that he has done so. Most of these foreign bodies that are swallowed, however, are taken by intent. The professional swallow- ers—"human ostriches" as they call themselves—who entertain in the side shows at county fairs have con- tributed many weird additions to the odd surgical museums. Many other persons swallow sharp objects—nails, needles, knives, and razor blades—with suicidal intent. Other habitual swallowers are men- tally deranged, or suffer from some peculiar physiological condition that cause them to enjoy the irritation hard or sharp objects set up in their integral organs. Then a great many of those who have been operated on have . been infants whose careless mothers or nurses have left bright and attracrtive, but dangerous, ob- jects within their reach. Not long ago an operation on a fifteen -year-old girl in Michigan re- sulted in the removal of almost a thousand things she had swallowed. These included safety pins, earrings. watch chains, stove bolts, coins, metal street car tokens, brooches, adhesive - tape, shoe laces and bits of ribbon— almost four pounds in all. A professional swallower in Chi- cago yielded 272 metal objects in an operation, the contents of his stomach including upholstery tacks, nuts, bolts, screws, a can -opener, a couple of handfuls of thumbtacks, almost a box of fair sized nails, cartridges, safetypins, paper clips and coins. Removal of foreign objects from the throat or windpipe has been facili- tated greatly by the invention of the bronchoscope by Dr. Chevalier Jack- son, of Philadelphia. This device consists of a long, flexible tube within which is a series of mirrors that re- flect an image of the object to be re- moved. Illumination is supplied by a small electric Iight. Through this tube, the operating surgeon inserts his forceps and readily withdraws the object that has been swallowed. yr3t'. ale F 01e s ete There is no roan so f]riendless hut: l�, what he n• ea find a friend sincere enough to tell bine disagreeable truths, Bulnver Lytton. The idea of some persona to bring about national unity and prosperity in Canada, is to close their eyes and to keep on shouting " urrab.l' —Man- itoba Free Press. Bolshevism has sent not only Dives to hell but poor Lazarus also.—Ayl- mer Maude. CURRENT WIT AND WISDOM When you demand the best for yourself never forget that it is your duty to give the best in return.—Mr. J. H. Thomas. Seems to us a lot of these letters on Church Union could be appropri- ately terminated: "For argument's sake. Amen!"—Dundalk Herald. Also, there's many a true word spoken in earnest.—Manitoba Free Press. If a dog is present when music is played he hears a noise, but he does not hear Beethoven. — Sir Oliver Lodge. When we read of a man being lost half a day in a Wellington county swamp, we are inclined to wonder if he had been still hunting. — Fergus News -Record. So far this month we have had an earthquake, a cyclone, thunder, light- ning, wind, rain, snow, frost, a Pres- bytery scrap and Friday the thir- teenth:—Alliston Herald. Girls once closed their eyes while kissing. Now they don't even keep their mouths shut 'afterwards.—,Sar- nia Observer. It might help to humble some men if they would reflect on how much their wives would enjoy being widows. —Montreal Herald. Many a man who started out with the intention of leaving his footprints on the sands of time finished by leav- ing his finger -prints at Scotland Yard. —Lord Dewar. The trouble about many a going concern these days is that you can't always tell which way it's going.— Manitoba Free Press. We knew the radio was dangerous. A man sang over it; a girl heard him —and they were married.—Halifax Herald. An education which does not culti- vate the will is an education that de- praves the mind. Anatrole France. What you fall for isn't as important as what you stand for, which isn't as important as what you help with.— Wabash Times -Star. Equal suffrage gives women the same right not to go to the polls as the men haver--4Brandon Sun. The knee will be visible this Item, says' a fashion expert, but tho ear surely will remain discretely covered. A woman writer says that mischief causes dimples. Some people are under the impression that dimples cause mischief. --Chicago News. Only thing you can tell by some watches is what time it isn't—Halifax Herald. History is the essence -of inumer- able biographies• --Carlyle. A large population is in no way essential to national greatness.—Har- old Cox. We are never so happy or so un- happy as we suppose.—La Rochefou- cauld. It looks like spring, it feels like spring. Perhaps it is spring.—Bor- der Cities Star. Three mode: *nventions will light- en the task of the educator and the educational administrator—broadcast- ing the motor car, and the cinema.— Mr. H. G. L. Fisher. Canada'ns new dollar bill looks, but it doesn't stretch a bit farther than the old one.—Brockville Recorder. Parliament reminds us of an ararm clock. It always gets cussed for do- ing the best it can—Kingston Whig. Fact is there are so many other things these days infinitely more in- teresting than party politics.—Ottawa Journal. It is estimated that only one out of every 10.000 mechanical patents is worth anything.—Wall Street Journ- al. A philosopher is just an ordinary man who has whittled down his am- bb:ion to fit his capacity.—Baltimore Sun. It's the little things that count. A drop in the bucket is the beginning of a bumper sugar crop.—Brockville Recorder. It is a point of wisdom to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well. —Plutarch. The robins have returned, showing that they have no doubt as to the future of this country. Manitoba Free Press. It is said that women are more for- giving than men, but men equalize things by being more forgetful.—Kit- chener Record. You can't always judge things by their looks. Shaving lather looks just as good to eat as whipped cream. —Kitchener Record. It's the fellow who can pay his debts but won't that is blocking the traffic on the road to prosperity.— Des Moines Register. It might seem as if the Home Bank was called the Home Bank because the higher officials used to take home most of the money.—Manitoba Free Press. Do we not know ourselves? Ay! so well that we one and all determ- ine to know somebody else instead.— George Meredith. e standee ll vi i• rginal9kauccat4 91 ; iaparc the n A CERTIFIED SEED POTATO STANDARDS FOR CANADA Owing to the wide interest now taken in the production of certified seed potatoes, our readers will ap- preciate the information which we are able to give on the standards for 1925 which govern the inspection of their potatoes. The field standard remains the same as last year, viz., Blackleg 3%, Leaf Roll (Curly Dwarf, etc.) 2%; Mosaic 2%; Wilts 3%, Foreign 1%, providing that in no case shall a total of more than 6 per cent. disease be allowed. No field shall qualify for inspection unless separated by a reasonable dist- ance (say two hundred feet) from any other potato field, or unless the latter field measures up to the above standard. The tuber standard has been modi- fied slightly this year to make the standard more clear to growers, and will include 5% for Internal Discol- orations other than due to variety. The standard as it now stands is as follows:— Wet Hot (bacterial) 2% Late Blight and Dry Rot 3% Common Scab and Rhizoctonia— severe5% Powdery Scab 1% Necrosis, Wilts and Internal Dis- coloration, other than due to variety 5% Providing that in no case shall a total of more than 10% be allowed. Not more than 2% of the tunbers shall he foreign, badly off type or damaged by sunburn, cuts, cracks, bruises, insects, etc. No frost injury shall be allowed. Not more than 5% by weight of the tubers shall be below three ounces or above twelve ounces. • It must be understood that the to- tal of 10% does not mean that there can be 10% of rot, or 10% of Povrdery Scab or 10% of severe Common Scab, but the 10% can be made up' -6'f some of each of these diseases, providing Mere is not Mere of each disease than stated in the standar& 'Common. Scab a;ad lthieoctonia severe, 5% does not mean that 5% of the tubers shall be covered, with large scab., spots or black sou, as all such tubers should be ,reilnove4 ';when grading; but it does admit, of 5% of tubers showing enough spots_ to be considered severe, but vylaich could have passed the per- son at the grader unnoticed. Oc- casional small spots of scab not read- ily apparent on casual examination are not considered in this standard. The inspection service for the cert- ification of ;:seed potatoes is becoming more popular each year, and there were produced in Canada in 1924, ov- er one and a quarter million bushels of certified seed potatoes, which was more than :h 100 per cent. increase over the 428 crop. The inspection system Ia.:. Carried on by responsible inspectors under the direction of the Dominion .I3otanist, Experimental Farm Branch, who are stationed at the following places throughout the Dominion: P. E. I., Charlottetown—S. G. Pep- plin, Plant Pathological Laboratory; N. S., Truro—W. K. McCulloch, P.O. Box 500; N. B., Fredericton—b. J. MacLeod, ;(Pathologist-in-Chairge) Plant Pathological Laboratory; Que., Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere—B. Bari - beau, Plant Pathological Laboratory; Ont., Guelph—J. Tucker, Ontario Ag- ricultural College; Man., Sask., Alta., Saskatoon—'. W. Scannell, Plant Pathological Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan and H. S. MacLeod, Plant Pathological Laboratory, Uni- versity of Saskatchewan; B. C., Vic- toria—C. Tice, (Chief Agronomist), Department of Agriculture. Completed application forms for in- spection- must be received by the Di- vision of Botany, Central Experimen- tal Farm, Ottawa, not later than June 30th, or inspection cannot be grant- ed._ Application forms may now be obtained from the above address. IRELAND Bequests to customers were left by a Belfast tobacconist. He left £50 each to the executors of the will, and desired that his estate should be "squared up as soon as possible, and no dilly-dallying about it." Among other bequests he left "to all his monthly customers, as per ledger, one month's goods, and to the weekly ones, as per ledger, one week's goods, those who have not paid promptly not to participate. I loved all my old customers, and wish them well and prosperity." Irish woollen industry could be saved from extinction only by a pro- tective tariff, said Mr. Thomas Ing - erten, Organizer of the Irish Trans- port Worker rUnion, addressing a meeting of workers engaged in the woollen industry at Athlone. Pro- tection, however, would not succeed unless the Government also dealt with the "profiteers." Manufacturers expected the same profits to -day as they made during the war. The man- ufacturers' greed for.profits was lar- gely responsible, he said, for the present bad state of -the Irish wooI- len industry. Reduction of drink bill has been de- cided upon by the Galway Hospitals' Committee, and £60 a month has been lopped off the amount to be expended oh stimulants whiskey, wine, stout and minerals—in the Central Hospi- tal. The house physician reported at the last meeting that in spite of the vigilance of the staff drink was being smuggled into the hospital. Some time ago a patient managed to get in a quart of poteen, and he died i two days. He pointed out that fever patients, who were numerous, got nothing but beef and milk tea. Two hundred foot fall to death was the fate of an Irishman poteen mak- er (moonshine), it was revealed at an inquest held to inquire into the cause of the man's death. It was stated that he was one of a party of me who commenced illicit distillation early in the evening in a secluded spot on a cliff overlooking the sea an worked all night making poteen. is surmised that while attempting to hide apparatus in the cliff, the nian fell a distance of over two hundred feet to a projecting ledge and was killed. With the aid of a rope his comrades dragged, up the body. The jury brought in a verdict of acciden- tal ccid tal death, and adopted a rider to the effect that poteen making can only be stopped by an embargo on sugar used in its manufacture,' and they request- ed the Government to prohibit the importation of sugar. The Coroner said that he had been in all parts of the world, and nowhere were condi tions worse than there, with squall homes and people underclad and un- derfed derfed. Dublin civic survey, which was be gun in November last and has no been completed, has disclosed an a- bominable state of affairs in many parts of the city. Forty per cent. of the whole city area, it appears, is insanitary. When the work of the survey was taken up it was found that the hygienic standard was fifty persons to the acre);.anti the death rate was 18.3 per cent. of the popu- lation. The City Architect, address- ing the members of the Dublin Rot- ary o ary Club, described the position as "appalling." life pointed out that th four central wards of the city were )g EVES e i�t�fa idtLv,.• r5trefflepk Ob#4. 4:; vex c►811040f � cod Af $lta b subso b e514 ,,. theadan4lint . ' a ARTIFICIAL 1IJ-. The term. earti'facial Manure" hits' been applied:to' a preduet resulting from the treatment of ;tray' by'cerl' Iain chemicals, The outstanding fee,, ture of the methods is the conversion. of straw into manure without being first used as a feed or litter for [tech —the rotting down of the etre* be- ing brought about, as ill: the case' of ordinary manure, by bacteria wluaah in this process are nourished and en- couraged • by the chemicals added to the straw, These bacteria are ever present in the air and therefore there is no necessity to purchase or otherwise procure a special culture. In order to accomplish their useful work on the straw it is merely nec- essary that they should have a cer- tain amount of soluble nitrogenous food (supplied by the chemical, sul- phate of ammonia): moisture and air. The investigatory work which led to the devising of a practical process for making this' artificial manure was carried out at the Rotha.mstel Experi- ment Station (England) during the latter years of the World War, when the general principles involved and more or less of the details of the process were discussed in the agri- cultural press by the authorities of that Station. • More recently the Rothamsted Ex- periment Station has patented the process, with a•view of building up a fund to be devoted to further research work. This action renders it impossi- ble for us to give the details and di- rections as issued by Rothamsted. However, the. U. S. Department of Agriculture following up with lex- perimental work the earlier publish- ed accounts of this method has made public that the addition of 100 pounds of ammonium sulphate and 100 pounds lime to each ton of straw, will give satisfactory results—a manure -like substance of distinct fertilizer value. The materials—sulphate of ammonia and lime—may be scattered on the straw as it comes from the thresher the straw being kept moist by a stream of water. If the straw is al- ready piled or stacked the "manure" can be made by spreading on the ground a layer of straw—say, of two feet or thereabouts in thickness and broadcasting over it the requisite a- mount of sulphate and lime, thorough- ly moistening the mass and repeating the procedure until the heap has reached a height of say, eight to ten feet, above which it is not convenient to work. If there are no ready means to renew the moisture from time to time and there is reason to think that the rainfall will not be sufficient to supply the water lost by evapora- tion, the heap should be covered with soil. It is stated that the conversion of the straw into the resultant manure - like material will take from three to six months, that the loss of plant food during this period is less than that which takes place in the rotting of manure, and that this, "straw and sulphate" manure is practically equal in crop production to ordinary barn- yard manure. But the evidence to date is necessarily limited and the whole matter cannot be said to have passed the experimental stage. . Essentially, this is a method for making humus—or a humus -like ma- terial—the nitrogen of which has been supplied by added sulphate of ammonia. It is a process which might have a practical value for the utilization of straw in districts in which it can be used neither as a feed nor a litter for live stock and in which climatic conditions are favour- able to the rotting of straw. n FEW PERSONS CAN WALK CHALK LINE Have you ever tried to walk a chalk line? If you have, you prob- ably found it difficult. The reason is obvious—your supporting base was narrowed, and you had to sup- port your body almost on a point: n But can you walk in a straight line, employing your usual gait, with feet at a normal distance apart? IWithout hesitation you will say "Yes." However, unless yours is an unusual case, you are wrong. You can't do it. This has been proved definitely by interesting scientific tests recently completed, writes Rob- ert E. Martin, in Popular Science Monthly for May. en- Try it yourself. Walk across a wide plaza or through an open meadow toward an object on the other side. Unless you make a con- centrated effort, not permitting your vigilance to relax even for a second, you will probably find yourself veering off sharply to the right or the left. d At the Johns Hopkins University, n Baltimore, Md., Dr. J. Q. _Holsopple of the department of psychology is investigating equilibrium and orien- tation, which meal'is your ability to keep your balance and your direc- tion. The straightest of all walkers —virtually the only straight walker among mankind, Dr. Ilolsopple says, is a blind man, for the• blind man has learned to walk by ear. That does. not mean by listening, but through understanding of the' mes- sages transmitted to the brain by the semicircular canals in the ear, t that govern our ability to maintain our balance and our equilibrium. e These canals contain a fluid that moves in one direction in - which we move when we whirl rapidly about, the fluid i distrilbuted and we 'become dizzy. When we trove for- ward, the fluid moves forward and we receive the sensation of forWard motion. When 'we stop, the- Make of the fluid stops and trafisuits to the brain a sensation' Of alroty, i' lug in the opposite direction. Oleee your eyes in a rrailro'ad afel or an elevator as it, stops. ' Vii' hlottt ?our.: iy{ +; 4 YI 1 , The Seaforth ' 1 Ii .5.. 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Montreal, 750,000 to conventions, 1924 by mobile, piled by vention you whether you.. motban for a , few stop the eenlit i ieular ears will ',Ilse yputoat, are travelling; irk a'4irec to that in which you You can test effect by permitting whirl you about on swivel chair. You odd "propensity of humankind in circles by walking level ground. aro at Wends can- a�1.:=the have this some a piano also can blind- to Can- conjunct- school many after tour is decid- of its Can- for this, e$_ school of eight war, the and the suc- have and year the an ef- students meeting with the a gold in Saun- of in and has for the im- distribu- quanti- During here re- value a- buyers United sale will when the is re- in auto- corn- and con- that the influx for 3.925 er than during, city, is, „rapidly city for interiational•conventions Kwame will at the 'coning at Saint Paull to national convention, tion is expected ington, Memphis Kiwanis point ' city's great historical charm, ample facilities are can also provide ucational and for the delegates, Montreal, Que.--,Sure the advent of the work of the the Canadian ands of packet tributed to all the 3,000 miles 'now and May trees, shrubs 'will be shipped of May bedding out in hundreds will include allyssum, coleus, raniums, marigolds, petunias, •salvia, verbena, Calgary, Alta.—The Club has estimated Eastern Canada ties alone in Alberta sum does not chases from the liquor vendors. Edmonton, bulletin issued eau of statistics, occupied farm placed at $25 .,,$24 for $1923.. is British Columbia, Alberta has the per acre of occupied all the provinces katchewan, where is estimated at toba's average Ottawa, Ont.—Canada erage wheat yield a period of .23 ed States, 'India, and Australia ing to E. S. Hopkins, husbandman. , Edmonton, Alta.—Two sixty thousand tral and Northern settled by the Corporation, it lands, north of north of Vermilion of Edmonton, chased from Railway Company Canda Land Company. Will be even "great the' last year. `'hie becomtlig a. favorite ,and make; a strong international meeting obtain the.19�26 inter- Keen con eti- from Roston, WW1, and, Seattle. • Local out that 'besides.- interest ',and hotel and auditorium available, and the city a wide range of general entertainment '- indication spring is afforded floral committee Pacific railway. Thous of seedy are being die country stations along of tracks:` Between very large numbers and other perennials out, while at the plants will be sent of thousands. These asters, canvas kochia, lobelia phlox, ricins trailers, pansies. Calgary Autc that tourists from and the United' States during 1924. Th' include estimated per. Alberta governmeni - bid the ed - e• e of by of - - of end of ii is av ane be The will the University. this in University, a 1910. occasioned the be British Ont.—At Society of the outstanding or discovery grain the and as raw steadijy auction Europe, later. • tourists, railway, according the bureau. CANADA Que.—Student be operated this summer, French to Europe is the only and the project Montreal, the heart an of the French realizing French summer After a by resumed in proved an past the all parts` States, but been extended made to Isles. tours by the in summer There are run year student by virtue of French ideal center language. lapse the 1922 unqualified students of Canada this and enroll recent awarded achievement Charles development propagation millions of farmers States - the Dominion the held in sold to the year, North Approximately from delegates Montreal and estimate tourist anticipated a of, Canada, council, science to and wheat. The has added pockets the United responsible position of of grain, Alta.—According to by the Dominion bur• the average value lands in Alberta an acre, compared mitt The highest: aueragi with $96 an acre lowest average prier farm- lands of Canada, save Sas. the average value $24 an acre. Mani is $28 an acre. 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