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Prepared Then there are other things that you can do. Prepare for the things which commence 80 quickly in the Spring- time, and which pass by in such haste. How many of you meant to work for the Bird Warden's Badge last year, for instance? You have to keep a re- cord of the birds and nests in'your district for over a year, but the sea- son got too far advanced, and you hadn't a note book prepared, so you passed it up till next year. Maybe you meant to work for the Naturalist's ~ Badge too, but slipped up on that one also. This year be ready for these things. Prepare your Record and Note: Books NOW, so that when the first birds come along, and the first blos- soms bloom, you will be all set to tale uote of the occasion, Now, also, is the tims to weak "or and earn such badges as Tailor, Star- man, Sigidiicr, Safety-Man, Reader, Radio Man, Public Health Man, Plumb- er, Photographer, Musician, Missioner, Metal Worker, Master at Arms, Healthy Man, Handy Man, Entertainer, Engineer, Electrician, Debater, Clerk, Citizen, Carpenter, Bookbinder, Artist, Ambulance Man, etc. You see, there is plenty of scope to keep you busy indoors at this time of the year, and your Scoutmaster will give you full particulars of the requirements of any of the above badges, if you do not know and will take the trouble to ask him. Of course if the weather is such that you can get out of doors, there is lots of fun to be had on Winter Ski and Snowshoe hikes. Tracking games, and. hunting for the tracks of wild animals, etc, And of course, it usually is not hard to find some sort of good turn to do in your neighbourhood, Tom Brown Goesto Rugby ~ Tom had never been in London, and would have liked to have stopped district. The first Troop of these boys, whose fathers were headhunters, was started in 1928, and is now a com- plete group of Cubs, Scouts and Rovers. y Scouts and a Cholera Epidemic "® coording to a British missionary publication, Hindu and Christian Boy viously the villagers had opposed the Scouts; now the. troop has full sup port in maintaining sanitary condi- ticns and in carrying out other pro- gressive measures, The Governor-General of Scouting Movement is doing a work of national importance in the training of boys and young men for actively useful citizen- ship, and a work of international fm- portance in the interest of world friendship and peace. --His Excellency the Governor-General, at a recent Ot- tawa meeting of the Dominion Execu- tive Committee of the Boy Scouts As- sociation. Scouts Assocation is open to s be- tween 12 and 18 years of age, imclu- sively, who are not able to join a Re- gular Troop of Scouts, but who are keen to take advantage of Boy Scout Training. Information concerning this branch will be gladly given to all n- terested who care to write to The Boy | Scouts Association, Lone Scout De- partment, 330 Bay Streét, Toronto 2. --"Lone E." and so punctual, that all the road set at the Belle Savage, where they had | mombe, been put down by the Star, just at dusk, that he maght have, gone rov- clock, and that the Tally-ho left at three sent the little fellow off to the chambermaid, with a shake of the Soviet Opens Children's Opera Leningrad --An opera house for sakov's "Chistmas Night." met r-- Town Lightless For Economy * hand (Tom having stipulated in the - 2 Efe "There Is no doubt that the Scout| ously and as the manner of cr aticn ire da- termine our effective~~ as GI's v. 24. "She veer Js tened to gossip," they said, when re- cently a motabl; The Lone Scout Branch of the Boy | The Ly more {ruth eveatrally loses it already has. Fg : i RFE y § Exe Hit ni ht : Hie] rir i i i i By HELEN WILLIAMS. Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- wished With Every Pattern Here's a smart new youthful way Paris has found to widen the shoul- der line. It is a narrow circular flounce placed to simulate a cape. You. agree, it is a cinning idea. The leg-o-mutton sleeves are inter- The smart mouse-gray shade in rabbit's hair woolen made the orig- i al model. Fuschia-red buttons and suee belt accented a color note. It s very effective too with the deep shoulder yoke as in miniature Style No. 3266 is designed for sizes 14, 13, 18, 20 years, 36 and 38 inches bust. Siz: 16 requires 2% yards 54-inch. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS, Write your name £nd address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 15¢ in stanps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilscn Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. ee fp ee Bees Spread Plant Disease 'Washington --Bees, wandering from flower to flower, will transmit the bac- teria that cause fire blight, a plant dis- ease, says Drs. A. L. Plerstorff and Howard Lamb, of Ohio Agriculutral Experiment Station. z em t-- The real object of the drama is the exhibition of the human character.-- . The Use of Fertilizers (Part One of a Two-Part Article) 3 © Questions ~ 1, Can fertilizers injure the crop? | 2. Is one analysis of fertilizer as "| good as another, or what is the best fertilizer for a farm? The above are two very common questions that are submitted in one form or another in correspondence or public meetings. They are vital ques- tions and questions to which Ontario farmers can well give thought at the present time. It is impossible to ans- wer them in full, but it is our purpose to submit answers founded on well es- tablished facts. 1. Can fertilizers injure the crop? It is possible for fertilizers to injure a crop. Fertilizers are carriers of concentrated soluble plant food (nitro- gen, phosphoric acid and potash). It is a law of physics that when a strong solution such as a strong mixture of salt and water is separated from a wealq solution such as ordinary water by a membrance throug': which lig can pass, that the tendency is for the weak solution to pass into the strong solution in an endeavor to weaken the strong solution to the same concen- tration as the weak solution. If the membrane is of such a character that some of the salts of the strong solu- tion cannct pass through freely from the strong solution to the weak solu- tion, this movement will take place. This is one of the great forces th.t causes the rise of moisture from roots to leaves in the growing crop. It is not the only force that causes this movement, but one of the important forces, and this is the way it functions. As the soil waters bearing salts pass into the root cells the plant takes up salts of various kinds. Water is going off from the leaves of the plant con- tinuously, hence the salt solutions in tha plant are continually becoming more concentrated, somewhat the same way as maple syrup becomes more concentrated as the moisture is driven off. This causes continual flow of moisture into the roots of the plant and up through the plant, Look at the processes of the plant in another way. Suppose you put a quan. tity of concentrated fertilizer in close touch with the root of the plant. The salt solution in the concentrated fer- tilizer is so strong that the movement is immediately the other way, or moisture is drawn out of the root to dilute the concentrated salt solution of the fertilizer. In this case the crop wilts and sometimes dies. In other | words, the fertilizers have Injured the growing crop. Of course, the whole fault is in the placing of the fertilizers. If they had been mixed with the soil | before the plant was set or the seed was dropped, the soil waters would have diluted the solution so that it would have been w r than the solution inside the plant roots, in which case the plant would take up the fertilizers and benefit materially by them. The point Is that fertilizers help the crop if they are properly applied. Do not' place the fertilizer immediately around the seed or the seed immediately on top of the fertilizer. Another way in which fertilizers can | injure the crop is by applying the wrong type of plant food in an effort' to help the crop. We know of an in! stance where an oat fleld on a heavy | clay soil was largely spoiled by the addition of 5-8-7 fertilizer. This for- | tilizer is suited to a rapidly growing root crop such as potatoes or sugar beets. The nitrogen applied In &] medium application of 5-8-7 fertilizer is altogether too much for an oat crop on a clay loam soil. In practice, it produces far too much straw, The oat, crop needs the emphasis to be laid on' phosphoric acid, 0-12-10 or 2-126 superphosphate would have been in-| finitely better to apply to oats than! 5-8-7. These are practical points that | the farmer should know in purchasing fertilizers. These are practical points that the manufacturer should know in selling fertilizers to farmers. 2. Is one analysis of fertilizer as good as another, or what is the best fertilizer for a farm? Certainly, one analysis of fertilizer, tis not universally good for all crops. | Hay or fodder crops require an em- ' phasis on nitrogen while grain crops require little nitrogen but consider- able phosphoric acid, and root crops require a fair amount df nitrogen with high potash, with the exception of tur-' nips, which require high phosphate and medium to low nitrogen and potash. Then, there is the differences in soil. Sandy soils require a different fertil- izer to clay soils that tend to be ex- ceedingly rich in organic matter, such as muck soils. The fertilizer analysis should be suited both to the special needs of the crop and to supplement-| ing the soils where their characteris: | tic weaknesses show up, I Next week the following questions are answered: 1. Can fertilizers in- jure the soil? 2. Can I lose or gain | money by using fertilizers under pre- sent conditions? Masquerade Who will join the masquerade And dance the dull night through? Your dreams are made as good as new os Before the night's last spangles fade, And you shall lose your heart once more Ere the grey dawn © door. gaily has closed the Gipsies, clowns and columbines, Shepherdess and cavalier-- Carnival makes merry here, Lanterns glow in colored lines, Who's your partner? Can you guess? All in masks and fancy dress! Music haunts the frosty air. Here is laughter, here is bliss, Here are ruby lips' to kiss, x Here you may forget dull care. Here, though joy seemed on the wane, You may fall in love again, But Fortune is a fickle jade, And you may find to your surprise Familiar, mocking, loving eyes Sparkling through the masquerade, And though you fall in love once more, She may be one you loved before, ~1.8. in London Answers, 4 a Some Butterflies Hibernate After Reaching Full Growth Although a large percentage of moths and butterflies winter as chry- salids, and most of the rest of them as caterpillars or in the egg stage, there are a few exceptions th. hiber- nate as full grown adults. The mourn- ing cloak butterfly is a notable ex- ample of this. Large Scale Ontario Maps For Sports and Campers] The new Orillia map sheet issued | by the Topographical Survey, Ottawa, shows on a large scale the district of Ontario from the northern part of Lake Simcoe, past Lake Couchiching | and Sparrow Lake to the southern | part of Muskoka, and from the Trent | Canal on the southeast to the Georg-| ian Bay on the north-west, It ad- joins the Muskoka sheet, which les! immediately north of it. These two maps, together with the Parry Sound and Byng Inlet sheets already pub- lished, and the Sundridge sheet, which is expected at an early date, include a part of Ontario famed far and wide for the facilities which it offers for sport and recreation. The southern part of the area mapped is a well settled agricultural community, but the northern part is practically all covered with forest not being suited to agriculture, In the north-east corner the land rise to slightly over 1,000 feet above sea level, as compared with the main elevation of Georgian Bay and Lake Huron of 581 feet. Fish and game are plentiful, particularly in the northern part of the area. The 'Township of Longford, partly shown on the map, 4s owned by a group who are making of it a more or less private game preserve known as the Longford Reserve.--Toronto Mall and Empire, ' Jean. "What sort of a chap Ia Fred?' Jill: "Well, when we were together last night the lights went out, and he spent the rest of the evening repairing the. switch." A Kind-Hearted Customer factor in world economic ly thought of as an ou. in "Revue des Monat' Leipzig, cir rects this erroneous idea by the fol lowing facts. He wri es: x The art of advertising. for adver tising is an art--is as old as man kind itself. Our cultivated classes are ignorant of the fact that prim} tive mural carvings representng scenes from life has been discover ed in the prehistoric cavas dwellings of man. Let us look at a few ex amples of the application of (his artistic selling through the centuries. The most primiive and most dif fused system of presenting an arti cle to the public is that of "crying" Public "cries" have abounded a. at times. Strange - as it may" seem even nowadays, in a time of complic ated advertising systems this primi tive form of publicity is still pre ferred. Written advertisements were alsc much in vogue in ancient times and foremost among, these. placards and posters. The excavations of Pompeii give ample evidence of this fact, be sides offering the proof of a flourish: ing adverticing organization. Before a butcher's shop Is a sign board, on which five hams are re produced and another ancient shop sign shows a butcher in the act ol selling, In the Berlin Museum there is a marble high-relief, found at Pompeii that very likely served as the sige of some public house, It shows three naked girls sianding near an | old lady, who is seated. Under the {relief are the words: ' sisters." "To the three An advertisement, to be effective must be striking and sshowy--a gold en rule which was known long ago A comical advertitement of the six teenth cen'ury shows two conjurers striving, by strange attitudes and per formances, to attrac. the attention of prospec.ive buyers, In the sixteenth century every guild or single busiress-man strove to attract public attention by some peculiar advertisemént, Doctors, ped agogues, ete, all had their own hush ness-sign. The most famous is cer tainly that of a teacher of penman: ship, painted by Holbein. The business sign of Gersaint, the art-dealer, is the work of the well: known French painter Watteau. Even Goethe exercised his skill as a sign painter, creating, in his spare time, labels for his wines. Famous painters, such as Hogarth and Men. zel, applied their talent in the adver tising field. The following is an exampls of the strange aspects advertising may as sume, and happened. in an English colony towards the end of the last century. A criminal had been condemned ta death. Early in the morning of the day set for the execution he was visited by the representative of ® chocolate firm, who handed the death: candidate a cheque for 500 pounds, ayable to his heirs. At the very moment of the execution the criminal cried out, loud enough that all the bystanders could hear: "All of you present, hear, and mark my words: the best chocolate is the chocolate of Willlamson and Co. eee pee Drop in Idle Getting Aid Cheers French Ministry Parls.--Although unemployment ia France is not as grave as in some other nations, it remains one of the outstanding problems to be dealt with by the government during the coming year. In: view of what has been accom: plished during the last six months, however, the Ministry of Labor fia optimistic, and no small item in this optimism is the decrease in the num ber of idle receiving state and other ald the total January 1 was 265,000, ' against 315,000 for the same date last ear. y The reforms by Albert Dalimier, Labor Minister, since June 1, 1932 have been hailed generally as Te sponsible for a steady improvem {n the condition of the jobless, Joy reforms are briefly, "a8 follows: Temporary suspension of the 180 day rule under which jobless receiv: ed the dole for that period only, fall: ing then on the mercy of charitable, organizations; extension of relief his workers idleconly part of the time; appropriation of funds to help muni: cipalities giving aid to idla workers, employment and extension of the dole to independent, as well as hired, orkers. By 8 "The charitable organizations which gave Tolle after the idle had bees alded by ihe staie over the period were also subsidized by the 'government, which, under Edouard Herriot, set out to eliminate { wasteful compiication in the reltel program. At present only a more than 400 jobless are NOw ing help at the hands of stitutions, %