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% »~ yr * Ld 4 - k. "here. $ a a Sh R------ Liafih ccd he Bod SARDENING - By GORDON L. SMITH a --ae. -- rates eaeee iy od pa b fds 8 (y ARTICLE NO. 13 Several sowings of each vegetable are advised, otherwise all mature at the same time, and then there will be a feast or a famine. After all, with such things as radish, spinach, peas, corn or practically anything else for that matter, the time they are really worth eating is when they are fresh; that is, just mature, : PLANTING DEPTHS Those who know all about the art of good gardening advocate as a good and safe rule covering the seed to a depth equal to about three times the diameter. Now the beginner is not ad- 'vised to procure a pair of calipers and work out the diameter of a great var. fety of seeds he or she hopes to plant. This is a rough rule only, With tiny seed like that of the poppy or the onion, seed about the size of a grain of sugar merely pressing into the soil vill be sufficient. With large things like gladioli and dahlia bulbs or potatoes, this rule will-call for & Ee ee eee depth of several inches, With peas, beans and corn it will'mean about an inch, Nigar : MUST THIN OUT Too much stress can hardly be la 1 on the necessity of thinning. After the plants come up, one is urged to stop, and consider just how big these are going to bé in a few weeks. It may be only six inches, in which case the plants should need only to be spaced a few inches apart. But sup- pose' it is the cosmos or' the larger type of zinnias or marigolds that are being consideréd. These will reach from 18 inches to four feet when ful- ly grown. Such things require much room on all sides if symmetrical and sturdy plants that will be both beau- tiful and storm resisting are to be the result. Crowded plants will in. variably be spindly and weak in the stem. Experts advise allowing about half as much space between as the plant will be high, whether it be vege- table, flo ver or shrub, --ee > Pe ° Smiles and Chuckles Some fellows leave the small town to-go to the big city to get rich, but very few of them leave the small town, go to the big city and get hap- py." Little Dora returned from her first visit- to Sunday School. Father -- "What did my little dau- ' ghter learn this morning?" Little Dora -- "That I am a child of Satan." ; , Read it or not -- The titmouse is not any species of mouse -- but a bird. : : A local housewife who keeps a close watch and a firm hand on the family budget describes as down: right contrariness the fact that her husband won't eat eggs when they are selling at 1€ cents a dozen but he- breakfast 30 to 60 always wants three for when they are selling for cents a dozen. ALL THE SYMPTOMS These 'sit-down strikes of mechanic, clerk and weaver may be nothing at all more 'than that pesky old Spring fever! = Beggar -- 'Lend me a dime for my carfare home, will you, old fellow?" Man -- "I'm sorry, got is a half dollar." Beggar -- "Splendid! I'l} take a taxi." Brain competition is usually not very keen. ) : Bertha -- "Well, 1 know one wo man who thipks her husband is per- fectly wonderful." Beatrice -- "So you've just from a wedding?" come "The one-ring - circus was visiting a town in the hills, The folks there recognized all the instruments of the band except the slide trombone. One old settler watched the player for a while, then, turning to his son, he sald: "Don't let on that you're watch- ing him. There's a tric. to it; he ain't really swallerin' it." ) It always seems to take a pair of squeaky shoes the longest to get any- Golfer -- "My,..it rained all day, and at noon the greens were in a de- plorable state." . Wife. -- "My, what a coincidence! The spinach I had was so poor 1 had to throw it away!" ° id Buss to officc boy who is half an hour late) -- "You should have been here at. eight o'clock!" Office Boy -- "Why, what happen- ed?" When thé pups are fn the parlor, And the cows are in the corn, "When the kids are in the pantry And the table cloth is torn, --4 When the house is topsy turvy And the hired man wears a frown, a __LooAL {XEPRESENTATIVES Full or partstime to repre- sent us in the sale of high class mining issues which vill stand the most rigid in- vestigations, Write with full particulars, COLLING SECURITIES CORPORATION LTD. 357 Bay Street TORONTO but all I have- You can bet you, old-age pension Pa and Ma have gone to town, Asked to write a brief essay on the 'life of Benjemin Franklin, a little girl wrote this gem of a paragraph: " "He was born in Boston, travelled to Philadelphia, met a lady on the street, she laughed at him, he mar- tied her, and discovered electricity." "You seldom hear the man with a crop of callouses on his hand holler. ing for help of any sort. 'Able -- "Nowadays everything is done by machinery." - . Ikey -- "Vell, 1 dunno, talking - Is still done by hand." Praise is so cheap you would think "theirs, not his. there would be more of it. Running a Big Business Joseph T. Mackey, president of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company:-- "The older I grow the surer I am that the real leader of a great enter- prise should not be an executive who concerns himself too much with the mechanics and management. - "What happens when a head of a business keeps his hands on details is that . eventually the business slumps. - It goes down because the man who should be free to do the big creative thinking is "too busy shuffling papers and putting on a show as one who earns his salary by aetivity, Ss : "Probably the head would be in-° finitely more valuable if he specializ- ed in the too seldom practised art of thinking. One of the richest and most successful business men we know says 'he never really got any- where until he began to travel. He couldn't travel until he had developed men capable of running his business during his absence. So his first job was to think about making himself unneeded day by day. "At first he took short trips, a day | He made his associ- . or so at a time, ates think that the responsibility was He let them make decisions, When they made mistakes, as they did, he did not go on a ram- page. He acted the part of a teacher whose job was not to punish but to help his pupils grow self-reliant and efficient." The World's Wheat Field HOW large is the world's wheat field? The food research bureau of Stanford University gives some inter- esting statistics. The world has about 400,000,000 acres under wheat, which is about twice the acreage de- voted to maize or to rice, the grains -that come next in importance. The world's wheat field occupies about one per cent of the total land in the world, about 6 per cent of the potential arable and pasture land, about 11 per cent of all land suitable for wheat cultivation and about 17 THE PERFECT Chewing Tobacco 'I'M TELLING THE WORLD ATSAHIT/" per cent of the arable land now being utilized. While wheat is grown both north and south of the equator, about 90 per cent of the world's wheat acre- age lies in the northern hemisphere. Asia alone contains more than a third of the world's wheat acreage, Europe a little less than a third, North Am- erica less than a quarter. } The country with the largest wheat acreage is Russia; - 78,400,000 acres. The British Empire has 72,300,000 acres, Canada's share being under 30,000,000 acres. The United States has 65,300,000 acres, China 49,100,- 000 acres, the French Empire 22,400,- 000 acres and the Italian Empire 12,000,000 acres. ---- Water tis taken from the air by huge, dome-shaped "air wells" which are being built in dry areas of Europe. The warm outdoor air en- ters the dome through the openings, and is robbed of its moisture by con- tact with thé cold interior. 'Western Way In East out 'in the open spaces "and fattens them for market, of the Orange Mountain country, . 19, agricultural school graduate, rides herd on cattle shipped near Newark, N.J., Robert Thompson, from the West. He busy them after trip Heredity Has No Relation to Brain URBANA, Ill.--Dr, Donald" Snygg, "| of the University of-Toronto said re- cently there is apparently little rela- tion between heredity and intelligence. Reporting on a study of 312 chil- dren in foster homes by the Toronto Infants' Home and their mothers, he told the Mid-westérn Psychological Association: Todt htt tn "Results of the study offer little comfort to those who insist the intel- ligence of a child is unalterably fixed by its heredity. There is every indi- cation that the effect of heredity upon the intelligence quotient is much less than many have supposed." , His survey covered the infants' eight years.; Only 'those children whose mothers' iitelligence rating "had been establisifed were considered. -Dr. Snygg said the best showing was by children whose mothers were in the average intelligence group -- with mental ratings of 10 to 13 years of age. i The 77, mothers in that category produced 17 chjldren,whose "1.Q." was in the superior class, a number equal- ling that of both the other groups. "While definitely subnormal moth- ers had a slightly higher percentage of dull children," Dr, Snygg said, "the majority of their children had normal intelligence and the percent- age of superior children compared with that of other mothers, "There appears to be some cor- relation between the intelligence uote of mothers and of their chil- en who have been reared in foster homes, but the relationship is so slight that knowledge of a mother's |] Ladies Send us your name, and receive absolutely FREE, sample of our 'Highest Quality, Hospital, Sani tary 'Napkins, Hygeia 'Products, homes records over a period of ahout, intelligence quotient is of very little value in predicting the intelligence of her child." Se Seed Potatoes Important Item The Spring seed catalogue is a source of joy to the average person. Whether your planting extends over acres or is confined to three flower- "pots, the thrill of selecting new seed is not one to bé passed over lightly. Among the interesting features in re- cent catalogues is the sale of potato eyes rather than the whole potato for seed, Seed potatoes are given special at- tention from the time of planting un- til harvesting and Canadian seed is in great demand. Of the 20,083 acres entered for certification in 1936, 16,-. 730. passed field inspection. There were about 8,000,000 bushels of certi- fied seed potatoes produced in 1936. Of this.amount the exports. up to De- cember 31 were over 1,000,000 "bushels, Normally. Canada supplies around 93 per cent of ithe seed potatoes planted in Cuba and some very in- teresting points come to light in the regulations regarding this trade with Cuba. The seed is duty free while edible potatoes are not. To prevent the chance of the duty-free potatoes bécoming used instead of the heavy tariffed edible ones for food, a: de- posit is required of the purchases, : The seed is kept track of until the authorities are certain of its use. Then the duty deposit is returned, It is estimated that Cuba will require over 400,000 bushels for the 1926-37 planting - season, ETAT a The 1936 crop in Argentina was almost 'a complete failure and this opened up a comparatively new mar- ket for Canadian seed. By October 81, approximately 120,000 bushels had«been exported to Argentina and Uruguay. ' Sclence Note: -- A fish cannot live 'after it has been-scalded, {Ah, but man can survive atfer he has been skinned many, many times). | War in Europe Is Not Inevitable "Cooperation of These Great De- mocracies Will Help There is a growing feeling in Europe, writes Wilson Woodside in Toronto Saturday Night, "that after all, war in Europe is not inevitable. British rearmament on one - side and Russian on the other, for ex- ample, have cooled Germany down a good deal. 3 There is still great danger. -But Mr. Woodside points out that war did not follow the assassination of Doll- fuss, the Hugarian-Yugoslav, Saar, Memel, Rhineland or Spanish crises and, while the armament raee is speeding up, peace sentiment is also grow.ng. "The old League," he says, "is nearly dead, but two new ones are arising, one in the Americas, and one around the British Commonwealth and the "Oslo" powers. Within these two large groups of nations peace is consolidating itself. The Franco- German feud and Danubian Differ- ences cannot forever stand the world on its head. "With a little leadership from the three big democracies. Britain, France and the U, S. and continued, efforts to free world trade, these dis- traught nations may yet be. won to international co-operation, 'and a major yar be avoided for our gen- eration," . Perhaps he's right. Xn -w Accounts Collected EVERYWHERE - Largest Agency in Cahada World Wide Connections Divisions at : TORONTO~MONTREAL---WINNIPEG Financial Collection Agencies Federal Building, Toronto Issue No, 21--'37 Years of Saving, Planning All Gone in West London Flood Experience of One Family Is That of Others; Water, Mud, Slime Conditions Worse Than Expected Everywhere; LONDON, Ont, Loss suffered by Mr, and Mrs. F. Nicol, Paul avenue, was indicative of the losses suffered fn hundreds of homes in the West London area flooded last week. The water reached elght feet up" the walls of the first floor which. was several feet above the ground on pro- perty considered safe from Thames river floodings because it was a doz- én blocks away from the normally quiet stream. : Walls and paper were stained a dirty yellow with the muddy water, ozzey mud covered chesterfield suite chairs, table, beds, chest of drawers, buffet, tables, ice box, -and floors and all other furniture and equipment. "Everything Is lost," sighed Mrs. Nicol. "We spent seven years trying to furnish our home and now every- thing is ruined. We didn't have much but we'd got the best: we could and bought it in small quantities. Now it is all gone." . 'RADIO IS RUINED Mr. Nichol walked to the radio so soaked with water he easily pulled a piece of wood veneer from it. The buftet in the dining room was warped and the sides bulged.- ! Every article of furniture was in disarray and lying on the floor. The buffet was on its side, spilling. out the dishes, silverware and table linen. The refrigerator had been knocked over by the rush of the water. The beds were soaked with muddy water and fine mud covered the springs. Portraits and photographs hail been knocked to the floor and were covered with mud. Drapes and rugs oozed mud and water. Lamps had been knocked over by the rush of the water' and lamp shades were torn and mud-soaked. "They won't let us clean up yet," sald Nicol. "We just came in to see how badly things were damaged. We hardly expected it would be this bad." He turned to the cellar door, but the water was overflowing out of the cel- Jar within two inches of the kitchen door. - BASEMENT ROOM RUINED A city official inspected his west London home. His billiard room in the basement was ruined, his down- stairs furniture was valueless. "I'd give anyone everything downstairs In the basement for 10 cents if they would take ft all out," he said, add- Ing the upstairs rooms had been only slightly damaged. A small store on Wharneliffe Road was another example of the damage done. The owner had more than 60, 000 gold fish niany rare tropical var leties. but only one was alive today. He had spent Monday morning in painting a display case and Monday night the same display case had been knocked against flood, breaking it. He had ¢0 valuable pigeons, two of which won top prizes at a United States show, but all had been lost or drowned. Spare That Tree! There was a time when Ontario was pretty much all forest. Now we have less forest than some old coun- tries in Europe. We have 26 coun- ties with less than 9 per cent of forest. We have 135 townships with less than 5 per cent of forest, which Prof. Zavitz considers dangerously low. France and other countries have from 18 to 20 per cent in forest. We should have as much. "Just now from Grey, Bruce and Huron there is more timber going out than for 20 years past, but, asa rule, this does not mean that bush lots are being mowed down, but that valued single trees are heing sold. Prof. Zavitz feels that swamps were mis- takenly regarded as nuisances that should be removed, and now we find that they should, if possible, be re- stored. New forests, we imagine, cannot be: grown soon en»igh to do the job that will prevent floods. We shall have to build great dams first. But" Ontario, after hating trees and slaughtering them without mercy, must. go back to the grownng of them.--Toronto Star. Blond Mothers Have Twins More Often Than Do Brunettes Mother's -Age at Double Births Likely To Be Between 38 and 40, Says Doctor ITHACA, N.Y.--Science has found that blond: monthers have twins oft- ener than: brunettes and. that the mother's age at the birth of twins is likely to be between 35 and 40. So 'said | Dr. "Margaret Wylie, of the family Jife department, New York State College of Home Economics at Cornell University, in summarizing gome of the "findings" of various researches on twins, Dr. Wylie, a specialist in child development and parent education, said it was not surprising that the city of Jamestown, N.Y, where she is adviser to the Cornell Twin Study Club, should have 72 sets of twins, "for approximately b7 per cent. of Jamestown's population is Swedish descent" -- in other words, of the Nordic type. Of the 27 mothers of twins com- prising the twin study club, 20 were over 30 when their twins were born, said Dr. Wylie. "Air wells" already have been successfully used in southern France. The principle of the air well is the sajwe as that of an ijce-filled pitcher, ' on which water condenses. A* night, cold air enters the dome of the "air well" through a central pipe and cir- ctlutes through the interior core, clrling it thoroughly by morning. As the outside air warns uy It en- ters and deposits: its moist ire, which -Ivains into basins. Classified Advertising AGENTS WANTED NV ANTED -- LADY IN EVERY TOWN wishing to earn money at heme, instruc. tion free. Particulars, -- Box 8, Listowel, Ontario. CARPETS RE-WOVEN ( LD CARPETS WOVEN INTO REVER- sible Rugs. Write for price list. -- Baker Carpet Cleaning Co.. Toronto 4. COLLECTION SERVICE 0 NTARIO COLLECTION AGENCIES, EX- perienced Collection Service. Ballifts, Btalr BIdg., Toronto, MEDICINAL E AT WELL ~-- BLEEP WELL. TAKE Blue Mountain Mineral Water. Generous 10c sample. Address Blue Mountain Products Limited, Torpnto, HAVE You Stomach Upsets? F you are troubled with indigestion, (gas, sour stomach, heartburn, if you are weak and lac .appe- tite, try Dr, Pierce's Golden Medical Dis- covery now. It stim. ulates the appetite improves the action ~ of the stomach, makes the food digest better. Read what Mrs. Doris Berrie of 156 Rebecca St, East Hamilton, Ont., said: "After an illness I felt very weak, had no appetite and suffered from indigestion. After eating I would get £0 bloated and frequently had heartburn, I used Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis- covery and ft was wonderful, It improved my Bppeiie and helped to drive stomach discomfort, It seemed to build me right up." New size, tabs, 50c. Liquid $1.00, FREE CREAM SEPARATORS "Be one of the three tucky farmers to get a brand new 1937 streamlined stainless ANKER-HOLTH separator FREE; send postal tor Entry Blank and "How to cut separating costs in HA"; nothing to pay: simply express fr opinion. Address ANKER. IOLTH, Room 1-8, Sarnia, Ont. Good Salve For When Horses Are Likely To De- velop Scratches In the Spring horses are likely serious condition monly known as fever. : This condition results from the mud and water getting into the hair and' setting up an irritatiohi, which is fol- lowed by a cracking -of the skin, and the condition known as scratches or mud fever results. 3d The following ointment applied once cach "day and rubbed ia thoroughly is the 'most satisfactory treatment for this disease that we have ever used. It is often spoken of as pink ointment. It is made as follows: Impure zinc carbonate, 2 oz.; alim, 1% oz.; precipitated chalk, 10 0z.; creosote, 1% oz.; yellow wax, 1% 0%.; lard, 15 oz. Any druggist can make this up and it is a very excellent preparation for of the year work to develop a very scratches or mud conditions of this kind. To get the best results in treating this condition the horse that is af- fected should be kept indoors for a few days until healing takes place. If there is an exceptional amount of hair on the legs, it may be necessary to clip the hair in order to treat the condition effectively. This ointment can also be used for any other external use where a good healing ointment is desired. Stephen Leacock And A Motor Mis Not all visiting motorists who run foul of Ontario's highway regulations are gifted with Prof. Stephen Lea- cock's sense of humor. His was a truck experience, but it must not be assumed that the professor was at the wheel. There is no evidence that he was on the truck at all. The main point is that the profes- sor's truck driver didn't know that in this Province he must carry flares and have them flaring at night when he stops along the road. It cost Professor Leacock $19 in a Brockville court to learn about these flares; so now he knows all about them. Another point is that the professor didn't "flare up" when he received the blue paper. So that, in addition to his knowledge of cconom'es and his flair--there it is again--for humor, he is something of a philoso- pher. 5 Wilew by the |. Now what," he asks in payne the fitie, "comes next ?' That is the ob- vious question. There may be =a dozen more "obligations and limita- tions" in Ontario that a v'siting motor driver doesn't know anything about. For example, it may be obligatory to buy a certain make of flare--and a little probing along th's line might be interesting. "In what direction can I look for light?" Professor Leacock asks; and brother humorists may retort: "In, the direction of the flare." But that information has been bought and paid for. The inquiry should broaden out. How many tricky traffic rogulations are there that dwellers in other prov- inces never heard of? Ang why is a flare better than a red lantern? Isn't it time for a modification ot rules of the road throughout the Do- minion? Ontario, for example, in- vites tourists. A large percentage of these may come in trailers. If a trailer be regarded as. a glorified truck, how many flares should the driver have in stock when he enters Ontario, and what brand of oil should he burn? For the benefit of visitors more I'ght should be thrown on these matters, but flare lights alone will not do--not at a cost of $19, Farm Prices Low prices for farm products are not likely to figure so prominently during this year as an obstacle to economic recovery. Farmers are do- ing much better financially than they were a few years ago and the better- ment in their conditions is reflected in many other avenues of business. Western wheat is not likely to g0 much below $1.25 a busgnel and it may be considerably higher than that largely depending on the volume of the next harvest in the United States and Argeritine. At the mo- ment crop prospects in the world ! territory that affects the wheat price are better than average but to offset this there is heavier European de- mand and surpluses have been great- ly reduced. In the Canadian west, the crop prospects are encouraging. Moisture has been better distributed. The out- look is that the crop failures that have been characteristic of the last half dozen yéars may be eliminated next harvest. Such a result would have an inestimable affect in the re- establishment of normal economical conditions, The West has suffered severely during depression years but one good crop, Sith prices for grain as they are at present, would accom- plish a transformation that! would contribute. enormobsly to the solux of the 'legs, eom- ~ Leg Treatment : tion of the unemployment problem. (Woodstock Sentinel-Raviaw- ES REN --, --~ RE SRA ul SW aS oA ow oF A Cd SATEEN 7 LEA AY rs Nl SRR £2 See Pv