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A 5 All Ashore â€" Fire sweeps the passenger steamer Northumberland, berthed at Port Dalhousie, Ontario, as it was about to start its 39th year on Lake Ontario. The vessel suffered daiiiase estimated at $200,000 in the blaze which started in the engine room. It was brought under control after two hours. MFAEM FE(m olviv12LlS5eLL . tites and get tlie desired results. And as it's well known that feather- picking, once it gets under way, often leads to cannibalism, further- results of the green feeding will be watched with interest. II you're gfoing to get the big- Vtst possible profits from your lay- ing hens, you've got to be hard- boiled. Along about this time of rear a whole lot of hens quit laying Mtd staw molting; y«t these slug- serds will tuck away six or seven pounds of feed apiece per month â€" Mid there's no percentage in that. ♦ ♦ ♦ So speed up your culling program Mid get rid of the loafers. Keep the birds that have bright combs and uncolored beaks and legs. Sell the others. ♦ * ♦ Last week \ had something to say aboin the problem of letting the grade of your eggs get lower during hot weather. Along this same line it's interesting to note some recent remarks of H.H. Alp, * an American Farnv Bureau expert. He says that the U. S. Government would not have been obliged to buy a single surplus egg last year if JVmericans had only eaten just seven more eggs apiece. ♦ ♦ • And, he adds, there wouldn't have been any trick to that if house- wives had been able to buy better eggs. In other words, he cpntends that egg surpluses are caused mostly by sloppy handling on the way to market. ♦ ♦ ♦ "There never has been a true â- urplut of high-quality, graded »ggs," says Mr. Alp, "and there is still a great, unsatisfied customer demand for this type of egg." So he thinks that the poultry industry would be smart to do everything possible to produce quality eggs. 4i * * Could be, there's a thought there for some of us on this side of the line as well. ♦ ♦ « •If that tractor of yours is "act- •ing up" and not giving you the s«rvice you have a right to expect, here's a tip that might be worth while. Air leaks between the tractor air cleaner and the carburetor will make the carburetor mixture in- correct, also let dust into the motor. ♦ * ♦ Just what this means is evidenced by a recent test in which, after a badly clogged air cleaner on a tractor had been cleaned out, the machine delivered p2% more power an 13% less gasoline. ♦ * * , Just bi'cau.-ie A'*!^ ha.> given luch wonderful results on weeks out in the open fields and along roadsides, a lot of folks wonder if they can't use it for the same pur- pose in their gardens. Some of them have done so â€" but not always with satisfactory results, worse luck. ♦ • * ♦ The trouble is that many garden crops are very susceptible to the effects of 2,4-D â€" so much so that they do not even need the direct spray in order to be affected, but can be destroyed even by very light drifting fumes. • ♦ ♦ Most garden weeds are actually some form of grass, which would escape the chemical anyway. If broad-leafed weeds such as poison ivy are troublesome along the fence rows, the 2,4-D solution may assist wonderfully in cleaning them out. But .extreme oaution is needed as regards winds and drifting spray or fumes. * ♦ * Not long ago 1 saw an instance of a highway crew of men who were spraying certain noxious weeds along a roadside, and who seriously injured a long strip of soybeans in a field just beyond the fence. And an ornainental hedge of honeysuckle shrubs also lost about half its leaves. Chances are the wind was in the wrong direction when the spray- ing was done â€" or else the highway workers just didn't care. » * ♦ So, as one writer puts it, we're not ready yet to "lay down the shubbel and the hoe" in favor of the modern weed-killers so far as gardening is concerned. Motorized garden cultivators are a grand thing and are no doubt here to stay. But the good old hoe is still just about the most useful asset for a gardener who takes pride in his â€" or her â€" work, and likely will continue to be for some time to come. Worse luck I * * I- Getting back to poultry â€" leather picking in laying birds has long been a problem to Canadian; poultry- men; but if long-term experience bears out the initial results of tests made at the Dominion Experimental Farm, Harrow, Out., the problem may have been solved. ♦ * ♦ Green feeds â€" chopped alfalfa is the most effective tried so far â€" seem to be tl)c cure for this vicious habit. Cut in half-inch lengths, steeped in cold water overnight, drained in the morning and fed in shallow tubs, the alfalfa makes a real hit with the hens, leaving them with neither the taste or inclination to pick each other. ♦ ♦ • The oyeriiight steeping is higiily important. If the alfalfa is fed dry the birds aren't interested. It must be steeped to stimulate their appe- jj,**y«»«l».)(^ (^^f^^'^s(p*^'*''f8fciwimmniip))&n. v>^' ^5H0PT5feRV Gorilally Disliked 8r Bioh»Mi am wtndiiM* I have never kiiowa a mau to be more wholeheartedly disliked th«n Henry Spafford. The reason for it ii hi« braggartly qualities, his over- searing sense of importance. We tolerate him because we like his wife, Madge, but £ven. so our toleration is a chore. The otlier night I was ojer to the Spafford's and sat through an hour of Henry's bragging. It seems that the big boss m New York â€" Henry is em- ployed by the Jason Reid Steam- ship Company â€" called up the Phila- delphia office where Henry works and Henry answered the phone. "Jay's a great guy," Henry told me, referring to the incident. "He's asked me to run up to New York to see him a couple of times. 1 must remember to do that." "Who's Jay?" 1 asked. "Jay?" Why, Jason Reid, who owns the line, of course." "Oh." I said. "The way to get along in any business." Henry went on, "is to let the boss know right off he can depend on you. That's the way 1 am with Jay." 1 left the Spafford home an hour later, furious that I had stayed so long, pitying Madge and disliking Henry with a renewed sense of dis- gust. "Something," I told Betty, my vM«, "ougitu to b« done about tliat mink. Now iM*! oalUng Old Mmd R«M Jay." "1^ Uhing to do," Betty tmihd, *% to be amused «it k<« ntvlnas, not annoyed. H« doem't hurt war one, and there's alwayt Madge to think of." "Even Madge," I replied, "won't keep me from hitting that guy one of these days. Something,'' I re- peated, "ought to be done about him." Whether or not luy thinking about it had anything to do with what happened a couple of days later I will never know. Henry wa« .fired. Without warning or ejc- planation he was given a couple oi weeks' pay and was bounced out on his ear. My first reaction when Betty told me about it was one of exuberance, A fiendish desire to rush over there and gloat, to sneer: "I told you sol Why don't you call up your friend, Jay, wise guy?" But this feeling passed immediately. Curiously it was followed by one of pity. The more I thought about it the deeper became my sympathy. What great er humiliation. 1 thought, could a man endure than this that confron' ed Henry Spafford? Next day I called Hal Wheaton and asked him to have lunch with me. "Have you licard about Henry?" I asked when we were seated. Hal nodded, avoiding my eyes "I met the poor devil on the street this morning. I don't mind saying that it was an ordeal." I thoughtfully lighted a cigaret •Hal." I said, "think of Madge Isn't tliere something we can do?' "Well," said Hal, "I've been won- dering, too. Poor Madge." H« coughed. "1 called Bob Taylor ol the Taylor Lines this morning. Bob >ays that he might l)e able to do something for Henrv on our rccommcndalion." "1 guess." 1 crinncd, "that's tho answer." Anii \t was. Henry and Madge were over three days la.cr. "1 un- derstand you've got a new job?" I remarked to Henry. "Yes," he said with a bored look on his face. "Hob Taylor called up as soon as he heard that I was free, and asked if I'd consider s position with him. Well, you know when a man offers you more money â€" " 1 glanced at Betty. There wat a faint smile on her face. 1 sup- pose she was amused. 1 hope so. Because an hour later, wiih Henry still blowing, I was mad enough to choke him, and almost did. 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The more that the peoples of other countries know of llio quality, variety and prestige of out producta^i the more likely they are to buy from us. * * * We feel that the horizon of industry does not terminate at the boundary litie of its plants; it has a broader horizon, a farther view- ^i$ vi-etv embraces the entire Dominion. That is why The House of Seagram brieves thai it is in the interest of emiy Canadian manufacturer to help the sale of all Canadian products in foreign markets. It ig in this apirit that these advertisements are being imblished throughout the world. Che House of Seagram LITTLg REGGIE By Margarita Great Sport â€" Attractive Too! â€" New Zealanders are reali |^ .ahoyt the Ix'w and arrow sport, and this attractive archer i» â- 10 excc|)ti<iii. She's taking a bead on the bull's-eye in prepriny lion for the New Zealand Archery championships. She mSj I tin out of arrows, but should have ao trouble keeping a beau.