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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., OCTOBER 2$, 1948 Gambles $25,000 to Sow 1,800 Idle Acres, Hopes for $100,000 Return--For years 1800 acres of land, part of the Defense Industries area at Ajax, Ont., have been growing nothing but grass and weeds. Now Norman C. Taylor of Oshawa, Ont., proposes to raise wheat, barley and oats, using western mass-production methods, and is investing a small fortune in the hopes of quadrupling his money in one season. Taylor, a believer in the one-way disc as opposed to the mold-board plow, already has two tractor crews working day and night readying his rented property for spring planting. THEFAEM FRONT Uolm12u^eiL. If you're NOT interested in apples, don't bother to read further, if you ARE interested in apple-jrowing, perhaps you know all this Uready, so don't say you haven't been warned. Anyway, Mr. Stew-»rt C. Chandler is a well-known tntomologist who has just made public some recommendations based on orchard records of 13 Illinois upple - growers ' over a three - year He says that-spraying plus sanitation is the secret of producing clean, high-quality fruit' and most of the' practises he recommends are aimed at reducing the number of codling-moth larvae. One thing that is of the highest importance is to store used baskets in a closed building after the apple harvest is in. They may harbor codling-moth larvae; and when they emerge in the spring in that building many of them can be destroyed, before finding their way back to the orchard, by a light hung over a pan of coal-oil or -- a more modern device -- a light with an electric grill, placed in the building. Broken baskets, crates, discarded sacks, large-stemmed weeds and other debris, which might furnish homes for the larvae, should be collected and burned. During the fall, winter pruning should be done open up the trees and reduce tli height, thus allowing for m< jmple coverage when you spr To destroy any insects that might oe hibernating, pruned-ihould be burned. r spring When pruning make the cuts smooth and don't leave any stubs. Scars left by rough pruning, and ravities that result from rooted, itubs, make grand hide-outs for •he codling-moth larvae. Small cavi-' Pearly Bread--One of London's "pearlys" brings his loaf of bread offering to the Coster-mongers Harvest Festival service at St. Mary Magdalene Church. TlK costermongers-- fruit and vegetable hawkers-- identify themselves with uearl buttons sewet Oft their {Wfrieg. ties in the trees should be plugged and larger ones screened to cut down the number of such hide-outs. Loose and rough bark should be removed from trunks and branches of the trees. This can be done either by handscraping or by knocking off the bark with a spray gun ( No. 8 disk) at around 500 pounds pressure. Clean bark and other debris out of the tree crotches. This bark-ing-off may be done in fall or spring or even during the winter, but should be completed before the moths emerge. In most apple growing regions by full bloom is a safe date. In spring a band of chemically treated corrugated paper, 2 to 4 inches wide, should be wrapped around the smooth trunk of each tree. (Bands treated with naptha-lene may be purchased from dealers.) The band acts as a trap for larvae which leave their wintering places in fallen fruit and head for a place on the tree where they can spin a cocoon and start a family. The bands should be in place by the time the first larvae are leaving the fallen apples, usually some time in June. They should be removed and burned before apple - blossom time. Such banding will decrease the number of larvae in summer broods by almost 50 per ,cent. Wormy and rotting apples should New -- And All Of Them Useful Truck Cover. 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Mounted on the hood of a tractor, bulldozer or road roller this device is claimed to eliminate necessity of surveying and staking o lures in terrace making farming. Driver keeps his eye on a magnifying lens, a scale, and two columns of liquid. One column is stationary, the other rises and falls as the machine moves upgrade or downgrade. Pressure Fryer. Designed for the quick preparation of meats, poultry and fish this combines the features of a skillet and pressure cooker. Claimed to fry even the toughest chicken in approximately a quarter-hour. Fries ham and other meats without the usual smoke. Touch Type Switch For Warming Pads. In addition to usual visual markings this switch has "dots" which permit user to feel which heal setting is in operation without turn ing on the light. Sweet clover and other cover crops should be clipped before the stems get so big that they provide hiding places for larvae to spin cocoons. All apples showing signs of disease, rot or insect damage should be thinned out and destroyed. In conclusion Mr. Chandler says that many apple-growers think that when DiDT and other modern insecticides are used, there is no necessity for such orchard sanitation. Others believe that sanitation is necessary only in years of heavy codling-moth infestation. This is a mistake. Although such insecticides have given good control of the codling moth, they tend to increase the number of leaf-rollers and mites by destroying their natural enemies. Which should be enough about apples for the time being, except to say that I hope it will be of some value to many of you. And just in case you're thinking of doing any repair work to roofs or anything else of the kind, it's well to remember this;--ladders that are kept around the place and only used now and then can be really dangerous, as the rungs or sidebars may have rotted. Careful examination before using may save you from an accident or something With the Movie and Radio Folks by Grace Sharp It may be pure catttishness; but such as a big-name atli.'ete--takes part in a radio "commercial", I find myself secretly hoping that he will forget what's supposed to be said. When the announcer asks him what brand of soap, shaving cream or breakfast food he uses, I can't help wondering just wha/ would happen if a rival brand was named. As a atter of fact I have an idea that somebody --- maybe it was "Babe" Ruth, it would have been just 'ike him as he couldn't ever, remember the names of mcr who had played on the same team with him f-r years--once did that very thing on some radio program. But I didn't happen to be listening and catch the "boner," worse luck. Something--well, not of the same kind but along the same lines-- seems to have come up in television. Sponsor of the televising of the recent World Series baseball games was the Gillette Safety Razor C6m-pany; and at Braves Field in Boston, every time a ball was hit toward left field there would come into view, on countless television sets, the advertising billboard of one of the sponsor's chief competitors, the Gem razor people. During the first game alone this happened no less than twenty times, which must have pleased Mr. Gem very much, although just what Mr. Gillette thought about it I haven't heard. For those who liked "The Jolson Story"--and there were plenty of them, in fact I know one woman who saw it eight times--there's good news out of Hollywood. Larry Parks, who was having trouble over hi- contract, has settled matters and started rehearsals for the sequel, "Jolson Sings Again." Just as was the case in the other one, the voice you'll hear in the new film will b* that of Jolson, not Parks. The rehearsals, which are conducted ie front of large mirrors, are for the purpose of having Parks copy Al's style and mannerisms of singing, with Jolson'as his coach. Last week I said something about the Laurence Olivier screen version of "Hamlet" and wondered whether or not the public would "go" for such a gloomy and comparatively actionless opus. So far as New York is concerned, at least, I don't need to wonder any longer. While the Park Avenue Theatre, where it is showing, isn't playing to capacity at every performance, it's very clos« to it; and mail orders for reserved seats are being sold as far ahead as February. And they're saying it's planned to keep the show there for at least two years--which, in my humble opinion, will be a good trick, if they do it. It appears that over in the States columnists such as Walter YVinchett have been having themselves a fine time by printing the correct answers to the big-money questions oa various quiz shows, the effect being that the jackpot is often won several weeks earlier than it normally would be. This annoys those behind such programs no end, and Ralph Edwards of "Truth or Consequences" finally sent a wire to the columnists asking them to "lay off." He based his plea on the fact that their "Mr. and Mrs. Hush" contest which started on October 2nd is for a charity--the mental health drive or some such. "We would like to have the contest last long enough to give the Drive enough funds to do a real job. Could we count on your not divulging the identity of Mr. and Mrs Hush to your readers; when you have solved it yourself," the wire concludes. WHAT PRICE DEMOCRACY? democracy is without price... no one can ever take it for granted or assume it is paid for in full. It is an inheritance we are duty bound to pass on . • . not only to the next generation, but to our fellow men everywhere who have yet to enjoy its full benefits. Democracy grew from a great ideal... that all men are born free and equal and are deserving of the same privileges. It can live on only if we constantly strive to fulfill this ideal and protect the priceless freedoms won. Moderation is one of the chief safeguards of democracy. By being moderate in our thinking, in our actions, and in our pleasures, we are living democratically. As The House of Seagram has so often stated, by being moderate in all things, including the enjoyment of whisky, we are acting for the common good. THE HOUSE OF SEAGRAM